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$20 Bill -9/11 Trickery
Have any of you seen this? It's where a 20 spot is folded and you can supposedly see the Twin Towers exploding on one side, and the Pentagon exploding on the other. I think it's a bit of a stretch. It reminds me of those Highlights magazines where you could fold the pages together?? Remember that?
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but it seriously looks VERY similar to the trade center buildings on fire
just one of those odd things...kinda like how people can think that "My Neck, My Back" song is bareable to listen to
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wasn't it Mad magazine where you could fold the page to form another pic?
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someone has a lot of time on there hands
Its all about the money. Money tells the future....
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The Trade Center part definitely looks like it. The Pentagon is a stretch. Very strange, nonetheless.
Fri Jul 05, 2002 3:37 pm
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Nita Suspect wrote:
wasn't it Mad magazine where you could fold the page to form another pic?
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is this even close?
shit even says TWRS at the bottom
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and 9+11=20 oh shit son.....
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that's the most obviouse bong I've ever seen
you're joking right? You could do that with any picture of any building with bushes by it. Honestly.
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twin towers
on the side with the towers buring the words read "america" and "the united", then the rest gets cut off by the fold and the side where it says america is where the american flight hit the building and the other side is where united airlines hit the building......odd???
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The annual Nordic Ski Swap begins at 9 a.m. today at the Frisco Nordic Center with new and used ski, snowshoe, telemark and backcountry gear and accessories available at low prices.The swap, benefiting local Nordic teams, extends through 4 p.m. Sunday.The swap is also paying cash for consignment on Nordic gear. Those looking to trade-up or get rid of equipment will get 80 percent cash back of the value of the equipment with 20 percent benefiting the Summit Nordic Ski Club and high school Nordic team. Participants can also opt to receive 100 percent of the sale price for in-store credit at the Frisco Nordic Center.Most of the inventory for the swap is lightly used last season Nordic gear encompassing everything for Nordic, cross-country, telemark and backcountry skiing."Our staff is very knowledgeable on determining the value of equipment," said Lacey Vonriedel, assistant manager of the center. "We have a wide range of combined knowledge about all of the gear we're expecting to see come in."The swap will accept consignments throughout the swap."Our inventory will be growing all weekend," Vonriedel said. "It's great to come in on the first day to see all of the first batch of deals but we'll be getting new equipment through Sunday."The swap is a great opportunity for a wide range of athletic abilities to get into the sport for the first time, according to event organizers."Our staff is really happy to help anyone who wants to get into the sport get the more appropriate gear for them," Vonriedel said. "We can work with what they want to do whether it be more backcountry or at Nordic centers, to find what would work best."Year-round, the Frisco Nordic Center offers buy-backs of equipment for athletes wanting to upgrade or simply growing out of their equipment year to year."It's great for little kids who need bigger boots, clothing or equipment," Vonriedel said. "We just ask them to pay the difference - it's cheap and easy way to get kids into Nordic sports."June Cvelbar, moved to Wildernest near Silverthorne last December and said the Frisco Nordic Center helped her re-immerse into winter sports after having knee replacements. "Last year I purchased a pair of Nordic skis, being new to the sport, I appreciated the help from staff," Cvelber said. "I had fallen away from winter recreation, had never gone skate skiing or track season before - I urge other beginners to get involved and take a lesson. It's good exercise in a nice, safe environment."Thanks to snowmaking efforts at the center, a lesson area will be open during this weekend's ski swap allowing skiers to test out gear on site."There is an area that people can test out equipment after they buy it or if they're just itching to get on snow," Vonriedel said.
Despite early reports of opening this weekend in conjunction with the swap, with early season dry conditions, the Nordic center staff anticipates kicking off operations as soon as weather permits, according to staff."We are hoping to open this weekend but its too dry and warm," Vonriedel said. "The temperatures are not worth it at this point."The Nordic center needs five inches of natural to achieve target base depth for the start of the season, Vonriedel said.

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Think we're done with green screens in the enterprise apps world?
Fusion User Experience Advocate Debra Lilley (@debralilley) drew my attention to this super retro iPad terminal emulator app being used by a colleague to connect to JDE. Yes, before Middleware, this is how you did it. Surely the ultimate in hipster retro coexistence? Mind you, I've had to explain to lots of people I showed this to just what Telnet and IBM AS/400 are (or were).
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Check out this retro Apple Mac SE/30 too. I actually remember using one of these. I have an Apple Mac Plus somewhere in my parents' house. I tried it out recently, and it actually booted, although all it was good for was playing the onboard games.
Looking at all these olde worlde things makes me feel very old, but kinda warm inside too. The latter is a key part of today's applications user experience too.


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All those events are early in the season. I think you want the player who is playing the best golf NOW(August), not who played the best in April. This is why I think one event should decide it. If that event is two-dayer, great.
Option #1500051
Back to back weekend events at different locations; combined score from both weekends wins.
Sorry Stibs, but as much as I agree with Clue, I must disagree with you about the same amount.
Earning your way into the USDGC as the Iowa rep should be earned over the course of the Iowa Tour - I want to say " that guy was the best of the non-qualified players*(qualified players being the other) I don't care who is the best is April, that's why I would love to see a 2009 temporary qualification process followed by a non-calendar year points race (let everyone get warmed up and start the new season in September) This way guys that need time to get there summer legs would...f*ck it...I think everyone knows what I mean. Due to the need for a decision in Aug. I would hate to see the heart of the Iowa season lost in the process because there's no time to pick a candidate at that time.
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8.2-25 Sale or Transfer of Assault Weapon -- § 53-202b
Revised to December 1, 2007
The defendant is charged [in count __] with sale of an assault weapon. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of the sale or transfer of an assault weapon when such person, within this state, (distributes / transports or imports into this state / keeps for sale / offers or exposes for sale / gives away) any assault weapon.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the following elements:
Element 1 - Sold or transferred
assault weapon
The first element is that the defendant knowingly (distributed / transported or imported into this state / kept for sale / offered or exposed for sale / gave away) an assault weapon. "Assault weapon" is defined by statute and includes <insert type of assault weapon>.1 The terms (distribute / transport / import / sale / give) have their ordinary meaning.
