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How to Buy a Tent
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From single to double walls, ultra-light one-person bivies to multi-room backcountry Taj Mahals, from aluminum-construct tent poles to stand-alones to cavernous vestibules, the novice tent-buyer can easily get overwhelmed by the options. But you don't need a decoder ring to find your perfect outdoor shelter. It's as simple as determining how you plan on using the tent, then determining size, weight, and price. Follow our lead, and you'll be pitching the perfect tent in no time.
First Things First
Tent manufacturers work on tight margins—the price for tents is directly related to the quality and the durability of materials used. And since tent makers buy materials (fabric, zippers, and poles) from the same suppliers, there is not a lot of flexibility in price. Basically, you get what you pay for—with the caveat that, all other things being equal (like size and shape), you'll pay a premium for ultra-lightweight materials; a 2.5-pound tent may cost as much as $50 to $100 more than a three-pounder.
To start, plan on spending at least $100. While camping is supposed to be fun, a tent is really a survival piece of equipment. It provides shelter from bugs, rain, snow, and even sun. Sometimes, when bad weather hits, you can just pack up and go home. But if an unexpected storm blows through camp in the middle of the night or if you're literally miles from your car, the last thing you want is a collapsed wall or leaky roof.
Next, decide on what you expect from your tent. If your ambitions are focused on car camping, then weight is less of an issue (think two to three pounds per person). Assisted mobility—bike, kayak, or canoe—on the horizon? Weight becomes more of a concern. Carrying the full weight of the tent on your back? Then welcome to the wonderful world of ultralight shelters. In this world, a two- to three-person tent should hover at the four-pound mark on the scale.
If this is your first tent, versatility is key. You likely want a free-standing tent, so you can pitch it on rock, tundra, sand, or even snow. If long stretches of the AT are part of your weekend resume, then something lighter (say, something that uses hiking poles and ropes for support) might make more sense, but unless you've got a singular activity in mind, find something that would work for a wider variety of situations.
Finally, keep in mind that manufacturers want you to enjoy your experience. They are careful to include very exact technical specifications in their product literature. You can go online and compare size, shape, weight, and capacity—but do some on-the-ground homework. Most outdoor stores have tents already set up, so you can crawl in, stretch out, and familiarize yourself with the features. Ask about renting a tent before you buy—it is a great way to gauge how your needs relate to size and feature sets. By shopping around and comparing prices, size, and weight, you'll soon realize that for the price of a few tanks of gas, you can invest in a state-of-the-art shelter that is easy to set up, provides great ventilation, withstands all but hurricane winds, and won't collapse under a few inches of snow. Consider it an investment in your future. Like buying a house, buy the best one that you can afford.
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We are very excited to announce that the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival is now CAAMFest, a celebration of film, music, food and digital media from the world's most innovative Asian and Asian American artists.
The spirit of curiosity and adventure has always guided our festival, leading to the expansion over the years from a focus on film to a broader embrace of more avenues for artistic expression and community engagement. This year, CAAMFest will highlight curated experiences in food, music and digital media that play on the themes presented in our renowned film showcase. Over the next few weeks you will have the chance to preview CAAMFest's exciting new programming as well as its new look. Watch for our next CAAM Connect for details and dates.
We can't wait to see you in March at CAAMFest.
Please help us spread the word by telling others the good news. Be sure to update your listings and records and replace SFIAAFF with CAAMFest.
Film. Music. Food
March 13-23, 2014
All of us at the Center for Asian American Media.
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Brackenborough Hall Coach House - Self-catering apartments in Lincolnshire
Brackenborough, Louth, Lincolnshire
England, United Kingdom
The charming Coach House to the Hall is reached via a tree-lined drive past fields of cows and calves; this is an idyllic spot. On the ground floor are two apartments, the Stables and the Saddle Room (with hay racks intact and the original brick floors), a communal space in between, then the Granary above, wonderfully raftered, spanning the entire floor, nabbing the best views, and big enough to seat (and feed) a party of 24. All ideal for renting separately. Original features have been adapted throughout, and neatly incorporated into modern living. In the Granary are two spacious and carpeted bedrooms, each sleeping four; those in the Stables and Saddle Room are smaller, with pine floors and furniture, brick and panelled walls. The place is generous to a fault: a welcome hamper of Lincolnshire goodies; umbrellas, sticks and racquets; books, DVDs, maps, walks and wildlife info; games, puzzles and ping-pong. In the fenced garden: a sandpit, barbecue and climbing frames; beyond, a wood with rope swings and stepping logs. All this, and the tallest parish spire in the country two miles away, in the market town of Louth.
- Wheelchair access
- At least one bedroom & bathroom accessible.
- Limited mobility
- At least one bedroom & bathroom accessible without steps.
- Children welcome
- Kids of all ages can stay.
- No smoking
- Smoking not permitted anywhere in the property.
- Credit cards
- Credit or debit card payment accepted.
- English spoken
- Host speaks English, whether perfectly or not.
- Air conditioning
- Some, if not all, bedrooms are air-conditioned.
- WiFi
- Wireless internet access available.
- Pets welcome
- Please let the owner know if you want to bring pets.
- Public transport
- Within 10 miles of a bus/train station.
- Working farm
- Or vineyard.
- Owner has pets
- Animals living on the property.
- Swimming pool
- On the premises.
- Bikes available
- On the premises to hire or borrow.
- Tennis court
- On the premises.
- Vegetarian meals
- Available on request.
- Licensed premises
- Alcohol may be served.
- Cash only
- Credit or debit card payment not accepted.
- Dogs welcome
- Dogs welcome in some public rooms.
- Handpumped ales
- Pub serves four or more handpumped ales.
- Wine list
- Pub serves eight or more wines by the glass.
- Food all day
- Food is served all day long.
- Babies welcome
- Cot may be provided.
Electricity included
Open fire / woodburner
Microwave oven
Central heating
Mobile reception
Cooked meals available
Washing machine
Restaurant nearby
Shop within 3 miles
Local points of interest from Paul & Flora Bennett:
Local points of interest from
Paul & Flora Bennett:
- We were recently Highly Commended in the Self Caterer of the Year category of the Select Lincolnshire Food and Hospitality Awards 2015.
- The Bennett family have farmed at Brackenborough for over 100 years, and now produce wheat, oil seed rape, barley, beans and beef, as well as welcoming guests to the Coach House.
- As members of Select Lincolnshire, we encourage guests to enjoy Lincolnshire produce. Guests receive a complementary Lincolnshire plum bread, and free seasonal vegetables from the garden at Brackenborough Hall.
- Local produce is on sale, including Scaman's eggs, St Boltoph's apple juice, honey from Lakings, Piper's Crisps and Ownsworth's rape seed oil.
- Guests are encouraged to visit local restaurants and cafes, and to buy sausages, stuffed chine, cheeses, beers, fruit & vegetables at Louth's market and excellent independent shops.
Have you visited Brackenborough Hall Coach House?Tell us your thoughts.
- 3 Apartments for 4 - 8
Pets £20 per stay (up to 7 days).
Special Offer: One night free midweek offer - Enjoy one night free for any booking in term time which does not include a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night. Excludes other offers.
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WARREN TOWNSHIP - Their final projects may be small in scale and size, but members of the Warren Area Miniature Club couldn't be prouder of the very detailed creations they assemble.
The Warren Area Miniature Club are local residents who spend time on the fourth Sunday of the month assembling, cutting and gluing miniature size doll houses, gingerbread houses, room displays, trailers and other projects.
The group is part of the National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts.
The members bring their own kits to the Johnson Community Center, where they spend the afternoon in a workshop setting.
Jean Smith, club president, said the group does a vast array of miniatures, mostly doll houses on the one-half, quarter and one-inch scale.
She said members bring in their own kits or create a project from materials provided to them. Kits include glue, craft knives and other items .
Smith said usually each month someone will bring a specific project that the entire group will do. In January, the group made miniature flower baskets.
The group started 18 years ago with its members being given a bag of materials and told to create something, she said.
Mary Louise Dicken of Columbiana said she remembers getting a bag filled with pipe cleaners, ribbon and other items. "This really shows how creative you can be."
Jean Flath of Warren said she is amazed how everyone can create a different project when given the same materials.
One year, all 12 members created a large street display of miniature-size business buildings, including an art gallery and pet store.
Hazel Schnulo, club vice president, said for National Doll House Month in October, the club had a display at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library.
Fran Stroud of Howland said one challenging project was a potting shed that was like a greenhouse with plastic used for the glass windows.
Dicken said a few members have gone to the national convention held in July at different places across the country. Jane Ablondi, an original member, said the club also shows during the train shows held at the Eastwood Mall, which is how the group got started.
Mary Lou Miggo of Berlin Center said many members drive a distance to get to the group gathering.
Susan Gillespie said everyone enjoys the hobby and some have been to the national convention, where they have done well.
