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It was a cold morning Feb. 23 when a car pulled to the curb in front of the Washington County Local History and Genealogy Library and out stepped pop singer and first "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson, along with a camera crew from The Learning Channel's "Who Do You Think You Are?" program.
The show, in its fourth season, follows celebrities as they trace their ancestry and visit related sites.
Clarkson was in town to learn about her great-great-great grandfather, Isaiah Rose, a Civil War veteran and former Ohio Senator who lived in the Coal Run area and is buried in Round Bottom Cemetery. The story of her quest will air at 9 p.m. Tuesday on TLC.
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Singer Kelly Clarkson is shown at the gravesite of her great-great-great grandfather, Isaiah R. Rose, at the Round Bottom Cemetery in Coal Run during a February filming of The Learning Channel's "Who Do You Think You Are?"
"We knew they were coming and had closed the genealogy library for the day. They were here from around 9 or 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It was a pretty long day," said assistant librarian Eric Richendollar.
He said Clarkson and the crew were very professional, but also easy to work with.
"They brought two or three cameras and took shots from several different angles inside the library," Richendollar said.
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- Singer Kelly Clarkson visited Washington County's Local Genealogy Library in February to research her ancestor, Isaiah Rose, as part of The Learning Channel's premiere episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?"
- The show is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Tuesday on TLC.
- Isaiah Rose, a Civil War veteran and Ohio legislator, is buried in the Round Bottom Cemetery in Coal Run.
Sources: TLC and Times research.
He wasn't sure if any of the local library staff would be shown in the episode, noting that TLC had brought their own genealogy expert to help Clarkson review the historical documents about her ancestor.
"She was professional and nice, and seemed like a very down-to-earth person," Richendollar said of Clarkson. "It was a great experience for us."
Grammy-winner Clarkson, 31, shot to fame after winning "American Idol" in 2002 and has since sold more than 20 million albums, with hits including "Miss Independent," "Since U Been Gone," "Walk Away," "Mr. Know It All," My Life Would Suck Without You, "Already Gone" and "Stronger."
Clarkson's great-great-great grandfather Isaiah R. Rose was born in Belmont County in 1842, but when he was a small boy the family moved to Coal Run, according to a history of Isaiah Rose by Betty K. Rose of Devola. The article was published in a 2010 edition of the Lower Muskingum Historical Society's "Reflections Along the Muskingum" periodical.
Rose, 86, wrote that Isaiah enlisted with the Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War and served with General William Tecumseh Sherman's army during the infamous "March to the Sea."
Isaiah's younger brother, Thompson Rose, who also served with the OVI, was fatally wounded at one point, and while attempting to help his brother Isaiah was captured by the Confederate Army and was confined to the Andersonville Prison in Georgia for seven months.
After serving through the war, Isaiah returned to the Coal Run area and eventually became a senator in the Ohio General Assembly in 1906. He died on Nov. 26, 1916 in Coal Run.
"I always admired Isaiah because after returning from the war he realized he needed an education and attended public school with his son," Betty Rose said.
She hopes to see the "Who Do You Think You Are?" episode.
"I've never seen the program, but I'm hoping to have it recorded so that I can watch this episode," she said.
Local genealogy historian Ernie Thode, who also works at the library, was not there the day of the filming, but said the library had been contacted by TLC back in November about the planned visit.
"They were in contact with me and (library director) Justin Mayo in November and December," he said, adding that the staff also did some preliminary research for the show.
Mayo said before Clarkson and the crew left the library Feb. 23 he presented the singer with a "souvenir" basket of local wine from Marietta Wine Cellars.
"I basically just had time to hand it to her and then they had to leave-they were on a tight schedule," he said. "But she really appreciated it."
Thode said he was able to watch an advance preview of the "Who Do You Think You Are?" episode recently.
"There's some 'teaser' footage of Marietta and the W.P. Snyder, and later she pulls up in front of the library before she goes inside," he said.
From the library Clarkson and the crew drove north on Ohio 60 to Coal Run where she's filmed at Isaiah Rose's final resting place in Round Bottom Cemetery.
It was dusk when they arrived at the graveyard. Local historian Phillip Crane said his wife mentioned seeing a lot of bright lights at the cemetery that evening.
During some research in the wake of Clarkson's visit, Crane discovered she has more than one connection to the area.
"I found out that Kelly's grandmother was Mary George who lived in Parkersburg, W.Va.," he said. "And Kelly's mother, Jeanne Rose, grew up in Parkersburg and graduated from Belpre High School."
Crane also found the star has connections to other relatives in the area, including the Ewing and Humiston families.
He said more information about Clarkson and her family will be included in his column, "An Eye on the Lower Muskingum," in Saturday's edition of The Marietta Times.
Thode said in addition to being entertaining, the TLC episode will give the county genealogy library some great exposure.
"The publicity is valuable, but it also shows that we do serve everybody here," he said. "Just this week we've had people from Mesa, Ariz. and South Carolina doing genealogical research."
Richendollar agreed.
"We're very fortunate that our library directors have realized the importance of this facility," he said. "People from all over the country and all over the world come here to research their family histories, even if their ancestor was just passing through."
Mayo said the TLC airing of Clarkson's visit is exciting news for the local area, but also indicates the quality of the genealogy library supported by the resources of the Washington County Library System.
"I would put our genealogy department up against any other library in the state," he said.

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CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. — Check out the sound of this: it's Blake's birthday.The Crystal Bay's very own Blake Beeman, sound maven extraordinaire and notorious member of the Beer Gardeners, is celebrating a birthday. The Red Room is the place and 10 p.m Friday, July 6 is the time. It's a free show so bring a friend and shower our buddy with thanks for the many nights of wonderful tuneage he has bestowed upon us. Formed on a foggy whim in January 1991, the loosely organized and still-unrehearsed bar band for Squaw Valley's legendary and now defunct watering hole, the Beer Garden, has enjoyed entertaining enthusiastic North Tahoe music-lovers ever since. "It's a continuing experiment," said the original member and singer-guitarist Eric "Eric T." Brandt. "Since day one our strict no-rehearsal policy has held fast, and as a result we're still together." In the early 1990s, the band could be seen playing regularly at many of Tahoe's then-favorite spots, including Olympic Village Inn, Plaza Bar, Bar One, Rosie's, Lakehouse Pizza, Humpty's and Le Chamois. Over the years, the number of shows has thinned (along with much of the band members' hair) but the energy and antics have remained in tact. "Not unlike 'Tap' ('Spinal Tap'), we've played our share of job fairs, weddings and community dances," said Beeman, the lead guitarist. "But, true to the original idea, every time we get together, no matter where it is, it's a rockin' good time." Known for tying together random classic songs into long medleys, spontaneous wardrobe changes, and ad-hoc, 10-minute tambourine and shaker solos, the Beer Gardeners have weathered the test of time. With the Beer andamp; Peanuts Tour, they plan to continue pounding out their familiar mix of classic rock interpretations and well-worn originals for as long as they can stay awake.For more information about the band, and other upcoming performances, visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/beergardeners.
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Family and friends gathered Thursday night to see 112 seniors receive their diplomas from the School of the Osage.
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I would like to read audio, photo and video files from my PC with my HD television.
The main point to do that is to be able to read video files created with an HD camera Canon HF10 which create M2TS files.
To do that, I've linked my TV to a Sony PS3. My PS3 is linked to my PC via a CPL connection (200Mbps) and "routeur" (note sure about the English translation). The connection run.
To use DLNA connection, I'm using Windows Media Player (Vers 11) or PS3 media server. The PS3 can see both.
If I can read on my TV mp3, pictures and some DivX, Windows Media Player cannot see the video files M2TS and pictures created with the Canon HF10.
