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Some of you may have read a letter I submitted recently about the bow hunter and the long, established male moose that had been making Wildernest and its surrounding forest his home for many years. It is with a heavy heart to have to report that the hunter did claimed his prize, as of last Tuesday. Not with the bow, but with eight shots to the chest and heart. A local jogger I spoke to today on the trail, was witness to the field dressing of the bull and claimed the hunter could not have been more proud of his "catch." I use the word "catch" facetiously, simply because hunting this particular area is the equivalent to throwing your rod in at the roadside tourist fishery while driving up to Mount Evans. No big challenge there and not a whole lot to be proud of, unless of course, you're under the age of 10. Congratulations, dear hunter, on claiming your "prize." You may have made yourself happy, but in turn you've made many others very sad.
I'm not against hunting. I realize the need of keeping certain species under control, I just wish this particular moose could have been spared.

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MARTINEZ-- A 46-year-old Pittsburg man was found dead on Friday in his cell at the Contra Costa County Jail of an apparent medical problem, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Sheriff's deputies at the jail were notified of the unresponsive man by another inmate about 4:10 a.m., and jail medical staff immediately began trying to save the man, Contra Costa sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said. Crews from the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District arrived at the jail shortly after and continued the life-saving efforts, but pronounced the man dead at 4:27 a.m.
The inmate, who is not being identified pending notification of the family, had several preexisting medical conditions, Lee said. The incident will be investigated by the sheriff's office and Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office, following county protocol after in-custody deaths.
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Victims in Temerson Square shooting identified
Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 4:53 p.m.
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Warrants have been filed in Tuscaloosa County District Court in the cases against a man accused in an early morning shooting spree on Tuesday.
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Nathan Wilkins, 44, is accused of shooting 17 people at The Copper Top in downtown Tuscaloosa and another man less than an hour before at a house in Northport.
The papers filed Wednesday afternoon list the 17 people who were shot at The Copper Top as Andreas Hielscher, Walter Edward Rogers, Christopher Bryant Johnson, Renardo Jackson, Alonzo John Ruffin, Jeremy Cordell Davis, Willis Junior Howard, Tebiarus Levert Gill, Andrew Herbert Stone, Rachel Amberly Studdard, Jonathan Riley Dunn, Cody Clay Patterson, Brian William Hundley, Kelvin Tramon Sigler, Jason Bradley Atencio, Kaitlyn Knapp Lamb, Jillian Nicole Garcia and Mario Winkler.
Jackson and Winkler remain hospitalized at DCH. Jackson is in fair and Winkler is in serious condition.
A deposition sheet written by a Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit investigator detailed the shooting that happened less than an hour before the shooting at Copper Top.
According to the document, resident Bruce Richardson Bankhead, 30, said that someone knocked on his door and said "delivery." A man who investigators say was Wilkins pointed a gun at Bankhead and began to fire as he turned to run. Bankhead was shot in the back. Wilkins continued to fire into the house.
Investigators began receiving tips Tuesday morning that identified the shooter as Wilkins. They traveled to his house on Buckhead Drive in Northport and found the doors open and no one home. They went inside and found open containers of Wolf brand ammunition, the same that was used in the Northport and Copper Top shootings.
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BRECKENRIDGE - Less than four months after he beat local camper Karl Kohler to death with a baseball bat near a trailhead on Peak 9, Gregory Scott Gavin took a plea deal: second-degree murder in the heat of passion with a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison.
He just had to give a truthful account of the murder.
But when he sat down with detectives a few weeks later, Gavin told the story not of a heated argument with a tragic ending, but of a cold-blooded killing, during which he left the victim beaten and bleeding, but still alive for several hours while deciding what to do before returning to end his life.
Prosecutors said if they had known the details of the crime beforehand, they would have charged Gavin with first-degree murder.
A conviction would likely have landed him behind bars for the rest of his life.
But by the time Gavin gave his account of the murder, the plea deal was done and it was too late to change the charges.
"Our hands were tied," deputy district attorney Anne Francis said.
In November, Gavin was sentenced to 12 years in prison, the maximum penalty under the plea agreement.
Kohler was found bludgeoned to death near the Burro Trail Trailhead near Breck in May by volunteers working in the area.
Gavin, 50, was arrested June 8 and charged with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence.
Both men made their permanent homes in the woods around Summit County.
Some members of Kohler's family were furious when they learned the details of Gavin's confession, saying the punishment did not fit the crime.
"When I thought Karl's death was the result of an argument that got out of hand, I thought that while 12 years of a person's life was a significant price, it seemed like a price that was in no way fair to Karl," Kohler's brother Ralph Kohler stated in a letter to the court read during the sentencing hearing. "When I read (Gavin's) statement, I am now outraged and heartbroken."
Attempts to contact Ralph Kohler by phone and email for a comment for this story have been unsuccessful. He did recently submit a letter to the Summit Daily News saying he wanted this community to know that his brother's death was not a crime of passion, but premeditated murder.
Under Colorado law, first-degree murder is committed when an individual acts with deliberation and intent to cause the death of another person. It carries a minimum penalty of life in prison and a maximum penalty of death.
Gavin apologized for his crime at the sentencing hearing.
Gavin told authorities he awoke at dawn the day he killed Kohler. He had heard a "scuff" outside his tent.
Thinking there might be an animal near his campsite, he sat there quietly. Then the right side of his tent came down, he said. A few seconds later the backside of the tent began to collapse and Gavin said he could see someone clawing at the tarp.
"I was like, I've got to get out of here," Gavin told Sgt. Wes Mumford of the Summit County Sheriff's Office during his taped confession. "I had to get the hell out of there."
Gavin said he then grabbed a baseball bat from inside the tent and climbed out to find Kohler, a man with whom he said he had had a long-standing disagreement.
A witness claimed to have heard Kohler threatening to kill Gavin during a previous confrontation on a Summit Stage bus.
During his confession, Gavin told authorities he was afraid for his life when he saw Kohler outside his tent that morning.
"I knew he was going to kill me," Gavin said. "So I hit him with the bat. I was hoping I could hurt him and then he'd go away."
Kohler then stood up and approached Gavin, saying "bring it, bring it," Gavin said. Gavin said he hit Kohler several more times with the bat around the head, neck and face, until he was lying on the ground, no longer trying to get up, but still breathing.
"I just had a strange feeling inside me," Gavin said. "I did squat down and then (I was) trying to think what to do. ... said I should go to the police, get some help."
But instead, he put on his boots, grabbed his pack, hit Kohler again on the hand and the leg so he wouldn't follow him and walked away from the campsite on a nearby trail, he said.
He stopped to stash the baseball bat under a bush and then went into Breckenridge to catch the bus.
"I think I went to Frisco and back and decided what to do," Gavin told authorities. "I decided I had to go back up there and see him, see if he was alright."
When Gavin returned to the campsite he found Kohler inside his tent. Then Kohler opened his eyes.
"I was thinking, if this guy gets away, he's going to come back and kill me," Gavin said.
He then went back down the hill to retrieve the baseball bat, returned to the campsite and hit Kohler again, he said. Gavin told authorities he dragged Kohler's body out of the tent, grabbed a couple of items, including a wallet, that had fallen out of Kohler's pockets and returned to town. Once in Breckenridge, Gavin said he threw the wallet and other items in a Dumpster where they were later found by investigators.
Gavin said he then relocated to the Keystone area and remained there until he was arrested a few weeks later.
Kohler, 45, had lived in Summit County for approximately 10 years, at the time of his death. Friends in the community remembered him as intelligent and artistic, with a deep love for music, but said he had lived a hard life.
