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Hello all -
I am a 49 yr old male who up until recently hadn't seen a doctor for regular medical care and hadn't worked out much at all in the last 15 yrs - I used to work out 6 days a week but the pressures of having a family and being self employed pushed my workouts to the side. This year I saw a doctor and had full checkup. Good health overall but found very high chiolestrerol and low thyriod.Taking meds for both conditons. Because I had not had any medical checkups for such a long time and because of my high cholesterol and occasional chest pains ( have had them my entire life - was told as a young man it was due to intercostal muscle issues), I had a cardiac stress test done. The cardiologust told me , and I quote " you did very well, - actually exceptionally well". So for the last 4 weeks I have been working out on a vison fitness exercise bike for 30 minutes a day trying to keep my heart rate around 112 bpm. Last week something strange happened and it happened again this morning. About 20 minutes into the workout, the heart rate monitor suddenly showed my heart rate jumping from 112 to 129 to 141 to 178 in a matter of about 5 seconds - the odd thing is that I felt no shortness of breath or chest pain. I did notice that when I tried to feel my pulse in my wrist at the time it was harder to find but was found easily in my neck and seemed very regular and strong. If I slowed my pedaling way down the monitor showed my heart rating dropping back down tot he 112 range pretty quickly, but not as quickly as it showed it jumping up. I am going to try a differnt heart rate monitor tomorrow to see if there is anything wrong with the monitor. Anyone here have any idea what is going on? I will bring it up with my doctor on my next visit but since I feel no shortness breath or chest pain whatsoever, is there anything to be worred about?
I'm not a doctor, but I'm 47 and I've been working out at high intensities several times a week since high school and I have a relatively high heart rate while exercising. One thing that I've noticed is that most health club heart rate monitors are notoriously touchy. Many of them won't even pickup your heart rate until your palms begin to sweat. Sometimes they will only pick up every other beat and display half of your actual rate. If this is something you're concerned about you should consider buying one with a chest strap. In my experience heart rate is a much quicker indicator of dehydration or on-coming heat exhaustion than trusting your own pain threshold. I cycle outside and when the temperature heads into the upper 80's I can see my heart working 10 bpm higher at the same level of effort and I don't even feel it, but it will catch up with me later.
I have an electrical problem with my heart that causes that (PSVT), however, I can "feel" it happening when it occurs. When my heart jumps up that fast, I can feel it beating in my chest and it's not pleasant. My guess is that if you're feeling fine it's probably the monitor. If it ends up not being the monitor I would look in to an electrical problem (there are several types if I remember correctly) with your doctor. I know some can be fixed with a minor surgery called an ablation. I've never been offered that option but a couple people I know have had it done. Fingers crossed its the monitor. =)
I did some reading on the SVTs and it sounds like I may have the benign atrial SVTs casued by naturally occuring bypass tracts - it says they present no real danger to me, which makes a lot of sense as when the monitor shows my heart rate jumpoing off the chart I can still feel a strong steady pulse in my neck and I have absolutley no chest pain or shortness of breath whatsoever. I will bring it up with my doctor.
thanks for the input -
Hi there, the same thing happened to me recently... it really had me worried, until someone suggested I wash my HR strap :-) Washed it in soap & water, and the next time I ran... ta da! No more HR fluctuations. I'd bet $100 it's your monitor. If your HR really did increase that much you'd feel it. Not sure what monitor you have, but the Garmin soft straps are notorious for this.
@jnnrr415 You are not kidding!! I have a Garmin forerunner 410 with HR monitor, ERRATIC doesn't come close to the heart rate readings I get. So I use my Polar F11 to keep track of Hr & Garmin for distance, pace, speed etc...
By the way, what kind of soap did you wash your strap in?
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SAN JOSE -- The Kings knew where the high pressure system would settle Wednesday night in SAP Center.
Directly over the Sharks bench.
"We sensed that they'd be a little nervous," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said after a series-clinching 5-1 victory.
From Doughty's perspective, the turning point was Anze Kopitar's goal late in the second period that gave the Kings a 2-1 lead.
"You could see their emotion went down," he said.
But the turning point in the historic series -- the Kings became the fourth team to advance after losing the first three games -- was their overtime loss in Game 3.
"We felt we could have won," Doughty said. "They got a really, really lucky goal in overtime (by Patrick Marleau).
"Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we were more determined."
The Kings dominated the final four games, outscoring the Sharks 18-5. They got clutch goals from their frontline players, smothered the Sharks' primary scorers, killed off penalty after penalty and got stellar goaltending from Jonathan Quick.
"It wasn't one thing," forward Justin Williams said. "It was mostly attitude. We were responsible for our own demise. We had nowhere to look but in the mirror."
"We've got a lot of heart; the guys want to win," he said. "That's how Dean built the team, and it showed."
Coach Darryl Sutter wasn't quite as effusive about coming back from the three-games-to-none deficit.
"The history part is no big deal," he said. "We're trying to win a series against a team that had home ice and was ahead of us all year -- and we finally caught them."
Coach Todd McLellan made the decision before the morning skate to use Niemi instead of Alex Stalock, who started Game 6.
The Sharks "needed a change heading into Game 6," McLellan said.
"I think a break was good for Nemo. He got a chance to work on some things in his game. ... He got a little chance to rest."

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Computer Makers Start Windows 8 Device Pre-Orders
After 16 months of slow buildup, users can finally buy Windows 8.
Several computer makers, including Sony, Dell, Lenovo and Acer, on Friday kicked off pre-orders for some computers powered by Windows 8, the dramatic revamp of Microsoft's operating system that is scheduled to become available Oct. 26. Microsoft also announced that users can now reserve a packaged DVD of the Windows 8 Pro software to upgrade their computers for $69.99.
The new operating system is a high-stakes effort by Microsoft and its allies to revive a flagging personal-computer market and grab back the market share and buzz from non-Windows computing devices such as Apple's iPad. Windows 8 has been designed to work on touch-screen devices including tablets, as well as on traditional computers operated by a mouse and keyboard.
Devices available for pre-order starting Friday including the Asus Taichi 21, a touch-screen laptop with a screen that folds 360 degrees to form a tablet-style computer that is available for purchase on Amazon.com for $1,299.
Dell computers on sale include the XPS 12 Ultrabook, a laptop with a swinging, hinge-like mechanism to flip the touch screen backwards. Dell's website quotes a $1,200 price for the device before add-ons like Microsoft Office software.
The pre-orders coincide with a marketing blitz beginning this weekend touting Windows 8 devices. Microsoft, computer makers and chip companies such as Intel believe consumers need to try Windows 8 devices, which come with an entirely new interface that may take getting used to for veterans of Windows PCs.
Hardware makers also have developed a slew of devices in new sizes and configuration, including tablets with attachable keyboards and touch-screen laptops, to take advantage of Windows 8's touch-friendly features.
The software alone can be pre-ordered by retailers such as Best Buy and Staples, Microsoft said in a blog post. Users that don't want a disk and the packaging will be able to download a Windows 8 upgrade online for $39.99. Prices go up after Jan. 31.


