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Unheralded Randolph lifts Celtics past HawksBy Mike Shalin
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March 29. 2013 11:38PM
BOSTON -- Shavlik Randolph?
Paul Pierce had a triple-double, Jeff Green scored 27 points and Jason Terry had 24. But it was the inspired play of Randolph, the former Duke Blue Devil the Celtics brought over from China earlier this month, that was a real key to the 118-107 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night at TD Garden.
Just missing his first NBA double-double, Randolph, who first signed a 10-day contract March 11 but then got a deal that could go beyond this season, tied his career high with 13 rebounds, scored nine points and blocked two shots. He did all that in just under 22 minutes off the Boston bench.
"That's what he is and that's what he does; and he understands who he is and he does it," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said of the 6-10 Randolph.
"I just thought he did a lot of good things; really happy for him."
After the game, as Pierce came out for post-game interviews, Randolph got dressed and left. It wasn't clear if he didn't want to talk, if he thought no one wanted to talk to him -- or if he wanted to hurry off and watch Duke play Michigan State in the NCAA Tournament.
At one point in the game, Randolph had one-third of his team's rebounds, his nine compared to the team's 27.
"He did a lot of dirty work," said Pierce, who had 18 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds in his 10th career triple-double, his third this season. "He went in there and stuck his nose in there in the middle. He got some offensive rebounds (five), some put-back layups. He was in the right position pretty much all night."
In their previous two games, the Celtics had eight second-chance points. Friday night they had 15.
The win moved Boston, winners of two straight after a five-game losing streak, to within 1 1/2 games of the Hawks for the sixth spot in the Eastern Conference playoff seeding.
Green won Wednesday night's game in Cleveland with a buzzer beater and went 11 for 20 from the field, adding four rebounds, four assists, two steals and a block Friday. Terry was 7 for 10 from the floor, 5 for 7 from 3-point range.
Both teams were missing their big men, with Boston's Kevin Garnett out with a foot injury and Atlanta's Al Horford out with a stomach illness.
While the Celtics have been suffering with injuries for weeks, the Hawks were also missing guard Devin Harris (third straight game, foot) and guard John Jenkins suffered a mild concussion on a Pierce pick in the first half and didn't return.
"We asked the officials and they thought it was a clean play," said Atlanta coach Larry Drew.
Horford, who missed four of the seven games of last year's seven-game playoff loss to the Celtics, is always missed when he's not in there. But so is Garnett for Boston.
"With him in the lineup, it does have a little bit of an effect," Drew said of Horford, averaging 17.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game this season. "But we just did not do a good job defending off the dribble tonight."
The Celtics went 11 for 23 from 3-point range in the game, hitting six 3-pointers in the second quarter. Their 118 points matched a season high and their 66 in the first half were the most in a half this season.
Mike Scott led the Hawks, who went 2-2 on a four-game road trip with a career-high 19 points off the bench. Josh Smith had 18 points, but he was just 7 for 23 from the floor, 0 for 6 in the second half after scoring 16 points in the first half. Jeff Teague had 17 points and seven assists.
"We thought we had a chance to go 3-1 but it didn't work out tonight," said Teague.
The Celtics won the season series, 3-1.
The Hawks used an 8-0 run to take a six-point lead 3:12 into the second quarter, but the Celtics scored 32 points in the final 8:29 of the half to lead by 10 at the break. It started with an 8-0 run over just 53 seconds, Terry starting it with back-to-back 3-pointers. He went 4 for 5 on 3-pointers in his 16-point half.
NOTES: Courtney Lee, who missed three games with an ankle sprain, came off the Boston bench and played just six minutes. ... Heat president Pat Riley was critical of Boston general manager Danny Ainge for being critical of LeBron James for complaining about getting roughed up on the court. Riley said Ainge should "shut the (expletive) up and manage his own team." Ainge replied with "He's right, I should manage my own team. I did complain as a player. And I'm right. LeBron should never complain." Rivers, asked about the verbal battle, said, "I think it's cool. I think they should duke it out." But he added the executives won't affect the rivalry, "unless they are playing." ... The Hawks open a four-game homestand against Orlando on Saturday night, while the Celtics get a quick rematch (of Tuesday night's loss) with the Knicks in New York on Sunday night before visiting Minnesota Monday. ... Rajon Rondo, out for the season after knee surgery, made his first appearance on the Boston bench. "It was nice," said Rivers. "He's moving OK. It's funny, I'm looking at it knowing he's nowhere near, but that's the first thing you look at." .. Atlanta's Kyle Korver hit a first-quarter 3-pointer, his 66th straight game with at least one, the fifth-longest streak in NBA history.


