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Krystal joined in the celebration to honor America's heroes on Veteran's Day by unveiling its new partnership supporting the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple Summer Camp Program.
The Operation Purple Summer Camp Program offers a free week of summer fun for military children with parents who have been, are currently, or will be deployed. The goal of the Operation Purple Camp Program is to give military children tools to help deal with the stresses that result from a parent's deployment, through a memorable camp experience in a "purple" environment. Operation Purple camps are open to military children of all ranks and services, active and reserve components.
The Operation Purple Program gives children a break from war, friends to confide in, coping skills to handle mom or dad's absence, and some fun to offset the extra responsibilities in their complicated young lives. The Operation Purple Camps help lower stress by simulating deployed parents' experiences. Children speak with troops just back from war, explore helicopters and Humvees, taste meals-ready-to-eat, and play hide-and-seek with night-vision goggles.
The Krystal Company aims to supporting America's active and veteran military along with their families. The company views the Operation Purple Program as an ideal partner for its efforts. "Many of our Krystal guests and employees have served or are currently serving our country, so we strongly believe that the Operation Purple Program can make a significant impact on the lives of their children and their families. This is a wonderful organization that serves military families in a multitude of ways, and we are proud to support such a great cause," says Tom Peterson, chief marketing officer.


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Connections between Wintering, Migration and Breeding Areas
To evaluate long-range movement and identify connectivity between wintering, staging and breeding areas, female black ducks will be captured and fitted with GPS satellite transmitters in wintering areas located in Delaware, Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Virginia. During winter 2007/2008 and 2008/2009, a total of 60 adult females will be radioed (10 per year per location). The satellite transmitters will allow researchers to identify important wintering, staging and breeding areas, local and large-scale habitat use patterns, migration chronology, flight paths and duration of stay in staging and wintering locations. Please visit our Follow the Ducks page to see maps of the ducks' progress.
To determine local habitat use, field crews study the ducks' activities and amount of time spent in different habitat types. To achieve this task, black ducks are bait-trapped from mid- to late November and a sample of 30 females is fitted with radios each year. The radioed hens are then followed via truck-mounted or handheld telemetry from fall through their departure in late spring. Locations are then plotted on aerial photographs and later digitized for spatial analysis.
Black duck behavior also will be examined via time-activity budgets. Flocks of black ducks are observed from concealed blinds between sunrise and sunset. Behaviors are categorized and recorded as feeding, loafing, sleeping, comfort, courtship, agonistic and locomotion. This information helps identify the importance of different habitats to specific waterfowl needs.
To determine current food habits of wintering black ducks, a sample of birds will be collected along the Atlantic coast. The esophagus will be removed from each collected bird and food items will be sorted and identified. Frequency of occurrence, average weight and average volume of food items will be determined. Historic food habits data for black ducks will be compared with present food habits. In addition, food habits information will be compared with food availability determined for various habitats used by black ducks.
To evaluate food availability and food depletion, food samples are taken from multiple sites within available habitats. Samples are collected in mid- to late October, allowing researchers to estimate the total amount of food available when black ducks first arrive in early autumn. Because the level of food availability is expected to change throughout the course of the winter and spring, food samples are taken again in midwinter (mid- to late December) and in early spring (early March). Food samples include both invertebrates and aquatic plants, which are important black duck foods. Waterfowl and shorebird presence also is documented at each sampling site.
To determine the true metabolizable energy of foods commonly found in the black duck diet, captive black ducks will be precision fed a known amount of six test foods including saltmarsh snails, killifish, fiddler crabs, widgeon grass vegetation, widgeon grass seeds and saltmarsh cordgrass seeds. Following precision feeding, excreta will be collected from test birds for a 48-hour period. Gross energy of test foods and excreta samples will be determined via bomb calorimetry to estimate how much energy black ducks metabolize from each food type.
In order to determine how much wintering habitat along the Atlantic coast is currently available, researchers will conduct an analysis of the landscape between Maine and Maryland. This type of spatial analysis requires satellite imagery and GIS (Geographic Information Systems). This analysis will allow researchers to determine if there is adequate habitat to support current wintering populations of black ducks and wintering population goals set forth in the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP).
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NEW MATAMORAS-Ten people were arrested during a Tuesday anti-fracking protest at a New Matamoras business, including a man who spent nearly five hours chained to a 30-foot-tall structure he erected on the property of GreenHunter Water.
The incident began unfolding around 10:30 a.m. when some of the protesters, many wearing masks, stormed the GreenHunter office, on Ohio 7 along the Ohio River, said Chief Deputy Mark Warden of the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The facility serves as a storage site for the waste generated during the process of hydraulic fracturing.
"They (took) some keys, tried to clog up some of the toilets, scared quite a bit of the employees," said Warden.
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From left, Athens residents Heather Cantino, Andrea Reik and Mimi Morrison hold a sign protesting the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracking Tuesday outside GreenHunter Water, a New Matamoras facility that stores the waste produced from the fracking process.
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Nate Ebert, 33, of Athens County, sits on a 30-foot pole he climbed Tuesday as part of a protest near New Matamoras. He remained on the pole for nearly five hours.
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A protester holds a sign as he protests Tuesday at the GreenHunter Water facility along with about 100 others.
Athens County resident Nate Ebert, 33, a member of the anti-fracking group Appalachia Resist, climbed a 30-foot pole that he erected inside the gated facility, tethering the structure to the fence and to a brine truck that had been unloading waste.
"GreenHunter wants to use our water sources as dumping grounds for their toxic, radioactive waste. We are here to send a message that the people of Ohio and Appalachia will not sit idly by and watch our homes be turned into a sacrifice zone," said Ebert in a press release sent out by Appalachia Resist at the start of the event.
Company officials say the waste stored there contains nothing hazardous.
After local law enforcement responded, around 100 protesters, many from Athens County, continued to protest on a lawn across from the facility.
Around two dozen officers representing the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the New Matamoras Police Department worked to contain traffic and the crowd of protesters.
At one point the officers asked the group to move off a private lawn, and the protesters shuffled along without protest.
Dozens of cars on busy Ohio 7 passed the group. Many honked at the protesters, which always resulted in another loud round of cheering. Less frequently a passing car would jeer or boo at the group.
The crowd erupted into cheers as Ebert unfurled a sign that said "Green Hunter. Rich richer. Poor sick."
Though hotly debated, not everyone is opposed to the fracking industry, which is seen as an economic boost to communities.
Watching the protest from nearby, local resident James Males argued there are better causes to protest.
"These people around here haven't had jobs in a long time, and now oil and gas have brought jobs," said Males, the pastor at New Martinsville Baptist Church.
Warden was initially unable to convince Ebert to come down from his pole, and Ebert was making unreasonable demands, said Warden.
"He wants us to let go all the people we arrested and that's just not going to happen," he said, as the situation was still unfolding Tuesday afternoon.
Besides Ebert, the nine arrests were made by having the three GreenHunter employees working that morning identify protesters in the crowd that had been a part of the early morning storm on the building, Warden said.
Using the GreenHunter office as a sort of command center, GreenHunter employees would use binoculars to identify a culprit from the raid and police would travel across the road to where the group of protesters had eventually congregated in the front lawn of a local resident.
Some of the arrestees went peacefully. Others yelled that they didn't know why they were being arrested. One tried to flee and was tackled by arresting officers.
Ebert chose to descend from his pole around 3 p.m., said Warden.
"I think he realized his friends were leaving and we told him 'You've already made your point,' so he just announced he was coming down," he said.
Ebert, of Millfield, was arrested on charges of criminal trespassing and resisting arrest.
The other nine people were arrested on charges of criminal trespassing, Warden said.
Arrested were Peter Garcia, 34, of Minot, N.D.; Matthew Almonte, 21, of Lithia, Fla.; Subina Ahmed, 22, of Santa Rosa, Calif.; Wendy Jennings, 34, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Jessica Clark, 22, of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Alexandra Kotcheff, 26, of Beverly Hills, Calif.; Steven Schorzman, 25, of Hamilton, Mont.; Patrick Perry, 21, of Athens; and SethSchlotterbeck, 29, of Athens.
