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The Fresh Market will be a national partner of Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign beginning this spring.
Through the sale of a special reusable shopping bag designed by children during the company's inaugural "Design Our Bag Challenge," along with a spring in-store promotion at its 131 stores nationwide, The Fresh Market will raise funds and awareness for No Kid Hungry starting this May. Beginning May 1, customers will be able to purchase two limited-edition reusable shopping bags, with 50 percent of the retail price going to No Kid Hungry.
On May 18, each of The Fresh Market stores will host a cupcake decorating event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Customers will be able to purchase and decorate a cupcake from The Fresh Market's in-store bakeries for a donation of $3.
The Fresh Market will donate 100 percent of the money raised to No Kid Hungry to support its efforts to connect kids in need with nutritious food and teach their families how to cook healthy, affordable meals.
In addition to the cupcake decorating event, "The Fresh Market's Cupcakes for a Cause" program will also feature a paper cupcake campaign. From May 1 through May 19, customers can make a donation to No Kid Hungry by purchasing paper cupcakes at The Fresh Market checkout.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two former Oklahoma lawmakers facing felony bribery charges have been formally bound over for trial.
Former Rep. Randy Terrill of Moore and former Sen. Debbe Leftwich of Oklahoma City appeared before Oklahoma County Special Judge Stephen Alcorn Friday. Alcorn ruled in November 2011 there is sufficient evidence to try Leftwich and Terrill for bribery. On Wednesday, a state appeals court upheld Alcorn's decision to disallow conspiracy charges in the case.
Alcorn set a March 20 hearing date before District Judge Glenn Jones and entered not guilty pleas for each of the former lawmakers.
Prosecutors allege Terrill and Leftwich schemed to set Leftwich up in a state job so a colleague of Terrill's could run for her open seat in 2010.
Bribery is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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When your hiking or mountain biking destination is a hut, the adventure is definitely not just about the journey. Summer is a great time to experience the more remote areas of the mountains, and the Summit Huts Association — a nonprofit organization based in Breckenridge — can make your backcountry accommodations a little more rustic.
"We would really like to introduce more people to the experience of the huts in the summertime," said Mike Zobbe, executive director of the Summit Huts Association. "Many of the summer hut guests don't think of the summer hut experience as a backpacking experience. But it is similar, and you can travel quite a bit lighter."
Huts are equipped with general amenities, so you don't have to pack everything in yourself. In the huts you'll find a wood-burning stove for heat, solar-powered lights, indoor composting toilets, twin beds and pillows and a fully equipped kitchen with propane cook tops. These huts do not have double beds, ovens or refrigerators. Individuals or groups can reserve spaces; the huts are booked to capacity and may be occupied by more than one group.
The Summit Huts Association manages four huts in Summit County, all under special use permits with the Forest Service. However, only two of huts are available for use during the summer. Janet and Francie's cabins are open from July though September, and each retreat offers its own alpine experience.
Janet's Cabin
The original Summit Hut was built in 1990. It sits at an elevation of 11,610 feet, in the area between Copper Mountain and Vail Pass. Access the trailhead at Copper Mountain, where it will eventually enter the roadless area of Guller Gulch and gradually climb 5.5 miles to Janet's Cabin.
"To reach Janet's Cabin, you have to hike in on the Colorado Trail, which makes it very unique," Zobbe said. "Janet's certainly has a very remote feeling, and it's more of a backpacking experience — it really feels like you are a lot further back there than if you had driven."
Guests pack in food, clothing layers and a sleeping bag. In the summer, water is available from a nearby source (snow is boiled for water in the winter). The cabin has a wood-burning sauna — a backcountry luxury after a hike in to the hut. Bring friends or hit it solo; Janet's Cabin sleeps as many as 14 people in the summer with upstairs bunk-style rooms.
Francie's Cabin
Francie's was the second hut built by the Summit Huts Association and is located approximately four miles south of Breckenridge, in the Crystal Lakes drainage, at an elevation of 11,264 feet. There are a number of ways to access Francie's Cabin in the summer — the three different routes range from 1.8 miles to 4.5 miles in length.
"Francie's is in an amazingly beautiful alpine environment, and it has access to nearby fishing at Crystal Lake, as well as big, beautiful meadows," Zobbe said. "A lot of people go up and go hiking or 'peak bagging' in the area. It's also more accessible than most because it's a shorter walk in."
The Summit Huts Association encourages visitors to access the hut under their own power and to carry their own gear, although some motorized vehicles can make most of the trek — if all the routes are open. Zobbe said a four-wheel-drive road will get hearty vehicles to a gate 200 yards from the house, but vehicles are required to be left a quarter-mile below the hut in designated parking. He said vehicles can also drive on a not-as-rocky way on Spruce Creek road and can arrive within a mile of the hut.
Francie's sleeps 20 people in the summer, divided among six bedrooms. The cabin also offers a wood-burning sauna for post-peaking, and water is available from a nearby creek (drinkable once boiled or treated).
Summer in Summit
Zobbe said summer hut trips are completely different from winter trips and are generally much more accessible.
"Summer is more friendly as far as temperatures, and you don't have to think about winter gear," Zobbe said. "Most people have basic hiking gear, so really anyone can take advantage of the simplified experience."
Visitors should take note of summer weather conditions, however, and plan for early afternoon arrivals to minimize your chances with encountering lighting, dropping temperatures, rain, hail and snow. Hikers and mountain bikers should always bring extra clothing layers and adequate amounts of food and water.
He said the wildlife and wildflower viewing opportunities are plentiful this time of year and that the Summit Huts Association encourages everyone to make their backcountry experience as "off-the-grid" as possible.
"In the summer, people do like to use vehicle support, so they will bring more stuff and more food with them," Zobbe said. "So even though we try to encourage people to treat it as more of a backpacking experience, a lot of people do use vehicles."
Note that there is no motorized access to Janet's Cabin (hiking or biking only), and vehicles approaching Francie's Cabin must park a substantial distance away from the building in designated parking areas. Roads can become inaccessible from rain erosion; so do not count on a vehicle to execute your chosen itinerary.


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Antrim Township will begin cracking down on delinquent sewer bills by toughening its process, according to Brad Graham, township administrator.
When they are 15 days late, customers will receive an overdue notice in the mail.
Phone calls will be made to customers more than 30 days late on payment. With the tougher policy, bills more than 120 days past due will be turned over to the magisterial district judge.
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This is good for Aldon Smith.
Assuredly, the nine-game suspension handed down by the NFL on Friday doesn't feel good. For Smith, for the 49ers, or the fans.
The team's pass rush specialist will miss more than half the season thanks to commissioner Roger Goodell's stern ruling. When you consider the 49ers also will be without injured All-Pro linebacker NaVorro Bowman, this is a huge blow for the defense.
But this is good for Smith. He needs some tough love.
This isn't about the commissioner's inconsistency. The randomness of his penal practices is certainly worthy of criticism.
Going hard on Smith doesn't make up for the two-game suspension levied against Baltimore running back Ray Rice; it makes that ruling look even weaker.
And allowing Smith to be around the team during his suspension after rejecting such requests from Cleveland receiver Josh Gordon, suspended for a year, makes Goodell look subject to politics and favoritism.
But the worst thing Goodell could have done, for Smith's sake, would be to go light on the 49ers' star defender.
