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By Liz Dudley/Staff Writer
Several pounds below his weight as Millerstown's police chief and noticeably less cocky, Richard Curran sat through a preliminary hearing for the murder of his ex-wife, Tina, on Sept. 25 in Northumberland County Court.
The hearing was a fact-finding presentation as defense attorney Karl Rominger acknowledged to Judge John Gembic.
"I told my client to realize that a prima-facie case standard is — there might be a crime and you might have done it." Although the case as presented mostly was circumstantial, Rominger said he wouldn't argue against the prosecution having met that standard. No defense witnesses were presented.
The judge bound the case over to court.
Northumberland County District Attorney Anthony Rosini organized his case mostly sequentially, building from alleged arguments between Curran and his ex-wife to the shooting and the 18 or so hours afterward.
Tina and Richard Curran, both 31, were married in 1996 and divorced in January 2004. Two daughters were born to the couple. They argued over child support.
Tina Curran's boyfriend, Jesse James, glared at the defendant as he told how the defendant came to his house the day before the murder, looking for Tina. He told James he wanted Tina to decrease his child support payments and arrange for back payments to be forgiven beyond his $1,000 federal income tax return.
James said Tina told him she would do it. He didn't hear from her until the next morning, when she called him to say Richard Curran was in the house. James sped toward her house, stopping along the way at the Mt. Carmel police station to request that an officer also go to the house.
Curran was outside the house when James arrived. "He approached me at the vehicle and said he had to talk to her about the child support and that he'd just been disciplined at work because he had no money for gas and he missed a day."
Curran had been hired as police chief for Bernville Police Department in Bucks County at the time.
Mt. Carmel Police Chief Brian Shurock tried to talk Tina into filing charges but she worried if she did, she would lose her child support. She said she just wanted him to stay away and not come around unless invited.
"His attitude was poor, cocky toward me, and I told him if it was up to me I'd arrest him then and there," Shurock testified. "I asked him if he was still a police officer and when he said yes, I asked the name of his supervisor and told him I was going to call him and tell him about his poor attitude.
"He turned to Tina and said she should tell me not to call," Shurock continued. "Then he said, 'Go ahead and arrest me because I can beat you in court just like I beat the P.F.A. (Protection from Abuse Order).'"
Less than an hour later Shurock was called to Shamokin Area Community Hospital where a shooting was reported. Tina Curran worked there as a nurse.
Karen Bandas is employed with the Area Agency for Aging and she was on her way to see a client at the hospital that morning when she saw a blue car behind her "driving erratically, down the center and onto the berm," she said. She turned right into the hospital parking lot and the blue car left.
Bandas parked and had one leg out of the car door when she heard gunfire. She got back into the car and locked the door. She later identified Curran's car as the one behind her and Curran as the driver.
A hospital employee out having a cigarette break, testified she heard gun shots and saw the blue car speed away. She ran inside and wrote the license number on her boss' calendar pad ... ENR982.
Richard Curran's license plate for the Ford is ENPP882. Detective William Carpenter of the Coal Twp. Police Department said there is a "Fraternal Order of Police" emblem on the plate that obscures a part of the P and number 8 next to it.
A surgeon and a vice president of nursing were among those to respond to Tina Curran after the shooting. Both testified they had great difficulty getting a pulse or blood pressure. "She was extremely near death if not dead," Dr. John Semian said.
Tina Curran was taken by helicopter to Geisinger Medical Center where she was pronounced dead an hour later.
Richard Curran was taken into custody 10 hours later at the Canadian border at Niagara Falls, after customs officers found undeclared firearms in his vehicle and a police check revealed that he was wanted for homicide.
The gun and ammunition he had been issued in Bernville were with him when he was arrested.
His attorney was called into the case just days ago. Rominger said they are asking the court not to seize Curran's assets so that he can pay for his defense. Otherwise, Rominger would be paid by Northumberland County as a public defender.
Gembic set Nov. 2 as the next appearance.


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Most the people admitted to Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Center spend anywhere from a few days to a few months inside those walls.
With any luck, Ryan Podvin will likely be there for years.
And he's counting his blessings for the opportunity.
Podvin, 28, knows not only what it's like to be wheeled into the world-renowned facility as the victim of a traumatic accident, but more recently, to enter on his own two feet as a full-time employee.
His story began tragically enough three summers ago, in the shallow waters off a beachfront home in Holland, where he was spending time with his fiancé and friends and future in-laws.
One minute, he was performing the same sort of dive we've all done in order to experience the rush of an oncoming wave. And in the next, he was nicking his chin on the bottom, and then floating face down, paralyzed, with these seven words haunting him: "Oh God, I just broke my neck."
He prayed that his fiancé, Jessica Dean, 30, would spot him, and she did, but not before he began drowning. After being dragged to shore, Jessica's father, an anesthesiologist, intubated him. It was the first of many procedures that would define his long way back from nearly dying, and almost leaving him with paraplegia or quadriplegia.
Podvin underwent spinal surgery and spent a month at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital before enduring another two months at Mary Free Bed.
When I visited with him two years ago, about 13 months after the accident, he was relying on a cane and looking vulnerable, yet passionate about getting on with his life. That included his upcoming wedding at the time to Jessica, which occurred just days after our interview.
Even with a life partner at his side, he still had to figure out his career path. He'd graduated years earlier with a degree in landscape architecture. But following the accident, it grew increasingly obvious that his disability wouldn't allow him to return to that arena, which includes not only office work, but large doses of tramping the outdoors.
Another man might have resigned himself to throwing in the towel, and continue accepting the $2,200 in monthly disability and Social Security payments which he qualified to receive indefinitely.
Not Ryan Podvin.
"It was torture, sitting around all day," he says, looking back on that period where he was largely incapacitated. "I was going out of my mind, sitting around, doing nothing."
Of the option to resign himself to a life where he would rely on payments rather than work, he says, "That wasn't even an option to me."
Instead, Podvin went back to school, forcing his wobbly legs to and from classes en route to a master's degree with an emphasis in finance.
It's an about-face from a life surrounded by blueprints and botany, but one in which he took initial interest shortly after graduating from high school, when he first considered a career in business, but soured on that plan after a bad experience with an Econ class.
He credits educators and others at Grand Valley State University for helping to accommodate him the second time through. And today, he's just as grateful for mentors at Mary Free Bed, who allowed him to serve there eight months as an intern while he completed his advanced degree, which took two years to finish.
"So much support," he says, and he rattles of the names of those at the college and the hospital who helped him re-cast his dreams.
Today, Ryan serves Mary Free Bed as a "Decision Support Analyst," responsible for helping define and unravel growth initiatives and strategic plans as the hospital expands and performs upgrades to its internal systems.
In an unofficial capacity, he also serves as a resource person for peer support, able in both formal and spontaneous ways to rub shoulders with patients who might benefit by encouragement from someone who's walked their path.
Podvin's days aren't easy. Routinely, it means rising around 5:30, spending the bulk of the day at MFB, and then spending time with Jessica, as well as his stepdaughter, Tessa, 11. "By the end of the day," he admits, "I'm whipped."
He hasn't had any accidents since, unless you count the recent day when their dog dragged his thin frame across the hood of a car.
Podvin is still so new to the job – he was hired Sept. 16 -- that he's still bumping into folks who are seeing him for the first time as a colleague, not patient.
Just the other day, he encountered fellow employee Jennifer Findlay in the elevator.
"Welcome to Mary Free Bed," she said, and with a twinkle in her eye, added, "but now you're getting paid for it."
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With 23 years of experience running junior tennis camps, The Randy Mani Tennis Academy at Hardscrabble Club is committed to building the complete player by emphasizing the fundamentals: correct technique, stroke mechanics, footwork and drills with competitive play mixed in; and also optimizing each player's physical conditioning. Yet, we never forgetting that summer camp should be fun! Our Staff is made up of highly experienced and successful tennis coaches. We have earned our fine reputation through the only true test there is – by consistently producing winners for the past 23 years at RMTA.
Randy is USPTR (Professional) certified and is well known in the USTA/Eastern's world of Junior Tennis as a top caliber Coach. With more than 23 years of coaching experience, Randy's students include several juniors who have achieved top Sectional, National and/or ITF rankings – and who have gone on to represent their colleges on Div I and II teams and/or also played professionally. Randy is inspired by and dedicated to the art of coaching tennis, as is evident in all programs spearheaded by him.
