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|Catherine Risigo, owner of Jumpstart Fitness & Therapy Network in Oakville. Jumpstart offers classes designed to help kids with focus, attention and motor-skill challenges who would not normally thrive in a traditional, large setting. Darlene Douty / Republican American
In elementary school, Risigo was placed in remedial reading classes. Her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn't college material. Risigo, now 48, wasn't officially diagnosed with ADHD until she was an adult. By then, she had already made a career out of ensuring kids of all abilities get the help and support they need.
Today, Risigo is the chief executive officer and owner of Oakville-based Therapy Unlimited. The company's Family Junction program, which encompasses youths from birth to age 3, is the state's first daycare accessible to children with special needs. Its Jumpstart Therapy & Fitness Network is a center that provides playgroups, fitness classes and sports readiness for kids of all abilities.
For some children, Jumpstart, housed in a refurbished factory adjacent to World Gym, is a place for occupational, physical, speech and behavioral therapy. For others, it's a place to play.
About five years ago, Risigo was working with a child who had been kicked out of a dance class. Remembering her own experience, Risigo knew she wanted to add dance to Jumpstart's roster. Starting Friday, Jumpstart kicks off two eight-week dance sessions: one featuring genres including tap, jazz and ballet for ages 4 to 6, and another called Zumbatomic, a dance-fitness program for ages 4 to 12.
Classes are designed to help kids with focus, attention and motor-skill challenges who would not normally thrive in a traditional, large setting. Although the sessions had not officially started, two weeks ago, a half-dozen kids were led through a class. They hopped from one circle mat to another, twirling long ribbons in the air.
Along the way, Jumpstart employees and the dance instructor provided individual help to students. One 5-year-old, Katheryn Gallucci of Watertown, initially resisted participation, but got in the spirit once everyone started doing lunges during the warm-up. Wearing a T-shirt that said, "I color outside the lines," Katheryn shouted out her numbers as she did jumping jacks, her blond ponytail bouncing.
Katheryn, Risigo said, began coming to Jumpstart about two months ago. Her mother, Trish Gallucci, said she chose to home-school her daughter because she believed Katheryn, who is hyperactive, would not flourish in kindergarten. .
"She is go-go-go. I drive a school bus and she's up with me at 5 a.m., doesn't take a nap all day and is still bouncing around at 9 or 10 at night," said her mother. "And she is so smart. She figures out ways around things. She is doing third-grade science and second-grade reading. A lot of people told me, 'Oh, she's just high-spirited, but I knew something was off.'"
Katheryn's pediatrician referred her to Risigo. She now comes to Jumpstart for therapy sessions twice a week and playgroup every day.
"She's starting to focus better and is not as easily distracted," Gallucci said.
At Jumpstart, each piece of equipment in the 2,500-square-foot space has a purpose, whether it's how the swing moves in circles and makes kids develop core strength, or the drawbridge that encourages balance. The "castle room" features dungeons and tunnels to play in, as well as a zip line and floor-to-ceiling fake tree for kids to practice climbing. The fantasy-style element of the castle lets them act out games
"So they have a blast, but they are learning and doing so much," said Joline Douglas, program director at Jumpstart. "We have a speech pathologist come every Wednesday and she can check how children are doing. If you have a gut feeling about something, but don't want to make an appointment with your pediatrician, we have caught a lot of stuff that helps kids start school better."
Playgroups, which are for ages 3 months to 6 years, can be for kids looking to have fun in an indoor gym setting, or they are used as a part of therapy programs provided by Risigo and her staff.
"I see things through a kid's eyes," said Risigo, a tall, well-dressed woman with long, wavy brown hair and rectangular-framed glasses. "I know what it's like to be bad at sports and never picked for teams. And so many kids are not doing sports these days. ... I had one boy who wanted to play football but he couldn't do jumping jacks. I'm here to get them to use their motor skills, get fit, and have fun. It's not about building Olympic athletes."
Not all kids even have a diagnosis. They just might need a little extra help, Risigo explained.
"Fitness is for life, therapy is short-term," said Risigo, speaking in her rapid-fire delivery.
Risigo, who is divorced, is raising three teenage children, and has two international high school students living in her Watertown home, as well as a foster child. How does she keep up with running a company and six kids?
"I stay focused by being so busy," she said. "No one is surprised to get e-mails from me at 2 in the morning."
Recognizing her tendency to get overwhelmed with too many decisions, she has implemented processes in her day-to-day life to make things easier, including arranging her closet in a way that includes color-coding.
Risigo grew up in Wolcott and graduated from Holy Cross High School in Waterbury. She obtained her bachelor's in occupational therapy from Quinnipiac University, and later, her master's in nutrition from the University of Bridgeport. She worked in schools as a therapist before starting her own practice in 1987.
The impetus for Jumpstart came when insurance companies would not cover more than one weekly therapy session for children.
"A weekly visit was just not enough for kids to see a difference," Risigo said, explaining that playgroups, exercise and dance classes allow kids to get extra help. Plus, it's a way to combat childhood obesity and have children get fit and toned. Ideally, parents are working out at the gym and setting a good example, she said.
Dance and Zumbatomic classes at Jumpstart Therapy & Fitness Network start Friday, but kids can join at any point. The eight-week sessions for both classes cost $79. Dances is for ages 4 to 6; Zumbatomic is for 4 to 12. Jumpstart also offers playgroups for ages 3 months through 6 years. Eight 90-minute sessions cost $99. A drop-in session is $15. Fitness classes and summer activities are for kids up to age 16. For information, call 860-945-1301
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — If this unusual winter continues, and as spring approaches, we are going to see more and more kayaks and stand-up paddleboards on the lake on calm days. Kayaks are actually boats (vessels) and have always been subject to federal and state boating laws. The U.S. Coast Guard has recently ruled that SUPs are "vessels" by definition, and are, therefore, subject to federal boating laws. Because of the nearly identical Nevada boating laws, requirements for paddle sports are the same.
Every vessel must have an appropriately sized USCG approved life jacket (PFD) for each person on board. This includes kayaks and SUPs. Most adults sit on their life jackets in a kayak, and if boarders are aware of the SUP ruling, their life jacket is strapped or Velcroed somewhere on the board. Inflatable devices must be worn to meet the requirements and are not approved for any boaters less than 16 years of age. There are inflatable PFDs which are "fanny pack" style and worn by many boarders.
The lucky paddlers are the youngsters under 13 years of age who are required to always wear their life jackets. Here's why the youngsters are lucky. The water in Tahoe is now generally about 40ºF or a little lower. Kids don't have the option to use poor judgment. In water as cold as Tahoe, no matter how pleasant the day may be, if you go in the water you will only have a few minutes to self rescue; that is, to get back in or on your vessel.
Cold water causes the body to shut down the blood flow to its extremities (arms, legs and even brain) to protect its vital organs, and even very strong swimmers will lose their ability to climb on a kayak or board, or even to swim. Hypothermia (low body temperature) will not kill you for about an hour, but within a few minutes of entering the water you will be unable to swim and will drown without a life jacket or inability to hold on to your board.
So we have established that a life jacket is required by law on kayaks and SUPs. We've also tried to convince you that just carrying a life jacket on your kayak or SUP is not going to help much. Even if you can stay with your kayak or board, have you ever tried to put a life jacket on while in the water? The only other safety equipment required on a kayak or SUP is a "sound-producing device." Really? Some kayakers carry air horns. The minimum requirement would be a whistle, which can be easily attached to your life Jacket.
A real-life example
Here's a real example from the archives of Washoe County Sheriff's office patrol/rescue vessel "Marine 9."
Returning from the gas dock at Carnelian bay last October (water probably about 55ºF) we offered to hang around the tail end of an SUP race from Camp Richardson to Kings Beach (about 20 miles) because the lake was getting nasty. As we prepared to follow "tail-end Charlie" we remarked that the next to last contestant look pretty shaky.
When we came abeam of the last contestant (about 100 yards) we turned to follow him and looking back saw "Shaky's" empty board. Then we saw his head about 30 feet from his board, where his life jacket was strapped on the deck. We sped to his aid, threw him a life ring, which he was able to grab, and maneuvered to make the dive door accessible to him.
