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Western Offers New Programs to Serve Teachers of English Language Learners
The number of English language learners (also known as ELL) in American schools has more than doubled in the past 20 years, and Colorado schools have seen an increase of 35.5% in the number of English language learners served since 2006.
Western's Olympic Heritage
As we cheer for our 2014 Olympic athletes in Sochi, take a second to
remember some great Western students who represented the United States in previous games.
Visit www.western.edu/olympians to see more of our Olympic heritage!
Western Announces Presidential Candidates
The Board of Trustees of Western State Colorado University is pleased to announce two finalists for the next President of the University. Both candidates will be visiting campus in the next several weeks.
Western Grads Run Successful Business in Costa Rica
Erica Hogan (Communications major, Class of 2000) was huddled in a soggy tent in the Costa Rican rainforest feeling alone and wondering what she had done with her life.
Western Reports Spring Enrollment Increase Over 2012
Inside Western
Dr. Gloria Beim Speaks at Tea for Women's History Month
Farm to Table Conference Tackles Local Food Issues
Western's departments of Environment & Sustainability and Business, Accounting & Economics sponsor the event. Dr. Jonathan Coop, assistant professor of Biology and Environment & Sustainability, and Dr. Michael Vieregge, professor of Business Administration, organized the first conference last year, to provide a forum in the Gunnison Valley, where growers, distributors and end users would come together, exchange ideas and network.
Wrestler Bennetts Wins Elite 89 Academic Honors
The NCAA noticed as the red-shirt sophomore from Buena Vista wrestled in early March at its Division II Wrestling Championship in Cleveland. They honored him as one of the Elite 89 academic stars in NCAA Athletics. A dozen days earlier, he earned the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference's Summit Award for having the highest cumulative GPA of any wrestler competing in the conference tournament, which Western won for the first time since 2010.
New Master in Environmental Management Doubles Enrollment Expectations
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Butterfly Leads Research Team to Peaks
It's now been 36 years since a team from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory did. And the flapping of that little butterfly's wings sent ripples all the way to Washington – and beyond. The tiny creature joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species list in 1991.
Western Announces New Master's Degree in Creative Writing
This low-residency 30-credit M.A. in Creative Writing program focuses on both the craft of creative writing and the pedagogy for the teaching of creative writing. Students select one of three emphases: popular genres fiction/nonfiction, poetry with a focus on versecraft, or screenwriting for feature film and television. The program involves two online semesters of coursework that use a combination of online writing submissions and critiques as well as regular real-time discussions with writer-mentors and peer students.
Mountaineer Wrestlers Win RMAC Championships
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — On March 1, Western State Colorado University wrestling earned the sixth Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title in program history. Western won the conference and Region IV title, finishing with 86.5 points, seven ahead of California Baptist University.
Celebrating Black History Month
The Black Student Alliance sponsored several sessions with Pearson, who speaks both English and Spanish fluently, has authored several books on diversity and motivation, and calls himself the "S.A.L.S.A.
Western Professor's Film Earns Acclaim
The film, is a sci-fi short film in the vein of Twilight Zone. Mayank has taken EMIT to more than 25 film festivals world-wide.
Mayank lives in California, but works as a professor for Western's MFA in Creative Writing. We asked him a few questions about his film:
Tell us about your film. What is it about? How long did it take to produce?
Rail Jam on Campus
— Photographs by Greg Smith, Western Marketing and Media Relations
Marketing Students Put New Skills to Work for Hockey Club, Partners
In January, her fall marketing class, BUAD 335, proved their skills could help both Western's Hockey Club and a group of children trying to grow their life and learning skills. Their work came together at Gunnison Ice Rink on a Friday night, with sales of pizza, a raffle and sponsored players' jerseys contributing to a big check for Partners, which helps at-risk Gunnison children find success.
Announcing Western's Next President
Salsbury brings 37 years of professional experience, including executive management of a multi-billion dollar business, teaching engagements at eight institutions of higher learning, nearly two-dozen publications, several master's degrees and a PhD in organizational communications from the University of Southern California.
Western Runners Get First Laps on Highest Collegiate Indoor Track
Click Here to see a slide show of the Track & Field team practicing in the Field House.
— Photographs by Greg Smith, Western State Colorado State University
Mountaineers in the Olympics
The First Powderpuffs?
Powderpuff refers to an annual tradition at many high schools and colleges where women don men's football gear and play football.
Women were playing football on Western's campus as early as 1931, according to the research conducted by the library.
Wikipedia has the following description of the first Powderpuff Football game in the US:
Mountaineer On World Stage at Freeride World Tour
The following article was written by the Gunnison Country Times
Sometimes, when we quit thinking and start doing, we achieve our goals.
For Francesca Pavillard-Cain, that's been the case. The daughter of Swiss mountaineer Jean Pavillard, Francesca always wanted to be a professional skier. Now, at 22 years old, she's reaching new heights.
Master in Environmental Management Gets $250,000 Boost
GUNNISON, Colo., Jan. 26, 2014 — Supporters of environmentally sustainable practices and learning in the Gunnison Valley and at Western State Colorado University gathered at the university's Taylor Hall Welcome Center to celebrate a series of successes that will launch a new master's program, a new, sustainable community and the people who made these advances possible.
"It all came together at this moment," explains Dr. John Hausdoerffer, who will direct Western's new Master's in Environmental Management, beginning this summer.
Western Professor's Book Chronicles Western's Mountain Roots
The book chronicles the university's rich history as an institution of higher learning with academics and student experiences enhanced by Western's spectacular mountain location.
Dr. Vandenbusche has been teaching history at Western for 52 years, and he says writing the book was a labor of love.
Mountain Sports Competes on the Snow
Western's Mountain Sports athletes have been training hard and competing in events on the snow across Colorado this semester.
The Endurance Ski Team made a statement in the Colorado randonee race scene last weekend at the Divine Incline hosted by Powderhorn Mountain Resort. Five Endurance Ski Team members traveled to the Cosmic Series event. With near perfect bluebird weather and an early morning start, racers could not have asked for a better day to enjoy the slopes of Powderhorn in friendly competition.
Western Graduate Coaches U.S. Olympic Ski Team
Sasha Rearick, a 1999 graduate of Western, has worked tirelessly for more than 10 years to earn the right to coach the US Olympic Men's Alpine Ski Team. Rearick, who graduated from Western with a double major in business and kinesiology, coached Western's downhill ski team during his junior and senior year before earning an internship at the U.S .Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He traveled to Sochi, Russia this year and is responsible for coaching the entire U.S.
Western Film Studies Professor Lands Spot in Film Festival
Learn Something New and Different in Extended Studies!
Mountaineer Athletics Association Celebrates 50 Years
The Mountaineer Athletic Association (MAA) is celebrating 50 years working with Western Athletics in 2013-14. The first mention of the MAA can be traced back to the days of Head Football Coach O. Kay Dalton with the creation of the Century Club in the 1963-64 academic year. For just $100 each year, members could enjoy all the benefits or supporting the Mountaineers and the various sport programs that existed in the 1960s.
Szabo Named RMAC Preseason Athlete of the Year
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced the 2013-14 indoor track and field preseason coaches poll and awards on Thursday. Western State Colorado University's Barbara Szabo (Jr., Budapest, Hungary) was named the RMAC Women's Preseason Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year, while the Mountaineer women's team was ranked second in the preseason coaches poll. The Mountaineer men were picked to finish third in the conference.
Western Grad Named Alaska Middle School Principal of the Year
Originally from North Dakota, Wohlman arrived in the Gunnison Valley more than two decades ago in pursuit of an education degree.
"I was drawn to education because it provides an opportunity to help people every day," Wohlman said. "I had a handful of teachers and professors that opened my eyes to new perspectives, and this changed my life. I wanted to provide this experience in others' lives."
Western Earns Impressive National Rankings
Western State Colorado University was ranked this week by Washington Monthly Magazine as a top national liberal arts college. The ranking adds to a list of impressive rankings earned by Western in 2013.
Rankings for 2013
An Archeological Gem on Tenderfoot Mountain
A broad ranging group of people, including representatives from Western State Colorado University, archeologists, local TV and radio stations and telecommunications companies, reached an important agreement this month to preserve one of Colorado's most important archeological sites while preserving access for organizations that maintain equipment on the site.
Western Announces Master in Environmental Management
"I'm thrilled about the promising and unique opportunities this program offers by allowing students to tailor the master's degree to their own personal and professional needs," says Western professor and program director, Dr. John Hausdoerffer.
Mountain Sports Athletes Place Second at National Championships
Western's Mountain Sports mountain bikers placed second in a hard fought series of races at the USA Cycling collegiate national championships in North Carolina.
Western's Organics Guild Growing Produce in a Cold Place
At 7,700 feet, Gunnison's winters can be harsh and difficult for growers. The valley harbors a growing season that hovers around 60 days – barely enough time to see a tomato plant grow and fruit.
