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AVON, Colorado - Thinking about "economic development," big stores, offices or factories usually come to mind. In Avon, the economic engine is being goosed by coffee and a drug store.A new Walgreen's drug store - in a brand-new building - is set to open at the site of the old Denny's restaurant in Avon in the next couple of weeks. That opening has drawn a lot of attention from this year's crop of Avon Town Council candidates, all of whom have cited the new store as a good thing for the town.The main thing Walgreen's has the potential to deliver is tax revenue. Vince Riggio of Trinity RED Development, which owns the land and the store, said the potential revenue from Walgreen's promises to be many times what the Denny's delivered to the town."The town can do some cool things with that money," Riggio said.And Riggio expects the store to do well, primarily because it fits well in real estate's eternal trinity - location, location, location.Virtually everyone who skis Beaver Creek will come into Avon and see the new building, Riggio said. And people in some of the valley's biggest sources of visitors - Chicago and New York - are well-acquainted with the stores.Between tourists, second home owners and local residents who live within quick walking distance of the store, Riggio believes he has a solid model for success.The candidates have also spent a lot of time talking about the Northside Coffee & Kitchen restaurant on the northwest side of the town's main Interstate 70 interchange. That restaurant, run by former Vail Daily owner Jim Pavelich, has been popular just about since the moment it opened. Pavelich in the past few months had to go to the council to ask to lease some town-owned property to free up more parking."We'd hoped to do this well, but we certainly didn't expect it," Pavelich said. Part of the reason for Northside's success, Pavelich said, is the location, which he called the best spot along pretty much the length of I-70.The success at Northside has led to plans for another restaurant next door, a project Pavelich said is moving right along.Opening a Walgreen's, with a drive-through pharmacy window, is likely to draw still more traffic to the interchange area, Pavelich said. And more traffic in that area is a good thing.But Avon's business climate for smaller businesses is also working for established companies.Kent Beidel opened Loaded Joe's coffee shop about eight years ago, and the store quickly became a local gathering spot. Beidel and his crew spent some time on renovating the Avon space earlier this year, with quick results."People have responded fantastically," Beidel said. "We've really seen a bump in business."Beidel said he opened the first Loaded Joe's in Avon because he saw the potential of the place. He continues to see that potential today."I looked at Edwards, Vail and Avon, and thought this town has the opportunity to grow," Beidel said. "Over the years it's been great."Eric Boylan this year moved his store, Alpine Appliance Center, to Avon, near Ruggs Benedict. Boylan said he's been pleased with the move so far."The location here is more central to the valley," Boylan said. "What I've found is that our walk-in traffic so far has been awesome."Chris Evans is a co-owner of Evans Chaffee Construction, which built the Walgreen's building. He's also a member of the Avon Town Council.Evans said new, remodeling and relocating businesses are all key to building up the town's sales tax base, and providing more shopping options for residents and visitors.Evans said while national stores such as Walgreen's are nice to have, he believes both residents and visitors prefer locally-owned shops.To do encourage more businesses coming to town, Evans said the town might want to consider permit waivers or similar tactics to encourage people to open up in town."But we have to be careful about what we choose to do," Evans said. "We don't want to put existing businesses at a disadvantage."Business Editor Scott N. Miller can be reached at 970-748-2930 or email@example.com.
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Penne With Spinach And Vodka Cream Sauce
A quick trip through the pantry, fridge and freezer put this meal together in minimal time. (I use my microwave all the time to defrost meat from the freezer.) It's certainly nothing fancy, but when I finally felt well enough to eat the leftovers, I thought I'd done a fairly good job of using up some spinach that was almost ready for the dumpster, and even though I used jarred sauce, I know you'll forgive me. (Sniffle, sneeze, snot.)
Penne With Spinach And Vodka Cream Sauce
3 cups whole wheat penne (or your favorite pasta) cooked per package directions, drained
1 lb. lean ground beef (I used Laura's Lean 94/6)
1 cup diced onions
1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 cups (packed) fresh baby spinach
1 (25 oz jar) vodka cream sauce, or make your own and make me jealous of you. (sniffle, sneeze)
1 1/2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (plus more to pass at the table)
In a large deep skillet, brown the ground beef with the onions, red pepper and garlic. Add the spinach and stir until it is wilted. Season with salt and pepper Take two Kleenex and blow your nose. Pour one 8 ounce glass of water and take two cold medicine tablets.... your choice.
Pour one shot of Crown Royal and drink in one gulp. (Don't miss this step.)
Add the jarred vodka cream sauce to the skillet, or if you've made your own from scratch, add it and don't tell me about it.
Grab another handful of Kleenex and (you know the drill.)
Cover skillet and simmer sauce for a few minutes to marry the flavors that you won't even taste because your nose is so plugged and at this point in time, marriage is the last thing on your mind.
Add the Monterey Jack and Parmesan and stir well to melt. Add the cooked pasta and stir well to combine. Slap out the plates and forks, tell hubby to dig in, and then go lay on the couch.
17 comments:
- SeattleDee said...
Get well, Mags. And for goodness sakes, go back to bed and have some chicken soup, or a cup of tea with a shot of something in it.
- November 1, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Nanan said...
You did really well for being ill! A complete meal - with healthy green veggies and protein and calcium and whole grains... and you didn't dirty but 2 pots??? And I am sure it was ready in less than 20 minutes! You rule! Get better soon!
- November 1, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- June said...
Looks wonderful and so very healthy! You're a good wife "martyr Mags". Hope you're feeling better soon.
- November 1, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- PlumpNotFat said...
We call it "Serving from the Stove" and it's 100% acceptable even if you're 100% healthy!
Great recipe. I'm cooking for 6 tomorrow and this is going to be there :)
- November 1, 2010 at 10:33 AM
- Megan said...
I hope you're feeling better! I know that pasta would make me feel better!
- November 1, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Pam said...
I hope you're feeling better, and if you are going to have to use a jarred sauce, certainly one with the words Vodka and Cream in it makes it all okay!!
- November 1, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- megan @ whatmegansmaking said...
This looks delicious! Hope you're feeling better, and I think it's great that you still made dinner for your husband :)
- November 1, 2010 at 1:01 PM
- Frieda said...
No apologies necessary!! Hope you get feeling better soon...it's no fun to cook/bake when you can't smell, taste or eat!
- November 1, 2010 at 1:44 PM
- Mary said...
Vodka? I'm in ;)
This looks fab! I really hope you're feeling better today!
Mary xo
Delightful Bitefuls
- November 1, 2010 at 3:22 PM
I have recently quit drinking..will eating this dish have an adverse effect on my progress??..hope you feel well soon!!
- November 1, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- Carolyn said...
That looks good enough to make me want to break out the expensive low carb Dreamfields pasta so I can eat it!
Hope you're feeling better.
- November 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- Haden News said...
Your Penne with Spinach and Vodka Cream Sauce looks yummy, your husband is one LUCKY man!! Hope you are feeling better!!
- November 1, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Julie said...
I hope you're feeling better. That's a much nicer meal than I would make for mine if I were feeling bad...can you say Marie Callender's frozen pot pie? I'm glancing at the recipe and thinking Crown Royal? I don't remember Crown Royal in vodka sauce? Too funny.
- November 1, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Sue said...
Mags, When I'm sick I don't make the hubs anything, so you're doing well in that regard:) Glad you're feeling better!
