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In an ironic twist, Benjamin Fingerhut wrote his screenplay "I Hate Your Kids" shortly after his son, Alexander, was born, when he was in the thick of bonding with his newborn.
"I would already be awake for the midnight and 3 a.m. feedings and wrote a little each night," said Fingerhut, who lives in Chicago where he works for a small book publishing company. "I quickly got into a routine where I'd leave the pages that I had written the night before on the toilet seat for my wife to read in the morning and she'd read it and mark it up with her thoughts."
Fingerhut's hilarious - trust us, we read it and it is --piece won the Vail Film Festival's annual screenwriting contest and Fingerhut is in town now enjoying his winnings - namely passes to the festival and accomodations while he's here. The screenplay (which was sent out to producers as part of prize package) will also be read aloud today at the festival by a group of actors.
"I will be watching along with everyone else," Fingerhut, 39, said. "I'm sure there will be a moment while watching the reading that I'll think, 'Hey. I wrote this alone in my office in my underwear, and now there are people acting it out. How cool!'" Though Fingerhut will answer a few quetions after the reading, we got to him first.
Vail Daily: How do you sum up the screenplay's storyline in a few sentences?
Benjamin Fingerhut: A middle-aged school portrait photographer struggles to maintain his juvenile life after his best friend violates their pact and has a baby.
VD: What was your inspiration for this screenplay?
BJ: Actually the inspiration came from a dream that my wife had when she was pregnant with our son. She dreamt that I had written a screenplay called "Married with Friends." Consciously or subconsciously when you have your first child, I think there's a pretty universal fear that once the baby is born you're going to lose everything you enjoy in life, including good friends. I thought it would be interesting to look at this from the perspective of the friend who doesn't have a child and doesn't want one. They have to pretend like it's all very exciting and great, but deep down they're probably pretty pissed that this new amazing and precious creature is ruining everything.
VD: Is this your first screenplay? If not, tell me about the others.
BF: This is my third feature screenplay. Several years ago, I wrote a screenplay about a group of bored guys who try to kidnap their small town mayor, called 'The Bend.' Then I spent five years making a feature documentary called 'Breaking and Entering' about people trying to get into the Guinness World Records book. (Available on iTunes, Netflix and Amazon, etc... !) After my son was born I decided to focus on writing again.
VD: What's the next step for "I hate your kids"? How do you go about selling it, or getting people interested in making it into a film?
BF: The documentary that I worked on took five years to make and was what I imagine childbirth to be at times, so I knew that I just wanted to write this one and not make it myself. Therefore, I chose a very universal theme that a lot of people could appreciate. I've been lucky enough to do well in a few screenwriting contests and in turn there are some production companies that have expressed interest in possibly making it. It's always a longshot, but it's exciting to think about it getting made.


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STOCKTON - A large bullet hole in a hallway wall was marked by an evidence tag and a nearby pool of blood remained unmopped more than 13 hours after the shooting stopped, indicators of a late Friday night killing in north Stockton that police blamed on gangs and people in the neighborhood refused to discuss.
The victim was 31-year-old Jayl Calbert, according to Officer Joe Silva, a Stockton police spokesman. Silva said Calbert was a documented gang member.
The shooting occurred shortly before 11 p.m. Friday in the hallway of a small apartment complex on East Iris Avenue, north of Hammer Lane and east of El Dorado Street. According to police, no suspects have been identified.
"We're asking for the community's help," Silva said.
Outside the apartments Saturday afternoon, a group of young people milled about. All but one declined to be interviewed, and the one who spoke did so on the condition of anonymity. The young woman said she was concerned for her safety.
"I can't even talk," she said. "I don't know what to say. I'm lost for words."
The homicide was the second in the first three days of 2014.
Silva said anyone with information is encouraged to contact Stockton police at (209) 937-8377 or Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600, or submit a tip on the department's Facebook Page.
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/phillipsblog and on Twitter @rphillipsblog.
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HARROGATE, TN -- The Lady Railsplitters rallied from a three-point halftime deficit and surged in the second half to upend the Tusculum College Pioneers, 72-64, in South Atlantic Conference women's basketball action on Wednesday evening at Tex Turner Arena. With the win, Lincoln Memorial University (10-9, 3-6 SAC) won their second-consecutive contest in league play while the Pioneers dropped their second straight, falling to 10-7 on the season and 4-5 in SAC play with the loss.
The Lady Railsplitters were led by the back court duo of Kalasia Green and Kelsey Bradford, as the pair combined for 42 of Lincoln Memorial's 72 points in the win over the Pioneers. Bradford (Metropolis, Illinois) headlined that combination with a game-high 22 points, backed by a 16-22 clip at the charity stripe. She also dished out three assists and swiped three steals. Green (Laveen, Arizona) got in on the act with 20 points marked by 8-13 shooting from the field. She filled out her stat ledger with four assists, five steals and three rebounds in 33 minutes of action.
Ralissa Nelson (Janesville, Wisconsin) contributed eight points, and MaRanda Boddie (Springfield, Illinois) compiled six points and six rebounds despite only playing 20 minutes due to early foul trouble. Kortnay Cox and Elliotte Roberts notched five points apiece to highlight the bench scoring output for the Lady Railsplitters which contributed 14 points. Mariah Richardson (Lawrenceville, Georgia) led the Lady Railsplitters to a 40-35 advantage on the glass by matching a game-high figure with eight boards.
Tusculum put four players in double-figures in the contest, paced by Ashley Thurman's 13-point, eight-rebound effort. Kendal Baxter tallied 12 points in the game but was limited to a 3-11 effort from the field. Breaira Barksdale and Nequoiah Anderson finished with 11 and 10 points respectively.
The Lady Railsplitters were out-shot by the slimmest of margins in the game, as the Pioneers capped the evening with a 40.7% (24-59) clip while Lincoln Memorial went 21-52 (40.4%) on the night. However, the Lady Railsplitters limited the Pioneers to only a 29.4% mark in the second frame and forced them into committing 23 turnovers. The Lady Railsplitters used those 23 turnovers to capitalize with 31 points.
After the opening four minutes of play, Lincoln Memorial held an 8-4 lead following a three-point bucket by Ralissa Nelson, however, that advantage was quickly erased over the next 1:15 with a 7-0 rally by the Pioneers, capped with a three by Jama Hammontree. The Lady Railsplitters cut the deficit back to 13-12 with a jumper by Kortnay Cox at the 12:44 mark, yet, another 7-0 rally by the Pioneers propelled TC out to a 20-12 lead with 10:31 to play in the first frame.
Over the next seven minutes, the Pioneers clung to a two-possession lead until the Lady Railsplitters swung a 30-26 Pioneer lead with a 5-1 run to knot the game at 31-31 with 1:17 left. The Pioneers would get the last laugh in the half, however, as they notched a free throw from Nequoiah Anderson and a jumper by Ashley Thurman to go into the break leading 34-31.
The Pioneers added another basket by Thurman to kickoff the second half, extending their lead to five. The Lady Railsplitters responded with a pair of Kelsey Bradford free throws and a three-pointer by Kalasia Green to knot the game at 36-36 with 18:42 left in regulation. Thurman answered with a bucket in the next possession to put the Pioneers back on top, but that was short lived, as the Lady Railsplitters countered with a 6-0 run, capped with a layup by Bradford to assume a 42-38 lead with 15:10 to play.
Lincoln Memorial held the lead for nearly four minutes until the Pioneers regained it with a three-pointer by Nequoiah Anderson at the 11:14 mark. Over the next five minutes, the lead jockeyed back and forth until the two teams met squarely in a 52-52 stalemate with 6:21 to play. From that juncture Kelsey Bradford drained a free throw and Kalasia Green tallied a three-point play to give Lincoln Memorial a lead they would never relinquish. By the 4:30 mark, the Lady Railsplitters had built their advantage to five with a Ralissa Nelson three-ball and Bradford squeezed it up to as many as seven with a layup at the two-minute mark.
The Lady Railsplitters would extend their lead to as many as 12 down the stretch en route to a 72-64 win over the Pioneers. The final 6:21 made the difference in the contest, as the Lady Railsplitters out-scored the Pioneers, 20-12, over that span. In total, the game saw five ties and seven lead changes.
Lincoln Memorial will take their two-game winning streak on the road this weekend, as they are set to travel to Salisbury, North Carolina to engage in a South Atlantic Conference battle with the Catawba College Indians. That game is set to tip at 2 pm on Saturday, February 2nd.


