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Mary "Jane" (Creager) Heefner, 94, of 5 Mount Vernon Terrace, Waynesboro, died at 9:58 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, in the Waynesboro Hospital. She had been in failing health for the past three and a half years and critically ill for the past four days.
Born Dec. 4, 1918, in Cascade, Md., she was the daughter of the late James M. and Emma (Fox) Creager. She lived her early life in the Ringgold, Md., area.
Mrs. Heefner graduated from Smithsburg High School with the class of 1937.
She and her husband of over 73 years, Kenneth M. Heefner, were married on June 10, 1939, in Waynesboro. They moved to their present residence in 1990.
Mrs. Heefner was a devoted and loving wife and mother who was employed as the assistant manager of Routzahn's Department Store, Waynesboro, for 25 years.
She was a member of Grace Brethren Church, Waynesboro, where she was active in all church activities, including, serving as deaconess for a number of years, taught Sunday School, and served as president of the Missionary Society. She was also a member of the National AARP and South Chapter 2977 AARP and taught the Good News Club held for the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Waynesboro. She was a former member of the Gideons Auxiliary.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by her son, James B. Heefner of Waynesboro; and her sister-in-law, Mary Payne of Waynesboro.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, in Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, 50 S. Broad St., Waynesboro, with Pastor Larry M. Weber officiating. Burial will follow in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the services, Saturday morning, in the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Grace Brethren Church Deacons Fund, 250 Philadelphia Ave., Waynesboro, Pa. 17268, or Child Evangelism Fellowship, 45 S. Broad St., Waynesboro, Pa. 17268.
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1. East of State Highway 24 from Crystola to Baldwin Street/Rampart Range Road to the Teller County Border at Loy Creek.
2. West of Highway 24 and South of Aspen Garden Way, Rodeo Way, Ranch Drive, Mane Street, CR 231/West Street intersecting Highway 24, West on Highway 24 to Edlowe Road, and South on Edlowe Road, to include the subdivisions of Ranch Estates and Holiday Hills
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- All areas East of CR25 (a.k.a. Tranquil Acres Road and Mocks) to Blossom Road, including the subdivision of Tranquil Acres, North to the intersection of Forest Service Roads 357 and 357b, North on FSR 357 to CR 78 (a.k.a. Painted Rocks Road), North to the Douglas County Line.
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Eagle Flight Days saw local and semi-local teams taking flight on the grass doubles courts scattered across Bull Pasture Park last Sunday.
The championship match of 16/17 division yielded an all-Eagle Valley High School final contest, with the team of Megan Asmussen/Rhea Green defeating Danielle Lambert/Danielle Montoya in a 21-23, 10-21, 15-9 battle amongst fellow high school and Vail Volleyball Club teammates. To reach the finals, Lambert/Montoya defeated Olivia Keegan/Tiffany Sheehy, and Carly Volkmer and Sarah Coulter.
The 14/15 division saw Glenwood Springs High School represented by the winning team of Lara Mollica/Shamaya Richards, who beat Taylor Anderson/Maddie Perkins in the championship, 17-21, 21-16, 15-11. Anderson, Mollica and Perkins had spent the winter/spring as teammates on the Vail Volleyball Club team. The road to the finals saw Anderson/Perkins take down Becy Glutova/Hannah Egizi, while Mollica/Richards defeated (EVHS and VVC teammates) Morgan Murphy / Jamie Rindy on their way to the title.
The adult pool was won by former EVHS standout and 2010 Big Sky Conference Player of the Year Kenzie Shreeve and her partner, perennial multi-sport standout Brad Gamble.
The Eagle Valley Library District is excited to continue the Books in Bloom author event in 2012, changing it from a series to a one-day event.
Tickets are available now for the Saturday, June 30, event with authors Erin Blakemore ("The Heroine's Bookshelf"), Jennifer Haigh ("Mrs. Kimble," "Baker Towers," "The Condition" and "Faith"), and Tatjana Soli ("The Lotus Eaters").
The event will be held at The Pines Lodge in Beaver Creek from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Each author will discuss her work individually. The event will include appetizers, a cash bar, books available for purchase courtesy of The Bookworm of Edwards, and a book signing at the conclusion of the author presentations.
Tickets are $50 and can be purchased via the event website, www.booksinbloom.cvlsites.org.
For more information on Books in Bloom, call the Avon Public Library at (970) 949-6797.
The $64 entry fee for Gypsum's first Dirty Dozen adventure race is reduced to $49 for people who register before July 1.
The 5K race is July 14 and involves 12 muddy, military-style obstacles, similar to Beaver Creek's Tough Mudder race. The cost of registration includes a T-shirt, a ticket for one beer and admission to the Collin Raye concert at Lundgren Theater.
The Dirty Dozen "mud endurance games" will be from 8 to 11:30 a.m. and is for all ages. Children under 12 are $25.
As the race runs its course, music gets started and food and craft vendors will be on site. A beer garden is planned from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and "family mud games" will entertain everyone from 2:30 to 3 p.m. at the Lundgren Theater Park.
Admission to the all-day entertainment is $15 for people 13 and older. Children 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult.
Music-wise, the local band Already Gone plays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Another local band, Derringer, plays from noon to 2:30 p.m. White Water Ramble, a Denver band, plays from 3 to 5 p.m. A talent show is from 6 to 8:30 p.m., and then Collin Raye takes the stage.
To get more information abound vendors and sponsorships, contact Gypsum Special Projects Coordinator Marie Sanders at (970) 524-1740.
To register as a racer or learn more about the event, contact the Gypsum Recreation Center at (970) 777-8888 or visit the Western Eagle County Metropolitan Recreation District's website at www.wecmrd.org.
Gypsum's popular free music and a movie series - The People's Friday - continues June 29 with a showing of "Captain America" and rockabilly music by Kort McCumber.
The People's Friday shows include kids crafts and activities in addition to music and movies. The fun gets under way at 7 p.m. and the movie begins at dusk. For more details, visit www.townofgypsum.com.
Women interested in learning the basics of fly and spin fishing, shotguns and proper firearm handling are invited to a women-only Cast 'N Blast seminar in Gypsum, Saturday, July 14.
Designed for beginners, no experience or equipment is required and women from across the state are invited to attend. Scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., the seminar will conclude mid-afternoon of the same day.
Special thanks to NRA for their sponsorship.
For details or to register for the seminar, please call Kasi Rishel or Karla Ferguson at 970-947-2920. Space is limited and the seminar is expected to fill quickly. A $20 deposit is required to reserve a space.
Have fun learning how to play chess, checkers or cribbage, or enhance your playing skills with advice from expert players at the Gypsum Public Library this summer.
Chess, checkers, and cribbage boards will be available or participants can bring their own. The club is for all ages and skill levels.
The group will meet every Friday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Gypsum Public Library. Everyone welcome. Call 524-5080 for more information.
• ShowDown Town, Eagle's popular Thursday night free concert series returns tonight, June 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Eagle Town Park. Pack up a picnic basket and a cooler and head out to hear the music of Something Underground and enjoy an evening with your neighbors. The series continues on Thursday nights through Aug. 9. Watch the Enterprise for details about the featured performers.
