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From 5,000 miles away, guardsman hits right note with singing Valentine to wife
Published: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 10:53 a.m.
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Matt Owens is 5,000 miles away from his wife, Miranda, but he sent four love messengers to the Spartanburg County Courthouse to surprise her on Valentine's Day.
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Matt Owens, a S.C. Army National guardsman, is stationed in Kosovo, but wanted to surprise his wife of four years, Miranda, a Department of Juvenile Justice intensive supervision officer.
Matt used Skype to call into Miranda's iphone at 8:30 a.m. She thought he wanted to wish her a happy Valentine's Day, but he really wanted to watch the Collage quartet deliver the singing Valentine he ordered.
The barbershop quartet introduced themselves, gave Miranda roses and a card, and sang "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and "Heart of My Heart" to a visibly flabbergasted Miranda, who received the delivery the moment she walked into the Courthouse.
Miranda put her hands over her face and looked back over her shoulder to Matt, who was on her phone, which a co-worker was holding.
"Thank you, baby," Miranda said to Matt.
Afterwards, Miranda said she was completely surprised.
"I can't believe this," she said, simultaneously laughing and crying. "If I would've known, I would've put on lipstick."
Miranda said Matt constantly comes up with "quirky" and "cheesy" ideas for holiday surprises, but this one is the most memorable.
"Honestly, I was just trying not to think about today being Valentine's Day since he's not here," she said of her husband, who is on his third deployment. "I'm doing a lot this weekend with other wives whose husbands are deployed so that makes it easier."
This year is the first time Matt has been deployed while the two have been married.
Matt said he got the idea to send a singing Valentine and ran an Internet search of quartets in the area.
"They were great," Matt said. "It was definitely the reaction I was hoping for. They did a nice job."
The Collage barbershop quartet, dressed in tuxedoes with red bow ties and cumberbunds, has delivered singing Valentines for the last 15 years, but said they have never had one from an active duty serviceman who was deployed.
"It's hard to sing with a lump in your throat," said David Lybrand, who sings bass.
"Seeing the reactions is the best part of what we do, and this one certainly sets a high bar," said Ken Maes, the lead singer.
The quartet had a dozen stops to make Wednesday, delivering Valentines from Spartanburg to Anderson.
"This was our first stop, and it's so special," said tenor Martin Hill. "This was simply fantastic."
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia -- An Austrian was the heavy favorite to capture the men's slalom on Saturday. Just not this Austrian.
Mario Matt was a surprise winner as he became the oldest Alpine champion in Olympic history, edging pre-race favorite and teammate Marcel Hirscher.
Leading after the first run, Matt glided through the slushy course in a combined time of 1 minute, 41.84 seconds in the last Alpine event of the Sochi Olympics. Hirscher finished 0.28 seconds behind for silver and teenager Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway captured bronze, 0.83 behind.
Matt, who turns 35 in April, surpasses now-retired Norwegian great Kjetil Andre Aamodt as the oldest Alpine skier to win gold. Aamodt was 34 years, 170 days when he won the super-G at the 2006 Turin Games.
Sixth after the opening run, Ted Ligety of the United States fell back on his skis and couldn't recover, sliding off the course. He was far from alone, though. The course set by Ante Kostelic of Croatia was so tough and tricky that five of the last eight racers didn't finish.
"The snow is just really bad and Ante set a really difficult, typical Ante course set, which is borderline unsportsmanlike to set those kinds of course on these kinds of hills," said Ligety, who captured gold in the giant slalom three days ago. "But that's how it goes. Everybody had to ski it. Not all the best guys had a chance to make it down, unfortunately."
The 1-2 finish by Matt and Hirscher helped Austria win the Alpine medal race with nine, which was four more than the Americans. Austria kicked off the Olympics with Matthias Mayer taking gold in the downhill and Matt brought the show to an end in fine fashion.
This was a stark contrast to the performance by the Austrians in Vancouver four years ago, when the skiing-rich nation had only four medals -- and none by the men.
"It's great for us. We are very happy. It's important also for the men's team," said Hans Pum, the sports director of the Austrian ski federation.
Matt almost looked stunned after crossing the finish line. Once he realized he indeed was the champion, he began to celebrate -- crouching low on his skis and slowly rising up, extending his right ski pole high in the air.
This season has been quite a resurgence for Matt. He won his 14th career World Cup slalom race two months ago in Val d'Isere, France -- his first win in more than two years.
And now this.
"He's a tremendous competitor, a game-day guy," U.S. men's coach Sasha Rearick said of Matt. "He's a great skier, but he's an extremely strong competitor."
It wouldn't come easy as Hirscher, arguably the best technical skier in the world, turned in a magnificent run just when it looked like his medal chances were all but finished.
Behind by 1.28 seconds after a lackluster opening run, Hirscher aggressively skied the final run, resembling the guy who won the overall title in the discipline. He made up exactly a second on Matt, but it wasn't enough.
Before Saturday evening, the Olympics hadn't been too friendly to Hirscher. He finished a disappointing fourth in the giant slalom last Wednesday. In Vancouver, Hirscher was fourth in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom.
His chances looked slim, even posting between runs on his Twitter account: "For me it's going to be difficult today ..."
Once the elite skiers went through the course for the first run, the stage was set for some competitors from countries not exactly known for skiing. One of the racers was Hubertus Von Hohenlohe, a 55-year-old German prince who skis for Mexico and is competing in his sixth Olympics.
Von Hohenlohe fell on his way down the course, but definitely stood out wearing a flamboyant mariachi ski suit, which was obscured under his racing number. Once down the slope, though, he took off his racing number and wore it as a cape.
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OAKLAND -- There are times when it seems as if Chris Young couldn't climb over .200 with crampons, climbing boots and a Sherpa.
In the A's 7-3 victory over Cleveland on Sunday, Young singled in a run and hit a tiebreaking home run. That got his average to .197. In mid-August, you would expect he would have found a way to get off the interstate.
One more hit would have him over .200. He could have been there on this homestand, and with panache. But in the first two games against Houston, his bid for a walk-off homer went foul by inches Tuesday, and when he tried for another walk-off Wednesday, the Astros' Robbie Grossman stole it from him with a great catch.
Undeterred, Young stepped up in the fifth inning Sunday with the A's and the Indians tied 3-3 and crushed a homer that no one was going to get without a jet pack.
"He's probably six inches away from two walk-off homers against Houston," manager Bob Melvin said. "But he comes back with another big one today."
Young's power has come in sputters and gasps, but when it has come, it has often been most opportune from an Oakland perspective. Three of his 11 homers, including Sunday's, have broken ties. Two more have been three-run blasts that carried the A's from behind to ahead. Four other homers have been solo blasts that have come when Oakland trailed by two runs.
"I'm feeling good," Young said. "You can let the ball going foul or guys robbing homers from you get you down. You've got to be able to do what you have to do at the plate."
Sunday's game, which also featured a highlight-reel-quality catch in the eighth inning in center field from Young, came after the Rangers lost to Seattle, enabling the A's to move to within one-half game of first-place Texas in the American League West.
And that's where Young's focus is. He doesn't know if he will start Monday when the Mariners come in to start a three-game series. Center fielder Coco Crisp, out for a week with a wrist injury, is due back, so Young will be back to playing whenever and wherever needed.
Asked what the focus of his final six weeks of the season will be, Young had no problem sorting it out.
"It's going to be on us getting to the playoffs," he said. "That's where we are now, and we want the playoffs. Once we get there, it's another season. Whatever I can do, whenever I can do it, is what I'm focused on."
The playoffs are likely to be on the A's minds plenty in the immediate future. Over the next two weeks the Rangers play the two teams with the worst records in the American League -- the Astros and the White Sox -- along with Seattle and Minnesota. None has a winning record, with the Mariners, nine games under .500, the best.