He's been granted leniency before. He's gotten help before. Compassion and grace have been extended before. It's time to see if actual consequences straighten him out.
As a professional athlete, Smith needs to learn he is not above the law. The reach of his money and connections, the demand for his talent, can serve as enablers.
As a grown man, especially an African-American, he's got to own the responsibility of striving for exemplary behavior. Professionalism doesn't end when the pads are off and avoiding crime isn't a feat.
As a player, he needs to see how his behavior negatively impacts his teammates. He might cost the 49ers some wins, which could cost them in playoff seeding, which could hurt their Super Bowl hopes.
But this crossroad was reached probably because Smith has avoided consequence for so long. Who knows? If he's forced to miss last year's big game against the Colts immediately after getting a DUI, maybe the lesson is learned then. Maybe if he was actually suspended before instead of missing five games to enter rehab, during which he was paid and controlled his return, he already would have been forced to come to grips with reality.
But he wasn't. So it needed to happen now.
If the NFL really is about helping Smith, if it really is about protecting the integrity of the shield, then this was the right way to go. A lengthy suspension will help him much more than patience has. There is no greater soul-searching than that prompted by not being able to maneuver your way out of situations. That's what Smith needs.
His track record suggests he's a bit hardheaded. So a hard lesson is in order.
He was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence in 2012. Five months later, he hosted a house party at which he was stabbed and two other people were shot. The incident led to felony weapons charges against Smith over a year later.
In 2013, he was in a car accident and arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Seven months later, he was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for inappropriate behavior with TSA.
Through it all, Smith's punishment has been 11 days of work release and five games missed because of voluntary rehab. The charges always get dropped or relaxed. He regrets his action just enough to work hard enough to earn mercy.
Yet, he keeps getting in trouble. Somebody needs to hold him accountable. The NFL did right to teach Smith the painful lessons about being responsible. Remorse and effort can't always be his trump card.
Sometimes, being disciplined is the necessary recourse. Sometimes, it takes the penalty to fully comprehend the gravity.
Everything else has been tried on Smith, with limited success. It's good the NFL didn't give him an easy out.
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Nine-game suspension a blow to defense but should help linebacker mature.
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The Panama City Police Department Special Operations Unit continues the investigation of a criminal organization where the members of a narcotics distribution ring have been arrested and charged.
Due to the large and complex nature of this investigation, Panama City Police investigators along with the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 14th Judicial Circuit State Attorney's Office, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms, Homeland Security Investigations, and other local agencies began working the case in 2011. This investigation required dedication and many long hours for all those involved in dismantling the criminal organization.
During the investigation, Freddie Lee Christopher Knowles IV was identified as the source of supply in our area. The first rounds of arrests were made in February of 2012, and the second round of arrests was made in May of 2012. Those cases were prosecuted through the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida for Conspiracy to Distribute More than 5 Kilograms of Cocaine.
During the investigation, it was confirmed that large amounts of cocaine were being distributed into our local community from Houston, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi. Including the most recent arrest listed below, 27 people have been arrested and charged who were involved in this criminal narcotics distribution ring.
Assistance was requested from the United States Marshals Florida Regional Task Force to help locate and apprehend the suspects. The task force is comprised of U.S. Marshals and members the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Panama City Police Department, and Bay County Sheriff's Office. Two of the persons listed below were already in custody on other charges. The other six were located throughout the Panama City area and booked into the Bay County Jail on November 6, 2012. The following are charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine:
Angela Johnson, 44 years of age, Arthur Combs, 27 years of age, Octavious McGriff, 27 years of age, Justin McKinney, 27 years of age, Kiara Greene, 23 years of age, Laura Murry, 24 years of age, Barry Chriestenson II, 29 years of age, and Anthony Smith, 26 years of age. Angela Johnson was additionally charged with introduction of contraband into the Bay County Jail, six bags of marijuana and nineteen pills of Clonazepam. She was also charged with possession of the same narcotics.
The charges were made against those arrested based on their individual involvement in the criminal narcotics distribution ring described above. They will be prosecuted through the 14th Judicial Circuit State Attorney's Office.
This case remains under investigation and additional arrests are expected as the investigation continues. To preserve the integrity and progress of the investigation, further information related to evidence details that have not been covered in other news releases will not be disclosed at this time.
If you have any information in reference to this case please call the Panama City Police Department at 850-872-3112. You can also report your tips anonymously to CrimeStoppers at 850-785-TIPS.


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I like wine cellars even more than I like wine, which is saying something. I used to have one in the basement of an 1870s stone house. This fantasy cellar had the ancient stone walls of the home's original foundation, new rough-hewn granite floors and wine racks made from reclaimed oak by a perfectionist craftsman. It kept wine at the requisite 56F to 57F, with humidity about 70%. Who knew cellars were in basements for a reason, as temperature and humidity didn't need much mechanical assistance here to be ideal for wine?
I loved the cellar and bought cases for it to make sure the room was picturesque - right out of a French château. The room had a 600-bottle capacity. Practically speaking, my partner and I would have been fine with a 24-bottle wine fridge, but antique chairs and an elaborate tasting table don't suit such a setup.
After we sold the farmhouse, we disposed of the wine to friends, also indulging in a massive liquidation binge ourselves, starting with wine at breakfast.
The enduring lesson: If you like wine, you're likely a sensualist who loves the total experience, and that includes where you store your horde. I was reminded of this connection of the palate and the eye by a friend, Robert Cameron, who is a wine sommelier, certified by the International Sommelier Guild, which I know is quite an accomplishment. He's also a designer, and he successfully merges these skills when he creates cellars.
"When people take great care with how they choose wine, they usually want to store it properly and have a cellar that also reflects their design aesthetic," Robert says. "So many cellars are ordinary, functional spaces that often haven't been given the same careful design consideration as the rest of the house."
Robert says "creating a cellar isn't just about how it looks, but rather begins with how it works. Controlling temperature and humidity is no easy technical accomplishment, especially when you're adding a cellar to a house and have to be concerned about how to exhaust an air-conditioning unit, or combine a less frigid wine-tasting area in an otherwise chilly cellar."
Robert continues that, "new technology makes surmounting these challenges possible," (though, I assume, not inexpensive).
Much like people who want to bring the glamour of contemporary spas they visit to their own homes, I imagine many are inspired by the beautiful cellars in restaurants that celebrate wine, as well as keep the establishment's assets potable. They want the same kind of design finesse for their wine storage.
Looking at a rendering of one of Robert's recent projects, I understand why he's the go-to guy for big-deal cellars. This particular 6x6-foot cellar with 470-bottle capacity - give or take - is for a basement of an Annex house. It incorporates monolithic slabs of travertine and solid wenge shelves; the wine has been suspended with tensioned aircraft cables, both for the minimalist aesthetic as well as for maximizing bottle capacity. Bronze mirror is behind the Champagne for an intoxicating impact. When I question why the Champagne is upright, instead of on its side like the other wine, I am informed - nicely but firmly - that "that is the way it should be kept."
Robert also points out that he also plans to install LED lighting, and that lighting is often neglected in cellars.
The problem I had with how to fill my stone farmhouse cellar once it was built isn't one you have when Robert designs yours. When he's done, it's on to the wine store with him. Unlike my choices of wine where the appearance of the label is paramount, Robert switches hats and has taste, not style in mind, when it comes to accessorizing a cellar with bottles. Which is why, you built it in the first place, right?


