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"You never know when the baby is going to come," she said.
Her company, Ram House Movers Inc. of Sinton, moved the historic Shelton House in Refugio on Wednesday, July 23.
Shelton House owner, D.L. Johnson, followed the move in his pickup and on foot like an expectant father.
Although Johnson said he was a nervous wreck, he was comfortable with knowing he had professional movers with great reputations to deliver.
The Sinton company moved the 1870s-era Bruhl Paul Johnson House in summer 2012 to a new location in Rockport to serve as a history center.
The Shelton House was originally a bungalow built in 1912. The second story was added in 1928, making most of the house's first floor more than 100 years old.
"I like the challenge of moving them intact even though it raises my stress level and causes me to lose sleep at night," Wilkinson said.
To help that stress, she subcontracted with some of the best known movers in Texas: Oney House Moving Inc. of Marshall and Dodson House Moving of San Antonio.
Once pulled off its lot at 809 S. Alamo St., at 9 a.m., the powerful tractor driven by Wilkinson's husband, Donald Wilkinson, inched the house forward, making a right turn heading north on U.S. Highway 77.
Every turn was excruciating to watch, and after the first turn on U.S. Highway 77, a crowd of people yelled and whistled.
The impromptu parade watched by out-of-towners, as well as Refugio residents continued north at a turtle's pace. Its immediate destination was two blocks north.
"Five miles per hour is too fast," said Pablo Benevides with Time Warner Cable. "Two or three mph is more likely."
Then a left turn on West Ymbacion Street required the removal of a pole light so the house could make a tight left turn.
The house, sitting on hydraulic wheels with what looked like jetliner tires could make unusual maneuvers to execute turns one wouldn't think possible.
The crews took a 30-minute break once the house was on Ymbacion Street. Already, a couple of hours had passed since the house began its journey to a new life.
Once down Ymbacion, crews had to take pole saws to trim trees out of the right of way.
Another left turn on Power Street took a lot of maneuvering, but the turn was made and the house was on its final leg of the journey headed south toward the corner of Power and Federacion streets, its new home, just three blocks away.
All along the way, an army of people aided the move: AEP, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, foundation experts, movers, Refugio Police Department, San Patricio Constables, Texas Department of Transportation and many others, like A G Hill Power Inc. of Corpus Christi.
"It's kind of difficult getting the lines down. Don't damage anything, and get it back the way it was," said A G Hill foreman Paul Sanchez, who had a crew of six.
Chris Cruthfield, with AEP, said the house was 40 feet high, and most power lines would have to be lowered. Some could be raised just enough for it to slip under.
Headed south on Power Street, the house's porch was occupied by Lilly Wilkinson wielding a pole chain saw to trim away any limbs in the way.
The 40-foot high house was wider at about 50 feet, so a lot of limbs had to be cut.
Moe Motaghi, owner of Snappy Foods, a convenience store chain, opted to give the house away if whoever wanted it would pay for the moving.
Motaghi's store will be constructed at the now empty corner of U.S. Highway 77 and Empresario Street.
Motaghi said he was more interested in preserving the house for historical reasons than tearing it down.
After several interested parties made inquiries about the house, D.L. Johnson, who is refurbishing the old Whitlow mansion in Refugio, took Motaghi up on the deal.
"I plan on living in (the Shelton House)," Johnson said. He and his wife Ann will live there until the Whitlow house is refurbished on the same block.
Johnson said he has a big family and he loves historic homes.
Spectators all had something to say about the move.
"Fascinating. I was in it a couple of times when it was an antique store," said Steven Reynolds, who lives in Taft.
"It's sad to think they were going to tear it down," Reynolds added. He had brought a folding chair and bottled water and set up an observation point directly across the street from the Shelton House.
"I just love these old houses, and the town is full of them," he said.
Not far away, Bonnie McLain was ready to watch the move.
"I'm glad it is being moved. I knew the Rayburns (former owners). She moved to Corpus. I am glad the house is staying in town. I have never seen a house like this moved," McLain said.
Tony Haney also was watching from across the street early Wednesday morning.
"I never went in the house," he said.
Haney was worried about the narrow street (Ymbacion) the house would have to traverse on the move.
"My mother did washing, and I helped her. My mother used to cook part time for Isabell Shelton," said Mildred Shaw, who also was among the growing crowd.
"I think instead of tearing it down, it's better to move it," Shaw added.
Sandy Bankhead said she'd had friends from Big Spring and Dallas down earlier in the week, and they wanted photographs from the move.
"So I am down for the photos," Bankhead said.
"I think it is wonderful that the house is going to be saved. I was in the house many years ago when it was a flea market," Bankhead said.
The house changed many times in its history, including hosting doctors' offices, flea market, antique shop and a bed and breakfast.
Eventually, the Shelton House was on its new lot and raised so a foundation would be built underneath it. By the time it was raised the day was gone and well into the evening.
Ed Sample, a foundation expert from Corpus Christi, said the pier and beam foundation would be improved at the house's new site.
Refugio residents and out-of-towners continued to follow the house all the way to its new home.
To them, a piece of Refugio history was saved and a new life was given it.
Many held their mouths agape and were amazed at the spectacle. Power Street resident Bob Koonce was one of them.
"Nothing this big has happened in Refugio since H-E-B installed shelves."


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I think I understand the front office's problem: the lack of communication. I listened to a 25-minute interview with CEO Sandy Alderson yesterday. Utterly pathetic. I was glad that he came on. He even came in studio. But he was obviously hesitant, uncomfortable, and he dodged a lot of the questions. Gotta give credit to the XX 1090 guys, they were really going at him with all the questions the fans have been asking. One of the things that really stuck out to me was the lack of communication. On a lot of the questions, Sandy made excuses by saying, oh, I haven't talked to (owner) John Moores about that, I don't know if (GM) Kevin Towers was planning this, and worst of all, he hasn't even talked to Trevor during this whole thing!! Outrageous. But he did admit that he was the one who took the deal off the table. The other thing that I noticed was that he said they really do think about the fans. Contrary to what we all think, the Padres front office really does put a lot if consideration to the fans. Though he said it almost exactly like that, I find it extremely hard to believe. They don't care about us. They can't. Here's another strange thing that bugs me: Trevor asked for a meeting with Alderson, Moores, and KT. Trev's agent said they didn't get a response. As a result, Trevor is disappointed in the Padres. But KT said that he had left a message on Trev's phone saying they would be available. Sandy also said that they have been available. Someone is having major problems here, and it's not Trevor. The front office is losing the confidence of their fans. I wonder how many of us will be left when this is all over.
The news is out today. The Jake deal probably will be done by Thanksgiving. Trev will probably be on another team next year. The front office is ready to give away their two best players. It's tough. I think I will be OK, but only until it really hits me about what they're about to do. Oh man. WE'RE ABOUT TO GIVE AWAY JAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, maybe I'm more upset than I thought.
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I don't blame you for being upset at all. These lame type of excuses – "I tried to call him" and "It's all about communication" – just don't cut it. If you want to make a deal for a player, you make the deal. So cowardly. Some days it's hard to be a fan, but we always come back. I have friends who swore they'd never watch another Dodgers game after the front office purged the team a few years ago. But my friends were back there rooting the next year. When we're hooked, we're hooked.
It's tough somedays to be a fan Kaybee! We just have to keep the faith and hope that the front office can get their act together and do what's best for the team. I'm a Red Sox fan and I have lived through the bad and the good. And you know what – basebal gets in our blood! We couldn't walk away even if we wanted to! Good luck!
