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Gary Allan's 'Set You Free' Named Best Album of 2013 at Taste of Country Awards
Gary Allan and Blake Shelton battled for most of the one-month voting period, but in the end, fans of the California-raised country singer would not be denied. Allan's 'Set You Free' was named the Best Album of the Year at the 2014 Taste of Country Awards.
Danielle Bradbery Gets New Artist of the Year at 2014 ToC Awards
Three times as many people voted for New Artist of the Year than any other 2014 Taste of Country Awards category, and until the final days, the competition was very tight. Danielle Bradbery pulled away late however, giving her a New Artist of the Year win.
Chris Young's 'Aw Naw' Named Video of the Year at 2014 Taste of Country Awards
Fans have named Chris Young's 'Aw Naw' video the Video of the Year at the 2014 Taste of Country Awards! The clip beat out nine others, including the CMA-winning video for 'Highway Don't Care.'
Miranda Lambert, 'Automatic' [Listen]
Miranda Lambert does nostalgia as well as she does crazy. Her new single 'Automatic' is a yearning look back at a time before computers, cell phones and 800 channels on TV. With familiar and original references, the singer introduces a softer tone for her fifth studio album.
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Eric Palsay's self-titled debut album is in stores now, and he's celebrating by turning over the strings to a new guitar. Enter here for your chance to win this autographed acoustic from the 'Friday Night' hitmaker.
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Maggie Rose's new single 'Looking Back Now' is the reason her debut album 'Cut to Impress' ended up on a number of Top Albums of 2013 lists. For some, there is a special place for women who commit acts of violence in the name jealousy or safety. Never has a country song told a revenge story in such vivid detail, however.
Album Spotlight: Eric Paslay, 'Eric Paslay'
Eric Paslay's self-titled debut album is a songwriter's album, but that doesn't mean the redheaded singer sounds out of place fronting a full, ultra-modern production. Paslay dabbles with several different styles during the 11 tracks on 'Eric Paslay.'
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Lee Brice's new single 'I Don't Dance' feels like a natural progression of this singer-songwriter's career. It's personal, like almost every song on the 'Hard 2 Love' album, but also powerful and experimental like Brice's early recordings. The power is provided in production, however -- a key difference between this ballad and others that relied solely on his vocal abilities.
Kip Moore's 'Young Love' Makes Top 5 Debut on ToC Top 10 Video Countdown
Kip Moore's new music video cracked the Top 5 on this week's Top 10 Video Countdown. 'Young Love' checked in at No. 5, behind vids from Gary Allan, Danielle Bradbery and two others. New videos from Keith Urban and ACM nominated duo Dan + Shay make their debut this week. It'll be up to fans to decide if either can challenge Scotty McCreery for No. 1.
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Recent trends in organic foods and sustainable farming have appeared in communities across the nation, including Summit County. The High Country Conservation Center is taking steps to expand its programs and increase these options in 2013.
The High Country Conservation Center, known locally as HC3, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting solutions to and improving awareness of resource conservation. Underneath its umbrella are a multitude of programs that stretch throughout the county, from composting, recycling and waste reduction to energy conservation and more. HC3 is responsible for events, awareness projects and educational workshops on a variety of environmental and healthy topics.
Summit County currently boasts four different community gardens: Silvana's Community Garden in Silverthorne, Nancy's Community Garden and the Living Classroom in Frisco and the Breckenridge Community Garden at the Colorado Mountain College campus in Breck. Plans are also in place to add a fifth community garden at Dillon Valley Elementary School this spring, which will expand the school's current garden dome and allow Dillon Valley residents access.
The Living Classroom is housed at HC3 headquarters on Frisco's Main Street and is the location for many educational classes about sustainable gardening and organic produce. It was created in 2011 and consists of a greenhouse and 20 plots. A "plot" is a single section (of varying sizes, depending on the garden) which can be owned or co-owned by community members wanting to grow their own garden.
"Really what we do is provide the space and the soil and the educational programs," said Jennifer Santry, community programs director of HC3.
Plot owners pay a fee for their plot and then are free to plant whatever they want, with a few small restrictions (no marijuana plants, for example). Educational classes are available for first-time gardeners, or people who want help planning out their garden.
"We try to teach people to take advantage of space and figure out how to plant it out," Santry said.
Plot owners then are free to do whatever they want with the food produced from their plants - take it home, swap with fellow gardeners for variety, give it away to friends or even donate it to local community dinners and food banks.
HC3 works with the community gardens under a group called the Summit Community Garden Network. Through the network the gardens share resources and volunteers and in the future may plan events together. As the popularity of the community gardens grows, the network will serve to bring everyone together, Santry said.
"What we're looking to do is to help educate people that sustainable agriculture is possible up here in the High Country," said Meredith Long, president of Silvana's Community Garden in Silverthorne.
Community supported agriculture, or CSA, is a nationwide trend that allows people who do not have the space available for gardening or farming, such as those living in urban areas, to become involved in local farming practices and benefit from it. Those who want to buy in are called shareholders. They pay the CSA a certain amount of money for the season upfront. Then, after the food is grown and harvested, the shareholders receive a portion of the harvest.
"As a share member, they are investing in the program and then they are paying somebody to harvest for them," Santry explained. "They're buying into the farm."
Last year saw the first CSA in Summit County in the form of WisePlant Farm, which grew out of Nancy's Community Garden in Frisco. This year, HC3 will be taking over the project, renaming it Summit CSA, with the hopes of expanding throughout the county.
"We stepped in to see how we could expand it and make it also educational," Santry said. "This year's going to be great. (We) learned what worked and what didn't."
Currently, the CSA is a pick-up program, where shareholders come out to the garden to pick up their share of the produce. Other programs throughout the state and nation include a delivery service, which could potentially happen in Summit County, where shareholders' fresh organic food is delivered right to their door.
The CSA concept isn't limited to plants alone, but can apply to animals as well. HC3 is currently working with the Swan Center Outreach to try to set up a CSA involving chickens and other farm animals. Essentially, a shareholder would own or partially own a chicken. The bird would be housed and cared for at the Swan Center and the shareholder would get the eggs that the chicken produces.
"We're looking at chickens within the next two months," said Kelly West, caretaker at Swan Center Outreach. Plans are in the works to build the chicken coops and also to set aside an area for planting and raising other farm animals, including beehives. The center is planning plenty of education workshops and opportunities around these changes as well.
"I'm really passionate about this stuff," West said. "I've lived in Silverthorne for maybe five years. It's so hard in town to have land or space to do these things. It's a great opportunity."
Santry and the HC3 are hoping to receive countywide community involvement and possibly form some partnerships outside the county as well, with neighboring Lake and Eagle counties.
"That's the ultimate goal," Santry said. "We can all work together and grow our own food."