PS3 media server, except mp3 files, cannot see anything. For this soft, I cannot find any manual to ensure that the installation / set-up was done correctly
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This is an editorial about file conversions. It starts with a story about Free Software Magazine and our struggle with article formats, and continues explaining why the world needs to get rid of Office Open XML, which could create more problems than the Microsoft monopoly itself.
When I started Free Software Magazine, we faced the problem every publication needs to face: which file format should we use for articles? It was a few years ago now (as they say, time flies when you have fun!). At the time, the web site wasn't our main focus: we were actually printing a paper magazine (!), we were generating amazing PDF files using LaTex, and decided that a static web site was going to "do" for quite a while. We decided that the "master" format for our articles would be XML. XML seemed like a good idea at the time. None of the other options seemed quite as feasible: text wasn't enough, HTML was too vague, ODF was too complex, and so on. Plus, everybody was using it.
Since we couldn't find a single decent semi-visual XML editor, we asked our authors to hand in XML directly. Of course, people became very creative when they created an article file: we had to write a script that deleted white spaces around tags, and generally "cleaned up" the XML files we received. We also had to check manually that the files had the right em dashes, the right opening and closing speech marks, the right apostrophes, and so on. I won't even get started on the problems some authors had with getting the XML right: <p> tags left unclosed, <li> items without <ul> first, and so on. It doesn't sound complicated, but when you have a 2500 word article full of listings, text boxes, figures and so on, and (even worse) when the XML error you get from the parser is as unhelpful as it could be, things got tricky. It was a small nightmare, which repeated with every issue of the magazine, and nearly every article. Two prospective (and influential) bloggers refused accounts with Free Software Magazine when they realised they would have to spend time tagging up XML files. Laziness? Maybe. But, as we say around here, "fair enough".
Luckily, the delirium is now over. We have upgraded our article format to Markdown Extra (although, it has a few tweaks to allow tables and textboxes). Authors can now write articles following this Free Software Magazine article template. Issue 21, this very issue, was edited mainly using the new file format.
Converting the articles from XML to Markdown Extra/FSM was a lot of hard work. I just about managed to do using XSLT with custom PHP calls within the XLS file. (If you are thinking "the XSLT from a basic format to Markdown should be simple", I will give you a few keywords: "white paces", "enters", "tables", "clashing escape characters", "CDATA", and so on). The conversion required substantial trial-and-error and tweaking. It contains several hacks I am not especially proud of. To date, I am not yet 100% sure it actually works for every single article. And we are talking about translating an extremely simple XML format into an extremely simple text format. As always, the conversion part was easy. However, getting it to actually work was tricky.
This change won't affect you --well, apart from the occasional due to the occasional hard-to-translate article (we have over 2000 articles in our database, and we checked things by "statistical sampling"...). What is interesting is that this adventure (which I named "article conversion hell") reminded me of something that sounds obvious, but we tend to forget: file conversions are complicated, sub-optimal, time-consuming, imperfect by nature, often wrong, often the result of guess-work, tricky, and basically evil. When you open a Microsoft Office 2000 file using OpenOffice, things might work seamlessly, things might look a little odd, the file might look perfect--but if saved back as a Microsoft Office 2000 file, it might be ruined forever. There is a reason for this: file conversions need to be avoided (especially, like in this case, if the original file is an undocumented back-back-back-back-backward compatible format which really doesn't deserve to exist anymore, and didn't deserve to exist in the first place). ODF isn't perfect (yet?), but it aims at being the format for office documents. It's standard, and several pieces of software today can handle it (see: it's not an OpenOffice-only game).
Microsoft trying to shove OOXML down ISO's throat (and effectively damaging, maybe beyond repair, the image of what should be an independent body) can damage the computer industry immensly. The fact that both ODF and Office Open XML are XML means absolutely nothing. You can see here a technical comparison between the two: converting one format to the other is anything but fun. Thousands of bogus documentation pages that come with OOXML don't help.
What I experienced with Free Software Magazine while converting (which, admittedly, wasn't really that big a deal) would be nothing compared to what the whole world will have to deal with if OOXML became "the" file format "normally" used to exchange office documents. A situation like this will impose constant conversions, quirks, compatibility problems, and so on all of us It will also be a fantastic card for Microsoft: "look, GNU/Linux is sort of good, but you know, you can never trust it to open an XML file... sometimes the images are squint, you know..."
Microsoft knows this. Unsurprisingly, they have recently announced that they would release several conversion tools to translate ODF into OOXML and vice-versa. I read the article right in the middle of my "article conversion hell", and wondered if anybody else realised how disastrous it would be, if Microsoft managed to convince the world that it was "OK" to have two competing standards, since it's so easy to convert them into each other. The risk is very real: if we don't stop them, Microsoft will muscle its way in, and will force the whole world to fight with conversions for years, or decades, to come.
Microsoft proposed a bogus Office file format while an ISO standard already existed. Their shady practices to get their format fast-tracked and approved by ISO didn't work. But Microsoft is still trying--and I can guarantee, it will keep on trying until it succeeds.
The only possible answer for Microsoft and OOXML is simple: the world already has an office file format. The world doesn't need nor want a "conversion nightmare". The world's ISO-approved Office format already exists: it's called ODF. Microsoft: deal with it!.
I fully agree with your points. Having recently worked in a group where most people used (pirated) Word, I can certainly relate to the issue. Not even older versions of Word can read ooxml. The file size is larger than odf too.
Btw: I reallt miss the pdf version of the magazine. Did you ever consider to bring it back?
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Btw: I reallt(sic) miss the pdf version of the magazine. Did you ever consider to bring it back?
This might help explain http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2498#comment-75895
cheers Ryan
Convincing the world
I am doing my bit to get the great number of M$ hooked users to realise there is an alternative to M$ Office.
If I need to send any documents as attachments to anyone I send odf files as standard, with a link to openoffice.org. So far only one person has mailed back asking if I can send the file as a M$ .doc, though I did get one file returned in the new M$ Office format that is not readable by OpenOffice.
Read your article on file conversion and agree whole-heartly. One
standard is all that is needed. I do not use Microsoft's OS or office products. I find Open Office quite capable for my use.
The problem is purely greed and nothing else. When the bottom line is nothing but profit and not in the interest of the customer you will never have a product that is competitive and embraces change.
Mr. Gates is a shrewed businessman and knows what will make him money and keep him in control of the market. The problem is tha Open -Source has not accepted that idea per-say. The open-source community
has not fully recognized the need to have one standard themselves. When they come to this point, then and only then, will they appeal to the masses.
I am probably ranting in the wrong place, but I do enjoy your magazine very much. Keep up the good work.
I don't know much about html. (Sorry)
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I am a total non-geek who has been using Linux for a few years. I have been using open office and abiword for the past few years with no problems but I have no idea what all the fuss is about. HTML and XML both work for my basic site. To me, anytime something is over-hyped, someone is trying to sell me a bill of goods.
The fuss is about freedom
I have been using open office and abiword for the past few years with no problems
This may be why you have no idea what the fuss is about :o)
HTML and XML both work for my basic site.
I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here. XML is a document standard which pretty much permits anybody to define their own markup tags (schema). As long as you have all your tags properly defined and they are used in the correct manner then it's XML.[1] But You don't have to tell anybody what the schema is.
Tony is using his experiences over converting the FSM website XML to Markdown as an example of what lies in store for people writing converters from one XML schema (ODF) to another (OOXML). The problem is that the creators of OOXML a) are not really telling everyone else all they need to know and b) have a history of changing such things without notice just to keep their market share.
