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Ferrisburgh's on the right path; Midd should follow
Ferrisburgh town selectmen are thinking ahead. Earlier last month the board appointed a committee to study whether the town should buy a key parcel of land that abuts the town elementary school and the planned site of a new town office building and meeting center. The 34-acre parcel, town leaders believe, is so important to the future of the village that the opportunity to buy it — rather than allow a developer to build a handful of houses on it — should not be passed by.
Such a proposal is not inexpensive. The asking price for the farmland owned by the Hinsdale family of Charlotte has been $750,000, and the appraised price is around $650,000.
Benefits to the town include providing extra room for the school to expand; parking for school or town offices; safer access to the school; a new site for a larger post office; playing fields; a town green and other options. Importantly, town officials note, the area is the last large open parcel in the village with good septic soils.
"I don't like spending money more than anybody else,� said Selectman John DeVos, a member of the study committee, "but this would be the one time I would be in favor of spending a large amount of money for the betterment of the town.�
While loan payments to cover the initial cost of the property would add about two cents to the property tax rate, an existing home on the property could be sold for close to $240,000, and the rest of the land could be sold with conditions acceptable to the town and its residents.
Town officials are to be applauded for their long-range vision. Such thinking was commonplace among the founding fathers of many communities throughout the county and state about two centuries ago as towns were competing as centers of commerce with inviting residential neighborhoods. During those years, the expectation was for communities to leverage their collective wealth (including that accumulated through taxation) for the future growth and betterment of the town — all to benefit the next generations, who would hopefully stay and raise their families.
Kudos, then, to the Ferrisburgh selectboard for having the vision to see beyond immediate concerns and the courage to suggest raising taxes in the short-term for what could be an important long-term investment for the village and town.
While most communities in the area could probably think of similar long-term programs to benefit their communities, Middlebury has a ready list to contemplate, partly because of significant road construction under way in its downtown and plans for more in the next few years. Frustration and traffic congestion are sure to be the outcome of that construction, but what a pity it would be if the town goes through all the headache without capitalizing on the opportunity to improve existing conditions.
On the list of things to improve on Merchants Row and Main Street are:
• Continued pressure for a second in-town bridge at Cross Street.
• Plans to establish a downtown visitor center and public restrooms, at the very list within the Chamber of Commerce office.
• Consider replacing the current concrete curbs with granite curbing and planting trees on the sidewalks and widening them where possible to make the downtown more pedestrian friendly.
• With the new construction and added business in the Marble Works, and with the slated repairs to the railroad underpass on Main Street, it's also the ideal time to create an improved entrance to the Marble Works at Printer's Alley.
• And, a bit off Main St. and Merchants Row, but still downtown, the former CVPS office building is again on the market and — as the last large piece of undeveloped land in the downtown — its uses could prove invaluable to the community at very little long-term cost to taxpayers.
The point, as Ferrisburgh selectmen have already concluded, is that opportunities to work for the public betterment are few and far between, and they need to be pursued when the opportunity arises.
To that end, an ad hoc town committee to study ways to improve the look and function of downtown sidewalks and traffic flow on Merchants Row and Main Street (including better access to the Marble Works) could be useful if formed immediately. Also, a committee to study creative uses for the former CVPS site might spark far-reaching and long-term benefits for the town, if pursued before that lot is sold.
To do nothing but expect the status quo after years of disruption and repair — without any creative thought applied to the process — will keep Middlebury lagging behind its more thoughtful and creative neighbors.
Angelo S. Lynn

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The late Whitney Houston sang some of the most meaningful lyrics ever in the beautiful song: "The Greatest Love of All."
The late Whitney Houston sang some of the most meaningful lyrics ever in the beautiful song: "The Greatest Love of All."
"I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be"
The operative word in the lyrics above is "lead." It's amazing what young children can do in a leadership role, even when they're presented with amazing obstacles.
One of the joys of being a newspaper editor is watching our staff work on stories where they let readers know about these amazing children - how they deal with hardship and how they set examples for adults.
Let's revisit a couple of those stories.
Record reporter Joe Goldeen, along with photo editor Craig Sanders and online editor Katie Combs and videographer Kevin Hecteman, recently chronicled the brave struggle of a remarkable 8-year-old girl named Gabby Torres.
During pregnancy, her mother Cheryl Torres contracted a virus named congenital cytomegalovirus. It impacted Gabby's development. She was born deaf, had brain calcifications and vison problems and greatly delayed development.
But through it all, Gabby and her family remained remarkably brave and positive. She's a baseball- and soccer-playing, ballet-dancing bundle of energy.
The story also mentioned that Gabby needed new processors for her cochlear implants. Those processors cost almost $9,000 each. They were looking for donations to help fund Gabby's "new ears."
Less than a month after publication, Cheryl Torres sent this email to reporter Goldeen:
"Mr. Goldeen:
"I just wanted to say THANK YOU so very much for airing Gabby's story in the paper and online a while back for her need of a new processor. Through that media attention that was captured, we were able to raise enough funds to order her new processor in less than a month! The Stockton community has once again proven to be amazing and is changing my daughter's world!"
If ever a child was given the appropriate first name, it is Destiny Herrera.
Tears flowed when I read reporter Lori Gilbert's story about the 10-year-old girl from Manteca who is doing her best to drop-kick cancer. Photographer Clifford Oto also captured Destiny's 1-million-watt smile as she released yellow balloons at a park, as she will every Sunday during Childhood Cancer Awareness month.
Destiny has osteosarcoma, cancer in her bones. Destiny described it with a wonderful quote that could only be uttered by an innocent-yet-strong child:
"I have sparkles in my bones. Once I sneezed and sparkles came out, so I guess I do have sparkles in my blood."
"She started a Facebook page called Destiny's Hope and Sparkle. She's doing so to raise awarness about childhood cancer. Some celebrities have chimed in on the site, including Jase Robertson of "Duck Dynasty."
Reporter Gilbert reflected on doing the story about Destiny:
"Destiny Herrera just melts your heart and within three days of putting up her Facebook page on Saturday night, she had more than 500 followers. A reader, who doesn't do Facebook, wants to write a check for her effort to buy lollipops for children.
"One of her most compelling qualities is the way she cares about other children afflicted with the same disease. She talks a lot about 'helping little kids,' somehow not equating their plight with her own situation.
"Her mom, Sabrina, breaks down more easily than Destiny. She, too, has an amazing view of this tragedy. She suffered seven miscarriages before delivering Destiny, and now her 'miracle baby' is going through this dreadful disease.
"According to Sabrina, only 3 percent of all cancer funding goes to child cancer research. She also notes that only two medicines have been approved by the FDA in 20 years for child treatment. In contrast, 23 different drugs alone were approved for adults last year. Look at a child like Destiny and ask how that can be. How can the medical world, specifically the cancer researchers let this happen? Maybe if they met Destiny they'd change their minds."
Contact Record Editor Mike Klocke at (209) 546-8250 or email@example.com.


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Limited Hang Outs - Best Evidence - Disinformation
by Mark Robinowitz
The most important question facing the human race is how we respond to the interconnected crises of Peak Oil, climate change, overpopulation, and other resource conflicts.
How we e the remaining oil determines the future of the human race:
- do we "spend" it on solar panels or battleships?
- on relocalizing food production or further "globalization" of production?
- more superhighways or better trains and transit?
- more coal, oil and nuclear, or more renewable energy systems?
- for global permaculture solutions or global war to fight over the last oil reserves?
The environmental and peace movements are needed to help develop peaceful, permaculture responses to "Peak Everything" -- the biggest problem ever faced by humanity. It takes oil to build renewable energy equipment, and nearly everyone (living above the level of subsistence agriculture) eats food that is grown and distributed with fossil fuels.
The global crises of the end of cheap oil and the start of climate change require global levels of solutions (relocalize everywhere). We are not merely at peak oil, we are at peak technology, peak money, peak communication. Real solutions would require to redirect the energy, talents, resources, etc. of global capitalism, the military indtrial complex, universities, media and other pillars of our society.
We have enough resources and talent to shift civilization to create a peaceful world that might be able to gracefully cope with the end of concentrated fossil fuels, or to create a global police state to control populations as the resources decline. We don't have the ability to have a peaceful world while embarking on a World War over the last of the fossil fuels that power civilization.
Understanding why civilization did not respond to the warnings of resource depletion decades ago is needed if a shift toward sanity is still possible at this late date. This is a simple question that has a complicated answer - since these decisions were not made democratically. Addressing Peak and Climate would require world peace instead of Peak Oil Wars.
