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Rein (Rain) Felicity Williams
Birth Date:
July 9, 1985
Eye Color:
A stunning color of hazel
Hair Color:
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Hair Style:
Straight with swooped side bangs
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Rein looks really young for her age and is often mistaken for a teenager. She wears glasses so that she can see when reading books up close.
Social Standing: Middle Class
Occupation: She works at a art gallery but is also going to school to major in photography.
Taking pictures, reading, writing, going out, having fun. For some reason she love to watch people paint and play piano.
Watching people paint
Listening to piano
Rainy days
Smell after rain
Being mistaken for a teen
Treated differently because of how young she looks
Being judge because of how she acts
People that are rude for no reason
People who aren't themselves
Rein is great listener and she observes many things. She notices things that other people might not notice, thanks to her always observing for her surroundings looking for great pictures.
She is deathly afraid of spiders. She runs away quickly at the sight of them. She has allergies to shellfish and blueberries. Though Rein is very observant and a great listener, she has a short attention span. She can stay focused for some time but her thoughts usually travel away from her.
Rein is a quiet girl that keeps to herself if she doesn't really know you. Once you get to know her though you find out she's kinda loud and outspoken. She is fun to be around. She can usually be found sitting somewhere reading a book or snapping a few pictures with her camera. Rein is the type of person that you would have to actually sit down and talk to, because once she breaks out of her shy shell she is actually a great friend. She usually keeps her feelings and thoughts to herself, but she is also very blunt. Her personality traits clash. Shes quiet but loud, she keeps to her thoughts self but will tell you the truth in a minute, shes shy but will speak her mind. Rein is very iffy about love because of a past experience that left her in the hospital having a child (Devon). Her parents didn't want anyone to know about there daughter getting knocked up so they claimed him as there own. Not even the little boy knows.
Rein grew up as your average girl. She has two loving parents, annoying siblings, and even a household pet. She lives in a nice 4 bedroom house with her mom, dad, and three yonger siblings. She your average girl. She had good grades in high school, setting a good example for younger siblings. She is the forth of seven children, with three older siblings and three younger ones. Her parents were against what she wants to do with her life because they want her to be lawyers like them. Rein get on great with her parents even though they do not agree with what she apires to be. She want to become a photograper that gets hired for wedding and other special events, while they want her to follow in the footstep of them and two of her older siblings in becoming lawyers. Rein, not wanting this life, majors in photography anyway. Her parents begin to grow onto her skill and slowly are beginning to accept thier daughters dreams.


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I was stuck for a blog post idea this week, so I turned to the internet for a prompt. One of the ideas I came across was to re-write a fairy tale with a twist. Enjoy.
Warm blood hit Red in the face and she recoiled. The wolf's tongue lolled from its mouth, its eyes glazed and lifeless. Its life's blood ebbed from the severed stump of its neck and seeped into the leaf litter.
The young man holding the axe gasped for breath. "Are you all right?"
Red gingerly touched her fingers to her face and drew them away with spots of wolf blood. Still staring at her fingers, she nodded.
"Wolves don't usually attack people," the woodsman said, swinging his axe and embedding it in the chopping block outside Granny's cottage. "I think this one must have been starving after the winter."
Red untied her red cloak and used it to wipe the wolf blood from her face and clothes. "Thank you."
"You're Elsie's granddaughter, right? I'm Peter, I help her out with a few chores around the cottage from time to time."
Red glanced at the door to the cottage and pictured the carnage she'd found inside when she'd arrived. Tears welled up and she covered her face with her hand. Peter's brow creased in a frown and he followed her gaze to the door.
"Don't!" she cried.
But, he strode to the door and pushed open on creaking hinges. His Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed the rising bile.
He pulled the door closed, walked to her and wrapped his arms around her. Red's heart pounded in her ears and her tears streamed silently down her cheeks. She could feel the muscles in Peter's stomach clench as he fought his emotions.
She let her hands creep over his strong back and shoulders.
"I should get you back to the village," he said.
She rubbed her cheek against his chest, his shirt damp with her now checked tears. "Not yet."
The feel of his lean, hard muscles, sculpted by hard work and Mother Nature kindled a deep need. She had to feel his skin against hers and her fingers plucked at his linen shirt, gently tugging it from the waist of his leather britches.
"Call me Red." She backed up, pulling him with her, until she felt the broad trunk of the old oak tree behind her.
"What are you doing?"
She released him and lifted her dress over her head. The dark green wool fell into a crumpled heap and she stood against the tree in nothing but her petticoat and bloomers.
Peter took a hesitant step towards her, his eyes a window on warring emotions of desire and morality.
"Please. I've seen too much death today. Make me feel alive."
He gave a shallow nod and reached for her. His hands grazed over the thin linen of her petticoat and gripped her hips. The first soft touch of his kiss made her feel weak and fluttery and she steadied herself against the tree with one hand.
With a guttural moan in the back of his throat he pushed her hard against the tree and his mouth crushed against hers, his tongue seeking entrance.
With a sharp tug he ripped her petticoat, exposing her breasts, and she broke away from the kiss, gasping. Lust flooded through her like molten metal, searing her skin, boiling her blood and setting her senses on fire.
Peter pulled the ripped petticoat from her shoulders and ran his hands over her. Everywhere he touched he raised goosebumps despite the heat radiating from inside. She clung to his shoulders, digging her fingers into his back.
He covered her breast with one broad, calloused palm. The very core of her womanhood ached and burned. He dipped his head and suckled her. The scorching heat and smooth skin of his mouth caressed her while his stubble scratched and tickled her soft, pale skin.
He fumbled with the cords on his britches and she reached to feel his swollen manhood through the taught leather. He released himself and guided her hand. She trembled as her palm closed around his hot, hard flesh; a hint of trepidation creeping into the flood of lust sweeping through her.
He gripped her hair in his fist and kissed her deeply while his other hand pulled urgently at her clothes. Her bloomers and petticoat slid the ground. The rough bark dug into her naked back but she didn't care.
Peter thrust his hand roughly between her legs and all the strength left her limbs as he concentrated the feelings of pleasure, rippling around inside her, into a single, fire bright point of light that pulsed and swelled.
He lifted her leg up to his hip and his shining eyes silently asked her permission. She nodded and he claimed her body with his own.
She winced as he pushed past her maidenhead. His eyes widened with realisation and then softened. He dipped his head and kissed her, tenderly this time, although she could feel the tension in his arms and his back as he held himself back.
His fingers caressed the centre of her pleasure as he began a slow rhythm inside her. The glowing, pulsing light inside her grew until it filled her whole being. She clung to her lover and let him guide her to the highest height of bliss. Then, like the bursting of a damn after a thunderstorm she reached the peak of what her body could hold and cried out.
Peter let go of his restraint and drove himself into her quivering body until, with a growl, he emptied his seed inside her.
His body held her pinned against the tree for a few moments more and then he wrapped his arms around her. He bore her to the soft, mossy ground at the base of the tree and held her in his arms while the glorious feeling slowly ebbed away.
The red stained muzzle of the wolf, dripping with her grandmother's blood returned to the front of her mind along with her tears of grief. But she didn't feel alone.
I hope you enjoyed this story. Which classic tale would you like to see re-imagined with a sexy twist?


