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As you might expect from a small town where Lane Frost was born and where Bents Old Fort is located, La Junta, Colo., has roots strong in agricultural tradition and frontier history.
So it should not have been a surprise that the first Doc Jones Chuckwagon Cooking Contest on Oct. 26 — organized by longtime resident Delbert "Doc" Jones — drew a big crowd.
Nearly 400 people from the area paid $15 each for the opportunity to eat tasty vittles cooked up by six chuckwagons that traveled from as far away as Kansas to compete and have fun. The ticket numbers surprised Jones, who didn't dream of that amount when he began organizing the contest.
Asked if this initial event exceeded his expectations, Jones didn't hesitate with an answer.
"About 10 times (the response I expected)," he said with a smile before repeating himself for emphasis. "10 times. We had 400 tickets and there was just a handful left. We got so many people from out of town. It was unbelievable."
Speaking of unbelievable, the food served was in that category, and happy ticket holders had as much as their appetites could handle.
Every one of the six wagons cooked up chicken fried steak, beans, potatoes and bread, along with peach cobbler for dessert. While the chicken fried steak was fairly standard from wagon to wagon, every other dish allowed room for plenty of personality.
"You can use your own spices," revealed Rex Wailes from Bennet, Colo. Wailes cooked for the Lizzie II wagon, which keeps busy doing four to six competitions a year on top of two to three caterings every month, including brandings, cattle drives and weddings. "They'll all get a cube steak and (then) we do our own thing with the breadings and taters and beans."
"(Using your own) seasonings is the main deal," said Kent Anderson, who brought his chuckwagon from Holly, Colo., to participate in his first cook off. Asked for clarification on what he uses to give the dishes their own flair, he was willing to share a few ingredients.
"(We use) garlic powder and season salt and stuff like that," he described. "This is really good food and it's not hard to do."
While hundreds of people milled through the grounds enjoying their food, one of the big draws of the day was the old west atmosphere.
Set in a location outside of town that was populated by a large weathered bunkhouse, rustic fences and a roping arena, the authentic antique chuckwagons and their cowboy/cowgal crews, using dutch ovens over wood fires, made it seem like the past stepped through time and landed smack dab in La Junta.
"People love to see the cowboy history," acknowledged Jones. "Have you ever gone to a chuckwagon deal and seen this many real chuckwagons in action? If people are digging for history and old cowboy and wild west stuff, it is here."
"If you haven't got a camera standing here taking pictures, there's something the matter with you," Jones added with a grin as people carried cameras throughout the grounds. "These are real deals. There is stuff on these wagons that I don't have and I use (a chuckwagon) all the time. If people like anything that's real and Western and authentic, they will have a good time."
Fellow cooks agreed with Jones' sentiment.
"If people want to go see a big glamorous thing, they'll go to a dude ranch in the mountains," explained Fred Dorenkamp of Holly, Colo., while he and his wife, Norma, cut and chopped food beside their wagon. This was the Dorenkamp's first competition, but they've known Jones for years and were happy to make this their initial foray.
"But this, they're seeing the authentic deal," he added. "They're cooking with wood and there's nothing phony about it. People like to see that (and) it doesn't cost them a great deal of money."
While the food and atmosphere were the stars of the show, most of the public had no idea the hours of work each crew logged just to bring the food to their plates.
"A lot," laughed Anderson, when asked about the labor put in to bring the food out for consumption. "Especially by the time you get everything set up. But the big fun of the whole deal is the camaraderie of the wagons; the camaraderie and meeting people. It's a lot of stinking work, but we enjoy it."
Between getting to and from the event, setting up the wagon, preparing the vittles and then cleaning up afterward, Mark Moore of Parker, Colo., estimated he and his Rockin' M crew each put in over 20 hours of work to make it happen.
The response of the public, however, helps make the toil worthwhile.
"I really enjoy the living history side of those types of events," said Moore of a positive aspect to all the effort. "I think it's a very important part of Americana and how we have gotten where we are."
"It was fun that we were that much of an attraction," he added about the stream of people walking by and taking photos. "It's fun that people get that excited about it. All in all, I think it was a very successful event and the people of La Junta definitely got their money's worth and I think they enjoyed it."
"We had a heck of a response," agreed Jones after the cooking and eating was in the rearview mirror. "We did good."
Asked if this will be the start of an annual event, Jones indicated the town and public's reaction was a gauge for the future.
"I think we did all right," he began. "I haven't heard a bad thing yet. I really had no visions of next year, but we've been so well received by the entire community."
"I'm not the kind of guy that deals with city councils," he added with a grin. "But they are 100 percent behind us. 100 percent."
If this year's enthusiasm continues into the future, chuckwagon cooking just might be added to Lane Frost and Bents Old Fort as things for which the town of La Junta is already famous. ❖


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The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is joining in the search for a 21-year-old Reno woman who may be in the Reno-Carson City area.
Kayla Denboer was last seen by her family in May at the Everybody's Inn Motel.
She is 5 feet tall, weighs 100 pounds, and has hazel eyes and brown hair.
Anyone with information regarding Denboer is asked to call DCSO Investigator Ed Garren, (775) 782-9907.

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Christmas Brasstacular What could be better than brass and voices at Christmas time? Join us, with school choirs from all over the region to celebrate the festive season. Sing along to your favorite tunes. Swing to a Stan Kenton Christmas. Works to include: A Christmas Festival, Frosty the Snowman, A Nutcracker Suite, the Stan Kenton Christmas book as well as traditional carols.11/29/2012
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches Jed Allen Harris directs Tony Kushner's Angels in America, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece that confronts the political and social failures surrounding the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1980s New York City. This epic story transcends the political moment by using humor, the supernatural and heartbreaking realism; wrestling with universal themes of love, loss and responsibility. As relevant today as 20 years ago, the play fights against fear and bigotry with compassion and startling theatricality.11/29/2012
Midnight Radio: Cult Movie Classics Midnight Radio ends season 4 with a Mystery Science Theater 3000-style look at some of our favorite cult classic movies.11/29/2012
Forever Plaid - Plaid Tidings Directed by Jim Pollino. A holiday spinoff from Forever Plaid, the off-Broadway musical revue written by Stuart Ross in New York in 1990 and now performed internationally. The show is a revue of the close-harmony "guy groups."11/30/2012
Pitt Men's Glee Club Holiday Concert Richard Teaster directs a program of a capella holiday favorites.11/30/2012
Tchaikovsky's Fourth The concert begins with Composer of the Year Mason Bates' Mothership, commissioned and premiered by the YouTube Symphony in Sydney. Bates says this "fast-paced opener imagines the orchestra as a mothership that is 'docked' by several virtuosic soloists." Then, Manfred Honeck conducts Tchaikovsky's vibrant Symphony #4.11/30/2012
We Wish You a Merry Christmas These Christmas concerts abegin the season for PCC: Nov. 30, 8pm at Ingomar; Dec. 1, 8pm at Fox Chapel; and Dec. 2, 4pm at Ingomar.11/30/2012
The Americas in Concert Artistic Director Pablo Ardiles conducts Ernesto Lecuona's Andalucia Suite; Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, with guitarist Marco Sartor; Arturo Marques' Danzon #2; plus bossa nova, jazz, tango, and symphonic progressive rock selections. Special guests include soprano Lilly Abreau, AquiTango, and Cello Fury. Free, but nearly "sold out."12/01/2012
Holidays Guest Conductor Walter Morales leads traditional seasonal selections and welcomes the Butler Senior High Singers directed by Bryan Helsel. Selections will include "The Night Before Christmas," "Peace, Peace, Peace," Klezmer music, and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snow Maiden" suite.12/01/2012
SOLD OUT! Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts All performances are SOLD OUT. Listen live on Classical QED 89.3 on Friday, Dec. 7 at 8:00 pm for a live broadcast.12/01/2012
