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Although he lost to Mitt Romney in Washington County, Barack Obama took enough of the vote in the rest of Ohio and across the nation to retain the presidency of the U.S. for another four years.
Local voter turnout was 68.24 percent Tuesday, a bit lower than the 73 percent turnout for the last presidential election in 2008, according to the Washington County Board of Elections.
Ohio Rep. Debbie Phillips, D-Albany, was tracking campaigns statewide for the House Democratic Caucus in Columbus Tuesday night and said she had to step into another room to return a call to The Marietta Times shortly after NBC News called Ohio and the election for Obama.
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President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden wave at his election night party today in Chicago. President Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
"It's pretty loud up here," she said with a laugh.
Ohio Rep. Andy Thompson, R-Marietta, said he was pleased with the Republican performance in Washington County, but disappointed in the way the national election turned out.
"So much of my expectations and optimism going forward is tempered by the federal outcome," he said.
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Final but unofficial results from the presidential race in Washington County:
Republican Mitt Romney- 16,921 or 58.76 percent of the vote.
Democrat Barack Obama-11,333 or 39.35 percent of the vote.
Libertarian Gary Johnson- 228 or 0.79 percent of the vote.
Green Party Jill Stein-127 or 0.44 percent of the vote.
There are 42,910 registered voters in Washington County and 29,280 ballots were cast in Tuesday's election-a turnout of 68.24 percent.
Source: Washington County Board of Elections.
As Obama heads into a second term, Thompson said "Obamacare" is unlikely to be repealed and its provisions will have a negative financial
impact on the state and small businesses.
Obama's victory would be good news for Chrystal Perez, 20, of Marietta who had just cast her vote for the president at the polls in the First Church of the Nazarene on Mill Creek Road Tuesday evening.
"I'm a first-time voter, and I voted for Obama," she said. "The biggest reason is because I'm a lesbian and believe he has done a lot for that community."
Mallory Sabato, 22, of Marietta said Tuesday was her second presidential election and she cast her ballot for Obama both times.
"I don't necessarily agree with Romney's viewpoint on women's rights," she said. "Obama supports our rights."
First-time voter Ramiro Perez, 19, brother of Chrystal Perez, said he voted for Obama because the president has the better point of view between the two candidates.
"I watched all of the debates and heard both Republican and Democrat viewpoints, but Obama crushed Romney in those debates," he said. "And if Mitt Romney wins this election I'll be looking for the apocalypse."
Doug Hesson, 45, from Marietta, also voted for Obama.
"I think he's more on the side of renewable energy," he said. "Obama's plan will create new jobs in alternative energy."
But Marietta College junior Alex Martin and senior Jen Ouimette supported Romney.
Both students were handing out "Count on Coal" literature to those voting at the polls in the junior fair building at the Washington County Fairgrounds parking lot Tuesday afternoon.
"I voted for Romney because a lot of the things he stands for line up with my own beliefs," Martin said.
Ouimette agreed.
"I'm a huge (former president Ronald) Reagan fan," she said. "He made us proud of our country again, and I feel Romney can take us back in that direction."
Jeff and Bernice Gilmore of Marietta also voted for Romney.
"We're small business owners, and believe he is going to help build the economy better than the current president," Jeff said.
Eric Chamberlain, 43, of Devola, cast the last ballot before the polls closed at the Marietta Bible Center Tuesday night. He voted for Obama this year and in 2008.
"I think things are moving in the right direction in this country, although slowly," he said. "And Obama hasn't gotten us into any wars. I think he's moving us ahead, slowly."
Some voters chose not to support either of the main party candidates, noting there were five other presidential candidates.
"I feel like, with the big parties, we're doomed either way. I voted for Jill Stein (Green Party). I saw her on television and she seems like she really cares about the country," said Logan Shrader, 21, of Reno.
Shawn Carpenter of Marietta voted for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.
"I voted for the first time in 2008, but this time things are definitely different," he said. "Gary Johnson has the experience and stands for a lot of things the main two parties don't."
Carpenter said Johnson is for reducing spending and the size of the government and military.
"He also wants to revoke the Patriot Act and get rid of the IRS and Federal Reserve," he said. "If Ron Paul had been on the ticket this year I would have voted for him. We need more voices in this country. Why do we always focus on just two parties?"
Sharon Adams, who helped work the 3rd Precinct polls at the county fairgrounds, said the number of voters seemed high this year.
"We had a lot of college kids voting this year, too," she said, noting Marietta College provided transportation for students who wanted to cast their votes.
"There have been many first-time voters. I think it's an exciting time for them," Adams said. "One mother brought her 17-year-old homeschooled daughter in to show her the particulars of the voting process-she'll be able to vote in the next election."
Jim Rapp, pollworker at the Marietta Bible Center, said the turnout at that location was about the same as last year.
"We guessed there would be around 400 voters," he said. "And that's about what we had here."
Rapp said the low turnout could be due to a larger number of absentee and early in-person voting at the courthouse this year.
Tara Hupp, executive director of the Washington County Board of Elections, said there were no major problems during Tuesday's election.
"We had one voting machine at the polls in Little Hocking that wasn't operating and had to be replaced," she said. "And we had some people who called about electioneering going on near one of the polling places. The board members checked it out, but the activity was more than 100 feet from the polls."
Hupp said for a major presidential election there were very few issues of concern.
Evan Bevins and Jasmine Rogers contributed.


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EDINBURG, Texas – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team (3-7) dropped their second road game of the season, 69-52, to Texas-Pan American (3-7) Wednesday at UTPA Fieldhouse. Senior Myeisha Myles tallied her fifth double-digit scoring game with 13 points and grabbed seven rebounds. The Islanders took the opening lead but Keandra Goodson's layup in the paint at the 5:58 mark in the first half put the Broncs up for good 24-22.
Adding to the scoring for the Islanders was freshman Trish Amboree, who chipped in eight points off the bench and sophomore Zoe Vega-Vega added eight. Junior Jessica Jammer tied Myles on the glass with seven boards. The Islanders' bench outscored the Broncs 26-19. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi shot 33.3 percent from the field (16-48) to the Broncs 40.3 percent (27-67) and outscored UTPA from behind the arc.
The Broncs were led by three players in double-digits en route to earning their third win of the season. Donna Jackson led the Broncs with 14 points and a game-high eight rebounds. LaQuita Garner tallied 14 points and three steals and Bianca Torre added 13 points, five boards and three steals. The Broncs edged the Islanders on the glass 40-34 and scored 28 points off the Islanders 22 turnovers.
Junior Alisa Roberts hit a three-pointer to open the game and scored seven of the Islanders first nine points and added two steals during the run. Jammer added a jumper before the Broncs went on 10-0 run at the 12:10 mark on a jumper and free throw from Adanna Opara. Garner hit a three-pointer to take the Broncs first lead of the game, 10-9. Franchesca Simon hit a jumper and Torre followed with a jumper from Simon to cap the run at 14-9.
The two teams traded buckets back-and-forth until the Broncs took a 26-23 leaad with 4:29 left in the half. The Broncs went on a 6-0 run before sophomore Marquesha Anderson-Sparks scored her first two points of the game at the free throw line. The Broncs took another 6-0 run to take a 36-25 lead. Sophomore Brandi Huff and Amboree both hit two free throws to bring the score to 38-29. Toree added two free throws to close the half to give the Broncs a 40-29 going into the break.
