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Practice for college entrance tests
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Students can practice for the SAT/ACT tests and get an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses. The event will be held at the library, 1212 Merkley Avenue, from noon to 4 p.m. on Sat., April 6, with results available at a session from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 18. Stop by the library, call it at 375-6465, or visit www.kaptest.com/college.
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Free: RCHS plays at Raley Field
Raley Field will play host again to a round of high school baseball games this spring. The River City High School team from West Sacramento will be at the minor league park to take on Linden High on April 13. The junior varsity matchup is at 4 p.m. and varsity plays at 7:30 p.m. Admission and parking are free; teams will be selling River Cats tickets as a fundraiser. Visit www.rivercats.com/highschool.
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When a bikini wax goes bad —
I, of course, have lots of friends (and non-friends for that matter) who think they could easily write this weekly column a whole lot better than I do, and one of the former had me laughing out loud the other day about something she said she had read on Facebook. She was absolutely convinced it would make for a fabulous column, and our conversation went a little something like this:
"It really would make a wonderful column," she assured me. "Do you want me to forward it to you so you can see for yourself?"
"That's alright," I said, my computer already overflowing with stuff other people have sent me that they think is a lot funnier than I do. "But why don't you go ahead and tell me about it."
"Okay," said my friend, already smiling. "This recently-divorced lady with young kids decided it was about time for her to stop moping around the house and start doing some dating. So she joined one of those social networking sites and soon had a date all lined up for a Friday night. So she gets off of work a little early, comes home, fixes dinner, plays with the kids, makes sure the babysitter is going to be there on time, and then goes into the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for her big going-out-to-the-movies date."
"What's funny about that?" I asked.
"Well, while taking her shower she quickly realizes that she has kind of let her body get out-of-hand, so to speak."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, parts of her body had become completely over-run with unwanted hair."
"Oh, I see," I said, returning her smile.
"So, she goes into her medicine cabinet and pulls out this waxing kit that she had purchased ages ago when she was still married. It's one of those cold wax kits, you know, the kind that you just rub the strips together in your hands until you get them warmed up. Then you pull the strips apart, apply them to your legs or wherever, and the hair is supposed to come right off. It's also supposed to be really easy to do, even if you're not very courageous at such things. But she gets the bright idea of using her hairdryer to heat up the strips, which is when things start going downhill. Anyway, although what she really wants to do is wax her bikini line, she wisely decides to try one of the much too hot strips on her leg first. Although the added heat and pulling off the strip turned out to be pretty painful, she decided to suck it up and move on up north."
[adrotate group="7″] "But why would she need to wax her bikini line if she was just going on a first date to the movies?" I asked naively.
"Trust me, women just feel better about themselves if they're prepared for every possibility and not all covered in unwanted hair."
"I see."
"Anyway, she checked on the kids, made sure she had plenty of time left before the babysitter and her date were scheduled to arrive, and then hurried back into the bathroom. She took off her robe, placed one foot up on the toilet, and then bravely applied a wax strip across the right-hand side of her bikini line, covering the whole right-half of her hoo-ha. Then she inhaled deeply, held her breath, and ripped it off."
"Then what happened?" I asked with interest.
"She went blind."
"Blind with pain! She didn't scream, though, not wanting to frighten her children. But once her vision returned, she realized she had only pulled off half the strip, so she had to woman-up again and rip the other half off. Thinking she might pass out, but knowing that she was only half-done with getting her bikini line just the way she wanted it, she reluctantly decided to apply another strip to cover the left side of her bikini line. But in the process her foot accidentally slipped off the toilet and she ended up with the new wax strip covering up most of her butt and nether regions. Then…."
"Wait a minute!" I interrupted my friend, obviously eager to finish her tale, "I can't possibly make a column out of what you've been telling me!"
"Why not?"
"Because the News-Ledger is a family newspaper and I can't be talking about bikini lines and hoo-has and a woman's nether regions! Our crack editor would quickly spot how inappropriate that is and I will be in big trouble."
"But I thought you told me he never reads your stuff anymore."
"Well, he doesn't, but I'm sure the headline to any story like that would quickly catch his attention."
"But if you just let me tell you the end of this story I'm sure you can make it into one of the funniest columns you have ever written! Believe it or else, she ends up taking a hot bath trying to get that wax strip off only to have her butt cemented to the bottom of her porcelain tub. Thankfully her cell phone was nearby and she was able to call a friend who told her there should be some lotion in the wax kit box for just such emergencies."
"You mean stuff like that happens to women all the time?"
"Oh, Daryl, if you only knew what we women have to do to try and please our men!"
"Well," I said, "it is a cute story, although I'm surprised that anyone would want to put it up on their Facebook page, and I do appreciate you taking the time to tell it to me."
"But like I said," I added, "I'm afraid it's just not something I can put in my column. I do have my standards, you know!"
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RCHS tennis off to winning start
NEWS-LEDGER — March 6, 2013 —
From River City
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The River City High School Tennis Team defeated both Amador and Bear River 7 to 2 and then opened Sierra Valley Conference (SVC) action with a 9-0 shutout of Union Mine to start the 2013 season a perfect 3 and 0.
At Amador, Lily He and Edward Xu won their #2 singles matches and the visitors swept all five doubles contests. In the girls' pairs, Sarah Yang and Sonia Bola took the top spot 8-2 while Nicole Melido teamed with Julia Quenga for an 8-0 win at #2. On the boys side, Matthew Tagupa and Akshay Prabhakar earned an 8-3 victory at #1 and Ben Gerelkhuu and Muradan Chhay overcame a slow start to win 8-5. Lina Vang and Amran Khan cruised to an 8-0 shutout in mixed doubles.
[adrotate group="7″] Up in Lake of the Pines against Bear River, Cindy Oseguera led the way with a 10-2 win in the top girls singles position and Lily He won 10-4 at #2. Gerelkhuu provided a 10-4 victory at #2 boys. Tagupa teamed up with Bola to take mixed doubles 10-2 and Sarah Yang partnered with Lina Vang to dominate #1 girls doubles 10-1. In boys doubles, Xu and Prabhakar won 10-3 while Khan and Phillip Dinh cruised 10-1.
The season's home opener was also the first SVC match of the young season and the host Raiders came out well-prepared. Michael Lee took care of the top boys singles match 6-4,6-3 and Xu won at #2 6-1,7-5. These were the two closest matches of the day as He won 6-2,6-2 at #1 girls singles and Bola rolled 6-0,6-1 at #2. In doubles, RC lost total of just seven games in ten sets. Khan and Tagupa won 6-1,6-1 at #1 boys and Dinh and Prabhkar scored a perfect 6-0,6-0 "double bagel" at #2. On the girls side, Oseguera and Sarah Yang (#1) and Melido and Lina Vang (#2) each posted 6-2,6-0 wins. Chhay and Ger Yang breezed through mixed 6-1,6-0.
