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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Birmingham Mayor William Bell and the City Council are in a standoff over the city's operating budget and millions in conflicting spending priorities.
The city's 2014 fiscal year begins Monday, but it could be at least another week before a compromise budget agreement comes to a vote.
At the heart of the disagreement is more than $3.4 million in spending that Bell wants to use as part of his new "Mow More" program of weed removal and $250,000 in additional money for 1963 civil rights commemoration activities.
The council, in its modifications, shifted $2 million from Bell's proposed $5 million for Mow More, and deleted all of the requested $250,000 for 1963 commemorations.
In response, Bell refuses to put the council's budget on the agenda for a vote Tuesday. Bell likens the changes to an assault on the city's neighborhoods.
"We all know and our citizens have made it clear that this is a critical issue and I can't in good conscience put forth a budget that does not even begin to address the issue of blight in the community," Bell said in his press release titled "Mayor Delays FY2014 Budget Rather Than See Neighborhoods Suffer."
The council replaces each dollar cut from Bell's projects with funding for its own spending priorities.
Extra council spending includes adding more than $1.56 million for the council office and discretionary money in proposals from council members Johnathan Austin and Valerie Abbott - usual Bell allies. Abbott recommended shaving some of the money for Mow More to pay for the other spending.
So far, both sides have issued dueling memos and press releases blaming the other for the impasse.
"There are items you recommended that I am not in support of, and as mayor of the city of Birmingham, it is my responsibility to administer our city in a fiscally sound manner," Bell wrote in a memo to the council. "Your recommendation to move $1,565,000 to enlarge the council office operating budget appears to create a separate administrative branch. As I have heard numerous times from the dais, we all want a clean city. Together, we can use these funds to make Birmingham a cleaner city."
Bell's accusations of the council intending to create separate government come more than a decade after Bell himself was the subject of those same criticisms when he was council president following his failed bid for mayor against Bernard Kincaid in 1999.
Council President Roderick Royal shot back with a counter memo - and press release - pointing out that Bell never met directly with the council during the budget work sessions and has a duty to put the budget on the agenda for a vote.
The proposed cut to Mow More doesn't gut the entire program, but begins it with reduced funding. Several council members said the remaining $3 million was enough to begin Mow More, with possible additional funding at midyear.
"As required by the Mayor-Council Act the mayor is required to direct the finance director to place the appropriate ordinances on the agenda from the recommendations of the council as long as the budget remains balanced," Royal said in his statement. "Not only has the mayor failed to attend any budget sessions, but he has also failed to direct staff to prepare the appropriate budget ordinances for the last two council meetings preventing the city from having an approved budget."
While Bell wants a budget talk immediately after Tuesday's council meeting, Royal, in an interview with AL.com/The Birmingham News, called the request unreasonable. Royal said he's open to setting an official work-session with the mayor - something that had not occurred this year - but on a day other than one already taken up by the regular council meeting.
"He has held up the budget for a full seven days with the intent on blaming the council," Royal said in the interview. "It's another opportunity to showboat."
Bell, in a memo, said his additional $250,000 in civil rights commemoration spending would pay for activities bringing "national and international visitors at the highest levels expected to address our city this September."
The mayor also wants $150,000 for matching funds for the Bassmaster's Tournament, which he said would generate millions in economic impact. The 2014 Bassmaster Classic will be held on Lake Guntersville with daily weigh-ins at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex.
In making their cuts, several council members questioned exactly what Bell's proposed additional $250,000 for civil rights anniversary events would fund.
City officials this fiscal year approved at least $600,000 for commemoration-related items and events, including two new monuments at Kelly Ingram Park, civil rights trail signs and cash to Miles College and Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Bell's proposal would have raised that tab to more than $850,000, spread over two fiscal years.
Royal said Bell could veto the spending plan within 10 days, but should put the document up for a vote.
"The council in record time delivered a balanced budget more than a week ago," he said. "As usual, the mayor prefers a standoff as opposed to exercising a veto if he chooses. It's hard to negotiate if you're not at the table."


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Student Volunteering Week 2014 is taking place from February 24 until March 2nd and we have a whole host of exciting events taking place on campus for students to get involved in. Whether you like running, community groups, live music, fundraising, comedy or just giving your time for a good cause this week is for you. Keep an eye out for our Student Volunteering Ambassadors on campus as well.
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I've always thought of the pineapple as one of the most familiar symbols of Hawaii, even though it's a relatively recent arrival, and certainly not exclusive to our islands. If you were to play the old word-association game, where you say a word and the other person has to blurt out the first word that comes to mind, "pineapple" would always evoke the reply "Hawaii!"
Unless the other person lived in Marshall, Mich.
Marshall (pop. 7,167) is the county seat of Calhoun County and home to my son's future in-laws. When we met for the first time last summer, they surprised me with a pretty, pink souvenir T-shirt, with the words "Marshall, Michigan" and a big pineapple emblazoned on the front. They explained that the city of Marshall had adopted the pineapple as its emblem because the fruit is a universal symbol of hospitality. And because of the Honolulu House.
The house was built in 1960 by Abner Pratt, retired chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Pratt had served as U.S. consul to the Sandwich Islands from 1857 to 1859, and missed the islands so much he attempted to recreate his tropical lifestyle in his hometown of Marshall. At a cost of over 15,000 1860 dollars, more than $300,000 in today's world, Pratt built a mansion that resembled the one he'd left behind, near Honolulu Harbor, with an enormous lanai and a 30-foot-high observation tower. He called it the Honolulu House and furnished it with pineapple-shaped chandeliers, tropical murals, and Hawaiian artifacts including feather capes and tapa cloth. The New York Times described it as "the architectural equivalent of a four-rum cocktail served in a coconut."
