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Okay, Allison, those are cute!
Now write one about a famous person. I know, I know, you'll be famous some day. But for now...pick someone else.
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Okay, Allison, those are cute!
Now write one about a famous person. I know, I know, you'll be famous some day. But for now...pick someone else.
Thanks for the background, Kevin!
This one's a good one.
Freeing? *giggle*
I feel like I'm supposed to hop on one foot backwards with my eyes closed instead of skipping along to the tune in my head.
I know...I know...It's good for me to try something new! *SMILE*
Here's another one for practice:
President Ronald Reagan
A lot of grief has taken
But he stood his ground with a stiff upper lipper
For the Gipper.
There you go, Yvonne! Love that last line.
I don't like having to say something in rhyme. Here's my poor attempt. Is this a forced rhyme or just bad grammar?
Richard Simmons
Is loved by the womens
Who shake their booties
Because he tells them they can be beauties
A friend of the Bridegroom
"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT
Big old Goliath
Was not quite a behemoth
David found a little rock
And gave him quite a nasty shock
Is there any rule about capitalizataion at the beginning of a line, even though it isn't a new sentence?
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot
"Cats are successful underachievers. They only need to purr in order to get free food and TLC. What other creature can lay around the house doing nothing beyond purring, and still get free food and TLC?" - Jim Aites
I am offering proof that this type of poetry is way above my head and skill level:
(I am using this first one because I am famous in my own family.)
Gerald D. Shuler
Uses a ruler
For writing in meter...
But clarihews are definately sweeter.
Doesn't rhyme with rob, but robe.
Does it matter, anyway?
He's not alive today.
Sir Lancelot
got caught
with Gweneviere.
Oh, Dear.
Or how about this for an improvement?
Sir Lancelot
surely thought he'd not get caught
but this news was a blast
that traveled fast.
I had something really memorable to write here but I forgot what it was.
Gerald Shuler
Oh, fun!! I've seen this type of poem before, but I didn't know the technical name for it. Since "pointed political commentary" was disallowed, I admirably restrained my first impulse (Let's see... what rhymes with "Obama"... or better yet, "Pelosi"?).
So here's one for my little guy:
Simon Gabriel Slider
Fears spiders.
He loves roly-polies and garden slugs–
Just don't call them "bugs."
And here's my "famous person" attempt:
Maurice Ravel
How many know him well?
His popular appeal would be quite narrow
If not for Bolero.
Carol S.
Carol S.
Okay then ...
Babe Ruth
had a bad, rotten tooth
It made him swing and miss
So he went to the dentist
Al Capone
they said, was bad to the bone
Until they found his tax
and was sentenced to the max
Albert Einstein
was not given to the wiles of white wine
But, he did like a cabernet sauvignon in the vacinity
when he was studying relativity
was best known for composin'
but few actually knew
in liked the zebras at the zoo
Dr. Suess
wanted to write about a goose
but he was stuck on a tram
and wrote about green eggs and ham
Henry C.
PS Sorry...................
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OK, the first one is for someone who is famous AROUND HERE:
Jan Worgul Ackerson
Makes her Master Class lots of fun.
I really would tip my hat
If it weren't for all those references to that darn cat.
And now for someone really famous :
William Henry Harrison
Believed in United States expansion.
But as President, Ol' Tippecanoe
Died on day thrity-two.
"When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle
things are gone." C.S. Lewis
"The chief purpose of life … is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis ... We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendor." J.R.R. Tolkien
Phee, I appreciate your stretching yourself!
This fits all of the criteria--except that it doesn't really poke fun at Richard Simmons. It's hard, because it's not in our nature to make fun of people, and we don't want to be mean...but that's the way of the clerihew.
This is awfully clever, though, and I love your Simmons/womens rhyme!
Oh great, Carol...now you've got that song in my mind...
Really clever clerihew! It's just nicer to poke fun at people who are no longer with us, don't you think?
Got any more for us?
No need to apologize, Henry...ya done good.
That's pretty painful, isn't it? I LOVE the Einstien one. See, it takes a good poet to be a deliberately bad poet.
Oh Steven, Steven, Steven...don't be disparaging my cat. She'll get angry...and you don't want to be around Miss Sophie when she's angry.
Love the Harrison clerihew, though! Even the "thrity-two".
Esther this is a really cute clerihew!
As in most non-free verse poetry, the first word of each line should be capitlaized. Great question!
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'The Walking Dead' Recap, Season 4, Episode 5, 'Internment'
Fans of "The Walking Dead": He is back.
We always knew the murderous Governor would come back. David Morrissey, who plays the malignant former leader of Woodbury, was under contract for a fourth season, so the only question was when he would appear. In the very last frame of tonight's episode, "Internment," he stands in the woods, looking at the former West Georgia Correctional Facility from a distance, sizing it up with his "one good eye." As bad as things have been for the Grimes clan, they're about to get worse.
But before that alarm, there was a full hour of gut-wrenching drama inside the prison as the deadly flu ran its course. It was a Spartan, emotionally exhausting ordeal even by this show's grim standards.
Hershel is still fighting to save the sick in cell block A, with help from Sasha and Glenn, both of whom are still fighting the flu and in dire straits themselves. Hershel's keeping people alive with his elderberry tea, IV drips, and bag-valve masks; the first one we see is called Henry. Glenn and Hershel move another prisoner, Mr. Jacobson, who's died; Hershel doesn't want the other patients to see anybody brained before they turn. "People don't need to see it," he tells Glenn, holding a Bible in his hands. "I don't want them to."
We'd wondered at the end of last season why the Grimes clan had chosen to stay at the prison rather than move to the more developed, and less depressing, town of Woodbury. It seems now that was more a choice by the writers. Imagine this season's story unfolding in exactly the same manner, but at the bucolic Woodbury. It's not the same. The gray walls, prison cells, iron bars, the gas chambers of the prison match the horrible story perfectly.
On Sunday that horrible story – of a flu that rips through the fragile community, killing scores and turning them into bleeding-from-the-eyes zombies – reaches its awful climax. As the tension mounts, as Hershel seems to be losing his lonely fight to keep the sick alive, with Sasha collapsed and Glenn coughing up blood and on the verge of death, it seems as if the prison community would actually get wiped out.
"We're gonna make it," Hershel tells Maggie at one point. "It's going to be okay," Carl tells Rick at another. It's hard to believe them in either case.
There isn't much in the way of hope, or character development, or cinematic grandeur. Most of the story takes place within the dark walls of cell block A, death row, where the sick have been herded. The irony of Hershel being "interred" in a prison block along with a dozen some-odd sick and dying, was likely not lost on the writers. Hershel – who miraculously has not gotten sick despite his proximity (and despite Dr. S's blood-sneeze last week) – is almost single-handedly keeping people alive. To be interred is to be held without trial. But for a Hershel – a man who still sees his world in religious terms, who still sees the hand of God in everything – this is his trial.
His efforts are truly heroic. Dr. S, who realizes he's past the point of recovery, brought along a couple of shotguns and shells. Luckily he shows them to Hershel. One patient runs out of his cell, into a wall, and falls dead. Hershel wheels him off on a gurney, and does what he hasn't so far had to do, plunging a knife into the dead man's skull.
Things are no better outside the cell block. Maggie is single-handedly braining the walkers along the fence line, but they're massing, and she can't do it alone. Rick returns. He tells Maggie about Carol, and she's either too exhausted or too cowed to say anything about it, and then he tells Hershel. He's too busy to do anything about it.
Outside, Rick and Maggie are trying to reinforce the outer fence with log poles. It's a losing proposition. When all hell breaks loose in the cell block, Maggie runs inside, Rick grabs Carl, and father and son are left outside to fight the walker horde that eventually overruns the fence.
Hershel finds Sasha lying on the floor in her cell, just one door down from another patient who appears to have died. Hershel drops everything to revive Sasha, which he manages. But in choosing one patient over the other (not a criticism, he had no real "choice" here), he allowed that other, nameless patient to die – and turn.
Hershel revives Sasha, who can't quite get over the fact that Hershel's selfless act of helping the sick, a nearly suicidal mission, is what saved her life. Glenn's trying to keep Henry alive, until he succumbs himself, falling to the floor coughing up blood.
That nameless walker gets loose and attacks Hershel. Another man, who was in a cell with his son, comes out to help Hershel – and gets bitten by his own undead son. Henry's dead, Glenn's on the floor. Lizzie bravely steps forward, drawing walker-Henry away from Glenn and down the corridor, the air bag still attached to his mouth. There are at least three walkers loose, and if Hershel dies it's clear everybody else dies as well.
At a few points, it really, seriously looked like everything was going to fall apart. Walkers were all over the cell block, walkers were overrunning the fence. For just a second, it really looked like Glenn had stopped breathing, and died. He hadn't, but for a second it appeared that way to us.
But, it's only episode five. Of course the prison isn't going to get overrun. Of course Hershel's going to save everybody. Of course Daryl, Michonne, Tyreese and Bob came back with the meds. But this show doesn't operate on "of course," and it's a credit to writer Channing Powell and director David Boyd that could they could bring us so close to believing that this whole thing could fall apart in only the fifth week.
Order is finally restored. Hershel is relieved. Maggie tells him to go lay down. He wanders off to an empty cell, almost too exhausted to walk, and plops down on a cot. And then he breaks down and cries, uncontrollably, and we are sure he was not the only person in America who did so. We're not sure television is supposed to be this emotionally exhausting.
"I still think there's a plan, I still think there's a reason," Hershel told Rick while he was still in the cell block. Or maybe a trial. We use the word apocalypse often in these recaps, and of course that's a word that comes to us from the Bible. It's not hard, we reckon, to actually see this entire show within that context, and to see the extreme challenges before these characters as trials from the Almighty, part of the final showdown between good and evil. The only thing missing is the devil himself.
Then he shows up, standing in the woods outside the prison and looking in, malice and rancor in his heart.