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NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's tennis team saw the best season in school history come up just a couple matches short on Friday as they fell by a 4-1 final to regular season Southland Champions No. 46 Stephen F Austin on the Ladyjacks home courts at the Southland Conference Tournament semifinals.
The Islanders finish the year at 16-5 overall, the best year in school history, and they won a program best eight Southland Conference matches during the season. Mirna Cicak won the lone match for the team in the final collegiate match of her career.
"I could talk forever about the character, heart and resiliency of these girls this year," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "These girls were a true team in every sense of the word and showed a ton of character all year.
"They pushed a great SFA team to the limit today, a team that reached the top 40 in DI rankings."
For SFA, it will be their first time in the tournament finals, continuing a year in which they won the regular season Southland Championship, and reached as high as 35 in the ITA National Rankings.
"SFA has had an incredible year, and we battled them toe-to-toe for four hours," said Moore. "But give them credit, at the end they were the better team today."
In doubles, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi fell at No. 2 as Chelsea Horan and Sandra Burges fell by an 8-3 final, while Stefanie Nicolae and Ashley Garza lost an 8-5 match at the No. 3 position. Cicak and Doris Kuselj were leading 8-7 when the No. 1 doubles match was stopped due to the point being clinched.
In singles, several matches were close, but the Islanders were unable to complete a comeback as SFA advanced to the finals. One match was 3-2, and one match was tied 2-2 in the third set when play was stopped.
The first match to finish was No. 6 singles, as a hobbled Mia Matuszak was unable to move well enough to compete like normal, falling 6-1, 6-1 to make it 2-0 SFA. No. 2 singles saw Kuselj fall 6-2, 6-2 to make it a 3-0 score, but Cicak followed with a 6-4, 6-4 final at the No. 1 position to give the Islanders their first point at 3-1. The final point came at No. 4 singles, as Nicolae lost a tough 7-5, 6-2 final to complete play.
"We battled them for every minute on their home courts, and I'm proud of the way these girls competed today and all year long," said Moore. "They finished with the best season in school history because of their heart, and they played every point today with their heart."
Cicak ends her career as one of the winningest Islanders in program history, compiling a 45-29 record, with all but one of those at the No. 1 singles position. She is the only senior on the roster that won the first Southland Conference Tournament game in program history, but was a rock at the top singles position all four years she played, and will be hard to replace, not only for her ability, but for her leadership.
In addition to Cicak, Aurelien Tave and Nathan Robinson won their singles on the final day of their careers, as Tave and Robinson won in straight sets in their singles matches. Alex Pavlov played only doubles in his final match as no senior lost in singles on the final day of the season.
"Our seniors were incredible leaders today, and they gave all their heart like they have all year," said Moore. "This year's group of seniors was a very special group.
"That's the hardest part about this job; you only get kids like these for four years. Those truly special, high-character individuals touched the lives of every teammate they had."
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Tennis), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersTennis) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.
Tennis Match Results
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi vs Stephen F. Austin
04/27/2012 at Nacogdoches, Texas
#46 Stephen F. Austin 4, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 1
Singles competition:
1. Mirna Cicak (AMCC) def. Elena Kordolaimi (SFA) 6-4, 6-4
2. Alina Shazhko (SFA) def. Doris Kuselj (AMCC) 6-2, 6-2
3. Tereza Bekerova (SFA) vs. Sandra Burges (AMCC) 3-6, 6-3, 3-2, unfinished
4. Malena Gordo (SFA) def. Stefania Nicolae (AMCC) 7-5, 6-2
5. Antonia Kolovou (SFA) vs. Chelsea Horan (AMCC) 5-7, 2-2, unfinished
6. Jithmie Jayawickrema (SFA) def. Mia Matuszak (AMCC) 6-1, 6-1
Doubles competition:
1. Tereza Bekerova/Malena Gordo (SFA) vs. Mirna Cicak/Doris Kuselj (AMCC) 7-8, unfinished
2. Alina Shazhko/Jithmie Jayawickrema (SFA) def. Chelsea Horan/Sandra Burges (AMCC) 8-3
3. Elena Kordolaimi/Laura Servise (SFA) def. Stefania Nicolae/Ashley Garza (AMCC) 8-5
Match Notes:
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 16-5
Stephen F. Austin 22-4; National ranking #46
Order of finish: Doubles (2,3); Singles (6,2,1,4)
2012 SLC Championships - Semifinals


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|2004 Inductee (Head Men's Tennis Coach 1962-1973)
As a tennis player, Bob Mapes began his career in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he played three years at Will Rogers High School followed by four years at Baylor University, where he received his Bachelor's Degree in 1949 and Master's in 1953.
After college, he began his coaching career in Beeville, Texas where he not only coached tennis, but also was "B Team" basketball coach. After stints at Mineral Wells and Midland coaching other sports, he served as Tennis Coach at Midland High School for five years. The team became one of the strongest high school teams in Texas. In 1960 Mapes accepted the tennis coaching position at Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi where he coached from 1960-1962. After two years at Carroll, he resigned to accept the position of Head Tennis Professional at H-E-B Tennis Center in Corpus Christi and served in that capacity for 32 years.
During his tenure at H-E-B Tennis Center, Mapes coached the men's tennis team at the University of Corpus Christi (UCC) from 1962-1973 and compiled a 118-28-2 record over that period. In 1971, the University joined the NCAA Division I ranks and Mapes' teams were ranked in the top 10 nationally through 1973, when athletics at the university were discontinued. While enjoying a winning record every year, his tennis team won two NAIA singles and doubles titles. During his 11 years at UCC, the team played one of the toughest schedules in the nation, meeting such teams as UCLA, USC, Arizona, and all of the former Southwest Conference (SWC) schools.
After coaching at the University, Bob Mapes served as a tournament referee for 15 years. This included two NCAA National Championship Tournaments in 1975-1976, and the next 11 years for the SWC Championships, for both men and women the last two years. In 1992-1994 he was referee for the ITA National Small College Championships. In addition to the major tournaments, he also refereed matches for Texas Sectional, Major Zone, and other TTA Tournaments. While at UCC, Mapes originated the "Team Tennis" format and began the first ever team tournament in 1968. This year will mark the 36th annual H-E-B College Team Tournament, one of the premier college tournaments in the US. This format is now used by high school and college tournaments throughout the nation.
In appreciation of his career in tennis, Mapes was elected into the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame in 1994. In 1999, he was elected into the ITA National Intercollegiate Hall of Fame, located in Athens, GA. He has received several other honors including the TTA Sessions award, the USTA National Merit award, and served a year as president of the Texas Professional Tennis Association. He was not only successful in his own career, but has been instrumental in the careers of his students. This includes a Wimbledon doubles champion, Tony Palafox, a US Open doubles champion, Steve Denton (current Islander Men's Tennis Coach), and Olympic doubles champion, Vicente Zarazua, a former UCC player. Many of his former students are serving as tennis professionals in the US as well as in Central and South America.
