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A deputy stopped a car after she saw the driver roll through a stop sign on U.S. Highway 6 in Edwards on Sept. 1.
The car smelled strongly of perfume and marijuana. There were four people in the car and the officer asked the 21-year-old driver where the marijuana was. The driver looked at her friends and said there wasn't any. She said they had just smoked some at a friend's house. The deputy said she smelled unburned marijuana and the driver handed over a pipe.
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When the drug dog arrived, a 22-year-old passenger of the car admitted she hid the driver's marijuana in her shoe.
A 17-year-old passenger in the car was sober and allowed to drive the car home.
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A deputy saw two men arguing with each other on Main Street in Edwards on Sept. 8.
One of the men had a restraining order that prohibited him from possessing or consuming alcohol. The 25-year-old man said he'd had six beers. He also had a small, mostly empty bottle of whiskey in his pocket. He was arrested for violating the protection order.
Deputies used a confidential informant (CI) for liquor compliance checks in Edwards Sept. 12.
The CI was between 18 and 20 years old and attempted to buy alcohol at various restaurants. The CI was also in the company of older people - undercover deputies.
In one restaurant, a 17-year-old employee sold the CI a beer without asking for identification to verify the CI's age. At another restaurant, a 50-year-old employee served the CI without checking ID. Both employees were cited for selling an alcoholic beverage to a person under 21.
A 38-year-old man called deputies on Sept. 11 to report a case of "theft and attempted manslaughter."
He said he was in the Golden Peak area of Vail Mountain. He rappelled down the Benchmark Cliffs with a climbing rope for a day of hunting. He left the rope in place intending to climb back out that way. When he returned, his climbing gear was gone. He had to hike an extra four hours to get around the cliff and back to his car.
He suspected a group of young people partying nearby were responsible for the theft.
A deputy told the man that if he caught anyone he would only be able to charge them for reckless endangerment and theft.
The owner of an Edwards bike shop called deputies Sept. 14 after he realized the shop had been swindled in a couple deals over the summer.
In the first case, a $3,423 bike was stolen from under the noses of the manager and employees a few months earlier.
The buyer gave the employees a credit card to pay for the bike and identified himself with an Arizona driver license as "Jim Miller." The employees did not make a record of the driver license information.
The credit card came up "denied." The suspect explained that he had just put a hold on the card and convinced the employees to run the card "off line." He also made a phone call in which he seemed to talk to someone who authorized the purchase with the credit card company.
The store tried to run the credit card later and it was continuously denied. A deputy tried calling all the phone numbers provided and they were all disconnected.
In the other case, the store received an email on Sept. 7 from a suspect who identified himself as "Marcus Junior." He wanted to buy a bike he saw on the store's website and have it shipped to an address in Florida.
The $10,869 bike was shipped. The shop owner then checked with the bank to see if the wire transfer from Sao Palo, Brazil, had gone through and it hadn't.
The owner told deputies he would look into the Florida shipping address next and get back to them.
On Sept. 15, a deputy saw a green car blocking the exit driveway for fire and paramedic crews from their quarters in Gypsum.
The officer contacted the 22-year-old driver and asked why he was parked in the driveway. The man seemed nervous and kept looking at his center console as he explained that he was trying to turn around to get some ice cream.
The deputy smelled marijuana in the car and asked if there was some in the vehicle. The driver looked at the console and said, "Ummm, yes." He handed over a plastic bag with less than 2 ounces of marijuana. He was cited for possession.
A deputy stopped a car in Vail on Sept. 15 because it had a headlight out.
The officer smelled marijuana when he contacted the 21-year-old driver. He talked to the man about the headlight and noticed some marijuana paraphernalia on the front passenger seat. He asked the man if it was what he thought it was and if there was any more in the car. The man said yes and gave the marijuana and paraphernalia to the officer.
He said he smoked about six hours earlier, before work. His eyes were glassy and, when he spoke, the deputy saw his tongue was green, which is common on a person who recently smoked pot.
The man was arrested for DUID, possession of marijuana and a broken headlight.
A deputy stopped a car in Gypsum on Sept. 18 for defective license plate lamps.
The 22-year-old driver said he didn't have a license or proof of insurance. The officer also smelled marijuana in the car.
The man's license turned out to be canceled for an unpaid ticket. At that point, the officer asked the man for permission to search the car. He found a Batman lunch box with marijuana and several bits of paraphernalia.
The man was cited for driving without a license, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.
• Three unlocked bicycles were stolen from an open garage on River Pines Court in Edwards on Sept. 11. Their combined value was about $800.
• A Gypsum resident on Lost Lane complained that people are frequently trespassing across her property as a shortcut to another neighborhood. She said it happens most often on the weekends and her fence and garden are getting damaged.


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Rep. Randy Baumgardner secured a seat in the state Senate, winning the majority of votes in all but two Senate District 8 counties - one of them being Summit - based on early election results Tuesday night.
The Hot Sulphur Springs Republican, who is well-known across the region following two terms representing a similar district in the state House of Representatives, won 51 percent of the vote, with victories in Garfield, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco and Grand counties, unofficial voter counts indicated at 11 p.m. Tuesday.
"I was honored to represent northwest Colorado the last four years in the House," Baumgardner said. "I will continue to do a good job for the new county of Summit. I will be open to suggestions, to working with the county commissioners and to listening to the constituents of that county when I make my decisions at the state Capitol as a senator."
Summit and Routt backed Democratic challenger Emily Tracy, of Breckenridge.
Tracy said she was prepared for the race to be a difficult win for a Democrat in a largely Republican district.
"We knew going into this race way back, just based on the registration numbers in this district that it would be an uphill battle, regardless of who the Republican candidate was," she said. "I really enjoyed getting to know the people and the communities all over northwest Colorado, and I feel good about the race and how we did."
