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Part 6 of an occasional series on gauges of Puget Sound health: Marine water quality.
At a time when student loan delinquencies are hitting 35% nationally and college graduates are both mired in student loan debt and many are unemployed/under employed/can't find a job no matter how well they did in college, this program is going to encourage illegal immigrant students to take on debt that there is no way they can pay back because employers can not legally hire them after they graduate. This makes no sense at all.
A $25 fee for a bicycle? I smell desperation.
The story doesn't say what the results were for the EPA/health district tests at the other shooting ranges in the county. The other ranges in the county were tested weren't they? Otherwise this would look like some sort of personal vendetta using county and federal resources.
The headline is misleading. The gun didn't "accidentally" fire. The gun owner is an idiot. You don't clean a gun that is loaded. Duh.
People have such short memories http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2006/ap...
So this lady won a Hispanic Leadership Award from the NFL, Mexico's Consul General from Seattle makes a first time ever visit to Kitsap County and then the comments degenerate into an illegal immigration debate...good grief. Good job Mrs May.
"...Nearly en route..."?? Either something is nearly there or en route there, not both (and neither really works in this headline).
So the headline for this article is misleading at best, flat out wrong and inflammatory at worst. Good job Kitsap Sun.
Seems like the KRRC should follow the letter of the court order and scale back their superior 26 camera system and set up just one camera. That way when the county wants three hours of recordings they get three hours--not 78 hours and 10 DVDs worth. On the other hand, when people request records from Kitsap County they need to pay for each page copied, why doesn't the county have to pay for the copies of the video recordings they are requesting from the gun club?
If you want to read about conspiracy theories check out this document written by the prosecutor's office http://www.waprosecutors.org/MANUALS/... You will see that they have labeled Marcus a "Freeman" and will do "anything and everything to prosecute him". If you can stomach this drivel you will note that wearing a flag pin on your lapel means you are a Freeman, that the Freeman have "bizarre ideas" such as the right to bear arms and the right to travel, that court house staff have been directed to "catch" liens against public officials so they don't get filed (but not against the regular public?), and that basically anyone targeted by the prosecutor's office can be lumped under this title so that they will face relentless prosecution (so much for equal justice for all). I can't believe that an institution supported by our tax dollars can spawn this kind of bias and hatred against people in our own community!
First of all, the "Weapons Effect" hypothesis has been discredited (http://www.saf.org/journal/14/trigger...)...please check your sources before publication. Second of all, if you want to know what kills people, again, do your research. According to Washington state data (http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/emstrauma/...) a person is much, much more likely to die from falls (3,452 deaths from 2005-2009), unintentional poisoning (3,929 deaths), and car accidents (2,081 deaths) than by homicide by firearm (628 deaths) which is a bit higher than dying by unintentional suffocation (577 deaths) and drowning (514 deaths). So based on the statistics, in addition to firearms, we should also ban ladders, allowing elderly people to walk anywhere unsupported, any type of drug or medication that can kill in quantity, cars, swimming, pools, bathtubs, ropes, cords, or anything else that can cause suffocation... "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither..."
"Hold people accountable"=finding out which people/institution with the deepest pockets are even remotely related to the incident then suing them. Who isn't surprised at this turn of events when a lawyer comes out of the woodwork to represent the injured child's family and the only people who were really responsible for the incident were a crackhead and a deadbeat dad? Certainly the lawyer didn't think he would get his 33% cut of the settlement from the parents of the shooter.
Serko didn't listen to the KRRC's arguments at the intial trial why on earth would the club think that Serko would consider granting them an injunction??
What genius thinks it is a good idea to put a nine year old in an orange jump suit and hold him on $50,000 bail??? The kid didnt intentonally shoot anyone. The person who allowed the child to get the gun in the first place is the one who should be held responsible. Idiots....
Worst. Article. Ever.
B.S. Land use issues were NEVER an issue as recently as when the county sold the land to the KRRC a few years back. In fact, didn't the county go out and take a look at the land they were selling before doing so and no problems were noted? Rapid fire shooting has been audible FOR DECADES but that was never an issue before either. Also, if bullets were "more likely than not" escaping from the range wouldn't there have been at least ONE police report to document this problem and wouldn't the "expert" who testified to this have been someone other than a person who lives in the area and stands to improve their property value if the range was shut down? If Russ Hauge wasn't on his 12th year of trying to prosecute KRRC's Executive Director Marcus Carter--unsuccessfully I might add--this "land use" issue would never have come up.
So there was not one piece of evidence showing that the Rifle Club was a danger to the community but it was still shut down? Silly me, I thought legal rulings were based on hard evidence. Looks like the entire area will be a lot less safe now that people who own firearms won't have a safe place to shoot and will just head off into "the woods" to shoot like they used to do. Such rampant stupidity makes me glad I no longer live in Kitsap County.
The galleys at both PSNS and Bangor have been going down hill for years. 15 years ago they were excellent and open to both active and retired. Since then they got rid of many employees, the food can't get much worse, and now it looks like the couple of days each year that retirees--especially many elderly who don't or can't cook a huge holiday meal for themselves--could actually eat there has been stopped all together. Great way to treat the people who have served in the military for a minimum of 20 years.
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It's a bar at 2am, wouldn't saying alcohol was involved be stating the obvious? And yes, when a car accident is caused by a drunk driver The Sun definitely should report that alcohol was involved--it's a good reminder to everyone else not to drink and drive, not to over serve, etc.
Wow what a great thing to do for the community! Nice!
How dare those poor people learn how to be homeowners! Wait...what?
How about city officials stop commiting ethics violations as a way to avoid embarassment? Then there would be nothing to report on. Seems quite simple to me.
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Sir, my dad was the one who was driving the ambulance, and I have to say I cannot even fathom the depth of your loss. My dad didnt have a chance to react or anything. Please know that this is haunting us all and we are all grieving for both your family and for Colby. Please forgive my dad, as he had absolutely no way to stop, or react, or do anything. May God bless you and wrap His arms around you, if there is ANYTHING I can do, please feel free to contact me at email@example.com
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Sir, my dad was the one who was driving the ambulance, and I have to say I cannot even fathom the depth of your loss. My dad didnt have a chance to react or anything. Please know that this is haunting us all and we are all grieving for both your family and for Colby. Please forgive my dad, as he had absolutely no way to stop, or react, or do anything. May God bless you and wrap His arms around you, if there is ANYTHING I can do, please feel free to contact me at email@example.com
This appears to be a freak accident all the way around. It just so happened that a young man and a driver were at the wrong place at the wrong time and neither could avoid the outcome. It's pretty terrible how people always want to assign blame and pick apart all of the details to do so. Condolences to all involved.
