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Review Summary
- Spacious rooms with high-design touches
- Trendy bar scene, especially late night, with occasional celeb sightings
- Walking distance to SoHo, West Village, and Lower East Side
- Small but well-equipped on-site gym
- Free Wi-Fi
- Pets welcomed and pampered
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With spacious rooms, a lively lounge scene, and the occasional star-studded film screening, the Tribeca Grand is still a cool and comfortable place to grab a slice of urban hipsterism -- even if its cachet slips a little every time a new downtown boutique like the Bowery and the Standard opens up.
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Still capable of drawing a lively downtown scene to its dimly lit but stylish lounge; but like an aging rockstar, it's starting to show some wear and tear.
This dimly lit 201-room hotel built around an impressive, vaulted central atrium used to be one of the hottest digs in town. But it's cachet has been slowly draining away in recent years as hip, new downtown competitors like the Bowery, Hotel on Rivington, and most recently the Standard pull both the scene-chasers and those looking for more luxurious, up-to-date rooms.
The Tribeca Grand was renovated in 2006, but the updates don't seem to have held up well, at least in the public areas. The lounge tables on which the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Lindsay Lohan have famously set their drinks are now looking a little sad, with badly chipped wood and scratched mirrors.
Thanks to the its long-time association with New York's independent film scene, plus the movie theater in the basement, the hotel does still see a fair number of celebs come through the doors for special film screenings and local premieres. The February 2009 screening of "He's Just Not That Into You" drew actress Ginnifer Goodwin, model Helena Christensen, and designer Michael Kors. And the stars of "The Great Buck Howard," Tom Hanks and John Malkovich, were both in attendance for that film's March 2009 screening.
In the afternoons, guests use the lobby and bar/lounge for work and pleasure, tapping away on iPhones and nibbling on a light meal while laid-back tunes play softly in the background. Come evening, the bass gets cranking and the lounge floods with hipsters decked out in skinny jeans, thick scarves, and fedoras.
The Tribeca Grand's sister hotel, the SoHo Grand, has a similar overall vibe; but the Tribeca's rooms are superior. For newer, brighter, and perfectly appointed rooms and a good chance of celeb sightings in the lobby, check out the Bowery.
Service can be warm and friendly or standoffish and aloof -- in other words, wildly inconsistent.
The doormen and porters were cheerful when they opened the door, and even remembered my name when I returned later that night. On the other hand, the front desk was understaffed at 3 p.m., so a half-dozen or so guests and I suffered what seemed an interminable wait to check in. The service at the Tribeca Grand can be excellent but it can also be poor. It's inconsistent -- and disappointing for a place that charges this much for a room.
Another example: The concierge was extremely helpful when I inquired about art happenings around town, pointing me in the direction of an Alexander Calder exhibition at PS1 , an underappreciated contemporary art museum in Queens -- a smart, well-informed suggestion. On the other hand, in the restaurant, I waited 25 minutes for the simple beet salad I ordered to arrive -- and it was missing the beets. (On the other other hand, room service later delivered a beet salad in just 10 minutes.)
The Tribeca neighborhood is full of yuppies, moms with strollers, great restaurants, and cool bars.
Located on a prime piece of lower Manhattan real estate in the neighborhood called TriBeCa, which is short for "Triangle Below Canal" Street, the hotel is given its shape by its position at a three-way intersection the shape of a right triangle. You don't really look for the hotel's address, you just kind of run into the building. (Or not: Lots of guests complain they have trouble finding the hotel among the neighborhood's crisscrossing cobblestone streets.)
In 2006, Forbes ranked 10013, TriBeCa's zip code, the 12th most expensive in the U.S. This once-gritty industrial slice of the city was first colonized by artists, who were then turned out by the financiers from nearby Wall Street, who transformed the neighborhood's vast warehouses into luxury lofts. These days, its streets are filled with kids in strollers being pushed between high-end restaurants and high-end boutiques by their well-to-do parents. It's a relatively safe place to roam at most times, though some of the fringes of the neighborhood feel deserted late at night.
Cabs are easy to find, if not quite as ubiquitous as in midtown. As many as nine subway lines are within a few blocks.
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About 30 to 90 minutes from three airports.
New York City has three nearby airports: JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark (in New Jersey). Getting to town from JFK or LaGuardia is usually more convenient than getting there from Newark, but travel times are heavily dependent on the time of day and traffic conditions. From JFK, a taxi to anywhere in Manhattan costs a flat rate of $45 and takes around an hour in average conditions. From LaGuardia, a metered cab ride to Midtown Manhattan costs about $40 and can take 30 minutes if traffic is light, three times that if it's bad. Rides from Newark cost at least $40 plus tolls and can take more than 90 minutes. It's customary to tip your driver 15 to 25 percent.
Those looking to save some cash can use the privately run shuttle buses that are available at all three airports for about $14 per person. For more information on the shuttles, go to Super Shuttle or New York Airport Service. Public transit is also available for as little as $7 per person, but travel can take up to two hours and involve a lot of lugging bags up and down stairways.
For mass-transit directions right to the hotel, check out HopStop.com.
Some classic modern furniture and accessories, plus comfortable king beds; but the rooms are too dark and starting to look a little dated -- and the stainless-steel bathrooms are even darker.
Peppering the room with items from the Design Within Reach catalog doesn't quite cut it these days.
Yes, the rooms at the Tribeca Grand feature a handful of modern classics, including two Artemide lamps, a Herman Miller chair, and a Kartell trash can. Unfortunately, that sort of stuff looked fresh a few years ago but has since become almost commonplace.
But even an abiding passion for Mid-Century modern won't get you past some other shortcomings of the rooms. Extreme darkness is one. Even during the day, with the curtains pulled aside, I couldn't read a book without turning on the lights in my standard room, which the hotel dubs a deluxe king room. The earthy oranges and browns seem to absorb most of the available light. (At roughly 250 square feet, the rooms are about average for New York hotels, especially of the downtown "boutique" variety.)
The small bathrooms are even darker. The stainless-steel sink and shower fixture are more emblems of dated design. Around the turn of the millennium, they no doubt looked cutting edge; now they just look institutional. Nor are they particularly functional: The showerhead was so weak that I hardly needed a towel to dry off. Also annoying: The shower-curtain liner was so long that it gathered on the bottom of the tub.
On the plus side, the high-end bathrobe and towels are made by Frette. And I still like the perfectly integrated slots for the nice Malin+Goetz bathroom products.
My room was quiet largely thanks to its location tucked away in a nook on the uppermost (8th) floor with another room, but also because of a clever noise-cancelling device controlled by a white knob within the room. Turn it on and white noise (sort of like an air conditioner) plays inside the room. This is an especially important feature in rooms on the lower floors that are close to the exceptionally loud bar.
The textured duvet was plush and the pillows firm, but the sheets were disappointingly rough for this level of hotel.
Tech amenities include a respectable 32" flat-screen TV with DVD player and a Sony iPod docking station. Other rooms have a Bose system. Wi-Fi is free everywhere in the hotel.
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A trendy bar that bumps until all hours on weekends, plus summer bike rentals, free Wi-Fi, and a small but well-equipped gym.
The centerpiece and defining feature of the hotel is the Church Lounge, located in the lobby. It's considerably darker even than the guest rooms upstairs -- probably a good thing, as it masks all the nicks and scratches on the furniture. And the space morphs into a lively club most nights, especially on weekends when the music, heavy with bass, gets progressively louder as the night goes on.
The well-equipped fitness room is open 24 hours and has two treadmills, two stationary bikes, two elliptical machines, a set of free weights, and yoga mats. There's no pool, though.
Free Wi-Fi is available in the rooms and public spaces. Additionally, the 24-hour business center has several computer work stations (both Mac and PC), as well as a fax and copy machine.
Guests can borrow one of the very cool Electra Townie bikes for free during the warm spring, summer, and fall months.
The hotel also has an extensive DVD collection as well as loaner iPods, pre-programmed with playlists curated by the hotel's creative director. Both are free of charge.
A welcome kit and special menu for kids, free child-proofing, cribs, and goldfish in the rooms make this a solid choice for well-heeled families -- despite the PG-13 lounge scene.
This isn't a particularly kid-tastic part of town, and the bass-thumping singles scene in the lounge gets pretty PG-13, but the hotel does its part to welcome the littlest of scenesters.