Next up for RC will be nonleague matches tomorrow (March 7th) at Lincoln, Friday the 8th at home against Bret Harte, Monday the 11th at home vs. Delhi, and then back to SVC play in a home match against Galt on Tuesday the 12th. Matches begin at 4:00 p.m.
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Free concert in West Sac
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The West Sacramento Community Orchestra invites you to a free concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, at the civic center galleria, 1110 West Capitol Avenue. There will be various classical selections plus music from Sweet Charity and a Beatles medley. The orchestra will also offer a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on March 12 at Centennial United Methodist Church, 5401 Freeport Blvd. in Sacramento. For information on joining the orchestra, call 991-5262. The group has openings for strings, horn, harp and percussion.
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New 'patisserie' aims to provide pastry treats — and job training for local teens
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
You can now pick up a lemon tart, éclair or canalé – all made under the supervision of a trained pastry chef – at an unlikely place: the Collings West Sacramento Teen Center.
The new pastry shop, or patisserie, is open for your morning treats from 7-11 a.m. on weekdays at 1541 Merkley Avenue, and it is intended to become a place where West Sacramento teens can learn job skills.
The shop is headed up by Gary Campbell. He's a self-described "local boy" who has trained for bakery skills at the Cordon Bleu in Portland and worked for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Las Vegas before layoffs at the hotel nudged him back to West Sacramento. He's also a longtime assistant coach for the River City High School football team.
"The teen center is a nonprofit – we fight for the same dollars as other nonprofits," explained Campbell, 53. But with support from sponsors like Agrium, the chemical company with a plant in West Sacramento, the center was able to start the new pastry shop venture.
Putting a kitchen in the teen center wasn't a new idea.
"We offered a late lunch program for the kids anyway," said Campbell. "The vision was to bring some type of culinary training for the students. We started the process over the last three years, getting the kitchen the way it is now. Most of the equipment is donated. The goal is to have a functioning retail bakery with practical experience (the students) can take with them."
Right now, Campbell is working with several students from the nearby Heritage Peak Charter School, which offers academics up to the high school level. Lane Byers, a 20-year old recent graduate of Heritage Peak, has become Campbell's "right hand man."
"Lane's been great," Campbell said. "He started in the beginning, had no cooking experience, and he's been coming on really fast. He started with the basic stuff, scaling and measuring. He's at the point where he can make pretty much any of the elements we use here. Lane's now working on his 'piping' and filling of items."
Campbell hopes to expand and formalize the training at the pastry shop.
"Ultimately, our goal is to break even," he said. "We'd like to, at some point, make it a more formal (internship) program, so we can offer a stipend and tools they can take with them when they graduate – a knife roll and chef's coat."
Those are the "tools of the trade" a baker is expected to own, said Campbell – the white coat along with a set of good-quality knives in a roll-up fabric knife holder.
Students need to get up a tad early to work at the bake shop.
"We're starting at 5 o'clock – from 5 to 7 is our morning bake," he said. "With baking, there are a lot of elements that go into each item. For cream puffs and éclairs, you have to make the shells first. For quiches, you make the shells separately. There are a lot of things we don't do on a daily basis – they have to learn to manage their time and prep work, not just for that day, but for the week."
The pastry shop just opened its doors with a "soft opening," using word of mouth and flyers at nearby businesses. Later, the shop may expand into some lunchtime offerings.
"It's been kind of hit-and-miss," in the first few days, reports Campbell.
[adrotate group="9″] What's his personal favorite out of the pastry case?
"I like the macaroons, and probably the canalés are my favorites," answered Campbell. "Those are a basic custard, but with flour added so they hold their shape. They have some of the flavor of a crème brulée."
That endorsement is seconded by a News-Ledger reporter – who also gave high marks to the shop's lemon tarts – a favorite of teen center administrative assistant Jennifer Enright.
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Local history: the Native Americans
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A new West Sacramento exhibit opening Thursday, March 7, honors the area's first residents, the Native Americans who lived in what later became West Sacramento. Visit the "Our Journey, the First Families" exhibit from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the community center, 1075 West Capitol Avenue. Sponsored by the West Sacramento Historical Society & California Indian Heritage Center.
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'Survivor 2013: Blood vs. Water' - Look At What Kat Dragged In!
Previously on … Survivor. Tadhana's newbie tribe finally won a challenge, which meant Galang had to vote out one of their own returning players. Aras and Tyson manipulated the others into sending Laura M. off to battle against Brad at Redemption Island. After all, she might beat Brad, sending him home, and leaving Monica with only her own tribe to cling to.
After Tribal Council, Laura B. breathed a sigh of relief that she hadn't been voted out. Aras worried that he might have been seen as the ring leader in ousting Laura M., since leaders are always a target. Sure enough, Tyson warns Gervase that they may need to get rid of Aras before he gets rid of them.
This week, everyone arrives at Redemption Island for the day's duel/truel. Brad, John and Laura M enter the arena. Ciera tells Jeff Probst that she had a feeling that something had happened to her mum. Before Probst can even ask, Laura M tells Jeff that she'll not switch places with Ciera; she'll get back into the game somehow.
The challenge for the trio involves a balance beam and a quartet of bags, each of which contain numbered pieces from 1-100 to put in order. Walk along the beam, untie the bags, count to 100 – are you smarter than a fourth grader? Brad takes a quick lead, while John keeps falling off the balance beam, sending him back to the beginning. Laura is first to finish. John narrowly beats out Brad, who cannot seem to remember his numbers, and that failing sends Brad home after 14 days on the Island.
Brad suddenly turns into a poet, telling Monica, "Monica, I came on here as a shield. Through my fault, or no fault of my own, I became an anchor. You're free. The wind's blowing. Sail. Sail hard." One last kiss and a hug, and Brad's gone, tossing his buff into the flames as he leaves. Laura, as the winner, offers the Hidden Immunity Idol clue to Vytas, rather than her daughter, hoping to put a target on his back. Vytas tosses the clue into the urn without hesitation. John and Laura leave the competitors ring.
Before Galang and Tadhana can leave, Jeff tells them there's one more piece of business; it's time to switch the tribes around. The current buffs are discarded, and everyone is asked to draw from a tray of covered buffs in new tribal colors.
Hayden, Caleb, Aras, Gervase, Tyson, and sole female Ciera will now comprise Tadhana – Monica, Katie, Tina, Laura B., Kat and Vytas, as the only male, are the new Galang.
On Tadhana, Caleb is happy with the new additions, and hopes that they will be able to work together, sharing strategies and information. Gervase just wants to get all the information he can from the 'other side,' and they eagerly blab every move the tribe has made so far. They even spill what little they know about the location of the Hidden Immunity Idol to Tyson.

