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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It was once a luxurious grand hotel, but the iconic Bon Air building is now listed on Historic Augusta's endangered property list. Now some residents are complaining to News 12 about living without heat during the winter.
The Bon Air is still the picture of beauty and grander from the outside. On the inside, there is a chilling difference.
"You don't hear anything. There is no heat," said Dephene Lott. "Like being out in the snow. Half naked."
Lott has been living without central air for more than a week.
"Only reason it's warm now is because of that space heater there that I turn up real high," she said.
She was at least able to borrow a space heater from a friend.
"It's an issue because some people don't have access to a heater," Lott said.
The only warm room in Clifford Lee's apartment is his living room.
"I'm irate. This is ridiculous," Lee said.
He says his central air has been blowing out cold air for over a month. There is also a big hole in his ceiling.
"It's lots of issues: the doors, the security. You know when you go into the office, they are not pleasant at times," Lott said.
News 12's Elizabeth Owens tried to talk to management at Bon Air but was asked to leave.
News 12 On Your Side called corporate. They told us they were looking into the issues.
"I want to see the building ran properly," Lott said.
Historic Augusta also wants to see a change at The Bon Air. They hope endangered property ranking will bring attention to the conditions at the historical building.
If you are a Bon Air resident and have had no luck getting your heat issue resolved, contact Code Enforcement at (706) 312-5049.


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I've been watching the pro worlds on DGTV trying to soak up what I can form wise from the best in the game and I noticed some thing.
I always thought of the hysers shot as a way to just get around stuff but I am notice on a few of the holes all four of the pros in the final foursome are throwing big hysers in the open seemingly when there is not reason to do so.
What is the noob missing here shot strategy wise?

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Zoran Lazarevic commanded a large private army of soldiers during his search for Shambhala. They were the main, most basic enemies of Nathan Drake for the duration of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Of all the enemy in the series, they are the most well-equipped and dangerous enemy Drake had faced so far in the series due to their large stock pile of firepower and armored vehicle.
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The majority of soldiers and guards are generic, nameless soldiers armed with assault rifles or handguns, some wearing helmets while others use Riot Shields for protection, and are the only ones who power the stationary machine gun turrets. Below are named soldiers, many of which carry specific weapons. The soldiers of Uncharted 2 always fight with the same tactics. While shotgunners and riot shield wielders aggressively advance towards the player, the other soldiers will just fire at you from cover while Lovac and Tetram attack you from a distance. This makes it dangerous for the player to attempt to melee any black uniformed troops. That will give Lovac a chance to snipe you when they are countered. Also, make sure when entering an area the player has the element of surprise, by looking for Tetram or Lovac to try to kill them first. You should also observe the squad first and see what type of soldiers are in the group. Always work your way from the top, killing all the Dragans and Zorskels, then the riot shield soldiers, then the rest should be easier to take out.
- Dragans are the heavily armored "Helmet soldiers". They are usually armed with a Moss-12, or a FAL in later chapters. Their models is used for armoured soldiers in single player. They may also be the models for the Heavy Weapons Troops.
- Tetrams are the "Gas Mask soldiers". They carry either the M32-Hammer or an M4 or AK in multiplayer. His model is used for the grenadier soldiers in single player or strangler soldiers in Co-op.
- Sarks are the "Face Mask soldiers". They always carry the RPG-7. Their models are used for RPG soldiers in single player.
- Lovacs are the "Headphone soldiers". They carry either the Desert-5 or the Dragon Sniper. Their models are used for sniper soldiers in single player.
- Vodniks are the 'Ski Mask soldiers". They carry either a Moss-12, SAS-12 or the Pistole. Their models are used for shotgun soldiers in single player.
- Zorskels are the "Skull Mask soldiers". Like Dragans, they are well armored and carry the SAS-12. Their models are used for armoured soldiers late in single player.
- Heavy Weapons Troops are powerful soldiers that carry GAU-19s. They are tall with tough armour, even wearing armour inside their ski mask, unlike Dragans.
Lieutenant Draza is a very tough soldier who is Lazarevic's right-hand man. He is a boss that the player must encounter in Chapter 14 - Tunnel Vision.
- Tetram, Sark, Lovac, Vodnik, Zorskel, and Lieutenant Draza are all Multiplayer skins. Each one has their own unique sayings and quotes, particularly noticeable is the superb voice acting used to be able to tell each one apart just by hearing their voices in multiplayer. However, all these soldiers, excluding Draza and Zorskel, jump and groan using Dragan's voice.
- All of Lazarevic's soldiers also returned for Uncharted 3 Multiplayer as selectable skins, once purchased from the Classic Skins DLC pack (Zorskel is excluded, however he appears in Co-op Adventure as a sub-boss). However, many of the soldiers had their original outfits modified to look more like single player soldiers. For example, Lovac no longer wears his signature headphones, making him the M4 wielding soldier from Chapter 23 - Reunion, Vodnik is now a helmeted soldier, and Dragan now wears body armor. Sark and Tetram, however, only had colors in their outfits changed. Another interesting fact is that, while almost all of the voice files from Lazarevic's soldiers are present in single-player (as they were recycled from U2 for U3), none of Lazarevic's soldiers have their original voices; they have instead been replaced by the various custom hero/villain voices.
- On another note, however, one could argue that Tetram kept his original voice actor, as his voice files from U3 sound very similar to his voice in U2.
- The grunting sound clips originally from Dragan that were shared with many of the soldiers in U2 Multiplayer were given to Talbot in U3, despite the fact that Talbot is British and sounds nothing at all like Dragan.
- Ironically enough, it seems no matter how many of these types of soldiers Nate kills, another soldier may, and most likely will, eventually pop up with the same attire. (Tetram, Sark, Lovac, Vodnik, and all generic soldiers wear the same vest and clothes.) How the soldiers manage to obtain the clothes and somewhat identical build is unknown. The same case also applies to Eddy's pirates who, no matter how many you kill, all have same attire for all their types.
- Soldiers in gray seem to be rookies, as they can be easily defeated in a fistfight as well as not being able to dodge a grenade. Soldiers in black are more experienced as they have superior marksmen skills, can counter Nate's punches, they can dodge and some of them even have helmets for protection.
- In the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Co-op Adventure map, Borneo, Lazarevic's soldiers make a triumphant return as the main enemies, with Lieutenant Draza acting as the final boss. They appear again in the Airport Co-op Adventure map.


