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Long-standing road projects are taking shape in Lincoln County, ranging from a massive overpass to small wooden bridges.
While the new Birdwood overpass is going up, six old timber bridges will be replaced on country roads this summer.
County roads superintendent Jerry Hitchcock said construction is well underway on the overpass. Abutments are now built on both sides of the UP railroad tracks, thanks to a busy effort during the last month.
The overpass is on the west end of the busiest rail yard in the world.
The sandy soil of the abutments must settle and compact for three months or more, Hitchcock said, before construction can continue.
The total cost of the 13 other projects is $2.35 million.
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There are also 14 other projects on the six-year plan, and the commissioners added one more -- South River Road -- to the list at the urging by several members of the public.
The South River Road runs west from U.S. Highway 83 (near the Quality Inn and Suites) to Buffalo Bill Ave. As the name indicates, the road runs along the South Platte River.
The mile-and-a-half gravel road carries about 500 vehicles on an average day, even though few people live along the road, Hitchcock said.
Lisa Burke of the Lincoln County Convention and Visitors Bureau said travelers are looking for the shortest route from I-80 and motels there to the Golden Spike Tower, Buffalo Bills Ranch and the Lincoln County Historical Museum. Dan Mauk of the Chamber and Development office and Eric Seacrest agreed. They asked that the road be paved.
The trio made the same request two years ago. In response, county crews spent several months in 2011 building a better base on the sandy road, adding clay and building up banks to reduce washboards and make the road more weatherproof.
On Monday, former Nebraska Department of Roads Engineer Les ODonnell suggested a compromise. O'Donnell recommended the county move in stages toward paving the road, adding asphalt millings and oil to the base for a year or two, then paving it. He said that method worked well a few years ago to build Halligan Drive along the Iron Eagle golf course.
Hitchcock agreed that it would be a good plan, but cautioned that asphalt millings are getting harder to acquire.
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Also, Mike Kelly of rural Sutherland urged the board to get going and replace the historic old one-lane Sutherland Bridge over the North Platte River. Kelly said he has to drive a swather 15 miles to reach a field that is only three miles away across the river, because the bridge is too narrow.
Kelly said the old bridge has other issues, including safety, functionality and graffiti that would make a sailor blush.
A new Sutherland bridge has been under consideration for more than 25 years, he said.
You just have to prioritize it and get it done, he said.
Commissioner Willis Roethemeyer assured Kelly he wants the bridge to be rebuilt in a year or two.
We are accumulating funds, Roethemeyer said. The state has to figure out its allocation.
Hitchcock said the Sutherland Bridge is one of the most needed projects in the state, but he is not sure of it's exact priority with state officials, who control federal cost-share funds.
Dick Hasenauer asked for an east-west road near the new water farm in southern Lincoln County. Hasenauer said farms there are landlocked, with no way to get around except a 50-mile round trip.
And, Eugene Avenue resident Michael Cook asked for help building up the avenue, which also gets more traffic from Buffalo Bill Ave. to U.S 83, now that Buffalo Bill crosses I-80 and the So. Platte River.
Planned one-year projects in order of priority:
1. East State Farm Rd and CNPPID canal - replace timber bridge. $440,000.
2. Miller School Rd for 2 miles, drain, grade and stabilize. $27,000.
3. Gun Club Rd replace timber bridge with two 96-inch culverts. $35,000.
4. Murray Ave build 3.75 miles of new road south of UP tracks from Game Trail Road to Murray Ave., which goes into Hershey. $500,000. This project is required by the Birdwood overpass because railroad crossings in the area will be closed.
5. Birdwood overpass. $8 million.
6. Rolling Hills Rd stabilize sand road with asphalt millings starting at N. Airport Road for 1 mile. Cost unknown.
7. Walker Rd Armor coat (seal cracks and oil coat) 11.5 miles of asphalt from the city limits to Hershey-Dickens Rd. $213,000.
8. Opal Springs Rd overlay 2.25 miles of asphalt in the Wellfleet area. $316,000.
9. Prairie Trace Rd 2 overlay from Sutherland north to North River Bridge. $474,000.
10. Stark Rd replace timber bridge over Birdwood Creek. $120,000.
11. Callahan and Gilman Roads replace bridge with two 36 culverts. $9,000.
12. Gibson Rd replace bridge with a 96 culvert. $20,000.
13. Box Elder Rd replace bridge with 48 culvert. $3,000.
14. Wellfleet Cemetery Rd 2 overlay. $163,000.
15. Knoll Rd grade, drain and stabilize 2 miles beginning at Nelson Rd. $31,000.
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BOSTON -- Since Red Sox outfielder Jonny Gomes left Tampa Bay in 2008, he's become pretty comfortable playing games against the Rays, particularly since he returned to the American League last season.
The key: expect the unexpected.
Rays manager Joe Maddon pulled another trick out of his bag in Saturday's 2-1 loss to the Red Sox, pulling outfielder Matt Joyce in to play third base. With only one out and Jacoby Ellsbury representing the winning run on third, Maddon wanted Joyce to keep Ellsbury as close to the bag as possible. The move also allowed the Rays to cover the grass with five infielders.
The move didn't work, as Shane Victorino hit a grounder in between first and second and Ellsbury scored easily. But the Red Sox can expect more unconventional circumstances in games against the Rays, who went 9-9 against Boston last year.
"Gosh, that's awesome," Gomes said of the five-man infield. "You think of bringing in another outfielder -- but I think a lot of people are little scared to do that.
"[Maddon's tactics] work. And it's not like that stuff just works in Tampa, it could work in a lot of places. He plays the extreme odds."
Red Sox manager John Farrell had to adapt accordingly, and the Sox have, at times, played unconventional defenses to counter.
