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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(b) Use of gas chambers
1. Denial of the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and elsewhere is a central element in denial of the Holocaust. Irving, as Plaintiff in the case, has responded to the defence's plea to the court in the following terms: 'It is denied that the Plaintiff has denied the Holocaust; it is denied that the Plaintiff has denied that gas chambers were used by the Nazis as the principal means of carrying out that extermination; they may have used them on occasion on an experimental scale, which fact he does not deny.'47 This sentence is self-contradictory - is he saying that he accepts that the gas chambers were the principal means of killing, or that their use was only possible ('may have used') and if it did occur, is he merely saying that it was only experimental in scale?
2. It is also contradicted by another line of defence he takes against the accusation of being a Holocaust denier, namely to deny that there is any authentic wartime archival evidence for the existence of gassing facilities at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka; a cautious statement stopping short of an outright denial but clearly designed to imply that those gassing facilities therefore did not exist.48 Here it is necessary to point out that the term 'archival' is redundant: if there is authentic wartime evidence, it does not matter whether it is stored in an archive, a library, a private house or anywhere else: its authenticity is not affected by any of this. Moreover, if Irving is implying here that he will not accept any evidence about the Second World War unless it was written at the time, then how does he justify his own very extensive use of the postwar testimony of members of Hitler's entourage given in interviews with them conducted by himself? Here again, he is applying double standards in his approach to different types of evidence. The fact is, as this Report has already pointed out at some length, that historians have to take all kinds of evidence into account, and apply the same standards of criticism to all of them. Even if Irving is correct in implying that there is no authentic wartime evidence of gassing facilities at the camps he mentions (and as expert witness reports by Professor Van Pelt and Professor Browning will demonstrate, he is not), this does not mean that there is no authentic evidence of any kind to prove that they existed.
3. Nevertheless, Irving clearly means to imply that they did not. In his testimony to the Zündel trial in 1988, indeed, Irving explicitly rejected the use of the term 'extermination camps' apart from Chelmno, which 'was operating on a very small scale', and by shooting, not gassing.49 This minor concession is characteristic of his technique in admitting small-scale, limited instances of what he devotes much of his attention to denying on the large scale, as a kind of alibi that enables him to deny that he is really doing the latter at all. Admitting the existence of experimental gassing facilities and mass shootings ('on a very small scale') at Chelmno does not, however, constitute an admission that the Holocaust happened as it is conventionally defined by those who have carried out bona fide research into it.
4. In 1992, he put forward the same kind of argument in describing the memoirs of Adolf Eichmann, Irving said:
He also describes - and I have to say this being an honest historian - going to another location a few weeks later and being driven around in a bus; then being told by the bus driver to look through a peephole into the back of the bus where he saw a number of prisoners being gassed by the exhaust fumes. So I accept that this kind of experiment was made on a very limited scale, but that it was rapidly abandoned as being a totally inefficient way of killing people. But, I don't accept that the gas chambers existed, and this is well known. I've seen no evidence at all that gas chambers existed.50
5. In pursuit of the latter argument, Irving endorsed the so-called Leuchter Report, which sought to prove that there were no gassings at Auschwitz, and published the Report under his Focal Point imprint on 23 June, 1989.
6. Following the Leuchter Report, Irving alleges both that there has been a 'refusal of the authorities to call for site examinations, forensic tests and other investigations' at Auschwitz, and that 'forensic tests were carried out by Polish authorities on the Auschwitz site', but that the results ('of which the Plaintiff has a copy') were 'suppressed' because they confirmed Leuchter's findings.51 He alleges that 'equal tonnages of Zyklon-B pesticide granules were delivered to Auschwitz and Oranienburg camps, at which latter camp nobody has ever suggested that gas chambers existed, and to camps in Norway.' Recently discovered documents in former Soviet archives show that Auschwitz prisoners, he says, were released to the outside world on completion of their sentence. This is 'incompatible with the character of a top-secret mass extermination centre'. The official history of British Intelligence in the Second World War, edited by F. H. Hinsley, claims that illness was the main cause of death in Auschwitz, and not gassing.52 Moreover, he denies 'that diesel engines can be used for killing operations. These engines exhaust non-lethal carbon dioxide (CO2), and only minute quantities of toxic carbon monoxide (CO). These howlers', he says, 'typify the flawed historical research into "the Holocaust" even now, fifty years after the tragedy.'53 In his videotaped speech The Search for Truth in History, made in 1993, Irving asked: 'How can you gas millions of people with hydrogen cyanide gas and leave not the slightest significant trace of chemical residue in the walls of the gas chambers?' Irving went on to claim that Dr. Franciszek Piper of the Auschwitz State Museum had had the tests secretly replicated and when the State Forensic Laboratory in Cracow had confirmed Leuchter's findings the museum suppressed the fact and filed the report away.54 The engines used in the gas-vans at Chelmno and elsewhere were not diesel but petrol engines. The official history of British Intelligence in the Second World War by F. H. Hinsley does not, as this Report has already noted, suggest that nobody was gassed at Auschwitz.
7. These allegations are the subject of a separate expert witness report by Professor Robert Jan Van Pelt. Here it may be noted briefly that Irving's arguments are specious and derivative, and correspond to those put forward by well-known Holocaust deniers. The Leuchter Report is an incompetent and thoroughly unscientific document compiled by an unqualified person; it was completely discredited at the second Zündel trial in 1988. The Polish authorities have not suppressed findings of their own investigations of the former gas chambers, and these findings do not confirm Leuchter's claims. Prisoners sent to Auschwitz for extermination were not even enrolled on the camp's list of inmates, but were sent straight away to the gas chamber; there was no record of their release.55
8. These arguments are not for the most part based on original research by Irving, but are derived from previous work by well-known Holocaust deniers such as Robert Faurisson.56 Irving himself is on record as ascribing his 'conversion' to the belief that there were no gas chambers to his reading of the Leuchter Report during the Zündel trial.57 The fact that the Leuchter Report has been widely discredited since its appearance in 198958 has not prevented Irving from continuing to assert that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz or elsewhere, and there was no mass murder of Jews by gassing during the Second World War.