Music on the Edge: Talujon The renowned percussion ensemble returns to Pitt.12/01/2012
O Come All Ye Faithful The musical celebration of Advent and the upcoming Christmas season will feature Duquesne University'd Voices of Spirit and the Pappert Men's and Women's Chorales directed by Christine Jordanoff and Robert Kurth, as well as instrumental music and sacred readings. Free admission.12/02/2012
Three Rivers Ringers These concerts are titled "Gift of the Magi" after the centerpiece of the program written by the Ringers' Andy Seay -- a dramatic rendering of the classic O. Henry short story with beautiful music in a variety of styles. A reception follows each concert.12/02/2012
Russian Rhapsody Ronald Zollman leads the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in a n all-Russian program including Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, featuring pianist and 2011 CMU Concerto Competition winner Mengyi Yang, Glinka's charming Valse-Fantasie, and Shostakovich's powerful Symphony #10.12/02/2012
Holiday Sounds Susan Sands conducts te Pittsburgh premiere of "Minor Alterations," a clever medley of holiday favorites transformed into a minor key, plus music from "Polar Express," and more. The Franklin Regional High Schoo Chorus sings "A Vaughan Williams Christmas," "Christmas in the Air" and a sing-along "Hallelujah" Chorus.12/02/2012
Gift of the Magi Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church presents the Three Rivers Ringers handbell ensemble in a free performance.12/02/2012
World Music Festival Carpathian Music Ensemble, Gamelan, and African Music and Dance Ensemble join for an afternoon of music, dancing, and food. Free admission.12/02/2012
Celebration This concert celebrates the extraordinary talent of the WSW featuring the Seton Hill University Faculty Saxophone Quartet and classic works for band by Sergei Prokofiev, Robert Jager and Jan Bach. Paul Basler's exciting "Carnival" brings this concert to a thrilling finish. Jason Worzbyt conducts.12/02/2012
A Victorian Holiday The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh presents "A Victorian Holiday", under the direction of Betsy Burleigh. Travel back to the Dickens era with a jolly program of holiday favorites the whole family will enjoy, with Dickensian readings by Vance Torbert.12/02/2012
Symphonic Dances Music Director Lawrence Loh conducts Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Faure's Pelleas and Melisande suite, and, with soloist Noah Bendix-Balgley (PSO Concertmaster), the Mozart Violin Concerto #3. The concert is free, but tickets are required. Download them via the PYSO website.12/02/2012
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Thanks to Western Mining Alliance (WMA) for speaking at our last luncheon (they did a great job at addressing all issues as well as talking about environmental groups who get tax dollars no matter when they win or lose in court) and Patricia Smith, President of Nevada County Americans for Safe Access (NCASA), who has been leading an awesome charge to fight against our unconstitutional Nevada County ordinance on medical marijuana.
I commend these two groups for fighting for individual and property rights. Nevada County Board of Supervisors, Nevada City's city council, and Grass Valley city council all put a ban on dispensaries and farm co-ops. On top of that, Nevada County Board of Supervisors passed this ordinance- bogus regulations- last summer that none of the growers, patients are not able to abide by. I don't smoke, but I am disturbed to hear lots of the harassment (legal bullying) done by our Sheriff to those who are no threat, minding their own business, and want to be left alone. Keep in mind this is about patient's rights! For NCASA web asa-nc.com and WMA web westernminingalliance.org.
Please support them and attend their meetings!
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As I arrived at Buckeye Central for the Division III District Volleyball Tournament, my phone rang from an unknown number.
Seeing that I just switched to a new phone and haven't added all my phone numbers yet, I answered it because I wasn't sure who it was.
As it turned out, I should have hit ignore.
It was Susan from the grass roots campaign to re-elect Barack Obama. ?Like the people from the Republican and Democratic parties who stopped by our house, she wanted to know if I had decided who I was voting for.
"May I ask who sir?"
"Sure you may," I replied.
"Who is that sir?" she asked.
"I'm sorry. Nunya?" she asked.
"Yes ma'am. Nunya business."
I'm not sure she got it but she moved onto the senate race and asked if I had made a decision about that one and I told her I was undecided about that one. That was probably a mistake because I'll be getting more campaign calls.
She asked if I was voting absentee and if not, what time of day I was going to vote. I told her I planned on eating pizza that day for lunch if that helped her at all. Again, I don't think she appreciated the humor I was providing her.
She then asked if I wanted to volunteer and I told her I had enough on my schedule and didn't have time to volunteer in politics. Since I couldn't help, she wasn't interested any longer and she ended the call.
When I was growing up, I was taught that you don't share who you're going to vote for. We never had political signs in our yard and when I asked my parents who they were voting in a particular election, I was told "Nunya."
Ironically, it was my parents a week ago who also shared with me who I'm supposed to vote for.
There's a reason they put a curtain up around the voting booth.
Given my profession, I've always been very careful about political signs being my yard. Even today, my wife understands that the only signs that will go up in my yard are ones that are races that aren't covered by the A-T. So while I don't live in Hancock County, l've had my friend Phil's sign up in my yard, as he ran for commissioner in that county. The two in my yard now are both family friends as well.
On Facebook, you won't find anything about me "liking" this candidate or that candidate or that party. While I grew up with a certain set of values and political beliefs, as I've gotten older, I've found my views on certain issues have changed and I am no longer interested in voting a party line.
So what candidate should you vote for? Whatever one you've educated yourself about. It's more than just going out and voting. It's educating yourself on the candidates from the township trustee race to the presidential election. And guess what? If you come to something on the ballot you didn't research, don't vote for it.
It's a great gift we have as Americans to vote in this democracy. We owe it to our forefathers to use that gift and make an educated vote.
That being said, let's talk about the candidate you should elect to pick up this week and who is worthy of voting into a starting spot this weekend.
The most popular pickup has to be Rashad Jennings, who will be Jaguars' starting back for a few weeks since Maurice Jones-Drew injured his foot and is expected to be out at least two weeks if not longer. While Jennings is the starter, he wasn't very good against the Raiders, carrying the ball 21 times for 44 yards and a score. He had 58 yards receiving though on seven grabs, which redeemed his day. If MJD is out for four weeks, Jennings would have matchups against Packers (13th), Lions (26th), Colts (5th) and Texans (27th). Those numbers are the ranks for the most points given up to running backs this year by those respective teams. The Lions and Texans are the tough matchups but the Packers and Colts could be good matchups, even if the Jags are throwing a lot. He's a must pickup if you own MJD and better than some of the other backups you may have on your bench, like Daniel Thomas, Felix Jones or Wiliams Powell, to name a few.
There are two Browns worth talking about this week and the two go hand and hand: Brandon Weeden and Josh Gordon.
Weeden has quietly put together three straight solid weeks, averaging 262 yards passing, two touchdowns and a pick. And the primary beneficiary of that effort has been Gordon. He's picked up 240 yards receiving and four touchdowns over the last three weeks. Their next two matchups before the bye week are the Chargers and the Ravens. The Chargers are giving up the fourth-most fantasy points to the quarterback position and seventh-most to wide receivers. While the Ravens have already played the Browns once, Weeden still threw for 320 yards and a pick, but no scores. Gordon was held to one catch for 16 yards. I like the matchup the second time around because the Ravens are without Ray Lewis, but more importantly for this argument, Ladarius Webb. ?Remember that Weeden and Gordon are rookies and are rarely, if ever, successful right out of the gate. There will be hiccups still but the last three weeks to me show progress in a pair of rookies. Neither is going to evolve into Cam Newton or A.J. Green this year. However, these two are worth a pickup and spot starts. Gordon even has the potential to be a keeper candidate in dynasty leagues.
