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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Led by strong singles play, the Incline girls jumped out to an early lead and carried the momentum to an 11-7 win over host Truckee in the semifinal round of the Division I-A Northern Region team tennis championship Thursday.
Truckee's boys, meanwhile, advanced past the Highlanders by way of forfeit, as Incline did not have enough players to compete.
Incline's trio of singles players - top-seeded freshman Anne Schrage and seniors Toby Felman and Ginetta Sagan - swept the first round and finished 8-1 in the match. Truckee's No. 1 singles player, senior Katey Hamill, defeated Felman 6-1 in the second round to break up the clean sweep.
While Schrage and Sagan won all three of their matches, Felman and the doubles team of Tara Lincoln and Amanda Pretti won two matches each, and Sierra Cistone and Angelica Lucero won one match.
Incline led 4-2 after one round and 7-5 after the second, during which Incline coach Jim Giancola credited his No. 2 doubles team, Cistone/Lucero, for pulling off what he called a "crucial second-round win" over Truckee's No. 1 team of Sarah Conradson/Sofie Maciel, 6-4.
"This is a lot of pressure for the kids, and it's nice to see them step up to the pressure and play well," Giancola said. "The kids were just competing and having a good time."
In the final round, Incline again swept through singles play and took one doubles set to secure the victory.
"I thought the girls played great," said Truckee coach Jessica Jacobs. "Incline was a good match for us. The girls are a little disappointed, because they were so close to going to state, but they had a good time."
With the win the Highlanders advanced to the team final Friday at the Reno Tennis Center, where they will face top-seeded South Tahoe of the Sierra League to determine state seeding. Incline is seeded No. 2 in the Sierra League.
"This is the first time Incline has gone to state in forever," Giancola said, later confirming that 1979 was the Highlanders' last state appearance. "It's good that the girls can be exposed to tennis at the highest level."
Truckee will also host the Northern Region individual tennis championships, which are scheduled for Oct. 12-13 at the Tahoe Donner Tennis Club.


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The tantalizing smell of fried chicken wafted through the air of the Silverthorne Elks Lodge, tickling the noses of the row of people waiting in line for the weekly community dinner. Organizer and Rotarian Deborah Hage sat at the front of the line, pen in hand, welcoming diners and making a mark on the tally sheet for each one.
"Welcome, welcome," she said to each. "We have fried chicken, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob!"
The visitors replied with smiles and exclamations of anticipation, edging further down the line as Hage's tally edged closer and closer to the big number.
When the count finally came, it was Silverthorne resident and frequent diner Stuart "Boot" Gordon who had the honor of receiving the 60,000th meal served by the community dinner. Other diners clapped, cheered and pounded on the tables while Gordon smiled and bowed. Hage and fellow Rotarian Joni Bauer presented him with a large cake, complete with lit candles.
The idea for the dinner came about in 2008, when Hage noticed a growing need in the county for food services, particularly hot, cooked meals. Support for this idea came from all sides - the Summit County Rotary Club, the Lord of the Mountains Lutheran Church and the Summit County Elks Lodge, which offered its commercial kitchen as the ideal site. The initial funding came from Rotary grant money and was used to purchase food and supplies, ready for the first dinner in March 2009.
Unlike other such dinners, this community dinner was started with the goal to be open to any and all comers, regardless of need. Everyone was welcome, whether they were low-income families, homeless, struggling temporarily or just looking for a place to sit, eat a good meal and make conversation.
That first community meal served 50 people. The next night, 62 people came. The numbers continued to rise as word spread. Nearly 300 people were served each week for the first two years. It reached its peak one night in December 2011 when a record-setting 557 people arrived for a meal.
It's not just the meals that draw people in, however, but the feel of community. People come in families and groups of friends; the buzz of conversation fills the dining room. Some even celebrate their birthdays at the dinner.
"It brings together people of all generations," said Anne Watts, a counselor at Silverthorne Elementary and community dinner volunteer.
"It's a real social event for people," Hage added. "They come and talk and chat."
One of the community dinner bragging points is that each meal is full-sized restaurant style, consisting of a main course, fresh salad, fresh fruit, bread, vegetables and dessert. Now, local restaurants donate about one in five meals. Organizations take turns on a rotating schedule to prepare and serve the meals, including chefs from nearby resorts.
"It's always awesome. The volunteers, the cooks, everybody's awesome," said diner Zach Giffin. "I come here every Tuesday. I've probably contributed to more than 40 of those (meals served)."
Looking back over the years and meals served, Hage said she's still amazed by the draw of the dinner and the need she still sees.
"I'm kind of surprised; I never thought it would go this long," she said. "We saw it as a stop-gap for a very bad economy and ... people still need it. It just keeps going along."
When the dinner wasn't needed anymore, Hage said, she and her colleagues assumed that the numbers would taper off and people would eventually stop coming, "but that hasn't happened yet."
Although the economic outlook has changed since that first dinner in 2008, it's clear to those at the dinner that there is still plenty of need.
"Every 10,000 people I want to make a big deal because I want to come back to the county and say, look this is still a need, this is still important," Hage said. "We still have the working poor, we still have families who don't have enough food, we still have children who aren't getting fed a sufficient dinner, this is still important."
While people have continued showing up for meals, so have volunteers, supporters and sponsors continued to dedicate time and money to support the dinner. When something needs fixing, such as when the convection ovens needed replaced or a pipe backed up, community members step forward to help.
"It's a worldwide issue," said Hage, about hunger in the community. "What makes it relatively easy to tackle here in Summit County is because we have such generous donors and so many people eager and organizations eager and willing to volunteer. So it's not as if there isn't support. We are really blessed in Summit County that this gets a lot of support."