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TRENTON — A Hightstown man already charged with having child pornography faces additional charges, including inducing a 14-year-old girl in Ecuador to send him sexually explicit images, prosecutors said today.
Fredy Arbito, 31, will likely be charged with production of child pornography, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Gribko after a brief hearing in federal court today. And more charges could be lodged as the investigation continues, he said.
"There are more victims than just the one victim charged in the complaint whom Mr. Arbito convinced to act inappropriately on the web camera," he said.
Arbito allegedly posed as a teenage girl living in Colombia and formed an online relationship with the 14-year-old girl in 2011, according to court records.
Prosecutors alleged he convinced the girl to strip naked while being recorded on a webcam. But by 2012, authorities add, the nudity wasn't enough, and Arbito began asking the girl — referred to only as "A.C." in a federal complaint — to perform sex acts on camera. The girl refused and that is when, authorities allege, Arbito launched a campaign of attempted coercion and extortion born out through a series of ominous e-mails prosecutors say they now have in their possession.
"I have a video and I'm going to send it to everybody!!!," he allegedly wrote to the girl on June 6, 2012, as he told her he would expose video of her nude if she didn't agree to perform sexual acts on camera.
A month later, on July 15, 2012, even after the girl had "blocked" Arbito from MSN Messenger, he sent her another message: "I told you what I want for you to do. … I will continue to bother you and you will end up losing. So think about it."
Prosecutors say Arbito sent additional threatening e-mails over the next several days.
In the end, there is no allegation in the complaint the girl ever complied, even after Arbito allegedly sent a few nude photos of her to her friends in Ecuador.
Authorities say Arbito traveled to the girl's hometown in Equador, but there is no allegation he ever met her.
Earlier this year, federal authorities obtained a warrant and searched Arbito's Hightstown home, seizing several computers and hard drives in his room, which remained locked when he was not there, prosecutors said.
Arbito fled the country on the day his home was raided, Gribko said. After federal officials said in March they were looking for Arbito, he turned himself in to local authorities in Panama and was returned to the United States in April.
In the hearing before Judge Tonianne Bongiovanni, Gribko described Arbito as a flight risk.
"It is a much higher level of dangerousness," Gribko said. "The risk of flight in this case is much more severe than other cases."
After today's hearing, Arbito was ordered held without bail.
Mark Anderl, a lawyer for Arbito, said there was never any physical contact between his client and the 14-year-old in Ecuador. Noting the federal complaint is filled with "merely" allegations, he said, "We're looking forward to reviewing the information in the case and resolving the matter."
Anderl said Arbito is not asking for bail to be set until he and fellow attorney David Oakley have the opportunity to review the evidence against him.
Arbito, a dual citizen of the United States and Ecuador, immigrated to New Jersey and attended high school in the state. He has worked at a stationery store and as a taxi driver in Mercer County before his arrest, his attorneys said.
If convicted on the count of possessing child pornography, Arbito could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. A charge of producing child pornography carries a minimum sentence of 15 years, Gribko said.
Jason Grant of the Star-Ledger contributed to this report.
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MS Dhoni is not called destiny's child for no reasons. But he's much more than that. Behind his unflappable exterior, there's a man of astute cricketing brain with unswerving resolve. His scintillating innings on Sunday sent the Australian bowlers scurrying for covers as he notched up his maiden double century and broke several records to put India in a commanding position in the first Test against Australia at Chennai.
He came at the crease after Sachin Tendulkar was cleaned up by Nathan Lyon for 81 and India's score was 196 for 4. The match was nicely balanced at that point and the Australia were looking to impose pressure and run through India's lower middle order and tailenders. Dhoni drove the second ball he faced to mid on and scampered for a quick single to get off the mark. Virat Kohli was batting at the other end and had just completed his half-century. Dhoni decided to play second fiddle and pinched singles and doubles with consummate ease. He hit his first boundary off the 22nd ball he faced, lofting Lyon over mid-on.
Lyon had castled Tendulkar with a beautiful delivery and the offspinner also troubled Kohli on a couple of occasions by sharp turn and steep bounce. He was pitching the ball in the rough patch outside the off stump, making it difficult for Kohli. That's when Dhoni stepped up and took the tweaker to the cleaners deploying his brute force to good use. In Lyon's next over, Dhoni cracked two more boundaries.
Dhoni's audacious assault scuppered the offspinner's rhythm and wrestled back the momentum as the sudden counter-attack by India took the Australian bowlers by complete surprise. At lunch, India reached 263 for 4 with Kohli and Dhoni batting on 83 and 37 respectively. Australia took the second new ball three overs after the lunch but Dhoni made a smart move by targeting James Pattionson, who had removed the Indian openers with the first new ball, thumping him for consecutive boundaries in an over. He then took apart Mitchell Stac and blasted three boundaries in his over. Dhoni reached his half-century off just 64 balls by clipping Pattinson's attempted yorker away to the deep square boundary.
In the next over, Moises Henriques was thrashed with disdain by Dhoni as he walked down the pitch and crunched the bowler for a six over extra cover and followed it with a whack over mid-on. Dhoni's machinations worked big time as it thwarted the new-ball advantage and left Australian pace bowlers - Pattinson, Mitchell Starc and Henriques - bruised and battered. However, the competent Aussies came back with quick wickets of Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin. Dhoni was unmoved by all that.
He continued his untrammelled dominance over the Australian bowlers and reached his 6th Test hundred, carting Peter Siddle over square leg for a boundary. India went past Australia's first innings total of 380 in the 109th over as Dhoni squeezed Siddle past point for a couple of runs. Harbhajan Singh played a slapdash shot off Henrqiues only to see his off stump getting uprooted. Harbhajan's terrible shot left Dhoni miffed and disappointed as India lost their eighth wicket.
Though India had overhauled Australia's score, it was crucial for the hosts to take a substantial lead in order to give their bowlers enough runs to take a go at the visitors in the second innings. Dhoni's ability to lead from the front in crunch circumstances is well-documented and he did no different this time around as well. He took charge of the situation and went the whole hog in a bid to muster quick runs as he was running out of partners. Lyon came in for another session of severe pasting as Dhoni launched him into the stands three more times. He stopped taking singles on most occasions and encouraged Bhuvneshwar Kumar to hold one end firmly which the medium-pacer did with finesse.
Dhoni racked up his maiden double century, and the first double hundred by an Indian wicketkeeper, by dabbing Lyon to short third man for a single and acknowledged the thunderous response from the boisterous Chennai crowd with his trademark tranquility. He was unbeaten at 206 off 243 balls when the day was called. The Aussies looked worried. Even the usually calm Clarke looked highly uptight and fidgety.
Dhoni's innings couldn't have come at a better time. His captaincy is under fire for last one year with India losing one series after another. His own form in the longer format until today has been patchy unlike his incandescent showings in ODIs. His defensive tactics and team selection have been flayed and mocked at by a number of former cricketers. Some have even questioned his place in the Test team. There must have been tremendous pressure mounting on him but seldom did he lose his composure and always stuck to his guns backing his instincts and vision which has made him one of the most successful captains India have ever produced.
From being at the top of the world after winning the World Cup in 2011 and propelling India to the No. 1 Test team in the ICC rankings to become the most reviled and vilified person in India, Dhoni has seen the whole broad of spectrum and his cricketing sojourn has truly been fascinating. His rise to the prominence was as spectacular as his dramatic dip.
This innings might prove the rite of passage in his cricketing career and resurrect his flagging fortunes. There's no denying the fact that he's India's best ever wicketkeeper-batsman but questions are still rippling around about his technique to survive and excel in alien overseas conditions and his notoriously defensive mindset as a captain in Test arena. A lot will also depend on how India do as a team in the longer format as a team is 'almost' as good as its skipper. It is to Dhoni's credit that he has managed to pull off such a sensational innings at a critical juncture under immense pressure. It could prove his career-defining innings if Dhoni, as a captain, and Team India go strength to strength from here and quell the aforesaid question in the best way they can - performing and delivering results on cricket's holy bastion.


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NBA free agency has started, which means that basketball fans around the world can watch hefty offers for top players trickle in, all the while uniting in jealousy of the massive paydays. I don't know about you, but I like to pretend the offers are in thousands instead of millions so I can fight back the green-eyed monster.
Of course, players are worth this much, or else they wouldn't receive the offers. In fact, they'd probably make even more in a free market, one without an artificial salary cap depressing the equilibrium point between the limited supply of star players and the seemingly unlimited demand of the 30 franchises.
So, how much will the top stars make this year?
The biggest names will be seeking deals that pay them eight figures each year and keeping their fingers crossed that some organization is willing to offer them a max deal. Not all of them will find what they're looking for, not even these 10 players, who just happen to be the top 10 free agents on the market.
Note: Chris Paul, who has verbally committed to re-signing with the Los Angeles Clippers, is not included here. This is also true for David West, who did the same with the Indiana Pacers.