We are not "addicted" to oil -- the modern world is completely dependent upon fossil fuels for indtrial agriculture systems, transportation networks, and the growth based monetary system. Addictions are things you can give up -- but oil runs our civilization.
Converting the remaining resources to peaceful, permaculture es would require removing the pretext for the "war that will not end in our lifetime" (as Cheney called it). Every war has a pretext to whip up public fear and anger, since few people support wars otherwise. Very few citizens would have supported the war on Iraq if Bh had admitted the real reason: to control the planet's remaining oil supplies as we approach Peak Oil.
This peaceful conversion, in turn, requires discrediting the official claim that 9/11 was a surprise attack. Some claims of complicity are not correct, but there is a wealth of evidence proven beyond reasonable doubt, sourced to the mass media and official testimony, that fits a complicity paradigm much better than an "incompetence" paradigm. The attacks were deliberately allowed to happen ("shock and awe") to jtify war abroad and "homeland security" domestically.
"No civilization can survive the physical destruction of its resource base."
-- Bruce Sterling
"For the next half-century there will be jt enough energy resources left to enable either a horrific and futile contest for the remaining spoils, or a heroic cooperative effort toward radical conservation and transition to a post-fossil-fuel energy regime.
"The next century will see the end of global geopolitics, one way or another. If our descendants are fortunate, the ultimate outcome will be a world of modest, bioregionally organized communities living on received solar energy."
-- Richard Heinberg, The and Eurasia: End Game for the Indtrial Era? www.meletter.com/archive/132.html
2008 Fake Election
The 2008 "election" was a choice between the Rockefeller Republicans and the neo-cons, between the Council on Foreign Relations (Obama / Biden) and the American Enterprise Institute (McCain), between the old guard of foreign policy and the crazies. We need better choices than that if we are going to be able to e some of the rest of the oil for relocalization, renewable energy and "power down" strategies to mitigate the end of the age of oil. Unfortunately, we got the choice of "smarter empire" vers "Fourth Reich," not a choice of "empire" vers "no empire." Worse, it is obvio that the "voters" do not determine the outcome -- Presidential elections are rigged in advance by elites who are divided about tactics but not about the goal of global dominance. The role of the media in determining elections is more important than touch screen voting machines and ballot scanners.
Good Cop, Bad Cop and the Destruction of Iraq
This website has - since 2003 - had a major foc to show how oil geography in the Middle East is a primary motivator of policies. The selection of Senator Biden to be Obama's Vice Presidential running mate confirms this understanding, as Biden's failed Presidential campaign in 2007 was primarily foced on dismembering Iraq as a supposed solution to ethnic conflict between different groups that allegedly was not fueled by the occupation. This partition would make it much easier for the to control the oil fields -- and a long term goal is to similarly divide Iran and Saudi Arabia, creating a new country out of eastern Saudi Arabia, southern Iraq and western Iran that would have nearly all of the oil of those three countries. If this new "Arab Shia state" were combined with allies Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, this would give the control over half of the world's remaining oil reserves. This is not a "failure" of policy in Iraq, merely an extremely cynical Machiavellian strategy. However, this goal probably would require a President with a better image than George W. Bh to conclude. Bh was the Bad Cop for the Empire, Obama has the potential to be the Good Cop.
Peak Oil and Climate Change
The most important question facing humanity is how we will e the remaining oil. We have burned about half of it, but the second half of the oil age will be much shorter - and probably much more violent as countries fight to control what is left. If we are smart, we will e the rest of the oil to make solar panels instead of battleships, and relocalize food production instead of creating more global sweatshops.
The trillion dollars spent to destroy Iraq could have financed an excellent high speed train network to connect our cities together.
In 2007, we are near or at the global Peak of oil production (extraction). Most efforts to mitigate the shortage involve technologies that worsen pollution that is destabilizing the climate. Turning mountains of coal into gasoline might ease the pressure (slightly) on oil demand for a few years, but the cost for the atmosphere could be catastrophic.
We are not "addicted" to oil -- the modern world is completely dependent upon it for our indtrial agriculture systems, our transportation networks, and the global economy. Addictions are things you can give up -- but oil runs our civilization.
9/11: the American Reichstag Fire
9/11 was allowed to happen (and given technical assistance) to trigger Peak Oil Wars. Foreknowledge is proven beyond reasonable doubt. Specific warnings (what, when, where) came from Germany, France, Israel, Egypt, Rsia and other allies. Several Air Force war games on 9/11 confed the air defenses or ensured fighter planes were too far away to stop the attacks. The CIA ran a "plane into building" drill near Dulles Airport, Virginia during 9/11. FBI probes of the flight schools were obstructed by senior management.
It is likely that remote control technology was ed to "hijack the hijackers" to steer Flight 77 into the nearly empty, recently reconstructed and strengthened sector of the Pentagon (instead of crowded parts).
9/11 disinformation
There are many disinformation efforts that "muddy the waters" around 9/11 that make most Bh opponents reluctant to investigate evidence for complicity. The most important is the false claim that the Pentagon plane crash was faked -- a hoax created by Donald Rumsfeld to distract from best evidence, and discredit 9/11 skepticism inside the Beltway, both by the majority of the citizens (most voted against Bh) and the political and military elites (most were not part of the cabal that allowed and assisted 9/11).
oil we are saying - give impeachment a chance!
Impeachment is the Constitutional remedy for addressing crimes of the Cheney / Bh administration:
vote fraud flipped the results of the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections
suppression of specific warnings that 9/11 was coming and failure to follow standard operating procedures that day which could have reduced casualties
the many lies ed to attack Iraq and Afghanistan, countless war crimes, massacres, torture, detention without trial, violations of the Nuremberg Principles and Genocide Convention
blocking aid to Katrina victims in the immediate aftermath, when they were most in need of help
making the environmental crises of Peak Oil and climate change worse through deliberate failure to enact needed efficiency programs to reduce energy over-consumption
media 9/11 strategy: highlight hoaxes, ignore best evidence
ABC, BBC, CNN, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, C-Span, Democracy Now, Dissident Voice, Fox, Front Page Magazine, National Public Radio, New York Times, Parade magazine, Popular Mechanics, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Chronicle, A Today, Village Voice, The Nation and The Washington Post all follow the same pattern -- they highlight hoaxes and speculations about 9/11 while ignoring evidence of complicity proven beyond reasonable doubt.
People who promote the "no plane" nonsense get mentioned in these media outlets, those who point out that claim is a hoax and stress the suppressed warnings, wargames and other best evidence are ignored. It is a form of psychological warfare to discredit those raising serio questions by associating them with nonsense.
Homeland Security
The best analyses of Peak Oil and of global warming each conclude that the problem would have to be addressed a decade or two before it manifests at full strength - yet both problems are here, now. Perhaps the truth is that the shadow government (corporations and the military indtrial complex) did not want to deal with these problems becae the solutions are inherently decentralized and would require relaxation of centralized power control systems. Since we missed the opportunity to solve these issues as gently as possible, governments are instituting a global surveillance police state to suppress dissent as the oil that runs the show becomes more scarce and expensive, and climate change reduces available food and water supplies.
World War IV
Dick Cheney called the "War on Terror" a war that will not end in our lifetimes becae it will take decades to e up the oil in the Middle East. The neo-conservatives call this conflict World War IV -- in their view, World War III was the Cold War from 1945 to 2001.
The June 2006 issue of "Armed Forces Journal" published a map by Ralph Peters, a pro-war neo-conservative strategist that showed a redrawing of the borders of many Middle Eastern countries, especially Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Most of the region's oil would be in the "Arab Shia State" -- since the oil is largely concentrated along the Persian Gulf and the Iraq-Iran border. The Sunni part of Iraq, most of Saudi Arabia and most of Iran (which is not Arab) would be left without much oil -- which is why Team Bh is exacerbating ethnic and religio tensions throughout the region.
a two page PDF version of this chart is available at www.oilempire.us/connect-dots.pdf
The poor countries
will bear most of the burden [of high oil prices]. But the United
States will be in serio difficulties. There is, I fear, a strong
danger of some ill-considered military intervention to try to secure
we are witnessing
a sequential war to control the largest reserves on a planet that
is running out of oil.
The revelation of
facts concerning 9/11 is THE most important issue facing America today,
becae it could directly expose a conspiracy to dupe Americans into
approving an unjt war for oil.
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are protected by public incredulity.