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The 2012 average return to almond growers was $2.58 a pound, an increase from the December preliminary estimate of $2.20 per pound, reported the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service office.
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It was one of 101 bills introduced in the Legislatures first week.
HB 1012 authorizes the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority to issue bonds for local governments to start forest health projects, especially around water supplies. The bill also extends an income tax credit worth up to $2,500 for wildfire mitigation. It is set to expire this year unless the Legislature acts.
The first batch of bills includes proposals by Republicans that are likely to be short-lived, given Democratic control of the Capitol.
HB 1033 would charge doctors with a Class 3 felony if they performed an abortion.
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NH teen killers to get sentence reviews after state Supreme Court decisionBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 29. 2014 10:06PM
The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Friday became the seventh in the country to rule the U.S. Supreme Court's decision banning automatic life prison sentences for juvenile killers applies retroactively to those whose first-degree murder convictions were final.
The 5-0 ruling applies to just four men serving mandatory life prison terms without possibility of parole for first-degree murder in New Hampshire.
All were 17 at the time the crimes occurred and include some of the state's most notorious killers, such as Robert Tulloch, 31, who pleaded guilty to slaying married Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop inside their Hanover home in 2001, and Robert Dingman, 36, who shot his parents, Eve and Vance Dingman, in their Rochester home in 1996.
In its 11-page decision, the state's high court said the four are entitled to sentencing hearings at which they likely would be able to present mitigating factors in an attempt to get their prison terms reduced.
The other two men are: Michael Soto, 25, was convicted of accomplice to first-degree murder in the June 2007 shooting death of Aaron Kar in Manchester; and Eduardo Lopez Jr., 39, who was convicted of the 1991 shooting of Robert Goyette during a Nashua hold up.
New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth C. Woodcock said the state hasn't decided if it will appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court or federal circuit court.
In its Miller v. Alabama ruling in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed mandatory life prison sentences without chance of parole for defendants 17 and younger, saying the sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment's protections against cruel and unusual punishment. The court described juveniles as "constitutionally different from adults" in terms of sentencing.
Under New Hampshire law, first-degree murder convictions carry mandatory life prison terms without possibility of parole. The Miller decision now requires that juvenile killers have a hearing before sentencing.
But whether juveniles are entitled to retroactive relief under Miller remains an open question among courts across the country. The New Hampshire Supreme Court is the seventh state court to find juvenile offenders are entitled to retroactive relief, said Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel with the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia.
The others are Massachusetts, Mississippi, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois.
High courts in four other states — Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Michigan and Minnesota — found Miller does not apply retroactively, she said.
"The states are all over the place on this," said Manchester attorney Andrew Schulman, who represented Soto.
Added Levick: "One way or another, I think the (U.S.) Supreme Court is going to have the final word on this."
Levick estimated 2,100 juvenile offenders are serving mandatory life without parole prison terms nationwide.
The state's high court ruling said the four convicted juvenile killers are entitled to sentencing hearings at which they could present mitigating factors in an attempt to get their sentences reduced, state prosecutor Woodcock said.
Sentencing hearings would be held in the courts where the cases were tried, she said.
Woodcock said it's possible the courts would impose the same sentence, even after a sentencing hearing. It's also possible a defendant could get a lesser sentence.
"Much of that would hinge on the facts of the cases and....also the maturity of the defendants at the time of the defense," Schulman said.
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As an icon of rural life, the barn has no equal. It was shelter for a young heifer to deliver her calf, the scene of twice-daily milking and home for horses that pulled the farm implements.
As an icon of rural life, the barn has no equal. It was shelter for a young heifer to deliver her calf, the scene of twice-daily milking and home for horses that pulled the farm implements.
Every homestead had at least one barn, sometimes built even before a sturdy house was put up. As the rural economy has moved to fewer and larger farms, the role of the barn has changed, and sometimes the old buildings are left with no role at all in modern agriculture.
Which doesn't make them obsolete.
Barns have a certain charm, a certain romance. Each one is so unique," said Jeana Clark, a Haviland woman who is one of nearly 600 members of a "Barns" Facebook group. "If you sit long enough to look at the picture, and maybe have the opportunity to walk though, you can imagine what life was like (when it was new)."
To be sure, barns are still being built — or more commonly in this area, machine sheds framed and covered in metal that are highly functional and low maintenance, but the barns Clark appreciates and photographs are the old ones. They're large and small, painted or not, in good repair or falling down, in use or abandoned.
She posts her pictures to a Facebook group that was started by Mike Neifert, pastor at the Pratt Friends Church.