While we were maneuvering, with him clinging to the life ring, he was gasping "hurry, hurry." He was unable to get on board Marine 9 without considerable assistance. He was very cold after about 5 minutes in the water, but was not hypothermic.
The obvious moral to the story is "Wear your life jacket, especially when the water is cold (10 months of the year at Tahoe").
If you insist on not wearing a life jacket on an SUP, but do strap it to your board, at least tether your board to your leg. It will keep your life jacket and your board close at hand despite your wild thrashing as you fall and launch the board at 10 mph.
If you are not convinced and want to see real life testing with volunteers, go to "www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xohI3B4Uc" or Google "Cold Water Boot Camp" for some scary in the water scenes and a more complete medical explanation.
— Don Morrison is the current president of WCSO Incline Marine Auxiliary, the volunteer group that operates the sheriff's patrol/rescue vessel "Marine 9."

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HENDERSONVILLE — Alphonse O. Van Cleven, 84, of Hendersonville, passed away Sunday, November 11, 2012 at his residence.
He was born in Belgium and moved to Chicago in 1955 and was a resident of Henderson County for the last 12 years. Al was a son of the late Emilius Michaël and Ludovica Camilla De Graeve Van Cleven and was preceded in death by his sister.
Al studied art in Belgium and was so very proud of his many works of art which consisted of drawings, lithographs and paintings. His career was in Graphic Arts.
Survivors include his loving wife of 44 years, Bonnie Van Cleven; two sons, Marc Van Cleven and his wife Linda and Eric Van Cleven; grandchild, Katie Lovenberg and her husband Mike; two great grandchildren, Kamryn and Riley Lovenberg; nephew, Gilbert Provo and his wife Bernice; grandniece, Kristine Blackwelder and her husband Derek and their children, Clark and Brynn.
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8.2-15 Carrying a Pistol or Revolver without Permit -- § 29-35 (a)
Revised to December 1, 2007
The defendant is charged [in count __] with unlawfully carrying a pistol or revolver without a permit. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
no person shall carry any pistol or revolver upon (his/her) person, except when such person is within the dwelling house or place of business of such person, without a permit to carry the pistol or revolver.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Carried pistol or
The first element is that the defendant carried a pistol or revolver upon (his/her) person. The term "pistol or revolver" means any firearm having a barrel less than twelve inches.1 A pistol or revolver is "carried" if it is on one's person and within the person's control or dominion, meaning that the person must be aware of its presence.2
Element 2 - Outside home or
place of business
The second element is that the defendant was not within (his/her) dwelling or place of business. In other words, the defendant had a pistol or revolver on (his/her) person in a public place.3
Element 3 - Without a permit4
The third element is that the defendant did not have a permit5 issued by the state to carry a pistol or revolver in public.
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant carried a pistol or revolver, 2) (he/she) was outside (his/her) dwelling or place of business, and 3) (he/she) did not have a permit for it.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
carrying a pistol or revolver without a permit, then you shall find the
defendant guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find that the state has
failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the elements, you shall then
find the defendant not guilty.
1 Operability of the pistol or revolver is not a requirement of this offense. See glossary entry for pistol or revolver.
2 Proof of asportation of the pistol or revolver is not necessary. State v. Hopes, 26 Conn. App. 367, 374-75, cert. denied, 221 Conn. 915 (1992).
3 See State v. Hopes, supra, 26 Conn. App. 375 (statute is "concerned with prohibiting the use of unlicensed weapons in public"). The "place of business" exception means only premises that contain a business in which the defendant has a proprietary or possessory interest, not a location at which the defendant is merely an employee. State v. Vickers, 260 Conn. 219, 221-22 (2002). It is also limited to fixed places of business only, and does not encompass taxicabs. State v. Lutters, 270 Conn. 198, 208 (2004). A stairway and landing leading to the defendant's apartment was not in his exclusive control and thus did not come within the dwelling exception. State v. Sealy, 208 Conn. 689, 694 (1988).
4 See State v. Beauton, 170 Conn. 234, 241 (1976) ("[T]he words of the statute 'for which a proper permit has not been issued as provided in Sec. 29-28' appear as part of the enacting or prohibition clause of the statute. It is not an exception but a descriptive negative. . . .").
5 This could be either a municipal license or a state license. In 2001, the system of issuing municipal permits was replaced with a statewide system. See Public Acts 2001, No. 01-130.
The uninterrupted act of carrying a pistol without a permit on different days is not a single continuous offense, but is rather multiple offenses, so the imposition of multiple punishments does not violate the prohibition against double jeopardy. State v. Williams, 59 Conn. App. 603, cert. denied, 254 Conn. 946 (2000).
The defense of duress would not justify the carrying of a pistol without a permit. State v. Hopes, supra, 26 Conn. App. 371-72.
See General Statutes § 29-28 for the procedure for obtaining a pistol permit. Public Act No. 01-130 amended the statute to replace locally issued permits with state permits.
See General Statutes § 29-35 (a)
for exceptions to culpability. "[W]here exceptions to a prohibition in a
criminal statute are situated separately from the enacting clause, the
exceptions are to be proven by the defense." (Internal quotation marks
omitted.) State v. Valinski, 254 Conn. 107, 123 (2000) (rule also
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- In the first three games after the All-Star break last year, the A's went into Minnesota, hit nine home runs, swept the Twins and wound up hitting homers and winning for most of the rest of the season.
The 112 homers in 76 games transformed the A's from a one-run-at-a-time team to a score-in-bunches team, and that was in large measure the backbone of the A's come-from-behind win in the American League West in 2012.
Now the A's are at it again. Since Aug. 9 the A's lead the major leagues with 52 homers, 131 extra-base hits and a .497 slugging percentage. It took a while for the wins to catch up with homers this time. Manager Bob Melvin said the four-game series in Detroit Aug. 26-29 is 2013's pivot point.
"We seem to find one series that serves as a springboard,'' Melvin said when asked about the A's 66 second-half homers, one behind Major League leader Washington over that stretch. "Last year it was the sweep in Minnesota. This time it was the series in Detroit.''
The homers, 29 in 18 games, during which the club is 14-4 entering Saturday's second game of the series against the second-place Rangers, have been most welcome. They've made life easier for the A's pitching staff, which now can afford to make mistakes although, with rare exceptions like Friday's six-run Texas eighth inning, the pitchers have been as solid as ever.
Balfour appeared to be put off by the fact that he wasn't used as expected.
The manager said the matchups in the ninth inning favored Doolittle, who has been pitching better lately after some August woes. And Balfour has struggled with overwork and command issues.
"Doolittle's been pitching really well and Grant has been overextended,'' Melvin said. "And the matchups in the ninth inning suggested Doolittle.''
Melvin also said that if Balfour pitched Friday, it would be two days in a row for him and that he'd probably be unavailable for Saturday's game.
He made it clear that Balfour is the closer, but he had faith "in all three members of the back of the bullpen'' — Ryan Cook in addition to Doolittle and Balfour.
It wouldn't come as a major show, however if Cook was back in a tough spot Saturday or Sunday.
"I don't know if there is anything like that in this ballpark,'' Melvin said when asked if he'd look for a less high intensity game for Cook's next appearance.
"He's yanking the fastball off the play and missing with the slider away. Everybody goes through periods when they're not at their best."
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If you thought Anthony Bourdain and his gang of three -- Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey -- hadn't picked enough chef-testants or cook-petitors last time around, you were right. They're still six short, so it's time for another round of blind spoonfuls and pack-your-knives-and-goes.
Pacing is definitely improved on the second installment of ABC's new cooking competition, as 16 cooks vie for six spots during an episode that -- thank heavens -- lasts one hour, not two. Malarkey needs someone with good technique and a little flair. Nigella is looking for someone with a good palate, who can balance flavors well.