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Definition of cyclic in English:
1Occurring in cycles; regularly repeated: the cyclic pattern of the last two decades
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- The evolution of the universe could be cyclic, with regularly repeating periods of expansion and contraction.
- The new terror was cyclic, and the cycle took exactly a century to complete.
- Pepper, like some other fruit vegetables, shows a cyclic growth pattern where periods of high fruit set and slow fruit growth alternate with periods of low fruit set and rapid fruit growth.
1.2Relating to or denoting a musical or literary composition with a recurrent theme or structural device.
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- His own composition classes were solidly based on a historical foundation of Gregorian chant, Palestrinian and Bachian polyphony, Beethoven's symphonic language, and Franck's technique of cyclic themes.
- The Quartet is a cyclic composition full of fine music ranging from the eloquent to the virtuosic.
- The oeuvre includes the formally ingenious Violin Sonata no.l, its finale a set of cyclic variations recapitulating in reverse order the themes of the entire work.
2 Mathematics Relating to a circle or other closed curve.
2.1 Geometry (Of a polygon) having all its vertices lying on a circle.
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- This information is independent both of the orientation chosen for the plane and of the orientation for the polygon specified by the cyclic order of its vertices.
- The expression for the radius of the circle in which a cyclic quadrilateral is inscribed, given in terms of the sides of the quadrilateral, is usually attributed to Lhuilier in 1782.
- Since Tucker hexagons are cyclic, so are the hexagons of the six circumcenters at hand.
2.2 Chemistry (Of a compound) having a molecular structure containing one or more closed rings of atoms.
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- He theorized that the structure of these compounds were long, chainlike molecules and not aggregates or cyclic compounds as previously thought.
- The basic mode of action is to make the cyclic structure a straight chain molecule.
- By sharing two oxygen atoms, silicates can form either cyclic or chain structures.
2.3 Botany (Of a flower) having its parts arranged in whorls.
Late 18th century: from French cyclique or Latin cyclicus, from Greek kuklikos, from kuklos 'circle'.
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Apple's Mac Pro to Go on Sale
Apple on Thursday will begin selling the newest version of the Mac Pro, its high-end line desktop computers.
The Mac Pro will be available online and in stores at a starting price of $2,999, Apple said. Apple is building some of the machines in Austin, Texas, the first devices the company has assembled in the U.S. in about a decade.
The new machine will certainly be a niche product for Apple — a sign Apple hasn't totally given up on the "prosumer" market of designers, graphic artists, animators and other professionals who need heavy duty computing power. The black aluminum computers – a cylinder about 10-inches tall – will likely be more at home on top of a desk than beneath it, given its diminutive size. The new computer abandon's the old cheese-grater styling of earlier Mac Pros, though some joke that the new design looks a bit like a trash can.
The base model will feature a 3.7-gigahertz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor, 12-gigabytes of RAM, and dual AMD FirePro D300 graphics processors each paired with their own 2-gigabytes of VRAM. The entry level model will also ship with 256-gigabytes of speedy PCIe-based flash storage.
Apple will sell variants of the Mac Pro with six-core, eight-core, or 12-core CPUs as well, and up to as much as 64-gigabytes of memory and 1-terabyte of storage. The device also will be the first high-end Mac desktop to ditch a built-in optical drive — though Apple still sells a USB drive accessory for people who still want to watch a DVD or load software from a disc. Apple's MacBook Air laptop, first introduced in 2008, has never had an optical drive, and neither does the Retina MacBook Pro. The MacMini lost its optical drive in 2011. Late last year, a redesigned, slim iMac dropped the disc drive.
With the new Mac Pro going on sale tomorrow, Apple no longer sells a desktop with a built-in disc drive. The move to eliminate disc drives from its hardware makes sense for Apple as it nudges consumers away from physical media. The company sells music, movies and television shows through its iTunes storefront, and software through iTunes and the Mac App Store. As such, Apple has less interest in helping CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs live on.
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Mobile mammography unit to stop at Belk
Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 12:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 12:13 p.m.
The BelkGives on the Go Mobile Mammography Center, a 39-foot-long, state-of-the-art screening center on wheels, will stop at the Belk store at Blue Ridge Mall on Four Seasons Boulevard in Hendersonville from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 26 and March 27 to offer free mammogram screenings.
Women age 40 and over with no breast concerns and who have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months are eligible by calling 855-655-BMMC (2662) to schedule an appointment. Screening exams are performed by Charlotte Radiology's licensed, female mammography- certified technologists. A board-certified radiologist, specialized in breast imaging, will interpret the mammograms.
Confidential results will be sent to the patient and her primary care physician.
The mobile mammography center will visit all Belk markets, with the journey beginning in 113 stores throughout North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee through January 2014. For more information, call 855-655-BMMC (2662) or go to www.belk.com/pink.
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LOS ANGELES (October 8, 2012)—U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is calling for a federal investigation into gas prices in California because she doesn't think they are related to supply and demand.
Californians are paying an average of $4.668 a gallon, the highest price in the nation and many motorists are paying more than $5.
Feinstein said that paying hundreds of dollars every time a motorist fills up is unthinkable.
For the second time in the last few months, she has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking for an immediate probe.
She also asked in August when gas was 45 cents cheaper.
Gov. Jerry Brown over the weekend ordered state smog regulators to allow winter-blend gas to be sold three weeks early in the state.
Experts are predicting prices will climb to $4.85 before coming down.


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Sydney-based Corban & Blair are having a November sale starting from today until Sunday. Any students looking for portfolios should check it out, either in store or online. More info here.


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MORAGA, Calif. — Members of the Saint Mary's men's soccer team will be at upcoming Gaels sporting events to accept donations to help offset medical costs for senior forward Emmanuel Sarabia of Truckee, who is currently undergoing treatment for Leukemia.
Nicknamed "Morro" by his uncle as a baby, Sarabia was admitted to Tahoe Forest Hospital early last week before transferring to UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco on Friday. After undergoing a series of tests, the Truckee native was diagnosed with Leukemia, a rare cancer of the immune system.
Sarabia's teammates will be at various Saint Mary's athletic events over the next several weeks, including Saturday's sold-out Bay Area rivalry men's basketball game against Santa Clara at McKeon Pavilion. The team will accept cash and/or checks made out directly to Saint Mary's College Men's Soccer. Contributions are not tax deductible.
Checks can also be mailed directly to the athletic department with "Morro" noted on the check. Mail to: Saint Mary's College, Athletic Business Office, P.O. Box 4380, Moraga, CA 94575.
The team will also be selling specially-designed gold-colored wristbands with "Hope is Golden" displayed on one side and "SMC ES" on the other. The cost will be $5 and the bracelets are expected to be available at Saturday's game. The team is also planning additional fundraising efforts around the community.
"The moment we heard about Morro's situation, we were moved to do everything we could to help him and his family," said Doug Herrick, a senior goalkeeper on last year's team. "Our team has such a strong sense of family and Morro is an integral part of our team and our community. We obviously have very little control over the situation but we are going to help to whatever degree we can."
After opening his career with a successful inaugural season in 2008, during which he was named to the West Coast Conference all-freshman team, Sarabia has started a total of 38 games in his three seasons for the Gaels.
Sarabia, who turned 21 in December, missed the 2010 season due to a serious knee injury suffered in a preseason game at Sonoma State. In that game at SSU, he scored twice and added an assist before a 55th-minute collision with the Seawolves' goalkeeper ended his season.
After undergoing rehabilitation following ACL surgery, he returned to the field last season to start 15 of his 19 appearances. He was a key member of the Gaels' record-setting team that won the program's first-ever WCC championship and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight. Sarabia provided the game-winning assist on a long crossing pass to Jose Cabeza against San Diego that clinched the league title.
"Morro has certainly dealt with his share of adversity during his time here at Saint Mary's," said head Coach Adam Cooper. "But, he has such a positive outlook and work ethic. He worked really hard to successfully come back from his knee injury. I know he is going to battle through this and come back stronger and more determined than ever."
— This article is from the Saint Mary's athletic website, http://smcgaels.com.


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Water service to be interrupted in Englewood
Published: Monday, January 7, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 1:20 p.m.
ENGLEWOOD - The Englewood Water District will repair a portion of its main pipeline in the area of Old Englewood Road and State Road 776 starting at 11 p.m. Thursday and continuing to 2 a.m. Friday.
Water service will be interrupted in the area north of Old Englewood Road, including Manasota Beach Road and its side streets.
For more information, call (941) 474-3217.
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Don't Believe the Internet
Published: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 10:36 p.m.