"I got the idea of starting the group while driving down the road one day," he said. "I got home and started it. I did it because I like the look of old barns."
The group currently has 593 members and is an outgrowth of another photography group called Snapshot Kansas, which has 940 members.
The Barns group has only one agenda — to share photos with others.
Clark did some oil painting "back in the day" and used a camera to capture images she planned to paint. Photography has developed into more than a hobby, something that she makes a priority.
"I always have a camera with me, ready to take a shot," she said, although noting that she was not ready when an elk wandered into her view just north of U.S. 54 heading into Pratt.
"There he was, freeze-famed, about 50 feet away for maybe 10 seconds," she explained. By the time she grabbed the camera, he had bolted. She followed him to the Byers Blacktop, where the animal turned north. She was eventually able to get a photograph that is not common in this part of Kansas. It was printed in the Nov. 10 edition of the Tribune.
"I was so elated, it was so exciting to see — you see deer, you see cows, you see horses. That made my day."
Clark is a self-taught photographer. She has taken advantage of some webinars, although she says she usually doesn't have time to sit and watch the whole session. She has recently ventured into the commercial world with her photography, with senior and family portraits and she has done one wedding. A "coffee table" book she printed up for family was considered good enough to sell, and she has done work for calendars. The Best Western motel in Greensburg ordered 10 large prints and her pictures are also on display in the flower shop in Greensburg.
Clark's greatest interest is in barns, old homesteads and landscape.
"People think they need to travel far and wide to find beautiful places," she said. "They're right here."
Barns have quite a following.
A photo book being advertised by Barnes and Noble, "Barns" by Charles Leik, describes them as "rustic yet dignified, homey yet grand, inviting yet mysterious."
The Kansas Barn Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to "discover, memorialize and preserve the story of rural Kansas, especially barns."


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Christina Nealson has traveled and lived in the Southwest for over 30 years. She is a psychotherapist who left the world of corporation conformity to live a more simplistic, fulfilling life. During those years of self discovery, Nealson wrote about her journey to becoming one with nature and completing the work of her soul. She will be at Spruce Tree Coffee House on Friday, Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. to read and share stories from her newest, self-published book, "Drive Me Wild: A Western Odyssey." This work of non-fiction finds Nealson and her husband leaving their home in Taos and selling all of their possessions, to spend the next five years in an RV, immersed in nature.
What prompted the journey you and your husband took together?
We had been wanting to sell our home in Taos for awhile and do something adventurous but we didn't know how to do it. One day, I was riding my bike and I had an epiphany of what if we sold everything, bought an RV and spent our time traveling. So we did. And that's where this story came from. It follows the five years we were on the road.
Where did you travel during this time?
Well we started in 1993 and we went to British Columbia and made our way down to the tip of the Baja Peninsula. During that time we crisscrossed our way through the Southwestern states.
Five years is quite a long time to be on the road; what did you do while traveling?
We weren't RV parkers. What we would do is something called boondocking, where we would find these incredibly beautiful remote locations and park our RV there for a few days. We'd spend time climbing, backpacking and writing together. It was a huge spiritual endeavor.
When did you come to the conclusion that living simplistically was ideal for you?
When I turned 40, I decided to leave my career in Boulder as a psychotherapist and go live in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains alone. I had a cabin built that was made of all recycled materials and it was energy efficient. I didn't have a phone and this was before the Internet. I lived that way for a year and loved it so much I continued for four more years. That experience led me to write my second book.
Have you inspired anyone with these journeys to get out and start their own?
I have had women come to readings and say 'I really want to do this' or 'I need to do this' and I always tell them they should. And months later I'll get notes thanking me because they finally did something. This book is about a spiritual awakening through travel. That's something a lot of women feel like they need once they reach a certain point in their lives.
Your latest release is self-published but your previous books were traditionally published. What was the decisionmaking behind that?
I have an agent who loved "Drive Me Wild," and she wanted to get it published and buy movie rights but it fell through. I didn't want to wait another year trying to get it published when I could get it out in two months. I told her what I wanted to do and she said go for it.
Catch Nealson at Spruce Tree to hear excerpts from her book or purchase a signed copy. The following day, Saturday, Dec. 1, she will be at Kaleidoscope from 1 to 3 p.m. in Mancos to give a presentation on the pros and cons of self-publishing and how to get through the process. This presentation is $10 to attend and does not require registration. To learn more about Nealson, visit her website at christinanealson.com.


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Not-guilty plea expected in death at Danville chief's homeBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
May 17. 2013 1:41AM
DANVILLE — Police Chief Wade Parsons is expected to plead not guilty to charges he failed to secure a firearm that authorities say was later used by a teenager to commit suicide.