Inside Western, Press Release
Governor Hickenlooper speaks at 2014 Commencement
Mountaineer Field House is Open
Western's Mountaineer Field House opened March 28. The Mountaineer Field House is Western's newest facility on campus, featuring:
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Environment & Sustainability and Business Double Major
If such questions get your juices flowing, there's a unique place to seek answers, where you can actually start building a new future: Western State Colorado University in Gunnison. A coordinated double major in Environment & Sustainability and Business Administration now brings together not just innovative ideas but the knowledge to make them happen in the real world.
Western Mountain Sports Athletes Win Medals in Lake Placid
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Western Geology Students and Professor Dig Deep Under Frozen Lake for Science
Dr. David Marchetti, professor of Geology at Western, has since 2005 studied the geology, geomorphology and environmental history of the Fish Lake area. The lake sits at 8,800 feet in northeast Utah, in a structural graben, which is a depression between parallel faults. The lake is roughly 6 miles long, 1 mile across and the largest natural water body in Utah.
Students Build Robot to Compete at Sand Dunes
The resulting device will compete with robots from other schools April 5 at Great Sand Dunes National Park, about two hours drive from Western. The device must navigate on its own once it's released on the sandy course, where it must avoid obstacles to seek a beacon transmitting at a specific frequency. It must weigh less than 1.5 kilograms, have parts that cost less than a total of $500 and be "no bigger than the average cat," according to Dr. Suzanne Taylor, faculty advisor for the project and Western assistant professor of physics.
Forbes Names Western To Top Colleges List
The annual rankings include only some 25 percent of America's more than 2,000 four-year colleges and universities.
Featured News
Francesca Pavillard-Cain Competes in Freeride World Tour
Francesca Pavillard-Cain, a business and Spanish double-major at Western, stood atop an intimidating peak in Chamonix, France this winter, reflecting on how she'd ended up competing on the world stage as a freeride skier. Pavillard-Cain grew up on a pair of skis in Crested Butte and chose Western because of its proximity to big mountains and its quality academics.
Western Student Wins Grant to Study Exercise
Ali Wolpern, a senior studying exercise and sports science, will work with Dr. Lance Dalleck in Western's High Altitude Performance Laboratory to study whether measuring an individual's ventilatory threshold is more effective than measuring heart rate to determine how hard someone is exercising.
Women Finish Third at NCAA Championships
SPOKANE, Wash. - For the 22nd time in 27 years, the Mountaineer women's cross country team finished in the top three at the National Championships. This year the Mountaineers placed third with two All-Americans at the NCAA Division II Cross Country National Championships in Spokane, Washington.
The Mountaineers scored 194 points, finishing behind Adams State (91) and champion Grand Valley State (54). It is the second consecutive title for the Lakers.
Western Student Crowned Miss Colorado United States
Western State Colorado University senior Christian Schwiegerath, who was crowned Miss Colorado United States in April of 2013, says she's laser-focused on her studies in Business and Professional Land & Resource Management.
From Gunnison to Ghana - The Peace Corps Experience
Seth Roby (BA Education, BFA Fine Arts) and his wife, Molly, have worked as Peace Corps volunteers for nearly two years.
Hands-On Education, High Altitude Performance
At Western State Colorado University, our students have opportunities for hands-on learning in an academic environment you won't find anywhere else.
Our High Altitude Performance Lab, located at 7750 feet above sea level, is an educational facility unlike any other. It's a key component to Western's Exercise & Sports Science major, and it's what allows our graduates to enter the workforce with hands-on expertise that many industry professionals don't have.
Private College Experience at an Affordable Cost
Faculty Focused on Your Success
Western faculty invites you to share an educational journey inside our classrooms, in field experiences in the outdoor natural laboratory we call home, and in internships and trips around the nation and world. Our classes are led by faculty members who have rich life experiences and will mentor you toward your professional goals. Western has one of the largest proportions of full-time teaching faculty in Colorado because we believe you deserve our full attention, nothing less.


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Raymond L. Ethridge, Sr., 72, Neosho, died Oct. 12, 2012, at Freeman West Hospital, Joplin.
Raymond was born May 3, 1940 in Stella, the son of Chester and Lillie (Miller) Ethridge.
He is survived by two sons, five brothers, Willard Ethridge, Neosho; Wayne Ethridge, Neosho; Kenny Ethridge, Purdy; Don Ethridge, Stark City and Glen Ethridge, Anderson; two sisters, Ella Carter, Decatur, Ark. and Ruby Moss, Lanagan; numerous grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are under the direction of Clark Funeral Home, Granby.
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Following its latest gathering, the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee (SMPC) voted by six votes to three to raise Bank Rate to 1% when the official rate setters next meet on 10th March. All three dissenting SMPC members wanted to hold Bank Rate at its present ½%. The SMPC members advocating a ½% increase in Bank Rate did so for three main reasons. A repeatedly mentioned one was the threat to the credibility of the UK's counter-inflation framework if the Bank went on ignoring persistent overshoots of the inflation target. The concern was that it would eventually require a more aggressive and disruptive monetary tightening if credibility was lost than if Bank Rate went up immediately. Three SMPC members also questioned the Bank's reliance on a closed economy 'output-gap' model of inflation rather than an open-economy model in which sterling had a major role to play in determining the price level and was a crucial transmission mechanism through which monetary policy affected the economy. The third concern amongst the SMPC hawks was that accelerating inflation was covertly and inappropriately reducing the real rate of interest, and that this could itself lead to a self-feeding upwards spiral in the rate of price increase.
One explanation of why other SMPC members thought that it was better to hold Bank Rate was the apparent weakness of UK activity in late 2010. Nobody doubted that the negative fourth-quarter growth figure was distorted by December's severe winter weather. However, the doves believed that there had been either a 'growth pause' or a small fall once the weather distortion was removed. The counter view was that reduced oil production, a worsening in the trade deficit on real non-oil exports, and a growth in the negative national accounts discrepancy had also distorted the figures and that real private-sector home demand was still recovering at a satisfactory pace. Other reasons for wanting to hold rates were the slow growth of broad money and concern about the possible consequences of the government's fiscal retrenchment.
The SMPC is a group of independent economists who have gathered quarterly at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) since July 1997. That it is the longest established such group in Britain and meets regularly to debate the deeper intellectual issues involved distinguishes the SMPC from the similar exercises carried out by a number of publications.


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Zhao Tian Qi printwork 2 - "Mao and the Legend"
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Zhao Tianqi graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Chinese Central Fine Art Academy in Beijing in 1992. Since then she has regular one-woman shows and group exhibitions - mostly in Beijing, but also in Hong Kong and in Japan. Zhao Tianqi has found an enthusiastic group of collectors among the Western diplomats in Beijing, and was an insiders's tip among expatriates in Beijing. Now Zhao Tianqi is on the best way to become a well-known artist in and outside of China. Her prints are in the possession of the Dutch, Swiss and the German embassies in the capital Beijing. Loosely classified as part of the Chinese Avant Garde movement that originated from the late 1980s, Zhao Tianqis works in silkscreen technique and in a rather rare form of printmaking, so-called single prints. With this technique, the complete design is applied on a stone or glass plate using either watery or oil colors. Then a paper is laid over the design and pressed firmly against the plate. And that is it. Thus only one copy of a design can be created. A special technique of modern Chinese woodblock printmaking deserves to be mentioned - reduction woodblock printing. It is a method of printing all colors from only one woodblock by recarving it after each color was printed. During the process, the images already printed are destroyed by the recarving. At the end, the block is reduced to the image of the last color and it is impossible to make new impressions after the first edition. The art buyer's investment is protected. Title of this print is Mao and the Legend. Part of Made in China series. Named, signed and dated by the artist. Wood block print and silk screen. 30 x 21.


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Nambit wrote:Seriously, is there something wrong with PMS and Samsung's ES8000 series?
Every time I try to transcode something (forced), the TV will show loading and
sit there forever... I've seen the transfer rate show a ridiculous number and the
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my brother's D6500 (last year's model) and it transcodes fine. HELP!!
dont know why your having transocding problems (try other dlan servers to try and home in on problem?), but i have tested with every file format, codec, profile, subtitle under the sun and vorbis is the only problematic codec i have found.I suggest you make a point of turn off all transcoding....


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The U.S. Forest Service announced the acceptance of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area's 2012 master plan upgrades Wednesday, including lift-served skiing in The Beavers backcountry area.
The acceptance kicks off the permitting process, requiring ski area officials to complete an environmental impact study.
"Our intention is to initiate the environmental impact study and the rest of the process early in 2013," said Alan Henceroth, the ski area's chief operating officer. "We're working with the Forest Service to get this completed as soon as possible but there are always variables that come up - it could take a couple years, maybe less but maybe more."
Once the permitting and environmental impact study have been completed, the four upgrades could take approximately five to 10 years to complete, according to Henceroth.