Pratt even had island foods prepared for his houseguests and wore white linen suits throughout the long, harsh Midwestern winters. In March 1863, after braving the chilling rain in his island wardrobe, he contracted pneumonia and died. Alas, his love for Hawaii did him in - or perhaps he had brought back an artifact he shouldn't have.
The Honolulu House is now a museum, the biggest jewel in the crown of a town noted for its historical preservation and restoration. And pineapples. I didn't see any growing there, but I left Marshall with my new T-shirt and a gold pineapple pin from the Chamber of Commerce.
So now I have two pineapple T-shirts, both of which stir fond memories for me. The older one is a Maui Land & Pineapple shirt that no longer fits but will always have a place in my closet. Both my mom and my aunt spent their entire professional lives at Maui Pine. Mom retired as records coordinator and Auntie Sachan served as executive secretary to J. Walter Cameron and then to his son, Colin.
Before the Maui Pine executive office moved to the Kahului cannery location, I was a frequent visitor to the little Haliimaile office where Mom and Auntie worked. The haole bosses like Mr. Lydgate and Mr. Dubois reminded me of movie stars, distinguished and kindly gentlemen. My first horseback ride, not counting the little ponies at the County Fair, was atop Mr. DuBois' Appaloosa. The first gingerbread man I ever tasted was baked by Colin Cameron's wife, Margaret.
But my pineapple roots extend even further, to my grandmother's patch of pine in Haiku. Like a number of folks in the area, my dad's family owned a small field and sold the harvested fruit to the Libby or Haserot canneries. On weekends, my parents and aunts and uncles would don their pineapple-picking jeans and long-sleeved shirts to join my grandmother in the field. As a couple of 4-year-olds, my cousin and I would play in the bed of the old pickup while the grown-ups toiled away, returning to the truck periodically to empty their bulging sacks.
Once, after much begging, Mark and I got to ride to the cannery in the back of the truck, with half a load of freshly picked pine. It probably took less than 10 minutes, but it seemed to last for hours, as we quickly learned why people and pineapples usually ride in separate compartments. With every curve of the winding road, we were bombarded by giant rolling pincushions. We emerged from that adventure with a couple of bruises, lots of scratches, and a little more common sense.
So the choice of a big clumsy fruit with thick, poky skin and a thorny crown to represent hospitality seemed pretty strange to me. According to various Internet sites, the pineapple has been such a symbol to Europeans since the 15th century, after Christopher Columbus brought the exotic plant to Spain from what is now Guadeloupe.
I'll bet Columbus never rode in the back of the boat with the pineapples.
* Kathy Collins is a performance artist, broadcaster and freelance writer whose "Sharing Mana'o" column appears every Wednesday. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Karl Slover, who played the first trumpeter in "The Wizard of Oz" movie and annually appeared at the Oz-Stravaganza in Chittenango, died Tuesday in Dublin, Ga.
Slover's death was confirmed by Carl Robinson, an employee of Townsend Brothers Funeral Home in Dublin, which is handling the funeral arrangements.
Slover, who was 21 during the filming of the movie, was 93.
He appeared at an "Oz" festival last weekend in Chicago, said Colleen Zimmer, co-director of Oz-Stravaganza in Chittenango, so despite his advanced age, his acquaintances were surprised by his death.
"This was quite sudden," Zimmer said.
The 4-foot-5 Slover died of cardiopulmonary arrest and was pronounced dead in a suburban Atlanta hospital, Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley told The Associated Press.
Slover came to Chittenango for at least 20 years. On Friday nights, he would participate in a panel discussion about the movie, and at the end of the evening, Slover would stand up and sing "We're Off To See the Wizard," Zimmer said.
"He was so delightful, always smiling and always upbeat and friendly," Zimmer said. "And he had the most precious laugh. If you were in a bad mood and heard that laugh, your bad mood would be over."
In addition to playing the lead trumpeter, he also was believed to have played a sleepy head, a soldier and one of the people in the crowd who sang "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," said Zimmer and Barb Evans, the other co-chairman of Oz-Stravaganza.
"He's just been a good friend to all of us for 20 years," Evans said.
He was born Karl Kosiczky in what is now Slovakia. He told of being mistreated by his family because he was so short.
At the age of 9, his father sent him to work for a traveling midget show in Germany. He later moved to the United States where he joined another traveling show.
"He had such a struggle in life when he was younger," Evans said. "He was so courageous and so many people didn't know it."
Only three actors are known to remain from the movie, Zimmer said: Margaret Pellegrini, who played a flower pot; Jerry Maren, a member of the Lollipop Guild; and Ruth Duccini, a townsperson.
Pellegrini who turned 88 this year, has said she plans to return to Oz-Stravaganza this year. Maren came every year until this past June. Duccini doesn't travel anymore, Zimmer said.


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The Geological Museum – now the Red Zone – started life in 1841 as part of the Geological Survey.
After three homes in 100 years it moved to South Kensington, into a building designed by Science Museum architect Sir Richard Allinson and JH Markham .
You can see the words 'Geological Survey Museum' carved over the Museum entrance in Exhibition Road.
The building, which shares similarities in appearance with the Science Museum, was built between 1929 and 1933 at a cost of £220,000, and opened its doors in July 1935.
In 1985 it merged with the Natural History Museum, adding a collection of more than 30,000 minerals. In 1988 the Lasting Impressions gallery was opened to connect the two.
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Several hundred people, some of whom began lining up as early as 7 p.m. Monday, were given plastic bracelets at about 11 a.m. that qualified them for the free tickets, which were handed out at noon. The folks behind them -- most of whom arrived after about 9:45 a.m. -- were out of luck.
They were told they could put their names on a waiting list, but few held out much hope.
