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Texas English Interactive is an interactive map-based website (utilizing Google Maps) that aims to provide the public with a sense of the geography of Texas English. Texas English Interactive is part of the larger Texas English Project and is committed to heightening dialect awareness in Texas, fostering a sense of pride in Texans' unique cultural heritage, and capturing a pivotal point in the changing physical, cultural, and linguistic landscape of Texas. We want the public to view Texas English, in all its forms, as a living social practice that can both reflect and create our interaction with the world around us. This website is still a work in progress and isn't officially ready for use yet, but have fun looking around!
Website Content and Design developed by:
Kathy Tran, Chiang Leng, & Tucker Bickler - ~FAST-Tex Student Developers
and Douglas S. Bigham, Research Associate for the Texas English Project
This website has been developed with assistance from the University of Texas at Austin:
Department of English, Liberal Arts ITS, and the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment's ~FAST-Tex Program
© 2009 by the Texas English Project, University of Texas at Austin
The Texas English Project aims to investigate dialect variation in Texas and bring our findings to the public through the Texas English Interactive website. By using Texas English Interactive, we want you to become more aware of dialect differences in Texas and take pride in the role that dialects have as part of the unique cultural heritage of Texas. This is undeniably a pivotal point in the changing physical, cultural, and linguistic landscape of Texas, and Texas English Interactive is here to help capture those changes.
Using Austin, Texas as our home-base, our research investigates dialect variation in Texas by examining the following:
This work is inspired by linguistic projects like the West Virginia Dialect Project (WVDP), established by Kirk Hazen at West Virginia University, and the North Carolina Language and Life Project (NCLLP), under the direction of Walt Wolfram at North Carolina State University. We are also inspired by other projects that focus on preserving Texan heritage. For example, here in Austin, Texas, the East Austin Stories website presents films produced by filmmakers at the University of Texas that record the oral histories of residents in Austin's rapidly changing Eastside. Likewise, the Sonic ID Project of the University of Texas radio station, KUT, also presents oral histories across different ethnic and demographic groups in Austin, presenting short snippets of locals' recollections of memories that make Austin special for them. Dialects are a living social practice involving much more than just the way someone speaks. They are a part of our interaction with the material world and cultural context that surrounds us.
There are many different ways that researchers can categorize people-- whether they're male or female, where they live, how much money they make, how old they are, their race or ethnicity, and many others. At the Texas English Project, we've focused on categorizing based on Age Group, Race or Ethnicity, and Gender (which encompasses a speaker's sex and sexuality). Click on a term for more information.
The Texas English Project categorizes a speaker's age group according to the following guidelines:
The Texas English Project uses the following classifications for race/ethnicity: Caucasian, Mexican-American, African-American, American Indian, and Multi-Racial.
The Texas English Project uses the following terms to classify sex and sexuality: male/female/transgender, gay/straight/bisexual. "Gender" is a social construct that results from the combination of sex and sexuality.
There are a lot of ways that researchers can study dialects. At the Texas English Project, we've divided dialects into four main parts: Accent, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Speaking Style. But this isn't all there is to a dialect; there are many other features that contribute to a speaker's dialect as well. We've collected these under "other dialect features". Click on a term for more information.
Click the star to learn about accent!
Linguists use the term "grammar" differently from most English teachers. To a linguist, "grammar" refers to the rules that speakers unconsciously follow when they put together strings of words to create sentences. These rules aren't learned in school; instead, speakers learn them by instinctively picking out patterns they hear when they're growing up. Just as every language has its own grammatical rules, every dialect has its own rules, too. When linguists say that a phrase or sentence is "grammatical" in a dialect or language, it means that most speakers of that dialect or language would agree that that phrase or sentence sounds correct or is commonly heard.
For example, in some dialects of Texas English it is grammatical to use might could in a sentence, but only if used correctly. One of the "rules" for using might could seems to be that it can't be used when talking about something that has already happened. So, a speaker can say "I might could go to the store tomorrow." but not "I might could go to the store yesterday." Although might could is ungrammatical for many speakers of English (in other words, it sounds weird), it is perfectly grammatical for the speakers who have it as part of their dialect.
In many ways, "vocabulary" is the most intuitive feature of a dialect. In the past, much dialect research was based on differences in vocabulary alone. Researchers asked subjects if they said things like snap beans or green beans, bucket or pail, cottage cheese or clabber cheese, and everyone's favorites, soda or pop, and you guys or ya'll. These differences were remarkably stable at the time and entire dialect geographies and dialect boundaries could be drawn based completely on lists like these. However, in more modern times, because of the ease of communication and travel across large distances, these dialect-based differences in vocabulary are dying out (...though not completely! Do you say wicked to mean something is cool or awesome? People in the Northeast do!). Although modern dialectology research doesn't rely on vocabulary lists anymore, these word-level differences should not be ignored.
People's "speaking styles" are all the ways that they adjusts their speech to fit different situations. In formal situations, like at church or in court, many people would speak in a fairly formal style-- they would use little or no slang, speak clearly and not mumble, or use more formal forms of address, like 'Sir' or 'Ma'am'. In less formal (more informal) situations--like at a barbecue with friends--their speaking style will be less formal. So, the formality of people's speech usually reflects the formality of the situation they're in. But, where it gets interesting for linguists is that more formal speech tends to reflect "standard" features of a language while less formal speech tends to reflect more "non-standard" or "dialect-specific" features of a language. By studying how people change their speaking style, we gain a window into how they think about "standard" vs. "dialect" forms.
Beyond such differences between "standard" and "non-standard" speech, other properties can also define a speaking style-- anything that somebody does that is distinctive about a certain way of speaking is a "speaking style". People may have a number of distinctive styles that they use from time to time and using these styles will help them to convey certain additional meanings about themselves, about their attitude toward the situation or the topic of their conversation, about the other speakers, and so on. Speakers and the people they're speaking to, rely not only on the meaning of the things we say, but also the images and contexts they evoke.
There are a lot of other aspects of speech that can also show dialect-based differences... too many to list here. Have a look around the website to see some of them!