• This week Eagle is hosting the annual gathering of Colorado County Treasurers. The group is meeting at the Brush Creek Pavilion daily and Monday night enjoyed a historical tour of the community. Welcome to our treasurer guests.
• Thanks to everyone for making Eagle Flight Days 2012 such a sweet success.


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Amendments address guns, crime, penalties
Published: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 11:20 p.m.
BATON ROUGE —- Keeping and bearing firearms would become a "fundamental right" in Louisiana if voters approve the second constitutional amendment on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Constitutional amendments 2, 5 and 9
Amendment No. 2
- Ballot Question: Do you support an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Louisiana to provide that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right and any restriction of that right requires the highest standard of review by a court?
- A vote for would require that any laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms be subject to the highest level of judicial review, known as strict scrutiny. Also, the amendment would say that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental one in Louisiana. It would delete a line in the Constitution that says the right to keep and bear arms shall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons.
n A vote against would retain the existing language in the Constitution, which affirms that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged but does not require strict scrutiny of arms laws and expressly allows the Legislature to regulate concealed weapons.
Amendment No. 5
- Ballot Question: Do you support an amendment to provide for the forfeiture of public retirement benefits by any public servant who is convicted of a felony associated with and committed during his public service?
- A vote for would allow the courts to include forfeiture of a portion of public retirement benefits as part of the sentence for a public servant convicted of a felony related to his or her office.
- A vote against would leave the current system in place, which means a public servant convicted of a felony related to his or her office would be allowed to keep whatever public retirement benefits he or she has earned, except for court-ordered restitution and other specific circumstances already described in law.
Amendment No. 9
- Ballot Question: Do you support an amendment to provide that no law relative to the creation of a special district, the primary purpose of which includes aiding in crime prevention and security by providing for an increased presence of law enforcement personnel in the district or otherwise promoting and encouraging security in the district, shall be enacted unless three separate notices of the proposed law are published at least thirty days prior to introduction of the bill, which notice shall set forth the substance of the proposed law and whether the governing authority of the special district would be authorized to impose and collect a parcel fee within the district, whether the parcel fee will be imposed or may be increased without an election, and the maximum amount of such fee?
- A vote for would increase the number of times that bills to create crime prevention and security districts must be advertised and require that the notices of intent state whether a parcel fee would be imposed and collected, whether the fee could be imposed or increased without an election, and what the maximum amount of the fee would be.
- A vote against would mean crime prevention and security district bills would continue to be subject to the same public notice requirements as they are now.
Source: Secretary of State, Public Affairs Research Council
Voters will also be asked whether convicted public servants should be forced to forfeit their pensions and whether special crime districts should undergo more review before being created.
In all, there are nine constitutional amendments on the fall ballot jockeying alongside presidential and congressional candidates for the voters' attention.
Constitutional Amendment No. 2 would both add and subtract language from the state charter.
It would make possessing a firearm a fundamental right, and any infringement would have to be reviewed by the courts with "strict scrutiny."
The amendment would remove the Legislature's ability to restrict laws allowing Louisiana residents to carry concealed weapons.
Only 26 out of the Legislature's 144 members voted against the proposal, and none of them were cast by members of the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation, which offered support for the measure that was backed by Gov. Bobby Jindal.
If approved by voters, Louisiana would likely have one of the strongest protections for gun ownership in the nation.
"We are adopting the strongest, most iron-clad, constitutional protection for law-abiding gun owners," Jindal said. "It's our own Second Amendment, if you will, and I look forward to voting for this amendment in the fall."
Rep. Chris Broadwater, R-Hammond, who co-sponsored the bill and worked with the National Rifle Association in drafting it, said the vote will be symbolic for many in the Bayou State.
"This is an important statement about how we in Louisiana value freedom and fundamental rights that are enshrined in the Constitution," he said.
The proposed amendment has split the state's two major political parties, with the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee recently endorsing it.
"The right to keep and bear arms is essential to a free society, and this amendment will make Louisiana law consistent with that of the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment," said Baton Rouge attorney Bryan Jeansonne, author of the resolution and State Central Committee member."
Meanwhile, the Louisiana Democratic Party is making its own push in opposition and is using a former State Police superintendent to get its message across.
Rep. Terry Landry, D-Lafayette, said the amendment would "take Louisiana in the wrong direction on a matter that has direct impact on public safety."
Landry, also a former director of security at Louis Armstrong Airport and at Southern University, said it would dictate standards to state judges and restrict the power of the Legislature.
"This legislation is the product of the vivid — some would say paranoid — imagination of the National Rifle Association and its allies," he said. "It has nothing to do with Louisiana but everything about a national agenda the NRA is pushing that advances the interests of its staunchest supporters — gun manufacturers."
Constitutional Amendment No. 9 would allow courts to use the forfeiture of public pensions as part of its sentencing for public servants convicted of felonies while serving in office.
When a public servant is convicted, the person is allowed to keep his or her public retirement benefits, less restitution or other penalties.
Rep. Tony Ligi, R-Metairie, steered the amendment through the legislative process this year and pitched it as equal parts deterrent and a proactive "cleaning up" of the political system.
"If they do the crime on the taxpayer's dime, they shouldn't be able enjoy life with a taxpayer pension," he told lawmakers.
According to an analysis of the amendment conducted by the Public Affairs Research Council, a nonpartisan research group, the provisions would apply only to those hired, rehired or elected on or after Jan. 1, 2013. All others would be exempt.
PAR's report suggested that one argument against the amendment might include there's really "no reason to take away retirement benefits because current state law already provides other penalties such as garnishment for crimes associated with public office."
Besides, many public corruption cases are handled by federal prosecutors using federal courts and laws, which mandate restitution to the fullest extent possible for the losses of a victim, such as the state or other government entity, the report found.
Finally, there's Constitutional Amendment No. 9, which would require that bills creating crime prevention and security districts be advertised in public notices that run for three separate days, rather than two, in the appropriate parish journals.
After such bills are properly advertised, they are then debated and voted on by the Legislature, which wouldn't be changed by the proposed amendment.
The Council for a Better Louisiana, a Baton Rouge-based watchdog group, is urging voters to support the amendment because the "specificity of language in the current constitution requires a constitutional amendment to make what most would consider a minor change in rules that the Legislature should deal with."
CABL's analysis found there are about 30 crime prevention districts around the state, and local communities have become increasingly interested in the concept.
The constitution allows the creation of these districts as a means for neighborhoods to collect a tax — or technically a parcel fee — from every property owner in the area to enhance crime prevention and security within the district.
In that regard, CABL's report also found that the proposed amendment would require additional information in the public notices about any related parcel fees that would be included in the legislation.
As for arguments against the proposed amendment, PAR points out there's no guarantee that public awareness would be increased, and neighborhood associations would have to pay more money for the additional day of notice.
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More than a year ago, Ohio legislators passed House Bill 86, effectively changing the parameters for certain felony offenses and drastically overhauling the way judges can sentence convicted felons.
One of the largest impacts was that the law essentially took prison off the table as a sentencing option for fourth and fifth degree felons, said Washington County Prosecutor Jim Schneider. A prison sanction in still available in a handful of cases including when the crime involved a firearm or an act of violence or when the offender has previously served jail time or has violated the conditions of his bond, he added.
