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BOXING: Federal Way's unbeaten Thompson signs new promotional deal, will fight Dec. 6
Courtesy of fightcluboc.com:
With the search for the next great American heavyweight underway, renowned promoter Roy Englebrecht believes that he has found one. Englebrecht announced Tuesday that Federal Way's Vincent Thompson has signed a five-year contract.
"I am very excited to sign with Roy Englebrecht Promotions (REP)," said the 29-year-old Thompson, who is 11-0 as a pro. "Roy has a long history in boxing and he is the type of promoter who will give me the opportunity to reach my goal to become the heavyweight champion of the world."
Thompson will make his debut under the REP banner on Dec. 6, when he faces Giovanni Sarran on the Fight Club OC card at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, Calif.
"To have the opportunity to sign and promote Vincent Thompson at this point in his career is an honor for my company," said Englebrecht.
Thompson (11-0, 2 KOs) has had gloves on his fists since the age of six and was 23-5 as an amateur. Thompson turned pro in August 2009 with a four-round win over Freddie Miller and he hasn't skipped a beat since.
A popular boxer in Federal Way, "Vicious" Vincent's hand speed and ring savvy always produces a packed house. In his most recent bout in May, Thompson delivered a near-shutout performance in decisioning Joell Godfrey on the nationally-televised ESPN Friday Night Fights.
"I've had the opportunity to see Vince's entire career from Day One, and have seen the progression," said REP matchmaker Whitfield Haydon. "He has come a long way in a fairly short time. What he does well, he does very well. His hand speed and mental makeup are world class."
Tickets for the Dec. 6 Fight Club OC show, featuring Thompson, along with six additional bouts can be purchased at www.fightcluboc.com.
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Sweden's CRAFT really are the spaghetti and meatballs of Black Metal. There's nothing terribly flashy or fancy to their particularly orthodox brand of slightly groovy Black Metal but they always get the job done. "Void" – their first collection of new music since 2005's "Fuck The Universe" turned out to be a bit of a sleeper hit for yours truly; sure, other Black Metal albums were better (WOODS OF DESOLATION), others were more challenging (KRALLICE), but ultimately I ended up listening to "Void" more than just about every other album released during the latter half of last year.
The overriding influence here is still DARKTHRONE (both their old school and more Black/Punk leanings), this much is obvious when cracking songs like "Serpent Soul", Come Resonance Of Doom" and "Succumb To Sin" start blaring through the speakers. They all succeed in effortlessly infusing a traditionally abrasive style of no-frills Black Metal with some rollicking Rock and Punk grooves, while never neglecting to spice things up with some patently cold leads which add a sense of forlornness to proceedings. The tempo remains relatively mid-paced throughout, but the band occasionally dips its toes in slower, almost Doom like dirges (see Leaving The Corporal Shade" and "Bring On The Clouds"). These snail-paced songs aren't really all that impressive, but thankfully there are songs like the blisteringly intense "I Want To Commit Murder" on hand to add some balance to the overall flow. The album also ends off in the best possible way, with the monumental title track being the best on offer here. Starting off a tad nondescript with some arbitrary background noise and guitar reverb it soon builds into a steamrolling monster, with hammering in-your-face riffs offset by some horrendously bleak (i.e. good) leads which adds such an undeniably desolate vibe to affairs you'd swear the earth will open up momentarily and swallow you whole.
Production-wise there are no qualms from my side, everything is punchy and clear, and the overall sense of synergy between the members is palpable. Vocalist Michael Nox deserves special mention for his brilliant performance – his vicious rasps recall the great Nocturno Culto at his best. Even the rather blunt cover art, which depicts the band joyously saluting what is presumably a nuclear mushroom-cloud in the distance, is perfectly in line with the spirit of the songs contained herein.
The six year wait was nothing if not agonizing but I can confidently state that "Void" has been worth it. It is a significant improvement upon the lacklustre "Fuck The Universe", and together with 2002's "Terror Propaganda" this is easily the best CRAFT disc your money can buy.
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Great investments can sometimes hide in plain sight -- or your pantry. One of the best examples of how plain-sight, boring-is-beautiful-style businesses can thump the market has been spice kingpin McCormick (NYSE: MKC ) . This quiet market dominator has probably been on your radar ever since you first visited a spice aisle, but it has largely flown under Wall Street's radar because of its size and lack of sizzle. Lucky us.
I recommended McCormick to Inside Value members back in October, but it wasn't until recently that I was able to visit its headquarters. I came away impressed with McCormick's people, process, and strategy and, as I'll explain, I am confident that this wide-moat dividend dealer has years more of great returns ahead.
Got spice?
McCormick is like a modern-day Dutch East India Company -- without the powdered wigs and tyranny. The 122-year-old company's branded spices, herbs, seasonings, and sauces can be found in nearly 100 countries. Odds are you have some on your pantry shelves, including Lawry's, Old Bay, and the eponymous McCormick brands.
The company's sales have held up well throughout the Great Recession thanks to the strength of its brand, consistent demand for its products, and a great value proposition. Spices pack a lot of flavor but cost only pennies per serving, making them among the last expenses people are likely to cut from their shopping lists. You might downgrade from a filet mignon to a sirloin, but you're probably not going to skimp on the salt and pepper.
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McCormick's dominance doesn't stop with your spice rack, though. Enjoy Cheerios? How about KFC or Doritos? About 40% of the company's sales come from industrial customers like General Mills (NYSE: GIS ) , PepsiCo's (NYSE: PEP ) Frito Lay, and Yum! Brands' (NYSE: YUM ) KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. McCormick is the partner of choice for these large-scale flavor pushers thanks to its scale, breadth, expertise, and proven ability to help food and beverage companies put innovative twists on their brands.
The industrial side of McCormick's business offers lower margins than the consumer side, which led McCormick to drop the bottom third of its industrial customers since 2005. The strategy of trimming some customers and focusing on its top buyers has paid off, as McCormick's industrial sales have since risen more than 15%, with profit climbing even higher.
Even better, there's a quiet call option on the industrial side. As we gleaned on our tour of the company's R&D facilities, McCormick is able to leverage its systems, innovations, and insights from the industrial side in its own margin-rich consumer business. A perfect example is in China where McCormick is leveraging its experience and logistics in assisting Yum! Brands' voracious growth by selling its own branded consumer products.
The carving knife
McCormick's focus on fiscal discipline is paying dividends. Earnings growth has outpaced sales growth in the past several years because of the company's emphasis on cost-cutting and a bigger proportion of sales coming from the high-margin consumer business.