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PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances, angles and colors in any app on the screen.
PhotoShop has distance, angle and color tools but they only work in PhotoShop. PixelStick works in any app and anywhere on screen anytime and costs a hundred times less. Excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a distance on their screen in any window or application.
PixelStick is a measuring tool you can pinch and stretch to measure anything on your screen. Use the eyedropper to copy colors in 4 formats (CSS, RGB, RGB hex, HTML) to the clipboard for use in any app.
Its like an onscreen virtual ruler that you can use vertically, horizontally and at any angle to measure distances, angles and much more just by dragging.
Supports the scaling in Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Photoshop. Also has Customized (user settable) scaling options.
Most of what PixelStick does is obvious. Drag the endpoints to change the measurement. Click the locks to constrain the movement. Launch it, play around, no more limitations to just one app in measuring distance, angle and color.
PixelStick is a measuring tool you can pinch and stretch to measure anything on your screen.
PixelStick is totally intuitive and works exactly like what you would hope for. PixelStick sits in the frontmost position on the screen. Drag the endpoints to change the measurement. Click the locks to constrain the movement. Drag to change the angle. See the changes and info in the small on screen info panel.
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Pretty rare to see an application which works as quickly and cleanly as this one. Very impressed!
Very nice. The scaling feature for measuring miles in Google Maps, etc. is fun - don't know how useful it is, but it's a neat idea. The rest is very compact and does just what it's supposed to. The fact that it can be always on top is excellent.
Very nice little app for web development and other graphic create/modification.
If you need a lot more features you'll want to check out Free Ruler, but I prefer PixelStick for almore everything.


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This was my entry for the Film Reel Contest. I figured, why not throw it up here for a Thursday Theater. Thanks to everyone who threw down! And to Nigel Barros and Andrew Burke for helping with second angles!
Also, Congrats to Mitch and everyone in the top 6!
List of skaters (in order of appearance)
Tyson Reynolds
Jimmy Yan
Mikey Burton
Thomas Bell
Steven Farmer
Sean Holboke
Willis Kimble
Michael Davis
Peter McClelland
Johnny Turgeson (*sighs* I know I spelled his name wrong in the credits)
Mason Huggins
Cody Lockwood
Mikey Calcagno
Berkeley Anderson
Kevin Ketchum
Steven Reeves
Alex Lawer
Jared Bard
Daniel Holloway
Trevor Ward
Paris Coleman
Erik Billups
Filmed on JVC-HD7, Canon HV30 with 43MM Century Baby Death, and a preproduction Panasonic HMC40 in Portland, OR.
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SAN JOSE -- One of the nation's top basketball prospects sat on the carpeted staircase of his home, staring at his cellphone. Aaron Gordon scrolled through voice mails and text messages.
Kansas coach Bill Self had tried to reach him. So did a Kentucky assistant. The phone buzzes softly. It's a coach from Arizona.
"Lorenzo called me today," said Shelly Davis Gordon, his mother, referring to Washington coach Lorenzo Romar. "He said, 'Aaron's not taking my calls' and wanted to know what was up."
Aaron glanced up with a weary expression.
"I'm taking a phone break today," he said.
Gordon, depending on which recruiting expert you believe, is either the sixth- or seventh-best high school player in the country. At 6 feet 8, he is a combination of size, skill and will to win. He is expected to someday draw an NBA paycheck.
Colleges want Gordon -- badly. Perhaps the best player to ever emerge from the South Bay, he has powered Archbishop Mitty to two consecutive state Division II titles. He helped his AAU team, the Oakland Soldiers, to a title in the prestigious Nike Peach Jam tournament in July. YouTube features highlight reels of his rim-rattling dunks.
Add in his polished demeanor and ready smile, and it's easy to understand why about 50 leading college basketball programs expressed interest.
"Wherever we go, everybody is talking about Aaron," said Mark Olivier, the Oakland Soldiers executive director. "But the great thing about Aaron is he doesn't care about all the attention. The kid he was in the sixth grade is the same kid he is now. He's humble, and that's pretty unique for someone who is such an elite player."
Kentucky calling
As his Mitty classmates have polished college application essays, Aaron has been besieged by universities begging him to come to their school. While he gave consideration to Cal, he has pared his choices, in no particular order, to: Kansas, Oregon, Arizona, Washington and defending national champion Kentucky.
"It's pretty strange when you step back and think about it," his mother said. "It's a weird way to grow up. He just turned 17 and yet everything about his life is so public."
John Calipari, the man known as "Coach Cal" who has made Kentucky the country's hottest program, came to the Gordon home and posed for photos with neighborhood kids. Schools do their best to impress Aaron on recruiting visits. Reporters want to know if he's "leaning" anywhere and fans speculate about his future on social media.
While that may seem glamorous, it's also exhausting for the whole family.
"Playing basketball is fun, and that's what gets you to this point," Gordon said. "But the actual recruiting is not fun. A lot of people want to put their hands on my decision. But it's not theirs. It's mine."
Added Gordon's father, Ed: "We're certainly not rushing him. But yes, we're ready to have this be over."
Programs apply the full-court press on rare teenagers like Gordon because major-college athletics is big business. An elite player can mean more victories, which translates into increased revenue through NCAA Tournament berths, exposure and increased merchandise and ticket sales.
That explains all the envelopes of letters from colleges that are stapled along the walls of his bedroom.
Many were never opened.
"At first it was cool because I thought, 'All these schools know who I am,' " said Gordon, who started receiving them as a sophomore. "But they always say the same thing. 'Congratulations on your basketball success. We think of you as a highly recruited and talented player. We would like you to think about such-and-such school.' "
Hard to say no
The Gordons are a basketball family. Father Ed, a math and physical education teacher at Sylvandale Middle School, played at San Diego State in the early 1980s. Oldest son Drew is playing professionally in Serbia after not being selected in the June NBA draft. Daughter Elise is on the Harvard team.
Mother Shelly, a senior technical manager with the semiconductor company Altera, jokes that she played "in the computer lab." But she has the key role in helping Aaron navigate the process after learning from Drew's experience.
"We allowed that to become an absolute circus," she said. "We had a hard time saying no. So there were days when they were lining up chairs in the Mitty gym because there were so many college coaches there to watch practice."
Drew signed with UCLA, but he clashed with coach Ben Howland. He transferred to New Mexico and led the Lobos to the NCAA Tournament.
"We've seen the best of it and the worst of it," Shelly said. "We listen to what the coaches tell us, but the reality is they're going to do what they want with your kid."
Aaron tries not to be dazzled by the glitz.
"You can kind of tell when someone almost sounds like a car salesman," he said. "You're always going to hear a coach say, 'This is the best school for you and you should come here.' You listen to hear if they really know me as a player."
Gordon, who has a 2.9 grade-point average, wants to play one year in college -- or two at the most -- and then jump to the NBA, with the intent of going back to finish his degree.
"Maybe it is kind of naive of me to say that academics really doesn't factor in all that much," he said, "but I want to play basketball for my career."
In recent weeks, as other leading recruits have chosen schools, speculation about Gordon's decision has become an obsession.
No decision yet
Some see him a lock for Washington because Ed grew up in the same Los Angeles neighborhood as Romar, the Huskies coach. Others believe Arizona has the edge with two former Soldiers already there. Or Kentucky is a sure thing because of Calipari's knack for producing NBA players.
"You would think people are living under our kitchen table with everything you read," Shelly said.
Here's the reality: Aaron just doesn't know yet.
"I start the day waking up and thinking about one school as a front-runner," he said. "And then through the course of the day I'll talk to friends and people who I respect, and chances are my rankings will change."
Although he can sign a letter of intent starting Nov. 14, when a weeklong window opens, he plans to make colleges wait as he takes more time. His last college visit is Nov. 9 to 11, at Kentucky, and his mother wonders if he might decide sooner.
For now, his sanctuary from the sales pitches is the court. He can't hear his phone when he's playing.
Back home, though, he was shaking his head at that cellphone. He ignored an incoming call.
"No, I just can't take that right now," he said quietly. "Just can't."
Contact Mark Emmons at 408-920-5745.
Here's Aaron Gordon's recruiting process.
Oakland Soldiers AAU executive director Mark Olivier says about 50 colleges actively tried to recruit Gordon.
Gordon reduced his five final choices this summer to: Arizona, Oregon, Kansas, Kentucky and Washington.
Among the other schools he had strongly considered: Cal and Stanford.
Two colleges that made late, futile attempts to court Gordon: North Carolina and Syracuse.
The one-week window to sign a national letter of intent opens Nov. 14. But Gordon has indicated that he is in no hurry to make a decision, which means while he could make an oral commitment at any time. He would not be able to sign a binding letter until April.