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Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman says he won't seek a rematch with Sen. Al Franken in 2014.
Coleman confirmed his decision to pass up a re-run Wednesday after it was first reported in the National Journal. Coleman told The Associated Press that he wasn't ruling a bid for Minnesota governor "in or out," but signaled that a decision was a ways off.
He lost to Democrat Franken by a few hundred votes in 2008, in a race that prompted a statewide recount and an ensuing court challenge that delayed Franken's seating until months after the election.
Coleman says he thinks a strong Republican candidate will emerge against Franken. He suggested U.S. Reps. Erik Paulsen or John Kline.
Coleman previously ran for governor in 1998 but lost to Jesse Ventura.
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Thanks to an extraordinarily generous vacation policy, a select group of BART's white-collar employees have stockpiled a combined seven decades' worth of unused time off -- literally like money in a bank that can be cashed in for fat retirement windfalls.
The costly perk isn't getting much scrutiny as commuters sweat a potential strike and management and blue-collar unions slug it out at the bargaining table. That's because this little-known benefit isn't available to the vast majority of BART workers who are threatening to cripple the Bay Area's commute over their pay and benefits. It's reserved for BART's top-level employees like former general manager Dorothy Dugger.
The same "vacation bank" that allowed her to stay on the payroll for almost two years after she resigned has permitted hundreds of other BART managers and nonunion employees to rack up a combined 69 years -- that's right, years -- of unused vacation and holiday now worth about $7.8 million, an analysis by this newspaper reveals. One veteran engineer has more than 970 vacation days himself in the bank.
And it gets even sweeter for employees like Dugger, because BART lets them continue to accrue benefits -- and even more vacation -- while burning off unused time off after they quit.
Labor relations specialist Wilbur Wong's last day of work was March 21, 2011, but he banked so much time off -- 5,000 hours -- that he won't stop getting BART checks until the end of this year. Records show Wong was paid $98,000 last year, all for unused time off.
"You can't make this up," said Thomas Schatz, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens Against Government Waste. BART's policy "is certainly unusual. I've never heard of it before. It's costly to taxpayers and transit users to give employees such lavish benefits.''
Dugger's $558,000 windfall came to light earlier this month in this newspaper's analysis of BART's 2012 payroll that showed she was still the agency's highest-paid employee -- despite being forced to resign in May 2011. She stayed home -- but on the payroll -- continuing to draw benefits, management bonuses and vacation that added about another $100,000 to her pay.
At the time, BART officials said they didn't know the scope of the problem. The newspaper obtained more documents under the Public Records Act to find Dugger was far from alone in banking time off: 290 BART employees, mostly nonunion and engineers and managers, have a combined 135,000 hours of vacation and holiday time banked -- or 3,600 weeks off under the agency's 371/2-hour workweek.
Management should look "close to home" for cost-cutting measures like eliminating terminal leave before cutting pay and benefits of "front-line workers," said Leah Berlanga, a spokeswoman for the Service Employees International Union, which represents the agency's maintenance workers.
Currently, 25 BART employees have more than 1,400 hours vacation and holiday time set aside -- more than 37 weeks each, data shows.
With more than 7,300 hours of unused time off squirreled away during a 44-year career, no one is more illustrative of the generous vacation and holiday policies than 81-year-old engineer Robert Fickes.
He started at BART before the trains even started running, and he's sitting on a payday of more than $472,000 when he retires -- but that's only if he decides to take a lump-sum check on his last day of work.
If Fickes chooses, instead, to stay on the rail agencies books, it will take nearly four years to burn down all his accumulated vacation. And by remaining on the payroll, he'd rack up about 25 more weeks of vacation and holidays worth about $62,500, payroll data shows.
All BART employees receive generous time-off benefits. Those who have worked at the agency for more than 19 years get six weeks of vacation a year, and every employee gets 13 holidays off.
The workers eligible to bank unused time off are allowed to stockpile five holidays a year and all unused vacation. The vacation banks have no caps, so longtime employees can continue to add unused time off year after year. When they finally cash it out, employees are paid at their last rate of pay, which is typically their highest.
BART President Tom Radulovich of San Francisco said the numbers show a need to both limit time-off accruals and to stop letting employees stay on the payroll to slowly burn off their unused vacation after they leave BART instead of taking a lump-sum payment. He also said it's time to find a reasonable cap on how much time employees can bank.
"It would make a lot more sense," he said.
The agency's General Manager Grace Crunican was not available for an interview this week because of union contract negotiations. She told this newspaper's editorial board earlier this month that allowing managers to bank time off for future paydays was an incentive to inspire hard work and innovation.
Thursday, Crunican's spokeswoman, Alicia Trost, said in a statement that the general manager "will be taking a look into BART's terminal leave program to get an understanding of (its) scope and impacts."
Fickes declined to be interviewed. Trost described him as a legend in the agency for his work ethic, and that he told her that he doesn't enjoy travel or time away from work, where one of his recent projects was installing new fare gates at stations.
Workers like Wong and Fickes violated no policies and aren't to blame, Trost said.
But critics like Schatz said BART riders and taxpayers should be appalled by the policy. "If this was something that members of Congress got,'' he said, "there would be total outrage."
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Roger Ebert's influence was too great to be confined by a single section of the newspaper. He sometimes overflowed into sports.
I discovered this a few years ago when I wrote that super-prepared 49ers quarterback Shaun Hill "watched more film than Roger Ebert."
Just before I filed, I ran a Google search to see if any scribe in history had ever been so clever. As it turned out, I would have joined a long list of lame sequels: Roger Ebert had long been established as the go-to metaphor for dedicated athletes.
Here's a highlight reel:
ESPN. com: Tony Gwynn hit off a tee more than Vijay Singh. He looked at more film than Roger Ebert.
USA Today: LeBron James watched more film than Roger Ebert getting ready for the Spurs' defense.
The Sporting News: Rob Johnson is still at it, reviewing more film than Roger Ebert.
The Bergen Record: Lawrence Frank was a relentless worker, an assistant who watched more film than Roger Ebert.
The Cincinnati Post: Akili Smith, the Bengals' second-year quarterback spent the winter watching more film than Roger Ebert.
The Badger Herald: As a student of the game, however, Jonathan Casillas realizes he can't get by on athletic talent alone, which is why he has been watching more film than Roger Ebert.
MSG. com: Peyton Manning watches more film than Roger Ebert and Jeffrey Lyons combined.
The Denver Post: During those sessions, Jake Plummer watched more film than Roger Ebert.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Jamil Porter's 26.4-yard average ranks second in the Big East ... and he has caught the attention of Orange coach Paul Pasqualoni, who studies more film than Roger Ebert.
The Colorado Springs Gazette: As the Denver Broncos prepare for the 2001 season, sizing up their opponents involves ... more film than Roger Ebert watches in a year.
The Seattle Times: Yesterday, on his day off, after he already had watched more film than Roger Ebert at Oscar time, Jerheme Urban moved from one room to another and watched yet another reel.