How horrible for all involved. Condolences to the young man's family and my prayers also go out to the driver of the ambulance.
The woman and her attorney are idiots. Can't they be sued by the government for filing a frivolous lawsuit?
Doesn't anyone see a conflict of interest with the county's only ballistics "expert" being a person who lives in the area that will be favorably impacted should KRRC be run out of business? Won't his property value go up? Also, is he really an expert? From the testimony it sounded like he classified as expert in the military for his shooting skills which is a far cry from being a ballistics expert! As far as Carter and NFI making money from the range, from what I saw in the early 2000s, he definitely deserved it. He and his family would be there eight to ten hours a day, five to seven days a week, working on the range to keep it in good condition/add safety improvements/etc to make what, from my guess, would be less than minimum wage (again, according to the testimony, the navy would pay $500 a day, four or five days a month; $2500 divided by two people working 300 hours a month each...that's not very much). Finally the evidence presented to show that bullets left the range was just stupid: a tree with bullet fragments in it (I could find this in any number of trees/road signs/etc in that whole area as people tend to shoot everywhere not just from the range), a few witnesses who appeared to be reading from the same script as their testimony was exactly the same (no I can't walk by the power lines any more, no I can't sell my house because I don't want to pass my problems on to someone else), and a number of neighbors who reported finding bullets in their home years after the fact at this trial yet not a single person made a police report about it even when bullets supposedly landed near their kids??? The fact remains that there has never been a single safety incident at KRRC in the last 80+ years so they must be doing something right.
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I was excited when the Newberry Hill Heritage park was opened and offered a new place to go mountain biking. During the first ride along the specified trail, a bullet wizzed past my helmet. I spoke to another rider that had the same experience. I will not be riding there again. Just because someone has not yet been hurt doesn't mean that we need to wait until it happens to take enhanced safety precuations. Obviously the ones that are in place now are not doing the job.
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I was excited when the Newberry Hill Heritage park was opened and offered a new place to go mountain biking. During the first ride along the specified trail, a bullet wizzed past my helmet. I spoke to another rider that had the same experience. I will not be riding there again. Just because someone has not yet been hurt doesn't mean that we need to wait until it happens to take enhanced safety precuations. Obviously the ones that are in place now are not doing the job.
If I remember correctly mountain bikers were riding their bikes into the buffer area on KRRC property... http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/ap...
Excellent work by the Kitsap Sun live blogging from the trial. Wasn't able to make it to the trial today so this was really informative.
So I guess if Hague loses this case--which he should, as this case is built on lies and stupidity--he will just appeal it again and again, much like he has done with his case against Marcus Carter (he hasn't been able to win his case against Carter so has continually appealed for the last 13 years...that's YOUR tax dollars at work people!).
Some things never change...like Mason County politics. Glad I don't live there.
The county has a list of people they have vendettas against--mainly good people who are just trying to help others out.
Let me see if I understand this corectly... --The Kitsap Rifle Club has been safely operating in the county since the early 1920s. --The county had no problem whatsoever with the KRRC until Russ Hauge was unsuccessful in his more than decade-long vendetta against the KRRC's Executive Officer. Then complaints about the club started coming from "concerned citizens" who turned out to be friends and supporters of Mr Hauge.--The county issued building permits to home builders and the school district knowing that there was a shooting range near by and saw no problem with this.--Home buyers and the school district KNEW they were located right next to a shooting range and had no qualms about this either.--The rifle club noted the growth in the area and without direction from the county or neighbors took it upon themselves and at their own expense to add even more safety features and noise reduction features to protect their neighbors.--A few years back, the county bought up land surrounding the shooting range for a park knowing full well that trails from the park could bring people right into a live fire area(?!) Who places a park right next to a live fire area???--The county was "very supportive" of DNR selling the land that the KRRC sits on to the rifle club (is this because they figured that it would be easier to wrench the land away from a private entity than the DNR??).--The issue now seems to be 'public safety' even though there has never been a public safety incident to instigate this action.--The requirement to ensure that no bullets or projectiles can leave range property is impossible to guarantee at an outdoor range which is why there are buffer zones around these areas.
Sounds like the county has been causing all of the problems. Now they want to take away the only safe places in the county for the public to shoot their firearms. I guess they don't care about the long term consequences of this action but I hope the public cares enough about this issue to make sure that such a one-sided, self-serving ordanance isn't allowed to pass.
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I don't really agree. I hope they nail this neanderthal Carter to the wall. And I wasn't aware that he's a gun dealer. And it looks like your arch enemy Hauge had the case transferred to King County, so he nothing to do with it anymore. But I'm sure in your paranoid mind you feel all those Gov't people are working together behind the scenes to screw you over. Paranoid, fearful, and armed, maybe with automatic weapons. Scary.
I thought there was a reservation for folks like that to live together. It's called Idaho. Check it out :)
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I don't really agree. I hope they nail this neanderthal Carter to the wall. And I wasn't aware that he's a gun dealer. And it looks like your arch enemy Hauge had the case transferred to King County, so he nothing to do with it anymore. But I'm sure in your paranoid mind you feel all those Gov't people are working together behind the scenes to screw you over. Paranoid, fearful, and armed, maybe with automatic weapons. Scary.
I thought there was a reservation for folks like that to live together. It's called Idaho. Check it out :)
I have never seen Marcus Carter be anything but responsible and professional with firearms (in fact he has provided firearms training to lots of local citizens as well as law enforcement and military personnel for decades). And it does make me think someone is out to get him if his case carries on for 12 YEARS without resolution (how many times has the case been dismissed yet resurrected again and again??). Our taxpayer money would be much better spent prosecuting people who are actually a THREAT to the citizens of our county, not responsible people against whome someone appears to be holding a grudge.
What a ridiculous waste of tax payer money! 12 years and 12 or 13 challenges to Carter on this single incident and the county still can't win. Typical Hauge vendetta. I hope Carter sues and wins a boatload of money for all he has had to put up with over the last decade.
Doesn't anyone proofread these articles??