The plan went public Aug. 29 and proposed changes include the addition of new intermediate and expert terrain.
"That area currently operates as if it is part of the ski area - it's no secret that adventurous skiers go there," Henceroth said. "We want to formally add that area to inbound, accessible terrain and develop trails and intensive avalanche mitigation."
Other major projects proposed include a surface lift at the top of Lenawee Lift to Montezuma Bowl, a zip lining course and increased reservoir storage for snowmaking, which could double the capacity of snowmaking at A-Basin, according to Henceroth.
The first project planned for construction is the 35-year-old Norway Lift which would be replaced by the surface lift making it easier for intermediate skiers and riders to access Montezuma Bowl.
"We're really happy with the way Montezuma came out, but for some people it was still difficult to get to," Henceroth said. "We're adding this surface lift to officially wrap up that project."
The zip lining course would be the first of its kind in Summit County, with a proposed multi-zip course which would operate year round and offer a "discovery course" on the area's ecology and history.
During the environmental analysis, A-Basin stakeholders will have the opportunity to review and comment on the proposed projects.
"The master development plan does an excellent job in identifying the existing and desired condition for the ski area and proposed improvements on the national forest system lands within the permit boundary," stated Scott Fitzwilliams, forest supervisor for the White River National Forest in a press release.
Henceroth said the lift projects would cost approximately $4-5 million, while the zip lining would cost roughly $500,000-$1 million, though formal budgeting will not be completed until later in the planning stages and analysis of the master plan.
"We're very pleased with the acceptance from the Forest Service," Henceroth said. "We put a lot of energy into preparing a good plan and we're looking forward to the next steps."


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Bring your young White Sox fan closer to the game by signing them up to be a 2016 White Sox Kids Club member. Fans 13 and younger are invited to show off their White Sox pride all season long - with lots of great perks as well as exciting keepsakes for 2016. Sign up for either an All-Star or Slugger membership today!
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All-Star Kids Club Members will have the opportunity to use their lanyard and membership card to access a special "Fast Pass" line for reduced wait times at "Family Sunday Kids Run the Bases" events (weather permitting), during the 2016 White Sox season. All-Star Kids Club Members, with their 2016 membership cards can begin lining up in the Kids Club Fast Pass Line at the start of the eighth inning on the concourse behind section 130/131 S.
Access to the Fast Pass line will cease ten minutes after the start of the "Kids Run the Bases" event.
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Monday, 04/18/1994
Bob Carpenter Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Set 1: CDTChalk Dust Torture, Glide > Poor Heart > Julius, My FriendMy Friend, My Friend > Rift, SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt, Dog Faced Boy, Oh Kee PaThe Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > BagAC/DC Bag
Set 2: 2001Also Sprach Zarathustra > SampleSample in a Jar, Sparkle > GinBathtub Gin, BBJBig Ball Jam > Ya Mar, Mike'sMike's Song, TMWSIYThe Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > TMWSIYThe Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > DwDDown with Disease > HYHUHold Your Head Up > I Wan'na Be Like You > HYHUHold Your Head Up, Cavern
Encore: GTBTGood Times Bad Times
· Buried Alive tease in Julius
· Bathtub Gin tease in Big Ball Jam
Noteworthy Jams: Split Open and Melt, Bathtub Gin
Average Song Gap: 6.85
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Big Phil (Guest)
Notes: Trey teased Buried Alive in Julius and Bathtub Gin in Big Ball Jam. Ya Mar was dedicated by Trey "with all my love, to Sue." "Big Phil" was the guest trampoline jumper during Mike's Song, as he took Trey's place in the routine.
Song Distribution:
4 Hoist
4 A Picture of Nectar
3 Stash
3 Rift
3 Lawn Boy
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 The White Tape
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This was The Beatles' fourth performance in Widnes, Lancashire.
The event was promoted by Brian Epstein's company NEMS Enterprises. The support act on this occasion was Lee Curtis and the All-Stars, whose drummer was Pete Best, formerly of The Beatles.
The Beatles played in Widnes a total of five times, each one at Queen's Hall. The other dates were 3, 10 and 17 September 1962, and 18 February 1963.


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Men's adidas D Rose Crew Socks
The adidas Derrick Rose Crew Socks really are designed to work with the shoes of the same famous name.
These socks with their compression fit and hard working ClimaLite fabric will keep you going longer and your Chicago Bull?s Derrick Rose shoes looking and smelling fresher for longer. ClimaLite fabric pulls sweat away from your skin for quick evaporation, allowing you to focus on your next move. Anatomically shaped left and right footbed enhances your natural movement up and down the court.
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FRENCH CAMP - Authorities booked a man wanted for almost 10 years for murder in Stockton into San Joaquin County Jail early Saturday morning to face charges stemming from two 2003 shootings that killed one person and injured several others, officials said.
Rathana Chan, a 30-year-old documented gang member, was booked at 4:08 a.m. on a no-bail warrant for murder, attempted murder and other crimes with special circumstances and gang enhancements, authorities said. Chan was wanted in connection with two shootings that occurred over a span of three months in 2003.
On Sept. 12, 2003, Chan was involved in a deadly shooting on East Hammer Lane near Lan Ark Drive, police said. Bounthavy Onethavong, 29, died after being shot twice in the head, authorities said. An 18-year-old woman was shot in the chest and a 19-year-old man was shot in the face, but both survived, officials said.
On Nov. 8, 2003, police believe Chan carried out another drive-by shooting outside a home in the 600 block of Bedlow Drive. Five men sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds in that shooting, police said. One of the victims had a finger blown off, authorities said.
The details of Chan's arrest were unavailable Saturday, but jail records indicated that he may have turned himself in after being transported from another jail facility or prison, officials said.
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I just left an advanced screening of "Zero Dark Thirty," and my pulse is still racing. Kathryn Bigelow's film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden is the taut thriller everyone is already saying it is. If you watch "Homeland" or liked Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" or really any spy movie that's grittier than James Bond, you'll want to see this one.
But though the movie won't arrive in theaters until next week, it's already kicked off a controversy. People who have seen it -- and some who haven't -- are wondering aloud about whether the filmmakers overstate the value of torture by dishonestly portraying the role it played in the hunt for bin Laden. In The New York Times, Frank Bruni says the movie vindicates Dick Cheney's position on torture. New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein named "Zero Dark Thirty" the best film of 2012 but says it "borders on the politically and morally reprehensible" by making "a case for the efficacy of torture." Glenn Greenwald, who admits that he hasn't seen the film, says Bigelow presents "lies as fact . . . all while patting herself on the back for her 'journalistic approach.' " Greenwald also thinks the movie is winning praise and awards because it glorifies torture, not in spite of that stance.
I disagree. I think the movie has earned its acclaim because film critics aren't fact checkers. And when you do check the facts, you find that while the movie is putting a thumb on the scale for torture, it doesn't get the role it played in the bin Laden chase condemnably wrong.
"Zero Dark Thirty" opens by proclaiming that it's based on firsthand accounts, and in interviews, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have made much of taking "almost a journalistic approach" to the movie, while also cautioning that it isn't a documentary. OK, so how much fictional license did they give themselves?
In the long first sequence, we see a man named Amar strung up on ropes; soon, a CIA agent is waterboarding him. Another agent, Maya (Jessica Chastain), looks on -- it seems to be her first "enhanced" interrogation. We see Amar's treatment through her eyes, and though she appears troubled at first by what she's witnessing she's also fighting off any feelings of revulsion. "I'm fine," she says, in response to doubts from the more seasoned interrogator running the show. During a subsequent torture scene, Maya is left alone with Amar. He begs her for mercy; she tells him, "You can help yourself by being truthful." She has steeled herself to be cold and hard; we see she's consumed with tracking down bin Laden and is willing to do whatever it takes to find the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks (evoked hauntingly during the movie's opening moments).
We feel Amar's pain, but also Maya's sense of urgency. At the end of the interrogation scenes, I felt shaken but not morally repulsed, because the movie had successfully led me to adopt, if only temporarily, Maya's point of view: This treatment is a legitimate way of securing information vital to U.S. interests.
Soon we witness a bombing in Saudi Arabia -- a bombing Maya and her colleagues were trying to prevent through their interrogation of Amar. They've failed. But then Maya has the idea of bluffing. Amar has short-term memory loss due to sleep deprivation (another form of torture). Maya suggests leading him to believe that the Saudi bombing was thwarted because Amar had given up information about the plot. Plying Amar with food and playing on his mental weakness as a result of his torture, Maya and her colleague make the subterfuge work. They get Amar to reveal the name of bin Laden's courier.