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Home List of Titles Spreading behavior and morphology of ethylene methacrylic acid (EMAA) deposits via the flame spray process
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- Title
- Spreading behavior and morphology of ethylene methacrylic acid (EMAA) deposits via the flame spray process
- Author(s)
- Xie, Wei; Wang, James; Berndt, C. C.
- Abstract
- A single splat is the building block of a thermal spray coating; thus, investigating single splats is essential to understanding thermal spray coatings and their properties. In this study, the spreading behavior and the morphology of flame sprayed ethylene methacrylic acid (EMAA) splats, deposited at various stand-off distances (SODs) onto glass and mild steel substrates were investigated using optical microscopy, back scattered scanning electron microscopy and secondary electron scanning electron microscopy. The results of this study indicate that the spread factor increases with an increase in the stand-off distance up to 30 cm for glass and 25 cm for steel substrates. Further increase of the stand-off distance results in a decreased spread factor. The aspect ratio of EMAA single splats on both glass and mild steel substrates decreases with increased stand-off distances, indicating that more circular shapes occur at higher stand-off distances. On mild steel substrates, the minimum unevenness ratio (
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- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Industrial Research Institute Swinburne
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- Coatings, Vol. 2, no. 2 (2012), pp. 76-93
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Aspect ratio; EMAA; Ethylene methacrylic acid; Flame spray process; Morphology; Single splat; Spread factor; Spreading behaviour; Thermal spray
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- 2079-6412
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- Copyright © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). The published version is reproduced in accordance with this policy.
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In an age of ever-more-sophisticated DNA analysis, biological evidence from rape and murder cases is priceless: It can prove the innocence of someone wrongly convicted or point to an at-large perpetrator, sometimes years after a case has moved through the justice system.
Sometimes the evidence wasn't tested earlier, for a variety of reasons; sometimes a technological advance makes meaningful analysis possible when it wasn't before.
That's why a 2010 state law requiring law-enforcement agencies to keep such evidence for at least 30 years was important, and why the Ohio Supreme Court has strengthened that law, by clarifying that any such evidence must be saved, even if it was collected before the law went into effect.
Clarence D. Roberts was convicted of aggravated murder in Wood County in 1997. In 2010, he asked the trial court to order that biological evidence in his case be preserved. He wanted an especially sensitive type of "touch DNA" analysis to be performed on the victim's clothing because he believed it would show that someone else had taken the victim's wallet.
The court denied the request, and an appeals court upheld the denial, ruling that the trial court couldn't order Roberts' 1997 evidence to be retained without applying the 2010 law retroactively, which the Ohio Constitution forbids.
But the Supreme Court's opinion, released Thursday, says the 2010 law was plain in its language, requiring agencies to preserve evidence "already in the possession of governmental evidence-retention agencies." That covers everything police agencies had in 2010.
And well it should; as the high court also noted, the legislature's intent in passing Senate Bill 77, which included a number of landmark reforms in the use of DNA evidence, clearly was to allow the maximum possible application of what can be learned from DNA evidence.
The law made it easier for convicted people to seek post-conviction DNA testing and makes it harder for prosecutors and judges to deny it. But that would do little to advance justice if the evidence is gone.


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Marshall Defeats Cambridge in Game of the Week
Cardinals score 19 second-half points
Marshall Junior Ty DeForest had two touchdown runs of 54 and 64 yards to lead the Cardinals to a 19-3 win over Cambridge. It's the Blue Jay's first loss of the year.
Marshall improves to 6-2 overall and 3-1 in conference.
The Cardinals trailed 3-0 at the half but scored 19 second- half points. Ty DeForest had a third-quarter run of 54 yards to put Marshall up 7-3.
In the 4th quarter, Deforest had a 64-yard run that put the game out of reach.
In other Capitol South action Waterloo beat New Glarus-Monticello 40-34.
All three teams, Marshall, New Glarus-Monticello and Cambridge are 3-1 in conference with one week left in the regular season. The Knights and Blue Jays meet next Friday in the regular season finale.
To watch the full Game of the Week, go to video.channel3000.com/watch.php?id=53925
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Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf speaks at a news conference in Baghdad on March 24, 2003.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf ('Baghdad Bob')
Al-Sahaf's daily press briefings in the lead-up to the war and in its first weeks led to him being nicknamed "Baghdad Bob" or "Comical Ali" (an allusion to "Chemical Ali," the nickname of former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid.) He gained a considerable cult following, with several websites devoted to his outrageous claims.
In February 2007, al-Sahaf was back in the news when London's Guardian newspaper compared his wartime pronouncements to those of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
According to The Associated Press in January 2009, al-Sahaf's whereabouts are uncertain, but some reports have placed him in Qatar.For instance, as coalition troops stormed the capital, al-Sahaf declared, "The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad."
A Shia Muslim, al-Sahaf was an outsider in the Sunni-dominated government in power from 1968 and was one of the few senior Iraqi officials not to come from the area around Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit.
His last public appearance as information minister was on April 8, 2003, the day before the fall of Baghdad, when he said that the Americans "are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender."
In June 2003 day al-Sahaf recorded an interview for the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel. He said he had surrendered to U.S. forces and had been interrogated by them. He was reportedly paid as much as $200,000 for the interview, in which he was very unlike the bombastic man seen during the war.
For a while in late 2003. al-Sahaf was featured on Abu Dhabi Television, one of the Arab-speaking world's most popular satellite channels, in a weekly series of interviews, talking about Iraq and the war. He also appeared several times as a pundit.
There have been no moves to charge or detain al-Sahaf for his role in the Saddam Hussein government.
- Jessica Lynch
- Hans Blix (UN arms inspector)
- Colin Powell
- Tariq Aziz (Saddam Hussein's foreign minister)
- Ahmed Chalabi (Iraqi exile leader)
- Tony Blair
- Gen. Tommy Franks
- Josh Rushing (Marines spokesman)
- Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks (Army spokesman)
- Paul Bremer (Iraq administrator)
- Farris Hassan (teen journalist)
- Lynndie England (Abu Ghraib)
- Mohammed Al-Rehaief (aided Jessica Lynch)
- Ali Hassan Al-Majid ('Chemical Ali')
- Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf ('Baghdad Bob')


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Colorado State's 'D' Ends BYU Repeat Hopes
by Jac Coyne | LaxMagazine.com | Coyne Archive | Twitter
|Patrick Sullivan was part of the Colorado State defense that held Brigham Young to its lowest output of the season. The Rams 11-5 victory sent them on to the national championship game against Cal Poly on Saturday, where they will seek their MCLA-record fifth title.