The final six
First up is Jennifer Mueller, the restaurant consultant, who calls herself the "LeBron James of cooking." She's clearly got his ego. Her salmon niçoise with a beet gastrique is, she says, "Jennifer in a little spoon." It's too sweet for the judges.
Huda Mu'min, a D.C. caterer, serves up garlic shrimp and grits. "The heart wants what the heart wants," Nigella tells her, pushing the green "yes" button. Ludo does likewise, leaving the decision up to Huda, who joins Team Nigella.
We get pros. We get home cooks. We get an investment banker in suspenders, tie and crisp business shirt, with a black bandanna tied around his head like a sushi chef-wannabe. Seriously, dude? And we get a few more contestants signed to teams, including a Los Angeles chef, whose tattoos are at odds with that fresh-faced, cherubic face. He joins Team Malarkey.
Erika Monroe-Williams, a former news anchor who hosts cooking segments on TV -- and is married to former San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Williams -- puts out a really pretty lime-and-coriander crusted tuna. Nigella says she has trouble with dishes that mix sweet and savory, all signs are pointing to no -- and it's a yes. Shrieks of delight all around. Nigella's team is complete.
Arrival of the vegans
We get a raw vegan "foodist" from Venice Beach, Christina Ross, who wears a hot pink tutu and loves hula hoops, and a Santa Barbara personal chef, also vegan, who says Bourdain is never even going to realize he's tasting vegan food.
"I suspect vegetarianism," he promptly announces.
Ross' dish is a horrifying chocolate mousse with, we're told, coriander, cocoa nibs and orange peel -- and that coriander is cilantro. There are leaves of it all over the place. Malarkey's eyebrows shoot up, Ludo looks deeply disturbed and both Nigella and Bourdain cover their mouths.
"There's something going on here I don't understand," Bourdain says.
Then the doors slide up and the giggly Ross is revealed, tutu and all.
"It all makes sense!" Nigella says.
Ludo asks Ross how she cooks in that outfit, and as Ross tells him she has many tutus, the doors close on her, literally in mid-sentence. If her hands had been any more outstretched, they'd have been sliced right off.
"I take it you didn't like it," she says, her cheerful voice muffled by the door.
"How could I eat that?" Bourdain says. "I want to vomit with terror."
The teams are set
A brash New York culinary instructor, Gregg Drusinsky, is up next, working on gorgeous spoonfuls of a Singapore-style lobster with coconut milk and curry paste as he explains he's "borderline neurotic -- not exactly insane-crazy."
"Let's see who we've got in the chute of terror," Bourdain says as Drusinsky is unveiled.
"As a French guy, a French chef," Ludo starts, only to have Malarkey say, in tones of amused exasperation, "Why does he always start off with this?" "Are you jealous because I am French?" Ludo shoots back, before pushing his green button. Malarkey does too. Drusinsky -- a former saucier at Le Bernardin -- picks Ludo, much to Malarkey's consternation. Three out of four members of Ludo's team are people Malarkey wanted.
By show's end, the teams are full -- Bourdain has finally picked his last competitor and somehow, despite the "blind test" nature of this, he has managed to recruit four really good-looking women. Time to fire up the stoves.


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EMERYVILLE -- Jon Peters is one of those rare and enviable people who truly loves his job. Technically, the longtime Piedmont resident is CEO of Athena Studios, a production facility that does everything from stop-motion animation to corporate training videos. In reality, he's basically an overgrown kid who loves anything to do with movies.
"This is what I was born for," Peters said during a private tour of his Emeryville studio. "I've wanted to do this since I was 5 years old. I had an Easy-Show Projector, so I set up a theater in the garage and charged kids a nickel to come watch while I did the voice-over."
Athena moved into its new production studio in May. The 5,200-square-foot space houses a 40-foot-by-48-foot stage, including a 25-foot-by-25-foot green screen cyclorama. It was a major step up from the much smaller space they occupied down the street.
"That was an office with a studio," Peterson said. "This is a studio with an office." It's also in a dream location. Two legendary animation studios -- Tippett and Pixar -- are within walking distance. Folks from both studios have stopped by to check out Athena's new space.
"The special effects community here is wonderful," said Peters, a third-generation Bay Area resident who grew up in San Francisco and graduated from San Jose State. "They're a tremendous group of artists and craftsmen -- and they're all very, very friendly."
John Berg, who created effects for the "Star Wars" movies, has been working with Athena on some of their stop-motion animations.
"It really is an art form," Peters said. "John saw our love for it and our passion. To get to work with some of these people who have always been my heroes is fantastic. It is so much fun. We're having a great time."
That fun is obvious to anyone who walks through the door and sees the prop collection -- Darth Vader helmet, "Toy Story" figures, Mattel ghost trap -- that share a three-tiered shelf in the small front office. Every room and hallway features some sort of artifact from the six-person staff's favorite movies, an eclectic list that ranges from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Ironman" to "Jurassic Park" and "Muscle Beach Party."
But the main business of Athena Studios is not feature films. It's corporate video for clients like New York Life and the government of Ontario. They still get to do a lot of really creative work, but the end product typically is not one you'll see at your local theater. Peters learned a long time ago, when he dabbled in special effects after college, that the work of making movies ends when the movie does. And now, with most effects for feature films being outsourced to Asia, the father of three is particularly happy with the choice he made to mix business sense with the pleasure of being creative.
Peters moved to Piedmont 20 years ago with his wife Lisa, who operates a Jazzercise franchise on Highland Avenue. They have three children aged 7, 13, and 15. And they love the Piedmont life.
"It's perfect," Peters said. "It's such a great community." They love the peace and quiet, the redwoods, the Fourth of July parade and Christmas tree lighting, he said. And he loves his job, which may soon involve creating more 3-D effects and virtual environments for feature films. Like the other five people on his staff, he thrives on creativity.
"Everything I've been involved in has been about creativity," Peters said. "Even when we started Athena Online, we took a very creative approach, doing something very different than anybody else was doing. We were doing short videos on the Internet years before YouTube even launched. We would go in to people and say, 'We have a perfect solution for you: video on the Internet.' And people would say, 'Video on the Internet? It's never going to take off.'"


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HAYWARD -- Big Mike, a 20-foot-tall fiberglass he-man who stood sentry on north Mission Boulevard for more than 40 years before he was dismantled and trucked off in 2011, is back in town, looking better than he has in years.
But fans will have to go out of their way to see him. He now resides in the driveway of a shop on a side street in Hayward's industrial area, though he is visible from the street.
Bruce Kennedy, owner of Bell Plastics at 2020 National Ave., bought the statue and paid to have him restored.
Big Mike arrived at the shop on a trailer around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, lying on his back, with his bent arms raised toward the sky and his detached head next to his torso. After carting the head down the driveway and placing it atop a crate, workers began loosening the straps holding Mike's torso.
"He looks good!" Kennedy said, adding that it cost "a lot" to restore the statue, but he was vague on details, including where the work had been done or by whom.
Elizabeth Oakes, who works at Bell Plastics, said Big Mike is in much better shape than when she last saw him being dismantled on Mission. Then, his paint was faded, his clothes were sullied with graffiti and one of his legs had a hole in it.
Kennedy's brother, Steve, walked into the driveway as the trailer arrived. "Long time no see!" he greeted Big Mike.
Steve Kennedy said he laughed when he saw the newspaper article about his brother buying the statue, but he wasn't shocked. "You never know what's next" with his brother, he said. "Can you see the classic fire engine back there?"
Bruce Kennedy and his crew didn't appear to have a precise plan on how to get the statue off the trailer and upright. After some consultation, they bolted a board to the bottom of Big Mike's boots and then hoisted the top of his torso with a forklift and straps to a 45-degree angle. Five men propped him up while the straps were taken off, and he was slowly raised and spun around. Two hand-pallet trucks were positioned under the board, and Big Mike was rolled to his new home next to a cargo container.
The job progressed slowly, with workers improvising as they went along. At one point, a battery had to be charged before a scissor lift could raise a worker to reattach Big Mike's head.
"We actually do know how to move things," Bruce Kennedy said.