Global Permaculture Solutions
Perhaps the primary reason for the resource grab marketed as "The War on Terror" and the related "Homeland Security" surveillance system is an elite understanding that Peak Oil and Climate Change will reduce food and water supplies with tremendo consequences for billions of people dependent on indtrial agriculture. Humanity is at the precipice of either allowing a global totalitarian approach to manage the crisis, or converting the military indtrial complex, transnational corporations, the financial markets, media, etc. toward a planetary scale "global permaculture" response. The scale of the crisis is the largest in the history of civilization, so the response to these interconnected problems also needs to be the largest in the history of our species.
"forget about tearing down the Establishment. It'll never happen; the Octop is too powerful. Instead, concentrate on building an alternative culture and passing it down to anyone who cares. Real ceremonies create positive energy, but when you foc solely on exposing Nazis, you are living in their twisted world. ....
"you don't need to be an "expert" to penetrate the wilderness of mirrors. While others concentrated on the somewhat hopeless task of identifying the shooters [of JFK], I was more interested in the straw men and rabbit holes employed by the national media to throw researchers off the track.
"if you want to be free from the banks, the governments and giant corporations, you have to learn how to provide food, water and medical needs. Whoever is doing that is running the ship. We have to learn to pilot the spaceship Earth in order to get out from under the banks and corporations."
-- Steven Hager, "The Octop Conspiracy and other vignettes of the counterculture," Trine Day (2005)
"In the long run one can't satisfactorily say no to war, violence, and injtice unless one is simultaneoly saying yes to life, love, and laughter."
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April 23, 2009, 8:43 pm, Thu Apr 23 20:43:48 UTC 2009 #1
Haleigh Cummings Who? The forgotten Missing Florida Tot
Haleigh Who? The forgotten Missing Florida Tot
April 23, 2009
I have received multiple emails in the last few days from readers who are anxious to receive updates on Haleigh Ann Marie Cummings, a 5-year-old girl from Putnam County, Florida, who disappeared in February 2009. It was not my intention to allow this case to fall by the wayside; this has been the case due to the many other missing person cases I have been working on in recent weeks. Nonetheless, it is my intention today to update you on the latest happenings - as slim and far between as they may be.
Before we get into the newest details, I feel that a brief recap is in order for those of you who are not completely familiar with the case.
Haleigh Cummings was last seen in the early-morning hours of Feb. 10, allegedly sleeping in her father's mobile home.
According to John Merchant, a detective with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, police were first notified of the case at about 3:45 a.m., when they received a call from 17-year-old Misty Croslin, the then girlfriend (now wife) of Haleigh's father, 24-year-old Ronald Cummings.
In the call, Croslin said that when she woke up, she discovered that Haleigh was missing and that the back door to the mobile home had been propped open.
"Like, there was a brick on the floor," Croslin said. "Like, when I went to sleep, the door was not like that."
When police arrived at the mobile home in the Hermit's Cove area of Satsuma, they were greeted by a frantic Ronald Cummings. When deputies were finally able to calm him down, he explained that he had last seen his daughter at about 10:00 p.m. that night before he left for work. When he returned home, at about 3:45 a.m., his girlfriend had told him that his daughter was missing.
According to Misty, she had been alone in the house with Haleigh and the child's 3-year-old brother. She said that Haleigh was next to her in the bed when she had fallen asleep; however, when she later woke up to go to the bathroom - minutes before Cummings arrived home from work - she discovered that Haleigh was missing. Her original story has since varied.
Upon receiving the report, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement responded by activating its Child Abduction Regional Team and, within an hour, over 130 officers from at least 10 county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies were searching for Haleigh.
In the days that followed, Haleigh's mother, 23-year-old Crystal Sheffield, traveled from Georgia to Florida to assist in the search effort. Since that time, she has been very vocal in terms of her opinions of Ronald and his girlfriend, and has made allegations of possible child abuse; law enforcement has looked into those claims, and found no indication that anyone had ever abused Haleigh.
In the days and weeks that have followed, several tips have poured into the police, including one from a local resident who alleged that Misty was not at home the night Haleigh disappeared. It has further been alleged that the night Haleigh was abducted was not the first time Croslin had sneaked out while Cummings was at work and his kids were sleeping. There have been further allegations regarding her activities at that time; however, that information has not officially been released.
In March, Misty announced that Ronald had proposed to her and, in the days that followed, the couple wed in a private ceremony.
On April 3, Ronald was notified by his employer, PDM Bridge, that he had been fired because he had not come to work since his daughter had gone missing. In response, Ronald's lawyer, Greg Kimball, released a public statement, which reads in part:
"From the time of Haleigh's disappearance, Ronald Cummings was told that his employer was holding his job open. He was told by his employer that he could start back to work on Monday, April 6, 2009. Ronald agreed to this date and was prepared to go into work when he was told on Friday, April 3, 2009 that the offer to return to work was being withdrawn for abandoning his job."
In the midst of all of this, licensed bondsman and surety agent William "Cobra" Staubs was hired by an anonymous source to investigate Haleigh's disappearance. Staubs attempted to get Ronald and Misty to agree to a reenactment of the night Haleigh went missing, but that fell through when Misty allegedly refused to cooperate. Since that time, Staubs has been working various angles and, according to Bloggernews.net, has been bailing out of jail people who are connected to the case.
On April 20, the mother of Ronald's 20-month-old son from a previous relationship, Amber Brooks, 20, was arrested on charges of cocaine possession. Arrested with her was Kristina "Nay Nay" Renee Prevatt, 18, a woman who recently gave an interview to artharris.com in which she allegedly describes a lurid sex, drug, and alcohol party that Misty had supposedly gone to on the week before Haleigh went missing.
Staubs posted the girls' bonds because he believes they have information that is vital to the case. What, if anything, he has learned from them is unknown.
So where does all of this leave us today? According to the Putman, Florida County Sheriff's Office, they have investigated over 1,400 tips and reported sightings. None of them have revealed what happened to Haleigh; however, the investigation is still active and the task force has yet to be scaled back.
Authorities will not comment on whether they are focusing their investigation on Ronald and Misty or other family members, and will say only that they have yet to rule "anyone" out.
Hence, the investigation continues
Haleigh Cummings is described as three feet tall, weighing 39 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 386-329-0808 or Crime Stoppers at 1-888-277-TIPS.It's probably too late to get justice for JonBenét. Maybe it always was. But knowing where things went wrong is the first step to not going there again. **-- Alan Prendergast-Dec 21, 2006--**
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This is just such a sad sad story.
This story is destined to have a very unhappy ending for Haleigh, and yes, I'll say it here: this BETTER have a very unhappy ending for Misty!
I believe Misty is in this up to her eyeballs
I wonder if Misty likes water sports: I'm thinking waterboarding; maybe that will bring Haleigh home and bring some peace and justice for yet ANOTHER child who was probably just in the way of a good time for someone.
April 25, 2009, 9:06 am, Sat Apr 25 9:06:42 UTC 2009 #3
There is so much BS floating around this case my boots are not tall enough. 'Nuff said.Never let the children, Elders, the sick, or the infirm be exploited.
"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines." Oliver Goldsmith
Let's bring all our missing and military home safely!
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I reject any form of government in which the opinion of the village idiot is given the same weight as the opinion of Aristotle. (author unknown)
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Poor little Haleigh is the forgotten person because everyone surrounding her is so danged worried about protecting their own butt because of either sleeping around or drugs. That's one big heap of white trash to sort through.
IMO Ron needs to put everything he knows, thinks he knows, and might know on the doggone table to eliminate all these side freak show carnival events and just find a way to get his daughter back.
Barbara - you make a very good argument for interrogation methods. I think Misty is the key here.
LittleNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -Heraclitus Fragments c. 500 BC
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When I first read this sad story, like the others, I felt girlfriend Misty was involved. I think she saw Haleigh as a threat to her relationship with her Dad.elle: The RST can't handle the truth!
Just my opinion.
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May 21, 2009, 9:25 am, Thu May 21 9:25:35 UTC 2009 #7
Someone knows what happened to this child. The "newlyweds" know, IMO. Misty told lies, about this little girl's disappearance and admitted on national TV in an interview that she had lied to LE. The father knows what happened, IMO, and if not involved, is in deep denial. Marrying that underage idiot while his little girl is missing on her watch told me all I need to know about him.
"University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos declared the letter a 'reckless exoneration.' He went on to state, 'Everyone knows that relative immunity from criminal conviction is something money can buy.
Apparently another thing it can buy is an apology for even being suspected of a crime you probably already would have been convicted of committing if you happened to be poor.'"
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May 29, 2009, 10:00 am, Fri May 29 10:00:52 UTC 2009 #8
I wonder if Misty did sneak out to attend some sort of party, if Haleigh may have woke up and went looking for her. That thought is far fetched...I know. It just occurred to me.