The A's, meanwhile, play Seattle, then the Baltimore Orioles, the first-place Detroit Tigers and the Tampa Bay Rays. Those latter three teams are a cumulative 51 games over .500. Oakland is 17 games over .500, behind the Tigers and the Rays but ahead of the Orioles.
So if Young has been saving clutch late-game hits in his bag of tricks, now would be a great time to unleash them.
"I thought I'd been hitting the ball hard here, I just hadn't gotten any breaks," Callaspo said. He said the homer was special because "it gave us back a run" after his error at third base set up a two-run Indians rally.
Anderson, who last pitched in the big leagues April 29, is recovering from a sprained right ankle and stress fracture of his right foot. Anderson threw 49 pitches for the River Cats in 21/3 innings.
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Insider at blogs.ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
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(Wish this lad were older, but good nonetheless) "Livepool have reached a three year agreement with Barcelona's 16-year-old striker Sergi Canós, the player is set to join the Merseyside club starting next season."
- An announcement this week should be made on Luis Alberto for about 7-8M euros from Sevilla, after 11 goals and 17 assists with Barca B on loan. Very exciting attacker. He'd seem a backup/foil for Coutinho.
- I'd expect Aspas (Ayre's idiotic dealing with non Fifa sanctioned agents) to get sorted this week, or they most likely wouldn't have put it on the LFC site. Figure 7-8M.
- Tiago Llori, CB from Sportig, The clubs are haggling over 4M or 6M. He's considered a future starter in the Portugal defense, and is probably better suited than Coates. (English born too)
- (have my reservations because fee is so high, but love it) "Supposedly" close to reaching a deal for around 20-22M on Henrikh Mkrtchyan from Shakhtar. 25 goals 11 assists last year, can play CAM, 10, wide either side or false 9, AND with Armenia, scored a brace in Denmark (vs Eriksen) where they shocked 4-0.
Then we just need a new # 9, another defensive midfielder, and 1 more CB such as Alderweirdeld. Not sure on the Mignolet thing unless the plan is just to sell Reina.. Seems a real story, just didn't expect it..Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Jason...dont want to rain on u parade but all this about "great workrate" Kuyt had a superb workrate before he arrived to us and scored plenty in Holland but most of his time with us he never managed to score too often whereas the most lazy looking striker I ever saw was also the most prolific and scored MANY goals with spectacular strikes too that man's name is Jimmy Greaves.
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Not really raining on anyone's parade, but I find your comment a bit bizarre, since I posted something I found surprising/interesting, in addition to what everyone highlights about this kid's skills and talent. Should I be posting negative things about him? Besides, I copied/pasted the quote..
There's no comparison between this kid and Kuyt, because aside from work rate, a poacher in the box, and putting a good, hard shift for 90" when/where needed, Kuyt really wasn't that great, whereas this kid has bags of pace, plays any front position including striker, is only 24, broke his league's scoring record while also dishing off 11 assists, 4 times player of the year, and is now being followed by Dortmund, Ajax, clubs in Spain and France, after they've heard the fee needed. Wouldn't be surprised if he went to Dortmund, and we were all kicking ourselves seeing him in the CL next season..
Your comment sounds a tad bit bitter, and as if you're comparing a Rafa buy, who perhaps didn't live up to billing, to a Rodger's buy you think will do the same. Neither manager of which you're fond of..
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Jun 17, 2013 20:21 Flag
One concern, and maybe you are picking things up but have not posted here, is the lack of a LB being linked with us. I'm happy with Jose, but other than striker I think his is now one are of the pitch where we have the least depth. Also, I'll be interested in what the deal looks like for Canos. I know little to nothing about the lad, however bit wary of taking young players from Barca as they often include a buy back clause (if they are any good) or can end up flattering to deceive but be a little light weight for football on the bigger stage. Do you know if he'd ran his contract down forcing Barca to sell, or if Barca decided he was surplus to requirements?
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I don't have any information for you on a left back, though I agree it's an area we would hope to create depth, unless Robinson has made good strides, or a potential CB might be able to double up there.
In regards to Sergi Canos, all I do know is that he is supposed to make something like 600K, which was said to be triple what Barca offered. Whether he jumped for the money alone, or there is a buy back clause, I don't know, all I know is what's above and that the Spanish sources describe him as "oozing with class". Going by that, sounds like a Sterling / Coutinho who can jump up rapidly..
They are definitely the current stories knocking around, Canas should slip straight into the reserves, Aspas should take Downings position, Illori looks likely to happen and as you say should be a Coates replacement. Mkytrichianythihyrecrayan has a great record this season, ridiculous nabbing 25 from 36 games in midfield. There is still talk of it being a mask for an Eriksen bid, either way, I will be happy.
Mignolet shocked me a bit as it seemed likely that Reina would stay another year. The Alderweireld/Papadopolous deals look likely to swing on the future of Skrtel, I am pretty neutral all round with the 3 of them, I am a big Skrtel fan but the other 2 look better ball players. Agger and Alderweireld would be awesome in possesion but natural blends? Who is to say.
Sadly, all I can say is, if we are to lose Suarez and Reina then bring in what looks to be 5+ 1st team starters, it will be very difficult to make the top 4 this season.
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Jun 18, 2013 20:32 Flag
Some good news Carroll is going to WHU finally we get rid of him..
Hey Hobbs. I think your last point is the most striking. The rumours are pointing towards big changes at the back (maybe including full backs) and up front. Another season of bedding in beckons but will the fans stand for that? My guess is that BR has had his honeymoon season and will need a good start next year. A bad run up front will see him under huge pressure imo. Let's hope for a kind fixture list up front.
where do u get the transfer gossip from????
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A lot of this stuff is well publicized now, and can be read anywhere. But I spend a lot of time researching, and every now and again (last summer) I become privy to a thing or two. I also read Spanish, so I spend time focusing on Spanish and S. American news.. I only focus on what I personally believe true, the rest I ignore
Interesting tidbit on Mkhitaryan:
"Not only did he score 25 goals in the league for Shakhtar, (league record) he also covered more ground than any other player, during his club's Champions League run last season, (knocked out in round of 16!!) which is a truly remarkable feat, considering that players of his ilk are often blamed of having a poor work-rate."
Outside of UCL, I really didn't know anything, and I'm truly excited about perhaps getting him. He seems like he's a genuine, world class player, similar to Coutinho, and reminiscent of when we signed a player of the likes of Suarez' caliber..


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The Reverend considers his story of survival a miracle. News 12 has more on his long road to recovery and how his church is banding together.
It was the day that nearly took the life of their pastor, November 22nd when Reverend Earl Carter was shot outside this Huddle House in North Augusta.
"Right now he needs out support and we need to be behind him 110 percent," said Beth Johnson, church member.
"We're praying for him and I think he's a living miracle. And we know that God left him here for a reason," said Gloria Myers, church treasurer.
So members of his church, Little Horse Creek Baptist in Graniteville, are sounding their battle cry.
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Taking cash collections to offer as a reward for information that can lead police to this man. Already, they've raised $1,000.
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Jason Wu was a relative newcomer in the fashion world in January 2009 when Michelle Obama appeared at the inaugural gala wearing a one-shoulder chiffon gown by the designer, then just 26 years old.
Suddenly Wu, who was born in Taiwan, was on the map. He has spent the last four years building his consumer base and product assortment to include clothes at a variety of prices, accessories, and even cosmetics.
But for all the buzz, neither Wu nor industry insiders expected the first lady to wear another of his designs to the second-term inaugural ball. Seems like she fell in love with Wu's red velvet and chiffon dress with a diamond ring by Kimberly McDonald at the neckline. Photos of it were instantly seen and shared on social media around the globe Monday night.
