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Irving as a Holocaust Denier
117.At the present moment David Irving's notoriety as a Holocaust denier is quite substantial. This, however, was not the situation when I began my research on this book. He first began to publicly express his contention that the gas chambers were a hoax at the second trial of Ernst Zundel trial in 1988 (see Appendix, Tab 6). Zundel, a naturalized Canadian citizen, was brought to trial for violating a law prohibiting denial of the Holocaust. Zundel was found guilty. Subsequent to his trial the law under which he was accused was thrown out by the Canadian courts. After the trial Irving began to claim that other aspects of the Holocaust were also untrue. For much of the time that I was working on this book he did not publicly present himself as a Holocaust denier. He would appear at gatherings of the Institute for Historical Review but he did not publicly subscribe to their ideology. The Institute and its supporters were, nonetheless, delighted to have him participate. Moreover, they may have assumed -- correctly it turns out -- that if he moved in their orbit long enough he soon would begin to sing from their hymnal. Even when Irving had not yet declared himself a denier they still seemed to approve of his absurd "exoneration" of Hitler from responsibility for as well as knowledge of the Holocaust.
118.For these reasons he occupied a relatively minor role in this book.
119.At the second Zundel trial, when David Irving appeared as a witness on Zundel's behalf, he endorsed Fred Leuchter's supposed scientific findings that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were not genuine. Leuchter is a self-described "engineer", although he has no formal qualification, and gas chamber expert, who claims to have conducted scientific tests at Auschwitz. Birkenau and Majdanek proving that the gas chambers there could not have functioned as homicidal killing units. (Leuchter acted as an expert witness at the trial of Ernst Zundel). Leuchter summarised his findings in The Leuchter Report: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdanek, Poland, which was published by, amongst others, David Irving's publishing house, Focal Point Publications. The edition published by Focal Point Publications, to which David Irving wrote the foreword, was entitled Auschwitz: The End of the Line: The Leuchter Report - The First Forensic Examination of Auschwitz.
120.With that David Irving publicly moved into the ranks of the deniers. In recent years Irving has come to occupy an increasingly pivotal role as a denier. His frequent involvement in lawsuits and his brushes with the law added to his notoriety.
121.That fact that his visits are often sponsored by or closely associated with groups that are considered to be neo-Nazi extremists tends to arouse both governmental and media interest.
122.On his Internet site and web page he consistently challenges the truth about the Holocaust. The web site contains a running and quite detailed account of his activities, particularly his challenges to those authorities in various countries who have, for various reasons, banned his entry (see Appendix, Tab 7). He also uses his web page to provide a running account of this and other legal actions he has taken. He presents the material in a quite sensational fashion. He has posted a less than flattering picture of me and has demeaned me. He has posted material from my discovery on the web site and only removed it after being challenged to do so by my lawyers. When that occurred he complained that we were hindering his freedom of speech. Given that I am the defendant in this case, I must admit that I find his claim about my suppression of his free speech to be beyond the pale.
123.I consider David Irving a Holocaust denier because, (the examples referred to in the following paragraphs are selected from many more that will form part of the experts' evidence):
- (a)He has openly stated his belief that gas chambers were not used to murder Jews (see Appendix, Tabs 8, 9 and 10)
- (b)He estimates that no more than 600,000 Jews were killed (see Appendix, Tabs 7, 11 and 12).
- (c)He argues that Hitler not only failed to order or approve of this action but knew nothing about it; those Jews who were killed were killed in rogue actions by Germans acting without proper authorization (Hitler's War, Focal Point, 1991) (see Appendix, Tab 13).
- (d)He rejects the notion that those Jews who died did so as a result of an organized annihilation of European Jewry by the Germans and their allies (see Appendix, Tabs 7, 12 and 13).
- (e)He markedly distorts, perverts and/or manipulates the meaning of documents as the reports of expert witnesses will repeatedly indicate.
- (f)He believes that Auschwitz was not a death camp but a slave labor camp with the highest mortality rate (see Appendix, Tab 7).
- (g)He claims that those who died at places such as Auschwitz and Treblinka did so as a result of starvation and disease (see Appendix, Tab 7).
124.The following activities and/or statements by Irving do not in themselves place him in the ranks of the deniers but are consistent with him being a denier and are disturbing nonetheless:In fact, I never received any invitation from him to appear and left the city to appear at a previously scheduled appointment. His appearance "at the old courthouse" was in fact an appearance at a raucous rally on the steps of a building once used as a courthouse in Decatur, Georgia.
- (a) His repeated references to Jews in his Action Report newsletters and on his web site as the "traditional enemies of the truth" raises questions about his objectivity about the history of the period (see Appendix, Tab 14).
- (b)His comment in a speech given in 1990 that "our major task: Sink the Auschwitz." (see Appendix, Tab 12).
- (c) His claim, included in a letter to the editor of The Australian [July 26, 1994], and posted on his web site, that I defame him "from a safe distance but refuse to debate in the traditional manner."
"I lectured in her home town of Atlanta, Georgia, at the old court house, on November 4 last year; challenged to share a debating platform with me, she refused, and fled to Boston, Massachusetts."(see Appendix, Tab 15).
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Webber buildings are sold
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 11:16 p.m.
SARASOTA - A Sarasota company bought two office-retail buildings on Webber Street for $368,000.
Compassionate Care Realty bought two 2,900-square-foot buildings with a $294,400 loan from from Synovus Bank, records show.
One of the buildings, at 3615 Webber St., belonged to the Campa Family Charitable Remainder Trust and Believers Stewardship Services Inc., a Dubuque, Iowa. religious organization managed by David M. Allison. The other, at 3619 Webber, belonged to Larry L. Campa.
Campa and the Believers Stewardship sold the two buildings to Five Gees Property Holdings in September 2006 and loaned the buyer $425,000. But the buyer transferred one back to Allison's company in March 2008 and the other in September 2010, records show.
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Newsday reports (http://bit.ly/YTBM64) that the Long Island Republican squared off Saturday with Foley before a crowd of 400 in a Wantagh (WAHN'-tah) pub. No winner was declared.
King is an avid boxing fan. He agreed to the fight to raise money for the business of his friend and trainer.
The newspaper said the 68-year-old congressman held his own against his 31-year-old opponent. Foley is several inches shorter and about 50 pounds lighter than the 230-pound King.
The congressman's fight had been criticized as an ethics violation by a watchdog group that says ethics rules prevent representatives from appearing to favor one business.
King defended the fundraiser as appropriate.
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No. 5 UMass 6-0 After Pasting Hartford
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AMHERST, Mass. - A pair of hat tricks from Art Kell and Colin Fleming paced the offense, while the Minutemen defense clamped down on the Hawks in the No. 5 UMass men's lacrosse team's 14-5 win over Hartford on Saturday at Garber Field. For the sixth straight time this season, the UMass defense gave up under 10 goals while goalie Tim McCormack made 11 saves to improve the Minutemen to 6-0 this season.
Kell added an assist on the day for a total of four points. Will Manny posted a six-point day with a pair of goals and four assists. Bobby Tyler scored a goal and added two assists, while Mike Fetterly scored a pair of goals.
Hartford (1-4) was led by Kevin O'Shea who had a pair of goals. Carter Bender and Ryan Compitello each posted a goal and an assist. Scott Bement took the loss making 12 saves.
The Minutemen used a big first period to jump in front of the Hawks 5-1. Ryan Izzo scored his first career goal to put the Minutemen on the scoreboard first just 63 seconds into the contest. Art Kell then added a man-up goal at the 12:29 mark before Kyle Smith, Manny and Kell all scored to put UMass up 5-0 with 2:38 left in the period.