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"Neighborhood Watch" took on a new meaning this week after San Jose's Julian St. James neighborhood started sharing emails about a thief they've dubbed "The Midnight Shopper." The well-dressed desperado has sticky fingers, and apparently a green thumb -- he's been seen on home surveillance videos walking away with potted plants from a house porch in the middle of the night.
Has it really come to the point where we're stealing plants?
Some people on the email list suspect the bandit -- who on video wears a hat and appears middle-aged -- has ripped them off, too. And they're understandably concerned that someone brazen enough to swipe a plant off a lighted porch might represent a bigger threat.
But the really impressive thing was the way the neighborhood, led by Joe Pambianco, used technology -- cameras and an email list -- to get out the word (and their story was picked up by NBC Bay Area's Kris Sanchez on Monday night). And with that kind of visibility, it probably means the five-finger discounts are through for the "Midnight Shopper."
WINNING PERFORMANCE: Valley Christian High School's trip "Into the Woods" this year resulted in four big awards at the California High School Musical Honors, co-hosted by Broadway San Jose and Children's Musical Theater on Monday night at the Center for the Performing Arts.
The San Jose school's production of the fairy-tale musical, directed by Matt DeMeritt, received the award for Best Overall Production. Valley Christian performers Tyler Reynolds and Abby McLachlan received awards for Outstanding Actor and Actress, respectively, and will represent the region for the national Jimmy Awards in New York City next month. They'll also take part in a weeklong intensive workshop on Broadway.
Alexis Garrett, also from Valley Christian, received the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress. The Supporting Actor award went to Scott Serrato of St. Ignatius Prep of San Francisco, and a fan-favorite award was presented to Marin School of the Arts in Novato.
HELPING HANDS: Among the 80 student athletes honored Monday night at Cal-Hi Sports Awards Banquet were five who, in addition to their success on the playing field, showed a prowess for outstanding community service.
Jackson Pellegrini of Leigh High School received the Lexus Volunteer Scholarship Awards grand prize of $5,000 at the event, which was held at EA. Sports in Redwood City and hosted by Robert Braunstein.
The other volunteer scholarships, sponsored by Lexus of Stevens Creek, went to Natalie Lemire of Saratoga High School; Caitlin Stuewe of Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton; Alex Manu of Aragon High School; and Mariah Roasa of Mountain View Academy. A total of $34,000 in scholarships were awarded at the banquet, which was attended by more than 400 people.
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Kim Jong Un Shown Limping on North Korean TV
Speculation over the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un picked up on Tuesday after he was shown limping on state television.
Mr. Kim appeared to have difficulty walking as he entered a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of his grandfather and North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung.
South Korea media often analyzes Mr. Kim's health, including his recent apparent weight gain and heavy smoking habit.
Another point of interest has been what looks like a scar on his forehead. He's rumored to have had plastic surgery to make himself look more like his grandfather, who continues to be revered in North Korea.
Mr. Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, was also shown walking with a limp after he reappeared in public view in August 2008 after suffering what was thought to be a stroke. He died in December 2011, aged 69.
Kim Il Sung suffered from heart disease before he died at age 82.
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5 with appeal: Nov. 23
Published: Friday, November 23, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 1:19 p.m.
1. Downtown Hendersonville's Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony takes place today from 5 to 8 p.m. in front of the Historic Courthouse on Main Street. Ring in the holiday season with festive music, holiday lights and that Jolly Old Elf.
2. The Henderson County Curb Market will host its annual Ole Timey Christmas celebration from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday. The curb market, at 221 N. Church St. in downtown Hendersonville, will offer Christmas wreaths, fresh greenery, crafts, demonstrations, music and refreshments. For information, call 828-692-8012 or visit www.curbmarket.com.
3. The eighth annual Hendersonville Messiah Sing is set for Sunday at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St. Vocalists will assemble at 2 p.m. for instructions, and the reading will last from 3 to 4 p.m. Participants must bring their own sheet music and paper clips. Admission is free; donations will go to Interfaith Assistance Ministry. Info: 828-693-3081.
4. Chase Brock's interpretation of "The Nutcracker" — with Appalachian influences — debuts Wednesday at Flat Rock Playhouse. Performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Dec. 1 and 2 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Dec. 1-2 at the Mainstage, 2661 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. Tickets are $40, with discounts for senior citizens and students. For information, call 828-693-0731 or 866-732-8008 or visit www.flatrockplayhouse.org.
5. Pardee Hospital, Pardee Hospital Foundation and the Flat Rock Playhouse are hosting their first Festival of Trees to benefit community charities. Local businesses have been invited to purchase and decorate trees to be displayed in the lobby of the Playhouse Downtown. Proceeds from a silent auction of the trees will go to benefit a charity of the sponsor's choice. The trees will be on display today through Dec. 9, and the auction winners will be announced during the Sunday matinee of "A Celtic Christmas" on Dec. 9.
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BRECKENRIDGE - With less than two months left until Election Day, both political parties are firing on all cylinders in Summit County, and this week, Breckenridge became the battleground.
The Summit County GOP opened a new field office - its first in recent memory - on Main Street Wednesday afternoon, beating the Obama campaign to the punch, although the Democratic party does have a headquarters in Silverthorne.
The offices serve as community outreach hubs for their respective parties, and indicate the growing momentum of the race in Summit County.
"Game on," said Summit County Commissioner Dan Gibbs, a Democrat.
Although unaffiliated voters outnumber both Democrats and Republicans almost two to one, Summit County has long leaned to the left when it comes to election results.
But this year the local GOP seems to be preparing to make a stand in November, increasing activities and visibility across the county through the election season.
"I do think that the Republicans are a little more energized," GOP voter and Breckenridge resident Eric Buck said. "The focus is to pick up those unaffiliateds. You've got those who've made up their minds and it's a matter now of getting those swing votes that will make the difference."
Local Republican officials are countering the Democrats' campaign work - currently centered at Obama's first office in Silverthorne - with events and offices of their own.
The new GOP election headquarters - a space on North Main Street, hung with party slogans and candidate signs - will host the Romney campaign bus on Sunday morning and ongoing socials, meet-and-greets and other events in the coming weeks.
Summit County Democrats, on the other hand, hold the upper hand when it comes to numbers, making up 27 percent of registered voters this year, up from 24 percent in 2008. Meanwhile, local Democrats say their enthusiasm for the president hasn't waned in the last four years.
"I think Summit County, at least in my sphere of observation, is Democratic," former Breckenridge councilman and Democrat Jeffrey Bergeron said. "The convention, if anything, just made us more enthused. There's a lot of political involvement in Summit County. Those of us that have the time and money give both, and those that have one or the other give what they can."
The increasing political action in Summit County has been warmly received by voters on both sides, who say it's healthy.
Both parties have strong local representation in regional and statewide races.
Breckenridge Democrat Emily Tracy will face off against GOP candidate Randy Baumgardner, of Hot Sulpher Springs, for the state Senate District 8 seat.
The race for state House District 61 will pit Breckenridge Republican Debra Irvine against Rep. Millie Hamner, a Democrat from Dillon, as well as two non-local third- party candidates.
Local deputy district attorney Scott Turner, a Republican, is challenging Evergreen Democrat Bruce Brown for the top prosecutor job for the 5th Judicial District. Brown also lived in Summit County in the past.


