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You can boost your cardio workouts with a few simple techniques. You dont have to try new equipment or some crazy new move. All you have to do to boost the power of your regular cardio workouts is push a little harder, try something new and give every session 100%.
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1. Increase the incline
Avoid running on a flat treadmill or road. Instead, bump up your incline or go for the hills.Running on an incline increases calorie burn, builds leg strength and improves running speed and form.
2. Hands free
If youre on the treadmill for part of your cardio workout, try to keep your hands off the handrails. Instead, just let go and pump your arms naturally as you run or jog. This will improve the effectiveness of your cardio workouts.
3. The great outdoors
If possible, make sure parts of your cardio workouts are outdoors. Trail running, mountain biking and sports outside offer a change of pace and a chance to improve your balance and athleticism.
4. Stop and go
Interval training increases your workout intensity and improves results. Learn how to add interval training to your cardio workouts for maximum results. Try sprinting one hundred meters and alternate it with jogging or walking back to the starting line before resuming the sprint.
5.Use your whole body
Your cardio workouts should be a total-body experience. Make sure your routine does not focus too heavily on one part of the body.
6. Work and rest
Remember to work hard — but dont forget to rest. Resting between sets is important. Resting between your cardio workouts is also key to avoid burning out.
7. Keep pace
You can use smart phone applications to record pace, distance and calories burned. Recording these variables helps you stay motivated and see your progress over the course of days and weeks. Our list of the Top 5 Running Apps can get you started with new apps for tracking progress.
8. Turn it up
Turn up the music! Music boosts your mood and injects energy into your cardio workouts. Need a little help perfecting your playlist? Pick upbeat, popular hits and find your power song to create the best workout playlist.
9. Stay flexible
Dont forget to stretch and warm up. You need to prepare your muscles for a high intensity workout. Try these tips for preventing and relieving muscle soreness.
10. Be Consistent
The best way to get good results from cardio workouts is creating a routine and sticking to it. It could be the first thing you do in the morning, after work or at lunch. Just pick a routine and follow it.


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MOBILE, Ala. -- Dr. Craig Kleinmann, a partner with Nephrology Associates of Mobile, been named to serve as 2009 president of the the Medical Society of Mobile County.
The society is the professional organization of physicians in Mobile and includes 1,036 members. "Most people get involved when their kids are older," he said during a brief break between seeing patients at his office on Old Shell Road. "I felt like I had something to offer."
Kleinmann has four daughters, three of them younger than 4. His wife, April, is expecting another daughter in February. He's also on call at least twice a month, which means he's up and out of the house at a moment's notice. He said he will devote his energies to the president's position despite his hectic work schedule and active home life.
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Tough defenses put their teams into great positions to succeed on a nightly basis.
Shooting accuracy goes cold. Turnovers happen, but a college basketball team that gets after it on the defensive end will be close or in just about every game on its schedule.
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LINCOLN-Despite having to play three games in four nights, the Alcona soccer team saved its best performance of the week for last.
Trenton LaVergne scored his second hat trick in as many nights and Chase Matthews set a new school record, but the Tigers fell short against Bay City John Glenn on Thursday, losing 4-3.
LaVergne scored on a header with 4:28 to play, but Alcona (7-8) couldn't net the equalizer in the time remaining.
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Bay City John Glenn's Filberto Dominguez (9) tries to manuever around Alcona's Schuyler Bates, right and Jason Steiner during the first half of a soccer game on Thursday at Alcona High School.
"We really hung with them. We worked the ball around, Trenton was able to knock in three good ones and it was a good team effort," Alcona junior Jason Steiner said.
Alcona's loss came after a 5-4 loss to Oscoda on Monday and an 8-0 mercy-rule win over Whittemore-Prescott on Wednesday.
John Glenn took a 3-1 lead less than five minutes into the second half on a long shot from Connor Monaghan, but Alcona cut the Bobcats' lead to one two different times during the frame.
LaVergne knocked in his second goal at the 13:22 mark of the second half to cut the lead to 3-2. He barely missed on a header nearly 10 minutes later after taking a pass from Steiner.
While Alcona's offense played well, Matthews did more than his part in net to keep the Tigers in the game. He played one of his best games of the season in net for the Tigers and set a new school record for saves in a game with 24. The previous record was 22 set by Aaron Ritchie.
"It was fantastic. He was feeling bad because of the last game, but tonight was a big confidence booster for him," Steiner said of Matthews' performance.
Connor Windiate, who scored twice for the Bobcats, gave John Glenn another two-goal cushion with 15 minutes left in the game after scoring on a corner kick.
The game proved to be a physical affair with several calls being made. Windiate was awarded a penalty kick with 16:25 left in the first half, but Matthews stopped his shot.
"We were all really, really tired and I felt like in the second half we got a second wind and pushed the last two games out of our heads and focused on this one," Steiner said.
LaVergne muscled his way to the front of net several times early in the game and missed his first scoring chance about six minutes into the game. After Windiate gave John Glenn a 1-0 lead at 13:10, LaVergne answered him 23 seconds later, sending a shot past the Bobcats' keeper when he came out too far to play the ball.
Jacob Bleshenski put John Glenn back out in front with a header with 6:22 left in the half.
Alcona will head to Oscoda on Monday in a 7 p.m. game that will decide the North Star League title.
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EASTHAMPTON - They come in all sizes, these four-legged competitors.
There are border collie-boxer mixes like Riley, who won the trophy for Best Smile last year, and there are golden retrievers, lab mixes, pugs, poodles and Pekingese.
These are the canines that will be strutting their stuff at the third annual Yappy Valley Community Dog show on Saturday in the Easthampton High School gymnasium.
The event, which runs from 9 a.m. until midafternoon, will feature a morning show for adults with their dogs and an afternoon show for children and their pets. Mayor Michael Tautznik will serve as master of ceremonies.
The day offers a family event that brings residents, businesses, students and high-school staff together to raise money for several programs, including the annual community dinner hosted by the Student Council as a way of saying thanks to volunteers and other community members who show support.
"Any money that is 'left over' is used for School-to-Work connecting activities, such as local field trips," said organizer Gail Canon.
Canon said the event raised over $2,500 last year through those who sponsor the various category awards as well as through business tabletop sponsors and raffles.
- What: Yappy Valley Community Dog Show
- Where: Easthampton High School Gym
- When: May 12, starting at 9 a.m.
Ribbons are awarded to doggie competitors for first, second and third place, and a trophy is awarded for best of show in each category. All dogs receive a green ribbon for participating.
The Easthampton Lions Club will grill and sell lunch items at the free event, and State Police K-9 dogs Astro and Chase will provide a half time show with their handler, officer Andy Martindell.
This year's judges include: volunteers Debbie Downey, an alumna of Easthampton High School and a retired staff member; Jill Haley Rose, of Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society; Maureen Fitzpatrick, a retired English teacher; and Kyle Martindell, also an Easthampton High alumnus.
The adult portion of the day runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon, and categories for competition include Most Agile, Tricky Tricks, Best Dressed, Best Smile, Best Dancing Dog and Best Fetcher.
The children's show - which means the portion of the show during which the dogs are handled by children - runs from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Categories for these events include Fastest Tail Wagger, Tricky Tricks, Best Smile, Best Hair, Fluffiest and Ear-Resistable Ears.
Registration forms have been placed throughout the community at businesses including Nash Gallery, Riff's, Greater Easthampton Chamber of Commerce and the Easthampton High School main office, and they can be found online at Easthamptonhigh.org.
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Joseph J. Falabella Sr. of Willowbrook, a retired brokerage employee, died Tuesday at home. His age was 94.
Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from the borough's Erasmus Hall High School and Pratt Institute, where he studied mechanical design.
He moved to West Brighton in 2002. Two years later, he moved to Willowbrook to live with his son.
A World War II veteran, Mr. Falabella served in the U.S. Army in the European theater of operations. A technician fifth grade assigned to the 656th Field Artillery Battalion, he saw duty in Germany.