A person acts "knowingly" when (he/she) is aware that (his/her) conduct is of such nature or that such circumstance exists. <See Knowledge, Instruction 2.3-3.>
Element 2 - Within Connecticut
The second element is that the (distribution / transportation or importation / keeping for sale / offering or exposing for sale / giving away) of the assault weapon took place within the state of Connecticut. This means that the defendant's conduct must have occurred within the state of Connecticut.
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant (distributed / transported or imported into this state / kept for sale / offered or exposed for sale / gave away) an assault weapon within the state of Connecticut.
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defendant not guilty.
1 "Assault weapon" is defined in § 53-202b to include specifically listed models of firearms as well as firearms not specifically listed that have certain characteristics. The instruction should be tailored to the type of assault weapon alleged in the case.
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See General Statutes § 53-202b (b) for exceptions to culpability. "[W]here exceptions to a prohibition in a criminal statute are situated separately from the enacting clause, the exceptions are to be proven by the defense." (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Valinski, 254 Conn. 107, 123 (2000) (rule also applies when the exception is found in a separate statute).


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- S-Video Out Yes
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- Headphone (M3) No
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- AV Cable AV/S Multi
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- Lens Cap Yes
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SWANSEA — Bristol County legislators will be in attendance Friday for a legislative breakfast dealing with the Children's Advocacy Center. The breakfast will be held at 9 a.m. at the Venus de Milo, 75 GAR Highway.
The public is invited to speak to the legislators about the importance of state funding for the center and the public health services it offers child victims of sexual abuse. The agency realized a 30 percent increase in the number of victims compared to the previous year, officials said.
The Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) of Bristol County, created in July 2007, is a private, 501c(3) non-profit agency. According to a news release, it provides a coordinated response to child abuse. Services include forensic interviews, health exams and consultations, and referrals to mental health and other support services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities who have been victims of sexual abuse, severe physical abuse and witness to violence.
Working with a multi-disciplinary team comprised of law enforcement, Department of Children & Families (state child welfare system), District Attorney's office, Massachusetts Pedi-SANE program and community-based agencies, the center provides direct services to children and families from any of the 20 towns and cities in Bristol County, Massachusetts. The CAC is one of more than 800 CACs in the nation.
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Published: Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 7:27 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 7:27 p.m.
BATON ROUGE — It has been 12 years since Scott Angelle's name has appeared on a ballot, but he's seeking voter approval once more in his bid to capture the local seat on the Public Service Commission.
Scott Angelle
Age: 50
Party: Republican
Office Sought: Public Service Commission, 2nd District
Occupation: Recently gave up post as state natural resources secretary for campaign; serves on the Board of Directors of Farmers and Merchants Bank and the LSU Board of Supervisors
Religion: Catholic
Hometown: Breaux Bridge
Family: Married to Dianne Angelle for 26 years, with five children and twin granddaughters
Website: AngellePSC.com
The Courier: In the next term, what will be the biggest issue before the PSC for the Terrebonne-Lafourche area?
Scott Angelle: We need to have the best storm preparation plan on the planet, just like we have the best levee protection. I'm going to be looking at increasing the protection for our utilities. We can't have a tropical storm or something smaller from the Gulf causing hiccups in access for utilities.
TC: Should the assets of utility companies that don't perform adequately be sold? This is an idea being promoted by some lawmakers in the state.
Angelle: I think we need to look at it. I don't think we have it all figured out in terms of how such a proposal would work and who would buy them. I do believe in injecting some performance standards and holding them accountable and making sure consumers get what they pay for.
TC: If elected, will you accept contributions from companies that have business before the Public Service Commission?
Angelle: As always, I will continue to follow the law.
The following represents all campaign finance activity for Scott Angelle reported to the state Ethics Administration between Oct. 9 and Oct. 24, representing donations and expenditures for the entire calendar year to date.
Raised: $531,447
In-kind contributions: $17,015
From Political Action Committees: $26,500
Spent: $301,670
Cash On Hand: $512,109
Lafourche Parish Donors: Garret H. Danos of Cut Off, $5,000; Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, $2,500; Michael Daigle of Thibodaux, $1,000; Lori LeBlanc of Thibodaux, $1,000; Hugh Caffery of Lockport, $500; and Roy Paul Francis of Thibodaux, $200
Terrebonne Parish Donors: Kenneth Wm. Smith of Houma, $5,000; William Clifford Smith of Houma, $3,000; E S & H Consulting Services Inc. of Houma, $2,500; Elk Property Rentals of Houma, $2,500; Lebeouf Bros. Towing of Houma, $2,500; and Premier Offshore Catering of Gray, $1,000
"Whether it's like riding a horse or a bicycle, you just get back on and it comes back to you," he said. "I enjoy retail politics. I like talking with people and going to meetings for organizations and clubs."
Angelle, 50, was the first St. Martin Parish president, serving from 2000 to 2004, and prior to that he was an elected member of the parish police jury.
Since then, Angelle's public service has been defined by two governors.
Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat, appointed Angelle as natural resources secretary in 2004, a position he relinquished to run for the PSC.
He was reappointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, in 2008 and eventually switched his party affiliation from Democrat to match the governor's party.
Jindal also tapped Angelle to serve as interim lieutenant governor for seven months in 2010 and more recently appointed him to the LSU Board of Supervisors.
But Angelle, a native of Breaux Bridge, said the job he really wants is the PSC's 2nd District, which links the Houma-Thibodaux region with portions of Acadiana and the Capital City.
The district encompasses all of East Feliciana, Iberia, Lafayette, Lafourche, St. Mary, Terrebonne and West Feliciana parishes.
It likewise includes certain precincts in East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, St. Martin and West Baton Rouge parishes.
The local seat is being left vacant by Jimmy Field, a Baton Rouge Republican, after 16 years of service.
Four others besides Angelle want to replace him.
Also on the Nov. 6 ballot are Republican Sarah Holliday of Baton Rouge; Greg Gaubert, a Thibodaux independent; state Rep. Erich Ponti, R-Baton Rouge; and Democrat Forest Wright of New Orleans, an energy policy consultant.
A runoff, as needed, is scheduled for Dec. 8.
Going from natural resources secretary, which regulates energy production, to the PSC, which regulates public utilities and motor carriers, was a "natural move," Angelle said, and it further builds on his own background working in the oil and gas industry.
"The Public Service Commission operates at the intersection of the three E's: energy, environment and economy," he said. "It's main function is to ensure that the public has access to reliable, low-cost energy. If we want to continue growing Louisiana's economy, creating new and better jobs, we need both."