At the half, the Islanders trailed 40-29 on 36.4 percent shooting from the field. Roberts led the team with seven points on 3-of-4 shooting and added two steals. Myles chipped in six points, including 4-of-6 shooting from the free throw line. Garner and Torre led UTPA in double-digits at the half. Torre scored 10 points on 3-of-7 shooting and Garner tallied 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field. The Islanders committed 10 turnovers to the Broncs six and led the glass 19-14.
The Islanders cut the deficit to 10 at the 7:49 mark in the second half off a Myles putback. Junior Imani Dunn started the run with 11:30 with her first jumper of the season. Myles hit two free throws and a jumper to bring the Islanders within 12. After a Garner jumper, Vega-Vega answered with a jumper from junior Verne'qua Taylor. Myles made her seventh free throw of the game and followed with the putback to cut the score to 57-47.
The Islanders will take a nine day break from action before returning home to play host to Jackson State at the Dugan Wellness Center on Friday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m.


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Definition of divide in English:
- This combination of factors yielded 216 trials, which were randomized and divided into two separate blocks.
- However, they could not stay unified and have since divided into five separate church groups.
- You will note from the information sheet that organisations will be divided into two clusters for the selection process.
- Missouri's 2 million or so households would get 22 acres apiece if all the land in the state were divided among them.
- The family holdings were divided among six sons in the 1920s, with the largest tracts going to the sons of Richard Skinner and Chester Skinner.
- Using Companies House and other data, and cross-checking with industry sources, we estimated how each firm's profits were divided among its partners.
- His activity from 1612 to 1632 was divided between Toledo, Murcia, and Valencia.
- Nowadays I divide my time between L.A. and Berlin, Germany.
- I divide my time at Student Health between nursing and working as one of the Health Education Coordinators.
- But they are a bit like those boundary streets which divide the 'hot' places to live from the not-so-hot.
- A double door divides the living room and dining room.
- To the left of the great gate a wall divides off a corner of the court.
- The house divided as follows: Ayes: 127 Noes: 107 Abstentions: 73.
- When the House divided to vote on the motion only half the MPs were present and the Abolition Bill was defeated.
- I appeal to the Labor Party even now not to divide the Assembly on this issue.
- Drawing from the views of a wide variety of people living and working in the district, it described a city living in the grip of fear, divided along racial, religious and class lines.
- But I was rather startled by how people have become sharply divided along political lines, and the positions that have been assumed.
- I figure that opinions of this one will be pretty much divided along partisan lines.
- The next problem is how to multiply and divide numbers involving fractions.
- The employment rate is simply the number employed divided by the size of the population.
- Wouldn't it be nice if dividing fractions were as easy as dividing whole numbers?
- What happens if the numbers do not divide exactly?
- You check whether 15 divides by 2, and it doesn't.
- Two of these numbers divide by 5 with no remainder.
- If the hurricane was moving at 5 miles an hour and was expected to pass very close to your location, then divide 5 into 100. The answer is 20.
- How do you divide 6 into 612?
- If you divide 2 into 13983816 you get 6991908 or exactly half.
- Which other numbers exactly divide into (are factors of) Fibonacci numbers?
- 5 divides into 10 evenly.
- When dividing by the powers of the new base, it is important not to leave out any of the powers, even if the number does not divide into it.
- Secondly, by encouraging a drinking culture in younger people, the divide between young and old only widens.
- Until today, the Coalition has coasted through this rift without rancour even though there's a huge divide between the two sides.
- A society where the social divide between haves and have-nots has become a chasm is a society that breeds violence and brutality.
- The appearance is dramatic and bold, straddling the divide between classic and modern.
- For Williams, the divide between popular and elite art is the difference between art that makes people comfortable and art that shocks and makes you think.
- The divide between the digital and tangible is blurring…
- The Blue Nile and White Nile tributaries share a drainage divide with the Omo River.
- The river meets a divide, and darkness spreads in four directions.
- To the officials and the sheep men of Sydney, the rivers which flowed inland from the western slopes of the divide were rivers filled with much promise.
divide and rule (or conquer)
- The policy of maintaining control over one's subordinates or opponents by encouraging dissent between them, thereby preventing them from uniting in opposition: the politics of divide and rule in societyMore example sentences
- The partition plan flowed from Britain's policy of divide and rule.
- It was playing the old bosses' game of divide and rule to prevent workers' full power being unleashed.
- As a result of early colonial policies of divide and conquer, the regional governments tended to be drawn along ethnic lines.
divided against itself
- (Of a group which should be coherent) split by factional interests: the regime is profoundly divided against itselfMore example sentences
- Political and economic instability relentlessly stalked Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, and it was divided against itself in a bitter ideological battle for much of the second half.
- Europe, viciously divided against itself for centuries, has knit together into a democratic and civil society.
- If this Party is to continue to win elections in North Carolina, it cannot be divided against itself.
Middle English (as a verb): from Latin dividere 'force apart, remove'. The noun dates from the mid 17th century.
English adopted divide from Latin dividere 'to force apart, remove' in the Middle Ages. The maxim divide and rule, recommending that a ruler or government set factions against each other so that they will not unite against the powers that be, is also of Latin origin: divide et impera. People often attribute it to the Renaissance Italian statesman and political philosopher Machiavelli ( see Machiavellian), but in fact he denounced the principle. Dividend (Late Middle English) comes from the same Latin root, and originally meant 'something to be divided', while individual (Late Middle English) comes from the Latin for 'not divisible'. See also widow
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YOUR WISE SHOPPER: We didn't buy a thing on Black Friday. And, just to make it fair to merchants of all sizes and degrees of cold-hearted facelessness, we didn't buy anything on Small Business Saturday, either.
We were growing wealthier by the day, simply by not going out shopping like literally everyone else in the country. It was a move every bit as shrewd as when we avoided the Bernie Madoff-fueled market collapse of 2009 simply by leaving every penny we had in our checking account.
The only problem was, we didn't have any gifts to give for Christmas.
One year when we were a young adult living on our own, we went through the entire season without bothering to get any gifts.
"For is that not," we intoned, our fingers interlaced with what we hoped would come across as grace, "the true meaning of this blessed day? Now, please join me in prayer."
Our mom snorted; everyone else was polite enough to sneer noiselessly. We ended up not donating any money to anyone. That was our way of punishing the cynicism of our greed-blinded family.
On Sunday, our daughter asked if we would go holiday shopping with her on Long Beach's Retro Row section of Fourth Street.
Sunday - maybe you know it as Cyber-Monday Eve - was the perfect day to go: No throwing elbows at Wal-Mart shoppers on Black Friday or tripping over smugsters at Small Biz Saturday. The mercantile world was our mercantile oyster.
We got more shopping done than in any day of our Christmas shopping history. (An aside here to the inevitable and wearisome crackpot: If we're talking about Christmas, we'll call it Christmas; if we're referring to the season, we'll call it the holidays. You're going to have to arrange your life around that fact. In this case, all the gifts we bought were for Christmas presents, so, yes, we were Christmas shopping, although we did buy a couple of things for our otherly hued friends and/or fearers of other gods or none at all, and maybe they'd like them for one of the other holidays that pile up at year's end, but the wrapping is going to make them look like Christmas presents. We're fairly PC, but not to the extent that we're going to buy wrapping paper from the United Nations Gift Shop).
