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Wednesday August 8, 2012
Edgefield, SC--For the past nine years one of the winningest programs around has been the Rebels of Strom Thurmond. Their lowest win total during that time, eight games. Might as well expect double digits again this season.
There is no rebuilding talk, its a total reload and they have the weapons on both sides of the ball. If there was a question, it'd be at center and quarterback with the Rebels graduating a pair of three year starters. Jauveer Hammond or Tyree Stidem will vie for the QB job but will have an experienced line to operate behind.
"I really like the work ethic and the attitude of these guys" said Lee Sawyer "You know we have a good many starters back so of course the expectations, I expect them to be there every year and I think our players and coaches do. But the attitude and their work ethic over the summer and in the first week of practice has been real good."
The focus of the offense will fall on Darius Hammond. The super senior broke his lower leg and missed the final two playoff games but is back at 100%. Hammond is out to prove any naysayers he's as good as advertised.
"I trained to get my leg back strengthened like it was an conditioned hard and just try to stay healthy" said Darrius Hammond
"He was cleared before spring practice and we had problems tackling him in spring practice" said a smiling coach Sawyer "He hasn't shown any signs of it. He's worked hard this summer and I can't really tell the difference"
Aaron Cook will lead the blue steel defense and fully expects to continue the trend of not allowing a whole heck of a lot to the opposition

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Unfortunately my laptop does not have an HDMI port so PMS seemed like a great solution to play HD movies on my PS3.
At first (couple of months ago) it worked great, however the lag was really driving me crazy (I was using wireless) so I stopped using it.
Now last month I decided to give it another try after a friend told me to use a wired connection. After I tried that it worked a lot better, however it does lag a lot sometimes which is weird because my internet is really fast and no one else is using the bandwith as I live alone in my apartment.
This was my only problem up until now. For the past 2 weeks, PMS does not recognize my laptop anymore. This doesn't make any sense at all since it worked perfectly fine when I first downloaded it without having to edit any settings whatsoever. The strange thing is, after my break from PMS, it immediatly recognized my PS3 when I first started it again. After a few days though, it keeps giving the message: no renderers found. I tried reinstalling the thing but it doesn't help a thing. After a few hours I tried again and poof it worked.
Earlier this day I started up PMS and it recognized the PS3 really quick. I thought 'great', so I started my movie. I forgot however to plug in the internet cable in my laptop and while the movie was playing it kept lagging like hell. So I decided to reboot PMS and my PS3 was lost again and cannot be found to this time.
This thing is really starting to annoy me and I wonder what I can do to keep it working like it did before. I haven't installed anything in the time it worked before until now so there are no other programs interferring. My virusscanner didn't give any problems either.
So to sum up:
How do I keep PMS stable so it recognizes my PS3 ALL THE TIME?
How do I get rid of the lag even though the PS3 and the laptop are using a wired internet connection?


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February 8, 2007
If you're lucky, your employer provides you with health insurance. But if not, you're among the millions of Americans rolling the dice without it.
And if you've priced health insurance, you know it can cost you hundreds of dollars a month if you try and get it yourself.
But there's an alternative--a doctors' discount--that could save you money.
About four years ago, family practitioner Dr. William Rivell and other family practice physicians noticed an alarming trend.
"We saw a burgeoning number, a real rampant increase, in the number of patients who didn't have insurance," Dr. Rivell told News 12. "These are not poor people. These are normal people."
The doctors recognized that working people without insurance could hardly afford to pay for it out of pocket.
"As an individual, I want to get Blue X for example, whatever...the cost is outrageous. It's $1500 to $1800 month. No one's going to do that."
So Dr. Rivell and others got together and decided to offer an alternative.
They looked into it and found the law says they couldn't just offer a cash discount to patients without insurance, but they could offer their own plan...and that's how Doctors Direct was born.
"We charge $6 a month to join this club, and we have 150 doctors. It's a tremendous discount."
This card then gets patients discounts. Instead of more than a hundred dollars for an office visit, doctors charge $35 for a brief visit. The most patients ever pay for an office visit would be $95 for an extensive or complicated visit.
Kathleen Sanders uses Doctors Direct. She found out about it last year when she went to pay for her yearly exam.
"My bill was $240," she told News 12. "I found out that if I had the card, it would have been $63."
Kathleen signed up on the spot, and saves hundreds of dollars every year because she sees her physician once a month. For her, the days of putting off a visit to the doctor are over.
"I'll go ahead and go now, because before I wouldn't go--a yearly visit, I'd do it every other year," she said.
Kathleen also said she had been putting off her mammograms because of the expense, but no longer. With her card, she's now getting one once a year...for $90.
To find out if the Doctors Direct Care Card is for you, click here.
So how much does it cost to get health insurance on your own? Stedson Videon at Dawson Taylor and Co. Insurance priced it for us.
On average, for a family of four, with a thousand dollar deductible, Blue Cross Blue Shield Major Medical is $921 a month.
A health savings account is $654.
It is cheaper if you are single. Blue Cross Blue Shield Major Medical for a woman ranges from $265 to $561. It's between $193 and $472 for a man.
A health savings account ranges from $188 a month to nearly $400.


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FILE - In this file photo taken Dec. 11, 2012 Gov. Rick Snyder speaks at a news conference in Lansing, Mich. Early forecasts suggest that the political climate at the Michigan Capitol will be chilly when lawmakers return in January. A slightly larger bloc of Democrats in the state House won't be enough to overcome majority Republicans or the GOP grip on the Senate and governor's office. But the party out of power remains bitter about a legislative landslide in the final working days of 2012 that included sending nearly 300 bills to Gov. Snyder and transforming labor bastion Michigan into the nation's 24th right-to-work state. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Labor union members and supporters have gathered outside the Michigan Capitol to protest the passage of right-to-work legislation as Gov. Rick Snyder prepared to give his State of the State address.
Several hundred protesters were circling the Capitol on Wednesday night, and their chants and drum beats could be heard inside the noisy state House chamber where Snyder was preparing to speak.
The Republican governor signed right-to-work measures that cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature in December.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union member Chris Roggero (ruh-JEHR'-oh) says elected officials ignore the public's wishes and do what they want.
Anti-right-to-work protests drew 10,000 people last month. The measures taking effect in March bar unions from requiring people they represent under collective bargaining agreements to pay fees.


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This week unfortunately, Jason was not available to record an episode. He came down with a virus and has been bedridden all weekend. So Ray was alone and hosted the episode (download here) that featured our first guest EVER. Molly Marco (@Lifeiskitsch) joins Ray as they recap their week of training, and discuss the recent trend that shows 1/2 marathons growing in popularity over the past decade.
Training Update: Ray finally went back to running this week. He ran almost 5 laps around a track. Molly is training for the Rock 'n Roll 1/2 half marathon in Los Angeles this fall. She just started training a couple of weeks ago and she is already at 18miles a week. She loves her Vibrams Five Fingers barefoot running shoes.