Guests can request that a room be child-proofed or have a crib or rollaway bed installed before arrival. There's no charge for either -- but rollaway beds fit only in the larger rooms.
The hotel's Grand Kids program welcomes kids with a free package that includes a kid-focused guide to New York City and assorted coloring books and toys. There's also a schedule of kid-friendly films screened weekly at the Grand Sunday Brunch, a popular event even among locals in which parents enjoy a lavish buffet while the little ones watch a movie in the hotel's movie theater. Oysters on the half shell, prosecco, and Disney might be the epitome of downtown cool parenting (and not a bad deal for $34.95 for adults and $12.95 for kids).
A children's menu is available at both the restaurant and for room service (think grilled cheese, hold the truffle oil!).
Also, don't forget to request a pet goldfish for your room.
Special treatment -- even room service -- for four-legged friends of any weight.
Four-legged friends of any size get the special treatment at the Tribeca Grand (many other pet-friendly hotels have weight limitations). The hotel asks only that visitors inform the staff ahead of time so that the reservations department can book you into one of the three pet-friendly floors (the second and third) and ensure that food, bowls, and a crate are available -- at no extra charge, in fact. (Room service delivers Hartz-brand animal chow and some special treats.) Dog walking, a more extensive menu, and grooming can all be arranged through the concierge for an extra fee.
If guests can't bring their own pets, the hotel offers "surrogate animal companionship" in the form of a pet goldfish in your room, which you can even take home with you. (I did.)
For the most part, this hotel is very clean -- but some guests won't like the pooches hanging out in the lounge where guests drink and eat.
No problem with cleanliness per se. And save for a few minor exceptions in some of the darkest corners of my room, and some permanent water rings on the metal table next to my bed, the room was in fine condition.
However, despite New York City Department of Health regulations that would seem to prohibit it, the hotel allows dogs to hang out in the lounge where guests eat and drink. The only house rule is that they can't sit on the furniture. I didn't see a dog hair or paw print in any of the public spaces, and pets are restricted to certain floors. But some guests might not like even the idea of animals in their luxury hotel.
Refined American classics and steep price tags, but 24-7 room service.
Meals at the Church Lounge are refined (and expensive) versions of classic American comfort food -- think burgers with Gruyere, seared salmon with pink-grapefruit-and-avocado salad, and mac and cheese with black-diamond cheddar. Entrees range between $15 and $28.
I ordered a $14 goat-cheese-and-beet salad at the bar at 6:15 p.m., when it was practically empty, and the salad arrived 25 minutes later -- minus the beets. I complained and a small dish of them arrived promptly on the side.
Breakfast is served in the same area as the lounge, but is not included in the room rate. I wasn't there over the weekend, but heard from two other guests that the Sunday brunch is top-notch. If you can only go a la carte, the ricotta pancakes ($16) are superb.
All meals can be eaten in the lounge or restaurant, or delivered to a guest's room, at any time of the day or night, allowing a guests to scarf down some fried calamari with Szechuan salt at 2 a.m., should the craving strike.
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It's not just the FBI helping give this case a boost, social media is also playing an important role in getting the word out about Alexis Murphy.
Just about everyone has a smart phone at their fingertips.
And, that's why social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are more important than ever before.
Just like a picture on a store window, sites like Twitter allow family and friends to get Alexis Murphy's face and story out to a bunch of people almost instantly.
Tod Burke is a professor of criminal justice at Radford University and also associate dean of humanities and behavioral sciences.
He's not involved in this case, but believes authorities know more than they're saying.
He says social media will not only help spread the word about the 17-year-old's case, but it will also give authorities an idea to her state of mind in the days leading to her disappearance.
"One of the things that police will also do -whether it be local, state and/or FBI -they're going to look at the missing person's social media accounts -were they online? What's going on with their cell phone records? Where were they supposed to be and where did they end up? And is there a connection between all of that? explains Burke.
Burke says the most important part in a missing person's case having the public involved and aware- that way if they see something, they can call it into police.
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Augusta employees are upset tonight. All have received a letter saying their identities may have been stolen.
Roughly 2700 Augusta employees are learning that a laptop containing their personal information has been missing for three months.
Insurance provider ING says the computer was stolen from their mailroom.
Names, addresses, and social security numbers are all on this missing laptop...and though the company responsible for securing this information says it probably won't be accessed, city employees are still upset.
"I want to get to the bottom of this and see exactly how it happened," says Augusta mayor Deke Copenhaver. "It is not a good thing for this city."
To say the least. Augusta city employees are concerned about theft of their personal information.
"I find it quite troubling that my information was out there and that it had been stolen," says Lena Bonner, clerk of commission.
City workers are receiving a letter from employee benefit provider ING. The letter says a laptop was stolen from the firm's Minneapolis office in March.
The problem is the fact that the computer contains the names, addresses, and social security numbers of all 2700 city employees.
"I'm concerned about it," says city clerk Betty Murphy. "This means we're going to have to keep a check on our credit to see what's out there."
But perhaps no one's more concerned than city clerks Bonner and Nancy Morawski.
Knowing ING is a voluntary benefit program, neither enrolled or gave any information when representatives approached them. Yet both received letters saying their information too had been stolen.
"I declined to sign the waiver, thinking that by not signing the waiver that did not give them access to my personal info...which I'm finding out is not the case," Bonner says.
"I think someone is at fault for releasing this information in the first place," Morawski says.
Augusta Human Resources employment manager Moses McCauley says his office released the data of all full time employees, and says there was a good reason.
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But he was not able to tell us if the firm needed social security numbers to give a quote.
"I couldn't say exactly right now, because I haven't seen what was given," McCauley says.
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Here's where I need your help; instead of taking back your cans or leaving them for the homeless peoples, bring them to vicious circle Thursday league where I can collect them from you for returns. If you have large amounts stockpiled I can come get them from you at your house. If you are discing at a local course, you can take a plastic bag with you and pick up the cans that rec players leave on the ground.
Some people have asked about making direct money contributions, those will be gladly accepted, but no one is expected to do this to help reach our goal. Also if you want to recycle your own cans or bottles and bring the payment to me that is of course ok as well.
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A 53-year-old man was exercising in the weight room at the Tom Muehlenbeck Center off of West Parker Road at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. A woman working out nearby noticed that he was unconscious and not breathing, so she alerted the recreation center's staff.
A staff member and a Plano doctor also working out at the center started CPR and called 911. Fire Chief Brian Crawford, who was also exercising in the building, was alerted and came to help. They used one of the center's automated external defibrillators on the man. Plano Fire-Rescue crews arrived less than five minutes after the 911 call. By that time, the man was conscious and talking. He was transported to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Plano and is in stable condition.
"From the selfless efforts of residents who recognized and began resuscitation efforts in concert with the highly trained city Parks and Recreation staff to the Plano firefighter and paramedics who later treated and transported the patient to the hospital, this 'team' effort was extraordinary in allowing a member of our community a second chance at life and precious time with his wife and family," Crawford said.


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During her presentation to the society's January meeting, Leatrice Mason paid tribute to her sister Mae Etta Johnson. A part of it is printed here to share with all members and the public in general.
"… Instead, I chose to tell you about – My Hero – a Quitman Hometown Hero that not many people know about.
As Martin Luther King, Jr., died fighting for equality and justice throughout America, so did my baby sister Mattie Mae Etta Johnson.
"My mother and father (Woodie & Erie Johnson) became proud parents of a baby girl that they named Mattie Mae Etta Johnson on December 17, 1940, in the Muddy Creek Community in Quitman. She was the youngest of the four children, three girls and one boy. My older sister and I are the only two living children today.
"She was known as Mae Etta to everyone who knew her well. She attended Sunday School and church services at the Muddy Creek Baptist Church here in Quitman and united with the church at the age of six (1946) under the pasturage of Rev. J. H. Harrington.
"As a small child, her favorite place to play was under, up and in a tree in the backyard of our house. Her favorite story on the radio was "Uncle Ben". Her favorite books were the Bible Story Book in Pictures and a book of poems titled, "Pearls along Life's Sea Shore." We didn't have a television and of course no computers back then, so we all read a lot as children. Mae Etta purchased these books with money she saved from her weekly allowance. She realized at a young age that saving money was important as well as studying the Bible. She used some of her savings to purchase her first bible. She loved going to church and was active in the Sunshine Band, YWA, BTU, youth choir and usher board.Mae Etta worked faithfully on 4-H projects and her good-natured disposition made her an idol of her time. One of her greatest anticipations was being a delegate to the district board meetings. She became a regular delegate to the Cypress District Sunday school and BTU Congress and Cypress District Association.If our mother was unable to attend with her, because she had to work, our Aunt Irene Hunter would gladly take her.