With no outs and two Rays on base in the ninth inning, conventional wisdom indicated bunt. But Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks didn't charge in. The Rays never bunted.
"[Maddon] doesn't beat to a different drum," Gomes said. "He's just, I'd say, extreme."
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Mudcats started at noon EST today and are up 3-0 in the first on a Costanzo home run. Fairel starting for Carolina.
Mudcats started at noon EST today and are up 3-0 in the first on a Costanzo home run. Fairel starting for Carolina.
4-0 Mudcats in the first inning. This is unusual. The Stars pen is in motion already.
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End of two, 4-0 Mudcats.
Devin has pulled his BA up about 50 points in the last ten days. He had gotten all the way down to .158 a few days back.
Fairel has thrown 32 pitches through three innings and I can tell you, it is hot out there today. If he gets through six he'll be doing well.
Mudcats still up 4-0.
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Fairel is in the 70 pitch neighborhood after four...Mudcats up 4-0.
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Huntsville has a man on second. David Bell on the way to the mound. Fairel is done.
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A DISTINGUISHED Service Order awarded to an Accrington war hero after he brilliantly masterminded the sinking of a German submarine in the First World War is set to fetch £800 to £1,200 at an auction next Wednesday.
In April 1918, Accrington-born Lt-Commander Percy Sutcliffe Peat, 28, was in command of a herring drifter named the Coreopsis which was part of a small fleet carrying out " an intensive counter movement to the German submarine menace".
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In an Admiralty report, Lt Peat was described as "a brilliant officer and a gallant seaman". He was born in Accrington on November 29, 1889, and he and his family lived at 374 Blackburn Road.
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After years of making difficult budget decisions, schools in San Diego County and California are in the unfamiliar position of deciding how to spend more money.
They are looking forward to an infusion of revenue for public education included in Gov. Jerry Brown's just-released budget proposal.
The governor's finance plan would also offer districts new freedom in how they spend state money and increasingly shift funds to the neediest students.
Brown would give $2.7 billion more for K-12 education and community colleges in the 2013-14 academic year, thanks to increased taxes from Proposition 30, which voters approved in November.
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Even as school districts struggle to decipher and assess Brown's budget, many are already considering ways to spend the money. Their shopping lists will likely vary greatly because Brown wants to abolish most "categorical funding," which has historically tied certain pots of money to particular services — from school-bus transportation to class-size reduction to maintenance.
The San Diego Unified School District has decided to spend the bulk of its additional revenue on long-delayed raises for teachers and cancellation of some furlough days.
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Critics worry that schools might neglect certain programs that categorical money has long supported, such as career-technical courses and programs designed to keep class sizes low in the earliest grades.
Educators said local decision-making would allow schools to customize their budgets based on their distinct priorities.
"Local control is way more beneficial than creating categorical programs in Sacramento because each local district understands the needs of its students. We are much closer to the issues at each of our campuses than those in Sacramento ever are," said Eric Dill, associate superintendent of business services at the San Dieguito Union High School District.
Through 2020, the governor intends to overhaul how California distributes money to public schools by offering additional funds to districts with the highest concentration of poor students, English learners and foster children.
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Gloria Madera, assistant superintendent of educational services for the San Ysidro district, said Brown has presented a compassionate budget that recognizes the serious needs of so many California children.
"This is not about equality, this is about equity," Madera said. "We are trying to bridge the gap. A lot of students here need additional resources."
Education finance experts characterized Brown's proposed budget as one of the most complicated California has seen in years.
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Education officials expect to receive a more detailed version of the budget later this month.
San Diego schools chief Bill Kowba said the budget proposal is a "step forward," but that at first look it's not enough to protect California's second-largest district from deep cuts next year.
"As we go through our own budget process in the coming weeks, we will make clear to both the governor's office and to the Legislature where the proposal needs to be improved in order to achieve the goal of stability for our schools in the coming year," Kowba said in a statement.
The district may still have to make deep cuts to offset a sizable deficit in its $1.1 billion operating budget for the next academic year. One school board trustee, Scott Barnett, said that gap could be as much as $50 million.
Kowba said the district needs a $500 hike in per-student attendance money in 2013-14 to avoid teacher layoffs and cancel all furlough days. Brown's proposal would give the district a per-student increase of $340 to $400, according to preliminary estimates.
Under a labor pact approved last summer, San Diego Unified is obligated to use 57 percent of any additional state education money it will get in 2013-14 for teacher raises that have long been delayed. Teachers agreed to forgo pay raises of about 7 percent that were set to be paid in the 2012-13 school year to save roughly 1,500 teaching jobs. They also voted to extend furlough days for a third and fourth year to help the district cope with the state's fiscal crisis.
San Diego Unified expects to receive enough new state funds to issue 2 percent raises (retroactively) effective Jan. 1 and restore one or two of five furlough days scheduled for the 2012-13 school year.
"I am so happy we can finally give these educators something," said Bill Freeman, who represents 7,000 teachers as president of the San Diego Education Association. "We can give them a reason to be optimistic, we can give them a reason to continue doing the things they do knowing that someone really appreciates them."
Two more raises totaling 5 percent would be issued as money becomes available, according to the contract approved last summer.
"We have to factor all of this into a reanalysis of our budget," said Bernie Rhinerson, the district's chief of staff.


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Rapid scoring gives bowlers every chanceGreg Baum
Published: November 26 2012 - 3:00AMYoung Lyon shows his spin credentials just in time.
'IT'S easy,'' said Mark Taylor in the euphoric afterglow of another win over England in Australia's halcyon days. ''We make 600, then get Warnie to take eight for.''