9. In his book on the Nuremberg trials, published in 1996, Irving notes (p. 131) that evidence was presented at Nuremberg that there were lethal gas chambers at Dachau. 'The German government has certified that no lethal gas chamber was ever operated at Dachau'. But of course the Nuremberg evidence and the German government statement say two different things. Not even Irving claims that the evidence presented to Nuremberg said that the gas chamber at Dachau ever actually came into use. Irving's technique here is to present (sometimes real, sometimes invented) minor mistakes and propaganda legends at Nuremberg while ignoring the overwhelming mass of evidence on major matters of fact, using the former to discredit the latter.
10. The situation in Dachau has no bearing on the situation in Auschwitz; it is important here, as always, to bear in mind the crucial distinction between concentration camps, designed from 1933 onwards to imprison, abuse and humiliate Nazism's real and imagined opponents in Germany, and extermination camps set up only during the war and outside the German borders of 1937 with the express purpose of killing large numbers of Jews and other categories of undesired or unwanted people not just from Germany but from other countries as well. Towards the end of the war, to be sure, the distinctions between the two began to become less important and less clear-cut, but they remained none the less.59
11. Once more, the plates in Irving's recent books give a clear expression of his views. Thus an illustration on pp. 182-3 of Nuremberg: The Last Battle, carries the following caption: 'Pest control in the Auschwitz slave labour camp. Tons of Zyklon B pellets, containing poisonous hydrogen cyanide, are shipped by the Degesch factory to the Pest Control division of Auschwitz and other camps including Oranienburg in 1944.' The delivery note pictured opposite the caption, however, only concerned Auschwitz. It is addressed to Kurt Gerstein.60 It makes no mention at all of pest control. Here again, Irving's intention to deny that gassings took place at Auschwitz could not be clearer.
12. In June 1989, he told a radio interviewer that 'the buildings identified hitherto as gas chambers in Auschwitz and Treblinka, were not. This is a myth, and it is time the myths were dispelled.'61 'There were no gas chambers in Auschwitz', he said on 5 March 1990. In his view, only '30,000 people at the most were murdered in Auschwitz...that's about as many as we Englishmen killed in a single night in Hamburg.'62 In 1995 he repeated this view: 'we revisionists', he declared, 'say that gas chambers didn't exist, and that the "factories of death" didn't exist.'63 In his persistent and undeviating denial, since 1988, that gassing was used at Auschwitz and other camps in the German-occupied east for murdering large numbers of Jews, Irving stands squarely in the camp of the Holocaust deniers. 'I'm a gas chamber denier', he told a television interviewer in 1998, 'I'm a denier that they killed hundreds of thousands of people in gas chambers, yes'.64
13. Irving has repeatedly denied that there were any functioning gas chambers and that any Jews or other victims of Nazism were killed in them, with the sole exception of a small number who he concedes were gassed during experiments. In 1989, for instance, he confessed himself 'quite happy to nail my colours to the mast on that, and say that to the best of my knowledge, there is not one shower bath in any of the concentration or slave labour camps that turns out to have been some kind of gas chamber.'65
14. On 5 March 1990 he declared roundly to an audience in Germany once more that there were no gas chambers at all in Auschwitz during the war:
There were no gas chambers in Auschwitz, there were only dummies which were built by the Poles in the postwar years, just as the Americans built the dummies in Dachau...these things in Auschwitz, and probably also in Majdanek, Treblinka, and in other so-called extermination camps in the East are all just dummies.
15. Repeating this claim later in the same speech, Irving added that 'I and, increasingly, other historians, ...are saying, the Holocaust, the gas chamber establishments in Auschwitz did not exist.'66 On 8 November 1990 he repeated the same claim to an audience in Toronto: 'The gas chambers that are shown to the tourists in Auschwitz are fakes.'67 These statements are clear and unambiguous. They make it plain that Irving's statement to the court of his position on this issue - 'it is denied that the Plaintiff has denied that gas chambers were used by the Nazis as the principal means of carrying out that extermination' - is a falsehood.68
47. Reply to Defence of Second Defendant, p.3.
48. Ibid., pp. 5-6.
49. David Irving's 1988 Testimony at the Trial of Ernst Zündel, pp. 99-100.
50. David Irving on the Eichmann and Goebbels Papers. Speech at Los Angeles, California, October 11, 1992 (11th Conference of the Institute for Historical Review, transcript on Irving's "Focal Point" Website); also on Audiocassette 114 at 420-430.
51. Reply to Defence of Second Defendant, pp. 5, 10.
52. Ibid., pp. 5-6.
53. Ibid., pp. 5-6.
54. Jackson, The Case for David Irving pp. 75-9.
55. Expert witness reports by Professor Robert Jan Van Pelt, Professor christopher Browning, and Dr. Peter Longerich; see also Shelly Shapiro (ed), ,Truth Prevails: Demolishing Holocaust Denial: The End of "The Leuchter Report" (New York, 1990).
56. Robert Faurisson, 'The Problem of the Gas Chambers', The Journal of Historical Review, Summer 1980; Robert Faurisson, foreword to The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth. An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdanek, Poland (American edition, 1988).
57. See Irving's foreword to the British edition of Auschwitz: The End of the Line: The Leuchter Report (London, 1989), and the statements quoted above, in Section II(c) of this Report, recording Irving's change of mind in 1988.
58. Shapiro (ed), Truth Prevails. Under cross-examination at the Zündel trial, Leuchter withdrew some of the arguments he had put forward in his report: See the trial transcript in Her Majesty the Queen versus Ernst ZündeI (District Court of Ontario, 1988), esp. pp. 9,200 ff..
59. Martin Broszat, 'The Concentration Camps 1933-1945', in Helmut Krausnick et al., Anatomy of the SS State (London, 1968), pp. 397-504.
60. Gerstein was an SS officer who reported to the outside world on the crimes being committed in the extermination camps, in a document which constitutes an important piece of evidence for the gassing procedures and which therefore has become one of the most important targets of the attacks of Holocaust deniers: see Vidal-Naquet, Assassins of Memory, p. 115.
61. lnterview with David Irving on Radio Ulster, 23 June 1989.