"Whereas before we had more flexibility to get a prison sentence, now it's almost impossible to get a prison sentence for fourth and fifth degree offenders, even repeat offenders," added Assistant Washington County Prosecutor Kevin Rings.
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The women's dormitory at the Washington County Jail, shown Friday, is not yet at capacity. However, concerns abound that Ohio House Bill 86, which was passed more than a year ago in hopes of lessening Ohio prison populations, could have the unintended consequence of overburdening county jails and counseling resources.
For example, Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge Susan Boyer sentenced Lloyd D. Nicholson, 49, of 4525 Sparling Road, Waterford, in April on a fifth-degree felony drug charge.
Nicholson was already under community control sanctions and had previous felony convictions for breaking and entering and trafficking in drugs. However, he was merely sentenced to an additional five years of community control.
At the time, Boyer sited HB 86 as the reason for the light sentencing.
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Changed sentencing recommendations for many felony offenses.
Fourth and fifth-degree felony offenders can now only receive a prison sanction in rare cases.
The sentencing recommendation for third-degree felony offenders was lessoned from a one to five year spectrum to a six month to three year spectrum.
Made it so that prosecutors no longer needed to give approval before third-degree felons could be sentenced to a drug rehabilitation program.
Source: Washington County Prosecutor's Office.
"The legislation has now decided you should be given an opportunity to prove to yourself, your family, and this community you can be a law abiding citizen," she said.
The law also lessoned the sentencing mandates for third-degree felons, added Schneider. Previously, third-degree felons could receive one, two, three, four, or five years in prison. After the passage of HB 86, the sentencing recommendation was lessoned to a spectrum of six months to three years.
Now that prison sentences are essentially off the table for fourth and fifth-degree offenders, and lessoned for third-degree offenders, Schneider and his office have had to change the way in which they approach felony cases. Rather than wasting county resources on costly trials for fourth and fifth degree felony offenders, the prosecutor's office is more likely to try to make plea agreements, said Schneider.
In May, timing helped Deborah L. Miller, 43, of 102 Woodcrest Lane, avoid a prison term. Before HB 86 was passed, she was accused of embezzling $8,580 from customers at the bank where she worked and charged with a fifth-degree felony count of theft. However, she was sentenced after the law went into effect, and received only 45 days in the county jail from Boyer.
The sentence was much less severe than that received by similar previous offenders, said Schneider.
"Judge Boyer had a pretty consistent record of sending people who embezzled from their employers to prison," he said.
Prosecutors are not the only ones bearing the brunt of the changes. The bill has frustrated judges and has county jails and drug counseling services nervous that they will be stretched to their limits.
In September, Boyer expressed her exasperation over the law when she was unable to sentence a Belpre man to jail after he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a fourth-degree felony.
"At this point, the court does not have available to it the option to send you to prison. Let me be clear, if the court had that option, you would be going to prison," said Boyer to 24-year-old Nicholas Leach.
The reasoning behind the law was that it would lesson the population burden on the state prison system, said Ohio Rep. Andy Thompson, R-Marietta.
"You had some harsh sentencing that was leaving some lesser offenders, like first time drunk drivers, going to prison alongside murderers and rapists," said Thompson.
Thompson said he has heard concern that the law would lead to overcrowding in county jail systems, but that hasn't happened locally to date.
Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks agreed that the Washington County Jail has not seen the effects of overcrowding yet, but that does not mean it will not eventually happen.
"It takes a little while to get those cases adjudicated. We're really not seeing the full effect of that sentencing change yet," said Mincks.
However, drug counseling facilities are already seeing the effects of the change, something that has concerned Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge Ed Lane.
"I do not have any problem with trying to get treatment for first time drug offenders. My problem is they haven't provided any funds for local treatment. It's getting harder and harder to get into the SEPTA center," said Lane.
Future Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge Randy Burnworth, who will begin serving in January after Boyer retires, shared Lane's worries.
"A community our size does not have a lot of resources that a lot of the other bigger counties do. We do not have a lot of options other than the county jail and the SEPTA system," he said.
The law, which received bipartisan support when passed last September, will not likely undergo any significant changes despite the criticism, said Thompson.
And prosecutors and judges are slowly getting used to the changes.
"It's negatively impacted our office, but I certainly understand the reasoning behind the law," said Schneider.
It could take some time to see if the law has its intended effect on the prison population. The week the law was passed, Ohio's prison population was 50,334. As of Tuesday, that count was 49,789, down only 545 inmates. But lawmakers are hopeful that given time, the impact will be more evident.
"Long-term we believe we will see the benefits of the bill," said Thompson.


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- someone who usually gets a lot of girls (for the above reasons)
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- someone who usually gets a lot of girls (for the above reasons)
katie has a crush on eric.
by katie =D September 01, 2008
A masculine name from the Old Norse name Eiríkr, derived from ei "ever" and ríkr "ruler". Danish invaders first brought the name to England. A famous bearer was Eiríkr inn Rauda (Eric the Red), a 10th-century navigator and explorer who discovered Greenland. This was also the name of kings of Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
Eric the Red was Leif Eriksson's father.
by OneBadAsp October 17, 2006
is a sweet, kind lovely man. who can always make you smile. he always finds time in his day to talk to you. he makes you feel special. he may flirt with other girls, but he always lets you know he has you on his mind, and your the only girl for him. He will treat you like your a queen. he comes us with funny and sweet nicknames, even though sometimes there corny. You will fall in love with him, very soon after meeting him. He has many friends who you get along with, and he gets along with your friends amazingly well. He will always help you when something is wrong, he will talk to you when you just want someone to talk to. He will always put you first. he always tells you when hes busy, and cant talk very much. He always tells you he loves you. he can always make you smile. He never gets mad at you. He can make anything in to a joke. He is the bestest person in the world. and Hes yours, if you can find him.
Person A:I'm dating Eric(:
Person B:omg! really your so lucky. he's so sweet, and handsome. I wish i were you.
Person A: i know. He can always make me smile, hes so understanding. and don't worry someday you will find your Eric(:
Person B:omg! really your so lucky. he's so sweet, and handsome. I wish i were you.
Person A: i know. He can always make me smile, hes so understanding. and don't worry someday you will find your Eric(:
by Person A&person B June 22, 2011
A name often given to a white child by his parents. With a name like Eric, his parents are more concerned about how well he does in school rather than how much action he gets. Eric is rarely referred to anyone but a nerd, but there are few exceptions where he is so intelligent that he also excells in sports. Eric is usually the cool kid in the group.
Eric is good at everything. He's so smart and he's going to play varsity basketball someday. I wish i were Eric.
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FYI, I wore my 2000 Phish Deer Creek Shirt tonight that I've never worn to a show and BAM Zepplin again allllllllll night!! 1st show I ever saw they played Ramble On, 304 shows later the 2nd time ever!! 1st Stairway EVER!! The set list on paper doesn't even begin to explain how awesome this show was. Listen yourself and you will wish you were there!!


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Will Oregon or Ohio State win the first ever College Football Playoff title game?