Having people read short passages or lists of words is a common way for researchers to collect data on accents. Since all the participants read the same thing, we can compare just what makes their speech different without worrying about the effects of setting, environment, a speaker's mood, etc. The Texas English Project uses a set of two reading passages and a word list to collect accent data. The two reading passages are The Rainbow Passage and Arthur the Rat, both of which are common for dialect research. For our studies, we've "reinvented" Arthur the Rat and turned it into Arthur the Armadillo to give it a Texas twist!
Participants also read a list of words, split into four groups to make it easier on the reader. These words have been chosen because together they capture many of the sound changes currently happening in American English. Each group of words ends with a "minimal vowel set"-- a set of 16 words that are made different only by changing the vowel in the middle of the word. There are two of these "minimal vowel sets", one between the h and d consonants, and one between the b and t consonants.
Jump to Arthur the Armadillo, The Rainbow Passage, Minimal Vowel Set, Word List, and other materials.
Once there was a young armadillo named Arthur, who lived in a barn in Texas with his aunt Helen. Arthur and Helen shared the barn with a family of bats and a commune of rats. One of the bats, Hank, was Arthur's best friend. Most of the rats were either too young or too old to hang out with Arthur and Hank, except for one angry big-mouth rat named Dawn.
Nobody really liked Dawn because she could never make up her mind. Whenever Arthur or Hank or her other friends asked her if she would like to go out with them, she would only answer that she "didn't know". She said neither "yes" nor "no". She would always shirk when it came to making a choice. One day Arthur got tired of Dawn's indecision and told her that no one was going to care for her if she carried on like this. Arthur told her that she had no more mind than a blade of grass.
One rainy day, the bats heard a great noise in the loft. The pine rafters were all rotten, so that the barn was rather unsafe. At last the joists gave way and fell to the ground. The walls shook and all the bats' hair stood on end with fear and horror. Hank, the captain of the bats, decided this wouldn't do and he sent out scouts to search for a new home. Within five hours the ten scouts came back with good news. Hank flew down to tell everybody that the scouts had found a stone house where there would be room and board for everyone. There was also a kindly horse named Nelly, a cow, a calf, and a garden with an elm tree.
The bats flew down from the rafters to direct the move; but Hank put Arthur in charge of directing the smaller animals. Everyone crawled out of their little houses and stood on the floor in a long line. Just when they were about finished lining up, Arthur saw Dawn. He coarsely ordered her to stop and, of course, asked if she was coming. Dawn told Arthur that she wasn't certain. She told him that she was undaunted because no one really knew if the roof might come down yet or not. Arthur couldn't wait for Dawn to join them, so he made an about face and just marched everyone else off, leaving Dawn behind.
Dawn stood and watched them hurry away. She thought to herself that she might go tomorrow, or maybe not. She didn't know; it was so nice and snug there in the barn. That night there was a big crash. In the morning some men--with some boys and girls--rode up and looked at the barn. One of them moved a board and he saw a young big-mouthed rat, quite dead, half in and half out of its hole. Thus the shirker got her due.
When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Throughout the centuries people have explained the rainbow in various ways. Some have accepted it as a miracle without physical explanation. To the Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal floods. The Greeks used to imagine that it was a sign from the gods to foretell war or heavy rain. The Norsemen considered the rainbow as a bridge over which the gods passed from earth to their home in the sky. Others have tried to explain the phenomenon physically. Aristotle thought that the rainbow was caused by reflection of the sun's rays by the rain. Since then physicists have found that it is not reflection, but refraction by the raindrops which causes the rainbows. Many complicated ideas about the rainbow have been formed. The difference in the rainbow depends considerably upon the size of the drops, and the width of the colored band increases as the size of the drops increases. The actual primary rainbow observed is said to be the effect of super-imposition of a number of bows. If the red of the second bow falls upon the green of the first, the result is to give a bow with an abnormally wide yellow band, since red and green light when mixed form yellow. This is a very common type of bow, one showing mainly red and yellow, with little or no green or blue.
Remember, a vowel sound, or phoneme, can be spelled with more than one letter, but it is still just one vowel sound.
heed, hid, hayed, head, had, hod, hawed, Hode, hood, who'd, hud, heard, hide, how'd, Hoyt, hewed
beat, bit, bait, bet, bat, bot, bought, boat, put, boot, butt, Bert, bite, bout, Boyd, butte
Group One
steal, rye, pull, bomb, district, ant, heed, bet, pin, diet, tan, caught, for, yesterday
Dawn, coarse, pill, wide, duel, psalms, hod, boot, pet, kin, fine, next, cigar, Jesus
humble, caller, hud, bought, den, tight, bid, hock, fell, wolf, street, rice, alphabet, bother
Ted, Kyle, stalk, cord, sighed, jail, hewed, bite, can, fold, stroller, lie, insurance, do, father
heed, hod, hud, hewed, hid, heard, hawed, hide, hayed, Hode, hood, how'd, Hoyt, had, who'd, head
bet, bought, boot, bite, bot, put, bait, butte, Boyd, Bert, bat, bit, beat, boat, butt, bout
Group Two
still, ride, cold, almost, tid, aunt, white, hid, bot, pan, strict, cot, four, dew, maniac
wrought, sight, heel, hawed, bait, pat, old, high, just, huge, bad, Sean, pool, simple
horrible, my, fail, palm, heard, put, lied, hawk, did, straight, Ben, Detroit, mile, get, jungle
there, mice, hide, butte, ked, mull, guy, tin, cock, strings, card, hell, police, cow, moo
had, heed, hood, hide, hid, hod, who'd, how'd, hayed, hawed, hud, Hoyt, head, hewed, heard, Hode
beat, bat, put, bite, bit, bot, boot, bout, bait, bought, but, Boyd, bet, boat, butte, Bert
Group Three
photography, right, pen, hayed, bit, almond, tad, bought, lice, hoarse, sell, due, mule, donkey
Dan, Boyd, Hode, stock, fore, while, they're, hill, Ken, sight, told, restriction, gizmo, Monday, shell
Bert, tie, stale, immigrant, sign, sawed, torpedo, hail, d.v.d, hood, full, stroke, dead, monkey
kid, mine, how'd, bat, record, stranded, bed, calm, Don, feed, light, collar, feel, hide, fishing
head, hawed, who'd, hide, hayed, hod, hood, hewed, hid, had, heard, Hoyt, Hode, hud, how'd, heed
bait, bot, put, butte, bit, bat, Bert, Boyd, beat, boat, butt, bout, bet, bought, boot, bite
Group Four
Shawn, horse, peel, tied, stroking, pin, guitar, Wednesday, had, beat, nice, jinx, ten, Sunday
dull, who'd, why, folk, stress, mew, boat, fight, din, sod, horde, sale, height, ban, gun
cad, Hoyt, robot, sigh, butt, their, caulk, Tuesday, fill, t.v., gel, file, dance, balm, exciting
rot, head, dyed, bout, chemistry, bin, fool, dad, course, buy, hold, powerless, amen
hayed, hid, hawed, hod, hud, who'd, Hoyt, how'd, heed, Hode, hide, heard, hood, hewed, had
bit, bait, beat, but, boot, bot, Boyd, bout, butte, bite, Bert, put, boat, bat, bet, bought
Check back soon for more information about the research material used by the Texas English Project.