At least two more summonses will be sent out, Warden said, and video footage from the company could help the office make further arrests, he said.
The event was organized to disrupt normal business operations at the facility, said Madeline Ffitch, an organizer for the group Appalachia Resist.
"We are starting to use direct action as a way to support the popular opinion against fracking," she said.
The protesters talked to local residents beforehand, many of whom had no idea what was stored in the tanks at GreenHunter, said Heather Cantino, of Athens.
"They have the word 'water' scrawled across these tanks. But I want you to call it what it is - toxic radioactive frack waste is stored in those tanks. It has nothing to do with water," she said.
Business was disrupted for most of the day, and multiple brine hauling trucks were prevented from entering the facility, said John Jack, vice president of business development for GreenHunter Water.
However, Jack vehemently opposes the view that the waste stored at the facility is hazardous.
"There is nothing dangerous about the way the materials are shipped and the materials themselves are non-hazardous," said Jack.
Many of the protesters were Athens County residents, but the group represented people from all over the United States, said Ffitch. They chose the New Matamoras location because the company is trying to receive permission from the U.S. Coast Guard to begin shipping brine by barge on the Ohio River.
"The Ohio River is the primary drinking source for five million people. When one of these barges sinks, leaks, or spills it is going to contaminate a huge drinking source," said Fitch.
But Jack argues that shipping by barge is not only safe but also has the added benefit of reducing local road traffic.
"For every one barge accident, there are 2,055 accidents by truck and every barge load removes around 1,000 trucks from the roads," said Jack.
Additionally, GreenHunter extensively tests all of the waste it transports and none of it is radioactive, insisted Jack.
The sheriff's office will continue to keep a presence at the New Matamoras facility for "quite some time," said Warden Tuesday afternoon.


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The third annual Newburgh Open Studios takes place Saturday and Sunday, September 28 and 29 from 11:00am-5:00pm each day. Over 40 artists will be participating in this free self-guided tour. Special events include film premiere at Downing Film Center and music with Neil Alexander. Kick-off party takes place at the Newburgh Brewing Company on Friday, September 27 from 7-9pm. Maps available starting at 10:00am on Saturday, Sept 28, at Newburgh Art Supply, 5 Grand Street just north of Washington's Headquarters. The Hudson Valley's most walkable arts tour!


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Snow Week began on Monday with scooter races on Monday followed by relay races outside on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Russian dancers will be featured and Friday wraps up the week with activities at the end of the day and a dance.
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Kolamba Solar Cooker (Norway Patent 20101479). The Voukana Solar Cooker is an inclined double funnel community solar cooker and is made locally in Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo by the same team that made the Deep Double Funnel Cooker in 2009. We started out with paper models and already after second try; the result seemed to be quite satisfactory. Because of its size it is a typical community solar cooker, that can cook a lot of food during the day. It boils half a liter of water in 8 minutes. Water is also boiling hot when it is poored down into a thermos.
Preassure cooking is also possible. The video below shows the hot steam from the preassure cooker which is well above 120° C. This high temperature with steam preassure shortens cooking time with 50%, giving solar cooking a new flavor. You can cook all kinds of vegetables or meat without loosing important vitamins and flavor to the water.
Water can be pasteurized using 10 liters Pet bottles that can be found in any African villages. Water temperatur will reach about 70C in these transparant bottles and toghether with concentrated UV radiation this should be enough to pasteurize water. The techinque needs to be confirmed with laboratory tests.
The Voukana Solar Cooker cooks from 0800 in the morning to 1600 in the afternoon in the equatorial zone. The idea is that the cooker is inclined 30 degrees from the zenith is operational within a 120 degree sector when adjusted azimuth during the day, and the only moving part on it is the pot.
The technically area of this cooker is about 1,3 square meters, and optimal effect on a 22cm wide and 14 cm high cooking pot is geometrically calculated to be 1200W at optimal sun angle of 60 degrees.
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SANTA CLARA -- Cornish & Carey Commercial, an icon in local real estate, is being bought by a New York City brokerage company in a deal that is expected to lead to more growth for the Bay Area realty firm, Cornish Chairman Scott Carey told this newspaper Tuesday.
BGC Partners, a Manhattan-based brokerage company that serves the wholesale financial and real estate markets, is buying the independent commercial realty firm, which was launched in 1935.
"We will operate under the name Newmark Cornish & Carey under the agreement," Carey said in an interview. "There will probably be expansion as a result of this."
Cornish & Carey has been one of the dominant players in Silicon Valley and has arranged several high-profile deals, including major expansions for Google (GOOG) and other tech firms. The company's revenue totaled $135 million in 2012. According to Carey, revenue was "roughly the same" in 2013. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
The deal comes at a time of some consolidation among commercial real estate firms. In 2012, Grubb & Ellis filed for bankruptcy as part of a prearranged deal to sell its assets to the same BGC Partners that is buying Cornish & Carey.
Santa Clara-based Cornish & Carey already had a licensing agreement with a subsidiary of BGC, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. The deal will bring the local company into the BGC fold as a fully owned subsidiary.
"Our partnership with Cornish & Carey has been tremendously successful," said Barry Gosin, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank CEO. "We now have an even greater ability to provide clients in the important Northern California marketplace the complete array of our services."
Cornish & Carey has all of its offices in Northern California, including 10 in the Bay Area and two in the Sacramento region. The company aligned itself originally with Newmark to be able to access international clients that sought property deals and leases in the Bay Area. The Newmark firm, in turn was able to gain access to the Bay Area market.
Although Cornish & Carey is being purchased by an East Coast financial services firm, the commercial realty firm believes it will benefit greatly under a new owner.
"Their intention is to let us run our own shop," Carey said. "They will preserve our identity, culture and our philosophy." Carey described the company's management approach as an open-door policy that gives agents direct access to the principal executives. Carey said he will remain as Cornish chairman after the deal is complete, and current company president Chuck Seufferlein will retain that title.
Employees will be given the opportunity to obtain an equity interest in the new company, Carey said.
The company was founded as a residential real estate brokerage by Carey's uncle, George "Pat" Carey, a Stanford University student. In 1969, Scott Carey, a lawyer by trade, joined the firm to engineer a major upgrade of a tiny commercial real estate operation within the parent realty firm. Other entrepreneurs, Marc Davis and Mike Brand, were brought on board in the initial stages to lead recruiting and office expansions. The firm's original offices were in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, Carey said.
"Our target markets for expansion will be Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Diego, for starters," Carey said.
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Li Na has advanced to her third Australian Open final and will have to beat Dominika Cibulkova to win her first title at Melbourne Park.
No. 4-seeded Li had a 6-2, 6-4 win over 19-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in the first semifinal Thursday (Australia time) before No. 20-seeded Cibulkova trounced 2012 Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 6-2.
Li, the 2011 French Open champion, was the only major winner and the highest-ranked player in the semifinals after the fourth-round upsets of Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova and defending champion Victoria Azarenka's quarterfinal loss to Radwanska. Cibulkova has been the biggest surprise of the tournament, reaching her first Grand Slam final. The diminutive Slovakian has won all but one of her matches in straight sets -- her upset fourth-round win over Maria Sharapova went to three.
Li lost last year's Australian Open final to Azarenka, after falling over and hitting her head twice on the court. She lost the 2011 decider to Kim Clijsters, her first appearance in a Grand Slam final, and recovered from that loss to win her one and only major at Roland Garros.
"Last time was a little bit tough. I will try this time to make one more step," Li said. "Tough match of course in the final. I think for sure both will try fight on the court because it's one more step to take the trophy."
Li raced out to a 5-0 lead in 14 minutes while people were still entering Rod Laver Arena and finding their seats.
Bouchard had a lot of support in the crowd -- there were people with Canadian flags painted on their faces, and a couple even wearing the national hockey jerseys.