If only making political picks were as easy.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Doug Swanson's new office is only a 15-minute drive from the previous location of XplorIt.But Swanson says the business and tax environment at the company's new headquarters in Incline Village feels far distant from what the company faced in Truckee, just across the California state line.Swanson, chairman of the board of XplorIt, said the company's move to Incline Village comes as XplorIt's growth rate - which has been running more than 60 percent a year for the past three years - begins to accelerate.XplorIt develops interactive software that's used by clients to provide virtual tours to folks who come to their Web sites.The Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, for instance, commissioned XplorIt to create virtual tour of the city's attractions as well as the Los Angeles Convention Center.Resort at Squaw Creek and Mammoth Mountain, meanwhile, use XplorIt to introduce their resorts to potential users.The tour on Mammoth Mountain's Web site, Swanson says, drew 85,000 visitors last year.More critically, he says users stick with the tours far longer than they do with traditional Web video. The mountain resorts, for instance, have reported viewer engagement times of seven to 10 minutes. XplorIt's technology won the Media Vanguard Award from Advertising Age for the best innovation in virtual technology.The company currently employs eight, and Swanson said it expects to have a staff of 20 by the end of this year.The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, which assisted the company's decision-making, says XplorIt's wages average about $41,000.Mike Kazmierski, chief executive officer of EDAWN, said the jobs are important, too, because they help build entrepreneurial and technology-based creative energy in the region.The company began working with EDAWN through the economic development agency's entrepreneurial development team, which seeks to help startups in the area.Swanson said advisors at the C4 CUBE business incubator in Reno also assisted with the decision.VizKinect, a company headquartered at C4 CUBE, struck a partnership with XplorIt last autumn. VizKinect, which has developed technology to track what viewers are watching on a screen in a real time, might combine that technology with the XplorIt system.The company was launched about three years ago as a unit of J.D. Publishing, which publishes Tahoe Quarterly. Before it was rebranded as XplorIt last year, the company was known as VTour.Swanson said the company developed from the needs of magazine advertisers who wanted to use virtual reality to show off resorts and other properties.Xplorit is renovating office space at 924 Incline Way and expects to complete its move by mid-March.
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Open source is more than throwing code
Open source has achieved a bit of popularity in the tech world, and has even become a bit mainstream. I sadly think this means that many have and will continue to miss the point of what being open source really means. Open source doesn't just mean showing source code. Many people think that such code drops are the only thing necessary for open source buzz to take over. There are sadly so many examples of tacking on the words "open source" to a product's signage that the landscape is littered with them. In addition to exposing your code (or methods in the case of non-software projects) there are really at least two other principles that need to be present for real open source legitimacy.
If you are going to legitametely adopt the open source mantra, you must expect, prepare for, and welcome outsiders into your organization (dare I say--community?). As a matter of fact you should probably spend significant time working on making sure outsiders can really participate. Largely this is going to consist of changing culture, and removing roadmaps as well as identifying and exposing the processes for getting involved. For instance, how does one get commit access? How does one start a sub-project to address a certain niche. While in the beginning most of this participation will be peripheral and likely lightweight you should be ready over time for outsiders to become core contributors to your project. You should also make sure that part of your inclusion is showing who you want to include by making sure that your overall objectives and mission are well stated and understood. You need to clearly establish where you intend to go so you don't end up with an angry community who wants to hold you to the original vision--or at least their perception of the original vision.
The final piece is transparency. Transparency means decisions are made publicly, and hopefully deliberations are as well. If your active community is surprised or caught unaware you've done it wrong. This is a difficult cultural issue for people to adjust to, particularly if the 'news' is bad. Transparency means people should always know where you are headed, be that roadmaps, published goals, ongoing deliberations, etc. Even if all of your work is being done by insiders, a newcomer should still be able to come to your site find out the groups directions and decide if they want to help and find a place to start working towards that goal in 15-20 minutes.
Finally you need to get out of the way, and if you've done it right up to this point you need to actively ensure that you and other insiders are constantly ensuring that you aren't blocking people who want to participate and get things done. Excessive amounts of time granting permission and giving resources that can only be touched by insiders are good warning signs that you are being a hindrance rather than a catalyst. Most people are reluctant to let go, sometimes even scared to do so. It should be obvious though, that this power you are so scared of is one of the reasons and benefits of going open source; why would you miss out on that?
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I think I have read similar "insight" on F/L/OSS in the last century... It's unclear to me why this post was necessary and what its added value is?
"If you are going to legitimately adopt the open source mantra, you must expect, prepare for, and welcome outsiders into your organization (dare I say--community?). As a matter of fact you should probably spend significant time working on making sure outsiders can really participate."
The strength of this article lies in the above quote. Indeed, the article may have been more engaging if it had discussed the inclusion and pathways of participation for non-programmers.
As FLOSS extends beyond the niche of hackers and tinkerers, there is a greater need for input and participation of non-programmers. Currently, non-programmers are relatively unrepresented in the presentation of FLOSS to a broader public. In the broader software sphere, the implementation and instruction of FLOSS is almost exclusively limited to the illuminati of IT (CS departments, engineering, servers, and internal infrastructure). If FLOSS is to make the societal paradigmatic changes it promises to, then it will need to move to a greater audience (as it has begun to in the mobile market).
While this is not a new opinion, I find it good to be reminded occasionally of the tenants. It is so easy to get caught up in the current project and forget about the community and the need to make the decisions in public not in private email conversations, which is so much easier....
The above, even if already said, needs repeating. Especially about transparency.
I don't completely agree about the removal of roadmaps. I think they should still be present, but
- transparent
- influencable by the community (and not only be some product manager)
- allow for contributions that are not on the roadmap.


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Serves 6 |
Prep Time 15 minutes |
Cook Time 15 minutes
2 (16 oz) cans Eden Spicy Refried Pinto Beansor Eden Spicy Refried Black Beans
1 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/2 cup onion, diced
1/2 cup green bell pepper, diced
1/2 cup red bell pepper, diced
1/2 cup organic sweet corn, fresh or frozen
2 cups cooked organic long grain or basmati brown rice
12 organic whole grain flour or corn tortillas
14 1/2 ounces Eden Diced Tomatoes w/Green Chilies, do not drain
1/2 cup red onion, minced
2 Tbsp lime juice, freshly squeezed
1 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground coriander
2 Tbsp fresh parsley, finely minced
1/2 tsp organic maple syrup
Drain half the liquid off the diced tomatoes and set aside. Place the tomatoes, onion, lime juice, shoyu, cumin, coriander, parsley and maple syrup in a small mixing bowl and mix. Add more seasoning or tomato liquid for desired consistency. Set aside while you prepare the beans and heat the tortilla shells.
Heat the oil in a large skillet and sauté the garlic and onions for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the green pepper, red pepper and sweet corn. Sauté 1 to 2 minutes. Add the refried beans and mix thoroughly with the vegetables until hot. While the beans are heating, prepare the tortillas.
Preheat the oven to 300°. Place the tortillas in a tortilla warmer or casserole dish, cover and heat until warm, about 10 minutes.
Remove the tortillas from the oven. Place 3 or 4 tablespoons of rice in the center of each tortilla. Place 2 or 3 tablespoons of refried beans on top of the rice. Roll up and spoon the salsa over before eating.
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A UB historian who credits the American culture of guns and violence to the Civil War era, says the racial attitudes born of this period are so powerful that the South may never redeem itself from its violent, invidious history.
In "Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence and the American South after the Civil War" (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Carole Emberton, assistant professor of history, digs into the turbulent Reconstruction era to uncover the roots of the bigotry and gun culture that continue to foment violence in 21st-century America.
Emberton says that at the end of the Civil War, the principal concern of Southern freedmen was their redemption from lives of slavery. Some looked forward to a fresh start as new citizens and land owners, and to the peace they hoped would mark the post-war era.