Compitello scored with 67 seconds left in the quarter leading to a pair of O'Shea goals to start the second quarter cutting the lead to 5-3 with 11:55 until halftime.
he UMass offense then took over as Mike Fetterly and Colin Fleming each scored a pair of goals to spark an eight goal run. Longstick defenseman Brett Tobin scored his first career goal in transition off a Manny feed to cap the run with 9:24 left in the third giving the Minutemen a 13-3 lead. Fleming capped his hat trick with his 10th goal of the season 58 seconds into the fourth quarter. Bender scored with 6:21 left in the game to close out the scoring for the Hawks.
The Minutemen outshot the Hawks 38-to-26 for the game and won 15-of-22 faceoffs. Hartford was 1-for-3 on extra-man opportunities, while UMass was 1-for-5.
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A Greencastle area teen was flown from the scene of a motorcycle accident Saturday afternoon in Fulton County.
Grant Kenneth Buchanan, 18, of 6332 Hager Road was eastbound on Pleasant Grove Road when he lost control of his 2008 Kawasaki Ninja on a curve, according to Pennsylvania State Police. The motorcycle traveled about 300 feet on the grass shoulder before hitting a bank.
Buchanan was thrown from the motorcycle. He suffered moderate injuries and was flown to Conemaugh Hospital for evaluation, according to police, who said he will be cited for the crash.
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Housing Benefit Reform: A Further Squeeze on Britain's Young People
October 14, 2012
Stephen Donnan
As a man of 24 who has experienced homelessness first hand, you will forgive me if I find George Osborne's sustained and prolonged attack on the young and vulnerable insufferably despicable. I had decided not to watch the Tory Party conference, as my blood pressure is rather high enough without the added smug grin of Osborne and his Conservative party cronies adding to my systolic pressure. However I was unfortunate enough to learn, as had been rumoured, that the current Government is planning to axe housing benefit for those under the age of 25, because in Cameron's World, everyone gets along great with their non-deceased, wealthy parents who live just round the corner in a five bedroom house.
For me, and I suspect for many others my age, this is one of the many issues that has proven to me over and over again that the Conservative Party are out of touch to the point of delusional malice. A cut to the housing benefit for under 25's flies directly in the face of the previous Labour Government's National Youth Homelessness scheme to provide temporary housing to homeless young people in England, a move that was welcomed by charities such as YMCA England and Centrepoint back in 2007. The statistics back then demonstrated that around a third of people who had been declared homeless were under the age of 25, and around a quarter of those young people were homeless because their parents were no longer able or willing to accommodate them.
Five years on and the current administration is planning to push those same people to the brink by removing the one safety net that many young people feel stands between them and living on the streets. When I was homeless for a short time it was not because I wanted 'more independence' as Cameron and his Eaton chums would try to depict, nor was it because I fancied the student life or more freedom from my parents.
I was voluntarily homeless because I had no choice, the relationship between my parents and I had broken down so irrevocably due to my sexuality that I felt that running away at the age of 20 was my only option. I was lucky enough to have a few friends that had taken me in for a time, but there were nights that I spent in the January cold in Belfast thinking that my life was over. Eventually, and painfully, I managed to repair the broken relationship with my family and I am grateful that I now have a roof over my head. Read more of this post


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Stocks to Watch: Research In Motion, Facebook, Fortinet
By Nathalie Tadena
Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Thursday's session are Research In Motion (RIMM) Facebook (FB) and Fortinet (FTNT).
Research In Motion executives excused more than a year of delays by saying they wanted the next BlackBerrys to be just right. But in the end, they still managed to be late. A cautious tone from analysts aided in the stock's 7.8% tumble to $12.70 in premarket trading. Shares fell 12% on Wednesday.
Facebook posted a fourth-quarter earnings report Wednesday that bolstered some confidence in the social network's future, even as the results also included a sharp drop in profitability. Facebook said profits shrank 79% due to higher costs, though the company continues to see an increasing rate of revenue growth. Shares were off 3.4% to $30.17 after hours.
Fortinet's fourth-quarter profit rose 30% as the network-security company said billings jumped. Shares jumped 16% after hours to $22.36 as results beat analyst expectations.
Fusion-io (FIO) swung to a fiscal second-quarter profit as the data-storage provider's revenue soared. However, shares fell 18% to $16.47 after hours as the company issued downbeat revenue guidance.
Qualcomm (QCOM) fiscal first-quarter profit surged 36% as brisk demand from smartphone manufacturers continued to drive the chip maker's stronger-than-expected results. Shares gained 6.2% to $67.49 after hours.
Align Technology (ALGN) fourth-quarter profit fell 53% as the maker of Invisalign braces recorded a heavy write-down and other expenses, masking revenue growth. Shares jumped 10% to $32.29 in after-hours trading as results beat expectations and the company said that demand for Invisalign has rebounded.
Citrix Systems (CTXS) fourth-quarter earnings increased 4.9% as the software maker recorded double-digit revenue gains across its segments. Shares climbed 11% to $74.43 after-hours as results beat Citrix's expectations and as the company projected 2013 revenue above analyst estimates.
Concur Technologies (CNQR) first-quarter loss widened as the hosted software maker reported that operating expenses and other charges increased, masking higher revenue. Shares fell 6.3% after hours to $68 as the company also gave a downbeat second-quarter revenue view.
JDS Uniphase (JDSU) swung to a fiscal second-quarter profit as the broadband-products maker posted stronger margins and revenue, led by growth in its second-largest communications and commercial-optical products segment. Shares rose 15% to $14.24 after hours as earnings topped analysts' expectations.
Las Vegas Sands (LVS) fourth-quarter earnings edged down amid impacts from noncontrolling interests and the company's former preferred dividend, while revenue growth at the company's China operations more than offset declines at its Las Vegas and Singapore operations. Shares rose 5.2% to $54.25 in after-hours trading Wednesday as revenue topped expectations and per-share earnings, which exclude preferred dividends, soared.
ServiceNow (NOW) fourth-quarter loss widened as increased expenses and weaker margins masked the computer cloud service provider's double-digit revenue growth, though results beat the company's expectations. Shares jumped 8.7% to $31.50 after hours as ServiceNow also projected revenue for the current quarter above analysts' expectations.
Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) fiscal first-quarter earnings rose 16% as the wireless-chip supplier cited broad-based demand for its chips. Shares rose 12% in after-hours trading to $24.20 as the company also gave an upbeat second-quarter view.
STMicroelectronics N.V.'s (STM, STM.MI, STM.FR) fourth-quarter loss widened, as the company recorded a heavy write-down tied to its plans to exit its wireless-chip joint venture. Shares fell 2.8% after hours Wednesday to $8.09 as the loss was wider than analysts expected and the company also gave a downbeat
first-quarter revenue view.
Towerstream (TWER) plans to offer an undisclosed number of shares and intends to use the net proceeds for general working capital for itself. The wireless-service provider had about 54.8 million shares outstanding as of Tuesday. Shares fell 8.5% to $2.90 after hours.
Vanguard Natural Resources (VNR) has begun an offering of 8 million common units and plans to use the net proceeds to pay down a portion of its debt that was incurred in part to fund recent acquisitions. As of Tuesday, the company had about 58.7 million units outstanding. Units slid 4.6% to $27.80 after hours.
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A choir's joyful noise
Watoto Children's Choir will share its message of hope
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 9:29 p.m.
The Watoto Children's Choir from Africa will be in Tuscaloosa to perform free concerts as part of its nationwide "Beautiful Africa: A New Generation" tour.
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To preview a performance of
the choir, visit www.watoto.com/the-choir
For the full choir schedule in the U.S., visit https://www.watoto.com/the-choir/see-the-choir
"Through the choir's Concert of Hope, we share a message of transformation by telling the story of Africa's rescued orphans and women," said Gary Skinner, Watoto's founder. "We hope to reach out to audiences with the message of Christ's healing power."
Area performances, which are free and open to the public, are:
- Feb. 27: 6 p.m. at Valley View Baptist Church, 8820 Alabama Highway 69.
- March 1: 7 p.m. at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, 3425 Pickens County Road 21, in Gordo.