At Gavin's sentencing hearing Kohler's family mourned the loss of an "honorable man" and disparaged the system that upheld the law, but not necessarily justice in their eyes.
"My family and I think the readers of the Summit Daily News deserve to know the whole truth about how Karl died," Ralph Kohler stated in a letter to the editor letter. "They can decide for themselves whether they think the punishment of 12 years for his killer was just."


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Teen Accused of Stabbing Mom's Boyfriend to Death
Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 9:13 a.m.
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SPRING HILL | Authorities say a 17-year-old boy fatally stabbed his mother's live-in boyfriend.
The stabbing took place during an argument at their home in Spring Hill on Sunday afternoon. Hernando County Sheriff's officials say the teen left the house after arguing with 39-year-old David Floyd. He then returned home and grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Floyd in the chest.
Deputies say Floyd died at a hospital Sunday evening.
The teen's name has not been released. He faces a first-degree murder charge.
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DEALER EXPO, Indianapolis, Ind. – What happens when you mix an aero-space engineer with motorcycles? Kali Protectives.
Brad Waldron, president, owner and chief engineer made the switch from working on B2 bombers and F18s to develop a better helmet initially for motocross, and now street.
The Kali helmet, named derived from the Indian Goddess of chaos and destruction, has combined several technologies to develop a helmet that breaks new ground in the helmet industry.
Virtually all helmets consist of two main elements, a hard outer shell made of fiberglass, carbon fiber, or some other type of plastic, and an expanded poly styrene inner shell. It's a design similar to a picnic cooler.
Kali helmet's outer shell is carbon fiber, the inner shell, like others, is also composed of a poly styrene material, but with a difference. The poly styrene material is constructed with dozens of inverted pyramids, with a second layer of a different density poly styrene molded into it, with a smooth inner surface. This inner liner is then bonded chemically to the shell, eliminating the usual space created by traditional spot gluing or tape used in other helmets.
This construction allows a thinner, but equally strong outer shell to do its job of resisting penetration, impact and abrasion, while disallowing a secondary impact as the outer shell is driven into the inner liner after the initial impact with conventional construction. The pyramids also aid in the dispersion of the impact over a wider range of the poly styrene inner liner, thereby lessening the total impact to the skull, acting in a similar manner as the "crumple" section of a modern automobile.
The Kali helmets, shown at Booth 707, are not only stylish, but lighter and at least as strong as conventional helmets. In addition to full-face and motocross helmets. Kali also makes a "beanie" that uses the same technology, creating a smaller and lighter helmet that actually offers a significant degree of protection compared to the average "beanie."


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Amazing that while all this chaos was (and is) occurring, the band soldiered on. Paul and Silas started the party going 78RPM then Back on the Train slowed back into a 33 1/3RPM groove going on and signaled good things ahead. Unfortunately, that did not include the weather, LOL!
As much as I was trying to pay attention to what was happening on stage, I personally found it impossible to watch or really as much attention as I ordinarily would due to what was happening 'round the perimeter of the roof so someone else would be better served to comment on the rest of the set. One thing for sure, I was grateful beyond belief that I had a GA Pit seat tonight. And during the worse of it I still got soaked, the wind were WHIPPING thru the venue every which way as the storms swirled 'round us.
After they did resume, of which they got on the PA at least twice to keep the crowd as advised as possible, they picked up right where they had to leave off with Mound. I always write Tweezer off, not wanting to be pining for my favorite song but, once again, just when I least expected it, they ripped it. And the same for everything else, each song a virtual set closer onto itself, Slave, Bowie, wow. Trey cutting off Paige towards the end of an enormously celebratory Suzy, it sounded like Paige and Trey were good-naturedly ribbing each other before bringing the house down at its conclusion. Gotta Jibboo did, big time, the pit becoming one big amoeba swaying back and forth to the rhythm section while Trey and Paige tinkled with our ears. Hood soared, Character Zero, exhausting. The Birdwatcher was beyond hilarious as everyone could tell and Kung, yet another set-closing sounding song that actually ended up being the set closer.
Funky Bitch>Tweezer Reprise. Pretty self-explanatory IMHO.
Just like the great magicians, opps, I meant musicians, they've learned from their predecessors: Leave 'em smiling. Mission accomplished. Too bad they had to compete with the Mother of all Mothers. If I had to rate 'em, Sunday Merriweather is still the winner out of seven seen on this tour so far but they tried their hearts out and still had a great time on stage doing so but the side, and perhaps the main, story will be the weather and, with that, how a band has continued to persevere thru its own stormy weather to emerge as one that, apparently, is happy with itself. And one that wants us to be happy. See you in Charlotte.


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Santa Clara County debt collectors mixed him up with his dead dad. Election chiefs broke the law by not reporting his missing campaign files. And three audits overlooked his charges for "county business" billed from far-flung casinos and golf fairways.
A trail of embarrassing inaction at numerous levels of county government enabled the years-long crime spree of disgraced former Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr., who will be sentenced in the coming weeks for perjury and misuse of public funds.
Despite years of red flags that a high-profile elected official was up to no good, nobody sounded significant alarm until September, when a scrappy weekly newspaper published a mocking exposé on Shirakawa's sloppy record-keeping. Local prosecutors and the state's political watchdog instantly perked up, launching investigations that resulted in the San Jose politician's resignation and a March 18 guilty plea.
The failure to stop Shirakawa has been costly. His donors, who thought they were supporting his political career, unwittingly provided more than $100,000 that the twice-elected supervisor dropped on casino floors. And the price of a June election and an expected runoff could go beyond $2 million.
"Why didn't anybody else do anything?" asked 25-year-old Jimi Kogura, a lifelong resident of Shirakawa's district. Kogura, who has a degree in accounting, is among those baffled by the oversight failures. "Somebody else needs to be held accountable. When all those things were going on on a regular basis, you'd think people would say, 'Are you sure this is right, George?' "
County Executive Jeff Smith admits to some "very big" mistakes but says they have since been corrected. A large problem resulted from smaller ones, he noted, adding that it is hard to prepare for the totally unexpected. "In this situation, no one expected such peculiar behavior from an elected official," Smith said. "We were all surprised."
The overlooked signs first surfaced at the county Registrar of Voters office, where Shirakawa failed to file campaign reports for a school board race as early as 2003. He was not penalized, in part, because a year earlier the office had stopped reporting non-filers to law enforcement or the state -- even though doing so is a requirement of the California Political Reform Act. Interim Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey said the decision was made because of "lack of responsiveness" to such reports from the local district attorney and the state's Fair Political Practices Commission.
Asked if she understood that the law required such reporting, Bushey, an office employee since 1995 who hopes to be named registrar, responded: "Honestly, I would have to look at the act."
Nonetheless, Bushey's signature appears on 16 letters sent to Shirakawa between 2008 and 2011 about his missing filings, just below a sentence in bold stating: "You will be referred to the FPPC Enforcement Division and the Santa Clara County District Attorney if the statements are not filed," or a variation of that wording. He never was.
"I'm glad they can make state law in their office," FPPC's chief enforcement officer, Gary Winuk, said sarcastically. "The law says they need to report it; there are no exceptions."
The registrar did fine Shirakawa for his missing campaign filings, but when he didn't pay those fines, his accounts were kicked to a second county agency. The county Department of Revenue's threats to take Shirakawa to small claims court, intercept his tax refund and garnish his wages appear to have gone mostly unnoticed by higher-ups.