"Everyone enjoys getting together to learn from one another on how to make all different kinds of projects form furniture to dressing a doll to making food. The camaraderie makes its fun," Gillespie said.
Members attend workshops and conferences where they see and learn about new creating and style techniques.


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CLEMSON Clemsons best player, Devin Booker, did not produce a single field goal Sunday.
Brad Brownell picked up the first technical foul of his 11-year head coaching career, telling of the Clemson coachs opinion of the quality of officiating in the game.
Those factors alone did not suggest a Clemson victory was possible, but the Tigers came away with a much-needed 77-70 win over Virginia Tech in unexpected fashion: enjoying efficient outside shooting and a career-best effort from Milton Jennings.
Jennings, a Pinewood Prep product, scored a career-best 28 points, grabbed a career-best 14 rebounds and blocked four shots. He made 16 of 18 free throws.
The 16 free throws were the most made by any Clemson player since the late Butch Zatezalo also made 16 against Wake Forest in 1969.
Jennings picked up the scoring slack from Booker, who had a 103-degree fever a day earlier and was further neutralized by Virginia Techs zone defense.
Jennings said his career-best effort began after practice Saturday when he decided to increase his shooting regimen.
(Brownell) wants us to make 75 shots every day you do it on your own, Jennings said. You go around the arc and shoot 10 in the corner, 10 on the wings, 10 at the top of the key. I made 300 shots (Saturday). I didnt leave (the gym) until I made 10 straight free throws.
Jennings scored 20 points in the second half and made 12 of his free throws after the break, helping Clemson pull away late as the Tigers trailed 59-58 with 6:30 to play.
Clemson improved to 11-8 overall and 3-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, while the Hokies fell to 11-8, 2-4.
Clemson guard Damarcus Harrison has also put in extra shooting. He scored a career-best 19 points and made 3 of 7 3-pointers, taking advantage of the Hokies decision to go to a zone defense in an attempt to limit Booker. K.J. McDaniels added a career-best five 3s, and Clemson made 10 of 21 3-point attempts for the game.
It was a good-look day. They played a lot of zone, Harrison said. I guess they didnt think we could make those shots.
This was the type of shooting Brownell expects from Harrison, a transfer from BYU.
Damarcus played like the guy I saw when I was recruiting him, Brownell said. Hes had a great year for us, defensively. He hasnt played as well offensively, but a lot of that is confidence.
While Harrison hasnt provided the consistent outside scoring Clemson desperately needs, the 6-4 guard has consistently bothered opponents with his 6-10 wingspan. Hes among the team leaders in deflected passes and he was effective Sunday in slowing Hokies leading scorer Erik Green, who entered averaging 25 points.
Clemson has consistently held opponents leading scorers below their scoring averages this season, and the Tigers held Green to 7 of 17 shooting Sunday.
We just wanted to make him see numbers so he couldnt penetrate a lot, Harrison said.
It was a much-needed win for Clemson, which was coming off of back-to-back competitive road losses at N.C. State and Florida State.
On Friday, we were hurting, Brownell said. I told them we are not (practicing). What we all forgot about this week is how well we played. We were tied with N.C. State with two minutes to play. We really outplayed Florida State and lost. The problem with sports is we lose twice, so everyone thinks youre bad. My job is to build them up and tell them how much better we got last week. I listed about seven things on the board (Friday) in the video room, all the areas where we got better. I said dont listen to the negativity. So that was a big part of what we were doing: Get our guys to feel good, then we recharged.


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The Math extension provides support for rendering mathematical formulæ. An overview of what can currently be done with this extension is found at the English Wikipedia's documentation.
This article documents how to install, configure and test recent versions of this extension. For advanced usages and documentation of old versions refer to Extension:Math/advancedSettings.
Viewing math[edit]
The Math extension tries to deliver MathML output, with fallback to SVG or PNG images respectively. Depending on the capabilities of the device you are using, the sort of output is chosen. Basic math support works for all browsers. However, for optimal rendering specific tuning may be needed:
- For Firefox or other Gecko browsers, it is required to install the Native MathML extension and math fonts. Accessibility support is provided by NVDA, VoiceOver or Orca. Additionally, NVDA requires the MathPlayer plugin to read mathematics.
- For Safari or other WebKit browsers, you may also install math fonts and enable native MathML rendering by inserting some CSS rules into the custom style sheet of your browser preference. Accessibility support is provided by the VoiceOver screen reader but not by Orca yet.
- For Chrome you must insert some CSS rules into the custom style sheet of your browser preference in order to get accessibility support via ChromeVox or visual rendering via the MathJax plugin.
- In some versions of Internet Explorer, it is possible to use MathPlayer as an assistive technology.
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- You can use the MathML copy addon to copy formulae to other applications such as Mircosoft Word (video), or Google docs with the g(Math) plugin (video).
- If using Vagrant, install with
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- Download and place the file(s) in a directory called
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- To see math beyond a plain text output, follow instructions below for enabling various math output modes.
- Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Beginning from MW 1.23+ you can use a Mathoid server that uses MathJax to convert texvc input on the server side to MathML+SVG rendering. Mathoid is the rendering mode that is going to be used on future Wikipedia. For that the following settings are recommended:
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$wgMathFullRestbaseURL= 'https://api.formulasearchengine.com/';
Check out Mathoid to find instructions how to run your own Mathoid server.
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Navigate to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MathStatus where you should replace en.wikipedia.org with the hostname of your wiki. If that does not work create a task on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
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$E=mc^2$, the new rendering result would be used on all other pages containing
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – A judge Thursday sentenced a Mentor man to life in prison for a slaying that left the victim's mother begging for an end to violence.
"It is just so senseless that young people are dying with these guns,'' a sobbing Joanne McWhorter told Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Steven Gall. "There is so much senseless killing.''
As she spoke, she vowed to work to end the daily shootings, such as the one that killed her son, Mustafa McWhorter, 17, on May 28, 2013, near a West Side library.
"I am not going to stop, your honor,'' Joanne McWhorter said. "I am not going to stop.''
Moments later, Gall sentenced Allance Legrone, 20, to life in prison. His first chance at parole will be in 18 years. He pleaded guilty in April to murder.
A second man, Rondell Foster, 20, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to 14 years in prison last month after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the slaying.
Mahmoud Awadallah, an assistant county prosecutor, said the shooting stemmed from a disagreement among rap groups. McWhorter left a group linked to Foster and took others with him, causing a feud.
On the day of the shooting, McWhorter, 17, was walking near the Eastman branch of the Cleveland Public Library on Lorain Avenue at West 116th Street. That's when Foster and Legrone saw him.
Awadallah said Foster and McWhorter began arguing. During the argument, Legrone pulled out a 9mm handgun and shot McWhorter.
Foster and Legrone fled and stayed in a hotel on Euclid Avenue for two days before they were arrested.
Legrone apologized to Joanne McWhorter. He said Foster was like family to him and that Foster complained to him about Mustafa McWhorter. He simply wanted to defend his friend.
"I didn't mean for this to happen,'' he said. He said he should never have "put my nose in this.''
Joanne McWhorter said she has forgiven Legrone. She said she would continue to seek closure, as well as ways to end the meaningless violence that claimed her son.
But she struggles with two questions that refuse to give her peace: "What was going through his mind? Why would he kill my son?''


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Jackyl - BEST IN SHOW
Jackyl is just one of those bands that you pretty much have to love, aren't they? They really haven't done a damn thing different in 20 years. There's not a note of music on the latest album, BEST IN SHOW, that wouldn't have fit perfectly on their debut album...or any of the other ones for that matter. In short, Jackyl have had a nice career being the poor man's, southern fried version of AC/DC. Some may find that to be insulting, but my bet is that if this review finds it's way to Jesse James Dupree, he'll just smile, snicker and go, "fuck yeah. He gets it."


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Badmouthing Your Ex Could be a Psychiatric DisorderHeather Turgeon
The diagnosis of Parental Alienation Disorder is being considered for inclusion in the upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Advocacy groups and clinicians are pushing for it to go through saying that it's a real condition that affects a huge number of children.
The clinical picture: a divorced family in which the child is brainwashed by one parent to believe that the other parent is the bad guy (without good reason). In mild form it means withholding or interfering with visits to the other parent, not being able to tolerate being in the same room, or making subtle negative comments that influence the kid's feelings about his mom or dad. The severe form?
One of the speakers at an upcoming conference of the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome, Pamela Richardson, describes her own experience losing her four-year-old son after going through a divorce. Richardson says, in her book A Kidnapped Mind, that her husband emotionally abused their son teaching him slowly but surely to hate his mother and eventually cut off communication.
Severe or "obsessed" alienators, according to the Parental Alienation Syndrome website, have relentless hatred for the other parent and go on a crusade to make the kid feel the same. The end result one parent-child duo becomes enmeshed, while the alienated mom or dad is edged out completely. Clinicians who work with these families describe kids who kick, hit, spit on and swear at the parent who has fallen out of favor even threatening to hurt themselves or someone else if they are forced to visit.