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BCTV took a look at the latest CVRD Eco Depot Advenures and you have to wonder why actually working with the community is such a difficult concept for the CVRD politicans to grasp?
Cobble Hill community activst Dara Quast and Shawnigan CVRD Director Bruce Fraser offer their take on the latest CVRD manouvers designed to allow the fast sale of the Eco Depot properties.
The CVRD would have an easier time of it and spend a helluva lot less of our money if they would just do it straight. It is when they try to bullshit the
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— Governments in nine states have awarded at least $49 million in subsidies in the past five years to gun and ammunition makers whose products are under scrutiny after the school shootings in Newtown.
Almost 85 percent of those tax breaks or grants have gone to two companies: Olin Corporation, the Clayton, Mo.-based maker of Winchester-brand bullets and shotgun shells, and a unit of Freedom Group, the Madison, N.C.-based company that produces the rifle used in the Dec. 14 killing of 20 children and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The subsidies from state and local governments are attracting attention after high-profile mass killings last year, which also included a shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater that killed 12 in July. Lawmakers and gun control advocates are pressing to stop aid for weapons manufacturing, saying it does little to create new jobs and isn't worth the social costs.
"Sometimes our moral compass gets spinning and we don't care who we give incentives to or what the unintended consequences are," said Kentucky state Rep. Jim Wayne, a Democrat whose state approved $4.8 million in tax breaks in the past five years for Freedom Group's Remington Arms Company unit. "We have to be very serious about whether we want to attract these kinds of jobs into our state that actually further a culture of violence."
Governments in Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire and New York approved the subsidies to lure jobs from other states or to keep companies from moving, according to public records. The incentives were aimed at protecting or attracting more than 2,800 jobs, and for companies to train 500 workers. Lawmakers said they hoped more jobs would follow.
The subsidies aren't unique to the weapons industry, as governments around the country routinely offer aid for jobs.
"Incentives help businesses expand and grow and stay healthy," said Joe Holmes, director of marketing for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, which has approved tax credits for Remington's ammunition plant near Little Rock.
Lawmakers are taking another look at the subsidies as gunmakers and their advocates, including the National Rifle Association, prepare to battle state and federal proposals to restrict sales of some products.
President Barack Obama has promised to push efforts to control gun violence early in his second term and asked Vice President Joe Biden to develop proposals. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Tuesday he would introduce legislation to require background checks for anyone buying large quantities of ammunition.
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer for the National Rifle Association, has said Congress should respond to the shootings by paying for armed guards in public schools.
Advocacy groups, including the Second Amendment Foundation, based in Bellevue, Wash., plan a gun appreciation day on Jan. 19 to protest calls for new restrictions. The organizations are asking Americans to line up at gun shows, stores and firing ranges.
In New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to broaden the state's ban on certain rifles and become the first state to respond to the Newtown shootings, Remington has been awarded $6.6 million in incentives since 1999, according to New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, which obtained the information from the state through open records requests.
That includes $2.4 million in 2010 for plant upgrades and equipment to shift production away from Connecticut and bring 78 jobs to the state, according to the Empire State Development Corp.
Remington helped defeat legislation in New York that would have required manufacturers of semiautomatic weapons to include microstamping technology in firearms, said New York Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, a Democrat from Nassau County. The technology, which gunmakers oppose as too costly, stamps a code on shell casings to help law enforcement identify weapons used in crimes.
Subsidies for gunmakers should be reconsidered if the industry continues to fight measures sought by law enforcement, Schimel said.
"As long as they say no to any sensible gun regulation, I'd say no" to subsidies, Schimel said.
Ted Novin, director of public affairs for Freedom Group, didn't respond to telephone messages seeking comment on the subsidies.
In Mississippi, Olin received $31 million in subsidies from state and local governments in 2011 after agreeing to relocate jobs from Illinois. Olin built a Winchester ammunition plant in Oxford that the company said would employ about 1,000 people, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The aid came after Illinois offered incentives to keep the manufacturing jobs.
"This has been a great thing for the city of Oxford," Mayor George Patterson said. "We're proud of our association with Winchester and it's provided some great jobs. Winchester was — and continues to be — welcome in our community."
Larry Kromidas, a spokesman for Olin, didn't respond to a message left with his office or an email seeking comment on the subsidies.
State tax incentives generally don't add jobs to the U.S. economy, said Joseph Henchman, who follows state policy for the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research group based in Washington.
"For the most part, these are understood as moving jobs around the country instead of creating jobs — and they may not even be doing that," Henchman said. "It's rare that businesses look only at the incentives when deciding where to locate."
In addition to subsidies, Idaho and Montana have created economic development programs that advertise pro-gun laws. The Montana program has helped three gun companies open, said Republican state Sen. Ryan Zinke, a director of the Montana Firearms Association, which markets the state's strong gun culture and non-union labor force.
"We may not be taking companies away from the East," Zinke said. "We have managed to take away market share."
Pro-gun activists have told state lawmakers that companies might relocate jobs if new firearms restrictions are approved. In Connecticut, lawmakers didn't vote on a proposal two years ago that would have banned the 30-round ammunition magazine used in the school shooting after Jake McGuigan, government-relations director for the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, lobbied against the bill by referring to recruiting efforts from Idaho, Virginia and North Carolina.
One of the companies that fought that ban was Smith & Wesson Holding Corp., a Springfield, Mass.-based gun manufacturer that, in the year ending April 2011, was awarded at least $6.5 million in tax incentives from Massachusetts and Springfield, its home for more than 100 years.
Smith & Wesson used the money to shift a production line from New Hampshire, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Elizabeth Sharp, vice president of investor relations at Smith & Wesson, didn't respond to telephone messages or email seeking comment.
In Florida, Republican Gov. Rick Scott hailed an incentive for the West Hartford, Conn.-based Colt Manufacturing Co. in 2011, saying it showed the state was "a defender of our right to bear arms." The deal, for 63 jobs, was worth about $1.66 million in state and local incentives, according to Enterprise Florida, the state's economic development arm. The agreement penalizes the company $50,000 if it doesn't produce all the jobs.
Frank Attkisson, a commissioner in Osceola County, which provided incentives, said it was a "sweetheart deal" for Colt and that the county would put tougher controls on future subsidies.
Florida state Sen. Nancy Detert, the Republican chairwoman of the legislature's Commerce Committee, said she's crafting legislation to make it more difficult to provide incentives for companies that don't specialize in science and technology. She said she doesn't want Florida to be known for gun manufacturing.
"We need to be a lot more careful and decide what kind of state we envision," Detert said.


