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Stacey Mewborn, founder of the Little Angels of Northeast Louisiana organization, is now in the Morehouse Parish Jail after being released from the hospital and turning herself in.
Mewborn along with her husband, Quenton Mewborn were charged with theft and criminal conspiracy stemming from an investigation into the organization. Quenton Mewborn turned himself in Monday morning and was bonded out.
Stacey Mewborn, who has been hospitalized, turned herself in late Thursday afternoon and remains in custody, with a hold being placed on her for violating her probation in an earlier case from Tennessee.
In 2008, she pled guilty to a theft of close to $60,000 from her employer, received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation.
MPSO Sheriff Mike Tubbs said that he had received a complaint on January 15, 2013 regarding money raised for the Little Angels of Northeast La., a charity designed to help families dealing with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Osteogenesis Imperfecta. The complainant told Tubbs that Stacey Mewborn was the president of the charity and her husband, Quinton Mewborn, was the treasurer and a pageant had been held on Dec. 8, 2012, where monies raised were supposed to go to a local family dealing with the disease.
As of Jan. 15, no money had been received and numerous questions regarding the account went unanswered. Sheriff Tubbs immediately requested the La. State Police's criminal investigation department handle the complaint, as Quenton Mewborn worked as a deputy in Morehouse. The LSP conducted an investigation into the charges and on March 1, obtained warrants for the couple.

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(CNN) — Just when you thought you might enjoy a week without any news of Justin Bieber annoying the world, along comes evidence that the most beloved/disliked self-involved teenager on the planet has broken one of the most sacred unspoken rules of travel — don't use your bodyguards to carry you up the Great Wall of China.
Photos of the seemingly able-bodied Canadian pop star hoisted on the shoulders of his minions at the iconic site were posted on the Twitter page of BelieveTourUpdates, which has been following the singer on his current world tour.
"Justin being carried by his bodyguards up the Great Wall of China today in Beijing, China (September 30th, 2013)," reads the caption of one of multiple photos of Bieber at the Wall.
Even less shocking than the Biebs' fanatical devotion to privileged behavior, the Internet nearly imploded under the weight of all the mockery and rage calling out the diva antics.
Commenters include fed-up Canadians begging the United States to adopt Bieber as one of their own.
Netizens in the country where the scene of the alleged travel offense occurred weren't shy about expressing their thoughts either.
On Weibo, China's microblogging site, a Phoenix TV presenter posted: "The way this 'xiao pi hai' Justin Bieber hits the Great Wall is really extravagant."
"Xiao pi hai" is a word used to describe Chinese toddlers who wear toilet-training-friendly pants that expose their bare behinds.
These days, it's a popular phrase used to describe someone who's immature.
"It's impressive that he can sit there without a guilty conscience," Weibo user Project V commented.
"Seriously? Justin Bieber is so weak that he needs two guards to carry him on the Great Wall?" posted Taiwanese website Nownews, hopping aboard the Bieber hate-train. "Isn't climbing the Great Wall all about experiencing the breathtaking process during the hike?"
The 19-year-old star performed in Beijing on September 29.
Next up on the Bieber world tour: stops in Dalian, China (October 2), followed by performances in Shanghai (October 5) and Tokyo (October 7).
Now, if the ambulatorily challenged, faux Canadian (someone have Donald Trump check this guy's birth certificate) gets someone to haul him up Tokyo's SkyTree, we'll be impressed.
At least with the person doing the heavy lifting.
CNN's Hiufu Wong contributed to this report.


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Sound of Mind
Tod Machover's BrainOpera.
Professional music-making works along the principle best defined by Chevy Chase when he opened Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" with the portentous phrase, "Good evening. I'm Chevy Chase. And you're not." Whether they play rock or country, classical music or jazz, performers are engaged in a conversation with one another, and with their predecessors. The rest of us are listening in, although there have always been some who don't like feeling forced into silence. Poet Adrienne Rich, for example, called Beethoven's Ninth "music of the entirely/ isolated soul/ yelling at Joy from the tunnel of the ego/ music without the ghost/ of another person in it."
Tod Machover, a composer based at MIT's Media Lab, thinks computers will bring the isolation of the musical soul to an end. In this he is partly influenced by the Media Lab, which champions the idea that a seamless global web of information will soon blur the line between reader and writer, performer and listener. But Machover also likes to quote late pianist Glenn Gould, who said that the "best of all possible worlds" is one in which "art would be unnecessary. ... The audience would be the artist and their life would be art."
Machover's Brain Opera is a performance-cum-interactive stunt. Roughly an hour long, it was presented seven times a day over the course of several days at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York (it closed Aug. 3). In it, Machover weds Gould's Whitmanesque vision to John Cage's Zen-inspired idea that music is not sounds chosen by a composer, but a quality of awareness about what you're hearing. The vehicle for all this is the expensive, complicated, and most un-Zen-like apparatus of computerized electronic music. Brain Opera supplies members of its audience with a variety of strange-looking digital instruments and asks that they play around with them. We not only get to explore a cool new technology; we get to collaborate with the composer. We move toward being the artist, our lives, the art. In theory, anyway.
B > rain Opera begins in the Julliard School lobby, which has been transformed into a thicket of plastics molded into shapes suggestive of fruits or plants, or maybe cells. We mill around in the dark among the machines, some of which emit fanfares, drumrolls, or gusts of melody, so that between the bumbling and waiting-to-try and noise, we feel much as we might in a video arcade. The games, though, are more interesting.
The "Gesture Wall," for instance, puts a little zip of electricity through you, which makes you intelligible to some sensors in front of you, which means you can "play" snippets of music and sound by gesticulating. (My fillings vibrated a little; though that could have been caused by the ambient noise.) There are also dirigible-shaped pods about the size of beach balls that, depending on how hard you hit the nubby pads that stick out of them, cause nearby speakers to spit out percussive clicks and bops. Another device is called "The Speaking Tree"; it engages you in conversation about music. You can have any type of discussion you want, provided it's the one Machover expected. ("What is your favorite piece of music?" asks the Tree. "I don't know," say you. "When you hear it, what do you feel?" asks the Tree.)
Machover wanted the experience to feel like "walking into somebody's brain while a piece of music is being created," because, as the name suggests, Brain Opera is about the nature of mind. It is based on the theories of Marvin Minsky, an artificial intelligence expert at MIT who holds that consciousness is built up of loosely connected separate processes. What I think of as "me," says Minsky, is actually a pattern that emerges as a lot of components of my brain go about their business of seeing or hearing or eating or whatever it is they do----much the way a traffic pattern emerges out of the actions of a lot of drivers, or an opera performance out of the actions of musicians, singers, a conductor, and a stage manager. Brain Opera both presents and enacts Minsky's theories: The music emerges in part out of our noodling around with the gizmos right before we go in to hear it.
After a half hour or so in the lobby, we're led into the recital hall, where Machover appears and explains that "some 60 percent of the piece is in place before, and 40 percent will be created at this performance." He and two colleagues take their seats; Machover's is inside a more professional version of the "Gesture Wall." He ignites Brain Opera with a sequence of chopping hand motions and vigorous leanings in his chair (picture the Enterprise under attack); this brings forth a sonic crash from the computer. We hear a lot of musical quotations--from Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Leonard Bernstein's Candide to Bob Dylan and Duke Ellington--that bounce around a theme from the "Ricercare" of Bach's Musical Offering. Images that would work well on album covers fly by on big screens --the moon, a baby, the great red spot of Jupiter. We hear a comment or two from the Speaking Trees ("I think it has to do with the electrons in the air"; "music changes your mood very definitely"). The words of the libretto zip past on the screens. Prerecorded voices sing it to New Age melodies. A red square appears, signifying, apparently, that people logged on to the Brain Opera Web page who are participating in the piece on "virtual instruments" are now being sampled and folded into the work.
