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Lavender Fields
Photograph by Gerd Ludwig
Purple tints land and sky as night falls over lavender fields at Tasmania's famed Bridestowe Estate. The plantation is one of the largest lavender farms in the world.
Castor Bean Leaf Close-Up
Photograph by Jozsef Szentpeteri
Veins spider across a castor bean leaf in Hungary.
Matanuska Glacier Cave, Alaska
Photograph by George F. Mobley
Meltwater sculpted the dagger-like shaft of ice near a cave in Matanuska Glacier in Alaska's Chugach Mountains. Matanuska is an active glacier, advancing about one foot (0.3 meters) every day.
Fallen Maple Leaf
Photograph by Raul Touzon
A solitary red maple leaf lies on the trunk of a downed tree in Maine's Acadia National Park. The United States is home to some 90 different species of maple trees.
Serra da Leba, Angola
Photograph by Kostadin Luchansky, Your Shot
This is Serra da Leba, a landmark in Angola. It has been one of the country's postcard images for decades, but all shots were taken by day. I needed something different. I decided to try a night shot, but it seemed impossible: pitch black, foggy, an altitude of 1,800 meters (5,000 feet). My Nikon can stay open as long as 60 seconds max. But a car takes a few minutes to climb and descend and complete the "drawing." The fog was blocking! Suddenly the fog cleared, a car went down, another went up, and they met in the middle in under 60 seconds. Painting done.
This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot. Have a great shot? Send it to us for possible publication in National Geographic magazine.
Great White Egrets
Photograph by Michael Nichols
A trio of great white egrets alights on a tree against darkening skies in Gabon's Petit-Loango Reserve. These long-legged, S-necked birds live near water, where they feed on fish, reptiles, and small amphibians, which they snare with a quick thrust of their strong bill before swallowing them whole.
Manarola, Italy
Photograph by Paul Hogie, My Shot
A scene of the tiny village of Manarola on the Cinque Terre coast of Italy. I camped on this spot for some time waiting for the right balance of light as the sun set. I was rewarded with many great shots of the late afternoon and even in moonlight. This long exposure captures the essence of the village with the locals all joining for a party near the boat ramp.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
Lion, South Africa
Photograph by Barbara Motter
This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Photos
This South African lion looks a bit grouchy, but he was actually yawning. His yawning caused a chain reaction of yawns from every member of the pride. Are you yawning yet?
This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot. Have a great shot? Send it to us for possible publication in National Geographic magazine.
Eyelash Viper
Photograph by George Grall
Eyelash vipers are indigenous to Central and South America and come in a variety of colors, including shocking yellow, like this specimen.
Waikawau Bay, New Zealand
Photograph by Steve Burling, My Shot
This photo was taken at Waikawau Bay, Coromandel, New Zealand. After a gorgeous drive up the coast I was greeted with this scene. It kind of reminds me of the symmetrical paintings I did at primary school where you painted one side then folded the paper in half. The weather always seems to provide unique opportunities up this end of New Zealand.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
Denali Highway, Alaska
Photograph by Rich Reid
A rainbow stretches over a section of the 670-mile-long (1,100-kilometer-long) Denali Highway in Alaska. Rainbows are a simple, ordered display of visible light reflected off of water droplets in the atmosphere.
Sei Whale Skull, Chile
Photograph by Maria Stenzel
Inland ice fields give way along Chile's coast to a maze of islands and fjords. The weather here is rarely calm. On Byron Island, the skull of a sei whale rests in a tidal creek—until the next storm.
Hand of Fatima, Mali
Photograph by Jimmy Chin
Silhouetted by the sun, the Hand of Fatima rock formations near Hombori village stretch toward the sky in Mali. The tallest tower rises 2,000 feet (610 meters) from the desert floor. Lore has it that the formations' name stems from the five towers' resemblance to a hand from the sky.
Sand Dunes, Rub al Khali
Photograph by George Steinmetz
The borders of four nations—Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—blur beneath the shifting sands of the Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter, desert.
Bathing Parrot
Photograph by Cesar Badilla, My Shot
During a boat trip across the Gulf of Papagayo, this nice parrot decided that he couldn't stand the heat of the Guanacaste summer and decided to take a bath.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
Cherry Trees and Walkway, Japan
Photograph by Thomas Simonson, My Shot
This picture was taken in Iwakuni, Japan at the Kintai Bridge. The Cherry Blossom (Sakura) festival had just ended and that is when I decided to go and get some good pictures.