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"To be honest, I was surprised," said Steven Kolb, CEO of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in New York. The organization has a membership of more than 400 top fashion industry talents, including Wu, who won its emerging designer award for women's wear in 2010.
"I've known him very well from the early years of his career," Kolb says. "He's basically the same person he was then. He's humble, and still has that childlike enthusiasm and excitement when something good happens."
But being a nice guy isn't going to get you far in the fashion business. "To succeed, no matter what opportunities you are given, if the talent isn't there, you have nothing to leverage," Kolb says.
The designer's ability to create clothes that are both modern and elegant set him apart from the pack, according to Ken Downing, senior vice president for fashion at Neiman Marcus. "A return engagement in elegance made for perfect partners when Michelle Obama chose Jason Wu again," Downing said in an email Tuesday. "Jason once again proved he is a designer that transcends generations."
The 2013 inaugural gown will be donated to the National Archives for display in a future Obama presidential library, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Her first inaugural gown was given to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., where the ensemble is exhibited in the first ladies collection.
Wu is savvy about business as well as being creative. His company has grown from four to 30 employees as he continues to produce his seasonal fashion collections sold at such stores as Neiman Marcus. He also launched a high-end handbag and shoe line, and collaborated with Target in 2012. Among the designer's latest ventures is his Miss Wu contemporary line of clothing for Nordstrom, in stores and online this month.
Wu dedicated his life to his creative pursuits beginning at an early age. His family moved to Canada when he was 9 and he started designing and sewing clothes, using dolls as his first models, according to the biography on his website. At age 14, Wu went to Tokyo to study sculpture. He decided to become a fashion designer after spending his senior year of high school in Paris. Fashion studies followed at New York's Parsons School of Design and Wu launched his first collection in 2006. In 2008, he was a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominee for the Swarovski Award for Womenswear and received the Fashion Group International's Rising Star award.
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He was born on March 2, 1928, in Oklahoma City, Okla., to parents Clarence and Mary Draper.
He is survived by a true and loving friend, Ann Shadley, of Neosho.
He is also survived by son David R. Draper and daughter-in-law Connie of Palmdale Calif.; grandson, William Draper, Newhall, Calif.; granddaughters Rebecca and Melissa Draper, Cottonwood Heights, Utah; and great-grandson, Damian, Cottonwood Heights, Utah.
He is also survived by the mother of his children, Betty Datillio, Santa Clarita, Calif.
He was predeceased by his parents; his brother, Tom; sister, Jean; and son Daniel.
No services are planned. Deposition of cremains will be handled privately.
Arrangements are under the direction of Clark Funeral Home, Neosho.
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Hi, new user and first post here, I was wondering if it is possible to stream what I have on my cpu while the cpu is offline, but while my PS3 is connected directly to the cpu with an ethernet cable?
I've searched for solutions but no luck...
And is there any way to deny other PS3s access to my cpu, while my cpu is online, without denying my own PS3 access?
I realize this is no PSM related question, but I can't find any solutions.
The network I am on is being shared by 5 houses, 24 apartments, and I don't want unauthorized access to either my cpu or my PS3, by other PS3s.
Other cpus on this network has no access to my cpu, as it is password activated, is there any way to activate some sort of password for PS3 access as well?
Just so it is said, PMS works fine, streaming is close to perfect, 512mb/s, excellent software, was getting boring having to convert all my files for the PS3
hope someone can help.
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A 26-year-old Florida man was shot and killed by Lake County Sheriff's Office deputies early Sunday morning after being mistaken for attempted murder suspect Jonathan Brown.
After receiving reports that Brown was spotted at the Blueberry Hills Apartment complex, officers arrived at 1:30 AM to find his motorcycle parked near Andrew Lee Scott's front door.
"When we knocked on the door, the door opened and the occupant of that apartment was pointing a gun at deputies and that's when we opened fire and killed him," said Lt. John Herrell. Deputies quickly realized they had shot the wrong man.
Despite the fact that the deputies never identified themselves as law enforcement officers, Herrell blamed the incident on Scott, saying "the bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you're going to get shot."
Brown was later found at another apartment complex. He and a second suspect were arrested and booked into the Lake County Jail.
An investigation into the incident by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is ongoing, and the deputy who killed Scott has been placed on administrative leave.
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Well, I do use the X-step. It's a casual stride more so to get everything in place.
I know I can get a disc out there well now, but not to my liking. I threw that darn Katana 400 ft. and it wasn't more than 3 feet off the ground.
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Here's a quiz which won't cost a penny but might tax your memory: Who wrote the following?
1 — "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
2 — "Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."
3 — "The difference between the taxidermist and the tax collector is the taxidermist takes only your skin."
4 — "The average American is true to his Christian principles 363 days out of the year. The other two days he visits the tax office and the voting booth."
Answers: 1 Ben Franklin; 2 Margaret Mitchell; 3 and 4 Mark Twain.
Another famous line is "You Can't Go Home Again," the title of Thomas Wolf's 1940 posthumous novel and a misimpression regarding the "Ghost of Twain."
McAvoy Layne, known for decades around the lake as the Ghost of Twain, returns Saturday to his old haunt in the Village Center at Incline Village to perform "Twain on Taxes."
The former Mark Twain Cultural Center is now the Toccata Performing Arts Theater. In its eighth year, the Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus took up residence in the facility this winter to continue what McAvoy and Rebecca Layne started in 2010: a venue for music, theater and culture.
Now that the income tax filing deadline has passed, Saturday's event will provide an opportunity to look back at the ritual and perhaps shed some tears of laughter and/or sorrow. That is unless the deadline was missed. In that case, it might be prudent to follow Twain's (aka Samuel Clemens) lead and high-tail it out of town, in his case from Buffalo, N.Y.
Twain penned "The Mysterious Visit" during his short stint in Buffalo with his new bride, Olivia Clemens. The story's visitor was a man from the Internal Revenue Service.
"We talked, and talked, and talked — at least I did," Twain wrote. "And we laughed, and laughed, and laughed — at least he did."
The Ghost of Twain will tell the rest of the story on Saturday. Folks who attend are welcome to bring appetizers and desserts. There is a bar or, for a corkage fee, people can bring their own booze.
Layne moonlights as a Lake Tahoe Action figure, but he did not address his appearance in a weekly column.
"I'll not be promoting this raid upon an unsuspecting public in Pine Nuts," Layne told his editor. "I don't want anybody thinking I'm from New York."


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I finally got myself a receiver that can take advantage of this amazing audio and was hoping I can start ripping my BR discs to network storage, but I can't seem to get successful playback with sound if I rip the BR disc with the HD audio selected. The regular DD/DTS will work but that's just no fun at all, right?
Is there any reason this SHOULDN'T work, since the audio track should be hitting the PS3 unaltered in a format it can decode, right? I don't think PS3 Media Server itself can render the DTS-MA audio stream and remux it to PCM, but maybe it can. I dunno.
Has anybody tried this, or better yet, succeeded?
Also in another issue entirely, when I play HD mkv with 5.1 surround over PS3MS, my channels are all "rotated" - center channel sound comes from the right front speaker, etc. Is this something wrong with my codec setup on the host PC?


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Union senior center Lindsey Waters is the Appalachian Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week, the league announced Monday.
This is the second time this season Waters has received this award and the eighth time for her career.
The Stearns, Ky., native helped Union to a 2-1 record last week as she record her league-leading seventh and eighth double-doubles. Waters averaged 16.0 and 11.0 rebounds per game last week as well as 3.0 blocks, 2.3 assists and 1.3 steals while shooting 55.9 percent from the field and 40 percent from 3-point range. Her best game of the week came in the 81-72 win at Montreat (N.C.) as she poured in 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as she went 9-for-14 from the floor.
