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And my dog died, too.
For some months I believed, simply enough, that this year was just a bad year, a particular period with much death and cancer. So when my 17-year-old hound dog passed on this winter, it was more than just her time. Missi's demise was one more bleak moment in a year that began with my mother-in-law's funeral.
My wife's mother was good company -- not in some obvious loquacious manner, but in ways unexpected and sharp. One holiday I cooked an elaborate meal, all the time keeping a wary eye on the whereabouts of Missi, a dog who would eagerly swipe the Eucharist out of the baby Jesus' mouth if it smelled like food. Thus engaged, I missed my other dog, Sadie, devouring the stuffing I'd hand-crafted for a dozen guests.
When I discovered the theft, the top of my skull came off and, I am told, I kicked the miscreant, who tore off, out the door, not to be seen again. After dessert, but before coffee, I was combing the neighborhood, calling for the missing dog. Sadie? SADIE! Up and down the driveway, through the front and back yards, out into the street, around the block, I called that dog's name in every voice register, deep and high, and all at top volume. You can do a lot of dog calling and thinking at the same time: How would I explain to the kids that the dog had left us because, well, because their father had kicked the dog? No one kicks a dog. Am I some sort of hillbilly? Do hillbillies even kick their dogs? I did not sleep much that night.
The next morning the missing dog showed up walking safely behind the legs of my wife's mother. The two of them had been in the guest bedroom the entire time. The two of them had just sat there listening to me calling, "SADIE!" The two of them had said not a peep. One of them had figured I could just shout myself hoarse.
We buried my mother-in-law on a cold morning in Salt Lake with a brace of veterans discharging rifles in honor of her years as an Army captain in World War II. My sons got their first taste of Funeral Potatoes and molded Jell-O in numerous colors, a vestige of their Mormon ancestry that conflicts warmly with the Irish wakes that are the other half of their grieving heritage.
I wondered how many of the Mormon devout at the services knew that my mother-in-law smoked marijuana as a young girl in rural Idaho during the depression.
I figure it's people like my mother-in-law -- fine, decent, hardworking, imperfect citizens -- who've quietly smoked pot that account for the remarkable record of marijuana at the polls. Pro-pot measures have passed twice in the notoriously law-and-order Arizona, the first time with 65 percent of the vote.
Back in Phoenix, Missi's time came and we made a Mexican roadside shrine for her. An elaborate tin cross sheltered pictures of the old girl and we buried her remains beneath a stand of Baja cactus in the backyard. Her water dish still sits in my office.
But no matter what ceremony we undertook, the prospect of death lingered, the phone kept ringing and throughout the year people announced that they were fighting cancer.
I don't know if medical marijuana would have helped them, but it sure would have helped me.
My friend's father has lung cancer. A colleague developed cancer of the larynx. A co-worker's brother dropped dead unexpectedly and the autopsy revealed two hidden cancers raging inside. A neighbor's cancer returned. A friend's mother was discovered to have a tumor attached to an organ. Skin cancer lesions were mentioned, only in passing, though, because even if they were carving holes in your head, it didn't really count unless the cancers were malignant.
The phone again: "Mike, I wanted to tell you, I have prostate cancer."
I have never had a ballot issue hit so close to home as this November's Proposition 203, the medical marijuana measure. Under a doctor's supervision, the sick and dying would have access to pot. More important still, the possession of up to two ounces of marijuana would be decriminalized. Violators would face civil fines of no more than $250.
It is long since time.
Years ago, I got the first cancer call from a friend, Deborah Laake, a best-selling author who'd discovered a tumor in her breast. I didn't know what to do. No matter how many calls you get, you never know what to do. You have to fight the urge to run.
Some people retreat from each other during a bout with cancer. Not Laake. She pulled all of her friends closer. I went to chemotherapy with her. Everyone went to chemo with her. She deepened her ties with others, like my wife, at small dinner parties where, in the beginning, hats were selected for the stylish bald woman about town, and later, in hilarious show-and-tell cocktail soirees where Laake's new breasts were too obviously featured. My mother-in-law broke bread with Deborah during this dramatic period, the two of them wonderfully misbehaving Mormons, each with a glass of wine, one quicker than the other to laugh. Laake's book, a memoir, had gotten her excommunicated from the church. My mother-in-law, then in her 70s, read Deborah's book in Salt Lake on the sly.
I imagine my mother-in-law in Salt Lake with Laake's book, Secret Ceremonies, smoking a joint and laughing out loud with members of a book club. What would have been the harm? It didn't happen, but it's what I like to imagine.
Deborah beat breast cancer, but, a few short years afterward, succumbed to depression and committed suicide. At the memorial service, a law professor regaled the mourners with a wonderfully picaresque tale of driving around the streets of Phoenix, in low-income neighborhoods, trying to score pot for Deborah during the chemo phase of her cancer.
Leave it to Laake. Half the people at the memorial service could have brought her all the pot she would have needed, but, instead, she asks the innocent law professor to try to score for her. Some friendships are more complicated, and funnier, than others. And, despite the professor's stumbling, Laake had some very strong grass during her convalescence.
Since that first cancer call from Laake, I've known a number of men with prostate cancer. The good news is that they detect it early these days. The bad news is that a successful surgery often mangles your sex life. Under these circumstances, the love of a good mate cannot be replaced by any drug, even one as soothingly supple as marijuana. But if two men have renewed a friendship with a road journey, or eaten a fish caught by the cancer survivor, gone out onto the deep ocean together under sail, what does law enforcement have to do with those men and a joint?
The phone again: "Mike, we've been estranged too long. Let's talk. Give me a call."
The voice behind these sweet words belonged to retired newspaper columnist Tom Fitzpatrick.
Quick to recognize a heart larger than my own, I phoned back, and Tom, who'd never had the cigarette addiction, told me he had lung cancer.
"It's from all those years of hanging around in smoky bars with assholes like you," he explained.
Who could argue?
Unlike prostate cancer, news of lung tumors never has a good ending.
"I've lost all my weight, all my hair and all my muscle tone," said Tom, "but I'm alive."
I drove to Tom's home and we talked. Some days we only gossiped. Fitzpatrick loved to gossip and often ended conversations once he'd run out of dish. He described a former daily journalist's ongoing scams and frauds upon hospitals, insurance companies, car rental agencies and, apparently, anyone and everyone the ex-reporter came into contact with. Fitz still had the eye for detail. You could see why he'd won a Pulitzer.
Tom asked about my boys, which wasn't like him. He wondered if the oldest son had ever read the copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island that Fitz had given him. He talked about his own children, proud of their achievements but shamed by his absence from their early lives.
"But kids forgive you," he said.
We attempted lunch a couple of times at Avanti, a charming place where Tom was still befuddled by the menu.
We convinced ourselves that he would write a story for us about the man who car-bombed journalist Don Bolles. Tom said the killing was the reason he'd wanted to come to Arizona in the first place. The murderer, John Harvey Adamson, had served his sentence and Tom had stayed in touch with the killer and his girlfriend.
After one lunch, Tom had me drive him into the Phoenix Country Club and gave me directions to the home under construction for the owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Phoenix Suns, Jerry Colangelo. Fitzpatrick did not approve. The stone work was not to his taste. Colangelo was not to his taste.
Damn near dead, Tom was still capable of a slap in the teeth.
Tom called one night laughing out loud and told my wife that he had a picture of John Harvey Adamson wearing an Osama bin Laden tee shirt.
"Isn't that wonderful?" asked Tom.
Tom said the killer and his girlfriend reminded him of Rodya Raskolnikov and Sonia Semyonovna in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Whenever I stopped by, Fitzpatrick made sure to have a legal pad out and a pencil as if my arrival was detaining him from making a phone call to advance his article. He doled out pictures of Adamson, one or two each time, as if I might not come back without the promise of another print.
Years earlier, journalism between us was loud enough to end in silence and separation. Now we padded around his tale of a killer like dogs circling before lying down for the night in front of banked embers.
I'd been married in this man's backyard and now I was stepping around oxygen tanks on my way out of his living room.
John Harvey Adamson died.
Then Tom Fitzpatrick died.
I'm not going to tell you what Tom went through. He'd have written that down if he wanted you to know.
But I do want you to think about how it ends with cancer.
Abba Kovner, a fabled Jewish resistance fighter who led the Vilna ghetto uprising against the Nazis in World War II, wrote about his own fatal cancer in the recently published Sloan-Kettering.
His blanket is still wet from the night.
How he longed for the night to end.
To extricate his bare feet
from sinking in the gooey bog
of another life:
naked they are placedon scales one then another
to weigh their chance of remaining alive.
The hand of a young nurse --
for a thousand two hundred days he has known
no one like her -- holding his arm.
Supporting his hips, without noticing
touching what had been his privates and without
embarrassment continuing to talk about him
as though talking about ancient shards --
they could not understand how such a skeleton
could still remain alive.
They could not imagine that this was a man
who had fought the world
and soul,
it was not he who had given life a name
of such fatuity --
his blanket is still wet from the night.
Until the duty nurse arrives,
he will reclaim his bare feet
from the place into which he has now declined,
revive his frozen toes,
stroke his heels, feel
the dividing line between
a body feeble but alive
and a swamp that smells of death.
It was devastating to see Tom in his final, frail days; cancer, any cancer, horrifies me. What can you do? I find myself trying simply to embrace my friends and relatives, to stay in their company. I force myself not to flee. There is human warmth in the presence of the weakest breath. Marijuana, for some, helps. Whatever gets you through the night is a depressing sentiment when clung to early in life, but it will take on the resonance of Chet Baker's horn as the years pass.
Tom and I never smoked dope together. Not in the old days, not at the end. He wasn't that kind of guy.
I was that kind of guy.
The familiar patter of work comforted our awkward companionship, but the time apart eddied with anxiety. I never left Tom after a visit at the end that I didn't think: I could use a joint right now.
Today, looking back on this year of death and cancer, I believe that I was wrong to imagine that I'd hit an unlucky patch. I'm 54, the age when I should adjust to mortality, my own and everyone else's. My phone will keep ringing. Eventually, I will make my own phone calls.
There is a part of me that looks at the medical marijuana measure and wonders: Is this simply a marketing gimmick? Are the ballot organizers counting upon the demographics of baby boomers who are confronting death and cancer, the same way that I am, to pass this measure?
Of course they are. So what?
It is important to take steps to speak honestly about marijuana, and decriminalizing possession of pot, a key component of Proposition 203, is only the first step. But it is an important step, not for baby boomers who have figured out how to score their grass and not get busted, but for kids who confuse pot with heroin, speed, fumes and all the other toxic elixirs that overwhelm the will to resist.
The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards has said famously, "Let me be clear about this: I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem."
Anyone who has ever taken a close gander at Richards knows that this is a lot of crap. Don't try to sell me the glory of being a junkie. Nor is anyone arguing that we should accept school-age kids using pot any more than we accept them using Jack Daniel's.
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Endorsing a more sensible policy on marijuana is a conservative step that distinguishes the herb from the truly dangerous stuff.
Last week I sat in a school auditorium and watched an anti-drug program called Not My Kid. An Arizona mother and son team tours campuses lecturing about the dangers of drugs. The son was a stunning example of addictive behavior who, like Kitty Dukakis, appeared capable of ingesting anything in volume. In junior high he was bolting down shots out of a flask before class. In college, a friend had him snorting Ritalin, the pharmaceutical prescribed for kids with attention-deficit disorder. He had an interesting response to snorting Ritalin. He said that the grade school appearances of police officers in the DARE program had programmed him to think that snorting anything would lead to his death. When the Ritalin didn't kill him, he figured the authorities were full of it, period.
Perhaps if we were more truthful about the relatively benign effects of grass, kids would listen when we speak the truth about meth.
As I write this, a friend has e-mailed that he'll be in Arizona soon. He wants to sit down. He is making the journey because his mom has just been told she has breast cancer. I'm looking forward to seeing him. We'll have a shot and a beer. We'll have whatever he wants.