I find it odd that Misty woke up to go to the bathroom just MINUTES before Ronald arrived home from work. Her bladder and Ronald's time punch clock, are on the same schedule.
May 29, 2009, 5:27 pm, Fri May 29 17:27:26 UTC 2009 #9
More than likely she was just getting home from the party!It's probably too late to get justice for JonBenét. Maybe it always was. But knowing where things went wrong is the first step to not going there again. **-- Alan Prendergast-Dec 21, 2006--**
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This is one of those cases where I just can't seem to get a good grip on what happened to this darling little girl.
Like the title of this thread, it seems to those closely involved it's about everything BUT Haleigh. How can they not have any idea what happened to her? What are the odds of some stranger just happening to be in that neighborhood, and just happening to enter that home? I'm not saying it couldn't have happened that way, just that (IMHO) the odds are against that.
I wonder just how much Misty knows, and how much Misty is afraid to divulge just what was going on that night.
This is a very frustrating case. I feel very sorry for her mom Crystal.
Ames, I feel the same way. What a coinkidink that Misty's nature call was almost at the exact time Ron got home from work.
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No way did Misty want this little girl to be #1 in her Dad's life, because this was where she wanted to be.
I agree with everything you are all saying here, girls.elle: The RST can't handle the truth!
Just my opinion.
October 23, 2009, 8:52 am, Fri Oct 23 8:52:58 UTC 2009 #12
HaLeigh Cummings story on Maury show (video)
HaLeigh Cummings story on Maury show (video)
On Thursday, the story of missing Satsuma, Fla. girl, HaLeigh Cummings, was part of the Maury show.
Host, Maury Povich, examined the issue of missing children and included the story of several families of children who've disappeared.
In an emotional appearance, HaLeighs father, Ronald Cummings, and his mother, Teresa Neves, made a heartfelt appeal to the public to help find the missing 6-year-old.
http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime...ury-show-videoIt's probably too late to get justice for JonBenét. Maybe it always was. But knowing where things went wrong is the first step to not going there again. **-- Alan Prendergast-Dec 21, 2006--**
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In IIH vol.2 Franz Bardon writes widely and deeply about evocation in a very classic framework (circle, triangle, magical weapons) in order to evoke the entities but in one of the last chapters of the book he talks about a simple mental travel technique for what it seems to be the same purpose.
I have experience with contacting spirits and build relationship with them, but never approached them by means of "solomonic" magick. So, with my background, it would be natural for me working with FB spirits through mental travel. However, I guess that Bardon wouldn't have written so widely about evocation if the two methods would be interchangeable or would lead to the same result.
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Herman Cain Is The Latest Fox Candidate To Become A Fox Contributor
Fox News has hired [1] former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain as a contributor. The move comes after the network encouraged Cain to run for president, and numerous personalities vigorously defended him against sexual harassment allegations that eventually sunk his candidacy.
Cain's hiring follows a similar path that Fox News took with Scott Brown and Sarah Palin, both of whom were lauded [2] by Fox News as political figures and then signed to contributor contracts when they entered public life (Palin has since parted ways with Fox).
Prior to running for president, Cain was a frequent guest on Fox News and was touted [3] as a possible presidential contender because of his business background. During his April 14, 2010, Tea Party-themed program, Sean Hannity called Herman Cain a "rock star" job creator. Hannity then asked his audience, "How many of you would like him to run for president?" which drew loud applause.
Fox News host Neil Cavuto frequently hosted Cain and prodded him to announce that he was running for president on his program. Cain has called [3] Cavuto, who is also a vice president for Fox News, "one of my closest friends," and said in September 2010 that Cavuto "has been trying to drag" a presidential announcement "out of me for months now." It was no surprise, then, that Cain announced [3] he was forming a presidential exploratory committee in an "exclusive first" interview on Cavuto's Fox News program on January 12, 2011.
According to a Media Matters analysis [4], between June 1, 2011, and January 22, 2012, candidate Cain logged 73 appearances on Fox News and Fox Business, amounting to 11 hours and six minutes of airtime. Cain made the second most Fox appearances of the Republican presidential candidates during that time period, beaten only by former Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich. Cain's Fox News time was especially important since, as media outlets reported [5], Cain's campaign structure was virtually nonexistent in several early primary states.
When allegations of past sexual harassment during Cain's business career surfaced during the campaign, Fox News personalities rallied to his defense by dismissing the seriousness of the allegations and claiming that Cain was the target of a "smear campaign" because he's a "black conservative," [6] and the victim of a "gold digger" and "scam artist." Here are ten examples of Fox News hosts and contributors defending Cain:
- Then-Fox News contributor Dick Morris said of the allegations: "Well, this is ridiculous. ... This woman is in search of money. ... This woman has been unemployed for 13 years, and this is apparently payday. ... I look forward to her spread in Playboy." Morris also called [7] one of the accusers, Sharon Bialek, a "gold digger" and said her accusations were "outlandish."
- Fox News host Andrea Tantaros attacked [8] Bialek as a "scam artist" with an "illegitimate child."
- Fox News host Sean Hannity reported [9] on Bialek's accusations in a segment called, "Anatomy of a Smear Campaign."
- Sean Hannity interviewed [10]Gloria Allred, the attorney for one of Herman Cain's alleged sexual harassment victims. Hannity repeatedly questioned why the woman didn't immediately leave the vehicle after the alleged crime: "Why would one -- if that happened, and it was so traumatic, and it was so bad, why would she stay in the car with him?"
- Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said [11]: "We're beginning to understand the ubiquitousness of sexual harassment claims and how because they're happening so often and they're everywhere, many of them are inherently meaningless, done to safeguard future reputation-damaging things, and you might not be guilty."
- Fox host Mike Huckabee dismissed [12] the sexual harassment allegations against Cain by comparing his alleged behavior to someone ordering food at Popeyes.
- Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume claimed [13] that superiors in the workplace are now "at an equal or greater disadvantage" than their employees.
- Fox News host Eric Bolling claimed [14] that the allegations were part of a "systematic taking apart of the right by the left." He added that his "hunch is, you know, the left-wing nutjobs at Media Matters and all the other lefty blogs" were behind the Cain allegations.
- Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher dismissed [15] the seriousness of the allegations, explaining: "The left hates blacks who are conservative"
- A Fox Nation post described [7] Sharon Bialek as having "a Chicago smell."
Fox's press release about Cain's hiring states that he "notably proposed the '9-9-9' tax plan to solve the nation's debt problem." Fox News personalities, especially the hosts of Fox & Friends, presented Cain's plan as a legitimate proposal [16]. Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy claimed [17] that Cain's proposal is "attractive" to voters because it's "so simple to understand." Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson, meanwhile, proclaimed that "voters love, love, love" the 9-9-9 plan. In reality, as tax expert Edward Kleinbard and others have noted, Cain's plan would have led to "a huge tax hike for the working poor."
Though Cain is now officially part of the Fox News family, he had previously incorrectly claimed [18] he was a "Fox News contributor" in an apparent play to conservative voters. Politico noted in May 2011 that Cain "has been going around claiming he was a Fox News contributor for at least a year" and that Fox News denied Cain was a contributor and "asked both The Associated Press and The Washington Post to run corrections and tweak their stories to make it clear that Cain was not a contributor, only a guest."
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Tarleton State University A member of The Texas A&M University System since 1917
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Stallion with royal pedigree donated to Tarleton
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS-When it comes to bloodlines, a stallion recently donated to Tarleton State University's equine science program receives the highest marks for an exceptional pedigree. Perfect Pepto, a 2001 red roan stallion, was sired by Peptoboonsmal and out of Smart Little Mindy.
For those unfamiliar with the cutting horse industry, Peptoboonsmal is one of the top sires. He earned more than $165,000 in National Cutting Horse Association events and his offspring have earned more than $12 million.
Perfect Pepto's maternal grandsire is Smart Little Lena. Smart Little Lena earned almost $744,000 in cutting. So far, the prolific sire has produced 17 world champions and his offspring have earned more than $26.5 million.
"Perfect Pepto was donated to us by DuWayne Andresen," said Dr. Don Henneke, associate professor of equine science. "He paid quite a bit for the horse as a 3-year-old. One of the reasons DuWayne chose to donate the stallion to Tarleton is because he lives in Weatherford and wanted to see the horse whenever he liked."
Perfect Pepto was bred by Susan Stevens of Decatur, Texas. He was shown briefly before an injury ended his cutting career.
