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Pappasito's Salsa is known for its freshness and flavor. You can make this salsa at home. Fresh vegetables makes this salsa extra special.
Pappasito's Salsa
Pappasito's Salsa
You can make fresh salsa just like Pappasito's does with this recipe.
- 8 Roma Tomatoes (Whole)
- 1 Small Yellow Onion Diced (1/3 - 1/2 C Diced)
- 1 Fresh Jalapeno Pepper Stem Removed and Seeded
- 1/2 teaspoon celery salt
- 1/8 teaspoon oregano
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 fresh pablano pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 - 3/4 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
In a moderately hot skillet that has been sprayed with a cooking spray brown the coarsely chopped Pablano pepper and jalapeno pepper. Brown and stir until the skins have turned dark on many sides of peppers. ad tomatoes and brown them until the skins on the tomatoes have turned a dark brown on several sides, remove pan from heat. Put onion in hot skillet that has been removed from the heat and stir. In a food processor add celery salt, oregano cilantro, sugar, garlic salt and pepper. Pour peppers, onions and tomatoes and add water a little at a time, process just enough to chop to a medium consistency but not to a smooth paste, leave a little chunky.
Remove from processor and pour in hot skillet turn up heat quickly stir for 3 min and serve hot.Print Recipe
Pappasitos doesn't use roma tomatoes in its salsa. The use regular tomatoes but they roast them. They also use jalapeños and Serranos. And white onion and cilantro. And their season salt which I can't remember the recipe for. The jalapeños and serranos are roasted as well. This is as close as I can get you folks.
I followed this recipe exactly and I can tell you that it did not have that wonderful roasted flavor of Pappasito's. I was truly disappointed and will not make this again.
Definitely NOT Pappasito's salsa. I don't even know where to begin in making changes/alterations to this recipe but I just know that this is not the "sito's salsa" that my family feasts on embarrassingly too often!
This is NOT the recipe. No water, no sugar, no celaery salt, no pablono pepper. It does have cerrano peppers, garlic powder, and salt. You roast the tomatos, and peppers
We tried this recipe and found it to be very delicious and much like the one at Pappasittos. It does take a bit of time to make but is well worth the effort.
We tried this recipe and found it to be very delicious and much like the one at Pappasittos. It does take a bit of time to make but is well worth the effort.
This salsa tastes nothing like Pappasitos! It tasted like spaghetti sauce, it might be better if you leave the oregano out. I was so disappointed to end up with spicy spaghetti sauce after spending all the time to prepare the salsa.
I use this recipe often and it is the best one I have found. I do not add the water as the tomatoes usually have enough and often add more cilantro, depending on how strong the flavor is of the cilantro I buy. Also, I typically make two batches – a mild batch with 2 jalapenos and a spicier batch substituting habaneros (2-4) for the jalapenos. I always need to "salt to taste" afterwards prior to serving, but everyone who tries it loves it.
We love Pappasito's and their salsa is really good! I will be making this next time we have company!


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2010/12/29 Albert Y. C. Lai <firstname.lastname@example.com>

On 10-12-29 12:50 PM, michael rice wrote:

 I think of (r -> m a) as a type signature and Int or Bool by themselves
 as types. So, all type signatures are themselves types?

http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch4.html#x10-620004

 In particular

 gendecl → vars :: [context =>] type (type signature)

 Therefore I think of

 n :: Int
 f :: r -> m a

 as type signatures, and their right-hand sides alone,

 Int
 r -> m a

 as types.

I used to think about types as mathematical sets, and type signatures in this case are just sequences of characters denoting these types. They of course must have some formal grammar as it was quoted above.

I'd like to note that one type can be denoted by many type signatures. For example, String and [Char]. And as another case, a -> b and c -> d. One may come up with more advanced examples involving type families.


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I popped FFXII back in recently to do another run, and looking at it brought back memories.
Bad memories.
What the hell is wrong with Vaan's abs?
Like, if I look at them just right, it looks like he has weird geometric abs. Most of the time, though, it looks like he has a terrifying skeleton thing poking out of his torso - as if someone had inverted his muscles so all of the big parts are concave and all of the creases are convex.
what is wrong with your torso aaaaaah
That texture is all kinds of fucked. Anyone else have little visual hangups like this? we all know that the pineapple blocks in Super Mario World are speakers/intercoms
Anime-like characters, anime-like story, anime-like dialogue. Ultra realistic graphics. That game just looked and felt wrong.
To be honest, I don't think I'd hate 13 so much if it looked like one of the recent "Tales of" games.
However, the faces and character movement in the cutscenes were horribly atrocious.
this game was too ugly for me to finish, especially after replacing the gorgeous sprites from Sacred Stones.
The demo's council sequence makes me wonder if Anderson and Shepard are the same species as everyone else.
They looked like those creepy japanese sex dolls.
Hair is often bad in most of the games, like the chick in Mirror's Edge:
Can't really say why. I think it was the brightness maybe... something like that.
Didn't like Blacklight: Tango Downs art style either. It was super bland and gray, and everything was made really grainy and the whole interference/blue screen of death/static effects they had when taking damage were annoying.
I'm not super knowledgeable about the technical side of things, so I might be saying something silly, but the common practice of using piss-filters, bump mapping (or something along those lines) everywhere and loads of other exaggerated effects turn me off to the point of preferring last gen/older graphics to some extent. Oh and the fact that you can spot UE3 2 miles away so damn often.
Of course the biggest problem is bad art direction and design, but I guess that kind of goes without saying.
It is a shame because all the cool art is underneath the ugly.
The game doesn't really have a style. While it has a beefy engine, the style of the game is bland beyond anything. It's so sterile and completely forgettable.
And yeah BF3 art is kind of forgettable but at least it doesn't look like the games I mentioned.
It seems off with the rest of the game.
I don't like the anime look, so I guess the visuals of most JRPGs these days (bring back low-res sprites :( ) don't click with me.
Max Payne's face in Max Payne 1.
Maybe it's the off screen pic and the calibration, but his screenshot does make it look terrible :lol, even the hand and the gun look ridiculous there!
There is so much wrong in your post its not even funny. The Jungle in Killzone 3 might be one of the most beautiful settings I've ever seen in an FPS.
Hair is often bad in most of the games, like the chick in Mirror's Edge:
Reminds me of dennis hopper in the super mario movie... :(
While I appreciate the art as good art, it doesn't click with me. It doesn't make want to play the game, there's just something about it which I can't put my finger on.
The back lens of the scope is butt-ugly
Red Dead Redemption SPOILER
Ouside the fact that I think John Marston couldn't have asked for an uglier son, the mustach and the hair makes everything worse. click here for the image
Fucking putrid.
There are moments of genius in SS art style and moments when it looks like crap and the art style actually hinders the IQ.
Skyward Sword as a whole, everything is pixelated,blurry and muddy. The Image Quality is abysmal. I see what they were going for but it didn't work out at all.
It is a shame because all the cool art is underneath the ugly.
I found Twilight Princess to be a bigger offender, IMHO.
More games should use friends/relatives/remote acquaintances of developers for character design. Made Max Payne one of the funniest games ever. Way too fucking awesome.
Originally Posted by Meccanical
Max Payne's face in Max Payne 1.
Still too much filtering imo. No idea how it looks on the PS3, but that may be the best way to play Okami? I can't try it, I only have an import for the PS2, but iirc the Wii version looked even worse for some reason. Doesn't matter though, awesome game (and plays a lot better with the DS2 than with the Wiimote imo).
You should play the Wii version. The paper filter has been reduced quite a bit. Still gorgeous though.
I don't think it's fair to just label XIII's plot as "anime." There's a lot of anime with mature, competent stories intended for older audiences. XIII's story is just bad. Were you trying to suggest that the plot was childish and the visuals should have been more kiddy to match that? I personally don't the think those gorgeous graphics should have accommodated that mess of a story at all. The story should have just been better to be on the same caliber as the visuals.
Final Fantasy 13
Anime-like characters, anime-like story, anime-like dialogue. Ultra realistic graphics. That game just looked and felt wrong.
To be honest, I don't think I'd hate 13 so much if it looked like one of the recent "Tales of" games.
Anyway, as for my entry:
Fallout games. Everything about these games is an uncanny-valley, hideous mess. To the point where I can't play them.
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Sharleen Guymon Mangum, 82, died peacefully April 14, 2011 in Draper, Utah. She was born July 12, 1928 in Provo, Utah to Lee and Louven Perkins Guymon. Married Carl Byron Mangum on April 15, 1945 in the Manti LDS Temple. He passed away August 17, 2001. She was active in the LDS Church and served in the Jordan River Temple for many years. Survived by children, Jeanie Lee Williams, Corie Dawn Hamilton, and Dave Wesley Mangum; daughter-in-law, Sandra Mangum; 15 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and one on the way; and sister, Randy Hensley. Preceded in death by sons, Carl Dean and Rick; grandson, Tyler James Williams; and sisters, Betty, Jean and Karla. Funeral services will be held Monday, April 18, at 10:30 a.m. at the Mt. Jordan 5th Ward, 9331 So. 300 East, Sandy. There will be a viewing Sunday 6-8 p.m. at Goff Mortuary, 8090 So. State, and again Monday 9:30-10:15 a.m. at the church. Interment, Herriman City Cemetery.