I >t is all quite lively, and far from dull. But by the end I feel a little glazed and tired, much as I might feel after too much time spent on the Web or reading somebody's hypertextual "novel." There's the same sense of scope and technical mastery, and absence at the core. I missed the individual voice, the unique and compelling emotional timbre, of the sort that characterizes less interactive music--including Machover's own, when he's not trying to bring the whole world into it. Also performed at the festival, for example, were his works for "hyperinstruments," electronic versions of a cello, viola, and violin, which he invented himself. Each of these compositions suggested the powerful currents of one soul's anguish, jauntiness, fragile serenity. But Brain Opera is swamped by the sound of Whatever, of Nothing in Particular.
Giving up his musical individuality, it turns out, has not paid Machover back with a glimpse of Gould's perfect world. From the moment we are guided into the play arcade, each alone, each face to face with technology designed and controlled by MIT, we are maneuvered along paths laid down for us. We are no more collaborating than a lab mouse collaborates with a medical researcher. Brain Opera is an opera, and we are not.


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Dan Stevens Not Returning to 'Downton Abbey' Season Four
After some recent speculation, it has been confirmed that Dan Stevens will not return to his character Matthew Crawley in the hit show Downton Abbey for its fourth season, Britain's The Telegraph reports.
"We were always optioned for three years," the 30-year-old actor said about the show, which will resume filming this winter. "And when that came up it was a very difficult decision. But it felt like a good time to take stock, to take a moment. From a personal point of view, I wanted a chance to do other things."
"It is a very monopolising job. So there is a strange sense of liberation at the same time as great sadness because I am very, very fond of the show and always will be," Dan added.
ARE YOU SAD that Dan Stevens will not reprise his role as Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey's fourth season???


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We have spacious and warmly furnished rooms. Each room has a King/Queen bed, an attached (en-suite) bathroom, and a large window with good views of the park outside. The rooms are furnished with hand crafted Sheesham wood furniture from Rajasthan and have traditional rugs on the floor to give you the experience of Haveli living.
There is sufficient space in the wardrobe for your belongings and your room can be locked. Blankets and traditional quilts (Jaipuri Razais) are provided for your comfort. The attached (en-suite) bathrooms have standing showers and are well appointed.
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Land Rover launches a new Discovery for 2017, which replaces the LR4 and restores the iconic nameplate to the U.S.-spec version of the company's large SUV. Remaining models get new InControl infotainment systems, driver assistance features, and collision avoidance technologies, as well as new paint colors choices and design packages. The Range Rover is offered in a new standard-wheelbase SVAutobiography performance model for 2017, while the Evoque lineup gains a convertible body style this year.
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As our economy continues to be erratic, companies are resorting to retrofitting existing equipment. This is not an entirely bad decision, because retrofitted equipment can perform quite reliably if done properly. I have spent years as a consultant modifying existing bins and feeders to improve flow and solve difficult flow problems. I would estimate that about 65% of my work involves retrofits.
However, sometimes it is more practical to just build a new bin and feeder. An application I worked with recently required just that. The product was being handled in a square bin that was in an awkward location and was experiencing segregation problems. It was more advantageous to remove the troublesome equipment than to fix it. Providing a new bin in a different location was less expensive than modifying the existing bin.
Retrofitting existing equipment requires a practical, common sense approach, along with knowledge of your material flow properties. It is easy to say "well, just cut this portion off and replace it with this better design", but, consider the effect on other equipment in the area, cost, downtime, etc. There are many ways to retrofit existing equipment and it depends on identification of problem areas, your material's flow properties, area and height constraints, and cost. In a power plant, retrofits improve efficiency, increase output, and reduce emissions. In a chemical plant, retrofits not only improve efficiency but also production and safety.
Types of retrofits include hopper modifications, flow aids, inserts, proper feeder design, liners etc. Hopper modifications may require replacing conical hoppers with wedge-type hoppers (transition or chisel hoppers). These geometries use shallower hopper slopes and smaller openings than cones. Additionally, flow aids can be used, such as vibrators, air blasters, fluidizing nozzles, etc. Inserts such as a cone-in-cone design are used to modify existing funnel flow bins to ensure mass flow. By placing a cone inside an existing shallow cone, which experiences funnel flow, the inner cone (open at the top and bottom) will force material to flow along the walls of the formerly too shallow outer cone.
Many flow problems are caused by improperly designed feeders. The feeder must work in unison with the bin above to ensure reliable flow. Consider a typical application using screw feeders. A common approach is to use constant pitch flights that basically provide no increase in capacity which causes your material to flow preferentially from this bin. The key to screw feeder design is to increase the screw's capacity in the discharge direction, allowing uniform material withdrawal. In order for the feeder to be successful, the bin must also allow material to flow properly. Adding a liner such as 2B stainless steel, TIVAR88, epoxy coatings, etc. can improve flow.
A new column recently launched at www.powderbulksolids.com, entitled "Powder Perspectives", offers solutions to common solids handling problems, including retrofits. It contains: information that you can use to identify the cause of a particular problem you are experiencing; practical solutions to common handling problems; articles by guest writers to expand our coverage to all areas of powder handling; timely information on new technology that will allow you to develop a higher level of expertise; the ability to respond to a discussion or concept with your expertise and enhance the site's content.
In summary, the science of powder and bulk solids handling, developed by Dr. Andrew Jenike, provides powerful information you can use to determine how to develop practical bin retrofits or provide new bin and feeder designs to ensure reliable solids flow.
Joseph Marinelli is a consulting engineer and president of Solids Handling Technologies. He has been providing testing and consulting services since 1972. As a former consultant with Jenike & Johanson Inc., he has years of experience testing powders and designing bins and feeders for reliable flow. He lectures frequently on the topic of powder handling and has published several papers including and article in a chemical encyclopedia and two in a food powder book.
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As many of you may have read in this post here on the blog earlier in the month, I'm teaching a course this semester on the history and current state of the U.S. soap opera genre, using As the World Turns as a case study. As I continue research on that field, and particularly how one of television's oldest genres may transform itself in interesting ways in a digital age, I'm always interested in hearing of new initiatives being launched.
For instance, see this post from December 2006 on the SOAPnet Fantasy Soap League, the idea being to mimic the success of fantasy football by having fans play games based around some of the stereotypes in the genre. I guess it's a chance for those of us not terribly interested in sports to nevertheless participate in something similar that, in part, measures our knowledge of a media property while also encouraging us to watch the current product. I know I participated in pro wrestling fantasy leagues once upon a time that incorporated some elements from this approach, and it reminds me as well of the Fantasy Television League that some C3-affiliated folks have taken part in.
But, in following soap operas for more than two years here on the Consortium blog, I'm always interested to see how these initiatives launch in the U.S. daytime serial drama industry, which is what attracted my attention to this post from Adrants back in March.
In an effort to further build their brand, Soap Opera Digest has launched casual games surrounding the soap operas, available here. The choices include a jigsaw puzzle of the cover of SOD, a variety of word-based games, solitaire, and other variations on classic casual games.
I personally really like the crossover. From a textual standpoint, it doesn't add anything meaningful to the texts of any of these shows, but it could help create more of a fan following for the brand of the soap opera magazines. According to demographics from the International Game Developers Association in 2005, 71 percent of casual gamers are 25-54 and 63 percent are women. Further, as that population ages into the 55+ demographic, which accounted for 17 percent of casual gamers back in 2005 according to the IGDA statistics, the number of women older than 54 playing games will likely only rise.
To me, it seems that casual gaming is a natural fit for soap opera magazines then, since 18-49 females are their target demo. Further, taking the reality that soaps draw well among 50+ female audiences, those aged outside the target demographic, then it makes sense to marry casual gaming to soap opera magazines.
The games have stayed up for a couple of months now, so I'm assuming that this section of the site has been at least moderately successful. According to research from The Millard Group (see here and here), Soap Opera Digest subscribers are 83 percent female with the median age of 50, while Soap Opera Weekly's subscribers are 84 percent female with an average age of 50.