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WILLS TWP. - To illustrate how nature and horizontal oil and natural gas drilling can coexist at a well pad in Guernsey County, David Hill points to the livestock.
"They don't give a hoot about that drilling," said Hill, vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, as he pulled into a gravel parking area next to the Detweiler Pad off Justice Road in Wills Township on Tuesday.
Hill's company, Byesville-based David R. Hill Inc., holds the lease for the mineral rights on property belonging to JJ Detweiler Land and Cattle Company and is working with Colorado-based PDC Energy to drill wells and extract oil and natural gas from the Utica shale formation about 7,000 feet underground. He and representatives of PDC and the state oil and gas association led media members on a tour of the rig Tuesday.
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Jeff Salen, director of drilling operations for PDC Energy, walks away from the Detweiler Pad, where a third well is being drilled, Tuesday. The pad is located off Justice Road in Wills Township, Guernsey County.
Advances in technology have allowed companies to access minerals stored in deep-underground formations like the Utica and Marcellus shale via horizontal drilling. The long-used process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is then used to create breaks in the formations to reach the oil and natural gas within.
As the industry continues to build momentum in Ohio, some people see it as an economic boon while others are concerned about the environmental impact on drinking water and the land around the well sites. The fluid used to fracture the formations consists primarily of water, but also contains sand and various chemicals, and the contents are at times protected as trade secrets.
Proponents say the process, when done properly, poses no risk to water supplies. Hill said the industry is well-regulated in Ohio and producers are mindful of their impact on their surroundings.
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Operator: PDC Energy.
Location: Wills Township, Guernsey County.
Size: Between four and five acres.
Wells: Three - one producing, one drilled, one being drilled.
Producing: Oil and wet natural gas.
Source: PDC Energy.
"Drilling for oil and gas and protecting the environment are not mutually exclusive things," he said.
Before and after
The Detweiler Pad is located on four to five acres of what used to be pasture land on property where horses, donkey, llamas and even camels are kept, and not far from the Pine Lakes Lodge bed and breakfast resort and conference center.
Currently, a drilling rig towers about 175 feet over the ground as two six-man teams work around the clock in 12-hour shifts to drill a third well at the pad. As of Tuesday morning, they'd reached a depth of 5,500 feet, said Jeff Salen, director of drilling operations for PDC.
The drill is surrounded by a mass of metal, machinery and stairs that looks like it's been there for a while and isn't going anywhere soon. But actually, Salen said, the rig was moved in and assembled within four days. When the drilling is done, the rig will come down and be taken to the next site.
A preview of what the well now being worked on will look like in the not-too-distant future can be found right beside it. The first well on the site, drilled last year, consists of an array of equipment often referred to as a "Christmas tree" because of its appearance, enclosed by an approximately 15-by-15-foot cage to protect it from any items that might fall from the rig.
Eventually, the second well on the pad, which has been drilled and cased, and the third one will look like that as well. The cages will be removed, and the area will go back to pasture for the most part, said Shawn Bennett, with Energy In Depth, a research, education and public outreach campaign launched by the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
"We're talking about maybe less than an acre (footprint) when it's reclaimed and everything," he said.
As the well is drilled, it is lined with multiple layers of steel pipe or casing and cement.
"It's just to keep the oil and gas separated from any aquifers," Salen said.
The well is equipped with a blowout preventer should a "gas kick" be encountered during the drilling process, Salen said.
"We don't ever want to see oil and gas when we're drilling," he said.
Mud is pumped into the hole to keep the drill bit cool and lubricated, as well as prevent natural gas from escaping. If gas does escape, the blowout preventer closes off that section of the well until the material can be removed and drilling can safely resume, Salen said.
Standing in the midst of the pad and listening to the constant whir, whine and rumble of machinery, it seems a bit incongruous when Salen says, "the rigs are designed to be nice and quiet."
But about a hundred feet from the pad, the sounds have already faded into the background, noticeable but hardly disruptive.
The lights that keep conditions on the pad as bright as day overnight do occasionally draw complaints from landowners, Salen said, but they're necessary for safety reasons.
Drilling goes on 24 hours a day, and some workers actually live on the site, working 14 days on and 14 days off. A total of 25 to 30 workers are currently on-site each day, Salen said.
Time and money
A well goes in three phases, Hill said - drilling, completion and production. PDC wants to complete the first two phases in 22 to 25 days, and Salen estimated the third, and for the near future, final well at the Detweiler pad was about 10 days from production Tuesday.
The drilling phase on the third, and for now, final well at the Detweiler Pad is expected to cost about $3 million, Salen said.
"We spend about a hundred grand a day," he said.
The drill is controlled in a room called the "doghouse" about 25 feet above the ground. A directional driller monitors graphs and gives instructions to the driller, who controls the drill's descent on a computer touchscreen.
Many diagrams seem to indicate a well goes straight down, then the horizontal drilling takes off at a 90-degree angle. But the drilling is usually done at an angle to keep the new well from intersecting with others, Bennett said.
"It builds a gradual curve to get into that acreage," he said.
Completion - the fracturing and other processes to get the oil and natural gas flowing - will run about $6 million.
"It's a multimillion-dollar endeavor to drill the well," Hill said. "There's no guarantee that we're going to get any return on our money. ... It's not for the faint of heart."
But the companies have a pretty good idea of what this well will do based on the one currently producing.
Blake Roush, district operations manager for PDC Energy, pointed to the machine that separates what comes out of the well into three categories: oil and water, which are stored in a series of tanks about 200 feet from the drill, and natural gas, which goes into a Markwest pipeline to Cadiz, about 40 miles northeast in Harrison County.
Salen said fracking fluid only comes out of the well during the fracturing phase itself.
"After that, it's actual formation water," he said.
Normally, multiple wells would be drilled in succession and the tanks and separator would be farther away from the wells themselves, said Roush, who is based in Marietta.
"We had to build this equipment to test the original exploratory well," he said. "We decided this was a reasonably good location, so we came back in."
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PDC has drilled and fracked an exploratory well on Dixon Ridge Road near Lowell. It's currently in a 60-day resting period before production can start, Roush said.
Fracking of a second Washington County well, on Righteous Ridge in Waterford, began Monday.
How those wells perform when they start producing will determine what else the company does in the area
"Those are going to drive what we do," he said. "Tentatively we're returning to the Dixon Ridge location in three months ... to drill additional wells."