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Understandably overlooked due to the shining supernovae of 6-18-94 UIC the night before, and the stunning Quasar 6-22-94 after (Not forgetting the 6-21 fire alarm show either!), it's time this one gets it's due here on PHiSH.net.
Start a show in Kalamazoo Michigan with a moan of feedback into Suzy Greenberg and what happens? People get excited. And by people I mean college kids from Ann Arbor, South Bend, Chicago, Champaign, NY PA and VT... let's just say I can hear Ellis Dee in the audience. The recording I pulled from the "spreadsheet" is a FINE A plus AUD by Jeff Jordan (Dankseed Certification received 2002-03-11), and has fidelity down to the PA subs thanks to his AKG 460b ck61>AKG B-18 Phantom Power>Sony D-10 Pro II setup.
Suzy gives way to a SMOKING early Julius. The song had been in rotation for a month and a half, and it already is punching holes in the walls of the venue. 2 songs in and I'm getting winded. A nice relaxing yet inspired Lizards is needed before the Axilla II starts doing the Mike Tyson thing again. A heavier Axilla there ain't.
The Curtain gives everyone another chance to chill and contemplate the band's finesse and compositional complexity. Everything here is tight, precise, and almost eerily perfect. This Spring->Summer '94 run was great from the start, but from 6-11 Red Rocks on, something almost stupid good went down with this outfit. Listen to ANY June '94 show, find a YouTube video (6-21 DWD for ex.) and you can hear and see something has a grip on the band - especially Trey A - who seems to be just tripping about the level of performance they have attained, and audience acceptance of his dreams and fantasies.
Fast Enough For You. The early jaded vets said "pop song sellout" but before I heard then I fell in love with this song. I love Trey ballads. And I LOVE the outro guitar part of FEFY. This one from Kalamazoo is my FAVORITE. The raw, immediate intensity of this recoding brings a deep multi-dimensional quality to these songs. Follow up the ballad with Gordon's whacked masterpiece Scent Of A Mule so nobody gets too comfortable. This Mule smells flawless. The Mule Duel is a hoot, as they had yet to play it out of their systems. Trey conveys amusement and playfulness without any overacting as the duel begins. The level of play all through this show is electrifying.
Stash is just typically kickass here, with a dense jam that's not particularly long or extreme, but it has a slick transition back to the MSMN ending as most Stash's from this era do. Golgi closes set 1.
Set II begins with Faht (what?) No, FAHT. By Greesy Fizeek. Something I prefer to let be mysterious and indescribable, thankyaverymuch.
But THEN - then comes my favorite part of this concert; Run Like A *$#&@! Antelope. The raw, in-your-face sound of the recording puts me in the room with these people who are making whoops and screams of acid mayhem as the Antelope intro bounces and gallops along. When the full band hits, I get gooseflesh. Fish pounds frantically, Trey grinds and stirs an ascending series of riffs, Page hammers out insane comping, and all four members are playing lead simultaneously as this builds to a place where Trey can surf to the top and wait for this mother to break. There are more upshifts than a semi-truck here before the quadruple-time insanity of this wave hits the Rye-Rye-Rocco beach. My head is spinning and I was not even AT this show. This is fuck-me-silly PHiSH and I love it.
At this point, I'll say that there is a FINE Reba after the If I Could cool-down that follows Antelope. Listen for the "Ooooooohhhh Yeeeeeaaahhh" from a guy in the audience as The Reba Chill gets underway and you may get a sense of the psychedelic soaking I hear in the audience.
Makisupa, Coil, and an unamped MSO with a nice audience sing-along leave us with Highway to Hell to end the set. The encore cheers lead to people yelling FREE BIRD! so I assume there was a single mic stand set up. And that's what they got: Acapella Free Bird. Start with Suzy and end with Skynyrd. Not your typical Sunday night in Kalamazoo.


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22.11.2012 - BASF plans to expand its leading position in the market for omega-3 fatty acids with an takeover of Norwegian Pronova Biopharma.
On November 21, the world's largest chemical company in the world announced it has reached an agreement with Pronova BioPharma ASA's Board of Directors to make a recommended voluntary public takeover offer. Under the terms of the agreement, BASF is to pay NOK 12.50 (€1,70) in cash for each Pronova share, valuating the Lysaker-based specialist at NOK4.8bn (€664m).
With the acquisition of Pronova, BASF would immediately achieve a leading position in the growing market for omega-3 fatty acids. BASF said it has already obtained irrevocable pre-acceptance commitments for approximately 60% of Pronova's share capital; including the 50.0% stake held by majority shareholders Herkules Private Equity Fund, an approximate 9.1% stake, indirectly controlled by investment firms Kistefos AS and Kistefos Investment AS, with 0.3% held by members of the Board of Directors and management of Pronova.
The offer corresponds to a premium of 24% above the volume-weighted average share price for Pronova's shares in the six months prior to announcement of the public takeover offer.
"The intended acquisition will significantly strengthen our position in the fast growing and highly profitable market for omega-3 fatty acids. We want to combine the global market reach and experience of BASF with the know-how of Pronova in omega-3 fatty acids," said Michael Heinz, Member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE and responsible for the Performance Products segment, which includes the Nutrition & Health division.
Pronova's active pharmaceutical ingredients are used to treat cardiovascular diseases such as post-myocardial infarction. In nutritional applications, including dietary supplements, there is a strong body of evidence supporting a broad range of positive health benefits through omega-3 fatty acids, for example, in the areas of cognitive development or heart health.
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*This was quite a strange version of Guelah. Page and Trey kind missed the cue for the Asse Festival, and then Trey's guitar completely shit the bed. So they stopped Guelah, and Trey said "Thank you, thank you.... we're gonna do a vocal number now since my guitar is fucked up". It was pretty funny.
**This Possum had the "wait" business in the beginning. They were doing the standard lead in, and then they just started playing these weird chords and saying "wait". The crowd got into it, and it went on for about 5 minutes before they finally went into Possum
All in all it was a great show! The crowd was pretty crazy... A number of peo- ple jumped up on stage and Peter had to escort them off. There was free chips, lemonade, and BEER! Can you believe that? 7 kegs they got! Whew!