Bouchard's own personal cheering section, the "Genie Army," serenaded her throughout the match, at one point competing directly with a group of Li's supporters across the stadium who chanted "Let's Go Li Na" in Mandarin.
The Canadian teenager was playing only her fourth Grand Slam tournament, was seeded 30th and became just the second player from her country to reach a major semifinal.
"I think maybe she will be best player in the world. But today (I'm) so lucky," said Li, who jokingly apologized to the Genie Army. "Sorry about that. If you guys be happy, I will go home."
That won't happen until after the final, her third in four years at Melbourne Park.
Li considered quitting the tour after the French Open last year, when she was beaten in the second round and was struggling with the off-court pressure. After reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, the Chinese star opted against retiring and then reached the U.S. Open semifinals. Li, who turns 32 next month, has gone another step further in Australia.
After saving a match point in the third round against Lucie Safarova, she has started all her matches aggressively.
On Wednesday, sixth-seeded Roger Federer finally wore down the Wimbledon champion and fourth-seeded Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 to set up a semifinal showdown with top-ranked Rafael Nadal.
"For me it was just a matter of staying calm and forgetting about it a little bit because, you know, the match was great until that point," Federer said.


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Pretty cool event. it was a fun course. The only thing I didn't like was that there wasn't enough rack space in the transition area for everyone. if you got there late you had to stick your stuff in another transition area, or lean it up against the fence, like i had to do.also, it didn't seem like the start time was very well organized. there was no timing mat to run over before you went into the water. they just said okay go. so if you were at the front of the pack fine, but what if you were at the back of the pack?other than that, it was a lot of fun, and i recomend it for people of all ages and experience levels.
The weather was beautiful and the volunteers helpful. My only complaint was the difficulty of finding the venue from the entry points to the Island. Signage at the bridge, subway, and tram would have been very helpful Thanks for a great event for a great cause.
6-time marathoner and many many time short distance race runner weighing in. I have never run a half-marathon - had to say it.Overall, any comments need to recognize that this was a small event, and I think for a small event it was great.
Chip timing is always a plus. There were just enough aid stations, although a few more wouldn't hurt. I understand volunteers can make that tough, and the volunteers that were there were great.
Liked the winding course. We could see a friend who was ahead of us and cheer her along the way. The woman's T-shirt was nice with the V-neck. The medal was absolutely terrible. All I can say is that you can get a trinket nicer than this at the dollar store (where I have bought cheesy medals for kids). Some entertainment along the course might have been nice as well. The people of KC were nice and the traffic was well managed but it was not a race that I would do again without some upgrades.
This is my first Olathe 1/2 and I have to say the route wasn't bad, I wished there were more of the course on the beatuiful trails we have here in Olathe, instead of on the roads, lots of traffic and some wind, not like you can control those things. The only thing that REALLY bothered me was the lack of water a the first station for me. I went 4 miles without water, as did many others I am sure. That deffinately caused me some heartache (or should I say muscleache) later in the race.........The race volunteers were wonderful, always has something good and motivating to say each time I passed! The Police were awesome as well! I have to agree with some of the others when I say the Great Mall part of the race wasn't the best, the roads were terrible and I appreciate the fact they did paint the bad spots. I totally understand the whole "Mall" thing with the waning interest there.........I will do it again next year, but I hope there will be more trail running!!!
My friend and I were terribly disappointed to find out at the very last minute that the half marathon was not open to walkers! This information was buried at the very bottom of the page after a bunch of advertising. Having participated in three other half marathons, it never occured to us that we were not welcome. After training for months, we did not wish to not be able to complete in the time allowed and bused back to the finish. AND there was, of course, no refund. VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!
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STOCKTON - The only person arrested so far in connection with a stabbing Thursday in south Stockton is the stabbing victim himself, police said Friday.
According to authorities, 27-year-old Juan Francisco-Diego was loitering near a location where he used to rent an apartment in the 700 block of East Hazelton Street about 6:30 p.m. Thursday. An argument ensued after the apartment manager asked Francisco-Diego to leave the property. Francisco-Diego allegedly assaulted the apartment manager with an unknown object, prompting several people to come to the manager's aid.
Those who aided the apartment manager chased Francisco-Diego around the corner, where a woman jumped out of a car and stabbed him in the left forearm with a knife, police said. The assailant was described as a black woman 20 to 30 years old standing 5 feet 2 inches and weighing 300 pounds. She was wearing a white T-shirt and black shorts.
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SANTA CLARA — John Madden reminisced about great coaching Monday as he cruised east on Interstate 80 through Nebraska's flat lands, happily making his annual pilgrimage to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Madden wasn't raving about his Hall of Fame career. Instead, he trumpeted Jim Harbaugh's success with the 49ers.
"He's doing a great job," Madden said in a phone interview with this newspaper. "He's done one of the great coaching jobs ever, especially with that first year and the (labor) lockout and how he couldn't work with the players and they went all the way to the (NFC) Championship.
"Great coaching job."
Harbaugh is the first coach in NFL history to reach the conference-championship game in each of his first three seasons.
As Harbaugh searches for his first Super Bowl win — and the 49ers' first in 20 years — Madden doesn't think Harbaugh should make radical changes, or, for that matter, any changes at all.
Enshrined in 2007 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Madden knows what it's like to flirt with Super Bowl contention. His teams were denied again and again and again ... until his 1976 Raiders broke through and won the Lombardi Trophy.
That title came in Madden's eighth season. His Raiders were stopped within one win of a Super Bowl berth in five of his first seven seasons, including three straight AFC Championship defeats from 1973-75. (That 1973 season marked the start of punter Ray Guy's career, which has earned him enshrinement this weekend into the Pro Football Hall of Fame; Madden is his presenter.)
So did Madden offer his counsel to Harbaugh this offseason?
"Hell no," Madden said. "He's done a lot of good things and won a lot of big games. The last thing he needs is counseling on that.
"The answer is you don't do anything. People get close and try to do something. They panic and screw everything up."
The 49ers have kept most of their corps in tact under Harbaugh's reign, and Madden is a firm support of the "great" Colin Kaepernick. This season's changes will include two new starters in the secondary, an injury fill-in for NaVorro Bowman into November, a deeper receiving unit and a new center, who could be lined up next to a different right guard if Alex Boone's contract holdout isn't resolved.
The 49ers' near misses since 2011 shouldn't diminish their postseason runs, implored Madden, who retired from broadcasting in 2009 and works for the NFL as an advisor to commissioner Roger Goodell and a coaches' subcommittee chairman.
"Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl," Madden said. "There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair."
Madden didn't predict Harbaugh's coaching prowess, not as he watched Harbaugh play 15 years as a "tough guy" quarterback nor when he got his NFL coaching start as a Raiders assistant in 2002-03.
"He'd always talk to me about his brother John, how he's a good coach and people need to recognize that and give him a chance to be a head coach," Madded said. "He would talk up how John should get the opportunity, instead of himself. He was right on John. He wanted me to give him more play."
Madden is happy to give Jim Harbaugh the play he feels he deserves after three seasons as 49ers coach. It sure can make the drive fly by faster from Madden's Pleasanton home to his bronze bust's resting place inside Canton's hallowed Hall.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.


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EDWARDS, Colorado - Hundreds of local Republicans gathered Tuesday and almost one-third supported Mitt Romney for president.
"This is the largest caucus we've ever had in Eagle County," said Kaye Ferry, chairman of Eagle County's Republican Party. "All across the country they've been talking about the low turnout and Eagle County came out in droves. We're thrilled that so many of you made it tonight."
A precinct caucus is a lesson in civics class. Like-minded people from their neighborhoods gather around a table and decide their favorites from among the candidates. Precinct caucuses are the smallest political conventions and they're a straw poll.
Local Republicans brought all their precincts to three locations, Battle Mountain High School, Basalt and Burns, and a massive number showed up.
More than 500 registered online before the event even started, and hundreds more registered at the door.