It was part jest, part Taylor's faculty for driving to the heart of the matter. One of the keys to Shane Warne's prodigious success was that his Australia made vast scores, quickly, which was doubly oppressive on opponents because it not only put Australia into winning positions, but gained the attritional time even Warne needed to finish them.
Dusting off that blueprint here, Australia suddenly finds itself in a position - by winning here and avoiding defeat in Perth - to sit atop the Test table again in little more than a week. If that seems too soon and somewhat false - it is only a year since Australia lost a match to New Zealand - the truth will out next year in back-to-back Ashes series. For now, and presuming to factor in no rain and six wickets on Monday, a little basking is in order.
All that Australia has achieved in this match flows from the runaway batting of Michael Clarke and Dave Warner, also Mike Hussey, on day one. One who has profited is off-spinner Nathan Lyon. In long spells over two innings, he has been a great force in the shaping of this match. His conquest of Hashim Amla and Jacques Rudolph on Sunday effectively became this match's last staging post, after which South Africa acknowledged that it could not win and set about the grimly inert business of trying for many hours not to lose.
In Rudolph, Lyon has found a Cullinan-like bunny to transfix. In the first innings, Rudolph tried to play a shot against Lyon and was caught. In the second, he tried not to play a shot, even to half-volleys, and was caught anyway.
But Amla was the trophy wicket. A series of creamy shots that sped straight to fieldsmen perhaps raised in him a rarely felt sense of urgency. At any rate, he drove at a ball that spun less than the rest, and Clarke, at the second attempt, took the catch at slip. Clarke in this match has been like a Santa fun run along the banks of the Torrens on Sunday morning, giving the impression that there are many of him when we know there is only at best one.
Lyon's accomplishments are not on the Warne scale, but no one, least of all Lyon, is pretending that he is Warne. For a start, he bowls off-spin, an idea that resonates in the consciousness like chartered accounting, race walking and vacuum cleaning. Warne's legacy to world cricket is perversely debilitating. The parks still are full of wrist-spinners who one by one make the disillusioning discovery that they will never be even half as good as Warne. Worse, there are no off-spinners.
Lyon was found by his state team at the wheel of a groundsman's tractor and picked for Australia as the latest in a long line of post-Warne hunches; at 12, people stopped counting. Unlike batsmen and fast bowlers, there is no specialist coach for him in Australia's set-up; he depends instead on Ricky Ponting, who, in his fleeting exposition of the off-spinner's art on Sunday, left all to think that he must at least be good at the theory.
Lyon's hairline suggests much exasperated scalp-rubbing, but perhaps also is part of his act, for it makes him appear unthreatening. It is not a criticism to say that he does not have Warne's extravagant skill and showmanship, nor his insistence on having the ball. What he has shown, repeatedly, is that he has a Warne-like temperament, without which a spinner will only ever be a slow bowler. Still only 25, he is the youngest off-spinner to take 50 wickets for Australia since the 19th century.
The contrast between his toils in this match and those of the hapless Imran Tahir also tell its story. Tahir never struck a length, did not take a wicket and was smeared at the rate of seven an over, until at length he had 0-260, the worst match figures by any bowler in Test history. Whenever he bowled, an already fast-moving match put on a spurt. He was meant to add spice and flavour to the South African attack, but became salt to the wound of the laming of Jacques Kallis. He was cheered when he came on to bowl.
Lyon has yielded less than two runs an over. In a match in which there has been a boundary every 10 balls on average, he conceded nine in 44 overs in the first innings and none in his 15 overs on Sunday. He also was cheered when he came to bowl. As Monday wears on and the Pattinson-less seam attack grows weary, Lyon's role will be as his front foot is - a pivot.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/rapid-scoring-gives-bowlers-every-chance-20121125-2a1nb.html


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There aren't many out there who would bleed for the New York Red Bulls, and that's not surprising. The only club remaining from Major League Soccer's inaugural season yet to win a major trophy hasn't been easy to love.
From the early, bleak days in the late 1990s when the MetroStars played at inhospitable Giants Stadium to an era of foreign owners, foreign coaches and high-priced yet underperforming players, the Red Bulls have inspired more indifference and frustration than affection.
Despite representing the league's largest market and playing in what might be American soccer's finest soccer-specific stadium, New York's average attendance ranked just ninth in 2012. The club's website features player headshots with each including the "New York Is My Home" slogan, but the reality of the frequently rebuilt roster suggests otherwise: Only two players have been with the team longer than two years.
Credit a recently-hired Scotsman for realizing the Red Bulls needed roots. Andy Roxburgh, the team's sporting director, knew that Mike Petke—named Thursday as the new head coach—would bleed for his club.
"That's one of the things I felt when we came here. New York can't be a satellite club for Europe," Roxburgh said. "You can put the icing on the cake with foreign imports and so on, but it should be more the icing on the cake.
"To make sure the heart and soul is American-based, people who really know the sport here, know the league, and that's why this is another element to this jigsaw puzzle and that is to put Mike into the head coach's role."
Since confirming Hans Backe's exit in early November, New York conducted an exhaustive coaching search and, according to reports, was on the verge of hiring at least two European candidates. With the likes of Thierry Henry and Tim Cahill on the roster, it was assumed that only a coach with old world pedigree would get the best out of the club's big-name players.
But in the end, Roxburgh and Frenchman Gérard Houllier, Red Bull's global director of soccer, returned to the organization's deepest and strongest root.
Petke is from Long Island, spent eight seasons with the team as player and is its leader in career appearances. Since announcing his retirement in 2010, he served as a reserve coach, an assistant coach and, since November, the interim manager for a franchise in flux.
Speaking to Sporting News on Wednesday, the day before he was hired, the passionate Petke poured his heart out.