"He stifled about 10 days before the futurity," Henneke said. "Even with the injury, he made it to the semi-finals at the Augusta Futurity-basically on three legs."
Tarleton bred Perfect Pepto to about 20 mares this year and will stand him to the public for the 2010 breeding season.
"I think he's one of the best looking Peptoboonsmal studs out there," Henneke said. "He's a real nice horse with a great temperament."


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As Nintendo prepares to launch its latest videogame console this holiday season – and Microsoft and Sony continue to prep theirs for an expected 2013 launch – a new competitor for the living room is threatening to steal their thunder.
Ouya – an upstart technology firm with some big industry names behind it – is bypassing traditional financing methods and relying on crowd funding to raise capital. And gamers can't seem to hand over their money fast enough.


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One last thought about professionalism. Although a health club has a much different feel than a formal office building, that doesn't mean all manners should be thrown out the window. Granted, our patrons are mostly sweaty and out of breath, but they still deserve good customer service, attention to detail and some common decency.
Handling difficult situations (there's another leak in the locker room?) with ease isn't always an inherent skill, but it's one that our industry must cultivate or at least feign. And, when it comes to any sort of service in the club, it's best to mind your manners, even when you think no one is watching. Chances are you weren't the only one who saw your front desk staff member slurp down the leftovers from a protein shake he just made for a member. And, that's just one example.
One club I belonged to had virtually no manners at all. Rudeness was the name of the game, and this was beyond the rudeness experienced at restaurants or stores when you can't get seated or waited on. This was I'm-too-busy-reading-my-gossip-magazine-to-even-notice-your-existence rudeness. Need a towel? Fat chance. Have a question? Might as well ask a fellow member. Want to take your business elsewhere? Fine. Needless to say that club didn't last long. Although the club was beautiful with the latest equipment, its I-don't-care attitude closed its doors.
Another facility had good customer service, but it needed the help of Miss Manners desperately. Although personal trainers were always on hand to answer questions and the front desk staff was attentive, employees weren't always on their best behavior. Personal conversations between staff members were as entertaining as a soap opera, yet I doubt that discussing these personal dramas in the weight room was the best way to retain members.
At the same facility, I routinely witnessed a staff member scarf down her greasy, fast-food dinner at the front desk while swiping membership cards. I'm not sure which was more unprofessional — the fact that she was eating and handling our membership cards (with her elbows on the table, too!) or that she was eating burgers and fries while I was trying to burn off Friday night's one-too-many slice of pizza. I'll give her this though: no one could say that she wasn't attentive.
Although I'd prefer it grease-free, paying attention is an important manner for all health club staff members to have. Good employees notice details like members' names, ongoing issues at the club as well as the cleanliness of the bathroom. No one in their right mind enjoys cleaning toilets, but it's a necessity, and when your patrons start to complain, you better take action. Instead of cleaning the bathroom a few times a day (like most busy clubs have to do), one club I visited refused to scrub the toilets and restock the toiletries more than once a day. With 200 to 300 people walking through their doors daily, the bathroom screamed for more attention, but sadly never got it. Members complained, yet management let the problem continue, eventually losing patrons to another cleaner club that opened across town. Now, where's the ettiquette in that?
So, the moral to the story is that manners don't just count when it comes to writing thank-you notes or choosing the right fork to eat your salad with at a fancy restaurant. Your members appreciate and expect more — they deserve a professional club. Keep minding those manners, and you never know how far it might take your club.


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In front of a record crowd of 121,309, Reddam Racing's chestnut colt edged Bodemeister by a neck in the 137th Preakness Saturday afternoon to become the first horse since Big Brown in 2008 to win the first two legs of the series. He will try to become the 12th horse to capture American racing's most treasured prize – and the first since Affirmed in 1978 – in the Belmont Stakes on June 9.
"My dreams always ended with winning the Kentucky Derby," he said. "They never were followed up with winning the Preakness and going to the Belmont. That's a new dream now I'm waiting to pull off."
O'Neill said that I'll Have Another came out of the race well and was happy with his appearance when he arrived at the barn at 6 a.m. Sunday morning.
"He looked great," O'Neill said. "He had licked his feed tub. Once we cleaned the poultice off, his legs were ice cold. He had good energy."
I'll Have Another was loaded onto a van at 9:05 a.m. for the journey to Belmont Park.
The thrilling Preakness victory pushed I'll Have Another's record to 4-0 this season. He returned from a nearly five-month layoff due to sore shins with a win in the Robert Lewis (G2) on Feb. 4. On April 7, he added the Santa Anita Derby (G1) to his resume before winning the Kentucky Derby on May 5. O'Neill said the colt is well-suited to handle the demanding 1 ½-mile Belmont Stakes, the longest of the three races and called "The Test of the Champion."
"He's got the mind," O'Neill said. "You've seen the way he's handled the attention in Kentucky and here in Baltimore. He's got a great confidence about him and he's got the stride of a horse that a mile and a half won't be a problem. He's got the pedigree; so much stamina on the female side.
"And he's lightly raced. After winning the Bob Lewis it enabled us to give him plenty of time before his next start. He's still a fresh, happy, thriving horse that just seems to be getting better and better."
Meanwhile, O'Neill is prepared for the attention and demands on his time that will come his way between the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.
"Bring it on," he said. "We're ready."
O'Neill spent a few hours at the post-race party in the barn area hosted by the Maryland Jockey Club, but ended his celebrating around 10 p.m.
"Lynette and I and the kids ended up going back to the hotel and getting room service," he said. "And the kids were doing a lot of gymnastics moves off the bed. It was kind of a mellow evening once we got back into the hotel.
"Here it was just a fun house party. We kept saying 'I hope mom and dad don't show up. We're all going to be in trouble.' It's something I had never experienced before in my life, the amount of enthusiasm and positivity and love for horse racing. It was a dream come true for anyone involved in the business."
Assistant trainer Jack Sisterson and several members of O'Neill's staff went with the colt to Belmont Park. O'Neill and his family were scheduled to fly home to California on owner J. Paul Reddam's private jet. After checking on his horses at Hollywood Park and Santa Anita, O'Neill said he would probably travel to New York in about a week.
In all likelihood, O'Neill said, he won't make any changes in I'll Have Another's training program during the three weeks leading up to the Belmont Stakes.
"We'll have to play that by ear," he said. "It depends on the weather and all that stuff, but we'll maintain the same type of exercise that he's had. There's the old line about you can't take a sprinter and train him two miles and make a router out of him and you can't take a router and work them three-eighths every week and make a sprinter out of him.
"If we've got a true route horse, which we do, he's going to maintain his fitness and his exercise. If they can go a mile and a half they will. And he will."
While the Derby and Preakness had similar storylines with I'll Have Another catching and passing Bodemeister near the wire, O'Neill said his personal emotions watching the stretch runs were not the same.
"Winning the Derby was an out-of-body experience. It was like, 'Oh, my God, I can't believe it.'" he said. "The Preakness, the expectations were obviously a lot higher. It was almost like, 'C'mon boy, C'mon.'"
O'Neill acknowledged that there were moments in the duel through the stretch that it looked like I'll Have Another might not overtake Bodemeister.
"He was running such a brilliant race and even if he had run second he would have run brilliantly," O'Neill said. "You don't want to run second when you run that good, and I'm glad he didn't."
BODEMEISTER – After another agonizingly tough loss to I'll Have Another in the Preakness, Zayat Stables and Michel and Tiffany Moreno's colt was flown back to California Sunday morning. He will remain in training, but will skip the Belmont Stakes.
"I've had enough," Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert quipped.
Baffert said that Bodemeister appeared to be in good condition before leaving the Pimlico Stakes Barn for Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
"He was actually pretty happy today," Baffert said. "He ate up, got on a plane and headed back to California. He came out of it really well."
Bodemeister set the pace in the Derby and the Preakness and each time I'll Have Another managed to catch and pass him near the finish line. The Arkansas Derby winner turned in gallant performances in defeat.
"He's a pretty amazing animal," Baffert said. "He didn't act tired. After the race, he came back to the barn and he wasn't as tired as he was after the Derby."
Baffert said I'll Have Another and Bodemeister showed in the Derby and the Preakness that they are at the top of a talented crop of 3-year-olds.
"They are two really good horses," he said. "On any given year they could probably win those races. It was a tough year."
Baffert said that the Zayat Stables' colt Paynter might start in the Belmont Stakes. Paynter, who won an allowance race in convincing style Saturday at Pimlico, was shipped to Belmont Park Sunday morning.
"We're going to train him there," Baffert said. "If it looks like he snapped out of his race, we'll run him in the Belmont if he looks really good."