Their opinions may differ, but their goal is the same - "Make Barack Obama a one-term president," Ferry said.
Local Republicans spoke for each of their party's presidential candidates.
Local contractor Clint Jansen spoke on behalf of Ron Paul.
"We're all here today to make sure Obama is a one-term president," Jansen said, as the room broke into applause. "It's a shame how far left we have allowed this country to drift. I don't believe anyone deserves your vote, but I do believe he'll earn it."
Mike Deacon spoke for Mitt Romney, calling him "brilliant, a problem solver and a business creator" and pointed out that Romney helped saved the Utah Olympics and its reputation.
Claudia Alexander, speaking for Newt Gingrich said, "I think we can all agree that it's better to repeat our successes than our failures."
She briefly outlined Gingrich's 21st Century Contract with America.
Mike Beltracchi and Shayne Mitchell are running for District 2, the center of the valley. The winner will face Democrat Jon Stavney in November.
"Two people convinced me I had to run. Those two people are Peter Runyon and Jon Stavney," Beltracchi said.
Both Republicans said they'd put the open space back on the ballot, something Stavney and the other current commissioners, all Democrats, have refused to do.
"If we took 10,000 signatures down there, they still wouldn't put it on the ballot," Beltracchi said.
Open space spending consumes 17 percent of the county budget, behind only road and bridge spending (22 percent) and public safety (18 percent), Beltracchi said.
Eagle County's economy is stagnant, they said, and the county government has a share of the blame.
"It's not for the government to fix. It's for commerce and free enterprise to fix," Beltracchi said.
Minturn business owner Johnie Rosenfeld and former Eagle County undersheriff Jeff Layman are running for the District 1 seat, being vacated by Democrat Peter Runyon.
"This is my home and I'm running for county commissioner because I'm very concerned about the direction we've been going," Layman said.
He was the undersheriff and was laid off when budget cuts hit, so he understands what that's like, he said
"I will emphasize job creation and preservation," Layman said. "It's time to bring a new chapter of county government to the people of Eagle County. I can guarantee you I won't spend $4.5 million on anything resembling Stratton Flats," Layman said.
He also vowed not to spend general fund money for open space.
"I know what it takes to get business going in this area," said Rosenfeld, who owns Johnie's Garden in Minturn and serves on the Minturn Town Council.
"The government's role is limited. Besides police and fire protection and basic services, government's role is to help create opportunities to help private enterprise to be successful," Rosenfeld said.
Over-regulation has reached all the way to the county level, Rosenfeld said.
"The county just floated an idea saying we need a countywide business license. No we don't. The government needs to stay out of the way so private business can get us going again," Rosenfeld said.
Minnesota held a caucus and Missouri held its primary Tuesday.
Romney opened Colorado Caucus Day at a rally in RV America in Loveland.
Gingrich breezed through Colorado before jetting off to campaign in Ohio Tuesday.
Romney won Colorado easily in 2008. He has the support of top Colorado Republicans such as former Gov. Bill Owens, former Sen. Hank Brown and Attorney General John Suthers, who say Romney has the best chance against Obama in November.
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By Mia Lamar and Anna Prior
Hedge-fund manager William Ackman's $1 billion bet against nutritional-products maker Herbalife is again shining a light on direct-selling companies, prompting investors to evaluate investing in an industry that seems a magnet for controversy.
Mr. Ackman's assertion that Herbalife is operating a pyramid scheme is a familiar accusation, one that also has been aimed over the years at direct sellers Usana Health SciencesMedifast and most recently Nu Skin Enterprises, in its battle with short seller Citron Research last year. As direct sellers, the companies rely on individuals to market and sell their products to others, rather than operating a typical retail operation.
Investors in direct-selling companies have seen the value of their shares rise and fall with each twist in the Herbalife drama. Shares of Nu Skin, for instance, dropped to their lowest point since May 2011 after Mr. Ackman went public with his bet last month. They have rebounded somewhat–as has Herbalife's stock–though Nu Skin shares are still off roughly 7% from where they were.
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"If you're really an investor, I don't know how you go near these things," said Timothy Ghriskey, chief investment officer of the Solaris Group, a $2 billion investment firm. "You are subject to the whims of these activist investors, who move the stock significantly."
Mr. Ghriskey's firm experienced that last May, when its investment in Nu Skin shares was rocked after hedge-fund manager David Einhorn questioned Herbalife's sales accounting on its first-quarter conference call. Nu Skin shares tumbled 8.3% that day, amid a broad selloff in direct-selling stocks, and eventually shed nearly a quarter of their value over a two-week span.
"We made money on [Nu Skin], but obviously lost a lot of return with that downdraft," Mr. Ghriskey said.
Recurring criticism of companies like Herbalife is directed mainly at their "multi-level marketing" business models, a setup that pays distributors not only for their product sales, but also for products that are sold by distributors they recruit. Multi-level marketing is sanctioned by the Federal Trade Commission, though it warns against schemes that pay distributors only for the recruitment of others.
As a result, it is companies that operate multi-level marketing models that are again under the most intense spotlight. This includes Nu Skin and Usana, but also others like Blyth, which owns ViSalus Inc., a multi-level health and fitness products business. Other direct sellers that don't run multi-level marketing models — like Avon Products and Tupperware Brands — have been largely unscathed.
Shares of Nu Skin, Blyth, Usana and Herbalife all dropped more than 5% on Dec. 19, when Mr. Ackman went public with his short bet on Herbalife. The stocks have all since posted double-digit gains from late December lows, with Herbalife soaring some 72% since bottoming out on Christmas Eve.
Blyth, Usana and others mentioned in this story declined to talk or didn't return requests for comment. Herbalife, for its part, defended itself in a lengthy presentation to investors and analysts last week, and has won support from an industry association that refutes Mr. Ackman's claims.
"This unsubstantiated claim about a pyramid scheme is wrong," said Joseph Mariano, president of the Direct Selling Association, whose members include Herbalife and Nu Skin. Mr. Mariano pointed to various policies put in place by the association to guard against illegal activity, including a rule requiring companies to buy back inventory for at least 90% of what a distributor paid for it if they decide they want out.
"No pyramid scheme would enforce a buyback of inventory," Mr. Mariano said.
The coming months could be a wild ride for direct-selling companies as the Herbalife story plays out. The Wall Street Journal last week reported the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an inquiry into Herbalife, news that weighed on shares across the direct-selling sector.
Still, the controversy surrounding direct sellers hasn't deterred individuals like Brian Campbell, a portfolio manager for the $588 million Touchstone Small Cap Core Fund (TSFAX), which owns Nu Skin shares.
Mr. Campbell's fund first started buying Nu Skin shares after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in early 2011. Nu Skin draws nearly a third of its annual revenue from Japan, according to securities filings, and shares lost almost 10% of their value in the week following the tragedy.
He said he is "frustrated" by the stock's volatility and that Mr. Ackman's concerns with Herbalife shouldn't apply to Nu Skin. Nevertheless, he sees an opportunity to buy more Nu Skin shares, pointing out that the stock is now trading at less than seven times its operating earnings.
"That's a pretty attractive valuation for the visibility of growth they have in front of them," Mr. Campbell said.
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WASHINGTON -- This summer the dull-sounding technology term "network neutrality" prompted street protests and viral Web campaigns, crashing the Federal Communications Commission's website with a record-breaking flood of over a million comments from the public.
Growing alarm about big companies controlling online content has led to an unprecedented amount of public participation in a phase of the FCC's regulatory process usually reserved for lawyers and policy wonks.
The firestorm was sparked by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal to allow Internet service providers like AT&T and Verizon to charge companies to move their content through a speedier lane. Opponents say this "pay for play" model kills net neutrality, which means the equal treatment of all Web content without interference.