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My trip to Ocean Pines has been delayed until tomorrow after the area was blanketed by more than a foot of snow.
Meanwhile, it's a sunny morning in Sykesville and that light dusting is gone.
It must be those 50 mph winds. I thought my car might end up in another parking spot.
I asked a few days ago which teams besides the Orioles and Nationals were looking for a first baseman. The Padres reached agreement with Brad Hawpe and the Rangers appear to have settled on Mitch Moreland.
As for the Rays, Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times suggests that they'll go with Dan Johnson or sign someone like Casey Kotchman.
Topkin adds: "Expect clarity after Adam LaRoche and Derrek Lee sign elsewhere."
Again, it's hard for me to imagine a scenario where the Orioles don't sign one of them. The offers are on the table. How long are these guys going to hold out for a better one?
A few readers have suggested that the Orioles trade for Billy Butler or Yonder Alonso. Would you rather pay for a free agent or hand over the young pitching necessary to obtain a first baseman from another organization?
Butler could serve as the Royals' designated hitter, with Kila Ka'aihue playing first base. Alonso is blocked by National League MVP Joey Votto of the Reds.
Butler is more proven. Alonso might be more available.
Of course, the Orioles could settle for one of the other free agents, or move Luke Scott to first base and sign a full-time designated hitter. We've examined those possibilities until we're blue in the face.
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That hum. That sweet mechanical Underworld hum.
From day one Underworld have been innovators, not imitators, smashing up dancefloors with big-fish-little-fish cuts like 'Pearl's Girl', soothing morning-after clubbers with 'Jumbo' and replenishing seratonin levels with 'Bruce Lee'. In 2006 their Ground Zero is being constantly revisited, now with maturity, though never losing the sweet youthful innocence that has fueled their creativity for the last eighteen years.
RA is lucky enough to be bedfe.. err.. webfellows of the Underworld collective and thus we snapped up an exclusive interview with frontman Karl Hyde to check the pulse of his good self and Rick Smith. It turns out they have a clean bill of health, each new project bringing light in as they (almost) effortlessly continue to lay down tracks for the future. Hummmmm.
A river runs through it
If you really are an Underworld fan, you'll be no stranger to the Riverrun project that has jumped up in the last eighteen months on their Underworldlive website. In fact, you can't really claim true fanboy/fangoil status without nodding solemnly when the names 'Pizza For Eggs' and 'Lovely Broken Things' pop up. The third in the Riverrun series was released on June 5th and elects to show the more sinister, film noir underbelly of the Underworld aesthetic. Titled 'I'm a Big Sister, and I'm A Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This is My Horse', all four tracks have the hum that hints at the elevator muzak Willy Wonka should have piped into his chocolate factory. Twisted, creepy and irresistible.
Underworld have taken their music back from underneath the radar, free from record company shackles. You can't be their part-time lover anymore; you must be proud, passionate and paid-up (at a mere five pounds) to plunder the latest treasures of Hyde and Smith. I suggest to Karl this is making their fans more discerning and more proactive:
"We're falling in line with the way things have been going for a long while. We're pleased people are coming to our site and buying stuff and getting some free things," he enthuses. "We decided to do this when Rick was selling 12 inches out of the back of the car. We wanted to go from very high profile on billboards and pages of magazines to being a word-of-mouth thing. We had to get out of the system that requires us to fulfill certain obligations in ways that don't always suit the artist."
"Hence the gap between their last album '100 Days Off' and their next effort, which should see the light of day before 2006 is out.
"We used to do our market research by pressing up our own 12"s and getting Darren Emerson to play them out on the dancefloor. Now the Internet allows us to do all those things much more easily and reach a much wider audience. To normal people who find us in the Sunday supplements and mainstream radio and television, we might appear to have gone quiet, but to those people who live in web world, we're really quite loud," Hyde sniggers. "The next phase of our journey will be to marry the two. The next album will be just that!"
A new album? Hyde doesn't want to separate Underworld's current work from the upcoming album just yet. He's keen to keep us guessing. Is controlling the music liberating?
"It is!" he replies, shouting into the phone so loudly it crackles with static. "Creatively, we get to write and publish new work in ways that suit us, offering a much needed alternative to our traditional album scheduling."
The idea behind the Riverrun project is to give the listener the Underworld experience in the same amount of time it takes to hear one side of an old vinyl album but to Hyde it's all about the liberation:
"After we did the 'Everything Everything' DVD, we started publishing the web diary and putting something on the Internet every day. It was so empowering and so liberating, that feeling that if we've got an idea we could put it out right now. And you'll get a response to it straight away right there in the forum. Someone will read it and someone will get turned on to other music. You can turn people on to art and to books and to cool stuff that you're thinking about."
He's on a roll now:
"We've developed this so we can communicate like we're on a stage or a radio show – we've been doing the web show Riverrun for over a year now. On the last show we interfaced with a national radio show in Holland (VPRO). We're getting into connecting up around the world live from our studio. It's something we talked about in the early eighties. Wouldn't it be great to be in more than one place at the one time? Later this year our plan is to do that and be present in lots of places."
The Internet activities of Underworld have also opened up new ears and old archives:
"I know what you mean. It's very empowering to put out all this music so people can hear it for the first time with fresh ears. We have so much work in our archives. Now when we do the web shows we can give stuff away. It's a case of us saying here's some cool music, we really like it and we want to give it to you and we don't want you to pay for it. Otherwise it's just going to sit in a drawer. We're trying to find a way of giving value for money and pricing things fairly. Of course," he exhales, "we understand that some people will take it without paying. That's life. But we wanted to address things we thought were not going in the right direction with some of the more traditional ways of putting out music."
By the time of the second release 'Pizza For Eggs', the Riverrun series was piping hot:
"It went great sales-wise. The whole thing is self-supporting so we can carry on doings things we want to do. We are supported by a really good team of people who understand what it is we're trying to say. I don't know how they do that. Nobody else ever did," he laughs. "We'd like to release unreleased and other music via our website concurrently with physical releases. There's a bunch more stuff we are very excited to put out. At this point we don't envisage returning to purely physical releases but there's going to be a few 12 inches coming out over the next couple of months. Hang on, I'll just check with Rick in the studio."
Gulp. I break into a cold sweat. I hear a door swing open as Karl interrupts Rick hard at work. A very Dubnobasswithmyheadman bassline hums over a murky kickdrum. "Oi, Rick! What twelves are coming out?" Double gulp. That's live Underworld music I can hear. Hyde returns to the phone after eighteen seconds of muffled studio bliss:
"'Delta Tokyo', 'Peggy Sussed' and 'Play Pig' are coming out as well as remixes by people like Pig and Dan, Paul Woolford, Pete Heller. We're both in a state of 'Who are we today?'" I hear laughter all round. "I'm not reading this off a cue sheet," he jokes as RA thanks him for the exclusive studio snippet that will NEVER be taped over. All the tunes he mentioned appeared on the most recent Lemonworld broadcast and you can bet your bottom dollar they'll slot in nicely on their sixth album.
"We've got two film scores that we're finishing off, a new physical album, a new download and a new Misterons mix which comes free for anyone who has bought the first. We're going to put out another 2CD live album because the first one did terribly well. It's just mental here!" Hyde yells with tears of joy in his voice, I shit you not. "Every time someone says 'I have an idea' you hear the collective groan go up, then in five minutes we're all charged going 'Yeah, wicked. Let's go for it!'"
Underworld vaulted into the ears of many on the soundtrack of Danny Boyle's 'Trainspotting'. Hyde informs RA that Boyle is up to his old tricks again roping them in for a soundtrack:
"We got a call from Danny Boyle about the film 'Sunshine' and we're like 'No, Danny, we can't take on anything else. We've got all this stuff.' And he was saying 'That's cool, just come and have a look at it.' So we went along, because he's a good mate, and as we left the cinema we're like 'Bastard! You knew that was going to get us! What a great film!" Hyde enthuses.
Underworld have also composed a score an Anthony Minghella film with soundtrack veteran Gabriel Yared:
"What a lovely man and so open-minded. We formed a little group with him during the 'Breaking and Entering' soundtrack. He would come in the studio and improvise with us. We'd start playing with his acoustic instruments and electronic instruments and just jam together. The people we were working with in Abbey Road Studios were saying to us 'We've never seen the maestro like this. What's going on?' And we would just say 'Whaddyamean? This is how we work!' We were working with orchestras and all kinds of amazing things."
"You're doing well for a guy that's pushing twenty three," I offer, swept up in the I'm-in-the-Underworld-machine-just-for-a-moment vibe. "I'm actually 26," laughs Hyde, this year 47 years young and a living epitome of the saying 'Youth isn't an age, it's a state of mind.'
"Bloody right. I'm not ready to lie down. I'm not having that."
That's freedom, baby. All things considered, dear reader, the Underworld train is set to keep on humming. Dark and long.