After returning from military service, he began working for John Fuchs in Manhattan as an inventory specialist. Beginning in the 1970s, he was a warehouseman/micro film processor for Loeb, Rhoades & Co., a brokerage firm in Manhattan. He retired in 1989.
Mr. Falabella was a parishioner of St. Rita's R.C. Church, Meiers Corners.
His wife of 36 years, the former Marianne Lagana, died in 1977.
Surviving are his son, Joseph Jr. ; two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be tomorrow from the Matthew Funeral Home, Willowbrook, with a mass at 10 a.m. in St. Rita's Church. Burial will be in Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale.


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LOWELL, MI -- Whether she was volunteering for a messy job during a mission trip or making sure her friends were happy, Cara Cook put other people first.
The 18-year-old and recent graduate from Grand Rapids Adventist Academy looked for the positive attributes in others, and her peers regarded her as a leader.
"Cara was just one of those kids. There's one in every school," said Phil Engelman, a social studies teacher at the K-12 school. "She was always caring about everyone else."
Cook, of Lowell, died Monday, Oct. 22 after colliding with another vehicle in Ada Township. She was traveling north on Pettis Avenue NE when her car apparently crossed the center line near Conservation Street, police said.
Her aunt, Carmen Cook, said she loved animals. Cook had once aspired to become a veterinarian, but she decided to study social work at Grand Rapids Community College so she could help children.
Engelman said Cook was well-known at Grand Rapids Adventist Academy, a 144-student school. She organized the monthly Friday night worship. She was on an advisory board that decides where the high school classes will travel for the annual mission trip.
Engelman said Cook urged they travel to the location with the most need, not the place that would be the most fun.
The last trip she took was to Kentucky, where she and others repaired homes.
"She was just digging in," Engelman said. "If there was a yucky job she said, 'I'll go ahead and do it.'"
At graduation, Cook received the school's Caring Heart Award, a scholarship given annually to a student who demonstrates selfless concern for others.
On a Facebook memorial page, friends and family were asked to describe Cook in one word. Caring, compassionate and selfless are among the responses.
Carmen Cook said whenever she thought of her niece, it came to mind that the teenager never realized her impact on others.
"She just had the most giving heart," she said.
Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Lowell Riverside Fellowship Seventh-day Adventist Church.


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The good thing about global warming, climate changes and high gas prices is that many people are now becoming aware of the need to conserve. I see more shoppers bringing reusable bags to the supermarket. The shuttle bus from the Mariners game last week was standing room only. I especially appreciated the bumper sticker on a hybrid car that said: "We drive this car for our grandchildren's future."
Many wineries have been quietly preserving the environment for years, both by conserving energy and being organic. Since grapes thrive during sunny days, wineries are located in warmer climates and many use solar panels for energy. Eastern Washington has wind farms — windmills generating electrical power.
In 1990, Badger Mountain was the first winery in Washington state to be certified organic. No herbicides, insecticides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers are used. The vineyards are monitored weekly for insects. The winery is focused on providing a good habitat for helpful insects. If the bad insects become too numerous, natural soap compounds are used instead of pesticides.
For fertilizer, the grape skins and seeds are composted. Cover crops of vetch and rye are grown between the vine rows for nitrogen and humus. Additionally, all natural blood meal and fish meal are added as needed. These natural, organic fertilizers are used instead of synthetic fertilizers.
Badger Mountain has partnered with local restaurants to collect waste oil that is converted to biodiesel right at the winery. The recovered fuel powers their tractors and trucks.
For people who are sensitive to sulfites, organic wines are best. No sulfites are ever added to stop fermentation. But keep in mind that sulfites occur naturally in grapes. While there are sulfites in organic wine, you can be confident that there are considerably less than in non-organic wine.
While an organic winery is fairly straightforward, not using pesticides or unnatural elements, there is another step up from organic. It is called biodynamic.
When I was looking for someone to explain biodynamic winemaking to me, I met Paul Dolan, a winemaker for Paul Dolan Winery and Parducci. Dolan was the winemaker at Fetzer Vineyards. He created Bonterra, Fetzer's organic wine. If Dolan has an identifying motto, it is "sustainability." He views the earth as a living organism that must be nourished and tended. Synthetic fertilizers, fungicides and insecticides lead to residual chemical buildup, toxins and soil depletion.
Dolan's interest in environmental stewardship dates back to his early days as a winemaker. "I spent a lot of time in the vineyards. I had high hopes for one particular vineyard, but its grapes always seemed flat and insipid," he said. "Three years after we converted that vineyard to organic methods, that same grape was good enough to go into one of our top wines."
After nearly 30 years at Fetzer Vineyards, Dolan left to move on from organic to biodynamic winemaking. He had written "True To Our Roots," about organic farming, and was ready to leave and "live the next chapter in the book of my life."
Dolan and his partners bought Parducci, which became the first carbon neutral winery in the United States last year. The winery contacted the California Climate Action Registry to calculate its carbon dioxide emissions. Then it took measures to mitigate and offset those emissions. Parducci gets all its power from solar or wind power. The labels are treeless paper that is printed with soy ink. Biodiesel is used in company vehicles and farm equipment. All lights have been changed from incandescent to fluorescent.
Biodynamic farming may be considered the ultimate form of organic agriculture. Viewing the earth holistically, biodynamic farmers seek to heal the land by replacing harmful chemicals with natural products such as manure and vegetation. These farmers understand and use moon phases and planet positioning so that the earth can be mended and life can be improved and sustained. "These are not new theories," explained Dolan. "For ages, farmers were practicing these concepts from viewing the world around them."
Some practices are often considered bizarre or eccentric by some farmers. For instance, biodynamic farmers stuff manure into cow — not bull — horns. These horns are buried in the fall and dug up in the spring. One horn is good for 10 acres. The horns supposedly enhance the soil.
Organic food used to be viewed as extreme. Now, many people, especially parents, seek out organics to feed their families. Organic wines are becoming an important and growing percentage of the marketplace.
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Badger Mountain 3-liter box, a blend of mostly cabernet with some merlot and shiraz, $20
Parducci chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and merlot, $10
Parducci pinot noir, $11
Parducci True Grit petite syrah, $20
Parducci sustainable red and white, $9
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The New Orleans Hornets will take on Denver in the first round of the NBA playoffs, with Game 1 Sunday at 9:30 p.m.
Looking at the poll we ran on Thursday, it appears most of you think the Hornets will win the series.
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You are only considered a great coach today if you appear to be doing something all the time on the sideline.
Tom Crean, John Calipari, Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Ben Howland, Gary Williams, even Mike Krzyzewski. Clapping, shouting, admonishing, "working the refs," frantically signaling for plays to be run, timeouts to be called.
I guess that started with Lefty Dreisell of Maryland back 40 years ago. When network cameras started shooting college basketball games a lot, they needed something to focus on between possessions. Coaches started learning that. Camera hams were born.
Except not one guy. He'd been around too long already. He knew all that frenzy and demonstration had nothing to do with teaching. And he taught better than anyone.
He also won more than anyone. A lot more. So, John Wooden didn't care what anyone thought of his sideline demeanor. He had his own code of behavior. Most of the time he just sat there beside assistants Denny Crum and Gary Cunningham. Once in a while he shouted an instruction through his rolled up program. Never did he obviously dress down a player coming back to the bench or act out from frustration against anyone on his UCLA Bruins.
Wooden knew 95 percent of coaching came from personal and team preparation, from setting an example of behavior and decorum and then demanding the same standard of precision from his players that he did from himself. And that's why he was the best coach this nation has ever seen in any sport.
It's occurred to me today that an entire generation of people under 40 really hasn't a clue about John Wooden or his UCLA basketball teams of the 1960s and early '70s. Oh, they've heard stories and seen grainy video. But they mean nothing. Sort of like stories about Babe Ruth now to pretty much everyone.
Well, that's kind of the point. John Wooden was Babe Ruth in a different way. His teams were the Yankees of the '20s, '30s and '50s, the Boston Celtics of the '60s. And then you run out of comparisons.
I'm old enough to remember what an event it was for Wooden and his Bruins to come to your town. They came to mine.