- March 2: 6 p.m. at Holt Baptist Church, 3101 Alabama Ave. NE.
- March 3: 10 a.m. at University Church of Christ, 1200 Julia Tutwiler Drive, in Tuscaloosa and at 6 p.m. at Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 8790 U.S. Highway 43 in Northport.
The choir also will perform in Mobile, Dothan, Enterprise and Eufaula in February.
The choir, which features children who have lost one or both parents, serves as ambassadors to raise awareness about the plight of children in Africa. Millions of African children have been orphaned because of HIV/AIDS, war and poverty.
Choir members live in Watoto Children's Villages, which a news release describes as a holistic initiative to serve the African people.
The choir combines music and dance in a fusion of contemporary gospel and traditional African rhythm.
Watoto Children's choirs have traveled internationally since 1994.
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Saturday, March 23 • 1 p.m./3 p.m. CST
Sunday, March 24 • 12 p.m. CST - PINK GAME
Chapman Field • Corpus Christi, Texas
The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi softball team will continue Southland Conference action this weekend when they host Northwestern State in a three-game series at Chapman Field. The Islanders will open play on Saturday, March 23, in a doubleheader before wrapping the series on Sunday, March 24, in the annual strikeout breast cancer pink game.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is coming off a tough weekend in Lake Charles, La. The Islanders dropped a three-game series and are looking to snap a six-game losing streak. The Islanders are 3-5 at Chapman Field after picking up victories against Houston Baptist, New Mexico and Kansas.
The last time the Islanders and Lady Demons faced each other was last season in the first conference road test of the season. The Islanders fell to the Lady Demons 3-0 in Natchitoches, La. before bouncing back to earn a 3-1 victory. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is 13-5 all-time against Northwestern State and Saturday's opening game will mark the 19th meeting between the two teams.
The Islanders will head into the weekend with a 6-21 record including a 1-5 record in SLC action, while Northwestern State holds a 21-6 record and a 2-3 record in SLC play. The Islanders are 1-0 under Head Coach Stephanie Hughes in the strikeout breast cancer pink game. Last season, the Islanders notched a 3-1 victory over Southeastern La. in their pink jerseys.
•The Islanders are young with just one senior and 15 on the roster. The squad returns three starters and 11 letterwinners from a team that finished with an 18-23 overall record (11-9 SLC) a year ago.
•Senior Meagan McKinney is powering the Islanders' bats with a .311 batting average. She is second on the team with 23 hits while leading the team with five doubles and two home runs to go along with a team-high 14 RBI.
•Mickayla Cochran has been consistent as the Islanders' leadoff batter. She is second behind McKinney with a .302 batting average and leads the team with 13 runs and 26 hits.
•Lindsey Lyles has stepped up for the Islanders' bats. She leads the Islanders in all six conference games with a .333 batting average and has an overall .220 batting average and .381 on-base percentage.
•Junior Laura Phillips put the Islanders on the board in the second game against McNeese State with a two-out solo homer in the top of the sixth. It marked her second career home run and first of the season.
•Junior Constance Brandenburg leads the Islanders in the circle with 78.2 innings pitched and 37 strikeouts.
•Freshman Ashley Elicerio had a career day with seven strikeouts in six innings in the second game against McNeese State.
•The Islanders are 5-3 when they outhit their opponents.
•Saturday's opening game will mark the 19th meeting between the two teams. The Islanders hold the 13-5 all-time series advantage over the Lady Demons.
•Head Coach Stephanie Hughes is in her second year with the Islanders and was named the 2013 SLC Preseason All-Conference Coach of the Year by College Sports Madness. Assistant Coach Briana Bishop and pitching Coach Sarah Pauly are also in their second year with the Islanders.
Northwestern State heads into Saturday's game with a 21-6 record including a 2-3 record in conference play. The Lady Demons are 0-2 on the road in league play after dropping two at McNeese State. Northwestern State picked up two home conference wins against Nicholls State and dropped one to the Colonels.
Tara McKenney leads Northwestern State with a .388 batting average and 38 hits while Brianna Rodriguez is second on the team with a .386 batting average. Kylie Roos (7-1) leads the Lady Demons in the circle with a 1.32 ERA in 58.1 innings and has tallied a team-high 72 strikeouts. Kaylee Guidry (5-1) has a 1.84 ERA in 49.1 innings and has tallied 28 strikeouts.
Pitching coach and seven-year NPF veteran Sarah Pauly has a young group of pitchers this season after losing standout pitchers Greta Cecchetti, Jordan Trujillo and Vianca Pesina. Cecchetti was second in the Southland Conference last season with a 0.58 ERA and second in strikeouts with 82.
Junior Constance Brandenburg (4-9) has been the Islanders go to pitcher in the circle this season with a 4.18 ERA in 78.2 innings. Brandenburg has tallied a team-high 37 strikeouts in 20 appearances. The junior recorded a career-high nine strikeouts in a complete game strikeout, while allowing just one walk and four hits over Kansas.
Sophomore Bethany Slick (1-2) picked up her first career victory in the circle against Northern Colorado in her first career start. Slick has a 5.75 ERA in 24.1 innings and 10 appearances.
Ashley Elicerio (1-10) rounds out the pitchers with a 5.79 ERA in 61.2 innings and 16 appearances. Elicerio also has seen action at the plate and has tallied a .231 batting average in five games and has tallied three hits. She clinched her first career victory in the Islanders 7-3 victory over Southern. Elicerio recorded a career-high six strikeouts in seven innings and allowed just two hits. She improved her career-high with seven strikeouts in six innings at McNeese State.
Leadoff hitter Mickayla Cochran has been consistent for the Islanders this season. The sophomore is second on the team with a .302 batting average in all 27 starts. She has a team-high 26 hits and has recorded three doubles to go along with two home runs. Cochran also has a team-high 13 runs and has posted 36 putouts in center field. Cochran went 3-for-4 with three hits and two RBI in a 6-4 victory over Northern Colorado in the Miken Classic in Waco, Texas. She opened the CenturyLink Classic going 2-for-3 in back-to-back games against North Texas and Purdue. Cochran went 2-for-4 in the conference opener vs. HBU.
Ashley Elicerio is a 5-7 pitcher and utility player. She played four years at Hendrickson High School and was tabbed Utility Player of the Year three consecutive years. She led the Hawks to a 17-9 record during her senior season after advancing the team to the regional quarterfinals.
Natalie Zarzabal, a right-handed outfielder, played at Steele High School in Cibolo, Texas. During her sophomore year she recorded a .409 batting average and followed it with a .365 batting average during her junior year. This season, Zarzabal tallied her first career home run against Northern Colorado in the Islanders 6-4 victory. She has tallied a hit in four straight games.
Dani Tefft was a four-year starter at Kempner High School in Sugar Land, Texas. The left-hander led the team with a .434 batting average while helping her team win the 2011 Bi-District Championship and the 2011 District 23-5A Championship. This season, Tefft recorded two hits and two runs in five starts in left field at the Texas Classic. The freshman went 2-for-3 against HBU in game two of the doubleheader.
Sorenson has 73 putouts behind home plate this season and has caught 13 stolen bases. She posted a .358 batting average while appearing in 43 of 51 games during the 2010-11 season at McLennan CC. She helped her team win the Region V championship and earned second team all-conference honors.
The Islanders exploded for a season-high 12 hits on in a 6-4 victory over Northern Colorado in the Miken Classic in Waco, Texas. Mickayla Cochran went 3-for-4 with three hits and two RBI to lead the Islanders. The Islanders are 5-3 when they out-hit their opponents and 5-3 when they score first. The Islanders outhit McNeese State 6-5 in the opening game.
Co-captain junior Valerie Perez has been the vocal leader for the team this season along with McKinney. Perez has tallied 16 hits and four doubles this season in 24 games. She has also recorded 41 putouts at shortstop this season. The Islanders have won six games when Perez has been in the starting lineup and 0-4 when the junior hasn't started or been in the game.