CREATIVE CAUSE – The third-place finisher in Preakness 137 boarded a van Sunday morning to head for Baltimore-Washington International Airport for a scheduled 9 a.m. flight back to Los Angeles and his home base of Hollywood Park.
"He came out of the race OK," said trainer Mike Harrington minutes before putting the son of Giant's Causeway on the van. "Back to California, regroup."
Harrington surprised some observers when he sent Creative Cause home after his fifth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, before bringing him back to Pimlico the following week for the Preakness. He said he is now contemplating one more cross-country venture to compete in the Belmont Stakes.
"I'd say right now it's 50-50," said Harrington, who was scheduled to get on a flight Sunday evening with assistant/exercise rider John Cisneros for the trip home.
"He ran his heart out," Cisneros said. "He didn't have any trouble at all. He ran hard, and I thought he was going to win it. Today he was very alert and happy. Actually he was jumping up and down when he was walking."
The Belmont would be Creative Cause's sixth race midway through his sophomore season. The San Felipe (G 2) winner has only been out of the money once in 10 career starts, that coming in his fifth-place finish in the Derby.
ZETTERHOLM – Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. said Sunday that the Winter Park Partners' Zetterholm appeared to come out of his fourth-place finish in the Preakness in good order.
The New York-bred son of Silver Train was shipped back to Dutrow's barn at Aqueduct Sunday morning.
"I got what I wanted from the race," Dutrow said. "I was hoping and praying for a third or fourth-place finish. We got the fourth-place finish and we left there satisfied, but I did not see my horse run big. I know he put in his little effort there, but I thought he could have run better. He didn't change leads, which is very unlike him, and he didn't get along so well with the track."
TEETH OF THE DOG – Trainer Michael Matz reported that J. W. Singer's Teeth of the Dog exited his fifth-place finish in Saturday's Preakness in good condition.
"I was happy with the way he ran. He's kind of inexperienced and he's probably not as good as those horses right now," said Matz from Fair Hill Training Center Sunday morning.
Teeth of the Dog will be not run in the Belmont Stakes, but Matz has the horse that may well be Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another's most dangerous foe in his quest for a Triple Crown sweep. Union Rags, who finished a troubled seventh in the Kentucky Derby, was held out of the Preakness to train for the Belmont Stakes.
Union Rags captured the Champagne Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park last fall. Matz is confident that Union Rags will be well suited to the 1 ½ -mile oval, the sweeping turns and the relatively deep racing surface.
"I don't think it's going to be a problem," Matz said. "He's won there before, so I don't think that part of it will be a problem."
OPTIMIZER – Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who won back-to-back stakes races on the Preakness undercard but finished sixth in the main event, exited Pimlico shortly after dawn with his entourage early Sunday for the long van ride back to Louisville.
"He's fine; he came out of the race in good shape," Lukas said by phone while on the highway home. "We're going to get home and Mr. Kelley (owner Brad) and I talked last night and we're going to talk a little bit further when we get back."
Lukas said before the Preakness he believed the son of English Channel was probably better suited to the 1 ½-mile Belmont Stakes than either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness. He finished 11th in the Derby in some traffic, then got going late to split the field in the Preakness at odds of 23-1.
"I would say we're probable for the Belmont just because of the distance and the different configuration of the race track," said Lukas, who has won the Belmont Stakes four times in his storied career. Lukas last took the Belmont in 2000 with long shot Commendable, following three consecutive victories from 1994-96 with Tabasco Cat, Thunder Gulch and Editor's Note.
"I'd say it's 50-50 right now," he said. "The winner (I'll Have Another) is a nice horse, but we're not going to hand it (the Triple Crown) to him. He's got to earn it."
COZZETTI – The seventh-place finisher in Preakness 137 returned to his home base at Churchill Downs Sunday, where trainer Dale Romans will decide whether to continue on to Belmont or embark on a grass campaign to take advantage of his attractive turf pedigree.
"I'm not sure," Romans said when asked if he would go onto the Belmont Stakes with Albaugh Family Stable's son of grass champion Cozzene. "We'll regroup. We've got to figure out why he's not running better. He's a better horse than he's shown. Once we get back to Kentucky, we'll figure him out."
Even if Romans bypasses the Belmont with Cozzetti, he has another candidate that he's more than a little excited about in Dullahan.
"He worked Saturday morning (five furlongs in 1:00.20, second-best of 26) at Churchill," Romans said of the Blue Grass winner and Kentucky Derby show finisher. "He's on track for a big Belmont."
Romans, who won the 2011 Preakness with Shackleford, decided not to run in the Preakness and give Dullahan extra rest for the Belmont Stakes.
"It should help him," he said. "He'll be a fresher horse."
WENT THE DAY WELL – Team Valor International and Mark Ford's Went the Day Well was reported to have come out of a 10th-place finish in the Preakness in good order.
"He seems OK. He has a couple of scrapes, but all in all, he's good," said trainer Graham Motion from Fair Hill Training Center Sunday morning.
Motion could offer no concrete reason for the disappointing effort that followed a strong fourth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.
"Maybe the Derby took more out of him that I realized. I just don't know," Motion said.
Went the Day Well is unlikely to go on to the Belmont Stakes.
"I think we'll point to some of the summer races like the Travers," Motion said.
TIGER WALK – Trainer Ignacio Correas and his eighth-place Preakness runner were back at Kevin Plank's Sagamore Farm Sunday morning, having departed Pimlico Saturday night for the 20-minute van ride home.
"He came out of the race good," Correas said. "He just walked today. He was probably a little tired."
The Preakness was Tiger Walk's fourth race as a 3-year-old, all stakes, but his only in-the-money finish came in the Withers (G3) at Aqueduct in February in his seasonal debut.
Correas said he thought the son of Tale of the Cat would probably not be heading to New York for the Belmont Stakes in three weeks.
"I don't think so," he said. "I haven't talked to Kevin about it yet. We're going to talk during the week, but I don't think so."
PRETENSION – Trainer Chris Grove reported from Bowie Training Center that Kidwells Petite Stable's Pretension came out of his 11th-place finish in Saturday's Preakness Stakes in good order.
"He's in great shape. No problems, "I think we'll probably head for the Mike Lee in late June," said Grove, referring to the Belmont Park stakes that's restricted to New York-bred horses.


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This mellow ribbon of a drive never strays more than an hour from the Kansas City metro, but surrounded by picturesque farms and small towns, you'll never know KC is so close. The route follows State-45 from Parkville to Weston, where a slew of shops line Main Street and Weston Bend State Park is a nice place to stretch your legs. Take State-92 and finally US-73 to Atchison.
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In December, the City of Boston issued a certificate of occupancy for the Weld Hill Research Building, the Arboretum's recently completed 44,000-square-foot facility located adjacent to its historic landscape. Employees moving into the building in mid January included staff from the offices of the director, finance, human resources, and information technology. Arboretum scientists, previously stationed on campus at Harvard University, have transferred their offices and ongoing research programs to Weld Hill's state-of-the-art laboratories and plant growth facilities.
The Weld Hill Research Building represents a reaffirmation of the Arboretum's mission and an expansion of its capacity for botanical study. The building's proximity to the Arboretum's world-renowned plant collections will greatly enhance the use of these remarkable resources by Harvard researchers and visiting plant scientists alike. The new building includes twelve greenhouses, plant growth chambers, laboratories and study areas, offices, and meeting rooms. It has the capacity to house up to 48 researchers and assistants in addition to Arboretum administrative staff. Designed and constructed to be energy efficient and to minimize its impact on the environment, the building features many sustainable technologies including an underground, closed-loop, geothermal heat exchange system. The building is situated on the northwest quadrant of the Harvard-owned Weld Hill parcel, at 1300 Centre Street.
An open house event for members and the general public will be offered in the spring.


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Stormwater study: Ann Arbor starts 2-year project that could lead to system improvements
The city of Ann Arbor has launched a two-year initiative to monitor and evaluate stormwater behavior throughout the city, and residents are invited to get involved.
The so-called Stormwater Model Calibration and Analysis Project now under way is a continuation of efforts the city began in 2007 with a stormwater GIS data collection and hydraulic model project.
Prior to 2007, the city didn't have a complete and accurate inventory of the stormwater management systems within the city.
Completing a comprehensive stormwater inventory and calibrated model, city officials said, will give city staff a fuller understanding of how the system functions during significant weather events.
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During the next two years, the city plans to do intensive data gathering to fine-tune or calibrate the existing stormwater model, allowing it to simulate real-world conditions.
