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At his State of the State speech, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D) proposed more funding for education in Missouri. While the idea of more funding for education is something that many Missourians can get behind, Seventh District Representative Mike Lair (R), a major player in Missouri's education in the Legislature, is doubtful about the reality of Governor Nixon's proposal.
Under the proposed budget from Governor Nixon, K-12 classrooms would see approximately $100 million of increased funding. Higher education and the A+ scholarship program would also see increased funding as well.
Focusing on the K-12 funding, which affects the readers of Linn County more than the other areas, the LCL and the newspapers of North Missouri pointed out in a recent "Regional View" that the state is not even finding the current Foundation Formula at 100 percent. Most of Linn County's schools are funded at 92-93 percent of the funds they are allotted to receive. Even with this increased money, the amount funded would only come in at approximately 94 percent.
"Anything that we can do to fund education is a good thing," said Marceline R-5 Superintendent Gabe Edgar. "We won't make changes to our local budget until the final state budget is in place."
"I think any additional funding for education is great, and we would be happy to see it," said Brookfield R-3 Superintendent Dr. Paul Barger. "There always is a reason for these increases, though, and one of these is more school days. These funds would be meant to offset the increase to the district's."
And therein lies the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room. As we have all heard through our lives, nothing in this world is free. Both Superintendents also addressed the gap in funding that the state is putting school district's through.
"The Formula is underfunded by $300 million," said Dr. Barger. "We have received more money than last year, but these funds have strings attached to them. We have quite a lot on our plates that still remain unfunded."
"Last year our level of funding was more than the year before," said Edgar. "Still, we are going to be short of the Formula. Until we get things back to that level at least, we are still taking away from our children's education."
For Rep. Mike Lair, a former educator himself, the Governor's budget is a work of "smoke-and-mirrors."
Rep. Lair explained that the Governor's budget is based upon the passing of four bills. None of these bills had even been introduced as of early last week, and would not be introduced at all until late last week.
Page 2 of 2 - The four Bills that Rep. Lair pointed out are:
1. Medicaid Expansion – Which Rep. Lair refers to as something the Governor is using as "blackmail" in the budget process.
2. Circuit Breaker – A tax break for elderly renters, which Rep. Lair estimated, had been defeated twice in the Legislature.
3. Streamline Sales Tax – A tax that would be applied across the board to any goods purchased online in Missouri. Rep. Lair estimated that this had been defeated at least three times in the Legislature.
4. Tax Amnesty – Rep. Lair recalled that he had seen this at least four times in his tenure in Jefferson City. The idea is that if you owe a certain amount of money in taxes after a certain amount of years, that all of the fees and penalties would be forgiven if the debt itself was settled.
"Realistically, all four Bills cannot pass," said Rep. Lair. "It's all smoke-and-mirrors; we don't have the $800 million he [Nixon] is looking for. In all good conscience, I can't do this. It won't come out of my committee."
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Goddamnit I wish I was somewhere other than Highland so I had something to do.
by violetpolkadots February 10, 2009
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22 miles east of houston where STDs and sluts originate. Everyone there has a least 2 kids before they turn 23 years old. No one bothers to get married, leading to multiple baby-mommas and baby-daddies. Population widely consists of high school drop outs that thrive only by selling of drugs and working at near by chemical plants.
After I fucked the hoe in Highlands i got warts on my dick and the bitch is saying the baby is mine.
by funkyfreshhh October 07, 2009
A small blue collar fishing town on the coast of NJ. This is a gem of a location, quite but hip. You can clearly see the NY skyline from the Highlands Elementary School. There are lots of nice places to eat and a commuter ferry to downtown and midtown NY. Sadly, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the town, and many residents still struggle 2 years on to rebuild their homes.
It's a place that capitalism has managed to pass by and a genuine seaside town devoid of resort villa's and tourism.
It's a place that capitalism has managed to pass by and a genuine seaside town devoid of resort villa's and tourism.
"Have you been to the 9/11 Memorial in Highland's Veterans Park?"
"Oh yeah, the eagle?"
"No that is in Atlantic Highlands. Highlands is way better".
"Oh yeah, the eagle?"
"No that is in Atlantic Highlands. Highlands is way better".
by Bassety July 02, 2014
Shortened slang for a rehab center in Missouri, normally used among students in middle school or high school. Students in the St. Louis area use this. In middle schools, if a person goes there, they're hardcore.
Dude, Stephanie went to Highland, she's a badass!
by VitaminEnhanced April 25, 2010
a girl who is FULL of gossip. she def. knows her shit, shes usually tiny and cute. sometimes reffered to as chipmunk squirrel or turtle. shes totally lovable :)
"did you hear about what happened to paige?"
"yea highland filled me in.."
"yea highland filled me in.."
by amannnndashow May 05, 2009
is a metro stop in L.A.
Hey i'll meet you up at highland, bro.
by Roxy42nig August 10, 2008
some toilet (or town) located in upstate new york
"... once stopped by some toilet, uh, called Highland..."
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Beyonce will use the Super Bowl halftime show to stage a live reunion with Destiny's Child.
Do those other two have some compromising photos of Beyonce or something?
Beyonce is still officially the headliner of the halftime show on Feb. 3 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. But at some point she'll be joined by Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, according to Us Weekly, citing multiple sources.
Beyonce will supposedly open the show; Williams and Rowland will appear onstage mid-performance and the trio will launch into a short medley of the group's hits, culminating in a brand-new song, "Nuclear," their first original material in more than eight years.
Ah-HA. So it's MUSIC they're trying to sell!
Beyonce will then take center stage solo again for the finale, which is said to include the debut of a track from her upcoming fifth album.
Ah-HA. More music selling.
Beyonce announced earlier this week on her website that Destiny's Child's will release a compilation record of their best love songs from past albums later this month, as well as the newly recorded single. It will be the group's first collaboration since 2006.
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Published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 3:56 p.m.
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Want to be a strong woman?
The Thibodaux Recreation Department in partnership with the LSU Ag Center is offering Strong Women Program every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the large room at Peltier Park in Thibodaux.
Three classes are offered - weight-lifting and stretching from 7 – 7:45 a.m., core care from 7:45 – 8 a.m. and weight-lifting and stretching from 8:30 – 9:15 a.m.
The nationally known program is designed to build and/or maintain bone density, build back and stomach strength and increase flexibility and balance.
For information or to sign up, contact Monica Stock at 209-2699, Debbie Melvin at 446-1316 or visit ci.thibodaux.la.us/departments/recreation.
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Today is the last day to enter the 2012 Oregon Outdoors Wild Bird Photo Contest. As of Thursday, 272 photos had been uploaded to our contest website at www.mailtribune.com/birdcontest.
To enter, go to the website before the deadline at 5 p.m., fill out a registration form and follow the directions to upload your photos. You can enter up to three pictures.
Please note that the site will not accept uploads from mobile devices, which includes smartphones and tablets, so you'll need to have access to a laptop or desktop computer.
Starting at 5 p.m. today, we'll kick off a week of online voting. Readers can vote for their three favorites. The winning photos will be published in Oregon Outdoors on Friday, Dec. 14.
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Vox is a little and simple music player for Mac OS X with support for many file types, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM, Games Music and many others. Includes numerous effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Echo. Moreover, all supported files can be exported to AAC+, Apple Lossless, WAV and other formats with enabled effects.
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Tags: music , audio , player , flac , mp3 , aac , ogg , lastfm , tempo
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great app. low memory footprint, excelent flac playback, the only thing missing is last.fm support.
The "regular" download link leads to the Tiger version.
The download of the Leopard build must be done from the support forum.
Leopard version available now.
great player :D
don't work on leopard!!!
@haleakalari :
You may try by yourself with Shorten files. Just download ToolPlayer and install it. (It's free!)
Then you'll see (or hear...) if it is able to play those files.
does it play shorten files, anyone?
Version 0.2 supports Musepack and Monkey's Audio files.
Just what I was waiting for!
0.2 beta 1 is available, and there is a link for future development releases:
does this play shorten (.shn) files? if so, that would be amazing.
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While serving as NFL vice president of officiating, Mike Pereira answered the phone one day and heard the indignant voice of his father, a former official in the Stockton area.
"He told me, 'Your officials are terrible. We were better when I was doing college football,' " Pereira said.
No small number of 49ers fans would agree, and nothing, not even the weather in New Jersey on Sunday, scares the NFL more than a bad call deciding the Super Bowl.
Criticizing officials is much a part of the weekly routine as fantasy football. It always has been part of the game, and it always will be. Still, the calls for reform are growing in volume and in frequency. It isn't just Joe Fan doing the complaining.
Former Raiders coach and NFL analyst John Madden, speaking of the officiating in the aftermath of the conference championship games, said: "It wasn't good and it hasn't been good all year."
The 49ers' game against Seattle, otherwise a classic, was marked by two bad calls. The worst was the goal line fumble recovery awarded to Seattle despite 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman having undeniable possession of the ball. The other was a roughing-the-kicker penalty that was instead ruled as running into the kicker, an incorrect application of a clearly written rule that denied the 49ers an automatic first down.
Mistakes such as those, says Dean Blandino, the current V.P. of officiating for the NFL, obscure the overall performance of his crews.
"We analyze some 40,000 plays during the season and our accuracy percentage is actually higher than last season," Blandino said. "Whenever you have high-profile situations where we got some mistakes, it creates more controversy, more interest, and I think that's kind of where we've been this year. The media has jumped on those situations but I think overall the officiating has been good."