Sharon Ellis of Syracuse, who brought seven nieces and nephews to line up outside Sunnycrest Skating Rink, which is adjacent to Henninger, was among the first people in line to be denied a bracelet.
"We just missed it by about three people," she said.
She quickly resigned herself to the fact that she would likely not be seeing the president. Asked how she felt about waiting in vain on a humid, 81-degree day, she answered, "Hot."
Others were a lot happier. Ardena Harvey of Syracuse, who started camping out at the entrance of the skating rink at 9:45 p.m. Monday, said she was eager to hear what the president would say about college affordability and loans.
Harvey works full-time as an accounts payable specialist and is studying for a degree in social work at Syracuse University. She said she is concerned not only about her own loans but those of her two children, 15 and 17.
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Christine Cook, an attorney who is president of Henninger's Parent-Teacher-Student Organization, was next to Harvey in line and spent much of the night going back and forth between her home and the line, bringing blankets and food from McDonald's.
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The key messages at the analyst meeting yesterday reaffirmed our cautious view toward THAI. Expectations of weak FY14 earnings will continue to make for an uninspiring share price performance. Moreover, THAI's business restructuring plan is unlikely to bear fruit in the near-term and we think the plan entails execution risk, given the firm's inflexible cost structure. The stock currently trades at a YE14 PBV of 0.9x—0.2SDs above its long-term average of 0.8x, but comparable with the Asian mean.
The better political climate together with incentives launched by state agencies/SOEs should boost foreign arrivals and THAI's passenger numbers QoQ in 3Q14. There were nascent recovery signs in July—the cabin factor increased to 70.2percent from 63.5% in 2Q14. Moreover, THAI's passenger numbers continued to rise in August—bookings as of August 14 were 72.5%. The passenger yield should also improve YoY in 3Q14, as promotional fares are unlikely to be as generous as they were in 3Q13. As such, we expect THAI's 3Q14 core operation to improve QoQ and YoY, but it will remain in red ink.
Restructuring plan in place; execution risk a factor to watch
A major business restructuring plan will be submitted to the SOE Super Board for approval on August 23. The plan covers four areas: 1) financing, 2) operations, 3) corporate management and 4) personnel—immediate (2H14), medium-term (2014-15), and long-term (2014-18). For 2H14, THAI plans to raise Bt3bn in extra revenue by re-routing flights, launching promotional campaigns and expanding its cargo business. The firm also plans to cut operating expenses by Bt4bn in 2H14 by dropping loss-making routes, reducing fuel consumption and trimming other expenses.
While we are optimistic about its business restructuring plan, we are concerned about the execution risk—it's very difficult to make sweeping changes to big organizations if they go against entrenched interests.
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Father Vien Nguyen, a Catholic priest and progressive social activist in the Vietnamese community of New Orleans recently received the Community Champion Award from the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO). Father Vien is prominently featured in the Independent Lens documentary A Village Called Versailles, airing next Tuesday, May 25th on PBS (check local listings). AAPCHO Membership Relations Associate Grace-Sonia Melanio gives us a recap of the awards ceremony.
In February, the organization I work for, the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), at their fundraising awards gala, showed excerpts from A Village Called Versailles, and presented Father Vien Nguyen with AAPCHO's Community Champion Award.
For those of you who are not already familiar with AAPCHO's work, AAPCHO is a national organization representing community health centers dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration, and leadership that advances the health status of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders. So when my organization began having conversations about honoring a community champion, we wanted to recognize Father Vien's work towards re-establishing primary health care services in New Orleans East post-Katrina. As chronicled in A Village Called Versailles, Father Vien's leadership helped galvanize Vietnamese Americans in Louisiana to rebuild their region, and fight a toxic landfill that threatened the well-being and health of their community.
When ITVS learned that AAPCHO planned to honor Father Vien, they graciously loaned us a copy of the film to show at our awards ceremony. While Father Vien's accomplishments were read by our emcee, film and television actress Tamlyn Tomita, the audience was visibly moved, as footage from the documentary was simultaneously projected on two large screens. The film punctuated the remarkable battle Father Vien and the Vietnamese American community of Versailles had fought and won to reclaim and protect their home.
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As a health advocate, the documentary reminds me that the definition of healthy communities reaches beyond the ability to see a doctor for your annual check up (although that is very important too). Father Vien and the community members of Versailles recognized that environmental health is intrinsic to personal health.
A Village Called Versailles also illustrated the important point that healthy communities are empowered communities. Empowered communities are not only driven by a sense of self-preservation, but also by the principles of compassion and respect, where the voices of both the young and elderly are equally valued.
At the awards ceremony, Father Vien graciously accepted AAPCHO's Community Champion Award presented by Congressman Joseph Cao. He was quick to highlight the hard work and advocacy of his fellow community members.
I continue to be inspired by Father Vien and the Vietnamese American community of New Orleans East. It's my hope that many others will learn about this remarkable story, and also draw inspiration from the film, just as I have.
Grace-Sonia Melanio
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One day, while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting nearby (they had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem); and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. Just then some men came, carrying a paralysed man on a bed. They were trying to bring him in and lay him before Jesus; but finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the middle of the crowd in front of Jesus. When he saw their faith, he said, 'Friend, your sins are forgiven you.'
Luke 5:17-26
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- What an interesting, colourful, humorous and yet life-changing scene! The man's friends are not easily put off. They use team effort and creativity to ensure that their paralysed friend meets Jesus. An encounter happens that heals not only his body but frees him from the paralysis of sin.
- Lord, forgiveness is a pressing need for all. Help me to do all I can to bring people to meet you and know your healing forgiveness in their lives. But let me do it sensitively!