Bering Sea Sunset
Photograph by Christopher Zimmer, My Shot
Water from the Bering Sea crashes on the rocks of Margaret Bay in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
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Puffin, Shiant Islands
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
Dapper black-and-white razorbills (at right) and bright-beaked puffins (at left and in air, at center) find a haven on the Shiant Islands, just a few miles southeast of Lewis, Scotland. Nearly 8,000 razorbills and more than 200,000 puffins are estimated to use these islands as their breeding grounds each year.
Lakeside Reflection
Photograph by Raymond Gehman
A still lake reflects sky and trees in Canada.
View From the Top of the World
Photograph by Barry C. Bishop
Not many people have had the opportunity to look down on the peaks of the Himalaya, but this 1963 picture from photographer Barry Bishop gave proof that Americans had finally reached the summit of Mount Everest. Bishop's teammates became the first Americans to summit Everest on May 1, 1963.
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DRAFTED: CHI: 2004-32 overall
|2011 Playoffs: Tied first on team with six points (2G, 4A) against Vancouver in the Western Conference Quarterfinals ... Logged team-high +6 rating in four games ... Missed first three games of the series while recovering from a concussion.
2010-11 Regular Season: Posted 37 points (15G, 22A) in 61 regular-season contests ... Netted a career-high four power-play goals ... Established career highs in goals per game (0.25), assists per game (0.36) and points per game (0.56) ... Led team forwards with 2:10 of shorthanded ice time per game ... Registered 32 points (14G, 18A) over his final 39 games (0.82 points per game) beginning Dec. 5 ... Tallied 24 points (11G, 13A) and a +10 rating in 32 games at the United Center ... Equaled a career high with three assists on Feb. 16 vs. MIN ... Recorded nine multi-point outings and a pair of two-goal efforts ... Tallied eight points (5G, 3A) over a season-long five-game scoring streak from Jan. 9-22 ... Notched a pair of power-play markers on Dec. 5 vs. CGY ... Fired a season-high six shots on goal on Jan. 2 at ANA ... Missed 21 games due to injury over three different stretches (Oct. 30-Nov. 10; Dec. 13; March 13-April 10).
2011-12: Tallied 37 points (19G, 18A) in 76 regular-season tilts … Posted career highs with seven power-play goals and a team-leading three shorthanded goals … Matched career highs in goals (19) and goals per game (.25) … Recorded a career-high 126 shots on goal … Paced the club with 1,203 faceoffs taken and ranked second with 582 faceoff wins, both career highs … Ranked second on the club with a 48.4 faceoff win percentage, the second-highest of his NHL career … Tallied 23 points (13G, 10A) and a +8 plus/minus rating in 23 tilts at the United Center … Registered six multi-point efforts during the campaign … Matched a career high with two goals on Oct. 8 vs. DAL in the Blackhawks home opener and vs. MIN on Jan. 12 … Recorded a season-long three-game point streak twice, tallying three points (1G, 2A) from March 27-31 and six points (4G, 2A) from Jan. 8-12 … Tallied a PPG and won 17 of 20 faceoffs on Jan. 24 vs. NSH … Notched a season-high three points (2G, 1A) on Jan. 12 against MIN … Missed six games (Oct. 7; Nov. 10-13; April 5-7) due to injury … Recorded three assists in six postseason games vs. PHX in the Western Conference Quarterfinals … Tied a postseason career-long three-game point streak (3A) … Ranked second on the club with 23 SOG.
2010-11: Posted 37 points (15G, 22A) in 61 regular-season contests … Netted four power-play goals … Established career highs in goals per game (.25), assists per game (.36) and points per game (.56) … Led team forwards with 2:10 of shorthanded ice time per game … Registered 32 points (14G, 18A) over his final 39 games (.82 PPG) beginning on Dec. 5 … Tallied 24 points (11G, 13A) and a +10 plus/minus rating in 32 games at the United Center … Equaled a career high with three assists on Feb. 16 vs. MIN … Recorded nine multi-point outings and a pair of two-goal efforts … Matched a career-high five-game scoring streak, tallying eight points (5G, 3A), from Jan. 9-22 … Notched a pair of PPG on Dec. 5 against CGY … Fired a season-high six shots on goal on Jan. 2 at ANA … Missed 21 games due to injury over three different stretches (Oct. 30-Nov. 10; Dec. 13; March 13-April 10) … Missed the first three games of the 2011 Western Conference Quarterfinals due to injury … Tied for the team lead with six points (2G, 4A) in four postseason tilts vs. VAN … Paced the club with a +6 rating through the Stanley Cup Playoffs … Registered a postseason career-high three assists and career-best four points (1G, 3A) in Game 4 at the United Center on April 19, his first action since March 9.
