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Tongyang Life Closes In on ING Korea Life Unit
ING Groep N.V. will Thursday propose a plan to sell its Korean life insurance business at its board meeting and discuss granting Seoul-based Tongyang Life Insurance exclusive rights to negotiate to buy Korea's fifth-largest life insurer by assets, people familiar with the matter said.
If the Dutch bank succeeds at its second attempt in as many years to sell the business, it will be one of the year's largest transactions in South Korea. The deal would also help ING fulfil a condition to sell more than half of its Asian life insurance operation in exchange for a bailout from the Dutch government in 2008.
Tongyang, Korea's eighth-largest life insurer by assets, was bidding together with its largest shareholder and Seoul-based private equity firm Vogo Fund.
Tongyang was up against Hanwha Life Insurance and Kyobo Life Insurance Co.–the nation's second- and third-largest life insurers by assets–and local private equity MBK Partners.
Since the bidding process closed in late May, ING has been in talks with only the Tongyang-Vogo team and MBK Partners, and has tentatively decided to move to exclusive negotiations with the Tongyang team, one of the people told The Wall Street Journal. MBK Partners hasn't dropped its bid yet, the person added.
According to the person, Tongyang bid for around 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) for all of ING's Korean assets while MBK Partners sought to buy 90% of the business for between 1.5 trillion won and 1.6 trillion won.