Boy do I feel you Kaybee, it sucks to be helpless. Isn't it great to have a place to vent…I enjoy your blogging, keep it up…D
Some consolation advice: eat an entire pack of reece's peanut butter cups in gold foil. but i understand if you want to sit in solitude in your dark bedroom right now, rejecting all sources of the outside world, I've done that before.
As for Justin Masterson, the great thing is his flexibility. If we do in fact, end up picking up Derek Lowe, Masterson could go to the 'pen or even compete for a starting spot with Wake!
Feel better
Well, it hasn't got into the sitting-in-a-dark-room-alone phase yet, but I am eating my Reese's. When and if he gets traded, then I'll retreat to the room for a while🙂

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TCL > April 2013 Issue > Summaries of Selected Opinions
Summaries of selected Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Opinions appear on a space-available basis. The summaries are prepared for the Colorado Bar Association (CBA) by Katherine Campbell and Frank Gibbard, licensed Colorado attorneys. They are provided as a service by the CBA and are not the official language of this Court. The CBA cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the summaries. Full copies of the Tenth Circuit decisions are accessible from the CBA website: www.cobar.org (click on "Opinions/Rules/Statutes").
No. 11-2140. United States v. Caiba-Antele. 01/23/2013. D.N.M. Judge Seymour. Guideline Sentencing—Use of Child Witness Statements to Police Concerning Unrelated Sex Offenses—Sufficient Indicia of Reliability.
Defendant pleaded guilty to reentry of a removed undocumented immigrant. He initially entered into a Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement that set the parameters of his sentence as part of the agreement. At sentencing, however, the district court noted that defendant had been charged in New Mexico state court with five counts of criminal sexual penetration of a child under age 13, and one count of criminal sexual penetration of an adult by force or coercion. These charges had been dropped to spare the alleged victims the psychological harm they would suffer by testifying at trial. The district court therefore rejected the proposed plea agreement and instructed the United States to provide more information about the dropped charges. Defendant then pleaded guilty without a plea agreement.
A revised pre-sentence report detailing the facts underlying the dropped state charges was prepared. The district court held an evidentiary hearing at which detectives and a state prosecutor who had been involved in the sex abuse charges against defendant testified concerning their interviews with the children, and transcripts of these interviews were presented. The district court found these witnesses credible, and concluded that defendant had more likely than not committed the acts of sexual abuse and rape of which he had been accused. Had defendant been convicted of these offenses, the district court concluded, his Sentencing Guidelines sentencing range would have been forty-six to fifty-seven months, in contrast to the range of eight to fourteen months. After considering the statutory sentencing factors and defendant's other misconduct, including immigration violations and traffic offenses, the district court varied upward from the advisory Guidelines sentencing range and sentenced defendant to fifty-one months of imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
The Tenth Circuit rejected defendant's argument that the sentence violated his Sixth Amendment rights because it was significantly higher than the recommended range and was based on facts found by the judge rather than those determined by a jury or admitted by defendant. Such an argument was foreclosed by Circuit precedent. The Circuit also rejected defendant's argument that the hearsay evidence presented at sentencing lacked a sufficient indicia of reliability to be used against him, particularly given the absence of physical evidence. The Circuit held that the testimony of the law enforcement agents, including their statements supporting the victims' credibility, exhibited the necessary indicia of reliability. The Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence.
No. 11-1441. United States v. Ruby. 01/29/2013. D.Colo. Judge Tymkovich. Revocation of Supervised Release—Use of Hearsay Testimony at Sentencing.
Defendant had completed his prison sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm and was serving a term of supervised release. During his term of supervised release, he was convicted in state court of third-degree assault. The district court revoked his supervised release and sentenced him to eighteen months' imprisonment, to be followed by twelve months of supervised release.
The assault charge resulted from an automobile accident. Defendant was traveling in a car with three other individuals that crashed into a tree. After the crash, defendant and his girlfriend got out of the car. There was some shouting and physical contact between them. A passerby testified she saw what appeared to be defendant yelling at his girlfriend and she saw defendant throw her twice to the ground. The girlfriend testified to a more brutal assault by defendant and assigned responsibility for the crash to him. At sentencing, the district court considered the Supervised Release Violation Report, which was based on the offense report completed by the police department that narrated the girlfriend's version of events. Her version was supported by statements from other witnesses in the car. She described defendant punching her both before and after the crash. Defendant objected to these statements and provided a narrative that cast his actions in a more innocent light and blamed his girlfriend for the accident. The district court, however, found this narrative incredible and credited the version contained in the Violation Report.
On appeal, defendant argued that the district court erred in considering hearsay testimony from the Violation Report at his revocation hearing without making a finding that the interests of justice did not require the witnesses to appear to be cross-examined, and that as a result, it based his sentence on unreliable hearsay testimony. Applying plain error review, the Tenth Circuit disagreed. First, defendant had stipulated to having violated his supervised release conditions, so the hearsay evidence was relevant only to his sentencing. Although a district court must make an "interests of justice" determination before considering hearsay evidence during the guilt phase of a revocation hearing, this limitation does not extend to the sentencing phase of a revocation hearing. Second, the hearsay statements on which the district court relied showed sufficient indicia of reliability, including corroboration by relatively neutral witnesses. Defendant did not testify at the sentencing hearing to a contrary set of facts or present any witnesses who contradicted his girlfriend's version. The district court also was permitted to rely on evidence of a previous assault on the girlfriend to help establish sufficient reliability to permit the use of hearsay evidence at sentencing. The Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment.
No. 09-4216. Burnett v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. 02/01/2013. D.Utah. Judge Seymour. Nonjudicial Foreclosure—Fair Debt Collection Practices Act—Successor Trustee—Failure to State a Claim.
To finance the purchase of her home, plaintiff obtained a loan, signed a promissory note, and secured it with a trust deed to the home. Defendant Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) was named in the trust deed as the beneficiary nominee for the lender and the lender's successors. The trust deed also allowed MERS to foreclose on and sell the home if plaintiff defaulted on her payment obligations.
Plaintiff defaulted and MERS appointed defendant Woodall as successor trustee. Woodall instituted non-judicial foreclosure proceedings, and ultimately effected the sale of plaintiff's home. Plaintiff sued, asserting violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Utah state law. The district court dismissed her complaint for failure to state a claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). She appealed.
The Tenth Circuit first addressed plaintiff's claim that defendants violated the FDCPA by initiating a non-judicial foreclosure without having a right to possess the property. The FDCPA prohibits a "debt collector" from taking property by non-judicial action, absent an enforceable security interest. The Circuit rejected this claim. The trust deed, which plaintiff signed, granted MERS the right to foreclose and sell the property, and also to appoint a successor trustee.
The Circuit also rejected plaintiff's argument that MERS was legally required to obtain express authorization from the successor lenders who acquired the debt from the original lender. Because the trust deed explicitly allowed MERS to foreclose, Woodall also was so authorized. He had a present right to possession of the property; therefore, he did not violate the FDCPA by initiating foreclosure proceedings.
Next, the Circuit rejected plaintiff's allegations that defendants failed to send her the required notices, finding that the allegations were as too conclusory, vague, and confusing to state a claim. The Circuit also rejected plaintiffs' claims that defendants violated Utah's consumer protection laws. The district court's dismissal order was affirmed.
No. 12-8014. Schanzenbach v. Town of LaBarge. 02/07/2013. D.Wyo. Judge Hartz. Takings Claim—Ripeness—Just Compensation—Variance Request—Procedural Due Process—Protected Property Interest—National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act.