62. Videotape 186: Irving in Moers, 5 March 1990, at 4 mins. 45 secs.: 'In Auschwitz hat es keine Gaskammern gegeben, 30 000 Menschen in Auschwitz sind höchstens ermordet .... das ist etwa so viel wie wir Engländer in Hambrg in einer einzigen Nacht getötet haben.'
63. David Irving, 'Revelations from Goebbels 's Diary', Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 15 (1995), No. 1, pp 2-17, here p. 15.
64. BBC2: 'Journey to the Far Right' (20 March 1999).
65. Videotape 184: Leuchter Report Press Conference, 23 June 1989, at 57 mins. 30 secs..
66. Videotape 186: Irving in Moers, 5 March 1990, from 31 mins 30 sees. and again at 1 hr. 17 mins. 45 secs.: 'In Auschwitz hat es keine Gaskammern gegeben, es hat nur Attrapen gegeben. Die von den Polen erbaut wurden in den nachkriegsjahren, genau so wie die Attrapen, die die Amerikaner in Dachau gebaut haben daß these Sachen in Auschwitz, und wahrscheinlich auch in Majdanek, Treblinka, und in anderen Vernichtungslagern (sogenannt) im Osten alle nur Attrapen sind .... (Und es gehört etwas dazu, aufzustehen heute, so wie) ich und zunehnicnd andere Historiker auch tun in der ganzen Auflenwelt, und sagen, der Holocaust, die Gaskammeranlagen in Auschwitz, hat es nicht gegeben.'The grammatical and syntactical errors in the speech have not been corrected in the above quo- tation.
67. Videotape 190: Irving at Latvian Hall, Toronto, 8 November 190, at 1 hour, 1 minute, 50 secs..
68. Reply to Defence of Second Defendant, p. 3.
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Economists, like myself, have long wondered why people tip at all when they eat in a place they do not intend to visit again, or where they at least believe they will not be remembered when they return. The simplest answer is that tipping is expected and stiffing a server is generally considered to be the equivalent of stealing, thus it's not really a voluntary payment.
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Let the mayor of New York City lead the country with a public statement declaring a new voluntary social contract, suggesting a default no-tipping regime in restaurants, and in the case of exceptionally good service, follow the current practice in many European countries: a customary gratuity of $1 to $5.
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BERKELEY -- Two days after coach Mike Montgomery organized a laser tag team outing, Cal found more reasons to smile Saturday with a 66-65 overtime victory against Colorado, giving the Golden Bears the No. 4 seed and a first-round bye in this week's Pac-12 tournament.
"It was fun," senior Justin Cobbs said of the field trip to Concord. "Montgomery was out there doing his thing."
"I didn't finish last," the Bears' 67-year-old coach said.
With his team having lost four of its previous five games, Montgomery sought to lighten the players' mood.
"We just felt we needed a day away from basketball. It had to be fun for them," he said.
The equation worked in front of 9,422 fans at Haas Pavilion, who watched as the Bears played together and harder than they have in a couple weeks.
A loss would have sent them to a No. 8 seed in the Pac-12 tournament at Las Vegas. Instead, Cal (19-12, 10-8) wound up part of a five-way tie for third, with Arizona State grabbing the No. 3 spot and Cal the No. 4 seed through a tiebreaker formula.
The Bears, who probably still have work to do to earn an NCAA tournament berth, open play at the MGM Grand in a 2:36 p.m. quarterfinal game Thursday, most likely against Colorado.
The Buffaloes (21-10, 10-8) could have finished alone in third with a win. They become the No. 5 seed and must beat the No. 12 seed to earn a rematch with Cal.
Cal missed its final 10 shots against Colorado -- including all seven in overtime -- but converted seven of nine free throws in the extra period.
"Whatever it takes to get it done," Cobbs said. "We defended our butts off and were able to pull it out."
Cobbs said a players-only meeting the night before the laser tag trip emphasized "team, team, team."
"We took some time with ourselves," he said. "It was a whole different team out there."
The lead changed hands three times in the final minute of overtime, with Cobbs converting two free throws at 20.8 seconds to give the Bears the decisive lead.
Colorado's Xavier Talton missed a jumper with about 8 seconds left, Cal's Tyrone Wallace rebounded and was fouled with 4.5 seconds left. He missed the 1-and-1 free throw, and CU's Askia Booker misfired on a running 30-footer at the buzzer.
Cobbs shot just 5 of 17 but played all 45 minutes and made all eight of his free throws -- four in overtime -- to score a team-high 21 points. He seemed to strain his lower back with 2 minutes left in OT but said later, "I'm fine."
Montgomery acknowledged there were times in the game it seemed Cobbs was the only Cal player who could score. The Bears shot 35.4 percent for the game.
"Justin was a warrior," Montgomery said. "He gets to the basket, and he's going to make his foul shots. That's a tremendous asset."
"Justin Cobbs is a heck of a player," Colorado coach Tad Boyle said.
Cal was outrebounded 45-35, but big men Richard Solomon and David Kravish each finished with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Solomon, who shook off an apparent ankle sprain early in the second half, had four of Cal's eight blocked shots.
Pac-12 tournament quarterfinals in Las Vegas: Cal (19-12, 10-8 Pac-12) vs. TBD, 2:36 p.m. Pac-12 Networks


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Lawmakers: Proposed Missouri anthem sounds too high-cultured
Opera singer wrote song he wants state to adopt
A proposal to designate an official anthem of Missouri appears to have hit a flat note in a legislative committee.
Opera singer Neal E. Boyd wants lawmakers to designate a song that he wrote called the "Missouri Anthem" as the official state anthem. But his pitch received mixed reviews Thursday by the House tourism committee.
While some lawmakers praised the song, others suggested it seemed a little too high-cultured for Missouri and might sound better with a fiddle or some country twang.
The committee decided not to vote on the legislation Thursday, making it unlikely to advance before the session ends in mid-May.
Boyd is a Sikeston native who won an America's Got Talent contest in 2008.
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With the emergence of Nick Foligno as a legitimate scoring threat, Bryan Murray's job might have just gotten a lot easier over the summer.
If Murray can get Mike Comrie and Ryan Shannon under contract for a reasonable amount, the Senators clearly already have a proper second line that can score goals.
And that equates to money that can be spent elsewhere, such as a real power-play quarterback (Jay Bouwmeester anyone?).
