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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) Jordan Schroeder is still looking for his first traditional goal, but he already has a game-winner in the bank.
The 22-year-old Schroeder scored in his first shootout to give the Vancouver Canucks a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.
Schroeder, who hasn't scored a standard goal in the regular season, fired a low, hard shot that squeaked through the pads of goalie Corey Crawford.
``I wanted to go in with some speed and wide,'' Schroeder said. ``I came back to the middle and changed my pace of speed. I froze him. He opened up the five hole a little bit and it trickled through.''
Defenseman Alex Edler scored in regulation for the Canucks (4-2-2).
Patrick Kane had the lone goal for the Blackhawks, who lost their second straight in a shootout after starting the season with six victories.
Crawford had stopped Alex Burrows, Zack Kassian and Maxim Lapierre before Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault tapped Schroeder.
The rookie wasn't totally surprised he was picked.
``We have been working on it,'' he said. ``I knew my name would get called. I was fortunate enough to get one and score.''
Vigneault said the Canucks have been practicing the shootout and getting feedback from the goalies and goalie coach Roland Melanson.
``They have been sharing the information on who they feel is better suited to help us out,'' Vigneault said. ``We get that information ... and make the best decision we can for the team.''
Chicago controlled overtime, outshooting Vancouver 4-1. The Blackhawks were also awarded a power play with 1:11 left when Vancouver defenseman Jason Garrison was called for high-sticking. Chicago, which outshot Vancouver 28-22, was 0 for 5 on the power play.
``It's tough to lose in a shootout,'' Kane said. ``I thought in the third we played pretty well.
``It seemed like we were all over them, but they are a tough team. They're always going to be a rival and come out to play hard against us, especially in their building.''
The Canucks had a 40-second, 5-on-3 power play in the third period, but didn't register a shot on goal.
Edler opened the scoring at 15:42 of the first period. The big defenseman took a pass from Kassian and fired a shot past Crawford for his third goal of the season.
Kane tied it at 9:42 of the third. He got the puck from Andrew Shaw and lifted a shot over the stick side of goalie Roberto Luongo, who was falling to the ice. It was Kane's third goal.
Vancouver's Mason Raymond had a great scoring chance late in regulation. His hard shot went through Crawford's pads and slid across the open net.
The Blackhawks used speed and some pretty passing to attack Vancouver. Despite being drawn out of position at times, the Canucks defense forced the Blackhawks to the outside and blocked plenty of shots.
``It was a very tight game, not a lot of room on both sides,'' Luongo said. ``We played our system extremely well.
``They were kept to the outside most of the night. I was fighting a little bit to see the puck on some shots but we were tying them up so they weren't getting any whacks at it.''
Luongo, who stopped 24 shots in a win against the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday, had another solid night. In the second period he gloved a drive from Brandon Saad and calmly blocked a long shot from Dave Bolland.
In the first period, Luongo stopped Marian Hossa on a breakaway and then dragged his leg in front of Brent Seabrook's drive during a Chicago power play.
``Sometimes you get in a rhythm,'' Luongo said. ``You are seeing the puck and getting bounces.
``When you're in that zone you want to keep it going as long as possible and take advantage of it.''
Luongo also got help when a couple of Blackhawks drives struck goal posts.
Luongo, the goalie the Canucks have been trying to trade since June, made his third consecutive start. Cory Schneider, who was expected to be Vancouver's No. 1 goalie this season, watched from the bench.
It was also the first meeting between the teams since March 21 when Chicago defenseman Duncan Keith delivered an elbow to Daniel Sedin's head.
Sedin sustained a concussion and missed the rest of the regular season plus the first three games of the playoffs. Keith was given a five-game suspension.
The crowd booed Keith every time he touched the puck. There was a cheer in the second period when Henrik Sedin bounced Keith into the boards.
NOTES: The Canucks wore the Vancouver Millionaires ``V'' patch on their sweaters to celebrate the team that won the Stanley Cup in 1915 against the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association. ... Wes Rypien, brother of former Canucks player Rick Rypien who committed suicide, participated in a ceremonial opening faceoff. ... Henrik Sedin played his 900th game with the Canucks. ... Canucks grinder Dale Weise played despite missing practice Thursday with a stiff neck. Weise fought Cody McLeod during Vancouver's 3-0 win Wednesday.


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LAWA pursued a phaseout of noisier aircraft operating at VNY in a separate process that paralleled the Part 161 Study. This phaseout takes advantage of a provision of the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 (ANCA) and the Part 161 regulations that exempts or "grandfathers" certain restrictions proposed (Stage 1 and 2 aircraft) or enacted (Stage 3 and 4 aircraft) prior to ANCA's adoption.
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As discussed in the overview of Part 161, the regulation does not apply to restrictions on Stage 2 aircraft operations proposed before October 2, 1990. This so-called LAWA´s grandfather provision is important at VNY, because on June 13, 1990, the Board of Airport Commissioners adopted Resolution 17154 which proposed, in part, a staged phaseout of noisier aircraft, based on departure noise levels published in the most recent version of the FAA Advisory Circular (AC) 36-3, according to the following original schedule:
Because this regulation was proposed over five months before the October 1990 grandfather provision cutoff, LAWA may implement this regulation without undertaking a Part 161 study and related notice, as long as the regulation as adopted is no more stringent than the original proposal.