Think of it like this: You define an XML schema which contains tags for bold and italic text (Let's say <strong> and <em> respectively). Now I define one but my tags are <bd_0> and <i_0> . The thing is I don't tell you what my tags are and I compress my documents inside an encrypted archive to which only my products have the key.[1] How do you convert your documents to my format or vice-versa? Reverse engineering is against the licence under which I offer my products so you are stuck. Even if afetr a lot of brute force you get an unencrypted document - what is to stop me "upgrading" my schema and slightly changing the tags you now have?
The only thing that prevents this kind of behaviour is to have an open standard which is settled upon by many not one and which is publicly available for all to use.
In every argument I have seen for OOXML I am yet to see anything which actually says why it is necessary for Microsoft to have their own format - other than greed.
To me, anytime something is over-hyped, someone is trying to sell me a bill of goods.
Ah, but this is about more than a single bill of goods - this is about tying you down so that every bill of goods you buy must go through one vendor (not a great analogy but I'm just continuing your remarks).
cheers Ryan
[1] Okay big over-simplification but it works - kind of.
I missed the point of OOXML.
I missed the point of OOXML. I thought OOXML was designed to be open for all. I figured Microsoft was up to something fishy when they decided to champion an "Open code".
One good thing about me checking in to OOXML is that I am an early adapter. You guys lead the way. I am one of the people willing to try things after people do the hard work of making things user friendly. If I can stick with a distribution, I have no doubt the popularity is ready to take off. I have switched over to Linux for most of my home computers with the others primarily for games.
Maybe Microsoft sees us early adapters making our own web sites from Linux computers using web hosts that run Linux servers. I am using Word Press on one site and PHPBB on another. I have little technical knowledge to build my sites. I have two computers on one desk. One for instructions and one for the operation.
I hope OOXML does not become a standard. It was very frustrating to have to learn to add special code to make my stuff line up in IE7. It still does not line up properly in all of the different Explorer browsers.
missing the point
I thought OOXML was designed to be open for all.
Yes it's that word "open" at the start -- but of course OOXML is designed to make money. At least that is the only reason I can think of why MS would spend all that R&D time developing a format when an open standard one exists and is all they needed really.
I hope OOXML does not become a standard. It was very frustrating to have to learn to add special code to make my stuff line up in IE7. It still does not line up properly in all of the different Explorer browsers.
I think you may have indeed missed the point--slightly. Whilst IE7 will display OOXML directly (and not ODF BTW) and I am sure M$ would love it if people wrote web content in it--you should remember that OOXML (Open Office XML) is primarily an office document format and in that has little to do directly with IE.
That said I agree that coding web content to view in the various IE versions is a nightmare. My preferred technique is to produce four CSS files. One for Firefox/Opera/Konqueror/Safari et al, one for IE5.5, one for IE6 and one for IE7. Then I chuck in a script which detects the browser and presents the relevant css links.
For M$ it's not about the present - but the future
Good writing - but there seem to be more and more stories comming out - in the file-formar debate - that the huge work on ISO standard - is about the future formats in M$ in 2009.
The scheduled 2009 release of Windows 7 (or whatever it's called)- and Office - have been in the pipeline for a long time - and the development of there new version of there OS and Office depend on M$ version of XML.
That is why they work so hard - and put a HUGE amount of money and people into this - to get there format to become a global ISO standard.
We saw it in the ODF debate - and this time the opensource community - feel the full force of this multi billion $ company - with there lawyers and 'independent research' that come out.
And M$ just don't get it - they just don't understand the world outside the company - as it was reported a couple of days ago http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Microsoft_wants_open_sourcers_to_write_an_OOXML_translator


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Many longtime Fremont residents still refer to their sprawling city as a "small town," which may not be the best description for a place that 217,000 people call home.
But police in the Bay Area's fourth-largest city still offer residents a service that must bring a smile to the oldest of old-timers. It's called the Vacation Home Security Check Program, a service in which Fremont residents can request police to check on their home while they're out of town.
Fremont's neighbors -- Newark and Union City -- offer similar programs.
In Fremont, those interested can go to www.fremontpolice.org and fill out a request form at least 72 hours before they go on vacation, Fremont police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said. The form gives police pertinent information, such as the residents' vacation dates and descriptions of their vehicles so that authorities have a blueprint of what they should expect to find outside the residence. The form also asks for the names and visitation dates of gardeners, house cleaners and family members who may be at the house so that police will not mistake them for a burglar.
The program is made possible by Fremont's C.A.R.E. Volunteers program, whose 80 members check on the homes. The volunteers, who are never armed, always work in pairs while driving in a marked volunteer police vehicle, Bosques said. "If they see anything suspicious, they are asked to contact a patrol officer, who will arrive and inspect the area," she said.
The program is offered throughout the year, but vacations taken during the holidays and summer months usually cause an uptick in requests. "We had 20 come in this week," Bosques said.
Newark police offer a similar program, for which residents can submit request forms by visiting www.newark.org and searching under "Vacation Home Check."
Volunteers in Newark's R.A.V.E.N. program assist officers in checking the residences.
"It's just a visual check of the property; we're not there to pick up newspapers," said Tim Jones, special assistant in the Newark Police Department's Community Engagement Division. "But if we drive by, and the front door or garage door is open, then we know we probably have a problem."
Fremont and Newark residents who prefer to submit a request form in person can do so at the police department during regular business hours.
In Union City, residents are required to fill out and submit a "Vacant Home Report" form in person at the police department's front desk at 34009 Alvarado-Niles Road, said Cmdr. Ben Horner. Budget cuts and patrol staffing shortages have forced Union City police to make home checks a lower priority, but officers still perform them when time permits, Horner said.
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MARIETTA - The Washington County Career Center is facing an unexpected expense after being told by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency it needs a stormwater pollution prevention plan.
Career center Superintendent Dennis Blatt told board members during Tuesday's regular meeting the plan was needed due to the amount of earth being moved by a heavy equipment class the center re-established earlier this year.
Officials believed they had taken necessary precautions to address potential runoff issues.
"We put up silt fences, and we thought we were in compliance," Blatt said.
However, OEPA was contacted by someone concerned about the issue and the agency notified the career center that a plan should have been established prior to the earth being moved. Blatt said an engineer will have to develop the plan, which includes a site map, sediment and erosion controls and a number of other items spelled out in a nine-page checklist from the agency.
The initial price he was quoted was more than $10,000, but Blatt said he expects the final amount to be lower.
The career center will attempt to make the best of the situation, he said, by involving adult and secondary students where possible in the implementation of the plan, such as building sediment ponds.
"We want to be responsible citizens," Blatt said. "We learned. We're going to do everything we can to make it right."
Also at Tuesday's meeting, Blatt gave board members a brief presentation on the state of the career center. He noted finances will continue to be a major issue, with the so-called fiscal cliff of federal tax hikes and spending cuts including the loss of $92 million in funding for career and technical education if an agreement on averting it is not reached in Washington, D.C.
There's uncertainty over the state's school funding system as well. Locally, the center's five-year forecast shows deficit spending each year, although its surplus would keep it in the black.
Blatt said administrators meet monthly with Treasurer Joe Crone to review budgets and look for ways to improve the center's financial situation. As an example, he pointed to Crone's announcement earlier in the meeting that a change in vendors for copying machines will allow the district to obtain newer equipment while saving about $10,000 a year.
The center is also selling fewer lunches this year than last, putting its food services program in the red, but a planned agreement for AVI Food Systems to provide service for the 2013-14 school year is expected to help address that, Blatt said.
At the same time, the center must continue to maintain and improve its facilities, Blatt said.
"We've got to have quality programs and quality equipment and so on if we want students to come here," he said.