Jim Tunney, an NFL official from 1960-91 who works as an observer for the league, cited the accuracy rate at "between 96 and 97 percent." He said officiating is better because of technology -- a knife that, incidentally, cuts both ways.
"We watched our film on a Bell and Howell projector, sometimes using a bed sheet on a wall," Tunney said. "Now every Tuesday, every official in the league can call up a file that has every holding penalty from every game on Sunday."
Pereira, who left the NFL in 2009 and went to Fox Sports as an analyst of officiating, remembers telling his father to pull out his old film, see the number of officials out of position and take into account the ease with which a mistake is exposed in the current set-up.
"There are upwards of 30 cameras in a game. Everything is in super slow motion," Pereira said. "Everything is so difficult. If you were to take the chronic complainer and put him at field level and make him watch plays at real time, life would be a blur. There are mistakes, but there also some amazing calls."
The technological advances aren't limited to cameras. There is social media, giving voice to fans everywhere. And there are TV analysts, Pereira foremost among them, whose knowledge of the rule book often will confirm Joe Fan's angry suspicion.
For instance, most fans didn't know why roughing the kicker should have been called when a Seattle player ran into 49ers punter Andy Lee; they just wanted it called. But Pereira, through slow-motion replays and his rule-book knowledge, detailed that Seattle's Chris Maragos had made contact with Lee's "plant leg." Making contact with the kicker's plant leg, as opposed to his kicking leg, constitutes a 15-yard penalty rather than the 5-yard infraction that was called.
Neither that play, nor the fumble recovery involving Bowman, was reviewable under the current replay rules.
That could change when the Competition Committee convenes at the owners' meeting in March. The committee, comprised of coaches or executives from eight NFL teams (neither the 49ers nor the Raiders is currently included), reviews suggestions for rule changes and takes a vote. Changes recommended by the committee are almost always approved by the owners.
It seems likely that the use of replay will increase, and one possibility is removing on-field officials from the review process. Instead, replays would be reviewed by an official in the press box with final say coming from the league offices in New York.
"I think we're headed that way," said ESPN analyst Andrew Brandt, a former front office executive with the Green Bay Packers. "There seems to be a groundswell. The reason replay came in to begin with was to get it right, the game-changing call. Now we've got game-changing calls we can't get right because replay doesn't allow it. ... I think we're going to be hearing more about centralized replay, like hockey has and baseball is talking about."
Pereira agrees that centralized replay is a possibility but warns that replay, instituted in 1999, will never eliminate mistakes.
Neither will making NFL officials full time, although the league plans on phasing in some. Unlike the NBA or Major League Baseball, most NFL officials have other jobs. There is currently only one full-time official.
The referee who headed the crew for 49ers-Seahawks, Gene Steratore, had worked two college basketball games in the days preceding the NFC Championship game. Neither Blandino nor Pereira see that as a problem, although Periera favors a system in which all 17 crew chiefs (aka referees) are made full-time employees of the NFL.
"We're going to see what makes the most sense," Blandino said. "Is it a specific position? Should it be the referee? Can we have multiple full-time officials across all positions? Any time you can spend more time honing your craft, certainly there's value there."
Whatever the league decides, Amy Trask, the former Raiders' executive and current analyst for CBS, isn't sure it will make a discernible difference.
"The rule book has become so thick and complex," Trask said. "This is a game that is played at a very, very high speed and the rule book keeps getting thicker, thicker and thicker. I suppose full-time officials would have more time to study it, but it's hard to correctly apply all those rules at high speed with bang-bang plays."
Fans and media may shriek, but judging from TV ratings and league revenues, the problem with NFL officiating isn't that big of a problem.
"Every club in history has that horrible call that incenses the fan base," said Trask, who can cite the Tuck Rule game among her own history. "I do believe fans get very upset. But I have yet to meet the fan, myself included, that will say, 'That call is so bad I'm going to stop watching.' "
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Man faces DWI, drug, forgery charges
Published: Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 6:21 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 7:41 p.m.
A Golden Meadow man faces numerous charges after a substantial amount of drugs were found in his car Saturday, the Lafourche Sheriff's Office said.
Damen Smith, 34, of 2702 South Bayou Drive, was stopped for speeding while heading south on La. 308, Sheriff's Office spokesman Brennan Matherne said.
He smelled strongly of burnt marijuana and voluntarily allowed a deputy to search his car.
The officer found two small bags of cocaine, six small bags of marijuana, four stubs of suspected marijuana cigarettes and drug paraphernalia, Matherne said.
Because Smith allegedly showed signs of intoxication, he was given a field sobriety test, which he performed poorly on, Matherne said. He was also tested with a Breathalyzer, and his blood-alcohol level was 0. A urine test is pending at the state crime lab.
Smith had also been driving with a suspended license, Matherne said.
The following day, a Galliano auto parts store told the Sheriff's Office Smith forged four checks for about $500 worth of merchandise in May, Matherne said.
Smith was charged with second-offense DWI, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving under suspension and speeding. He also faces four counts of forgery and five counts of theft.
He is being held at the Lafourche Parish jail on a $36,100 bond.
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OAKLAND -- The large, high table sits in the middle of the A's cramped clubhouse. The players use it as a postgame dining spot. But before batting practice, the table is the baseball accessory version of Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. You never know what you'll find there.
For example, three hours before Tuesday's first pitch, the tabletop featured (A) a bag of dog food (B) a bowling trophy and (C) not one, but two life-size plastic Darth Vader heads, with the face area painted gold and the helmets painted green and/or white.
Gifts from fans? Souvenirs? Random rummage? All of the above? It doesn't matter. All I know is, it helped clinch my opinion:
The A's are now definitely the coolest baseball team in the Bay Area.
In fact, they may be the coolest Bay Area team in any sport.
Most significantly, they have surpassed the mythical Eck Threshold.
The Eck Threshold is, of course, named after Dennis Eckersley, the former A's relief pitcher. And it wasn't just because he mowed down opposing batters with elan during the team's last glory era, from roughly 1987 to 1992. Off the field, Eckersley also carried himself with effortless nonchalance and chill. In fact, jazz musicians went to Eck for lessons in cool.
That's why this week is kind of a watershed. The four-game Bay Bridge series between the Athletics and the Giants will demonstrate which one is the better baseball team. (Hint: It's the A's.) Yet we all know that the Giants, in light of their superior ballpark and two recent World Series titles, will reign as the more popular mass audience team for a quite a while longer.
Ah, but what about the coolness factor, the hard-to-define appeal to the discerning and trendy crowd? That's a major deal here in the Bay Area, where we feel that we're the hippest people on the planet because ... well, because we are.
The A's, it says here, have already won that battle. They are as full of Eck-Ness as any team I've seen around here since ... maybe ... yes ... the 2010 Giants, with their collection of misfits and characters that was so easy to embrace.
But guess what? The A's are now that team. Think about it. Do the Giants or A's have the defending Home Run Derby champion? Do the Giants or A's have the charismatic red-bearded closer? Are the Giants or A's making the big trade for a colorful 6-foot-5 Serbian-American pitcher?
And according to A's catcher Derek Norris, another distinctive personality with a beard thicker than Nimitz Freeway traffic, none of those players is even the most groovy guy on the roster.
"I'd go with Stephen Vogt," Norris said Tuesday when asked to name his coolest teammate. "He's got the type of personality who fits in with all kinds of people. He can find a way to have a conversation with anyone on just about any topic."
That would apparently include bowling trophies. (Turns out the one on Tuesday's table was a prize from a charity event in which A's players participated.)
Vogt, frankly, would not have been my pick, although I'm not a clubhouse insider. I just know that when I pondered the list of coolest Bay Area baseball dudes, the A's ruled. On a talent and production basis over the past few years, there is no question that Buster Posey is the Bay Area's best. But at least from what Posey shows to the public, he's pretty much no-nonsense and all business. You would go to him for advice on 401(k) plans, not advice on hot nightspots.
Just for fun, on a totally subjective basis, here is how I would rank the five coolest current Bay Area baseball players:
1. Yoenis Cespedes, A's. The aforementioned Home Run Derby champ, with the throwing arm of a superhero and the swagger of a Cuban Leonardo DiCaprio.
2. Tim Lincecum, Giants. Still has the hipster appeal. And he's growing back the hair!
3. Sean Doolittle, A's. The man with the red beard and a master Twitter user.
4. Coco Crisp, A's. Still moving the legs well at age 34. He's from SoCal, but would you trust his tips on the hottest movies and hottest music in any town? Of course you would.
5. Jeff Samardzija, A's. The new Serbian-American guy in town but for television directors seeking reaction shots from the dugout, he's already cutaway gold with his facial expressions. Also, one of his former Chicago Cubs teammates said that before Samardzija left the team, the two sat down to have a farewell beer (and cigarette, but don't tell the kids).
Feel free to disagree with those rankings. But that's how I see them. To be sure, the Giants clubhouse is still OK. It's just a little flat now. Today, for coolness on the field and off, I'm donning the green Darth Vader helmet.
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text: "God can revive the dying." This was in one of NYC's morning papers: "When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans. An eye-opening survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients. And, researchers said, doctors 'need to be prepared to deal with families who are waiting for a miracle.'" "More than half of the randomly surveyed adults -57 percent- said God's intervention could save a family member even if physicians declared treatment would be futile..." Oh my God!!


