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Yes, this probably qualifies as a thing that is not a drive-in. But I've read in several places about the Empire Drive-In, a temporary setup at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, and we've got a pretty good video to go with it. See what you think.
Enjoy Sarasota FL's drive-in history
Jeff Lahurd gave us all a present in the Sunday edition of the Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune. Lahurd outlined what might be the full history of the five drive-in theaters in Sarasota and the three in nearby Bradenton.
Although the article often veers into explanations for those poor souls who have never experienced a drive-in, it contains a lot of great information. For example, the Trail Drive-In "served fried shrimp and chicken dinners, pizza and sandwiches, while the Siesta had a cafeteria styled restaurant and a snack bar 'to keep you wonderfully refreshed.'"
Hugh Thomas, owner of the Trail and the Siesta, prided himself on keeping his theaters modern, clean, and inviting to families. He claimed that each of his projectors cost $14,000 and were "precision-made, like watches".
According to Lahurd, the Bee Ridge was the last drive-in to open in Sarasota, in 1969. "To maintain the comfort factor, the theater offered individual (air conditioning) units, with the added benefit that it kept the mosquitoes out — mostly," he wrote. I wonder how car-unit air conditioners worked.
One thing that Lahurd didn't mention is that Sarasota residents can still visit the four-screen Fun Lan Drive-In about an hour's drive away in Tampa. Anyway, I hope you've figured out by now that to experience all this fun nostalgia and a few nice photos, you really ought to go read it!
One-car crash damages Transit marquee
See what happens when you book Gremlins! According to a very brief story in The Buffalo (NY) News, a car drove into a utility pole next to the marquee for the Transit Drive-In in nearby South Lockport, burst into flames and severely damaged the marquee. The News said that no one was injured and the cause is being investigated.
The Transit's Facebook page has a lot more information on the event, including several before and after photos. The scene after the accident, which I borrowed for this post, looked dire. (The full-size photo looks even better; you ought to see the original on that Facebook page.)
The Transit's posts reflect the optimistic, can-do spirit that is the hallmark of successful drive-in owners. The first post after hearing about the accident ended with, "Oh well, we've been wanting to update that old sign for a long time, anyway." After arriving on the scene and taking that great photo, a second post said the marquee would probably need to be replaced. Then last night, a new post with a partially restored marquee announced "It's just a flesh wound!" Looks pretty good!
The Transit's most recent Facebook post at this writing includes a vintage color photo and reads, "This is one of my favorite pictures of the sun setting behind the original 1952 marquee, taken in August of 2007. The red entrance sign was also demolished, as the vehicle went over that first, before crashing into the utility pole and our marquee." That's a lot more coverage than The Buffalo News gave us. For a better look at some great photos, you really should check out the Transit's Facebook page!
Apache closes down with one last party
This was expected for months, but it's still sad. The Apache Drive-In, (Globe AZ) which had survived so many drive-in downturns, could not survive the shift to digital projection. It held its going-away party last weekend, as documented by public radio station KJZZ.
You can also see a video report from KSAZ, Phoenix's news leader, about the Apache's final celebration, but KSAZ uses Worldnow video, which I can't embed here.
Stina Sieg of KJZZ provided a magnificent time capsule of the evening's event, including a slideshow, a link to the audio report, and a well-edited transcript of that report, which mentioned an ironic touch. "Tonight's movie was supposed to be that Charles Grodin/Robert De Niro flick, 'Midnight Run,'" Sieg said. "It was partially filmed in Globe. However, 35 millimeter prints of it simply don't exist anymore."
Now the lights are out for good. Today that Do Not Enter photo I took in April of the Apache's one-way exit applies to the entrance as well.
Update: On the Friday before that last party, NPR also ran a story and interview about the closing of the Apache. You can listen to it or read its transcript here.
New drive-in coming to New Braunfels TX
There's a great story in Texas that's getting even better. Ryan Smith and his family built the Stars & Stripes Drive-In Theatre (Lubbock) in 2003, and now they're going to build the second Stars & Stripes in New Braunfels, a fun town between Austin and San Antonio on I-35.
According to its press release, "Stars & Stripes Drive-In Theatre will show digital first-run double-features nightly and be open year-round. Two of the screen towers will measure over 90 feet wide and be the largest movie screens in Texas. Located on 30 acres close to the intersection of FM 1101 and Kroesche Lane, about one mile from Freiheit Country Store and 9-pin bowling club, it will be the only drive-in theatre within a 150-mile radius of New Braunfels." I think the Blue Starlite in Austin would dispute that last claim.
The Herald-Zeitung (what a great name!) of New Braunfels ran a great, lengthy story Sunday about the announcement and a general walk through the memories of drive-ins past. New Braunfels was once home to the Tower, a 250-car theater that opened in 1950. The Tower's chunk of land was later converted to a Kroger grocery store, then refurbished with local economic development money into the headquarters of The Scooter Store, which filed for bankruptcy after an FBI raid this year. But I digress.
From the description of the new Stars & Stripes site, it'll be less than a mile from I-35 at the Kohlenberg Road exit northeast of New Braunfels. "It's a beautiful and convenient location, plus you can see the stars out there," said Smith. The press release continued, "Families and friends will enjoy watching bright digital projection from inside the comfort of their own car or outside in lawn chairs. Because the drive-in theatre has always been more than just a movie going experience, Stars & Stripes will serve Rockin' Eats from their 50's Cafe, and guests can enjoy the patio and playground areas." Sounds like fun!
Drive-in author tells USA Today his top ten
At one level, I look at USA Today's story, posted late last night, as pure link bait. Any top ten list is designed to pull in visitors from all over just because its title is intriguing and its slide show is eye candy. On the other hand, they used my photo! So now I can change that line on my resume to "Award-winning photographer featured in USA Today."
Where was I? Oh yes, the article. Well-known drive-in historian Don Sanders gave USA Today's Larry Bleiberg his top ten favorite drive-in theaters. I don't know if they were the top ten active drive-ins, or whether it just happens that Sanders' favorites all happen to still be alive. There are notes and photos for each, so you really should go read it! But here is a quick summary:
- Coyote Drive-In, Fort Worth TX
- Stardust Drive-In, Watertown TN
- Delsea Drive-In, Vineland NJ
- Becky's Drive-In, Walnutport PA
- Skyline Drive-In, Barstow CA
- Harvest Moon Drive-In, Gibson City IL
- 66 Drive-In, Carthage MO
- Rodeo Drive-In, Port Orchard WA
- Mesa Drive-In, Pueblo CO
- Capri Drive-In, Coldwater MI
Pleasant Valley Drive-In may close for good
Here's the kind of story we're going to see a lot over the next few weeks. The Pleasant Valley Drive-In, Pleasant Valley CT, having failed to attract enough votes to win a projector through Project Drive-In, now faces an uncertain future, as reported by WVIT, New Britain's news leader.
"I've got six months to try and raise the money and get new projectors in here," said owner Donna McGrane. "So hopefully we can get some fundraisers going and make it happen."
WVIT had the good idea of checking with Pleasant Valley's elected officials to see whether they could do anything to help save the town's landmark theater. But it sounds like Pleasant Valley, the town, is as hard up for cash as Pleasant Valley the drive-in.
There was another good report about four Iowa drive-ins in roughly the same boat presented by KLJB, the Quad Cities' news leader. But that embeddable video is hosted by Worldnow, which uses some kind of JavaScript that this blog can't digest well. To watch part of that clip (meaning the leftmost portion of the entire video), visit my Worldnow example page.
Update: Well that's ironic. In a post where I complain about Worldnow's odd incompatibility with Carload, the other video I embedded decided to quit working. You can still see it if you click the screen capture I've replaced it with at the top of this post or if you click here.
Meet the final (?) four winners of Project Drive-In
Today, Honda announced four more winners of its Project Drive-In contest to award digital projection systems. The latest lucky drive-ins include:
Ocala Drive-In, Ocala FL, the only Florida entrant in the contest.
Starlite Drive-In, Cadet MO, which somehow escaped our seemingly exhaustive four-part list of news stories about the candidates.
Monetta Drive-In, Monetta SC, The Big MO.
StateLine Drive-In, Elizabethton TN, sorry that I misspelled StateLine as two words during the project round-up.
So far Honda hasn't taken my forwarded suggestion to finance the 140+ other drive-ins that still need digital equipment, but it is extending its fundraiser through the end of 2013. I think that local fundraisers stand a lot better chance of success than this national effort, but what do I know?
Here's one more way to help. Honda has donated a 2014 Odyssey Touring Elite as an incentive on the Project Drive-In fundraising page. (You'll need to scroll way down to the bottom of the page to see it.) If you make a $50,000 donation, you get the brand new Odyssey minivan, and you get the warm feeling of knowing that you help fund an additional digital projector to save another drive-in from closing. Plus you get your name in Honda's next drive-in video. If you were planning on buying one of these anyway, why not do it here?
Project Drive-In roundup 4: The list that wouldn't die
In the third installment of our roundup of candidates for Honda's Project Drive-In, I predicted that Honda would choose more than five lucky recipients of digital projectors. What I really didn't anticipate was that Honda would reopen voting for the second set of winners.
With another round of voting comes another round of candidates that we haven't mentioned so far, along with some (marked with an asterisk) who saw new stories about them after voting was extended. If you're reading this, you're already online, so go vote for your favorite!
- Henagar Drive-In, Henagar AL, reported again* by WHNT.
- Stone Drive-In, Mountain View AR, reported again* by KTHV.
- Apache Drive-In, Globe AZ, reported by the Kansas City (MO) Star and the Miami (FL) Herald.
- Skyline Drive-In, Barstow CA, reported again* by the Victorville Daily Press.
- Pleasant Valley Drive-In, Barkhamsted CT, reported by the Waterbury Republican-American.
- Ocala Drive-In, Ocala FL, reported again* by the Ocala Star-Banner.
- Midway Drive-In and Diner, Sterling IL, reported by Sauk Valley Media.
- Holiday Drive-In, Mitchell IN, reported by WBIW.
- Star-Vu Drive-In, El Dorado KS; Pageant Drive-In, Medicine Lodge KS, and Midway Drive-In*, Osawatomie KS, all reported by KWCH.
- Stanford Drive-In, Stanford KY, reported again* by the Lincoln County Interior Journal.
- Park 60 Drive-In, Jamestown NY, reported by the Jamestown Post-Journal.
- Bessemer City Kings Mountain Drive-In Theatre, Bessemer City NC, reported again* by the Gaston Gazette.
- Lynn Auto Theatre, Strasburg OH, reported again* by the New Philadelphia Times-Reporter.
- Blue Sky Drive-In, Wadsworth OH, reported by WKYC and The Medina County Gazette.
- Motor Vu Drive-In, Dallas OR, reported again* by the Salem Statesman Journal.
- Auto Drive-In Theatre, Greenwood SC, reported again* by the Greenville News.
- Monetta Drive-In Theatre, Monetta SC, reported again* by the Aiken Standard and WIS.
- State Line Drive-In, Elizabethton TN, reported again* by the Johnson City Press.
- Sky-Vue Drive-In, Lamesa TX, reported by the Lamesa Press-Reporter.
- Auto-Vue Drive-in, Colville WA, reported (with video embedded above) by KREM.
- Keno Drive-In, Pleasant Prairie WI, reported again* by the Kenosha News.
* This drive-in was in a previous roundup, but a new story has been published about it after Honda extended voting for Project Drive-In.
A brilliant suggestion to Honda: Finance the losers
As we continue our long, extended Drive-In Project journey, we will pause to thank Honda for its generous support in supplying nine digital projectors to struggling drive-in theaters. And then we will pass along a great suggestion posted yesterday evening.
The Johnson City TN Press ran an article about the State Line Drive-In of nearby Elizabethton and its reaction to Honda's voting extension giving the State Line another chance. One Gabe Curde, possibly a Johnson City real estate agent, left a superb suggestion as a comment to that story: "Why doesn't Honda offer 0% financing on these projectors to any half way qualified drive-in owners who don't win a contest?"
That's simply brilliant. Consider the stories about the Apache (Globe AZ), making it more famous on its deathbed than it ever was in life. Owner Bobby Hollis told a Cronkite News Service reporter, "Nobody is gonna loan me the money to convert to digital. Trust me, I've looked." Honda has the resources to offer Hollis and any other drive-in owner some really good financing on projectors. And it would even help publicize Honda's financing arm for wavering new-car buyers. C'mon, Honda, how about it?