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The thought of riding a 100+ mile bike ride has been on my mind for a while, but I had some serious doubts if I could do it or not. Not because I was afraid my legs would blow out, but a lot of other factors such as overall body fatigue, if I could sit for that long, how I could stay properly nourished, etc. All of those things made me fairly nervous about the concept, but I got over it pretty fast when my training partner invited/challenged me to a century ride this past Sunday. Just him and I on a 100+ mile loop which I ended up mapping out and putting together (big mistake). So let me go ahead and describe the various stages.
Pre-Ride: I went out into the garage to check my bike over, lube my chain, and adjust my seat. Immediately, i saw that I had a flat which I took as a bad omen. This forced me to head to the bike shop where I got some excellent advice on nutrition for the big ride. They loaded me up with about 1500 calories of food and suplements along with a freshly fixed flat and sent me on my way.
Murrieta - Fallbrook: The ride did not start easy. We took a bike trail pretty casually down to the base of the De Luz area and began our mission through the hills on our way to San Diego. The first hill is a 2 mile 700ft elevation climb which I figured was going to be the hardest of the ride. Not really something I wanted to start with, but probably good to get it out of the way right off the bat than deal with something like that towards the end... so I thought.
Fallbrook - Leucadia: Once we got into Fallbrook, we started descending for like 20-30 minutes, diving down to sea level from some pretty good elevation. I am not sure what the elevation change was, but it was the longest decent I have ever done. Once we got down into the Oceanside area on our way to Leucadia, we started hitting some barn burning hills. None of them were unbearable, but it was just a nasty 15-20 mile stretch of rolling hills which were all unexpected. Here I was expecting a nice flat road that ran parallel to the ocean and it was not by any means. The last hill we hit coming into Leucadia was probably the second worst of the ride to this point as well which was painful. At this point, we were almost exactly 60 miles in.
Leucadia - Oceanside: Finally a break! At the turn around point, we had a leasurely 15 mile trek up Pacific Coast Highway which was awesome. A nice tail wind was pushing us along and we were using this time for recovery. Unfortunately, some old man on a Townie decided to show me the wheel at one point which inspired me to take off and beat myself up for this stretch that was supposed to be relaxing. My friend got a flat a couple hundred yards before the burger shop we planned to stop at, so he fixed that and then we rested for about 30 minutes while we refueled on some delicious french fries and hamburgers. Yum Yum.
Oceanside - S. Fallbrook: We took off from the burger joint, bellies full and relaxed, ready for a nice leasurely 15 mile stretch before heading back up the hills into Temecula. That lasted for about 3 miles until we hit an unexpected hill which got us right back to questioning how we were going to make it another 45 miles. Ahhh. Luckily, after that, we did get a 10 mile stretch that was pretty easy before we hit Gopher Canyon Rd. At Gopher Canyon, I think we still had another 35 miles to go and this is where it started to get brutal. At the end of Gopher Canyon, we hit a 9% downgrade which got me going 51 MPH. That was super fun! Though, this also meant that I was just going to have to climb that much more after I got to the bottom... the pain begins.
S. Fallbrook - Temecula: Oh my gosh... After I calmed down from that high speed descent I realized I was about 90 miles into my ride and had about 15 miles of serious climbing to do. This was the strongest test of my will that I had ever gone through. I've played through pain and injury before becuse adrenaline would just take the hurt away. That was different because I was playing in a game where I'd be able to rest and recuperate in between action. When I looked up and saw the road ahead of me I knew it would take more than a little excitement to get me all the way to the finish. I dug deep and started the climb.
Hill 1: This was the worst (it was possibly the hardest of the whole ride, but I was so beat by this point, its hard to give n honest opinion) of this climb. I believe it was about 3-4 miles in total length and half of it was up a 7-9% grade and that was at the top. This hill was the closest I came to actually clipping out and stopping, but I held it together and made all the way going 4-5mph at the top. The backside of this hill was a 7% downgrade that was another lengthy decent that I had a hard time enjoying due to the fact that it just made the next hill that much steeper and longer.
Hill 2: This will was the gift that just kept on giving. A 5-6 mile grinder that took you up and over the mountain range into Temecula through the small city of Rainbow. This was a diffcult hill to climb at this point, but i was thankful to be going up this thing compared to the last one I was just on. As a matter of fact, just about all I thought of for the rest of the ride is how much I never wanted to climb Hill 1 again.
Temecula - Murrieta: Payday! We hit one last nice decent through some windy rounds and a golf course into Temecula. Their were a couple very small hills that we hit on our way to a bike path which would eventually get us home. To my surprise, we still had some energy and ending up doing about 17-18 on the flats which I was pretty happy with.
Stats: The ride took us 9 hr 15 minutes total to complete with an actual 8 hr 15 minutes of seat time. We rode a total of 116 of the hilliest miles I have ever ridden. We averaged a little over 14mph and I burned over 6600 calories. I ate and drank about 1800 calories worth of food in order to survive the journey. We only had 1 malfunction which was a flat tire. 52MPH was the top speed of the ride. 4.2MPH was the low speed of the ride. 7 hours is how long I had to endure a stitch that was in the right side of my stomach before it went away. OUCH!
What I learned:
Be prepared. If I had not loaded up on carbs a few days in advance and talked to the guys at the bike shop on how to stay properly nourished, I would have probably given up or had to stop more. Take spare tubes and a mini tool kit with you. 8 hours on a bike can bring up a lot of unexpected problems that you will want to be able to fix.
Do not do this alone. For one, you will want a friend with you to help motivate you and keep you company. Also,a lot of the ride took me places where I had no cell phone service. It would have been a nightmare if I was alone and my bike had broke or I got injured.
Pre-Run the Course: I had never driven on about 40 miles of the course and I paid for it. Looking back, I would never have planned the hardest hill to be at mile 80. That was a mistake and I won't let that happen next time.
Never give up: The longest ride I had done prior to this one was a 50 miler. It was my heart and determination that kept me going on this one. I found out alot about what I was actually made of and am extremely proud to say I accomplished what I did.If you set your mind to something, it will be accomplished.
Here's a snapshot of my route. Those little blue things are mile markers.


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Troop B of the Missouri State Highway Patrol had announced the traffic crash and enforcement totals for both the Christmas and New Year's counting periods for Northeast Missouri.
During the Christmas counting period, which began at 6 p.m. Dec. 21, and ended 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 25, Troop B officers investigated 21 traffic crashes, which resulted in six injuries, and no fatalities. Troopers also made three arrests for driving while intoxicated.
During the New Year's counting period, which began at 6 p.m. Dec. 28, and ended 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 1, Troop B officers investigated 26 traffic crashes, which resulted in two fatalities and nine injuries. The fatality traffic crashes occurred in Chariton and Clark counties. Troopers also made seven arrests for driving while intoxicated during the holiday period.
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In this Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 photo, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks to reporters following a rally in support of three Iowa Supreme Court justices who are up for retention votes in the November election, in Des Moines, Iowa. Harkin says he will not seek re-election in 2014, The Associated Press reports Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)


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OAKLAND -- Most of the people out canvassing for Measure J, a $475 million Oakland school facilities bond measure, don't need to memorize campaign literature on the condition of the city's public schools. They experience it, five days a week.
Unlike many local school tax campaigns, students are the face of Measure J -- a strategy the campaign's consultants, Tramutola Advisors, adopted early on, said Evan Haarz, a 2008 Skyline High School graduate who was hired by the firm for this effort.
When Haarz was in school and a similar measure went before voters and passed, he said, "I never heard anything about it."
Not so for Selestino Vasquez, Rosa Contreras and Jesus Zarate. They, along with about 40 other students, have spent recent Saturdays persuading voters to approve another property tax hike, despite the poor economy and multitude of other local taxes.
"I just walk up to their door, and when they come out, and I tell them, 'I'm a student at Fremont. Have you heard of the Measure J campaign? That's going to benefit our schools,'" said Jesus, 15, a sophomore at East Oakland's Fremont High.
If 55 percent of Oakland voters approve the measure on Tuesday, property taxes will increase by up to $60 per $100,000 in assessed property value, though the rate in the initial years is estimated to be roughly $40 per $100,000. Oakland Unified would spend the money on seismic safety, new and upgraded kitchens, science labs and other infrastructure. It has identified 11 schools to receive major improvements, including Fremont High, which would have its sprawling portable classrooms replaced with a new school building.
The students say some of the strangers they approach are receptive to their message. Some are busy. Some are rude. But, they say, nothing beats the feeling they get when someone assures them Measure J will have their vote.
Selestino, 15, said he's doing it for his little brother and sister, who are 7 and 8. "I want them to have better schools than I did," he said.
For Rosa, 16, it's also about her younger siblings -- all five of them -- and their peers. After hearing about the opportunity to campaign, she said, "I was like, 'I'm going to go out and do this.'"
In exchange for their time, some students have earned community service hours, which will apply to their graduation requirement. The experience has yielded intangible benefits, too: They say they've made themselves and their families proud.
"I learned that not everything is easy," Selestino said. "You have to work for things if we actually want our schools to get better."
Read Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog at www.IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/katymurphy.