- November 1, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- The Urban Baker said...
oh how i love a good vodka sauce. my kids have requested that for tomorrow night's dinner. i have a great recipe and will try and post it. it's delicious. you won't buy it in the jar ever again!
- November 1, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- Moogie said...
Sorry that you're feeling ill. Perhaps you should wash down some meds with a glass of vodka. You'll be feeling better in no time.
- November 1, 2010 at 11:18 PM
wow Auntie M, when I'm sick I would just boil the pasta, heat the sauce and be done
- November 4, 2010 at 9:08 AM

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Melissa Gilbert and Timothy Busfield got married on Wednesday in Santa Barbara.
No, I wasn't invited either.
According to People.com, it's the third marriage for both TV actors. Together they have five children (two for the former "Little House on the Prairie" star and three for "Thirtysomething" actor Busfield).
The couple, who got engaged in January after knowing each other for some 20 years, tied the knot in a private ceremony.
Gilbert's sister, Sara Gilbert ("Roseanne," "The Talk") recently got engaged to rock singer-songwriter Linda Perry, whom she's been dating since 2011.
JUSTIN BIEBER HAD POT AND STUN GUN ON HIS BUS: Justin Bieber -- or someone in Justin Bieber's crew -- allegedly had marijuana on his tour bus in Sweden on Wednesday night.
That can't be. Justin Bieber is a sweet Christian boy with lovely white teeth who sings songs about love.
Nevertheless, a spokesman for the Stockholm Police supposedly told TMZ that just after 7 p.m. Wednesday, an officer smelled pot coming from Bieber's bus, which was parked in front of the Grand Hotel.
When the bus took off to the arena Bieber was playing, the officer contacted a special narcotics unit, which issued a warrant to search Bieber's bus, which they did in the Globe Arena's parking lot. No one was on the bus at the time, and police reportedly found a small amount of narcotics that local newspapers are saying is marijuana.
So they question is, who's trying to frame Justin Bieber?
Police weren't able to determine who the drugs belonged to. The bus wasn't impounded.
TMZ said Bieber was spotted earlier in the day with Lil Za, the guy who was photographed with Bieber earlier this year in a Los Angeles home, smoking ... something.
You don't think ...?
Police said no one will be charged, since they have no suspect. .
A Swedish report said police also found a stun gun, which requires a permit.
CLINT EASTWOOD'S WIFE HEADED TO REHAB: Clint Eastwood's wife Dina has checked into a rehab to get help for anxiety and depression, according to TMZ.
Dina, who stars in "Mrs. Eastwood & Company" with Clint's daughter Francesca, went to a treatment center in Arizona, sources close to the family reportedly told the website, which emphasizes that she is not being treated for substance abuse.
Clint and Dina got married in 1996 and have a 16-year-old daughter, Morgan, who also appears in the show.
Clint Eastwood is familiar with rehab centers. He's been a major donor to a Monterey hospital, which named it's program specializing in teen substance abuse and mental health issues after Eastwood.
TMZ said the family hasn't responded to requests for comment.
GWYNETH PALTROW SAYS 'IRON MAN 3' MAY BE LAST ONE: Gwyneth Paltrow says "Iron Man 3" is likely the end of the franchise.
"I don't think there's going to be (an 'Iron Man 4'). I think we're done with 'Iron Man,'" Paltrow told website Geek Nation in a video interview.
Yeah ... well maybe we don't want you in any more "Iron Man" movies (sniff, sniff). GO AWAY!
Or, it may be that Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. won't be in any more "Iron Man" films. Variety reports the two stars have completed their Marvel contracts.
According to the Huffington Post, Downey has been vague about his doing more Marvel movies. This includes an interview with GQ, when he generally sidestepped questions about returning for more "Iron Man" movies.
"It got me thinking about how big the message from your cosmic sponsor needs to be before you pick it up," he said. "How many genre movies can I do? How many follow-ups to a successful follow-up are actually fun? Because, as quiet as it's kept, I come from a family of very innovative writers and directors and actors and artists, and the circle of friends they were in were the people I heard having pun-offs playing poker at two in the morning, and it was just the most comforting aspect of my childhood."
He sure talks like some sort of smart guy, doesn't he?
Downey and Paltrow are doing press rounds for "Iron Man 3," which opens May 3. After that, Marvel will begin production on the next "Avengers" movie, targeting a May 1, 2015 release date.
SIMON COWELL CONSIDERING JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT AS 'X FACTOR' JUDGE: Simon Cowell is considering hiring Jennifer Love Hewitt to be an 'X Factor' judge, according to Us Weekly.
Yes, he is running out of ideas.
Following the departures of Britney Spears and L.A. Reid after last season, Cowell has two judges spots to fill.
"Simon is very interested," a source told the magazine.
"This is all just speculation," a representative for the show told the Huffington Post. "No decisions have been made about the panel. Simon and Demi are the only judges confirmed on the panel so far."
Hewitt, 34, known for her TV roles in "Party of Five," "The Ghost Whisperer " and The Client List," actually sort of once had a singing career.
Hewitt was a teen star in Japan when she released her first album in 1992. Seven years later, she had her first charting single, "How Do I Deal," for the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" soundtrack. Her fourth album "BareNaked" made the Billboard Top 200 chart in 2002.
The Huffington Post says Hewitt might be a better fit replacing Khloe Kardashian as Mario Lopez's co-host, after it was announced this week Kardashian won't return.
Kelly Rowland's name has also popped up as a potential judge. The former Destiny's Child singer did some judging on the U.K. version of "X Factor."
"Kelly knows 'The X Factor,' she's aware of what it takes to be a judge and she's also outspoken," a source told the Daily Mail. "Simon has always remained a fan of Kelly's and she's most definitely in the mix to join the judging panel on 'X Factor."
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Friday is April 26, the 116th day of 2013. There are 249 days left in the year.
1607: English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Va., on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
1785: American naturalist, hunter and artist John James Audubon was born in present-day Haiti.
1865: John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Va., and killed. (Just before dying, Booth looked at his hands and gasped, "Useless, useless.")
1913: Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker at a Georgia pencil factory, was strangled; Leo Frank, the factory superintendent, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death. (Frank's death sentence was commuted, but he was lynched by an anti-Semitic mob in 1915.)
1923: Britain's Prince Albert, Duke of York (the future King George VI), married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1933: Nazi Germany's infamous secret police, the Gestapo, was created.
1937: German and Italian warplanes raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War; estimates of the number of people killed vary from the hundreds to the thousands.
1945: Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France's Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.
1952: The destroyer-minesweeper USS Hobson sank in the central Atlantic after colliding with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp with the loss of 176 crew members.
1968: The United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar."
1986: A major nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union).
1993: Conan O'Brien was named to succeed David Letterman as host of NBC's "Late Night" program.
2003: A Soyuz rocket carrying American astronaut Edward Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko blasted off for the international space station. Actor Charlton Heston, diagnosed with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, made his last appearance as president of the National Rifle Association during a convention in Orlando, Fla., where he briefly thanked the membership.
2008: Police in Austria arrested Josef Fritzl, freeing his daughter Elisabeth and her six surviving children, whom he had fathered while holding her captive in a cellar for 24 years. (Fritzl was later sentenced to life in a psychiatric ward.) Yossi Harel, the ship commander whose attempt to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947 built support for Israel's founding, died in Tel Aviv at age 90.
2012: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international war crimes court as he was found guilty of arming Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for "blood diamonds" mined by slave laborers and smuggled across the border. Pakistan's Supreme Court convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of contempt but spared him a prison term for refusing to reopen a corruption case against his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari.
