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Sandra Kay Hendrickson Gryting, 71, died in Phoenix, Ariz., with her family by her side in the early morning hours of October 27, 2012, after a massive stroke.
Sandy was born September 18, 1941 in Lime Springs, Iowa, to Abner and Olivia Vik Hendrickson. She graduated from Cresco High School and earned a B.A. in sociology (cum laude) from St. Olaf College, where she met her future husband, Robin Gryting.
She and Robin were married June 8, 1963, in Minneapolis and lived in Shenandoah National Park, Va., and Islamorada, Fla., before settling down in Belview to start a family.
They had two daughters (Kelly and Randi), then moved to St. Paul where Sandy tended to the girls, and Robin completed his master's degree. In 1967, she and Robin moved to Chicago, Ill., where they had another daughter (Terry), then it was on to St. Louis, Mo, in 1970, where a son (Troy) was born.
The four kids kept Sandy busy for several years, as she enjoyed making their house a loving home. After the family of six moved to Kendall Park, N.J., in 1973, she entered the workforce as a Montessori preschool teacher.
Following another move to Charleston, W.V., in 1976, Sandy worked as a travel agent and used her benefits to start showing her kids the world.
In 1980, the family moved back to Minnesota (Plymouth), where she continued to fulfill her life's mission of helping people by earning her master's degree in social work from the Alfred Adler Institute and working as a family counselor for six years. Sandy continued helping families as a career foster parent after another move to Kirksville, Mo. in 1989. Fifty-plus kids later, she retired from foster parenting in 2011 and she and Robin became "snowbirds," purchasing a condo in Surprise, Ariz., where they could spend their winters.
Sandy was a genuinely kind and compassionate woman with a gentle soul and an open mind. Family was always her first priority, followed by a love of music and the beauty of nature. She was a voracious reader and loved traveling, learning about world cultures, solving problems, decorating a home, changing the world for the better, "adventures" with her grandchildren and advancing the status of women worldwide. She found joy in simple things – a gorgeous sunset, fresh raspberries, a front row parking spot – and had a consistently positive attitude, which continued even through life's most challenging moments. Her legacy of integrity and strength will live on in those she loved, mothered, and mentored.
Sandy will be deeply missed by her loving husband of 49 years, Robin Gryting, her four children Kelly (Charles Gerlach), Randi (Kris Perry), Terry (Dan Lien, and Troy (Sophie Soumphonphakdy), her foster daughter Christina Mullen, her sister Carmen (Elden) Evans, her brother Roger (Anne) Hendrickson, her grandchildren Marit, Bailey and Mallory, Kelsey and Tucker and Hailey, Autumn, Ali and Arianna and many other loving family and friends.
Page 2 of 2 - Sandy was preceded in death by her parents, Olivia and Abner Hendrickson.
Memorial celebrations were or will be held at three locations as follows: 1) Thursday, November 1, at her residence in Surprise, Ariz. 2) Wednesday, November 7 from 3-5:30 p.m. at her home in Kirksville, Mo. 3) Sunday, November 11 from 1-4 p.m. at the Odeon Hall in Belview. Her remains will be buried at Belview Cemetery.
Memorials are not expected, but those who wish may want to know Sandy was supporting "Foster Families of Adair County, Inc." c/o Sheila Jones, 22888 Buck Creek Rd. Greentop, MO 63546 and the "Education for All" fund of Plan USA. www.PlanUSA.org/HowtoHelp 1-800-556-7918
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Oct 24, 2013
CORPUS CHRISTI - In this week's Islanders Insider Stephen King chats with Islanders volleyball head coach Tony Graystone and head soccer coach Shanna Caldwell. This week's feature is on Islanders Atheletics' relationship with the Corpus Christi Miracle League.
Islanders Insider is produced every other week during September and October before going weekly during the height of Islanders Basketball season. The show is recorded and produced by the Islanders Broadcast Crew, a group of student volunteers at the Island University.
For all the latest on Islanders Athletics, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@Go_Islanders) and like us on Facebook (Islanders Athletics).

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LIVERMORE -- Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientists will talk about the technology involved in NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft at a "Science on Saturday" lecture at Livermore's Bankhead Theater on Saturday.
The NuSTAR, which launched in June 2012, uses technology developed in part by lab scientists to observe and photograph deep space using X-rays. Presenters include lab scientists Michael J. Pivovaroff and Bill Craig, and Granada High School teacher Tom Sheffler.
There are two sessions; at 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis. The Bankhead Theater is at 2400 First St., Livermore.
For details, visit education.llnl.gov/sos/.
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Some OBI EE Tricks and Tips in the Admin Tool
By Gerry Langton
By Axel Timo Purr-Oracle on Nov 04, 2013
How to set the log level from a Session variable Initialization block
As we know it is normal to set the log level non-zero for a particular user when we wish to debug problems. However sometimes it is inconvenient to go into each user's properties in the Admin tool and update the log level. So I am showing a method which allows the log level to be set for all users via a session initialization block. This is particularly useful for anyone wanting an alternative way to set the log level.
The screen shots shown are using the OBIEE 11g SampleApp demo but are applicable to any environment.
Open the appropriate rpd in on-line mode and navigate to Manage > Variables.
Select Session > Initialization Blocks, right click in the white space and create a New Initialization Block.
I called the Initialization block Set_Loglevel .
Now click on 'Edit Data Source' to enter the SQL.
Chose the 'Use OBI EE Server' option for the SQL. This means that
the SQL provided must use tables which have been defined in the Physical layer
of the RPD, and whilst there is no need to provide a connection pool you must
work in On-Line mode.
The SQL can access any of the RPD tables and is purely used to return a value
of 2. The 'Test' button confirms that the SQL is valid.
Next, click on the 'Edit Data Target' button to add the LOGLEVEL variable to the initialization block.
Check the 'Enable any user to set the value' option so that this
will work for any user.
Click OK and the following message will display as LOGLEVEL is a system session variable:
Click 'Yes'.
Click 'OK' to save the Initialization block. Then check in the On-LIne changes.
To test that LOGLEVEL has been set, log in to OBIEE using an administrative login (e.g. weblogic) and reload server metadata, either from the Analysis editor or from Administration > Reload Files and Metadata link. Run a query then navigate to Administration > Manage Sessions and click 'View Log' for the query just issued (which should be approximately the last in the list). A log file should exist and with LOGLEVEL set to 2 should include both logical and physical sql. If more diagnostic information is required then set LOGLEVEL to a higher value.
If logging is required only for a particular analysis then an alternative
method can be used directly from the Analysis editor.
Edit the analysis for which debugging is required and click on the Advanced tab. Scroll down to the Advanced SQL clauses section and enter the following in the Prefix box:
Click the 'Apply SQL' button.
The SET VARIABLE statement will now prefix the Analysis's logical SQL. So that any time this analysis is run it will produce a log.
You can find information about training for Oracle BI EE products here or
in the Oracle
University Learning Paths.
Please send me an email at email@example.com if you have any further questions.
About the Author:
Gerry Langton started at Siebel Systems in 1999 working as a technical instructor teaching both Siebel application development and also Siebel Analytics (which subsequently became Oracle BI EE). From 2006 Gerry has worked as Senior Principal Instructor within Oracle University specialising in Oracle BI EE, Oracle BI Publisher and Oracle Data Warehouse development for BI.


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PARKERSBURG - Carlin's Battery Civil War reenactors are inviting townsfolk to celebrate Christmas at the unit's soldiers headquarters in Fort Boreman Park on Dec. 17.
The reenactors will be decked out in their period uniforms, and festivities will begin at 6 p.m. Everyone is invited and the event is free of charge.
"We're calling a truce for the night with the Confederates and we'll have soldiers from both sides at our Christmas at the Cabin celebration this year. This is the fourth year for the event. It was common practice back in Civil War times for the townsfolk to come up to the fort to try and make the soldiers stationed there feel as at home as possible," said Jim Miracle with Carlin's Battery.
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Members of Carlin's Battery Civil War reenactors are shown with the new limber and cannon. Front row includes Dave Bogonivich, Larry Stevens, Pat Delaney, Justin Spohn, Jim Miracle and Pat Lyons. On the limber are Chad Spohn, front, and Alan Page.
There will be caroling around the bonfire, hot chocolate, coffee and cookies.
"We'll be singing Christmas carols around the campfire. It's a lot of fun, and we'd like to invite everyone to come up and bring your families," he said. "The kids really enjoy themselves too. We have kids serve as our powder monkey. During the war orphans were often used as powder monkeys in the units, and the kids and parents get a big kick out of it."
The first year the battery sponsored the event there were about 20 who attended. Miracle said last year there were 100 people at the event.