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A New Hanover County commissioner has been arrested for the fourth time since he was elected to the board in 2010.
Wilmington Police said Brian Berger was found unconscious in his car in the middle of the street around 12:45 a.m. Friday. A woman who called 911 said she honked her horn at the car and knocked on the window, but no one responded.
Berger was charged with driving while impaired and possession of controlled substances. Police say Berger had pills in a bottle, but no prescription.
Berger's lawyer Buddy Allard says the pills were legally described, and Berger just had them in a different bottle.
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TAMPA - Casey Anthony said in bankruptcy court Monday that she doesn't pay rent or utilities, and she hasn't received any offers for book, movie or TV deals.
Anthony made her remarks at a meeting with creditors in her bankruptcy case in Tampa. She also said she was unemployed.
"I don't pay rent. I don't pay utilities. I guess you could say I'm living free off the kindness of others," she said.
The 26-year-old Anthony hadn't made any public appearances since she left jail in July 2011. She was acquitted of murder in the death her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Anthony filed for bankruptcy in January, claiming about $1,000 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities.
She said she lives with friends. When asked by a trustee if she bought her own food, Anthony replied, "I try to contribute when I can."
Speaking calmly in court, Anthony said she was living off money given to her by her former attorney and through unsolicited gift cards and money.
She said in 2008 she transferred her interest in about a dozen photos to her criminal attorney, and that he sold those photos to ABC for $200,000. The money helped pay for her defense, she said.
She appeared in court wearing a white, short-sleeve top, a black skirt and black heels. During the 50-minute long hearing, she consulted with her attorneys frequently.
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EARLIER: After 19 months of seclusion, Casey Anthony emerged into the public spotlight once again on Monday for a meeting with creditors in her bankruptcy case.
Dressed all in black, Anthony arrived at the federal courthouse in Tampa with her attorney, Cheney Mason, several hours early for the bankruptcy meeting. The pair was mobbed by photographers as they made a short walk to the courthouse.
Anthony's hair was long and dark and she wearing a sunglasses, black heels and stockings and carrying a black hat. She appeared flustered and hurried and did not address the media.
Anthony, 26, has not made any public appearances since she left jail in July 2011 after being acquitted of murder in the death her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida in late January, claiming about $1,000 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Court papers list Anthony as unemployed, with no recent income.
Her listed debts include $500,000 for attorney fees and costs for her criminal defense lawyer during the trial, Jose Baez; $145,660 for the Orange County Sheriff's office for investigative fees and costs; $68,540 for the Internal Revenue Service for taxes, interest and penalties; and $61,505 for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for court costs.
The filling also stated that she was a defendant in several lawsuits, including one brought by Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez for defamation in Orange County Circuit Court.
Fernandez-Gonzalez said her reputation was damaged by Anthony telling detectives that a baby sitter by the same name kidnapped Caylee. The detectives were investigating the 2008 disappearance of the girl, who later was found dead. Anthony's attorney said details offered by Anthony did not match Fernandez-Gonzalez and clearly showed Anthony wasn't talking about her.
Anthony had not been seen in public since she left an Orange County jail on July 16, 2011, 12 days after she was acquitted of murdering Caylee but convicted of lying to investigators and sentenced to four years in jail. With credit for the nearly three years she spent in jail since August 2008 and good behavior, she had to serve only several days when she was sentenced July 7.
Leaving jail just after midnight, Anthony was hustled into an SUV by her then-attorney, Jose Baez, and drove off, disappearing from public view.
The case drew national attention ever since Caylee was reported missing. Cable network HLN aired the entire trial, with pundit and former prosecutor Nancy Grace sharply criticizing Anthony nightly. Vitriol poured into social networking sites after the acquittal, with observers posting angry messages on Twitter and Facebook's "I Hate Casey Anthony" page.
Outraged lawmakers in several states responded by passing so-called Caylee's laws that allow authorities to prosecute parents who don't quickly report missing children. And many still speculate about what really happened to Caylee: Was she suffocated with duct tape by her mother, as prosecutors argued? Or did she drown in an accident that snowballed out of control, as defense attorneys contended?
Caylee's remains were found in December 2008 in woods near the home Casey Anthony shared with her parents.
EARLIER: Casey Anthony has come out of seclusion for a meeting with the creditors in her bankruptcy case in Tampa.
Dressed all in black, Anthony arrived with her attorney several hours early for the bankruptcy meeting Monday. Her hair was long and dark and she was carrying a black hat and wearing black heels and stockings. She appeared flustered and hurried and did not address the media following her.
Anthony has not made any public appearances since she left jail after being acquitted of murder in 2011 in the death her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida in late January, claiming about $1,000 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Court papers list Anthony as unemployed, with no recent income.
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Summit Natural Gas of Missouri, Inc. (Summit) has filed an application with the Missouri Public Service Commission seeking a waiver of a Public Service Commission rule which requires companies to submit a depreciation study, database and property unit catalog with requests for rate increases. In its application, Summit states that it intends to file a general rate increase case with the Public Service Commission in or around January 2014.
Applications to intervene and participate in this case must be filed no later than August 9, 2013, with the Secretary of the Missouri Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102, or by using the Commission's electronic filing and information service (EFIS).
Individual citizens wishing to comment should contact either the Office of the Public Counsel (Governor Office Building, 200 Madison Street, Suite 650, P.O. Box 2230, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-2230, telephone (866) 922-2959, e-mail email@example.com) or the Public Service Commission Staff (P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102, telephone 1-800-392-4211, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com). The Office of the Public Counsel is a separate state agency that represents the general public in matters before the Commission.
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Tom, I wanted to espress my condolences to you about your mum's death on the 'tasty' thread but Yahoo didn't offer a 'reply' option. It's a sad indictment of this 'new' board that a poster has to start another thread to address an important concern - even if it is "off topic"! Does Yahoo not realise that these boards are about communities, not subjects, and if it wants to peddle ads to us it should develop the community instead of doing its best to frustrate every poster.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Thanks Andy and lotto for your sentiments. Mum went quickly and and it was a blessing in the end.She would have been 99 next month and a great sports fan and worked with Bill Fotherby many moons ago. Kept up with the Rhinos until the end. She fell out with LU after the Ridsdale fiasco and for some unknown reason started to support Chelsea would you believe. Visits to Cornwall wont be the same from now on Andy.
I know what you mean about the board and failure to embed a post. I found that some of mine have been accepted and then have disappeared.
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Condolences from me too Tom.
Same goes here mate :(
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USC Upstate at Mercer preview capsule
Published: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 12:56 a.m.
USC Upstate at Mercer
When: 4:30 p.m.
Where: Macon, Ga.
Records: USC Upstate (9-9, 3-2 Atlantic Sun); Mercer (11-8, 4-2)
Radio: 1400 AM, 97.1 FM
Top scorers: USC Upstate — Jr. F Torrey Craig (17.1 ppg., 6.5 rpg.); So. G Ty Greene (12.1 ppg.); Jr. F Ricardo Glenn (12.1 ppg., 8.3 rpg.); So. G Adrian Rodgers (9.1 ppg.). Mercer – Sr. G Travis Smith (12.5 ppg.); Jr. G Langston Hall (10.4 ppg.).
Notes: USC Upstate is coming off a 66-54 win Thursday at Kennesaw State. The Spartans had a 41-23 rebounding edge with 12 offensive boards. … Mercer beat East Tennessee State, 78-59, on Thursday. … USC Upstate's two losses in conference have been by a total of three points. The Spartans lost 72-71 to Florida Gulf Coast in overtime and 66-64 to Stetson. Both of those games were at home. … Mercer was picked as the preseason favorite to win the league with USC Upstate tabbed for second. … . The Bears' two losses came at Jacksonville (49-47) and at Kennesaw State (83-75). … Mercer has beaten Alabama and Florida State, and is 2-0 against Southern Conference teams (Furman and Chattanooga). The Bears lost by three to Wake Forest and George Mason. … USC Upstate lost twice to Mercer last season, 73-66 at home and 61-47 in Macon. … USC Upstate has six players with at least 34 assists: Rodgers 44, Greene 43, Glenn 40, Jodd Maxey 40, Mario Blessing 36 and Craig 34. … Maxey has three double-figure scoring games in the past seven and pulled down 13 rebounds against Kennesaw State.
Next: USC Upstate begins a five-game home stretch Thursday against North Florida, followed by visits from Jacksonville, East Tennessee State, Lipscomb and Northern Kentucky.
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As I quickly learned at Vin48 in Avon, expediting is one of the most challenging kitchen roles. It demands a great deal of knowledge about the menu, multitasking, customer service and even conflict resolution. Let's face it, mistakes happen and it's human nature to lay blame on someone else. The expeditor's job is to repair mistakes, preferably before guests notice it, not lay blame on the offending party. There's plenty of time for a public flogging at the next staff meeting!
All restaurants serve food - some better than others. But not all use dedicated expeditors to connect the kitchen with guests. In many instances, particularly in fine dining restaurants, executive chefs command their kitchens as expeditors. In my research on the subject, I even discovered one "all-knowing" website that described it as an "entry level" position. Obviously this was one question-answering resource that hadn't done its homework on restaurants. A restaurant that views an expeditor as the least valuable person in the kitchen is not one to be patronized.
Personal touch
In August, I went behind the scenes at the heralded Bonanno Concepts restaurant Luca d'Italia in Denver. Unlike my experience in Vail Valley restaurants, instead of ticking printers delivering orders to the kitchen, servers slid handwritten orders under a wooden bar at the hot line. People actually have to communicate face-to-face as opposed to standing at a faceless terminal entering orders! It's a concept that chef-restaurateur Frank Bonanno employs beautifully.
I recently questioned Bonanno about the absence of a computerized system. He explained the decision to forego an expensive point-of-service system for his two high-end restaurants, Luca d'Italia and Mizuna, was based on customer service considerations. Bonanno believes the "finesse and personal touch that comes with a handwritten ticket" is more suited for small, expensive restaurants such as these two gems of the Denver dining scene.
At Luca, for example, three of the five nights the restaurant is open each week, a dedicated expeditor works in the cramped space in front of the hot line. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, executive chef Eric Cimino expedites from behind the line while cooking. Quite a challenge even on slow nights!
Bonanno, who views the expeditor as neither front nor back of the house, refers to expeditors as kitchen "choreographers." It's an appropriate metaphor. Perfect timing and precise execution of steps are crucial to achieving perfection.
Like a complex dance requiring exact, rhythmic steps in sync with music, the expeditor must ensure dishes are prepared at the right time and in the correct manner, including proper appearance and serving temperature. The expeditor must communicate with chefs and servers to keep information - hopefully accurate - flowing in both directions. Since orders are fired at carefully timed intervals, missteps can upend a positive dining experience often with a domino effect.
Culinary symphony
Performing arts metaphors are popular with chefs, and I've used them many times in describing my restaurant experiences. Executive chef Sergio Howland, of Leonora at the Sebastian in Vail, views expeditors as "conductors of an orchestra." On most nights, Maestro Howland conducts his kitchen orchestra across the line from his chefs where he is in full control of everything that flows between kitchen and dining room. It's a similar approach employed in many of the fine dining kitchens across the Vail Valley.
In orchestras, musicians are divided into different sections to ensure the best blending of the disparate instruments. In similar fashion, each "brigade station" chef or cook is strategically positioned in the kitchen with his/her own specific duties - a system French culinary innovator Auguste Escoffier developed. The "conductor" (expeditor) faces the stations from across the line. Howland's role is to direct what each station "plays" (I'm taking the music metaphor further) and the timing of the music to produce a harmonious plating of all a table's orders.
Expediting in this manner allows Howland to maintain tight control of the timing in both the kitchen and dining room. Sometimes Howland will step behind the line where, like Cimino, he multitasks between preparing his own dishes and expediting everything that goes across the line to the servers.
Once the kitchen printer spits out a ticket, Howland calls "order in, first course." After a server picks up the appetizer, Howland strikes it and marks the exact time the food went out. After 10 minutes, the next course is automatically fired. However, in some situations the timing to fire will vary. For example, if a couple is sharing a salad, Howland will wait only seven minutes before ordering the next course fired. A hot appetizer requires a full 10-minute wait. This process continues until all courses have been dropped (served). Quite honestly, this is knowledge that hasn't always helped me enjoy an evening as I sometimes catch myself watching the time between courses instead of immersing myself in interesting conversation.
It's easy enough to handle a deuce - table for two - but when big rounds seating six to eight people order, the need for coordination increases dramatically. Add into the mix today's array of allergies, sensitivities and dietary oddities, and one can easily see the need for a maestro to conduct the kitchen symphony.
Kitchen speak
Now that we know how expeditors work, let's look briefly at the language of the kitchen. For help with translating kitchen speak, I turned to Giuseppe Bosco, co-owner and general manager of Zino Ristorante in Edwards. Italian is his mother tongue, but he speaks fluent "kitchenese," honed during years of restaurant experience.
"Fire" - Order given, usually by the expeditor, to begin preparing a dish.
"Re-fire" - Not a pleasant command since it means something was not prepared to the guest's liking and needs to be redone (or cooked longer). The challenge with re-fires is there's no accompanying ticket, so the expeditor or server must keep a close eye on it.
"Order-fire" - This term is used when an order has only one course. This can be a timing challenge for the kitchen - and the server. When a first course, such as a salad, is ordered, it is quick to come out. This gives the kitchen extra time to prepare the protein. But when the protein is the first and only course, it has to "wait its turn" behind other tickets already being processed. Next time you skip a starter, be a little patient with your server if it doesn't appear quickly. The server is at the kitchen's mercy and your irritation will not speed the process.
"On the fly" - No, this isn't "waiter, there's a fly in my soup." This command is given when a dish must be rushed, giving that ticket priority over the others.
"In the weeds" - This usually comes when "slammed" is taken to the next level. When the kitchen is "in the weeds," the expeditor will cease calling orders until the orders being prepared are complete.
"Sell" - The expeditor will tell the runner to "sell the table" when all the dishes for it are ready.
I hope this primer in restaurant expediting has given you a little more perspective on the challenges of orchestrating a complex kitchen. I'm in Piemonte now, so I will bid you "ciao" until next week.
Suzanne Hoffman is a local attorney and Chambellan Provincial of the Southwest Region and Bailli (president) of the Vail chapter of the Chaine des Rotisseurs. She is a passionate gastronome. For more background information on her "Behind the Scenes" series, go to www.facebook.com/vailvalleysecrets. Email comments about this story to email@example.com.