If any readers out there participate in these casual games or have any idea of the success of these initiatives, I'd be interested in knowing. But I think this does emphasize something important the C3 has discussed from time to time, as well as myriad others: casual games are an important market that shouldn't be underestimated in the process of enthusiasm about narrative, transmedia, etc. On the surface, this seems like a fairly low-risk and smart promotional tactic on the part of the soap mags.
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Marvel Entertainment has unveiled a first look at its upcoming touring theme park attraction, The Marvel Experience.
The concept art (check it out above) reveals a maze of connected dome structures, designed to resemble a mobile command center for S.H.I.E.L.D., the Marvel Universe espionage and law enforcement agency, recently popular thanks to "The Avengers" and the TV series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
The touring dome complex, which will span two acres and reach more than six stories high, will offer superhero fans a 4D motion-based ride featuring an original adventure, exclusive 3D animated features, digitally projected animation, motion-comic book origin stories, holographic simulations and an array of interactive games.
"Our guests will be interacting directly with multiple Marvel superheroes, as well as members of S.H.I.E.L.D., as they take their place in the Marvel Universe," said Doug Schaer, COO of Hero Ventures, the live entertainment company that partnered with Marvel to create the touring attraction, in a news release.
The Marvel Experience was designed with the aid of concept artist Aaron Sims, who worked on "The Incredible Hulk," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "X-Men First Class."
Though exact dates have yet to be announced, the attraction is set to tour the U.S. and Canada beginning this year, spending several weeks at a time in each city.
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Nicolas Poussin
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Renaud and Armide.
Acis and Galatea.
Mars and Venus.
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Midas Bathing in Pactolus.
The Shepherds of Arcadia.
The Lamentation over Christ.
St. Cecilia.
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Echo and Narcissus.
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Andrians or The Great Bacchanal with Woman Playing a Lute.
Venus Lamenting over Adonis.
The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus.
The Inspiration of the Poet.
The Virgin of the Pillar Appearing to St. James the Greater.
Helios and Phaeton with Saturn and the Four Seasons.
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Diana and Endymion.
Midas and Bacchus.
Descend from the Cross.
The Sleeping Venus and Cupid.
The Plague of Ashdod.
The Garden of Flora.
Apollo and Muses.
Adoration of the Shepherds.
Theseus Finding His Father's Arms.
Tancrede and Erminia.
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Queen Zenobia Found on the Banks of the Arax.
St. John Baptizing.
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The Shepherds of Arcadia.
The Assumption of the Virgin.
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The Noble Deed of Scipio.
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Esther Before Assuerus.
Gathering of Manna.
Time Revealing Truth with Envy and Discord.
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Baby Moses Trampling on the Pharaoh's Crown.
The Confirmation.
The Baptism of Christ.
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Moses Turning the Aaron's Staff into a Serpent.
The Baby Moses Saved from the River.
Landscape with the Cinders of Phocion.
Eliezer and Rebecca.
Landscape with Funeral of Phocion.
Landscape with Diogenes.
The Holy Family on Steps.
Landscape with a Man Running from Serpent.
Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice.
The Holy Family.
The Judgment of Solomon.
Moses Striking the Rock for Water.
The Assumption of the Virgin.
The Holy Family.
Landscape with a Castle.
The Castle in Calm Weather.
The Holy Family.
Baby Moses Saved from River.
The Death of Sapphira.
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery.
Noli me tangere.
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St. Peter and St. James Cure the Lame Man.
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The Annunciation.
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Apollo and Daphne.
Christ Healing the Blind.
Landscape with St. Jerome.
Meleager's Hunt.
Nymph Syrinx Pursued by Pan.
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Another Rhetorical Question
[Guest post by JD]
Is there anything that MSNBC and the rest of the institutional Left will not lie about?
Sandy Hook parent heckled? Nope.
[Guest post by JD]
Is there anything that MSNBC and the rest of the institutional Left will not lie about?
Sandy Hook parent heckled? Nope.
They just make shlt upJD (b63a52) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:24 pm
Nope, there is nothing that they won't lie about. Gun control is no exception. If anything, they lie more.SPQR (768505) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:27 pm
The commercials are more truthful.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:29 pm
even if every one of the parents were heckled heckled heckled every morning while they ate their breakfast burritos that wouldn't lend any moral or logical support to propaganda slut piers morgan's gruesome and shameful and unending attempots to exploit their dead dead babies to hysterically attack the constitutional rights of americans like me
and youhappyfeet (4bf7c2) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:32 pm
*attempts* I meanhappyfeet (4bf7c2) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:33 pm
So add that to the Frum;
http://twitchy.com/2013/01/29/reuters-editor-who-got-newtown-heckling-story-wrong-goes-on-factually-challenged-anti-twitchy-rant/narciso (3fec35) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:36 pm
Speaking of commercials, Nanny Bloomberg's pac just made a huge investment in a skeevy ad about gun control to try to influence the Il special election to replace disgraced congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Bear in mind that the ad was cut specifically to demonize a female Democrat in an all Democrat field for having ties to the NRA.
You cannot make this stuff up.elissa (82092a) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:45 pm
Frum and Maggie Mac were made for each other.JD (b63a52) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:53 pm
Careful JD. People in the west coast may still be eating dinner.elissa (82092a) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:55 pm
Is there any point they are capable of telling the truth? In fact, do they even accept the concept of "truth?"
You cannot assume anything with these self-serving, arrogant scumbags…WarEagle82 (97b777) — 1/29/2013 @ 5:56 pm
It's just straight up propaganda, used specifically as an attack on civil rights.Dustin (73fead) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:16 pm
They'll lie to protect liberal/progressive/democrats.
And they'll lie to defame/mock/insult conservatives and some Republicans.Jcw46 (eda37d) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:19 pm
Nothing matters, but, the "narrative".Kevin P. (1df29c) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:21 pm
You can't prove there wasn't heckling that was said too softly to get picked up on audio.
And even if there wasn't, you can't prove that somebody in the crowd didn't have heckling in his heart.steve (e7e6c7) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:22 pm
Dustin – it is done in service of an attack on capital R Rights.JD (448fa8) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:26 pm
Doublethink is a tricky thing;narciso (3fec35) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:31 pm
A Shout out to Heckle and Jecklepdbuttons (949c1e) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:37 pm
How about building a gallows at 30 Rockefeller Plaza?mg (31009b) — 1/29/2013 @ 7:01 pm
I remember William Safire describing Hill as a "congenital liar". In Bubba's case "he lies when there is no reason to".
At the time I detested them. How many people have they destroyed, with deliberation?
But we are witnessing a whole new ball game. There is no longer any attempt to deceive, to dissemble, to twist the truth creatively.
With the antiChrist's example, the object is to flat out sell the lie lock, stock and barrel. No attempt is made at verisimilitude. 'Just go out there and vomit dysenteric screaming BS.'gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/29/2013 @ 7:53 pm
During the campaign for the President's first election, the media changed the rules. It didn't tell anyone, including Hillary.
It still hasn't and it never will.
Most low-information voters and the general public don't know this. When the press becomes a tool for one political party over another not much can be done.
The schadenfreude is the media will be blind-sided when the real rules take affect.Ag80 (b2c81f) — 1/29/2013 @ 8:19 pm
They all seem to be Lillian Hellman:
Everything they say is a lie, including and and the.
13. Nothing matters, but, the "narrative".
Comment by Kevin P. (1df29c) — 1/29/2013 @ 6:21 pm
Of course. And they'll tell you that to your face when you finally nail them down.
Interesting that this subject came up today. History professor and former communist Ron Radosh wrote an article yesterday on different events, but how nothing matters but the narrative.
Haymarket! Another Leftist Historical Myth Gets Destroyed
Steve57 (5dbebd) — 1/29/2013 @ 8:42 pm
Every so often, a cherished myth of the Left's historical narrative comes apart. That is why keeping the flame alive by repeating the myths gives sustenance to the Left's chosen causes. I learned this the hard way when I wrote The Rosenberg File with Joyce Milton in 1983.