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SPRINGFIELD – Carleton Scott was good, but he was no match for Vernon Macklin and Glen Rice Jr.
Macklin (26 points) was a force in the paint and Rice was terrific inside and out as he scored a career-high 35 to lead the Rio Grande Valley Vipers to a 112-97 win over the Springfield Armor Monday night at the MassMutual Center.
Rice, the son of former NBA star Glen Rice, rallied the Vipers (17-9) from a six-point halftime deficit with 19 points after the break. The fourth-round pick in the Development League draft also had a career-high 15 rebounds.
It all overshadowed a fine night by Scott, who had 23 points on 7-for-11 shooting, including 6 of 9 from behind the 3-point arc.
"We just got to play a whole game together," Scott said. "We could have a beautiful first half and the second half we just fall apart. We got to put a good 48 minutes together."
Armor coach Bob MacKinnon has gone with a new lineup the last two games in an effort to get the Armor moving in the right direction. Scott, who had been playing small forward, has been moved to shooting guard over Christian Polk, while Kenny Adeleke starts at center in place of Willie Reed.
Scott gives the Armor the same perimeter offense, but increases their size on the floor. Adeleke adds a little width and toughness.
The new lineup worked Saturday in Iowa and for at least the first half Monday. Scott had 16 points at halftime on 5-for-8 shooting, 4 for 6 from behind the arc. He came in averaging 12 points per game.
Adeleke only scored two points, but he had six rebounds at the break, slightly over his average.
The two things the Armor did well in the first half were shoot the 3-ball and force turnovers. Springfield was 8 of 13 from distance and forced the Vipers into 14 turnovers.
More importantly, the Armor had a 57-51 lead and were looking to move to 5-0 at home when up at the break.
Make that 4-1.
The Vipers, who already had the upper hand on the glass, expanded it in the third quarter. They outrebounded the Armor 15-8 and held them to 16 points on 6-of-19 shooting.
Scott hit his first two shots of the third, both 3-pointers, but only managed one more hoop, scoring all of his points in the first three quarters.
With the ejection of the Vipers' Andrew Goudelock in the first half, Scott Machado saw more playing time at the point. Machado was put on Scott in the third quarter and played a role in keeping him away from the ball.
"He played great defense, but we just kind of got stagnant as a team," Scott said. "I had to move and we just kind of settled. We've got to play a full 48 minutes together and that falls on everybody, myself included."
Tim Ohlbrecht – whom the Armor drafted first in the 2012 draft before trading him to Rio Grande Valley for Ben Uzoh – didn't do much, but played a role in helping the Vipers take the lead in the third. He scored all seven of his points in the quarter.
His free throw broke a 66-66 tie. The Armor tied it at 71-71, but a Macklin dunk followed by another basket from Macklin put the Vipers ahead for good.


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Is Aybar ready to be Angels' new leading man?
TEMPE, Ariz. — Erick Aybar had never seen the prototype.
The Angels' young infielder was standing on the field with teammates Chone Figgins, Howie Kendrick and Maicer Izturis one day early last season when Figgins started talking about great basestealers – including the all-time best, Rickey Henderson, arguably the best leadoff hitter in modern baseball history.
Aybar, who grew up in the Dominican Republic with a different set of baseball heroes, had no idea who Figgins was talking about.
From that point on, Figgins started showing Aybar video of great basestealers and leadoff men, aware that he could very well be training his replacement.
"That was the point. I told him, 'If I have to move on ...'" Figgins said this spring. "It wasn't done to get any credit. I was just trying to help him become a better player.
"He's got all the tools. He has a chance to be a great player."
That Aybar has all the tools to be not only a dangerous basestealer but a dynamic leadoff man has been the Angels' belief for some time. But now he also has the job. It will be up to Aybar to replace the spark Figgins provided last season when the Angels' had one of the best offenses in franchise history.
"He can bunt. He hits from both sides and he can fly – he can fly," said Angels outfielder Bobby Abreu who also became a mentor to Aybar last season. "To me, he's going to be one of the good leadoff hitters in our league.
"He's ready. He knows his position. He knows what he needs to do."
What Aybar needs to do Angels manager Mike Scioscia has insisted this spring, is no more than what he did last year when he led the team with a .312 batting average (a club record for a shortstop) while batting primarily in the bottom third of the Angels' lineup.
"If he does what he did last year – which we would hope would be the minimum as far as getting on base and things like that that are important to us – he's going to be fine," Scioscia said. "Figgy had an incredible year for us (in 2009) ... he worked his way into being that dynamic leadoff hitter. Erick's going to have that same opportunity and we're confident he's going to respond."
When asked about Aybar's readiness to replace Figgins, Scioscia likes to point out "Figgy's on-base wasn't always .400" – it was .395 last season.
"I think (Aybar's) game is going to evolve as he gets older," Scioscia said "Figgy didn't always take pitches. Figgy didn't always walk that much.
"We anticipate growth there."
They already saw a lot of it. Aybar set career-highs in nearly every offensive category last season and his on-base percentage, walk rate and pitches per plate appearance all increased significantly over his previous career numbers. Part of it was simple maturity and reaching a comfort level in the major leagues, Aybar said.
"You learn every day. It's not hard to do," Aybar said – his English also showing signs of growth. "Two years ago, I wanted to put up numbers so I could play every day. Once you play every day, you play ... relaxed. When you play relaxed, you don't worry about putting up numbers. They just happen."
Aybar also credits Abreu's influence with speeding up his learning curve. Like Figgins' tutorials on basestealing, Aybar said he went to school with Abreu on the strike zone by watching video of ... Abreu.
"Bobby helped me a lot," Aybar said. "On the plane (on road trips), I always watch video with him. Bobby, when he goes to home plate, he is always focused. I watch the strike zone – Bobby's strike zone is like this (circles his fingers just inches apart) and he only swings at his pitch."
But the Angels don't want the 26-year-old Aybar to rush it and try to be something he isn't yet. A more mature player, Maicer Izturis, waits as a handy alternative should Aybar struggle in the leadoff spot.
"It's a very valid point," Scioscia said. "Right now, the amount of times he can get on base – that's just raw production that is going to feed the middle of the lineup. All the peripheral stuff – like maybe make an out on a six-pitch at-bat as opposed to making an out on a three-pitch at-bat – yeah, there's some stuff that he's gotta grow into. But he's also going to get a one-pitch at-bat, split a gap for a triple and score on a ground out. There's going to be that.
"Yeah, he's not the finished product as far as what he's done. But he's at a high level to where he should be able to feed the middle of our lineup."
Aybar (who scored from first base on a single in Sunday's 15-5 loss to the Indians) has yet to turn his exceptional speed into impressive stolen-base totals. Even with Figgins' video lessons, Aybar was just 14 of 21 in steal attempts last year.
"As a young player – understanding pitchers, understanding their moves, that takes a little bit of time. I think Erick is at that point where he's observing more," Scioscia said. "Bobby has been a great influence on that – observing pitchers, looking for something that could be a key they could get a jump off of. Experience is going to be the best teacher. You can chalkboard how to get a jump on a pitcher all you want, it's not going to get a player where he needs to be. It's experience and Erick needs that.
"This guy's had, what, one full year in the big leagues? If you look at Figgy, Figgy in the minor leagues stole bases but he came up and he had to get comfortable. Once he got comfortable he was gone. So we'll see where Erick ends up – but there's some more there, for sure."
Ervin Santana went 4 2/3 innings in his first start since skipping a turn with an inflamed bursa sac. He allowed five runs on six hits and two walks. ... Izturis went through a normal workout Sunday and should be back in game action on Monday. Izturis left Saturday's game after three innings with a stiff back. ... The Angels play two split-squad games Monday – a day game against the Royals and a night game in Glendale against the White Sox. Joel Pineiro, Brian Fuentes and Scot Shields are scheduled to pitch in the day game, Anthony Ortega, Kevin Jepsen and Brian Stokes in the night game. Fuentes threw in a minor-league game Sunday. ... Reggie Willits continued his recovery from a hamstring injury by batting in a minor-league camp game again Sunday. He went through a baserunning workout after the game and will test the hamstring by playing defense in a minor-league game Monday.
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AUBURN, Alabama -- Roc Thomas and Kamryn Pettway are going to get a chance to wedge their way into Auburn's competition for carries this season.
Gus Malzahn plans to throw his two freshman backs into the fire as soon as possible.
With plenty of knowledge already about what Cameron Artis-Payne, Corey Grant and Peyton Barber bring to the running back position, Malzahn needs to quickly figure out where Thomas and Pettway fit in the mix.
"The two freshmen coming in, we're going to give them an opportunity early in fall camp to carry the football, and just be reactive, and see where they're at with that," Malzahn said. "We'll start out with base runs until they get a good feel for that."
Auburn's newcomers are being brought along slowly for the first few days, part of Malzahn's plan to bring the Tigers' first-time players up to speed.
For the moment, Thomas and Pettway, along with the rest of the newcomers, are getting most of their work after the veterans have finished practicing at Malzahn's normal pace, but the coaching staff is going to give the two backs a chance to show what they can do.
Thomas and Pettway will have to try to absorb Malzahn's hurry-up, no-huddle offense and prove they can bounce back from minor mistakes.
"You're going to make mistakes here and there, because this offense is fast-paced," Grant said. "It gets complicated sometimes, but just take it a day at a time and learn and with repetitions you'll get better."
The few brief glimpses the freshmen flashed during summer workouts have given Auburn's veterans a sneak preview. Pettway instantly becomes Auburn's biggest back at 6-feet, 239 pounds, and the highly-rated Thomas, who checks in at 5-10, 193 and suffered no ill effects after a minor car accident on his way to report for camp, is more of a burner.
"Kamryn Pettway seems more like a power back," Grant said. "And Roc he seems more like a speed back, kind of like me. I really haven't gotten a chance to see him in pads yet but just from watching him and watching some film from high school, that's what it looks like to me."
Where the pairing fit in Auburn's game-day distribution of carries likely won't be decided until the games begin; Malzahn likes to let his lead running back establish his role during the games.
For the moment, it's clear Thomas and Pettway have the talent to help.
"They look good," Artis-Payne said. "They're not struggling to grasp the offense. They still need to learn some nuances of the game, but as far as talent they're as talented as everybody else."


