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The folks over at Twitter debuted a fun new tool that let's users quickly find the first tweet from any account in celebration of social media platform's eighth birthday. It's worth looking through to see how people used the now ubiquitous tool way back in 2006. Here's a quick look at the first tweets from when some of the Trail Blazers first joined Twitter. Fair warning, the first tweet from the Portland Trail Blazers' official account is a little depressing.
Being excited after getting the #1 draft pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.— Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) May 28, 2007
In the off chance you don't remember the 2007 draft, the Trail Blazers selected Greg Oden with the No. 1 overall pick, Kevin Durant went No. 2 to the Seattle Supersonics and it's probably safe to say things worked out better for Durant than Oden since.
Most of the Blazers' players were just trying to get the hang of tweeting with their first tweets.
Already overwhelmed lol it's easier shooting free throws at the end of the game than figuring this out. I'll get it tho. Thanks everybody— Wesley Matthews (@wessywes2) February 16, 2011
I am trying to get the hang of this! I feel like an old man that can't work a computer. Lol— Lamarcus Aldridge (@aldridge_12) February 7, 2011
finaly i got my twitter....— Nicolas Batum (@nicolas88batum) December 29, 2010
Fittingly, Robin Lopez's first tweet is everything you would have guessed:
new comics, workouts at the arena, then wii tennis :D— Robin Lopez (@eegabeeva88) June 17, 2009
While sitting out with a foot injury during his junior season at Weber State, Damian Lillard's first tweet was a quote from rapper J. Cole's song 'See World.' If his idols were NBA stars at the time, his prediction about who was to become his competition wasn't that far off:
One day my idols will become my competition, use to be like GOD to me, now I'm losing my religion . . .
Chuuuch!!!!— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) March 16, 2011
The first tweet tool is fun to play with check it out but be careful because not everyone's first tweet is all that flattering:
tweet tweet suckas— Mike Richman (@mikegrich) May 26, 2010
-- Mike Richman


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Cicero, N.Y. -- The Onondaga County Sheriff's Office is searching for a woman who went missing in Cicero last night, Det. Jon Seeber said in a news release.
Deputies describe Carol A. Nee, 50, as a 5-foot-5, 140-pound white woman with black hair and green eyes. She went missing from a relative's house on Flat Car Circle in Cicero last night, Seeber said.
She is considered "endangered," as she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and acute paranoia, Seeber said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at (315) 425-2111.

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(Keep in mind these are Etiquette tips from a club in Alabama, not ours. I'm saying that mainly because of the first one.)
1. No baby joggers, dogs, headphones, etc. -- this, guys, I have to disagree with: I'm down with all of the above. But if you DO have baby joggers, dogs, and/or headphones, be responsible and respectful. I cannot tell you how many times I've almost seen someone plowed into by a bike from the back simply because they don't hear the cyclist say, "on your left." I've also been tripped by a careless dog owner letting their dog and it's extendo-leash run wild. Just don't be stupid.
2. Line up according to pace: Pretty easy when races actually have you do it. Just do it, and I'm like 99.9% sure that all of us do. Go Oregon!
3. Run in a straight line. Duh.
4. Put trash where it belongs: Reminder, this came from Alabama, we all know where trash goes, we're all granolas at heart. Trash doesn't stand a chance against the can.
5. (Perhaps they are not aware of their contradictory do's and don'ts.) Be mindful of your dog: Don't get me wrong, I'm a total dog lover, I stop to pet them and love on them all the time ... What I don't love is racing and having a dog who is unleashed run on the course. It's dangerous for everyone, especially Fido. Take your pooch to Forest Park, let it off the leash to stretch their legs, but at a race, com'on.
6. Pace race numbers on front of jersey. Amateur mistake we've all made.
7. Inside lanes on the track are for faster runners.
8. Thank race directors and volunteers. Let's face it -- it feels good to have gratitude expressed and without said individuals, none of us would even have races to run.
9. Volunteer to work a race. Not because you "owe it" to anyone, but because it really is a lot of fun!
10. Use proper etiquette on trails as well.
So there you have it. Whether it was a fresh reminder or a slap in the face, always use good etiquette. In my opinion, the runners are what makes the running community to fantastic. The runners have become my best friends, my family, my life -- and it's not because they run, it's simply the individuals that our sport attracts. Let's continue to be the fabulous group of people we are, and mindful of others by practicing good etiquette. Mmmk?


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In a pool full of talented teams, Bridgewater-Raritan counted on its depth to finish first at the Somerset County girls' swimming championships.
"It's the eighth places, the one or two points, that really matter," said Wendy Liu of Bridgewater, who was part of the record-breaking 200-yard freestyle relay, which won in 1:39.26 to top the mark of 1:39.79 set by Bridgewater in 2009. "Mara (Valenzuela) we know is going to give us a certain amount of points, but when we don't get those first places every point counts. Finishing eighth or ninth, it's the difference between one and zero points."
Valenzuela, a senior, fueled her team's run to a second straight title, finishing second in the 100 freestyle in 53.05 and the 100 backstroke in 59.66 while anchoring the 200 and 400 freestyle relays to the team's only victories when Bridgewater-Raritan, No. 3 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, won by a 294-186 margin over No. 18 Hillsborough held Saturday, February 5, at Montgomery High School in Skillman.
In the boy's championship meet, Bridgewater-Raritan got off to a slow start, but that did little to discourage the team's hunger for the title.
It only made for a little more excitement as Bridgewater, No. 2 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, received winning races from Brian Barr and Thomas Rinaldi and held off No. 6 Pingry to win the SCT, 282.50-251, at Montgomery High School.
"Pingry is a great team and pushes us ever year, but we wanted the trophy. To come out on top and restore pride in our program," Barr said. "We knew it would be a close meet, and that we needed the whole team to step up today."
Barr and Thomas Rinaldi were the sole event winners for Bridgewater, while Pingry won seven of the 11 events.
For the complete girls' championship story, visit highschoolsports.nj.com.
For the complete boys' championship story, visit highschoolsports.nj.com.