For the season, Waters is averaging 16.8 points and 9.32 rebounds per game, leading the AAC in the latter. She also paces the conference in blocked shots with 3.5 per game. Waters ranks second in NAIA Division II in total blocked shots with 77.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - Plum TV announced last week that it will be opening a mountain region bureau in Base Village.
The Snowmass location will now be Plum's only studio. There it will produce content that will be broadcast to its network locations in seven other U.S. resort markets.
"We're changing the company," said D.R. Dwyer, Plum's vice president of business development. "For all practical purposes, it was eight different companies. Now we're one national company."
Winter programming will start Dec. 20 and will air from 7 to 9 a.m. Thursdays through Sundays on Channel 16 in the Roaring Fork Valley. The content will have a lifestyle theme, featuring real estate, interior design, cooking, nightlife, hotels, restaurants, outdoors and wellness.
Live interviews, cooking demonstrations and other morning show staples will be shot in the Snowmass studio. Local content will cover things going on in Aspen and Snowmass, said Pat Dimon, formerly of Plum Aspen and now serving as mountain region bureau chief. However, much of the content will pertain to Plum's other locations as well.
Visitors to Aspen/Snowmass don't just visit one resort, Dimon said, and are interested in what's happening in other places too. Some of the content will be about other locations. As for coverage about local businesses, the network might offer information about ordering goods from a certain retailer, for example, as a way to be relevant to viewers in other markets.
According to both Dimon and Dwyer, a lot of content will highlight Snowmass specifically. Plum TV is opening the studio through a partnership with Related Colorado, which Dwyer said has asked the network to "cover everything that's going on in Snowmass this season ... and really blow the awareness of Snowmass."
"The goal is to get a lot of buzz and energy back in Snowmass Village," Dimon said. "Snowmass is great and a lot of people that maybe don't know the area as well ... don't really know."
The studio will be located down the hill from the Treehouse Kids' Adventure Center in Base Village. It's still being built out, Dimon said.
Plum TV hit some hard times last year. A wave of layoffs across the company cut all but two positions in Aspen, and Plum filed for bankruptcy a few months later, according to The Aspen Times. Media executives Joseph Varet and Morgan Hertzan announced in March that they would be purchasing the company.
Dwyer said centering the network's production in Snowmass was a result of focusing on the company's strength.
"We want to bite off what we know we can do really well," Dwyer said.
Plum also had strong business relationships in the Valley, Dwyer said, including with Related and the Aspen Skiing Co.
Plum also distributes to Telluride; the Hamptons, N.Y.; Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Mass; and recently added Boston and Philadelphia.
"As the company grows, a lot of people from that area (Boston and Philadelphia) come to Aspen," Dwyer said. "We hope that the impact is people see us in Aspen, but they can take it home with them."


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Gallstones - Topic Overview
The gallbladder is a small sac found just under the liver. It stores bile made by the liver. Bile helps you digest fats. Bile moves from the gallbladder to the small intestine through tubes called the cystic duct and common bile duct.
Gallstones are made from cholesterol and other things found in the bile. They can be smaller than a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball.
Most gallstones do not cause problems. But if they block a duct, they usually need treatment.
Gallstones form when cholesterol and other things found in bile make stones. They can also form if the gallbladder does not empty as it should. People who are overweight or who are trying to lose weight quickly are more likely to get gallstones.
Most people who have gallstones do not have symptoms.
If you have symptoms, you most likely will have mild pain in the pit of your stomach or in the upper right part of your belly. Pain may spread to your right upper back or shoulder blade area. Sometimes the pain is more severe. It may be steady, or it may come and go. Or it may get worse when you eat.
When gallstones keep blocking a bile duct, you may have pain with fever and chills. Or your skin or the whites of your eyes may turn yellow. Call your doctor right away. Having stones in your bile duct increases your chance of having a swollen pancreas (pancreatitis). These symptoms may also be a sign of an infected gallbladder.
Call your doctor right away if you have sudden or bad pain in your belly or chest and you are not sure what is causing it. Symptoms of gallstones may feel like chest pain caused by a heart attack or other serious problems.
You may decide to go to the doctor because of pain in your belly. In this case, your doctor will ask you questions about when the pain started, where it is, and if it comes and goes or is always there. Your doctor may order imaging tests. These take pictures of the inside of your body. An ultrasound of the belly is the best test to find gallstones. This test does not hurt.
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text: A Rich History of Community Engagement Efforts to improve the health of the Rochester community are deeply rooted in the history of the University of Rochester, and can be traced back to the Medical Center's original benefactor, George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. In the 1920s, Eastman agreed to fund a medical school with the caveat that the school use its skills and talents "to make Rochester one of the healthiest communities in the world." His vision has shaped an enduring legacy of commitment to improve the health of the Rochester community. We have embraced a comprehensive approach to community health, which employs the multidisciplinary skills found in an academic medical center to both provide important community services and conduct community-based research. These activities help inform policymakers and the community about local health challenges, evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, and serve as a foundation for evidence-based practices to improve health and overall quality of life. Monroe County Joint Community Service Plan This unique effort, done in collaboration with the Monroe County Department of Public Health, has allowed the hospitals in Monroe County to go well beyond the basic requirements of submitting individual community service plans. Community Needs Assessment/Community Health Improvement Plan, Monroe County NY 2013 Joint Community Service Plan Monroe County Joint Community Service Plan 2015 Progress Report Monroe County Joint Community Service Plan 2016 Progress Report


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How Faithful Are 'The Hobbit' Films to Tolkien's Books?
At first glance, Peter Jackson's trilogy of epic films based on "The Hobbit," a slender children's book, might appear to leave its source behind in order to make more capital out of the "Lord of the Rings" franchise. Many viewers may wonder how much J.R.R. Tolkien they are really getting in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," which opens today. Just how faithful are these films to Tolkien's "The Hobbit"?
The answer to this question is another question: which Hobbit? "The Hobbit" lived two different lives over the course of Tolkien's career. "The Hobbit" as published in 1937 was a free-standing piece of juvenile fantasy. When it succeeded, Tolkien sat down to write a sequel, another similar hobbit adventure. That book didn't turn out as planned, and instead of writing a second short children's novel he produced, 17 years later, an enormous epic fantasy for adults: "The Lord of the Rings." The "sequel" to "The Hobbit" not only changed the tone dramatically; it also built around "The Hobbit" an intricately developed world and a detailed history into which Tolkien then needed to place that first book, retroactively. Through his changes to the Hobbit text itself and his addition of alternative accounts and explanatory notes in the prologue and appendices of "The Lord of the Rings," Tolkien spent a good deal of time working to retrofit "The Hobbit" for the world of "The Lord of the Rings."
The mere fact that Jackson's film includes characters, elements, or events that are "not in the book," therefore, doesn't prove that the films are unfaithful to Tolkien's vision. The film trilogy is not attempting to retell the early, standalone children's story, but to adapt into one sweeping narrative the Hobbit story as Tolkien expanded it later in his career. Given Tolkien's own development of many of the elements of "The Hobbit," the material Jackson has to work with actually requires some compression to fit into three films.
The additions that Jackson and his team make often follow the spirit of Tolkien's own adaptation of "The Hobbit" quite closely. Movie watchers might be puzzled by the time we spend in "The Desolation of Smaug" following Gandalf's confrontation with the Necromancer. The published Hobbit does explain that when Gandalf leaves Bilbo and the dwarves, he goes to combat the Necromancer, but this fact is only mentioned in passing in the book's last chapter, as a kind of afterthought. When Tolkien decided that the Necromancer of "The Hobbit" was going to be the central antagonist of "The Lord of the Rings," however, he focused much more attention on the actions of Gandalf and his wizardly colleagues in first revealing and then evicting Sauron. Jackson's film gives that subplot the weight that Tolkien's revisions suggest.