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MOUNT DIABLO -- At the summit of Mount Diablo on Tuesday, at the end of the hottest, steepest and most grueling stage of the Amgen Tour of California, pro cyclist Lawson Craddock reached behind his back, dug into his jersey and pulled out his secret weapon: a pair of sopping wet women's panty hose.
He had filled the leggings with ice and enjoyed the long, slow melt to the finish.
Over two mountain ascents and 108 scorching miles, "it's a perfect trick to stay cool," said Craddock, who's from Texas and ought to know.
From the pros with panty hose to the recreational riders who chugged up the mountains to stake out a spot -- preferably in the shade -- to watch the third stage of the prestigious weeklong race, beating the Bay Area's near-record heat Tuesday was the challenge of the day.
"There's definitely a culture in biking of suffering," said Quintin Mecke, 41, of San Francisco, who left hours before the racers to climb the 18 miles to the top of 4,360-foot Mount Hamilton. "How much pain can you take and still call it enjoyable?"
By noon, as the racers whizzed past Lick Observatory at the top of Mount Hamilton, the temperature had reached the mid-80s. When the riders descended into the steamy Livermore Valley, the mercury hit the 90s. But once they climbed to the top of 3,849-foot Mount Diablo at about 3:45 p.m., riders were rewarded with temperatures in the 70s.
The highs in the Bay Area on Tuesday were nowhere close to what many of competitors experienced in Palm Springs last year, when temperatures reached higher than 110 degrees on an uphill finish. But race officials and sponsors this year were prepared. Nutrition firm Scratch Labs had a special motorcycle carting 24 water bottles to the riders and a trailing vehicle with 65 gallons of water to refill them.
"Heat was a big factor, especially for me since I'm from Denmark," said competitor Nicolai Brochner. "This was brutal, but I live to fight another day."
Bradley Wiggins, who maintained his overall lead and his yellow jersey despite falling behind the leaders at the end of Tuesday's Stage 3, said the heat "made it tough for everybody. I don't think anybody had it easy out there."
While temperatures in the Bay Area are expected to reach even higher on Wednesday, Stage 4 of the Amgen tour will be cooler as riders follow the scenic Highway 1 down the coast from Monterey and Cambria.
For the recreational riders who rode up Mount Hamilton or Mount Diablo to watch the race Tuesday, it was a four-water bottle day with a squirt on the neck along the way.
Unfortunately, Jeremy Shapiro of San Jose carried just two. When he reached the top of Mount Hamilton about 20 minutes before the racers, the first thing he asked for was a fountain.
"The last five miles I didn't have water, and it's all I thought about," said Shapiro, who started with a dozen biking buddies who met Tuesday morning at La Dolce Velo ("the sweet ride") bike shop in San Jose. "I had tunnel vision for water. Your skin is covered in salt, and every breath feels like you're in the ocean."
In Mount Diablo State Park, the Junction Ranger Station along the ascent became an oasis of sorts to dozens of amateur riders, who stopped at one of the few faucets working in the park thanks to drought-related water shortages.
"I can feel the heat," said Kirsten Cherry of Walnut Creek, who joined other Amgen volunteers riding their bikes up the mountain well before the pros. "I'm definitely riding in a lower gear today, but I'm doing fine, and I'm prepared to make it without any problem."
Steve Hainlen from St. Paul, Minnesota, had followed the first three stages of the race and planned to hit Stage 4. He rode his bike 14 miles from the south park boundary near Danville before starting to walk for a prime viewing spot.
"This is normal Minnesota summer heat, believe it or not, but I wish I would have brought a hat," Hainlen said. Seeing the pro riders is humbling, he said. "I've been interested in riding since I was child, and seeing them ride like this -- these guys are out of this world."
But the heat brought even the best down to earth.
"It was a hard one," said Kiel Reijen of UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling team. "The guys just blew up in the heat."
Staff writer Elliott Almond contributed to this report. Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409. Follow her at Twitter.com/juliasulek.


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STANFORD -- Redshirt junior Mikaela Ruef didn't cave in last month in her first start at Stanford.
The 6-foot-3 Ohioan had 12 rebounds in the Cardinal's stunning 71-69 victory over center Brittany Griner and then-No. 1 ranked Baylor.
Six games later, Ruef has become top-ranked Stanford's de facto center and the missing piece on a team that lost All-American forward Nneka Ogwumike to graduation.
Coaches will have a better sense if they have found the right mix for a sixth consecutive Final Four appearance when the Cardinal (9-0) ends 2012 against three ranked schools starting Wednesday at No. 21 South Carolina. Stanford renews its annual rivalry Saturday at No. 10 Tennessee before playing host to second-ranked Connecticut on Dec. 29.
The game in Knoxville marks the 25th anniversary of one of the best series in women's basketball. But for the first time Tennessee won't be coached by Pat Summitt, who left her post in the spring after announcing in 2010 she had been diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type.
While Stanford-Tennessee is a marquee matchup, the Cardinal's first test is against a school it defeated this year in the Sweet 16. South Carolina (10-0) lost four starters to graduation and like Tennessee has a blend of talented youth with some experienced returners.
Stanford has four returning starters from last season's Final Four team but little about the Cardinal looks the same.
That's where Ruef enters the picture. Traditional centers have trouble guarding her because Ruef is comfortable on the wing. She is an accomplished rebounder and passer averaging 6.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, both second-best for Stanford.
"This year she steals rebounds from me," leading rebounder Chiney Ogwumike said. "I never, ever would have thought Mikaela Ruef would be a rebound stealer."
Stanford coaches were not sure exactly what kind of player they got when Ruef arrived from Beavercreek, Ohio, as "a goofball freshman," according to coach Tara VanDerveer. By her sophomore season, Ruef had redoubled her efforts to impress coaches.
"I think something clicked, and I can't tell you what it was," VanDerveer said. "I don't even know if she knows what it was."
Ruef ended her sophomore season by contributing off the bench in the NCAA tournament. But the forward appeared only three times last season because of a painful plantar fasciitis condition in her left foot. She had surgery in March then missed part of preseason training because of stress reaction of the foot.
The decision to give Ruef her first start, though, was easy. Stanford didn't want 6-4 Ogwumike and 6-3 Joslyn Tinkle to get into foul trouble while having to guard Griner.
Ruef could not have been more nervous about facing the 6-8 Griner, considered one of the greatest centers in women's college basketball history. But she stayed within herself to give her teammates a chance.
"I might not be the greatest shooter or fastest person at my position," Ruef said.
But she has embraced the odd jobs the team needs to function: Passing, rebounding, screening, playing defense.
"I definitely want to work as hard as I can and do the things everybody can do but not necessarily does," Ruef said.
She hopes to return next season, but it will depend on whether Stanford has a scholarship available for a fifth-year senior.
In the meantime, Ruef treats every moment as if it might be her last. Her leadership-by-example has resulted in her being named a captain with Ogwumike and Tinkle. VanDerveer thought Ruef could relate to the injured players and bench warmers as much as the regulars.
"She's been someone who has been closer to the water cooler than the court," the coach said.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865 and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond
Stanford (9-0) at South Carolina (10-0), 4:30 p.m.