It's important, I think, that the grim scenes of Amar's torture do not lead directly to any revelation of bin Laden's whereabouts. Amar gives up a name, a possible connection to the al-Qaida leader. And as we learn in a subsequent scene, the existence of that courier was not new to the CIA agents: We see Maya watching tapes of other interrogations, brutal and not, in which this courier is discussed; though he's called by different names, he's come up before. The movie thus doesn't show a vicious act of torture leading straight to a game-changing piece of intelligence, or even a unique piece. After all, the interrogation of Amar takes place in 2004; bin Laden remained free for seven more years. And yet it's Amar's information that feels crucial, because it's presented as the root of Maya's obsession with this particular lead. This is the way in which the movie credits torture: It suggests that the tenacious agent who led the hunt wouldn't have been moved to do so without this piece of information given up by a detainee who'd been tortured.
Is this actually what happened? It's hard to say for sure. In May 2011, Michael Mukasey, Attorney General under President Bush, said torture did play a role in bin Laden's capture. But in response to Mukasey, Sen. John McCain wrote in an op-ed that CIA Director Leon Panetta told him the "trail to bin Laden did not begin with a disclosure from Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times. The first mention of [the courier] Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti . . . came from a detainee held in another country, who we believe was not tortured."
As Mukasey and McCain faced off over KSM's role in finding bin Laden, New York Times reporters Charlie Savage and Scott Shane were piecing together the most authoritative reporting on the trail that led to bin Laden. Their reporting suggested that "the harsh techniques played a small role at most in identifying bin Laden's trusted courier and exposing his hideout. One detainee who apparently was subjected to some tough treatment provided a crucial description of the courier, according to current and former officials briefed on the interrogations."
In the Savage-Shane account, that detainee was not KSM, but an al-Qaida operative named Hassan Ghul. They write that Ghul told interrogators al-Kuwaiti was a trusted courier who was close to bin Laden and that the details of Ghul's treatment are unclear, though the CIA says he was not waterboarded: "One official recalled that Mr. Ghul was "quite cooperative," saying that rough treatment, if any, would have been brief.
Ghul must be the man "Zero Dark Thirty" calls Amar. And in that case, Bigelow and Boal "strayed from real life," as Dexter Filkins put it in his New Yorker piece about the filmmakers, by including waterboarding among the techniques used on Amar. But unless I'm missing something, that's all I can fault Bigelow and Boal for with real certainty. The rest of the "rough treatment" they showed could well have happened based on what's publically known. (It does not seem that the Amar/Ghul figure is the person McCain refers to as the not-tortured original source of al-Kuwaiti's role: In other news stories, that initial tip comes from another source entirely and is buried for years in the CIA's files. This is the movie's version, too: A young agent who idolizes Maya turns up this lost fact and brings it to her attention later in the movie.)
Why did Bigelow and Boal make the fraught decision to suggest that waterboarding was crucial to the capture of bin Laden? Asked about the role torture plays in the movie, they have been somewhat disingenuous. "We're trying to make the point that waterboarding and other harsh tactics were part of the CIA program," Boal told Filkins. Bigelow said "The film doesn't have an agenda, and it doesn't judge." I think she's fooling herself. Dick Cheney probably will like this movie, not because it vindicates his version of events -- that torture was essential to the war on terror and President Obama was a naive fool to shut it down -- but because you emerge from the movie feeling that torture did factor into Maya's hunch that the courier would lead to bin Laden.
My own theory is that with perhaps more access to the real-life CIA agents who hunted bin Laden than any journalist has had, Boal and Bigelow adopted their sources' interpretation, in which the "small role" played by torture looms larger than it does in the journalistic accounts. The filmmakers didn't set out to be Bush-Cheney apologists. But they adopted a close-to-the-ground point of view, and perhaps they're in denial about how far down the path to condoning torture this led them. (Surely it didn't hurt that the scenes with Amar are as riveting-as pure cinema-as they are disturbing.)
All of this means that "Zero Dark Thirty" isn't the movie the left wanted made about the death of bin Laden. But as the debate about the movie unfolds, we opponents of harsh interrogation need to remember that we can make the moral case against torture -- and even the cost-benefit case that it's not worth the trade-off in reputation, political capital and honor -- without resorting to the claim that torture never accomplishes anything. In his op-ed, McCain also said, "I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners sometimes produces good intelligence but often produces bad intelligence because under torture a person will say anything he thinks his captors want to hear." That's the unfortunate, uncomfortable truth. But we can make room for a little gray and still come to a conclusion -- the United States should not torture -- that is resolute.
Bazelon (@emilybazelon) is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family and kids. Her forthcoming book "Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy," will be published in February.


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- Jun 26:
- Same-sex marriage: Evening rallies unleash jubilation after court rulings
- Prop. 8: Bay Area's gay rights advocates celebrate same-sex marriage rulings
- Gay marriage: Proposition 8 appears doomed in California after Supreme Court ruling
- Gay marriage: How TV helped nudge society on the issue
- Prop. 8, DOMA: Q-and-A
- Bay Area lawmakers' reactions to marriage rulings
- Timeline: Key dates in the American gay rights movement
- Prop. 8: Obama calls to congratulate California gay marriage plaintiffs, hails court's rulings
- Prop. 8: Supreme Court ends California ban on gay marriage but fight remains
- Obama on DOMA: 'Supreme Court has righted a wrong'
- Document: California Attorney General Kamala Harris addresses marriage licenses
- Document: U.S. Supreme Court ruling on DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act
- Raw Video: Prop 8 Supreme Court decision reactions
- Document: U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Proposition 8 and gay marriage
- Prop. 8 and DOMA: Bay Area greets gay marriage rulings with joy
- Jun 25:
- Same-sex marriage: Bay Area events planned after high court releases decision
- California gay marriage ruling: Supreme Court has many options
- U.S. Supreme Court to decide gay marriage cases today
ORINDA -- In October, the federal government told married Orinda couple Brian Willingham and Alfonso Garcia their bid for a green card to keep Garcia from being deported to Mexico had been denied. The basis for that, the couple was told -- the Defense of Marriage Act.
Willingham and Garcia appealed, and on Nov. 21 had a last-ditch court hearing before an immigration judge. Hope was diminishing. and their attorney told them that to keep Garcia -- who has lived in the East Bay since his parents moved him from Michoacan, Mexico, when he was 14 -- in the country would take significant immigration reform or a repeal of DOMA.
The couple's dream came true Wednesday morning.
"I was just in shock," said Willingham, 38, as he prepared to head to San Francisco to participate in the Castro District celebration Wednesday night of the Supreme Court's striking down of DOMA that morning.
"Alfonso was in shock and disbelief, and then he started crying tears of joy."
The court decision validated more than two years of fighting -- a battle that began with a routine traffic stop.
Garcia was fingerprinted after being ticketed for speeding over the Bay Bridge, and within hours he was placed on an immigration hold. He eventually was released on bail, and has been out on bond since.
The couple, who married in New York in 2011, joined Stop The Deportations - The DOMA Project, an advocacy group cofounded by their attorney to help raise awareness. If Garcia, 36, had been deported, he would not have been able to return legally to the United States for 10 years.
In October, an immigration judge -- waiting for Garcia's green card petition to be approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services -- granted Garcia a second continuance.
Days later, they received a denial letter from the federal government:
"The DOMA applies as a matter of federal law whether or not your marriage is recognized under state law. Your spouse is not a person of the opposite sex. Therefore under the DOMA your petition must be denied."
It appeared Garcia would be deported under provisions of that 1996 federal law.
They got a third continuance at a May hearing after appealing the denial to the Board of Immigration Appeals, and spent the next month on pins and needles awaiting the Supreme Court's decision, Willingham said.
"We've been stressed out 24 hours a day for the last two years because if they did deport him ... we'd have to look for a new country to live in together," Willingham said.
Other couples in The DOMA Project who had immigration hearings scheduled for Wednesday brought the Supreme Court decision to their hearings -- and had their deportation processes halted.
"It took 29 months and a lot of hard work by many other people than just us," Willingham said, "but the Supreme Court's decision finally gave us equal rights like everyone else."
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.
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Reference to The Ledger editorial "Immigration Bill: Move Ahead, Not in Circles," June 11, America's population and mass-diversity growth started with the 1965 social-engineering immigration laws that fundamentally changed America.
They have been unaddressed for more than 40 years, causing many of today's immigration issues.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., among the eight senators writing immigration reform talking on national TV, said that illegal immigrants have de facto amnesties and something needs to be done.
Yes, some things need to be done, but let's address all the issues starting first with enforcement of immigration and visa laws, securing our borders, end chain migration, end noncitizen-birthright citizenships, reduce future immigration levels into the country, and make E-Verify mandatory, English America's official language and repeal Bill Clinton's EO 13166 foreign-language mandate for starters.
The arrogance and disrespect toward the American people by this government's Senate immigration-reform plan completely ignores generations of American-born citizens, our security, culture, language, livelihoods, rule of law and lifelong American heritage is unbelievable and should be insulting to every American.