What they found, instead, was continued violence, bigotry and political oppression.
Emberton employs an array of archival material, including documented interviews with and letters by former slaves, to trace the meanings "redemption" held for different groups of Americans as they tried to come to terms with the results of the war and the changed social mores of a healing nation.
"I was concerned with how newly freed people negotiated the dangerous landscape of the post-war South," says Emberton. "I wondered how people coped. How did people live under the continual fear that they were going to be hunted down?"
For freed African Americans, she says, the path toward full citizenship lay with land and gun ownership, military service and the vote. Land ownership marked them as independent, self-employed men; gun ownership provided them with the power to keep would-be abusers at bay. Past military services indicated their loyalty to the Union, from which they expected recognition and recompense. The vote would give them control of their political destiny.
Their pursuit of these very ends, however, provoked tremendous rage toward them and toward the federal government that had defeated the South, says Emberton.
"This ultimately led to the rise of a violent form of white supremacy, a larger culture of gun ownership and the defeat of Reconstruction itself," she says.
During the Reconstruction period, even as black Americans sought redemption through the exercise of their electoral rights, many white Southerners were unable to tolerate being policed by federal troops—some of which included black soldiers—and tried to create their own form of redemption by reasserting their dominance over the land they once controlled though a political coalition called the Redeemers. The Redeemers was a southern wing of the conservative faction of the Democratic Party, which at the time opposed many of the era's civil rights reforms.
They, along with the paramilitary organizations they supported, including the White League, the Red Shirts and Ku Klux Klan, sought to reverse the Union victory by turning out Republican office holders, terrorizing and killing former slaves, taking back their property and suppressing their vote, Emberton explains.
Southern whites used the barrel of a gun to beat back change and in order for former slaves to defend their new rights—and sometimes their lives—it was imperative that they, too, arm themselves. Emberton points out that guns were anything but scarce. American weapons manufacturing exploded to fuel the Civil War, and to maintain production and profit, the leading manufacturers—Colt, Smith and Wesson, Springfield and Winchester—needed a new market.
The South was a tinderbox, and Election Day was all it took for it to erupt. Voting booths became the setting for massacres even as federal troops were used to enforce the right of African Americans to vote and Southerners responded with violence.
"If you want to vote you had to be armed because the other side is armed," she says. "It was a militarized political culture where everyone brought their guns to the voting booths."
This culture provoked fear of crime as well, Emberton says. It instilled in white Southerners the belief that men needed to protect their homes and families from the violence they saw as rampant right outside their doors. Although whites were largely responsible for creating this culture of violence, they blamed freed people for it. These fears still exist today and often are expressed openly.
Given the issues of race and violence currently rattling the nation, "Beyond Redemption" demonstrates why the author holds that redemption from this violent past is far from assured.
"People always think there is going to be a point where we finally 'get it,'" says Emberton. "But the past leaves an imprint on us. It defines who we are, and not always in a good way. Redemption is an ongoing process."


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PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the poster promoting his latest comedy, That Awkward Moment, a movie about the trials and tribulations of dating.
"That awkward moment when you realize you're attached to her kitty," reads the poster.
Efron would probably welcome a snuggly feline in his life right about now: The actor broke his jaw last week after slipping in a puddle. Plans to promote the upcoming film, which costars Miles Teller, Imogen Poots and Michael B. Jordan, have not been scratched, despite Efron's broken jaw.
Poots's poster for the film – which arrives in theaters Jan. 31 – is decidedly less aww-worthy than Efron's ... and that's not just because we openly admire his six-pack.
"That awkward moment when you accidentally sext your mom," reads her poster. (On the count of three ... yikes!)
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While filming, Efron learned that it was, in fact, possible to encounter a wardrobe malfunction when you're stripping down.
"There was a sock thing. It fell off," he told reporters at an October press event promoting the romantic (and, at times, raunchy) comedy. "You just cup your hands."
And if you're hoping to score a non-awkward date with the single actor, he says he appreciates a strong and happy woman. "I think someone that's creative and smart, self-confident," he said. "A nice smile – that's a good thing to have."
Just don't expect any cheesy pick-up lines from Efron. He says he tries to stay away from the zingers – although Jordan was happy to offer up a fool-proof strategy if Efron ever needs to win over a date.
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A 32-year-old Center Lane woman who is allegedly about eight months pregnant was arrested late Thursday night on third-degree rape and aggravated harassment charges for allegedly being sexually intimate with a 16-year-old boy and falsely reporting a gun incident.
Jasmin Castro was arrested after officers responded to a call about a gun incident. Officers reported it was a false report and her with the teenager.


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Aisling of Bruadair is frantic to find both the truth about her future and a mercenary to save her country. When an offer of aid comes from an unexpected direction, she is relieved her quest is almost complete. But she soon realizes her task is far from over . . . and will include perils she never dreamed she would ever face.
Rùnach of Ceangail has offered to help Aisling with her quest, then he fully intends to take up his life as a simple swordsman far from magic and evil mages. Unfortunately, a chance finding of a book of indecipherable spells tells him that an ordinary life is never going to be his–especially when he realizes that the book he has in his hands belongs to a black mage who will stop at nothing to have it back.
With time running out, Rùnach and Aisling must solve what seem to be unrelated mysteries before others find those answers first and plunge the Nine Kingdoms into a darkness it will never recover from . . .
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I love books. I love the feel of a good paperback in my hand. I love big coffee-table books with glossy pictures. The thought of an afternoon spent trolling through bookstores or libraries is like contemplating a quick but thoroughly satisfying vacation. But what really gets me going is the thought of old, musty, obscure books. Is there a less-visited section of a library where I can peer at dusty tomes on the bottom shelf and maybe find an overlooked gem? Maybe a used bookstore in a sleepy little port town where I can find old copies of turn-of-the-century books on Scottish history? Bliss!
I think this is why I'm so fond of the two main characters in River of Dreams. Aisling and Rùnach have both spent their share of time chasing after books in various places, but they now find themselves in the most famous library in all the Nine Kingdoms. It's probably fairly safe to say that they hadn't anticipated being prevented from looking for what they came for by an angry librarian backed up by soldiers with very sharp swords, but sometimes the unexpected happens. They do manage to get at least something out of the trip—a rare tome they hadn't been looking for—as well as acquiring a few things they hadn't intended to.
I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes things aren't as they seem and part of the adventure is enjoying where clues lead you. Or it could just be be careful in libraries. I'd love to hear which you think it is after the last page of the book!
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Once you start following hearts, you quickly learn there's no stopping them. Look up – they are carved into shutters, crafted into door planters, worked into wallpaper. Look down – you'll find them molded into garden stones, incorporated into table designs or fashioned into rugs, adding a little luv to hearth and home.
Hearts – their shapes and motifs – are an inspiration for all types of design, seen in jewelry and fashion accessories, and tableware and home decor. Their styling can be Victorian fancy or country cute, or quite contemporary. Their material? Crystal, wood, tin, slate and fabric, to name just a few.
"People have always loved heart-shaped things. It's a happy symbol, just like the star," said Diane Kissel of Kissel Country Tin "Gifts for the Nest" store, 7296 Schultz Road, North Tonawanda.
Her store holds heart-themed items such as picture frames, soaps, coasters, journals and planters. Many other heart-inspired products can be found at gift shops, jewelers and other stores around town.
Hearts are the symbol of love, but their popularity endures long after Valentine's Day.
Some people collect them. Others give them as gifts for engagements, weddings and anniversaries, said Pamela R. Miskey, owner of Tis the Season Gift Shoppe, 15 Lincoln Road, Snyder.