Capital One Bowl Mania game will be familiar to those who have played ESPN's College Pick 'em. The principle is the same: Pick the winner of each game during the bowl season (including the College Football Playoff national championship game), then rank the games in the order of your confidence in those picks. For each correct pick, you'll earn the confidence points you assigned to that game. The twist, of course, is that Capital One Bowl Mania requires you to rank 39 games in order of confidence rather than the usual 10. There is also a straight-scoring option, where each game counts the same.
You'll always be able to access your entry from the drop-down menu under the fantasy tab on the ESPN.com front page. Play against others from around the country or create your own private group to compete against your friends. The bowl season kicks off with five games on Dec. 20.
Handicapping bowl games can be both easier and trickier than regular season games. Each team is a known commodity with a full season's body of work to dissect. However, the true stakes of each contest are not always readily apparent.
College football is unique in that teams compete for something other than the sport's overall championship during the postseason. That "something" is different from bowl to bowl, and each game's prize is not always valued equally by the contestants. The college football postseason presents the only scenarios in the major sports where one team that views a game as a meaningless exhibition might be pitted against another team that views it as a championship-type opportunity.
If you understand what the game means to each team and which teams are highly motivated to prepare and play their best, you'll be well on your way to Bowl Mania success. You'll then know which teams will likely play better or worse than their usual performance baseline, and that's the hard part. But first you must establish that baseline. To decipher which team has the overall advantage, you'll need a comprehensive approach. Consider each team's credentials independently, then break down the matchup. Finally, put that information in the context of all the game's intangibles. Here's how, in five steps: ... MORE
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By Susan Hines-Brigger
Let There Be Peace on Earth
The Power of Faith
From Helplessness to Hopefulness
Jesus, Our Strongest Certainty
Family Time: Peace Prayer of St. Francis
How do you write 1,000 words about something no words can describe? That's the question that goes through my mind as I sit in front of my computer trying to write this column.
This column was supposed to be about Adventthe joyous anticipation of
Christ's birth. Instead, I am writing about the terrorist
attacks that shook our nation on September 11. It is the hardest
thing I have ever written. But as Pope John Paul II said the
day after the attacks, in those times "when words seem to
fail...faith comes to our aid."
And so I'm writing this column on faith. I'm not a theologian or a psychologist. I don't have answers for why things like this happen or how to explain this to your children. For those questions, it is best to seek out the experts. I'm simply writing from my heart.
The Power of Faith
On the day of the attacks I was numb watching the television.
Talks of further attacks and war shook my sense of security
and normalcy. I struggled to make sense of this tragedy. After
realizing that I couldn't, I decided to rely on the things
of which I was certain in my lifemy faith and my family.
Shortly after the tragedy, I told a colleague that I was grateful that at the age of two my daughter, Madison, was too young to understand what was going on. When she came in the room, we simply turned off the gruesome images. I was grateful, because I didn't know what I would say. The next day, my colleague told me that after thinking about it she decided she would simply say, "God loves you, and Mom and Dad love you." Two certainties, I thought, in a time of uncertainty.
Over the course of the next weeks, we all saw signs such as "Pray for peace,"
"God bless America" and "United we stand." I realized that
what has always brought me such comfort in my faithprayer,
community, knowing that God is with meand was the impetus
for my writing this column in the first place were the same
things that were sustaining others in this time of uncertainty.
It reaffirmed my faith and why I want to pass it on to my
children. I want them to know that in times such as these
their faith is the one thing they can rely on to help them
From Helplessness to Hopefulness
But faith alone did not seem enough for me or, I'm sure, for many others. There were still questions to be asked and answered, such as how do I talk to my kids about what happened, or what can I do to help those affected by the terrorist attacks?
As I said before, I am not an expert. I'm a mom. All I can offer as a mom and a columnist is a reminder to love your children (and all your loved ones), hug them, pray, tell them what they mean to you and be a model of peace for them. Pray for the victims, their families, the rescuers, the healers, the perpetrators, those who defend our country and for each other.
We must also remember to turn away from any type of violence or prejudice toward those of the Islamic faith. In a joint message, the U.S. bishops and Muslim leaders said, "We believe that the one God calls us to be peoples of peace. Nothing in our Holy Scriptures, nothing in our understanding of God's revelation, nothing that is Christian or Islamic justifies terrorist acts and disruption of millions of lives which we have witnessed this week. Together we condemn those actions as evil and diametrically opposed to true religion."
Following the attacks many people took action by donating blood, making financial donations, wearing red, white and blue ribbons, flying their flags, sending notes and cards of support
and condolences to the victims and rescue workers and many other acts of kindness and deep solidarity.
The Internet has provided a wonderful outlet for people to gather resources for dealing with the tragedies of September 11 and finding a way to help those affected. The following is a sampling of useful sites:
The U.S. bishops have put together a wonderful Web page at
Many of these resources, such as Scripture readings and prayers,
can be used with your family when you're together. You can
also read the reactions of Church leaders around the world,
and blessings for victims of crime, firefighters, police and
rescue personnel.
Sites such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (http://www.aap.
org/advocacy/releases/disastercomm.htm), the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (http://www.aacap.org/
publications/DisasterResponse/index.htm) or The United
States Department of Education (http://
www.ed.gov/inits/september11) can help you with ways to
address this tragedy with your children.
Though I realize the complexity of our current situation,
what parent or grandparent doesn't want a peaceful world for
their children/ grandchildren to grow up in? In late 1999,
the Sisters United News (SUN) and St. Anthony Messenger Press
teamed to try to collect 1,000 yearsabout 8.5 million
hoursof peace through pledges solicited on the Web and
by hand. To date, there have been over one million hours pledged
for activities. If you need help with a peacemaking idea,
the site lists suggestions for different activities. To make
a pledge, visit www.pledgepeace.org,
or send your pledge to Pledge Peace, c/o Judy Ball, 28 W.
Liberty Street, Cincinnati, OH 45210.
If you would like to donate money for the relief effort,
you can do so through Catholic Charities USA (www.catholicharitiesusa.org),
which is coordinating the Catholic Church's response to the
September 11 attacks.
Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, "The nonviolent approach does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect. It calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had."
Let us continue to be examples of strength and courage for our families and each other through our words and actions.
Jesus, Our Strongest Certainty
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of the world's savior,
let's hold fast to the certainties in our livesfaith,
family, God's loveas well as another certainty that
we as Christians know: "For God so loved the world that he
gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might
not perish but might have eternal life" (John 3:16). Have
a blessed and peaceful Christmas.
Next Month: Celebrating Life
Time: Peace Prayer of St. Francis
Although St. Francis of Assisi didn't write this prayer,
it is very much in the spirit of his life. Pray this prayer
with your family whenever you're gathered together, such
as dinnertime or before bedtime at night.
Peace Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument
of your peace;
where there is hatred,
let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning
that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life.
Although St. Francis of Assisi didn't write this prayer,
it is very much in the spirit of his life. Pray this prayer
with your family whenever you're gathered together, such
as dinnertime or before bedtime at night.
Peace Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument
of your peace;
where there is hatred,
let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning
that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life.