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After a man opened fire in a movie theater during a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Colorado — killing 12 people and injuring dozens — Warner Bros. is cautiously responding to the events.
Most notably, the production company has pulled trailers of its upcoming release "Gangster Squad" from all theaters due to an eerie scene in which a gunman murders a crowd in a movie theater (this part comes at the end of the trailer, below). According to multiple reports, the trailer did not play before the tragic showing in Colorado.
The full impact of the shooting on Warner isn't yet clear. The studio canceled its "The Dark Knight Rises" premiere tonight in Paris, along with publicity appearances by the cast members and director.
Already, however, the shooting has cost money for Warner, with stocks dropping on the news.
"Warner Bros. is deeply saddened to learn about this shocking incident," a statement by the company said. "We extend our sincere sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims at this tragic time."
Update: Warner Bros. is yanking all TV ads for "The Dark Knight Rises," Variety reports.
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The 2006 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony for Laureates Edson Lobato, A. Colin McClung and
Alysson Paolinelli
The 2006 World Food Prize was awarded to Mr. Edson Lobato, Dr. A. Colin McClung and H.E. Alysson Paolinelli on October 19 in the House Chamber of the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.
Attended by dignitaries and experts from more than 66 countries, the Laureate Award Ceremony was an spectacular celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the World Food Prize.
The evening was highlighted by the world premiere of the World Food Prize commissioned choral piece "The Laureate Call," with text by Ben and Julianne Allaway, music by Ben Allaway and made possible by the generous support of Arthur Neis.
Other performers at the ceremony were Iowa musicians Maurita Murphy Mead and Juan Tony Guzman, Brazilian twin brothers and renowned classical violinists Wagner and Walter Caldas, and a special performance of John Denver's "All This Joy," performed by the Iowa Youth Chorus under director Kristen Stanton. (Learn more about the performers)
H.E. Virasakdi Futrakul of Thailand, Hon. Tom Harkin and Hon. Sally Pederson were among the featured speakers at the ceremony. (See complete program of events)


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Program Notes: March 4, 2007
Maya Beckons; I Shall Embrace Her (world premiere)
Andrew Cole (born Auburn, NY, 1980)
Composer's Note
Maya Beckons; I Shall Embrace Her is a reflective and deeply personal piece. The title is an imaginative translation from a line in the Hindi movie Utsav. To some, the world we see around us is nothing but Maya — Sanskrit for illusion. Wise men tell us that to achieve enlightenment we must detach ourselves from the material world, which gives us many pleasures but can also cause us great misery. While I can see the truth in this belief, I feel that it is a de-emphasis upon life. Having recently gotten married, I cannot imagine giving up the many joys of companionship in order to avoid suffering, regardless of the depth of the misery. I recognize that suffering is a part of existence, and willfully accept it. This piece is about deliberately choosing to embrace Maya and rejoicing in the beautiful illusion of life, come what may.
The commission of Mr. Cole's piece was a collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Digital Media Center, Joan Freedman, Director. Mr. Cole thanks Joan Freedman and the Digital Media Center staff, as well as Anthony Villa and his colleagues in the Music Program at Loyola College, for their support of this work.
Piano Concerto in G Major
(Joseph) Maurice Ravel
(born Cibourne, Basses-Pyrénées, 1875; died Paris, 1937)
Though Maurice Ravel is considered one of France's foremost Impressionist composers, classifications can be slippery. His distinctive Piano Concerto in G Major, completed in 1931, defies this classification as much as it reflects Ravel's many interests and his uniqueness as a composer.
From his Swiss engineer father, young Ravel inherited a fascination with machines; in his 50's, he imagined composing a work to be played entirely by factory machines, and in his late years he spent many hours building fantastic little mechanical toys for his two "honorary" godchildren. An even stronger influence was born of his Basque mother, who fostered in Ravel a lifelong love of Spanish music, inspiring such works as the Rhapsodie Espagnole and Bolero. Ravel was as enamored of old music as new: Styles from Bach through the "new" American jazz permeate his 1925 opera L'Enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Magic Spells), a wonderful morality tale of a rude child who one day finds that the toys he has abused have come to life to teach him a lesson. We can hear most all of these influences in the Piano Concerto in G Major. But where one might expect a hodge-podge of styles, Ravel's distinctive genius unifies them into a wonderfully imaginative, eclectic, and delightful work.
The splendid and unusual opening of this concerto reminds us of Ravel's godchildren's fantastic little toys. A slapstick cracks, opening the scene of what might be a room filled with bizarre little mechanical creatures marching about, rhythmically busy in their curious quests. Right from the start, the piano is in the fray, trilling and roiling up the little machines into a fantastical world of whimsical wonder and childhood-monster grotesqueness. But soon the mechanisms wind down and, in a complete turnabout, the piano spins out a lush, bluesy, Spanish-tinted tune that dances sensually. Both this movement and the third are generally thought to include material from Ravel's sketches for an earlier work, a Basque rhapsody called Zaspiak Bat. This movement is also where he cleverly discovered that the Dorian mode (a musical scale originating with the ancient Greeks), without its fourth and seventh notes, sounds very much like George Gershwin's blues riffs, which Ravel admired. The whole movement plays rhythmic drive, sometimes whimsical, sometimes frightful, against the sensual and sultry. After an understated little rhapsody from the piano, the harp plays a "pseudo-cadenza" from yet another magical universe, until some very annoyed mechanistic creatures interrupt with loud grumbles and a little daydreaming of their own. The low registers of the piano then pick up a hard-driving rhythm, gathering up the automatons along the way, until every voice marches to a brilliant end.