Baumgardner jumped into the Senate District 8 race earlier this year after he was drawn out of the north-west House district he has served for two terms. He challenged and beat incumbent Sen. Jean White, wife of Colorado Tourism Office director Al White, following an ugly primary race that targeted White for some of her moderate positions on social issues and exposed Baumgardner's link to a convicted sex offender.
Baumgardner was born and raised in Indiana. He relocated to Colorado in the mid-1990s and bought into a cattle ranch. He would later take a job with the Colorado Department of Transportation before landing his seat in the state House of Representatives in 2008. Baumgardner bills himself as an advocate of West Slope water rights and energy. He has repeatedly called for government to lend equal support across energy-production industries from coal and oil to wind and solar.
This race was Tracy's third shot at a Capitol job. She ran unsuccessfully in the GOP-dominated House District 60 in 2002 and 2004.
The Breckenridge Democrat was born in New York, grew up in Missouri and moved to Colorado for college in 1965. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in German/English literature, and after several years as a homemaker moved with her family to Canon City. She would later serve two four-year terms on the Canon City Council before beginning a career in social services.
During the campaign she promised to be a voice for the West Slope and to work across the aisle. But her platform fell short with voters in several counties, where Baumgardner had a strong base of support.
Baumgardner will take office in the state Senate in January and serve a four-year term.

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Danica Patrick's first season driving stock cars in was punctuated at times by jarring wrecks and verbal run-ins with other drivers. But this week, the first of the off season, provided a wild ride of a different sort.
The former IndyCar star and up-and-coming driver in Nascar's Nationwide and Sprint Cup series announced she and her husband, Paul Hospenthal, are divorcing after seven years of marriage. The revelation came two days after she was named the Most Popular Driver among Nationwide series competitors – an award determined by fans' votes.
Hospenthal, 47 years old, is a physical therapist who met Patrick, 30, when she sought treatment for a non-racing injury. They married in 2005.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Exhibit: Oh Sit! 14 Sculptors Consider the Chair
at Tower Plaza (in Highbridge Park), Manhattan
7:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
NYC Parks is pleased to host Oh Sit! 14 Sculptors Consider the Chair will be on view through November 8, 2015 in Highbridge Park located in northern Manhattan.
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Bryant Park Tai Chi
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7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Free classes for all ages and experience levels, provided by the CK Tai Chi Chuan Center.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
Morning Fitness at Fort Tryon Park
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Women in Comics
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8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
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8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
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Category: Sports, Outdoor Fitness, Seniors
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9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
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Summer Sports Experience
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9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
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9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
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January has without a doubt been all about the high-yield, or "junk" market, in Asia.
The region has racked up $9.1 billion worth of high-yield debt issuance this month, according to Dealogic data, more than 60 times the $148 million in January 2012. That accounts for 17% of global high-yield bond volume year-to-date, the region's highest share on record.
While Chinese issuers, particularly real estate developers, have led much of the high-yield frenzy in the region, sellers of high-yield debt are also becoming increasingly diverse. Companies from the Philippines and Indonesia made up 13% and 11% respectively of high-yield debt issuance in the region in January.
For example JG Summit Holdings, a conglomerate and one of the Philippines' biggest developers, sold $750 million worth of bonds, the biggest-ever international bond issue by a Philippine corporate.
Investors' hunt for yield has allowed even issuers deep in "junk" territory to sell debt. For example, mid-sized Chinese developer Hopson Development Holdings, rated triple-C-plus by Standard & Poor's, sold $300 million worth of five-year bonds at a yield of 9.875%.
According to Moody's, investors' appetite for such paper has allowed developers to raise longer-term funding than in 2012 Longfor Properties raised $500 million in 10-year bonds this month, compared to $400 million in seven-year bonds in October, while Kaisa Group Holdings raised $500 million in seven-year bonds compared to $250 million in five-year bonds in September.
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Matt Haughey wrote suggesting that we put all of our Cross tips, posts, and secrets from the Redline Vault of Cross Knowledge into one page and we responded with, "good idea," and created a category for all of our Cross posts.
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Matt Haughey wrote suggesting that we put all of our Cross tips, posts, and secrets from the Redline Vault of Cross Knowledge into one page and we responded with, "good idea," and created a category for all of our Cross posts.
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If you'd like to become a Baryshnikov over the Barriers, faster on the runups, and placing in the results, check the videos and related posts. Featuring Tim Rutledge (OG Cross racer), we cover the basics and disclose secrets from the Redline Vault of Cross Knowledge.
We put this resource together after Matt Haughey wrote:
Seriously, I pretty much watched every tutorial video ever made for cyclocross and the ten minutes or so you captured is the most valuable advice I found anywhere.
You should put a page up on bikehugger somewhere with all of the Cyclocross tips videos with Tim embedded
Done! And while we were out this year having fun, being part of the community, and trying to stay on course, knowing that it's better to "tip the bike over the barriers instead of carrying it" definetly helped (mistakenly thinking you had a flat for 2 laps did not!).
The most popular video we've made on Cross is this one.
And you can find the rest on our YouTube channel.
We've also collected all of our about Cyclocross into a category and you can find them with our Cross tag too.
Follow us on Flickr for photos and subscribe on Itunes.
In 2011, we've launched a new Suffer Faces blog where we'll feature the working men and women of Cross. Those that are out there every weekend racing their bikes cause they love it. We're also featuring Cross-related content on G+
Part two of the Seattle Cyclocross Finale featuring Single Speed and the Cat 3 field. Slippery S turns, Sand Pit Run up, and more are shown. Includes more "dancer like" form from Hugga.
Part One was published earlier today.
