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cycle July 21 and join in hymn sing on July 24—
NJ, June 26, 2013–Princeton Seminary's weeklong summer
Institutes of Theology and Worship offers two free community concerts. Michael
Bauer, professor of church history and organ at the University of Kansas, will
perform Petr Eben's dramatic eight-movement organ cycle, "Job," on Sunday, July
21 at 4:00 p.m. The concert will be held in Miller Chapel on Princeton Theological
Seminary's main campus.
The performance is based on an
interpretation of the character of Job in the Hebrew scriptures, and begins the
weeklong Institutes of Theology and Worship. Bauer is the author of the
forthcoming book Arts Ministry: Nurturing
the Creative Life of God's People (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company).
On Wednesday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m., Mary
Louise Bringle, professor of philosophy and religious studies and chair of the
Humanities Division at Brevard College, will lead a hymn sing, "Singing of
Wisdom," in Miller Chapel.
began writing hymns in 1999. Since that time, she has won numerous
international hymn-writing competitions and has been featured as an "emerging
text writer" by The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. She currently
serves as president of The Hymn Society and chair of the committee to create a
new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church USA.
The hymn sing is part of the Hymn
Festival, which is being held in conjunction with the Institutes of Theology
and Worship. The festival will introduce hymns from the new hymnal Glory to God, that is being prepared for
Presbyterian churches. It includes musical gifts from Christians of all times
and places.
Both the organ concert and the hymn sing
are free and open to the public.
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May 2, 2013
The Barnett Ridge Cemetery along Barnett Ridge Road in Barlow Township isn't the area's largest graveyard, but some interesting figures are buried there....
If u go there, check out the inside of the church, pretty cool!
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I am also a Barnett, and into genealogy. When I first started my family research, I located some of Glen Barnett's information that was posted online, and for over a year, expanded on what I had found. Problem was I later discovered an error in his work that nullified over a thousand names in what I had worked on. I had tried to contact Glen to let him know, but he had since passed. It seems that most of what I had found that he had posted could be supported, but the name linking my Barnett's to his, William Barnett, was wrong. My Barnett's appear to have settled mostly in Guernsey County, and I find no link to Virginia. I don't fault Glen for the error, as we all make them. I do use it as a reminder to those of us doing research to check sources and document everything!
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We all long for more of something in our lives. In our endless pursuit to feel worth and acceptance we find ourselves sacrificing everything for the promise to be a little more beautiful, a little richer, a little more powerful and successful, a little more loved.
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In Plan B pastor and author Pete Wilson uses real life stories of disappointments and hurts along with the biblical stories of men and women like David, Joseph, and Ruth to help readers come to grips with the truth that they will face situations that in themselves they are completely unable to handle but that in them God is simply trying to get them to surrender their plans so that they can receive His. He identifies our common responses to difficulties and offers hope, helping us to
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At the Jewish Week's 17th annual "Funniest Jewish Comic" contest on Sunday night, one competitor gave the audience a scare right at the start with a hackneyed set up as old as Moses.
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Webby nursed a hammy thru the playoffs last year, so he might be able to do that
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Tuesday, Nov. 29 • 7 p.m. CT
American Bank Center (8,100) • Corpus Christi, Texas
LIVE VIDEO: GoIslanders.com
CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team will play host to Texas-Pan American on Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. at the American Bank Center. The contest will be the first of two this season. The Islanders are 19-5 all-time against the Broncs. Last season, the Islanders split games with the Broncs with each team securing a win on their home floor. The Islanders return to the American Bank Center where they claimed their first win of the season against Iona, 77-68, last Tuesday.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is coming off their first road win of the season against Houston Baptist at Houston in the Husky Classic. The Islanders finished 1-1 at the tournament, falling to Texas Southern, on the first day. Against Houstin Baptist the Islanders bounced back to have their best performance of the year, in a game which saw all of the Islanders tally minutes.
Texas-Pan American is coming off two losses in Houston in the Houston Classic. The Broncs sit at 1-5 and will be competing in their fourth consecutive away game.
The Islanders will travel to Houston this weekend to compete in the Rice Tournament before facing the Broncs in Edinburg, Texas on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
The Islanders competed in the Husky Classic, hosted by Houston Baptist on Friday and Saturday. On Friday, The Islanders dropped their fourth game of the season, falling to Texas Southern, 63-54. Despite leading at the half by one and a 6-0 run with 9:42 left, the Tigers answered with a 14-0 run in the second half to secure the victory.
Junior Jessica Jammer posted her second consecutive double-double with 12 points and tied a game-high 11 rebounds while tallying her fourth straight double-digit scoring game. Sophomore Brandi Huff posted a career-high 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting and freshman Trish Amboree added nine points and seven rebounds. Junior Alisa Roberts had a game-high four steals.
On Saturday, the Islanders sealed their first road game of the season, cruising to a 65-45 victory over Houston Baptist in the final day of the Husky Classic. The Islanders were powered by three Islanders in double digits and 30 points from the bench.
Sophomore Marquesha Anderson-Sparks paced the Islanders with a career-high 14 points on 4-of-10 shooting including 3-of-8 from behind the arc and 3-of-4 from the charity stripe. Senior Myeisha Myles posted her second double-double of the season with 10 points and 12 boards on 4-of-6 shooting. Junior Jessica Jammer tallied her fifth consecutive double-digit game with 12 points, two assists, one block and one steal.
On Saturday against Houston Baptist, after HBU took the lead on the opening tip with Joselyn Pugh's jumper at the 19:19 mark, the Islanders took the lead for good on a 13-0 run capped by four different Islanders. Jessica Jammer, Myeisha Myles, Brandi Huff and Taryn Gregory all added buckets while Myles and Huff chipped in points from the charity line.
The Islanders went on another run with 5:39 to play with a Jammer jumper to take the 28-15 lead. Jammer's pass inside to freshman Trish Amboree extended the Islanders' lead to 15 with 5:14 to go in the half. Myles' rebound and put-back in the paint off an Amboree miss gave the Islanders a 32-15 lead. A steal by Ambree and layup in the paint capped the Islanders' 8-0 run.
In the second half, the Islanders extended their biggest lead of the game to 30 with 6:29 to play. Anderson-Sparks' jumper in the paint jumpstarted the run at the 11:31 mark and Roberts' pass down low to Myles in the paint gave the Islanders a 57-32 lead. Amboree's three and Jammer's jumper capped a 10-0 run to give the Islanders their biggest lead, 62-32.
The Broncs head into the weekend with a 1-5 record. UTPA is coming off two losses at the Houston Tournament on Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, the Broncs fell to Southland foe McNeese St., 67-46, and dropped a heartbreaker to Yale on Saturday, 59-57. UTPA topped Paul Quinn College on Nov. 14, 72-43, to secure their first victory of the season.
On the season, UTPA averages 54.0 points, shoots .361 from the floor (122-of-338), .262 percent (17-of-65) from three-point range and .663 (63-of-95) from the line.
Individually, the Broncs are led by LaQuita Garner with 11.7 points per game and Donna Jackson is averaging 9.7 points per game and leads the team with 6.8 rebounds per game.
The last time the Islanders faced UTPA was on January, 5, 2011. The Islanders won 84-70 at the American Bank Center. Jessica Jammer posted a career-high 25 points and grabbed five rebounds in 27 minutes of play while Taryn Gregory tallied nine points on 7-of-8 shooting from the free throw line.
The Islanders dropped a 70-57 loss to the Broncs on November 10, 2010 in their fourth game of the season in Edinburg, Texas. Jammer tallied 11 points and eight rebounds in 26 minutes of play and Gregory scored seven points and pulled down five rebounds in 29 minutes of play. Brandi Huff chipped in four points and three rebounds.