We got a great sense of the company's ongoing quest to cut costs and improve efficiency while on our tour of the company's Hunt Valley plant. The tidy facility, which smells like 1,000 simultaneous Thanksgiving dinners, has made huge strides in achieving capacity gains by automating an increasingly large slice of the production pie. McCormick should be able to retain a greater portion of that value creation because of its strong brands and high barriers to entry, especially on the consumer side.
One very interesting nugget was the new high-efficiency production lines purchased for the production of the Lawry's line, which the company scooped up from fellow foodstuffer Unilever (NYSE: UL ) back in 2008. Some analysts (myself included) have been quick to point out that Lawry's products are higher-margin than the aggregate of the rest of McCormick's business and thus have the potential to surprise on the upside gross-margin-wise. What goes unappreciated, though, is that the actual lines producing Lawry's goods are also substantially more efficient and can produce at lower costs than the bulk of the rest of the production line, which amplifies the higher-margin profile of the Lawry's pick up.
Talkin' 'bout cash
We also had lunch with CFO Gordon Stetz, a 23-year veteran who knows the business cold. A lot of CFO's get painted as simply playing the role of Chief Number Jockey, but Stetz has a crystal clear view of McCormick's strengths and limitations.
Stetz views McCormick's brands as the company's greatest competitive advantage. Yes, its distribution capabilities, scale, people, expertise in flavors, and industrial relationships all have immense value. At the end of the day, though, it's a collection of trusted, well-known brands that allow for the company's wide margins. That's been reflected in the company's high-level strategy over the past few years, as it has opportunistically scooped up established brands that complement its existing portfolio and started turning away bad business in its industrial line.
McCormick places a huge emphasis on R&D and innovation -- maybe a little surprising for a company that sells spices. But, as Stetz joked, a manager who gives a presentation to CEO Alan Wilson -- a former Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ) manager well schooled in P&G's hard-driving focus on innovation, product development, and brand leveraging -- without the first slide being about what he or she is doing to innovate is due to get an earful. Perhaps not surprisingly, 15% of sales on the industrial side of the business stem from product developed in the past three years.
The power of that strategy shows up on the bottom line. McCormick's strong, consistent cash flow has driven 25 straight years of dividend hikes. Not too shabby, and neither is today's 2.2% yield that outclasses the payout on the 5-year Treasury. But while hysterical bond investors are handcuffing themselves to static payments and low returns, McCormick's dividend would rise by about 50% in the next decade if sales grow at just a 4% annualized clip. And while the shares aren't the bargain they were when I recommended them back in October, I still think they'll quietly drub the market over the next decade with a healthy, growing dividend to boot.
The Foolish bottom line
McCormick isn't a stock that will make your friends jealous at the next BBQ. However, be sure to thank them for funding your dividend check with the Lawry's Seasoned Salt they use to flavor the hamburgers. While you're at it, rub it in to them that you also scored access to our special free report, "13 High-Yielding Stocks to Buy Today." To get instant access to the names of these stocks, simply click here -- it's free. And pass the pepper.


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Kenny Dalglish failed to hide his frustration last night as he launched a scathing attack on the FA and called for greater protection from referees towards his Liverpool players.
Having seen Luis Suárez charged with improper conduct and Liverpool with failing to ensure that their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion for incidents that occurred during the 1-0 defeat away to Fulham on Monday, Dalglish let fly during a surreal press conference in which he showed clips from Craven Cottage on a screen to get his point across.
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A 56-year-old man who shouted homophobic abuse and several expletives at two gay men on a train has apologised.
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Born March 15, 1994, Gucci was grabbed by a group of men at 12 weeks old, beaten, hung in a tree by his neck, doused with lighter fluid and set on fire.
At 16 years old, the dog had been in failing health for several years, said owner Doug James, the Spring Hill College professor who rescued Gucci from his tormentors.
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The book is based on Kerouac's travel journals of trips across the United States and to Mexico. Harbour Winn, director of OCU's Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film & Literature, said the Beat Generation classic is one of the ultimate examples of an American personal journey story with a following that hasn't dwindled since it hit the literary scene in the 1950s.
"Stories of journeys are found in the myths, religions, literature and history of every culture," Winn said. "Some journey stories explain the origin of a people as they emerge from the underground to live on the Earth. Physical journeys are often taken to facilitate a spiritual journey inward, as in the vision quests of many cultures, or to symbolize a transition in status. Underlying all of these stories is the conception of life as a journey. This particular book gives insight into the author's fascination with the need to travel, not so much for the destination, but for the travel experience itself."
The book discussion series opened with Homer's "The Odyssey," which is considered the grandfather of all journey stories in the Western literary tradition.
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Was there any doubt what the late night crew would be talking about last night? You didn't even have to watch to know that it would be – the partial shutdown of the federal government.
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Jay Leno didn't ignore the shutdown either.
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"I am glad the government is shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it is safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in. This is fantastic you can talk to whoever you want."
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The Borgata is offering a unique specialty cocktail selection for all Super Bowl fans this weekend inside three of their venues: Long Bar, Gypsy Bar & B Bar. Plus, you too can make these amazing libations at your own party!
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Hi Screamer,
Great man.
Nice link for our files, i already downloaded all te pdf s.
Thanks a lot.
|13th April 2008, 05:51 PM
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Hey Guys
I am hoping that you can help, I have a similar problem, I have recently started racing and have found that my free ride gear is not up to it. I have recently got 2xNP V8's, 7,5 & 6,5M. I currently have a 06 Carve 111, which I have been really happy with until now, but it is just not competative with the Falcons.
I have placed an order for an Isonic 101 and from the dimensions I am hoping that it will plane earlier than the Carve and also be a lot faster- as my firends are getting away from me in lighter winds (13 knots) - we only have 2 or 3 races below 15 knots - the rest are between 15 and 30 knots
Am I correct in assuming that the wider tail is going to make a much bigger difference when racing in lighter winds? Will I get planing earlier on the Isonic 101 than the Carve 111. the rest of the dimensions are very similar to the Carve?
Oh I weigh 75kg - is the 101 the right board?
Look forward to hearing your comments
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My new Isonic 101 has just arrived, and it looks like the wind is going to be blowing between 18 and 25 knots on the weekend, so things are looking pretty good.