Actress-comedian Carol Burnett (80), musician Duane Eddy (75), singer Bobby Rydell (71), rock musician Roger Taylor (Duran Duran) (53), rock musician Chris Mars (The Replacements) (52), actor Jet Li (50), rock musician Jimmy Stafford (Train) (49), actor-comedian Kevin James (48), actress Jordana Brewster (33), actor Channing Tatum (33).
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Ethan Hawke hates the Oscars.
Hawke, who was nominated for best supporting actor at the 2002 ceremony for "Training Day" and also received an adapted screenplay nomination at the 2005 ceremony for "Before Sunset," blasted the Academy Awards in an interview with Gotham Magazine.
"People want to turn everything in this country into a competition," Hawke said. "It's so asinine ... if you look at how many forgettable, stupid movies have won Oscars and how many mediocre performers have Oscars above their fireplace. Making a priority of chasing these fake carrots and money and dubious accolades, I think it's really destructive."
Destructive? What, like drone attacks?
According to the Huffington Post, Hawke's comments, including the remark about "fake carrots," are similar to ones Joaquin Phoenix made last year.
"I think it's bull(expletive)" Phoenix said about the Oscars, in an interview with Interview magazine. "I think it's total, utter bull(expletive), and I don't want to be a part of it. I don't believe in it. It's a carrot, but it's the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life. I don't want this carrot. It's totally subjective. Pitting people against each other ... It's the stupidest thing in the whole world."
Is it stupider than kicking puppies? I bet he wouldn't say it's stupider than kicking puppies.
By the way, Phoenix is nominated at the Oscars 2013 ceremony for his role in "The Master."
Anthony Hopkins is another actor who has slammed the Academy Awards. "People go out of their way to flatter the nominating body and I think it's kind of disgusting," Hopkins told the Huffington Post. "That's always been against my nature."
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Hayward High's football team scored the deciding touchdown early in the fourth quarter and held on for a 14-13 victory over visiting Bishop O'Dowd on Friday at Sunset Field.
Thompson Pulu threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Isidore Finau on a halfback option play for the Farmers (4-4, 2-1 West Alameda County Conference-Foothill Division). Hayward struggled on offense most of the night but put together a 15-play, 81-yard drive that took seven minutes, 37 seconds for the winning touchdown.
Quarterback Marjani Ellison capped that drive with a 1-yard sneak on the first play of the fourth quarter. Pulu scored on the two-point conversion.
"We were running it, so they were biting on the run the whole time," Pulu said of his pass. "Our coach called the halfback pass, and he was open. Sitting there in the end zone by himself."
It was a night of missed opportunities for the Dragons (6-2, 2-1).
Eric Schwartz missed a 22-yard field goal in the final minute and earlier missed a 25-yard try -- both were wide left. Two other times, Bishop O'Dowd drove inside the 10-yard line and came away empty. The first came when the Dragons went for it on fourth-and-goal from the 3, but running back Isaiah Johnson was stopped by Samuel Mahe.
The second came at the end of the first half when after getting a first-and-goal at the 5, Bishop O'Dowd was called for holding. Then, quarterback Kevin King was intercepted by Mahe at the goal line on the final play of the second quarter.
Hayward 14, Bishop O'Dowd 13
Hayward 0 0 6 8-- 14
BOD -- Burnette 1 run (Schwartz kick)
H -- Finau 23 pass from Pulu (kick failed)
H -- Ellison 1 run (Pulu run)
BOD -- Grandison 16 run (kick failed)
Rushing: BOD -- Burnette 19-65, Grandison 6-53, King 9-46, Johnson 1-(-2). Totals: 35-162. H -- Carter 10-63, Pulu 8-47, Foote 6-23, Mahe 3-8, Ellison 6-3, TEAM 3-(-2). Totals: 36-142. Passing: BOD -- King 10-20-1-110. H -- Ellison 2-6-1-1, Pulu 1-1-0-23. Totals: 3-7-1-24. Receiving: BOD -- Gomes 5-53, Grace 2-51, Burnette 2-5, Keaton 1-1. H -- Finau 1-23, Foote 1-1, Pulu 1-0. Fumbles/lost: BOD -- 2/0. H -- 0/0. Records: Hayward 4-4, 2-1 WACC-Foothill; Bishop O'Dowd 6-2, 2-1.


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Washington County law enforcement agencies may soon have a new drug to look out for.
Just last month, near Cambridge, the Ohio Highway Patrol confiscated several doses of 2C-E, a synthetic drug that has been described as a more powerful and longer lasting version of LSD.
"It is new out on the street. It can be liquid, pills or crystalline powder. We found it as a crystalline," said Sgt. Bob Robson of the Ohio Highway Patrol.
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The designer synthetic hallucinogen 2C-E, shown here in its crystalline powder form, was recently confiscated by the Ohio Highway Patrol near Cambridge.
The potent drug has already resulted in at least two overdoses. A 19-year-old Minnesota man died in March 2011 after ingesting the drug at a party. Two months later, a 22-year-old Oklahoma woman also died after having several seizures under the influence of the drug.
Agencies have yet to see evidence of the drug locally. But just as bath salts and K2, or synthetic marijuana, trickled into the Mid-Ohio Valley from Columbus and larger cities, it seems only a matter of time before 2C-E will do the same, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
"I anticipate it will appear in our area before very long," said Mincks.
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2C-E, a synthetic hallucinogenic, similar to LSD, but more powerful and longer lasting.
Part of the 2C family which contains more than two dozen variations.
Similar to bath salts and K2 in that it has shown dangerous reactions in users and in that its make-up can easily be changed to get around illegal substance laws.
Confiscated by the Ohio Highway Patrol near Cambridge.
Likely to eventually migrate from larger cities into the local area, according to local law enforcement officials.
Monitoring the drug activities in the larger cities is a fairly accurate way of predicting what drugs will soon be problematic locally, said Major Brian Schuck with the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
"We're not a supply city. We're a user city," explained Schuck.
Local drug users count on dealers traveling to a supply city such as Columbus to meet the local demand. It is inevitable that the newest drugs eventually make their way back along with the usual drugs, said Schuck.
The 2C-E drug falls into a larger 2C family, which already includes more than a dozen variations. Much like the ever-mutating versions of bath salts and K2, or synthetic marijuana, the drug poses a problem for law enforcement agencies. The ability to easily tweak the 2C compound into newer and more potent versions means it can potentially circumvent the law.
"The problem with bath salts is they are labeled so many different things," said Detective Ryan Huffman of the Marietta Police Department, who has seen the drug labeled as everything from floor cleaner to fish food.
Because of this, law makers can not easily ban the drugs but rather have to ban specific chemicals inside the drugs.
For example, the Marietta City Ordinance that banned bath salts in July 2011 actually banned the following substances: 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), 4-methylmethcathinone (mepthedrone, 4-MMC), 4-methoxymethcathinone (methedrone), 3, 4-flouromethcathinone (flephedrone), 3,4-methylenedioxymethcathinone (methylone), butylone, and naphyrone.
"These drugs have all these little molecules here. Well, by changing one of those molecules, they can change it from illegal to legal...and that is what they are doing to this little 2C family," said Mincks.