Miskey, too, likes to keep some heart-themed items in stock year-round – such as a silver tiered candy stand or a mosaic-covered ceramic garden stone for anyone looking for a little love.
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"Rob gave Todd an oldie last night."
"That makes me hungry for a ham sandwich."
"That makes me hungry for a ham sandwich."
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a person that is young but act old.
James your a oldie for listening to old rock.
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A pet name for a person who is approx. 10 years older then the girl/guy they are dating. Usually given to a male in his 30's who wears jorts!
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BRADENTON, Fla. - Sharrif Floyd had his Friday planned. There was a little window in the midst of preparation for the NFL scouting combine, enough for the George Washington High graduate to steal over to a white quartz beach at nearby Siesta Key.
"You can't argue on a beach," said Floyd, who is the best NFL prospect in years to have grown up in Philadelphia, in the city itself. "You can't do anything wrong on a beach."
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1. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: "the luxury which enervates and destroys nations" (Henry David Thoreau). See Synonyms at deplete. 2. Medicine To remove a nerve or part of a nerve.
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Gaussian Mixture Filters in Hybrid Positioning
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Bayesian filtering is a framework for the computation of an optimal state estimate fusing different types of measurements, both current and past. Positioning, especially in urban and indoor environments, is one example of an application where the powerful mathematical framework is needed to compute as a good position estimate as possible from all kinds of measurements and information. In this work, we consider the Gaussian mixture filter, which is an approximation of the Bayesian filter. Especially, we consider filtering with just a few components, which can be computed in real-time on a mobile device. We have developed and compared different Gaussian mixture filters in different scenarios. One filter uses static solutions, which are possibly ambiguous, another extends the Unscented transformation to the Gaussian mixture framework, and some filters are based on partitioning the state space. It is also possible to use restrictive, inequality constraints, efficiently in Gaussian mixture filters. We show that a new filter called the Efficient Gaussian mixture filter outperforms other known filters, such as Kalman-type filters or particle filter, in a positioning application. We also show that another new filter, the Box Gaussian mixture filter, converges weakly to the correct posterior. All in all we see that the Gaussian mixture is a competitive framework for real-time filtering implementations, especially in positioning applications.
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MARTINSBURG - If Donte Grantham had a dollar for every time he heard the question, he could buy a college, rather than simply choose one to attend....
Clemson would be a poor choice. And why would he want to go to a conference with a bunch of cheaters and haters?
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Hope he chooses Clemson. ACC will be loaded next year. And I hear the coaches stay sober down there.
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Students with learning disabilities possess average to above average intelligence. The disability is demonstrated by a significant discrepancy between expected and actual performance in one or more of the basic functions: Memory, Oral Expression, Listening Comprehension, Written Expression, Basic Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Mathematical Calculation, or Mathematical Reasoning.
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quote: Corporations exist to make money. Government's should not.
quote: I love how corporate sympathizers love shove the "don't buy it" argument in the face of consumers, while attacking government for the exact same behavior that corporations exhibit (money grabbing) while ignoring their own cardinal rule that they impose on consumers: if you don't like it, don't buy(in this case, do business).
quote: How is the rumored Xbox 720 software distribution model any different than the current Steam model?
quote: They rely on retailers to sell their consoles, games, PCs, software, mice, keyboards, etc. If they piss off retailers too much they'll stop pushing Microsoft products. If they do this, Microsoft would likely need to sell everything themselves (hardware and software) or come up with other retail alliances.
quote: Yes because being tied to your Xbox Live ID will do that because you can only log in on one console otherwise you need to buy another console.
quote: Well for 1, it ties the game to a specific console, not a specific account.
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By Chris Martell
Reprinted with permission from Schizophrenia Digest, Spring 2005
When problems in the body arise there is, in one corner, a doctor in a starched lab coat, bolstered by academic credentials and the medical community. In the other corner is the patient, naked beneath a paper gown, feeling vulnerable as he or she is poked, prodded and examined.
When illness involves the brain, the dynamics between physician and patient become even more complex. A person's most private thoughts, beliefs and life goals are being scrutinized, and ultimately judged, by a psychiatrist. With a prescription pad, the doctor can try to rewrite the script in their patient's mind and-while they're at it-bring on a cornucopia of side effects that may change the patient's life just as profoundly.
The lack of balance in the doctor-patient relationship is particularly acute in schizophrenia, often characterized by a consumer's lack of insight into his or her condition.
For a decade, there has been growing dialogue in the psychiatric community about the role of doctors in the treatment of schizophrenia, much of it led by Dr. Ronald Diamond, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who also works with patients living in the community.
"We are still not doing a very good job of listening to patients," Dr. Diamond has said, echoing a warning he's been sounding for years. "The treatment of schizophrenia could be greatly improved if physicians better understood the goals of their patients."
The fundamental question is this: Are doctors inflicting their own goals on their patients, or are they helping their patients lead the kind of lives they really want?
That question was addressed in a recently published study, commissioned by Janssen Pharmaceutica Products and co-authored by Dr. Diamond, in which psychiatrists and people with schizophrenia were asked to rank their treatment goals.
The 199 consumers surveyed and the 291 doctors who participated have many of the same broad goals: improved overall happiness and mental health are at the top of the list of shared goals.
Other similar rankings between patients and doctors included improved ability to express oneself to others, reduced depressive thoughts, improved family relationships, less agitation and irritability, fewer suspicious thoughts about others, less dependency on others, fewer sexual side effects and less frequent visits to the psychiatrist or counselor.
But the study also highlighted some differences between the goals of physicians and patients. Doctors valued minimizing the side effects of medication more highly than the patients did. And patients cared more about social activities than the doctors did.
The survey revealed that physicians have higher treatment goals than their patients. It suggests that patients may not have high hopes for the success of their treatment, and are not freely discussing their own unmet treatment goals with their doctors. Because of the survey's findings, physicians are urged to discuss treatment goals and progress toward these goals with individual patients in order to increase their satisfaction.
"In the past, we assumed that patients agreed with our ideas of reasonable treatment," Dr. Diamond said. "But more and more, I think we are starting to listen to what our patients want in a different way."
It took five hospitalizations in as many years and an arrest before Dylan Abraham's condition stabilized enough for treatment to take hold.
When he was diagnosed in 1974, the idea of schizophrenia being a brain disease rather than a behavior problem was still in its infancy. His doctors still adhered to Freudian theory, and peppered him with questions about his feelings.
"After three days in an interrogation room when I was in jail, I couldn't handle any more questions, so there was friction with the doctors," he recalled. Family therapy also failed.
"My parents were divorced, so there was tension. And my father didn't understand anything about mental illness. It was stressful, and it made things worse.
"A lot of people were still thinking that bad parenting caused schizophrenia. I was aware that my mother was being accused of being a 'schizo-genic-frenic' mother. A lot of women in the '60s and '70s were getting slammed with that label, and that was very upsetting to me. Why would a mother try to make her own child sick?"
There were bright spots as well." Some of my happiest memories are from the (psych ward) at Madison General. I was 18, and the staff was young and idealistic. I could relate to them much better than I could to the older doctors. One of the guys on the staff, who was about 25, acted like my big brother. … The young people on the staff were listening to the same music I was. They were treating me like a person, and the older doctors weren't."
After 10 weeks of medication and the sanctuary of the psych ward, Abraham's doctors pronounced him cured and took him off medication." My doctor was adamant that I go to college full-time and move into a dorm."
At first, Dylan pulled straight A's at the University of Wisconsin, while taking part in martial arts and sports. Near the end of the semester, though, "everything fell apart," he said. The chorus of well-intentioned people insisting he make a beeline from psych ward to college didn't help either, he now believes.
"There were too many cooks in the kitchen, getting on my case and telling me what to do. I was only 20 and I wanted to take my time, and do what I pleased. What was the rush? Getting well is not a race. But it had become a race. The doctors felt I had to get fixed as fast as possible."