At one point, Revenue Collections Director Susan Ping Wong's pursuit was delayed because she was uncertain Shirakawa, elected in 2008, was still in office -- even though his name was on the county letterhead. In an Aug. 26, 2011, email she asked colleagues: "What is that status of the Shirakawa account? I believe we put it on hold, while I determined if he is still a BOS member or not." She later added that at a Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting she could "see that he is still a sitting board member."
Wong said toward the end of 2011 through September 2012 she "periodically updated" her boss, Finance Director Vinod Sharma, about Shirakawa: "Updates to Mr. Sharma were to apprise him of the account status and that no action was needed on his part."
Meanwhile, there were roughly three years where at least some of the collections efforts halted altogether. That's because two of Shirakawa's delinquent accounts were misidentified by a new computer system as being those of his father, George Shirakawa Sr., who died in 1994. It took the department 15 months to identify the problem.
When yet another county agency, the Controller-Treasurer's office, had the chance to cry foul over Shirakawa's use of a county credit card at casinos and golf courses -- and on 174 mostly unauthorized restaurant meals -- employees there missed chances as well. On three occasions, the agency said it conducted audits of his credit card but somehow found only minor infractions. In one instance, an audit noted a lack of "the required signatures" on vague Missing Receipt Memos -- but failed to question why Shirakawa had lost the itemized receipts for up to three-fourths of his transactions.
During the periods the audits were conducted in each month of 2009 and six months of 2010, Shirakawa spent $294.02 on seven full racks of baby back ribs and all the trimmings for one of numerous staff bashes in violation of county policies. Also overlooked was the charge from Harvey's Casino in Stateline, Nev., and a $789.71 luxury car rental for an extended Southern California jaunt.
Although the Controller-Treasurer's office consistently referred to the examination of Shirakawa's spending that missed these and many more blatant violations as audits, Sharma now calls them "reviews" done by "paraprofessional" accounting assistants. "These have been taken to be audit reports, which they certainly are not," Sharma said.
Indeed, the work was performed by the claims unit, not the more experienced Internal Audit Division, and its reports used boilerplate language to state the District 2 office records were "well organized and maintained."
Sharma said the fact that his office missed nearly $30,000 of inappropriate spending needs to be put in perspective. "Out of a $4 billion budget, $30,000 is not a material amount," he said. "The controls are generally working."
County Executive Smith sits atop the chain. But he says that although he meets with all his department heads every month, no one ever mentioned Shirakawa's questionable spending, delinquent fines or blatant disregard of campaign rules. Smith has said Eddie Garcia, Shirakawa's former chief of staff, approved his boss's expenses and entered those claims into the county's computerized system -- and his approval kept them from outside scrutiny. Garcia has since been let go from the District 2 staff.
Supervisor Dave Cortese and his colleagues are satisfied with 252 pages of revised rules they hastily approved to prevent future abuses. But Cortese conceded there has been little effort to determine what went wrong. "We didn't dwell in the past," he said. "We started focusing on remedial measures immediately and I don't think we really looked at what exactly broke down."
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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's tennis team will be back in action this Wednesday afternoon, taking on Southland Conference-rival UTSA at 2 p.m. in a league match at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
The Islanders (6-2, 1-1 Southland) are coming off of a heartbreaking 4-3 loss, just their second of the season, to a tough Northwestern State team, and will be looking to get back on track against the Roadrunners.
UTSA is currently 7-4 on the season and 2-1 in league play. The last time the two teams met, the Islanders came away with a 6-1 win in San Antonio.
Mirna Cicak will lead he team into the match with her 6-2 record at No. 1 singles, Chelsea Horan and Mia Matuszak have won six singles matches each, while Sandra Burges and Stefania Nicolae have five apiece.
Following the midweek match, the Islanders will play Texas – Pan American this Saturday in the Islanders Women's Team Shootout. Match time is set for 1 p.m. at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
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Cornatzer commits to Lander University
Published: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 9:07 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 9:07 p.m.
This fall, recent North Henderson graduate Sage Cornatzer is headed just over the Carolina border to the smallest public university in South Carolina to continue his baseball career at the collegiate level.
Cornatzer committed on Tuesday to Lander University in Greenwood, S.C., which competes in the Division II Peach Belt Conference along with teams like UNC Pembroke, Young Harris and USC Aiken.
The Bearcats baseball team has earned a national ranking the past two seasons, finishing this past season with a No. 23 spot on the NCAA Division II rankings list. Lander climbed as high as No. 14 this season and closed out its 2013 year with a 35-16 record under fourth-year head coach Kermit Smith.
In 2012 the team won a school-record 38 games and finished with a national ranking of No. 25.
"It's going to be a great experience and I'm excited about getting to play at the next level," Cornatzer said. "The school is only two hours away so it's a good distance for me. From getting to watch them play, the team seems really close and I hear the coach is a good guy; I like that he's young."
Known for his athleticism and quickness, the former North four-year varsity second baseman was a two-sport athlete and also played basketball for the Knights all four years. Cornatzer led North as well as the WNC Athletic Conference in stolen bases (19) his senior season and was awarded the Knight Coaches Award in 2013.
He finished the season with a .297 batting average, 13 RBIs, was second on the team with 23 runs scored and had a .960 fielding percentage at second base.
Cornatzer said the coaches told him they liked what they saw out of him for his all-around abilities, and that he will most likely bat near the middle of the lineup on offense and play second base on defense.
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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The Leuchter report
13.79 The reason why Irving initially denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz was, as has been seen, the Leuchter report. I have summarised in some detail the findings made by Leuchter at paragraphs 7.82 to 7.89 above. I will not repeat myself. I have also set out at paragraphs 7.104 to 7.108 above the reasons why van Pelt on behalf of the Defendants dismissed the Leuchter report as flawed and unreliable. Those reasons were put to Irving in cross-examination. It is a fair summary of his evidence to say that he accepted the validity of most of them. He agreed that the Leuchter report was fundamentally flawed. In regard to the chemical analysis, Irving was unable to controvert the evidence of Dr Roth (summarised at paragraph 7.106 above) that, because the cyanide would have penetrated the brickwork and plaster to a depth of no more than one tenth of the breadth of a human hair, any cyanide present in the relatively large samples taken by Leuchter (which had to be pulverised before analysis) would have been so diluted that the results on which Leuchter relied had effectively no validity. What is more significant is that Leuchter assumed, wrongly as Irving agreed, that a greater concentration of cyanide would have been required to kill humans than was required to fumigate clothing. In fact the concentration required to kill humans is 22 times less than is required for fumigation purposes. As indicated in paragraph 7.105 above, and as Irving was constrained to accept, Leuchter's false assumption vitiated his conclusion. Irving conceded the existence of many other factual errors in the Leuchter report.
13.80 In the light of the evidence of van Pelt and Irving's answers in cross-examination, I do not consider that an objective historian would have regarded the Leuchter report as a sufficient reason for dismissing, or even doubting, the convergence of evidence on which the Defendants rely for the presence of homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz. I have not overlooked the fact that Irving claimed that Leuchter's findings have been replicated, notably in a report by Germar Rudolf. But that report was not produced at the trial so it is impossible for me to assess its evidential value.


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Bolt completes golden hat-trick as Jamaica romps to sprint relay glory
Jamaica's Usain Bolt, second from left, competes in the men's 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) (CNN) — Usain Bolt rounded off the world championships Sunday by claiming his third gold in Moscow as he anchored Jamaica to victory in the men's 4x100m relay. The fastest man in the world charged clear of United States rival Justin Gatlin as the Jamaican quartet of Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Nickel Ashmeade and Bolt won in 37.36 seconds.