Advocates say it's beyond the normal anger and emotional turbulence of a separation one parent, usually for narcissistic reasons, is manipulating and controlling the child.
It seems like a tricky clinical assessment to make (nothing about family dynamics is simple). But having this diagnosis on the books might give therapists a framework for spotting and helping families that are being driven apart.
The C.S.P.A.S. conference will take place Oct 2 and 3 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine it's for mental health and family law professionals, but open to the public.
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Who Cares What You Think About the Book You Wrote
Writers interviewing readers about their own books.
Writers interviewing readers about their own books.
Chuck Dukowski's stepdaughter, Mira Gonzalez, has a new book of poetry and it's the bee's knees.
Anton Newcombe's vision is as fascinating and pure as ever.
I did a quick after-work tour of all the establishments on Manhattan's 8th Avenue where you can enjoy pornography and masturbate in a box.
I texted some pretty mean shit from someone else's phone to author Amelia Gray and she punched me in the face.
Edmund is a living literary giant and will always be our Great Gay Hope.
Nomen est omen is Latin for, "Your name is your destiny," and I think that there is perhaps a special and purposefu…
Not trying to trigger your gag reflex via blog with too many pictures of disgusting toes, but my friend Patrick has been having some foot problems lately as well.
It is time once
It's good to stay grounded, good to be put in your place. Sometimes it's helpful to be shown exactly where you stand. That's why hob-nobbing with the fetishists is a must and can be as instructive as it is liberating.


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Forget polls: In this all-GOP affair, bigger Medicaid won't do
Although a poll last week showed that a plurality of Texans favor Medicaid expansion, don't expect any of the four Republicans running in a special election for Texas Senate to salute that flag.
In fact, one of the four, Rep. Brandon Creighton, aired a cable TV ad on Tuesday that makes a virtue of his resistance last year to enlarging the Medicaid program for the poor.
"Brandon fought against Democrats and Republicans to stop the expansion of Medicaid under ObamaCare in Texas," says the ad, which you can see below. "That's why RedState.com said Brandon Creighton is a fighter in the mold of Ted Cruz," says a narrator, referring to a conservative blogger's post. It sort of simplified a tussle between Creighton, R-Conroe, and House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio. But that's another story.
While many mainstream Republicans, including former Senate Finance Committee Chairman Tommy Williams of The Woodlands, wanted the state to take a look-see at a possible "Texas solution," staunch conservatives considered that squishy and unacceptable. Under a Texas solution, the state would have insisted that federal officials let it use private insurance, charge co-pays and demand personal responsibility from the new adults gaining Medicaid cards.
According to the new poll, the broader public in Texas may have some appetite for trying to grab some of the additional money from the feds that the Affordable Care Act offers. The poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm in North Carolina, noted in its question that federal money was on the table before it asked:
"Do you think the Texas state government should accept this federal funding to expand Medicaid coverage, or not?"
By a 49-35 margin, respondents said Texas should. Sixteen percent were unsure.
While Democrats were 8-to-1 in favor, Republicans were only 2-to-1 against. Independents broke 48 percent in favor, 34 percent against.
And the only age cohort in which Medicaid expansion was losing was among those over 65. The poll of 559 registered voters was conducted April 10-13 and has a margin of error of 4.1 percent in either direction. Most of the interviews were conducted by phone, with 20 percent contacted by Internet to reach respondents who don't have a land line telephone.
Williams has resigned his southeast Texas Senate seat, and Gov. Rick Perry called a May 10 special election. Although it includes the former Democratic stronghold of Jefferson County (Beaumont), no Democrat filed. All four candidates are Republicans from Montgomery County in exurban Houston: Creighton, who was elected to the House in 2006; freshman Rep. Steve Toth of The Woodlands; former Sen. Michael Galloway, who served a term in the 1990s; and businessman Gordy Bunch, who sits on The Woodlands township board.
Both Toth and Creighton, who was chairman of the House Republican Caucus last year, have tea party credentials.
Creighton earned his spurs in the 2009 session with a state-sovereignty resolution. Almost simultaneously, he and Perry foreshadowed what a rising force the tea party would become.
Now, Creighton is linking his defense of states' rights to the Medicaid expansion allowed under President Barack Obama's health care law.
"We're pushing back on the 10th Amendment, using the opening [Supreme Court Chief Justice] John Roberts left us, that is the ability to say 'no' to Medicaid expansion," he told me Tuesday. Creighton said he's also urging drug testing of entitlement program beneficiaries. His new 60-second radio ad has time to plug his sponsorship of a bill requiring drug screens and tests of unemployment compensation applicants.
The maps for the Legislature and U.S. House are drawn to amplify Republican strength in Texas. That may be why you won't hear too much about Medicaid expansion in this year's elections.


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Dream of Me (Part One)
- Artists LFB, Matt Consola, Swishcraft, 7th Heaven, Chris Stutz, Peter Barona, Barona & Bouvier, Bill Bouvier, Aviv Shitrit, Eran Tubul, LFB, Matt Consola, Brenda Reed
- Release Date 2013-07-23
- Labels Swishcraft
- Catalog 888002843692
- Description "Dream of Me" is the two Remix EP follow up to the hit singles "Coming Back" and "Midnight". A wide variety of US Anthem House, UK Energy, Vocal Tribal House, EDM, Dub Step and Tech House, make this a must have release. www.swishcraftmusic.com


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ITW Publications
New York, N.Y., July 9, 2013 – In an unprecedented collaboration, 23 of the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers will pair their series characters in an 11-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW) and to be published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster.
The stories in Face Off will feature such pairings as Michael Connelly's Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch joining forces with Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie in the story Red Eye and John Sandford's Lucas Davenport teaming up with Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme in Rhymes with Prey. All of the contributors are ITW members and the project will be edited by ITW member and #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, who says, "This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity for readers. It's only through ITW that we were able to bring these literary legends toe to toe. I'm honored to be at the helm of this amazing ship."
Senior Editor Sarah Knight acquired world rights to Face Off, the fourth anthology that ITW has published and the first with Simon & Schuster. Knight says, "This will be a treasure trove for thriller fans—it doesn't get any better than these writers, with these characters, all in one blockbuster book."
S&S plans to publish in June 2014, just in time to celebrate at ThrillerFest, the gathering of ITW that happens each July in New York City. Already, foreign rights have been sold to Great Britain, with more sales to come.
ITW is represented by Dan Conaway of Writer's House. Each author has donated his or her story and all of the proceeds from the book go to fund ITW, which charges no dues to its members. "It's part of what we do, as ITW members," said New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, who will serve as managing editor working with Baldacci.
The full list of contributors is a who's who and includes: Linwood Barclay, Steve Berry, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Linda Fairstein, Joseph Finder, Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham, Peter James, Raymond Khoury, Dennis Lehane, John Lescroart, Steve Martini, T. Jefferson Parker, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Ian Rankin, James Rollins, M.J. Rose, John Sandford, R.L. Stine, and F. Paul Wilson.
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"Hands down one of the best short story collections you're ever likely to read. A masterful collection."–Booklist, starred review
FIRST THRILLS includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Gregg Hurwitz, John Lescroart, John Lutz (with Lise E. Baker), Alex Kava (with Deb Carlin), Michael Palmer (with Daniel James Palmer), Karin Slaughter, and Wendi Corsi Staub.
The collection also serves as an introduction to a new generation of thriller authors, including Sean Michael Bailey, Ken Bruen, Ryan Brown, Bill Cameron, Rebecca Cantrell, Karen Dionne, JT Ellison, Theo Gangi, Rip Gerber, CJ Lyons, Grant McKenzie, Marc Paoletti, Cynthia Robinson, and Kelli Stanley.
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Imagine a literary jam session with 22 of your favorite masters of pulse-pounding fiction and you have WATCHLIST: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book. Jeffery Deaver conceived of the characters and put the plot into motion and Jim Fusilli leant a sharp editorial eye, finely orchestrating this chorus of suspense that includes such top writers as Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, Gayle Lynds, P.J. Parrish and many others. Dramatic tension ties the novellas together as each thriller titan leads the reader down dark alleys and around blind corners, saving the fireworks for the climactic endings, also crafted by Jeffery Deaver.
To celebrate the paperback release, Watchlist contributors Lee Child, David Hewson, David Corbett, John Ramsey Miller, Brett Battles, Ralph Pezzulo, James Grady, Gayle Lynds, Jim Fusilli, James Phelan, SJ Rozan, David Liss, John Gilstrap, Erica Spindler, PJ Parrish, Peter Spiegelman and Joseph Finder, along with MJ Rose (who wrote the introduction) will answer the question, "What's it like to write a serial novel?" Be sure to read their observations in the comment trail!
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By Brett King
Twenty-two thriller masters. Two masterful thrillers. One fascinating experiment in creativity.