To the Left, it was imperative that the Rosenbergs — who were found guilty of "conspiracy to commit espionage" and sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman after the trial — be innocent. If they were not, it would mean that they were not martyrs for peace, arrested and tried for their "progressive" and anti-war politics and their opposition to the impending fascism and anti-Soviet hysteria of the Truman administration. Rather, if actually guilty, it would mean that the United States had a right to protect itself against those who were working on behalf of the Soviet Union by seeking to ferret out atomic secrets on behalf of Joseph Stalin's tyrannical regime.
To acknowledge the truth, in other words, meant that those on the Left would have to question their most cherished beliefs.
When the book came out, it was only thirty years after the Rosenbergs were executed at Sing Sing prison, and many of those who fought on their behalf were still around and active. Thus they engaged in a massive campaign to discredit our findings and to smear us as tools of the FBI and the Reagan administration, which they charged was trying once again to undermine the cause of peace and to seek war with the still existing Soviet Union.
…Imagine Messer-Kruse's shock when his own careful scholarly examination of Haymarket revealed that most of what the Left taught about the event was based on both shoddy scholarship and ideological wish-fulfillment.
…What next occurred paralleled directly my own experience after publication of The Rosenberg File. Much to his surprise and consternation, Messer-Kruse was confronted by others' "utter and complete denial of the evidence."
I could have told him that he would get that response. I received calls from former friends telling me: "We need the Rosenbergs to be innocent." "You have betrayed the movement and all of us." "Even if they were spies, you should not have written the book." One person even offered to host a Chinese Communist-style rectification session at which I could atone and take back what I wrote.
…Messer-Kruse's response to all this was precisely the one that I had. He said:
We have an obligation to represent as best as we can the objective reality of the past.
Reading his words, I had to suppress a laugh. How quaint — a historian, although one on the political Left, believes he has a commitment to truth about the past, a commitment that stands above serving the needs of a political movement. Doesn't he know, as one of my old comrades in the social-democratic movement told me at the time: "We're trying to recruit former Communists into our movement (Michael Harrington's group) and your book will hinder our effort. You shouldn't have written it"?
After all, truth is relative. We are supposed to do what serves the class struggle and the movement; the truth is what serves the movement's ends, and is not objective.
How just horrifyinglyawful that they would concoct such a story – first – people in the crowd would have given people who heckled a grieving parent such a beat down – the MMA would need a new gig
No one liberal or conservative = pacifist or paisly wearer would allow such a thing.
Just cannot believe that they would do that – make up such a storyEPWJ (c3dbb4) — 1/29/2013 @ 9:46 pm
Intriguing that Latell's recent book, punctured the pretense that Oswald was such a patsy, as it indicated the Cuban DGI's awareness of the assasination before hand, and suggested one of those peddling that other conspiracy, was at best
peddling an incomplete tale,
It appears there was one person in the room willing to answer his question.AZ Bob (c11d35) — 1/29/2013 @ 10:12 pm
So the republicans help Benedict Kerry. What a bunch of gutless pricks. Do they know he tossed his b.s. medals away. This country sucks.mg (31009b) — 1/30/2013 @ 2:30 am
26. They were daydreaming about Menendez' trysts.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 5:24 am
Ok, they might have been night terrors:
women-sen-bob-menendez-paid-us-for-sex-in-the-dominican-republicgary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 6:50 am
Via JWF, irony:
http://twitchy.com/2013/01/30/sen-bob-menendez-said-secret-service-agents-who-solicited-prostitutes-abroad-should-be-fired/gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 6:56 am
We're in very capable hands;
http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-is-john-kerry-trying-to-kid/narciso (3fec35) — 1/30/2013 @ 7:14 am
Anyone else have a flashback to the "interview" with Bill and Hillary before the election?
Another set piece to promote and promulgate leftist liars by the Democrat Media.
And once again Hillary protects a lying bastard from the condemnation and punishment he so richly deserve(d|s).
And she's the smartest woman in America? And deserves being the leader of America?
I don't think so.Jcw46 (eda37d) — 1/30/2013 @ 7:31 am
I should note, I'm referring to the interview before Bill's election.Jcw46 (eda37d) — 1/30/2013 @ 7:32 am
It's not that Bob Menendez was paying for sex.
It's that that sex was with underage girls.
And we all know how those headlines would read if a Republican was the focus.Jcw46 (eda37d) — 1/30/2013 @ 7:33 am
Democratic Senator promotes full employment in valued ally.Pious Agnostic (6ff605) — 1/30/2013 @ 7:45 am
That wasn't heckling. It was an example of the Left's compassionate journalistas demonstrating their humanity by inquiring about the health and well-being of Sarah Palin's Downs syndrome baby.ropelight (979d9e) — 1/30/2013 @ 8:28 am
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 1/30/2013 @ 7:14 am
Vietnam Veterans for Kerry (take a look)
When it rains the sewers back up:
http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/breaking-yet-another-bob-menendez-scandal/gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 9:02 am
A report yesterday from Houston, today Miami. And no advance PSA.
Well, at least they won't be shot as spies.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 9:11 am
40. I wonder why my cats are getting so scatterbrained. They follow me all over the house expecting me to remember what I was about.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/gunships-over-miami-machine-gun-fire-strafing-runs-troops-rappelling-from-choppers-and-road-blockades_01282013gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 9:13 am
Of course, if it were just the lies, no harm, no foul:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/01/leaked-emails-prove-obama-backed-plan-to-launch-chemical-weapon-attack-on-syria-and-blame-it-on-assa.htmlgary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 9:31 am
31. Huge Spencer fan, and Anis Shorrosh, Walid Shoebat, Bat Ye'or,..
Locals who've fled always know best.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 9:35 am
There are lies and then there is mindless drivel:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-parker-same-sex-marriage-can-help-save-the-institution/2013/01/29/9aa13712-6a36-11e2-95b3-272d604a10a3_story.html?wprss=rss_opinionsgary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 9:50 am
In the run up to zero information election, Q3 was touted as blue skies ahead, GDP 3.1%.
Now Q4 is -0.1 per cent and likely to be revised lower.
At least we're not Italy, or worse Spain:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-30/italy-crashes-most-six-months-despite-eurusd-strengthgary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/30/2013 @ 10:09 am
So long as the girls were alive ….htom (412a17) — 1/30/2013 @ 12:23 pm
The CBS Evening News said this should be corrected, and said consumer spending was up for the year and that this downturn was probably due to a cutback in defense spending. (
I thought the fiscal cliff deadline was hurting spending in December)Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/30/2013 @ 4:32 pm
Apparently it was heckling because the question should have been considered purely rhetorical.
The real problem is they didn't have a good answer. I gave 5 answers above.Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/30/2013 @ 4:41 pm
i still don't give a damn if this guy was heckled or not it simply doesn't change the price of peabnut bubber or anything else of consequence
peabnut bubber is loaded with carbs btw which is what FAT people eat not people like ushappyfeet (4bf7c2) — 1/30/2013 @ 4:44 pm
The real problem is they didn't have a good answer. I gave 5 answers above.
The text of the amendment is not good enough for you?JD (b63a52) — 1/30/2013 @ 4:59 pm
"I gave 5 answers above."
Sammy – You're slipping. You usually give more and they usually conflict with each other.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/30/2013 @ 5:03 pm
suck it up cupcake I sayhappyfeet (4bf7c2) — 1/30/2013 @ 5:04 pm
cupcakes through a straw?daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/30/2013 @ 5:15 pm
whatever floats your boat I sayhappyfeet (4bf7c2) — 1/30/2013 @ 5:30 pm
47. Apparently it was heckling because the question should have been considered purely rhetorical.
The guy made it pretty obvious that his question wasn't rhetorical when he asked once, waited for an answer, then restated the question in a way that made it clear he was taking the fact that no one had answered him as meaning no one could answer him. Up until that point it appears everyone in the room thought his question was rhetorical.