Therefore, the laws need to be constantly updated to keep up with the tweaks and trends. On top of that, drug identifiers at the Bureau of Criminal Identification have to be considered an expert on a particular drug in order to testify in a case involving it. These drug experts are now struggling to keep up with all the new drugs, and becoming knowledgeable enough could take four to six months for a single drug, said Mincks.
As a result, prosecutors are not always able to prosecute the cases as harshly.
Recently, Stephen M. Partin, 22, and Sarah A. Partin, 21, of Franklin Street, Marietta were indicted on fifth-degree felony counts of sale of drugs not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Partins were caught manipulating and selling K2 out of their home, said police.
Neighborhood children were reportedly getting violently sick as a result of taking the drug. However, the Partins could not be charged with trafficking in drugs because at the time they were caught, K2 was not yet considered a drug, according to prosecutors.
Synthetic drugs - bath salts, K2, and now the 2C family - are trapping drug makers and law enforcement agencies in a never-ending game of catch-up, said officers.
However, an open network of communication between agencies makes the drug trends easier to stay on top of, said Mincks.
"The Internet has really helped all law enforcement. Once one agency starts experiencing it, we start getting emails, bulletins, photographs," said Schuck.
Additionally, a lot of the synthetic drug trade takes place on the Internet and can be caught in the mail, said Huffman.
"We are working with our postal service. They know a lot of the locations that these items are coming from," he said.
In the meantime, an early warning is a good start for local agencies to prepare for the appearance of the drug in our area.
"The synthetic drug, eventually is it going to be here? You bet it's going to be here. But we know ahead of time it's coming," said Schuck.


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About the Book
"Sister Jill isn't just a foot soldier in what passes for war between the sexes. She's our commander-in-chief and follow we must."
—Pearl Cleage, New York Times bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Let's Get it On is acclaimed author Jill Nelson's spicy, raucously satiric follow-up to her sensational bestseller Sexual Healing. Fans of Zane and The Vow, as well as Nelson's own Voluntary Slavery, are going to love this outrageously provocative story about an attempt to open a "full service spa" for women on Martha's Vineyard. "Jill Nelson tells it like it is," Essence magazine writes, and the New York Times Book Review calls Nelson, "Fearless. She also knows how to construct a compelling narrative."
After opening a wildly successful "full-service spa" in Reno that caters to professional women (which turned the world's oldest profession on its head), Lydia Beaucoup and her friends Acey Allen and LaShaWanda P. Marshall decide to grow their business—with a new spa on a boat moored off the shore at Martha's Vineyard. In this unique haven for pampering, in addition to massage and reflexology, clients can purchase fabulous, multi-orgasmic safe sex from men specifically trained to please women. But selling sex is never easy—and insatiable clients, mob extortion, and a repressive federal government are just a few of the problems threatening to take down A Sister's Spa.
Smart, sizzling, and wickedly funny, Let's Get It On is an outrageous tale of pushing traditional envelopes in pursuit of empowerment—and a witty, forthright look at what women really want.
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"Jill Nelson tells it like it is. . . . And while the novel lives up to its name, at its core this is the story of friends having one another's backs." — Essence
"Let's Get It On is imbued with a complex narrative that involves the mob and politics. . . . In terms of life about the yacht, let's just say Nelson spins a super sexy yarn just in time for summer." — AOL Black Voices
"A hot summer read from the sizzling social commentator and author of Volunteer Slavery and Sexual Healing." — Ebony
"The sisters still manage to sizzle—and elicit smiles with their insatiable appetites for love, social justice and the sex trade." — Publishers Weekly
"With its sex-positive message and unapologetic emphasis on female enjoyment, Nelson's latest makes for a zingy beach read." — Kirkus Reviews
"As a social commentator, [Nelson's] pretty fearless. She also knows how to construct a compelling narrative. Happily, she scraps neither of these talents as a novelist." — New York Times Book Review
"Sexual Healing is a wild, sexy ride...a fearless look at what women want, and a fresh take on how they can get it ...You'll emerge refreshed and invigorated, in body, mind, and soul." — --E. Lynn Harris, A Love of My Own and Any Way the Wind Blows
"Sister Jill isn't just a foot soldier in what passes for war between the sexes. She's our commander-in-chief and follow we must." — --Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day and I Wish I Had A Red Dress --Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day and I Wish I Had A Red Dress --Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day and I Wish I Had A Red
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- List Price: 13.99 USD
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2012 Red Zone awards
Player of the Year
Mike Nicol, Wolcott
Year: senior
Position: quarterback-safety
By the numbers: Rushed for 1,271 yards on 162 carries, with 20 touchdowns; passed for 1,535 yards, completing 97 of 164, with 19 touchdowns.
Best performances
Rushing: Had 14 carries, 245 yards, five TDs vs. Wilby, Oct. 12; Had eight carries, 228 yards, four TDs vs. Derby on Oct. 19. Passing: Completed 11 of 16 for 236 yards, four TDs, vs. Seymour on Oct. 5.
Of note: Nicol led the Eagles to two consecutive playoff appearances and a 17-6 overall record in past two seasons and a 9-2 record in 2012.
Honors: Jimmy Lee Award winner as outstanding senior in NVL, Class M All-State
Nicol's take: "Reaching the playoffs the past two years was a huge feat, just a great accomplishment. We worked hard and practiced hard. We've had great support from our fans. I've had the best teammates and coaches, and it's been an honor to play at Wolcott High. It's time to move on to the next level. To get to where I want to go, I need to continue to work hard."
Coach Jason Pace's take: "Mike's overall physical and mental toughness has been the difference. He's been the leader of our team. He didn't miss a game in two years. I'm surprised that he was able to endure the physical wear on his body. He has total focus and great instincts for the game."
Offensive MVP
Anthony Scirpo, Woodland
Year: senior
Position: wide receiver-defensive back
Best performances
Receiving: Had 12 receptions, 180 yards, four TDs vs. Capital Prep on Nov. 28, Class S quarterfinals; had 11 receptions, 283 yards, four TDs vs. Seymour on Nov. 21; had 12 receptions, 125 yards, two TDs vs. Holy Cross on Nov. 3.
By the numbers: Recorded 78 receptions, 1,219 yards (15.63 average), a state-record 25 touchdowns and also booted 34 extra points as a place-kicker. Also scored five TDs on defense and special teams.
Honors: All-NVL wide receiver, Class S All-State.
Anthony Scirpo's take: "What we did offensively is mind-blowing. Tanner (Kingsley, Hawks' quarterback) and I have had good chemistry since youth football, and it really showed this year. I can't thank all my coaches and teammates. Without them, it wouldn't be possible. When you make catches, you can make things happen."
Coach Tim Shea's take: "Anthony is one of those special players who finds a way to make a play. He's grounded and down-to-earth. He holds a quiet confidence and more of an example. That's his niche. That's how he fits in."
Defensive MVP
Brennen Diaz, Oxford
Year: senior
Position: linebacker-quarterback
By the numbers: Led team with 63 tackles, 39 solos, 24 assists, 2.5 sacks, two interceptions; punted 17 times for 551 yards, 32.41 average; kicked 37 PATs. Completed 111 of 191 passing attempts for 1,731 yards, 18 touchdowns; rushed 85 times for 335 yards, 25 TDs.
Best defensive performances: Recorded 12 tackles, seven solo and five assists vs. New Fairfield on Oct. 27; in four other games, he had seven tackles, including vs. Pomperaug on Nov. 21.
Honors: All-South-West Conference; Class S All-State
Of note: Led the Wolverines to a school-record eight wins.