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PHOENIX -- Call it even for the Ogwumike sisters, in more ways than one.
Rookie Chiney Ogwumike scored eight points as the East beat the West 125-124 on Saturday in the first WNBA All-Star game to go to overtime.
Nneka Ogwumike, playing for the West, also scored eight points, six days after her Los Angeles Sparks routed Chiney's Connecticut Sun 90-64.
Saturday was only the second time the Stanford graduates were on opposing sides after having been teammates from the time they joined a local YMCA team in Cypress, Texas. They were the first siblings to play in the same WNBA All-Star game.
Chiney, the first pick in the WNBA draft in April, shot 4 for 8 from the field and added five rebounds and three assists in 19 minutes off the bench. Nneka was 4 for 9 from the field but had a team-high 11 rebounds and added six assists in 21 minutes. Like Chiney, Nneka was her team's first substitute.
Shoni Schimmel, a rookie who doesn't even start for her own team, put on a record-breaking performance -- scoring 29 points to power the East victory.
Hitting big shot after big shot in the fourth quarter and overtime, including a behind-the-head flip over 6-foot-8 Brittney Griner, Schimmel gave the fans a great show.
Schimmel, who grew up on a reservation in the tiny northeast Oregon town of Mission, broke the All-Star game scoring record of 23 set by Candace Parker last year.
Schimmel is averaging 7.1 points in limited time for Atlanta, yet she was voted in as an All-Star starter because of the huge Native American following she has. With 17 family members -- the boys wearing "Rez Ball Rules" T-shirts, cheering her on -- Schimmel earned MVP honors.
"Being Native American, it's a huge accomplishment to go out there and be in the WNBA," Schimmel said. "To have the fans look up to me and to be a role model not only for my siblings but also the Native American fans, the Native American people. It's huge. I take it on my shoulders because I enjoy it."
Tamika Catchings, an All-Star for a record-tying ninth time, made a layup with 6.9 seconds to go to give the East the lead and then knocked the ball away from Skylar Diggins on the defensive end to seal the victory. Diggins finished with 27 points and seven assists, leading a furious West rally to force overtime.
Griner, of the host Mercury, scored 17 points, including the third WNBA All-Star dunk, for the West.
Schimmel earned her "Showtime" nickname at Louisville. Yet it hasn't really carried over to the Dream yet. She was drafted eighth by the team and has started only twice. She's just the third reserve player ever to start a WNBA All-Star game, according to STATS. Any grumbling about her inclusion vanished in an electric second half and overtime, when she scored 24 points.
"It was awesome," Schimmel said.
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"Crimson Peak" director Guillermo del Toro hopes to return to "smaller, weirder" films, and only tackle action projects that are "very, very close to my heart."
Producer Scott Rudin reportedly has been tapped to oversee the long-teased DC Comics film, with production targeted to begin next year.
Guillermo del Toro has revealed "Gyo" creator Juni Ito was part of the team working on Konami's canceled "Silent Hills" video game.
The writer-director says that the film is only on temporary hold and plans on turning in the screenplay in three weeks time.
In new clips from del Toro's "Crimson Peak," Edith discovers not only a host of nightmares in her husband's home, but that she is very much alone.
A new report suggests that production of "Pacific Rim 2" hasn't been merely delayed, but rather "halted indefinitely."
Mike Mignola, Joey Weiser, John Rozum and many more pay tribute to Guillermo Del Toro in an art exhibit at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.
The exhibit, which opens September 11 at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, features artwork inspired by Guillermo del Toro and his cult classic films.
Ron Perlman continues to stoke the fires for a third film, this time discussing Guillermo del Toro's apocalyptic "Hellboy 3" ideas.
With season two currently unfolding, FX has already renewed Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse's "The Strain" TV series.
Guillermo del Toro and the "Strain" cast and crew spoke at Comic-Con about deviating from the novels for the second season of the vampire drama.
Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse discuss their take on vampires, and "The Strain" deviating from its source material in season two.
Matt Groening, Al Jean, Nancy Cartwright & Co. were joined at Comic-Con International by a surprise guest during the "Simpsons" panel.
Turns out the director's upcoming sequel has already had a major impact on one film, and could determine the fate of the other.
Laughs and scares fill Hall H's "Crimson Peak" panel with Guillermo del Toro, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain and more.
Ron Perlman tells CBR News that it's unacceptable to him to even consider the possibility that "Hellboy 3" will never be filmed.
Legendary Entertainment celebrates SDCC with a Whilce Portacio-drawn variant cover for its new comic based on the kaiju vs. mecha franchise.
The rat Jared Leto gave Margot Robbie now lives with a famous director; Channing Tatum says he's bulking down for "Gambit" and more.
Grant Gustin and Geoff Johns discuss what's to come in "Flash's" sophomore season; Jon Bernthal picks up more Punisher comics and more.
Amid the news of "Sandman" moving to New Line Cinema comes word that director Guillermo del Toro is no longer attached to "Justice League Dark."
Mia Wasikowska fails to heed all warnings in the chilling new trailer for the Gothic horror film that also stars Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain and Charlie Hunnam.
Ryan Gosling may star in Disney's long in-development "Haunted Mansion" reboot, with "Hellboy" veteran Guillermo del Toro still on board the film.
Charlie Cox reveals he's been reading up on Marvel's "Civil War"; Guillermo del Toro discusses the state of his dark DC movie and more.
Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Charlie Hunnam star in the filmmaker's eagerly awaited return to horror.
Gwyneth Paltrow says she would play Pepper in the "Cap" sequel; Grant Gustin promises "Flash" fans have no idea what's coming and more.
The screenplay for "Dark Universe," which boasts a lineup of DC supernatural characters, is reportedly in the hands of Warner Bros. executives.
As the vibrant Mexican-themed animated tale arrives in theaters, SPINOFF checks in with the filmmaker about projects ranging from "Pacific Rim 2" to "Hellboy 3."
Huddleston takes us through his process in building the visual world of "The Strain" with an exclusive preview of Issue #4.
The cast and producers of FX's "The Strain" discuss vampire lore, the differences between the novels and the show, and what to expect in the first season.
The horror filmmaker was joined by Carlton Cuse, Chuck Hogan and the stars of the FX thriller to discuss their hunt for "biologically believable vampires."
First-time feature director Jorge R. Gutierrez and producer Guillermo del Toro unveil colorful footage for Fox's bright new animated film "Book of Life."
In FX's new series "The Strain" executive producers Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse hope to take a more modern â and more scientific â approach to vampires.
The "Being Human" alum discusses "supernatural envy," and delving into "deeper and darker places" with Guillermo del Toro.
David Bradley, the actor "Game of Thrones" fans loves to hate, explains Guillermo del Toro was all he needed to sign on and being one of the good guys.
The "Twilight" veteran discusses her central role in the decidedly different take on the supernatural in FX's new horror thriller, "The Strain."
The "Lost" veteran talks with SPINOFF about collaborating with Guillermo del Toro on the new FX thriller, and getting back to the roots of vampire stories.
The "Pacific Rim 2" filmmaker teases some of the changes fans can anticipate going into the sequel.
"Pacific Rim" appears to have blossomed into a full-fledged franchise, with a sequel, animated series and comic books all in development.
CBR forecasts which mystic and monstrous DC characters could join the team in Guillermo del Toro's long-percolating "Justice League Dark" film.
Production is expected to begin this month on the first season of the horror series "The Strain," based on the novels by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
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Kids will love having an important role in helping you prepare for the Seder celebration. You can talk about the traditions of the holiday as you construct this craft together.
Watch all your favorite shows weekdays on Nick Jr.
Print and cut out the Colorable Star of David. Have your child glue it to the center of the 9-inch plate, color in the star and the rest of the plate with crayons and/or glitter paint.
Cut out the rim of the six 6-inch plates so that each measure about 5 inches. Have your child paint the front of the small plates with crayons. Or, if it's easier, let her paint with poster paints using a paintbrush. Let dry.
Print and cut out Seder Plate Food Item Images. Glue six food images each to the center of a small plate.
Arrange the six small plates evenly along the big plate's rim, get a sense of the contact area of the small plates with the big plate, then glue the small plates on one after another. You might need to place something heavy over the contact area given the slightly curved shape of both plates.


