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A Neosho man was stabbed in the face with a kitchen knife after allegedly breaking into another man's apartment Wednesday afternoon.
Neosho police officers were called to 116 N. High Apt. 5 at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in regards to a possible stabbing. A 28-year-old man had been stabbed in the face with a kitchen knife.
"The investigation and witnesses indicate that the man stabbed had broken into the home of the caller and assaulted him," NPD Sgt. Jason Baird said in a prepared statement. "The caller stabbed the man in self-defense, and the suspect left the residence."
The caller was brought in for questioning, but not taken into custody, Baird said.
Later, officers were sent to Freeman Neosho Hospital where, Baird said, the suspect went for treatment of the stab wound.
Baird said the suspect was transferred to Joplin's Freeman West, where he remains in critical condition. The investigation is presently ongoing.
If you have information about the case, please call the Neosho Police Department at 451.8000.
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DELAWARE RIVER — Under contract with PennDOT District 4, AECOM is performing an in-depth bridge inspection of Skinners Falls Bridge. Pittsburgh Rigging Co. is also helping, rigging the bridge so workers can get underneath as well.The project began on Nov. 12 and is expected to be completed Nov. 30."We are working on bringing the bridge to rehabilitation," says John Milius, a structural engineer for AECOM. "We are inspecting every inch of the bridge.""We want to keep the historical value of the bridge," adds Ulysses Koutsogiannis, another structural engineer for AECOM.Upon inspection completion, and load ratings, AECOM will provide PennDOT with their recommendations.Skinners Falls Bridge supports SR 1002 over the Delaware River between Wayne County and Sullivan County, N.Y. AECOME has implemented a detouron a daily basis from7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The bridge will be open to traffic during nighttime, weekend, andholiday hours. AECOM's work with PennDOT under AGR E02445 will also include an in-depth inspection, load rating and the preparation of repair recommendations for the Narrowsburg Bridge. The bridge supports SR 0652 over the Delaware River between Wayne County and Sullivan County, N.Y. This work will be performed by theirsub-consultant Dewberry. During the course of the bridge inspection, AECOM anticipates the occasional use of a single lane traffic closure to inspect the above deck elements of the bridge. Ground and water based equipment will be used to inspect the below deck portions of the bridge to the maximum extent possible therebyminimizing the need for the lane closure. The Narrowsburg Bridge inspection also started on Nov. 12 and will extend to Nov. 30, although Dewberry hopes it will be completed early. Dewberry willimplement a single lane traffic closure in order to inspect the bridge deck and sidewalk. Dewberry anticipates the lane closure will only be required for twodays (one day each to inspect each lane of the bridge deck.), which could happen at any point during the inspection.
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STOCKTON — Stockton police officers arrested a man suspected in a drive-by shooting Sunday night on Bianchi Road.
California Highway Patrol officers responded to a call on the incident about 10:10 p.m. They found a blue van that matched the suspect vehicle's description in the area of Bianchi Road and Townehome Drive.
Officers said they saw the driver of the van run a stop sign and throw an object out the driver's side window. They said they detained 38-year-old Ho Tran in a traffic stop.
The object that was thrown to the ground was recovered and determined to be a silver, five-shot, .22-caliber handgun, officials said.
Stockton police were called to take over the investigation and arrested Tran on suspicion of felony weapons charges.
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The Mankato MoonDogs Baseball Club, a member of the Northwoods League, is pleased to announce the commitment of first baseman Tim Lynch, along with pitchers O'Shea Dumes and Austin Warner to play for the MoonDogs in the 2013 season.
Lynch, a 6-foot-2-inch, 230-pound freshman of Southern Mississippi is currently batting .324 for the Golden Eagles this spring. The Jupiter, Florida native has started all 18 games this spring, despite it being his first year with the team.
"Tim will bring power to the middle of our lineup," said Field Manager Mike Orchard "His success this spring should carry over and help him compete at a high level this summer for us."
In 2011, Lynch represented the State of Florida in the 6th annual Power Showcase International High School Home Run Derby after leading Palm Beach County in home runs on the season.
Dumes, a 6-foot-2-inch, 225-pound freshman of Texas A&M Corpus-Christi has made seven relief appearances for the Islanders this spring. Dumes is currently leading the team with a 1.80 ERA to go along with his seven strikeouts in 10 innings of work.
"O'Shea's a big body guy and has an impact arm that'll serve as a huge benefit either as a relief or starting pitcher for the MoonDogs," said Orchard "He has a hard fastball that keeps hitters off balance."
Warner, a 5-foot-10-inch, 170-pound freshman of Bellarmine University (Louisville, Kent.) is 1-1 on the mound, recording five strikeouts with 6.2 innings of work for the Knights this spring. Prior to Bllarmine, Warner registered a season high, 19 strikeouts in a complete game for Trinity High School. The left-hander received All-District honors and was named First-Team All-Catholic by louisvillecatholicsports.com.
"Austin will be a strong pitcher for us out of the bull pen and he'll be especially tough against left-handed hitters," said Orchard.
The MoonDogs home opener is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29th at 7:05 p.m. against the Rochester Honkers at Franklin Rogers Park.
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I just wanted to know if anyone remembers or has ever played the original disc golf course in Ames at the Arboretum. I left Ames back in 1995 to move out here to Colorado. However, back in 1983 when I was in school at Iowa State (makes me old now), we had an 18 hole object course at the Arboretum complete with a par 2 (the sundial) all the way up to a par five.
I really can't remember all of the holes anymore. The first hole played down from the street to the big pine tree across the creek (by the bridge). After that you went up a hill to a big tree on the right. That's when I can't remember any more of the holes.
Anyway, I actually met someone out here who played the course as well. When I played there we only threw with the big 165g Whamos. I remember the first time I saw somebody with disc golf discs. I thought that was just plain weird. Now my home course is Cottonwood Creek here in Colorado Springs.


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In their opening home meet of the year, the Saints hosted a five team track meet last Friday afternoon and came away with some impressive performances.
The girls team came in first in the five team field and the boys team came in a close third.
The girls won by a wide margin and totaled 122.83 points. Second place was BEA at 91.83, third went to Cedar Mt./Comfrey with 55.5, fourth was Redwood Valley at 35.84 and GFW came in fifth at 21.
Redwood Valley won the boys side of the meet with 82 points and BEA was second with 80. The Saints were close behind with 74.
On the boys results Head Coach Scott Allen said that if, "Just a few things happen in a couple of events, then we could have won the meet."
GFW finished fourth with 55.5 and Cedar Mt./Comfrey came in fifth with 40.5 points.
Senior Emily Hurley won both the discus and the shot put.
Emily won the discus by a wide margin with a throw of 113'3.5". Freshman Madi Carlson placed second in the event with a throw of 92'9.5". Sophomore Liz Reckow placed third with a throw of 86'11.5".
Emily's winning throw in the shot was 31'6". Once again, freshman Carlson was second with a throw of 26'7".
Sophomore Katy Hedlund won the high jump when she cleared the bar at 4'10'. Freshman Allison Brandts came in third with a jump of 4'6".
The Saints girls ran well in the middle and long distance races. Seventh grader Mackenzie Miest won the 3,200 meter race with a time of 14:03. Junior Tanya Farfan came in third with a time of 14:52.