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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, June 14 (UPI) -- Several Canadian officers in the Niagara Regional Police Department have been disciplined for cheating on promotion exams, the department chief said.
The incident came to light Monday in a release in which the force said six to eight of some 75 constables hoping to become sergeants and sergeants working to make the rank of staff sergeant were writing exams in April, The (St. Catharines) Standard reported.
Police Chief Wendy Southall told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. an officer tipped the force off in May that some of the candidates had acquired the test and answers in advance.
Because the officers weren't charged, their names were not released, but all were eliminated from the process and given undisclosed disciplinary penalties, the CBC said.
However, all of them will be eligible to write the exam again next year, the reports said. The force said the exam process will be completely revamped before next year.
Meanwhile, police union spokesman Paul Di Simoni told The Standard the officers shouldn't be judged too harshly for the alleged misconduct.
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Holidaymakers surf to safety
One of the British backpackers who was stuck on a stricken boat near Bali has told how he surfed to safety.
Oliver Vetter was one of four surfers who paddled to shore on their boards to seek help for the 12 other travellers on board the vessel.
The alarm had earlier been raised by a Scottish teenager who sent a text message from her mobile phone because the stranded boat had no radio communications.
But Mr Vetter has emerged unruffled from the "pretty intense situation" and plans to continue his travels with some of the new friends he made on the boat.
"We just want to get some decent waves."
Mr Vetter told BBC Scotland that he first learned about the boat trip at the guest house where he was staying on a surfing trip to Bali.
He was asked if he wanted to join the others and make up the numbers on the journey to the island of Lombok.
They were within sight of the shore in rough waves when disaster struck on Wednesday.
"The two outboard motors were swamped by waves and they just shut down," he said.
"The crew just started praying and that worried us slightly.
"We realised they had no radio and no form of communication with anyone."
The captain did have a mobile phone with him - but could not make outgoing calls because it had run out of credit.
That was when 19-year-old Rebecca Fyfe, from Ballantrae in Ayrshire, sent a mayday text message from her mobile phone to her boyfriend Nick Hodgson in England.
She asked him to phone the coastguard at Falmouth to let them know that they were in trouble.
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The group's morale received a boost when the coastguard called back.
But they did not need the help of emergency services to get themselves back to dry land.
Mr Vetter told how he and three of the others decided to make a break for it after a night of rough waves and very little sleep on board the boat.
"We set up the sail again - which was just a tarpaulin with a couple of poles - but the current was taking us towards land.
"It was just lucky that we were coming closer and closer, and we were lucky that there was no reef, it was just beach."
With no money or possessions other than their surf boards, they travelled by bus to a police station where they found that the officers knew of their plight.
Matthew Smith, one of those who made it ashore, returned to the boat several hours later to tell them that help was on its way.
But it turned out that this was not the case and he had to spend another night on board before the remaining travellers and the boat's crew made it to dry land under their own steam the following day.
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Anne Arundel County officials say one person was killed during an attack in Maryland Thursday night.
Crews were called to the 7400 block of Railroad Avenue in Harmans just before 8 p.m. A man in his 40s was shot in the chest and later pronounced dead at a hospital. His death is being investigated as a homicide.
Police later said another victim was present during the attack but was able to escape. The suspect appeared to have been wearing a mask, police said, and the attack did not appear random.
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Hamilton (Ohio) inside linebacker Marcus Oliver was set to give the coaches at Miami a call this weekend. He was set to commit to the RedHawks. Oliver called all of the other coaching staffs recruiting him that he was still hoping to get an offer from, specifically Indiana. The Hoosiers coaches told him to do what is in his best interest.
But then the Hoosiers had a change of mind. Indiana offered the 6-foot-1, 211-pound Oliver late this week while Oliver talked with linebackers coach Mike Ekeler.
"He said Coach [Kevin] Wilson said to do what's best for me and commit to Miami," Oliver said. "Then he was on the phone with somebody talking to another recruit and he's asking who he could get for defense and he said my name came up again and it's always coming up."
The Hoosiers were a little curious as to why Oliver had offers from only Miami and FCS Eastern Illinois and hesitant to become Oliver's first BCS offer. While it took until an impending commitment to Miami for the Hoosiers to offer, Oliver did not take offense.
"It was pretty exciting. Coach Ekeler's been telling me he's wanted me forever and if it was up to him he'd offer," he said. "It's not like I'm Coach Ekeler's second choice or anything. It was crazy how it happened.
"Things have a weird way of happening."
With the offer, Oliver visited the Hoosiers for the fifth time for Saturday's game. It was the third game Oliver has visited for this season.
"I love the campus. It's a real nice campus," he said. "Coach Ekeler is a great guy."
Cincinnati offered Oliver a grayshirt opportunity Tuesday after recently visiting Toledo when it hosted the Bearcats. Coach Butch Jones gave Oliver a call.
"They said they want to find a way to get me into the program," Oliver said. "He said all the spots are taken but wants to find a way whether it's a grayshirt or someone leaving early. He said I'd be the first [to get a scholarship]."
With all this happening this week, Oliver has not thought much of whether he will take a full offer or Cincinnati's grayshirt option as he's always favored the Bearcats living so close to Cincinnati. With the Indiana offer, however, Oliver has a lot to think about.
"They've probably been in my top two or three the whole time," he said. "Cincinnati is my favorite from the beginning of all the recruiting stuff, but I've come to like Indiana.
"I don't really have a top one right now."
A commitment will come "as soon as possible," Oliver said.