Mayor Michael Sweeney chuckled when he heard the news about the statue. "It's good that Big Mike is back in Hayward," he said. "People were a little sad when he left."
John Gouveia remembers Big Mike from his early years.
"Big Mike used to be in front of the Tyre Treads warehouse. I remember going there with my dad," said Gouveia, general manager of the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District. "Was he tacky? I was a kid, I didn't know tacky. He was just big. And he just became part of the boulevard."
No one seems to know how Big Mike got his name. "That's just what he was called," Kennedy said. "I could name him John, but people would still call him Big Mike."
The original plan was to place Big Mike in front of Bell Plastics, but Kennedy's insurance company vetoed the plan. And though he's happy for people to come by to look at the statue, he didn't buy it for advertising.
"It's a commonly known thing that I'm crazy. I've always wanted one" of the statues, also known as "Muffler Man" or Paul Bunyan, Kennedy said.
Quite a few Muffler Man statues remain, though not all look the same, he said. "They sometimes used the same body and changed the head. They even had a space man one; they covered up his head and painted it a different color," he said.
Kim Huggett, CEO of the Hayward Chamber of Commerce, wanted to know what Big Mike was going to hold. The statues, with one arm facing upward and one down, have held mufflers, axes, even large brushes.
"We haven't figured that out yet," Kennedy said.


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PARKERSBURG - Despite a divided vote, Parkersburg City Council's Committee of the Whole Tuesday evening approved a balanced budget to continue on to the full council.
The committee voted 5-4 to send on the proposed 2013-14 budget after several amendments to reduce pay increases for city administrators failed to pass. Council members John Kelly, Roger Brown, J.R. Carpenter and Mike Reynolds voted against approval of the $26,333,861 budget.
The hearing began with amended revenue numbers submitted by Mayor Bob Newell and Finance Director Angie Smith. Smith said excess levy tax revenue came in at $1,486,106, about $13,000 more than previously budgeted. That additional revenue was put into the city's mass transit budget line.
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Parkersburg Mayor Bob Newell talks about pay raises for city employees during Tuesday's round of city budget hearings at the city council chambers while Finance Director Angie Smith listens.
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Parkersburg City Council member John Kelly, left, argues for an increase in the Memorial Bridge demolition fund during Tuesday's round of city budget hearings at the city council chambers as council member Jim Reed looks over budget items.
Likewise the city received $3,292,104 in property tax, about $64,000 more than previously budgeted. Those additional dollars were put into the city's capital reserve fund.
Kelly was the only council member Tuesday to seek amendments to the budget, targeting two positions which were to receive raises.
Kelly called an $8,466 raise for the city's personnel director "an unreasonable pay increase," and moved to have that amount reduced by more than $7,000, which he suggested be placed into a holding fund. The move received support from Brown, who said he felt it should be stepped into place rather than given all at once.
Newell said the pay increase was to make the position in line with market price and was recommended and passed by the council's personnel committee.
"This is a mixed direction for the city council, either you want to pay market price or you don't," Newell said. "If you are not going to use your own committees, why are we gathering up?"
Kelly argued the personnel director has fewer employees to supervise than any other department in the city. He also argued the position did not oversee hiring and firing in the city's police or fire departments, yet the job came with higher pay than the fire or police chief.
Newell said all hiring and firing goes through the mayor's office and the personnel director oversees benefits, insurance, drug testing and other areas for 250 full-time and 60 part-time employees.
"It is a big job," he said.
Kelly's amendment failed by a 3-6 vote.
Kelly then made a motion to withhold about $3,000 of the public works director's $4,514 pay increase. The motion died for lack of a second.
After the meeting, Newell pointed out there were no pay raises included for the mayor or council in the proposed budget.
Kelly successfully argued for an increase in the Memorial Bridge demolition fund. The city had budgeted $125,000 for that fund, but Kelly argued the state recommended a contribution of $180,000, a $55,000 difference.
"We need to do this and be in line with what the state recommends," Kelly said.
Newell said the city has in years past paid more than the recommended amount for demolition.
An amendment by Kelly to have the additional $55,000 for bridge demolition come from the city's capital reserve fund failed by a 2-7 vote, but a subsequent amendment by Kelly to have the money come from the bridge's maintenance fund instead passed.
"We will do just that much less in repairs," Newell said.
Newell said there will be two more readings and a public hearing before the budget is sent on to the state.


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Dakota Moon Turner was reported as "missing and endangered" Friday, April 12. She was located that weekend in Buffalo, N.Y.
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On Oct. 18, an Eagle Police officer responded to a report of a suspicious person outside a townhome development in town. When they arrived they found a man attempting to hide underneath a tree in the area.
When asked what he was doing, the man admitted he was trying to hide from the police. He told the officers, "I am sick of everything I do."
The police report noted the man had watery, bloodshot eyes and was wearing ripped pants and only one shoe. He also smelled of alcohol and his left knee was bleeding from a scrape. He smelled of alcohol. When asked what happened to his shoe, he said he had lost it "a long time ago."
The person who called the police did not want to pursue charges, but she wanted the man to leave the area. The officer transported the man to his home where he was released to his brother.
Eagle Police were called to City Market Oct. 18 on a shoplifting complaint.
When he arrived, the officer spoke with store security personnel who said the reported theft had been recorded on video. When the security officer contacted the suspect, she refused to return to the store. The Eagle officer was able to contact the suspect at the store parking lot.
The officer brought the suspect back inside where she confessed that she had taken a bottle of Dove Everyday Body Mist Spray valued at $4.52. She said her belongings may have been stolen while she was in jail and she was trying to get to Grand Junction with some friends.
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i was really drunk one night and was having sex with this lady. must have been all the motion, i dont know because its never happened before or after, but i started that swallow/burp routine to try to surpress/deal with it. at this time we were doggy style. she heard me and was like "are you gon" BBBLLLLAAAAAH! all over her back and bed. i rolled over and passed out. i imagine she was plotting to kill me! it was an awkward time as she gave me a ride home in the a.m.
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i was 19, at the beach with a bunch of buddies. we were staying at a holiday inn that the walkways were on the outside of the building. well, we went to this party and 4 of us drank like a gallon of so co and smoked a whole bunch of weed. we were all super fucked up. some of us decided to stop at this sub shop to get some food. none of us had eaten since a lot earlier in the day, so we were mad hungry. we all ate a whole sub and fries. then, we decided to go back to the room, but when we got there some of our buddies had hooked up with some girls and left us out. we felt like there wasn't anything to do but just try to sleep out in the hallway, which like i had said, was outside. i laid down for about a half hour on the floor and then the world started spinning. i crawled over to the railing and stuck my head through the rails and let it go, but my food had barely digested so when it came out it was still fairly solid. i swear it looked like a loaf coming out (it was about as round as a coke can and about a footlong). i remember it hurting so bad when it was coming out. it was like a play doh fun factory. when it all came it, it just plopped on the hood of this car in the parking lot.
Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:02 pm
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My story feels lame compared to these. First of all let me preface by saying that I was and still am a total lightweight. I don't drink much. I don't like being drunk. I definitely HATE barfing and this story is the reason why...
I was 18 and in a shitty relationship with this boy who was a cokehead and was a total asshole dick to me, but like most silly girls at that age I still dated him and made up all kinds of excuses for his behavior. Anyway, my best friend's boyfriend's parents at the time had a summer property on the beach at Lake Michigan...only there was no house...just a beach. And we decided we were going to throw a really cool beach party. Like "I'll show that boy I can have fun without him and its going to be AWESOME!"
In my head it was going to look totally badass... candles everywhere since we had no light, I brought a huge tarp to make a make-shift potty room complete with sand piss pit... only it didn't end up that way. We did make a piss pit though.
So we all set up our tents on the beach and started drinking. I drank Mike's Hard Lemonade all night... so gross. The night was a blur and I only remember the following..... wading into the lake fully clothed to pee, getting cold and covering myself up to my neck in a "sand blanket" and yelling "Leave me alone! I'm in my sand blanket!", someone lifting me over their head and violently spinning me around and me yelling frantically "No, no stop I'm gunna puke"....I WISH the story ended with me puking there, because I almost did, that would be cooler, but I didn't. I just ended up going to sleep.