"Mae Etta attended W.B. Clark School in Quitman and graduated with honors from high school in 1958. While she was in high school, she began to make preparation to enroll in Bishop College in Marshall, Texas. Bishop College was founded by the Baptist Home Mission Society in 1881. Their drive was to establish a Texas college for black Baptists.
"Mae Etta was well accepted in the Bishop College family. One of her dearest friends and classmates was Thomasine Parker Cleaver who was also a Quitman native. They both entered Bishop at the same time and continued their friendship. Mae Etta maintained her high academic standing throughout her stay at Bishop.
"In 1960, the struggle for equality, freedom and human dignity was strong on the minds and hearts of many students at Bishop including my sister. She gladly displayed her courage by giving a new dimension to man's hope that one day segregation would end. and defined the Christian faith and affirmed in an unmistakable manner the dawn of a new day. With God's help, she believed it could be done as she continued to work on God's program at Bishop College. She was president of the Wednesday night Bible Band and seemed to gain much strength through studying God's word.
"As a budding junior at Bishop College in 1960, she participated in a sit in demonstration against lunch counter segregation in Marshall, Texas. Several black colleges all across the South were also active in the lunch counter segregation movements during this time. She and many other students were arrested, charged and fined for picketing stores as well as staging mass demonstrations on the Harrison County courthouse lawn. She was fined $50.
"In a few short years, my baby sister achieved the maturity some never reach in eighty years. She saw clearly and wholly the ultimate implications of the struggle for human dignity and identified her future with it. We, the family, wondered how else could she suffer to be arrested without ever once losing the cheerful smile and the utterly wholesome outlook on life which she always possessed? How else could this letter that I will read to you be explained that she wrote to our mother less than 24 hours after she had spent 26 hours in a Marshall jail at the age of 19?
"Here is the letter:
April 3, 1960,
Bishop College
Marshall, Texas
Dear Mother,
How are you? I am fine. I guess you know by now we were arrested Friday evening. We were carried to jail at 8 p.m. Friday evening and we stayed there about 26 hours. We got out Saturday night about 10 o'clock. There were 27 of us girls in my cell. Our lawyer is from Dallas. We were bonded out by Negro citizens of Marshall. We are under $600 bonds. The night in jail was not too pleasant, but it was a comfort to know we're in there to serve a good purpose. We were in for a good cause and none of us minded it really. If it takes a few days in jail to get equality, I feel it's worth it. I feel that's the least I can do. I know that God is with us because he has the whole wide world in his hands. I hope they haven't given you a rough time. What has been said? Be sure and write and tell me. Give everyone my love. I am going to class and study now. Tell UNK hello. Be sweet, I love all of you. Forgive me if I've caused you worry. I have lifted a burden from my heart because of my stand. In God's name we are going to get out freedom.
Your Baby, Etta
"Our family had a real togetherness and supported her in her struggle. We were devastated when we received the news on August 16, 1960, while Mae Etta, her attorney and another student were driving back to their boarding house, that a railroadswitching engine struck the car and killed her and the attorney instantly. The other student was seriously injured. The accident stunned the Marshall community and the legal cases against the students were dismissed. Shortly thereafter Marshall's public facilities were de-segregated. We do not understand all the ways of God. We cannot comprehend the reason this beautiful and promising life was ushered so suddenly from time into eternity. Her Christian faith can be shared with all; that God does have the whole wide world in His hands.
"Remembering those who dedicated their lives for civil rights such as Medger Evers, John F. and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others, Mae Etta dedicated her life for the cause of getting freedom for her people. She would be proud to see President Obama and his family occupying the White House today.
"We may never see a bronze statue of Mae Etta in a hall of fame somewhere or her letter from jail as a required reading as it once was for every student entering Bishop College, but her epitaph is written in the hearts of all who knew her. No tribute can be too much because Mae Etta did not die in vain.
"The people of Quitman should be proud to know that Mattie Mae Etta Johnson is a part of Black History."
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Oct. 26, 1923 - Jan. 14, 2013
Edward Michael was born October 26, 1923 to Mike and Annie Kazarian in Fowler, CA. As a young man, Mike enjoyed playing the saxophone in his high school band. At the age of 18 Mike enlisted in the Navy and served 2 tours of duty. The first tour was during World War 2 and the second tour was the Korean Coflict where he was a member of the Seabees and learned the trade of plumbing. He became a plumber for 34 years. In 1986, he and wife Frances moved to Lake Tahoe. For the next 29 years Mike could be found working at Nel's Hardware. Mike is preceeded in death by his wife Frances Ellen Kazarian who passed away in 1991.
Mike was an active member in the SIRS, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Barton Hospital Auxillary (Attic), Blood Source and The American Legion.
Mike is survived by his daughters, Carole Anne Johnson (Bob) and Pamela Sue Pugh (Jack), grandchildren Steven Johnson, Jennifer Scanio, Chris Johnson, Eric Johnson, and Deena Fantuzzi and great grandchildren Corrine, Chloe and Chandler Johnson, Kaitlyn Mills, Ryan Fantuzzi and Jillian Scanio.
A service will be held at McFarlane Mortuary Chapel on January 24 at 11:00 a.m. with a Celebration of Life immediately following funeral at MacDuff's Pub


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OAKLAND -- In the joy of the A's clubhouse, nobody was more relieved than third-base coach Mike Gallego.
Gallego took the blame for a baserunning blunder by Stephen Drew that thwarted an Oakland rally and, for a while, looked as if it potentially could cost the game.
After Coco Crisp opened the sixth by hustling to second on a ball Detroit first baseman Prince Fielder was unable to handle -- he was charged with an error -- Drew hammered a ball into the gap in right center.
Crisp raced around third to score the first A's run and Drew approached second base in full sprint, hitting the bag and picking up Gallego, who was waving him toward third.
"I was bringing him (around)," Gallego said. "After I saw the ball scoot past Jackson and against the wall -- obviously the cardinal sin is to not make the first or last out at third base -- but at that time, I felt that I couldn't stop him either.
"If I would have stopped him, I would have gotten him hung out to dry in the middle of the basepath."
It was a bad move.
Second baseman Omar Infante took the relay from center fielder Austin Jackson and easily nailed Drew at third.
"Obviously now that you look at it, it's not the right call for either of us. But that's the type of baseball we play here. We're going to try to be aggressive all the time.
"And sometimes, we're going to err on the aggressive side."
But in the end, thanks to a game-winning single by Crisp in the bottom of the ninth, the mistake was not fatal. Gallego would sleep better. So, too, would Drew.
Parker handled himself well in Game 1 of the American League Divisional Series, going 61/3 innings and allowing three runs (two earned) at Comerica Park. It didn't matter as Verlander racked up 12 strikeouts over seven innings of a 3-1 Tigers win.
The stakes will be higher and the spotlight brighter Thursday with a berth in the A.L. Championship Series on the line.
A's manager Bob Melvin said the poise that Parker showed in Game 1 simply reflected the demeanor he showed during the regular season, when he went 13-8 with a 3.47 ERA.
"He's just gotten better and better," Melvin said. "Now that he has a postseason start under his belt, I'm sure he'll take all the confidence that he got out of that one to the next one."
"I feel like it's about the same as the responsibility in Game 1," he said after the game. "Obviously, it's win or go home. I'm not going to change my mentality. I'm not going to try to do anything more than I've done after the game."
Staff writers Joe Stiglich and Carl Steward contributed to this report.


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The dust is settling on Team Summit's remodel at Copper Mountain, putting the organization in an updated, more visible space in Copper Village at the same time coaches are amping up programming to prepare for the upcoming training and competition season.
The move, the first after 18 years in the same spot, isn't the only thing new for the organization this year. It's continuing the focus on building a strong foundation of youth athletes in the disciplines of alpine racing, snowboarding and freeskiing, but the alpine division is also honing in on a more directed post-graduate program at the same time it's building a prototype inclusive adaptive program.