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A Randolph Center resident, husband, and father, Dr. Christopher Soares joined the Gifford Medical Staff in 1993, spending his entire career to date in Randolph. Initially a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center provider, Dr. Soares opened his own practice, Soares Ocular Surgery, in 2007. In addition to caring for adults, he is also a pediatric ophthalmologist.
An avid cyclist, he has biked more than 40,000 miles, including from Canada to both the Grand Canyon and Mexico along the Pacific Coast Highway. Dr. Soares also enjoys kayaking, water skiing, boogie boarding, cross country and downhill skiing, ice skating, and more. He is originally from Massachusetts.
Below is his story as told in his own words, as featured in our 2012 Annual Report.
Raising a family of three children has tremendous rewards. After 20 years my last child is finishing college and preparing to enter an exciting new phase in her life. My two boys are finished with college and have started careers. All three have expressed their gratitude for the opportunities they were given while growing up. All three realize my wife and I love them unconditionally and we gave our all raising them the best way we knew how.
Working as an ophthalmologist in Randolph for nearly 20 years has similar rewards. In the early years, just like parenting, you are learning and developing your skills. People are glad that you are in town and they do not have to travel a great distance to get eye care. You develop a friendship with the patients. This friendship grows with the years. As the years go by, your skill sets expand and more patients come for care. All the while, friendships continue to grow. As a doctor's experience and confidence grows, so do the positive outcomes. Challenging cares are taken on and the outcomes are even more rewarding.
That is certainly true in the case of Nathan Wheeler.
Nathan is a young man who last year tripped, fell, and hit his head on a piece of furniture, severely injuring his left eye. He had torn an essential eye muscle in half. Nathan had already been seen by two ophthalmologists and an oculoplastic specialist after an emergency room visit, and was finally referred to my practice three days after the injury. I explained to him and his family the seriousness of the injury and that several surgeries might be required. The first surgery was performed that very night in a Gifford operating room. It lasted four hours. I'll spare you the details, but I was able to locate the muscle stumps and sew them back together.
A month later, Nathan was seeing well but required one more surgery to align his vision when looking down. This second surgery was also a success. Nathan's vision was restored and he was able to return to work with no restrictions.
In Vermont fashion, I had done the job before me, to the best of my ability, but when I came home after that first surgery, I was distraught. In fact, I was nearly in tears. I had been in that OR for hours and I wasn't sure if I had even helped Nathan. At the time, I didn't know what I had accomplished.
Later, I researched more on the procedure and found that what I had accomplished was rarely, if ever, done by others. My case was so unique that I was asked to present it to a group of pediatric and adult strabismus specialists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital. Of the 50 doctors in the room, none had ever attempted to find a ruptured muscle and suture it back to the remaining muscle.
Needless to say, Nathan was thrilled with the results and has sent patients to me ever since, some looking for "miracles". I can't perform miracles, but every week I am blessed to receive the gratitude of at least one patient. This appreciation for what I do energizes me and keeps me committed to offering the best eye care possible.
~ Christopher Soares, M.D.
Soares Ocular Surgery ophthalmologist