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Liked the views, location and staff. Lots of potential.
Sewer smell kept bursting through our window all night and caused some serious stomach issues...
Kathy is SO nice. We were there for only one night for a wedding, but I would definitely go back for a longer summer lakeside stay. Thank you!
Great view of the lake. Close to restaurants and the boardwalk.
Water temperature for the shower could not be regulated, kept switching from extremes. Staff tried to enter the room 2 different times in the morning, way before check out time. Noisy premises--you can hear every neighbor loud and clear.
It's close proximity to the pier.
Barely any hot water, Room itself smelled musty and unused/unclean
Was nice
But when I get their l was very disappointed because I order room with two bed and I get with one bed
While not right on the lake the property has a nice clean pool as well as back area with seating, picnic tables and gas grills for use by guests. Extremely friendly family owned place. Did not hear any disturbances from other rooms because of thin walls. Planning on staying again next time in the area. The price was great and we felt like we got more for our money than usual.
That we only stayed the weekend (not the motels fault obviously, just didn't want to leave it was so comfortable)
Rooms were clean. Beds were new and comfy. Staff was excellent. We are going back soon
1st room he showed us was too small but all the others we checked out were bigger and nicer
Perfect for our situation...would stay again!
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Obama fails 'Nixon to China' budget moment
President Barack Obama should get in a New York state of mind. Over the weekend, Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of the Empire State, struck a deal to balance the budget without major tax increases – and five days ahead of deadline. It's the latest example of how left-of-center politicians, often considered profligate, are better sometimes placed than conservatives to cut spending. Obama is missing a "Nixon to China" moment on dealing with America's dangerous budget deficit. Consider the following:
1) During the rare times when lawmakers attempt a measure of fiscal responsibility, liberals, generally speaking, prefer to close deficits by raising taxes while conservatives favor reducing spending. But when the spenders do the trimming, it can provide greater confidence to interest groups and voters that the cuts are rational and reasonable. And budget-minded liberal leaders can keep their free-spending legislative allies in check.
2) The phenomenon is global. Starting in 1984, New Zealand's Labour party slashed the government's share of GDP by 40 percent over the course of a decade. From the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, Canada's Liberals cut federal spending by a third, helping reduce the nation's debt load from 68 percent of output to 39 percent. Around the same time, Bill Clinton, a Democrat, reached an agreement with congressional Republicans to balance the U.S budget for the first time since 1969.
3) Cuomo could have followed his party's playbook. In Illinois, Governor Pat Quinn, a Democrat, rammed through dramatic increases in individual and corporate tax rates. Instead, Cuomo opted to eliminate a $10 billion shortfall with a 2 percent spending cut. He may have been worried about his chances for 2016 presidential nomination, but the state's competitiveness also will have been a consideration.
4) Obama's decisive moment was last December when his debt commission released its austerity recommendations. But the president has neither embraced that agenda nor given support to a bipartisan group of senators pushing the panel's plan. Without Obama's explicit backing, Capitol Hill Democrats will almost certainly kill the effort because it slashes entitlement spending.
When House Republicans come out with their 2012 budget in the coming days, the president may have his final chance to push a comprehensive fiscal reform plan. If Obama's not careful, it could pass him by in a New York minute.
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I don't see much hope for changes by this president. He is mired in the liberal marxist/socialist nonsense from his college years.
Conservatives have not been pushing for reducing deficits, but slashing programs such as education whilst more than spending the 'savings' in tax cuts for the wealthy. In the Wisconsin hotbed, for instance, overall the conservative majority and governor have increased spending (despite cutting critical programs such as education) by 1%.
Similarly, conservatives at the federal level show no real intention of making reasonable cuts to things such as subsidizing the already uber-profitable oil industry. Billions of dollars subsidizing the most profitable business in the U.S. seems like a quick and easy budget fix before cutting funding for education or Medicare but conservatives have refused.
The fact you completely ignore this obscene pork and propose to cut entitlement programs to those who actually need it (which study after study shows brings a return on investment into the economy — unemployment compensation, for instance, injects $1.65 into the economy for every $1.00 of unemployment compensation paid out) first show you have no real interest in real budget solutions either, and this article does not begin to approach real news.
…which study after study shows brings a return on investment into the economy — unemployment compensation, for instance, injects $1.65 into the economy for every $1.00 of unemployment compensation paid out…
Well now there's a sure-fire cure for the US economy! Fire EVERYBODY and put 'em on unemployment – that'll grow the economy 65%. Just like that!


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Washington -- If you want to figure out why President Barack Obama won a second term and a possible prescription for Republican redemption in 2016, a trip to Tulane University next Thursday might help. Democratic strategist James Carville, who will co-host the all-day discussion with his Republican strategist wife, Mary Matalin, says he's curious himself what Republican participants will offer up after Republican Mitt Romney's loss depressed and mystified the GOP faithful.