"It's effectively censorship and it's an unacceptable mode of oppression, whether governments do it or corporations," said April Glaser, a staff activist with the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Under Wheeler's proposal, companies like Google, Netflix and Skype would be able to use their deep pockets to pay extra for a faster pipe that ensures smoother, speedier streaming for their users. Public interest groups argue that this gives the big companies an unfair advantage, discriminating against other content as well as against innovative new companies that can't afford to pay the toll.
"For example, a mainstream story on CNN's site would be much faster than the website to an alternative media outlet with a piece on gun violence in an underrepresented neighborhood," Glaser said.
President Barack Obama was greeted by pro-network neutrality protesters during his visit to Silicon Valley on July 23. One demonstration drew 150 people, ranging from college students to retirees, urging the president: "Don't kill the Internet," according to Glaser.
"People have really begun to understand that Internet service providers are essentially trying to be gatekeepers of the Internet," she said. "And they don't want to be channeled toward these websites that are paying for their attention."
An explosion of public comments at the FCC is usually tied to media outrage. Singer Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show drew more than 1.4 million complaints. Until now, this level of indignation was unheard of for a policy issue that is essentially dry regulatory law-making.
Surrounded by telecommunications lobbyists in the Washington bubble, the FCC had no idea there would be such blow-back to the proposal, says Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Internet policy expert at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.
"Things really changed two years ago when SOPA showed the public that the Internet wasn't created by God, that the government can screw up the Web that we all use," he said, referring to the efforts against the Stop Online Piracy Act legislation in 2012 that opponents said would stifle free speech.
Bringing a technology concept like net neutrality to the public's attention is no small task, and debate remained mainly among experts and web blogs until this summer. A Pew Research Center study shows that between January and May of this year, coverage about net neutrality in national television news was "all but absent" and "sparse in most major newspapers."
This summer's public backlash created a snowball effect between the viral Internet and public figures from comedians to politicians taking a stand.
First came technology advocacy groups, asking everyday web users to consider the start-ups, nonprofits and community sites that cannot afford these pay-for-priority tolls.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation site DearFCC.org had an easy form that over 117,000 people used to submit a comment with a few keystrokes.
Others started millennial-friendly social media campaigns, like advocacy group Common Cause's Save The Selfie, to raise awareness about what they called the attack on the "21st century public square."
From there it gained steam. Comedian John Oliver devoted a segment of his popular HBO show to the topic, encouraging viewers to speak out against Internet service providers charging Web services for priority access. His rant went viral, and the resulting flood of comments crashed the FCC website -- for the first time ever.
As the deadline for public comments approached, thousands of individuals and companies on Twitter shared banners that read "Urgent: If you're not freaking out about Net Neutrality right now, you're not paying attention."
The FCC website crashed again, and the deadline had to be extended because of the "overwhelming surge in traffic," according to the commission.
What effect the inundation of comments will have on the decision making remains to be seen. As of July 25, 1,091,248 comments have been submitted, and it will be a challenge to sift through form letters and abusive comments to get to the substantive ones, the FCC said.
Major telecommunications companies including AT&T, Verizon and Comcast have fought back with their own comments, some spanning over 100 pages.
Applying telephone-style regulation to the Internet, which a large number of the public comments are pushing for, would "mire the industry in years of uncertainty and litigation," AT&T said in its statement filed with the FCC.
A group of 13 Democratic senators submitted a letter urging FCC Chairman Wheeler to implement an Internet-as-utility approach.
"If the FCC allows big corporations to negotiate fast lane deals, the Internet will be sold to the highest bidder," Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who signed the letter, said in a statement.
In the meantime, we should not ignore the significance of the fact that the topic of Internet regulation has become a part of the national debate, says Ammori of Stanford Law School.
"Your comment should matter even if you didn't hire a lawyer to write it for you, and so people are using the Internet to save the Internet," he said.


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Prior to coming to the Island University, Ms. Ellena was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs where she worked with women's basketball and men's and women's track and field. She also worked for NBC Camps, LLC. for several summers where she provided athletic training services for basketball and volleyball camps.
She received her Bachelor's of Science in Athletic Training from Oklahoma State University in 2006. She graduated in 2008 from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs with her Masters of Science in Sports Medicine.
Ms. Ellena is an approved clinical instructor (ACI) for the Islanders Athletics Training Education Program (ATEP). She is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) and is on the Young Professional Committee for the Southwest Athletic Trainers Association (SWATA). In addition, she serves on the officer's board for the Coastal Bend Athletic Trainers Society (CBATS) as a university representative.
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The pan was advertised as a brownie pan when I bought it but it will not work good for brownies or cakes, maybe they've changed the description in their add by now though. It's great for short bread, cookies, and even to be used as a soap making mold. Even though advertised as non-stick I would use some cooking spray to help the baked goods release easier.


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CUPERTINO -- City officials and Apple's (AAPL) chief financial officer Wednesday celebrated the launch of the company's spaceship-shaped headquarters after a series of unanimous City Council votes that pave the way for construction to begin on the 2.8 million-square-foot behemoth by the end of the year.
After Tuesday night's council votes, Mayor Orrin Mahoney and Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer joined each other at a news conference Wednesday to cement the friendship between the iconic Silicon Valley company and the city that hosts it.
"It is a very special relationship," Mahoney said. "There's an emotional connection on both sides."
Mahoney said Cupertino is recognized around the world because of Apple, which he called "a very special company."
Oppenheimer was quick to return the warmth.
"This is a very special moment for us at Apple," he said. "Cupertino is Apple's home. We love Cupertino."
Oppenheimer promised that Apple will create "the best office building ever built in the world. ... It will be a place for the best team in the industry to innovate for decades to come."
Final and largely perfunctory votes will be taken in November, but Tuesday's unanimous approval made it clear the city supports the dream of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for "Apple Campus 2."
The four-story ring of curved glass will be home to as many as 14,200 employees. Even though it will be surrounded by acres of green space, its location near busy Interstate 280 will cause "significant but unavoidable" congestion, according to traffic analysts who spoke Tuesday.
In response, Apple promised to underwrite roadway improvements to alleviate the congestion throughout Cupertino, and vowed to raise from under 30 to 34 the percentage of its employees who will be using public transit or Apple's shuttle buses to commute to work.
"Steve transformed Apple into one of the most innovative companies in the world and we understand the responsibilities that come from carrying his legacy forward with this project," Dan Whisenhunt, Apple's head of real estate and facilities, told the council Tuesday. "We've designed it with the same care and attention to detail as we do with all Apple products."
With Councilman Rod Sinks recusing himself because his wife works for Apple, Mahoney and his three colleagues quickly took up a series of votes that represented Cupertino's first official blessing of the Apple campus.
Much of the session was a rehash of environmental and other impacts posed by the project, with the first hour devoted to traffic.
"The project will certainly cause traffic issues," Councilman Mark Santoro said shortly before the vote, "but I'm happy to hear Apple's going to work with us on solving these problems."
Whisenhunt, Apple's point person on the project, said the building would be a manifestation of Jobs' lifelong love of the city.
"Right here at this same podium two years ago," he said, "Steve shared his excitement about this campus and about creating a home where Apple grew up. Cupertino is synonymous with Apple; it's on every box" of Apple products "and we're immensely proud of that."
During a public-comment session, most speakers wholeheartedly supported Apple.
"As my mom used to say, 'Don't bite the hand that feeds you,' " longtime resident Carol Baker told the council. "If we don't honor Apple with this building, they'll leave. There's no reason for them to stay here and be loyal to a community that doesn't support them. But if they left, it would be a disaster for the city."
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TRUCKEE, Calif. - The 2nd Annual Truckee Dodgeball Tournament presented by FiftyFifty Brewing Co., the High Fives Foundation and Northwestern Mutual - Ryan Williams raised more than $1,200 for the High Fives Foundation's Winter Empowerment Program Service Fund. The event took place at the Truckee Tahoe Airport on Sunday, Oct. 21.
The championship Growler Cup trophy, crafted by Darkside Metal Design in Truckee, was taken home by the Sugar Bowl Academy team, led by local professional skier Daron Rahlves. Participants and spectators, enjoyed beverages from the FiftyFifty Brewing Co., as well as sushi from Mamasake Squaw's Food Truck.