2009-10: Posted six goals, ten assists and a +5 rating in 39 regular-season games … Compiled a season-long three-game point streak (1G, 2A) from March 20-28 … Ranked fourth on the club with eight goals and fifth with 16 points (8G, 8A) in 22 postseason contests while helping the Blackhawks win the 2010 Stanley Cup Championship … Paced the NHL with two shorthanded goals in the postseason … Finished third among team forwards with a +6 rating in the playoffs … Registered four points (2G, 2A) over the final three games of the Stanley Cup Final against PHI … Tallied nine points (5G, 4A) in Chicago's final eight postseason tilts … Ranked second in the playoffs with 30 takeaways.
2008-09: Appeared in 81 of Chicago's 82 regular-season games, ranking sixth on the club with a career-high 19 goals, seventh with a career-best 47 points and ninth with a career-most 28 assists … Finished second on the club with a 17.1 shooting percentage and tied for fifth with a +19 rating … Recorded four game-winning goals, tied for third on the squad … Tied for third on the team with eight assists and fourth with 12 points in 17 tilts during his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut … Netted his first career Stanley Cup Playoffs goal in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals against VAN on April 30 … Compiled an NHL postseason career-high two goals, including his first-ever postseason SHG, on May 2 against VAN in Game 2 … Dished out two assists in Game 4 on May 7 against VAN … Netted the GWG with 5:05 remaining in regulation on May 9 in Game 5 at VAN … Ranked second on the team with four goals and third with six points in the six-game conference semifinals series against VAN … Shared the team lead with three assists and three points during the Western Conference Final against DET … Collected multiple points 10 times, including two three-point outings … Ranked second on the club with 2 SHG.
2007-08: Appeared in 39 NHL games with the Blackhawks, netting 17 points (4G, 13A) and 28 PIM … Collected 10 points (6G, 4A) and 22 PIM in 16 tilts with the American Hockey League's Rockford IceHogs … Notched his first NHL point with an assist on Oct. 27 at DAL.
2006-07: Made his NHL debut in one game with the Blackhawks on Oct. 25 vs. VAN and was held scoreless in 11:17 TOI … Recorded 17 goals and 32 assists in 65 regular-season contests with the AHL's Norfolk Admirals during his rookie campaign … Named the AHL Rookie of the Month for February.
2005-06: Shared the OHL lead with 57 goals and ranked second with 130 points during his final junior season with the London Knights … Named to the OHL First All-Star Team … Established an OHL record with 15 goals in 15 postseason contests … Notched 24 points during the playoffs.
2004-05: Helped London capture the OHL Championship and the Memorial Cup, the franchise's first … Ranked third on the Knights during the regular-season with 34 goals and 51 assists and fourth with 85 points in 66 outings … Racked up 25 points (11G, 14A) in 18 postseason contests.
2003-04: Ranked second on London with 37 goals and fifth with 67 points in 65 games … Netted 13 points (3G, 10A) in 15 playoff outings … Appeared in the 2004 Central Hockey League Top Prospects Game and skated for the Western Conference at the 2004 OHL All-Star Game … Honored with London's Most Improved Player Award. 2002-03: Made his junior debut with the London Knights, registering 10 assists and 17 points in 64 regular-season games before adding three points (2G, 1A) in 14 playoff matchups.
International Career: Captured the gold medal with Team Canada in the 2006 World Junior Championship.


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By Matt Jarzemsky
Restoration Hardware Holdings investor Tower Three Partners LLC has agreed to sell its remaining 3.9 million-share stake in the retailer, marking an exit for the buyout firms that bought the luxury-home-furnishings company in 2008.
Underwriter Bank of America Merrill Lynch is seeking $62.70 to $63 each for the shares, according to marketing materials, which would value the offering at up to $245 million. Restoration Hardware's private-equity backers have been cashing out amid a 90% rally in the stock this year.
People familiar with the deal said the stake represents the balance of Tower Three's holdings in the company. A Tower Three representative declined to comment.
Last week, private-equity firm Catterton Partners sold 4 million shares of Restoration Hardware, according to a filing. Hedge fund firm Glenhill Capital, another large holder, sold an additional 1 million shares about the same time, a person familiar with the matter said. Both offerings, run by Morgan Stanley, priced at $62 a share and represented the remaining stakes in the retailer held by those firms, the person said.
Catterton, Tower Three and Restoration Hardware's chief executive led a group taking the company public for about $177 million, as the housing crash crimped the company's profits. Since returning to public ownership in a November initial public offering, the company's stock-market value has increased to about $2.6 billion, according to FactSet data.
The buyout group and executives sold $560 million worth of stock in July and $499 million in equity in late May.
Restoration Hardware's shares were down 2.2% at $62.75 in after-hours trading Monday. Large stock sales often typically price at a discount to the shares' latest close, to entice buyers and compensate them for the risk the shares could fall.