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Mongkok Apartment by Ladies Market
Size500 ft²
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- Family/child friendly
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- Elevator in building
- Lockable room
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There is one bright bedroom, and another room containing bunk beds. A sofa bed in the living area can accommodate 2 more guests. The open-plan living space includes a kitchenette with a gas stove, and a small table where guests can sit and enjoy a snack. There is a comfortable seating area with a sofa and a TV.
Mongkok boasts a huge variety of restaurants offering both traditional Chinese and international food. Temple Street Night Market is a 20-minute walk away. The harbour and shops of the Tsim Sha Tsui district are 15 minutes away by public transport.
The nearest MTR Station (underground) is just 400 metres from the apartment. For fantastic views of Hong Kong, it is one hour by public transport to Victoria Peak. The giant Tian Tan Buddha and the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car can be reached in 2 hours by public transport.
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Great location in Kowloon which is the real Hong Kong, place was small but that was ok, a lot of junk left in room as it had beds for many more people - washing machine was leaking when we arrived, host cleaned it up but let and it was still leaking , probably much better places to stay
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
Kitty was being very helpful by finding us the apartment where we stayed .The apartment, for a family of 5 which we stayed in, was brilliantly located in the heart of yau ma tei, by being right outside across the underground station and close to alot of shops and restaurants. The apartment itself was fully equipped with household facilities and a strong free wifi. I would definitely stay here again next time as my stay was very pleasant.
You can't beat the location of this apartment - just minutes away from Mongkok station. In the evening you can wander in almost any direction and find good food and good shopping.
Will and Kitty were great hosts - very accommodating and welcoming. We would definitely stay here again in the future!
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We book this unit as early as July of this year for October 27 on the morning of October 27 waiting for my flight to hongkong I checked my cell phone and to my surprise will messages me on October 26 around 11 pm and informed me that i will be transferred to a different location I felt i was cheated intentionally, he told me the occupants had an emergency and had to stay for couple of days well my point is that the occupants should be the one's to be transfered I paid for this unit precisely because of the location when we arrived at manming lane hk I preasured them to give us the unit and we were able to stay in the apartment but imagine the stress i have to go through I will never deal with them again very unprofessional.
Good stuff: 1). Host was friendly, responsive & helpful to some extent.
Location was great as it was 10-12 min walk to the MTR and next to the airport bus stand.
Some facts (I have most of the pic as proof)
a) The door mat was old, dusty and torn out in the middle.
b) one of the 2 sofa was so bad that they had to be covered with a cloth
c) The broken shower handle was never changed. You will have to take shower standing in 1 Sq Ft of area touching the toilet stuff. This is also because the shower was small. We have to move around rather than move the shower handle.
d) the biggest problem is the hot n cold water mix system. You have to balance your shower time between maneuvering your posting with the shower and mixing hot n cold water. There are two hot/cold water mix knobs which are to be constantly mixed to get warm water.
e) There were no towels given to us. I am 100% sure that the bed sheets were never washed.they are reused. I will request the owner to buy new bed and pillow sheets.
f) No one time cleaning shops or tolietteries are given
g) The Kitchen is disappointing: -> It seems they never changed the cooking utensils since the apartment started. They are all black and burnt. -> There are no serving spoon. -> One of the gas burner is bit of a struggle and i had complained about that. -> You will get one Sq ft if area to cook, wash dishes, Clean cloths in WM and the fridge. -> The kitchen water tap was never changed. You will get another round of shower because of the sudden water pressure from low to instant high. -> You will find used plastic spoons -> You will no dish washing liquid. They have put toilet left over soaps to be used for cleaning kitchen utensils. They will tell you to buy. -> The cleaning sponges are horribly used and reused. It is a reservoir of bacteria and germs.
g). The passage from the lift to the room will small leftover of dogs as there is one in the next door.
h) Beds: I am 5.9" and I had to sleep diagonally because of the bed length.
i) No Iron for your cloths.
j) They will not give you any thing as complementary. Not even one time drinking water.
I will not recommend anything but go by facts.
thanks for the excellent service from kitty and william.appreciate the utmost arrangement provided to us during the stay.overall,it is really value for money.good location n sweet apartment.would highly recommand to friends around and looking forward for next meet with kitty n william.
everything is perfect yet when talks about further improvement tht would suggest to upgrade the toilet facilities which seem been used couple of years.
Overall satisfied with this, location, availability of loueur.Mais it was not the slot, much smaller and in worse condition than did glimpse the pictures.
Relatively quiet given its location (right ladies market).
For Westerners that we are the spaces are really small: we were a family of five, but behind us arrived from Asian to 7, it did not seem to bother them.
It is a question of organization and better we understand why they do not eat at home ...
Globalement satisfait de cette location,emplacement,disponibilité du loueur.Mais ce n'était pas le logement prévu,un peu plus petit et en moins bon état que le faisait entrevoir les photos.
Relativement calme au vu de son emplacement (en plein ladies market).
Pour les occidentaux que nous sommes les espaces sont vraiment restreints:nous étions une famille de cinq,mais derrière nous sont arrivés des asiatiques à 7,ça n'avait pas l'air de les gêner.
C'est une question d'organisation et on comprend mieux pourquoi ils ne mangent pas chez eux...
Very accomodating.thanks
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Undefeated is anexcellent documentary about the football team at Manassas High School in NorthMemphis, Tennessee. But don�t worry � you don�t have to love football to lovethis film. You probably don�t even need to like football. This film is reallyabout overcoming obstacles, working together toward a common goal, and risingabove one�s set of circumstances. The idea is that your dreams are notnecessarily out of reach, although there is plenty of heartbreak and troublealong the way. As a former NFL player tells the team early on, �You gotta thinkoutside your circumstances.�
This is a team in an underfunded system, a team that hasalways lost, once having a season record of 0-10. They play in an area that isbasically poor. The plant that supplied most of the families with jobs closed,and so a lot of folks moved out. (There are several shots of boarded up housesduring the opening credit sequence.) This film documents one season in whichthe team attempts to do what the school had never done before � win a play-offgame.
The film starts with the team�s coach, Bill Courtney,listing off players who have been shot and are no longer in school; also, anotherplayer was arrested, and this was all within two weeks. And yet he tells them, �Thisis our season � I don�t care what happens.� The film takes us through theentire season, starting with the first day of practice.
Before their second game, there is a talk of a plannedfight after this district game. At the half, Manassas is down, 20-0. Theplayers are obviously down as well. Bill Courtney tells them optimistically, �Thisis an unbelievably good opportunity.�And the team does manage to come back in the second half. As incredibleas that is, the footage after the game is even more intense. Because of theworry of a fight, the cops stop the teams from shaking hands. And you realizejust how serious things are. The celebration of the victory juxtaposed withvery real concern of the police for the team�s safety is a seriously engagingmoment in the film. And this film is full of such moments.
The team�s coaches are all volunteers. The head coach, Bill Courtney, beganvolunteering six years before this film was shot. His first year there, theteam won four games, so they were no longer the worst team in the state. Bill Courtney says, �You think footballbuilds character, which it does not. Football reveals character.� Bill canrelate to these kids because his own father left when he was four years old.Not only does Courtney coach these kids, but he has to solve problems amongteammates (and in doing so, he misses his own son�s first game).
Besides the coaches, the film focuses on several of theteam�s key players. O.C. is a senior, and plays left tackle. He lives with hisgrandmother, and sees football as his way out. When O.C.�s grades slip he movesinto coach Mike Ray�s house, because tutors wouldn�t go to O.C.�s house.Seriously. These are kids who really care, who are trying to make it, who areputting in the effort. And these are coaches who go way beyond simply teachingthem how to play the game.
Montrail (AKA �Money�) is also a senior, and plays righttackle. He is small for the position, but mentally tough. Money�s is one of themore heartbreaking (and ultimately heartwarming) story lines in this film. He isinjured, and is unable to play for the rest of the season. The footage of himhearing the news from his doctor is intense. Again, you come to really care forthese guys.
The film also focuses on Chavis, a junior linebacker whoreturns to school after serving fifteen months in a youth penitentiary. He getsinto fights with other players, and is suspended from team rather than kickedoff.
One of the elements of this story that I foundfascinating was how they funded the football program. They used to play whatwere called pay games, where the team would be bused out to another school, andas Courtney says, �They�d beat our ass,they�d give us a check, and send us back on our way. And those five or sixgames would raise fifteen to twenty thousand dollars and that�s what would fundthe football program.� The problem with that, of course, is then when you gotto your district games, your kids were already beat up and defeated. So theystarted Manrise, a program to raise money.
Undefeated wasdirected and edited by Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin.
Bonus Features
This DVD has some good bonus material. There is acommentary track with directors Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin. There are sixdeleted scenes, including stuff with Joaquin, a player who spent most of his teenyears in foster care. It must have been a tough decision to cut this footagefrom the film.
The Making OfUndefeated (8 � minutes) includesinterviews with Bill Courtney, Dan Lindsay, TJ Martin and Sean Combs. (Combs isone of the executive producers.) Dan Lindsay talks about how the idea for thedocumentary began with a newspaper article about O.C. He and TJ Martin talkabout their experience at the Academy Awards too.