Blatt noted the adult training arm of the center has established a variety of new classes to respond to the demands of the growing oil and natural gas industry in the region. He also praised the center's staff for putting student success first.
"We have excellent people, therefore we're doing excellent things," Blatt said.
In other business, Crone told board members that for the second year in a row, the center had received an Auditor of State award for its "clean" audit, meaning there were no findings for recovery, citations or questioned costs.
"I think that is noteworthy that the team - not only the administration but the entire organization - is doing everything they can to be fiscally responsible," Crone said.


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James William "Bud" Harbin, husband of our vice-president, Dorothy Harbin, died Oct. 6 in Quitman.
Funeral services will be held Sunday, Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. at Lowe Funeral Home Chapel in Quitman with Dr. Dick White and Bro. Fred Morrow officiating and burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens at Mineola. Visitation will be Saturday, Oct. 9 from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Born in Quitman Dec. 4, 1922, Bud was a lifelong resident of the city and a member of the Liberty Methodist Church of Quitman. He was a retired construction foreman for Sears Roebuck. He also worked for Strickland Freight in Houston, as a courier for the Tyler Morning Telegraph, and a courier for Pone Express Texas Warehouse
He was preceded in death by daughters, Floy Ellean and Flora Elizabeth Harbin; sons, Lonnie David and Jessie Harbin; and sister, Alta Mae Harbin Dopson; granddaughter, Una Maxine Harbin; two wives, mothers of James and Daniel; and parents, James W. and Alta E. Harris Harbin. He is survived by wife, Dorothy Harbin of Quitman; sons James E. Harbin, Luling, and Daniel S. Harbin and Karen, Arlington; stepson Kevin Waldrep and Lorna, Salado; daughter Neva Harbin Potts and Gerald, Quitman; stepdaughter Carolyn S. Varcados, Montana, former wife, Pete Kinnard, Quitman; sisters Alice Lee and Clarence, Quitman, and Mary Halbert and John, Quitman, and eight grandchildren and thre great-grandchildren.
We extend our sincerest sympathy to Dorothy and all of the family in Bud's passing.
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Hi, I'm coach of a new men's team, not doing too bad on the season so far with a record of 3-4. At the weekend scored 96, so it seemed there were no problems with offence.
However, played one of the "weaker" teams midweek, and scored 6 points in the first and 13 in the 2nd. Offense was rushed, no composure, turnovers galore and the team was unrecognisable. On defense, players seemed to be lazy and not bothered by guarding the ball or rebounding. Rotation on defence is also a problem even though many things we work on in training go missing in game time. We have a centre who mops up most rebounds but this means the rest of the team rely on him too much.
Basically, I was shocked by the performance in the first half.....we eventually won the game but every player was upset with the performance.
I have two training sessions before the next game, which is also against the number 1 ranked team in the league.
A few questions, how hard should my next session be and what should the focus be on? Also, after going from nearly 100 points in one game to half that in the next I am worried about offense. My starting guard was injured in the last game but offense was rushed,forced, not relaxed and the first half was just ugly. How can I get the team to share the ball more? They played some good offense second half by giving the ball up to team mates but this didn't happen at all first half.
Finally how do I get a team to step up in 2 training sessions after a demoralising victory?
I would appreciate any comments/help you could offer.
Well I think first you have to see what is your teams idenity. Are you an athletic group? Do you have a great low post player? For offense you need to incorporate that in your game plan. Knowing your teams idenity is the key to knowing your succes. Second you need the players to believe in you. Defense always wins game no matter how many points you score and eventhough its a cliche it is true. Get them to believe on playing defense and if they make a hustle play or draw a charge commend them bc they will be more likely to do it again. The team does have a losing record right now so focus on them achieving to win together and be part of a winning team that should help bc no one wants to be part of a losing squad. Good luck.
Give them the day off. It does wonders for a team that may not be playing well at a particular point in the season. Either that or have them come in for practice and let them pick teams and scrimmage for 40 minutes (no coaching, just play) and let them go after that.
How did it go???
It's been a difficult time. I had coaching Tuesday night. My centre turned up and said there was no point in training as things were, after the last game(narrow win, poor performance).
I spoke to the rest of the team, a mix of younger players 20 and under and some guys who have coached/played a bit aged 21/22.
Two or three of the players agreed with my coaching in the last game. However, it came out now that some, mainly the older players were upset about getting less court time, the main reason forthis being their poor defence.
The players were saying I needed to be more fair(about court time)??? and rotate more.....basically they wanted to have more court time, and also they were saying I needed to speak better to them( I am proud of my professionalism) but some of them thought I was talking to them like kids(they were acting worse than the kids I teach(I'm a teacher.
Soo to sum up, I had a good training session on man to man after this, everyone worked hard....but am now starting to wonder if I'm going to be coaching much longer.
Very very disappointed.
That sounds like a shame. Yet, you must teach them values they can learn on teh court but most importantly how to translate that off teh court. You can change their lives more than you know but little subtle teachings. Look at the impact many coaches have made of their players lives. If you touch one of them you have done your job.
Thanks for your interest.
It is a real shame. I coach at school and my team are completely the opposite, willing to learn, willing to accept change, and do not argue about court time.
It's just a shame that some of them think that because they know a bit about the game that they don't think they deserve to be sitting on the bench.
You are the coach so their playing time depends on you. Sometimes you just gotta lay down the law
I honestly feel though that last session I was too soft on them and the argument about playing time is dominating. That won't go away, and I can't play guys who can't play defence.
Therefore it's appearing to be them or me.
I think you need to put the players out on the court who buy into your system. I agree with your argument abt defense. You need to have them believe in what your doing but alot of that in their mindset comes with winning.
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Art workshops and a University course will culminate in an ecological theatrical pageant in May 2016 featuring a procession of mobile visual art, giant puppets and spectacular costumes with performances of dance, theater, music and poetry.
Princeton University seeks to appoint a distinguished humanist whose work is related to the environment for the 2016-2017 academic year.
WPRB interviewed Eben Kirksey, PEI Barron visiting professor, about his environmental humanities dialogues entitled the Multispecies Salon.
The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) is pleased to welcome two visiting faculty members whose work is at the juncture of the environment and the humanities.
wE-unions is an interactive, playful, & all-invited event about environment, public space, justice, and community. Designed and led by students in the spring 2015 Atelier course, "Performing Environmental Stories," with professors Jenny Price and Kelly Baum. Monday, May 4, 2015 at 4 p.m. on Frist Campus Center Lawn Trash-themed PU-rade starts at 7:30 p.m.
Princeton senior and ENV student Damaras Miller is one of two recipients of the Henry Richardson Labouisse '26 Prize.
Feb 25, 2015 – 6:00pm-7:30pm Location: 300 Wallace Hall Panelists: Michael Graziano, Laura Kahn, Aude Teillant Antibiotics were first massed-produced in the 1940s. Their ability to fight and kill bacteria revolutionized medicine and had profound effects on everything from agriculture to war. After less than 80 years, however, these miracle drugs are failing. Resistant infections kill hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year, and there are now dozens of so-called
February 24, 2015 It s 2015 Do you know where your artists are? Increasingly, they're heading out of the studio and into public spaces. They're taking over sidewalks, revitalizing urban rivers, redesigning streets to be more people-friendly, and remediating industrial lots. As 21st-century artists partner with planners, engineers, and urban communities, they're becoming major players in the efforts to remake and revitalize cities and neighborhoods. Panel Discussion 4:
PEI Barron Fellow, Jenny Price, discusses lessons drawn from the extinction of the passenger pigeon on BackStory, a public radio show covering contemporary issues through a historical lens.