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Popping in to say hi Mamagrok. I'm thinking I'll be checking in a bit more often... Especially with the new app. I started a new journal today. Just wanted something fresh.
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Popping in to say hi Mamagrok. I'm thinking I'll be checking in a bit more often... Especially with the new app. I started a new journal today. Just wanted something fresh.
Hello MamaGrok! My binges seems to be so similar to yours. I usually binge on yogurt and honey and nuts. I am trying LR again but the binging comes back. I raised my BAB protein to 70 gr and still manage to binge. I eat low carb (of course not when I binge). I wonder if keeping it low carb back fires on me (maybe serotonin gets too low?) I recently raised my carbs to 60 gr and still managed to binge. I don't eat grains at all and eat all organic and grass-fed. I usually binge around ovulation and PMS. I can gain real 10 lb of fat as I consume massive quantities of yogurt and honey. Once I get my period I go VLC and manage to lose 5 lb and continue the vicious cycle again. Do you have any advise for me. Thank you so very much! You are an inspiration.
Howdy, y'all!
Moon - how's your fat intake? If your BAB is high, and fat is plenteous, and you binge whether high carb or mod carb or VLC (all of these are also true for me), then you might try the amino acids recommended by Julia Ross. L-glutamine @ 500-5000mg 4x/day sublingually, & DPA or DLPA 4x/day @ 500mg. While I"m not sure yet if these are helping me, they have helped a LOT of people.
One other thing that I think has helped is that I have one rule that is absolutely inviolable on my binges - NO WHEAT. Wheat destroys my digestion and makes it so that none of my other attempts at good health will take. My cravings seem to be willing to accept that compromise ... I still find plenty of things to binge on somehow, lol. Like yogurt and honey and nuts. I do try to make a rule of no nuts or dairy, with nuts being worse for my digestion personally, but I can't always hold to it, especially to the dairy. My body *will* do what it needs to do to find the carbs available out there, and if something with dairy is all that's available, even if that means my cravings drive me to the store to buy cheesecake and eat everything but the crust, that's what the cravings will have me do.
It's really odd as someone who prided herself for years on being purely intellect- and reason-driven to find myself losing the driver's seat to physiological urges beyond my control.
Anyway, check out the AA's. I had read Ross' questionnaire before and never quite realized that she says that "Eating for pleasure", when eating carbs gives you a *tremendous* amount of pleasure, is a sign that you need DPA, stat. So I'm really being religious about taking especially that one. Apparently DPA & l-glut (& 5HTP) work rapidly for most people ... they're working slower for me, but then again, I'm the one who starved myself eating low-fat from age 18 to 31, and skipped many meals for most of that time to make up for the between-meal bingeing, not to mention created severe fat & veg malabsorption/digestion by my massive wheat intake, so in essence, I ate almost no nutrients for well over a decade. I can't really expect to heal overnight.
My symptoms are not at all connected with my cycles ... but I just realized the other day that it's almost like I am PMS'ing every day of the month. Bloating, moodiness, cravings .... got 'em all, every week, every day, every month, no respite.
Estrogen has got to be a huge part of the picture for me.
Thank you so much for replying, MamaGrook.
I just took the questionnaire and I am low in serotonin, gaba/cortisol, endorphin, blood sugar. I have her DietCure but never got into taking any supplements. Maybe I should try it, as nothing is working.
Thanks goodness I don't eat wheat. I try not to keep the nuts, yogurt and honey in the house but the cravings are so strong that I go to store to buy in the instant. It is sickening and no one would believe that I can eat so much.
Are you still on LR?
Believe you me, I know those cravings. It is truly unbelievable if you haven't experienced it yourself.
I still eat a 50g BAB. I think that one thing the AA's did for me is that they have enabled me to go from a 70g to a 50g without an increase in cravings. For over a year, I had to have at least 65g to keep cravings away. 70g w/o AA's seems to be about the same level of cravings as 50g w/ AA's for me, I think. I do still observe the timing, b/c I simply don't need snacks anymore, and don't see any good reason to eat w/i 3hrs of bed most of the time.
Kruse was definitely right when he said that indiscretions will put you back 10-14 days on the LR. They did for me every time. It took me 6 months to get 6 straight weeks of LR with no binges. I never saw any magic from the full LR, though, just the benefits of crave-suppression (to a strong, but not total) extent from the BAB.
I got the Diet Cure from the library. It's a worthwhile read, I think.
Alright, I'm having a hard time getting motivated to journal, and I really need to keep journal to keep track of the mysteries of food reactions.
So I'll try this while I'm working Julia Ross' The Diet Cure stuff (most of which I was already doing):
1-AA's for brain chemistry (mood, energy, cravings...)
2-Eat real, primal food, >30g protein at every meal, lots of veggies
3-Blood sugar & adrenals - Chromium, no grains
4-Thyroid - NDT
5-Avoid allergens - wheat, dairy (butter, too, at first), sugar, soy, corn. Test one at a time, carefully.
6-Hormones - looks like estrogen imbalance is big for me from symptoms. DIM, Calc D-gluc, maybe dong quai & bl cohosh, eventually progesterone/pregnenolone once I get a doc working with me...
7-Yeast. No sweeteners, starches, grains, nuts, legumes. OOO, garlic, CO. I've already done this, but I'll try again for a while. I'm negative on stool tests for candida and blood tests for anti-candida antibodies.
8-Fatty acid deficiency. fCLO. Badabing.
I'll get more specific when I get my book back down here. Right now I'm having gross cravings several times a week and it's not going well. I'm extremely sleepy right now.
The good - the AA's seem to be making my sleep more efficient. I'm waking up after 8 1/4 hrs and not able to sleep any more. Still plenty of energy most of the time (7 or 8 / 10) and mood pretty good most of the time. I've been back on 4 drops iodine / day for 2-3 weeks.
Sorry to those who have PM'd me and I haven't gotten back to you, and those who found my box full. This might be a better place for conversation, b/c I don't constantly have to delete messages to keep the box from getting full.
About two weeks ago, I started waking up between 7:20 & 7:50 each morning. Unless I go to bed after midnight, I don't seem to be able to sleep past 8. THAT IS WONDERFUL!!!! I am so tired of the decade of having to get 9+hrs sleep/night! I hope it's gone for good! Of course, as I say this, I'm totally sleepy, but that's not a normal thing for me most days. A few short stints in the afternoon, but not like today - it has been several hours so far.
Anyway, what did it? The full-fledged daily aminos, including full GABA & l-tryp at bedtime, and then some? Dunno.
Two days ago, I started the Essential amino complex. I think it gave me a boost in energy, mood, & decreased cravings. Subtle, but there. Yesterday I started DPA (had been on DLPA), DIM, St. John's Wort, & got back on l-tyro (had run out). Yes, I know I should try one thing at a time, but I am DESPERATE to turn around the cravings, bloating, and weight gain. I was 150.5lb yesterday, btw. Unbelievable.
Anyway, I feel for sure that I had an even further boost in energy and mood yesterday. I almost felt like a real human being all day long. Most of today, too, except for the afternoon sleepyathon.
I'm still taking at or above the bottom line Diet Cure recommendations for l-tyro, DLPA & DPA, Amino Complex, 5-HTP (afternoon, L-tryp (evening), St. John's Wort, GABA, & L-glut (actually WAY over her rec's for this). I'm not noticing much.
*No real decrease in cravings. Thought there was a reduction of the propensity to binge, till I ate half a carton of ice cream Sunday.
*No real increase in energy.
*No sign of side effects of too much, though, either, like headaches, jitteriness, etc.
This leads me to think I need more of everything. I'm going to read her protocols for increasing dosages very carefully and then start.
I think I'm VERY VERY deficient in endorphins. I need to cut-and-paste what I said at OHC about that here.
*One change I have noticed - no "sugar head." When I eat fruit or corn chips or even half a carton of ice cream, I don't get the spinning head I usually get from sugar. Very interesting. I don't think it's the l-glut, unless it took two months for that to kick in, but maybe the Chromium supplement? I've been doing 200mcg 1-3x/day, usually 2x. Also am taking DIM (2 tabs 2 meals/day) & saw palmetto still (has selenium in it). And just started the zinc tally a few days ago. Tastes mostly like water.
*I am still sleeping like a ROCK and have been ever since starting the aminos with the exception of the 3 day period I described here. I am asleep before I even have a chance to get my prayers in, sleep like a rock, go back to sleep immediately after waking, and often need only 8-8.5hrs sleep. YAY for this. I haven't had any more of the head-thudding sudden need to sleep I had the first few days, even as I've slowly started testing GABA &/or l-tryp in the late afternoon again.
I noticed that when I first tried l-glut, it tasted nasty, like powdered cheese. Then it tasted somewhat sweet when I started it up again about 1-2 months ago. Then it tasted like cheese in the midst of the ice cream bout (desperate try to stop it, didn't work). Now it's somewhat sweet again. Odd.
Biggest current problems:
- bingeing at least once a week. :( :( :( :(
- constant bloating, but it's clearly worse when I throw in the towel and eat something other than meat/fat
- still holding on to the ~18lb of unexplained gain from Feb/Mar
Good things:
- runs are rare, even without ox bile. I feel like I need it about once/3-4 days, strangely.
- decent energy. It's been somewhat low this last week, mostly want to sit, but feel good most of the time doing it
- mostly good moods
- occasional glimpse into skin/libido feeling human again. These had stopped around Jan. Started almost immediately after I started saw palmetto/DIM. Bad estrogen metabolites getting mopped up?