And there is a black and white teaser trailer.
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I think i hve found the problem with .mkv's never playing to the end!!
in a post a guy says that if he quits the tsmuxer manually on mac osx using activity monitor it plays till the end. that is correct
i watch few .mkvs together (tv shows) and have noticed if after watching 2-3 if i check activity moniter i have multiple instances of both tsmuxer and also mencoder i think if you got them to quit after there is no more info to pass to the buffer that would fix the problem. becasue at teh minute i do not think they are quitting at all


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by Terry Winer
For the Knitters Review Retreat, November 2009
We like to sit together,
two, ten or forty of us.
Sometimes we have steaming tea
or perhaps a glass of wine.
In cafes, bookstores and yarn shops,
we talk about what we made,
are making, and plan to make;
so-and-sos new sock pattern;
shops and workshops weve been to;
and the yarn, always the sweet yarn.
oohs and aahs over color and swirl,
the soft animals that gave their fur.
Now and then, here and there,
one of us will sit back
to focus on a tricky part,
the talk muffled from her ears.
Then she joins back in just where
the voices have meandered.
Our words take wraps and turns.
A wedding, unemployed son,
mom in the hospital, new grandchild,
daughter away to college,
recent hip transplant, decision to retire
We go everywhere, anywhere,
and knit it all together
into a patchwork of life.
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Hi, I have a 12 mbps connection wireless for both the computer and the PS3. I can't switch to wired on my computer because it's too far away from the router. But what if I switch the PS3 to wired and leave the computer wireless?
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The Red Sox claimed a stunning 7-6 walkoff victory over the Rangers, in no small part on the strength of contributions from a pair of players who did not begin the day on their major league roster.
Darnell McDonald -- who was added to the roster less than two hours before the game when Jacoby Ellsbury was placed on the D.L. -- hit a bases-loaded, two-out walkoff single off the Green Monster off of reliever Frankie Francisco in the bottom of the ninth to propel the Sox to a win and allow them to snap their five-game losing streak.
The Sox erased a 6-2 deficit en route to their first victory since last Wednesday. Trailing 6-2 in the bottom of the sixth, the Sox received something of a gift from the Rangers when Josh Reddick -- called up from Triple-A Pawtucket to fill in for the injured Mike Cameron on Tuesday -- hit a cloud-scraping pop-up with two out and two on in the bottom of the sixth. But Rangers left fielder Josh Hamilton misjudged the pop-up, which fell just inside the left-field line a couple feet from the grandstand for a two-run double.
With the Sox still down 6-4 in the eighth, McDonald pinch-hit for Reddick with no outs and a runner on second. McDonald took four pitches to get to a 2-2 count, then jumped on a slider from lefty Darren Oliver, which he belted into the Monster Seats in left-center for a two-run homer. That tied the game at 6-6, positioning the Sox for the victory. (For more on McDonald's improbable day, which began in an undisclosed "secret location," click here.)
After starter Tim Wakefield allowed six runs in six innings of work, the Sox benefited from three shutout innings of relief by Manny Delcarmen (1.2 innings), Hideki Okajima (one batter) and Jonathan Papelbon (one inning). Papelbon earned the win.
For more on the game, visit the Full Count blog.
Christian and Chris talk about overrated Pats players this season and in the past and then get into the QB issue on the team. They talk about all three guys, what they bring to the table and if they can keep their head above water without the best QB in the league for 4 weeks. Then...Karlos Williams was released by the Bills - should the Pats consider adding the overweight second year running back? Christian also brings up Dante Scarnecchia and gets Price's opinion on if this one man can truly improve a shaky offensive line.
Christian Arcand is in for Tanguay for NFL Sunday with Chris Price. The guys talk about the victory over the Bears, Jimmy G's progress and their expectations for the Pats defense this season. Arcand thinks that there are more holes on the D than some fans realize.
We check in with Bill Belichick after the first Preseason game for our weekly "Patriots Monday" discussion.
Sam Packard is joined by Celtics 2nd Round draft pick Abdel Nader to discuss his path to the the NBA and how he plans to improve his game. Sam then talks to Player Development Coach Nick Friedman from Elite Skills Training, the pre-Draft camp Nader attended. Friedman also gives his opinion on the Celtics performance at summer league and the development of Jaylen Brown.
Isaiah Thomas talks to Glenn and Lou about why he loves Boston, the NBA Money Bump, oh, and some Durant guy
Danny Ainge joins Glenn and Christian to explain the Celtics draft process; and he also discusses the trade rumors that permeated the night.
Joe and Tim talk with Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts after the Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1
David Price pitched a gem and Andrew Benintendi makes one of the top highlight catches of the year as the Sox take the first game of four against the Rays, 6-2. Christian Arcand recaps the game and takes all of your Sox calls.
Joe and Tim talk with Red Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi, who made a highlight reel catch nearly going over the wall in left field robbing Steven Souza Jr of a home run
Joey Mac joins Ken Laird on his Saturday show to discuss the David Backes addition and Loui Eriksson departure in NHL free agency
DJ and Pete continue to assess the season that was for the Bruins and look toward the future for the franchise and how they can improve.
DJ and Pete are together for the final Sunday Skate of the season. They get into their overall thoughts on the season, the Bruins keeping Claude Julien on as head coach and the end-of-season press conferences last week. They discuss the rebuild process, what the Bruins need and how they can obtain it. Plenty of callers have their own theories and opinions on all of these topics as well.
Gerry, Kirk and Mut discuss the firing of a Philadelphia radio host who ripped a rival host for having a white producer who imitated a fake black caller.
Kirk, Gerry and Mut get into some David Ortiz legacy talk in the 8am hour of the Thursday show.
After Kirk & Gerry get their digs in on Mut and some movie news, they move on to some Patriots QB talk with an eye on Friday night's game in Carolina.
Glenn, Lou, and Christian debate the value of playing Tom Brady in the preseason, and they opine about whether or not he should even be on the team plane.
Glenn, Lou, and Christian talk Benintendi's knee injury, and compare Big Papi's season to other 40 year old players. And the juicing question comes up again...
Glenn, Lou, and Christian debate John Farrell's decision to stay with Porcello into the 8th, and his use of the bullpen.
We check in with the red hot rook of the Red Sox live from Tampa and talk to him about his first experiences in the big leagues.
We check in with John Farrell from Tampa for our weekly feature as the red hot Red Sox look to keep it going for two more wins at the Trop.
In honor of the announcement that the Sox will be among the team's at Tim Tebow's workout next week, we look at four pro athletes who tried their hand in a second sport and it didn't work out too well for them.
Kirk Minihane is joined by his long time nemesis Bart Hubbuch. Kirk and Bart discuss the incident between the two that led to Kirk being let go from Comcast and the long standing issue of deflategate. Bart annoyingly wouldn't get of his speaker phone. This is an explosive interview between two guys who admittedly dislike each other.
Kirk Minihane sits down with former producer Chris Curtis? Or is it current producer Chris Curtis? Either way, Kirk and Chris talk about what happened in their previous tenure together, where it went wrong, and why Curtis is now back with the show.
Kirk Minihane and Gary Tanguay sit down together on Enough About Me for the first time. These two divisive figures talk about Gary's career and his late evolution into a controversial broadcaster. Nobody is spared from Kirk and Gary's wrath on this episode and it will surely make some people at the two sports radio stations very uncomfortable.
Kirk Minihane is joined by his long time nemesis Bart Hubbuch. Kirk and Bart discuss the incident between the two that led to Kirk being let go from Comcast and the long standing issue of deflategate. Bart annoyingly wouldn't get of his speaker phone. This is an explosive interview between two guys who admittedly dislike each other.
Jerry is joined by Red Sox legend Bill Lee to talk about his new biopic "Spaceman," Lee's unique philosophy, political beliefs, drug use and what makes him a cultural icon decades after he retired from baseball.
Christian Fauria and Dr. Gill talk about the process and steps football players have to take when rehabbing injuries during the off season. Focusing on Dion Lewis, Nate Solder, and Sebastian Vollmer
Tom Brady returned to practice after his unexplained days off to shed some light into his mysterious scissors injury that prevented him from playing last Thursday's preseason game.More from this show
Kirk Minihane is joined by his long time nemesis Bart Hubbuch. Kirk and Bart discuss the incident between the two that led to Kirk being let go from Comcast and the long standing issue of deflategate. Bart annoyingly wouldn't get of his speaker phone. This is an explosive interview between two guys who admittedly dislike each other.More from this show
Gerry, Mut, and Kirk discuss the Benintendi catch from Monday and what's looking like an incredible outfield for years to come; also the guys discuss the probation sentence given to an East Longmeadow youth charged with sexual assault.More from this show
Kirk & Callahan with Mut react to the latest Roger Goodell NFL wheel of justice rulingMore from this show
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NATCHITOCHES, La. – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi softball team put together a strong sixth inning to edge Northwestern State, 3-1, Saturday at Lady Demon Diamond Complex.