I do have one question though - I have 2 slalom sails a 7.5 and 6.5. 2008 NP V8's, the 2 fins that came with the boards are 42 and 34cm fins - which sail to use in what range of winds, I generall use the 7.5 till about 19 knots, is the 42 not a bit big between 16 to 19 with the 7.5 or is it ok. isnt the 34 to small around 20 knots? I do have a mean 38 slalom that I have been using up till 20 knots.What do you suggest?
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You can run the 42 & 34 with the 7.5. Change down to the 34 when getting to much back foot pressure. 34cm will be perfect with your 6.5
Remember add plenty of downhaul with the Isonics as they have low nose rocker and v8's have plenty of grunt anyway, so max it!
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Thanks Maximus - will give it a bash - wind still looking great 18 - 25 knots tomorow and Sunday.
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Was out on the weekend in 20+ knots. I must tell you I was really impressed, I was sailing with my 08 NP V8 6.5 in 19 to 26 knots. I hit 28,4 knots on the GPS which I was pretty happy with as there was around half a meter+ of chop, and could feel that the board had a lot more speed in it, I must admit I was not going flat out (it was the first time I was on the board). I had the 36 cm fin on it and had no spin out at all.
I was really impressed as to how the board remained controlable through the gusts it was great - guys well done on designing a great board - now I just have to try it out in the lighter winds (13+knot) - I will update the thread once done.
So far exactly what I was looking for and can highly recomend for any sailor who weighs around 75kg and wants a slaolom board for 13 - 25knots.
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Hello, B1KWikis, and welcome to Uncyclopedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If not, the door's right over there... no, a little more to your left... yeah. Anyway, here are a few good links for people like you:
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I'm not sure if the quality police will approve of your entry, but I find it rather amusing. Welcome to Uncyclopedia and please
get to work, comrade enjoy your stay.--User:Jokerman/sig 00:25, April 26, 2011 (UTC)
- Aye; problem is, you can't just dump a draft and expect other people to clean it up. Sometimes they do, but more often the only other folks to edit it'll just wind up making it worse... this ain't like Wikipedia - articles generally have specific ideas to them, and usually the original creators are the ones that know those best, and thus would have the best idea where they're going as well as the ability to fine-tune them. Also, people are a really lazy, here. Please, keeps working, read the formatting guides and whatnot, and make it something people will want to read, not something pleading for them to fix it for you. It does have potential. ~ 05:55, 26 April 2011
Hey Lyrithya, thanks for fixing the namespace on my umm, script thing... I was relying on someone with a little more experience to give a tip. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by B1KWikis (talk • contribs)
- If you want advices, perhaps a review would help. Also, don't forget to sign your comments, mon. ~ 22:17, 26 April 2011
kk - B1KArt
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edit Reply
Regarding your comment on my talk page yes, those numbers essentially signify how much has been added or removed from an article. It makes spotting vandalism far easier when we are checking recent changes. --ChiefjusticeWii 07:43, May 8, 2011 (UTC)
Ok, thanks for the info --B1K-- 21:24, May 8, 2011 (UTC)
edit Ehhhh
Don't mind me, but what the hell do all these sub-pages actually do? -- Frosty dah snowguy contribs KUN PLEB 04:00, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
- I came here to ask the same thing, actually. You have a shit-ton subpages that you're always adding to and I'm confused as to what you're actually doing with them. Fill us in, please! – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • SU&W) 20:06 May 31, 2011
- Replied on my talkpage. – Sir Skullthumper, MD (criticize • writings • SU&W) 20:46 May 31, 2011
edit Admins and ppl rejoice
I fixed the glitch - B1KArt 21:12, May 31, 2011 (UTC)
edit I tricked the S.O.B into putting my template
Problem solved, trolls rejoi-ahem- Admins rejoice.
edit umm, maybe not
edit You've been trolled -_-
lol, Did you guys know this guy was trolling you the whole time he was here?
He has a page on encyclopedia dramaticae
edit Here's an example of why Uncyclopedia is lacking in the moderation department
B1K here, coming back 4 years later after re-stumbling on this site to post a short story about what happened that got me banned, and as a result, what's wrong with this website's power-abusive moderation team. This will be my final post here, so there will be no need to IP block me.
Basically, I got banned for editing pages in the user space allotted to me in this site, as a personal sandbox. You know, the userspace that I have every right to use, as per signing up for this site.
Apparently, it's against some (made-up) rule to use your own userspace to spam edits. Honing your understanding of MediaWiki formatting? Fuck that, you're banned!
I don't know about the other moderators, but one of them definitely abuses his power. A moderator by the name of Ljlego--the one who banned me for using my own userspace. This is something that would never conceivably happen in Wikipedia, Wikia, Encyclopedia Dramatica, or any similar site thereof. Why? Because they repsect their userbase.
The thing about users is that they control your traffic. If you alienate your users, you lose traffic. Hell, they might even come back with sockpuppet accounts and anti-ban proxy servers to haunt you for your actions, making edits to pages that discourage potential users from showing the site patronage. I've seen it happen before on Wikipedia, too many times to count. That's why so many of their pages are edit-protected. Guys, Ljlego is doing damage to your site's well-being. This is the first time in 4 years that I've been to this site. And I don't plan on coming back any time soon. What does that mean for ads? Donations? Sure, you can blow me off as insignificant, since I'm just one person, but this is about principle. We, your users, are the people that keep your site alive. You should show us some damn respect.
In the end, I was banned for a nonsense reason, by an overzealous moderator who abuses his power, and knew that I didn't know enough about the site's infrastructure to get a hold of the moderators who are actually sensible. Since I was never a popular user, obviously no one has actually SEEN the ludicrous ban message. Here, I'll paste it for you in full, so everyone can read it:
- 03:51, June 1, 2011 Ljlego (talk | contribs) blocked B1KWikis (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of infinite (33 non-userspace edits since you joined. Bug me when you want to do something constructive.) <-- this is not a valid reason
The "non-userspace edits" he's referring to are the few light edits I made to articles to correct their sloppy grammar, make their formatting better, etc. And I learned how to make those formatting edits by experimenting in my user-space. The point of pushing the template system to its limits, trying every formatting trick in the book, and experimenting with "wiki-programming", was to learn how to use the system so that I could make contributions to this site and Wikipedia, and Ljlego banned me before I could implement.
So basically, if you don't make nonsense pages lacking in cohesive content that just make random non-jokes and aren't funny, you don't deserve to have an account on this site. Even though I made 33 edits, which is pretty damn good for the short period of time I was here.
So yeah, sure sounds like a solid policy! Oh wait, that's nowhere to be found in the rules. Hmm...