Senior Aryn Eckstrom won the 1600 meter run with a time of 5:395. Aryn placed third with a time of 2:365.
A pair of seniors finished two and four in the 100 meter dash. Michaela Nordby had a time of 13 flat for a second place finish and Devon Flohrs a time of 13.9 seconds in finishing fourth.
Jessica Carvatt finished second in both the 100 and 300 meter hurdles. Erin Hurley finished second in the pole vault.
The girls 4x100 relay team of Flohrs, Hedlund, Brandts and freshman Julie Hiebert finished second in that event with a time of 57.5 seconds.
The girls 4x200 team comprised of freshman Amelia Collier, Aubrey Eckstrom, Brandts and sophomore Hedlund placed second with a time of 1:57.4.
On the boys side of the competition, the Saints had some strong individual and relay team efforts.
Senior Johnathan Surber won the 1600 meter race with a time of 4:53.9, which was nearly a half minute ahead of the second place finisher from Redwood Valley. Seventh grader Lucas Pierson and eighth grader Tommy Velasco finished fourth and fifth respectively for SJA.
Page 2 of 2 - The other first place finishes for SJA were in relay events. In the 4x800 meter race the team of sophomores Zuriel Chacon, Luke Tonsager and freshman Noah Pinke and Dustin Curl won with a time of 9:01.6.
The Saints also won the 4x400 meter relay. That team was made up of Pinke, Chacon, Surber and senior Carlos Marquez. Their winning time was 3:44.9.
Zuriel finished second in the individual 800 meter event with a time of 2:12. Adam Bruton finished sixth with a time of 2:17.2.
The Saints had three runners place in the 3200 meters run. Sophomore Joe Dominquez came in third with a time of 12:05. Seniors Pedro Guillen and Richard Soto finished fifth and sixth respectively for the Saints.
Zach Brandts finished second in the high jump with a leap of 5'8". Victor Torres finished third in the discus.
The Saints had three, four finishes in the 100 meter hurdles with Tyler Hanson finishing third and Alex Lara finishing fourth. In the 300 meter hurdles Lara finished third and Tyler Larson finished fourth.
The Saints had a second place finisher in the pole vault as Tyler Hanson cleared 11'.
Coach Allen said, "Overall we ran pretty well considering the cold night. Our girls field events carried us to victory, with three of our five first places coming from field events.
"Two of those came from Emily Hurley in shot put and discus. Hopefully our pits will dry out so we can start to long jump and triple jump soon.
"The boys came in a close third to Blue Earth Area and Redwood. Just a few things happened in a couple of events and we could have won the meet.
"We have a lot of work to do but our kids are working hard and results should start to show. Hopefully the weather will cooperate soon."
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Phil and Mari Manning are serving as LeTourneau University's Missionaries in Residence for 2012-2013 while on home service assignment with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). The Mannings have been serving for 25 years with MAF.
The Mannings started their overseas service with MAF in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1990.After evacuating from DRC in 1991, they served 8 years in Mali followed by 6 years in Mauritania. Phil most recently served as a counselor and teacher and Mari as the business manager at Rift Valley Academy, a large missionary children's boarding school in Kenya.
Phil and Mari both earned their bachelor's degrees from Moody Bible Institute. Phil earned a Master of Science degree in marriage and family counseling from Northwest Nazarene University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor.
The Mannings will celebrate 25 years of marriage this year. They have three children, Paul, serving in the Air Force, Mark, a freshman at LeTourneau, and Anna, who is in fifth grade.
The Missionary-in-Residence program is designed to actively involve a missionary on home assignment in the academic and student affairs programs of the university. The MiR teaches courses relating to contemporary world missions and cross-cultural adaptation and communication, and is also actively involved in student life, including the coordination of missions emphasis week.


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MIAMI -- Veteran left-hander Jeff Francis was the last man standing in the A's bullpen but nonetheless was asked to preserve a next-to-impossible situation in the 14th inning Saturday -- bases loaded, one out and a one-run lead.
He did it to perfection, getting a strikeout and a game-ending fly ball to close out the A's 7-6 win over the Miami Marlins.
"It's a tough situation," A's closer Sean Doolittle said of the situation Francis was presented. "You go out there knowing you can make your pitch and that a broken bat can bloop a ball into the outfield. There are so many elements that you can't control.
"For him to block it out like he did, that's as much as anybody could possibly ask."
Manager Bob Melvin had wanted Jim Johnson to finish it out if he could, Johnson had already pitched two scoreless innings, but a broken bat like the one Doolittle described and an infield single combined to get him in trouble, and a walk loaded the bases.
Melvin went to Francis, who put the manager at ease. It's supposed to work the other way around.
"He was very calm," Melvin said. "And that's not a situation he's used to pitching in."
Francis might not have been as calm as all that before striking out Jarrod Saltalamacchia and getting Donovan Solano to fly out.
"You have to at least try not to show it," said Francis, who earned his first major league save. "That situation's not one I'm used to."
You'd never have known it as he needed just six pitches to close out a game that lasted 4 hours, 47 minutes.
The A's took the lead in the 14th on a two-out Brandon Moss double and an RBI single on the first pitch to Josh Donaldson, giving them reason to celebrate once the game was in the bag. But it could prove to be a costly win.
Right fielder Josh Reddick, who just was activated from the disabled list Tuesday after three weeks dealing with a hyperextended right knee, came out of the game in the third inning with a pain he described as "maybe a little worse" than what put him on the disabled list originally.
He was setting up to throw when "I felt the pain in the side of my knee," he said.
"I've told you guys before, I'm not going to play through pain like I did before," Reddick said. "I'm not going to make it cost my team and myself. It's very frustrating to spend three weeks feeling better, then starting to feel good at the plate and now this."
Reddick will be checked out by a doctor Sunday, and while he's hoping for good news, it didn't sound as though he were expecting any. For the moment, the A's can dip into the minor leagues for an outfielder, perhaps Shane Peterson, or they could promote first baseman Nate Freiman and free Moss to play right field as he did frequently when Reddick was on the disabled list earlier.
The win elevated the A's to a 50-30 record, making Oakland the first American League team to reach 50 wins this season. The Milwaukee Brewers lead baseball with 51 wins, but the A's still have two fewer losses and thus their .625 winning percentage is baseball's best.
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Insider at www.ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
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OAKLAND -- After 25 years, Phyllis Bishop's battle to reclaim her home's panoramic views from behind a wall of trees may finally come to an end if the Oakland City Council votes to uphold a decision it reached in 2010.
Following nearly a decade of litigation, Bishop -- now 95 -- won the right to clear obstructing trees from her neighbor's property, but must now gain authorization to do the same on a patch of city-owned land in order to completely reclaim her views. Yet even if the city reaffirms its decision, a new condition of approval may have placed that goal out of reach.
Phyllis and her late husband, Lloyd Bishop, bought their home on Wilton Drive in 1964 after a year of searching.
"It was just exactly our house," Phyllis Bishop recalled during a recent interview, citing the property's panoramic views of the San Francisco skyline, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate and Bay bridges as the deciding factor. Over the next 20 years, the Bishops made informal arrangements with their next-door neighbor to trim trees that would otherwise obscure that view. But when Okhoo and Ernest Hanes bought the neighboring property in 1984, Bishop said all that changed.
