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One day in the not so distant future, the Charleston Battery could be affiliated with a team from Major League Soccer.
Major League Soccer and USL Pro announced Wednesday a long-term partnership that could eventually lead to affiliations similar to ones in professional baseball and hockey between teams from the two leagues.
This initial agreement includes interleague play between USL Pro and MLS Reserve League teams and the establishment of several team affiliations this season.
The Charleston Battery will not be officially affiliated with any MLS team this season.
This is something that weve been in favor of for years, said Charleston Battery president Andrew Bell. We believe this is an extremely positive move for both the USL Pro and Major League Soccer. We think this partnership will not only strengthen both leagues, but will help in the development of players in the United States.
The affiliations between the two leagues will start this season and will include at least four players on long-term loan from the MLS parent club to its USL Pro affiliate. The MLS teams that already have formal USL Pro affiliations will not participate in the 2013 MLS Reserve League. Neither MLS nor USL Pro clubs are required to enter into an affiliation, and specific affiliations are expected to be announced in the next few weeks.
USL Pro president Tim Holt said less than half of the 13 teams that make up the USL Pro league will have an MLS affiliate this season, but that number would increase next year. Holt believes that every USL Pro team will have an official MLS affiliate or a strong partnership in the coming years.
This is just the first phase of a long term calibration between USL Pro and Major League Soccer, Holt said. Weve got ideas on where wed like this to go and the MLS has ideas as well. I cant say for certain that well have straight affiliations like they do in baseball and hockey with all the teams in the MLS.
The MLS reserve teams could become a part of our league or it could be a combination of both interleague play and affiliations. What I do know is that this is the beginning of a long-term relationship with between USL Pro and Major League Soccer.
While the Battery wont have an affiliation this season, Bell said the club is hoping to finalize a deal with an MLS team by the beginning of the 2014 season.
We didnt want to rush into a decision like that, Bell said. We wanted to our due diligence and decide on a club that would make sense for all the parties involved.
Each of the USL Pro teams will compete in two interleague games against MLS Reserve teams with a home and home series.
All interleague games will count in both the official USL Pro and MLS Reserve League standings. MLS Reserve teams, however, will not compete in the USL Pro playoffs.
This partnership represents the first step in a long-term alliance between MLS and USL PRO to connect domestic professional soccer through a system that benefits player development, competition and the overall business of our sport, MLS Executive Vice President of Player Relations & Competition Todd Durbin said. Over the past several years, USL PRO has made great strides in restructuring in a manner that serves to complement the objectives of MLS. This is a win-win for all involved and it demonstrates our strong commitment to growing North American professional soccer at all levels.
Holt said several MLS teams would be interested in becoming affiliated with the Battery.
There are very few teams in the USL Pro that are as attractive as the Charleston Battery, Holt said. The tradition, the facilities, the coaching staff, the fan base all make them one of the most attractive teams for Major League Soccer.
Jose Cuevas (12) scored for the Charleston Battery with this header against D.C. United soccer in the 29th minute of the match.×
Charleston Battery player celebrate after beating Wilmington Hammerheads Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in the 2012 USL PRO Championship at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island. (Tyrone Walker/postandcourier.com)×
The Battery's Evan Taylor (right) takes down Chicago Fire's Daniel Paladini in the first half of the Carolina Challenge Cup at Blackbaud Stadium Saturday. (Alan Hawes/postandcourier.com) ¬ ¬ Published Caption 3/13/11: Charleston's Evan Taylor (right) takes down Chicago's Daniel Paladini at Blackbaud Stadium on Saturday.×
*** The Battery's J.C. Mack clears the ball from the battery's side of the field in the first half Wednesday at Blackbaud Stadium . (Alan Hawes/postandcourier.com) ¬ ¬ Published Caption 3/10/11: Charleston's J.C. Mack (right) plays the ball against Toronto FC during first-half action of their Carolina Challenge Cup match on Wednesday at Blackbaud Stadium. The Battery won, 2-1.×
D.C. united's Josh Wolff (left) and the Battery's Graham Dugoni go after the ball in the first half Saturday night at Blackbaud Stadium. (Alan Hawes/postandcourier.com) ¬ ¬ Published Caption 3/6/11: D.C. United's Josh Wolff (left), a former South Carolina standout, and the Battery's Graham Dugoni battle for the ball in the first half Saturday night during the Carolina Challenge Cup at Blackbaud Stadium. D.C. United won, 2-1.×


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Christmas Past
I was sitting here thinking about my mother. God, she loved Christmas. Tears started to fill my eyes. I was about to get sad, then I remembered something that made me laugh so hard.
I remembered the day my mother bought this artificial tree. I was about 10. She was complaining about the price. She said, "Damn this tree is high [expensive]... this gone last." I heard her but I was so excited about the tree that I didn't pay her any attention. I just kept on decorating the tree. Putting lights and ornaments on it. Then, she said, "And these damn lights and ornaments were high too." I just kept on smiling.
So after Christmas had passed, I saw her put the entire artificial tree back in the box that it came in, with the lights and decorations and all still attached to the tree. She just threw it in the box and the next year, you guessed it, she just pulled it out and plugged it in and said, "Don't it still look good?" I didn't have the heart to tell her that the Christmas tree looked like a Christmas shrub. LOL. Most of the lights had burned out, but she didn't care. All she remembered was the $17.95 that she paid for it. I was so glad when I made some money to buy her another tree... You think Charlie Brown had a horrible looking tree? I wish I had a picture of that branch she called a tree.
Merry Christmas y'all. If your mother is alive, savor every precious moment.

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Portal 2 Review
I think you knew all along this was going to be great. Fantastic, even. All the same, I don't think you'll be prepared for it being this good.
The following review is spoiler-free.
Fear not: this review has been the subject of endless scrutinisation to ensure that you, our cherished reader, do not have one of the best experiences of 2011 - nay, of recent years - ruined for you in any way, shape or form. To that end, there are no plot spoilers, no dialogue quotes, no references to cake or lies, no lyrics from Still Alive used as cheesy puns and no explanations of what happened at the end of the first game (for those that weren't intellectually on the ball enough to finish it). All of which has made this a right bugger to write.