As an environmentalist, an historian, an Urban Ranger, and a comedic writer, Jenny Price comes to Princeton University with a unique set of expertise and interests.
It's a musical. It's also a multi-media performance piece and a contemporary thriller. Both entertaining and informative, The Great Immensity is at the nexus of science and art.
Apr 16, 2014 · 4:30 p.m.– 6:00 p.m. · Guyot Hall Room 10 How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a light bulb? That's not funny!—but why so serious? Join 3 irreverent environmentalists for a rollicking, knee-slapping, 83%-funny discussion of why environmentalism isn't funny—and why it so desperately (seriously!) needs to acquire a sense of humor. Saving the planet optional. Performances included. Yoram Bauman is "the world's
The rise of postcolonial ecocriticism has resulted in an expanded discussion about how we theorize the relationship between people and place. This talk addresses the depiction of soil in rather literal and material terms by exploring how Caribbean artists and writers have called attention to the political and the aesthetic implications of making dirt, or waste, visible. Symbolically speaking, waste is a remainder, and can be understood as the uncanny, as deteriorating matter, as a figure of natu
Jenny Price has been co-appointed by PEI and the Lewis Center for the Arts as the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities.
Princeton University is seeking applications from distinguished candidates with demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching at the intersection of humanities and the environment.
Panel of current and former Barron Fellows discussing the field of Environmental Humanities. Rarely do photographers, artistic directors, musicians, novelists, poets, scientists, engineers, and scholars in religion, philosophy, and literature come together for two full-days to explore an emerging field of mutual interest. Such a unique gathering took place during Princeton University's conference "Environmental Humanities in a Changing World." Stephen W. Pacala, the
This two-day conference assembled leaders from a range of fields in the environmental humanities and prominent artists producing work with environmental import.
Growing up on a farm in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and witnessing the dramatic loss of farmland to housing developments and shopping malls ignited visiting professor Ken Hiltner's early and life-long interest in the environment which he later married with his passion for English literature. "My initial interest in the environment comes from growing up on my family's farm in southern New Jersey where I gained an appreciation for open-space," said Hiltner. "Sadly, the landscape
Fifty years ago, C. P. Snow delivered a famous lecture on "The Two Cultures," the sciences and the humanities. Visting Barron Professor Ken Hiltner examines whether these two cultures can coexist and work together today.
Environmental awareness comes in many forms. Often, it is shaped by an understanding of science or public policy, but it also can be informed by religion. Rarely, however, do all three of these perspectives intersect at once—and that is the challenge two Yale University professors, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, have been addressing for the past three decades. Tucker and Grim's course "Religion, Ecology, and Cosmology" illustrates how religion, spirituality,
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Visiting professors at the Princeton Environmental Institute, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, teach World Religions and Ecology at Yale University.
PEI visiting faculty members, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, will present and discuss their Emmy Award winning film (50 minutes), Journey of the Universe.
PEI recruits outstanding academic scholars with relevant expertise to Princeton with opportunities to contribute to PEI's research and teaching programs.
As the flurry of the spring semester winds down with term papers written, exams taken, and graduations and reunions commemorated, it is a time for celebration, reflection, and new beginnings.
According to Iain Couzin, PEI associated faculty member, animals' coordination and cooperation can teach us about human behavior — and even our voting patterns.
The course examines the many links between environment and development in the United States.
Princeton University had one winner this year, Ashley Eberhart '13, who is a politics major and is pursuing three certificates in environmental, urban, and American studies.
Congratulations to Dora Huang '13, Tristan Perez '14, and Hannah Safford '13.
The experiences of these students, as well as that of interns before them, have created lasting impressions and deepened their academic and personal goals.
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In this outgrowth of the original course, Cullen and Lemonick review how, even in light of the vast media attention given this subject, many people are still ill-informed and skeptical about climate change.
"People are part of the climate system: not only are we consumers of fossil fuels and removers of forests, but we also interact with the information about the consequences of our actions in ways that, although complex and sometimes counter-intuitive, can be understood with the help of disciplines that study how we tick.' says Robert Socolow.
An interview with Emmanuel Kreike, associate professor of history, Princeton University.
Michael Oppenheimer, David Wilcove, and others publish "Climate change: helping nature survive the human response" in Conservation International.
The paper Climate change: helping nature survive the human response, published in the scientific journal Conservation Letters, looks at efforts to both reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and potential action that could be taken by people to adapt to a changed climate and assesses the potential impact that these could have on global ecosystems.
This has been one of PEI's most enterprising years. We are pleased to share our exciting news with faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends.
In a collaboration melding art with science, climate researchers and other members of the Princeton University community joined forces with The Civilians to help create a work-in-progress about global climate change.
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Now in its third year of funding, the Grand Challenges Initiative, administered by PEI in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has created a diverse research and scholarship endeavor.
While exploring the Panama Canal in a small tourist boat, Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman were startled by a massive container ship suddenly passing by, rocking them violently in its wake. Painted on the hull in Chinese characters, its name was boldly inscribed as "The Great Immensity."
Students flipping through the course catalog this year may have wondered what a course cross-listed in Atelier, environmental science and theater entailed.
Though experts may dispute the role of human activity in climate change, evidence is mounting that temperatures and sea levels are rising.
At PEI we are approaching 2010 with a fresh sense of optimism. The Institute is strong and vital, as this issue of PEI News clearly illustrates.
The Gulf region relies upon foreign sources for 60% of its food supply. Agriculture in this region is declining.
Now in its third year of funding, the Grand Challenges Initiative, administered by PEI in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has created a diverse research and scholarship endeavor.
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On June 1, 2009, PEI held it's 15th annual Class Day celebration.
Barmeier is among the 32 American college students who won the prestigious fellowships, which fund two or three years of study in England.
In the fall of 2009, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Lewis Center for the Arts initiated a yearlong collaborative project lying at the intersection of the environment and the performing arts.
When the more than 100 students who completed internships this summer through the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Grand Challenges Program returned to campus, they had at least one more commitment. As a culminating experience, they were required to report on what they learned during their experiences with faculty, research labs, governmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofit organizations and industry enterprises in more than 20 countries. On two Fridays this fall,
On September 25, 2009, The Princeton Environmental Institute held its second annual Summer of Learning Symposium.
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The second round of initiatives seeking to improve sustainability on Princeton's campus have been funded under the auspices of the University's Sustainability Plan.
The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) will host a symposium and conference Wednesday through Friday, April 29-May 1, to address challenges related to agriculture and climate change as the global population expands.
Grand Challenges collaborations focus on development, energy, health solutions.
An interdisciplinary group of scholars will examine the ethical dimensions of the challenge presented by climate change in a fall lecture series sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the University Center for Human Values.
A conference on environmental justice scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, April 28-29, will cap a yearlong collaboration between the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Center for African American Studies that has enabled Princeton students and scholars to thoroughly explore the topic.
Several days into their spring break, 14 Princeton students found themselves in the middle of the Arizona desert, with nighttime temperatures in the 30s and no running water or electricity.
Humanity can't go on like this. Earth's climate is shifting, and it is all but certainly civilization's fault for burning fossil fuels and spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Princeton faculty members have been invited to submit proposals by Monday, Sept. 17, for seed grants for projects under a new teaching and research program focused on important issues that share dominant environmental, political, social and engineering dimensions
Ruthie Schwab, Ben Elga and Diana Bonaccorsi are spending their summer among rows of aromatic herbs, lines of leafy greens and mounds of sprouting vegetables, all contained in a small patch of land behind the University's Forbes College.
The earth is growing warmer, thanks to elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases, and the vast majority of scientists now believe that human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, is primarily responsible.