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A total of 93 people took advantage of the city of Hannibal's Prisoner Work Program in 2012, according to the Police Department.
Fifty-four completed their stint in the program last year. Fifteen remain active, 14 are in the program through pay plan/private probation, while another 10 are in for warrants/incarcerated.
Participants logged 4,705 hours of labor in 2012.
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Javaid Hussain, general-secretary of the Al-Mahdi Foundation, is interviewed in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. As it canvassed the Northeast looking for Iranian terrorists, the New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques based solely on their religion, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how it drove the department's aggressive spying operations. The Associated Press has reported for months that the NYPD infiltrated mosques, eavesdropped in cafes and monitored entire Muslim neighborhoods with plainclothes officers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)


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Once in a while a film comes out of Ireland that seems to upend all the ones that came before it.
In 2008 it was the midlands epic "Eden" and the shoestring rock musical "Once" that wowed critics and audiences with their simple but affecting storylines and stellar performances.
Then last year Irish playwright Conor McPherson's chiller "The Eclipse" seemed to invent its own genre.
In 2010 the drama that looks unlike anything that's come out of Ireland before is "My Brothers," currently showing at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Written by Irish screenwriter Will Collins, 33, and directed by British man Paul Fraser, 37, it's a tender story about three young working class Cork brothers who take an impromptu road trip together as they struggle to cope with their father's imminent death.
As storylines go, that may sound like a grim one, but the performances by the young Irish cast and the assured direction lift this film far above its occasional contrivances to turn it into something deeply affecting.
As the film begins, their father (Don Wycherley) is already close to death and the eldest boy is busy storing his fears in a private journal.
"Soon it will be over," writes 17-year-old Noel (Timmy Creed). "Soon it will be every man for himself."
It's hard to tell if the film is autobiographical or fiction as you're watching it because it's so well observed that it feels personal, as if it was the record of an actual life experience replayed in front of your eyes.
But that's what makes "My Brothers" such an understated marvel. Director Fraser has filled it with so much emotional authenticity that it rings true in every scene.
There are no tricks, there's no flashy dialogue, there aren't any colorful characters or quaint scenes to distract you.
Instead "My Brothers" is a sparse but powerful new work, relying on its own elegant simplicity to make its points.
"If Daddy dies on the holidays," asks the youngest boy Scwally (T.J. Griffin), "do we still get time off from school when we get back?"
It's the slow motion death of their father and the three boys' individual responses to it that make for such an interesting film.
Noel, the oldest boy, is already haunted by the inevitable, but Paudie (Paul Courtney), the spirited 12-year-old middle kid, has decided the way to get through it all is by toughing it out and telling jokes (even though there's real pathos hidden beneath all his playacting).
That leaves Scwally, the 7-year-old Star Wars obsessed kid, who can't grasp the gravity of the situation that's facing them all.
With a setup like this it would be all too easy to tilt over into crass sentimentality, but miraculously "My Brothers" never does.
It's half funny, half heartbreaking questions like Scwally's mentioned above that keep the audience at a necessary remove from the three characters. Because the audience has the luxury of deciding whether to laugh or cry, but for the boys the choice is a bit more complicated.
So the emotional wallop of My Brothers slowly sneaks up on you, accumulating as each scene progresses. You'll barely notice how affecting it is until it hits you (and it can't fail to hit you). And that glacial pace and the gradual way the story reveals itself are what drew Fraser to it in the first place.
"Two years ago Will Collins showed me the script," Fraser tells the Irish Voice. "I thought it was beautiful and by then I had wanted to direct something. Finally he delivered a draft back to me that was just awesome.
"Collins' voice is also very similar to my own (Fraser is also an award winning author) when I write which is a strange situation to be in. About six months after meeting him I mentioned to the Irish Film Board that I wouldn't mind directing 'My Brothers.' From then on it just snowballed."
But "My Brothers" was already in pre-production before Fraser decided if he wanted to direct it or not. He had previously directed a series of short films, but he was still on the fence about moving into feature films.
So it became a case of fate taking over. The financing was in place and he decided to run with it.
"We had a tiny budget and we made it work on that," says Fraser. "The film is set during Halloween 1987 and we shot it in Ireland in November when the daylight hours felt like they stretched from half 10 till half 12.
"The shoot also coincided with one of the worst rainfalls Ireland's ever had. Except for the point it just wouldn't rain. We thought someone must be having a laugh. Why would an Irish film crew need to hire a rain machine in November?"
"My Brothers" has two distinct sections. First comes the road trip where we discover who the three lads are and what they're facing into, and there's plenty of comedy and adventures involved. Then the tone darkens and sibling rivalries break out, as does the awareness of what's coming up for them.


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Last year, Breckenridge interviewed almost a thousand people, both past and potential visitors, asking them what they loved about the town. That feedback was incorporated into a new brand for the town based on real experiences. This year, Gov. John Hickenlooper is launching a five-month grassroots project to do the same thing at the state level. But rather than polling visitors, he's asking residents to help define Colorado.The Making Colorado initiative, what organizers are calling the most inclusive and ambitious branding project ever attempted by a state, launched this week, pulling together marketing experts, agencies, high school students and the public to help create a brand that captures the spirit and culture of the state. "Colorado has a heart and soul like no other state," Hickenlooper stated in a recent release on the project. "We launched the Making Colorado initiative to create and market a stronger Colorado brand. Together, we will define what Colorado stands for and how to convey that to the world to help ensure our communities, culture and environment are strong and vibrant for decades to come." The effort, headed up by Colorado's chief marketing officer Aaron Kennedy, the founder of Noodles & Company, will bring together a who's who of influential individuals and business representatives who rely on the Colorado brand to provide recommendations as well as a Youth Ambassador Council made up of high school seniors from all of Colorado's 64 counties to contribute content from their hometowns. Online and through social media all other Coloradans will be able to submit thoughts and opinions to the project as well. The Making Colorado project is a kind of expanded version of the ground-up branding effort Breckenridge launched last year, and local marketing experts are on board. "Breckenridge is a brand people understand across the country that we're trying to capture for our marketing and sales efforts," said Breckenridge Councilman Mike Dudick, who led the 2010 campaign to pass a lodging tax increase to fund the town's marketing efforts. "I applaud the state for doing the same thing."But it's not yet clear how active a role Breckenridge or Summit County agencies will play in the Making Colorado process. "Since the branding efforts are a new initiative, the scope of Breckenridge's participation is not yet known," John McMahon, president and CEO of the Breckenridge Resort Chamber, the town's direct marketing organization stated in an email. "I stay actively involved with the statewide marketing committee." This isn't Hickenlooper's first stab at a ground-up approach to major projects in his first term. In 2011, months after taking office, he launched a similar project to establish the state's approach to economic development, informed by the needs and priorities of the people. The several-month effort led to meetings and interactive work across the state and ultimately produced a six-point blueprint prioritizing the construction of a business friendly environment, increased access to capital and the education of the future workforce. Building and selling the "Colorado Brand" was also a headline of the plan.
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Short description of the programme
The Postgraduate study at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb is organised as a doctoral study. Postgraduate doctoral study programme leads to the Ph.D. academic degree in the scientific field of Electrical Engineering or the scientific field of Computing. By the academic year 2007/2008, 602 candidates were awarded with the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computing.
The duration of study is three years for full time students, and it is completed by defending the submitted thesis. The student must collect altogether at least 480 ECTS credits (including credits from the previous high education) by enrolling courses and passing examinations, doing research, and publishing research results.