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Part 1 of video from the Single Speed mens race at the Seattle Cyclocross Finale. Shown from the Sand Pit Run Up and barriers. Part 2 features more racing, commentary, and will post later today.
Big props to the racers out there, in a very hard series, racing for the win, as Pam said afterwards, "Cross is not a poseur sport."
Thanks to Redline for supporting us with Cross bikes, including the Single Speed prototype, and reassuring me that I didn't have a flat for 2 laps.
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True Dat ........ When the Belle Plaine course flooded in 2007 the basket along the creek (hole was washed out. We walked along the banks and looked all over for it. It happened to be in the creek about 2 ft from the original location, but it was covered in sand, grass, sticks, etc so we were unable to see it. I found it when I jumped in to grab a disc ....... It's worth a shotGDL4000 wrote:It wouldn't take much debris to make it not visible in a deeper pool of creek water. Someone up that way should get in there and investigate on a nice warm day.
bman12449 wrote:thx, please keep us posted. There are a few us that have this as the #1 course in the state,and i myself cant wait for my next round there.
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News 12 at 6 o'clock, November 8, 2007
AUGUSTA, Ga--- There's a revolution going on in America's medical schools. The largest med school expansion since the 1970's. In the coming years we'll need more doctors than our medical schools can produce. The Medical College of Georgia has to grow. The question is -- where?
The students who end up in medical school are among the best of the best. But every year MCG has to turn away qualified students. There's just not enough room to teach them all. In an interview earlier this year, MCG President Dr. Dan Rahn told us, "We had 2000 applicants last year to the School of Medicine for our 190 slots. We had to turn people away who were deemed qualified."
With more people moving to Georgia and more of us living longer, MCG wants to admit more students who want to become our doctors. Dr. Randy Smith is a 1970 graduate of MCG. He's also a surgeon at University Hospital, MCG's next door neighbor. He sums it up this way: "I think everyone agrees we need more doctors, and we need 'em quickly."
Dr. Smith says Augusta is the best place to grow the medical school. "I think they need to utilize fully local resources before they think about expanding to the University of Georgia."
Athens does have something to offer MCG. There's a ready made campus that's being abandoned by the Navy Supply School and there are 2 local hospitals, Athens Regional and St. Marys. But at best, a move to Athens is still years away. You would have to combine the 2 hospitals there to match the size of the hospital that's right across the street from MCG: University Hospital.
For medical students, patients can be the best teachers. That's why you have to have hospitals that are willing to help. University is ready and willing, and right next door.
So how many MCG students are assigned to University? Dr. Smith tells us, "Today we have 2 residents in OBGYN. That's not enough."
What's the holdup? "I don't know; we've got the patients, the doctors and the money, so I don't know what the hold up is, Richard..."
As dean of the medical school, Dr. Doug Miller has a lot to say about where his students should be educated. The perception is MCG is willing to clear all these hurdles to get to Athens, but not cross the street to get to University.
"Well, that may be the perception, not the reality," Miller says. "We will have more students and residents at University Hospital before we have students and residents working clinically in the hospital in Athens or Gainesville."
Back at University Hospital, Dr. Smith, the MCG graduate, wonders why the state would spend time and money on the Athens plan when University is sitting right next door. "It's a little bit frustrating, because to me, it's a no-brainer."
Even Dean Miller admits there are serious questions about the Athens plan. According to Dr. Miller, "The real question for us remains whether there are enough patients and clinical experiences in that area for students to pursue their medical training."
But Augusta does have the patients. For example, MCG needs a place to teach its OBGYN residents. That's one of University's strong points, with three thousand deliveries a year. University is also building a brand new $50 million cardiac care facility right across the street from MCG. University already has 14 approved slots for medical residents and they're willing to take up to 41. That's as big as the whole class of first year med students they're hoping to enroll in Athens.


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Lord Heseltine has set out an economic plan to improve the UK's ability to create wealth. He makes the case for a major rebalancing of responsibilities for economic development between central and local government, and between government and the private sector.
The report, No Stone Unturned in Pursuit of Growth, makes 89 recommendations that aim to create the conditions for growth. At the heart of the proposals are measures to unleash the potential of local economies.
Lord Heseltine said: "What we need is a new partnership between the private and public sectors, between local communities and central government."
His recommendations include:
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, said: "I wanted Lord Heseltine to do what he does best: challenge received wisdom and give us ideas on how to bring government and industry together. He has done exactly that. This is a report bursting with ideas and we will study it very carefully."
Responding to the recommendations, Simon Walker, director general of the Institute of Directors (IoD), said: "We welcome the idea of encouraging more devolution to the local level."
John Walker, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said: "Lord Heseltine raises many good points about letting people get on with running their business. The FSB has said that Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) should discuss growth ideas with local stakeholders and should have more resources to identify local economic shortfalls.
"However, the boards of LEPs must represent all sizes and sectors of local businesses, otherwise they will fail."


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A local nonprofit with the mission of helping disabled adults with their mobility and independence is closing up shop.
Medford-based Mobility Unlimited will dissolve the organization in the coming weeks after its founders and major corporate sponsors stepped down. The company was founded in 2001 and has provided hundreds of disabled individuals statewide with wheelchairs, motorized vehicle lifts and ramps.
"It's been a great run; we're proud of how many lives we've touched and the service we've provided to the community," founder Bruce Hough said.
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nik70 wrote: "Anti-immigration laws: people who go through the proper channels are welcome, illegals can be sent back to their country by giant slingshot for all i care."
caligula...unless you are of Native American ancestry, you are a decendant of an illegal immigrant of sort...enjoi your slingshot ride!
caligula wrote: well there wasnt really a country here, and even if you count indian nations as countries they didnt have laws on immigration either.