It was Dec. 6, 1968. The Ohio State football team was about to head for California to play O.J. Simpson and Southern California for the de facto national championship.
But that wasn't what I cared about that night. I was dialed in on the other Los Angeles college team in the other major sport. Primed for a rare look at a budding dynasty. Not one of those pretend types like the '70s Steelers would be. No, a real dynasty is when no one else takes power for a long time.
And that was Wooden's Bruins. They were about to embark on their third of seven consecutive national titles. That, friends, is a dynasty.
His senior center was what they used to call out in the cornfields where I grew up a phe-nom. His name was Lew Alcindor. He would become Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He was 7 feet, 2 inches and not geeky. He was graceful as a young giraffe galloping across the Serengeti and as skilled a shooter as any star forward.
The game was an event. Actually seeing Alcindor in motion and not merely on the pages of Sports Illustrated was a novelty treat. Back then, college basketball on TV was a purely regional experience. National games simply did not exist. We saw Ohio State with the play-by-play call of plaid-coated homer Jimmy Crum on WLWC or we saw nothing.
The Final Four was not even called that. And if your station carried it at all, a fledgling syndicated outfit called TVS had to sell its blurry feed to one of your three local network affiliates. The networks themselves still had not even broadcast a national title game. TVS had done the prior season's Final Four in which UCLA and Alcindor blasted through Houston in a revenge match and then flattened North Carolina.
And yes, Alcindor was impressive. But what I really remember about that night other than seeing UCLA in those super-cool baby-blue uniforms with the gold-and-white letters and numbers was the passing. The Bruins barely dribbled. They just passed and cut and passed and cut. Bop-bop-bop. The timing was exquisite. And if they didn't get what they wanted, they stayed patient. But kept coming. "Hurry but don't rush," Wooden had told them. They understood.
Ohio State, with future Cleveland Cavaliers Jim Cleamons and Dave Sorenson, played hard and well as Taylor's teams almost always did. UCLA won the game 84-73 and was on the way to an undefeated season, one of four Wooden would coach, eventually earning him the nickname, "The Wizard of Westwood."
If you're 20 or 30 years old and you dig up a clip of one of those late-'60s UCLA teams on Youtube, you'll probably laugh. The basketball of four decades ago looks stunted and static because the ball-handling is primitive. Barely anyone even uses his weak hand.
The dribble-drive would revolutionize the game in the '70s and especially the '80s. A good college team of today would destroy 1969 UCLA because Lucious Allen and Kenny Heitz would not know what hit them. No backcourt of that era had any experience trying to check the sort of breakdown artists you have today.
But that's not the point. UCLA was beautiful basketball because of its geometry and synchronized motion. And John Wooden would have been just as great a coach today as he was in 1970 when a relatively starless team without Alcindor or Allen, both gone to the Milwaukee Bucks, whipped Jacksonville for another title, this one at Cole Field House in College Park. Because team basketball never goes out of style.
They said UCLA's 6-8 Sidney Wicks outplayed JU's 7-2 Artis Gilmore and 7-foot Pembrook Burrows III that day. But really it was Wooden and his iron starting five disassembling a traveling salesman type named Joe Williams. Wooden decided to double-team Gilmore and dared the other Dolphins to score. Gilmore took 29 shots and made 9. Williams had no other plan.
Still, Wooden's best teams were probably the next two years with the freshman and sophomore Bill Walton, quite possibly the best college player ever. Until they got bored in 1974 in Walton's junior year, the Bruins were unbeatable.
And still, Wooden's most memorable coaching job had not yet arrived. It would be his last, a no-name team that toppled a loaded Louisville bunch coached by his former protege Denny Crum and then Joe B. Hall's powerful Kentucky outfit, both in the 1975 Final Four. Wooden retired on the spot, speaking calmly to NBC's Jim Simpson in a post-game interview like a proud professor about accomplished students.
This was Wooden, coach of champions. But coaching by itself was by no means his life. More than three decades after his retirement at 65, the Wizard was vibrant – writing books, fulfilling nearly any interview request, plucking facts with encyclopedic recall and dispensing nuggets of wisdom such as his Pyramid of Success.
I have been touched by this pyramid. At several points, it speaks in a spare clarity that transcends the typical inspirational babble, cutting with crystalline thoughts. I always loved Wooden's definition of a building block in the pyramid – Poise:
"Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation. Never fighting yourself."
How simple is that? And yet, what else do you need to know?
And then there's Confidence:
"Respect without fear may come from being prepared and keeping all things in proper perspective."
Proper perspective. How many of us are guilty of losing it so often? Or worse, never even attempting to acquire it?
Wooden was more than a winner. He had that perspective, learned as a farm kid from Indiana and honed as one of the best players in college basketball's early days as the leader of Purdue's 1932 national champs.
Here's one last thing that might surprise you: So many people seem to think that if you're going to reach the summit of your profession, it must become apparent by the time you're in your 30s, right? If you haven't learned how it works by then, well, no old dog can grasp any new tricks after that.
John Wooden didn't coach his first national title team, the Walt Hazzard-Gale Goodrich group at UCLA in 1964, until he was 53 years old.
The man never quit learning, never quit teaching what he learned, and never quit living a long and lustrous life.
Ninety-nine years of it. And you could still say he died too soon.
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CHRISTMAS, Mich. - Arthur H. Krellwitz, age 81, of Reindeer Run, Christmas. died unexpectedly on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, at his cabin on Grand Island where he loved spending the last 38 hunting seasons with his good friend, Bill Fox.
He was born Jan. 3, 1931, in Hancock, to the late Clarence and Minnie (Weber) Krellwitz. Art graduated from Houghton High School and then joined the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
Art graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering.
On Oct. 23, 1952, Art married Dolores G. Hocking, who preceded him in death in 1999.
They lived in Houghton until 1958 when they moved to Warren, Mich., where he worked for Vickers and Hydraulic Power Systems as a Civil Engineer.
Beginning in 1963, the family spent many vacations in Munising visiting Dolores' father. In 1969, they built a summer home on Grand Island where they could enjoy the beach in the summer and snowmobiling in the winter. In 1994, Dolores and Art returned permanently to the Upper Peninsula when they moved to Christmas.
They were very active members in the Alger County Sno-Riders Club and the Munising Bay Boat Club. Art loved hunting and fishing.
Art was instrumental in saving the East Channel Lighthouse, first by instally a seawall and then by restoring the actual structure. He put thousands of hours into the project as well as maintenance of the building. It is now in good shape to stand as a lasting memorial to all his expertise and dedicated efforts on its behalf.
He was Vice Commander of the American Legion and he volunteered many hours there. He was an active volunteer at the Heritage Center. Art helped construct the blacksmith shop building, exhibits and took care of building maintenance and the lawn and trees for many years. Art cleared snowmobile trails on Forest Service Land and also made yearly improvements to the roads on Grand Island's Thumb area.
He was most generous and gave freely of his time to help his neighbors, friends and his community. His morning trip to the the post office often lasted for hours as he enjoyed visiting around town and a shared laugh or a ribbing from his friends.
Art is survived by his daughters, Christine (Kevin) Lopez of Cedar, Mich., and Catherine Krellwitz of Warren, Mich.; daughter-in-law, Beverly Krellwitz of Cedar; grandchildren, Cody and Jennifer Krellwitz and Justin, Danielle and Dylan Lopez; brother, Ralph Krellwitz of Ore., sister, Dorothy Ann (Frank) Goodyear of Conn.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Dolores; son, Steven Krellwitz; sister, Virginia; parents-in-law, Benjamin and Martha Hocking.
Visitation will be on Friday, Nov. 30 from 5 until 8 p. m. and on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 10 until 11:30 a.m. in the Bowerman Funeral Home. Pastor Elizabeth Zant will conduct Mr. Krellwitz's funeral on Sat. at 12 noon in the Eden Lutheran Church in Munising where the American Legion and Vietnam Veterans Honor Guard will conduct military honors.
Art's full obituary may be viewed at bowermanfuneralhome.net.