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The gift of God to Teresa in and through which she became holy and left her mark on the Church and the world is threefold: She was a woman; she was a contemplative; she was an active reformer.
As a woman, Teresa stood on her own two feet, even in the man's world of her time. She was "her own woman," entering the Carmelites despite strong opposition from her father. She is a person wrapped not so much in silence as in mystery. Beautiful, talented, outgoing, adaptable, affectionate, courageous, enthusiastic, she was totally human. Like Jesus, she was a mystery of paradoxes: wise, yet practical; intelligent, yet much in tune with her experience; a mystic, yet an energetic reformer. A holy woman, a womanly woman.
Teresa was a woman "for God," a woman of prayer, discipline and compassion. Her heart belonged to God. Her ongoing conversion was an arduous lifelong struggle, involving ongoing purification and suffering. She was misunderstood, misjudged, opposed in her efforts at reform. Yet she struggled on, courageous and faithful; she struggled with her own mediocrity, her illness, her opposition. And in the midst of all this she clung to God in life and in prayer. Her writings on prayer and contemplation are drawn from her experience: powerful, practical and graceful. A woman of prayer; a woman for God.
Teresa was a woman "for others." Though a contemplative, she spent much of her time and energy seeking to reform herself and the Carmelites, to lead them back to the full observance of the primitive Rule. She founded over a half-dozen new monasteries. She traveled, wrote, fought—always to renew, to reform. In her self, in her prayer, in her life, in her efforts to reform, in all the people she touched, she was a woman for others, a woman who inspired and gave life.
Her writings, especially the Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle, have helped generations of believers.
In 1970, the Church gave her the title she had long held in the popular mind: Doctor of the Church. She and St. Catherine of Siena were the first women so honored.
Ten Great Catholics of the Second Millennium, by Christopher Bellitto
Four Great Spanish Saints, by Jack Wintz, OFM
The Four Teresas, by Gina Loehr (book)
The Four Teresas, by Gina Loehr (CD)
The Heroes and Heroines series (DVD)

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The registrant hereby furnishes the information set forth in its press release issued on November 6, 2012, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
The information, including the exhibit, the registrant furnishes in this report is not deemed "filed" for purposes of section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. Registration statements or other documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shall not incorporate this information by reference, except as otherwise expressly stated in such filing.