The unit this year obtained a limber for use with their cannon and participated in a number of local fairs, festivals and parades as well as Civil War reenactments including New Market in Virginia and Gettysburg.
"Next year will be the big 150th anniversary at Gettysburg and we plan to be there," Miracle said.
The unit uses a cabin at the park as its headquarters. The cabin was re-constructed out of logs from the 200-year-old Moore cabin formerly located on New England Ridge in Lubeck District.
The battery got a Civil War-era replica limber will be ready by spring. A limber is a two-wheeled carriage used to carry the ammunition chest for the cannon.
The Civil War artillery company, which was named after one originally stationed on Fort Boreman Hill, was created in 2008 by the Wood County Commission. Union troops with the 11th West Virginia Infantry manned Fort Boreman Hill during the Civil War. The hill is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
Anyone interested in having a speaker from the unit, or the unit at an event to conduct an educational workshop, or in becoming a member of the unit, call Miracle at 304-488-2307.


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09.07.2012 - InDex Pharmaceuticals (Stockholm) has added Stig Løkke Pedersen to its board. The former VP Commercial Operations at H. Lundbeck A/S brings in 25 years of leadership experience and networking in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
Pedersen joined Lundbeck in 1992 as CBO, and was selected to join its corporate senior management in 1998. There he served as Executive Vice President from 2003-2011. Pedersen is a partner at Executive Capital A/S and also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Chemo-metec A/S and Nuevolution A/S.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/people/bio-people/2012-2/stig-loekke-pedersen.html


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Democrats Rally Behind Obama Plan
By Siobhan Hughes, Janet Hook and Kristina Peterson
Democrats rallied behind President Barack Obama's decision to allow insurers to offer health-insurance policies next year that otherwise would have been canceled, and his mea culpa before a televised audience quelled a brewing rebellion among congressional Democrats.
While Republicans continued to criticize Mr. Obama, Democrats said that the president's move was a practical answer to a growing a political problem. Democrats seemed to calm down as much because of Mr. Obama's show of contrition as because he took action to restore canceled policies.
"The concern was that there were a lot of problems and the administration wasn't adequately acknowledging them and accepting accountability and responsibility to fix them," said Rep. Jim Moran (D., Va.) after a briefing with White House officials. "I think that's changed to a large extent with the president's statement today."
"Most people feel like they've kind of turned a corner as far as accepting some responsibility and offering something," said Rep. Steve Cohen (D., Tenn.)
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- Affordable Care Act Exemptions - The Short Answer
- Study: Selling Health Insurance at Christmas Is Bad Idea
The comments came as insurers said that they were concerned about Mr. Obama's decision, warning it was unclear how the changes could be put into effect. With many lawmakers still weighing the developments, it was unclear whether the insurance industry's reaction would prove to be a new political sticking point.
The White House acted one day before a Friday vote in the House of Representatives on allowing insurers to offer policies next year that are slated to be discontinued. House Democratic leaders are urging rank-and-file lawmakers to vote against the Republican plan, from Rep. Fred Upton (R., Mich.) But without an alternative, many House Democrats had begun to signal they would vote for Mr. Upton's bill, in a rebuke to Mr. Obama. Many Democrats believe Mr. Upton's bill is another way to undermine the Affordable Care Act, because it would open up sales of policies that don't meet the law's standards to new customers instead of limiting sales to existing customers.
Speaker John Boehner (R. Ohio) said he would press ahead with plans to have the House vote Friday on legislation designed to address the issue and said he was "highly skeptical'' that Mr. Obama could solve it administratively.
But Mr. Boehner argued that the effort to fix that particular problem in the roll out of the health law did not deter Republicans from their longstanding effort to repeal the law entirely.
Republicans streamed to the House floor to share details of constituents whose health plans were being canceled.
"The president's health care bill simply is not working," said Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R., N.J.)
But Mr. Obama's decision and statements appeared to take the sting of the criticisms for Democrats.
Rep. Juan Vargas (D., Calif.) said the president took a good first step, and while more legislation was needed, said he would oppose Mr. Upton's bill on Friday and predicted most Democrats would.
Democrats who had supported such legislation, such as one introduced by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.), welcomed Mr. Obama's move, although they said that more may have to be done legislatively, depending on how effective his administration action proves to be.
"I think the president's proposal is a constructive first step," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.). "But it's only a first step."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.,Nev.) said he was prepared to move legislation if necessary, but signaled no immediate plans to do so.
"The fix proposed by President Obama today is an important step towards addressing a problem that has arisen and if we need to do more, we will," Mr. Reid said.
Even Democrats up for re-election in 2014, who were among those who stand to lose most politically from backlash against the health, offered qualified support for the Obama decision.
"It doesn't go as far as I'd like it to go, but it's certainly a step in the right direction," said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.), who has been one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration's handling of the health-law rollout. He said that he was concerned that the fix would only last one year, noting the concept was that people could keep their existing plans.
Democrats said they were relieved that Mr. Obama had chosen to act using his executive powers, instead of leaving it up to Congress, where it is easier to block legislation than to pass it.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said the president did "exactly the right thing" by acting administratively because that is the only practical option "so long as the House is intent on undoing Obamacare one way or another."
A Senate Democratic leadership aide said that Democrats may want to bring up further legislation even if it is doomed to fail to "let people go on record for doing something.''
"This is the beginning of turning the battleship around,'' said the aide. "This could be the beginning of the end of the bad news'' with regard to the health care law rollout.
Michael R. Crittenden contributed to this article.
WSJ's Louise Radnofsky on how Obama's new plan lets insurers keep offering canceled health plans
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Speech Highlights: Obama on HealthCare.Gov Improvements, Approval Rating
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JFK's parents Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald on their wedding day, Oct. 7, 1914.
From left: Eunice, Jack, Joe Jr., Rosemary, and Kathleen get ready to set sail in the early 1920s.
The Kennedy Family at Hyannis Port in 1931. From left: Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Jean Kennedy on the lap of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (behind) Patricia Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (behind) Rosemary Kennedy. Edward Kennedy was not born yet.
JFK's mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was the daughter of Boston Mayor John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.
JFK's paternal grandfather, Patrick "P.J." Kennedy.
Rose Kennedy takes a swim with sons Joe and Jack.
Brothers John (left) and Joe Kennedy posed for a portrait in uniform at the start of WW II.
John Kennedy at the helm of his Navy vessel, PT 109.
JFK posed for a publicity photo to promote his book, "Why England Slept."
A poster from JFK's Senate Campaign.
A campaign button for the 1960 presidential election featured JFK and his running mate, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
JFK with his maternal grandfather, former Boston mayor John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (left) and his father, Joe Kennedy.
News photographer Jacqueline Bouvier snapped a photo of her fiance, the dashing young Sen. Kennedy.
JFK and Jacqueline Bouvier were married on Sept. 12, 1953.
Brothers John, Robert and Ted Kennedy.
JFK and his daughter Caroline share a word over breakfast.
The first family on vacation: Jackie and John Kennedy with their children, John Jr. and Caroline.
JFK was greeted by enthusiastic crowds when he visisted Ireland in 1963.
Reception and tea at the home of Mrs. Mary Ryan, President Kennedy's second cousin, on June 27, 1963. From left: Margaret Kirwan, Jean Kennedy Smith, Josie Ryan, Mrs. Mary Ryan, President Kennedy, Mary Ann Ryan, Mrs. Margaret Whitty, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, other guests. Dunganstown, Ireland, Kennedy ancestral homestead.
JFK waves to thousands of well-wishers during his June, 1963 visit to Ireland.
JFK and daughter Caroline share a quiet moment aboard his boat, the Honey Fitz.
Tragedy struck on November 22, 1963, when JFK was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
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The following was published in our 2012 Annual Report.
Reflections on the past remind us of our roots and of how health care has changed in the past decades. Chief among those is the increasing role mid-level providers, such as nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, play in health care. Today, we have diverse physician-led health care teams in every area of medicine to encourage and support wellness.
Mid-level providers are extremely instrumental at birth, during hospital stays, in the primary care setting, specialty clinics, and even for our surgical patients. This team approach to care improves provider access and quality of care.
At Gifford, we are transitioning with great success to a team-based approach and are taking steps to ensure continued access to high-quality health care.
In 2012, some of those steps included new radiology services and technology, such as more interventional offerings, an upgraded 64-slice CT scanner, and a fluoroscopy room.
The midwifery team has expanded to the Twin River Health Center in White River Junction. Gifford's approach to obstetrics and gynecology has grown to include more complicated cases.
The Blueprint Community Health Team has expanded and behavioral health is increasingly a part of Gifford's offerings. Thanks to a generous gift from the Auxiliary, new CarePoint EKG transmission technology is available between our Emergency Department and ambulance services to identify heart attacks in the field and determine the best and fastest course of treatment.