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Area students love snow days
Some in exchange program experience white stuff for the first time
January 26, 2013
Friday's snow day may have been old hat for students who have spent their lives in the Mid-Ohio Valley, but it was a brand-new experience for 16-year-old Hassan Marafie....
Maybe this might be a waste of good Marietta Times photog and writing talent, but I'd like to see an article about where the best sledding hills are.
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I always like to hear what foreign exchange think of America and good old Marietta. Very cool
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Snow day? This snow fall and cold temperature is truly minor. I really do not understand cancelling school or even declaring this a snow emergency level two. We should be teaching our children to roll with the weather instead of teaching them to be a bunch of sissies. Teach people to function regardless of the weather. Use safety and common sense, but enough already with this helplessness when an inch or two of snow falls.
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Wow Tessie right on! I bet if they made snow days unpaid there would be less snow days too.
Also, I don't need local or state nannys trying to tell me how safe they think it is outside and when to drive. Level 1, 2, and 3 lol, big deal.
If I need to go get food, medicine, or other supply's I should be the one making that decision as to the safety of it.
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Tessie, this is exactly what I was talking about in my post about the bullying article.
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We are raising a society that is learning to use the smallest things to avoid working.
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It would have been nice, since we knew the snow was coming, if the roads had been pretreated. I was out all morning on Friday. I didn't see a single truck out treating roads until after the snow was flying.
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Tessie.. This is possibly a frightening occurance. You coming forward with a conservative thought. Have you changed your meds or doctors? Possibly just watching/listening more conservative outlets vice all the liberal gunk?? It is good to see you posting principaled thoughts & not 'let the gov't do it for you' kind that you are infamous for posting.
I caught myself agreeing with you again. That makes maybe the fifth time this year. You better be careful. You may be tiring of the progressive-liberal Obamamania....
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lol Devils Advocate. I'm not changing. I have what you call "conservative" and "liberal" views depending upon the subject. It's the same with voting democrat or republican, depends on the person.
I know the snow days are called because of lawsuit happy parents. What I say is let the parent decide whether the child shall stay home because the road isn't safe, except in severe weather. Buy them boots, warm coats, hats and gloves and send them into the world. A little more preparation for reality is needed.
I saw several trucks out that had salt/sand/whatever for the roads but they weren't using it. All they did was a little scraping. One person tells the manager of the city street department what to do, and he failed to do his job. Mr. Mayor, please choose a more effective person to do the job. It's clear that Mr. H cannot do the job. What's stopping you? Semper Fi!
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School should be treated like a job. The children need to learn that a snowflake does not mean you don't do your job. For the children who live within walking distance, forget about someone driving you to school, bundle up and walk. For the ones who are outside the walking distance, I'm sure your parents can take you to school on their way to work or to buy more cigs and/or drinks.
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In today's laser-targeted edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Petey 2 Kold has an issue with Crysis 2 on the PlayStation 3, and would like to make developer Crytek aware of it. Have at them, Petey 2.
Dear Crytek:
As you read this, I am conducting an experiment. I'll tell you about it at the end.
Crytek, I like Crysis 2. It's my thing. Some people don't like it, and I respect that. Can even see where they're coming from, but I don't agree.
I downloaded the Retaliation map pack. I paid for it. I can't play it because apparently, out of 25 million or so Xbox live accounts, me and some guy named "last crucible" are the only two people who want to play the Retaliation map pack.
At first, I thought it might be something on my end. And-taking a cue from the guy who made that video about Treyarch sucking on the ps3-I tried all my other games, from Reach to Killzone 3, and everything worked wonderfully.
I also wondered if I was the only one experiencing this problem, but found some like opinions / experiences on your forums.
And now there's the Decimation map pack. And I noticed that this one includes weapons.
Hmmm...I don't want to be the cynic here, but did you include weapons because otherwise people might avoid it as a way of retaliating for Retaliation?
Well, I'm no tech wiz when it comes to all things transmitted via electrical impulse, so if I'm wrong about it being a problem at your end, Crytek, I humbly apologize.
If I'm right about it being a problem on your end, I'd politely ask that you do two things:
1.) Stop releasing map packs.
2.) Get on that.
As for the experiment, I've been in the lobby of the Retaliation map pack for the time it took me to get the idea for, type and proofread this post. And I was staring at the television for a while beforehand. After which I went out and scored a *** of **** from my roommate.
Crytek, I wanted to see if I could get this thing written and submitted without getting a match.
I was successful. "Last crucible" left a while ago.
I think I will, too.