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OAKLAND -- Manager Bob Melvin talked about left fielder Yoenis Cespedes' recent offensive struggles before Saturday night's game against the Los Angeles Angels.
Melvin said he wasn't too concerned about Cespedes being mired in a 7-for-46 slump the previous 11 games because of how hard Cespedes works on a daily basis. It was only a matter of time, he added.
As if on cue, Cespedes turned in a jaw-dropping, all-around performance that he punctuated with a two-out, two-run triple in the seventh inning to break a tie and propel the A's to an 11-3 victory before a sold-out crowd at the Coliseum.
For good measure, Cespedes mashed a three-run home run in the eighth as he matched his career-high with five RBIs.
"Boy, I tell you, there were several things he did that really affected the game," Melvin said. "Certainly the first two throws" can't be overlooked.
That the A's were even within striking distance after the first six innings owed in large part to Cespedes' play in the field -- namely the throws Melvin referenced.
Twice in the same inning, Cespedes nailed Angels runners at the plate as they attempted to score from second base on a single.
Right fielder Josh Reddick and third baseman Josh Donaldson also turned in sparkling defensive plays.
"Those plays don't go without notice," Reddick said of Cespedes' spot-on throws. "Tommy's kind of struggling there early on, and you try to do your best to pick up your team, and that's what he did. He made two huge throws."
Few were more thankful than A's starter Tommy Milone, who survived two rocky innings to start the game and a three-run home run in the fourth before being replaced after six innings.
"That's definitely a good sight to see, especially when I'm struggling a little bit, giving up a lot of hits," Milone said of Cespedes' defensive gems. "It's nice to kind of catch a break every once in a while. He had a career night, and I'm lucky that it was today."
Milone entered the game as hot as any pitcher in the game the past three-plus weeks. He posted a 3-0 mark with a 1.03 ERA in his previous four starts.
Collin Cowgill accounted for as many runs on one swing as Milone allowed in the 261/3 innings he pitched in those four games before Saturday.
Yet, he did what A's pitchers are known for: keeping games close enough to where the offense has a chance to mount a comeback.
Milone did just that, with a lot of help from Cespedes and Donaldson, who snared a line drive and turned it into a spectacular double play in the fourth to save a run.
But it was Cespedes who elicited the loudest cheers, from start to finish, and received the most high-fives from teammates.
His highlight-reel game came on the same night the A's honored their 1974 brethren for winning the World Series. Melvin said it's not a coincidence that Cespedes raised his level of play on such a night.
"No doubt about it," Melvin said. " ... When we needed him, he stepped up. All the festivities, everything going on before, the fans were out in full force doing their thing and all of a sudden he just becomes a different player."
Cespedes agreed that he feeds off the excitement.
"I get a lot of motivation when I see the field like that, with the stands full," Cespedes said, through an interpreter. "It was the same thing as it was in the playoffs. It was sold out and they made me feel like a strong mind and gave me a lot of motivation."
Melvin said it's likely that Moss won't play Sunday, either, and probably won't return to action until the A's start a series against the New York Yankees on Tuesday.
Follow Steve Corkran on Twitter at twitter.com/CorkOnTheNFL.
L.A. Angels (Jered Weaver 6-3) at A's (Sonny Gray 5-1), 1:05 p.m. CSNCA


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Declaring he is "embarrassed by oversights on the use of my county-issued credit card," Santa Clara County Supervisor Board President George Shirakawa told supporters in an email that he takes "full responsibility for these errors" that have forced him to reimburse taxpayers thousands of dollars for car rentals, personal hotel stays and golfing at a Nevada golf club.
The embattled supervisor also lashed out at local newspapers for what he called "scandalous printed 'sound bites' " that he said challenged his accountability and misrepresented his actions, offering a point-by-point rebuttal to some of his most questionable charges. But some of the specifics in his rebuttal raised even more questions.
The email, also posted Wednesday on his county Web page, contains Shirakawa's first detailed public comments on the controversy surrounding the 50-year-old veteran politician, but it did not address his failure to file a series of missing campaign finance reports that is now being investigated by state and local authorities.
"I take full responsibility for the charges that required reimbursement, and I'm disappointed in myself," Shirakawa wrote. "I should have held myself to a higher standard."
Despite that acknowledgment, Shirakawa spent the majority of his missive dismissing what he called "myths" raised in a series of stories in the local media. In attempting to make his case, he posted copies of travel documents, personal checks and credit card statements to show refunds and reimbursements to the county. Over the years, county staff and even Shirakawa's own staffers have alerted him to inadvertent charges.
A recent review by this paper showed the supervisor appears to have repaid the county for almost $5,200 of the $36,717 in charges he has made on his taxpayer-covered credit card since taking office in January 2009.
In a list Shirakawa presents as "myths" versus "facts," he gives a series of explanations of questionable expenses, some of which are under review by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office:
However, his explanation failed to address a $2,605.40 round-trip ticket to Washington, D.C., issued in late March 2011 that was upgraded from a $584.40 fare that shows up on documents provided to the newspaper and the District Attorney's Office. Shirakawa's office said Thursday they would look into it.
Shirakawa stated that he checked out of his hotel in the middle of the conference on the morning of May 28 and drove back to San Jose for a morning meeting. He then had a "working staff meeting" lunch at Caper's Loft, before returning to Sacramento for the remainder of the conference and an overnight stay at the Sheraton.
Shirakawa explained in his email that he first stayed at the Renaissance Dupont Circle (for $256.48 a night on March 31 and April 1) because the conference host hotel, the Renaissance Downtown, was booked. Hotel staff there confirmed that to the newspaper on Thursday.
When a room came open on his third night, Shirakawa moved to the Renaissance Downtown Hotel, 1.5 miles away, more than doubling the price, in order to be "more productive and efficient to do the county's business."
nn Shirakawa also claimed newspaper reports of "regular lavish meals" with his staff were inaccurately characterized.
Yet, receipts show him racking up triple-digit bills with some staff members at ll Fornaio, the Fairmont Hotel's Grill on the Alley, and the San Jose Marriott Hotel's Arcadia.
Over the four-year period, Shirakawa treated his entire staff to several lunches -- one at the Grill on the Alley in June cost $470. In his email, he said holiday and special occasion lunches were "essential to successful team-building." He pledged to reimburse the county "if those charges are found to be unauthorized."
A review of Shirakawa's filed expense forms showed at least 180 meals billed to taxpayers over four years, many of which violated the per-person limits of $14 for breakfast, $16 for lunch and $30 for dinner. And at least 65 of those meals were shared with at least one member of his staff; 15 of the meals -- some with up to seven members -- cost taxpayers $100 or more.
None of Shirakawa's board colleagues came anywhere close to that number of meals billed to a county credit card, and at most had only one or two a year.
In his email, Shirakawa made one final plea for his supporters to stick by him while he weathers this latest storm.
"I'm committed to earning back the trust of those I've served for two decades," he wrote, "by ensuring these mistakes never happen again."
Contact Tracy Seipel at 408-275-0140 or Karen de Sá at 408-920-5781.