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UA hosting hovercraft race
Competiton in March will include UA, Auburn teams
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 7:48 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama Hovercraft Team along with Hoverclub of America announced Tuesday that they will be bringing a hovercraft race to Tuscaloosa with a rivalry edge to it.
The race will be held at Lake Lurleen State Park on March 16 and will include Auburn University's hovercraft team, the Hovering Tigers.
Hoverclub of America, a nonprofit organization that promotes the hover sport, sponsors races across the country, but has never held one in Tuscaloosa or the state of Alabama. Kent Gano, racing director for Hover-club of America, said he hopes the race will spark an entire collegiate racing league.
"I hope it'll turn into something even more, like a Southern challenge between Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi," Gano said. "It's exciting."
The idea of a Tuscaloosa race began with UA senior Hisham Ali, an aerospace engineering major who wanted to create a UA hovercraft team, build a fully functional craft and host a race in Tuscaloosa. He, along with three other aerospace engineering seniors, got the project approved by the College of Engineering. The team is building the craft as part of their senior design project.
Ali then contacted Gano, who made multiple visits to Alabama in the fall to scout different locations for a race, which included Lake Martin and Chewacla State Park. They ultimately decided on Lake Lurleen, which approved the race this weekend.
While Hoverclub of America races are open to anyone, not just university hover clubs, the draw for Tuscaloosa residents will undoubtedly be the Alabama-Auburn aspect of the weekend. It also gives the racers and builders a little bit of extra motivation.
Gano said that the main race will include all teams, but he hopes to have a separate Alabama vs. Auburn heat.
"Auburn's (team) has been in this since 2003. We do not have that experience," Ali said. "So we're really the new guys on the block. We're trying to establish ourselves as well."
Lake Lurleen was ultimately chosen because of its diverse landscape. Hovercraft race courses are typically over water, but there must be a land component of the track to start on as well.
Lake Lurleen has plenty of water, along with a sand bank that makes for a perfect starting point.
Design for the UA craft has been completed and construction is under way. The team hopes to have the craft completed soon so the students can begin test driving it.
The team does not lack incentive, though, for what could be the start of a new dimension to the Alabama-Auburn rivalry.
"I'm not really sure what to expect from (Auburn)," said Michael Bradshaw, one of the seniors working on the project. "But it's kind of cool. It gives us motivation to do pretty well."
While other details for the weekend have not been set, Hoverclub of America races are typically weeklong affairs that include barbecues, technical seminars and camping. No tickets are needed for the race, but Lake Lurleen charges a $3 entrance fee.
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- I HAVE THIS GUNThis gun has been great for me so far. I've had it for about a month and have had no problems. Another great UTG gun. The only annoying part is the magazine capacity. The shell only holds about 30 (10 shots) rounds and shells get irritating after a while. But you eventually get used to them.
great looks
amazing accuracy for a shotty
light weight
decent amount of metal parts
OK fps (it does hurt inside of 75ft or so)
slam firing (so much fun, but not good to do)
shoots 3 bullets at once (massive pain)
mag capacity
I would highly consider getting this gun but make sure you get some extra shells because if you run out ammo in the field it is really annoying to reload a shell.
- from my point of viewAlthough shorty has not released this gun YET. Its got a good price but imma point a couple out. THis is 60.00. yes, a great price for a "shotgun" it actually fires like a "shotgun" it goes 100ft. sounds like a shotgun, this could easily mtach up with the marui shotguns and maruzin however u spell it. any way, why spend all that money on those when u could buy this, it has no stock so its meant for cqb, and its price is astonishing. from my point of view it may not be as durable but utg sure did kick it up a notch. if u run into a room in a cqc arena and you pull the trigger, if there is more then 1 person, single, double or if ur lucky triple, this is meant to hit multiple people... buy this gun now before shorty realizes the price is too low so buy it!
P.S. if i am wrong about my review then dont rate it helpful... although i am reviewing from my point of view
- amazing!!!!This gun is an absolute beast!! This gun is lighter than the M87 shotguns, which I have all 3 of, but that is because there r no lead weight in this monstor. Let get to the pros and cons.
amazing at close quaters.
surprizingly good at mid quaters
built like a tank
hurts like hell to get hit with all 3 at close range
Not great at long rang, acutally horrible
a litle light.
Overall, if you need a great cqb gun, this is it. If you want a good mid/long range gun 4 a cheaper price get the M87. Either way they are great.
I give it a 4 instead of a 5 because of the lck of the stock. I actually got it at an airsoft store that sucked compared to Shorty.
- Holy Crap!Well this is one of THE BEST UTG or any shotguns made ever thats under 70 dollars. I think this is better than the UTG M87 series. For one i think it looks way way way cooler and it has a sling and SHELLS. That's what I love about it, it shoots 3 bbs at a time at the velocity of 275 fps. The bad thing is that it doesn't have any extra shells available. But I haven't airsofted with this yet but I'm really looking foward to. Also I wouldn't use this as a primary weapon. But i give it 5 out of 5 stars on all of the features and things!
- Read reviewThis gun is unbelievably amazing! It's performance is awesome and so are its looks. In wars, I usually snipe. When people start coming in on me, to close to snipe, I take out this little puppy and blast with my 3 shot. I have left some very nice triangular welts on my opponents.
FPS- 275fps.
Range- 90-100ft
Mag Capacity- 1 shell that holds 29 shots.
Feel- 3 pounds of high grade plastic.
Looks- incredible/ very intimidating
- OKThis is still an overall good gun but personally prefer the full stock one. The reason for this is that it looks alot better for one and is typically for longer more accurate shooting. This one is for quick close range shooting.
- Looks awesomeThis is the best shotgun on the site now. It looks awesome, no doubt about that, and it shoots great. It comes with 2 shells a speed loader, cleaning rod, and a sling. This gun is also very light in weight. The best thing about it is the fact that it shoots 3 bb's at once. That just makes it better than a lot of shotguns already. It looks very durable too. I prefer the one with the stock on it but this one looks just as cool.
- WOW what great looks!Well I really love this gun. Not only does it look totally AMAZING, but it shoots three BBs at one time! Also instead of a clip it uses a shell that holds 30 BBs at a time (10 shots). It does have iron sights unlike the other UTG shotguns. I love all of the metal on this tank of a gun.
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- Good GunThis gun is not great for far range, but up close all three bbs position themselves righ next to each other.
I recommend using it during CQB
- sicknessthe best ever, this is the ultimate spring sidearm you can almost have crappy aim and still hit a target. I'd buy 2, it is just my opinion though.


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Spelt is a relative to wheat. However, it contains more protein than wheat does and that protein is more easily digested, possibly making spelt an alternative for people who have a sensitivity to wheat. And lest you've forgotten how much I move and groove on anything with fiber, spelt is an excellent source of that as well!
I used a combination of pumpkin and butternut squash purees to make these muffins. In my opinion, butternut squash, pumpkin and even sweet potato puree share similar texture and taste and all will basically take on the flavors of whatever spice combination you use in your baked goods. Feel free to use whichever of the purees you happen to have on hand.
Pumpkin/Butternut Squash Spelt Muffins
2 cups spelt flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/8 tsp cloves
1 large egg
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup Splenda brown sugar (or 1 1/3 cup regular brown sugar)
1 1/2 cup pumpkin, butternut squash or sweet potato puree, or any combination of the three
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup oat flour
1/2 cup all purpose flour
3 tablespoons soft butter
Combine topping ingredients until crumbly. This makes a big batch of topping. You won't need anywhere near all of it. I always keep a bag of this in my freezer, ready made.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 12 count muffin tin with muffin papers and spray papers lightly with cooking spray.
In large bowl whisk together the spelt flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. In separate bowl whisk together the egg and yogurt. Add the oil, vanilla and brown sugar. Whisk to combine. Stir in the pumpkin. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir only enough to incorporate well. Do not overmix. Distribute batter among the muffin wells. Top with a heaping teaspoon of the topping mixture. Bake in preheated oven for 24-26 minutes. Remove from oven and let muffins cool for five minutes in tin before removing from pan to a cooling rack.


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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- Most of you have probably noticed today is Dec. 12, 2012, or 12/12/12. A few people out there are making the day mean something by tying the knot.
Kathy Chavous and her new husband, Richard Phillips, always knew this date was special.
"A long time ago, we met on Dec. 12, and we got to thinking about it and we thought it would be kinda neat to get married on 12/12/12," Phillips said.
"It was beautiful, beautiful," Chavous said.
Now they're surprising their friends and families by saying "I do."
"We're surprising the family, and apparently a lot of other people, because nobody knows except for you all," Chavous said.
"I guess we'll tell people to watch the 6 o'clock news," Phillips said.
"We just got married ... surprise!" the new husband and wife said in unison.
And they're not alone -- many couples are taking advantage of the unique day.
"It's a very special day, a lot of people come here because they met on this day or because it's a great day to remember their anniversary," explained Rudy Brostrom with Gazebo Weddings in North Augusta. "Generally we have just couples, rather than a whole group of people. They kind of want to keep it private, make it more romantic between the two people."
That's the way Marilyn Morales and Jose Ortiz wanted their wedding day.
"It makes me feel pretty special," Morales said.
"I'm happy. I'm happy that we're united here today, on this special day," said her husband, Ortiz.
And they took it a step farther, deciding to get married at noon on 12/12/12.
"I glanced in the calendar and I said, look. It says 12/12/12. That would be real nice," Morales said.
It's a day they will never forget.
"It's going to be a special day, Dec. 12, definitely and always to remember," Ortiz said.
"You may now kiss your lovely wife," Brostrom told them.
It's estimated more than 7,500 couples will get married around the country, and keep in mind, this is the last triple date until Jan.1 of the year 2101.
And it's not only weddings making headlines Wednesday, it's a special day for birthdays, too.
At University Hospital, little Aoife Emma-Jean Pierce was born Tuesday morning on 12/12/12.
She's 8 pounds, 11 ounces, and her parents decided to schedule a labor induction for their third child, so she would have a neat story to tell.
"When I looked at the calendar and it was going to be 12/12/12, I just thought, that's perfect. We have to try for that. That would be the best birthday," said Laura Pierce, Aoife's mother.
Aoife was just a couple hours old when we stopped by the hospital. In case you're wondering, the name is Irish. Both mom and baby are doing just fine.