"Six other (owners) had no objections and suddenly these people do," Bishop said. "There was nothing of great importance that we were asking."
While the Haneses' property is next-door, it sits lower, and the trees growing behind it were directly in front of the Bishops' deck. Two lawsuits and one appeal later, the Haneses had to remove more than 25 acacias, pines and redwoods at their own expense in January. Trees growing on a patch of city-owned land were also identified as obstructing the view, and their pruning and removal was subsequently approved, but now a new condition would make Bishop financially responsible for defending any lawsuits brought against the city as a result of the work.
"Guess who's going to sue the city?" Bishop said.
Bishop's attorney, Barri Bonapart, said the condition was added after permission to cut down the trees was first granted. According to Bonapart, before this, all similar tree cases had used the "hold harmless" provision.
"In essence the city is telling her she can't do it," she said, out of understandable concern that the Haneses will bring further litigation. "They're continuing a vendetta against Mrs. Bishop."
District 4 Councilmember Libby Schaff, however, denies allegations that the provision was added secretly and that its purpose is actually to prevent "passing on the liability to taxpayers" in the event of a lawsuit.
At a Sept. 18 City Council meeting that was shut down due to unrelated protests, city staff would have recommended that the city uphold its earlier decision. Schaff said she believes the council will still vote to do so at its Tuesday meeting, and Bishop and the Haneses said they plan to be present for the decision.
But for Bishop, the last step in reclaiming her views may prove to be a risk she simply cannot take.
"I just happen to be a handy target for people who are trying to display that they are being frugal with the city's money," Bishop said.
Today, neither the Haneses nor Bishop live in the Oakland hills, but retain ownership of the houses. According to court documents, the Haneses lived in their home until 1990 and have rented it out ever since. They now live in Napa. The Bishops relocated to the Piedmont Gardens retirement community in 2009, where Phyllis Bishop continues to reside. Like the Haneses, Bishop rents her house out.
While Bishop vividly recalls welcoming the Haneses to the neighborhood back in 1984, she said she could have never imagined where the request to trim some trees would end up.
When attempts at compromise between the new neighbors failed, the Bishops took the Haneses to court in 2003 but lost because the city's view ordinance was not found to apply to the homes. After the city amended the language to clarify that the ordinance did in fact apply to all Oakland homes, the Bishops sued again and in 2010 won the right to require the Haneses to remove trees from the Haneses' property, who in turn challenged the decision in the Court of Appeals. The decision was upheld on Oct. 27, 2011 -- just two days after Lloyd Bishop died. The Haneses then took the matter to the California Supreme Court, which declined to hear the appeal.
In court, the Haneses argued that removing the trees would take away animal habitats, cause erosion and potentially lead to landslides. But after hearing testimony from experts such as city arboriculture inspector Mitchell Thomson, as well as a soils engineer, a consulting arborist, and the Haneses' own landscape architect, the court determined that the trees in question were non-native, flammable and an invasive species. In addition, the court did not agree that removal posed any significant safety risk.
According to court records, another objection raised by the Haneses was that trees, primarily acacia, on city property were also obscuring the Bishops' view. But when the city granted permission to trim on its property, effectively undercutting that defense, the Haneses appealed that decision as well.
"Spiteful is all it is," said Bishop, who says she does not understand why the Haneses continue the appeals despite no longer living in the area. "My husband died waiting for this to be taken care of. Many people would have thought, 'Oh well, it can't be that important.' But to me it was that important ... It's our whole life savings."
But according to Okhoo Hanes, a retired attorney, things happened very differently and describes the city's recent authorization "an assault on the public and its assets."
While the courts have repeatedly sided with the Bishops, Okhoo Hanes maintains that her former neighbors don't actually have a right to maintain their 1964 views. Hanes claims that serious misconduct was committed in obtaining permission to trim trees on city property, and that granting authorization will damage the city's assets.
"The view ordinance specifies that a private litigation will not bind the city," she said in an email. Hanes also said Thomson and Bonapart colluded in hiring an external contractor to cut down trees on city property that had not previously been deemed a fire hazard -- a $12,000 expense Hanes said was paid by the city.
While it's evident that both parties consider the other to be in the wrong, Bishop and her attorney believe the Haneses are acting purely out of ill will.
"Even after everything they put the Bishops through ... they're still at it. They can't let it go, which is sad and disappointing," Bonapart said. "They've made all these arguments before, and they've lost on all of them."


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I was starting to think I might give in to this whole, "it's technically fall now" idea, but it seems at least in Southern California, Mother Nature isn't quite ready to accept that idea either. Summer is still here, my friends – and so is my Summer Bucket List.
My latest adventure (Summer Bucket List item No. 2) took me for the first time to the shores of Catalina Island. While I've spent many a lazy beach day staring at the island from afar and even taken several SCUBA diving trips to waters just off of its coastline, in my 10 years as a SoCal resident, I'd never actually set foot on shore.
Being that it was the boy's and my anniversary, we opted for the quieter Two Harbors side of the island and spent the day kayaking (which I'm happy to report went swimmingly despite my tendency to be overbearing in kayaks), checking out the scenery and eating at the only restaurant in the town.
At dusk, we hiked up to a viewpoint above the back side of Two Harbors' two harbors. The sun began setting over the mountains and I whipped out every camera in my possession while the boy tried to usher me up another hill to a second lookout area. After two dozen photos and many more urgings from the boy that we climb to the higher lookout, I relented. We climbed to the top – me singing "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" the whole way (this isn't as weird as it sounds if you consider that the epic scenery pretty much forces you to go straight to "Sound of Music" references) — and then this happened :)
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Grammy Yay or Nay: Lorde's Dyed Fingertips
Are black-dyed fingers the new craze or are they merely Royal-ly strange?
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Dressed in black and white, with a flickering hi-tech slide show of stone angel photographs as a backdrop, Lorde delivered the most pared down and eerie rendition of her breakout hit, "Royals" yet. But it was those fingertips, those "did her fountain pen explode?" ink-dyed fingertips, that had everyone rapt.
Heck, people are so taken with the look that LordesFingers already has its own Twitter page.
But, seriously, what was the deal with them? Was the winner of the Best Pop Solo Performance (for "Royals") too lazy to get a proper manicure? Are dyed fingertips an underground trend Down Under? Did a pen burst and inspire what may well turn out to be a new trend?
So far, the singer's keeping uncharacteristically mum on the topic.
Once she breaks the silence, we'll be sure and clue you all in but ... in the meantime, tell us, will folks glom on to this black-dyed look? Or, is it best reserved for the award-winning singers among us?
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The Mass Department of Environmental Protection at 12:30 am May 10, 2007, reported a release to the National Response Center of anhydrous ammonia coming from the C&S Wholesale Grocers Distribution Center, a food distribution warehouse in Hatfield. An employee noticed the smell of ammonia outside of the warehouse at about 6:30 pm and the warehouse was evacuated. Some employees felt ill from inhalation of the ammonia, causing 14 employees to be sent to the hospital for observation. All 14 were released that night. Four homes near the warehouse were evacuated. DEP said the local hazmat teams, as well as the Hatfield, Amherst and North Hampton fire departments were at the scene trying to identify the source of the release. EPA was asked to help with air monitoring to determine the source of the release. By about 1:20 am, DEP alerted EPA that the source of the release was a pump within the warehouse that had malfunctioned. Since the release was being secured by local responders, EPA was no longer needed.