Carville said the election didn't provide many surprises -- given that polls generally showed Obama had the advantage in the key swing states.
What did surprise him, Carville said, was that turnout of young people and minorities - who cast their votes for Obama by large margins - increased over 2004, despite supposed disenchantment within their ranks over the president's first term.
The Tulane event, called "Beyond the Ballot, a Government in Transition," is sponsored by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center. It's the 4th annual Tulane post-election summit.
"Now that we have a tradition, many of the top political warriors look forward to coming to New Orleans for the Tulane event," said Jayson Grumet, president of the Policy Center. As always, he's encouraging participants to follow the lead of hosts Carville and Matalin by engaging in spirited partisanship, while providing real-world explanations on what actually happened in Election 2012 and why.
The event is free but advance registration is requested at this website: http://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/nola2012
Among the speakers are: former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss, now a lobbyist; Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, a Democrat; Sara Taylor, a political aide to President George W. Bush; Brett O'Connell, a senior aide for Michelle Bachman's presidential campaign; and Kiki McLean, a Democratic strategist.
To explain who voted for Obama and who voted for Romney are pollsters Whit Ayres, a Republican, and Stan Greenberg, a Democrat.
Media participants include Jonathan Capehart, an opinion writer for The Washington Post; John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC; Margaret Hoover, a TV political analyst and author; and Charles Mahtesian, national politics editor for Politico.
Also speaking are Tulane University President Scott Cowan, Harvard University's Institute of Politics Director Trey Grayson and Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane professor and host of a MSNBC weekend show.


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Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, who was removed from command in Afghanistan in 2012, didn't say farewell to arms when he entered the combat zone.
His rare court-martial for sex crimes in a combat zone, which begins Tuesday, is expected to delve into explicit details of his adulterous affair with a female captain in two war zones, according to Reuters. On top of that, he is alleged to have had inappropriate email exchanges with several other subordinates.
All of it will be aired out during his military judicial proceeding. So it is going to get ugly – and X-rated.
Sinclair stands accused of seeking nude photos from female soldiers, possessing pornography while deployed and mistreating subordinates, Reuters reports. Text messages, some of them sexually provocative, between the two soldiers also reveal their mutual affection. But is he guilty of sexual assault?
Sinclair denies ever engaging in nonconsensual sex, and his lead defense attorney said there is no evidence that the general abused his power or any of his subordinates.
But prosecutors say the general threatened to harm the career and family of the unmarried 34-year-old captain if she exposed their relationship. He is accused of twice forcing her to perform oral sex, which is the basis for the charge forcible sodomy that could send Sinclair to prison for life, if he is convicted. All this, according to Reuters.
Background according to Reuters: The sexual accusations led to Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair's removal from command in Afghanistan in 2012. His trial is set to begin on Tuesday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Sinclair, 51, a married father of two school-age children, admits to an affair with an unmarried 34-year-old captain. It began when they deployed to Iraq in 2009 and continued for several years through deployments in Germany and Afghanistan and time spent back in the United States.
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Fort Dodge started its long wrestling weekend with a dual meet split against Johnston and Waukee here on Thursday night.
The Dodgers picked up their first win of the young season with a 39-28 victory over Waukee in the opener, but dropped a 46-23 final to Johnston in the last match.
Johnston came away with a sweep, beating Waukee, 37-23 in the other CIC?non-divisional dual.
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Fort Dodge's Tim Gailey takes on Christian Hofbauer of Waukee on Thursday night in the Dodger gym. For more photos, please visit CU at www.messengernews.net
The Dodgers (1-3) will head to Council Bluffs today for a two-day tournament featuring 28 squads, including many of the best from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Minnesota.
"I am sure this was different for us," FDSH head coach Bobby Thompson said. "It's a different experience wrestling a double dual and wrestling so late.
"Our lineup has two seniors. It was a growing experience. This whole weekend will be just that."
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138- Grant Brown, Waukee, pinned Nic Tracy, 3:17; 145- Logan Kipfmiller, FD, dec. Abdul Delatio, 6-3; 152- Jonah Egli, FD, pinned Jessen Hansen, 3:30; 160- Myles Russell, Waukee, pinned Bryce Heubsch, 4:31; 170- Keaton Dornath, FD, pinned Shane Spyksma, 6:44 (OT); 182- Sam Cook, FD, pinned Conner Wachter, 1:01; 195- Riley Prescott, FD, pinned Nathan Jacobson, 5:58; 220- Carlos Rocha, FD, pinned Bryce Dunham, 5:05; 285- Alex Long, Waukee, pinned Noah Telfer, 3:15; 106- Jakob Allison, Waukee, dec. Triston Lara, 5-4; 113- Erik Binbaum, FD, dec. Noah Gratias, 11-4; 120- Tim Gailey, FD, dec. Christian Hofbauer, 1-0; 126- Max Scheve, Waukee, dec. Cole Detmering, 11-2; 132- Danny Collins, Waukee, dec. Keenan Cook, 13-7.
152- Jonah Egli, FD, pinned Alex McCombs, 1:55; 160- Anthony Piagentini, J, pinned Bryce Huebsch, 1:23; 170- Nate Standish, J, pinned Keaton Dornath, 5:20; 182- Sam Cook, FD, pinned Ben Wilson, 1:40; 195- Riley Prescott, FD, dec. John Dolan, 3-0; 220- Tom Dusen, Johnston, pinned Carlos Rocha, 3:15; 285- Brad Nielsen, Johnston, pinned Noah Telfer, 2:08; 106- Triston Lara, FD, dec. Ethan Ksiazek, 13-6; 113- Erik Birnbaum, FD, pinned Alex Ksiazek, 1:20; 120- Travis Price, Johnston, dec. Tim Gailey, 6-3; 126- Henry Pohlmeyer, Johnston, pinned Cole Detmering, 0:26; 132- Shane Vaughan, Johnston, dec. Keegan Cook, 8-0; 138- Jeff Guttin, Johnston, pinned Nic Tracy, 0:42; 145- Austin Garcia, Johnston, dec. Logan Kipfmiller, 1-0.