This weeks conversation centered around the growing popularity of 1/2 marathons. A recent Running USA article shows the trend that the number of people participating in 1/2 marathons has more than doubled over the past decade. Since 2003, this road race distance has seen a growth in participation by 10% or more each year. Both Molly and Ray agree that one main driver for growing trend is that a 1/2 marathon is less intimidating to long distance running beginners and more challenging than 5 and 10Ks.
This episode also featured a spot by our first advertising partner, The Out Running Podcast. A show similar to ours where Chuck Wickens(@the_wick) chronicles his training. You can find out more about his show at outrunningpodcast.blogspot.com
Until next time, leave feedback on iTunes, email questions and comments to geeksinrunningshoes [at] gmail [dot] com. We are also on twitter, you can follow Jason (@guttocutwl) and Ray (@adeyemiking).
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's tennis freshman Peter Nagy won at No. 1 singles in his first match ever while sophomore Matt Westmoreland gave a heroic performance, coming back from 0-4 in the third in the last match standing to lift the No. 73 Islanders men's tennis team to a 4-3 win over nationally-ranked New Mexico State at the New Mexico State Tennis Complex.
The win puts the Islanders at 1-0 on the season while New Mexico State, a team that was in ITA National Rankings every week last season and starts this year at No. 53, moved to 0-1.
The Islanders, who lost two of the greatest players in team history at the No.1 (Laurent Montoisy) and No. 2 (James Langford) positions from last year, showed they are ready to stay on the national rankings scene. The program has reached the NCAA Top 50 and won the Southland Conference the last four years in-a-row, but put a very new team on the court for the opening match of the 2012 season.
"Unbelievable how hard these guys competed today," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "We really wanted to make a statement on what this new team is going to be about and the way they're going to compete. Peter and Matt were awesome today, and showed incredible mental toughness.
"For Matt to be down 0-4 in the third, and come back to win when he is the last match on the court takes incredible heart and courage. The same can be said for Peter Nagy at No. 1 singles in his first match ever."
Nagy, a freshman from Budapest, Hungary, did not arrive in Las Cruces until 1 a.m. in the morning on the day of the match as he stayed behind in Corpus Christi on Wednesday to attend class. Coach Moore met Nagy at the El Paso airport at 11:15 p.m. on Wednesday night, with the freshman arriving on the last flight of the night.
In doubles at the start of the match, the Islanders split the No. 1 and No. 3 matches, leaving the deciding point at No. 2. In No. 1, Nagy and Gergo Weidinger lost a tough 8-5 battle, while Aurelien Tave and Westmoreland picked up an 8-4 win at the No. 3 position. Nathan Robinson and Alex Pavlov were unable to complete the doubles win for the Islanders however, falling 8-3 as the Aggies grabbed a 1-0 lead.
In singles, the first match to finish was No. 6, as Fernando Llorens picked up a quick 6-1, 6-4 victory to even the match at 1-1. New Mexico State won the next two, as Pietro Jordao fell by a 6-3, 6-1 final at No. 3, and Weidinger took a 6-4, 6-3 setback at the No. 4 position.
With the Aggies leading the match 3-1, they would not get another point as Tave won at No. 2 by a 6-4, 6-3 score and Nagy gritted out a tough 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 win at the No. 1 position to even it up at 3-3.
It all came down to Westmoreland. The sophomore split the first two sets at No. 5 singles, losing 4-6 in the first and coming back to even it with a 6-1 second set. The third set started out bleakly for Westmoreland as he found himself down 0-4 in the final set of the deciding match.
"I was down, but I felt like I could still win," said Westmoreland. "I just kept fighting to stay in the match. Eventually some little things went my way, and my opponent started feeling a little pressure and things kept happening for me.
"I felt the energy of my teammates in all my shots as they cheered me on, and it really paid off and helped me get through for the win."
Westmoreland rallied to win 7-of-8 games as he took a 7-5 victory for a 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 individual win and a 4-3 win for his team.
"Peter Nagy is one poised, mentally tough guy and we've always known that about Matt Westmoreland," said Moore. "I was incredibly proud of the way these guys never quit and fought through adversity. We talk a lot about staying in the present and keeping your mind only in the present, but to come back from 0-4 down in the third when it all comes down to your match means you have to really, really do that.
"I was also impressed with the toughness freshman Fernando Llorens showed in his first match, and senior captain Aurelien Tave competed with great spirit today as well."
The Islanders will get an off day in between matches before taking to the court at 12 p.m. on Saturday against Utah State, a conference member of New Mexico State.
"We have a ton to improve on and a long journey ahead of us this year, but I was incredibly proud of the tenacity and resiliency this team showed today," said Moore. "That's the stuff that determines your journey."
The journey started off well on Thursday with a big win over a ranked and very talented New Mexico State team. It was the third-straight year the Islanders and Aggies have met during the first week of the season, with New Mexico State winning the previous two meetings.
"This was a very good team we had to beat today," said Moore. "New Mexico State is always tough as nails and very well coached.
"I have a lot of respect for their team, and they are especially hard to beat at home in Las Cruces with the altitude."
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Tennis) and follow them on Twitter (@IslandersTennis).
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi vs New Mexico State
01/19/2012 at Las Cruces, N.M.
#73 Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 4, #53 New Mexico State 3
Singles competition:
1. Peter Nagy (AMCC) def. Matej Stakne (NMSU) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
2. Aurelien Tave (AMCC) def. Germain Degardin (NMSU) 6-4, 6-3
3. Marc Westgate (NMSU) def. Pietro Jordao (AMCC) 6-3, 6-1
4. Luis Ramirez (NMSU) def. Gergo Weidinger (AMCC) 6-4, 6-3
5. Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) def. Felipe Frattini (NMSU) 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
6. Fernando Llorens (AMCC) def. Eduardo Cabrita (NMSU) 6-1, 6-4
Doubles competition:
1. Matej Stakne/Luis Ramirez (NMSU) def. Gergo Weidinger/Peter Nagy (AMCC) 8-5
2. Marc Westgate/Felipe Frattini (NMSU) def. Nathan Robinson/Alex Pavlov (AMCC) 8-3
3. Aurelien Tave/Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) def. Germain Degardin/Eduardo Cabrita (NMSU) 8-4
Match Notes:
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 1-0; National ranking #73
New Mexico State 0-1; National ranking #53
Order of finish: Singles (6,3,4,2,1,5)


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Rift gets pushed to the opener spot tonight and its getting better, but still had some timing problems in it. Guelah was ok, but Mike had some troubles in the Fly part. Foam also had some messy spots and the recording level changed as the taper got settled in. They were just not locked in on this one. Sparkle was ok, pretty standard for this tour. Stash had some tiny off spots, but a good jam anyway. Bouncing was average. Ice had a few rough spots and some noise in the middle section. Most likely Trey and Mike were screwing around. Glide was good and had quite a long hold on the last glad. Maze rocked, but had really weak climaxes in both Page and Treys solos. Golgi was a solid closer to this first set and was nice and dynamic.