Sophomore Hayley Galloway has battled back from off-season surgery to record a .261 batting average. She has made starts in 25 of the Islanders 26 games and has a team-high five sacrifice hits. Galloway has 18 hits and 45 putouts between second base and shortstop this season. She is currently on a five-game hitting streak.
Following Sunday's game the Islanders will travel to Hammond, La. to face Southeastern La. in a three-game series on March 29-30.


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Shaggy is a curious name because Shaggy's coat is short and neat. The "Puggit" is a designer breed mix of Italian greyhound and pug. He's 1 year old and good with dogs, cats and kids. Just 15 pounds, Shaggy fits in anywhere. Come take Shaggy for a walk and fall in love. For adoption, call El Dorado County Animal Services at 530-573-7925. For spay-neuter assistance and other support, call the Lake Tahoe Humane Society and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at 530-542-2857.
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Communities in Broome, Cortland, Herkimer, Madison and Oneida counties affected by severe storms and flooding earlier this year are eligible for additional public assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The agency extended the disaster period to run from June 26 through and including July 10. Previously, the disaster period ran through July 4.
Local governments in designated counties will now be able to receive assistance for storm and flood damage costs incurred on the days between July 4 and July 10.
U.S. Rep. Hanna had advocated for the disaster period to be extended.
"Many communities in Central New York and the Southern Tier suffered from serious, ongoing flooding which began in late June, but continued throughout the first two weeks of July," Hanna, R - Barneveld, said in a release. "Cleanup efforts still continue in many of our villages, towns and cities. I am pleased that federal funds are available to further assist our communities to help them recover as quickly as possible."
FEMA public assistance helps local governments pay for work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged facilities.
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Wave Worm Tiki Bamboo Stick 5" 7pk
More than just another variation on the Senko style soft stick bait, the Tiki Bamboo Stick will give jaded bass a new swimming action and different shape than standard baits. The design difference in the Bamboo Sticks is that while the ends taper to about the same diameter as other soft stick baits, the center has a lot more mass and is about 50% thicker. This makes the bait tougher and more resistant to tears than standard baits, causing a more violent wiggle and side-to-side action and slower fall for a different presentation. The Bamboo Stick features multiple, tiny rings around the entire bait for an irresistible texture that bass will hold on to longer. Add this to Tiki's great anise scent, and Tiki's awesome colors and you have a winning combination. If you like throwing Senko style baits, try the Bamboo Stick for a different look.
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Customer Reviews
Comments: These are awesome! I have been using these for several years now and have built up a confidence in them more than any other stick bait. I bought 15 packs of these last spring and just ran out. I placed an order of 12 more packs tonight. I have caught many bass over 5 pounds on these and my best was a 7 pound 2 oz. I catch a lot in Toledo Bend on these during the spawn. Definitely my go to stick bait.
From: Trey: LA 3/4/14
Comments: These are the best stick, I caught so many bass on these. I was using them all day during my bass tournament and won 1st place.
Comments: love these baits! i've caught more bass on these than any other stick bait & i've used nearly all of them. the senko's led the way (thank you gary) and may be the best of the bunch,but wave is a close 2nd. & the price is super for the quality of the bait. the xmas tree color rocks!
From: Wes: Salinas, CA
Comments: : Good bait. I've caught a lot of fish on these. They make them in a bunch of different colors - most of which have worked well for me. You can rig these in a shaky head fashion, but I tend to have more success with them when I fish them wacky style, Gamakatsu 3 ought circle hook through the middle, no weight. They are nice when situation demands a slightly heavier wacky worm - casts further, falls a little quicker, or when the bass seem to be keyed on bigger baits. Surprisingly enough, they move through vegetation fairly well, not snagging nearly as much as you'd think they would when wacky rigged. They don't work all the time, but they do work most of the time. Good and cheap bait to have in your arsenal.
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Work on downtown parking lot to begin
City project with WVU-P moving ahead
July 11, 2013
PARKERSBURG — After several weeks of delay, work is set to begin on a Juliana Street parking lo....
The downtown area is already a parking lot.
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I guess we know why it's called PARKersburg. All parking lots, few businesses.
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Another ugly black ashphalt parking lot taking away pretty green space. For every lot PARKINGsburg paves, they should be required to also create a green space. The reason no one wants to visit downtown is because there is no beautification efforts. Most of the streets are just ugly.
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Leave it to Big Bad Bobby to keep downtown business suppressed.
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What happened to the parking garage a block down Juliana street. More money thrown away by the city.
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Exactly, Henry, after all it is called PARKERSburg. Maybe this will be our claim to fame, a city full of parking lots, for parkers. "Guinness Book of World Records, hello? I would like to apply for a category. I live in a parking lot and the whole city is one. ...."
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I'm sick and tired of this. Why not convert one of the permit lots to short-term parking? Morgantown (albeit a different demographic) has tons of short-term lots while keeping a diverse mix of downtown businesses, I mean, there's the garage on Juliana, the sea of parking by the United Building, and all the parking by the city building. And now, with the bus depot gone, AN ENTIRE BLOCK is vacant. Build a parking garage down there, open some lots for development, and get on the ball with actual urban growth, Parkersburg.
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Oh, and I did the math (well, roughly on Bing Maps). Parkersburg has 38% of total area as surface lots, which is 49% of developable land (i.e. parcels in city blocks) within the downtown area (extending all the way up Market St from the floodwall, to CCMC, and to Warner Kia on 7th). This makes for a total percentage of paved surfaces (not including buildings, mind you) including streets and sidewalks of 61%. That's comparable to infamous places like Houston (64.7%) and Little Rock (61.2%). Just surface parking alone, however, is over 10% more than those urban areas' percentages!
Again - 38% of total area and 49% of developable land in downtown PKB is surface lots. 61% of all land downtown is paved (not including buildings)
Parkersburg - statistically the whitest metropolitan statistical area in America (***********theatlanticcities****/jobs-and-economy/2012/09/americas-most-and-least-diverse-metros/3206/) and the nation's capital of parking lots.
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The parking lot should be free to encourage people to go downtown. Charging will discourage people from going there.
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I remember when I was just a little girl, going downtown with my mom. We went to Cox's Dept. Store, Murphy's, Kresges (sp), our eye doctor and dentist, Wards, Sears, Penny's. You get the picture.
Then, the mall was born. Need I say more?
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And Stewart AirPark offered rides for pennies a pound. Getting to Vienna was a two lane road and probably quicker than six lanes today.There was manufacturing businesses up and down the valley. Now it's all eating places with new ones starting weekly. Fat and no where to work, what a future for the children.
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@froginthelake: I was trying to point out that downtowns, as such, are becoming passe. People want to shop inside, out of the weather, and have a huge free parking lot. You can get just about anything at the mall, and never have to cross a street or go outside.
As for me, I hate the freakin' mall. I can't even walk from Penny's to Sears anymore. I prefer to buy at KMart or Kohls, or other smaller places, that also have their own parking lot. THIS IS JUST WHAT I PREFER, AND I AM NOT SPEAKING FOR ANYONE ELSE.
I just don't see downtown ever becoming the phoenix that some people want it to be. :/
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And Froggy, please don't yell at me for my comment. You have no idea how bad my days have been lately.
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Is the parking garage downtown full on a daily basis? I ask because I truly do not know. But when I look at downtown it seems that thier is alreay plenty of parking lots. To me the problem is that people are to lazy to walk a couple extra blocks. It would be great to see an actual buisness that generates money.
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Froggy, we all know you are full of it. Why continue with your garbage?