Jackson has brought back Orlando Bloom's character from "The Lord of the Rings," the elf Legolas, and added a female character: Tauriel, the female captain of the guard of the Elven King of Mirkwood, and by doing so he has greatly increased the audience's engagement with the Wood Elves of Mirkwood. But Tolkien himself had already done something quite similar by adding Legolas's character to "The Lord of the Rings" in the first place, inventing a son for the Elven King that was not in the published Hobbit and making him one of the central characters of the sequel, thereby personalizing the Elves of Mirkwood, whose culture got short shrift in the original story.
Not all of Jackson's changes are based on Tolkien's revisions (no version of Tolkien's Hobbit contains any kind of love story, for instance), but it is important to recognize that in making changes, Jackson is largely following Tolkien's lead. Does the choice to make Thorin, desperate to avenge his people and live up to his family name, stand up to Smaug instead of cowering in a tunnel seem like a radical change? So did Tolkien's choice to turn the scrupulously honest and apologetic Gollum who wanted to give Bilbo his ring in the first edition of "The Hobbit" into the treacherous and obsessive creature, shrieking out his eternal enmity, that we have all come to take for granted. Jackson takes creative license with Tolkien's Hobbit, but in the process he demonstrates a serious commitment to engaging broadly with the texts and the ideas of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Corey Olsen is the author of "Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'" and the president of the Mythgard Institute.


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May 14, 1998
Jennifer M. Rockhold of Campbellsville has received a bachelor of arts degree in agriculture from Murray State University in Murray, Ky.
Mr. and Mrs. Otha Blevins of Campbellsville will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, May 23 in the Fireside Room at Campbellsville Baptist Church.
Navy Seaman Cary D. Kennedy recently reported for duty with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Five, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Two Campbellsville men were among 11 Kentucky Baptists who recently returned from an eight-day disaster relief mission trip to the Mosquitia region of Nicaragua.
While in Nicaragua, team members helped rebuild homes devastated by Hurricane Felix, which happened on Sept. 4, 2007. The trip took place March 29-April 5 and was coordinated through the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
George Phillips and Larry Hunt, both of Campbellsville, made the trip.
According to Phillips, about 20,000 people became homeless because of Hurricane Felix.
Last year, my granddaughter's best friend was 4-year-old Braden because he lived next door and had a trampoline. Braden liked Caroline because, at 5, she was someone other than his baby brother.
Except for the occasional meltdown because one or both of them were tired, the friendship worked well. Then Braden moved away, Connor moved in, and Caroline has a new best friend.
Why can't adult friendships be that easy?
First Baptist Church will host an anniversary celebration in honor of Pastor Daniel C. Shull on Sunday, May 25.
Guest speakers will be the Rev. James "Doc" Shelton of Nashville, Tenn. and Dr. Kevin Cosby and St. Stephen Church of Louisville.
Shelton will speak during the morning worship service at 11:15. Cosby and St. Stephen Church will be guests during the 7 p.m. service.
The community is invited to attend.
Carrying the Torch Ministries is hosting May's explosion services this month.
The event began last Sunday with a "miracle deliverance" service.
Events will continue this weekend with Bro. Jim Angles of Virginia. Friday through Sunday topics will include "knocking on the door of a million souls for Christ."
On May 17-18, The Sloan Family from Mississippi will be the featured guests.
On May 24-25, Sis. Sherry Hixon from Alabama will be preaching and sharing the "gifts of the Spirit, which are manifested in her life."
The headline caught my attention: 'I was given a young man's heart - and started craving beer and Kentucky Fried Chicken.'
Claire Sylvia, a 47-year-old woman who lives somewhere in the UK, had a heart and lung transplant in 1988, receiving the organs from an 18-year-old boy who had been killed in a motorcycle accident.
Shortly after the surgery she noticed she had acquired the characteristics and cravings of the donor. She wanted a beer, she told a reporter who had come to the hospital to interview her. (She didn't like beer before the surgery.)
May 7, 1998
Gov. Paul Patton has proclaimed this week (May 3-9) Community Readership Week.
Jessie O. Underwood celebrated her 86th birthday with her family at Medco Center on April 27.
Suzie Lynne Pike was the overnight guest of Anne and Paul Fraim of Campbellsville last Wednesday.
Quenton Ford celebrated his fourth birthday recently at Little People Day Care & Learning Center. He is the son of Trent and Trina Ford of Campbellsville.
Campbellsville Baptist Church's youth group participated in a 30-hour famine to raise awareness about world hunger.
Fifty-six students gave up food for 30 hours and slept in cardboard boxes in Miller Park.
The youth placed 29,000 forks in the front lawn of Campbellsville Baptist, which represented the number of people who die daily from world hunger.
They raised $2,200 and collected hundreds of canned goods for the Taylor County Food Bank.
April 30, 1998
Elaine Asher recently planted a Japanese red maple tree in Miller Park in memory of her husband, Thomas J. Asher III, who died in 1993.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Noe of Greensburg will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 3 at South Summersville Baptist Church.
Janice M. Arnold and Doug N. Clark announce their forthcoming marriage, Saturday, May 16 at Salem Baptist Church in Campbellsville.
Taylor County's unemployment rate for March was 18 percent, the second highest in the state.
When my daughter Alison was 3, I attempted to teach her to pray. Actually, I wanted to teach her about "giving money to Jesus."
She had put 50 cents of her own in the offering plate at church one Sunday morning and then misplaced one of her shoes that afternoon.
We didn't know about the shoe until the next morning as we scrambled to get to preschool on time and turned the house upside down looking for her shoe.
As a last resort, I suggested we pray.
Linda Waggener
Campbellsville University
Nationally prominent speakers Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Holly Hollman, general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, were recent guests at Campbellsville University's Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy roundtable.
Campbellsville Baptist Church begins a special five-week sermon series, "Get a Life!" this weekend.
Worship services are at 8:30 and 11 a.m., with small group Bible study at 9:45. A nursery is provided.
The series includes:
Sunday, April 27 - Why Am I Here?
Sunday, May 4 - What is Really Important to Me?
Sunday, May 11 - What is My Scoreboard?
Sunday, May 18 - What Am I Good At?
Sunday, May 25 - What Do I Need to Learn?
Call 465-8115 for more information.
A rally Monday evening will kick off the South Central Kentucky Go Tell Crusade with Rick Gage.
A drop-in reception will begin at 6:15 p.m. with the rally set for 7 p.m. in the Ransdell Chapel on the campus of Campbellsville University.
Gage will be guest speaker at the Crusade that is planned for Sept. 14-17 at the Campbellsville High School Football Stadium.
Organizers are expecting a large turnout from Taylor, Adair, LaRue, Casey, Green and Marion counties.
Campbellsville University's Theater Department presented 'The Squishiness of Things' last week in the CU Theater. The children's play teaches that 'There is always a hair more to learn.' Dr. Hieronymus, above, portrayed by Chris Adkins, tries his best to learn "everything there is to know about everything."
Taylor County Ministerial Association will host a National Day of Prayer breakfast on Thursday, May 1.
The event will begin at 7:30 a.m. in Campbellsville University's Winters Dining Hall.
Everyone is invited to join other community members in a time of fellowship and prayer.
RSVP is requested, no later than April 25, to the Rev. Bill Henderson, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, at email@example.com.
Soule's Chapel United Methodist Church will host its 50th homecoming on Sunday, April 20.
The Rev. Roger McKinney, pastor, will deliver the message while "Living by Faith" will provide special music.