I woke up at probably 5am when the sun was just coming over the water, it was bright enough to induce migraine and I crawled out of the tent to violently barf up neon yellow foam. It just wouldn't stop. Then I chugged a bunch of water and projectiled that.I couldn't keep anything down, I was covered in sand, it was oppressively hot outside already which made me vomit more.
I got home all hung over and my dad was asking me where his tarp was. I was just too lazy and hung over to take it up that freaking hill to the car. He was pissed.
The End.
Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:06 pm
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I feel like this is a great metaphor for the music industry.... get learned.
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definately so for mainstream music aka radio
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I was flying the last leg of a trip back to philadelphia with my 18 month old daughter and wife. We had managed to stay together for most of the trip, to have maximum baby on plane coverage, so no one was stuck next to a screaming or unhappy kid. shit was smooth as silk on the trip out, on the trip back the first leg of the flight was fine.
on the second leg, we were rushed due to a delay and they wouldn't seat us together on the flight, they also were trying to get us to not fly back on that flight, and catch a flight at 1 in the morning. So, anyway, they wouldn't seat us together. More dumb, they put me in first class. As we get the prepare for landing announcement over the loudspeaker, i hear a collective gasp/scream from the back of the plane. Slowly word comes back to the front that some kid is in the back throwing up on some poor bastard. I realize immediately that it had to be my kid, but they wouldn't let me go back and help, so i am stuck sitting up front waiting to find out what happens.
plane lands, people run from the back bowling over people in the front, total madhouse.
my wife and pukey kid come up next, and then a guy in scrubs with giant vomit stains all over him. guy is just laughing it all off and totally fine while all the passengers are saying terrible shit about my kid. turns out the guy was a pediatric resident at the children's hospital. Could not have been nicer about the whole thing.
As a bonus, my daughter was sick for two weeks, and had to go to the hospital for fluids because she got dehydrated from the puking.
there you go, my sitcom style puke story that happened in the phl.
Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:48 pm
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This is a third-hand story that happened to someone my brother's roommate knows but it's worth sharing. He is either tailgating for our college's big football game or is at the game and is hitting the bottle hard. Soon, he realizes he's gotta puke but he's in an area filled with people and can't move. He looks left for an escape, then looks right, and then he decides his best option
He pulls his collar forward and pukes right down his shirt. I can't think of a worse idea.
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19 years old, just finished my associates and got a dope job at a high profile tech company... By far the youngest guy in the company...
Me and my girl attend the company Christmas party a few months after I get hired. Open bar... Underage but nobody questioning it with this crowd... We take advantage and get whatever drinks we want... Met some cool folks at the table... They encourage the drinkin... My girl ends up drinking way too much... They invite us over to hang out after the party...
On the drive over to their place I start to smell something nasty. I look over and my girl's in the passenger seat passed out, puke all over the front of her and all over the car...
We get to their house... she's semi conherent and insists I go in and hang out for a while... I ended up going in and hanging out with the new work peeps for about an hour and then we finally went home... I woke up the next day and she had somehow already cleaned the car spotless...
Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:02 am
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I call this one... "Sucks to be a Janitor"
In fifth grade, I moved to a new area. All the kids in the area rode BMX bikes and had these massive bike jump ramps they'd do tricks on...
Me being the new kid in town, and thinking I had BMX skills of my own. I decided to take a shot at one of these huge bike jumps...
I don't really remember much after the first peddle of my bike, by apparently I went off the ramp and straight face planted... I woke up on the couch with a rag on my face and my mom freakin out..
We went to the emergency room to get it checked out... While waiting, I felt like I was about to get sick...
I ran to the bathroom, but was a second or two late... I puked up straight blood all over the bathroom, inches before actually hitting the toilet...
Moments after that happend, with the bathroom door still open, I see the Janitor look in... with the look on his face like I just fucked up his day...
Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:15 am
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Me and a couple buddies decide to hit a local dive bar for some cheap drinks. It just happens to be "Lingerie Night" and as we continue to drink, several unattractive girls walk through the bar modeling bras and panties while the DJ tries to auction them off.
Needless to say, what I like to call "stupid drinking" ensues. Shots of everything from the Top to the Bottom shelf. As the evening drags on and the "models" disappear, we all decide its time to hit the dance floor...if you can call a 10x10 linoleum section of an already too small bar a dance floor.
We begin to relive our breakdancing days...until I hear my knee pop mid-swipe. I limp over to a stool just in time to see one friend knee-spinning like a beast, vomiting from the mouth, looking like some disgusting water fountain. He vomits onto another friend who had just went into freeze mode after a backspin. Both of them bounce up and dash for the bathroom.
Calling it a night, as we head back to my apartment, my final friend takes his turn and trips up the cement steps to some nice road rash on his face and elbows.
We all decide the next morning that drinking and dancing just dont mix.
Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:57 am
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remind, winning the long distance and height puke contest is a good thing. so to me it's my best ever good puke story. it's like poltergeist spewing pea soup scary awesome.
Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:46 am
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I'm ashamed to say that even though it didn't happen to me, my best puke story is fairly recent.
I was flying to Vegas back in April with some friends. I flew into Atlanta to meet up with the crew and then we all hopped on the same flight from ATL to Vegas. Prior to boarding, my buddies had been sitting in the Delta Crown Room getting irresponsibly drunk (this group is all 35-40 year old "adults").
We board and one guy is in first class, I'm on the bulkhead right behind first class and the rest of our crew is about 20 rows behind me. About 30 minutes into a 4 hour flight, the smell of sewage permeates the cabin for a few minutes, then subsides. Three and a half hours later we land in Vegas.
I get off the plane expecting to see Mark (1st class guy) already in the terminal. No dice. I wait and the guys in the back of the plane get off. Still no Mark. Finally Mark comes bouncing out of the jetway...all smiles...with some dark goo staining the left side of his shirt.
His story:
I got on the plane before you guys and immediately passed out. Woke up about 30 minutes into the flight feeling woozy and needing to pee. Walk to the first class lav, sign says "vacant", so I throw the door open. And there she is. Beautiful stewardess...taking a dump. It smelled like she was shitting a dead cat. The smell hit me, disagreed with my delicate stomach, and I puked all over her. Then she screamed. The scream startled me and I puked all over myself. Then I didn't know what to do, so I went back to my seat and offended the nice lady next to me for the next 3 and a half hours with my vomit smelling clothes. I was late getting off the plane because I was hunting for the stew to give her $20 for her dry cleaning.
I can corroborate the smell in the cabin at 30 mins in, but I never heard a scream. It is, however, still a story that I get some mileage out of. [/i]
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I was 8 or 9 years old, and my parents/aunts/uncles had rented a big soccer mom van to drive 4 hours or something to upstate New York.
I just remember eating Cheetos and drinking Brisk ice tea in the back of the van (big mistake) and feeling nauseated, so i was happy when they pulled over at a McDonalds. They parked the van and I looked down and realized that the ice tea I had been drinking was expired by a few months. I don't know how I didn't taste it. I guess it really upset my stomach even more, and I remember bolting out of the van, running through the parking lot with my hand over my mouth, trying to make it inside so i can puke in the bathrooms instead of in the middle of the parking lot. Well, in my urgency I wasn't paying attention to where i was going i guess, and i ended up throwing up an ocean of bright orange puke RIGHT IN FRONT of the drive-through window. There was even someone there, picking up my food, watching me hurl Cheeto and ice tea all over the place, like 3 feet in front of their car.
Then another time I remember being a freshman in high school, and I was going on a ski trip with my class or something. My dad went with my friend and I, so we picked her up in the morning to go to the bus terminal. I have no idea why, but she said she got 'nervous' in the car on the way to the bus terminal and puked in the car. When she leaned forward to do it, she ended up puking DIRECTLY into a pair of shoes my dad's girlfriend had left on the floor back there. I remember getting to the train station and my dad was literally turning the shoes upside down, pouring out the puke. I didn't mind too much because I hated his girlfriend, but I forced my friend to sit with someone else on the bus in case she decided to puke again.