They let the lady who had four speeding tickets and was driving on a suspended license that killed a bicyclist off with community service. And now they charge a guy who drives the same speed as everyone else on that road and has an accident with homicide. The "justice" in this county is mind boggling.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Swaying the outcome of a vote. Imagine that. http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/au...
Put an 84 year old nun in prison for 10 years? What an excellent use for our tax dollars since the state seems to be rolling money these days.
I would much rather have my tax money going to support a drug program that addresses the core issues of drug dependancy than pay to incarcerate people.
The personal attacks are a waste of space. Why aren't people more concerned with the facts?FACT: There has never been a safety issue at the rifle club.FACT: No projectiles have every been proven to have left the range and struck anyone or anything.FACT: People shoot from their private property near the range with no safety barriers at all.FACT: People shoot from the forested areas around the rifle range, again with no safety barriers at all.FACT: The prosecutor has persued a case against Marcus Carter for 11 years without success (and has wasted your tax payer money doing so).FACT: DNR and the county owned the land that the rifle club sits on for over 80 years yet there were never any reported problems in all of that time.FACT: The county allowed people to build, buy, and live in homes right next to the rifle club and now that they don't own the property any more they say there is a problem with this?FACT: The county allowed a school to be built in direct line from the rifle club.FACT: All of the home owners in the area bought homes knowing full well that there was a rifle club in the area.FACT: The county could have requested access to the range but didn't.FACT: The rifle club sits right in the middle of the proposed Newberry Heritage Park.FACT: In addition to GAG's comment above, there are a number of other cases that the prosecutor has been more than lenient with. The lady driving on a suspended license who killed a doctor? She got community service. The millionaire who killed his passenger in a DUI accident? He wrote a check and walked. Way to instill confidence in the public as to their safety...The bottom line is that the facts clearly show that there IS NO PROBLEM with the rifle club yet a group of people with ulterior motives seem to have banded together and are being allowed to use our court system for their own public circus. Disgraceful.
Yep, the hunter is 100% at fault because he didn't follow the simple rules of safe gun use--identify your target and know what is beyond your target before you even think of pulling the trigger. The argument that it is the dead man's fault because of his clothing choice or his immigration status is a load of crap. It could have been one of your children playing in the woods that day. I'm sure it was an accident but that is no reason to excuse the hunter from liability when he was clearly negligent. If he would have killed a child instead of a Hispanic-looking man that day, people would be out for blood by now.
I got the same form letter from Josh Brown. It looks like the county commissioners want to stay as far away from this issue as possible so that depending on where the chips fall, they can side with the "winner". I wish they had the guts to follow the lead of the Kitsap Republican Party in support of the KRRC since:#1--there have been NO safety incidents to even prompt such a lawsuit#2--the argument about improper land use since 2001 should not even BE an argument since the land was officially transfered to the Club in 2009#3--the county wants to inspect the club but no one in the DCD or any other county office has the training/skill/certification to even inspect a gun range to my knowledge. In fact, one of the most knowledgable people on gun range development in the county is the KRRC's XO Marcus Carter.Spread the word--vote Hauge out, get someone new into the office (and while you're at it, a new commissioner might be in order too), THEN hopefully the prosecutor's office will focus on the real crimes that are being committed in our county instead of making stuff up and wasting tax payer money on "fictional" crimes.
November can't get here soon enough. I would vote for Mike the Mover (no offense to Mike the Mover) before I would vote for anyone who is currently in office now seeing as how the county is currently being run. The Commissioners were fully supportive of a land swap just a year ago and yet they claim ignorance of the land that they swapped? They didn't even look to see what it was they were selling? People moved in all around the gun club and now they want a "quiet neighborhood"? Skippy can tell his friends that yes, they should suck it up or move away--what do they expect living next to a gun club?? If you want quiet, move next to a cemetary! The prosecutor is allowed to waste a decade's worth of resources persecuting someone he holds a vendetta against. The commissioners were unaware of the lawsuit brought against the gun club yet they could have easily read the articles and hundreds of comments in the Sun prior to the meeting--does that mean they don't even read their community's newspaper? (This article was posted September 11th in the Sun http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/se...)Commissioner Bauer was able to show aerial maps of the range--were those the same maps that the KRRC's lawyer was unable to get from the county? How convenient. And don't even get me started on Steve Mount, I believe he was the person from the CDC a few years back who didn't ask if he could tour the range by coming in the front gate but decided to walk onto range land from behind the berms of the live fire range. Genius.Is it just me or are we all living in the freaking Twilight Zone here??
Yep, elections are just around the corner so this must be some sort of last ditch effort to make an appearance of the prosecutor being useful to the county. Although someone must have flunked math because earning $356,000 from this program yet spending untold millions on prosecuting Marcus Carter (who is clearly less of a threat to people in the county than a whole mob of dangerous drivers who have had their licenses suspended) still puts the budget way into minus territory. This doesn't make sense and when things don't add up, then there is probably something quite wrong with this whole proposal. And like many commentors noted, people who lose thier licenses rarely have the $250 to pay for the program and they do continue to drive, just ask Teri Davis who was driving on a suspended license, killed someone, and basically walked away from it--thanks prosecutors for your dilligent efforts to protect the people of Kitsap County.
The Kitsap Library system is great and the people who work there are wonderful!
You will always have some segment of the population that more or less "chooses" to be homeless, but more emphasis on job development and comprehensive mental health services, as many of the chronically homeless tend to have mental health issues, would go far in alleviating the homeless problem. Also, there are plenty of people who game the system but there are also plenty of kids--from birth to 18 years old--that are homeless through no fault of their own.
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Children are just the most helpless people who could be affected. My argument (read for content here) is that the gun club is obviously no longer compatible with the neighborhood that sprung up around it IN ITS CURRENT FORM. The two obvious solutions are to build an indoor range, or move. Perhaps you have others? Just saying "we were here first" and refusing to discuss it further is how this whole mess probably started.
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Children are just the most helpless people who could be affected. My argument (read for content here) is that the gun club is obviously no longer compatible with the neighborhood that sprung up around it IN ITS CURRENT FORM. The two obvious solutions are to build an indoor range, or move. Perhaps you have others? Just saying "we were here first" and refusing to discuss it further is how this whole mess probably started.
If the neighborhood is not compatible with the range then the neighborhood needs to move because they moved in knowing full well the neighborhood was being developed next to a shooting range. Moving the range? Do you think that is a solution? The reason that rifle ranges just don't pop up anywhere around here is that there is no other place the range could move to. And building an indoor range? Permitting process time=decades. Cost=unfathomable. Hoops to jump through=inumerable.