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So i've been on and off this website for a WHILE, but i've still been making shit. SO that's that, I guess.
Also, a friend inspired me to make this, I don't know why.
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland's new law extending in-state college tuition to undocumented immigrants could be headed to referendum. Leaders of the drive to put the issue on next year's ballot say they are close to clearing the first hurdle.
Political reporter Pat Warren has the latest developments in this controversial case.
It's been 20 years since anybody was able to get a state law up for referendum, but supporters of the petition drive say this is just the issue that could do that.
Voices raised during the 2011 legislative session convinced lawmakers to re-write rules and allow undocumented students to pay the same tuition rates as legal residents of the state.
"This will allow us to have a more highly educated workforce in our state, which is good for all of us," said Governor Martin O'Malley.
"We've been waiting for this for a long time," said one person.
But supporters of a drive to put the issue on the ballot say it's not right to extend in-state tuition to students who can't prove they are legal residents of the state.
"It's bad policy, it's bad for legal citizens," said another person.
Casa de Maryland is not focusing on the petition, but organizers for the referendum tell WJZ that they are close to getting the required signatures needed by May 31.
"We are very close to what we need for the first target and we would like to get 5,000 to 10,000 petition signatures this week which would more than guarantee we're going to make it," said one organizer.
More than 18,000 valid signatures must be presented to the state board of elections May 31 in order to move to phase 2.
A spokeswoman for Casa de Maryland would say only that it continues to believes the law is good and will be upheld.
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There is at least one weak spot in
the interest calculation incorporated
in the school beard's bond statement,
viz : Interest is compounded on $500 for
the entire period of 20 years, while,
on the other hand, the interest is not
compounded on the excess in interest
to be paid on the per cent bonds.
If it is fair to compound interest on
the $500 commission that, would have
been paid for floating 4 per cent bonds,
then, as just offset against this,
compound interest should be com?
puted on the excess paid each year and
not on the $75 estimated to bethe
amount it will cost to print the 4f?
per cent bonds, only. If this be done,
the $75-the annual excess in inter?
est paid each year for 20 years-with
compound interest, as calculated on
the $500, will amount to $3,289.40
Again, if the payment of $500 com?
mission on 4 per cent bonds would be
illegal, inasmuch as it would reduce
the bid below par, then by the same
process of reasoning the bid of the
First National Bank is illegal, as the
school board, by the terms of that
bid, must pay all expenses for printing
the bonds, etc. But these good na?
tured criticisms of the statement of the
board, are, like a great deal of their
statement, nothing more than hair
splitting that serve no good purpose
save to establish a position previously
assumed. The bonds are well sold at
4^ per cent, although we are still of
the opinion that they might have been
sold to better advantage if they had
been advertised at 4?? per cent in the
first instance, or if all inquirers had
been notified that the board had decid?
ed to issue 4f? per cent bonds instead
of 4 percent as advertised.
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
The week ending Sa. m., Monday,
May 25th, had a mean temperature of
79 degrees, which is 5 degrees above
normal, making this the hottest week
of the year, as well as the first, since
the crop season began, that was warm?
er than the normal There was a
gradual increase in warmth from the
beginning to the end of the week,
at which time temperatures above 90
degrees were obsiirved over the en?
tire State. The sunshine was large?
ly in excess of the usual, and averaged
about 90 degrees of the possible. The
winds were light westerly to souther?
ly. The warm weather was favorable
to crops and has given com and cot?
ton a healthier look, and started a
rapid growth wherever the ground
contains enough moisture. The condi?
tions were also favorable for the rapid
progress of farm-work^
The week's rainfall consisted of gen?
erally light? scattered showers, that
fell on the 21st anti 23rd. Portions of
Hampton County had excessive
precipitation, while the north central
and western counties had none. Light
hail fell in Kershaw. The need" of
rain is felt over tile whole State, but
only in the north central and western
counties has the drought becomes seri?
ous. In these sections, the lands have
become too dry and hard to work, and
generally they break up cloddy. Com?
plaint is widespread that recently
planted corn and cotton cannot come up
until it rains ; and that all crops are
suffering for want of moisture, with
a consequent falling off in condition,
and that growth is at a standstill.
The weather conditions were favor?
able on cotton, and a rapid improve?
ment is indicated, but stands con?
tinue to be irregular, and in a number
of localities the plants are dying out,
while recently planted seeds are slow
in coming up. The early planted came
up poorly, with much replanting still
being done, whole fields being, in
some instances, plowed up and planted
over. Chopping is general, and in a
few localities nearly finished. Fields
are clean, as a rule, except in Beaufort
county. Sea-island cotton has im?
proved in condition, stand and color,
but all cotton is small for the season.
The condition of corn is variable,
but with a general improvement during
the past week, due to the more favor?
able weather. Worms continue to
destroy stands of young corn. All
com is small for the season. There is
still much to plant in the north-cen?
tral and western counties. Fields are
well cultivated and clean.
Tobacco improved under the in?
fluence of bright sunshine and the hot
weather. It is "buttoning" low in
Florence, and the stalks are spindling
in Kershaw. The crop as a whole is
quite promising. Minor crops show
marked improvement, especially
melons and rice, but they stand urgent?
ly in need of rain The fmit prospects
suffered slight impairment from drop?
ping, although an average crop is still
indicated? Wheat continues poor, but
the reports on oats are more favorable,
and indicate a larger crop than has
heretofore been expected. They are j
ripening and some have been'harvest
ed. Ch:inen bugs have damaged oats
in York county. Late truck is doing
well, and beans are being freely
shipped. Early peaches are being
marketed. Pastures are failing.
Local Weather Report.
For 24 hours ending 9 a. m., May
27, 1903:
Temperature: Maximum, 93; Mini?
mum, 71; Mean, 82. Precipitation,
0.06. Character of day-Partly cloudy.
Direction of wind-Southeast.
Sun rises, 4.55; sun sets, 7.00.
Forecast for 36 hours ending 8 p.
m., Thursday, issued from Washing?
ton, D. C. :
For, Sumter and vicinity-Showers
tonight and probably Thursday. Sta?
tionary temperature.
{Light scattered showers prevailed in
the lower Missouri and upper Missis?
sippi valleys, the lake region and the
middle Atlantic States. A light show?
er fell at Sumter in the afternoon, the
first since the 14th inst. A storm
seems to be forming over western
Texas and Oklahoma. Cloudy weafch
er is reported along the South At
[ ?antic and Gulf coasts. Temperatures
j remained stationary over the country,
I but the heat wave has moderated and
passed into the Atlantic Ocaen. The
highest temperature was 98, the low?
est 34 at Medena.
F. Prescott-Bullock,
Local Observer,
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Chickasha, I. T., Inundated, but
no Loss of Life Reported.
Chickasha, I. T.,May 26.- The storm 1
situation at Chickasha tonight is '
considerably changed for the worse 1
since last night. The people awoke
this morning to find that Line Creek,
a small stream running through the !
town and emptying into Washita Riv?
er, had overflowed its banks and twen* ]
ty or more residences were under wa?
ter. The families living in the houses
were all rescued without loss of life.
Yesterday the Washita River was
six feet higher at Ardako than ever be?
fore. Last night at ll o'clock the flood
reached here and a wall of water near?
ly thirty feet in height swept down the j
river bed, overflowing its banks and j
carrying with it everything in its path, i
Railroad tracks are washed away in
every direction.
Oklahoma City, O. T., May 26.
There was a further rise in the Cana?
dian River at this point last night and
today, and it is higher than at any
time in its history. Many houses were
washed from their foundations last
night, and in some instances this
morning only the tops of some could
be seen. The 'Frisco passenger train,
due at 6 o'clock last night, is tied up
between two washouts a mile east of
the city, where the river is more
than half a mile wide. It was not un?
til noon today that the passengers were
transferred to this side by boats. The
Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf has ex?
perienced more washouts and no trains
will be run either way from this city
before Thursday. It was estimated