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In Mike MacIntyre's first game as head football coach at San Jose State, his team lost at powerhouse Alabama 48-3. Before 101,000 fans in Tuscaloosa, the Spartans were hammered, pounded, overmatched and routed.
MacIntyre still found something positive to say about his players.
"They played harder in the fourth quarter than they did in the third quarter," he noted.
Hey, you've got to start somewhere.
That game was in September, 2010. San Jose State went on to finish with a miserable 1-12 record that season. But now, a mere two years later, those won-lost numbers have been almost completely reversed. The Spartans have concluded a 10-2 regular season, are ranked 24th in the nation by every significant national college football poll and are headed to a bowl game.
They also play hard in all four quarters.
The turnaround hasn't been by accident. It incorporates many factors. Most, however, have been an outgrowth of MacIntyre's master plan, the one he first outlined as a job candidate. MacIntyre was an assistant coach at Duke University when he interviewed with former San Jose State athletic director Tom Bowen in December of 2009.
Bowen, who now runs the athletic department at the University of Memphis, has vivid memories of those interviewing sessions. MacIntrye's enthusiastic personality was obvious. Bowen wanted to know what lay beneath. He liked what he found.
"He wasn't afraid," Bowen said by telephone this week. "He wasn't fearful about confronting the challenges."
The San Jose State football program definitely does offer special hurdles -- some would call them obstacle courses with brick walls topped by barbed wire -- compared to others in the top tier of college football. It is why the Spartans have had only three winning seasons in the past 20 years.
Those hurdles involve both geography and money. Often dwarfed in the Bay Area by the attention paid to Stanford and Cal of the Pac-12 Conference, the Spartans play in the less-famous Western Athletic Conference. This provides much less television revenue for the Spartans. They also struggle for attendance and student body support. They have battled with academic issues involving NCAA requisites. It's difficult for the school to hire and retain top assistant coaches because of the Bay Area's high living costs.
MacIntyre, during his interview, brought out a folder to address every single issue. Bowen, who eventually offered him the position, remembers being both delighted and slightly taken aback by MacIntyre's response.
"I remember him saying, 'I'm ready for this -- how about you?' " Bowen said, with a chuckle.
Those first months and that 2010 season were indeed a rugged road. Bowen and previous football coach Dick Tomey had improved San Jose State's infrastructure, especially in the academic areas. Bowen also managed to coax an inner circle of donors into writing big checks for an assistant coach hiring pool. But on the field, losses mounted. Bowen had been forced to schedule three so-called "body bag" games at Alabama, Wisconsin and Utah to fill the program's coffers. In those games, San Jose State was outscored 131-20.
Bowen insists he had no serious concerns about MacIntyre through the 1-12 slog. But he recalls being comforted when his special assistant, former Stanford and SJSU coach John Ralston, walked into Bowen's office and said of MacIntyre: "I like this guy. We're going to be OK." And there were some signs of progress, even in that opening squash job at Alabama. San Jose State committed no stupid penalties and only one turnover. The players never seemed to give up.
"We definitely learned from those games," said linebacker Vince Buhagiar, who started that game at Alabama as a wide-eyed freshman, just a few months out of Clayton Valley High School. "Every game we lost, we learned something. It actually made us hungry for the next game."
The subsequent offseason of 2010-11 then allowed MacIntrye to implement two key master-plan moves. He realized his team needed to match up better physically with opponents. He was impressed with how Stanford had beefed up and become more powerful under coaches Jim Harbaugh and David Shaw. So MacIntyre reached out and hired Stanford's assistant conditioning coach, Dave Forman.
"I want us to look like a different football team when we get off the bus in 2012," MacIntyre told Forman, thinking two years ahead.
"Coach, I think we can look like a different team getting off the bus in 2011," Forman replied, an answer MacIntyre liked.
Forman subsequently instituted an aggressive strength program, using a mantra he stole from motivational speaker Jim Rohn: "You can either choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
MacIntrye, meanwhile, organized a plan to have he or one of his assistant coaches meet and personally shake the hand of every single high school football coach in California. MacIntyre also organized "traveling San Jose State camps" at high school fields in San Diego, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Ontario and Sacramento. They were one-day clinics that cost $40 for players to attend -- but also served as evaluation sessions. The high school coaches were encouraged to send along any player they thought had college potential.
"California is like four states in one," MacIntyre said. "It was a way for us to spread the word about San Jose State. If we sign 20 players in a recruiting season, at least 17 or 20 of them have been at our camps."
The new recruiting effort, plus the conditioning ramp-up, made the Spartans far more competitive in 2011. MacIntyre was also able to keep his coaching staff stable. Although San Jose State finished with a 5-7 record, late season victories over Navy and Fresno State created momentum moving forward.
"I could see in the players' eyes that it was working," MacIntyre said. "The culture had changed."
The 2012 season began in September with a hard-fought 20-17 loss to eventual Pac-12 champion Stanford. Afterward, Cardinal head coach Shaw said he was impressed with how much more physical San Jose State had become. San Jose State went on to win 10 of the next 11 games, including impressive victories over San Diego State, Navy and BYU. It helped that the landscape of San Jose State's conference -- the WAC -- had changed radically. Two of its best football programs, Boise State and Fresno State, had joined the Mountain West Conference. They were replaced by less powerful programs such as Texas State and Texas-San Antonio. This lessened the week-by-week physical toll on the Spartans and allowed them to get on a roll.
"Once we started winning, we just kept going," MacIntyre said.
And they stayed healthy. Forman's strength program was paying big dividends. In the 2010 season, the Spartans had lost 80 cumulative games because of injuries sustained by players on the two-deep roster -- the first two offensive and defensive units. In 2011, that figure dropped to 41 games missed. This season, the number was 28.
The Spartans closed the season looking stronger than any SJSU team of the past 20 years, with solid grind-out victories over BYU and Louisiana Tech. The next task is to beat Bowling Green in the Military Bowl, scheduled for Dec. 27 at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C.
Between now and then, the players say, they are enjoying the feedback from fellow SJSU students. It may be unprecedented.
"The way it is on campus right now, I never thought it would be that way," Buhagiar said. "Guys will be walking down halls and getting high fives. People you don't know will stop you and congratulate you on a game or on the team's ranking. That's new for us."
To keep the momentum going, new SJSU athletic director Gene Bleymaier has been shaking the trees and raising money for larger staff salaries and new facilities. MacIntrye has been mentioned for other head coaching jobs but says he plans to stay at SJSU for a while. He will definitely have a smile on his face when his team climbs on the charter flight to D.C. in two weeks.
"We look like a strong, athletic football team," MacIntyre said. "We look like a good football team. And we are."
It's a long way from 48-3 in Tuscaloosa.
Contact Mark Purdy at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/MercPurdy.


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Keara Polich graduated from Summit High School in 2002. After taking two years off to work in Summit County, she left Colorado to attend the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She graduated in 2008 with a degree in fine arts and was hired by Williams Sonoma, Inc., where she now works as a buyer for Pottery Barn.
Polich grew up in Silverthorne and fondly remembers her time on the snowboarding team in middle and high school. She visits her parents, still Silverthorne residents, at least once a year. While she loves living and working in San Francisco, she is often found riding the slopes at Tahoe.
"If I can't snowboard, I'll go crazy," she said.
Though now she's happy to be working at her dream job, it wasn't an easy journey. Her parents helped with the initial step - moving from Summit County to California.
"The big accomplishment was moving from a small town, that whole atmosphere and just literally picking a city and just going," Polich said. "I was really lucky to have (my parents) kick me in the butt, and say, 'All right, you want to do it, go.'"
After a slightly rocky start, Polich fell in love with San Francisco, the city that she has now called home for 10 years.
"I absolutely love it. It's got the art and music culture. It's a small city but there's so much here. I go out to a lot of music, I go to a lot of art events."
Polich studied hard and went through her university's five to six year program in just four years. It was there that she discovered her passion for merchandising and home furnishing. When she was first hired by Williams Sonoma, she worked in recruiting for three years before finally succeeding in getting the job she really wanted, the one she does now - finding and choosing the products to be sold in the stores.
"It's a sought-after role," she explained. "It's hard to get into."
She's only been doing it for eight months, but she's hooked, and looking forward to further down the line when she'll get to travel the world to seek out new products.
"You will travel for inspiration and just take trips all over. ... You work with your product development team or you go to build vendor relationships with your sourcing team," she said, mentioning destinations such as Singapore, Dubai and Australia. "We're global now, so there's all this opportunity to go everywhere. It's a good job if you want to travel."
It took a lot of hard work to get to where she is and there's a lot hanging on the horizon, but it's clear Polich is happy with her situation.
"It all fell into place," she said.