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Hey, I'm very new here andd didn't want to be too alone on this wonderful site. Lol. I'm trying to get into landscape drawings but I'm not to sure what a good starting point is so if any you want to help me with that thanks and if any of you want to be my friend on here too then thank you very much good sir! Ma'am! Lol
If you're looking for company, try visiting DrawChat. There are always fun, social people in there.
Also, I'm not sure whether or not I can offer much help with landscapes. I wish that I was more experienced with them, but the quality of mine are really very poor.. All I can recommend is that you keep practicing= until you find a style that you're happy with.
Anyway, Welcome to RMD!
I'm sure you'll enjoy it here, and I hope to see more of you.
Beaches, sunsets, and silhouettes are a good place to start. Also be specific about what you want to learn for your landscapes like, clouds, trees, rocks, water, mountains, grass, colored skies. And by being specific i mean get photos of clouds, or look at them in the sky, and copy them until you can draw them from memory. Don't listen to people that say only draw from your head.
First put the knowledge in your head then you can draw from your memory.
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The Cavaliers are still down, but they are far from out of the Eastern Conference finals.
LeBron James, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Daniel "Boobie" Gibson made a myriad of clutch plays in the fourth quarter Sunday night, leading Cleveland to an 88-82 win over Detroit in
Game 3 of the best-of-seven series.
It marked the Cavaliers' first victory in the NBA's final four since May 25, 1992 — and was unquestionably the biggest win of James' four-year professional career.
"I could see if we just got over the hump, we could get one finally," James said. "Me being the leader of this team, I have to be that guy that sparks us. I have to be that guy that does it on both ends of the floor.
"But at the same time, my teammates have to respond also with me, and I guess we did it."
Did they ever. For the first time in the East finals, Cleveland matched the Pistons' intensity from start to finish and refused to be bullied into submission.
James also rose to his highest level during this postseason with game-highs of 32 points, nine rebounds, nine assists, two steals and 46 minutes.
He also made the three biggest shots of the game, all of which came in the final 7:22.
"All I can say about LeBron is, wow, what an unbelievable player," Cavaliers coach Mike Brown said. "He stepped up, put us on his shoulders and said, 'Come along for the ride.' We all hopped on, including me."
As good as James was, though, the key to the victory was his supporting cast.
Ilgauskas, Gibson and Drew Gooden teamed with "The Chosen One" to score all 26 of Cleveland's fourth-quarter points. Their confidence grew on every basket, as did the noise level inside Quicken Loans Arena.
As the clock wound down, the scene was nothing short of a celebration 15 years in the making. Strangers exchanged high-fives with one another in the stands. Some sitting courtside were lucky enough to get their hands slapped by a member of the Cavaliers.
"We knew it was gonna be electrifying tonight, first time (Northeast Ohio hosted an East finals game) since '92," James said. "I mean, they deserve it. We haven't had a Cleveland sports team or Ohio sports team win in a long time, so they really deserve it."
The Cavaliers also really deserved an evening like Sunday. After being unjustly ripped around the country for failing to win in Detroit earlier in the week, they came out and made a statement in front of the entire basketball world.
They can make an even bigger one by beating the Pistons in Game 4 on Tuesday night.
"That's what it's all about, buttoning down and playing as hard as you can," Gibson said. "I loved it out there tonight. And when the crowd is like that, it's fun to play for them. We look forward to doing it again."
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New technology sheds new light on Phoenix Lights phenomenon
The "Phoenix Lights" appeared in the Arizona sky 19-years-ago today!
Hundreds of people reported seeing lights from Phoenix to Tuscan and as far away as Nevada.
Some people believe the lights were UFO's from outer space, others maintain they were simply flares.
Fast forward 19 years and there is still not a clear explanation.
Hundreds saw the lights, but only a handful of people captured the Phoenix lights on camera, one being valley physician Dr. Lynne Kitei.
Almost two decades later and she says talking about the event is more important than ever, especially since she says new high tech analysis debunks some of the explanations offered.
"These were very different…these were orbs, the light was self-contained and it was uniform throughout," says Kitei. "It didn't glare, very different from anything I've ever seen."
Dr. Lynne Kitei had her first sighting in 1995. She saw bright lights outside her bedroom window.
"It was stunning; it was riveting to see as we watched the top orb started to implode very, very slowly as if there was intelligence behind it."
The doctor immediately snapped pictures with her 5mm camera.
Those images were quickly put out of sight, but never out of mind…and two years later they appeared again, this time, a phenomenon known as the Phoenix Lights.
"Just because we don't have the technology yet to define what these things are doesn't mean they aren't real," says Kitei. "We may just be looking on the AM dial for an FM frequency."
What she saw...what thousands of people saw...here in Arizona...Nevada and even California on March 13, 1997 has been studied, but no one has concluded what they were.
Until now says Dr. Kitei.
Her video explains the doctor was shot before 10:00 p.m. One other clip shot by someone else offers yet another perspective...a boomerang formation.
"Now there's a new analysis of that boomerang, as well, with new high tech stabilization that shows unequivocally that those lights didn't budge... never addressed in 19 years the multiple craft that people saw."
Answers may never come. The truth could be light years away, but for those like Dr. Kitei who saw with their very own eyes…March 13, 1997 will always be a day that changed their lives.
This afternoon an event was held at the Harkins Shea celebrating the anniversary of the lights.
A film was shown and several speakers were on hand at the event.


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ATLANTA - Georgia Power customers will see their electric bills rise beginning in 2011 to pay for the construction of two new nuclear reactors under a bill signed into law Tuesday by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.
The new law allows Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Co., to begin to collect some $1.6 billion in financing and equity costs early. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2017. It could be the first new nuclear project to break ground in the country in three decades.
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Utah Highway Patrol troopers and dozens of local law enforcement officers introduce the larger-than-life snow folks to remind shoppers to have a safe and happy holiday season, free from drunken driving, at The Gateway in Salt Lake City on Thursday.
"We are asking all Utahns to help keep our roads safe this holiday season. Don't drink and drive. Help those who have been drinking get home safe, and call us if you see someone driving impaired. Together, we can celebrate a safe and DUI-free holiday," said Sgt. Ted Tingey from the Utah Highway Patrol.


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Many theories of Feng Shui were said to be inspired by two very interesting and mysterious diagrams called River Map ( Ho Tu ) and Lo Shu . Lo Shu Square (simplified Chinese: 洛书; traditional Chinese: 洛書 ; literally: Luo (River) Book/Scroll) or the Nine Halls Diagram (simplified Chinese: 九宫图; traditional Chinese: 九宮圖), often in connection with the"Ho Tu (河圖) figure and 8 trigrams, is the unique normal magic square of order three. If we add the numbers from all three either diagonal or parallel sides will give 15 as the product.
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These numbers are said to be found written on the back of a turtle's shell. The pattern takes a forward movement starting from the center of the magic square which houses the number 5.


