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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Bilbo and company are back on the silver screen in the second of director Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of the adventure-fantasy tome The Hobbit. As fans flood to theaters, New Zealand's tourism machine is pumping out new location tours the way only Kiwis do — with a dash of down-home and a heap of adrenaline. With options such as trekking boulder-strewn meadows in Trollshaw Forest, kayaking the Pelorus River and horseback riding through the woods surrounding Beorn's house, the pickings just got a lot brighter in the country inextricably linked with Middle-earth.
"What's amazing about filming on location in New Zealand is how diverse the landscape is and how quickly it changes," says Jared Connon, supervising locations manager for all three Hobbit films. "You can travel from snow-topped mountains, through lush tropical forests, across gently rolling countryside and down to the ocean all within the space of three hours."
Ruakuri Cave
After a night flight from Los Angeles to Auckland, I headed south to Ruakuri Cave in the North Island's Waitomo region. One of 300 known limestone caves in the area, Ruakuri gives a chilling bounce to sound that made it ideal for recording the background noises for the goblin cave scenes in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first movie in the trilogy.
Although guided walking tours are the best way to get an overview of cave science, the spelunking, tubing and black-water rafting excursions run by farmer Angus Stubbs provide the real action.
For more information on Ruakuri and other caves in the Waitomo area, visit www.waitomo.com.
Hairy Feet Waitomo
From Waitomo, it's a roughly 45-minute, winding drive to the Mangaotaki Valley just beyond the small farming community of PioPio. It's home to one of the newest tour operators, Hairy Feet Waitomo, managed by Suzie and Warrick Denize on their 280-acre sheep farm.
"This is where several pivotal scenes were filmed in the first movie," says Suzie, pointing to a clearing with a burned-out farmhouse and troll campfire built from polystyrene in An Unexpected Journey.
This is Trollshaw Forest — instantly familiar to Hobbit fans.
The only reminder that filming took place here is a small blue X still taped to the ground, a place marker for the character Bilbo as he examines his new sword, Sting.
Visit www.hairyfeetwaitomo.co.nz.
Hobbiton: The Shire
Hobbiton, the most commercially successful filming site appearing in both the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogies, is a must-see on any travel itinerary. Better-known as the Shire, the site is maintained as it appeared in the films.
Devotees can walk along the Shire's winding paths past 37 hobbit holes, a community garden and the party tree. Tours end with a mug of ale at the Green Dragon Inn, now a working pub.
Although the location isn't technically new — it appeared in the Lord of the Rings movies as temporary plywood polystyrene props — it has become permanent after a rebuild for the Hobbit trilogy.
Visit www.hobbitontours.com.
Aratiatia Rapids
Some of the most memorable scenes from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — the trilogy's second film, which is in theaters — are the dwarves bobbing in barrels. Filming was done at two locations: the Aratiatia Rapids on the Waikato River just off the North Island's Volcanic Highway and the South Island's Pelorus River in the Marlborough region.
A spin in a jet boat is the preferred way to see Aratiatia Rapids. I hopped on a jet boat at Rapids Jet (www.rapids jet.com) below the rapids.
The ride started with a zip up to the rapids before the dam water was released. The magic came when the driver cranked the boat back to the bottom of the falls for a look at the water spilling over the rocks.
A snappy commuter flight to the South Island's Marlborough region followed, then it was a short drive to the coastal town of Havelock for a visit to Pelorus Eco Adventures. I donned a vest and an inflatable kayak for a half-day paddle down the river's placid waters to see the rocky outcrop where the dwarves exit their barrels in The Desolation of Smaug.
Dart Stables
An hour north of Queenstown is Paradise, where I visited Dart Stables (www.dart stables.com) for its Ride of the Rings trek on one of six horses of Rohan still working at the stables. The 11/2-hour ride took me through the woods of Lothlorien, past the Misty Mountains and to the site where film crews spent two months building Beorn's house for The Desolation of Smaug.
"It is not only one of the most gorgeous parts of the country, but it means we all get to spend time in Queenstown — which is always a lot of fun," says Connon, the films' locations manager.
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The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival is in its 8th year and is a free celebration of two great American originals: Cajun and Zydeco!
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ARRC Coverage from SCCA's Sports Car magazine. The American Road Race of Champions race at the end ofthe 1972 race season crowned Warren Tope and his Camaro as the National Champion in A-Sedan that year.(Jon Mello Collection)


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Hi all,
This is my first post. I don't know what to do. I have a 5 week old, and have had low milk supply from the start. I've been through it all, "negative" lactation consultations, herbs, oils, more milk plus, mothers milk tea, brewers yeast, pumping. I was put on Reglan about 1.5 weeks ago.
First of all I want to say, it's been in my heart to breastfeed exclusive for 9 months, I've wanted to do this from the start, and I have been working at this constantly for 5 weeks now. My daughter loves to be at the breast, she prefers that over anything. However she is never satisfied, constantly rooting. I can't tell sometimes if it's for food or to use me as a pacifier for a few minutes before a nap/sleep. The lactation appointments were hard to judge one week I was told to supplement 4 ounces, the next week 8 ounces. However that particular appointment was horrible and I was sweating and very uncomfortable, and I knew she was not eating well. The lactation consultant had the nerve to tell me "well there is always your next baby." Is that true? Should I give up?
I will say Reglan has helped some. I feel letdown sensations now. My breasts do feel more full after 3 hours. Especially anytime between 3-4 hours if I am out of the house, and on my way back from doing my errands. Somedays she'll want to eat for practically 2-3 hours straight. Someone told me that is pointless because after 20 minutes my breasts are drained anyways.
Is it pointless to nurse beyond 20 minutes? Even if I hear some swallowing? Sometimes my daughter will get fussy at the breast after 20 minutes, does that mean there is no more milk? When I pump between her feedings I get less than 1 ounce - so what does that say about my supply? I do want to add, she had a very strong suck, her tongue is okay, good latch. So I don't have any problems there.
Currently I supplement 4 ounces of formula a day, and about 2-3 ounces of pumped breastmilk. I want so badly to get her off of formula, but if I didn't supplement, she would root all day.
Sorry, that I wrote such a long post. Hopefully this does make somewhat sense. I'm so frustrated right now. Why is it Mothers that really really want to breatfeed their babies seem to have LOW SUPPLY? Then their are Mom's that have to much milk?


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State Police at Liberty arrest Sullivan County DSS Supervisor
February 21, 2014 —
On February 19, 2014 State Police at Liberty arrested Rhonda Roach, age 53, of Jeffersonville, NY after an investigation into the filing of false paperwork with the Sullivan County Division of Health and Family Services.
Roach is accused of filing false paperwork with the agency while employed by Sullivan County as a Senior Welfare Examiner in an effort to procure public assistance benefits for persons not entitled to same. Roach is additionally accused of accessing and altering computer records of the agency.