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In coordination with the 11th Annual High Country Speaker Series - H2Know Colorado - the Eagle Public Library has opened an exhibit featuring the Eagle River.
The exhibit includes a framed topo map series printed in 1954 by the U.S. Geological Survey and historical photos of the Eagle River, with captions.
The Eagle River begins in southeastern Eagle County at the Continental Divide and flows for about 60 miles before meeting the Colorado River at Dotsero. It is fed by multiple tributary streams and contributes to dry-land agriculture through a number of ditches.
The topographic map series begins at the western end of the Eagle River and goes upstream to the headwaters in six beautifully drawn contour sheets. The seventh sheet is a profile sheet showing the various elevations of the river as it drains Eagle County.
The Eagle River has always been essential to agriculture, mining, growth and recreation in Eagle County. These maps detail the physical presence of the river in the early 1950s. The river has changed a great deal since the 1950s, varying in quality and flow over the years. It still remains essential to quality of life in Eagle County and its preservation is a priority for us all.
The Whistling Bullets 4-H Shooting Sports Club will host a Hunter Education class Saturday, Feb. 16 and Sunday, Feb. 17 at the old Exhibition Hall at the Eagle County Fairgrounds.
Times are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Successful completion of a Hunter Education class is required to purchase a hunting license in Colorado. Class cost is $10 payable at the door on Feb. 16. The 4-H club will sell coffee, hot chocolate, breakfast items and lunch both days.
Any student 12 years old or younger is required to have a parent or guardian present both days. For more information and to pre register, contact Dave Hammond at 970-328-7818 or 970-390-2429.
Let's read together ... A group of local organizations will host a lineup of book-related events for the second annual One Book, One Valley initiative.
One Book, One Valley is a valleywide reading and discussion program that encourages all residents to read the same book at the same time to create a community book club. This year's One Book, One Valley book selection is "Into the Beautiful North," a novel by Luis Alberto Urrea.
"Into the Beautiful North" tells the fictional story of 19-year-old Nayeli. Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the U.S. when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village - they've all gone north. While watching the movie, "The Magnificent Seven," Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men - her own "Siete Magnificos" - to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.
Filled with unforgettable characters and radiant prose, "Into the Beautiful North" is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.
One Book, One Valley is a combined effort by The Bookworm of Edwards, Colorado Mountain College, the Eagle Valley Library District, and the Vail Public Library. Community members are invited to join neighbors and friends for book discussions and special events presented throughout March and April. For information on events, visit the One Book One Valley website: www.coloradomtn.edu/onebook.
The Eagle Valley High School Speech and Debate Team competed in Denver at the state competition last weekend and Dylan Trudeau is the new state champion in Poetry Interpretation! Trudeau also placed third in Debate.
Trudeau was helpful in getting the town of Gypsum to donate $1,000 to the team for lodging at the state competition. At the town's last meeting, he and a teammate provided a demonstration of what the team does - they debated the need for Gypsum to prepare for a "zombie apocalypse." Trudeau is also a pitcher for the EVHS baseball team and works on Gypsum's summer maintenance crew.
The Eagle Chamber believes it's important to acknowledge our business leaders with the 2012 Business of the Year Award.
Nominations are open to current Eagle Chamber members and recommendations are limited to Eagle Chamber members.
The criteria for nominations for this award include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
• Businesses located in Eagle
• Businesses located outside of Eagle, doing business in Eagle
• Eagle Community Involvement
• Leadership
• Innovation
• Revenue Growth
• Job Growth
• Eagle Chamber contributions
• Philanthropic considerations
Please submit nomination(s) on or before Tuesday, Feb. 12, via email. The recipient of the award will be recognized at the Eagle Vision 20/20 Event, on Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. at Eagle Town Hall.
The Eagle Vision 20/20 event, sponsored by the Eagle Chamber and hosted by Mayor Yuri Kostick, will offer a comprehensive update on the many positive things going on in our town and Eagle's vision for the future. The evening will also include a guest speaker and social gathering after the presentation.
If it's February and it's cold, then it's time for another Russian classic.
This year's selection for the Eagle Public Library Russian literature reading club is "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
Ranked at No. 4 in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels (2007), "Lolita" was written in English first (1955) and then translated into Russian (1965) by the author. It was written during summer butterfly collecting trips in the Western United States and provided Nabokov financial security for the rest of his life.
Born in St. Petersburg in 1899, Nabokov was part of a prominent family of the minor Russian nobility. The events of the October Revolution and ensuing civil war in Russia forced the family's emigration to England and then Berlin. In 1937, he and his Jewish-Russian wife, Vera, and son, Dmitri, emigrated to the United States. Nabokov became a comparative literature lecturer at Wellesley College in 1941 and later became a one-man Russian Department there. His life was spent as an academic, entomologist and writer, with as much facility in the English language as in Russian and French.
Book club participants will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 26, for celebratory zakuski (hors d'hoeuvres) and discussion. Register your email with Jaci Spuhler (email@example.com) before Feb. 1 to receive daily fascinating facts about this classic. Copies of "Lolita" are available at the circulation desk at the Eagle Public Library. For more information, call 970-328-8800.
The U.S. Forest Service, Small Business Administration and the Colorado Procurement Technical Assistance Center invite all small business owners interested in providing products and services to support wildland fire fighting efforts to attend a free workshop Thursday, Feb. 7, from 1 to 4 p.m. in Grand Junction.
Services and equipment needed to support wildland firefighting include meals, copiers, heavy equipment, refrigerated trailers, ice, hardware, showers, toilets, hand-washing stations and lodging. The workshop will offer information about regulations, contracts, ordering and payment processes, and the types of services needed to support fire crews.
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• Megan McQueeney and Alison Harakal, both of Eagle, have been named to Drake University's President's List for the Fall 2012 semester. Students must have a grade-point average of 4.0 to receive this honor. Drake is a private, independent university in Des Moines, Iowa, with an enrollment of approximately 3,400 full-time undergraduate students and 1,900 graduate students from 49 states and 50 countries. Congratulations!
•Local residents can apply for United States passports at the town of Gypsum offices, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Passport pictures are available for $10. For additional information, visit the town's website at www.townofgypsum.com or call Town Clerk Danette Schlegel at 970-524-7514. All the necessary passport forms can be found at travel.state.gov.