Jim opens up the second set and Trey blows the last verse by going right to the double chorus instead. It was not very smooth overall. Jim goes unfinished as Trey picks up the acoustic for My Friend, which was kind of sloppy, but had a funny Manteca ending on it. Poor Heart was also kind of sloppy, but good. Another Weigh, which I love, was pretty good. Then the Balls come out Nice dedication to Sue before a better Ya Mar with a funny Mike screaming section at the end. YEM is pretty good overall and descends into a crazy jam with guest stars and sounds like Trey singing gibberish on the megaphone, some trombone and vacuum! The jam also had great guitar interplay from Trey and Jimmy and a great jazzy scat session from Oteil on bass. It was a great way to end the show tonight.
Grace was cut from the recording, but thats fine. Cavern gets the call for the encore tonight and what a weird one with A-Train right in the middle? No idea what that was all about, but its freaking sweet! Fish almost didnt make it back in for the rest of Cavern and Trey continues to struggle with the lyrics a bit. The walk out music was Unforgettable. Indeed!!!
This is actually a four-star performance because the heavy hitters like Foam, Stash, Maze and Jim were all weak. However, after further soul searching, Ive got to move this up to five stars just for the YEM jam and the A-Train bust-out! I also loved the extra sound check portion of the recording. I cant wait to hear tomorrows show!


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Bristol Palin lived the life of an average American teen. She loved being outdoors, spending time with family and friends, and focusing on schoolwork and sports. But when her mother became the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, Bristol's world would change forever. She was instantly propelled into the national spotlight, becoming the focus of intense public and national media scrutiny at the age of seventeen.
In the pages of this personal memoir, Bristol opens up for the first time ever, taking readers behind the scenes of her life, from growing up in Alaska to coming of age amid the media and political frenzy surrounding her mother's political rise; from becoming a single mother while still a teenager to coping as her relationship with the baby's father crumbled publicly—not once, but twice. Through all of these ups and downs, Bristol learned how to face her challenges head-on with courage and grace, traits she put to good use as a contestant and finalist on Dancing with the Stars.
In Not Afraid of Life, Bristol speaks candidly of her aspirations and of the deep religious faith that gives her strength and inspiration. Plainspoken and disarmingly down-to-earth, Bristol offers new insight and understanding of who she is and what she values most.
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MORAGA -- You could wrap your arms around Aunt Josie's fruitcake and put on the pounds while watching "It's a Wonderful Life" for the 20th time, or you can visit New York City with a phantom tour guide and help save the lives and health of children from the Bay Area and all over the world.
Option two would usually cost a fortune, but not this year.
At Moraga's New Rheem Theatre on Dec. 21, the golden ticket -- priced at $50 for general admission -- buys passage to a glorious, song-filled expedition with all proceeds going to Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland.
Transportation to the Big Apple comes courtesy of the (for years) longest running Phantom of the Opera, Franc D'Ambrosio, and Leslie Noel, the founder of sponsoring Peter Pan Foundation, based in Lafayette.
D'Ambrosio is the Bronx-born Broadway trophy whose six-year star turn in Andrew Lloyd Webber's insanely popular production was bookended by singing the Academy Award-winning theme song from "The Godfather III" and a 12-month national tour starring in Barry Manilow's "Copacabana."
Noel met D'Ambrosio for the first time in the 1990s.
"I attended a special event in San Francisco to meet the (Phantom of the Opera) cast," Noel recalls. "After the show, Franc asked me to sing for him on the spot."
When she sang, D'Ambrosio wasn't the only person listening, she soon discovered. Lorenzo Malfati, Luciano Pavarotti's teacher, invited her to come to Italy to study with him when she turned 18.
Life -- or rather, Guillian-Barre syndrome, a rare nervous system disorder -- hit then 17-year old Noel and when she recovered, changed the course of her life. Her love of opera pivoted to musical theater and her triumphant recovery rotated her internal compass to annual musical productions benefiting sick children.
The second time she and D'Ambrosio met, tragedy and kismet coincided: Noel was the opening act for his Broadway touring show the same day she sang at the funeral of Acalanes High School student Steffen Ryge, the "Peter Pan" in Noel's first musical fundraising production, "Wish Upon a Star."
The Peter Pan Foundation provides children with a safe and nurturing environment to discover and develop their creative talents, and teaches giving.
Recently, Noel and D'Ambrosio again crossed paths and the story of the foundation's phenomenal success touched D'Ambrosio's heart. He offered to donate a one-night show to benefit the Peter Pan Foundation -- and Bay Area audiences savvy enough to snare a ride to his "Christmas in New York."
"Leslie's heart is absolutely in the right place," D'Ambrosio says, from a stop on his hectic December tour. "She's giving back to the community and I want to support that."
One of the greatest rewards of his amazing stint as Phantom was not solely the chance to hone his craft, he insists, but to give back through Make a Wish Foundation and AIDS research benefits that grossed over $1 million.
After "Phantom", D'Ambrosio told his agent he didn't want to be typecast.
"My next job was a song-and-dance man," he says. "To prepare, Manilow and I spent five weeks in a studio with Manilow performing, me watching. He taught me how to be personal, how to break that fourth wall and relate directly to the audience."
D'Ambrosio's formidable vocal technique was formed and refined in part by studying under Pavarotti.
"I watched him while he was putting 'Othello' into his repertoire. I saw how he rehearsed, worked with his pianist, listened to his recordings that weren't yet released. He'd ask me, 'What do you think about that? Should the orchestra come out more here?' He was very conscientious."
When: 6:30 p.m. Dec. 21 (appetizers/auction)
Where: New Rheem Theatre, 350 Park St., Moraga
Tickets: $50 to $500; contact http://peterpanfoundation.org/franc/


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Tell us about your pre-race rituals and superstitions. Some people eat or drink special items, others have a warm-up routine and still others have a lucky charm of one kind or another.
What is your lucky pre-race ritual?
Do you have a lucky charm you carry?
Do you have any pre-race superstions or rituals that have died because they no longer worked?
Tell us your story.
My pre-race ritual is a special prayer and blessing. I look over the water. my bike and my running shoes. I give a blessing asking that each will keep me safe and healthy. I also ask that all other competitors will be kept safe and healthy as well. This meidtative moment calms me and prepares me to move!
Jene' Popper Hong
heh, a few.
I pack and unpack my bag probably about 10 times to make sure I have absolutely everything I could use. I do this the night before, I do this the morning of.
I might try on the finish line shirt/hat, but only the day before the race, NEVER on the day of the race until I finish.
I step myself through the transition process bit by bit, repeatedly. Steps small enough an idiot (which I am after coming out of the water and off of the bike) can do them. (CISC versus RISC processing for other old geeks).