Crowds aside, as they were on Sunday, the scope of products available on Retro Row and other small shopping districts dwarfs the entire array of offerings at Wal-Mart or a shopping mall.
We could shop at Wal-Mart all day long and come away with nothing but a 20-pack of crew socks and a five-gallon jar of pickles, but, excuse us helpful Wal-Mart customer service representative, could you tell us, please, on what aisle might we find a copy of Frances Gulick Jewett's 1927 "Physiology, Hygiene & Sanitation"?
We purchased that book (and a few bags of other things that you can't find in your basic "store") at Inretrospect on Fourth Street, maybe our favorite overall shop in this hemisphere.
The proprietor was a bit irked that he hadn't noticed that the book was in the store. "I would've kept that one for myself," he said, when we showed him some of the photographs in the ancient book, including a picture of a drunkard's liver and another of a mustachioed gent sleeping in a bed on the roof of his house in order to avoid consumption (the book reminds the gentle reader to keep warm, with the tip, "An inexpensive way to get extra covering is to sew newspapers between blankets").
On and on we went, snapping up toddler-size Who T-shirts, a toy piano that plays the same song over and over till you want to drop a bank safe on it, hard-to-find condiments, gaudy Christmas apparel, handcrafted boxes and artwork.
After 90 minutes of shopping, we went to Portfolio with our daughter for some coffee before heading back to the car.
"Well, that worked out well," we said.
"It was great," replied Hannah. "Now, let's go to Second Street."
And so we did and it, too, was great.
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Relatively tech-free knowledge im afraid but ive been having ongoing issues with the media server - it may be to do with my Virgin SuperHub as it never used to happen on my O2 Broadband, but any help is appreciated.
So, watching every other video, about halfway through the audio will stop for 5 seconds and then the screen will freeze.
30 seconds later I get the media server disconnection error (cant remember no. off top of head) and I have to back out and try playing again (which it does from the start).
Sometimes, If I quickly press pause within the first 2 seconds of the audio freeze and then unpause 30 seconds later, I get the disconnection message but can play from the frozen screen fine.
Can any one advise?
Im thinking it may be the superhub and if so how can i improve the connection (PC wireless and PS3 wired incidently)
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Chlorine is a chemical that prevents bacteria from growing. Chlorine poisoning occurs when someone swallows or breathes in (inhales) chlorine.
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Chlorine, which reacts with water in and out of the body to form hydrochloric acid and hypochlorous acid. Both are extremely poisonous.
Note: This list may not include all uses and sources of chlorine.
Airways and lungs:
Eyes, ears, nose, and throat:
Heart and blood vessels:
Seek medical help right away. Do not make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
If the chemical is on the skin or in the eyes, flush with lots of water for at least 15 minutes.
If the chemical was swallowed, immediately give the person water or milk, unless instructed otherwise by a health care provider. Do not give water or milk if the patient is having symptoms (such as vomiting, convulsions, or a decreased level of alertness) that make it hard to swallow.
If the person breathed in the poison, immediately move him or her to fresh air.
Determine the following information:
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patient's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate. The patient may receive:
How well you do depends on the amount of poison swallowed and how quickly treatment is received. The faster you get medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Swallowing such poisons can have severe effects on many parts of the body.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2010. Toxicological profile for Chlorine. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Perez A, McKay C. Halogens (bromine, iodine, and chlorine compounds). In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders ; 2007:chap 96.
Sioris LJ, Schuller HK. Soaps, detergents, and bleaches. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2007:chap 102.
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"[Australia is] a song about running away. Bowie had done all his stuff about going to the moon, and Australia seemed about the furthest place away at the time..."Nicky Wire, 2002
"…Then there's The Love Of Richard Nixon which was sort of inspired by Bowie's This Is Not America."James Dean Bradfield, May 2004
"David Bowie! Go on, sue me!!!"James Dean Bradfield, during a live performance of the Sound and Vision-derived Roses In The Hospital, 1993
James Dean Bradfield: I was racking my brains last night, I was trying to think of a cover version that is better [than the original]. Nirvana did a great unplugged cover...Nicky Wire: The Man Who Sold The World. James Dean Bradfield: Yeah because, yeah because, obviously it's a Bowie track but Lulu's version of it is pretty bad. Nicky Wire: I like Lulu's version of it!Virgin Radio, 6 July 2003
"[Publicly wishing AIDS on Michael Stipe] didn't come out the way I wanted it to. I just wanted to demystify the whole rock 'n' roll...experience. David Bowie was going down on one knee saying the Lord's Prayer [at the Freddie Mercury Tribute/AIDS Charity Concert]...I dunno, everyone had had these decadent lives but now you must behave yourselves...and with Philip [Hall, MSP manager] having cancer, it was just all a big fuck-up. A disastrous moment in history. It's Philip's fault, he told me to do it: 'Go on, Wire: say it!' The mad bastard..."Nicky Wire, NME, August 1998
"I'd like to do something with Goldfrapp…Can't stop listening to their record at the moment…Sexiest record ever…Not for those reasons, but I think they're really good…David Bowie, maybe…Think James [Dean Bradfield] would like to do something with someone like Tony Bennett…some sort of AOR crooner…"Nicky Wire (asked who he would most like to duet with), 2003 webchat
"I think Bowie for us really, in terms of our love...well, for me definitely '77 to '81. Post-that and pre-that I can't say I'm a big fan really, but from Low through "Heroes" to Scary Monsters and The Lodger [sic]...Those were the influences were were after, Sound + Vision and stuff like that."Nicky Wire, Xfm radio interview, October 2004
"The White Stripes - I just don't get that at all. When they say, 'We recorded the whole album in two days,' it's like, yeah it sounds like it - it sounds fucking crap because you recorded it in a second."And Jet, Jet are so bad. Their music has the mental age of a foetus."I think it's too easy to make good music. There are so many idiots out there who've got rigs and computers in their bedroom who are making unbelievably average music that sounds quite good - it's not a healthy thing."From David Bowie to U2 you have to know when its time to evolve - if you don't, you die, like dodos you become extinct. You have to know when to stop and get out. I think we'll know when it's time to stop."Nicky Wire, Orange Playlist Show, 28 October 2004
"I think the best thing I can say about [the album Know Your Enemy] is not to expect anything from it, 'cause we don't expect anything from fans. But there's a mixture of all our influences, very much like a David Bowie sort of Pin Ups type album. There's lots of references to a lot of the things that we used to listen to when we were young. And then there's references going back to earlier albums, we just wanted to touch base again and find some sort of reality within ourselves."Sean Moore, 2001
"It's just the idea of turning on the radio and hearing something so glorious, it doesn't always need to have great lyrical weight. Which is something I've always believed in, you know, don't get me wrong, I'm very precious about words but... it's obviously the idea that I think in the 80's, for us, all our favourite alternative bands, shall we say alternative, could still come up with absolute pop classics. You know, New Order could, Echo & The Bunnymen could, The Cure could, stuff that my Mum would like. They didn't know anything about the band... "Just Like Honey" by The Jesus & Mary Chain. And I think that's lost now. You're either alternative or you're pop. You know, and that bridge, say David Bowie with "Ashes To Ashes," that just crosses every border. It's the coolest record on earth and yet it sold millions and millions to anybody."Nicky Wire, Irish radio interview, October 2004