-B1KWikis, signing off. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs)
- Happily, the website is now operated by a completely different "power-abusive moderation team." I personally do not ban users for using their own userspace to learn, but even your side of the story states that you did nothing useful to others in 33 edits here, some of them apparently requiring attention from the Admins of that era. Based on your own need to tell your own story, assert your right to use this website, and abuse other Uncyclopedians, even after four years have passed, I would not welcome you back. Spıke Ѧ 20:06 14-Jan-15


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Stephen Perry, president and chief executive officer of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau, has been appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal to the LSU System Board of Supervisors.
Perry, who was chief of staff under Gov. Mike Foster, will be one of two members representing Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District -- New Orleans -- on the 15-member policy-making body. His appointment, which is subject to confirmation by the state Senate, is for a six-year term.
Perry holds two degrees from LSU: a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in anthropology. He has studied at Moscow State University and completed the Senior Executives Program in Sate and Local Government offered by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- I'm on the phone with Noah "Xaphoon Jones" Beresin, one half of the duo known as Chiddy Bang, while he's in New York directing his second music video. He's pretty pumped about it.
Actually, Beresin gets pumped up about a lot of things you wouldn't expect a rising hip-hop star to get excited about. He's a technician who does much of his work behind the scenes. He says being in the production studio is "his favorite thing to do."
Chiddy Bang is coming to WSNX's Party in the Park on Thursday to perform in support of its first full-length album, "Breakfast," which came out in February.
This will not be Beresin's first time in Grand Rapids. Six months ago, Chiddy Bang opened for Snoop Dogg in a sold-out show at The Intersection.
Beresin said he met his partner, Chidera "Chiddy" Anamege, during his freshman year of college. He said there was "nothing crazy" about the secret to their success.
"We just made songs and people liked them," Beresin said. "So we figured we should make more of them."
Utilizing MySpace, the group spread its art to a larger audience. Chiddy Bang may be among the last groups to claim the somewhat forgotten social network as its launching pad.
Noah Beresin: MySpace era
The popular blog "Pretty Much Amazing" and others picked up on Chiddy Bang's sound, and the band's popularity grew. Now, it has moved on to headlining venues and music festivals, such as Party in the Park at Fifth Third Ballpark.
Its biggest hit to date from "Breakfast" is "Opposite of Adults," which samples from MGMT's "Kids."
Watching the video, you see the duo eating cold cereal at a kitchen table. What is Beresin's favorite brand? He named a few, including Cracklin' Oat Bran. Oat bran? This is not your typical rising hip-hop star.
Noah Beresin: Cracklin' Oat Bran
The album's name, "Breakfast" alludes to the band's long-term plans. At breakfast, "there's still a lot left in the day, still more meals to come," Beresin said.
Noah Beresin: Album Title
Chiddy Bang will perform Thursday with Cobra Starship, Karmin, Kirko Bangz, Neon Hitch, Sammy Adams, Thomas Fiss and Garrett Borns. Showtime is 5 p.m.
Mashup duo The White Panda will headline on Friday, over Flipside, Super Dre, DJ Grooves, DJ La, DJ Xcape and DJ Internio. Showtime is 7 p.m.
Tickets for their performance at Party in the Park are on sale now at 1045SNX.com or fifththirdballpark.com. Prices are as follows: Thursday's show is $20 for general admission stands, $30 for reserved box seats, $35 for general admission field, and you can add day two for an additional $5. Friday is $15 flat, all general admission.
Beresin is looking forward to having his first tour bus. While he says he'd love to have a portable recording studio -- he really does love working in one -- he confessed it would be cool to have a swimming pool or observatory in his "dream tour bus."
Noah Beresin: Observatory Tour Bus
Beresin describes a Chiddy Bang show as one that includes "drum solos, rap battles and chaos." Not to mention crowd surfing. Sounds like just the type of high energy show that will thrill ticketholders Thursday, when eight bands take the stage.
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Beresin said he remembers the "very cool coffee shops" Grand Rapids has to offer and hopes to grab a cup while he's here.
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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Police are searching for burglars who are suspected of taking jewelry and cash from two homes.
The first robbery took place at a home in the 1300 block of Cleveland Heights Boulevard. A 66-year-old woman returned home about 4:30 p.m. Sunday after a five-day stay at a hospital. She discovered the window was open and her purse was empty. Her missing wallet contained a debit card and $50, reports said.
Police didn't find any fingerprints and have no suspects at this time, reports said.
The second break in took place Monday in the 3000 block of Woodridge Road. A 46-year-old mother reported said she came home with her children to find a window open and the driveway side-door unsecured, reports said.
Drawers were open in her house and two bottles of sparkling-grape juice stood on the kitchen floor, police said. She took her children to the neighbor's house and called police.
Police searched the home and found eight possible fingerprints. Gold jewelry and $100 in cash were missing from the home, reports said.
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Activities: Volunteer for United Way of the Lakeshore and the American Red Cross, youth mentor at WayPoint, cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification and participant in Michigan State University's OsteoCHAMPS program.
Plans after graduation: Attend Western Michigan University to study physician assisting.
Courtney Jackson
Parent: Valerie Jackson
Activities: Volunteer with Christian Care of Muskegon and Pocket Park Ministry Program, youth program leader with A Ministry Preparing Everyday Disciples, intern at the Muskegon Museum of Art.
Plans after graduation: Attend Kendall College of Art & Design at Ferris State University to study art history and journalism.
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When Santa Cruz announced that they were adding seven Star Wars designs to their Tech Deck line, collectors flocked to their local stores to pick up a set. What we hadn't anticipated was that the fingerboards were not all going to be released at once. Boards 1-3 were in the initial release (Boba Fett, Han Solo, and Yoda) plus a skate shop set and a ramp set. We are pleased to remind collectors that the remainder of the boards are now available, along with a very special board that's going to require some online hunting...


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An NBA game only has so many minutes to go around. That leaves a whole pool of underutilized talent and awkward fits on the professional level. Teams snatch up young and old as contingency to fill their bench, but their impact on the season is normally irrelevant.
They sit on the bench and you wonder why they're in the building. They practice their craft merely to earn a paycheck. They are the most pointless players in the NBA.
Let's take a look at each team's ugly duckling. The list is organized alphabetically by team.
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BOSTON -- When Xander Bogaerts reached back and unloaded a swing that connected on a hanging cutter from James Shields and deposited the ball into the center field stands, the sold-out crowd at Fenway Park gave him a standing ovation.