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(Release: September 22, 2011) - Hagerstown Community College received notice today that it has been awarded a $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to prepare students for careers in the growing field of cybersecurity.
"This award will posture HCC well to be a leader in cybersecurity education, both in Western Maryland and throughout the state," said Guy Altieri, HCC president. "We greatly appreciate the efforts of Senators Mikulski and Cardin to make federal dollars available for competitive grants for training and job creation in this important career area. As we prepare to open the new STEM Building, the timing couldn't be better in terms of ensuring that both the capital and operational resources are in place to train our students for cybersecurity and other STEM-related high-skill, high-wage careers."
HCC will use the grant funds to create a cybersecurity career pathway, developing partnerships with school systems, four-year institutions, and employers, including the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). In addition to new degree and certificate programs in cybersecurity, HCC will offer hands-on training, professional development for teachers, and flexible course scheduling for students in the program. HCC's program will reach out to area high schools to encourage students to pursue cybersecurity careers.
HCC also recently received a $50,000 grant from Cyberwatch, a consortium of over 40 higher education institutions, businesses, and government agencies. The grant will be used to conduct a community outreach campaign to heighten awareness of cybersecurity and cyber threats, and to create a cybersecurity institute to provide various types of short-term training for industry certification. As a member of Cyberwatch, HCC has the opportunity to share best practices, methodologies, curricula, and course materials, as well as to receive training and support for its students and faculty.
HCC has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Two-Year Education (CAE-2Y) by the NSA and was one of the first six community colleges in the U.S. to receive this honor. This distinction enables students to transfer seamlessly from HCC to four-year colleges in order to complete their degrees.
For more information on the cybersecurity program at HCC, contact Margaret Spivey at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Taylor and Deer Park fans left little doubt at the polls as they cruised to the Wildcard Game of the Week for Jan. 4.
Voting ended at 11:59 p.m Thursday, with the Yellow Jackets and Wildcats receiving 66 percent of the vote.
"Extra credit" votes earned by uploading school spirit photos and videos to High School Playbook's u local section did not impact the final results. Each photo uploaded was worth five extra votes for your school; each video was worth 10 votes.
As for the game, Deer Park came up big at home and defeated Taylor, 50-47.
Final Results:
- 66% - Taylor vs. Deer Park
- 29% - Felicity-Franklin vs. Goshen
- 4% - Western Brown vs. Batavia
- 1% - Dixie Heights vs. St. Henry
- 0% - CCD vs. CHCA
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's calling for justice for the Budweiser horse and dog snow sculptures in Breckenridge's Blue River Plaza, which last weekend fell victim to the snow-icidal rampage of an unidentified maniac.
We'd like to issue our most outraged of Scum Alert!! Scum Alert!! to the individuals who committed this senseless crime. Here to second our disgust are Catherine Cockburn and Sandy Metzger.
Ms. Cockburn writes thusly:
"Scum Alert! Scum Alert! to the thoughtless, mindless jerk/jerks who beheaded the beautiful Budweiser snow sculptures of the horses and the dog. What kind of person does this? Pity there isn't CCTV set up in Blue River Plaza. If they caught the culprits, we could have a public "stoning" of them with leftovers from the snow sculpture competition. Any takers?"
Metzger continues:
"On Friday night someone decapitated the dog, on Saturday night someone decapitated one of the Clydesdales and the Sunday night the other Clydesdale was decapitated. Is was a beautiful piece. It is so sad that a few people ruined it for all."
Here, here. To the beheaders-in-crime, may 10,000 tomatoes of rotten karma come whizzing in your general direction the next time you are in any type of performance or public display. You can redeem yourselves only by coming clean, submitting a written note of apology to the community and baking us all cupcakes.
And to round out an otherwise somewhat depressing edition of Summit Up on a weirder note, here is the lone response we got to our call to the general public for their opinion on crunchy versus creamy peanut butter.
Dan Smathers writes:
"Hey y'all, here in Atlanta we got us a place (OK, it's called NY Pizza) that makes a fantasmic peanut butter and jelly pizza. Yeah baby, it is delicious. And they will put nutty or smooth on yer pizza, so you pick it, it's awesome bof ways."
We have no idea what bof ways means, and we feel we should note that we cannot offer any kind of guarantee that peanut butter and jelly pizza will be delicious. Don't try this at home, folks.
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21 March 2005
Market Forces by Richard Morgan
There is much to dislike in Market Forces. The characters are cartoons, the central concept of Road Warrior-meets-The Apprentice is ridiculous, the book could stand to lose at least a third of its pages, and much of the dialogue is little more than an excuse for awkward exposition or tedious speechifying. Cheryl Morgan did a good job of laying out many of the problems with the book, both logical and ideological.
However, Market Forces isn't a complete and utter waste of paper (Adam Roberts even seems to think it's a work of genius). I found it to be a fun read, actually, because I never took it very seriously. It's a dumb thriller jazzed up with some clever satire. Satire doesn't need to be logical or fair, it just needs attitude, and Market Forces has plenty of attitude, offering a world where every character seems to be freebasing testosterone. In some ways, the novel is a classic sort of science fiction, the kind that isolates one element of a present society and speculates about "if this goes on..." Thus, for Morgan, the reductio ad absurdum of neoliberal business practices is an environment of feral brutality masked with the thinnest veneer or corporate civilization. This single, simple speculation leads him to portray a world where all power equals violence.
To understand why the book wasn't, at least for me, entirely a waste of time, I have to compare it to a recent novel that I only read about fifty pages of: The Fountain at the Center of the World by Robert Newman. Newman's book is similar to Morgan's in many ways, particularly in its politics, and better written and more carefully conceived -- but in the portion of the book that I managed to get through, I felt so manipulated by the author that I simply couldn't continue. This is a book that has gotten good reviews, and that was obviously written to advance a political viewpoint toward which I am somewhat sympathetic. And yet I had a visceral negative reaction to it, and soon stopped reading it, saying to myself, "If I want to read Chomsky, I don't need a novel to serve as an intermediary."
I am not entirely opposed to the idea of fiction as propaganda. Storytelling is one way that human beings relate to the world, and fiction can be a tremendously intimate form of art, one that lets us empathize with people we might not otherwise have the chance to know or understand. To create such empathy, though, fiction requires some sleight-of-hand, some diversionary tactics, because details speak loudly in the reader's mind and the author's manipulations in favor of some sort of agenda can become screamers, as Robert Newman's were for me.
Myth and imagination can heighten fiction's ability to bear a message -- we like our fables to have morals, after all, and allegory becomes a muddle without referents. At the end of Market Forces, Richard Morgan has a page of "Books Consulted", and the first two are by Noam Chomsky (Profit Over People and Rogue States), but I only rarely thought while reading the novel that I'd rather be reading nonfiction. The reasons are many, and complex, but a somewhat-too-simple explanation is that, unlike Newman's, Morgan's book offered an imaginative and satirical distance from the real world that allowed me then to make my own connections. Newman's slightly less satirical realism made me feel that he was organizing his novel as a series of incidents to support a thesis, and that's not the sort of novel I have much interest in reading.
I'm writing subjectively because I'm sure there are many readers who would respond in exactly the opposite way -- readers who would find Newman's approach far more appealing, and would be frustrated be the entirely implausible set-up of Morgan's novel. The implausibility of Morgan's story, though, is what saved me, because it created a necessary distance that softened the proselytizing at the heart of the book, and because it suggested that the book is not "the way things are", but rather a thought-experiment, an entertaining extrapolation. If I want to know about "the way things are", I'll read a newspaper or magazine, because that's more efficient than reading a made-up story. If I want to think about what the imaginary, farthest-reaching implications of the idea of competition might look like, then I'll read a work of imagination like Market Forces.
Because Richard Morgan has a particular talent for writing action sequences, and because his book is entertaining and accessible, I expect it will sell well and will find readers who might not be inclined to agree with the author's politics. A few of those readers might begin to think about competition, violence, and class warfare in different ways than they did before -- which may not be exactly as Morgan thinks of those subjects, because the story he tells is ambiguous and imaginative enough to allow for a variety of interpretations. This is not a book that will merely preach to the converted, because the story itself is not entirely from one church, and that story is engrossing and suspenseful enough that even people who vehemently disagree with Morgan's politics at the outset may find themselves caught up in the events and situations, turning the pages late into the night. For a book with a clear political purpose, this is an accomplishment, and one I can respect, despite the book's many, and nearly fatal, flaws.
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Ariel @ 2:15PM | 2005-03-21| permalink
Hi Matt - our recent news-chat with Morgan has a bit more info on the origins of the novel as an action movie screenplay if you're interested:
And yes, I'd say his three Takeshi Kovacs novels are a lot stronger.
Matt Cheney @ 5:07PM | 2005-03-21| permalink
Thanks, Ariel. Here's a clickable version of that link for anybody who's in the mood for clicking.
Ariel @ 10:04AM | 2005-03-22| permalink
Is that straight html you've used or some variant of BB code..? Wasn't sure which to go for...
Matt @ 10:17PM | 2005-03-22| permalink
You can just write it as HTML. I'm not 100% happy with this commenting system, but it's got some good points, and that's one of them.
- Anonymous12/04/2006 4:54 AM
what a condescending load of rot...ReplyDelete
you think this book is a waste of paper? i think you just wasted 500 words to tell us nothing...
you sound like a pompous, arrogant ass and i'm glas you didn't like the book!
- Anonymous6/13/2007 12:33 AM
What is your background Matthew?ReplyDelete
I guess you have never worked for a consultancy company before, haven't you?
That's why you call this book "implausible"...