It was a bold idea. Gather many of the world's finest thriller writers and challenge each one to compose a chapter during a two-week window before handing it off, no questions asked or advice given, to the next author. Based on an idea by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, Watchlist blends two novellas, The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet, into a single book, available in paperback on December 7th. Brimming with explosive twists, one novella deals with a mysterious manuscript containing a deadly secret while the sequel centers on an international terror plot that threatens to escalate into the next world war.
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"Combine a title like Fear with a name like Stine, and most readers will naturally assume this collection is filled with supernatural terrors. And for many of these 13 original stories, they would be right. Many genres are represented, and each story (including Stine's, which opens the book) offers chills, though seldom getting too gruesome. Readers seeking diverse sources of suspense will most appreciate this collection." —Publishers Weekly
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Imagine a literary jam session with 22 of your favorite masters of pulse-pounding fiction and you have WATCHLIST: Two Serial Thrillers in One Killer Book.
Jeffery Deaver conceived of the characters and put the plot into motion and Jim Fusilli leant a sharp editorial eye, finely orchestrating this chorus of suspense that includes such top writers as Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, Gayle Lynds, P.J. Parrish and many others.
In the first novella, The Chopin Manuscript, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that not threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat will come from a shadowy figure from his past: the man known only as Faust.
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The most riveting reads in history meet today's biggest thriller writers in Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.
Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads examines 100 seminal works of suspense through essays contributed by such esteemed modern thriller writers as: David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Sandra Brown, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds, Katherine Neville, Michael Palmer, James Rollins, R. L. Stine, and many more.
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The most riveting reads in history meet today's biggest thriller writers in Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.
Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads examines 100 seminal works of suspense through essays contributed by such esteemed modern thriller writers as: David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Sandra Brown, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds, Katherine Neville, Michael Palmer, James Rollins, R. L. Stine, and many more.
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When some of the top thriller writers in the world came together in Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, they became a part of one of the most successful short-story anthologies ever published. The highly anticipated Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down is even bigger.
From Jeffery Deaver's tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson's dysfunctional family in the California wine country to Ridley Pearson's horrifying serial killer, this collection has something for everyone. Twenty-three bestselling and hot new authors in the genre have submitted original stories to make up this unforgettable blockbuster.
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Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous, to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.
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15 Thriller Masters, 1 Masterful Thriller
Harry Middleton's first adventure globetrots from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of a priceless manuscript. This first, unique collaboration by 15 of the world's great thriller writers won the coveted Audie® Award for Audiobook of the Year. Download the complete, unabridged audiobook today.
Thrilling Sequel to The Chopin Manuscript, Audiobook of the Year Winner
Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton must once again crack a secretive global conspiracy in this new international thriller penned by a dream team of top-selling authors, including Jeffery Deaver, Lisa Scottoline, Lee Child, and Joseph Finder. Download the complete, unabridged audiobook today.


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Firecracker Grilled Salmon or Ocean Trout
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 10 mins
Another delicious salmon or ocean trout recipe with Asian flavours. Time does not include marinating time 4-6 hours.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 8 (4 ounce) salmon fillets
- 1⁄2 cup peanut oil
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce (regular or low sodium)
- 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 4 tablespoons green onions, chopped
- 3 teaspoons brown sugar
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- Place salmon fillets in dish for marinating.
- In a bowl combine all other ingredients.
- Pour over fish and marinate in fridge for 4-6 hours.
- Grill fillets on BBQ until cooked to your liking.
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Why the Tea Party Fox News, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh hate Democrats.
Last week on Friday the 2nd I was forced to leave my grandparents house after the electric was turned was. Needless to say I was thrown out into the street after being told that I was going to receive money from a relative for an apartment. After stating that I wanted the cash instead so I could leave Ohio the offer was taken back. Since then I have been living in my truck along back roads. During this time I played back some of the Tea Party attacks on me while living at my grandparents house and realize that in Ohio unless you are married then you do not receive any benefits to help people. Even more enigmic is that it seems like unless you are married with children or involved with someone then you cannot become gainfully employed. So in Ohio they force Ohioan's to either be married or involved with someone else just so the religious extreme can use such associations to once against force Ohioan's to fall in line with religiously extreme values that are not associated with freedoms of choice but choices mandated to people based upon what the Church decides. Basically the same thing as what the Church of England represented in America before the Revolution occured.
The time in the woods also opened up my mind to another method that the Anti-Democrats use in America. The method is called the anagram. Remember when Ann Coulter said that Democrats where in league with the terrorists attacking American's? Remeber how she says that Liberals are terrorists? Here is where she gets her thinking from, if you can call it thinking.
If you take the word Osama Bin Laden and rearrange the words you can create the word Lib and Dem. So because of Ann Coulter's lack of intelligence she has created the thought that Liberals and Democrats are part of the network working with the terrorist groups to bring America down just because the words appear in Osama Bin Laden's name so Liberals and Democrats must also be terrorists. Not only is this type of thought completely off base it shows then intelligence of Ann Coulter and others like her in trying to find some reason when there is no reason at all.
Here is another point in case of where DaVinci's anagrams are being used as instraments of evil. I did an anagram of my own name Dwight Michael Huth and found many words. One word that was created was tali or Tali. I then looked back through my years of growing up and soon put more events and words together. Since I have been recently put into the street or banned from doing pretty much anything I added the word ban to Tali and came up with the word Taliban. I then began to remember other events in my life growing up that might be being used to paint me as a terrorist. Before leaving my grandparents house the next door neighbor made the comment Taliban serveral times. I discounted what he was saying until now. I remember growing up a kid in school who had made mention of how he created his own explosive device or IED or in essence a pipe bomb to remove stumps from the ground with. I asked him if he could teach me how laughing he said that I would probably blow myself up. Later in high school he approached me without me asking him about how to make the pipe bomb. I forget what he said but the assocaition between the extreme religious right of the community was beginning to take shape. Later on I joined the Marine Corps and learned to throw hand grenades which could be used as another link in labeling me a possible terrorist. After leaving the Marines due to a conspiracy against me where my roomate left his bag of marijuana in my car that I was charged with I went to a party of an old elementary school friend. One of the guys that I had played football with made the comment "Read between the lines." I didn't understand what he was talking about until now and realize that all of the problems that I have been having in life is because people have been using DaVinci's anagrams against me to form a thought that because I was called Allah Ab du Nobbie while in Middle School and that the anagrams formed from my name and events in my life spell Taliban that I must be a terrorist because I believe in Science and Freedom of Choice instead of being a religious extremist that hates everything that is not Christian and White. White is also formed from the letters of my name. I also attempted to goto school at DeVry in Columbus, Ohio to become a computer engineer. The first semester went fine but when people found out back home that I was learning to become a computer engineer people in the school would come over the loud speaker saying "He's learning to make a bomb." which would then be associated back to the anagram formed from my name of trying to link me to be a supposed terrorist with the intentions to build a bomb to blow things up. This type of attack also occured while I was going to school at ETI in North Cantont to become an Engineer. I was harassed by a femal anagrammatist who said that I should come visit her dads shop to learn how to weld. I told her that I wasn't interested in welding. Still the harassment from her and my former girlfriend continued until I dropped out. Doing further anagrams of my name I came to realize that the words formed from my name included, Tig, Mig, Mag and Weld. So basically what certain people in America are doing is they are using anagrams of peoples names to decide what job they should do and what type of personality they should be based upon the anagrams created from the their names. Such people are mentality unstable and such use of the DaVinci anagrams to determine how a person is and how they should be is the cause of all the associated types of mental disorders.
Do an anagram of your name and see if what I am saying fits in. If have been forced to live a life based upon what someone else continuallyu decides for you instead of your choice being present now you know why.
Those who use the anagram to determine what you should be based upon the words that find in your name that they think are the words of creation from a god that created you are the most delusional and demented types of people in the country. They only see you as what the words in you name create instead of what you personally see youself as being.
The anagram is also the method behind the Lord of the Rings story where Tolkien tried to convey that such people who use the anagram to literally controll people where like Sauron who above all else desired complete control over the person.
Do the words that you find your name through anagramming mean that is who you are? No the only person who can determine who you are and what you believe in is yourself.
And by the way...I am not a Taliban terrorist who was going to school to learn how to design bombs and triggering mechanisms. I was going to school to better myself through learning how to become an Engineer. You fell for the anagram and so you have become trapped in it's idiocy of creation which has made you and idiot as well.
So there you have it America. Now you know what method the real terrorists are using in America that is being backed up by the Patriot Act to force you to be the way that the extreme religious right wants you to be without your own personal choice being present but the imposed choice of someone else being forced upon upon you.
I am quite certain that DaVinci is laughing at all those who use the anagram to determine how a person is too be. I am quite certain of it.
"One Ring to Rule Them All."
"One Ring to Find Them."
"One Ring to Lure Them All."