Ravel had strong opinions about the nature of concertos. Though he wasn't the first to do so, he famously accused Brahms of writing concertos against the piano, so insistent was their gravity. Ravel had toyed with calling this concerto a divertissement, an 18th Century term for music that accompanied set changes during operas, intended to please and delight the audience, but not to overwhelm. This notion might help to explain the seeming incongruity among the three movements of Ravel's concerto. Where the first is frenzy, fancy, and curiosities, the second is beauty and sincerity. The piano begins alone, quietly tapping out the unadorned accompaniment to an unhurried waltz. The melody, simple and moving, emerges timidly at first, as if it were the first steps of a lone dancer in deep reverie. Then the melody wanders, sweetly and gently. The dance moves through ever richer variations, eventually enveloped by gorgeous strings and winds, but retaining its simplicity. The reverie then shyly fades, with the piano trilling delicately and the strings breathing out contentedly. As seamless and naturally flowing as this movement sounds, Ravel struggled more with it than any other of his career. It brought him so close to despair that he admitted to the concerto's dedicatee, Marguerite Long, that he had composed it two measures, and sometimes only one, at a time.
Completely changing scenes again, the third movement begins with an obnoxious comical motif. Immediately a feverish flurry abounds, and soon an E-flat clarinet starts squealing and caterwauling, until the pompous opening returns to shut it up. This movement is a Ravellian cabaret, full of fast and changing scenes, amusing as they border on pandemonium. Breathless pianistic virtuosity plays amidst bumbling chaos and changing tonalities, mocking even the obnoxious motif that appears each time the whole show begins to derail. The ending is a mad dash for stage left, chased by the motif, leaving the orchestra and soloist winded and the audience dizzy.
— Max Derrickson
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Opus 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
(born Bonn, 1770; died Vienna, 1827)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 is one of the most beloved of all symphonies. Its famous second movement is itself a masterpiece. That this is arguably Beethoven's most skillfully realized symphony, only partially explains why it is so inspiring. What has truly enraptured listeners for 200 years is its infectious exuberance and joyful intensity.
The first movement's slow introduction, with its broad swashes of colorful chords separated by descending woodwind lines, may seem to be just luxuriant sonority, but it establishes two important features that will define the symphony — mood and rhythm. The scales and lengthy sets of repeated notes lay the groundwork for a rhythmical metamorphosis. This wonderfully inventive moment comes as the introduction bridges into the exposition (the introduction of the movement's main themes). Harmony and melody have evaporated, and the winds and strings are left in stasis, quietly trading single notes in a simple rhythm. The flutes then subtly, magically, morph into the new, delightful skipping rhythm of the exposition's first theme. Though the rest of the movement spans vast melodic and harmonic ground, this skipping rhythm persists through nearly every measure. Uninhibited by Beethoven's usual struggle between fate and triumph, this persistent, carefree rhythm creates a true ebullience. It also lets the energy steadily intensify until, as the basses well up like sea surges, the horns gloriously proclaim the theme one last time.
The second movement Allegretto is a work of such otherworldly beauty that one can't help but be swept into its realms. This movement, too, revolves around a simple, persistent two-bar rhythmic motif: quarter note, two eighth notes, and then two quarter notes. But where the first movement's rhythm acted as an engine, the rhythm here is an emotional transporter. The movement starts with a solitary, solemn chord, followed by a skeletal melody in the rhythmic motif. Beethoven builds this melody and a yearning countermelody into a set of ever more mysterious, passionate, and beautiful variations. As the movement draws to a close, musical layers peel away and the rhythm begins to falter, until we find ourselves back to the solemn chord with which we began.
The third movement scherzo, marked Presto, begins in a blaze of animation, with a rhythmical pattern taken from the static metamorphosis in the first movement. Beethoven had never written a scherzo of such energetic intensity. The middle section (trio), usually a more relaxed contrast to the outer sections, here also builds powerfully. Although the trio's theme is believed to be based on an old Austrian hymn, it is hardly treated as such. There is a powerful moment near the middle of the trio when the horns begin a syncopated half-step warbling, building great tension, until the exalted phrase of the hymn is joyfully released by the strings, trumpets, and timpani. The movement ends with the Presto firmly re-establishing its quick-stepped pace.
The Finale continues the frenetic nature of the Scherzo, but with even greater intensity and vitality. The first two short phrases introduce a rhythm that will, again, persist throughout the movement. Then the first theme begins a rollicking descent into joyful lunacy, ending the symphony with a nearly uncontrollable elation. The conductor and musicologist Donald Francis Tovey called this movement a "triumph of Bacchic fury," and it is indeed one of humankind's great affirmations.
As beloved as the seventh symphony has become, it was premiered under curious circumstances. The work had its debut in December 1813, along with Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Wellington's Victory (Battle Symphony), in a concert given to benefit Austrian and Bavarian soldiers disabled while fighting Napoleon in the Battle of Hanau. The concert was organized by Johannes Maelzel, inventor of the metronome and, among other peculiar devices, the panharmonicon, a sort of huge mechanical orchestra. For this concert, Maelzel persuaded Beethoven to compose a symphonic work that would incorporate this invention. Beethoven wrote Wellington's Victory, commemorating the recent defeat of Napoleon in Vitoria, Spain, complete with live cannon and musket fire in time with the music. But the piece had to be performed without the panharmonicon, because it was broken. Playing in the orchestra that evening were such luminaries as the composers Hummel, Meyerbeer, Spohr, Moscheles, and Salieri. The Battle Symphony was the unabashed hit of the concert, but the seventh symphony also received an enthusiastic welcome, with the audience demanding an encore of its second movement.
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The majority of Wisconsin public schools and districts meet or exceed expectations as graded on report cards released by the Department of Public Instruction.
The report cards released Tuesday show that all but 11 districts met or exceeded expectations during the 2012 school year. Milwaukee Public Schools was the only district that failed to meet expectations, while 10 districts met few expectations.
This is the first year the report card includes district-wide ratings. There were 1,910 individual schools statewide that received ratings. Of those, 88 percent meet or exceed expectations. That is up from nearly 86 percent last year, although how the scores are calculated has changed making comparisons to prior years difficult.
According to DPI, the School District of Onalaska (81.0) and the School District of Holmen (73.1) both exceeded expectations. The School District of West Salem (69.4) and the School District of La Crosse (67.9) both met expectations.
Only 58 schools, or about 3 percent of all, failed to meet expectations, the lowest possible ranking.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — House Republicans on Tuesday abruptly canceled a vote on an impact fee to produce revenue from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, only hours after they had announced it would be debated.