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Monday, 07/11/1988
Sam's Tavern, Burlington, VT
Set 1: Satin Doll, SuzySuzy Greenberg, Curtain WithThe Curtain With, Funky Bitch, Fire, Bold As Love, Forbin'sColonel Forbin's Ascent > MockingbirdFly Famous Mockingbird, GolgiGolgi Apparatus, AlumniAlumni Blues > LTJPLetter to Jimmy Page[1] > AlumniAlumni Blues
Encore: McGruppMcGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters[2] > La Grange
[1] Fish drum solo.
[2] Fish on trombone.
· Dave's Energy Guide tease in Suzy Greenberg
Average Song Gap: 4.36
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Trey graduated from college on this date and treated the crowd to a killer Alumni Blues. Letter to Jimmy Page featured a drum solo from Fish. Suzy Greenberg included Dave's Energy Guide teases. Trey referred to the "With" portion of The Curtain With as "A Living Nightmare." McGrupp featured Fish on trombone. The listed encore may actually be the start of the second set; the first set appeared to end after Alumni given Page's comments.
Song Distribution:
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 The White Tape
1 Junta
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Many can't actually vote yet, but students from Antioch's two high schools participated in recent mock elections.
On campuses at Antioch and Deer Valley, hundreds got to vote on such big-ticket issues as president.
Leading up to the event, Antioch High teachers thoroughly covered the school's modified ballot. "Students discussed, debated, read and thought about all before the electorate this season," government teacher Cathy Fitzgerald said.
More than 1,400 votes were cast the Friday before last Tuesday's general election.
She said "the students continue to vote more consistently with the Democratic Party and a more liberal political ideology as does this region.
"The students are in a high school that is in desperate need of renovation ... working in a California public school that seems to manage quality instruction even with its skeletal staff and absence of resources. Public school teachers today make 'MacGyver' look like a two-bit carnival magician."
And, with that in mind, Measure B (the bond to modernize Antioch High) and Proposition 30 (the statewide tax measure with money earmarked for California schools) respectively garnered 79 percent and 56 percent of the students' votes.
Other victors in the Antioch High election were Barack Obama with 69 percent and Sen. Diane Feinstein with 72 percent.
Fitzgerald said she has worked on a few campaigns and said "I cannot think of a better standards-based instructional activity than to have students actually walk into a polling place and cast a ballot, as I hope so many do once they get of voting age."
At Deer Valley's Law and Justice Academy, students held a large election event in late October.
The 11th- and 12th-graders worked the event, which was spearheaded by lead teacher Jodiann Beeson.
In an email, Beeson said that the academy focused on the election process and the propositions and candidates that appeared on the November ballot. Students were put into groups, which were "assigned one side of a proposition or a candidate, which they prepared arguments or a statement for. ... Each student kept a journal that spanned cross-curricular, with entries including current events, notes on researching, the debates, and reflections on the process."
The final project was presented in the school's Mock Election Voter Information Guide.
The guide was prepared by students Collin McElroy, Samuel Johnson and Ray Tagle.
SEEING RED: Carmen Dragon Elementary recently celebrated Red Ribbon Week.
The Antioch school's student council planned and organized all the activities, which included an array of daily themes such as Crazy Hair Day, Sunglasses Day, and Team Up Against Drugs.
One daily theme -- Run Away from Drugs -- included more than 230 students running an obstacle course.
Each morning Adam Nawabi, student council president, announced prize winners and delivered a Red Ribbon message.
"It's been a great week ... reminding everyone to live a healthy and drug free life," teacher Maureen Larmour said.
BEHIND THE SCENES: MADD representatives recently made two presentations at LaPaloma High.
Students at the Brentwood school heard about the dangers of alcohol and driving, plus the hazards of texting, listening to loud music, crowded cars and speeding while behind the wheel.
Liberty Union's Sarah Singrin said the event went well, and that the district will probably make it an annual program.
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Should Kansas City Pursue Local Control of Its Police Department?
The Citizens Project
Thursday, April 4, 2013
6:30pm @ Central Library
The Kansas City Star's Dave Helling and an expert panel discuss whether it is time for control of the Kansas City Police Department to revert from the state back to the city. Participants include former Police Commissioner Karl Zobrist, former Police Chief Jim Corwin, City Councilman Ed Ford, and Steve Glorioso, who led a campaign to change St. Louis' police governance law.
This is the second of four forums in 2013 that will examine issues like the possible replacement of KCI and the economic border war between Kansas and Missouri.
Click here to download a two-page document that includes a history of the issue as well as pros and cons of local control of the Kansas City Police Department. The document was prepared by our co-sponsors for the event, the Citizens Association of Kansas City.