"My role has been whatever they needed me to do," he said. "I've had all sorts of titles. I'll do what I'm asked, if it's speeches, emceeing events for corporate sponsors. I was shoveling the field before the D.C. snow game (at Red Bull Arena) last year and not because I was asked to. I have never once approached Red Bull and asked for the head coaching job. I've been the interim for the last two months and have tried to take advantage of it, and I've done what's in the best interest of the club. My actions have proven it true.
"If they come to me tomorrow and say, 'Mike, we need a janitor and that's going to be key to winning games,' then give me a freaking broom."
Instead, they came to Petke and asked him to take over, to take the reins and the responsibility for a team that has needed genuine leadership and a real identity for years.
Roxburgh said that when he offered Petke the job Thursday morning, the new coach didn't even ask to discuss the terms of a new contract. He just wanted to get to work.
"The first thing I asked (Roxburgh), I needed to make sure our players—not just the key players but (all) our players—are on board with this," Petke said. "I need to know everybody's happy. If people are not behind me, then we need to think about this because it's about the team first."
Petke said nothing would change about the way he runs practices or relates to his players, from Henry to one of the club's six new supplemental draft picks. While running the team in the absence of an official head coach, Petke played a key role in shaping several major roster moves and the Red Bulls' strategy in three separate drafts.
If his demeanor, professionalism or relationships inside the locker room gave Roxburgh and Houllier any cause for concern, they surely wouldn't have offered Petke the job.
The season is close at hand, but even a foreign owner like Red Bull isn't going to lazily sabotage a pricy investment like a professional soccer team playing in a privately financed, $200 million stadium. Roxburgh said Thursday that he simply wanted to explore all of his options and ensure the right choice was made.
While he had one eye on Europe, he had the other fixed on Petke.
Thursday's announcement is so important because it signifies an apparent evolution in Red Bull's philosophy. Perhaps they saw first-time coaches like Real Salt Lake's Jason Kreis or D.C. United's Ben Olsen—former players with ties to their teams, perform well. In addition, the track record for coaches without experience in American soccer and/or MLS is poor. Only one such man, former Colorado Rapids manager Gary Smith, has won a championship.
Petke has that experience—"there's nothing that's going to be throwing me for a loop," he said of his new job—a commitment to the American player and the hunger to make the Red Bulls matter in a market that still hasn't fully embraced its pro soccer team. Whatever learning curve he might experience as he tackles his first season in charge will represent a small price to pay for a franchise desperate for someone who cares.
"I've been a part of this club for over 10 years," Petke told Sporting News. "I live, breathe and bleed this club. I can't expect a player, on the first day of preseason, to walk in there and passionately love this club.
"What I do expect every day that you're here is to believe in it. Believe in what we're doing. I don't want you here if you don't learn to believe and buy into it. That's how you build passion for the club. It doesn't happen overnight, but it happens over time. That's what I want."
Finally, it's what Red Bull wants as well.


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The point is to not to worry about all the "insights", not to worry about keeping what you have and trying to get more; rather, just do the practice. The reality is that the practice is really about letting go. Letting go is not something you can force; rather, it is a matter seeing things as they are, repeatedly over time. Just continue with the practice.After only a year and a half of practice at Wat Ba Pong, one American [Jack Kornfield] asked and received permission [from Ajahn Chah] to travel and study with other Thai and Burmese teachers. A year or two later, he returned full of tales of his travels, of many months of extraordinary and intensive practice and of a number of remarkable experiences. . . . Then the Western monk went to the cottage of Achaan Sumedho, the senior Western disciple of Achaan Chah, and told all his stories and adventures, his new understandings and great insights into practice. Sumedho listened in silence and prepared afternoon tea from the roots of certain forest plants. When the stories were completed and the insights recounted, Sumedho smiled and said, "Ah, how wonderful. Something else to let go of."
Ben wrote:Hi householder
keep in mind that sensations, regardless whether they are pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, share the same characteristics. That is, they are impermanent, dukkha and anatta. Just keep maintaining your focus on meditation object as per your instructions without identifying with whatever you are experiencing or not experiencing. Also keep in mind that pleasant sensations are much more difficult to deal with as craving, particularly very subtle craving, is incredibly hard to manage.
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Geez, don't worry about all that stuff; it'll drive you crazy, and it sounds like it is already driving you to distraction. Just sit, just pay attention.householder wrote:The last sit: . . .
In other words, you have driven yourself to distraction. Pay attention to your breathing and don't worry about all the other stuff. Just bring your attention gently back to your breath -- in and out. Or if it is your abdomen that you are watching, then rise and fall. Gently, time and again, bringing your attention back to the rise and fall. Keep it simple and easy.householder wrote:Tilt, given I've gone in just over a week from barely being able to focus on the breath for several breaths to several vastly different states with different phenomenon, now manifested in the breath going from perfectly discernible and concentrated to being vague and lots of peripheral sensations which are becoming the main object of attention, it's a little overwhelming and I'm having difficulty discerning whether to keep focusing on rising and falling no matter what, forcing attention on the same, or allow awareness to be what it is and where it is at each moment.
As Goofaholix says, conditions and practice on retreat are different to practice off retreat so I'm in the process of feeling my way through. It's all very well saying "Just sit, pay attention", but to what? The rising and falling, like on retreat, which is becoming more solid, less discernible, or these vibrations/pulses, or both, or the whole thing? Your advice is vague and unhelpful.