It begins in what appears to be a motel room; a quaint little cubicle furnished with a bed, desk and the odd decorative object. You've been asleep for some time, hauled out of a mammoth slumber by an energetic banging on the door and a familiar voice. It's that Bristolian chap from the Barclays adverts, Ricky Gervais' pal - Stephen Merchant. Only here he's a spherical robot with a blinking blue eye - something known as a Personality Sphere. Despite the simplicity of his design - a lack of any distinguishing features at all, really - Wheatley possesses more personality than the cast of most other games put together.
I think he might be my favourite video game character of all time.
Valve has an uncanny knack for bringing life and colour to even the most mundane of objects. Remember the Weighted Companion Cube? An inanimate block that was little more than six uniform faces decorated with love hearts? Of course you do, because you became inexplicably attached to it, then ashamed of the cruel, cruel thing GLaDOS forced you to do to it. Such is the power of Erik Wolpaw's script-writing talents, which are of an even higher calibre the second time around. Portal 2 raises the bar for dialogue delivery, presenting a continuous stream of hilarious chatter, witty insults and comical references to past antics. All of which I can't talk about.
It's a distressing situation to be in as a games journalist, because all the best bits in the game - the bits that justify the hefty score at the end of this review - are all closely intertwined with the narrative. You'll just have to take my word for it: the characters, dialogue, and twists and turns of the plot are Portal 2's shining accomplishment.
I assume you'd like something in the way of contextualisation, however, so here's the horrendously vague gist of it all. That motel room I mentioned at the start of my review? You break out of it and soon find yourself back in Aperture Science labs. It isn't long before you're the subject of a familiar testing regime once again, a plaything for GLaDOS, the potty AI from the first game. And that's all I'll say on the matter.
So, let's talk puzzles - the test chambers designed to put your ability at thinking with wormholes to the test. Armed with your trusty portal gun - blue portal on the right trigger, orange on the left - you'll need to get from a starting point to a designated exit, with the space in between stitched together with all manner of button-pressing, bottomless-pit-crossing, laser-redirecting and killer-turret-avoiding. In order to succeed, you'll need to set up your portals in the right places at precisely the right time. This requires an out-of-the-box approach to thinking and a relaxed attitude to abstract concepts. Even after four years, I still find it totally bewildering to walk through one portal and emerge from the other in a completely different location.
The first Portal was undeniably brilliant, but most of its puzzles were variants of the same handful of concepts. Portal 2 is a far more diverse experience in this respect, introducing a host of new mechanics and subsequent applications of your portals.
Surface modifiers are the most notable example of this, which give new properties to a wall or floor. Blue Repulsion Gel, for example, lets you bounce to lofty new heights, while the orange Propulsion Gel boosts your speed, letting you zip through one portal and emerge from the other with enough pace to cross otherwise impassable chasms. Conversion Gel is slightly different, allowing you to paint over a surface so that it can support wormholes. Latter puzzles bring together all three gels, which turns a test chamber into a scene from an infant school art lesson.
Light Bridges allow the creation of tangible walkways across test chambers. Pop a portal on a wall at the destination of a light bridge (they flow from a source, kind of like a river), and the walkway will continue to beam out of your second portal, wherever that may be. Excursion Fans work in a similar fashion, although they lack the same tangibility. They're best imagined as air vents, magically carrying anything caught in the stream until something blocks its path.
Portal 2 doesn't just welcome diversity in terms of its inner mechanics. Where the original game maintained a clean and clinical feel from start to finish, Portal 2 presents imperfect and structurally deformed test chambers, areas overrun with vegetation, and others tainted by human hands. Subsequently, the adventure feels far more grandiose, with the weight of the narrative supported by a range of impressive environments and settings. Obviously I can't talk about where things head towards the end of the game, but OH MY GOD.


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Throughout "The Flat," shades go up, shades go down.
It's an apt metaphor. Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger's family didn't talk about their experiences during World War II. So, when he discovers by accident that his grandparents maintained a friendship before and after the war with a leading Nazi official, it opens a window into a troubling past in "The Flat."
The contemplative documentary about family secrets begins in Tel Aviv with the passing of Gerda Tuchman, Goldfinger's 98-year-old, German-born grandmother. Family members help pack up her apartment and preserve family history, as a book collector mocks her collections of Shakespeare, Goethe and Balzac and a history of the Jewish people as subjects nobody reads anymore.
Goldfinger, like his siblings, learned little of family history growing up. But things take a curious turn after a commemorative coin featuring a Star of David on one side and a swastika on the other is found among the letters and photos stored away in boxes. Even more surprising is a notorious Nazi magazine and what's inside it – a travel article on how the Tuchmans, at the behest of the German Zionist Federation, accompanied Baron von Mildenstein, a Nazi, and his wife to Palestine in the early 1930s.
Goldfinger's research into von Mildenstein reveals anything but a garden-variety Nazi: In a film clip from the Nuremberg Trials, a glassed-in Adolf Eichmann mentions von Mildenstein by name as a mentor and SS propaganda minister who worked on "the Jewish Question."
The Tuchmans and von Mildensteins shared a belief that Jews should live in Palestine. But correspondence and photographs make clear they became close friends. Surprisingly, Goldfinger learns after a friendly meeting with Edda, von Mildenstein's daughter, that the friendship resumed after the war, when her father worked as a press officer for Coca-Cola.
If Goldfinger is dumbfounded and disturbed by what he has uncovered, his mother, Hannah, is indifferent. She doesn't understand why the "third generation" needs to ask so many questions of the past, and thinks it would be impolite to let on that von Mildenstein was a Nazi when they meet with Edda in Germany.
Like Hannah, Edda also seems indifferent to the past. Jewish or German, that generation's reluctance to know – or to hide – what their parents did or experienced during the Holocaust, captured in small and illuminating moments, may be what lingers the most after viewing "The Flat."
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Director: Arnon Goldfinger
Running time: 97 minutes
Rating: Not rated, but PG equivalent for subject matter. In Hebrew, German and English, with English subtitles.
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COLUMBIA — They promise there will be no scoreboard watching. No sneak peeks. No breaks in concentration.
They will be tempted.
About 300 miles southwest, Georgia and Auburn play a football game Saturday that means everything to South Carolina's chances of winning the SEC East. Around the time that game ends, the Gamecocks will be taking the field at Williams-Brice Stadium for a 7 p.m. kickoff against Florida on ESPN2.
The nightcap is not expected to be close. USC is a two-touchdown favorite against Florida, which may be down to its third-string quarterback.
The game four hours away?