Standing outside his locker room at Sirrine Stadium watching the final moments of the first MCLA Division I semifinal, Colorado State head coach Alex Smith jokingly said that he loves playing Brigham Young, the Rams blood rival, in the tournament.
"It makes scouting a lot easier," he said with a chuckle.
As he stood on the field after CSU (15-2) completed dominated the defending national champions, 11-5, and with his young son pulling at his pocket to go play back at the hotel, Smith admitted to a completely different feeling about meeting BYU (18-3) for the third time.
"There were parts of this game that I didn't enjoy," Smith said. "I don't enjoy that ugliness that sometimes happens as part of this rivalry. When we lost last year, I felt like I made a fool out of myself and I've been striving all year not to get to that point with [BYU], but it's so hard because the temperature is so high and it's easy for things to boil."
For one of the few times in the MCLA's premier rivalry, this contest barely reached a simmer.
From the opening quarter, it was all Colorado State, thanks mostly to the play of CSU attackman Austin Fisher, who factored in on eight of the Rams' 11 markers on the evening, and a defense that smothered the Cougars.
After feeling each other for the first five minutes, Fisher scored a pair of goals barely over a minute apart, with the second coming on an assist from Tim Taggart. Fisher returned the favor on the Rams third goal by sending a skip pass up to where Taggart ripped a shot stick-side high.
Before the quarter was out, the lead bumped up to 4-0 after Dustin Grybinas finished a feed from Alex Devlin.
The march continued in the second as Fisher started things off by completing his hat trick and then set up Sean Smith for bomb high on the left side to balloon the advantage to 6-0.
"The defense just kept giving us the ball, which is nice," said Fisher, who finished with five goals and three assists. "And our offense was really moving well and working for each other. I was getting looks because our middies and attackmen were working so hard."
"Austin is tough to guard because he's not the type of guy who goes to the cage a lot," said Smith. "He's really good in a lot of different situations. A lot of times he has missed those goals he buried tonight, and that's the sign of a mature player."
After nearly 25 minutes of scoreless play, Patrick Matheson finally put the Cougars on the board with a bull-dodge and bounce shot to cut the lead to 6-1.
With the teams apparently headed to halftime, LSM Grayson Dahl took a desperation shot at the cage from 20 yards out that Ted Ferrin scooped up and backhanded into the net with one second left to narrow the margin even further at the break.
The momentum was short-lived, however. Daniel Warfield won the opening faceoff, sprinted down the field and fed Fisher all alone on the crease to push the lead back to five, 7-2. The bulge would expand all the way to 10-2 at the beginning of the fourth quarter as BYU could not solve the stingy Rams defense.
"The thing is we had the same struggle in the conference championship game," said BYU head coach Matt Schneck, referring to the Cougars 14-7 loss to CSU in the RMLC title tilt. "I thought we had figured it out, but I'm getting the sense that we were a little stagnant and things that were working against other teams weren't working against a great team like CSU. They did a good job in stifling our offense, and that impacts the entire game."
What is the key to the Ram mastery of the usually prolific Cougars' offense?
"We definitely have a little plan, and maybe I'll talk about on Sunday," said Smith, coyly. "You've got to cover Ted Ferrin. He is always at the top of the scouting report and you can't let them run in transition because they are so good. All we've been talking about for the past two days is not letting them run."
It also helped having closed defender Hayden Porter, who was locked up Ferrin – the nation's leading scorer – allowing just two goals on six shots.
"That's a tough match-up for anybody in the country and he hung in there," said Smith of Porter's work against Ferrin. "But I think he'd tell you that his brothers were helping him out tonight, as well."
Joining Fisher with big nights were Taggart with two goals and an assist and Alex Devlin with three assists. Jack Regan turned away eight shots to pick up the win in net. Ferrin and Corey Gunderson paced BYU with a pair of goals each while Wes Goar and Rob Ostler combined for eight saves.
Colorado State returns to the championship game for the first time since 2007, and they will be seeking their MCLA-best fifth championship against a Cal Poly squad that beat the Rams in Fort Collins earlier this spring.
"I think we have the ride home to enjoy this and then tomorrow it's all about recovering and starting to game-plan for Cal Poly," said Fisher. "Cal Poly is a great team. It was an overtime loss, so we know we can play them close."
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Supremely Opaque? Accountability, Transparency, and Presidential Supremacy
Heidi Kitrosser
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law
December 7, 2010
St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2010
Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-67
This Article explores the connection between government secrecy and a school of thought that I call "presidential supremacy." Presidential supremacists read the President's constitutional powers to preclude Congress or the courts from limiting, overseeing, or otherwise checking presidential actions in many cases. Supremacy encompasses, but is not limited to, the school of thought sometimes called "exclusivity." Exclusivity is the view that statutes that unduly restrict the President's discretion in either his commander-in-chief or executive capacity are unconstitutional. This Article describes four forms of supremacist reasoning directed against transparency-based checks on the executive: executive privilege, state secrets privilege, exclusivist arguments in support of secret law, and "classified speech" arguments to the effect that classifying information effectively removes it from the protections of the First Amendment. While the Article's most direct goals are descriptive – to explore supremacist reasoning and the broad and deep impact of the same on transparency and accountability – the goals have normative implications that I flag in the Article and explore in more depth elsewhere. For one thing, I briefly explain in the Article my view that supremacy's impact on secrecy calls into question its constitutional legitimacy. Furthermore, a point demonstrated in the Article – that executive privilege, state secrets, and classified speech claims vary substantially in their breadth – helps to undermine supremacist arguments that equate relatively narrow historical examples with much broader contemporary claims. The final paragraphs of the Article's last sub-section before the conclusion – entitled "Discretion to Punish Classified Speech" – includes some thoughts on the developing controversy over WikiLeaks.
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Keywords: Presidential Supremacy, National Security
Date posted: December 8, 2010
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Dealership opens new location
New Toyotas sit on the lot of Street Toyota and Scion at Southwest 45th Avenue and Soncy Road on Monday. Sales associate Orlando Rodriquez said the dealership sold its first vehicle right after opening the doors at its new location Monday, and a total of three had been sold by lunch time.
Wall Street rally fizzles
NEW YORK - Wall Street resumed its downward skid Tuesday, falling sharply as renewed concerns about soured home loans blew away what had looked like a solid recovery rally.
People in Business
David Graf will return to Texas Cooperative Extension as agriculture agent in Sherman County.
Green machines
All across the country, thousands of truck engines are idling, wasting costly and precious diesel fuel.
News Corp. may balk at low Bancroft vote
NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate is "highly unlikely" to proceed with its offer to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. if support for the deal remains at its currently reported levels, a News Corp. spokesman said Monday.
Oil hits a record high
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Got organic?
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Business Briefs
Bell Helicopter has been awarded a $162.2 million contract modification to a previous contract to procure nine UH-1Y aircraft and two AH-1Z aircraft.