FD JV winners: vs. Waukee- Cameron Hicks, Colton Hogan; vs. Johnston- Levi Trenary, Nic Ganzeveld, Cameron Hicks, Colton Hogan, Thomas Anderson, Ian Ebelsheiser, Cole Johnson.
Fort Dodge got important wins in two very different ways to beat Waukee.
Freshman Keaton Dornath started a string of four straight pins for the Dodgers at 170 pounds. He used a penalty point with just four seconds left in regulation to force overtime with Waukee's Shane Spyksma.
Dornath then used a headlock to start overtime and pinned Skyksma in 6:44.
Junior Tim Gailey gutted out a 1-0 win over Christian Hofbauer at 120. Gailey got an escape in the third period and kept Hofbaur at bay the rest of the way.
The Dodger also got falls from Jonah Egli at 152, Sam Cook at 182, Riley Prescott at 195 and Carlos Rocha at 220. Prescott got his fall with just two seconds left in the match. Rocha also scored a third-period fall.
Erik Birnbaum beat Noah Gratias 11-4 at 113 pouinds and Logan Kipfmiller won 6-3 over Abdul Delati at 145 pounds for the other Dodger wins.
Waukee got wins from Jakob Allikson at 106, Max Scheve at 126, Danny Collins at 132, Grant Brown at 138 and Alex Long at 285. The difference was the Warriors recorded three pins while the Dodgers had five.
"That's going to be the tale of the tape in dual meets for us this year," said Thompson. "It's all about matchups. Our young will have to mature and our older guys will have to get better."
The Dodgers, ranked 10th in Class 3A, dropped the final five matches against Johnston after fifth-ranked Birnbaum's pin at 113 had pulled them to within a point at 24-23.
The Dragons got pins from defending state champ Henry Pohlmeyer at 126 and Jeff Guttin at 138 during the final run.
Egli, ranked 7th, pinned Alec McCombs in 1:55 to start things off for the Dodgers at 152 and Fort Dodge went ahead at 195, getting a fall in 1:40 from Cook at 182 and a 3-0 win by Prescott at 195. Cook is ranked fifth and Prescott fourth.
Triston Lara, ranked sixth, posted a 13-6 victory at 106, but Birnbaum's pin in the next match would be the last win for Fort Dodge.
In today's tournament, teams from Nebraska include Creighton Prep, Grand Island, Kearney, Lincoln East, Nebraska City, Norris, Plattsmouth and South Sioux City. Maysville out of Missouri and Totino-Grace of Minnesota are joined by Olathe North, Olathe South and St. James Academy from Kansas.
Eighth-ranked (2A) Sergeant Bluff-Luton and fourth-rated (1A) Woodbury Central are the lone ranked teams from Iowa competing alongside the Dodgers. Other Iowa programs in the field include Ames, Glenwood, LeMars, Lewis Central, Missouri Valley, Newton, Perry, Spirit Lake, Council Bluffs St. Albert, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson and Underwood.


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You blacks and Hispanics are just so prone to start shooting the first white person you see after verdicts are read that you need an entire video uploaded to the internet to remind you not to do that!
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The Sligo Rovers man is the first recipient of the award this season. He made his Rovers debut against Glentoran in the Setanta Cup at the beginning of March, having started his professional career with hometown club Boston United in 2001.
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DETROIT -- After the Detroit Tigers' victory Tuesday night, manager Jim Leyland announced that former shortstop Carlos Guillen would be moving from first base to third and Miguel Cabrera will switch from third to first starting Wednesday night.
Leyland told reporters, "I just wanted everybody to know so when you came in (today) and saw Guillen playing third and Cabrera playing first you'd already know it from me, so you're not shocked and everybody's panicking and acting crazy."
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Over at e21, former Bush administration official Joel Harris provides a nice reminder about the real foundation of the 1990s boom. And it was not the Clinton tax increases:
The story of the 1990s economy holds an important lesson for today's tax debate, but it's not the one the Administration intends by invoking it. While the Clinton-era expansion did indeed take place under higher tax taxes, it was largely due to crucial changes in IT production and investment that led to growth and once-in-a generation productivity gains. The lesson here is a basic but important one: the past doesn't predict the future. If the Administration believes there are similar productivity gains on the horizon that will lift the U.S. economy out of its financial crisis-induced hangover, it should explicitly identify the source of these gains. Otherwise, the 1990s experience provides no guidance for what to do about the tax policy set to expire on January 1.
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At 14, Joshua Hawken stands 6'1″ in his smartly pressed, highly decorated scout uniform.
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Building even one bridge might seem like a remarkable achievement for a teen; this is Joshua's fifth. The bridges were part of a series of projects, the first of which netted him the rank of Eagle Scout at the age of 12-and-a-half, making him one of the youngest Eagle Scouts in history.
That first project was to put in stepping platforms that allowed hikers to cross part of Wallace Lake.
"I was looking for an Eagle project and we heard that Wallace Lake was really good," said the soft-spoken young man, sitting on the porch of his family home Thursday morning.
After the platforms were complete, he continued to do service work that qualified as additional Eagle projects. He did a second project, this time removing English ivy, an invasive species, from a stand of old-growth cedar on Whidbey Island. The ivy was strangling some of the venerable old trees, which were doubly environmentally important, as they were part of an eagle habitat.
Then, six months after earning his rank, he revisited the place at Wallace Lake where he'd put the platforms, to find they'd washed out.
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So Hawken decided to offer the bridges to Cascade Park, a privately-owned park near Granite Falls that is used for campouts by such groups as the Girl Scouts and various church groups.
The creation of those bridges qualified Hawken for a bronze Hornaday Award.
The Hornaday award was begun in 1914 as a way to recognize people who protected wildlife, and was later broadened to recognize Boy Scouts who excelled at environmental projects.
Typically a scout earns a Hornaday badge, then a bronze medal, and then the silver medal. In the 99 years the award has been offered, only 1,100 scouts have earned the silver medal.