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Married Premier League star Kolo Toure had a lengthy affair with a young model after tricking her into believing he was a car salesman.
The Manchester City defender told pretty Kessel Kasuisyo his name was Francois and showered her with expensive gifts he claimed he bought with cash he made selling motors, she claims.
And in a desperate bid to keep his real identity secret, she says, the £90,000-a -week star would sneak into her council flat wearing sunglasses with a baseball cap pulled over his face.
Smitten Toure, 31, kept up the astonishing facade for two years.
He married the mother of his two children during the alleged affair and even carried out a bizarre pretend proposal to Kessel, 22 getting down one one knee to give her a £1,000 diamond ring.
But the game was up for the Ivory Coast international who portrays himself as a devoted family man when one of his mistresss pals recognised him.
She told Kessel to Google her car salesman boyfriends real name and the shocked beauty found Toures wedding pictures online.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Kessel says: I am devastated. On some of the wedding pictures he is crying but a few weeks before he was in my bed.
Playing away: Kolo Toure
Two or three weeks after the wedding he was at mine. Around the time he got married he called and said he was back in Africa and had just sold two cars.
I believed everything he said, I am hurt and confused by it all. Maybe he wanted me to be a second wife. I just dont know. Everything about his strange behaviour now all makes sense.
Kessel met Toure, whose brother Yaya also plays for City, outside the Bijou nightclub in Manchester in September 2010. He started chatting me up and we swapped numbers, she says.
Then he gave me a lift home. The next day he called me and we met at a hotel. I told him he looked familiar and he just said maybe he looks like somebody. He said he sold cars in Africa and did some charity work.
At least Toure wasnt lying about his charity work he is an ambassador for Save The Children.
Kessel says: He said he came from Ghana and was a student too. He said his father was a minister. I am not a fan of football. I thought maybe I had seen him on telly with his father.
He called her again within a fortnight and they met in the same hotel, the Malmaison in Manchester. He bought me some sexy white lingerie and black shoes, says Kessel. We started kissing and ended up doing it.
Kessel claims their relationship was on and off until December of that year.
We would go a week without seeing each other and then he would call me. Sometimes we would meet twice in a week, she says. I asked if he had a girlfriend and he said no.
Hurt: Lover Kessel
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But devout Muslim Toure had been with fiancee Awo for at least nine years. The couple live in Manchester with their daughter and son. When Toure who joined Man City for £16million from Arsenal suddenly stopped calling Kessel in December 2010 she thought it was the end of their brief fling.
But nine months later, after she had moved home, he called her again. He asked if I wanted to meet up and I told him I had my own flat now, says Kessel. He came around in a big car. He was wearing a cap and big sunglasses.
I told him it was my birthday and he asked me if I would wear some of the stuff he bought me so I got dressed up and we ended up in the bedroom.
The next time I saw him he bought me a birthday present. He got me a gold watch and some 18-carat diamond earrings.
He used to call me constantly but from a private number so I couldnt call back. I was suspicious, but he said he didnt want me to waste my money calling.
He once gave me £500 to send to my mother in Zimbabwe. Another time he gave me £200 for food because my fridge was empty. I started to question him about exactly what he did and he would say just selling cars. Things were on and off. This January he asked me to be a girlfriend but said he was going back to Africa to do business.
Kessel said Toure, banned last year for six months by the FA for taking his wifes diet pills, broke off contact again between January and May this year. When he got back with Kessel, she had no idea he was weeks away from getting hitched. He said he had something special for me, she says. He called me Princess and turned up with a £1,000 diamond and ruby ring.
It wasnt an engagement ring but he said it was symbol of how he felt. He went down on his knee and said he was really serious about me.
He really got to me. I started telling my friends about him. But whenever I asked to take his picture he refused which I found a bit odd. Yet Kessel managed to snap him off guard. In June Toure went back to Africa and married Awo at a mosque in the Ivorian capital Abidjan with his brother Yaya as best man. Official photographs showing a tearful Toure wearing a white suit were released to African news websites
Wedding: Toure marries Awo
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Kessel still had no idea her new man was anything but a very successful car salesman.
Weeks after his wedding, Francois was seeing her back at her flat. He told me he wanted me to go to Paris and said he would meet me there, says Kessel. I told him before I did that I needed to meet his parents.
But he said I should give it time to talk to his parents because I am not a Muslim and they would expect me to be with a Muslim. I believed almost everything he said. But eventually she got fed up with his secretive behaviour and hung up on him during a call in September. He hasnt been in contact since. Kessel says she only found out the truth a fortnight ago when she showed a pal some of the snaps she had managed to take.
She said I should go on Google and type in Kolo Toure. It all came up Manchester City, the wedding pictures to his long-time girlfriend. I felt a fool. I now understand why he used to hide his face and use a private number. I want to make sure he doesnt do it to anyone else.
In an interview in 2005, Toure spoke about his excitement at becoming a dad and said he loved relaxing with his partner and family. And last month, on a visit to a school in Ivory Coast where he is a hero, he said: We are role models. The way I behave is the way the children will want to be. A source close to Toure said last night: I have spoken to Kolo and he is denying ever knowing or meeting the girl.


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Favorite DU Photos: May 2012
Member photos of the day from the month of May
"Emme on Watch" (photo by C. Connelly)
"'Bella' Photo was taken on the Pamlico Sound in NC during the 2010-2011 hunting season." (photo by Neill Pollock)
"Miller hunting" (photo by Ruben Delao)
"Buddy waiting to play while he is hanging out at the pick'n house with the fellows" (photo by Gene Shaner)
"'Shooter' in North Dakota prairie near Alsen." (photo by Bob Foster)
(photo by Russ Verbofsky)
"A large flock of Snow Geese erupts and takes off right in front of me. The flock that day numbered close to 2000 birds. Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Oceanville, NJ." (photo by Eric Reuter)
"Just a couple of geese, thought I would take a picture." (photo by Josh James)
(photo by Chris Montano, Jr.)
"A canvasback taking flight." (photo by Ron Charest)
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As a clergyman, I am always sensitive to the pastoral needs of my flock. As a priest in New England, I realize that many in my congregation are grieving the Patriots loss to the Broncos in the AFC Championship Game. Yet as a Baltimore Ravens fan, I don't really care about their feelings when it comes to football. So I'm torn in my pastoral duties.�Since next week is the Annual Meeting and it's best to keep the peace, I'll err on the side of pastoral concern.�
In times such as these, many are left wondering why? Why did my team lose? Why did God do this to the Patriots? Is God mad at me? To ease some of the confusion, I thought I'd share some light on why the Patriots lost to the Broncos. Understanding why is an intellectual response and so Patriots fans will still need time to grieve. I'm sensitive to that and I will walk with them during this painful time.�
Here are the reasons the Patriots lost:
God's wrath for cutting Tim Tebow after the preseason. (Of course he was also cut by the Broncos when they signed Peyton Manning but whatever. God's complicated).God prefers Anglicans (aka Redcoats) to Patriots (aka religious dissenters).The continuing Wrath of the Cathedral Nautilus. This doesn't explain the World Champion Red Sox but that was a beard thing.Punishment for the globalization of Sam Adams Beer.Aaron Hernandez.Many patriots in the revolutionary age were Deists.God's anger at Patriots coach Bill Belichick who lives in Hingham and yet has never darkened the door of St. John's.The presence on the Patriots' roster of linebacker Dont'a Hightower (of Babel).Whitey Bulger.Retribution for tossing all that tea into Boston Harbor.Actually, I do know that when your team loses deep in the playoffs it feels like you've been slugged in the gut. I feel your pain — truly.


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A deal that brings iconic investor Warren Buffett to the Silicon Valley housing market was announced Tuesday with the acquisition of Intero Real Estate Services by Buffett's HomeServices of America.
The acquisition of the fast-growing Cupertino real estate brokerage expands Buffett's real estate footprint in California, where HomeServices already has operations in Southern California and the Central Valley. The sale price was not disclosed.
"It's a very, very good company and we paid fair value," said Ron Peltier, chairman and CEO of HomeServices. "The owners clearly did not need to sell."
Since its founding in 2002, Intero has grown to 2,000 agents in seven states, including California.
The company says it moved 7,300 properties for $5.7 billion in the greater Silicon Valley area in 2013, and its affiliates generated more than $1.5 billion.
Intero President and CEO Gino Blefari said the company's growth plans are now backed by the resources of one of the country's biggest residential real estate companies.
"This will allow us to grow even more," he said.
The deal means that HomeServices now has more than 23,000 real estate professionals in 25 states.
HomeServices, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, has reportedly had its sights on the valley for some time.
Peltier called it "one of the premier markets in the country."
The company has a reputation for giving its acquisitions operational freedom. That will be the case with Intero, Peltier said.
"Our business model is that we identify great companies and we leave them alone," he said. "We plan on keeping it and running it the way it's been run for years and years to come."
Blefari said the company's expansion plans are focused on Silicon Valley and Northern California.
Intero's management will continue to lead the company, Blefari and Peltier said.
Founded by Blefari in 2002 after he left Coldwell Banker, Intero soon grew to 13 offices throughout San Mateo, Santa Clara and San Benito counties, with nearly 50 affiliates in six states, including California.
Blefari grew up in Sunnyvale and attended San Jose State. He began selling real estate in 1984.