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EPA Demobilization Date*: 05/10/2007
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MARTINEZ -- A decorated San Francisco police officer accused of repeatedly molesting a teenager in Concord and possessing child pornography pleaded not guilty Monday morning, claiming the sex was consensual and the victim purported to be 18 years old.
Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Bruce Mills reduced bail for Richard Hastings, 38, of Concord, from $910,000 to $100,000, against the strong objections of the prosecutor, who called the suspended cop a "danger to the community."
"As a police officer he's held to a higher standard in our community," said prosecutor Alison Chandler. "You have a police officer who children are taught to go to for protection and safety."
Hastings has been charged with nine counts of lewd acts on a 15-year-old boy spanning June to August 2013 and one count of possessing child pornography.
Hastings has been a San Francisco police officer since 2001. He won the department's highest honor for his role in a 2011 fatal officer-involved shooting. He was suspended without pay after his molestation arrest by Concord police in August, according to a San Francisco police spokeswoman.
On Monday, Hastings' attorney Eileen Burke said her client was not a threat and met the boy on a dating site where he purported to be over the legal consent age.
"He's no more a danger to the public than anyone who signs up for an online dating service who represents themselves to be over 18," Burke said.
Chandler argued that the boy was clearly underage, however, as evidenced by Concord police breaking the case after detaining the boy for violating the city's curfew during one of 10 meetings with Hastings. In Concord, under most circumstances children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult when out in public between midnight and 5 a.m.
"This is not Match.com, this is not the victim's fault," Chandler said. "Consent is not a defense. We should not be talking about the victim."
Chandler said the boy would meet Hastings on a street corner late at night and have sex in the officer's car.
When confronted by Concord investigators, Hastings told police: "Don't worry, I'm a police officer, we're fine," Chandler said.
In 2012, Hastings received a Gold Medal of Valor for his role in a July 16, 2011, shootout near a Bayview district MUNI stop in San Francisco.
Hastings and his partner tried to stop Kenneth Harding Jr., 19, after he failed to pay his fare and the Washington state parolee fled. Police said Harding Jr. fired shots at the two officers, who returned fire, hitting him in the leg. Police said Harding Jr. then fired a fatal shot into his own body.
Harding Jr.'s family has sued the department, including Hastings.
"Since the shooting a few years ago, he decided to engage in riskier business," Chandler told the judge Monday.
Investigators found child porn featuring an 8-year-old boy involved in sexual conduct on an electronic device owned by Hastings, Chandler said. She added that Hastings used a gay dating app called "Hornet" so many of his actions "could be erased."
Appearing in a yellow prison jumpsuit with closely cropped black hair and glasses, Hastings stood silently for most of his arraignment, at one point replying "Yes, sir" to the judge when asked if he pleaded not guilty. His next hearing is March 7.
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.


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The West Virginia Association of Conservation Districts began the Century Farm Program in 2011 to recognize farms in West Virginia that have been maintained by the same family for at least 100 years.
Western Conservation District is looking for eligible Century Farms in the counties of Mason, Jackson and Putnam. In 2012 there were seven farms and in 2011, fourteen farms, designated as West Virginia Century Farms in the local area.
To qualify, ownership must be kept in the same family for at least 100 years. This ownership can be through husband, wife, children, brothers, sisters, nephews or nieces. A summary listing all past owners and their relationship must be submitted along with an application form.
The farm must consist of at least ten acres of the original tract and the current owner must generate at least $1000 annually from farm products.
Farms that are eligible will be recognized this fall by the Western Conservation District and presented with a West Virginia Century Farm sign. Please contact the Western Conservation District at 304-675-3054, or by email at email@example.com , to request an application. Deadline to submit an application is April 1, 2013.
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From the Madone Premier Event.
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It all looks very exciting and like a nice upgrade to my Trek 5200, but dare I sound like the retrogrouch who is just a bit uncomfortable with all this built-into-the-frame stuff?
The folks at Chris King are no doubt having a hissyfit over the headset and bottom bracket, and I simply don't like wireless computers. It will be interesting to see if the fork-integrated sensor idea takes off, though — it seems like a tricky tradeoff in weight and/or accuracy if it requires stronger & heavier magnets or a sensor with greater sensitivity.
How many Shimano computers have you ever seen attached to the built in buttons? I've seen one I think 6 years ago . . . Trek is getting caught up with the rest of the "integrated" or ecosystem approach to buying bikes—I posted about that at [Interbike](http://interbike.bikehugger.com/) last year.
The industry is making it easier and fun like the Lime and then more boutique with in-house designs like Specialized does, where their house brands are really nice and pushing technology. Bontrager's visuals really needed an upgrade so that's a welcome change, but I mean you're going to see Pro-Fit bikes with stems pointed to the sky to get the geometry right, despite their "pro/performance" designators.
And you have to wonder how that marketing meetings went down to come up with "red carbon" or "white" carbon. What Trek World HQ marketing staff thinks is good in the meeting room is entirely different than in a bike shop, on the sales floor. Also note in their brochure how they compare their vertical compliance to the Tarmac SL, but not the weight.


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The lovely Ms Carolyn Reese just finished working her day job, she was on her feet all day with some pretty big heels on. She was happy to come home to her bed, strip off her shoes and her sexy outfit too. She felt the need to masturbate with her big black cock so she could have even sweeter dreams. I bet she had a great nights sleep.
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Old Mother Hubbard loves her dog, and he loves her. In this comic poem, written in 1805, Old Mother Hubbard is always looking out for her best friend and in return he is dancing and spinning and sitting and standing all to the delight of Old Mother Hubbard. In a quaint old cottage the comedy of a dog and his master opens and unfolds to delight and captivate the story of this good old lady and her funny dog.


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Quote: Imagine for a second that you are being hunted because of things you have said. All other evidence of any wrongdoing has been secretly shielded from public view. Drone missiles have already been fired at your presumed whereabouts numerous times but have not killed you. And one man has decided to be your judge, jury and executioner. He is the president of the country of which you are a citizen. This Kafka-esque scenario actually takes place.
On Friday, American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by an unmanned American drone. Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico and held dual Yemeni-American citizenship. Many in the government regarded him as al-Qaeda's top recruiter in the Arabian Peninsula and its figurehead since the death of Osama bin Laden in May. His calls for jihad and the formation of an Islamic caliphate were contrary to American principles and dangerous to American citizens.
His primary skill, due to the fact that he spoke English, was propaganda. His fiery sermons supposedly influenced the Fort Hood shooter and the Christmas Day bomber, but he had no operational or battleground experience. Beyond that, what we know about him is murky.
It is uncertain whether he ever swore an oath of allegiance to al-Qaeda and, although the White House asserts time and again that they were justified in his assassination, any evidence to back that up remains classified as a "state secret." In addition to killing a dangerous religious extremist, the United States has opened up a can of worms, setting a dangerous precedent.