State Rep. Neil Combee, R-Polk City, may not be "the sharpest knife in the drawer," Polk County Democratic Executive Committee member Karen Welzel is reported to have said in the Sept. 7 edition ["Combee Tweet on Syria, Obama Gets Attention"]. She was responding to Combee's comment that our president may have helped plan the chemical weapon attack in Syria.
Combee got this idea from something he read on the Internet. His reaction is part of a much larger and very serious problem: People believe everything they read on the Internet.
What's worse, they pass it on as the truth.
People believe the darnedest things, especially when those things fit into their own agendas. It's no secret that Combee and many, if not most, other Republicans have one item on their agendas: opposing our president no matter what. The hate mail and absurd charges that have flooded the airways for the past six years about our president are unprecedented.
Combee remains unrepentant. He's reported to have said it's everyone's responsibility to raise questions.
Combee and others seem to fail to understand that the truth is important, that there's a time and place for raising questions, and that raising some questions is nothing but hateful, stupid and counterproductive.
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Primal Blueprint Fitness: Grokstep
Mark's Daily Apple reader Asha submitted this Primal Blueprint Fitness video as her entry to this year's Primal Blueprint Workout Video contest. This is one in a series of recipe videos, workout videos, Grokfeasts and other contest submissions that will be published all week long. View them all and vote for your favorites later this week. Grok on!


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Location: Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research
Project Number: 6050-21000-013-00
Start Date: Oct 01, 2008
End Date: Sep 30, 2013
Traits that are known to confer resistance to mites (autogrooming against tracheal mites; VSH or its behavioral subtasks against varroa) will be subjected to microarray analysis to identify genes associated with specific phenotypes. Genes will be further screened for up- and down-regulation using rtPCR assays. New traits of resistance to varroa (reduced invasion by mites into brood cells; brood-mediated suppression of mite reproduction) or to CCD-related agents will be sought by measuring variation among diverse bee sources. Traditional breeding will be used to create honey bees suitable for commercial crop pollination by combining lines having high VSH with commercial stock. Molecular-marker-assisted selection will focus on genetic markers developed earlier for autogrooming and VSH. Simplified methods for queen breeders to select for VSH will be evaluated by correlating VSH expression with changes in brood nest characters during short-term exposure of infested combs. Sustainability of varroa resistance in bees used for migratory crop pollination will be determined by measuring survivability and performance of VSH colonies in cooperation with commercial beekeepers. Recommendations for resistance-based Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems against varroa will be developed by integrating resistant bee stock with other non-chemical means to manage varroa.


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A significant amount of the mallards harvested in New York each year are produced in the St. Lawrence Plain, Great Lakes Region and Mid Atlantic Coast. We receive a good part of our diving duck migration from the Prairie Pothole Region and Great Lakes Region. A considerable portion of our teal and other puddle ducks originate in the Prairie Pothole Region.
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First duck stamp, designed by Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist, Jay N. "Ding" Darling, issued.
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A heart-shaped quilt in rainbow colors. A collage of a bunch of butterflies taking flight. Sounds innocent enough. But is it?
Depends on where you hang the art, Santa Clara County prosecutors say. In a courthouse like San Jose's Hall of Justice, where the exhibit was first placed, it sent the wrong message, they say.
The art was done by inmates at the county's Elmwood jail during a program run by jail chaplains. A few months ago, the group proudly held an opening reception that drew at least 200 people.
But that didn't stop Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen from protesting. So the courts boxed up the exhibit and moved it a block away to the County Government Center's main hallway.
But before you brand Rosen a Philistine, consider where in the courthouse the exhibit was displayed -- near the jury assembly room. And that it includes written statements by inmates. The butterflies, for instance, are origami made out of pages of the California Penal Code. One inmate wrote that it "makes me believe I too can transform from a lost soul and live my life with purpose."
"The Hall of Justice is not a museum," Rosen said. "Just imagine if there was a similar exhibit placed at that same spot that showcased the art of crime victims expressing their trauma and loss: the image of a heart ripped open, or a poem by the family of someone who had been murdered. Would that be OK? Of course it would not."
So now we know why there's nothing on the courthouse walls. And why Rosen won far more trials than he lost. (The guy can put together an argument.)
NAACP raises money for Willie Brown, Jr. Bridge sign
When state lawmakers agreed to honor one of their own by naming the western stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after Willie Brown, the charismatic former Assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor, they left unsaid who would pay for signage. The assumption was supporters would raise the money privately.
Well, we are told that the NAACP has succeeded in raising the roughly $6,500 cost of producing and installing signs, and that a dedication ceremony is planned for Feb. 11 near where the span crosses Yerba Buena Island.
Though the Legislature easily passed the naming resolution last fall, the idea wasn't without controversy, even among Brown's fellow Democrats. Most notable among them was Gov. Jerry Brown, whose office had said he believes the Bay Bridge and its more glamorous sibling the Golden Gate should simply be known as they have been for generations. The resolution didn't require his approval.
Critics noted that the move would violate numerous legislative policies, including one against naming public infrastructure after living politicians.
But supporters argued that the state hasn't been very consistent on that point. After all, the Legislature also agreed in 1998 to name Interstate 380, which connects I-280 with Highway 101 near San Francisco International Airport, after still-living former San Francisco supervisor and state Sen. Quentin Kopp.
"Certainly the former mayor and speaker deserves the honor," said San Jose political consultant Rich Robinson, who helped with the NAACP fundraising.
Kopp, ironically, was among those who formally objected to naming the Bay Bridge section after Brown. But the irony doesn't end there. When the Legislature was deciding on naming I-380 after Kopp, the San Francisco Chronicle quoted Brown, who arged that "they ought to name freeways after dead people."
Robinson called it "unusual" that the state wouldn't pay the small signage cost, but added that raising the funds privately was "the right thing to do" to demonstrate that the state isn't spending frivolously.
Despite drought, money spent on ads for floods
In the middle of a drought, you might be conserving water at your house: You're not watering your lawn. You're careful with your showers. But somebody didn't let the Santa Clara Valley Water District, fondly known here as the Golden Spigot, know quickly enough.
For the past month, the water district has been running an ad campaign -- on radio, buses, newspapers and websites -- warning people that flood season is coming. The star is Charles "Chicken" Little, who appears under an umbrella with these cheery words: "You may remember me as that panicky bird who ran around yelling, the sky is falling. Well, after years of meditation, I'm now helping Santa Clara County residents prepare for flood season."
Here's the problem: It's been evident for some time that floods are not coming anytime soon. Needing to reserve ad space early, the district has spent $105,943 on the campaign so far, out of an original budget of $263,000. Lately, the district has been scaling back, and last week board Chairman Tony Estremera commended Gov. Jerry Brown for his declaration of emergency on the drought.
Does the water district know something we don't about coming rain? A Golden Spigot spokesman, Marty Grimes, conceded that it does not. But Grimes said the flood campaign helps the district earn points in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Flood Insurance Program, which helps local cities qualify for reductions in flood insurance premiums. To which we can say only: The sky isn't falling.
Barbecue planned for 'Three-Strikers'
When we learned about a barbecue that Santa Clara County public defender Molly O'Neal was planning for recently released "Three-Strikers" and their families, we were ready to do some roasting of our own.
Until we thought about it.
Surely a few hot dogs and hamburgers -- served with a scoop of compassion and some services -- cost less than throwing people back into prison at $50K a year.
Remember, the Public Defender's Office fought (tooth and nail in some cases) with the District Attorney's Office to get about 65-plus Three-Strikers released under Proposition 36.
Now, it's time to celebrate -- and explore how else the public defenders can help California reduce its prison/jail bills and still keep the community safe.
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Robin Steinberg, founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders, is coming in February to San Jose to explainthe group's "holistic approach" to public defenders here. Among the group's accomplishments was spearheading a bail reform initiative.
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Police: Fifth-grader Brings Butcher Knife to School
Published: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 1:54 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 4:10 p.m.
WINTER HAVEN | A Winter Haven fifth-grader brought a butcher knife to school Monday, police said.
Inwood Elementary officials found the eight-inch knife stuffed into the 11-year-old's Scooby Doo book binder after students notified the principal, police said.
No one was hurt and the school was not disrupted but it is still not known why the child brought the knife to school.
Winter Haven police arrived around 9 a.m., but are still interviewing the student and witnesses.
The student was taken to the Polk County Juvenile Assessment Center.
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PARKERSBURG - Wood County Schools students will have a late start today, but for area teachers it will be a morning of planning and data crunching.