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Published: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 6:27 p.m.
Lucas Cain Christopher, a 19-year-old graduate of West Henderson High, died in a car crash Saturday morning after Troopers say he lost control of his car on Newfound Road in Leicester.
State Highway Patrol Trooper B.N. Burnette found Christopher's 2002 Mazda flipped on the roadside, nearly 0.3 miles west of Hookers Gap at around 4 a.m. He suspects Christopher, who was traveling east on Newfound Road, went left of center, overcorrected and ran off of the road.
Christopher's car then struck a utility pole and "overturned several times," ejecting him from the vehicle, Burnette said.
Troopers suspect Christopher may not have been wearing his seatbelt and that speed may have been a factor. Burnette estimated Christopher was traveling about 70 mph before impact. The speed limit on that stretch of Newfound Road is 55 mph.
Christopher was a student at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
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July 20, 2013
DOWN: To U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., for turning his back on his state by voting for President Barack Obama's appointment to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy....
Thumbs Up, To Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, along with Congressman Nick Rahall (all Demarcates), for the $3,657,708 in federal funding to help prevent and end veteran homelessness in West Virginia.
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What's a Demarcate? When did they add a day to June?
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Thumbs Down, On Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman David Mckinley, (both republicans) for voting, yet again, on repealing "Obamacare" Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. If they couldn't vote on this bill over and over again, they would have no need to be in Washington at all, now would they?
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"Random" thought: Sharon Buzzard has not retired b/c June 31st hasn't arrived yet.
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As to "Demarcates", you'll have to forgive Random & me, we're still using laptop computers instead of smartphones w/ tiny screens & tiny keyboards. I'm trying to figure out a way to appear intelligent like the cellphone posters. Should I zoom out until I can barely read the text; or zoom in until half the Comment box fills the entire screen; or cut a hole in a piece of cardboard & tape it over the screen?
& of course wear gloves while typing on my full-size ergonomic keyboard.
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I wonder if we could defund the republican controlled House of Representatives? They have attempt to repeal the same law 38 times! And Id say its safe to say that, that's a waste of time and the tax payer's money. Now wouldn't you?
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I thought the Demarcates just added June 31st somewhere in the Obamacare act and we haven't found it yet.
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All funding bills commence in the House. UBSOL.
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Take your thumbs, turn them sideways, stick them in your ears, wiggle your fingers and look in the mirror. That's a Demarcate looking back.
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You know what there "RANDOM21" ever time I look in the mirror I see a Democrat and I like what I see too. So I'll have to give myself a big Thumbs Up. How about you?
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Demarcates are like vampires, never have seen the reflection of one in any of my mirrors. Nice try, oh narcissistic one.
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Real classing, Ran Dunb.
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RD: If you are going to try to insult, outwit someone, please try to at least spell to where it can be understood. In a battle of wits, you are unarmed.
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OAKLAND -- One year ago, Oakland's high-profile new police consultant said the city's beleaguered Police Department was essentially a lost cause. Now he calls it "a very interesting challenge."
William Bratton, who gained notoriety for reducing crime as the police chief in New York City and Los Angeles, will soon step foot in Oakland for the first time in about a decade to help deal with a crime wave that is moving into its third year.
"No one is denying there is a crisis in your city," Bratton said Friday from his office in Manhattan. "The good news is that out of crises, you get opportunities."
The Oakland Police Department has spiraled from one crisis to another this year. It faces unprecedented federal oversight for not following through with court-ordered reform. And officers have been faulted both for being too aggressive in policing protests and for not being aggressive enough fighting crime in a city that averages more than 11 robberies and 33 burglaries a day.
Morale is low, officers say, and so is staffing. Oakland has lost more than one-quarter of its force in the past four years.
"Let's face it," Bratton said. "In Oakland, unfortunately, you have a very small police force and a very large set of problems."
Assuming the City Council approves a $250,000 contract, Bratton will arrive in February as part of a team that will include former Hartford, Conn., police Chief Patrick Harnett, as well as longtime police consultants Robert Wasserman and William Andrews. Harnett and Andrews did an assessment of Oakland's police force in 2006, and they are working with Bratton as consultants in Detroit.
Between them, the consultants will spend about 40 to 50 days in Oakland, said Bratton, who last month stepped down as head of a private risk management firm. He expected his team to do consulting work for about five cities this year.
The initial work will focus on CompStat, the data management and crime-tracking system Bratton developed and Oakland recently adopted. The larger project will focus on helping police design and implement a comprehensive crime-reduction strategy.
Bratton is best known for having his officers target smaller quality of life offenses and giving them relatively wide latitude to stop and search suspects. Neither tactic has been used in Oakland where staffing shortages make it hard to prioritize minor crimes and the Police Department is under intense scrutiny from a federal judge about how it deals with suspects.
Bratton acknowledged that the so-called stop-and-frisk tactic is "an issue in your city," but defended the practice as a basic tool of policing. "The challenge is to make sure they're doing it lawfully and compassionately," he said. "It can't just be in certain areas of the city."
Bratton said the crime-reduction strategies will include input from all stakeholders including a soon-to-be-appointed court officer who will have expansive powers over the department to ram through unmet reform goals.
"We won't be operating in a vacuum," Bratton said. "The idea is to be a significant part of that collaboration."
When he told The Wall Street Journal last year that he saw little hope for Oakland police, he cited the abundance of outside oversight and the lack of officers and support from city leaders.
Despite recent clashes on the council over youth curfews and gang injunctions, Bratton said he now sees a city that is coming together to fight crime.
"One of the reasons I opted to accept this assignment is that crime is a unifying force for your leadership," he said. "That's the good news. When you can get that level of cooperation and agreement around an issue, you can do many good things."
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.


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March 31, 2004
Minnesota and Wisconsin Seek 300 Megawatts of Renewable Power
The Midwest may soon experience a renewable energy boom, thanks to the efforts of utilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Minnesota's Great River Energy—the state's second largest electric utility—requested bids for 200 megawatts of power from renewable energy resources in early March. The utility intends to draw on solar, wind, or biomass projects up to 100 megawatts in capacity, and hydropower projects of less than 60 megawatts in capacity. Responses are due by the end of April. In Wisconsin, Alliant Energy Corporation's Wisconsin Power and Light is seeking bids to add 100 megawatts of wind power in 2005. However, the utility does not plan on proceeding with the wind projects unless Congress extends the renewable energy production tax credit (the credit expired at the end of last year). Bids are due by May 28th. See the press releases from Great River Energy and Alliant Energy.


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Junior guard Mudi Eruteya of the S&T men's basketball team was named Tuesday to the Great Lakes Valley Conference's all-league team for the recently completed 2012-13 season, becoming the second Miner to land a spot on the All-GLVC squad since S&T became a member in 2005.
Eruteya is the first Miner to garner a spot on one of the GLVC's top teams, which has consisted of either two or three teams since the Miners joined the conference. The only other Miner prior to Eruteya to be honored by the GLVC at the close of a season was Carlton Westbrook, who was selected to the league's all-defensive team last year.
During the season, Eruteya led the Miners in several statistical categories that included the scoring and rebounding columns. He averaged 13.6 points per game, which ranked among the top 20 in the GLVC and was fourth in the conference in rebounding with 7.5 boards per game. In addition, he finished with a team-high 87 assists, good for sixth in the league and 40 steals.
Eruteya racked up seven double-doubles during the season as well, tying the second-most in the conference and hit two game-winning three-point shots during the course of the season, one in an exhibition victory over Western Illinois and the other at the buzzer to beat Westminster in late November. He reached double figures in the point column 19 times, which included S&T's final nine games of the year.
Missouri S&T finished the season with a record of 7-18 and was 3-15 in the GLVC.
The 2012-13 All-GLVC men's basketball team:
First Team
Chris Dowe, Sr., Bellarmine
Vance Hall, Jr., Bellarmine
Brandon Lockhart, Sr., Drury
Alex Hall, Sr., Drury
Dazmond Starke, Sr., Kentucky Wesleyan
Ryan Jackson, So., Lewis
Asa Toney, Jr., Maryville
Chris Babbitt, Jr., Quincy
Keith DeWitt, Sr., Southern Indiana
Jeremy Saffold, Sr., Wisconsin-Parkside
Dillon Deck, So., William Jewell
Second Team
Kyle Gupton, Sr., Illinois Springfield
Reece Cheatham, Jr., Indianapolis
James Hollowell, Sr., Indianapolis
David Bryant, Sr., Lewis
Armon Provo, So., Maryville
John Steppe, Sr., McKendree
Mudi Eruteya, Jr., Missouri S&T
Darian Cartharn, Jr., Missouri-St. Louis
Joshua McCoy, Sr., Missouri-St. Louis
Tyler Thompson, Sr., Quincy
Brandon McCann, Jr., Rockhurst
Zygimantas Riauka, So., Wisconsin-Parkside
Colt Grandstaff, Jr., Wisconsin-Parkside
Orlando Rutledge, Jr., Southern Indiana
All-Defensive Team
Cameron Adams, So., Drury
Ian Carter, Jr., Drury
Brandon Lockhart, Sr., Drury
West Dawson, Sr., Illinois Springfield
Page 2 of 2 - Daniel Daudu, Jr., Indianapolis
Tyrae Robinson, Jr., Indianapolis
Dominique Dawson, Jr., Kentucky Wesleyan
Julian Lewis, So., Lewis
Gerald Shaw, Sr., Maryville
Chris Babbitt, Jr., Quincy
Keith DeWitt, Sr., Southern Indiana
Kenyon Smith, Sr., Southern Indiana
Zygimantas Riauka, So., Wisconsin-Parkside
Player of the Year: Jeremy Saffold, Wisconsin-Parkside
Freshmen of the Year: Lucas Barker, Kentucky Wesleyan & Andy Mazurczak, Wisconsin-Parkside
Coach of the Year: Luke Reigel, Wisconsin-Parkside
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Remember last year's super catchy tune, Thrift Shop? It was by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and it was about the joys of being a thrifty shopper with a whole lot of swag. Here's a parody of that music video by IGN, only about used video games instead.
Great, now I'm gonna have this stuck in my head all day.


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WASHINGTON (November 2, 2012)—U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth Friday in Washington ordered the release of some court documents sealed in the 1970s as part of the court case against seven men involved in the Watergate burglary.
Luke Nichter of Texas A&M University-Central Texas in Killeen, wrote the judge in 2009 to ask that potentially hundreds of pages of documents be unsealed.
Nichter specializes in 20th century U.S. political history and created a website that makes the most complete collection of digitized Nixon tapes available to researchers.
He recently finished a book-length biography of former President George W. Bush.
Lamberth said in a two-page order Friday that some materials Nichter was seeking should be released and gave the National Archives and Records Administration a month to review and release the materials.
Attorneys for the U.S. government said in court documents earlier this year that they would not oppose the release of some of the documents.