If elected to the PSC, Angelle said he hopes to be involved in many of the same issues he tackled while at the Department of Natural Resources.
For example, he said one of the programs he oversaw helped consumers achieve better energy efficiency in their homes.
Through his campaign, he has promised to "protect Louisiana energy from overburdening federal regulations, such as the recent oil moratorium, and work to ensure low-cost energy for all of Louisiana."
Angelle said he would also keep an open mind on all policy issues that come before the PSC.
"I'll have a balanced approach as a regulator," he said. "I'll be an effective regulator, which is really the starting point for this job."
He disagrees with some of the other candidates on whether the fees and penalties the PSC collects should be used for regulation and related operations or, as many lawmakers have argued, should be turned over to the state.
Angelle said fine money should go into the state general fund and legislatively created fees should go to the PSC.
As a commissioner, Angelle said his top priority will be to delve into the proposed transmission changes for Entergy, which the PSC will vote on shortly after the new member is seated next year.
Entergy wants to transfer management of its transmission lines to an Indiana cooperative and possibly sell all of its interconnected transmission lines and substations in five states to a Michigan company.
Angelle said the decision will literally decide what consumers pay for electricity in the near future and how and when the electrical grids are updated.
Above all else, he said he wants to make sure the money that has been put into the system by ratepayers has some kick of return on investment.
"I want to look at the specifics and see how much money is involved and how much money the state and federal governments have spent," he said. "We can already say we have some of the best levee protection on the planet, and we should be able to say the same thing about this."
In that same vein, Angelle said he would also take office with intentions of making sure electric grids near the coast are prepared for major Gulf storms.
During his ongoing campaign, he has been critical of how utilities handled the recovery process following Hurricane Isaac.
Angelle said he is "uniquely qualified" on this front.
As natural resources secretary, he led the effort to dedicate oil revenues to finance the coastal restoration and hurricane protection, and he helped create the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, the state's guiding coastal body.
While voters in the southern portion of the district may recognize Angelle from his presence on coastal restoration, hurricane protection and energy issues, some of those in the western portion know him from his last name.
His father, J. Burton Angelle, was a former state lawmaker and served as Department of Wildlife and Fisheries secretary under former Gov. Edwin Edwards.
"I've been thinking about him a lot lately," he said of his father. "He was a businessman who served his church and loved his family. I was always proud of him."
In 2010, Angelle was named the Louisiana Wildlife Federation's "Professional Conservationist of the Year," the same award his father earned in 1973.
"In a lot of ways I'm following in his footsteps," Angelle said in an earlier interview, after receiving the award. "I'm putting public service first."
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A Cuba man has been charged with drug trafficking after more than 9 pounds of cocaine were found in a vehicle he was driving Saturday.
Jonathan A. Zimmerman, 33, of Cuba, was arrested for drug trafficking in the first degree during a traffic stop on eastbound Interstate 44.
According to the Phelps County Sheriff's Department, sheriff's deputies stopped a silver Hyundai passenger car that Zimmerman was driving on I-44 in Phelps County for several traffic violations around 11:30 a.m. Aug. 3.
A search of the vehicle was conducted and approximately 9.5 pounds, or 4 kilograms, of cocaine was located in a compartment hidden in the rear portion of the vehicle.
Zimmerman was incarcerated in the Phelps County Jail, pending bond, which was set at $250,000.
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After Last Week's Swoon, Is Herbalife a Buy?
Following last week's pummeling of Herbalife shares, one investor explains why he thinks now is the time to jump in.
Bret Jensen, former chief investment strategist at Simplified Asset Management, a Miami-based long/short hedge fund, wrote this morning that he's taking a flier on Herbalife based mainly on the fact that shares have fallen too far, too fast.
"I took a shot today that the stock will recover some of its recent losses over the next few months as I think it is oversold, unless it truly does have major issues," says Jensen, currently an individual investor and a financial writer for TheStreet.com.
Herbalife shares recently rose 8.2% to $28.19. The stock is down about 45% this year.
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He describes Herbalife as "obviously one of the most publicized shorts in recent memory, thanks to [Bill] Ackman's efforts." The stock dropped 38% last week after Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, said he had an "enormous" negative wager against the nutritional-supplement maker, which he says operates as a "pyramid scheme."
Earlier this morning, hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson also disclosed he's shorting Herbalife. Tilson described Ackman's analysis as "the most remarkable piece of investment analysis I have ever seen."
But Jensen offered a different take.
"Ackman did not really provide anything about the company that was not already known," Jensen says. "It is a network marketing company in which most of the sales reps fail…think that has been obvious for a very long time and there were not any accounting time bombs that I am aware of."
Herbalife has hired a strategic adviser and will hold an analyst and investor meeting next month in an effort to thwart the recent wave of criticism. The company last week called Ackman's stance "a malicious attack on Herbalife's business model based largely on outdated, distorted and inaccurate information." It has pledged to offer a comprehensive response to investor questions about its business model.
"The company is mounting an aggressive defense and it will be interesting to see how this evolves," Jensen says. "The stock is cheap on a valuation basis at just over six times forward earnings and over a 4.5% dividend."
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My bicycle is our second car. I love to bicycle in all weather, for all distances, and on all routes. Bicycling has brought so much joy to my life, and I want to share it with anyone who is interested. I will use my soapbox to tell you about the joys, the freedom, the benefits, and, yes, the challenges of bicycling and walking for transportation.
When I interviewed city candidates around northeast Missouri (in Kirksville, Hannibal, Moberly, Mexico, Marceline, and Brookfield) about bicycling and walking, I learned that bike/ped projects aren't really up to the city council or mayor. When candidates become council members, they learn about grants for sidewalks and bike lanes without any upfront cost to the city. (The future cost of upkeep of the facilities does not seem to bother them.) They learn how popular these are with the residents. Then they support biking and walking!
If the impetus for biking and walking doesn't come from the city council members, where does it come from? Several months ago I tried to find Kirksville's answer to that question. Whose idea was it to apply for the GetActive Kirksville grant? Who approved city staff time for the application process? The idea originated with the Kirksville Area Community Health Initiative (KACHI). KACHI itself is an outgrowth of a Kirksville program to curb rising insurance costs by improving employee health. But Kirksville had several sidewalk grants predating KACHI, which suggests that the trend started farther back. There doesn't seem to be one person everyone points to as the instigator of Kirksville's bike/ped trend.