Roach was charged with Falsifying Business Records in the 1st Degree, Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree and Computer Tampering in the Third Degree, all felonies. She was arraigned in the Town of Liberty Court and remanded to Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $15,000 cash bail.
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It wasn't the huge outpour of offense Philly fans have grown accustomed to in the past couple years. But last night for the Phillies; it worked. Locking up three runs on three hits was all Joe Blanton (6-6, 5.15) needed to get just his fourth decision in his last 12 starts. He is 3-1 in those decisions.
Shane Victorino had two of the three hits for the Phillies. Jayson Werth was the beneficiary of Victorino's two hits scoring each time. Not to be out done, Shane also scored a run on a Mike Sweeney ground ball and saved another throwing out Nick Hundley trying to score in the fifth.
Padres' starter Jon Garland (13-9, 3.29) pitched well going into the seventh inning allowing three runs, hits, and walks. His offense just couldn't get anything together for him. Their lone run came on an RBI single by Garland.
The Phillies will look for the sweep later today sending the San Diego native Cole Hamels to the hill in a matchup of lefties. Clayton Richard will throw for the Padres. The Phillies are still two games back in the NL East but lead the Giants by a game and a half for the Wild Card.
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Kieran, Friars? Can I throw a flag on that one. Bucos, Bravos, Fish, Nats….but Friars?
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Dip, yeah it was a stretch but it was too many P's with Phillies past Padres.
dipsy… i know it sounds weird but believe it or not a lot of people call the pads the friars (their mascot i believe is a friar)
sorry for the double post… but who gets the ashburn, victorino or blanton??
Great opportunity today with Josh Johnson going for FLA v. Lowe for Braves. If we can just scratch one more out for a sweep in SD, that would make up for the Astros series. It will be tough Clayton Richard only 3 earned runs allowed in last 3 outings.
Cole deserves a win!
Go Phils
Did anyone else happen to listen to the Fox Broadcast? It was an absolutely pathetic love affair for San Diego. You couldn't get through a half an inning without them mentioning how great of an organization/team they are, how they had such a great turnout (considering 1/2 of the crowd was wearing red and outcheered SD fans), and then basically making it seem like they were letting the Phils win this one because they are that good.
Dipsy…here it is.
Like I said, it's pretty short. Now I'm gonna try to look for the full version.
Let's see….
Fightin' Phils or just Phils
Bravos (really?)
Brew Crew
Bucs or Buccos
Friars (hadn't heard that one, either)
D-Backs (sort of lame)
Any others?
Jays, Bombers,ChiSox,Stros
Twinkies????? Never heard that one, and wouldn't want to play on a team named that.
Cole deserves a win. He better get it.
How could I forget Bombers?? Or I guess some say Bronx Bombers.
For the Fightin' Phils I forgot just…. The Fightins
Doesn't Cole usually shine in the West Coast? LETS WIN THIS!
Give the Ashburn to Shane-o.
I understand the Padres have a very solid pitching rotation and bullpen. Thats as far as it goes. There offense outside of the big guy is pathetic. Good pitching will shut that team down. If we get the wildcard and play them we should have no problem with our three guys going.
ChiSox, RedBirds, RedLegs. But I have never heard Friars and as far as I am concerened, if Harry Kalas didn't recognize a nickname, it didn't exist. Chuck – Harry was big on the "Bravos".
The Dipsy
I will tell you dipsy. I have been calling them the friars since forever. I will explain it ot you…
Padre means Father in Spanish, both referring to a Catholic priest. A friar is a brother or monk, meaning a person who has joined a monastic order. All that aside, the San Diego Padres also refer to themselves as the Friars. The post game radio show on 1090 in San Diego is the Friar Hour. It doesn't have to be religiously correct, it's just baseball.
Cmon y'all. I KNOW what a friar is and I KNOW that their mascot is some monkish, friarish guy. Maybe its a provincial thing. Thats cool. If it is, I might start calling them Friars every once in awhile myself…..but if I do, and someone asks me who the hell I'm talking about, I'll blame you guys. Is the friar Franciscan or Jesuit, btw?
The Dipsy
I vote Franciscan. Just a feeling I have.
Now that you mention it, Dipsy, I can hear Harry saying that. Bra-vOOOOs. Buc-OOOOs. (my Harry Kalas voice in type)
Dipsy, this one's better, more complete:
"Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition. This is ABC's Wide World of Sports."
My spine's tingling hearing Jim McKay saying that.
What about Lidge getting a 1-2-3 yesterday to end the game. The three most criticized Phils lately came through big time yesterday with timely hitting, defense, and pitching. Love the fact that we won the game with only three hits. Our starters have been nothing short of outstanding lately. When they do have a bad game, which is inevitable, the offense better pick them up as the starters are the only reason we are within striking distance and leading the Wild Card.
Regarding the question on team nickname for San Diego Padres; "Friars" is seldom used by hometown fans or the media. The nickname most often heard for the Padres is "Pods" especially in the media. Pods rhymes with PA-dres.
Also the Orioles fans often described their team as "The Birds" more often than simply "O's".
The California Missions were started by a Franciscan Padre named Junipero Serra in, you guessed it, San Diego! So I would assume that the Pads, Friars, Monks (short for monkeys?) would be Franciscan.
I only wonder why some freedom-of-religion types haven't taken this team to court over that religious connection, or the Catholics haven't complained about that stupid mascot out there mocking the Church. At least years ago they only had a religion-neutral Chicken. I suppose he's now McNuggets, though.
You just can't win!
"Pods" might rhyme with Pa-dres, but Pods are also those diabolical alien seed things that take over people's souls and bodies while they sleep. I think I'll stay away from San Diego, especially when I'm tired.
Pods also refers to PODS….the portable storage company. Stands for Portable On Demand Storage.
I think the Padres nickname is spelled Pads??
The Padres announcers call them friars all the time.
This coming from a guy that refers to himself as 'the Dipsy'
If it's "Pads," are they the "maxi" ones?


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Philadelphia Phillies (10-11) at Los Angeles Dodgers (13-9)
Starting Pitchers:
PHI: RHP Kyle Kendrick (0-2, 3.60 ERA)
LAD: RHP Dan Haren (3-0, 2.16 ERA)
Time: 10:10, Dodger Stadium
TV: Comcast Sportsnet
Weather: Sunny, 72
Media: Twitter and Facebook
A Note for Tonight:
Tonight's pitching matchup is a bit lopsided in the Dodgers favor, with their fill-in ace Dan Haren squaring off against Kyle Kendrick. Haren is 3-0 on the season with a 2.16 ERA. He had a bit of a struggle in his last start, but came away with 7.1 IP and just two earned runs. Kendrick gave up three earned runs in seven innings in his previous start, and was pegged with the loss. It wasn't a bad start by any means, considering it was in Colorado. However, Kendrick has been up and down this year. Jimmy Rollins will get the night off, with Freddy Galvis filling in. In J-Roll's absence, Carlos Ruiz has been put at the top of the lineup, hitting second.