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The Cal basketball team got what it needed most on Wednesday -- size.
On the first day of the spring signing period, the Golden Bears secured 7-foot, 280-pound center Kameron Rooks of Mission Hills High in San Marcos. Rooks originally committed to Cal back on Jan. 1.
Rated the nation's No. 22 center prospect by ESPN, Rooks is the son of Sean Rooks, who played for Arizona two decades ago when Cal coach Mike Montgomery was at Stanford.
"He told me (Montgomery) is a good big man's coach, he knows how to teach big men the right stuff," Rooks said of his dad's input.
"I am happy to have a Rooks on my side for a change after some great battles with his dad through the years," Montgomery said.
Rooks will be a valuable piece in the Cal frontline. Starting forwards Richard Solomon and David Kravish return, but departing walk-on Robert Thurman, who played well in two NCAA tournament games, gave the Bears their only real girth up front.
"I expect to play as hard as I can and be a dominant force inside. That doesn't have to be scoring. I'm going to try to get rebounds, anything to help the team."
Montgomery said Rooks "has an unlimited future."
Rooks joins a strong four-man recruiting class headlined by Jabari Bird, a five-star shooting guard from Salesian-Richmond. Rivals.com has rated the Cal class among the top 20 in the nation.
Cal still has two open scholarships after freshman forward Kaileb Rodriguez decided to transfer. Rodriguez did not play in 2012-13.
For more on Cal sports, see the Bear Talk blog at ibabuzz.com/beartalk. Follow Jeff Faraudo on Twitter at Twitter.com/CalBearsBANG.


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These Boston uni's were some of the first new jerseys to be released so this is probably old news to a lot of people but it shows that at least some teams know what they're doing when it comes to fulfilling their obligation to their fan base (well they did trade Joe Thornton away in his MVP year). The Bruins didn't go for some new flashy design but instead brought it back to the Bobby Orr days and maintained the traditional striping. Blog site Bleu, Blanc et Rouge has a nice ticker going on revealing the new jersey designs as they are released or leaked.
The Blue Jackets jersey's also look great.
The Kings on the other hand ... horrific.


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Whoa! Very nice!
Gonna need a bigger boat!!
Dave Faulkner. Zone 5b
Third year beek in awe of these bugs!
Sweeeeeet!!! That's fabulous.
Benjamin Schneider, CEO of Prairie Wind Bee Supply - New & Improved Website! http://prairiewindbeesupply.webs.com/
Wow! Did it come from your hives?
Thx, yes it did, not too happy about that but glad my son saw them and we grabbed them up.
No face protection?
Naw, they are sweethearts!!


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Platter : the Judgement of Paris
This monumental platter is one of the most famous majolica items preserved in the Petit Palais.
A form of ceramic specific to the Italian Renaissance, majolica is a type of earthenware, a pottery covered with opaque white tin glaze which acts as a base for painted decoration using metallic oxides.
In addition to its wonderful painted decoration, the Judgement of Paris platter has a decorative lustre. Lustre, which brought fame to the town of Gubbio, is obtained during the final firing in a reducing atmosphere (from which oxygen is removed) by applying a paste containing metallic salts of silver or copper to the earthenware.
This episode from Greek history, which was very popular during the Renaissance, depicts Paris, chosen by the gods as the judge in the dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. He chooses Aphrodite as the most beautiful and awards her the golden apple.
The iconography of the goddesses is inspired by an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi (circa 1480 – between 1527 and 1534) after a work by the painter Raphaël, demonstrating the frequent and fruitful exchange of ideas between painting, engraving and objets d'art during the Renaissance.


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The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, 214 N. Franklin Street, will offer a $1000 scholarship to local high school seniors.
High school seniors in Bradford, Odessa-Montour and Watkins Glen schools and home schooled students in Schuyler County are eligible. Students must also plan to attend an institution of higher learning in the fall of 2014. Applicants must answer the question: If you could start a business in Schuyler County, what type of business would you start, and why? The deadline is April 11.
For more information, call 607-535-4300 or email email@example.com.
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Event 3 rescheduled from 4-21
ILL Series Finale at Marilla Park presented by Monster House
SATURDAY, JUNE 8 in Streator, IL at Marilla Park
Check in/Register 8:15-9:30
Minimum of 36 holes
Early Birdie Cost- All Am Divisions $35, All Pro Divisions $45
Day of Reg Cost- All Am Divisions $38, All Pro Divisions $48
All divisions offered, must have 4 to start division
Online registration available at www.iregisteredonline.com
You may also mail your registration to: Dana Vicich 27710 West Drake Drive Apt 56 Channahon, IL 60410
Ace Pot $2 (Ace pot is $200+ from the previous two events!!!)
50-50 $3
Sweet Raffle!
Added Cash for Pro Divisions!
CTP on Every Hole!!!! Division Specific CTPs
Win a Pair of Vibram FiveFingers
Lunch will be available to order during registration/check in
Player pack--- 1st 50 Am's get choice of dry fit or soft tee, after that a Gateway ILL Putter


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I am a Christian by definition. By definition, according to the Bible, sonfollower is an anti-christ.
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I am a Christian by definition. By definition, according to the Bible, sonfollower is an anti-christ.
Bunch of Haters. Has anyone who's responded actually seen how sonfollower goes about his business when giving these boards away? I agree, I see how he sounds (the pushy Christian), but man - try not to spew all that venom when you don't know. He's giving kids surfboards.
Sonfollower, let it die man. You officially started doing yourself a disservice 20 pages ago... You overstate. You obviously have more productive/positive things to do than reply on this thread.
I'm gonna go say a prayer I have the strength to not click on this thread again...
And Pumpmaster takes no prisoners with his truths, he's always been the real deal, gotta respect that.
As for thee, oceano-no-go, your modus operandi is familiar and it is weak. You accuse me, and you accuse Getcarter, of being the same persona. We are not.
Then, you proceed to scream at everyone else as being angry & hateful. Which, we are not.
You're a frustrated gremlin, oceano-no-go. When you get wet, you get mean. You must be hell on wheels in the lineup where you surf.
It's an Internet forum - - people have opinions that differ from yours - - so lighten up Francis.
You respect no one whose opinion differs from your own.
Then, you take it to another level & you go Defcon6 on people. Calling them names & accusing them of weird stuff. No wonder you got banned. But then you felt compelled to re-invent yourself under another call sign. Jeeeeezus. H. Keerist.
Does the NSA know you exist...? I inquire in the most positive sense.
Because if they don't know that you exist, they should; you could prove to be this century's Agent Orange in the war on .... well... anything.
Damn Yankee (no pun intended) now you got me wanting to change my screen name to GetCarter that was genius! Spot on about OceanBobo too. I must say at least Wayne finally admitted that our thoughts were our opinions and he seems to understand that opinions are okay. However OceanO as you said just seems to jump in to the fray for no good reason and not add a thing of value to the argument or see that it is alright if others disagree with him.
thought you were leaving SI? didn't you beg to have your account deleted cause you got an infraction? for threatening to murder people...once again. or were you just crying out for attention? sad sad sad little boy george