The real problem is they didn't have a good answer. I gave 5 answers above.
Comment by Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/30/2013 @ 4:41 pm
I think the best answer as to why someone needs an AR with a high-cap magazine would be just in case Sen. Menendez showed up in town in company with a Secret Service detail, and you have a couple of Dominican or Colombian girls staying with your family as high school exchange students.
The media is shameless.
Via Gateway Pundit: DOMINICAN HOOKERS SPEAK OUT – FBI Emails Released – Offices Raided in Sen. Menendez Underage Prostitute Scandal (Video) the Miami Herald is reporting that Menendez's pimp, a Dr. Salomon Melgen who owned the plane, offices were raided.
Apparently the FBI has released some emails; Gateway Pundit links to another site that has screenshots of them. The agent was communicating with the guy who blew the whistle on Menendez. Probably the guy who found the hookers and got them to talk on tape in the first place.
I'll just quote part of the emails:
I am an agent with the FBI and I work cases involving crimes against children.
…As far as the information you have provided, we have been able to confirm most of it. We know you are providing accurate information and that is why it is imperative that we meet in person…
…I would not like the information you have to get stale and lose the opportunity to bring the people who have abused these young ladies to justice.
Naturally it's only a local story; the national media is following "ethics standard b." Ethics standards A is used when it's a Republican. That's when they can't wait to verify facts because otherwise they might lose the scoop (it's also used when they think someone who might be a TEA Party member committed an act of violence as was the case when ABC(?) identified the wrong guy as the Aurora CO theater shooter).
Ethics standard B is of course applied when the story concerns a Democrat. Then they're serious journalists who have to verify the facts before irresponsibly printing something that might be wrong. That's what distinguishes them from those silly bloggers, you know. All those editors; layers of fact checkers.
Sweet bejeebus but these people are shameless.Steve57 (104863) — 1/30/2013 @ 8:09 pm
Shameless. More is coming out about Menendez, but you'd never know it if you get your brain washed by the MFM. This is in a New Joisey rag:
Menendez did not pay for flights from campaign donor until this year
(This, by the way after another donor plead guilty yesterday to Illegally funneling money into Menendez's campaign.)
TRENTON — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez did not pay for two flights provided by Salomon Melgen — his friend and campaign donor whose office was raided by the FBI on Tuesday night — until more than two years later, and after a New Jersey Republican asked the Senate ethics committee to look into his travels.
Menendez spokesman Paul Brubaker today said the senator reimbursed Melgen for the flights on Melgen's private jet until Jan. 4 of this year.
Question for the legal eagles; if you wait until after you become aware you've been found out because the FBI opened an investigation into your illegal Dominican activities, and someone also filed an ethics complaint regarding same with the Senate, before paying for what constitutes an illegal gift, do they and a federal prosecutor see that as anything more than an admission of guilt? I'm not asking about the Senate ethics committee as that term is an oxymoron. Just the legal question.
On Nov. 3 of last year, state Sen. Sam Thompson, who chairs the Middlesex County Republican Committee, wrote to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to request an investigation of Menendez's flights to the Caribbean nation. Thompson's letter came after a conservative blog posted allegations from two anonymous women it said were prostitutes who said they had sex with Menendez in the Dominican Republic.
"In the weeks that ensued, after that very extensive review which was a time consuming laborious project, the issue of these two trips came up, and the senator had basically consulted with the campaign's legal counsel and found that he had two options," said Brubaker. "Basically he could, according to Senate ethics rules, use an exemption under the personal friendship rule, or simply pay the reimbursements for the flights. In order to just demonstrate full compliance he decided to pay the reimbursement."
No, you can't claim an exemption under the personal friendship rule for anything valued over $250. To claim an exemption for anything of value over that amount you have to request written determination from the Senate ethics committee that the personal friendship exemption applies. Which Menendez clearly didn't do. So that's a very poor lie.
As is this:
Menenedez's office said today that he took a total of three flights on Melgen's plane. One of the flights, in May 2010, was a fundraising trip that was reimbursed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee at the time.
Fundraising? In the Dominican Republic?
While, just coincidentally of course, Dominican sugar producers just may want to contribute, given the good Senator had to vote on a bill concerning sugar price supports and he could have either hurt or helped them. Most notably the brothers who own the Casa de Campo resort, which the Senator stayed 10 times during his six year term for a little fun in the sun and apparently some teen-aged frolic in the dark.
Naw, there's no story here.
As Dingy Harry Reid, who accused Romney of being a tax cheat based upon some unnamed anonymous source, contemptuously observed consider the source. A conservative blog! It's almost as bad as the National Enquirer breaking a sex scandal story involving a Democratic presidential candidate. Preposterous. No reputable news agency would touch it.Steve57 (104863) — 1/30/2013 @ 11:30 pm
I don't think they would understand why what you call a lie is so bad. It's not like they think anything is true.Amphipolis (e01538) — 1/31/2013 @ 4:43 pm
When you claim no one is answering you, you lose your claim to have been asking a rhetorical question.htom (412a17) — 1/31/2013 @ 5:59 pm
When you claim no one is answering you, you lose your claim to have been asking a rhetorical question.
David Frum thinks you are a sociopath.JD (b63a52) — 1/31/2013 @ 6:16 pm
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Industries › Economic Development
Big R Bridge plans to open $1.9 million facility in Washington County
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Big R Bridge, which develops engineered solutions for steel bridges and other structures, plans to invest $1.9 million to start an operation in Washington County.
The company, based in Greeley, Colo., made the announcement in a joint statement Tuesday with Gov. Bob McDonnell. In Virginia, Big R Bridge will manufacture prefabricated bridge parts at its new location in the former Lynchburg Steel facility, creating 32 new jobs during the next three years.
"This project marks an important step in Big R Bridge's expansion plans to the Eastern U.S. We are excited to be partnering with the state of Virginia and making Washington County the location of our next bridge manufacturing facility," Cameron Klein, president and CEO of Big R Bridge, said in a statement.
Big R Bridge is a subsidiary of Atlantic Industries Limited, based in New Brunswick, Canada. It has been supplying prefabricated bridges and custom engineered products across America for more than 40 years.
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Washington County and Virginia's aCorridor to secure the project for Virginia. Gov. McDonnell approved a $50,000 grant from the Governor's Opportunity Fund to assist Washington County with the project.
The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission also approved $125,000 in Tobacco Region Opportunity Funds. Through its Virginia Jobs Investment Program, the Virginia Department of Business Assistance will provide funding and services to support the company's recruitment, training and retraining activities.
Joe Straten, chairman of the Washington County Board of Supervisors, said, "This project matches the company with a former steel facility and creates valuable jobs for our citizens—truly a win-win for the community and the company."


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A look back at Brian Xanders' time in Denver
Brian Xanders' tenure in Denver lasted only four years, but in that time, he worked with three head coaches, and never had final say over personnel matters. He and the Broncos parted ways on Monday.
Here's a look at Xanders' four seasons with the Broncos, including key personnel moves since he was promoted to general manager in 2009:
May 5, 2008: Hired by Mike Shanahan to be one of two assistant general managers. At the time, Shanahan held ultimate front office power, and Jim Goodman held the title of vice president of football operations. Xanders spent the previous 14 in a variety of football and front office roles with the Atlanta Falcons.
Feb. 12, 2009: About a month after the Broncos hired Josh McDaniels to replace Shanahan, who was fired after the 2008 season, Xanders was promoted to be the team's sole general manager. Jim Goodman and his son Jeff, who had shared the assistant GM title with Xanders, were fired.
Jan. 5, 2011: The Broncos named John Elway executive vice president of football operations. Elway retained Xanders in his role as general manager.