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Only trip to the Gorge so far and it culminated a 4 show journey from Phoenix, up the coast on the 1(mostly, sometimes 101) to Shoreline and then the Gorge. Unfortunately skipped Ventura to do some touristy stuff but it was cool. It was my first real time spent in California and I wanted and see some stuff. Smoked pot on the steps of 710 Ashbury and hung out in the Haight. Necessary stuff I thought at the time.
I've read a lot of Grate reviews about GD shows at Ventura and hind sight I would've loved to go and see it for myself. I guess it's a shitty venue but the locale next to the ocean totally makes up for it. Also of course for that Gin->Cities.
Anyways these Gorge shows were real good. Not a bad show of the 4 I saw that Summer of 97. Each one having some spectacular jams/song selection. The night before this is the better of the 2 imo, but this is still above average.
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text: It's Friday, the day after Floyd Landis made the Tour his own (win or lose, it's his, always). Walking around the pre-race village in Morzine this morning, the French enunciation of Landis (Lawn-DEES) was in the air. Before yesterday's stage he was such a tragic figure that the Phonak bus was akin to a ghost town.Now he's a rock star. Today the crush was so great that Landis didn't even sign in for the stage (every morning before the start, riders clip-clop up onto a big yellow stage in their cycling shoes, then sign the official sign-in book. It's a way to see who's still in the race, but it's also a great bit of ceremony for the fans crushed against the barricades, giving them a chance to look at the riders). Instead, Landis was bundled inside a Phonak team car and driven to the roll-out area, where his bike was unloaded and he entered the zone where media are now forbidden. As Landis's car crept through the dense thicket of fans and press, he sat up front in the passenger seat. Photographers pressed their lenses up against the window, taking tabloid-style shots so absurd that Landis couldn't keep a straight face. His temper's wearing thin as we approach the end of the race. His wry wit is strained and you get the feeling he just wants to be left alone. Introverts everywhere, having found a new hero, can empathize with his sudden fatigue with all the attention. Before going into more about yesterday (more details are emerging as the legend grows), it's worth noting that there was a lot of talk this morning about teams like T-Mobile and Davitamon-Lotto attacking (in talking with a very eager Robbie McEwen, he really really really wants the stage win. He's superstitious. This year he has won three stages at the Tour and Giro, and winning the green jersey in Paris would mark his third such victory. "I want to win a fourth stage to break out of the numerology," he confided, his baby face desperately in need of a shave). Truth is, the riders are exhausted. Not just a little exhausted, but barely capable of making it to Paris. When Viatceslav Ekimov of Discovery was asked if he was going to attack and go for a stage win, he was incredulous. "Right now," he said, quoting Pulp Fiction, "I am pretty freaking (not actually the word he chose, but use your imagination) far from OK."Meanwhile, the Landis legend grows as behind-the-scenes snippets from yesterday's Quixotic quest dribble forth from teams and riders. My personal favorite: "Get me to the bottom of the first climb," Floyd Landis told his pretofore listless Phonak teammates, "and then I'll see you later." A day after Landis's historic ("La Historique!" screamed the French headlines. "Incroyable!") comeback ride, more and more details are emerging. That opening quote is already making the rounds here as Landis's signature comment. He was throwing down the gauntlet, daring his teammates to support him and defiantly promising that if they did their job, he would more than do his. The peloton knew that something was coming. It was unusual for Phonak to be setting the pace once the race began, since Landis was no longer wearing the yellow jersey. Remember, the riders are exhausted. Yesterday was the third hard Alpine stage in as many days, and all they wanted was to ride into Morzine without having to work unduly hard. So when rumors about a Landis breakaway attempt shot through the peloton, some teams actually sent riders up to the Phonak cadre and warned them not to attack. It was like putting out a fire with gasoline. Landis now knew that the peloton would let him go, then not chase him down. So he went. If you had a chance to watch the stage on television, you might have seen Landis catch up with a small group that had launched an earlier breakaway. He lingered awhile, talking one-by-one with the riders. What you saw there was simple horse-trading. Landis was asking for volunteers, riders who might be interested in working with him to make the attack a success. He was willing to pay for that help, roughly $5,000 dollars from some reports. But nobody took him up on the offer, because the race is so wide open that Landis has few friends in the peloton. So he shot away as if suddenly bored, destined to ride alone all day, come what may. The bald and ebullient Chris Horner of Davitamon-Lotto said this morning that Landis could have been caught "only if" the top ten riders all worked together to chase him down. "But I've never seen that happen in any bike race, let alone the Tour de France. There's no way anyone was going to catch him."I know, I know. You're thinking that Landis's ride reminds you of another long breakaway you've seen somewhere before, yet you can't quite put your finger on where. Let me help. Landis duplicated David Marshal Grant's epic attack in "American Flyers" (a bike racing movie also memorable for Barry "The Cannibal" Muzzin, Kevin Costner when he was still the guy you wanted to hang out with if you had the chance, and Alexandra Paul's famously dopey line just before the stage: "Be strong now" -- which may not actually sound dopey right here, but in the proper context it's enough to make you feel sorry for her having to actually utter the words). Check it out. By the way, Grant's character was also a wheely rider, like Floyd. OK, enough about yesterday, other than to say the obvious (and slightly heretical): The signature stage of Lance Armstrong's career came in 2001, and the look he gave Jan Ullrich before pulling away on L'Alpe D'Huez. I loved "The Look." It motivated me, and made me strive harder in my own workouts. But yesterday ... yesterday was better. The temperature today in eastern France is sweltering and humid, easily more than a hundred degrees (37 Celsius. Once again, I've forgotten the conversion formula. Help me). The Tour left the Alps this morning, moving in a straight line west to Macon. To get a visual, look at a map and find the corner of Switzerland where Geneva brushes against the French border. That's where we are now. Yet it's more complicated than just a quick map study. The start in Morzine found the peloton deep inside a mountain valley. Ski resorts perched on the summit and chair lifts climbed from Morzine up onto those high plateaus. Now (I was writing in the car, and just got to the press room), we're in flat farmland. Vineyards and fields of corn line the flat country landscape. Macon, by the way, is home of the Beaujolais wine varietal. The city's history is incredible, beginning with its 3rd-century founding by a Celtic tribe, then onto the Romans, on up to the Nazi's. It has been fortified, looted, burned, and occupied by every group from the Barbarians to the Francs. I have to say that you can't feel the history so much when you're actually here. The mood is sedate, like some tiny South Dakota farm town with a single stop light. I miss the Alps already. Austin and I got a ski condo in the ski station of Avoriaz, a full mile up the mountain from Morzine. We closed the pressroom once again last night (this time it was bad -- Tour employees actually turned off the power. When that failed, they shut off the Wifi) and didn't find our lodgings until 1 a.m. It was dark, but in the moonlight I could see a stark spire of a ridge looming over Avoriaz. When I got up in the morning I ran to the top of it, clambering along a narrow trail through a green mountain meadow. The path was muddy and thin and rocky, and by the time I found the top the ridge fell away a thousand feet on each side. At which point I had one of those weird ju-ju feelings telling me that the smart thing was to retrace my steps before I slipped off the cliff and became a "stupid tourist" urban legend (probably complete with a video clip. Having said that. our President just tried to give the German Chancellor a backrub, an act which is now making the internet video rounds. What, I want to say, were you thinking, dude?). Back to the Alps. I turned back and found other (safer, yet strangely steeper) trails, full of long tempo grinds that burn the legs and lift the heart rate. By the time I was done, I saw the run for what it was: One of those transcendent Tour experiences that will stay with me a long time. Having said that, I came back pretty exhausted. Blame it on the Landis effect, but I was overcome by the urge to push out of the comfort zone this morning. Reading your emails, I know that many of you felt the same way. But now the Alps are gone. The fields around us are flat, and the riders are just trying to get their legs back for tomorrow's time-trial. All eyes here are on the the time-trial and then push on to Paris in the evening. By the way, for those of you who came late to this party and are curious about Austin's identity, his full name is Austin Murphy and he writes for Sports Illustrated. My book, CHASING LANCE, was about our misadventures at last year's Tour, which was the fourth we'd covered together. Read the book for the physical description, etc., but know that Austin is a top-notch guy who can sing along to Thunder Road word for word, which is perhaps the finest barometer of road trip worthiness. Check out his stuff at www.si.com. This being a non-Armstrong year, you may have to hit the "MORE" button to find his blogs, but they're worth the hunt. Alright. I'm getting misty. Talk to you after the stage.