"It's an exciting thing for our industry when you see a guy like Warren Buffett coming in and saying I'm going put a bunch of money into the real estate industry," said Myron Von Raesfeld, president of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors. "It's a positive sign not only for real estate but for the economy, because real estate tends to drive our economy."
Contact Pete Carey at 408-920-5419 Follow him on Twitter.com/petecarey


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DART re-elects Bill Velasco as chairman
The transit agency's board of directors has chosen its officers for 2010. No surprises.
Dallas insurance executive Bill Velasco (right) was re-elected chairman.
Velasco, a member of the DART board since 2001, is active in several Oak Cliff civic and business organizations. He's a founding member of the Winnetka Heights Historical District and a member of the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
Here's a short story from dallasnews.com that includes the other officers elected.


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There's no people like show people.
While theater represents the ultimate in collaborative art, with costumes, scenery, makeup and props all playing a key role, nothing is more essential to the magic of the stage than the alchemy of the actor.
Here in the Bay Area we are lucky to have a legion of consummate thespians who dedicate their lives to the wicked stage despite long hours, short pay and the constant tug of more commercial genres. Indeed, there are so many amazing actors trodding the boards right now that picking our favorites amounted to one of the hardest lists we've ever tried to compile.
But perhaps that's all the more reason to celebrate these heroes of regional theater. Meet 10 actors we love. These are all masters of the craft, actors who inhabit their characters so fully they seem to disappear into the universe of the play. They also have a knack for shining so brightly they make even a dull show sparkle like a diamond.
James Carpenter
Why we love him: The dean of the Bay Area theater scene, Carpenter brings such gravitas to every role he plays that he can morph from Shakespeare and Scrooge to Frankenstein's monster without missing a beat. After gracing every stage from American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Rep to San Jose Rep, the actor is beloved by audiences and critics alike. The rigor he brings to his craft, the way he burrows down into the quirks and cracks of a psyche, makes him such a revelation onstage. Among the many unforgettable parts he has played, his hypnotic performance in Pinter's "The Homecoming" at the Aurora will never fade from memory. The estimable actor is also a regular at Cal Shakes, where he recently closed "Lady Windemere's Fan."
Next up: He's starring in "Next Fall" at San Jose Rep (Oct. 17-Nov. 10), and then comes his perennial turn as Ebenezer in ACT's "A Christmas Carol" (Dec. 6-28).
Rod Gnapp
Why we love him: A veteran of the stage, Gnapp has emerged in recent years as a pillar of the Magic Theatre company. The dazzling eccentricity and depth of his performances is what makes this actor stand out. You may not recognize him from one play to the next as he inhabits each part like a chameleon, but the incendiary edge is always there. Recent triumphs include the crazed writer with the penchant for nudity in "Annapurna" at the Magic, the twisted psycho Carmichael in "A Behanding in Spokane" at San Francisco Playhouse and the grizzled Sam Shepard patriarch Dodge in the revival of "Buried Child," playing through Sunday at the Magic.
Next up: He stars in "Storefront Church" at San Francisco Playhouse (Nov. 26-Jan. 11). Next year, he's also starring in "Every Five Minutes" at the Magic Theatre (March 26-April 20).
Amy Resnick
Why we love her: Resnick has the magic touch for making us laugh, but also capturing the truth of human frailty. From the feminist scholar in "Body Awareness" at the Aurora to the flaky yoga fanatic in "Collapse" at the Aurora and the quirky heroine in "Dead Man's Cellphone" at SF Playhouse, she has total commitment to every part she plays. She's got enough sparkle to stand out even in mundane productions. She's as flat-out funny as you would expect Zero Mostel's cousin to be, but more importantly she's an astute observer of human nature who is never afraid to dive into the unknown and risk looking foolish to deliver the best performance ever. A veteran of the Josh Kornbluth canon ("Haiku Tunnel"), she recently starred in "Sea of Reeds" at Shotgun Players as well as "Good People" at Marin Theatre Company.
Next up: She and Kornbluth plan to revive "Sea of Reeds" at San Francisco's Jewish Community Center in January.
Sean San Jose
Why we love him: It's hard to match Sean San Jose for sheer electricity onstage. One of the founders of San Francisco's edgy Campo Santo theater, he's an actor that explodes inside his characters. Celebrated for the AIDS drama "Pieces of the Quilt," he can leap from Octavio Solis ("Santos and Santos," "Se Llama Cristina") to Nassim Soleimanpour ("White Rabbit, Red Rabbit") and Denis Johnson ("Soul of a Whore") with the same intensity. A joy as the underdog in Culture Clash's "American Night" at Cal Shakes this summer, San Jose knows just how to blow the audience away.
Next up: He's starring in Luis Alfaro's "Alleluia, The Road," (Nov. 1-17) as part of the Califas project, a collaboration between Cal Shakes and Campo Santo at San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts.
Craig Marker
Why we love him: This up-and-comer has a boyish face and a quick wit that has made him shine in everything from the warrior Xerxes in "The Persians" at the Aurora to a pizza delivery dude in "The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow" at San Jose Rep. A wonderfully clueless bad boy in Neil LaBute's "Reasons to be Pretty," Marker has emerged as one of the young MVPs of the regional theater scene.
Next up: He's digging into the mysteries of Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" at SF Playhouse (through Nov. 16). After that, he's starring in "Clybourne Park" at Walnut Creek's Center Repertory Company (Jan. 31-March 1) and in the spring, he'll be getting his "Game On" at San Jose Rep (March 27-April 19).
Margo Hall
Why we love her: Unstinting authenticity is Hall's trademark. Whether she's playing a glam diva or a gangsta, Hall is equally ferocious onstage. A member of the Campo Santo collective, she has also sparkled in plays as diverse as "Trouble in Mind" at the Aurora, "The (Expletive) With the Hat" at SF Playhouse and "Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet" at ACT. She recently bopped through a memorable roster of small but choice turns in "American Night" at Cal Shakes.
Next up: Hall is playing Paulina in "The Winter's Tale" at Cal Shakes (through Oct. 20). She's also starring in "Be Bop Baby" at the Z Space (Nov. 19-23).
Beth Wilmurt
Why we love her: Wilmurt is a singer/actor/choreographer/shape-shifter who seems utterly transformed from part to part. She's equally mesmerizing as the doomed Tennessee William heroine in "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" at the Aurora and the Brechtian narrator/muse in "Woyzeck" at Shotgun Players. Over the years, she has emerged as a pillar of the indie theater scene and a frequent collaborator with director Mark Jackson ("Death of Meyerhold," "Io, "Princess of Argo.") A talent for movement, the way physicality informs character, is among her strong suits. Her virtuoso "two-minute Hamlet" from "Meyerhold" was poetry in motion. Her musical theater chops also heighten the hallucinatory quality of her performances, which never stint on emotional candor, insight and pungency.
Next up: She's trying her hand as a director for "Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness" (Dec. 4-Jan. 12) at Berkeley's Shotgun Players.
Stacy Ross
Why we love her: Intelligence is the hallmark of this indomitable actress. From the monstrous Lady Macbeth and the mysterious Mrs. Erlynne in "Lady Windemere's Fan" at Cal Shakes to the fiercely heroic mother in "Terminus" at Magic Theatre, Ross attacks her roles with a trenchant understanding of the text as well as gift for living in the moment. She can play the villain or the victim, the ingenue or the dowager, while always seeming true to the world of the play. A master of the classical impulse, she's also a champion of new voices and daring experiments. Her tragic duet with James Carpenter in Linda McLean's "Any Given Day" at the Magic was the kind of raw, real and poetic performance that won't soon be forgotten.
Next up: She's performing in Jacob Marley's "Christmas Carol" at Marin Theatre Company (Nov. 21-Dec. 15).
Mark Anderson Phillips
Why we love him: Rubber-faced and inventive, this estimable actor often forces you to check the program to make sure it's really him up onstage. From the title role in "Faust" at San Jose Rep to the ego monster director in "Small Tragedy" at the Aurora and the musical genius in "Opus," he brings a depth of feeling and boundless sense of curiosity to all his parts. Fresh off a run in the regional premiere of "Good People" at Marin Theatre Company, he's busier than ever.
Next up: He's getting his Scrooge on in "A Christmas Carol" (Dec. 12-22) at Center Repertory Theatre and then performing in the world premiere of Taylor Mac's "Hir" (Jan. 29-Feb. 23) at Magic Theatre.
Carrie Paff
Why we love her: A startling combination of steel and vulnerability mark all of Paff's roles, from the wronged wife in "This is How it Goes" at the Aurora to a series of small but memorable parts in "The Other Place" at the Magic. The honesty she brings to a range of styles, eras and genres is what has made her a go to actor in recent years. Among her many gifts: the ability to capture the wistfulness of life through a smile that breaks your heart.
Next up: She's starring in "Ideation" at San Francisco Playhouse (Nov. 13-Dec. 7).
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her stories at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza and follow her at Twitter.com/KarenDSouza4.