Sunday school begins at 10 a.m. with worship at 11 a.m. A potluck meal is at 1 p.m. followed by worship and praise at 2 p.m.
For more information, call 465-2196.
Have you heard the parable of the Happy Meal? Author John Ortberg tells it in his book, "Love Beyond Reason."
Briefly, a little girl discovers the incredible bliss of Happy Meals and begs her parents to buy her one.
She knew it was more than just "fries, McNuggets and a dinosaur stamp," but happiness itself and she didn't think she could live without it. She was convinced she had a little "McVacuum at the core of her soul" and her heart "would not find rest until it found rest in a Happy Meal."
The Spencers from Mansfield, Ohio will be in concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 20 at South Summersville Baptist Church. The church is located on KY 61. For more information, call (270) 932-5419 or (270) 932-4726. Everyone is welcome.
First General Baptist Church will host a revival beginning Monday, April 21 and continuing through Saturday, April 26.
On Monday and Tuesday, open prayer service will take place from 5 to 8 each night. From Wednesday through Friday, Bro. Dickie Rodgers will be preaching nightly at 7.
On Saturday, April 26, Steadfast will be in concert and the youth service will feature Greg Estes speaking. Snacks will be provided by the church following the service.
For more information about the revival or to schedule a ride, call Bro. Richard Douglas at 789-9614.
Cross Over Ministries will present a gospel singing tomorrow evening at the Taylor County Senior Center.
The event will feature the legendary Carson Howard, a singer, songwriter, recording artist and evangelist. Joining him in the concert will be Cross Over, Russ Milby and other local talents.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. at the center, which is located at 110 S. Jackson St. in Campbellsville (next to Jackson Tower).
Admission price is three non-perishable canned goods.
For more information, contact Cross Over Ministries at (270) 405-6534.
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When his Swedish and Norwegian players start talking in their native languages during games, Ohlone College men's basketball coach John Peterson can understand them.
He once lived in Sweden for a year, but the guy toting the whistle on the court is probably lost in translation.
"I can only imagine what they say to the referees," Peterson quipped.
Such is life on the eclectic Renegades squad, which boasts nine foreigners and entered Coast Conference-North Division play this week ranked fourth in Northern California and sixth in the state.
The Renegades, who have beaten Diablo Valley twice this season, will host powerful City College of San Francisco -- ranked No. 1 in the state -- at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Ohlone's foreigners form a tall order. Six of them are 6-foot-5 or taller, and only one, team leader Jarrad Jackson of Perth, Australia, is under 6-foot.
The other imports are Norwegians Henry McCarthy (6-9) and Fredrik Boehn (6-6); Swedes Anton Miller (6-0) and Karl Ohrner (6-8); Australians Anel Bucuk (6-6) and Ashley Stephens (6-4); Jason Bi of Shanghai, China (6-5); and Ring Ayuel of Sudan, Africa (7-4), a basketball novice who's played in four games and has five total points.
Peterson gives all the foreigners high marks for their discipline and drive.
"The nice thing about having those guys is that they've come up predominantly to play in highly-organized, team-based basketball," Peterson said. "It almost the antithesis of what you would see in an AAU setting. Everything they do is about team. It's refreshing.
"Their understanding of the game and their skill level is pretty high, and it makes it really easy to coach. Their ability to retain information and understand stuff and commit to playing as a group is remarkable."
Peterson says his players' English is good, along with their defense. Ohlone has allowed just 55 points a game, and opponents are shooting just 37 percent from the floor.
"Defensively, this is definitely one of the best groups we've had, by far," Peterson said. "I think our size a lot to do with that."
Ohlone is led by 6-foot-3 sophomore Chris Read, a Castro Valley High graduate averaging 16.2 points a game.
Over the summer Peterson was a globe-trotter himself. He coached a United States men's 'B" team, composed of Division I players who just graduated and European-based pros, against some of the top prospects in China. The team played nine games over 12 days during a grueling Chinese tour.
"Man, they were good. Let me tell ya," he said of the American squad.
As for the Renegades, he thinks this season could be special.
"I think it could be if we stay healthy, knock on wood," he said. "We can really shoot it. We play well together. We're unselfish."
MUSTANGS SOFTBALL RETURNS: After one year away, the Los Medanos College softball team is back.
And new coach Tim Griffith, a former assistant at Diablo Valley, is excited.
"We've got a number of good players," he said. "We're always obviously looking for more. We've got a 40-game schedule, which is really nice -- a good, hard schedule."
Griffith wants people to know that there is stability in the LMC program.
"Not only are we back up and running, but we look like an entirely different program," he said.
The Mustangs, whose season will run from late January through April, will feature former Concord star Jenna Leavitt in the circle, along with returner Michelle Gorman, an Encinal graduate who was second-team all-Bay Valley Conference in 2011.
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LAS VEGAS — Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum told RingTV.com earlier this week that he was willing to negotiate with Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer regarding a bout between THE RING's No. 1-rated pound-for-pound, Manny Pacquiao, and RING No. 2-ranked pound-for-pound, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Pacquiao, he told The New York Daily News, would agree to Olympic style testing conducted by the United States Anti-Doping Agency to satisfy Mayweather's request that he do so before a fight can be made.
"We don't want to make an issue with anything for drug testing. We'll do the drug testing with the outside agency even though, personally, I believe it to be stupid. We're calling his bluff. He keeps running around screaming, 'Take the tests.' Okay, we'll take the tests. Just to get the fight done," said Arum.
"We have said it for the last year to Schaefer and to everybody. They know that. I'm sick and tired of that mantra when he knows that we accede to all the demands."
Negotiations to make the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight have failed twice over Mayweather's insistence on Olympic-style random drug testing.
Prior to his past two victories over Shane Mosley and Victor Ortiz in May of last year and in September, Mayweather required that his opponents undergo Olympic-style random drug testing of urine and blood that was conducted by United States Anti-Doping Agency.
Pacquiao has an ongoing lawsuit charging defamation of character against Mayweather, whom he believes has openly insinuated that the Filipino icon's extraordinary success in the sport is due to the use of performance enhancing substances.
But Arum told RingTV.com that neither the lawsuit nor the drug testing would be an issue for Pacquiao to make a bout against Mayweather.
"Other issues will have to get ironed out because it's a very big business deal. You have to sit down like adults and spend a few days and iron out all the issues. There are myriad of issues," Arum told The Daily News.
"I'm guardedly optimistic. Do I know what craziness is going to happen? No. But it would be wrong for me not to anticipate any craziness. I'm not going to negotiate through the media. The only the place I'm going to negotiate is in a closed room."
Pacquiao (53-3-2, 38 KOs) has Saturday night's HBO Pay Per View televised defense of his WBO welterweight belt against Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand.
On the Pacquiao-Marquez undercard, RING No. 8-rated WBO junior welterweight beltholder Tim Bradley (27-0, 11 KOs) will make a defense of his belt against the former four-time titleholder and Cuban Olympic gold medalist Joel Casamayor (38-5-1, 22 KOs).
Arum told The Daily News that if the fight can't be made with Mayweather he will move on to making a match for Pacquiao against Bradley.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE --I have learned that a newspaper columnist in a small ski town has no chance against vehement criticism from the townspeople. Sooner or later, someone is so angered by something I write that they fire back with the accusation that stings and leaves me down in the dumps for days: "You are a terrible skier!"
It happened twice last week. I can deal with garden variety critiques - "you need a comma in the 15th sentence before 'if,' you overuse 'flabbergasted,' and you have the IQ of a shoehorn." It's funny, though, when you get someone really worked up, and they fire back with the words
that hurt.