The Islanders (6-12, 2-2) tallied one run in the fifth inning on a Katelyn Potts' homer and two runs in the sixth inning to pick up their first conference road victory of the season and split the series with the Lady Demons.
The two teams remained scoreless through three innings of play until Northwestern State (11-15, 1-1) continued their hitting from yesterday's contest to score first in the bottom of the fourth inning. Tara McKenney mirrored her hitting from Friday's game tacking on the Lady Demons first run of the game. McKenney led off the inning with a double to left field and advanced to third on a Blair Beard sacrifice bunt before scoring the first run of the game on a Brianna Rodriguez fly out to right field. Northwestern State put two more runners in scoring position before Cali Burke popped up to Valerie Perez at shortstop to pull the Islanders out of the inning.
The Islanders answered in the top of the fifth frame when pinch hitter Potts blasted a home run to left field to put the Islanders on the board and knot the score at 1-1. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi's powerful bats continued with a Mickayla Heller single to right field with two outs. Cassie Redman walked, advancing Heller to second, before the Lady Demons' hurler Kelee Grimes ended the inning with a strikeout.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi plated two runs in the sixth inning on two hits. Sandy Schumann led the inning off with a bunt single and advanced to second on Jamise Jackson's fielder's choice. Schumann moved to third on Meagan Mckinney's sacrifice bunt and scored the Islanders' go-ahead run when Cassie Carroll ripped an RBI single to left field. With Jackson and Carroll on the corners, Perez grounded out to second base to score Jackson and give the Islanders a two-point cushion. Northwestern State's defense came through to end the inning with an Alejia Cain out.
The Islanders were powered by four hits. Schumann, Carroll, Potts and Heller each chipped in one apiece and Greta Cecchetti (2-3) sealed her first conference victory in the circle in seven innings of work. She limited the Lady Demons to just three hits while striking out five and walking just one batter.
Grimes (5-6) suffered the loss for Northwestern State in 5.1 innings. She allowed four hits, three runs, three walks while striking out eight batters.
The Islanders will return home to host Texas State in a doubleheader on Monday, March 19 at 1 p.m.
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The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team returns to the friendly confines of the Dugan Wellness Center for its final pre-Christmas affair when it hosts Cal State Northridge Friday night at 7 p.m. The Islanders have just one contest remaining in 2013 after Friday's affair.
• After missing the CMU game due to injury, John Jordan has averaged 18.3 points, 5.7 assists and 5.0 rebounds in the lst three.
• Freshman forward Jeff Beverly matched his career best with 20 points against UTPB. The big man has scored in double figures seven times and is averaging 11.4 points per game.
• Having missed the first nine games with an injury, Rashawn Thomas made his debut in a big way, posting a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds at Oklahoma. He was the first Islanders freshman since 2001 with a double-double in his debut.
• During the team's six-game losing streak, the Islanders are allowing 76 points per game to their opposition.
• The Islanders took part in a 10-day, four-game tour of Italy in August, a trip that allowed them 10 extra days of practice prior to the tour.
• Though Coach Wilson has his most experienced team with the Islanders, only five players have more than one year of Division I playing experience (Ali, Knowles, Jordan, Douvier, King).
Friday's game will be the first for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi against Cal State Northridge. The Islanders are slated to return to California next year to face the Matadors. A&M-Corpus Christi holds a 2-4 all-time record against teams currently in the Big West. The victories came against Cal State Fullerton in 2002 and UC Davis in 2005.
Anthony Dees scored 24 points and Texas-Permian Basin went 23-for-27 at the free-throw line in the second half to defeat the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi men's basketball team on Dec. 8 at the American Bank Center. John Jordan scored 25 points and Jeff Beverly matched a career-high with 20 in the loss.
Dees was joined in double figures by Phadarius Taylor (12), Dwayne Soders (11) and Thomas Feeney (11), while Keith Martin led the Falcons with 10 boards. Jordan added five rebounds and five assists for the home squad.
John Jordan is only a junior for the Islanders basketball team, but he's the most experienced player on the roster and one of the favorites for Southland Conference Player of the Year. The Houston native was named Preseason First Team All-Southland Conference by the league's coaches.
He showed his worthiness for that selection in the opening game of the Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Islanders Basketball Tournament. Jordan went off for a career-high 28 points, going 10-for-16 from the field. His final basket gave the Islanders a one-point lead with 4.2 seconds remaining en route to a 72-71 win. He added 18 points and nine boards against Tennessee Tech.
He suffered an ankle injury earlier this year that forced him to miss the Central Michigan game. But he has returned with gusto, and is averaging 18.3 points, 5.7 assists and 5.0 rebounds over the last three contests. Against UTPB last time out, he scored 25 points with five assists, five rebounds and just one turnover in 35 minutes of action.
It's hard not to be impressed when looking at the numbers that the 5-foot-10 Jordan put up last season. Jordan was second in the league in assists (5.5 per game) and 12th in the league with 12.8 points per game. His 5.5 assists per game were 39th in Division I.
Jordan broke the school record with 138 assists as a freshman, then bested his own mark with 159 as a sophomore. With 344 career assists, he is over halfway to the school record of 493, held by Brian Evans.
Freshman Rashawn Thomas was one of the most electrifying players for the Islanders over the summer. During the team's trip to Italy, he had a double-double in each of the team's four games and was expected to make an immediate impact from the season opener on.
But the fates turned another direction for Thomas. The Oklahoma City native fractured his jaw on Nov. 7, the day before the Islanders' first game of the year against Huston-Tillotson. He missed the first nine games of the season.
On Dec. 3, Thomas was cleared by the doctor to return to the court, and the freshman had just one practice to get back up to speed before heading to Oklahoma to play in front of his friends and family from nearby Oklahoma City.
Any doubts about the 6-foot-7 forward being tentative were instantly alleviated. Thomas missed his first two shots, but converted his first career points at the 8:25 mark. By the time the dust had settled in the game, the freshman had 12 points, 10 rebounds, three blocks and two steals. He became the first Islander freshman with a double-double in his debut since Corey Lamkin had 16 points and 15 rebounds against Sul Ross State on Nov. 16, 2001.
Thomas was a McDonald's All-America nominee and was named City Player of the Year his senior year at Southeast HS.
Today's game breaks a string of 11 days without a game for A&M-Corpus Christi, as the team took time off during final exams. That was in direct contrast to the start of the season, where the Islanders played 11 games in the first 31 days of the season (one game every 2.8 days).
Over the next 31 days, A&M-Corpus Christi will play just four contests, including tonight. The next three come on the road – at Minnesota, Central Arkansas and Oral Roberts. The new 11-game stretch will span 53 days, an average pace of one game every 4.8 days.
Thomas' classmate, fellow freshman Jeff Beverly, joined the Islanders as a highly-touted prospect out of the Houston area known for his scoring ability. Though he had a slow start to his career with a pedestrian seven points and four rebounds against Huston-Tillotson, he made his presence known in the game against Iowa State.
Beverly went 5-for-11 from the field with eight rebounds – four offensive - one block, one steal and one assist, all with just one turnover in a career-high 31 minutes. But what was more of a shock to the Cyclones was likely Beverly's range. The 6-foot-6, 245 pounder stepped back and drilled 3-of-5 shots from beyond the arc.
He showed more of the same for his home fans at the Holiday Inn Downtown Marina Tournament. He set a new career high before halftime against Tennessee Tech, going 5-for-6 with 15 points in the opening stanza, finishing with 18.
He has had issues with foul trouble, and was limited to just 10 minutes at UTSA to go scoreless. But he bounced back with 10 against CMU, then exploded for a career-high 20 in his return to his hometown of Houston on Nov. 30. He went 7-for-12 from the field and posted his fourth game this season that he was perfect from the stripe.
He struggled in the contest at Oklahoma, as foul trouble kept him to 22 minutes, but came back with 20 points against Texas-Permian Basin, matching his career high. The blemish, though, came at the free-throw line, where the normally reliable Beverly went just 4-for-8. He did hit both his three-point attempts, and is now 8-for-18 from beyond the arc on the season. He is averaging 11.4 points on the year.
Beverly averaged 22.3 points and 11 boards at Clear Springs High School, and was named first team all-state.
Redshirt sophomore Jake Kocher was recently named a nominee for the 2014 Allstate National Association of Basketball Coaches Good Works Team. The award recognizes a select group of college basketball student-athletes who have made significant contributions to the greater good of their communities through volunteerism and civic service. A total of 118 players were nominated for the award, including 75 student-athletes from NCAA Division I.