No other way to describe this one: It was a bomb, clearing the high wall in center. And it put the Boston Red Sox within one of the Kansas City Royals as they clawed their way back to a 5-4 win.
Mostly, it released a whole lot of tension.
There's no shaking just how bad Bogaerts has been since June 1. Statistically, he was the worst player in baseball, hitting .134 with a .175 on-base percentage and .215 slugging percentage, each of those numbers representing the lowest among all qualified major leaguers in that time.
Before his home run on Friday night, he hadn't homered since June 13.
What started as a mini slump, when he went four games without a hit in early June, prompted Bogaerts to ask a reporter, "this is a slump?" It was almost as if he was amused at the thought.
But Bogaerts didn't know how to deal with a slump. He had never been in one.
Over 272 games between three levels of the minor leagues since the beginning of 2012, Bogaerts had never gone four games without getting a hit. He went three games without getting a hit just three times.
It would be unfair to say everything has come easy for Bogaerts, a natural talent the Red Sox have been absolutely, positively, no-questions-asked sure of since the day he debuted last August. Yes, he's had to work at his craft. He's just never had to work quite like this.
The four-game slump in June spiraled into a 22-game stretch in which he never recorded more than one hit. In the middle of that was a seven-game streak in which he went 0-for-25 with 12 strikeouts.
By the time Bogaerts reached the All-Star break, his on-base percentage had went from .397, the fourth-best in the American League, to .311, 62nd best.
The Red Sox said they weren't concerned. Bogaerts was frustrated, but never lost confidence. And while the 21-year-old has tried his best to hide his discontent with playing third base, there's been a direct correlation with his offensive struggles and the arrival of Stephen Drew on June 2.
"I just go out there and try to play the best I can and help the team win, that's all I try to do," he said when asked about it Friday.
So what was the problem? One mechanical flaw on top of another, on top of another, and before he knew it Bogaerts was a groundout/strikeout machine.
"My bat just rolled over a lot of stuff," he said. "And that's a bad feeling."
His home run swing Friday looked nothing like his groundouts to second base.
"He stayed behind the ball," manager John Farrell said. "Where we see him get out to his front side, he's kind of lunging forward. There was good leverage to the swing and to drive the ball out of the ballpark to center field, you've got to have some things work correct in your swing and that was the case tonight."
It was just one hit, but look no farther than left field at Fenway Park Friday night to remember how important it is that Bogaerts turns things around quickly.
Alex Gordon, the Royals' first-round pick in 2005, made his major league debut with the amount of hype only few players will ever have to deal with. Bogaerts dealt with it last August.
Gordon wasn't all bad his rookie year, but a .247 average for a super-prospect expected to be the next George Brett isn't exactly good, either. Through his first four seasons, he had a career .244 average.
Four years of Gordon's glory days were lost before he finally found it.
The Red Sox can't afford to wait four years for Bogaerts, nor does anybody think his slump will last a day longer than it has.
"Hopefully this gives him a chance to breathe a little bit," Farrell said.
Maybe it's over. Maybe it's not.
The Red Sox won't stop believing in Bogaerts. As long as he never stops believing in himself, his mid-summer slump of 2014 will be a forgotten memory replaced by a highlight reel of home runs to deep center field.
"Going to deep center and opposite way, that's who I am," he said.
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Project 20/20 is working to improve Battle Creek by focusing on what the community does well.
"If a community truly wants to change, what it has to do is find the things that are working — we call those 'pockets of effectiveness' — and build on those things," said Talia Champlin, chair for Project 20/20.
Formed in 2008, Project 20/20 is a civic engagement coalition based on the work of Richard Harwood and the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. The biggest mistake communities make, according to Harwood and the institute, is going after the "flavor of the month," Champlin said.
"They hang banners, they blow the horns, but then it's all false hope because it wasn't built on what the community is all about," she said.
Some of the areas that Battle Creek can build upon are cereal production, aviation and the Global Food Protection Institute, Champlin said. The GFPI not only brings people in from all over the country through the International Food Protection Training Institute, but it's also a business incubator and a business multiplier.
"It's small now, but it's a pocket of effectiveness that we can nurture and grow," Champlin said. "It's not something we have to bring in and ignite. It's already here and going, and it's unique."
Project 20/20 has four areas of focus: Economic development, education, health care and youth engagement. The group last year formed strategic partnerships with organizations that are working on one of those focus areas, Project Manager Amanda Lankerd said.
At the end of each year, Project 20/20 holds planning sessions to determine what to focus on during the coming year. For 2011, the overwhelming theme was "youth."
"Getting youth involved, getting their input," Lankerd said. "We're making all these changes and doing all these things to attract and retain youth, but have we ever really asked them what they want? I don't think so."
Project 20/20's community forum "What Our Youth & Young Professionals Really Want" will be held Feb. 17 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Burnham Brook Community Center. It's an opportunity for young people to come to the table, and it's an opportunity for community leaders to listen, Lankerd said.
Project 20/20 holds two types of meetings — community forums and leadership meetings — and anyone is welcome at any meeting. Each meeting focuses on a specific topic, and participants break out into small groups to discuss the issue. The goal is to not mask the issue but approach it honestly and work on solutions that people can accomplish, Lankerd said.
"We're changing the norms from being problem-oriented to being solution-oriented, specifically solutions that work for us," Champlin said.
The group believes in the power of numbers, so it's constantly looking to make connections and engage more people.
"One of the things we do is we find good things that are going well, say the downtown transformation, and then we're really getting the word out," Champlin said. "We're making sure we have good communication about the downtown transformation so that we can build energy and excitement and therefore accelerate the success."
In the past, some people might have faced the problem of not having the community know what they're doing to improve things, Champlin said. That was one of the reasons for forming Project 20/20.
"We hope that through Project 20/20 people have a greater sense of community, of connectedness, of hope that our community can change, it will change, it will be better," Lankerd said. "It's great now, but it will be better, it can be better, and it all starts with each of us. It's our responsibility as citizens to help create that change that we want."