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Search warrants from Teller County show North Carolina detectives suspect a reputed polygamist shot a missing 6-year-old boy and stuffed the child's body in a suitcase.
The warrants state an informant told investigators that an adult woman was also murdered at a home on Pear Tree Lane in Durham last month.
KRDO first reported the story as a missing person case this weekend. Police were searching for 25-year-old Vania Rae Sisk and her 6-year-old son, Jadon Higganbothan.
Sisk was part of a home-based church group known as the Black Hebrews living at a home in Durham.
In an interview with WTVD-TV earlier this week, Jadon's father, Jamiel Higganbothan, said his son and ex-wife had unusual living arrangements.
"It was a lot people staying in the house," he said. "It was her, it was the kids, it was his sister, her kids."
The warrants obtained by KRDO say that North Carolina detectives contacted Colorado authorities in February after the church group -- along with Sisk and three of her four children -- moved there. Durham authorities wanted to know Sisk's whereabouts and wanted to establish the well-being of Jadon.
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"Peter Moses had grabbed a gun and began pacing angrily around the house. The informant heard Peter Moses call for the 5-year-old boy ? to the basement and then heard loud music and the sound of a gunshot"
Teller County sheriff's deputies found the adults along with 10 children ranging in age from infants to 8-year-olds in the Cripple Creek area. The children were placed in protective custody with the Teller County Department of Social Services. A judge then placed the juveniles in the custody of Durham Social Services.
The warrants also outline why North Carolina detectives suspect something happened to Jadon. They state investigators got information from a confidential informant who is a former member of the group "who got away." The informant told them Moses got extremely angry with the 6-year-old in October 2010.
"Peter Moses had grabbed a gun and began pacing angrily around the house. The informant heard Peter Moses call for the 5-year-old boy to the basement and then heard loud music and the sound of a gunshot," one warrant said.
The informant later saw the boy's body wrapped in plastic, stuffed in a suitcase, and placed in the attic of the home.
"The informant told investigators that several days later the body began to stink and Peter Moses was asked to remove the body, which he did," according to the warrant.
The warrants said Moses gave a gun to two female housemates who previously beat Antoinetta McKoy, 28, after he became angry about misplaced car keys. According to the warrants, Moses told one woman -- Jadon's mother, Vania Sisk -- to shoot McKoy.
"Which Vania Sisk did," the warrant said.
Moses then helped the women remove McKoy's body from the home and bury it.
The search warrants say Colorado authorities were looking for a 9 mm handgun and a .22-caliber weapon.
McKoy's sister told WTVD-TV in North Carolina she hasn't heard from her younger sister since early December -- when McKoy returned to her apartment in Washington, D.C. with her boyfriend, Peter Moses, to pick up some belongings, telling her family she was going to be in Durham with Moses for a while.
"She had gave us a hug and said that she loved us and that she would be calling us soon because she's coming back," McKoy's sister, Janayia Dubose, said. "We're still concerned about whether she's alive or dead and this is not like my sister, so it's, like, really devastating to my family."
Dubose said her sister had known Moses since high school and McKoy reconnected with him on Facebook last year. She said they began a long-distance relationship in which McKoy would travel frequently to Durham and says that one of her visits in August turned violent.
"She's saying that he smacked her in the mouth with the gun and he shot at her three times," Dubose said.
After the assault, Dubose said she noticed a change in her sister, but said McKoy stayed in the relationship and was visiting Moses in Durham when she disappeared.
"I became concerned when I noticed two days had passed and she didn't put any minutes on her phone," Dubose said.


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PHIL LACIO AKA P DAWG wrote: didnt mean to confuse you, the song they played is off the new album
I mentioned Christopher cuz if you had heard that album you would have known the kid has talent
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Preheat oven to 350�F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Knead the flour into the sugar cookie dough until smooth. Divide the dough in half. Roll each piece of dough on a lightly floured surface to a scant 1/4-inch thickness. Cut the dough into sixteen 4 1/2- by 1 1/2-inch rectangles, using the other piece of dough if necessary. Re-roll the scraps and repeat to cut out a total of eight 3-inch circles. Next, cut each circle in half to make 16 semicircles. Transfer a rectangular piece of dough to the prepared sheet pan. Arrange a semicircle piece of dough, straight edge against the dough, along one long edge of the rectangle to make the Bot shape. Repeat with the remaining dough pieces, spacing about inch apart to make a total of 16 shapes. Transfer the shapes to the prepared cookie sheets, about an inch apart.
Bake until the cookies are golden and firm to the touch, about 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
Tint the vanilla frosting with the yellow food coloring and spoon it into a plastic resealable bag. Next, spoon the chocolate frosting into a plastic resealable bag. Press out the excess air and seal all the bags.
Place the blue and green sugars in separate shallow bowls. Microwave the corn syrup in a small bowl. Working on one cookie at a time, lightly brush the top rounded area of the cookie with the corn syrup. Dip the coated cookie in the green sugar to coat. Repeat with the remaining cookies. Brush the bottom edge of the cookie with some of the corn syrup. Dip into the blue sugar to coat. Repeat with the remaining cookies.
Snip a small 1/8-inch corner from each of the bags that contain frosting. Pipe the yellow frosting along the bottom edge of the cookies. Pipe the mouth with chocolate frosting. Attach the brown candies as the eyes and secure candies with the chocolate frosting.
Cut the pretzel sticks in half. Cut the spice drops in half crosswise to get two rounds from each. Press one pretzel end into the sugared end of each red spice drop. Press the sticky side of each green spice drop against the other end of pretzel sticks. Press the assembly on the top of each cookie using a dot of frosting to secure.
Kids will love counting and crunching on these delicious digits!
Here's a mighty healthy lunch idea--go on, take it for a spin!
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Bake a cake to look just like your kid's favorite pattern-powered Umi friend!
Shape a cake to look like Geo!
Your Umi fan will say 'Great Gigabytes' when you make this avocado & cheese sandwich
Make a mighty cute sandwich for your little Milli fan
Make a super cream cheese sandwich for your hungry Umi fan!
Pizza for dessert? It's umirrific!
Bake a batch of Umirrific sugar cookies with your Umi fan
Kids will love making a sweet treat that looks just like Milli!
Take your little Umizoomi fan for a sweet ride with this easy homemade cake
It's a-Bot time for these yummy cupcakes!
Shape up with these math-minded cupcakes from Geo!
Make way for Milli's mighty good cupcakes!
Get on board and make these shipshape Geo cupcakes for your Halloween party!
Kids will want Bot's cupcake mummy in their tummy!
Your little bumblebee will buzz with anticipation for Milli's super special cupcakes!
No baking job is too big, no pup lover is too small to help out in the kitchen!
These swim-sational cookies will pop right out of your cookie jar!
Make no bones about it, these cookies are delicious & easy to make!
A winter treat your kids can FROST and EAT!
Dress up sugar cookies in Dora's festive and fruity attire!
These simple snacks are filled with fruit and almost too pretty to eat! Almost...
Excelente! That's an understatement!
A high-flying Diego dessert in disguise!
Bake up purr-fect cookies for your Halloween fiesta!
Bake a batch of Umirrific sugar cookies with your Umi fan
Kids will love making a sweet treat that looks just like Milli!
The perfect treats to make and decorate together!
Kids will roar for more of these Triassic treats!
Summon a sea filled with sweet starfish covered in icing
The Wonder Pets would love this treat--and so will your child!
Ahoy! It's Dora in her pirate gear
Let's play Blue's Clues--with cookies!