Quote: and lastly the indians certainly werent providing our children born on thier land with citizenship or any of the services that the US is providing to illegal immigrants now.
Quote: i dont particularly care about them being here, but i do care that my tax dollars are going to them when they should be going ot US citizens.


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The Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers Men's Soccer Team will host Union College on Saturday, Oct. 26, at Tiger Stadium, with kick off slated for 2 p.m. Proceeds from the game benefit Camp Good Days and Special Times.
In addition to being the final weekend home game for RIT, the senior captains on the team have decided to dedicate it to Camp Good Days. In order to commemorate this event, RIT will be wearing special game day jerseys. The Tigers will also be collecting donations and promoting the game at the RIT Men's Hockey games in October.
"We are so pleased to be starting a relationship with the players, parents, coaches and supporters of the RIT Tigers Men's Soccer Team," said Gary Mervis, Chairman and Founder of Camp Good Days. "Their willingness, hard work and commitment to raise funds allows us to continue providing some good days and special times to some children and families in our community who need them the most."
"It is an honor to dedicate our last regular season home game to Camp Good Days and Special Times," said senior co-captain Andy Fleckenstein of Farmington. "The organization has changed so many lives for the better. We are excited to begin our affiliation with such a great cause."
For more information on the benefit match, contact the RIT Sports Information Desk at (585) 475-6154.
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A joyful scream belted out from the bleachers of the Del Sol High School gymnasium as President Barack Obama neared the end of his speech Tuesday in Las Vegas outlining his broad vision for immigration reform.
"We've got to bring our legal immigration system into the 21st century, because it no longer reflects the realities of our time," Obama said. "For example, if you are a citizen, you shouldn't have to wait years before your family is able to join you in America."
Then came the shout from longtime East Bay resident and tech worker Dana Forrester, who has been fighting for four years to get her Jamaican husband to the United States.
"That touched me, and I called out, 'Thank you, yes, thank you,' and (Obama) looked right at me," Forrester said.
She was one of several Bay Area advocates, immigrants and religious leaders who traveled to Las Vegas on Tuesday to hear the president explain his plan for passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year.
All of them arrived with their own hopes for what the president might say. Some praised the president for name-checking Silicon Valley companies like Intel and Instagram, and promising in his written blueprint to push for permanent residency for startup entrepreneurs and students educated in the U.S. who earn advanced degrees in science and engineering.
Others raised concerns about the president's push for mandatory worker verification and worried about the length of time it would take for most of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants to achieve citizenship.
Forrester's quest was perhaps the most quixotic: Her husband's decadeold conviction in Jamaica for possessing marijuana bars him from ever migrating to the United States; and though Democratic and Republican leaders have made breakthrough agreements on immigration in recent days, neither party has shown a willingness to reconsider such criminal bars.
But Forrester, the president of American Families United, who recently left the Bay Area to care for her ailing father in Reno, tried to get her message across anyway, rushing to pass a letter to Obama moments before he left the gym.
"I said 'Mr. President, please read this.' I was crying," she said. "The Secret Service tried to grab it from me. I was able to shake his hand and hand him the information on my family and other families who are suffering."
San Jose resident Adrian Avila was just 15 feet away from Obama and said he was moved by the president's call to move past the "us vs. them" mentality that has long divided politicians and Americans on legal and illegal immigration.
"When he said that, almost in a flash of an instant, I thought about all the incidents I've had over the years with strangers, friends, colleagues, who had a problem with me for being undocumented," said the 28-year-old activist with Silicon Valley De-Bug whose family brought him to California from Mexico when he was six years old.
A victim of a racially charged assault when he was a teenager, Avila was able to get a rare crime victim visa last year that grants him permanent U.S. residency. Now, he is hoping legislation brewing in Congress will put many of the nation's illegal immigrants on a similar path to citizenship.
When Obama recounted the story Tuesday of a Nevada college student aiming for citizenship, it seemed to Avila "he was telling my story, word for word, in a really positive way."
Also at the speech were the pastors of two Catholic congregations in San Jose and Oakland. Both said they appreciated Obama's urgency, but expressed concern about how the details would affect their mostly Latino congregations.
"He said we've already had this debate, we've already had this debate for a long time, and now it's time to move," said the Rev. Jon Pedigo, pastor of San Jose's Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. "I walked away very optimistic. The crowd was absolutely electrified."
Added the Rev. Jesus Nieto Ruiz, pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Oakland: "This is really exciting, just to see, finally, the dream coming true. How long it's going to take we don't know, but we know, finally, that it's going to take place."


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SANTA CLARA -- While Patrick Willis wracked up 171 regular-season tackles en route to his sixth straight Pro Bowl honors, he got penalized only once -- for holding.
Willis plays the game clean. Yet he shakes his head at the prospect of adjusting to the league's increasing emphasis on safety.
"That's a sensitive subject when it comes to me," Willis said Wednesday. "I love to play this game and always want to play defense, for the simple fact you can hit and let loose and not get penalized for the way you attack them.
"Now you have to be conscious of it. I always want to play within rules. I'm not going to lie to you: If I can get zero-in shots like safeties get ... I never get that chance to hit straight on."
Willis' next opportunity will be Sunday, when the 49ers visit the Atlanta Falcons for the NFC Championship.
Willis, who earned AP All-Pro First Team honors last weekend, scoffed at the notion defenders have enough time to react and "duck" to avoid such illegal contact as helmet-to-helmet hits. Safety Dashon Goldson drew such a penalty in the 49ers' playoff-opening win Saturday over the Green Bay Packers.
"I'm going to hit and I hope it's within the rules," Willis said. "If I ever get flagged, it doesn't mean I do it intentionally. My job is to make tackles."