Resolution 17154 also proposed two additional noise regulations:
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At its meeting on April 17, 2006, the Board of Airport Commissioners enacted Resolution 22980, which readopted Resolution 17154 regarding the seven-year phaseout of noisier aircraft. It also directed the Executive Director and City Attorney to report on three items:
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On July 17, 2006 LAWA and City Attorney staff presented that plan and status reports. Based on the presentation, the BOAC directed LAWA to pursue a "dual-track" strategy, including both the original noisier aircraft phaseout and the Part 161 process addressing the VNY Master Plan requirement to pursue a Stage 2 ban as soon as possible. The minutes of this meeting are available here.
The BOAC subsequently authorized the Executive Director to circulate an amended version of the original phaseout proposal for public review and comment, and to conduct the appropriate environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The revisions to the ordinance updated the implementation dates of the original proposed seven-year phaseout, added provisions to exempt certain historic aircraft from the phase-out, added a provision exempting aircraft maintenance work during the seven year phase-out, and included authorization for the VNY Airport Manager to grant a one-time written exemption for an aircraft regulated by this Ordinance to permanently depart VNY. The draft ordinance also included an exemption for Stage 3 and 4 aircraft. The FAA notified LAWA that the Stage 3 and 4 aircraft exemption is required to preserve the phaseout ordinance's "grandfathered" status.
On February 26, 2010, the Los Angeles City Council approved the "Van Nuys Airport Noisier Aircraft Phaseout Ordinance with Historic, Maintenance, and Stage 3 and Stage 4 Exemptions." Mayor Villaraigosa signed the ordinance on March 9, 2010. The ordinance went into effect on April 15, 2010.


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For most of last year, Buck Haworth was telling anyone he could about how CME Group altered his firm's designation, which effectively ratcheted up his data fees at the end of 2012, and he warned others that they could face the same issue. The problem, he told us back in June, wasn't so much that they'd raised his fees, but how they did it — first with a multiyear examination into his business practices, and then citing incomprehensible passages in its rules. So, it came as no surprise to him when the exchange boosted its data fees across the board just after Thanksgiving 2013 — and that it did so with a confusing set of rules that industry heavyweight Les Rosenthal derided as a "five-page fee matrix accompanied by three pages of footnotes" (see "Confusion reigns," below).
Indeed, Rosenthal — a two-time past chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade and co-founder of Rosenthal Collins Group — questioned "CME Group's actions in implementing these new market data fees without dialogue with market participants" — an act he said was "insensitive, at best, and disingenuous at worst."
Opinions on the increase may depend on your perspective. End-users don't like it. From a shareholder perspective, the fee increase is perfectly rational. It is the kind of "growth" the Exchange has been achieving since it shifted from being a nonprofit club working to build markets to being a for-profit service provider.
Ironically, the fee increase came shortly after the CME vigorously defended its end-users against potentially disastrous increases in compliance costs from a new Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rule interpretation on residual interest and the on-again/off-again battle over a derivatives transaction tax.
While Haworth was sounding the alarm, the cash-strapped CFTC was expending valuable resources to pursue technical violations from years ago, adding costly compliance rules, re-interpreting its residual interest rule that could possibly double end-user margin requirements and carrying on a costly court battle to defend its position limits rule.
It was, in short, a good year for CME shareholders and a chaotic year for the CFTC — but ultimately a disastrous year for end-users, who seem to be heading into 2014 with the odds stacked against them (see "For profit, for whom?," here).
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CME Group is hardly the only exchange to be accused of putting shareholders ahead of users, and the accusations don't stop with fees. In fact, even before the CME imposed its data fees in late 2013, breweries and other aluminum users in the United States were complaining that the London Metal Exchange (LME) maintained rules that extended wait times at warehouses to ratchet up profits for shareholders like Goldman Sachs, which had purchased one of the largest aluminum warehouses in North America.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of ING U.S. Inc. rose slightly in their first day of trading following the company's $1.3 billion initial public offering.
ING U.S. sold 65.2 million shares for $19.50 each, making the IPO one of this year's biggest. The offering's underwriters also have the option of buying an additional 9.8 million shares at the IPO price.
ING U.S. is part of Dutch financial services provider ING Groep NV. The parent company is selling a minority stake in ING U.S. as part of compensation measures demanded by the European Commission after ING received a bailout from the Dutch government in 2008.
When completed, the offering will reduce ING Group's stake in the company to 75 percent, or 71 percent if the underwriters' option is exercised in full.
ING U.S., with insurance, investment and retirement businesses, will rebrand itself as Voya Financial next year.
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The Federal Reserve Board on a timely basis shall notify the Secretary, or his designee, in writing of the adjustment described in subsection (a) and of the effective date of such adjustment in order to permit the Secretary to undertake publication in the Federal Register of corresponding adjustments to the Dollar Amounts. The dollar amount of any adjustment shall be rounded to the next lower dollar.
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Acknowledging that college football's new four-team playoff could some day inch toward a larger basketball-style tournament, we begin our Super Sweet 16 countdown today, with No. 16 Notre Dame:
In the seedy years before Brian Kelly arrived at Notre Dame, the football was phony but the grass was real.
Now it's the opposite.
Kelly has guided the Fighting Irish to four straight winning seasons for the first time since a 12-year win streak ended in 1999.
The only polystyrene now is the new artificial turf that has replaced the hallowed bentgrass, often grown out like a hippie's hair depending on the speed at tailback coming into South Bend, Ind.
Who could forget that comb-the-area search for diminutive USC star Reggie Bush in 2005?
Putting fake grass in Notre Dame Stadium is like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but nothing seems sacred anymore, including the Irish's once progressively mysterious pattern of winning national titles: 1966, 1977, 1988.
Notre Dame came up short in 1999, going 5-7, and continues searching for that elusive crown that makes Irish tradition what it is, or was.