"Funds raised at the Tournament will allow High Fives to continue to positively impact the lives of injured winter action sports athletes in a meaningful way," said Roy Tuscany, High Fives Foundation co-founder and president. "It is my goal to raise addition funds for the Foundation through High Fives' events and continue to identify ways to support injured athletes in need."
The Winter Empowerment Program Service Fund provides financial support to injured winter action sports athletes, assisting them through the recovery process. Additionally, the Fund helps injured athletes achieve their goals in order to thrive as disabled athletes participating in winter adaptive sports.
To date, the Winter Empowerment Fund has assisted 33 athletes in eight respective funding categories which include: living expenses, insurance, travel, health, High Fives Healing Network, adaptive equipment, winter equipment, programs and stoke (positive energy, outlook and attitude).
The next High Fives Foundation fundraising event will be High Fives on Tap at the Alchemist Brewery in Waterbury, Vt., on Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. (EST). Advance tickets can be purchased at www.highfivesfoundation.org.
The High Fives Foundation is a Tahoe-based 501.c.3 non-profit organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for athletes who have suffered a life-altering injury while pursuing their dream in the winter action sports community. Follow High Fives on Twitter.com/hi5sfoundation and like us on Facebook.com/HighFivesFoundation.


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EPA Grants E15 Fuel Waiver for Newer Vehicles
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waived on October 13 a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10% ethanol, allowing up to 15% ethanol for model year 2007 and newer cars and light trucks. This is the first of a number of actions that are needed from federal, state, and industry to allow commercialization of so-called E15 gasoline blends. The EPA made the decision after a review of DOE's testing on E15's impact on engine durability and emissions. A ruling on the use of E15 in model year 2001 to 2006 vehicles will be made after EPA receives the results of additional DOE testing, which is expected to be completed in November. However, no waiver is being granted this year for E15 use in model year 2000 and older cars , or in light trucks—or in any motorcycles, heavy-duty vehicles, or non-road engines—because currently there is no testing data to support such a waiver. Since 1979, up to 10% ethanol or E10 has been used for all conventional cars and light trucks, and for non-road vehicles.
Additionally, several steps are being taken to help consumers easily identify the correct fuel for their vehicles and equipment. First, EPA is proposing E15 pump labeling requirements, including a requirement that the fuel industry specify the ethanol content of gasoline sold to retailers. There would also be a quarterly survey of retail stations to help ensure their gas pumps are properly labeled. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandated an increase in the overall volume of renewable fuels in the marketplace, reaching a 36 billion gallons total in 2022. Ethanol is considered a renewable fuel because it is produced from plant products or wastes and not from fossil fuels. Ethanol is blended with gasoline for use in most areas across the country. See the EPA release and the EPA E15 Web site.


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A state appellate court dropped a bomb late Thursday on the early stages of the state's plan to divert fresh Northern California water under or around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on its way to Central and Southern California.
On a 2-1 decision, a three-justice appeal panel in Sacramento ruled the California Constitution bars the state from entering private properties to do preliminary soil testing and environmental studies unless it wants to condemn affected sections of the parcels through its power of eminent domain.
The ruling on soil testing affirms a 2011 decision by a retired Superior Court judge sitting in San Joaquin County. The ruling on environmental studies reverses a separate 2011 ruling by the same judge.
In a terse statement released Friday, the state Department of Water Resources said it "does not expect yesterday's ... decision to have any material impact on the schedule of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). Based on the lower court's decision, DWR has been proceeding pursuant to the eminent domain process to conduct geotechnical drilling and will continue to do so."
Judge John P. Farrell, retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court, was appointed by the chief justice of the California Supreme Court to handle the issue.
The state does not want to condemn, acquire and pay for property that it has not yet decided will be used for a tunnel or canal diversion project. But the two-justice majority of the 3rd District Court of Appeal panel said in a 44-page opinion that drilling to test the soil and tramping around to survey the environment are legal "takings" of property and must be done in accord with procedures spelled out in California's Eminent Domain Law.
The "land-entry statutes" relied on by the state Department of Water Resources do not apply to those activities because they fail to "provide for a condemnation suit in which the landowners receive all of their constitutional rights against the state's exercise of its eminent domain authority, including the right to a jury determination of just compensation for a direct and permanent taking," said the majority.
The state wants to enter private land and drill for soil samples, as deep as 200 feet, to find the best route for a canal or tunnel to divert a portion of the Sacramento River's flow out of the environmentally sensitive estuary and directly into state and federal Delta water diversion pumps near Tracy. The drilled holes would be left filled with concrete.
Water authorities also want to enter the properties to determine each parcel's botany and hydrology; the presence of sensitive plant and animal species; the existence of vernal pools, wetlands and other animal habitat; the extent of cultural resources and utilities; and potential for recreational uses.
The majority noted the environmental crews would take minor soil samples, observe and trap certain animals and access the properties by motor vehicle, on foot, and by boat when necessary. If the state wants to "perform actions that will result in the acquisition of a property interest, permanent or temporary, large or small, it must directly condemn those interests and pay for them," the majority opinion declared.
The litigation involves more than 150 owners of more than 240 parcels in Sacramento, San Joaquin, Yolo, Solano and Contra Costa counties. The properties total tens of thousands of acres used primarily for commercial agriculture, cattle ranching and recreation.
There is a strong possibility that the state will seek review of Thursday's opinion at the California Supreme Court, and the opinion is likely to cause a substantial delay of the project. The majority opinion was authored by Associate Justice George Nicholson, who was joined by Associate Justice Andrea Lynn Hoch.
In a dissent two pages longer than the majority opinion, Acting Presiding Justice Cole Blease took strong exception to the reasoning of his colleagues. Blease quotes the land-entry statutes as allowing an entity with eminent domain power to go on property "to make photographs, studies, surveys, examinations, tests, soundings, borings, samplings, or appraisals ... reasonably related to (possible) acquisition or use of the property." The majority's ruling "clearly was not the purpose of the Legislature in enacting a procedure for preliminary (study), which provides notice and payment to the owner and a procedure for ensuring that the testing is reasonably necessary, without obligating the (public entity) to file a traditional condemnation proceeding," Blease wrote.
"We should construe the entry statutes as constituting an eminent domain proceeding," he wrote.
Kelly Gust of Bay Area News Group also contributed to this story. Reach her at email@example.com.


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Alaska Senate Race: Do Attacks Signal a Surge for Lt. Gov. Treadwell?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – For months, Sen. Mark Begich and his Democratic allies have whacked Dan Sullivan, the Republican with the largest campaign war chest and most support from outside spending groups.
Starting Tuesday, Mr. Begich's campaign is including Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell in its attacks, lumping together Messrs. Treadwell and Sullivan in a new television advertisement calling the two Republicans' positions on contraception and abortion rights "truly frightening."
The new ad is airing a day after Mr. Treadwell came under attack from his right from Joe Miller, who carries the tea-party mantle in the campaign. Days before, a super PAC backing Mr. Sullivan turned its fire against Mr. Treadwell, knocking him in a TV ad that began airing late last month.
For Mr. Treadwell, largely forgotten by national analysts in a race where Mr. Sullivan has far outraised him, sustaining fire from three different directions represents progress. With two weeks to go before Alaska's Aug. 19 primary, Mr. Treadwell's campaign believes he's making a charge thanks in part to the nearly $4 million in negative advertising Senate Democrats have spent against Mr. Sullivan.
The Begich campaign ad marks the first time the incumbent has turned its considerable television fire on anyone but Mr. Sullivan, who has been the target of Begich campaign ads for months. For weeks, Mr. Begich's aides have been emailing reporters daily to knock Mr. Treadwell on social issues, though the vast majority of Alaska voters have not been exposed to those attacks.