I suppose it's so frustrating because it's an accusation that I have yet to find a way to effectively rebut. Think about it. By calling you a terrible skier the accuser does not really mean "terrible" in a beginner kind of way. If that was the case you could brush them off by pointing out that you regularly ski black-diamond runs and own a pair of double-rocker, reverse-camber, super-fat, all-mountain skis. In fact, almost every piece of ski gear I own is multi-hyphenated all the way down to my tri-wicking, dry-tech long johns. See how far that gets you with the hyper-critics, though. When they accuse you of being a terrible skier, they mean it in the ski-town-local sense. Ouch!
It is so hurtful precisely because it is so irrefutable. I went so far once to set one of my biggest detractors straight that I actually went skiing with him to show him that I was not terrible. I happened to run into Lo Semple on Aspen Mountain one day (not literally) and decided to take a couple of runs with him to prove not only that I wasn't terrible, but was, in fact, much better than he is at skiing. My efforts did not result in the desired outcome.
On the first run I figured I would put the case to rest quickly. I let 'em rip down Lift Line. Several minutes later he caught up to me at the bottom.
"You went straight," he said, almost annoyed. "Anyone can do that. Going fast doesn't make you a good skier."
Bursting with frustration I got back on the lift with him and headed for Corkscrew. There I made some of the tightest, quickest, most rhythmic slalom turns that I possibly could. When he finally caught up again, his response was equally deflating.
"Could you have skied it any slower?" We carved Ruthie's. "Everyone can do that." We bumped Red's Run. "You didn't get enough air."
So, while Lo didn't prove I was a terrible skier, I certainly didn't prove that I wasn't. That was enough to leave him satisfied and me frustrated. He wins!
Modern skiing is funny. Nobody falls, and everybody can ski black-diamond runs. Carving is easy, and crossing your tips is hard. Even if you have never skied before, you will only be a beginner for a week. There are absolutely no objective criteria for judging whether or not a person is an accomplished skier, except for a race course, which contemporary skiers avoid like clumped frozen slush. Add it all up, and you discover that everybody is an expert. If you don't believe it, just ask them in a bar next to a fire apres ski. And that's the irony. When everybody is an expert, nobody is. And, if you're not an expert, you are terrible. Lo figured this out, and he's not even very smart.
The point is to turn down any job offer to be an opinion columnist in a small ski town. If judgment over a broad range of topics comes naturally to you, and you don't mind putting it down on paper for the world to rip apart or line bird cages with, pick a place to do it where they play a lot of golf or tennis, if you have a decent handicap or a wicked serve. Do it in a place where your time in a 10K is better than the average for that region. Pick a bowling town, a badminton town, or a ping-pong town: anywhere they like to do things that require you to keep an objective score. For Pete's sake, if you have long arms, do it in a fishing town. Just don't do it in a ski town. You'll never win another argument.
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Twin City, Ga--A winning tradition doesn't happen overnight. It takes several years for a program to feed itself. At ECI, the program has reached that point where double figure wins is the norm.
It started with Milan Turner and has continued with second year coach Chris Kearson. While the bulldogs have lost some big backs, they have a stable ready to run the wing t. As important, quarterback Caleb Pressely is more seasoned and ready to lead the youngsters. A real strength though might be the horses up front.
"We got a young offensive line but they were young last year. So they have a year of seasoning under their belt" said coach Chris Kearson "To me that group is the one that's probably pushing the train right now."
"The way coach Kearson is coaching us, he's pushing hard and he's not going to let us slack none. They just make sure we do good and they want us to be the best we can." added Greg Purcell
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To correct Lincoln somewhat, he should have said, . . . that government of the people, by the politicians, and for the politicians shall not perish from the earth.
Government's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
-- Alexis de Toqueville
October 1 rolls around every year, beginning a new fiscal year that has to be funded by act of Congress. The government funding works a year at a time, normally. But, our government is a leaderless ship, like an Italian cruise liner. Democrats haven't seen fit to do budgeting, planning, or fiscal reform since before Big Barry took office. So, we have to have a continuing resolution to keep the government going. They always wait until the last possible moment to get one passed.
According to the Constitution, the US House of Representatives has the power of the purse. Only they can create a bill allowing the federal government to spend money. Fortunately, they did their job. They passed a bill fully funding the government from October 1 until December 15. Assuming Harry Reid and the Democrats saw fit to take up the bill, vote to pass it, and assuming the lead Democrat, President Obama, signed it into law, we're safely funded for another 11 weeks. Whew, that was close!
Of course, the Democrats didn't pass the House's bill. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, chose to ignore the continuing resolution passed by the House, and so the government DID shut down. The House had added a couple of reasonable riders to the bill: delay Obamacare for a year, and eliminate the odious Obamacare tax on medical devices. Harry Reid decided the Senate wouldn't take up the House bill because it had those riders. He had his caucus strip out the riders from the bill and send it back to the House to vote on again. Having written this on Monday, the last day before October 1, I assume the government is shut down, and Harry did it. Or, they could have passed it and sent it to Barry, and he could have vetoed it to shut down the government.
I'm sure Reid DID send the bill back to the House, thus shutting down the government until the House does exactly what he wants. But the House members have done their job. They should just add the riders again and send it back to the Senate. It reminds me of a game called ping-pong.
If you assume the members of the House are tired of giving in to the Democrats, perhaps they'll hold the line and until the Democrats accept the riders. It's more likely they'll cave. You can't play ping-pong without balls.


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A joint Argentine, French and Spanish production, White Elephant is set in the slums of Buenos Aires in the shadow of a half-finished housing project for which the film is named. It begins far from there, at night in the jungle where a young Catholic priest named Nicolas struggles to outrun a violent militia bent on capturing him. He survives, but by the time his mentor, Julian, finds him in a makeshift jungle hospital, he's in bad shape and tormented by guilt for not saving those he was supposed to serve. Father Julian takes him back to the city and grooms him to take over his duties, ministering to the poor. But there is violence here too, mostly among the drug gangs that dominate the slums. Territorial battles break out. Kids are sucked into the work and the culture. Politicians, church officials, and corrupt police exacerbate the problem. The priests do what they can, aided by social worker Luciana, but it's a Sisyphean task, and the violence takes a toll on their idealism. The project languishes and tensions build. Luciana finally decides to quit after years of trying to improve conditions, but Nicolas begs her to stay, his commitment to his clerical vows doing battle with his need for connection.
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The cost calculator provides consumers an opportunity to take the long view by providing both a vehicle's lifetime cost and its cost-per-mile. Users can compare different technologies, including conventional, alternative fuel, and electric drive vehicles. The results aren't just limited to new vehicles; in fact, the database has data on models all the way back to 1996. To personalize their results, users enter their driving habits, local price of fuel, and available tax credits. By seeing beyond the dealership sticker, consumers can choose the vehicles that best meet their needs today and in the future. See the Energy Blog post.


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Over the course of the past few months, evidence has been put forth that Bordeaux, as Rodney Dangerfield might say, "ain't got no respect". It's an observation that Matt Kramer made in a recent Wine Spectator piece as well as by Eric Asimov in the The New York Times. These articles attempt to discern the "whys" of it all. For instance, why is it that Bordeaux doesn't get much love these days? But we aren't asking that question at JJ Buckley, as our third annual tribute to Bordeaux sold out in record time, once again.
Each year, our tasting highlights one of Bordeaux's frequently forgotten attributes—they are wines of incredible value. And this year, we decided to investigate another important quality of Bordeaux—the capacity of Bordeaux's flavors and aromas to be transformed with time in the cellar. Spanning vintages from 1998-2003, with prices ranging from $25-$45 per bottle, this tasting was a great opportunity to examine the evidence firsthand.