Bob Mapes officially retired from the H-E-B Tennis Center in 1994, but continues to stay involved with tennis on a part-time basis. In 1997, the tennis coach at Carroll High School left early in the school year and Mapes was asked to return, where he had started coaching in Corpus Christi 37 years earlier. He led the team for three seasons as the head coach while grooming a successor. In the fall of 2000, Mapes began in his current position as assistant coach at Carroll High School. He helped bring the Carroll program back to prominence statewide, and the team was ranked 19th in the state in 1999 and 14th in 2000. In 2001, the team reached the State Team semi-finals and finished ranked 3rd in the state. The Carroll team reached the State finals in 2002, where they ended the season ranked 2nd in the state. The 2003 team ended the season ranked 5th in the state with only 2 seniors in the program's top 16 players.
His accomplishments include a great family. He has been married to his wife, Nancy, for 52 years, and they have 5 daughters, 14 grandchildren and 2 great grandsons.


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Sage Francis wrote: A lot of us document our life and what's happening in that life through the stories we tell, words we use, references we make and styles we use. You can't even control that from album to album unless you are intent on sticking to exactly one sound. I like to make quantum leaps from time to time, reflect back on old styles, try out new stuff, but really I just make the music that makes the most sense to me in the moment. I feel like that's normal.
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EAGLE, Colorado - When Jon Stavney was in his 20s, he didn't plan to spend so much time in public life. But that's the way life has worked out.
Stavney is running for a second term on the Eagle County Board of Commissioners. And, while the commissioners aren't involved in land use all the time - as previous boards over the past 20 years or so have been - Stavney believes there's still a lot of work to do on projects started during his time in office.
Asked for a list of big issues facing the county, Stavney is quick to reply. The list, as far as he's concerned, includes:
• Work at the Eagle County Regional Airport, including a new master plan and the prospect of an international terminal.
• Helping protect rivers through open space purchases.
• Developing a plan to better use the Eagle County Fairgrounds.
• Getting a senior care center ready to build.
An avowed policy junkie, Stavney can, and does, talk at length about all those topics. But looking around his office, it becomes apparent open space may be closest to his heart. There are numerous "no trespassing" signs throughout that office. All have been taken off formerly private property.
"I look at them as trophies," Stavney said. Those trophies are largely from riverfront parcels that are now owned by the county, mostly along the Colorado River. The latest is a boat launch and takeout area at Dotsero, but the list also includes a put-in/takeout space at State Bridge. That area, now owned by the county and managed by the Bureau of Land Management, used to charge $3 per person to use. The new price is $3 per boat.
Beyond river access, Stavney said he hopes future open space deals can also help preserve river flows.
The Colorado River Ranch is being talked about again by open space advocates. A deal, if it gets done, would free up more river access, but a contract to keep the ranch from being developed would also ensure that the ranch's water rights can't be sold, keeping water in the river.
If re-elected, Stavney said he hopes to continue work along the county's rivers, with more focus on the Eagle.
Starting in Eagle
Stavney said his work on open space and similar issues comes back to why he moved to the county in the first place.
Stavney and his wife, Mary Ann, moved to Eagle County in the mid-1990s. He followed her to a teaching job, and he found work as a framing carpenter. After looking around, the couple picked Eagle for their home.
Those were the days when the proposed Adam's Rib ski area was a hot topic in town, and Stavney soon found himself learning about the proposal. He didn't like what he heard.
"Every day I'd go to a gated community to work, and I was happy to come home to this town," he said. "If Adam's Rib had been approved, the whole Brush Creek Valley would have been a gated community."
Stavney started speaking up at Eagle Town Board meetings and soon board members and other residents started telling him he should run for that board at the next election. He did, and won, the start of a 10-year run on the board, including four years as mayor.
Stavney, who describes himself as an introvert, had to start knocking on doors and talking to people while running for office. He learned that he liked it.
"I love campaigning, walking the neighborhoods," Stavney said. After deciding in 2008 to run for commissioner - his time in Eagle was done - Stavney spread that walking to other communities in the county.
"It's amazing how diverse our community is... how people live and what they do with their homes" he said.
When Stavney ran for his first term, he envisioned continuing to work for Beck part-time - he was going to take a pay cut in the commissioner's job. That idea soon fell apart, along with the rest of the national, state and local economy.
Those tough times meant making some hard decisions, as county officials saw big drops in first sales tax, then property tax revenue. That led to the county making cuts in its workforce to both cover current shortfalls and prepare for a big drop in property tax revenue this year.
It looks like another drop is coming for the 2014 budget, but Stavney said the county is prepared.
"There's not a lot of alarm right now," he said, adding that budget cuts have been done so far in a "sensible, businesslike way."
Stavney gives most of the credit to department managers and other elected officials.
"They've handled the transitions and cuts really well," he said.
In making his pitch for another term, Stavney said he represents a vote for continuity on the board. With Commissioner Peter Runyon leaving after this term and fellow incumbent Sara Fisher headed into the last two years of her final term, Stavney said another four years for him means the county can continue to work on projects that might take another four years to accomplish.
And, he said, one of the first things he learned on this job was how much there was to learn, even after a decade in town government. A lot of that on-the-job learning was about the relationships that are needed to get things done at both the regional and state levels, and how important it can be to have a county commissioner at a meeting.
Stavney said those relationships, especially between the commissioners and town governments are better than they were when he was Eagle's mayor.
Making things better is why he's in the job, Stavney said.
"I really like public service," he said. "I'm passionate about communities, and precious few people get to make the decisions that affect them."
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Scientists investigate manatee's death in Chauvin
Published: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 3:10 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 3:10 p.m.
State Wildlife and Fisheries scientists are investigating the death of a manatee found in Chauvin this week.
State zoologist Beau Gregory with the Lake Charles Wildlife and Fisheries office said officials began receiving reports of the manatee Monday and traveled to Chauvin the next day to collect samples in an effort to identify the sea cow and determine how it may have died. But when Wildlife and Fisheries arrived, the manatee was already decomposed to the point where it was difficult to determine the cause of death.
Manatees are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals. They can measure up to 13 feet long and weigh as much as 1,300 pounds.
The animal, a male, may have been in the area for a while. He was most likely weakened by illness or injury, and recent cold weather may have caused him to die, Gregory said. Manatees are protected by federal and state endangered species laws, which triggered an investigation into his death.
Scientists are trying to figure out if the Chauvin manatee is the same one spotted in southwest Louisiana five years ago, Gregory said. Based on the pattern of scars on his body, that manatee was identified as an animal that spends his winters in Tampa Bay, Fla.
Manatees are primarily found off the coast of Florida and in the Caribbean, but Gregory said it is not unusual for the lumbering mammals to traverse the northern Gulf Coast in search of food or habitat. But they need to return to Florida for the winter because the northern Gulf becomes too cold for them.
About a dozen show up in Lake Pontchartrain each year.
"It's more common than you might think," Gregory said.
There have also been reports of manatees in southwest Louisiana, though this is the first Gregory said he'd heard of a manatee showing up in Terrebonne Parish.
Gregory said he suspects protection and habitat restoration efforts in Florida have had a positive impact on manatee populations there. As more manatees compete for space, they may be increasingly wandering into the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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I have NO LAN throughput issues. I can easily stream at 30+ Mbps...
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First whitetail!
Well my 10 year old nephew finally got the job done! We've been hunting hard in tough weather conditions but a nice doe finally messed up. I don't know who had the shakes worse, him or me! He is using a cva wolf with 2 shockys gold pellets and a 245 gr shockwave. The best part is he dropped her in her tracks from 50 yards. Needless to say we have another BP addict on our hands. If I can figure out how to make my pic files smaller i will post some.