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Dale Edwards to retire at JVS
BLOOMINGDALE – The pending retirement of the superintendent was discussed during Tuesday's Jefferson County Joint Vocational School Board meeting.
Superintendent Dale Edwards told the board he is retiring effective Jan. 1.
"My objective (this year) is to get everything in place before I retired," said Edwards, adding it was a "tough decision. I still enjoy getting up and coming here to work every day, but you have to retire sometime."
Edwards said he began as JVS superintendent after being hired 12 ago by the board.
"There were four members on the board then who are still there today, and the first thing they asked me was how long I would (commit) to being superintendent here, and I said at least eight years. Well, I've been here 12."
Edwards said this also marked his 42nd year in the education field.
In other business Tuesday:
Edwards told board members the school had met all federal standards for vocational training.
"I shared with the board that the school had met all eight (federal) indicators," said Edwards, adding indicators included placement of graduates into jobs and percentage of those who graduate. "The federal government says these are what is expected of us as a vocational training school. To meet all eight indicators is a very good report."
Edwards told board members the school's participation in the past several years in a state program to making the school more energy efficient was bearing fruit.
"Our Treasurer (Karen Spoonemore) will prepare the report," said Edwards. "Not only have we saved enough money for the improvements we made to pay for themselves, we've also saved even more (funds) over that."


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A 10-year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department shot and wounded an armed Portland man early Thursday, authorities say.
Officer Dennis Devlin, 40, is on standard paid administrative leave following the shooting in the 700 block of Main Street in Vancouver, police announced Saturday. Darryl E. Humphrey Jr., 21, was medically treated for a non-life-threatening injury and later booked into the Clark County Jail on charges of attempted murder and assault.
An investigation is ongoing.
Officers responded about 1 a.m. to a report of a fight involving several people and soon found one person with a gunshot wound to the foot, police said.
Humphrey Jr., later confronted officers in the area with a weapon and was shot by Devlin when he ignored the officers' commands, police said. Humphrey's alleged weapon was recovered and police have not said what it is.
Devlin has previously been awarded a department medal of valor for entering a burning home in May 2013 and rescuing a resident with the help of two other officers before the fire department arrived, police said.
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On Dec. 1, Christmas officially began in Madisonville. The Merry Madisonville parade drew a record breaking number of families to the riverfront for an evening of fun, singing, treats and activities for children.
At 4 p.m., the event got underway from the Lake Pontchartrain Maritime Museum with a street parade featuring St Paul's Marching Band, Lake Castle Private School, the 2012 Krewe of Tchefuncte royalty, Mayor Peter Gitz and Toys for Tots.
Classic cars also were drawing attention as they escorted the royal court down the street. Children were thrown candy, beads, stuffed animals and toys as they lined the streets waving as the parade passed by. As the parade ended on the river in front of town hall, St. Pauls Marching Band put on a spectacular show with music and dance.
While the children patiently waited for the arrival of Santa, snow began to trickle down from the sky where it had been blown by a snowman snow machine. Children squealed in delight as the blizzard began to shower them with flurries.
At 5:30, the Madisonville Bridge opened at the arrival of Santa, aka Lynn Haase. Santa and Mrs. Claus arrived to Madisonville aboard the Lagniappe, skippered by Santa's personal captain, Toni Bazer.
Once on land, Santa was treated to the children singing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," "Jingle Bells" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" led by the Guitars in the Classroom, a local nonprofit organization.
When Santa settled down inside his workshop, children lined up to speak with him and take pictures. The pictures were provided free of charge from local business donations.
Children got the royal elf treatment as they were allowed to work in Santa's workshop.
Mandeville's Tri-Theta group helped children at a variety of activities including decorating cookies, coloring pictures and making necklaces. Mrs. Claus, aka Samantha Goodwyn, sat near the Christmas tree and read stories to the children.
The miracle of Merry Madisonville Christmas is provided by the Greater Madisonville Area Chamber of Commerce, local businesses and a host of dedicated volunteers. Chamber board member Louise Lovich leads Santa's helpers with the creation of Santa's Workshop and Chamber board member Michelle Vanderbrook coordinates the Merry Madisonville parade.
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In a few weeks we will be casting our votes for two members of Flemington Borough Council. As far as I am concerned, choosing my candidates is easy because for the past three years we have seen the good work done by the two incumbents, Phil Greiner and John Gorman.
Relatively new to the council and just wrapping up his first elected term, Phil Greiner has accomplished something that longtime politicians may never accomplish. He has garnered the respect of voters in both parties by bringing his common sense insights to the open forum for discussion. That's a winner for sure. Elected on a platform of revitalization and fiscal responsibility, Councilman Greiner has worked with developers to progress the Union Hotel project, and to modify land-use ordinances to help other developers with their projects. He certainly has kept his word in voting against non- essential expenditures.
Certainly, Councilman John Gorman needs no introduction. As a long time borough councilman, the state League of Municipalities inducted Gorman into its Elected Officials Hall of Fame — an honor reserved for those who have served at least 20 years.
Councilman Gorman's knowledge of the borough is encyclopedic. Most recently, he has overseen the completion of the Park Avenue road and drainage project and negotiated with the state Department of Environment Protection to lift water restrictions for homeowners and new businesses and developers alike, allowing for new development and business growth to take place.
As more businesses are perking along in the borough, residents and voters have seen the results of the work done by these two productive councilmembers. That's nothing to take lightly. The Democratic challengers are running on a platform that promotes more websites and budget meetings, not revitalization. Therefore, we cannot assume that newcomers to the council will continue in the footsteps of our incumbents. The redevelopment projects taking root may not have the same strong council support.
The work that Council members Gorman and Greiner have done is very time consuming. Over the past three years they have acquired a wealth of knowledge on the ongoing borough revitalization projects that are beginning to take root. They are getting the job done. So let's not mess with success. Vote Gorman and Greiner on November 5.


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SALEM, Alabama -- A community of mobile homes was destroyed early Tuesday morning after a line of severe storms containing a possible tornado swept through rural Lee County.
The community, which was located near Lee Road 766 in the Salem area, contained more than a dozen homes. Once the storm passed, residents as well as emergency responders worked to gathered what could be salvaged from the wreckage and check on loved ones.
Chris Tate, an official with the Emergency Management Agency, said seven people were injured during the storms in Lee County, but none were considered serious.