Revere CF / Ruiz C / Utley 2B / Howard 1B / Byrd RF / Brown LF / Galvis SS / Asche 3B / Kendrick P
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Although Haren is capable of putting up Ace like #'s i suspect he is playing above right now. This would be a good game for the Phils to steal away from the Dodgers.
The Senators are in extra innings vs the Padres.
The Mets took 3 of 4 from the Cardinals.
Need this one.
Go Phillies!!!!!!!!!!!1
(wrong WSH team, Andrew)
BTW, the Padres were nearly sold to someone who was planning to move them to Washington in 1974. They ended up being sold to Ray Kroc instead. There were even Topps cards that showed the team as "Washington": http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/360632892034?lpid=82
article: http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/1974-topps-washington-nationals-the-year-topps-jumped-the-gun/
First & third nobody out, Galvis K, Ashe K, Hendricks K, are you kiddingme!! Bunt if nothing else. Christ sake.
Bat on ball… That's all we needed there, that was absolutely ridiculous
I agree with both of you – quite a putrid display. While Glavis is very strong defensively, we are really miss Frandsen's bat off the bench. Asche and Galvis are revisiting Mini Mart and John Old McDonald's averages respectively, when they were with the team. I do not know about anyone else, but I dislike Uribe immensely, both now and when he was with the Giants. He has streaks of absolute zilch and then finds a way to burn us. Grrrr….
The beat goes on .
by the way the Senators lost.
So go Phils!!!
Just no runs for KK I guess
Revere, Chooch, The Man, and finally, Bryd, giving us the lead, but for how long?
Wow this replay sucks.
They have to ruin the greatest game.
Whats next the DH?
Making the sport with no strategy at all?
Cool links Shecnkman.
Remember I live in Senators territory.
They have big problems.
Defense, base running, Hustle.
A first time manager way over managing.
85 wins may get the division.
AFW we can finally agree on something. I know there needs to be some firm of replay. But it has expanded to far,an umpires judgement call should not be replayed. And the new catchers rule is just flat out stupid. All because a pretty boy all star from San Fran gets hurt you have to change the game. MLB Really needs to revisit that rule and change it back
Is Andy Reid managing the Phillies?
Your bonehead infielder doesn't make a routine play??
so you compound it by challenging the play and losing that too???
Never understood that logic with Reid either.
al the NL east teams have problems.
Replay sucks in baseball
Good game KK should have made it out of the 6th. Would be nice to go deeper in the game. But he did his job. At least we won't have to see Manship or Capp. Duekman coming back out ? Or do you use a combo of Bastardo Adams Pap for full innings
I know you can not be perfect but couldn't you be perfect for one more inning. Need some runes in the 8th boys.
This is not the best bull pen I have ever seen.
How do you not have a PH up for LA. I get if Perez was going to start the 9th letting him hit. But you really don't have better option. How about Grrinke
So if it hard for a guy who can bunt well for a base hit but has troubles sacrificing. Why not bunt for h hit with a guy on base ?
All started with Asche single maybe it will get him out of his slump.
OK my up for your bad night with a long ball here
What everyone asleep
Can I bet Byrd does something good at this at bat since I benched him in my fantasy league. I hate fantasy baseball
No pressure Freddie just get the ball in play
Ok a little better then that.
OK Pap I know you don't like non dave situations. But it is time to man up and shut LA down
Nice win and 3 out of four from NL West leaders. CHOOCH loves the. 2 hole. LA series for Chooch .500 4 doubles triple and HR 6 RBIs. A series cycle for Carlos. Asche makes huge defensive play and big lead off single. Maybe this will help him relax. I think he will be a decent hitter soon
Good win for the Phils.. Galvis or Nix needs to go back to the minors.. And bring up Hernandez.. One of them can be the backup defender.. Give Hernandez some starts @ 3B


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malik and frye for artest, i'll do it in a heartbeat, crawford for artest<<nope
i would trade Q for artest also
Via Jonathan G From their podcast:
some blurbs -
I approve."There's some talk here about Ron Artest going to NY."
"Isiah's got an ego (of his own) so he thinks that he can manage that pretty well"
"The rumor seems to be Artest for Jamal Crawford. Or on the flip side you're also hearing (a little bit of) Artest for Malik Rose and Channing Frye."
"Sacramento is definitely shopping Artest, they wanna dump him like no other. They like Jeff Green at #10, they like Julian Wright there....if Corey Brewer falls, maybe an Al Thornton..."
"It's a circus over (in NY). (The Knicks) are gonna be a pretty good team....but man, Isiah's gonna have some fun over there handling all those egoes"
malik and frye for artest, i'll do it in a heartbeat, crawford for artest<<nope
i would trade Q for artest also
I'd rather move Frye 4 Artest. If we trade Crawford, what shooters will that leave us with? Q (Injury Prone) Nate (Off the bench) we have no outside threat if we trade Crawford unless Isaiah plans on drafting dude outta Rice. At least we get 2 keep our draft pick.
dont trade crawford!!!!!
The Knicks need Ron Artest Leadership on the court for their Bigmen. Especially when Isiah start using his brain and seperate the Curry/Frye tandem that dont work and use Frye only as Curry Backup.
The Speed & Hustling-play of Ron Artest, Balkman, Lee, Morris, and Frye in the frontcourt with a speedy Nate bringing down the ball or a direct lob pass from Collins will make this Knick Team a 500% Postseason team.
The Knicks still need a decent SG, cuz once Crawford start running the point one or two times down the floor he forget that his backcourt partner is the PG, whether it be PG-Marbury, PG-Francis, PG-Nate, or PG-Collins (Crawford forces himself to play the PG, inwhich his days as a Chicago Bull showed he can not run the point consistently because of his blind court awareness of his teammates. Crawford is not a good decision maker so his skillz as a PG is dead.). PG-Marbury slowness in forever walking the ball up the court is the reason why Crawford takes over the PG duties on his own during games. Meaning the Knicks need another SG (trade Francis for a decent SG).
Q.Richardson is not a SG, accept on a fastbreak and his back injury limits him of doing that well. When healthy Q.Rich is a decent 20 to 28 MPG SF.
i would trade any of those players for artest. (frye, crawford, rose). Artest is a great defended who will fill our 3 spot and hold t for consecutive games without getting injured, he will be the best defensive player on this team.
Line Up if we trade crawford for artest which is likely
Now that is a team
Marbury and Curry - expect 20 from them
Lee, Artest
Marbury, Collins
That is a very good team. I dont care about the Crawford loves. He shoots below 40%, i admit he does save games, but this team is too good to pass for
We should aso dump the extra crap we have (rose, jeffries, james) Keep Francis as backup point or shooting guard. We have BALKMAN, and Randolph. THIS IS THE TEAM
NY would be a perfect fit for Artest. Isiah Thomas is a player's coach and has coached Artest before. Artest is closer to home and has nothing to lose in New York.