Notre Dame came close two years ago with a 12-0 regular-season run that included several breathless, late-game pullouts, yet ended with a blowout loss to Alabama in the national title game.
Last season's reload was seriously disrupted by the academic expulsion of star quarterback Everett Golson, who would have been a sophomore on a team stacked with title-level talent.
Golson is a difference-maker player and might have made a difference last year on a team that finished 9-4.
Golson is back on campus, reportedly in good graces, trying to win his job back on a team that lost about half its starters.
Kelly made it clear he isn't handing anything back to Golson by announcing the quarterback position was open for competition.
Kelly even underplayed Golson's contribution to the 2012 undefeated run to the Bowl Championship Series title game.
"I would argue Everett rode the bus to the championship," Kelly said.
Kelly is pushing Golson with his effusive talk about redshirt freshman Malik Zaire, a dual-threat, four-star recruit.
Really, what does Golson have over Zaire except beating Oklahoma and USC and 10 other teams in 2012?
"I think Malik has the ability to play winning football for us," Kelly said.
Notre Dame is probably a year away from making a serious run at the new four-team playoff but appears to be set up solidly for the new era.
Kelly is proud of his four straight winning seasons but is looking for staying power.
"You don't want to have an undefeated season and then just have winning seasons," Kelly said. "You want to be part of the national conversation."
Kelly is working to sustain a level where losing players early to the NFL becomes a badge of honor.
"Everybody has lost really good players," he said. "Alabama loses them. LSU loses them every year. Florida State loses them."
What Notre Dame has over most other power programs is a schedule that doesn't quit. It was the reason the Irish shot to the top two years ago even after starting the season unranked in the Associated Press poll.
Notre Dame's football independence (note: the Irish do have a working relationship with the Atlantic Coast Conference) bulletproofs the program from ever getting dragged down by a weak conference.
The Irish enter 2014 with, arguably, the nation's toughest schedule. The 13-person selection committee will pick Notre Dame up at the playoff airport if it navigates a schedule that includes Michigan, Stanford, Florida State, Arizona State, Northwestern, Louisville and USC.
There are more Division I teams now, 128, but four playoff spots instead of two.
"We have got to have a serious shot at getting one of those four," Kelly said.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Wildlife officials say someone shot a pair of whooping cranes in southwest Louisiana, killing the female and seriously injuring the male.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement division spokesman Adam Einck says the male is from the first group of whooping cranes released in a repopulation effort in 2011, and the female was from a second group. The cranes are an endangered species.
Whooping cranes mate for life and the first group's only survivor is a male who began making practice nests with a younger female last year.
Einck says the tagged birds apparently were shot Thursday. They were found Friday in Jefferson Davis Parish.
The male was taken to the LSU veterinary school for treatment.
Wildlife officials are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the shooter.


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Lawmakers gut treasurer's office
Lawmakers gut treasurer's office
MADISON, Wis. —
Schuller is not seeking re-election.
The Legislature's budget committee has voted to remove the last meaningful duty of the state treasurer, giving the obligation to manage unclaimed funds to the Department of Revenue.
The Joint Finance Committee voted 13-3 on Wednesday to make the change as current Treasurer Kurt Schuller watched from the audience.
Schuller says the decision was a "complete and total blindside." He calls it an "incredibly unjustifiable move."
Schuller says it makes no sense to remove all duties of the office without also eliminating the position. He campaigned in 2010 on the pledge that he would eliminate the office. But that requires a constitutional amendment, which has not passed in the Legislature.
Schuller is not seeking re-election.


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|Campus Setting:
|Plains Large City
|Highest Degree Offered:
|Doctor's degree - professional practice
|Level of Institution:
|Four or more years
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power plans to build the world's largest groundwater treatment center over one of the largest Superfund pollution sites in the United States: the San Fernando Basin.
Two plants costing a combined $600 million to $800 million will restore groundwater pumping of drinking water from scores of San Fernando Valley wells that the DWP began closing in the 1980s, the utility said. The plants also will ensure that other wells remain open despite pollution plumes steadily migrating in their direction.
The plans mark a major shift at DWP, reversing a trend of recent decades in which the utility has offset diminishing use of groundwater with imports from Northern California and the eastern Sierra.
"By 2035, we plan to reduce our purchases of imported water by half," said James McDaniel, the DWP's senior assistant general manager.


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(Update: Erik has done an updated piece in favor of used games sticking around a bit longer)
Why, Erik?! Whhhhhy?!
It should be easy to cross the lines and stand on the opposite side of the battlefield but it's not. As many of you know, Erik Kain is the man we usually look to for support and some sense of solace during troubling times of consumer mistreatment in the video game industry; sticking up for gamers during the Mass Effect 3 fiasco, the Diablo III fallout and a lot of other scenarios not worth naming here. However, today...sadly...Erik was persuaded by the dark side.
If you're not sure what all the fuss is about regarding used games, you can read up on it in our consumer policy and concerns guide for the Xbox One.
TotalBiscuit's influence has reached out a lot farther than I thought it would and I warned readers in that piece about this very thing happening. He caters to a large swath of the video-dependent gaming audience and he has quite the following on YouTube and Reddit; no laughing matter, I might add.
Despite the achievements, TotalBiscuit's opinion supports that used games should be done away with and that the Xbox One (and presumably Sony's PS4) embracing fees for used games is a good thing. Publishers get their money, gamers get their games. Ben Kuchera from Penny Arcade also believes the same thing, and now, Erik Kain has joined in on the fray.
I'm not going to repeat a lot of what's already been said, but here's the part that kind of stings the most...