"No interest at all in that game," USC coach Steve Spurrier said. "We have no control over it. We're just going to talk about trying to play our best this week. Whatever happens within the division happens. But we are going to try to play our best against the Florida Gators when they come in."
South Carolina likely needs two things to happen Saturday if it has any chance of representing the Eastern Division in Atlanta for next month's SEC Championship Game. It starts with beating Florida on Saturday in its final conference game of the season.
Just as important, Auburn needs to beat Georgia.
The road to Atlanta isn't completed there. Eventually, South Carolina needs Missouri to lose one of its final two games — at Ole Miss and home against Texas A&M. But, if the Gamecocks lose to the Gators, or if Georgia beats Auburn, the path to Atlanta would end short of a divisional title.
"We can't win it this week," senior guard Ronald Patrick said, "but we can lose it."
"Coach Spurrier is probably going to keep us sheltered from all that information," junior spur Sharrod Golightly said. "We've just got to handle our business, do what we have to do, and just come out and win."
South Carolina's business Saturday is much easier than anyone could have predicted early this season. The Gators have lost four straight games. With a 4-5 record, they're below .500 for the first time in 21 years, snapping what was the SEC's longest streak without a losing record.
Florida was ranked No. 10 in the Associated Press Preseason Poll, one spot ahead of instate rival Florida State. Now, the Gators have been out of the poll for three weeks, while the Seminoles are in position to make a trip to the BCS Championship Game in January.
The Gators' struggles on offense — along with a plague of injuries on both sides of the ball — have been problematic this fall. Still, Florida's defense is one of the top units in the SEC, good enough to give USC's offense trouble.
"We can't overlook a game like this," Patrick said. "I believe Florida's defense leads the conference in a lot of categories. They're No. 1 or No. 2, so they're still very good. So, we're not overlooking them, and everybody knows that they're still very good on defense."
Regardless, South Carolina is in a position to do something previously thought impossible — hosting Florida, but being distracted elsewhere. It's usually the position Florida finds itself in — near the top of the division, with other games affecting its standing.
By the end of the first quarter Saturday, the Gamecocks will know where they stand. They have said the right things this week. No sneak peeks. No breaks in concentration.
No matter the temptation.
"We're going to let Auburn and Georgia take care of what they got to take care of, and we're just going to focus on Florida," senior cornerback Jimmy Legree said. "We know we've got a lot on the line right now. So, we're all trying to stay positive, know what we've got ahead of us and try to make the most of it."


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STOCKTON — Stockton High School student council will host their annual spaghetti supper at 5 p.m. Feb. 15 in the school cafeteria, 540 N. Rush St.
Meal includes spaghetti, garlic bread, celery and carrots, dessert and a drink. Cost: $5, adults; $4, students. Proceeds benefit the Stockton Veterans Memorial.
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Tiffin University's Diane Kidd Gallery is hosting a new exhibition, "Apparitions, Remixes and Fault Lines," by nationally recognized artist Nelson Smith.
The show is to open with a free reception 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the gallery, located inside the Hayes Center for the Arts on the TU campus. The public is invited to meet the artist, who is to speak about his work at 7:15 p.m.
Smith has received widespread recognition as a painter, designer, composer and theater artist. He is a recent Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellow and Senior Artist-In-Residence in painting and drawing for the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Other awards include a Lighton International Artist Exchange Program Travel Grant and 4 Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grants, among others.
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His work is included in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art Artist Book Archive and the Detroit Institute of Arts. His performance, sound art and installation works have been presented in a variety of museum, gallery and performance spaces in Detroit, New York and Cleveland.
"I have been developing two bodies of recent work - one based on landscape and the other based on portraiture," he said. "I have been transcribing landscapes into schematics that unearth a kind of intelligence found in the land. These transcriptions are inspired by the Flint Hills, or the landscapes depicted in the 'Big Bend' paintings of mid-20th century regionalist Alexandre Hogue."
"Apparitions, Remixes and Fault Lines" is to run through April 20. Group tours are available.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday or through appointment by contacting Celinda Scherger at (419) 448-3282.


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"Um, where are we?" Carrie Underwood asks no one in particular as she gazes out the window at a landscape of brown grass and nondescript office buildings. "No, seriously. Where are we? " she asks again.
The answer is Windsor, Ont. – a Canadian suburb just outside Detroit – but the country superstar can be forgiven the momentary confusion: Windsor is the whopping 82nd stop on her smash Blown Away tour, which has kept her on the road for the better part of eight months.
She did get a two-day reprieve for her 30th birthday on March 10, which she planned to celebrate at home in Nashville with her husband, NHL star Mike Fisher.
"I was like, 'I only have 48 hours. I want to do my laundry and go out to dinner,' " she recalls, cuddling up against the Canadian chill in a well-worn men's sweatshirt bearing Fisher's team logo, the Nashville Predators. "But Mike got the flu, so I ended up eating vegan pizza. By myself. I was like, 'I'm not mad at you. I do not want you going anywhere, because I know you feel awful. But I do expect a redo!' "
The rain check might need to wait a while. Still crisscrossing the U.S. by tour bus through the end of May, the diminutive 5'3" singer – in person her famous blonde mane appears almost bigger than she is – continues to reign as one of the most successful American Idol alums ever.
Her new single "Two Black Cadillacs" recently became her 17th No. 1 hit; she returned to her "alma mater," as she calls Idol, to perform on April 4; and she's up for two awards, including Album of the Year, at the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 7.
She rolls her eyes at her squeaky-clean image ("so boring!"), but she's still the kind of star next door who does her own makeup on tour and prizes her Harris Teeter "Very Important Customer" grocery discount card. ("I'm excited when they say, 'You saved $11.82 today!' ")
"She's the furthest thing from a diva there is," says her friend, singer Brad Paisley. "Carrie doesn't take herself too seriously." As her star has risen, "she's more confident, and she understands she has to stay true to herself in order to maintain some sense of normalcy," says her lifelong friend Jordan Vandiver. "She's still a small-town girl, and that upbringing comes out."
Still, even Underwood is a little amazed when she looks back on her journey from Checotah, Okla., farm girl to six-time Grammy winner in just eight years. "So much has happened in my life; it's mind-boggling," she says. "It's been crazy and fun, and there's nothing about it that I regret. And I met the man I married."
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"I am in complete shock and devastated to hear the news about Gia," says Pavelka, who romanced Allemand, 29, on season 14 of The Bachelor. "She was one of the sweetest people I have ever known. And a very dear friend. My heart goes out to her family during this very difficult time. We have lost an angel today."