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Rosaline BullFar Rockway, New York United States of America
Rosaline Bull Miguel Cruz are God fearing con artist. Far Rockway, New York
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B.E. Lateral Entry Scheme introduced for the students of 3 Year Diploma/B.Sc (Non-Med) students for admission in 3rd Semester.
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National Conference cum Exhibition (NCEEITET-15) held on 15-16 September, 2015 to celebrate Engineers' Day.
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There are many weird and wonderful festivals in Spain, but the prize for the strangest could perhaps go to the "releasing of the ducks" in Can Picafort, Mallorca.
This annual event takes place in August from 12:00, is free to attend and is rather bizarre, or to put it another way – quackers.
A boat sits in the harbour and releases 250 ducks into the sea, which the local people must try and capture.
While these used to be live ducks, enough people have protested about potential animal cruelty to mean that yellow rubber ducks are now used instead.
Some people may have complained about the breaking of a tradition, but as no one is exactly sure where the tradition came from anyway, it is hard to argue.
Even people who don't fancy getting wet or seeing how many ducks they can capture still enjoy the show, with more than 3,000 spectators usually in attendance.
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David Sullivan wants West Ham United to finish in the top six of the Barclays Premier League next season. That, he suggests, is a realistic target for a club who have secured three top-six top-flight finishes in 55 years and who appear to be treading water until they move to the Olympic Stadium in 2016.
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Complaint Review: WoodGrain co.
WoodGrain co.215A & B Fehr Way North north bayshore, New York USA
WoodGrain co. Took my money and did work with defects and would not make good for it. north bayshore New York
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Americans, Sincere and Ambiguous
The role of American power and activism internationally is a
controversial issue around the planet this year. Coincidentally, two major dramatic
movies come down on opposite sides of the argument.
The Quiet American, which offered likable veteran Michael Caine, 68,
his shot at a best actor Oscar, is based on the 1952 Graham
Greene novel. The American of the title is a sincere bungler
who brings disaster while helping the Vietnamese shake off
the French without succumbing to the Communists. Remarkably
prophetic of the years to come, the story offers the essentially
skeptical European view of America's good intentions.
In contrast, in Tears of the Sun, set in Africa a half-century later,
a group of Navy SEALS is ordered to stand by and not
get involved during a civil war. But they decide to use
their military skills to save the innocent from torture and
death. This is presented as a noble, if pretty risky, intervention.
THE QUIET AMERICAN (A-4, R) is set in the early
Cold War 1950s when the U.S. was inexperienced and naďve
in the skills of espionage and secret mischief. It was shot
in Vietnam by Aussie director Philip Noyce.
Greene's love story is about the rivalry of two men for Phuong,
a beautiful Vietnamese woman in Saigon. The young American, Pyle (Brendan Frasier),
barges in on the long relationship she has with Fowler (Caine), a married British
But Fowler's Catholic wife back in England won't give him a divorce.
(Note the Greene-ish irony: The unseen woman's loyalty to her vows, practically
her only Christian quality, is the cause of misery.) In truth, Fowler's obsessive
love for Phuong is practically the only thing keeping him alive.
Fowler realizes that the charming but boyish Pyle, who appears to
know his way around the country and actually saves Fowler's life, is a key C.I.A.
Like King David in the Bible story, Fowler reluctantly betrays Pyle
and finds his death morally agonizing. He's left with the girl and the guilt:
"I just feel I want to apologize to someone." You know Caine's thoughts, doubts
and suffering: It's a career performance.
TEARS OF THE SUN (A-3, R) is the quintessential
movie about Americans rescuing the weak from their tormentors.
Hardbitten Lt. Waters (Bruce Willis) and his team are sent
to extract an American doctor (Monica Bellucci) and some
Catholic missionaries from a bush hospital in danger from
rampaging rebels. (Think Rwanda.)
Trouble is, the religious won't leave their patients and helpers.
The doc won't go either unless Waters promises to take her mobile patients along
on the helicopters.
The stoic, emotionally inhibited Waters seems unmovable. With his
men, he defies orders and leads the doc and her helpless African followers (including
the hope for the future, the surviving son of the murdered tribal king) through
the photogenic jungle. (The actual location is Hawaii.)
This is a dark, violent film with some noble sacrifices and a humane
ending that lifts the spirits like the soaring African music on the track. Director
Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) honestly shows the horror of tribal brutality
but keeps the light low and the cameras discreet.
Quiet and Tears, films aimed at different audiences
with vastly different viewpoints, are well-mounted, conceived and acted. Greene's
troubled Brit hero, involved with love, politics and God, is more complex.
But Willis and his hard-nosed SEALS are The Magnificent Seven one more
time, the embodiment of a lasting American movie myth that the strong find redemption
in defending the weak against the forces of darkness.
But too much moral fervor can be a bad thing. It's just not always as clear
in real life as it is in the movies who the bad guys are,
and if they have to be blown away.
THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE (A-3, R): The central characters—bright, sympathetic anti-death-penalty
advocates in high-execution Texas—are a likely lure to this movie for Catholics.
They're played by the likes of Kevin Spacey and Laura Linney, who are to acting
what the New York Philharmonic is to music. But they're a classic case of too
much moral fervor.
Spacey's Gale is a hotshot college philosophy prof and Death Watch
spokesman. He has somehow wound up on Death Row himself for the rape and murder
of Constance (Linney), a fellow prof, close friend and adviser. A week before
his execution date, he grants interviews to a famous magazine journalist, Bitsey
Bloom (Kate Winslet in top American-accent form).
What we see, intercut with Bitsey's dialogues with Gale and her
own investigations, are extended flashbacks that eventually put all the jigsaw
pieces of how-and-why together. Bitsey becomes convinced Gale is the victim
of an elaborate frame-up.
This will-she-stop-the-execution-in-time white-knuckler has a couple
of major twists that damage the film morally. Writer Charles Randolph and socially
conscious director Alan Parker (Mississippi Burning, Come See the
Paradise) keep the mystery/suspense balls in the air while sliding in gloomy
details and ironies about capital punishment, especially in Texas.
Many splendid moments are provided by Winslet and Spacey as Gale,
who talks with eloquence (both sober and drunk) on subjects ranging from Socrates
to St. Jude and how he became the patron of lost causes. We also see that it
rains in Texas a lot. Too entangled in its plots, but good pros provide a
boost; moral issues abound; not especially recommended.
WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE? You can get into trouble
asking a question like this, as the National Council of
Churches discovered a while ago in its controversial ad
campaign to protect the environment from gas-guzzlers.
Yes, Jesus and his disciples walked a lot. So did St. Francis. Other
than horses and mules, they had limited options. You guess they would have driven
if given a chance.
You can imagine a saint in a lot of vehicles, depending on the times
they lived in, probably even an SUV. In any case, be careful opening that door
(using Jesus as a celebrity in endorsement ads). This may be the place where
the "What would Jesus do?" movement should just say no.
ARE YOU HOT, REALITY SHOWS? Audiences enjoy seeing real people contend for rewards.
They like the contest, whatever it is, and also like picking favorites and unfavorites.
Can any culture that gets excited about pro wrestling surprise us with this
choice? Some of these shows—featuring bugs, betrayal, sexual games—are degrading.
The closer to actual athletic or talent competitions they are, the more normal
and intriguing.
A certain cruelty seems built even into talent shows, where the
emphasis is on who is going to be rejected, who is going to lose, who is going
to be banished from the bloody island. The reality trend is not helpful for
audiences oriented to art and the word, those looking for wit, insight, fresh
characters, comment on our times. These may accidentally turn up on reality
shows. But they're more likely to come from people who have the gift, who write
and act for a living.
Catholics enjoy or hate them just like everyone else. (One exception
maybe: The shows that purport to be preliminaries to marriage—bachelors, bachelorettes,
meeting the parents, etc.—further trivialize a troubled institution. If this
is the way to pick spouses, even in jest, no wonder marriages don't last.) As
for the kids, let's not think about what they're learning about success and
happiness in this culture.
AARON BROWN (CNN NewsNight): Since he made his mark with emergency coverage on 9/11,
Aaron Brown has become a happy addition to big-opportunity TV journalists—that
is, the anchors, usually white males, who bring us the news daily on the major
networks. Brown has taken some getting used to. But as I write and he deals
with the stresses of the war in Iraq, he's shown unique talents.
Brown seems not to be from the Ed Murrow tradition—hard, factual,
objective, maybe impersonal. The word for Brown is humane. He's the first
to succeed at it, really. Most humane, casual, folksy electronic reporters have
tended to be biased, brainless egomaniacs.
Brown is a pro. He asks good questions, offers clever commentary
at times, seems actually to have a mind that functions outside the parameters
of news. Who else would have quoted Julius Caesar on the day of the invasion?
He also seems nonpolitical. He comes on like the brother we've always respected
and trusted. The anchor role has been gently adjusted—upward.
SAYING AU REVOIR: This is my final column.
The point in this space has always been to find the best
available shows every month, or at least the ones that deserved
some sliver of praise or outrage, and to approach them with
some balance and humor and not too much piety. Neither movies
nor television are as bright and wonderful as they once
were, but then who is? There's always hope every time the
lights go down. I'll see you again in other places, at other
So good night, Fellini. You were the best. Rest easy, Woody, Spike
and Ingmar, and the two Stanleys: Kubrick and Donen. You've astonished us so
many times. You, too, promising newcomer Alex Payne, and old-timer John Ford,
with your Irish sarcasm and soft heart, and Alfie Hitchcock, of the poutful
lips and Jesuit scruples. There are far too many of you to say private farewells
to, not to mention all the readers and watchers out there in the dark, searching
for fun and God in the movies.
And on the tube, too: Give my regards to President Bartlet and Jim
Lehrer; M*A*S*H's gentle Father Mulcahy and Hawkeye, that wry seeker
of truth; and the gang at St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues.
Also the embattled parish staff at Nothing Sacred, and of course to Kermit
the Frog and our neighbor Mister Rogers. And finally, good night to our friends,
Francis and Clare, who are always close by wherever we are.


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On October 24, just a day before Stand for UMass Day in Boston, "Fox 25 Morning News" featured numerous UMass officials, faculty, students and organizations during a live four-hour broadcast of the from the lawn in front of Goodell Hall. The program was the latest edition of the weekly "Fox 25 College Tour," highlighting six colleges and universities across Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.
Host Elizabeth Hopkins conducted segments with: Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy; Vice Chancellor for University Relations John Kennedy; Sustainability Manager Ezra Small and Sustainability Coordinator Rachel Dutton; Minuteman Marching Band Director Timothy Anderson; Geckskin researchers Alfred Crosby and Duncan Irschick; Chef Anthony Jung of Dining Services; and Leo Sheehan '14, president of Theta Chi. Performances included the Minuteman Marching Band, student a capella group Vocal Suspects and dance team Dhadak Fusion. Previously taped segments that featured Minutemen ice hockey coach John Micheletto and various students were also aired. Sam the Minuteman and hundreds of students participated in the audience throughout the program, and food, beverages and activities were provided by UMass Dining Services and various program sponsors.