It's not new to have post graduates in the program - all three disciplines welcome athletes wanting to get further coaching - but this year, Ellie Hartman and Miranda Sheely plan to be full-time at Team Summit as they seek to get into scoring position for a Division I college or perhaps make the U.S. Ski Team, which practices next door to where the organization trains at Copper Mountain. They've been skiing together throughout their racing career, so the post-graduate unit should be tight-knit.
"It's great to have us three working together, and I think it'll be a great season," said Hartman, who aspires to be welcomed onto ski teams at University of Colorado first, then University of Utah and Montana State.
"Last year, some people who took a PG year didn't have a specific team or coach," said Sheely, who has her eye on University of Alaska's ski team. "This year, having that opportunity is so perfect, because we're able to get training in with other teams. Or go up when other people have school."
Their dedicated coach, Bart Bradford, is theirs alone - a first for the alpine program. He's working not just to train the two girls, but also to give them exposure to other athletes pursuing similar goals - like the girls they've been training with this week from Winter Park.
Ideally, the revised post-graduate coaching will be specific with conditioning for races and planning a competition circuit, alpine coach Erik Leirfallom said. The goal is to pull in older athletes from across the nation, training them on venues they may not otherwise have access to.
Another new focus is the adaptive program, which is geared toward athletes committed to their sport to the point where they've already purchased gear and are ready to start aspiring for goals like the Paralympics.
Mau Thompson of Adaptive Adventures is joining forces with Team Summit this year to deliver an inclusive adaptive program, where disabled athletes can train full-time alongside able-bodied peers.
"It's a very ideal situation to train with the same age group able-bodied athletes in the same environment," Thompson said, adding that this would be the first program to do so full-time.
"The competitive adaptive world has been very much isolated. ... (The powers that be) have felt it's so different, it can't be included," said Leirfallom, who was formerly an adaptive coach.
He hopes that, like the post-graduate program, the inclusive adaptive format can become a nationwide model for on-snow training and competition programs that can be duplicated elsewhere. Leirfallom points to Ski Windham in New York, which has strong programs in both able-bodied and adaptive racing, but whose programs don't share resources and operate separately.
"Team Summit can be a flagship," he said, explaining that he wants the Summit County program to be a case study in how to share funding and resources to train athletes together. Not to mention, if the barrier is broken between able-bodied and adaptive athletes in competitions, adaptive athletes will have better access to races. It's currently expensive and difficult to travel to adaptive races.
It all begins this year with an Army veteran who has taken to the sport and wants further coaching.
"As word spreads, interest will grow," Thompson said.
To help spread the good news, Team Summit will be screening a film titled "The Movement" in December. Part fundraiser and part awareness drive, the film is narrated by Robert Redford and Warren Miller and received accolades at the Sundance Film Festival.
As the main season gets underway in early December at resorts across the county (not just at Copper Mountain), Team Summit's foundation continues to be its introductory program, in which hundreds of youngsters as young as 4 and 5 years old - mostly from the Front Range - take to the snow in two-day introductions scattered throughout the season.
But, Team Summit "takes any level of any athlete. We give them everything we can," snowboard coach Sean Marshall said.


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SAN JOSE -- A federal appeals court Thursday granted San Jose's request for speedy consideration of its claim that Major League Baseball violated U.S. antitrust law by keeping the Oakland A's from moving to the city.
San Jose's lawyers had asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to set a March 24 deadline for all legal arguments, which could allow the federal judges to rule on the case by summer. The 9th Circuit had earlier called for briefs to be filed by June, a timetable that could have pushed a ruling into the latter part of the year. With Thursday's decision, San Jose's opening brief is due March 5.
San Jose sued MLB and Commissioner Allan "Bud" Selig in June, claiming violations of antitrust laws against monopolies and interference with a contract the Athletics signed with San Jose securing an option to buy downtown property for a new ballpark.
San Jose's lawyers had argued that it is critical to have a ruling in the appeal by early November, when the city's option with the A's to provide land for a downtown ballpark expires.
San Jose is appealing a federal judge's October order dismissing the city's unlawful monopoly argument, which seeks to void baseball's nearly century-old exemption from federal antitrust laws set by a series of Supreme Court rulings. The A's quest to move to San Jose has been foiled in large part by the San Francisco Giants' ownership, which has asserted territorial rights to San Jose.
"The Court of Appeal clearly recognizes the urgency of determining San Jose's antitrust claims that MLB and Commissioner Selig are preventing relocation of the A's to San Jose," said Philip Gregory, one of the lawyers handling the case for the city.
A lawyer representing MLB in the case had no immediate response Thursday afternoon.
Contact John Woolfolk at 408-975-9346. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/johnwoolfolk1.


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- ZyXEL NSA-320 - NAS server
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- Host Connectivity
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Max Supported Capacity
- Installed Devices / Modules Qty
- 0 (installed) / 2 (max)
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 10.8 cm x 20.5 cm x 14.7 cm
- Weight
- 1.06 kg
- Processor
- Marvell 6281 1.2 GHz
- Storage Controller
- RAID - SATA 3Gb/s - RAID 0, 1, JBOD
- Networking
- Network adapter 10Mb LAN, 100Mb LAN, GigE
- Power
- AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
- System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Edition, Microsoft Windows Vista (32/64 bits)
- Microsoft Certification
- Compatible with Windows 7
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2 years warranty
- Device Type
- NAS server
- Host Connectivity
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Max Supported Capacity
- Installed Devices / Modules Qty
- 0 (installed) / 2 (max)
- Width
- 10.8 cm
- Depth
- 20.5 cm
- Height
- 14.7 cm
- Weight
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Processor / Memory
- Processors Installed
- Marvell 6281 1.2 GHz
- RAM Installed
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I needed more storage and a way to stream media to my TV & other items, this does the job perfectly; especially when coupled with the WD TV Live media player (see seperate review)
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Placed mine in the hall near the router and fan noise is not an issue, don't think it would be in any room to be honest.
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Its good if you're a techie & don't need support.
Reviewed by Shai. Review Posted 11/02/2014
Its fairly quiet (I can just about sleep with it in the same room) and reasonably quick, has lots of good functions that you can add if you need (I use the Polkast and Backup). However, the user interface is really poor - you have to know what you're doing or don't bother - however, I understand this is typical of this kind of device. One thing that was really annoying was that it kept telling me there was a firmware upgrade available but it wouldn't update cos it couldn't find the update. I couldn't find the update file on their website. I eventually tracked down an update file in a German forum (I don't know German), and the update worked. Finally, Zyxel customer support is non-existent - they didn't bother replying to my query. Would have given 5 except for these two things.
Overall, I'm very happy with it - got two 2TB disks in (one as a backup to the other and all my devices).
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How so?The Donator wrote:SARG27044 wrote:You also dont have to play every event on the schedule. They only take your best 7 or so finishes. I think this is the best way to show who has been the most consistent thru out the year. And if you cant afford to play 7 c-b tiers in a year, why do you think you could afford to go to the USDGC? I dont really think its a select few that can afford it since there are the same 30 plus people at all tournys every week.
You are contradicting yourself here, and cost isnt and shouldnt be an issue. I should have taken "money" out of my original post.


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OAKLAND -- It seems the fears of those who thought the A's blew it by trading Yoenis Cespedes have been realized.
Oakland's 4-2 loss to the Kansas City Royals at the Coliseum on Sunday was another impotent performance by an offense that had a middle-of-the-order hitter suddenly taken away.
The A's are 1-2 since Cespedes was sent to the Boston Red Sox for ace Jon Lester and outfielder Jonny Gomes. Save for one big inning, they've put together about as many hits as Vanilla Ice.
But pause on the panic. The same limitation the A's offense had with Cespedes still exists: They're prone to cold spells.
They are potent at times, and the Cuban slugger was a big part of that. But feast or famine has been the case all season.
All the trade did was improve the A's chances of enduring the famines by bolstering the pitching staff. Especially when you consider a cold spell could come during the postseason, the A's really need famine insurance.
"Our bats really aren't where we want them right now," said Josh Reddick, who provided the only A's runs with two solo homers.
"We know we're going to come out of it. We're all tired of waiting. We're a better lineup than what we've shown the last week or so. We all know that."
No question, the A's offense hit rock bottom against Kansas City this series. They had one big inning, an eight-run fifth in Saturday's victory. But in the 25 other innings, the A's totaled two runs on 10 hits. Only six runners advanced past first base.
But that was less about the departure of Cespedes and more about the absence of Coco Crisp. The A's offense has been struggling, and the kickoff was when the leadoff hitter was knocked out with a sore neck.