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GUYMON, Okla. - Guymon residents have one more chance to ensure the future of their schools April 3, when they vote on millage rates that fund the district, a school official said Wednesday.
The ballot also will include a question that, if approved, would keep the school millage question off the ballot in future elections. Approving the millage will not increase taxes, said Guymon schools superintendent Bob Neel.
Voters rejected a series of tax-related issues in a February election, which included the annual question to approve the school millage rate, Neel said.
Without millage approval, the school district cannot raise the local funds or receive the state aid they need to effectively run the district, Neel said, losing about $3.2 million.
"If the millage fails to pass, we have to cut that (money) out of our general fund, which is about 34 percent of our operational expense," Neel said. "I cannot see how this school can do this. It would be impossible to pay the mandated bills of the district."
Neel said that would mean the district could be labeled "at-risk," allowing the state to annex Guymon to another district.
A mill is equal to one-tenth of one cent, Neel said. The school district was asking to approve 5 mills for the emergency fund, 10 mills for local support and 5 mills for the building fund, Neel said.
Voters might have been confused when presented with multiple tax issues, three of which asked to raise taxes for the fair board, emergency services, and transportation for the school, he said.
The millage rate is set by the state, and the school district cannot raise it, he said.
"It was kind of a knee-jerk reaction to reject anything that had to do with taxes," he said.
A statewide election in November decided that individual school districts can hold elections to keep the millage question off the ballot, Neel said. Keeping this issue off the ballot can also save the $3,500 cost of running an election, Neel said.
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This weekend I was able to go see Hot Flashes at SLT, and The Hollow at Playmakers.
Hot Flashes was the first ever Senior Theater in Louisiana. It was a funny show all about older women who were going through or had gone through menopause. There were scenes and monologues that made up the show, and a finale with the entire cast reciting a poem.
There were some extremely funny scenes, especially the one from the ovaries point of view.
The audience cracked, especially at the fact they were upset because the woman they belonged to was over 50, and they were too old to, ahem, do their duty in the act that was being done.
All in all, the audience of mostly women over 50 :-) had a very enjoyable evening.
The Hollow at Playmakers was a terrific murder mystery. There were shocks on stage, as there is a man who cheats on his wife with his young mistress and a former lover. Then there were frights on stage, after all, you have to have a murder in a murder mystery. Then there were tender moments on stage, as one of the heirs to the mansion finds his love, at last!
The show, as Kay mentioned in the interview, is a bit lengthy, but let me tell you, it kept your attention, that's for sure, especially when you find out who the killer is, yikes! It was very suspenseful, very funny, very tense, and all around a great show to see, and it's playing this weekend, so call for tickets now. 893-1671
After the show, I got to attend the cast party, and here is a peek it. Enjoy!


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Guitarist Todd Wolfe has fond memories of his tenure touring the globe with Sheryl Crow.
Crow's current trek tonight brings her back to Musikfest in Bethlehem, where she headlined in 2012.
Wolfe -- whose own band will perform Sunday on the Americaplatz stage -- first met Sheryl Crow years before her debut album made her a household name. The two were introduced in 1987 during Michael Jackson's concert at the Meadowlands, when Crow was a back-up singer for the late pop icon.
In 1990, Wolfe, a native of New York and a frequent, and popular, draw in the Lehigh Valley blues/rock circuit, moved out to Los Angeles on Crow's request and collaborated with the latter on a handful of songs. A demo was put together and shopped around to different labels but was continuously passed over.
The musicians went their separate ways but, as fate would have it, Crow and Wolfe's paths would cross again three years later while Crow was working on what would become 1993's "Tuesday Night Music Club." (The album, Crow's first, would generate six singles and has since gone seven times platinum in the U.S.)
"The next thing I knew she was in St. Louis putting together a (touring) band," Wolfe recalled.
Crow traveled to Los Angeles with her manager to meet with Wolfe and asked Wolfe to join her on the road. "I was a little hesitant at first, but I thought let's give it a shot," he said.
Wolfe would remain a member of Crow's touring band for the next five years -- he co-wrote the song "Hard to Make a Stand" -- before leaving in 1998.
"There were so many great things about that ride," Wolfe said. "It was different for me because I was never in cover bands or Top 40 bands."
As album sales rose, so did the amount of high-profile gigs and on-stage guest stars, including Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Emmylou Harris and late The Band drummer Levon Helm.
Wolfe recalled opening up for The Rolling Stones ("That was a total gas," he said) and joining Crow on a VH1 "Honors" special. The show featured Wolfe alongside Crow, Helm, Harris, The Wallflowers' Jakob Dylan and singer-keyboardist Steve Winwood jamming to a cover of The Band's "The Weight." (The song had become a staple of Crow's live concert.)
"For me it was surreal being in the dressing room and looking over at Steve Winwood and letting him know where to solo," Wolfe said. "He was a guy I grew up idolizing."
Wolfe said he hears from Crow "once in a blue moon" and the two occasionally bump into each other. "I get updates on what's been going on," he said.
"Sheryl's very clever. She knows how to craft tunes," Wolfe said. "She has this way, we'd start playing something and I think she gets more into, not the actual lyrics, but (being) the melodic leader and seeing how that needle will run ... She's great at that and taking riffs and songs and putting it all together."


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MediEvil Resurrection
Goofy-looking main character? Check. Smartass sidekick? Check. Evil dude, trying to conquer the world? Check. Waves of lobotomized enemies? Check. Tongue-in-cheek humour? Check. It seems as if Sony's Studio Cambridge just went over the standard "How to make a good platformer"-checklist and came up with MediEvil Resurrection. Coming straight from Sony's assembly lines, can this game conquer our hearts?
MediEvil Resurrection is actually a remake of the classic PSOne game MediEvil from 1998. You play as Sir Daniel Fortesque, a brave hero who once slayed the evil wizard Zarok -at least, according to the legends-. The only catch is you gave your life while doing so. But now Zarok is back and he awakens an army of the dead (keep your Lord of the Rings jokes aside, please). This of course means you're revived too. And so you embark on yet another quest to vanquish evil. Ow, have I told you Daniel is in fact a skeleton? Now you know.
Resurrection is an action game with some platforming elements thrown in the mix. But the most important part of the game is its -often hilarious- atmosphere. Take Dan for example. I don't think you could find a clumsier and goofier hero, even if you tried. In his head, excuse me, skull resides a small creature that takes up the role of Dan's guardian angel, sort of. He gives Dan advice, but more often he makes spicy remarks about the bony hero. He does so with an exaggerated Arabian accent that will make you chuckle or even laugh out loud sometimes. Kudos to the voice actor. It's clear the game doesn't take itself too seriously. The humour is what keeps you going, because the game does have its share of flaws.
First of all, the camera can really get on your nerves. It stays behind Dan most of the time, but it often pans around him to offer a more cinematic experience -in which the game doesn't succeed, by the way-. As every action game fan will tell you, this can be very irritating at times. You can reset the camera behind Dan with a simple click on the right shoulder button, but this solution isn't the best. The camera rapidly turns, but in that second or so, you will be desoriented, which naturally makes you vulnerable. It happened to me multiple times that some boneheaded (pun intended) enemy took a fair chunk out of my life gauge while I was busy messing with camera. Keeping the R-button pressed won't help you either, as Dan will then start to strafe and sidejump. This is a viable solution for battles, but when simply exploring the world, it's better to take the panning camera for granted.
Another flaw about MediEvil Resurrection is its clumsy weapon interface. In stead of just tapping a button to change to a weapon or an item, you'll have to pull up a menu and select it. In the beginning of the game, this isn't too bad, but after five levels or so, your arsenal will have grown quite a bit, which leads to endless scrolling. You can of course choose to fight all enemies with the same weapon (in that case, I'd recommend the Long Sword), but as you'll quickly notice, some foes go down way quicker with the proper tool (mummies are vulnerable to a hammer or club for example). The way you gain toys is a pretty neat touch. Disposing of your enemies fills up a chalice and you need it filled by the end of the level. Furthermore you need to find the actual chalice in each level. Do both and you will be granted a visit to the Hall of Heroes, where you will get a new weapon from a deceased hero. The accompanying dialogues are often so hilarious, you'll gladly scour the worlds, looking for that last monster to kill.