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Friday, November 22, 2013
A Classic Dive
Posted by Shreve & Co. at 10:44:04 PM in Panerai (29)
Some watches are classic, and some are updated. Panerai Luminor Marina Automatic is both. On top of that, it is a dive watch. Updated with modern precision, the Italian dive watch features an automatic mechanical movement and personalized oscillating weight. True to its intended function, Marina is water resistant up to 300 meters, and bears a comfortably fitting wide strap and large buckle that secures its screw-down stainless steel square case in place. The Panerai appeal sticks with the classic and boldly simple watch face, sparsely decorated with the essential indicators. With not too many frills functioning on the side, the Panerai Luminor Marina Automatic is a no-nonsense watch that gives you the time-tested durability of a classic watch, the reliable precision of a modern one, and the commitment and service of the name that has served as timekeeper in Italy for more than a century and a half.
Find Panerai at Shreve & Co. in Portland, Oregon.
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Before the state of Illinois began issuing multi-year license plates in 1979, motorists would receive a new set of plates each year. The plates were redesigned each year, and the colors for the letters and numbers and backgrounds would change.
Thanks to a blog post, today we're reminded that in 1961, Illinois motorists drove around with red-and-white license plates in honor of North Central College's Centennial.
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The following are the top 20 players on this year's Bay Area News Group's Cream of the Crop rankings and the college where each is expected to sign with on Wednesday.
1. Michael Hutchings,
LB 6-1/215 De La Salle
College: USC.
2. Darrell Daniels,
WR 6-3/210 Freedom
College: Washington.
3. Austin Hooper,
TE 6-4/245 De La Salle
College: Stanford.
4. Takkarist McKinley,
DE 6-3/240 Kennedy-Richmond
College: Cal.
5. Ray Hudson,
TE 6-4/230 Foothill
College: Cal.
6. Kevin King,
DB 6-3/183 Bishop O'Dowd
College: Washington.
7. D.J. Moffitt,
LB 6-2/205 De La Salle
College: Undecided.
8. Matt Anderson,
PK 6-0/180 San Ramon Valley
College: Cal.
9. Marcellus Pippins,
DB 5-10/175 El Cerrito
College: Utah.
10. Warren Miles Long,
RB 5-11/195 James Logan
College: Northwestern.
11. Victor Egu,
LB 6-3/215 De La Salle
College: Yale.
12. Ryan Dunn,
LB 6-3/205 San Ramon Valley
College: Arizona.
13. Chidobe Awuzie,
DB 6-0/185 Oak Grove
College: Undecided
14. Kenneth Olugbode,
LB 6-1/205 Bellarmine College Prep
College: Colorado.
15. Olito Thompson,
RB 5-10/210 Concord
College: Washington State.
16. Caleb Coleman,
WR 6-0/178 St. Mary's
College: Cal.
17. Ryan Severson,
RB 5-11/195 Valley Christian-San Jose
College: Colorado.
18. Dante Mayes,
QB 6-1/180 Freedom
College: Nevada.
19. Karris Johnson, RB 5-11/198 California
College: Utah State.
20. Vita Vea,
DE 6-4/280 Milpitas
College: Undecided.


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Fall 2013 Update Community Newsletter.
Janet Kittredge of Hancock struggled to breathe for two years before miserably failing a cardiac stress test and being diagnosed with a 90 percent blockage of one of the arteries in her heart.
In April, she had a stent placed in the blocked artery at Fletcher Allen Health Care. Part of her follow-up care plan was cardiac rehabilitation at her home hospital, Gifford.
Janet remembers the day she started cardiac rehabilitation vividly. She was nervous. "It had been so long since I had been able to do anything," she says.
For Janet, a walk out to the garage meant sitting and resting before returning to the house. Carrying in groceries meant pausing between trips. "I completely stopped walking. I just stayed in and pretty much all I did was watch TV."
So faced with the treadmills, recumbent bike and arm ergometer that make up the cardiac rehabilitation gym, Janet was worried.
A welcoming staff and consistent monitoring of her pulse and heart rate put Janet more at ease and quickly she discovered that not only could she do some exercise, the more she came, the more she could do.
"I just got so excited. It made me feel so good. I walked taller. I felt younger. I just wanted to do more and more and get stronger," says Janet, who found herself raising the difficulty level on her workouts before even being prompted by staff.
Janet finished her program in August. The 67-year-old Stanley Tool retiree is now back to the active life she once enjoyed. She is walking a mile and a half or more a day, shopping with her granddaughters and impressing her friends with the bounce in her step.
"I have totally gotten my life back. I feel 100 percent better. I have energy. I feel like doing things."
"I can't say it enough how much this changed my life. If I hadn't had this rehab, I never would have gotten myself to this point."
Cardiac rehabilitation is a 12-week outpatient exercise, education and nutrition program for people with coronary heart disease, angina, recovering from a heart attack or heart surgery, stent placement or other heart conditions. It is offered in a special gym space at Gifford and overseen by specially trained registered nurses. To learn more, call 728-2222 or ask your health care provider for a referral.


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EU monitors bioeconomy
19.02.2013 - The European Commission has announced it will launch an observatory to map progress and impact of the development of the EU's bioeconomy.
The observatory, which is part of the EC's bioeconomy action plan, will gather data to follow the evolution of markets, to map EU, national and regional bioeconomy policies, research and innovation capacities, and the scale of related public and private investments. The Commission's in-house science service JRC will run the new resource.
"It's now one year since we launched our bioeconomy strategy", said Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn in Brussels. "We are now seeing Member States seize the opportunity offered by the transition to a post-petroleum economy based on smart use of resources from land and sea. It's essential that they do because it will be good for our environment, our food and energy security, and for Europe's competitiveness in the future. This observatory will help keep the momentum going."
The observatory will start its 3-year term in March 2013 with the aim of making the data it will collect publicly available through a dedicated web portal in 2014. In this way, the observatory will support the regional and national bioeconomy strategies now being developed by EU Member States. The observatory will track a number of performance measures, including economic and employment indicators, innovation indicators, and measures of productivity, social wellbeing and environmental quality. It will also provide a "technology watch" and "policy watch" and will follow the development of science and technology.
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Three Bay Area water agencies have stored enough water in a huge underground "water bank" to supply nearly a half-million families with a year's worth of water.
But it's uncertain whether they'll be able to bring it to their customers' taps. That's a big problem, especially if the drought extends into a fourth year.
"We're stranded," said Jim Fiedler, chief operating officer with the Santa Clara Valley Water District. "We can't get the water back to us."
Also cut off from their banked supplies this summer: the Alameda County Water District, which serves the Fremont area, and the Zone 7 water district in Livermore, Pleasanton and Dublin.
They've been told that they might be able to get some water in September, but supplies may be limited. So the districts are looking at costly alternatives -- including pumping millions of gallons of water uphill, from south to north.
All three districts -- serving about 2.35 million people -- store surplus water from wet years underground at the Semitropic Water Storage Bank, near Bakersfield. The plan is to withdraw it during dry years -- like now.
Such storage is widely recognized as the least costly and most environmentally sound way to hold a water reserve.
But water banking relies on a complex multiparty agreement -- a "water exchange" -- among the state, the water bank and the water agencies. It's necessary because of water's north-to-south flow.
This is how it is supposed to work: During winter rains, Bay Area water agencies send their state-supplied water southward to the bank, to be put in storage. Then the bank releases the water farther southward, to farmers for springtime irrigation. In exchange, the Bay Area gets those farmers' share of state-supplied upstream water, shipped to the region from the Delta in the summer and fall.
But this year -- in a surprise move to protect the Delta because of the drought -- the state government largely dropped out of this exchange, cutting off the upstream supply.
This caused the routine exchange to break down.
"There has to be water moving through the system ... to make it work," said Jason Gianquinto, general manager of the Bakersfield-based water bank. "If water isn't moving ... then it is stranded where you can't get it."
Everyone knew this was a risk, water managers said. But it seemed remote.
"It was never envisioned that we would have this critical a year, where there would be little or no water allocated," Gianquinto said.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District has an ambitious $5 million plan if expected water allotments don't come through. It will reverse the state's plumbing, pumping its federally supplied water directly out of the bank -- moving it upstream from south to north -- where it can be reached.