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On Monday, President Barack Obama's spokesman distanced the White House from Egypt's democracy advocates who are now protesting an emerging Islamist coup in the country of 72 million people.
"The transition to democracy will be achieved by the Egyptian people, not by the manner which we raise concerns. … It's important to take a longer view here," spokesman Jay Carney announced at the Nov. 26 daily press conference.
Carney refused to criticize Egypt's Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, who gave himself dictatorial powers in a Nov. 22 edict.
Obama has not called Morsi, but "we've raised concerns," Carney told reporters at the press event.
"We support democracy, we believe in a government in Egypt ought to reflect the will of the people, and the Egyptian people have to decide what that government will look like," Carney said.
Carney's comments followed appeals from Egypt's democracy advocates for support from the U.S. president.
"I am waiting to see, I hope soon, a very strong statement of condemnation by the U.S., by Europe and by everybody who really cares about human dignity," Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the country's more visible non-Islamist politicians, said Nov. 24.
The surprise crisis began one day after Obama worked with Morsi on Nov. 21 to stop the Israeli counterattack against Hamas' rocket-firing jihadis in Gaza.
"We have decided … [that presidential decisions] are final and binding and cannot be appealed by any way or to any entity," said Morsi's Nov. 22 statute, which also re-assembled the Islamist-dominated parliament that was dissolved in the summer by the judiciary.
Obama was not embarrassed by Morsi's power grab immediately after the imposed ceasefire, Carney said. "We see those as separate issues," he said. source – Daily Caller


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MINER -- Gerald Douglas "Shorty" Tilley, 63, died April 17, 2007, at the Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, N.C.
Born June 26, 1943, in Sherrill, Ark., to the late John Henry and Vevie Dillard Drye Tilley, he spent his entire life in the Stoddard County area, until moving to Miner a year ago. He was a U.S. Army veteran having served during the Vietnam War. He was first employed as an over-the-road truck driver with Jerry Lipps Trucking Company of Cape Girardeau and later with Hall's Transport in Charleston.
On Sept. 29, 1994, in Bloomfield, he married Brenda Kay Foushee, who survives of the home
Survivors include: one son, John Tilley of Bellevue, Neb.; one daughter, Judy Tilley of West Plains; two stepsons, Terry Lemons of Bloomfield and Jim Baker of Jonesboro, Ark.; two stepdaughters, Sherri Cookson of Scott City and Lorrie Ebert of Cabool; seven brothers, J.W. Tilley and Robert Tilley of Bloomfield, Charles Tilley and Larry Tilley of Essex, Kenneth Tilley of Van Buren, Dale Tilley of Morehouse and William Merrick of Summersville, Fla.; three sisters, Floy Jean Robey and Katherine Hopkins of Bloomfield and Betty Bess of Dexter; and three grandchildren.
One brother, Carl Tilley; and three sisters, Maxine Robey, Lula Jackson and Lenora Bost, preceded him in death.
Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. today at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter where services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday.
Burial with full military honors provided by the Stoddard County Veteran's Honor Team will follow in the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.


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Best Breyfogle Ever (This Week): Five Favorite Images From 'Legends Of The Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle' Vol. 1
Very few artists are as strongly identified with a particular time in a character's history as Norm Breyfogle is with the Batman of the late '80s and early '90s. In a lot of ways, it was a look that defined the era, full of heavy shadows, high drama, and even a little bit of comedy.
Last week, DC released a hardcover collection of Breyfogle's earliest work on Batman with Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle, and to mark the occasion, I went through it for the very difficult task of picking out five of my favorite images from over 500 pages of comics, highlighting some of his best work.


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First there were 10. Then there were five. In the end, only one would be left.
One winner, that is, of the contest for Veggie of the Year, to be unveiled Saturday at the Midtown Farmers Market Food Literacy Fair.
The judges were a pretty unforgiving bunch: 120 students from kindergarten through fifth grade did the taste-testing Wednesday at the Capitol Heights Academy. If they knew the winner, they kept the scoop to themselves.
California Food Literacy Center organizers were tougher still. None would reveal even a hint of which vegetable was pulling ahead in this second round of a fierce taste-testing competition.
Was it kale, tomato, beets? Sweet potato or avocado?
"You'll have to wait to find out," Amber Stott, founder of the California Food Literacy Center, said sternly with a wink. "It's going to be awesome."
The kids were clearly on Stott's side, giddy that she and her compatriots were back for a second year to teach food literacy at their school. At Capitol Heights, on the edge of Oak Park, the majority of the students come from economically disadvantaged households, and many were just getting acquainted with fresh produce.
Top chefs from Sacramento assisted in presenting the vegetables – each manning an individual station in the school's cafeteria and not-so-subtly urging the tasters to favor some particular veggie.
Presentation was everything. At the avocado station, Bret Bohlmann of Boulevard Bistro offered toothpicks adorned with a slice of green onion and a leaf of cilantro and topped by a cube of avocado. For those who did not care for the aftertaste, a wedge of orange was offered to clear the palate.
"Yuck, nasty," said Lashay Branch, an 8-year-old third-grader. She then inexplicably – but age-appropriately – declared, "I'm going to ask my mommy to make avocado ice cream."
Chef Paul Poore of Broderick Restaurant and Bar tended to the tomato station, showing off red, yellow and green fruits, some of them deformed enough to inspire a smattering of youthfully grotesque comparisons. Poore's cause was on the upswing, however, when he explained tomatoes as ingredients. He had them at "ketchup."
Still, third-grader Arianna Johnson-Sierra was wary. Very tentatively, she took a section of tomato in her mouth and rolled it around slowly. When sufficiently accustomed to the taste, she chewed and swallowed: a victory for Chef Paul, as the kids called him.
Surprise ruled the day at the kale station, where Kurt Spataro of the Paragary Restaurant Group had ever-so-lightly sweetened the textured leafy veggie with a vinagrette. The judges lifted small handfuls of the curly greens high, dropping bunches into their open mouths as if they were baby birds.
"Oh my goodness, we might actually run out of kale," said an astonished Peg Tomlinson-Poswall, chair of the literacy center's board. The day was young, so she lifted the bowl beyond the reach of the kids, some of whom ended up with souvenirs of kale's unlikely spurt of popularity on their clothes.
"The fact that they are eating kale on our first day back is significant," said Stott. "It's a sign that we're reaching them."
Randall Selland of the Selland Group of Restaurants – including the elegant Ella – did his best to persuade the kids of the virtues of beets. He won some over, as evidenced by reddish-purple stained fingers and lips.
Selland, wearing veggie-patterned pants, shrugged fatalistically: "You either really like beets or you really don't like them."
Stott, who addressed the rambunctious young judges in only the most positive of terms, explained the importance of teaching food literacy to the grade-school kids.
"We have this culture in America where we make anything good for us seem scary," she said. "But the more exciting we make learning about healthy foods, the more they trust us. It's less scary."
Or, as 7-year-old Nehemiah Wourku, a second-grader wiser than his years, said, food literacy is about "being smart with your food."