Men's soccer team chosen behind Midwestern
The Midwestern State men's soccer team was the top choice in the Southwest Soccer Conference in the league's preseason poll released Tuesday.
Brock likely will be target for WT foes
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Two-time defending football champ picked fourth
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Teeka File
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Kathryn Gerwig
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Cherie Anderwald
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Wendy Arreola
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Dear Abby: Mom struggles to explain absent father
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Dr. Gott: Nursing home negligent, doesn't measure up
Dear Dr. Gott: I'm a loyal reader of your column and feel compelled to write regarding your column on nursing homes.
How to protect deck lumber from rot
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Heloise: Food vacuum sealer good for documents
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Dear Abby: Adults-only wedding gets no endorsement
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Thursday deadline for golf tourneys
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Floydada's Williams wins 3-point contest
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Kirton to coach girls' cross country
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Rio Grande Valley edges Dillas, 4-3
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Amarillo blasts WhiteWings, 11-6
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Texas MLB: McCarthy ends drought
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Rangers sending Teixeira to Braves
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Rangers stay busy at trade deadline
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USTA junior tournament set for Amarillo
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Borger police seek arsonist
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State deadline looms
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Home winner last to know Man stunned by his luck
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Public input sought on transit route
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Fire burns Valle de Oro range
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Onsite child care for businesses easier
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Electrical problem sparks blaze
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Taxicab drivers lobby for fare increase
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Ones to Watch: Audrianna Henson
Austin Middle School
Plea spurs suit
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WTO decision confounding
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Texas has 13 officer deaths
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Property values certified
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Hospital eyes care for poor people
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Markets at Hillside planned
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Police seek public's aid
Amarillo police still are looking for the people responsible for the robberies of two Access Mobile locations.
Texas Tech health president calls Amarillo center 'gem'
John Baldwin, the man named the new president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock on Monday, called the center's Amarillo campus a pillar in the Tech system.
Water, sewer work steady
Working with infrastructure that is, in some places, more than 90 years old can have its drawbacks. The city of Canyon is constantly on the lookout for failing sections of water and sewer line.
Cooling off
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Dallas changes role for Williams
SAN ANTONIO - Although it's only training camp, Roy Williams can't help himself when it comes to making big hits.
Dallas 'D' stresses communication
SAN ANTONIO - When the Dallas Cowboys line up on defense these days, there's all sorts of chatter going on.
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John L. Dillon
CLOVIS, N.M. - John L. Dillon, 68, died Sunday, July 29, 2007.
Roland Gypp Frazier
DALLAS - Roland Gypp Frazier, 88, died Saturday, July 28, 2007.
Jessie Mae Spann Hilton
Jessie Mae Spann Hilton, 99, of Amarillo died Sunday, July 29, 2007.
Clyde R. Myers
Clyde R. Myers, 83, of Amarillo died Saturday, July 28, 2007.
Bobbie Austin
SAN SABA - Bobbie Austin, 79, formerly of Amarillo, died Saturday, July 28 2007.
David Dean Kennedy Sr.
David Dean Kennedy Sr. of Amarillo died Sunday, July 29, 2007, after a long illness.
Gertrude Leola Wall
LEFORS - Gertrude Leola Wall, 99, formerly of Lefors, died Saturday, July 28, 2007, in San Antonio.
Glenn Landess
BORGER - Glenn Landess, 56, formerly of Borger, died Friday, July 27, 2007, in Irving.
G.D. "Doug" Camp
BORGER - G.D. "Doug" Camp, 87, died Sunday, July 29, 2007.
Bobby Joe "Bob" Mayberry Jr.
PADUCAH - Bobby Joe "Bob" Mayberry Jr., M.D., 52, of Rockport, formerly of Paducah, died Saturday, July 28, 2007, in Rockport.
Juanita Rosalez
PAMPA - Juanita Rosalez, 84, died Monday, July 30, 2007, in Amarillo.
Jessie Mae Spann Hilton
Jessie Mae Spann Hilton, 99, of Amarillo died Sunday, July 29, 2007.
Emma Sofia Salazar
DALHART - Emma Sofia Salazar, 90, died Thursday, July 26, 2007, in Amarillo.
Inez Williams
FARWELL - Inez Williams, 77, died Monday, July 30, 2007, in Lubbock.
Arthur "Art" Lincoln Newman
GAINESVILLE - Arthur "Art" Lincoln Newman, 68, died Saturday, July 28, 2007.
Beverly June Gore
TEXHOMA, Okla. - Beverly June Gore, 64, died Saturday, July 28, 2007, in Amarillo, Texas.
Scottie J. Steger
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Scottie J. Steger, 76, died Friday, July 27, 2007, in Springdale.
William C. "Bill" Foster
FANNIN - William C. "Bill" Foster, 78, formerly of Amarillo, died Sunday, July 29, 2007.
Gladys Monnier Lefler
DIMMITT - Gladys Monnier Lefler, 90, died Wednesday, July 18, 2007.
Adelia "Dee" Rice
ELKHART, Kan. - Adelia "Dee" Rice, 94, died Wednesday, July 25, 2007, in Hugoton.
Alvin Homer
CLAUDE - Alvin Homer, 72, died Sunday, July 29, 2007.
Johnnie Evaline Roach James
Johnnie Evaline Roach James, 92, of Amarillo died Monday, July 30, 2007.
Agnes Robertson Clifton
FRITCH - Agnes Robertson Clifton, 82, formerly of Fritch, died Saturday, July 28, 2007, in Lewisville.
Ronald Dean Nelson
Ronald Dean Nelson, 64, of Amarillo died Saturday, July 28, 2007, in Albuquerque, N.M.
Francisco G. Fuentes
DALHART - Francisco G. Fuentes, 87, died Sunday, July 29, 2007, in Albuquerque, N.M.
Ramiro Ramos Garza
HEREFORD - Ramiro Ramos Garza, 54, died Monday, July 30, 2007, in Amarillo.
Glenn K. Howard Sr.
BORGER - Glenn K. Howard Sr., 89, died Saturday, July 28, 2007.
Blanche Pauline Dutton Garner
CHILDRESS - Blanche Pauline Dutton Garner, 86, died Monday, July 30, 2007.
Letters: Endorsement for 2008 from first-time voter
I'm a 16-year-old Amarillo High School student who has been interested in politics for quite some time.
Editorial: Pit bull owners need to own up
Amarillo had yet another incident of dog violence over the weekend, a story that is becoming all too common.
Column - Myrna Raffkind: Visitor to Amarillo will bear gifts of tolerance and forgiveness
"We must forgive but not forget."
Letters: Residents should go nuclear over proposed reactor
(Re: July 25 news story, "Alliance adds clout to reactor plans.")