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- In this miracle, Jesus performs both a spiritual and a physical healing. Am I a spiritual paralytic? What is crippling me in following Jesus?
- Without the help of his four determined friends, the paralytic could never have made his way to Jesus to be healed. How might I help a friend find healing in Christ?
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- The patient is not stretchered on the corridor, as sometimes happens in our hospitals, but lowered through the roof, a helpless paralytic.
- Lord, you do not want us to be helpless, immobile, or dependent on others for our every movement. You give us energy and dynamism, tell us to rise, take up our bed, and walk. You give us life, and more abundantly than before. No room for self-pity or learned helplessness. You ask each of us to take charge of our own life.
- Only God can forgive sin. That is why the scribes and Pharisees thought that Jesus was speaking blasphemy. The Pharisees and scribes did not miss the implication of Jesus' action: he was implying that God's power to heal and forgive sin was made manifest in his own words and deeds.
- Not only did Jesus forgive sin, he gave his apostles the power to do the same. Where can I find that power at work today?
- When I come to pray, I do not come alone. I bring before Jesus all those people whose needs I know, all those for whom I have hopes. I lay them before Jesus so that they may receive the help and healing they need.
- Jesus speaks forgiveness to me. I receive the healing that he offers and ask to understand the new life that Jesus has in mind for me.


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rhode island was basically an anarchist settlement when it was founded.
Medieval iceland is also an example of a stateless society that functioned fine for almost two centuries.
Society doesn't need a violent monopoly in order to function.
People perform better when their motivation has them chasing goals, rather than when they're motivated to escape a threat.
- People never have lived without central organization for long.
- People do not want to live without a central organization
- People are not equipped to handle living without a central organization
- People don't have the physical abilities like claws, dense skins, strength, or speed to subsist in the wilderness without tribes
- People take too long to physically develop for simple families to be capable of survival in the wilderness. Tribes create the support group for the development of fully mature humans
- Any organization of people over life rules with be a central one.
- Any central organization is a government.
- There is no such thing as a non-central organization that decides life rules.
- Any group of various central organizations, which decide life rules, will be separate organizations, not collectively called "anarchist" or "libertarian".
- These exist and have always existed. Tribes competed with less complex structures, and currently nations compete with more complex structures.
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Imagine going back in time to 1850's South Carolina and talking to a group of slave owners. You tell them that they must free their slaves, because keeping people enslaved is evil. They say that this may be the case, but their economy depends on cotton, and if the slaves are free, it will be much harder to pick the cotton. You say that they shouldn't worry about it, because people will eventually build these machines called tractors, which will pick the cotton automatically and be able to do the work of hundreds of men. Of course, they'll say that you're crazy and won't be able to visualize such a thing, but you'll know it to be true.
We have no idea about what kind of wonderful new inventions that humanity will produce in our lifetime. If government ceases to exist, people will, over time, learn to solve their problems.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
This message has been intercepted by the NSA, the only branch of government that listens.
I'm going to borrow a point from Lazarus here.
Morally, the fact that power is the only governing body is very frightening to many who do not like to think about power. Christianity shuns power as do many other belief systems. These people would look at the above quote of Lazarus and think this power structure is proof that it must be eliminated. Hence, "destroy the Bilderberg!" chants uttered by people like Mr. Perfidy. However, power structure is the only way that it can be.The idea of a "free market" is an academic fantasy that has never existed for any significant period of time, anywhere.....it is a construct of the academic elitism of the 1950's, Milton Friedman and the like, which has no practical application. The same is true for communism, socialism, or any other absolutist ideology. In all cases, whether the powers that be are pushing one ideology or another, it is a due to its leverage in producing changes for their essential backers....
A great study in this is the book "The Dictator's Handbook". Not biased, fact-driven, and explains much about real politics.
In the case of a communist government, as in the case of the former Soviet Union, the entrenched powers were mostly bureaucrats. For this reason, talk of "the collective" was useful to further their power....in the case of the current United States, true power rests solely in capital, thus high-minded talk of a "free market" is useful....in all cases, ideology is neither right or wrong....it is simply a list of definitions, given by those with actual power, to feed to those they require the acquiescence of an idea of common cause.
It is all about 3 things: 1) who is in power? 2) What do they need to get more power or secure it? 3) What ideology furthers #2, and how can it be made palatable to the masses?
In just so happens that in the US, out of WWII and its economic devastation to most all of our competitors, the idea of totally unregulated capitalism was most useful for the powerful....it gained itself many contemporaries, from Ayn Rand (who took gov assistance hand-over-fist when she got sick, was a morally repugnant person) to Friedman's Chicago School.
There is no difference, at heart, between a given ideology in most countries that exist right now...there is only money, power, and how best to sell it to those you need to take it from. Read enough about the poweful throughout history, and that fact becomes undeniable.
From a selfish perspective, people like J3nn and Derp and Alex Jones are following the exact same system as any other purely ideological politicians. Arguing for pure anarchy/libertarianism/etc is the same thing as people arguing for pure communism/democratism/republicanism. Those who argue for their point stand to gain power from their own philosophy.
From a "we're in this together" perspective, let's stick to logic so that we can have a serious discussion. Instead of tearing down the system any time you find one error, analyze the system as a whole to figure out why it got to be that way. Before calling for actions, think.
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Cabin fever struck hard in the Muskegon area last week. Grumpiness followed, you could read it in the comments. And with the switch to daylight saving time and a little raid, spring is in the air.
Susan Harrison Wolffis shared her longing for spring in her column, "This winter wasn't that tough, but I still can't wait for spring."
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I know. I have no right to complain.Here's how MLive and Muskegon Chronicle readers responded:
People in other parts of the country have had it much worse than we have in Muskegon. At least we have plows and plenty of salt, and contingency plans, unlike some people in parts that shall remain unnamed but make it on the nightly news for either their heroics or the way they can't deal with six inches of snow.