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The US$139 Kindle Touch is a touch-screen version of the keyboard-less Kindle Wi-Fi sold by Dick Smith Electronics for A$139, although of course you have to factor in delivery charges from the US.
Online seller ReaderShop.com.au is also selling the Kindle Touch for $229, although it also stocks the 3G version at $279 (and includes an AC adaptor, spare USB charge cable and 12VDC car charger).
Amazon's Android-powered Kindle Fire tablet is still restricted to US-only shipping if you order from Amazon, although ReaderShop.com.au also lists this for $359. However, you won't have full access to movies and TV shows available for download through Amazon.com.
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RTFM - this also applies to your other general questions
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If you are a long time viewer of ON THE RECORD at 10pm you know that we made our 3rd trip to North Korea in May (and actually broadcast live from there!) The purpose of our 3rd trip was to report on the current famine killing their citizens. During the last famine, more than 1 million died – and unless food gets to North Korea, the number of deaths this time will be bigger. This is not about the North Korean government — but the citizens. As you know governments are not the people.
We at ON THE RECORD at 10pm have been able to get unprecedented access to North Korea due to the generosity of Rev Graham and Samaritan's Purse which has been doing humanitarian work in that country for decades. As you know, when we are in North Korea, we are never alone (we have North Koreans with us monitoring us every step of the way), but on each trip we get more access than the trip before. I am hoping to go again soon.
After we returned in May, I have continued to follow the horrible famine situation there. It is dismal. The United States sent a team to North Korea in June to assess the food crisis. The USA noted what we did: it is dismal.
Here is what I can report: the USA is TODAY sending food to the starving citizens of North Korea and Samaritan's Purse is MATCHING the contribution by the USA.
At 3pm today, a 747 chartered by Samaritan's Purse will leave North Carolina where it is currently loading food and fly to Pyongyang. Once it lands, the food will be immediately unloaded – about 5 hours – and then the plane will immediately depart.
The picture shows the loading phase going on right now in North Korea. Reverend Franklin Graham emailed me the picture because he knows how much I care about this story. Knowing people are starving to death is very difficult.


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Police said a Kansas City, Kan., man was arrested in Florida after attempting to have a sexual encounter with someone he thought was an underage girl.
Investigators said Christopher Lanning had been chatting with an undercover officer and arranged to meet her for sex in the suburban Orlando community of Longwood.
When Lanning arrived in Florida, police took him into custody.
Investigators said he was charged with several felonies in connection with the case.


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Former state Rep. Terri Hodge released from prison
Former state Rep. Terri Hodge has been released from federal prison and is now serving the remainder of her one-year sentence in a Hutchins halfway house.
Hodge landed at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport this afternoon. She'll was then driven to the halfway house by friends.
"We're happy she's coming home," said former state Rep. Harryette Ehrhardt, D-Dallas. "She's very resilient. I'm sure she's gong to be fine."
Last year Hodge pled guilty to income tax evasion and was sentence to one year in prison by U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn.
Hodge had been serving her time in the federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky. She is set to be released June 20, according to prison officials.
The longtime Democratic lawmaker was ensnarled in the federal investigation into corrupt housing deals at Dallas City Hall. Hodge accepted reduced rent payments from developer Brian Potashnik, as well as a carpet for her a home she owned in Dallas.
The primary target of the investigation, former council member Don Hill, is serving an 18-year sentence after being convicted on bribery and extortion charges.
Hodge will serve a couple of months at the Volunteer of America facility in Hutchins. Then she will begin the task of readjusting to life after prison and away from politics.
As a legislator, Hodge's passion was helping ex-offenders get acclimated to life outside of prison.
"Her life was her district. It's going to be tough to give that up," Ehrhardt said. "But we're hoping Terri will be able to use her skills to make other contributions."
The district Hodge once led is now being represented by Democrat Eric Johnson.


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text: Three-hundred and sixty-five days have elapsed since a young madman senselessly slaughtered 20 elementary school children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut. The unimaginably horrific nature of that crime prompted a national outcry for action. Eighty-nine percent of Americans have expressed support for comprehensive background checks and stronger restrictions on the efforts of mentally ill persons and felons to purchase and own firearms. During that same period, members of the U.S. House of Representatives worked only 126 days (spending the rest of their time either raising campaign funds or sponsoring faux "town hall" meetings opposing the Affordable Care Act). Despite the proliferation of gun violence and the wishes of an overwhelming majority of their constituents they have thus far passed no meaningful gun safety legislation. The U.S. Senate is not without sin either. In April 2013, it rejected the Toomey/Manchin Background Check Bill, but finally agreed (Dec. 9, 2013) to extend the existing ban on computer-generated, all-plastic weapons that cannot be detected by airport scanners.