The High Performance Camp Program is a full day camp on Monday-Friday (except July 5th session which starts on Tuesday) from 10:00am-4:00pm designed for advance, competitive, tournament-playing juniors ages 9-18. Camp focuses on advanced techniques and strategies to raise your game to the next level. This program includes tennis drills, match-play sessions, classroom sessions for tactics and strategy, and daily strength & injury prevention training, conditioning for footwork, speed, agility and endurance at the fitness center.
The All Skills Program is a half day camp on Monday-Friday (except July 5th session which starts on Tuesday) from 9:00am-12:00pm geared towards players ages 9-18 of all skill levels. This program is geared towards beginners through advanced players who love this sport. This program includes tennis drills, match-play sessions, and some strength & injury prevention training, conditioning for footwork, speed, agility and endurance at the fitness center.
The 10&Under Tennis Program is a half day camp on Tues/Wed/Thurs from 9:00am-12:00pm geared towards players ages 6-10 who are just learning the sport. '10 & Under Tennis' (aka QuickStart) follows the logic of other youth sports: balls bounce lower, move slower through the air and are easier to hit. Racquets are sized for small hands and courts are smaller and easier to cover. By using this format, the benefits are immediate and very quickly little kids are rallying, playing, and excited to keep playing! This program includes tennis drills and match play sessions.
High Performance campers can bring their own lunch or purchase lunch at the Hardscrabble Club Cafe. Lunches can be refrigerated for campers who choose to bring their own packed lunch. All Skills and 10&Under Campers depart before lunch.
Hardscrabble Club is a state-of-the-art tennis, squash and fitness club situated on 7 acres within a cul-de-sac. Hardscrabble Club boasts 4 clay and 3 hard indoor courts and 2 additional clay courts outdoor. Campers will enjoy both indoor and outdoor time as well as access to all the club's amenities – café, lounge with large-screen TV, etc.
tennis courts - 7 indoor (air-conditioned - 3 hard and 4 clay)
tennis courts - 2 outdoor clay
squash courts – 2 indoor
fitness center – fully equipped for strength and sport-specific training and conditioning
studio - for group exercise classes
multi-purpose gym - featuring basketball, volleyball, badminton, etc.
A detailed camper registration packet containing check in location, health/release forms, emergency contact info, and a list of things to bring will be emailed to all registered campers in the Spring. Our health and release forms do not require a doctor's signature and they will be collected on the first day of camp.
Camp Code: TNXDHC
It's a great program!!
From the parents perspective he had a great time and is excited to continue with additional weeks this summer.
Our daughter had a great time at this camp!
2017 Dates and Prices Coming Soon! Join our email list to be notified when the program is available.


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05-07-2011 14:15
05-07-2011 14:15
In Skype's excellently designed user interface [hint: sarcasm] I am unable to find out how to disable automatic updates. Is this possible?
Even though "you shouldn't disable updates" is not the answer to the question I am asking I'll provide the reason I want to do this up front. Basically because every time I go to make an important call it seems like Skype wants to update. Since I'm in the habit of clicking Allow on the UAC messages (especially when they are blue due to a digitally signed installer), I invariably find myself looking at a Skype window saying that its updating and it may take minutes, when I'm supposed to be starting a conference call for 20 people. I'm getting rather annoyed by it; I just want to turn these updates off and install them only when I manually initiate it.
05-07-2011 15:10
05-07-2011 15:10
Abdul wrote:
In Skype's excellently designed user interface [hint: sarcasm] I am unable to find out how to disable automatic updates. Is this possible?
sorry, not possible
05-07-2011 17:05
05-07-2011 17:05
Thanks for the reply.
I don't like the answer but that's not your fault of course. So I guess I'm going to have to train myself to start Skype up well in advance of when I need it, or to not religiously accept installation prompts for Skype (a harder habit to break than you might think). Perhaps if I can figure out a way to trick myself into thinking "Adobe" when Skype updates appear I'll be able to reject them without thinking. :smileyhappy:
23-07-2011 23:30
23-07-2011 23:30
I need to disable these annoying automatic updates on skype so that I am in control of them, anyone help please. If someone says its not possible then I will move to another provider, that is not acceptable!
23-07-2011 23:42 - edited 23-07-2011 23:43
23-07-2011 23:42 - edited 23-07-2011 23:43
Please see section 5.3 of the Skype Terms of Use, it is also presented as a link on every install of the client program and is located and can be found as the "Legal" link at the bottom right of every page located on Skype.com.
Please copy/paste the link below into the browser window of your choice:
08-10-2011 00:09
08-10-2011 00:09
08-10-2011 00:14
08-10-2011 00:14
NEDvx wrote:
You know, being in business-- sure something might be legal and clearly defined in your legal text, but sometimes, while being legal, its just bad business. You have a large amount of users who find your automatic updates annoying. I can personally attest to everyone at my company who uses your service (we all pay for subscriptions) is annoyed by the automatic updates, the nag screens, and with the current layout. You need to give people options. If you don't give people options in your program, they'll MAKE other options. Like going to another company. Want to lose 20+ accounts? Keep spouting that nonsense about "its in the terms of service." Bad business practices are legal. Keep it up guys. If we don't see any movement on this within a month we're switching.
I do not work for Skype.
Also, please see this: http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows/Unattended-i
08-10-2011 11:24 - edited 08-10-2011 11:42
08-10-2011 11:24 - edited 08-10-2011 11:42
NEDvx wrote:
Bad business practices are legal.
some are. but some are not.
it may be worth reading some of the many threads dealing with this topic, e.g.
21-10-2011 15:16
21-10-2011 15:16
Yeah, it's **bleep**ing ridiculous. They make a new update every week and the only real changes are throwing all the items from the GUI around, and changing the icons for the smileys, then they disable autoupdating in the new version, so you just have to take it and get used to the new stupid **bleep**.
You'd think a company as big as this that relies on people paying money to make calls would make autoupdates not a waste of time, but nope.
As for your problem, there are older versions of skype you can find on a site such as Filehippo that still have the autoupdate option in there, though I don't know if that has a different GUI or which version it is.
27-10-2011 02:32
27-10-2011 02:32
go to Skype, tools, options, advanced and undo the check boxes that say Notify me, and Automatically download and install it. Hope this helps


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SPRINGHILL – A new development in forest management is making its way to Springhill.
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The Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) is aimed at forest professionals, woodlot owners those interested in management of natural resources. The Nova Scotia section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry is rolling out a technical workshop in eight communities in the province and on Thursday, March 13, as well as an evening forum.
For forestry professionals, the afternoon workshop runs from 1-5 p.m. at the Nova Scotia Community College's Cumberland Campus. Registration is $25, and participants will receive a copy of the FEC manual.
The evening forum is open to woodlot owners and anyone else who is interested at no cost, beginning at 7 p.m. Participants in the evening forum will receive a copy of the woodlot owner's guide to FEC for Nova Scotia.
For more information or to register, contact Ian Miller at 902-897-6863 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This tool used to be called 'sirfmon', and worked only on SiRF devices (and the command set has changed to resemble the command switches of gpsctl). It now has support for a range of NMEA devices as well; support for other (binary-protocol) device types is planned. It will behave sanely, just dumping packets, when connected to a GPS type it knows nothing about.
gpsmon differs from a navigation client in that it mostly dumps raw data from the GPS, with only enough data-massaging to allow checks against expected output. In particular, this tool does not do any interpolation or modeling to derive climb/sink or error estimates. Nor does it discard altitude reports when the fix quality is too low.
gpsmon is a designed to run in a terminal emulator with a minimum 25x80 size; the non-GUI interface is a design choice made to accommodate users operating in constrained environments and over telnet or ssh connections. If run in a larger window, the size of the packet-log window will be increased to fit.
gpsmon accepts an -h option that displays a usage message, or a -V option to dump the package version and exit.
This program may be run in either of two modes, as a client for the gpsd daemon (and its associated control socket) or directly connected to a specified serial device. When run with no argument, it attempts to connect to the daemon. If the argument looks like a server:port specification it will also attempt to connect to the daemon. If the argument looks like a bare server name it will attempt to connect to a daemon running on the default gpsd port on that server. Only if the device argument contains slashes but no colons will it be treated as a serial device for direct connection. In direct-connect mode gpsmon will hunt for a correct baud rate and lock on to it automatically.