Kocher has been extremely active in the community, both in Corpus Christi and his hometown of Austin. He has worked mainly with youngsters, volunteering with such organizations as the Boys & Girls Club, Boy Scouts, Ronald McDonald House and the Miracle League, and has spoken at several elementary and middle schools, serving as a role model for the youth of Corpus Christi.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- There are easier ways to win a game. Pick one. Almost any way anyone can think of to win a game would be easier than what the A's did Wednesday, getting one hit to beat Tampa Bay 3-2.
The last 100 years of A's baseball haven't seen a regular season win getting just one hit, although Game 4 of the 1974 American League Championship Series saw a double from Reggie Jackson and nothing else in a 2-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
"A lot of crazy things are happening right now, and they're going our way," A's closer Sean Doolittle said. He had to survive a freak pop fly single that the infield lost in the roof of Tropicana Field, but close it out he did as the A's won for the 11th time in 12 games.
Brandon Moss homered in the fourth inning, a solo shot, and that was it for the A's offense. The other two Oakland runs came on two walks and two Rays errors in the second inning. And Moss said it's wrong to make too much of the A's (30-16) having just one hit.
"We got some walks (seven), and we forced them to make some plays," he said. "And they made some mistakes. They had base runners, but we made all the plays on defense."
The play of the game came in the eighth inning with the A's holding a one-run lead. Luke Gregerson gave up two singles with one out, and Fernando Abad came out of the bullpen with runners on the corners. Asked to face pinch-hitter David DeJesus, Abad walked him.
That set up Yunel Escobar with a chance to be the Rays' hero. Instead, Abad induced a double play with a mid-90-mph fastball and, in the words of catcher Derek Norris, "that was the ballgame right there."
The grounder went to shortstop Nick Punto, playing with Jed Lowrie out for a second straight game with neck stiffness. Punto got off a throw to second baseman Eric Sogard, who'd began the game on the bench, and Sogard's throw to first was high and just a little offline. Moss, who'd just moved to first base from left field, leapt off the bag to make the catch, then slapped the inning-ending tag of Escobar has he tried to run by.
"That was a great job to get that double play grounder," Moss said. "It wasn't a bad throw, just a little offline. I caught it and the runner hadn't reached the bag yet, so it was an easy tag."
That's not how manager Bob Melvin saw it. What he saw was the continued evolution of Moss from the full-time outfielder that he was a few years ago to the quality first baseman he is now.
"He's a true first baseman now," Melvin said.
He's a true power hitter, too. Moss's homer was his 10th of the season and the RBI was his 40th of the year. He's tied with Detroit's Miguel Cabrera for second in the A.L. in RBIs, trailing only Chicago's Jose Abreu (42). And he's been hot. He has 11 extra-base hits -- six doubles, a triple and four homers -- in his last seven games. Of all the A's over all the years, only the aforementioned Reginald Martinez Jackson (four doubles, a triple and seven homers in seven games June 10-16, 1969) has done better.
The homer came against left-handed starter Erik Bedard and gave more evidence that Moss has the stuff to play every day and not be part of a platoon.
"He's really been a weapon against left-handers," Melvin said. "He understands how pitchers are trying to pitch him. He made Bedard pay on that 0-2 pitch."
The win went to A's starter Tommy Milone, who threw shutout ball for five innings, then gave up two runs in the sixth when the Rays forced him from the game. He lowered his ERA to 3.99 as he helped the A's become the first A.L. team to reach the 30-win plateau.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- The Richmond County Sheriff's Office is looking for two suspects in a Thursday night shooting on Olive Road.
Deputies say 27-year-old Michael Edward Holt Jr. and 20-year-old Jasmine Monique Wideman came to Anthony's Auto Clinic and started a fight about work that had been done on a car.
That's when deputies say the two started a physical fight with 46-year-old owner Anthony Carter. Wideman allegedly pulled out a handgun and Holt is accused of then firing shots at Carter.
Carter was not injured in the incident.
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To the surprise of investigating researchers, an animal model of Epstein Barr virus protected lupus-prone mice against development of the autoimmune disease. Earlier work had suggested that EBV might promote the development of autoimmunity.
"We were completely surprised. So, we redid the experiments, and the results came out the same," said Roberta Pelanda, PhD, immunologist at National Jewish Health and lead author on the paper appearing online in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We believe these findings could lead to therapeutic targets for lupus and other autoimmune diseases."
Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infects most people in the United States by the time they are adults. It causes mononucleosis in about 35 to 50 percent of those infected. Acute symptoms usually pass within weeks, after which the virus goes into a dormant state within the body. The infection persist for a person's entire life and can activate in some cases.
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Katy Manoff wanted to enroll in culinary school, but life didn't turn out the way she'd planned, the 28-year-old said as she put the final touches on a gingerbread house Monday in the kitchen at the South Lake Tahoe Jail. Sheriff's deputies arrested Manoff years two years ago in connection to a string of burglaries throughout El Dorado County. She'd been in and out of jail before and suffered from a sense of worthlessness, she said. But when she started cooking with the jail's culinary program about a year ago, her outlook changed. "It means the world to me, the accomplishments. I spent so many years fooling around and not accomplishing anything. I didn't believe in myself. My situation became so destitute, I would have given up, but no one here let me do that," Manoff said.Chief among Manoff's supporters stands instructor and correctional cook supervisor Jeannette Shippee, the woman behind the culinary program that's won multiple awards at the El Dorado County Fair. Any inmate without a history of violent charges and who qualifies for worker status can apply to take Shippee's cooking classes for Lake Tahoe Community College credit. Participants can choose between basic cooking lessons, baking, catering, festive holiday classes and more. Shippee established the program June 24, 2007, the day the Angora Fire started. It was a way to encourage inmates while also teaching them job skills. And sweet treats, like the holiday cinnamon rolls made in memory of Shippee's brother who was murdered in Africa on a Peace Corps mission, can help change the community's perception of the jail. "We're trying — anyway we can — to get into the community in a positive way. I want people to say, when they hear 'jail,' that they're the ones who make the cinnamon rolls. Not, 'Oh, those inmates don't deserve anything,'" Shippee said. Shippee said the group donated the $5,000 from this year's cinnamon roll sales to three Live Violence Free families. All proceeds the students raise through their cooking and all the food that the "So Good it's a Crime" catering team whips up goes back to the community. It's a way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas even though the inmates won't be home for the holidays, Shippee said. Shippee, who also teaches at LTCC and holds a culinary degree from Johnson & Wales University, helps the inmates study for their ServSafe certification. That certificate might open up a job opportunity that otherwise wouldn't exist for them, Shippee said. Shipee scored a 98 percent when she took the test, and she challenges each group of new students to beat her near-perfect grade. "Do I care if they ever cook? No. What I want is to build them up, not knock them down. Give them self-worth so they can start to think of others," Shippee said. This year Manoff not only tied Shippee's ServSafe score, she also took home two ribbons for her cranberry-orange blondies and oatmeal cookies at the El Dorado County Fair in her hometown, Placerville, Calif. Sending the certification home was one of the best presents she's ever given to her mother, Manoff said. "Jeannette's changed my life, she's encouraged me. She taught me what integrity means. It means to do the right thing no matter what I'm facing. I didn't think I'd win anything. To finally be doing stuff that's making me feel good —I've been struggling with drugs and abuse for a long time," Manoff said.
Don Mendez graduated from the jail's culinary program about three years ago. Like Manoff, he'd spent years in and out of jail, but this time was different. This time, he had the support of Shippee and the cooking credits behind him. "I love the culinary program. It gave me the opportunity to change my life. I'd been one of those people who'd been in and out of jail constantly, and this gave me some confidence and self-worth. Now I'm the maintenance supervisor of a local hotel, rent a three-bedroom house, have a car and a savings account. All the normal stuff I never cared about before," Mendez said. Mendez battled a methamphetamine addiction for nearly three decades before he met Shippee. He'd be released from jail, but it was hard to break free from the rut of old relationships and lifestyles. "Part of the big problem with the re-citizenation rate is that they go back to the same environment. They go back to the same people they've been with their whole lives, and they end up doing the same things. You only have to change one thing, and that's everything. You have to break the patterns that you're used to," Mendez said. Mendez landed a maintenance job at a hotel before working for a brief stint as a cook in a recovery home. Now he's back at the Fantasy Inn where he works as the maintenance supervisor, and he plans to take over the hotel's new kitchen when it opens. Eventually he'd like to open his own restaurant where he could hire other graduates from Shippee's culinary program. Shippee has her own dream. Someday she said she'd like to open a restaurant and small apartment unit adjacent to the jail, a halfway house where inmates could get back on their feet instead of falling into old habits. That dream might be a long way off, but Shippee said there are plans to expand the culinary program to the Placerville Jail. She wants to extend the opportunities for advancement through cooking to other inmates who need it. Mendez, who just celebrated his fourth year of sobriety, said those opportunities can make all the difference. "You know what keeps me motivated and going forward in the right direction? I probably didn't deserve another opportunity, but they saw me and decided to give me a chance. So hopefully they say, 'We took a chance on Don. We can take a chance on someone else,'" Mendez said.