Watch this video from the last Citizens Project session: "What Is Kansas City's Long-Range Financial Plan?"
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There's something we have to clear up with Sage Francis before the interview begins. It's not anything major, nor is it some long-winded and unnecessary rant about the conventions of live hip-hop. It's simply a formality: how do you prefer to be addressed? Do you call him Francis? Sage? Mr. Francis? Paul, his real name?
The man in question pauses on the other end of the line to consider the question. "...can you call me Dirty Uncle Frank?" Gee, don't see why not. How are you, Dirty Uncle Frank? The line cracks with Francis' cackling laugh. "Ohh man, this is gonna be interesting."
Francis – sorry, Dirty Uncle Frank – is on the line from his home in Rhode Island, New York. He's in the midst of what he calls a "marathon" of phone interviews for publications all across the world. While the promotional aspect of music is a drag for some people, Francis describes the experience as "breezy." "I feel like I'm taking a quiz where I know all the answers," he says with a laugh. This, believe it or not, is his downtime – he's currently getting to the tailend of a major world tour, which will end right here in Australia.
It's all in support of his most recent album, entitled Li(f)e – and, even though he's probably told the story countless times, he's more than willing to explain just how those parentheses came into play. "There's an old lyric of mine where I say 'life is just a lie with an F in it/and death is definite.'," says Francis. "That lyric, in particular, is something that my fanbase kinda flocked to and they just owned it. They created that spelling of life with the f in parentheses, representing that lyric, and people even started getting it tattooed on them. I kept getting sent these pictures of this tattoo, and it really made me step back and think. I was like 'Wow, people have been really taken by this lyric and are adopting it to their own lives and what they're going through, and the believe in it enough to the point where they get it permanently marked on them.' So I titled the album like that as sort of a tribute to that. It's an understanding that there is a lot of meaning behind the symbolism of that, and I elaborate a lot on that in the subject matter of the album."
It's an album of bleak storytelling, heartbreak, isolation and family – and appears to be simultaneously the most and least personal record Francis has done. This is in reference to the tandem of both first and third person perspectives mixed into varying degrees on Li(f)e. "I guess I find it easier to write in first person," says Francis when questioned on which writing style works best for him; before adding: "It's easy for people to talk about themselves, I find. I also really love to be able to adopt someone else's story for my own voice. I think it gives both me and the listener a break from me – I'm sure most of my fans have heard enough about me by now."
Indeed, Sage's evidently dedicated fans have come to learn a lot about the man behind the music through a lot of dark, introspective works over the years. With Li(f)e, however, it's interesting to note that it's the music behind these stories is more of a change than ever before. Borrowing from contemporaries such as Canada's Buck 65, Francis spends a lot of time on the record rapping over acoustic guitar, jazz brushes, strings and a whole world of instrumentation beyond a simple 808 beat and a sped-up soul sample. Although Sage understands it was definitely more of a risk, he also claims it was exciting to be working within this new territory.
"I was receiving music from people that don't typically provide soundscapes for hip-hop lyrics," he says about the challenges of thinking outside the square. "I had to adapt to their sounds, to their time signatures and their song structures- which is fine. I feel like I give rap lyrics a lot more respect than others, on account of the fact I think that it can work with this."
He then goes on to philosophise on where hip-hop stands sonically in this day and age. "Hip-hop has a history of taking from other genres and making it its own. Now, in 2010, I feel like there's been a similar sound in hip-hop for quite awhile – the wheel has been spinning," he says. "It's a typical sound, and it's a sound that I like, but I also feel like that there are other things that can happen with hip-hop, and with rap. So for me to sit there and think about how my lyrics can work within, say, a country and western style or perhaps a bluegrass style, that's fun for me. I know I can do it, it just takes a little bit of readjusting. It brings out other things in me, and it's fun."
So there's still conventions left to break in the field of hip-hop? "There's a million conventions to break," Francis responds. "I'm one of a few people who will step outside the norm and piss off the core base of hip-hop…" – there's a pause. He mumbles something to himself, before correcting himself. "Actually, that isn't true. I'm not one of the few. I'm one of the many, but I'm one of the few that people know about. There's a lot of people doing super out-there shit, doing things way out of the norm and breaking tonnes of conventions. But they're not getting the exposure and they're not getting the support, so most people won't know about them. So I think it's important that one tries to understand the foundations of hip-hop and know how to create traditionally before going out on a limb and being like 'look how crazy and different this is!' You have to prove yourself before you go too far."
It doesn't take too long until Francis is off again on his phone interview marathon. Hopefully, he'll be well rested when he lands in Australia next month, racing towards the finish line and continuing his reign as one of hip-hop's reigning forward thinkers.