Urology offerings have also grown and the Cancer Committee continues to expand. The Sharon Health Center sports medicine team has welcomed a nurse practitioner and second chiropractor.
These improvements are examples of the changes and quality upgrades we, as part of the health care team, can affect in an institution of the size and mindset of Gifford for the betterment of the community. Meld these improvements with Gifford's foundation of patient care and advocacy, and we have a formula for success for decades to come.
Ovleto Ciccarelli, MD, Surgery Division
Martin Johns, MD, Hospital Division
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About the Book
New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown ("The best military adventure writer in the country" —Clive Cussler) joins forces once again with Jim DeFelice for another electrifying Dreamland novel, Raven Strike. In this breathtaking international thriller, Dreamland's elite Whiplash unit is called to action when an illegal CIA black ops mission goes frighteningly wrong in Africa and a powerful weapon of mass destruction falls into terrorist hands. Raven Strike is explosive, page-turning thriller fiction with political savvy and a razor-sharp military edge, ideal for fans of Vince Flynn, Clive Cussler, Brad Thor, James Rollins, and for the army of loyal readers already firmly in the Dale Brown camp.
The mission is classified . . . and illegal
In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue.On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now theultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands.
As Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a topsecret aircraft that has crashed in Africa, Whiplash DirectorJonathon Reid finds himself mysteriously shut off from information about the robot drone and its mission. Maneuvering through the twisted back corridors of the CIA and Washington's power elite, Reid discovers secrets both illegal and highly dangerous—a virtually unstoppable assassin and an out-of-control clique within the Agency.
Torn between loyalty and conscience, Reid must find a way to alert the President and avert a national disaster. But with the Whiplash team caught in the chaos of a brutal African civil war and CIA officials desperate to keep Reid from telling what he knows, a monster re-emerges to target its creators . . .
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The Sleepy Eye Fire Department held their annual Fire Prevention poster contest for Sleepy Eye Public School fifth graders for fire prevention month.
The top three poster winners from left, Kalli Christensen, first place; Alexa Steffl, second place and Isaac Huiras, third place.
Fire Warden Jason Helget (far right) and Ben Hoffmann (not pictured) judged the posters.
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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
Back? For how long
I assume from the dearth of postings that you all experienced the same problem with the bogus '.....you need to log in...' screen.
Anyway a good result at the weekend - but apart from a 20 minute spell in the second half, I still didn't think that the performance was all that good - despite AVB giving it a glowing report.
Oh well, Pool tomorrow and Fulham this weekend - 6 points would be good.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
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Yes JL, I had lots to say at the weekend but, senior moment, I've forgotten most of it. lol. Enjoyed the highlights I saw, was pleased for Dempsey in particular. Having sooo many nightmares up till now. Hope it continues, good performance from MOTD seems AVB MAY have got things working as he wants. Really hope things go well for the near future. COYS
PS I won't be around for a while off to have a new knee tomorrow.
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agreed with most of what u say joe.
dempsey linked up well & i still feel he will be a decent signing for us.
im not really worried about him not doing it for us. im worried sig wont do it for us thou.
defoe again, just keeps proving the doubters wrong. no matter how many different types of goals he scores (as highlighted by shearer on MOTD2.but hey what does he know about goalscoring!), people will still say he is just a tap in merchant.
i gurantee less than half his goals will be tap ins.
imagine if harry played him more last season.
we would have got 3rd easily.
but he prefered VDV taking the ball off kaboul!
great to see dawson back. he played really well. i still prefer him to gallas.
but i agree, 10m is too good to turn down.
also dawson is so physical so he is always 1 akward landing or fall away from another long term injury.
but il be happy if no 10m+ bids come in & he stays!
sandro is amazing! my fave spurs player, even ahead of defoe!
bale was good again. sad to see him go in the summer (inevitable!)
i too didnt think we played that well.
the 1st half was lacklustre.
still missing that quality in the middle when relying on hudd as the playmaker.
he was awful again!
good to see dembele again. lets hope he stays fit as we need him badly.
the way we are playing id be happy with 3pts from the next 2 games.
Yes JL!
Yahoo need to sort themselves out! I made sure I sent feedback through the 'Message Board Help' on a daily basis!
I wonder if one day this will just cease and our literary sparring circle may cease forever more!? I've looked at other boards and they just don't seem quite the same!
I have mixed feelings about the weekends performance, If Bale's early effort (and what an effort) had squeezed under the bar, I think we would have steamrollered them, as it happens it took an equally beautiful move and goal from our pocket nugget poacher to kick start us! What a goal take a bow Daffy!
I must admit to always being a little undecided on Defoe, but the variety of his goalscoring this season and his consistently improving link up/passing play has been encouraging, where would we be without him? Whilst on Daffy, why would he want to join QPR? HR didn't exactly fancy him last season did he? why would Daffy risk joining him at QPR when he appears to be in AVB's good books?! £££££££££ maybe that'd do it?
Again I though Sandro was colossal he's consistently on of my faves and seems to offer a lot more than the energy and work rate of Scotty P! I hope his injury isn't too long term.
Bale looked unplayable at times, we will struggle to hold onto him past next summer!
Finally a performance form Dempsey, about time too! maybe he's a prime example of why all new appointments need time!? Maybe that was a one off and he'll be average again forever more?!
I'm pleased AVB seems to have decide on Lloris, IMO he represents our future and is looking better every game, IMO he got us a point against Lazio and looked sharp and alert against the spammers.
Delighted to see Dawson getting a start and the captaincy, hopefully AVB will realise how valued he is. Mind you, if QPR offer us £10mil in Jan, I'd take it (soz KM) IMO Vertonghen, Kaboul, Caulker are all equal to or better than Daws, who for £10mil could be improved upon! (is that too harsh?)
Delighted to see Moussa D come striding back, the way that guy breezes past people is great to watch, when we get to see him play in a 4-4-2, with Sandro, Bale, Lennon, Daffy and Ade, I think we will all feel a lot better about the way we're going and how we're getting there! in the mean time we need to strengthen in Jan, as having those 6 available at the same time may be a rarity.
Finally, the abusive (racial?) chanting from the spanners. There is no doubt it is highly offensive to many and I cannot imagine a scenario where I would participate in such behaviour, in fact I'd be embarrassed and appalled if our fans were ever involved in something similar or as unilateral. Yet, I call my fellow spurs fans Yids, I say it with pride, am I part of the problem here? does referring to each other as Yids mean we have to accept the abusive, anti-semetic crap that the tiny fascist minds of west ham and rome choose to throw at us, or can we continue to own the label Yids and condone those who chose to abuse us due to historic Jewish connections??
I pity those Jewish West Ham fans (of which there are many) they must be so ashamed by their fans actions this weekend.


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I fired up PMS this afternoon and it ran an autoupdate to 1.04. I can no longer see dvd iso's through my PS3. These movies worked flawlessly prior to the update but are no longer visible in their respective folders. I looked for any settings that may have been changed but found none. Other files, i.e. divx, mp4 etc., all show and play fine. I am running Vista on a 1.6 Ghz dual core with 2 gigs memory. My PS3 is on a wired lan. I have attached the debug log file. I don't mind re-encoding the iso's but I would like to play them as they are for quality since they are 1:1 copies.
Also...is there some setting to stop autoupdate? I would hate to get this working only to have it revert to problems after a future update. Manually updating is preferable.


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For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis lay within walking distance. But then the great project of the twentieth century—sorting people, businesses, and...
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In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground,...
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1 biker dead, 1 hurt in Chapel Hill hit and run
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CHAPEL HILL (AP) — The North Carolina Highway Patrol says a hit and run driver struck two people on bicycles in Chapel Hill, killing a man and injuring a woman.
Troopers say a Pittsboro police officer found the bikers in the middle of the road about 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
Investigators say the man died and the woman has been taken to a hospital.
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STOCKTON - A 55-year-old man was walking in the 100 block of West Eighth Street about 6 p.m. Wednesday when he was robbed of his wallet at gunpoint, police said.
The gunman held a pistol to the victim's head while procuring the wallet and then fled to a waiting vehicle, authorities said. He was described as a Latino man in his 20s standing 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds with a blue shirt, police said.
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"I was always active, and never gave much thought to my health. But, about 7 years ago I found out I had diabetes. I tried to follow my doctor's orders for diet, medication and exercise, but it wasn't easy. Then I hurt my knee and that made it even harder to go out and do anything. I figured all of this was just part of getting older, but it made me feel tired and a little depressed. I heard about the Living Healthy program at my local library. I decided to give it a try. I'm so glad I did. This wasn't a lecture…it was an interactive discussion with brainstorming and sharing ideas. We were all helping each other and ourselves at the same time. I learned better ways to deal with my pain and fatigue. The relaxation techniques were great, and I still use them. I also learned about communicating better with my doctors and my family members and we talked about things like eating better, improving my strength and understanding new treatment options. This program has given me a new sense of being in control of my symptoms and my life, and that is priceless." A.V.