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Valerie Harper Has Terminal Brain Cancer
Valerie Harper had a supporting role on "The Mary Tyler Moore" show and then stared in her own show "Rhoda". The show ran for five seasons, from 1974 to 1978. I grew up laughing along with all of American as we tuned in to watch Valerie Harper's sitcom. Everyone loved Rhoda Morganstern. It is so sad to hear about this diagnosis. This is what she told People magazine in a recent interview:
Valerie Harper is facing a devastating diagnosis: terminal brain cancer. The television icon – beloved for her role as brash New Yorker Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off, Rhoda – received the news on Jan. 15, she reveals to PEOPLE in this week's exclusive cover interview.
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Last century's cartoons submit to this century's snarky art remixes in the fourth iteration of group exhibition Gag Me With a Toon. Opening Saturday at the WWA Gallery, curators Steven Daily and Tomi Monstre's nostalgic weirding jams classic comics like Peanuts and Super Friends through strange filters.
"Children born in the '70s, '80s and '90s intimately identify with these characters, who were magical vehicles to other worlds," Daily told Wired.com by e-mail. "Cartoons on today are nothing but farts, screaming and product placement. This exhibition reminisces over our childhood shows, but through the lenses of our adult experiences."
Those lenses are alternately hilarious and moving. Consider Lou Pimenetel's One Is the Loneliest Number — viewable in Wired.com's Gag Me With a Toon preview gallery above — which shows a solitary boy decked out in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles gear who seems to be missing his playmates. Or Sally Splab's hilarious Sigmund the Freud, a psychoanalytic goof on Sid and Marty Krofft's acid puppet fantasy Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.
It's such an obvious pop-cult collision that we wonder why no one (that we know of) has done it before. The smattering of Lebowskis, however, predictably bow down to Los Angeles lore.
"The Big Lebowski has a huge cult appeal to the adults who are enamored with the cartoons that are the main subject of the show," Daily said.
Daily started Gag Me With a Toon's perennial showcase four years ago by heckling his art pals to contribute pieces in deference to their favorite childhood shows. Since then, the exhibit's focus has widened its original '80s scope to include shows from the '70s and '90s.
"There's a hopeless resignation on Wonder Woman and Superman's faces that we have all felt."
It's added ever more participants working in graffiti, sculpture, painting and illustration, which eventually necessitated a move to the comparatively larger WWA Gallery, which adjoins Culver City's longtime toon-art collector Wonderful World of Animation.
"There are a lot of great ideas in this show," said Daily. "We're particularly enthralled with Justin Bloomer's No Goodniks (above), a masterful portrayal of Rocky and Bullwinkle's nemeses Boris and Natasha in a pulp fashion. Craig Edmunds' Captain Planet Is a Doucher (also above) is pretty fantastic too. There's a hopeless resignation on Wonder Woman and Superman's faces that we have all felt."
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I couldn't shake the somberness that clung to me like lint on a suit of clothes. The grief I felt in the eyes of the family members followed me out the door of the funeral home and into my car.
A wintry mix of snow and rain added to the dreariness of the moment, and the rhythmic swish of my windshield wipers sounded like a death knell, projecting with every beat of its dirge the photographs I had just seen of the deceased in happy times, nagging me with one question: Why?
It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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My early education came mostly from the Sisters of St. Catharine. That was several decades ago, but a lot of the things they said or taught me still stick in my mind.
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FRANKFORT – The 30-day session of the General Assembly concluded at midnight on Tuesday of last week after two long days of hard work and bipartisan collaboration to ensure the state's most pressing issues were addressed.
25 years ago, I met Cindy Carrico.
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How time flies.
Renee's marrying a fellow from Henderson, Ky., named Ken Boucherie. They're both graduating from the University of Louisville this May.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
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FRANKFORT – The General Assembly is now recessed for a 10-day veto period and will return on March 25 for the final two days of the 2013 Regular Session.
While consensus hasn't been reached on important bills dealing with the public employee pension reform, industrial hemp and military overseas absentee voting, the Senate is ready and willing to work on these unresolved issues.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- As with any other commodity, tickets to Super Bowl XLVIII require a working knowledge of their market's supply, demand and timing.
"I know a guy" isn't going to do you a whole lot of good unless that guy you know happens to occupy a prime corner office.
As the rest of the country spent the days after the conference championships arguing the merits of Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's postgame interview and the intentions of Denver Broncos receiver Wes Welker after his old coach accused him of purposely injuring a player, Super Bowl tickets have been making their way through the secondary market. The game is sold out, but Reuters spotted more than 12,000 tickets on resale sites such as eBay's Stubhub as of Sunday.
At the time, the average resale price of those tickets was $3,935, as reported by Forbes. It dropped to $3,721 by Monday and to $3,676 by Tuesday. That's still well above the face value of $500 to $2,600, and no ticket has sold for less than $2,000 yet. It would also be the highest average ticket price in Super Bowl history if it held. The current titleholder is the average $3,649 paid by fans who wanted to see the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers square off in Super Bowl XLV.
That potential has a bunch of holders and brokers feeling lucky, with the average asking price quoted by TiqIQ -- which tracks various ticket resale sites -- increasing from $4,015 on Monday to $4,525 on Wednesday. Consensus is that they should sell while they can. A report from NorthJersey.com found that the number of tickets on the market increased by nearly 3,000 on Monday afternoon alone. Super Bowl host site MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., holds 82,000 fans, which gives the Seahawks and Broncos faithful a few thousand reasons to be patient.
Then there's the simple fact that it plays out this way every year. Last year, for example, fans from San Francisco and Baltimore bought tickets for an average of $3,445 immediately after the conference championship games, but saw the average price drop to $1,551 by game day. A spokesman from TiqIQ suggested earlier this week that a $1,500 price for upper-level seats by next week should be reasonable.


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Owner of Chevelle Apartments says repairs have been delayed by winter weather, should begin on Friday
DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer
Michael Howard claims that he has been threatened with eviction by managers at the Chevelle Apartments on Throckmorton because he asked management to repair a leaky roof in his apartment.