The Islanders had a season-high 14 steals against Texas Southern on Friday. On Saturday, the Islanders tallied 12 steals to Houston Baptist's four steals. Junior Alisa Roberts leads the team in steals with eight while juniors Damequia Montgomery and Verne'qua Taylor are second on the team with seven.
This season the Islanders have depth on their roster, something they have lacked in the past. In the Islanders' win against Houston Baptist the bench outscored the Huskies 30-2. The Islanders' bench was led by Marquesha Anderson-Sparks' 14 points and Alisa Roberts' six points.
In the two games in the Houston Baptist Tournament the Islanders tallied 33 second chance points to their opponents' 15 points.
The Islanders are outrebounding their opponents 290-264 with an average of 48.3 rebounds per game. Myeisha Myles is leading the team on the glass with 8.5 rebounds per game. Jessica Jammer is second with 7.8 rebounds per game. On Friday, the Islanders outrebounded Texas Southern 53-48 and on Saturday the Islanders outrebounded Houston Baptist 49-35.
In the Islanders six games, Jessica Jammer has played a pivotal role. On Friday, Jammer posted her second consecutive double-double with 12 points and tied a game-high 11 rebounds while tallying her fourth straight double-digit scoring game in the Islanders' 63-54 loss to Texas Southern in the Houston Baptist Tournament.
On Saturday, the Brookshire, Texas, native tallied her fifth consecutive double-digit game with 12 points, two assists, one block and one steal in 22 minutes of play in the Islanders' 65-45 win over Houston Baptist.
Jammer is averaging a team high 13.3 points and is second on the team with 7.8 rebounds per game and is third on the team with an average of 25.3 minutes per game.
The Islanders were picked to finish last in the Southland West division after finishing last in the conference last season.
The Islanders will travel back to Houston to compete in the Rice Tournament next weekend. The Islanders will face Rice on Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. before facing Oregon State/North Texas on Saturday, Dec. 3 at 5 p.m./7 p.m.


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OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. - A 71-year-old Northern California man died Friday after hitting a tree while skiing at Squaw Valley, officials said.
The skier collided with a tree on the west face of KT-22 at about 11 a.m. Friday, according to a statement from Squaw Valley Public Relations Manager Amelia Richmond.
The Placer County Sheriff's Office identified the man Sunday as Theodore Stanley Sorensen of Auburn. According to various reports, Sorensen was an expert skier.
Sorensen was wearing a helmet, Richmond said. The resort did not release any further details on the incident.
In a Monday morning interview, a spokeswoman for PCSO said a coroner's report indicated Sorensen hit a patch of ice and lost control before striking the tree and hitting the left side of his head; CPR efforts were unsuccessful.
"We extend our deepest sympathies to his family and friends," Richmond said. "The resort would like to thank the Squaw Valley Fire Department paramedics for assisting in the rescue efforts."


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Definition of boss-eyed in English:
adjectiveBritish informal
Cross-eyed or squinting: a boss-eyed sidekick I was boss-eyed looking for you on TV
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- When I was at school in the 80s we used to have these awful Country Dancing lessons which involved prancing up and down our school hall beneath the boss-eyed instruction of a mad pensioner.
- This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia.
- Increasingly it feels as if the violence did not go away but was supplemented by a vile and damaging hatred among those who used to bring something more worthwhile to the ground than a boss-eyed devotion to one team.
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Investigators say an important part of catching the Huddle House killer is tracking down his weapon. And they're asking the public to call them if you know someone who owns an AK or SKS-type weapon. News 12 talks with a gun expert on the difficulty of tracking down that gun and what you can look for.
After years of teaching shooting in the military and owning Sydney's Depot Store, Steve Fishman knows his weapons.
"Top of the weapon has ejection force, everything else. Straight blow black pull back with an intricate magazine," Fishman said.
This is an SKS, one of the two weapons police think the Huddle House murderer may have used. The other possibility, the gunman may have used this, an AK weapon.
"Ejects off the side, not off the front," Fishman said.
But finding the exact murder weapon could be a challenge.
"If you took that type-56 or the AK-47 style weapons and you added up all that are in this country right now, there would probably be between 500-600,000," Fishman said.
So how easy is it to get one of these guns? Well, if you don't have a criminal background and are over the age of 18, with a background check you could get one in 15 minutes. And almost anyone can shoot them as well.
The wolf ammunition the shooter used is also common.
"They have their work cut out for them, they truly have their work cut out for them," Fishman said.
But Steve knows investigators are weapon experts too and believes they'll find the rifle.
"Every police agency in the area is tracking down and following up on every lead that comes to them, working overtime to find that needle in a haystack," Fishman said.
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Grant Heslov, from left, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney pose with their award for best picture for "Argo" during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)
TORONTO (AP) -- The former Canadian ambassador to Iran who protected Americans at great personal risk during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis says it was good to hear Ben Affleck thank Canada after Affleck's film "Argo" won the Oscar for best picture.
"Argo" came under criticism from some Canadians, including former ambassador Ken Taylor, who said he felt slighted by the movie because it makes Canada look like a meek observer to CIA heroics. Taylor says it minimizes Canada's role in the Americans' rescue.
Taylor had hoped Affleck would acknowledge Canada's role. Affleck briefly thanked Canada in his acceptance speech Sunday.
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Here are why 10 draft prospects might look best in the 49ers' receiving corps:
1. Sammy Watkins (6-foot-1, 211 pounds): The Clemson product should be a top-five pick and thus would be pricey for the 49ers to trade up for from No. 30. However, the 49ers' draft-pick warchest gives them enough currency to do it. The speedy play-maker could pair with Kaepernick for the next decade, seeing as how Crabtree's deal expires in 2015 and Boldin's in 2016.
2. Mike Evans (6-5, 231): He literally was a big target for Johnny Manziel, and Evans would provide a great red-zone threat to make 49ers fans forget how the past two season finished. OK, maybe that's a stretch.
3. Odell Beckham Jr. (5-11, 198): An LSU teammate of 49ers safety Eric Reid, Beckham has the desired speed and versatility. He'd also fill another need as a punt/kick returner. His "big stage" numbers aren't great, as opposed to team MVP Jarvis Landry's.
4. Davante Adams (6-1, 212): A Palo Alto High product (as is Jim Harbaugh), Adams had 38 touchdown catches the past two seasons at Fresno State (while the 49ers had 44 total). Baalke raved about Adams' "exceptional" hands, "explosive" jumping ability and capability to separate.
5. Cody Latimer (6-2, 215): Catching a pass in every game he played at Indiana — and 72 total receptions last season — sounds Jerry Rice-esque. He's coming off a foot injury, which sounds Crabtree-esque.
6. Kelvin Benjamin (6-5, 241): His big-bodied frame produced Florida State's first 1,000-yard season since 2002 by Boldin, who could help groom his fellow Seminole.
7. Jordan Matthews (6-3, 212): He has the credentials (SEC-record 262 catches for 3,759 yards) and bloodlines (his mom's second cousin is Jerry Rice), but one NFL personnel executive doubts the 49ers would use a first-round pick on Matthews.
8. Brandin Cooks (5-10, 189): The Stockton native is vertically challenged but quick and slot-position ready. His 128 receptions last season were the most by a Biletnikoff Award winner since Michael Crabtree (138, 2007).
9. Marqise Lee (6-0, 192): Assuming his 2013 knee injury is healed, the 49ers would hope Lee returns to his 2012, Biletnikoff Award-winning form where he once had 345 receiving yards in a game. He has potential as a returner, too.
10. Martavis Bryant (6-4, 211): If he could complement Sammy Watkins for Clemson, he could share the receiving spotlight for a 49ers offense that wants to diversify Kaepernick's targets.