I can't see why Sacramento would want any part of Crawful though. They already have Martin.
NY Trades: Frye, Crawford, and Jeffries
Sac Trades: Artest, Abdur-Rahim, and Garcia
Defensively, we improve immensely.
The same offensively. Losing Crawford would mean less asshead shots, and turnovers.
It depends on which Artest we get. Do we get the guy that wants to win, or the guy in Sacremento who's shot selection was equal to that of Crawford. Trying to force things. I love Artest. Right now however, I feel he has more on his mind than basketball. If he could come to New York without all the drama, I'd say fine. However, I don't think that will be possible. Consider this, we'd be his 4th team in 8 yrs. Where does that leave Balkman and his development? Artest avg. 37 MPG. For all the Anti-Crawford sentiment, Crawford is a higher clutch performer according to 82games.com. He thrives in situations when the game is on the line. He's over 51% in those situations.
crawford is not going anywhere, isiah wanted em since his rookie year and isiah is not going break up that connection wit him and curry


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i hope i can get some good feedback. i am having some difficulities nursing my 3wo. this is my 3rd child and i successfully nursed my other kids with NO problems so i am totally devastated by the problems i am having now.
my sons birth was by emergency c-section and i thought we had latched on well at the hospital in spite of the surgery pain, etc. however. when we got home i started having a lot of swelling of the nipple on my left side and then developed a BAD case of mastitis in that breast. i also developed a very bad crack - i think because of the swelling but it may have been poor latch on. i had to pump and offer a bottle for a day or 2 because of he completely refused the breast. i had also made the "mistake" of offering him a pacefier because he seemed to want to suck a lot and my breasts were killing me.
now, he takes the right side fine but is having a horrible time with the left. the shape of the nipple is different than the other and different than it has been in the past. i thought maybe it "became flat" if that is possible. when i look down at it the shape of the nipple is like a triangle with hardly any of the nipple actually protruding and he cant seem to take much of the areola into his mouth so when i do offer him that side he only grabs the nipple and then has practically no suck.
ugh. i am living in brasil and have no real friends and no family down here to help with this and my portuguese is very bad so i am limited to the kind of help i can get. i am tempted to give up nursing on the left side all together.
thanks for any insight or encouragement. kim


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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media
The joint venture between WPXI-TV and Trib Total Media continues Sunday night at 11:35 p.m. — right after the Channel 11 News — with The Subway Final Word.
>> Who's on the panel: I'll join Alan Robinson, the Trib's Steelers beat man, and Mark Madden, radio host on 105.9 the X. The host will be WPXI-TV's Alby Oxenreiter.
>> What we're talking about: Nothing but Chuck Noll, front to finish. As it should be.
>> How to participate: Each week, we also take comments that viewers submit to The Final Word's Facebook page and Twitter account.
>> Where to watch: In addition to the broadcast on WPXI-TV (811 on Comcast), we have WPXI's online stream for Pittsburgh's many out-of-town sports fans.
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Jiovih Augustave
Home away from home
Jiovih Augustave describes herself as a Haitian from Argentina. Her fluency in French, Creole, and English prove her past. Born in Haiti, she recalls spending happy days there, playing in her family's backyard with her brother. When Jiovih was nine years old, she and her family moved to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.
Argentina is where Jiovih's passion for volleyball began. First stepping onto the court in seventh grade, Jiovih has many great memories of playing volleyball for her team.
Here at Dordt, Jiovih says she is learning to understand more concretely what it means to be a Christian volleyball player. In Argentina, she says, her Christian life remained separate from volleyball, but here she is exploring the way her faith is part of who she is in all of life. Jiovih values the time her team spends in prayer and in memorizing Scripture together. She's found that volleyball and faith aren't "two separate things; they're one."
Though her first year on campus proved to be a challenging transition, Jiovih has loved meeting other international students and learning about their cultures. She has also enjoyed working for the Spanish department's live labs, helping other students learn and speak Spanish.
A particular highlight for the pre-architecture student was the "amazing" spring break PLIA trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. Together with her team, she "laughed at anything and everything and nothing," cooked together, and played with kids. She realized that though her team went "to help people," the people they worked with "helped us more than we helped them." Jiovih found that the people she and her team served were truly grateful for what they had, and Jiovih learned from their example and their stories.
Jiovih dreams of living in a big city after college, working out of her own architecture and photography studio. She plans to travel and "see what else there is" in the world before deciding where to call home. But for now, Jiovih is a setter on Dordt's junior varsity volleyball team, living the busy life of an athlete-student.


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2012 Wis. State Capitol Ornament unveiled
The 2012 Wisconsin State Capitol Ornament has been unveiled.
The ornament, which was made by the Chem Art Company of Rhode Island, features a replica of the State Capitol's glass tile mosaic, "Liberty." It's one of four mosaics located between the arches in the Capitol Rotunda.
The money from ornament sales go toward ongoing restoration of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The non-profit, Capitol Ornament program began nine years ago and has raised thousands of dollars for the State Capitol Restoration Fund.
The $16 ornament can be bought at the Wisconsin State Historical Society Gift Shop and online store, the Wisconsin State Capitol Information Desk and the Wisconsin State Veteran's Museum. They can also be purchased at the Monona Terrace Gift Shop, Johannsen's Greenhouse and Orange Tree Imports in Madison and Tis the Season Gift Shop in Middleton.
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Have you read The Unbearable Nonsense of Craft Beer - A Rant in Nine Acts by Alan and Max yet? It's out on Kindle as well as Lulu.
Maureen Ogle said this about the book: "... immensely readable, sometimes slightly surreal rumination on beer in general and craft beer in particular. Funny, witty, but most important: Smart. The beer geeks will likely get all cranky about it, but Alan and Max are the masters of cranky..."
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It's not every day that the best-selling vehicle in the country gets a full redesign, but that's exactly what Ford is planning for the 2015 F-150 pick-up truck.
Like any redesign, the new truck gets new headlights, tail lights and slightly different body panels.
However, for 2015 Ford is making a drastic change that you can't see just by looking at the truck. All those body panels on the new truck are made of aluminum instead of the more conventional steel.
While the frame of the truck is still high-strength steel, the new aluminum alloy for the cab, bed and other body panels help the 2015 truck shed a lot of weight.
"We're taking 700 pounds of weight out of the 2015 F-150," said Doug Scott, Group Marketing Manager for Ford Trucks. "What that means for the customer is not only a much more fuel-efficient vehicle, but we're able to reinvest that weight in more towing, more hauling capability and better vehicle dynamics."