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In his address to the graduating class of Ohio State University on May 5, President Obama sounded the alarm against alarmists.
�Still, you�ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that�s the root of all our problems even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner,� Obama said. �You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can�t be trusted.�
Of course Republicans pounced on this with glee and have been quoting it often, though usually omitting the last sentence.
Obama�s opponents point to the administration�s data mining of American�s phone records by the National Security Agency, hacking reporters emails, harassing Tea Party organizations by the IRS, asserting the right to survey American citizens with drones and kill them in other countries by remote control without trial, conviction or indeed anything but the president�s say-so.
Obama�s defenders counter the NSA activities started long before the present administration and point to rendition of terrorist suspects etc by the Bush administration.
When a Republican administration is in office the country is on the verge of sliding into tyranny, according to Democrats.
And of course, when a Democratic administration is in power the country is on the verge of sliding into tyranny, according to Republicans.
They�re both right.
They�re both right because our country is always on the verge of sliding into tyranny. More likely the soft tyranny of all-intrusive bureaucracy than the hard tyranny of jackboots and rubber truncheons, but tyranny nonetheless.
Government, as George Washington pointed out, is neither persuasion, reason, nor eloquence. It is force.
�And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.�
To be rendered harmless, an open fire must be carefully tended.
So must government.
�If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions,� said Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Edward Carrington.
Notice Jefferson didn�t say, �Those no-good so-and-sos will become wolves.� He said, �you and I will become wolves.�
The Founders were well-aware of the weakness of human nature and warned future generations to trust no one with unrestrained power.
�In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution,� Jefferson said.
Of course everybody realizes the other guys can�t be trusted with unlimited power. But of course I can be.
�If I were king��
Well-meaning politicians always seek more power, for the noblest of reasons of course. But the other guy can�t be trusted with it. And in the democratic process power is always changing hands.
But sooner or later it occurs to even the most well-meaning politicians that the way to keep power out of the �wrong hands� � is to do away with the democratic process.
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The Thibodaux Library, 705 W. Fifth St., offers storytimes for kids this month.
The Harvey Rabbit and Friends Show will be presented twice, at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on July 17.
Thibodaux Police-Parent's Day will be at 5:30 p.m. July 22.
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B.C. Cate Elementary School, 262 Canal Street, Montour Falls, will hold fall, 2014 kindergarten registration April 24 through April 30.
Children residing in the Odessa-Montour Central School District that will be five years old on or before December 1, 2014 are eligible for kindergarten. Call the school by March 21 to be sure your child is on the roster and to schedule an appointment for the child's kindergarten screening. Parents must bring their child, child's birth certificate, proof of residency and proof of child's immunizations to registration.
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Chinese e-commerce colossus Alibaba on Tuesday filed for an initial public offering that is poised to be one of the largest in history and will create a mighty rival to Silicon Valley's tech giants.
With its entry into the U.S. stock market, Alibaba -- often described as a combination of eBay, Amazon and Google -- will have a valuation estimated at $150 billion to upward of $200 billion, giving it an immediate market value greater than Facebook and Amazon. And a successful IPO will give the company the resources to fend off rivals in China, make big bets on future technology trends, expand its global reach and build momentum for more Chinese companies to make public offerings in the U.S.
"eBay, Amazon and Google (should) be scared," said Matthew Turlip, an analyst with PrivCo financial group. "I think Alibaba is definitely going to be a major player. There's no reason for them not to go after the U.S. market. It's not a matter of if, but when."
Alibaba's stock debut is also a defining moment for Yahoo, which owns about 23 percent of the company and is expected to sell nearly half of its stake in the IPO. The cash windfall could help CEO Marissa Mayer continue a recent acquisition spree that made Yahoo the leading buyer of smaller tech companies last year -- outpacing even Google and Facebook with 22 deals for $1.2 billion -- according to the PrivCo research firm.
"They can spend themselves out of virtually any situation and into relevance again," said Roger Entner, an analyst and founder of the consulting firm Recon Analytics.
But as Yahoo reduces its stake in Alibaba, that will put more pressure on Mayer to show results in her efforts to turn around the struggling Sunnyvale company.
In its IPO filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Alibaba, based in Hangzhou, China, and with offices in Hong Kong, did not detail how much money it expects to raise, but some analysts expect the company to pull in $15 billion to $20 billion, potentially surpassing Facebook's record-breaking $16 billion IPO in May 2012. There is no deadline for the company to begin trading, and some analysts say that may not happen until September or later. Companies may announce pricing and begin a roadshow -- when executives hold meetings with potential investors to drum up interest in their company -- within 21 days of an IPO filing.
Alibaba's businesses include online shopping, business-to-business sales, online payments, shipping, wholesale trade and cloud computing. According to filings with the SEC, Alibaba's retail marketplace last year processed 11.3 billion orders from 231 million active buyers for a total of $248 billion in spending, more than the transaction volume on eBay and Amazon combined.
The company's filings described its Taobao Marketplace as "China's largest online shopping destination" and its Tmall site as "China's largest third-party platform for brands and retailers." About 80 percent of all Chinese e-commerce transactions go through Alibaba; on Singles Day in November, a popular holiday in China for online shopping, the company's retail sites processed $5.8 billion in purchases.
"It brings to the forefront of everybody's mind that Amazon and eBay are not the No. 1 e-commerce markets in the world," Entner said. "The world doesn't end when you leave Silicon Valley."
Alibaba's market debut is expected to strengthen the company's power in China and throw up more barriers for valley companies trying to make inroads into one of the world's largest economies.
"It may be a little early to say it's game over in China, but this is a formidable competitor," said Michael Greeley, a partner with Foundation Medical Partners. "Chronically U.S. companies have really stubbed their toe in China."
Tuesday's filing shed more light on the financial performance of a company that has, until now, offered only tantalizing glimpses of strong growth. Alibaba sales were $5.55 billion for the fiscal year ending in March 2013, a 72.4 percent increase over the previous year. The company's profits for April 2012 through March 2013 were $1.39 billion; but from April through December of last year, the company more than doubled that, to $2.85 billion. For that same time period, revenue from e-commerce sales in China grew 20.3 percent, although international sales fell 14 percent; per-share earnings soared from 57 cents to $1.23.
Yahoo's sale of Alibaba stock may yield as much as $7 billion to $9 billion in cash after taxes, according to analysts' estimates. The Sunnyvale company is likely to give some cash back to its investors through share buybacks or a dividend.
But analysts also warn that the Alibaba IPO could remove a major underpinning of Yahoo's own stock value, which has soared 45 percent over the past year even as its advertising business has continued to lose ground to rivals such as Google and Facebook. Analysts say investors have bid up Yahoo shares largely because of excitement over the Alibaba IPO, and estimate that the value of Yahoo's Alibaba investment represents more than two-thirds of Yahoo's total stock market valuation.
"The bottom line is that Yahoo's stock continues to be driven by Alibaba's results," Ben Schachter of Macquarie Securities said in a recent note to investors. Despite Mayer's efforts to introduce new Web services and advertising products, he said, Yahoo's "core turnaround remains uncertain."
Alibaba's IPO cash infusion will reach well beyond Yahoo. It will be a boon for Silicon Valley venture capitalists who have a stake in the company, and who can use the money to reinvest in other promising startups. Some experts say the cash bonanza from Alibaba will help balance out a long-standing imbalance in the VC industry, where firms are spending more money than they raise.
"If you have a half a percent of something that is going to be worth $150 billion, that's still a huge amount of money" that will be reinvested, Greeley said.
Fresh off a blockbuster IPO, Alibaba will be poised to make more, and bigger, acquisitions, hoping to steal some Silicon Valley talent and add new technology to its repertoire, experts say. In the past few months, Alibaba invested $215 million in Mountain View mobile messaging service TangoMe, kicked money into a $250 million round for San Francisco ride-sharing app Lyft and delivery services and led a $206 million investment into ShopRunner, a delivery service for online purchases.
But there are risks doing business in China. In its filing, Alibaba noted that the Chinese economy "differs from the economies of most developed countries in many respects, including the extent of government involvement," adding that "a substantial portion of productive assets in China is still owned by the government.''
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team has signed Janae Lyde (Albany, N.Y./Texas Southern) to scholarship for the 2012-13 season, head coach Royce Chadwick announced today. Lyde is a sophomore transfer from Texas Southern.