The district will hold the first of four planned two-hour delays intended to give more than 1,200 teachers and administrators a chance to meet and plan for better classroom instruction.
The board of education in October approved delays to the start of school for today, Jan. 30, March 6 and May 1.
In an email Tuesday, Judy Johnson, director of curriculum and instruction, said teachers will adhere to a specific format during today's collaborative time. Collaborative teams will be required to complete and submit forms on the work they've done and county administrators will be visiting schools and reviewing progress during the delays, she said.
"The purpose of this is to focus on student needs, improve instruction and impact achievement," Johnson said. "This will permit teachers to periodically review and adjust instruction according to student needs."
Officials have said the district opted to use the delay days to avoid losing an instructional day and also to not add days to teacher contracts, which would require additional pay.
"Wood County has more instructional minutes each day than the state requires," Johnson said. "This amounts to 17 days of accrued instructional time for elementary and seven days for (middle and) high schools."
Johnson also noted Marshall County Schools holds a one-hour delay every Wednesday during the school year to allow for teacher collaboration.
Wood County Schools' planned delay days have not proven popular with parents, many of whom have taken to social media voicing their anger over the move. District officials said they also have received calls from parents upset over the delays.
Parkersburg resident Jill Oliver, who has two children in Wood County schools, said though the delay doesn't inconvenience her directly, she has heard a lot of grumbles from other parents.
"Some of them are still unsure what they are going to be doing with their children on these days," she said. "Most people I've talked to would rather see a two-hour early dismissal so the kids could go to day care after school."
Oliver also said she was unhappy with the timing of the decision.
"I didn't know about it until my daughter brought home a revised schedule," she said. "I think it should have been decided before the school year started if they were going to do it. People should have been made more aware this might happen."
Williamstown parent Becky Sinnett said she was upset with the district's decision. Sinnett said the move inconveniences parents and goes against Wood County Schools' pledge to maximize instruction time for students.
"The teachers didn't even ask for this time, only a time for collaboration," she said. "When is Wood County Schools going to collaborate with me and all other working parents to see how this two-hour delay fits our schedules?"


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Yarn Profile: Halcyon Yarn Botanica
First Impressions
Halcyon Yarn is one of the most venerable mail-order fiber shops in this country. For decades it has served both knitting novices and serious fiber fanatics who design, spin, dye, weave, knit, crochet, tat, hook, and felt with abandon.
To serve its discriminating audience properly, Halcyon often eschews the trendy in favor of the fundamental. Halcyon's house yarn, Botanica (previously named Scottish Tapestry Wool), embodies these values.
With a springy hand, brilliant luster, and sturdy constitution, Botanica is perfectly suited to both weavers and knitters alike. The fibers are given a particularly spiralled two-ply twist that results in a corded appearance that resembles a strand of pearls.
Currently more than 50 colors are available; I used color #24 for this review.
Knitting Up
I also had to adjust my tension several times before I felt confident that the yarn was grabbing my right needle without being pulled too tight in its loops.
Because the yarn was knit under a relative amount of tension, the two plies weren't as much trouble as I'd worried they would be. Only once did I snag the yarn, and it was due to my own impatience more than anything else.
I was able to knit by touch alone without incident, completing several inches of swatch while driving the car home from the post office. (Note: Kids don't try this at home!)
The yarn's spiral spin gave my stitches a soft textured appearance similar to that of a coral reef. Tugging the swatches back and forth, to and fro, gradually I was able to smooth out inconsistent areas.
Blocking / Washing
The stitch definition remained precise and almost sculptural, with only a minimal amount of surface fiber relaxation. And with modest blocking, the swatches assumed a perfect square shape.
The fiber's luster and worsted spin won't bloom during wash like its woolen-spun counterparts, but it'll take twice as much abuse before beginning to pill. Plus, the yarn is also mothproofed, which lengthens its lifetime considerably.
On the softness scale, Botanica is soft but it's no merino. Sensitive individuals might want to wear a layer between the garment and their skin.
But it does provide fantastic definition for any type of stitchwork, be it simple seed stitch, cables, or Guernsey patterning. The definition is highlighted by the fiber's light-reflecting sheen and luster. The 50+ colors add yet another dimension of creative possibilities.
Yarn name
Botanica (formerly Scottish Tapestry Wool)
Halcyon Yarn
Fiber content
100% wool
4 to 5 stitches per inch on US 8 needles
Average retail price
$7.95 / skein
Where to Buy Online
Halcyon Yarn
Weight/Yardage per Skein
4 oz. / 160 yards
Country of Origin
Manufacturer's suggested wash method
Hand wash with mild soap, spin dry in the washer or roll in towels and lay flat to dry.
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- Jan 15:
- 49ers-Seahawks game could hinge on turnovers
- Seahawks' Richard Sherman doesn't 'hate' 49ers
- Kawakami: Boldin only seems like he's been here forever
- 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers returns to practice
- Jim Harbaugh says he has 'great memories' of Seahawks' Richard Sherman
- 49ers' Kaepernick: Protecting football key against Seahawks
- Aldon Smith's off-field troubles behind him, Jim Harbaugh says
- What 49ers' Harbaugh would give up to be playing Sunday
- No denying 49ers-Seahawks rivalry
The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks are two powerful football teams that represent glittery cities crazy about high-end coffee, West Coast cuisine and high-tech.
So what's all the hate about?
The growing football rivalry between the two teams and their fans has developed into one of the fiercest in the NFL. The nasty pregame chatter leading up to Sunday's NFC Championship game is lighting up West Coast sports radio. Seahawk fans have prevented Californians from landing seats at the game, while other Seattleites have tried to purchase "Go 'Hawks" bricks in the Niners' new Santa Clara stadium.
Jorge Lee, a Sausalito entrepreneur, has started a T-shirt company that takes a shot at Seattle's 12th Man, the nickname for its raucous fan base. The shirts simply state: "12 Men. 0 Rings."
"These teams don't hide that they really hate each other," said Ken Sapp, a bartender at Britannia Arms, a sports bar in downtown San Jose. But though the gridiron-based enmity is real, much of the howling and growling is fired by other competitive reasons.
"Who's got the best coffee? Who has the finest restaurants?" asked Jeffrey Holifield, a San Jose fan who loves the Seahawks because he grew up in Seattle. "Whose city is prettier? More cosmopolitan? Which place gets more cool points?"
For everyone who defends San Francisco looking down its Coit Tower nose at Seattle for being smaller, colder and wetter, there are Space Needle-loving Seattle residents declaring their urbane burg as friendlier and cleaner, sans insane traffic and battalions of aggressive panhandlers.
Cable cars vs. monorail. Fisherman's Wharf vs. Pike Place Market. San Francisco Bay vs. Puget Sound. Apple vs. Microsoft. And on it goes, with both never shutting up about how "beautiful" they are.
Nelson Estupin, a die-hard Niner fan from San Jose, believes that all the competition on and off the field breeds a growing regional contempt that will fester for years to come.
"Both feature great culture and night life," said Estupin, who works at the Santa Clara County Office of Education. "Both consider themselves high-tech giants, and both are famously passionate about their teams. They have the loud and proud 12th man, but no championships. We have fan roots, going back to the '80s, that are planted in the rich soil of five Super Bowl titles."
The uncivil war begins with the coaches. San Francisco's Jim Harbaugh and Seattle's Pete Carroll launched their hate affair as North-South competitors -- at Stanford and USC -- and things got more malevolent after they both landed in the NFC West.
"Seahawk fans absolutely haaaate Harbaugh," said Holifield, a high-tech attorney who will fly up to Seattle on Sunday to join his 'Hawk-loving family at CenturyLink Field. "They haaaate watching Harbaugh on the sideline, scowling, gesticulating and bitching."
While Holifield's wife, Michele, a bleeding-heart Niners fan, will barely tolerate watching the game with her turncoat husband, she reports that "people down here haaaate Pete Carroll, smiling, chomping on that wad of gum, running up and down the sideline."
Footballwise, the head-butting is intensified by two young, handsome, highly mobile quarterbacks. Both Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson are overachieving rock stars who angrily endured being afterthought draft selections.
On defense, both feature bullying brutes. And on offense, the Niners' Frank Gore and the Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch are a couple of tireless pigskin toters.
Finally, both teams offer unapologetic trash-talkers -- the 'Hawks Richard Sherman and Golden Tate vs. the Niners' Anquan Boldin and Donte Whitner. All are highly annoying gumslingers who back up their boasting on the field.