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YOUTH HOCKEY: Squirts take third at Brookings Hockey Tournament
BROOKINGS, S.D. -- The Worthington Trojans squirt hockey team won two of three games last weekend en route to a third-place finish at the Brookings Hockey Tournament.
Worthington fell behind 1-0 before scoring seven unanswered goals during a 7-1 victory against Brookings in the quarterfinals.
The Trojans' Carlos Garcia scored three goals for a hat trick. He was assisted by Jack Black (on two goals) and Kip Jenson (on one goal). Traeton Holt added two goals (assisted by Jenson, Colby Nickel and Zach Ahrenstorff). Black and Nickel also produced unassisted goals.
Jase Jenson scored five goals as Breckenridge/Wahpeton topped Worthington 7-6 in the semifinals.
Garcia netted four more goals for the Trojans (assisted by Kip Jenson and Krew Aljets). Black and Kip Jenson also added unassisted goals for Worthington.
Trojans goalie Eddie Canales turned away 31 of 38 shots in the loss.
Zach Ahrenstorff broke a 3-all third-period tie by scoring a top-shelf goal as Worthington earned third place after preserving a 4-3 win against OAHE (Pierre, S.D.).
With 5 minutes left, Ahrenstorff skated through the OAHE defense to put away the game-clinching goal.
Logan Kluever scored the first Trojan goal (unassisted) before Kip Jenson (Garcia assist) and Black had Worthington's next two tallies.
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Hi Everyone,
It's been a long time since I have been back on here and talked to anyone. I hope some of you will remember me. I'm sorry that I have been gone so long and thank you to anyone who pm'd me while I was away. I wasn't sure if I was ever going to come on here again. Not because I don't like this place, I LOVE PetTalk, but because of my life. I was just unhappy, and felt so ashamed that I had gotten rid of some animals due to my parents.
Anyways, here I am! I couldn't stay away forever :P Well, alot has happened since I was last on. About a year ago, I moved out of my parents house and moved in with (my boyfriend's at the time) parents, now he is my fiance. I still currently live with his parents and we are getting married on October 2nd this year! It is very exciting!
I am still on terms with my parents and talk with them and see them almost everyday, but I think it worked out better that I moved out. I found out that Bobo lived to be 17 and a half, but he was finally put to sleep and the vet said he had a serious sinus infection, and he had lost alot of weight. I will always miss him more than anything, and he is still a huge part of my life even though he is gone. I have his ashes in a nice wooden box, and an 8x10 picture of him on my wall, as well as many other memorabilia of him.
Away from the sad stuff, I still have a good amount of pets! I still have my 55gallon fish tank which has 6 goldfish in it. My fiance and I have a very cute bunny named Hojo, he is a really nice rabbit. Plus, we have a second 55 gallon that has cichlids, two angelfish, catfish, and a shark in it. And of course I still have the crazy Kalypso!! She doesn't live with me, because his parents don't like cats and litter, so she still lives with my parents, but I get to see her everyday! And come October 2nd, I will get to have her with me forever when we move into our own place. I just can't wait!
Anyways, sorry for the novel everyone. I should probably post some pictures of my current fish and my bunny, and Kalypso lol.
Here is a picture of me and my fiance, his name is Daniel, we were together when I was on here previously, so some of you might remember me being with him.
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Mary Padgelek's name tag is getting ready to fall off.
"You're just a loose woman," Catherine Hartley jokes after pointing this out.
This easy-going pair belong to an assemblage of eight female friends. Standing in the lobby of the Lyndon House Arts Center, the women kid one another and easily gab about each other's outfits.
The women in this circle of friends also talk about a weightier topic: making art.
Since the mid-1990s, the group has met regularly to offer each other support in the creative process, using the 1992 book "The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" by Julia Cameron as their guide.
Cameron, a New York poet, playwright and filmmaker, encourages artistic types to form this kind of group. "I envisioned them as peer-run circles - 'creative clusters' - where people would serve one another as believing mirrors, uniting with the common aim of creative unblocking," Cameron writes on her Web site.
The creative-cluster idea has certainly worked for this group of women, who all live in or around Athens. Work by these artists makes up "Visual Stories," an exhibit at the Lyndon House Arts Center that runs through Jan. 20.
"We all thought it would be a great thing to have an exhibit of our work," said Diane Barret, who belongs to the group. "Most of us are at a time of our life when we have a lot to share."
With "Visual Stories," the eight artists also took time to translate the ideas behind their pieces into words.
Becky Akin explains to gallery-goers that wanderlust often influences her work. Madeline Darnell harbors an obsession with the sky. Carole Chalmers often takes inspiration from members of her family
Barret believes these bits of explanation give "Visual Stories" depth. "I love getting into a show that has a lot of information," she said.
Each artist brings different types of work to the table. Margaret Agner paints with dyes on silk. Darnell is a painter and a printmaker. Akin takes photographs. Chalmers paints. Hartley is a potter. Carol Downs paints watercolors and art furniture. Padgelek makes mixed-media pieces that touch on the spiritual side of life.
Barret makes hangings and quilts, often out of fabrics she dyed herself. In her piece, "Hour of the Birds," that's included in "Visual Stories," a man and woman embrace while watching birds frolicking in a tree.
An essay that goes along with the work tells about how backyard birdwatching has become a joy for Barret and her husband.
"I'm beginning to think that an increased interest in birdwatching is a sign of aging. At least my passing notice of our avian friends has become a passion in my later years," explained Barret. "What a gift to find this much beauty in our own backyard."
Several of Darnell's pieces in the show, on the other hand, revolve around an interest she developed as a kid.
"I retain from childhood the fascination of a view from the window seat of an airplane," she wrote in an essay to go along with several paintings she made of clouds. "In those days I imagined what clouds looked like - dogs, castles, people and more.'
Playing among the clouds, she explained, has become her metaphor for creativity.
"Because it is a safe place for my imagination to work out problems whose solutions are not easy to find," she explained.
Padgelek displays several pieces in the show titled "Capella," which are small altars.
"They echo altars found recessed into stone walls in villages in European Catholic countries," Padgelek wrote in text that goes along with the work. "To me, they were reminders of the spiritual in the midst of everyday life."
From the spiritual realm to the side-splitter.
Hartley appropriately titled one of the most memorable pieces in the show "Necklace for an Elephant." That's because, well, the pottery looks like a necklace for an elephant.
"I often do things and then decide what they are," she explained in text that goes along with the work.
"Visual Stories" inspired some of the artists to create all new work. Others wanted to show how their art has progressed over the years, according to Darnell.
Each artist decided on her own which pieces to include in the exhibit. This "creative cluster" isn't the kind of artist group where members sit around and decide which piece of art succeeded and which didn't.
Instead, each member wants the other artists to grow in their work. Really. "We encourage each other," Padgelek said.
Chalmers has belonged to other artist groups where the artists get competitive with one another.
"It dries me up and breaks my heart," she said. "You can't be who you are."
In this group, the women only offer constructive criticism.
"We don't say, 'That's ugly!'" explained Downs. "We say, 'Have you considered this?'"
While several of the artists hold higher degrees, they make a point not to get highfalutin when discussing each other's work.
"We talk plain English in this group," said Agner. "No art speak."
The approach, said Chalmers, definitely works. "It causes each one of us to blossom."
If you go...
'Visual Stories'
Featuring works by Margaret Agner, Becky Akin, Diane Barret, Carole Chalmers, Madeline Darnell, Carol Downs, Catherine Hartley and Mary Padgelek
When: Through Jan. 20
Where: Lyndon House Arts Center, 293 Hoyt St.
Hours: Noon-9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays
Cost: Free
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U.S. Failed to Give Israel All Drafts of UN Resolution Ending Lebanon War
Israel forced to obtain other drafts of resolution ending Lebanon war from alternative intelligence sources.
The U.S. government failed to give Israel all the drafts of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 ending last summer's Lebanon war in real time, so Israel had to obtain some of the documents from other sources, Israeli government sources said.
The sources, however, said senior government officials ultimately did get all the drafts in time, and there were no delays or information gaps that impeded decision-making during the war.
According to some sources, Israel obtained the drafts not supplied by the Americans from intelligence sources.
The United States usually represents Israel's positions in the Security Council, and did so during the war as well. Since France served as Lebanon's proxy, Washington and Paris were the main negotiators on Resolution 1701.
The resolution underwent several drafts, some tilted more toward Israel and others toward Lebanon, and these drafts affected Israeli moves during the war, particularly toward the end. As a result, it was critical for Israel to obtain real-time versions of the drafts. However, American-Israeli coordination on this issue was imperfect.
In particular, the second-to-last draft, which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received on the morning of August 11, seemed to him much less favorable than the version on which he and Washington had agreed the previous night.
He later said this draft convinced him to launch a major ground operation during the war's final days in an effort to influence the Security Council. During these three days of fighting, 33 soldiers were killed.
Defense sources have accused the Winograd Committee, which is investigating the war, of not subjecting the diplomatic maneuvers to the same scrutiny given to military moves.
In response, Foreign Ministry sources have insisted that the ministry performed all its assignments successfully, that all drafts of the resolution were given to the government in real time, and that Israel's information campaign during the war enjoyed success until the bombing in Qana, which killed more than two dozen Lebanese and turned public opinion against Israel.
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Green Day Deliver Induction Speech for Guns N' Roses at Hall of Fame Ceremony
Pop-punker Billie Joe Armstrong took to the stage last night (April 14) with his Green Day bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool to deliver the induction speech for Guns N' Roses into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Lamb of God's Randy Blythe Joins Hatebreed on Stage
On Wednesday (April 4) the Sonic Metal Fest went down in Santiago, Chile and during Hatebreed's set a very special guest joined them on stage. Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe performed 'Doomsayer' with Hatebreed and it was all caught on film thanks to a fan, check out the video below.
John 5 Counts Down His Top 5 Favorite Guitarists
While guitar great John 5 gears up for the May 8 release of his latest solo effort, 'God Told Me To,' in addition to kicking off a new tour with Rob Zombie on May 11, we asked him to count down the five most influential guitar players who inspired him throughout his career.
Deftones To Begin Recording in July
The Cult's Billy Duffy Checks In at South By Southwest
Megadeth's Dave Mustaine: I Don't Want To Play With Satanic Bands
In a recent interview with the self-proclaimed libertarian Alex Jones on Infowars.com, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine opened up about some of his past controversial political comments in addition to a wide array of topics from his thoughts on playing with Satanic bands and how it felt to play with Metallica again.
Can You Guess Whose Tattoo This Is?
This tattoo is just one of many that the rocker has honoring his Native American heritage. This particular tattoo is a rendering of Chief Joseph, known for his peacemaking and humanitarian efforts. Chief Sitting Bull is featured on this inked musician's other arm.
Filter Heading to the Studio in April
Richard Patrick of Filter has confirmed that the band is heading back into the studio in April to start recording their new record, a follow up to 2010's 'The Trouble with Angels.' They'll be working with producer Bob Marlette whose impressive track record includes work with Black Sabbath, Saliva and Atreyu. The tentative title of the new disc is 'Gurney and the Burning Books.'
Members Of Slipknot + The Dillinger Escape Plan Join System Of A Down Onstage
In between their Soundwave Festival performances in February and March, System of a Down also played a few headlining shows in Australia.The recent show on Feb. 29 in Melbourne at the Rod Laver Arena turned into a star-studded event.
Shinedown Offer Sneak Peek at 'Bully' Video
John 5 Dishes on Working With Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson
John 5's new solo album 'God Told Me To' is set to be released on May 8, and he recently took some time to divulge the meaning behind the album title as well as talking about his work history with both the legendary Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson.
Adrenaline Mob Stream Two New Songs
Adrenaline Mob are set to drop their new album 'Omertá' on March 13 and now, for fans that can't wait that long, the band is offering up a taste of two new songs, 'Feelin' Me' and 'Angel Sky.'