this morning that the damage to
houses in the southern part of the city
would reach $25,000.
The loss on wheat along the river
bottom will runup into the thousands.
United States Secret Service In?
vestigating Labor Conditions in
Alabama-Violation of Law
/ Charged.
2 Washington, May 26.-At the request
of the department of justice the United
States secret service has undertaken
: the work of investigating the charge
of peonage, of holding another in ser?
vitude to work out a debt, which has
been made against persons living in
the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama.
The punishment provided by the
statute for this crime is a fine of not
less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000
or imprisonment of not less than one
year nor more than five. One man
; named Robert N. Franklin has already
been indicted for keeping a negro in
i servitude for at least a year. Informa
; tion in the hands of Chief Wilkie
tends to show that a regular system
has been practiced for a long time be?
tween certain magistrates and persons
who want negro laborers. It is said
that the plan is to bring a poor negro
before a magistrate on a flimsy charge.
He is convicted and, having no money
to pay the fine, the white man offers
to advance him the money provided the
negro will make a labor contract with
him for a length of time sufficient to re?
imburse him for money and trouble he
has taken to keep the negro out of jail.
He is thereupon taken away and be?
gins what is frequntly a long term of
cruel servitude, being frequently
whipped for failure to perform work to
the satisfaction of his employer. An
agent of the secret service, who is now
on the ground, will make a thorough
investigation of the whole alleged
system and turn over to the United
States attorney for that district all in?
formation he may secure with a view
to the prosecution of offenders. i
Graded School Commencement Notes.
The closing exercises of the Graded
School will be in the Opera House on
the evening of the 28th. These exer?
cises will begin at; 8 o'clock. The city
bell will ring 13 times at 7.10 as a
signal for the pupils to leave home.
As is customary the front seats will
be reserved for the relatives of the
members of the class of 1903. The
box on the left as one enters will be
reserved for the members of the City
Board of Education ; the other, for the
Aldermen of the city.
The Second Regiment Band, always
responsive to the wishes of the school,
will furnish music for the commence?
ment occasion.
Closing Exercises of the Excellent Grad?
ed School of That Place.
Wedgefield, May 26.-On last Thurs?
day night before a large and apprecia?
tive audience the closing exercises of
our graded school were held. The ex?
ercises which consisted of recitation,
dialogues and drills were well render?
ed, which reflects great credit on the
principal, Prof. R. L. Goff, and his
able assistant Miss Evie Wilson.
It proved much time and training
had been expended in -the prepara?
tion. The stage had been tastefully
decorated for the occasion, which add?
ed lots to the scenery.
The following is the programme :
Opening march, . by Miss Evie Wil?
Prayer, by Rev. S. O. Cantey.
Greeting song, by school.
Recitation, by Sadie Wright.
Recitation-Experience with a re?
fractory cow, Aretas Bradford.
Dialogue-In want of a servant
Gruliem Mellett, Nora Dew, Helen
Iroutman, Sudie Wright, Burney
Phomas, and Manlius Aycock.
Recitation-Frank Mellett.
Dialogue-Taking the Census-Thad
rroutman and Aretas Bradford.
Song-Leap Frog John-Primary
Butterfly drill by eight girls.
Dialogue-Changing servants-Boys.
Play-Katy in Gooseland-Girls.
Recitation-Mabel Mellett.
Recitation-Peter Dwight.
Recitation-Helen Weinberg.
Play-Aunt Susan Jane-Aretas
Bradford, Nan Mellett, Mabel Mellett,
Bessie Aycock and Soult Mellett.
The prizes offered by Miss E. A.
j Wilson for scholarship and attendance
?were won by Janette Thomas, Helen
Weinberg and Peter Dwight the two
first making the highest averages, and
the latter not being tardy nor absent
daring the session.
The prizes were deliverd with appro?
priate remarks by Rev. S. O. >Cantey.
Miss Nan Mellett made the highest
average in Prof. Goff's room.
At a meeting of tho board of trus?
tees, Prof. R. L. Goff was reelected
principal for another term, bnt his as?
sistant Miss Evie Wilson did not stand
for reelection, mach to the regret of
the trustees and patrons. Miss Evie
has been the assistant for several years,
and was held in the highest esteem by
all, and we regret she saw fit to take
the step she did.
Harvesting oats is the order of the
day, and the crop is mnch larger than
anybody expected.
Miss Bessie Kelley is visiting in Sum?
Bishopvilfe Teachers.
At a meeting of school trustees held
last week Mr. J. F. Thomason of the
Greenville Fitting School was elected
principal. Misses Edith McCutchen
and Daisy Pearce reelected assistants
with Misses Kirkley of Camden, and
Blanche DeChamps of Wisacky. All
the preliminary work has been made
to commence work on the Graded
School building by July 1st.-Bishop
ville Vindicator.
Notes from St. Charles.
St. Charles, S. C., May 25.
An extraordinarily sad and calami?
tously afflictive fatality has visited the
family of Mr. J. Cantey Bullock, of
this township, within the past few
days. On Friday of this past week he
buried a daughter, and yesterday two
others of his daughters passed into the
great unknown beyond within a few
hours^ of each other, each dying of a
different malady and after very short
illness. Mr. Bullock is a worthy
citizen and has the sincere sympathy
of the community. '~*^pf??r
Mr. Wm. H. Bryan is reported as be?
ing in a less critical condition than
last week. The case of this gentleman
has excited much interest as, by his
quiet and unobtrusive urbanity, he
had won over much kindly feeling to?
ward himself, and hopes and devout
wishes are entertained for his recovery.
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Columbia, S. C., October 1, 1902.
Mr. J. T. Harris, White Stone Springs, S. C.
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started ; and which deserves the patronage of our people.
Yours very truly, W. A. CLARK,
President Carolina N. Bank.
For rates and particulars, adddress
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ESPN Reportedly Angered By Conference USA's New TV Deal With Fox
Conference USA signed a $43M media rights deal with Fox in January, but current rights holders ESPN is "questioning C-USA's new deal," according to Ourand & Smith of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. ESPN believes its contract with C-USA "gave it the right to match any offer." ESPN execs said that they "had an oral agreement on a new deal with the conference and were working to finalize it when the Fox deal was announced." But C-USA Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs Courtney Morrison-Archer in an e-mail said, "ESPN had every opportunity to step up and address our concerns. Following a long and protracted discussion, the conference board of directors voted to move in a different direction." Ourand & Smith report relations between the conference and ESPN "have become so strained that the network threatened legal action" against C-USA. Meanwhile, sources said that CBS Sports Network, which has its own separate agreement with C-USA through '16, believes "it had the first crack at the package if it ever left ESPN." CBS Sports Network "has not threatened legal action" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/28 issue). Sources said C-USA and CBS Sports Network the two sides remained cordial during an on-going dialogue about any modifications that need to be made to its contract (THE DAILY). Morrison-Archer said that C-USA expects its television deals with Fox and CBS Sports Network "to proceed as planned with the start of the 2011 football season" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 3/1).
NHL Trade Deadline Coverage Over The Top Given Lack Of Major Deals
Coverage of the NHL trade deadline has become filled with "live feeds of guys doing nothing and networks claiming scoops for the most inconsequential of trades," according to Steve Buffery of the TORONTO SUN. The "live feed of the Maple Leafs 'situation room' on Rogers Sportsnet takes the cake" as the "most boring spectacle ever to appear on TV." Every "crappy deal on NHL Trade Deadline Day has become 'Dewey Defeats Truman' big," and for the Canadian sports networks, it is "like Christmas, except with Santa showing up with a bag of coal." There were "precious few interesting trades this year, but the networks had hours of programming to fill and legions of bored hockey insiders waiting to say or do something." The coverage "wouldn't be quite so ridiculous if both networks -- Rogers Sportsnet and TSN -- didn't have so many of these guys." Buffery: "It was incredible. While Pierre McGuire and one panel of hockey insiders yammered on, you could actually see one or two groups of other hockey insiders in the background waiting to get on the air" (TORONTO SUN, 3/1). In Canada, Bob Duff writes under the header, "NHL Trade Deadline Becoming A Dud." Duff: "Even though there were more talking heads than a 1980s new-wave band, there wasn't much accomplished once the dealing was done." Fans can expect deadline day to "continue to be more about bluster than blockbusters" (WINDSOR STAR, 3/1).
DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ: THE HOCKEY NEWS' Ken Campbell noted several "bogus Twitter accounts" reported fake trades ahead of yesterday's trade deadline. Someone posing as Rogers Sportsnet analyst Nick Kypreos "tweeted that the Montreal Canadiens had acquired Dustin Penner from the Edmonton Oilers for Jarred Tinordi and a first round pick." Maple Leafs RW Joffrey Lupul was "part of a hoax of a deal that had him going to the New York Islanders and someone posing as ESPN.com columnist Pierre LeBrun said Brad Richards was coming to Toronto" (THEHOCKEYNEWS.com, 2/28). In Vancouver, Cam Cole writes the tweets "provided at least a few moments of excitement, even if based on falsehood, during the seven interminable hours of TV panellists kicking around ideas that never came to pass, and a very few that did." They "embarrassed those who were fooled, enraged those whose identities they stole, amused the casual onlookers and got the Twitterverse buzzing with re-tweeted -- or outright stolen -- material that was spread without checking its veracity" (VANCOUVER SUN, 3/1).
NUMBERS GAME: SI.com's Adrian Dater notes the NHL salary cap instituted in '05 "had the intended consequence of cutting down drastically on the number of going-out-business-for-the-year fire sales by teams out of playoff contention." The bad team "with the high-salaried player can't just unload him anymore to the rich, Cup-driving team because the Cup-driving team is already capped out." Red Wings Senior VP & GM Ken Holland: "That's it, in a nutshell. Most of the top teams probably have a pretty good payroll as it is, near the top. It's tough to do much by the deadline." Dater writes the "uncertainty of the NHL's labor situation after next season continues to play a minor role in the lack of major salary additions of players with contracts beyond then, though most influential hockey people believe there won't be any work stoppage this time around" (SI.com, 3/1).
Right Down The Fairway: PGA Tour Ratings Up Big For West Coast Swing
PGA Tour weekend telecasts are averaging a 2.0 final Nielsen rating on CBS and NBC through five tournaments, up 42.9% from a 1.4 rating for four CBS tournaments at the same time period last year, which saw many weekend telecasts up against the Vancouver Games. The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on NBC this past weekend averaged a 1.7 rating and 2.5 million viewers for Luke Donald's victory over Martin Kaymer. This year's figures are the best for the tournament since NBC's broadcast in '08, which saw Tiger Woods win the event over Stewart Cink. NBC's viewership was also up 71% for the weekend from CBS' coverage last year. Golf Channel is seeing PGA Tour viewership up 59% to start the season (live telecasts + replay telecasts). The net's coverage of the Match Play Championship also led Golf Channel to its second most-viewed February in the net's history (Austin Karp, THE DAILY). In San Diego, Tod Leonard writes this season's PGA Tour ratings are "reflective of a brighter television outlook for all of the West Coast Swing." PGA Tour Exec VP/Communications & Int'l Affairs Ty Votaw said that the Tour and its sponsors are "encouraged by the amount of time viewers are staying with broadcasts," which is "about 100 minutes this season" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 3/1).
SPREADING ITS WINGS: In N.Y., Phil Mushnick noted with Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal complete, it "didn't take long for NBC to invade then overrun Comcast-owned Golf Channel." Mushnick: "From Johnny Miller to Al Michaels, everything on the network has quickly been marinated in NBC." He added, "How long before CBS, which has a preexisting deal to co-produce the early rounds of its PGA events on GC, begins to fight NBC's pervasive GC presence on CBS's time? And how long before the Versus network, also owned by Comcast, is renamed and re-programmed to become the NBC Sports Network?" (N.Y. POST, 2/27).
Events Like Super Bowl Failing To Generate Momentum For Primetime Programming
Large audiences for annual events such as the Super Bowl have not "translated into consistent viewing for regular series -- a familiar scenario that nevertheless has implications for both the networks and rights-holders to such sports and specials," according to Brian Lowry of DAILY VARIETY. Fox, "in terms of marketing platforms," used last month's Super Bowl to "trumpet newcomers 'The Chicago Code' and 'Traffic Light,' while featuring a postgame episode of 'Glee.'" But just weeks later, "The Chicago Code" "isn't raising any alarms, 'Light' is flickering at a generous flashing yellow, and 'Glee' hasn't enjoyed any appreciable bump from the additional one-time-only exposure." NBC also "tried leveraging playoff NFL to put some wind behind 'The Cape,' a superhero drama that has seen its episode order cut." Lowry noted in theory, "maintaining the Olympics as Comcast seeks to rebuild NBC would look like a no-brainer," but the net's "primetime fortunes have steadily eroded despite the advantage of televising the Olympics every other year." Fox Exec VP/Strategic Program Planning & Research Preston Beckman "referred to big tune-in recorded by events like the Olympics and World Series as 'borrowed audience' -- the point being it's difficult to convert such drive-by viewers into steady support for new series." Lowry wrote, "With many of these events, the audience is simply incompatible with the profile of typical primetime series viewers" (DAILY VARIETY, 2/26).
Media Notes
USA TODAY's Michael Hiestand writes college basketball has "momentum heading into the NCAA Tournament," as last weekend it "drew higher weekend overnights in 14 of the TV windows on ESPN or CBS where there was comparable coverage last year." CBS earned a 2.0 overnight for Saturday's BYU-San Diego State game, and both teams "could give CBS/Turner NCAA tournament coverage some ratings boosts in the West, which otherwise might not have many strong teams" (USA TODAY, 3/1).
SEAL OF APPROVAL: Former UNLV men's basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian on his LAS VEGAS SUN blog wrote HBO overall "did a good job" with its upcoming documentary entitled "Runnin' Rebels of UNLV." Tarkanian: "They were professional and fair. The story had to be done and they had a lot of guts for doing it. ... I would say 75 percent of the program was positive. For me, that is a pretty good percentage" (LASVEGASSUN.com, 2/28).
ALOHA MEANS GOODBYE: In Honolulu, Ferd Lewis in a front-page piece reports signs point to Univ. of Hawaii sports "moving exclusively to Oceanic Time Warner Cable this fall," which would "end more than a quarter-century of free over-the-air television," most recently on KFVE-MYT, which has carried Hawaii sports for nine years. Yesterday was "listed as the final day of the negotiation window between Oceanic and KFVE, according to the contract" (Honolulu STAR-ADVERTISER, 3/1).
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Add Heading HereA 2715 m mountain in the Marmolada group, Dolomites. (Actually, Colàc falls in this group just because of proximity, as actually it is clearly distinct both from the Marmolada massif and from any other neighbouring mountain). One way to reach it (the way we did it) is to start from the Ciampac moutain hut (m 2170) and climb up the ferrata dei Finanzieri (medium difficulty, some three hours from Ciampac) on the northwestern side of the Colàc, then, after reaching the summit, one can go down the path (also equipped with steel cables) that descends the southeastern side, then follow paths no. 613 and 644 to Ciampac. The grasslands in the last part before Ciampac are full of marmots. From Ciampac to Penia (m 1500) most of the descent is on a steep ski slope.
On the peak of the Colàc (summit cross, not very firm) the panorama ranges from Catinaccio/Rosengarten group and Sassolungo/Langkofel massif to Sella Group, Marmolada Group, Mesola and Costabella plus others more in distance.
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Stanley M. Dakosty Jr. and Jessica R. Schmitt
Stan and Mary Dakosty of Tamaqua have announced the engagement of their son, Stanley Michael Dakosty Jr. to Jessica Rose Schmitt, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Schmitt of Lebanon, N.Y.
The bride-to-be graduated from Sherburne-Earlville High School, Sherburne N.Y. She also graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 2007 with a bachelor of arts degree in dance and Media & Society and a minor in Arts & Education. She is currently pursuing a master of science degree in teaching in childhood education at SUNY Cortland.
The prospective bridegroom is the grandson of Jackie Dick of Shenandoah and the late James and Loretta Bonner of Summit Hill. He is a graduate of Marian Catholic High School, Hometown, and also graduated from Colgate University in 2005 with a bachelor of arts degree in both history and educational studies. In 2007 he received a master of education degree from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently in his fourth year at Colgate University as an assistant football coach.
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2006-03-14 - Swedish thrashers DARKANE will join SADUS and GORY BLISTER for a European tour that will launch on April 14th in Rotterdam, Holland. Confirmed dates are as follows:

SADUS | DARKANE | GORY BLISTER
Tour April 2006

14-4 fri NL Baroeg, Rotterdam
15-4 sat D Turock, Essen
16-4 sun NL Noordschok, Groningen (festival)
18-4 tue F Ubu, Rennes
19-4 wed F Locomotive, Paris
21-4 fri D Tor 3, Osnabruck
22-4 sat CH Rocking Chair, Vevey
23-4 sun IT La Gabbia, Bassano Del Grappa
24-4 mon IT Sonar Club, Colle de Val D'Elsa
25-4 tue IT Circolo Degli Artisti, Rome
26-4 wed A Monastery, Vienna
27-4 thu CZ Black Pes, Prague
28-4 fri D Exhaus, Trier
29-4 sat B Biebob, Vosselaar, evening
29-4 sat NL Kings Of Metal, Arnhem (festival) afternoon
30-4 sun NL 013, Tilburg

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Donna Edwards Is One Of Us
An interview with Maryland's first black congresswoman.
Donna Edwards has a flare for oration. When I arrive at her Maryland campaign headquarters in late summer 2015, Edwards's team — enthusiastic, spritely; no one looks much older than 30— assures me I'm in for a rich and winding conversation. The walls are tacked with handmade posters that say "I'm on #TeamDonna." "I love stopping by her office. Mention bikes! You and Donna will talk all day," says Yasmine Evans, a 25-year-old staffer and Maryland native who has supported Congresswoman Edwards since she became Maryland's first black congresswoman, in 2008.
And Evans is right. Edwards, 57, and I immediately settle into a talk so familiar it is uncanny, swapping stories on the perils of fixies as easily as the perils of student debt. "I was in debt when I ran for Congress," Edwards says before adding with a wry smile, "and I still won."
Edwards's rhetorical gifts will serve her well if she becomes a senator. She's long advocated for those constituencies much of the Democratic Party has too frequently ignored. Just this past October, Edwards held the House of Representatives floor until she was cut off, naming each of the 301 Maryland citizens who died as a result of gun violence in 2015. In response to the armed occupation of the federal Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon this winter, Edwards issued a statement calling out media outlets for biased coverage with respect to white militants compared to actions carried out by black activists. For eight years, Edwards has seamlessly melded her instincts as a community activist with her platform as a representative of the fourth district of Maryland, specifically its minority and female populations. Edwards has increased funding for math and science in elementary schools, fought against zoning laws and gerrymandering, and introduced women-centered economic policies to Maryland. Before joining Congress, Edwards served as the first director and the co-founder of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. She was instrumental in the passage of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act.
In turn, Edwards's progressive base backs her out of a loyalty fixed in hope rather than party-line complacency, as Edwards's political origin story informs her authenticity. Edwards is a single black mother who came to office from grassroots activism rather than as a D.C. political operative. When Edwards announced her bid for Senate in early 2015, national organizations like EMILY's List and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee came out in unilateral support. Adam Green of the PCCC said in the organization's endorsement: "Donna Edwards has proven time and again that she's a bold progressive. She's not just an ally — she's one of us."
Currently, there are no black women serving in the U.S. Senate. If Congresswoman Edwards wins, she'll become the first to serve since 1998, becoming only the second in U.S. history. Edwards embraces the outsider role she represents among D.C. players, revels in it even, and she is prepared to use her engagement with grassroots groups to push the party toward real progressivism.
But Edwards knows, as much as she loves her party, that it won't be easy. When I call her five months after our initial interview, as the race between her and Congressman Chris Van Hollen intensifies, Congresswoman Edwards is disarmingly blunt. "The political establishment is never going to support somebody like me because I'm responsive to ordinary working people and not to the political class." In our interview, Edwards talks about the need for progressivism within the party, Black Lives Matter, gun violence, and the example Baltimore can set for the rest of America.
Doreen St. Félix: Currently, you serve on three clean-energy subcommittees. In the past, you fought against Republican attacks on the Clean Water Act and conducted grassroots environmental activism in your own hometown of Prince George's County. What's the state of environmental activism in this country, especially across race and cities?
Donna Edwards: When I think about the work we did in our local area, trying to protect our natural resources, our river, our access to the waterways, green space, I realize that in our local area, this wasn't just a fight to protect the Chesapeake Bay. The bay is hours from our community. Reauthorizing the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Restoration Program was about rethinking what protection of the bay looks like. It's about protecting the quality of the air and the water in our own communities and urging the mainstream environmental community not just to have us take up their cause, but for them to take up our urban cause.
DSF: Were you part of an official organization?
DE: Before we became kind of official, if you will, it was very local, the campaign to reinvest in the heart of Prince George's County, Maryland. We wanted to call ourselves what we were, and that was that we were engaged in a campaign that matched our concern for our local environment with the need to reinvest in our local communities and to champion development that provided access to the rivers and hiking and biking and walking trails. Too often, those kinds of amenities are ignored in black and brown communities, while they're promoted and highlighted in other communities. We formed our own neighborhood working group. We would meet at my house in the evenings, strategizing about how we were going to tackle the problem, what we were going to do in the zoning and planning meeting, how we were going to work with our local Sierra Club, how we were going to coordinate with our neighborhood association to make our neighbors aware the city was attempting to cut our walking and biking routes.
We even engaged in door-to-door knocking! We did it the old-fashioned way. It wasn't just a group of leaders talking. It was knowing we had the backing of our whole community. And we really cared — you know I had my son on the back of my bike everywhere I went?
DSF: Wow! To and from work every day?
DE: Oh yes. I'm a single mother, and I never really had a disposable income. Before I had my first car, that's what I did. Back and forth. I still love riding my bike around, but now I have a car. [Laughs.]
DSF: Let's go back to July of last year, when you spoke at Netroots. Joan Walsh at Salon said of your speech, "You might say [Edwards] gave a Black Lives Matters speech that integrated economic populism throughout." How are you processing Senator Sanders's and Secretary Clinton's approaches to integrating Black Lives Matter in their campaign promises?