"Janae adds Division I collegiate point guard experience to our practices and program," Head Coach Royce Chadwick said. "She will enable us to compete at a high level throughout the year while she satisfies Division I transfer rules."
The 5-2 guard from Albany, N.Y. was a freshman starter for the Texas Southern Tigers that went 6-22 last season. Lyde tallied seven points and five assists against the Islanders in the Tigers 63-54 victory last season in the Houston Baptist Tournament.
Prior to attending Texas Southern, Lyde was a four-year letterwinner for Bishop Maginn High School in Albany, N.Y. under Head Coach Julie Reily. She averaged 23.4 points per game and led the Griffins to a 15-4 record during her senior season. Lyde also chipped in 5.3 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 2.7 steals per game. She was named to the First Team Gazette All-Area Team and earned Seventh Team All-New York State. Lyde was named Big 10 honorable mention her first two years before earning Big 10 MVP honors her senior year and Big 10 first team her junior year. She graduated 10th in her class and was on honor roll every semester.
Lyde joins Janae Blount (Washington D.C./Howard D. Woodson HS), Ashanti Plummer (Manhattan, N.Y./Lab Museum United HS), Morgan Schwartz (Garden City, Texas/Midland CC) and Zenobia Winbush (Schertz, Texas/Clemens HS) for the upcoming 2012-13 season.
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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Irving's response: Hitler's knowledge of the gassing at the Reinhard Camps
6.114 In regard to Hitler's speech to the Gauleiter on 12 December 1941, Irving denied that it constitutes evidence of Hitler's knowledge of a policy of exterminating the Jews. He dismissed it as "the old familiar Adolf Hitler gramophone record" harking back to his 1939 prophecy as to the fate awaiting the Jews. Browning considered that its terms indicate that a decision had been taken what to do about the Jews ("the Fuhrer has decided ..."). Irving was reluctant to accept that Goebbels was accurately recording what Hitler had said and argued that he may have been interpolating his own aspirations in regard to the Jews.
6.115 Irving is critical of Browning for the tendentious omission from his account of Frank's speech of 16 December 1941 of Frank's statement:According to Irving, those words make clear that Frank was ruling out extermination as a solution, which makes nonsense of the Defendants' argument that the speech is evidence of a policy of extermination. Browning drew attention to the immediately following words, "We will find a way to bring about a successful destruction", which he argued demonstrate that what Frank was saying was that alternative means must be found of getting rid of the Jews. Irving's riposte is that gassing is no less objectionable than poisoning.
"We cannot shoot [the Germans in the General Government]. We cannot poison them".
6.116 Irving argued that a similar inference that the policy continued to be one of deportation further east could be drawn from Hitler's statement on 27 January 1942, as recorded in his Table Talk. Irving relied also on Hitler's reported reference on 30 January 1942 to the Jews "disappearing from Europe" to be resettled in central Africa. But Longerich countered that these remarks, made at the time of the Wannsee conference, must be regarded as camouflage for public consumption. To take these statements by Hitler at their face value would, according to Longerich, be wholly irreconcilable with the mass exterminations which were already under way at Chelmno and Belzec. Longerich asserted that Hitler and Goebbels were constantly talking about the Jews; that Hitler was well aware of the mass gassings but they were guarded in what they said or wrote about them.
6.117 Irving refused to accept the claim of Longerich that there is evidence that there was a systematic expulsion of the eastern Jews from the ghettos in order to send them to the death camps so as to make way for the German and European Jews who, having arrived in large numbers in the east in trainloads from the rest of Europe, were kept for a while in the ghettos before themselves being sent to the gas chambers. If this occurred , argued Irving, orders and plans would surely have been found. Irving maintained that the evidence for saying that there was a systematic policy of extermination is inferential or secondary. Longerich's explanation for the lack of documentation is that, for reasons of secrecy, much of the planning was discussed verbally between Hitler and Himmler; that the Nazis tried systematically to destroy documents and files on this subject with the result that such documents as have survived are spread round European archives and that the death camps were systematically destroyed by the Nazis at the end of the war.
6.118 Irving pointed out, correctly, that the protocol issued following the Wannsee conference on 20 January 1942 did not discuss methods of killing but rather talked in terms of finding solutions. Irving argued that the minute of the conference makes reference to "the evacuation of the Jews" having stepped into the place of emigration as a solution to the Jewish question. Why, asked Irving, should "evacuation" not be given its natural meaning. Longerich answered this question by pointing to the immediately following paragraph of the minute, which he regards as the central passage, where Heydrich explains what is to be the Final Solution. Heydrich talks of those Jews who survive the work gangs being "dealt with accordingly" for, if released, they would form the seed of a new Jewish regeneration. But Irving put a different construction on the paragraph: he contended that Heydrich was speaking of what should happen after the release (bei Freilassung) of the Jews. Heydrich was proposing the Jews should upon their release be free to regenerate themselves somewhere outside the Reich. Longerich countered by saying that regeneration of the Jews was precisely what Heydrich was concernd to ensure did not happen. If Heydrich had been contemplating what would happen after the Jews were released, he would have used the term nach Freilassung.
6.119 What is more, argued Irving, there are clear indications in the minute of the conference that the Final Solution was not to be embarked upon until after the war, when mass extermination of the Jews would have been out of the question. Longerich doubted the impracticability of carrying out the Nazi Final Solution if the Nazis had won the war. But he added that Heydrich clearly intended the Jewish work gangs to be put to work forthwith (nun). Longerich did, however, agree that the implementation of the programme of killing all the Jews would not be capable of being completed until after the war was over.
6.120 Next Irving relied, in support of his argument that the topic of killing Jews was not discussed at Wannsee, on the statements to that effect made after the war by most of the participants. Longerich and Browning both answered that there is nothing surprising or convincing about those denials: they were made during the Nuremberg trials and were plainly self-exculpatory. Irving also relied on an extract from a speech made by Heydrich a week or so later in Prague, which is quoted in part in a book by the historian Gotz Aly. Himmler referred in that speech to the option of deporting the Jews to the White Sea (in northern Russia), which he describes as an ideal homeland for them. Irving suggested that Himmler's words should be taken at face value. But Longerich disagreed: he pointed out that Gotz Aly, the author of the book which quoted the speech, is himself of the opinion that the policy of extermination was decided upon in October 1941. Moreover, added Longerich, there is no evidence that any Jew was in fact sent to the White Sea nor is there any evidence that any camp was constructed for them there.
6.121 Irving further relied on a letter written in June 1942 by Walter Furl, the officer stationed in Krokow who was responsible for resettlement in the General Government, to his SS officers in which he described how trainloads of Jews arrived at Krakow and were given first aid and provisional accommodation, before being deported towards the White Sea where many of them would assuredly not survive. This, said Irving, is further evidence that the policy continued to be deportation not extermination. What, according to Irving, is significant is that the Jews in question were not sent to Auschwitz. Longerich dismissed this as camouflage, as did Aly Gotz who first quoted the document and who undertook considerable research in the area. There is no evidence that any camps were constructed in the area or that trains ran from the Polish towns to the White Sea or that roads leading in that direction were ever built. The Defendants say that Furl was concerned to conceal the fact that the Jews in question were going to be shot, probably in Minsk. Irving replied that there was no reason why Furl would want to pull the wool over the eyes of his comrades. If that had been Furl's intention, why should have referred openly to many of the Jews assuredly not surviving. Irving complained that, on every occasion when a document appears which does not fit in with the Defendants' thesis, they dismiss it as camouflage or euphemism.
6.122 Irving claimed to find support for his contention that the policy towards European Jews was not genocidal in a letter from Himmler to the Minister of Finance dated 17 August 1942. He argued that it proposed, on grounds of cost, that the French Jews should be housed in a camp to be built on the western boundary of France rather than have them transported across the Reich to Auschwitz. Longerich replied that this letter is pure deception.
6.123 Irving next relied on a report by Horst Ahnert of a meeting on 1 September 1942 at which Eichmann, who chaired the meeting, informed participants that the current programme for the evacuation of Jews from France was to be completed by the end of the year. The report referred to the commandant of Auschwitz having requested that deportees should take with them blankets, shoes and feeding utensils. Irving argued that such a request would not have been made if the Jews were going to be executed on arrival. Longerich responded that the request was no doubt made because not all Jews were executed on arrival: those who were fit enough were sent to the labour camp, where they would need food and clothing. Irving relied on another section of the report of this meeting which stated that the purchase of barracks, requested by the chief of security policy in The Hague, for the construction of camp in Russia should be put in hand. Irving deployed this part of the report as further evidence that the Dutch Jews were not going to be deported to a death camp. Longerich had no knowledge of any such camp having been constructed in Russia. He did, however, concede that there are odd references in documents which date from this period to the construction of camps to house Jews. Longerich was not prepared to accept the suggestion put to him by Irving that such documents evidenced a non-genocidal intention towards the Jews. The evidence that Jews were at this time being massacred in large numbers is, he contends, overwhelming. His argument was that Eichmann and others were camouflaging what was going on.