I go out of my way to talk to other racers and try and give them encouragement if they look nervous... mostly I think I'm just hoping someone else notices I'm nervous and does the same
Hubby & I shave our legs (yep he does.) We also clip our nails & I paint mine. As a soccer player I used to instead sharpen my nails vs. clipping them down. I also wore my long hair in a braided whip type style.
We have a pre-race CD we listen to before every race. It's nice to have traditions. It reminds you pre-race that "you've been in these moments before" and even at a new event, it'll be OK.
Sara Cox Landolt
Got this question on Twitter during the press conference, but I was unable to ask it! However, here are my pre-race "must-haves":
1) sweet potato or yam for breakfast
2) big kiss from the wife at night before bed (nothing else but a kiss - save it for AFTER the race!)
3) 100 jumping jacks
It's not necessarily science, but that's what I do.
My blog is at http://www.BenGreenfieldFitness.com
Also, I'm giving away a free 7-part series on "How To Become Superhuman" at http://www.SuperhumanCoach.com
Probably not what you're looking for, but the following seem to be part of my routine actions before races...not sure how many times I'll have to go through them before it qualifies as a ritual.
1. Wind myself up so much that I get lost on the way to the race briefing (3 times this year).
2. Forget everything that I've been told in the briefing, find a volunteer to ask questions, usually one who's a first timer (twice this year).
3. Get up early on raceday, fall asleep, wake up again late and rush to transition (twice).
4. Halfway to transition go back to my room to get the things (usually goggles) I've forgotten or get lost on the way to the transition 5 minutes before it closes (once).
5. Drop all my kit in the transition area so that it's covered with grass, sand, dirt and probably chewing gum.
6. Find a non-essential, but useful piece of kit in my daybag after transition has closed.
7. Forget to get marked / chipped / register chip.
8. Forget sunscreen.
9. Walk around in daze wondering which wave I'm in.
I find that these hiccups have lead my actual racing to be relatively calm and stress-free...almost Zen-like. I've left out "tweak cycling computer so that it doesn't work over 25mph, display the wrong speed or shows it in Km/h"; this happens every time, but I haven't figured out when I'm doing it yet. I managed to work in "lose bike in transition area" and forget to put hat on bald head for sunny-hot-shadeless run (twice) but as these are not strictly pre-race I've left them out of the main list. I love racing though.
I have 2 pre-race rituals that I typically do and one main superstition:
1). Play the same CD in my car as I drive to the race.
2). As gross as it might sound, before jumping in the water to warm up, I stand at the shore line and pee in my wetsuit. It sounds strange but I'm in the water 10 seconds later anyway. I always laugh a little while its going on cause I'm the only one who knows whats going on lol..
1) Never take a picture near the finish line chute before the race. I always think it'll jinx my performance..
Thanks for the post Gale and all you do for us!
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Just off the I-96 freeway on M-43 there is an orange maze of cones and signs leading drivers away from local businesses.
"Usually we are packed on Saturday and Sunday. This morning I could definately see the effects of it," said Rebecca Hart, Denny's general manager.
"We do expect it will slow business for us a little bit," said Matt Farkas, Bennigan's senior manager.
Michigan's Department of Transportation (MDOT) has started resurfacing 3.6 miles of M-43, a 4-month project that is full of detours.
"In that detour, there will be no eastbound traffic allowed. We will only maintain two lanes of westbound traffic on M-43," said Kari Arend, the spokesperson for MDOT.
But many drivers confused by the signs head straight into on-coming traffic.
"People could get in a crash. It could have been us, because we were confused," said Grecia Keaveney, a Denny's customer.
"It's scary. People are going straight towards each other. You don't know if someone is going to come towards you the other way," said Maggie Chappell, a local driver.
The detour ends at Mall Drive. But, some drivers are still traveling eastbound ignoring detour signs. MDOT officials say they could be ticketed. Some drivers say it is so confusing they'll try to avoid this area all together.
"I won't be back here until it's fixed," said Chappell.
In order to keep customers, businesses in the area are launching new advertisements and deals to entise people to go the extra mile.
"We have an ad coming out next week in the newspaper telling people the fastest way to get here and an incentive to come," said Farkas.
"We'll have kids eat free and carnival night," said Hart.
Business owners say they expect a loss in sales, but know progress doesn't come without a price.


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Class for condo association members offered in Venice
Topics to include elections, contracts and best practices
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 1:00 a.m.
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Monday, December 30, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) -- Hawks center Al Horford will have season-ending surgery on Tuesday to repair his torn right pectoral muscle.
Hawks spokesman Garin Narin on Monday night confirmed plans for the surgery.
Horford, the Hawks' leading scorer and rebounder, suffered the injury in the first overtime of Thursday night's 127-125 double-overtime win at Cleveland. An examination on Friday in Atlanta revealed the complete tear of the muscle. Horford explored his options before deciding on the surgery.
He is averaging 18.6 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in his seventh season.
Horford suffered a similar injury two years ago. He tore his left pectoral muscle early in the 2011-12 season, when he played only 11 regular-season games before returning in the playoffs.
Narin says Horford would not return for the playoffs this season.
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Arcade Fire, one of the world's most popular modern-rock troupes, has been a regular presence in the Bay Area in recent months. The Canadian band performed an acoustic set at the Bridge School Benefit concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View in October. Then it quickly returned to headline one of radio station Live 105's Not So Silent Night gigs at Oracle Arena in Oakland in December. Now, Arcade Fire will support its most recent offering, "Reflektor," with a full-length headlining set on Wednesday at Shoreline. Show time is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $30.50-$70.50, www.livenation.com.
It's triple-header time, courtesy of three longtime legends of the Bay Area music scene.
Journey is the top name on the bill, ready to delight its faithful fans with such favorites as "Lights," "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Open Arms." Then there's the Steve Miller Band, which built its empire on "Take the Money and Run," "Fly Like an Eagle," "The Joker" and other classic rock cuts. Tower of Power, the sensational Oakland R&B/funk troupe, will get the party started with such soulful offerings as "What Is Hip?" and "So Very Hard to Go."
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Definition of torpid in English:
1Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic: we sat around in a torpid state
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- We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
- But watching this torpid, listless movie is like Scuba-diving in treacle.
- A black sky stretched out above me and cold stars gazed down with torpid light that dulled and burned a stark yellow.
1.1(Of an animal) dormant, especially during hibernation.
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- Imagine one of these torpid reptiles trying to hide its awkward shell from a school of minnows: The turtle crouches warily behind a tuft of vegetation.
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After more than two months of abstinence, the lure of McDonald's Fries were calling my name last Sunday. They were screaming my name actually. As we pulled into the parking lot I remarked to Jim that I felt like someone who was about to commit a crime. I considered pulling my sunglasses out of my purse and pulling up the hoodie on my sweater over my head, but decided to forgo the Unabomber look.