Brennen Diaz's take: "The thing that I will take with me about this season was the teamwork we had. We were all focused. Our coaches instilled in us hard work and effort and playing for a cause and for someone (Oxford sophomore Brandon Giordano, who died last spring). That united us and gave us a strong foundation."
Coach Joe Stochmal's take: "Brennen has stood out above the other kids in the weight room, on the practice field and game field. He's a a very good athlete who has made good decisions and brings a certain toughness as well. He has good composure that a quarterback needs, but can be intense when he needs to be. It's a good combination."
—Mark Jaffee
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Dachau is left standing because it must be. All the Dachaus -- all the Belsens, all the Buchenwalds, all the Auschwitzes -- all of it. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge...but worst of all, their consciences. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to think about, something to dwell on and remember...not only in the Twilight Zone, but wherever men walk God's Earth.
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"A cross between Mary Higgins Clark and Betty Crocker."
—Baltimore Sun
"The Julia Child of mystery writers."
—Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
No one cooks up a tastier stew of murder, mystery, and mayhem than New York Times bestselling author Diana Mott Davidson. Entertainment Weekly calls her "today's foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit." And now it's Crunch Time, as Davidson's delightful series protagonist, caterer and amateur sleuth-extraordinaire Goldy Schulz, digs into a deadly smorgasbord that includes a heaping helping of murder, a double dose of arson…and nine adorable beagle puppies!
When the rental house shared by chef Yolanda Garcia and her irrepressible aunt Ferdinanda is destroyed by arson, the pair moves in with cop-turned-PI Ernest McLeod. But then Ernest is shot dead and his house is set on fire, nearly killing Yolanda, Ferdinanda, and their good friend, Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, along with nine beagle puppies that Ernest had recently rescued from a puppy mill.
Concerned for her friends, Goldy invites them to stay with her. But even her house isn't safe. After a failed break-in and the discovery of a second body, the intrepid Goldy decides to swap her chef's hat for a sleuthing cap. Now she's got to move fast because it's crunch time and a killer is getting dangerously close.
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"Terrific." — Richmond Times-Dispatch on Crunch Time
"Fans who relished Davidson's previous culinary mysteries will assuredly eat up this newest one, too." — Booklist on Crunch Time
"Enjoyable." — Publishers Weekly on Crunch Time
"Davidson's fans will not be disappointed." — Kirkus Reviews on Crunch Time
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- On Sale: 01/31/2012
- Trimsize: 4.188 in (w) x 6.75 in (h) x 1.248 in (d)
- Pages: 624
- List Price: 7.99 USD
- BISAC1: FICTION / Contemporary Women
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- It is a common belief that witches and pagans are devil worshipers, but they are not.
- Whether the spouses are Hindus or Muslims, Christians or Parsis, pagans or heathens, is wholly irrelevant in the application of these provisions.
- There was a strong opposition against the commemorating of the birthday by the early Christian scholars like Origin, on the ground that it is originally a custom of pagans and idolaters.
- Missionary zeal tends to offend the religious sensibilities of people by denouncing their native religions as false and pagan.
- Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.
- As an adult, I learned that there were modern Pagans.
- What can we learn from this and apply to our lives as modern Pagans?
- They sent up a fragrance of sweet oil and illuminated the soft wall-paintings of pagan heroes and gods.
- After all, there were Anglo-Saxon pagan gods to sing about as well.
- Before Ukraine adopted Christianity in 988, the inhabitants believed in pagan gods who ruled over the sun, stars, and moon.
- Example sentences
- He takes our daughters to church every Sunday, and takes them to the Sunday school there, and they occasionally see me doing paganish things during the week (such as when I light incense on my altar or put a food offering in the bowl).
- The Puritans banned Christmas Eve and the day as too paganish because they were celebrated until the era of the Victorian Christmas tree (c. 1850) as wild party occasions.
- Next, I tried to be paganish, figuring that I never fit in with any other religion, so maybe this one would work.
paganize (also paganise) verb
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- 'It's pretty strange how people Christianized pagan traditions and now are paganizing Christian traditions,' he mused.
- Brownlow seems right in suggesting that 'the new Renaissance English style was too closely associated with either a Protestant or a paganizing humanism for a recusant writer to adopt it, especially a Jesuit poet.'
Late Middle English: from Latin paganus 'villager, rustic', from pagus 'country district'. Latin paganus also meant 'civilian', becoming, in Christian Latin, 'heathen' (i.e. one not enrolled in the army of Christ).
In Latin paganus originally meant 'of the country, rustic', and also 'civilian, non-military'. Around the 4th century ad, it developed the sense 'non-Christian, heathen'. One theory is that belief in the ancient gods lingered on in the rural villages after Christianity had been generally accepted in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire; another focuses on the 'civilian' sense, and points out that early Christians called themselves 'soldiers of Christ', making non-Christians into 'civilians'. A third view compares heathens to people outside the civilized world of towns and cities, belonging to the countryside. Curiously, it was not uncommon to find Pagan as a given name, a custom that has recently been revived. The Latin root paganus came from pagus 'country district', which is also the source of peasant. Heathen is similar in meaning and development, coming from a word meaning 'inhabiting open country' which is related to heath. Both these words are Germanic and were already in use in Old English.
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Maria Hines to Open the Golden Beetle in Ballard this Friday
It's old news that chefs in this town put their fancy foot forward with their first restaurants, making a splash with more elaborate dishes, a more formal dining room approach, and a "I take my food seriously" aire. But with the second restaurant? Well that's where they have some fun.
Things are taken down a notch (or several), and many of these second spots seem like just the type of place you'd imagine said chef hanging out in after a long night in his first restaurant's kitchen. They've proved themselves, and the second restaurant is an insight into who they really are when they're not trying too hard to impress someone. Zoe's Scott Staples was having all kinds of fun with his wild boar sloppy Joe at Quinn's; Tom Douglas let his hair down when he opened Palace Kitchen; more recently, Thierry Rautureau's Luc plays French food fast and loose and the Joule chefs have a dynamite hit on their hands at Revel, their casual Korean spot that packs the house for lunch, dinner and brunch.
And now it's Maria Hines's turn with Golden Beetle. The James Beard Award-winning chef has helmed the Northwest seasonal kitchen at Tilth for four years to much acclaim. She's ready to launch into another direction with Golden Beetle, named for a Spanish beetle that is said to have aphrodisiac qualities, and where flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean will play the star role.
The Ballard space (1744 NW Market Street) has been redone in shades of blue, with a custom glass tile mosaic on the large oven in the space. Hines traveled to Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt for inspiration, and so to eat: hummos and figs, tabbouleh and lamb tagine with green olives, homemade cous cous (!!), and of course there'll be ginger, lemon, harrissa, pomegranate molasses, all of the sensational aromatics of the region's cuisine.
Of course, it wouldn't be a Maria Hines restaurant if the larder wasn't filled with the best, freshest organic ingredients. Hence, Golden Beetle is the country's third restaurant to qualify for Oregon Tilth certification (Tilth, her Wallingford restaurant, was the second).
The opening is set for this Friday, February 18th; the restaurant will be open for dinner Tuesday through Sunday. Come springtime, the restaurant will serve lunch and will be open Mondays.


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I do not make a habit of crawling around inside Jim Harbaugh's brain. I can only imagine what the interior of that brain might look like. I envision chambers full of khaki pants, a refrigerated cave stocked with caffeine products and vast acreage of neurons unknown to mankind.