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NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--Roughly 300 people, including over 70 women in white wedding gowns accompanied by a cadre of men in black business suits, gathered in the late-September sun on a Washington Heights street corner. They were there to talk about violence: the intimate kind.
The gathering and subsequent march through three low-income sections of New York City commemorated a death that shocked the community: On Sept. 26, 1999, Gladys Ricart, a Dominican immigrant, was murdered in her Northern New Jersey living room as she stood in her wedding gown, surrounded by her family, and made last-minute preparations for her wedding. Her murderer was a former boyfriend, a wealthy businessman from Washington Heights.
Each year on Sept. 26, the New York City Annual Brides' March Against Domestic Violence, featuring women dressed as brides, parades through predominately Spanish-speaking sections of the city, demanding an end to domestic violence.
"The march goes into the community, versus an auditorium or university. When you take it into the streets of Washington Heights, the Bronx and East Harlem, people turn their heads, stop, listen and ask questions," said Adelita Medina, executive director of the New York-based National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence, known as Alianza. "You can't have girls in gowns and not have people turn around."
The march was inspired by Josie Ashton, a Dominican woman from Florida who was outraged by Ricart's murder. Ashton quit her job and spent three months walking from New Jersey to Miami in a wedding dress in order to draw attention to domestic violence. The first Brides' March in 2001 was the send-off for her 1,600-mile journey.
The striking feature of the march, in addition to the women in wedding gowns, is the increasing number of men who participate, reflecting a deliberate strategy on the part of the march's planners to involve men in the domestic violence movement.
Men in Black
The men walking in the march were asked to wear black to represent mourning for the many women who were killed at the hands of other men. Brides' Marches were also organized this year in Milwaukee, Wisc., on Sept. 17, and in Lawrence, Mass., on Sept 26.
Victor Rivas Rivers, whose family emigrated from Cuba to the United States, joined the march last year. As recounted in his autobiography, "A Private Family Matter," he witnessed the extreme abuse his father inflicted on his mother, but also was on the receiving end of what only can be described as torture.
Today Rivers is an author and the celebrity spokesperson for the Washington-based advocacy organization, the National Network to End Domestic Violence. His advocacy is part of what he calls a "new solution to an old problem."
He and other advocates agree that getting more men involved is key to raising further awareness of domestic violence issues in the Latino community and combating the problem.
"Work on the issue of domestic violence has been done mostly by women, but men have to join the struggle," said Grace Perez, a founding member of the annual Brides' March and a steering committee member of New York Latinas Against Domestic Violence. "Advocates are not saying it's just men who are responsible, but men are committing the majority of the violence, killing their significant others and leaving children orphans. So it's their issue as much as our issue."
Abuse Prevalent Across Cultures
One in 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, according to the Denver-based National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Its prevalence in Latino populations is harder to pin down. One study found higher levels of partner abuse among Latinos than in white populations (23 percent versus 15 percent), but other studies found no difference, according to Alianza.
"There are elements in Latino culture, like all cultures, that prevent domestic violence and help women in trouble and there are also traditions that don't help and can promote the violence," said Alianza's Medina. "It's not that domestic violence happens differently; it's how we handle it."
The emphasis on family, for instance, means that a woman will likely have a strong extended family to turn to for support, Medina said, but it can also encourage the belief that domestic violence is not the business of the wider community. Respect is also double-edged. Elders and men are supposed to be respected, she said, but then men grow up expecting this respect, whether they deserve it or not.
Rivers agrees. "Latino men, and men in other cultures, are brought up in a culture where men dominate and we've seen that it's a man's right to put a woman in her place," he said. "It was difficult for my mom. The woman stays with her man no matter what. It's her duty to serve her man. This has changed for the modern Latina woman, but we have a huge immigrant population and many of these women continue to follow that course."
'Male Part of Equation'
Though the number of men in the march and the movement is encouraging, advocates said, it can't stop there. "Any man with a heart would be moved by Ricart's story and join the march, but it's only one day," said Rivers. "How do they live their lives for the rest of the year? How are they changing? How are they influencing family members? Ultimately change has to come from the male part of the equation."
Men can create this change by being positive role models for young boys and other men, he added. Part of this requires not standing by silently when their peers disrespect women.
Latino men also have to realize the true sense of "machismo," said Jerry Tello, an author, national consultant and founding member of the National Compadres Network, a group based in Santa Ana, Calif., that reinforces the positive involvement of Latino males in their families and communities. Through his work Tello teaches boys and men that the first lesson of manhood is honoring women. "It's not enough to say don't hit your wife, girlfriend or sister. You need to treat her with dignity," he said.
It's also not enough to just stop the violence, he added. Most really violent men are wounded, often having been sexually or physically abused or abandoned. So truly ending the violence involves healing and treatment too.
"It's not just about getting men involved, but getting them involved in a way that touches their culture, spirit and values, so their wounds and values are rebalanced," Tello said. "If you don't heal the wounds, they'll be passed on to our children and grandchildren."
Juhie Bhatia is a writer based in New York City.
This series is supported by a special grant from Mary Kay Inc.
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BETSY LAYNE, Ky. (WYMT) - We now look at the Betsy Layne Ladycats in our next DQ Grill & Chill Countdown to Tip-off preview.
The Ladycats will be adjusting to a new head coach this season. Christina Crase takes over after the departure by Devon Akers, but several key pieces return for this team to make a run, and that is exactly what they're aiming for.
"It's been a smooth transition so far. The girls have really accepted me coming in, and a new coaching staff coming in. They're working really, really hard," says Crase, a longtime assistant with the program. "We have some common goals. We definitely want to win another championship, and fight for a 15th Region championship. So it's been an easy transition so far, just trying to keep things going, keep the tradition going."
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"Our real goal this year is, we want to win district and all that again, but we want to do something in the region and go farther than what we usually do. We just want to work hard and make a name for ourselves and the team that we have," says junior Kelsi Tackett.
"I think that we have really good defense and we're really quick," says junior center Bailey Recznik. "We're experienced, and we've had the same team for the past two years so we all know how to play with each other."
"Come in to practice every day, work hard, don't give up if you think you're going to give up. Just push as hard as you can," says Paige Watkins, a senior.
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AUGUSTA, Ga.--For the first time in 17 years, the federal government has closed for business. It's giving families in our area an unscheduled and unpaid vacation day. Democrats and Republicans have not been able to reach an agreement, meaning the shutdown will continue.
Despite the shutdown, open enrollment for insurance under the Affordable Care Act began Tuesday. Terri Gant is a navigator for the Affordable Care Act. Her job is to answer any questions about the confusing new law, and help people sign up for health insurance.
She says, "When I got here early this morning, people were already lined up around 8:30 to ask questions," she said.
She answered questions about healthcare coverage all morning, but we had a question of our own: Since navigators are federal employees, would she be furloughed like thousands of other federal employees around the country?
She says, "Right now, there has been no talk. We're going on with business as usual."
That isn't the case for many other federal workers who were sent home without pay Tuesday. One Ft. Gordon employee told us, "We don't know when we get to go back to work, but the people working for the Affordable Care Act are still employed...it doesn't add up."
He's just one of at least 490 civilian employees at Fort Gordon who are furloughed while Congress sorts out their differences. Ft. Gordon employees were instructed not to make any comments about the shutdown, or there would be consequences when they returned to work, so we disguised him to keep his job safe.
He says, "Why is this part of government being allowed to continue and we are being sent home?"
It's a frustrating question the President touched on in an address to the country, Tuesday, when he said, "Because of its funding sources, it's not impacted by a government shutdown."
Navigators like Gant, are being payed through a Health and Human Services grant that doesn't fall under funds appropriated by Congress, but for workers who rely on those funds to pay the bills, they're hoping Congress reaches an agreement sooner rather than later.