The calibrated model will then be used to develop recommendations for consideration by City Council and the community regarding opportunities to improve the city's stormwater system.
City officials plan to reach out to residents in neighborhoods where known stormwater issues or complaints exist. Neighborhood meetings will be held in February and March to gather information from residents. Meeting schedules are available at www.a2gov.org/storm.
Jennifer Lawson, the city's water quality manager, said if residents have any information to share about stormwater issues — whether it's an anecdote, photos or videos — the city welcomes input at any of the upcoming meetings or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
In addition, the city is asking residents to participate in an online survey that can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/A2storm.
The city's website lists three meetings that are being held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and it includes materials handed out at a Jan. 29 meeting at Lawton Elementary School.
"We were extremely pleased with the feedback and quality of information that we received," Lawson said of the most recent meeting at Lawton. "This information will be used to guide the city in the calibration of a citywide stormwater model that will ultimately aid the city in the planning and implementation of future stormwater capital projects."
The purpose of the meetings is to validate and verify stormwater concerns specific to each neighborhood, collect additional information about areas of concern that city staff might not know about, and share information about the stormwater modeling and calibration project.
Public engagement is a key part of the process, and city officials are looking for residents interested in volunteering for a "Storm Corps," a group of citizens who will assist with gathering data.
The city also is assembling a Stormwater Advisory Group (SWAG), which will include interested citizens, stormwater professionals and other stakeholders.
Residents in the flood-prone Lansdowne neighborhood have been particularly active in the debate around stormwater and flooding issues in Ann Arbor. They started a blog in September called Ann Arbor Underwater. Neighborhood activists Irvin Mermelstein and Judy Hanway are using the site to rally support as they lobby city hall to take action to address their concerns.
Mermelstein recently sent letters to city officials raising more concerns about the city's footing drain disconnection program, which was temporarily suspended by the City Council in September.
Flooding problems have existed in Ann Arbor for decades. A series of old Ann Arbor News articles maintained on the Ann Arbor District Library's "Old News" website tells the story of a particularly bad flood in June 1968 that caused the Huron River to flood its banks, causing massive damage.
Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's email newsletters.
Jack Eaton
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 : 7:33 p.m.
About fifteen years ago the City hired a consultant to perform a storm water system study in the Lawton neighborhoods. That study resulted in the 1997 Black and Veatch report which identified problems so severe that the estimated cost was too expensive to implement. That study was just for the Lawton area. How will we now afford a city wide plan after ignoring the problem and allowing significant development to worsen the problem? The City needs to put a moratorium on new construction until we have a comprehensive plan. We need to specifically address building in flood areas, perhaps even prohibiting new development in flood plains. We need to address the capacity of our storm water system before allowing more impervious surfaces (parking lots and roof tops). We need to focus our capital improvement planning on storm water and waste water infrastructure and put aside plans for high rises and train stations. The 14 foot diameter Allens Creek pipe near North Main Street has a capacity sufficient for a "two year storm". That means at least every couple of years we can expect a storm to overwhelm that part of our storm system. Recent experience suggests that we will continue to suffer increasingly severe weather events with 10 year storms coming annually and 100 year storms coming every few years. We are clearly not prepared. It now appears that the City will not even start to address the flooding problems until the modeling is finished in a couple of years. At the same time, our planning staff, Planning Commission and City Council pursue an aggressive agenda of dense development. We need to identify some short term relief for flood prone neighborhoods while the studying and consulting proceeds.
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 : 5:02 p.m.
We live at the top of a hill in Lansdowne and have had sloshing levels of water in our basement at least three times since we were made to install the sump pump. I hope they figure something out before two years!
Wed, Feb 6, 2013 : 2:14 p.m.
Did you know, or were you not told, about the flooding problems when you bought a house in that neighborhood? Serious question. I wonder if people are being made aware of these serious problems when they are looking for housing? I don't think a real estate agent would steer you there when they make money no matter where you buy so how do people keep getting steered into this problem neighborhood? The house prices do not seem to reflect the extent of the headaches involved in living there.
David Cahill
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 : 3:12 p.m.
The City is passing out small rain gauges to individuals. I'm not sure how these gauges fit into this project if you're not in a flood-impacted area.
Wed, Feb 6, 2013 : 2:03 p.m.
They'd be able to tell where the water was coming from. They don't seem to know that at present. You can either divert the water headed into the bowl or just concentrate on draining the bowl.
Dog Guy
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 : 1:55 p.m.
Residents in the flood-prone Lansdowne neighborhood undoubtedly are buoyed by news of this promised study. An analogy might help city officials understand the stormwater study results: Water (also) flows downhill.
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 : 1:33 p.m.
We need a calibrated model and a two year study before we do anything. We need to validate flooding. My, local governments move like snails. I'll bet actions would be quick if a piece of art was needed. Or, if a city official wished to enhance their own benefit package as we experienced in the past. Go figure!
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 : 1:04 p.m.
It is rather surprising that the city is still gathering data to complete their stormwater handling capability assessment. Obviously, we want city staff to fully understanding how the system functions during significant rain events. We just wish they would have gained necessary understanding before undertaking significant stormwater drain disconnections, and flood-creaton projects at West Park and PiHi. Ready. . . fire . . . aim. . . It's folly marksmanship. However, we are at the stage when repeated folly is the tip of the iceberg of leadership hubris. Hopefully, the City of Ann Arbor will serve residents by remedying the flooding problems that the city has created in their design and implementation of the current flood-creation "system". This is a far cry from their previous mantra of directing the citizens to "fix it themselves." Here's a chance for the city to serve residents to resident benefit. It contrasts the years of environment of continued service deterioration, whereby citizens serve and fund whims of self-serving politicians.
dading dont delete me bro
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 : 11:42 a.m.
does the study include looking at self cleaning curb drains? from my obervations, most (if not all) flooded areas have leaves piled up over the storm drains.


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American fare at 42 Degrees North in Plymouth
42 Degrees North Restaurant & Lounge
690 State Road, Plymouth
Hours: Sunday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Major credit cards accepted
Accessible to the handicapped
South of downtown Plymouth, the choices for dining out are fairly sparse, making the 42 Degrees North Restaurant & Lounge on State Road a particularly welcome addition to the community's Manomet neighborhood.
The restaurant, named for the latitude coordinate of its location, opened its doors in June, just in time for the arrival of the area's considerable influx of summertime residents.
While the summer crowd may be long gone, one recent fall evening proved 42 Degrees North remains a draw, both for locals mingling at the expansive bar that runs the length of the dining room, and for a brisk dinner crowd.
The fare is billed as American cuisine with an emphasis on fresh fish, capitalizing on the restaurant's seaside location, but there are plenty of choices for those who prefer chicken or beef.
Shortly after we were seated, the waitress brought a basket of crusty focaccia bread, tweaked with a mouth-watering blend of herbs and a hint of cheese.
We settled on opening with an antipasto board ($13), generously laden with a tasty assortment of Italian meats and cheeses, roasted peppers, pickled vegetables, and crisp asparagus spears set off by a tangy balsamic drizzle.
The dish was more than enough for our three-person party, but the menu's variety of appetizers was dizzying, ranging from sautéed mussels, calamari and Maryland crab cakes to meatballs in sweet marinara, chicken wings and chicken tenders, and even homemade mac and cheese fritters. Prices hover around $10 for most.
The menu also featured a good selection of salads ($7 to $10) that could be topped with grilled chicken or shrimp, as well as New England clam chowder ($6) or a lobster corn chowder ($8).
Our favorite main course turned out to be an item from the evening's specials: chicken and shrimp pad thai ($20). A crispy panko crust encased tender and moist shrimp. The marinated slabs of grilled chicken were equally good. But the taste-bud pleaser was the steaming bowl filled with rice noodles nestled in a sweet and spicy sauce.
Thanks to some helpful advice from our waitress, the roast prime rib ($24) was ordered medium-well-done, and arrived with just the right hint of pink. The cut was tasty and tender and topped with a rich-tasting beef jus.
Accompaniments included mashed potato, although Delmonico and baked potatoes were also offered. The winter squash was the only disappointment, since it seemed to lack any spice enhancement.
The pork osso bucco ($19), the best I've tasted anywhere, was melt-in-your-mouth tender and made even better by a thick brown sauce containing bits of carrots and onions.
The meal was partnered with a spicy ratatouille and gorgonzola mashed potatoes, all too good to leave behind.
We were well beyond delving too far into dessert offerings, so we opted to split a fluffy slice of lemon mascarpone cake ($7) drizzled with a berry sauce and garnished with twin dollops of homemade whipped cream, each capped with a raspberry and blueberry. It was a fight for the last forkful.