One of the bonuses to Foligno's breakout season is that the young winger has also started to use his size when going to the net. At 6 feet and 192 pounds, Foligno isn't exactly a power-forward but he has the potential to be a good compliment to Mike Fisher – a guy who can score and run you over at the same time.
Murray has already mentioned that he wants more size in his forward ranks. Even though he will probably be unavailable, a player like Erik Cole would be the perfect fit for Ottawa. Given that there aren't too many players like that out there (no one wants to take on Dustin Penner's contract), Ottawa may have to look to a player like Foligno to grow into that role.
Under the salary cap, it's always cheaper and better to have a draft pick fill a vital need than to go out and shop for a player on the free market to do the same thing.
Strictly in that sense, Foligno might be the Senators most valuable player right now. He's signed for next year at only $ 785 000.
That's the right player at the right price if I've ever heard of one.
You know that scoring is still a problem in the NHL when it looks like there will only be one 50 goal scorer this year.
Given Alex Ovechkin's talent and drive to do anything to score, it looks rather bad on the league when all he can muster is 53 goals so far.
If Ovie has trouble reaching the 60 goal mark, nobody else has a chance in hell to put up huge offensive numbers.
The problem is that the goalie equipment is still too large and the NHL is moving at a snail's pace to reduce it thanks to the huge influence of the goaltending fraternity who have had the league by the balls since the mid-90's.
Because the coaching is so good now, the game will never return to the stage where players will challenge Wayne Gretzky's or Brett Hull's goal scoring totals in a single season, but the NHL should have at least five 50 goal scorers per year and one or two in the 60 range.
The one true way to spike viewership in non-traditional hockey markets, and thus increase revenue, is to crank up the offense. The NHLPA should overrule the petty concerns of their minority goaltending group and force the issue because the player's salaries are tied to overall league revenues under the CBA. It's in the players best interests to increase scoring and the only way to do that is bring back the skinny pads of the 70's and 80's.
The notion that shrinking the size of protection endangers the safety of the goalie is laughable. The materials used in modern equipment can probably stop bullets, let alone pucks. The bulk is only there to block the net, not protect the player.


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Published: Friday, January 25, 2013 at 11:50 p.m.
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LAKE WALES | Frank J. Thomas, a folk singer and longtime Lake Wales resident, is one of three people who will be inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in March.
Thomas, 68, joins Gloria Estefan, the so-called Queen of Latin Pop, and the late painter Laura Woodward as the 2013 inductees.
Thomas and his late wife, Ann Thomas, performed for more than 20 years at the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs. Frank Thomas played guitar and Ann played string bass.
The couple, known for such comical numbers as "Cracker Love Song," previously received the Florida Folk Heritage Award.
Thomas performed regularly at Carl Allen's Historical Cafe in Auburndale before its closing in 1998 and played in the Florida Bluegrass Festival, which was held in Auburndale in the 1990s. The Thomases hosted a long-running radio show, "Songs of Florida," on Tampa's WMNF.
Frank Thomas toured in a rock 'n' roll band as a teenager and later played at the Grand Ole Opry with the Arkansas Travelers. He turned to folk singing under the influence of the late Will McLean, a folk singer already in the Hall of Fame.
The Florida Legislature established the Hall of Fame in 1986. Previous inductees include Zora Neale Hurston, Ray Charles and Jimmy Buffett.
The induction ceremony will take place March 20 in Tallahassee.
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The Internet makes Taylor Swift cry.
Swift told Harper's Bazaar that she has spent hours crying about things she has read about herself online, but the songstress still has plenty to smile about.
All that emotion is making the 22-year-old rich. Swift, who sold 1.2 million copies of her latest album "Red" in its first week, frequently uses heartbreak in her personal life for song inspiration. Swift, who is on Bazaar's December/January cover, said that since her romantic life plays out in the media, she's forced herself to stop reading about herself.
"What I had to learn to do, in order to maintain a general happiness in my life, was to stop reading everything," she said.
The pop star who is the highest-paid entertainer under 30 -- making $57 million last year, according to Forbes -- said, "And then it gets really bad if you go through a breakup and those blogs have these polls asking, 'Who should they date next?' And you're just sitting there staring at the laptop bawling. But you can live in a normal world where a breakup is just a breakup if you don't expose yourself to what's being speculated about yourself. That's where I live now."
Sounds rough. Thankfully, piles of cash are good for wiping away tears.
Swift also said she has a close group of friends, including actresses Emma Stone and Selena Gomez. She said they "never talk about fashion, about career, about our ambitions or our projects. We just talk about relationships, feelings, love, and boys."
Don't we all?
JUSTIN BIEBER MAY WANT SELENA GOMEZ BACK: Justin Bieber apparently wants his woman back already.
That's right. Nothing is over until the Biebs says its over. Was it over when the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor?
Despite every media outlet on planet earth -- and a few beyond -- reporting over the weekend that dreamy teen star Bieber and actress/singer Selena Gomez broke up recently over schedule conflicts and whatnot, in swoops TMZ on Monday morning to say we all may have gotten hysterical over nothing.
The website reports Bieber is not involved with anyone else, despite pictures of him with Victoria's Secret model Barbara Palvin out and about in New York last week (Palvin later tweeted that there is no rmance between the two).
On Saturday, Bieber performed Justin Timberlake's famed breakup song "Cry Me a River" in concert.
TMZ cites inside sources as saying Bieber already wants Gomez back. Apparently they've already totally, like, broken up SOOO many times and have always, like, totally gotten back together. This time is only different because those media bloodsuckers have nothing better to do than, like, totally follow two kids who are better looking and more talented than them around.
Uh ... right. We'll bring you any exciting developments in this totally super important story as they develop.
ARIEL WINTER'S MOM MAY BE STAGE MOM FROM HELL: Ariel Winter's mother Chrystal Workman was an overbearing stage mom who constantly criticized Ariel and ordered her never to leave her side, says TMZ, quoting a source on the set of one of Ariel's recent movies.
An overbearing stage mom in Hollywood? Whoa. That's a new one ...