The end of used games won't be a peaceful or happy transition and for a while at least, I suspect consumers very well might suffer the most. But the end-game is a world without powerful third-parties like GameStop strong-arming the rest of the industry into brick-and-mortar prices when we should be paying much less and game companies should be earning much more on the dollar.
Ohhhh, fail.
Now, I already did a report on how DLC makes just as much money as used game sales and I already pointed out how 70% of GameStop's used sales are actually reinvested by gamers back toward new games (something I can attest to as anecdotal evidence).
The reality is that these guys aren't out there to do the devil's work for AAA publishers, purposefully misleading their audiences, they just haven't been informed about the numbers: The factual data from various studies and reports showcasing a continued decline in used game revenue year over year that also coincides with the drop in overall revenue from software sales in the retail sector. DLC and digital sales have also caught up to and – if they continue their upward swing in consumption – will surpass the totality of retail used game software sales heading into 2014.


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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A new governor took office Wednesday in Puerto Rico, marking an ideological shift in a U.S. territory struggling to revive its economy and reduce violent crime.
Alejandro Garcia Padilla was sworn in on a stage overlooking the Atlantic Ocean outside the Capitol building in San Juan amid the cheers of thousands of supporters from his party, which opposes statehood. Garcia is a 41-year-old attorney and former local senator who narrowly defeated pro-statehood Gov. Luis Fortuno in November, thanks in part to support from labor unions angered when Fortuno laid off more than 20,000 government workers to help close a budget deficit.
Garcia said one of his priorities is to create jobs on an island where unemployment hovers above 13 percent, higher than in any U.S. state.
"The problems are very, very serious. We cannot minimize them or hide them," he said.
Garcia said Puerto Rico is facing a public debt higher than previously thought, as well as alarming crime statistics and a downgrading of the island's credit. He said the island needs to strengthen its industrial and commercial sectors, boost agricultural production and graduation rates and improve its education and justice system. The island of 4 million people reported a record 1,117 homicides in 2011, with just a small drop in 2012.
"Getting there will take time. Things are not going to solve themselves overnight," Garcia said.
Many union members and laid-off workers cheered Garcia at the inauguration, including 41-year-old Victor Omar Cotto, who was a supervisor at the Department of Transportation for 13 years until April 2010.
"I came to see the departure of the same person who laid me off," he said, adding that he was out of work for nine months, struggling to support his stay-at-home wife and two children.
The majority of Garcia's supporters wore the red color of his Popular Democratic Party, which supports the island's current commonwealth status. Many clutched umbrellas to protect themselves from a fierce sun and danced to the music of an orchestra clad in all white ahead of the speech.
Hundreds of invited guests were seated around the stage, including Danilo Medina, the president of the Dominican Republic, and ministers from countries including Haiti, Costa Rica and Panama.
Celebrating Garcia's arrival was 80-year-old Leonardo Rodriguez of Santurce.
"We want new ideas, we want the country's situation to improve," he said. "What worries me most is the crime, education and health."
Garcia didn't mention a two-part Nov. 6 referendum in which voters were asked to decide the future of the island's political status. On the first question, 54 percent said they were not content with the current commonwealth status. The second question asked voters to choose from three options. Of those, 61 percent supported statehood, with lesser numbers backing sovereign free association or independence. However, nearly 500,000 voters left that question blank, leading to arguments over the referendum's results.
U.S. President Barack Obama has said he would respect the people's will if there was a clear majority.


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Area Obituaries
Luburcy Tiggs Taylor, 95, of Jackson died April 24, 2006 in Woodbridge, Va.
She was born Aug. 1, 1920. She was a native of Manila. She was a member of St. Union Baptist Church where she was a Crusader counselor. She was a member of the Missionary Society. She was a Sunday school teacher. Upon moving to Woodbridge, VA. with her daughter, Nancy, she became a member of the First Mount Zion Baptist Church of Woodbridge, Va. She was past worthy matron of Amies Pride 590 Order of the Eastern Star in the Winn community and upon moving transferred her membership to the Morning View Chapter #101 Order of the Eastern Star in Jackson.
Survivors include one daughter, Nancy Franklin, Woodbridge, Va.; one brother, Eddie Lee Tiggs, Jackson; one brother-in-law, J.W. Andrews, Jackson, two sister-in-laws, Artelia Tiggs, Mobile, Fannie Tiggs, Jackson; 11 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; 16 great-great-grandchildren; a host of nieces, great nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
The Eastern Star Ceremony was performed at 10:30 a.m. with the service beginning at 11 a.m. April 29 at St. Union Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson with Revs. Geral Mitchell and James M. Howard officiating. Burial was in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Jackson. Andrews Funeral Home of Jackson and Ames Funeral Home of Manassas, Va., directed.
Robert Edward Foreman, 56, of Dickinson died April 29, 2006 at his residence.
He was born June 26, 1949 in California. He was employed as an electrician for Boise Paper Mill in Jackson. He was a Vietnam Veteran. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Fulton.
Survivors include his wife, Diann Foreman, Dickinson; one son, Jason Foreman, Jackson; his mother, Mary K. Foreman, Daphne; one brother, Jim Foreman, Pensacola, Fla.; two sisters, Mary Barnhill, Daphne, Sandi Buford, Chatom; two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Matt Foreman.
The service was May 2 at 10 a.m. at the chapel of Lathan Funeral Home in Grove Hill with Rev. John Copeland officiating. Burial was in the Liberty Baptist Church in Fulton.
Active pallbearers were Clay Baugh, Dayton Gunter, Bob Day, Kenny Walker, Joe Baxter, M.L. Roberts, Larry Sullivan and Terry Sollie.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Dewey Chalk, Lionel Osborne, James McLean and E & I employees of Boise Paper Mill.