The student is required to successfully complete a certain number of advanced courses relevant to his or her area of research. Every student designs his or her programme of study according to a research area, by choosing the number of courses as determined by the programme. The mentor appointed to a student should endorse the student's selection of courses.
The first phase consists of coursework in the student's field of study and area of research. This is followed by a qualifying examination intended to assess the student's qualifications to undertake the doctoral research. The programme requires students to complete a thesis proposal/prospectus. Upon successful doctoral prospectus examination, the student's time will be devoted exclusively to his or her own research, culminating in the completion of the Ph.D. thesis. The student must submit the thesis containing original research contribution, which is worthy of publication in a peer-refereed context. The final requirement is an oral defence of the thesis, which is open to the public.
Recommended study scheme is the following:
- 20-30 % ECTS credits for advanced courses
- 70-80 % ECTS credits for research, including research plan and annual reports, qualifying examination, prospectus, and publications (conference and journal papers).
Programme objectives
The programme will afford supervised research experiences so that students develop the specific knowledge as well technical, conceptual and communication skills needed for conducting high-quality research.
The programme will provide advanced education in a number of electrical engineering and computing disciplines so that students acquire expertise that can be applied in a wide range of academic, government and industrial environments.
The programme will prepare students for careers in which a strong understanding of technology is required along with an ability to appreciate, understand, and develop their creative potential.
Programme outcomes
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or Ph.D. in Computing.


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Do you get exasperated when the meat on the rib you're eating falls off the bone on its way from the tray to your mouth?
Does the anger build inside you when you're forced to use paper towel after paper towel to clean up your sticky face?
Do you fly into an uncontrollable, tofu-fueled rage when your friends take you to a barbecue joint without a vegan option?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Slow Hand BBQ in Pleasant Hill isn't the place for you.
The Oak Park Boulevard restaurant opened in July in the building that housed Smokin' Okie's for years and the original Back Forty Texas BBQ years before that. The neon pig out front is gone, but the 32-year-old, wood-burning smoker remains.
The layout of the place hasn't changed much. You enter to an open floor of booths and tables with a kitchen in the back behind a right-angled bar. A couple of TVs usually show sports, and blues tunes play from overhead. But the music-themed decor is gone, replaced with orange and black paint and photos of owner Dan Frengs tending the smoker. There's also a photo of his license plate, which reads, "SLO (hand symbol) BBQ."
You order at a counter from chalk-scribbled blackboards. The meals are served on big metal trays covered in butcher paper.
Slow Hand veterans used to forgo the provided paper towels for the Wonder Bread "napkins" that came with each meal, but the closing of Hostess has left barbecue joints across the nation, including Slow Hand, wondering what simple staple to serve.
The sides come in Styrofoam containers, and the two kinds of sauce -- hot and sweet -- are in ketchup tubes. It's purposefully simple, a theme that sticks at Slow Hand.
Frengs spent years working in the beer business, and it shows in his taps. He always carries selections from Northern California institutions Sierra Nevada and Anchor Brewing, and hipster fuel (Pabst Blue Ribbon) is a constant. Expect to find about 10 others from all over on the board, which recently included New Belgium's 1554 (Fort Collins, Colo.), Ale Industries' Rye'd Piper (Concord), Radeberger's Pilsner (Radeberg, Germany) and North Coast's Red Seal (Fort Bragg).
The selection of sides, again, is simple: coleslaw, German potato salad, beer-spiked beans with bacon and mac 'n' cheese. Unlike many East Bay barbecue joints, not one dab of mayonnaise makes its way into the coleslaw or potato salad.
The coleslaw is a standout. It's vinegar and oil based, with cilantro, red bell pepper, green onion, herbs and seasoning. If you get one side, get this. If you get two, get two orders of this.
The mac 'n' cheese can be uneven. At times, it's spot on; other times, it's clumpy and bland.
The German potato salad is served warm and made with vinegar, oil, onion, cider and bacon. It's heavy, but a nice change of pace from tired mayo-soaked versions with rock-hard tubers.
But let's get to the meat of this review.
The Texas-style brisket and Carolina-style pulled pork are sold by the quarter-pound. One pound feeds two to three people; it's $16 for the brisket and $12 for the pork. The ordering? Simple.
You can buy a half-chicken for $5.75 or a whole one for $9.75. The bird is soaked in a saltwater brine, then slow-cooked in the smoker.
But it's all about the ribs, and Slow Hand sells two kinds of them: St. Louis and baby backs, the best-seller. For both, it's $12.95 for a half-rack and $22.95 for a full. With both, the meat falls off the bone. The baby backs are cut from the top of the rib cage between the spine and the spare ribs. The St. Louis are spare ribs and have a little more fat than the baby backs. They're seasoned the same, with just salt and pepper.
Frengs grew up in Pleasant Hill and has roots in San Francisco. He seems to let a straightforward ethos guide him: Keep the seasoning simple, and let the smoker work its magic.
He started barbecuing for beer events and then at farmers markets in 2010. He moved on to setting up "shop" on San Francisco street corners, where he'd sell his slow-smoked eats a little less than legally. He earned an SF Weekly "Best of S.F." title and found hundreds of catering gigs to pay the bills, allowing him to open his own place in his hometown.
The smoker is what sold Frengs on the spot, and now he's cooking bone-in pork butts in it. After 12 hours inside the heavy, sooty doors, the meat gets chopped up and mixed with a mustard-vinegar sauce you might find in the Carolinas. The pork is served less stringy and more flavorful than what you'll find at, say, every sports-bar-turned-gastro-pub from here to Hollister.
Frengs and his crew cook the 10- to 14-pound briskets at 250 degrees for an hour a pound. They rotate in the smoker, the juices dripping from one to the next in a harmony of dribbles and drizzles of fatty flavor, all while enveloped by the sweet-smelling smoke from the oak burning below.
The ribs? A similar symphony that would make many a mouth water in anticipation. The baby backs cook for four to six hours; the St. Louis ribs cook for seven to eight.
At this barbecue joint, it's slow and steady -- and simple -- that win the day.
Follow Tim O'Rourke at Twitter.com/timothyorourke.
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WHERE: 1941 Oak Park Blvd., Pleasant Hill
CONTACT: 925-942-0149, www.slowhandbbq.com
HOURS: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily
CUISINE: Barbecue
VEGETARIAN: Just the some of the sides
BEVERAGES: Impressive wine and draft beer lists that are ever-changing.
RESERVATIONS: No
NOISE LEVEL: Moderate
PARKING: Private lot and street parking
KIDS: No special menu, but what kid doesn't like gnawing on ribs or eating macaroni and cheese?
PLUSES: The brisket, the ribs, the pulled pork -- pretty much all the meat they're smoking.
MINUSES: The options are close to nonexistent if someone in your party isn't a meat-eater. Some diners would like to see cornbread on the menu.
DATE OPENED: July
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On April 27, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the St. James Police Department and the Watonwan County Sheriff's Office along with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
Bring your medications for disposal to the St. James Police Department at 715 3rd Ave So. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse.
Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.
In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines-flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash-both pose potential safety and health hazards.
Four days after the first event, Congress passed the Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010, which amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow an "ultimate user" of controlled substance medications to dispose of them by delivering them to entities authorized by the Attorney General to accept them.
The Act also allows the Attorney General to authorize long term care facilities to dispose of their residents' controlled substances in certain instances. DEA is drafting regulations to implement the Act.