"And in the Darkness Bind Them." For in the land of the dark conscious of man is where you will find them cowering behind their own degeneracy and words of creation.


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2 pizza delivery drivers robbed in Woodland
Police: 25-year-old robbed at gunpoint
A 25-year-old pizza deliveryman was robbed at gunpoint Sunday in Woodland.
The man, a resident of Alameda, said he was approached by a man who brandished a weapon and demanded money, the Woodland Police Department said.
Police said the armed man ran away with an undisclosed amount of money.
The robbery was the second robbery of a pizza delivery driver in Woodland over the weekend.
On Saturday, a pizza delivery driver arrived at his destination on West Cross Street and found that no one was home.
When he got back to his vehicle, he was approached by two men who wielded a knife and demanded money and the pizza.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Police Department at 530-661-7800.
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Clarke celebrates new senior center
Members of the Clarke County Senior Choir perform Saturday at the Clarke County Active Living Center grand opening ceremony. (Photo by Ginger Perry/The Winchester Star)
BERRYVILLE — Thanks and praise were doled out at an open house on Saturday for those who made the new Clarke County Active Living Center possible.
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By Adam Armour/The Itawamba County Times
"Look how far we've come to even be able to consider doing this," Victoria Blake, head of the Itawamba Agricultural High School Indian Players, said regarding the decision to take their recent production of "The Wizard of Oz" to the Orpheum Theater in Memphis.
Like stepping on stage in front of a capacity crowd, it's a decision that took some guts. Not that Blake hasn't take such chances before.
"Five or six years ago, I was sitting here wondering if we could produce a pretty big musical. Were we capable of doing that?
"We took the plunge, and we did it," she said. "Now, we're sitting here taking it one step further by putting it on the Orpheum stage. It's amazing."
If all goes according to plan, the cast and crew of "The Wizard of Oz" will host an encore performance of their production at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis this July. It's a broad step up in scale from the cozy auditorium inside the Fulton Grammar School to the sprawling 2,400-seat theater frequently called the "Broadway of the South," but, given help, Blake thinks it's one that can be made.
"The community support for this is going to be key," Blake said. "I think with the fundraisers we have, donations and the support of the people we have in the community, we can do this."
It's going to take a lot of community support, Blake said. Because the Orpheum is a professional stage, the Indian Players have to raise enough funds to pay both the theater's professional crew and union dues — an estimated $20,000. If raising that amount of scratch seems daunting, that's because it is. Blake said she's already first in line to acknowledge this fact.
"It's a lot of money," she said, adding that she's the kind of person who frequently jumps out of the plane to see if she can fly. "If you don't try, you never know. I'm one of those people."
"The Wizard of Oz" completed its three-day run in February. Most of its shows were sellouts.
This is not the first time a Northeast Mississippi production has been carried to the big city. In fact, Amory High School hosted its production of "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Orpheum earlier this month. It can be done, and that bolsters Blake's confidence tremendously.
"I've had so many students ask me if it was possible for us to go and perform at the Orpheum, too. Like Amory," Blake said. To help her decide, she recently held a meeting with drama department parents to see if they'd be willing to put forth the effort necessary to make it possible.
It was a tremendous success.
"We had such a good turnout for that first meeting that we decided to jump in feet first," Blake said, adding that she has been in close contact with Amory High School for advice.
"This will give our young students a chance to perform onstage where professional touring companies perform," Ashley Montgomery, one of the heads of the Itawamba Drama and Educational Arts Association (IDEAA), explained. "It's taking an amateur production and placing it in a professional setting. This will give all of them a chance at being on a major, professional stage."
The members of IDEAA are in charge of the fundraising efforts that will, hopefully, carry "The Wizard" to Memphis. They've planned a series of fundraising events that should help bring in the money, and they're backed by the full support of the drama department's parents.
"The parents of the cast have been very supportive in this," Montgomery said, adding that fundraising efforts will continue until they load on the bus to go to Memphis.
No matter what happens in the end, all of the money raised will go to support the Indian Players. Not a dime will go to waste.
The journey to the Orpheum will likely be as long and winding as the Yellow Brick Road itself, but Blake said her ruby slippers will be skipping along the bricks all the way.
"We're in a territory we've never traveled before," Blake said. "We don't know what to expect or how the community will respond to this. That's nerve-wracking.
"But, if it's meant to be, it will be," she added. "This opportunity could have a huge impact on these children. It's important we at least try."
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It would mean regaining 10 seats in November, still a long shot, but suddenly conceivable. Former Sen. Dan Coats will challenge Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh in Indiana, likely making for a competitive race.
Dems also are worried about Illinois, where the race for the Senate seat formerly occupied by President Obama is likely to be a dog fight, as Republican Mark Kirk beat back a tea party challenger in primaries while Democratic support is divided among several candidates.
Plus, Beau Biden decided not to lend his name to the cause in Delaware. In Kentucky, Rand Paul, son of Ron, is tapping into GOP excitement in Kentucky.
Politico analyzes Republicans' chances in those and other races:
"They are clobbering Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas by 20 points in recent polls. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn't faring much better. He's down by double digits to relatively unknown GOP opponents. Sen. Byron Dorgan's decision to retire made North Dakota an almost hopeless case for Democrats.
"The GOP has pickup opportunities in three other states: Colorado, where appointed Sen. Michael Bennet's reelection numbers remain low; Pennsylvania, where Sen. Arlen Specter trailed former GOP Rep. Pat Toomey by 14 points in one recent poll; and California, where either former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina or former Rep. Tom Campbell could make 2010 Sen. Barbara Boxer's toughest campaign in years."
What a difference a few weeks makes, huh?
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The hottest battle of the preseason will be settled today for the Tulane football team. For the past few weeks, redshirt freshman Ryan Rome and freshman Cairo Santos have been going at each other for the starting place-kicking job.
Every time Rome lines up and makes one, Santos follows with a kick between the uprights. Coach Bob Toledo has done all he can to separate the two, but he said a final decision will be made after today's closed practice in the Superdome.
Toledo is trying to make one of the two crack. Rome is listed first on the post-camp depth chart, but it's basically a dead heat, Toledo said.
If things stay the way they are, Rome would get the nod because he was here last year.
"I would say if it's a tie, it will go to the guy who has been in the program, but I'm going for whoever kicks the ball best first, " Toledo said.
Rome, like Santos, is completely untested on the college level. He tutored under Ross Thevenot (now graduated) last season and ended with a redshirt for his time. He was selected to the Louisiana All-State football team as a Destrehan High senior in 2008-09. Rome made eight of 11 field-goal attempts that season. Two came from beyond 50 yards.
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However, Santos, a charismatic Brazilian, has given him the fight of a lifetime in fall camp. Santos hails from St. Augustine, Florida's St. Joseph's Academy. He arrived there via a high school exchange program and was asked to kick for the football team after the football staff saw what he did on the soccer field.
Santos had two college scholarship offers for soccer, but once he learned of what college soccer conditioning programs consisted of, he turned to football.
"They said you run like seven miles (a day); that's crazy, " Santos said.
To try to wiggle free a winner of this positional war, Toledo has done just about everything.
"What we did the other day is we came out as a group and gathered around them yelling and screaming, " Toledo said. "They didn't crack, so we might do a little more of that later, too. We're just trying to see if they can kick and make field goals and see how far they can make them and see which hash they are better on, things like that. And they are both good."
Santos is a very accurate, regimented kicker with a naturally high trajectory and good speed in getting the ball off. He now can send the ball in 1.2 seconds — under the desired mark of 1.3 seconds. Rome has revamped his mechanics and improved so much from last season that he hasn't given up much ground.
It's intense, and Santos said the high-pressure tactics upped the ante. When Toledo gathered the team around him in the Saints' indoor practice facility recently, it did jar him.
"I remember as soon as I started taking my steps back, my legs were shaking, " Santos said. "I ended up missing that one, but then I came back and made all the rest. It's scary in the beginning, but you just really have to tune everything out and make the kick."
Rome, who appears to strike the ball harder, feels more stress on the chip-ins.
"I get nervous on the shorter kicks when no one is really watching because you are supposed to make those, " Rome said. "The ones from 47, you expect to make them, but there is less likelihood of you making them. The team behind you, that does add an element to it."
Santos is expected to handle kickoffs, regardless of how the place-kicking struggle bears out. Freshman Jonathan Ginsburgh came out of fall camp as the top punter, but strangely, seems to embody more of the stereotypical kicker personality than Rome and Santos, who are laid back.
Ginsburgh doesn't use an alarm clock to wake for morning lifting sessions. He just tells himself the night before what time he needs to wake up and amazingly rouses in time each morning, according to Toledo.
"I'm not on that level, " Rome said. "I don't have an alarm, either, but I got a phone (alarm)."
The alarm sounds today, however, on the kicking battle.