Do you have ideas or suggestions for topics or ideas you'd
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The Great River Tiger Chapter of the MU Alumni Association is sponsoring a Back to School Tailgate party this summer for MU students, Mizzou Alumni and friends. The event will be held Friday night, July 26, at Jackson Park and Golf Course in Palmyra. The tailgate starts at 5 p.m. with dinner to be served around 6:30 p.m. and a short program to follow.
Gary Link, special assistant to the MU athletics director and MU basketball announcer will be the featured speaker following dinner. He will give a brief update on what's happening at MU.
The event is being held as a back to school sendoff party for MU students. Both incoming freshmen and current students at MU are invited to attend. The meal will be free to all MU students. A special feature of the event is that four $500 scholarships will be given away by the GRT chapter. Only those MU students in attendance will be eligible and a drawing will be held to select the winners.
The pork loin meal and drinks will cost $5. Tailgate games will be available along with a silent auction. Golf is available at Jackson Park Golf Course Friday afternoon at special tailgate rates.
To register for the summer bash and tailgate go to www.mizzou.com/greatriverkickoff or contact Al Kennett, chapter president, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (573) 248-6947. The Great River Tigers Chapter of the Mizzou Alumni Association includes several counties in both Northeast Missouri and West Central Illinois.
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The event will start on: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 | 4:30 pm
Location: Schultz Lab, 107 | Washington Road
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus
We are interested in understanding what neural computations allow animals to dynamically adjust their behavior according to the structure and demands of the environment and how these circuit mechanisms are perturbed in neuropsychiatric disorders. We employ quantitative decision-making behavior in rodents, specific perturbation of neural circuit function using molecular tools, analysis of neural correlates of the interesting aspects of the behavioral tasks using electrophysiological and optical techniques, and computational modeling.
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PARKERSBURG - The annual flu season has made an early appearance in the Mid-Ohio Valley, an area health expert said.
"Last week we described the flu activity as sporadic," said Patrick Burke, regional epidemiologist with the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department.
Sporadic, as described by Burke, is when there are some individual cases with a few scattered groups of cases in an area.
"We had our first positive laboratory report in Marion County, but the flu is here," Burke said.
Burke said it is a little bit early in the flu season to be seeing positive cases of the expected strain, influenza type A, of which the flu vaccine has been formulated to prevent.
Typically, the formulation of the influenza vaccine is different each year to accommodate for the different strain of the virus expected to be most prevalent that season.
Because this year's flu season appears to be starting early, Burke said it could mean this year's flu season could be more severe than those in the recent past.
"Because some states are reporting more activity and we are seeing positive tests that are elevated for this time of year, we may have a stronger flu season."
So far, Maine is the only state reporting regional influenza activity, which is categorized as groups of cases with more widespread activity. Eight states - Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, New York, Texas and Wyoming - are reporting local activity, which is more positive tests in localized areas.
Along with West Virginia, there are 33 states reporting regional activity, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov).
Burke was quick to point out that in the past two years the flu activity has been mild.
"Right now we are keeping an eye on flu activity and working with health care providers and clinics in the area to keep up with how the season is shaping up," he said.
This year's flu vaccine is now available in a variety of places throughout the area. It is recommended that everyone over the age of 6 months receive the vaccine.
Flu shots are typically available beginning in October to make sure that people have flu coverage when the season begins.
Burke said that anyone who shows symptoms of having the flu should stay away from people, which includes staying home from work and school. Those with a cough are recommended to cough into their elbow and continuously wash their hands.
"Influenza is spread from contact with an infected person or just items they have touched or have been touched by droplets from a cough or sneeze," Burke said. "While washing hands and covering your mouth is a plus, the best way to prevent the spread of the virus is to stay at home if you're sick."


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Cairns Domestic and International terminals are located within five-minute' walk of each other and are connected by a covered walkway.
Things to do in Cairns
Home to a diverse array of natural wonders, and a friendly and relaxed atmosphere Cairns typifies North Queensland. Graceful old buildings with sweeping verandas throw back to time when life was more leisurely, while World Heritage Listed environments such as the Daintree Rainforest and Great Barrier Reef fringe the city, offering a multitude of unforgettable activities and adventures. A tourism hotbed, particularly famous for island hopping excursions, glass bottom boat tours, scuba diving courses and active nightlife, the thriving metropolis is the perfect setting for a spectacular tropical getaway.
Cairns sees the rainforest meet the reef; mountains shade the sparkling blue waters of Coral Sea; waterfalls frame lush farmlands; and freshwater lakes pool in volcanic craters. Surrounded by diverse natural environments, Cairns and outlying regions shine with a vast number of unique sight-seeing opportunities. Marvel as the sun sets over the peaks of the Daintree. Get up close and personal with crocodiles. Take in the splendour of the Great Barrier Reef. Or experience the city's many cultural and community events with a stroll along the Esplanade or a visit to the Esplanade Lagoon.
Cairns is a treasure trove of fashion finds. The CBD – in particular Lake, Shields and Grafton streets – is speckled with stylish boutiques, showcasing the latest in local, national and international fashions. Department giant Myer can be found in the town's CBD, alongside hundreds of speciality stores at the Cairns Central Shopping Centre. The Orchid Plaza also hosts a range of fashion, jewellery, gifts and souvenirs stores, alongside a post office. The Pier Marketplace is Cairns' most impressive retail destination. An urban lifestyle centre featuring dining options, shopping outlets, specialty stores, offices, a gym, health spa and a hotel, The Pier is a great place to stroll and shop.
A thriving tourism industry has seen Cairns attract world-class chefs. Access to outstanding fresh local produce, in particular seafood from the Coral Sea and meat and produce from the Atherton Tablelands has kept these renowned culinary experts in residence, leading Cairns' restaurants to rank among the best in Australia. Seafood is Cairns' crowning culinary glory; with shiploads delivered everyday fresh from the bay and beyond. Cairns dining scene also has a notably strong Asian influence – the Cairns Market brims with Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Korean and Chinese stallholders, while a number of restaurants also focus on Asian cuisines.
Fostering a hassle-free, tropical atmosphere Cairns is a great place to sit back and relax with a drink. The downtown hub encompassing Spence, Sheridan and Grafton streets features plenty of laidback pubs, where cheap meals and can be enjoyed with a frosty cold beer. Abuzz with travellers Cairns features a lively nightlife. Centred on and surrounding Shields Street, the city's nightlife particularly caters to backpackers with bars that host backpacker parties, or hostels with in-house bars. Cairns also boasts an excellent live music scene, and as a result many of the city's bars feature live indie and rock bands.
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Vitamin D: What is enough?
It seems that news about the health benefits of vitamin D is reported daily. Studies are reporting that vitamin D reduces the risk of heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis, to name just a few. (more ...)
Milk can do wonders for an exercised body
Milk as an exercise recovery drink?
That's what I was questioning when my youngest daughter said she started drinking milk after strenuous exercise. She read about this on the Internet, and having run track in college, she never tried milk as a recovery drink, only sports drinks. (more ...)
Connecting the dots: Obestiy to osteoporosis
Obesity and osteoporosis are public health problems.
Obesity is a condition where excessive fat accumulates to a state that poses risks to health - it is largely due to an imbalance of calorie consumption and expenditure. The problem is growing in prevalence among all age groups, especially people in rural areas where income is below average.