Scott said the lower weight also translates into better acceleration, quicker stopping and a more maneuverable and nimble ride. "It just will have a totally different feel, a more planted feel, so less body roll," Scott said.
Such extensive use of aluminum is a first for a full-size truck like this, but it's not the first time Ford has used the material in its trucks. "We've had an aluminum hood on F-150 since 1997. So we've used aluminium extensively for quite a period of time," Scott said.
To help deal with challenges of repairing aluminum, Ford is now in the process of training body shops at dealerships and independent body shops on the differences in working with aluminum.
Beyond better gas mileage and better handling, Ford managers say all that aluminum has another benefit. "Aluminum is infinitely recyclable -- 75 percent of the aluminum ever made is still in use today," Scott said.
Other eco-friendly touches on the new F-150 include cloth and foam in the seats that are made of recycled materials, and much of the material inside the dashboard is also produced from recycled products.
Multiply those touches by the staggering number of Ford trucks that are sold each year and you end up with a large environmental impact. "Last year we sold over 760,000," Scott said. "But when you take that kind of volume and you produce the kind of fuel improvement we will here, there's a great sustainability story."
Inside, the new truck will be available with technologies that are starting to become common on cars, like blind-spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control and a collision warning system.
A back-up camera will be available on some models, but Ford takes the camera concept even further. "We have a camera in each of the exterior mirrors, a camera in the grille and a camera in the tailgate and we're able to stitch together those four images," Scott said. "If you were backing into a tight parking place, you could literally just look at the center console and back right in there and see if there are any obstacles on any side of the truck."
That camera display screen can also superimpose lines over the image to take some of the guess work out of hooking up a trailer. "I don't need a spotter. I can back right in there, hitch up my trailer and then quickly I'm on my way," Scott said.
Other clever little touches include things like LED spotlights in the mirrors to illuminate a campsite or work site, two regular 110-volt power outlets in the cab and a front camera that can give you a wide view of obstacles that may lurk around a corner. "You'd normally have to inch out because you're uncertain whether there was traffic coming from either direction. This actually gives you that panoramic view so that you can you can pull out with confidence," Scott said.
Engine choices on the new truck range from a twin-turbo 2.7-liter V-6 to a 5-liter V-8. In the middle are two 3.5-liter V-6 options. Power numbers from those engines have not yet been announced.
That 2.7-liter V-6 is an all-new design for Ford, but it's no stranger to hard work. Ford actually ran that engine in a disguised 2015 truck in the 2013 Baja 1000, which is a grueling off-road race through the desert of Baja California.
Prices and final fuel economy ratings will also be released closer to the time that the new truck goes on sale this fall.


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Originally trained in the classics, Allen recently received a second doctorate in political science, providing a still stronger basis for her boundary-crossing investigations into the essential philosophical, literary, and cultural threads of the social fabric. Allen's work contributes new perspectives to discussions of race and politics that go well beyond the confines of traditional and canonical scholarship.
Danielle Allen received a B.A. (1993) from Princeton University, an M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. (1994) and Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Cambridge. She has been affiliated with the University of Chicago since 1997. She is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000) and Talking to Strangers: anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education (2004) and numerous articles on topics ranging from ancient poetry to Plato to bees to Ralph Ellison and September 11th. Allen is a 2001 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
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The United States and Pakistan will hold their first Strategic Dialogue at the Ministerial level in Washington, DC, on March 24. Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi will co-chair the talks. Topics for discussion will include economic development, water and energy, education, foreign policy, communications and public diplomacy, agriculture, and security.
On Friday, March 19, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke briefed the press on the upcoming dialogue. Ambassador Holbrooke said, "[N]ext week is an important week in U.S.-Pakistani relations. For the first time, our strategic dialogue will be headed on the American side by the Secretary of State. This was a decision taken personally, of course, by Secretary Clinton after her trip and conversations with Foreign Minister Qureshi when she was in Islamabad and Lahore in October of last year. We announced it then, and we're very, very pleased it's taking place next week. It marks a major intensification of our partnership, and we welcome the extremely high caliber delegation which Pakistan is sending. It will be lead, of course, by Foreign Minister Qureshi.
"President Obama and Secretary Clinton have long stressed the breadth and depth of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. This is a partnership that goes far beyond security, but security's an important part of it. It represents a shared commitment on the part of both nations to strengthening the bilateral relationship, and building an even broader partnership based on mutual respect and mutual trust.
"The United States is supporting Pakistan as it seeks to strengthen democratic institutions, as it seeks to foster more economic development, expand opportunities, deal with its energy and water problems, and defeat the extremist groups who threaten both Pakistan's security and stability in the larger region, and American national security as well."
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Directed by Phil Tucker
George Nadar – Roy
Claudia Barrett – Alice
Selena Royle – Mother
John Mylong - The Professor
Gregory Moffett – Johnny
George Borrows – Ro-Man
John Brown – Voice: Ro-Man and Great Guidance
If there is a just God in Heaven, Phil Tucker, Director of 1953's Robot Monster, will one day receive his due. At the least, I think a biopic is in order along the lines of 1994's Ed Wood. Hell, Wood's tortured struggle for cinematic recognition is one of star-studded success when compared to Phil Tucker's tale of gritty, blind devotion and determination.
Concerning Robot Monster, Tucker once said, "For the budget, and for the time, I felt I had achieved greatness." This declarative sentence, blunt and to the point, indicates the very reason for the filmmaker's enduring place in celluloid history: With only toothpicks at his disposal, he set out to build the Taj Mahal. His reach did indeed exceed his grasp without any hope of Heaven (to paraphrase Browning). To put it another way, Phil Tucker was as a man cast into the middle of the ocean during a typhoon that, after bobbing to the surface, begins to swim for shore with actual hope in his stubborn heart.
Part of Tucker's greatness lays in the fact that he never, ever, ever quit on the industry that scorned him, ridiculed him, nearly drove him to suicide, and clearly detested the sight of him. It would not be fair to say the film industry quit on Phil Tucker, it never really looked his way with any real love in the first place. Simple unrequited love, no matter how endless, is not enough for greatness, however, which brings us to Robot Monster. And yes, with this badly flawed, shoestring production, Tucker swung his broken twig and smashed one out of park.
First let me express my utter contempt for all reviewers of this film that have taken the "it's so bad it's good" or "full of unintentional humor" tact. I can see them grinning like flea-ridden hyenas now, saying "God, I just love it! It's such a hoot!" I spit on these reviewers and their ilk. One must also spit on revolting cruelties such as the Golden Turkey Awards, which ridicule filmmakers, and the blatantly ugly Fifty Worst Films of All Time by Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss, both of which mention Robot Monster (for a critical but completely un-condescending view of Robot Monster, see Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Film of the Fifties! McFarland Classics, 1982-1986).