Editorial: Texas Tech HSC has right medicine
Amarillo's medical community has gotten a welcome - and unsurprising - endorsement from the new head of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center.
Letters: Too bad common sense has gone out of style
(Re: July 27 column, "Presenting the platform for the new 'American Party,' " by Virgil Van Camp.)
Column - Greg Sagan: How Texas utility companies' influence fouls the air
According to a report released last week by the Environmental Integrity Project, Texas has five of the 50 dirtiest power plants in the country.
Editorial: Get back to work in Baghdad: Iraq a hot vacation spot - too hot
Some things just defy one's imagination - such as whether the government of a nation caught in the middle of a war should take the month of August off.
Editorial: Ripken, Gwynn are good sports
The timing could not have been more fortuitous.
Letters To The Editor
Holland's column typical conservative claptrap
This date in history
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Wesley Community Center, 1615 S. Roberts St.
Rise and shine
If my wife were ever tempted to kill me, it would before 11 a.m.
Thunder Storm finishes in second place
Nonprofit briefs
Panhandle MAMAs - the Panhandle Plains Chapter of Mothers Against Methamphetamines - will mark the opening of its new office at 3405 S. Western, Suite 204, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The organization, dedicated to ending the senseless waste of life caused by methamphetamine abuse, will have free hot dogs, soft drinks, door prizes, a silent auction and other activities at its open house. Information: (806) 331-6068 or www.panhandlemamas.org.
Burglar Report from July 13-19
Lightning Storm takes first in league, tournament
Kids Inc. Adult Men soccer standings
Kids Inc. Adult Men Soccer Standings As of July 24
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Greater Amarillo Affiliate for Komen for the Cure's BMW Ultimate Drive. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. Autoplex BMW, 4700 Canyon Drive. 1-877-4-A-drive.
PDHS orientation set
Palo Duro High School will have freshman orientation activities beginning at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the school, 1400 N. Grant St. Registration is from 8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m.
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Facing the music
Sue Duckett has a song in her heart and 200 more she'd like to teach aspiring piano players.
ASCA menu
Amarillo Senior citizens Association, 1300 S. Polk St.
United Way names Campaign Cabinet members of 2007
The United Way of Amarillo & Canyon named its 2007 Campaign Cabinet. The campaign kicks off Aug. 23 at the Amarillo Civic Center.
Margaret Wills Elementary School Honor Rolls for last six weeks of 2006/2007
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Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal confirmed that U.S.-based hotel management company AMResorts will operate two hotels he owns on this Mexican Caribbean island.
"I got to know this place a few years ago and I loved it. That's why we invested in it; it's also an island and there's a connection with the place where I live as well, which is the (Spanish Mediterranean) island of Mallorca," Nadal said Friday.
The 26-year-old Spaniard, who arrived in Cozumel Tuesday after winning a tournament in Sao Paulo - his second event after a seven-month hiatus due to a knee injury - confirmed in a press conference that his hotels will be managed by AMResorts, which is headed by Mexico's Alejandro Zozaya.
"It's nice to invest in a place where you really feel good. The possibility of investing here in Cozumel came up. I love nature, I love the sea, this is a natural paradise," the 11-time Grand Slam champion said.
"In addition to the economic investment, it's a nice, emotional investment for my future," Nadal, who will compete in next week's Mexican Open in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, said.
Zozaya said Nadal's Secrets Aura Cozumel hotel was remodeled at a cost of $14 million and will cater to high-end clientele and that the Sunscape Sabor Cozumel, also owned by the tennis star, will be ready in the second half of 2013. EFE


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Samplings of recent calls received by Clovis-area law enforcement officers, according to reports:
Around 8 p.m. Oct. 22 an officer responded to a residence in the 700 block of Seventh Street for a report of child abuse.
Social workers told officers they needed officers present for a home visit.
The officer noted there were four children in the home and there were roaches crawling everywhere, food dried to the floor, dirty diapers and clothing throughout the residence.
An infant girl was sitting in a baby swing and the officer noted there were roaches crawling all over the swing and child.
The parents said they had cleaned and set off bug bombs, however the officer was unsuccessful in finding empty canisters for the insecticide.
The children were removed from the home under emergency conditions and placed in the care of the social workers. The officer noted he intended to consult the district attorney's office regarding abuse and neglect charges against the parents.
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About 10 p.m. Oct. 22 an officer responded to the 3000 block of Adenmore Court for a report of shots fired at a vehicle.
A teen girl said she drove a friend to the area of 500 Heaslet to pick up the girl's boyfriend and they honked the horn and waited.
When no one came out, the girl said they left and cut through an alley. In the alley, she said someone shot at her vehicle three times.
A detective photographed the bullet holes in the back of the vehicle.
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Around 5 a.m. Oct. 24 an officer responded to a business in the 2700 block of Prince Street for a report of an alarm signal.
The officer found several holes in the windows consistent with a BB gun being shot at the glass as well as a rock lying inside the business on the floor and fingerprints on the inside of one of the holes.
The officer noted he suspected the holes were made in an attempt to enter the building; however there was no indication anyone ever went inside.
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About 3:30 p.m. an officer responded to a residence in the 1200 block of Colonial Parkway for a report of a crash.
The resident told officers his wife, who suffers from a mental disease and isn't supposed to be driving, backed the car through the closed garage door and left.
The officer documented heavy damage to the door.
The officer noted a missing person's report was issued, but the woman returned home later in the day after dairy workers found her out in the county and guided her home.
No citations were issued.
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New Container Hub to Expand the Hinterland Network
The rail operator Metrans has opened its most modern hub terminal for containers in Ceska Trebova (Czech Republic), 180 km to the east of Prague. In doing so, Metrans, a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), has expanded its transport network in Central and Eastern Europe. It is strengthening its position as the leading rail operator in hinterland transportation between these destination regions and the German seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven.
With this second container hub in the Czech Republic, Metrans and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) are pressing ahead with the expansion of their hinterland transportation activities. The terminal in Ceska Trebova is part of HHLA's intermodal strategy, with which the Group intends to create a basis for a considerable rise in volumes handled in Germany as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. Česká Třebová benefits from its central location in the pan-European traffic corridor IV and is on route 22 of the Trans-European Network (TEN) running from Nuremberg/Dresden to Prague, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia. From this starting point, Metrans reaches out to the whole of the South-East Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria, providing a link to the German seaports. The terminal in Ceska Trebova has been eased into service gradually since the beginning of the year and has already been handling more than 100 trains a week since the beginning of May. Metrans invested € 16.5 million in the facility's construction.