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It's That Time of Year
…to come out to support the Masons as they support the youth of Gridley, Richvale and Biggs with their semi-annual Scholarship Breakfast. The date is Sunday, March 17; the time, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. As usual, the members of North Butte Masonic Lodge #230 and other fine community members will provide attendees with a wonderful repast of eggs any style you want, sausage, hash browns, waffles, pancakes, fruit, coffee, juice and fizzes. As they have each spring, Herman Sunderman will cooks egg to order; Joe Lamson and Pedro Motta will add their wonderful skills with chorizo and eggs and Pedro's knock-'em-dead salsa!!! The community is encouraged to help support this fund raiser, as it provides scholarships for our graduating seniors. For just $10 for adults and $5 for students, husbands can provide their wives with a great breakfast in a friendly atmosphere and with no dishes afterwards. Remember: Sunday, March 17, corner of Sycamore and Vermont Streets.
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NBC Icon Bob Wright in a candid discussion on autism and how the advertising & media business has helped make Autism Speaks a household name
On Friday, October 1 Autism Speaks was featured during Advertising Week, New York City's preeminent media conference for advertisers. Bob Wright, co-founder of Autism Speaks and former Chairman and CEO of NBC Universal and Vice Chair of GE participated in a discussion about autism and advertising. Bob had one of the longest and most successful tenures of any media company chief executive with more than two decades at the helm of one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies leading from 1986 to 2007. He was joined by Andrew Robertson, CEO of BBDO Worldwide and a member of Autism Speaks' Board of Directors, who moderated the discussion.
In the one hour seminar Bob discussed how he has applied his knowledge from the corporate world to the non-profit sector, and how Autism Speaks has succeeded in making autism a household word. Both he and Andrew shared the story of how they started Autism Speaks award-winning Ad Council public service announcement campaign thanks to the support of BBDO, an elite world renowned advertising agency, and the Ad Council. Since its inception, it's garnered over $249 million dollars in donated media resulting in much needed awareness for families and has ultimately led to fundraising dollars for the needed research into the cause and treatments for autism.
Over the last five years, under Bob and Suzanne's leadership, and with the help of hundreds of volunteers, Autism Speaks has emerged as the largest autism science and advocacy organization in the world. And autism has moved to the fore of the public's consciousness – nationally and globally — in large part due to Autism Speaks' innovative and highly effective awareness initiatives.
October 1, 2010 at 4:50 pm
After having the privalige to work with and know a few Austic children I admire your work for they are truly amazing people.
October 2, 2010 at 8:18 am
Thank you Mr. Wright, Mr. Robertson and everyone at Autism Speaks and BBDO.
October 3, 2010 at 9:17 am
Fantastic job Dad!
October 5, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Wonderful transfer of knowledge to create autism awareness through highly effective campaigns – smart strategy. Six years ago my daughter was diagnosed on the autism spectrum. My husband and I were told ultimately there's no cure but go be her advocate. I would love to see more success stories – doesn't have to be my son or daughter is cured. But just something that might give those affected by autism a glimmer of hope. And, if those success stories can be tied back to the fundraising efforts – what a great, feel good story for all! Provides a sort of validation for donation efforts and gives hope to the people who need it most!
October 5, 2010 at 1:52 pm
…forgot to say thank you for your outstanding effort!
October 7, 2010 at 12:05 am
same as the rest. THANKS!
October 8, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Many thanks to you, Mr Wright, for all you do. Autism Speaks is a wonderful organization. My friends at work wear the pins in support of me and my daughter.
December 28, 2010 at 11:40 am
On December 19, 2010 my daughter and 5 year old autistic grandson was coming home to visit for christmas. They flew with American Airlines. They were so cruel and ignorant regarding Autisim I need some advice on who to contact. They refused to let him fly because she couldn't control him. They wouldn't even provide them with a room until I arrived to Dallas airport to pick them up. I was coming from Oklahoma. I'm devastated by this behavior. I feel like something needs to educate them on this matter. Please help to direct me to the right agency. This put a big damper on our christmas and my grandson did nothing to deserve anything that happened. There's more to this story so if you can help me please call me at 918-949-4006 or e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com
January 13, 2011 at 12:37 pm
American Airlines tried to ruin autistic boy's christmas by refusing to let him fly home for christmas. Who can help me with this issue? They were not concerned at all for him or his mother.


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POSITION: Right Wing
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Trebic, CZE
DRAFTED: NSH: 1999-191 overall
|Traded to Red Deer (WHL) by Saskatoon (WHL) with Darcy Robinson and Cam Ondik for Michael Garnett, Justin Wallin, Martin Vymazzi and future considerations, January 11, 2001. Signed as a free agent by Zlin (CzRep), September 5, 2004. Traded to Washington by Nashville with Michael Latta for Filip Forsberg, April 3, 2013. Traded to Phoenix by Washington with John Mitchell for Rostislav Klesla, Chris Brown and Phoenix/Arizona's 4th round pick (previously acquired, later traded to Carolina Carolina selected Callum Booth) in 2015 NHL Draft, March 4, 2014. Signed as a free agent by Omsk (KHL), September 17, 2015.
2012-13: Tallied 1g-1a and 4 hits on 4/23 vs. WPG ... Added an assist on 4/16 vs. TOR ... Scored a goal on 4/13 vs. TB ... Tallied an assist on 4/7 vs. TB ... Played in 700th career game and recorded a fighting major (Strachan) on 4/6 at FLA ... Scored 1st goal of the season on 3/17 vs. BUF ... Collected an assist on 3/10 vs. NYR ... Recorded an assist on 2/23 vs. NJ ... Tallied an assist on 2/9 vs. FLA ... Registered an assist on 1/31 at TOR ... Recorded 2 assists on 1/27 vs. BUF ... Tallied an assist on 1/24 vs. MTL ... Recorded an assist on 1/19 at TB.
2011-12: Led Nashville in scoring and set a career-high in points (58), his fifth 50-point campaign in the last six seasons ... Tied for the team lead in assists (39) ... Ranked 3rd on the team, and led all forwards, in plus/minus rating (+12) ... Ranked 9th in the NHL in shooting percentage (17.8) ... Set career highs in blocked shots (37) and face-offs won/taken (60/126) ... Became the second player in franchise history to notch 300 assists in a Predators sweater on 3/18 vs. ANA ... Named NHL Third Star of the Week for the period ending 3/18 after leading the League with seven points (2g, 5a) in four games ... T-6th in the NHL in assists during the month of January (10) ... Missed 11 games due to injury ... Tied for second on the team in assists (3) during the playoffs ... Set up Kevin Klein's game-winning goal in Game Four of the WCQ at Detroit.
2010-11: Tied for the team lead in points (50) ... Posted career highs in power-play goals (7) and plus/minues rating (+14) ... Played in his 600th career NHL contest on 3/1 at EDM ... Recorded his 400th NHL point on 3/31 with a game-winning goal at COL ... Registered points in three straight games during Western Conference Semifinals (Games 2-4).
2009-10: Notched his 3rd career 20-goal season, finishing 2nd on the club in the category (21 ) ... Ranked 3rd on the club in points (49), assists (28) and penalty minutes (50) ... Posted a career high in shots (168) ... Paced the team in shootout goals (5) and shootout deciding markers (3) ... Tied for the League lead, and tied a franchise record for goals in a month, with 10 in December ... His 18 points (10g, 8a) were tied for 8th in the NHL during the month ... Figured in all four goals of a 4-2 win on 12/8 vs. VAN (3g, 1a) ... Missed eight games due to injury ... Led the team in goals (4) and ranked second on the team in points (4g, 1a) during the playoffs ... Scored Nashville's first-ever postseason penalty-shot goal in a Game Three victory; It was the second playoff penalty shot in team history, and the 19th successful attempt on the 59th penalty shot in Stanley Cup Playoff history.
2008-09: Posted his 3rd straight 50-point season ... Ranked 3rd on the club in assists (33), and 4th in both points (50) and goals (tied, 17) ... His first of a career-high four assists on 3/28 vs. LA was his 300th career point and his 3rd assist was his 200th career assist. The performance tied for the second-most assists in a game in franchise history ... Became the second player to score 100 goals in a Predator uniform on 3/5 vs. CLB.
2007-08: Established career highs in goals (23) and game-winning goals (6 ) ... Tallied his first career hat trick, a natural hat trick, on 3/4 at Edmonton; It was the franchise's second road hat trick ... Named the NHL's Third Star of the Week on 11/19 ... Signed a seven-year contract extension (tied with Pekka Rinne for the second longest in club history) on 5/12 ... Appeared in all six of the club's postseason games and tied for the team lead in points (1g, 3a)... Led all Nashville forwards in average time on ice (20:55) during the postseason ... Notched a point in each of the team's first three playoff games (1g, 3a).
2006-07: Established career highs in assists (41), points (57), and plus/minus rating (+13) ... Logged a career high in average ice time (18:58), almost four minutes more per game than his previous high (15:00 in 2003-04) ... Scored his first career shorthanded goal on 12/21 vs. BUF ... Played in three of Nashville's five WCQ games vs. San Jose, missing the final two games due to injury.
2005-06: Notched a career high in penalty minutes (76) and matched his career high in games played (80) ... Scored his first career NHL playoff goal in Game One (4/21 of the WCQ vs. San Jose.
2003-04: Ranked second on the club with +10 rating and ranked third in assists (33) and points (49) ... Nashville went 13-1-2-0 in games in which he scored a goal ... Appeared in all six Nashville playoff games, recording one assist.
2002-03: Recorded a career-high six-game scoring streak (1g-5a) from 11/2-12 ... Opened the season with Nashville and was reassigned to Milwaukee (AHL) on 12/13 ... Recalled by Nashville from 1/16-23 ... Led Milwaukee in playoff goals (5) and points (9).