DE: I wasn't really thinking about what the presidential candidates were or were not saying with respect to the Black Lives Matter movement. In fact, my speech came the day before the presidential candidates Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders spoke at Netroots. Yet I felt mine probably better articulated and narrated the concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement and leaders with broader progressive policies.
I never made a distinction, and maybe that's because of the intractable relationship between my progressive politics and my concern for black communities and black lives. For me, it's a natural connection, and that's what you heard in the speech. I think it's important for our political leadership to give a voice to what I believe is a transitional and transformational movement. When I hear Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders increasingly address Black Lives Matter, I think they are incorporating those issues and concerns into their philosophy of the role and responsibility of the government.
DSF: Is it fair to say, then, that you consider Black Lives Matter as the new turn in progressivism, one that may force the Democratic Party out of its current complacency on race and economic inequality?
DE: Anybody who argues that the Black Lives Matter movement is just an aside is completely wrong. It's had a profound impact already on the way our presidential candidates are campaigning for the nation. For example, I look at the way in which Occupy Wall Street was dismissed, and yet the very vision of Occupy Wall Street's demand for a new economic compact with the American people is tenable today. I was one of the first elected officials to go out and stand with a group of Occupy Wall Street people in D.C. These movements are really important in terms of influencing public and economic policy and its impact on poor middle-class communities.
DSF: As a member of Congress, you've stated you would rather listen to what activists are saying and then translate those demands into public policy. At this stage in your campaign, have you been meeting with groups? Are there certain pinpoints, say, around income inequality or education initiatives, you are now thinking of, should you win?
DE: Not only have I been meeting with activists and community leaders, but I feel like the demands they request I've been connected to certainly my entire political life, but definitely my entire public-policy life. My loan debt was about $100,000. I was a single working mother. I have a black son. Their demands have to do with stopping the rampant surge of gun violence in our communities. They have to do with improving the economic prospects of our young population.
I think that from a policy level, we have an important responsibility as policymakers to invest in schools and education, not just in neighborhoods where people can afford it but in every single neighborhood. It's why when I came to Congress I worked on the after-school-suppers program for Maryland, because I know that kids can't possibly learn if they're hungry. It's a basic human need. We have to create public policy to change that. In some ways, I feel like the issues and concerns that I've been focused on for the better part of the last 20 years, and now certainly as a lawmaker and prospectively as a United States senator, are finally rising to the horizon because of the demands that are being placed by neighbors, community leaders, and activists.
DSF: Did you watch President Obama's recent town-hall meeting on gun control? You've always been an outspoken advocate, in fact, well before many of your peers in Washington. You're running for senator of Maryland, which means you're running to represent the people of Baltimore. With moments ranging from the Freddie Gray case to neighborhood gun violence, how do you address gun control as it affects your local constituency?
DE: In Maryland, and across the country, the overwhelming majority of us believe that we should have sensible gun laws that keep guns out of the hands of people who would do harm to themselves and others. It's a very simple proposition. Most of the American public is not arguing about that. The only people who don't agree are a very small contingent of very loud and powerful special interests being funded by, and driven by, the National Rifle Association.
I was so excited about the President's announcement of his executive action, because he has finally taken the helm. Background checks. Checks of registration of stolen and lost weapons, so that we're able to trace them so that we know if they're used in the commission of crimes. I told a story just the other day of three young girls — a three-year-old in Baltimore; a three-year-old here in my county, in Prince George's County; and a three-year-old in Washington, D.C. — who in the span of about a year all lost their lives to gun violence. Three-year-olds. People who argue against what the president has proposed argue that this isn't going to solve every gun crime. What a silly and specious argument, that we shouldn't do what it takes to save the life of one three-year-old because we can't save every life. I wouldn't want to be the one to say that to her mother, or to the mothers in Sandy Hook, or to the mothers on Baltimore streets every single day. I don't buy the argument that just because you can't solve everything means that you should do nothing.
DSF: Reading up on your campaign, I know you're very popular within your region, but a tremendous amount of your financial support comes from national organizations like EMILY's List. Your base is recognizing you have the potential to be not only a representative for Maryland but a national representative for the interests of millions of black American women. Is there a message you'd like to tell your national supporters about your locality, Maryland?
DE: Maryland is like a lot of states, where we have one large city. Ours is Baltimore City. We need to have people in the United States Senate who understand the importance of investing in our urban core, so that it supports the strength and the health of an entire state and of a nation. I think one of the things that people should know is that, like a lot of places, we have some really great people who want to do the simplest thing: get up, go to a decent job that pays them a decent wage and meet their responsibilities, and then make sure that their children can lead a better life than they do.
That's not only a dream for Marylanders, it's a dream for people who live in communities all across this country. It's the dream that my parents had for me and had for themselves. We need people in public office who aren't just talking about things at a 30,000-foot level, because people are living their lives on the ground. They're living their lives on the ground of paying exorbitant costs for child care. They're living their lives on the ground when it comes to equal pay. They're living their lives on the ground when it comes to borrowing to send their kids to college, when it comes to meeting mortgage payments and paying their utilities. I'm running for the United States Senate to represent the interests of those people leading their lives on the ground in Baltimore, and all across this country, because I've walked in their shoes.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
Doreen St. Félix is Lenny's editor at large.