Ariel's 34-year-old sister Shanelle Gray took over temporary guardianship of Ariel on Oct. 3, after a judge heard allegations that Workman physically and emotionally abuses the 14-year-old actress. Workman denies the allegations, saying Ariel only sought new guardianship after her mother discovered her in bed with her 18-year-old boyfriend, Cameron Palatas.
According to Workman, Ariel only wanted out of her home so she could continue her relationship with Palatas.
Ariel filmed "The Chaperone" in June 2010, starring Triple H, the pro wrestler-turned actor. But according to a source who worked on the film, Workman acted like she was the star of the movie.
Workman allegedly had her own director's chair and listened to each take on her headphones, then frequently pulled her daughter aside to tell her what she did wrong.
If this is wrong, there's a lot of Little League parents out there who don't want to be right.
TMZ said Workman often told writers and the director what she thought of each scene, and went as far as to order around production assistants, making them fetch her food.
Well, even overbearing, abusive stage moms have to eat ...
The film featured other child actors, with whom Ariel couldn't hang with because she wasn't allowed to leave her mother's side.
But the source said that while Workman was the stereotypical stage mom, they never witnessed serious abuse.
TMZ spoke with Workman's brother-in-law, who said Workman acted the same way with Ariel's sister when she was growing up.
The brother-in-law says Workman was extremely hard on Gray, controlling what she ate and how she looked.
Ariel's grandfather, James Batistas, filed a letter to the court to vouch for Workman's character and parenting skills.
"I have never seen any abuse from my daughter or son-in-law towards my granddaughters neither physical nor emotionally," he wrote in the letter, obtained by TMZ, calling Workman "a very good mother to all the children."
Batistas also wrote that Gray came to live with him when she was 16 as well after she accused Workman of abuse.
Sources close to the family told TMZ Batistas actually has limited contact with his granddaughters, but is actually quite close with Workman.
BARBARA WALTERS ISN'T HAPPY WITH LINDSAY LOHAN: Lindsay Lohan has angered Barbara Walters.
Lohan pulled out of a TV interview with Walters last week, after Walters wouldn't promise not to talk about Lohan's June car accident, for which authorities are reportedly set to charge the actress with lying to police. But after ditching Walters, Lohan's PR people signed her up for an interview with Jay Leno.
I think this all makes perfect sense, Barbara. Jay Leno pitches fatter softballs than a guy who plays in a pitch-to-your-own-team league.
Walters said on "The View" Monday that Lohan's people didn't even have the courtesy to explain why she pulled out.
"If they'd said to me 'You know, Barbara, she isn't up to the kinds of questions that you might ask,' If they had told me that, I wouldn't feel quite as disappointed as I do today."
Barbara, she isn't up to the kinds of questions that you might ask.
Lohan's interview with Leno is supposed to air next week.
AFFAIR MAY AFFECT FANS, SAYS 'TWILIGHT' ACTRESS: The tumultuous Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart romance might harm "Breaking Dawn Part 2," says the pair's co-star Ashley Greene.
"I don't know. Hopefully, it won't taint it and people will still be able to enjoy the movie," Greene said in an interview Seventeen magazine. "I think a lot of people see us as our characters; I really want them to still be able to do that."
I don't know either. Stewart cheating on Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders has me thinking I may only see it nine times instead of 11 or 12.
Greene says she knows what it's like to be in love and would never wish anything but happiness for her co-stars and friends, who made her time on set memorable.
"We secretly coordinated a dance-off during a scene! We were all in on it, but (director) Bill Condon didn't know," Greene explained of one of her last days shooting the franchise. "(All the vampires) were supposed to charge at each other and destroy each other, but instead we just started dancing! Everyone did it -- the Cullen clan and probably 20 vampire extras! It was such an amazing way to end it all."
DANIEL CRAIG SPECULATES ABOUT BOND GIRLS: Daniel Craig said Rihanna would be a better Bond girl than Beyonce.
(Salma Hayek would be better than both of them).
What ... er, anyway, because he's already been asked every question on the planet, in a recent interview with Global Grind, Craig (aka James Bond) said he believes Rihanna would be a better Bond girl than Beyonce, because the former is "dirtier."
And he also likes President Obama. Craig was in the United States on election night and was quite pleased with the result.
"It was great," he said. "It was very inspiring, watching the democratic process work -- and it did. It's complicated, getting your head around the collegital electro -- whatever it's called, the votes in each state. But it's very inspiring."
If he thinks the name is hard, he should try figuring out how it works. No one here has yet.
Of course, Craig has much to be happy about this month. New Bond film "Skyfall" has racked up over $518 million at the global box office over all, bringing about $90 million for its domestic opening weekend, which is a record for a Bond film.
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Tuesday is Nov. 13, the 318th day of 2012. There are 48 days left in the year.
1789: Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1849: Voters in California ratified the state's original constitution.
1909: Fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill., killing 259 men and boys.
1927: The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between lower Manhattan and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
1937: The NBC Symphony Orchestra, formed exclusively for radio broadcasting, made its debut.
1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1956: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public city and state buses.
1969: Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
1971: The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars.
1974: Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.
1982: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
1985: Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.
2002: Claiming Iraq was seeking the "path of peace," Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors. U.S. Roman Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved a compromise sex abuse policy after the Vatican demanded they make changes to balance fairness to priests with compassion for victims.
2007: Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto demanded the resignation of U.S.-backed President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, dashing Western hopes the two would form an alliance to confront strengthening Islamic extremists. CC Sabathia won the AL Cy Young Award to become the first Cleveland pitcher in 35 years to earn the honor.
2011: President Barack Obama dove into a day of summit diplomacy in his home state of Hawaii as he gathered with leaders of 20 other nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. A day after Silvio Berlusconi reluctantly resigned as Italy's premier, economist Mario Monti accepted the monumental task of trying to form a new government that could rescue Italy from financial ruin.
Producer-director Garry Marshall (78), actor Joe Mantegna (65), actress Frances Conroy (59), actress Tracy Scoggins (59), actor Chris Noth (58), actress-comedian Whoopi Goldberg (57), former NFL quarterback Vinny Testaverde (49), rock musician Walter Kibby (Fishbone) (48), comedian Jimmy Kimmel (45), actor Steve Zahn (45), actor Gerard Butler (43), NBA player Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest) (33), actress Monique Coleman (32).