Plaintiff wanted to install mobile manufactured homes on properties he owned in the town of LaBarge, Wyoming. After initially granting him a building permit, the town council enacted an ordinance banning the installation of any manufactured home older than ten years (Ten-Year Rule). Plaintiff's homes were older than ten years. The town council denied his applications for a building permit, a variance, and a conditional-use permit to install the homes. Plaintiff sued the town of LaBarge and its council, asserting constitutional claims and a claim that the Ten-Year Rule was preempted by the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants, and plaintiff appealed.
The Tenth Circuit held that the takings claim was not ripe. A takings claim is not just the taking of property; it proscribes taking without just compensation. Ripeness prevents courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract agreements. Similar to standing, ripeness focuses on whether the harm has matured sufficiently to warrant judicial intervention. Two conditions must be satisfied: (1) the governmental agency must have reached a final decision regarding the application of the regulations to the property at issue (a takings claim may be dismissed as unripe if the plaintiff has not requested a variance from the challenged property restriction); and (2) the plaintiff must have sought just compensation through state procedures and been denied relief. Plaintiff satisfied the first condition but failed to meet the second, because Wyoming state law permits an inverse-condemnation action in state court against a defendant who has taken or damaged one's land.
Plaintiff's procedural due process claim was based on the town council's first granting a permit, then two weeks later revoking it without giving notice. Noting that this claim does not depend on whether revocation of the permit constituted a compensable taking, the Circuit held that this claim was ripe. The Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government from depriving a person of his or her property without due process of law; however, the basis of such a claim must be a constitutionally protected property interest that was injured or revoked without procedural protections. Plaintiff did not have a protected property interest in the building permit; thus, his due-process claim was properly dismissed. Finally, the Circuit held that the Ten-Year Rule was not preempted by the Manufactured Housing Act. The district court's judgment was affirmed.
No. 12-3005. United States v. Battle. 02/12/2013. D.Kan. Judge Lucero. Resentencing Under Amended Crack Cocaine Guidelines—District Court's Ability to Recalculate Drug Quantities.
Defendant was convicted of conspiracy with intent to distribute 50 or more grams of cocaine base. At his original 1998 sentencing, the district court found that he was responsible for at least 1.5 kilograms of crack cocaine and assigned him a Sentencing Guidelines base sentencing offense level of 38. At the time of his sentencing, 1.5 or more kilograms of crack incurred the highest Guideline base offense level. The district court noted that although defendant's counsel had done its best to challenge the drug quantities attributable to him, it could not attribute less than 1.5 kilograms without doing serious violence to the facts in the case. The court then assigned defendant a total offense level of 42 and a criminal history category of II, and sentenced him to 360 months' imprisonment.
In 2011, defendant filed an unopposed motion under 18 USC § 3582(c)(2) to reduce his sentence based on an amendment to the crack cocaine Sentencing Guidelines. Under the amended Guidelines, a finding that he was responsible for 1.5 kilograms of crack would result in a base offense level of 34 and a Guideline sentencing range of 262 to 327 months. The district court, however, denied him a revised sentence based on this range, reasoning that its statements at the original sentencing that he was responsible for "well in excess of 1.5 kilograms" and had engaged in a conspiracy to distribute several kilograms permitted it to make an additional quantity calculation. Looking to portions of the pre-sentence report that attributed 1.6 kilograms of crack to two of defendant's co-conspirators, and 1.8 kilograms to another co-conspirator, the district court combined these figures and attributed 3.4 kilograms of crack to defendant. Based on this figure, it assigned him a revised base level of 36, and sentenced him to 324 months.
On appeal, the Tenth Circuit noted the general rule that § 3582(c)(2) proceedings do not represent a full resentencing of the defendant. Nevertheless, a previous sentencing finding that "at least" 1.5 kilograms of crack were attributable to defendant did not bind the district court to a finding of exactly 1.5 kilograms in a subsequent § 3582(c)(2) proceeding in which it became necessary to determine the exact quantity to be attributed to him. In such a case, the district court may look to its previous factual findings to make supplemental calculations of drug quantity. The Circuit found it unnecessary to determine whether a district court may make new findings of fact in determining the amended Sentencing Guidelines range. In this case, the district court's supplemental drug quantity calculations, assigning 3.4 kilograms of crack to defendant, were unsupported by the facts it found at his original sentencing. In particular, the pre-sentence report had not attributed the entire amounts of crack to defendant that some of his co-conspirators had admitted to possessing. Moreover, there was some overlap between the quantities possessed by the co-conspirators. The Circuit reversed and remanded the case to the district court for further proceedings.
No. 12-2041. Smith v. McCord. 02/15/2013. D.N.M. Judge Gorsuch. Legal Malpractice—Excessive Force—Arrest—Failure to Address Qualified Immunity Defense—Summary Judgment.
Plaintiff, aged 75, was in his home when he saw several police cars and emergency vehicles in front of his house. He went out and asked an officer whether something was wrong. The officer responded by telling plaintiff to go back inside. Plaintiff mumbled a remark about not being able to find out what was happening in his front yard. Plaintiff alleged that the officer then told him to put his hands on the top of his car and that he was under arrest. Because the car was hot, plaintiff jerked his hands away, and the officer kicked his legs out from under him. While on the ground, two other officers allegedly placed their knees on plaintiff's back and legs, injuring him further.
Plaintiff filed suit against the officers under 42 USC § 1983, alleging that they used excessive force in the arrest. The officers claimed they were entitled to qualified immunity, but plaintiff's lawyer did not address this defense. Once raised, qualified immunity requires the plaintiff to show that the defendants violated a constitutional right and that the right was clearly established. Consequently, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the officers.
The Tenth Circuit affirmed, because plaintiff's lawyer had not made the required showing on qualified immunity. Parties are usually bound by their lawyers' actions or inactions. The Circuit noted that other remedies may include administrative sanctions against the lawyer, as well as malpractice claims.


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Lt. Governor Kleefisch visits La Crosse
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch made a campaign stop in La Crosse Monday.
Kleefisch is in a recall battle against democrat Mahlon Mitchell, the President of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin.
Kleefisch was asked whether her campaign would be hurt by Governor Scott Walker's "divide and conquer" comments that surfaced last week regarding collective bargaining.
"I think the things that impact the campaign are making sure that the facts get out, the savings of $1 billion between state and local government, and the surplus that we're going to end up with at the end of this biennial budget year," she says.
Mitchell has opposed the collective bargaining law since it was introduced, even though police and firefighter unions were originally exempt from the collective bargaining law.
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The excerpt below is from the LA Times article Vast cashe of Kaiser patient details was kept in private home by Chad Terhune. This shows both the negligence of Kaiser in caring for their patients, but also the lack of privacy and security that is frequently found in electronic health records.
"Federal and state officials are investigating whether healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente violated patient privacy in its work with an Indio couple who stored nearly 300,000 confidential hospital records for the company.
The California Department of Public Health has already determined that Kaiser "failed to safeguard all patients' medical records" at one Southern California hospital by giving files to Stephan and Liza Dean for about seven months without a contract. The couple's document storage firm kept those patient records at a warehouse in Indio that they shared with another man's party rental business and his Ford Mustang until 2010.
Until this week, the Deans also had emails from Kaiser and other files listing thousands of patients' names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and treatment information stored on their home computers.
The state agency said it was awaiting more information from Kaiser on its "plan of correction" before considering any penalties.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began looking into Kaiser's conduct last year after receiving a complaint from the Deans about the healthcare provider's handling of patient data, letters from the agency show. Kaiser said it hadn't been contacted by federal regulators, and a Health and Human Services spokesman declined to comment."