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Huh. I was under the impression that Knoxx was done by Gearbox as well. Perhaps I don't know the whole story.
Huh. I was under the impression that Knoxx was done by Gearbox as well. Perhaps I don't know the whole story.
Don't forget that they're currently in crunch time for Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Spoiler!Don't forget that Angel betrays your ass too in the main game.
Yeah, it's the third betrayal, but with that one you mention, they actually did semi-subtle foreshadowing, whereas with Scarlett and Piston, they do a blatant "Ha ha this character is going to betray you" line.
I'm wondering, if I get to level 50 without doing any sidequests, will the rewards for those quests be at my level when I finally do them? Or will they stay at the level they were when they first became available? Because I want a level 50 robot shotgun.
I think that the rewards stay at the level of the missions, not your character. I've been doing all the sidemissions as I go through the story, so I'm usually above the level of the missions, and I keep selling most, if not all, of the rewards I get.
On another note, I just got into Opportunity and I've noticed that when Jack is going through the names of the casualties for the week, the casualties are the names of some of the original Doctor Who actors (i.e. Baker, T. and Pertwee, J. and Houghton, P.). I seriously LOL'd.
The missions scale to level 48-50 after you reach the vault on TVHM.
Cool. Gonna wait until then to do most of the side missions, at least those that give unique rewards.
When you start True Vault Hunter Mode you're restarting the game, so the missions come back if you've already done 'em. No need to save any for later in the first playthrough.
Isn't that called playthrough 2.5 or something? I've read about it but was never sure how to start it.
Yup, that's it. I'm sad because I killed the Hodunks and now I can't get a Maggie.
It starts as soon as you beat the Warrior for a second time.
How do you start playthrough 2.5?
Huh. I did not know that. I guess I'll need to do that with my second character. I obsessively do side missions; I do all of the available side missions before doing any story mission.
Anyway, I played more of Mr. Torgue last night, and I have another complaint. What's with the lighting in the Forge? I couldn't see anything in some spots! If there's one thing that makes me want to rush through an area and not take in the scenery, it's making sure I have trouble actually being able to see the scenery! Not only that, but since it's so dark, it's really difficult to actually shoot people, because they just blend into the darkness. Not cool.
Weird how I when I first posted in this thread I said I hated Torgue, Jakobs, and Vladof weapons and now they're my go-to guns and all the other brands I used to favor are all vendor trash. They all just compliment the Mechromancers abilities so well. A 2-shot Jakobs shotgun + Anarchy = a bunch of dead fools.
Torgue is fucking great sometimes. Also Vladof. All those bullets.
I did this for my Commando (saved all side-quests except those that just gave XP). Without doing any of those and doing almost no farming (I re-fought Bunker and The Warrior a handful of times) I reached Level 50 way before fighting The Warrior again.
I didn't know about that and fucked up. Oh well.


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(The item in my hand, by the way, is a leg crook used on sheep.)
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Oh dear lord.ReplyDelete
P.S. When somebody from Battle Ground, WA has never heard of a town in the PNW called "Yoncalla," you know it must be a pretty obscure little town... :)
- Anonymous11/25/2006 10:53 PM
The camo and the crook, the hunter and the shepard. Is there any paradigm you haven't subverted?ReplyDelete
Funny enough, you look almost exactly the way I pictured you.ReplyDelete
Sheep, green fields, cool damp day - and you look perfectly at home. You haven't got any Welsh blood in you, have you Matthew?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/26/2006 11:34 AM
"...I'm trying very hard to be the shepard."ReplyDelete
--Mr. Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction
Here's my sheep-crook and my black dog, I give them to you . . .ReplyDelete
That is definitely a photograph to be used for something.
You know, Brett, in college I had a bumpersticker on my door room wall that said "Subvert the dominant paradigm!" and I just keep trying to figure out which one is dominant...ReplyDelete
Yoncalla is, indeed, a small town, Kameron. In fact, it's smaller than Drain, its neighbor, a place with what I thought was an amusing name for a gas station: Flaming Fuel. It's a fun place, though, because it's only an hour south of Eugene, so while you can feel like you're living in the wild, it's easy enough to escape, too.
And no, Clare, no Welsh blood that I know of, but plenty of Scottish.
- Anonymous11/30/2006 4:28 PM
What a strange photo.ReplyDelete


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Parents have a legal obligation to provide financial support for their children. When the child's parents do not live together, a court can order the non custodial parent to pay child support to the custodial parent. This is not the only scenario in which child support might arise. Less frequently, when neither parent has custody, the court may order them to pay child support to a third party who cares for their child.
No matter what situation gives rise to the need for child support, it might help to think of the legal right to child support as being possessed by a child (which it technically is), for his or her proper care and upbringing, regardless of who actually receives child support payments.
Under Arizona laws, the amount of child support is determined by a formula know as the Arizona Child Support Guidelines Formula. Child support orders are issued by the family court judge, who bases the amount of the support on the state child support guidelines. These guidelines establish the amount of support that must be paid, based largely on the parent's gross monthly income and the number of children they have. The formula also considers gross monthly income of the parents, children from other relationships, non custodial parenting time with the children and certain expenses related to the children such as insurances, day care and some educational expenses.
The court can deviate from the guidelines if there are significant reasons for doing so. The fact that the custodial parent has a high income does not itself justify deviation from the guidelines, because under the law children have the right to benefit from both parents incomes. Child support can be increased if there is a substantial change in circumstances justifying the increase, such as an increase in the payer's income or the cost of living, a decrease in the custodial parent's income, or an increase in the child's needs. Similarly, the amount can be reduced if the circumstances justify the reduction.
When parents divorce, the divorce decree will specify with whom the divorcing couple's children will live (and circumstances under which the other parent will visit with the children). Often, parents work out these arrangements between themselves, either completely voluntarily or with the assistance of their attorneys or a mediator. When they are unable to reach a decision, however, or when unmarried parents are unable to agree on who will have custody of their child, the court will make a decision based on the child's best interests.
In a marriage dissolution case involving children or a case involving child custody, the Court must determine "legal custody" of the children. "Legal custody" establishes which parent has the authority to make major life decisions for the child. The Court may order "joint legal custody", in which case the parents share custody and neither parent's rights are superior. Alternatively, the Court may order "sole legal custody", which means that one parent has "legal custody".
In addition to determining "legal custody", the Court will also determine "parenting time." Parenting time means the condition under which a parent has the right to have child physically placed with the parent and the right and responsibility to make, during that placement, routine daily decisions regarding the child's care consistent with the major decisions made by a person having "legal custody". The parent who has the child with them the majority of the time is known as the "primary physical custodian." If the Court orders the parties to share equal parenting time with the child, then it are known as "joint physical custody." If each parent has the child in their primary physical custody, it is known as "split custody."
In awarding custody, the Court is required to consider all relevant factors. The overriding consideration, however, is always the best interest of the child.
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Sparta, Wis (WEAU)- The heat wave of 2012 is wilting away the prospects of a profitable summer for farmer's markets. But it's not only in the fields that the farmers need to battle the heat.
Farmer's markets are known for their fresh produce, but with the temperature's staying high vegetables are wilting in mere hours says Sparta Market Manager, Carol Schauf.
"Things wilt right down and aren't fresh and our object is to bring the freshest," said Schauf.
Some farmers have resorted to bringing their produce on ice to try to save it from the heat, but if it continues to be this hot there may not be much produce to bring to the market in the first place.