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It is nearly celebration time for the Class of 2012.Please mark your calendars for the 2012 Eagle County Schools Graduation Ceremonies: • Battle Mountain High School: Saturday, May 26, at 12:30 p.m. at Ford Amphitheater in Vail.• Eagle Valley High School: Saturday, June 2, at 9 a.m. at Hot Stuff Stadium in Gypsum. • New America High School: Friday, June 1, at 10 a.m. at Lundgren Amphitheater in Gypsum. • Red Canyon High School: Friday, June 1, at 10 a.m. at 4-Eagle Ranch in Wolcott. • Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy: Saturday, June 2, at 11 a.m. at Maloit Park in Minturn
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Nishikori Cruises Into the Fourth Round
Japanese 16th seed Kei Nishikori continued his impressive run at the Australian Open, dismantling Russia's Evgeny Donskoy 7-6(3), 6-2, 6-3 in two hours and six minutes to reach the fourth round.
The 23-year-old won 77% of his first serves and made 29 winners compared with his opponent's tally of 13.
"I think I'm in good shape," smiled Nishikori, adding that his confidence is growing with each victory.
Nishikori's next opponent is fourth seed David Ferrer who sailed through his third round clash against 28th seed Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.
"Ferrer is playing well. He's always tough to play, he gets every ball and [is] not easy to beat," said Japan's top-ranked male. He holds a head-to-head advantage of 2-1 over the 30 year-old Spaniard.
Their most recent encounter was in the fourth round of the London 2012 Olympics, where Nishikori triumphed 6-0, 3-6, 6-4.
"It's going to be a very physical match," said Ferrer. "I will have to play my best tennis to beat him because he's a very great player…I think Kei is going to be top 10 soon," said the world number five.
Also on Friday, veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm won her fourth match in four days, later describing her results so far this week as miraculous.
The 42-year-old and her Spanish partner Arantxa Parra Santonja upset the world No. 2 women's doubles team of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka, of the Czech Republic, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 in two hours and 10 minutes.
"I'm happy Kimiko is doing well…[it's] amazing how much she can play," said Nishikori.
Date-Krumm takes on Serbia's Bojana Jovanovski in a third round singles match on Saturday.


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Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny is celebrating St. Patrick's Day officially with United States President Barack Obama today. The Irish leader attended breakfast with Vice President Joe Biden, followed by a bilateral meeting with the President in the Oval Office, as well as a lunch hosted by the Speaker of the House of Representative John Boehner.
Kenny attended a breakfast hosted by Joe Biden, in his official residence at the Naval Observatory. This year, the Irish leader's trip to Washington to mark St. Patrick's Day was delayed as it clashed with a State Visit by British leader David Cameron.
The Vice President joked this morning, "We should do this every year; celebrate St Patrick's Day twice!"
Guests at the breakfast included the crème de la crème of Irish America, including Senator Patrick Leahy, Vicki Kennedy, Admiral Mike Mullen, Gen Martin Dempsey, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley and the President's counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan.
Biden said that all the Irish leader need to know about American Irish is "our families told us that we Irish are bound together by common values of family, courage and hope, always hope. We found ourselves in situations many times of needing hope."
Turning to the Taoiseach he said, "The thing I love about you old buddy is you're always optimistic. You're always optimistic. That's the Irish." He then offered a toast, "May you all look back on your past with as much pleasure as you look to the future."
The Taoiseach responded, saying, "The situation in Ireland has changed from just a year ago. We have turned a new direction. By decisiveness and clarity the government has given a definition to the horizon and the implementation of our plans to deal with the public finance problems, play our part as European Union members, make the economies of Europe grow."
Biden had spoken of the 18th century Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone during past meetings; Mr Kenny said, "You said he embodied the most noble virtues. He was a Protestant who founded the United Irishmen. He had nothing to gain, but he sought to relieve the oppression of the Catholics. He gave his life for the principles of civil rights."
Kenny presented Biden with a green leather bound copy of a letter that Wolfe Tone wrote to the French minister of war in 1796, saying he was returning to Ireland "to fight for my country".
After breakfast, Kenny attended a meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House. Following the meeting the leaders released their remarks.
Obama said, "It is my great pleasure to welcome once again Taoiseach, Mr. Kenny, who has done, I think, extraordinary work during a very difficult time. Over the last several years, we've been able to strike up a friendship. And you'll notice that even though technically it is not St. Patrick's Day, we like to prolong the party around here. Technically, most of the Americans who celebrate St. Patrick's Day aren't Irish anyway -- (laughter) -- so we shouldn't go on technicalities.
"I want to thank the Taoiseach, his lovely wife, and all of the people of Ireland for the extraordinary hospitality they showed Michelle and I when we had the chance to travel there recently. It was a magical day. It was too short, so I provided assurances that we will be returning. But the warmth and the goodwill that was expressed towards us I think was really representative of the deep bonds that exist between the United States and Ireland -- bonds that are almost unique among two countries around the world."
The President continued saying both countries' current priorities were to get their economies moving and put people back to work. He said, "It is important that both the people of Ireland and the American people understand the extraordinary benefits of trade, commerce, and investment between our two countries. We are, obviously, an extraordinary contributor to investment in Ireland, and that's something of great importance to the people of Ireland. Conversely, Irish businesses invest and employ huge numbers of Americans as well."
Obama went on to express his confidence in Ireland's ability to get moving again and to thank the people of Ireland for the contribution to "peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts all around the world".
He ended by saying "We are always pleased to see you here. And the expressions of affection that I experienced when I was in Ireland I'm sure you are experiencing in return while you are here, because the American people have just an extraordinary affinity and fondness for the Irish people. And we are looking forward to you having a very productive visit, and we look forward to going over to Capitol Hill where even when it's not St. Patrick's Day, everybody claims to have a little bit of Irish roots."


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SAN ANTONIO – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi softball team staged a furious two-out rally in the bottom of the seventh to walk off with a 2-1 win over UTSA at the 2012 Southland Conference Softball Tournament. The Islanders will play at 7 p.m. on Friday night at Roadrunner Field against either Sam Houston State or Central Arkansas.
With two down and the Islanders trailing 1-0, senior Cassie Redman started the rally with a bloop single to center that narrowly avoided the diving attempt of center fielder Courtney Buchman. Hannah Schwarz followed and, in an 0-2 count, lined a single to left center to put two on and two out for Megan McKinney. McKinney then hit a grounder to short on a 2-2 pitch, but it was misplayed and the bases were loaded with two down for Laura Phillips.
Phillips fouled off an inside pitch to start her at-bat, but was hit by the next pitch to bring in the tying run from third. That brought Jamise Jackson to the plate, and she fell behind 1-2, having struck out twice against the opposing pitcher. Jackson looped a ball just behind the circle, and the spin stopped it dead, as she dived across first base with Schwarz scoring the winning run to send the Islanders into a frenzy.
Schwarz went 3-for-3 to lead the offense, while Redman had two hits as well. In the circle, Vianca Pesina scattered five hits and a walk over five innings, while Greta Cecchetti came out of the bullpen to throw two shutout innings and collect the win. Alyssa Vordenbaum was carded with a tough-luck loss for UTSA after surrendering the two unearned runs in the seventh. She finished with five punchouts in 4 1/3 innings.
Neither team was able to crack the scoreboard in the first two innings, despite having solid chances to do so. The Roadrunners stranded a pair of players in the top of the first, while the Islanders had two hits in the bottom of the frame and were unable to score.
In the third, UTSA got on the board after a leadoff single by Laura Little. Little advanced to second on a sacrifice, and remained there after a flyout to center. But with two down, Megan Low came through with a single up the middle. Redman charged and gunned to the plate, but Phillips' tag came just after Little slid in for the first Roadrunner tally of the game.
The Islanders tried to counter in the bottom of the third, with a leadoff single, sacrifice and walk putting two on and one out. But UTSA brought in Vordenbaum to the circle, and she got out of it with a groundout and a strikeout to end the frame.
Meanwhile, Pesina continued a strong performance in the circle for A&M – Corpus Christi, allowing just one hit over the fourth and the fifth before surrendering a leadoff single in the sixth. She gave way to Cecchetti, and the senior retired six of the next seven players she faced.
The Islanders will play in another elimination game Friday evening at 7. Live stats and video for the contest will be available on Southland.org, and updates will be provided on Twitter @IslandersSball.