text: Culture Exhibit inspires woman to try to avoid buying plastics for a month By Bellamy Pailthorp • May 21, 2013 courtesy Burke Museum Plastics have only been in wide use since the 1940s, yet they are everywhere, from sandwich bags to phones, to keyboards, to rain gear. Even the cans of soup in the grocery aisle are lined with it. It's hard to imagine a world before these conveniences. What would your life be like without plastics? Seattle resident Samantha Porter decided to find out. She works behind the scenes of the Burke Museum, which is hosting an exhibit titled "Plastics Unwrapped." So, would you eat a panda? By Barbara J King • Oct 18, 2012 Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images A Chinese scientist recently suggested that prehistoric humans ate pandas. The evidence, based on cut marks on panda bones, strikes me as thin, but the report led me to a thought experiment. How would people in the modern world react if the some population or subculture today made panda-foraging a goal? I imagine most of us would be horrified, and not only because the panda is an endangered species. The panda has become a symbol of cuteness, an animal we love to love. Artistic passions on display at the NW Flower and Garden Show By Bellamy Pailthorp • Feb 7, 2012 It's been sunny and fair lately…but what do you do when the dark and cloudy skies of late winter get you down? For many people in the Pacific Northwest, the answer is gardening. Their passion is on display this week at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. KPLU environment reporter Bellamy Pailthorp went to check it out. (Click on the "Listen" button up top to hear some highlights from the preview tour.) Seattle's Museum of Flight says no shuttle is sad, but they're getting the next-best thing By Bellamy Pailthorp • Apr 12, 2011 Photo by Bellamy Pailthorp / KPLU It's a day of disappointment in the northwest for fans of US space exploration. Seattle's Museum of Flight got official word this morning that it will not be home to one of the three space shuttles NASA is retiring. And it won't get the prototype Enterprise (which was only used for test flights and never reached space) either. The shuttles are going to: Seattle's Museum of Flight won't get a space shuttle By Gary Crawford & The Associated Press • Apr 12, 2011 NASA photo NASA says Seattle's Museum of Flight won't get to display one of the retiring space shuttles. Museum of Flight a hopeful contender for Tuesday's space shuttle decision By Bellamy Pailthorp • Apr 11, 2011 Graphic courtesy of Museum of Flight. The odds are about one in seven. That's the skinny on Seattle's bid to become a host site for one of NASA's retiring space shuttles. Seattle Times writer Jack Broom sums up the situation nicely in that paper's latest story on the question. 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His shooting by a Seattle police officer last August has escalated tensions between law enforcement and people of color. But Williams' family says the "carve-in" that has just begun is about remembering his cultural legacy. Interview with poet, author and playwright Dr. Maya Angelou By Bellamy Pailthorp & KPLU News Staff • Mar 8, 2011 AP Photo Listen Listening... / One of America's most prominent living poets is coming to Seattle. Dr. Maya Angelou is the author of a groundbreaking memoire published in 1970, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. It describes how she overcame racism and trauma growing up in the South. Dr. Angelou is now 83, and recently received the highest civilian honor in the land, the Medal of Freedom, from President Barack Obama. KPLU's Bellamy Pailthorp spoke with her and asked, first of all, how she came to write her first work of prose. (Click on the audio "play" arrow at the top of this post to hear KPLU's interview). 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A. Lipsett
The Guardian, Jan. 9th 2009, p. 4
In a move to address concerns that they have been too focused on schools at the expense of social care, children's services directors are to be sent on intensive training programmes to help them deal with complex child protection cases. Since the merger of children's social services and education departments in 2004, most director posts have gone to managers with an education, rather than a social services background.
R. Bennett
The Times, Jan. 19th 2009, p. 11
The wake of the Baby P case has seen a sharp increase in applications to take children into care, with more being issued than at any time since the present system of child protection was established. The government last year instructed all local authorities to look again at cases of children at risk to see whether they were really safe from harm.
M. Beckford
Daily Telegraph, Jan. 29th 2009, p. 4
Points out that the new Child Poverty Bill includes a commitment to reduce the proportion of children in households earning less than 60% of the median income to between 5 and 10%. Another target will be to reduce the number of children who are 'materially deprived' to 'approaching zero'. Councils will be required to set local targets on reducing child poverty and will be penalised in annual performance assessments if they fail to meet them.
Professional Social Work, Jan. 2009, p. 17-19
This special supplement highlights the actions of the British Association of Social Workers in defence of the profession since the conviction of three people in connection with the death of Baby P. Social workers have been the subject of public anger at their alleged failure to protect Baby P and other vulnerable children.
S. Shah
ChildRight, issue 252, 2009, p. 11-14
In November 2008 the Children's Secretary Ed Balls announced that new legislation would be introduced to make it a legal requirement for multi-agency Children's Trust Boards to operate in every local authority in England. The Boards will aim to prevent abuse by co-ordinating and strengthening child protection work.
A. Pithouse
British Journal of Social Work, vol. 38, 2008, p. 1536-1552
The New Labour government and the devolved administrations have expanded early intervention schemes for children and families at risk as a preferred way of tackling their multiple and overlapping problems. While this paper endorses the ambitions of early interventions, it questions assumptions of a relatively uncomplicated and positive role for such an approach. It is concluded that early interventions will be of limited value unless they are integrated with other programmes tackling social problems such as family instability, community decline and youth disorder.
S. Laville
The Guardian, Jan. 19th 2009, p. 8
Figures from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children have shown that 53 children a day are subjected to sex crimes in England and Wales. These figures are not collected by the Home Office and police forces only record them on an individual basis.
D. Bascombe
ChildRight, issue 252, 2009, p. 15-17
This article provides an overview of major legislation impacting on children passed in the 2007/08 Parliament, including:
A. Grice
The Independent, Jan. 7th 2009, p. 16
According to a report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), because Britain has a low-wage economy more than half the children growing up in poverty have a parent in work. Although Labour has lifted 600,000 children out of poverty since taking power in 1997, almost all of them had parents that were unemployed. Some 2.9 million children are still classed as poor because their family's income is less than 60 per cent of the median. The IPPR report also found that despite the Government's efforts to improve social mobility, many of the 5.3 million workers in low-paid jobs have little prospect of moving up the career ladder and boosting their earnings. The jobs include the wholesale, retail, hospitality, service, sales and customer service sectors.
A. Gentleman
The Guardian, Jan. 28th 2009, p. 10
New figures recently released reveal that the cost of full-time nursery care has risen above the rate of inflation and now costs anywhere between £8,700 and £20,800 a year. According to the Daycare Trust survey, which collated responses from Family Information Services offices nationwide, parents are worried not just about the cost of childcare but also about the lack of it. As many as 69% of offices reported that parents had complained about a shortage of childcare in their area over the past year and 59% of local authorities said that there was insufficient childcare in their area for the over 12s.