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Rapid City Metro Area Profile - Local Employment Dynamics (LED)
About the Rapid City Metro Area
In order to qualify as a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), an area must have at least one urbanized area with a population of 50,000 or more, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties. The Rapid City MSA consists of Custer, Meade and Pennington counties.
The following tables compare the area's total employment, new hires and average wages by age and gender for the first quarters of 2013 and 2014.
Total Employment
Total Employment: The estimate of the total number of jobs on the first day of the reference quarter. Each job a person has is included; therefore multiple jobholders are counted more than once.
In the first quarter of 2014, jobs totaled 59,151 for the Rapid City MSA, a 2.3 percent increase (1,314 jobs gained) over the year. The Finance and Insurance, Accommodations and Food Service, and Construction sectors each gained more than 200 jobs. The Retail Trade sector lost the most jobs (188) and had the second highest percentage loss (-2.0 percent) when compared to the same quarter in 2013. The Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector's employment levels increased the most at 15.5 percent, but due to the relatively small size of the industry, this translates to 18 added jobs. With a loss of 16 jobs, the Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction sector lost about 20 percent of its jobs over the year. It was the only sector to decline more than 2.0 percent. This sector only made up 0.1 percent total employment in the Rapid City MSA.
Employment by Age
Those 65 to 99 years had the greatest increase at 9.3 percent. The 22 to 24 and 14 to 18 groups each increased by more than 6 percent. The Retail Trade and Health Care and Social Assistance sectors provided jobs for more than one-third of the eldest workers. For the youngest workers, 75.0 percent worked in either the Accommodation and Food Services sector or the Retail Trade sector. Almost 60 percent of the 22- to 24-year-olds had jobs in the three sectors mentioned above.
Two age groups had job losses over the year. The 45- to 54-year-olds experienced the greatest job losses numerically (213 jobs lost, equaling a 1.7 percent decline), with more than 100 of the job losses in the Retail Trade sector. The 19- to 21-year olds had a greater percentage drop (89 jobs for 3.3 percent loss). This age group's greatest percentage loss occurred in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting, but this sector only made up 0.2 percent of jobs among this group. Of sectors that made up more than 5.0 percent of the age group's jobs, the Accommodation and Food Services sector had the greatest percentage decline at 10.7 percent.
Employment by Gender and Age
In the Rapid City MSA, the workforce was 52 percent female and 48 percent male during the first quarter of 2014.
More than half of the Rapid City MSA's female workforce worked in Health Care and Social Assistance, Retail Trade, and Accommodation and Food Services. The Health Care and Social Assistance sector employed more than one-quarter of female workers.
Women ages 19 to 21 years had the greatest decline with a 4.2 percent loss. The eldest age group and those 22 to 24 tied at 7.4 percent for the greatest increase.
About half of the Rapid City MSA's male workforce worked in Retail Trade, Construction, Accommodation and Food Services, or Health Care and Social Assistance. The Retail Trade sector employed more than 16 percent of male workers.
Like their female counterparts, employment levels for males 19 to 21 years declined the most ( 2.4 percent). Employment levels for males 65 to 99 years increased by 11 percent, the greatest increase over the year.
Hiring Activity
New Hires: The estimated number of workers who started a new job. More specifically, total hires who worked for an employer in the specified quarter and were not employed by that employer in any of the previous four quarters. New hire activity is heavily affected by seasonality and economic influences.
In the Rapid City MSA, total new hires increased 3.9 percent from 2013 to 2014 (first quarters).The Retail Trade sector gained the most new hires (153), followed by Accommodation and Food Services (94); new hire jobs in the Finance and Insurance sector declined the most (down 145) when compared to the first quarter of 2013.
New Hires by Age
The 25 to 34 year age group made up 27.4 percent of the new hires in the first quarter of 2014 (the most of any age group). With an 18.8 percent gain over the year, the 55- to 64-year-olds took the top spot in new hire growth. The 22- to 24-year-olds were the only age group with lower new hire levels over the year.
New Hires by Gender and Age
In the Rapid City MSA, the new hires for the first quarter of 2014 were 48 percent female and 52 percent male.
More than 30 percent of female new hires were employed in the Accommodations and Food Services sector. An additional 30 percent of the Rapid City MSA's female new hire jobs were in Health Care and Social Assistance or Retail Trade.
New hires for females increased by more than 20 percent in the two eldest age groups. New hires fell 10.7 percent in the 22 to 24 year group.
The Accommodations and Food Services sector also employed the most male new hires at 26.2 percent; more than half of the Rapid City MSA's male new hires worked in Accommodations and Food Services, Construction or Retail Trade.
At 15.4 percent, males 55 to 64 years had the highest percentage increase in new hire levels for males. With less than a 1 percent drop, the 22- to 24-year-olds were the only male new hire group to decline over the year.
Average monthly earnings: The average monthly earnings of employees with stable jobs (worked at the same firm for the entire quarter). Earnings measures are a mix of full-time and part-time jobs (not adjusted for hours).
In the Rapid City MSA, earnings rose 3.2 percent from 2013 to 2014 (first quarters).
Earnings by Age
Earnings for all age groups rose at least 2 percent over the year. The three age groups comprised of those 35 to 64 years old earned wages that surpassed $3,500 per month on average for the first quarter of 2014; those in the 45 to 54 age group were $9 shy of averaging $4,000 per month. On the opposite end of the pay scale, the youngest workforce members (14- to 18-year-olds) earned about $500 per month on average. The 35- to 44-year-olds' wages increased by 5.7 percent over the year, the greatest percentage increase among the age groups.
Earnings by Gender and Age
Overall, women's average monthly earnings increased by 1.3 percent; none of the female age groups earnings declined over the year. Earnings for women 65 to 99 years old increased the most at 5.4 percent.
Overall, men's average monthly earnings increased 4.4 percent. None of the male earnings declined over the year. The 35- to 44-year-olds' average earnings increased the most at 7.7 percent.
Rapid City MSA On The Map
The following graphics provide labor shed data (where people in the area live and work) for the Rapid City MSA. At the beginning of the second quarter in 2011 (the most current data available), 86.9 percent of the workers who lived in the Rapid City MSA had a primary job in the MSA. The other 13.1 percent lived in the MSA, but worked outside the area. Of those employed in the area, 17.6 percent commute from outside the MSA. A primary job is the highest paying job for an individual worker. Primary jobs are public- and private-sector jobs, one job per worker.
About the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Data
The LED partnership is the cornerstone of a program designed to develop new information about local labor markets. This partnership between state labor market information agencies and the Census Bureau supplies new measures known as Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI). The LED data compiled throughout this report by the U.S. Census Bureau is not reflective of labor market reports from other Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) programs.
Note: Federal government employment is not generally included in the QWI data. Exempted employment varies slightly from state to state due to variations in state unemployment laws, but generally also excludes many farmers and agricultural employees, domestic workers, self-employed non-agricultural workers, members of the Armed Services, some state and local government employees as well as certain types of nonprofit employers and religious organizations (which are given a choice of coverage or non-coverage in a number of states).
How is confidentiality addressed in the data?
The Census Bureau and the state partners are committed to protecting the confidentiality of the data in the LED files. Technically, the approach to avoid disclosure of individual information combines cell suppression methodology with the addition of statistical noise, controlling key measures to county employment levels as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
You can easily access the LED data tools on the U.S. Census Bureau's website. The Labor Market Information Center's economic analysts are familiar with the tools and are available to assist you. Please contact us as needed for assistance.


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MOUNT PLEASANT, MI — If every Homecoming is like the one Central Michigan received Saturday, Oct. 19 from No. 23-ranked Northern Illinois, it would rather stay on the road.
CMU returned to Kelly/Shorts for Homecoming in its first home game in a month, and the Chippewas fell victim to the Huskies' high-octane offense in dropping a 38-17 contest.
Cooper Rush threw a pair of touchdown passes to Titus Davis and Andrew Flory to give CMU a 14-7 lead over the two-time defending Mid-American Conference champion in the first quarter, however, Northern Illinois bounced back with 17 straight points to grab a lead it would not relinquish.
Jordan Lynch rushed for an FBS record 316 yards and three touchdowns for the Huskies, while completing 20 of 30 passes for 155 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
The Huskies — who pushed their conference winning streak to 20 games — outgained the Chippewas 592-346 in total yardage.
Lynch threw a 9-yard touchdown to Tommylee Lewis in the first quarter, then he added a rushing score in the second and third quarters. Tyler Wedel kicked a 34-yard field goal for the Huskies who led 24-14 going into the fourth quarter.
Ron Coluzzi kicked a 38-yard field goal for the Chippewas early in the fourth quarter to draw within a touchdown, but CMU could come no closer.
Lynch had a 3-yard plunge in the fourth for his third touchdown of the afternoon, and Cameron Stingily added a 19-yard scoring jaunt of his own to secure the win.
Rush finished 16 of 32 passing for 271 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. Davis and Flory each had five receptions for 109 and 81 yards, respectively.
CMU (3-5, 2-2) are off until Wednesday, Nov. 6 when the Chippewas travel to take on Ball State.
Cory Butzin covers sports for MLive/Saginaw News. Email him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter.