Harbaugh never opens up that brain much, anyway. He is consistent in keeping the media at a distance. He plays no favorites in that regard, which I appreciate. However, I have been around the man on a professional basis since his arrival at Stanford in 2007. And I have a strong opinion about this week's speculation that Harbaugh might leave the 49ers, return to the college ranks and become head coach at Texas.
The rumors are full of Longhorn poo.
Harbaugh will not stay with the 49ers forever. His history shows that he seems to get restless after four or five years at one job and looks to move upward or sideways or somewhere else. But he is focused on winning a Super Bowl with the 49ers. I think that will be his mission until he believes it can't happen within the team architecture as it exists.
He is also an NFL guy, first and foremost. Just like every coach with ambition, he knows the pro game is the highest level of his calling. It was apparent to me during his time at Stanford that Harbaugh was pawing the dirt and eagerly waiting for the best NFL job offer, especially after his brother became Baltimore's head coach in 2008.
Harbaugh lives to coach. But right now, I believe he lives to win a Super Bowl trophy more than a BCS National Championship trophy. There might come a time in the future, after he has won Super Bowls, that Harbaugh might wish to revisit the college atmosphere and work with younger players -- perhaps at his alma mater, Michigan. But seeing him at Texas does not compute, for cultural and business reasons. After coming so close to winning the Super Bowl last season, does Harbaugh want to abandon that challenge and go back to visiting recruits' living rooms? I don't think so.
So how did the Longhorns rumors start? Probably because Texas, with the largest budget in college football, could reportedly offer Harbaugh $10 million a season. With the 49ers, Harbaugh is in the third year of his five-year contract, at $5 million per season. There's also Harbaugh's history at every stop of his career. He is so competitive and driven that he tends to wear out everyone around him, including his bosses. I gained a real grasp of this two years ago when I interviewed Ky Snyder, who was Harbaugh's athletic director at the University of San Diego.
The USD program was Harbaugh's before he was named head coach at Stanford. And it was a typical Harbaugh tenure. He won 29 of the 35 games he coached at USD and claimed two Pioneer League championships. Before he arrived, the Toreros had posted losing records in six of the previous nine seasons.
"He leaves a large wake," Snyder said, descriptively. "But it's great being on the ship."
I knew exactly what he meant. Harbaugh can be relentless in pursuit of something he believes will help his team win, to the point of driving his bosses loopy.
Examples? At USD, he would visit Snyder's office and if the answer was "no" would return over and over until the answer was "yes." At Stanford, Harbaugh nagged administrators about changing certain traditions -- the team bench being on the hot and sunny side of the field, the notion of practices being open to all who wanted to watch -- because he did not see how they assisted the team mission. After enough nagging, Harbaugh won the argument.
You can presume the same stuff is happening at 49ers headquarters. Enough voices have hinted as much. But the formula has been successful so far. And 49ers owner Jed York is not about to change that formula, especially with a new stadium opening next season.
York is telling reporters this week that now is not the time to discuss Harbaugh's status because the focus should be on the final three regular-season games and playoffs. York said a contract extension will be discussed in the offseason. Sports Illustrated reported this week that Harbaugh was offered a two-year extension last summer but declined the offer, for unknown reasons.
Could the reason be more Harbaugh restlessness? Or simply Harbaugh confidence that if he delivers more victories, his price will rise? I vote for the latter. Harbaugh makes $2 million per season less than his brother and less money than Andy Reid or Chip Kelly, who signed deals with new teams last summer. Harbaugh is owed a big raise. He'll get one soon. It won't be in Austin.
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Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, today will testify before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services in Washington, D.C.
The hearing is titled "Examining how the Dodd-Frank Act could result in more taxpayer-funded bailouts." Last week, the committee issued a memorandum detail the issues that will be focused on during the hearing.
Here is a copy of Fisher's testimony from the committee's website. Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling's opening statement at the hearing is available as a video.
In addition to Fisher, for other people are testifying with lines to their testimonies: Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.; Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Pew Charitable Trust's Systemic Risk Council.
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Village Hospital nursing supervisor arrested, accused of stealing drugs
Published: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 1:42 p.m.
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A high-ranking nurse at Village Hospital was arrested this week and charged with stealing controlled substances and omitting or altering records pertaining to the drugs.
Tammy Allison, 43, of 257 Rock Springs Drive, was arrested Wednesday. According to arrest warrants, between Jan. 1 and April 9, Allison stole a "quantity" of hydromorphone and morphine from Village Hospital and deleted or falsified records relating to the theft. Both drugs are potent pain killers primarily delivered intravenously. Both are classed as narcotics and are addictive.
According to the warrants, Allison confessed to the crimes.
Sharon Jackson, communications manager for Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, which owns Village Hospital, said Allison was immediately terminated from her position as director of inpatient and emergency services.
"A problem was found, and Village Hospital staff followed the proper procedure and notified the Department of Health and Environmental Control about a possible theft," Jackson said.
Jackson declined to reveal specifics of the case, including when it was reported and how much medication was taken. She said hospital administrators are reviewing all procedures related to controlled substances.
"We take the matter very seriously," she said.
Jackson said no patients were affected by the theft. Allison had direct operational responsibility for inpatient services, emergency services and nursing administration supervisors.
Allison was released from Spartanburg County jail on $10,000 bond, according to online jail records.
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Why would you leave a perfectly adequate specialist left back on the bench and then play a centre half who has only just joined? I have been a firm admirer of what Rodgers has done since he came, but today's line up cost us the points and was like a Benitez decision! The team looked unbalanced until Enrique came on and that was too late.
It smacks of 'sakho cost 18 mil so I have to play him to justify the outlay to the owners' - and that's a pile of horse dung!
Yes I know we missed Coutinho but playing a totally new back line was unnecessary. I would rather have 3 points today than beat United on Wed! 4th place is more important than trinkets this season!
Do we really have to put up with Aspas - he's the new Borini!???Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
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I think there maybe a little of an over reaction, although maybe understandable as our great start really got expectation up. However I think we need to think this one through a bit.
First off if we're to take BR as this word, Enrique was carrying an injury which made him a risk to start. Yes I understand if a player is good enough to be on the bench he should be good enough to start, but for me even when he came on he really did not show he would have done any better if he'd been on from the start. He gave away plenty of passes (just like the rest of the side) and just seemed a little off to me.
For me it really did come down, not to a lack of full backs, but a lack of link up from the back to the front. Credit to Southampton who pressed high up and limited the ability to play out of the back, but it was a pass to a creative midfielder to start the attack that was missing, not an outlet pass to a full back. So for me missing PC was a very big deal, but we still should have done better.
For me Gerrard needs to own up he had a poor day, as there should be no reason why he cannot play that creative role. Maybe he's not got the legs of his youth, but he's still got more technical ability than anyone else on the pitch. I do however agree Aspas was a passenger. Impressed early doors, but the last two matches have been aweful and he needs a spell in the reserves to buck his ideas up. He's a good player, was a hero at his club in Spain, but needs to get things together, otherwise step aside for someone else. I expect Suarez to play in the hole on Wednesday, but I'd also think about Allen as an option if Aspas does not buck up.
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While I might tend to agree with you that Enrique was god awful when he came on, he really seemed fine in the warmups, at least from what I could see (albeit not on the field, but a good view) AND, if he was going to play a CB with a left foot over there, why not Agger, who can move with the ball? And also, Agger was grabbing his rib cage constantly until he came off, so what was the point in starting him if he was only 65% fit? Skrtel and Toure could have been a fine duo, with Sakho left, and Kelly who was on the bench and played 90" minutes in the midweek ...