Truth is, as winters go, this one at home is on the short end of setting a season record. Yes, it was rough in February, but this year's 90-odd inches are nothing compared to the winters of my youth when 160 inches of the white stuff was routine, except for 1962-63 when a measly 159 inches fell.
I apologize in advance to my friends who love to ski and skate, and all those on the ubiquitous snowshoe scene, and those ice fishermen who can't get enough cold air, ice and the fine art of fishing holes. And I sure don't want to mess up the farmers' natural order of things. Last year, the warm temperatures came too early and too fast and robbed us of apples and peaches and green things that are so good for us.
So I apologize, but I am ready for snow-free spaces, soft breezes and soil warm enough to plunge my bare hands in on a first trip into the garden.
I get this way, always this time of year, when March arrives.
When something is taken away from you for awhile, you appreciate it when it comes back. One more reason to Love Michigan. Think Spring.
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Apple seeks to add Google Now and Samsung Galaxy S4 to 2014 patent trial
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Earlier this month, we told you how both Samsung and Apple are being limited by Judge Lucy Koh in advance of their next patent trial set to start in March 2014; Koh wants both companies to limit the number of devices in each side's infringement claim, to no more than 22. While Apple had originally left out the Samsung Galaxy S4, it did put Samsung on notice that it would probably be adding the latest Android flagship to its list...
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1. alouden (unregistered)
You have got to be kidding me? These people are jokers. It is hard to take Apple seriously.
8. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 441; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Seems as though they may have decided to joke around with the wrong company. Google will stand its and ground and take it right back to them.
14. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
ahhh, apple apple apple ! when will you learn ? :/
17. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Hopefully when they've lost even more marketshare, their stock is $3.50 a share, and they are a complete laughingstock. Then and only then will they say "gee guys, I think...I think we f*cked up. So....wanna sue someone?"
42. chocolaking (Posts: 494; Member since: 22 May 2012)
LOL.. that's not gonna happen for the next 1 thousand years.
65. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Right, they have the ipod wrist coming out and that will save them and change EVERYTHING.
93. darkkjedii (Posts: 21211; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Dumb comment of the day award goes to...you.
94. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Immature meathead troll of the day award goes to...you. Again. Oh look, a meathead instigating a fight, fresh and new...
104. darkkjedii (Posts: 21211; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
I've asked u to leave go away but you insist
126. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Uh did you or did you not come in and make an antagonistic remark directly at me? As childish as it sounds, you started it. Therefore you don't get to whine and play the victim when I fire right back at you, Tiny.
Don't start none, won't be none.
112. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
That was so funny Droiddoes™
133. CheapSocks (Posts: 21; Member since: 07 Nov 2012)
stock plummeting downward, delay in ios7, customers leaving. Apples in some deep hurting right now and going super desperate.
31. MobileJunkieJr (Posts: 46; Member since: 15 Mar 2013)
Judge Koh should keep adjourning and let Apple add more and more devices until there's a couple of hundreds under the 'infringement' title and in the end say,
"iNfringement over-ruled.
Case closed!".
58. mafiaprinc3 (Posts: 528; Member since: 07 May 2012)
ooook,this seriously needs to stop,they are acting like a bunch of high school kids fighting over a chair.
expected better from apple,too lazy to innovate or maybe they just can't keep up!!!
11. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
Just die you rotten incapable outdated iCompost....
36. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
U mean DIE U ROTTEN P.O.S fruit. The hell with your outdated hardware.
30. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
This is the real reason there is no new iPhone launching next month! If they spent as much time developing and launching new product as they do suing other companies they'd have more new devices out than Samsung does right now!
40. noim1 (Posts: 297; Member since: 15 May 2012)
WEll they know that they r Loosing Market share very quickly...with the Launch of the S4 & it selling like Cupcakes ...Rotten Apple is sensing Doom in their near Future ...So they are Going Crazy & trying to Sue every one....
Apple u complain abt infringement with Sammy ...ok fine . But go against Google , Oh no u didn't ..u have Messed with the Wrong Company !!!
45. mayur007 (Posts: 565; Member since: 10 Apr 2012)
apple is making joke oh himself, now apple is a joke.
any one is looking to invent, dont make they will sue you whatever you make ... :P
83. AngryAppleCustomer. (Posts: 30; Member since: 01 May 2013)
Well Samsung DID copy.
87. james004 (Posts: 486; Member since: 15 May 2013)
Apple reminds me a crackhead.
92. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Apple wants to sue Google for Android.....they are just beating around the bush about it. Apple cant handle competition. I seriously hope the iPhone drops into niche category so Apple can sit the hell down. Make products Apple....not more lawsuits.....
113. Yodaa (Posts: 21; Member since: 22 May 2013)
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
131. YouGotTrolledSon (banned) (Posts: 41; Member since: 25 Nov 2012)
I think it's time for Google to sue Apple for Notification panel and other things!!!! Obviously we all know that Notification panel from iOS is copied from Android. Google have been staying away from this patent wars but it's Apple who declared war first. And I believe if Google involve in this patent wars , Apple has no chance to win. Shame on you Apple.
2. Orbitman (Posts: 110; Member since: 09 Oct 2011)
will the madness never cease?!?!?!
10. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Not until apple is gone. I wish all carriers and retailers would just stop carrying their crap to send a message. It's not like anyone besides apple makes any money off an iToy anyway, only reason they are carried is iToys drive accessory attachments.
Retailers should take a note from Costco: they kicked the rotten fruit out and their witreless division is doing just fine.
86. lyndon420 (Posts: 4372; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
I agree. If everyone refuses to work with apple maybe they'll rethink things.
116. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Don't worry Droiddoes, Apple will be joining Nokia and BB very soon, right down south, RIP! Hoping, washing, and praying! There is a universal justice the eyes of truth is always watching us, Apple!
I wish all these average joes start to realize, that Apple is a very bad rooten company, and all over the world people realize, and start to stop buying any Apple products.
All these big manfactures should stop supplying Apple. The world should be against them, and kick them out. Mthrf?r$
3. Larry_ThaGr81 (Posts: 441; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Apple is out of control with all these damn patent lawsuits.
16. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
LOL I wonder what's Apple's next target, oh I know, Megapixels. Apple will patent Megapixels and Apple will sue Samsung for using Megapixels then Samsung will start using Ultrapixels like HTC. And other manufacturers will follow as well.
And iPhone will have the worst camera ever because it is still using Megapixels and others are using Ultrapixels. xD
How's that sound?
4. alltechinside (Posts: 248; Member since: 21 Apr 2013)
Oh Apple...... Planning to make profit out of lawsuit again.....Hope it backfires them.
5. sats.mine2k4 (banned) (Posts: 208; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
Apple is just SAD...Google Now really apple... your so cheap...
7. alltechinside (Posts: 248; Member since: 21 Apr 2013)
If they think Google Now is similar to siri......I must be using Siri wrong.(Apple Logic)
37. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Or holding the iPhone wrong.
6. darkkjedii (Posts: 21211; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Apple is starting to make a fool of itself with this patent crap, and they are starting to look comical in my eyes
26. quadrazeus (Posts: 359; Member since: 03 May 2013)
Dark, I think, at this point, Apple has patented almost every way their devices work. As in, they have patented the whole working of Siri so it's impossible to create a virtual assistant without infringing on those patents. Yeah, that sucks. But on the other hand, adding these patent infringements to the ongoing case would surely make their case strong, wouldn't it?
49. darkkjedii (Posts: 21211; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
That's true quad it really is, but do you think it's fair? Plus their popularity is starting to take a hit.
59. quadrazeus (Posts: 359; Member since: 03 May 2013)
Not fair, though it's totally legal.
People are relating the patent trials to their 'lack of innovation'. But obviously, it has got nothing to do with their development of new products. I mean, it's a lawyer's stuff, not engineer's stuff, but still, it's hurting their overall image, making them look arrogant and desperate. Hope they get it soon.
62. darkkjedii (Posts: 21211; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
By fair I meant consumer wise, yes it's totally courtroom fair. Google now, and s-voice are Siri inspired apps. I'm just lost that apple allows google now on the iPhone, yet want to nail Sammy for using it. However I do not work for apple/Sammy/google, and couldn't possibly know whats going on behind closed doors. Most of the people on PA hating on apple, are doing so cuz they simply don't like them...not cuz they know the ins and outs of the situation. Like droiddoes' ridiculous notion that carriers should stop selling apple products. That'd be like asking footlocker to stop selling Nike products...not gonna happen.
64. quadrazeus (Posts: 359; Member since: 03 May 2013)
Hahaha, Droiddoes, PhoneArenaUser and gmracer1 are of the same breed.
69. darkkjedii (Posts: 21211; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Exactly. Lol...
79. gmracer1 (Posts: 646; Member since: 28 Dec 2012)
I'm glad I'm on your mind. You made me blush :o)
102. Droiddoes (unregistered)
You should be flattered, there's not a whole lot of room in there XD
9. Droiddoes (unregistered)
Of course they are. Apple cnnot compete or innovate anymore, so now they're in the business of wasting the courts time and suing everyone for everything. Pathetic.
12. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
I applaud this move by Apple.. this is to sent a Message to Samsung that Apple is not taking the foot out of the pedal.. Samsung claim last year that as soon as the iphone5 was released that Samsung was going to sue for 4G patents.. and here we are prepping for the iphone 5S and waiting on Samsung..
18. Droiddoes (unregistered)
You would. Of course you're also delusional so there's that.
21. Malki (Posts: 68; Member since: 20 Feb 2013)
Two words...F.uck You...
50. darkkjedii (Posts: 21211; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
He doesn't work for apple...no need for that.
23. GALAXY-STORM (Posts: 328; Member since: 13 Oct 2012)
39. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
I applauded u for being a incompetent fool that u don't realize the seriousness in this dumb case
91. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
No opinion about them adding Google Now? IIRC......Google changed their search app specifically because Apple tried to sue them......and all was supposed to be fine. Now this.....Apple needs to just let it go.....
129. kabhijeet.16 (Posts: 805; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
Oh really.. tell me then , why is Apple suing only Samsung?? Every mobile maufacturer is using 4G. Sony, HTC, Nokia, Huwaei, ZTE, Oppo, etc. Its because they have business relation/tie up with HTC, they buy hardware from Sony, dont care about other brands coz they are not eating its market share.
13. Malki (Posts: 68; Member since: 20 Feb 2013)
Apple will NEVER be better than Samsung, if they are patenting everything like some motherfckers....
15. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Google Now? Are you kidding me, Apple?
Apple, go poop yourself.
41. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
U mean go SHYT YPURSELF Apple not poop xperiaDROID.
118. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
I'm used to say "poop", not "SHYT". :)
19. jmoita2 (Posts: 930; Member since: 23 Dec 2011)
Here is Apple's logic: "We patented everything to be invented for the next century"... Poor Apple, they have clearly been taken down hard by Samsung, and are now desperately grasping st straws to remain relevant. I'm in the industry, and will say that the GS4 puts the iPhone 5 to shame. Sorry, Apple but you've lost.
20. lorenzattractor (Posts: 68; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
Oh god... not this again...