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No public official in Schleicher county is better liked or more highly respected than William C. Benton, the county and district clerk of Schleicher county, Texas, Mr. Benton is widely experienced in the kind of work upon which he is at present engaged and his service in this position has been highly satisfactory to the people of the county and district. Being now just in the prime of life his prospects for the future look very bright and he has the good wishes of hosts of friend.
William C. Benton was born in Wood county, Texas, on the 28th of August, 1871, a son of William F. Benton. His father was born in Alabama and came to Texas when he was only a child. He now lives in Schleicher county, and his occuption in life is farming. He married Miss Georgia G. Earhart, who was born in the state of Georgia. Their marriage took place in Texas. Mr. Benton is a member of the Democratic party, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church.
Of the two children who were born to Mr. and Mrs. William F. Benton, William C. Benton is the eldest. His brother, Wilbur O. Benton, lives in Eldorado. William C. Benton has spent all his life, except when he was away at school, within the state of his nativity.
He received his early education in the public schools of Wood county, later attending the high school of Smith county, Texas. After completing his high school work he took a commercial course in the University of Kentucky, at Lexington, Kentucky. After this he returned to Texas and began life as a school teacher. For three years he taught in the public schools of Wood county and then he engaged in the mercantile business. He made quite a success of this business and remained a merchant until November, 1902, when he sold out his store to accept the position of district clerk of Wood county, to which he had been elected. He served in this office for four years and then for one year served as deputy county clerk. His next move brought him to Schleicher county, and he arrived in Eldorado on the 15th of July, 1907. Just one year after the coming of Mr. Benton to Eldorado he was elected county and district clerk and is now serving his third term in this office. Mr. Benton also conducts an abstract business and his the only set of transcribed abstracts in this county.
In politics Mr. Benton is a member of the Democratic party and he takes an active part in the affairs of his party both in national and state affairs as well as locally. In religious matters Mr. Benton leans toward the Baptist church for it was the church of his childhood, but he is a member of no denomination and gives his support to all of them. Mr. Benton is active in the fraternal world and is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. In the first mentioned order, Mr. Benton is a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter, and he has been Master of his Blue Lodge in both Wood county and Schleicher county. Mr. Benton is a valuable citizen to Eldorado for he is tireless in his enthusiasm over the country and its future and is a convincing talker when setting forth the advantages of locating in the state of Texas.
Mr. Benton was married in Wood county, Texas, on the 16th of November, 1892, to Miss Sallie J. Raley, a daughter of Columbus and Margaret Raley, of Wood county. Mr. and Mrs. Benton have become the parents of four childrn, one daughter and three sons, as follows: Julius B., who is deceased; Olga L.; Offie C., and Harold Jarvis Benton.
Source: Google Book Search
A history of Texas and Texans, Volume 3, By Francis White Johnson, American Historical Society, 1914, page 1206.
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The Count wrote: a Palin/Beck ticket in 2012.
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PARKERSBURG - The first snow this year saw municipalities and schools prepared as more snow is expected through Saturday.
"We have trucks loaded with salt and ready to go," said Parkersburg Public Works Director Rick Lemley. "We are monitoring the weather and waiting to see what happens."
Belpre Mayor Mike Lorentz said the city road crews were out twice overnight Wednesday into Thursday and, like those in Parkersburg, were on standby for more snow.
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A truck from the city of Parkersburg Thursday morning makes it way up 13th Street from Avery Street, spreading salt on the road that was slick from ice. Schools in the region were closed Thursday morning because of the snow.
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Cameron Wilkins of Belpre starts down the hill on a plastic sled behind the Masonic Lodge in Belpre Thursday. By early Thursday afternoon, sun and warmer temperatures had melted a lot of snow that fell Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
"We're prepared," Lorentz said. "We have 400 tons of salt and cinders and more on order if we need it.
"I think we're in good shape and ready for whatever happens," he said.
Liz Sommerville, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Charleston, said there is another two to four inches of snow expected in the Parkersburg area through Saturday morning.
"Yes, definitely more snow coming," she said. "The positive side is that it will be warmer."
While temperatures barely cracked the 20-degree mark on Thursday, today will start a warm-up with a high expected to be 29 degrees and into the low 30s this weekend.
"Next week we should be seeing low 50s as daytime highs," Sommerville said.
The weather had an influence on area schools as many districts closed schools Thursday because of road conditions with an eye on what is on its way.
Sue Woodward, assistant superintendent with Wood County Schools, said officials were continually watching weather reports throughout the day Thursday.
"There seems to be differing opinions on when the front is coming through," she said.
School officials are watching the timing of the storms and what the state Department of Highways is saying.
"We are also comparing notes with the surrounding counties as well as the city school districts in Ohio," Woodward said.
There are around 11,000 students in Wood County. Officials have to determine if they can be safely transported in the morning and afternoon.
"We want to make sure that if we get them here, we will be able to get them home," Woodward said.
Belpre Schools Superintendent Tony Dunn said the district doesn't usually make the determination not to have school the day before. Officials are continually monitoring weather and road conditions.
The Belpre district also weighs whether conditions are expected to improve past the point of a possible two-hour delay, Dunn said.
"We also have to determine if it is going to be dangerous out for the children," Dunn said.
Mike Dennis, director of the Wood County Senior Citizens Association, said they have not heard many complaints about the cold from local seniors, but the weather is a concern for many elderly in the area.
Some older people do not want to go out into the cold so there are not as many coming to the seniors center on Market Street, he said. Slipping on the ice is always a big concern for many area seniors.
"People need to be very careful because of the ice," Dennis said. "There is some out there and it could be treacherous."


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Missing Autistic Student's Mother Intends to Sue City
By Lisa Fleisher, Pervaiz Shallwani and Ted Mann
The mother of a missing 14-year-old boy with autism has filed legal papers saying she intends to sue the city for $25 million, accusing the city and the department of education of recklessly allowing the student to walk away from school.
Avonte Oquendo was last seen at about 12:40 p.m. on Oct. 4 walking out of the Riverview School in Long Island City.
The NYPD said it has 50 officers a day searching for the boy, who doesn't speak and has trouble performing many basic tasks.
A city schools spokeswoman declined to comment on the potential lawsuit. City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has said the city is focused first on finding the student and declined to comment on whether school officials acted properly.
"City schools are safe and we are taking a look at procedures at this particular school and what needs to be tightened up," Mr. Walcott said Friday. "We are doing an investigation about what happened, but right now our focus is finding the child."
Avonte's mother, Vanessa Fontaine, described him as a sweet, loving child who liked to play with his tablet and watch cooking shows. Avonte, who was diagnosed at age 2 1/2, can't perform some simple tasks such as tying his shoes by himself, and often needs verbal prompts to do things like put on his shirt. He had just arrived at the school as a freshman this year, she said.
"I knew that Avonte would always need someone to watch him," she said. "I would tell all his teachers, 'Please keep a close eye on Avonte.'"
The notice of claim filed Wednesday with the city comptroller's office said the school failed to properly supervise Avonte, who "has a propensity to run away," causing emotional and psychological harm to the mother and child.
Ms. Fontaine said that over the summer, Avonte had unlocked the doors at the family's Rego Park home, walked away and was quickly found by police on a local subway platform.
Two days ago, police ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to briefly cut power on the 7 and G lines in the area of the school during a search. Since then, police have been searching subway trains in other parts of the city.
For example, on Thursday evening at the 14th street stop of the 1, 2, 3 line, the conductor announced over the loudspeaker that they were looking for the boy. Avonte's name was displayed on the information board used to display train arrivals, and a pair of police officers searched the train car-by-car. After searching the last car, they waved to the conductor and the train departed.
Ms. Fontaine, a single mother with four other sons, said the school called her an hour after Avonte disappeared. She arrived about an hour after that, she said. School officials asked her to make an announcement over the school's loudspeaker, in case he was hiding somewhere in the school. The family's attorney, David Perecman, said the family was told there was a fight in the lunchroom that distracted some aides.
The school is used by students with and without special needs. Ms. Fontaine said Avonte is in District 75, the Department of Education's program for children with the most severe needs.
Mr. Walcott said Thursday that Avonte's individualized education plan required him to have not more than six students in a class with one teacher and one paraprofessional.
The family plans to hold a vigil at 5 p.m. Friday across the street from the school. Ms. Fontaine's lawyer's office said the family has received two offers of rewards, one for $5,000 and another for $50,000 for information that leads to the boy's safe return.


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Monroe County Environmental Education Center will hold its first watch Jan. 25 starting at the center, 8050 Running Valley Road, Bartonsville.
Other watches are scheduled for Feb. 1, Feb. 8 and Feb. 15. Participants will meet at the center and return at about 5:30 p.m.
An environmental educator will lead the field trips to the Upper Delaware River. Participants should pack a lunch and binoculars, and dress appropriately for the weather. Stops will be made for coffee and snacks.
Cost is $20 for nonmembers, $14 for members; includes van transportation.
Preregistration and payment are required. To register, call 570-629-3061. For information, visit mcconservation.org.
Pocono Environmental Education Center will hold eagle watches from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 26, Feb. 2 and Feb. 3 starting at PEEC's main building, 538 Emery Road, Dingmans Ferry.
Jan Lakuta will lead the watches, which will include visits to Mongaup Reservoir, the Delaware River and the Eagle Institute.
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News 12 First at Five, April 9, 2010
AUGUSTA---He has traveled the world defending our country. He is now being treated to a trip to Augusta National. Augusta commissioner Joe Jackson paved the way for a wounded warrior to spend a day at the course.
Master Sgt. Michael Morton is heading to Augusta National.
"This is my first golf tournament ever," said Morton. "It's just amazing."
Commissioner Joe Jackson donated his badge.
"Things like this bless me more than the money," said Jackson.
Morton is making this trip after 3 tours in Iraq.
"I just can't even describe how wonderful everyone is," said Morton. "[They] are taking really good care of me."
Morton has been awarded 3 purple hearts.
"Too many times," laughed Morton.
"It just tickles me to death," said Masters visitor Sherry Sutton. "It gives me...I call them my universe bumps or God bumps."
Sherry also decided to donate her badge to another man in uniform.
"I just saw him and decided to say thank you for protecting us," said Sutton. "I wanted this gentleman to be able to see some of this golf because they are the people that keep us free."
It is becoming a bit of a tradition for Jackson. He did the same thing last year.
"It's something that I will probably continue to do," said Jackson. "It's not about me. It's about the soldiers that don't have an opportunity to come out here."
We are talking about prized and hard to get badges that many sport proudly. A few good men get to join the crowd.