"This game will be Ali-Frazier type stuff," said Sean Babani, a bartender at Rookies Sports Bar in Seattle. "Now the fans will get exactly what they want from teams that play football the way it was meant to be played."
A final aspect of the rivalry has to do with canine psychology. For many years, the Niners ruled the NFC West before fading into irrelevancy. Seattle became the new dog, but just as that franchise is about to land its first ultimate prize, "the old dog is back and is as mean and ugly as ever," Estupin explained. "Niner fans are anxious to be winners again while Seahawk fans are like, 'Wait, this is still our party!' "
Jason Puckett, a Seattle sports-talk host, says most of the pregame talk he hears is full of passion, laced with great anxiety. For Seattle to face such a formidable blockade to their dreams is frightening. But those fans are smitten by the "un-Seattle-like" personality of a team that this year is confident and badass.
"There is a controlled craziness to our team that deeply pleases fans up here," said Puckett, of KJR 950. And those emotions carry over to Carroll. "No one on that team has more moxie than Pete," Puckett said. "He struts through that locker room with so much positive energy that players and fans gravitate to him."
Back in the Bay Area, Niner fans say they can't wait to see Carroll's strut turn into a stumble.


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Mary Louise Stevens, 85, of Fayetteville, Pa., went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Chambersburg Hospital. Born May 4, 1927, in Clear Ridge, Pa., she was a daughter of the late Gladstone T. and Olive M. Stains Cromwell. Mary enjoyed being a wife, mother, and grandmother, but most recently becoming a great-grandmother. She had a caring heart and enjoyed going out to eat with the girls and giving her great-nieces and nephews ice cream money. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, John C. Stevens, whom she married June 19, 1945; her daughter, Karen (wife of the late Jeffrey) Ulrich; granddaughter April (wife of Randy) Fickes; grandson Cody Ulrich; great-grandson Corbin Jeffrey Fickes, all of Fayetteville; and her stepgranddaughters Nicole and Cierra Fickes, both of Chambersburg. She is also survived by her sister, Delores Cromwell of Medina, Ohio; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews. In addition to her parents and son-in-law, she was preceded in death by her son, Charles A. Stevens; her twin sister, Lena Parks; and four brothers, Lewis "Dean" Cromwell, Albert "Mike" Cromwell, Walter Cromwell and Charles Ramsey. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in the Chapel of Thomas L. Geisel Funeral and Cremation Center, 333 Falling Spring Road, Chambersburg, Pa., with Pastor Kenneth Cornelius officiating. Interment will follow at Parklawns Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Condolences and memories may be shared on her Book of Memories page at: www.geiselfuneralhome.com
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There was a period of time in high school when part of mydaily routine was to come home from school and immediately watch The Breakfast Club. Only after watchingthat movie could I deal with homework or conversations with my parents. Isuppose we all go through a period like that. I would guess the creators of Bad Kids Go To Hell might have gone through such a phase.
Bad Kids Go To Hellis a strange sort of horror film that takes the premise of The Breakfast Club and twists it into its own odd shapes. It openswith the police busting into a school, and surrounding a kid who�s holding abloody axe, just as a headless body collapses behind him. It then cuts to eighthours earlier, and the events that lead to this scene.
It is a Saturday, and there are five names on the list ofthose serving detention, just as in TheBreakfast Club. However, three are girls, and two are boys, which is theopposite of The Breakfast Club. MattClark (Cameron Deane Stewart) is not on the list, but shows up to offer to dodetention in the hope that that might keep him from being expelled. �I�mhere because I want to make things right,� he tells Dr. Day (JeffreySchmidt).
As in The BreakfastClub, we see each of the kids being dropped off by parents or arriving ontheir own. Tricia (Ali Faulkner) is the princess character; Craig (RogerEdwards) is the jock; Veronica (Augie Duke) is the Judd Nelson character,arriving on her own and walking in front of a car; Megan (Amanda Alch) is�well,I guess the Ally Sheedy character; and Tarek (Marc Donato) is the AnthonyMichael Hall character. During the character introductions we get voiceover of Dr. Day talking to Max (Ben Browder), the janitor, about teenagers.He says, �Honestly, Max, it�s a miraclethey don�t all kill each other.�
They have detention in the library, in a room set up in asimilar fashion to that in The BreakfastClub (with the two levels). But with a crazy snake sculpture. As in The Breakfast Club, the kids areassigned an essay to write while serving detention. The topic is the history ofCrestview Academy. Dr. Day confiscates their cell phones and tells them thedoors will be locked until after lunch (and yes, he has them use the bathroomsfirst). By the way, his mug says,�Everyone�s A Complete Disappointment.� Perfect.
Tricia right away makes a speech, basically saying thisis not The Breakfast Club: �And this is not the fucking feel-good �80smovie of the year, where for seven hours we put aside our diffs and, throughcommiserating about our mutually dysfunctional family lives or how lonely oralienated we each feel, we find some sort of common ground and end up as BFFs.�
Throughout the film we get a series of flashbacks thatshow what brought each of the kids to detention. And look, there�s Judd Nelsonas the headmaster of the school. (By the way, Matt crawls in the air duct, likeJudd Nelson did in The Breakfast Club.)There is also a bit of Carrie in oneof the flashbacks.
The library is possibly haunted by a dead Indian. Theyhold a s�ance to find out if the place is really haunted, and sure enough,things get weird. There is also a serious bug problem at this school. And welearn that these students are connected through some stuff related to theirparents.
The film certainly attacks its subject with a sense ofhumor. For example, there are several jokes about how people whip out cellphones and film everything rather than helping someone out. And I can�t help butlaugh when Judd Nelson refers to a wheelchair-bound student as �retarded.� Onething this film lacks, however, is the great music of The Breakfast Club (though I dig the song in the cafeteria scene).
Special Features
The DVD has several special features, including threephoto galleries. The galleries play through, so you don�t need to hit the arrowbutton. They are Comic Book Art by Anthony Vargos, Behind The Scenes, and FXMakeup, and the three total more than twenty-five minutes.
There is also TheMaking Of Bad Kids Go To Hell, which is divided into two parts: �KidsIntroductions� and �Craig Vs. Ghost.� The first part is basically editor JustinWilson doing a commentary over the scene where each of the kids is introducedarriving at the school. And the second part has Justin Wilson commenting on thescene when Craig is freaking out, firing his gun. So this isn�t really amaking-of feature.
There is also a feature-length commentary track bydirector/co-writer Matthew Spradlin and producer/co-writer Barry Wernick.Interestingly, it turns out that the nipples in the strip scene are CG. Also,they used a skateboard as a dolly.
The special features include �Visual FX Breakdowns,�showing how various shots were layered and so on. We see shots like theheadless body dropping, and the roaches rushing through the air duct. Thelicense plate that says �DR DAY� was actually changed in post, which is surprising.And of course there is the trailer.
Bad Kids Go To Hellwas directed by Matthew Spradlin, and is based on a graphic novel by MatthewSpradlin and Barry Wernick. The DVD was released on April 9, 2013.


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Saturday, 07/01/1989
Les Foufounes Électriques, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Set 1: SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt, Donna Lee, YEMYou Enjoy Myself > DividedDivided Sky, LizardsThe Lizards, BowieDavid Bowie, Bike, SlothThe Sloth, Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, IDKI Didn't Know[1]
Encore: Immigrant Song[2] > Fluffhead
[1] Fish on trombone.
[2] First known Phish performance; a cappella.
Average Song Gap: 7.15
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: This show was part of the Montréal International Jazz Festival. Before SOAM, Trey introduced the band as "Phish, from Burlington, Ontario." For Donna Lee, Trey noted that the band had to play at least one straight-ahead jazz tune at the Jazz Festival. Between Divided Sky and Lizards, Trey again referenced "Burlington, Ontario," noting that it is out near Gamehendge, and asked if there were any "Gamehendgians" out in the audience. Fish wasn't able to get any suction out of the vacuum during Bike; he subsequently used the trombone during I Didn't Know. The first known Phish performance of Immigrant Song was sung a cappella.