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Surfing. The very word brings to mind golden sunsets over tropical locations. The palm trees of Hawaii. The warm seas and roaring waves of Australia and California. Certainly not the cold and choppy waters of the Irish Atlantic.
And yet Ireland is now emerging as one of the new frontiers of the surfing world. This island perched at the edge of Europe, one of the first land masses to be pummeled by the turbulent Atlantic, has a growing community of surfers who extol what Ireland has to offer. "People are surprised to learn that there is surfing in Ireland," laughs Easkey Britton, the Irish and British surfing champion who hails from Donegal. "They think the water is full of icebergs."
Ian Johnson, a South African surfer and surfboard shaper who now lives in County Clare, couldn't agree more. "There's such a difference between Ireland and South Africa," he says. "It's easy to get into surfing in South
Despite these obvious disadvantages to surfing in Ireland, these surfers – both of whom have spent time surfing in well-known hotspots such as Tahiti and Hawaii – choose to live and surf in Ireland. Why is this?
The answer to this question is at the heart of a fascinating documentary called Sea Fever: An Irish Surf Odyssey. Filmed over the course of two years by first-time filmmaker Ken O'Sullivan, it captures Irish surfing throughout the seasons and chronicles the development of a surfing culture in Ireland over the past 40 years.
Ken, who is originally from Clare, had worked abroad for many years. When he moved back to Lahinch six years ago, he was taken aback by the changes that had been wrought on the area.
"I was more aware of my environment when I came back," he remembers. "I was struck by the beauty of the place and amazed by the boom in surfing. The passion of the surfers interested me too. They live to surf and build their lives around it. They surf every day and constantly push themselves to ride new waves."
He started to film some of Irish surfing's biggest risk takers – the surfers who ride Ireland's most famous big wave, Aileen's just off the Cliffs of Moher. This wave was first discovered by photographer Mickey Smith and a group of Australian bodyboarders in 2004 and was first surfed the following year.
"Many people who visit the Cliffs of Moher are unaware of what happens there," says Ken O'Sullivan. His film captures the action as it unfolds. Aileen's, one of the world's most formidable waves, starts to roll in from the Atlantic. As the swells approach Ireland, they hit a narrow shelf of land. The wave rears up to 50 foot in height and offers surfers a challenging ride right up to the dramatic 700-foot-high cliffs.
Easkey Britton, the first woman to surf the wave, describes it as "addictive. With the cliffs rising up in front of you and a big mountain of white water coming up behind you, you just want to do it again and agin".
Sea Fever documents the history of this wave and the enthusiasm of those who surf it. It also travels back in time to explore the development of surfing in Ireland, a culture that is merely a few decades old.
Rod Bennett, who has been living in Ireland for 21 years, first visited the country in 1973. "Friends told me about the surfing and the Guinness so I came to try it for myself," he recalls. "I spent three weeks traveling from Waterford to Clare, surfing along the way. I didn't meet one single surfer."
Unbeknownst to Rod, there were some surfing enthusiasts in Ireland at that time. The young Kevin Cavey had seen a picture of a surfer in Reader's Digest and was inspired to try it for himself. He ordered a board from Cornwall, placed an ad in the Irish Independent asking others if they were interested and in 1965 organized a "surfari" to the west of Ireland.
The sufari included stops in Sligo and Donegal, where the surfers met the Britton brothers. Together, they started off a tradition of surfing in the North West of Ireland.
The film has archival footage which expresses the pioneering spirit of the time. Viewers are shown images of young men racing joyfully into the sea, lugging rudimentary surfboards.
Easkey Britton is the second generation of the Britton family to become passionate about surfing. In the film, she recounts how her father and his brothers learned to surf.
Her grandmother brought back surfboards from California, intending to use them as decorations in her Donegal guesthouse. "My dad and his brothers paddled on them when they were young," says Easkey. "But it wasn't until they saw a visitor stand on them that they realized what they were really for. Before long, they were up on the boards and it all progressed from there. My nana probably regrets it now. We've got salty blood because of her."


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Real Jobs Gap Not Closing Any Time Soon
December's lackluster jobs reports offers another reminder of the huge hole in the U.S. labor market.
U.S. payrolls rebounded slowly in what was known as the jobless recovery following the 2001 recession. As late as 2003 the economy was adding an average of only 5,000 jobs a month. The total number of jobs in the U.S. hit a peak of about 138 million in January 2008, one month after the start of the most recent recession.
In the ensuing downturn, nearly nine million jobs disappeared through early 2010, when the labor market started turning around.
Job gains accelerated in 2011 and have remained fairly steady since, edging up a bit each year.
To date, almost 8 million jobs have returned, leaving a gap just shy of 1 million, which is likely to be closed this year. But that doesn't account for changes in the population. If job growth had kept up with labor-force growth, the shortfall would be a lot bigger.
If the population keeps growing at that same rate, and the U.S. continues to add jobs near 2013's pace, then the total number of nonfarm jobs in the U.S. won't get back to where they should be until 2019. If the pace picks up in 2014 and beyond — say to 250,000 a month — the gap will narrow sooner, in 2017.
That said, the U.S. economy hasn't added an average 250,000 jobs or more a month since 1999.


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When I pause a stream on my XBOX using XBMC for XBOX or on my XBOX 360 using the native upnp client, when I resume the stream, it seems like whatever the client has buffered will play, but then playback will fail.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is client related, but it didn't always happen on the XBOX, I used to be able to pause it for days and it would resume.
I've only recently started using the XBOX 360 as a client as I was unaware it had a native upnp client and the XBOX 360 is unmoded.
I also have a PS3 and the native upnp client on that seems to work fine and has no issues with resuming streams after days of pausing.