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Confession: I've taken a year off from sports
By Roger, Pure Matters
I've taken the year off from sports–and it feels great to do so! The starting point was last year around February when I gave up playing fantasy football. You may be wondering why I would do such a thing since a lot of my interaction with clients is sports related. Well, I felt it was time to take a break and I hoped nobody would even care or notice I was gone.
I wasn't enjoying watching football when I was mostly just concerned about one of my players getting points to help me "win" or just do play respectably in my league full of smart people. Ugg!
I've taken the year off of sports and it feels good. I can't even tell you who won the NBA Championship this year. Shortly thereafter, I heard a phrase that usually brings joy to my ears and didn't even make me blink: "pitchers 'n' catchers!"
I did my best to rally the troops and take my youngest son to a baseball game. It was a perfect day and my son's last day of school. We went, we saw, and it didn't revive my passion for sports.
Why am I doing this, I ask myself. Because I can and because I understand that it's a game and only a game. I also realized that my emotions shouldn't be tied to whether or not the wide receiver made the winning catch or if my favorite player's injury will have a major impact on his performance. (See what I'm talking about? It's crazy and I'm overthinking it! I think I'm having a mid-life sports crisis: can anybody help? Can I get help; is there a place where burned-out ex sports fan go to seek help?)
Source: http://blog.purematters.com/fitness/true-blogger-confessions-ive-taken-the-year-off-from-sports
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"I've been a podcast listener for over two years. It's really been a blessing and helped me grow from a cafeteria Catholic to a real one."
"Happy the man who bears within him a divinity, an ideal of beauty and obeys it; an ideal of art, an ideal of science, an ideal of country, an ideal of the virtues of the Gospel."


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Written by Susan on 18.05.2011 at 17:45
Very pleasant surprise! This album is right up my alley.. I must look into the band's previous works.
So I'm starting to be convinced that South American metal is about to take over for Scandinavia. So much good music.
With Bare Hands is highly energized, dark prog. Straight forward prog, nothing too wacky, but very intense nonetheless. Nice!
Written by Milena on 06.11.2011 at 17:51
Not that I mind simple prog, but I don't hear a lot of prog here, and the music is quite nice but nothing original or special. And I don't usually swear by originality or novelty. But I see why it appeals so much to people.
Written by Susan on 07.12.2011 at 01:21
I totally agree. It's really "prog-lite." It won't be anywhere near the top of my best prog albums this year but the songs themselves are really good nonetheless. I can't help but love this album, despite everything


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Cars ransacked, stolen in Calais
CALAIS State Police believe three men were involved in a car-stealing spree early Friday morning in Calais.
The group was allegedly responsible for numerous thefts from unlocked vehicles and multiple stolen vehicles being crashed off-road.
Police said the perpetrators stole items from unlocked vehicles at area residences, apparently drove away with a vehicle if the keys had been left inside, then crashed the stolen vehicles.
It looks like they were just going through vehicles, trying to loot whatever they could find, then just take whatever car they could find to continue their little rant, State Police Trooper Alex Comtois said.
The first vehicle that was ditched was a Jeep registered to an address in Colchester. It had slid off a snow-covered Luce Road, Comtois said.
A little farther north, the group stole a van before sliding off the same road, he said.
Also, a Honda CR-V on Max Gray Road about two miles away was stolen from a garage, police said.
In each case, Comtois said he didnt believe the vehicles had been hot-wired.
The thieves rifled through at least six vehicles altogether, according to officials, stealing cell phones, GPS devices, and purses.
Police received the call for assistance shortly after 2 a.m. and because of the slippery road conditions, it took them about 45 minutes to arrive.
State Police ask anyone with information to call the Middlesex barracks at 229-9191 or Vermont Crime Stoppers at 1-800-529-9998.
They took the final vehicle, Comtois said. Thats what were looking for now.
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March 31, 2014
Straight White Men: Veteran TV/film actor Austin Pendleton and three other New York actors grapple with gender, privilege
A white father and his three middle-aged sons confront their own gender and racial privileges in Straight White Men.Continue Reading
The Wexner Center for the Arts will present Young Jean Lee Theatre Company's world premiere April 10-13 of Jean Lee's play.
"I'm not actually that fascinated by men – I'm generally much more intrigued by women," Lee said in an email interview.
"But one thing I found fascinating in this process was learning all the unspoken rules and codes that we use to limit and confine men in our culture," she said.Posted by Michael Grossberg on March 31, 2014 01:14 PM
March 27, 2014
Taking improvisational theater and comedy seriously
Erik Sternberger loves improvisational theater.Continue Reading
The central Ohio actor-comedian – a Madlab Theatre actor and member of FFN, MadLab's resident improv troupe – has trained with Chicago's legendary Second City.
Now Sternberger is helping to train – by judging and giving pointers to – central Ohio students who are competing in the TheatreSports league set up in January within Columbus City Schools.Posted by Michael Grossberg on March 27, 2014 07:08 PM
March 20, 2014
COSI: A long-running hit with families
Most fans may not think of it quite this way, but some of the most theatrical experiences in central Ohio can be found at the fascinating interactive exhibits at COSI.Continue Reading
Mystery, suspense, spectacle, characterization, drama and even comedy are among the elements that families experience in visits to the science center, just as these are common elements enhancing the experience of plays.
As COSI gears up to celebrate its 50th anniversary March 29 with an open house, party and special activities, why not give it credit – perhaps even "star billing" – as one of the longest-running and most beloved "shows" in town?Posted by Michael Grossberg on March 20, 2014 05:58 PM
March 13, 2014
The Phantom of the Opera: Comparing the old show to the new
Nothing ever compares to the power of that first kiss, that first swoon of romance.Continue Reading
For many theatergoers, that same type of indelible memory is sparked by their first experience of a favorite play of musical.
No matter how many times they see the show again, the first time is the one that lingers in the mind as the most haunting.
Case in point: The Phantom of the Opera, a sweepingly romantic spectacle that's now been seen by several generations of dazzled theatergoers from its repeated national tours, its impressive record as Broadway's longest-running show and its highly respectable record as London's third-longest-running show (after Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, in its 59th year, and Les Miserables, in its 26th year - just one more than Phantom.)Posted by Michael Grossberg on March 13, 2014 01:15 PM
March 06, 2014
Jacoby's journey: Denison graduate tackling plum role in Phantom
Ben Jacoby's college days in central Ohio helped prepare him for his first national tour in The Phantom of the Opera.Continue Reading
"Those were formative years," Jacoby said.
Jacoby plays Raoul, the aristocratic rival to the mysterious title character in wooing the lovely young singer Christine Daae in Andrew Lloyd Webber's operatic musical, which will preview tonight (Wednesday), open Friday and continue through March 16 at the Ohio Theatre.
"It's the same basic love triangle as in Cyrano de Bergerac," Jacoby said.Posted by Michael Grossberg on March 06, 2014 01:14 PM


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Divino the new name for Palermo Villa on east side
Palermo Villa, the Italian restaurant at 2315 N. Murray Ave. that closed in summer for revamping, will be called Divino when it reopens.
The restaurant announced the name change on Facebook. »Read Full Blog Post
Comedian Gaffigan savors New Year's in Milwaukee
Pasty comedian Jim Gaffigan has become such a New Year's tradition in Milwaukee that Point Brewery in Stevens Point bottles a special beer in his honor for the shows - aptly titled "Jim Gaffigan Pale Ale."