"...it's a funny thing with Tony [Visconti] because he doesn't feature hugely, at the end we only recorded 4 tracks in New York in a month which was the best experience we've had for a long time and he was brilliant. He was the catalyst for us just to get our confidence back, more than anything else, I mean he produced "Ashes To Ashes" and that was, it's not sort of the Glam Bowie we were interested in, it was very much the kind of Berlin to "Let's Dance." At the end of it he just said, you guys know what you're doing now. He's just a real good people-person. You can't go in with a person like him unless you really know what you're doing. So it just made us much better."Nicky Wire, Irish radio interview, October 2004
"...there's little things like on a song like "Always/Never" on the album [Lifeblood], Nick actually started playing some slap bass which would've been heresy for us, you know from age 15 onwards, but I could say no, keep doing that, that's really good. And I could see the ongoing battle in his head, he was thinking no it sounds like fucking Cameo or it sounds like Level 42. And I'd be like, no, it sounds like "Ashes To Ashes" by David Bowie. If it's cool, if we're cool, it'll be cool."James Dean Bradfield, Irish radio interview, October 2004
"This is the first and maybe the last gig I'll ever do. It's a bit like David Bowie retiring Ziggy Stardust."Nicky Wire, speaking to NME.COM before his solo debut at the Guardian-On-Hay Festival, Wales, 4 June 2006
"You know how you get a lot of bands that won't play your favourites, won't play the audience's favourite songs, well, we've never been that band...I do kind of believe in the Springsteen-esque kind of entertainment ethic where people have paid to see you so you go out there and you give them the songs that they want to hear. The one unchanged thing abour being in a band whenever you're confronted with how the music industry has changed in that playing live is still the one thing you're still completely in control of. You're still standing on the same stage that David Bowie stood on, you're still standing on the same stage that The Clash stood on and you still actually feel as if you are part of rock 'n' roll tradition."James Dean Bradfield, The Drum Media, 14 October 2010, p.21
"...with Ian McCulloch, Echo & the Bunnymen were the first band that me, Richey and James went to see live. He came to our studio in Cardiff and he was the brightest light. It was like watching Bing Crosby and David Bowie doing a tune together in the room. It's so great that you can pick up a phone and say, 'do you wanna do this? Okay? Let's do it.'"Sean Moore, X-Press Magazine #1236, 21 October 2010, p.18
"When you get to our age you've gotta do something so fucking engaging and exciting for yourself, let alone the public. The last five years we've had such a great run that you don't wanna fucking spoil that. It's not that we're short of songs or anything. It's just gotta be the final phase of the band, really, one more leap, one more reinvention... We've got a lot of demos. We've got maybe 15 or 16 songs. There's a tender, acoustic unsettling side and there's a very European kind of David Bowie or early Simple Minds side at the moment. We're just fucking around, sometimes Sean's playing synths, I'm playing guitar and James is playing drums - we're just pissing around a lot."Nicky Wire, Irish Examiner, 7 October 2012
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In order to get my friends who are not from Philadelphia excited to watch Game One tonight I put together a little history for them, including facts about me and the Phils. I'm posting it here and sending it along to them so they can understand why the lunatic Philadelphia fans, myself included, are going absolutely nuts about are chances at winning the franchise's second World Series ever and the first Philadelphia pro sports championship since 1983 when the Sixers won it. I have never seen a Philadelphia team go all the way in my lifetime, but that will soon change.
Here goes...
- The age of the team combined with its history of adversity has earned them the distinction of having lost the most games of any team in the history of MLB.
- The Phillies have won one World Series championship...against Kansas City in 1980 and six National League pennants in their history.
- Phillies were founded in 1883 and were originally called the Quakers. They then became the Philadelphians. They officially became the Phillies in 1890.
- Won first pennant in 1915
- From 1918 to 1948 they had only one winning season. Ouch!
- William Cox bought the Phils in 1943 and they started to kill it, then it was revealed that Cox was betting on the Phils. Whoops. He was banned from baseball. So, the new owner Bob Carpenter, Jr. tried to improve the image of the Phillies by changing their name to the Blue Jays. Bad idea. The name didnt stick and was dropped by 1949.
- Thanks to the Whiz Kids (lead by future Hall of Famers Richie Ashburn and Robin Roberts) the Phils became good and popular forcing cross-town Athletics to peace out for Kansas City then Oakland. Good riddance!
- After a run of three straight division titles from 1976 to 1978, the Phillies won the NL East in 1980. I have a baseball signed by the whole 1978 Philadelphia Phillies team. My Dads bro somehow got it signed and gave it to me for my bday gift when I was like 12 or so cause I was really into the Phillies. Key players: Steve Carlton, Greg Luzinski, Mike Schmidt, Larry Bowa and Pete Rose. Hopefully my Mom hasn't thrown this out like she did my stellar baseball card collection which would have given me a nice chunk of change.
- Larry Bowas daughter, Tori, is friend's with Kristen and I've hung out with her. She's cool.
- Phils won the World Series in 1980 and thats it.
- In 1991, Lenny Dykstra who was so legit and bad boyish crashed his red Mercedes into a tree on Darby-Paoli Road in RADNOR TOWNSHIP! For those of you who don't know, I'm from Radnor Township. According to Radnor Township Police, Dykstra's blood alcohol content was 0.179 at the time of the crash. He was on his way home from Kruks bachelor party. My favorite player Darren Daulton was sitting shotgun. I've hated Dykstra ever since cause he put the love of my life, Daulton, in harms way. Every time my dad drives past the site he points out the tree and says, Dykstras tree as if I haven't heard this a million times. Theres still a mark in the tree. Lesson: Don't drink and drive buddy!
- Best season since was 1993 when they lost to the Blue Jays in the 1993 World Series. I attended game three at the Vet. Joe Carters family was sitting in the row behind us and another Blue Jay's family was sitting next to us. We got the tickets through a family friend who represented a couple of the Blue Jays. BTW, Joe Carter homered to win Game 4 and the series for the Blue Jays. Totally awkward, but well worth it.
- The Phils lost in game 4.
- The strike in 1994 turned the city even more into an eagles town. Upside for me and my dad cheap tickets more games and one of the highlights of my life...
- I threw out the first pitch for my birthday and threw it hard and in the strike zone. I got more applause then anyone else prob cause I was the only girl and puny. I couldn't throw it that well now.
- Every year John Connors (my best friend Kims dad) used to dress up as John Kruk in the thanksgiving parade. Legit everyone thought he was the real thing. Looked just like him.
- My favorite players come from this era when I loved baseball and the Phillies including Darren Daulton (who I later found out has numerous DUIs and domestic violence charges against him...so I've dropped him since), Mickey Morandini (second base the goods, had an unassisted triple play big news), Mitch Williams (bad *** closer and totally that guy on the team), Kevin Stocker (I had his rookie card signed before my mom tossed my collection), Wes Chamberlain (hits the hell outta the ball) and John Kruk (out of shape, dirty, huge dipper, tar helmet now hes clean cut on ESPN really has come along way).
- In 2001, the Phillies had their first winning season in 8 years.
- In 2004, the Phillies moved from the Vet to Citizens Bank Park, which is big but not as homey. Phils fans miss the Vet. They do sell only local food and drinks and make a mean cheesesteak there and "the Schmitter" is a fan favorite.