"It's our view that Chief Parsons has not committed any infraction or breach of the law, but under the circumstances it's something that we will deal with in the court system," his defense attorney, Alan Cronheim of Sisti Law Offices, said Thursday.
Parsons, 54, will enter the plea at his arraignment June 17 in the 10th Circuit Court in Plaistow on one count of negligent storage of a firearm.
He is accused of leaving his Glock 22 .40-caliber handgun unsecured on top of a safe inside his home at 53 Caramel Drive on March 11.
Rockingham County Attorney James Reams has said Parsons didn't take the final steps to secure the gun before he left the house to run errands.
While Parsons was gone, his girlfriend's 15-year-old son, Jacob Carver, shot himself. Reams described the shooting as a suicide; the autopsy results were not released at the request of the boy's family.
"This is a sad family circumstance. It's a sad circumstance for the community. A family and a community have lost a teenager," Cronheim said.
The charge — a violation punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 — resulted from an investigation by New Hampshire State Police and a review by the County Attorney's Office.
Under state law, a firearm owner can be charged if a weapon is not properly secured and is accessed by someone under the age of 16.
The state statute used in the case against Parsons is RSA 650-C:1 and reads: "Any person who stores or leaves on premises under that person's control a loaded firearm, and who knows or reasonably should know that a child (under the age of 16) is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or guardian, is guilty of a violation if a child gains access to a firearm and the firearm is used in a reckless or threatening manner; the firearm is used during the commission of any misdemeanor or felony; or the firearm is negligently or recklessly discharged."
Reams has assigned prosecutor Terri Harrington to handle the case.
Selectmen have supported Parsons, and took no action against him. He is an elected chief and remains on the job.


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DMX's estranged wife Tashera says X has totally turned his back on her...
Tashera, currently starring on the TLC reality show Starter Wives, explains why she and DMX are no longer friends.
Tashera tells Madame Noir,
"It's so sad. I want to be his friend. We were friends after couples therapy and I thought that we were going to continue to be friends but when he asked, 'lets work it' out and I declined. He just turned on me and I couldn't believe it."


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The Kern County Sheriff's Office is currently seeking student cadets for an upcoming Corrections Officer CORE academy. The CORE academy is scheduled to start April 1st, 2013. CORE classes will be held on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 7:00 am to 5:30 pm at the Kern Regional Training Center at 962 Norris Rd. in Bakersfield.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and be able to pass an applicant selection process conducted by the Kern County Sheriff's Office which includes an entry test, physical agility test, oral interview, and personal history statement. Cadets who complete the CORE course and graduate will be eligible to apply for lateral entry Detentions Deputy positions with the Kern County Sheriff's Office and correctional officer positions with other law enforcement agencies within the State of California.
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Purely hypothetical - do you prefer the Hawks continue on this path of young players, short term contracts for vets, continue to build talent, and be in the mix every year, or.......
say screw it - we want the Super Bowl next year so bring in some expensive vets [like a Tony Gonzalzez or whatever] to help win in 2013 even if it screws up the salary cap for years to come and we follow a Super Bowl win with a string of down years where we don't make the playoffs.
Forget about the details of the above - I am just asking a philosophical question.
For me - Just ONE Super Bowl win is so important that I would gladly take that even if the Hawks were bad for years to come after that. I do not care about the dynasty. After living & dying through 28 seasons, I just want ONCE for the Hawks to win the Lombardi. I would sell my soul for this if I could figure out how that works. Anyone know where I can find Joe Hardy or Mr. Applegate?


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Crazy flood insurance: Encouraging bad decisions
November 25. 2012 6:24PM
Here is a shocker: The federal government encourages wasteful spending.
We know you know this, but the number of ways in which it does so is never-ending.
Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc along coastal areas, but states will use federal disaster funds to rebuild in the same areas, and the taxpayer will again subsidize homeowners through cheap federal flood insurance that encourages them to rebuild in the same flood-prone areas.
None of this makes sense, especially with our current federal debt. Besides the flood insurance program, which Congress is finally looking at, the federal government pays 75 percent of the cost of storm-damaged infrastructure to states and localities.
And the states and localities keep right on rebuilding infrastructure in questionable areas.
New Hampshire shouldn't just tsk, tsk, however. The Granite State bellies up to the federal bar and requests disaster relief for everything from high winds to snowstorms.
This has got to stop. It will, of course, when we are all bankrupt.


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Fort Lewis College Professor Andrew Gulliford, who wrote earlier this year about the discovery of mammoth petroglyphs near Bluff, Utah, is tickled by the creative offering some residents of the town are making to the ancient rock art.