R. Garner
The Independent, Jan. 29th 2009, p. 4
The Chief Medical Officer, Liam Donaldson has recommended that parents should not allow their children to drink alcohol, even at home, until they are 15. The recommendation marks a significant change of emphasis from the current position which legally allows children to start drinking at the age of five. Others argue that the UK should adopt the policy of some other European countries where children are introduced to diluted wine or small amounts of alcohol in order to demystify it.
(See also The Guardian, Jan. 30th 2009, p. 17)
S. Gillen
Community Care, Jan. 15th 2009, p. 16-18
The number of applications to take children into care in England has fallen, although the incidence of abuse has not declined. Experts fear that children at risk are not receiving the protection they need because of two recent changes in the operation of care proceedings. In April 2008, the Public Law Outline, a very bureaucratic system for case management, was introduced in England and Wales, and in May the same year the cost of care proceedings was transferred from the court service to local authorities.
R. Smith
Cambridge: Polity, 2008
This book provides an accessible guide to working with young people in a range of social work settings. It places clear emphasis on the development of key skills, but does not shy away from important theories and evidence. The book explains why taking a user-centred approach is important, and highlights ways in which this can be put into practice. Chapter by chapter, the book introduces the reader to the challenges and potential of working with a range of groups, such as offenders, young people with disabilities, teenage parents, and young asylum seekers and refugees. The book explains clearly the current policies and organizational frameworks which shape social work practice. At the same time, it recognizes that effective social work practice is about much more than simply meeting guidelines, and gets to grips with the day-today realities of working with young people.
M. Mellon
Professional Social Work, Jan. 2009, p. 22-23
The Scottish government has announced a review of child protection policies for 2009, triggered by the Baby P case in Haringey and the recent poor results of an inspection of arrangements in Aberdeen. The author calls for the review to focus on improving core practice skills, rather than on creating new bureaucratic processes and procedures.


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AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Warden Service says a 69-year-old Ocean County man who died while hiking the Appalachian Trail had started in Springer Mountain, Ga., in March and had planned to finish this weekend.
Wardens received a call Thursday afternoon that a hiker was suffering from "debilitating medical symptoms" on a rugged portion known as 100-Mile Wilderness.
The hiker had to be carried out because bad weather made a helicopter rescue impossible. He died later at Millinocket Hospital, and was identified today as Robert Yerike of Brick.
The 100-Mile Wilderness represents some of the most remote sections of the Appalachian Trail, connecting Monson to Abol Bridge in Baxter State Park, home of Mount Katahdin, the trail's northern terminus.


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Tuesday, 24 November 2009
ECU is proud to be sponsoring SportFM's broadcast of the 2010 Hopman Cup, including match commentary of the entire event live on SportFM 91.3 and streamed via the PerthNow website.
Six ECU students, who have been working on the SportFM Drive Show from ECU, will provide additional material from the player media conferences for both the radio show and the Hopman Cup website.
Second year Broadcasting student, Corbin Middlemass will be assisting with the match commentary, using the experience he has gained from calling the cricket on SportFM 91.3.
Broadcasting and Journalism Unit Coordinator David Smith says the experience the students will get from partnership further differentiates ECU as a leader in the field of journalism and broadcasting education.
"The ECU produced SportFM 91.3 Drive Show has been running successfully since August, with students providing all the interviews and packages.
"The Drive Show is broadcast from the Mount Lawley undergraduate studios that opened this year, allowing students to get practical broadcasting experience," he said.
ECU is the only university in Australia to offer sports-related units in Journalism and Broadcasting.


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Good teams are strong up the middle. The Pirates are not strong up the middle. The Pirates are not a good team.
That was the truth even before the defensive implosion in the Bronx on Saturday afternoon. The misplays that day embarrassed the Pirates, their fans, the National League and the bellmen who carried the Pirates' bags, but they could not be called isolated incidents. This team lacks complete ballplayers up the middle.
This season, center fielder Chris Duffy has fielded like a champ but his on-base average is only .300, 34 points below the league average.
Freddy Sanchez has begun to hit more like a defending batting champion, with a .333 batting average and .361 OBA these past four weeks, but he has gone from a spectacular third baseman to the worst fielding second baseman in baseball other than Jeff Kent.
Shortstop Jack Wilson and catcher Ronny Paulino have disappointed with the bat and the leather, and were appropriately benched Sunday. They deserve to stay seated tonight, too, so the team might pretend for at least another day there is accountability for poor performance, but don't go betting the rent money there.
Before approaching the defense, let's consider the collective offensive output from Pirates catchers, second basemen, shortstop and center fielders. Baseball-reference.com says the collective is hitting .263 with a .312 on-base average and .367 slugging average. That's 86 percent of the major-league average for a defensive quartet (using OPS, on-base plus slugging, adjusted for the ballpark.) So if these guys aren't hitting, are they fielding?
Not on your autographed picture of Bill Mazeroski. Forget fielding percentage, which only measures the balls a fielder reaches and depends on official scorers' whims. Let's go with Ultimate Zone Rating, a metric by Michael Lichtman that was recently touted in hardballtimes.com. The UZR looks at the probability that a ball in play becomes an out, based on how hard it was hit, the base/out situation, the ballpark, the pitcher's groundball/flyball ratio and more. The stat translates that information as run values, and so in one number says how many runs the player saved or lost. Unfortunately, it doesn't include catchers.
Four Pirates were above average defenders in the season's first two months: Duffy (+4 runs), first baseman Adam LaRoche (+3), third baseman Jose Bautista (+3) and left fielder Jason Bay (+1)
Right fielder Xavier Nady and shortstop Wilson were merely average (0). The error-prone Jose Castillo received a -1 at three positions, shortstop, second and third base; Ryan Doumit was a -6 in right field and Sanchez was a -9 at second base, entirely because of his limited range.
Nobody has to take UZR as gospel, and I have doubts Castillo was that bad at third or Nady that good in right, but it's fair to say this kind of fielding has not helped balls-in-play pitchers such as Zach Duke and Paul Maholm. It's also clear Wilson must either go back to being a superior shortstop or at least hit like an average one. As Wilson said in January in reference to Castillo at second base, "I want whoever's going to make this a winning team."
Right now, that's not Wilson.
The average NL shortstop is hitting .272 with a .329 OBA and .406 SLG according to STATS Inc. In roughly 600 plate appearances going back to this date last year, Wilson has hit .258/.309/.344. Trouble is Castillo has been much worse: .230/.269/.320 in about 400 plate appearances.