As we stood at the counter scanning the menu board I considered my options. My normal choice would have been a "#2 with cheese". I noted the calorie count and moved on. I chose instead a 3 pc Chicken Select, a medium fry and a diet coke. I ate half the fries and saved myself 190 calories. We timed it so it qualified as brunch and I was able to combine my breakfast/lunch points and balanced it with a healthy chicken and broccoli stir fry for dinner that evening.
It would have been smarter maybe to fight the craving but past experience has taught me that depriving yourself completely can lead to failure and eventual binging when trying to lose weight. The binging then leads to an "oh well I blew that" attitude and the next thing you know you are off plan.
Not me. Not this time.
This week I also traveled to Rochester for work. I was really worried about "falling off the wagon".
There is something about staying in a hotel that tricks your mind into believing you are on vacation. Vacations usually mean splurging. Work related travel also usually means eating out and having a couple of cocktails with colleagues at the end of the day.
I packed healthy snacks and my bathing suit. I researched the hotel beforehand and discovered they had an indoor pool. My friend/co-worker Kristy was also coming so I texted her and said "Girlfriend, bring your swimmies"! (I was able to clock in 90 minutes of swim time in the course of two days before and after classes.)
Even though I did have a few wines both evenings, and ate well while I was away, I did both in moderation and countered it with exercise.
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Every Olympics there are winners and losers, but every now and then, there are athletes who do more than win. They do something extraordinary like make history or help challenge stereotypes. In honor of the Sochi Olympics, here are some of the women athletes who didn't just play the game — they changed it forever.
Paralyzed by a snowboarding accident, Nichols didn't allow it to slow down her love of sports or competition. She became the first American woman to win gold medals in the summer and winter Olympics. In 2008 she was part of the U.S. women's team that won a gold medal in wheelchair basketball, and in 2010 she won two gold medals at the winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver in downhill skiing and the giant slalom. She's also one of Cosmo's "Women to Watch" this year.
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Here's to a Heart-Healthy Valentine's Day! Plus: A Pancake Recipe Sure to Make them Swoon
By The FIRM Master Instructor Leslie Perry Duffy
Nothing says "I love you" quite like a gigantic box of chocolates, right? Hardly! This special holiday symbolized by hearts and celebrated with high-calories treats can be anything but heart-healthy. However, there's no hard and fast rule that requires us to celebrate with sugary candy and foods saturated with fat. Celebrating Valentine's Day in a healthy way does not mean that you can't enjoy your favorite treat in moderation. Or, forget the treats and celebrate in a unique way that's special for you and your loved one(s).


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If lawmakers decide to move forward this session with the budget proposed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, Nicholls State University will have lost nearly 57 percent of its state money compared to five years ago, according to data released by the Board of Regents.
Nicholls had $34.5 million in state money in 2008, when Jindal was elected, but there's only $14.9 million proposed for the budget currently being debated by lawmakers that would into effect July 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year.
The situation is worse in Baton Rouge, where LSU has sustained $125 million in cuts over five years, with more reductions pending.
LSU Interim President William Jenkins described the situation as severe.
"I want to tell you something that I think is startling," Jenkins said of the $109 million budgeted for LSU for the next fiscal year. "It looks like next year, the state appropriations at LSU ... will in fact be less than the unfunded mandates that we get from the state."
The Baton Rouge campus must get creative, he said, from opening the largest Barnes and Noble bookstore on any campus in America to financing parking improvements with donations.
"We have to use the private sector. There's not a question about that," Jenkins said. "But try as we may on this slope that we're on, the downward slide that we're on, it's going to be very hard to make up that difference."
The differences are stacking up locally as well.
L.E. Fletcher Technical Community College could go from the 2008 budget total of $4.8 million to a proposed $2.9 million next fiscal year, or a loss of $1.9 million, or about 39 percent.
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium is in line to lose 26 percent, or more than $840,000, when comparing its 2008 appropriation from the state of $3.1 million to the $2.3 million being considered in the current budget.
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Gear on the Gridiron"By any measure, football has never been safer and we continue to make progress with rule changes, safer tackling techniques at all levels of football, and better equipment, protocols and medical care for players."
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Advent Devotions from Lutheran Hour Ministries
How often do you face your day with a sense of fear and dread? Holiday seasons like Thanksgiving and Christmas can easily lose their joy and delight when little things relentlessly nag at us and annoy us. Maybe the busy preparations of the season have you down, or perhaps you are reeling from a major life crisis or catastrophe.
This Advent and Christmas season we will study the events of our Savior's birth as recorded in the first two chapters of the Gospel of Luke. There we will hear God's answers to the fears that threaten to engulf and overwhelm us.
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- The Christmas Journey :: This Christmas children story book is about God's expedition to earth as the Babe of Bethlehem. Enjoy this little booklet as it rhymes its way through the Nativity story of Jesus' birth.
- What is Christmas? :: This booklet provides insights from a family going through problems and their celebration of Christmas.
- The Real St. Nick: Leader, Legend or Lie :: This single-session Bible study, hosted by the Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus-Speaker Emeritus of The Lutheran Hour, examines a man who, next to Jesus Christ, is the most visible figure during the holidays—St. Nicholas or Santa Claus—as we know him in Western culture. Dating back to the third century, St. Nick is attributed with the doing of many benevolent and charitable acts of kindness and generosity.
- Joseph: Carpenter of Steel :: The man driving the Christmas story in this Bible study is none other than Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus. Join us as host Rev. Gregory Seltz, Speaker for The Lutheran Hour, sheds light on one of the New Testament's unsung heroes in Joseph: Carpenter of Steel. Adding historical perspective to this study is scholar and best-selling author Dr. Paul L. Maier.


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The cookbook we've all been waiting for - Persians and non-Persians alike! These rich, exotic recipes showcase the special heritage of the Persian community and introduce every cook to the spices and flavors unique to Persian cooking. This is one of the most user-friendly cookbooks you'll ever encounter. Reyna's style and tone is welcoming, chatty, and super-helpful; her enthusiasm for Persian food bubbles through even though she has South American roots, and she explains the special techniques for creating Sephardic cuisine in such detail that you'll be up and cooking in no time. The recipes are lavish, rich, and enticing; the photographs are divine; the details in this cookbook make it magnificent-- along with Reyna's personal anecdotes about integrating into a Persian family.
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I just voted for myself.... and now I feel dirty.
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oh, sorry, I was just kidding, can you forgive me? obviously I am aware that mook and lee and mattjohnson don't frequent as much, especially set apart mattjohnson who was demoted and left under strange circumstances and was a total longboard kook from cm but still seemed as ok as anybody else.i just have a sentimental,nostalgic nature for the good old days,weren't really that good,i know. I don't see the dominating characters as my cup of tea,nor the polls, so I just felt like posting...again, i'm sorry. i'd rather not comment here on why I missed a lot of waves this year-it's a bit personal. did you not read the reply to the pm you sent a couple weeks ago? I actually do think 42 deserved a nomination here, or honorable mention, though I've been critical of him often,too. it is no surprise you ran away with it, though, so, seriously, congratulations.by the way, the epic swells you mentioned recently were not epic here, and sometimes your waves are ****house when it's good up here in central jersey.i'm not a cracker,nor am I from north jersey.i am considered quite annoying,though,and I can be annoyed with others. I will try to endure better in the future.sincerely
GitCarter has no equal in the HOTY14 epicness, not even a tubby latex-loving Maine barnswallow like you, boo-boo, so word to the wiseacre (that would be you, boo-boo) don't push the man's Defcon button.