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Girl Scout Cookie time is here! Girl Scouts in our area will begin selling cookies on Saturday, January 12th. There is a new cookie this year: Mango Cremes. Returning favorites are: Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Caramel Delites, Shortbread, Lemonades, and Thanks-A-Lot. The cookies sell for $3.50 per box and will be delivered in March. The proceeds of the cookie sales are divided as follows: 16% remains with the local troop as profit to be used on troop activities, badges, trips, and any other expenses the troop has in order to operate; 54% goes to programs for girls, activity scholarships, training for adult volunteers, and maintenance of local Girl Scout camps; 30% is the cost of the cookies and the rewards the girls earn for selling the cookies. Through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, girls learn five skills essential to leadership: goal setting, decision making, money management, business ethics, and people skills. If you would like to place an order and do not know a local Girl Scout, you may call Ann Banks at 660-591-3424 or Cheri York at 660-258-2679. Pictured above is Daisy Troop 9240, and they are ready to sell cookies: front row: Mya, Sarah, Madison; back row: Ireland, Rebecca, Courtney, Isabelle.
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text: Support Groups Legacy Cancer Institute provides a range of support services to help you and your family through the diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cancer. Our holistic approach sets us apart, because we understand that you have a life, not just a diagnosis. Learn more about the support services of the Legacy Cancer Healing Center. In addition to the support groups listed below, Legacy offers a variety of free classes, programs and support groups for cancer patients and their families. These provide ongoing education, activities and emotional support for individuals whose lives are touched by cancer. Most groups are open to family and friends and are offered at a variety of times and locations. Complete schedule of all cancer support groups and classes (includes one-time classes not shown on this page) Please contact the class leader to register or if you have questions. Cancer support groups - Click here to go to the class calendar, select 'support groups' from the class/category drop-down, then 'Apply' Groups are held at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center unless otherwise noted. Brain Tumor Support Group Breast Cancer Support Group - Good Samaritan Medical Center Gynecological Cancer Support Group Head and Neck Cancer Support Group Lymphedema Education & Support Group - Meridian Park Medical Center Prostate Cancer Support Group Movement, exercise and mind/body classes - Click here to go to the class calendar, select 'support groups' from the class/category drop-down, then 'Apply' These classes are held regularly. They are located at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center unless otherwise noted. Step into Fitness Meditation Expressions of Healing: Art and Community (Legacy Good Samaritan and Salmon Creek) Felting Workshop Gardening Workshop for Individuals with Cancer NIA Exercise Group for Individuals with Cancer (community location) Pilates for Individuals with Cancer Yoga for Individuals with Cancer


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Helen Taft First Spouse Gold Coin
First Lady, 1909 — 1913
Helen Herron "Nellie" Taft was born June 1, 1861, in Cincinnati. At 17, she was a White House guest of President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, who were close friends with her parents. She later met "Will" Taft when he was a student at Cincinnati Law School. They married in 1886, and when he became president in 1909, it gave her the position she had coveted since that visit to the White House. She was an active first lady who had a bandstand built at the Tidal Basin so the Marine Band could play there on Sundays. She also supported the establishment of the First Ladies Collection at the Smithsonian, starting the custom of first ladies donating their inaugural gowns to the institution. Mrs. Taft is best known for the Japanese cherry trees around the Tidal Basin, which were a gift from the mayor of Tokyo to the American people. She planted the first two trees herself in March 1912. She continued to be active in Washington while former President Taft served as Supreme Court chief justice and continued to live in the capital until her death in 1943.
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The reverse features a branch of Japanese cherry blossoms, symbolizing Mrs. Taft's instrumental role in bringing the cherry trees to Washington, D.C.
Obverse: HELEN TAFT, IN GOD WE TRUST, LIBERTY, 2013, 27th and 1909 – 1913.
Reverse: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, E PLURIBUS UNUM, $10, 1/2 OZ., and .9999 FINE GOLD.


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The State of Jefferson band is three core members — lead guitarist Joe Ginet, keyboardist Erik Vestnys and bassist Ryan Redding — joined by an elite group of extras that includes horn man Mikey Stevens, drummer Michael St. John and, when in Bend, Ed "The Whistler."
This weekend, the Grants Pass-based band will open for Ras Cricket and The Cultivators and present originals by Ginet and Redding, as well as a handful of songs by artists ranging from Miles Davis to Bob Marley, at 9 p.m. Friday, May 17, at Club 66, 1951 Ashland St., Ashland. The cover is $5.
"We're an Americana jam band, but there's overtones of reggae and world music rhythms in there too," Vestnys says.
In addition to touring the West Coast and Hawaii and organizing two of Southern Oregon's largest outdoor music festivals — the Jefferson State Music Festival, tentatively set for June 29, and the Jefferson State Hemp Expo, to be held Aug. 23-25, both in Grants Pass — the band also collaborates with singers and songwriters from around the world for its series of "sampler plates."
"They lay down their guitar and vocal tracks, and we take it from there and engineer around it," Vestnys says. "They are compilation CDs with music by the State of Jefferson and songs by different composers."
So far, State of Jefferson has featured 23 artists, including Frankie Hernandez and The Illies, and released volume one. Volume two is nearing completion, and volume three is in the works, Vestnys says.
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For decades, retired Cardinal Roger Mahony and other high ranking members of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles made secret efforts to shield child molesting priests. Their aim was to keep their parishioners in the dark and control the damage to the church, church personnel files have revealed.
According to the Daily Mail, previously confidential records filed in a lawsuit against the archdiocese disclose how the church handled abuse allegations for decades. They also reveal that a top Mahony aide criticized his superiors for covering up all the allegations of abuse, rather than protecting children and alerting the authorities.
Notes signed by Mahony demonstrate that he was disturbed about abuse cases being reported to him and that he sent accused priests for treatment, but psychological reports that he received on some priests mention the possibility of many other victims, and there is no indication he or other church leaders investigated them.
'This is all intolerable and unacceptable to me,' Mahony reportedly wrote in 1991 on a file concerning Reverend Lynn Caffoe, a priest suspected of locking boys in his room where he videotaped their crotches. He also ran up a $100 phone sex bill while with a boy.
Caffoe was sent for therapy and removed from ministry, but Mahony didn't actually move to defrock him until 2004, a full decade after the archdiocese lost track of him.
'He is a fugitive from justice,' Mahony wrote to the Vatican's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now Pope Benedict XVI. 'A check of the Social Security index discloses no report of his demise, so presumably he is alive somewhere.'
Caffoe died in 2009, six years after a newspaper reporter found him working at a homeless mission two blocks from a Salinas elementary school.
Mahony released a statement on Monday apologizing for his mistakes and saying he had been 'naïve' about the lasting impacts of abuse. Reporters were told he was out of town and unable to make further statements.
Mahony has reportedly met with 90 abuse victims privately and keeps an index card with each victim's name in his private chapel, where he prays for them daily. The card also includes the names of the molesting priests 'lest I forget that real priests created this appalling harm.'
Mahony inherited a list of offending priests from his predecessor when he took over in 1985, J. Michael Hennigan, an archdiocese attorney, told the Daily Mail. Hennigan added that priests were sent out of state for psychological treatment because therapists were not required to report their child abuse offenses to law enforcement as they were in California, he said.
The files reveal that one priest victimized the children of illegal immigrants and then threatened to have them all deported if they told authorities.
When Reverend Nicholas Aguilar Rivera molested in LA, the files allege, church officials waited two days to call police, allowing him to flee to Mexico. At least 26 children told police they had been abused during his ten months in Los Angeles. The now-defrocked priest is believed to live in Mexico and remains a fugitive from law enforcement.
The personnel files of 13 other clerics show a similar pattern of denial and cover-up, said attorney Anthony De Marco, who represents one 35-year-old plaintiff.