22. reyenrique (Posts: 99; Member since: 07 Oct 2012)
this is a big joke... apple grow up
24. bwphotoguy (Posts: 18; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
Wow. I guess Apple doesn't have anything else better to do...............OH WAIT....maybe they should start developing their own ideas and products and not trying to stop other companies from doing their own. I never thought there could be such a terrible bully in the Corporate world, but here we are Apple. I can't understand why people would support and buy products from Apple when all they seem to do is complain and harass other competing companies that seem to be conducting normal business practices. So sad and wrong...........I feel for Samsung. Samsung must be saying "oh no, not this again...............can't Apple just leave us alone?"


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This injured defender situation is getting ridiculous. At the moment, our treatment room must resemble a field hospital - players arms flailing around and medics frantically trying to issue the right medication to each of them. This ain't great because on Tuesday we face Germans and a tremendous chance to lose top place in the group.
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Every once and a while I get an email from a reader that asks where he or she should invest $1,000.
My answer? An online savings account or a certificate of deposit.
Unfortunately, $1,000 just simply isn't enough for you to invest in the stock market. It's certainly not enough for real estate and it's usually not enough for investing in any asset class.
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$1,000 is not enough because transaction costs are too high.
At $1,000, you can't open an account at large mutual fund companies like Fidelity ($2500) or Vanguard ($3000), where can can buy and sell their mutual funds for free. You don't qualify for commission free stock trades from Zecco. The cheapest place to trade stocks would then be $2.95 at OptionsHouse or $4.95 at TradeKing. That's a round-trip commission of 0.59% and 0.98%, respectively. While that's not a lot, it is a hurdle you'll have to overcome to make a trade profitable.
While the stock market is at historic lows and would mean a great investment for someone with a long time horizon, you might want to wait until you've saved up some more money before you commit it to an investment.
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Don't balance budget on backs of disabled
As rumors swirl about the restoration of only a fraction of the $120 million in cuts to the state budget that will directly impact funding to local nonprofits that serve the developmentally disabled, it is shocking what you hear from lawmakers in Albany. Without exception, each leader I called blamed the other party, the other legislative body or the governor; not one person accepted any accountability. This is despite the fact that it is precisely these legislative leaders who have authorized a percentage of the $120 million to be returned to the federal Center for Medicaid Services that is set to be reimbursed with the cuts.
As an advocate on behalf of Aspire of WNY and volunteer president of its board of directors, with each passing day it appears more likely that the budget is going to be balanced on the backs of the developmentally disabled. While not only morally wrong, these cuts will have devastating and lasting impacts on this community, now and for years to come.
In response to the state's initial budget, Aspire has already had to reduce day habilitation offerings and close our center-based early intervention program, leaving our community's youngest developmentally disabled children with few, if any, viable options for a similar service. Now, we will again assuredly face additional program cuts, staff layoffs and the reduction in the quality of life of the 3,200 individuals and families Aspire supports.
If these cuts are approved, our elected leaders will effectively punish our most vulnerable for Albany's own misuse and mismanagement of federal Medicaid dollars. Allowing this to take place is far from actual leadership and in reality, tantamount to dereliction of duty, if not worse. The time is now for a true leader to emerge, and if not, start the process to elect others.
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Officers said two men exchanged shots outside a gas station near 11900 block of Blue Ridge Boulevard. The argument happened after a nightclub closed for the evening and a group of people gathered at the gas station.
Police said one of the victims drove to another convenience store at 85th Street and Hickman Mills Drive to get help.
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This quick bread made with zucchini is so good it will not last long. The recipe makes two loaves and it freezes well. It will keep in the refrigerator for a week, too. This bread always gets great reviews. I just made it today because I have tons of zucchini and it is already half gone. I am tweaking and updating some photos on the site and reposting this bread since it is that time of the year for zucchini! You can leave out the nuts or you can add chocolate chips to this recipe, too. I always make one with chocolate chips and one loaf without. Just stir in 3/4 cup chocolate chips to the batter in one of your loaf pans. Either way is delicious!2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 cup oil 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons cinnamon 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups zucchini, unpeeled, shredded and drained. (Pack as much shredded zucchini into the cup as you can. If your shredded zucchini is very wet you can drain in a colander, too) 1 cup walnuts or pecans (Optional) In a large bowl mix sugar, eggs, and oil with mixer. Add remaining ingredients except nuts and continue mixing. Fold in nuts. Pour into two greased or sprayed 9 x 5 inch loaf pans. Cook in preheated 350 degree oven for 50 to 55 minutes. ENJOY! You can find other Zucchini Recipes here.
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This is super DELICIOUS! with the chocolate chips added.
I would rather make the bread up now instead of freezing the zuchhini as it is so watery. So I make up a bunch of it and it is always ready for guests when they come or for the family.
I'm going to make this tomorrow 🙂
My husband likes to toast this and slather it with butter!
This is a favorite at our house…anytime of the day! 🙂


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Display an idyllic beach scene as part of your summer DIY home decor crafts with this pristine By the Sea Vintage Plaque from Stampendous. Stamping projects like this showcase your creative talent and create a lovely keepsake for the mantel or bookshelf.
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Paint surface with white acrylic paint. Let dry and repeat.
Stamp Bathing beauty using black ink on white cardstock. Color face and hands using watercolor pencils and water brush. Cut out.
Stamp Bathing Beauty on Pattern Paper. Cut out hat and outfit. Sponge edges with brown dye ink. Attach to other bathing beauty.
Stamp mermaid with shells using black ink on white cardstock. Repeat three times. Color shells with watercolor pencils and water brush. Cut out shells.
Cover colored shells using VersaMark watermark ink and heat emboss using clear embossing powder.