Klaus-Dieter Peters, Chairman of the Executive Board of HHLA: "The new terminal in Ceska Trebova is a key component of our intermodal strategy. We will significantly expand our container transport activities on rails in the hinterland of the German seaports. Having taken the leading position in traffic to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, we now intend to increase our market share in Germany and Austria with each step. With the integrated elements of our intermodal services, we offer a top quality and reliable logistics chain between seaport terminals and destinations in the European hinterland. Not only is this service very attractive from a commercial standpoint, it also strengthens the particularly environmentally friendly transport chain of train and ship. Railways are the future of overland transportation in the modal split."
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- company-owned, conveniently located hub terminals as hubs for a network of destination stations
- company-owned carriages and locomotives that improve planning and reduce costs
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Jiri Samek, General Manager of Metrans, said the following at the inauguration ceremony: "We are proud of having built one of the most modern and efficient hub terminals here in Ceska Trebova. It is of particular benefit to our customers that we are able to handle shuttles at this hub terminal. We are able to cut several hours off the time needed for transit through this terminal. In this way, we are able to further increase the volume of containers to and from the seaports that are handled and thereby expand our market shares."
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BARAGA – Roger and Brenda Turunen continue two separate legal battles to retain their rights to operate their Baraga pig farm, but a 2011 Michigan Department of Natural Resources Invasive Species Order amendment still in litigation could make them felons.
Roger, who has a case in state court challenging the ISO, was awarded a preliminary injunction against the DNR on July 15 in Baraga County Circuit Court, which will allow him to sell his Hogan Hogs in Michigan, at least until the case is decided.
"Prior to the issuance of the order now under review, of course, Mr. Turunen was considered a law-abiding hog farmer. Mr. Turunen was an individual who was making a legal living, raising and selling hogs, and apparently was quite successful in doing so," said Circuit Court Judge Charles Goodman in his decision to grant a preliminary injunction. "The raising of animals or the growing of crops has always been an occupation which was well respected in this country, and the American farmer has been considered an icon.
… In October, though, of 2011, Mr. Turunen's once-legitimate activity potentially became an unlawful activity based upon the stroke of a pen. Whether the activity is lawful, in other words, whether Mr. Turunen's constitutional claims … are indeed valid has yet to be determined."
After weighing several factors, notably that the damage to Turunen could be irreparable if an injunction was not authorized – as opposed to the negative to the DNR being added enforcement costs – Goodman approved the injunction.
But now the DNR is targeting possible buyers from Turunen, which would still effectively put him out of business. Turunen's attorney, Joseph O'Leary will be filing paperwork today on that issue, with the legal battle likely starting again today.
"It's kind of ridiculous why they're fighting that," O'Leary said in a Thursday. "They want them gone from Michigan, and they're trying to sell them outside of Michigan."
The Turunens have about 1,200 old-world-style hogs on their 119-acre Hogan Land Improvement farm, and they've always sold just in Michigan until the case forced them to seek markets in Pennsylvania and New York.
They sell feeder pigs to people who want to buy pigs and raise them, butcher pigs and pigs to game ranches, where people go to hunt them for high-quality meat.
"What they've been doing is trying to block us from sales so that we'll go broke before it goes to court, because they know they can't beat us in court. That's my opinion," said Roger Thursday.
Aside from the legal dispute over the preliminary injunction's intent, Roger's case as a whole has been combined with two other similar cases in the state, and a scheduling hearing is slated for Aug. 22 in Marquette to determine the next step.
Roger's wife Brenda is involved in a separate federal case affirming her treaty rights to farm as a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.
The attorney general's office initially filed a motion to dismiss in the case, and O'Leary, who is also handling that case, filed an amended complaint and a brief in opposition.
The groups went back and forth yet again, and both sides have now requested oral arguments. The federal court is expected to decide soon whether to rule on paper or grant oral arguments.
"It's been a roller coaster," said Brenda, during a tour around their farm, in which the approximately 1,200 pigs are fenced in in 12 different pens.
Each pen has food dispensed from a chute pulled behind a tractor and hay bales, culverts for sleeping in, a watering hole and plenty of room to roam.
"If you're trying to kill feral pigs, you can kill every pig here, you won't kill a single feral pig. They're all confined," O'Leary said.
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The Jive Five
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The Jive Five is an American doo wop group. They are best known for their debut hit single, "My True Story" (1961), and the fact that they outlasted most of their doo wop musical peers, by re-modelling themselves as a soul group in the 1960s and beyond.[1]
The group formed in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1950s with Eugene Pitt, Jerome Hanna, Richard Harris, Thurmon Prophet, and Norman Johnson. The group found success in 1961 with "My True Story" on Beltone Records, which reached No. 3 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart.[1]
The group reorganized following the death of Hanna in 1962 with Pitt, Johnson, Hanna's replacement Andre Coles, Casey Spencer, and Beatrice Best. They recorded "What Time is It" and "These Golden Rings" for Belltone, before switching to United Artists Records, where they had a hit with "I'm a Happy Man".[1] In 1970 the group moved to Decca Records and recorded as "The Jyve Fyve", with Pitt, Spencer, Richard Fisher, and Richard Harris's brother Webster. They had a minor hit with this name, "I Want You To Be My Baby", on Decca. They also recorded briefly for Avco Records. They made a 1974 recording for Chess Records as "Shadow", and a 1975 recording for Columbia Records as "Ebony, Ivory, and the Jades".[1]
They changed back to "The Jive Five" in 1978. At this time the line-up was Pitt, Spencer, and the returning Beatrice Best and Richard Harris. The group reorganized in 1982, with Pitt, Best, Charles Mitchell, and Pitt's brothers Herbert and Frank. In the late 1990s, the group was Pitt, Best, Harold Gill, Maurice Unthank, and Art Loria. Daniel Loria came in for Best at times, who was in and out with health issues.
In 1985, Eugene and The Jive Five were introduced to New York cable TV branding consultants Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman (and their company Fred/Alan, Inc.) by their latest producer, Ambient Sound's Marty Pekar. Together with Fred/Alan producer Tom Pomposello they embarked on an almost ten-year relationship, creating and singing the a cappella signature sound of the American kids' television network Nickelodeon, one of the first popular "network" specialized cable television channels. They used the group to write and record some of the most memorable advertising jingles of their day with the catch phrase, "Nic-Nic-Nic", performed in a doo wop style. They were part of the popular "Kid's Choice" awards, and later, they worked on ID's for HBO Family in 1999.