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So goes the riddle:
I am fire fretted
And I flirt with the wind;
My limbs are light freighted
I am lapped in flame.
I am storm stacked
And I strain to fly;
I'm a grove leaf bearing
And a glowing coal.
The answer is a beam of wood. And for some woodworkers, a beam of wood isn't enough.
"I'm a native Grand Junction and so, nature and outdoors has always been a good sense of a topic of mine," said Greg Vigil, a woodworking artist.
He's one of many artists showing at the The Western Colorado Center for the Arts, part of The Art and Craft of Wood.
"I think that's what makes the art center so particular to this area. We, we are able to, to focus and do large scale signature shows like this where we're really able to delve into a media. And uh, I think that's one of the gifts we can give to this community. Is giving the work a lot of space and a lot of focus," said Camille Silverman, Art Center curator and executive director.
And while the owner of his own woodworking business, Nathan Wismer is not contributing to the show, but still takes a creative approach to his work.
I'd say I concentrate more on the artistic type. Um, development of the piece. Kind of take it and let it go where it's going to go. And, um, use the customer's idea as my baseline," said Wismer.
The Art Center of Western Colorado is located off of 7th Street in Grand Junction, and The Art and Craft of Wood will show from the 3 August until August 29. More information can be found at gjartcenter.org.
Information about Nathan's Custom Woodworking can be found at nathanscustomwoodworking.com.
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Obama's North Korea Mention Gets Reaction — In Seoul Not Pyongyang
Except for when it launches a missile or sets off a nuclear explosive, North Korea rarely rises to the importance of being discussed in public by the president of the United States.
So when President Barack Obama mentioned it during a speech in Myanmar earlier this week, he got some attention in the South Korean media and officialdom — but so far, not any reaction from North Korea.
Mr. Obama visited Myanmar to praise the efforts taken so far by its military government to reform its politics and economy, and to encourage more such action. As such reforms unfolded, the U.S. restored diplomatic relations and began to offer economic aid to Myanmar.
The U.S., and most other free nations, hold hopes for similar changes in North Korea, which continues to be led by an authoritarian regime whose official economic and governing policy is known as "military first."
In a speech at the University of Yangon, Mr. Obama referred to North Korea with the same metaphor that he did when he took office in 2008, when he said, "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
In the speech Monday, he said, "And here in Rangoon, I want to send a message across Asia: We don't need to be defined by the prisons of the past. We need to look forward to the future. To the leadership of North Korea, I have offered a choice: let go of your nuclear weapons and choose the path of peace and progress. If you do, you will find an extended hand from the United States of America."
In South Korea, the statement was seen as a sign that Mr. Obama in his second term may take a greater interest in the inter-Korean standoff and make a new or different effort to halt North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons. The Hankyoreh, a newspaper in Seoul that favors engagement and outreach to Pyongyang, said it "may be profound in meaning depending on how it is interpreted."
U.S. efforts to reach out to North Korea during the Obama administration were quickly met with resistance in Pyongyang. North Korea tested a nuclear explosive shortly after Mr. Obama took office in 2009. And when the U.S. earlier this year appeared to have an agreement to re-start humanitarian assistance to North Korea, Pyongyang a few weeks later fired a long-range missile.
North Korean state media have issued no reaction to Mr. Obama's statement.
But for a sign of how far apart Washington and Pyongyang are in the way they approach each other, one need only look at a report in North Korea's largest newspaper published Monday morning, before Mr. Obama's speech.
It said, "The U.S. warmongers are seeking to invade the DPRK with south Korea as a military stronghold and a springboard. Their aim is to control the neighboring countries of the DPRK and put Northeast Asia under their military control."
DPRK is the abbreviation for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea.
The newspaper called on the U.S. to create a peace treaty with North Korea and withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea and the Asia-Pacific region. "The nuclear issue of the peninsula will be settled" after the U.S. "abandons its hostile policy," the newspaper added.


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Zaephyr, on 13 January 2013 - 06:18 PM, said:
Yes I know people can counter DDoS by preparing but this isn't the point.
Whoever is ddosing and shit probably reads aj, and probably will read this, I hope you do.
Whoever is DDosing in general, or, at the moment, this tournament clearly plays WoW - Why, are you trying to hurt something that could actually help broaden the horizons for this game?
Just think to yourself for one minute about what you're doing, it's actually so fucking lame its unbelievable. Do you sit there and get a warm fuzzy feeling every time you make someone DC? I doubt it - If you do, you probably need help.
Like shit, what's even the point, you knock someone out of the game, waste thousands of people (viewers) time and for what?
Honestly, just please stop being such an unbelievable cunt.


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Bem-vindo (welcome) to Rio de Janeiro! It's time to get this carnival started in South America's most vibrant city. Lying on the Atlantic coast, Rio is renowned for its beautiful beaches & its equally beautiful people (& incredibly small bikinis!). Combine this with a fun-loving culture that's second to none, sprinkled with some, samba, soccer, capoeira & of course caipirinhas – you are going to have an unforgettable week in this amazing city.
Check-in to your hotel this afternoon, then head out to explore or start preparing the bodies before the big event ignites. Why not take a visit to the overwhelming shopping opportunities at Rio do Sul mall, or grab a towel & sunblock & head down to the beach for a relaxing day or people watching. Familiarize yourself with the city as you stroll through the trendy neighborhoods of Ipanema, Leblon & Copacabana. This afternoon, meet up with your Tour Manager & fellow travel buddies before going local.
In the evening it's time to feast on Brazilian cuisine as we head out to dinner. Then it's time to head out into the pumping city vibes! Impromptu parties throughout the city & the clubs will be packed & are perfect but be sure to speak to your Tour Manager for some expert tips on where's best to head to make sure you know where to go.
Today we go up - 1,299ft up! - on a visit to Sugarloaf Mountain. Get ready to climb the mountain in glass-paneled cable cars to the summit for more astounding views of the city & its beaches, great opportunity to get a photo and maybe update that Facebook profile pic. On the way up, you could take a break after the first car on Morro de Açucar and meet some of the mountain's naughtier residents, tiny cheeky monkeys who will be more than happy to share your food with you or just steal it when you're not looking.
- Cable car ride up Sugarloaf Mountain
- Favela tour Approx. cost: 65 BRL
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Lets start today by jumping into a jeep and going for a tour, in the worlds largest urban forest! We will be going through some incredible places like Vista do Almirante and Corcovado. You'll be exposed to wildlife, falls, lookouts, exotic plants and some seriously cool jeeps. Take your sunblock and camera because you're going to be snapping away in the sun until your camera is full.
Maybe save some memory on that camera because next we are off to the Sambadrome Parade & the words astounding or mind blowing don't do this event justice. The parade is Brazil's most important showcase & is a competition between the samba schools. The schools are a big deal to the locals and you are going to be right in the action. With elaborate costumes, massive floats, colourful themes, music & lots of dancing (with very little clothing), it makes for an unforgettable experience that won't be forgotten.
The buzz & energy starts as soon as you walk in. The first school starts at 9:00pm & from that time on you will be swept away by the rhythm of the drums until the parade finishes at 4:00am when we will head back to the hotel.
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STOCKTON -- A 22-year-old man walking at Weber Avenue and American Street around 10 p.m. Sunday was beaten with a metal pipe, police reported.
He was found by a passerby who rendered first aid and called police.
The victim, police said, was too intoxicated to provide a clear statement as to what happened and could not provide a description of a suspect or suspects.
He was taken to an area hospital for treatment, police said.
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Wednesday April 3, 2013
Augusta, Ga--It's just about time for the Insperity ASU invitational and once again it's a stacked field with some outstanding golf talent in the country. One guy to keep an eye on this weekend is Augusta State freshman Maverick Antcliff.
Keeping up the tradition of Australian golfers coming to ASU Antcliff has made an immediate impact. He finished 16th in his first collegiate event and then followed it up with a third place finish at the Palmetto Invitational in Aiken, a tournament the Jags won.