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August 12, 2010 / Baltimore, MD "" The Baltimore Piraeus Sister City Committee today announced the selection of Colonel John Skinner, Chief of Patrol of the Baltimore Police Department, to represent the city of Baltimore as a participant in the 2010 Athens Marathon.
This year's 26.2 mile run marks the 2500th anniversary of the Greek Battle of Marathon which took place during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The marathon will commemorate the legendary journey of Greek messenger "Pheidippides" in 490 BC from the Marathon Battlefield to the city of Athens, Greece.
Skinner was selected from a large pool of candidates because of his dedication to public safety through community service. He is a 17 year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department and has served in a variety of operational and supervisory capacities. Currently he commands the agency's Patrol Division and oversees all uniformed men and women of the Police Department. Over the last three years, Skinner has been credited with fostering better relations between police and the community through his dedication to transparency and developing cohesive partnerships with community groups.
"It's a huge honor for me to represent the city of Baltimore in this historic race," Skinner said after being selected to compete.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld also weighed in and said the committee couldn't have chosen a better representative for the city.
"Colonel Skinner's ascension through the ranks of the Baltimore Police Department is a testament to his intelligence, dedication and commitment to service. Most recently, he has embraced competitive running as not only a wellness tool, but also a way to build camaraderie and morale among the people he commands. The men and women of the Baltimore Police Department are very fortunate to have Colonel Skinner represent us and the city in this significant international running challenge."
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Julie Stackhouse and Dr. Bruce Harry Added to LU Speaker Series
October 20, 2011
Two events have been added to the 2011-12 Lindenwood University Speaker Series: Julie Stackhouse, senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, on Oct. 27, and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Harry on Nov. 10. Both events are free and open to the public.
Stackhouse will speak on "The Financial Crisis and the 'Great Recession': What Happened and the Challenges that Remain" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in Harmon Hall's Dunseth Auditorium. Harmon Hall is located on the main Lindenwood campus, 209 S. Kingshighway, St. Charles, MO 63301.
Stackhouse is senior vice president and managing officer of banking supervision, discount window lending, and community affairs for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Prior to joining the St. Louis Fed in September 2002, she was vice president and managing officer of the Risk Management Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She has served in many capacities in the banking industry since 1980 and was named a St. Louis Business Journal "Most Influential Business Woman" in 2010.
Dr. Bruce Harry will speak on "Dangerous Minds: The World of Forensic Psychiatry" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, in the Spellmann Center's Anheuser-Busch Leadership Room, also located on Lindenwood's main campus.
One of the nation's leading forensic psychiatrists, Harry evaluates offenders with mental disorders for the judicial and correctional systems at the state and federal levels. He also teaches students of law and psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he is an associate professor of psychiatry and the director of the Psychiatry and Law Division of the Psychiatry Department in the university's School of Medicine.
At Fulton State Hospital, Harry is the interim clinical director and serves as the medical director for the Biggs Forensic Center, Missouri's only maximum-security hospital for the psychiatric treatment of violent mentally ill men and women.
He has won numerous awards during his three-decade career, has taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has lectured at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Va., where he occasionally collaborates with its Behavioral Sciences Unit in research, education, training, and criminal investigative analysis.
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SAN RAMON -- As in its past two trips to California High, the De La Salle football team couldn't get too comfortable against the Grizzlies.
But the end result Friday was the same as usual.
The Spartans withstood the Grizzlies' challenge to win 27-14 and complete an unbeaten regular season.
Tiapepe Vitale rushed for 194 yards and three touchdowns, but it was the defensive effort that stood out the most to De La Salle coach Bob Ladouceur. The Spartans allowed just 87 rushing yards to a team that averages about 40 points a game.
"Our defense looked really good tonight," Ladouceur said. "Pepe and (Das) Tautalatasi ran hard, but our offense made too many mistakes. Defense played hard, we ran the ball hard, but we were too inconsistent offensively."
The Spartans had a shutout at halftime even though Cal was often working with short fields and allowed their final score with just a minute left in the game.
Lost fumbles on two straight offensive plays by De La Salle (10-0) in the third quarter kept the game close until the final period, though. The first was a fumble in the end zone to negate a Spartans touchdown, and the second led to a Grizzlies score.
Karris Johnson capped the 28-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown that got Cal (8-2) within 14-7 with 2:23 left in the third quarter.
But the Spartans responded with Vitale carrying on four straight plays, including a 17-yard touchdown, to bump the lead back to 14 points.
Tautalatasi scored De La Salle's other touchdown. He shook off several defenders for a dazzling 80-yard touchdown run that made the score 14-0 in the second quarter immediately following a missed 44-yard field goal attempt by Cal. Tautalatasi rushed for 119 yards.
De La Salle played without injured Andrew Buckley, the Spartans' top receiver who also plays defense and punts. He was especially missed on special teams.
"We haven't been healthy all year. We've always had guys out, and that hurts us," Ladouceur said.
Cal, which clinched an East Bay Athletic League championship last week, learned that it must share its first league championship with San Ramon Valley, which beat Monte Vista 32-28.


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In the highly competitive world of tournament sport fishing, there are a lot of manufacturers that claim that their product provides the fastest, smoothest and most stable fishing platform in the industry. Until now, I have not been able to find a boat with a hull design based on four decades of offshore racing development and implementation. All the Fountain fish boats not only make this claim but also can prove it via a sea trial. They also have been dominating the SKA world championship scene.
Our test boat is the popular 31 Sport Edition. This boat was developed for serious anglers who want all the benefits that championship blue-water fishing has to offer. This is the flagship that started Fountain in the fishing boat market. It has earned its reputation by providing one of the most stable rides that I've ever found in a center console boat.
One of the most significant improvements that the Sport Edition offers over her siblings, is the wonderful comfort provided by the side-by-side, electric drop bolster seats. This simple addition gives you the ultimate support when the water gets rough, and will keep you fishing longer. The race inspired helm station has top-of-the-line Gaffrig controls and gauges. Drive and trim switches are within easy reach, and the throttles and shifters are located to the right, which is unlike the typical Fountain helm. Although totally functional for storage, I was not crazy about the electronics' box, simply because the doors rest on the helm station panel when open, and bang around when underway.