The model and actress, who also appeared on two seasons of Bachelor Pad, was found in her New Orleans home on Monday by her boyfriend, NBA player Ryan Anderson of the Pelicans, her family says in a statement. He called 911 and Allemand was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Family, friends and fans are mourning the loss of the New York native, who had been working as a Pure Barre instructor in New Orleans, where she lived with Anderson.
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PASADENA, Calif. — Though she's been married for 32 years, actress-activist Marlo Thomas says she's not sure she believes in marriage.
The woman who graced living rooms with her popular TV series, "That Girl," and went on to star in dozens of television shows, both fictional and factual, has always spoken her mind, even when it wasn't popular.
A forerunner in the women's movement, she says, "I never wanted to be married. To this day I'm not sure I believe in marriage. I believe in MY marriage, but I don't believe in marriage as an institution. I'm not sure it isn't rigged against the woman. I've always seen marriages as an arrangement between 11/2 persons. The one person is the one with the dream, and everybody else scurries to support that dream and put all their time — and time is the most important thing they've got — all their time and all their energy and everything into that person's pot, marked HIS dream."
So when she decided to marry talk-show host Phil Donahue three decades ago, it wasn't easy. "It was a very big thing for me to see that marriage could be a roomy enough place for my dream and his dream. I had to meet the right kind of man, and the world had to change a lot and I had to change a lot. A lot of things had to happen for me to get to a place where I thought that marriage was possible."
All those elements collided at precisely the right time for Thomas, but not for everybody. That's why Thomas is still talking about feminism and the women's movement as she does in PBS' special "Makers: Women Who Make America" premiering Tuesday. The documentary chronicles the changes women have espoused over the last 50 years and their effects on society.
"It's like being in the Army really when you work on a project," she says, seated at a walnut table in a conference room at a hotel here. "It's kind of like the women's movement, we were a little army. And when you do that together and create something together and get someplace together you've really been to a battle. That's why this show is so important because when people see it they'll see the real face of what feminism is and was, as opposed to the myths about what it was. These were not angry, ugly women who hated men. These were not bra-burners. It's not about women who wanted to divorce their husbands and leave their children and all this other stuff. This was about women who wanted to be free and do what they wanted to do with their lives, express themselves."
Expressing herself was a challenge even for Thomas early on. "My big struggle as a young person was finding my own identity away from my father, who was famous and away from my mother who was dominating, and finding my own way," she says.
Her father was noted comedian Danny Thomas, beloved by a nation for his family series "Make Room for Daddy."
Marlo escaped by being cast in the London production of "Barefoot in the Park" and moving there when she was 20. "I lived there for a year and that really changed my life," she nods.
"Because I was away from the pressure of being the child of a famous person, I was away from my mother saying, not that she was a bad person, 'Put on your sweater,' and 'Don't eat this,' and 'Don't do that,' and 'You can't drive after dark' and all that stuff."
That experience changed everything. "Being away for a year, working like that, work became the place I could be myself. I could be me. It was a place that I wasn't overtired or over reacting or overexcited or over heated or all those things your mother says. I was absolutely free to be me."
She went on to produce TV specials and a book on the subject of being free to be yourself. She's also starred on Broadway, written several books, earned four Emmys, continued her father's work supporting St. Jude's Children's Hospital and maintained a healthy marriage.
One of the secrets to that, she says, is "Being as invested in your spouse's dream as you are in your own and being willing to be inconvenienced, which is what it is for many people. It's inconvenient for you to have a dream when I've already got a dream. So to be able to live with that inconvenience and to embrace it and find joy in it (is crucial)."
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As the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency rolls out its Final Draft 2012 of the Lake Tahoe Regional Plan, I am confounded. After being directly involved in this process since 2005 when the Incline Vision effort began in tandem with Pathways 2007, and The Village League to Save Incline Assets litigation is still being felt, there has been no mention of a Historic Resources Survey.The last time I checked, the TRPA is designated as our Certified Local Government (CLG) whose role and funding requires them to do this. The only mention of a CLG in the Final draft is in a context with their Moderate Income Housing Program. This is also misleading to folks who don't know there is a difference between a local jurisdiction and a Certified Local Government; the Certified Local Government program is a part of the National Park Service-National Trust for Historic Preservation which has various requirements. Nowhere in the draft Regional Plan Update is there mention of TRPA'S role as a CLG, nor the legal requirements.This was their responsibility under the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106, before this proposed draft was ever written. A Historic Resources Survey is required to be done when federal planning dollars are spent.The results are necessary to identify local, state and federal cultural resources and heritage areas for Federal tax incentives including Research and Development Credits to be used for restoration and redevelopment purposes. Such heritage areas also include the opportunity to describe and preserve Heritage Corridors, which are also not mentioned in this plan. Only scenic corridors are mentioned.Fast forward to today. Incline High and Middle Schools meet a number of historic standards criteria, and are likely eligible to be listed on the National Register, and may even earn our school district tax credits to offset maintenance and repairs. Note: Thanks to Ronald Reagan, property owners will always have the final say as to whether to demolish, preserve and/or restore.Due to the current economic and schools climate, these public assets and their uses may become endangered or be taken by private interests, as there are limited sites sufficient and available for primary-secondary education. If taken, the buildings themselves may become vulnerable due to the association criteria and the fact that they are nearing the fifty year mark - as many developers fear this, versus understand it as a true fiscal incentive when identified as eligible for the register.When one understands that the determination of historic factors are also used as derivatives in the use of Federal preservation tax credits, then one could conclude that the Village League to Save Incline Assets litigation might have been unnecessary and avoided. Now, due to this debacle, Washoe County School District has millions in deficit owed to Incline taxpayers. This might be incentive for WCSD to want to work with those here who are interested in using this as a way to create a private school district and Independent Incline, since establishing a new school district is one way to legislate this proposed change.To make matters worse, as many of you know, there has been a Charter School application submitted to the Nevada Board of Education. A charter school may threaten to divide students from our Traditional Bricks and Mortar Learning opportunities and may undermine the viability for existing Public Education offerings to persist, again undermining the original association criteria for the Historic Register. Much will depend on pending legislation to fund our crippled schools - also a result of property tax issues where historic resources surveys statewide might be a way to help. The end result may be busing our children to Kings Beach or Reno, and the buildings could be taken over by private education interests.This oversight does not have to continue to be a cause set in motion. Joanne Marchetta has the grace and experience to enable folks to set this right. Empower her to do so! Demand for her to define the TRPA's role in relation to our Certified Local Government, and for the Historic Resources Survey to get done. Furthermore require the TRPA to call out locals in the scopes of work necessary for surveying to be completed and for them to secure the Federal funds to pay Tahoe residents to do it.Thanks to Lake Tahoe's water, her timber, rail, and the sacrifices of the Washoe people, the Comstock load was extracted, Mackay & Hearst's fortunes were made and the University of Nevada and Cal exist. The Union prevailed. Slaves were freed, and we are an America united. This is our heritage, Nevadans - let it unite us and protect and preserve our cornerstone in American history.- D. Alexandra T. Profant is director of The Tahoe Foundation. To learn more about preserving Tahoe's story, visit their website at www.tahoefound.com.