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It takes a lot to shake a world made of metal, but the steel world shook indeed yesterday, as news of Netherlands-based Ispat International's (NYSE: IST ) acquisition of International Steel Group (NYSE: ISG ) began filtering down to create a realization that the Dutch company is about to become the world's second largest steelmaker (by revenues). Privately held Luxembourg steelmaker Arcelor S.A. would remain the largest with a couple more euros a year than the new company's $32 billion in revenues; Japan's Nippon Steel and JFE Holdings would become Nos. 3 & 4, with revenues of $27.7 billion and $23.4 billion, respectively. U.S. Steel (NYSE: X ) , with a piddling $11.6 billion in sales, will remain the biggest U.S.-based steelmaker.
The ISG/Ispat transaction goes as follows: A gentleman by the name of Mr. Lakshmi Mittal (according to the British paper The Independent, the U.K.'s richest man) owns a private firm, LNM Holdings, and a publicly listed firm, Ispat. Ispat will first buy out LNM and rename itself in honor of the architect of this plan: the Mittal Steel Company. Then Mittal will buy out ISG for $4.5 billion in cash and stock. By the time all three firms have been combined, Mr. Mittal's family will own 88% of this conglomerate.
According to the terms of the buyout, each of ISG's shares will fetch $21 in cash and $21 in Mittal stock. News of the deal initially sent ISG shares soaring 19% in price to reach $35.25 on Monday, then another 6% to $37.34 by the end of Tuesday (with shares of peer steelmakers Nucor (NYSE: NUE ) , AK Steel (NYSE: AKS ) , and Steel Dynamics (Nasdaq: STLD ) , among others, rising in tandem). That still leaves a difference of nearly $5 between the offer price and ISG's current price, however -- a relatively large difference in comparison to similar buyouts that apparently reflects the market's uncertainty that the deal will receive regulatory approval in all of the 14 jurisdictions in which the companies do business. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2005, though, so over the next two to five months, that difference should narrow as the likelihood of its completion increases. In the meantime, it offers risk-taking investors a chance to buy a dollar for $0.90.
Worst-case scenario: the deal doesn't go through, and an investor gets "stuck" with shares of a solo ISG -- a company that just reported earnings suggesting it will make about $5.50 in profit this year, giving it a forward P/E ratio of less than 7 even after its share price jump.
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Fool contributorRich Smith has no interest in any of the companies mentioned in this article.


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New Uniform Customs and Practices for Letters of Credit, UCP 600 Attorney at Law Dr. Jens Nielsen, Hamburg, Germany
1) The never ending attempt to adapt to new technologies and the simplification of rules
On June 1, 2007 the new Uniform Customs and Practices for Documentary Credits, published as International Chamber of Commerce publication No 600, will take effect. The first version of the UCP was drafted at the ICC congress in Vienna in 1933 (ICC-Publication No. 82). After the first revision in 1951, the UCP were again revised in 1962, latter revision being of particular significance, since for the first time Great Britain and the Commonwealth accepted the UCP. The UCP were again revised in 1974 and 1993; the 1993 revision obtained the blessing of the UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) which recommended that the UCP be applied to all documentary credits [1].
The stated goal of the current revision has been identical to previous ones, i.e. - take into account developments in banking, transportation and insurance - review the wording of the UCP to avoid differing interpretations and applications [2]. In a note to its members and the national committees the ICC itself labeled the new revision as "the most comprehensive in the entire history of the rules." Comprehensiveness however did not lead to substantive changes.
The ICC has shortened the number of articles from 49 to 38. This change is mostly cosmetic however, since substantive changes are barely noticeable. An exception to the foregoing is the shortening of the time to examine documents from seven to five working days.
2) Structural Changes
The drafters of the UCP 600 unfortunately have given up the division of the text with upper case characters. The criterion of inconsistency of documents (Article 13 a sentence 3 UCP 500) was watered down to read now " Data in a document, when read in context with the credit, the document itself and international standard banking practice, need not be identical to, but must not conflict with, data in that document, any other stipulated document or the credit." (Article 14 d UCP 600). The term "to honour" has been newly introduced and obligates the issuing bank to comply with its payment obligations whether they are based on sight payment, deferred payment, acceptance, deferred payments or negotiation L/Cs. The term to negotiate has been newly introduced (Article 2 UCP 600) and means "the purchase by the nominated bank of drafts ...by advancing or agreeing to advance funds to the beneficiary on or before the banking day on which reimbursement is due to the nominated bank" .
Article 12 b UCP 600 allows that a nominating bank prepay (!) or purchase a draft accepted or a deferred payment undertaking incurred by that nominated bank. In this context it should be remembered that individual agreements take precedence over general terms and conditions. Under this doctrine the discounting of deferred-payment L/Cs is - contrary to the wording of Article 12 b UCP 600- not allowed,. One of the most important structural changes of the UCP 600 consists of the introduction of articles regarding definitions (Article 2) and interpretation (Article 3). These new articles summarize what in the UCP 500 had been spread over various articles relating to specific documents.
The goal of the UCP 600 was to reduce redundancy [3]. It remains doubtful however, whether these summaries, in particular article 3, are advantageous. Article 3 contains, without any numbering or division, in twelve paragraphs of completely differing content. Beginning with the concept of irrevocability of LCs, continuing to creation of originals, time related concepts like "on or about", "to", "until", "till", "from" and "between", and "beginning", "middle" and "end" of a month.
3) short review of the most important changes
The most important practical change is the reduction of time to examine documents from previously seven bank working days (UCP 13 b UCP 500) to now five (Article 14b UCP 600). At this point it is not clear whether this will lead to a quicker examination of documents, as is the ICCs intention, or rather convince banks to use the entire time allotted for examination.
Article 1 - 5 Definition, Interpretation, independence of credits and underlying contracts.
Article 6 - 10 Availability, expiry date and place, obligations of issuing and confirming bank, advising credits and amendments.
Article 11 - 17 Pre-Advised Credits, nominated bank, reimbursement arrangements, complying presentations and discrepant documents, waiver, original documents and notices Article 18 Commercial invoice Article 19 - 27 Transport Documents Article 28 Insurance documents Article 29 - 37 Extension of Expiry Date, tolerances, partial drawings and partial shipments, Disclaimers
Article 38 - 39 Transferability of Credits and Assignment of Proceeds. The most important substantive changes are: The criterion that documents have to appear to comply "on their face" is only mentioned in Article 14 a UCP 600. This leaves open that one has to consult the back side of the document. The criterion of inconsistency (Article 13 a UCP 500 "Documents which appear on their face to be inconsistent with one another") was watered down to read now (see Article 14 d UCP 600): "Data in a document, when read in context ... need not be identical to, but must not conflict with..."
4) criterion of documentary compliance
The requirement that documents have to be examined whether they appear to comply "on their face" has not changed; Article 14 a UCP 600 adds however, whether the documents appear to "constitute a complying presentation". This addition should not be interpreted as a softening of the standard of documentary compliance. This view is supported by ICC publication 645 International Standby Banking Practice for the examination of documents under documentary credits which also applies to UCP 600 [4]. In the introduction to ICC-Publ. 645 the ICC states that the ISBP have developed into a necessary complement to the UCP which practitioners should continue to apply, also the ICC announces an amended version of the ISBP. Contrary to the ISBP, the four position papers of the ICC dated September 1994 are not applicable to the UCP 600. The decision regarding the determination of original documents however is still valid but has been incorporated into the UCP 600 [5].
[1] Wheble, ICC-Publication No 415, page 42
[2] ICC-Publication No 600 ED, Introduction, page 11
[3] ICC-Publication No 600 ED, Introduction, page 15
[4] ICC-Publication No 600 ED, Introduction, page 13
[5] ICC-Publication No 600 ED, Introduction, page 13


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Elstree's Ohr Yisrael (Federation) Synagogue and the local Yavneh College have launched a programme to enable Jewish 11-16-year-olds to hear the stories of Holocaust survivors at first hand.
Ohr Yisrael minister Rabbi Raphy Garson believes that while increasing numbers of non-Jewish pupils have the opportunity to hear from survivors through Holocaust educational programmes, Jewish youngsters sometimes miss out.
"As the years tick by, the possibility of learning about the Holocaust from those who experienced its horrors is becoming rarer. It is time for the younger generation also to hear what these people have to say before it is too late."
He has organised the programme with congregant Rabbi Andrew Davis, Yavneh's deputy head.
It has already attracted some 80 youngsters from the Hertfordshire area to hear talks by Louis Kleinman, who survived several concentration camps and was liberated on the death march to Dachau; Alec Ward, a survivor of Buchenwald and Mauthausen; and Auschwitz survivor Yisroel Abelesz.
As Rabbi Garson is keen for participants to see the programme as "not just another school event", the monthly sessions are being held in private homes in the Elstree area.
If the current response rate is maintained, he aims to roll out the programme to more Jewish schools.