The -F option is only valid in client mode; it specifies a control socket to which the program should send device control strings. You must specify a valid pathname of a Unix-domain socket on your local filesystem.
The -D option enables packet-getter debugging output and is probably only useful to developers of the GPSD code. Consult the packet-getter source code for relevant values.
The -L option lists a table showing which GPS device types gpsmon has built-in support for, and which generic commands can be applied to which GPS types, and then exits. Note that this does not list type-specific commands associated with individual GPS types.
The -l option sets up logging to a specified file to start immediately on device open. This may be useful is, for example, you want to capture the startup message from a device that displays firmware version information there.
After startup, the top part of the screen reports the contents of several especially interesting packet types. The bottom half of the screen is a scrolling hex dump of all packets the GPS is issuing. Dump lines beginning >>> represent control packets sent to the GPS.
The following device-independent comands are available while gpsmon is running:
Note that enabling probing might flip the device into another mode; in particular, it will flip a SiRF chip into binary mode as if you had used the "n" command. This is due to a limitation in the SiRF firmware that we can't fix.
Use this command with caution. On USB and Bluetooth GPSes it is also possible for serial mode setting to fail either because the serial adaptor chip does not support non-8N1 modes or because the device firmware does not properly synchronize the serrial adaptor chip with the UART on the GPS chipset whjen the speed changes. These failures can hang your device, possibly requiring a GPS power cycle or (in extreme cases) physically disconnecting the NVRAM backup battery.
(These remarks apply to not just generic NMEA devices but all extended NMEA devices for which gpsmon presently has support.)
All fields are raw data from the GPS except the "Cooked PVT" window near top of screen, provided as a sheck.
There are no device-specific commands. Which generic commands are available may vary by type: examine the output of gpsmon -l to learn more.
Most information is raw from the GPS. Underlined fields are derived by translation from ECEF coordinates or application of leap-second and local time-zone offsets.
The following commands are supported for SiRF GPSes only:
Non-static mode is designed for use with road navigation software, which often snaps the reported position to the nearest road within some uncertainty radius. You probably want to turn static navigation off for pedestrian use, as it is likely to report speed zero and position changing in large jumps.
To interpret what you see, you will need a copy of the SiRF Binary Protocol Reference Manual.
If you run gpsmon in client mode, and kill the daemon while gpsmon is still running, gpsmon will hang. Don't do that...
gpsd(8), gps(1), libgps(3), libgpsd(3), gpsprof(1), gpsfake(1), gpsctl(1), gpscat(1). gpspipe(1).
Eric S. Raymond firstname.lastname@example.com. This code is part of the gpsd toolset; there is a project page for gpsd m[blue]herem[][1].


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Learn about the various types of discrimination prohibited by the laws enforced by Human Relations. We also provide links to the relevant laws, regulations, policy guidance, fact sheets, Q&As, best practices and other information.
- Religion
- Retaliation
- Sex
- Familial Status, presence of children under 18 years old
- Sexual Harassment
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- Marital Status in Housing (Code of the City)
- Financial Institution (Chapter 57)
- Housing Discrimination
Other Laws:
- Fair Housing Act
- Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Section 109 of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
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In other words, no Hertz Rental Car q's because you can't rent a car at the DS or Grocery store. No gift card trading nor stamp trading nor code trading etc... This thread is meant for coupons and rebates (DS and grocery items) only. All trades of DS or Grocery Store coupons will now go here.*
*Please see the official rules -- trades of ANY coupon will still be allowed in the Official Trading Thread in Freebies.
If you want to give your q's away without a trade, please see this thread:
A very special thank you to Slayers and Kel_Be for coordinating things and letting us have this thread in the DS/G Forum.
Let the DS/Grocery trades begin!!
Users have the right to trade coupons in either subforum without hassle.
The trading of all other coupons (i.e. xx% off Hertz Rent-a-Car) and gift cards shall be continued to be done at the Official Trading Thread in the Freebies Subforum.
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Free product q's, especially free Cokes, 20 oz or 12pk (except free Chapstick)
Have several to trade of each:
Blinkies for trade:
$5 off any two of the following: Systane Ultra 10ml or larger, or Zaditor 5ml or larger, or Opti-free Puremoist or Opti-free Replenish 10oz or larger, or Clear Care 12oz or larger. Expires 10-31-13
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In Theaters
Cutie and the Boxer Concerts Documentary
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Once a rising star in the '70's New York art scene, 80-year-old "boxing" painter Ushio Shinohara is prepping for his latest show, hoping to reinvigorate his career. His wife and de facto assistant, Noriko, seeks her own recognition through her "Cutie" illustrations, which depict their chaotic 40-year marriage. "Cutie and the Boxer" captures two lives united by a dedication to art-making for a touching meditation on the eternal themes of love and sacrifice.
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Released - Friday, August 16 , 2013
Official Website
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- Starring - Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara
- Directed by - Zachary Heinzerling
- Distributed by - Radius-TWC
- MPAA Rating - R


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Watch Embarrassing Bodies
Embarrassing Boddies, is a British television show that is based out of a mobile clinic. People with what they consider to be embarrassing medical problems seek treatment. This is not limited to just physical medical conditions but, includes dental work as well. A mobile clinic of three doctors, travel around different parts of England, and see people who have embarrassing illnesses and try to help solve their problems. Each patient must send in an application and be reviewed before being accepted to get help from the mobile clinic.
The program is a documentary style show that is graphic in nature. Content is not for all audiences as there are images of medical conditions and diseases. These include but, are not limited to, surgical scars and infections, skin rashes and irritations, and damaged dental cavities. Some of the stories so far have been on teenage bodies, older bodies, foot fungus and facial moles.
Each show is approximately fifty minutes in duration. An average of three cases are viewed in each episode. Patients come into the clinic and explain there situation to the doctor. The doctor than tells the patient what they are suffering from and either provides treatment or course of action to be taken to relieve symptoms or refers the patient to a specialist for the correct medical care. After the appointed treatment is carried out, the patient then returns to the mobile clinic and does a follow up with the doctor to determine if treatment was successful and what if anything else may need to be done to continue good health.
This is an educational style program that touches on what society would consider irregular medical conditions. The program not only focuses on treatments but, try's to reinforce that individuals from all walks of life can have medical difficulties and that they aren't as bad as they may seem.
- Fridays on Channel 4
- 5 Seasons, 65 Episodes - Currently Airing
- Reality, Health & Fitness
Embarrassing Bodies Video Clips & Extras
Embarrassing Bodies Full Episode Guide
- Episode 7 - Series 8 Episode 7
The doctors are in Magaluf to see what a week of boozing has done to the boys' sperm and capacity for erections. Dr Dawn meets a family who carry the BRCA 1 breast cancer gene.
- Episode 6 - Series 8 Episode 6
Dr Christian helps a man with a sore penis and meets a woman with a bottom cyst. The show helps Sharon, whose large breasts hinder every basic aspect of her life from eating to washing to walking.
- Episode 5 - Series 8 Episode 5
Dr Pixie meets a man with hot testicles and gets to the bottom of cutting edge surgery techniques involving the anus. Dr Dawn uses high tech testing to investigate buying 'legal highs' online.
- Episode 4 - Series 8 Episode 4
Dr Pixie meets a man with a posterior problem that began with a tiny hair and ended up as a gaping hole. And Dr Christian helps Dawn, a a transitioning male to female transsexual.
- Episode 3 - Series 8 Episode 3
- Episode 2 - Series 8 Episode 2
- Episode 1 - Series 8 Episode 1
- Episode 3 - The 36-Stone Woman
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NEW YORK -- A passenger who left his seat to pray in the back of a plane before it took off, ignoring flight attendants' orders to return, was removed by an airport security guard, a witness and the airline said.
The Orthodox Jewish man, who wore a full beard, a black hat and a long black coat, stood near the lavatories and began saying his prayers while the United Airlines jet was being boarded at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday night, fellow passenger Ori Brafman said.
When flight attendants urged the man, who was carrying a religious book, to take his seat, he ignored them, Brafman said. Two friends, who were seated, tried to tell the attendants that the man couldn't stop until his prayers were over in about 2 minutes, he said.