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damn.. that was tight Joey... thanks for the read, I enjoyed it. :)
keep on doing your thing..
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....can't wait to hear your instrumental album. When does it drop? I didn't know Moodswing was the pappy. Any advice for starting producers?
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djdee2005: Do you listen to jazz outside of sampling it?
Yes, of course. In fact, I don't listen to hip hop much anymore. This spring and summer I was big into bossa nova and samba. Right before that in the winter and fall I was pretty much all soul. The summer before that was dub reggae mostly. With jazz in particular, I'm on a big Muse kick of recent. Muse is dope because they were making quality jazz in the late 70's all the way up to the mid 80's while all the old school labels and artists were going elevator, fusion rock, or disco. Muse is most always pretty quality jazz -even if certain albums don't necessarily have samples on them.
abacus7: I didn't know Moodswing was the pappy.
Moodswing 9 is the PAPPY. I had a lot more written about him in my bio that ended up getting cut out. I could literally go on for days in praise of him. Mostly though, he's truly one of the nicest people I've ever come across in my life. His spots were your spots, his tricks were your tricks, his list was your list. And that bugged me out because his production skills are through the roof. Most of you know him from beats like Martyr Theme Song. Let me tell you all something: that track is booboo compared to some the instrumental stuff he has on that 3000 of his. One time he came to visit me, he brought his 3000 and we hooked it up to my the stereo blah blah blah. He put on this beat called "Aisle of Toys" and I wanted to cry. The first thing that popped into my head was, "I'll never be this good. No matter how hard I try, I'll never be able to mix such rare records so well as this kid does." About a minute and a half into the song, the music stops.
ME: Dave, your sampler is messing up.
MOODSWING: No, it's fine. I have to load up the second part of the beat.
ME: What do you mean?
MOODSWING: I maxed out the sampling time and pads up to that point, so I had to break the song up into three seperate parts among all these discs.
ME: Doesn't this thing have like five minutes sample time and 64 pads?
MOODSWING: Yeah.
ME: So you have to break it up?
MOODSWING: Yeah, I do it all the time.
Let me recap for all those that might've missed that. Dude had so many samples going on at once he maxed out over 5 minutes of sample time and 64 pads only a minute and a half into the song. So the sampler stopped and he had to load a bunch of more discs just so I could hear Part 2, and -then had to repeat the same process so I could hear- Part 3. Each time he had to load up a new part of the song, he wasn't doing it with floppy's, he did with new zip discs. Yes, zip discs, plural.
ME: Man, I can't even imagine having that many samples going on at once in order to do that.
MOODSWING: That's nothing, I heard Shadow has so many drum chops, he'll max out all 64 pads just with drums alone.
I believe this is where I should make my exit. Unbelieveable.
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Do you think he'll come back to producing?
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Yes, of course. In fact, I don't listen to hip hop much anymore. This spring and summer I was big into bossa nova and samba. Right before that in the winter and fall I was pretty much all soul. The summer before that was dub reggae mostly. With jazz in particular, I'm on a big Muse kick of recent. Muse is dope because they were making quality jazz in the late 70's all the way up to the mid 80's while all the old school labels and artists were going elevator, fusion rock, or disco. Muse is most always pretty quality jazz -even if certain albums don't necessarily have samples on them.
Awesome...I'll have to look into the Muse stuff.
i'm heavily into Blue Note...Aside from the expert packaging and raw cover art, Blue Note was easily the most well recorded music at the time...plus now they're remastering all the albums, and its being supervised by the guy who mastered all the classics originally - Rudy Van Gelder.
Plus, they had EVERYone who was big in the 50s and 60s, until Miles went to Columbia (at which point they had everyone but Miles.) Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Art Blakey.....
The only other jazz artist I've been listening a lot to lately (other than Miles and anything on Blue Note) is Charles Mingus. That man is a fucking genius.
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joe....that was good shit man. don't forget the era of Pete's computer :)
this summer i took a jazz class at URI. one of the best things i've ever done. i looked forward to making the drive down to campus every thursday. i've probably had only two or three other classes that i've felt that way about. i went through a phase where i listened to Mingus' "Haitian Fight Song" like 5 times a day for 3 weeks. I've also had a chance to listen to some of the man's other works. his pieces are incredible.
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Yeah, I've slowly collected as many albums of his as I can find....Have you heard IIBS, his later recording of Haitian Fight Song?
And to Joey (or anyone else): I don't know how you feel about sampling mp3s, but if you join emusic (10$ a month if you agree to do it for a year) then you have access to hundreds of thousands of hours of jazz online, unlimited downloads. Virtually Prestige's entire catalogue is available for download. I highly recommend you check it out.
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Hi, first up, thankyou for an excellent DXF parsing library. I am currently investigating it's use to load and save DXF files with POLYLINE being the main entity I am concerned with.
Most of the POLYLINE entities i've encountered so far store X, Y and Z components with each VERTEX (or in a list for the LWPOLYLINES). The issue arose when I wrote code to save the DXF. I just output the same structs that were supplied to the DXFLib DL_CreationInterface when it loaded the file. When I tried to reload the saved file, it had lost all of the elevation (ie component 30 of the VERTEXs).
After digging around in the source, I found that DL_Dxf::writeVertex() doesn't actually output the 30 component (not in either of the supported DXF format versions). It was easy enough to fix, but I just wanted to ask if there was a reason for not outputting the 30 component when you do actually read the component?
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"Our roots are here and they are deep. I'm so proud to announce we will expand upon what we've already built. With every passing day, the business climate in Michigan grows stronger and stronger, and I'm happy our company is part of that progress through the addition of more jobs to the Lansing area. We thank Governor Snyder, the MEDC, LEAP and Delhi Township for their critical support and partnership during our decision making process."
Brig Sorber - Two Men and a Truck CEO
Lansing-based moving company, Two Men and a Truck is expanding its international headquarters and adding jobs in Delhi Township.
Construction on the $4 million project announced Wednesday, will begin this summer. Two Men and Truck has grown 50 percent in the last three years. It has locations in 34 states and four countries, but wants to invest at home.
"The more we can support our existing locations and bring on new locations the more that comes back to Michigan," CEO Brig Sorber said.
Sorber says the company felt this was the right time to grow. It plans to add 7,000 jobs internationally and 125 in mid-Michigan over the next five years.
"A lot of people think oh they're going to be movers, well that's in our other office," Sorber explained. "What we're really looking for is computer programers, we've really automated our systems at Two Men and a Truck so we need a lot of support there."
The company is also looking for trainers for its franchisees, communications and marketing staff.
"So it's a wide range," Bob Trezise, president and CEO of LEAP said. "These are quite good jobs, (paying) an average of $46,000 and up."
Trezise said the company had other options for its headquarters, but wanted to stay local.
A $355,000 state grant made the decision easier.
"I wouldn't say it kept us here, but what it did allow us to do is start this a year earlier that we would have," Sorber said. "The money coming back to Michigan will more than offset that."
He says when you look at the job creation and investment the company will make, this was a good move for Michigan.
According to LEAP, the Lansing region has been on a hot streak, with companies making big investment and adding jobs. It says we can expect more announcements, like this one in coming months.


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OAKLAND -- This is the Klay Thompson the Warriors need. The relentless scorer who attacks defenses from multiple angles, wielding his lethal outside shot.
That's who Golden State got in Saturday night's 98-87 victory over the Sacramento Kings. He had a game-high 27 points on 10-of-17 shooting. It was a far cry from the Thompson who left his gun in the holster in Thursday's loss at the Los Angeles Clippers, totaling just 10 points on seven shots.
"Yeah, that's inexcusable to take only seven shots," Thompson said after Saturday's shootaround. "At least get up 10. I'm out there to be a threat, and I'm not that much of a threat if I'm only taken seven shots."
On top of that, point guard Stephen Curry had it going offensively. He knocked down five 3-pointers, finishing with 22 points -- which matched the combined total of Sacramento's starting lineup.
"Great, great shooters," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. "That's who they are and it's amazing. These guys put a lot of time into it. They have an incredible gift, and it's a beautiful thing. I'm very fortunate to have a front-row seat watching those two guys shoot the basketball."
When Thompson has it going, the Warriors are so much more difficult to defend. He penalizes opponents for paying too much attention to Curry. He spreads the floor, giving David Lee and Andre Iguodala room to roam.
Against the Clippers, Thompson didn't take his first shot until the 5:04 mark of the second quarter. By that point against the Kings, Thompson had taken seven shots. And the difference it made was tangible.
Golden State is now 11-2 in games in which Thompson scores 27 or more.
On the other end of the court, the Warriors shut down the Kings. Their defense held Sacramento to 34.5 percent shooting. Sacramento's point guard tandem of Greivis Vasquez and reserve Isaiah Thomas combined to shoot 3 of 17 from the field.
The Warriors' Andrew Bogut took DeMarcus Cousins out of his game, limiting the Kings' talented young center to eight points on 3-of-8 shooting with seven rebounds. On offense, Bogut went at Cousins. On defense, he responded to the bruising big man with physicality, prompting frustration from Cousins.
But Kings coach Michael Malone, who spent the previous two seasons as Jackson's top assistant, wasn't mad after the game at Sacramento's poor shooting.
"I don't think it had anything to do with missing shots," Malone said in his passionate postgame remarks. "Our energy, the fact that we were not ready to play, is what set the tone the whole night. ... They came out the first two possessions and posted up Andrew Bogut. He got layups at the rim. No resistance. No fight. No pride. ... We don't have the greatest talent in the NBA."
Golden State led by 20 at the half. But the Kings made a run to get back in it early in the second half. A fast-break layup by Sacramento's Marcus Thornton cut the Warriors' advantage to 56-44 with just under 10 minutes left in the third.
But it was Thompson who sparked a Warriors' rally with back-to-back 3-pointers. Bogut kept Oracle Arena rocking by spinning off Cousins and dunking home a lob from Iguodala.
Curry capped the 15-0 run by setting up an Iguodala dunk and drilling a 3-pointer. The Warriors led 71-44 at the 7:12 mark of the third. The Kings, who beat the Warriors three times last season, were done and Golden State was well on its way to 2-1.
"It was nice for us to follow through and get a good convincing victory at home," Lee said after totaling 15 points and 11 rebounds. "It was especially important because we're about to go on the road."
"He understands that he has to be better," Jackson said. "He understands that if we are going to achieve our vision, he's got to take care of the basketball. That's unacceptable."
"He's doing more and more," Jackson said. "He's getting closer so now it's about him getting into game shape."
Golden State will spend this week at Philadelphia, Minnesota, San Antonio and Memphis. The Warriors will have days off after the 76ers and Timberwolves games, which will be Barnes' next chances to practice and get ready for game action.
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Currently I have only read Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet so all my information/ideas are based on plot summaries from Sparknotes so please correct me if I am incorrect.
I have to write a short story ~2000-3000 words, creative writing that is, as a modern adaptation of a Shakespearean plays. I've looked through the tragedies that Shakespeare has written and I think I can create reasonable adaptations out of Coriolanus, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Please advise me which adaptations are the most viable and offer the most chance for me to show off my skill in creative writing. I have ignored plays such as Julius Caesar and King Lear because they are far too long, have too many different perspectives or as in King Lear's case, the plot is stretched and seems to have no focal point to it.
- Board of Directors changes a company from private to public, angering Coriolanus and causing him to seek revenge, perhaps two rival pharmaceutical companies? (Competition is fierce, companies will be fictional)
- Change of friendships as a person gains popularity within a school, causing them to talk in different circles, ultimately being backstabbed by a person which helped them into the 'cool group' because they are jealous of the person's rise
- The wife is portrayed as a dictator, for example perhaps in the Middle East, similar to Gaddafi and his insanity? (Please note the problems associated with this for example my creative writing may be restricted by the need to stick to facts)
- Running for the leadership of a party and slandering/destroying the leader, similar to what is happening to Gingrich currently, although he isn't the forerunner
As a last resort, my backup is what the teacher suggested which is the parental/child conflicts in Romeo and Juliet between Juliet and her father, (something) Capulet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Friday will once again be sunny and warm as temperatures top out a few degrees higher than the seasonal average, at around 93.
Clouds will develop late and carry over into the night as an increased chance of showers will develop early in the day on Saturday. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms will move into the area late Friday afternoon with the best chance in the higher elevations.
Saturday will start off with a few more clouds than on Friday and temperatures a little closer to the upper-80 average. Look for a chance of showers and thunderstorms to develop early an increase throughout the day along with the cloud cover. The chance of rain will be 30 percent. The Grand Valley will be under mostly cloudy skies shortly after lunch and will stick around for the entire day and into the night along with the chance of rain.
Sunday will start off a little cloudy with an increased chance of rain that will slowly taper off throughout the day. With the day starting off cloudy look for temperatures to only climb into the mid-eighties as the chance of rain tapers off shortly after lunch. The chance of rain will drop to around twenty percent and continue throughout the rest of the day.