NOTE: Running back Payten Jason is hampered again by injury. Jason has successfully rehabilitated his knee after tearing ligaments during last season. But he was on the sideline on Friday, being held out of drills while doing lower-body rehab. Toledo said he strained his groin and probably will not be ready to play in Thursday's season-opener against Southeastern Louisiana. Albert Williams is expected to start, and Orleans Darkwa now has sole possession of the second spot on the depth chart.
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The Garden in Winter
Snow, Ice, Barren Trees? Now's the Time to Prune Hedges, Plant Seeds and Compost Leaves to Make a Garden Bloom in Spring
The garden may sleep in winter, but not the gardener. These frigid months are the ideal time to get the landscape in shape, long before the weeding, tilling, planting and mulching begin.
Winter "is the bridge between last year and this year, and the better gardener makes it a shorter bridge," says Eliot Coleman, who runs an organic farm in Harborside, Maine, and has written books on harvesting food throughout the seasons.
Trees bare of leaves present an opportunity, since their branches are best pruned before the sap rises. Flowers and vegetables started from seed indoors can provide plant varieties beyond what's available at the nursery. And there is a range of simple structures, such as cold frames and compost bins, that can be built now and put to use for garden improvements.
In parts of the country where temperatures tend to stay above freezing—in Southern pockets or on the West Coast, for instance—gardeners are fortunate to have extended periods of greenery but they, too, have work to do in winter.
Eve Thyrum, 73 years old, has been out pruning her trees "night and day" in her 2½-acre garden in Wilmington, Del. "Pruning has become a big part of my life," she says. Ms. Thyrum's yard, a former orchard, is a medley of old, established trees and unusual shrubs she collects, such as edgeworthia. She particularly enjoys raising the canopy of trees, offering shady spaces where she can sit or put new beds of shade-loving plants.
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Click on the image to see a view of Franklin and Carol Simpson's formal garden in New Ipswich, N.H.
Prune trees during the winter for a variety of reasons, such as for strength and structure: This is a great time to tackle deciduous trees—maples, magnolias, dogwoods, among others—whose bare branches now allow for a clear view of their natural form.
Pruning can also do much to correct form after Mother Nature strikes. Many established and unusual trees on Franklin Simpson's 11-acre property in New Ipswich, N.H., were hit by an ice storm in December 2008. Mr. Simpson and his wife spent much of the following months working to salvage tree structure. "As soon as the snow started melting we were out there for four months cleaning up debris and doing corrective pruning," he says. After buying the property in 1986, Mr. Simpson dipped his toe into gardening, but after a couple years, "my interest went up exponentially." By spring, his property is filled with leafy trees and flowering bulbs, such as daffodils and Virginia bluebells.
For many shrubs, a good pruning done in winter—when plant energy is stored—will stimulate more vigorous growth, resulting in a fuller, more flowery specimen in the spring.
While plants are still dormant outside, gardeners can get a head start indoors. Rob Broeckhuis, a home gardener in Allentown, Pa., loves to collect and trade seed with fellow gardeners. He says he particularly enjoys growing unusual varieties of tropical Solanums, with their colorful mix of unusual flowers, fruit, leaves and thorns. He discovered these plants about 10 years ago in a seed catalog and says he has been hooked ever since. Of course, the spindly tropicals aren't cold-hardy in Pennsylvania, so he starts them every year in his basement "seed-starting operation," which consists of two eight-foot-long tables under which hang long fluorescent shop lights. The hundreds of plant varieties emerging from underneath those lights result in too many plants for him to keep, so each spring he hosts a plant sale from his home. Many of the plant varieties can be seen in his own "fairly messy" suburban ½-acre garden. "I'm not a designer type, but it's fun for fellow plant collectors to walk through and do a 'What's this? What's that?' " he says.
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Read tips on pruning and starting seeds in the winter months
At Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., gardener Howard Taylor suggests trying growing Gomphrena "Fireworks" from seed. The purplish blooms with yellow tips are reminiscent of an exploding firecracker.
For a dollar or two, a pack of seeds can not only provide a wealth of plant material, but also the potential for healthier stock, since there's more control over growing conditions and the chance to pick out the strongest seedlings for the garden. Most are safe to plant outside once danger of frost has passed.
When the cold earth is too hard and unworkable, consider going above-ground. Cold frames are outdoor boxes or structures that usually rest on the ground and are covered with glass or sheets of plastic to protect seedlings or plants from winter winds and freezing temperatures. The glass allows sunlight to enter, trapping it in and adding extra warmth. The boxes are particularly useful when acclimating plants to colder temperatures outside, called "hardening off." Most important, they extend the growing season by at least several weeks. Seeds can be sown directly into cold frames in the winter to get a jump on spring, particularly many cool-season crops—lettuces and a number of leafy greens, such as spinach, Swiss chard, and kale. Northern gardeners have the benefit of a longer season of such cool-season crops. Southern gardeners get a longer period for hot-season veggies, such as tomatoes and cucumbers. (For a climate map that shows which plants grow best in different areas, go to www.garden.org/zipzone.)
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York is building four cold frames for a new culinary garden, to open later this year, which will demonstrate how a variety of food plants are grown, from fruits to vegetables and herbs. Cold frames allow for "multiple seasons of garden harvest as opposed to just one," says Lis Thomas, community outreach assistant at the garden.
A small corner of the yard can be devoted to composting, where all those seasonal weeds and leaves can result in beautiful, rich soil to nourish the garden. A nice one can be built using diagrams from books or on the Internet, or many municipalities offer supplies and workshops at little or no cost.
Winter is also a great time for cleaning and sharpening tools. Mud caked on hand tools and shovels can be cleaned with a rag and some soapy water, and a bit of sandpaper or steel wool will help remove some of the tougher stuff. Check the blade of your lawn mower to see if it needs to be changed.
Gardeners "that are smart," are starting to trickle in for tool sharpening, says John Q. Adams, who runs a sharpening service in Baltimore. "The rest wait until they need it and they roll in here overwhelmed. I tell them to get in line," he says.
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LANSING – Good morning, Capital City. It's Thursday, December 18, 2013 – 6 days until Christmas – and this is the Lansing Rundown, your daily look at stories we're working on and a look back at Wednesday's news.
Twice-convicted rapist Farmer threatens judge, prosecutor during sentencing – In one of the more bizarre courtroom moments in recent memory, Brian Farmer – convicted of raping a mentally disabled 41-year old woman – went on a 10-minute long rant against Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, prosecutor Debra Rousseau, and the Lansing Police department, culminating in his calling both women vulgar names and threatening both.
Gov. Snyder signs bill banning Bridge Cards in strip clubs, liquor store ATMs — After months of working through the state legislature, Gov. Snyder signed legislation to block Bridge Card holders from accessing cash benefits from ATMs at strip clubs, liquor stores and horse racing tracks. People can still use the cards to purchase food, but not pull money.
East Lansing Police arraign 7 more people in connection with the 'disturbance' – Just when you thought it was over, seven more people were arraigned in 54-A District Court in East Lansing in connection with the 'civil disturbance' that happened nearly two weeks ago. That brings the total number of arrests to 17.
MSU Hoops getting help from unfamiliar faces as injuries mount — With star shooting guard Gary Harris out with another injury – this one to his ankle – Keith Appling and Adriean Payne hobbled, and Matt Costello as well, the MSU men's basketball team is getting contributions from unexpected places like junior Alex Gauna and freshmen Gavin Schilling and Alvin Ellis.
That's the way it is for this Thursday morning. Be sure to check back with MLive Lansing throughout the day. Make sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter.


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Professor John Hyatt
Director of MIRIAD
Primarily, an artist and musician John became Head of Department of Fine Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1991 - 2002, he received a personal Chair of Fine Art and Art Research in 1993. In 2003, he created and became Director of the acclaimed arts research and postgraduate centre, MIRIAD (the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design).
John represented British Art as the featured selected artist of Arts Council of Englands The British Art Show. A detail of his Art Wars: Division and Design painting (on display, permanent collection, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK) was used on the catalogue and publicity.
John is lead singer, lyricist and co-songwriter in the legendary band, The Three Johns, and continues to write, perform, record, produce and collaborate. He currently is writing and performing with his new band, Glamogoth.
John uses both old and new technologies. As Board member of ISEA, he directed ISEA98 in Manchester (International Symposium on Electronic Art), still the UK's biggest new technology art event and is currently on the Board of the Digital Arts Committee, Siggraph. He exhibited digital prints in the Krakow Print Triennial 2013.
A much-loved UK artwork by Hyatt is the large-scale public sculpture, Manchesters Tilted Windmills in Exchange Square in his home city centre.
He has worked in research collaboration with Huang Zhuan of Shenzhen, China, in the visualisation of political history, including a large exhibition of Chinese contemporary art, State Legacy (Manchester and Shenzhen, 2009). He is currently working to deliver the Manchester Asia Triennial 2014.
A large painting show, This Paradise We Never left, toured UK and Portugal 2011/13. John exhibited at Paris Art Week 2013. A show, John Hyatt: New Romantic in England, is touring, from Munich to Brazil and Argentina 2014. Digital video work - such as his Pilot of Bee Patrol series - is available to view on Youtube on his Hyattmovies Channel.