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Military Kids is housed within the OSPI Learning and Teaching division and serves as a resource for educators in Washington state who work with our 136,000 military families. OSPI has a rich history with Operation Military Kids as a former partner of that national program. At the state level, we continue to focus on educating our K-12 teachers on how to support military youth in schools and communities before, during and after the deployment of a parent or loved one.
Data Collection—Fall 2016
Starting in the fall of 2016, school districts are required to collect data regarding ethnicity from active duty military families as well active reserves, all branches, and the Washington National Guard.
Reasons for collection of the data include:
During the 2015 legislative session, Substitute Senate Bill 5163 (SSB 5163) was passed, mandating the collection of the data in CEDARS:
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(b) Students with a parent or guardian who is a member of the reserves of the United States armed forces or a member of the Washington national guard." Collection and updating of this data must use the United States department of education 2007 race and ethnicity reporting guidelines, including the subracial and sub-ethnic categories within those guidelines, with modifications.
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How to Buy Gold
In times of economic uncertainty, investors gravitate toward gold as a means of protecting their portfolio. Gold never tarnishes and is primarily used for jewelry and money. Though many want gold, purchasing gold is not for everyone. Potential investors should review the points below to determine if it's the right choice for them.
Tips for Buying Gold
Gold is not a quick fix.
Buying gold is not a "get rich quick" scheme. Gold should be viewed as an insurance policy or a more stable investment in a diversified investment portfolio. At a minimum, you should expect to hold onto your gold for five to ten years or more to get the maximum benefit from the investment.
There are additional costs beyond the price of the gold.
For instance, you must have a secure area (preferably a vault) to store the gold. As a side note, it is recommended that you store the gold in the original, unopened packaging. The coins will remain in mint condition and retain more value over time.
Another significant cost associated with buying gold is taxes. The Internal Revenue Service views gold as a collectible instead of an investment. Therefore, gold transactions can be taxed a maximum of 28% of the value of the transaction. In comparison, stock investments are traditionally taxed at 15%.
Finally, as with any other valuable, you will need to buy insurance for the gold.
Gold is expensive.
There is no such thing as cheap gold so you shouldn't expect to find such "deals." Though it fluctuates daily depending on the standard market price, it is generally priced around $1,500 per ounce. There is a relationship between inflation and the price of gold. As inflation goes up, so does the price of gold and vice-versa.
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THE Crime and Misconduct Commission has failed to have a female police officer, who convinced a woman to withdraw her rape complaint, disciplined for misconduct.
Senior Constable Elizabeth Baldock was simply reprimanded for a disciplinary breach.
This was despite an assistant commissioner finding she failed to conduct a fair and unbiased investigation, her actions were geared towards a complaint withdrawal and resulted in relevant evidence about the rape allegation being lost.
A tribunal heard the alleged victim was about to be medically examined at Toowoomba Hospital in mid-2011 when Sen-Constable Baldock, who was not the investigating officer, spoke to her.
Another police officer heard Sen-Constable Baldock tell her, "This is going to go hard and fast," Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal was told.
"You went out last night. You had too much to drink. You met this guy. You went home with him. You had sex.
"You woke this morning and regret it.''
The tribunal heard the police witness claimed Sen-Constable Baldock spoke to the woman for another half-hour before the woman withdrew her complaint.
The alleged rape victim later told police Sen-Constable Baldock repeatedly referred to her state of intoxication, the issue of consent and difficulties in proving a rape complaint.
She claimed the female officer said: "Sometimes people do silly things when they are drunk, and this is a serious offence."
The woman, who did not think the officer believed her, then signed a complaint withdrawal in the officer's notebook.
No further medical tests were conducted to gather evidence for a rape prosecution.
Assistant Commissioner Clem O'Regan found Sen-Constable Baldock's actions, words and demeanour appeared geared towards obtaining a withdrawal of the complaint.
Mr O'Regan accepted the evidence of the other police officer and the female rape complainant regarding the message received by the woman.
But he and a senior tribunal member who heard the CMC appeal concluded Sen-Constable Baldock's inadequate investigation was not a deliberate attempt to pervert the course of justice.
The tribunal heard she had taken positive steps to preserve evidence and isolate witnesses.
The tribunal member said although there were shortcomings in the officer's conduct, it was not misconduct.
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Glen's Boy Scout Breakout
This month, Glen shared with us some great games and activities to use with our Troops and Crews. Many of these came from BSA Publication 33588, Troop Program Resources for Scout Troops and Varsity Teams.
The 2010 version is available online from the BSA to download. Specifically, Glen wanted to call our attention to pages 23 through 77 where the games are listed.
He also shared with us material from the TV show "Are you tougher than a Boy Scout?" This included each of the challenges on the show that could be done on a Troop or Patrol level as part of the Tough Scout Challenge.
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THE work of some of the top children's book illustrators is being showcased by the National Trust in North Yorkshire.
An exhibition at Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley is focusing on the whimsical and the nonsensical until September 7.
Images include work by four artists known for the bright, colourful and stylised worlds they create; Quentin Blake, Rebecca Cobb, Nick Butterworth and Gillian Tyler.
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The exhibition has been provided by the Chris Beetles Gallery in London, which has been working with the hall for about ten years and has a wide variety of artists and photographers on their books.
The hall's general manager Mollie Dodd said: "We love summer as we always host an exhibition for children and over the years we've had some really special ones.
"This particular collection of artists are fabulous and really appeal to children's tastes. The exhibition is bright and colourful and we hope children will be inspired to get drawing themselves in our activities room and at home."
Nunnington Hall is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm and Mondays in school holidays. For more information about visiting contact 01439-748283 or visit nationaltrust.org.uk/nunningtonhall


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Have you seen Crossfire Hurricane, the HBO documentary highlighting the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary? I loved getting new insights into some of the band's essential songs. For example, as vintage concert footage rolls, Keith Richards says "Anybody else could've written any of our other songs, but I don't think anybody could've written "Midnight Rambler" except Mick and me. And nobody else would've thought of making an opera out of the blues." Then, of course, there's Keith's trademark death rasp of a laugh.
A return to the violent 1969 Altamont concert chilled me to the bone, but the five-decade retrospective of Mick's tight-trousered, booty-shaking fashion statements kept me smiling. More on the Stones 50th at http://93XRT.com.
And I'll play some Stones first thing in the morning Saturday or Sunday. Wondering which parts of the documentary stood out for you?
The Rolling Stones' 'Crossfire Hurricane' Documentary To Debut This November