Looks like the 2014 Swellies already have candidates jockeying for position. In addition to their surf banner they may want to fly a campaign banner not only for more exposure but also the higher level of fun!
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Explorer Moment of the Week: Secret Light
Photograph by Jim Hellemn
While exploring the Bloody Bay Wall off Little Cayman Island in 2012 to chronicle its biofluorescent creatures, marine biologist David Gruber felt the strange sensation of stepping into his backyard and beholding an unknown and surprising universe.
"Just a few hours after this photo was taken, darkness fell and I descended down the sheer face of the coral wall, along with teammates Jim Hellemn and John Sparks. The wall drops 1,000 feet, but we hovered at just 90, capturing the large biofluorescent mural that now appears in the traveling exhibit 'Creatures of Light.' On that evening, we unwittingly photographed many cryptic biofluorescent animals whose secret light had never before been glimpsed by human eyes.
Fluorescent proteins from marine species have already provided science with one of its most valuable tools for illuminating processes in living cells and neurons. So when it was announced that President Obama's administration is planning to launch a decade-long initiative to map the human brain, I was inspired by new possibilities. Just as biofluorescence plays many roles for corals and fishes in their dim, blue-lit world, it may also come to play a greater role in understanding how our own brain cells communicate.
For example, as a thought pops into my head, my neurons fire (a process illuminated to science by biofluorescent tags decoded from the DNA of marine organisms). I imagine a role reversal: a pair of Warteye stargazers (Gillellus uranidea) exploring Greenwich Village with special lights and cameras, trying to discover how we communicate so as to better understand themselves. This planet is full of unsuspected biological connections and we are just beginning to explore the bioluminescent and biofluorescent universe under the sea."
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Author Dakota Banks dazzles with dark magic in Sacrifice, the second book in her urban fantasy series Mortal Path featuring Maliha Crayne, the former immortal assassin known as the Black Ghost—a bewitching cross between Lara Croft and Elektra. Banks offers a new twist on supernatural thrillers with this action-packed, edge-of-your-seat adventure that fans of Vicki Pettersson and James Rollins won't want to miss. Join Maliha in her ongoing quest save her damned soul, as she battles unspeakable evil to atone for the countless sins of her long and bloody past.
A demon's enslaved executioner—a ravager of lives and souls—Maliha Crayne has been reborn, willing to sacrifice her immortality for a chance at freedom . . . and salvation. Now she has an opportunity to prevent the death of thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—to make up for the countless lives she has obliterated over the centuries. To do so, she must locate and destroy an evil cabal of madmen in possession of a weapon of unspeakable power—and survive the immortal assassins who are now after her blood. But it means reverting to the old ways and surrendering once more to the darkness. And if Maliha dies before the mission is accomplished, the hell she once knew will seem like a picnic compared to the eternal torments awaiting her.
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"Sweeping across continents and centuries, The Mortal Path by Dakota Banks is story-telling at its most vivid. The characters are fascinating, the plot nail-biting, and the period pieces memorable. Curl up in your favorite chair - entertainment is guaranteed." — Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster
"Seductive, sophisticated, and imaginative, The Mortal Path: Dark Time has a multi-dimensional quality with beguiling concepts and a labyrinth of fast-paced suspense. There's food for thought on every fascinating page. Dakota Banks is firing on all cylinders." — Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Charlemagne Pursuit
"Edge of your seat, breathtaking action in a must-read supernatural thriller." — David Dun, author of The Black Silent
"A passionate, fascinating story packed with action and history. Three hundred years ago, Maliha Crayne was burned at the stake. Now she's in a race against time to save the world and her soul, and you'll be with her step by step." — David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of The Brotherhood of the Rose
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - Marketing and selling Snowmass to the world is a little bit easier this ski season because Plum TV has relocated to the base of the Snowmass ski area in Base Village.
Plum TV creates extensive lifestyle coverage that includes on-mountain footage from Aspen, Snowmass, Buttermilk and Aspen Highlands, celebrity interviews, food tastings and cooking demos, ski and fitness tips, design stories, and stories about local nonprofit organizations and events.
"Our goal with Plum Aspen/Snowmass is to incorporate the entire Rocky Mountain lifestyle," said D.R. Dwyer, vice president of business development for Plum TV. "We will create compelling original content that will be broadcast throughout our national network. And as well, the station provides a desirable demographic for our national advertisers."
Patrick Dimon is producer and the Rocky Mountain bureau chief for Plum TV.
"We are all about lifestyle television," Dimon said. "We want to be in areas that strive to a certain lifestyle, and we're in the process to see how to find the right balance between the smaller markets that we serve and the larger markets."
Currently Plum TV airs in Boston; Philadelphia; Los Angeles; the Hamptons, N.Y.; Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass.; Telluride; and Aspen/Snowmass.
All of the Plum TV stations share footage, meaning that footage filmed in Aspen/Snowmass will reach hundreds of thousands of homes nationally.
"We like to reach a family that might be in Boston but goes to Colorado once a year," Dimon said. "And we like to produce evergreen content that can run all year long across a lot of markets."
To do this locally, Plum TV has partnered this winter with the Viceroy Snowmass and Related Colorado to relocate its local operations to the plaza level of Base Village, where it has created a studio and editing facility.
For the 2012-13 winter season, Plum's winter programming will be hosted by Aspen's own Ramona Bruland, who recently has become a national name through her work on ESPN covering the X Games. Bruland will air locally Saturdays and Sundays from 8 to 9 a.m., noon to 1 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. The show will air on Channel 16 in Aspen/Snowmass and the Roaring Fork Valley as well as the entire national Plum TV network, currently available in more than 6 million homes. During these weekend segments, Plum TV will air the latest footage shot that week from Aspen/Snowmass.
On Thursdays and Fridays, Plum will air "Wintery Mix," a no-hosted show of videos shot locally throughout this winter. During the other days of the week, Plum will air a mix of summer and winter local videos.
"We have a great deal with the Viceroy Snowmass and Related Colorado," Dimon said. "We're trying to garner a lot more buzz for Snowmass. Sometimes people think Snowmass is just for families, and we're trying to show that there is a lot more going on to attract a wide range of visitors."
Plum TV plans on shooting some of the groups that visit Snowmass this winter, such as the National Brotherhood of Skiers, and events such as the Mardi Gras celebration Feb. 12 and Aspen Skiing Co.'s Big Air Friday freestyle events.