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I hate minivans.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not ashamed to admit that I covet that big wide open space between unruly passengers. And the remote control side doors are practically orgasmic.
You mean they close like all by themselves? *Drool*
But minivans just scream "mom" or "really whipped dad" (heh) to me and I already ooze enough of that, thank you very much, with my half undone nursing bra, yoga pants, and shirt with so many spit up stains they sort of make a cool design.
Can I tell you how many people told me they liked my hair cut this week? It was because they saw me after my bi-weekly-if-I'm-lucky hair washing.
I realize that with this admission I will probably incite most of my gorgeous, intelligent, and extremely buxom (or well endowed, er, ahem) readers, but I stand firm in support of my fellow tens of moms who adamantly refuse to give in to the tempting back seat tables and drop down DVD players with head sets and remote controls and automatically closing trunks and enough room in between children that you don't have to constantly scream at them and cup holders for everyone.
That's right extra cup holders. I SPIT UPON YOU.
I demand trunk space damnit! And hinged doors that close with raw human force! And all my children in a row so they can pass french fries and chocolate milkshakes and smack each other in the head on long trips!
Yeah. I love my SUV.
That's right.
I love that big expensive gas tank. Yes I do.
And that one long back seat with three car seats squished together.
At least I'll never be accused of driving a Mommy-Mobile.
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Let me introduce myself. Im Martha Conner Broker/Realtor, one of Dothan's Top Producers. I placed sixth out of a total of more than two hundred agents in the Dothan Association, with 22 years experience. I have earned the following designations: CRS, GRI.I am Dothan's first recipient of the Alabama Association of Realtors prestigious Arthur B. Pope Education Award for 1998. I am a member of the National Association of Realtors, Alabama Association of Realtors, Dothan Board of Realtors, and a Multi-Million Dollar Top Producer. I have been recognized as one of the Top Ten Producers in the Wiregrass area. I know the key to a successful career is hard work, dedication and being professional in all my endeavors.We were certified by the Alabama Department of economic and community affairs office of minority business enterprises for the state of Alabama and Governor Don Siegelman as Dothan's only woman owned real estate company.
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This game looks cool, but that is about as far as it goes. It consists of 16 2-sided tiles. One side has a corner, the other a straightaway. On your turn you may take from 1-3 tiles and play them. The goal of the game is to play the tile that completes a 'Canal'. A complete canal is one where both ends connect to form an unbroken loop. I played it about 2 times and that was it. It had lost it's charm.
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The Master: H.P. Lovecraft LbNA # 54360
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
Two quotes from arguably one of the finest writers ever to have lived, and my favorite author, H.P. Lovecraft. If you're not familiar with his work I HIGHLY recommend you read some of his stories. Stephen King called him "The twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." That's saying a lot from someone like Stephen King.
It's only fitting that his likeness should be found in a cemetery. I Implore you to find this one at night, in true Lovecraftian fashion. It's in the middle of nowhere, so I wouldn't worry about others being around you, even the dead ones you'll be among.
Normally a mystery box won't include the name of the place you're looking for. This one does, finding the place is a whole other story. It might take you a little searching, but I think you'll find it relatively easy.
You're looking for MGRANE NOUIN CEMETARY. Remember also, DO THIS AT NIGHT, you'll have way more fun : )
At the Cemetery go in the gate and find the True Man. Once you've found him go to the opposite side of the headstone and go 42 steps to the left. Go between the two and around the back of the right one. Get on your stomach and crawl, Army style, to the base. Root around there while on your stomach to find the Master, he'll be waiting for you. As always, re-hide BETTER than when you found it. Use plenty of forest detritus and clear out the stuff that's fallen into the spot the box was resting in before re-hiding it.
For your enjoyment read some of his stories online before you head out to find this box, it'll give you something to think about when you're in the middle of nowhere, alone, in the dark.


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Homeowners cut asking prices to sell properties
Some 37.4 per cent of all properties listed for sale on Wednesday have experienced at least one price reduction since coming to the market, up from 36.4 per cent in November, data from Zoopla has shown.
The average discount now stands at £18,475 or 6.9 per cent off the original asking price, up from £15,879 in November.
Zoopla claimed that the figures provide a clear indication of sellers becoming more realistic in terms of their expectations and will be a welcome sign to buyers as the gap narrows between asking prices and what buyers are willing to pay.
This is most evident at the top end of the market, for properties listed for sale over £1m, where the average discount has climbed to 10 per cent off the original asking price, up from eight per cent in November.
Nicholas Leeming, commercial director at Zoopla, said, "As a result of weaker than expected demand in the last half of last year, sellers have progressively reduced asking prices to more realistic levels in order to achieve sales.
"The traditional influx of new properties on the market at the start of the year has created even more intense competition amongst sellers.
"Even the resilient £1m+ market is showing signs that it is not immune from the general economic pressures as reductions have jumped at that end of the market."