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If you're in the NYC area, don't miss a special presentation of Mountainfilm On-Tour at Lincoln Center. Started in 1979 as a film festival for outdoor enthusiasts, Mountainfilm has grown into one of the leading film festivals in the nation with a range of programming spanning epic adventure films, moving environmental and social documentaries, and profiles of people that inspire.
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Irving v. Lipstadt
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1 A. [Mr Irving] And that they are at risk of being of compared with
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3 Q. [Mr Rampton] You never ever answer my question, Mr Irving.
4 A. [Mr Irving] That was a very good answer, I believe.
5 Q. [Mr Rampton] No, Mr Irving, because you do not listen or because you do
6not want to listen. My question was not about sober
7sentiment, ill-conceived though it may be. My question
8was about the wording, the language, of that passage that
9I read.
10 A. [Mr Irving] Which particular words are we looking at here? Can you
11pick on any particular inflammatory words?
12 Q. [Mr Rampton] Please go back to page 22. I am not going to read it out
14 A. [Mr Irving] Just the Goebbels type of words.
15 Q. [Mr Rampton] "Because if it is" down to the bottom of the page ending
16with the word "Jewish comment".
17 A. [Mr Irving] Is the word "Jewish" a Goebbels word perhaps?
18 Q. [Mr Rampton] No. Please just quietly re-read that section of what you
19said to yourself and tell me when you have got to the
20bottom of the page.
21 A. [Mr Irving] I think I am entitled to know which words you consider are
22typical of Dr Goebbels.
23 Q. [Mr Rampton] Will you please read it and then I will tell you.
24 A. [Mr Irving] My Lord, will you direct him to identify the words he
25considers ----
26 MR JUSTICE GRAY: If you know it by heart then you do not need
1to read it.
2 A. [Mr Irving] I do not know it by heart.
3 MR RAMPTON: The whole passage.
4 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
5 Q. [Mr Rampton] It is redolent of animosity, hostility, contempt, spite,
6malignantly, just like Dr Goebbels articles in Das Reich?
7 A. [Mr Irving] Just like Winston Churchill talking about Adolf Hitler if
8you want to put it like that. Any number of people who
9are capable speakers are capable of using language.
10 Q. [Mr Rampton] Absolutely, you have got it in one, Mr Irving.
11Mr Churchill rallied this country to the flag during the
12war by being spiteful and beastly about Adolf Hitler. The
13difference is, unlikely Dr Goebbels, Winston Churchill had
14a very good reason to be spiteful.
15 A. [Mr Irving] But do not these particular gentleman who I have
16identified by name deserve our contempt, or are you
17supporter of these gentlemen who bilked ordinary people
18out of thousands pounds and their entire life savings as
20 Q. [Mr Rampton] You do not have to give a list of names. All you need to
21say is the sober sentiment, if you believe it. The
22trouble is or one of the problems with the Holocaust is
23that it is sometimes apt to protect some Jewish people who
24have broken the law?
25 A. [Mr Irving] No, I gave chapter and verse. These are specific
26instances which were probably in the news at the time, I
1think Ivan Boesky was in the news at that time, Mr
2Gutfreund, Mr Milken was certainly in the news at that
3that time.
4 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Let us move on.
5 MR RAMPTON: Yes I am trying to.
6 A. [Mr Irving] If you cannot identify which particular words you are
7identifying with Dr. Goebbels ----
8 Q. [Mr Rampton] I am looking at the flavour of the whole passages.
9 A. [Mr Irving] Anybody can play that game, Mr Rampton can.
10 MR JUSTICE GRAY: So am I. We are moving on.
11 MR RAMPTON: And so is his Lordship. I am grateful.
12 A. [Mr Irving] Would you accuse Professor Peter Novac also using the
13language of Dr Goebbels in his ----
14 Q. [Mr Rampton] No, because he does not write like that.
15 A. [Mr Irving] He is a Professor and he is Jewish, so he is allowed to do
16it but non-Jews are excluded.
17 MR JUSTICE GRAY: You can deal with this in your own evidence,
18if you wish.
19 A. [Mr Irving] I certainly shall, my Lord.
20 MR RAMPTON: My Lord, this is Chelsea Town Hall. This is tab
2111 of the same file.
22 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Page 2.
23 MR RAMPTON: Page 2, yes. A couple of a very short passages on
24this page.
25 MR JUSTICE GRAY: The first one is by the upper hole punch.
26 MR RAMPTON: Yes, that is right. Say you, MR IRVING:
1 "If you look at my great Adolf Hitler biography
2here, this bumper Adolf Hitler biography that we have only
3just published, in fact it literally arrived off the
4printing presses today, you won't find the Holocaust
5mentioned in one line, not even a footnote. Why should we
6if something did not happen and you don't even dignify it
7with a footnote". That is in plain terms an assertion by
8you that the Holocaust did not happen?
9 A. [Mr Irving] We have not even heard the word "Holocaust".
10 MR JUSTICE GRAY: This is a speech you made, is it not?
11 MR RAMPTON: I am so sorry, Mr Irving, look at the penultimate
12line of the passage I have just read..
13 A. [Mr Irving] Am I looking at the wrong passage?
14 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I think I it must, because it starts, "if You
15look at my great Adolf Hitler biography", which sounds as
16if it could be you speaking.
17 A. [Mr Irving] I see right, yes.
18 Q. [Mr Justice Gray] Did you say that?
19 A. [Mr Irving] Well, obviously the reference, as we have now found out,
20the word "Holocaust" has been taken out of the second
21volume, yes. You will not find "Holocaust" mentioned in
22this book.
23 Q. [Mr Justice Gray] Because it did not happen, that is what you are saying?
24 A. [Mr Irving] Well, I do not want to quibble about this too much, but we
25do not really know what we are talking about when we are
26saying if something did not happen. I know his Lordship
1will interrupt and say straightaway you are referring to
2the Holocaust, but we do not know how much of a pause
3there is there. We do not know what emphasis is made
4here. We have to look at the whole speech. The
5references later on you will see to the bars of soap and
6so on, which clearly did not happen because that has now
7been admitted. I mean that is what we are building up
8to. This is a topic sentence.
9 MR RAMPTON: I know it is late but I really do not think you
10are doing yourself justice. Look down to the bottom page
11at 001425.
12 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
13 Q. [Mr Rampton] Read it out loud, will you?
14 A. [Mr Irving] Well, I am looking at a paragraph which you want skipped.
15 Q. [Mr Rampton] No.
16 MR JUSTICE GRAY: What is there in there that you really derive
17any assistance from?
18 A. [Mr Irving] "Two years from now nobody in the world will believe in
19these absurd legends any longer. They already don't
20believe in the absurd legends of Jewish concentration camp
21prisoners being turned into bars of soap, because Jad
22Vaschen has now formally admitted that that was a lie."
23So this is what I am talking about, if things do not
24happen they do not deserve a footnote. So I am being
25specific in what follows by what I mean.
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Vail official report: 0" new snow, 18" mid, 29" total
Liftline status: Slight line gathered at Eagle Bahn for first chair, nothing on Chair 8
Weather: Maybe a few degrees colder than yesterday with some high clouds
Breakdown: Still none of that snow that was predicted, leaving today much the rest of the week at Vail. Great groom, great group of morning snowriders. Snow gods, why have you forsaken us?
Snowcast: Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, probably not Tuesday or Wednesday but maybe Thursday.


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Nice Apartment by Mediterranean
Size40 m²
Floor No.0
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Disabled access
|Passatge Rovira, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
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The sleeping arrangement accommodates 4 guests on 2 single beds and a double sofa bed. Bright, high windows illuminate the space, which is decorated with modern art pieces. The open-plan kitchen is well-equipped for self-catering, and the bathroom is spacious with a walk-in shower.