Moberly has an interesting story which might shed a little more light. Moberly City Hall was across the street from an unused railroad depot when a tornado hit the old station (or so I was told). Worried that the privately owned land might become unsightly, the Public Works Director looked for a solution. He came across a grant that would allow them to buy the land for the purpose of a trailhead if they had a master trail plan in place to connect all of Moberly with a network of trails and paths. They assembled the plan, got the grant, bought the land, and built the trailhead (about a decade ago). Then they started in on the rest of the plan. Moberly is already proud of its trail system, and the master trail plan isn't even complete yet.
Moberly's story is a great example of how a grant program did more than allow a town to be a bit more bike/ped friendly. The grant program inspired Moberly to conceive of a trail network. I suspect external forces in the form of available grants, many from MoDOT or federal programs, drove Kirksville's bike/ped-friendlier trend.
After decades of focusing on parking lots and freeways, bike/ped projects are fashionable right now in urban and rural areas. Every town recognizes that sidewalks are part of revitalizing the downtown area for economic growth. Every town is worried about the obesity epidemic and its impact on residents' health—and their own healthcare costs. With the price of gasoline ever rising, every town realizes that alternatives to automobiles are critical.


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OAKLAND -- Major League Baseball's last-minute threat to relocate the Oakland A's appears to have broken city opposition to a lease extension that could keep the team in Oakland for another decade.
The City Council, convinced the deal was one-sided in favor of the A's, had ordered its representatives to reject it at Thursday's meeting of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority, which oversees the O.co Coliseum.
That directive, issued Tuesday, became moot Wednesday night when A's co-owner Lew Wolff emailed city leaders that he had Major League Baseball's authorization to immediately seek a new home for the team if the deal wasn't approved.
Citing Wolff's email, two of the city's four representatives on the eight-member Coliseum board bucked the council's directive and sided with Alameda County representatives to approve the 10-year lease by a vote of 6-2.
"I wasn't elected to let the A's leave Oakland," Councilman Larry Reid said after he cast his vote.
Wolff later released a statement saying the team was "delighted" by the Coliseum board's action.
"We believe this agreement works well for the city and county taxpayers, the team, A's fans and all involved," Wolff wrote.
The team has sought the lease extension as a stopgap measure as it determines whether it will get permission to move to San Jose or whether it is feasible to build a new ballpark in Oakland.
The lease extension still must be ratified later this month by the City Council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.
Several council members said privately Thursday they expected the council will approve the lease extension to stay in the good graces of Major League Baseball, which so far has prevented the A's from moving to San Jose.
The agreement would keep the team in Oakland for up to 10 years, with the A's able to exercise an escape clause after the 2017 season. It also wouldn't prevent the city from reaching agreement with the Raiders to build a new football stadium on the sprawling Coliseum complex in East Oakland. Meanwhile the A's would pledge to enter "good faith" discussions to build a stadium in Oakland and buy a $10 million scoreboard for the Coliseum.
The city has been seeking to make the A's pay $575,000 per year more in rent, keep less revenue from stadium signage and guarantee the team will not leave Oakland until at least after the 2019 season.
City Attorney Barbara Parker said she still hoped to negotiate changes to the lease before a council vote, even though Wolff has said he considered the deal to be final.
This was the second time in less than a year that Major League Baseball has threatened to move the A's out of Oakland if city and county officials didn't agree to lease terms. Last year, politicians quickly agreed to a two-year lease extension after league officials warned that the A's could play at AT&T Park in San Francisco if a deal wasn't reached.
"For city officials to think they had a lot of leverage in lease negotiations was probably a misjudgement of the relationship between the team and league," said Robert Boland, a professor of sports management at New York University.
For all the bickering that has surrounded the lease extension over the past two months, Boland didn't think it would harm Oakland's chances of keeping the A's.
While MLB Commissioner Bud Selig threatened Oakland with the potential loss of the A's, the league's Chief Operating Officer Rob Manfred made his case to City Council President Pat Kernighan Thursday morning that MLB had been pressuring Wolff to work with Oakland and that Oakland needed to work with Wolff.
"I know that my colleagues and I still have serious concerns with some of the provisions, but we also want to keep the A's in Oakland," she said.
Aaron Goodwin, a sports agent, and Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan voted against the deal Thursday. Although Kaplan helped negotiate the lease extension, Jason Overman, her spokesman, said she felt bound by the council directive to oppose it.
San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo said he was happy that the A's will be staying in the Bay Area and that San Jose is "continuing to push forward in the federal courts" on its lawsuit challenging MLB from blocking the A's move to San Jose.
"There remains a very real possibility of major league baseball in San Jose," he said.
Jim Zelinski, president of Save Oakland Sports, said the vote was a step forward to keeping both teams. "I am elated by today's vote if it means that Oakland is truly still in the game to permanently retain the A's, which along with the Raiders, are one of the region's civic treasures and iconic brands," he wrote.
Staff writer John Woolfolk contributed to this report. Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Senior Myeisha Myles posted a game-high 17 points and the Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team cruised to a 74-54 victory Wednesday over UT Arlington in their final home game of the season at the American Bank Center.
The Islanders (9-19, 5-10) were powered by three players in double-figure scoring. Myles went 6-8 from the field and tallied two blocks and five rebounds and junior Alisa Roberts added 15 points and eight rebounds. Sophomore Brandi Huff also scored in double figures, tallying 11 points. Senior Zoe Vega-Vega tallied a career-high five assists and grabbed seven rebounds. The Islanders shot 45.3 percent (20-64) from the field to the Mavericks 28.8 percent (17-59). Texas A&M - Corpus Christi edged UT Arlington on the boards 45-43. The Islanders also received 29 points from the bench.
Briana Walker paced the Mavericks (6-21, 4-11) with 15 points and 10 rebounds and Sabreena DeNure tallied nine points and six rebounds.
UT Arlington jumped on the board first with a three-pointer from DeNure, but the Islanders quickly took the lead with a 6-0 run with buckets by Imani Dunn and Myles with Vega-Vega chipping in two assists. After a bucket by Walker the two teams traded free throws before the Islanders extended the lead to six with a jumper by Vega-Vega and a trey from the top of the arc from Roberts. The Islanders then took their biggest lead of the game on a 6-0 run to extend the lead to 19-9. Huff added a layup and three-pointer and junior Verne'qua Taylor added a free throw.