At a GOP debate Monday, Messrs. Treadwell, Sullivan and Miller each labeled themselves as pro-life candidates – although with varying exceptions. Mr. Sullivan would keep abortion legal in the case of rape, incest and to protect the mother's life. Mr. Treadwell would allow the procedure to protect the mother's life. And Mr. Miller – not mentioned in the Begich campaign ad — said he would allow no exceptions.
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"I don't think we ought to be talking about exceptions, we ought to be talking about life," Mr. Miller said at the debate, held in the sanctuary of an evangelical church in Eagle River, Alaska. "Why are we going to punish the sons and daughters for the father's sins? That's what we do for the rape and incest exception."
At the same time Mr. Sullivan's campaign mailed a flyer to Republican homes attacking Mr. Treadwell and the super PAC backing Mr. Sullivan accused Mr. Treadwell of the worst crime in Alaska Republican politics: Being like Mr. Begich.
Mr. Miller used his attacks during the debate on Mr. Treadwell, not the apparent frontrunner Mr. Sullivan, who has not focused his campaign on social issues as he has sought to position himself as the most electable general election candidate against Mr. Begich.
At the debate in Eagle River, Mr. Miller's supporters distributed news clippings about Mr. Treadwell that could be infuriating to a socially conservative audience: That in 2012 he agreed to allow transgendered people to "correct the gender marker" on their Alaska driver's license and that he blocked a measure that would have allowed a statewide referendum to outlaw abortion. During the debate, Mr. Treadwell said the initiative would have been unconstitutional and acted on advice of the state's lawyers.
But Mr. Miller used the episode to attack Mr. Treadwell.
"You know, we heard that argument before, 'I was just following orders,'" Mr. Miller said. "The question to you is do you take an oath to the Constitution or to the Supreme Court, Mead?"
Mr. Treadwell was not allowed a rebuttal by the debate's moderator.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's tennis team will add three players to the 2013 recruiting class, Director of Tennis Steve Moore announced today. Paul Cook (Petts Wood, England), Kevin Bettendroffer (Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France) and Mitchell Cook (Brisbane, Australia) will join the reigning Southland Conference Champions for the 2013-14 season.
"Our coaching staff put a lot of research and diligence into these three players, as we really only look for the right fits for our team," Moore said. "We're very proud to announce these young men are coming to the Island."
P. Cook was ranked as high as No. 4 in England in juniors and was coached by former Islander legend James Langford. According to Moore, he is one of the best British players that will be attending any college this fall.
"I'm sure Paul will get off the airplane well versed about how we do things with James having coached him this past year," Moore said. "James was one of the best leaders and teammates we have ever had here, not to mention an incredible player."
Bettendroffer comes to the Island University with a minus 4.6 ranking, which is about as high as you can get to come to any college.
"That French ranking means a player should play at the top of a nationally-ranked team immediately," Moore said. "We are excited beyond words about Kevin and his potential as an Islander player. I really credit Assistant Coach Aurelien Tave a lot in the recruitment of Kevin. Aurelien is also from France and did a lot of the legwork on this.
"We're very happy to have Kevin Bettendroffer and Paul Cook join the Islanders. These are two blue-chip recruits that should make an immediate impact on our team. Their ranking and results speak for themselves. We're very proud these two young men chose the Islanders over numerous highly ranked programs. Their level of tennis is extremely impressive, but what I like most about these guys is they have those special attributes that you need to be an Islander – an extreme work ethic and a commitment to the team concept. Kevin and Paul will be great teammates."
Coach Moore and his staff have also received a commitment from M. Cook, a native of Brisbane, Australia. He will be a sophomore, but due to eligibility rules, he will have to sit a year, however, Moore feels he's worth it.
"He's a tremendous doubles player, has great potential and also has those work ethics and teammate attributes that we look for so carefully," Moore said. "He is coached by one of the top coaches in Australia, Chris Bates, a longtime friend in the business and also the former coach of former Islanders women's tennis player Leanne Mascall."
The three will join an Islanders' men's team that loses only one starter in the top singles lineup from a 2013 team that tallied a 17-8 overall record and advanced to the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in the last six years. The Islanders clinched their sixth straight Southland Conference Championship in the regular season and won the Southland Conference Tournament for the fourth time. The team was also ranked in the top 10 in NCAA Division I national attendance and was ranked in the top 60 Division I national ranking for the seventh consecutive season.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, follow the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis), Twitter (@IslandersTennis) and Instagram (@islanderstennis).


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Stanford won't get the chance to defend its NIT title in Madison Square Garden, falling to Alabama 66-54 on Saturday in a second-round game in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Chasson Randle led the Cardinal with 11 points. Leading scorer Dwight Powell was 1-of-6 shooting for two points. He played only 24 minutes because of foul trouble.
Stanford (19-15) twice closed to within four points in the second half but went 4:40 without a field goal late.
"They came out energized and physical," Stanford's Josh Huestis said. "They made us speed up."
Alabama (23-12) will play Maryland in a quarterfinal Tuesday, with the winnner advancing to New York.
Wire services contributed to this report.


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Mondays can be tough on all of us, but about 600 elementary and preschool students chased the Monday Blues with a much anticipated field trip to see Beauty & the Beast at Meridian's Temple Theater.
"They get to do a field trip once a year and today, second and third grade got to come to this," said Brandy Vance of Leake Academy.
There were children from all over east-central Mississippi and west Alabama completely absorbed in the famous fairy tale.
The actors playing the roles of the famous Belle and her Beast were not from the area. In fact, the man in the beast costume says he and the actors working for the company, American Theater Arts for Youth,
have been on the road, touring the United States for the past several months.
"Our company is located in Philadelphia, Penn., and a lot of our actors are from New York," said James Nester. "Some of us are from Pennsylvania, others are from New Jersey. So, we are from all around different areas."
The cast has four more months on the road. Its performance at Meridian's Temple Theater was only one of the five shows they put on every week from a different location.
"We are all enjoying it. We are all having a great time," Nester said. "We love performing for the kids and all of their reactions, their eyes sparkling bright. their faces lighting up; it's just great."
The play was such a hit with our local children, theater owner Roger Smith plans on having the company return again in the near future.
"We have partnered with them to try to bring more of things like this to Meridian," Smith said. "This was the first one we've done, but we actually have another one coming up later on in the year."
Theater Arts for the Youth has been doing productions for 40 years. Its shows are seen by 1.2 million students annually.


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ALAMEDA -- Raiders starting middle linebacker Rolando McClain said Wednesday that he no longer is with the team. The Raiders countered by saying McClain still is on their 53-man roster.
Then again, this might be just a matter of semantics, given the deadline to waive McClain came and went without a move being made.
"Officially no longer an Oakland Raider!!" McClain posted on his Facebook page.
He then added, "Well technically I am. But I'm mentally done. Just waiting on my papers" and "I'd like to be anywhere besides here."
What we know for certain is that McClain did not practice Wednesday because of what coach Dennis Allen called "team-related issues."
When asked if he cared to share more details, Allen said: "No more details, no more comments. Just team-related issues."
The Raiders have until 1 p.m. Thursday to submit McClain to the waiver wire for the transaction to kick in that day. A team spokesman said he doesn't know whether that's going to take place.
McClain was Oakland's first-round pick in 2010, the No. 8 overall selection, out of Alabama. He started from the outset but has failed to live up to the lofty expectations of a player so highly regarded coming out of college, where he was a standout for the Crimson Tide.
Allen demoted McClain from an every-down player to someone that played only in the base package after four games this season. Rookie Miles Burris supplanted McClain whenever the Raiders went to their nickel package.
McClain is earning $970,000 this season in base salary. He is slated to make $4,005,000 in 2013, $4,805,000 in 2014 and $2,665,000 in 2015.
If McClain gets waived, then veteran Omar Gaither is in line to start in McClain's place Sunday against the Cleveland Browns.
Gaither was signed Nov. 14 and played on special teams the past two games
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on twitter at Twitter.com/Jerrymcd.