Obama's authorization of al-Awlaki's targeted killing was first reported early in 2010, when his name was disclosed as being on a U.S. intelligence hit list. The American Civil Liberties Union attempted to intervene by suing the government on behalf of Nasser al-Awlaki (Anwar's father) but a judge dismissed the case.
Obama's assassination attempts continued with the help of the Yemeni government. Never mind that al-Awlaki's speech would be protected under principles set by the Supreme Court ruling in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which determined KKK members' hate speech was protected by the First Amendment. Obama's actions also contradict President Reagan's 1981 executive order that U.S. officials not engage in assassination. Lastly, the State Department attempted to revoke al-Awlaki's citizenship before finding they had no legal standing to do so.
When the United States succeeded in killing al-Awlaki, he was able to die as a martyr. He was not given a trial and due punishment. Instead, we were the ones hurt by the president's newly claimed unilateral power.
America is one of a handful of developed nations that still practices the death penalty, and an event like this serves to further show how the last decade has eradicated our once-proud ideals. If we're going to be outraged by President Bush's post-9/11 offenses, we should be apoplectic about Obama's latest example.
We can put al-Awlaki's picture on the news all we want, but the face of terrorism is not a human face that can just be assassinated. In reality, the killing of al-Awlaki's will do very little to quell al-Qaeda's threat and their will to kill Americans. The more lasting repercussions are the degradation of due process and expansion of presidential power. Beyond that lays the worst outcome of this news: the American people's silence. Our tacit consent to this assassination, and the government officials who herald it, is troublesome for our society as a whole.
As Thomas Jefferson said, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." Let us not allow that to happen here.
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For some unknown reason, Access Hollywood was given the go-ahead to make spin-off show—and it premiered live this morning. Unfortunately for them, the show didn't go off without a hitch. We've got the video to prove it.
For starters, here's a sampling of how today's show went down:
Quality television programming! Not to be outdone by the rest of the show, Al Roker appeared to send his well-wishes and revealed a story of he and Billy Bush wrestling naked at the Acropolis.
Yes, Julie Bowen, we're just as scarred by that story as you were.


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Community News: JRuby 1.1 is ready for prime time
By molini on Apr 06, 2008
In a little more than 9 months time, the JRuby community is pleased to announce its second major project release, JRuby 1.1
In a blog post, Thomas Enebo mentions, "The main goal for ver 1.1 was to improve performance. With the help from the community, we have made great strides in performance.There have
been more and more reports of applications exceeding Ruby 1.8.6
performance; we are even beating Ruby 1.9 in some micro-benchmarks."
"Thousands of reported issues and unending IRC conversations helped keep JRuby focused on doing what is most important: Making Ruby applications work well," commented Charlie Nutter. "Try your applications against JRuby 1.1 and give us feedback."
If you find any issues let the JRuby team know via IRC, email the mailing list, or file a bug.
Major features include:
- Compilation of Ruby to Java Bytecode (in AOT and JIT modes)
- Oniguruma port to Java
- Refactored IO implementation
- Improved memory consumption
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Foggy Conditions Limits Visibility in Polk, Tampa Bay Area
Published: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 7:28 a.m.
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TAMPA BAY AREA | Foggy conditions are blanketing parts of the Bay area today.
Visibility is as low as half a mile at Tampa International Airport and across parts of Polk County. The Florida Highway Patrol is advising drivers to take precaution in the foggy conditions.
According to Bay News 9 Meteorologist Diane Kacmarik, low clouds and the fog will burn off later in the morning.
"The fog is pretty widespread," Kacmarik said. "But it will burn off, the sunshine will move in and it will be a warm day."
Temperatures are expected to rise to about 80 degrees across the region this afternoon.
After temperatures dip back into the mid 60s overnight, more fog is anticipated Saturday morning before a clear and sunny weekend.
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Published: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 10:18 a.m.
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BATON ROUGE — LSU officials say football radio analyst and former Tigers All-American Doug Moreau is taking a temporary leave of absence for health reasons. Moreau has called LSU games for about 35 seasons. He missed the Tigers' season opener against TCU in Dallas and no timetable has been announced for his return. Moreau says in a statement provided by LSU on Thursday that he's "hoping to have these health matters resolved very soon."
LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette says former Tiger Gordy Rush, who filled in for Moreau last Saturday night, will continued indefinitely as analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Jim Hawthorne. Moreau played for LSU from 1963-65.
Moreau also played for the Miami Dolphins from 1966-70 and served as a judge and district attorney in Baton Rouge.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -
The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery has created a platform for aspiring student-artists at FAMU, Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College in its 4th Annual Student Art Competition and Exhibition. Students have until Friday, March 25 at 4 p.m. to submit their application, registration fee and art.
The purpose of the competition is to give all students - not just art majors - an opportunity to be recognized for their artwork. Artists can submit up to five original 2D or 3D works and are encouraged to be ready for professional presentation.
It is an all media competition that encourages individuals to submit a diverse selection of artwork including photography, digital art, assemblage and new media.
"I think it's important for people to participate because there are not a lot of local opportunities for visual artists to win money for their work as well as the opportunity to have their work exhibited in a professional art gallery," said Aja Roache, visiting assistant professor and art management coordinator at the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery. "It's a great resume builder for those interested in going into an art field too."
The artwork is scheduled to be on exhibit from April 8 through April 29 in the Foster-Tanner Art Gallery and will be judged by Eluster Richardson, a local artist. First place prize is $150, second place $75 and third $50. Also, there will be three honorable mentions recognized by having work published in the 2012 Student Art Calendar.
Participants are required to complete an application including a non-refundable $10 fee. For more information, contact Aja Roache at firstname.lastname@example.com or 599-8755.


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Marjorie Montemayor-Quellenberg, MA
Parotidectomy is surgery to remove all or part of the parotid gland. These glands make saliva. They are located in the jaw, in front of and below each ear.
The surgery is done to:
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
Before your procedure, talk to your doctor about ways to manage factors that may increase your risk of complications, such as:
Before the surgery, your doctor may:
Be sure that you have a ride to and from the hospital the day of your surgery.
General anesthesia
will be used. You will be asleep during the procedure.
The doctor will make a cut in front of the ear and down into the neck. The nerves in the area will be located and protected during surgery. There are two types of parotidectomy surgery. The type you will have depends on why the surgery is being done.
If you have a tumor and it is above the facial nerve, then a superficial parotidectomy is done. The tumor and affected tissue can usually be removed safely without harming the nerve.
If you have a tumor that surrounds or grows into the facial nerve, a total parotidectomy is done. The tumor, affected tissue, and parts of the nerve are removed.
After all tissue has been removed, the area will be closed with sutures. A drain will be placed behind your ear. It will be used to remove any fluids, such as blood and saliva, from the wound.
Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
Most will go home the day after surgery, once they are able to eat and walk around on their own. Some may need to stay longer if there are any complications.
After the surgery is over, you will be moved to a recovery room. The hospital staff will monitor you. The staff may:
During your stay, the hospital staff will take steps to reduce your chance of infection, such as:
There are also steps you can take to reduce your chance of infection, such as:
Tto help ensure a smooth recovery:
It is important for you to monitor your recovery after you leave the hospital. Alert your doctor to any problems right away. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
If you think you have an emergency, call for medical help right away.