There are so many conflicts of interest here...--the "expert" is someone who stands to benefit if the range is shut down as he lives right next to the range! Nevermind that he hasn't established any credentials that would actually make him an expert on this subject.--the prosecutor who filed the lawsuit has had a very long standing battle with the Executive Officer of the club (on a side note, this is the same prosecutor who has given no or minimal sentences to quite a few people who have actually KILLED people in our county).--the lawsuit was filed because of an immediate threat to public safety however no substantiated threat has been established--the lawsuit was filed in Pierce County, the same county that was a party to the previous lawsuit against Marcus Carter. Why not file it is a county that has no conflict of interest with anyone involved in this current suit?--Mr Allison has more of a history with the club than has been alluded to in these articles.--Note that a local mountain biking group has had a number of run ins with the club because they were developing biking trails on KRRC land--I believe at least one person quoted in this article is a member of this group. (http://www.kitsapmtb.com/) (http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/ap...)
Kudos to the Kitsap Republican Party for taking a stand on this frivilous waste of taxpayer dollars to fund a vendetta by a small group of people who stand to "win" in other ways if the club is shut down.
Is this a development issue? A safety issue? A wetlands issue? A range design issue? A sound issue? Looks like this group is throwing out anything they can think of in the hopes that something will stick. I don't understand why this group of "citizens for a quiet neighborhood" WOULD MOVE NEXT TO A GUN RANGE. Duh.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, FL – The North Georgia men's soccer
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College on Saturday evening, but a golden goal in the 97th minute
proved to be the difference as the Flagler Saints came away with a
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North Georgia's late-season struggles continue, dropping their second straight contest and falling to 7-5-3 overall on the year and 2-4-1 in Peach Belt Conference action.
Flagler now controls their own destiny to host a game in the first round of the PBC Tournament, improving to 10-3-1 overall and 4-2 in league play with their third consecutive victory.
Juan Hurtado proved to be the biggest offensive threat for North Georgia as the sophomore tallied three of the team's 16 shots, with a pair of those on target, but they resulted in two of four saves on the night for Flagler goalkeeper Matt Gilam.
Flagler was relentless all evening, recording 28 shots with seven of those on goal, but it only took one to make the difference as Will Frandsen fired a shot that was blocked, but the ball ended up right back at the junior's foot and he would not miss a second time, bouncing a two-hopper inside the left post to end the game. The goal at the 96:40 mark proved to be the game-winner and Frandsen's third score of the season.
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The court, with the usual 5-4 "political" split, ruled that married same-sex couples are entitled to federal benefits such as health care, Social Security, life insurance and survivor tax policies.
Edith Windsor of New York offers a good example of how survivors in gay marriages will benefit. When her female partner died, the IRS refused to treat her as a surviving spouse as it would have for a husband. She was assessed a tax bill of $363,000 for inheritance of her partner's estate.
Justice Kennedy, writing the majority opinion, declared: "DOMA instructed all people with whom same-sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriage of others." He said the statute disparaged the dignity of gay couples.
Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, noted that Kennedy announced the opinion to a hushed courtroom "in a stately tone that indicated he was delivering a civil rights landmark."
He was. Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor joined his opinion.
Antediluvian sourpuss Justice Scalia complained in his bitter dissent that "anyone opposed to same-sex marriage is an enemy of human decency." He slammed the Kennedy opinion as "a jaw-dropping assertion of judicial supremacy over the will of the people expressed by Congress."
But the determination of the people is often wrong as it was in California's vote to ban gay marriage in Proposition 8.
Other DOMA dissenters were Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas and Alito. Roberts, during oral argument, argued fatuously that the institution of marriage "didn't include homosexual couples." He was wrong.
The reality is that gay characters and celebrities are prevalent in America: TV, sports and rap music. Thirty percent of the population lives in states that allow same-sex marriage.
As Martin Luther King said: "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." It did just that in the DOMA ruling.
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The court punted on affirmative action, sending a case originating at the University of Texas, Austin, back to the lower courts for stricter scrutiny.
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Justice Scalia expressed that view, saying he would overturn any racial preferences.
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Callistus was a slave in the imperial Roman household. Put in charge of the bank by his master, he lost the money deposited, fled and was caught. After serving time for a while, he was released to make some attempt to recover the money. Apparently he carried his zeal too far, being arrested for brawling in a Jewish synagogue. This time he was condemned to work in the mines of Sardinia. He was released through the influence of the emperor's mistress and lived at Anzio (site of a famous World War II beachhead).
After winning his freedom, Callistus was made superintendent of the public Christian burial ground in Rome (still called the cemetery of St. Callistus), probably the first land owned by the Church. The pope ordained him a deacon and made him his friend and adviser.
He was elected pope by a majority vote of the clergy and laity of Rome, and thereafter was bitterly attacked by the losing candidate, St. Hippolytus, who let himself be set up as the first antipope in the history of the Church. The schism lasted about 18 years.
Hippolytus is venerated as a saint. He was banished during the persecution of 235 and was reconciled to the Church. He died from his sufferings in Sardinia. He attacked Callistus on two fronts—doctrine and discipline. Hippolytus seems to have exaggerated the distinction between Father and Son (almost making two gods) possibly because theological language had not yet been refined. He also accused Callistus of being too lenient, for reasons we may find surprising: 1) Callistus admitted to Holy Communion those who had already done public penance for murder, adultery, fornication; 2) he held marriages between free women and slaves to be valid—contrary to Roman law; 3) he authorized the ordination of men who had been married two or three times; 4) he held that mortal sin was not a sufficient reason to depose a bishop; 5) he held to a policy of leniency toward those who had temporarily denied their faith during persecution.
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Kelly claims first AJGA victory following sudden-death playoff
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. As the field battled constant rain showers throughout Thursdays final round, Natalie Sheary of West Hartford, Conn., came out on top in the Girls Division, carding a 4-over-par 76 and repeating as champion of the Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort. In the Boys Division, 18 holes was not enough to break the tie between second-round co-leaders, William Miller of McMurray, Pa., and Timothy Kelly of Staten Island, N.Y., as a sudden-death playoff was necessary to decide a champion. In the end, Kelly came out on top.
The second installment of the Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort was a 54-hole stroke play event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association. The tournament featured 92 of the nations premier junior golfers, ages 12-15, from 21 states and Canada. The Nike Golf Junior All-Star Series, created in 1998, is a collection of 10 events designed to give younger AJGA members an opportunity to play competitive golf.