text: You, stealing into mefaster than the swinging doorbetween the rules of love and warbecomes unhinged and free of weight.I know where it does gravitate.You, peeling into me,again, just like you did before,again, the squealing rib cage door.So, hide my heart inside my skull,then throw my brain against the wall.You, slipping into mefaster than the aural scurfyou left behind inside a shirtyou left behind inside my room is fading to a smell of doom.You, ripping into mefaster than a name and fleshslips through the fingers of a death. Like bone dust breathing into flight.Devoured by the endless night.Bring me stories, bring me out, bring me Hell and hellish doubt.Bring me nothing, bring a smile, bring me somewhere cold and vile.String me on, string me up, string me out on smirks and smut.Things get strange, things won't change, in this indistinct exchange. Stop, drop, shut 'em down open up shop! Oh, no! That's how Ruff Ryders roll!


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CALDWELL, Idaho — Rebecca Haight recorded 20 kills and added 18 digs, leading Eastern Oregon to a four-set win over Southern Oregon in the Cascade Collegiate Conference semifinals Friday at the J.A. Albertson Activities Center.
The Mountaineers picked up their 11th straight victory, 25-18, 25-19, 18-25, 25-21, to advance to the league tournament championship match for the first time in program history. Southern Oregon (19-12) failed to reach the league final for the first time in more than 10 years.
Haight got EOU (23-6) started on the right foot, pounding four kills in the opening set, as the Mounties used a three-point push midway through the frame to take a 16-11 and cruised to the win.
Eastern never trailed in the second set, though a Natalie Scheller kill cut a 13-7 lead to 18-17. Two straight Haight spikes fueled a four-point surge that put the Mountaineers up two sets.
The Raiders responded in the third set, taking advantage of three straight Eastern Oregon errors in a six-point run to grab a 15-9 lead.
EOU used a 7-1 run early in the fourth set to go up 16-8, but SOU fought back, getting within 23-21 on a Haley Kasler kill. The Mountaineers got a side-out on a Haight kill, then ended the match on a Stefani Sorensen putaway.
Sorensen logged 15 kills in the victory, with setter Karly Stack recording 27 assists and eight digs, and libero Kaitlyn Duncan leading EOU with 24 digs.
The Raiders got 16 kills from Scheller and eight from Liz Madden. Setter Caryn Westrick had 23 assists and seven digs, and Renee Yomtob added 29 digs.
Men's Basketball
Dominez Burnett had 17 points, five rebounds and three assists to lead Davenport to a 72-57 nonleague win over Southern Oregon in the first day of the Embry-Riddle tournament at Daytona Beach, Fla. Kyle Tedder scored 16 points to pace the Raiders (2-1).
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Central New York veterans got into the Iwo Jima Memorial on Sunday (10/06) by knocking over water-filled barriers. Their three buses were then able to get in to see the landmark.
The dedicated group of Honor Flight volunteers made sure this group of 64 aging veterans of World War II and the Korean War had their moment of respect and reflection.
Compared to battling the Germans and Japanese during World War II, Honor Flight Syracuse volunteers said working around a government shutdown in Washington D.C. was a challenge easily overcome.
They put their backs into it, tilting the warer-filled barricades and letting the water pour out. Then they moved the barricades so the buses could get into the memorial area.
The veterans took an early morning charter flight out of Syracuse's Hancock Airport. The grand World War II Memorial was the first stop by mid-morning. The goal was to bring all Syracuse area veterans to their memorial at no cost to the former service men and women.
Volunteers and donations make it happen. SRC, Inc. is the largest corporate sponsor of this Honor Flight. The veterans were matched with volunteer guardians who shuttled them from the tour bus via wheelchair through the memorials.
These veterans were traveling for the first time to the Vietnam Wall, Arlington National Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Monument.
When the Honor Flight plane returns to Hancock Airport Sunday evening, it will be met by a 'water arch' set up by National Guard and airport fire equipment. It will be visible, around six p.m. from the airport viewing area. There's free parking for the public.
The ongoing federal government shutdown is keeping tourists and campers away from national parks.
That is having a negative impact on seasonal businesses in places such as Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Traffic cones and road closed signs keep people out of great smoky mountains national park.
Employees in gatlinburg fear these empty parking lots will lead to empty businesses in town.
Gatlinburg leaders say they're reminding people of the city's parks for picnics and the state parks nearby where they can hike and camp.
A survey shows parks being closed cost local communities more than 70 million a day while closed.