Having said that, let's get to the movie and do the unpleasant work that has to be done.
The plot, which involves alien invasion and the destruction of life on earth, is straightforward enough. An alien from the planet Ro-Man (named, oddly, Ro-Man) has come to earth and destroyed all life, save for a very small group, by using a Calcinator Death Ray. Ingeniously, the aliens have designed the Calcinator's effects to resemble the destruction caused by an atomic bomb, thereby masking an alien presence. The small group has survived because the patriarch doctor, played by veteran Viennese actor, John Mylong, has developed an antibacterial serum that somehow negates the effects of Calcinator. The alien, Ro-Man, is played by actor George Burrows, dressed, famously, in a gorilla suit and a diving helmet with antennae. Its base of operations is a cave in the Bronson Canyons, where he communicates with his leader, the "Great One" or "Great Guidance", via a barely modified television set. Also in the mouth of the cave is an "individual energizer" which gives the creature its power. This energizer is, as the credits have told us, a bubble machine; an "Automatic Billion Bubble Machine" provided by N.A. Fisher Chemical Products.
So, we have a hulking actor in a gorilla suit and diving helmet, reduced to a great deal of hand gestures to indicate speech and emotion, talking to a television set in the mouth of a cave; while beside him bubbles are churning from a machine about the size of a washing machine. Get the picture? Much of the film also consists of the unfortunate Burrows lumbering around the scrappy hills and valleys of Bronson Canyon in California, seen in long shot, while a doom-laden musical score (by Elmer Bernstein, no less) lumbers along as well.
The script was provided by Wyott Ordung, who was an atomic age triple threat, having directed Monster From the Ocean Floor (1954), acted in Sam Fuller's Fixed Bayonets (1951), and scripted Robot Monster and (partially) Target Earth (1954). To call the script of Robot Monster "bizarre", as so many have, does not give it full credit. Avant-Garde would be closer to the mark. My favorite Ordung moment comes when our two principal survivors, Alice and Roy (Claudia Barrett and Roy Nadar), having just barely escaped Ro-Man, fall into a clinch and, apropos of absolutely nothing, engage in an extended, wordless "pantomime of love" involving expressive hand and body moments – a kind of wordless, stationary dance; which culminates in Alice reclining on her back in the rough Pampas grass of Bronson Canyon and camera fade. "Were you and Roy playing house?" asks young Clara, the little girl amongst the survivors, upon their return. Yes, indeed! says Roy's grin and Alice's bashful expression.
Naturally, at world's end a wedding is in order, which leads to another Ordung moment of high concept, done with the principals kneeling. The head doctor performs the ceremony, a pompous mixture of ceremony and wordy plea to God regarding their plight, in which the groom has remove his shirt. The witnesses stand with heads bowed, as during a funeral oration, looking profoundly grief stricken. There won't be any rice thrown this day.
There will be, however, a rather seedy honeymoon, in which Roy and Alice toddle off again into the sun baked hills immediately following the ceremony (well, actress Claudia Barrett sort of delicately picks her way over the hard, pebbly ground, due to the heels she never takes off during the entire picture).
The dialogue and direction have equal moments that would have made Beckett nod his head in amused simpatico. When young Johnny (who deserves a good throttling throughout) bluntly asks Ro-Man what he has against him, Ro-Man explains: "Your people were getting too intelligent. We could not wait until you were smart enough to attack us. We had to attack you first." Well, thanks. That explains it, I suppose. As for the direction, one has only to watch the much-beleaguered George Burrows as Ro-Man, swatting at flies and bubbles in his discomfort, or stumbling around under what must have terrible heat in the gorilla suit, to get the gist.
Ro-Man is initially defeated, as most beasts are, by lust for an earthly woman. In this case I can't say I blame him as the scenes where Ro-Man paws Claudia Barrett, asking if she could ever think of him as a man, are disturbingly erotic. She defends herself in rather passive gestures (she has flirted shamelessly with Ro-Man to discover the secret of his great strength) until Ro-Man, deciding enough is enough, simply tears her dress half off, ties her up, and then knocks her unconscious. The professor picks this moment to dial for a conversation. "Call back later," snaps Ro-Man peevishly, fairly shaking in frustration.
So, we have a travesty of details. Why do I feel in my heart this is a great film? Well, as I say, it's a mess when seen in detail, and Phil Tucker can't be called a technical master of any of them.
But dissecting details is never the way to approach art. Art is remembered by the visceral impact it makes as an entire experience. When taken as a whole, something greater than a simple sum emerges. With Robot Monster, it is the layer upon layer of scenes, twisted into a shocking, freakish reality, that somehow leaves the viewer overwhelmed and defeated to any resistance: The "pantomime of love" merges into a "stone age wedding," into another rambling speech in a Viennese accent by a doctor driven insane with optimism (he has, after all, scolded his wife, played with great conviction by Selena Royle, for expressing grief over the bodies of not one by two of her children. "Ve must continue!" he commands more than once, sounding more like a Prussian officer barking orders than a sage leader of a new civilization).
It is, of course, the vision of Ro-Man, the new God of the Earth, struggling to make his way over a small crest of ground, shaking his fists at young Johnny, who has the ability to run. It is also the numbing brutality and bleak doom of the film, which has Ro-Man killing the children with his hands, as his trusty Calcinator Death Ray will not work on them. "A simple matter of strangulation," he explains to the Great Guidance, making numerous, savage hand gestures, none of which mimic actual strangulation. Of all the invasion pictures of the era, this is the one in which humanity loses, and loses in grinding, savage fashion.
It is the whole experience of Robot Monster that leaves its very memorable mark. After all, the film is still discussed decades after its release, and will still be watched and loved decades after you read these words. That counts, friends and neighbors.
Like most folks, I have memories of pieces of films which I saw when young, tiny black and white dreams that, now and then, present themselves. These short scenes and pictures have come to represent specific words, themselves denoting entire moods. For instance, I remember the scene in Night of the Hunter, when the children have escaped madman preacher, Robert Mitchum, and are seen floating down a moon-shrouded river; I hear Mitchum singing his sweet gospel and see the raft and moon-rippled water and think "Safety." Likewise, I can still bring to mind the scene in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, where James Stewart, shaking, wet and exhausted on the bridge, begs God for help as he contemplates suicide; I see Stewart's, pale, black-eyed face and think the word, "Despair."
In the final scene of Robot Monster we learn that, contrary to what we have been led to believe, all the proceeding has not been a dream. It represents horrible reality. The children are really dead, killed in their tears and childish pleas by the brutal hands of Ro-Man. The couple is dead, the doctor and wife, everyone; the earth has been ravaged, ripe for domination, as reptilian demons have been loosed up the Earth. We see, in a grainy film loop as through a prism shattered, Ro-man after Ro-man after Ro-Man emerging from the cave entrance with extended arms. Over and over they keep coming from the black, depthless pit.