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Cory Monteith is finished with rehab and back with Lea Michele – and pair were spotted Friday at Los Angeles International Airport.
A source confirms to PEOPLE that Monteith, 30, completed treatment for substance abuse after about a month.
Monteith Tweeted: "sending out big love to everyone. thank you for the continued support! It means the world to me! :)"
Michele added on Twitter: "Today is a great day:) Love you all! Xo."
Michele, 26, was accompanying her Glee costar/beau for the trip. The actor sported a new short haircut.
The pair seemed "very happy, smiling the entire time," an eyewitness tells E! News, which posted photos of them, adding that when security asked the actor how he was doing, he said, "Good."
Following his admittance to treatment, a Monteith source told PEOPLE at the time, "Lea is an excellent influence on him. She's good for him. She's really calmed him."
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Jenna Petrocchi was hired as Assistant Swimming & Diving Coach in July 2013.
She came to the Hilltop after a one-year stint as Assistant Coach at Lincoln North Star High School in Lincoln, Neb. During that time Petrocchi was also Assistant Coach for the Lincoln Select Club Team.
Petrocchi, whose maiden name is Stroud, is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska and was a four-year letterwinner in swimming & diving. She served as Graduate Assistant for the Cornhuskers from 2011-2013 while working toward her Master's degree, which she received this past May.


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You can achieve the quilting precision generally seen only in computerized quilting. With just three basic quilting template shapes and Kimmy Brunner's instruction, you can create perfectly geometric quilting designs too complex to be believed and too easy to pass up. Learn Kimmy's unique and innovative template techniques, including turning blocks into borders, merging traditional block designs, and her signature KimMotion filler design. Use templates directly on your quilt top with a longarm for a creative twist on this fun process or use marking techniques to prepare your quilt tops for domestic machine stitching.
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Learn all about the quilt you'll be making and the basics of using templates.
Create a Mariner's Compass Star using templates, and learn how to adjust and embellish it.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - While you are sleeping, our team of dedicated volunteers is possibly braving the elements in the middle of the night searching for a lost individual. The Nevada County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team is made up of 120 active volunteers. They regularly put themselves in harm's way in order to search for a missing hiker, mountain biker, skier or rider in Nevada County's sometimes deceptively dangerous backcountry.
These dedicated volunteers put in an average of 20 to 50 hours per month, and that doesn't include the 60-plus hours on initial training required to become "mission-ready." Specialty training requires an additional 40-plus hours.
On top of training requirements, most members furnish their own equipment that can cost approximately $1,500, depending upon how much equipment they already have. Volunteers are required to drive between 2,000 and 15,000 miles each year for Search and Rescue-related activities, which can cost up to $4,000 a year just in fuel costs.
The team is a federally registered, 501 C3 non-profit organization. All donations received pay for equipment, supplies, and training. With the County's budget issues, maintaining the team's equipment cache is done so almost entirely through donations from the public who generously support us.
For these reasons, among others, we are holding the Second Annual "Stuff the Pack" Fundraiser. I would like to thank the Truckee community and visitors for their great support and overwhelming success at last year's fundraiser.
The fundraiser will be held Saturday, Feb. 16, in Truckee, at both The Gateway Center (Safeway, Rite-Aid), located at 11529 Donner Pass Road, and The Crossroads Center (CVS, SaveMart), located at 11399 Deerfield. We will be at both locations from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will also be donation jars located at various local merchants starting the week prior to the event for those who wish to donate but will not be able donate on the Feb. 16.
Many volunteers will be on hand to answer questions, including the K-9s with their handlers. For those who do not know, our K-9 team is currently the largest in California. Our snow cat and other equipment will also be on display.
Please come out and support your Search and Rescue Team. For information, I can be reached at 530-265-1713, visit www.ncssar-nc.org or find our Facebook page. Donations can also be mailed to Nevada County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, 950 Maidu Ave., Nevada City, CA 95959.
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The Brannon Center was the focal point of a day-long visioning and goal-setting workshop at the Atlantic Centyer for the Arts for the City Commission and top administrative brass.
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Cook Time 35 minutes
2 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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8 cloves garlic, finely minced
4 cups water
45 ounces Eden Garbanzo Beans, 3 cans, do not drain
14 1/2 ounces Eden Diced Tomatoes w/Green Chilies, do not drain
1/2 tsp dried rosemary
3/4 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 Tbsp Eden Red Wine Vinegar
1/4 cup fresh Italian parsley, chopped for garnishor regular curly parsley
Heat oil in a large soup pot and sauté the garlic and onions for 4 to 5 minutes. Add the water, garbanzo, diced tomatoes, rosemary, sea salt and black pepper. Cover, bring to a boil, reduce the flame and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes. Place half of the soup in a blender and puree until smooth and creamy. Return the pureed soup to the pot. Cover and simmer another 3 to 5 minutes. Add the vinegar and simmer 1 to 2 minutes. Garnish with parsley and serve.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
If defense wins championships, the Bishop England Bishops got off on the right foot Thursday in the 2014 Lake Marion Invitational Tournament in Santee.
Bishop England (6-3, 2-0) limited the East Clarendon Wolverines to just four points in the first half of a 56-24 opening-round rout. The Wolverines didn't score a single point in the first quarter, while the Bishops rang up 17. The Bishops full-court zone pressure wreaked havoc on East Clarendon (3-5), who gave away 21 steals throughout the drubbing.
"We really came out clicking in the first half," Bishop England head coach Bryan Grevey said. "Everything was working right. We were in the right places; came away with a lot of deflections and steals that led to a lot of easy baskets. It was a total team effort. Everybody that came in did something good."