6.124 Irving relied on another letter written on 28 December 1942 by Furl to Pohl about the measures to be undertaken by the doctors at certain camps to ensure that the mortality rate was reduced. This letter, suggested Irving, is inconsistent with the existence of a policy of to exterminate all Jews. Longerich disagreed: Pohl was in charge of the labour concentration camps and had no responsibility for the Operation Reinhard death camps. It follows, say the Defendants, that the letter does not touch upon the question what was happening in the death camps.
6.125 In relation to the Kinna report of 16 December 1942, Irving accepted that it is an important document in that it does indeed indicate that Jews at Auschwitz could be killed at will. But he pointed out that the author of the report was a junior SS officer, who may have been imprecise in his use of language.
6.126 Irving also placed reliance on the fact that no archaeological evidence has been uncovered which confirms the existence of gas chambers at any of these camps; indeed the only camp where excavation has been carried out is Belzec and that has only just started.
6.127 Irving made clear that he regards eye witness evidence as deeply suspect. As in the case of Auschwitz, to which I will turn shortly, Irving is inclined to dismiss all such evidence on the ground that it is either the product of duress or bribery or some other inducement or is otherwise unreliable. When I come to deal with Auschwitz I shall recite the various reasons advanced by Irving for dismissing or at least treating with extreme scepticism the evidence of eye-witnesses. Irving was critical of the reliance placed by the Defendants' experts on this body of evidence in its entirety. But he selected, by way of example of his general attack on their credibility, individual witnesses for specific criticism.
6.128 He suggested that Eichmann said what he did out of a desire to please or perhaps was subject to some psychological impulse to incriminate himself. He suggested further that Eichmann may have been suffering from sleep deprivation when he gave evidence at this trial. He pointed out that Eichmann claimed wrongly that he was acting pursuant to a Hitler order (having been told so by Heydrich). He suggested that journalist may have invented Eichmann's confession to spice up the report of the interview he had with him whilst he was still at liberty.
6.129 As to Gerstein, Irving doubted his claim to have been a covert anti-Nazi. He suggested that it was most unlikely that he and Pfannenstiel would have been permitted to observe events which were treated as top secret. Irving suggested that it would have been "no skin off [Pfannenstiel's] nose" to admit having watched the gassing when asked about it. He drew attention to the many fantastic claims made by Gerstein in his various accounts, for example his claim that Globocnik told him that between 10,000 and 25,000 Jews were being killed per day at each of the camps and his claim to have seen piles of shoes 25 metres high. Browning conceded that Gerstein was prone to extraordinary exaggerations but he would not accept that he has been wholly discredited. Besides, said Browning, Gerstein is corroborated by others.
6.130 Despite the arguments which he advanced and which I have summarised, Irving, after being repeatedly pressed, did finally concede that one of the proposed methods of liquidation was by the use of carbon monoxide in gas chambers. He further accepted that on the balance of probabilities from the spring of 1942 (and earlier in the case of Chelmno) hundreds of thousands of Jews were deliberately killed at those camps. What he does not accept, however, is that any of these camps were purpose-built death camps. To take Treblinka as an example, Irving asserted that forensic tests and aerial photographs indicate that there was no purpose-built extermination facility there.
6.131 As regards the scale of the exterminations at these camps, Irving did accept that hundreds of thousands of Jews were intentionally killed, by some means or another, at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. He agreed that the contemporaneous evidence discloses daily trains transporting Jews in large numbers (perhaps as many as 5000 per train) eastwards from various departure points to Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec. Although he queried at one point how the corpses had been disposed of, he did not resile from his acceptance that Jews were killed in huge numbers in the camps at these three villages.
6.132 In connection with the scale of the extermination whch took place in the death camps, Irving relied two documents, one bearing the initials of Himmler, which reported the amount of property taken from Jews in the period to 30 April 1943, evidently in the execution of Operation Reinhard, for distribution amongst Nazi units. The figure for wrist and pocket watches, totalling about 120,000, indicates, according to Irving, that a relatively small number of Jews were dispossessed and a correspondingly lower figure deported and killed. Browning did not accept that the list of property was a complete list of all property removed. He did not consider that the documents assist in determining the likely number of deportees.
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I have been running for over a year now. I have run several 5k and a 10k. I recently have been working toward a half marathon but I just can't get past 5 miles . Please help!!
What's making you stop at 5 miles when you run? Pain, boredom, fatigue?
6/3/12 Maraton Rapa Nui 5:00:49 (PR)
10/16/11 Istanbul Eurasia Marathon 5:10:25
I hate to break it to you, but if you ran a 10k then you ran more than 5 miles
I suggest trying to add only part of a mile to your 5 mile run if you are truly stuck there. Go out and try for just an extra 2-3 minutes and see if you can get .25 miles added. Then the next time do the same thing. Sometimes its just a matter of figuring out the best way to get past your limit. Although, it does depend on what exactly is stopping you.... if you are having specific pain, etc. then that is something you have to weigh against increasing mileage.
Race History
5K - Apr 2009: 39:00
5K - Jun 2009: 36:55
5K - Sep 2009: 34:06
10K - Oct 2009: 1:13:45
5K - Nov 2009: 34:23
5K - Feb 2010: 32:28
Half Marathon - Apr 2010: 2:39:06
5K - May 2010: 29:49
10K - Jun 2010: 1:01:48
5K - Aug 2010: 27:57
Half Marathon - Oct 2010: 2:12:18
10K - Nov 2010: 52:44 (PR)
5K - Feb 2011: 23:45
Half Marathon - Apr 2011: 1:49:18
Marathon - May 2011: 3:56:05
Half Marathon - Oct 2011: 1:49:14 (PR)
5K - Nov 2011: 22:20 (PR)
Marathon - Dec 2011: 3:41:42 (PR)
"One foot in front of the other" That will get you to 6 miles and beyond! You've already done a 10k so you've done more than 5 miles. Now all you need to do is slowly commit to working your way up so the increased distance doesn't intimidate you so much. If your going to train for a 1/2 marathon then I would recommend finding a good training plan of 12-18 weeks. Read up on what your weekly averages (miles) need to be prior to starting the program and once you're satisfied that you want to actually do it then just commit to following the program. Most training schedules especially for beginners work your mileage up slowly. If your not ready to take the leap of faith then try making that 5 mile marker 5 1/2 until you feel comfortable then bump it up to 6 and so on. Over time you will develop more and more confidence as well as conditioning. For me it took a while for my body to physically get used to running those longer runs When I first started those longer runs were pretty daunting and they really can be a little scary. Be patient and educate yourself on proper training techniques. Good luck and have a blast, you'll make it!!
Quote from Bob Moawad " You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you are sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time"
2008 - Grandma's marathon - 4:51 2011 - Get in Gear 1/2 marathon - 1:46
2009 - Get in Gear 1/2 marathon - 1:49 2011 - Green Bay marathon - 3:51
2009 - Grandma's marathon - 4:13 2011 - Grandma's marathon - 3:45
2009 - Twin Cities marathon - 4:02 2011 - Minneapolis Pride 5k - 21:31
2010 - Grandma's marathon - 3:58 ya hoo!
2010 - Twin Cities marathhon - 3:55
I've been running just over 8 months now and never been a runner when I started with Hal Higdon's beginner running program. In fact, I never ran more than 4 miles and decided to run the 2010 Seattle 1/2 Marathon and used Hal's 12 week ramp up 1/2 Marathon Novice Training Programs and Schedule... I followed it 100%.
Don't let those walls build in your head...You can do it. I'm 46 years old and I'm a baby in this new sport I've discovered.
Now I've competed in a whopping two races:
2010 Seattle 1/2 Marathon: 1:43:00
2010 Kirkland 12 K's of Christmas: 53:49
I don't understand how you can be "stuck" at 5 mi. when you've already ran 10K races. Whatever is rolling around in your melon telling you that you "can't" go any further, get it out now. Do 6 miles. I don't care if you walk, crawl or roll like a tumbleweed. I don't care if it takes you 10 min. or 10 hrs. for that 6th mile, and at this point you shouldn't either. If you want to do it - you will. Keep this in mind: if you go 6.55 miles, that's 1/2 way through your 1/2 marathon.
A famous quote attributed to Henry Ford said, "Whether you believe you can or believe you cannot - you're right".
The only thing stopping you is YOU, my friend. So knock that crap off, lace 'em up, get out the door and run to that fight await for you after mile 5 and whip some arse. Then, do it again in a couple of days just to prove the first time wasn't luck.