When the man finally stopped praying, he explained that he couldn't interrupt his religious ritual and wasn't trying to be rude. But the attendants summoned a guard to remove him, said Brafman, a writer who had been visiting New York to talk to publishers.
The plane, Flight 9 to San Francisco, took off without the man. It landed at its destination as scheduled, Brafman said by telephone from his home there. Robin Urbanski, a spokeswoman for United Airlines, a subsidiary of UAL Corp. with headquarters in Chicago, confirmed the man was taken off the plane and put on another flight this morning.


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With more than 43 percent of the vote, SugarHigh came in on top as the winner of the people's choice for having the greatest cupcake in the Great lakes Bay Region.
Earlier in the day, a panel of five judges selected SugarHigh's Cuatro Leches cupcake as the winner of the first ever Great Lakes Bay Region Cupcake Wars.
The events were held in honor of National Cupcake Day, which is Saturday, Dec. 15.
Of a total 1,228 votes cast, readers cast 528 votes for SugarHigh.
The Gourmet Cupcake Shoppe, with locations in Saginaw, Bay City and Midland, came in second, with 454 votes.
Bay City-based Sweet Sandy B's came in third, with 128 votes.


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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Darkness greets Dan Warthen when he arrives at the ballpark each morning. A lone security guard stands watch outside Digital Domain Park. Stadium floodlights brighten the landscape as Warthen, the Mets pitching coach, begins his routine around 5 a.m.
The clubhouse is usually empty. Warthen designates 2½ hours to himself: coffee, a 4-mile walk on the treadmill, a light circuit of weights. Then he hunkers inside the coaches' room and sets about his daily task of fortifying the hearts, minds and arms of his patchwork pitching staff.
Warthen is 58. Before gravity intervened, he stood 6-0. His shoulders slouch when he walks, head down, through the clubhouse. He raises his head to deliver a joke, appraise a pitcher about his schedule that day, gab about golf. His humor is caustic. His advice efficient.
He rarely lectures about his four decades in the game — the twisting route as a player and coach that prepared him for his current role. Along the way, he learned to compete with the life sapped from his left arm. He learned from pushing "the panic button" in the 1990s. He learned how to communicate with the modern pitcher.
"There's not a lot of people that have gone through the stuff I went through," Warthen said recently over dinner along St. Lucie West Boulevard. "From being potentially a superstar to being a (screw-up), which I truly was."
He added, "And from that point, finding my way, in different directions."
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On Oct. 6, 2010, two days after Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya were dismissed, Dan Warthen packed up the second floor of the house he rented in Howard Beach in Queens with bullpen coach Randy Niemann. He flew home to Portland, Ore. His future with the Mets, the fourth franchise to name him a major-league pitching coach, was unsettled.
In 2½ seasons after replacing Rick Peterson, Warthen built a rapport with a sometimes shaky pitching staff. Inside a major-league clubhouse, the pitching coach fulfills a complex role. He must display mechanical insight. He must bridge the gap between storytelling and sermonizing. He must span linguistic and generational differences to communicate with each pitcher.
"Over the course of six months, he's pretty much going to be your dad," closer Francisco Rodriguez said. "He's going to let you know when you do bad things, and when you do good things."
Last season, his Mets staff finished with a 3.70 ERA, sixth-best in the National League. Warthen connected with his players. The recipe for each man is different. Blunt candor motivates Mike Pelfrey. Encouragement spurs R.A. Dickey. Jon Niese prefers a balance of sarcasm and seriousness. Johan Santana likes to be treated like a journeyman.
The new general manager, Sandy Alderson, considered this as he assembled a staff this winter. Remaining members of the front office, like assistant general manager John Ricco, supported Warthen. The new manager, Terry Collins, liked him, too.
"I think from the outset," Alderson said, "the hope was that we could keep him."
Warthen waited in Oregon. Four other teams — Seattle, San Diego, Detroit and the Dodgers (as a bullpen coach) — had fired him before. He understood the drill. He did not call his players. He says there were four other major-league jobs that he "probably could have had."
The offer he wanted most came when Alderson called in late November. There was no formal interview. Alderson asked. Warthen accepted. The players, Warthen figures, pushed him over the top.
"My gosh," Collins said, "it's hard to find coaches that players respond to. It really is."
• • •
Here's technical expertise: Last season, Warthen straightened Rodriguez's back leg so he could command his off-speed pitches for strikes. When Rodriguez lapsed in July, Warthen noticed the glitch watching video after a game. "Sometimes, we don't see little details," Rodriguez said. "He sees them."
Here's motivation: "You go out there and you have a bad game," Pelfrey said. "And the next day, he'll say, 'I watched the video last night. You were awful. You were even worse than I thought.' And he's dead serious."
And here's something else: "I think he's more here for us than he is to talk about his past," reliever Bobby Parnell said.
• • •
When Dan Warthen holds a baseball in his left hand, he feels nothing. His fingers cannot wrap around the ball. The middle digit rises in the air, like a one-finger salute to the game for wrecking the nerve endings in his arm.
The numbness is a souvenir of more than a decade of being a professional pitcher. Warthen appeared in four big-league seasons with Montreal, Philadelphia and Houston. He calls his career "mediocre."
Last season, Dickey noticed the middle finger during batting practice. "So I asked him about it," he said. "And then he told me the story."
In 1971, Warthen spurned college recruiters and signed with Montreal as a second-round draft pick. He chose pitching over being a quarterback, and was shipped to Watertown, S.D., that fall. His rise through the minors was swift.
"Before his arm went out," said Bill Dancy, who played with Warthen in Philadelphia, "he had some lights-out stuff."
In 1975, the Expos called Warthen up in May, stashed him in the bullpen at first, then wielded him as a weapon during the summer. He was 22. His arm was strong. One night in July, he started and lasted nine innings in a no-decision against the Braves. Two days later, he grabbed two outs in relief.
Montreal granted him leeway to throw. One night in August, Warthen threw 164 pitches and pitched into the 11th inning. Five days later, he threw 130 pitches. Four days later, 110. His next turn? 118.
By September, Warthen recalled, his arm ached. Back then, Tommy John was just a decent pitcher recovering from an experimental surgery to fix his elbow. Warthen finished the season 8-6 with a 3.11 ERA, but his velocity waned.
"I've never had surgery," Warthen said. "But I have no feel in my fingers, still."
He experimented with arm angles and cortisone shots. Nothing helped. In 1976, Warthen threw 90 big-league innings. The next season, he threw 38⅔. The next, 10⅔.
By the early '80s, his production fell. After spending the winter of 1983 in Venezuela, Warthen retired to his home in Oregon.
"I got out of the game for a year, almost two," Warthen said. "Got my contractor's license, built some houses, made a little money."
Around 1985, Dancy called with a job offer. By then, Dancy was coaching in the Phillies organization. He remembered Warthen's competitiveness on the mound, his studiousness off it, his conversations about pitch sequencing. He figured his former teammate could coach.
"His work ethic was just something you would want a pitching coach to have," Dancy said. "Plus, the knowledge of the game, and how to really communicate with people."
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So why not tell the story?
Maybe the players don't care, their eyes glazing over as another old-timer waxes about the days before pitch counts and innings limits.
Maybe they don't want to worry about cautionary tales, to consider mortality before performing the violent, unnatural act of throwing a baseball.
Maybe because 1975, when Dan Warthen cradled so much possibility in his still-healthy left arm, is long gone.
"His time has come and gone as a player," Dickey said. "He wants you to be who you can be. And that's a big deal. That's what makes him a great coach."
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It's a Friday in Port St. Lucie. Outside the West End Grill, a troubadour finishes strumming songs from the 1970s and packs up his acoustic guitar. The night is ending. Warthen is talking about job security.
"I'll be very surprised if I'm here more than two or three more years," Warthen said. "Which is okay. Because sometimes you run out of ideas. It's time to share them somewhere else."
In life, Warthen explained, you get fired. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Most of the time, it's not your fault. It's one of the quirks of being a pitching coach — your job security is often tied to the success of the overall team. If the manager gets ousted, so does his staff.
Except San Diego. That was different.
In 1996, the Padres won the NL West. Expectations rose the next season. They were never met.
"It's very difficult being a major-league coach, because you take things personally," said then-general manager Kevin Towers. Warthen, he figures, saw his pitchers underperform and tried to fix the problem. "And all of a sudden," Towers said, "you start taking on a lot of undue pressure, yourself."