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STOCKTON - The University of the Pacific's Stockton campus was placed on lockdown about 11:45 p.m. Friday after a vehicle overturned on Pacific Avenue near Presidents Drive and the driver fled the scene, school officials said.
A passenger in the car told police the driver was armed with a handgun, the school said. Officers also determined that the driver matched the description of a person of interest in an earlier armed robbery, university officials said.
Pacific alerted students, staff and faculty via email, text and phone messages while police searched the campus, the school said.
University staff patrolled residence halls and sent messages updating students on the status of the lockdown, school officials said. The lockdown was lifted at 1 a.m. Saturday after police concluded an extensive search of the area, the school said.
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Atlanta has one, as do dozens of other cities.
Augusta's new panhandling ordinance bans aggressive and intimidating begging.
That means beggars would face a warning at first, then a fine, then jail time.
Yesterday we spoke with some downtown business owners.
Some say panhandling is turning away potential customers. Others say it's not a big problem.
And today we spoke with some commissioners who also had mixed views about the ordinance.
"My point is that...I don't know if we need to make it downtown or west Augusta or south Augusta. We need to make it all of Augusta Richmond County," says commissioner Don Grantham.
"I think incarcerations or fining is going to cause additional problems," says commissioner Marion Williams. "If a man ain't got no money, we're going to keep him in jail much longer. The sheriff is going to complain about overcrowding, then we got to build another jail, then we got to feed 'em. You can't just put them on the floor. It's a snowball effect."
"I am all for the rights of all people but a person does not have a right to interrupt my dinner, my stroll with my family, and aggressively solicit money, which is exactly what they are doing downtown," says commissioner Andy Cheek.
The ordinance just passed.
But the commissioners have also decided to extend the ordinance to not just downtown but the galleria.


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Thursday morning's Golden Globe nominations contained the usual assortment of snubs and flubs. Here's a glance at some of the most egregious on the TV side of things:
"Mad Men" -- The AMC period piece is TV's most honored and acclaimed drama of the past five years, but was inexplicably left out of the running this year, despite having what some deemed its finest season. Meanwhile, HBO's "The Newsroom," which drew wrath from critics everywhere during its first season, was invited to the party.
"Game of Thrones" (and actor Peter Dinklage) -- The HBO fantasy epic was nominated for best drama last year and Dinklage actually won the supporting actor trophy. Neither was nominated this year, despite arguably having a better second season.
"Sons of Anarchy" -- The show, and its perennially overlooked cast, were left out of the running again.
"The Walking Dead"/"American Horror Story" -- Apparently, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association just isn't into zombies ... or really scary nuns.
"Louie" -- One of TV's freshest, most offbeat and inventive comedies continues to get no love from the Globes (or Emmy).
Aaron Paul -- The standout supporting actor from "Breaking Bad" just recently won his second Emmy, but he gets dissed by the Globes. Go figure.
"New Girl" -- Nominated last year, shunned this year.


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STOCKTON - Firefighters rescued a woman who drove her sport utility vehicle into the marsh off Highway 4 in west Stockton on Thursday night, authorities said.
The single-vehicle crash occurred about 8 p.m. when the woman drove her Dodge Durango off the roadway near Victoria Island Farms between the Old River and Middle River bridges, officials said. Firefighters sank to their waists in mud after negotiating a steep 12- to 15-foot embankment to reach the vehicle, they said.
Firefighters used an aerial ladder to rescue the woman, who suffered moderate injuries in the crash, authorities said. She was flown to a hospital for treatment.
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John Travolta should send President Obama a thank-you card for turning his miscue into yesterday's news.
Less than a week after Travolta butchered Idina Menzel's name at the Oscars, the president flubbed the spelling of Aretha Franklin's iconic song while praising the singer during a White House celebration Thursday night.
"When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her, she had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African-Americans and women and then anyone who felt marginalized," Obama said during an event for the women of soul, which was captured on video.
Franklin was in attendance with Patti LaBelle, Ariana Grande, Melissa Etheridge, Janelle Monae, Jill Scott and Tessanne Chin, according to the New York Daily News.


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WASHINGTON (February 22, 2013)--Texas Gov. Rick Perry reiterated Friday that won't expand Medicaid services in the state.
Perry, during a visit to Washington, said expanding the program would bankrupt the state.
He said federal authorities are not allowing Texas the flexibility to modify the program.
Advocates of expanded services say an additional 1 million Texans could receive some level of health insurance coverage.
Hecklers critical of his stance on Medicaid disrupted his comments to a Republican group Friday.
Perry countered that controlling spending is one reason Texas is attractive to new business.
The purpose of his talk was to tout his state's economic and job growth.
On Thursday, Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott announced that he will expand Medicaid to an estimated 900,000 additional residents under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
The decision was a surprise because Scott had been a vocal critic of the Affordable Care Act.
The Republican governor said Wednesday that he will support a bill that would expire in three years.
Scott entered politics in 2009 running national cable TV commercials criticizing the president's plan.
The federal government will pay for the Medicaid expansion for the first three years and pay 90 percent after that.
Scott joined six other Republican governors who are also expanding Medicaid.
The decision came hours after federal officials announced they will approve Florida's request to privatize its existing Medicaid program if the state agrees to measure the quality of patient care.


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Jan 22, 2013, 02:27 AM #1
while you were watching football..
Jan 22, 2013, 11:00 AM #2
Looks like Puerto Escondito!
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We need to get Samuel L. Jackson out here to "get these motherfu<king snakes of these motherfu<king waves" in pics 8-12.
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Wow, wish I could say I scored that on Sunday. Had some choppy 4 ft windswell though, beats football.
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Just randomly checked surline, apparently Mike Parsons took a freefall wipeout at OB over the weekend, cracked a vertebrae and almost drowned. While that day looked heavy for a mortal like myself, I wouldn't expect someone of his caliber to have any issues out there. Just goes to show you how quickly things can go bad on the water, which makes that burn sequence that much worse.
Jan 23, 2013, 04:11 PM #9
Turned out to be not the case. "I thought I was into it, then suddenly realized I wasn't. I took two more strokes and tried to stand up in what turned out to be the lip. I freefell, and remember my feet hitting my board for a second, then my head hit the water really hard."
Hard enough to get serious whiplash and crack the C7 vertebrae in his neck. "I thought I was paralyzed under water," he said. "I had that crazy tingly feeling. My right arm worked a little bit, but it felt like it was dangling; like it had been ripped off my body 'cause I had no feeling."
Luckily, Snips was wearing flotation. He finally surfaced and tried getting on his board, which wasn't working. He saw a surfer paddling out and started screaming. "I was so lucky," Snips said. "He paddled right over to me, ditched his own board, and helped get me to shore. He really saved me, 'cause I couldn't swim on my own -- the whiplash had made my body numb. (Thanks, Charlie Vaughn! Beers on me.)"
"I don't know if I would've surfaced without the floatation, 'cause I couldn't move," he said. "I learned for sure -- the waves were solid 10 to 12 feet, and when you're in beachbreak that big and go unconscious, nothing can really help you. It's almost funny wearing flotation at a beachbreak, but it's a no-brainer for me. I could paddle and duckdive fine."
Parsons will spend the next six weeks in a neck brace, but he's expected to make a full recovery.
Jan 23, 2013, 04:12 PM #10
Charlie Vaughn is a hero, way to go man.