Majority Whip Stan Saylor, R-York, said the decision was made to buy time until a gubernatorial commission reviewing Marcellus Shale drilling issues reports to Gov. Tom Corbett next month.
Earlier Tuesday, Corbett had said he would veto any gas tax or fee that might pass this week.
Saylor said the Democrats had agreed to postpone action on the politically charged topic until fall, and they did withdraw related amendments to the Fiscal Code.
But Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, said there was no deal and would not rule out an attempt to pursue a Marcellus Shale amendment later this week. The state budget deadline is Thursday, after which the Legislature will probably recess until Labor Day.
"We're not in charge of the calendar," Dermody said. "We'll see what happens."
The day began with House Republicans announcing votes on shale-tax amendments to a Senate-passed bill concerning hazardous site cleanups would be held in the afternoon.
The main GOP proposal, by Rep. Dave Reed, R-Indiana, would assess a fee on Marcellus Shale wells of $50,000 in the first year, $25,000 in the second and third years, and $10,000 a year for the next seven years.
The money would be collected and distributed at the county level, with 37.5 percent going to the host counties, 25 percent to host municipalities, 17.5 percent to all municipalities within a host county and 10 percent to county conservation districts, which help manage various local environmental protection efforts. The final 10 percent would go to host counties strictly for use by first responders and emergency medical services.
Dermody said his members want "a real, meaningful Marcellus Shale bill."
"The amendment that was going to run is nothing near what's required," he said. "It had no environmental protections. It was a very small impact fee."
House Democratic spokesman Bill Patton noted that Reed's amendment would repeal the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act, a 1988 law that funds environmental programs, including Pennsylvania's share of the federal Superfund program, and pays for investigations of illegal hazardous waste disposals and methamphetamine labs.
Most Democrats and some Republicans have clamored for an extraction tax that would tap into revenue from the natural gas rush happening across a wide swath of Pennsylvania, from the rural northern tier counties to the state's southwestern corner.
The Marcellus Shale formation, the nation's largest-known natural gas reservoir, lies primarily beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio. Pennsylvania is the center of activity, with more than 3,000 wells drilled in the past three years and thousands more planned in the coming years as thick shale emerges as an affordable, plentiful and profitable source of natural gas.
When drilling companies began flocking to Pennsylvania several years ago to exploit the Marcellus Shale formation, they were largely working under laws from the 1980s that never envisioned deep-drilling activity that is combined with high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the recent innovation of horizontal drilling underground.
So far, the Legislature has done little to change that, other than pass a bill to require faster public disclosure of well-by-well gas production data from Marcellus Shale wells and debate the merits of a tax on gas extraction.
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It may be getting close to the end of the United Way's 11th annual Community Caring Week in northern Chautauqua County, but lasting impressions made during the week's volunteer efforts were far from over on Thursday.
Lake Shore Savings Bank employee Rachael Moscato and Coordinator of SUNY Fredonia's Volunteer and Community Services Program Joyce Harvard Smith were on hand at the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry's soup kitchen, known as The Friendly Kitchen. The volunteers were there to help prepare a lunch of sausages, pasta salad and hot dogs for those in need.
"Each year, SUNY Fredonia has helped out in the Week of Caring," Harvard Smith said. "It is important to give back and we stress that to our students to give back and make a difference in the lives of others."
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Lake Shore Savings Bank employee Rachael Moscato (left) and Coordinator of SUNY Fredonia's Volunteer and Community Services Program Joyce Harvard Smith were on hand Thursday at the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry's soup kitchen, known as The Friendly Kitchen, to help prepare lunch for those in need.
Moscato, who graduated from Fredonia in December, said she was fortunate enough to find a job right out of college.
"The bank's motto is 'putting people first,' so that's what I'm trying to live up to by volunteering here today," she said.
Harvard Smith said the need to volunteer is crucial due to an increase in the number of people who use The Friendly Kitchen for food.
"There are over 100 people a day that use this kitchen, so it is important for people, especially students, to volunteer," she said. "There is just an ongoing need for them."
She also said students at the college participate in volunteering events such as the Day of Service, when they contribute more than 15,000 hours of community service to more than 20 different agencies in the area.
Earlier in the week, employees from the Nestle Purina Pet Care Company helped to paint the walls inside the Garment Gallery, which is a part of CCRM. CCRM Executive Director Kathleen Peterson thanked all the volunteers for coming in to help throughout the week and echoed Harvard Smith's sentiments regarding an ongoing need.
"We are fortunate to be one of the agency partners of United Way. Their support helps us meet the unmet needs in the community through our food programs. It truly is not about meeting a goal, but meeting a need," she said.
"The Week of Caring is just another way that our agency and those we serve benefit from the giving of others," Peterson continued. "We are grateful to the employers which allow their employees to spend a few hours helping out UW partners in such a wide variety of tasks and look forward each year in getting some of the larger projects completed. UW, local businesses and community partners are fortunate to be the recipients of such kindness."
Volunteers will help with projects throughout the county today, which is the final day of the Week of Caring. Anyone interested in volunteering can contact the United Way Office in Dunkirk at 366-5424. The United Way is always looking for volunteers year-round. Those interested can visit www.volunteerwny.org for more information.
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A tribe in the Northern Lower Peninsula could become Michigan's first tribe of American Indians to recognize same-sex marriage, and only the third in the U.S.
According to the Associated Press, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians' tribal council is considering a constitutional amendment that would acknowledge a marriage between two people of the same gender if one of the partners is a member of the tribe.
The tribe has about 4,000 members, most of whom live in the Northern Lower Peninsula.
UpNorthLive reports that the proposal still is in its early stages. It is now in a period of public comment that will extend through at least late April, and it will need approval from at least five of nine members of the tribal council before going forward.
"We have our own constitution, our own court system, and our own government here, police force, etc, DNR, so it's our right to express equality," former Odawa Chairman Ken Harrington told UpNorthLive. "In my mind, we're all equal in our creator's eye."
The Petoskey News-Review reports that, even though same-sex marriage is not legal in Michigan, "the tribe could allow such partnerships because of its status as a sovereign nation."