Jack Gian owns the property.
Howard said this week that he first let the management office know that the roof was leaking into his apartment on Nov. 3. On Feb. 6, he left a message on the 24-hour maintenance line.
Howard said he had not been in touch with the management about the problem since Thanksgiving, and he said he believes that removing some of the melting snow from the roof could have prevented at least part of the current problem.
Howard filed a complaint about the problem with the Fair Housing Office in December, and on Dec. 17, city code compliance officer Nilandra Roy put in place an order preventing Chevelle management from evicting Howard, refusing to renew his lease or terminating his lease.
Howard said that he would like to move but cannot do that by the time his current lease ends on March 1. Because he is currently battling lymphoma and complications from AIDS, he said he isn't physically able of looking for an apartment or packing and loading a truck to move.
This week he sent his landlord a certified letter "requesting reasonable accommodations under the Disability Act of the Fair Housing Code."
"I have been on disability since 2005 for AIDS/HIV and Lymphoma Cancer, for which documentation can be provided at a later date, if needed," Howard wrote. "I do not have the necessary resources at this time to find a new place of residence. I am expecting to have the means to move at the end of my next renewed lease. But until that time, I am once again requesting reasonable accommodations under the Disability Act of the Fair Housing Code." But he acknowledged that the comment he left on the 24-hour maintenance line — "I would then once again be contacting the Dallas City Code Officer OR take legal action if necessary in order for me to get my roof/ceiling repaired" — might have been taken as a threat.
He said it was after that message that the management threatened to evict him.
"Someone from G&G Properties called me at 10:01 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 7, and left a very rude, mean voicemail message," Howard said. The message warned him to "stop calling and harassing the management here at Chevelle about my repairs, and that if it did not cease then they were warning me that they would proceed with issuing me an eviction notice."
He said he felt as if he was the one being threatened and harassed.
Howard is not the only one who has complained about the roof leaks. At least two others have requested repairs.
Nor is this the first complaint against the property owner. In June 2010, tenants complained about the air conditioning being out for several days. That service was restored after WFAA Channel 8 television station ran a story.
Gian said repairs will begin Friday, Feb. 11.
"The roofing was ordered a week ago Friday," Gian said, adding that weather had delayed repairs. He said has to get as much ice off the roof as possible before the crew can begin.
Repairs should continue through Tuesday, Gian said, if they are able to begin work this week. He said about 5,000 square feet of roofing will be replaced.
Chalisa Warren at the Dallas Fair Housing Office said that complaints based on any of the protected categories in the city ordinance go through their office. Those categories include disability and sexual orientation.
She said information is available on Fair Housing Office website. Complaints can be filed online or by phone, or a complaint form can be mailed or delivered in person to the office in City Hall.
The website is DallasFairHousing.com.
Complaints about repairs to multi-tenant properties go through the city Code Compliance office. To file a complaint, call 311. A service number will be issued and an inspector will be sent to the property.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition Feb. 11, 2011.


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In a televised address, President Trump on Monday shared his strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia, saying the United States military is "not nation-building again. We are killing terrorists."
Speaking in front of an audience of soldiers at Ft. Myer, Virginia, Trump said the American people are "weary of war without victory," and he "shares their frustration." When it comes to Afghanistan, while his original instinct was to pull all troops out, he listened to his advisers and came up with a new strategy, Trump said, but will never reveal the number of troops on the ground in the country or announce upcoming military actions. Trump is also expanding authority for American armed forces to "target terrorists and criminal networks that sow violence and chaos throughout Afghanistan," he said.
Trump said he will not set a timetable on when to withdraw troops, instead using a conditions-based approach, and he said undefined economic development in Afghanistan will help defray America's cost. The U.S. must "seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made, especially the sacrifice of lives," Trump said, and the "consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable." Catherine Garcia
The Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James hit back at President Trump on Twitter Saturday morning in response to Trump's tweeted announcement that the Golden State Warriors will not be invited to the White House to celebrate their NBA championship after point guard Stephen Curry criticized Trump's policies and rhetoric. As James sees it, Curry's Friday statement that he does not want to meet Trump means the president had no invitation to rescind:
U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 23, 2017
James, who is vice president of the NBA Players Association, was not the only pro athlete to take issue with Trump's weekend critiques of Curry and Colin Kaepernick, the latter of whom Trump referred to as a "son of a bitch" for his habit of declining to stand for the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Trump stay in ur place... football have nothing to do wit u smh
— Zach Brown (@ZachBrown_55) September 23, 2017
And I doubt he's man enough to call any of those players a son of a bitch to their face...
— Chris Paul (@CP3) September 23, 2017
It is a sad day when the #POTUS seeks to disregard and punish American citizens for peacefully exercising their constitutional rights. https://t.co/QPvrKDS29D
— Benjamin Watson (@BenjaminSWatson) September 23, 2017
A #POTUS whose name alone creates division and anger. Whose words inspire dissension and hatred can't possibly "Make America Great Again"
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) September 23, 2017
Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, also pushed back on Trump's remarks, calling Trump's comments "divisive" and demonstrative of "an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL." Bonnie Kristian
Mexico was struck by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake Saturday morning, sparking alarm and suspending ongoing rescue efforts in response to two other recent quakes.
The new tremor follows Tuesday's 7.1-magnitude earthquake, as well as an 8.1-magnitude quake that struck off the coast of Mexico earlier this month. The combined death toll from the earlier quakes has nearly reached 400 people.