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2011 was a big year for us at VCR. We moved our roasting operations to a new, (much) larger facility that we completely revamped from a 100-year-old cannery building into a pretty sweet Headquarters. We built-out and opened 2 new retail stores – our kiosk at the Seabright Roastery and our "well-lit" Pacific Avenue store. We added some truly amazing people to our team and have even more en route (there will have been 4 babies born within 6 months!). We also were able to offer healthcare to our staff and their families. We spent countless hours/days/months in professional development, training both our own staff and our wonderful partners in wholesale.
It has really been a great year for learning in so many ways, with the acceleration of our Origin Development program and even the obsessively curated library that fuels much of our knowledge base. We sourced and roasted some spectacular coffees and cupped thousands and thousands of samples from all reaches of the world. We have developed incredible relationships at farm-level and amongst our coffee colleagues as well. We paid more for coffee this year then we ever have and are proud to have done so.
All in all, it has been an incredibly successful and inspiring (if not perspiring) year, and we'd like to say "Thank You" to all of those people who help define us. From our farmers and millers, to our importers and exporters, our wholesale partners, our retail and online customers, our friends in the biz from the UK to Norway, Canada, Australia, all across the US, and everywhere in between, and of course our families – including the greatest staff in the game. Thank you!
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is thinking about how, on this day in history, Nov. 17, 1950, Roberta Peters made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City by filling in for the lead in Mozart's "Don Giovanni." (Yes, Elmer W. Koneman, this factoid is for you.)
And now, some Angel Alerts!! Angel Alerts!!:
1. To Elmer for his passionate columns announcing Metropolitan Opera screenings at CMC Breck.
2. To History, for giving us foundation.
3. To the Briggle House, the former home of our quirky, musically inclined and wealthy Breckenridge forbears that is restored and enjoyed by many thanks to our local historical societies.
4. To Mrs. Briggle's ghost (if she's out there, so as not to offend, unless she doesn't exist).
Ghosts are hard to understand. If they don't talk back, how do you know what they're thinking? Plus, you have to believe in their existence for them to exist. It's kind of like religion.
Do YOU like your religion mixed with history? What about church and state?
On that note, here's an Angel Alert!! Angel Alert!! to Sandy Greenhut and her current cause to keep church and state separate. At the same time we also bestow on Sandy one Scum Alert!! Scum Alert!! on behalf of any religion-loving or other-opinion-minded folks whose toes might suffer the wrath of her tirade. (Sandy: The two alerts balance each other out and we love you, for the record.)
Also on Santa's bad-list is our own Erica Marciniec, whose stocking is filled with Scum Alerts!! Scum Alerts!! for putting out a story about paranormal investigators seeking ghosts in the Briggle House. Though one reader lauded us for "making history come alive," not all are pleased. Erica, much in a tizzy about the whole thing, sends this toe-massaging letter of apology:
TO the Millions of Summit Up Readers who do not like their ghosts mixed with history: Please, sincerely, accept my apologies for spreading the spooky story of investigators seeking ghosts in the Briggle House around Halloween time. Maybe you don't believe in ghosts or like the idea of them. Maybe you are a lover of real, fact-based history. Perhaps you even donated some of your time to bring history to life in the Briggle House. I can see how that story might have offended you, and for that I apologize."
In other news: HEY, MSUR, we have identified and invited and had our offer accepted by a brand new EDITOR (that's right, we're getting an editor) based in Georgetown, Texas, who is busy getting his family together and moving here, with plans to start at work in the first week of December. How's that smack you for solid news everybody's interested in?
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A floodlit clay tennis court offers guests a marvellous view over the lake, for unforgettable matches. Located at the top of the park in the sports area is a floodlit tennis court for evening games.
Rackets and balls can be booked from the concierge. An instructor is available on request.


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Township trustees have declared a snow emergency ahead of a National Weather Service-issued Winter Weather Advisory.
Galen Stoll, president of the three-member township trustee board, issued to announcement prohibiting parking on township streets from 10 a.m. Saturday "or at such time the snowfall reaches 2 inches or any severe ice situation," he said in a news release Friday morning.
The township asks that residents not park on township-maintained streets so that the township salt-and-plow trucks can keep the streets clear for emergency responders, residents and general traffic.
The emergency was scheduled to remain in effect for 48 hours.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments March 27 in a case that challenges the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. It was the second of two days of oral arguments on cases related to same-sex marriage, following a March 26 hearing on a case that asks the court to overturn California's ban of same-sex marriages. Proposition 8, a state ballot referendum passed in November 2008, reversed by popular vote a state Supreme Court's decision just months earlier to recognize marriage equality, The Huffington Post and other news media reported March 26. The central question in the March 26 case is whether the group that sued to cement in law California's ban on same-sex marriage has the right to challenge the state court's decision.
The case heard March 27 -- United States v. Windsor -- does not ask the justices to determine whether a constitutional right to same-sex marriage exists. Rather, it asks the court to determine the constitutionality of the federal law limiting marriage to a man and a women that President Bill Clinton signed in 1996.
On March 27, ABC News reported a majority of the Supreme Court's justices expressed skepticism about the federal law defining marriage as between one man and one woman. If the Supreme Court considers the merits of either case, it could issue a landmark ruling on same-sex marriage by the end of June.
More News to Cheer This Week:
New York City is poised to mandate that thousands of companies provide paid time off for sick employees, bolstering a national movement that has been resisted by wary business leaders, The New York Times reported March 29. The legislation would go into effect in 2014 and mandate companies with at least 15 employees to give full-time workers five compensated days off a year when they are ill. Advocates said the legislation would provide paid sick leave for one million New Yorkers who do not currently have such benefits.
Pope Francis abandoned tradition on March 28 by washing the feet of a young Muslim female prisoner, as well as another woman, in an unprecedented twist on the Holy Thursday tradition, The Telegraph reported.
Malala Yousafzai>, the Pakistani teen shot in the head by the Taliban as she returned home from school, is writing a book about the event and her long-running campaign to promote children's education, reported the Associated Press March 28.
President Barack Obama has named Julia Pierson, a longtime U.S. Secret Service agent, as the first female director of the agency, USA Today reported March 26.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with participants in a U.S.-backed women's entrepreneurship program at the American Embassy in Kabul, The NY Daily News reported March 26. He heard a succession of concerns from businesswomen fearful of what the 2014 transition will mean for not only women and girls, but for Afghanistan's commerce in general.
Female authors dominate the long list for this year's Miles Franklin literary award, earning eight of the 10 nominations, ABC News reported March 25. This is the largest female contingent since the long list was first introduced in 2005.
In just one 24-hour period, local domestic violence programs across the U.S. provided help and safety to over 64,000 adults and children who were victims of such violence, according to the annual report published March 25 by the National Network to End Domestic Violence.
Angelina Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency, met with women and girls in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where sexual violence is rampant, the Associated Press reported March 25. The International Rescue Committee says it has provided care to more than 2,500 women and girls who have been raped or abused over the last year alone. The United Nations Security Council authorized a new "intervention brigade" for the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 28, with an unprecedented mandate to take military action against rebel groups to help bring peace to the eastern portion of the country, reported the Associated Press.
Women employed in physically demanding jobs should be given additional maternity leave beginning prior to giving birth, according to a committee of experts that advises the Health Ministry in Israel, The Haaretz reported March 25.
The unit of Ford Motor Co. based in India has apologized for advertisements decried as demeaning to women, including one depicting Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a trio of bound women in the trunk of a car, the Associated Press reported March 25. The ads caused an uproar online and came just after India passed a new law on violence against women following a fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi, which prompted mass protests and spotlighted the status of women in India.
More News to Jeer This Week:
The Kansas legislature is now working to ban abortions at the point when an embryonic heartbeat can be detected. If passed into law, the state will compete with North Dakota as having the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, RH Reality Check reported March 29. North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed March 26 the nation's most restrictive ban on abortions, not permitting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, USA Today reported.
A female teacher was on her way to work on March 26, at an all-girls school in Shahkas, Pakistan, near the country's volatile tribal belt on the Afghan border, when two men on a motorcycle opened fire, killing her, the Daily Mail reported March 27.
The sheer number of women sexually abused and gang raped in a single public square has become too big to ignore in Egypt, The New York Times reported March 26. However, conservative Islamists in Egypt's new political elite are outraged at and blame the women.
On March 25 gunmen in Somalia shot and killed a female Somali journalist, the Associated Press reported.
Two female teens accused of threatening the 16-year-old victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case were released on house arrest March 27 and ordered not to use social media, NBC News reported.
Italy's highest court March 26 ordered a new trial in the sensational case of Amanda Knox, an American exchange student accused of murdering her 21-year-old roommate, Meredith Kercher of Britain, in 2007, The New York Times reported.
The Washington Post published on March 25 nine facts about childbirth and marriage in the U.S., quoting a new report from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the RELATE Institute. The study found, for instance, that contrary to the common belief, only 23 percent of all unmarried births are to teenagers.
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is chock-full of positive things to say today.
So without further adieu, lets dive in to this holiday weekend of bliss. Kay Dukesherer of Delray Beach, Fla., sent in this Angel Alert!! Angel Alert!! Dukesherer had this to say:
"Thanks to the two snowboarders who found me upside down in the snow in Breckenridge Thursday, and who stayed until my friends came. I'm sorry I have no memory of you being there. Thanks, also to Breckenridge Ski Patrol, the clinic, Flight For Life staff and pilot and the head trauma unit at St. Anthony's in Lakewood. Part of our ticket/pass price goes toward staffing the ski area so these transitions go smoothly. Something we rarely think about until we need the services. I had a helmet on and am doing well. Everyone wear your helmets!"
Glad to hear she is doing well, and a hardy helping of good karma to the considerate snowboarders and first responders.
We hear it's supposed to be a beautiful day out there today. The sun is supposed to be shining and we just had a decent snow, so get out there and do what you do.