This will be the sixth year that Gaffigan, 46, performs at the Pabst Theater around New Year's. Beside the fact that tickets continue to sell well (he's playing three shows from Saturday through Monday this year) there's another important reason why he keeps coming back. »Read Full Article
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On Tap Today: Merry Christmas at the movies
If you're like my family, you get up on Christmas morning excited to open the gifts under the tree, to dig into a ham dinner, to spend quality time with loved ones...and then you need to get the heck out of the house. That's why I've spent many a Christmas night at the movies.
And of course, I'm not the only one. Christmas Day is one of the year's biggest holidays for new movie releases, and this year is no exception. »Read Full Blog Post


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No Thunderbirds, no air show
MARTINSBURG – If the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds demonstration team's season is canceled because of the federal sequestration, the Thunder Over the Blue Ridge air show will be canceled, Nic Diehl, president of the TOBR board, said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
"We've been going back and forth, but the air show is a costly endeavor and it would be difficult to generate funds without the main attraction, without the Thunderbirds," he said. "The air show is a fundraiser for local charities. It would be a lot of work for a little payout."
Sequestration is the term used for automatic spending cuts triggered by the federal Budget Control Act of 2011. Across-the-board budget cuts to nearly all federal departments are supposed to take effect Friday.
There have been several reports that the Thunderbirds' appearances at air shows this year would be canceled, as well as the appearances by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels demonstration team, if the sequestration goes through.
The air show is scheduled for May 11-12 at the Eastern Regional Airport.
The 167th Airlift Wing was forced to withdraw from hosting the air show and open house because of U.S. Department of Defense budget cuts and fiscal uncertainty, Air Guard and air show officials announced Feb. 5.
"Unfortunately, the uncertainty in our national financial picture has forced us to consider the possibility of some rather dramatic cuts in our funding," Col. Roger Nye, commander of the 167th, said in a news release. "I must ensure all the members of the 167th Airlift Wing are fully trained and ready to do the work we do for our nation."
The 167th had hosted the air show and opened its facilities to the public the past three years.
Langley Air Force Base in Fort Eustis, Va., announced recently it would cancel its annual Air Power Over Hampton Roads open house and air show, scheduled for May 3-5, because of budget cuts. The Thunderbirds were scheduled to perform at that show.
Last year, Joint Air Base Andrews near Washington, D.C., announced it was moving its air show to a biennial schedule, rather than hold it every year, because of budget cuts. It was scheduled for the weekend of May 11 and would have featured the Thunderbirds.
The Thunder Over the Blue Ridge air show was able to secure the Thunderbirds for this year because of the Andrews schedule change.
Diehl has said that there would not be an air show at Eastern Regional Airport next year.
During its February meeting, members of the Eastern Regional Airport Authority unanimously granted a request by Diehl to hold the air show on the civilian side of the airfield this year.
"We might not know for another month (if the Thunderbirds' season is canceled)," Diehl said. "We are planning for the air show. We are planning as if we are having an air show."
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Published on April 29th, 2013 | by Jules Yap10
Tractor bed
Materials: Mydal bunk bed
Description: My almost 4 year old is crazy about tractors…New Holland ones, to be precise. The only thing he wished for for his upcoming birthday was a blue tractor bed. I researched some tractor beds online and found a John Deere tractor bunk bed which I revamped a bit and turned into this tractor bed, complete with scoop, cab, and play space underneath. We plan on fitting a platform on the bottom slats for a secret hide-out for him.
I sawed the legs down a little so the bed wouldn't be so high. I jigsawed a cab and a scoop out of plywood, put it together, and spray painted it. We added push lights as head lights, a license plate personalized with his name and upcoming age, and added some plywood tires. I added arms for the scoop.
He's very happy with his birthday gift. We just have to add his mattress on top and the plywood platform on the bottom slats.
~ Cindy, Ontario, Canada
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As the final seconds were ticking down in the first half Thursday night – just about the time the Kansas City Chiefs backups were about to score the game's first touchdown – a scan of the Green Bay Packers' sideline revealed the following:
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers stood with his arms crossed, wearing a baseball cap – not the red, white and blue regalia he'd donned for the Welcome Back Luncheon a day earlier, although he would be wearing it after his post-game shower.
Outside linebacker Clay Matthews stood near his position coach, Kevin Greene, taking copious notes on a thick, white board.
Defensive tackle B.J. Raji sat comfortably on an orange Gatorade cooler near the bench area.
Wide receiver Jordy Nelson listened intently to the coaches on the headset he was wearing.
Wide receiver Randall Cobb strolled about the sideline, wearing a visor and carrying his helmet with his hands clasped behind his back.
Cornerback Tramon Williams, who'd played all of one snap – albeit a memorable one, as he snared an interception on his only play – stood with his young secondary mates, talking.
And the team's top six offensive linemen were split in two groups. At one end of the sideline, center Evan Dietrich-Smith, left guard Josh Sitton, right guard T.J. Lang and swing tackle Marshall Newhouse surveyed the scene, no doubt looking at all the empty seats throughout Arrowhead Stadium. Near the bench area, left tackle David Bahktiari and right tackle Don Barclay appeared to be doing the same.
So why are we telling you all this?
Well, two reasons: One, that's about all the Packers' starters did during Thursday night's preseason-ending 30-8 loss to the Chiefs.
But two, about the same time all of those key players were standing on the sideline, the New York Giants announced this on their team Twitter feed:
The Giants announce that RB Andre Brown has a fractured leg.
The Giants planned on having Brown, who averaged 5.3 yards per carry and scored eight touchdowns last season, share time at running back with David Wilson this year. He went down in the second quarter at New England.
So while the season ticketholders who are forced to pay full price certainly deserve more for their hard-earned money than what amounts to junior varsity football, it's hard to blame any coach – including Packers head man Mike McCarthy and Chiefs boss Andy Reid, who followed the same format – for not wanting to risk anyone if significance in the most meaningless of meaningless preseason games.
"This is really the point that you work towards," McCarthy said after letting offensive coordinator Tom Clements call the plays so he could spend the game observing. "It's a tough 2 1/2 days in front of you (with the final cuts), but it's all about the regular season. Everything that you've started since the day your season has ended is about getting ready for the opening of the regular season. It's all part of your plan, the adjustment in your plan, the process, and we'll be at that point come Monday.
"I've laid out the priorities for our football team. To create opportunities for personnel evaluation is No. 1, quality of play is No. 2 and ultimately winning the football game (is No. 3). I don't think we accomplished any of the last two. We obviously accomplished the first one."
Whether their quality of play will be good enough once the games start to count is hard to predict. The Packers (1-3) face the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park in 10 days, and they'll do so with an offense that scored a not-so-grand total of two preseason touchdowns (both by backup units); a starting quarterback who played only five series and 45 snaps; a reconfigured offensive line that played only one snap together on Thursday night when Newhouse replaced Bakhtiari on the second play of the game; and a defense that heads back to San Francisco intent on erasing 579 from its collective memory bank but limited preseason evidence of improvement.
"You'd have to ask Mike that, but I feel like I'm ready," Rodgers replied when asked if he felt he should've gotten enough preseason work. "I've played a lot of football around here and I did extra conditioning this week to make sure I'm ready for 60 minutes.
"We've had preseasons in the past where we've definitely played more (as starters), but I like our team. I think we'll be ready to go next week."
Chiefs first-year coach Andy Reid took the same approach and faced the same questions as McCarthy about his team's preparedness for its opener against Jacksonville.