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Political left becoming great threat to nation
February 23, 2013
The left's argument for the health care mandate is the height of hypocrisy. They claim that working people who can afford insurance are irresponsible for not buying it....
I noticed that What always accuses someone of 'ranting' when the subject is too difficult for him to wrap his unused brain around. I am enjoying the fun listening to ridiculous liberal logic. LOL.
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Puremagix, if the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as a nail... I suggest that you stop listening to Fox News, AFR (which is one of the most dangerously ignorant sources out there) - and yes, stop listening to MSNBC or CNN - they are either tilted to one political camp or the other or in the case of CNN, they are dedicated to news as reality entertainment. Look for impartial sources - BBC or AlJazeera - and then make up your own mind. But you sound to me for all the world like the grand poobah of the Rush Limbaugh fan club.
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once again,drag it off subject if you start losing your argument.
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The left IS a threat to a free nation. It's because they've become entertwined with the communist party. They are miserable little creatures with no real future. They hate God, they hate freedom for all, they love chaos, starting turmoil through racist means and pitting one group against another and sit back and laugh and enjoy others misery. They tax and tax people to the point of starvation and have no compassion for the results that cause poverty for people. It's all about them. They have no sympathy or compassion for people. It's a MENTAL DISEASE!
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Puremagix seems to make a distinction between entitlements for himself (roads, police, etc.) and entitlements for someone else (welfare, food stamps, etc.) - money spent (and yes, I would agree in many cases wasted) on the rubix cube that is foreign policy is ill-spent - but that is not socialism. That's just bad foreign policy, and much of it is rooted in capitalism. Anyone who believes the Gulf War and the war in Iraq were launched for anything OTHER than to benefit Exxon Mobil is not facing reality. We waste a LOT of tax dollars propping up corrupt governments like Afghanistan and funding senseless pork-barrel projects like farm subsidies and dying military bases, but again, that isn not socialism - it's bad governance. If we want to fix things, we don't need a massive tilt to the political right, we need a massive campaign finance reform, do away with 90% of the lobbying (which in other countries is called bribery) and a repeal of Citizens United.
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A fitting comment from the aptly named Daft...
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By the way, the political "left" is so NOT the left it's a joke. What you characterize as left is Barry Goldwater conservatism! Today's republicans would make Ronald Reagan turn over in his grave. There is a difference between conservative (measured, cautious, deliberate, fair-minded) and whacked (God bless America, pass the guns, shut down social security, ban public radio, send Muslims home, ban minimum wage, the list goes on) that our nation has become the laughing stock of the world. We lead the world in murders, trail our civilized brethren in health care, infant mortality, income disparity,and math and science scores - never mind what we have done to the arts (we created Honey Boo Boo...) But by God we don't let our super bowl half-time show corrupt our children with 5/16th of a second of female nipple. That's showing them! Thanks to false conservatism, we are becoming the nation of idiots.
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Bradley, you could not be more mistaken. Truth is, much of what is rotten in Obamacare was put in there by bought-and-sold republicans to kiss up to health care companies and pharmas. Why would Congress insist that Medicare be prevented from negotiating drug prices? It makes no sense, but thanks to flag-waving GOP lawmakers, it in there. By the way, YOU do NOT live independent of the government. If you drove on a public road, attended a public school, relied on police and fire services, then you my friend are living the socialist dream. To the extent that you pay into a private FOR-PROFIT health insurance plan that skims 40% off the top before it ever goes into the company, you are living the capitalist nightmare burlesquing as socialism. The point is, we are all in this together, and to focus on welfare and immigrants is exactly what Rush Limbaugh and the republican party WANTS you to do. Why are none of the Wall St. criminals behind bars? They are your problem, not Obama.
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ACC 201: Principles of Accounting I
Prerequisite: MATH 112, 113 or higher
Offered: Fall
An introduction to accounting concepts and principles involved in the preparation of financial reports for internal and external use.
3 credit hours
ACC 201: Principles of Accounting II
Prerequisite: ACC 201
Offered: Spring
An introduction to the analysis and interpretation of accounting data and its use in management planning and control.
3 credit hours
ACC 301-302: Intermediate Accounting I-II
Prerequisite: Pre-Business Curriculum
Offered: ACC 301 – Fall; ACC 302 – Spring
Detailed study of the theory of accounts and the techniques of accounting; balance sheet accounts and problems of recording, tracing and valuation; revenue recognition and income determination under the various theories of recognition.
Each course is 3 credit hours.
ACC 303: Cost Accounting
Prerequisite: BUS/ACC Curriculum
Offered: Spring
Concepts of cost in developing information for management use in the determination of income, the selections of activities or projects, and the measurement of performance.
3 credit hours
ACC 304: Income Taxation
Prerequisite: Pre-BUS Curriculum
Offered: Fall
Introduction to federal income tax law as it relates to planning to minimize income taxes for individuals, corporations, and partnerships. Includes preparation of individual tax returns utilizing such planning.
3 credit hours
ACC 305: Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
Prerequisite: Pre-BUS Curriculum
Offered: Fall, as needed
A study of accounting and reporting principles, standards, and procedures applicable to governmental and other non-profit organizations.
3 credit hours
ACC 401: Auditing
Prerequisite: ACC 301, 302
Offered: Fall
A study of the practical application of accounting knowledge to the problems of auditing and a study of the installation, use and effect of systems, of internal control.
3 credit hours
ACC 410: Advanced Accounting
Prerequisites: ACC 301, 302
Offered: Spring, as needed
A study of partnerships, business combinations, consolidated financial statements, fund accounting and other contemporary accounting issues.
3 credit hours
ACC 460: Accounting Information Systems
Prerequisite: Pre-Bus curriculum
Offered: Fall, as needed
Accounting information Systems is concerned with the way computerized information systems impact how accounting data is captured, processed, and communicated. The course introduces the student to the people, technology, procedures, and controls that are necessary to conduct internal and external e-business with an emphasis on the internal controls over such systems. Students will be introduced to computerized accounting packages and will utilize information to make decisions.
3 credit hours
ACC 461-469: Special Topics in Accounting
Prerequisite: Junior status
Offered: As needed
Elective courses may be offered as special topics in accounting on an occasional basis depending on the availability and interest of students and faculty.
3 credit hours
ACC 470: Accounting Internship
Prerequisite: Must be a full-time student with a Business Administration major the semester prior to the one in which the internship will be accomplished. Must have completed the Pre-Bus curriculum and have junior or senior status.
Offered: As needed
Students are placed with cooperating institutions and are jointly supervised by a work supervisor and a faculty member. Specified academic and work requirements are stated in a learning work agreement.
1-3 credit hours
ACC 475: Accounting Independent Study
Prerequisite: Junior or senior status and consent of instructor
Offered: As needed
Students have an opportunity to supplement formal course offerings with Independent Study. This must be arranged with the Faculty Advisor and must be in compliance with the College requirements for Independent Study.
1-3 credit hours
ACC 488: Readings and Research in Accounting
Prerequisite: Business Administration major with senior status
Offered: Fall
An intense study of the research process, which moves the student sequentially from a general topic, to formulating a thesis, to the final draft of a comprehensive research project. The instructor will guide the student through planning, organizing, researching and drafting an accounting related research report that sets forth a problem and offers a convincing solution. Students will make presentations on their readings and research throughout the semester culminating in a major formal presentation of their work.
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Netflix Releases Longer 'House of Cards' Second Season Trailer
Netflix released a new trailer for the second season of its political drama "House of Cards" that includes footage from coming shows along with highlights from previous episodes. The trailer is part of a broad ramp-up of promotions for the series that recently landed four Golden Globe nominations.
The show stars Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood, a Southern congressman bent on accumulating power. Its premiere marked a departure for television because the first season was released directly on Netflix last February. The move bucked entertainment industry norms, which traditionally dictated that shows shows appeared online only after they debut on TV.
The new trailer follows a teaser released last week, which revealed little about the direction the story will take. The new season will be released on Feb. 14.