But, flaws aside, the game still gets the basics of the genre right. The combat is satisfying enough and the impressive boss fights deserve a note. The puzzles never get boring or frustrating and the many minigames offer an alternative to the fighting. Those minigames can also be played separately, on your own or via Wi-Fi. There aren't too many platform sequences, but in this case, that's not such a bad thing. The camera would spoil them anyway.
Camera aside, this game is actually a looker. The levels are atmospheric and colourful and the many details show some nice examples of level design. The models are great; they have a cartoony feel to them, which fits the general tone of the game. The PSP is clearly a more powerful tool than the PSOne ever was, as it keeps a very solid framerate throughout the game, even with the improved textures. Only the most lustrous environments or action-filled parts cause some small hick-ups, but those won't get in the way of your gaming experience.
But when it's all said and done, MediEvil Resurrection is a satisfying action game. The combat is solid -thanks to the vast arsenal- and the funny dialogues and the game's ever present wittyness put this far ahead of your average action romp. Too bad the camera prevents a higher score. As there are pretty much no comparable titles on the PSP (save for maybe Spider-Man 2), fans will have to resort to this one. Resurrection will most likely be surpassed by several titles in the near future, but, on its own merits, the game deserves a fair chance. I for one would love to see Dan again.
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text: HomeTVOpinion Victoria Justice: Starlet gives Girl Up a boost Addie Morfoot Contributor @kamorfoot 0 Share This Article Email LinkedIn Print Pin It Tumblr October 22, 2010 | 05:00AM PT Youth Impact Report 2010: Honoree POWER OF YOUTH HONOREESYouth troop makes altruism its priorityJustin Bieber | Bow Wow | David Henrie | Shailene Woodley | Victoria Justice WHO: Actress-singer Victoria Justice's breakthrough performance in Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101" led to her current starring role as a 16-year-old who gets recruited to join a performing arts high school in the net's popular "Victorious," which premiered in March. WHAT: Girl Up, a "for girls, by girls" United Nations Foundation campaign, gives American girls the opportunity to raise funds and awareness for UN programs that help educate, protect and empower adolescent girls living in developing countries. WHY: "I was looking for something to be a part of, and then this (opportunity) came my way. I really liked the fact that it was girls helping other girls. There is so much that I didn't know and recently learned about girls just like me. I feel it's so important to help other girls who have hopes and dreams just like we all do, but don't have the same opportunities we have here for reaching their full potential." WHAT'S NEXT: In September, Justice helped launch the Girl Up campaign in Gotham. She will continue to support the "Unite for Girls" tour, which travels to cities across the U.S. to inspire and engage teens from coast to coast, including an upcoming event in Los Angeles on Nov. 5. Justice also plans to visit Girl Up supported programs in developing countries. Filed Under: Laker GirlsStarletVictoria Justice Want to read more articles like this one? SUBSCRIBE TO VARIETY TODAY. Post A Comment 0 2016-2017 Oscar Predictions Most Popular 1 Digital 4:54PM PT Meet the Bundle 2.0: YouTube, Hulu, AT&T Get Into the Live Streaming TV Game 2 Film 4:51PM PT Film Review: 'Before the Flood' 3 TV 3:27PM PT 'The Walking Dead' Season Premiere: Even Chris Hardwick Doesn't Know Who Negan Kills 4 Biz 2:56PM PT AT&T Closing In on $85 Billion Deal for Time Warner, Could Be Announced as Early as Sunday (Reports) 5 Film 2:44PM PT Box Office: 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back' Edging 'Madea Halloween' in Heated Battle Singular Choices as Always From Gotham Awards Committees Playback: Andrew Garfield on 'Silence,' 'Hacksaw Ridge,' Letting Spider-Man Go 'Arrival,' 'Jackie' Composers Push Boundaries of Music and Sound Design Looks Like Drama in the Golden Globes Comedy Category Again Variety Jobs Creative Development Coordinator Triptyk Studios, New York, New York Account/Project Coordinator (Ad Agency) Petrol Advertising, Burbank, California Media Specialist Bridgewater Associates, Westport, Connecticut Executive Director, Aspen Film Company Confidential, Aspen, Colorado Associate Director, YouTuber & Gamer Partnerships Save the Children, Fairfield, Connecticut See More Jobs Marketplace Leave a Reply No Comments Cancel reply Comments are moderated. They may be edited for clarity and reprinting in whole or in part in Variety publications. Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.


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It would be nice if Kalamazoo's new city manager Jim Ritsema had time to ease into the job, but that won't be the case. Ritsema, who was sworn in Monday along with the 50th Kalamazoo City Commission, will need to jump into the business of managing the city without any down time.
The issues facing the city are serious and numerous and they will require his expertise as a financial manager as well as his reputed skills as a strong negotiator, team player and good listener.
Obviously, the most serious issue facing Ritsema and the newly formulated commission, which includes newcomer Jack Urban and longtime commissioner David Anderson, who now occupies the higher profile vice mayor position, is how to address the $7 million budget deficit the city faces over the next two years.
Ritsema has acknowledged that could be a "messy" task.
In addition to having to develop a budget proposal in the next few weeks, he will have to quickly familiarize himself with the latest developments on key issues such as possible countywide emergency dispatch consolidation, the Allied Paper landfill, and downtown development in the face of the incoming Western Michigan University medical school.
Former boss and current Portage city manager Maurice Evans praises Ritsema's financial acumen but just as importantly says that he is a visionary who has the ability to look beyond immediate problems.
"He can look at the big picture as well as the long-term picture, understanding the challenges and opportunities the community will face," Evans said.
That's good to hear. Kalamazoo is in need of leaders who will not only address current issues but be able to move the city beyond the drag of its current financial issues and help craft a vision for how the area can be transformed over the next few years and what programs and changes should be made to help the discussions and plans become a reality.
Although the above-mentioned changes to the city commission may seem slight — one new commissioner and a new person moving into the vice mayor role, we hope that they help energize the commission. Now, would be a good time to move out of the crisis-management mode that has seemed to dominate city planning over the past few years, and move it toward more dynamic forward-leaning action. We'd like to hear what the commission and Ritsema see as the city's strengths, how those strengths can be capitalized upon to rebuild its finances, and where the city and region should be putting their efforts in creating new opportunities for their citizens.
Welcome to Ritsema. Congratulations to the members of the 50th Kalamazoo City Commission. There's a lot of work to do and we look forward to seeing what you have to offer for the future.
This is an editorial from the Kalamazoo Gazette. For more Kalamazoo Gazette opinion pieces and letters visit http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/.


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This book was my most favorite book so far. It is like the best thing to read for advice I accually just finished it so its freshin my mind. This story touched me,because I too like Sally when i was reading this book had just lost the closes thing to me...my grandmother. This book was a great book and a wonderfull example of change I really liked the end when Edwina took the braclettes of her hand and put them in Sally's hair.This was a wonder book.
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Try these scones for a Saturday morning breakfast.
Makes 6 servings
1 ½ pounds Idaho potatoes, peeled and quartered
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
¾ cup all-purpose flour plus extra for rolling out scones
Cook the potatoes, with water to cover, in a saucepan over high heat until fork-tender, about 15 minutes. Drain the potatoes and transfer them to a mixing bowl.
Whip the potatoes with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the salt, butter and ¾ cup of the flour and mix to blend well. Turn the mixture out onto a lightly floured board and knead until smooth.
Divide the mixture into four portions. Using a rolling pin, roll and flatten each portion into the size of a dinner plate. Cut each one roughly into quarters and prick each piece with a fork.
Heat a large skillet or grill over medium heat until hot. Spray the skillet lightly with cooking spray and cook each scone until lightly browned on the bottom, then flip and brown the other side. Serve warm.


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By Ingrid Gabriel, Clerk to the Council
Here in the San Juan County Council office, we have long recognized that you, the public, may not be as informed on the day-to-day activities of your elected legislative government as we would like.