American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery
American Cancer Society
Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Society of Otolaryngology
Dictionary of cancer terms: Parotidectomy. National Cancer Institute website. Available at:
http://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/?CdrID=44770. Accessed July 23, 2013.
Ghorayeb B. Parotidectomy: frequently asked questions. Otolaryngology Houston website. Available at:
http://www.ghorayeb.com/parotidectomyfaq.html. Updated May 24, 2013. Accessed July 23, 2013.
Surgical procedures: Neck dissection. Greater Baltimore Medical Center website. Available at:
http://www.gbmc.org/body.cfm?id=198. Accessed July 23, 2013.
Last reviewed June 2015 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Sixth Street closing for Druid City Arts Fest
Published: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa Department of Transportation will close Sixth Street between 21st Avenue and 23rd Avenue from 6 a.m.-7 p.m.
The closure is for the Druid City Arts Fest at Government Plaza downtown. The free festival, which will be held from 11 a.m.-6 p.m., features music and crafts.
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Ryan Cartwright wrote an excellent article, Don't compare GNU/Linux with Windows or MacOS – they are not in the same game.
I ran across the same blog he is referring to, while gathering potential stories for FSD and my reaction was very similar.
Ryan questions, "I mean how can you tell how many Ubuntu installs came of a single CD?"
I always download the Kubuntu ISO onto my hard drive and usually only burn off one CD. In the relatively short period since Kubuntu 8.04 came out I have used that single CD to do about a dozen fresh-installs, on four different computers, for various reasons. On all the other releases of Kubuntu, since 6.06, I have done at least as many fresh-installs on numerous computers from the one CD throughout the release cycle.
Try that with Vista and you might soon get to meet some of Microsoft's nastiest lawyers, upfront and very personal.
For the life of me I can't see why the blogger complains about playing MP3's in GNU/Linux. None of the recent releases of the Ubuntu family has any difficulty with MP3's--and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out, either. In fact, by all accounts, playing music and other entertainment, is the very area in which the hapless user is most likely to run foul of Vista's ruthless DRM, so that the OS ends up closing up shop on you altogether. That simply never happens in GNU/Linux.
Admittedly, GNU/Linux has some problems with hardware when the manufacturers refuse to divulge driver source-code, often at Microsoft's instigation, but there is always some sort of work-around. When Vista decides it doesn't like your hardware it just cuts you off and you are left with very little recourse to ever get it working again.
Complaining about GNU/Linux's documentation was pretty rich. I still remember the world of mystery surrounding Microsoft documentation and shudder to myself. If you had to go to the Microsoft site, to get driver information, the problems increased by several orders of magnitude.
Finally, I remember those wonderful how-to manuals, "Windows for Dummies". I had one and I jolly well needed it in order to translate Microsoft's lamentable documentation. I don't know if there is a "Vista for Dummies" yet, but it will either be very, very long, or else very, very short, depending on the author's personal sense of humour.
Like Ryan, I have no knowledge of the MacOS, but I surely would have, if there was no GNU/Linux.
Did you get the title right?
Nice post with some good points. Did you mean the title to read "Do we have Vista for Dummies yet?"
Oh and yes that book does exist - not that I've read it. There are dummies books for pretty much everything now including Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian. Even "non-technical" subjects -- like Fertility -- get Dummies guides!
The title was my fault...
The title was my fault, not the author's!
--Fixed :-D
(I also have a redirect for the old URL)
Fertility for Dummies??
Thanks Ryan. Actually, I was only going to post that as a comment to your article, but I noticed this - write a post in reply - feature. FSM didn't have this when I took off for the bush last summer, so I thought I'd give it a try to see how it works.
Fertility for Dummies; at my age I'll just stick with Free Software.
How many people use a single Gnu/Linux download?
quote: I always download the Kubuntu ISO onto my hard drive and usually only burn off one CD. In the relatively short period since Kubuntu 8.04 came out I have used that single CD to do about a dozen fresh-installs, on four different computers, for various reasons.
I do exactly the same with Mandriva Linux, and I've done that since at least the year 2000 when Mandriva Linux was Mandrake Linux. In addition I have a small part time business installing Mandriva Linux on re purposed Windows Computers, machines I've upgraded from various versions of Windows, including Vista, to Mandriva Linux. On top of that I also sell machines pre installed with Mandriva Linux, all of these come from CDs burned from the same original download of the ISO image (currently Mandriva Linux 2008.1)
I do have knowledge of both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, and Macs are not as intuitive as they are made out to be. And there are many things, at least in my experience of the KDE desktop, that are trivially easier on Linux than they are on Windows (where to do the same things you need to know a set of correct incantations - well actually CTRL+KEY - to achieve the same result as is achieved on KDE by simply indicating your preference).
GNU/Linux, at least (in my experience) in the configuration I use and sell - Mandriva Linux with a KDE desktop - is way more intuitive than either Windows or Mac OS, and the people I sell it to pick it up quite quickly. I say this because I had expected to make a nice little income off the top of my sales, but that doesn't seem to have eventuated, and those new Linux users, the ones often referred to as the Dummies, report that they don't really need much help, thank you very much.
Me too
I got into it in exactly the same way; Mandrake with the KDE desktop. KDE is a very Windows-escapee friendly introduction to Free Software with hardly any learning curve in order to handle the basic functions.
So much for download counts...
I don't even download an iso most of the time. I don't know how many debian and ubuntu machines I've set up with my PXE boot/apt-mirror server...
Devil's Advocate
The simple answer to the number of installs that come off of a single Linux (any distro) CD is zero. Nobody uses it, and it quickly gets forgotten, perhaps used as a coffee cup coaster. Linux cannot be counted because there is nothing to count. It is quite impossible to download bazillions of CDs and DVDs, yet only have 0.8% of the PC market. People must be early on discovering how defective the (non)product is, and returning to the tried and true software that actually works.
And if you believe ANY of that, I have a bridge to sell you.
Wonderful Article
I hate to nit pick at such a concise and well written article, but there is a fact which needs to be fact checked.
Free versions of Microsoft Windows are available for download. And no, I'm not talking about pirated or cracked copies. I'm talking about officially licensed, working versions.
Yes, they are time limited trials. But the practice has been part of Microsoft's behavior since at least Windows/2000 (I still have a 120 day trial CD).
The only way to get decent Microsoft documentation is to buy their programming products and subscribe to TechNet (which also provides trial software).
I hope we see more articles down this road. I had a dentist client years back, who bought a system for his wife and had a limited budget. I put Red Hat on it,and while the system worked very well, it didn't work well for the wife. He eventually bought a copy of XP for the box, even though I'd given her lessons and helped her set things up (for free). I think that with the versions of Linux we have today, the result might very well have been different.
Perhaps the question is not Vista for dummies, but "Do we have a Linux version for Dummies yet"? Can normal people use Linux, or is it only for mutants?
Not nitpicking
craigTFD, constructive discussion of a point is always most welcome and I thank you for your kind comments.
No, I hadn't realised that M$ offered shareware versions of their OS, but it stands to reason, I suppose. Their main objective is to get the user hooked, then permanently tied in, so any method that works will be on offer.
I sympathise with your problems getting people to discard Windows, but I've been in that tied-down frame of mind for too many years, not to understand their fears.