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Tell the young fella, I'm Sending him a HUGE CONGRATS AND PAT ON THE BACK! And a big Kudos to you Sir for taking the time to teach a youngster about the outdoors, the sport of hunting, and the sport of BP shooting / hunting!!
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What's that old saying; "I love the smell of backstrap & eggs in the morning"
Bet the kid will want to spend lots more time with his favorite 'Ol Uncle from now on. Congratulation's to you both on a job well done Sir's.
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My nephew is turning 3 this year and theres not a day that goes by where i dont ask his mom when i can bring him out with me. Passing the tradition on is what its all about.
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If you hunt long enough, you may loose track of how much game you have taken, but just like a kiss, you never forget the very first one.
Great to see someone else taking the time to carry on tradition. You have made a buddy for life.
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Thank you guys, it means a lot. He has what I call an absentee father so I took him under my wing. It's been more fun than hunting by myself. It can also test your patience at times but I want him to have a great experience. He's pretty proud to have a deer hanging where he's seen so many of ours. I only wish I had a video camera in the blind that night, it was pretty cool!
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Well done and a HUGE congrats to you both! Indeed... he will never forget that one!
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Director (Drama): Craig Walker
Associate Director (Music): Ireneus Zuk
Director, Queen's Community Music: Karma Tomm
Our music degree plans provide an inclusive and welcoming environment for students who wish to explore music as a medium for intellectual and personal growth and expression. We encourage our students to develop high-level performance skills while at the same time building crucial music and academic literacy. The new Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts with its world-renowned performance hall and waterfront rehearsal room is an inspiring place to learn. New to our Dan School of Drama and Music is the concurrent Bachelor of Music Degree and Digital Media (MDM) Diploma Program, a joint 4+1 year program between Queen's University and St. Lawrence College. Students in this program combine up-to-date skills in sound and digital technology with a high-standard education in music performance and academics, receiving both a Queen's degree and a St. Lawrence diploma.
Specialization in Music
An intensive course of study with approximately two-thirds of your courses within the discipline.
BMus / MDM: (Bachelor of Music from Queen's University + Music and Digital Media Diploma from St. Lawrence College)
Specialization in Computing and the Creative Arts (COCA)
This specialization consists of the majority of the courses in Computing and a SubPlan such as Art, Drama, Music or Film and Media with room for elective courses.
Major in Music
A major is an intensive course of study in one discipline, with approximately half of your courses within the discipline with room for an optional minor in any other Arts and Science discipline.
Medial in Music
A dual course of study in Music and any other Arts discipline.
Minor in Music
A minor is a less intensive course of study in the discipline that must be combined with a major in another discipline.
General in Music
A less intense course of study leading to a 3-year degree.
For a full list of Degree Plans, see the Academic Calendar
The Dan School of Drama and Music offers a number of first year courses in Music. Your choice of course depends on your background, interests, and what subject you may wish to study in upper years. The majority of our courses are open to students in any Arts and Science program, although in some cases previous music experience is required (differentiated below):
If you are a B.Mus. student, the School of Music will register you in your first-year core Music courses.
MUSC 103/3.0 (Musicology) and MUSC 191/6.0 (Music Theory)
MUSC 127/3.0 and MUSC 129/3.0 (Musicianship)
MUSC 121/6.0 (Applied Study: Note that students who meet higher standards of performing ability may audition in September for acceptance into the "double credit" Applied Study courses MUSC 120/6.0 and MUSC 125/6.0 in lieu of MUSC 121/6.0. If you audition successfully, you may change your registration at that time. In addition to their private lessons, students in these advanced courses perform a public recital at the end of first year)
One of: MUSC 180/3.0; MUSC 181/3.0; MUSC 183/3.0; MUSC 185/3.0; MUSC 187/3.0; MUSC 188/3.0 (Music Education courses: choose the course related to an instrument which is not your primary performance instrument)
One of: MUSC 160/1.5; MUSC 162/1.5; MUSC 164/1.5; MUSC 166/1.5; MUSC 178/1.5 (Note that over the course of your degree, you must take at least one vocal ensemble, therefore it might be advisable to select a vocal ensemble in first year)
Students in Music Major, or Minor/General Plans follow the standard Arts and Science admission regulations. Admission to the Bachelor of Music Program is by direct-entry. Once admitted to this Program, students will be automatically enrolled in the Music Specialization Plan. Admission will generally require an audition. Students from other universities, from any other Faculty at Queen's, or currently registered in any other Program in Arts and Science must also apply through the Admission Services to the B.Mus. Program. This includes any students who were previously required to withdraw from the B.Mus. Program and who wish to gain re-entry. Again, an audition will be required. See Admissions Regulation 13 for complete details.
A theory rudiments diagnostic test is administered during the audition phase of the application to the B.Mus. Program. B.Mus. students achieving a grade of A- or better on this test enrol in MUSC 191/6.0 without conditions. B.Mus. students achieving a grade of B+ or lower will be expected to do remedial work as part of MUSC 191/6.0. Students are strongly encouraged to strengthen their skills in rudiments before commencing the program.
What it takes to get into Music in your second year >>
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Music has space available in many courses and is willing to admit non-MUSC students with alternate pre-requisites (such as prior RCM study). Contact the MUSC Chair of Undergraduate Studies at firstname.lastname@example.com for any enrolment requests/questions.
Courses that do not require previous Music knowledge:
Performance courses (undergraduate students in any program with previous performance experience are welcome to apply):
Upper-year courses:
Students with substantial Music backgrounds are also welcome to inquire about any of our other courses. See the Music website or SOLUS for specific information about class times and locations (http://www.queensu.ca/music/programs/courses-offered).
Transfer to the B. Mus.: Students who wish to transfer to the Bachelor of Music Program -- Music Specialization Plan from another Plan in Arts and Science (including the Music Major, Medial or Minor) must apply through the Faculty of Arts and Science office; first-years through SOLUS and upper-years through the plan change process. Applicants are required to perform an audition. There are limited spaces available, and it is prudent to seek advice from the School of Music before initiating this process.
The Dan School of Drama and Music has these general policies in place:
Interested students should telephone the Dan School of Drama and Music at 613-533-2066 and speak to the auditions coordinator or the Chair of Undergraduate Studies.
Pending a decision on admission to the BMUS plan, ASC1 students should still participate in the Plan Selection Process and choose an alternate plan in early May in case they are not accepted into the Bachelor of Music Program.
Combine your passion for music and digital technology; your need for theory and performance with practical skill and experience. A match between Queen's University and St. Lawrence College; students in this unique 4+1 model will graduate with a BMus Degree and an MDM Diploma in five years.
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The comprehensive music program combines a balance of theoretical, historical, cultural and technological music studies with practical applications, creative and performing opportunities. In this flexible program students are not compelled to declare a "major," and all courses are open to all B.Mus. student provided they have the prerequisites. The B.Mus. program prepares students for a wide variety of professional careers in music, other fields and for post-graduate study in a chosen area of specialization.