I see it now, sitting in the basement of the house where I grew up, on a television set as big as a piece of furniture . . . there comes this memory: There are these beasts with metallic heads but no faces, massive bodies covered in black hair and shiny patches of skin, walking through crackling lightening and shadow; a harsh, endless march with extended, thick fingers ever reaching, while some screeching wind fills the air like the ravaged cries of the infant Damned. Yes, they will, in their endless procession, cover the Earth; a land that is human no more.
In my mind, forever stamped, is the word "Apocalypse."
A bit of final trivia to chew on: actress Selena Royle, so heartbreaking here as the mother, knew heartbreak well. Her career was destroyed by the House of Un-American Activities and Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s when she refused to give testimoney before the committee. She was black-listed as a communist for her troubles. This for an actress that had played Elizabeth Taylor's mom in Courage of Lassie; as well as having founded and organized the Stage Door Canteen - an institution that gave free meals to soldiers in WWII passing through New York. Robot Monster was Royle's last film.
See it for yourself. You will never forget it. How else might we measure greatness?


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Stocks Gain as Alcoa Beats on Profit
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks closed higher on Monday on expectations quarterly earnings reports that begin this week will exceed forecasts.
The S&P 500 finished up 0.6% to 1,563.07 after posting the biggest weekly decline of the year last week. Aluminum maker Alcoa
Shares of Alcoa rose in after hours trading after the company said net income for the three months ended March 31 rose to 11 cents ex-items, from 10 cents a share during the same time last year, beating an 8 cent analyst estimate. Sales for the quarter fell to $5.83 billion from $6.01 billion a year ago, missing the $5.88 billion an average of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.
Alcoa shares rose 1.8% to $8.39 during the regular session.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.31% to 14,566.91. The Nasdaq was gaining 0.25% at 3,211.89.
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No major U.S. economic releases were scheduled for Monday.
Todd Salamone, vice president of research at Schaeffer's Investment Research in Cincinnati, said in a note Saturday that while April began with a whimper, things could have been worse given the amount of uncertainty plaguing the global markets. He said technical support levels remain resilient amid rising skepticism, with bulls still "quietly in control."
Meanwhile, his colleague, Rocky White, a quantitative analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research, wrote Saturday that although earnings season is being approached with skepticism, the skepticism suggests that companies will have a lower bar to jump.
White's analysis of the most recent weekly sentiment survey released by the American Association of Individual Investors shows that 35.5% of investors are bullish, which also indicates some pessimism from investors. This "is good news for the upcoming earnings season."
The benchmark 10-year Treasury was sliding 9/32, boosting to the yield to 1.746%. The dollar was rising 0.24% to $82.77 according to the U.S. dollar index.
May crude oil futures settled up 66 cents to $93.36 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Mr. Jackson was born in Union Town, Kentucky, on Sept. 9, 1931, to Cargile and Rose Mary (Tiffer) Jackson. He was a boilermaker working for Chicago Bridges and Service. He and his wife, Clara, moved to Calliham where fishing was his love and job.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a step-father, Woody Goodrich; and a brother, James "Buck" Jackson.
Survivors include his wife, Clara Louise Jackson of Temple; an ex-wife, Doris Ione Jackson; a brother, Julian Ray Jackson; five children, Tayna (Harold) Baustian of Gatesville, Roger Jackson, Shirley Smith, Thomas Jackson and Billy Jo Jackson; 10 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation was held Friday, June 27, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Roberson Funeral Home in Three Rivers.
The funeral service was conducted there Saturday, June 28, at 10 a.m. Burial was at Calliam Cemetery.
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Judge Jaymie Godwin Wilfong sent an Elkins man to jail Thursday for violating the terms of his probation after he was arrested for drinking and driving in Pennsylvania.
During a probation violation hearing in Randolph County Circuit Court, Justin Paul Robinson, 28, was remanded to the custody of the Randolph County Sheriff and the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority after he admitted to violating three conditions of his probation by traveling out of the state to attend a concert in Pennsylvania, consuming alcohol while there and being cited for driving while under the influence of alcohol.
Robinson was sentenced to probation in December 2012 after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of battery; as part of the plea agreement, Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Parker moved to dismiss three felony charges that had been pending against Robinson – two counts of burglary and one count of malicious wounding.
On Thursday, Wilfong asked Robinson if he'd read a recent story in the local newspaper about the DUI-related death of a local teenager, which occurred on Route 219 near Mill Creek.
Robinson said he had – and that the article served as a sobering wake-up call.
"(These violations) tell me you have no regard for the law, and I can't trust you on an alternative sentence," Wilfong said. "You went and got ripped. You could have killed yourself, you could have killed your friend (riding in the car with Robinson) and most notably, you could have killed someone on the road who wasn't drinking and driving, and I can't have that."
"The original jail sentence is imposed," she said.
Also in Circuit Court Thursday:
– Waleena Dawn Taylor, 38, of Elkins, was sentenced to six months in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail, which Wilfong suspended in favor of placing Taylor on three years of supervised probation with the specific condition that she successfully complete the North Central Community Corrections program.
Wilfong also ordered Taylor to pay a $100 fine and $50 restitution to Walgreens. Taylor was indicted in February on one felony count of third-offense shoplifting for allegedly attempting to conceal dog breath mints and dog aspirin in her purse.
Taylor's attorney, William T. Nestor, argued that due to her psychiatric and physical disabilities, she was not a "viable" candidate for the community corrections program, an assertion with which Assistant Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Lori Gray – and ultimately Wilfong – disagreed.
"We have plenty of people on disability who are in the community corrections program, and the probation office works to accommodate them," Wilfong said.
"I can't go to jail, or I'll lose my disability," Taylor interjected, interrupting Wilfong.
"Don't interrupt me again or I guarantee I'll send you to jail," the judge warned.
Taylor also denied concealing the Walgreens' items in her purse and said the only reason she'd entered into the plea agreement was so she could remain a free woman.
"I didn't actually do it," she said. "I just did the plea so I could stay out jail because I didn't want my family to be homeless."
"Did I force you into this plea agreement?" Nestor asked, turning to Taylor.
"No, you did not," she conceded.
– David Paul Dailey, 37, an inmate at Huttonsville Correctional Center, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of obstructing an officer stemming from an incident that allegedly occurred on Jan. 3, 2012.
In June 2012, Dailey was indicted on two felony counts of offense committed by an inmate, four felony counts of retaliation against a public official or employee, and four misdemeanor counts of battery on a governmental representative.
Parker said Dailey's attorney, Hawkins, had since directed his attention to information leading him to believe the felony charges weren't warranted.
Sentencing is set for 9 a.m. July 31.
– Paul Bibbee Jr., 47, an inmate at Mt. Olive Correctional Center, was sentenced to one to 10 years in the state penitentiary on each of two counts of bribery in official and political matters, a felony; these sentences are to run consecutively for an effective sentence of two to 20 years.