Until new regulations are in place, local law enforcement agencies like the St. James Police Department and the Watonwan County Sheriff's Office will continue to hold prescription drug take-back yearly.
After April 27, 2013 there will also be a 24/7 drop off available by using a newly purchased drop box located at the dispatch center 715 3rd Avenue South in St. James. If there are any questions, please call Chief Deputy Jeremy Nachreiner at 507-375-2584.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — Preliminary student enrollment figures for the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District are up this year after being in decline since the 2008-09 school year.
As of Sept. 14, 3,782 students were attending school within the district, compared to the enrollment number of 3,731 last year (according to the count as of Oct. 5, 2011), amounting to an increase of 51 students, officials revealed last week.
"We are pleased to see that enrollment is increasing," said Rob Leri, superintendent of the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District. "We have not investigated the source of that increase yet, but we will look into our numbers."
Some possible reasons for the increase, he said, include: people moving into the school district, students transferring or returning to one of the district's 11 schools, or an increase in the birth rate.
A trend that has Leri particularly excited is the increase in kindergarten enrollment.
This year, 394 children are attending kindergarten in the district, the largest grade level enrollment figure in the K-12 district, up from 336 last year.
"That's always a good sign," Leri said. "When you start with a large kindergarten class, they'll usually increase as they matriculate through K-8 grades."
Lower grades within the district saw the largest increases in their student enrollment from last year.
Similar to kindergarten, sixth grade increased by 58 students, with eighth grade and fourth grade following with a student body increase of 46 and 41, respectively, year over year.
Overall increased enrollment or steady student enrollment, Leri said, helps the district retain staff and academic programs in order to accommodate the students.
Sometimes, it even gives a district an opportunity to add programs and classes.
This year, as result of the enrollment increase, two new classes were added to Truckee Elementary School, Leri said: a kindergarten class and a first- and second-grade combination class.
However, neither an increase in enrollment nor a decrease has an impact on the district's revenues, Leri said, considering it's a basic aid district, which means its budget is largely based on local property tax revenues.
While the district saw a spike in enrollment overall, certain grades did see a decline.
Seventh grade saw the biggest drop, going from 319 students last year to 244 this year. Both third grade and 12th grade dropped by 28 students, where as 11th grade and fifth grade dropped by 23 students.
Leri said enrollment figures per grade tend to fluctuate throughout the year.
"Normally, it decreases in the second semester, especially in secondary school, high school, because students may elect to do other programs or they move," he said.
But until then, Leri said enrollment figures could increase, though "probably not significantly."


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Coffee With Elaine
March 28, 2013 - 9:00am - 10:00amCoffee with Elaine is an informal twice-monthly opportunity to explore key points in Montessori education. Different topics will be discussed. There will be ample time for questions and answers. Elaine Allessio offers a wealth of experience with over 25 years of perspective as a Montessori teacher and parent.


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What His Manscaping Style Says About Him
"If I'm away with just my girl, I'm hoping she will want to do something active — water sports, hiking, whatever. I love any kind of adrenaline-pumping activity." —Andrew B.
"As much as I love vacationing with my girlfriend, sometimes it's nice to spend one day each doing our own thing. She loves shopping for souvenirs and hitting up flea markets and I like to avoid that at all costs. So we pick one day to do go our separate ways and then meet up at night for a romantic dinner." Hunter T.


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East Stroudsburg University/Community Orchestra will present the concert "On a Lighter Note" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the university's Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.
The concert, which will take place in Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall, is sponsored by the Department of Music.
The program will include "The Syncopated Clock," "The Typewriter" and "Sleigh Ride," all by Leroy Anderson; "The Toy Symphony" by Franz Joseph Haydn; "The Pink Panther" by Henry Mancini; and "What's Up at the Symphony," arranged by Jerry Brubaker.
Dr. Betsy Buzzelli-Clarke, ESU associate professor of music, is director of the orchestra.
The concert is free and open to the public. For information, call 570-422-3483 or email email@example.com.
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The center of applied computer science of the University of Cologne (ZAIK/RRZK) provides compute servers, storage systems, communication infrastructure, visualization facilities, and software for grid computing for virtual D-Grid organizations and is involved in the BMBF-funded projects
ZAIK/RRZK provides non-BMBF-funded compute resources together with a BMBF-funded disk storage system to the C3Grid climate community (which is organized in the D-Grid VO C3Grid). Currently this system includes
Contact: Volker Winkelmann, Viktor Achter
Contact: Viktor Achter, Volker Winkelmann, Sebastian Breuers
The University of Cologne provides a BMBF-funded tape archive system which will together with equivalent components at AWI, DKRZ, DWD & ZIB build up a C3Grid community repository center (C3RC) for storing and retrieving large climate data bases of the C3 community. At the University of Cologne grid access is realized through SRM/dCache.
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Apr 7, 2013 15:29 Flag
LFC v West Ham opinions..
Seems to me that we gave the ball away too much and our finishing again was poor..Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Armchair...once again we are clueless tactically in the face of a team who arrive to park the bus and get a point..how many seasons has this nonesense been going on for now...there was a time wed have torn to pieces any side who dropped back like this...evidently not any more. Rogers moping about on the touchline clueless Assaidi on for Hendo ??? This Moroccan lad is a waste of 3 million thats for sure though Im sure we will have plenty on the board saying "We have to give the boy a chance, hes still young , he must have two full seasons before we can judge, blah ...blah ...blah......hes no better certainly than Al Zhar before him and he was useless. Who out there now says we dont need Andy C we dont need a PLAN B ???
Once again we win a ton of corners and are completely unable to capitalize ??? We NEED Andy C in the box putting himself about in there creating chaos and if nothing else it will perhaps enable us to profit from all the corners and set pieces as they cant double team him and watch Suarez and Gerrard too ! All these corners and usually NOBODY INSIDE THE BOX when the corner is taken...just who's idea is that then....could it be Roger's idea ? Thanks be that it wasnt Southampton we were up against today !
Also Sturridge is starting to look less and less effective he looked like so many others out there today clueless. Why are we not running at defenses like this all the slow build up does is give them a chance to amass the troops in a solid wall down the middle. We need fast pass and move ! MOVE !! MOVE !!! against such tactics as Big Sam's today but oh no Rogers still thinks hes managing Barca. Can u see now why Im NOT optimistic that next season will be any better than this season?...The only hope is that the owners have a fit of extreme generosity and put so much coin on the table for the 5 new World Class players we need and use the proviso that Rogers cannot go anywhere near Swansea with any of the money provided !
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Colin, can you tell me what our wins losses and draws have been in the last 10 games?
Hey Col, you've got to give Brendan Rodgers his due 'cos if he hadnt have ensured Andy Carroll couldnt play against us we may well have lost all 3 points instead of gaining one. Always look on the bright side of life!
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Colin, I do actually agree with you on Assaidi. I do like to give players time, but in his case I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) he's been available all season long (unlike Borini) and does not have some lingering injury (like Allen) as an excuse. So the fact the gaffer has rarely put him on the bench, or thrown him on when he's been at the ground, suggests he's just not making the grade. And, while only one match, it's hard to argue he made any sort of case for himself yesterday.
However I can understand BR's thinking here. Having lost Downing, and seeing what was essentially a back 6 preventing us to get in behind, I think he wanted at least one natural winger on the park to try and, as you say run at players and get in behind them. Get Collins or Tomkins to pull a little wider to back up their full backs could have opened up the space for Suarez, Sturridge or Coutinho to run into. However with the only real wing play coming from Jose and Glen, we found ourselves constantly running into a brick wall of 6 defenders plugging up the inside.