Producer Pat Dimon was here in Aspen/Snowmass with the original Plum TV organization from 2005 to 2010. Before that, he worked in television with the NBC affiliate in New York. As Plum was reorganizing in 2010 through 2012, Dimon worked on the NBC show "Open House" but returned in last December when Plum relaunched locally.
"We love Aspen/Snowmass because it doesn't have down time," Dimon said. "Aspen/Snowmass is busy both summer and winter."
What does he look for when deciding what content to film?
"I'm always looking for that company, organization or event that has an Internet or larger reach than just walk-in traffic," said Dimon. "Ideally we are looking for someone with a larger reach than just the hyper-local market, someone like a Viceroy Snowmass or the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, someone who can reach a national audience and has a great website so a viewer in Philadelphia can see a segment on their station and it gets them to either come here or buy something online."
Plum TV expands its reach through social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter. In the case of Twitter, Plum might take a photo of Bruland during a filmed segment and send that out to tease the later show.
At its Snowmass Base Village studio, Plum TV will do three-camera interviews and then use the four full editing bays to edit and distribute content. In addition to producer Dimon, Plum TV currently has Danny Brown, Craig Turpin, Colin Hartley, Bruland, a couple of interns and others working locally.
"We love Snowmass," Dimon said. "We are feet from the heart of the Village. It couldn't have worked out better."
For more information about Plum TV, go to www.plumtv.com or call Dimon at 908-601-1333.
Steve Alldredge is the former associate editor/reporter for the Snowmass Sun. He runs a local communications company whose clients include Related Colorado. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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After 142 years, Ohio's oldest independent fair is alive and kicking.
The Barlow Fair kicks off at noon Thursday, when judging begins at the fairgrounds just 13 miles from Marietta at the intersection of Ohio 550 and 339.
Thursday's highlights include judging of the 4-H booths, T-Building, the 5,500-pound class tug pull and the Beef and Dairy Show.
"The Barlow Fair is one of the sweetest fairs anybody could go to," said Denise Tessum, a member of the fair board in charge of the FFA Building and booths and booths and vendors. She also is part of the entertainment committee.
"It is so old town," she said. "The midway is as clean as a whistle."
Returning this year will be Big "O" amusements to handle all the rides and other midway attractions.
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10 a.m. to 8 p.m. - Feeder calves.
2 to 8 p.m. - Entries for Chicken and rabbits.
5 to 8 p.m. - Entries for T-Building, Lads & Lassies and Produce. Weigh-in for feeder calves.
All other livestock in place by noon.
9 a.m. to noon - Entries for T-Building, Lads & Lassies and Produce.
Noon - 4-H Booth judging
4 p.m. - Gates open, judging flowers and still exhibits, judging for T-Building.
6 p.m. - Tractor pull (5500-pound tug pull). Rides open. Free rides. Beef & Dairy Show, Cattle Tent.
8 a.m. - Gates open.
9 a.m. - Poultry judging.
6 p.m. - Parade and tractor pull (7,500- and 9,500-pound classes)
7 p.m. - Fun Obstacle Course, Horse Arena.
8 p.m. - Sheep and goat show, Sheep Barn.
9 to 11 p.m. - Gypsy Soul, performing on main stage.
8 a.m. - Gates open.
8 a.m. - Feeder Calf Show. Feeder Calf Showmanship immediately after show.
9 a.m. - Rabbit judging.
10 a.m. - Open Youth Horse Show and draft horse pull.
Noon-Garden tractor pull; Little Miss & Mr. Barlow at the Gazebo; election of fair board officers, fair board office.
5:30 p.m. Feeder Calf Sale.
6 p.m. - Draft Horse & Mule Show.
6:30 p.m. - Tom & Carol Wriston opening act.
7:30 - 11,000- and 13,000-pound tug pull
8 p.m. - Matt Enik, main stage.
8 a.m. - Gates open.
9:30 a.m. - Church with Dr. Lloyd Dennis, Gazebo.
10 a.m. - Open Horse Show.
10 a.m. - Speed Pull, sled by Mighty Mac, Divisions 1 and II, 4,500 and 9,500 pounds.
Noon - Crossroads Messengers.
1 to 2 p.m. - Kapple Family.
1 p.m. - Pedal Pull, next to Waterford FFA tent.
2 to 3 p.m. - Keepin' Time, dulcimer band.
$15 membership tickets, admission for all four days.
$5 single admission
$1 children between 6 and 12
$4 FFA and 4-H exhibitors
Midway rides
Thursday: All rides free for everyone. Mechanical bull not included.
6 to 10 p.m. Thursday.
6 to 11 p.m. Friday.
Noon to 5 p.m. and 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday.
Noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
"The community just loved them, and we are happy to get them to come back," Tessum said.
Also new this year is a mechanical bull ride (for the first time Tessum can remember) and a haunted house during the evenings.
Tessum said the fair board decided to operate the fair gates with volunteers from two local nonprofit agencies.
This year, volunteers from RSVP on Thursday and Friday and the Little Hocking Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization on Saturday and Sunday will greet fairgoers as they come onto the grounds.
Entertainment on tap for the run of the fair includes Gypsy Soul on Friday night on the main stage and Matt Enik on Saturday night. The fair wraps up Sunday afternoon with Crossroads Messengers at noon, Kapple Family at 1 p.m. and Keepin' Time, a dulcimer band, at 2 p.m.
The annual parade will still be at 6 p.m. Friday and lines up in Vincent. It travels north on Ohio 339, turns onto Warrior Drive to pass Warren High School to Barlow, where it turns left onto Ohio 550, through the intersection of Ohio 339 and 550 and into the fairgrounds.
"It's one of the largest parades in Washington County," Tessum said. "It's every bit of two hours. If you enjoy parades, this one should not be missed."


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Republicans Focus Anew on IRS Scandal
Republican lawmakers' interest in the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal is intensifying after a period of relative quiet. It could point to another long year for IRS officials who were hoping to put the matter behind them.
Among this week's developments:
– GOP leaders in the House and Senate sent out coordinated statements on Thursday, calling on new IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to withdraw proposed Obama administration rules restricting political activity by tax-exempt entities. Republicans are trying to depict the proposed regulations as the latest phase in the administration's supposed war on conservative tea-party groups, a charge that administration officials dismiss.
– Underscoring the concern, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Thursday that more than 20,000 people have submitted comments on the proposed regulations, a remarkable total. "Nearly all of the ones I saw were opposed," Mr. McConnell said.
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– With Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus set to become ambassador to China, that panel's top Republican said an ongoing investigation into the IRS targeting of tea-party groups is, well, ongoing. "We are well on our way but we still have a lot of things we have got to get," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) said on Fox.
–The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held another hearing on the matter on Thursday, giving tea-party groups and their lawyers another chance to vent.