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5.1-1 Murder -- § 53a-54a (a)
Revised to December 1, 2007
The defendant is charged [in count __] with murder. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of murder when, with intent to cause the death of another person, (he/she) causes the death of such person or of a third person.1
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Intent to cause
The first element is that the defendant specifically intended to cause the death of another person. There is no particular length of time necessary for the defendant to have formed the specific intent to kill. A person acts "intentionally" with respect to a result when (his/her) conscious objective is to cause such result. <See Intent: Specific, Instruction 2.3-1.>
The intent to cause death may be inferred from circumstantial evidence. <See Evidence of Intent, Instruction 2.3-2.>
The type and number of wounds inflicted, as well as the instrument used, may be considered as evidence of the perpetrator's intent, and from such evidence an inference may be drawn that there was intent to cause a death. Any inference that may be drawn from the nature of the instrumentality used and the manner of its use is an inference of fact to be drawn by you upon consideration of these and other circumstances in the case in accordance with my previous instructions.2 [<Insert if warranted by evidence:> Declarations and conduct of the accused before or after the infliction of wounds may be considered if you find they tend to show the defendant's intent.] This inference is not a necessary one; that is, you are not required to infer intent from the defendant's alleged conduct, but it is an inference you may draw if you find it is reasonable and logical and in accordance with my instructions on circumstantial evidence.
Element 2 - Caused death
The second element is that the defendant, acting with the intent to cause the death of another person, caused the death of <insert name of decedent>.
[<If transferred intent is applicable:> It is not necessary for a conviction of murder that the state prove that the defendant intended to kill the person whom (he/she) did in fact kill. It is sufficient if the state proves that, acting with the intent to kill a person, (he/she) in fact killed a person.]
This means that the defendant's conduct was the proximate cause of the decedent's death. You must find it proved beyond a reasonable doubt that <insert name of decedent> died as a result of the actions of the defendant. <See Proximate Cause, Instruction 2.6-1.>
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant intended to cause the death of another person, and 2) in accordance with that intent, the defendant caused the death of <insert name of decedent>.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
murder, then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the other hand, if you
unanimously find that the state has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt
any of the elements, you shall then find the defendant not guilty.
1 The language "or of a third person" "specifically provides for intent to be transferred from the target of the defendant's conduct to an unintended victim." State v. Hinton, 227 Conn. 301, 316 (1993).
2 DO NOT instruct jurors "that one who
uses a deadly weapon on the vital part of another 'will be deemed to have
intended' the probable result of that act and that from such a circumstance the
intent to kill properly may be inferred." State v. Aponte, 259 Conn.
512, 522 (2002). See also State v. LaSalle, 95 Conn. App. 263, 273-77,
cert. denied, 279 Conn. 908 (2006) (reviewing court's instructions on inference
of intent).