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M. Craig Barnes to preside at his first Commencement since taking office in
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NJ, May 16, 2013–Princeton Theological Seminary will award 164
degrees to 159 graduates during commencement exercises on Saturday, May 18. The
Commencement Service will begin at 4:00 p.m. in the Princeton University
Chapel. Presiding will be the Seminary's
new president, Dr. M. Craig Barnes.
One hundred seven (107) men and women will
receive the Master of Divinity degree, the basic professional degree for Christian
ministry. Five (5) students will receive dual degrees—both the Master of
Divinity degree and the Master of Arts degree. One (1) will receive the Master
of Arts in Theological Studies degree; two (2) will receive the Master of Arts
degree; twenty-one (21) the Master of Theology degree; one (1) will receive the
Doctor of Ministry degree; and twenty-two (22) the Doctor of Philosophy degree,
the highest degree granted by the institution. This year's Ph.D. class is the
largest in recent history.
There are fourteen (14) international
students in the graduating class, including students from Egypt, Denmark, Japan,
Mexico, Myanmar, South Korea, Sweden, and Thailand. Most will return to their
native countries to teach and assume leadership positions in the church. Among
them are four Ph.D. graduates: Hani Kostandi Hanna, a native of Egypt, will
return to his homeland to become assistant professor at the Evangelical Theological
Seminary in Cairo. Chananporn Jaisaodee will return to Thailand as a professor
of Christian education at McGilvary College of Divinity at Payap University in
Chaing Mai. Yoshiyuki Kato will become assistant professor at Tokyo Christian
University in Japan, and Jin Kyung Park will join the faculty at Methodist
Theological University in Seoul, South Korea.
Graduates will serve as pastors in churches, as hospital and
prison chaplains, and in the mission field. They will teach in urban schools,
minister on college campuses, and continue their studies, both in the United
States and abroad. One graduate, Michael Gewecke, will be an assistant pastor
in Iowa and will also run a web management business that he founded for
Two graduates will follow in the footsteps of their parents when
they walk down the aisle of the university chapel to receive their diplomas.
Bailey Pruner's mother Victoria and father James both graduated from Princeton
Seminary in 1985. And Jessica Hawkinson will join her mother, Suzan Hawkinson,
who graduated in 1984.
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Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760.
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"Dazzling American Chic." Casually elegant Caf� Nuovo, at the Gondola Landing on Providence's famed Riverwalk,
has been unabashedly singled out by the Providence Journal as
Rhode Island's contribution to "world-class" dining.
"Here, different cuisines do more than meet . . . they fall in love."It has been said that the only thing more spectacular than the panoramic view
from this "chic outpost" is the architectural splendor of our dazzling dinners and desserts,
a heavenly fusion of American regional, European, Asian and Island cuisines.
"The absolute perfect place to watch WaterFire." Through glass curtain walls or while dining alfresco on the outdoor piazza,
patrons enjoy commanding views of the new Providence skyline while the
river and gondolas roll by their romantic Caf� Nuovo perch.
"Fine art and fine food are one and the same at Caf� Nuovo." Fresh, innovative, and with attention to every detail, eclectic Caf� Nuovo reinvents itself
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WASHINGTON (December 12, 2012)--Retiring U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in his final Senate floor speech urged Congress Wednesday to put partisan rancor aside and reach across party lines to break Washington's gridlock.
The Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut said Wednesday that strong bipartisan leadership is needed to solve the nation's most pressing problems such as the looming fiscal cliff budget crisis.
Lieberman nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with running mate Al Gore in 2000 and mounted an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2004.
Lieberman is leaving the Senate in January after 24 years and will be replaced by Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, who defeated Republican wrestling magnate Linda McMahon in November's election.
Lieberman did not seek re-election and did not endorse either candidate.


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The Incline High Nordic ski team wrapped up its season at the CNISSF State Championships at Auburn Ski Club this past Saturday.
The event was a same-day pursuit that began with a 3-kilometer, mass-start classic race. Two hours later, the skiers competed in a skate race, with the staggered starts based each skier's classic time.
Incline was represented by varsity skiers Evan Vomund and Brandon Herhusky and open-division (JV) skiers Meghan Kelley, Stephanie Homola, Owen Graffis and Gus Strotz.
Vomund, the team veteran as the only junior, led the way with a ninth-place finish in a time of 23:37.4, while also finishing third in the overall league standings. Herhusky, a freshman, did not compete because of an illness. He did, however, finish 11th in the league standings. North Tahoe's Patrick McElravey claimed the individual state title with a time of 22:21.0 and was fourth in the league standings.
"Our two varsity skiers provided great leadership to our team of new skiers throughout the season," said Incline coach Kathy Vomund.
Kelley captured the title in the open girls division and placed 19th overall, posting a time of 30:41.2, while Homola was sixth in the open girls division and 25th overall in 34:20.1. Kelley was second in the open league standings and Homola was 18th. Katrin Larusson of the Sugar Bowl Academy won the varsity girls race in 24:37.4.
In the open boys division, Graffis finished seventh, matching his seventh place in the league standings, and Strotz was unable to compete due to an illness.
"I'm so pleased with our team's performance and incredibly positive attitude," coach Vomund said. "Everyone was super supportive and it was truly a great season. With a team full of freshman and one junior, we have a great future."


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GDL17921 wrote:This is a course that is in need of redesign. Every hole is under 300 feet. Nobody plays it, ever. I went out in work clothes one day to check it out, only to find that I was able to walk it in like 20 minutes, no joke, throwing a couple rocs/putters at each hole. Don't make the trip there to play it, not worth the time.
Schirm wrote:Awesome! Looks like its gonna be a nice tournament quality course. Can't wait till its finished.
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That wild left-wing rag Forbes magazine has THIS REPORT:
Wal-Mart, the nation�s largest employer, announced Monday that 35,000 part-time employees will soon be moved to full-time status, entitling them to the full healthcare benefits that were scheduled to be denied them as a result of Wal-Mart�s efforts to avoid the requirements of Obamacare.
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MOUNT SHASTA – A Mount Shasta carpenter was arrested July 2 and booked into the Siskiyou County Jail on sexual molestation charges.
Steven Neil Webber, 40, is facing felony charges of lewd and lascivious acts to a child under the age of 14 and attempting to prevent a victim from reporting a crime.
He was booked into the Siskiyou County Jail on $75,000 bail.
Webber is scheduled to be arraigned in the Siskiyou County Superior Court today.
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text: Per ESPN: Welker's wife, Anna Burns Welker, took to social media site Facebook to take a few shots at Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis on Sunday night after the Patriots' 28-13 loss to the Ravens in the AFC Championship Game. "Proud of my husband and the Pats. By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model!" Burns Welker said in a since-deleted post on her personal Facebook page.