Losing Cespedes doesn't help. His presence and pop helped Josh Donaldson and Brandon Moss get pitches to hit. And he was one guy against whom pitchers knew they couldn't make a mistake.
But Crisp is the engine that drives the highest-scoring offense in baseball. Since his neck began bothering him again, the A's scoring production has sputtered.
In their last nine games -- against Texas, Houston and Kansas City -- the A's have totaled 36 runs. But 29 of those came in four games, all victories. In the other five games, the A's totaled seven runs on 29 hits, all losses.
Crisp played in just one of those nine, a 5-1 win at Texas. In the other eight without him, the A's managed 31 runs in 72 innings.
Three big innings produced 19 of those runs. Which means the A's totaled 12 runs in the other 69 innings -- 43 of those with Cespedes in the order.
The slumping began before the trade. Anyway, scoring ruts are going to happen with a lineup built on maximizing strengths of really good-to-mediocre talents.
"This team's really built for situational hitting," said Gomes, who got the day off Sunday. "I don't think anyone was doing anything too extreme offensively. ... One through nine, pretty much everyone brings more than one threat. We've got some fast guys who can hit homers. We got some big-swing guys who can shoot the ball the other way and hit-and-run. We've got a lot of guys who have a lot of options when they came to the plate."
When they are clicking, they are nearly unstoppable. They manufacture runs. They put pressure on pitchers. They get production up and down the lineup.
But when they aren't clicking, they don't have one player who can carry the offense, who avoids major slumps and lights it up no matter the opponent or situation. Cespedes wasn't that guy. Not yet, anyway.
The A's have scored at least seven runs in 31 games this season. When they feast, the A's get real gluttonous. But they've scored three or fewer runs in 42 games.
That's the A's. A sum greater than its parts. And Crisp is a key part.
"It's never the same without Coco," Reddick said. "He's our spark plug. He gets things going for us. Our record is fantastic when he gets in there and scores. ... We need him in the long run."
Undoubtedly, the immense talent of Cespedes was a boon for the A's lineup. He brought confidence. He instilled fear in opposing pitchers. But if that can be overcome, and Crisp returns, the A's offense will be good as it was before the trade.
Sometimes, that will be really good. Double-digit runs good. Other times, the A's will be thankful they have four aces in the rotation and a formidable bullpen.
Contact Marcus Thompson at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ThompsonScribe.


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- May 10:
- Purdy: Michael Sam: A watershed sports moment and embrace-and why it matters
- San Francisco 49ers hoping for help from their Drafted Dozen
- Thompson: Michael Sam saga is bigger than football -- it's all about struggle and overcoming
- St. Louis Rams draft Michael Sam, first openly gay player in NFL
- NFL Draft: Raiders complete the deal
- NFL draft: Michael Sam goes to Rams
- NFL draft: 49ers finish the deal
- NFL draft: Raiders take DE in seventh round
- NFL draft: Raiders make homecoming pick
- NFL draft: 49ers keep drafting defensive backs
- NFL draft: San Jose State's David Fales selected in sixth round by Chicago Bears
- NFL draft: 49ers add third DB to draft class
- NFL draft: 49ers take pass-rusher in fifth round
- NFL draft: Stanford chases history
- NFL draft: 49ers take another defensive back
- NFL draft: Cal's Khairi Fortt goes to Saints
- NFL draft: A look at the Raiders' draft class
- NFL draft: Raiders take DB Keith McGill
- NFL draft: A look at the 49ers' draft class
- NFL draft: Raiders take defensive tackle Justin Ellis
- NFL draft: 49ers draft WR Bruce Ellington
- May 9:
- NFL draft: A look at 49ers' Brandon Thomas
- Green Bay Packers draft Cal's Richard Rodgers
- NFL draft: 49ers pick offensive lineman Brandon Thomas
- NFL draft: A look at 49ers' Chris Borland
- NFL draft: Raiders take guard Jackson in third round
- NFL draft: 49ers take linebacker Borland
- NFL draft: A look at 49ers' Marcus Martin
- NFL draft: 49ers take center Martin with 70th pick
- NFL draft: Raiders' McKenzie trades for additional pick
- NFL draft: 49ers add Stevie Johnson, Carlos Hyde to offense
- Thompson: For Raiders, Carr was a no-brainer
- NFL draft: Palo Alto's Adams, Stanford's Murphy lead Bay Area products taken on Day 2
- NFL draft: Raiders pick QB Derek Carr
- 49ers trade for receiver Stevie Johnson
- 49ers' top pick Jimmie Ward tells media 'I talk with my pads'
- 49ers' rookie Jimmie Ward will have toughest stretch beginning in mid-October
- Will Oakland Raiders draft quarterback Derek Carr in second round?
San Jose State product Bené Benwikere was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round (No. 148 overall) of the NFL Draft on Saturday.
The 5-foot-11, 195-pounder is a versatile cornerback capable of playing nickel, safety and special teams and is looking forward to fighting to earn playing time with one of the league's top defenses.
"I just want to come in and get to work," Benwikere said in a conference call with Panthers reporters. "I'm blessed with the opportunity so I just want to show to them that I'm qualified to be on the team and help out in any way."
Benwikere said Steve Wilks, the Panthers' secondary/passing defense coordinator, and head coach Ron Rivera made a visit to meet with him.
"Coach Wilks explained a few defenses and gave me a test afterwards and I was able to explain things back to him," Benwikere said.
Benwikere tied a school record with 14 career interceptions, with 12 coming during his final two seasons. He earned the nickname "Big Play Bené" during his senior year in which he proved to be a big-time playmaker. He had a pair of defensive touchdowns as well as a critical blocked punt for a safety in the Military Bowl victory over Bowling Green.
When asked about his strengths, Benwikere said, "Making plays on the ball. I'm definitely an athlete that can catch the ball. I'm very, very smart, intelligent. I have a lot of versatility and I'm going to make plays for you."
Benwikere became a full-time starter midway through the 2012 campaign and was a first-team All-Western Athletic Conference pick that year with seven interceptions, including three against Louisiana Tech and conference offensive player of the year Colby Cameron.
Benwikere had five more interceptions during his senior year and was a first-team All-Mountain West Conference selection.
He had plenty of opportunities to perfect his craft during his high school days at Serra High-Gardena when he was teammates with Robert Woods, Marqise Lee and Paul Richardson. Woods was a 2013 second-round pick by the Buffalo Bills. Lee went in the second round of this draft to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Richardson was a second-round pick by the Seattle Seahawks. Serra also produced Duke Ihenacho, a San Jose State product who was a starting safety this season for the Denver Broncos.
Benwikere is the 12th defensive back in school history to be drafted and fourth since 2008, joining Dwight Lowery, Coye Francies and Benwikere's cousin Christopher Owens. Ihenacho and Peyton Thompson have also made it to the league as undrafted free agents.
For more coverage of San Jose State athletics, visit the SpartanCentral blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sjsu. Follow Jimmy Durkin on Twitter at Twitter.com/Jimmy_Durkin.


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Eagle County might wait to invest in the expansion of its fairgrounds and the Eagle River Center.
County commissioners met with Public Works Director Tom Johnson last week to discuss the county's capital improvement budget. The fairgrounds expansion is among some other potential projects being put on hold.
"We have a handful of if-when-and-how-much projects, stuff we need to get more information on," Johnson said.
In its current condition, the Eagle River Center at the fairgrounds only generates income to cover one-third of its operating costs. The commissioners and others would like to change that scenario and make the facility a regional amenity that could attract equine events from around the nation. But like so many things in life, before the county can make money at the center it needs to spend money at the center - about $3 million.
Also complicating plans at the fairgrounds is a gravel pit and recreation fields that have to be moved some time in next three to five years. After the current pit next to the fields expires, that property will be reclaimed by the county and the land currently under the ball fields will be mined.
Last week, commissioners gave the go-ahead to hire a consultant for a concept design on the fairgrounds. Populous Consulting has a branch in Denver and its contract with Eagle County is not to exceed $29,000. The process is expected to take two or three months.
"It'll help us get a better idea on exactly how much the project will cost," Johnson said.
He said the consulting firm specializes in "show facilities" and designed one of the venues at the London Olympic Games.
"We're not really budgeting for ERC right now because there are too many unknowns," Johnson said. "We'll know more in a few months, and then maybe (the project) will end up in the 2013 budget."