Warthen added, "I pushed the panic button. And that's horrible."
Warthen believes he placed a burden upon his staff. He publicly sparred with Rick Sutcliffe, the former Cy Young winner who coached in the Padres minor-league system at the time and moonlit as the team's big-league broadcaster. The players, Warthen believes, watched Warthen crack.
After the season, his worst fears were realized. Towers retained manager Bruce Bochy. He fired Warthen.
"That hurt more than anything else in my life," Warthen said. "Because I knew I was a good coach. But there were some things I could have handled better."
• • •
Off the mound, Johan Santana stomped, his shoulder and chest tight, his mind racing as he considered a discomfort he had "never felt before."
It was after the fifth inning in Atlanta on Sept. 2 of last season. Doctors would later diagnose a torn anterior capsule in Santana's left shoulder. Inside the dugout, Dan Warthen had watched Santana's fastball velocity shrink into the mid-80s.
Santana placed his glove on the bench and walked across the carpet into the visitors' clubhouse at Turner Field. Warthen tailed him to the training room.
You're not going back, Warthen told Santana. I'm not going to let you.
Santana removed his jersey. He recalled thinking: "I felt fine. I didn't feel anything else. I was like, 'I'm going back out there.'"
No, Warthen repeated. You are not.
"That right there was the end of it," Santana said. "I didn't go against what he said."
That night, team doctors diagnosed a pectoral strain. Warthen told reporters that Santana initially complained of shoulder trouble. He was right.
Within the tabloid cacophony, Warthen's voice can make waves. Last season, a mini-brouhaha arose when he called John Maine a "habitual liar" about his health. This season, he has told reporters he believed top prospect Jenrry Mejia would become a reliever.
Warthen's two immediate superiors, Alderson and Collins, say they appreciate his honesty. "At the same time," Alderson said, "there's some things that are best said privately."
Added Collins, "I have no problem with Dan Warthen saying something. None, whatsoever. I'd rather have him do it in the back, once in a while."
After San Diego, Warthen explained, he learned to trust his instincts. He would not operate in fear of losing a job. He would express his opinions. His standing with the players depended on it.
"I don't show any of these guys that I have any fears about losing a job," Warthen said. "Or them losing a job."
• • •
The game of baseball has humbled Warthen, has hounded him, has stolen the life from his left arm. He has been demoted, traded, released, fired and discarded. Yet he returns.
He loves the game. He loves the clubhouse. He loves the travel, the food, the accommodations, the ability to watch a marvel like Santana perform, to guide Pelfrey, to watch Dickey pitch his way into a $7.5 million contract.
"I hang out with people that I like and impart my knowledge," Warthen said. "It's a damn good life."
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The most relaxing portion of our european vacation was definitely the beach part. We spent many days on the beaches of Lido di Jesolo in Italy.
Jumping in and out of the salty waters of the Adriatic Sea....
frolicking up and down the sandy beaches....
sunbathing in the wonderful warmth of the sun...
eating the biggest slices of pizza made with "00 flour" everyday (*I highly recommend Spicchi Pizza - voted #1 pizza for a reason!) and eating gelato twice a day (I'm not kidding you, twice a day!)...
back to the beaches....
to walk along the many piers...
and spend the evening walking on the sand and water.
AND to start all over again the next day!!! Thank you Italy, you and all your people were so warm, welcoming and so very good to us.
(If you are looking for a nice place to stay, I can recommend Hotel Panorama. Friendly staff, clean modern hotel with an amazing spread for breakfast and one block from the beach. We would stay there again.)
September 30, 2011
September 26, 2011
Travels: Konditorei Kaplan am Kurpark, Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria
(Kaplan am Kurpark house torte)
(stunning, modern shop with plenty of seating indoors and out)
A "konditorei" which roughly translates to confectionary in english (or a patisserie in french) is a common shop found in Austria and Germany. A wide assortment of cakes and pastries are available to enjoy alongside your favorite beverage.
(Mozart cake and owner Christian at work)
(where all the magic happens)
I had the pleasure of a tour through his modern and pristine konditorei. Everything is fresh, made from scratch and with the utmost care and expertise. Don't forget to bring back some gift-wrapped cookies, jams and other goodies after your visit.
A must-see and stay on your next trip in beautiful Burgenland before AND after a dip in the thermal spa baths.
Konditorei Kaplan am Kurpark
Kirchenstraße 8
Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria
Konditorei Kaplan am Kurpark
Kirchenstraße 8
Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria
September 2, 2011
Photo Friday: Apple Pie
Apple season is here and I am looking for all sorts of ways to incorporate apples into my cooking and baking.
Instead of making a typical circular apple pie, I used a long rectangular tart pan. I also arranged the apple slices instead of piling them randomly into the baking pan. It does take a bit longer but the end product is so pretty that it is worth the extra effort.
Have a great long weekend!
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Print publication: Thursday, Jan. 10
Home-schooling drawbacks
Where, however, is the oversight for those children who are home-schooled, but in potentially unsafe environments? I teach at the school that Miranda Crockett, who drowned in her Fairview apartment, attended before she was withdrawn to be home-schooled.
Many of the staff at our school had spent countless hours with Crockett over the years, trying to provide a safe and happy learning environment for her and giving her the support she needed to be successful. We were devastated by the news of her death and kept asking ourselves what we could have done to prevent this tragedy. But ultimately, it was out of our hands when she was withdrawn. Is this an isolated case? Probably.
But maybe the state needs to address the issue of safety for home-schooled kids. God forbid another such tragedy occurs.
Often, home schooling is a fearful response to the "other," a code word for racial, religious or social intolerance. When our children see only us and hear only our voices, they are denied the ability to formulate differing ideas and appreciate the world around them. Our own narrow (sometimes closed) ideas tend to travel to our children every day, regardless of schooling.
Without the balance of other ideas, perhaps uncomfortable and most certainly different, our children can become one-dimensional thinkers, sure of their own bias, never having had evidence to the contrary -- much to their detriment and society's.
Northeast Portland
City, school consultant
Regarding the article "A sweet revolving-door deal" (Jan. 7), about a retired city administrator who now has consulting contracts with the city and Portland Public Schools:
For a city whose motto is "the city that works," I don't think Portland does. How can spending on a consultant to the public schools be justified when teachers are laid off because there is not enough money in the budget? We have main streets that are so full of potholes it is dangerous, yet we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to change Northeast Multnomah Street to two lanes, plus islands and planter pots, for bicyclist safety. We pay sidewalk inspectors to tell homeowners they need to spend thousands of dollars to fix the cracks in the sidewalk, yet the potholes in the street are not fixed. I wonder who authorizes this spending.
Hopefully, with a new mayor and city commissioners, this out-of-control spending will stop.
Southeast Portland
First, if Bryant Enge is being paid almost $147,000 a year but needs Yvonne Deckard to give him diversity coaching, how did he get hired in the first place? Second, how many teachers and custodians in the Portland School District have been terminated and how many programs eliminated, yet the district can pay Deckard $15,000 per month for her "expertise"?
Who is minding the store, and why aren't taxpayers marching in front of City Hall in protest?
Northeast Portland
At such a high rate of pay, the guy being coached shouldn't have been hired for the job if he doesn't have the basic communication skills to work with his staff. As far as the work Yvonne Deckard is doing for Portland Public Schools, I wonder how many teachers are paid her "discounted" rate of $300 per hour.
This misspending of tax dollars makes the city and the school district look, at best, silly and, at worst, irresponsible.
Southeast Portland
This is an example of the waste that goes on in government. I always vote for every funding bill for education and will continue to do so because there is such a desperate need. But this kind of information undermines voter confidence, and the reaction is to vote against any funding.
We need a massive operational audit in all levels of government to eliminate waste and lavish spending. Only then may the average constituent have confidence to vote in favor of more spending.
What in the world is an "Internal Business Services Bureau"? And what in the world, in plain English, does the manager mean when he says, "I was trying to bring (staffers) together around several key values that I had."
I think we could better spend this money and effort in the classroom.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Two men jailed in December in connection with a 54-year-old man's homicide -- then released -- are now both back in custody on allegations of obstructing police.
Roger Jay Musick, 38, was booked into the Kent County Jail on Friday, Jan. 17, and Kent County sheriff's detectives are seeking warrants for obstruction of justice.