The Mavericks cut the lead to six before Trish Amboree triggered the Islanders third three-pointer of the game. Malaika Green answered with a three of her own and a free throw before back-to-back buckets by Myles and Roberts gave the Islanders a nine-point lead.
DeNure chipped in a three and Walker added a free throw to bring the Mavericks within five with 4:37 left to play. The two teams traded free throws before Myles layup inside from a dish from Vega-Vega gave the Islanders a 30-22 lead. UT Arlington pulled within four to end the half on a 4-0 run.
The Islanders took a 30-26 lead into the locker room on 36.7 percent shooting from the field. Myles led all scorers with 10 points and Roberts added seven. The Islanders grabbed the 23-22 advantage on the glass. DeNure and Desherra Nwanguma paced the Islanders with six points apiece.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi gained momentum out of the half on a 12-3 run to take a 12-point lead. Myles and Taylor hit back-to-back layups before the Mavericks scored three points. Walker added a free throw before Jessica Jammer got on board with a layup from Roberts to give the Islanders a 10-point advantage. Walker added another free throw from Jammer hit consecutive jumpers and Myles added a layup to give the Islanders an 18-point lead with 12:40 left.
Takiyah Langford added a free throw for UT Arlington before the two teams traded baskets. The Islanders shooting became red hot with the Islanders building a 29-point cushion on a 14-1 run with 7:20 remaining. During the run, five different Islanders tacked on points. Roberts, Huff and Amboree all added buckets and Marquesha Anderson-Sparks triggered a three while Taylor chipped in points from the charity stripe.
The Islanders continued to score and padded the lead to 25 after an Anderson-Sparks jumper with three minutes remaining. Jammer's jumper with one minute remaining gave the Islanders a 25-point lead and the two teams traded buckets before Michelle Rodriguez made two free throws to end the game.
The Islanders will travel to Conway, Ark. to take on Central Arkansas in their final regular season game Saturday, March 3. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m.
Coach Robinson and Myeisha Myles on the victory:


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The Escherichia coli recombinant cell line HMS174, when grown in a 2XYS media and fed with phosphate and glucose, reached a fairly high cell density. If phosphate was not added to the culture along with the glucose, the culture seemed to switch from glycolysis to the glyoxylate bypass metabolism of acetate, mimicking a glucose-limiting event. In this culture without phosphate, the level of acetate remained considerably lower, whereas glucose levels rose, suggesting a metabolic shift to using both acetate and glucose as a carbon source. The overall growth of this culture was approximately half that of the culture containing phosphate, but following induction with IPTG, the amount of recombinant protein produced per gram of wet cell weight was very similar for the two cultures. This suggests that even in a phosphate-limited state, HMS174 cells maintained their ability to produce expected amounts of recombinant protein by switching metabolic pathways and metabolizing acetate through the glyoxylate bypass pathway. Ultimately, the HMS174 recombinant host strain may be able to use both glucose and acetate in a mixed feed strategy to maximize recombinant product production.
High cell density fermentation of Escherichia coli hosted recombinant systems is increasingly being used for the production of protein products for vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutic treatments. Understanding the metabolic needs of high cell density fermentation can help increase the productivity and efficiency of the fermentation as a whole.
In this study, HMS174 competent cells containing a pET29a plasmid with a gene of interest were grown to a medium-high cell density in 2XYS media using a fed-batch fermentation method. Two cultures were fed 40% glucose in 2XYS, with and without the addition of phosphate at 20 g/L. Adding phosphate notably increased the culture's ability to sustain a high growth rate without the formation of inhibiting amounts of acetate. In contrast, the growth rate of the culture that was fed glucose without phosphate was half the rate, and after 3 h of growth, the phosphate concentration was undetectable.
Nevertheless, the cell culture maintained the recombinant protein expression fidelity of the culture that was fed glucose with phosphate. Both cultures produced the same amount of recombinant protein per gram of cell paste. In the absence of phosphate, the HMS174 strain seems to undergo the acetate switch and process acetate through the glyoxylate bypass pathway.4 Using an alternative carbon source in the absence of additional phosphate and the accumulation of glucose in the surrounding media may indicate an inhibition of the phosphotransferase system (PTS) for glucose5 or additional pathways that are dependent on a phosphorylated state. It also is noteworthy that the culture fed glucose with phosphate began metabolizing acetate upon induction of the culture with IPTG. These findings indicate that the HMS174 strain, in the absence or presence of excess phosphate, can metabolize acetate very efficiently and thus minimize the effects of acetate formation that would significantly affect other recombinant cell strains.


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WASHINGTON (December 19, 2012)--Senate Democrats and Republicans are sparring over whether voter ID laws and restricted early voting are attempts to disenfranchise African-American and Hispanic voters.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who recently became a Democrat, said their state's Republican Party deliberately tried to suppress the vote from those groups in testimony Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa defended attempts to purge ineligible voters.
Secretaries of state from Arizona and Iowa, who said their strategy was to ensure that only eligible voters cast ballots, backed Grassley,
U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said there have been only miniscule percentages of voters who were guilty of fraud, but Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz said he has been trying to get access to a citizenship database from the Department of Homeland Security but received no cooperation.


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Start Date: Aug 31, 2008
End Date: Aug 30, 2013
The Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) is responsible for developing and disseminating authoritative composition databases for foods in the U.S. diet. Foods for preparation and analysis will be selected on the following bases: 1.) Key Foods, i.e. those identified as contributing up to 75% of any one nutrient of public health significance; 2.) foods frequently used as ingredients; and 3.) foods containing components of emerging interest. NDL will develop sampling plans for each type of food sampled, to assure a representative sampling of the food supply. NDL will order samples of food to be delivered to the cooperator for weighing, dissecting for physical components, preparation (including cooking), packaging and shipment to specified analytical laboratories for nutrient analysis. In many cases, the cooperator will need to develop preparation, dissection and cooking protocols. The cooperator will establish procedures for the implementation of these steps and for inclusion of control materials or duplicate samples for quality control assurance. In addition, the agreement includes consultations with NDL and contract laboratories on issues of methodology, sample analysis, handling and storage. The cooperator will also offer expertise in experimental design and interpretation of results of the nutrient analyses.