A member of the tribe told the paper "two-spirit" people always have played a key role in indigenous cultures in America and are treated no differently and have certain ceremonial duties. The definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman did not exist until contact with Europeans, the tribe member told the News-Review.


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True freshman running back Casey Turner is listed as ``out'' and fifth-year senior running Kordell Young is ``doubtful'' for Thursday night's season-opener against Norfolk State at Rutgers Stadium in the first official Big East injury report released today at 6 p.m.
Perhaps the biggest news is a name that isn't on the list. Wide receiver Mark Harrison, who suffered a head injury 10 days ago, will play and start.
This is the first week of the Big East's newly instituted injury policy in which teams must submit an injury report two days before a game with players listed as ``probable,'' ``questionable,'' ``doubtful'' or ``out'' with upper or lower body injuries.
Then, on Monday, teams must announce players who are out for the season or are undergoing surgery.
Turner, who is expected to inject life into the running game, has been slowed by a nagging leg injury the past two weeks.
Young, the Scarlet Knights' third-down back, is still navigating his way through some personal issues, coach Greg Schiano said. He hasn't practiced in a week.
Quarterback Steve Shimko (shoulder) is probable. True freshman wide receiver J.T. Tartacoff (leg) joins Young as doubtful. Fullback Robert Joseph (lower) and wide receiver Phil Lewis (upper) are out.
As has been reported, wide receiver Tim Wright (knee) and long snapper Rob Horrell (knee) are out for the season.


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Wauwatosa man charged in killing of ex-girlfriend
Wauwatosa — A man being sought by police confessed that he killed the mother of his young daughter - perhaps in front of the toddler - and then drove around with the woman's body in his car for four days, according to court documents released Monday.
As the search for Benjamin M. Germano entered its fifth day, the 32-year-old Wauwatosa resident was charged Monday with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Sarah Rosio.
The body of the 24-year-old Milwaukee woman wasn't found until last Thursday, in a storage unit in West Allis, triggering the search for Germano.
According to a criminal complaint and a search warrant document filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court:
Germano told two friends Thursday that he killed Rosio eight days earlier, on Jan. 13, at his apartment. He said the 5-foot-3, 100-pound Rosio attacked him in front of their daughter, and "I just snapped, I lost it."
Germano told one of the friends that he strangled Rosio, which is similar to a felony charge he faced in 2008. The medical examiner determined that Rosio died of strangulation.
Germano had contacted the friends hoping they would pick up the toddler. He said he wanted a safe place for her before he was arrested.
The toddler lived with Germano at his apartment in the 6700 block of Vista Ave. in Wauwatosa; Rosio lived in an apartment in the 600 block of N. 4th St. in Milwaukee.
On the same day that Germano allegedly confessed to the murder, a manager at the Sentry store at 6700 W. State St. in Wauwatosa told police that a BMW, later identified as Rosio's, had been in the parking lot since at least Jan. 13 - the day she was killed.
Allegations of strangulation were made in at least one of the domestic violence cases brought against Germano.
Online court records show that:
• Five restraining orders, including at least one obtained by Rosio, were filed against Germano in the past 15 months.
• Germano was ordered last month to have no contact with a person identified as "Sarah R." in connection with a pending disorderly conduct case.
• Germano was charged in 2008 with choking Sarah R. The case was dismissed after she didn't appear at his trial to testify.
The most recent series of legal actions started with the disorderly conduct incident Dec. 12.
Two days later, a person who is not identified in the court records obtained a two-week domestic abuse restraining order against Germano.
On Dec. 16, Germano was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct in connection with the Dec. 12 incident. He was ordered by a judge to have no contact with "Sarah R."
On Dec. 28, the person who obtained the restraining order requested an injunction that would extend the order. The request was denied by Milwaukee County Family Court Commissioner Dean Zemel.
Last Wednesday, Germano appeared in court and was appointed a county-paid attorney for the disorderly conduct case. The next night, Rosio's body was found in a storage unit on the property of City Screen Print and Embroidery, 1910 S. 81st St., in West Allis.
Earlier in 2009, a harassment restraining order was obtained against Germano on Oct. 5 and a domestic abuse restraining order was filed against him April 15. In both cases, the person obtaining the order is not identified and a request for an injunction to extend the order was denied.
In 2008, domestic abuse restraining orders against Germano were obtained Nov. 3 and Oct. 16. The Nov. 3 petitioner is not identified, but the Oct. 16 petitioner was Rosio. In both of the 2008 cases, no injunction extending the restraining order was granted because the petitioner did not appear in court.
Germano was charged with strangulation and suffocation while armed, a felony, in connection with a Nov. 27, 2008, incident.
Germano was ordered in that case not to have any contact with "Sarah R." The charge was dismissed on the day of trial, last March 2, when Sarah R. did not appear in court to testify.
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Benjamin M. Germano, 32, might be driving a black, four-door 2001 Toyota Corolla with Wisconsin license plates 144 KJV.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Wauwatosa police (414) 471-8430 or a local police department.


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"If I would have thrown a fastball right down the middle and somebody would have hit it out?" K-Rod postulated then. "'Oh, why didn't he throw the breaking pitch?' Regardless of what you do, they always want to find the negative side for everything."
Now, the home run Rodriguez allowed on Monday against the Indians came on a hanging curveball to Shelley Duncan. But the point is this: Rodriguez understands that his job requires scrutiny. He operates with a wealth of inner confidence – the sort accrued over a career with a World Series ring, four All-Star game selections and the major-league record for saves in a season.
Rodriguez does not fit the archetype of most closers: The hulking flame-thrower hurling 95-m.p.h. fastballs again and again. He instead relies on craft, meticulous pitch selection and a bevy of offspeed stuff.
"I'm going to do what I know I'm capable of doing on the field," Rodriguez said recently. "I'm the one that has the ball."
And his manager won't be losing faith in him any time soon. The home run Rodriguez allowed on Tuesday night did little to dent Jerry Manuel's confidence
"He's just like anybody else," Manuel said. "Every now and then, they're going to hit a bump in a road. You just know his bumps aren't going to be as big as everybody else's. He knows how to manage it, how to manage himself. I don't have any concerns as to his performance or anything like that."