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How To Decorate With Trunks & Chests
Classic trunks and chests make functional and appealing decorating accessories, giving your home a touch of worldly, earthy or historic charm.
Use Trunks & Chests As Furniture
Because of their size, durability and shape, trunks and chests easily do double duty as household furniture. These functional approaches might fit in well with your home design:
- Seating: Most trunks and chests are strong enough to sit on. Add some decorative cushions to create a bench as a window seat or along a wall. For a more ambitious project, open a trunk and fill the hollows with upholstered cushioning for seat and back padding. Add legs underneath for a unique love seat.
- Coffee tables: Steamer trunks and wooden or woven chests look great all by themselves as coffee tables. If you're planning to use your coffee table for food and drink, consider protecting the surface with a glass or Plexiglas panel, a colorful throw or a fringed scarf.
- Accent tables: Smaller chests make great end tables in your living room, family room or dining room. In the bedroom, try a small chest as a bedside night table.
- Side Table: Stand two trunks on end against a wall a few feet apart and lay a wooden board across the space between them.
- Pet beds: A shallow traveling chest is just right for creating a cozy retreat for your dog or cat. Simply keep it open and fill the hollows with pet cushions, pillows and blankets.
Wall Decorating
Framed artwork isn't your only option for breaking up large boring expanses of wall. If you've got a few old trunks and/or chests, stack them against a wall or in a corner to add color, shape and texture to this area.
Ways To Use Trunks
Take advantage of the appearance as well as the storage function of your trunk or chest with these easy decorating ideas:
- Armoire: Stand a trunk on its end and install some shelves in the hollow area to store sweaters, tee shirts or lingerie.
- Freestanding closet: Stand the trunk on its end and install closet bars for hanging dresses, shirts, blouses or slacks.
- Bookcase: Stand trunk or chest on end and open against a wall. Install shelves and display your favorite books in style.
- Blanket box: Keep chest or trunk open at the foot of your bed and fill it with beautiful quilts and comforters.
Even if you hadn't planned on a specific storage function, no matter where you showcase your trunk or chest if will offer plenty of room to store things out of sight. Here are some things you might want to keep in yours:
- CDs
- Books
- Magazines
- Out of season clothing
Trunks In The Playroom
Don't forget your kids' play areas and bedrooms when decorating with trunks and chests. A sturdy steamer trunk becomes a nice looking toy chest if you take some safety precautions by getting rid of any locks and perhaps padding around the top lid so it can't slam hard on little fingers.
Trunks and chests also make great dress up closets. Install closet bars as you would for a grown-up closet, stand on end and let kids hang dress-up clothes, superhero costumes or other play outfits. You might also want to add a drawer or tray at the bottom for play makeup and accessories.
Other Creative Ideas
You might be surprised at how many unusual, creative options you have for decorating with your trunks and chests. Here are just a few:
- Memorabilia display: Stand trunk on end and open. Back the inside walls with cork board and use push pins to display travel photos, ticket stubs, letters or other mementos.
- Liquor cabinet: Install shelves and store liquor bottles, mixers, stemware and other glassware.
- Planter: For a truly unique display of nature, fill trunk with potting mix and design your own arrangement of plants and flowers.
- Collection Display: Install shelving and possibly a glass cover so you can display a collection of figurines, pressed flowers, trophies or original artwork.
Enhancing The Look Of Your Trunk Or Chest
Decorating with an attractive new or weathered trunk or storage chest is almost always a good plan. But what if your chest or trunk looks so awful or dull it isn't something you'd ever want to display? Before you hide it in the basement or put it out with the trash, consider these ideas for giving it a new look you'll want everyone to see:
- Decoupage: Cover your trunk in a paper design with just the right colors and patterns to fit with your decorating style.
- Fabric: Cover your trunk in fabric that matches or compliments your drapery, upholstery or bedding.
- Stain: Refinish a worn wood chest by sanding, staining and protecting with a polyurethane coating.
- Paint: Spray or brush on paint to change the color of wooden, woven or steamer chests and trunks.
- Bling: Help an old chest fit in with your teen girl's bedroom by decorating with stickers, glitter, ribbons, buttons and faux jewels.
- Steampunk accessories: Glue some gears, cogs and chains to an old trunk to give it a steampunk facelift.
With a little imagination, almost any trunk or chest can become an important feature of your home décor. So let that imagination run wild and create a space that blends form and function in unique and beautiful ways.


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DENPASAR: Indonesian police have arrested a construction worker suspected of murdering a British woman in her rented villa on the holiday island of Bali, an official said yesterday.
Hambali, 32, was arrested on Saturday in Jakarta where he fled to after allegedly robbing and killing Anne Marie Drozdz, in the cultural tourism district of Ubud on Thursday afternoon, police said.
"The suspect has been arrested and is being investigated," Bali police spokesman Hery Wiyanto told AFP.
Bali general investigations police commissioner Refi Pribadi on Saturday said Hambali, who goes by one name, had stolen a mobile phone, a motorcycle and 20 million rupiah ($1,720) from Drozdz, who is in her forties.
"We arrested him on charges of robbery and murder," he said.
Drozdz was found by the owner of the villa lying dead on the floor with a black cloth over her face, police said earlier.
Forensics experts said the woman's body had bruises on the neck and around the mouth.
A British embassy spokesman in Jakarta confirmed the death, adding that embassy officials were "ready to provide assistance to the family" and that they were cooperating with local authorities.
Drozdz had travelled around the world teaching at international schools and, according to her LinkedIn profile, last worked in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi.
Her brother Gregory told the Daily Telegraph the Bristol University drama graduate had gone to Bali to set up a social enterprise to help improve young people's lives on the island.