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A bank robbery this morning in south Augusta lands 2 men behind bars.
It happened at the Queensborough Bank on Tobacco Road at around 9:00 a.m.
The suspects were caught a few miles away on Georgetown Drive off Deans Bridge in south Augusta.
Bank robberies are not uncommon here in Augusta; in fact, it was just this past Tuesday, April 18 that the Wachovia bank on Washington Road was hit.
But what officers say is unusual here is to actually have the armed robbers fire shots both at bank employees and at the police.
It's hard to believe the seemingly quiet Georgetown Drive was the scene of a shootout earlier today.
"Prior to the arrival of police, the suspect was spotted on Deans Bridge Road where a short chase took place. Suspect fired shots at one of the deputies, the deputy returned fire," says Maj. Kenneth Autry of the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
That's when 34-year-old Donald Reynolds jumped out of the car and made a run for it. But he didn't get very far before he was caught on Webster Road.
The man shooting at the police was the same gunman who fired several shots at Queensborough National Bank and Trust employees using a sawed-off shotgun.
"He entered the bank screaming, 'Put the money in the bag', 'Don't put a dye pack in there'...during the course of that yelling, he fired several shots," Maj. Autry says.
It was a scene straight out of classic bank robbery movie.
One man goes inside and holds up the bank while the other waits for his partner in the getaway car.
And it all would've went as planned for the two, if it wasn't for a witness who followed the robbers until police arrived.
"That was very instrumental in getting us to the suspect," says Maj. Autry.
We aren't sure yet how much money was taken. Police generally don't make that amount public.
The money was recovered when police caught the pair.
The case has now been turned over to the FBI, so the two will now face federal prosecution.


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NH lawmaker calls on Arkansas lawmaker to resign over Boston Marathon bombing comment
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The fumbled football bounced by its lonesome on the turf just waiting to be picked up. Grant Sherrod was happy to oblige.
The California High senior scooped up the ball and ran 78 yards untouched to the end zone, scoring his team's final points in Friday night's home victory over Amador Valley.
"That was the game right there," California coach Eric Billeci said.
Sherrod's big play came with 8:25 left in the game and came shortly after a sequence that featured fumbles from both teams in a matter of eight seconds. Amador Valley (2-2, 0-1 East Bay Athletic League) had moved the ball down to the California 20-yard line, but a botched pitch attempt proved to be deadly.
California (4-0, 1-0) also took advantage of a third-quarter interception from senior defensive back Jake Lepere, as Nate Grixti nailed a 24-yard field goal on the ensuing series to give the Grizzlies a 24-14 lead. Amador Valley answered with a 12-play, 89-yard touchdown drive, but couldn't put any points on the board after that.
"We're trying to build defensively each week," Billeci said. "Tonight I think they took a step forward."
California quarterback Cameron Owen completed 8 of 11 passes for 130 yards, a touchdown and an interception, while Karris Johnson paced the team on the ground with 15 carries for 99 yards and a score. Amador Valley quarterback Kyle Moreno went 19-of-35 for 217 yards, two touchdowns and one pick.
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C -- Cornwell 45 pass from Owen (Grixti kick)
AV -- Greenan 10 pass from Moreno (Knaggs kick)
C -- Johnson 3 run (Grixti kick)
AV -- G. Miller 5 pass Moreno (Knaggs kick)
C -- Bierwith 3 run (Grixti kick)
C -- Grixti 24 FG
AV -- Ferrara 6 run (Knaggs kick)
C -- Sherrod 78 fumble return (Grixti kick)
Rushing: C -- Johnson 15-99, Terry 9-83, Bierwith 7-55, Owen 7-40, Cornwell 3-0. Totals 41-277. AV -- Moreno 5-74, Apodaca 3-24, Ferrara 7-29, Cruz 1-13, Hardy 2-6, Peters 1-1. Totals 19-147. Passing: C -- Owen 8-11-1 132. AV -- Moreno 19-35-1, 217. Receiving: C -- Cornwell 5-96, Johnson 1-18, Haley 1-11, Guardino 1-7. AV -- Greenan 7-94, G. Miller 5-47, Cruz 3-31, C. Miller 1-13, Knaggs 1-11, Ibanez 1-11, Newman 1-10. Fumbles/lost: California 3/2; Amador Valley 3/3. Records: California 4-0, 1-0 EBAL; Amador Valley 2-2, 0-1.


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Sonepur Mela, Bihar
The famed cattle fair is held at Sonepur, situated on the confluence of the holy rivers Ganga and Gandak. The sprawling mela ground here with the pulsating market has the widest possible range of cattle and commodities. The array of shops sells all sorts of merchandise. Sonepur Fair is the only one of its kind where a large number of elephants are sold. Various folk shows, games and jugglers can be seen at the fair.