The group performed on the PBS special Doo Wop 50. The line-up was Pitt, Spencer, Richard Harris, Best, and a fifth member. Between 2000 and 2006 the line up was led by Pitt on lead vocals, Bea Best, Art Loria (formerly of The Belmonts and Earls), Danny Loria and Harold Gilly. Maurice Unthank took over as band leader. The group released a single in 2003 entitled "It's Christmas", written by Pitt and the Loria's. It was credited to 'Eugene Pitt and the Jive Five' and featured Pitt, Best, Gill, Unthank, and the Loria's. Other recordings this line-up recorded included: "Jive Five Sing Along", "Pretend", "I Am Yours", "Falling Tears (remake) "Today", "Close Your Eyes", "You", "Daddy's Home" and many other single releases. Alpine Entertainment announced that a future CD would consolidate these singles into one Jive Five release. The project name is not yet known, however the projected release date is late 2013 or 2014.[citation needed]
Eugene Pitt, as one of the founding members with Artie and Danny Loria, was active performing and recording with The Doo Wop All Stars between 1990 and 2006. The group recorded a tribute song to the September 11 attacks victims and heroes, named "We Will Never Fall". It was a Jive Five release in 2001 that was credited to the group "Voices for America".
In June 2010, the group consisted of the then 72-year-old Eugene Pitt, first tenor Frank Pitt, second tenor Casey Spencer, baritone Beatrice Best, and bass Herbert Pitt.
Norman Johnson died in 1970. Webster Harris died in 2003. Maurice Unthank died on July 21, 2008. Artie Loria died on October 23, 2010.
As of 2013, Danny Loria still performs and records with the Doo Wop All Stars. He also produces, promotes and is the President of Alpine Entertainment, an entertainment and publishing company.
Beatrice "Bea" Best died on September 15, 2014. He was 81.[2][3]
|Chart positions
|"My True Story"
|"Never, Never"
|"These Golden Rings"
|"Hully Gully Callin' Time"
|"What Time Is It?"
|"I'm A Happy Man"
|"A Bench in the Park"
|"Crying Like a Baby"
|"Sugar (Don't Take Away My Candy)"
|"I Want You to Be My Baby"
- ^ a b c d Thomas, Stephen. "The Jive Five - Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
- ^ Doc Rock. "The Dead Rock Stars Club 2014 July To December". Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/EUGENE-PITT-THE-JIVE-FIVE-110145094646/timeline/
External links[edit]
- Jive Five Discography
- Rock & Roll Library page on The Jive Five
- Doo Wop group page including The Jive Five
- The Jive Five on All Doo Wop
- The Doo-Wopping of Television 1984-1992
- Groups on the Doo Wop Shop
- The Jive Five discography at MusicBrainz
- The Jive Five on Dead Dog Records
- An interview with Eugene Pitt in 2009 at Soul Express


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Authorities used an armored vehicle to help residents flee dozens of homes on the shore of Lake Ontario on the day before Christmas. Police restricted access to the neighborhood, and officials said it was unclear whether there were other bodies in the seven houses left to burn.
The gunman's sister, who lived with him, was unaccounted for. The gunman's motive was unknown.
William Spengler fired at the first four firefighters to arrive shortly after 5:30 a.m. at the blaze in Webster, a suburb of Rochester, town police Chief Gerald Pickering said.
Spengler lay in wait outdoors for the firefighters' arrival, then opened fire, probably with a rifle, from atop an earthen berm, Pickering said.
"It does appear it was a trap," he said.
The first police officer who arrived chased the gunman and exchanged shots. Spengler had served more than 17 years in prison for beating his 92-year-old paternal grandmother to death with a hammer in 1980 at the house next to where yesterday's attack happened, Pickering said. Spengler, 62, was paroled in 1998 and had led a quiet life since, authorities said. Convicted felons are not allowed to possess weapons.
Two firefighters, one of whom also was a town police lieutenant, died at the scene and two others were hospitalized. An off-duty officer who was passing by also was injured.
The police officer who exchanged gunfire with Spengler "in all likelihood saved many lives," Pickering said.
Emergency radio communications capture someone reporting "firefighters are down" and saying "got to be rifle or shotgun — high-powered … semi or fully auto."
Pickering said police had found several weapons, including a rifle used to shoot the firefighters.
Spengler lived in the house with his sister, Cheryl Spengler, and his mother, Arline Spengler, who died in October. He originally had been charged with murder in connection with grandmother Rose Spengler's death before pleading guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter.
Roger Vercruysse lived next door to Spengler and recalled a man who doted on his mother, whose obituary suggested contributions to the West Webster Fire Department.
"He loved his mama to death," said Vercruysse, who last saw his friend about six months ago. "I think after his mama passed, he went crazy."
Vercruysse also said Spengler "couldn't stand his sister" and "stayed on one side of the house and she stayed on the other."
The fires and shooting were in a neighborhood of close-set seasonal and year-round homes across the road from the lake-shore. The area is popular with recreational boaters but is normally quiet at this time of year.
"We have very few calls for service in that location," Pickering said.
The West Webster Fire District got a report of a car and house on fire on Lake Road, on a narrow peninsula where Irondequoit Bay meets Lake Ontario, early yesterday, Monroe County Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn said.
Two of the firefighters arrived on a fire engine and two in their own vehicles, Pickering said.
A police armored vehicle was used to recover two of the men, and eventually it removed 33 people from nearby homes, the police chief said. The gunfire initially kept firefighters from battling the blazes.
The dead men were identified as police Lt. Michael Chiapperini, 43, the Webster Police Department's public-information officer; and 19-year-old Tomasz Kaczowka, a 911 dispatcher.
Pickering described Chiapperini as a "lifetime firefighter" with nearly20 years in the department, and he called Kaczowka a "tremendous young man."
The two wounded firefighters, Joseph Hofstetter and Theodore Scardino, were in guarded condition in the intensive-care unit at Strong Memorial Hospital, authorities said. Both were expected to recover.
Hofstetter, also a full-timer with the Rochester Fire Department, was hit once in the pelvis, and the bullet lodged in his spine, authorities said. Scardino was hit in the chest and knee.
Grieving firefighters declined to talk to reporters yesterday. At an impromptu memorial vigil last evening, about 100 people stood in the cold night air, some holding candles. A fire department spokesman made a brief appearance, thanked them all and told them to go home and appreciate their families.
Separately, a police officer in Wisconsin and another in Texas were shot and killed yesterday, according to police and media reports.
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It is the first time that a DOT shield machine has ever been used in Taiwan, the department added.
The two tunnels, which took 12 months to dig, will eventually become part of a new subway line joining Taipei main station and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.
"Use of this device has helped us overcome numerous challenges posed by the project and moved up our completion date by about six months," DORTS noted.
"The DOT shield method refers to the utilization of a DOT shield machine with two cutting edges, each with 120 cutting gears," Wu Pei-jeen, director of DORT's North District Project Office, explained. "It can dig two tunnels totaling 62 square meters simultaneously, saving half the construction time."
Since 1981, a total of 18 construction works in Japan and Shanghai have employed the DOT shield technique, DORTS noted. "It is a mature, time-tested technique, very suitable for construction in densely populated areas."(HZW)
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