The media may follow the larger news stories and bloggers may comment on topics of individual interest, but much of what happens here at "Council Central" may not be obviously accessible.
The Council hopes to improve the flow of information by posting a regular update, which will include the highlights of recent meetings, advisory committee reports and items of general interest.
Ideally, I will be able to post a C3 at least twice a month. This is a work-in-progress and I welcome your feedback and suggestions for content (email@example.com).
Forward, then.
The week of June 23 started off with a council and departmenthead (both elected and appointed) workshop on Tuesday, June 25. The all-day meeting and working lunch took place at the fairgrounds and was a chance for Interim County Manager Bob Jean to introduce the council and department directors to the new County Manager, Mike Thomas. Bob also wanted to pass along the 2013 Master Work Plan and update Mike on the status of each item, including such goals as follow-up on the Community Conversations and the Six-Year Capital Improvement Plan.
Additionally, the department heads identified their individual major goals, priorities and work plans. Auditor Milene Henley suggested a format for the 2014 budget, departmental office hours were reviewed, and Bob led a discussion about the ground rules for council and departmental interaction.
On Thursday, June 27 the council had a brief meeting in the hearing room to discuss the solid waste transition and then adjourned for a county employee picnic on the court house lawn. Local AFSCME 1849 provided the grill foods and drinks, while managers contributed the pot-luck items. Naturally, it rained.
The picnic was an opportunity for the council to thank Bob Jean for his extraordinary service as county administrator pro tempore and interim county manager. What was supposed to be a brief posting when he was contracted in May of 2012, became a job that lasted over a year.
The council also welcomed Mike Thomas and the picnic gave him chance to meet many of the employees who work outside of the county building "complex."With a three-member full-time council, the pace and responsibilities for individual council members have shifted into a higher gear.
The council recognized the need for more time to meet with county manager. The typical Tuesday meeting is too busy to attend to administrative matters and transact routine business. The council's Rules of Procedure already allow for a regular meting on Mondays (either on a regular schedule or on an "as needed" basis).*
Therefore, the council had its first Monday administrative meeting on July 1 with the county manager, the clerk (me) and two members of the public. At the hour-long meeting, District 2 Councilman Rick Hughes asked if future administrative meetings could be live-streamed from the Legislative Hearing Room.
We agreed to live-stream the meetings going forward.
The council traveled to Lopez Island for the Tuesday, July 2 meeting. At the meeting, members of the Friends of Lopez Island Pool presented an update on the status of constructing a public swimming pool on Lopez Island. The council accepted the conservation easement deeds for the Geiling parcels on Lopez Island for the Land Bank, and voted to reduce the speed limit on the Ben Nevis Loop (Shaw Island) to 25 miles per hour. The Lopez Solid Waste Disposal District Board convened and gave the council an update.
After the meeting adjourned, the council took a tour of Odlin Park with Parks and Fair Director Dona Wuthnow.
On Monday, July 8th the council held its second administrative meeting. The meeting was live-streamed and the video is available for playback at http://sanjuanco.com/council/video.aspx.
In addition to meetings, each council member serves as either the chair or a liaison to many advisory committees and boards, both locally and out-of-the county (state, regional, international, etc.). The schedule is complex and we are working on a way to integrate the calendar so you can play "Where's Jamie, Bob and Rick?" right along with us.
Our next meetings are on Monday, July 15 and Tuesday, July 16. Both are in the hearing room and will be live streamed. I look forward to your comments and suggestions.
(*Notices or agendas or agendas are not legally required for a regularly scheduled meeting, however the Prosecuting Attorney suggested that I send them out to inform the public and maintain transparency. The public is welcome to attend the Monday meetings.)
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They were involved in the biggest play in Giants history: The quarterback and the wide receiver, connecting on a touchdown pass in the final seconds of a Super Bowl to beat the heavily favored, unbeaten and seemingly invincible New England Patriots.
Eli Manning and Plaxico Burress.
Twenty months later, theirs are two lives headed in different directions. One guy is destined to wear a blue uniform for the forseeable future, the other likely to be wearing an orange one.
Last week, Burress was indicted on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment. It just as easily could have been for two counts of stupidity and one count of arrogance.
Today, he is a gun-toting athlete probably headed to jail. He wounded himself but killed his career - another player once adored by cheering fans, but another overindulged superstar who was handed fame and millions of dollars and threw it all away.
Ironically, a guy who could catch a football as well as anyone could never get a grasp on personal responsibility. (If he is convicted, prison guards will make sure he is never late to another meeting.)
Manning, the polite and sheepish passer, on the other hand, just signed a six-year, $97.5 million contract extension that (for now) makes him the highest-paid player in the NFL and guarantees him at least $35 million. He is now the face of the franchise.
Fans can debate whether he is worth the money, but they should remember this: While Manning will never have a rifle for an arm, he'll probably never have a handgun in his waistband, either.


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MOBILE, Alabama - If political elections are essentially popularity contests, what better way to boost your chances than to align yourself with the most popular guy in your state?
In many states -- and practically every state in the Southeast -- that would be the coach of the local college football team.
That must have been what Bessemer mayoral candidate Dorothy Davidson was thinking in 2010 when she had a picture of herself photoshopped into a photo of Alabama coach Nick Saban and claimed that she had Saban's endorsement in the race.
Davidson's campaign manager, Kevin Morris, claimed that he secured the endorsement through his father, supposedly a friend of Saban, but later admitted that he made it up.
"I thought, Damn, if we had an endorsement from Nick Saban, I bet it'd help," Morris, who was subsequently fired, told the New York Times.
There are few things that get people in the Southeast fired up more than college football. So it's only natural that politicians, whose jobs it is to know which way the wind's blowing among their constituents, might look for legitimate ways to use it as a way to connect with the voters.
State Rep. Wes Long, R-Guntersville, has a built-in connection -- he played at Alabama as a walk-on quarterback in 1996-99. "I think in Alabama, Alabama and Auburn football are dear to the heart," Long said. "I think it gives them a connection --- the fact that I did play. Most people understand the work that goes into playing a college sport."
David Azbell, a political consultant who served as a spokeman during the governorships of both Fob James and Bob Riley, said there is danger in aligning oneself with one of the state's two SEC programs, however. As anyone who's ever visited an Internet chat room knows, catering to one group of fans means alienating another.
"Especially in statewide campaigns, you tend to stay away from it because you've got fans of all persuasions," Azbell said. "Bob Riley went to Alabama, but I've seen him in Auburn jerseys, in Troy jerseys. I've seen him wear orange-and-blue ties and crimson-and-white ties."
Former gubernatorial candidate Tim James found out the hard way in 2010 about the dangers of even joking about the state's favorite pastime. James, an Auburn graduate and the son of former Auburn football player and two-term governor Fob James, reportedly made a remark as he arrived at an editorial board meeting at the Crimson White, the University of Alabama's student newspaper, about cutting Alabama coach Nick Saban's salary or even firing him.
A Crimson White staffer who heard it said he believed it was said in jest, but the remark drew fire from Alabama fans on talk radio and James' staff later sent a tweet seeking to blame rival candidate Bradley Byrne for starting the rumor.
"Dispelling another untruth from the Byrne camp: I will neither be firing nor cutting Coach Saban's salary if elected," the tweet read.
James placed third in a closely contested Republican primary that year, missing a runoff that was ultimately won by Robert Bentley.
For some, affiliation with either Alabama or Auburn can't be avoided. Mike Hubbard, the speaker of Alabama's House of Representatives, worked for six years in Auburn's media relations department and founded Auburn Network, Inc., in 1994. The Republican got his earliest experience in running a campaign by helping plan the Heisman Trophy campaigns of Herschel Walker and Terry Hoage while a student assistant at Georgia and Bo Jackson at Auburn.
Hubbard wrote in his book "Storming the State House" that the campaign for Hoage, a safety who was also his roommate, "probably also helped me prepare for some political campaigns to follow because it taught me the need to think creatively to make an impact on the voter." Hoage finished fifth in 1983, which at that time was the highest finish ever by a defensive back.