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A (Culinary) Major in Philosophy
For one day last week, the Diamond Ballroom at Hong Kong's new Ritz-Carlton hotel was turned into a lecture hall. The audience was a small group of media and die-hard foodies, and the speaker was Ferran Adrià, the man behind Spain's famed El Bulli restaurant and the world's most influential chef.
He was dressed in a white jacket with gray slacks and black dress shoes, but he wasn't giving a cooking demonstration. Instead, the 49-year-old Catalan pontificated like a philosophy professor on the existential nature of cuisine.
"When does a tomato taste like a tomato?" Mr. Adrià asked. Is it when you cut it and put salt on it? Is tomato sauce natural? He considered several other ingredients the same way too, pondering the hypothetical problem of creating a pastry made of strawberries. "All of cuisine is an elaboration," he said.
At El Bulli, Mr. Adrià was a pioneer of molecular gastronomy — a term he disdainfully describes as "marketing." The three-Michelin-star restaurant, which ranked No. 1 on Restaurant Magazine's World's 50 Best Restaurants a record five times over the past decade, was legendary for its deconstructionist and experimental cuisine.
Then, in July, at the height of El Bulli's powers, Mr. Adrià closed the eatery where he had first become head chef in the mid-1980s.
Which brings us to Hong Kong. It's a mark of the celebrity nature of chefs these days that Mr. Adrià was touring Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong courtesy of the Spanish tourism board, in the hopes of generating interest among Chinese travelers. It was his second visit to China, and he said he hopes to spend more time there — studying Chinese cuisine, of course.
"I'm more interested in finding out why dairy products aren't used in a dish than the dish itself," he said in an interview. "Why do they [the Chinese] put all the dishes in the middle of the table? Why do they cook vegetables so quickly but fish for so long? Why are there a lot more hot dishes than cold dishes in Chinese cuisine?"
Mr. Adrià's long-term project is a new culinary foundation, which is scheduled to open in 2014 on the site of his former restaurant. It will host a rotating group of 20 chefs who will visit for months at a time. Alongside Mr. Adrià, they will create new dishes and work on different approaches to cooking.
"It's a very strange project…and the most important challenge of my career," he said. "It's like if I were a musician who used to do 150 concerts a year and dedicated some time to composing. But then you change, to go to 90% composing and 10% performing. That's what I want to do."
There were times when Mr. Adrià was tempted to open restaurants in his name around the world like many of his peers — Joel Robuchon or Gordon Ramsay, for instance. But he decided against it. "I would have felt like I prostituted myself," he said.
Still, he is aware of the business side of his profession.
"The restaurant never made money," Mr. Adrià said, adding that most of his personal earnings come from consulting and advertising endorsements with firms such as PepsiCo and Spain's Telefónica. Corporate events were also a moneymaker — companies would pay up to €115,000 (about $188,000) to spend a full day at El Bulli and witness the chef in his kitchen, creating a sample of his dishes, he said.
He is targeting a fund of up to €8 million to pay for his new project. The site will house an archive, museum and special media presentation lab, all designed by Spanish architect Enric Ruiz-Geli.
While Mr. Adrià said the foundation is unique, he was inspired by Harvard University, where he taught a class in culinary physics last year.
"When one goes to Harvard, there's something that impresses you," he said. "That's the spirit of El Bulli, something overwhelming."
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By Ronald Fraser
While my recent run for a board seat in the Town of Colden was, vote-wise, a bust, my peek at the system raised an important question: Do local political parties undermine elections and alienate voters? A book by former U.S. Rep. Mickey Edwards, "The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans," helped me make sense of it all.
For two decades, says Edwards, "American voters have grown angrier and more frustrated with a government that they theoretically control. After all, they are citizens, not subjects, and they live in a democracy."
Once formed to deliver good government and promote the general welfare, America's political parties, says Edwards, have become polarized, rival ideological camps in pursuit of power. By promoting candidates with extreme views, party-controlled primaries perpetuate this inter-party rivalry.
To ease the grip of political parties on the candidate selection process, Edwards favors open primaries – already practiced in Louisiana, Washington state and California – in which every candidate for an office, regardless of party, appears on a single primary ballot. All registered voters, regardless of party affiliation, not party bosses, select the top two vote-getters to run against one another in the general election.
Political bosses in Erie County also skillfully use endorsements and party primaries to hand-pick candidates for election – but with a twist: Inter-party collusion, not inter-party rivalry, appears to control the process.
At one time, the 28,000 Independence Party voters in Erie County could trust that candidates appearing on the party ballot line were selected by local party officials. That was before party bosses in Albany hijacked the process and disbanded local committees.
Now, instead of independently selecting candidates, party bosses in Albany behave as if they are an arm of the Republican Party. Candidates endorsed by the Colden Republican Party, for example, were magically turned into Independence Party candidates in Albany.
The appearance of collusion is evident among local party committees. In the recent election to fill Town Board seats, instead of seeking out Democrats to run against candidates from other parties, the Colden Democratic Committee endorsed three registered Republicans and one registered Democrat. The same three Republicans were also endorsed by the town's Republican Committee and the Albany-based Independence Party.
In town after town, the same candidate for office appears on multiple party slates. Is this because members of separate Republican, Democratic and Conservative selection committees independently ranked that candidate above all others? Or, is inter-party collusion a better explanation?
Replacing party bosses with open primaries in Erie County will give voters a greater say over the general election ballot and may draw more citizens into the political arena both as candidates and as voters. It is worth a try.
Ronald Fraser is a member of the Town of Colden Environmental Board.


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Definition of talkie in English:
A film with a soundtrack, as distinct from a silent film: one of the most beloved actors of the silent screen and early talkies
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By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, May 19, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Pancreatic cancer is set to become the second deadliest cancer in the United States by 2030, new research predicts. If the projections hold, pancreatic cancer will bypass breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, ending up secoRead Full Article
Diabetes Drugs, Pancreatic Cancer Not Linked: Study
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- There's no firm evidence that the type 2 diabetes medications known as incretin-based drugs cause pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer, U.S. and European health officials say. But it's too early to say there's definitely nRead Full Article
Blood Test Might Help Spot Pancreatic Cancer Early
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A new blood test might one day help doctors spot pancreatic cancer in its early stages, Danish scientists report. The researchers said their testing is still too preliminary to be certain it can accurately diagnose pancRead Full Article
Blood Test for Pancreatic Cancer Shows Promise
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal tumor types because it's too often diagnosed in a later, advanced stage. But a new study suggests that a simple blood test might help spot the disease earlier. The study is described as sRead Full Article
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Prayer is not just about us; it's not just about the experiences we desire to have with God. Prayer is about our part in the big story of salvation. When we see ourselves as a part of this larger story, we feel connected, rooted in something bigger than ourselves. This perspective gives us meaning and purpose beyond our own lives.
People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future.
—William K. Kilpatrick
Our prayer is not a series of random attempts to reach God but rather a journey that we're on. Seeing this larger picture, seeing ourselves connected to the larger story, gives prayer a context. Indeed, prayer is one of the primary ways we play our part in God's plan of salvation.
I see an analogy to my relationships with my family. My wife, my kids: Many things happen with them in a given week that I can't predict. If I am not in daily communication with each one of them, in relationship, chances are I won't recognize something happening. And depending on how distant I am from the person affected, he or she may not even tell me about it. I would miss it.
Yet there are many days when spending time with my family is not very fulfilling emotionally: I am just with them, and they are with me. But it is exactly this type of time that sets us up for the bigger, more significant experiences—those moments that make memories and cement our relationships even more.
Because prayer is all about a relationship with the Trinity, the same principle holds true. If you're not spending regular, consistent time in prayer, you may miss some or even all of the deep connecting moments with the Lord that will cement your relationship with him. Even when you try to pray and God doesn't seem to show up, don't stop praying; rather you should see this situation as his helping you develop perseverance. You will also find a deeper appreciation of the times when God sets you on fire. In fact, persevering through times of desolation bears fruit in your relationship over the long haul. Countless saints will testify to this.
The other thing that helps me pray is the realization that there is very little in prayer that depends on me. I can't make myself have deep spiritual experiences. I can't create consolation for myself. I can't make up a word from God or make myself any holier. All of that depends on God. His movements are his, and I can't do anything to make them happen.
The only things that I bring to the mix are consistently showing up for prayer and the disposition of my heart when I am there.
With so little to contribute, I have decided that I want to make sure I'm doing my part every day.
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From God, Help Me: How to Grow in Prayer, by Jim Beckman (Servant Books, 2008).
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10 Remarkably Evocative Photos From D-Day
Friday 6th June 2014
It's 70 years since one of the bravest moments in British history - the D-Day Landings in Normandy.
Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Northern France in the dead of night on 6th June 1944. Thousands sacrificed their lives as they freed villages from Nazi occupation to maintain our freedom.
These are the evocative photos that show what these young men went through on those beaches 70 years ago today.