On Dec. 21 - the winter solstice - they will burn a 16-foot-tall mammoth effigy.
"Who needs to go to Nevada for the Burning Man Festival when you can go to Bluff and burn a mammoth?" Gulliford wrote in an email with a photo of the mammoth attached.
Joe Pachak, a rock expert and local artist who was the first to discover the petroglyph, said the idea of the burning is to draw attention to the petroglyphs.
"This will promote more recording by scientists of rock art in the future," he said.
The petroglyphs, first of discovered in 1987, have long been a subject of controversy.
Scientists question whether these illustrations really depict mammoths, and many residents of the town have advocated for further protection of the site where they were discovered.
Since the first discovery, more possible mammoth petroglyphs have been discovered.
Gulliford, in his Durango Herald and Cortez Journal column "Gulliford's Travels," also argued for further protection by the Bureau of Land Management.
The wooden mammoth was built over a three-week period by Pachak and local Bluff residents using only sticks and two support poles. It is built to the scale of an actual mammoth.
Pachak said many volunteers helped with the making of the mammoth, with a group doing the design and about 30 others assisting in construction on a volunteer basis. The sculpture has been on display for a week.
Gulliford is a frequent visitor to Bluff.
"What really appealed to me is the size of the mammoth - it's to scale," he said. "Mammoths are smaller than mastodons, and I didn't know that."
Gulliford plans to go to Bluff for the burning.
The mammoth will be burned at 8 p.m. in a ceremony complete with drumming and flaming darts to set the structure on fire.
Pachak said residents of Bluff are excited about the petroglyphs, which, at about 13,000 years old, may be some of the oldest rock art in North America.
In March, a group of 30 volunteers led by resident Anne Phillips recorded the fourth mammoth petroglyph.
Pachak hopes to see these practices continue because it could lead to more discoveries in the future.
"That's why it's very important to record the rock art - the other elements were discovered by documenting very well," he said.


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McBride Defines the Essence of T.O.s Success
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Tom Osborne had two public retirement celebrations as Nebraska's athletic director. The first was glitzy and glamorous and attended by 1,800 loyal Husker fans who were willing to pay from $250 to $1,000 a person to honor a legend at Omaha's CenturyLink Center. It was a fun, entertaining, memorable evening that netted nearly $400,000 to benefit two causes Osborne devoutly supports – 1) Nebraska's Expand Their Experience campaign to help Husker student-athletes gain the ultimate competitive advantage, and 2) the TeamMates Mentoring Program that Tom and wife Nancy Osborne co-founded in 1991.
Osborne enjoyed the Omaha gala that included Miami-based dancers and Vegas-like celebrity impersonators who are included in a DVD bundle that would make an affordable Father's Day gift for $19.95. The Hall-of-Fame football coach and three-term U.S. Congressman, however, felt much more comfortable joining 500 former players, coaches and athletic department staff members at his second retirement celebration at Lincoln's Downtown Embassy Suites Hotel. There was no singing, dancing, acrobatics or live interviews with Barry Switzer, Barry Alvarez or Bill Snyder and no remembrances from Nebraska's Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier or Irving Fryar. But longtime assistants Charlie McBride and Milt Tenopir, the only two speakers besides Osborne at his second celebration, shared some poignant memories.
This N-Sider focuses on McBride, the defensive coordinator for Osborne's three national championship teams. At the smaller, but close-knit retirement celebration, McBride found unique ways to define the essence of a head coach who won 255 games, lost 49 and tied 3 in a quarter century of excellence that never included a season with fewer than nine wins. The fiery McBride will never forget one of Osborne's standard lines before his well-prepared teams would take the field. "Fellas, we don't have to win this game," McBride said, quoting Osborne for an audience that came to honor him. "I had just come from Wisconsin, and we didn't win many games there," McBride said. "I thought to myself: 'We're going to do this again?'"
McBride Knew T.O. Was about More than Winning
McBride's pause drew a quick laugh before he went on to complete the first Osborne pregame speech he witnessed at Nebraska. "Fellas, we don't have to win this game, but what we have to do is play every play as hard as we can play, and the score will take care of itself," McBride said, quoting Osborne. "Coach then went on to say if we do get beat when we play as hard as we can every play, then you get beat by a better team and you have nothing to be ashamed of. Now, I don't know if that was exactly how Tom worded it, but it's pretty close. I know, and you know that we worked with and played for someone pretty special."