The owner of 42 Degrees North is Kevin Hynes, an industry veteran who has opened 10 restaurants on the South Shore, including four in Plymouth, during his 30-year career.
Hynes has sold many of those past operations, but still owns Stockholders in Weymouth and the Inn at Bay Pointe in Quincy.
This latest endeavor is managed by his son Erik, who has his own considerable background in the food business. The younger Hynes managed several restaurants in Boston before returning to the South Shore, where he joined his father in opening Stockholders and 42 Degrees North.
42 North also serves lunch, offering the same soups and salads as dinner, along with a varied list of sandwiches and burgers, a clam roll and the restaurant's "signature'' lobster roll.
About a half-dozen dinner-type items are also available at lunchtime. Prices range from $10 to $15.
The restaurant recently added a Sunday brunch ($17 for adults, $8 for children 6 to 10 years old, $5 for children under 6).
The full menu (except for brunch) is also available for take out.
Our recent dining experience at 42 Degrees North was one we hope to repeat in the near future. We found the food to be good, the service prompt, and the wait staff helpful.
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This is the story of one man's struggle between darkness and light. Patrick and Michael, two brothers orphaned by a car accident, befriend Tony, a fellow orphan at their orphanage. Together, the boys explore their spirituality and ultimately decide that God is instructing them to build an orphanage of their own. When Tony's grandfather passes away, leaving him a parcel of land, the boys take this as a sign and begin making plans to fulfill their dream. On a midnight visit to the property, a tragedy strikes that will ultimately challenge Patrick's faith. When Patrick's past and present collide as an adult, will his heart once again be softened by God's gentle call?


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Thanks for sharing the daffodils . . . the cemetery in Maine where my maternal grandma et al are buried sits on the Saco River . . . and they say the daffodils bloom all along the river bank . . . hope to see that for myself one of these days . . .


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USDA Appoints Peanut Standards Board members
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman has appointed 18 peanut industry members to serve on the new Peanut Standards Board created by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.
The 2002 farm bill established the new board, which consists of 18 members with representation equally divided between peanut producers and peanut industry representatives, to provide consultation to USDA related to quality and handling standards for domestically produced and imported peanuts.
Three producers are from the lower Southeast, 3 producers are from the Southwest, and 3 producers are from the Virginia and North Carolina peanut producing regions, according to Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, who announced the appointments
The board also includes 3 peanut industry representatives from each of the 3 peanut producing regions.
For the terms of office ending on June 30, 2003, 2004, and 2005, the newly appointed Peanut Standards Board members are:
Southeast Region (Alabama, Georgia and Florida) producers: Wayne E. Shannon of Tifton, Ga.(term ending 2003); Larry Ford of Greenwood, Fla. (2004); and Martin L. McLendon of Leary, Ga. (2005). Industry representatives: Jack Chastain of Rochelle, Ga. (2003); Ben Smith of Columbus, Ga. (2004); and Dennis R. Finch of Samson, Ala.(2005)
Southwest Region (Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico) producers: John Clay of Carnegie, Okla. (2003); Andy Timmons of Brownfield, Texas (2004); and R. Wayne Hardin of Portales, N.M. (2005). Industry representatives: Jimmie Shearer of Portales, N.M. (2003); Alan L. Ortloff of Madill, Okla. (2004); and Doyle Welch of Lubbock, Texas (2005).
Virginia-Carolina Region (North Carolina and Virginia) producers: George McGee of Severn, N.C. (2003); Paul W. Rogers Jr. Of Wakefield, Va. (2004); and James W. Mason of Harrellsville, N.C. (2005). Industry representatives: Dan Boone of Chesapeake, Va. (2003); Charles R. Birdsong of Suffolk, Va. (2004); and Linda G. Lee of Windsor, N.C. (2005).
For more information on the new board, go to: www.ams.usda.gov/fv/peanut-farmbill.htm.


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Last week, electronic car maker Tesla announced a bunch of changes to its service and warranty policy that will make it easier for customers to take care of their Model S cars.
Since then, the stock is up 5.73%, and it's at new 52-week highs.
This is a headache for a ton of people on Wall Street as Tesla is a really popular short. And as the bears are heading into their caves, the bulls are coming out to explain their side of the story.
Investment firm Longboard Asset Management kindly sent us their long thesis on Tesla. They believe the stock will go to $200/share in 5 years (it's currently just below $55), that the shorts are going to get clobbered, and that the brand has the power to be the next Apple.
It's a bold call. See if you buy it.
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Brazil's A-3 and A-5 auctions have already attracted more than 15.7GW in new wind projects, said Maurício Tolmasquim, the president of the federal government's Energy Planning Company (EPE).
Tolmasquim said that following a delay, the A-5 auction would now go ahead, and possibly the A-3, depending on demand. "We have to hold the A-5 by law," he said.
According to the Tolmasquim there are more than 637 projects seeking inclusion in the auction. At the A-5 they will compete for contracts with large and medium sized hydroelectric projects.
The auctions this year have been delayed due to lack of demand from consumers. Tolmasquim said that EPE is still appraising the demand data and delays in the construction of some natural gas-fired thermoelectric plants that were due to come on-line in coming years and whose supply contracts need to covered by other sources.
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The Buffalo School Board wants to trade facial peels for music teachers.
Following community outrage over the elimination of nearly half the district's band and orchestra programs, the school board last week approved a measure to deny health insurance claims from teachers and administrators for superficial anti-wrinkle procedures and use the savings toward the restoration of music teachers.
"I'm voting to diminish the cosmetic benefit, which has actually been abused to such a degree that we can no longer afford our instrumental music program," said board member John Licata, who sponsored the resolution.
The district paid out $1.1 million in claims for district employees who received anti-aging skin treatments like facial peels and microderm abrasions during the 2011-12 school year, Licata said. The district also paid nearly $590,000 for chemical peels to other parts of the body, he said.
In some cases, such procedures are used to reduce scarring or disfigurement, he said, but in many other cases, it's being used to diminish wrinkles and even out skin tone to make employees look younger.
"I'm sorry," Licata said. "Our societal love of youth doesn't extend to depriving our students of an education."
Not all teachers and administrators have or use the cosmetic health insurance rider. It is available in one of three health care plans the district offers.
But the employees who are using it are costing the district a lot of money and damaging its ability to lobby for more funding from the city, Licata said.
"When we ask the city for money, they throw it right back in our face and say, 'What are you doing about the cosmetic rider?' " he said. "This is a lightning-rod issue."
The school board unanimously approved Licata's resolution Wednesday, though it's unlikely such a resolution could be speedily enacted.
It would likely require legal vetting and conversations with the district's health insurance administrator, BlueCross BlueShield. Though BlueCross administers the district's cosmetic rider, all employee cosmetic claims are paid directly by the district, Licata said.
Meanwhile, Buffalo Teachers Federation president Phil Rumore said the most appropriate place to eliminate the union's cosmetic rider is through good-faith contract negotiations, not through unilateral action.
"I don't think they can do that legally," he said. "If they want to accomplish something like this, they should accomplish this at the bargaining table, instead of thumbing their nose at the contract."
He also questioned Licata's facial peel claims figures. "I'd like to know where he got those numbers from and see the documentation," he said, adding that district's administrators union has the same cosmetic rider.
Licata said that given the inability for the district to settle the contract with the BTF over the last 10 years, he's not holding out much hope that the two sides can reach an agreement in time to reallocate money for student programs next year.
He said the district should target "all temporary cosmetic procedures" that are not considered medically necessary or part of a primary medical condition.
He later said the cosmetic rider refers to cosmetic surgery that is "required and necessary," as determined by the insured's physician and wants a board committee to investigate that language and shepherd the resolution to reality.
Meanwhile, protests over instrumental music cuts continue. The program cuts will be a major issue for the new school board, which will hold its annual reorganization meeting Monday as new members Carl Paladino, Theresa Harris-Tigg and James Sampson join the board.
Of the 28 existing instrumental music programs in the district, 14 are being threatened with elimination as a result of the district's move to a new school-based budgeting system that gives principals more discretion over their own staffing levels.
District music teachers estimate 1,300 students will lose instrumental music if cuts are not restored. Several other schools would see music reductions.
Superintendent Pamela Brown said the district has been seeking community assistance in restoring the instrumental music teaching positions.
"We are continuing that effort to see if we can pull together the funding for this year to restore those positions," she said, "and hopefully, we will be able to do that. But obviously tonight, we can't guarantee it, but we are continuing to work toward that."
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