The growing tide of abuse and the church's habitual secrecy in response to it saw one memo to Mahony suggest sending a cleric to a therapist who also is an attorney, in the hope that any incriminating evidence would be protected from authorities by lawyer-client privilege.
In another instance, archdiocese officials paid a secret salary to a priest who had been exiled to the Philippines after he and six other clerics were accused of having sex with a teen and impregnating her.
The newly published files offer a startling glimpse at the 30,000 pages still to be made public as part of a record-setting $660 million abuse settlement.
The archdiocese agreed to give the files to the more than 500 victims of priest abuse in 2007, but a lawyer for about 30 of the accused priests fought to keep records sealed. A judge recently ordered the church to release them without blacking out the names of church personnel.
The files demonstrate how church leaders moved 'problem' priests from parish to parish for decades, covering up each report of abuse and failing to contact law enforcement.
Mahony, who retired in 2011 after twenty six years at the helm of a 4.3-million person archdiocese, has come in for particular criticism for his handling of the case of the Reverend Michael Baker, sentenced to prison in 2007 for molestation, two decades after he confessed his abuse to Mahony.
Mahony sent Baker for psychological treatment in 1986 after the priest told him that he had molested two brothers over seven years. Baker returned to ministry the next year with a doctor's recommendation that he be defrocked immediately if he spent any time with minors. But despite several documented instances of being alone with boys, Baker wasn't removed from ministry until 2000.


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I just don't like how my school gives such a big deal on football, who barely won any games, than my team (XC) who won countless races and won state. But whatever. Football is more "traditional."
I am a pretty good cc star at my highschool but freinds with all the football players. We kick it all the time. Just won day we had a kamanchi club for football and they asked me to come. I came out and it ended with a 2 mile run. I ran a 9:43 pretty good for me and all the football players ran 12+. They then started showing me more respect for the sport. I got two busses from my school to go down to state with me last year !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|border=0!.
At our school its not that bad... We have a few FB players on our team and we dont have practices on Fridays just because of the games (its our rest day)... Its really fun to tell them that I ran 5 miles this morning and will probally run a few more after school and watch their jaws open... mostly their answers are WHY! and i just say... Why not? I gets you in shape... But at our school FB and VB dominate and who cares about XC... At school they always complain that more ppl should come to their games and its like "why should we go to VB games when you guys dont even think to go to our meets"
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Because football players are f-in morons.
Football=Dumb, fat, slow, stupid, pointless, cocky, big, self-centered, waste of oxigen, waste of space, waste of waste.
xc=chill, cool, sexy.
How are football players hot. I suppose if you go for the dumb fat look.
I AGREE, they're cocky annoying and dont have the uttermost respect for runners. and well cross country is so underated at my school. we're probably the most hated oranization and we get no respect :[
I found that I never really had a problem with football players at university (my high school didn't have football). I find that the good football players have a respect for any and all athletes and when you actually sit and talk with them they are usually in awe of the effort that runners put in. The problem is with the 4th and 5th string guys who never play but for some reason think they're king poop. Your best bet is to just ignore them.
IMO it's because of the differences in definition of a sport. Many football players don't think of running as a sport and many runners don't think of football as a sport. It's just a game. My definition of a sport is competition in which the athlete suffers SELF INDUCED pain which is much harder to go through due to the fact that you know you can end it at anytime, but yet you keep going and pushing harder. This leads me to not think all that highly of football as a sport, but more as a fun and very respectable game. On the other hand, a football player's definition of sport may be "competition involving a team effort with scoring, fans, physical contact, and a complete necessity of victory." Because running supposedly lacks physical contact (we all know this isn't true, but it is common belief) football players who don't see all the training and pain we go through don't think too highly of running.
becaus XC runnas work way harder and football peeps cant work near as hard as us runnas so they make fun of us
Well, I've been outta high school for a few years and after that the hate kind of goes away. If your all still competing in college then there's a lot of respect for each other... at least in my experience.
In high school, the track is around the football field so they seem to feel they "own" everything in the vicinity of their lovely field. My problem was always that, they would decide that even though we're doing a workout on the track and they're chugging down water doing nothing they have the right to stand in the middle of the track and not move. Sure they were good, but they were still morons.
While we have practice, it's the freshman team on the field, so they're pretty easily intimidated. If I'm on the track & they don't move, they get plowed-in pads or not. They've started to learn that if I'm charging, they better get the **** outta the way.
That reminds me. who hates the band? They're even worse than the football players-the entire band used to march right across the track while we were doin repeats b4 they moved to the parking lot. I'm pretty sure we damaged a few of the instruments belonging to the idiots who didn't move.
the band isn't so bad here, although I'd probably feel differently if they were marching over the track. I get very sick of the football team practicing by the track and being "so cool." I hate getting hit with a football during a speed workout! Some of the guys are alright as individuals but when you get them all together they are less appealing. A lot of the xc girls are liked by football players(as they should be we are so fine) but the guys don't seem to always get along quite as well. Different kinds of people. Runners: smarter(generally), a little bit quirky(in a good way), funny, laid back
Football players: high maintenance, less intelligent(again, generally. about 8 of the best freshmen are supposed to be sophmores), show offs, need recognition for everything they do
I ran XC and played baseball & football when I was in school (not too long ago). Let's face it. As sad as it may be, XC will never dethrone football as the most popular sport in America. What do many Americans do on Saturdays and Sundays? Attend or watch football games! Varsity Blues, Remember the Titans, Friday Night Lights...this is life for a massive population of high schoolers in America. XC will always remain in the shadows of American athletics behind football, baseball, and even basketball.
Doesn't mean it's an easier or less cool sport. It's just American culture. And not all footballers are cocky jocks and not all XC are shining examples either. Let's not stereotype.
Just my $0.02.
And for the record...IT IS more important to be able to out-run, out-bike, and out-swim your opponent than to be able to run a few 40-yard sprints and squat 500 pounds.
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XC is for people who can't hit. I played football in high school and college, but I'm older now and can't hit, so I run marathons.
FWIW: Brothers and I all played high school football, brothers played NCAA football and competed in Track and Field (mostly field - Discus, Shot, 35lb etc), I played Club Rugby (Div 3 and 4)into my 30's. Along comes my son who decides to RunXC. My youngest brothers initial reaction: XC? Thats way harder than playing football. At my highschool however, there was no hate and discontent between Football and XC. Finish line for XC was next to football practice field. On days with home meets, our coaches made sure that we (Football team) cheered home the XC runners. Gave us a break in practice and them I nice boost at the end of the race....
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Im an xc runner at my school and the football players and xc runners get along pretty good I think. Most of my best friends are on the football team. mainly because I run track with them in the spring. I really don't see where football players and xc runners hate each other.
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'The Good Wife' Recap: Season 5, Episode 21 'The One Percent'
This week's "The Good Wife" starts as any other Mother's Day does, with brunch. Specifically someone making a lovely custard pie.
There's a meeting of The Paisley Group. They are planning on merging with another company and firing 20 percent of their workforce. They are also being sued by the former CFO, who claims he was fired because he was gay. Alicia is their lawyer and says the guy was fired for selling trade secrets.
The pie ends up on Tom Skerritt's face. He's the head of the company- James Paisley. The person representing the alleged discriminated employee is Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox) from Lockhart/Gardner.
Politics: The report investigating Will's shooting clears Finn. Eli is very, very happy. He worries about Finn's sister's drug overdose and his ex-wife's miscarriage. Castro meets with Peter. He gives Peter a picture of Finn coming out of Alicia's apartment building recently. Castro says it won't look good if Peter endorses his wife's lover. Peter then throws a glass of water in Castro's face. I'm surprised Castro didn't get Mr. Big's fist in his face.