The only thing that has changed, and I have not tried again, is that I used to use PMS 1.8.2 and I recently updated to 1.9.1. Could be related as it started happening around the same time.
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The N.C. Education Lottery has made its second transfer of lottery revenues to the state for fiscal 2013.
An announcement from the lottery says it transferred $117.4 million. That brings the total amount earned for education and the state since the lottery started almost seven years ago to $2.69 billion.
Monday's transfer combined with the one made in October adds up to $238.5 million in lottery proceeds for education during the first half of fiscal year 2013.
Last week, The Insider reported that Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, R-Wake, said lawmakers would be considering a proposal to remove the word "Education" from the N.C. Education Lottery for advertising purposes. Stam said the word "education" shouldn't be used to sell "something that is essentially a scam."
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The N.C. Education Lottery has made its second transfer of lottery revenues to the state for fiscal 2013.
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Andy Samberg came on stage dressed as the Paul psychic octopus for awhile. In this clip, he attempts to predict what team LeBron will sign with.
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Posted February 2, 2012 by peta2 staff
All right, lovebirds, I've got some delectable, cruelty-free gift ideas for you and your sugar booger. If you're single and on the prowl, I recommend that you pamper yourself with some of these fab treats too:
- A romantic home-cooked dinner: May I kindly suggest red-themed dishes such as tomato-basil bisque; pasta with marinara sauce, veggies, and vegan meatballs; and chocolate-covered strawberries?
- A deluxe back massage: The best part of this is that it's FREE (and your fingers get a workout too)! 😉
- DIY bath salts with rose petals: It's easy to make and hella relaxing.
- A classic box of vegan chocolates
- A homemade Valentine's Day card: If you're single, make one for yourself and write down all the reasons why you love you—it's a fun and rewarding exercise.
What kind of compassionate, lovey-dovey tricks do you have up your sleeve?
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1664 days ago
nice ideas.
1664 days ago
loved it.
1664 days ago
I don't have any valentines, but my mom, my sister, and my cat Sabby. 🙂 I spend valentines day, by spreading the love with my mom, my sister, and pampering Sabby, with petting, and playing, which I do every day. He loves it. (sabby that is) He sleeps on my bed while I'm on the computer. lol <3 u kitty!
1665 days ago
We've only been on one date and we are college kids, so bath salts and massages are WAY too suggestive. I can't afford vegan chocolates and it's a bit out-of-the-ordinary for a girl to give chocolate to a guy… Maybe it's just me. I was planning on making him a plushie of a game character and paintin or sculpting something for him. I am pretty sure he's giving me a stuffed animal. xD
It's cool. I collect them, anyway.
1671 days ago
I wish i had a nice valentine to spend it with…atleast I have my cat (: haha
1671 days ago
chocolate covered strawberries are the best with hot cocoa! if you want to get fancy you can make a heart in the form, however you did that <3
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Sit Ubu, sit.
Look Batman..the Bat signal shines above Gotham City once again...that psycopathic villian The Old Bad Joke must be back in town...creating dispair and headache with his numskullduggery and blabbering nonsequitors...should I fire up the Bat Mobile and call Team Ipod?? Or do we just hold out till he expires??
And RK ..I have made it abundantly clear and taking into account your Dead Head...the slobbery old chew toy is mine ..
To play with the knawed on ducky you must ask Batman for permission...the toy is crumbley, worn out and easily broken...it must be treated as slightly retarded, quite senile, and exremely disfunctional...I'll get you another Bonehead to knaw on...this ones too soft and old...better that I gum him slowly and gently so he doesn't fall apart...personally I hate to engage crazy people, lost dogs and car salesman..just not sport for me...must we reurgitate more NH cud for chaw'en?
Sun Tzu..await chaos with calm..create silence to prepare for noise..this will bring order to the Ipod spirit...
Bring your younger children close to the computer screen and in hushed tones warn them that the hoary old creature lurking inside doesn't exist unless we want it to...he exists only as misspellings, disjointed sentences and blattering non sequitors on a screen page...if we chose, and at our bidding Team Ipod.. he can exist..or do we cast his chewed up carcass in the cyber waste bin for Tues. pickup? This is a democracy..so as the Romans do..is it thumb up .. or thumb down on misery incarnate??
<<<As I have stated many times way back, I truly appreciate and understand what our military folks do for us. They deserve nothing less than our full support and honor for what they do.
However, speaking of honor, you get no points for your association or kinship with your brother for the honor he "deserves". Your honor is sullied and unfortunately, once sullied it can't be recovered. Don't you remember being told as a youngster not to do or engaging in things that might haunt you later and perhaps for the rest of your life>>>
My honor is in perfect place NH, I simply do not have the issues with honor that you seem to have. Nothing haunts me for I have done nothing wrong.
<<<Perhaps if when you feel like you have accomplish something laudable but are upset that someone tosses that aside as being of value, you might re-think your attitude toward how people perceive unacceptable social behavior. When you are a rule breaker and can't be trusted or are a defender of same, there are people who will cut you out of decision processes that effect your life and you may never even know it. People who have reason to include others in social or employment activities quite often discount people they can not trust>>>
My attitude is not bad, what twists your knickers is that I refuse to agree with you. I don't care if you think my accomplishments are valuable or not, what really matters is that they are valuable to me. You can't break me and that drives you up that big wall and right back down again People such as yourself thrive on bringing others down and people like me enjoy watching you continue to hit your head against the wall when you can't...lol...
As for myself and my Ipod, I have yet to find a race in this area that doesn't want me, my money and my support. I have yet to break any anti-Ipod rule, something you want to keep in mind when making accusations such as, and I quote 'It's you who started this by doing what you should not do'. One would think that someone that talks about honor would not want to try to pass a fib off as the truth. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out
Congratulations on the return of Brother Chick'en..thk him for me...