It's all well and good to say you want tactics of running at players, but when there is no space to run into, and we don't have the players to actually stretch the pitch and create that space, it's a bit easier said than done. Yes maybe having an Andy Carroll like player could have helped us with all the corners, but Collins was nodding them away for fun so not sure about that. Besides would another static body in the center have helped to create most of those corners?
I ddn't see the game guy.
Is it question of quality? Would one or two players with that little bit extra have helped at all? For example a wide player and a midfielder that can get behind defenses.
I say this when I watch Spain. If you cant go through them you have to go round 'em. That means over lapping full backs, or a winger with a trick or two and of course that striker / poacher in the middle
Was alot of poor finishing everything up until the oen box was good we was just missing that killer pass the only thing that has really annoyed me about this result is the fact that tottenham are losing right now so if we had beaten southamption and west ham a few weeks ago we was 12 points behind spurs now if we had won those games it would of been 3 and tottenham play city away next so would of been good time to catch up.


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The Incline girls basketball team gave defending champion Pershing County a scare in a Northern Division III regional semifinal matchup in Elko on Friday, only to come up a little short, 54-44.
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Incline's girls defeated North Tahoe 53-42 in the quarterfinal round to set up their semifinal against Pershing County, which went on to defeat White Pine 42-30 for the regional title and top Northern seed in the state tournament.
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WACO – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Volleyball team picked up another victory on Saturday, beating Nevada 3-1 (25-27, 25-20, 25-14, 25-23) to finish the Fairfield Inn North Baylor Classic. Brianna Brink and Micah Nolan were named to the all-tournament team after their performances on the second day.
The Islanders are now 2-1 on the season, while Nevada moves to 1-2 this year. Brink tied a career high with 24 kills, doing so in four sets this time after doing it in five last season against McNeese State. She hit an astounding .488 in the match and totaled 36 kills in three matches to earn her spot on the all-tournament team, while Nolan picked up another 21 digs against Nevada, finishing with a total of 50 during the weekend.
Ivy Baresh added a career-high 14 kills, and Brooke Alverson finished in double digits at 11 kills. Logen Bourque finished with 49 assists against the Wolfpack while Courtney Hall came off the bench to spark the Islanders defense, finishing with three block assists to lead the team.
In the first set, a slow start doomed the Islanders despite a valiant comeback effort. Down six at 15-9, they outscored the Wolfpack 11-5 to even the score at 20-20. The two teams played to a deadlock at 25-25 before back-to-back kills gave Nevada the 27-25 win and a one set lead.
Things seemed headed the same way in the second as Texas A&M – Corpus Christi fell behind by a 16-9 score. A service ace from Baresh got the rally started, as Brink tallied three kills, while Alverson had a kill, a service ace and combined with Courtney Hall on a block assist to even the score at 19-19. The Islanders kept pouring it on, as Brink added two more kills and Hall and Shannon Hullum combined for a block to give the Islanders a 25-20 win to even the match at one set apiece.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi dominated the second set behind six kills from Brink, taking a 25-14 final to earn a 2-1 lead against the Wolfpack.
The final set was the topper for Brink, finishing off her day with nine kills to finish with 24 against Nevada, including the nail in the coffin at 25-23. Things started quickly for the Islanders as they jumped out to a 17-12 lead, but the Wolfpack rallied to within one point at 24-23 before Brink ended their hopes.
The win followed a 3-0 sweep of Tulane earlier in the day to give the Islanders a 2-1 record and a second-place finish in the Baylor Classic.
Next up for Texas A&M – Corpus Christi will be a Tuesday night match on the road as they travel south to take on Texas – Pan American in Edinburg. Match time is set for 6:30 p.m. at the UTPA Fieldhouse.
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Virginia State police are investigating an accident on Interstate 81 in Wythe County in which a tractor-trailer carrying 50,000 pounds of strawberries overturned.
State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says the drivers of the tractor-trailer and a pickup truck were taken by ambulance to a hospital with minor injuries Monday afternoon.
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Leon Hiebert was pastor of Andover Assembly of God (Generations Church A/G) from 1989 to 2009. He is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 10 years in the US Navy most of the time as a corpsman serving with the Marine Corps. A native of Belleville, Kan., Hiebert is semi retired and lives in Andover with his wife, Sharon. He is a school bus driver for USD 385, Andover, Kansas.
Scripture: Acts 2: 1 NIV When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Observation: They had been told to go into the entire world. Then they had been told to wait—to wait in Jerusalem until they received what was promised. (Acts 1:4) But when the right time arrived, the promise was given suddenly. I am reminded of Joseph who "waited" in prison for over two years, yet when Pharaoh had the dream, suddenly, within a day, Joseph was made 2nd in charge of all Egypt! (Genesis 14:14 & 40)
Application: Yesterday the Lord spoke to me about the importance of waiting, today I hear Him telling me that when the time is right, he often moves suddenly. Waiting on Him is never a waste of time. Moving ahead of Him is the real waste of time. When He moves "suddenly" it makes the waiting worthwhile! "My waiting" PLUS "His suddenly" is always quicker than "my running ahead on my own."
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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- With less than two weeks until the 12th Congressional Republican runoff, the two men in the race to take on Democrat John Barrow in November are taking shots at one another.
According to the Secretary of State, the recount requested by candidate Wright McLeod has been conducted, and no significant change was found, meaning Lee Anderson and Rick Allen will move forward to a runoff.
The gloves are off and neither candidate is holding back, attacking one another in a new round of political ads that hit the airwaves this week.
"After all Barack Obama has put us through, Lee Anderson made it worse," announces a campaign ad supporting Rick Allen.
"Watch out, Rick Allen's brought out the manure spreader," adds an ad paid for by Lee Anderson.
The runoff election just got dirty.
Anderson calls Allen's ad "ridiculous distortions, false attacks and hypocrisy."
He also adds, "I guess some people will say or do anything to get a title for their portfolio."
"The man cannot tell the truth, like I said, it's typically career politicians and their spin and that's why I'm going to Washington, because the people need to know the truth," Allen said.
In Allen's ad, he accuses Anderson of voting to raise taxes on two different occasions. Records show Anderson voted to support House Bill 307 in 2010, providing a fee to be imposed on hospitals.
Anderson says, "The fee was requested by Georgia's hospitals as a way to help improve their medicaid funding formula. I am very disappointed that Rick Allen would insult the voters like this and twist a great Republican tax reform bill into something bad."
Despite circulating a flier saying he's never voted for a tax increase, Anderson does admit to supporting the recent TSPLOST.
"How does he defend that? You know how he defends it, he calls me a liar, and he's dead wrong," Allen said.
As a state representative, Anderson said he wanted to give voters a choice on TSPLOST, and in this area, they said yes.
"But the voters did pass it?" News 12's Katie Beasley asked Allen.
"Yes, one of three, but largely Republican primary voters voted against it," Allen said.
Anderson's response: "Rick, hypocrisy is not a Georgia value, and you shouldn't attack the voters for the choices they make."
Allen also admits giving campaign contributions to Democrats over the years, but he calls it a stretch to say that a contractors' group he was a member of supported President Obama in 2008.
Either way, one thing is clear, voters will be seeing a lot more ads in the days ahead.
Allen also argues he's not a government contractor, like the Anderson ad claims. He says he's never done federal government work, only local projects.
Anderson's camp points out that some of those projects were paid for by SPLOST dollars, meaning taxpayers.
Anderson was unavailable for an-on camera interview.