2001-02: Set Nashville rookie records for games played (80) and assists (23) ... Ranked among league rookie leaders in several offensive categories: assists (tied for second), power- play assists (tied for fourth with 8), shooting percentage (fifth with 10.7), points (sixth), power-play points (seventh with 10), game-winning goals (tied for seventh with 2), goals (tied for 14th with 9) and shots (15th with 84).
International Career
2012: Joined the Czech Republic at the 2012 World Championships, leading the team in power-play goals (3) and ranking third in goals (3) despite playing in half of the nation's 10 games. 2010: Represented the Czech Republic at the Olympics for the second straight time at the 2010 Games ... Played all five of his nation's games, registering one assist. 2008: Played for the Czech Republic at the 2008 World Championships, and ranked fourth on the team in points (2g-4a). 2006: Captured a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games and scored the game-winner in the Czechs'victory in the bronze medal gamee ... Won a silver medal with the Czech Republic at the 2006 World Championships ... Finished second on the Czechs in scoring with eight points (3g,5a) and was selected as one of the team's top three players in the tournament coaches poll. 2004-05: Finished third on HC Hame Zlin and tied for eighth in the Czech Republic Extrakeague in scoring with 43 points (20g,23a) ... Led Zlin and finished fifth in the Czech League with 129 penalty minutes ... Helped Zlin advance to the Czech league finals and tied for the league playoff lead with seven goals.
NHL Transactions
Selected by NSH in the seventh round, 191st overall, in the 1999 Entry Draft ... Traded to the Capitals by NSH with Michael Latta for Filip Forsburg, April 4, 2013.
Enjoysplaying soccer and tennis ... Favorites include: Everybody Loves Raymond (TV show), Nirvana (band/musician), Helena Ruzickova (actress). chicken and pasta (food) and Spain (vacation spot) ... If he didn't play hockey, he would play professional soccer ... Winning a medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics is his favorite hockey memory ... The younger of two brothers ... Nickname: "Marty" ... Has a black lab named Max ... Wife - Vera, Son - Sebastien


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Registration open for Mayor's Cup 5K
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:50 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Registration is open for the seventh annual Mayor's Cup 5K, which will be April 27.
Registration will cost $15 per person through March 31 and $20 from April 1 until the day of the race. Proceeds will benefit the Tuscaloosa Pre-K Initiative.
"When we ran the inaugural Tuscaloosa Mayor's Cup six years ago, we knew we were running for two good causes — our own health and Tuscaloosa's youth. Since then, we have raised nearly $80,000 for the Tuscaloosa Pre-K Initiative," Mayor Walt Maddox said on the race's website.
This year's race will begin at 8 a.m. April 27 at Government Plaza, behind City Hall.
Registration is available online at www.tuscaloosamayorscup.com. For information, call Tuscaloosa 311 or email email@example.com.
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Police are investigating a 20-car crash on Interstate 80 in Luzerne County that happened during the afternoon snowstorm.
State police in Hazleton said 20 cars crashed on I-80 West in Dennison Township near Route 309 around milemarker 267. Police said the cars lost control on slick roadways caused by the snowstorm that moved through the region.
The crash happened at about 12:30 p.m.
Police said "several" people were taken to area hospitals for injuries, but did not specify the extent of the injuries or how many people were involved.
The investigation is continuing.
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When I first stared using Playstation Media Server many months ago, a lot of my DivXs would not play or play incorrectly (from what I can tell it seemed due to them having subtitles, multiple subtitles or multiple audio tracks). These were all files that played perfectly from the PS3's own HDD.
Disabling all of the video transcoding engines in PMS solved the problem, and everything worked perfectly until a week or so ago when I had to reinstall windows from scratch.
I installed the latest version of PMS (1.70.01), and set it up as before, with all of the video transcoding engines disabled except now, disabling them doesn't seem to have any effect. Any videos with subtitles or more than one audio track display with the [MEncoder] suffix when browsing on the PS3, and they either won't play at all or play without audio, without subtitles or with the wrong aspect ratio.
So the question is, why isn't disabling the encoding engines ACTUALLY disabling them now?
I still have an older version of PMS on a different computer, and it's playing everything fine.


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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Parks and Trails Division is seeking public comments on proposed changes to the management plans for two southern Minnesota state parks. These are parks where timber harvest projects are planned this year. The timber harvesting is scheduled to take place at Fort Ridgely State Park in Fairfax and Myre-Big Island State Park in Albert Lea. There will be an open house at each affected state park for anyone interested in learning more about the plan amendments and upcoming resource projects. The schedule for the open house at the park office is: • Fort Ridgely State Park, 72158 Co. Rd. 30, Fairfax, Monday, Feb. 25, 4:30-6 p.m. The Parks and Trails Division uses timber harvesting as a tool to meet its resource management goals and to facilitate interpretive and recreation activities. Timber harvests take place in state parks and state recreation areas primarily to restore or manage native plants. In some cases, a harvest is necessary to restore visitor access and safety by clearing trails and reducing the risk of forest fires from downed timber following a storm. A management plan sets the direction for the state park for the next 15-20 years and includes recommendations for managing natural and cultural resources and providing recreational and interpretative opportunities to park visitors. The plan amendments will clarify the use of timber harvesting as a resource management tool in these state parks. The plan amendments – which have been posted on the DNR website at www.dnr.state.mn.us/input/mgmtplans/parks_trails/open.html-- are open for a 30-day public review, with public comments accepted through March 22. For more information or to comment on the plan amendments, contact Jade Templin at 651-259-5598 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The words "soda fountain" and "malt shop" conjure potent cultural images: actress Lana Turner being "discovered" while sitting on a counter stool at Schwab's; "Grease" protagonists Danny and Sandy meeting the Pink Ladies at the Frosty Palace; comic strip characters Archie and Veronica hanging with Reggie and Betty at Pop Tate's Chocklit Shoppe; and countless scenes in countless 1950s-era movies and TV shows involving countless waitresses and "soda jerks" who cracked wise and helped move the romance along.
Our mental images may hail from the mid-20th century, but, according to Adam Ried, author of "Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes" (W.W. Norton, 2009), the milkshake dates back to the 1850s, when it was a concoction made of milk, sugar, ice, egg and whisky, and served to thirsty adults. In the 1880s, a "malt powder" was developed as a tonic for sickly infants, and at some point, says Ried, the milkshake's path converged with that of the "malted," the shake lost its booze, and this creamy milk drink became a popular treat for young and old.
As so often happens in food history, technology came along and added a boost: Ried chronicles the 1911 debut of the Hamilton Beach Drink Mixer, the 1922 invention of the blender, and the advent, later in that decade, of freon refrigeration, which resulted in automated ice cream manufacturing. The year 1922 also saw the crucial moment when a Walgreens soda jerk named Ivar "Pop" Coulson blended two scoops of vanilla ice cream into a chocolate malt: the birth of the modern milkshake. It was only a matter of time before Archie, Danny, Sandy and the rest converged.
A new book called "Malts & Milkshakes" by pastry chef Autumn Martin offers 60 variations on the creamy drink, all of them perfect for summer. It's got shakes with booze in them (a nod to the original, perhaps) and shakes made with peanut butter and jelly, apple pie filling, espresso, passion fruit and more. But, being an old-school milkshake lover, my favorites are the old-school flavors: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Especially strawberry. Although Martin says her strawberry shake could be made with frozen berries, there's nothing like making it with fresh berries at the peak of ripeness.
The strawberry shake, like all of the others in Martin's book, should be made using the following tips:
- Do not over-mix. Over-mixing, says Martin, results in a thin shake. To keep this from happening, use soft ice cream that's easy to scoop. Place it on your counter for 5 to 10 minutes before using it. Soft ice cream will blend more quickly. Also, use the "pulse" button on the blender, just until the ice cream is combined with the milk.
- Serve shakes and malts in chilled glasses. Put glasses in the freezer for 20 minutes before serving. (Note: Although milkshakes are traditionally served in 12-ounce fountain glasses, Martin recommends using 6-ounce juice glasses. An excellent idea for portion control.)
- Don't add too much milk. If you are a fan of thicker shakes, omit some of the milk called for in the recipe. When adding less milk, it is even more important to use soft ice cream.
- Use high-quality ingredients.
Yield: 4 (6-ounce) servings
Recipe from: "Malts & Milkshakes" by Autumn Martin; St. Martin's Griffin, 2013
For the syrup:
2 cups ripe, hulled, chopped strawberries, fresh or frozen
� cup sugar (preferably organic sugar)
Squeeze of fresh lemon juice
For the shake:
� cup milk (preferably whole milk)
1 tablespoon milk powder (preferably Organic Valley brand)
1 cup strawberry syrup (recipe above)
8 scoops (1 pint) vanilla or strawberry ice cream, homemade or store bought
Make the syrup (up to 2 weeks ahead of time): In a small saucepan, cook the strawberries, sugar and lemon juice over medium heat, until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture comes to a simmer. You may need to mash up the berries in order for them to release their juices — a potato masher works well. Simmer for 2 more minutes, then remove the pan from the heat and allow the syrup to cool. If not using immediately, place in a container, cover and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.
At least 20 minutes before serving, place the glasses in the freezer.
Make the shakes: In a blender, pulse together the milk and milk powder. Add 1 cup of the strawberry syrup and all of the ice cream and pulse just until the ice cream is incorporated.