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Legislation pushed by Gov. Malloy would revoke the governor's power to get rid of the board president, the Connecticut Mirror reported. He also wants to expand the board's role in setting the terms of the president's contract.
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Well, I was going to ask for help in repairing/replacing the basket on #3 at Eastern, but I just got a call from Dustin Oostendorp telling me that someone has already helped themselves to the basket and chains.
I'll check with the city on this, but I spoke with them this morning, and there was no mention of having them.
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DETROIT -- The A's started the second half of their season this week in Detroit's Comerica Park, and they can only hope that the Tigers' three-game sweep, capped by a 9-3 loss Wednesday afternoon, is as low as it goes.
Oakland, which split a four-game series with the Tigers in May at the Coliseum, are 2-5 against Detroit this season. While the teams are done playing each other for the regular season, they might meet again in the playoffs. They have the past two years. Detroit won both times.
"We match up pretty well with these guys," A's catcher Derek Norris said. "You look at the overall series the last three years, it's probably pretty even."
The A's won four of seven last year, the Tigers won four of seven two years ago.
"It's their pitching staff and our pesky hitters," Norris said. "Our good bullpen and starting staff, and they are very aggressive (hitters). It's a matter of you execute your pitches, you beat them. If you don't execute your pitches, they beat you. And the same thing in reverse.
"We got swept, but we took a few games from them when we were at our place. It's always a good series any time we get together.''
For now, with the Tigers in Oakland's rear-view mirror, the Toronto Blue Jays come back into focus, beginning a four-game series against the A's on Thursday at the Coliseum.
Toronto provided the low point of the A's first half, sweeping a three-game series at the Rogers Centre in May. The Blue Jays were in the middle of a streak during which they went 14-2 when they took three from the A's. The Blue Jays still lead the American League East, but their pace isn't as blistering. They'll arrive in Oakland with a 6-9 record over their last 15 games.
"They are a real good team," manager Bob Melvin said of the Blue Jays. "We caught them there when they were in the midst of really playing well. And it's not like they've been playing poorly since. But that was a real hot streak that they were in.
"You've always got to pitch against those guys and score some runs, because they are going to score some runs. It's one of the elite teams in the American League."
The A's aren't exactly smoking right now, though they did have a chance to win two of the three games against the Tigers.
They didn't protect or add to an early lead they got Wednesday when Coco Crisp and Brandon Moss homered in the first inning off October nemesis Justin Verlander.
By the fourth inning, the Tigers had gone ahead against losing pitcher Jesse Chavez (6-5). Torii Hunter had RBI singles in the first and third innings, and Austin Jackson broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth with another run-scoring hit. Detroit's first three runs all came on two-out hits.
"I was fighting myself instead of being relaxed," said Chavez, who gave up five runs in his five-plus innings of work, yielding eight hits and walking four. "It's annoying when you are one out away from a clean inning. The biggest thing is giving back the lead. Once you have it, you want to keep it and go as deep as you can."
The offense could have made Chavez's life easier. In the second and sixth they loaded the bases but failed to score.
"The sixth inning was the key," Melvin said. "We had first and third and nobody out. And then they get a six-spot."
The Tigers sent 10 batters to the plate while scoring six runs in the bottom of the sixth, building their lead to 9-2.
Chavez walked the first two batters in the sixth, but most of the damage came against embattled reliever Jim Johnson, who gave up four consecutive hits and was charged with four runs in a third of an inning, driving his ERA up to 5.94.
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5 under-the-radar plays for this weekend
A look at some offbeat shows on stages around San Diego County
'Once Upon a Wedding'
Along with all the high-profile productions now running on local stages, there are a whole host of smaller shows on the entertainment menu, too. Let's start with this musical comedy, a raucous-sounding dinner-theater experience that tells a story of matrimonial mayhem - and offers a gourmet dinner, wedding cake, coffee service and champagne toast to boot. It opens tonight (Friday) at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido.
'Poetical Not to Be Played on the Radio'
This latest piece from the Ira Aldridge Repertory Players is based on the street poetry of artistic director Calvin Manson; through a series of vignettes, it tells the stories of the struggling and the voiceless. "Poetical" runs through Aug. 25 at the Educational Cultural Complex Theatre in the Mountain View neighborhood.
'A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Musical'
Intrepid Shakespeare Co. closes its pop-song-driven version of the romantic classic with a flourish this weekend in Encinitas: The silky-voiced Sandy Campbell (above), who starred in last year's production of the piece, returns to play Titania in the show's final performances, and the talented Eddie Yaroch also makes an encore as Peter Quince.
'Boeing Boeing'
The saucy, door-slamming farce "Boeing Boeing" wings into the Ocean Beach Playhouse starting tonight (Friday), in a production directed by George Bailey. (The play had a hit Broadway revival a few years back and was subsequently staged at the Old Globe.)
'Simply Sci-Fi'
Finally, New Play Cafe's latest show - a collection of six science-fiction-minded playlets by San Diego playwrights - continues for two more weekends at the Big Kitchen Cafe. (That's cast member Laura Bohlin above.)


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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Thursday
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
Recommended reading from around the Web:
Incoming Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen will tell senators Thursday that the U.S. economy has grown "significantly stronger" since the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing recession, but it still needs help from the Federal Reserve to continue mending. [WSJ]
China's biggest state-owned companies emerged as major winners as the high-profile gathering of Communist Party leaders this week pledged to "incessantly strengthen" their "vitality," Bob Davis and Brian Spegele (@bspegele) say. [WSJ]
Robert Merry (@robertwmerry) says that, while it's too early to conclude that President Barack Obama's second term will be a failure, Democrats need to be concerned about that prospect and its long-term implications because history shows that "nothing devastates a ruling party as surely as a failed presidency." [National Interest]
E.J. Dionne (@EJDionne) writes that President Obama's fall in the polls is most striking because he is losing support among those who should be his friends—independents who consider themselves liberal and who lean Democratic. The good news, he adds, is that these are groups whose support it should be possible to reclaim. [Washington Post]
Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) counts at least three emerging divides among Democrats: President Obama vs. the Clintons, red-state members of Congress vs. Obama loyalists, and the Elizabeth Warren camp vs. Hillary Clinton's. [National Journal]
The Obama White House has marginalized the president's cabinet, writes Glenn Thursh (@GlennThrush), calling the group together only rarely and marginalizing individual secretaries so much that "never has the job of cabinet secretary seemed smaller." [Politico]
The US Air-American Airlines merger will be bad for consumers and result in higher fares, Cyrus Sanati (@BeyondBlunt) says, in a critical look at the weak, in his view, conditions the Justice Department imposed on the merger. [Fortune]
It has been 12 years since the U.S. opened the detention camp at Guantánamo. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis), a former prosecutor for the military commissions there, says "it is time to end this wasteful embarrassment that undermines what the United States purports to stand for." Only seven of the 779 ever held at Guantánamo have been convicted and sentenced. Five of those are longer at there. "You have to lose to win," he says. [Guardian]
What We're Writing
Top Economists Rethink Post-Crisis Policy: In Capital, David Wessel writes that economists are finally adjusting outmoded thinking on how to prevent financial calamities and respond to painfully slow and uneven growth. Here's a chart showing how the tortured recovery from the financial crisis has kept the U.S. and other major developed economies from performing at full potential.
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted:
Of the 50 states, New York had the lowest homeownership rate in 2010-12 (53.9%) and West Virginia had the highest (72.9%). West Virginia also had the lowest median home value ($98,300). Hawaii had the highest ($503,100). [Census]
If all states increased by 1% the number of over-65-year-olds who get home-delivered meals, Medicaid programs would have saved $109 million in 2009) by keeping some seniors out of nursing homes, Brown University researchers say. [Health Affairs]
More Americans have died by guns since 1968 than died in all U.S. wars since 1776. [Politifact]
The price of gold is down 24% since the start of 2013. [FT]
President Obama's approval ratings are on track with George W. Bush's downward trajectory, not Bill Clinton's or Ronald Reagan's. [Washington Post]
Of the 13 million two-year college students in the U.S., 60% are placed in remedial math courses, and 75% of those fail or drop those courses and leave college without a degree. [The Atlantic]
The average U.K. resident throws away the equivalent of 24 meals a month, and about one-fifth of household purchases end up as waste, a British survey found. [The Guardian]
Municipal government revenue in 21 of America's 30 largest cities hadn't returned to their pre-recession levels by 2011, the last year for which full data is available. [The Atlantic Cities]
For critical perspectives on politics and the economy from Jerry Seib & David Wessel, visit Seib & Wessel and follow them on Twitter @GeraldFSeib and @davidmwessel.