Holding on to a secure 20-point lead in the third quarter, Grevey called off the pressure and emptied out his bench. Fifteen Bishops saw the floor Thursday. B.J. Grevey finished with a game-high 21 points on 5-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc. Dillon Corbett added four points, seven rebounds, while Taylor Howell scored six points, came away with six steals and handed out four assists. Bishop England shot 45 percent from the field, 50 percent from three-point territory, and dominated the defensive glass with 23 defensive rebounds.
"I thought we did a very good job on the boards, limiting them to one shot each possession," Coach Grevey said. "Overall, we played well overall but when you play defense and rebound the way we did today, it really helps your cause."
The Bishops are aligned in Bracket II with Hannah-Pamplico, Stratford, Scott's Branch, Lake Marion, Military Magnet and Berkeley. Friday, they'll advance to face Stratford at 5:30 p.m. in the main gym of Lake Marion High School.
"I really enjoy going to tournaments like this because it allows us to go in an area we never really get to go and gives the kids and our school different exposure, so to speak," Coach Grevey said. "There are some quality teams in our bracket, including Stratford. We wanted to win and stay in the winners bracket today, and we did that. So right now we're focused on surviving and advancing." Follow @fjmansfield //
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USU Students Win Regional Beta Alpha Psi Competition
By Deanna C. White
As any CPA knows, trying to explain accounting, the "language of business," to clients can sometimes be a difficult task. Now try to imagine explaining complex financial topics, like compounded interest, to a troop of Boy Scouts and you'll really have a sense of just how impenetrable a technical language barrier can be.
But this May, accounting students in the Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) chapter at Utah State University's (USU) Jon M. Huntsman School of Business won themselves a trip to the national Beta Alpha Psi 2013 Best Practices Competition by proving they could use deft communication and out-of-the-box thinking to overcome the challenges of communicating technical business information.
The students scored two out of three first-place victories in the categories of imagination and innovation, which qualified them to compete at the BAP national competition to be held this August at the BAP annual meeting in Anaheim, California.


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Mo. House panel backs 'right to work' bill
Supporters say measure makes Missouri more attractive to employers
Paying union fees could no longer be a condition of employment in Missouri under a bill endorsed by a House committee.
The panel voted 7-3 Wednesday to adopt what supporters call "right-to-work" legislation. Sponsoring Republican Rep. Eric Burlison, of Springfield, says the measure makes Missouri an attractive location for new businesses.
Opponents say the measure would weaken labor unions by forcing them to bargain for workers who would no longer be required to pay representation fees. Unions are required by federal law to represent all workers in a bargaining unit even if they are not members but are currently allowed to charge fees for collective bargaining.
Burlison says the bill doesn't harm unions but instead protects the rights of workers to freely choose associations.
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I have a feeling that Frank is one of those kids whose mom tried to abort him in the womb with a dirty clothes hanger and failed, but not before poking him a few times through his soft, developing skull.
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A Sounder is a noun used to describe when good people expose bad people doing bad things. We have words for people telling on others... narc, snitch, tattletale, whistleblower but all are negative connotations. What's the good word for people exposing bad people? What's the good word for people sounding off about bad people doing bad things... SOUNDER
Bobby sounded off about the bullies on the bus and exposed them to help other children. Bobby is a true Sounder and we are rewarding him for being an amazing person with a plaque and gift certificates.
Benghazi hearings aren't over yet! Top Republicans are expecting more true American Sounders to step forward and sound off to find the truth.
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Meaning "sound" but lengthened.
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Walking into Boulevardier, the 2-month-old bistro in Bishop Arts, does my soul a world of good: Wow — Dallas now has an honest-to-goodness French bistro!
Just next to the hostess stand, a corner of the bar is devoted to oysters; a fellow with tattoos all down his arms shucks away. Bartenders emphatically muddle fruits, shake drinks with verve, chat with customers. On the other side of the bar, the dining room bustles with groups of friends yakking it up over giant boards of charcuterie or steaming bowls of bouillabaisse; a young couple, nose-to-nose over a small table along the wall, clinks glasses. The lighting's warm, the banquettes are inviting, wooden wine racks line a couple of the walls. The vibe is at once laid-back and incredibly buzzy.
From the moment it opened, Boulevardier has felt like a place that's been there — and been a hit — forever. Kudos to the owners, a couple of wine guys and a couple of chefs, for creating a room with such great ambience.
It's the product of lots of energy, clear vision and ambition, no doubt, on the part of Bradley and Brooks Anderson, who also own Veritas Wine Room, and Nathan Tate and Randall Copeland, who also own Ava restaurant in Rockwall. An early visit for a first look made Boulevardier feel like one of the most auspicious openings of the year.
Unfortunately, what's been coming out of the kitchen more recently has impressed considerably less.
Things tend to start out well, as in half a dozen cold and briny Wellfleet and Conway Royale oysters. They're terrific with a glass of crisp, minerally Charles Gonnet Chignin Jacquère Vin de Savoie.
Light, crisp crawfish beignets are perfect with their squiggle of smoked paprika aioli, and a special, croquettes fashioned from trotter rillettes and served with a thick dollop of chervil-happy sauce gribiche, has me plotting my return. Another evening, another special — a tartine of soft-scrambled duck eggs (sold!) — comes topped with slices of velvety, dill-scented house-cured salmon.
But what follows those fine starters comes as a bit of a shock: flabby-skinned grilled chicken served, weirdly, with church picnic-style potato salad and crunchy, out-of-season asparagus spears. I try to order a side of ratatouille to feel a little more French, but the waiter steers me toward rapini with Parmesan, which sounds lovely but turns out to be an oily, overcooked mess. Lamb daube, a giant hunk of fatty lamb neck, is assaulted by enough orange zest to scare off a famished caveman.
Gnocchi à la Parisienne, meanwhile, comes across as a vegetarian punishment. It's a sad plate of oily dumplings, sliced snow pea pods, asparagus, stringy enoki mushrooms and skinny carrots, without a sauce to speak of. And cassoulet, one of my favorite dishes in the world, has the right crusty top, but underneath lurks a monotonous, overcooked mush. At least the confit duck leg buried in it is pretty good.