- "The Schmitter" which is apparently not named after Mike Schmidt - Kaiser roll, cheese, special sauce, tomatoes, grilled salami, fried onions and steak. You're going to need to eat this sitting and then sit for about 2 hours to digest.
- Citizen's Bank Park actually has the most healthy vegetarian menu in pro sports also. Believe it or not.
- In 2007, the Phils lost their 10,000th game. Congrats! Very proud. That same season they won the east pennant but lost in the division series.
- In 2008, the Phils clinched their second straight division title and defeated the Brewers and Carrie's husband, pitcher for the Brewers Dave Bush, in the Division Series to record the franchises first post-season victory since the 1993 world series. Bush grew up a Phillies fan so he can't be all that mad...take one for the team buddy. Thanks to our on-point pitching and offensive production from MOST (not all theyll need to wake up tonight...I'm looking at you Howard) of the starting lineup, the Phils won the 2008 National League Championship Series against the LA Dodgers. Hamels was named MVP and asked me to marry him, even though hes not single.
- My favorite current player is Chase Utley. He's a genuine good guy and excellent leader on and off the field. He's young with a strong personality. Utley is seen in combination with Jimmy Rollins as one of the best middle-infield combinations in the NL. You'll see that tonight!
- Tonight, the Phils will win game one of the world series and Philadelphia will celebrate like they won the World Series...this will continue until they finally seal the deal. Be advised...fans went nuts and started a fire in the streets of West Chester last week after they beat LA to move on. Be safe!
Grab a Yuengling, TastyCake, soft pretzel, cheesesteak or whatever else you have around and starting chanting "Let's go Fightin' Phils! Woop woop!!
I hope you enjoyed my Philadelphia Phillies history lesson. Grab your jersey and let's make history!


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HAYWARD -- Lightning-fast Internet connections could be coming to local businesses, using a private-public model that created Lit San Leandro, a fiber-optic network that encircles that city.
The same company that created the high-speed network in San Leandro wants to expand into its neighbor to the south as High-Speed Hayward, which would utilize existing underground city conduit to house an 18-mile loop of cable. Businesses could tap into the network, receiving and sending data over the Internet in a fraction of the time it takes with broadband, said Lit San Leandro CEO Jim Morrison.
"Fiber optic is much, much faster," he said.
In exchange for Hayward allowing the cable to be run through its conduit, the city would have access to 10 percent, or 30 strands of the network, Morrison said. "It would effectively be theirs," he said. Thirty fiber strands could carry several thousand times more data than what is used at City Hall, according to a staff report.
The Hayward City Council will be briefed on the proposal during a work session Tuesday night, but will not vote on it.
High-Speed Hayward, the tentative name of the project, would first focus on biotech businesses in the industrial area west of Hesperian Boulevard.
"We're very interested in the biotech community," Morrison said. "Genome research is very data-intensive, and our product would allow large quantities of data to be moved super-fast on the Internet."
High-Speed Hayward could be a boon to the city, said Councilman Al Mendall. "I'm excited about its potential to help us attract high-tech and biotech companies to the city," he said.
Lit San Leandro was created by Patrick Kennedy, who owns software company OSIsoft of San Leandro. The longtime San Leandro resident invested $3 million of his own money in the joint private-public venture because his growing international company needed more Internet bandwidth.
The venture is starting to pay off in San Leandro, Morrison said.
"Where we've run fiber, there has been a significant reduced vacancy rate," he said. "It raises the value of property when you have fiber optic connectivity."
Lit San Leandro also is negotiating with other East Bay cities, though Morrison declined to be more specific. "We're making an effort to unify the East Bay as a high-tech advanced manufacturing and health care initiative area," he said.
If the council approves moving ahead with the fiber optic plan, a contract would be negotiated, with a council vote scheduled for October or November. Work could start as early as January and be finished within a year, Morrison said.
Plans call for a company separate from Lit San Leandro to run High-Speed Hayward, though the two would have the same management team, he said.
It's premature to speculate about how much it would cost to tap into the network, Morrison said, because there are too many variables, such as the types and sizes of businesses and how close they would be to the loop.
Much as San Leandro is doing, Hayward could use the fiber-optic network to attract new businesses, he said. Other businesses could benefit indirectly, because those new workers will patronize local banks, barbers, restaurants and other places.
The developer would pay all the costs of installing and maintaining the network, said Mark Guenther, Hayward's technology services director. "This is not going to cost the city anything," he said.
The network is aimed at businesses, not residences. It will provide almost unlimited band width, allowing businesses to grow, Morrison said.
"This enables people to think fast and work fast; you're not waiting for downloads," he said. "It's uber-fast. You have information quickly: boom, boom, boom."
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473 or follow her at Twitter.com/rdparr1.
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Council chamber, City Hall, 777 B St.


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An Eagle merchant called police May 11 with suspicions that a customer who had just left her shop was wearing clothing she did not pay for.Officers caught up with the teenage female suspect a few blocks away from the store, and noted that she was wearing a lot of clothing — including a hoodie and a large puffy jacket — on a day when everyone else in the vicinity was sporting short sleeves. When the officers told the girl she was suspected of shoplifting, she responded that she was not a thief. She agreed to let the officers check her jacket and they found two tags from the store where the alleged shoplifting occurred. The officers also found a pair of socks and a package of underwear in her pockets. The officers noted they could see other garments on under the girl's clothing and they placed her in custody.During an interview with police, the shop owner and an employee reported the girl had come into the store and picked up some items to try on. They noticed she was difficult to understand and acted nervous. When she came out of the dressing room, they noted that many of the items she had taken inside were no longer in the dressing room. They reportedly asked the girl about the items, and she responded that she was not a thief.The owner said she asked the girl to empty her pockets but she refused. The owner told the girl she would have to call the police and the girl left the shop.The owner identified the socks and underwear as items that had been taken from her store. She said other missing items included a bra, denim shorts, black boy shorts and a patterned tank top. The total value of the missing times was $237.95.A female officer arrived at the police station to assist with the recovery of the missing items and when she arrived, the girl complained her head was spinning. An ambulance was called to the scene and the girl was transported to a medical facility. Eventually all the missing items were recovered and the girl was issued a summons for petty theft and released to the custody of her father.
Eagle Police received a call on May 11 from Eagle Valley Middle School regarding the theft of an iPhone.The school principal said a student had admitted to prying open another student's locker and stealing the phone. The principal said she was alerted to the theft when she received an email from a student's mother informing her that her son's iPhone had been stolen at school May 9. The mother said she had notified AT&T and shut down the service.On May 10, the school's assistant principal received information that one of the students at the school had a stolen cell phone in his possession. When contacted, the student had an iPhone that he claimed was his. The assistant principal called the student's mother, who said her son had a phone that had been given to him by a friend. The mom agreed to come to the school to discuss the issue.When the mother arrived, the principal asked if she could check the serial number on the phone to confirm it had not been stolen. When she opened the phone's setting page, it displayed the name of the student who had reported his phone was stolen. At that point she asked the boy if he had stolen the phone and he admitted the theft, saying the other student's locker was partially open and he pried it the rest of the way to gain access to the phone.After the meeting with the student and his mother, the principal called police. The boy admitted to police he had pried open the other student's locker and took the phone. Police noted the boy was very cooperative with the investigation. The case was referred to the district attorney's office to file charges of third degree burglary and theft.