In a situation like this, where (I can't speak for Loki) I'm not blowing anything out of proportion, I'm simply calling a spade, a spade, as I saw it. It was exactly what it was. We could not get anything going wide, which is a shame because Moses was electric on the ball when he did get it, and the higher Soton pressed Sakho, the less Moses could see the ball, and while Aspas didn't have a good game, #10 isn't his position, and early on, he made 1-2 cleverl plays, one almost led to a goal, with him breaking down the right and cutting to his strong left foot. Instead mostly Jordan played wide, and Aspas was invisible after the they cut us off ..
Agger shouldn't have started, and IMO, Alberto should have. These for me, are not in hindsight, but what I wanted/would have done. Alberto to some seems lightweight and one for the future, but so many said the same about Coutinho, and while I'm not saying their the same player, he has the ilk of class, and it didn't do much good giving him 12-13" minutes to show it, when they were chickens running around with no heads. And, just like Coutinho who was also "too frail and lightweight", he could have really changed things as the link up / #10 player.. Sterling was also a pretty good shout, since Kolo can't and never would get forward.
We put out a lineup that gave too much respect to Southampton at Anfield, and they ate it up tactically, and physically
Well, I'd like to thank Rafa.. em, I mean Brendan for ruining my first "league" visit to Anfield, where the atmosphere was incredible, and then incredibly deflated after about 15" mins of that nonsense. 4 CBs to start the match was trouble and it was plain to see. I can rationalize why he might have done it, thinking Southampton would play 3 big Strikers up front, however, rule of thumb, at least as I see it is, you play "your game" in your "home". Brendan totally outthought himself, and a change should have happened no later than 25"..
Agger was constantly grabbing his ribs, so he was clearly not fit, evident in getting pulled off in favor of Enrique, because Sakho wasn't comfortable in the final third, and Kolo while filling a need, couldn't get forward past a tree, so starting with Henderson wide, rather than Aspas, who can take a man on wide, completely nullified us, and we couldn't even get out of our half, which was maddening..
After finally making Jordan the right back, which should have happened far earlier, then he takes of Skrtel, who had a fine match, and can get forward / act as a CF in favor of keeping on Kolo and Sakho.. It was baffling, and it all starts with Buck because he chose it and employed it, and it played into Soton's hands like a piece of cake, while Mignolet looked like bambi on ice skates passing/dribbling all over the place.
Alberto, at the minimum, should have gotten 45", if not starting, because he's as close as we've got as a like for like with Coutinho, so giving him 13" to help unlock a parked bus while the others ran around mindless, was even worse, because he showed the dummys, the through balls, the backflicks, but there was 0.0 cohesion. Technically speaking, the whole team was awful aside from Moses, Lucas and Skrtel... the rest should have just stayed home for the day.. This needs sorted by Sunderland, let alone the cup at OT..


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Base gun policy on facts, not your feelings
I, like most of us, was appalled by the killings at Sandy Hook. The first question that came to my mind was, "What is wrong with someone who would kill innocent children?"
I have watched as the political "leaders" in our country have not let this "crisis go to waste" and have pursued political goals regarding guns. Being an engineer trained in problem-solving methods, we look for data and facts before solving the problem. We definitely have a problem to solve in this country, but the politicians are not analyzing the facts. Please don't confuse them with facts.
I noticed a New York Times article in your paper in which some useful statistics were mentioned. According to the FBI, 6,220 people were killed by handguns in 2011, while 323 were killed by rifles. How many of those rifle deaths were caused by "assault" rifles? From another source, I understand that number accounts for less than half of the rifle deaths. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have done studies on what effect gun controls have had on the murder rates in several countries, including in America under the first assault weapon ban, and found none had a significant effect. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
Well more than 99 percent of the gun owners and "assault" rifle owners in the country haven't and will never kill anyone. Let's put the focus on where the problem is, not on where it isn't. By the way, the Second Amendment isn't there to ensure we can go hunting; it's there so we can protect ourselves from tyrannical government.
Gary Lewis
Our problem is with morality, not firearms
The profound moral confusion of today's culture is seen in the NRA becoming the primary focus of blame and hatred for Newtown, while the actual perpetrator is hardly ever mentioned (and the Fort Hood case is not covered at all).
I don't care what "syndrome" Adam Lanza was considered to have, he (like all mass murderers) was simply evil! And, like the Columbine killers and others after them, it's clear that he was never called to be a responsible young person. We must return to the clear condemnation of evil and evildoers as the most effective single deterrent to anyone contemplating evil. If such people understood that they'd be viewed as notorious villains rather than victims of "mental illness," they'd be less likely to even think about doing the unthinkable. Nor would it hurt if belief in a hell for the wicked became much more widely accepted (may God make this so). Newtown is just the latest illustration of the true adage that "to be kind to the cruel is to be cruel to the kind."
Christopher Andrus
Strict gun laws aren't helping Chicago at all
Your article in Wednesday's paper reports about the strict gun laws in Chicago with bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. I am surprised to learn that there have already been 40 killings in that city this year.
What really amazed me is the news you did not report: On Jan. 29, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in a Chicago park. Hadiya had recently performed in Washington, D.C. during the inauguration. President Obama's Chicago home is less than a mile from the park where Hadiya was killed. Hadiya was shot and killed when a gunman opened fire in the park that day while she was there with friends.
I am very surprised that this was not newsworthy to report in The Valley Times Pleasanton paper.
Ingrid Plemmons
Abortion OK only very early in pregnancy
I like the bumper sticker of one pro-life organization: "Abortion Stops a Beating Heart." It makes a good point that is almost always overlooked -- that until the fetus has a detectable heartbeat, an abortion is significantly less serious than after. It is a question of when in the gestation period a line should be drawn. Some would say that the law should protect the fetus, regard it as a person, from that point on. (This view, of course, is contrary to the opinion that abortion should be illegal from conception).
Associate Justice Harry Blackman, who wrote the Supreme Court's opinion for the 1972 decision in the Roe v. Wade case, made a decision to set the point much later than the end of the first trimester (A heartbeat is always detectable in that period). He set it at the final third of the second trimester. It had been determined that this was the point at which most fetuses are able to survive outside the womb. So in effect, abortion was legalized for most any woman who wanted it, as few women would wait until the final three or four months to decide to abort.
It's important to note that the court held that a women's right to abortion is not absolute, so those who would confer such a right are not supported by Roe v. Wade.
Donald F. King
No transparency on tree removal from I-680
The removal of all the trees on Interstate 680 between Crow Canyon and Sycamore Valley roads has turned our quaint community of Danville into an ugly city freeway.
It makes me sick to see this. How many poor animals were displaced to accommodate more cars? This was so unnecessary. The voters of our community should have been allowed to decide on a project as large as this -- not Caltrans or a bureaucracy. Who's responsible for this tragedy? Do we really need another auxiliary lane? No!
Can you imagine the cost of this project? Were community hearings, open to the public, held? I never saw one thing about this in our local paper. If you're as outraged as I am, please contact your local community leaders and politicians. I wish we could stop this project, but, sadly, that won't happen. We must fight and work hard to keep our community small. This project is so wrong and so very sad.
Nancy Quintel
Just enforce firearm laws already there
"Use a gun, go to jail" -- a hoax played out daily across California.