Another man, Robert McCombs, 63, has already been charged with lying to a police officer in a violent crime investigation and recently waived a probable cause hearing. McCombs was re-arrested Jan. 5.
Police allege they are somehow connected to the homicide of Steven Carl Day, whose body was found in snow along 16 Mile Road NE near Myers Lake Avenue on Dec. 18.
Day lived in downtown Grand Rapids at Verne Barry Place, a subsidized housing center on Division Avenue. Those who knew him say he picked up returnable cans and bottles to make money.
McCombs and Musick both were arrested Dec. 20, but released a few days later for lack of evidence.
Kent County Jail records show Musick was re-arrested Friday. He has not been arraigned on any charge, but Michigan State Police records show he is held in jail on an obstruction charge.
The charge against McCombs involves allegations that he lied about knowing or even seeing Day. Police say a witness indicated otherwise.
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CWD Real Estate Investment appointed Darin Piippo to development manager, Nick Koster to vice president of operations and Toni Redrup to property manager.
Greenridge Realty added agents: Brian, Vandebyl, Shane Lambert and Margaret Delaney to the Summit office; Dale Rogers to the Lowell office; Michael Robinson to the Kentwood office; Kim VanDahm to the East Grand Rapids office; and Sara Sierra to the Fremont office.
Elzinga & Volkers Inc. promoted Joe Novakoski to vice president of project management and elected John Parker to its board of directors. Subsidiary Elzinga & Volkers Professional Services promoted Mike Novakoski to president, Jeff Baxter to vice president of business development and James Simmons to vice president of operations.
Bryon Campbell, of the Van Andel Institute, joined the governing board of CDH Inc.
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John Bursch, Matthew Nelson and Julie Lam, of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, received the Distinguished Brief Award from the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review.
Twenty-three Spectrum Health Medical Group and Michigan Medical P.C. physician practices were named Patient-Centered Medical Homes by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
Groups and organizations
Martha Gonzalez-Cortes, of the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan, was elected affiliate council representative for the National Council of La Raza.
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We "filthy kafir pigs" ought to sentence this Muslima to life in prison. She actively engaged in jihad activity and plotted to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks (below at our September 11th SION Freedom Congress).
Photo: September 11 SION Free Speech symposium, from left, Pamela Geller, Ashraf Ramaleh, President of Voice of the Copts, Lars Vilks, Swedish Cartoonist, and Robert Spencer. Vilks' speech here.
Prosecutors say 'Jihad Jane' deserves lengthy sentence Philadelphia Inquirer, January 3, 2014
Despite her "very significant" cooperation in terrorism investigations in the United States and abroad, a Montgomery County woman arrested in 2009 for working with terrorists under the moniker "JihadJane" remains a danger and should spend several decades behind bars, federal prosecutors say.
In documents filed before a sentencing hearing scheduled for Monday, government lawyers described Colleen LaRose, 50, as an "aggressive, hardworking" force in the online extremist community.
Her sentencing provides an opportunity to "send a strong message to other lonely, vulnerable people who might be enticed by online extremists promising fame and honor," Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Matthew F. Blue wrote.
In their filings, the lawyers cited prison letters from as recently as 2012 in which LaRose referred to Americans as "filthy kafir pigs," and described her assignment to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose work offended some Muslims as an honor.
LaRose's attorney, Mark Wilson, did not return calls for comment Thursday. His client faces up to a life sentence after pleading guilty in 2011 to providing material support to terrorists.
With LaRose's blond hair, green eyes, and deep southern twang, the case garnered international attention and changed U.S. officials' expectations of what to fear from homegrown extremist threats, prosecutors said.
In online forums, she spewed violent anti-American vitriol and recruited other extremists for training in South Asia. She boasted of the ability her American background and looks gave her to fly beneath the radar of counterterrorism investigators.
But even prior to becoming "JihadJane," LaRose's life had traced a downward trajectory that led one U.S. official to compare it in 2010 to a "sad country music song."
Her childhood in Texas was marked by abuse and neglect. She married at 16 and quickly divorced. And she had already racked up convictions for drunken driving, criminal trespass, and passing bad checks before coming to Pennsylvania in 2002. She attempted suicide within years of arriving.
By the time she struck up relationships with Islamic extremists online, she was "a lonely and isolated woman," "bored with her life" and with "few friends," prosecutors said. Her boyfriend, a Pennsburg man whom she met while he was on a business trip to Texas, "traveled much of the time."
However, in 2009, an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan extended the validation that investigators say LaRose so desperately craved, turning to her to help organize the assassination of the Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks. His 2007 depiction of Muhammad with a dog's body set off controversy in some parts of the Muslim world.
LaRose flew to Ireland to meet up with the group plotting the artist's slaying and took her then-boyfriend's U.S. passport in the hope it could be used by one of her terrorist associates.
She was arrested in Philadelphia soon after returning to the United States in frustration over the slow pace of the conspirators' progress.
Almost immediately, LaRose began cooperating "diligently, candidly, and tirelessly" with federal counterterrorism investigators, prosecutors said in their court filings this week. Her testimony before a grand jury in 2011 led to charges against Ali Charaf Damache, her alleged handler in Ireland, and others.
Damache remains imprisoned in Ireland, fighting extradition to the United States.
Throughout, though, she has rarely appeared remorseful, Williams wrote.
"LaRose seemed to take pleasure and even pride recounting her glory days as 'the hunter,' " she said. "Her demeanor continued to grow wistful - despite the passage of time - when speaking with government agents about some of her coconspirators and their plans."
Two of LaRose's convicted codefendants also face possible sentencing next week, including Jamie Paulin Ramirez, a Colorado mother who uprooted her young son and moved to Ireland to join LaRose's cause, and Mohammad Hassan Khalid, an 19-year-old Maryland teen who in 2012 became the youngest person ever convicted on a U.S. terrorism charges.
Prosecutors are seeking sentences of less than 10 years for both. Their lawyers have indicated they intend to cite the troubled psychological histories of their clients as mitigating factors.
"The government has been cavalier and irresponsible in how they have thought of Mohammad," Jeffrey Lindy, the lawyer representing the Maryland teen, said Thursday. "They treat him as an adult. He is not."


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Council solidifies bid to condemn land
Federal Way City Council members decided recently to condemn and acquire portions of several properties near 356th Street despite continued protest from property owners.
The city plans to turn the area into a regional stormwater detention facility.
But first Federal Way will have to prove to a judge that condemning the properties and turning the area into a regional stormwater facility will provide a benefit to a larger number of people.
If the court agrees, a portion of each property up to the 320-foot elevation will become city property.
The city is not condemning whole parcels or any buildings in this action, Assistant City Manager Derek Matheson said.
The city already successfully condemned one of the properties in court. The parcel, owned by Roy Parke, was located in the center of the depression the city plans to use for its facility.
Parke still disputes the action, but in April 2000, King County Superior Court Judge Richard Eadie ruled that the citys condemnation of Parkes property for a regional detention facility was valid.
Parke and other property owners argued before the council on Dec. 18 that the condemnation action was unfounded.
Theres been no water in the depression in four-and-a-half years, said Parke, who sued the city for flooding in 1997. There has been record-setting rain in the last couple weeks, but no water on my property. Why?
Meanwhile, a neighbors property is flooded. Patricia Owen wrote the council that she never had flooding on her property until the Madrona Meadows development was built nearby.
City Public Works Director Cary Roe said regardless of where it comes from, water from about 350 acres of land surrounding the depression is deposited there.
It is a fact that the water does eventually get to the property. It doesnt occur at the same time, but that water does get to the closed depression, he said.
The best way to manage the stormwater run-off, he added, is to create the regional stormwater facility. The problems in the closed depression are present today ... and theyll get worse.
City staff have negotiated purchase prices with five of the landowners in the area. It is seeking to condemn portions of five other properties.
The council agreed on Dec. 18 to work separately with one of the remaining property-owners, Robert Wilson. The only portion of Wilsons property that falls within the 320-foot boundary is a septic field.
Roe told the council on Dec. 18 that Wilson and the city are close to reaching an agreement on how to move the septic field.
Even though the city is moving forward with the legal action, officials will continue negotiation attempts with the rest of the property owners.
Clearly, the city understands creating a regional stormwater facility is an emotional issue, Roe said. The citys worked hard to find common ground.