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The Reno location of the YMCA is scheduled to close its doors May 31 after four years in business.
The site just never really took off, said Suzi Zumwalde, CEO of both the Marietta Family and Reno YMCAs.
"We made an effort to promote it to the surrounding communities but we just couldn't get the membership we needed," Zumwalde said. "With only 42 current members at the Reno branch it just isn't feasible to continue to keep the facility open."
The YMCA originally partnered with Promanco to create a fitness center and childcare facility located close to the Reno business park. The Y was opened Jan. 27, 2009.
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More than a dozen gravity training system machines will be transferred to the Marietta location upon the closing of the Reno facility.
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The Reno facility has only one full-time employee who doesn't also work at the Marietta location.
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Mark Somerville, a Reno resident, has been working out at the Reno YMCA since April 2011.
"I had to quit going for a while due to the number of hours I was working," Somerville said. "But I've recently started going again to get back into shape for my season of four wheeler racing."
Somerville did say that attendance is scarce at times and often limited to a select few.
"It's basically the same people that attended every day. You rarely see the place packed," he said. "It's nice because you get to focus on your workout without having to wait on others."
Despite the plans to close the Reno facility Somerville said he expects to continue his membership with the Marietta YMCA.
"It's still going the be the most convenient location for me because all of my buddies that race have memberships through the YMCA," he said.
Reno resident Dennis Lumbatis has been a member of the facility since it was opened about four years ago.
He said he was disappointed when he heard it would be closing down.
"I had my suspicions that it was falling on hard times due to a lack of members," Lumbatis said. "But that doesn't make it any less upsetting that it will be closing down."
Lumbatis said he is uncertain of what he will do once the facility closes its doors this May.
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EAGLE COUNTY - Most of us could use some help dealing with the world from time to time. The Bright Future Foundation is going to try to provide at least some of that help.
The foundation, known primarily for its work with women and children in abusive situations, has been expanding its role recently and will soon launch a series of classes to help provide "coping skills" for adults.
"We're looking for people who need help with their relationships, their lives," Bright Future Foundation therapist Casey Wolfington said.
Ideally, people will sign up for the class - which starts Feb. 14 - before they're in crisis.
Wolfington and the foundation see plenty of people who are already in a crisis of one kind or another. The group works with women in abusive homes or who have been sexually abused, and Wolfington sees plenty of troubled children and teens.
The idea the foundation is pursuing now is to try and reach people before their lives spiral out of control.
In schools, that means trying to reach out to kids about bullying and other deviant behavior.
"We're trying to stop the behavior before it's ingrained," she said. "That can be as young as second grade."
Part of Wolfington's approach is dealing with individual kids, helping youngsters understand their own problems and ways to deal with conflicts in their lives. But it's also important that people in school understand and help stop bullying.
"Unless it's uncool to bully, the behavior will just perpetuate," she said.
Changing a culture means getting everyone from administrators to teachers to parents involved, she said.
For teens and adults, Wolfington uses "Dialectical Behavior Therapy," which she said is a "model for concrete coping skills."
Many times, Wolfington deals with people who are in the court system, but some of those people don't necessarily want help. For the new classes, Wolfington wants volunteers.
"Ideally, this works best if you're motivated, if you're saying to yourself, 'This isn't working,'" Wolfington said.
The class lasts eight weeks, and some of the important things students will learn are communication skills.
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But it's in youth where some of the most profound work can take place. That's why the foundation still operates the long-running Buddies Program - which is always looking for volunteers, by the way - that teams at-risk kids with responsible adults.