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Album Rating: 4
Awesome album, band just keeps getting better & better. Mike Patton is proud.
Only heard New Dawn and found it boring. I might preview a bit of this, though.
Digging: Beastmilk - Climax
Album Rating: 2.0This album is just silly
Digging: Dyscarnate - With All Their Might
Album Rating: 4.5Wow. My first neg in over two years. Thanks for that too.
Digging: Rina Sawayama - RINA
Album Rating: 4.0mother sky is easily the best song
Digging: 21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin - Without Warning
Album Rating: 4.5I guess I like Deluge the most.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffVanguard, Kingdom, and Rouge are my favorite tracks
lovely. album and review both.
sounds like mr. bungle's first album
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah. It's a good comparison.
Album Rating: 4.0is there stream somewhere, can find smoke bomb on bandcamp
Digging: Motorpsycho - The Tower
liked Mother Sky, will have to check it out
yeah this fucking rules probably will get a 4.5
Album Rating: 4.0Coming for you, Mother Sky, Vanguard, Liberation, Silent Machine and Myth of Progress are the highlights for me.
Will read your review later.
Album Rating: 4.5Shout out to Shaolin Death Squad
Album Rating: 4.0Great review man. Awesome album.
Album Rating: 4.5@Emim:
Shaolin are awesome. They're recording a new album.
Coming for you, Silent Machine and Liberation are among my favorites too. I also really like Kingdom, Shuriken, Deluge and Rouge.
Have no idea. Check out this one first.
@shadderbee & baldymort:
Thanks guys.
These guys are pretty fun, and they're from my city so that's a plus.
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) aren't the first Republicans to be confronted by DREAMers. Paul certainly wasn't the first senator to run away when met by those who remind them of how their immigration views might be a liability later, even if they feel like the safest position to take right now.
Here's a snapshot of how other Republican leaders have responded to protesting DREAMers. In the end, it seems impossible that any confrontation between those who would like a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and those who consider that to be amnesty could ever go over well — even when both sides air their grievances respectfully. And for the many people below who have presidential ambitions for 2016 this is only going to get harder.
Walking away
Lately popularized by Sen. Rand Paul. Whether he was running away because of the DREAMers or because he was afraid of the national media finding out about his shirt remains unclear.
In March, DREAMer moms found Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) at Pete's Diner on Capitol Hill. When they asked him about his position on deporting DREAMers, he said, "that's not very nice" and walked out.
Respectfully disagreeing
However, most politicians choose to speak with the DREAMers, aware that the optics of running away from children aren't the best, even if that means disagreeing with children. If you have to face those who disagree with you, they must be thinking, at least I can give the base footage to keep them happy.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) told DREAMers in 2013 that he thought a path to citizenship was "unfair."
Cruz spoke with them for about four minutes and mentioned that he had been to the border.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney told DREAMers outside a fundraiser in New York in 2012 that he would veto the DREAM Act.
He did compliment the protester he was speaking to on her 4.0 grade point average, though.
In 2010, DREAMers found Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who has been one of the major opponents of the Senate's recent emergency funding bill for the border, in a hallway. Sessions said he did not support the DREAM Act because he thought it would bring more undocumented children to the country.
Being impressed that the DREAMers speak English
However, if you are going to explain your position to DREAMers, even if you disagree with them, do not compliment them on their flawless English. This is what Rep. Steve King did.
He told Erika Andiola, the DREAMer trying to convince him to change his views on Obama's "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" policy: "You're very good at English. You can understand the English language, so don't play with it."
In 2013, 30 DREAMers protested at King's office but did not meet with the representative.
Blame everyone else
When mothers of DREAMers found Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a hallway on Capitol Hill, they asked him many questions about immigration policy for undocumented immigrants that he clearly did not want to deal with right then. Though he was mostly patient, he listened to them for a few minutes before saying he had to dash off to a meeting and telling them the media was misinforming them about his position on immigration.
Last year, Boehner was far more congenial when DREAMers found him at Pete's Diner (if you have a question for Boehner, you should probably just go to Pete's Diner). He told them he was trying to pass immigration reform, but, you know, Congress!
A year later, DREAMers moms also found him at Pete's Diner.


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Heard At NYFW, Vol. 2
Oh to be flies on the wall (aka, flitting about in the front row)…In case you missed it: the latest batch of deliciously quotable quotes!
"Hopefully, I'll be talking about how many Grammys I've got."—Rita Ora on where she'll be in 30 years…"I love Donna! It looked good to me. The clothes and colors were beautiful—but what do I know?!"—Hugh Jackman…"Donna transformed the way working women dress. She pioneered comfort over constricting fashion. All the mothers in our neighborhood had those jersey bodysuits!"—T's EIC Deborah Needleman…"Everybody thinks I'm a prima donna, but when they meet me, they're pleasantly surprised."—Victoria Beckham at a Parsons Q&A on Monday eve…I love the '80s: the crazy side parts, super-tan skin, and hardcore rock 'n' roll."—Jessica Hart…"I like when it's clean, but when it starts getting New York-y, not so much."—Tommy Hilfiger on snow.


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As I'm living it up in Texas, my dear friend Liane lent her hilarity for your reading pleasure.
Liane is someone I talk to every single day via email, and I can't even begin to tell you the dedication this woman has to getting a killer work out in. In the last few months I've heard her stories about gym trips, training runs, fighting through yoga DVDs, and almost tossed my cookies just thinking about the list of exercises she is knocking out during the various boot camps she tackles through out the week.
After six weeks of our sharing work out stories, Liane compiled the following list noting the changes in her life. As someone who has made quite a few changes in my own healthy living in the past few years, I found myself laughing, nodding along the way.
What Liane learned after 6 weeks of working out like a mad woman:
You might be a work-out wonder woman if…..
- 4 athletic bras aren't nearly enough.
- The pile of boots and high heels that used to be scattered at your front door are now replaced by 4 pairs of running shoes, 3 pairs of ballet flats and a pair of flip flops ; heels are the devil to your sore calves.
- Lululemon Groove and Astro pants are awesome for stretching, Pilates, yoga and Barre fitness, but should never, ever, under any circumstances, be worn for running, strength training or boot camp.
- You realize calm, zen, spa like rooms fitted with ballet bars are deceptive. It might seem easy, but will hurt like hell.
- The crumpled bags of potato chips that used to hide under your car's seats have made way for reusable water bottles. Sudden braking now sounds like waves crashing in the ocean.
- Speaking of your car, the trunk now doubles as extra storage for your yoga mats, tennis rackets and Costco flats of water.
- You can convert kilometers into miles in 10 seconds or less
- Your living room resembles a physiotherapist office. Mat? Check. Foam Roller? Check. Exercise Ball? Check. Tiger tail? Check. Pilates Strap? Check. Medicine Ball? Check. Random tennis and golf balls? Check. Thawed cold pack? Check.
- Categorizing your workout wear by activity is how you help ensure you don't accidentally wear inappropriate clothing at 5:45AM. [See #3]
- You forget how long your hair has grown because it spends 99.9% of the time pulled up with an elastic band.
- Light rain, heavy rain, sideways falling rain are all fine for outdoor athletic endeavors, but you should probably reconsider when the thunder rolls.
- Your weekly laundry pile has increased 4 fold.
- Your morning commute seems 5 times longer the day after a lower body workout given the incredible soreness you will experience each and every time you use the clutch and change the gear. (this only applies to 5 speed vehicles, automatic are for wimps)
- You can accurately explain the difference between mountain climbers, twist planks, side planks and running planks.
- 9:00 PM is a perfectly acceptable bed time.
- You realize you haven't stopped by Starbucks during their half price Frappucino happy hour because you'd rather not spend an additional 45 minutes at the gym sweating off the calories.