Eagle Police responded to City Market to speak with the store security officer about a man who was caught taking a pair of sunglasses.The security officer said he had been alerted by employees to watch a group of people that frequent the store and are suspected of shoplifting. The suspect was among that group.On May 5, the man walked into the store and approached the customer service counter to complete a Western Union transaction. While waiting, he took a pair of $14 sunglasses off a nearby rack. He then exited the store without paying for the item. The store's video surveillance recorded the incident.The man said he did not mean to take the glasses. He said he planned to buy them and forgot he had them. He offered several times to pay for the glasses.He was issued a summons for petty theft and released. City Market officials told police they want to bar the man from entering the store in the future.
• An Eagle woman called police May 15 to report her cell phone had been stolen. The woman said she left her iPhone on the grass next to the bike path along Seventh Street while she and a friend took off for a run. When they returned, the phone was gone. The woman and her friend attempted to use a Find My Phone application to locate the missing cell and the phone showed up in the Bull Run area. Police were unable to locate anyone in the vicinity and the woman contacted AT&T to stop her service and lock her phone.• An Eagle Public Works employee called police May 3 to report damage to a pump house located along Fairgrounds Road. The frame to the building door was broken and there were shoe prints on the door. Next to the building, a picnic table was overturned and several wood boards were broken. There were also several beer and liquor bottles in the area. The estimated total cost of the damage is $400 and there are no suspects in the case.


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- Cal stuns No. 1 Arizona
BERKELEY -- It took everyone on the floor to engineer Cal's stunning 60-58 upset of unbeaten No. 1 Arizona on Saturday night at Haas Pavilion. And that includes the fans who stormed the floor afterward.
The capacity crowd of 11,877 at Haas Pavilion definitely played a role.
"When that crowd is packed like that we get so much energy," senior guard Justin Cobbs said.
But as the game neared its climax, it seemed no one had more energy than Cobbs.
He had scored just three points in the first half, when the Bears led by as many as nine points on the way to a 30-29 lead over one of the nation's three remaining unbeaten teams.
Then, after Tyrone Wallace made a drive to give Cal a 48-42 lead with 11:30 left, no one other than Cobbs scored another point for the Bears. He scored the Bears' final 12 points.
That fact surprised Cobbs afterward. He was busy playing, not counting.
"Coach said we need to score and we scored," said Cobbs, who finished with a game-high 19 points.
Here's how he scored his final dozen points:
On the final possession, coach Mike Montgomery opted not to use a timeout but joked that he'd already called a play for the big moment.
"We called `make it,' he said.
And Cobbs obliged.


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by Jason Kay - October 31, 2008 9:47 AM UTC
If expansion or relocation ever becomes a reality, here's the top five destinations for a freshman franchise.
Toronto went gaga last week over a tenuous story musing about the possibility of a second NHL franchise in the self-ordained center of the hockey universe.
by Jason Kay - October 24, 2008 11:42 AM UTC
A report this week quoting a few NHL governors caused the debate about another NHL team in Toronto to rise yet again.
I'm not sure how the "news" played outside the self-ordained center of the hockey universe, but within the 416 and 905 area codes it spread like chicken pox in daycare.
by Jason Kay - October 17, 2008 10:47 AM UTC
Any player considering a move to the Kontinental League should think about more than just the large sum of money being offered.
I have three words of advice for any professional hockey player considering jumping to the Kontinental League: do your homework. The lure of lucre is sweet and we realize as professional athletes your window of opportunity for big paydays is relatively small, but money, we're told (and often believe), ain't everything.
by Jason Kay - October 10, 2008 12:36 PM UTC
The start of the season had some surprises, though Sean Avery's mouth was predictable. However, this time he has a point.
Predictably, the first week of the NHL season had its share of surprises. The defending champion Detroit Red Wings, virtually everyone's pick to repeat as Stanley Cup champs, were shocked in Game 1 by the Toronto Maple Leafs, many people's pick to compete hard in the John Tavares/Victor Hedman sweepstakes.
by Jason Kay - October 4, 2008 11:56 AM UTC
With the economy on shaky ground, will a poor showing by the Sabres have N.Y. sports fans looking elsewhere?
I was perusing the Team Reports for an upcoming issue of The Hockey News (the old-school paper version, that is) when I was struck by a sense of optimism in many quarters of the NHL.
by Jason Kay - September 27, 2008 11:18 AM UTC
There may still be some growning pains, but the East Coast Cats look ready to pounce sooner than later.
Don't look now, but here come the Florida Panthers. Maybe. The Panthers launched an ambitious Western Canadian road trip with back-to-back wins in Calgary and Edmonton, two difficult environments for visitors, before losing their third match to the Oilers in a shootout and their fourth to the Flames Friday night.
by Jason Kay - September 20, 2008 11:06 AM UTC
How exactly will THN's No. 1 GM get himself out of his cap conundrum?... and thoughts on Gretzky coaching Team Canada.
There is no disputing the fact: camp is a four-letter word. It's the place your parents banished you to – one with no amenities and swarms of bugs – so they could have "mommy and daddy" time.
by Jason Kay - September 13, 2008 6:07 PM UTC
Philly's Joffrey Lupul is among a group of players in their early 20's who we feel have under-performed to this point.
We've spilled a lot of ink in recent months celebrating a golden age of young stars, a time when a seeming horde of early 20-somethings have either grabbed the torch of stardom or have their hands held high.
by Jason Kay - September 6, 2008 12:51 AM UTC
It's the start of a new era at The Hockey News and we want your help to shape it.
I got a call last Thursday morning from senior writer Mike Brophy, asking if I wanted to go for lunch. Red flags, air-raid sirens and "last minute of play in this tenure" alerts should have gone off immediately because "Broph" – as he insisted I refer to him on his first day on the job 16 years ago – was on vacation.
by Jason Kay - August 31, 2008 3:44 PM UTC
With all the different tournaments, championships and leagues sprouting up around the world, a little simplification would help.
Maybe it's a reflection of my age, or the age of man, or a combination of the two, but my attention span has dwindled to the size of…hey, did you check out that cute baby video on YouTube yet? I'll kick her ass, LOL… Where were we? Right.
by Jason Kay - August 9, 2008 10:42 AM UTC
There are a few Original Six teams with a lot of potential to create a positive buzz and stir fan interest.
Questions I'm frequently asked as editor-in-chief of The Hockey News (with the answers I wish I could furnish, but am too polite to utter, in parentheses) include: 1.
by Jason Kay - August 2, 2008 10:31 AM UTC
While the THN staff is busy ranking all the best modern logos, let's give some love to the best defunct NHL crests.
What's more fun in the middle of summer than a discussion on the best, and worst, hockey logos? A top 10 ranking of the designs that no longer exist, except in the deepest recesses of our minds and some obscure websites.


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NASA released the first natural-color image of Saturn from space Tuesday, in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, are visible. The image was taken by the agency's Cassini spacecraft, which has been exploring the Saturn system for more than nine years. Cassini's imaging team processed 141 wide-angle images to create the panorama. The natural-color used shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes.
The image sweeps 404,880 miles across Saturn and its inner ring system, including all of Saturn's rings out to the E ring, which is Saturn's second outermost ring. For perspective, the distance between Earth and the Moon would fit comfortably inside the span of the E ring.