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CHAR-KOOSTA Flathead Agency Published by the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes Volume 1, No. 1 June, 1971 Dixon, Montana Indian studies set at University of Montana An Indian Studies Program at the University of Montana is under way. The program will provide a vital service to the students, faculty, and community as well as the entire state and surrounding area. The basic underlying philosophy of the program is to develop in the Indian student a pride and positive identity with his culture by providing a number of services and programs and to develop and foster understanding and acceptance of the Indian-Non-Indian relationships. The program consists of three basic phases as follows: Academic Phase — Comprehensive Counseling Services to Students: Services will include counseling, academic advising, assisting in obtaining financial aid, tuturing, and total overall adjustment to the University community. There is a critical need to have adequate services and staffing to meet the unique needs of the Indian Students. The offering of Indian-oriented courses, for example, Contemporary issues of the American Indian, the Reservation Indian, the Urban Indian, Clarence Woodcock is editor The Flathead Tribe has decided to renew publication of the Tribal Newspaper, Char-KOOSTA, in an attempt to increase communication between the tribal members on and off the reservation as well as among other United States Indian Tribes and whites. The paper will serve a two-fold function; that is, to acquaint all interested people of tribal affairs and also to acquaint the Indian people with the programs available to them through the Tribe, BIA, CAP, PHS, etc. The Tribe has appointed Clarence Woodcock as editor of the publication. Clarence, an employee of the Community Action Progam in Dixon, will devote half of his time to publishing CHAR-KOOSTA and the other half supervising trainees to take over his CAP bookkeeping responsibilities. The paper will begin as a four-page monthly publication, but Clarence fells that with the support and interest of the Indians and non-Indians on the reservations, the paper will be able to expand into a major news supply for all reservatiion people. and History of Indian Affairs will be offered. Courses in other departments will also be offered. Research Phase — This aspect deals with practical applied research as contrasted to pure or solely scholarly research. The idea is to make research findings as perational as possible. The tribes will identify areas of research. The program will be able to submit proposals for research areas as well. Consultative Service Phase — This phase is looked upon as part of the University's public services effort — making these services available to tribes at no cost. The University will make its total resources available for tribal use. Again, the tribes will intitiate requests for services of a consultant and determine the area that consultant will serve. UM Indians place in speech meet The University of Montana placed second in the First National Indian Speech Tournament at Dartmough College in Hanover, N.H., last weekend. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, placed first and Dartmouth College placed third. Ten teams participated: Brigham Young University; Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.; Dartmouth College; University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.; Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.; University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D.; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.; Northeastern State, Tahlequah, Okla., and the University of Montana. The members of the University team were Tom McKay, sophomore, general major; Judy Abell, sophomore, pre-business administration; Gerald Stiffarm, sophomore, pre-business administration, and Robey Clark, senior, journalism. As a team, the University placed second in extemporaneous speaking, third in after-dinner speaking, third in debate, but did not place in declamation. Judy Abell was awarded first place as the best extemporaneous speaker and best debate speaker. The UM negative debate team of Abell and Clark did not lose any rounds and the affirmative team of McKay and Stiffarm lost only one. The debate topic was "Resolved: That Indian TRIBAL HEADQUARTERS — Early this spring fire damaged the Tribal Headquarters. The Char-Koosta housing program is remodeling framework on up. The project is the office. It was necessary to expected to be completed in begin remodeling from the July. Housing project set up by tribe The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have begun a housing construction enterprise, CHAR-KOOSTAH HOMES, under the auspices of the Tribal Council. Development of this enterprise began when the Tribal Council, in an effort to provide a resource for steady employment and training for underemployed local residents, decided that home building offered a consistent opportunity for employment and would provide training useful both on and off-reservation. There are no outside interests in the manufacture of these homes, the entire project being financed and supervised under tribal administration. Mr. Bill Hobjin, program manager, came here in January of 1971 and spent the first few weeks of operation renovating a building at the Agency near Dixon for use as project headquarters. Employees were placed in training in Spokane prior to the begining of local construction activities. There are presently 14 employees on the payroll and the Council anticipates adding 50 more. Education be Transferred to the Tribal Councils." Harold Gray, counselor and advisor for Indian Studies, said the University debate team paid the entry fee for the Indian team, and Richard Solberg, dean of the college of arts and sciences, and Wesley Snellen, instructor of communications, arranged the funds for the trip. Payrolls since the beginning of the year have amounted to a figure in excess of $17,000, full year; $225,000 is projected for the next sixteen months, nogotiating an approved apprenticeship training program. The project has built three onsite homes and has six modular homes near completion to date. All homes are actually custom built in the sense that the customer can choose his own plan, color, texture, and interior decor. Sizes may range from two bedrooms and one bath to five bedrooms and two baths. Some built to standard plans are available at Dixon for as little as $10,500. These include a refrigerator, range, and full carpeting. Two homes, fully furnished, are on display at Dixon for those interested in seeing the type of materials used. Furniture bought directly from the factory is available at considerable savings. This is also on display at the Tribal Headquarters. Completed homes are available for sale to the general public. Tribal members may seek financing through the Tribal Credit Office for homes to be located on the Reservation. Non-Indians and those wishing off-reservation housing must go through conventional loan agencies. All houses are FHA and VA approved and will meet all state and city codes. ARLEE POW WOW IS.JULY2-K The annual Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe's pow wow will be held at Arlee July 2 through July 6. $1,500 in prizes will be given for best Indian dances and costumes. Insufficient signatures stop requested election Mr. Fred Houle, Secretary of the Tribal Council, announced that the Tribe has received a telegram from James Canan, area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Billings. The telegram was addressed to the Committee for Optional Withdrawal and reads: Pursuant to article X of the CS&KT Constitution and 25 CFR 53, you have submitted on March 29, a petition requesting Constitutional Amendment Election be authorized. Have concluded only 924 of the 1,217 signatures are in accord with 25 CFR 53. It may have been possible to secure waivers of certain parts of petitioning regulations and include as valid another 106 signatures. However, since petition would still be 70 signatures short of the required 1,100 valid signatures, those waivers were not requested. Accordingly, you are hereby notified petitioning action is insufficient to effect authorization of requested election.
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A quarterly report released Thursday by online real estate site Zillow for the first time focuses on the choke point that's behind the frustratingly low number of homes for sale in the Bay Area.
Despite increasing prices, many homeowners still have low levels of equity and aren't willing to sell, Zillow said.
A homeowner would need about 20 percent equity to put a house on the market and cover a down payment on the next home, real estate fees and other expenses, said Zillow's chief economist, Stan Humphries. Many homes have moved back "above water" -- a home is underwater when it is worth less than the amount of its mortgage -- but that isn't enough.
"A bunch of people don't have the down payment for their next house," he said.
That has helped keep homes off the market, in what real estate agents say is a period with the fewest homes for sale in memory. The astonishingly low inventory, combined with historically low interest rates, has produced flocks of buyers bidding up prices for what little is available.
In all, 295,000 of a total of 914,000 homes with mortgages in five Bay Area counties had what Zillow is calling "effective negative equity" in the first quarter, meaning they're either underwater or lack enough equity for their owners to afford to move.
In Contra Costa County, 46.7 percent of the homes with a mortgage are in this group, Zillow said. In Alameda County, 37.5 percent of homes are; in Santa Clara County, 25 percent; San Mateo County, 24.5 percent; and San Francisco, 19.4 percent.
To be sure, some homeowners who would have had to sell at a loss a few months ago are happy to break even now that prices have risen.
"I have a lot of conversations with some of my clients who are wanting to break even," said Noreleen de Mesa, a broker at Clarin Realty in San Bruno. "A lot of them are still dabbling with the idea, but the majority are probably hanging on to their property, hoping the market continues the route that it's on," she said.
Even though the number of underwater homeowners continued to decline in the first quarter, the housing market "probably won't be back to normal for another five years," Humphries said. "We have gone through this period of enormous volatility, and it is going take a while to get back to normal."
Consumers need to brace themselves for a volatile and unpredictable market, "and need to be making conservative decisions," he said.
The Bay Area's market is moving fast, said Errol Samuelson, president of Realtor.com, and rising prices are quickly propelling more and more homeowners above water again. "It's the hottest market in the country, so it's a little difficult to say where this market is going to be in six months," he said.
Still, the inventory of homes for sale is drastically low, down more than 40 percent in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, and down 37 percent in San Mateo County, Realtor.com reported.
Median list prices are increasing by double digits from a year earlier, and the time it takes to sell a home has dropped 50 percent or more in many of the counties, the company reported.
"That's not just a seller's market, that is an incredibly hot seller's market," Samuelson said.
Contact Pete Carey at 408-920-5419. Follow him at Twitter.com/petecarey.