"It was good to get off to a good start, obviously we didn't play that well last week, but none of us really did, but it was good to get off to a good start" said Maverick Antcliff "It was good to be part of a team that won at Palmetto. I think that was our first 54 hole victory since the national championship in 2011"
"He's really headstrong" said Kevin McPherson "He's one of those players that, he can rebound if he has a bad hole or two. He's very confident in himself, not cocky but confident and he's one of those players that can put up a number"
Antcliff has to sit out a year before teeing up for Augusta State. The rules for international athletes are a little different then kids from the U.S. Antcliff had to fill some NCAA requirements before he could be part of the team. It was frustrating for everyone involved.
"I practiced for like a year you know, wasn't able to play with the team and stuff like that" added Antcliff "Just seeing how the boys were playing made me want to play even better. I just wanted to be on the team rather then just sitting at home."
The tournament features 36 holes on saturday with the final 18 sunday. ASU has won the event eight times and really could use a ninth if they entertain any thoughts of making the NCAA tournament


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Today's letters: A heavy load
Published: Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 6, 2014 at 6:08 p.m.
To the editor: I have seen the negative news about the VA centers, but I can tell you that I have been receiving treatment at the VA for more than a year. The treatments are nothing short of superb. I have seen doctors for hearing, eyesight and skin cancer, and in every case, the care I have received has been the best.
That being said, the VA Center cares for upward of 37,000 vets. That is a heavy load for any hospital and the wait periods are sometimes longer than you would want, but in no case was I ever in any danger of serious health issues.
James Martin
Some clarification
To the editor: Columnist Ron Davis requires some comment:
(A) Under questioning, Paul Ryan admitted his budget did not really cut anything, but merely slowed the growth of the budget.
(B) Mr. Davis does our community a disservice by not explaining the plain meaning of cut vs. the Washington meaning; in Washington, cut means getting less than you asked for, not less than you got last year. Everyday Americans dont think in those terms; to use them is not honest.
(C) The Washington system of baseline budgeting means that government will always spend more.
(D) A government where the Senate refuses to create and pass a budget, where every budget the president offers doesnt get any support from his own party, where continuing resolutions count as a budget all of these represent a cynical leadership class.
(E) Mr. Davis owed the community a mention that no future Congress is bound by current spending programs; their guesswork represents another profound dishonesty.
(F) Given the lies perpetrated to pass Obamacare, including the financial lies, what comes after repeal is just more political posturing.
(G) Most Americans obviously dont want to tighten our belts because we continue to elect the same people who created this mess.
Jim Griffin
What happened?
To the editor: I was born in New York City in 1940 during World War II. In elementary school, we said the Pledge of Allegiance before classes. My friends were refugees from many countries and happy to be in America. Their parents took citizenship classes, had jobs and worked hard. We had fathers in the military or lost fathers in the war.
In high school, the students from different countries and religions went to classes together and joined clubs together. I belonged to a Protestant church, but we visited other churches and the synagogue as well.
We were an American family together: black, white, yellow, brown, green or purple no matter no problem. Wars are tough, but our families never questioned the need to join the military to keep our country and our allies safe and free.
What happened to love, respect, honor and the American spirit? Now we are a nation of spoiled brats who dont have a clue of what they have! A nation of brats who will never realize what they are throwing away until its gone! I will miss the America that was.
Elaine Raynolds
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To the editor: Many thanks for the follow-up story of Tundra, the rescued snowy owl. I saved the beautiful photograph by Patrick Sullivan in the Jan. 22 story and have wondered how Tundra was faring. Apparently a return to the Arctic is not possible due to injuries, but hopefully a role as educator will be in her future.
Pat Metzler
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Originally published on Tue November 19, 2013 7:17 am
Reporters on the national security beat are sifting through about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the National Security Agency released late Monday.
The heavily redacted records, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a statement, "demonstrate the care with which NSA's foreign intelligence collection ... is run, managed, and overseen."
But NPR's Carrie Johnson tells our Newscast Desk that they include a judge's ruling that the government repeatedly exceeded its authority for collecting so-called metadata from Americans' emails and other electronic communications.
The Associated Press leads its story about the documents this way:
"The National Security Agency reported its own violations of surveillance rules to a U.S. intelligence court and promised additional safety measures to prevent similar missteps over and over again."
The Washington Post takes this approach:
"The documents also describe the NSA's failure to abide by court-imposed rules to protect Americans' privacy, and show that the agency was more interested in collecting cell site location data than it had previously acknowledged."
According to The New York Times, "many of the documents have historic significance, showing how Bush administration surveillance programs that were initially conducted without court oversight and outside statutory authorization were brought under the authority of the surveillance court and subjected to oversight rules."
The NSA's surveillance programs have come under intense scrutiny since early June, when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden began leaking tens of thousands of records about the agency's activities.
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Books vs. Nooks at B&N
It's back to the future at Barnes & Noble.
The bookseller spent much of its fiscal third-quarter conference call Wednesday affirming the health of its bricks-and-mortar bookstores. It refuted recent reports that B&N was accelerating store closures, saying 95% of its stores are profitable. In fact, it expects to open three to five new ones in its next fiscal year beginning May. "Let's make no mistake about it, folks," said Mitchell Clipper, chief executive of B&N's retail group. "Our Barnes & Noble stores will be here… for a long, long time to come."
The same, however, might not be said for Nook Media, B&N's digital and college subsidiary. Those segments saw sales drop a combined 12.5% in the quarter as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization plunged 229%. The disparity prompted one analyst to ask why it is in shareholders' interest to sell the bookstores to Chairman Leonard Riggio–who confirmed Monday he is evaluating ways to take that piece private–and keep the foundering Nook segment.
B&N's response: That "isn't appropriate for us to discuss on this call." Investors should hope it's a hot topic in the B&N boardroom.


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 17: Electronic Edition
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1 Q. [Mr Irving] Thank you. And on the page 12 -- I am sorry, it is the
2same document. So, if these items come from an SS folder
3which is called Operation Reinhardt and these particular
4documents have the initials "Reinh." on them, and they
5appear to be items stolen from the Jews or from victims,
6Jewish victims in fact, depending on the subject line, on
7the face of it, this is a list provided to Himmler of
8items that have been stolen from the Jews up to April 30th
91943. Is that a reasonable interpretation?
10 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] In terms of the inventory in the first document where we
11do not have the reference to Reinhardt, it is at least
12conceivable this was property taken from German Jews about
13to be deported, and could easily have been stuck in the
14same folder. I do not see anything there that would
15necessarily lead us to conclude that the first inventory
16came from camps in Poland. It could well be that this was
17possessed Jewish property taken while Jews were being in
18the process of being deported from Germany, but stuck in
19the same folder because it always was relating to Jewish
21 Q. [Mr Irving] Do you know what happened to these valuables that were
22collected in Operation Reinhardt? Where did they go
24 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] I have seen documents that show a wide variety of
26 Q. [Mr Irving] Where they overhauled, were they recycled in some way
1before they were parcelled out?
2 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Once collected at the three camps in Poland they are taken
3to Lublin where you have several camps, the old airport
4camp, for instance, where some sorting and reconditioning
5was done. Some of the properties were distributed there
6to ethnic Germans and any German unit that needs something
7can come and ask to be given something.
8 Q. [Mr Irving] Can I take you to document 10?
9 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Yes.
10 Q. [Mr Irving] Does this say that they have a number of, 20,000, pocket
11watches and various other valuables at present at
12Oranienburg, and does the next paragraph say that the
13watches and fountain pens have been overhauled and are
14ready to be dispatched?
15 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] The topic of the document is watch distribution to members
16of the SS.
17 Q. [Mr Irving] Yes.
18 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] And then below they give you the different kinds. Would
19you allow me a moment to read the document?
20 Q. [Mr Irving] Would you read the paragraph beginning with the word
22 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Yes. At the moment in Office D there are for repair
23100,000 hand wristwatches, 39,000 pocket watches, 7,500
24alarm clocks, 37,000 pens and so forth.