– Barry Nelson Conrad, 49, of Mill Creek, pleaded guilty to one count of second-offense DUI, a misdemeanor.
Sentencing is set for 9 a.m. July 31.


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Now through summer at Hamburger Heaven in downtown West Palm Beach, $15 buys a burger—and we're not just talking about eight ounces of broiled Choice-chuck ground beef—with a choice of three toppings, a side dish and a craft beer.
If you're not a beef buff, Hamburger Heaven (1 N. Clematis St.) offers a turkey burger, plus a couple of other non-beef patty options that decades ago would have confounded the longtime diner's Palm Beach customers and earliest owners, including a ballroom-dancing enthusiast: a vegan burger and a cheese-topped BBQ tofu burger.
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Kissable Couture was one of the vendors at The Makeup Show LA. This lip gloss line started by the beautiful Keisha Whitaker (Actor Forest Whitaker's wife) and A.J. Crimson, celebrity make-up artist.
These glosses are divine, family. From the look, to the smell, finish and consistency….I can say that I REALLY like them. The concept behind Kissable Couture is one that I absolutely adore. Treating yourself to one of these glosses is like giving yourself a gift.
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Panel 1: A pair of neutron stars in a binary system spiral together. Orbital momentum is dissipated through the release of gravity waves, which are tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time.
Panel 2: In the final milliseconds, the two objects merge and produce a gamma-ray burst lasting just one-tenth of a second.
Panel 3: A small fraction of the mass of the merging neutron stars is flung out during the merger. This hot, highly radioactive material expands and its outer layer thins enough for infrared light to escape. At its peak brightness (within a week and a half of the merger) the explosion is about a thousand times brighter than a classical nova and so is called a "kilonova."
Panel 4: A massive neutron star or black hole remains after the event with a remnant debris disk in orbit around it.
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- Octagonal large-mode-area leakage channel fiber with reduced bending loss
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- We investigate a novel design for high-power large-mode-area leakage channel fibers (LCFs) with a single octagonal dual-diameter air-hole ring encircling a nine-cell pure-silica core, having a tenfold differential mode loss and increased resistance to bending.
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- Bending loss; Differential mode; Engineers; Fibers; High-power; Leakage channels; Novel design; Optical communication; Optical fibers; Silica; Silica cores
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"My original goal was to be the No. 1 studio musician in the world," says the Los Angeles-based guitarist Paul Jackson Jr. "But I realized it was an unattainable, meaningless goal. I don't think I ever became number one but I think I've been number two or number three for a very long time."
You can excuse him for boasting. Just check out just a few of his credits: Madonna, Celine Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Yolanda Adams, Brian McKnight, Quincy Jones, Bobby Brown, Barbara Streisand, Elton John. He also had a high-profile presence on some of Whitney Houston's biggest tours and jammed recently with the Backstreet Boys on MTV's Total Request Live.
Pick up any smooth-jazz record today and there's a good chance you'll see Jackson's name as well. He calls himself "the smooth jazz saxophonist's guitar player," and is regularly featured on works by Richard Elliot, Boney James, Kirk Whalum, Gerald Albright and Everette Harp.
But Jackson now wants to concentrate on his solo work. His newest CD, The Power of the String (Blue Note), is his first since Never Alone/Duets more than five years ago. That album put Jackson alongside some heavy hitters, including Earl Klugh and ex-Crusaders Joe Sample and Wilton Felder. "I was very happy with it," Jackson says. "It was great conceptually, but it just didn't work commercially."
The Power of the String puts Jackson where he shines—out front—with his melodic guitar lines gliding over easygoing, soulful and upbeat tunes. "I grew up with Grover Washington Jr., Ronnie Laws, The Crusaders, George Howard, Return to Forever and Earl Klugh. That's what I cut my teeth on, and I always thought of it as urban jazz. So I would call my music inner-city smooth jazz."
Jackson says the title of the new CD sprung from an unlikely source. "Two years ago I took my daughter and some of her little friends to see the Spice Girls. I'm seeing this sea of adolescent girls, and every five minutes the Spice Girls would scream, 'Girl Power!' On the way home, I thought, hmm, power, what kind of power do I deal with? The power of the string. I put the title in my back pocket and when the CD came out I had it."


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Your alma mater is due to take the court in the NCAA men's basketball tournament in a few minutes and you're slated for a full day of work. What do you do?
Relax, there are a few options that should allow you to watch your team like a true fan without sending you to the unemployment line.
All it takes is a little foresight and creative planning to allow yourself to be fully engulfed in everything March Madness without setting back your career aspirations.
So, before falling back into your cubicle to pore over those TPS reports, financial spreadsheets and that office memo about the appropriateness of showing up to work shirtless with your school logo painted on your chest, take a quick mental health break and consider one of these five alternatives.
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If you've been putting off some minor elective surgery what better time to schedule it than right before March Madness?
No, really, think about it. If you have an outpatient procedure that requires recuperating at home, you'll need something to help fill that downtime. Perhaps there's something worth watching on TV?
It may be too late to schedule something this year, but if you've been meaning to get that wisdom tooth removed, some plastic surgery taken care of or have been thinking about LASIK, consider penciling it in for next spring.
Some urologists have even latched onto this idea, offering so-called "Vas Madness" specials on vasectomies just before tournament time. For instance, the 21st Century Urology clinic in the Chicago area has become famous for offering a special including freebies of pizza and a bag of frozen peas to help with the swelling.
Just be sure not to jump around too much celebrating your team's big win.
No. 4: Just take the day off
It may sound crazy, but it just may work. If you plan ahead and play your cards right, you might be able to legitimately request the day off by making arrangements with your boss.
If you don't have the PTO to burn or it's too late to request a day off, there is always the option of calling in sick. While we would never condone playing hooky, if your mind is set, be sure to be wise with your excuse.
You could always manufacture an reason (the risky vague personal emergency, the always popular doctor's appointment or just plain calling in sick), but perhaps the best excuse is simply, "I've earned it." Tally up the compensation time you've acquired recently by working late or early and make your case.
Your boss might even surprise you. Chances are he or she knows you'll likely be checking the scores every two minutes on the web or watching a streaming video feed at work anyway.
No. 3: Be strategic with your break
If you can't get away from the office for the whole day, there are ways to get out for a little while -- including on your break.
If your team is playing over the lunch hour, consider taking your break at a sports bar that will surely be showing the tournament on television.
Otherwise, if your team is scheduled for a later game, consider working it out to either skip your earlier break to leave work a little early, or wait to take your break until your team hits the court.
As a last option, try to get in early on game days and be sure to schedule any meetings in the morning so you can get some actual work done before the first games tip off.
Just remember, if you take our next suggestion, keep your in-office viewing on the down low.