Outgoing Mayor Mike Park assured property owners the council decision to start legal proceedings to condemn the properties doesnt make anything final. Tonights adoption is the beginning of a process, he said on Dec. 18. If property owners disagree, they have the opportunity to appeal.
Property owner Charles Connon, who has lived in the depression about 12 years, wasnt reassured.
We dont feel, he said, were getting a fair hearing.
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Name: Elda and Malda Sneeuw
Tribe: Winter
Age: Elda-18 (she was born 2 minutes before Malda)
Malda- 18
Gender: Female
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Elda- she is 5 feet and 6 inches, she's the one with the light purple eyes, she wears a black fur shirt that goes down to a little above her belly-button and a black skirt of wool that goes down to her ankles and has a knee to floor slit on her right leg
Malda: same height as Elda, she's the one with the orang-ish pink eyes, she wear a black wool shirt, same style as Elda's, and a black fur skirt same style as Elda's, but the slit is on her left leg
Personality:Elda- she is bossy and a leader, she has great common sense, she's not brave and is more brains than brawn. She prefers to be sitting and reading a book. She's curious though, and loves learning new things. She prefers being by herself and is less social than her twin. She isn't necessarily anti-social, but prefers the quiet. She is the planner and uses her wit and mind. She loves to make plans before doing most anything. She looks before she leaps and prefers rules, but is unsure if the old rules are the correct one. She is sensible and can easily tell when there is actual danger and when is the better time to panic. She makes choices with her mind.
Malda- is a bit of a push-over and will do almost anything she's told (most of the time her sister), she's brave and adventurous, the opposite of her sister, the brawn to her brains. She is also curious, but takes it to the level of exploring new, unknown places. She's the funny and more energetic one of the two, the social butterfly. She prefers the lime-light and loves taking leaps of faith, she says that's what makes life interesting. She doesn't mind rules, but prefers living life without them. Though she can be loud and obnoxious, she does know how to be quiet, just prefers when there's noise. She is also very paranoid and usually needs someone with a sound mind nearby. She makes decisions with how she feels and on impulses.
Tribe ranking:Elder's children
Mate: none
Specialty: Elda- planning/scheming
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Cheerleaders stepped up
September 24, 2010 - Bennet Goldstein
I have to give a big shout out to the Marshalltown High School cheerleaders for their efforts during Oktemberfest Thursday night.
As people were waiting for the coronation ceremony to start, which was delayed a few minutes due to the move inside from the rain, the cheerleaders got the children involved in some songs and dances.
They were able to lighten the mood a bit for the crowd. Then some of the cheerleaders went over to the rainy fun run and cheered on children there.
Nice job cheerleaders. The high school should be proud of your efforts to benefit the community.
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It is critical for Global Studies students to deepen their understanding of cultural and global issues by participating in an international immersion experience. Majors are thus required to study abroad for a semester or full-academic year with an approved program through the Center for International Studies. Because of our commitment to engaged learning, an internship, service-learning course, and/or community-based action research project is an integral component of each of the more than 125 approved
Global Studies Recognized Study Abroad Programs located in 45 countries around the world. Some students may apply to fulfill this requirement over the summer at an approved study abroad program or petition to attend an alternative program that meets the Global Studies study abroad requirements.
Travel, experience, reflection, and academic inquiry form the foundation of global service-learning experiences at Providence College. In a process that deepens learning and enhances either January or Alternative Break travel experience, students analyze and reflect upon travel and community engagement in a related course throughout the spring term. This experience serves as a central "text" of the course which students analyze and reflect upon their with their classmates, both while on the trip and back on campus through class discussions, assignments and in sharing their experience. Read more about
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In North Carolina, a high school junior knelt for a brief 2-second prayer before a wrestling match, and the referee penalized him a point for doing so. The referee claimed that the wrestler was "stalling," but the wrestler had already finished his quick prayer before the referee even warned him. It is obvious that no such penalty would have happened if the student has spent those two seconds thanking the referee rather than God.
In Texas, a boy's track relay team ran its fastest race of the year and defeated its closest rival by 7 yards, which should have enabled it to advance toward the state championship. Its anchor runner pointed to the sky to give glory to God as he crossed the finish line for achieving what the team had worked so hard for. But someone did not like the gesture, and authorities then disqualified this winning team because of it. And last year in Texas, it became necessary to file a lawsuit in order to prevent school officials from censoring cheerleader banners that had references to Bible quotes.
Years ago, the liberals used to be supportive of free speech, but now the Left is more likely to be on the side of censorship. It's time for the public to stand up against the censorship of personal, public, expressions of religious faith.
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Gymnast of the year: Alexis Gabel wanted the typical high school experience of competing on a team. But the North Brunswick senior was far from a typical athlete.
In just one season of competition, Gabel proved herself one of the best gymnasts in the state, winning the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Section 2 title and placing second at the NJSIAA finals.
After spending years showcasing her talent only in USA Gymnastics competition, she brought her skills to her high school team at North Brunswick this fall.
"It was my last year, so I wanted to go all out," she said. "I'm really glad I did."
Gabel had a lot to be happy about. In all-around, she scored a 38.05, including a first-place 9.7 on vault, to win her section. A week later she followed up with a 37.8 to finish second to Danielle Verdon of Freehold Borough, her club teammate at Rebound Gymnastics in Cliffwood, at the state individual finals. She tied for second in the state on vault and floor exercise, scoring a 9.6 in both events.
"It's been a great experience," Gabel said. "It was nice to represent my school and to do this well here."
Joining the North Brunswick team was a last-minute decision for Gabel, who at the suggestion of friends decided over the summer to compete for her school this fall.
North Brunswick coach Nicole Kastner was thrilled when she got the call.
"When her mother told me Alexis was a Level 10 gymnast, I immediately got excited," Kastner said. "Even though it's only my second year as the coach at North Brunswick, I knew it was rare to have a gymnast of her caliber. On the first day of practice I was in awe. I immediately knew she had talent and was going to be successful."
Gabel's presence affected the entire program.
"Alexis helped our team out greatly with her high scoring and also her positive attitude," Kastner said. "She was always willing to help out the other gymnasts on the team and everyone looked up to her. She set a good example for her teammates and also has brought a lot of interest from other students in the school."
Team of the year: After having just one consistent all-around performer, then sophomore Hailey Patterson, in 2010, Hunterdon Central found itself one of the deepest teams in the state this fall.
The addition of freshman Jessie Vallorosi, the healthy return of sophomore Stephanie Reid and senior Lara Haberle, and the off-season improvement of senior Maeve Stewart gave Hunterdon Central a wealth of talent.
And the Flemington school made good use of it.
Hunterdon Central won the Skyland Conference (111.75 points) and NJSIAA Central Jersey, Section 2 (110.375) titles before finishing third at the NJSIAA Championships with 108.35. In the buildup to its postseason success, Hunterdon Central went undefeated for just the second time in program history (15-0) and posted the highest score in the state this season, a school-record 113.6.
"We couldn't have asked for a better season," Patterson said. "Finishing first at states would have been icing on cake, but we couldn't have asked for more this year. Winning Skyland and sectionals and having an undefeated season was amazing.
"I think one of the best meets was sectionals because it was so close (a tenth-of-a-point victory over East Brunswick). We really came together as a team and realized what we really wanted. We really wanted to win and we knew how important that was."
Hunterdon Central maintained that focus from day one.
"They were so motivated this year," coach Jessica Cantagallo said. "I didn't have to do a lot of motivational speeches. They were really together as a team, really wanted to do well. The kids wanted to compete. Sometimes you have kids who want a break, but not these kids. They went full-out all the time."
Coach of the year: South Plainfield may have surprised some folks with its sixth-place finish at the NJSIAA Championships. Coach Meredith Garofalo wasn't one of them.
Going into her eighth season at South Plainfield, Garofalo knew her team was capable of great things.
"Coming into this season I actually had high expectations," she said. "We had talented returning gymnasts and joining us were four up-and-coming freshmen."
Garofalo's hunch was right. Her team went 6-0, finished fourth in Central Jersey, Section 2 with a total of 107.85 points and then placed sixth at the NJSIAA finals with 107.35.
While Garofalo knew her team had the potential to do well, she was surprised by how much her girls overcame to reach that potential.