"I mixed it up a bunch of different ways, but I felt that they had good work this preseason and just wanted to get a look at this last group and make sure we had a good evaluation," Reid said. "We have some guys that are fairly close and have to make decisions on. So we have to make sure we knock these out."
After the Packers face the 49ers, the defending NFC champions, on Sept. 8, they'll play host to the Washington Redskins, who went 10-6 and won the NFC East last year; play at Cincinnati, which went 10-6 and was an AFC Wild Card entry; and, after their bye week and a home game against Detroit, play at defending Super Bowl-champion Baltimore on Oct. 13. Not exactly an easy start.
"I think we feel ready. I think coach (McCarthy) does a good job of getting the amount of reps for the necessary guys that need it. I think we've gotten plenty. I definitely think we're ready," Sitton said after playing only three snaps. "We're used to playing tough schedules around here. That's been the theme around here for a while. We're used to big games. It seems like every game is a big game. I don't think it's a big deal. It's just the nature of the business."
Rodgers, Matthews, tight end Jermichael Finley all went through warmups, but McCarthy decided to play it safe and sit them. (Wide receiver James Jones did not play, either.)
Rodgers said afterward that it was the plan all along for him not to play. Vince Young started for Rodgers, Mike Neal started for Matthews and D.J. Williams, Matthew Mulligan, Brandon Bostick and Ryan Taylor all got long looks at the muddled tight end position.
The Packers were also without safety Morgan Burnett (hamstring), cornerback Casey Hayward (hamstring), inside linebacker Brad Jones (hamstring) and special teams ace Jarrett Bush (ankle), who did not dress.
"I feel that we'll be prepared," said Williams, who was sidelined until this week by a bone bruise in his knee sustained in the second practice of training camp. "I think we're going to bring a lot of energy, I like the play style we've been playing with all preseason. I've had the opportunity to sit back and watch, and I see what the coach wants – toughness, physicality. That's the play style he's looking for. Obviously the playmaking and things are going to come. We've been doing that for years. But he wants that toughness and physicality. I think the guys have been doing that all preseason."
On the bright side, Cobb, Nelson and Williams, who'd missed all three of the previous exhibitions, made their debuts. Kicker Mason Crosby, who held onto his job over two training-camp challengers, made a pair of field goals to finish exhibition play 6 for 6. And punter Tim Masthay not only got plenty of work (nine punts) but is now in midseason form, having booted 28 punts in four games.
"As a head coach not calling the game to sit there and watch the game live, watch the communication, watch the interaction, watch the Jumbotron for the great reviews, just gives you a whole different perspective that you do not get during the course of a normal game," McCarthy said of his experience Thursday night. "This is always a great opportunity for me personally, just to get a grasp on the individuals that are on my board trying to fight their way onto the 53."
And to those individuals, this game wasn't worthless, of course. Among backups, Young, who beat out incumbent Graham Harrell for the backup job, got extended work, even though it was largely unproductive (14 of 30, 144 yards, two sacks, two fumbles, 61.0 passer rating). Wide receiver Jeremy Ross, who seemed to have slipped onto the roster bubble in recent weeks, helped himself with a team-leading three receptions for 50 yards. Undersized safety Chris Banjo, who is battling for the No. 4 safety spot, had a quarterback pressure early in the game and then had a 14-yard sack midway through the fourth quarter.
"I think I did pretty good – getting the ball out, not getting sacks, different things like that. That's all you can ask for with the situation we were in tonight – running the ball, not trying to do a lot of different things, look at different players, look at different guys in the offensive line, running backs, tight ends," Young said, while also admitting that he's no lock to make the roster as the backup. "Just understanding the situation, all I could do was my job, and I think I did OK. I could've had some better throws, but overall, I did OK."
Listen to Jason Wilde every weekday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on "Green & Gold Today" on 540 ESPN, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonjwilde.


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John C. HoldenDecember 12,2012
John C. Holden
EAST MONTPELIER John C. Spike Holden passed away peacefully at home in East Montpelier on Dec. 9, 2012. His wife, Janet MacLeod, and two children, Loring S. Holden and Jessica Holden Sherwood, both of Providence, R.I., were with him, as were other family and friends.
Spike was born on Aug. 7, 1938, in St. Johnsbury, to Polly B. and A. John Holden Jr., who later served as commissioner of education of Vermont.
Spike graduated from Montpelier High School, attended Phillips Exeter Academy, then attended and graduated from Harvard College cum laude in 1961. He obtained a masters degree in anthropology from Indiana University and continued these studies at Harvard University.
Spike served as a pilot with American Airlines from 1967 to 1998, then returned in retirement to East Montpelier.
Spike pursued a variety of avocational interests. An avid skier, he captained the Harvard College ski team and trained for Olympic tryouts before being sidelined by a leg injury. For several years he competed in motorcycle races and distance running, completing the Boston Marathon several times. He briefly mastered the unicycle. In tennis, he became an instructor and amateur tournament participant. He obtained a license for piloting gliders, established a sideline business, named Mood Elevator, offering rides in a hot-air balloon, and later added a forest products division that sold firewood. As an amateur musician, he played the trombone, sousaphone and string bass, most recently in the Montpelier City Band, Montpelier Community Orchestra and summer jazz-band camp. In his late teenage years, he studied modern dance with Martha Graham.
He found great satisfaction in volunteering as a teacher of English as a second language. He was a compassionate friend, and although he held few if any memberships in formal organizations, he was a generous donor to many.
Perhaps his deepest avocational pursuit was his study of spiritism, including meditation, reincarnation, out-of-body experience, communication with non-corporeal entities, and other issues of high consciousness. Perhaps it was this, together with the abiding love of family and friends, that enabled him to face departure from this life with such courage and grace.
In addition to his wife and two children, Spike leaves two grandchildren, Abigail and Eleanor Holden Sherwood, and three sisters, Sarah Sally Thompson, of Montpelier, Elizabeth Bonnie Carter, of Newton Centre, Mass., and Martha Holden, of East Montpelier.
A memorial service is planned for Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. It will be at 2 p.m. at the parish house of the Old Meeting House in East Montpelier Center. All are welcome.
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Talk of the TownApril 18,2013
March in May?
BARRE Members of Spaulding High Schools JROTC Drill Team have enjoyed an unusually good season, snaring two dozen trophies in competitions throughout New England and landing an invitation to participate in the National High School Drill Team Championships that will be held next month in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Thats a pretty big deal, and not just because this years drill team from Spaulding is the first to ever represent the Green Mountain State in the elite competition.
The numbers speak for themselves.
There are more than 3,200 JROTC programs throughout the United States and Spauldings Granite Battalion is one of only 35 teams that will be competing in the open level color guard during a three-day competition that starts May 4.
Shaelyn Edwards says she and other members of the team have been practicing since December and are pretty pumped about the prospect of strutting their stuff in the Sunshine State.
To be able to go down there and say: Yes we are from Barre, Vermont, we are Spaulding High School, we are the Granite Battalion. Edwards says. This is what we do. This is what we work for.
Talent show?
BARRE The jury remains out on whether the Granite City has talent, at least when it comes to its microphone-wielding mayor.
Seems Mayor Thomas Lauzon stumbled into the karaoke night at the American Legion while attending a fundraiser there for an AAU basketball team coached by Duffy Ballard.
Ballard passed the hat to get Lauzon to sing, and raised $1,000 (a good bit of it Lauzons). Later the mayor says he did his very best impersonation of Frank Sinatra.