Song Distribution:
4 Junta
2 Stash
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 The White Tape
1 Lawn Boy
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icarus502 wrote: I met Sage through the old UGHH boards, circa '98 or so. We quickly became internet friends because the signal-to-noise ratio on that site was incredibly low and like minds tended to coalesce on the site and talk on AIM a lot. At that time, becoming friends with people exclusively through the internet felt, at once, really natural to me (relative to how it feels now) and also really exciting and novel. Anyway, he set up his own site (ostensibly a Non-Prophets site*, which was odd since 1) Joe Beats rarely participated 2) Sage Francis was, even then with no album, no "Sick of" even, IIRC, a bigger "draw" than Non-Prophets as a unit) with its own forum. I was glad to move to that forum, the old EZBoard, from UGHH. Sage blessed me with a ridiculous honorific I was to be the NP's "media assassin" i.e. their Harry Allen, though we were never clear as to what that meant. I wrote a ridiculous and generally misanthropic essay for the site about why I'm didn't believe in being an organ donor (basically, because I thought that, mathematically, the risk that my organs would go to someone truly despicable and would prolong their life outweighed the possibility that they would go to someone truly admirable and would enable them to continue their positive acts). It was dumb. I don't remember if I wrote anything else or did anything else is my "media assassin" role. I think there maybe a few more pieces but I don't remember anything about them.
At any rate, my participation on that forum and its later iterations was something like that essay. That is to say, I tried to work through my thoughts through a free-flowing and fun conversation with all these crazy personalities that came to the forum. At times my participation reflected (as I can see in hindsight) clumsiness with regard to showing respect for others and a cringing lack of self-awareness. Other times, I think I handled myself pretty well. In all cases, it was always a supplement to, say, my livejournal (early on) and other social media as time went on, and then onto other places where I wrote privately or professionally, trying to develop something like a writerly voice.
And the people! There was such a great cast of characters here that grew in a really cool way. For a time, it was basically curated: Sage would only let certain people in and only at certain intervals and would wield that banhammer (in addition to related "delete" and "lock"-hammers that were apparently based, at times, on whimsy and at other times on a never-exactly-public list of verboten topics [see that first footnote!]) like he was running a banana republic (or a Banana Republic). I'm really glad to know all the people I'm still in touch with** from the forum. I'm loving watching, say, Redball's and The Mean's families on Facebook. Or David Drake's writing career blossom. Emynd and Serg. Lants and Mancabbage making me want to visit their respective nations though I'm not sure if they'd even want to hang out if I did. Mary continuing to just be awesome. Sarah being, somewhat ironically, one of the least apparently changed people on here. And so on. It's always nice to see someone completely unrelated to the forum post about somebody on this forum's music. This has been happening more frequently with kHill and Jesse D lately, in response to the ethically ambiguous (but at least THEY'RE cool) nerd rap thing. And so on. Crash. Dan Shay. It's weird to say, but part of what I feel about you guys is, well, a sense of pride. I'm proud of you guys! I'm proud of Sage Francis! He's been able to cultivate a career and a rock-solid fanbase, and a prognosis for serious career longevity, especially relative to guys who, 10-14 years ago, one would have expected to have an equal or even greater claim to that longevity than Sage but have ultimately wallowed in apparently interminably precarious careers, or have moved past music. Some of those guys had as much talent and none of the label woes, some of them were even more photogenic, and less personally abrasive. And they lived in places that weren't Providence. Obviously, he's been able to do this by making the correct career decisions, almost impeccably so creative control, knowing how to bring in younger fans without alienating his aging fanbase, knowing when a collaborator is a liability (see that footnote again!). And, I would guess that part of his success has been in negotiating that boundary between social networking and social broadcasting. This forum has been really exemplary in that respect. Gradually, it seems that Sage, as have the vast majority of artists, has understandably shifted almost predominantly toward the "broadcasting" end of that spectrum: Twitter, a fan page (and no longer a personal one) on FB. To this end, the forum is very much a relic a relic of, among other things, the times (multiple!) that Sage (and others) literally rallied to save the lives of people who'd entrusted him (or the rest of us) with their possible, final cries for help. That's probably not happening on Twitter.
I still learn from this forum on my increasingly rare visits. And I'm going to do "site:strangefamousrecords.com" google searches for years and years to come. Though there's enough on here to probably disqualify me from any number of jobs and would derail my hypothetical political career in five minutes, I'm really glad it's here. And this year might be my best chance ever to actually win the fantasy football league.
* One thing I've always found fascinating about Sage is that, while he's clearly a lone wolf and not naturally predisposed to collaboration, and, at least in the early years, sort of prone to public spats with people he'd worked with, he's sort of always had an apparent strong urge especially w/r/t web presence to be identified as a member of a collective or group, even at times when he was the only member in the "collective," as it were, doing any heavy lifting, representing the group-qua-group, or producing anything of note and when the chasm of talent between him and his allies was river deep and mountain high. This has obviously changed in recent years as the label's grown.
** I wish i were still in touch with others. Like Shambhala where is he?!
ETA: I've probably edited this post like 7 times now.
icarus502 wrote: Lants and Mancabbage making me want to visit their respective nations though I'm not sure if they'd even want to hang out if I did.
mancabbage wrote: icarus502 wrote: Lants and Mancabbage making me want to visit their respective nations though I'm not sure if they'd even want to hang out if I did.
dude, whaaaat... crazy, i'd buy ya a pint if you popped over the pond to london no doubt
Sage Francis wrote: I wish I had the time and opportunity to hang out with Lants and her sister more while I was in Australia. It's not easy traveling halfway across the globe, having to put on a performance and then chumming it up with internet buds. That would be nice though.
As for mancabbage, I'm not entirely sure if I've met him. I'm in the UK right now (but not London.) Maybe next time? If I've met you before, apologies. My memory isn't so hot these days.
zagadka wrote: We all need more gabbly in our lives.
Lants wrote:
I have made a ton of friends here. Most I spent hours chatting to back in the day on gabbly and AIM, some I am buddies with on FB and twitter and some I eventually even met with face to face.
I miss IM chatting to people I used to talk to a lot like Bandini, Eltron, Sarah, Kayla, Frezz, Bobby, Gio, Mac Lethal, etc. :(


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1. In Hitler's War, Irving used an extract from Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's Nuremberg prison notes to support the thesis that Hitler knew nothing of the 'Final Solution'.1 In a footnote on page 851 of the 1977 edition Irving wrote:
Writing a confidential study on Hitler in his Nuremberg prison cell, Ribbentrop also exonerated him wholly. "How things came to the destruction of the Jews, I just don't know. As to whether Himmler began it, or Hitler put up with it, I don't know. But that he ordered it I refuse to believe, because such an act would be wholly incompatible with the picture I always had of him."
2.This forms another of the documents in Irving's much-vaunted chain of sources allegedly supporting his thesis that Hitler was not responsible for the extermination of the Jews.
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Dayton's No Longer Flying Under the Radar
Some college basketball fans believe that the "Cinderella" concept tarnishes the purpose of producing a competitive program year in, year out—that simply because a lower seed gets hot in March doesn't mean they're fit to sniff the air of programs who've slugged it out all year, and often the years before that. (Without generalizing, let's call these "Duke fans.") Then there are the fans who see a team like Dayton pacing their way to the Elite 8 as a 11 seed and think, "Isn't this the point?"
With respect to the former group, yes. After battering Stanford in their Thursday night Sweet 16, the Flyers have scored their third straight upset over a power conference team and suddenly vaulted them into a conversation that begins with "Well, why not these guys?" In lieu of star talent, Dayton has adopted a "think deep" philosophy that's given them multiple players at every position, none of whom average a lot of points but are inserted in a hurry. Take Kendall Pollard, the freshman who came into Thursday averaging 2 points and 8 minutes a game: Against Stanford, he was the second leading scorer with 12 points. "Credit [coach Archie] Miller with refusing to get uptight with his rotation," writes Yahoo's Pat Forde. "At this time of year, coaches will bail on a lot of role players, relying on their best guys – and sometimes exhausting them in the process. If anything, Miller is opening it up even more."
Against Kansas, Stanford could hope to bottle up star Andrew Wiggins and let the struggles trickle down from there. The Flyers, however, were too decentralized for such a strategy. "They got here thanks to a relentless offense predicated on speed, selfess passing (19 assists) and substitution patterns that resemble hockey line changes," writes Sports Illustrated's Pete Thamel. "Stanford looked so overwhelmed at times that it wouldn't have been surprising for coach Johnny Dawkins to try to insert former Stanford defensive back Richard Sherman, who was sitting behind the Cardinal bench. (Or at least consult Condoleezza Rice, who was sitting behind Sherman)." Not that it gets any easier from here: Now, they'll face a Florida team that's just reached their fourth consecutive Elite Eight after putting down UCLA, and hasn't lost since December.