The 15-year-old Sheary entered Thursdays rain-soaked final round down four strokes to second-round leader Angela Oh of Maple Shade, N.J. Sheary grabbed her first lead of the tournament after the par-5, 460-yard eighth hole, at which she carded a par after pushing her tee shot into the hazard.
I knew we (Sheary and Oh) were close after No. 7, Sheary said. When we both went into the hazard on No. 8, I knew that I needed to make a move. I somehow made par by draining a 20-foot putt while she struggled and scored an eight.
I was really pumped up after that hole and knew that I could win.
Sheary went on to score a birdie on No. 9 and never relinquished the lead the remainder of the round.
It feels extremely good to come back and win, Sheary remarked. Im glad that it reads my name as champion these past two years. I know that this win will help me in the future.
Oh claimed second by finishing one-stroke back of Sheary with a tournament total of 230. Rounding out the top-3 in the Girls Division was Hilary Lawson of Gaithersburg, Md., who carded a final-round 74 to bring her tournament total to 232.
In the Boys Division, both Kelly, 15, and Miller, 15, brought their tournament totals to 223 following 54 holes of play. Kelly carded a par on the par-4, 361-yard 18th hole after getting up-and-down from a bunker, while Miller bogeyed to force the sudden-death playoff.
I didnt hit the ball too well today, Kelly said. I scrambled around all day but I was able to get up-and-down out of three bunkers and that saved me.
In the sudden-death playoff on No. 18, Kelly carded his first birdie of the round by hitting a 9-iron from 130 yards out onto the green and sinking a 20-foot putt to claim victory.
It feels really great to win, Kelly remarked. Its a huge load off of my shoulders.
Martin Bunt of Pensacola, Fla., carded a low-final round 71, bringing his tournament total to 224 and was the only player under par during Thursdays round and tied for third place with Jed Dirksen of Hampton, Iowa. Morgan Hoffmann of Wyckoff, N.J., rounded out the top-5 by bringing his tournament total to 229 with a final-round 77.
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Drag and drop mixer channels
This is so simple, I'm sure someone has suggested this before:
Drag and drop mixer channels, and maybe also "insert/delete" mixer channel command.
Just as we can move devices around on the rack, I wish we could change the order of the mixer channels.
In the early stages of a composition, I find myself creating and deleting many devices, and they end up scattered all over the mixer (or two or more mixers!).
Once I finally start settling on what devices I'll use, I end up having to spend a lot of time repatching everything so they appear on the mixer in a logical fashion.
And even when I'm well into the creative process, I'll decide I need to add a device that runs in tandem with a device, say, on channel two... which means I'll have to repatch and adjust settings on everything to the right of channel two to make space for the new device.
It would be so much easier if I could just insert a new channel, and have everything to the right of it move one space down, and onto a second mixer if necessary. Or, I could patch the new device in the first available channel, and then drag and drop it to my prefered position on the mixer.
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When country concerts are booked in Omaha, Nick Erdman readies himself for a road trip.
The 32-year-old Kearney, Neb., resident has traveled to Omaha for George Strait, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and others. It's well worth the nearly three-hour trip, he said.
Carrie Underwood, who plays at CenturyLink Center Omaha on Sunday, is at the top of the list for many country fans, and her success is no fluke.
Country music is a huge segment of the concert business. The industry has lowered ticket prices, increased production values and packaged artists together to keep country tours selling out arenas and stadiums.
On big concert tours, artists on the rise often pair with headliners. Before Kenny Chesney was popular, he opened for Tim McGraw. And prior to topping the charts, Taylor Swift opened for McGraw and Brad Paisley.
"It's a relatively small business (community) in Nashville, and they all communicate," said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of concert industry publication Pollstar. "Rock acts tend to blaze their own trail, and they end up being the fourth rock show in town that week. (Country artists) tend to stay out of each others' way."
The CenturyLink Center doesn't try to book country acts any more or less than other genres, a spokeswoman said.
It helps to establish relationships with artists like Swift, who started her last two tours at the arena and sold out all four of her shows there.
"When artists keep bringing their shows back to CenturyLink Center Omaha, it tells us that we are treating them right and that our staff is doing a good job behind-the-scenes," said spokeswoman Kristi Anderson.
Country fans are also passionate about their favorite artists, which drives ticket sales.
Many, including country fan Erdman, make frequent trips to see country shows. Erdman travels to Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming and Nebraskaland Days in North Platte, and he grew up on country music near Bayard, Neb.
"I grew up on a farm in western Nebraska — AM radio was all we had," he said. "I really appreciate 'real' country music: Randy Rogers Band, Chancey Williams, George Strait, Jason Boland, Granger Smith are some of my favorites."
Tony Michaels, program director and DJ at Sioux City country radio station KSUX, frequently heads to Omaha for concerts with fans and fellow hosts.
"We had a limo there for Jason Aldean," he said. "It's so easy for us to be there, and we're pretty regular travelers to Omaha."
Almost once a month, he said, there's a good country show going on in Omaha, Sioux City or Des Moines, which he attributed to the large number of country artists that are on tour.
"U2 only tours so much, but there are so many different country acts that do really well," he said.
Country music also generally appeals to younger audiences. The best-selling rock acts generally appeal to baby boomers and charge a higher ticket price, while country artists are favored by younger generations, Bongiovanni said.
"They're also pretty good at pricing the tickets so that they're affordable for the markets they're playing," Bongiovanni said. "They're not $600 Rolling Stones tickets."
Country is most popular in the Midwest and the South, but it's popular enough in other spots to sell out football stadiums. Chesney and Swift, for example, both sold out Gillette Stadium near Boston, and Boston isn't generally considered a big country market.
Big productions with stage lights, pyrotechnics and video screens — long a staple in rock shows — have also fed into country concerts' popularity. Stage shows are more energetic, and fans respond.
"That goes back to Garth Brooks. He injected some rock 'n' roll-flavored theatrics into his performance," Bongiovanni said. "That was fairly rare at the time for country music."
Those kind of concerts, more of a celebration than a performance, appeal to fans such as Erdman for three reasons: "Booze and friends," he said. "And great music."
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We recently showed you an advanced F80 M3 prototype in what looked like Singapore Gray Metallic (reposted below). Now see the latest prototypes in black and Silverstone.