January 2012: The Broncos promoted Matt Russell to oversee player personnel and hired former agent Mike Sullivan to handle contract negotiations and the team's salary cap.
April 28: The NFL draft concluded, third organized by Xanders.
** Draft: The 2009 draft, Xanders' first in Denver, was one to forget. The Broncos used their two first-round picks to select running back Knowshon Moreno and defensive end Robert Ayers, neither of whom have lived up to first-round billing. But it was the second round of that draft that was particularly poor. None of three players drafted in that round, cornerback Alphonso Smith, safety Darcel McBath or tight end Richard Quinn, was on the roster in 2012.
** Free agency: The first free-agent class of the McDaniels-Xanders era was a big one, and included veterans such as safety Brian Dawkins, wide receiver Jabar Gaffney, cornerback Andre Goodman, running back Correll Buckhalter and longsnapper Lonie Paxton.
** Trades: Xanders helped orchestrate the blockbuster trade that sent quarterback Jay Cutler to Chicago. The Broncos received two first-round picks, a third-round pick and quarterback Kyle Orton in exchange for a fifth-rounder and Cutler, who began feuding with McDaniels shortly after the new coach was hired.
** Draft: The Broncos made a splash in the first round of the draft by making two trades down and two trades up and ultimately winding up with wide receiver Demaryius Thomas at No. 22 and quarterback Tim Tebow at No. 25. The Broncos also drafted starters Zane Beadles, J.D. Walton and Eric Decker in the second day of the draft.
** Free agency: The Broncos' big free agent signings were defensive tackles Justin Bannan and Jarvis Green, who both received big-money contracts. Green, who had $3.25 million guaranteed in his contract, did not make the 53-man roster. Bannan was released in a cost-saving move in 2011 before re-joining the team this year. Later, the Broncos signed defensive end Elvis Dumervil and guard Chris Kuper to contract extensions.
** Trade: The Broncos traded troubled wide receiver Brandon Marshall to Miami for two second-round draft picks. The other notable trade of the offseason came when Denver shipped fan-favorite running back Peyton Hillis to Cleveland in exchange for quarterback Brady Quinn. Quinn never took a regular-season snap for the Broncos.
** Draft: With the highest pick in team history, Denver drafted linebacker Von Miller at No.2, and he was an immediate star. The Broncos drafted three other players who started in 2011 — safeties Rahim Moore and Quinton Carter, and right tackle Orlando Franklin.
** Free agency: The biggest names in the Broncos' post-lockout free agent class were running back Willis McGahee, who rushed for more than 1,000 yards in 2011 and made the Pro Bowl as an alternate, and defensive tackle, who suffered a season-ending injury in training camp.
** Trades: The Broncos traded for defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley in August, and he went on to start 13 games. The team was unable to re-sign Bunkley this spring. Denver also traded wide receiver Jabar Gaffney to Washington for defensive end Jeremy Jarmon, who did not make the team. In October, the Broncos traded unhappy wide receiver Brandon Lloyd to St. Louis for a fifth-round draft pick.
** Draft: Denver traded out of the first round of the draft before selecting defensive tackle Derek Wolfe at No. 36 and quarterback Brock Osweiler at No. 57 in the second round. Denver drafted seven total players.
** Free agency: Other than the Peyton Manning signing, Denver otherwise has been relatively quiet in free agency. The team signed veteran free agent Mike Adams and re-signed linebackers Joe Mays and Wesley Woodyard.
** Trades: After Manning signed on as the team's new starting quarterback, the Broncos traded Tim Tebow to the New York Jets in exchange for fourth- and sixth-round draft picks.


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Lawmakers to introduce marijuana legislation
Lawmakers to introduce marijuana legislation
Bills that would decriminalize marijuana and would approve its medical use may be headed for the Iowa Legislature.
State Rep. Bruce Hunter told The Des Moines Register that he is preparing a bill on decriminalizing pot possession as long as those caught with marijuana weren't selling it.
The Democrat also says he'll reintroduce a medical marijuana bill, and state Sen. Joe Bolkcom says he'll be seeking co-sponsors in the coming session for his medical marijuana measure.
Gov. Terry Branstad has said he'll veto bills that would legalize marijuana for any use.
Voters in Colorado and Washington approved ballot measures earlier this month that let adults 21 and over to possess small amounts of marijuana under state regulation and taxation.


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STOCKTON - Producers and camera crews from "Cops," one of America's longest-running television shows, finished filming in Stockton on Friday after spending eight weeks on patrol with police officers.
STOCKTON - Producers and camera crews from "Cops," one of America's longest-running television shows, finished filming in Stockton on Friday after spending eight weeks on patrol with police officers.
Crews spent hundreds of hours with Stockton Police Department patrol officers and members of the Community Response Team taping segments for the fall season of "Cops."
Producers have selected eight stories to air as seven-minute segments on episodes throughout the season, which is set to begin Sept. 14. The documentary program debuted in 1989. It will move to the Spike network in the fall after 25 seasons on Fox, but it will retain its 8 p.m. time slot on Saturdays, producer Zach Ragsdale said.
"This is the first time we've filmed here in 25 seasons of 'Cops,' and it's always interesting to see new places," said Ragsdale, who has been with the show since 1998. "If you live in Florida, it's interesting to see how police work is done in California. You have different accents, different looks, and it gives the viewer a good variety of stories."
Frankie Gunnell, in his third season as a "Cops" producer and cameraman, said he filmed a number of interesting stories in Stockton, including one that captured a rare and unusual domestic disturbance involving an elderly couple.
"I really enjoy stories that are different," Gunnell said. "You don't see a lot of domestic disputes between really old people, but one of the stories I encountered here was a 70-year-old man who was being accused of getting in a fight with his girlfriend because he tried to flush her dead husband's ashes down the toilet. That's not something I've ever encountered before."
Ragsdale described a couple of other stories that will air on fall episodes. One involved a burglar who was apprehended when a police dog pulled him out of a tree. Another involved a man who was stopped by police following a hapless attempt to flee on a bicycle.
Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department, said patrol officers and Community Response Team members enjoyed working with "Cops" crews.
"It's been a very positive experience, and it has definitely boosted morale within our department," Silva said. "Officers are able to showcase what they do at work every day, which will ultimately be played on TV for the entire nation to see."
Ragsdale said one of the keys to the show's success and longevity is the raw, real nature of each segment.
"None of it is staged," he said. "Everything is real. We're considered reality TV, but when you compare us to all the shows that call themselves reality TV, they're not, and we are. Most shows are scripted and staged. There's nothing about our show that's any of that. It is true reality. I would almost call our show more of a documentary, because we just document what happens."
Ragsdale said he welcomes the move to Spike and believes the network will provide a good home for the show, adding, "It'll still be the same 'Cops' television show that people have come to know over the last 24 years or so.
"I think this will be a good thing for us," Ragsdale said. "We've been with Fox for so many years that they didn't promote the show and didn't do anything for the show. We were a staple of Saturday night, but they chose to move Saturday nights toward more sports programs. We were pre-empted a lot, so we decided to part ways. Spike had shown interest a couple years ago, so we contacted them, and now we'll be on the Spike network."
Contact reporter Jason Anderson at (209) 546-8279 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/crimeblog.


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After playing 18 days ago in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons won't have to introduce themselves when they meet again Thursday night.
Then again, the NFC South rivals didn't need many introductions when they met for the first of their twice-yearly matchups earlier this month.
Even on a shortened work week, they'll be set for what figures to be an emotionally charged game considering the Saints ended the Falcons' dreams of an undefeated season with a 31-27 win on Nov. 11.
The Saints (5-6) need a win to keep their playoff hopes alive, while the Falcons (10-1) will be trying to make them pay and move a step closer to a division title when they get together at 7:20 p.m.
While the telecast will be picked up by Fox8 in New Orleans, it will only be available on NFL Network in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas.
Adding to the excitement of a late-November game is some bad blood between the teams, which has been brewing while the Saints won 11 of the past 13 meetings — a stretch that began with Sean Payton's arrival in 2006.