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The Jackson Summer Classic Horse Show, sponsored by the Jackson County Horse Club, has been rescheduled for September 8 at the Cottageville fairgrounds. A Fun Show is set for 2 p.m. with the Sanctioned Show set to start at 6 p.m. The Summer Classic will be an all-gated, sanctioned show—something that hasn't been staged here in many years. Inquiries have already been received from as far awsay as Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia.
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County invests wisely in our future
Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 6:06 p.m.
Henderson County leaders showed foresight in buying the former Hendersonville Christian School to upgrade for a centrally located Athletic and Activities Center. The county closed the $910,000 deal last week on the 9.45-acre property after N.C. Sen. Tom Apodaca intervened to cut through red tape.
Commissioners voted in October to approve the purchase of the South Grove Street site and had hoped to close in November. Residents voiced strong support for the purchase at a public hearing. But the deal was delayed because the schools nonprofit owners couldnt dispose of assets without state approval.
Negotiations between state attorneys and school owners dragged on despite pleas from County Attorney Russ Burrell for a compromise to allow the sale to move forward. After about three months, the county was able to finalize the deal after Apodaca convinced the N.C. Attorney Generals Office to grant conditional approval.
Commissioners made a strong case that they got a good deal on the site. The former owners made $400,000 in major renovations to the property in 2008, including a new roof on the 12,000-square-foot classroom building, new heating and air systems, new gates and fencing, pavement repair and a new oak floor in the gym. In buying the property for $910,000, the county got all this for $290,000 below the listed price.
The county plans to spend $1.01 million to get the site ready for public use, including $505,000 to install artificial turf on a grass athletic field, $130,000 to light it for night games and $130,000 for added parking. Also budgeted is $284,000 for repairs and renovations at Jackson Park to bring fields up to tournament standards for baseball and softball teams.
The county will begin preparing the Athletic and Activities Center for the public by opening the gymnasium in early spring for activities that include adult and church league basketball, volleyball and indoor soccer. Karate, dance, scrapbooking and other classes now held at Stoney Mountain Activity Center will be moved to the new facility, saving $83,000.
As the Athletic and Activities Center opens, residents will discover many new opportunities. Parks and recreation facilities will make it easier for people to enjoy a healthy, active lifestyle. Thats a good investment in our health and quality of life.
Speaking of good investments, commissioners should pass a resolution at their meeting Monday to support a new greenway at Westfeldt Park in Mills River. Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy and RiverLink have offered to seek grants to build the path.
The initial phase will be a .33-mile, 10-foot-wide, hard-surfaced path running north along the French Broad River from the boat launch area and circling back through the woods via a 6-foot-wide loop trail. Funding will come through a $200,000 grant from the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation recreational trails program, matched by a $25,000 grant from the N.C. Division of Water Resources.
Its an important step in the countys plans for linear parks where people can walk, jog and take their families to enjoy nature.
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About the Book
There is improper, there is scandalous… and then there is Madeline Valdan.
To the world, Madeline Valdan is a scandalous courtesan, with society's most eligible gentlemen at her feet. But no one knows her shocking secret: she has never experienced the most intimate touch of any man. So she astonishes the ton by telling them the truth . . . and by announcing the auction of her virginity to the highest bidder.
Handsome and disciplined, Gabriel Huntford knows his time is best spent hunting down criminals from the darkest corners of London. As a Bow Street Runner investigating his sister's death, he has no desire to join London's strutting peacocks in this competition when there are more important tasks at hand.
Now, his quest leads him to one of Madeline's "suitors," so he agrees to help this sinful woman. But what begins as a business arrangement quickly turns into something more . . . and love blooms with a passion neither one expected.
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- On Sale: 08/28/2012
- Pages: 384
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REDWOOD CITY -- Police will not seek criminal charges against the driver who collided fatally with a 14-year-old girl riding her bike to school in November because she was at fault for the crash, authorities said Thursday.
Leyla Beban, a Woodside High freshman, should have yielded to the GMC pickup truck in front of her on Jefferson Avenue as it slowed down to turn onto Alameda De Las Pulgas, Redwood City police Capt. Dan Mulholland said. Instead Leyla attempted to make the same turn as the truck, but hit the vehicle and was run over.
"It's just a very tragic accident all around here," said Mulholland.
The Bebans' attorney, Gary Brustin, said the family rejects the police conclusion and has launched its own probe.
"We disagree with the police findings. We are conducting our own investigation," said Brustin, whose practice specializes in bicycle cases. "And at the appropriate time and legal place we will disclose our findings."
He said the family has not filed a lawsuit and declined to make any further comment. Leyla's father, Marc Beban, referred all questions to Brustin.
Leyla's death sent a wave of sadness and mourning through the community and her 1,800-student school. Her friends, acquaintances and strangers left flowers, candles and tears at the intersection where she was killed.
In the announcement delivering news of her death to students, one teacher wrote: "Leyla Beban embodied qualities we might value in any of our students: compassionate, open-minded, intellectually curious, kind, articulate, considerate, very competent, yet humble."
Police say the crash happened as the driver, a 42-year-old Redwood City man who has not been named, and Leyla were both headed east on Jefferson Avenue around 8:30 a.m. Nov. 26. The truck was driving in front of her and a witness saw the driver click on his right turn signal as he approached southbound Alameda, Mulholland said.
Leyla was also planning to turn right onto Alameda, which has a designated bike lane and leads toward Woodside High School.
As the driver slowed to turn, Leyla -- who wore a helmet -- continued to ride alongside the truck's rear end and also began to turn. But she wound up stuck in a shrinking space between the curb and the GMC, finally colliding with the truck's rear passenger side.
According to Mullholland, Leyla should have slowed down, and allowed the truck to turn before she did. Instead, she chose to turn at the same time, he said.
As a result, police didn't find any evidence of wrongdoing significant enough to recommend the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office file criminal charges, Mulholland said.
While the emotional response to Leyla's death was centered at the crash site, it continued online. Leyla's former school, the Nueva School in Hillsborough, posted her May 2012 eighth-grade graduation speech. It describes a walk on a trail that winds across the wooded Nueva campus.
"You look down at the soft yellow leaves one more time, knowing it will probably be your last," Leyla wrote. "And you smile sadly because, while you will be sad to leave, you know this sight will stay in your memory forever."
Contact Joshua Melvin at 650-348-4335. Follow him at Twitter.com/melvinreport.


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Ronald James McDonald died on April 17, 2013. Born in Ione, Washington on August 19, 1936, he was a fifty-year resident of South Lake Tahoe.
Ron graduated from Deer Park High School in Deer Park, Washington. After graduating with a degree in business from the University of Denver he worked in management at Harrah's Reno, transferring to Harrah's Tahoe soon after. Later, he established a career in real estate, initially working for Dillingham Corporation in Tahoe Keys before creating M&M Realty, of which he was a co-owner.
An avid golfer, skier and sports enthusiast, Ron loved living in the mountains at his home on the meadow, with Heavenly Valley's slopes providing the perfect backdrop. He devoted hundreds of volunteer hours to the development of the Blue Angels ski team, which his two daughters competed for during their youth. A passionate golfer, he was an active member of the Lake Tahoe Golf Club for much of his life. He practiced his Christian faith at the South Shore Christian Assembly church.
Ron is survived by his wife Bernie, his daughters Kim McDonald, Lisa McDonald Dhollande, and her husband Laurent. A kind and loving father, he was also a devoted and patient grandfather to his two grandchildren, Justine and Shane Dhollande.
In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations be directed to the Heavenly Valley Ski Foundation Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 483, Zephyr Cove, Nevada, 89448-0483. A private memorial service will be held at a later date.


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ST. LOUIS -- Brent Burns, the Sharks defenseman-turned-forward who has cultivated a following with his uncultivated mane and free-range facial hair, needs only two words to describe his mission on the ice: "Create chaos."
He's been good at that. And out of that chaos, Burns has evolved into an offensive force.
Picking up where he left off last season after coach Todd McLellan decided the best way to help his struggling team and player was to change his position, Burns has three goals and three assists in five games. And as the Sharks were preparing to face the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night in a matchup of two of the NHL's three remaining teams with a perfect record, Burns was sporting a plus-9 rating that topped the NHL.
Add that to his 20 points in 23 games at forward last season, and it's safe to include the one-time All-Star defenseman among the NHL's top power forwards these days. And none of them plays the game with quite the same abandon.
Even linemate Joe Thornton acknowledges he isn't always sure where Burns is going to show up on the ice, but he has no intent of trying to rein him in.
"Not at all," the Sharks captain said. "As soon as he climbs off the bench, it's full blast. You don't want to tell somebody like that to slow down, because it's just so much fun to watch."
Burns is not one for deep conversation about his new position, his old one or the change.
Ask him, for example, if his new position better matches his personality, he'll acknowledge, "Yeah, it could." But he quickly adds, "I can have fun playing both" -- almost as if to treat the transformation as no big deal.
Burns isn't the first NHL player to switch from defense to forward, but you have to go back to the 1950s to find an example that was more high profile. Red Kelly, a Norris Trophy-winning defenseman with the Detroit Red Wings, later found success as a center with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Sharks paid a substantial price to acquire Burns from the Minnesota Wild at the 2011 draft, giving up Devin Setoguchi, prospect Charlie Coyle and a first-round draft pick for Burns and Minnesota's second-round selection.
At the time, general manager Doug Wilson did talk about Burns as a hybrid, the stud defenseman with offensive pop. Before Burns played his first game as a Shark, Wilson signed him to a long-term contract extension that will pay Burns $5.76 million per year through the end of the 2016-17 season.
But Burns had trouble adjusting to San Jose's style his first year with the team and was hampered by injuries the second.
In Burns' few games on defense last season, he looked tentative at times. And by March 12, with the Sharks having lost 13 of 17 since a 7-0 start, McLellan was ready for the experiment to begin.
The move was more calculated than it might have appeared. Justin Braun and Matt Irwin had shown they were ready to become full-time NHL defensemen; Burns was originally drafted as a forward, and it was McLellan who had helped convert him to defense in the minors.
The Sharks have made it clear they still value Burns on the blue line and have left the door open for him to return there if circumstances change. But they also will tell you that a power forward of Burns' ability is about as rare as the top defenseman for which they were originally shopping.
"I don't know how you defend against him, because he doesn't know what he's doing, so how do they know?" Wilson said in June.
Right now it's hard to imagine Burns as anything but a right wing. Burns' 26 points since the switch ties him with Logan Couture for the team lead in scoring. San Jose's record in that stretch is 19-9-1, including the 5-0 start this season.
Like Thornton, McLellan doesn't seem inclined to alter Burns' helter-skelter style of play as long as he meets his basic responsibilities.
"We don't want to over-harness Brent Burns," the coach said before likening the right wing to an artist: "For the most part, we want him to grab the brush and paint."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.
Tuesday's game
Sharks (5-0-0) at St. Louis (4-0-0), 5 p.m. NBCSN