Albert James "Sam" Agee, 75, of Thomasville died April 24, 2006 at Southwest Alabama Medical Center in Thomasville.
He was born June 29, 1930 in Opine. He was a member of the Elam Baptist Church. He was a veteran of the United States Army. He was a retired truck driver for Dozier Oil Company.
Survivors include his wife, Frances Elizabeth Agee, Thomasville; three sons, Albert James (Sandra) Agee Jr., Mike (Pat) Agee, Joey (Denna) Agee, all of Thomasville; three sisters, Grace (Gaines) Adams, Martha (Cecil) Sims, all of Thomasville, Ruth (Truman) Mott, Coffeeville; two grandchildren.
The service was April 26 at 2 p.m. at the chapel of O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home in Thomasville with Revs. Scott Myers and Randy Walker officiating. Burial with military honors was in the Bashan Baptist Church Cemetery in Thomasville.
Active pallbearers were Jamie Agee, Kenneth Mott, Bruce Sims, Godfrey Vick, Mike Godwin and Rex Rush.
Honorary pallbearers were V.F.W. Post 5106, Thomasville High School Class of 1951 and Joe Dodds, James Haskew, Dennis Mott, Willis Slade and Winston Parden.
Louise Smith Ingram, 77, of Sweet Water died April 26, 2006 at her residence.
She was born Mar. 9, 1929 in Linden. She was a member of the Sweet Water Baptist Church. She was a member of the Delta Kappa Gamma. She was a retired school teacher.
Survivors include one son, Chesley Maxwell Daniels, Linden; two daughters, Sandra D. Walker, Sweet Water, Vivian D. Walters, Nanafalia; one sister, Jean S. Perry, Tuscaloosa; seven grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Ingram and a grandson, Ryan Walters.
The service was April 29 at 11 a.m. at the chapel of O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home in Linden with Rev. Douglas Turner officiating. Burial was in the Sweet Water Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Chris Walker, Dr. Randy Walters Jr., Daniel Walker, Dylan Daniels, Pat Thompson, Frederick Perry and Jimmy Street.
Honorary pallbearers were Candy W. Thompson, Chelsea Daniels and Karen Walters.
Gennesarette "Jean" Joy Kelly, 74, of Thomasville died April 27, 2006 at Mobile Infirmary.
She was born Nov. 24, 1931 in Runnellstown, Miss. She was manager of the old Thomasville Dairy Queen. She was a member of the Pineview Baptist Church.
Survivors include one daughter, Rozella (Jackie) Bouler, Thomasville; one grandson, Jeremy Bouler, Thomasville; one granddaughter, Jennifer (Mitch) Gilchrist, Thomasville; two great-grandchildren, Logan Gilchrist and Tristan Gilchrist, both of Thomasville.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Emory Kelly and her mother, Cora Ford.
The service was April 29 at 2 p.m. at the Pineview Baptist Church with Rev. Scott Myers officiating. Burial was in the Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Thomasville. O'Bryant Chapel Funeral of Thomasville directed.
Memorials may be made to the Pineview Baptist Church Building Fund or the Pineview Baptist Church Children's Department.
Active pallbearers were Ben Pugh, Randy Elmore, Jared Elmore, Gary Garrick, Timmy Graham and John Wayne Overstreet.
Honorary pallbearers were Joe Clayton, Cecil Phillips, Winston Parden, Frank Myers, Clarence Newton, Andy Bagley and Gerald Champion.
Sherman Bryant, 68, of Thomasville died April 20, 2006 at the Southwest Alabama Medical Center.
He was born Sept. 21, 1937. He was a retired teacher of the Clarke County School System after 30 years of service.
Survivors include his wife, Jimmie Rose Bryant, Thomasville; one son, Chad (Nakita) Bryant, Thomasville; two brothers, Jessie Bryant, Hillside, Ill., William Bryant, Lisle, Ill.; two sisters, Odessa Kirkland, Lower Peach Tree, Oweda Calhoun, Tuskegee; three grandchildren.
The service was April 24 at 12 p.m. at St. Thomas A.M.E. Church in Lower Peach Tree. Burial was in the St. Thomas A.M.E. Church Cemetery. Thomasville Memorial Funeral Home directed.
Ltc. (Ret.) William "Bill" Crim, 79, of Alexander City died April 13, 2006.
He was born Feb. 16, 1927 in Fulton to Winnie Heath Crim and William A. Crim Sr., both now deceased. He was a 1945 graduate of Clarke County High School.
As a U.S. Army career military officer he served during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He entered the Army as an enlisted soldier during World War II and rose to the rank of Master Sergeant by the age of 22. After his commissioning to second lieutenant he rose to the rank and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He retired from active military service in 1969 after 24 years.
He then took a position as an assistant athletic director at the United States Military Academy until his retirement in 1988. He served 22 years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. He moved to Alexander City in 1988.
He was very active in the First Presbyterian Church. He served as an elder and was active in many of the ministries of the church including Bible studies, men of the church and Wednesday night services. He will always be remembered for his help with Vacation Bible School and other ways in which he demonstrated the impact Christ had made in his life.
He was also an active member in the Lion's Club, the Elk's Lodge, the Veteran's Administration and was a part of a local "catfish group" that raised catfish. He was well known for sharing them with his family and friends.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Davis Crim, one son, Dennis (Judy) Crim, one brother, Dewey (Virginia) Crim; three nephews, three nieces and numerous cousins.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, Edward Crim, Larry Crim and Don Crim.
The service was April 23 at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Alexander City with Rev. Ron Lukat officiating. A graveside service was April 24 at 2 p.m. at the Choctaw Corner Cemetery in Thomasville. Radney Funeral Home of Alexander City directed.