Four generator-powered diesel pumps would suck and push the water 75 miles up to farmers who depend on federal water. In turn, the federal government would release an equal amount of water from the San Luis Reservoir to the Santa Clara Valley Water District.
The "reverse flow" project would be only the second time in its history that the California Aqueduct has changed direction. The last time, in 1977, was to send floodwater north.
This project is important because the Santa Clara Valley district depends on the Semitropic water for 25 percent of its treated water.
"There is no margin of error," said Joan Maher, deputy operating officer at the district, which requested water from Semitropic in January.
By fall, she said, "there's a good chance we'll get what we need. But we can't afford to have them tell us it can't be done. Our users depend on us. There's no substitute for water."
As the projects await state approval, the water district is ordering pumps and arranging to rent the power generators. Even if the agency gets some of its promised water, the pumps will be installed for use in any future cutoffs.
But pumping water upstream is not feasible for the other two districts. The Alameda County district, with customers in Fremont, Union City and Newark, may buy more water from San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
Zone 7 has been unable to get its Semitropic water this summer, but residents have successfully reduced demand, said General Manager Jill Duerig. And, she said, Semitropic has told Zone 7 it can have the relatively small amount it requested, once, as is expected, the state releases some Delta water in the autumn and winter.
Alameda County Water District is hoping conservation, groundwater and buying water will carry it through the drought, said Steve Peterson, the district's operations and maintenance manager.
"We knew there would be risks in advance of entering into this water banking program," he said. "Now it's how we manage those risks."
Because the district withdrew a lot of banked water last year and stored it nearby, this year isn't as bad as it could have been, he added.
The problem highlights the vulnerabilities of California's stressed water supply in this severe drought, said Ellen Hanak of the California Public Policy Institute. Every source of water has some degree of reliability problems, she said.
Groundwater banking is a practical and inexpensive way to augment California's water storage, costing $10 to $600 per acre foot. Reservoirs, recycled city water and seawater desalination all generally cost more, ranging as high as $2,500 per acre foot, Hanak said.
"You can't criticize for having banked down there. It was designed for normal dry years," she said.
"But networks get broken. The most reliable water is under your feet."
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.
At Semitropic
Santa Clara Valley Water District: 262,665 acre feet
Alameda County: 138,398 acre feet
Zone 7 (Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin): 81,952 acre feet
Total: 483,015 acre feet


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NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice" is bringing back 13 players fired from past "Apprentice" contests and one notable winner in the first-ever "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice."
"We wouldn't have done the 'All-Star' concept unless we were able to get the right contestants back," said Donald Trump, the host and boardroom boss who once again will be pronouncing each contestant's fate.
The series, which starts shooting its new season on Monday for a March 2013 premiere, announced its slate of 14 contenders Oct. 12.
They include: country music star Trace Adkins; actor Stephen Baldwin; actor Gary Busey; magician and illusionist Penn Jillette; DJ artist and rap star Lil Jon; NBA Hall-of-Famer Dennis Rodman; Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider; actress and author Marilu Henner; singer La Toya Jackson; TV personality and actress Claudia Jordan; reality star Omarosa, who competed in the first, pre-celebrity edition of "The Apprentice"; actress and author Lisa Rinna; Playboy Playmate of the Year Brande Roderick; and Poison frontman Bret Michaels, who in 2010 emerged as the winner despite life-threatening ailments that included a brain hemorrhage and hospitalization for what doctors called a warning stroke.


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GE sequences stem cells in China
13.06.2012 - A new partnership will bring GE Healthcare information on racial genetic variations in stem cells.
Chalfont St Giles/Bejing – GE Healthcare has launched a stem cell cooperation in China. Together with the Bejing Genomics Institute (BGI), the UK-based healthcare unit of the US technology major will perform a multi-year research collaboration in stem cell science. The Chinese sequencing specialist will help to explore the underlying genetic variation between ethnically diverse human stem cell lines, which may help to help advance the potential of stem cell-derived assays for use in drug discovery and toxicity testing.
GE and the BGI made the collaboration public at a special signing ceremony attended by Amr Abid, General Manager Cell Technologies at GE Healthcare Life Sciences and the three leading executives from the BGI. Two projects are planned in the frame of the cooperation. As a first project, BGI is performing genome sequencing and epigenetic analysis on cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes supplied by GE Healthcare Life Sciences. The aim is to map the genetic variation across an ethnically diverse range of stem cell lines and to examine the changes that occur during differentiation into specific cell types. As a basis for the second project, GE Healthcare will provide BGI with a IN Cell Analyzer 2000 system for high content cellular imaging analysis. The analyzer will be used by BGI to investigate gene function for a library of previously sequenced cell types by over-expressing or blocking the activity of single genes and observing the effect in selected populations of cells.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/ge-sequences-stem-cells-in-china.html


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Which sex is the worst about washing up? Why is it so important? We've got the dirty truth on how and when to wash your hands.
Medical Marijuana State Action in 2014
Editor's note: Three more states have approved some form of marijuana for medical use since this article was published. They are: Kentucky, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
April 2, 2014 -- Medical marijuana moved up the legislative agenda in many states this year -- even in the most conservative parts of the country.
Utah became the 21st state to approve medical marijuana in late March when Gov. Gary Herbert signed the legislation into law.
In Maryland, lawmakers are working on a bill that would expand the availability of medical marijuana.
And legislatures in eight other states are looking at legalizing medical marijuana in 2014.
In Florida, voters will consider a ballot measure in November to legalize medical marijuana. Activists are working on getting medical marijuana on the ballot in Nebraska and Ohio and have until this summer to gather signatures. Alabama may allow people to possess marijuana as long as they're using it for medical reasons. Indiana may ease the penalties for possessing marijuana.
"It's a movement that has a groundswell of grassroots support," says Dianne Hoffmann, director of the law and health program at the University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore. "People are going to their legislators and saying they find it helpful to their illness, and these are sympathetic cases a lot of the time."
Legislatures in four states -- Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi -- also considered medical marijuana laws, but those bills did not pass.
Changing Attitudes About Marijuana
Marijuana is classified under federal law as an illegal drug with no medical value, but 21 states and Washington, DC, have rules that allow medical marijuana. Two states, Colorado and Washington, have legalized it for recreational use as well. A recent WSJ/NBC poll showed that 55% of adults across the country think marijuana should be legalized and sold by a regulated business.
"We are reaching a critical mass," Hoffman says. "Enough states have passed medical marijuana laws that state legislators can say, 'Well, this many states have passed it, so it can't be that disastrous.'"
Also fueling the activity is President Obama's decision not to enforce the federal law. The Justice Department has said that federal prosecutors shouldn't enforce federal marijuana laws as long the states are following their own rules.
"So as long as there isn't a broad-based federal crackdown, states will continue to do what they want when it comes to marijuana," says John Hudak of the Brookings Institution, a think tank based in Washington, DC. "And the polls are giving legislators cover to support medical marijuana laws."


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Plugins that wish to utilize this hook can do so by implementing the net.pms.external.FinalizeTranscoderArgsListener interface:
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public interface FinalizeTranscoderArgsListener extends ExternalListener {
public List<String> finalizeTranscoderArgs(
Player player,
String filename,
DLNAResource dlna,
DLNAMediaInfo media,
OutputParams params,
List<String> cmdList
The parameters should be self-explanatory. Plugins can modify cmdList in-place and return that or return a new List. The hook is called at the last point before the command is executed.
This hook is available for all built-in engines (MEncoderVideo, MPlayerAudio, TSMuxerVideo &c.) and can easily be used by custom subclasses of the builtin engines (see PMSEncoder for an example of a custom transcoding engine).
For an example plugin that uses the new API, see PMS-EDL.