Plus, consider some of the data surrounding Rodriguez this season as it compares to recent years (and not just the ugly numbers from 2009):
2007: 2.81
2008: 2.24
2009: 3.71
2010: 2.36
FIELDING INDEPENDENT PITCHING (in ERA terms)
2007: 2.70
2008: 3.22
2009: 4.01
2010: 3.04
2007: 1.248
2008: 1.288
2009: 1.309
2010: 1.136
Hits per nine
2007: 6.7
2008: 7.1
2009: 6.8
2010: 7.1
Home runs per nine
2007: 0.4
2008: 0.5
2009: 0.9
2010: 0.8
Strikeouts per nine
2007: 12.0
2008: 10.1
2009: 9.7
2010: 11.0
Walks per nine
2007: 4.5
2008: 4.5
2009: 5.0
2010: 3.1
Strikeout to walk ratio
2007: 2.65
2008: 2.26
2009: 1.92
2010: 3.50
So hits and homers are slightly more likely. Walks are down. Strikeouts are up. His fastball velocity is steady at 91-ish.
Yes, we understand that Rodriguez can wrack the nerves of Mets fans with the lengthy at-bats and the length innings and curveballs bouncing into the dirt. But right now, the results are as good as they have been in years.


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A long-time Ocean County firefighter was sentenced to three years in prison today on charges he stole a pickup truck from the Little Egg Harbor fire district by having the title switched into his name, according to New Jersey authorities.
Edward "Tony" Kluver, 48, pleaded guilty on Oct. 18 to a second-degree charge of official misconduct. He is a former commissioner of the Little Egg Harbor Township Fire District No. 2 and former chief of the Mystic Island Volunteer Fire Company.
Kluver and another Fire District No. 2 commissioner, Leroy Kaufman, 66, were indicted by an Ocean County grand jury in December 2006, after the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office and township police discovered that the two men used their official positions to sign over district vehicles to each other in early 2002.
Kluver admitted that he took title to a 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup, owned by the district and valued at $10,000, by re-registering the truck in his name through the state Motor Vehicle Commission. He claimed he paid $250 for it, but the state Attorney General's Office, which took over the case, contends no payment was made by Kluver.
The state contends Kaufman, also a former member of the Mystic Island fire company, similarly re-registered a 1993 Chevrolet Blazer owned by the district, claiming he too paid $250 for the vehicle. Kaufman pleaded guilty to third-degree theft on Oct. 1, and he will be sentenced on Feb. 1.
When Kluver was sentenced by Superior Court Judge James Citta in Toms River today, he forfeited his commissioner position and was barred from holding public office in New Jersey.


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Unhappy with street work, Paris City Council delays final payment to contractor
With a Louisiana company already three months overdue on a water line replacement project, the Paris City Council has decided to make the company wait another two weeks before getting the last of its money.
"There are several issues, and one of them is the poor quality of work by the contractor, and also the fact that they are late," city manager John Godwin told the council Monday night.
City attorney Kent McIlyer said the city has no choice but to pay the money, which is for materials and work that was not originally called for but proved necessary as work proceeded.
"We've got their money, we know we owe it to them, and we're going to have to give it to them eventually, but they were in no hurry to fix my town so I'm in no hurry to give 'em my money," he said.
The council agreed, voting unanimously to delay until the next meeting on April 28 to OK the $18,383.02 that McInnis Brothers Construction, Inc., of Minden, La., requested above and beyond its $1.8 million contract.
The company began the project last July and was due to finish in January. Work still continues, mostly because of a 20-inch cast iron water line that nobody has found a way to cut off.
But the council's unhappiness with the project has more to do with the streets — especially on Church Street and East 3rd Street — that were nowhere as good after the work was done as when work started.
A local asphalt contractor was hired last week to re-do the street work.
"I'm not too sympathetic with giving them $18,000 — Because of the problems they've caused. Anybody who's driven Church Street knows what I'm talking about," District 3 councilman John Wright said.
"I feel pretty much the same way," District 2 councilwoman Sue Lancaster said. "We're still going to have to address how it looks and how to fix it, and that cost has to come from somewhere."
Godwin said as the council proceeds on its $45 million bond issue to replace deteriorating water and sewer lines, it may need to revisit "how much of the bond money you want to use for roads and how much you want to use for actual utilities."
Godwin reminded the council that last summer KSA Engineers — in recommending a $45 million program of work — submitted an estimate for $15 million to replace water and sewer lines and $30 million for new streets afterward.
In particular, Mayor AJ Hashmi objected at the time, saying residents were promised that $45 million would be spent on replacing old water and sewer lines. He said new streets were not necessary, and whatever was spent on them should come from other funds.
"So you'll know what's coming, when you take out a road, it costs a lot of money to put it back the way it was," Godwin said.
"Now, I'm not going to say they'd look like this (on streets replaced by McInnis). This was horrible. This was unacceptable, and everybody knows that," Godwin said.
Hashmi cut off discussion on how much money should be spent on roads, saying it was not on the agenda.
At a late penalty of $150 per day, McInnis Brothers Construction now would owe $12,600 in penalties as of Monday for its 84 days behind schedule.
McInnis asked that 57.5 of the late days be excused because of delays beyond the company's control, such as the December ice storm.
"After reviewing the list, staff can only recommend 45 additional days be added to the contract," city engineer Shawn Napier said.
That still leaves the company still 39 days late, which would cost the company about $6,000 in penalties. Any resulting late penalty will be deducted from the money due on the change order request, Napier said.
The major outstanding problem with the project is an old 20-inch cast iron pipe that neither the contractor nor city crews have figured out how to take out of service, Napier said.
The project is not part of the city's infrastructure bond package. McInnis was awarded the Phase I work on water replacement work financed by a low-interest loan from the Texas Water Development Board Drinking Water State Revolving Fund in the amount of $3.4 million.
"The past few weeks have been spent trying to find a way to turn off valves or find the unmarked lines that are preventing this line from being taken out of service," Napier said.