Maintain your righteous Ipod stupor and ignore the crab apple growing in the compost heap....he's only there for us to feel superior to..it's his life's work
Heh lah runner...whaz up gurl? how black is them toes?...you can come out of hiding...I will protect you from the perverts...
Thanks Parker and you can bet I will tell him
I know your right but I admit that sometimes it can be fun to poke the rabid dog otherwise known as NH
>>It's not that complicated. You either honor what you agree to or you don't. It is a black and white subject.
Well hallelujah - after 118 pages you get it. If the race allows ipods, they can be used. And you have to live with that because that is what you agreed to. And your opinion is forfeit because you knew the rules governing ipod use going in. And if the race doesn't allow ipods, don't look for me - I won't be there. And your opinion on that is also forfeit because your opinion matters not a whit.
>>It was never about the inanimate "thing" (the ipod). It was about the person using it and then as the true colors of the character of those persons using the ipod came through they started selling away their moral values to justify going back on their word.
You stupid, stupid man. How ironic that you now have spun the very web that snared you. Through your 118 pages of lies and non-facts and made up stories and exaggerated personal experiences re ipod users and injuries they have caused. Underscored by your repeated refusal to provide any objective factual information to bolster your conjecture.
You may be 64 years old, but you are woefully unlearned and lack the faculty to step in the ring with me in a discussion about the philosophical leanings of Kierkegaard or Nietzsche. That said, your demonstrated persona and delusional meanderings through the past ~1750 posts paints you as a picture perfect image of what Kaufman posited as 'existential'.
>>You can continue to try to convince them and yourself with your claim of a high ground because you disapprove of inflammatory rhetoric, but there is no salvaging a squandered character or trust. Words are just words, but actions are actions. People of real character don't buy the smooth talk bit. They go on actions. Sticks and stones....
Go back and reconstruct our exchanges - look and see who went to the mat first with "inflammatory rhetoric" in response to a polite request for facts. Only to find out that you are inept on that mat.
Now go home and try to salvage your squandered character - oops, no can do. Why salvage a self-scuttling ship?
I'll give you a few hours to google existentialism and try to construct some overly pedantic burble.
Until then, fetch my slippers.
Hey parker -
Glad to see you back. Looks like the chew toy, okay YOUR chew toy, couldn't bear to stay away and needed to come back for another thrashing.
I have given him some homework and it will probably take a while for him to get his googling done. Then a few hours to type some drivel and run it by his imaginary friends for review and approval.
And then the beatings will commence anew.
I am out tomorrow for an 11 miler - with no expectation whatsoever. I'm approaching this as a kind of a yardstick run. Did a 55:21 10K last week - happy I managed a high 8s pace, but there was absolutely nothing left. Nothing. If you had handed me Garcia's Alembic and told me I could have it if I could carry it for another mile I couldn't have done it.
Mayhaps, the thread's Northern Blight will go out and try to get Mary (or some other sycophant) to come back.
If you get to quote Sun Tzu, I get to throw down some adapted Max Ehrmann
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story."
And then call in suppressive air strikes and kill them.
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Heh lah runner...whaz up gurl? how black is them toes?...you can come out of hiding...I will protect you from the perverts...
Hey Parker, my toes are better....lookin' more multi-racial these days. A couple more toe nails are getting ready to jump ship. I like showing them off - my marathon badges of honor!
I see you, the Prof. and Miz Chick'en Thang are still going to battle with that pathetic, nasty old man. You know, I've come across some pretty unpleasant people in my life.....spent time working in the movie biz where there are some real doozies when it comes to ill manners, but NH takes the cake in maliciousness. He's an insult and embarrassment to all runners. He is the poster ogre for an Emily Post flunkie and he makes Simon Cowell look like Prince Charming. I tell my 12 year old daughter to stay away from people like NH, so I'm taking my own advice. This thread was my first experience being part of an online discussion. It's been fun and great to meet interesting, bright people like you, Prof. RK, sgray, WayneD, Jay and Runner Chick'en. Unfortunately, Nasty Hemorrhoid, has been.....well...just that....an annoying nasty hemorrhoid on this thread.
The L.A. Marathon reminded me that the majority of runners, volunteers and race organizers are not like NH. And considering the number of marathons that attract 20,000+ runners, his sick, misanthropic attitude has no chance in h*ll of impacting my life as an iPod wearing runner.
Rock on, Team EyePod!
Glad to see you Lahrunner! I am always happy to see another runner come out of one of those famous Ipod comas
There are people in this world that feel the need to drag people back down to their level, NH is but one. People like that usually have something they hate about themselves and thus, they feel that everyone else should be as unhappy as they are. All we can do is say a prayer for NH and hope that he finds healing and happiness.
Glad to hear the toes are better. Another good reason for me not to run a marathon...lol... I am almost ready for my 25K. What really sucks is that I was almost ready to run it last year and then I tore my right hamstring. That caused a whole list of problems, the most pain though was caused by the sciatica. Thankfully I am healthy...well healthier now So it looks like the 25K is a go, all I have to do is finish my training and make up a nice Ipod playlist for the race Cause I plan on rocking my way to the finish!
Glad to see the toes are better LAHrunner! I was shooting for a half this year and when I went to the running store for new shoes they told me if I was going to start training for a half, I would need to buy shoes a half size bigger. They said any single run over 10 miles causes your feet to swell and the bigger shoe compensates for the swelling and prevents your toe nails from getting squeezed in the process. It doesn't look like I will get to do the half this year, I've been suffering from an IT Band problem, now I can't do more than 6 miles at a time without pain.:_| That's what I get for running in the snow all winter!
Just signed up for 2 events for April and May that I have never participated in before. Both events have no rules against IPODS. It's pretty much a non issue for me so far.