Eagle County is currently budgeting about $6.6 million for capital improvement projects next year.
Two of the biggest budget items are related to the Justice Center and sheriff's department. For the new Justice Center addition that was finished in 2010, there is a debt service payment of $1.6 million, which is a 20-year commitment. About $143,000 is going toward new patrol cars and related equipment for the sheriff's department.
"A patrol car typically lasts about four years," said Sheriff Joe Hoy.
Another $342,000 is planned for replacing the pavement on the north side of the justice center. Hoy said the lot doesn't receive much and sun has issues with weather and drainage.
Also among top priorities for CIP spending is an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in the Eagle County Building. That's expected to cost $100,000. The county is matching a $100,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The grant is anticipated but yet to be officially awarded.
The county currently has a "cold" EOC in the basement, meaning that equipment is stored until it is needed. A "warm" center, on the other hand, is ready at the flip of a switch.
Eagle County Emergency Management Director Barry Smith said a warm EOC has practical local uses. For instance, Smith said a warm EOC would have been used during the June structure fire in Avon and is really helpful at times when multiple emergencies are happening.
For third-tier priorities, the CIP budget has $475,000 going toward completion of the bike path between Gypsum and Dotsero; $83,000 to improve the ability of Red Cliff to provide water to its citizens on a consistent basis year-round; and $40,000 for a portable system to transmit real-time secure video over a cellular path.
Fourth-tier priorities include $800,000 to pave the parking areas near the sports fields and pond at Freedom Park in Edwards; and $22,275 to construct four pedestrian/bicycle underpasses in Willits, which is in southern Eagle County.
Small projects for the county capital plan cost between $10,000 and $25,000. The county's property tax of .61 mills collected specifically for capital expenses is dedicated to small projects. The total budget for small projects is $102,500.
Top small-project priorities currently include an addition to the county's maintenance and service center and two IT projects, for a total of almost $59,500.
A second priority is replacement of four servers at a cost of $20,000. A third priority is another IT project to replace video and recording equipment at a cost of $5,000.
"We have a lot of IT projects in this budget," Johnson said.
The last three items on the small-project list are in Eagle-Vail. They include building a sidewalk on Stone Creek Drive, a trail extension running east to west through the neighborhood, and installing signs and six flashing beacons around the school zone. Those projects total $42,500.
The fairgrounds expansion is one of seven projects listed for future consideration. Other items include bucking shoots for the rodeo arena, a roof replacement for the administration building and moving the recreation fields. Also, funds may or may not be requested for the Castle Peak Senior Center, an assisted living and skilled nursing care facility planned in Eagle, and a federally qualified health center.


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Etta James' story is one of rags to riches, from meager beginnings in a foster home to fame. Born in 1938 in Watts, Calif., James was a local, gospel phenomenon by age 5. At 14, she formed a female, doo-wop group, the Creolettes, in San Francisco. The girls garnered the attention of Johnny Otis — a 20th-century singer and record producer known as the Godfather of Rhythm and Blues — who signed them with Modern Records and changed the group's name to the Peaches.
James eventually went out on her own, successfully recording everything from jazz standards to R&B, blues and funk until the '80s when she became a jazz icon. She died this year — just five days before her 74th birthday — in Riverside, Calif.
With music arrangements by Michael Vannice and script by Charles Cherry, vocalist Jade Chavis Watt portrays James in Camelot Theatre's "Spotlight on Etta James."
"I knew of Etta James, of course, more in her later years," Watt says. "I even saw her perform live in the late '80s. When I started really reviewing her career, I realized how much I knew about her music. She was just so versatile."
"Spotlight on Etta James" features 24 songs that span the performer's remarkable life. Look for such songs as "Baby What You Want Me to Do," "The Blues is My Business," "Cry Me a River," "The Man I Love," "Something's Got a Hold on Me" and the singer's signature tune, "At Last," which won a 1999 Grammy Award.
James won a total of six Grammies. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001; she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
"Spotlight on Etta James" previews at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, opens Friday, Jan. 11, and runs through Sunday, Jan. 20, at Camelot Theatre, 101 Talent Ave., Talent. Curtain is at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, at 2 p.m. Sundays.
Tickets cost $18 for the Jan. 10 preview, $22 for all other shows, and are available at www.camelottheatre.org or by calling 541-535-5250.
Watt, who is rather versatile herself, will be joined by Brian Fraser, who narrates James' story. Musical accompaniment includes Vannice on keys, guitarist Brent Norton, saxophone players Randy Magallanes and Daryl Fjeldheim, bassist Jay Jorgensen and drummer Steve Sutfin. Presila Quinby directs.
Watt also grew up in Southern California. Though she played clarinet in her high-school band, she didn't start singing until her mid-20s, after a stint in the Marine Corps.
"I had always gone to church but after I got out of the Marines, faith became a part of me. It has been transformative," Watt says. "I started singing in church. My pastor heard me and asked me to sing onstage with the worship team."
When Watt and her husband, who is a firefighter and paramedic in Medford, first moved to Southern Oregon with their two small children, they joined Ashland Christian Fellowship. Watt is director of children's ministry at the church.
"I still struggle with my self-confidence when I sing," Watt says. "It is so personal; it bares your soul. It is hard to lie when you sing."
Watt collaborated with Cherry and Vannice to choose the songs for the show.
"Learning the repertoire has stretched me as a singer," she says. "I had listened to blues before, but I never sang it."
Watt says she got the last word on what she would sing. Cherry then wrote the script around those songs.
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IMPERIAL, Calif. Not even the blaring roars from soaring Blue Angels could drown out the unmistakable sounds of pheasants flushed from cover by talented hunting dogs here in Imperial Valley, California's breadbasket, the Midwest with a tan.
Military jets, shotgun blasts, ah yes, the sounds of freedom.
I joined Don White of La Mesa and Doug Streed of Ramona recently on a pheasant hunt organized by Mendel Woodland of California Pheasant Hunts. Woodland's appreciation for pheasants borders obsession, or probably tops it.
Two to three days a week, Woodland can be found at Bass Pro Shops in Corona, promoting his Imperial Valley hunts.
"When I'm not hunting or leading hunts, I'm there," Woodland said in his usual AR-15-style, rapid spiel. "But I'm here a lot, believe me."
I believe it. One of the things Woodland shared is that he wants to trade out a pheasant hunt for a ride with the Blue Angels. I'm sure he'll succeed. They fly above his fields and eat lunch in town.
Woodland leases his acreage here from Ryan Rothfleisch. I've known Ryan since his younger days as a hunter in Julian, but he passed me long ago as a deer hunter, businessman and humanitarian. He recently did a second tour in Haiti with a great friend of mine, Scott Cannon. They did America's usual great work in Haiti. Meantime, Rothfleisch's land served up pheasants for hunters needing a bird fix after the regular season ended. Call this winter ball for hunters.
"The loss of habitat down here and the huge dropoff in wild pheasants inspired me to start this program," Woodland said. "I'm hoping they establish here. We'd also like to get Gambel's quail here, too. The plan is to put in milo and sunflower and really boost the area for birds."
Streed and White were impressed with the hunt and promised to return. So was I, and pheasant hunting is down the list of my favorite hunts.
For me, the difference was hunting with pointing dogs like Streed's Drake and White's Cody. Both are Vizslas, just incredible dogs.
"When you're on a good point there's nothing like it in bird hunting," Woodland said.
Drake and Cody were amazing at finding birds and pointing them out so we could get in position to hunt.
"Cody is a little amped up from hunting ducks, so it's going to take him a while to transition to pheasants," White said early on when Cody flushed a bird beyond shotgun range.
After a long deer season, I know how Cody felt.
On March 3 Streed will host his annual and very successful San Diego Junior Pheasant Hunt.
"One of the questions I always get at the hunt is where the parents can take their kids pheasant hunting after our hunt," Streed said. "This will be a great option for them and anyone who wants to hunt pheasants after the season ends."
Woodland will plant birds until mid-April. For information about Woodland's pheasant hunts, check www.capheasanthunts.com or call him at (626) 255-1422.


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The pick-up ice hockey club was formed to provide the opportunity for both men and women non-varsity ice hockey players to play pick-up games usually two times a week. Members pay $25.00 dues each semester to offset the cost of ice time. Funded by Student Association.