Dayton's ascendance was exciting, as was Arizona's last-minute comeback against San Diego State that was spearheaded by Nick Johnson somehow scoring 15 points in the final three minutes of gameplay. But those are relatively new pleasures, whereas Friday will offer a rivalry that's older than dirt: Louisville vs. Kentucky, Rick Pitino vs. John Calipari, a fight for the heart of Kentucky basketball. Even if the two coaches try to pretend they're "friends," no one would believe it for a second. "Did Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith break bread often? How about Bobby Bowden and Steve Spurrier, once upon a time? And more to the point, how about Denny Crum and Joe B. Hall?" writes Sports on Earth's Shaun Powell. "No, certain situations just aren't conducive to healthy relationships, and this is one of them." All praise to the perpetual newness of the NCAA tournament, which gives us new uniforms and rabid fans to root for in their quest to bump against the big guns. The more specific traditions are well worth it, too.
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Over the last few years, there's been a sea change in thinking with regards to whether or not college players should be paid for their participation—participation that often leads to massive financial reward for their schools without a dime seen for the athletes themselves. (Case in point: The Ohio State athletic director who was paid $18,000 extra when one of his wrestlers won the NCAA championship.) How the system will change remains massively undefined, but it seems certain that it will change.
At Northwestern University, the so-called student-athletes are trying to expedite that transition. On Wednesday, National Labor Relations Board regional director Peter Sung Ohr declared that the Northwestern football players are university employees, and thus have the right to unionize. Rather than seeking compensation, the players want to negotiate the conditions of their service—such as rules dictating where they may live and whether they can take off-campus jobs. In making his decision, Ohr claimed that the time that goes into playing football in college counts as employment. But the university has pledged to fight the ruling, arguing that its student-athletes are, well, students. The ensuing legal battle may drag on for years, but it represents a rock thrown in the typically still waters of the status quo. At the New Yorker, Ian Crouch explains the nature of the debate.
"On Wednesday, the N.C.A.A. was quick to emphasize the financial implications of the decision: 'We frequently hear from student-athletes, across all sports, that they participate to enhance their overall college experience and for the love of their sport, not to be paid.' This statement is almost obscene in its feigned naïveté, as if major college sports were still just some intramural frolic on the green after dinner," he writes. "Tell that to the gamblers in Las Vegas—and to the coaches, athletic directors, administrators, and business interests that profit from these games played by supposedly grateful amateurs. The NCAA has a 10-billion-dollar television contract for the men's basketball tournament. At Northwestern, players sign away rights to their image to the school and to the Big Ten conference. These are examples of the kind of control that employers exert over employees, Ohr argues, and those subject to such control should have the right to bargain."
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The stereotype of Seattle and Portland is that they're filled with delicate Northeast types, prone to go on about their startups and their beards and their artisanal pickling companies. It's a wonder, then, that each city is filled with a rabid soccer fanbase—perhaps the most rabid in all of the United States—and that these fanbases have been tangled in a literally-bloodless-but-figuratively-gory conflict for as long as they know. At SB Nation, Matt Negrin embeds with both sides to see where they're coming from, venturing to secret Seattle bars in Portland and talking with fans who insist on speaking off the record. (One of them even rips pages out of his notebook.) It's a gripping read, if only because you'd never think that such a soccer feud could brew in the United States.
"The cities are only a few hours apart from one another, 173 miles, but this isn't like New York and Boston, where ex-pats openly and loudly advertise their home bar away from home," he writes. "This is more like Moscow and Washington, circa 1980 — whispers and hideouts across enemy lines. This is cold war [stuff]."
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Monday, 10/01/1990
The Haunt, Ithaca, NY
Set 1: Possum[1], CoilThe Squirming Coil > LizardsThe Lizards, LandladyThe Landlady, Magilla, Dinner and a Movie > Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, Tweezer > Oh Kee PaThe Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > SuzySuzy Greenberg
Set 2: Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, Asse FestivalThe Asse Festival, Stash, Runaway Jim, Fee[2] > Gumbo, GolgiGolgi Apparatus, Love You > HYHUHold Your Head Up > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope[3]
Encore: Contact, Highway to Hell
[1] Charlie Chan and Oom Pa Pa signals.
[2] Trey sang verses through megaphone, unmiced. First known Fee with use of megapone.
[3] Charlie Chan and Tritone Down signals.
· Chariots of Fire tease in Golgi Apparatus
· Hold Your Head Up tease in Run Like an Antelope
Noteworthy Jams: Run Like an Antelope (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 3.42
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Possum included Charlie Chan and Oom Pa Pa signals. Fee featured Trey singing the verses through a megaphone unmiced. This was the first known Fee to feature the megaphone. The end of Golgi contained a Chariots of Fire tease from Trey. HYHU faded into Antelope, after which both Trey and Page continued to tease HYHU. Antelope also contained Charlie Chan and Tritone Down signals. Fish, introduced as "Zero Man," played Love You for his parents, who were in attendance.
Song Distribution:
4 A Picture of Nectar
4 Lawn Boy
4 Junta
3 Stash
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 The White Tape
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July 01, 2009
Labor Department Offers $500 Million for Clean Energy Job Training
The U.S. Department of Labor recently launched five grant competitions, totaling $500 million, to fund projects that prepare workers for green jobs in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. Four of the competitions serve workers through various national, state, and community outlets. These include Energy Training Partnership Grants, which aim to train workers in green industries, with some money earmarked for those leaving the auto industries; Pathways Out of Poverty Grants, which seek to engage national nonprofits, as well as local agencies that have networks for re-educating workers; State Energy Sector Partnership and Training Grants, designed to help states refine their energy sector strategies to build up a trained workforce, particularly in areas hurt by auto industry upheaval; and Green Capacity Building Grants, which beef up existing Labor Department programs to ensure that there's a large enough pool of green-trained workers to meet demands.
The fifth competition, for State Labor Market Information Improvement Grants, will fund state workforce agencies that collect, analyze, and disseminate labor market information, while also encouraging collaboration among states. Those grants are also meant to help direct individuals to careers in green industries. The five grant solicitations were published in the June 24 edition of the Federal Register, and the grants will be funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In an effort to earn the maximum return on each investment, the Labor Department is encouraging grantees to align their work with other federal agencies' Recovery Act investments intended to create jobs and promote economic growth. Combining funds from different agencies can help worker training programs get more bang for the buck and put more people to work in the clean energy industry. See the Labor Department press release and the grant solicitations for Energy Training Partnership Grants, with applications due September 4; Pathways Out of Poverty Grants, due September 29; State Energy Sector Partnership and Training Grants, due October 20; Green Capacity Building Grants, due August 5; and State Labor Market Information Improvement Grants, due August 14.


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There were 75 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. At that time, there were 1,463 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Robbery: A 39-year-old man was walking near North Sierra Nevada and East Main streets about 10 p.m. Thursday when a man asked him about his handheld gaming device. The man then grabbed the device and ran. The victim chased the man but was tackled, punched and choked by the robber. The robber dropped the game device during the struggle and fled in an unknown direction. He was described as a black man in his 30s standing 6 feet 1 inch tall wearing an orange, yellow and brown striped shirt, tan pants, a black hat and a black backpack.
Shooting into a dwelling: A 19-year-old woman told police she heard gunfire about 4:30 a.m. Friday outside her home in the 1400 block of Bandoni Drive. She then discovered that her home and vehicle had been struck by bullets. Several shell casings were located, but there was no description of the shooter.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 14 noninjury accidents and three injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. CHP officers also made four felony arrests and recovered four stolen vehicles.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 102 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday, including six vehicle accidents, 78 medical calls and one structure fire.
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Alaska Gas Pipeline Group Targets Key Decision in Spring 2013
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BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil — the three major North Slope producers — and TransCanada Corp., a pipeline company, are working on plans for an 800-mile large-diameter pipeline to a south Alaska port, where a large LNG export project would be built.
"Our target is to have a concept selected by spring, 2013," Nick Olds, ConocoPhillips' vice president for North Slope operations and development, told Alaska business and community leaders at a conference in Anchorage sponsored by the Resource Development Council, an Alaskan group.
Concept selection would include a timetable for a project and an assessment of components for the project including pipeline routes and a location for the LNG plant, the companies said in a statement in March.
State of Alaska officials, who are working with the companies under a contract signed with TransCanada, said on background that this was the first definitive target date they had heard for a decision, even very preliminary, on the project.
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A student at R.J. Reynolds High School faces charges Monday after authorities said she assaulted another child with a knife.
Imani Odom, 16, is accused of assaulting the child in a hallway after talking about their relationship throughout the day, officials said.
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Imagine School to lower adminstrative fees
Published: Friday, May 10, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 10, 2013 at 7:05 p.m.