Rock on!
I haven't had any problems with races not being Ipod friendly around here either. If I run into one then I guess I will cross that bridge then but for the time being, I think the RDs around here realize that a majority of their runners are going to use some type of music device so embrace that rather then fight it. And that bodes very well for me
Sorry to hear about the IT problem. I have had a few issues due to my running in and on the snow Such is life in Michigan!
It starts with simple headphones and now this.....
If USA Track & Field has its way, we could all be wearing helmets in our next 5-K or marathon. (Well, at least the larger ones.)
A proposed amendment to the 2009 Rules of Competition, being debated by the governing body's Long Distance Running Division, states that...
Persons in any USATF-sanctioned running event with 500 or more participants shall be required to wear a protective helmet that meets or exceeds the CPSC (Consumer Products Safety Commission) standards, as set by the federal government. The helmet must be securely fastened to the participant's head and must not block or impair the participant's field of vision. The helmet must be worn at all times during the event.
Failure to adhere to any of these requirement will result in penalties up to and including disqualification.
Something this stupid has to be an April Fools joke. I mean these people would never be stupid enough to suggest that runners should wear a helmet when running a race, right? Although they are the same people that banned, well passed a rule that COULD ban music devices from races because of something that MIGHT happen so who knows what crazy ideas they might think up. This seems pretty extreme, it has to be a joke
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VAIL - At roughly 600 feet long, with 22-foot-high walls and an 18-degree slope, riders are calling the Vail halfpipe build by Snow Park Technologies one of the best pipes they've ridden all year.
Kelly Clark, an Olympic gold medalist who has won more in the halfpipe than any other female snowboarder, said the pipe is both long and on a steep slope - just the way she likes it.
"If you have both of those components in the mix ... all of your tricks become bigger and faster - the steepness and pitch play a factor, as well as the length," Clark said.
Clark is still getting six hits - meaning she's able to do six tricks - on the longer pipe, but fellow Vermont native Hannah Teter said after Monday's practice that she thinks the pipe could be a seven-hitter.
Elena Hight, 23, is having a strong season and just got back from a week off. She went back to her hometown of South Lake Tahoe and recharged her batteries, she said.
Arielle Gold, a 16-year-old from Steamboat Springs, is also feeling good - she has all of a sudden found herself in the spotlight this season, even though she's been competing for years. She's began competing in the Burton U.S. Open as a junior at just 9 years old, she said.
And this Vail halfpipe is a blast, she said. It doesn't hurt that it's in Colorado - her favorite place to ride.
"This halfpipe is so much fun. It's really good - I think it's probably the best pipe we've ridden all year," Gold said. "So far, it's making a pretty good impression on all of the people who weren't too excited about (the U.S. Open) moving here."
Other ladies to look out for include Kaitlyn Farrington and Ellery Hollingsworth. On the men's side, Shaun White is always a favorite, but look out for 14-year-old Japanese rider Ayumu Hirano, who got silver in the Winter X Games. Other big names like Louie Vito and Iouri "iPod" Podladtchikov are also expected to put up big scores.


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by rayshaviolet Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 12:19PM Report as inappropriate
The lob looks very interesting. I wonder if any of those cuts work on curly hair?
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I would LOVE to have Gennifer's hair!
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Emma Watson is so gorgeous! I love her style.
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her hair is so pretty
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well.... as you can see in my pic, I'm a fan of short hair!! I don't think I look too bad for a 50+
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London – UK-headquartered pharma major AstraZeneca and Heptares Therapeutics have entered a four-year collaboration focused on the potential discovery and development of new medicines targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). Under the terms of the agreement, AstraZeneca has worldwide commercial rights to product candidates emerging from the collaboration. Heptares will receive US$6.25m in up-front R&D funding, and will be eligible for US$181.75m in possible milestone payments and royalties on the sale of any products. GPCRs are among the largest and most important family of drug targets. However, their instability has often prevented pharmaceutical researchers from understanding their molecular structures, and hampered efforts to design medicines aimed at GPCR targets. Now Heptares has developed a proprietary technology (StaR®) that allows stabilised versions of GPCRs to be investigated. Research conducted under the collaboration will focus on a number of specific GPCR targets linked to central nervous system/pain, cardiovascular/metabolic and inflammatory disorders. Since its spin-off from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) in 2007, Heptares has raised more than US$35m from venture investors formed partnerships with Shire, Takeda, and Novartis.


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OAKLAND -- A Sacramento woman was sentenced to nine years in prison for running a Bay Area sex ring that saw her and her husband use fear, drugs and money to control teenage prostitutes, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
Helen Jean Singh, 22, and Mike Singh, both of Sacramento enticed the four teens into prostitution by promising a "family-like" environment but eventually the girls were frightened or manipulated into continuing to sell themselves, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said.
Singh pleaded guilty to sex trafficking conspiracy earlier this year and U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton handed down the sentence Wednesday, Haag added.
Police arrested the Singhs at a South San Francisco hotel in August 2011 after getting a tip about a possible teenage runaway. Police searched room No. 775, where they found $220 in cash stuffed into a cigarette pack, several used condoms in a trash can, "an usually large amount of lingerie," and an overwhelming scent of perfume.
Investigation later showed the girls were promised a 50 percent share of the $100 an hour fee the Singhs charged customers for encounters with the young women. The girls were also promised food, shelter and a supply of drugs, including methamphetamine. However, as time went on, the teens received none of the money, were beaten and were forced to continue to have sex with clients, prosecutors said.
The couple allegedly used internet postings and cell phones to set up encounters with customers in hotels around the Bay Area.
Mike Singh pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in January and in April was sentenced to nine years behind bars, Haag said.
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