The Fountain performance truly has to be experienced to be appreciated. Even though the current model does not include the positive lift bottom design, the pad keel and notched transom are standard. (I expect the air-entrapment hull will be in production soon, as this technology provides additional running speed performance without compromising handling.) Another aspect that I really liked was the huge casting platform at the bow. The elevated platform is roomy enough for several anglers and the molded non-skid deck provides for confident footing. Below deck is a cozy cabin that houses a porta-potti and two bunks with enough room to catch a few zzz's.
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The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District has been named in a second lawsuit by a Seneca Lake couple who feels their idyllic cottage life is being threatened by the organization's lease agreement with an oil and gas company.
Leatra Harper and her husband, Steven Jansto, who have a pending suit against the conservancy district demanding they release the names of individuals and businesses who rent lakeside properties from the agency, are now seeking an injunction to entirely halt fracking operations on conservancy district land.
"As far as we're concerned, fracking needs to stop now. This material is toxic and radioactive. We can prove it," said Harper.
The suit, which was filed last week in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, also names Antero Resources, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources as defendants.
At issue is a lease agreement that the MWCD Board of Directors approved in February. The agreement allows oil and gas company Appalachian Corp. to use public land around Seneca Lake in Guernsey and Noble counties for oil and gas extraction from the Utica Shale deposits.
A later agreement approved the sale of water from the Seneca Lake reservoir to Antero for use in their fracking operations.
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A lawsuit has been filed against the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, seeking and injunction that would halt fracking operations on public lands managed by the organization, specifically around Seneca Lake.
The suit was filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court by Lea Harper and husband Steven Jansto, who own a home on Seneca Lake.
For information about the MWCD, visit mwcd.org.
To learn more about efforts by the Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water, visit the Fresh Water Accountability Project Ohio website at fwapoh.com.
Sources: MWCD and Lea Harper.
Water, sand, and a variety of other chemicals are used during the fracking process. Harper and her husband co-founded the Southeast Ohio Alliance to Save Our Water.
She and many others opposed to fracking argue that those chemicals are poorly regulated and could easily contaminate the lake water.
Now Harper and family are considering moving from the lake, she said.
"We moved our boat out and we're talking to Realtors, but we're waiting to see what happens," she said. "The lake is a special place for us. We have lots of memories there with our granddaughter."
The suit alleges the federal deed giving the MWCD governance of over 6,000 acres of land throughout parts of 18 Ohio counties does not give it the authority to lease public land to oil and gas companies.
However, The MWCD has been managing oil and gas leases for its entire 80-year existence, said MWCD spokesman Darrin Lautenschleger.
"When the lands were obtained for the development of reservoirs and dams, there were already oil and gas leases on some of these properties. That has been managed by the conservancy district through the years," said Lautenschleger.
The organization also has a history of selling water from its reservoirs. The Village of Cadiz purchases water from the nearby Tappan Reservoir as a source for its municipal water supply, he said.
The agreement with Antero is the third oil and gas lease that the conservancy district has added into in recent years, added Lautenschleger.
Currently, land around Clendening Lake in Harrison County is leased to Gulfport Energy Corporation and land around Leesville Lake in Carroll County is leased to Chesapeake Energy Corporation, he said.
Furthermore, the MWCD has enacted several precautionary measures. Among them, they board of directors can halt or end a water withdraw agreement based on water elevation triggers. And as far as land leasing, the MWCD does not allow development on public grounds.
This means there will be no oil and gas well sites on MWCD land. Rather they are reaching the resources beneath MWCD by horizontal drilling from nearby properties, said Lautenschleger.
The current lease agreements have helped the MWCD pay down a large portion of their outstanding debt. So far nearly $78 million in signing bonuses have gone to debt payment and facilities and capital improvements.
The conservancy district has also made just over $1 million in royalties from the operation at Clendening Lake.
Though there is no determining future royalties, the MWCD board of directors has considered using the funds to reduce the assessment fees paid by property owners in the watershed district, including large portions of Washington, Noble, and Morgan counties.
If a reduction is put into place, 2015 would be the earliest residents would see lower property taxes, said Lautenschleger.


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November 12, 2008
California Approves $1 Billion for Low-Income Energy Efficiency
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a budget of $1 billion over the next three years for the state's Low Income Energy Efficiency program. The program provides energy efficient appliances and weatherization measures at no cost to California households with low incomes. Stressing that the program must reach much higher numbers of households than in the past, the CPUC calls for all eligible customers to be given an opportunity to participate in the program by 2020, and it also calls for the program to evolve toward energy efficiency strategies that have longer-term payback times. The ruling also allows certain measures that improve health, comfort, and safety, even if the cost effectiveness of those measures is low. The program is administered by the state's four large investor-owned utilities: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company, and Southern California Gas Company.
The CPUC ruling calls for utilities to identify the poorer neighborhoods in their customer base and then identify energy efficiency opportunities by examining the energy use of each household in the targeted neighborhoods. The ruling also calls for comprehensive energy audits in each participating home, followed by a "whole house" approach to identifying energy efficiency improvements. In other words, the CPUC wants to avoid piecemeal strategies, such as handing out free compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), in favor of more integrated energy efficiency programs. The CPUC also wants the utilities to move toward an integrated, statewide program for marketing, education, and outreach, focusing on adopting energy efficiency as a way of life, rather than on specific measures like CFLs. See the CPUC press release and decision.


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In the beginning, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were a couple of scruffy college buddies who cracked each other up with their always irreverent and frequently scatological senses of humor.
Their shared sense of outrageousness is what drove them to collaborate on a movie musical about cannibalism (really!) while in film school in Colorado. In later years, their genius for social satire brought us the immortal teachings of Cartman ("Respect my authoritah!").
Now, heathens everywhere are rejoicing about the gospel according to Matt and Trey. From their long-running animated sitcom hit "South Park" to the Broadway blockbuster "The Book of Mormon," the smart alecky two have turned their penchant for the perversely funny into a pop culture empire.