"We've gone back and even talked to 25- and 30-year employees in the water and sewer department — people working with the city back in the 70s — and they said they couldn't kill that pipe in the 70s either," he said.
Napier said he would like to end the contract with McInnis and use city staff to continue working on the mystery of what to do about the 20-inch water line that has proved so problematical.
"It may take us into the summer to get that done, but I don't see a need for us to hold onto this contract," Napier said.
McInnis was the low bidder in April 2013 on the replacement of water lines along East Third Street from Henderson Street to Sherman Street; along Church Street from Washington Street to Hearon Street: and on Deshong, Lewis and Stone streets west of Paris Regional Medical Center.
The company underbid Barney Bray Construction and Harrison Walker & Harper, both of Paris.
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Golf is a popular sport to play for potential pro sports draftees.
Travis Hanson, a 1999 South Kitsap High School graduate, was shooting a paltry 6-over par through the first three holes.
But then the St. Louis Cardinals called the University of Portland junior and told him they drafted him in the ninth round.
Hanson went on to shoot a 1-under the final six holes.
I had things on my mind (before the call), Hanson said. I guess something clicked after that.
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I had a feeling theyd draft me, Hanson said. They called me a lot.
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I didnt want to get my hopes up, he said. Im happy with how it worked out.
Hanson has another year of eligibility at Portland, but he said hell report to class A ball in New Jersey next week.
Hanson had quality seasons during is first two years at Portland, but he enjoyed a breakout season this year.
He batted .315 with eight home runs and 46 RBI.
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I give a lot of credit to my strength and conditioning coach (Brian Graham), Hanson said. He got us on a program where we were working with a medicine ball and doing agility drills.
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Director-General condemns murder of two Mexican journalists
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, condemned today the murders of two Mexican journalists: Marco Aurelio Martínez Tijerina, radio journalist for the regional station XEDD Radio La Tremenda, found dead on 10 July in Montemorelos in Nuevo Leon state; and Guillermo Alcaraz Trejo, former cameraman and employee of the Chihuahua State Commission for Human Rights, shot to death in the city of Chihuahua on 10 July.
"I condemn the murders of Marco Aurelio Martínez Tijerina and Guillermo Alcaraz Trejo," said the Director-General. "Their fate underlines the danger media professionals face every day so that freedom of expression, a fundamental human right, may be exercised. I am counting on the Mexican authorities to ensure that the perpetrators of these crimes are brought to justice."
According to the non-governmental organization Reporters without Borders (RSF), Marco Aurelio Martínez Tijerina, 45, presenter of the radio show "Informativo 800" at XEDD Radio La Tremenda, was abducted in the street on 9 July by armed men in three vehicles. His body was found the next day after authorities received an anonymous call. He had been shot in the head and apparently tortured, investigators said. Formerly the news director for XERN Radio Naranjera 950 AM, he was also a correspondent for TV Azteca, Grupo Multimedios and W Radio.
Guillermo Alcaraz Trejo, former camera operator for several media, worked in the video division of the Chihuahua State Commission for Human Rights. As he was coming out of the Omnia magazine offices, masked men opened fire on him.
Ten journalists have been murdered in Mexico this year counting these latest killings, according to Reporters without Borders.
UNESCO is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom. Article 1 of its Constitution requires the Organization to "further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations." To realize this purpose the Organization is required to "collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication and to that end recommend such international agreements as may be necessary to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image..
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- Brian Canady, 24, admitted to killing his girlfriend's 4-year-old son in a Tigard homeless shelter. He's also agreed to testify against the boy's mother.
- Pacific University Vice President Michael Mallery, accused of sexually abusing two child relatives, went to trial last week. Jurors are set to reconvene in the trial Tuesday.
- Rita Batz Cobb, a Washington County Circuit Court judge, has retired. The governor appointed Deputy District Attorney Beth Roberts to her seat on the bench.
- Two teenage gang members were sent to prison for shooting a rival gang member in the spine, in Aloha, paralyzing him from the waist down.
- A jury found Samuel Paul, 40, guilty of Measure 11 charges in a Beaverton snack kiosk robbery. Paul whacked a food clerk with a soda can and ran off with the cash register.
- Curious about the outcomes of certain crimes reported in Washington County? We've compiled a list of some recently resolved cases.
- Court records offered more details on Jonathan Black, a Bethany man accused of sexually abusing several boys, The Oregonian's Everton Bailey Jr. reports.
- Eleven military veterans, former tenants of Lacey's House in Hillsboro, have reached a settlement with the nonprofit they sued in 2012.
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- Take a ride with Sherwood Police Officer Corey Jentzsch and his drug-sniffing and people-tracking police dog, Irma.
- Hillsboro police are looking for new reserve officers and applications are due at the end of this month.
- Gaston firefighters this week helped rescue a horse that was stuck on its back between a wall and an embankment. The horse's owner told the Forest Grove Leader's Samantha Swindler that the horse was doing well after the rescue.
- A woman called 911 to report a barking dog, and the call was released as part of the Washington County dispatch center's "You called 911 for that?!" campaign.
- A Hillsboro dog, struck by a Washington County Animal Control officer, lost its eye, according to a report from The Oregonian's Everton Bailey Jr. Hillsboro police say their investigation into the incident is continuing.
- An Aloha mother and Beaverton police are still looking for answers in an unsolved fatal hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of the woman's 18-year-old son. The Oregonian's Everton Bailey Jr. tells the story.
- A Cedar Hills trench collapse trapped a worker for hours, before firefighters could rescue him.
- A massage therapist, who worked at a Cedar Mill athletic club, has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl.
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The South Lafourche High School student who was shot dead near his home in Larose was described by his mother as a star swimmer, WDSU television reports. Lafourche Parish sheriff's deputies found Braxton Bourda, 15, dead on the side of East 23rd Street with a gunshot wound to the head.
Sheriff Craig Webre said 19-year-old Neely Gardner, of Galliano, surrendered to authorities early Friday morning and was booked with negligent homicide. Gardner told investigators he found a gun on the ground near a house and was trying to unload it when it accidentally fired one round, striking Bourda in the face, WVUE reported.