Boulevardier's bouillabaisse knocked me out on that early visit, so I know that chef Tate, who's in charge of the kitchen (with Copeland running things back in Rockwall) is capable of great things. More recently the bouillabaisse was likable, a generous bowl of mussels, clams, poached shrimp, baby octopus and more, crowned with long croutons spread with good rouille (a garlicky emulsion with a kick of cayenne), but the broth didn't have the depth and finesse it did early on. Still, it's definitely the way to go if you're in the mood for seafood. If not, the steak frites, a flavorful hanger steak, nicely grilled to order, sliced and served with respectable fries, can deliver.
I can't help but wonder if the kitchen isn't overwhelmed. The place, which doesn't accept reservations, is always packed; hour-plus waits in prime time are the norm. Brunch was added last weekend, but the management wanted to keep it quiet, so the restaurant wouldn't be too "slammed." The night of the greasy daube, the main courses took eons to arrive.
Perhaps things would smooth out if the chef kept things simpler. Take the elaborate garnishes on his "big board" of house-made charcuterie. Duck ham, smoked pork rillettes, country pork pâté, beef tongue pastrami, gravlax and foie gras torchon each comes with its own array of accouterments. The terrific tongue pastrami is topped with pickles, choucroute and Russian dressing. The rillettes come with cornichons and mustard and onion marmalade. The gravlax has celery root rémoulade and pickled mustard seeds and dill crème fraîche. I love the rustic pistachio-studded, bacon-wrapped pork pâté, but even more so when I order it on its own, without so many distractions. Meanwhile, the foie gras torchon is quite good, but the tiny half-disc hardly justifies a $7 supplement.
I'm thinking it would be nicer to sit at the bar and order something simple.
The cocktails are well-conceived and well-mixed, from La Vie en Rose, a Champagne cocktail perfumed with rose water, to a Smash de la Saison, rye whiskey poured over shaved ice and garnished with fruits and mint.
And the mostly French wine list offers some compelling bottles with reasonable markups, particularly at the higher end. It's too bad that there aren't more French reds with character under $50 per bottle (to be more in line with the reasonable menu prices), and that there are only two French reds offered by the glass.
Even more surprising for a restaurant co-owned by wine merchants is the wine service. One night our server steers us away from the $60 2009 Frederic Magnien Côte de Nuits we ask about and toward a 2008 Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret "Narbanton" Savigny-Les-Beaune for $75 that he touts as one of the owners' favorites. We don't love the more expensive bottle, though we do enjoy the Magnien Côtes de Nuits when we return. Another night, I ask for a recommendation for a white wine that would go with everyone's appetizer. The server disappears to ask the owner, then returns with his answer. I can't understand why wine specialists trying to build a clientele for their brand-new, wine-focused restaurant wouldn't come out and talk wine with guests, leaving it to a well-meaning yet untrained server instead.
On that first early visit, I really loved the desserts, especially crème brûlee topped with Armagnac-soaked prunes. The sweet was much less luscious on my return, the prunes less drunken, I suppose. I still think about that first one — and that fabulous bouillabaisse — and I hope that Boulevardier's kitchen can one day catch up to the promise of its tremendously appealing menu and setting.
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Boulevardier (2-stars)
Price: $$$ (appetizers, soups and salads $8 to $22, main courses $13 to $28, desserts $6 to $8)
Service: Attentive and enthusiastic, but lacking in wine knowledge, and unconcerned when plates are barely touched
Ambience: A warm and welcoming bistro, with a busy bar, comfortable banquettes and appealing wine-focused decor. The best tables are the four-tops with free-standing banquettes in the center of the room.
Noise level: Noisy, as you'd expect in a busy bistro, but not ear-shatteringly so
Location: 408 N. Bishop Ave. (entrance is on West Eighth Street), Dallas; 214-942-1828; dallasboulevardier.com
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday 5:30 to 10 p.m., Thursday-Saturday 5:30 to 11 p.m.; also Sunday brunch 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Reservations: Not accepted
Credit cards: AE, D, MC, V
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Alcohol: Full bar. A one-page, mostly French wine list includes some good values on interesting bottles, especially at the higher price points. Twenty-two wines are available by the glass, including some terrific French whites, but few French reds.


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The Red Cross was called to assist a total of 23 East Side residents routed from their homes by two fires within a couple hours at mid-morning today, Buffalo fire officials reported.
Five adults and 13 children, apparently all from a large extended family, were displaced from their home at 118 Wakefield Ave., in the Central Park neighborhood, by a fire that caused $12,000 damage. Firefighters responding to a 7:31 a.m. alarm found a fire that had broken out in a first-floor bedroom of the 2½-story home. The house is east of Fillmore Avenue, two blocks north of Leroy Avenue.
About an hour and a half later, at 8:55 a.m., firefighters were called to 21 Briscoe Ave., where the Red Cross was called to assist two adults and three children. The blaze left an estimated $7,000 damage to the home, which is north of Walden Avenue, about eight blocks east of Bailey Avenue.


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EAST LIVERPOOL - With softball season just around the corner, members of the city school board's athletic committee have come out in opposition to the way a new softball field has been constructed at Thompson Park.
At Monday night's school board meeting, athletic committee member Richard Wolf announced that the committee had met earlier in the day and voted unanimously for a resolution expressing its displeasure at "the fact that we're paying a sizable amount for a new softball field at Thompson Park but it's not in compliance with softball standards."
According to Wolf, girls' softball is played on a dirt infield, not the grass one that has been installed at the new field.
"Why this was done, we have no way of knowing. We had no input. Our kids will be playing on a field like they'll be playing on no where else in the state," Wolf complained.
He said the project was "fraught with people not authorized to make decisions," even though the field was constructed primarily with school district money and primarily for the district's girls' team.
He suggested a meeting with the park board to discuss the issue, which also has been a bone of contention with one parent who has addressed the park board more than once, complaining that the grass field is not what the team is accustomed to.
Committee Chairman Scott Dieringer said the Ohio High School Athletic Association does allow for grass fields and also presented an email from an OHSAA official saying it is not required for girls to play on a "skinned," or dirt, infield and grass is permissible, but that tournaments cannot be played on grass infields.
Wolf said that, although it has been said the athletic director was aware of plans for a grass field, he denies having any knowledge of it.
Dieringer said the contract for the field was presented to the board some time ago and it was approved but said now "we need to make sure we're all on the same page."
The board voted to have someone speak to the park board and present the athletic committee's concerns.