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Beloit Police Chief Fired
Associated Press - October 3, 2013 12:50 pm
The Beloit City Council has fired the town's police chief. Brenon Odle led the department for two years.
The Salina Journal reports the council fired Police Chief Brenon Odle on Tuesday.
The council members, who met in executive session Tuesday, did not offer reasons for firing Odle.
Odle says he was "shell-shocked" about the decision and said there were never any complaints about his job performance. But he said council members would "get frustrated about spending, the vehicles and stuff."
Lt. Dave Elam was named interim police chief.
Beloit is a town of about 3,800 residents in north-central Kansas.
Information from: The Salina Journal
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MANATEE COUNTY - Another undercover internet sting lands a Suncoast correctional officer behind bars.
35-year-old Parrish resident William Abraham works at the Hardee Correctional Institution. Manatee County Sheriff's investigators say he arranged over the internet to meet with a 14-year-old girl to have sex -- not realizing that the girl was actually an undercover detective.
Deputies arrested Abraham Thursday as he arrived at the scheduled rendezvous spot.
He has been charged with Traveling to Meet A Minor & Engage in Sexual Acts, Use of a Computer to Solicit a Minor to Engage in Sex Acts, and Attempted Lewd & Lascivious.
Last month, "Operation Green Shepherd II" led to the arrests of 35 men on sex crime charges in an online sting operation.


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Why I'm joining Code for America
In my career I have been focused on making people's lives better through technology. I most recently served as Vice President of Software at Jawbone. There, I had the opportunity to lead a team that built technology to help people make healthier choices and avoid the onset of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
Making that kind of an impact on people's lives was incredibly fulfilling, so when it came time to consider my next role, I started by asking myself one question: how can I make the biggest positive social impact possible?
It's clear to me that technology improves our lives everyday. From financial planning to healthcare, communications to clean tech, there is no shortage of opportunity for technologists to make an impact on the world around us. But when I think of scale, government is one of the biggest levers, and has the greatest potential, for improving our lives and our communities.
It's with hope and optimism about the power of technology and government that I join Code for America as Chief Technology Officer.
I'm joining Code for America at a unique time. We're evolving from a startup showing what's possible through smaller projects, to an operation that can support and partner with hundreds of local governments to deliver services that meet the 21st century needs of their communities. We're going deep to serve the people who need it most — helping people put food on the table, building more safe and just communities, and giving people the support they need to find meaningful careers.
For me, Code for America's vision of government that works for the people, by the people, in the 21st century, is about understanding what people who want to live better lives are really going through. It's about putting people's needs at the center of delivering key services like food assistance. Code for America does this so well already, but we need to better leverage all the great people in our community to help us solve problems and scale those approaches.
In the coming months, my goal is to build out a team that is as diverse as the communities we serve. And even before we start talking about tech, my job will be to create clarity across the organization as we expand and build on our product portfolio.
Over the next few weeks, I'll be learning more about Code for America's history, the needs of our partners and their clients, and the larger ecosystem. I'm particularly looking forward to speaking with many of you at the Code for America Summit. If you see me wandering the conference halls, please don't hesitate to say hello and chat with me about a project you're working on!


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If you are in the mood to see some live holiday music this weekend we have a few suggestions for you.
Alexander O'Neal will perform two Christmas shows at the Dakota Jazz Club in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday and Sunday nights.
Friday in Minneapolis, you can check out a show that has become a holiday tradition featuring the irreverent sounds of Trailer Trash. There will be performances of "The Trashy Little Christmas Show" Friday and Saturday night at Lee's Liquor Lounge near Target Field.
If your tastes are a bit more refined you might want to check out the Rose Ensemble. That group has been traveling around the state with a show called "¡Vamos a Belen! Christmas Revelry in Colonial Latin America." The Rose Ensemble will be performing Friday night at the Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church in St. Paul and Saturday night at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis.


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2013 Draft: Alabama's Lacy to hold April 11 workout
Alabama junior running back Eddie Lacy is ready to return to the field and will hold a workout for NFL scouts on April 11, two weeks before the 2013 NFL Draft.
Lacy hasn't been seen on the field in a competitive situation since steamrolling Notre Dame's vaunted defense in the 2012 national championship game. A strained hamstring rendered him to observer status at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis and Alabama's pro day.
At the end of the season, Lacy was NFLDraftScout.com's top-ranked running back, but that doesn't guarantee him a spot in the first round ala Mark Ingram (2011) and Trent Richardson (2012), who preceded Lacy as starting tailbacks for crunch-and-munch Crimson Tide offense.
Scouts estimate Lacy's speed is in the high 4.5-, low 4.6-second range. If he proves those projections accurate, Lacy will garner attention in the bottom third of the round, not unlike Ingram and Steven Jackson, who was the top back drafted out of Oregon State (24th overall) in 2004 because of his height and upright running style.
Lacy (5-foot-11, 231 pounds) is more similar to Stephen Davis, the light-footed former Auburn running back with lateral agility who was strong enough to run through linebackers but could also dance in tight quarters to create his own lane.
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China Travel Firm Sets Low IPO Price
A small Chinese travel company plans to go public by selling shares at half the valuation of those of its peers despite strong demand, after the securities regulator stepped up policing of stock pricing.
The low pricing comes as bankers worry that the regulator's move may lead to companies scaling back fundraising plans as initial public offerings resume after a year-long pause.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Sunday said any company pricing its shares at a premium to those of its peers must delay sales by three weeks to publish risk warnings. Seven companies have postponed IPOs since the market reopened two weeks ago.
Beijing Untour International Travel Service Co is selling up to 17 million shares at CNY23.15 yuan (USD$3.83) each, the company said in a document posted on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange website late on Monday.
The price is equivalent to 22.05 times its 2012 net profit compared with an average price-to-earnings ratio of 42.52 for its industry peers, the company said.
Beijing Untour disregarded over 96 percent of institutional investor bids when setting the price, in line with new rules specifying that all bids above the IPO price must be discounted.
The high elimination rate indicates that the IPO price was set significantly lower than institutional investors' expectations and reinforces analyst concern that regulator actions will elbow out market forces in the IPO valuation process.
Beijing Untour did not provide a reason for the low pricing.
More than 50 companies have announced plans to list on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses after the CSRC last month said it would permit the resumption of IPOs which it suspended in November 2012.