Once again, we're treated to some great looks the F80 M3′s massive fenders. The F80 M3 shares virtually the same styling as the M4 except for the more prominently flared fenders and a different trunk design (no CSL style curve). The two share the same front front fascia and headlights, rear bumpers, sideskirts, hood bump, exhaust design, double-bubble carbon fiber roof and wheels. They will also share the same powerplant and drivetrain.
Ordering for the M3/M4 will be available beginning in January-February and production begins in the March-May time frame. Deliveries will begin by early Summer.
We'll have some initial tech … CONTINUED
Last year, Mr. Ludwig Willisch, President and CEO of BMW of North America, confirmed to us an inline 6 cylinder engine for the upcoming M3/M4, and we showed you spy photos of the engine. Despite these confirmations, stubborn rumors pop up periodically regarding a potential V6 configuration for the upcoming s55 engine.
If you needed any further convincing, now hear it from the BMW NA CEO himself (again). Speaking at an event that we are currently attending for the launch of the new X5 and 4 Series, Mr. Willisch references an inline engine for the M4 (and hence, M3), confirming he's really happy that "it is going to be a car that has the cylinders in one line." How would Mr. Willisch know? He was formerly … CONTINUED
BIMMERPOST member and owner of the first M6 Competition Package in the UK shares with us his review of his brand new F13 M6 Coupe with Competition Package, comparing it against his previous M6 Coupe, which was an early launch-spec car.
This review gives particular good insight into just how much/little difference the M6 Competition Package gives. Here's his review:
Contrary to the majority of car nuts (in the UK anyway!), I do like my M6′s, having also owned a previous E63 shape a few years ago – they just seem to suit what I like in a car very well…..breathtaking thrust mixed with impeccable build quality and refinement without being as barge-like as the even bigger coupe's like the Bentley GT or Mercedes CL.
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Don't possess X-ray vision to see past all that camouflage which remains on the F83 M4 convertible prototype? No worries, we give you this digital preview.
As the spy photos and our renders show, the M4 convertible will generally share the M4 coupe and M3 sedan's styling, and of course powerplant/drivetrain.
The biggest difference will be the M4 cabrio's folding hardtop. Unlike the M4 and M3′s carbon fiber double-hump roof, the M4 convertible will be metal and operate and fold in the same manner we're used to seeing on the E93 M3 convertible. We stitched together earlier spy photos for a preview video (reposted below).
The M4 convertible will debut later in 2014, after the the M4 coupe and M3 sedan have their world debuts at the Detroit … CONTINUED
We've heard the upcoming M3/M4 at high speeds on the Nurburgring, but haven't had many chances to hear it accelerating from a stop. Well, here's a good listen, as this F80 M3 prototype was spotted by BIMMERPOST member KKM3 on the Pacific Coast Highway last night.
The M3 here doesn't accelerate to redline nor at wide open throttle, and the clip is short, but we nonetheless get a good sound preview of the car's inline 6 cylinder S55 engine and exhaust.
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I spotted this car last night around 9pm driving north on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. I knew right away it was the new M3 and I was determined to get a good clip or … CONTINUED
So, how do you current M3 owners feel about the upcoming M4 coupe? Let us know inside.
This F83 M4 convertible spotted yesterday completes the M3/M4 trifecta … until the M4 Gran Coupe comes along that is.
As one can see, the F83 M4 will generally share the M4 coupe and M3 sedan's aero parts (and mechanicals). Even the trunk, which is of the automatically opening variety (to store the hardtop), appears to feature a similar CSL style curve. Parts such as the front/rear bumpers and mirrors may appear different than the M4 coupe, but that's due to the heavier camouflage which the M4 convertible still retains.
The one clear difference is that the M4 convertible features a different roof — in the form of a non-carbon fiber folding hardtop. It will operate and fold in the same manner we're used to seeing … CONTINUED
We showed you the latest F82 M4 coupe prototype today, and now feast your eyes at the F80 M3, also in the most revealing form yet! This is the first we've seen the F80 M3 in what appears to be Singapore Grey Metallic color.
The first thing that pops out (literally) at us are the fenders. Check out the nearly widebody look of the rear fenders. While the M4 is a svelte and sexy sports coupe, the new M3 looks like its bruiser brother with his bulldog stance.
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Sandboxing an Application with chroot
Sometimes, however, sandboxing an entire operating system is overkill. What if you just want to compile some software and install it without affecting your current system or give yourself the option of easily removing the software? Oddly enough, this is the exact same challenge that Bill Joy ran into while working on BSD back in the 1980s. His solution was to create the chroot system call and utility program.
With chroot, you must remember one critically important thing: chroot was not meant to be a security mechanism. Instead, it was designed to make software testing and installation easier and safer. A process or a user with root privileges can easily break out of a chroot environment and cause damage to the underlying operating system. However, this can largely be mitigated by running all software within the chroot as a non-root user and removing any potentially unsafe setuid binaries that run as root or with otherwise elevated privileges.
Building a chroot Environment
On RPM- and Debian DPKG-based systems, building a chroot environment is relatively easy. Some people will accuse me of being RPM-centric, and they'd be correct – I started with Slackware 1.0, but I switched after seeing Red Hat 3.0.3 and have been using Red Hat and CentOS ever since.
Also, Debian has documented the process of building a chroot environment properly, so I do not need to repeat it here [9].
To build a complete chroot environment, you need several basic items:
- a file system with some basics, such as /dev/ and /proc/ (so that things like ps will work);
- any programs and libraries needed to run the software you want to test; and,
- optionally, an easy way to install or update software within the chroot, which is especially important if you want to use the chroot as a production environment to compartmentalize software).
Step 1: Basic File System
Here, I use /chroot as the chroot base directory. As root, execute:
# mkdir /chroot # mkdir /chroot/proc # mkdir /chroot/dev # mount -t proc proc /chroot/proc # /sbin/MAKEDEV generic -D /chroot/dev -d /chroot/dev
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DESPITE the Hunter having the most stringent alcohol and hotel licensing restrictions in NSW, two Newcastle hotels have topped the state's list of most violent venues.
While reported cases of hotel violence generally fell throughout the state in 2011, MJ Finnegans and Fanny's of Newcastle emerge as the worst offenders in new figures expected to be released this morning.
The two city venues are expected to be slapped with tighter trading restrictions when Minister for Hospitality George Souris formally reveals the NSW Violent Venues List this morning.