The most recent bridge project will qualify Hawken for a Silver Hornaday Award.
After the large bridge is installed at Cascade Park, it will give handicapped children greater access to the park.
"We are putting it across a wash in the park that fills full of water when it rains, for access for kids with handicaps to get to an outdoor gathering place back in the trees," said John Bess, a Mormon missionary who volunteers at the park. "Up until now we've had no way to get kids in wheelchairs back to that area. We have a walking trail that's very steep, and so it's been very difficult to get kids with health issues back in there."
Building the Bridge
When Hawken envisioned building the bridge, by far the largest he'd ever taken on, there were some skeptics.
"At one time someone told him that no one would donate enough for a bridge," said his father, Matthew Hawken, a former locomotive engineer with BNSF.
But like the proverbial stone soup, once Hawken started with an idea, people began to offer help.
Hawken and his family drew up a design for the thing, sent it to a family friend who is a structural engineer, and she helped fine-tune it and approve it.
Everett Steel donated the brackets into which the handrail posts are set. Neighbor Paul Wyndham, a welder, helped weld the structure.
A California company called Fasten Master supplied 825 ceramic-coated bolts and even paid for the shipping.
Boise Cascade donated most of the lumber. Lowe's donated some too, and Lowe's delivered all the wood to the site.
On Thursday Cascade Crane of Tacoma volunteered to transport the giant structure from Monroe to Granite Falls to its final home.
Another neighbor, a retired Coast Guard officer, helped Hawken braid the ends of the rope handrails.
In all, according to Lynnette Hawken, Joshua's mother, the project will end up requiring more than 1,000 volunteer hours.
And Joshua pitched in the money he'd been saving for a bicycle (with which he would like to complete the Seattle-to-Portland ride next year, although his mother is considerably anxious about the idea) for gas money for the crane operator.
What's next for Hawken
Hawken is running out of things to achieve. He's earned the highest environmental award there is. He's completed not one, but four Eagle projects. He holds 75 merit badges.
His father says it's time for Hawken to take a break.
"He's finished the nuclear science badge and doesn't have a fishing badge," he said. "He needs to be a kid."
Hawken, who gets good grades, as well, will be a high school freshman this year. This winter he will learn advanced wilderness rescue techniques. He may get into high school sports, he said.
Within a few years, it will time for college. When it comes time to make a career choice, Hawken will be unusually equipped to decide, his mother noted.
"I work with the school district and I see kids who are 17 or 18, and they don't know what they want to do and they don't have a lot of life experience," she said. "But he's got 75 badges and that's 75 experiences. It gives him a huge opportunity to say, 'I thought I would like this, but it's not my thing,' or, 'I really like this.'"
One thing Hawken knows he likes is contributing to the community.
"It's really cool," he said. "You can see how things progressed; you can learn how much of an impact you make."


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Defensive line: B-
This is a tough one to grade. Individually, Rob Ninkovich, Vince Wilfork, Kyle Love and Chandler Jones have been impressive in various facets of the game.
Ninkovich has made several key plays and may be the MVP of the defense, while Jones (six sacks) is currently the runaway choice for Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Wilfork remains a strong run stopper, and is a big reason why teams are only averaging 88.6 rushing yards per game against New England.
But together they still aren't creating enough pressure on the quarterback to alleviate some of the burden on the defensive backs. Until they start doing that, it's hard to see the aggregate as anything more than average.
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Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practice to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.
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It's a quiet time around college football. There is not much news going on in July. The only stories that break around this time are bad ones. Training camp hasn't started and football diehards are beginning to forget what game day feels like.
So this is the perfect time to get all the star players and coaches together in Hoover, Ala., to talk about football. The Florida Gators brought a contingent of head coach Will Muschamp, quarterback Jeff Driskel, defensive lineman Dominique Easley, and offensive lineman Jon Halapio to media days. In general, players were respectful and not outlandish. They proved quotable and charming, especially in Easley's case. Overall, coaches and players from other teams were respectful and strayed from any inflammatory remarks.
By far, Muschamp's interview was the most insightful. He emphasized character and line play during his media session. The character remarks carry extra weight this time of year because of the character swirl surrounding Urban Meyer and his stint with the University of Florida. The line play statements, rather traditional SEC thinking, did not surprise. Muschamp is a conservative coach, and his focus on line play backs that up. The fact that the Gators brought two lineman to media days shows Muschamp's emphasis and the Gators' lack of true stars. Muschamp also expressed that he was not content with the progress yet made at Florida. He said his goal is to go to Atlanta every year.
Easley was the star of Florida's media day squad. He consistently made the reporters laugh with his great attitude. The big man's most embarrassing moment was admitting that he had never heard of Bear Bryant. He guessed Bear was some sort of cartoon. Easley then asked for forgiveness, saying he prefers cartoons to sports, anyways.
Driskel was the only player who faced some difficult questions. It's clear that the expectations are high for him this year, and he realizes that his play needs to improve. He was poised and confident during the press conference, and displayed signals of growing leadership. Driskel stated that he and the offense had put a lot of work in this summer, and that his chemistry with the receivers was growing. He also said he spent time reviewing his negative plays from last season and feels more comfortable with throwing the ball away. The quarterback did not give himself any excuses. When he was asked about skill players, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends, Driskel said he was confident that the Gators have enough talent this year to compete. He feels Matt Jones will be a fine replacement at running back, the receivers will be better this year and a tight end will step up to fill the void left by Jordan Reed.
Media days, they never change. Everyone was confident and full of answers, sure that this would be the year his team finally broke through. While media days are fun, they are not a true substitute for the game itself. SEC media days gave fans a morsel to chew on. Savor it until the season starts. One day, summer will end, and football will begin again.


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Brett Larrick has been selected to replace Bob Walsh as head boys basketball coach at Elyria High School, according to a press release from the Elyria Athletic Department.
"It's tough trying to follow in Bob's footsteps, but I've learned a lot just being around him," said Larrick, who assisted Walsh the past three years. "That and the development of our younger players should make the transition smoother."