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"ALBANY, Ore. - The sheriff of an Oregon county sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden on Monday saying he and his deputies would not enforce - nor allow federal officials to enforce - any new federal firearms laws in his county, according to a copy of the letter posted on the Linn County Sheriff's Office website.
"Politicians are attempting to exploit the deaths of innocent victims by advocating for laws that would prevent honest, law abiding Americans from possessing certain firearms and ammunition magazines," Sheriff Tim Mueller wrote in the letter dated January 14, 2013. "Any federal regulation enacted by Congress or by executive order of the President offending the constitutional rights of my citizens shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies, nor will I permit the enforcement of any unconstitutional regulations or orders by federal officers within the borders of Linn County, Oregon.
"In summary, it is the position of this Sheriff that I refuse to participate, or stand idly by, while my citizens are turned into criminals due to the unconstitutional actions of misguided politicians," Mueller said.
[*]Read the full letter[/*][/list]Reached by phone on Monday afternoon, Mueller said he decided to write the letter after he and his deputies kept hearing questions from Linn County residents about their positions on the gun control debate.
"I told my deputies, 'Hey look, I'm not going to turn otherwise honest citizens into criminals because of some misguided efforts from the U.S. Capitol,'" Mueller said.
He added he wants to "let people know that we're here to stand up for them."
"Whether it's the Second Amendment or the First Amendment, it doesn't make any difference to me. It's just that I don't think Congress should enact any of those types of restrictive laws and regulations, be it from Congress or executive order, that offends the constitutional rights of otherwise responsible and honest citizens," Mueller said.
The sheriff compared his decision to not enforce any potential gun laws to the restrictions on local law enforcement from enforcing federal immigration laws.
He said if his deputies are told not to enforce those federal laws, it's unreasonable to expect them to enforce any federal gun laws.
Mueller said he's heard from a few critics already, but they were all from outside Linn County. As of 5:30 p.m. on Monday, the Facebook post with the letter had more than 14,000 shares and 10,000 "likes."
"That's the good thing about this country. We can have decent conversations that go back and forth without resorting to name-calling and that sort of stuff," Mueller said. "People are entitled to their opinions and I have mine, both professionally and personally, and I made this one pretty well known."
President Barack Obama is set to announce Wednesday his plan to curb gun violence in the United States. The plan is being hailed as the nation's most sweeping effort to curb gun violence in nearly two decades. Obama will urge a reluctant Congress to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like those used in last month's massacre of 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Conn.
The broad package Obama will announce is also expected to include more than a dozen steps the president can take on his own through executive action. Those measures will provide a pathway for skirting opposing lawmakers, but they will be limited in scope, and in some cases, focused simply on enforcing existing laws.
Obama will announce his proposals in a midday event at the White House, flanked by children who wrote to him about gun violence following the massacre of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Law enforcement officials, mayors from across the country and supportive congressional lawmakers are also expected to attend.
Obama has pledged urgent action to prevent future mass shootings, and his plan — coming just one month after the Newtown attacks — is swift by Washington standards.
The president's framework is based on recommendations from Vice President Joe Biden, who led a wide-ranging task force on gun violence. Beyond the gun control measures, Biden also gave Obama suggestions for improving mental health care and addressing violent images in video games, movies and television."
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - "Open Your Heart for Outreach," the fundraiser for the Snowmass Village Community Outreach Fund, will run throughout the month of February at Alpine Bank.
Supporters can purchase hearts of various sizes and prices, ranging from $5 to $100, in honor of a friend, family member or Valentine. The bank will match all the donations made.
Donations benefit the Community Outreach Fund, which was set up more than 20 years ago to assist people living or working in Snowmass Village who come upon hard times. The fund also provides some scholarship money to Village students. It is sponsored by Snowmass Chapel and Alpine Bank.
The hearts can be purchased any time during regular banking hours throughout February at Alpine Bank's Snowmass Center location. Volunteers will be on site from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays to sell hearts, explain the purpose of the fund, help donors display their Valentines and offer sweets.
The fund has a board of directors who decide how money will be allocated. The members are Robert deWetter, Marion Garrett, Betsy Burns Sima, Nancy Ferguson, Mary Lou Farrell and Tyler Newton. Those who know of someone in need can contact a board member or email Caroline Gibson, Snowmass Chapel administrative director, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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STOCKTON - Police made four arrests early Sunday following a robbery that began at a south Stockton bar and wound up at a Wilson Way motel.
According to police four people were at a bar at closing time and were invited to a motel to have more drinks. Three others arrived around 4:30 a.m., one brandished a firearm, and the suspects demanded money and cell phones. After receiving a call from the victims, police arrested the four suspects and recovered one of the victim's phones, as well as a stolen handgun, in the 300 block of North Wilson Way.
In custody at the San Joaquin County Jail are Monique Cortez, 23; Rosantito Castaneda, 28; Joseph Alvarez, 23; and Candi Leyva, 31.
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Google Desktop
Google's desktop search now for the Mac. Includes a "cache" much like Google's web search cache.
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EasyFind now shows more than 185 "google" files. Most of them are new.
Google Desktop results show up in a web search in Firefox 2, but not in Safari 2. Strange...
Having in mind Google / Gmail privacy issues I would never install it. It's not enough they scan and keep your deleted emails (for whatever purposes they may fancy) but now this... forget it!
I rather use quicksilver. AFAIK the only difference is gmail integration.
It was pretty cool when I installed it about a month ago but now it's slow as hell
Works like a charm on my MacBook with no slow downs etc. Until someone comes out with a better way to search and display Entouage, etc. I'm sure I'll be using it daily.
I've been using it since it was announced and I haven't had any problems.
To the contrary, it seems like a very quick and stable app. My fans aren't noisy, my CPU isn't overloaded, etc. It uses Spotlight, yes, but it enhances it. The searches are quicker than Spotlight, and it searches Gmail which is reason enough for me to use it. Google Desktop is better on the Mac than on the PC, so kudos to the Mac Development team @ Google.
I installed it yesterday and ever since, my iMac fans have been working overtime. Probably due to mdimport. So, I deleted it today and all is now quiet again.
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The idea, at least as expressed by lead dev Mike Pinkerton (of Camino fame) is that it's ostensibly supposed to compliment Spotlight, not replace it - hence the reason why it uses Spotlight's index file and mdimport.
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Topic: Great Website!
This website is great and I think this discussion board is going to be a great help to those with cholangiocarcinoma and their families. Keep up the good (and important) work!
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This website is great and I think this discussion board is going to be a great help to those with cholangiocarcinoma and their families. Keep up the good (and important) work!
This is just a suggestion, not a criticism.
This may seem trivial and it may just be me but I think it would be a little less stressful reading the discussion boards if the background color was a more cheerful (hopeful) color. Dark grey is hard to handle.
I think it's a great suggestion. Perhaps Rick can try a few things and you can let us know what you think.
I also want to say to Stacie and Rick that I can't thank you enough for this website. It is awesome! You are wonderful!
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Hey Lou, I appreciate the comment.
For me, the most important thing was something that was not only easy to read, but something that reflected the basic color scheme of the entire website. White text on a dark gray background just made sense (and I still like it).
If it makes a difference, just think of the white text (all of the comments/experiences/advice) as "a light in the darkness" or even better, "the light at the end of the tunnel!"
Wait, now I like the color scheme even more!!
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Highway Patrol searches for car that hit Cherokee girl, 8
Published: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:22 p.m.
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State troopers responded to a hit and run crash in Cherokee County that sent an 8-year-old girl to the hospital Monday evening.
S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Bill Rhyne said the crash happened about 5:40 p.m. on Hopewell Road.
Troopers say a car ran into the back of a scooter being ridden by the child and two others. The driver of the car continued south toward York.
The 8-year-old was airlifted to Spartanburg Regional Medical Regional Medical Center. Authorities have not released her name and her condition was unavailable Monday night.
The car involved is silver with newer rims, possibly a mid-1990s model Toyota Camry, with a red bungee cord holding the trunk shut, Rhyne said.
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Hi Folks.
I've been asked to source some sort of tutorial material for QCad (Community edition, if that makes a difference.)
The person who wants them is computer literate to some extent but has been using machines for under a year. He does NOT have internet access, nor can he get it (don't ask!). So any sort of electronic media would have to be in a form I could burn to CD for him. I tried looking on-line for books for him too, but with no success.
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Police report: June 24, 2013
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June 14, 2013
Thibodaux Police
Garrett Gilliam, 40, 163 E. 96th St., Cut Off, possession of marijuana, false imprisonment, possession of crack cocaine, domestic abuse battery.
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Latanya Edwards, 45, 2557 Highway 1, Raceland, three counts contempt.
Farrah Chauvin, 30, 601 Oak St., Thibodaux, violation of probation/parole.
Farrah Chauvin, 30, 601 Oak St., Thibodaux, violation of probation/parole. Edward Green, 25, 202 Williams St., Raceland, three counts contempt.
Ronald Winslow, 53, 1045 Ciro St., Morgan City, issuing worthless checks.
Scotty Poindexter, 23, 548 Greenville St., Raceland, aggravated assault with a firearm.
Leah Carlos, 34, 419 Brule Guillot Road, Thibodaux, contempt.
Ricky Oliver, 33, 311 St. Charles Bypass Road, Writ of Habeus Corpus.
Robert Brown, 53, 223 Ridgeway St., Thibodaux, contempt.
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Went east of Apache Junction about 10 miles tonight to a canyon that I find absolutely beautiful. Lance had a new time-lapse camera to play with as the sun set, while I tried to capture the magma, sage and lichen.
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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - SteamMasterGolf, the community volunteers from SteamMaster Restoration and Cleaning, raised more than $52,600 by hosting two events this year. Golf tournaments were held May 31 at Country Club of the Rockies, Arrowhead, and Sept. 26 at Adam's Mountain Country Club, Eagle. The four beneficiaries of this year's events, Vail Valley Charitable Fund, HomeCare and Hospice of the Valley, Matthews Family Education Fund and Ski-Snowboard Club Vail, each received net proceeds of $10,350.
"SteamMasterGolf has raised over $330,000 over the last nine golf tournaments held locally in the Vail Valley," says Gary Gilman, president and owner of SteamMaster. "We encourage our employees to participate in local fund-raising activities and are honored to be able to give back to our community." Gilman said.
The tournament was founded in 2005 in memory of Kim Matthews, SteamMaster's marketing director, who passed away from cancer. The tournament also benefits the children of the Matthews' family for their college education funds. This is a commitment made by Gary Gilman and SteamMaster to Matthews family.
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Guys i have been thinking about trying to set up an actual club for Ames (representatives, voting, assigned course work and contacts, etc......) I'm looking to see how much interest we have in this. I really think having a steady club with a solid group of members could move ames disc golf towards something more than the occassional course clean up day and reliance on others to take care of our courses. I think there are a lot of things that a city of ames club can do that simply aren't getting done.
If you have any suggestions let's start leaving them here so we can brainstorm. All ideas welcome (except outrageously stupid ones) kidding.
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Yao Ming's Cure for What Ails Chinese Basketball
Former NBA star Tracy McGrady made his Chinese Basketball Association debut with the Qingdao Double Star Eagles over the weekend, losing a heartbreaker to the Fujian Sturgeons after Sundiata Gaines, formerly of the NBA's Utah Jazz, drained a three-pointer with no time left to put Fujian up 95-92. It was the sort of finish – dramatic, supremely marketable — that CBA executives have been dreaming of ever since they started pushing hard to recruit former NBA players a couple of years ago.
But if the presence of so many marquee names on CBA courts has given the league an immediate boost, it's not necessarily a good thing for Chinese basketball as a whole. Or so says China's biggest homegrown basketball star.
"We need to do something to help local basketball grow. You can't always rely on the foreign basketball players to come and help with your marketing and all that," retired eight-time NBA All-Star Yao Ming told China Real Time in a recent interview. "You need to have local people come in and have a deep impact, to make that link, that connection between the players and the fans." China Real Time has more.