Osteoporosis is a disease condition in which bones become spongy and are easily broken. With aging, and changes in lifestyle, more bone structure is broken down than is rebuilt. Many factors can contribute to osteoporosis development, such as reduced physical activity, decreased ability to absorb nutrients, increased use of medications such as glucocorticoids and a sudden decline in the female hormone, estrogen, in menopausal women. (more ...)
Low-Fat Chocolate Milk - The New Sports Drink?
Every four years, sports enthusiasts watch the Olympic Games and seek to learn the secrets of the champion performances. During the Summer Games in 2004, a sports reporter noted that Michael Phelps, winner of six gold medals in swimming, was seen drinking a milk-based beverage between races. This apparent link between Phelps' world-class performances and milk has launched exciting research to determine the benefits of milk, most recently low-fat chocolate milk, as a recovery beverage for serious athletes as well as for people who regularly exercise to promote health. (more ...)
Mitochondria: Mediators between diet and disease
Why do we eat? This seems like a simple question. But when I asked several people, I received a variety of answers: "To nourish my body" or "because I'm hungry" and some far-out answers loosely related to the cosmos and our place in the universe. (more ...)
Nutrition tames a killer
Inflammation is the redness, heat, swelling and pain that occurs when the body is killing invading organisms or removing damaged tissue while healing wounds.
The inflammatory response is a blessing when needed for a short time to overcome a mild infection or injury. The inflammatory response can be a curse if it is not properly controlled or switched on when not needed because it can damage healthy parts of the body. A long-term or chronic, low-grade inflammatory response can lead to heart disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes and mental problems. An unneeded inflammatory response can be caused by a number of things including key nutrient deficiencies, obesity and even lack of sleep. (more ...)
Evidence continues to mount for omega-3s
It's hard to miss all the buzz about omega-3 fatty acids. In the grocery store the other day, I noticed that omega-3 fatty acids have been added to some brands of orange juice. Consumers now also have the choice of buying eggs and peanut butter fortified with omega-3 fatty acids. (more ...)
Healthy weight helps reduce risk of cancer
Overweight and obesity are talked about often in the U.S. Most Americans (83 percent ) recognize the link between being overweight and heart diseases and many (57 percent) know about the link between being overweight and diabetes, according to a survey commissioned by the American Cancer Society. But far fewer (8 percent) know there is a connection between being overweight and cancer. (more ...)
Volunteers: An essential requirement for research
Driving down Second Avenue North on weekday mornings this winter, you may have noticed women at their cars packing picnic coolers that seem more appropriate for a July outing at Larimore (N.D.) Dam.
Obesity: An issue for rural America, North Dakota
Obesity in the U.S. is now termed an epidemic, meaning that it affects many people and is spreading. Sixty-five percent of Americans are overweight or obese, and the highest rates occur in small towns and rural communities of the Midwest and the South. Compared to their urban counterparts, rural adults tend to be older, less physically active, have lower incomes and have declining access to local grocery stores. These factors set up a predisposition to being overweight and obese. (more ...)
Selenium-enriched food fights cancer
Selenium, which is an essential micronutrient for humans, first was discovered in 1817. Because of selenium's silvery color, it was named for Selene, the ancient goddess of the moon.
In the U.S. population, the recommended daily allowance for selenium is 55 micrograms per day. Consuming amounts above this level is considered "supranutritional." For example, doses of 100 to 200 micrograms per day inhibit genetic damage and cancer development in humans, and a dose of 400 micrograms per day is considered a safe upper limit. (more ...)
Just how much calcium do we need?
Folks who want healthy bones long have been told to get plenty of calcium. After all, the body compensates for an inadequate calcium intake by drawing calcium out of bones and putting it into the blood stream.
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Definition of clockwork in English:
A mechanism with a spring and toothed gearwheels, used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.
Example sentences
- Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia.
- My mother was like the evil clockwork of some kind of villainous clock gone haywire.
- Loves are lost, hearts are broken, games become mere clockwork, and his passion dies.
1Driven by clockwork: a clockwork motor a clockwork toy
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- They were real passions, and at first I thought 'hey, wouldn't it be good to use the Internet to trade clockwork tin toys'.
- Danielle jumped up and down and clapped her hands above her head like a clockwork toy gone haywire.
- The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains.
1.1Very smooth and regular: the clockwork precision of the galaxy
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- Their bodies seemed like a temple for artistic expression that gestured and moved with clockwork precision.
- With clockwork precision 50 women completed it in 10.42 hours.
- He performed a few feats with clockwork precision.
1.2Repetitive and predictable: it was a clockwork existence for the children
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- Jolted by a mugging into the feeling that he is leading a clockwork, incomplete existence, Walker subsequently walks out on his spouse.
- Children slept in dormitories, they ate together in silence, and they lived their days to a clockwork routine which never varied.
- Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
as regular as clockwork
- Very regularly; repeatedly and predictably.Example sentences
- The comedic cut scenes are as regular as clockwork and often as predictable.
- A new generation comes through as regular as clockwork.
- The customers who voted for him said he is as regular as clockwork.
like clockwork
- Very smoothly and easily: the event ran like clockworkMore example sentences
- Everything that he organised was spot-on and ran like clockwork.
- Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London.
- A picnic atmosphere prevailed and thankfully everything ran like clockwork, even with a huge entry of over 200 competitors.
- 2.1With mechanical regularity: these hens lay like clockworkMore example sentences
- I hadn't seen Matt in a while, but his phone-calls were regular like clockwork, or had been until a week ago.
- But at SRC, we've built a system of mechanisms that makes innovation happen like clockwork.
- But last night the many city residents who nominated the man who has kept Hull's timepieces running like clockwork for 40 years, declared 'it's about time'.
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Book Review
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November marks the official beginning of hat and scarf season in my house. The scarves vastly outnumber the hats simply because I knit them all the time. But this year, with the looming threat of higher heating bills, I've decided to tackle hats head-on.
The best starting point for hats would have to be in Ann Budd's Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns. You have everything you need to knit simple hats in almost any size or yarn. Once you've made a few simpler hats, you're ready to venture into slightly different shapes. Here's where I kept faltering.
Most of the hat pattern books I own tend to focus on the fabulously ornate, theatrically whimsical, or technically complex. We don't have much of a migration path from absolute beginner to these more ornate creations.
My ears perked up when I heard that Sarah Bradberry (a fixture in the online knitting community since "way" back in the '90s) had self-published a book all about knitted hats. Could this be my answer?
Substance Over Spiral
The book has a plastic spiral binding and double-sided black and white print and images inside. I found the old-fashioned, self-published look of this book appealing. It feels like a spiral-bound notebook from which a teacher would base an entire semester's curriculum. The layout is simple and clean, with lots of white space for easy reading.
The book is full of lots and lots and lots of hat possibilities. Bradberry provides 45 hat styles in all, beginning with the very basic and slowly, gradually migrating to more subtle shaping and ornamentation. She gives variations on shapes, such as the ski hat, skullcap, and beret, plus pointy hats, sun bonnets, hats adorned with animal ears, and even a whole bunch of felted designs.