Somewhere out there theres a YouTube video of me singing Frank Sinatras My Way, Lauzon said this week.
If only we could find it, we could determine how good (or bad) it actually was.
May day!
BARRE City and school officials have scrapped plans for a May 1 budget information session in order to avoid a cultural conflict that is, oh, so very Barre!
May 1 may be just another Wednesday in most communities this year, but in Barre it is Primo Maggio a day once celebrated by Italian immigrants in the early 20th century as part of a tradition that was revived nearly a decade ago by the Barre Historical Society.
The historical society will be hosting its annual Primo Maggio dinner at the Old Labor Hall on Granite Street starting at 5 p.m. on May 1 and has events, including a reservation-only meal at the Mutuo Soccorso Hall on May 4, planned straight through Cinco de Mayo.
Not to worry. Folks with questions, concerns or observations about recently defeated and newly revised budgets for the city and its pre-K-8 school district are encouraged to attend the forum that has been re-scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on May 6 at the Barre Opera House.
Pedal power
MONTPELIER Its not that members of the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition cant wait until Earth Day to hold their traditional Earth Day ride with legislators. Its just that Earth Day is Monday and the Legislature wont be in session, which could make rounding up lawmakers for an early morning ride a bit tricky.
The solution?
Do it Friday.
Friday isnt Earth Day, but its pretty close, the Legislature will be in session, and thats when the coalition plans to hold its annual Earth Day ride.
If youre up for a 12-mile ride from the steps of the Statehouse down Route 2 to the Red Hen Bakery in Middlesex and back again, youre invited. Just show up ready to ride at 7 a.m. and join the pre-Earth Day crowd.
If geography, previous commitments, or both prevent you from joining the ride, dont sweat it. The coalition simply asks that you try to carve out a little time in the next few days for a walk or a bike ride to commemorate Earth Day, which, as weve previously noted, is Monday.
Cyclists are reminded to ride with caution because the road shoulders are still full of a winters worth of sand and debris (Green Up Day is coming), and motorists are just getting used to seeing cyclists back on the road.
Also, the coalition is recruiting volunteers willing to lead easy bike rides in communities all over Vermont in conjunction with its May 15 Ride of Silence. If youre available and interested in participating in an event designed to focus attention on the need for safer roads and to remember cyclists who have been injured or killed while riding, just call Nancy Schulz, the coalitions executive director, at 225-8904.MORE IN Central VermontMIDDLEBURY According to WebMD, Dystonia is a movement disorder that causes a persons muscles ... Full StoryTiffany Briggs and Kayla Jackson eyed each other across the table, clasped hands, and then it was... Full StoryMARLBORO Police are investigating a burglary on Higley Hill Road. Full Story
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Washington voters approve same-sex marriage
Referendum passes by 52 percent in final numbers
Voters in Washington state have now officially approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote, according to the AP and NBC News.
The final numbers on Referendum 74, which asked people to approve or reject a law legalizing same-sex marriage that state lawmakers passed earlier this year, showed just under 52 percent in favor and 48 percent against.
That measure was signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire, but it was on hold pending the outcome of Tuesday's election and has never taken effect.
The official result comes a day after opponents conceded defeat and two days after supporters of gay marriage declared victory, with initial returns having showed the measure leading by a margin similar to the final numbers.
Washington was just one of four states where voters had a say on gay marriage this election year. Maryland and Maine voters approved gay marriage Tuesday night, while voters in Minnesota turned down a proposed constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage.
Six other states -- New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont -- and Washington, D.C., already allow gay marriage. But Maryland, Maine and Washington are the first to enact it by public vote.
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All Formula One articles for November, 2013
29 November 2013
Grosjean and Maldonado to drive for Lotus F1 Team in 2014
Lotus F1 Team is pleased to announce that Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado [28] will join the Enstone squad alongside Frenchman Romain Grosjean [27] for the 2014 Formula 1 season
24 November 2013
Out with a bang in Brazil
Bad luck in São Paulo sees Romain Grosjean retire after only 4 laps, whilst guest driver Heikki Kovalainen struggled for pace, finishing in P14. It was a disappointing end to the 2013 F1® season.
19 November 2013
Brazilian Grand Prix 2013 - Preview
Heikki & Romain share their thoughts on the Interlagos Circuit
18 November 2013
YeeHahh! The Lotus F1® Team displays top flight form and settles the beef in Texas
Romain Grosjean delivers a hard-nosed drive and celebrates with a P2 finish and his 5th consecutive top spot result whilst Heikki Kovalainen battles and takes the flag in P15
14 November 2013
Heikki Kovalainen to drive for Lotus F1 Team
Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen [32] will join Lotus F1 Team for the final two races of the 2013 season as a stand-in for regular race driver Kimi Räikkönen, who is currently undergoing back surgery.
11 November 2013
Looking ahead to the United States GP 2013
Grosjean, Boullier & Permane consider the team's prospects at the Circuit of the Americas
11 November 2013
Räikkönen to miss final two races of 2013 for back surgery
Lotus F1 Team have confirmed that Kimi Räikkönen will miss the final two rounds of 2013 in the USA and Brazil after electing to undergo back surgery.
3 November 2013
Abu Dhabi Drama
Kimi is forced to retire in Lap 1, and Romain narrowly misses a podium finish. Its bad luck all round in the Middle East.


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The Vol State Veterinary Technology program was granted initial accreditation in 2013 by the AVMA. Graduates of this program are eligible to take the national board exam to become licensed veterinary technicians. This is a competitive program that requires an application process before admittance into the program.
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Embezzlement probe involves Vt tourist site, hockey group
WATERBURY CENTER Vermont State Police and the FBI are investigating a complaint about missing money involving the Cold Hollow Cider Mill, one of the states busiest tourist attractions.
A criminal complaint was filed June 6 about missing funds at Cold Hollow, according to state police records.
The investigation led to questions about the finances at Harwood Youth Hockey, also known as the Friends of Harwood Hockey, the Burlington Free Press reported. The FBI is now part of that investigation.
U.S. Attorney for Vermont Tristram Coffin has declined to comment on the investigation.
Harwood Youth Hockey officials did not want to comment on the investigation.
We have been and will continue to fully cooperate with the investigation, said Angela Wells, president of the Harwood Youth Hockey Association.
Paul Brown, the owner of Cold Hollow, said Tuesday that he would not comment until theres a citation, arrest or indictment.
Were not going to say anything thats going to jeopardize the investigation, he said.
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Originally Posted by Punch
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann would easily solo DBZ.
How do you even compare Gurren Lagann to DBZ !!?? Those are machines!
Originally Posted by Punch
Cell couldn't destroy the solar system, that's hyperbole.
OT: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann would solo DBZ easily.
EDIT: Sorry for the double post.
This ^ They throw Galaxies around like they were mere shurikens. I don't know about the easy part though, Brolly could destroy entire galaxies by himself, and Gogeta is known to be much stronger than Brolly. Brolly's power level is stated to be 1,400,000,000, Gogeta is at 2,500,000,000, and that's only the Super Saiyan, not SSJ4.
Ironically, the only character from Anime/Manga that comes.to mind that ca bea DBZ is a digimon.
Some Marvel/DC Comics characters can do it too, the Demigods that is.
Your right, Deidara > DBZ> Saint Seiya
But Dbz is the best :X
Your delusional, anyone who could even punch a DBZ character would at most tickle them. Think about SSJ4 Gogeta's power, you think anyone can even touch him?
Originally Posted by rikerslade
Ironically, the only character from Anime/Manga that comes.to mind that ca bea DBZ is a digimon.