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A car wash and bake sale are being planned for three-year-old Robby Byers of Biggs. Robby is Autistic and desperately needs a service dog to help with his anxiety and meltdowns. Robby tends to wander or bolt away from his parents Travis and Andrena Byers of Biggs and a service dog would be at his side to make sure he does not get in harms way. The car wash/bake sale will be held Saturday, June 29 at the former Dow Lewis location, next to Les Schwab Tire on Highway 99 from 9 a.m., to 2 p.m., to raise money for a much-needed service dog for Robby. Advance $5 tickets are available at The Wishing Corner, The Gridley Herald or Pizza Round Up in Biggs. "Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions," trains dogs for Autistic children and these dogs are specially trained for specific children in mind. The Byers' are trying to raise $10,000, which is 100 percent tax deductible (and half the cost of training a dog) so that their son can have his own service dog to also help with Robby's meltdowns to help calm him down. Donations can be made at any U.S. Bank, written to either Travis or Robert Byers or mailed directly to Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions, PO Box 383, Olivehurst, CA 95961 or visit their website at www.pawsitivesolutions.org and click on the "donate" button and type Robert Byers in the memo area on the Paypal so that it goes directly to his service dog. Checks can be made out to Pawsitive Solutions and on the memo area write "Robert Byers' service dog." Any questions can be answered by emailing Andrena Byers at firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 530-403-8203. Email contact information to Andrena to receive a receipt for your donation.
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I'm still not positive the space ship returned after it took off.
Wednesday, 12/30/1998
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Set 1: CDTChalk Dust Torture, BBFCFMBig Black Furry Creature from Mars, Wilson > Roggae, Sparkle > MomaThe Moma Dance, The Old Home Place, SampleSample in a Jar, Frankie Says > Maze, Loving Cup, Reba
Set 2: DwDDown with Disease > Piper, CaspianPrince Caspian, CoilThe Squirming Coil[1] -> SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light
[1] Atypical jam.
[2] Debut; Tom Marshall on vocals.
· Manteca tease in The Moma Dance
· Piper tease in The Squirming Coil
· Wipe Out tease in Possum
Noteworthy Jams: Down with Disease, Prince Caspian (highly recommended), Possum (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 5.61
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Tom Marshall (Guest)
Notes: Moma included Manteca teases. Coil included Piper teases and featured an atypical jam that segued into Slave. The debut of Grind featured Tom Marshall on vocals and was dedicated to Phish fan Chris Heinel, who had recently been injured in a lacrosse accident. Possum included Wipe Out teases. For this show, the Holiday Run dancers were dressed as nymphs.
Song Distribution:
3 The Story of the Ghost
3 Stash
2 Hoist
2 Rift
2 Lawn Boy
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 Undermind
1 Farmhouse
1 Billy Breathes
1 A Picture of Nectar
1 The White Tape
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "1998 NYE Run."
I'm still not positive the space ship returned after it took off.
So, Charlie Miller remasters this show, and I give it a listen. Holy cow! First off, the Sample "jam" is awesome! I've said that twice in my life, I think. But the Maze and Reba from Set I really shine. There is major chillage in the Reba, and although those 5 distinct notes are never hit which really brings resolution to the Reba jam, Trey still manages to hit those peaks that gives everyone goosebumps. Just a beauty, and it goes RIGHT into the whistling. No pause. Strange.
The 2nd set is where the real meat is though. The DWD is fantastic, and doesn't devolve into space before a segue, but rather finds its way back to the DWD reprise outro. Great version.
The Piper. Ahhh, the Piper. The good old days of the Piper build. I really think Trey forgot how to properly play Piper. Whip that crowd into a frenzy! This one does just that, and then comes Prince Caspian, which has a completely strange jam which segues into Coil. This Coil has the strangest Coil jam I've ever heard. I do remember this at the show. Trey came back out. That hardly ever happens, so I was all psyched, thinking we'd get a treat in the vein of 5/8/93, which has that amazing Coil jam. What we got instead was insanity, with the most beautiful segue into a gorgeous, just GORGEOUS, Slave.
This show is one for the books. I gave it 4 out of 5 because it just oozes awesome. I remember the Grind, and thinking what a bizarre song. I totally forgot it was the Grind we now hear often.
LISTEN TO THIS SHOW! Find the Charlie Miller remaster!
20 years into my Phish listening "career", and they still blow me away. Legendary.
Madison Square "Grind"
Tom Marshall tends to celebrate New Years Eve a night early. So it wasn't a surprise that Phish's primary scribe decided to deliver his traditional Holiday Prank twenty-four hours before most of the world uttered the hymn "Auld Lang Syne." But, instead of offering a zany cover or odd-pop culture parody, as had become the December 30th custom, Marshall gave fans another sort of treat at the tail end of 1998: a quick, rough Billy Breathes outtake called "Grind."
At the time it seemed a bit strange for Phish to poke fun at its own canon. For much of their career the group's archives were somewhat shut, relying more on intangible theatrics than personal baggage to build Phish's on-stage persona. Yet sometime around New Years 1995, things started to change. Three years since their ascent to area-rock comfort, a musical event that coincidentally culminated at Madison Square Garden New Years 1995, Phish successfully weeded out their high-school high jinks. Sure, occasional vacuum solos and cover-craziness proved Phish still didn't take themselves too seriously, but the quartet also began to take stock of their living legacy. Mail-order albums like The White Tapeì and Trey Anastasio's One Man's Trash provided fans their first legal glimpse into Phish's creative process. Similarly, the recently released Phish Book and film Bittersweet Motel, which was in post-production during New Years 1998, allowed the band to address their audience and ponder their feelings in a concrete and uncharacteristically professional manner.
Looking back, it's fitting that Phish would poke-fun at their own musical blunders. In fact, Phish's New Years 1998 run is somewhat of a turning point for the group. When placed next to earlier New Years Gags (Flying Hot-Dogs, Oasis covers), "Grind" seems somewhat sedate and self-depreciative. Yet, as the band moved farther away from zaniness and closer to the personal ponderings that gave way to the hiatus, it seems like Phish couldn't have picked a more appropriate song to spoof.
Musically, December 30th ranks among the latter half of year's best performances. A night before New Years, the show also looked back at the group's 1998 odyssey, mixing in songs from the recently released The Story of the Ghost and old-road horses like "Down with Disease" and "Squirming Coil." Playing amongst a sea of flowers and glow-worm dancers, Phish played with a festive, youthful spark, turning Madison Square Garden into the World's Most Famous Club. The group's first four-night, single-venue, stand in two years, and their second since Nectars, Phish spent a few sets of their run getting comfortable in their temporary living quarters and used this night to truly stretch out their tunes.
Opening with "Chalkdust Torture," Phish set the stage for a "rock" focused first set. Playing four nights at the same venue also allowed the group to dig a bit deeper into their repertoire, unearthing a arena-ready version of "Big Black Furry Creatures from Mars" and a fun, always quirky, "The Old Home Place." "Frankie Says" and "Roggae" allowed Phish to play around with their vocal harmonies, an iconic trend, that symbolized the group's most communal year yet. Similarly, Phish nodded to their famed November 1998 "Wipeout show" by teasing the riff during the encore of "Possum," complete with a CK5-approved light solo.
Stylistically, 1998 is somewhat of a bridge between the previous year's "cow-funk" and the following two-year's ambient experiments. Though Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman's tight-knit rhythm still led jams like "The Moma Dance," Anasasio's axe had already became more pronounced and angular by New Years 1998. Taking a cue from his own solo-album musings, Anastasio also begun to experiment with his instrument's effects pedals and delay loops; stylistic spices that colored the group's sound until its hiatus. An unorthodox ending to "Squirming Coil," without Page McConnell's solo, and a segue into "Slave to the Traffic Light," particularly showcased this style, favoring for the first time trance over groove. Given the show's arena-rock setting, it also made sense for the group to embrace their own inner rock-star status. Ripping through "Sample in a Jar" and "Loving Cup," and allowing "Wilson's" tag to echo for a few extra minutes.
Perhaps 12/30/98 will be best known, however, for its experimental second-set. Opening with an extended, bass-heavy "Down with Disease," the quartet played around with tempo before losing the Hoist song in an altogether independent jam. Switching from that song's high-energy bridge and smooth textures to its funky underbelly, Phish bridged two eras of their career. Similarly, "Piper," still a relatively new addition to the group's regular repertoire, crashed and burned with a disheveled brilliance, complete with a glow-stick war that foreshowed the song's Camp Oswego peak.
Phish always seems to preview their newest stylistic experiments during their "surprise festival set." So it makes sense that Fall 1998 showed elements of Lemmonwheel's Brian Eno-esque minimalism creeping into their sound. Having completely abandoned composition during the recording on The Story of the Ghost, Phish began to use their songs as handles to dip into carefully layered trance.
Offering a five-song, seventy-minute set, Phish embraced their free-form freedom. Even "Prince Caspian," the set's one lullaby, featured an extended workout that emphasized the song's lush, understated guitar. As the group danced through segues, the concert's glow-worm dancers mimicked Phish's sound, making for an utterly strange, but fitting, metaphor for the show: huddling together, slowly dispersing into a sea of glow sticks, and returning together for a carefully choreographed jam.
As encore time approached, Marshall ascended to the stage to offer his New Years cover. Singing lead on the tender, yet tongue-in-cheek, "Grind," Marshall also used the opportunity to try out his own role as front man. An unintentional preview of the coming year, 1999 would see more Marshall on-stage appearances than ever, both with his Amphibian project and as Phish's on-stage jester (he would dawn a number of celebrity personas, such as Roger Daltry and Bruce Springsteen). But along with his Phish companions, Marshall used "Grind" as another sort of parody. Perhaps as a nod to set lists happy fans, Anastasio noted that this was "Grind's" world debut, and Marshall joked that it was a "big mistake" that the song never made it onto an album. Lasting just over a minute, the song seemed to symbolize Phish's place in pop culture: trying to understand their developing legacy.
Phish always tends to peak when nobody is looking. So it makes sense that the group's most reflective and musically adventurous show of this New Year's run took place a night before the holiday. Since then, the group has shifted styles and on-stage personas several times offering many more rarities and musical reflections following their post-hiatus return to form. But those fans at the Madison Square Garden will always have "Grind" as their first glimpse into Phishtory.
I'm not a fan of Possum.
This Possum is over the top. Just sick. From the beginning to the end, and when they went into the Wipeout jam, it made complete sense, as if I was right back at 11/27/98. I think I actually anticipated it. My memory is foggy though.
Once again, LISTEN TO THIS SHOW!