The Falcons' feathers became ruffled in 2010 when members of the Saints' defensive line posed for pictures at midfield after a win in the Georgia Dome and again in the next-to-last game of the 2011 season when they said the Saints ran up the score in a 45-16 blowout.
Then, while Falcons wide receiver Roddy White was telling reporters that they gave the game to the Saints earlier this month, Saints linebackers Curtis Lofton and Scott Shanle were in their locker room adding fuel to the fire.
Lofton, who played with the Falcons from 2008-11 before joining the Saints as a free agent this winter, said there was no rivalry between the two teams because the series has been so lopsided recently.
Shanle told Yahoo! Sports that the Falcons were "like our little brothers" after he felt they disrespected Lofton, their old teammate, during pregame warmups.
All of which, of course, will have no bearing on this game, according to the coaches.
They were more interested in getting their teams ready in a compressed week, which had them squeezing five days of preparation into three.
The silver lining was the Saints know the Falcons and the Falcons know the Saints — even if they don't like each other very much.
"Absolutely," Saints interim coach Joe Vitt said when asked if playing a familiar foe helps. "It doesn't make it any less challenging, but they know us and we know them.
"We are going to run plays that we have probably all seen run against one another before. We will try to disguise them with different formations and motions.
"This is not going to be a game about scheme. This is going to be a game about execution and physicality."
Saints quarterback Drew Brees said most of the Thursday games this season, of which every NFL team has a part of, have been between divisional foes.
"That helps. … Obviously, just physically getting your body ready and then putting together a game plan with very little practice time during the week, that's a challenge," Brees said.
Saints defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said there is no real advantage for either team or either side of the ball when they play two games with little time in between.
"We're both doing the same thing," he said. "They had us for a game (on Nov. 11) and know our personnel, and we have the same for them. It's kind of a continuation of the same game. It's like going in at halftime and making adjustments.
"This is halftime of two games. We'll make subtle adjustments and I'm sure they'll do the same. Yet, we have an appreciation for each other's personnel because we've gone against them."
Despite everything that's been done and said, and how little time they've had to prepare, Brees said the only thing that matters is getting the job done.
"The fans probably see it as more of a rivalry and all of that stuff than the players do," he said. "I think we know the importance of the game.
"It gets chippy at times, during the week and game day, but it is what it is. We just see them as a very good divisional opponent that we want to make sure we can get the upper hand on because in the end it affects a lot of where you stand within the division."


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Ril T. Miller, 85
Ril T. Miller, 85, of Otterbein in St. Marys Retirement Community, previously of Celina and Mendon, died at 4:31 a.m. Saturday, July 16, 2011, at the Mercer County Community Hospital in Coldwater.
He was born on Aug. 16, 1925, in Mendon, to Alpha and Josephine (Murlin) Miller, and they preceded him in death.
On Nov. 13, 1944, in Annapolis, Md., he married Viola Mae Long, and she preceded him in death on Feb. 13, 2008.
He is survived by two sons, Ronald (Becky) Miller of Kokomo, Ind., and Randy (Shirley) Miller of Van Wert; four daughters, Rosa Van Gundy of Rockford, Linda (Ed) Frey of Fort Wayne, Ind., Rebecca (Mike) Barber of St. Marys and Lori Heckert of Ashland; 20 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Deborah Sue Miller, on Dec. 25, 1968; three siblings and their spouses, Betty (Wayne) Kennedy, Dwight (Joan) Miller and Clayton "KK" (Gladys) Miller; a son-in-law, George Van Gundy.
He had farmed and was a rural letter carrier in the Mendon area and was a member of the Ohio Rural Letter Carriers Association. He was a member of the Montezuma Church of Christ. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served in Annapolis, Md., during World War II. He as a 1944 graduate of Mendon-Union High School.
He loved woodworking and building rocking horses. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at W.H. Dick and Sons - Hellwarth Funeral Home in Celina, with the Rev. Kevin Neumann officiating. Burial will be at Mendon Cemetery, with military rites conducted by the Celina American Legion Post No. 210 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 5713.
Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Life Enrichment Fund at Otterbein St. Marys Retirement Community or to the Kidney Dialyses Unit at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital. Online condolences may be expressed at Dickandsonshellwarthfh.com.


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ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Greenville Baseball (2-12) kicked off the first of a three game series with the Bears of Washington University St. Louis on Friday with a 9-5 loss at Kelly Field. Senior Kyle Hobar, who batted 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI, led the Panthers in the loss.
On the mound, Greenville's Michael Wittmer was charged with the loss, posting five innings of work with four earned.
Using timely hitting and aggressive running along the base paths the Bears manufactured big innings in the first and in the eighth to secure win and deal GC the loss.
GC will wrap up the series on Saturday as they play host to WashU in an afternoon double header from Robert E. Smith Field.


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Lost's Leap
The critical buzz on the Lost season finale.
Lost Season 3 Finale (ABC). Wednesday night's two-hour season finale left critics reeling—and captivated. For the first time, the show looked into the future, and viewers learned that some castaways do, in fact, make it off the island. The San Francisco Chronicle's TV critic wonders, "How much drama does that suck out of the coming seasons?" but concludes, "I'm willing to bet that there's plenty of smart ways to tweak the drama and keep fans captivated." The Boston Globe sums up the finale as "a radical two hours that gave us major fake-outs, an army of dead bodies, the possibility of rescue, diverse portraits of heroism, and the most touching loss of the series so far." And Entertainment Weekly raves, "Lost flipped the switch on itself, revealing new dimensions to its creative world and grander ambitions in its exploration of redemption and damnation."— D.S., May 25
American Idol finale. Critics brush off the season's anti-climactic conclusion to applaud or—more often—denounce the star-soaked wrap-up extravaganza. As Slate's Jody Rosen writes, "Jordin Sparks won. Shocker." Most of the evening was a parade of famous pop acts, from Green Day to Bette Midler. The Boston Globe approves: "Give 'American Idol' credit for knowing itself. Everything this show does, it does big." But Entertainment Weekly complains, "[T]he Idol finale should not be confused with the Grammys. …That's why [the] decision tonight to focus the bloated, 130-minute telecast on pretty much everyone except for this season's 12 finalists was so disappointing and, ultimately, infuriating." Either way, critics mourn the night that could have been. Maureen Ryan sighs in the Chicago Tribune's blog the Watcher, "Through all the filler and the fluff and the cheeseball medleys … it was possible to construct a Parallel Universe 'Idol' in one's imagination: You could watch Melinda Doolittle with BeBe and CeCe Winans and pretend that the presumptive winner was belting out one more joyous, gospel-inflected number before taking the crown." Viewers apparently agreed— Variety reports that 20 percent fewer people watched the finale this year than last.— B.W.