Some Marvel/DC Comics characters can do it too, the Demigods that is.
I agree Digimon aswell.
Originally Posted by Punch
No. It means false statement.
Actually, it does mean exaggeration. Nice try, though.
Originally Posted by USSJ Future Trunks
of course it isnt.
JJBA, ah my goddess, yugioh, TTGL, slayers, digimon, pokemon, demonbane, noein, melancholy of haruhi, tenchi muyo, bastard!, project A-ko, saint seiya to name a few.
seriously dude just what the **** are you smoking o_O I mean seriously Yu-Gi-Oh! (nothing but cards) None of them can move fast enough to compare to the speeds of DBZ, Pokemon Not fast enough, hell most of them aren't fast nor strong enough.
Originally Posted by USSJ Future Trunks
saint seiya has nigh invincible gods who can wield enough power to match that of the big bang so basically they are full of universe busters.
Right,, All the Saiyan's of the Z warriors can destroy planets with a blink of their eye, Buu destroyed planets as if they were peas, Freiza ruled the universe until Goku nearly killed him (and Trunks finished him and his daddy off) Vegeto is considered the strongest cannon character of DBZ who I can pretty much bet could have destroyed whatever the hell he wanted to lol
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no they shoudlnt. they arent milliions of times above cell which is what it would take.
Alright fess up dude are you an idiot (sorry I usually don't troll people but you make an exception here with such idiotic comments as this) Gohan with one arm broken killed Cell. Goku after the time skip could go Super Saiyan 3 (that alone made planets unstabble if he maintained too long), Gohan after the elder kai released Gohan's powers was stronger than a Super Saiyan 3, Goku and Vegeta fusing into Vegeto....Oh and then there is Buu, who took on not only SSJ3 Goku, SSJ2 Vegeta, Mystic Gohan, Super Vegeto, Majin Buu, SSJ3 Gotenks yeah....none of them are million's of times stronger then Cell -_-" They in fact are if not 10's of millions then 100's of millions if not a few billion above Cells Power Level :/
Originally Posted by USSJ Future Trunks
kami tenchi, haruka, demonbane, TTGL, anti spiral, lord of nightmares, arceus, chousein, counter actor, Z, hades, apollo, dark schnieder to name a few
Despite your talking back against a DBGT character (and I normally agree with talking back or down about them) in terms of power, no none of those characters could touch SSJ4 Gogeta infact he probably wouldn't feel it.
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well zeedmilleniumon certainly
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Originally Posted by USSJ Future Trunks
no he cant. he only attacked it in japanese dub
Ummm yeah....yeah he could, very easily if he wasn't stopped I am pretty damned certain he would
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Hi everyone. I received a message from a friend on facebook. She asked about good routes in Memphis for biking at night. Apparently she and her brother biked on Madison the other night and both got flats. That sucks, no doubt.
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It wasn't a typical Saturday for one first volunteer for the La Crosse County Democratic party, Vince Hatt.
"I'm usually riding a bike or running or watching sports events," said Hatt.
But on this sunny Saturday afternoon, he spent his time knocking on doors.
"This is my fist time doing this," said Hatt.
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"We just found two more!" said tropical ecologist Dan Janzen. Although the telephone connection with him was shaky, his excitement was palpable. "The first butterfly two months ago, the other just two weeks ago."
We had reached Janzen in January at the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, a tropical forest preserve he helped create in northwestern Costa Rica, where Janzen does much of his widely lauded biodiversity research. (Among other honors, he has been awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grant.) The "two more" were newly identified species of butterfly, both luminescent blue "skippers."
Discovery of new species is reason enough for a biologist's enthusiasm. But Janzen clearly was jazzed by something he sees as far more momentous — a technology called DNA barcoding that made these discoveries possible in the first place, and that promises to revolutionize the otherwise daunting process of identifying the millions of species on the planet, many yet unknown and unnamed.
The term "barcoding" is actually an analogy. Much the same way that a small universal product barcode allows a retailer's scanners to distinguish a box of tissues from a can of green beans, DNA barcoding technology allows scientists to use data from a tiny snippet of a single gene to distinguish one species from the next. Although not perfect, proponents say it is highly accurate in distinguishing almost all species of animals, with a promising variation under development for plants. At a few dollars per species it is also remarkably cheap and, compared to traditional DNA analysis, lightning fast.
Eventually, it might even be possible to embed the technology into an inexpensive handheld device. When that happens, Janzen says, "it will do for biodiversity what the printing press did for literacy." He envisions a gadget straight out of Star Trek, an electronic reader of the catalogue of life on the planet that would enable anyone — schoolteacher, farmer, curious child — to identify "what bit of biodiversity is biting them, appealing to them, worrying them" in an instant.
For now, DNA barcoding technology is limited to scientists with access to a few large labs with the right equipment. But those new butterfly species hint at the technology's promise. The two new skipper species actually belong to a surprisingly large cluster of recently identified species that, for years, were hiding in plain sight. As recently as 2003, scientists thought that the butterflies cataloged under the name Astraptes fulgerator were all of a single species. The butterfly adults all seemed to look exactly the same, although, mysteriously, color patterns varied among their larval caterpillars. That year, Janzen, a biology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, gave tissue samples from dozens of butterflies his team had collected to geneticist Paul Hebert, of Ontario's University of Guelph, who had developed the barcoding technology. His analysis quickly revealed not one, but what appear to be 10 distinct species.
The two new discoveries bring the total to 12, and there may even be a few more, Janzen says. Where science once saw a generalist species that occupied a wide variety of tropical habitats, DNA barcoding has uncovered an array of species that actually specialize and occupy differing habitats. Why all mimic the same color pattern remains a mystery, although it probably lends some sort of evolutionary advantage. Janzen thinks it's likely a don't-bother signal to would-be predators. Unusually fast fliers, skippers should lose any appeal to hungry birds that would learn as youngsters not to waste energy on hot pursuit of the hard-to-catch.
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Hebert says that although he'd been yearning for better ways to probe biodiversity during decades of field work in places as diverse as tropical New Guinea and the Canadian Arctic, the idea of DNA barcoding quite literally came to him as an out-of-the blue inspiration. One day in the late 1990s he was in a supermarket looking at retail barcodes when it hit.
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so i was just wondering if im sick can my baby get sick when i bf him? and i was also wondering if it was safe to take peptobismol while breastfeeding? it said on the label to talk to you physician but their not answering the phones.
so i was just wondering if im sick can my baby get sick when i bf him? and i was also wondering if it was safe to take peptobismol while breastfeeding? it said on the label to talk to you physician but their not answering the phones.
It's great to breastfeed while you're sick (see here)! Your antibodies actually protect your baby. Baby might get sick, but it's probably from other kinds of contact. Continued breastfeeding may even help him get better faster! I got a bad headcold last week: DS just had it for three days while I've still got it!
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Your lo has already probably been exposed to whatever you were exposed to. The antibodies in the milk will help protect him. If he does get sick, it won't be from the milk but instead will be because he was already exposed.
I was told pepto-bismol contains aspirin so you should avoid it while pregnant or bf.
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Believe in the wonders of breastmilk! My LO has been exposed to the flu, 3 different colds and now second-time chicken pox, and nope, hasn't gotten any of it! (knock on wood...) She had goopy eyes for 3 days and that is it for her 4 months of life. As long as mom is exposed with baby, mom's antibodies get passed to baby in the milk.
I have no idea what a daycare situation would be like, where the LO can be exposed to illnesses that mom isn't.