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Required OS: 10.6
Tags: image , manipulation , gimp
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Gimp is my favourite app. I don't need photoshop since I use Gimp :)
Also try Seashore, based on Gimp, but smaller and simpler.
Gimp.org now has a native Mac application called Gimp.app that doesn't require X11.
After being told for 6 months that there was an update I finally see a v2.6.9 download for OS X.
I am running v2.6.8, and AppFresh says I'm out of date and should upgrade ... to v2.6.8. ?
For everyday use, try Livequartz (http://osx.iusethis.com/app/livequartz).
I wish for an up to date Mac-native port, but I love it regardless.
Gimp has been a personal favorite of mine for a while now. There are almost no Gimp bugs on my Mac, plus is surprisingly light on system resources.
Gimp, Inkscape, and Audacity are a magic 3 for me. These raster graphics, vector graphics, and sound editing apps are the best of their kinds.
I've just installed the package from http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net
Works great! better than Gimp.app native build IMHO that looks somewhat clumsy.
Gimp along with Inkscape are great apps... I really hope someday GTK+ gets a proper OSX port to run them without X11.
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Though less of an actual anti-marriage-equality ad and more of an intentional parody created by Brandon Muller of NonRandomNonSense, "The Ultimate Anti-Gay Marriage Ad" nonetheless manages to get across the anti-marriage-equality camp's grievances against same-sex marriage better than most real anti-marriage-equality ads.
Of course, in doing so, it also manages to make it abundantly clear that opponents of same-sex marriage have no real grievances besides the ones that are ripe for parody.
[H/T: Good As You]


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There were 37 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday. At that time, there were 1,440 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Robbery: A 30-year-old man was walking in the 2700 block of Country Club Boulevard about 10:10 p.m. Sunday when two men exited a black GMC Denali or Chevrolet Tahoe. One of the men pointed a gun at the victim while the other took his property before they got back into the SUV and fled west on Country Club. The robbers were all described as 24-year-old black men. One was 6 feet tall and 140 pounds with dreadlocks and wearing a black jacket and jeans. Another was 6 feet 1 and 160 pounds wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt. The driver was 6 feet 1 and 200 pounds wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, police said.
The California Highway Patrol's Stockton office responded to nine noninjury accidents and three injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday. CHP officers also arrested three people on misdemeanor charges.
The CHP's San Andreas office conducted a sobriety/driver license checkpoint on Highway 49 in Angels Camp between 8 p.m. Friday and 12:30 a.m. Saturday and screened 344 vehicles. Ten drivers performed field sobriety tests resulting in no arrests for driving under the influence. Two people were cited for driving unlicensed.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 98 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday, including three vehicle accidents, 72 medical calls and one structure fire.
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Competitor Group, Inc. (CGI), the leading active lifestyle sports media and event entertainment company, today announced a partnership with the LeXenomics Group and Keeneland Race Course to bring the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series to the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region in Lexington.
The new Rock 'n' Roll Lexington Half Marathon is set for Saturday, March 30, 2013, replacing the Run The Bluegrass Half Marathon, which has been held the last weekend of March since 2011. Registration for the Lexington event is open at Competitor.com, with a special entry fee of $65 for the first 500 runners.
"We are thrilled that the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series is coming to Lexington," said Mayor Jim Gray, who joined race officials at a press conference in the Keeneland Library to announce the new event. "From basketball to Thoroughbred racing, Lexington has always been a great city for world-class sporting events and because our 13.1-mile course is indeed the prettiest half-marathon in the United States, our city is going to be seen in a whole new light by thousands of new runners each spring."
"Just as we do with our world-class racing and auction sales, Keeneland is committed to providing a venue for the Rock 'n' Roll Lexington Half Marathon that is second to none," said, Bill Thomason, President Elect of the Keeneland Association. "We want to maximize the opportunity to showcase central Kentucky and the horse industry at the highest level and are honored to be a part of this effort."
The Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series started as a single race in 1998, and is now the 'World's Largest Running Series' featuring a global tour schedule of 27 events in 2012. Rock 'n' Roll Lexington promises a scenic destination event for runners and walkers of all abilities, showcasing the charm and beauty of the "Thoroughbred City." The event will utilize the existing course starting and finishing on the impeccable grounds of the Keeneland Race Course, touring the famed Old Frankfort Pike to picturesque Donamire Farm on Rice Road, and feature the exhilarating views along Elkchester Road.
"We are delighted to announce the continued expansion of the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series to Bluegrass Country and the hallowed grounds of the Keeneland Race Course," said Peter Englehart, Chairman of CGI. "March is a great month to be in Kentucky. We were fortunate to connect with Eric Patrick Marr and the LeXenomics Group, who have successfully launched and built a great event we feel is poised for significant growth."
"Since its earliest inception, one of the foundational cornerstones for LeXenomics has been branding our city of Lexington in a bright light to the rest of the United States, so partnering with Competitor Group and the renowned Rock 'n Roll Marathon Series was a no-brainer," said Eric Parker Marr, founder of the LeXenomics Group and Run The Bluegrass race director. "The running tourism industry is exploding all over the world and with Rock 'n Roll Lexington kicking off in 2013, we'll be an immediate benefactor of that explosion bringing millions of dollars a year in local economic impact."
In true Rock 'n' Roll Marathon fashion, the Lexington event will feature live bands positioned on entertainment stages along every mile of the scenic course, interspersed with cheerleaders and themed water stations, then topping the race experience with a major headliner concert at the finish line. Over the 15-year history of the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series, charity participants have raised more than $270 million for a variety of worthy causes and nonprofit organizations.


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Definition of regime in English:
- For one, wages tend to be lower in authoritarian regimes than in democracies, giving businesses in dictatorships a monetary advantage in selling exports abroad.
- Meanwhile, in southern Europe, Spain, Portugal, and Greece were ruled by authoritarian regimes.
- This sort of empty democratic trapping is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.
- Of course, economists apply additional tests to tax regimes.
- 'We have requested Burgoynes to focus on the Assured's cleaning regimes in order to ensure that compliance has occurred'.
- It would in effect change the regime from a reference system to an appellate one.
- Bladder instillation therapy regimes are described in Table 1.
- Thus, all patients get all drugs, making medical regimes complex and costly.
- She has a chart for a typical patient's eight-week therapy on various regimes.
- However, there are regimes in which a process similar to stochastic resonance operates and amplifies pattern selectivity.