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COUNCIL TACKS A FLOOR ON FRINGE TIMBER SALE Dixon: The Tribal Council tacked a new "minimum value" stumpage provision on its approval of the sale of 2-million board feet of west-reservation timber. In approving the sale of the Fringe Unit, April 11, the council voted to modify the contract so that penalty provisions would be waived if the value of the timber fell below 60% of the bid price. The high bidder at an April 2 auction in Ronan was Tribal Member Kendall Dupuis, Poison. Dupuis offered $64.00 per thousand for ponderosa pine and $37. 50 per thousand for fir and other species. Under the new provision, if market adjustments for Dupuis' stumpage decline to lower than $38. 00 for pine and $22.50 for fir, logging in the unit would stop and Dupuis would automatically be exempted from paying contract penalties. Although the minimum stumpage provision in the Fringe unit contract will probably not be used...the contract calls for completion before July, 1976... the council included it as a pilot concept for future logging contracts. The minimum value provision will probably be included in the non-Indian preference sale of the Hot Springs u-nit which goes on the auction block May 16. The 25-million board foot Hot Springs Unit would have a contract span of four years, thus making it subject to the fickle timber market. The council considers the "floor value" provision necessary because the price paid to the tribe for its timber is based on the current value of lumber products. This means that it is possible for stumpage values to decline far below bid prices for logging contracts. For instance, in the 1973 Valley Unit sale, fir brought $60.50 per thousand. However, the bid price for fir was subjected to market ups and downs over an eight year period. In early 1974, the stumpage for fir from the Valley was bringing nearly $100 per thousand. But by December of the same year the timber market had collapsed and fir... if any had been sold... would have brought less than $9-per thousand. In principle, the floor stumpage rate would protect both the tribe and the contractor. The tribe , because it would be assured of at least 60% of the bid price for its timber... and the contractor, because he would not have to pay high logging expenses for value-less timber during market lows. BIATO STUDY HERBICIDES BURIED ANNIE FINLEY PIERRE IS Dixon: The Tribal Council says it doesn't want the deadly poison Xylene used in reservation water if it is harmful to fish and wildlife, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs has agreed to fund a study to find out if the chemical does affect treaty fishing rights. BIA Area Director, James Canan, Billings, told the Tribal Council, April 15, that he would recommend an environmental assessment on the effects of Xylene and herbicide 24-d on aquatic animals, insects and plants. Canan, several BIA Billings Area irrigation engineers and Flathead Irrigation Project engineer George Moon, attended a special water meeting to resolve the long festering issue of irrigation management and wildlife rights. Xylene, a moss killing poison which is controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency, has been widely used by FIP in reservation waters as a means for clearing algae and moss from sprinkler irrigation systems. On July 3,1973, it was responsible for a total fish-kill in the Jocko River J-canal and "probable" damage to the lower Jocko and Flathead Rivers. Later that same July, the council passage 2) St. Ignatius: Annie Finley Pierre, 76, was buried A-pril 22 in the St. Ignatius Catholic Cemetary. She died April 19, in the St. Ignatius Hospital. She is remembered for her fine Indian beadwork, her participation in the Indian Choir and her know ledge and practice of the Indian way of life. She was born in St. Ignatius on Jan. 1, 1899. In the early part of this century she attended the Sisters of Charity School there. A life-long resident of the reservation, Mrs. Pierre had lived in Dixon and Hot Springs as well as St. Ignatius. Her husband, Louie died in 1961. As a young girl, Mrs. Pierre was regarded as quite a horsewoman. In fact, at the age of 17, she jockied thoroughbred racing horses at tracks in Spokane and Missoula. She is survived by a son...Joe, of St. Ignatius... one daughter, Mrs. Ben-ally, of Dixon...two sisters, Mrs. Christine Woodcock and Mrs. Louise McDonald, both of St.Ignatius. There are also four grandchildren. The body was held in
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|Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation.
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|Council tacks a floor on fringe timber sale; BIA to study herbicides; Annie Finley Pierre is buried; Tribe, BIA agree on water inventory; Tribes meet on water rights policy; Saving the Grizzly bear; Trouble with pipeline leases; Indian Bi-Centennial the beginning; Unemplyment magnified on reservation; Government study grants; Tribal Law from elders to concurrent jurisdiction; Patty Matt sweeps pow wow; Flathead museum opens; Firm to build log cabins at Dixon.
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Boiling Springs man shot in chest in front of family; deputies search for gunmen
Published: Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 1:26 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 1:26 p.m.
Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office investigators are still trying to find two men accused of forcing a Boiling Springs man to the ground Friday night and shooting him in front of his family.
The victim was shot in the chest and is in serious condition at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, but is expected to survive, according to Master Deputy Kevin Bobo.
According to an incident report, the victim and his girlfriend and their child returned to their Wilson Court home at about 10 p.m. after seeing a movie. At the scene, the victim told deputies he was attacked by two masked gunmen after he got out of his car. He said he was forced to the ground at gunpoint and shot. The victim was shot one time in the chest.
The man's girlfriend said she locked herself and the couple's child inside their SUV when the men forced the victim to the ground.
A witness said he saw two black men loitering near the scene earlier in the evening. The only other identifying information reported was that one of the men was wearing a white hooded shirt.
A K-9 unit responded Friday night in an attempt to track the suspects. Bobo said violent crimes investigators are running down "any and all" leads in this case.
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- More details, including tally by county, at interactive map.
• Prop. 31, budget process: no
• Prop. 32, political contributions: no
• Prop. 33, auto insurance: no
• Prop. 34, repeal death penalty: no
• Prop. 35, human trafficking: yes
• Prop. 36, change three-strikes: yes
• Prop. 37, food labeling: no
• Prop. 38, taxes: no
• Prop. 39, business tax: yes
• Prop. 40, redistricting: yes
Overcoming decades of anti-tax sentiment in California, Gov. Jerry Brown's Proposition 30 -- billed as a tax hike to rescue the state's schools -- has emerged victorious in surprisingly decisive fashion.