Must be a full-time SUNY Plattsburgh student and each member must have a signed SUNY Plattsburgh Sports Club SUNY Plattsburgh Participation Agreement/Liability Waiver Form on file to participate. If under 18 years of age, liability form must be signed by parent.) Each member is responsible to carry personal health insurance. Each club member will be responsible for the $25.00 club dues each semester. All members are expected to follow regulations stated in SUNY Plattsburgh Sports Club Program Manual.
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The club will be scheduled for ice times in both the fall & spring semesters One and one-half time periods are scheduled two times a week after Columbus break in October -to December in the fall & January until March break in the spring. No times will be scheduled during college breaks or finals week.
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Student Association monies are used for ice rental at the Field House with the the dues each member must pay will help to off-set the cost of ice time. Times will be designated to register, sign form and pay dues. (Dues paid by check must be made out to Plattsburgh Student Association).
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Meet with the Recreational Sports Director (RSD)for orientation at the start of each semester. A copy of the club's operating guidelines will be reviewed at the orientation. Waiver form must be submitted and dues paid for a member to participate in the club. Club/Organization Semester Registration and Directory forms must be submitted to the RSD each semester.
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Don Berwick came by this week to meet with the editorial board. He's one of five Democrats running for governor. Brian Benson has a report here.
Brief bio: Trained as a pediatrician, he has run a health policy research and consulting company in Cambridge. He was joined the Obama administration early, named director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services by Tom Daschle, then Kathleen Sibelius. He faced Republican opposition and, after Scott Brown gave the GOP the filibuster, the Democrats retreated.� Max Baucus – the Senate Finance Committee runs Medicare – wouldn't even schedule a confirmation hearing.� In summer of 2010, Obama put him in the job as a recess appointment, and he left in December 2012 when the appointment expired.
Obamacare:� Berwick claims responsibility for implementing rules extending family coverage to age 26, requiring preventive care be covered, and other successful elements of the Affordable Care Act.� He takes no responsibility for decisions about overseeing the development of the healthcare.gov website, even though it was on his watch.� The procurement process is where the fundamental mistakes were made in the rollout, people who have investigated it say, starting with the critical decision to manage the project in-house instead of contracting with a private firm to pull the pieces together.� Berwick says it was a "staff decision" he had nothing to do with.
Elevator pitch: Berwick says 30 percent of what we spend on health care is wasted, and that by moving to a single payer system, administered through insurance companies, a bunch of that can be recovered and put toward other priorities like education and transportation.
My take:� He's a smart, accomplished man, passionate for compassion, a Cambridge liberal – people should be able to smoke pot, but not play slots – who would push Massachusetts to take the next step in health reform.� Not for the first time, I found myself wondering why someone like this, a non-politician with a successful career and many attractive options, would want to take a year out of their lives to chat it up with would-be donors and town committee members from Pittsfield to Provincetown, stressing their families and draining their bank accounts for a long-shot bid for statewide office.
Don Berwick doesn't have a household name, a fat campaign warchest or an excess of charisma.� But the state's campaign system gives a candidate like him a shot.� He has spent months talking face-t0-face with the small universe of Democrats who select or become delegates to the state convention in June.� If he wins over enough of them to get 15 percent of the delegates in Worcester, he'll have all summer to win over enough voters to overtake the better-known contenders, Attorney General Martha Coakley and Treasurer Steve Grossman, in the September primary.


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Minutes before a police officer shot him dead, Michael Brown had become a suspect in the theft of cigars from a store, according to police reports released on Friday after days of protests in a St. Louis suburb over the unarmed black teenager's death.
But what, if anything, that had to do with the fatal encounter became less clear as the day went by. Hours after the reports' release, police said that Officer Darren Wilson, 28, had no idea 18-year-old Brown was a robbery suspect. He simply wanted Brown to move from the road to the sidewalk, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said at a news conference
"He was walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic. That was it," Jackson said.
After nearly a week of accusations that the Ferguson Police Department did not know how to communicate with the public, Jackson did little to dispel that image during two appearances on Friday.
He was visibly nervous, stuttering as he fumbled his notes, and made announcements that sowed more confusion. After releasing the robbery incident report without any attempt to explain its fuller context, he let more than five hours pass before confirming, and only when asked, that Wilson did not know about the robbery when he encountered Brown.
The decision by the police department, which is overwhelmingly white, to release a report on the robbery while keeping details of the shooting secret only added to the frustration felt by many in the St. Louis area.
Still, as protests entered their sixth night on Friday there was far less tension than earlier in the week, before local forces were replaced by state police led by an African-American captain.
Outside a burned-out building where protesters were shot with rubber bullets two days ago, the scene resembled a summer carnival. Horns blew in support as cars drove past a crowd of people, many of whom brought picnic coolers.
Hope Walker, 46, sat in a folding chair on the sidewalk with some friends. "It's more like a block party than what I was calling little Beirut," said the music teacher.
However, later in the evening, protesters were saying via Twitter, that police fired tear gas a crowd.
Earlier Friday, after identifying Wilson as the officer involved in the shooting, the Ferguson police chief described him as a "gentleman" who has been devastated by the incident. Wilson worked four of his six years as an officer on the Ferguson police force, Jackson said.
Wilson's identity has been kept a secret since the Aug. 9 shooting and authorities had been under mounting pressure to both identify the officer and to provide details about the investigation to ease unrest in the largely black community.
Since Saturday's killing, which took place shortly after noon on a street running through a quiet, tree-lined residential neighborhood, protesters have converged on Ferguson.
Civil rights groups have complained that Brown's death is the latest in a long history of racial profiling and harassment by police, and discriminatory arrests.
Some residents saw the police report on the robbery as the latest example of the pattern.
"This is how the police operate here, they always defame the name of the victim," said area resident Arthur Austin, 39. "The more I hear, the less I trust what the police are saying."
The police version that has thus far been provided of Brown's shooting differs markedly from witness accounts, including that of his friend Johnson.
In their earlier account, police said Brown reached into the patrol car and struggled with Wilson before the officer pulled his service gun and shot Brown multiple times. Wilson sustained a facial injury, which was treated in a hospital, they said.
But Johnson and one other witness have said that Brown was trying to get away from the officer, who tried to grab him after telling him to move off the street and onto a sidewalk. Brown held up his hands in a sign of surrender but was shot several times, they said.
Police have acknowledged that Brown's body was more than 30 feet away from the police car when he collapsed and died and that multiple shell casings were found at the scene.
The name of the robbed convenience store was redacted by police, although a street name listed and security-camera footage of the store were released. A clerk at a store on that street that closely resembled the one seen in the video images said he knew nothing about the robbery. All three employees who were on duty last Saturday were away for the next two weeks, he said, declining to give his name.
A Brown family attorney said it appeared to be Brown in the convenience store's security-camera footage, which showed a man shoving a store clerk during an apparent robbery. Dorian Johnson, the friend who was with Brown that day, told the FBI and Justice Department officials about the robbery this week, his lawyer said.
Anthony Gray, a Brown family attorney, said the talk of a robbery was a "distraction" raised by police. He said the real issue was why Wilson shot an unarmed Brown as the teenager held his arms in the air in a sign of surrender, as two witnesses described.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the civil rights group National Action Network, issued a statement condemning what he called a "smear campaign" against the teenager.
Sharpton said he would lead a rally on Sunday with Brown's family, who expressed outrage at the police report in a statement on Twitter.
"There is nothing based on the facts that have been placed before us that can justify the execution style murder of their child by this police officer as he held his hands up, which is the universal sign of surrender," the statement said.
According to the account given by Jackson and the police reports his department released, police received a call about the robbery and an ensuing altercation with a clerk at 11:51 a.m. on Aug. 9. A suspect description went out over police radio.
Wilson left a prior call he was on and then encountered Brown at 12:01 p.m. Three minutes later Wilson had fatally shot Brown, Jackson said.
Wilson, who has been put on paid administrative leave, has been shielded from the public. A lone police car sat outside Wilson's single-story brick house on Friday, and neighbors posted signs on their doors asking to be left alone. One neighbor said Wilson had not been seen for days.
Another posted a sign on their door that read simply: "We don't know anything. Pray for peace."
Captain Jay Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who took over control of security in Ferguson the previous day, said there were no arrests during protests on Thursday night and no tear gas used after his officers replaced local police.
Thousands of protesters, demanding justice for Brown's killing, had clashed with riot gear-clad local police since Saturday, but there was a marked shift Thursday to a calmer tone after the governor put an African-American Missouri Highway Patrol Captain in charge of security for the area.