- Peds are blocky structures formed in soils as a result of wetting and drying processes under seasonal climate regimes.
- However, their concentration is governed by the hydrological regime of the river systems.
Late 15th century (in the sense 'regimen'): French régime, from Latin regimen 'rule' (see regimen). Sense 1 dates from the late 18th century (with original reference to the Ancien Régime).
regency from Late Middle English:
Between 1811 and 1820 George, Prince of Wales was regent (Late Middle English) for his father King George III, who was suffering from a long-term mental illness. The prince was known for his fun-loving lifestyle and support for the arts, and the period of the Regency was noted for its distinctive fashions and architecture—such as, for example, the wildly exotic Brighton Pavilion designed by John Nash. The balls and parties held by the aristocracy of the time are imagined in the romantic historical novels set in this period and called Regency romances. The source of regency is Latin regere 'to govern, rule', which means it is related to words like regal (Late Middle English) 'like a ruler'; rector (Late Middle English) 'governor'( see vicar); regime (Late Middle English) 'rule or regulation'; regiment (Late Middle English) which originally had the same sense as regime; region (Middle English) an area governed; regular (Late Middle English) originally 'governed by a rule'; royal; and rule.
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Polk Sheriff's Patrol Car Hits, Kills Pedestrian
Martin Knoetasch was trying to cross Havendale Boulevard
Published: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 7:54 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 10:40 p.m.
AUBURNDALE | A young patrol deputy on his way home from work early Friday struck and killed a man trying to cross Havendale Boulevard on foot, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Martin W. Knoetasch, 56, tried to walk across Havendale at 42nd Street about 6 a.m. He crossed the westbound lanes of Havendale and was hit when he tried to cross the eastbound lanes.
Knoetasch was hit by a 2007 Chevy Impala driven by Deputy William Tull, 21, who was on his way home after working a shift on patrol.
Deputies said Tull had a green light as he crossed the intersection.
The intersection was lit, and Knoetasch wore jeans and a medium- to dark-colored shirt, sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood said.
Knoetasch had no known address.
Tull, who was uninjured, was wearing his seat belt.
The road was closed for about 3½ hours.
The Sheriff's Office said Knoetasch had been booked into the Polk County Jail 42 times on 78 charges, many involving drinking-related incidents or trespassing.
On June 9, Auburndale Police responded twice to Havendale and 42nd Street after receiving reports of Knoetasch walking into traffic, Wood said.
She said Knoetasch habitually wandered into parking lots and into Havendale Boulevard asking motorists for money.
The Sheriff's Office is still investigating the fatality, and its findings will be forwarded to the State Attorney's Office for review.
Tull has been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in cases such as this. Tull was hired in February 2012, and his annual salary is $41,460.
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United Way of McPherson County is working to build a stronger community by addressing issues related to health, education and income. We believe conversations and intensive listening are the best ways to understand the real problems and move beyond short-term solutions. Community change can be accomplished through broad participation and collaboration. We encourage McPherson County residents to be involved with their community through giving, advocating and volunteering. By working together we can make a larger impact on the issues at hand.
My recent "retirement" from catering has provided opportunity to embrace simple Christmas pleasures I had long forgotten. My time is no longer consumed with menu planning, food preparation and employee schedules. For the first time in over a decade I am experiencing the holiday season with renewed spirit.
International foods and cultural traditions have always been a part of the holidays in my family. This year I want to refine my family's kolache tradition by adding whole wheat flour to the dough and creating a homemade cinnamon apple filling.
Kolaches originated in the early 1700s in Eastern Europe and was often used as a traditional wedding dessert. The soft, yeasty roll was most commonly filled with apricots, prunes or poppyseed. Other traditional Czechoslovakian fillings include cheese and sausage.
My grandmother rolled the dough into small balls then flattened them with a rolling pin. After adding a dollop of cherry pie filling in the middle of each flattened ball, she pulled the edges up over the filling, allowed the dough to rise once again and baked the pastry until it was golden brown.
Others leave the flattened dough open faced with a dollop of fruit topping on top, similar to the Danish pastry. One of my Bohemian friend made kolaches with cookie dough balls. After flattening the balls with her thumb, she added apricot jam.
No matter what the shape, size or filling kolaches bring the memory of Christmas Eve at my grandparents' house. Aunts, uncles, cousins and neighborhood friends gathered for boisterous conversation. After a meal of chili and oyster stew everyone scrambled for the kolache tray. Some of us even managed to sample a bite before the soup was served!


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Heartman: "Have unicycle… will go surfing!"
Dear Hatpeople, if you don't yet love our Heartman, the amiable nutter who will unicycle (yes, that's got one wheel) from Durban to Cape Town to raise awareness of landmines, you surely will now.
He leaves his surfboard on my verandah here at Hatman Mansions. So he pitches up here the other day, gets himself very excited about the latest sponsors to come onboard the Heart & Sole Tour… and then says he's going for a surf.
"I'll come with you. We'll walk down, ja?" I say (Selection Beach is 40m from my gate). "Nah, Hatman, I'm unicycling," he says. "Want me to carry your board?" I ask, as his back-up vehicle driver, publicist, personal blogger etc.
"Nah, it's cool bru, I've got it," is Heartie's reply. And this is what it looked like…
How cool is this guy? Go on. Out of a possible 20 on the Like-Totally-Cool-o-Meter, where would you put your tick? 16? 17? Oh, come, come, let's not fanny about here, Hatpeople… you'd want to give old Heartie a nice, round 20, wouldn't you? Yes, you would! I know it. And I know that you know that I know that you would. Good. We're sorted then.
Look. The Heartman is so cool that when he turns up here of a morning to help himself to my finest Colombian (coffee) and Ouma Marmalade rusks, I have to chip away with an icepick just to get near the oke. How cool is that? Yes. Ice-cold completely-frozen-over cool is the correct answer.
OK. So when I tell you that he had done a 15km unicycle training ride from Hatman Mansions, Umdloti on the N2 to Gateway and then to Umhlanga before heading off for that surf, you would definitely throw caution to the wind and award him that 20, wouldn't you? Yes. Nice.
And, only because I know that you love pictures of your Heartman's jolly japes on his AmaOnetyre, here's the proof…
I'm glad you enjoyed that. I didn't. My truck had a blow-out just outside Umdloti and then I had to fork out for a pair of poncy cycling shorts at Gateway because Heartie was worrying about a decreasing capacity to produce children due to extreme scrotum-chafe!