Kenyatta Harris, 21, died April 15, 2006 at a Mobile hospital. She was born Sept. 5, 1984.
Survivors include her mother, Renee Harris, Dickinson; one daughter, Mary Smith, Dickinson; grandfather, Isiah Harris, Dickinson.
The service was April 22 at Morning Star Baptist Church in Whatley. Burial was in the Cleveland-Harris Cemetery. Thomasville Memorial Funeral Home directed.
Gracie M. McCaskill, 78, of Lower Peach Tree died April 17, 2006 at her residence.
She was born May 28, 1927. She was a retired bus driver for the Monroe County Board of Education.
Survivors include three sons, Tommy (Betty) McCaskill, Los Angeles, Calif., Johnny (Geraldine) McCaskill, Packers Bend, George (Gwen) McCaskill, Detroit, Mich.; two daughters, Alvenia Calhoun, Lower Peach Tree, Catherine (Bill) Barksdale, Detroit, Mich.; 10 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren.
The service was April 22 at the St. Thomas A.M.E. Church in Lower Peach Tree. Burial was in the St. Thomas A.M.E. Church Cemetery. Thomasville Memorial Funeral Home directed.
Annie Lou Creighton Raine, 88, of Whatley died April 5, 2006 at the home of her daughter, Johnnie Lou Raine.
She was born Aug. 6, 1917 in the Indian Ridge community. She was a member of the Indian Ridge Baptist Church. She was a homemaker and caregiver.
She was married to the late John E. Raine Jr. on Nov. 22, 1936. The first of four children preceded them in death.
Survivors include one son, Nathaniel Edward (Bernice) Raine, Whatley; two daughters, Mattie Pearle Harris, Johnnie Lou Raine; one brother, Thomas (Ruth) Creighton, Altadenia, Calif.; two sisters, Mary Franklin, Carrier Crear, Los Angeles, Calif.; 18 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; nine great-great-grandchildren; honorary family members were Jettie Cade and family.
The service was April 12 at 1 p.m. at the Indian Ridge Baptist Church with Rev. Johnny Lynum officiating. Burial was in the Indian Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery in Whatley. Mosley's Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Ulysses "Que" Slaughter, 46, of Thomasville died April 24, 2006 at his residence.
He was born July 6, 1959. He was a former machine operator with a local timber company.
The service was April 28 at noon at the chapel of Thomasville Memorial Funeral Home. Burial followed Sunday, April 30 in the Dudley Memorial Gardens in Dublin, Ga.
Survivors include a companion of many years, Gloria Blackmon, Thomasville; his mother, Willie K. Slaughter-Girtman, Dublin, Ga.; four children, Jessica Thomas, Latasha Jones, Danville, Ga., Rafphel, Auja Blackmon, Thomasville; one brother, Otis Girtman, Dublin, Ga.; five sisters, Shelia Moore, Jacquline McMiller, Florine Mack, all of Dublin, Ga., Leslie and Theresa Slaughter, Waterbury, Conn.; seven grandchildren.
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Jeanne Louise Van Vliet, 80, of Wichita Falls, Texas died April 7, 2006.
She was born Jan. 6, 1926 in Grove Hill, to Edmond and Lena Gilchrist. She was married to Ralph Edwin Van Vliet Jr. on Sept. 19, 1957 in Lucedale, Miss. She had worked as a BX Operator for the civil service for many years. She was a member of Beverly Dr. Methodist Church where she was part of the women's prayer group.
Survivors include one son, Ellis Larry (Catherine) Squires, Wichita Falls, Texas; her daughter, Beverly Elaine Todd, Hamilton, Ohio; three grandsons, Ellis Larry (Darlene) Squires Jr., Fall River, Mass., Richard Matthew Squires, Wichita Falls and Anthony Don (Lois) Todd.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Edmond and Lena Gilchrist, her husband, Ralph Van Vliet Jr., a granddaughter, Tara Lynn Squires and by 13 brothers and sisters.
The service was April 12 at 10 a.m. at Lunn's Colonial Chapel with Rev. Ernie Barr, pastor, of Faith Lutheran Church officiating and Rev. Buford Skelton assisting. Burial was in the City Cemetery in Moore, Okla.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Wichita Falls, the Faith Lutheran Church or call James Gilchrist at 251-246-4781 for more information.
Janice Duke Waddill, 91, of Creola died April 17, 2006.
She was born Dec. 15, 1914 in Allen. She was a native of Clarke County. She was a member of Saraland First Assembly of God Church and "The Prime Timers" and "The Believers Sunday School Class."
Survivors include two sons, Teddie G. (Sandra) Waddill, Creola; one daughter, Joy (Walter) Brewer, Grove Hill; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, John Levi Duke and Clark Pruette Duke, her husband, Emmitt Grady Waddill, her oldest son, Terry Waddill, a brother, Hilton Duke and a sister, Lucille Duke Jarvis.
The service was April 20 at 10 a.m. at the chapel of Radney Funeral Home in Saraland. Burial was in the Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Evelyn Williams Womack, 74, died April 20, 2006.
She was born Nov. 4, 1931.
Survivors include ten children, Theodore Williams, Mamie Knight, Cornelious Williams, Mary King, Jerrel Dean Jordan, Emma Harper, Emmett Jackson, Jessie Jackson, Michael Jackson, Rufus Jackson, all of Mobile; one brother, Booker T. Williams; one sister, Mary Lee Chapman, Winn; 34 grandchilden; 103 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gene Womack, two brothers, Peter Williams and Jessie Williams and one sister, Velma Bumpers.