Rip scrap copy paper to create mask.
Lay mask onto white background. Sponge on brown dye ink over bottom half of painted background.
Lay other piece of scrap cardstock over sponged brown dye ink area to protect. Lay straight edge along middle to mask top half of white background. Sponge blue dye ink between masks.
Flip straight edge to protect blue and brown area. Sponge sky using yellow and orange dye inks.
Punch circle from cardstock. Use the cardstock with circle opening as a mask and lay over sky. Mask blue area with straight edge of white cardstock. Sponge with orange in circle opening.
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Stamp sentiment using black ink along skyline.
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Sponge starfish using VersaMark ink. Heat emboss using aged gold embossing enamel.
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Williams had a double mastectomy 23 years ago when he was a Marine. He told attendees at a breast cancer research funding gala in New York last Saturday that doctors found a lump in his chest, operated and then discovered it was benign, according to the New York Post.
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Cartels VS Malavitas
So, either tomorrow or the day after I will be ordering/picking up a new pair of bindings.
The 2 I'm trying to decide between are the Cartel, and the Malavita.
The board they are going on is a Lobster Freestyle, and I will be riding park almost exclusively.
Which one would you guys choose for this setup?
(Size 11 Nike Zoom force ones if that makes a difference to anyone)
They are pretty close man. The 'Vitas are a bit more $$ for a bit lighter and a touch of tech/features. Both would be great IMO. I have '12 Vitas on my Proto right now they are :thumbsup:. I would like to get Cartels as well.
Jus' sayin that
1. they are pretty close and would be hard to appreciate the differences. ( meaning you would be stoked on either or disapointed with both)
2. money no issue? can't go wrong with the 'Vitas. If you want looser go Cartel, Nivek says starting in '12 the Cartels are coming back to park domination while the 'Vitas seem to have more all mountain support. There are plenty of kids who ride noodles for jibbin with pretty supportive bindings and boots so just keep in mind how subjective it all is.
I ended up getting the Cartel today. While they are both pretty similar I feel like the Vita is a more all mountain binding, and the Cartel is a bit more park friendly.
Super stoked on the restricted colors.
Good call. :D
I was in the same boat all week! With only $18 difference between (40% sale) them I couldn't decide. I wanted something very similar to my P1.1's (which I love for everything from park, to jumps, to trees, to carving and speed) in that they are forgiving & have enough room for playing around, accurate on jumps and still be aggressive when need be.
Anyway... in the end it seemed like the Cartels would be the better choice to pair with my Travis Rice just cause of the extra flex & play.
I think it was so close that I don't think I'd gone wrong either way. But rather than get the VITA's, I'll be holding out for the Genesis as my all around when I spot 'em on a good sale!
Thnx for OP.
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I was at the Burton Mountain Festival demo weekend at Mt. Hood Meadows this past weekend, and tested out the Restricted Cartels. When I was debating whether to demo those or the Vitas, The guy that set me up with them explained the Vitas are softer--so I went with the Cartels. I heard the same thing from a shop kid at a reputable local snowboard shop.
Then you've got people on this forum saying it's the other way around...so which is it?
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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had ``powerful striking means'' on standby for a missile launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations.
On the streets of Pyongyang, meanwhile, North Koreans celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un's appointment to the country's top party post - one in a slew of titles collected a year ago in the months after father Kim Jong Il's death.
In the capital of neighboring South Korea, the country's point person on relations with the North, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, urged Pyongyang to cool down, engage in dialogue and reverse its decision to suspend operations of a joint industrial park just north of their shared border.
``We strongly urge North Korea not to exacerbate the crisis on the Korean peninsula,'' Ryoo said.
The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a nonmilitary agency that deals with relations with South Korea, said its ``striking means'' have been ``put on standby for a launch and the coordinates of targets put into the warheads.'' It didn't clarify further. The statement was the latest in a torrent of warlike threats seen outside Pyongyang as an effort to raise fears and pressure Seoul and Washington into changing their North Korea policy.
Officials in Seoul and Washington say Pyongyang appears to be preparing to test-fire a medium-range missile designed to reach the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.
Such a launch would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting North Korea from nuclear and ballistic missile activity, and mark a major escalation in Pyongyang's standoff with neighboring nations and the U.S.
North Korea already has been punished in recent months for launching a long-range rocket in December and conducting an underground nuclear test in February.
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And back to Ashley, I think that Black Swan was her best program and sorry she didn't save it for an Olympic year. That said, I hope she can pull off bronze, but I think Julia will steal it.
Ashley and Adam Rippon were showcased on The Voice finale last night. Carson said they were headed to the Olympics in Sochi... so I guess we know who NBC is pushing (that and David Baden is a GREAT agent )
Of course, oh-so-convenient for both NBC and the skaters that Wagner and Rippon live/train in the vicinity -- as opposed to Aaron/Abbott/Brown/Farris/Miner.
(One wonders whether Gold as another local was under consideration for the same appearance, but heaven knows that she already is getting more than her share of promotion.)
yes I believe it is in Hollywood - however Baden has been working overtime for Ashley it seems as she is doing more promos than practicing judging by both his and her instagrams
NBC is in love with Gracie - I really hope she makes the team for their sake.
I'd love to see three of these ladies in the olympic podium in any order:
But I'll put it this way:
In terms of this one (very visible) appearance on The Voice, I believe that Wagner lucked out that she now calls southern California home. If she trained on the East Coast and if Rippon still trained in Detroit or Toronto, I doubt that either one would have been chosen.
It happened to work out very nicely for them and for NBC that they both are contenders for Sochi and that the set of The Voice was only a car ride away.
Probably the order is fixed as
1st Kim
2nd Julia
3rd Asada, Kos. or Wagner
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