Larrick, a 6-3 wing, graduated from Elyria in 1993 and teaches business at the high school. He earned first team All-Ohio Division I honors his senior year, averaging 25 points a game, was The Plain Dealer's Lorain County Player of the Year in his junior and senior seasons and holds the school record for points in a season (551). Larrick is also the Pioneers' second-leading all-time scorer (1,351 points in 66 games).
Larrick's official hiring is pending approval by the Elyria school board April 15, the press release said.
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DEBERT - Millbrook First Nation is the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars for housing needs and a yet-to-be-built cultural centre.
Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, made the funding announcement in Debert Sunday. A federal investment of $3.8 million to improve housing conditions in First Nations communities across Nova Scotia was announced yesterday. Thirteen First Nations communities in Nova Scotia will benefit from the funding, including $324,000 for Millbrook. The funding comes from Canada's Economic Action Plan.
"It's a historic day for us ... that's a good Christmas present," said Millbrook's Chief Lawrence Paul.
Paul said the money will be used to build an apartment for a Mi'kmaq resident in Cole Harbour, which is one of three satellite First Nations communities under Millbrook's administration, including Beaver Dam and Sheet Harbour.
The funding will also provide for the extension of two existing houses in Millbrook needed because they are "overcrowded," said Paul.
But that wasn't the only good news for Millbrook yesterday. An additional $400,000 from the federal government's Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency was committed for preliminary work at the future Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre, including site assessment and reforestation.
Also, Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook MLA Lenore Zann announced a $100,000 provincial commitment through the Economic Rural Development's Mi'kmaq Community Development Fund as well as $12,000 from the Department of Natural Resources for the cultural centre.
"It feels very good. It will create a lot of jobs and in the recession a lot of jobs were lost," said Paul.
"This will also draw people internationally to see the centre."
It's estimated construction of the centre will begin in 2012, with an opening date of 2015. It's anticipated it will cost $14 million to build to centre on Lancaster Drive in Debert.
Zann said the centre will be the "cornerstone of the emerging aboriginal cultural tourism industry in Eastern Canada."
Millbrook's Crystal Dorey said the funding announcements are welcome news.
"There is a need for aboriginal housing ... for the bettering and creation of more houses," said Dorey. "And the (cultural) centre blows all others out of the water. We're very excited today."
Millbrook receives housing, culture centre money
DEBERT - Millbrook First Nation is the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars for housing needs and a yet-to-be-built cultural centre.
Organizations: First Nations, National Defence, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Debert Cultural Centre Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook MLA Lenore Zann Community Development Fund Department of Natural Resources
Geographic location: Millbrook, DEBERT, Nova Scotia Eastern Canada Beaver Dam Sheet HarbourTop of page
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- Susan
- March 01, 2010 - 14:40
I'm very excited about this new opportunity for not only the community of Debert but also for the Mi'kmaq people. Their culture is so rich and interesting and important and any way to showcase it is welcome. The other so called Heritage Centre in this area is a joke and does not do a good job at all. It is a disgrace. Bring on this new centre!!
- Tasman
- March 01, 2010 - 14:39
It's funny how all of a sudden there is some of this so called action plan money for the area after a Conservative member was voted in instead of someone else.
- TryingtoComment
- March 01, 2010 - 14:39
This is my 3rd try on posting my comment. Seems to be a normal thing for this website! So does this mean our taxes are going up even more because of this and the new Civic Centre or does someone have a secret money tree??
- Jon
- March 01, 2010 - 14:39
Tasman - that's politics. Elect from the leading party and reap the benefits. It's not how politics is supposed to go, but alas, here we are.
I voted Armstrong because he would bring us the money - not because he is qualified (which he very well may be). I dislike the Tory agenda, but our riding needs the money.
- MacL
- March 01, 2010 - 14:39
the money comes from the easiest source , we the taxpayer. Message for all of us that work and pay taxes- keep working, the government needs the money.
- March 01, 2010 - 14:39
I'm not mad all I'm going to say is, where is all this $$$ coming from ?
- flogger
- March 01, 2010 - 14:39
So TASMAN, let me ask the question: Would you rather have had a Liberal or Dipper elected and have no money? Or have an elected member (elected by a large majority BTW) and have some funds injected to our area? I am sure if there were a Liberal govt. in Ottawa and a Liberal MP from this area, the money would be flowing. Difference is, Liberal governments over-tax us, keep YOUR money in surpluses, kick back to their own faithful, and kindly give some back to the ridings that elected them to keep everyone happy. Sound familiar?
- chief wiggam
- March 01, 2010 - 14:39
mister 902, same place as YOUR medical needs that are paid for come from.


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SPRINGFIELD — Two Chevrolet Camaros parked in the driveway of a Pine Point home may have been deliberately torched early Sunday, according to a preliminary investigation.
The fires were reported at about 12:20 a.m. and are considered suspicious, said Dennis G. Leger, aide to Springfield Fire Commissioner Joseph A. Conant. The cars were parked a distance from each other at 20 Aberdeen Road, so the fire couldn't have spread from one to the other, Leger said.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the flames.
Leger said anyone with information is asked to call the arson squad at (413) 787-6370.


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The Gloucester Catholic High School boys basketball team bolted to a 17-3 lead after one quarter and never trailed in a 55-47 win over Florence on Saturday at the Jimmy V Showcase at Schalick.
Mike Shawaryn posted his second straight double double for the Rams (1-1), finishing with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Fran Kinsey and Steve Jackson had eight assists each.
Quintin Harris scored 25 points to lead all scorers for the Flashes (0-2).
Xavier Lundy scored 27 points as Paulsboro upended Vineland, 73-49. The Red Raiders took command early, jumping to a 24-5 lead after the first quarter. Derrick Burgess added 10 points for the Red Raiders.
Nationally-ranked St. Benedict's romped to a 100-45 win over Delsea in another tournament game. Tyler Ennis led four players in double figures with 29 points for St. Benedict's (8-0).