The measure led 53.9 percent to 46.1 percent with all precincts around the state reporting results by Wednesday evening, according to the Secretary of State.
With some ballots left to be counted, the difference was 715,394 votes -- hardly a landslide but more than anyone expected in what was supposed to be a very tight race. Some pollsters were even leaning toward predicting a defeat for the measure in the weeks before the election.
Brown declared victory in a rally just before midnight Tuesday and the opposition conceded Wednesday morning.
"We had a lot of obstacles," the governor said. "We overcame them."
He added: "I know a lot of people had some doubts and some questions: Can you really go to the people and ask them to vote for a tax?' Here we are. ... We have a vote of the people, I think the only state in the country that says, 'Let's raise our taxes, for our kids for our schools, and for our California dream.'''
Proposition 30 will raise the state's sales tax by a quarter of a cent for four years starting Jan. 1 and increase income taxes for people who make at least $250,000 by up to 3 percentage points for seven years, retroactive to the start of the 2012 tax year. It is projected to raise an average of $6 billion annually for the state's general fund and education to prevent nearly $6 billion in "trigger cuts," mostly to education, this year.
It is the first general tax Californians have passed in two decades.
"While we are disappointed in the outcome of the campaign, the voters have spoken," the No on 30 campaign said in a statement Wednesday morning. "We congratulate Gov. Brown and his team on their victory and thank all the small business owners, taxpayers and other groups from every corner of the state for their extraordinary commitment to the 'No on 30 campaign."
Brown has made Proposition 30 the hallmark of his administration, spending the year trying to convince voters that California schools have reached a breaking point and need taxpayers to come to the rescue.
"It sold itself," he said at a victory party in Sacramento. "The core reason it brought people together was a belief in schools and universities and the capacity of government to make wise investments that benefit all of us."
Los Angeles County, the Bay Area and coastal areas supported the measure while inland and rural areas rejected it. The biggest support was in liberal San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Alameda counties, while the largest opposition was in little Modoc County at the northeast tip of the state.
Brown's campaign has raised more than $40 million, mostly from teachers unions and other labor groups. Some business groups, most school districts, celebrities and the state's major newspapers also endorsed the measure, saying a tax increase was needed to balance the state budget and prevent schools from chopping days or even weeks off the school year.
"If Prop. 30 doesn't pass, we'll be looking at huge class sizes and a lot of major cuts,"
Kevin Thompson, a teacher in Union School District in San Jose who took time off from teaching to campaign for the measure, said if Proposition 30 had failed, "we'd be looking at huge class sizes and a lot of major cuts,"
"I think the message is out, that this is the way we're going to invest in our students and our schools," Thompson said.
Principal Amy Caroza estimated that Coliseum College Prep Academy in Oakland would have lost $200,000 if Proposition 30 failed, and did not know how the school would have offset that loss.
"I'm holding my breath, hoping it passes," Caroza said earlier Tuesday night. "I feel very strongly about Proposition 30 being the right thing for schools and kids."
Meanwhile, anti-tax groups led by Palo Alto physicist Charles Munger Jr., son of billionaire businessman Charles Munger, and an Arizona group fought hard to defeat the measure. They argued that the state was wasting money on high-profile projects such as high-speed rail and did not need more tax money.
Munger's half-sister, Molly Munger, the author of a competing tax-for-education measure, Proposition 38, also briefly launched attack ads against Proposition 30 last month -- and a decline in support for Brown's measure quickly followed in the polls. Munger and Brown spent months feuding over which tax measure was better, and analysts predicted their competing measures could result in both failing.
Another distraction was Brown's pursuit of the identity of the donors behind an Arizona campaign group that gave $11 million to defeat Proposition 30 and pass Proposition 32, leading to a lawsuit from the California Fair Political Practices Commission, though the exact names of the donors were not revealed.
Brown's approval of $69 billion high-speed rail line, the discovery of a hidden pot of state parks funds and other problems made Brown's effort harder.
The San Ramon Valley Unified School District would have lost $13 million mid-year if Proposition 30 failed, said board president Greg Marvel.
"It's going to preclude us having to make massive cuts next year," he said. But he noted that it won't solve the district's financial problems.
"It's just going to keep us from getting deeper into this financial black hole, but it won't get us out of the hole," he said. "We've got a long way to go before we're back where we were in 2007."
Staff writer Sandy Kleffman contributed to this report. Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at twitter.com/rosenberg17.


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