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ALLEGAN, MI -- Kid Rock will play the Allegan County Fair for the second time in four years.
Kid Rock will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, the Allegan County Fair announced this morning.
Kid Rock played the fair in 2011 and the sellout crowd was one of the largest in the fair's recent history.
Tickets are $75 and $95. They will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 10. They are available at the Allegan County Fair eTix box office, online at www.allegancountyfair.com or by phone at 888-673-6501.
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October 31, 2011 | by Laura Miller
Even the most confident of writers can be excused for wondering if words, mere black-and-white glyphs, can compete in a world filled with ever more animated, flashing, full-color, special-effects-crammed and interactive visual media. At such times, it's helpful to remember a passage from Norton Juster's children's novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, describing a visit by the hero, Milo, to the archives of the Soundkeeper in the Lands Beyond.
The Soundkeeper boasts that her vaults contain "every sound that's ever been made in history." To prove it, she opens a drawer and pulls out "a small brown envelope," explaining that it contains "the exact tune George Washington whistled when he crossed the Delaware on that icy night in 1777." Milo, Juster writes, "peered into the envelope and, sure enough, that's exactly what was in it." The narrative moves briskly on.
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8:30 A.M. Breakfast, and a chunk of The Pale King.
11:40 A.M. I meet up with The Los Angeles Review of Books' splendid poetry editor, Ms. Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Knowing her is even better than saying her name, which you could, if you wanted, skip rope to. We talk about Fairport Convention, Vietnam metaphors, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Joe Boyd, Frank Bidart, Richard Howard, and Led Zeppelin. (Always, Led Zeppelin!) We eat soup. I walk away feeling the way I always do after talking with Gaby, namely that I got the better half of the bargain.
3:20 P.M. Nicolas Jaar, and a nap. My draft of Zeroville is very nearly almost done, and I've gotten my licks in on a few more LARB essays. I feel semijustified in caving in to fever, and so, do.
8:15 P.M. I find myself standing in an intolerably humid Skylight Books, listening to an invisible Bret Easton Ellis—he's somewhere up there, obstructed by the mob—read from Imperial Bedrooms. He then answers questions about The Hills, Glee, Twitter, screenwriting, loneliness. Just about everything except books. He's charming, patient, funny, articulate, and reminds me how odd it can be when the reality of an author—or of anything—gets eclipsed by reputation. Lethem has a piece in his forthcoming Ecstasy of Influence in which he argues that notoriety is the only form of postwar American literary fame. He's persuasive, dividing fame from regard among readers and suggesting that knife fights (Mailer), feuds (Vidal), and censorship (Nabokov, Ellis) are the royal road to visibility. Maybe. But this place is packed, largely with people half my age who are carrying thoroughly destroyed–looking Vintage editions of Ellis's older books. Someone's reading him, and that's a good thing, regardless of what strains they're locating in his work. A stray tweet I read later refers to "being here with other weirdos waiting to hear Bret Easton Ellis read." I take that as proof positive that literature has not nearly outlived its use.


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Mahala, who was 2-for-3 for Seton Hall, hit a three-run double as part of a six-run third inning then hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning. Mahala (4-1) struck out five, allowing one run, four hits and two walks. Pat Gardner doubled with three RBI, Frank Maldonado was 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run and Nick Mascelli doubled twice with three runs.
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As a community psychiatrist, I have followed with interest the articles regarding the U.S. Department of Justice's report on the Portland Polices Bureau's difficulties in dealing with the mentally ill ("Police crisis training found wanting," Sept. 16; "Portland police to alter approach to mentally ill," Sept. 14).
Part of this whole problem is that the mental health commitment laws in this state are inadequate. In Louisiana, for instance, family, friends, landlords and employers can swear out an affidavit for an "Order of Protective Custody," which allows the police to pick up and transport a mentally ill person to the emergency room for medical evaluation. The mentally ill can be committed by two separate physicians on an emergency basis on the grounds of being "gravely disabled due to an underlying mental condition." This allows physicians to evaluate people who are too confused, intoxicated or psychotic to provide for their basic needs, food, shelter, access to medical care, safety, etc.
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Residents along Southwest Lobelia Street, who were awakened a week ago by a crash, gunshots and responding police car sirens, have signed a letter of thanks to wounded Portland police Officer Jeffrey Dorn and his deceased police dog partner Mick.
Three men were arraigned in court on Monday in connection with the pre-dawn burglary last Wednesday of Blumenthal Uniforms & Supply store, which led to a police chase on Southwest Capitol Highway, the crash of the suspects' white sports utility vehicle at Lobelia Street and the driver's shootout with police. Mick was found fatally shot in the front yard of a home on Southwest Lobelia Street later that morning.
Prosecutors will bring the case against the accused trio to a Multnomah County grand jury, seeking indictments before their next appearances in court next week.
Along a fence at the corner of Southwest Lobelia and Capitol Highway, area residents hung a white board they signed that reads, "Thank you Portland Police Department Officer Jeff Dorn K-9 Officer Mick For Your Courage, Dedication & Sacrifice.''
A nearby street pole is adorned with flowers and flags. At its base sits a dog treat and toy dog, and a signed "Thank You'' note to Mick, with the message "You're a good dog!''
Lori Rose, who lives several blocks east of the intersection, sent these photos of the growing neighborhood memorial.
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Happy almost Saint Patrick's Day! If you are planning any kind of party (for either the kids or the adults) here are a few "green" appetizer ideas.
1. Make a green fruit platter with kiwis, green grapes, honeydew melon, green apples and green pears.
2. Make a green vegetable platter with broccoli, sugar snap peas (yum!), green peppers, zucchini sticks, asparagus spears and serve with green dip made with green food coloring.
3. Serve celery with peanut butter in the middle
4. Spice up sliced cucumbers with some lime (or lemon) juice, salt and a little chili
5. Put out a bowl of boiled and salted edamame (soybeans in the pod)
6. Serve guacamole with chips
7. Put out a bowl of pistachios
8. If it's a kid party color your milk with green food coloring
Have a green fruit and veggie filled Saint Patrick's Day all!
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