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Set 500 years after the original game, Fable 2 offers even more choices and features, while building on the core gameplay theme of Fable where every choice continually defines who you become, allowing you to truly live the life you choose. Fable II expands upon the scope and depth of the original by adding incredible new features and creating a wider, more complex kingdom of limitless choices and consequences. Players will have the option to play as a man or woman, get married, have children, and live a life of their own design -- all leading to different destinies.
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- A land far, far away. Gamers will revisit the newly expanded world of Albion more than 500 years after the events of the original "Fable," where they are free to explore the landscape and openly roam the countryside. For the right price, every house, hut, dungeon and castle is for sale. Players can witness how the world grows and changes in response to their decisions in incredible and unique ways as they rediscover Albion as if for the first time.
- Fight with ease. "Fable II" pioneers a new combat system designed to allow players to truly master hand weapons such as swords and maces, ranged combat weapons such as crossbows and guns, and an entirely new magic system. These three disciplines, while very accessible, are also amazingly deep, and allow players to mix combat styles and become everything from master swordsman to skilled ranger to evil magic wielder, each using a different single button on the Xbox 360 Controller.
- A hero's best friend. This groundbreaking addition to the game is integral to the theme of unconditional love in "Fable II." A player's canine companion will act as friend, compass and protector. Players must merely feed their pooch and he will love unconditionally, creating a bond that sets up emotion-filled journeys throughout this magical world.
- Experience the world together. For the first time in the "Fable" series, gamers can experience the expansive and immersive world of "Fable II" with friends, either on the same couch or over Xbox LIVE together in co-operative mode.2 "Fable II" embodies the new Xbox experience and will extend the Xbox LIVE service further with the introduction of orbs. Orbs allow for seamless LIVE co-op play and interaction with other "Fable II" players.
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Los Angeles Tops Milwaukee 5-1 - Recap
Los Angeles got 8 innings of work from Clayton Kershaw en route to a 5-1 victory over Milwaukee on Thursday at Miller Park.
The Dodgers were a -120 favorite in the win. The combined score dipped UNDER the total, which closed at 7.5.
Clayton Kershaw earned the victory for the Dodgers, throwing 8 innings of work, striking out 6, walking 0, and allowing 5 hits and 0 earned runs. That effort was supported by 1 RBI from Juan Rivera in the win.
Milwaukee got a 5-inning outing from Marco Estrada in the loss. He gave up 1 earned run, 2 walks and 3 hits in his time on the mound, while Jerry Hairston Jr had 2 hits in the loss for the Brewers.
The battle of the bats favored Los Angeles as they had 10 hits, while Milwaukee only had 7.
Los Angeles looks to continue its winning ways next game with a battle against Colorado. Milwaukee will aim to get back on the winning track at New York.


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Officer Philip Ortiz succumbed to injuries sustained two weeks earlier when he was struck by a vehicle on I-405 in West Los Angeles.
He was issuing a traffic citation to a driver when another car, which was driving on the shoulder passing other vehicles, struck him and his motorcycle.
Officer Ortiz was pinned in the wreckage and had to be extricated by the responding rescue crew. He was transported to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center where he remained until passing away.
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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Predictions for the Kindle Fire have ranged from it being the iPad killer to its less expensive equal, but one thing the New York Times' David Streitfeld writes almost everyone can agree on -- it has some kinks to work out.
Consumer complaints, such as the lack of external volume control and a slow touch screen, were recently validated by a post from "usability expert" Jakob Nielsen.
Nielsen wrote last week that the device would be a failure because of how poor the user experience is.
Part of the problem is its size. Nielsen remains unconvinced that 7-inch tablets will be as popular because they are too small. Magazine publishers and app developers need to design their products specifically for the smaller screen if devices like the Kindle Fire are going to catch on.
"The most striking observation from testing the Fire is that everything is much too small on the screen, leading to frequent tap errors and accidental activation," Nielsen wrote. "You haven't seen the fat-finger problem in its full glory until you've watched users struggle to touch things on the Fire."
Much has already been written about how Amazon loses money on the device itself -- it costs more to make than stores charge for it.
But Amazon's game all along has been to make money by treating the device as an extension of its storefront. If you buy a Kindle, you are going to buy your books, your movies and your music from the Amazon store.
That won't happen if people don't buy the device, but so far it seems that is not a problem. Though it declines to release numbers, Amazon says that the Kindle Fire is its most successful product launch ever.
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sendmail help
First of all. THANK YOU for any help you might be able to provide.
I have a really wigged out sendmail configuration.
I work on a ship. The ship has a domain name of ship.domain.xxx
Our normal domain is domain.xxx (as an example).
What we have now is a sendmail box that is masquerading as the ship. All mail comes into the sendmail box and gets queued. We then have a perl script that harvests everything in the queue and puts it into a ZIP file in a directory that is accessible to a modem system over a satellite.
Three times a day the ship calls up over the satellite and does a transfer where it grabs the bundles our server has been making and it puts bundles that have been made on the ship in a queue on the server in the office.
Then every 8 minutes our perl script run and un-zips the bundles and puts them in the appropriate sendmail queues. The sendmail does its thing and people get mail.
make sense??
All this works and has worked for years.
Here is the problem.
The ship is gonna get moth-balled for awhile and I need to configure sendmail to bounce all but a few accounts. Those few accounts that do not get bounced need to be aliased to other accounts on another server.
I am not sure how to do this for various reasons. The first and most obvious (to me) is that my sendmail server here in the office is just a relay and has NO idea what accounts are valid at the final destination and what are not. (so how would it know what to bounce anyway)
I think I should be able to set up some kind of table that contains the names things I want forwarded and then tell it to bounce everything else. But I am not sure what table that would be.
Any ideas will be appreciated. I will be here reading the book for many days I expect.
The local-host-names contain your local domain name what is not forwarded anywhere else. Eg.: local mail communication and internet communication on the same box.
The mailertable contain the forwarded domains. Eg.: The emails come from internet into linux box then filtered spams then go to local Exchange server or another local sendmail box.
The virtusertable contain the multiple domain / multiple user configuration. I think this is for you.
firstname.lastname@example.com chris
email@example.com chris
firstname.lastname@example.com info-linux
firstname.lastname@example.com info-mybox
@domain1.com domain1
@domain2.com %firstname.lastname@example.com
Or you can forward with .forward file too.
If you use the .forward file you have to put this into sendmail.mc file.:
Or another possibility to forward mails to different account is the aliases file.
info-list: chris, tweeks, email@example.com
It means the email@example.com will be delivered to all that accounts. (the domain.com is in the local-host-name file)
I hope it helped.
You can also look at establishing a ./forward file in each users home directory. Sendmail will see the file and forward it to the email address that you list in there. I have several recipients that get mail at my server but don't pop their mail from here. So I just set them up the ./forward file and sendmail sends it out. This is all depending on the aliases file too. Make sure and change that appropriately.
Hope this helps!
Thank you both for your time and your ideas.
I think I need to pursue the virtusertable thing.
You are welcome mate!
I hope it helped.
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Jeff West, ubiquitous Dallas Arts consultant and advocate, has died suddenly at age 54. West served as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Managing Director of the Dallas Theater Center and was the Executive Director of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza from 1994-2004.
In addition to his ongoing jobs, West worked as consultant for many cultural nonprofits, he developed a comprehensive marketing action plan for Fair Park, did strategic planning for the Old Trinity Trail. He also consulted on the Trammell & Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art; the Origins of the Southwest Museum; the Dallas Architectural Forum; the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Texas Commission on the Arts. West taught the popular inter-disciplinary undergraduate course entitled Mythologizing Kennedy at UTD from 2001-2004.
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Dennis A. Rice (Letters, "Domestic spying harms all people of this country," Jan. 20) asks "When government is given the wide, unfettered sweep to spy whenever and wherever it wants, are we then really free?" I don't know. Next time I'm in Cuba or China, I'll ask.
Bush had the National Security Agency "spy" on about 500 Americans who were in contact with overseas al-Qaida operatives in the months following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. It wasn't for political or personal gain; it was for national security in a time of war.
Democrats hope to gain some political traction from this issue, but they will fail. Most Americans know this isn't a constitutional issue; it's common sense.
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WARREN, NJ — AWT6155 from Anadigics is a quad-band polar EDGE power amplifier (PA) module for 3G wireless handsets and equipment. Designed to meet requirements for GSM and EDGE mode operation with Qualcomm's WCDMA and HSPA chipsets, this 3rd generation quad-band polar EDGE PA delivers full power output in a smaller package. The 5 x 5mm package, half the size of current generation EDGE PA modules, includes separate amplifier chains, one to support GSM850/900 bands, the other for DCS/PCS bands, which are both optimized for greater efficiency, power, and linearity in GMSK and 8PSK modulation. The PA includes an internal reference voltage and integrated power control scheme for simplified GMSK operation.
Half the size of current generation 7 x 7-mm EDGE PA modules, the AWT6155 reduces RF board area in dual-, tri- and quad-band designs. It also has an internal reference voltage and integrated power control scheme for simplified GMSK operation, which makes production calibration faster and easier and reduces the number of external components required.
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In GMSK mode the PA offers integrated power control (CMOS), +35-dBm GSM850/900 output power, +33-dBm DCS/PCS output power, 55 percent GSM850/900 PAE, 52 percent DCS/PCS PAE and a power control range of over 50 dB.
In EDGE mode the AWT6155 offers +29-dBm GSM850/900 output power, +28.5-dBm DCS/PCS output power, 29 percent GSM850/900 PAE, 30 percent DCS/PCS PAE, 64-dB typical ACPR (400 kHz), and 74-dB typical ACPR (600 kHz).
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