Some of our Music alumni work in the following industries:
What to do with a Music Degree handout from Career Services >
Founded in September 2007, Queen's Conservatory of Music (QCM), now Queen's Community Music, is a developing organization housed in the Dan School of Drama and of Music that offers private and group music instruction for non-University credit. Courses, ensembles, workshops and performance opportunities will bring together people from all across the Queen's and greater Kingston communities who share the passion of music. QCM strives to provide the highest level of music education in a non-credit setting, and to build a community destination for musical enrichment and learning for musicians of all ages.
For more information, please go to their website.
The Dan School of Drama and Music DSC is a group of enthusiastic volunteers and leaders dedicated to representing the students of the School. Several of the DSC members hold positions on various Music committees and participate in meetings. The DSC is actively involved in recruitment and participates in the Ontario Universities' Fair and Queen's March Break Open House. This group is also involved in the planning and running of social events, including semi-formals, Paint the Crest, and the Messiah Sing-along. The DSC often organizes fundraising events in which the proceeds go to support new projects in the Dan School of Drama and Music. The DSC is also responsible for administering course evaluations, overseeing the mandatory concert attendance requirement, and helping to promote Music concerts.
Stephen London, BMus '94
Originally an orchestral musician, Steve studied composition and conducting with Canada's music elite: John Burge and Kristi Allik. In 1995, he received a certificate from the world renowned 'Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television' program at the University of Southern California. The opportunity to study in L.A. with such composers as Jerry Goldsmith was invaluable and integral to his development as a serious composer for film and television. He also gained a great deal of experience working as a score coordinator with Christopher Young on such films as 'Unforgettable' (MGM) and 'Copycat' (Warner Bros.).


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Eugene Debs (1855-1926) was the president of the American Railway Union and a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America. Born in Indiana, he dropped out of high school and went to work for the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad at the age of fourteen. He soon became active in the local Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. In 1893, he helped organize the American Railway Union and became its first president.
During the Pullman strike of 1894, Debs instructed members of the ARU to support Pullman employees by refusing to handle Pullman cars, which were a vital part of the nation's passenger rail system. Debs defied a court order demanding that union leaders cease in their encouragement of the strike and was subsequently sentenced to six months in jail. Shortly thereafter he embraced socialism, helped found the Social Democratic Party of America, and ran for president five times as a socialist candidate.
During World War I, Debs publicly opposed American intervention in the war and consequently was convicted under the 1918 Espionage Act, which imposed sweeping restrictions on speech and actions deemed detrimental to the war effort. Imprisoned in the Atlanta federal penitentiary, Debs ran for president from his jail cell and received more than 900,000 votes in 1920.


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Here is the start of an occasional series about some of the people I've uncovered in my research so far. Florence May Chappell seems like a good starting point for this series as she appears to have been strong-willed and lived a remarkable life.
Background: Florence May Chappell was born in Battersea in 1892, her parents had been married for eight years. Both her mother and father were from Brighton but had moved to London soon after marrying. On the 1891 census (the year before Florence's birth) they had two little boys, Herbert James and Arthur Walter, who had both been born in London and the family of four were living in 2 rooms in Battersea. Florence's father was a boiler maker and it appears he and his wife had come to London for work. By the 1901 census the family are back in Brighton, again living somewhere very small with their three young children.
The story: On the 1911 census Florence is listed as a pianoforte teacher, 18 and single. She appears to have really loved music and it is apparently through her love of music that she met Reuben Stenning, an event that changed her life. Reuben was a coach builder in his mid-thirties; he was also married and had six children – the youngest of whom had been born the year before he met Florence. Reuben and Florence fell in love despite all of this. In the spring of 1912 Florence was pregnant. Reuben's solution seems to have been fairly drastic. In June he travelled to Liverpool and boarded the SS Tunisian – destination Quebec. He lists himself as a joiner/painter, married and Church of England.
In September a very pregnant Florence, travelling as Florence Stenning and listing herself as married, made her way to Liverpool and caught the SS Tunisian to join Reuben in Quebec.
While this had obviously been arranged in advance Florence must have been a brave, somewhat foolhardy lass. At 20 years old she was walking away from family and friends to join a man who was just ever so slightly untrustworthy, halfway round the world in a place she probably knew little about. It was less than six months since the sinking of the Titantic and the summer's newspapers had been full of stories about the subsequent investigations and the testimony of witnesses. She was also nearly 8 months pregnant.
On arrival she and Reuben set themselves up as a married couple in Ontario and their first child was born at the end of October. Reuben used the name Robert R Stenning presumably to be less traceable and Florence lived as his wife although no marriage was possible – his first wife was still very much alive. They went on to have another child a couple of years later and appear to have been happy together in their new life. Unfortunately Florence died of septicaemia in 1922 just a month before her thirtieth birthday leaving forty five year old Reuben with two young children to care for.
Although Florence isn't a direct ancestor of mine I find her story fascinating. I also find Reuben's story jaw-dropping, you see he didn't stay single after Florence died. On the contrary he did something I find remarkably brazen. But this post is about Florence so I'll write a separate post all about Reuben's antics.


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He's back with a four week West End residency at the famous Leicester Square Theatre.
A firm favourite at the Edinburgh Festival with his legendary performances, Omid's stand-up awards include the Time Out Award for Best Stand Up, the EMMA Award and was a South Bank Award nominee, as well as being a Perrier Award nominee.
Omid was the winner of the Best Actor Award for his lead performance in The Infidel at the Turin Film Festival (won the previous year by Bill Murray). The Infidel also picked up a Loaded LAFTA award for Funniest film and Omid was short listed for Peter Sellers Award at the London Evening Standard British Film Awards.
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One of Britain's freshest and most original comics, this British-born Iranian hams the accent and underlines the cliches before pulling the Persian rug from under the audience. With a career in comedy spanning across three decades, Omid Djalili's legendary performances on stage and screen have won him fans and plaudits the world over.
Renowned for his razor sharp wit, boundless energy and expertly crafted cultural observations, his original material continues to explore the diversity of modern Britain and he remains one of the most exciting entertainers on the circuit.
A firm favourite at the Edinburgh Festival, Omid's stand-up awards include the Time Out Award for Best Stand Up and the EMMA Award. He's also been a nominee for a Perrier Award and the South Bank Award. Omid was also awarded a Best Actor award at the Turin Film Festival for his lead performance in The Infidel.
'To carve yourself out a career as the thinking person's Iranian comedian in this political climate takes a fine brain and a masterful way with the audience. There is no question that Omid Djalili possesses both... Belly laughs with a subtle blend of mainstream gags and subversive twinkle' (The Sunday Times)
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"Two of the speeches provide powerful evidence that Hitler ordered that the extermination of the Jews should take place. Yet in the 1977 edition of Hitler's War Irving suggests that the existence of a Hitler order was an invention on the part of Himmler. It does not appear to me that the evidence supports that suggestion. I consider that Irving's deduction that the transcript of the speech of 5 May was either altered after Himmler delivered the speech or sanitised before it was shown to Hitler is fanciful. The absence of any mention of that speech in the 1991 edition of Hitler's War was in my judgment another culpable omission."
103.Irving dealt with these speeches at length in Hitler's War and (though he is said to be a Holocaust denier) drew the obvious conclusions from the fact that Himmler said that he, Himmler, had not felt it right to order the killing of the Jews without ordering the killing of their womenfolk and children too: he made no mention of Hitler as giving that order.