I used word processors and various Windows desktops throughout the 1990s and I always felt an intense loathing for Windows, but could do nothing about it. I actually started using the internet with Windows 2000 in 2002.
I actually knew about Linux by then, because some academic friends were using it. I thought it would be too 'hard' for me, but I could also see huge security problems looming for Windows users.
One day I was watching my friends using Mandrake on the internet and suddenly thought, "Hey, even I could do that, easily", so they kindly set my laptop up with a Mandrake and Windows dual/boot.
I took it home and started using Mandrake straight off. I never did go back to that Windows partition, not even once. It was my happiest day in computing. I started to love Linux as much as I'd previously loathed Windows and I actually started to learn a bit about computers, something I'd never been tempted to do as a Windows user.
I got another notch on my Kubuntu disk last week. I setup a new Thinkpad t61 for an academic who needed XP to run certain academic programs, but needed to be able to use the internet in some degree of safety. Now they can still run their programs and then use the Kubuntu partition for the internet.
I apologise for the title of the above article. It was originally posted under the working title of, "Windows for Dummies", but got confused during the editorial process.


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BIRTHPLACE: Seria, BRN
DRAFTED: HFD: 1996-223 overall
Goals: 2 (1 time), 3/10/03 vs. CBJ
Assists: 3 (1 time), 12/6/05 at ANA
Points: 3 (4 times), 10/27/10 at TBL (1G-2A)
SOG: 6 (3 times), 12/16/08 at EDM
PIM: 17 (2 times), 2/11/11 at NYI
Goal Streak: 2, 12/10/05 - 12/13/05 (3)br /> Assist Streak: 2, 4/5/11 - 4/8/11 (2)br /> Point Streak: 3, 4/2/11 - 4/8/11 (1G-2A)br />
|Defensively reliable forward that excels on penalty kill and blocking shots.
Nickname - "Addsy"
Veteran of 10 NHL seasons with Carolina, Chicago and Pittsburgh.
Two-time Stanley Cup champion (Carolina - 2005; Pittsburgh - 2009).
Valuable member of Penguins' '09 championship team, contributing in 24 playoff games as defensive forward and penalty kill specialist.
Key component of the Penguins' No. 1-ranked penalty killing unit in 2010-11 - the first time in franchise history the team finished the regular season with the league's top PK unit. Adams led all Pittsburgh forwards with an average of 3:05 shorthanded minutes per game.
Led all Penguins forwards in '10-11 with 64 blocked shots and ranked 4th overall on the team with 171 hits.
Finished the '10-11 regular season on a career-high 3-game scoring streak with 1 goal and 2 assists from April 2-8.
Appeared in his 600th career NHL game on Nov. 3, 2010 at Dallas.
Netted 1st career goal (and point) Nov. 10, 2000 vs. Toronto.
Made NHL debut Oct. 24, 2000 vs. San Jose.
Drafted by the Hartford Whalers in 9th round (223rd overall) of 1996 NHL Entry Draft.
Played 4 seasons at Harvard from 1995-99.
Majored in history at Harvard.
Born in Seria, Brunei on island of Borneo in South China Sea where his father was working for Shell at the time. Raised in Calgary, AB.
Married (Anne); 1 son (Rhys Argeo); 1 daughter (Francesca Alice).
Wife's father is Paul Cellucci, former Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. Ambassador to Canada.
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Couple accused of assaulting manager in shoplifting
Published: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 10:21 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 10:21 p.m.
A man and a woman from North Carolina are accused of assaulting a woman who told police she tried to stop them from shoplifting.
A regional manager for Hollister at WestGate Mall said she saw a man and woman enter the store around 11 a.m. Thursday, select pants and a shirt and remove sensors from the clothing with pliers, according to an incident report.
Spartanburg Public Safety Department has charged Ashley Danielle Watkins, 28, of 343 Mountainview St. in Forest City, N.C., with two counts of strong arm robbery, one count of third-degree assault and battery, two counts of possessing tools capable of criminal use and one count of malicious injury to property less than $2,000.
Kashif Dominique Hamilton, 26, of 277 Old Castle Lane in Forest City, N.C., has been charged with third-degree assault and battery and two counts of shoplifting less than $2,000 worth of merchandise.
Watkins bought a pair of jeans before leaving Hollister, according to the report. Watkins and Hamilton then went to American Eagle where Watkins is accused of cutting a sensor off a pair of jeans and a jacket, the report states. The jacket was damaged and replaced before a plaid shirt was concealed, the report states.
The manager from Hollister confronted the suspects as they left American Eagle, the report states.
The victim said Watkins grabbed one of her arms and tried to push her and a fight started after the victim asked the suspects to return the stolen merchandise back, the report states. The victim told police both suspects drug her outside the mall, threatened to punch her in the face and said she was thrown to the ground in the parking lot.
Two women entering the mall tried to help the victim, before mall security detained the suspects, the report states. Spartanburg Public Safety officers later arrived and arrested them.
The total value of damaged merchandise from Hollister is $136.50 and the American Eagle merchandise totaled $139.85, according to the report.
The victim was taken to an urgent care center for treatment.
Watkins was released from jail under a $42,000 cash or surety bond, while Hamilton was released under a $3,000 cash or surety bond.
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- Nov 2:
- EBAL roundup: Cal tested by Livermore as it clinches league title outright
- BVAL roundup: Oseguera's late TD gives Liberty win over Heritage
- DFAL roundup: Campolindo beats Dougherty Valley to remain perfect
- Albany 56, De Anza 0
- McClymonds 60, Castlemont 0
- East Bay football roundup: Clayton Valley survives test from Concord
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- Regional football roundup: De La Salle rolls over Monte Vista
- East Bay high school/community college scoreboard for Friday, Nov. 1 events
- WACC-Foothill football roundup: San Leandro clinches share of division title
- Friday's East Bay high school football scores
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- High school roundup: Bishop O'Dowd beats Berkeley in volleyball, clinches division title
PITTSBURG -- Moments after the Pittsburg High football team put the finishing touches on its wild 28-24 victory over previously unbeaten Deer Valley on Friday night, coach Vic Galli told his jubilant players that few victories in his 12 years with the Pirates have been sweeter.
Short-handed and down by 10 points in the final quarter, the host Pirates rallied to claim at least a share of the Bay Valley Athletic League championship. They can make it an outright title with a win over Antioch in next week's Big Little Game.
Jaylyn Morgan, filling in for injured star running back Harris Ross, scored the game-winning touchdown on a 3-yard run with 3:27 left. The junior finished with 153 rushing yards and three touchdowns on 23 carries.
"We took a humongous step tonight," Galli said. "The top back in the state didn't play in the game. Our quarterback is out for the season, our best lineman is hurt. The list goes on. Just for these other guys to step up and have everyone rally and play for each other, I'm very happy with these guys."
Ross, an Oregon State commit who became Pittsburg's all-time rushing leader last week, watched the game from the sideline on crutches and with his right foot in a boot.
Ross originally injured his leg three weeks ago against Heritage and ended up fracturing his fibula at practice this week. He could be out for the season.
Pittsburg scored first, but it was the Wolverines (8-1, 3-1 BVAL), led by nimble and elusive quarterback Nsimba Webster, who led for most of the game.