Pour into glasses and drizzle with a bit of the remaining syrup. You may have a few spoonfuls of syrup left over; cover and refrigerate.
Note: If you like chunks of strawberries in your shake, pull the berry pieces from the syrup before blending, and stir them into the shake right before serving.
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The Pirates will be kicking off there North American Premiere Tour at CU Boulder on October 21st. Six Eleven will also be showing their new film "Stop Hammer Time" first film plays at 8pm at VAC 1B20 in the new art building! Keep an eye out for a premiere coming to your town soon! AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!Read More


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3.9-1 Status of Parties - General
Revised to January 1, 2008
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defendant is liable to the plaintiff, it is necessary for you, the jury, to
decide what, if any, duty the defendant owed to the plaintiff. Under our
law, this depends on what the status of the plaintiff was in entering and
remaining on the premises. If the plaintiff was a trespasser, that may
obligate the defendant to do or refrain from doing certain things about the
premises. If the plaintiff was a licensee (I will explain this term in a
moment), then another set of obligations is due from the defendant. If the
plaintiff is an invitee, then a third set of legal duties is owed by the
[<If status is stipulated to or
admitted:> The (parties agree / defendant admits the allegation) that
the plaintiff had the status of (a/an) (trespasser / licensee / invitee). I
will now explain what the law says about the duty of the defendant to one
who has that status.]
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fact for you to determine. Your decision about what the plaintiff's status
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the status of the plaintiff? The plaintiff claims (he/she) had the status
of (a/an) (trespasser / licensee / invitee); the defendant claims the
plaintiff had the status of (a/an) (trespasser / licensee / invitee). Since
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[trespasser], [licensee], and [invitee]; and in each case what the law says
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Event teaches children about international culture
Published: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 11:31 p.m.
NORTHPORT | The Kentuck Art Center hopes to help kids experience different cultures without even leaving Tuscaloosa.
Kentuck for Kids
When: noon to 3 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month this year, beginning this Saturday
What: hands-on event teaches kids about other countries and their cultures, focusing on a different country each month
Cost: Free
Where: the Georgine Clarke Building at the Kentuck Art Center, downtown Northport
The arts organization will sponsor a monthly "Kentuck for Kids" event, which will focus on the arts and culture of other countries. Starting Saturday, children will be able to participate in hands-on activities, including crafts, that are connected to other countries.
They'll receive pretend "passports" with their picture and activities to mark each event they attend.
"We decided that an international series would teach children about different cultures and the arts used in different cultures, but it would also introduce Kentuck to people who don't normally participate in Kentuck," said Shweta Gamble, executive director of Kentuck.
This Saturday, from noon to 3 p.m. at Kentuck's Georgine Clarke Building, the "Kentuck for Kids" event will focus on Japan.
Kids will make origami and can make suminagashi, which is a form of Japanese ink marbling. Children will learn about haiku poems and write their own. The Japanese American Society of Alabama will also participate and bring "Japan in a suitcase," which includes toys and different information about Japan, items that the kids can touch. There will also be karate demonstrations at 12:30 pm. Saturday, and the Tuscaloosa Public Library will have a reading list of Japanese-themed children's books in case kids want to explore the culture more at home.
It is the first time that Kentuck has undertaken an ongoing event for kids with an international focus, said Michaela Lewellyn, program manager for Kentuck.
"When we first started the a la cARTe event, it had an international focus, but this is more geared toward children," Lewellyn said. "We've never done anything this intricate before."
The Kentuck for Kids events will be free to the public and held on the third Saturday of every month at the Kentuck Art Center in downtown Northport. The event is made possible through a grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa.
In February, the country of focus will be Ghana. Other countries to be focused on in later months include Australia, Israel, Germany and India.
For more information, go to www.Kentuck.org.
Reach Lydia Seabol Avant at 205-722-0222 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a consortium of states that collaboratively developed a common set of assessments to measure student achievement and preparedness for college and careers.The PARCC assessments were created to measure students' ability to apply their knowledge of concepts rather than memorizing facts. The PARCC assessments require students to solve problems using mathematical reasoning and to be able to model mathematical principles. In English Language Arts (ELA), students will be required to closely read multiple passages and to write essay responses in literary analysis, research tasks and narrative tasks. The assessments will also provide teachers and parents with valuable information on student progress to inform instruction and provide targeted student support in school and at home.The PARCC assessments replaced NJASK (grades 3-8) and HSPA (high school) in 2014-15.Source: Assessments - PARCC, New Jersey Department of Education
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SACRAMENTO – The Federal Bureau of Investigation today is beginning an excavation of a well in Linden, according to Herb Brown, the special agent in charge of the Sacramento office of the FBI.
The excavation comes less than a year after the San Joaquin County Sheriff's department unearthed remains of three women and a fetus from a well in Linden. They were victims of Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine.
The FBI said this will be a very methodical and very careful recovery effort and could take up to two weeks using all the FBI's available resources. Some two dozen agents are expected to be at the site, and the agency is also working with the well-respected forensics sciences program from Chico State.
The site of the search, Brown said, is based on a variety of factors, including interviews with Shermantine, who had been taken off of death row last year under FBI guard and driven around Linden to show the FBI where some potential burial sites might be.
Read Tuesday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Scott Smith.
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Science Features
A fish virus characterized by USGS scientists in cutthroat trout in California is being used in early steps toward research that could save thousands of human lives, thanks to both its resemblance to and its key differences from the human virus Hepatitis E.
The fish virus, known as cutthroat trout virus (CTV), was first isolated in 1988 and later found to be widespread among salmonids in the western United States. USGS research biologists Jim Winton and William Batts and colleagues were the first to characterize the genome. They found that CTV closely resembled the virus that causes Hepatitis E, a potentially deadly emerging human disease that is particularly dangerous to pregnant women. Hepatitis E virus has proven exceptionally difficult to grow in cell cultures, in part because the cells of the human liver, which it infects, are difficult to maintain in the laboratory. The fish cells that CTV infects, however, are much easier to culture. Winton and Batts recognized the potential to use CTV to create persistently infected cultures with established fish cell lines that could be used to advance Hepatitis E research. The fact that CTV is found in spawning trout, they believed, might eventually yield insight into Hepatitis E's more deadly course in pregnant women. CTV, in short, could provide medical researchers with a convenient surrogate virus and animal model that could be used to test potential drug therapies and vaccines.
A new paper in the journal Antiviral Research demonstrates that CTV can indeed provide a powerful tool for studying Hepatitis E. The paper, which Winton co-authored with a team from Belgium, reports the results of successful experiments testing antiviral compounds for their ability to inhibit the growth of CTV in fish cells, an important step forward for medical researchers looking to develop ways to treat and prevent Hepatitis E in humans. In addition to being an available cell culture system and an easy-to-use and inexpensive animal model, CTV has the added advantage that it poses no disease threat to researchers. CTV, like most fish viruses, cannot be transmitted to people. That makes working with the virus in a laboratory setting much safer and easier than working with Hepatitis E would be.
"It's great when your initial curiosity about a virus from healthy fish turns out to have important biomedical applications for humans," said Winton. "It really shows how hard it is to fully anticipate where basic scientific research might lead."
Hepatitis E: An Emerging Disease Difficult to Study and to Treat
Typically acquired from contaminated water or infected swine, Hepatitis E virus infects tens of thousands of people annually in Asia, Africa and South and Central America. While most infected people clear the virus from their systems without sustaining much damage, for reasons that are still unclear, the virus often causes full-blown hepatitis and liver failure during pregnancy. As a result, Hepatitis E is responsible for a high fatality rate among pregnant women. The World Health Organization estimates that 56,600 people die from Hepatitis E annually. The only drugs known to treat Hepatitis E require long treatment periods, cause severe side effects and are not safe to use during pregnancy. Thus there are significant gaps in both the understanding of the biology of Hepatitis E and in the search for safe, effective antiviral drugs.
Batts, Winton and their California colleagues first published their results in 2011. Soon after, they were contacted by researchers in Belgium who wanted to use CTV-infected fish cell lines to screen potential antiviral drugs for treating Hepatitis E. Results from initial tests showed that, just as Winton and Batts had hoped, CTV does indeed provide an important model to help learn more about the biology of Hepatitis E and to test potential treatments and vaccines. The paper published this month by the Belgian team and Winton in the journal Antiviral Research reports the results of experiments that tested several antiviral compounds for their ability to inhibit the growth of CTV in fish cells. It also reports effects of sex steroids on virus replication that provide clues into the basis of the increased mortality from Hepatitis E observed among pregnant women.
In addition to screening potential antiviral drugs using CTV-infected cell cultures, scientists could experimentally infect captive fish with CTV to test potential vaccines in vivo. This will allow a whole-animal approach to the testing of potential therapies or vaccines that would be more relevant for human health than tests conducted on cell cultures. It may also allow further study of the virus's basic biology, including its reaction to fluctuating hormone levels associated with spawning.
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Hello Ricky Nelson, Goodbye Heart
Jan. 19, 2013
Frank and Katrina Basile Theater, History Center
7:30 p.m.
Barbara McBride-Smith transports you from the ancient world of the Greek gods and goddesses to the post-modern experiences of her Baby Boomer generation, narrates the lives of shady ladies and bad boys of the Bible, navigates literature with the heart and soul of a librarian, identifies with country music and rock n' roll, and interprets it all with a Texas-born cheerleader's perspective. Entertainer, historian, preacher and storyteller all rolled into one, Barbara McBride-Smith serves up sweet truth with a side of southern grit.