25 Q. [Mr Irving] There is no indication of any other stocks of valuables of
26this nature being processed by this central processing and
1overhauling department?
2 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Do we have all the files, all the documents
3in the files? I take the point you are making.
4 MR IRVING: This was all the documents in this file. I picked
5them in California about five or six weeks ago.
6 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Is the file complete? Is it intact?
7 MR IRVING: I have no way of knowing, of course, my Lord.
8 MR JUSTICE GRAY: That is the problem. I see what are you
9getting at. Professor Browning, can you help on that? Is
10this likely to be a complete record? We have only looked
11at three documents.
12 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Since so much was destroyed I think we presume a lot of
13them are not complete records. I have seen fragmentary
14records from the archive in Lublin where less valuable
15materials is distributed there. I think very valuable
16things like watches and whatever do have to be sent in
17but, if somebody wants furniture or wants clothing, they
18can requisition that in Lublin from these camps and they
19are never sent back to Berlin. Small volume high value
20items would be sent back. It would be something that
21would be worth shipping back, such as these particular
23 MR IRVING: Do you agree that this document on page 10, which
24is dated November 29th 1944, and has the heading or
25subheading Operation Reinhardt in its address list, says
26that altogether at present there are at Amtsgruppe D at
1present being repaired 100,000 wristwatches, presumably a
2rounded off number and various other valuables?
3 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Yes.
4 Q. [Mr Irving] That gives an order of magnitude. It does not indicate
5there are any other treasure troves of such valuables
6anywhere else in the SS system, does it?
7 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] It says these are the ones that are available for
8distribution. We have no idea if there are lots of other
9kinds of valuables that have been sent elsewhere, but at
10least that much has been taken out for purposes of
11distribution to the SS.
12 Q. [Mr Irving] Can I take you back to page 1 again, which is about 18
13month earlier, is it not, 13th May 1943?
14 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Yes.
15 Q. [Mr Irving] That says that by April 30th 1943 we have received,
16effectively there have been delivered to us, 94,000 men's
18 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Yes.
19 Q. [Mr Irving] Is it likely that these were taken from the victims in the
21 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Again, it may well be that these were taken in Germany.
22It could be possible they were taken from the camp. In
23both, at least in the second case, I would presume that
24there was a selection of the best ones that they were
25sending back for repair for the Waffen SS. Cheaper goods
26in general would not have been worth doing that.
1 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Does page 10, Professor, relate entirely to
3 MR IRVING: Oranienburg, my Lord, was the headquarters was it
4not? Witness, was not Pohl actually based at Oranienburg,
5the head of this particular section?
6 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] The part of the administrative and economic main office
7that dealt with concentration camps is in Oranienburg, so
8Ampt D, which is here, is stationed in Oranienburg, or at
9least part of it. It says by the Office D in Oranienburg
10so we know at least they have one office there.
11 Q. [Mr Irving] All the wealthy Holocaust victims, either at the time they
12were dispatched from their places of residence or upon
13their arrival in the camps, were systematically robbed of
14their valuables by Operation Reinhardt, or as part of
15Operation Reinhardt? Is that correct?
16 A. [Professor Christopher Robert Browning] Operation Reinhardt, in a sense, is the last stage of a
17long process of dispossession because the Jews in Germany
18were disposed of much of their property for that. When
19they were put on the trains the last things like rings and
20valuables and jewellery are taken. These are the small
21personal possessions they would still have been allowed.
22Again in Poland Jews are dispossessed of their property
23and moved into ghettoes and, when they are taken to the
24camps, the last remaining possessions are taken by
25Operation Reinhardt. Operation Reinhardt, in a sense, is
26the last cleaning up of whatever property had not been
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In it's final season in the American Athletic Conference, the Louisville Cardinals (12-1, 7-1 AAC) defeated future ACC foe Miami (9-4, 5-3 ACC) 36-9 in front of 51,098 fans at the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium on Saturday night.
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Fans looking to watch the Louisville/Kentucky men's basketball game before tomorrow's game will have a couple of options available at McCracken Field adjacent to the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium.
Michalee Harris has waited four years for this. Although the redshirt junior has been a part of the Louisville team since 2010 (a stretch that has seen three previous postseason appearances), he will be playing in his first bowl game on Saturday night.
Important fan information before the game.
Here are the best entries from our Russell Athletic #Hashswag giveaway contest. The most "favorited" tweet by 5:00 pm on Christmas Day wins a $2000 gift card from Russell Athletic!
Russell Athletic is giving fans a chance to earn some new gear in time for bowl season by keeping up with the Russell Athletic Bowl on Twitter. Show us your school spirit (and show us the #RAB hashtag) and one fan will win a $2,000 gift card from Russell Athletic.
The Miami Hurricanes have been selected to play in the 2013 Russell Athletic Bowl against the Louisville Cardinals. The game takes place December 28th at 6:45 p.m. from Orlando's Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium, and will be televised nationally by ESPN.


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INSTITUTE, W.Va. - The St. Marys contingent at North-South football practice here numbers six - three players and three coaches, including North head coach Jodi Mote.
The trio of players are backup quarterback/defensive back Andrew Cosper, fullback/defensive end-linebacker Derek Barnhart and offensive left guard Allen Pratt while two of Mote's assistants are from his own Blue Devils grid staff in Steve Barnhart, Derek's dad, and 83-year-old Bill Hanlin, a former St. Marys head coach himself.
Cosper was taking the snaps at Thursday morning's practice at West Virginia State with No. 1 quarterback Cookie Clinton of Martinsburg under the weather.
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Three St. Marys players and three Blue Devil coaches are at West Virginia State this week preparing for Saturday's North-South Football Classic. They are, front row from left, players Derek Barnhart, Andrew Cosper and Allen Pratt, and, back row, coaches Steve Barnhart, North head coach Jodi Mote and Bill Hanlin.
"Cookie's a really good quarterback, so just to be here as his backup is a pretty good honor," said the 5-8, 170-pound Cosper. "This is a big-time game, so I'm real happy that I got a chance to play one more high school football game in a game like this.
"There's a lot of good players down here on both sides, and I like getting to know the guys on my team and making some new friendships this week."
Of course, North-South practice leads up to the annual West Virginia North-South Football Classic at 7 p.m. Saturday at Laidley Field in Charleston.
With Mote as North head coach, Cosper "knows the system that he's putting in on offense, so I can kind of help out Cookie a little bit if he has any questions about it since I ran the offense last year."
Cosper said he's "more of a defensive guy when I'm not playing quarterback, so I'll probably be at defensive back" Saturday night.
Barnhart played in last week's BACF Football Classic at Marietta, but this week, he's "meeting players from all around the state," including some he's read about, "but don't realize how really good they are until you see them in person."
Barnhart considers it "a big honor to be selected out of the whole state of West Virginia (to play in North-South game); that's pretty cool. And especially playing for coach Mote again - that just makes it even better. One more game with him and that's a wrap."
Then the 5-9, 200-pound Barnhart is off to Alderson-Broaddus to play football for the Battlers, but before that, he will see action Saturday at fullback as well as rotating in on defense at end and middle linebacker.
"We're having a great time down here, but practice is serious because we're all wanting to get the job done and get a win for the North," said Barnhart.
"It's a pretty big honor just being here with all these all-state players," said Pratt. "I mean if I get any playing time at all, I'll be happy."
The 6-0, 245-pound Pratt, though, did start on the offensive line for the 33-13 victorious W.Va. squad in last Friday's BACF game, noting that "our running backs (Barnhart and PHS' Adam Lindamood) were good, so they made me look good."
Pratt, who has been at left guard in practice this week, said, "All the guys (other players) down here are really nice and friendly, although playing with some of these guys instead of against them is a little different."
Pratt too likes that Mote is the man in charge of the North. "It makes it easier," said Pratt. "I understand the offense because it's our (St. Marys) offense." And with two other Blue Devil teammates on hand as well, "it's been a lot more comfortable than to come down here and play for somebody else," said Pratt, headed to Glenville State this fall to play football.