Each pattern includes instructions for 17 different head sizes, beginning with a preemie 8-inch and spanning all the way to adult 24-inch circumference. In each case, you begin with a gauge swatch from which all your pattern numbers are derived—which means that, yes, you really could use any yarn with these patterns.
Instructions are clear and accessible, and they really do give you a sense of infinite and achievable possibility. Strong technique and recommended readings sections round out the book well.
A Model Model
All the hats are shown photographed on a stylish styrofoam model of a human head. You can see large, full-color versions of all the hat photos on her online photo album—a very nice solution to a common problem among self-publishers. (Full-color printing raises costs dramatically and, quite often, prohibitively.)
The styrofoam head is an elegant and consistent way to show all the hats in their very best context. Past experience knitting hats modeled only on styrofoam heads, however, is that my head does not behave like the beautiful styrofoam model. (For starters, my head has hair.) I'd welcome even a reader-submitted photo album of these hats on real live human heads just so I could get a more realistic take on how they may actually look on us mere mortals.
A Pretty Price
The knitting community has a long and healthy tradition of self-publishing. Even Elizabeth Zimmermann was self-published, wasn't she?
The quality of self-published books on the market keeps getting better and better. One area that remains a challenge, however, is cost.
Those who print books in smaller numbers simply cannot benefit from the economics of scale that the larger publishers enjoy. They aren't able to invest in 30,000 copies, they're betting the farm on 500 copies and hoping to break even and be able to print more.
For that reason, self-published books almost always cost more than their "publisher-published" counterparts—and this book is no exception. The spiral-bound edition is priced at $29.95, which is a lot for a black-and-white spiral-bound book. But if you factor in the actual depth and breadth of information this book contains, and how few other hat books you'll need as a result, it may be worth the price.Discuss this book in our forums
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Photos: Vets storm closed WWII memorial
After a group of World War II veterans and their families in Washington to visit the World War II memorial found their access blocked, a group of men threw open the barricades to allow the vets access. The defiance of the closure has continued.
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At the Telemark World Championships in Espot, Spain, Breckenridge's Tommy Gogolen finished sixth in Wednesday's parallel sprint classic qualifier, putting himself in the finals ranks.
"I knew I had to charge if I even had a shot to make the top 16," Gogolen said via email, referring to the rank needed to head to the finals. It's not an easy feat. "I'm not too sure how this happened, but I skied fast today! Finally! It is still a little surreal, but I finished sixth. I'm still shocked."
In his blog, Gogolen describes going into attack mode.
"I remember while in the starting gate of my first run, actually gritting down on my teeth and saying to myself, 'It is time to attack.' I exploded out of the gate and quickly was in a good rhythm. I felt the snow really well under my feet - it was really bumpy and choppy snow, so I quickly made an adjustment to be really light on my skis. I boosted the jump and cleared the line. Then, the flat section that led us into the wrap was next," he wrote.
Taking a risky, but rewarding, chance, he went fast into the wrap and gained the lead as he heard his coach yell excitedly, "You're home free!"
He was seventh going into the second run, and his nerves set in quickly. But the second run ended up exactly like the first, putting him in sixth place heading into the finals.
Racers go head-to-head today in the finals, entering a downhill course with jumps and a wrap at the bottom before entering the skate to the finish. Gogolen is confident with his sixth-place finish.
"I have the potential to hang with the top guys in the world," he said in his email.
In the first round of 16, he's matched up against Olle Collberg from Sweden, who finished 11th in the preliminaries. Out of the top 16, a dozen have appeared at the World Championships before.
"Me? Ah, my name is barely known among these guys," Gogolen wrote in his blog.
Gogolen's goal in attending the world championships was to finish at least one race (of four) in the top 20. Because just 16 skiers make it to finals, this guarantees him a top 16 finish.
On Tuesday, Gogolen competed in the first of the four race, the classic, which has a longer skate section. He finished 25th.
"Overall, it was a fair day," he said. "I skied fast, but when I got to the skate section, I had a mishap and stepped on my pole and fell. I was able to continue to and still post a surprising result - 25th. The fact that I still skied to a decent result with a fall is a good sign leading into the rest of the week."


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United Press dispatch, July 27, 1953:
"McCarthy said Monroney was welcome to
the job of becoming "a megaphone on the
Senate Floor" through which "fellow
travelers and Communists could spew forth
their smear and character assassination
against anyone hurting the Communist
cause." But he said Monroney used the
Senate Floor "for smear and character
assassination against Members of our
staff who cannot in turn use the Senate
Floor to fight back."
August 20, 1951
McCarthy: "How such a man can live is
a miracle — no brains, no guts , no nothing."
Mr. President, I recount these incidents,
repugnant as they are to me, and I am sure to my
fellow-Senators. I recount them not merely as
minor instances of personal recrimination but as
violations of the hallowed traditions of this body.
The traditions that we conduct ourselves toward
one and other as gentlemen do is fundamental to
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Islander fans,
We all survived finals and now are ready for the holiday season. I finished my last final on Tuesday of last week. We left Saturday to Dallas and flew from Corpus Christi to Houston and then onto Dallas for our game against SMU.
I sat by this woman and she said that I helped her not think about the flight. She didn't like the take-off and the landing, but we talked about her son being in the Air Force and about my career plans after basketball and about Hawaii. It was a very interesting conversation I must add.
After we got to the hotel on Saturday we left to go practice at SMU's practice facility. We all ate as a team after practice and then went back to the hotel. When we got back Trish started playing the piano … another one of her hidden talents we didn't know about … smh
Not only can she do a rubics cube in under two minutes but she can play the piano … check it out …
We played hard in the second half against SMU on Sunday, but came up short, 73-64. We will bounce back in Indiana...
We fly back to Corpus in the morning (Monday) and then most of all my teammates are going home for the holidays. I'm going to be spending Christmas with Jam in Brookshire, Texas.
I just finished watching the UConn-Baylor game (Baylor who by the way is 11-0).
Welp … early flight home tomorrow. Just came from the Jacuzzi and about to shower and call it a night. Catch ya in about 9-10 days. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and I'll be back on Dec. 27th after we play at Indiana. If any of you want to ask me questions you can email email@example.com and I'll answer them in my next blog. Address the subject as Imani Dunn.
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Some West Virginia Sheriffs oppose the president's gun control legislation and here in Wood County, our newly elected sheriff weighs in.
"He's not going through the route he should be taking if he wants to do away with it," says Sheriff Ken Merritt. "The constitution is being violated and this is something we can't handle."
As a law enforcement officer, a grandfather, father and someone who taught gun safety, Merritt doesn't feel right about the president's proposal.
"This is the way that the communist nation started, capitalist," Merritt says. "We just need to make a stand now that in law enforcement I feel that by me it's not going to be enforced."
Sandy Hook and other recent tragedies may have pushed stronger gun laws forward, but it's nothing new.
"Anti gun groups kind of take advantage of situations like that to try to push their message across," says Chief Deputy Shawn Graham. "I don't believe it's a gun issue; I believe it's a mental health issue and an issue that society's dealing with."
Gun proponents don't agree that the Commander in Chief is taking a stand against firearms.
"I think it's an overreaction by the Obama administration," Graham says. "Law enforcement in general has no interest in enforcing unconstitutional laws."