Eli tells Peter that Alicia convinced Finn to run. That doesn't go over well. Peter now wants to hold off on endorsing Finn. Eli doesn't know what's going on. Now Peter is flirting with interns. Eli bans the intern from looking at the governor. Peter gets mad about that.
Eli asks Alicia what's going on between the couple. She says she's just tired and done. She says they're not getting divorced but Peter can do what he wants as long as the kids don't find out. Eli says she loves Peter and Peter loves her.
He goes back to Peter and sees the photo of Finn leaving the building. Eli then goes back to Alicia and she tells him to go to hell. Alicia figures out that it was Castro who showed the photo to Peter.
Alicia tells Eli she didn't sleep with Finn. Eli returns to Peter and tells him. This must be exhausting for Eli. At the very end of the show, the intern knocks on the door and asks if Peter needs anything else. Oy.
Case: Alicia says they can pay $140,000 to make the gay discrimination suit go away. Paisley likes Alicia because she doesn't take life too seriously. He says to pay the guy off.
Then Paisley goes on TV and complains about the protesters outside. He says he felt trapped in his boardroom like Anne Frank. He then says the 1 percent are hunted like the Jews in Nazi Germany. Louis is watching the interview too. Now it's about the jury selection and he ups the money from $140,000 to $3 million.
Alicia wants Paisley to apologize for his comment. He says no at first and then met with a Holocaust survivor and changed his mind. So Paisley apologizes but then says Greeks and Italians reward the lazy and he won't do that. So much for Greeks or Italians on the jury.
She's trying to calm Paisley down, but it's not working much. He's quoting Ayn Rand. Alicia says they are losing jury members and his board members are getting nervous and thinking about backing out of the merger.
Paisley then issues a statement that's been approved by a focus group. Alicia is then on TV and keeps confusing the two black anchormen who are interviewing her because she doesn't have a monitor and can't see who is talking. So now she looks like a racist.
Back in court, Alicia/Cary and Louis agree on $1 million agreement.
L/G – Louis is butting in on Diane's case which is a class action suit, and then rushed off. Diane asks Kalinda to investigate. Kalinda tells Louis to just tell her. Louis says they can't represent both the company and the people suing them.
Diane wants to represent the people whose kids were poisoned. Louis wants to represent the company that poisoned the kids. (Allegedly!)
She wants David Lee on her side. But then Rayna the rainmaker client bails because she has concerns about Diane, that she's losing clients and stepping away from the firm. Diane says this isn't true and where did she hear these horrible things?
Diane then stomps into Florrick/Agos and accuses them of spreading lies about her and her firm. But they never met with the rainmaker. It turns out Rayna the rainmaker got a call from Canning and she left. Canning is poisoning his own firm to get votes. Diane is furious!
Personal: Zac is graduating and Alicia is all giddy about it, demanding a picture in the cap and gown. Kalinda is still sleeping with Cary.
MIA: Nathan Lane, Diane's husband, the kooky attorney with red hair. Daniel the guy Alicia was flirting with last week. Eli is never getting another date with America. Does anyone know where Zac is going to college?
Next week's finale: Loyalty will be tested and lines will be crossed!


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November 20, 2006
Germs are everywhere, and they are getting stronger.
And there's an old bug with a potentially deadly new strain out in our community.
This staph infection has a dangerous new gene making it resistant to our common antibiotics.
As one Laney High School football player learned, this germ is no joke. It almost cost him his season, his leg, and his life.
It was a storybook season for the Laney Wildcats: a new stadium filled with big victories, and now the playoffs. But for junior defensive lineman T. McNeal, the beginning was no fairy tale.
"I felt a sharp pain in my leg. I couldn't lift my leg, I couldn't walk on it," T. told News 12. "It hurt every time I took a step. I couldn't even run."
"It just got bigger and redder," T.'s father Ted said.
A few days later his right leg swelled to twice the size of his left leg.
"We took x-rays that showed nothing, but it kept getting worse and worse--the pain," T. said. "So the doctor told me I needed to go get an MRI."
The MRI showed something was very wrong inside T.'s leg: over a quart of blood built up under his muscle.
"Once the bacteria gets into that pocket of blood, they're just going to start growing like crazy," Dr. Jim Wilde of MCG Health Systems told News 12.
The bacteria inside the leg was a strain of staph called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA.
Dr. Wilde is an expert on the virus.
"What we've got now is being referred to as community associated MRSA, meaning it is showing up in healthy people out in the community," he said.
Healthy, active people of all ages, like T. McNeal, are easily infected with MRSA because staph is everywhere that we are.
"He could have picked it up at an away football game, on the field from the guy he was tackling...it could have been in his locker room," Dr. Wilde said.
And the bacteria only needs a simple scrape on the skin to get in and cause abscesses.
"The biggest difference between our traditional staph in years past and the MRSA that's become common is that the antibiotics used to treat staph infections in the past no longer work," Dr. Wilde said.
Patients often have to have surgery on abscesses. If treated improperly or not caught in time, the infection can be deadly.
For six days, T. McNeal laid in a hospital room recovering and dreaming of making it back to the field. To stay motivated, all he had to do was look out his window, which overlooked Laney's new stadium.
"Every morning we'd get up, they'd bring his breakfast and he would say, 'Mom, open the blinds.' He'd just sit there and stare at it," Deborah McNeal recalled.
"I'd go to the window every 15 to 20 minutes just to look at the at stadium because it looked so beautiful," T. said.
His goal was to start in the Laney Homecoming game, the first game ever to be played in the school's new stadium. That was a dream he shared with his dad Ted, who played on Laney's 1968 champion team.
T. was released two days before the big game, and started on both offense and defense.
"It was great to see him heal like that and keep his focus on football to really get himself back into the game," Ted said.
Number 55 is back into the game in a big way, helping carry the team into the playoff season. But he hasn't forgotten his doctor's note.
"Education is key--being careful not to share the common objects like towels, and razors, soap, and uniforms, and pads," said Dr. Wilde. "Things like that should not be shared among athletes."
And it's a lesson T's taking to his team both on and off the field.
"I try to clean up the locker room a lot more now, and when the room is dirty, and all the underclassmen when they clean...make sure it's spotless, especially around my area."
Dr. Wilde says MRSA is the number one cause of skin infection in Georgia.
Last year Emory Hospital did a study, and 70 percent of all skin infections from people coming in off the streets were caused by MRSA.
So here's what you can do to protect yourself.
Be more careful with the objects you come in contact with every day.
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Ah, the holidays. Constant parties. Festive apparel. Forced family fun. An introvert's nightmare.
"I call it the most extroverted time of the year," says author and introvert Sophia Dembling, of Dallas, whose "The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World" (Perigree, $14) just hit bookstores. "I don't want to check out of it entirely, but it can just completely overwhelm you, and then you get crabby."
Whereas Susan Cain's "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" is an introvert's manifesto, "The Introvert's Way" celebrates introversion and gives practical advice on how to survive raving extroversion. Holidays, Dembling says, are a true test of an introvert's mettle. She offered these tips:
"It's a lot easier to enjoy parties if we don't feel trapped," she says. "Of course, at office parties, you have to put your best foot forward and pretend to be an extrovert. At those, you really have to put on your clown nose."
Then, after the season's over, take a deep breath and plunge into the new year.
"I like the concept of a clean slate," Dembling says, although she eschews big horn-blowing New Year's Eve parties for quieter celebrations -- say, an evening looking at the night sky with just her husband.
Introverts, indeed, can survive the holidays, she says. It's just a matter of doing it their own way.
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