NORTH PORT - Legal battles and feuds between local school-governing boards and their corporate parent companies are not a new phenomenon among charter schools, experts say.
But what makes the Imagine School at North Port situation unusual is that the dispute ended with the ousting of the principal, some say.
Principal Justin Matthews, a well-known leader known to stand outside the school and greet children before class, will finish his last day on May 31.
"That's a big question mark to me," said Greg Richmond, president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. "That piece is unusual."
Often times, problems stem from vague contracts or a local board growing dissatisfied for what it is paying for from its management company.
Such contract disputes "certainly aren't the norm, but they do seem to happen regularly around the country," Richmond said of charter schools. "What's unusual is to have an employee pulled in the middle of this."
On Friday, school officials and laywers would not release details of Matthews' departure or say whether he received a payout to leave.
Neither Matthews, whose current annual salary is $97,850, nor his attorney could be reached for comment. The Imagine corporation's attorney, Shawn Arnold, also declined to talk about the terms of Matthews leaving.
A settlement agreement between Imagine Schools and the local board revealed the North Port charter's administrative fees will now be lowered. Instead of paying 12 percent, the school will pay 8.5 percent to its parent company.
The fees had been a major source of contention for local school officials, who cited them as a reason for trying to extricate themselves from Imagine Schools in February.
The Arlington, Va., parent company then sued Matthews and the local board for more than $15,000 in Sarasota County Circuit Court.
Both sides reached an agreement Thursday and announced that the lawsuit will be dismissed, with the school staying open under the Imagine name with a new principal in charge.
The settlement also says both sides will be responsible for paying their own legal bills.
Barbara McKeathon, Imagine's local president, did not return calls seeking details about how much the local school spent on litigation.
A 2010-11 study showed nearly 39,000 students were enrolled in Imagine public charter schools in what a National Education Policy Center report described as one of the largest for-profit education management organizations in the nation.
At the time, there were 83 Imagine schools in the country, a number dwindling as several have closed recently, said Western Michigan University professor Gary Miron, who conducts the annual study.
In 2012, six charter schools closed in St. Louis because of financial management and academic problems, for example.
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- SXSW 2014: Watch Lady Gaga concert online
- SXSW Film 2014: Rahsaan Roland Kirk documentary makes convincing 'Case'
- SXSW 2014: Coldplay, Imagine Dragons concert videos from Austin
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- SXSW 2014: Oakland rapper G-Eazy on his 'surreal' career
- SXSW Film 2014: `Texas Chain Saw Massacre' still stunning
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- SXSW Film 2014: `Late Phases' is creepy, campy fun
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- Lada Gaga takes Austin at SXSW
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- SXSW Film 2014: 'Pulp' is a smash
- SXSW 2014: Lady Gaga takes on Austin
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While repeating his call for government reforms to rein in spy agencies, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden said in a rare public appearance Monday that Silicon Valley and the tech industry must also do more to resist Internet surveillance by expanding encryption and other safeguards for popular online services.
"They are setting fire to the future of the Internet," Snowden said of government spy agencies, while speaking from Russia on a video connection beamed to a mostly tech audience at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. He added: "The people in this room right now -- you guys are the firefighters."
Encryption can be a powerful weapon against mass surveillance because it's extremely difficult to break, Snowden said. He argued that wider use of encryption would force spy agencies to focus on tapping the devices used by individuals whom authorities have reason to target, which he said would be both more effective and more consistent with the U.S. Constitution -- a copy of which was prominently displayed behind him as he spoke.
Snowden's appearance comes amid a fierce public debate over government spy programs and whether he was justified in exposing them. Concerns over Internet privacy and surveillance are a hot topic for Silicon Valley -- one that's on the agenda for several sessions at the festival, which is also known as SXSW and which draws thousands of techies and industry leaders each spring.
The former contract worker for the National Security Agency fled to Hong Kong and then Russia last year to avoid U.S. prosecution for revealing classified information about government programs. He was joined Monday by two American Civil Liberties Union activists who were on stage in Austin.
They were using the popular Google Hangouts video chat service, according to the ACLU's Ben Wizner, who serves as Snowden's legal counsel. Apologizing for "hiccups" in the video, Wizner joked that they had attempted to shield the transmission's source by bouncing it across proxy servers around the world.
Google, Facebook, Yahoo and other Internet companies have already urged Congress to reform government spy policies. They also have beefed up encryption measures in the wake of news reports, based on documents leaked by Snowden, that described government efforts to weaken security standards and tap overseas data transmissions between computer centers.
"His disclosures have improved Internet security," said ACLU technology expert Christopher Soghoian, although he acknowledged, "there are going to be people in this audience who think that what Ed did is wrong."
Both Snowden and Soghoian said tech companies can do more to protect consumers who don't have the tech savvy to use obscure software tools that encrypt or otherwise shield their data from prying eyes.
Snowden also called on Internet companies to consider how long they retain users' data, since extended stockpiling may create an attractive target for spy agencies.
But in response to an audience question, Snowden said that despite concerns about companies like Google and Facebook, which gather lots of information about their users, he doesn't consider them as threatening as government agencies that do the same.
"The government has the ability to deprive you of your rights. They can literally kill you. They can jail you," Snowden said. "Companies can surveil you to sell you products, they can sell your information to other companies," he added, but consumers can sue for privacy violations or simply not use a company's services.
Snowden's revelations have drawn criticism from officials who say they jeopardized national security. U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., an Army veteran, urged festival organizers to cancel the talk because it would encourage "the very lawlessness he exhibited."
But the SXSW audience applauded Snowden several times, including when Wizner read an email from Tim Berners-Lee, a respected computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee wrote that Snowden's leaks were "profoundly in the public interest."
Leading Internet companies declined to comment on Snowden's remarks, but one industry group stressed the need for government action to restore trust in the Internet.
"The only way to achieve meaningful surveillance reform, and preserve the openness of the Internet and the innovation economy that it drives, is to change the policies that authorize the bulk collection of individuals' communications and add transparency to the oversight process," said Christian Dawson of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, who's on a conference panel set to address the topic Tuesday.
Snowden said he wanted to speak at SXSW because "the people in the audience right now, they're the folks who can really fix things."
Referring to proposed legal reforms, he said: "There's a policy response that needs to occur. But there's also a technical response that needs to occur. And it's the makers, it's the thinkers and the development community that can craft solutions to make sure we're safe."
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Last Modified: Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 12:23 a.m.
Sept. 27, 2012
Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office
Brandon Dardar, 27, 151 W. 59th Street, Cut Off, criminal trespassing, disturbing the peace.
Jonathan Johnson, 27, 312 College Dr. Napoleonville, contempt, fugitive of Terrebonne Parish.
Janusz Cuda, 54, 1211 Lassiegne Rd., Thibodaux, disturbing the peace by intoxication, exposing genitals in public to arouse.
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Jovanta Robertson, 25, 171 Triple Oaks, Raceland, contempt, failure to pay fines and costs for possession of SCH I.
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Toby Champagne, 38, 157 W. 161st Street, Galliano, issuing worthless checks.
Isaiah Thomas, 24, 321 Bobby St., Thibodaux, parole violation warrant.
Kevin Smith, 50, 109 Bertha Ln., Raceland, parole violation warrant.
Jade Stevens, 21, 207 Oak Dr., Larose, probation violation warrant.
Shawn Jennies, 25, 1382 Palmisano Dr., Houma,3 counts contempt, probation violation warrant.
Michelle Thomas, 33, 205 Elmira Ct., Thibodaux, contempt, unauthorized use of access card (felony).
Brenta Tillman, 24, 612 Ayo St., Raceland, 4 counts contempt.
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Lakeisha Jackson, 26, 3917 Great Wood St., Gray, 2 counts contempt, domestic abuse battery with child endangerment.
Colette Hamilton, 36, 1261 St. Charles St., Thibodaux, contempt.
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Yes, I have one DLink DSM 510 Upnp DLNA 1.5..so I guess its player issue which cannot handle named pipes well.You have a dlna player that can't pause?
Sorry about the confusion, I still use Eden 11 but been using JumpyXBMC old version..I guess I am little slow updating new corrections.Do you mean you're using XBMC
The ones working show blank screen with Dlink 510They're "video message boxes" for Actions or for Players to show error messages when they fail...They don't work on my Sony Bluray either
Let me run it with new jumpy-xbmc and attach the file..excuse me for not attaching it anyways. I just saw jumpy/xbmc/xbmcinit.py and felt that error was triggered by that line 112.It would be much simpler if you attach a full log