South Plainfield got off to a rocky start at the sectional meet, falling behind after struggling on the uneven bars.
"Despite the rough sectional start, they never gave up and they pretty much hit the other three events," she said. "I was very proud that they were able to refocus, pull together and finish in a pretty good spot."
South Plainfield was tested once again at the state finals after it lost star gymnast Alexis Alba to an injury.
"Losing Alexis Alba, our top gymnast, to a fracture at states and having her only compete in one event was a challenge," Garofalo said. "But the girls pulled together and placed sixth. I couldn't have been more proud, and it is just a sign to where the future of this program is heading."
Despite its postseason success, the highlight of South Plainfield's year came during the regular season when it defeated perennial power Bishop Ahr in a dual meet.
"The girls were super-focused and competed as a team; it was truly exciting to watch," Garofalo said. "The stands were filled, the girls were pumped and they just hit their routines. It was a great moment."
Alexis Gabel, North Brunswick
Samantha Hering, Montgomery
Abby Nolte, Somerville
Rachel Pallay, Hillsborough
Emily Shugan, Bridgewater-Raritan
Asya Cureton, Piscataway
Alexis Gabel, North Brunswick
Samantha Hering, Montgomery
Abby Nolte, Somerville
Rachel Pallay, Hillsborough
Alexis Alba, South Plainfield
Alexis Gabel, North Brunswick
Natalie Kowalik, East Brunswick
Abby Nolte, Somervillle
Rachel Pallay, Hillsborough
Lindsay Carbone, South Brunswick
Alexis Gabel, North Brunswick
Emily Shugan, Bridgewater-Raritan
Diya Uthappa, East Brunswick
Jessica Vallorosi, Hunterdon Central
Alexis Gabel, North Brunswick
Samantha Hering, Montgomery
Abby Nolte, Somerville
Rachel Pallay, Hillsborough
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EAST WINDSOR — The armed home invasion at the Princeton Arms North I apartment complex on Jan. 31 was allegedly "staged" by the victim, and he has not been abducted but left on his own accord, East Windsor police said.
"There were several inconsistencies uncovered during the investigation which gave rise to suspicions about how the scene was presented," Lt. Richard Bernstein said. "By staged, I mean that he made it appear that he may have been abducted, when in fact it was learned that he had not been."
Carlos Reyes, 22, alleged he was the victim of an armed home invasion and robbery on Jan. 31 that left his hands and ankles bound with duct tape. In the initial report, Reyes said three suspects forced their way into an apartment at the Princeton Arms North I complex, where they bound Reyes.
Reyes reported that the suspects gained entry by yelling the name ofReyes' stepfather and ringing the doorbell. When Reyes opened the door, they punched him in the face and knocked him to the floor, according to police.
Reyes said the suspects stole electronics and cash from the apartment, according to police. After the suspects departed, Reyes was able to loosen his restraints enough to get to a phone and call police.
Three other people live in the apartment but were not home at the time.
On Feb. 7, Reyes' family reported him missing, and there were indications Reyes was taken against his will, police said.
Information discovered by East Windsor police Saturday night led detectives to suspect Reyes had not been abducted. It was learned from an accomplice that Reyes had staged the robbery in order to steal the cash, Bernstein said.
Reyes, who is 6-foot-1 and weighs180 pounds, was last seen in his East Windsor residence at 2 p.m. on Friday wearing a black leather jacket with a gray hood, blue jeans and black Converse sneakers, East Windsor police said.
Reyes is charged with theft and additional charges are pending, Bernstein said.
Anyone with any information concerning Reyes' disappearance is asked to contact East Windsor police at (609) 448-5678.
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* Five 30-foot buses out of the Center Garage will be chained for use on Line 51-Vista and the Oregon Zoo run, if needed.
* 65 buses with Insta-chains will be on the system with chains able to be quickly deployed as needed.
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Buses travel slower -- no more than 25 miles an hour -- when outfitted with chains. The goal in dicey weather is for them to arrive at regular intervals, TriMet said.
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JACKSON, MI – Voters in the city of Jackson will be asked Aug. 5 to support a fee to bring back several services scrapped last year, including street sweeping, leaf pickup, and gutter and catch basin cleaning.
They will have a tough choice to make.
The so-called stormwater fee would fund federally mandated services aimed at keeping the Grand River and other waterways clean.
It sounds simple in theory, however, the stormwater fee has a complicated and controversial backstory.
Established in 2011, the fee, which generated about $1 million a year, created immediate backlash among some businesses.
Two area businessman and Jackson County — which was billed tens of thousands for the stormwater fee, but never paid — filed suit against the city. Two years later, the Michigan Court of Appeals nullified the fee, calling it an "illegal tax."
The tax was rescinded, the city was ordered to cover attorney costs for the county, and a lot of political lines were drawn in the sand.
All of the above-mentioned services were cut, and 15 city jobs were eliminated.
Today, the city is asking voters to help them re-establish that fee via a ballot proposal.
The ballot language does not establish a fee or spell out exact services — a fact that has drawn criticism from the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, which has approved a resolution opposing the ballot proposal.
"The proposal gives the city a blank check to charge businesses and residents whatever they want to spend (on the service)," the chamber's resolution reads.
City leaders argue this is unfair criticism. Locking in specific dollar amounts and services leaves the city without the flexibility to adapt to changes in the market or the economy.
Residents and business owners can expect the fee to be equal to or less than what they were paying a year ago, city leaders argue. And, property owners have the opportunity to lower costs even more by earning credits through landscaping, rain barrels or other efforts that slow rainwater runoff.
City leaders still have work to do on this proposal, but they've shown a good faith effort so far.
We recommend a yes vote. It would go along way toward protecting our local waterways and rebuilding critical relationships across the region.


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When the clock strikes 8:30 pm ET tonight, a new episode of one of our favorite shows, Parks and Recreation will be upon us. If you missed the season premiere last week, you can catch up by checking out our recap here. The main thing to know is that Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) has been asked to run for city council. And she's doing it. This, of course, complicates her relationship with her boss Ben (Adam Scott). So, tonight's episode will help us figure out how exactly the two will proceed. Meanwhile Ron's first wife (Tammy #1) shows up for seemingly ominous reasons. And tonight we meet the original Tammy: Ron's mom. Check out that preview below, as well as a few other gems to get you prepped for tonight's laughs.
Check out this deleted scene from premiere episode, wherein Ann confronts Joe from Sewage about the $200 million lawsuit he's filed against her for, among other things, "reverse sexual discrimination."
In another deleted scene from last week's episode, Leslie meets Ron at his deep-woods hideaway and he learns her something good about hunting and gathering.
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FLINT, MI -- The Michigan High School Baseball Coaches' Association took notice of the Flint-area when selecting the 2013 All-State teams, giving all-state recognition to eight area players.
The Flint-area had four first-team selections and four second-team selections and could be in line to have a couple players added to the MHSBCA Dream Team, which has yet to be released.
In Division 1, Davison senior Maverick Prine was a first-team selection as an infielder. Prine was a feared hitter for the Cardinals throughout his career and also had one of the strongest arms in the area, serving as Davison's ace pitcher. He helped lead Davison to a share of the Saginaw Valley League South Division title this season. Flushing's Chris Triplett and Kyle Randick were both selected to the Division 1 second-team. Tripplett was a steady bat at the top of the Raiders' order and had the power-hitting threat of Randick behind him. Randick was selected as an outfielder, but also pitched for Flushing.
The Division 2 team had two first-team picks in Goodrich first baseman Doug Moors and Mt. Morris outfielder Nash Irwin. Irwin hit .430 with 62 RBIs and 10 triples for the Panthers. Moors was the biggest bat for the Martians and helped lead Goodrich to a share of the Genesee Area Conference title. Mt. Morris shortstop and pitcher Kelsey Sorenson was a second-team All-State selection.
Flint Powers Catholic senior Ethan Wiskur was the lone area player selected in Division 3 and he was a first-team pick. Wiskur was also named the Flint-area's Mr. Baseball by the Mott Community College Bruin Club coaches committee. He was the ace pitcher and No. 3 hitter for the Chargers' regional championship team this season.
In Division 4, Grant Steinborn was the only area selection. The hard-throwing sophomore made the second-team after a great year on the mound. The Hornets reached the Division 4 state semifinals this season and Steinborn will be the ace of young team next spring.
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