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PALO ALTO -- The turnout for Apple's (AAPL) release of the iPad Mini on Friday morning was -- just like the new 7.9-inch tablet -- noticeably downsized.
The early-morning lines outside stores in Silicon Valley and across the world were uncharacteristically short for an Apple launch, a sign perhaps that Apple fanboys and fangirls are growing weary of hyped product upgrades and that the iPad's sexiness may have diminished since the first tablet hit stores two years ago. Since then, competitors have emerged with 7-inch tablets priced more than $100 cheaper, and some customers have lost the appetite for a pricey Apple hardware purchase every few months.
Analysts project modest sales for the Mini this weekend, and customers showed little interest in the fourth-generation iPad, also released on Friday. Lingering customer backlash for the newest full-size tablet, announced just seven months after the third generation hit stores, likely contributed to the disinterest and possibly Apple's still-falling stock price, which hit a new three-month low Friday.
By 7:30 a.m. Pacific time, a half-hour before the Palo Alto store opened its doors, about 35 customers had lined up -- a fraction of the number who scooped up the third-generation iPad on launch day.
Brad Peterson of Los Altos was first in line at 2 a.m. When he saw the empty sidewalk outside the Apple store on University Avenue, he thought he had the wrong day.
"I go to these things all the time, and (2 a.m.) usually gets me somewhere in the middle of the line," he said.
So he pulled out his iPad -- third-generation -- to confirm the date, and with a quick Google (GOOG) search discovered that turnout was low at stores across the world. Reuters reported that crowds waiting for the newest iPad were smaller than for previous launches from Sydney to New York City, with staff at the Hong Kong Apple Store appearing to outnumber customers waiting in line.
Jeff Wang turned around and went home after he found the University Avenue store deserted at 10 p.m. Wednesday night. Wang, of Saratoga, came back at 2:30 a.m. to secure the second spot in line, bewildered that there weren't already hundreds waiting by that hour.
"The last couple times I came around 11 p.m. the night before and the lines were long," Wang said.
Their early arrival was good for neighborhood coffee shops -- employees at the Starbucks down the street said they had more customers than usual, and several were in the door just after it opened at 4:45 a.m.
The iPad Mini is Apple's answer to popular 7-inch tablets like Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7. But Apple priced its smaller tablet entry much higher than those competitors -- the device starts at $329, while other 7-inch tablets can cost as little as $199.
For some customers, more of a turnoff than the cost is that Mini is now only available on Wi-Fi; the company will release a version that connects to cellular networks in a couple weeks, when some expect to see an uptick in sales.
Analysts doubt Apple will perform as well with this launch as it has previously, with Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster -- an Apple bull who typically offers the highest projections for Apple sales -- forecasting opening-weekend sales of about 1 million to 1.5 million for the iPad Mini. Apple sold 3 million third-generation iPads in the launch weekend for that product in March.
BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk said the sales total Munster predicted would be a disappointment, proclaiming that Apple needed to surpass the opening weekend sales of the third-generation iPad to claim a success.
"We believe Apple's first weekend sales of the iPad Mini needs, at a minimum, to top the 3 million first weekend sales of the iPad 3 in order to demonstrate that the management team can execute on ramping supply of new products and to provide some evidence that there is adequate demand for a smaller iPad at these price points," he wrote in a note Friday morning.
But lower sales projections didn't dampen the excitement among the die-hard fans who cheered when the Palo Alto store opened its doors two hours early for the event. Many walked out of the store minutes later with a grin and two Minis -- the limit for each customer. Peterson said he the Minis were an early Christmas gift for his two teenage daughters -- although he had a few hours to play with the tablets while the girls were in school.
"December 25 is pretty arbitrary," he said. "Apple decides when Christmas comes in our house."
Most of the early customers were men, and like Peterson, most said they were there to buy Minis for their children and wives -- but would take the new technology for a test drive before gift wrapping it. Some analysts have said Apple likely scheduled the fall release to compete with other new tablets, such as Microsoft's Surface, which hit stores last week, for the holiday season.
Friday was the first launch event at the new Apple Store in cofounder Steve Jobs' town, a sleek and dramatic space that opened Saturday just a block and a half away from the previous Palo Alto Apple Store. It was also the first Apple launch event for Christian Lindholm of Finland -- the startup developer couldn't resist picking up a couple Minis while in California on business.
"I have to do it in Silicon Valley," he said. "This is the store to do it. It's the grandfather store; sort of in Steve's hood."
There was some commotion back home in Finland when the Mini was released nine hours earlier, but nothing compared to the "theater" that Apple put on in its hometown, he said.
Like others at the store, he owns a third-generation iPad and won't be buying the fourth anytime soon. Several customers said they were unimpressed with the upgrades and unwilling to pay another $500 to $700 just months after the previous version was released.
"It doesn't feel like a fourth generation. It feels like a 3.2," Lindholm said.
Lower opening-weekend sales could help Apple avoid disappointing consumers with sellouts prompted by production delays, however. When the iPhone 5 debuted in September, Apple sold a record 5 million of the devices in the first weekend, but still couldn't meet demand. Analysts reported that Apple faced problems building and delivering enough of the devices to meet demand, and Apple's booming stock price began trending down.
Apple's Wall Street struggles have yet to stop, continuing Friday morning. The Cupertino company's shares hit their lowest level since July 27 and were trading at $582.03 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time, a daily decrease of 2.4 percent; shares declined 14.9 percent between the iPhone 5's debut on Sept. 21 and Thursday's close.
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CUPERTINO -- Apple is reportedly in talks to buy red-hot headphone maker and streaming-music pioneer Beats Electronics. If the deal happens, it would be Apple's biggest ever.
The Financial Times and other outlets on Thursday quoted unnamed sources saying Apple would pay $3.2 billion for the Santa Monica-based company founded by legendary music producer Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop star Dr. Dre. Described in the Financial Times only as "people familiar with the negotiations," the sources said the deal could be wrapped up as early as next week, though they warned that negotiations could still falter. Neither Apple nor Beats would comment.
According to the sources, Apple will buy Beats' streaming music service, which was unveiled this year, and its audio equipment business, which includes its popular headphones and other audio tools. The sources said Beats management team would report directly to Cook.
The deal would signify an abrupt change of course for Apple CEO Tim Cook, who in the past has shied away from high-profile deals, preferring instead to refine and upgrade Apple's own products. Buying Beats would provide a new product line for Apple, which has been criticized in recent months for not coming up with new cutting-edge products like the iPhone or iPad.
It would also give Apple powerful leverage within two growing markets: high-quality headphones and subscription-based music. With Spotify and its more than 10 million customers as the Holy Grail of the subscription-based music industry, Apple paired with Beats would be poised to make serious inroads in the rapidly growing field. Owning even a fledgling subscription service like Beats' would boost Apple's already hefty iTunes music business while getting rid of a budding competitor.
A deal by Apple to buy one of the sexiest startups in the premium-music space would come at a critical juncture. By bringing Beats technology into the Apple fold, the Cupertino company could regain some of the "cool factor" that many analysts and investors fear Apple has lost since co-founder Steve Jobs' death. One Tweeter on Thursday also wrote: "Dr Dre will bring some much-needed diversity to Apple's senior executive bench."