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Thursday, 06/29/2000
PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
Set 1: Funky Bitch > Wilson, LxLLimb By Limb, Drowned -> R&RRock and Roll
Set 2: BOAFBirds of a Feather[1] -> Catapult > Heavy Things > Sand, Meatstick[2] > Cities[3] -> Walk Away > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope > Frankenstein, Velvet SeaWading in the Velvet Sea
Encore: Character Zero
[1] Unfinished.
[2] Trey improvised a verse noting: There's no song about Paul Languedoc, and there's no song about Kuroda; there's only one about Carini, and his lumpy head!" Trey then jokingly talked about the Meatstick Dance being a fad in Japan.
[3] Lyrics altered to reference Tokyo, the Meatstick Dance, and sushi.
· A Love Supreme tease in Birds of a Feather
· Meatstick tease in Run Like an Antelope
Noteworthy Jams: Limb By Limb, Drowned (highly recommended), Birds of a Feather, Sand
Average Song Gap: 8.44
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Birds contained a tease of A Love Supreme and was unfinished. Catapult was sung over an atypical jam that bridged Birds and Heavy Things. This gig featured an eventful Meatstick: Sofi Dillof made a guest appearance for the Meatstick dance. Several fans ran on stage and were chased off by Pete Carini and then by Bart Butler, both of whom Trey thanked. Trey improvised a verse noting: "There's no song about Paul Languedoc, and there's no song about Kuroda; there's only one about Carini, and his lumpy head!" Trey then jokingly talked about the Meatstick Dance being a fad in Japan. The lyrics to Cities were altered to reference Tokyo, the Meatstick Dance, and sushi. Antelope included Meatstick teases in the intro. At the end of the second set, Trey thanked the crew (particularly Carini, for being a good sport). Trey mentioned how much of a "home show" it is for the band to play in Holmdel, and led one final Meatstick tease.
Song Distribution:
3 The Story of the Ghost
2 Farmhouse
1 Billy Breathes
1 A Picture of Nectar
1 Lawn Boy
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 The White Tape
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "2000 Summer U.S. Tour."
The Birds that starts Set 2 zips along for a couple minutes before Trey leads things into a more relaxed range (I *guess* it sounds like "Acknowledgment" from A Love Supreme, but the resemblance is pretty slight, and I say that as somebody that thinks it's there in the 6/3/11 DWD), then the jam briefly heads into major-key ground again before getting dark and grimy, Trey adding some interesting effects with either his guitar or (more likely) his keyboard, Mike taking over the jam and walking his basslines through the electronic muck. The band then rolls into Catapult, keeping the darkness going while Trey builds some loops, then Page steps to the forefront as the jam starts dying out before Trey starts up one last loop...which serves as the bridge to Heavy Things. Heavy Things is fine, but that bridge between the songs is pretty neat.
Sand then brings things back to a darker zone; a good chunk of the jam is pretty boring, Trey dicking around with his keyboard while the groove just goes on and on to the point where it sounds like a backing track, but then Trey gets back on the guitar and piles on some nasty noise to save things a little. I do like this style of jamming a good deal, and I like Sand as a vehicle for that kind of jamming, but this Sand didn't hit my sweet spot (compare it to the 12/8/99 version, which explores a lot of the same areas, but at least the whole time the band, specifically Trey, is *doing something*, and the jam builds pretty well - here, the jam just goes, and then it's back to the main theme). Meatstick is Meatstick - I could just be a bad fan, but they ALL sound the same - and I find myself losing interest, but Cities and Walk Away perk me back up, and then comes a peppy Antelope, played with late-90s minimalism but at mid-90s speed (I do love Page's Antelope piano playing); it's a reasonably good Antelope, if not in my personal pantheon or anything. The rest of the show is standard stuff.
Final thoughts...gosh. The first set is probably the best set of the 6/28-29 run. The second set has a very good jam, a nice Antelope, and everything in between is just not that great IMO. Still, the first set is enough for me to rate this show higher than the day before's. Drowned/R&R is available in SBD, so seek that out at the very least.
Lawn baby! Funky Bitch got the party funky right away, Wilson had us all united in chant and was a good, heavy version. Limb By Limb was over ten minutes and had solid type 1 jamming, building up to some brilliant peaks. However, everyone will remember this show for two things. The first thing is the Drowned>Rock and Roll that owns the second quarter to end set 1. Sick? Ridiculous? Amazing? Yes to all of those adjectives and to many more. Period.
I got rained on during the intermission but it stopped just in time for the beginning of set 2.
I'm sure the chant for Destiny Unbound sounded like "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" on stage, so the alarm clock going off intro to BOAF shut everybody up. (The irony is that Destiny Unbound would be played for the first time in over a decade on 2/28/03 out of BOAF). This could possibly be the very first "Angry Birds." It was a monster, like the big, red bird. This version would kill many pigs on the first try and get three stars without a doubt. It even had it's own Catapult attached. The guys from ROVIO that made "Angry Birds" may have heard this version first.
Everyone was THRILLED to hear Heavy Things. Really. THRILLED. I've seen a rubber band. And I've seen a peanut stand. I've even seen a needle wink it's eye. But I've seen just about everything when I've seen everyone THRILLED for Heavy things. Honest to God.
Sand was dark and sinister techno, even darker than the Mike's the night before. It was the complete opposite of Heavy Things, but equally received.
After Sand is when the the second thing people will remember about this night happened. The show took a turn to the ridiculous, but in a great way. Meatstick had memories of Big Cypress rushing back to me, and before my eyes was born the first Japanese Meatstick. Hilarious! Carini was mentioned, Bart tackled a dude on stage, Trey said he wish he could have us all on stage and brought Bart back out, just a lot of fun antics. Meatstick>Cities was fun, especially the Japanese Meatstick references. Walk Away was rocking, Antelope was RAGING and had the little Meatstick tease in the beginning. After that Antelope, the band somehow had enough energy to bust out Frankenstein, (what!?!). Show over, right? Wrong. People can say what they want about Velvet Sea, but this version was once again for us out on the lawn like If I could was the day before. It was beautiful and ended with the Meatstick tease, book-ending the night and referencing the incredible Velvet Sea>Meatstick experience from Big Cypress that we were all still feeling. Trey even spoke again right before the ending, expressing how much he and Page loved playing in Jersey at PNC and thanked the crew. Character Zer0 was a good send off to Hartford, but the main speaker on the lawn blew out and lost the signal, so the lawn experienced a very low and muffled Zer0. It was all good though. Both nights of PNC 2000 were OFF THE HOOK and are must have shows from 2000.
Set I: not the longest set...but the one part that stands out is the Drowned...one of my favorite versions...I actually forgot about this...until I listened to it again recently and it raged...great segue into Rock and Roll...
Set II: BOAF...not one of my favorite songs..but a decent version
Sand > Meatsick > Cities > Walk Away > Antelope...absolute best part of this set...defintely worth the listen...


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Published: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 9:49 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 9:49 a.m.
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia State Patrol says it did not release the video from a state trooper's dash-camera showing a combative Reese Witherspoon confronting the officer during a traffic stop in Atlanta.
The video was first obtained by the celebrity website TMZ and rebroadcast by other news media. Witherspoon was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct.
Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said Friday that the video would be officially released soon. He told The Associated Press no one from his agency leaked the video, and the only copy that had been made earlier was for the prosecutor.
The video shows Witherspoon asking the trooper, "Do you know my name" and then adding, "You're about to find out who I am."
The actress later apologized for her behavior.
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State Rep. Al Baldasaro, a Republican legislator in New Hampshire, warned his colleagues Thursday that the United Nations sustainability initiative known as Agenda 21 is being used to ban fishing.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- You don't just lose your pitching ace and expect the ride to be without bumps and obstacles. Such was the case Friday night, as the Giants struggled without Tim Hudson able to start against the Miami Marlins.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy tabbed do-everything-pitcher Yusmeiro Petit to fill in for Hudson while the Giants best pitcher so far this season rehabilitated from a strained left hip.