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text: Join us in the "Celebration of Life" for our dear friend Edward G. Stephenson, known to so many as "Big Ed," Sunday (May 5) from 1 to 4 p.m., at Spagna's Italian Restaurant, 301 Gilman Ave. in Marietta. The Edward G. Stephenson Fund for Animals has been established with the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation for Washington and Wood counties. Donations can be sent to the Ed Stephenson Fund for Animals, P.O. Box 1762, Parkersburg, W.Va., 26102.


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SANTA CLARA — Jim Harbaugh tipped his cap to his former high school coach Wednesday, saluting Palo Alto High's Earl Hansen for ending his career with a cinematic flourish.
"It's like 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Jimmy Stewart and the amount of people he impacted,'' the 49ers coach. "That's a very good comparison to Coach Hansen."
Hansen, who visited with Harbaugh at the 49ers' facility Wednesday, announced his retirement Monday after coaching the Vikings for 26 years over two stints. Hansen, 62, won more than 200 games and four Central Cost Section titles in his career.
His protégés include a Harbaugh (class of '82), who played his junior and senior years at Palo Alto before going on to a distinguished NFL career as a quarterback and coach.
Harbaugh initially shook his head Wednesday when asked about Hansen's announcement, as if in disbelief.
"He's such a coach and such a teacher. He may be back — it's hard to imagine him not coaching,'' he said.
Hansen made his decision to retire a year ago but kept his plan a secret, except to his family. He will remain at the school as a physical education teacher and athletic director until the end of the academic year.
"He had great leadership qualities,'' Harbaugh said. "He's been a dear friend. I could call him a lifelong friend."
Earl's son, Peter, is in his third season with the 49ers as a defensive assistant / outside linebackers coach.
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TOWN OF NEWBURGH — McDonald's plans to demolish its restaurant on North Plank Road and build a larger one in its place, according to an application filed with the Planning Board.
McDonald's plans to build an approximately 5,200-square-foot building with 107 indoor seats at the site. The new fast-food joint will also have a two-lane drive-through, according to the filing.
McDonald's plans to start construction in June 2014 and finish the work about three months later, according to the application with the Planning Board.
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Intentionally set fires don't make headlines very often, but last year in Florida, Arson claimed $35 million worth of property and killed or injured 99 people.
Wednesday, we got a rare tour of Florida's Fire and Arson Lab near Quincy. It's one of just three labs like it in the country.
Fire gutted a cabinet shop in Woodville, $125,000 worth of damage. Investigators on the scene rule it an arson.
Reggie Hurchins is the chief chemist at the State Fire and Arson Lab near Quincy. He and his colleagues did the lab work on the Woodville case, and he's testified in dozens of high profile cases like the two brothers in Pensacola who were accused of killing their father and setting his house on fire to cover it up.
"Everyone has war stories But it's really just a day's work," Reggie says.
Any evidence that comes into the lab starts out in an airtight can. The evidence is then taken to a special hood fitted with a charcoal strips and vaporized in an oven. Any accelerants that collected are put in tiny tubes and taken for analysis.
A sample could have come from a t-shirt or a piece of carpet. It's placed into an instrument and it can tell exactly what the accelerant is, gasoline, diesel, you name it.
"Gasoline has a pattern, diesel has a pattern, mineral spirits have a pattern, and that's the pattern we look for."
Identifying a fire-starting substance can take anywhere from two hours to three days. Then comes the hard part, figuring out who set the fire, and why. That is a tall order.
Investigators say they make arrests in fewer than one in five arson cases.
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Courtesy of Music in the Mountains
Courtesy of Music in the Mountains
Palestrina, Victoria, Gabrieli, Byrd and even Francis Poulenc have set �O Magnum Mysterium� differently. The chant comes from the Matins of Christmas and means �O great mystery.�
One version has spellbound listeners since composed in 1994 by Morten Lauridsen. The American composer is professor of music at the University of Southern California and in residence with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. His works have been recorded on more than 200 CDs, five of them winning Grammy Awards.
Fans of the Durango Choral Society have been mesmerized by the original choral version. And now a brass arrangement by Michael Votta will be performed by a group of musicians from the Four Corners in �The Best Brass of Christmas.�
Sponsored by Music in the Mountains, the all-brass format has been around for five years.
Organized by Farmington�s Mick Hesse, the ensemble will perform for its sixth iteration with an expanded program. Eleven professional players from Albuquerque, Denver, Durango, Farmington and Santa Fe will come together to play holiday music Saturday.
The concert will include selections from Tchaikovsky�s �The Nutcracker,� Victor Herbert�s �March of the Toys,� portions of Bach�s cantata No. 64 and the Contrapunctus 1 from the Art of the Fugue.
The concert will open with traditional carols and a fanfare before Lauridsen�s version of �O Magnum Mysterium.� The second half of the program will mix old and new carols and conclude with �Dona Nobis Pacem.� Music lovers will go out with a brass sprinkling of �We Wish You a Merry Christmas.�
New this year will be the brass version of a side-by-side section. Area high school players will join the pros for part of the program.
The young musicians include trumpeters Maryna Pohlman and Mike Smith, French hornist Bryce Hoyt, trombonist JP Skeath and Trent Parker on tuba.
If you�re curious about �O Magnum Mysterium,� check out more than 30 versions to be heard on YouTube � by Renaissance and contemporary composers, for voice or brass choir, and several performances of Lauridsen�s version.
In composing the work he said: �I sought to impart a transforming spiritual experience within what I call �a quiet song of profound inner joy.��
Judith Reynolds is a Durango writer, artist and critic. Reach her at email@example.com.


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Free Keene says anti-BearCat effort attracts more liberty-minded folk to NH
In an �An Open Letter to the Free State Project: From Selma, AL, to Concord, NH�, Dan Johnson, the founder of People Against the NDAA, pledges to move to New Hampshire as part of the FSP.
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Facebook Earnings: What to Watch
Can Facebook repeat its magical mobile-growth trick? That's one thing investors will want to know when the company reports third-quarter earnings Wednesday.
Investors had soured on Facebook after its initial public offering last year, in part over doubts about whether users, and advertisers, would stick with the social network as they spent more time on mobile devices.
Facebook proved the naysayers wrong in the second quarter: It announced 53% year-over-year sales growth in July, thanks to a surge in mobile advertising. Mobile-ad revenue rose 76% to $656 million from the previous quarter. The stock went on a tear.
For the third quarter, analysts estimate Facebook will report adjusted earnings of 19 cents a share, up from 12 cents a year ago, according to S&P Capital IQ. Revenue is expected to increase 52% year-over-year to $1.9 billion.
Facebook will report results after the market close and will hold a conference call for analysts at 5 p.m. ET. Here are some key things to watch.
The Mobile Moment: Mobile advertising grew to 41% of Facebook's revenue in the second quarter, from 30% in the first quarter. Some analysts, though, questioned whether mobile advertising represented a truly new stream of revenue, or was simply being diverted from desktop advertising.
"It's not advertisers saying 'I must have mobile,'" said Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Group. He wants more details on how Facebook breaks out and calculates mobile advertising. Facebook declined to comment.
A key component of Facebook's mobile-ad business is "mobile app installs," a specialized product for app developers who want to entice users to download apps to smartphones. That form of advertising is still a small part of Facebook's overall revenue, according to the company, but it's important because it represents a product tailored specifically for the mobile platform. Facebook expanded that business this quarter to include advertisements that spur users to keep using the apps they've already downloaded.
The Geography of Users: When it comes to advertising revenue, not all Facebook users are created equal.
Facebook collected $4.32 in revenue for each user in the U.S. and Canada in the second quarter, up from $3.20 a year earlier. In Europe, that number was $1.87. In Asia, it was 75 cents. That looks troubling, since most Facebook users are outside the U.S. and Canada.
The good news for investors is that revenue per user is growing everywhere. In Europe, the number is up from $1.43 a year earlier. In Asia, it was 55 cents. Facebook has made a push overseas to boost its advertising efforts, and investors are hoping it continues to pay off.
The Number of Users: Facebook's biggest asset is its 1.2 billion monthly active users. Facebook wants to increase that number until practically everyone in the world is using the service. But to keep advertising growing, it also needs to increase what it calls "engagement," or the amount of time users spend on the service.
One important measure is "daily active users," or people who use Facebook either directly or through a third party site on a given day. In the U.S. and Canada, that number was 142 million last quarter, up from 130 million a year earlier.
World-wide, the number is growing faster: While Facebook added 12 million DAUs in the U.S. and Canada in the last year, 28 million were added in Europe, 52 million in Asia and 56 million in the rest of the world. There are 700 million DAUs total.
Diversify Lately? Facebook's bottom line wasn't always so focused on mobile advertising. It once generated a big chunk of revenue from payments and fees associated with social games on its platform.
With the decline of online game maker Zynga, though, the business has been shrinking. Some analysts would like to see it increase to help Facebook diversify its revenue streams. Payments and other fees made up 16% of Facebook's revenue in the second quarter of 2012. A year later, that number was only 12%.
Debra Aho Williamson, an eMarketer analyst, compared Facebook with LinkedIn, which has three diverse revenue streams that are all growing rapidly. At Facebook, though, it's all advertising. "Signs of life in other areas have been diminished," she said.