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PACIFICA -- Pacifica is a town of 37,000 spread out along the coast, just south of San Francisco. The community in the northwest corner of San Mateo County has always supported its high school athletic teams -- maybe not to the degree of a small town in Middle America, but more so than is the case for many Bay Area high schools.
"Football has always been important at Terra Nova, going back to the 1960s and '70s," said the school's football coach, Bill Gray, who has coached at Pacifica's two high schools, Terra Nova and Oceana, for 42 years. "But it's not just football. At Oceana, we had packed gyms for wrestling. At Terra Nova, packed gyms for girls basketball.
"I've been to some high school football games where there are more kids playing football than people in the stands. That's not the case here," Gray added, gesturing at the pine-covered cliffs surrounding the Terra Nova football field. "Kids love playing here. It's a gorgeous place. On Friday night the joint is jumping."
This fall, there is plenty of reason to jump. Terra Nova is averaging 47 points per game en route to a 4-0 start that included an eye-opening 50-33 win at defending Central Coast Section Open Division champion St. Ignatius.
The high-octane offense and perfect record have propelled the Tigers into the conversation regarding the section's top teams and given reason to believe that Terra Nova might be a factor if it again qualifies for the CCS Open Division playoffs.
A higher gear
Terra Nova averaged 30 points per game over the past four years, utilizing a four-wide receiver, no-huddle spread offense.
This season, the Tigers have picked up the tempo.
Offensive coordinator Tim Adams admired the offense Sonny Dykes was running at Louisiana Tech. When Dykes got the Cal job, Adams spent time with him and came away committed to accelerating the pace of Terra Nova's offense, to make it more like the offense Dykes uses, more like the version of the spread used at Oregon.
"Last year we'd sometimes take 25 seconds, with all our motion, getting a play in," Adams said. "Now we're getting a play off in 15 seconds or less. Against St. Ignatius we ran every play in eight to 12 seconds. There were times their defensive line was looking to the sideline to get a call, and we were already running the next play."
Terra Nova, which has won or shared the past four Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division titles, opens league play Friday night at home against Sequoia (3-1). The PAL Bay winner gets an automatic berth in the Open Division playoffs.
"Our biggest goal is to make it to the Open and make a statement," wide receiver Jaylend Jones said.
Applying pressure
Terra Nova's offensive line -- a group Adams calls "the skill players in this offense" -- has allowed four sacks this season in 142 pass attempts.
Terra Nova's offense puts a lot of pressure on opposing defenses. It also puts pressure on its own defense, which is invariably on the field for many more plays than the quick-strike offense.
The defense was on the field for 80 plays in a 52-15 win over Pioneer. Conditioning becomes a huge factor, especially considering how many Terra Nova players play both offense and defense.
"If we have an Achilles heel this year, it's that we have too many kids going two ways," Gray said.
Gray, in his 23rd season as Terra Nova's coach after spending 19 seasons at Oceana, serves as his own defensive coordinator. He runs what he calls "a defense that's ridiculously simple."
That simple defense has never performed better, holding Bishop O'Dowd to seven points, Salinas to 13 and Pioneer to 15. Middle linebacker Nick Pierotti and lineman David Melton have been standouts.
"They're smart, and they have this goofy edge about them," Gray said. "They're free spirits. At times they annoy the hell out of me. But they're kids having fun."
Not just the offense
There are four high schools in the Jefferson Union High School District, but only Terra Nova and Jefferson play football. (Westmoor and Oceana do not.)
With an open enrollment policy in the district, Terra Nova gets kids from Daly City and Brisbane, as well as Pacifica, who want to play football.
In 1997, Gray had enough players to institute a freshman football program that has thrived. He usually has about 50 players on each of his program's three teams (varsity, frosh-soph and freshman).
"If you look at the schools that have tried freshman football and failed at it, most have taken the better freshmen and pulled them up with the sophomores," Gray said. "The freshman program is left with lesser players who don't have a lot of success and get ignored. We almost never bring up a sophomore to varsity or a freshman to play with the sophomores. We give our freshmen a lot of attention."
Recent success
Gray has had one losing season in 23 years at Terra Nova, but the program really took off when Adams, a Pacifica native who played at Serra, took over as offensive coordinator. The Tigers advanced to the CCS Division III title game his first two years, winning a CCS championship in 2010.
Then the Open Division was introduced. Terra Nova took part in the first two years of the Open Division playoffs and lost to Bellarmine College Prep in the first round on each occasion, by scores of 56-12 and 33-14.
"Against Bellarmine in 2011, we could not block them," Adams said. "Today we could. If we stay healthy, we can compete in the postseason with anybody."
Knowing that the PAL Bay champion will play against the section's best in the Open Division has spurred the program toward greater achievement.
"The catalyst was when the CCS said all 'A' division champions would play in the Open," Gray said. "We're not doing much different from what we did before. But we have ratcheted up our expectations and the competitive level of our schedule.
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AIKEN---In an emergency, seconds count when you're calling for help. But they can't help you if they can't find you. There are a lot of streets and long driveways that do not have street names in Aiken County. Now planning officials are working hard to make some changes--to make sure emergency workers get to you and get to you fast.
Leroy Kretzmeier says street signs are important when it comes to safety. "I think it's extremely important to have street names...EMS can't get anywhere without them," says Kretzmeier. He says it's good that Aiken County council members just allowed seven new street signs to go up. "We're older. We are senior citizens and when I call 911, I want them to be able to get here," he says.
Cathy Randall works for the 911 Center in Aiken. The former dispatcher knows the importance of getting to a home quickly. "Emergency responders need to find you and if you are on a long driveway and if they're several houses there...it's difficult to find you." Now Cathy works with the sophisticated GIS system. The geographical informational system helps find and verify roads that need names. "We want you to mark your driveways ...it makes it alot easier to get help," says Randall. Lori Butler has spoken to thousands of distressed callers and she knows how important it is to find long driveways and secluded roads and give them new names. "Life or death is a matter of seconds...that's our main concern," Butler says.
Aiken County has miles of roads connecting rural homes--that means it could take a while to find some homes--and get help to the people who live there. Planning officials say the new street names will help with this. Randall says he has his address clearly displayed. He feels everyone should do this, otherwise "they (EMS) have to drive around until someone hollars at them...and that's not good."