Right around the corner, guests will find a metro stop. Trains run from there to the lovely beachside neighbourhood of La Barceloneta in 6 minutes, the Gothic Quarter and El Born in 8 minutes, and Plaça de Catalunya and Passeig de Gracia in 10 minutes.
There are numerous parks and restaurants in the area and the major street Avinguda Diagonal is a 5-minute walk away. Along the beach there are several bars, restaurants, and nightclubs as well.
Parking costs are not included in the rental price of the apartment. Contact owner for the price
No smoking.
Be respectful of the neighbours and keep the noise to a minimum after 10:00 pm.
Guests should treat the apartment as if it were their own home.
Flexible check-in and check-out may be possible depending on availability.
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We was stayed for three days by Teresa and Xavier. Hosts are pleasurable. The flat is big and bright. It is good place for holiday or rest.
Maria Teresa was so kind to me and my friends when we arrived at the apartment.
She offered us cold water and explained everything we asked about Barcelona.
We loved the apartment and our stay in this amazing city.
Thank you for everything,
We were lucky to find this amazing apartement. Everything same as described in the pictures and explanations. Supermarket is just seconds away fron them apartement. 10 minutes walk to the beautiful beach of Barcelona and it was really simple to get to city center by Metro.
Maria Teresa and Xavier have been the best hosts we've had so far. They gave all us all the neccessary information at beginning, so we knew what to vist and where to go.
I would absolutely recommend this apartement.
Maria Teresa was fantastic. She took time explaining where things were. The apartment was very clean, light and spacious. We enjoyed our time there and will definitely be going back. Gracias.
This apartment is a must!
Maria Terese and her husband are fantastic lovely people, helpful and considerate!
We arrived very early in the morning, the apartment was still not free but we could leave our suitcases at her and immediately into the city.
The apartment is located in a quiet street, it is spacious and clean, all you need is present.
Close to the beach, public transport and shops around the corner.
A great place!
Sandra & Thomas
The apartment is nice and above all very clean. It is centrally located and the owner Teresa and Xavier are extremely nice and helpful. Even hiring a garage is possible! Highly recommended! We'll come back!
Thank you very much!
It was our first stay in Barcelona, which we will remember and recall very nice. Apartment large, spacious, well-equipped with a loft style :-)
Only one disadvantage: it is a pity that you can not see Barcelona through the windows - are very high and you can not even have a look threw...
Location - perfect for all trips - just 5 min. to the metro station!. Nearby a lot of possibilities to buy food. Few minutes of walk and You are at the sea!
We can recommend it. Teresa and Xavier are very kind and friendly people. We enjoyed our trip and some day we will come back to Barcelona!
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It was our first stay in Barcelona and our apartment was perfect for all our trips. It has a kitchen and nereby a lot of possibilities to buy food, and we had to go just 5 min. to the Metro station! We can recommend it very much and Teresa and Xavier are very friendly people. We enjoyed our trip and some day we will come backto Barcelona and will hope, that the apartment is still offered! Thanks a lot!
Apartment is 10-15 minutes from beach, 3 minutes from metro station Poble Nou, 2 minutes from Lidl supermarket :)
In 15 minutes (by metro) can to get to the Passage Gracia (and thence easy to get to El-Prat airport by renfe R2 train).
Apartment is cozy but in apartment is the lack of the natural light. You can't look out the window. If it is a problem for someone...
HOSTS are very very friendly and helpful (they live near the apartment).
We recommend visit their apartment :))
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From 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, MoDOT crews will close the eastbound U.S. 36 exit ramp to U.S. 61 in Hannibal for pavement repair operations.
The exit ramp will be closed to all eastbound U.S. 36 traffic going to U.S. 61; eastbound traffic exiting to U.S. 61 can use the next exit at Missouri 79 where they will have to turn around to U.S. 36 heading west, then exit to U.S. 61. The closure is necessary due to the tight confined area of the work zone.
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PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Five former standouts representing five sports will be given the ultimate recognition on Saturday when they're immortalized as members of the athletics Hall of Fame at the University of Pikeville.
Basketball player Nathan Kirk, cross country runner Phillip Mosley, tennis player and coach Rodrigo Puebla, Chad Roberts of baseball and football player Michael Sheppard compose the Class of 2013.
In addition, West Virginia native Buck Harless will be inducted in the honorary wing of the Hall of Fame for his contributions to the program and the institution.
The ceremony will be held Saturday morning at 11 a.m. in Booth Auditorium, located on the fifth floor of the Record Memorial Building on the main campus of the university. The event will be followed by the basketball doubleheader against Cumberland University at the East Kentucky Expo Center. Game times are 2 and 4 p.m.
After a stellar career at Matewan, W.Va., High School where he was all-state in track and basketball while also playing football and baseball, Nathan Kirk signed a scholarship agreement to play basketball at Pikeville. After playing one season for Coach Dale McNeeley, he finished his career for longtime Coach Paul Butcher, who added him to his starting rotation on the baseball team.
As a senior Kirk averaged nearly 15 points per game and had a batting average of .320 while playing three positions on the baseball field. On the court, Butcher labeled Kirk the best defensive player he ever coached, a compliment Kirk says meant more to him than making an All-American team. To prove Butcher's point, as a sophomore Kirk held future Olympic-team captain Kenny Davis to half his scoring average when the Bears played Georgetown.
Kirk received a degree in business with a minor in PE, graduating with a 3.2 grade-point average. After 37 years with American Electric Power in Pikeville, he retired in 2010, allowing him more time with his wife, son and four grandchildren.
After helping Cordia High School to a state championship, Phillip Mosley was one of the first student-athletes to sign a cross country scholarship at Pikeville and made the most of it.
Mosley and his brother Rhett are what Coach John Biery has called "the cornerstone of the program." Mosley recalls often running in meets where the duo finished first and second. He says, despite his success, he was "pleasantly surprised" to have been recruited to run in college, and would not have come to Pikeville if not for Rhett.
A team captain in his time as a Bear, Mosley was a two-time academic all-conference selection. At the time of his induction, Mosley is a children's therapist living back in Perry County with his wife and two children.
A native of Santiago, Chile, Rodrigo Puebla came to Pikeville after spending two seasons at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala., and it is no accident that his time as a Bear coincided with the most successful run in tennis in school history.
In 2000, Puebla was first-team All-KIAC in both singles and doubles. The following season the Bears took the Mid-South Conference by storm, winning the championship while Puebla was honorable mention in singles and all-conference in doubles. He led the program to consecutive appearances in the NAIA national tournament.
After receiving his degree business administration emphasizing management, Puebla became the coach of the women's tennis program. Under his guidance, the team was Mid-South Conference champions in 2003 as he was named coach of the year in both the league and the region. He had the league's player of the year, three first-team all-conference singles players and two first-team doubles pairings as the team reached the NAIA national quarterfinals.
After having one of the best careers in the storied history of Pikeville High School baseball where he finished with a career record of 12-0 while being named first-team all-state, Chad Roberts continued that success at Pikeville College. Chad led the team in wins, strikeouts and earned-run average three times as a Bear.
In 2003 he was selected first-team All-Mid-South Conference after winning seven games and finishing with an ERA of 3.14. But the outing for which he is most remembered was his final one in a Bear uniform. In a 2005 MSC tournament game which went an NAIA record 22 innings, Roberts pitched the first 15 frames in which he threw an amazing 194 pitches and faced a staggering 52 batters.
In his career, Roberts was 18-9 with a 3.38 ERA. In 211.2 innings, he struck out 169 while walking only 71, allowing 151 hits and 102 earned runs.
A member of the celebrated Elite Nine, Michael Sheppard's career at Pikeville stacks up strongly compared to any since he helped begin the football program with the 2000 club team. Thanks to the efforts of Shep and his teammates, particularly the nine with whom he both started the program and then graduated in 2004, the program was off the ground with a flying start.