A few minutes later, McBride choked up a bit after sharing the dichotomy of Osborne and Switzer, who became friends and had mutual respect for each others' programs. "I know this, and maybe you guys don't know this," McBride said. "Tom took time every day to have a devotion period and have meditation. When Tom prayed for the team in the morning, he prayed for every player by name. To me, that was just astounding that he took the time for every player to be known to the good Lord. So we're all blessed here to have a person that cared that much for all of you.
"That was the main thing about Tom," McBride said. "Winning is great and so is all that other stuff, but I think it was the access that all of you guys had with Coach that meant more to him than anything else in the world. He may not say it all the time, but it really does mean so much to him. He cares a lot. He cares a lot about all of us."
McBride Praises Nancy Osborne's Impact on T.O.
McBride made sure everyone understood the power, the love and the positive influence that Nancy Osborne had on her husband. Then he mentioned how "a lot of us here in this room have made mistakes, but Tom always stayed with us," McBride said. "Coach stayed with us the whole time. He never wavered one bit. So on behalf of all the guys here, Coach, they love you. They care, too, and I think if every guy had a chance to come up here, they'd say the same thing … that playing here at Nebraska was so special in every life in this room."
It was special because Osborne taught, modeled and lived everything he shared with his players and coaches. He knew how the world saw winning, but the scoreboard was not how he measured success. He would always dig deeper, care more and lead every player in the program in a silent but spiritual way … by name, not by position on the depth chart.
McBride knew early on what made Osborne tick, and through the years, he understood why his boss viewed football differently than the vast majority of head coaches. More Than Winning was not just a title on one of Tom Osborne's books. "Tom lived and coached that way every day," McBride said.
Husker All-American Trev Alberts, the emcee of Osborne's final retirement banquet, may have put it best at the end. "Coach, you've been a faithful servant," he said. "You sought God's purpose in your life and sought to perform it as best you could, and you did it the right way … with integrity. There's no doubt you brought honor and glory to the God you served, and everyone in this room benefited because Coach was a faithful servant, and we thank him."
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County has paid heavily since 2008 to settle Valley Street Jail lawsuitsBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 09. 2013 9:43PM
Settlements by county
|A comparison of lawsuit settlements involving corrections facilities and corrections employees in eight New Hampshire counties since 2003. The list is provided by Primex, a risk pool that insures New Hampshire counties. The data does not correlate exactly with settlement information provided by Hillsborough County. For example, back pay for a corrections officer and legal fees in her case are not included in Primex's numbers. Sullivan County had no settlements during the time period. Belknap County, which joined Primex in 2009, had no settlements.
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MANCHESTER - Inmates and an employee at the Valley Street Jail have received close to $1 million over the last six years to quietly settle claims involving allegations of beatings, improper medical care and sexual discrimination.
The allegations are contained in lawsuits, medical records and a consultant report available in files at federal and state courts. Some victims have won cases at trial, including inmates awarded more than $244,000 in damages and attorney fees for conditions in the segregated housing unit, dubbed The Hole, in 2002.
But more often, Hillsborough County and its insurer have settled lawsuits before going to trial. The settlements include three payments to the estates of people who died at the 724-bed jail.
The largest single settlement involves a $450,000 payment to the parents of Kevin McEvoy, a heroin addict who died of withdrawal-related dehydration in 2008, a time when the jail distributed home remedies of Tylenol, Maalox and Kaopectate for heroin withdrawal.
And Doris Sanabria, a former corrections officer and her lawyers, received a $215,000 settlement, and she went on disability, after she claimed in 2006 to witness fellow corrections officers tie a mentally disturbed inmate to a chair, gawk at her breasts, push pressure points on her neck and head-butt her.
According to county records, settlements between early 2008 to the present amounted to $904,500.
Settlements always include a gag order that forbids recipients to disparage Hillsborough County or the jail.
Several people who have settled, including Sanabria and McEvoy's parents, who live in Massachusetts, would not be interviewed for this article, worried about what effect an interview would have on their settlements.
In settlement papers, Hillsborough County admits no responsibility and says it is settling to avoid litigation. In some cases, the county said the payment was being made to "buy peace" with an inmate.
Jail Superintendent David Dionne said the settlement decisions are made by the county's insurance provider, Primex, not him.
"That's a county business decision," he said of settlements. "It's probably cheaper to settle. Sometimes you have to stand up because they'll keep coming if you don't.
"There are county decisions that have to be made (to settle). I understand that," he said.
Valley Street Jail is now part of an investigation into the broken neck of Elliot Hospital patient Fern Ornelas, who suffered the injury sometime in mid-October during a span in which authorities said he spent some time in the custody of the city police department and some time in the custody of the corrections department. Dionne will not speak about the matter while an investigation is in progress.