Cedric Elleby scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds to pace the Crusaders (1-1).
Host Schalick held off Highland, 60-56, as Rashaan Holloway scored 26 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter.
Robby DePersia scored 22 points to lead Haddonfield in an 81-46 win over Sacred Heart. The Bulldawgs drained 13 3-point baskets in the win.
Chris Burch had 15 points and Mike Holloway added 12 to pace the Lions in the loss.
Twin guards Kylie and Kelly Giedemann combined for 27 points to lead Washington Township past Woodrow Wilson, 56-41, in its opener. Kylie Giedemann had 15 points, Kelly had 12, and Paige Anastasi added nine points for the Minutemaids.
Chanelle Perry led all scorers for the Tigers with 20 points.
Glassboro surged back from a 13-point deficit entering the final quarter but fell short in dropping a 40-37 decision to Winslow Township.
Chelsea Schmidt led all scorers with 16 points for the Bulldogs in the loss.
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West Deptford sprinted to a 54-23 lead by halftime en route to a 91-34 rout of GCIT. Ed Merenda scored 24 points in the losing cause for the Cheetahs.
Kennedy Johnson and Mandy Buirch scored 17 points each for Sacred Heart and the Lions held off Atlantic City, 43-42, in an Ocean City PBA Tipoff Weekend game.
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Spring Fair in Puyallup puts Monster Truck Show, demo derby tickets on sale
Fans can enjoy the variety of activities at the Spring Fair in Puyallup, taking in the Monster Truck Show on Friday, April 15 at 8 p.m., and the Slamfest Demolition Derby on Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 17 at 2 p.m.
The finale to Saturday's demo derby features a fireworks show.
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Tickets are now on sale for all three events, including the Monster Truck Show on Friday. Click here. www.thefair.com to purchase tickets online. For Slamfest Demo Derby tickets on Saturday and Sunday, click here www.thefair.com.
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Tickets are on sale on the Fair website, (NOT Ticketmaster) or by phone 888-559-FAIR (3247). The new phone number will be staffed daily, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. To save the convenience charges, purchase tickets in person at the Puyallup Fair & Events Center box office at 9th Avenue Southwest and Meridian Street on Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Prices range from $16 to $30. Children 3-4 are $5.
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Former Sherwood High School teacher Denise Keesee admitted Monday to sexually abusing a student at the high school.
In Washington County Circuit Court, she pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sex abuse. Her sentencing was set for April.
Keesee was hired at the high school in 2006, where she taught special education classes and math, according to the district.
Charged last year, Keesee faced six counts of second-degree sex abuse. Authorities accused her of having sexual contact multiple times with two boys who were students at the school between 2005 and 2009. According to court records, Keesee told investigators that she had sex with one of them at her home, the boy's home and at Ibach Park. The student was 16 at the time.
Records say she admitted to sexual contact with a third student in 2012, but he was 18 at the time, so no criminal charges were filed related to those incidents.
Sherwood police received information about Keesee from the state Department of Human Services in October 2012, and handed the case over to the sheriff's office days later because Keesee's husband is a Sherwood police officer. He was the high school resource officer between 2011 and late 2012.
Adam Keesee was reassigned to a different post after his wife was placed on administrative leave in November 2012. Denise Keesee resigned from her job last May and was arrested in June.
One of the victims filed a $5.1 million lawsuit in June against Denise Keesee
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HUDSONVILLE, MI -- The state Judicial Tenure Commission is recommending Hudsonville District Court Judge Kenneth Post receive a 30-day unpaid suspension for "judicial misconduct."
Post came under the commission's scrutiny after he ordered a Stanton attorney to jail for contempt of court in December 2011.
At the time, the attorney advised his client not to answer questions from Post about recent drug use, because it would violate his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
Post had harsh words for the attorney in court.
After a complaint was filed with the JTC, commissioners in February heard oral arguments in the case.
JTC Executive Director Paul Fischer sought a 90-day suspension for Post.
The JTC looks at complaints against Michigan judges and makes recommendations to the state Supreme Court for possible disciplinary action.
Related: 90-day suspension sought for Ottawa County Judge Ken Post after attorney is jailed in 2011
In a newly issued opinion, commissioners said Post committed "judicial misconduct" involving the "misuse of the court's contempt power, trivialization of the court's contempt proceedings, undue interference in counsel's representation of his client, and demeaning treatment of counsel."
Commissioners are recommending the 30-day unpaid suspension and a public censure.
During the December 2011 hearing in Hudsonville District Court, Post repeatedly told attorney Scott Millard to be quiet and to sit down as Millard continued to cite the Fifth Amendment. Post explained that his motive is to get a baseline for the client's drug use so he will not test dirty.
But as the exchange carried on, he told Millard: "I'm not interested in what you think. Haven't you gotten that yet?"
Commissioners said Post had time to consider whether to hold Millard in contempt because the proceedings lasted two hours and the proceedings were recessed three times during that period.
"This factor weighs in favor of a more serious sanction," commissioners wrote.
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Fertilin, a member of the ADAM family, is found on the plasma membrane of mammalian sperm. Sperm from mice lacking fertilin beta were shown to be deficient in sperm-egg membrane adhesion, sperm-egg fusion, migration from the uterus into the oviduct, and binding to the egg zona pellucida. Egg activation was unaffected. The results are consistent with a direct role of fertilin in sperm-egg plasma membrane interaction. Fertilin could also have a direct role in sperm-zona binding or oviduct migration; alternatively, the effects on these functions could result from the absence of fertilin activity during spermatogenesis.
Pubmed ID: 9743500
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Not clear at all whether there's a trend -- and the legal system is set up to make it extremely hard for doctors to prevail in countersuits -- but the AMA's American Medical News notes that three Ohio doctors have succeeded in getting their legal fees paid by adversaries over the past six months, along with a similar such case in Mississippi. The real pattern to be discerned, if there is one, may be that the Ohio State Medical Association assisted in all three of the wins in its state "through its Frivolous Lawsuit Committee, a program that educates physicians about the practice and helps them defend against it". More: White Coat Rants.
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