This composite view of Saturn, as annotated by NASA, shows Earth, Venus, and Mars. (Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)
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There's some new blood on the Gypsum Recreation Committee.
Town council members appointed three new members to the seven-member committee and re-appointed longtime committee member Pam Schultz. Schultz is also a town council member. The new members are Dave McMichael, Ryan Adams and Carrie Larson. Dave McMichael is council member Tim McMichael's 24-year-old son. Schultz, Dave McMichael and Adams will serve four-year terms and Larson will have a three-year term.
The members were selected from a group of several applicants who responded to a notice posted on town bulletin boards and on the town website. Mayor Steve Carver was absent from the meeting.
"It's nice to have a selection," said council member Tom Edwards. "The whole group was good but we can only pick four."
Mayor Pro Tem Dick Mayne encouraged the people who weren't selected to maintain an interest.
"It will be important for new people to serve in the future," he said.
Schultz was re-appointed because of her experience, which will likely come in handy as the rec committee enters a new chapter.
The committee has functioned as a somewhat informal entity until now. Meetings were irregularly scheduled and attendance by the members was sporadic. Council members decided last month that, in light of the town's growth, it was time to hash out concrete term limits, meeting schedules and bylaws.
Town Planner Lana Gallegos is still figuring out the details. One key intention is to stagger the terms of the committee so that not all seven term limits expire at the same time, thus retaining a percentage of experienced members while changing the group's roster every two years. That's why Larson was appointed to a three-year term.
The remaining rec committee members are George Hudspeth, Drew Raiford and Holly Loff. Those terms expire in 2015.
The rec committee helps the town conceptualize its recreational amenities, such as improving existing ones and considering potential for new ones. The group played a role in acquiring the former private Cotton Ranch Golf Club and turning it into the public Gypsum Creek Golf Course. That had been a long-standing goal for council member Tim McMichael, who is stepping down from the rec committee after serving on it several years.
"The golf course was what I wanted to see happen and I'm ready to let someone else take over," he said.
Lately, the committee is considering ideas for a dog park and whitewater park, among other things.
"I use the Gypsum Rec Center about five days a week - it's great - but I would like to expand on what is outside of it," Dave McMichael said. "There is a lot of land we can utilize for trails and things."
Adams has lived in Gypsum for two years since he got a job at the airport. He said he recently bought a house, started a family and wants to get more involved in the community.
"We appreciate the interest," Mayne said.
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In other action Tuesday night, the town council approved a new five-year contract with the Eagle County Sheriff Department.
Gypsum does not have it's own police force and contracts with the sheriff for law enforcement.
Under the new contract, the town will pay $675,000 for services in 2013 and $750,000 in 2014. The rate will increase by 5 percent for each of the following three years.


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Maxine Powell, who was responsible for developing the charm, grace and style of Motown Records' artists during the Detroit label's 1960s heyday, has died. She was 98.
Motown Museum CEO Allen Rawls says Powell died Monday at a hospital in Southfield, Mich. She was moved into hospice care two weeks ago, and the Motown museum downtown paid a tribute to her in August.
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Swan, Wyoming
Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic
This serene image by photographer James Blair succeeds all the more because of its cool blue palette. Every inch of the image says winter, peace, silence. Colors can imbue a photograph with a strong sense of mood. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: Blues tend to be cool colors, especially the blues that drift toward purple. When they dominate a scene, we feel a shiver—an emotional response to the color. One blast of yellow or red in a mostly blue scene will warm it up and change our reaction. Remember to use color creatively in an image to leave an overall impression on the viewer.
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Photograph by Josh Exell, My Shot
Silhouettes against a colorful sky or background can make wonderful pictures. The trick is often to underexpose the brighter area of a photograph. The dark area and shadows don't change in this beautiful shot by Josh Exell, but the orange is a richer orange because of the deeper exposure. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: Most of us know that sunsets can provide dramatic colors in the sky. But many people don't realize that if they keep shooting after the brightest color seems to fade to the naked eye, a richer hue of the color may appear on film or flash card.
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New York City Skyline
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
At times, the overall color of a scene can be so different from the way we normally see it that we hardly recognize the place. Seeing lush, green Central Park in a pink fog changes it completely in Jim Richardson's stunning view, shot from a hotel window. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: Bad weather makes great pictures. It can also make the familiar completely new. So head out in that snowstorm and find ways to shoot in the rain. Celebrate fog and sandstorm and lightning. New pictures await under these conditions.
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Black Dog
Photograph by Tarik Mahmutovic, My Shot
The simplicity of this poignant photograph by Tarik Mahmutovic is strengthened by the way he cropped it. Nothing distracts from the basic black of the puppy's body, so we are pulled into its mournful eyes. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: Keeping the color palette simple by cropping out any distracting background can call attention to the most important elements of a photograph. Remember, black and white are colors too.
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Lightning, Nebraska
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
Colors are often associated with certain emotions. The eerie green of the porch against the oddly purple sky gives a spooky feeling to the whole image. Photographer Jim Richardson has wisely worked with the halogen lighting that photographers usually avoid. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: Remember that artificial lighting comes in a variety of colors. Tungsten is yellow, flash is blue, and fluorescent varies. These colors can make or break a photograph, so use them thoughtfully.
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Macaws, Bolivia
Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic
It's the colors in this abstract photograph that allow us to recognize the birds in flight as macaws. Because macaws have such bright and distinctive colors, photographer Joel Sartore was able to create a successful abstract image, one in which birds of quieter hues would have disappeared. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: Distinct colors can help the viewer recognize objects in an abstract view. When presented with this advantage, the photographer has more leeway to be creative with time exposures and motion while still allowing the subject to read.
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Ballet Dancers, California
Photograph by James L. Amos, National Geographic
Like nodding flowers, these ballerinas flow together as much for the palette of their costumes as for the choreography of the dance. Photographer James L. Amos has wisely photographed from above, allowing the soft pastels of the tutus to seem suspended against the simple dark background of the floor. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: Varying colors that have the same feeling or mood in a scene can blend together to give an overall impression of color. This is true with both soft and bright colors. Setting a cluster of color against a simple background will enhance the mood.
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Imperial Palace Garden, Japan
Photograph by Justin Guariglia, National Geographic
The symmetry of this lovely photograph by Justin Guariglia is interrupted and made memorable by the red umbrella and its reflection in the pond. The strength of the red in this scene balances the dominant deep greens and cool colors and is quietly echoed by a gray umbrella in the upper left corner. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: In an image with a simple palette, a splash of color can add interest to the scene. But the placement of that color in the scene must be composed thoughtfully so that it adds to the balance of the overall photograph.
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Middleton Gardens, South Carolina
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic
This exquisite image was photographed long ago, on a glass plate negative, by B. Anthony Stewart. Perhaps that explains the delicate palette that makes this image so very beautiful. The colors in this photograph have captured the feeling of spring in the American Southeast as well as any image I have ever seen. —Annie Griffiths
Photo Tip: With all the exciting creative techniques made possible by digital technology, it is good to revisit old images and old techniques. It can remind us that subtlety can be far more beautiful than manipulated imagery.
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Snowstorm, China
Photograph by Michael Yamashita, National Geographic
Another great picture made better by bad weather. Michael Yamashita has used a telephoto lens in this situation to compress the snowflakes into patterns of white. He has wisely focused on a plane of snow, leaving the background figures slightly soft. All these photographic choices pull the viewer into the storm. We can practically feel the snowflakes on our tongues. —Annie Griffiths
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Something didn't seem quite right at the finish of the 31st annual Donner Lake Triathlon on Sunday.