Sheppard had 189 career tackles, including 121 solos, both of which were second most for the school at the time of his graduation. At the time of his induction, his 20.5 sacks stood as the school record and his six forced fumbles had been topped only one time.
As a senior, Sheppard had 87 tackles, 56 of them solos, which were both second on the school's list. His 12 sacks as a junior is still the school record, while the 7.5 he recorded as a senior was fourth. As a junior, he forced four fumbles, which is second at Pikeville. As a senior against Union, Sheppard had 15 tackles in a game, and during his junior season against Bethel, he had six tackles for loss and his five sacks and two forced fumbles that day remain the most in school history.
Buck Harless has been a friend of the university for decades, and was a key figure in the initiation of the football program in 2000.
"Mr. Harless is one of the most philanthropic individuals not only in the mountains of Appalachia but also in the entire country," said James Hurley, vice-president of the institution. "His kindness and generosity to the university has, in many ways, helped paved the way for a generation of students, particularly from his beloved home of West Virginia. His friendship to our school has been extraordinary."


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OAKLAND -- The first senior housing cooperative of its kind in the Bay Area moved closer to completion Thursday when city officials joined the developer behind Phoenix Commons and broke ground along the Oakland-Alameda Estuary.
The 41-unit retirement community, which is expected to open in about a year, will be built on a vacant lot near the Park Street Bridge and will allow seniors to enjoy the privacy of living in their own home, while still offering a co-housing lifestyle that promotes social interaction.
"Friends and family are the way to success," said Chris Zimmerman of Elder Village Development, which is behind the $21 million project. "I think that is what co-housing is all about, developing new friends."
Among the amenities of the future building at 340 29th Ave. will be a patio and a private dock, plus it will have a 7,000-square-foot shared space with a communal kitchen and a dining room that overlooks the waterfront. Some residents will have views of the San Francisco skyline.
The four-story building in the city's Jingletown neighborhood will have about an equal number of one- and two-bedroom units, each with a private kitchen and bathroom, from 630 to 1,100 square feet.
The price will range from $350,000 to $560,000, Zimmerman said. The residents, who will be age 58 and older, will take part in maintaining the property, including gardening.
Homeowner association dues are expected to be about $450 a month.
What helps make the future retirement community unique is that residents will purchase a share of the building and its communal spaces and they will have a say in what amenities are on offer, according to those behind the project.
Lauren Zimmerman Cook, the project's chief financial officer, described it as "a combination of both a building and a community."
"This is going to be very interactive, a place for people to live together," Zimmerman Cook said.
The building will promote sustainability, she said, including through using recycled water and vegetation screens to cool temperatures during the summer.
Elder Village Development is a part of Alameda Elder Communities, which has been providing senior housing and skilled nursing facilities for more than 40 years in the Bay Area. Its facilities include the Elders Inn and the Waters Edge Lodge in Alameda.
Phoenix Commons will be built on the site of Tiki Tom's, a waterfront restaurant and bar that burned down in October 2010.
Mayor Jean Quan, who was among those who donned a hard hat for Thursday's groundbreaking, said the future retirement community was part of the ongoing revitalization of Oakland's waterfront, including the 3,100 residential units planned at the Brooklyn Basin project near Jack London Square.
Quan also said the cooperative was part of a trend of seniors moving from suburbs to urban areas, and of baby boomers like herself getting older and wanting to keep an active lifestyle.
"I think we will redefine retirement and how people live as seniors," she said.
Contact Peter Hegarty at 510-748-1654. Follow him at Twitter.com/Peter_Hegarty.


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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kevin Durant had a career night -- even by his lofty standards -- and the Warriors couldn't overcome their Oklahoma City woes in a 127-121 loss to the Thunder on Friday.
Durant delivered a career-high 54 points while knocking down 19 of 28 shots. He had 15 points in the fourth quarter and spent the whole night tormenting the Warriors' defense, which struggled for the second straight game.
"We're a good enough defensive team to give a little better effort, fight a little harder," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said.
It's Golden State's 10th straight loss to the Thunder in Oklahoma City, and the Warriors are 1-10 all-time against them at Chesapeake Energy Arena. They haven't beaten the Thunder on their home court since the team's first season in Oklahoma City in 2008.
It's the second straight game the Warriors were torched by an opposing offense after they allowed 123 points in a loss to the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday.
"We've just got to compete better," center Andrew Bogut said of Golden State's defense. "I'm not sure what it is. We've just got to be more committed to it. There's no reason for alarm bells, but it's two games in a row where we've given up huge margins."
Stephen Curry had 37 points and 11 assists for the Warriors -- plus seven turnovers -- but this night fully belonged to Durant, who now has the NBA's three highest-scoring games this season. When Durant wasn't racing past defenders to get to the rim, he was using his 6-foot-9 height and long wingspan to knock down shots right over them.
"At his height, there's not really much you can do when he gets hot," Bogut said of Durant.
The Warriors want to be considered an elite team in the Western Conference, but this night proved why they aren't quite at Oklahoma City's level. The Thunder is without its other superstar, guard Russell Westbrook. And yet the team isn't skipping a beat while it awaits his return.
"They're a really good team, and they've been playing together for a while," Warriors swingman Andre Iguodala said. "They execute everything. When you take one thing away, they've got option 2 and 3, even if Kevin is option 1, 2, 3 and 4."
The Warriors stayed in the game most of the way because of their offense. Klay Thompson had 26 points, although just five in the second half, and Golden State shot 52.4 percent from the field and made 16 of 27 from 3-point range.
"At the end of the day, 121 points for us offensively is good enough to win ballgames," Jackson said. "That's the disappointing part about it."
Golden State trailed by seven points with under 8 minutes to play and was still down by just nine when Durant delivered 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions that helped put the game out of reach. Oklahoma City pushed the lead to 17 points before the Warriors made the final score look close with a late run.
Even with the Thunder playing the second game of a back-to-back -- it won in Houston on Thursday night -- the Warriors couldn't find a way to slow Oklahoma City down.
"We let them get off to a hot start," Curry said. "When you let a guy like KD -- leading the league in scoring -- start off a game as hot as he did, regardless of it's a back-to-back or how many minutes he plays, he's going to find a way to continue that."
Follow Jimmy Durkin on Twitter at Twitter.com/Jimmy_Durkin.
Saturday's game
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San Jose State quarterback David Fales is as efficient with his words as his passes. The senior was at his most succinct recently when asked about last year's narrow loss to Stanford and the Spartans' mindset this week.
"We'll be ready," he said, "and we definitely remember."
So does the Cardinal.
SJSU played so well in a 20-17 defeat that it seemingly has lost the element of surprise. Fifth-ranked Stanford is expected to bring the full force of its talent and experience into Saturday's tango.
"We're going to get their best shot," Cardinal linebacker Shayne Skov said, "and we'll give them ours."
Stanford is a 251/2-point favorite in the last Bill Walsh Legacy Game, named for the SJSU alum and former Stanford coach. (The teams aren't scheduled to meet in the future.) If it's anything like last year's encounter, the finale should be well-stocked with drama.
Playing its first game in the post-Andrew Luck era, the Cardinal zoomed to a 14-0 lead and appeared headed to another blowout victory over the Spartans.
And then everything changed: SJSU settled in, bucked up and fought back.
The Spartans matched Stanford's power at the line of scrimmage and stuffed the Cardinal running game. Fales found his rhythm -- at the time, he was a little-known transfer from Monterey Peninsula College -- and SJSU scored twice in the third quarter to pull even.
A field goal by Stanford's Jordan Williamson early in the fourth was the difference.