If you are doing the same routine in your run, then you can't hope to build mileage very quickly at all. On some training runs, focus on speed and strength. Work at a faster pace for fewer miles. Then, ease the pace down a little bit for the longer runs.
The only possible explanation I could figure is you are trying to run at your race pace every time out. If this is the case, back off a 1:30 to 2:00 minutes slower than your race pace when you train. If this isn't the case, focus on perseverance and patience -- no easy or quick fixes in running just persistent training. You can do it. Just like the quote from the earlier reply, believe you can and will do it. The mental aspect of running can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Indianapolis Monumental Marathon 11/05/11 - 3:50:19
Indianapolis Half Marathon 10/15/11 - 1:44:59
Nobesville 10-Miler (NHS) 09/24/11 - 1:16:07
The Melt Down (Shelbyville) - 3 5Ks 07/16/11 - 1) 22:59 2) 24:30 3) 24:10
Carmel Marathon 06/11/11 - 3:56:02 (a hot one!!!)
Indy 500 Mini Marathon 05/07/11 - 1:48
Indy 500 Training Series 15K 04/09/11 - 1:11:41
Sam Costa Half (Carmel) 03/26/11 - 1:45
Indy 500 Training Series 10K 03/05/11 - 46:21
Polar Bear Doubler 3 & 5 Mile 02/19/11 - 3M - 22:00, 5M - 38:10
Indy 500 Training Series 5K 02/12/11 - 22:01
Race to the New Year 5K 01/08/11 - 23:59
Jingle Bell 5K 12/11/10 - 23:23
Turkey Trot - Noblesville 5K 11/25/10 - 24:00
Indianapolis Monumental Half Marathon 11/06/10 - 1:58
You are in a rut, and I KNOW the feeling! The key is to have a schedule, and to stick with it. Another key component to increasing your mileage is cross-training. This helps strengthen your muscles, so that it can endure a longer cardio workout when you increase your runs.
This can be weight training, body resistance workouts, kickboxing, or even cycling. Anything that works your body in a different way, and also helps build up muscle mass is fantastic. I also use a 14-week half-marathon program that incorporates days that are set aside for cross-training.
This is a great way to reach your goal of running a half, and I've completed several races using this schedule including the L.A. half marathon, San Diego Rock n Roll, Denver Rock n Roll, and a Sedona half. Good Luck & I know you can DO it! Happy Running
Slow down! Try to hit the trails and just enjoy the scenery - part of enjoying running is not to take it too seriously. You do it becuase you enjoy it, right?
(My advice to someone stuck at 3 miles)
A couple of other ideas that have helped me in the past.
Change your route to get some new scenery and maybe take your mind off the distance aspect. You might also try running to an endpoint (instead of back "home") and have someone agree to meet you there and pick you up, or they could drive your route and pick you up along the way at whatever distance you accomplish.
Sometimes a little variety will work wonders.
First of all, if you ran a 10K, you ran 6.2 miles. So you already know you can go that far which is just a little less than half of a half marathon. So just think to yourself that you are HALFWAY there!
It is incrementally harder to add each mile to a certain point, but then you eventually reach a point where another mile is just another mile. I can't tell you exactly when that happens, but it was somewhere around 7-8 miles for me. (Of course that scenario doesn't continue indefinitely, since everyone will reach a point of diminishing returns, like a bell curve. But that is generally way past the half marathon distance.) You just have to push through your barrier, whether it is the one hour barrier or the six mile barrier or whatever looms in your mind as farther than you think you can go. Look at it this way - you can always go five minutes longer, right? So just add five minutes - or about .5 mile - to your long run each week. Go as slowly as you need to go to complete your distance for the day. Don't try to run at the pace you do your shorter runs, this is the time to increase endurance, not speed. If you literally cannot run 5 minutes longer on your long run then that is a sign you need to dial it back. And once you get comfortable at 8-10 miles you can start adding a mile to your weekly long run. Keep in mind that if you are training to conquer new distances, then every 3-4 weeks you can have a "cut back" week where you reduce or maintain your distance before taking it to the next level. If you allow plenty of time for training, this won't throw you off and may even help prevent injury and burn out. Just be sure to allow for the cut back week when planning your training schedule (I am always surprised how many beginner training plans don't include a cut back week, but assume you can add 1 mile/week to your long distance for 12 straight weeks. I personally don't think that is doable for most beginning long distance runners. Just my opinion!)
Hopefully you will find that adding only .5 mile/week to your distance is not too intimidating and you will push past your barrier soon. Those miles will add up fast and you'll be at 10+ miles before you know it - in two or three months. Good luck!
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Tune in Thursday, October 21 to Comedy Central!
Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education is hosted by Jon Stewart and will air at 9 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. PDT. During the airing of "Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education" on COMEDY CENTRAL, viewers who call in to a celebrity operated phone bank and make a donation of $100 or more to the program will receive a complimentary White Castle Original Slider®-Scented Candle. Comedians include Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and many, many more. Viewers will be urged to call in to a celebrity phone bank to make donations. Answering the phones during the broadcast will be many of the comedians as well as George Clooney, Larry David and Jimmy Kimmel. Autism Speaks receives 10 percent of all proceeds. Check your local listings.
October 21, 2010 at 11:30 am
Autism Speaks gets 10% of all proceeds…..what happens to other 90%???
October 21, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I'm with Wendy, where does the other 90% go?
October 21, 2010 at 2:01 pm
I believe several organizations benefit from this. Autism Speaks is just one of them.
October 21, 2010 at 11:31 am
Jon Stewart is so awesome to do this for the autism community.
I wrote about "Night of Too Many" today on my blog at http://www.LifeIsASpectrum.com.
October 21, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Why then is it called An overbooked concert for autism education? It sounds like all the money should be going to the autism community.
November 15, 2010 at 12:15 am
it goes to several autism groups autism speaks is just receiving the largest share meaning it was only 1 mentioned
October 21, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Thank-you Jon Stewart for bringing awareness of how many people are affected by Autism. Tonight when I made my donation, I got to speak with Marissa Miller…..how exciting!!! My son is 7 years old and is severly autistic and non-verbal so this issue is extremely close to my heart. Thank-you all who participated in this event. And THANK-YOU to everyone who made a donation!!!
October 21, 2010 at 11:04 pm
I must say that I tuned in to "Night of Too many Stars" on Comedy Central hoping to see humorous skits and a fun filled evening of stars. Boy was I disapointed !First I must say that I'm far from a prude but I found some of the skits offensive or down right stupid. It was such that I chose to tune out ! My question is why would Autism Speaks choose to be associated with such an offensive venue ? Did anyone review the content of the skits before it aired ?Comedy Central is known for its questionable content so why would Autism Speaks choose to associate with them ? Autism is very near and dear to my heart as my young grandson is on the spectrum and is my special angel.I'm just so disappointed with Autism Speaks and feel I should focus my efforts and donations to other Autism programs.


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The annual Hot Wheels races will take place at Salem Baptist Church on Saturday, March 23. The event will begin at 6 p.m.
Hot dogs and chilli will be served.
The church is located 2.5 miles south of Missouri 19 on County Road F, Ralls County.
There will be no admission charge. For information call (573) 221-5682.
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Leon Hiebert was pastor of Andover Assembly of God (Generations Church A/G) from 1989 to 2009. He is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 10 years in the US Navy most of the time as a corpsman serving with the Marine Corps. A native of Belleville, Kan., Hiebert is semi retired and lives in Andover with his wife, Sharon. He is a school bus driver for USD 385, Andover, Kansas.
Scripture: Psalm 16:7 NIV I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
Observation: What a comforting thought that even at night our thoughts can be guided by the Lord. Even in our time of rest, we can be receiving instruction from the Lord.
Application: I can evaluate the activities of the day apart from the heat of the moment and the intensity of their surroundings. I can learn as the Holy Spirit directs my thoughts. I can ponder the events of the coming day; the Holy Spirit can prepare me with His divine instruction.
Both my conscious meditations and my unconscious dreams can be Holy Spirit directed!
Prayer: Lord, I am blest to know that you can guide my thoughts even when I am at rest. My days and my nights are yours! Amen
Pastor Leon
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During these recent snowy days have you been eyeing seed catalogs with longing? Tired of grey days and noticing the first glimmering of spring, which at the moment are battling winter? Anxiously awaiting those spring bulbs poking through?
Many of us are experiencing these symptoms, looking for a cure. Kindred spirits with similar distress signals have discovered Gardeners on the Go, a club which has been a resource in the Eagle Valley for 7 years.
Gardeners on the Go members, Marion Laughlin and Jan Fedrizzi, are ready for spring and they have supplied answers to some timely growing questions:
Why do we need a garden club in our area?