Long said he believes many of the things he learned on the football field carry over into political life.
"It's a team environment if you're going to get done for your district what you want to get done," he said. "A lot of the reason we've accomplished a lot is because the Speaker and (Senate) Pro Tem have had an agenda of what they want to accomplish. ... If you don't have goals, you don't know what you want to accomplish."
In addition, he said the first rule of his Alabama head coach, Gene Stallings, is one that applies almost anywhere: "If your mama would be embarrassed if you did it, don't do it. It's similar to politics. You've got to take the high road."
It's not just at the state level that college football makes its way into political debate. The BCS was a favorite whipping boy for some U.S. congressmen over the last several years, usually finding itself in the crosshairs of lawmakers from states with universities that were left out of the championship game.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch in 2009 called on the Justice Department to investigate the BCS for possible antitrust violations, several months after the University of Utah finished 12-0 but did not get a chance to play in the BCS title game.
Later in 2009, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton of Texas likened the BCS to communism, joking during a House Energy and Commerce committee meeting that it ought to drop the 'C' and call itself the BS system.
Barton, noting that college football is a multibillion-dollar industry involving taxpayer-funded institutions, introduced bills in 2009 and 2011 that would have prevented the BCS from calling its title game the "national championship" unless that game was the result of a playoff.
"The principal goal of the BCS is not and never was to fairly determine a national champion," Barton wrote in an Op-Ed piece in U.S. News & World Report in December 2009. "It was designed to maximize revenue for its members while limiting true competition. That makes it a cartel. If you ask me, they can still call it the BCS -- just change the words to Bowl Cartel Series."
The point is now moot, as college football's conference commissioners and university presidents approved a four-team playoff system to begin in 2014. But that doesn't mean that politics and football won't continue to mix.
Don't miss The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and the Press-Register's college football preview section Sunday, Aug. 26, where we're "Kicking off the campaign: Football and politics have much in common."


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My latest creation since I am working like a crazy person is:
Get two pounds of ground turkey thigh. Saute and break up in a large pan w. ghee or chicken fat. Once mostly cooked toss in two bags of organic frozen vegetable mix and about 1 1/2 cups chicken broth. Cover pan and simmer until veggies are tender and meat is cooked, about 5-7 minutes.Season with sage, salt & pepper. Lastly stir in a can of organic pumpkin to make a sort of stew. Serve with steamed cauliflower or eat as is.
Oh and if you eat dairy a couple cans of smoked oysters in olive oil eaten on slices of cheese.


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Being a southern soul enthusiast, rather than an expert, I was very pleased to be given the task of representing the soul sides of the Murco label for Kent. Eddy Giles' Losin' Boy had been a nugget in my collection for endless years and I knew.
Dori Grayson was well represented with three singles. I had been told Reuben Bell was a classy singer, yet I'd only picked up a couple of singles by him, and Ann Alford had pleasingly come to my attention from the UK Rare Groove scene.
There was obviously the makings of a good CD there, so I went straight to John Ridley, southern soul man par excellence, to properly assess the label's virtues. John's record collection and the tapes that Ray Topping and Ted Carroll had copied on their last visit to Shreveport, Louisiana threw up more than enough gems for a great little compilation.
I soon realised I had never fully appreciated the desolate splendour of Dori Grayson's Got Nobody To Love, the flip of the now classic Try Love featured on Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol 1. Even better, and still haunting the 'humming a melody' part of my brain, was Dori's I Can Fix That For You. Charles Crawford's A Sad Sad Song is just that, spoken and sung with intense emotion, while Abe and Marion Ester are clearly no relation to Esther and Abi Ofarim as my pre-programmed record hunter's mind had been telling me for so many misguided years. Their two duet singles are really solo vehicles top Marion's authentic southern soul. Abraham often performed solo as a master funkster, but the tapes included a great self-written ballad, Everyday, reminiscent of Jimmy Lewis and showing his deeper side.
The tapes also gave us an unedited version of Eddy Giles' That's How Strong My Love Is that was originally issued on Silver Fox in a curtailed form.
The Ann Alford tracks made up one of the best value 45s of the 1970s on the original Hy Sign subsidiary label, with the If It Ain't One Thing side borrowing the strong melody line from JB's It's A Man's World. And of course Reuben Bell's unique voice eventually got to me-.-just like John said it would.
Apart from the inspiring music, we got the label story from the mouth of Dee Marais himself, a true southern gentleman who loves music in all its forms. Dee had a great eye for talent and an ear for songs. This, coupled with his sympathetic productions, brought the best out of everyone and makes even better listening now it has all been brought together.
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Volvo Trucks has created a new clothing collection inspired by the company's latest truck model for heavy construction duties – the Volvo FMX. The collection is a part of a newly launched partnership between Volvo Trucks and ninefold arm wrestling world champion Heidi Andersson.
"Our new clothing collection is inspired by our new Volvo FMX - one of the world's" toughest construction trucks, boasting strength, endurance and technical expertise of absolute world class. These are properties that Heidi Andersson also personifies," says Åsa Theleen, Brand & Marketing Communications Manager for Merchandise at Volvo Trucks. Premiere at Comtrans in MoscowThe new collection, the so called "Volvo Trucks Driver Gear - FMX", is being launched in the Volvo Trucks web shop on September 9 and will be unveiled for the very first time at the Comtrans truck show in Moscow on September 9-14, which Heidi Andersson will be attending. The Volvo FMX will also be on display at the show. It was introduced earlier this year and is designed for heavy construction duties.
Training tips from Heidi AnderssonAs part of the cooperative venture, Heidi Andersson has also developed a training programme together with Volvo Trucks.
"We know that many truck drivers have difficulty making time and space for physical exercise. That's why we are now working with Heidi to give all those interested a few simple training tips that can be used in an everyday setting by anyone," explains Åsa Theleen.
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Facts about Heidi AnderssonHeidi Andersson: Ninefold world arm wrestling champion Age: 33.Born in: The village of Ensamheten, Sweden. Weight/height: 65 kg/170 cm.Merits: Nine world championship gold medals, five world championship silver medals and three world championship bronze medals. Two European championship golds.
Facts about arm wrestlingThe first organised competitions were held in 1952 in California. The first world championship was held in 1992 and it has since developed into an annual event. In the competition, two contestants place their elbows on a table and grasp each other's hand. The first person to push his or her opponent's hand down onto the table wins. Contestants participate in various weight classes. Women compete against women, men against men.
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Community orchard will feature a diversity of both traditional and novel varieties of fruit and nut trees
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The public is invited to an upcoming edible landscaping workshop and summer solstice celebration at the Sackville Community Garden.
SACKVILLE, N.B. 'Äď In a continued effort to bring beautiful landscapes and healthy local food to the citizens of Sackville, Community Forests International (CFI) and the Sackville Community Garden (SCG) are teaming up again this summer, with plans to break ground for a community orchard within the town'Äôs limits.
The community orchard will feature a diversity of both traditional and novel varieties of fruit and nut trees specially suited to the local growing conditions, and will be open for the public to enjoy year-round.
Funding for the project is provided in part by Tree Canada (a charity that supports community tree-planting across the country) and it's 2014 Edible Trees program partners Silk and Telus.
'ÄúAnyone who has spent time in an orchard can tell you how beautiful they are,'ÄĚsays Estelle Drisdelle, education coordinator for Community Forests International. 'ÄúThe spring blossoms, watching fruit grow - and there is nothing better than eating fresh fruit right off the tree! A community orchard will allow people in Sackville to enjoy this experience and contribute to local food security. I look forward to sharing knowledge and helping to create a healthy community here.'ÄĚ
Theresa Richards, chair of the Sackville Community Garden, said they are extremely excited to have the opportunity to partner with Community Forests International to learn and teach new community food skills, skills that extend beyond traditional backyard gardening to include fostering spaces for foraging and wild harvesting.
'ÄúThe Tree Canada initiative is a perfect fit for our community garden which strives to encourage healthy eating while cultivating beautiful natural spaces,'ÄĚ Richards said.