In time, things fell into place. Dylan has traveled internationally, doing public speaking and writing on mental illness, often with his mother, Nancy, who was one of the founding members of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He works in crisis intervention at a mental health center, helping other consumers. And he has, since he was in his 20s, been part of a community support team called PACT.
"It's like a 24-hour-a-day, 365-daysa- year psych ward, without walls," said Dylan, who now lives in a condo he owns and has not been hospitalized in 18 years. "(PACT) knows everything that's going on with me, even if I have the flu, which can trigger symptoms."
He attributes much of his success to a psychiatrist who has an excellent understanding of psychoactive medicine, and changes prescriptions quickly if he notices something going wrong.
"He picks up problems before they get big," Dylan said." He compliments me on my successes. He told me he likes the way I never complain about my clients at work, and he admires my consistent, structured routines. He'll say things like, 'This is the best I've seen you look in a while.' He listens to what I say, and he knows what I want to do with my life, which is to help end the stigma of mental illness. He treats me like a friend."
At age 48, following three decades of battling schizophrenia, Bruce Maybee still has the aspirations of a young man.
"Since I was in my 20s I wanted to get out of living in a group home so I could have privacy." For brief periods, he did have his own place, like a basement apartment that was prone to flooding.
He now rents a room in a small ranch house on a wooded lot near a lake with three roommates, none of whom have mental illness. But the dream of getting a nice place of his own is still there. He has accumulated things to fill such a place.
"I have a stereo, tons of DVDs, a new TV, my own twin bed, a sofa, a chair and end tables. I bought a lot of 'vanity' books, classics like Shakespeare and other writers. But I think if I actually read them I'd get really confused," he said with a laugh. "I want stuff that is dignified. My brother is holding some of my things for me so if I ever get a better place, I'll have furniture to fill it."
Bruce has a good car, which is paid off, and some savings. He tries to keep up his appearance, and has several pairs of identical black shoes and navy blue oxford shirts with button-down collars." In the early years I felt stigmatized when people called me wacko, or loony, or crazy, and I thought if I looked nice I would be treated better. But clothes are expensive."
Another goal has been to run 500 marathons, and he's almost there.
He no longer dreams much about traveling the world; instead, he has become a devoted "Star Trek" fan. His hopes of finding a wife, though, are still alive. "I'm working on my social skills, so when I meet someone I'm attracted to I can be able to ask her if she'd like to have a meal with me."
Along with his young man's goals, Bruce has been spending more and more time thinking about how he can retire on Social Security disability payments, and whatever small savings he is able to accumulate.
Kellianne O'Brien was nearing her 30th birthday when she was consumed with an urge to paint. She worked non-stop, dawn to dusk.
A professional painter and sculptor who had earned a bachelor's degree in French and philosophy in her home state of Ohio, she was sleeping only two or three hours a night as she worked on her massive painting for about eight months. "A lot of emotion came out while I was painting. I was having intense, mystical, out-of-body experiences.… I also heard command voices telling me to quit my job, to do certain rituals like hug trees, or to talk to some people and not to others."
Quitting her job at a bagel shop led to eviction, homelessness and sleeping on benches." I was hearing many voices, but one of them was saying good things to me, and it was louder than the others. I knew they were external, and I thought they were spirits," said Kellianne, who was raised as a Catholic.
"I listened only to that one voice. It was like I was adrift at sea, on the verge of drowning, and that voice was the helicopter that was going to save me. One day it told me that by the sundown I would be saved. And in fact, that happened. A friend of mine from the bagel shop showed up with two mental health workers, and they took me away. I was going in and out of a catatonic state."
Kellianne's memories of what followed in a state psychiatric hospital are grim." I was trying to describe my spiritual experiences, but the doctors didn't believe anything I said. You can always tell when someone doesn't believe you."
Despite the rocky introduction to the psychiatric profession, Kellianne responded well to medication and eventually moved into a group home. In 1998, she became the state of Wisconsin's consumer affairs director for the Bureau of Mental Health, working on the "Recovery Initiative" that sets standards for how people should be treated-not directed-by doctors.
"Doctors should focus on people's strengths, and not pathologize them. They should try to help people find hope when they are in despair," she said." Doctors need to become less arrogant. They believe everything they learned in school is right. They need to be more open-minded about others' struggles and realities. They should have the humility to realize that they haven't gone through what consumers have. The consumer is the expert, not you."
About four years ago, Kellianne, now 39, went off her medication because she wanted to see how her medications were affecting her.
"No (mental health professional) explained why I was taking them or what they were actually doing for me. I needed to find out."
The out-of-body experiences returned, so she went back on her medication.
"I went back on meds because they keep me on the ground, and I want to live on the ground. It's very hard to live with your spirit outside of you."
Now, with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, she takes antipsychotic and antianxiety medications, and works as a training specialist. She owns her own home and has been in a committed relationship with another woman for seven years. Her art has been displayed nationally.
And she still has a long list of goals, which include working to empower the mentally ill and the homeless.
"I'd like to have an impact with my art, I'd like to move to Europe, and I'd like to be able to get married."
"If you ask people with schizophrenia what they want, they'd say they want more money so they can live in a better place, buy a decent car and Christmas presents, or they want a girlfriend," says Dr. Diamond.
Physicians' heavy-handed attempts to dispel all their patients' "delusions" or silence their voices can be counterproductive.
"Look at all those researchers at the university who work all their lives thinking they'll win a Nobel Prize. They know, on some level, they're not going to win the Nobel. But if they didn't have the delusion that they could, they might lose the initiative to do their work."
And he believes that a lack of initiative, for those with schizophrenia, is often more debilitating than hearing voices." People can hear voices and still be fully functional."
The important thing for doctors, he said, is to understand how their patients feel about the voices.
"For the most part, people don't like hearing voices. They're intrusive. One patient described her voices like this: 'Imagine your teenage daughter had control of a radio in your head, and she controlled the volume and the station.' "
On the other hand, there are patients who like the voices they hear. "Some voices are upbeat, they give advice and they make the person feel less isolated. Either the voices are a problem, or they're not. We have to listen, and find out what's going on."
Doctors also have to listen to consumers' feelings about the social fallout that can result from prescription medicines. What's an acceptable amount of weight gain? How do they feel about decreased sexual function? And what about the effort that goes into consuming large quantities of pills?
"For some people, taking a pill is a symbol of what they're fighting for. For others, it's a remembrance of what they've lost. Some are reminded by a pill that what's happened to them is not their fault. And some see it as a condemnation.
"Because more doctors are working in community settings, they are starting to see their patient as a whole person, a person whose goals change over time," Dr. Diamond said. "This survey is one more piece in what is becoming a larger dialogue about what 'getting better' really means."
Chris Martell is a feature reporter for the
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Baseball Wins Two at Snow Bird Classic
Ball State's baseball team won its first two games at the Snow Bird Classic in Port Charlotte, Fla., to improve to 5-1 on the season.
In the first game vs. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, it was a game of quality pitching and big hits that propelled the Cardinals to a 3-1 victory. Against Mississippi Valley State in the second game, Ball State tallied a 12-1 win.
Scott Baker started the first game and earned the pitching win for Ball State after lasting eight innings, allowing only four hits and one run, while striking out six. Zach Plesac, who won two games in relief for the Cardinals last week, registered his first save by pitching the ninth inning and striking out two to close out the victory.
Timely key hits included homeruns by Brandon Estep and Caleb Stayton to lead the Cardinals to the win. Estep was 2-for-4 in the game with one run-batted-in and one run scored. Stayton was 3-for-4 on the day with two RBI and one run scored.
Ball State scored the first run of the game in the top of the second before UWM tied the game at 1-1 in the third. Single run innings by the Cardinals in the fifth and the sixth sealed the win for the Cardinals.