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Winesburg, Ohio: Novel Summary: The Untold Lie
Ray Pearson, an older farmhand, is a quiet man. He is married to a shrewish woman whom he had to marry after he got her pregnant many years ago. They have six children. His colleague, Hal Winters, is a young, boisterous man who has gotten his girlfriend pregnant. One day in October, when they are working together in a field, Hal asks Ray what he ought to do. Ray does not answer. He cannot bring himself to say what he knows he should say. Later, after returning to his shrewish wife, Ray wants to help the other man avoid his fate. He runs after Hal, intending to tell the young man not to get tied down in a marriage. When he catches up with Hal, he cannot say what he came to say. Hal laughs, knowing what Ray was going to say, and tells him that he wants to marry Nell and have a family. Nell has not asked him to marry her, but he is ready to be married. As he walks home, Ray has a pleasant memory of evenings spent with his children, and he realizes that whatever he had planned to tell Hal would have been a lie.
After telling the interesting tale of how Hal's father, Windpeter, died, Anderson writes: "But this is not the story of Windpeter Winters nor yet of his son Hal" but "It will. be necessary to talk a little of young Hal so that you will get into the spirit of it" (204). This is one of several instances in which he tells a bit of a side story and then says that he is not telling that person's story. Anderson is drawing attention to the storyteller. This is a collection of stories about a collection of people, but there are many other stories out there that could be told. These stories may illustrate a particular set of circumstances, but other stories will illustrate other ideas or circumstances. Unlike many novels that pretend to be complete contained worlds, Anderson is drawing the reader's attention to the fact that any story could be a different story if that were what the storyteller chose to focus upon.
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When does an agent want to see a book proposal?
I've been trying to answer a backlog of questions writers have sent my way, so we're doing some short-answer blog posts for a while. For example, one person asked, "At what point in the process does an agent want to see a book proposal? After the book is completed?"
Most agents will look at a nonfiction book proposal before the book is completed, but after the author has figured out what he or she wants to say. That is, the author has figured out the question and the answer, and has tried to put some structure (in terms of an outline or table of contents) to the material. With a fiction proposal, most agents want to see a synopsis or overview, just to know what the basic story is, then the first ten to fifty pages, to see if the author can write. If the agent reads a portion and likes it, he or she will probably ask for the rest of the manuscript.
Someone else asked, "I've been told the internet has killed nonfiction… Is nonfiction really dead? It seems like most of the questions you get have to do with fiction."
My wife was cooking an East Indian dish the other day, and needed a recipe. Where did she go? To a cookbook? Nope, she went online. I was looking for the answer to a port wine question yesterday. Did I look at one of my wine books? Nope, I went to the web. The internet has made basic information available on every topic to anyone with a computer. That puts the core of nonfiction at risk. I think this points to a major shift we're seeing in publishing — away from much nonfiction in traditional print form. There will still be plenty of nonfiction that sees print (history, memoir, and much of the "literary" side of writing), but a lot of the how-to side is quickly shifting to an electronic format. People still love and buy nonfiction books, but only when they NEED to, or they see it as having literary quality, or the material is not readily available in a digital format.
One author wanted to know, "Is it the agent's job to tell the publisher they're being too slow, or to withdraw a project from a house, or is that the author's job?"
If the agent sent a project to a publishing house, it's the agent's responsibility to follow up on that project. That said, I don't often tell a publisher they're being "too slow." Publishing is a slow business. I will often check on a project, to make sure it's being reviewed and hasn't fallen through the cracks, but I don't often push them to make a decision. (Why? Because when pushed, the easiest answer is "no.")
Another asked this: "If I regularly read an agent's blog, should I mention that when I query them?"
I would. It establishes a connection.
A friend wrote to say, "You've often encouraged authors to promote themselves, yet you do a lot of inspirational books. How do you reconcile self-promotion with the Christian teachings on pride and being self-effacing?"
I was just asked this question on another website recently, so let me share the response I gave to them: "Promotion" and "pride" are two separate things. The church tells people to beware of pride — not to have too high an opinion of oneself, or to take all the credit for something, lord your success over others, or brag about how wonderful you are. When we do that, we lose our perspective as to where our talent comes from. But "promotion" is different than "pride." It simply means we are encouraging or advancing something — and with a clear conscience, it's promoting something we actually believe in. Move this out of the realm of books for a moment… If you were selling vacuum cleaners, would your faith keep you from advertising them? ("I can't tell anyone about my vacuum cleaners — they're really good, but it would look like I'm too proud of them.") That's crazy. If you work hard, have confidence in your work, and feel your product is helpful to others, should you feel awkward about telling others about it? I don't think so. An author is creating art, so would we ask a singer not to sing in public, or a painter not hang her art in a gallery for fear others will notice their gifts? Of course not. Similarly, I think authors can promote the books they create in good conscience. Sure, that could cross over into the realm of an unhealthy, overweening arrogance — but any business where people are publicly successful holds that trap. So I think an individual take steps to make sure that doesn't happen. I see nothing in my religious faith that tells me not to share the art I believe in with others.
One author sent this: "Will self-publishing my novel help me or hurt me when I approach a traditional publisher?"
Most likely, the answer is "neither." Self-publishing probably won't help you land a deal with a traditional publisher unless you sell a bajillion copies. Yeah, yeah… The Shack did exactly that, but that's news because it's so rare. For every Shack there are ten thousand other self-pubbed novels that did nothing. And then, if you sell a bajillion copies, you may not need that traditional publisher. But I certainly don't think self-publishing will actually HURT you, unless your book is so horrendously bad that it becomes an insider joke.
I got this interesting question a couple weeks ago: "I wrote a story that is being produced as a play. A friend suggested I invite an agent to come see it. Is that common? Would it help me in any way?"
It may not be common, but I don't see how it could hurt (assuming the play is good, of course). My suggestion: contact the agent, introduce yourself, explain the situation, invite him or her, then leave two good tickets at the door. I've known authors who have done that.
And I had several versions of this question: "How difficult is it for an author to break into more than one genre?"
If you're a genre writer in fiction (that is, you're basically writing romances, or historicals, or mysteries, or westerns, or thrillers, etc), then each time you switch genres, you have to start over. If you're a literary fiction writer, it's a bit easier, since you don't have a genre-specific readership. However, be aware that if you have a loyal following in one genre, your readers might view your move to another genre as breaking your promise ("You ALWAYS write legal thrillers! And now you're writing boring novels about poor people painting their house?!"). As I've stated earlier, moving from fiction to nonfiction is exceedingly, abundantly difficult. Fiction readers won't cross over to read your nonfiction, and the skills used in the genres are very different.


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Public Transportation Administrator Larry Falkner will present details of a public transportation action plan to the Idaho Transportation Board when it assembles for a Feb. 22 workshop prior to its regular meeting the following day.
ITD, Ada County Highway District (ACHD), Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho (COMPASS) and Valley Regional Transit collaborated on a public transportation plan for the six-county region of southwestern Idaho (Ada, Boise, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, and Payette counties).
The group focused on:
Action items have been identified for each major subject. A lead agency has been chosen for each focus area and will develop a timeline. Although the action plan will be provided for consideration at the workshop, the intent of ITD's staff is to request board support and approval of the plan at a future meeting.
Other board discussions
DMV Information Technology (IT) System Transition
Staff will report during the board workshop about progress made thus far. The current approach is to hire a "solution planner" to direct the planning phase of the project. The primary outcome will be a recommendation on the best option for ITD's short- and long-term success.
The possible solution could assume one of two options: 1) a system developed, hosted and maintained by an outside vendor, or 2) a system developed by an outside vendor, but hosted and maintained by ITD. The solution planner also would develop a funding plan for consideration.
The new IT system will meet the Financial Services requirements for a new point-of-sale accounting and inventory tracking system. It also will process data from the Division of Aeronautics' programs: airman licensing, aircraft registration and aircraft dealer registration.
Mid-Year Financial Statement
The greatest variance, in terms of dollars, is in revenue from gasoline. The department forecast through December was $47.2 million from gasoline tax; $45.5 million was collected. This is a variance of -3.6 percent. Revenue from vehicle registrations and truck registrations are ahead of the forecast by 8 percent and 7.3 percent, respectively, with receipts-to-date of $13.5 million and $10.9 million.
The mid-year financial analysis indicates that expenditures for personnel, operating, and capital equipment are less than budgeted.
The aviation fuel tax revenue received through December was 5 percent higher than projections, and overall expenditures in the State Aeronautics Fund are less than last year. The Aircraft Operations Fund exceeds projections by $24,500.
At the end of 2005, there were 93 vacancies at ITD. Following is the personnel complement and number of vacancies for each division.
Published 2-17-06