An unholy mashup of the existential and the profane, "Mormon" has put Broadway on the radar for the next generation. In honor of the Tony-winning musical's Bay Area debut Tuesday at San Francisco's Curran Theatre, here are the top 10 things you need to know about "The Book of Mormon":
1The most important thing to know about the show of the year is that it's sold out. Tickets to the San Francisco run were gobbled up in less than two hours, making it one of the fastest-selling shows in Bay Area theater history. If you yearn to see the tuner, scalpers are charging up to $1,500 a pop. There is also a daily lottery you can enter to score $29 tickets. Or buddy up to a subscriber, fast.
2 It lives up to the shock value of "South Park," and then some.
In the showstopper, "Hasa Diga Eebowai," the African villagers sing about, shall we say, getting up close and personal with the Almighty via various orifices. Among the squirm-worthy topics explored in this extreme satire are female genital mutilation, baby rape and warlords.
3 It's far from the first musical that Stone and Parker have collaborated on. "Cannibal! The Musical" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" were also tuneful projects. And yes, they are flirting with the idea of reviving "Cannibal" on Broadway. Yummy.
4 Parker and Stone are newbies to Broadway, but "Book of Mormon" also has theat-uh veterans on its team, including Bobby Lopez, the composer of "Avenue Q," and co-director Casey Nicholaw ("Spamalot," "The Drowsy Chaperone").
5 Lopez says nothing is sacred to Parker and Stone: "They may not go out of their way to offend people, but they won't pull their punches for anyone. There's no such thing as holding them back."
Indeed, they once got death threats after an episode of "South Park" that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. For the record, Jesus is also a recurring character on the sitcom. As is Satan. That's what makes it such equal-opportunity mockery.
6 On whether or not the musical is actually offensive or just outrageous: "There's nothing mean about the show at all, and that surprises a lot of people," says Gavin Creel, who has been a "South Park" devotee since college. He plays Elder Price in the national tour.
7 The usually unflappable Parker on the topic of making a new musical being a lot harder than they expected: "Getting the last few gears to work was really tough. And unlike TV and film, it's never done. It's alive. It's still changing."
8 While some Mormons find the musical objectionable, church honchos have given the show their blessings. Indeed, there are now ads for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the program. Seriously.
9 Lopez says he has been shocked by the musical's phenomenal success, but he is not at all surprised that young people have embraced it.
"It's very rare to have a big, new, cool show that isn't a revival and isn't for kids and doesn't have stars in it," Lopez says. "It's rare to see that kind of risk on Broadway, and that's one of the things that makes 'Mormon' so exciting."
10 Critics practically died and went to heaven after seeing the musical, which won nine Tony Awards, including best musical. The New York Times described it as "something like a miracle," and snarky talk show icon Jon Stewart raved, "It's so good it makes me (epithet) angry."
Amen to that. Here's hoping we are all converts soon.
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her stories at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza, follow her at Twitter.com/KarenDSouza4 and like her at www.facebook.com/Dsouzatheaterpage.
Book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
Playing: Tuesday through Dec. 30
Where: Curran Theatre. 445 Geary St.,
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Tickets: Regular seats are sold out, but $29 tickets in limited numbers are available through a daily lottery two hours before the show. For details, call 888-746-1799 or go to www.shnsf.com.


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You can do this multiple times with CDR, CDRW, DVD+RW and DVD-RW, without erasing, until the disk is full.
And you can even change the title of your disk prior to each burn.
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Runners fight the cold weather in 5K
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - More than 200 runners and walkers took part in the 5k Reindeer Run and Santa Stroll through the Tree Streets in Johnson City Sunday.
Proceeds from the race were for the Early Learning Center at First United Methodist Church.
Awards were given to the runners in the most festive outfits.
One runner tells us the 30 degree temperatures weren't going to stop him from running.
"No, I put on my thermals, a nice long sleeve shirt; you know running warms you up. Well I was trying to set a PR, a personal record, and I think I did pretty good," said Josh Whitelock.


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PMMI's Alliance bridges supply chain to generate solutions for consumer packaged goods
March 21, 2013 - MMH Editorial
Two new Alliance for Innovation & Operational Excellence (AIOE) "solution groups" of production and operations executives from consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) with experts from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have launched into action.
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Solution Group is collaborating on a standard set of TCO metrics suppliers and CPGs can apply industry-wide, while the Engineering Solution Group is developing guidelines for sanitary equipment design for low-moisture foods.
As they create these guidelines, the Engineering Solution Group is also developing a process and approach that will encourage the industry as a whole to adopt and use the guidelines.
"By including engineering, quality, sanitation, operations and OEMs early in project sanitary design discussions, the collaboration will result in not only improved equipment design, but also, a common understanding of the benefits of investing in sanitary design," says AIOE participant Randy Porter, vice president of quality and product safety, Post Foods.
Similarly, the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) share group is developing guidelines and metrics suppliers and CPGs can apply — consistently — to their operations.
"The Alliance is PMMI's bridge to connect the supply chain and help us all to work together to address our common issues," says Charles D. Yuska, president & CEO, PMMI. "And TCO was a major topic of conversation when PMMI leaders and CPGs sat together at our recent 'Top to Top' meeting. This is an ideal way to harness the strength of the Alliance to the benefit of everyone on the supply chain.
PMMI launched AIOE in 2011. The group brings together OEMs and their customers to address key issues and establish best practices. Solution Groups to date include: Engineering, Sustainability, Operational Reliability, Product Safety, Workforce Development and Total Cost of Ownership.
More information on all Alliance programs and work products can be found at the PACK EXPO Connected Communities www.pmmi.org/aioe.


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Sympathetic pregnancy (Couvade syndrome) describes a situation in which an otherwise healthy man — whose partner is expecting a baby — experiences pregnancy-related symptoms. While some research suggests that Couvade syndrome might be common, it isn't a recognized mental illness or disease. Further studies are needed to determine whether Couvade syndrome is a physical condition with psychological causes.
Symptoms reported to be associated with Couvade syndrome vary widely and typically occur only during the first and third trimesters of pregnancy.
Whether Couvade syndrome is real or not, what's certain is that becoming a new dad can be exciting, emotional and stressful. If you're a man whose partner is pregnant, take steps to manage stress and prepare for fatherhood. Attend prenatal classes. Seek out advice and encouragement from friends and family. Talk to your partner. Understanding and planning for the challenges ahead can help ease your transition into fatherhood.
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