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PHOENIX -- It's the classic baseball play, a ball hit down the line that is fair and a double or triple. Or it's foul and it's just another strike.
The classic play is being reworked. Thanks to baseball's new replay rules, the fair/foul calls are subject to challenge and video review. That means changes to the way players have always done things.
The hitter almost by definition has to assume that the ball is going to land fair, and he's going to have to run out balls that in previous years he could comfortably hold up on. The defender must make the same assumption and not only get to the ball and come up throwing.
The A's had the first of their five replay games this spring Thursday night against the Rockies, a game the A's won 10-5. The five games are all the preview Oakland will get to a new way of playing baseball, so it was no surprise the A's made two challenges, both on plays at first base. The A's won the first, lost the second.
And things will never quite be the same.
"It's going to mean big changes," As right fielder Josh Reddick said. "If a play down the line is at all close, you've got to get to it and come up throwing. You don't know if the umpires will rule it different than you saw it."
Center fielder Coco Crisp, who has made a living as a line-to-line hitter with more than his share of balls hit that were within inches of one side of the line or the other, says he's not sure how great the impact of the rule change will be.
"I plan on playing exactly the way I've always played," Crisp said. "And that's to run everything out. The umpires will make the calls the umpires make. As long as you run everything out, that much won't change."
Crisp was called out on a double-play grounder in the second inning, but manager Bob Melvin challenged what was an obviously bad call, the double play became just one out and the A's scored a run on the play.
Melvin tried to strike twice when Daniel Robertson was called out on a bang-bang play at first in the seventh. The call was upheld after the replay, as Melvin believed might be the case.
"We need to find out which ones they're going to overturn," Melvin said.
Crisp aside, most hitters have spent their lives knowing what was fair and what wasn't fair, based on their view of the play and their view of the umpire. And they've stopped running once they saw a call being made.
But now umpires' calls are subject to revision, so it behooves players running the bases to get as far as they can as fast as they can. And it behooves defenders to try to cut that progress short.
"There's been controversy over this," Crisp said. "I think you play under the new rules and it will work itself out."
Reddick, on the other hand, sees a fundamental change in the way players -- and the umpires -- must approach each borderline play.
"It's always been frustrating to see calls go the wrong way and guys not taking accountability for their calls,'' he said. "I think this rule brings some accountability back into the game.
"There should be fewer `what-if' games, games when you spend time thinking afterward if the score would have been different if just one call had gone the other way."
In season, video will be sent to a clearing house in New York. On Thursday, however, the replay judgment was done by MLB staff in the press box in Phoenix.
"I felt I competed well," said Griffin, admitting the homers were bombs but several off the hits off him were bloops or broken bats. He threw "a lotta good changeups" but added the fastball needs work, especially with its location. Melvin said Griffin was up in the strike zone "and he wasn't happy about it."
"In my mind, there's no doubt that I could be ready for opening day," he said. "It's not for me to say. I really got after it today with my slider."
The A's remain concerned there isn't enough time for Cook to be ready for the opener.
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.


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A Zaka volunteer cleans blood stains from an apartment in a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, where three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel, Kiryat Malachi, southern Israel,Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip killed three Israelis on Thursday in a rocket attack liable to deepen a bruising Israeli air, naval and artillery offensive against Palestinian rocket squads. The casualties were the first in Israel since it launched its operation on Wednesday with the assassination of Hamas' top military commander. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)


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DES MOINES, Iowa (September 27, 2012)--Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is struggling in swing-state Iowa at a perilous point, just as voters start casting early ballots in the presidential race Thursday.
President Barack Obama has a clear lead in Iowa opinion polls, helped by the fact that the state's economy is far more robust than other battleground states.
The president's polling edge in Iowa is so wide that it has prompted grumbling among state Republicans who fault Romney for failing to take advantage of Mr. Obama's standing, which has been weakened in the four years since Iowa launched his bid for the White House.
Iowa is hardly the largest prize in the race for the 270 Electoral College votes, but its six votes could be pivotal if the race is close.


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Fifth grade students in Cerro Coso Community College's 18,000-square-mile service area got a glimpse of what the college has to offer Wednesday and Thursday when the college hosted its annual "I'm Going to College" day.
Students from the Sierra Sands Unified School District, Trona Joint Unified School District, Ridgecrest Charter School, Saint Ann School, and Immanuel Christian School as well as schools from Mojave, Boron, California City, Lone Pine, Bishop and Mammoth Lakes participated in the event.
The event began in the college lecture center where counselor Karee Hamilton welcomed the students.
"We're hoping you'll get a feel for what Cerro Coso is all about," she said. "We have a wonderful campus."
She said her job is to help students choose the classes they need for the careers they choose.
The event included guided tours and hands-on activities in which students learned about classes, student government, as well as a scavenger hunt in the college library.
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New parent to a beautiful little girl Athena, ive also set up a new business - birthpaperuk - offering 'the perfect memory from the birth of a child. A paper from the day they were born, which you can look back on together in years to come'
The papers are at a very affordable £4.99, and im sure you'll agree they make a great memory. We started operating on 1 Jan 2013 onwards, you can even get a no.1 cd from the same date and boogie together in years to come!
Come and check out our site, join us on our social media platforms, and please spread the word amongst friends and your new parent groups you might frequent.


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"It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart is probably the most well-known holiday classic movie. Many of us feel like our holiday season is not complete without seeing this timeless film. Though it portrays the stereotypical spinster librarian in that one memorable scene, I have to admit it is one of the very best oldies, with its message about individual significance and how we impact one another's lives.
"A Christmas Story" is another all-time holiday favorite, appealing to all ages. I had fun showing this one to my dad, since he grew up in the 1940s when the movie takes place. Each Christmas, our household tunes in at least once to the movie's 24-hour television broadcast on TBS, even if only for a few minutes. We still laugh at whatever random, hilarious stand-alone scene is showing at the time. Beware of sticking your tongue to an icy flagpole!
"Bridget Jones's Diary" is one of my personal favorites. I remember the anticipation of the movie's release after reading the novel. The cast of Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant is the perfect ensemble, and its diary format makes it a fun one to watch around New Year's.
Eagle Public Library will show all three of these movies in the coming month, when we begin Sunday matinees. I enjoyed showing after-school movies to the kids in recent years, and it will be nice to offer films to our adult audiences.
The library kicks off its matinee film series for adults on Dec. 2, and will continue every other Sunday through the end of March.
December will focus on holiday movies, with "It's a Wonderful Life" kicking off our film series. We will feature "A Christmas Story" in the middle of the month, and wrap up 2012 with "Bridget Jones's Diary".
In 2013, our film series takes on an Oscar theme and we will feature 2012 best picture nominees. All movies will begin promptly at 2 p.m. on alternate Sundays, and typically wrap up between 4-5 p.m.
Here is the schedule for December through March:
• Dec. 2 - "It's a Wonderful Life"
• Dec. 16 - "A Christmas Story"
• Dec. 30 - "Bridget Jones's Diary"
• Jan. 13 - "Hugo"
• Jan. 27 - "The Help"
• Feb. 10 - "War Horse"
• Feb. 24 - "The Artist"
• March 10 - "The Descendants"
• March 24 - "Midnight in Paris"
Feb. 24 is Oscar day. To recognize this, we will show last year's best picture winner, "The Artist." We will also have a "Pre-Oscar Party," where we will have ballots on hand for making predictions in the various categories. Whoever guesses the most winners correctly will win movie tickets. Oscar attire that afternoon is optional but we just might have to award an Oscar prize to the most glamorous!
And yes, popcorn or some other refreshment will be offered at all our films, because grown-ups enjoy movie munchies, too.
These movies are free of charge and the public is welcome. The showings are covered for public viewing under certificates with movie licensing companies. Please keep in mind that the above listed movies are intended for adults and may not be appropriate for all audiences.
Free films are shown at all three district libraries in Eagle, Gypsum and Avon. These features may be geared for children, young adults, adults or families. Check Prologue, our library newsletter, for a complete listing of upcoming movie titles, target audiences, and location/times.
If you have questions concerning our Sunday matinees, you may also call me at 328-8800. See you at the movies!