The community orchard will be located on Charles Street, at the site of the town's existing community garden, and will build on past CFI-SCG collaborative successes.
In 2009, the two organizations established a demonstration 'ÄėFood Forest'Äô garden onsite; an edible landscape inspired by a woodland ecosystem that includes butternut and apple trees, wild grape and elderberry, currants, wild ginger, and several other edible and medicinal plants. The Sackville Food Forest is now over six years old and flourishing without aid, supporting itself by supporting a diversity of life and ecological functions often lacking in conventional gardens.
The Sackville Community Garden is flourishing as well, attracting additional members each year, and will likely involve over 200 community members in the 2014 growing season.
Anyone wanting to get involved can join organizers on June 21 for an edible landscaping workshop and summer solstice celebration at the Sackville Community Garden. This workshop, which takes place from 12:30-4:30 p.m., will explore designing and planting an edible landscape in one's own backyard. The community barbecue will follow. To register, visit www.forestsinternational.org, or call Community Forests International at (506) 536-3738. Topics covered will include site assessment for design; choosing trees, shrubs, herbs and flowers for edible landscaping; how to plant and care for trees; how to use trees and herbs for food and medicine; and creating habitat for beneficial critters.


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All, I recently installed windows server 2kR2 and following installed the role AD DS and configured dcpromo.exe. After the install and configuration I received the following warning message below. I tried to enable LDAP however it doesn't seem to work properly because after a fresh boot-up I still have hte same warning messae. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong? Or better can anyone point me to step by step instructions on how to properly setup LDAP so I can confirm that I followed the proper routine for install? Thanks for the help. Log Name: Directory Service Source: Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService Date: 8/31/2011 10:15:18 PM Event ID: 2886 Task Category: LDAP Interface Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: ANONYMOUS LOGON Computer: PRM.mh.domain.com Description: The security of this directory server can be significantly enhanced by configuring the server to reject SASL (Negotiate, Kerberos, NTLM, or Digest) LDAP binds that do not request signing (integrity verification) and LDAP simple binds that are performed on a cleartext (non-SSL/TLS-encrypted) connection. Even if no clients are using such binds, configuring the server to reject them will improve the security of this server. Some clients may currently be relying on unsigned SASL binds or LDAP simple binds over a non-SSL/TLS connection, and will stop working if this configuration change is made. To assist in identifying these clients, if such binds occur this directory server will log a summary event once every 24 hours indicating how many such binds occurred. You are encouraged to configure those clients to not use such binds. Once no such events are observed for an extended period, it is recommended that you configure the server to reject such binds. For more details and information on how to make this configuration change to the server, please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=87923. You can enable additional logging to log an event each time a client makes such a bind, including information on which client made the bind. To do so, please raise the setting for the "LDAP Interface Events" event logging category to level 2 or higher. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-ActiveDirectory_DomainService" Guid="{0e8478c5-3605-4e8c-8497-1e730c959516}" EventSourceName="NTDS General" /> <EventID Qualifiers="32768">2886</EventID> <Version>0</Version> <Level>3</Level> <Task>16</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-09-01T02:15:18.438118500Z" /> <EventRecordID>62</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="556" ThreadID="704" /> <Channel>Directory Service</Channel> <Computer>PRM.mh.domain.com</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-7" /> </System> <EventData> </EventData> </Event> Phil
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Hi, Please refer to the following links to fix the above error: Event ID 2886 — LDAP signing http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd941829(WS.10).aspx How to enable LDAP signing in Windows Server 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935834 Active Directory Domain Service (Event ID 2886) SASL/LDAP Binds http://smartbserver.net/2010/10/adds/ In the meantime, you can ignore this warning if you do not want to force all the clients using LDAP signing. Thanks. NinaPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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Drive through your neighborhood, and you're likely to see at least one driveway filled with a massive pile of mulch, shovels and a wheelbarrow at the ready.
These organic, aromatic piles were especially prevalent over Memorial Day weekend. Although Independence Day falls on a Thursday this year, I'm guessing people will try to turn it into a four-day weekend to finish spreading what was delivered in late May or tackle a freshly delivered load.
It's not a bad idea, especially as we enter what typically is the warmest period of summer. Memories of last summer still are fresh for a lot of people — July temperatures were way above average and rainfall fleeting.
And so we mulch. A two- to three-inch layer of organic matter spread across the soil conserves moisture by reducing evaporation from the soil surface. And it does wonders for soil temperatures — especially when you consider July 2012 saw readings top 90 degrees for more than half the month — including two days above 100 degrees.
A Michigan State University research trial in Southwest Michigan found a three-inch layer of wood chip mulch reduced midday soil temperature by 18 degrees. Mulch also helps control weeds, reducing the need for hand-weeding and herbicides. Indeed, the cost of mulch may pay for itself in terms of the money you save not having to buy weed killers and the time you save not having to pull weeds.
What to use
Most commercial outfits have a variety of mulches available for consumers, especially colored mulches such as red and black. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, said MSU Forestry and Horticulture professor Bert Cregg, noting that cost, aesthetic appearance and availability often are deciding factors.
"Most organic materials such as ground bark, ground wood chips or shredded leaves can provide the key benefits of moisture conservation, weed control, thermal insulation and organic matter addition," he said.
Don't dismiss the value of shredded leaves — especially if you have vast areas of ground cover. It's nearly impossible to spread wood chips over ground covers such as periwinkle and pachysandra without smothering the plants.
Because ground covers often are planted in shady areas, it's a pretty safe bet these shady areas will be inundated with fall leaves. Rather than removing leaves, spread them evenly over the top of your ground cover and shred with the lawn mower.
By setting the mowing height at its highest level, you'll shred the leaves, not your ground cover. Even if there is collateral damage, the groundcover will quickly recover in spring.
Don't worry if leaves still show after a couple of passes with the mower; they'll eventually settle in and disappear. The addition of organic matter greatly benefits the soil as it breaks down.
What to avoid
When buying mulch in bulk, don't be afraid to ask questions. You don't want wood chips that come from diseased trees or from "junk trees'' filled with lots of seeds that eventually sprout and take root. For two years, I've been pulling little elm seedlings sprouting among mulch applied by a commercial outfit. Most annoying are the seedlings growing at the base of flowering shrubs.
Rebecca Finneran, an MSU Extension educator in Kent County, says it is important not to spread mulch over the crowns of plants. And when it comes to trees, definitely don't create the volcano effect, where mulch is piled high against the trunk, she said.
Cregg agrees. "Deeper is not always better — two to three inches of mulch is adequate to get the maximum mulch benefits in most cases. If a site already has mulch from last year, a thin, one-inch top dressing is more than adequate.''
Thick layers of mulch tend to mat together, making it difficult for air and water to penetrate. When you have to hack at it with a hard rake to break it up, you know the mulch went on too thick.
Every month or so, I use a hand trowel to break up and redistribute mulch around the base of plants to ensure it does not become an impenetrable matted mess. It's also a good time to inspect the base of plants for disease and insects.
Nutritional powerhouse?
Organic mulches that are low in nitrogen, such as wood chips, can reduce the level of nitrogen in the soil. Rather than feeding your plants, nitrogen is used to help break down the wood chips. That's the theory, anyway.
"In reality, we see little evidence of this in trees and shrubs,'' Cregg said. "The one case where nutrient tie-up could be a concern is with annual bedding plants, since they have limited root systems.''
That may be, but I still scratch in granular fertilizer at the base of shrubs and perennials before top-dressing with mulch. Plants need food, and it is a lot easier to get fertilizer to the roots when there's not a two-inch layer of mulch in the way.
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A Greenville police dog died Saturday after he was struck by a car, authorities said.
The dog, named Gio, was hit by the vehicle near Woodruff and Scuffletown roads around 1 p.m.
The dog, who was not on duty at the time, jumped from a vehicle into the roadway and was struck.
The Greenville Police Department said the dog assisted in many arrests and completed several successful tracks during his time with the department.
A remembrance service for the dog has yet to be scheduled.