Aside from the finish line itself, which was moved from near the mouth of the Donner Creek inlet closer to the main strip of West End Beach, five-time defending champion and modern course record-holder Steven Sexton was nowhere in sight. The Team USA triathlete from Davis did not show, leaving the door wide open for a new champion.
Brandon Nied took full advantage.
The 21-year-old from Reno used a strong run around Donner Lake to capture the overall win in a time of 2 hours, 11 minutes. Multi-time champion Scott Young, 46, of Reno finished runner-up in a time of 2:12:58, while Finland native Sami Inkinen, 37, of San Francisco, who was second to Sexton last year, was third in 2:14:55.
"I was leading at the start of the run, but this guy who won, he was just amazing," Inkinen said of Nied, who ran the 6.5 miles around the lake in 37:27, compared to Young's 39:31 and Inkinen's 42:11. "It looked like he had wings. He was just floating on the road."
Nied, a former collegiate runner, said he was careful not to expend too much energy on the first two legs of the race — a 0.9-mile swim off of West End Beach and 24.8-mile bike up Old Highway 40 to Kingvale and back.
"I really had to try to gauge my effort, especially on the bike. It's one of those things where you really have to think about that run, because if you go into oxygen debt, you're done," said Nied, a first-time participant of the event's International course.
As top athletes streamed in to the finish chute, something still didn't seem quite right.
Three-time defending women's champion Shannon Rahlves of Truckee was not celebrating a win.
She instead settled for second place behind Elizabeth Lyles of Reno, who returned to the race for the first time since 2007 after having two children. Lyles won it in 2007 and owns several of the top-10 fastest times.
"It was so awesome," Lyles said of the race. "The water was amazing, so warm. And the bike was great. I trained a lot on the Mount Rose summit, so I was ready for it. And the run was good too; I love running."
Lyles returned in impressive fashion. The 34-year-old set a new women's course record while finishing 10th overall in a time of 2:22:19, which bumped Holly Nybo's previous record of 2:24:51, set in 2000.
"I'm back," Lyles said. "Every year. This is a great local, challenging race."
Rahlves was not shabby herself. The 37-year-old sister of Olympic alpine skier Daron Rahlves posted a runner-up time of 2:29:40, which was good enough for 18th place overall.
The next woman finisher, Joanne Gilchrist of Chico, placed 41st overall in a time of 2:41:08. Heather Lyman of South Lake Tahoe was the fourth woman in 2:42:28, and Jami Min of Truckee rounded out the top five in 2:46:14.
Among the top men, Tim Sheeper of Menlo Park was fourth in 2:17:56 and was followed by Darren Baker (2:18:06) of Lafayette, Andrew Grant (2:18:20) of Folsom, Michael Ingardia (2:19:56) of San Jose, Eliot Drake (2:20:42) of Reno, and Thomas Taylor (2:20:55) of Brentwood.
Truckee's Chris Cloyd was the top local, finishing 12th in a time of 2:24:43.
"It was a great race — great support from the volunteers, and it's great to compete in a hometown race. It's a lot of fun," said Cloyd, who helps coach Truckee's Wild Cherries Junior Triathlon Team, which was well represented in both the sprint and International fields Sunday.
Cloyd, a competitive cyclist and manager at Truckee's Performance Training Center by Julia Mancuso, posted the second-fastest bike leg behind Inkinen, in 1:09:50 to Inkinen's 1:08:40.
"I'm a competitive road cyclist, so the bike is my favorite because I actually feel like I'm an athlete out there. I just hold on on the swim and pray on the run, but if I can do well on the bike, it's a lot of fun," said Cloyd, who said he reached a top speed of 57 mph coming down Old 40. "No brakes. That was only the second time ever done it with no breaks. The first time was last year's race."
A total of 258 people participated in the International-distance triathlon.
Nothing was out of place atop the leaderboard of the sprint triathlon.
Michael Smith, 48, of Santa Barbara claimed the overall victory for the ninth consecutive year. Smith, who owns the top five fastest times in the sprint, took the win again with relative ease, posting a time of 39:25 to runner-up Jake Rollo's 41:37. Andrew Clusserath, 15, of Soda Springs took third in 42:04.
Another young local, 16-year-old Danielle Nivinski of Truckee, captured first place among women and was eighth overall in a time of 46:28. Eleanor Velez, 15, of El Dorado Hills was the second woman and ninth overall in 46:41, while Mirella Terada of Redwood City was third (18th overall) in 51:16.
Nivinski, a to-be junior at the Sugar Bowl Academy, said she felt like she held a slight advantage over much of the field based on her local status.
"Definitely," she said, "with the elevation and just knowing the course."
Truckee athletes Addison Dvoracek, 16, finished 12th in 47:42, Skyler Mullings, 14, was 17th in 50:53, and Hannah Halvorsen, 14, was the fourth woman and 20th overall in 51:50. Zachary Williams, 15, of Truckee was 30th in 52:44.
There were 236 finishers of the sprint triathlon, which consists of a 1/4-mile swim, a 6-mile bike and a 2-mile run.
To view a photo gallery from the race, go to www.sierrasun.com/2012DonnerTri. To find the complete results, go to www.bigblueadventure.com.


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Seawolves looking for seven straight victory
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Stony Brook to join CAA Football in 2013
A new era of Stony Brook Football in the premier FCS conference to begin in 2013.
2012: Played in 11 games ...saw time on special teams and at wide receiver vs. Gardner-Webb (10/20) ... saw action at Coastal Carolina (10/13) ... recorded first career catch for four yards vs. Charleston Southern (10/6) ... played at Army (9/29) and at Syracuse (9/15) ... saw action vs. Pace (9/8) and Central Connecticut (9/1).
2011: Saw action in 11 games ... played mostly on special teams.
2010: Saw action in one game ... made a tackle against Liberty.
2009: Did not see game action.
High School: A 2008 graduate of Ward Melville High School in Setauket, New York ... two-time letterwinner in football for the Patriots ... also a member of the track team ... lettered as a hurdler.
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Proposed senior living community before Randolph Development
Review Board next, final phase of Act 250 filing expected soon
RANDOLPH – In an exciting reversal, the District 3 Environmental Commission on Jan. 3 awarded Gifford Medical Center a long-sought partial approval for a planned senior living community in Randolph Center.
The commission granted Gifford approval on an Act 250 criterion regarding construction on primary agriculture soils, clearing the way for the Randolph-based medical center to move forward with filing for the final phases of Act 250 review next month.
"We're very happy. This is great news. The favorable ruling by Act 250 will allow us to move forward with one of the most important aspects of the project," said hospital Administrator Joseph Woodin. Continue reading


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Democratic state senator from Lawton has filed three bills that he says are designed to ease the voting process for Oklahomans.
Sen. Randy Bass says Senate Bill 279 will expand the period for in-person absentee voting in counties with populations of at least 50,000 during presidential elections while SB 276 would allow a representative of an incapacitated voter, such as a person with special needs, to apply for an absentee ballot in person.
He says the third bill is SB 277 that would widen the pool of people who can work as election judges, clerks, counters and in other precinct positions required for elections.
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