Gardening satisfies many basic human inner longings and is almost mystical, not to mention practical. There is something magical about growing a plant from a tiny seed. Maybe you want to garden with only vegetables or only flowers. Or, you're into houseplants, growing your own pesticide-free fruit or love the fragrance of a lilac. Gardening encompasses all of that and much more.
Eagle County presents unique challenges-mainly a short growing season-so getting help from experienced gardeners who are also friends is a boon.
Gardeners on the Go of Eagle County is a group of garden lovers who come together to discover, enjoy, create, and promote our communities' flowers, gardens, landscapes, and natural resources.
I'm curious about your group's name, Gardeners on the Go.
We are on the go, working in our own gardens and observing others. Being intrepid is part of being a gardener. Our members, many hailing from other parts of the U. S., avidly travel for a glimpse at growing better and smarter, to size up that new perennial or to learn the latest on successfully growing tomatoes-sharing all of this with friends. It's more fun that way!
Do you accept newly transplanted gardeners?
Certainly, gardeners or prospective gardeners of any level are welcome. Anyone can attend any GOG event. One month a presenter may talk about planning your spring garden, the next month could be a special trip to an organic grower. Variety reigns.
What are some of your favorite past GOG programs?
Some of our favorite speakers have touched on the history of Eagle County gardening, botanical illustrating, growing orchids and propagating plants.
Sessions with pizzazz have been a basket-making class, a hypertufa trough-making class, a Japanese tea ceremony and a food- preserving demonstration.
Representative tours have included a lavender farm and cactus grower in Grand Junction, Basalt Public Gardens, Denver Botanic Gardens, wild orchids near Redstone and the Palisade Insectary, which develops beneficial insects to control weeds and pests.
We have done wildflower trips, a snowshoe around Sylvan Lake, a visit to a beekeeper, a trip to view Leadville gardens and a wonderful tour of a Breckenridge horticultural experimental garden.
What's new on the docket this year?
This year we are featuring several trips to nearby counties, such as a greenhouse tour near Basalt and a trip to the Steamboat Botanical Garden.
We are soon partnering with the Eagle Valley Alliance, presenting a free program on composting benefits and how-to techniques with Shawn Bruckman, a sustainability consultant. The presentation will be on March 11, at 1 pm, at CMC in Edwards in Rm. 250. Spring is the optimum time to begin composting, so we're excited about the timing of this program.
Any other highlights?
GOG members are interested in helping newbies and can provide a wealth of help and hand-holding. Our membership is open, with a nominal yearly membership fee to cover speaker expenses.
We have been fortunate to have community backing and have appreciated the support of many businesses, libraries and others, such as the CSU Extension horticultural program, Betty Ford Alpine Gardens and the Eagle County Historical Society.
Contact info?
Contact Jill Warner, email@example.com, to be added to the GOG e-mail notification list or join the GOG group at the composting workshop on March 11.


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Like faces on Mount Rushmore, images of the great composers are daunting, burned into our collective memory. There they are -- Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, geniuses with noble profiles, fiery eyes and hallowed reputations. What's a man like Lee Actor supposed to do?
He is a composer in the trenches, a South Bay professional whose works get performed from Saratoga to Slovakia. He earns a solid income but isn't famous, has never won the Pulitzer Prize for music and maybe never will. "It's hard," says Actor, whose new piano concerto debuts this weekend on the Peninsula. "It's hard work. It's harder than writing software."
Actor, 60, knows, because he spent 20 years writing code for video games -- he even co-founded a San Jose spinoff of Universal Studios to develop some of those games -- before returning a decade ago to his youthful passion, music. Since about age 50, he has composed steadily, building a body of 20 major works: overtures, symphonies, concertos. More than 50 orchestras have performed them, including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony, two respected ensembles. Far-flung bands know about Actor because an expanding network of soloists and conductors enjoy and talk about his work -- and send commissions his way.
Happy with his success, even surprised by it, he says he has an inkling that his new piece may be his best yet. If you go to the Friday-Saturday performances by the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra, expect to hear music that is expertly crafted and dramatic. Actor loves the bold expressivity of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Also, his works brim with melody -- accessible music by a former engineer with a combustible streak.
"Lee is a fairly restrained individual," says conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein, who will lead the new concerto performances in Redwood City and Cupertino. "He speaks with clarity and eloquence, and not with big outbursts of emotion. ... But his music is packed with these outbursts of tension and release, and lyricism and rhythmic drive. It's full of emotion."
Pianist Daniel Glover, the soloist for the new work, says he is "flabbergasted by the skill of Lee's orchestration. I'm thrilled with this piece, and -- who knows? -- it could catch on and enter the repertoire. ... I'd love to see it happen for Lee."
Growing up in Denver, Actor began playing the violin at age 7, and got serious as a teen, making it into the Colorado All State Orchestra. He remembers listening to Tchaikovsky and thinking, "I can do that." Unrealistic as that was, he says, he had a hunch about himself.
But he was a pragmatist. "I was really good in math and science, and I figured I would do that," he says. He received an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., where his future wife -- Geri, a violist -- also was a student. They played together in the school orchestra, married after graduation and moved in 1975 to Boston, where Geri worked toward a graduate degree in material science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meanwhile, Lee found a job in digital communication systems, while taking private lessons in musical composition and studying conducting.
In 1978, when Geri scored a job with Intel, the couple moved to Silicon Valley, and Actor enrolled in a master's degree program in musical composition at San Jose State. He graduated in 1981, then moved on to a doctoral composition program at UC Berkeley, where he remembers composing dense, gnarly and even "angry" music. Laughing, he says, "I don't know what I was so angry about. But ... nobody was bringing nice melodies to class."
Something else: Actor was "pushing 30. We had one kid, and another was on the way." Fearful of making a living in music, he left UC Berkeley and took a job with the Sunnyvale-based Videa. And so began his 20 years of profitable wanderings in the nonmusical desert, designing games and products for Electronic Arts, Atari, Sega -- a different life story.
This one picks up again about 2001. Geri was principal violist with the Palo Alto Philharmonic and sat on its board of directors, which decided to recruit an assistant conductor. Geri shot up her hand: "I know someone who can do that: my husband."
Actor was hired. Not long after that, he sat down with Gideon Grau, the orchestra's music director, formerly a violinist under legendary conductor George Szell in the Cleveland Orchestra. Grau said to Actor, "Your résumé says you're a composer. How would you like to compose a piece for the orchestra?"
Actor said, "Sure!"
He composed his Variations and Fugue for Orchestra, and -- financially secure after years of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship -- ditched his tech job, later becoming the orchestra's composer-in-residence. His wife was on board with the career change. "Try it," she told him.
"Nobody said to me, 'You're nuts,' " says Actor, whose horn concerto won first prize in the 2007 International Horn Society Composition Contest. In 2011, his "Dance Rhapsody" placed second in the orchestral category of the American Prize in Composition -- though so far his biggest prize, he says, has been finding that lots of people, regular concertgoers, enjoy his music.
"When I was writing software," he says, "I was eating, living and breathing it. ... And now it's the same thing, now that I'm doing music. I go to sleep and it's in my head. I wake up and it's in my head. It's an all-consuming thing. It's who I am."
Contact Richard Scheinin at 408-920-5069. Read his stories and reviews at www.mercurynews.com/richard-scheinin. Follow him at Twitter.com/richardscheinin.
Peninsula Symphony
Mitchell Sardou Klein, conductor; Daniel Glover, pianist.
Premiering Lee Actor's Piano Concerto; program also includes Beethoven's "Pastorale" Symphony and a Mendelssohn overture.
When: 8 p.m. May 17 and 18
Where: Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City (May 17); Flint Center, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino (May 18)
Tickets: $10 to $40, 650-941-5291, www.peninsulasymphony.org
Also: Details on Actor, his compositions and recordings are at www.leeactor.com.


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Seneca will share the Big 8 Conference championship for the second year in a row with Carl Junction and Mount Vernon, after the Indians defeated Cassville 47-39, and the Bulldogs topped the Mountaineers on Friday.
The Indians (18-7 overall, 6-1 conference) took charge after struggling to get going in the first quarter. Cassville led 8-6 after the first, but the Indians got going in the second and led 20-16 at the half. Seneca's defense stepped up again in the third period and held the Wildcats to six points to take a 30-22 lead.
Logan St. Clair paved the way for the Indians with 14 points, while Chance Smith added 10, Elias Roelfsema nine, Kyler Ng seven, Seth Harris five and Bradley Jumper two.
Garrett Kirk paced the Wildcats with 12 points.
The Indians begin play at the Class 3, District 12 Tournament on Tuesday in Seneca.
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