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I live in Orange County and, as you might guess by our county's name, there are plenty of orange trees here. This salad is one of my favorite ways to use this delightful fruit. It makes a nice light supper on a hot day.
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1-1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 pound beef top sirloin steak, cut into thin strips
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, optional
- 4 cups torn romaine
- 2 large oranges, peeled and sectioned
- 1/2 cup sliced fresh strawberries
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted, optional
- In a small bowl, whisk the vinaigrette ingredients; set aside.
- In a large skillet, stir-fry steak in oil for 1-2 minutes. Sprinkle with salt if desired.
- In a large bowl, toss romaine, oranges, strawberries and steak. Add vinaigrette and toss to coat. Top with walnuts if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
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After a long illness, Martha Hibberd died in her home in Breckenridge Saturday night. The longtime local had co-owned Hibberd McGrath Gallery since 1982 with Terry McGrath Craig.
For more than 20 years, Hibberd lived with scleroderma, a progressive, auto-immune disorder that affects the skin and connective tissue. With scleroderma, the body's immune system produces too much collagen, which accumulates and causes hardening, scarring and other damage to skin, internal organs or both. There is no cure, only treatments for symptoms, which vary from person to person. Her sister, Marge Swim, said Hibberd "kept quiet" about the condition, not telling friends "until recent years" or in some cases, months.
"She dealt with it privately and strongly; she faced it head on," McGrath Craig said, adding that working toward goals at the gallery helped give Hibberd something to focus on and look forward to through some of her health problems.
Hibberd and McGrath Craig met while working at Ski Tip Lodge and opened Hibberd McGrath Gallery in Keystone in November 1982, after finishing a cabin Rolf Dercum, a painter - and son of Max Dercum - offered them. Hibberd had owned Fingerprints, a gallery in the Argentine building in Keystone prior to that, but when Keystone renovated and eliminated parking, Hibberd closed the gallery. In 1980, the two women hosted a fashion show featuring "wearable art." They expected 30 people at Keystone Lodge, and when 150 attended, they knew they were onto something. Following that, they organized a couple other shows, then took up Dercum on his offer.
Dercum's gallery wasn't easy to find - McGrath Craig joked that "if people found us, they felt like they had to buy something," so the duo moved the gallery to Breckenridge to build community support, because they wanted to be able to rely on locals and second-home owners as a customer base. From 1985-87, they rented at 124 S. Main, then moved to their current location at 101 N. Main.
Hibberd earned a degree in ceramics at Alfred University, one of the leading New York design colleges, and McGrath Craig had studied weaving and basketry. Both valued developing long-term relationships with the artists they represented, and some of the artists they begin with in 1982, like Ed Larson, still showcase their work at the gallery today.
In fact, Swim, who came to Breckenridge with her husband to help care for Hibberd for the past couple weeks (along with Bristlecone Health Service) was overwhelmed with how many artists and friends called to say how Hibberd inspired them: "It was one person after another," Swim said, "telling us how much encouragement she has given them, and that, that was part of what kept them going in the early years. We were amazed: That phone didn't stop for two weeks once the word got out."
"She was an incredible woman who built an incredible contemporary art gallery," said local artist Ann Lukacs. "It was as much fun visiting with Marty as it was seeing the fun art they brought in."
Larson said when Hibberd looked at a piece of art she liked, she'd say: "This is a real hoot!" and when he visited her before she passed away, the first thing she said to him was, "Here comes that wild man!"
"She's always been a joy to be in contact with," Larson said. "She overlooked all the negative things ... and was very quick to see all the good things. You just felt a lot better for being in her presence."
McGrath Craig described Hibberd as an "outgoing, engaging, curious person" who had the technical knowledge, as well as the visual appreciation of art, to help other artists accomplish their visions. She also was a strong advocate of expanding art in Summit County, sitting on committees related to public art and supporting music and the performing arts.
"Her openness and friendliness - she just created an atmosphere that people wanted to be a part of," said McGrath Craig. "She knew how to be a friend."


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday dismissed complaints that the company has a "Depression-era" attitude about hoarding cash, called activist shareholder David Einhorn's lawsuit challenging a proxy that would limit the ability to create a special class of stock "a silly sideshow," and said his engineers have not lost their innovative edge.
Speaking at a Goldman Sachs technology conference, Cook reiterated that Apple is seriously considering returning more cash to shareholders now that its cash stockpile has grown to $137 billion as of the end of the December quarter. Roughly two-thirds of the stockpile is held overseas.
"Apple doesn't have a Depression-era mentality," Cook said. "Apple makes bold and ambitious bets on products and we are conservative financially."
While some analysts have worried that the company might be losing some of its innovative spirit since co-founder Steve Jobs died in October, 2011, Cook said Apple continues to believe "there are no limits."
"Innovation is so deeply embedded in Apple's culture," he said. "The desire among our people is to make not just good products but the best products in the world."
Cook added, "The only thing we will never do is make a crappy product. That's the only religion we have. We must do something great, something bold, something ambitious."
Cook called the lawsuit filed by Einhorn's Greenlight Capital hedge fund a "misunderstanding" and said if Apple were ever to issue preferred stock -- which Einhorn is calling for -- the company would first seek shareholder approval. Last year, the Cupertino company announced its first quarterly dividend since 1995 -- $2.65 a share beginning in August -- as shareholders called on Apple to reward investors with a slice of its cash.
Greenlight Capital's suit seeks to halt a company-sponsored proxy proposal that would eliminate "blank check" preferred stock that would pay a dividend to shareholders; the proposal is scheduled to be voted on during Apple's annual shareholder meeting on Feb. 27.
"Now, we do have some cash," Cook said, "but it's a privilege to be in this position. Last quarter, cash flow from operations for Apple was over $23 billion. It's an incredible privilege for us to be in this position that we can seriously consider returning additional cash to shareholders."
The company spent $10 billion on capital expenditures last year and will likely do the same this year, Cook said. Apple will not buy large companies simply to increase revenue, he added.
Apple's stock price has plunged some 35 percent in recent months, which some critics attribute to increasing competition from competitors such as Samsung and Google (GOOG) in the smartphone and tablet markets.
Cook noted that the current smartphone market, which Apple kick-started with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, has reached 700 million units a year globally and is expected to double to 1.4 billion in four years.
"I see a market that is incredible to be in -- maybe the best market of all times," he said. "Apple has enormous momentum."
When asked about whether Apple would build an iPhone with a larger screen like Samsung, Cook demurred and instead took a subtle swipe at his rival, a leader in OLED display research. He said OLED displays were inferior to Apple's Retina display. Apple believes a great consumer experience goes beyond screen size, he said.
Cook also took at jab at competitors in the PC industry, which traditionally competed over "specs and price," not creating a great consumer experience. Apple concluded long ago that it could not create a "great" computer for less than $1,000, he said. However, Apple eventually hit lower price points with its iPad, including the $329 starter iPad mini introduced last fall.
Cook did not directly address the topic of whether Apple plans to roll out a low-end iPhone. Instead, he pointed to the company's iPod line of music players. The first one sold for $399. Now the company offers a range of iPods, with a low-end device starting at $49.
"Instead of saying how can we cheapen this iPod to get it lower, we say, 'How can we do a great product and do it at a price to sell it at $49?'" he said.
Cook also said the consumer tablet market, which Apple also created, is in its infancy. He said the company sold 23 million iPads last quarter, even as it had a tough time meeting the demand for its new iPad mini. During the same period, Cook said Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) sold 15 million PCs.
"The iPad is the poster child of the post-PC revolution," he said.
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