In the second game of the day vs. Mississippi Valley State, Ball State used a seven-run second inning to propel the Cardinals to a 12-1 victory and improve to 5-1 on the year.
Jacob Brewer got the start on the mound and dominated the game, striking out 11 batters in six innings and allowing only two hits. Brewer, who missed last season with an injury, earned his first career victory at Ball State.
A grand slam by Sean Godfrey in the second inning was the big hit of the day for the Cardinals and propelled the team to the win.
Nick Hollowell tallied a 2-for-3 performance at the plate, while Jarrett Rindfleish was 3-for-4 with three RBI and three runs scored. Elbert Devarie was 2-for-4 at the plate with one RBI and one run scored.
The Cardinals will face Iowa in a 5:30 p.m. game Saturday and then complete their appearance at the Snow Bird Classic with a Sunday 10:30 a.m. game vs. Northwestern.


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A text for courses in sport communication, sport and media, sport communication and media relations, and sport journalism courses. Also a reference for practitioners and libraries.
Paul M. Pedersen, PhD, an associate professor of sport communication at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), received his PhD in sport management from Florida State University in 2000. Pedersen began his sport communication career as a sportswriter and sports business columnist and has researched, published, and presented on the activities and practices of many sport organization personnel, specifically those associated with the print media and affiliated with intercollegiate and interscholastic sports. His current research interests focus on hegemony theory and hegemonic practices (how dominant groups secure and maintain power) within the institution of sport.
Pedersen, who is the editor of the International Journal of Sport Communication (IJSC), has presented his research at over 35 professional conferences and published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles in national or international academic journals such as the Journal of Sport Management, International Journal of Sport Management, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Journal of Sports Economics. He has authored two books: Build It and They Will Come: The Arrival of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1997) and Bobby Bowden: Win by Win (2003).
In addition to authoring more than 400 nonrefereed articles and coauthoring three book chapters, Pedersen serves as an editorial review board member for six national and international academic sport journals. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM); American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD); National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE); ICHPER-SD Sport Management and Administration Commission; North American Society for Sport History (NASSH); and Sport Marketing Association (SMA).
Pedersen lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he enjoys jogging and spending time with his wife, Jennifer, and their four children, Hallie, Zack, Brock, and Carlie.
Kimberly S. Miloch, PhD, is an assistant professor in the nationally recognized sport communication program at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), where her teaching, research, and consulting work focus on sport public relations and sport marketing. In 2002 Miloch earned her PhD in sport management from Florida State University.
Before entering academia, Miloch was the public relations and game operations director for a minor league hockey team. She also worked in communications and marketing for the United States Tennis Association Texas Section.
Miloch is a member of the Sport Marketing Association and an editorial review board member for Sport Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport, and International Journal of Sport Management. She also serves as associate editor for The SMART Journal (The Sport Management and Related Topics Journal).
In her free time, Miloch enjoys the outdoors by gardening, attending sporting events with her husband, Matt, and playing competitive tennis.
Pamela C. Laucella, PhD, is an assistant professor of sport communication, specializing in sport journalism and sport history at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana). She earned her PhD in 2004 in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was also a recipient of the Park Fellowship. Before accepting a position at Indiana University, Laucella was an assistant professor in communication studies at Christopher Newport University, where she taught sport communication, presidential politics and communication, diversity and the media, research methods, and public speaking.
Laucella's work as a freelance sportswriter, sports reporter, and project coordinator for the NFL Players Association's Native Vision Life Skills camp provided firsthand experience for her research in sociocultural, historical, and literary issues in sport journalism and communication. In this research, she focuses on media portrayals of race. She also studies the media "feeding frenzy" surrounding Division I college coaches and the relationship between coaches and the media.
Laucella has presented at numerous professional conferences in several disciplines and has published in peer-reviewed national and international journals. She is also a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, American Journalism Historians Association, Association for Women in Sports Media, National Communication Association, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, and North American Society for Sport History.
Laucella enjoys hiking with her chocolate Labrador, playing tennis, and swimming. When indoors she can be found writing creative nonfiction, playing the violin, or watching ACC sports.
"The authors are to be applauded for collecting a vast amount of
information referred to as sport communication and placing it literally
at the fingertips of readers."
--International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 1, 2007
"Pedersen, Miloch and Laucella have done an admirable job of bringing
all the various facets of sport communication and tying them into a
comprehensible whole. The result is a text useful for students,
instructors and anyone else interested in this growing field."
--Journal of Sports Media, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2009
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"Strategic Sport Communication is the most valuable text for
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Feb. 1, 1933 – Feb. 27, 2013
Thomas J. Monaghan, a former area director of United Auto Workers Region 9, died Wednesday at his home in West Seneca. He was 80.
Born in Buffalo, he was a graduate of Lackawanna High School. He enlisted in the Navy, serving from 1952 to 1956, including service during the Korean War.
Mr. Monaghan joined the UAW in 1961 as a member of Local 846 at the Chevrolet Tonawanda Forge Plant, where he served as a bargaining committeeman before his election as shop chairman in 1968.
In 1980, he was appointed an international representative and assigned to the UAW-General Motors Department in Detroit. Among his duties was responsibility for coordinating the Quality of Work Life programs at many GM facilities.
In 1982, Mr. Monaghan was selected to serve in the National Auditing Department of the union, where he worked until 1985. That year, he became area director of UAW Region 9, which included more than 40,000 active and retired members across the Buffalo region, Rochester and parts of Pennsylvania. He retired in 1998.
Mr. Monaghan served on the executive boards of the Buffalo American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Council, the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County and the Erie County Industrial Development Agency.
He also was a member of the board of the Buffalo-Erie County Labor Management Council, the Center for Industrial Efficiency at the University at Buffalo and the Union Occupational Health Center. In 1986, he was appointed by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo to serve as a trustee for Erie Community College.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, the former Frances Licata; a son, Thomas Jr.; and three daughters, Carol Kozub, Kathy Battaglia and Susan Guarino.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
A Goose Creek dentist is among the 400 finalists from across 11 southeastern states selected to compete in Lake City's ArtFields beginning Friday.
Patricia Fast joins the other artists in vying for $100,000 in total cash prizes. ArtFields runs April 19-28.
Three awards, People's Choice, Judges' and Top Prize, will be given.
The People's Choice award will be the piece that gets the most votes during the 10-day festival; the Judges award will be the piece deemed the best by the panel of judges. The Top Prize will factor in both the popular vote and the judges' opinions.
ArtFields Executive Director Karen Fowler has been the self-described pied piper for ArtFields since businesswoman and Lake City native Darla Moore first came to her with the seed of an idea to help her hometown.
"Lake City is a small town that has been depressed, people leaving, those still there not engaged. One of the areas ArtFields is focusing on is fusing business with art – a daunting task.
"We knew on day one there would be resistance from the town; they wouldn't like it. And they didn't. Many said they didn't like artists, that artists were freaks," Fowler said.
But they knocked on doors and eventually the doors were opened wide.
"The venues – mostly local businesses – are excited. When people come this year, they will enjoy the community. When they come back in 2, 5 and 10 years they will experience the growth of ArtFields with us and will see how it has transformed Lake City.
At first the owners told the ArtFields staff to just put whatever they wanted to in their business, but the owners of the businesses were brought in to decide on which art would be shown in their business. It was obvious they knew what they liked and what they didn't like.
"We wanted them to select they wanted what to have in their space," Fowler said.
Voters must go to Lake City to register in order to vote for their favorite. Voters may register only one time and must be 16 years old with a valid drivers license or government issued photo ID. Once registered, voters may vote online with a unique elector ID and PIN.