"Thanks to Barbara McBride-Smith, I'm a storytelling convert. Her performance of the Ricky Nelson story was a walk down memory lane. I laughed and I cried but, most of all, I remembered. I think all of us who grew up in the 1950's and 60's got to go back 'home' for a little while. It was wonderful to be there!" – Troy Messenger, June 2010.
For more information visit www.barbaramcbridesmith.com.
$20, $25 at the door
For tickets, call (317) 232-1882 or follow the "Buy Tickets" link.
For more information on the performer or schedule changes, contact Storytelling Arts of Indiana at (317) 576-9848 or visit www.storytellingarts.org.
Performers are subject to change.
Presented by IHS and Storytelling Arts of Indiana
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|Length Overall
|39' 3''
11.96 m
|Dry Weight
14, 919 lbs.
6,767 kg
13' 2''
4.01 m
|Tested Weight
0.74 m
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
370 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
54 gal.
|Length on Trailer
|Max Headroom
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
10' 6''
3.20 m
|Trailer Weight
|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|Not Available
|Tested Power
|Currently no test numbers
|Opt. Power
2 x 350-hp Yamaha F350 Digital
3 x 350-hp Yamaha F350
3 x 300-hp Yamaha F300
Some boatbuilders quote you a price, then tear out your heart with an options list as long as the phone book. Not Grady-White in the case of its 360 Express: You can drive your 360 away from the dealer without spending a penny on extras, except fuel. The only thing we see that's not standard on this boat is the outriggers.
A Pathetically Short List
They say size isn't everything, but let's be honest: It is, although some things you want to be big, others you want small. And in building the Express 360, Grady-White plays both ends of the spectrum. For her base-boat MSRP – which is a bit steep compared to others in her class – the Express 360 delivers literally everything you need except rods, reels and lures. The folks at Grady, Southern gentlemen and ladies to a person (and we can vouch for this based on personal experience), don't believe in low-balling an MSRP to lure in a buyer, then frisking him by selling him stuff that ought to be on board in the first place. In a world where bigger is usually better, Grady-White "equips" the Express 360 with one of the most puny options lists we've ever seen.
The major option on the Express 360 is the enclosed helm in place of the hard top and canvas enclosure. For fishermen wanting to extend their seasons, or who habitually run offshore and want extra protection from wind and spray, it's probably worth the money. We prefer canvas, since we can roll it up for maximum airflow.
So how small is it? There are 10 entries, and four of them are custom hull colors ($12,100), three are outriggers ($5,850 for 24', $3,000 for 15', in two versions). You can buy only one each of both of these. Otherwise there's an enclosed helm option ($24,060), underwater lights ($2,690) and ivory hard-top canvas ($0) – apparently you just opt for this vs. the standard navy-blue canvas). And that's it; everything else is standard, including the bow thruster, 8-kW generator (diesel, with its own fuel tank), air conditioning, Sirius radio service, and so forth. And need we add there is a ton of fishing gear, all of it built in like it ought to be?
On deck, the Express 360 is pure fishing boat, but belowdecks she's nice enough for family cruising, with two double berths, a convertible dinette, enclosed head/shower and an all-electric galley, powered offshore by a standard diesel generator pulling fuel from its own 23-gal. (87.1 L) tank.
The helm is set up just like the flying-bridge helms on big sportfishermen, on the centerline and raised above the cockpit to provide clear views of the action. The wheel is adjustable, there's room for two nav units side-by-side in a retractable box, with lesser electronics flush-mounted within easy reach, and a row of engine gauges under a brow just below the skipper's eye-line while steering. – there's no excuse for missing an engine malfunction. The compass is on the centerline, and easy to read.
Hulls By Hunt
Although Grady-White creates the overall design of its boats, since 1989 the running bottoms have come from the naval architectural firm of C. Raymond Hunt Associates. Inspired by the often rigorous conditions fishermen find both locally, in the Outer Banks inlets, and worldwide, the Hunt SeaV2 hulls utilize continuously variable deadrise and wide chines to produce a smooth-riding and stable hull.
Better than an double-wide helm seat for keeping the skipper company is the starboard-side mini-dinette, face-to-face seating across a table with built-in drinkholders. Stow the table and a flip-up cushion turns this into a lounge. Note the nav units mounted in the retractable enclosure, excellent for security and protection from the elements.
The SeaV2 hull is sharper amidships than most deep-Vs: around 30 degrees of deadrise where the hull meets the water when running on plane. That's the area of the hull that contributes most to a comfortable ride. Aft, the deadrise flattens to about 20 degrees, less than the 23 or 24 degrees of a "classic" deep-V (a design that C. Raymond Hunt developed in the early 1960s); lower deadrise back there makes a hull faster and more stable.
Grady-White installs lockers or drawers wherever there's a space, since nobody ever complains about a boat having too much stowage. Note that each locker has a positive catch holding its lid shut, with push-button latches on vertical doors. A rigging station with freshwater sink, insulated bait box, lockable drawers and dedicated knife/plier stowage is standard. A 48-gal. (181.7 L ) livewell is also included.
Plywood? No Problem for Grady-White
Grady-White has sometimes been criticized for building their boats' bottom support and transoms in plywood, albeit plywood that's totally encapsulated in fiberglass and resin. It's common for boatbuilders today to promote their "wood-free" construction, with high-density foam used to core transoms, stringers and other hull supports. In days past, most builders used plywood in these areas, too – but not all of them took the pains that Grady-White did to protect the plywood from water migration through the laminate.
This looks like a 291-qt. (275.4 L) fishbox, and it is – but it's also a refrigerator/freezer with digitally controlled thermostat and an overboard drain. Grady-White drains everything overboard – no fish gurry or other gunk runs into the bilge. There is another fridge/freezer, 55-qt. (52.0 L) on the port side.
On their 18- to 30-foot models, Grady-White still uses plywood in many of their hull structures. It is high-quality plywood that's treated to prevent rot, then carefully installed to ensure a long and happy life. (The company covers their boats with a limited lifetime warranty, including the plywood, and G-W takes its warranties very seriously.) However, on the Express 360 the company uses a composite stringer system, foam-cored fiberglass, which they say adds strength and lightens the boats for performance. The transom is still cored with plywood, using Perma Panel that's specifically manufactured for marine use. On all models, including the 360, there is "basic" floatation provided (i.e. not "level" flotation), according to the builder.
Old-timer Grady-White owners wouldn't recognize this as a fishing boat. The Express 360 has a roomy, comfortable cabin that's the equal of many express cruisers. And so she should – we're talking about a boat that can cost almost $600,000. Like all Gradys, the 360 has lots of rod stowage in the cabin, just to remind you she's really a fishboat.
Grady-White offers the Express 360 with either twin or triple Yamaha four-stroke outboards up to 1,050-hp total. Base power is twin F350s, but our local dealer said that triple F350s were the power of choice for almost all buyers, at least for the boats he's sold. Triple F300s are also available. We haven't tested this boat ourselves, so we have to take the builder's word on performance data. With twins, Grady-White says the 360 will run 44.2 mph (71.13 kph), cruise most economically at around 27 mph (43.5 kph). Range is about 306 mi. (492 km.) at that speed, with 10% reserve – all of this according to Grady-White.
A VacuFlush head is standard. There's not a separate shower stall, but a curtain to keep water from splashing over everything. A full-length mirror is on the back of the door.
Add another 350 horses and you get top speed around 53.1 mph (85.46 kph) says G-W, and a cruise of 31.4 mph (50.53 kph). Cruising range should be around 286 mi. (460 km) at that speed. Opting for the triples doesn't cost much in cruising range, but adds both top-end and cruise speed.
According to Grady-White's figures, the triple F300s would be a good compromise. Top speed with that power is 49.6 mph (79.82 kph), cruise 30.8 mph (49.57 kph) at just 1.00 mpg, or a range of 333 mi. (536 km.). But our dealer said buyers preferred the F350s to the F300s, wanting the added gumption for punching through seas or break-necking it home when the weather threatened to turn sour.
Again, these aren't our numbers, but Grady-White's, so don't call us if your boat doesn't measure up.
Here's where we usually compare MSRPs among similar boats, but with the Grady-White Express 360, we won't bother. Why? For the same reason we wouldn't price-shop a Rolls-Royce against the rest of the market. Folks either want a Grady, and are willing to pay the extra – the boats are at the top of the market – or they're not. Simple as that. And to be fair, most builders provide just a basic boat for their MSRP, while Grady delivers one that is fully equipped – so just going by the numbers will make the Express 360 look even more expensive relative to the competition.
The bottom line is, if you want a Grady-White, you want one and won't worry about the cost. If you're shopping price, don't bother to look. We think it's hard to beat a Grady-White at any price, though, and do not hesitate to recommend the Express 360 if you want a serious offshore fishing boat, one with maybe the world's shortest options list.
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|Head: Fixed
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|Washdown: Fresh Water
|Washdown: Raw Water
|Water Heater
|Exterior Features
|Outlet: 12-Volt Acc
|Swim Ladder
|Swim Platform
|Transom Door
|Transom Shower
|Boats More Than 30 Feet
|Bow Thruster
= Standard = Optional
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|Pricing Range
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.