The service was April 29 at the Temple of Jerusalem Ministries with Ellis Harper Jr. officiating. Burial was in Winn. Reese Funeral Home of Thomasville directed.
Active pallbearers were grandsons and nephews.


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Dr. Dre, Iovine donate $70M for new USC center
May. 15, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy at the University of Southern California will offer a curriculum aimed to help young innovators create the next iPod or Facebook.
The hip-hop mogul best known as Dr. Dre and the co-founder of Interscope Records appeared at a news conference Wednesday alongside USC President C. L. Max Nikias to announce the new program funded by a $70 million donation by the two music superstars.
The university president characterized the donation as the largest gift from the entertainment industry to American higher education.
The Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation will provide a special four-year program for undergraduates whose interests span fields from marketing to computer science to visual design and other arts. It will include one-on-one faculty mentoring with professors from programs around the university and interaction with entertainment industry luminaries.
The academy "will be a new standard in higher education," said its dean and executive director Erica Muhl.
"Somebody is going to design the next iPod, the next Facebook, the next breakthrough in how we live," she said. "We want that to happen at the Iovine-Young Academy."
It will accept its first class of 25 students in the fall of 2014. Full scholarships will be offered.
Iovine and Young have been friends, collaborators and business partners for 20 years. Young is best known as a producer, rapper and co-owner of Death Row records. He later started his own record label, Aftermath Entertainment. Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M and a mentor on "American Idol." Together, the two men started Beats Electronics LLC, the parent company of the Beats by Dr. Dre line of popular high-end headphones and other music devices.
HTC Corp. bought a majority share in Beats in 2010, but later sold half of the shares back to the founders. Iovine and Young are now majority owners.
"We've been given a lot, and we thought this was a great way to give back by doing this academy," Young said. "I guess I'm an official Trojan now."
Iovine, whose daughter Jessica recently graduated from USC, said that among today's high-school graduates is "a new kid with different skills" that reflect the high-tech and digitally connected world they've grown up in.
"This is about treating what a kid is today," he said. "This place is a dream factory. This place is where you don't have to get stuck in calculus to succeed at this school. It has other ways through, other paths."
Young said he would have loved to attend a program like the one he's establishing at USC rather than developing his business and creative skills on the job. Neither he nor Iovine are college graduates.
"This is an incredible thing for all the youngsters who are trying to do some of the things I've done in my career," Young said.
The two men also offered advice to USC students and graduates, as well as those who'd like to attend their namesake academy.
"You don't have to be smarter than the next guy; you've got to work harder than the next guy," Iovine said.
Added Young: "Just believe and bet on yourself at all times. And stay determined."
AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy .


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The Embryo Factory
The business logic of made-to-order babies.
Friday morning, an investigator from the Food and Drug Administration spent four hours questioning Jennalee Ryan of San Antonio, Texas, about her new line of business. That business, outlined a week ago by Washington Post reporter Rob Stein, is making and selling human embryos from handpicked donors. The FDA says this doesn't appear to violate any rules within its purview. Embryo manufacture? Go right ahead.
It's temping to label Ryan a madwoman, as many critics have. But that's exactly wrong. Ryan represents the next wave of industrial rationality. She's bringing the innovations of Costco and Burger King to the business of human flesh.
To understand her line of work, you have to understand how she got into it. "Twenty years ago, as a single parent, I contacted agencies and attorneys in the hopes of adopting a child," she explains on her Web site. Unfortunately, "those that were willing to help me offered me older children with emotional problems or severe physical handicaps." These lousy offers drove her to find ways around the system. "With a background in marketing, I came upon the idea of advertising for potential birthmothers," she recalls. "My enterprise grew so quickly, that I soon quit my career in sales and marketing to go into the field of adoption advertising fulltime. … Within 2 years, we were the largest adoption service in the United States."
Ryan deplores the helplessness of adoptive parents. They can't control the child's race, sex, or health. "There is no guarantee … that the gender is absolutely known," she warns clients. "If you are open to different ethnic backgrounds, drug use during pregnancy, etc., there is a better chance that you will be called." You can't even verify drug abuse unless the birth mother consents to a test.
Worse, you have to suck up to the birth mother. She can pick any adoptive parent she wants. "After years of dealing with birth mothers who decided to take [babies] back ... watching poor families have to kiss these girls' butts when they know they are using drugs and alcohol in the pregnancy," Ryan says she began looking for ways to give clients more power over child acquisition. "It was a control thing for me," she explains.
One way around the drug problem is to adopt a leftover IVF embryo instead of a baby. That way, you control gestation. But these embryos often aren't viable. Like leftover babies, they may carry "genetic mental illnesses." And you still get screened. "The recipient family must be scrutinized by the biological parents as well as the agency which requires a home study," Ryan protests. "This can sometimes add insult to injury to an infertile family, who … must 'prove' that they will be good parents."
A better solution is to customize your embryo. By buying eggs, you can get "more control of the prenatal environment and heath of the child" than you'd get with adoption. Through Ryan, you can select an egg "donor"—in practice, a seller—based on "her complete application, her medical and psychological results, genetic screening," and "copies of all the pictures she sent our program of her children, if any, and siblings." The pictures are crucial. Ryan requires five color photos before she'll offer a donor's eggs to buyers. One advantage of buying eggs, she points out, is that you can "choose a donor with similar characteristics" to yours.
Better yet, donors can't screen you. Unlike the adoption scenario, in which an agency can examine your parental fitness, "there is absolutely no such screening required for either egg donation nor sperm donation," Ryan tells buyers. "Nor is the recipient family forced to have to 'sell' themselves to the biological parents in the hopes that they would be chosen as suitable parents." The only thing your donor will be told about the fate of her eggs, according to Ryan, is "whether or not a pregnancy resulted."