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The Foam from this show makes an appearance on the Jam Charts, and I don't really know why, because it sounds pretty tame to my ears.
There's not much to say about the rest of the show (even the YEM is pretty standard!), but I will mention that the Bag -> Possum segue is neat, and the Bowie and Antelope are HOT as per usual. Bowie, Fire, Possum, and Antelope are a few of the songs that you can always get an explosive jam out of in 1988. If you like those, you'll like these.
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verb (scats, scatting, scatted)[no object, usually in imperative] informal
Go away; leave: Scat! Leave me alone
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- There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.
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Mid 19th century: perhaps an abbreviation of scatter, or perhaps from the sound of a hiss (used to drive an animal away) + -cat.
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noun(also scat singing) [mass noun]
Improvised jazz singing in which the voice is used in imitation of an instrument: [as modifier]: a scat rendition scat samples
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- Mel Collins' squawking sax combines with Boz Burrell's scat singing on 'Peoria' to produce the closest they ever got to funk.
- In particular the album's opening few moments feature some fairly rank scat singing which had me jumping for the skip button.
verb (scats, scatting, scatted)[no object]
Sing using the voice in imitation of an instrument: she scats and harmonizes simultaneously (as noun scatting) some gentle scatting
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- The man in the video starts scatting, familiar and quaint at first but soon his voice starts evoking everything from Appalachian folk to an angel-dust fit.
- In doing so, he proves himself to be one of the more expressive singers around, free of melismatic acrobatics and, fortunately, scatting.
- Nightworks is their debut album, redolent with thick house beats, whooshey keyboards, horns, saxes, scatting…
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Droppings, especially those of carnivorous mammals: fresh bear scat [count noun]: samples of scats from otters wolf scats
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- Over several weeks, I collected carnivore scat similar to that I had seen gathered by waxbills and stored it in a freezer.
- Using scat allows sample collection without disturbing the focal animal.
- Other animals are known to use scat for surprising purposes; larval tortoise beetles pile fecal shields on their backs to protect them from predators.
1950s: from Greek skōr, skat- 'dung'.
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A small deep-bodied silvery fish that lives in inshore and estuarine waters of the Indo-Pacific.
- Family Scatophagidae: several genera and species. See also argus (sense 3).
1960s: abbreviation of modern Latin Scatophagidae, from Greek skatophagos 'dung-eating' (because the fish is often found beside sewage outlets).
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Never turn a blind eye when it comes to safety. UPSer Dan Bledsoe proves you should never turn a deaf ear either.
Dan is a member of our tractor trailer safety team, and recently he heard something he couldn't believe on a Roanoke, Virginia radio station.
The station was encouraging teens behind the wheel to text in their answers to contest questions.


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Oracle releases new Java Embedded products
By Henrik Stahl on Sep 25, 2012
With less than one week to go to JavaOne 2012, we've spiced things up a little by releasing not one but two net new embedded Java products. This is an important step towards realizing the vision of Java as the standard platform for the Internet of Things that I outlined in a recent blog post. The two new products are:
- Java ME Embedded 3.2. Based on same code as the widely deployed Oracle Java Wireless Client for feature phones, this new product provides a Java ME implementation optimized for very small microcontroller-based devices and adds - among other things - a new Device Access API that enables interaction with peripherals common in edge devices such as various types of sensors. In addition to the new Java ME Embedded platform, we have also released an update of the Java ME SDK which adds support for the development of small embedded devices.
- Java Embedded Suite 7.0. This is an integrated middleware stack for embedded devices, incorporating Java SE Embedded and versions of JavaDB, GlassFish and a Web Services stack optimized for remote operation and small footprint.
A typical Internet of Things (or M2M) infrastructure contains three types of compute nodes: The edge device which is typically a sensor or control point of some kind. These devices can be connected directly to a backend through a mobile network if they are installed in - for example - a remote vending machine; or, they can be part of a local short-range network and be connected to the backend through a more powerful gateway device. A gateway is the second type of compute node and acts as an aggregator and control point for a local network. A good example of this could be a generalized home Internet access point, or home gateway. Gateways are mostly using normal wall power and are used for multiple applications, deployed by multiple service providers. Finally, the last type of compute node is the normal enterprise or cloud backend. Java ME Embedded and Java Embedded Suite are perfect base software stacks for the edge devices and the gateway respectively, providing the Java promise of a platform independent runtime and a complete set of libraries as well as allowing a programmer to focus on the business logic rather than plumbing.
We are very thrilled with these new releases that open up exciting opportunities for Java developers to extend services and enterprise applications in ways that will make organizations more efficient and touch our daily lives. To find out more, come to the JavaOne conference (for technical content) and to the Java Embedded @ JavaOne subconference (for business content). There will be plenty of cool demos showing complete end-to-end applications, provided by Oracle and our partners, as well as keynotes and numerous sessions where you can learn more about the technology and business opportunities.


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Category:Dohnányi, Ernő
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Ernő Dohnányi(27 July 1877 — 6 February 1960)
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