"We were ill-prepared," Cardinal nickel back Usua Amanam said earlier this week. "It wasn't until the third or fourth quarter that we realized we were in a dogfight.
"It didn't dawn on me how good San Jose State was. We're all fully aware now."
Stanford will be the fresher team Saturday, but that might not be an advantage.
The Spartans, who beat Sacramento State last week, have been able to identify and correct early-season kinks.
Stanford, which had a bye, doesn't know what its kinks are.
Nor does the Cardinal know what to expect from SJSU, which has a new coaching staff and new playbook.
More than likely, the Spartans withheld their best schemes and formations from the season opener and will unleash them Saturday.
But one thing is certain: If Fales gets comfortable in the pocket, the Spartans will again be in range of an upset in the fourth quarter.
Last year, he completed 68.6 percent of his passes against what proved to be one of the top defenses in the nation.
"He's hard to get to because he has such a quick release and sees things pretty quickly," Cardinal coach David Shaw said. "The combination of his accuracy and the fact that he can go through his reads quickly is very impressive."
All the participants, it seems, have vivid memories.
For more on college sports, see Jon Wilner's College Hotline at blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports. Contact him at email@example.com or 408-920-5716.
San Jose State (1-0)
at No. 5 Stanford (0-0),
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Stanford leads 51-14-1 and has won five in a row, including a 20-17 victory last year. This is the final scheduled game in the series. San Jose State hasn't beaten Stanford since 2006.


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In a similar fashion to how a mysterious problem deep within a sewer system is discovered, the Enterprise stumbled upon a unique business thriving in Eagle County when a little pipe led to a bigger one.
Freedom Enterprises Inc. is the business and its mission is to find and fix all kinds of pipe-related problems. Not just any pipes, either. Freedom Enterprises specializes in the big and the strange, using innovation almost every step of the way.
"It's amazing the amount of technology you can cram in a pipe these days," said Bob Rasnick, part owner of the Bond-based company (his wife, Melinda Gorman is the president).
Rasnick's crew is called to handle tough situations. When the town of Red Cliff entered a state of emergency last week after going without water for several days due to a frozen water main, Freedom Enterprises was on standby.
"My guys got the call late Friday and were out there on Saturday," Rasnick said.
They helped find and fix the problem.
"The real credit belongs to the employees and management team at Eagle River Water and Sanitation District," Freedom Enterprises wrote in a statement. "Our company was there for only a short time compared to the district employees."
Before responding to the Red Cliff site, most of the nine-person FE crew was working on frozen water lines at a metal mine near Leadville.
"The same pipe froze again," Rasnick said of a big job that is at 11,000 feet in elevation, far away from the road and gets wind chills up to 65 degrees below zero. Rasnick's crew fixed it the first time in epic conditions in 2007, working continuous shifts for 10 days. The same pipe froze again last year and now this year.
"It's been a really bad year for this stuff because there is no snow cover to insulate the ground," Rasnick said. "That's what happened in Red Cliff."
The company tackles high pressure jobs. Not only is an element of time pressure often involved but the jobs frequently require the use of water jetting and blasting. "Water jetting" is anything from 0 to 5,000 psi and "blasting" is 5,000 to 80,000 psi.
Cases of frozen pipes generally involve jetting 120-degree water into the line. Other work that Freedom Enterprises does for the mines requires blasting the metal buildup in pipes, which occurs from mineral-laden water running through them over time.
The trick, especially when blasting, is not to punch a hole in the pipe or worse. Safety is a must.
"It could take your arm off. This stuff is going ballistic," Rasnick said of a water blast's danger. "It cuts steel without making sparks." That's why his crew members wear Kevlar suits for certain jobs. "After 19 years in the business, I haven't had a guy injured on the job except for one who cut his finger in the shop," Rasnick added.
Not damaging pipe, which is sometimes plastic, requires the proper hose nozzle and a skilled hand to direct the jet or the blast just right.
"Titus (Larsson) knows how to lay the nozzle back and blast stuff out without damaging pipe," Rasnick said of his foreman.
Choosing the correct nozzle is no easy task, either.
"There are millimeter differences and hundreds of nozzles," Rasnick said. "Most people use computers to figure out which to use, but one of my guys with a photographic memory just knows."
Besides high-pressure pumps and hoses, there is almost no telling what else might be used for a job. Sometimes dry ice is used for "cold cleaning" and of course there are cameras used to explore pipes as well. In one case, a snowblower was rigged to the end of a long hose and lowered into an open structure with a crane.
"There was 11 feet of snow in there," Rasnick said. "Four guys shoveled into the snowblower, which sucked the snow into a truck, which had to be emptied every few minutes."
Improvisation is where Rasnick's crew really shines.
"Once every two weeks, I'll see or hear of something I have never seen or heard of before," Rasnick said. "The challenge is so interesting, I think that is why these smart people stay with the job."
"It's hard to imagine some of the stuff you get in pipes," Rasnick said. "When my son was in eighth grade, he did a report on things I found in sewers and he stopped me when we got up to around 50."
Rasnick and a female employee once jetted a raccoon out of a pipe in Avon.
"She was standing by the hose where it went in the pipe - I couldn't see her - when she started screaming bloody murder," he said. "The water jet had forced the raccoon out and when we turned it off, it went right back into the pipe."
Rasnick has also come across dentures in the sewer - "the guy is still wearin' them," he said - and at least one historical marvel. He was working on repairing the dam at Chapman Reservoir ...
"It's on U.S. Forest Service land but it's private water," Rasnick said. "I met this really old guy who was the son of the guy who built the dam. His father built it with a horse-drawn sledge and clay pipe. That pipe was 100 years old and it only had one crack, I couldn't believe it. People don't lay pipe that well anymore."
Rasnick was doing a video inspection of a clogged pipe in Utah when the camera encountered a frog. The frog hopped away and Rasnick followed it with the camera.
"I came across what looked like a rock at first," he said. "Then it turned out to be a turtle that was stuck."
The crew found themselves in another unique situation when they inspected a water tunnel in Glenwood Canyon that ran from the dam to the power plant. The tunnel was just big enough to drive a vehicle in but it got so tight that the men had to climb out the windows.
Rasnick started Freedom Enterprises in 1993 as a humble household-type plumbing business.
He had grown up working with his dad as a plumber in the 1950s. After serving in the Vietnam War, he did a variety of jobs, working as a coal miner, before finding his niche by chance. One day he had a clog in his sewer system and rented equipment to fix it.
"Then my neighbors offered to pay me to do theirs," he said. "I realized I could make more money doing that."
With almost no assets, Freedom Sewer and Drain was launched out of Oak Creek.
"I bought a cable machine and started the business with $1,200 and two borrowed pipe wrenches," Rasnick said. "The cable machine was $1,100."
Before long the business grew so much that it couldn't stay in Oak Creek.
"I couldn't keep my equipment at my house there, so we moved to Bond," Rasnick said.
Rasnick and Gorman lived in a trailer at their present location in Bond for six years while they built their home and business. Rasnick said the plumbing business has changed a lot since his father's time in the 1950s.
"Now we've got cameras, sonar and laser profiling," he said. "There's a lot to know these days but my dad got into plumbing after dropping out of school to take care of his family."
The mountain region's elevation, geology and temperatures spawn invention out of necessity.
Rasnick and his crew are constantly tinkering with equipment, trying to make it better. A lot of it has to do with finding easier ways to get it to remote job sites or how to function better in extreme cold.
The crew is currently working on a truck that has never been seen before.
"People we buy parts from said it was impossible, that they had tried it and it couldn't be done," Rasnick said.
Now the boxed truck - enclosed for warmth - is almost finished. Its design revolves around a 15,000 psi pump.
"We're going to test blowout preventers," Rasnick said. Blowout preventers are valves used on oil and gas wells.