Specialties:Whilst being an experienced manager and project leader, John is a polymath adept at spotting and realising creative opportunities in many fields and has a multitude of skills, crossing boundaries and linking people being prime talents.
This Paradise We Never Left
One person exhibition of 23 one metre square oil paintings Published: Sé Catedral de Idanha-a-Nova and Raiano Cultural Centre, Idanha-a-Nova Portugal. Date: 4 February 2012 4 July 2012 and October December 2012 The semi-automatic process, taught as invited British Council workshops (Oman 2012), is developed from an innovative combination of theories from Surrealism, mathematics and autopoesis (Ernst/Fibonacci/Turing). Details…
Manchester's Tilted Windmills
This was a millennium project for Exchange Square in Manchester, the site of the IRA bombing. After winning a competitive bid to design a Public Art piece for the newly built square, designed by Boston-based architect, Martha Schwartz, I installed five, ten-metre high, stainless steel motorised double windmill sculptures that can still be seen on site. Details…
Research Impacts on Disciplines, Urban Regeneration, Economy, and International Understanding
Professor John Hyatts (1991-present) work as a researcher, artist and theorist has led to civic development and regeneration and has contributed to the branding of city space. As a practicing artist he has pursued transdisciplinary research projects which have influenced his collaborators practices and public understanding. Details…
River Flower
Computer animated video (16 minutes), Published: Ahmedabad International Arts Festival, http://www.aiaf. Details…
State Legacy: Research in the Visualisation of Political History
Co-curation - Exhibition with catalogue and events in UK and China - Artists: Wang Guangyi, Lu Hao, Wang Jianwei, Zeng Li, Sui Jianguo Published: UK - Cornerhouse and The Holden Gallery China - OCAT, Shenzhen. Dates: UK 3 April - 24 May and 3 April - 8 May 2009 China 19th September to 19th November 2009 A large exhibition co-curated, in China and the UK, from a two-year project (involving three Chinese research trips and frequent teleconferencing) by Hyatt and researcher/curator/author, Huang Zhuan, Director of OCT, Shenzhen, China. Details…
The Pilot of Bee Patrol
Digital movie and animation series Published: 22 January 2011 25 December 2013 Social media and the internet demand a new aesthetic, contextualising Hyatts experiments through a new form of movie. Technological availability allows the adventurous, risk-taking, punk DIY spirit (historically a feature of Hyatts globally recognised Three Johns music) to be applied to film-making, with one person (Hyatt) usually originating all aspects. Details…
John Hyatt is a member of:
- Future Technologies Research Group
- Asian Cultures Research Group
- Art Pedagogic Experiment Research Group
- Art Research Group
A selection of recent research outputs.
Hyatt, J., 2006. 4th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design, Istanbul.
Hyatt, J., 2005. GROUNDSWELL: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, February 25May 16, 2005.
Hyatt, J., 2005. HIBRIDA, YORKSHIRE CRAFT CENTRE and CARTWRIGHT HALL, BRADFORD, UK and THE GALLERIE MLYDACH, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC, 6 May 2005 - 30 June 2005.
Hyatt, J., 2003. INTERSCULPT 03, THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, MANCHESTER, 10 Oct 26 Oct, 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2003. JOHN HYATTS TMESES, THE BASSOON CLUB, TMESIS, MANCHESTER, 16 Oct - 13 Nov, 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2003. PRICELESS, CONVERTED STORE, SHUDE HILL, MANCHESTER, 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2003. THE WAR EFFORT, THE HOLDEN GALLERY, MANCHESTER, 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2003. THE WAR EFFORT 2, The Foundry, London, 8 November 22 November 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2003. TREACLE, OVE ARUP, MANCHESTER, 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2003. TREACLE: HOME SWEET HOME, ROSSENDALE MUSEUM, ROSSENDALE, UK, Sept 6 5 Oct, 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2002. HYBRIDA, CARTWRIGHT HALL AND YORKSHIRE CRAFT CENTRE, BRADFORD then to THE GALLERIE MLYDACH, BNO, CZECH REPUBLIC as selected works and then the full show again at THE HOLDEN GALLERY, MANCHESTER, 2002 and 2003.
Hyatt, J., 2002. HYBRIDA (Selected works), THE GALLERIE MLYDACH, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2002.
Hyatt, J., 2002. THE SOFT WAREHOUSE/POTENTIAL HITS, CHAPMAN GALLERY, SALFORD, 2002.
Hyatt, J., 2001. HERE AND NOW, YORKSHIRE CRAFT CENTRE, BRADFORD.
Hyatt, J., 2001. 'Carpet-Map for Arup, Consulting Engineers', A commissioned, unique hand-tufted wool carpet, 4m x 5m, designed on Photoshop, Arup, 8th Floor, St.James's Building, Oxford St., Manchester, April 2001 - present.
Internet Publications
Hyatt, J., 2009. 'Personal websites', A linked nest of over 30 websites, http://www.hyattartandlife.com.
Hyatt, J., 2005. 'How do we maximise the role of universities in developing culture, innovation and regeneration?', Culture, Innovation and Regeneration The Key Importance of Creativity for a Sustainable Future, Commonwealth House, London, Friday 28 January 2005.
Hyatt, J., 2004. 'PLACING JARS', URBAN DESIGN GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CUBE and THE MANCHESTER CONFERENCE CENTRE, UMIST, Nov 11 and 12th 2004.
Hyatt, J., 2004. 'THE IN-FILL', SENSUOUS KNOWLEDGE: Creating a Tradition, KHIB, BERGEN, NORWAY (at Solstrand, close to Bergen, Norway), 26- 28 Oct, 2004.
Hyatt, J., 2004. 'THE SEARCH FOR TREACLE', SENSUOUS KNOWLEDGE: Creating a Tradition, KHIB, BERGEN, NORWAY (at Solstrand, close to Bergen, Norway), 26- 28 Oct, 2004.
Other Outputs
Hyatt, J., 2005. 'Graphic Identity for CRAG', Logo and promotional video.
Hyatt, J., 2005. 'HUMAN GENETICS AND SOCIETY', Curation: Photographic exhibition from a public competition.
Hyatt, J., 2004. 'A VIEW OF THE BRIDGEHEAD: An Evaluation', Professor John Hyatt and Ruth Brown, November 2004.
Hyatt, J., 2003. 'BIDDING TO BENEFIT, COMMONWEALTH GAMES CONFERENCE', GRAPHIC ID/LOGO.


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Records: Gas can seized from arson suspect's home
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ACCOMAC, Va. — Court records show that authorities seized a plastic gas can and other items from the home of a former firefighter and his girlfriend who are suspected in a dozens of arsons on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Tonya Bundick appeared in court Wednesday and was assigned a court-appointed attorney. She is due back in court May 6.
Her boyfriend, Charles R. Smith III, had his scheduled arraignment Wednesday postponed.
Court papers indicate that Smith confessed to setting the most recent fire on Monday.
The documents also show that Smith has a lengthy criminal record, including 31 felony convictions. Most stem from forgeries in 1994, for which he spent nearly a year in prison.
Smith's attorney was not available and his office said he would not comment.


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This is in response to Tara Knight's letter Aug 2, 2013 in which she stated that my letter of July 26, 2013 utilized "Distorted Statistics" to try and justify racial profilin....
Mr Lilley your response only made you look worse.
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Marlin, While I agree with you, you need to understand that when you write a letter to the editor, there will be many who misread, misunderstand, misuse and generally abuse what you've said. If you can't handle that, don't write.
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Don't really want to take sides here. I read both letters. Frankly, I had to check Lilley's statistics. I washed shocked to find they were accurate. However, the end of the letter does suggest that the statistics make profiling justifiable. The letter says that profiling, while morally wrong, is justifiable as crime rates in the black community are much higher than the whites. It's a complex issue that no one should write about as "resolved". There are arguments to support both sides. This is one of those issues where both sides of the racial divide need to remain open to communication and intelligent debate. In other words, I personally am listening in on both sides without taking a stance.
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Shulski, I agree but it needs to be honest conversation without the fear of being called a racist if facts are presented that the black community may not like. The first step would be to admit that there is a growing epidemic of young black men killing each other and that they are responsible for over 50% of the murders in this country. And the facts for robbery are even worse. Those are facts. Yet when myself and others have brought up facts such as this, we were called racists. So what can be done to address those issues and what is causing this growing epidemic? I would start with the breakdown of the family unit and the number of single parent homes. To me that's where it all begins. 67% of black children, under the age of 19 are raised in single parent homes. That is a very sad statistic and it should be the first topic of conversation.
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"As for verifying the questioned statistics they are part of a study done by the "Black on Black Crime Coalition". Also these facts were vetted in a panel discussion aired on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Unfortunately, many on the "Left" only see what they want to see and rarely ever let the facts get in the way of their political correctness." - Marlin D. Lilley Jr.