On Thursday night, a small number of police mingled with the crowd, urging a healing to the racially charged situation, in marked contrast to the riot gear, rubber bullets and tear gas that had confronted protesters earlier in the week.
Just three of Ferguson's 53-strong police force are black, while two-thirds of the town's population of 21,000 are black.
Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who was named Thursday to oversee security in the area, reported Friday that the near week-long period of unrest and angry confrontations between police and protesters appeared to be over.
Under his direction, roadblocks were lifted, and instead of using teargas and intimidation, Johnson's teams walked the streets to talk with protesters and listen to their concerns.
"Last night was a great night," he said. "People were talking... getting their voice out.


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WASHINGTON -- The first-place Golden State Warriors has a pretty good ring to it.
A blistering third quarter allowed the Warriors to cruise past the Washington Wizards 112-96 on Sunday at the Verizon Center and, in the process, move into a first-place tie in the Pacific Division with the Los Angeles Clippers.
It's the first time that the Warriors have had a piece of first place this late in the season since March 1992.
What's the significance of the share of the division lead for coach Mark Jackson?
"Nothing," he said. "We are exactly who we thought we were. It's important for us to continue to play good, solid basketball. There's going to be peaks and valleys over the course of the year. I've got a great group that refuses to let go of the rope. We're proud of where we are but there's still a lot of work to be done."
This season-high seven-game road trip has turned into an onslaught on the franchise record book with the Warriors sitting at a perfect 5-0.
Golden State (23-13) has won nine in a row overall, its most in a single season since 1975. (It also won nine straight bridging the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons). The Warriors have equaled their second-longest road winning streak in team history with six straight.
It's only the third time that they have won as many as five games on a single road trip and the first time they have done it in back-to-back seasons after going 6-1 on a trip last season.
When you start invoking names like Rick Barry and Al Attles, that's when Jackson does get impressed.
"It puts into perspective the history of this franchise and how far in a short period we've been able to turn it around with great moves by ownership and management and spectacular players that have bought in," Jackson said. "Now the thing is sustaining it. It's an heck of an accomplishment, but there's still a lot of work to be done."
The Warriors began the third quarter on a 30-5 run to break open what was a tied game at halftime.
"That's the kind of runs good teams put on," Andrew Bogut said. "No disrespect to the Wizards, but we thought we were a better team. If we could turn it on and get this lead out, we'd win the game."
Klay Thompson paced Golden State with 26 points, and David Lee had 21 points, 11 rebounds and six assists. Bogut was as active as he's been all season with 15 points, 11 rebounds and a season-high tying four blocks. Stephen Curry added 14 points and 10 assists.
The Warriors were upset with allowing 36 points in the first quarter and weren't pleased overall with a first half that left the game tied at 58. They found their defense in the third quarter and that led to easy offense.
"We played the kind of basketball we're capable of playing," Lee said.
Lee shared his coach's opinion on what it means to be in first place.
"At this point in the season, we're not too concerned about that," Lee said. "We're more concerned that we're playing the right kind of ball right now. We're finding ways to get wins.
"We've been looking for that consistency since the start of the season. It looks like we've finally found it. We've just got to keep it going."
This is an important stretch for Golden State. Now that they have caught the Clippers in the standings -- and with Los Angeles' star point guard Chris Paul out for up to six weeks with a separated right shoulder -- the Warriors have a chance to build a lead.
"He's a great player, one of the best in the NBA, so you've got to take advantage," Thompson said of Paul's injury. "It's unfortunate he got hurt, but we can't let that hold us back. We've just got to go out there and win games."
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Buy and hold. Three words - that's it.Most columnists have a set number of words they are required to provide each week. In the case of the Market Insight column, the Summit Daily News editor wants more than three words. So I made it four words. The expanded version of the article was "Buy now and hold," however, that was rejected as too short.So here I am, dictating into my computer, trying to figure out how to make this advise longer. Maybe the editor will accept an eight-word article, "Buy now and hold for a few years." OK, still too short, darn it. So here are three reasons to support, "Buy and hold."
There is no need for me to provide you with the data in this regard. You have been seeing this all across the country and in the media. What I can tell you is that at a recent international real estate conference that I attended, the consensus of a panel of economists was that due to low inventory, low housing construction in recent years and pent-up buyer demand, that over the next 10 years we can expect prices to go up around 40 percent or +/-3 percent a year, which is in line with past average appreciation.
The economists mentioned above stated that nationally prices have fallen 33 percent. I don't know about that; however, here is what I have seen in Summit County:> Minimum drop in prices 20 percent > Typical drop in prices 25 percent> Very common drop in prices 30 percent> The largest drop in prices 40 percentIn other words, everything is on sale right now. No matter what you buy, you are getting a deal. The lot shown in these photos located in the Highlands in Breckenridge is for sale right now and is a perfect example. Here is the history of the sale price:> 2000 - sold for $360,000> 2007 - sold for $495,000> 2013 - on sale for $349,000 (30 percent below the peak)See what I mean? All you need to do is buy, as examples like this are a genuine bargain.
I learned this from a mentor, Bob Girvin. Bob is a Breckenridge icon and a great Realtor at Coldwell Banker in Breckenridge. He made his first real estate sale in Summit County in 1972 and is still a very active Realtor. Bob has experienced three market slumps. The first started just after he arrived in1973 and lasted four years. The next one started in 1981 and dragged on for seven years. And, of course, the current one that started here in 2008 (two years after the rest of the nation). Here is what Bob says: "I have learned our market is like fly fishing. The overall economy is the rod and our tiny little market is the fly on the end of the line. When the rod is moving back, the fly is still way out in front of the fisherman. All of a sudden the rod snaps forward; however, at that stage the fly is still heading back. Based on my experience, our market lags the rest of the country going into and coming out of real estate slumps." To sum it up, buy.See you next week. Love life, DanielReach Daniel Webster Johnson at (970) 393-3300 or him drop him a line at email@example.com. He is a very active, full-time Realtor in Breckenridge, who has earned the national Quality Service Certified Platinum award, recognition of 100 percent client satisfaction. He is one of the team at Resort Brokers Real Estate located at 100 S. Main St., Breckenridge.


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ATLANTA -- If the 49ers win Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, will San Francisco's "Cowboy" ride off into the sunset?
"We'll see," defensive tackle Justin Smith said after the 49ers captured the NFC championship. "But I don't think so."
The 49ers weathered an early passing frenzy from Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan to prevail 28-24 in the Georgia Dome on Sunday.
It's probably no coincidence the 49ers defense handled things much in the way that Smith does everything -- full-speed ahead and with complete trust in his teammates.
Smith was playing his second game with a torn left triceps tendon and still is not at full strength. But he finished with four tackles and helped hold the Atlanta running game to 81 yards on 23 carries one week after the Falcons rushed for a season-best 167 against the Seattle Seahawks.
While some players wondered whether the 49ers were a team of destiny, Smith, just before pulling on a pair of cowboy boots at his locker, chalked it up to good, old-fashioned effort.
"I don't really think it's destiny or anything like that written on the walls or anything," Smith said. "I think it's the team that works the hardest and has the best talent and coaching staff. You pull that in together, it comes out pretty good at the end."
Smith acknowledged the level of crowd noise was impressive but not as impressive as the Falcons.
"I'll take the noise over the players they had on the field," Smith said. "They got some horses, man. They made it tough on us, and we came in, made some adjustments at half, played a little better."
Ryan, who finished 30 of 42 for 396 yards, three touchdowns and one interception, had passed for 162 yards in the first quarter and had 271 yards by halftime.
The 49ers sacked Ryan only once, but starting in the second quarter they gradually put more pressure on him -- enough to at least throw off the timing of the Atlanta offense.
"He made quick decisions. He's a rhythm quarterback," Smith said. "He gets the ball out quick, he hits that third or fourth step, and it's coming out. That's what great quarterbacks do. We weren't shocked by that."
Smith, who played seven season with the Cincinnati Bengals, had never won a playoff game until last season. While pleased with an NFC title, he would rather get back to work than dwell on it. But he is looking forward to the extra week for rest and rehab on his triceps injury.
"I can't explain it right now," he said. "We've got one game left. It's all for naught if you don't take care of that one, and whoever we're playing is going to be tough. We're prepared, and this definitely isn't what we came to accomplish."


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