That ingenuity is probably why Freedom Enterprises is pretty much one of a kind, serving a multi-state region from its headquarters.
"We would be in the one percent of people who do what we do," Rasnick said. "There might be five to 10 people in the state who are close to what we do."
The Enterprise stumbled on the business out of curiosity about Eagle's "dirty movies" - video footage of the town sewer system.
Freedom Enterprises explores and records up to 25,000 feet of pipe each year in Eagle to locate areas in need of repair. With that help, Eagle Public Works and other municipalities don't have to search blindly for problems, and can even anticipate them. In comparison with the FE's other jobs, it's small potatoes.
"We do it because we like the guys" Rasnick said.


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Clippard Park Skate Park Colerain Township Ohio
Clippard Park Skate Park is located in the Colerain Township in Ohio. It is in the area's first skate park and located near the pack of the park. It is visible from I-275. This is a new fee skate park. Clippard Park Skate Park features a 10' bowl with pool coping, a 4' bowl with a ledge, a [read more...]
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The Flow Skate Park is approximately 50,000 square feet of indoor challenges for the beginner to advanced skater. The Flow Skate Park is located in Columbus, Ohio, one of the largest skate parks in the nation, boasting over 50,000 square feet Established in 2001, privately owned, it is [read more...]
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Marietta Skate Park Marietta Ohio
Located in Indian Acres Park, in Marietta, Ohio, the designers have incorporated the Native American influence within their design of the Marietta Skate Park. The "mount" located in the middle of the park, is in homage to the mounds found around Marietta. Three years after completion of the [read more...]
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Eagle Creek Skate Park is located in Findlay, Ohio. The railroad tracks separate the youth baseball Kohler Field, from the tennis courts and the skate park. Located on an asphalt pad, this park features a halfpipe, a funbox, five- and seven-foot quarterpipes, five- and seven-foot roll-ins, a [read more...]
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Roads, infrastructure dominate spring 2-percent grants
ARENAC COUNTY — Money for roads, and other infrastructure projects dominated the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's spring 2-percent grant distributions to municipal entities May 30.
Arenac County received $210,000 from the tribe, with $185,000 allocated for continuing work on Sagatoo Road around LaFave Road. The county also received $20,000 for new courtroom equipment and another $5,000 to go toward cleaning up county rivers.
County Commissioner Jeff Trombley was on hand to accept the funds, and spoke about the importance of keeping the roads in good shape. He said he knew when the tribe started the grants in 2008 that roads would need to be a priority.
"Without roads, you can't have any kind of an economy," Trombley said. "People won't come up in the tourist industry and drive on the roads that the farmers are used to."
The city of Au Gres also received $50,000 to continue work on repairing and improving the city's boundary roads with the neighboring townships. The city has been working with its neighbors on the roads for some time, City Manager Pat Killingbeck said, adding the council appreciates the support.
Omer received $2,030 to purchase weed barriers, trim and rubber mulch for the playground the city had just installed at the park next to city hall. Mayor Alice Sproule said she had underestimated the cost of the playground when the city was awarded the initial grant to build it in November, and after issues with getting cement for it, the city ended up falling short.
"My focus is not on roads but on children," Sproule said. "We've got a wonderful library thanks to the tribe, a fence around it and a beautiful playground."
Other area cities, Standish and Pinconning, received funding for police equipment. Standish received $3,610 for taser and other supplies, while Pinconning received $2,332 to upgrade the city's outdated phone equipment.
The village of Sterling was given $12,611 for its sewer lagoons improvement project. Village President Jim Hazeltine said the sewer improvements are projected to cost a total of $1.2 million, so "anything is a big benefit to the people in the village."
The general township distribution was $1,000, but some townships received additional funding for other projects. Arenac Township was given $6,100 for a veteran memorial, while Au Gres Township received $4,700 to continue improvements at Linwood Cemetery. Lincoln Township received $1,000 for a mobile food pantry.
Mason Township received $10,000 to go toward work on Lehman Road, while Pinconning Township received $15,000 for Hunter Road work and $14,351 for firefighter safety equipment and training. Turner Township received $10,000 for its road gravel fund.
Standish Township received the most out of any of the townships, however. The Standish Area Fire Authority was given $34,000 for fire and rescue equipment, and another $5,000 went to the township to improve the township hall. Another $25,000 was distributed for work on the Budd Drain, which runs through Standish Township.
Township Supervisor Robert North said as a longtime resident of Standish Township, it was a pleasure to get to work with the tribe.
"I grew up a mile or so away and I used to fish in the creek," North said. "Seeing the casino come into the area has been amazing. My granddad was in the township too, but he never got to work with you fellows."
Tribal Chief Dennis Kequom spoke positively about the requests the tribal council gets from local municipalities and schools.
"You guys make good, sound decisions, and for us it's hard to make the decision on who gets what," he said. "If you don't get something this time, just keep putting in for it."
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The Greene-Dreher Historical Society will hold its monthly membership meeting at the Peggy Bancroft Hall at 1 p.m. on Monday, April 1.
In 1926, Wilsonville disappeared under the rising water of Lake Wallenpaupack. Jon Tandy, past president of the Wallenpaupack Historical Society, will share sonar images, pictures, and legends of the "Town Under the Lake."
Guests and new members are always welcome.
Visit the Greene-Dreher Historical Society site for information, directions to the hall, and the complete 2013 schedule of events at www.greenehs.org or
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Bill Clinton Had Blunt Words During 1997 Speech Prep
As then-President Bill Clinton prepped for his State of the Union address in 1997, he offered his advisers blunt thoughts on everything from the desired racial make-up of the crowd to his failure to pass a health-care plan.
A new batch of documents released Friday by the Clinton Library includes a transcript of a conversation Mr. Clinton had with unnamed advisers less than a week before his State of the Union speech on Feb. 4, 1997. (See pages 171-192.) Mr. Clinton did most of the talking, offering a long list of suggestions about every aspect of the address and lobbying to make it longer.
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As they discussed guests they might invite and people in the crowd who were likely to be shown on television during the speech, the president weighed in with some ideas about diversity. Mr. Clinton suggested that Gary Locke, a Chinese American who then was governor of Washington, should be featured prominently.
"You might think about putting Locke up there," Mr. Clinton said. "And I'd like to do it because it's a real finder in the eye to all those Asian bashers … and Jim Hunt – hell, I can mention him in the crowd if he's out there. He's got an Asian wife, too. And she's beautiful. She's a fine person."
As the group discussed efforts to ensure that children can read at grade level, an adviser described the planned optics for the speech. They discussed inviting schoolchildren.
"That's fine," Mr. Clinton said. "Just make sure they're not both white."
During the last several months, the Clinton Library has been releasing thousands of pages of documents that had not previously been made public. Friday's batch offered another glimpse into the Clinton White House, pulling back the curtain on a few frank conversations the president had with his staff.
According to the transcript, as Mr. Clinton worked his way through a draft of the State of the Union speech, he acknowledged some of the limitations of his proposals.
"I don't think we should say that we can meet all our obligations because my own view is that we don't meet all our obligations in this plan," Mr. Clinton told his advisers. "We don't do diddly squat about health care, and I just don't think we should say that."
Later, Mr. Clinton said he had called then-Sen. Bob Kerrey to mull over how to speak about the issue of uninsured Americans in the State of the Union Speech. By then, Mr. Clinton's proposed health-care plan had been defeated, and the president was contemplating how to revisit the issue.
"I just said, look, Bob, we tried the health care before, and I said, we're not doing (expletive) to increase coverage," Mr. Clinton said of his conversation with the senator. "I said, I'm doing the best I can in this budget on children, but what do you think I ought to say?"