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Meeting Cape Town 2000
Cape Town
Present: Pierre Mootobe - Congo
Haja RAMBOASALAMA - Madagascar
Cyriaque Kouma - Gabon
Yann Kwok - Mauritius
Theo Kramer - South Africa
Tarek Kamel - Egypt
Andrew McLaughlin - USA
Nii Quaynor - Ghana
Alan Barrett - South Africa
Pierre Dandjinou - Benin
Charles Musisi - Uganda
The members present introduced themselves and gave a background of what they do professionally. Tarek started the meeting by stating that we need concrete milestones, and need to deliver, showing both the African and International community that we're serious. He proposed to host the next AfriNIC in Jan 2002 in Cairo, setting this date as a target by which AfriNIC will be operational. Andrew said that he would like to stay in close touch with AfriNIC and offered to provide further assistance if required. He hopes to see AfriNIC incorporated within a year, and getting full support of the African continent. He shared some of his experience with LAC-NIC so that we can avoid repeating the same mistakes. There are 12 people in the board to get the work done. We should try to meet personally, set deadlines and focus on spefic areas. The technical, structural and policy sections should be separated, and we shouldn't let a delay in a specific section affect the others. He said that RIPE support comes with a pre-condition: that AfriNIC needs to market upfront and early- making it easier for RIPE to spend the funds from Africa. Thus we need to reach out more towards the members (ie, the ISP's). An update from LACNIC: It has been incorporated in Uruguay as a non-profit association. This country is seen as neutral, with favourable laws for currency transactions and banking. The location of the operation suggested is Sao Palo in Brazil. They got consensus to have the operations centre in Brazil, with the technical training in Mexico. The operations centre has been sponsored by the Brazil NIC, a non-profit, well-marketed NIC in which the money stays and is used for graduate fellows. Through this sponsorship, LACNIC has a two-year window for funding. Their mistakes: LACNIC did not spend enough time with ISP's. They should have got a list from ARIN, and communicated with a senior person of the member organisation (not technical) to get them to support and commit with LAC-NIC. They should have convinced people that the level of service they'll get will be at least as good as what they're getting currently.
2.1 Write letters to ISP (marketing)
2.2 Have a body of young, trained hostmasters - some staff turnover should be expected, so a strong training programme should be set up. This may benefit the ISP's as they will get access to trained staff.
3.1 Submit a transition plan [leading to intermediate recognition as a RIR] 3.2 After the transition, full recognition can then be seeked. In essence, it is a confidence-building exercise As far as location (bylaws and operations) is concerned, Andrew suggested looking for legal expertise in the field, such as a consultancy or legal firm to study the various countries in the continent and suggest an appropriate one.
a) suggested the following milestones: June 2001: get 50% of funding promised July 2001: transition plan submitted to ICANN Aug 2001: 2 engineers selected and sent to RIPE b) stressed the need for a business manager, with better secretarial support to: - follow up outstanding tasks - expand our support to ISP's - be in touch with other RIR's c) suggested the need for a budget and a business plan (what to spend, how expense will be funded, what equipment needed, etc) d) AfriNIC should be incorporated properly - Ghana incorporation is only interim. We need to research an appropriate jurisdiction and this is needed before the engineers are sent to RIPE. e) Alternatively, we can take two existing hostmasters from RIPE to handle the AfriNIC work.
1) We need to document the transition plan, defining steps, targets and responsibilities 2) We have a communication and outreach problem - we could communicate more to the potential members and interested parties 3) There is no link between AFNOG and AFRINIC - so far they've just co-located their events. This can be separated now.
1) We need more communications amongst the BoT. Our communications is "dis-jointed" at best. A clear assignment task should be given.
We're currently in a crisis-mode, and thus need a warplan. He suggested to have the BoT broken down into separate sub-committees, viz: a) LIR Committee For the outreach programme, contacting each RIR member, and possibly organise a face-to-face meeting b) Technical Committee For planning the operations, transition and establish liasons with the RIR's technical staff c) Publication Committee For the translations of documents and correspondence to the community, publishing a status report every month. We should have chairs for each committee and distribute the workload, reporting monthly. It is essential that there is regular communications to the community.
Business/Finance: a) Theo Kramer b) Tarek Kamel RIR Liason: a) Alan Barrett [RIPE/ARIN] b) Yann Kwok [APNIC] LIR & Outreach: a) Charles Musisi b) Pierre Dandjinou Technical: a) Alan Barrett b) Pierre Mootobe Publications: PierreDandjinou Haja RAMBOASALAM Meeting adjourned.


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SANTA CLARA -- First-round pick Eric Reid filled the need for a safety, and now the 49ers merely have 11 picks remaining to fortify a roster for their NFC-title defense.
Does general manager Trent Baalke know how he'll use the second pick in Friday's second round (34th overall)?
"Absolutely we know," Baalke said Monday night. "But that doesn't mean that something can't happen over the night and you wake up tomorrow and the phone rings and somebody has a deal that you can't refuse and you trade back.
"Otherwise, we are prepared to make the pick."
The 49ers own three picks in Friday's action: Nos. 34, 61 (second round) and 93 (third round). They dealt their other third-round pick to the Dallas Cowboys to move up 13 spots to select Reid.
With only 32 players off the board, myriad possibilities remain for the 49ers, and here are 12 worth considering:


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Cheer and Dance squads will hold spring walk-on tryouts Jan. 6 at 8 a.m. at Moody Field House. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi students who are interested can contact Melanie Lowry, Director of Cheerleading and Dance at (361) 825-3417.
All potential cheerleaders are expected to portray a collegiate image when trying out for Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. Body piercings and jewelry of any kind, extreme hair styles and/or colors are not acceptable at tryouts or during the year as an Islander Cheerleader and Islander Dancer. All cheer and dance candidates must remove all piercings and cover tattoos prior to arrival of tryouts.
Cheer Attire:
Girls: Hair up, cheer shoes, sports bra and shorts
Boys: Sneakers or cheer shoes, loose shorts and t-shirt
Dance Attire: Plain black, navy, or royal sports bra, black hot shorts, dance shoes and hair down but fashioned out of your face.


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Officers arrested 22-year-old Tomecca Jackson on Saturday, June 24 at her home at 502 Frances Street in North Augusta.
Her pregnancy was a secret the coroner says Jackson was trying to hide from the last people she'd want to find out about it: her parents.
And for about a year she managed to get away with it...until her dad did something she never planned on.
Imagine crawling through the underpinning of a mobile home, trying to figure out what's wrong with the A/C, and coming across something you'd never believe.
That's exactly what happened Tomecca Jackson's father on Saturday.
"He was working under the house and found a black garbage bag, and opened it up and found what he thought were human remains," says Cpl. Robbie Harter, public information officer for the Edgefield County Sheriff's Office.
He found the remains of what he claims was his grandson.
The coroner tells News 12 that even though Jackson lived at home with her parents throughout the pregnancy, she wore big clothes and didn't come out of her room often to hide her stomach.
But one neighbor told News 12 off-camera that he noticed she was pregnant a few months ago.
That's around the same time investigators believe Jackson's baby was born and put in a trash bag.
Coroner Thurmond Burnett says Jackson blacked out while giving birth, and when she woke up, she found a baby who wasn't breathing. Home alone and scared no one would believe her, she took it upon herself to get rid of the infant's body.
But now her secret is out--and investigators are wondering if there are other details she may be keeping in the dark.
The autopsy conducted Monday, June 26 remained inconclusive.
SLED plans to run toxicology reports on the baby's body to determine if there may be more charges pending.
Jackson is being held at the Edgefield County Jail. She's being charged with destruction or desecration of human remains and faces anywhere from one to ten years in prison.
We don't know much right now about the baby boy, but Cpl. Harter did tell News 12 that if these toxicology reports show signs of life when the child was born, they can indict Jackson on manslaughter charges.