Neither the jail nor its medical unit are accredited by national organizations that review operations and determine whether they meet industry standards.
Dionne said the jail follows the standards required by the American Correctional Association; the county just doesn't seek accreditation.
"Why, so we have to pay the extra money to have a piece of paper?" he said.
Dionne said some corrections officers have lost their jobs in the past over the treatment of inmates. But for the most part, the jail is properly run and inmates are treated properly. Many leave the jail better than they were when they entered, given the opportunity to receive education, medical care and a respite from drugs and alcohol, he said.
"It better not," he said when asked whether inmates are abused at Valley Street. "I don't condone it, and my senior staff doesn't condone it."
He said corrections officers work in a facility populated by criminals, many of whom have mental health problems. On occasion, a corrections officer will have feces or urine thrown on him or her, Dionne said.
The jail has won some cases, including four recent cases that went to trial.
All involved inmates awaiting trial on felony-level sexual assault charges involving children; the inmates claimed assault by guards. Dionne said the jail has taken several steps in the last 10 years to improve security and reduce the potential for lawsuits:
-- In 2002-03, cameras were installed throughout much of the jail, including in the day rooms - large rooms with chairs and tables where inmates congregate when outside their cells.
The jail installed the cameras after female inmates filed lawsuits claiming sexual abuse by corrections officers, he said.
None of the suits was successful, but a corrections officer quit because he said he did not want to put his family through such an ordeal again, Dionne said.
-- Two or three years ago, the jail changed its procedures for the way that corrections officers enter an inmate's cell.
Previously, an inmate was instructed to go to the rear of the cell, stand, face the wall and follow instructions while the corrections officers searched the cell or took other actions, Dionne said.
Several lawsuits claim beatings took place inside the cell, beyond the view of cameras. Now the inmate kneels at the front of the cell when a search takes place.
-- Dionne said corrections officers log all activity in journals. However, journal entries are recorded on paper. For several years, Dionne has sought $400,000 in funding for a computer system that would make it easier to record and retrieve information about jail operations.
"Everybody's a possible lawsuit against us, everybody that comes in here," Dionne said.
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LINDEN - With two weeks of preparation behind them, FBI agents expect today to begin digging and sifting through dirt excavated from a Linden well in search of murder victims buried there by killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog.
LINDEN - With two weeks of preparation behind them, FBI agents expect today to begin digging and sifting through dirt excavated from a Linden well in search of murder victims buried there by killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog.
Work could take days or weeks, the FBI said.
But in letters received Wednesday from Shermantine, the death row inmate said that agents are digging in an area he did not show them. State Sen. Cathleen Galgiani received one of the letters and a copy of a second Shermantine wrote to an Agent Campion.
"I know you've went (to) some other place, rather than dig where I told you to," Shermantine wrote. "For you to just go out there and dig two hundred yards from where I said to is just wrong on all levels."
Galgiani, who has visited and corresponded with Shermantine in her search for victims' remains, said the convicted killer also told her that they were in the wrong place if they didn't find car parts and trash in the old wells.
Shermantine has sent Galgiani and bounty hunter Leonard Padilla detailed maps, and none of them indicate burial sites on that place along Flood Road.
Still, Galgiani remains hopeful that the FBI will find success.
"I hate to second-guess what they're doing," she said, adding that it took repeated attempts for investigators last year to find the remains of Cyndi Vanderheiden and Chevy Wheeler.
The FBI in August took Shermantine off death row to point to places that they should next search. Shermantine saw a television news broadcast in his cell of the recent work farther east on Flood Road than he showed the FBI.
The digging on Flood Road began Jan. 7, when the FBI's Technical Hazard Response Unit and Drill Tech Drilling and Shoring Inc. began boring and sent down camera gear to try to find the bottom of the well. They have yet to find it.
Initially estimated at 50 feet deep, the well could go down 200 feet or more.
The FBI has cemented in place a 10-foot-wide corrugated pipe next to the 5-foot-wide well. The crew will begin drilling with heavy equipment down next to the well while removing soil from the well by hand.
Soil taken from the well will be sifted, and if any remains are recovered, excavation will stop and the crew will decide then how to continue so they recover as much as possible. They're also taking the workers' safety seriously, FBI spokeswoman Gina Swankie said.
Special Agent in Charge Herbert Brown has said that agents have investigated the case for months and are not working solely off what Shermantine told them.
Keith Gross of A & A Gross Drilling said he wasn't surprised that the old, hand-dug well was 180 to 200 feet deep. It probably dates back to the 1800s, and it may have been dug by Chinese laborers using a tripod and a 5-gallon bucket, he said.