Saturday's tremor, believed to be an aftershock of the 8.1 quake, collapsed a bridge in the town of Juchitan and toppled some previously damaged buildings. "Homes that were still standing just fell down," said Bettina Cruz, who lives in Juchitan. "It's hard. We are all in the streets." Bonnie Kristian
Iran has successfully tested a new ballistic missile, state-run media reported Saturday, one day after displaying the weapon at a military parade.
The Khorramshahr missile has a range of 1,200 miles, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani labels it "a deterrent" to guard Iranian security against attack. President Trump has accused Tehran of violating "the spirit" of the 2015 nuclear deal with this sort of test, but Rouhani maintains Iran is committed to upholding the agreement.
The new missile could reach Iranian rivals like Saudi Arabia or Israel and can carry multiple warheads. Bonnie Kristian
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday notified 21 states they were targeted for hacking by the Russian government in advance of the 2016 election.
In most cases, this targeting amounted only to research and preparation, and no voting machines were compromised in any state. "What this boils down to is that someone tried the door knob and it was locked," explained Reid Magney of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
DHS announced the 21-state figure several months ago but had not previously communicated to the states in question. Friday's notification is intended to give the targeted states, a complete list of which has not been released, time to beef up security before 2018. "We heard feedback from the secretaries of state that this was an important piece of information," said Bob Kolasky, acting deputy undersecretary of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at DHS. "We agreed that this information would help election officials make security decisions."
In his Friday night speech in Alabama, President Trump again denied election collusion with Moscow. "No, Russia did not help me, that I can tell you, OK?" he said, calling this "hoax" Democrats' greatest achievement of 2016. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump announced on Twitter Saturday morning that he is no longer willing to host the Golden State Warriors at the White House, a traditional way to honor their NBA championship victory, because of comments from point guard Stephen Curry:
Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team.Stephen Curry is hesitating,therefore invitation is withdrawn!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017
Trump's tweet comes hours after Curry on Friday told reporters he did not wish to meet the president, alluding to Trump's much-criticized responses to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"You can talk about all the different personalities that have said things and done things — from [Colin] Kaepernick to what happened with [Michael] Bennett to all sorts of examples of what has gone on in our country that has led to change," Curry said. "We're all trying to do what we can using our platforms, using our opportunities, to shed light on that. That's kind of where I stand on that. I don't think us going to the White House will miraculously make everything better, but this is my opportunity to voice that."
This is Trump's second clash with professional athletes this weekend. On Friday night, he told a campaign rally crowd that NFL players like Kaepernick, who has knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice, should be fired. "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now?" Trump said. Bonnie Kristian
As-yet unidentified tremors were detected in North Korea early Saturday near the site of previous nuclear weapons tests. While China labeled the 3.4-magnitude quake a "suspected explosion" that could be Pyongyang's second nuclear test in a matter of weeks, an official from South Korea's meteorological agency said initial assessments indicate it was more likely a natural earthquake. North Korea has not commented either way.
On Friday, North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said his government might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. "This could probably mean the strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean," Ri announced. "Regarding which measures to take, I don't really know since it is what Kim Jong Un does."
Also Friday, President Trump once again called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man," the latest in a series of insults the two men have traded this week. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump issued a profane call to NFL team owners to fire players who engage in peaceful political protest on the field while speaking Friday night at an Alabama rally for Sen. Luther Strange (R). "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now?'" Trump asked his audience. "Out. He's fired. He's fired." The rally crowd responded with cheers.
"You know what's hurting the game?" the president continued. "When people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they're playing our great national anthem." Trump encouraged his supporters to walk out of the stadium in counter-protest should they ever observe an NFL player's protest in person.
Trump was referring to football players like Colin Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, who has silently declined to stand for the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Trump's comments were widely decried, including by other NFL players, with many noting his words for Kaepernick were harsher than his responses to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The NFL Players Association issued a statement Saturday vowing to "never back down when it comes to protecting the constitutional rights of our players as citizens as well as their safety."
Watch an excerpt of Trump's comments below, or see the entire speech here. Bonnie Kristian
Trump: NFL owners should tell players who kneel to "get that son of a bitch off the field right now." pic.twitter.com/eUYtJgNixK
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 23, 2017
Editor's note: This article originally incorrectly identified Kaepernick's former team. It has since been corrected. We regret the error.


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Top Line: Habs-Pens produce OT thriller, Alfie's frontier justice, more links
By Allan Muir
A guide to this morning's must-read hockey stories:
• Daniel Alfredsson threw discipline out the window to send a message to Philly's Zac Rinaldo.
• Former NHLer Bates Battaglia is in the lead on The Amazing Race.
• If this were a normal season, Boston's scrappy Brad Marchand would be on pace for 50 goals
• Wait ... you didn't watch Hockey Night In Canada last night? Other than the the most thrilling game of the season, here's what Grapes had to say on Coach's Corner. Meanwhile, they were talking Ryan O'Reilly and realignment on Hotstove Tonight.
• It was another dominant performance by the Sedins as the Canucks doused the Kings' hot steak with some cool Pacific water.
• Here's how Sidney Crosby turned Pittsburgh into the new Hockeytown.
• Marian Hossa plays his milestone 1,000th game today against the Red Wings. His former team will be focused on stopping Chicago's hot streak at 21 games.
• Maybe Colorado should have rolled the dice and let O'Reilly go to the Flames.
• Here's some good news for a franchise that could really use some: Miikka Kiprusoff is close to returning to action for the Calgary Flames.
• Should the NHL season be shortened? Same question we ask every year at this time, but it seems to make more sense now, doesn't it?
• Gordie Howe's 85th birthday brought out hockey royalty to celebrate in Vancouver.
• Now the Tampa Bay Lightning are calling themselves travel losers if the NHL's latest realignment proposal comes to pass. The St. Louis Blues say they'll miss the drawing power of the Detroit Red Wings.