Hugely popular among celebrities, Beats headphones block out ambient notice much better than Apple's earbuds and are widely perceived to offer superior sound quality. On the website beatsbydre.com, prices of the headsets run from $169.85 for the "solo" to $449.95 for the "pro."
Locally, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick endorsed the headphones during the team's NFC championship run last season. In a commercial, Kaepernick donned a pair of Beats and listened to Aloe Blacc's "The Man" to block out the jeers of opposing fans as he got off the 49ers team bus.
But snapping up Beats would be a bit out of character for Apple, said Ken Dulaney, an analyst with the Gartner research firm. He noted that Apple normally buys companies that provide hardware or software "ingredients" Apple builds into its finished products.
"It would be unusual for Apple to buy a finished product," Dulaney said. "But if the profit margin's good, they'll probably be in it (the deal). You make an awful lot of money in the accessories. Would it make sense? Yes. Would it be out of the ordinary? Yes."
Beats' music streaming business, however, seems an unlikely draw for Apple unless Beats has exclusive deals with particular artists, Dulaney said.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, Beats was founded by rapper and hip-hop producer Andre "Dr. Dre" Young and Iovine, the chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records, and mainly produces products under the "Beats by Dr. Dre" brand.
Some Apple observers were skeptical about the reported deal, saying an Apple-Beats tie on some levels makes little sense. John Jackson, an analyst with IDC in Boston, said reports of a deal seem "counterintuitive on multiple fronts.
"It is well understood that there are boatloads and boatloads of margin in accessories," Jackson said. "But the Beats and Dr. Dre seem like two highly incongruous brands and there is no obvious alignment between Beats and how it would be positioned relative to the Apple line.''
Said Jackson: "It doesn't seem like a logical marriage.''
If a deal does go through, one big winner would be the Washington, D.C.-based, private-equity firm the Carlyle Group. It paid about $500 million seven months ago for just under 50 percent interest in Beats Electronics, according to The Wall Street Journal, which said Carlyle would reap about $1 billion profit.
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A woman walking her dog at 3 p.m. Friday stumbled upon Larry Lovette lying on the sidewalk near Dimond Park. He had been shot to death. Just one half-hour before that, a 22-year-old man had been fatally shot in the Fruitvale district.
At 4:15 p.m., Eddiebo Rodriguez was shot several times while driving on West Street in West Oakland. Whoever killed him shot up some nearby homes in the process. Thankfully, no one else was injured. Then at 8:20 p.m., police found 17-year-old Ken Harbin shot to death on Hillside Avenue in East Oakland.
The carnage Friday took the insanity into a new stratosphere. Four street killings within six hours. Just like that, we're at six killings in five days. All except one happened in broad daylight.
Here is what that should tell you. The people shooting don't care who sees them or who gets hit.
At what point do we say that we have crossed a threshold, the violence in our city is so out of control that we cannot expect our police department on its own to stop it? That 15 deputies from Alameda County, though welcome, aren't going to cut it. That we don't have the luxury of waiting around for years' worth of police academies to get more police on the street.
That we need to take drastic action to stop the catastrophic loss of life -- mostly young lives.
I believe that time is now. It is time for the Oakland City Council to give serious consideration to declaring a state of emergency. That would allow us to make a formal request to Gov. Jerry Brown, our former mayor, for mutual aid to help regain control of our streets. On Saturday, Vice Mayor Larry Reid called for Mayor Jean Quan to convene a special meeting of the council to consider it.
No one wants to see the National Guard on our streets. But we are running out of options.
Police Chief Howard Jordan said Saturday that there is "an all-out war" between two groups in Oakland over -- you're not going to believe this -- a girl. The girl, whom Jordan did not identify, was the girlfriend of someone in one of the groups that is now running all over Oakland shooting. She was fatally shot by a rival group. So, basically, we have our own Hatfields and McCoys.
Jordan said that police at first thought there were two groups in East Oakland doing most of the shooting. But then one merged with a group in West Oakland.
"That's why a bunch of stuff is happening in East and West Oakland," Jordan said. "These guys don't care, and they have a deep-seated hatred for each other."
Police have arrested some of the leaders, but the groups are so large it's been an uphill battle.
The frequency of shootings is so crazy that while I was on the phone with Jordan on Saturday morning, he got a report that three other people had just been shot -- thankfully not killed -- in East Oakland. Of course, that means that the group they belong to will lose no time retaliating.
Friday had actually begun with some encouraging news.
Public safety officials had announced at a morning news conference that police had conducted several early morning raids on an East Oakland crime group suspected in several killings and robberies. OPD -- with the help of other law enforcement agencies -- rounded up seven men in Oakland, El Sobrante and Santa Cruz, seizing firearms and drugs.
Jordan said at the news conference that it was one of the 15 violent crime groups responsible for 60 percent of the shootings in East Oakland and one of the 15 that law enforcement is targeting through Ceasefire. Groups identified by Ceasefire have been tied to Oakland's first homicide of 2013, the fatal shooting of Tyronta Mickens, 17, who was killed Monday while he sat in a car, as well as the nonfatal shooting of a 19-year-old on San Leandro Street on Dec. 28.
The city's violence prevention strategy attempts to fight the street shooting epidemic by focusing on the groups responsible for most of the carnage rather than individual criminals. Members of the groups are summoned to a meeting -- a "call-in" -- with law enforcement, clergy and community members. Then they are warned that if they don't stop shooting, law enforcement will come after them with a full-court press. Not just OPD, but the county, state and feds. This particular group had been given the tough message.
"These individuals were given warnings but did not adhere to the warnings," Jordan said.
Less than four hours later, bodies started dropping.
Could the police raids have helped trigger the Friday shootings?
Jordan said it's too early to tell, though he did not rule out that possibility.
The escalation in shootings, he says, indicates that Oakland needs Ceasefire as well as stepped up law enforcement citywide because the violence is spreading.
Yet when you have chaos in so many different places at once, how do you even begin to restore some semblance of sanity to our city's streets? How can you mount an effective defense against violent crime when you have a police department that is hemorrhaging bodies even as the criminals become more and more bold?
The answer is, you can't.
Oakland cannot continue to expect the impossible from its police department.
We need help. Oakland City Council? Mayor Quan? Gov. Brown? Are you listening?
Tammerlin Drummond is a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Her column runs Tuesday and Sunday. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin.


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A tractor-trailer driver died Wednesday after he was ejected from the vehicle as it overturned on I-26 in Polk County at mile marker 62.
James Dickson, 75, of Lawrenceburg, Ind. was traveling 75 mph in a 65 mph zone in the westbound lanes at about 1 p.m. when he went off the right side of the road, over-corrected and came back onto the road, said N.C. Highway Patrol Sgt. B.E. Hipp.
The tractor-trailer went off the right side of the road again, struck a tree and turned on its side. Dickson, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected and died at the scene, Hipp said.
The westbound lanes were closed until about 7:30 p.m. No other vehicles were involved. The tractor-trailer was hauling large plastic pallets.
Dickson's death marks the ninth fatality the Highway Patrol's Troop G District III (Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties) has handled since late June, Hipp said.
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Of particular interest are photographs, documents, film clips, paintings and graphic art, sculptures, textiles, ceremonial objects and three-dimensional everyday objects.
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Further themes of interest: Women's professional lives, "Aryanization," and "Compensation," professional lives in the post-war years
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