Politicians and activists are up in arms over recent tragedies. What do they want? "They" want a ban on gun ownership. They, along with Sen. Feinstein, want to end legal ownership of firearms. They want new laws to curb lawful ownership. They say this will reduce or eliminate mass shootings. If that were true, I would stand with them.
We have more than enough laws on the books to reduce gun violence. Just this week an Oakland man was arrested for a series of armed robberies. He is on probation for gun and drug convictions, authorities said. Why isn't he in jail?
Every week we hear of felons arrested in possession of firearms. If we follow the case, we learn the felon pleaded guilty to a felony and was granted probation. Let's not enact more laws that will go unenforced. Many of those prohibited from owning firearms do own them. There aren't enough resources to arrest them. Lawmakers want millions more to locate and arrest these lawbreakers. If caught, will they get probation?
Take the shooters off our streets! That will make us all safer. No more laws -- enforce those already on the books.
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All free nations in the world today recognize certain basic principles, such as freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the freedom of privacy. These values that we all share were articulated by and fought for by people such as Voltaire, Jefferson, and Bolivar. This common heritage of freedom is today under attack by those who wish to turn the clock back on human progress. We all know that a government that lives in such fear of its own citizens that it must spy on them and claims the authority to do so en-mass and unchallengeable is not a legitimate government of the people it claims to serve.
There is an interesting story about George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. At one point some of Washington's officers were plotting rebellion against him, and he accidentally received a dispatch that was meant for one of the conspirators. Having opened it, and read it, he realized what had happened, and then asked the courier to please apologize because the letter was not meant for him. He choose to act as best he could in a manner as if he had not read the letter. For Washington understood that even at a time of war, there are certain ideals that must never be sacrificed, otherwise even if victory was achieved, it is not worth the price of a nation nobody would wish to live in.
With these thoughts, we chose, on the first Monday of this October, to release a stack for secure VOIP calling, as free software developed through GNU Telephony, a loose organization of developers who specialize in free software for telecommunications. We accomplished this by creating a free software stack that implements Phil Zimmerman's ZRTP, as well as the Secure RTP spec. This is now part of the GNU RTP Stack, ccrtp. We chose to make this available for immediate use in the most compelling way, by having available at the same time, a complete secure softphone client anyone can also download and use and which implements the secure calling features in an easy to use manner. This client was the Twinkle Softphone client, developed by Michel De Boer, and modified with his help to meet this goal in time with our initial release.
Secure calling VOIP using ZRTP operates much like ssh in concept. Professional VoIP phone services used for businesses are some of the most secure available. The keys for communication are generated locally, rather than using an external certificate authority, hence preventing weak or poisoned certificates which SRTP potentially allows. Fingerprint session signatures are shown and cached much like the ssh host fingerprints, so that one can determine if there is a man in the middle decrypting at one end and encrypting to another.
What we have developed does not interfere with lawful police investigations, since the end point can still be compromised with physical access, presumably executed as part of a lawful and judicially supervised court order. But it does prevent arbitrary and mass spying on what people say, which must come to an end before all other freedoms are lost. With additional technologies including tls secured SIP and anonymizing connection proxies, it is possible to also reduce associative information signal that intelligence so desperately wishes to mine, and that is a goal of later phases of this project.
Since it is free software, anyone can download and use it. Since it is offered as a library, it can be used to produce applications, like Twinkle, that can perform secure communications by design, rather than as an afterthought. This technology is here to stay. There are enough people who have set it up now around the world, including some I personally showed. The source is available and mirrored worldwide. Binaries have been build and now distributed in Debian. Much of that was all done very rapidly and early on at the start of the month, the rest while I was in Maturin speaking at the IVth International Free Knowledge Conference, which I will write about next week, to deliberately make sure it was immediately usable and widely disseminated.
This technology we are bringing to free VOIP software was of course first proposed, in a proprietary form, and as an external proxy known as zfone, by Phil Zimmerman. Much of the work in developing secure calling in the GNU RTP Stack was done by people like Werner Dittman and Federico Pouzols, and with lots of Michel De Boer from Twinkle. Whether you are a head of state wishing to communicate in private, a union organizer within a company, or simply talking to your family and friends, you have a basic right and expectation of privacy. We intend to do everything in our power to help further that goal.
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so whats the difference between this and jabber?
Both have messenging voice and encryption.
I thought I had read that
I thought I had read that with Jabber, they can listen in your conversation and sell data to third party concerns.
Thanks a lot for this, your efforts are highly appreciated: this is *exactly* what we needed.
I hope many clients will start supporting this, like Twinkle.
I agree
Many of us who only use *nix OS's and who have not enogh money to spend in software would be able to communicate over the net with this programs and libraries


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Brachial plexopathy is pain, decreased movement, or decreased sensation in the arm and shoulder due to a nerve problem affecting the bundle of nerves as they leave the neck and enter the arm.
Neuropathy - brachial plexus; Brachial plexus dysfunction; Parsonage Turner syndrome; Pancoast syndrome
Brachial plexus dysfunction (brachial plexopathy) is a form of
Damage to the brachial plexus is usually related to direct injury to the nerve, stretching injuries (including birth trauma), pressure from tumors in the area (especially from lung tumors), or damage that results from radiation therapy.
Brachial plexus dysfunction may also be associated with:
In some cases, no cause can be identified.
Symptoms may include:
An exam of the arm, hand and wrist can reveal a problem with the nerves of the brachial plexus. Signs may include:
A detailed history may help determine the cause of the brachial plexopathy. Age and gender are important, because some brachial plexus problems are more common in certain groups. For example, young men more often have inflammatory or post-viral brachial plexus disease called Parsonage Turner syndrome.
Tests that may be done to diagnose this condition may include:
Treatment is aimed at correcting the underlying cause and allowing you to use your hand and arm as much as possible. In some cases, no treatment is required and recovery happens on its own.
Over-the-counter or prescription pain medicines may be needed to control pain. Anticonvulsants (phenytoin, carbamazepine, gabapentin, and pregabalin), tricyclic antidepressants (amitriptyline and nortriptyline), or other medicines (duloxetine) may be prescribed. Use the recommended dose to avoid side effects.
Some people with brachial plexopathy may benefit from local nerve blocks. Surgery may be needed if nerve compression is the cause of the symptoms.
If other nerves are also affected, an underlying medical problem that can affect nerves should be considered. Medical conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease can damage nerves. In these cases, treatment is also directed at the underlying medical condition.
The likely outcome depends on the cause. A good recovery is possible if the cause is identified and properly treated. In some cases, there may be a partial or complete loss of movement or sensation. Nerve pain may be severe and may persist for a long time.
Complications may include:
Call your health care provider if you experience pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness in the shoulder, arm, or hand.
Prevention is varied, depending on the cause.
Chad DA. Disorders of nerve roots and plexuses. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, eds. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 75.
Ensrud E, King JC. Plexopathy--brachial. In: Frontera WR, Silver JK, Rizzo TD, eds. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2008:chap 134.
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I have a new model Philips47PFL6907. This tv has a lot of native support. However I need the mkv files to be trancoded, so I can simply choose a subtitle. When playing a file without transcoding it plays smooth. But when transcoding it goes bad. The video stutters sometimes. I run version 1.70.1. De tv is detected with the PhilipsPFL.conf. Is it possible to just use transcoding for the subtitles? It is no nessecary to transcode the audio and video stream.
Best regards,


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