In the end, the president's speech included only a brief section about health care that noted his plans to insure more children but offered no major proposals cover most of the 40 million Americans who lacked health insurance then.
As Mr. Clinton talked with his advisers about plans to mobilize thousands of reading tutors, the president lamented the lack of a hotline for Americans who might want to volunteer to help.
"We need to have an 800 number or something where people who want to do this can call in and then get referred back to their local reading program," Mr. Clinton said. "I wish to God we had an 800 number to call that I could put in this speech."
Throughout the meeting, Mr. Clinton repeatedly suggested adding more details and new sections to the speech, as his advisers proposed possible trims to the address.
"I know all we've done today is make it longer," Mr. Clinton said as the conversation concluded. "But now we've got something we can go with. Now we've got some meat and potatoes."


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Venture Capital Fundraising Was Flat in 2012
Overall private equity fundraising was up last year but venture capital didn't participate in the rebound.
Venture fundraising hit a plateau in 2012 with $20.3 billion raised, much of it by a handful of big firms, according to Dow Jones LP Source. The story was little different from 2011, which also saw about $20 billion raised.
Last year, just 11 funds, all larger than $500 million, accounted for $11.3 billion of venture capital funds raised. That included $2.6 billion committed to New Enterprise Associates for its 14th fund, one of the largest venture funds ever raised. In all, 154 venture funds held closings in 2012, two fewer than in 2011.
Overall private equity fundraising was up, as U.S. firms raised $160.4 billion across 426 funds in 2012, compared with $133 billion raised by 453 funds during 2011, according to LP Source, a research unit of VentureWire publisher Dow Jones & Co. Buyout funds, mezzanine funds and secondary funds all saw increased commitments.
"Venture continues to be pressured," said Steve Baker, deputy head of private equity at Fort Washington Investment Advisors. "Reliable performance is what it's all about. Venture will continue to have to prove itself."
But despite the fundraising prowess of large venture firms, there was plenty of evidence that small firms with proven strategies can succeed. Sigma Partners split into two firms and its West Coast team closed an inaugural fund of $124 million under the banner of Sigma West. The East Coast half of the firm, reorganized as Sigma Prime Ventures, is looking to raise $150 million.
Boston's .406 Ventures wrapped up its sophomore fund at $175 million having scored exits via the acquisitions of five of its portfolio companies. Avalon Ventures and Foundry Group, both investors in gaming company Zynga, also held closings on new funds.
In a year marked by Facebook's disappointing initial public offering in May, commitments to late-stage venture capital fell by 15%, to $4.8 billion. Besides a pair of Sequoia Capital growth funds, the list included Institutional Venture Partners XIV LP, managed by Institutional Venture Partners, 2012′s largest late-stage fund at $1 billion. The firm is a backer of Twitter, whose highly anticipated IPO could come this year.
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The Hannibal First Church of the Nazarene at West Ely Road and Munger Lane is presenting a live nativity scene from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. It began Friday , Dec. 21, and is continuing Saturday, Dec. 22, and Sunday, Dec. 23.
Each group portrays the Biblical scene in half-hour shifts. It may be viewed from Munger Lane or by parking in the church parking lot and walking along a lit pathway for a closer view. The Scripture is read during the enactment.
On Saturday, several families were taking their children to see and hear the story of Jesus' birth.
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RingTV.com caught up with former undisputed middleweight titleholder Kelly Pavlik for this Q&A regarding his future.
The 29-year-old Pavlik (37-2, 32 KOs) said that he is ready to take advantage of changes in his career that were proposed by manager Cameron Dunkin, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, Top Rank Vice President Carl Moretti and Pavlik's father and co-manager, Mike Pavlik, during an Oct. 21 meeting in New York.
Click here for Kelly Pavlik's video interview with RingTV.com's Ryan Songalia.
Dunkin, Arum and Moretti invited the Pavliks to New York, where they were in attendance for an Oct. 22, HBO-televised bout during which THE RING's No. 4 pound-for-pound WBO/WBC bantamweight titleholder Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18 KOs) successfully defended his belts against WBO junior bantamweight beltholder Omar Narvaez (35-1-2, 19 KOs) of Argentina at Madison Square Garden.
In an interview on the evening of Oct. 21, Arum told RingTV.com that the gathering with the Pavliks went well, and Dunkin outlined the details designed to resurrect the beleagured Kelly Pavlik to the point where he is on par with mangerial stablemates such as Donaire, RING No. 1-rated lightweight and WBA titleholder Brandon Rios (28-0-1, 21 KOs), RING No. 8-ranked pound for pound WBO junior welterweight beltholder Tim Bradley (27-0, 11 KOs) and unbeaten featherweight prospect Mikey Garcia (27-0, 23 KOs),
Among the alterations suggested to Pavlik were to move with his wife and two young children from his native Youngstown, Ohio, to Oxnard, Calif., where he would be trained by Robert Garcia, the same corner man who guides Donaire, Rios and Mikey Garcia.
"We're going to implement those techniques into Kelly and let him see what that's like," Dunkin told RingTV.com. "We'll see how he likes it, and find out if we've got ourselves a heckuva fighter. We think that we could and that we do."
The changes could also involve leaving long-time trainer Jack Loew.
"We want to send him to Oxnard with Robert Garcia…We're going to send him up to Oxnard. We're going to get him a nice, beautiful house for his family. That way, he's not staying in a hotel room. We're going to give him the best of everything," said Dunkin.
"We're going to rent him a van, you know, for his kids and everything and for his wife. We're going to give him the best of everything so that he's going to have a chance to become a good fighter again, and if he doesn't, then he doesn't. But he's going to have a chance to."
The moves were set in motion following Pavlik's pulling out of a scheduled August fight against southpaw Darryl Cunningham (23-2, 10 KOs) on Showtime, citing his disappointment over the offer he received from Top Rank to face Cunningham and then southpaw IBF super middleweight titleholder Lucian Bute (29-0, 26 KOs) in November.
Pavlik said that he was upset with his reported payments of $50,000 for facing Cunningham, and the $1.35 million minimum he was to get from Top Rank for a meeting Bute. Pavlik said that he had heard that Denmark's ex-titleholder Mikkel Kessler had turned down a larger amount for a match up with Bute.
The move by Pavlik forced Showtime to cancel the entire card that was be held in Youngstown, and it frustrated network executives, Arum and Dunkin.
The new direction, however, might have Pavlik in line for possible match ups opposite the winner of a clash between Bute and durable 42-year-old former titleholder Glen Johnson (51-15-1, 35 KOs) on Nov. 5, or that featuring RING No. 10-rated pound-for-pound WBA beltholder Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KOs) and WBC counter part Carl Froch (28-1, 20 KOs) on Dec. 17.
Pavlik also addressed the Dec. 30 comeback of 33-year-old Jermain Taylor (28-4-1, 17 KOs ), who was 27-0-1 with 17 knockouts before being stopped in seven rounds and dethroned by Pavlik in Sept. 2007.
Taylor also lost his non-title rematch with Pavlik by unanimous decision in February of 2008, when they each weighed 164 pounds, and was subsequently knocked out in the 12th-round by Froch in April of 2009.
Below is Pavlik's Q&A.
RingTV.com: Where are you in terms of speaking to Loew concerning the possibilities?
Kelly Pavlik: I have not yet spoken to him yet. I'm going to have a sit-down with him. I'm going to call him and we're planning on having a little meeting.
Just to let him know what the possibilities are and what the chances are and all of that. But I'm definitely going to California. I'm definitely going to train over there. That's a guarantee.
But it would be ignorant on my part to go to a media outlet before talking to Jack first. Jack at least deserves having me speak to him.
I have to be a man about this. Jack has been with me 20 years, you know? Since I was 9-years-old. He took me through the amateurs and everything.
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