It's left a nation divided on who's entitled to gun ownership.
"Americans have the right to bear arms, unless they've done something to have those rights taken away," Graham says. "You have a right to protect yourself, protect your property, protect your family."
Officials say an unstable person will carry out violence, whether it's a gun or a pencil.
"We're the ones committing the crime, it's not the guns," Merritt says. "It doesn't make a difference if I have a gun or not... I'd find some way to do it, whether it was a gun or a knife or whatever."


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Mother Jones: The Segway Polo World Cup is everything you imagined
All things considered, the relocation of the Segway Polo World Cup from Lebanon to Washington, DC, ranks pretty low on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's list of crimes.
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Former Eastwood VFD treasurer sentenced
February 21, 2013
PARKERSBURG — Up to 10 years in prison was the sentence handed down Wednesday in Wood County Circuit Court for a former treasurer of a volunteer fire department....
Restitution,yeah,right; With what? The quarter a day he MAY make in DOC?
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It was closer to $140,000. Sandy acted to fast and took him at his word when he was charged. They didn't wait until a review was completed to get a better account. He was a member for 7 1/2 years. He will probably do his time at North Central.
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The amount he plead guilty to was slightly over $127,700. This took place over a five year period and there were several different chief officers during that time frame.
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pkbmom: Time frame was 4 yrs 4 mo and three chief officers.
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HOUSTON -- Warriors coach Mark Jackson said center Andrew Bogut will play Tuesday night at Houston.
Bogut will make his fourth appearance since returning from left ankle rehabilitation. As part of his recovery, he will not play games on back-to-back nights. Since the Warriors visit Houston on Tuesday and Oklahoma City on Wednesday, Jackson had to choose which game his starting center would play.
"At the end of the day, we're playing good teams," Jackson said. "We want to put him in position to be able to play, to be able to recover, and then continue to progress."
Jackson will have another choice later in the week as the Warriors visit Memphis on Friday and Dallas on Saturday. Jackson said the likelihood is Bogut will play against the Grizzlies.
Why play Bogut at Houston and Memphis? Those are wins the Warriors need the most.
Houston is the No. 8 seed entering Tuesday night's matchup, five games behind the Warriors. A win helps keep one of the league's rising teams at bay.
Plus, frankly, the Rockets are much more beatable than the Thunder, arguably the league's best team. It makes sense for the Warriors to put all their chips in the most winnable game. The Warriors are underdogs at Oklahoma City even with a full roster.
It also makes sense for Bogut to play at Memphis, a potential first-round foe. The Grizzlies have beaten the Warriors twice this season, both times using their size advantage. The Warriors need Bogut to matchup with Memphis.
It would certainly be an emotional boost if the Warriors finally beat the Grizzlies. But it also has ramifications in the standings. Entering Tuesday, the Warriors are a half-game behind Memphis for the No. 4 seed in Western Conference and home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. After trading star Rudy Gay, many -- including some in the Warriors' locker room -- see the Grizzlies as weaker and ripe to be supplanted in the standings.
The Warriors have already won in Dallas without Bogut in November. So not having Bogut in the lineup Saturday against the Mavericks (20-28), the only opponent on this trip with a losing record, doesn't seem such a daunting task.


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Autism in the News – Friday, 11.19.10
MU Researchers Announce New Autistic Education Techniques (Colombia, Miss.)
University of Missouri College of Education researchers announced Thursday a new autism curriculum being implemented in two Columbia schools. Researchers are conducting their curriculum in both Lange Middle School and West Junior High. Read more.
Wildhorse Program Seeks New Home (San Ramon, Calif.)
A local San Ramon program that serves disabled and special needs children and adults through the use of riding horses needs a new home. Read more.
Blast girl, 12, honoured for her bravery (UK)
Brave members of the public and firefighters were honoured at an awards ceremony last night for helping to save lives across South Yorkshire over the last year. Read more.
Missing CL teen found safe in Utah (Crystal Lake, Utah)
A missing Crystal Lake teen has been found safe in Wendover, Utah. Seventeen-year-old Trenton Johnson, who has a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome, left his home Tuesday after getting into a disagreement with his parents. He was seen Nokomis, Ill., about an south of Springfield, Wednesday afternoon. Read more.
Babies And Robots Learn From Each Other (Red Orbit)
A few years ago, AnthroTronix, Inc., an engineering research and development firm in College Park, Md., introduced Cosmobot, a type of social robot for therapists and educators who work with developmentally and learning disabled children. Read more.


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Affordable Dentures & Implants - Sun City
Sibera Troy Brannon, DDS, FICOI, FAAIP
Services provided by an Arizona-licensed General Dentist
(623) 977-5227
10918 W. Bell Road, Bell Camino Shopping Center, Sun City, AZ 85351
Get Directions View Map 33.638136,-112.2911975,Sun City, Phoenix,10918 W. Bell Road,Bell Camino Shopping Center,Sun City,AZ,85351
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Our practice proudly provides Affordable Dentures® and related denture and tooth extraction services. We are located in Sun City, AZ and opened in 2007. Each year, we treat more than 1,500 denture patients who travel from Sun City, Phoenix, Glendale and many other communities in the surrounding area.
Troy Brannon, DDS, FICOI, FAAIP, is a general dentist and the practice owner of this location. He graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry. Based on many years of valuable dental experience, he and his staff are proud to offer professional, compassionate care to patients that visit this practice.
Dr. Brannon's dental center has an on-site dental lab that fabricates new dentures and provides repairs and relines, often with same-day service. He also crafts single-visit crowns using the latest CAD/CAM technology to deliver a custom, natural-looking restoration. Being able to provide dentures and crowns in a day is a significant advantage, especially for patients who have traveled far distances.
The on-site lab eliminates the need to use outside commercial labs, which helps keep our fees low. Our highly skilled lab technicians have crafted thousands of dentures. Their training and experience are assets to Dr. Brannon's practice and give you the confidence that your denture is being fabricated locally in Arizona.
This practice offers the following services:
- Complete Dentures
- Partial Dentures
- Repairs, Relines & Adjustments
- Dental Implants - Denture-Stabilization, Full-Arch, Single & Multiple Teeth
- New Denture Wearer Packages
- Flexible Partials
- Tooth Extractions - Routine & Complex
- Same-Day Crowns
- Crowns & Related
- X-Ray Services
- Gold Crowns on Dentures
- Teeth Whitening
- Adult Cleaning
- Other General Dentistry Services
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Payment for service is required after you see the dentist and a treatment plan is approved based on your clinical needs. This practice accepts: Cash, Check with valid ID, Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover.
Financing is available through CareCreditSM, a Synchrony Bank company.* To pre-qualify for credit, click on the link below and complete their on-line application form. CareCredit's approval response is provided quickly.
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If you have dental insurance through a carrier not accepted at this practice, an appropriate dental walk out statement will be provided so you can file your claim directly with your insurance carrier.
Be assured you will save money by filing the claim yourself. Affordable Dentures fees are so low, the total cost for the services you will receive at this location are likely less than the co-pay you will be required to pay at most other general dentistry practices. The practice staff can help you calculate the costs so you can make the best decision.