Also Monday, following an executive session of more than an hour, the board voted to deny four grievances filed by OAPSE members Lisa Penn, Cindy Wolfe, Traci Scott and Randy Bogart regarding their desire to hold more than one job in the district.
After the meeting, Herring said the grievances were denied to allow more time to sit down with OAPSE members and discuss the issue, which he said he is certain can be worked out.
Several OAPSE workers attended the meeting but did not offer any comment.
Dieringer commented during the meeting on a vote taken at the last meeting, which he left early, regarding sending letters to the state's attorney general and various agencies, voicing opposition to a proposed active shooter response training for educators.
The board voted to also discourage employees from participating in such training. Some district teachers did, however, take part in a training session over the past weekend.
Dieringer said he would not have voted in favor, had he been present, saying the board should never discourage teachers or administrators from attending such training and that, while he doesn't condone putting guns in every teacher's hands, "we need to think hard about what we do."
The motion at the last meeting was made by Wolf, who said at this week's meeting that the press release from the attorney general on which he based his motion was "grossly misleading and the only thing I had to go on."
He was called by an AG official after reading of the board's decision in the paper and told he was wrong and misleading, but Wolf said, "I told him his press release was misleading."
In other personnel matters, the board approved the resignation of bus aide Ruth Osborn; Steve Dawson as a crossing guard at North Elementary; and Rosemary Waddle as afternoon custodian at LaCroft Elementary.
Also approved was the purchase of 400 cases of paper at $10,100 from Liberty Distributors Inc. of Triadelphia, W.Va.
A recommendation was approved to allow teacher Phillip Davis to attend an all-expense-paid trip to the Intel National Science Fair in Phoenix which he won by submitting an essay to a national contest sponsored by the Discovery Channel.
The board's next regular meeting will be at 6 p.m. Feb. 11.


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A representative of the company that ran the Ponderosa Steakhouse in Park Hills Plaza said the recent closing reflects a gradual decline in business as a result of the economy.
"It wasn't any particular competitor," Jon Rice, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Ponderosa's parent company, Homestyle Dining LLC in Plano, Texas, said this week. "It was just a gradual decline in business over time."
The area's longtime restaurant known for casual dining and buffets closed Sunday and left about 40 part-time employees looking for work.
Local Manager John Brumbaugh said the decision to close rested with the corporate office. Brumbaugh said he was trying to help employees find jobs and appreciated calls from other restaurants looking for employees.
Altoona's Ponderosa Steakhouse began using that name on March 1, 1980, after having operated as a Patriot Steak House. The change was a result of a buyout that occurred two years earlier, when the Ponderosa chain bought several Patriot Steak House restaurants in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
"We enjoyed many years in Altoona, and the closing is unfortunate," Rice said.
During the last 30-plus years, Altoona's selection of buffet-style and steakhouse restaurants has increased substantially, with the newest competitor, Longhorn Steakhouse, opening in October 2011, about a half mile away from the Ponderosa Steakhouse.
Rice said his company made efforts to be competitive.
"We've been working to improve the Altoona restaurant for quite some time," he said.
That included inside and outside remodeling, in addition to a 2003 expansion which added about 30 seats.
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Meanwhile, Ponderosa restaurants in the Johnstown, DuBois and Indiana areas are expected to remain open.
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In a mature and fruitful international partnership, the University of Maryland Libraries, in collaboration with the National Diet Library of Japan, are digitizing, preserving and making accessible books issued during the early years of the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1949).
The Gordon W. Prange Collection, the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications issued during this time period, provides valuable insight into the history of U.S. foreign policy and the U.S.-Japan relationship. It includes approximately 71,000 books.
Housed at the University of Maryland, the collection is vast and comprehensive. It comprises virtually everything published on all subjects during this period and includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, news agency photographs, posters, maps, ephemera and related archival materials. Produced by commercial publishers as well as grass-roots organizations such as labor unions, farm cooperatives, literary societies, minority populations, and schools, these publications capture the mood of Japan during a crucial period in the nation's history.
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Nearly 600,000 historical and cultural video and audio artifacts are found in IU's collections. This time-based media contains material from a wide range of areas in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Nearly all of it is difficult to access, and much is at risk of deterioration, having been created and preserved in formats that are now obsolete.
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McRobbie placed the initiative within the context of the ancient mission of the world's great universities not only to create and disseminate knowledge but also to preserve knowledge. With the dawn of the digital age and the development of the Internet, he said, knowledge ranging from works of art and literature to vast collections of scientific data can be made immediately available to scholars, students, and the public.
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Lake Shore Middle School pipe bomb turns out to be harmless
Classes resumed as scheduled at Lake Shore Middle School in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon after a suspicious weekend find turned out to be harmless.
An object resembling a pipe bomb was found during a cleanup in the wood shop of the school Sunday afternoon, but it turned out to be an empty piece of pipe capped at both ends.
The Milwaukee County Bomb Squad moved the pipe to a safe location and detonated it.
Officials said that the pipe appeared to be discarded plumbing parts and was likely not an attempt to build a pipe bomb.
A second search of the building was conducted after the disposal of the object, and nothing else suspicious was discovered.
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on February 6, 2013 - 4:29 PM
WHEATFIELD – An employee fired for allegedly stealing cash while working at a NOCO gas station has been accused of returning to the station and stealing again after he was fired, Niagara County sheriff's deputies said Tuesday.
Eric J. Aquino, 29, of 100th Street, Niagara Falls, was charged in one case with petit larceny and in the second case with petit larceny and trespassing, deputies said.
A store manager at the station, on Williams Road, told deputies Tuesday that Aquino activated a $100 gift card without permission and removed $100 in cash from the register in January. She said the company originally avoided pressing charges – terminating Aquino and asking him to make restitution – but wanted to pursue charges when he made no attempt to repay the stolen funds.
The manager told deputies Aquino returned to the store Sunday, after he had been fired, distracted an employee, snuck behind the counter and took $700 from a locked safe, according to a sheriff's report.
Aquino was found living at a nearby motel. Deputies said he admitted to the theft saying, "Yeah I took the money from NOCO to pay for rent and get food. I didn't want to be homeless bro." He said he used the money to pay rent at the motel, buy pizza and a "little bit of weed."
Deputies said he was arrested without incident and the cash was found loose in paper coffee cups. A total of $305 was recovered, according to reports.
Aquino was arraigned in Town Court and ordered held in the Niagara County Jail in lieu of $750 bail.
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