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Lucas Donald Jensen, infant son of JoAnn and Timothy Jensen of Crescent, Iowa, was stillborn on Sept. 12, 2012. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Sept. 18, with interment in Hazel Dell Cemetery, rural Council Bluffs, Iowa.
In addition to his parents, Lucas is survived by his grandparents, James and Lucille Ammann of Butterfield and Donald and Anne Jensen of Council Bluffs.
Memorials may be made to the family. Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Bayliss Park Chapel in Council Bluffs was in charge of arrangements.
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You probably like bunnies. How about several dozen bunnies?
A woman named Yu Yu Lam Lam posted the above video on Facebook earlier this month. In subsequent comments she appears to state that the video was filmed in Japan (where bunnies are a thing) and that—as you might have guessed—she was feeding the bunnies bits of food.
So many bunnies.
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Protests Continue to Hurt Sales of Japanese Cars in China
SHANGHAI—Japanese car makers suffered a second consecutive month of sharply lower sales in China in a sign of the deepening impact of a territorial dispute between the two major trading partners.
Overall passenger-car sales in China rose 6.4% in October to 1.3 million vehicles from a year earlier, the semiofficial China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Friday.
But the group said sales of Japanese cars tumbled 38% to 98,900 vehicles, the first time sales of Japanese brands have fallen below 100,000 units since 2009. Their share of the market declined to 7.6% from 13% in September. Toyota Motor Corp., and others recently reported October sales drops in sales of their cars in China.
Their sales fell sharply in September as a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea flared up, spurring protests and a consumer boycott of Japanese products. Some consumers also have been frightened off by online images of demonstrators assaulting Japanese cars.
Toyota's unit sales in China tumbled 44% in October, and Nissan's sales fell 41%, all compared with a year-earlier figures.
European and U.S. auto makers gained market share as did domestic car-makers to a lesser extent. Market share of German-branded sedans rose to 27% in October from 24% in September, while that of Chinese homegrown brands grew to 31% from 30%.
The drop among Japanese brands hurts some Chinese local economies in addition to the Japanese companies because many of their sales here are cars are made domestically by joint ventures with Chinese partners employing local workers.
Read more in The Wall Street Journal.


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Vail official report: 0" new snow
Weather: Warm and very cloudy
Liftline status: None anywhere
Run of the day: Riva was groomed
Breakdown: The conditions are tough out there, with the back bowls slow to open once again. Visibility is low and the surface is hard. But it's softening up by the minute, and it didn't get extremely cold last night so it could turn buttery sooner than expected.
Snowcast: There's something heading our way, but we're not sure if it's snow, rain or just clouds.
On the Hill is shot with a GoPro HERO3 Silver Edition.


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Don't miss the biggest night of the year at Sun Peaks Resort!
The festivities kick off with the First Flight Big Air Invitational in the Rockstar Energy Terrain Park, followed by the Kids Glowstick Parade on the village platter learning area. After the Glowstick Parade, Sundance ski run will alive with an iridescent red glow as skiers and boarders descend the mountain with lit torches in hand for the famous Torchlight Parade. The grand finale is a spectacular fireworks show against our mountain backdrop! This is one night you don't want to miss! The best spectator location for the Kids Glow Stick Parade, Torchlight Parade, and fireworks is at the base of the Sundance Express chairlift, just outside of the Village Day Lodge. For the First Flight Big Air Invitational, guests will want to make the short five minute walk up to the base of the advanced terrain park.
Check out all the special NYE dinners, afterparties, and activities happening at Sun Peaks on our events calendar.
SCHEDULE *All times are approximate.
6:30pm to 7:30pm First Flight Big Air Invitational
7:45pm Childrens Glow Stick Parade
8:00pm Torchlight Parade
8:30pm Fireworks
Kids Glow Stick Parade RegistrationRegister children at Guest Services between 3:00pm and 5:00pm on the day of the event. Children must be able to ski or ride Sunbeam on the Village Platter with confidence. The minimum age to participate is 5 years. There is a maximum of 100 spots available for the glowstick parade.
First Flight Big Air Invitational RegistrationThis demonstration is limited to advanced level skiers and riders. Anyone interested in participating in First Flight Invitations are encouraged to contact Brooke Madley, Events Coordinator, at email@example.com.
Torchlight Parade RegistrationRegistration will take place in Guest Services from 5:00pm - 7:00pm. Registration for Torchlight Parade is based on a first come, first serve basis. All participants must register and complete the waiver in person. The minimum age to participate is 14 and registration is limited to 180. All participants MUST be present at registration, and parental signatures are required for those under the age of 19, no exceptions will be made! Torchlight Parade participants must have a valid lift ticket for December 31, 2015.


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text: Bill Maher closed tonight's Real Time with a rant about how the GOP has begun to politicize issues for no other reason than being reactionary. He cited pink slime, the environment and Rick Santorum's opposition to college as evidence that the GOP isn't interested in much besides saying no to what they deem the liberal agenda. It's all part of their war against common sense.


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iShowU HD
Real time screen recording for your Mac.
The pinnacle of realtime capture. Faster than ever with more features to boot! Create tutorials, make a demo for the web, record your favorite game (World of Warcraft!), collaborate on UI design, show tech support what's really going on with that broken program.
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Tags: screencast , ishowu , movie , quicktime , video , audio
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Can record sound from an application even with sound muted: uncheck 'monitor audio' in the audio tab of the advanced settings. (Audio can then be toggled on or off via the Soundflowerbed app.)
This is useful, because afaik the recorded sound volume depends on the volume that was set when recording, ie: it's better to set it to the maximum level otherwise you would 'lose' volume.
I personally hate this application, the files save in MASSIVE loads and then come out laggy and drop hundreds of frames, NOT WORTH THE MONEY.
Great app, with new cool features and great performance, now you can save CPU usage, record with your buit-in isight or another dv camara, The best choise for record screencasts, and cheaper too.
Ahh - all is now revealed. Please visit the website again and you'll see it there.
So where's the download link for this application? Link yields no file and the website only shows the latest version of iShowU, v1.68.
Is this (going to be) the same app as iShowU, with a new name, or is it another application? If latter, how can it be v2.0 when it hasn't yet been released? Pardon my confusion.
Because I'm the author of it, and I'm setting up all the back end website and wot not.
This hasn't been released yet, has it? If not, how come you (entry admin) are using it?


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DirecTV's Hulu Hope
DirecTV may be donning its grass skirt and getting ready to dance with Hulu. With final bids for the Internet-video site due last Friday, the satellite-TV provider seems the likely front-runner.
One big reason: It needs Hulu the most.
DirecTV faces flattening subscriber growth. And unlike cable competitors such as fellow bidder Time Warner Cable, it lacks a broadband offering to pick up the slack. It also lacks the wireless strategy of Dish Network.
Buying Hulu could help DirecTV expand its U.S. subscriber base, currently 20 million, by 4 million. That assumes that Hulu Plus subscribers don't pay for TV. But even reducing that figure by 20%–DirecTV's current pay-TV market share, according to Macquarie—would mean an additional 3.2 million.
That could help DirecTV in negotiations with broadcast networks over fees it pays to carry their signals. DirecTV's scale could also help Hulu negotiate more favorable contracts and fund more exclusive deals and original content—all necessary to compete against rivals like Netflix.
Of course, moving online may have the unintended effect of emphasizing the importance of rivals' broadband offerings. But DirecTV shouldn't pass up the chance to get on the dance floor.