But eggs, sperm, and IVF are expensive. Ryan lays out the costs: $4,800 to find your ideal egg donor; $3,500 to $15,000 to compensate her; $3,500 for her drugs; $9,000 to $13,000 for related medical expenses; $3,000 for her travel expenses; $1,000 for legal fees; $500 for a sperm donor; and $1,000 in additional charges. And that's before you get into "medical fees associated with pregnancy and childbirth."
What if you pooled these expenses? What if you hired two highly fertile and desirable donors, combined their eggs and sperm in one IVF round, made a big batch of embryos, and sold the embryos a pair a time? Why buy retail when you can buy wholesale?
That's Ryan's plan. She charges $2,500 per embryo. Two women split the first batch; a third has signed a contract for two embryos from the second batch. Ryan figures each batch costs about $22,000 to make. The yield from the first round was 26 embryos. With 300 buyers on her waiting list, Ryan is well positioned to sell out each lot. At $2,500 per unit, a batch of 26 viable embryos would gross $65,000 and net $43,000.
It's a good deal for Ryan's clients, too—"much less expensive than the total IVF procedure, with a much greater overall success rate," she points out. One reason for the higher success rate is that you're paying for an embryo, not an attempt. If you buy eggs and sperm separately and don't get an implantable embryo, you take the loss. Ryan, through her package deal, absorbs that risk for you. No embryo, no bill.
Buying embryos gives you all the advantages of buying eggs and sperm. You can screen donors—in this case, the embryo's parents—for physical and mental health, education, and looks. Since Ryan is shouldering the risk, she screens donors up front. Her embryos' moms are college-educated. The dads have advanced degrees. All the donors are white, since the clients are white. Ryan is no bigot, but business is business. "There is simply a demand for white babies," she shrugs. In fact, three-quarters of the DNA in her first two batches comes from blue-eyed blonds. This isn't eugenics; it's narcissism. "What I was really looking for was blond hair, blue eyes, so the child would look similar to me," one of Ryan's clients told ABC News.
Ryan argues that by using a manufactured embryo instead of a leftover IVF embryo, you can avoid "the discomfort of involving the biological parents." No need to worry that they're "a family somewhere." They've never met each other, much less the embryo. All they sold were eggs and sperm. "I am not emotionally attached to my eggs," says a donor quoted on Ryan's Web site as a model of suitability. "I am not giving my couple a baby." The easiest child to acquire, like the easiest child to abuse, is one who belongs to nobody.
The trouble with adoption agencies that handle leftover embryos is that they don't see it this way. They treat embryos like babies. That's why they screen you, to make sure the embryo will be in good hands. To evade this scrutiny, Ryan calls her service embryo "donation" instead of "adoption." The linguistic change is morally and legally pivotal. Adoption is what happens to babies. Donation is what happens to eggs and sperm. "Embryo donation" is a declaration that embryos should be treated like eggs and sperm—subject to purchase, screening, sale, and disposal—not like babies.
Ryan is explicit about this. "It is unfair that the 'creator' of the embryos can use an egg donor and donor sperm to create the embryos, and have no criteria or third parties to be 'approved' by; yet the family willing to undergo implantation of those same embryos after freezing must come under third party scrutiny," she protests. In other words, embryos deserve no more oversight than eggs and sperm do. John Robertson, chairman of the ethics committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, agrees: "People are already choosing sperm and egg donors in separate transactions. Combining them doesn't pose any new major ethical problems."
That's the central question Ryan's venture poses. She didn't invent commerce, quality control, or trait selection in human reproduction. Those trends are rampant in the egg and sperm markets. All she did was extend them across the line of conception. Does that line matter?
If it does, you'd better figure out how to square that with your views on abortion and stem-cell research. But if it doesn't, you'd better figure out where to draw the next line. Because the logic of what Ryan is offering—more control, more customization, higher quality, fewer hassles, lower cost, and lower risk—won't end here.
The first thing to go will be the fixed price of embryos. Ryan says "high demand" egg donors can earn up to $15,000 per cycle, more than four times what other women get. "Additional compensation is offered to those donors who have earned a post-graduate degree [or] have a unique skill, characteristic or trait," she tells them. That cost will have to be passed along. Meanwhile, competition will generate a more affordable low-end market. Ph.D. embryos will cost more than B.A. embryos.
Next comes the integration of surrogacy. If packaging eggs and sperm with IVF improves quality control and cuts expenses, why not add gestation? The embryo you're buying is biologically foreign to you, anyway. Why risk it in your infertile, 40-year-old body when Ryan can find a healthy 25-year-old to carry it for you? She already advertises this service for an extra fee: "pre-screened surrogate mothers available." And since her embryo sales pitch relies heavily on the bottom line—a superior "pregnancy success rate"—why not sell the embryo-surrogate package based on its birth-success rate? That's what buyers ultimately care about. With a network of reliable surrogates, Ryan or a competitor might even make payment contingent on the final product. Cash on delivery.
To Ryan, embryos are inventory. "I saw a demand for something and created the product," she told to the San Antonio Current. The doctor who mixed Ryan's first batch of embryos was aghast to discover their fate, but Ryan insists, "If they are my embryos, legally, what I do with those embryos is really none of her business." What if clients aren't satisfied with the embryos? "If they don't think it's right for them, they don't have to take them," she shrugs. With surrogacy, that policy could be extended for weeks. Tested, personalized, affordable, disposable. You've come a long way, baby.


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