–Ways and Means Republicans put out a newly uncovered email on Wednesday, suggesting that Obama administration officials had been planning a rewrite of rules on political activity by tax-exempt organizations since at least 2011.
Mr. Koskinen, a veteran turnaround specialist, said this week that he will take an independent look at the proposed IRS regulations, noting that the 21,000-plus comments received to date are "more comments than ever on any regulation."
"I look forward to reviewing with the Treasury Department all of the comments about the regulatory process," he said at Wednesday's hearing. "I do not know the background of how the regulations were drafted. But I can guarantee you that I will look independently and in a balanced way at … what the appropriate draft regulations and final regulations should be."
A Treasury spokesman said this week that lawmakers shouldn't be surprised that the rules were being reconsidered, given their age and long-running concerns over how they were being used. "It's not surprising that we would evaluate updating these regulations, which were established in the 1950s," the spokesman said.
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Hanson W. Baldwin, a New York Times's editor for almost forty years, was one of America's best-known military writers and analysts of World War II and the Vietnam War. Among his memorable scoops were the loss of three American cruisers at the battle of Savo Island, the real story behind the U-2 spy incident, and the clustering of Soviet ICBMs in 1962. His dispatches from Guadalcanal and the Western Pacific won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. This biography of the 1924 graduate of the United States Naval Academy is the first to be written of the formidable journalist whose writings ring true even today. Opposed to a national policy that could result in human devastation, he, nevertheless, favored a strong defense, but warned against an arms buildup that would alarm other nations and bankrupt America.
Robert B. Davies taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead for thirty-two years. Also the author of Peacefully Working to Conquer the World, he now lives in New Hampshire.
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"Robert Davies has written a marvelous book about Baldwin from the point of view of historical method. Davies consulted the correspondence of Baldwin, such as it was, with editors, publishers, and reporters at the Times, as well as reading Baldwin's Times articles and many articles published in a variety of magazines. Baldwin corresponded with military and political leaders and he knew many of them personally. Many became major sources. Davies considered all of these sources, sifted through them, and then put together a flowing narrative. Davies is an impressive historian."
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Davies has written a thoughtful, sensitive, and readable account of a journalistic giant. As the military correspondent of the New York Times during World War II and during the height of the Cold War, Hanson Baldwin explained American power at its peak. He was in some ways a rigid Victorian but also a humanist, and he held himself to a high standard that makes one nostalgic for the newspapering of an earlier age."
—EVAN THOMAS, author of The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, teaches writing at Princeton and is working on a biography of President Eisenhower.
"A long-awaited account of the life of Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times, the nation's premier military correspondent of his time, whose career stretched from the eve of World War II to midpoint of the Vietnam War, 1939–1969. Dr. Davies brings Baldwin to life in these pages and lets the reader see the world, the wars, and key players in them through the experienced eyes of Baldwin, a Naval Academy graduate and officer on destroyers before he turned reporter."
—JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY, coauthor of We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, We Are Soldiers Still, and Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War
"I remember we briefed Mr. Baldwin several times on both very secret aircraft and satellite findings. He was very fair in reporting military news. He really understood the research and development of military hardware and the need to keep them secret during the Cold War."
—DINO A. BRUGIONI, retired CIA senior analyst who briefed presidents Eisenhower through Ford, author of Eyes in the Sky: Eisenhower, the CIA, and Cold War Aerial Espionage
"Hanson Baldwin wasn't flashy like Ernest Hemingway or beloved like Ernie Pyle. Yet Baldwin's steady, accurate, well-informed writing about war and the armed forces perhaps had the greatest influence of any journalist on Americans' understanding of military affairs during the twentieth century. He had an extensive background in the armed services (a rarity for a reporter), as well as a keen observer's eye and a sharp analytical mind for strategy and tactics. Davies has done a great service in writing a lively biography based on extensive interviews and archived sources. His book deserves attention from those who study America's military and journalistic paths from World War II to Vietnam, and beyond."
—MICHAEL S. SWEENEY, Ohio University, author of Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II
New York Times journalist Hanson Baldwin was just about everywhere he needed to be during America's wars from 1941 to 1968. You could find him in a dusty jeep bouncing over the North African desert, sweating through a jungle on Guadalcanal or flying over South Vietnam base camps in a Huey helicopter - always composing insightful dispatches back to the Times about what he observed and experienced. Over a long career, Baldwin became one of this country's most respected military analysts. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in the South Pacific and broke stories about Cold War flash points like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the U-2 spy plane incident. As a US Naval Academy graduate and a former serving naval officer, he was intimately familiar with military affairs and firmly advocated a strong national defense. During the Vietnam War, he gave uncompromising support to what the author says Baldwin felt was "the right war in the right place against the right enemy." The Times management, and ultimately the country, disagreed, and he retired in 1969. The author, a professor at Minnesota State University, does an admirable job of chronicling Baldwin's life and work. This carefully written biography also details the ebb and flow of America's defense doctrines during those turbulent times, with an emphasis on how they were interpreted by one of its premier reporters.


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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Tavarres King likes how No. 5 Georgia is getting production from more than a couple of receivers.
After the Bulldogs lost Michael Bennett and Marlon Brown to season-ending knee injuries, King wondered how less experienced teammates would complement him and fellow starter Malcolm Mitchell.
If last week's blowout victory at Auburn is an indication, King believes that Georgia will be just fine.
King, the Bulldogs' lone senior receiver and undisputed leader at his position with Brown sidelined, believes Georgia (9-1) will continue to benefit from its depth when Georgia Southern (8-2) visits Sanford Stadium on Saturday.
Quarterback Aaron Murray, who oversees a passing attack that ranks fifth nationally in efficiency, will have another chance to create some rhythm with Chris Conley, Rhett McGowan, Rantavious Wooten and Justin Scott-Wesley.
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By dlacher on Sep 03, 2008
My team has been working on getting the next release of Sun HPC ClusterTools, should drop any day now. With in some testing for follow I have been working with getting ClusterTools up in pkg.opensolaris.org. I have to tell you, I love pkg and I can't wait for caiman.
On a personal note, my backpacking / hiking season has more than likely ended for this season, since I don't winter backpack. Turns out that a knee injury from a few years back has come back and is not subsiding this time. A few year back I found that the meniscus in my right knee has two tears in it. Then the pain went away and all was back to well so nothing was to correct the tears... could be now is the time for the corrective methods, I will find out more in a couple of days. So my backpacking partner knows all of this and is not allowing me to go with on the trek that we had planed for North Manitou Island again this year. I just hope that rehab if the knee has to go in for corrective measures heals fast and I can still make the 20 mile day hike in November.
So that is the catch up, I thought I would leave you today with a simple yet wonderful recipe for marinated tomatoes.
Marinated Tomatoes
Shake well & chill. Pour over tomatoes. Enjoy
- 3 large tomatoes sliced
- 1/3 C olive oil
- 1/4 C red wine vinegar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 Tbsp basil
- 1 Tbsp parsley
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