No...we've (already) seen the "work" of "Black on Black Crime Coalition".
Racist "60 Minutes" Asks Obama About "Crazies With Guns"
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FREMONT -- The Fremont Town Board created a new community business district at its Tuesday meeting. The district will encompass several types of businesses, from barber shops to food trucks. The new zoning code came about after Danny Wooten...
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Last week, P.J. Berry made the most of his first opportunity to show off what he used to do as a member of the VooDoo. He took a kickoff off the net, shook off a tackle and burst through on his way to a 57-yard return for a touchdown for the Pittsburgh Power.
Berry, known as Superman in Arena Football League circles, then ran to the wall where the familiar VooDoo skull and top hat was printed and slapped it in the face.
"I'm just glad they didn't come out with the Superman song after his touchdown," VooDoo linebacker Alvin Ray Jackson said.
Last year, Berry set the Arena League record for all-purpose yards while playing for the VooDoo. Berry had 196 yards in the first half Friday, with two touchdowns, and also threw a touchdown pass.
But in the second half, Berry was a non-factor, limited to one catch and 84 yards on kickoff returns in the VooDoo's 51-48 victory.
"The second half, we started to get more physical with him," VooDoo Coach Pat O'Hara said. "I think our guys started swarming on P.J., and that was something that was key. We talked about P.J. and his ability all week, and that was something we didn't ignore. His ability showed on that first kickoff, but our guys really buckled down after that."
Jackson, who tackled Berry three times on kickoff returns, said the defense did what it was supposed to do with Berry.
"I'm looking at the stat sheet, and he only had 44 yards of offense," Jackson said. "You know he's going to do his thing on special teams. He got his touchdown — fine. But we held him to 44 yards and four catches. We did our job."
IN THE THICK OF THINGS: With the win last week, the VooDoo evened its record at 3-3, which put it in a three-way tie with Georgia and Tampa Bay for first place in the South Division.
Even though New Orleans struggled on offense, the end result was the biggest factor to O'Hara.
"You never argue with a win," O'Hara said. "In the Arena League, there is so much parity, it's difficult to win in this league. We struggled offensively for the second week in a row, but we found a way to get it done, and that's positive."
The VooDoo matched its victory total from last season and has won consecutive games at home.
BYE BYE: New Orleans heads into the bye week with a much-needed break. Although it doesn't show, it's the second bye week of the season — the season opened with the VooDoo off the first week.
"We have a bye week, and we have to get healthy," O'Hara said. "We're banged up, we're really banged up."
Receiver L.J. Castille missed last Friday's game, and defensive back Jeremy Kellem missed the second half last week with a slight injury. Even usually durable Jackson was smarting after a tackle late in Friday's game.
"Yeah, I was doing my Jim Brown impression, making them think I was hurt," Jackson said. "Really, I hurt my leg, and that's the game, you're going to get dinged."
This will be the final break before the VooDoo plays 12 consecutive weeks.


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C.J. Mueller straps on his streamlined ski helmet, drops into a tuck and plunges down a slope that falls away like the side of a building. In three seconds he's doing 60 mph. After seven, he's up to 100. By the time he completes the measured portion of the 1,000-meter run down a vertiginous hill that most people wouldn't try with a parachute, he's over 130, his skis roaring like jets and kicking up a towering rooster tail in his wake.
This isn't the kind of suicidal activity that wins Olympic gold medals—at least not yet. It's speed skiing, the alpine equivalent of a lead-footed drag race. "You just tuck your knees into your armpits and go," says Mueller, who had set world records three times in the past six years and holds the current U.S. mark of 136 mph. Unlike downhill racers, who rarely top 80 mph, speed skiers plummet straight down inclines as steep as 44 degrees on courses that have been groomed and smoothed by bulldozerlike devices called winch cats. Should a skier have the misfortune to lift out of his tuck even slightly, the wind slams into his chest like a cannon. In 1983 former world champ Franz Weber suffered severe burns on an arm and leg in a fall when the speed of his slide melted parts of his rubberized suit.
No one gets into this sport without being a little—well, Mueller doesn't mind saying it. "C.J. stands for Crazy John," he says with a grin. In his adopted hometown of Breckenridge, Colo., Mueller, a college dropout whose given name is John Frederick, is revered as the founder of the Ridge Street Rowdies, an unmenacing (and generally cycleless) motorcycle gang dedicated to all-night faux-Grease boogying. He is also the leaping lead guitarist of an air-guitar band that once opened in Breckenridge for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. On local cable TV last year Mueller appeared as a "cereal killer." ruthlessly knifing a box of Wheaties. "C.J. is completely lacking in self-consciousness, and sometimes in all consciousness," says Jim Felton, a spokesman for the Brecken ridge Ski Corp. "He's a 37-year-old kid."
But the kid won't be kidding later this month, when he'll journey to Norway to chase the current world record of 139 mph held by Michaël Prufer of France. Nor will he be kidding at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, where speed skiing, a sport started in the U.S. in 1870, will be a demonstration sport. Paradoxically, Mueller is not sure he approves. "The problem with being part of the Olympics," he says, "is that it will turn speed skiing into a business. You make it so serious, you lose the ambience."
And Mueller is an ambience buff. The son of a Denver aerospace engineer, he tried college at the Colorado School of Mines, but the only thing he dug was the ski team. "I liked being out in the mountains," he says. More than that, he was determined not to do anything he didn't like. When he was 17, he was deeply affected by the death of a friend. "I realized it could all end at any time," he says, "and I made up my mind to live life on my own terms."
Mueller was never more than a fair downhill racer, and in 1981 a knee injury cut down on his turning ability. It was then he discovered the straight-on thrill of speed skiing. While vacationing in the French Alps, Mueller clocked a speed of 103 mph on his first run. "I thought,' Yeah, this is what I'm gonna do,' " he says.
To support himself, Mueller does construction work, holds ski clinics and works as a consultant for a ski-wax manufacturer. Admirers say he is a genius at "ski tuning," which includes waxing and edge-sharpening, and which contributes to his speed-skiing prowess. He lives in an old three-bedroom house with two roommates, and the room where he keeps his 18 pairs of skis is as splattered with wax as Madame Tussaud's workroom. "I don't want to say this place is a dump..." he says. Then again, he doesn't need to. "I don't have a family, I don't drive a BMW," he says with a shrug. "But I feel I'm successful." As any man should who can accelerate quicker than a Ferrari by simply sticking his knees in his armpits.
—Jack Friedman, Jack Kelley in Vail
His Life Is Going Downhill Fast, and C.J. Mueller Likes It That Way
Jack Kelley
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MILFORD — Spurred by concern about underage drinking on the banks of the Delaware River, Borough Council voted 5 to 1 at the Aug. 1 meeting to adopt an ordinance recommended by County Prosecutor Anthony Kearns.
Beer cans and bottles are frequently found strewn under the bridge over the Delaware River that connects Milford to Upper Black Eddy, Pa., and residents have come to previous council meetings to complain about teen drinking parties near the bridge and on other private properties along the river.
State statute forbids drinking by people younger than 21 only on public property. The bridge and ground beneath it are owned by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
Currently, a minor found drinking on private property could only be charged with a state law violation such as disorderly conduct, which is a criminal charge that could have permanent consequences.
The municipal ordinance drafted by Hunterdon Prevention Resources and urged by Kearns would make underage drinking illegal on private property except in the presence of a consenting parent or guardian. It would allow police to charge offenders with a lesser offense that would not affect college or job applications, according to Kearns.
Minors charged with this offense might have to pay a fine and could lose driving privileges.
Mayor James Gallos told council members before the vote that private property "would include anything that's private along the railroad tracks or down under the bridges."
Police would still need "probable cause" to enter private property to make an arrest, according to Borough Attorney Todd Bolig.
Councilman Donald Pursell voted against the ordinance. "Sounds to me like an opportunity to issue a lot more fines," he said.


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VIS is built in to every UltraSPARC processor and is definitely not
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Hi Andrew I thanks for your articles. Real smart stuff. I have a question as both a fan of TV and one who works in the field. What is up with Magic Johnson's Aspire TV??? It was news when Comcast backed the set up with this. He made the rounds on every morning show to announce it. Variety did several stories about it. But no one has called him to the carpet for what he has put out there. I and so many others were expecting more than this after all this time. Oprah did not get this time. The channel is still showing Flip Wilson and the same few shows from day one. There have been a couple if good moments but just a couple. He seems to be doing this on the cheap. That is something he said he would not do. The Comcast deal was such a big deal we (people of color) pined for better. Is he off limits in LA! The only thing you read online are negative comments. How can the programming be this bad. Bounce which is about the same age has a lot more to see and they are not great by any stretch but it looks like they are trying. If magic did not own this maybe there would be no interest but a lot went into this and not much back.
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