It Won't Be Soon Before Long, Maroon 5 (A&M/Octone). The unabashedly mainstream rock band's second album comes out five years after their wildly successful debut, and industry watchers nervously anticipate a hit. Reviews are mixed (not that it matters!). The album "establishes its smarmy, smooth-operator vibe immediately with the droll optimism of a grown man on permanent spring break," remarks Entertainment Weekly. Still, reviewer Neil Drumming admits that band members "score with their big, memorable, melodic hooks." Robert Christgau, writing in Rolling Stone, gives the album a surprisingly high three and a half stars out of five, noting, "In a flusher age, [lead singer Adam] Levine's handlers would be buying Caribbean islands. Now they'll at least stay in the record business." But the Village Voice is purely disdainful, yawning, "Man, it could sprout wings and fly up my ass and it'd still be as boring as owning a goldfish." (Buy It Won't Be Soon Before Long.)—D.S., May 23
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead). The author of the best-selling debut novel The Kite Runner returns to Afghanistan for a follow-up. A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the story of two Afghan women living under the oppression of the veil, the Soviet occupation, and, finally, the Taliban. Most critics can't restrain their admiration. The Associate Press says Hosseini "exceeds every expectation." The San Francisco Chronicle commends the author for his "bewitching narrative" and "for skillfully inserting this human story into the larger backdrop of recent history." And USA Today gushes that Hosseini captures the "natural beauty and colorful cultural heritage of his native Afghanistan" and that "[r]eaders will feel the ache in [Hosseini's] heart" when they read his prose. The Washington Post is also positive, though warier, warning that "Hosseini is not above melodrama and heartstring-tugging," and adding: "A Thousand Splendid Suns is popular fiction of the first rank, which is plenty good enough, but it is not literature and should not be mistaken for such."— P.F., May 22
Sicko (Weinstein Co.). Michael Moore's new documentary—an indictment of the American health-care industry—screened to an approving audience at Cannes over the weekend, but not before an unauthorized trip Moore made to Cuba during filming prompted a stateside controversy and an investigation by the Treasury Department. In their Cannes Journal, the New York Times' Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott praise the movie, noting that "while Mr. Moore remains a radical partisan, he has learned how to sell his argument with a softer touch. He's still the P.T. Barnum of activist cinema, but he no longer runs the entire circus directly from the spotlight."Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum agrees, remarking, "[T]here's a certain robust clarity of political activism in this latest salvo from media provocateur Michael Moore that marks a new maturity." The Associated Press describes Sicko as a film about "ordinary Americans telling heart-wrenching stories of being refused vital treatment," while the Huffington Post calls it "a rejoinder for those who think we can fix the soulless monster by tinkering with an unconscionable system that puts us further in thrall to those who created the crisis."— D.S., May 21


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September 28, 1990
To: Vice Presidents, Deans, Directors, and
Department Chairs
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: (Supersedes PD90-03) Accommodation For Disabled Students
It is the purpose of this Presidential Directive to assurethat San José State University continues to comply with all Federal and State legislation and California State University policies regarding the provision of services to students with disabilities. This Presidential Directive has been developed in response to Section 504 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973; State ofCalifornia ACR 201 (1976); ACR 3 (1985); A8746 (1987); and California State University AAES 89-07 "Policy for the Provision of Services to Students with Disabilities."
Since 1972 the University has had a Disabled Student Services Program that provides counseling and support services for students who have physical, emotional, learning and other verified disabilities. To assist the University in making reasonable accommodations, Disabled Student Services provides diagnostic assessment, reader services, specialized test taking arrangements, transcription services, specialized tutoring services, and both note-takers and sign-language interpreters. In addition, Disabled Student Services provides disability-related counseling and advising, and access to computers and other technological assistance adapted to disabilities.
Section 504 Regulation states that a university shall provide academic adjustments unless: (a) the university can demonstrate that the adjustments are not necessary to ensure nondiscriminatory participation by a handicapped student, or (b) the university can demonstrate that the academic requirement for which an adjustment is requested "[is] essential to the program of instruction being pursued by [the] student." With respect to auxiliary aids, the university must provide such
auxiliary aids as are necessary to ensure that handicapped students are not "denied the benefits of, excluded from participation in, or otherwise subjected to discrimination in" the program. That is, the University is required to make adjustments to the known physical and mental limitations of otherwise qualified disabled students, unless it can demonstrate that one or the other of those two exceptions pertains. The intent is to "level the playing field," not to guarantee the outcome of the student's educational endeavor.
The University views the provision of accommodation for disabled students as a cooperative effort, involving faculty, staff, and students.
- It is the responsibility of students with disabilities to do
the following:
- Identify themselves and provide verification of their disability to Disabled Student Services.
- Provide testing and evaluation results dated no more than three years prior to the date on which the student requests accommodation for learning disabilities.
- Consult with Disabled Student Services regarding specific accommodation requests.
- Take, in a timely manner, the recommendations of Disabled Student Services for accommodation to the department from whom accommodation or support services are requested.
- Abide by departmental, school, and University policies and academic regulations, as all students are expected to do.
- It is the responsibility of Disabled Student Services to do the following:
- Keep confidential records for each disabled student.
- Provide disability-related counseling and advising.
- Provide access, where feasible, to computers and other technological adaptations to disabilities.
- Identify and recommend appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities, including verified learning disabilities.
- It is the responsibility of academic departments to do the following:
- Make accommodations recommended by the Office of Disabled Student Services for students with disabilities, including verified learning disabilities, unless the department can demonstrate either that the adjustments are not necessary to ensure nondiscriminatory participation by a handicapped student, or that the academic requirement for which an adjustment is requested is essential to the program of instruction being pursued by the student.
- Consult with the Director of Disabled Student Services regarding specific recommendations for accommodation for an individual student, particularly if special test-taking procedures or adaptations for testing are Involved.
- Keep a confidential record of all accommodations made for students with disabilities.
Conflict Resolution:
Students with disabilities who wish to appeal a denial of requested accommodation should contact the Assistant Director of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action (EEO/AA), who will seek first to resolve the conflict by informal means. If an informal resolution is not possible, the Assistant Director of EEO/AA will investigate the complaint within the guidelines of the CSU Policy for the Provision of Services to Students with Disabilities (AAES 89-07; BP 89-08). At the conclusion of the investigation, the Assistant Director of EEO/AA will report the findings to the President who will take appropriate action.


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Cruz shocked name linked to Fla. clinic, PEDs
Feb. 15, 2013
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz said Friday it was "shocking" and "depressing" to see his name came up in connection with a Florida clinic now at the center of Major League Baseball's latest drug investigation.
Cruz, however, said he could not shed any light on why his name is reportedly in the records of Biogenesis of America LLC, a now-closed anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Fla. The Miami New Times reported last month that it obtained records detailing banned substances purchases by several players, including Cruz, the 2011 AL championship series MVP.
"I want to speak and I want to talk, but my lawyer told me I cannot say anything right now," Cruz said. "I want to be honest, but this is currently under investigation by Major League Baseball and I can't really make any comment on it. As soon as it is done, I will talk. I want to comment, but I can't, sorry."
Cruz said he has not yet met with any MLB investigators, but would cooperate with them. Cruz, who is represented by Seth and Sam Levinson of ACEs, said he was contacted by his agents the day before the New Times article was published.
"It was shocking, really depressing," Cruz said. "It can really hurt you."
He acknowledged it could be difficult in spring training until there is a resolution of the investigation. He said he plans to play for the Dominican Republic next month in the World Baseball Classic; teammates Adrian Beltre and shortstop Elvis Andrus are among Rangers players expected to miss some of camp to participate in the tournament.
"I don't worry at all," Cruz said about the investigation. "I know it's going to come good so hopefully it's done right and quick as possible."
Cruz hit .260 with 24 home runs, with career-highs 45 doubles and 90 RBIs in 159 games last season. He has hit at least 22 home runs the past four years.
"We're just taking it day-by-day," Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said. "There's nothing much we can do really. We expect he's going to be our right fielder. If something comes up that impacts that, we'll deal with that at that point.
"Hopefully, the process speeds up and we get it out of the way and we focus on the year. I'm not overly concerned from a club's standpoint. It's an open investigation at this point. We're kind of in a wait-and-see mode, but we're going to support Nelly in the process."
Daniels met with Cruz before the team worked out Friday.
"I think he would generally like this to be a little further down the line," Daniels said. "I don't think he likes having a 'no comment.' I think he would like to be able address it a little bit more, but I understand why he can't."
The Rangers have had to address sticky issues the past few years. Late during the 2009 season, Washington offered to resign after admitting to using cocaine once and failing a drug test. Outfielder Josh Hamilton had a relapse with alcohol last year. Hamilton, the five-time All-Star and former AL MVP, is now with the Angels.
"We've been through a lot and we've dealt with some different things over the years," Daniels said. "You don't ever want to deal with these things, but they do come up. It's a reality of the game, society and the industry. We just have to let it play out."


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