The list shows that 31 violent incidents occurred at MJ Finnegans in 2011, with 30 incidents occurring at Fanny's. They compare unfavourably to Sydney's notoriously violent pubs The Mean Fiddler at Rouse Hill (18), Coogee Bay Hotel (23) and Ivy nightclub (21).
The figures have further outraged those who have campaigned for even tighter trading restrictions in Newcastle and further dented a recent push for smaller licensed wine bars in the city area.
Campaigner and Newcastle resident Tony Brown seized on the new figures, saying the city's residents, businesses and frontline emergency services personnel should be "justifiably outraged".
He said his coalition of supporters would this morning move to have the Independent Liquor Authority reopen a legal challenge aimed at further reducing hotel trading hours in the city.
"The number of reported violent incidents in Newcastle CBD has more than doubled over the past three years from 49 to 102 by the end of 2011," Mr Brown said.
"The outcome plainly repudiates Minister Souris's gloating about the success of the government's three strikes laws - not one of the repeat offending Newcastle pubs have been issued with a strike."
Mr Souris would not comment further on the figures last night, instead saying that a statewide drop in the number of assaults at licensed premises was proof that the government's policy was working.
Newcastle's King Street Hotel, the Cambridge Hotel at Newcastle West and the city's Queen's Wharf Brewery Hotel also made the list, recording 16, 14 and 12 violent incidents respectively.
Maitland's Belmore Hotel dropped off the most recent list after recording a significant drop in violent incidents over the past year.
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At Westergaard, we are Brand Driven in everything we do. For over 30 years, we have provided strategic brand consultation and creative services to businesses large and small from our offices in Central and Eastern Iowa. We work with our client partners to build strong brands and activate them across appropriate media touch points.
Dean Westergaard
President, Brand Strategist
As team leader, Dean works in all aspects of the business, while concentrating on client service, creative, and media coordination. Areas of expertise include the traditional mediums of radio, television, print, and outdoor. As our senior copywriter and resident storyteller, his brand-centric approach keeps our clients' stories at the forefront of all of our projects.
Dean got his start in advertising in 1972 on the radio side of the business – first in southwest Iowa and then Des Moines. In 1980 he joined a local advertising agency and in December 1981 he founded Westergaard Advertising from his home in Clive. From the start, Dean's mission was simple — create effective advertising to help clients meet their goals. In 1992 the agency moved west to Adel and in 2007 the Eastern Iowa office opened in Coralville. As the business grows his principles continue to shape our agency's culture.
Dean and his wife live just outside of Adel, Iowa. They have two grown children and five grandchildren.
Nick Westergaard
Vice President, Brand Strategist
Nick works directly with our clients to create brand-driven campaigns that get results. His areas of expertise include strategic brand development and new media. In addition to servicing our current accounts, he is also the founder of the agency's social media marketing unit, Brand Driven Digital.
Since 2005 Nick has blogged about marketing, posting fresh brand-driven insights each week. He has written for MarketingProfs, 12 Most, and The Gazette's Business 380, where he is a monthly columnist. His thoughts on social media and marketing have been featured in news sources such as US News & World Report, Entrepreneur magazine, Mashable, American Express OPEN Forum, and The Des Moines Register. He's also the author of the eBooks Google+ 101 and Instagram for Brands and co-host of The Work Talk Show podcast.
Nick is a sought-after speaker on branding and social media at conferences and workshops across the country. He also teaches social media marketing at the University of Iowa, where he sits on the Professional Advisory Board for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Advisory Council of the Marketing Institute at the Tippie College of Business.
Prior to joining the firm, Nick held positions at Buckle Down Publishing and ACT, Inc., where he led initiatives in branding and digital marketing. He is an Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador and serves on the board of directors of United Action for Youth and the Englert Theatre. Nick is also on the Marketing Advisory Committee for the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.
Nick lives in Coralville, Iowa, with his wife, five kids, and dog.
Angie Cottrell
Brand Strategist
Angie works on the front lines with our clients developing effective brand strategies and bringing them to life across a variety of media touchpoints. Her areas of expertise include product/brand management and market research.
Angie worked for six years as a Product Developer and Manager for Build-A-Bear Workshop developing their skins, clothing, and accessories. Most recently she was a product developer at TRG Group developing travel accessories. Both positions involved extensive travel throughout the United States as well as several trips to China. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a marketing focus from Truman State University.
After 10 years in St. Louis, Angie and her family returned to Iowa. She lives northwest of Adel, Iowa with her husband and two girls.
Macy Koch
Director of Social Strategy
Macy Koch is the Director of Social Strategy at Brand Driven Digital. As a marketing strategist, Macy can spot opportunities to strengthen brands and businesses alike. She's been called "the bees-knees" by Foursquare founder, Dennis Crowley, and has access at any time to over 20 business social accounts. Macy has spoken at conferences and on panels on various topics including branding, social media, and marketing, and has worked with small and large businesses, as well as startups and non-profits.
Macy is deeply immersed in the startup culture in the midwest, having helped found RecBob, and continues to contribute to the regional startup and tech focused publication, Silicon Prairie News.
Macy lives in Des Moines with her dog, Reuben. When not working or jotting down her "next big idea," Macy can be found walking on a trail, painting on canvas, or tasting the newest craft brew.
Cate Dicharry
Agency Services Manager
Cate functions as our agency's control tower — managing and scheduling projects through all stages of production while ensuring quality control and timely delivery of our creative work. Her areas of expertise include project management and workflow development.
Prior to joining the Westergaard team, Cate worked for the University of Iowa for four years in the Business Manager's Office and in the School of Art and Art History. She also served as an English Instructor at Dalian Nationalities University in China. Cate is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon with a major in Political Science, and is completing her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside.
Cate lives in Coralville, Iowa with her husband, Bradley, and their two small dachshunds, Lola and Frida.
Susan Hofmann
Project Coordinator
Susan works behind the scenes and directly with our clients to manage the project planning and scheduling process. She also works with our creative team to ensure continuity of message and quality control. Her areas of expertise include print production, art direction, and overall organization.
Prior to joining the agency, Susan worked as a designer and communications consultant for Hewitt Associates in Lincolnshire, Illinois. She coordinated corporate benefits communications for several national brands and Chicago area companies. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design with an emphasis in sociology.
Susan lives on an acreage northwest of Adel, Iowa, with her husband, two teenage kids, and a menagerie of animals.