I jest. Truth is that I am lost in admiration for The Heartman who is so determined to complete our 1,700km adventure across South Africa that "Unveiled Sweetheart" – his wife-to-be who remains anonymous so as to avoid the press and attendant paparazzi – reports that her man even goes to the loo on "AmaOneTyre"!
What a nutter! You love him, don't you? Yes. I know you do. There is no other way.


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One point.
That's all that the Marietta High boys' basketball team could put on the Sutton Gym scoreboard in the opening quarter against visiting Frontier Tuesday night.
Call it an anomaly, or an abnormality.
No offense (literally), but MHS head coach J.D. Secrest had to be scratching his head and wondering what in the heck's going on here. If not for Braden Riley's free-throw at the 2:50 mark, the Tigers would've been blanked.
"It was scary there for a little bit," said Secrest after the Tigers (1-2) rallied to defeat the Cougars (0-3) 55-33 for their first victory of the campaign.
Scary and embarrassing.
After all, the Tigers had just taken it on the chin in their previous game at Zanesville, dropping a 59-21 decision to a very good Blue Devils team. In that contest, the orange and black put up two three-point quarters and one five-pointer.
Now, MHS was off to another slow start against Frontier, which was also seeking its first win of the season. The Tigers played tentative and like there was a lid on the basket.
Thing is, though, Marietta was still in the game even after a one-point period, because Frontier was also struggling, scoring only eight points for an 8-1 lead.
In some ways, the first quarter resembled a grade-school game with both teams turning the ball over numerous times and missing all kinds of makeable shots.
Marietta still had plenty of time to make up lost ground, and it shook off its opening period scoring slump with a second-period bang. The Tigers scored 15 unanswered points for a 16-8 lead, and never looked back.
At the break, MHS owned a double-digit advantage, 24-12. And, at the end of three, it led 42-16.
More importantly, Marietta played with more confidence after the opening stanza. Tiger sophomore Corey Hill, who had a team-high 14 points in the JV win over the Cougars, provided a boost, scoring a varsity-high 11 markers, including three threes, coming off the bench.
But all in all, it was a team effort.
Now, Marietta has two East Central Ohio League home games scheduled for Friday and Saturday against Dover and Coshocton, respectively.
Dover is coming off a 50-38 setback to Cambridge last Friday night.
Secrest believes that his Tigers are getting better as the season progresses.
"We had one good quarter in our first game (at Claymont) and two good ones at Zanesville," the MHS boss said. "Against Frontier, we played three good quarters. With a young and inexperienced team, that's what we're going to have."
Against Dover, Secrest is hoping for four good ones. And, above all, he doesn't want to go through any more one-point quarters this season.
"We're going to have to be scrappy for 32 minutes," Secrest said. "I think the fans like that, seeing kids diving for loose balls, seeing kids get after it, seeing kids not back down."
Ron Johnston is the Marietta Times sports editor and can be reached at 376-5441 or at email@example.com


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SAN JOSE -- Three consecutive shootouts proved to be one too many for the Sharks, and now no NHL team has a perfect record.
Saturday night at HP Pavilion, the Sharks lost for the first time this season, falling 2-1 to the Nashville Predators in a game as memorable for the goal Marty Havlat didn't score as the one he did. The loss ended San Jose's NHL-best winning streak to open the 2013 season at seven games.
The Sharks had relied on shootout victories in their two previous games to reach 7-0, but that success eluded them against Nashville. Predators forward Craig Smith beat goalie Antti Niemi while Michal Handzus, Ryane Clowe and Joe Pavelski all failed to score against Nashville's Pekka Rinne.
Before things reached overtime, Havlat had been both the goat and hero for the Sharks.
Midway through the second period, San Jose looked as if it might take a 1-0 lead when a shot by Clowe got through Rinne, hit the left post and sat in the crease as Havlat raced toward it.
But instead of taking advantage of a simple tap-in, Havlat started to lift his stick in an apparent goal celebration and couldn't recover before Nashville cleared the puck.
"I thought it was in the net," Havlat acknowledged after the game.
The game remained scoreless until Nashville got on the scoreboard when Predators left wing Sergei Kostitsyn's shot between Dan Boyle's legs beat Niemi on the short side 59 seconds into the third period.
The Sharks got that one back, however, when they ended a power play drought that threatened to reach three games as Havlat took a pass from Scott Gomez and beat Rinne stick-side with a 12-foot backhand.
Havlat denied there was any personal redemption in that shot, but coach Todd McLellan did make the connection.
"When he came back to the bench, he knew exactly what had happened and the opportunity that was lost," McLellan said of Havlat. "Then when we needed a big goal from him, he was there."
Havlat also was in the middle of things during the overtime when he was called for hooking, but the Sharks killed off their fifth penalty of the night and 21st in a row overall to set up the shootout.
Niemi, who stopped 23 shots, said that being in three consecutive shootouts doesn't add to a goalie's stress -- "It's a new challenge every time and I've got to get the same focus every time, too."
Smith scored the deciding goal after a nifty head fake, but Niemi said that wasn't the problem.
"He had lots of speed," the goalie said, "and I got caught with that a little bit."
With the Sharks winning streak over, McLellan said there were two ways you could look at the team's situation.
"When you dissect it and look at point production, which is the be-all and end-all, in a shortened season we have to be somewhat pleased with where we're at," McLellan said. "But when we look at our game, there are parts of our game we really like, there's other parts we have to work on. That's probably the better way of looking at it."
The biggest change came on defense, where Jason Demers saw his first action after being activated 48 hours earlier.
Rookie Matt Irwin became the odd-man-out as McLellan paired Demers with Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Brad Stuart with Boyle. The third pairing of Douglas Murray and Justin Braun remained intact.
McLellan said part of the reason for playing Demers had to do with the compressed schedule.
"We're in the middle of playing 10 games by the time Tuesday rolls around and we've used the same group of d-men," the coach said. "Freshness wouldn't be a bad thing."
McLellan also switched around his forward lines, hoping to generate scoring from players other than those on his top two lines
The coach kept his first and fourth lines intact from Thursday's 3-2 shootout victory over Edmonton. But he moved James Sheppard up to the second line with Logan Couture and Clowe, creating a new third line of Gomez, Handzus and Havlat.
That left Tommy Wingels as the designated sitter.