• Playing a fifth game in a week caught up to the Ducks, who wasted an Andrew Cogliano hat trick in a 5-4 OT loss to the Coyotes.
• The Vancouver Canucks have been assessed an embellishment penalty in each of their last two games. They might want to work on their diving skills.
• San Jose's power play finally came to life, scoring a pair of goals to power the Sharks to a 2-1 win over the Preds.
• No telling if he used a Jedi mindmeld, but Ilya Bryzgalov held off the Senators 2-1 to earn his 200th career win.
• Philly forward Harry Zolnierczyk is expecting a call from Brendan Shanahan after this hit on Ottawa's Mike Lundin.
• Despite the success of the Predators, the game isn't an easy sell in Tennessee.
• The Panthers lost a game, their pride and Jose Theodore and Dmitri Kulikov on Saturday. It's time for Jacob Markstrom to grab a spot on this team instead of waiting for it to be handed to him.Capitals off the ropes


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Asia Deal Digest: October 4, 2012
* Singapore's WongPartnership gets the construction contracts done for a $1.6 billion power tunnel project
* Australia Post turns to King & Wood Mallesons to exit a joint venture with Qantas
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UFC 144 is set to go down tonight live from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The event will be headlined by a lightweight title fight between champion Frankie Edgar and challenger Benson Henderson. The event marks the UFC's first ever return to Japan since UFC 29 in 2000.
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The applications of Holosonics' Audio Spotlight technology are numerous, and most of them quite novel and interesting
Watertown, MA (PRWEB) December 29, 2011
Students and science enthusiasts alike were reminded firsthand that science is exciting, as distinguished physicist Dr. Berebichez presented Holosonics Audio Spotlight technology at TED's premier TEDYouth event in New York City.
Similar to the premise of the "Humanly Impossible" National Geographic television program which Berebichez hosts, the very performance of the Audio Spotlight system itself seems impossible at first glance. Harnessing the miniature wavelength of an ultrasonic carrier and taking advantage of the predictable non-linearities associated to the physics of air, the Audio Spotlight system is able to produce a narrow laser-like beam of audible sound – allowing the user to provide sound where they want, and maintain the quiet elsewhere. Just like aiming the beam of light from a flashlight, a precise location can be illuminated with sound using Holosonics unique speakers.
TEDYouth's theme was "Play, Learn, Build, and Share," and Berebichez felt the Audio Spotlight was just the device to relay the event's spirit. A thin, flat ultrasonic transducer that turns the air itself into a speaker with laser-like directivity... She had no doubt that the demonstration was worthwhile as she panned across the audience with the sound beam, watching the ensuing smiles and reactions.
As Berebichez explained, "The people attending the TEDYouth conference in NYC were quite impressed with the Audio Spotlight speaker from Holosonics, and many of them asked to play with it. While they agreed controlling light with lasers is now a ubiquitous phenomenon, they contemplated Holosonics speakers being used everywhere."
"The applications of Holosonics Audio Spotlight technology are numerous, and most of them quite novel and interesting," Berebichez offered. She continued, "I am so excited that the Holosonic technology has been fully developed and that it can be used in museums, classrooms, supermarkets, airports, etc... I was honored to show a demo of the Audio Spotlight for some of the top technologists in the world, who are early adopters."
About Holosonic Research Labs, Inc.
Holosonic Research Labs, Inc., a pioneer in directional acoustics, develops and manufactures the Audio Spotlight® directional sound system. Founded in 1999 by MIT graduate Dr. F. Joseph Pompei, Holosonics' Audio Spotlight technology is used in a wide variety of applications including museums, libraries, offices, reception areas, retail displays, trade shows and retail kiosks. The world's top organizations and companies use the Audio Spotlight directional sound system to beam sound to their listeners... and preserve the quiet.™
About Deborah Berebichez, Ph.D.
Deborah Berebichez is the first Mexican woman to graduate with a physics Ph.D. from Stanford University. For her Ph.D. Dissertation at Stanford, she invented a highly effective technique to focus wireless signals in targeted locations, and has also published research in the field of nano-engineering. Ms. Berebichez's passion is to popularize science and motivate young minds to think analytically about the world. This has led her to pioneer learning initiatives in schools and universities in Mexico, Africa, the US and Israel. She is a frequent public speaker and has been recognized by numerous media outlets such as Oprah, CNN, WSJ, TED, DLD, WIRED, Martha Stewart, City of Ideas, Dr. Oz Show, Celebrity Scientist and others. She regularly appears as a science expert on different international TV networks; currently she is the TV host of National Geographic's "Humanly Impossible" show.


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The Bishop's School boys soccer team reached the Division IV quarterfinals, but the Knights needed two days to get there.
Crawford and host Bishop's began their first-round match on Tuesday, playing to a 2-2 tie in regulation. After 15 scoreless minutes of golden-goal overtime, each team took its standard five penalty kicks. Still tied.
After 17 sudden-death penalty kicks apiece, the teams were still tied when darkness prevented going any further.
Crawford and Bishop's returned to the field Wednesday, with the Knights finally prevailing in the 26th round of penalty kicks — 52 PKs in all.
Bishop's coach Malcolm Tovey praised goalkeeper Christian Guinchard for making key saves in the later rounds of PKs. Matt Harris scored the game-winner.
"Never in more than 30 years of coaching have I seen anything like this," said Tovey, whose Knights will play Mater Dei Catholic in the quarterfinals Friday.
The playoff appearance capped a successful year for Crawford, which finished second in the Central League.
"Crawford is a very good team, and very good sports," Tovey said. "They played with class."


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