Kristie Anderson
Kristie Anderson heads Westergaard's accounting operations and is responsible for bookkeeping and monthly invoicing.
Kristie graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a degree in accounting and has spent her career in both the public and private sectors. For the past seven years she has been running an accounting business from her home.
Kristie lives just south of Adel, Iowa with her husband and two children. She loves attending her kids' many activities including sports, dance and cheerleading. She volunteers at their school, and enjoys scrapbooking and reading.
Sarah Moy
Search Marketing Coordinator
As Search Marketing Coordinator, Sarah works with Westergaard's search engine marketing, overseeing search campaigns, managing budgets, and aligning them within clients' comprehensive brand management strategies.
Sarah graduated with Honors from the University of Iowa in May 2012 with degrees in Marketing and Biology, and a minor in Studio Arts. Prior to graduation she worked as a research assistant in the University of Iowa Department of Marketing and was a dedicated student member of the Marketing Institute. She has studied abroad in both Spain and China.
Sarah currently lives in Gurnee, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago.
Meghann Foster
Digital Marketing Specialist
Meghann works deep in the digital trenches for Westergaard clients by managing, executing, and measuring email campaigns and social media/community engagement. She is also a copywriter on many online projects including email marketing and website development.
She has degrees from Waldorf College and the University of Iowa. Outside of her work for the agency, Meghann is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) at Zenergi Hot Yoga and blogs about her yoga practice at meghannkayyoga.com. She also serves on the board of directors of the 4-Cs Childcare Research and Referral.
Meghann lives with her husband Nick Westergaard and five kids in Coralville, Iowa.
Pam Dearden
Media Coordinator
Pam joined the Westergaard team in August 2010 as Media Coordinator. Working with our media vendors, she is able to plan and execute media campaigns for our clients. She also participates in strategic planning for Westergaard clients. Pam's area of expertise is in broadcast.
Pam started in the advertising business in 1981 in Des Moines. She continued her career in broadcast sales and management in both Des Moines and Tucson, Arizona, where she lived for 14 years.
Pam lives in Bondurant with her two kids.
Office Mascot, Thought Leader
Lucy joined the dog-eat-dog world of advertising seven years ago. Although independently wealthy from a previous career in public speaking, Lucy begged for the opportunity to be part of the Westergaard team.
With her myriad talents, Lucy is always looking for a new project she can sink her teeth into. Research has been one of her specialties, as she can often be found pouring over trade journals. Media relations is another area where she shows her public relations pedigree. Lucy's in-your-face approach seems to have a very humanizing effect on media representatives.
However, Lucy's greatest contribution is her approach to problem solving. Lucy demonstrates daily that if you just stretch out in your office chair, close your eyes and relax – the solution will come to you.
Lucy is currently single and lives in a commune near Adel.
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Arriving at the back door of the agency from a life on the streets, Murphy came with a worldly set of skills ideally suited to head up the agency's guerilla marketing efforts.
Drawing on her extensive long walks through various communities, Murphy has an uncanny knack for leading us to the perfect out-of-home media targets for maximum brand impact. Her keen senses also alert us when a non-traditional approach is needed to cut-through the cluttered marketplace.
Murphy's true strength lies as a moral compass for the office. Lounging on her office pillow during even the most tense of times, she projects a contagious cool demeanor reminding the whole team of the big picture.
Murphy is single and lives in Coralville.
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TALLAHASSEE — For the first time since 2005, FSU will begin the season without a quarterback who has started a college football game.
Good luck with that.
But here's good news for all those Donnie and Debbie Doomsdays out there: Jameis Winston has your back. He wants to give the FSU faithful a reassuring "I got this" as the Seminoles transition from the steady veteran leadership of EJ Manuel to the uncertainty of youth and inexperience.
"EJ taught me three things — being calm, cool and collected," Winston said. "All the time, EJ was calm. Even when things went bad he was cool. And he always was obtaining information, and that helped me a lot."
Winston is all about becoming a sponge so he can become a solid quarterback the 'Noles open their season at Pittsburgh on Sept. 2.
It's not just on the football field. Winston, only 18, is already adept at dealing with the media.
He's a storyteller, from sharing an affinity for cheese balls to the now-famous quote about not wanting to get "Johnny Manziel Disease." Winston is infectious, but in a good way.
And please discount all the fine print that says Winston has not be anointed the starter. That's just coachspeak from Jimbo Fisher, presumably to shut down the media noise. Winston, a redshirt freshman, will be the starter by the time ACC play begins. Redshirt sophomore Jacob Coker will be the backup.
Winston has earned that honor, and not just because of his ability. It's that intangible thing called leadership skills. Winston is not afraid to be the company cutup in practice, especially when it's time to calm some nerves other than his own. But he also knows when to shut down the laughtrack and get down to business.
"He's one of those vocal leaders," senior offensive lineman Bryan Stork said. "He's not afraid to stand up and say anything . . . If you play good we don't care what age you are. Jameis knows when to play but he knows when to be business at the same time."
Winston's brief college résumé is already off the charts after he completed 12 of 15 passes for 205 yards and two touchdowns in a quarter against the Seminoles' first team defense during the spring game. That included a 58-yard touchdown pass on the first play, in which he got the best of senior defensive back Lamarcus Joyner.
"That's a critical factor," Fisher during FSU's media day in August. "Those lights on the scoreboard really matter."
Winston , now 6-feet-4 and 227 pounds, has gained about 35 pounds since signing with FSU out of Hueytown (Ala.) High in the 2012 recruiting year. He is also an excellent baseball player, leading to a stipulation that he be allowed to play both sports for his entire collegiate career.
Fisher had no problem with that. He knew he was getting more than a kid with a strong arm.
"He takes coaching," Fisher said. "What I'm saying is he's not afraid to say I'm wrong. . . . He understands the power of preparation. And I think he has poise and presence.
"You know the guys I recruit and like as a quarterback, I know within the first five or 10 minutes. If you're a leader and you don't have presence, you can have every other intangible.
Presence is very important. The great ones have confidence without arrogance."
Will there be growing pains? No doubt. Struggles? Going to happen. A tear or two of frustration?
But it's all part of the process — a very good one — for the FSU football program.
"I don't have time to get big-headed because I'm looking at the big picture," Winston said.
As it unfolds week by week, season by season, Jameis Winston could become another great quarterback to wear the garnet and gold.
And there's no luck involved with any of that.
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