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Review of At Any Price, Directed by Ramin Bahrani
Profoundly American and profoundly disturbing, At Any Price, the newest release by acclaimed director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo, Chop Shop), strikes at the heart of our enterprise and reveals the broken souls drifting along this cycle of greed. The Whipple family is steeped in Iowa's agriculture business, which must "expand or die." In one sense, the Whipples and their neighboring farmers are required to play this game of economies of scale, but Bahrani takes it further and indicts the American conscience of letting an agricultural economy driven by greed take root in the soul of our nation.
The themes of the film collapse on one another. At the broadest level, the United States engulfs this film and permeates it through and through. Wading in this Americana, we confront the father-son relationship in all its sinful glory. And through this confrontation, we truly understand Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid), our quintessential American farmer. The thread weaving through these interrelated themes is greed.
For the sake of my meditation (that's what this is essentially) on At Any Price, the plotline will not be explained until section two, where I consider the father-son relationship.
I. America Adrift
The unashamedly American essence of At Any Price is distilled in a scene before a "figure eight" race is about to begin. Each car carries the U.S. flag, snapping in the air as the drivers cruise in single file, to the music of the anthem. The audience stands at attention, right hand over heart, singing the words in their own unique voices (some tone deaf). Unlike most films which focus on the players on the field, or in this case the drivers, Bahrani focuses on individual members of the audience, while the anthem acts as background music. The anthem takes on an almost haunting nature, as if saying, this film is about America in all its virtue and vice.
At Any Price features the American agriculture economy where farms get increasingly larger as tracts of land are absorbed. Farming is mechanized, and genetically modified crops (GMCs) are king.
Henry Whipple is nostalgic for the old days when farming was a mix of crops and animals and things were done with your own hands in the dirt—a sentiment that would make Wendell Berry proud. Henry's father, Cliff Whipple, is quick to remind him of the back-breaking labor that goes hand-in-hand with such a naive vision of an illusory golden era of agriculture. More concretely, Cliff is glad to have GPS-directed tractors. In the popular imagination, the United States is unique in the way it practices agriculture, with the machines and the oligopolies, on cropland that stretches to the horizon. Big agriculture is a pillar of the American economy and the American enterprise.
Along with the mechanization of agriculture came the revolution of GMCs. At Any Price is not a documentary nor is it an education film per se, so the whole controversy behind GMCs is largely left alone. Bahrani, however, does provide enough information for the viewers to understand the basic legal issues. When farmers use GMCs, they do not wash the seeds produced by the crops and use them the next season, as was the case in the past. Instead, farmers must purchase a new batch from the company, which has expended millions of dollars to research and develop these superior crops. Farmers are not allowed to reuse and not allowed to sell. An informative documentary on this is Food, Inc., which discusses genetically modified food in general, both meats and crops (the documentary is anti-GM food, and is available on Netflix).
So the context is the United States. We have agriculture writ large across the screen, and we also have Henry's son, Dean (Zac Efron), who wants to leave the farming life and go into car racing, which is another American cultural icon. Bahrani does a masterful job introducing us to the Whipple family as integrated into this American fabric of life. There is a seamless unity between the characters and their backdrop and we can get lost in the concepts being thrown around when it comes to the way agriculture is done nowadays, if you are an urbanite like myself with a simplistic view about farming.
II. Like Father, Like Son
As in the past, there is an inheritance aspect to agriculture. Cliff Whipple passed down a successful farm to Henry Whipple. Now it's Henry Whipple's turn to expand the business, get more customers, and buy more land, so that when he hands it over to his son, the inheritance is better than when he got it. And it is at this transition, between Henry Whipple and his son Dean that we find ourselves.
The storyline is not easy to summarize because its richness is found in the relationships, and relationships are messy. Henry intends to hand off the family business to his elder son, Grant, who has left for college. Grant pursues other dreams and spends most of the film studying abroad in Argentina, which leaves Dean, the younger son. But Dean hopes to get out of Iowa, forsake farming, and race cars, and had assumed that he'd escaped such an inheritance since that burden fell to Grant. Therein lies the conflict.
(SPOILERS below until end of section)
Henry is unsatisfied. In his work, Henry's in constant competition with Jim Johnson, who has a larger clientele and throws more weight in the business community. This goes beyond normal competition, reaching down to Henry's pride and valuation of his own worth. When Henry learns that a client has decided to buy from Jim Johnson, he is personally distraught while Jim maintains a professional composure. We also learn that Henry violated the rules of Liberty, the GMC company in this drama. Not only did Henry wash seeds and replant them, but he sold them as well. All this out of unhealthy ambition.
In his family, Henry is unsatisfied with his children—Grant and Dean want to leave farming life—and with his wife—he is committing adultery with a woman named Meredith Crown.
Dean, too, is unsatisfied. Dean wants to be a professional race car driver, not a farmer as his father has slated out for him to be after Grant is out of the picture. After being scoped out by a race recruiter, Dean is offered the chance to make it big and take his amateur racing on the dirt tracks to the professional level. Unfortunately, he loses his nerve on the racetrack and fails to perform. Finding no comfort in his family nor in his girlfriend, he turns to alcohol and ends up sleeping with Meredith Crown as well.
There are lots of parallels here, as you can see. For Henry, the desire to make much of himself and make his father proud has led him to take the expansion of his farming enterprise to a personal level that is arguably the manifestation of greed. When Henry's wife admits to her knowledge of his affair with Meredith, she bemoans the fact that Henry can't see what he has in front of him. He's not content.
Like father, like son. Dean, too, is not content. But Dean's problem is different in that he doesn't want more of what he already has; he wants something else entirely. This is not necessarily condemnatory in and of itself, just like ambition isn't wrong inherently. The pitfall comes with Dean's attitude and motivations, which come out loud and clear in the film. And like his father, his discontentedness bears the fruit of sexual immorality. Though not married, Dean is committed to his girlfriend and violates that mutual agreement of exclusivity. The sins of the father are explicitly visited upon the son, reified by the fact that it's the same woman—a disturbing fact that underlines the loathsome deed.
But that's not all. Things spiral out of control when Liberty agents investigate the Whipple farm after receiving a tip that Henry sold washed seeds and enters an even graver level when these agents start testing the Whipple fields for traces of replanted seeds. Dean, suspecting Jim Johnson gave Liberty the tip, gets into a scuffle with Jim Johnson's son, Dean's counterpart in this Whipple-Johnson rivalry. This violent wrestling ends when Dean kills the Johnson kid. He commits this murder in a cornfield no less. I could not but help hear the words: "But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death" (James 1:14-15).
Dean perfects what Henry has started. Whipple greed and unhealthy ambition has led to death.
III. The Man Has Lost His Way
Henry Whipple is an ordinary man. He's not an agricultural heavyweight like Jim Johnson. He has two sons, a wife, a sizable farm. But this does not stop him from going to extraordinary lengths to seize what he believes will satisfy him. He's an ordinary man with extraordinary appetites. The appetite for more land, more clients, more sex.
The ending of the film is debatable. There is a tension in the air. Dean's crime is never discovered. Henry wins back a former client that was lost to the Johnsons. The 12th annual Whipple customer appreciation day goes without a hitch. And in his closing speech at that appreciation day, Henry proclaims himself to be a happy man. But is he?
We are left with an unsettling image of Henry looking downcast, furrow-browed and troubled, as he hands the microphone to Dean as his successor. Though the final scene is of them dancing, with the sun streaming through the trees, I can't help but think that Bahrani has left us feeling the lack of resolution to encourage soul searching. Is this the America that we know? Is this the America that actually is?
IV. Greed as Virtue?
Is the harnessing of greed what makes capitalism great? That's a great question for another day, but it tugs at the fibers of At Any Price. Where is the line between ambition and greed? What happens when capitalism ceases to be merely an economic philosophy and becomes a social philosophy as well?
My concluding thoughts will be based on just one scene. Henry Whipple and Jim Johnson are sitting in a diner, sharing coffee. Perhaps due to gnawing guilt, Henry informs Jim Johnson that he has won back a client previously lost to Jim, which makes Henry the top dog in that county again. Henry offers to give that client back to Jim, but Jim resolutely says that that was inappropriate. Business was business and Henry won the client through his diligence, whereas Jim neglected to follow-up with this particular client. Henry is speechless. This makes no sense. Jim shows no sense of personal loss at his defeat and is not refusing to take back the client in a pretense of honor hiding pride.
Ambition needs to be rescued (as Dave Harvey argues in Rescuing Ambition). Ambition lies in the realm of common grace and healthy ambition should be affirmed, whether you find this emulated in Paul's glorious ambition to preach Christ where he had not been named before, lest he build on someone else's foundation (Romans 15:20), or in Weber's Protestant ethic or capitalism. But we must never mistake ambition and greed as synonyms.
After this heady meditation, let's take a breath. Should you watch this film? Yes. Yes. Yes. Bahrani has given us a thought provoking story that both entertains and troubles. Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron deliver excellent performances. At Any Price is the best movie I've seen so far this year.
Kendrick Kuo is pursuing graduate studies in international affairs at Johns Hopkins University. He also blogs at The Asian Crescent.


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February 16, 2011 BY Aaron Hope
The OG Reebok Insta Pump Fury featured a colorway for the ages. Its mix of black, red, white and an almost radioactive shade called Citron is something you simply cannot miss, but did you know that's not the only original Insta Pump palette? Check out the new Insta Pump Fury 'Tricolore', a colorway that just from its Air 180 'Ultramarine' look is clearly hearkening back to an earlier time. But these aren't like other releases we've seen offering an homage to RBK's biggest competitor, but rather visual proof that pretty much the entire world was keyed in on neon-leaning high contrast looks back in the early '90s. And the way things are looking, we're in store for a surge of exuberant fashions so the timing of this release is just perfect. Click through to see more shots and stick with Sneaker News for word on the US release. via mita sneakers.
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