Even Castillo's supporters would not describe him as steady in the field, but he had a good game Sunday with the stick and glove. The Pirates should run Castillo out there again at shortstop tonight. See if he can go on one of his three-week tears. Shake up this team.
Let Doumit catch more, too. He is unpolished, but he held on to the ball in a home plate collision Sunday, a day after Paulino didn't seem all that interested in catching anything. And Doumit obviously has swung a better bat, with an .862 OPS to Paulino's .620.
Not that there isn't real risk. Doumit has crushed the ball in the 13 games he has caught (.341/.383/.545), but the Pirates have won only two of those games because opposing hitters mostly have slammed Pirates pitchers. When Doumit is catching, opposing hitters have hit a frightening .303/.364/.522 compared to a manageable .272/.336/.413 when Paulino catches. The splits went Paulino's way even more drastically last year, so it certainly seems Paulino calls a better game.
But who says Doumit can't improve there? He caught seven shutouts in 2005, his rookie year, yet has not caught two consecutive games this season. Make catching a competition and maybe one of the backstops will develop into a complete player.
Meantime, the Pirates should try these promotions for this homestand: Hit the Cutoff Man Night, followed by Run The Bases As If You've Been There Before Day. They might pack the house.
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Authorities are investigating whether a woman who drove the wrong way on a stretch of Interstate 40 to her death wanted to kill herself.
Randall County District Court records indicate Rebeccah Lee Goodson's divorce from Robert Greg Goodson became final Friday, the day Texas Department of Public Safety officials said she died in a head-on collision with a Dodge pickup near Bushland. The head-on crash killed another woman and injured three others.
Trooper Gabriel Medrano said officials still are looking into whether the court development played a role in the crash. Goodson also endured the death of a child two years ago.
"That is part of our investigation at this point," he said. "You have to look at all the circumstances to determine the cause of an accident, whether it's something as minor as a dog in the road or intoxication or something more severe.
"Once our investigation is done, we'll have a clearer picture on what exactly happened."
The crash also killed Meagan McCain, 19, of Tucumcari, N.M., and injured three other women - Angela Stash, 19, of Pueblo, N.M.; Amber Scheret Miller, 20, of Westminster, S.C.; and Daphne Lynn Wehrs, 21, of Sparta, Wis., who were in the pickup.
The truck was registered to McCain, but Stash drove.
Meanwhile, members of McCain's family spent much of Monday on the road, trying to get to West Texas to meet with grieving friends in Groom, said her aunt, Sandra McCain.
Meagan McCain was raised in Piedmont, Ala., but her parents moved to Poteet, south of San Antonio, after she graduated from high school. She stayed in Poteet during the summer and was on her way with her friends back to Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, N.M., where she was entering her second year of study.
She also was a member of the school's rodeo team. Riding big, agile horses around barrels made for fun, but McCain planned to become a grade-school math teacher.
"She was an exceptional person, with a bright future," Sandra McCain said. "This is a young lady who had been more places than you ever thought and was going more places than you ever dreamed."
After her time at Mesalands, Meagan McCain wanted to go to a four-year school closer to her parents in Poteet, Sandra McCain said.
Stash, Miller and Wehrs were taken to Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo in serious condition Friday. Wehrs was moved to University Medical Center in Lubbock, where she remained in serious condition Monday. An update on Stash and Miller was not immediately available.
All the women in the pickup were wearing seat belts.
DPS revealed Monday that Goodson was not wearing a seat belt.
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HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, MI – The Bay County Championship doesn't always have the feel of a spectator sport.
But when the last group gets to the last hole, there are plenty of onlookers – and there is plenty to see.
"I always like coming around the corner and seeing everybody up around that green," defending champion Justin Holyszko said. "It makes it pretty exciting at the finish. I just hope I'm in the last group so I can see that again."
Holyszko vies for a piece of history when he leads 160 local golfers into the 90th Bay County Championship, the 36-hole event set for Saturday and Sunday at Bay County Golf Course. And few appreciate that final-hole gallery more than the former Bay City Western and Northwood University star.
(RELATED: Tee times and pairings can be found here when they are finalized)
Holyszko last year became the first back-to-back champion in the event since Jerry Snable rattled off seven titles in a row from 1992-98. And – like nine of the last 11 Championships – Holyszko's consecutive wins hung in the balance on the 18th hole on Sunday.
So when the final group hits the homestretch, the crowds begin to gather. In recent years, more than 200 people have hovered around the finishing green or followed along behind the last group in an army of golf carts, creating a somewhat surreal setting for the championship's outcome.
And in that pressure-packed atmosphere, Holyszko simply steps up to the tee and bombs it.
"Normally I hit driver all the time on that hole," he said. "My favorite club in the bag is the driver, so I have confidence in it. I just aim it at the 150 stake and hope it cuts the corner.
"That's a pretty tough finishing hole, so it makes things interesting."
Holyszko won last season by a single stroke when Mike Wenglikowski's 60-foot birdie putt clanged off the back of the cup on No. 18. He won in a playoff over Nick Spencer in 2013 and in extra holes over Wenglikowski in 2007. Holyszko also added a rare, four-shot triumph in 2010.
Now the 31-year-old Academy Mortgage loan officer has a chance to join a rare sect in the history of the tournament that dates back to 1922. Only Snable, Eugene Hand, John Tews and Pete Pafford have won three consecutive Bay County Championships, and only Tews (12), Snable (11), Hand (7), Pafford (5), Tom Rezler (5) and Harry Halub (5) are members of the five-win club that Holyszko can join.
"For sure, that would mean something," Holyszko said. "It would be great to be up there with those guys. There's a good history of golf around here, so I'd be excited for that."
Holyszko's chief competitors for the Championship Flight honors are familiar faces, including past champions Wenglikowski, Rezler, Andrew Janke and Jason Holyszko.
There is also a growing group of players who are poised for a championship breakthrough, such as Nick Spencer, Mike Dore, Drew Vogl, Halub Cup medalist Scott DeWyse and Bay City Country Club champion Dustin Vogl.
"There are a lot of good golfers playing, and a lot of guys I'm friends with," Holyszko said. "Whether I win or not, it's going to be a lot of fun."
A full field of 160 golfers fills the five-flight tournament. Jake Coquillard, Jeremy Kloska, Doug Adams and Seth Ferrio captured flight championships last season.
John Tews...12
Jerry Snable...11
Eugene Hand...7
Harry Halub...5
Pete Pafford...5
Tom Rezler...5
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