In addition to the competition, ArtFields will feature workshops, lectures and entertainment. Most of the venues and events are free and open to the public. Some require a ticket with prices at $5 and $10 for most.
• A conversation with Lowcountry artists Jonathan Green and Mary Whyte moderated by Angela Mack.
• Public art includes a chalkboard in a public space in lake City where they public cam share their hopes and dreams and mini-cine, a mobile movie theater set inside a refurbished shipping container.
• ArtFields portrait contest with local farmers as they subjects in a high-speed, high-stakes paint-off. The best in show is $1,000.
• Art workshops (ticketed) in Plein air painting and screen printing
• Screen printing café where guests will be the curator of their own merchandise.
• Live painting on the green
• ArtFields After-Dark – Exquisite Corpse featuring DJ Rocky Horror (ticketed 21 and over) which invites attendees to take part in an interactive art project.
• Special ticket events, including a Farm to Fork Dinner and a Gospel Lunch at the Market.
In addition to the officially-sponsored events, ArtFields will also feature concerts and live music, with performances from New Orleans Rebirth Band and musicians from across the Southeast, a farmers' and artisans' market and al fresco food options from food trucks.
ArtFields grew from the town's history of cultivating strawberries, beans and other staples of South Carolina agriculture.
"Now ArtFields is serving as a fertile field for the cultivation of art and culture in one of South Carolina's oldest communities, thanks to the generosity of local sponors including the Patron of the Arts, IGA.
For more information on ArtFields go to: http://www.artfieldssc.org
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Artist: Patricia Fast
Patricia Jordan Fast was raised in Dillon. Fast earned a BS in Biology from Wofford College in 2008, after which she attended the Medical University of South Carolina's College of Dental Medicine. She is practicing as a general dentist in Goose Creek. She has drawn inspiration from many South Carolina artists while living in the Charleston area. In her free time she paints her favorite subjects, Lowcountry landscapes and local architecture, especially churches.
"I'm daily inspired by the imagination of the Creator, and the way He continues to mesh light, color, shape, and texture. It stirs in me a desire to reproduce their interactions on paper and canvas. My favorite is the spontaneity of painting whatever hits me, letting the progression of a piece direct me as I chase what I like in it."
Patricia and her husband, Brian live in Summerville with their Boxer, Sadie.
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Jay Leggett is Tomahawk's hometown boy that made it to the big time. He graduated from Tomahawk High School in 1981 and worked at the Packaging Corporation of America Tomahawk mill while he attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He earned degrees in theater and history. Interested in acting, Jay pursued his dream.
Now, Jay lives in the fast lane in Los Angeles, writes screenplays, meets with movie studio hot shots and rubs shoulders with Hollywood notables, including Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt.
But, Jay is not all big city or the glamorous celebrity who has forgotten his hometown. Beginning Wednesday nationwide, you will see that a large part of his heart remains in Tomahawk and the surrounding area.
In his first major studio film, "Without a Paddle," there are several subtle references to Jay's beloved hometown. The movie's characters travel down the Spirit River on a canoe trip. And, one of the characters is Billy Newwood, which is the name of the wildlife area that runs along that local river. Many of the characters' mishaps were Jay's experiences put to paper when he headed out into the woods with his buddies while growing up here.
Even before he co-wrote "Without a Paddle," with his best friend, Mitch Rouse, he showed up for an acting gig as a radio announcer in an orange Tomahawk hunting shirt. To Jay's delight, the movie's costume department thought the shirt was perfect.
In an interview with Tomahawk Leader Reporter Jessica Mincoff, Jay said that even though he's used to the fast pace of Los Angeles, he misses Tomahawk's calmness and the camaraderie of its residents. He says, "Tomahawk is everything L.A. isn't."
It's a place he visits every Thanksgiving, no matter what, to cure himself of an overwhelming stressload, traffic and noise. He also returns for the Fourth of July Pow Wow Days when his schedule allows.
And, even though Jay says he's a different person than when he left here, he's still a kid from Tomahawk making a living doing what he loves to do.
"I fall in love with Tomahawk every time I come back here," he said last fall while sitting in his parents' living room.
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ERS researchers and others who analyze conditions in "rural" America most often study conditions in nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas, defined on the basis of counties. Counties are the standard building block for collecting economic data and for conducting research to track and explain regional population and economic trends. Nonmetro counties (see the map below) include some combination of:
In addition to conducting research that uses the basic metro-nonmetro dichotomy, ERS has developed multi-level county classifications to measure rurality in more detail and to assess the economic and social diversity of nonmetro America. Some of these classification schemes have been used to determine eligibility for Federal programs that assist rural areas. They include the:
For some research and program applications, counties are too large to accurately distinguish rural and urban settlement patterns. The U.S. Census Bureau uses much smaller geographic building blocks to define rural areas as open country and settlements with fewer than 2,500 residents. Most counties, whether metro or nonmetro, contain a combination of urban and rural populations.
Building on the urban-rural definition, ERS has developed sub-county classifications that more accurately delineate different levels of rurality and address program eligibility concerns. They include the:
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- Brief Synopsis:
- One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them and where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are a family of brothers and sisters-and they're orphans, too. The only way they can stay together is to try and make it on their own. But where will they live? One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe. The children decide to make it their home-and become The Boxcar Children!
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This morning I had to put the garbage out, and then of course get everyone breakfast. I wanted to do another lice check since the kids go back to school tomorrow and... whattyaknow. Yeah. Thankfully the two little ninjas that slept on top of me in the middle of the night were all clear because ohmuhguh.
More washing and combing and bed-stripping and vacuuming -- You hear all those dings and clanks, guys? That's your Legos! -- and more sighing and not knitting.
By the time I get through all of this I take a look at the kitchen sink and decide, to celebrate their last day of break, we will have lunch via drive-thru. I also run inside the natural foods store for tea tree oil because this house is
I glance, longingly, over at my abandoned yarn and almost give it a reach and plop onto my chair just when Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz goes the dryer buzzer as it scoffs, bent over, hysterical at my idea. I've got more washing and bed-making to do. Then it's actually dinnertime. Seriously where did this day go?
We ate off the nice(r) everyday plates instead of the everyday plates because everything else was still in the sink waiting to be washed. I sat at the table with the kids and we made a plan about the new year at school. They'll listen better, and no more rushing through work. (Yes I noted this for my motherself, too.) Then I washed allllllll* the dishes and put them away (only taking a break for the last comb-through of the night) and then, of course, Bed Time.
Now I'm here, smelling of all sorts of oils and other things, and I could totally knit, but man I'm exhausted. Maybe tomorrow.
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Patricia Krentcil, a Nutley, N.J., resident who has been tanning her "whole life," pled not guilty to charges of child endangerment on Wednesday after she was accused to taking her fair-skinned daughter into a tanning bed with her.
Krentcil's daughter, 6, apparently showed up to school one day with a sunburn, telling friends she went tanning with her mom. But Krentcil – whose skin is an unnatural shade of dark brown as a result of bronzing – says the whole thing is "preposterous" to WCBS New York.
"Look at my daughter's picture, she's as pale as a ghost, she has red hair," Krentcil, 44, said outside of Superior Court. "I'm a great mother, I'm a wonderful mother. I would die right now for her."
The mom argues that her daughter got some extra color from playing outside, and that when she made the comments about going tanning, she meant going to the tanning salon, not going inside a tanning bed.
"I tan, she doesn't tan," Krentcil said during an interview on the Today show. "It's called a tanning booth and a tanning room."
Children under the age of 14 are prohibited from tanning in New Jersey.
As for reaction to the case, tanning enthusiast (and fellow New Jersey resident) Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi told Extra, "The b–––– is crazy. Everyone knows you are not supposed to take kids there."
Mother Pleads Not Guilty to Child Endangerment Charge in Tanning Salon Incident
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