The Marlins roughed up Petit for five runs and forced the Giants to play catch-up for most of the night at AT&T Park. They caught the Marlins twice but never led in a 7-5 defeat.
"We've been playing well," Bochy said. "We're going to put this behind us. You're going to have games like this that are not going to go your way."
The Giants tied the Marlins in the first inning but soon trailed 4-1, as they did in Thursday night's 6-4 win. The Giants caught the Marlins in the sixth inning Friday on a pinch-hit, run-scoring single by Gregor Blanco that made it 5-5.
The Marlins regained the lead in the ninth with two runs off Santiago Casilla. Casey McGehee's run-scoring single broke the tie, and Garrett Jones added an insurance run with an RBI single.
Steve Cishek closed out the game for the Marlins, as the Giants lost for only the second time in six games.
Just as they did Thursday night, the Marlins wasted little time putting pressure on the Giants. Leadoff batter Christian Yelich smoked Petit's fifth pitch over the center field fence for a home run.
Matt Cain allowed a home run on his sixth pitch Thursday night, to the No. 2 hitter, but he wasn't fazed and lasted two outs into the eighth for the win.
Cain settled into a groove in the third inning. Petit allowed runs in four of the five innings he pitched.
"I was feeling well," Petit said. "I missed a couple of spots. I paid for that."
Fortunately for the Giants, Hudson is expected back in time to make his next start.
Bochy said before Friday's game that Hudson's hip injury is responding to treatment and rest about as well as expected.
"He's made improvement like we thought (he would)," Bochy said.
Bochy scratched Hudson from his start Friday night. However, if Hudson doesn't suffer a setback, he is slated to start against the Colorado Rockies on Thursday.
"We still believe he's going to be fine for his next start," Bochy said.
Pence hustled into second base, with Angel Pagan going from second to third. Marlins manager Mike Redmond challenged the ruling, and umpires overturned the call.
On Thursday night, Pence was hit on the foot by his chopper up the first base line and should have been ruled out, but the play wasn't reviewable. He singled on the next pitch to help fuel a three-run inning.
Colvin has started four of the Giants' seven games since he was called up from Triple-A Fresno last Saturday. He has gone 7 for 16 in those starts, with four runs and three RBIs.
Still, Bochy said, the Giants don't want to overdo things with Colvin, given his recent back problems. For now, Colvin's back is holding up well.
Colvin delivered a one-out double in the eighth after he whiffed his first three at-bats.
"Things seem to be under control," Bochy said. "There's still fire going on, but I don't feel threatened where my house is. So far, so good on that end."
Bochy's house is near the so-called San Marcos fire, which reached within 1½ miles of his house at one point.
Miami (Tom Koehler 3-3)
at Giants (Tim Lincecum (3-2), 6:05 p.m., CSNBA


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Governor Gary Richard Herbert has led Utah's recovery from the Great Recession to a position of national economic prominence. His unwavering focus on economic development includes attracting businesses and investment to the state while helping homegrown businesses flourish.
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Could Apple drop a "one-more-thing" bombshell one more time?
The late Steve Jobs used to whip his product-launch crowds into a frenzy with that famous keynote postscript -- "Oh, there is one more thing" -- just before blowing them away with the latest gadget. But on the eve of Tuesday's big product announcement, many Apple watchers are wondering if Cupertino's dream-catcher has lost its knack for innovating technology that time after time would take the world's breath away.
"The wow-factor is wearing off at Apple," said analyst Laurence Balter with Oracle Investment Research. "Innovation has been put on the back burner while the company focuses on market-share penetration. But unless they pull one incredible rabbit out of the hat next week, the pressure is going to be even more intense on Apple to somehow surprise us all again."
While the rumor mill expects Apple to unveil an iPhone 5 successor along with a lower-cost iPhone that will come in multiple colors, Balter scoffs at the offering: "It's almost become like the fall catalog from JCPenney. 'Ooo, look at the new colors for the new season.' But it sure doesn't scream 'innovation.'"
No one is suggesting Apple's days are numbered. It remains the world's most valuable company in terms of market capitalization, even as the growth of sales of its signature iPhone slows and its stock price is stuck far below its highs. Its crack team of creatives, led by the legendary Jony Ive, is presumably hard at work on the next major product. And a second announcement expected next week from the company will reportedly showcase a blockbuster iPhone deal with China Mobile. The behemoth carrier's 710 million customers would lend Apple a staggering heft in the world's largest smartphone market, a place where Apple hopes to step up its game.
As Apple continues to serve up new versions of a product arguably long in the tooth, at least in Internet years, analyst John Jackson with IDC admits there is some "iteration fatigue" among consumers. Still, Jackson insists next week's product launch doesn't need to be of biblical proportion to please fanboys everywhere.
"I don't think Apple has to do much," he said. "And they certainly don't have to create something entirely new right now to get a wow from people, as long as it's slick and sophisticated. I think there's a huge appetite out there for something, anything, new from Apple, even if it's a variation on a current theme."
The spotlight is turned up high on CEO Tim Cook, now more than two years at Apple's helm, where he's had to not only try to fill Jobs' shoes, but do damage control for product snafus like "Mapgate" and fix an important hire that went south when Apple Store chief John Browett was shown the door last October after only six months. Whether it's boosting the bottom line after two quarters of disappointing earnings or finally delivering on what he's hinted at several times as a product pipeline extraordinaire, Cook's under the gun. And overshadowing it all is the not-so-distant memory of Apple under Steve Jobs.
"This is a transcendent moment," business strategist Pam Murtaugh wrote recently on Huffington Post. "Apple became Apple when Jobs brought 'post-computer products' to the world. While Jobs thought the iPod was 'a thousand songs in your pocket,' its magic came from giving people a thousand feelings in their pocket. The iPod was a bank of feelings."
It's hard to imagine that sort of emotional geyser unleashed by simply a new colored iPhone or, as is expected later this year or early 2014, a new version of the iPad. And while Apple busies itself with its product pipeline, which eight long months ago Cook described as being "chock full" of "incredible stuff," the clock is ticking.
Literally. Samsung's release this past week of its new workout-tracking, photo-snapping smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, puts one of Apple's fiercest rivals a few steps in the lead, at least on this one path of innovation, while the Cupertino brain trust reportedly works on a smartwatch of its own.
But before anyone starts ringing the funeral chimes, said analyst Joel Achramowicz with Merriman Capital, Apple could still make history with a piece of wearable technology that blows Galaxy Gear right off your wrist. Achramowicz finds it intriguing that Apple, simply by its silence, "appears to be falling behind. Maybe it's good that Cook has been so quiet for so long, because Apple could very well come out with a version of a smartwatch that nobody has even thought about yet, and then it's 'Bingo!'"
Think iPod, he said, or iPhone. In both cases, it was as if Apple were lying in wait while its competitors stumbled about releasing their own not-insanely-great portable music-players and mobile phones until -- Bingo! -- Apple finally weighed in. If Achramowicz's instincts are spot on, Cook and his crew may be sitting on an egg of innovation that, once hatched, will blow everyone away. Or maybe not.
"It's hard to believe Apple would come out with, say, a smartwatch that's not really exciting," Achramowicz said. "But either way, this is it for Tim. He's got really smart people in the organization, but you've got to take risks or you don't get anywhere. Now's the time for him to come up with something really surprising, like Jobs always did, and to create his own legacy."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.
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What: A media event
Where: Apple headquarters' Town Hall in Cupertino
When: Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m.
Why: Bloggers and media reports say Apple will announce a new version of its iPhone 5, with an integrated fingerprint scanner, as well as a lower-cost model iPhone that will come in various colors; it should also announce the final release date of its new mobile software iOS 7, and could unveil a new refresh of its iPod touch as well.
Source: Mercury News reporting