The senior rushed for 156 yards, passed for 107 and accounted for all three Deer Valley touchdowns. But the Pirates (7-2, 4-0) were able to stop Webster and the Wolverines with the game on the line.
After Morgan's go-ahead scoring run, Deer Valley drove to the Pittsburg 30-yard line. But Webster was sacked on third down, and the Pirates batted down a deep ball to the end zone on the next play to seal the win.
"It seems like we do this all the time with Deer Valley," Galli said. "I don't want to see these guys again (in the playoffs). I'm done with Mr. Webster."
Pittsburg took advantage of two Deer Valley miscues to take the lead.
A bad snap on a punt gave Pittsburg the ball on the Wolverines' 8-yard line and the Pirates scored two plays later on a Jeremiah Sturgis touchdown reception.
Then sophomore Shurod Thompson intercepted Webster on the Wolverines' next drive, setting the Pirates up for their game-winning drive.


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Hannibal High School senior Dalton Powell has been selected for the 2013 Missouri Scholars 100 statewide program that honors 100 of the state's top academic high school seniors.
The announcement was made by HHS Principal Ryan Sharkey. Powell will be honored Sunday, April 28, at the Holiday Inn Executive Center, Columbia, Mo.
This Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals program invites Missouri schools to nominate candidates. Selection is based primarily on a formula using the student's grade point average and ACT or SAT score. For more details see MASSP, (573) 445-5071.
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I am one you dill(pickle).
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Vegetarians are pussies, I'm vegan.
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Becoming a vegetarian...
I know there's some vegetarians that frequent this board. I was wondering what tips you guys and girls might have for someone who was making the transition to becoming a vegetarian. Stuff like what you find it hard to avoid, your favorites, and why you are a vegetarian for example. Any thoughts, advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
Also, do any of you know anything about a raw food diet? Have any of you read or do you know anything about the book
The Sun-food Diet Success System
by David Wolfe?
The poll is just to make the whole thing a little more interactive and to find out some of the opinions regarding a vegetarian lifestyle of the people who post here.
Tue Jul 09, 2002 2:37 am
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Being a vegetarian is fun and easy. I just regard meat as a non food entity, and only crazy people eat shoes and napkins, right?
Also, I'm an expert on this raw food phenomenon because I saw a segment about it on the Style network. It featured this dude in little girl clothes running around like a crazy madman on the beach talking about all the energy he got from eating "pizza" made of triskit crackers and chopped up raw zucchini, interspersed with shots of him and his beautiful friends eating the pizza in question talking about how delicious it was. Fucking liars, all of them. His book is called "the uncook book" or "the uncook cook book" I think, if you're interested, but you shouldn't be interested, its for fags. Although, you know, nothing against fags.
Tue Jul 09, 2002 4:16 am
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I'm a vegan, and have been one for ten years. My tips are as follows: first, get yourself to the nearest Whole Foods or equivalent and buy as many fake meat products as you can. This will help you get past the feelings of withdrawal. You have to experiment with the fake meat stuff though since some of it tastes like garbage. Also, get your hands on an animal rights video or two. Having visual images of the production and slaughtering process makes it a hell of a lot harder to go back to eating animals. Also, you might find it useful to buy a decent vegetarian/vegan nutrition book. When some people make the switch, they are unaware of how many different food sources are available, so they tend to eat a very narrow range of foods. A book will help you eat the right foods, and in the right combinations. Good luck!
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I just wrote a long arse message before but for some reason it didnt go up. Im a vegan aswell, I agree with imatapos, understandin the whole procedure of what meat goes through is enough to turn You off it... And i believe becommin a stirict Vegan or Veg is somethin You have to feel strongly about to quit Meat... For health or Moral reasons ( guit free livin )... At first its hard, especially when goin to restaurants with Ya mates, and they dont really cater for vegos... But its all dissapline and committment... try it out, see how You go...
Peace and GOD Bless
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By the way this is My first time on the board, I just wanted to say Im feelin Ya music Sage ( alot of peeps in Aus are feelin Ya stuff )
You think You'll be rockin our shores anytime soon?
Sol Klep..
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Floyd and Anona Kieffer of Shawnee recently observed their 50th wedding anniversary.
Floyd David Keiffer and Anona Faye Hays were married Sept. 21, 1963, in Shawnee. They have lived in Bethel Acres for the last 32 years.
Their children are David and Christina Kieffer of Richardson, Texas, Deena and Wayne Nero of Georgetown, Texas, and Kelli and Ryan Wilson of Shawnee.
They are proud grandparents of Sam and Jason Keiffer, Zack, Jake, and Kade Nero, and Chance, Chance, and Chandler Wilson.
Floyd is a retiree of Southwestern Bell Telephone and Nortel Networks. Anona is a homemaker.
They celebrated their anniversary by vacationing in Hawaii.
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Two "pen friends," as they say in Australia, or "pen pals," as we call them here in the States, first started writing to each other 27 years ago as teenagers and kept in touch all this time - only to meet for the first time recently in Breckenridge.
Will Inveen, of Canberra, Australia first corresponded with Breckenridge resident Cameron Laidlaw when he was 14 and she was 15. He took his school up on an announcement to sign up for a pen friend; she paid $.70 to cover the cost of befriending a boy her age from Down Under.
Over nearly three decades, the two maintained an unlikely friendship - through the trials and tribulations of their teenage years to one another's engagements and on to marriage and kids.
"She has named her son after me, and my daughter has her name as well," said Inveen, whose daughter is named Amelia Cameron. Inveen went through a period in which he spelled his first name with one 'l," so Laidlaw spelled her son's name, "Wil."
Inveen came to the U.S. for the first time in September at the invitation of Laidlaw's husband, Douglass. Inveen suffers from polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and coincidentally, Laidlaw works for a pharmaceutical company that manages a team of people researching it. When he learned of the 2012 Los Angeles Walk for PKD taking place in Santa Monica, Ca., on Oct. 6, Laidlaw invited Inveen to the U.S. to participate, but bought him a ticket to arrive in Colorado first to surprise his wife.
"Cameron knew I was coming at some stage, but Doug and I conspired so I turned up [in Colorado instead of California] about a week and half early," Inveen said. "Cameron said he's not very good at keeping secrets - but he did this time."
That's how her pen friend showed up at the door unannounced, bearing an American flag. "I think when I first knocked at the door she thought I was an election campaigner," Inveen said, chuckling. "She let me in and was really surprised. I sat down with this person who I'd never seen in my whole life and we just knew each other so well."
They had a good laugh reading some of their early correspondences aloud, samples of which Inveen brought with him. "I still have all of her letters, including the very first one I received," he said, explaining how they went from handwritten letters to email and then Facebook over the years - though the two made a pact not to Skype or video chat until they could meet in person.
"It's just been really nice - a funny relationship where I've never met these people, but the moment I stepped into their home I felt like I've known them for years," Inveen said. "Her husband Doug - I helped him fix the car the other day and we talked and talked. It's an unusual feeling; I really love this family."
Inveen spent a little over a week in Breckenridge enjoying the sunny weather and learning to fly fish before setting off for the PKD walk in LA and a whirlwind tour of the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam before heading back to Australia.