"Maybe a couple of neighbors got together and started digging," Gross said. "They had to make the pit big enough to swing a pick in there."
The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office in February excavated a well nearby on Flood Road, where they found the remains of at least three people, a fetus, a washing machine and car parts as deep as 50 feet down.
Shermantine and Herzog were believed to have disposed of victims in the area because it was remote, yet a short drive from their homes in Linden. The pair of boyhood friends were arrested in 1999, ending their 15-year, methamphetamine-fueled killing spree.
Shermantine, now on death row at California State Prison, San Quentin, led investigators to two shallow graves in Calaveras County as well as the Linden wells.
Herzog hanged himself one year ago after learning that Shermantine was giving up the burial places.
Gross said he helped fill in an open pit well in the Linden area like those now drawing attention with sand and placed a cement cap on top. Local agencies feared contamination and the danger of people or livestock falling in.
"They'd never find you," he said.
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StoneAge Waterblast Tools is one of Durangos shining stars. The 65-employee company exports across the globe and is exactly the type of business local economic-development advocates say La Plata County needs.
Yet despite its success, the company, located just five minutes outside Durango near Animas Air Park, remains without water service.
The company pays to haul in 2,000 to 12,000 gallons of water a week to cover product testing, domestic uses and fire-code requirements.
It costs the company $30,000 each year, said Jerry Zink, vice president of the company.
StoneAges situation is a perfect example of what the city and the county could have avoided or mitigated if the entities would have undertaken the joint planning work they are just now delving into, people in local government and business said.
Had the governments been more proactive in planning and annexing some of these areas, StoneAge might not be in the challenged situation it is in, in regards to water, La Plata County Commissioner Bobby Lieb said.
For this reason and many others, the county and the city have taken on what is expected to become a more than two-year process to redesign the way development happens in the areas immediately outside city limits.
Its no easy task, as the planning work includes creating new development standards, land-use designations and jurisdictional boundaries, as well as a revamped intergovernmental agreement to encompass it all.
The final products will affect many of the areas adjacent to the city including places like Ewing Mesa east of Colorado Highway 3, Grandview and La Posta, next to the Animas Air Park.
While complicated, its a process both city and county see as necessary to clarify the direction for future development just outside the city, as well as the steps to get there.
The work is important so we can have a rational transition from city into the county, Durango City Manager Ron LeBlanc said. Its always good for city and county to cooperate when it comes to long-term planning.
The details
The governments work zeroes in on a zone around the city dubbed the cooperative planning area.
An intergovernmental agreement governs city and county relations in that area, which generally extends between zero and 1½ miles beyond city limits.
The Joint Planning Commission, with members from the city and the county, hears most of the major projects within those bounds. Varying development standards are applied based on a propertys distance from city limits.
The city and county cited the need to reform the intergovernmental agreement in a September 2011 retreat, but work languished until June when county commissioners made the bold move of deciding to terminate the existing agreement at the end of this year.
Thats kind of our velvet hammer, we want (the city) to meet us halfway, Lieb said.
As it turns out, the countys move was premature. The timeline to create the new intergovernmental agreement, and development standards and area plans that complement it, began to stretch into October 2013.
All the tasks listed on paper fill a poster the size of a card table.
The county took a step back and has now offered to extend the current intergovernmental agreement until the end of 2013, an offer the city is expected to consider this month.
Balance of power
City and county jurisdiction, goals and priorities overlap, sometimes well and sometimes not so well, in the cooperative planning area.
The two entities cooperate in governing development in this in-between area because both agree the city will one day serve it with water and possibly annex it. In either case, it makes sense that projects comply with city development standards and its comprehensive plan, Commissioner Wally White said.
But the county believes the city has too much say right now, especially on areas where it is almost certain never to serve with water, Lieb said.
So many conflicts have been with this carrot (of water service) that doesnt necessarily come to fruition, he said in an October meeting.
The county wants to reduce the cooperative planning area to exclude properties the city doesnt realistically expect serve with water or annex in the next decade. Those properties would answer only to the county, Lieb said.
LeBlanc agreed on the need to re-evaluate the current cooperative planning area.
Properties within the redefined (and smaller) cooperative planning area also will have a more defined idea of which standards they need to follow. The new agreement aims to include standards more appropriate for projects in denser, urbanizing areas of the county.
These transitional standards will bring development near the city into closer alignment with its urban-development requirements and prime those areas for future annexation or city water service. There will be a clearer process to determine whether a project will have to conform to city, transitional or county standards.
Development in the county
Parallel to their intergovernmental agreement and transitional standards work, the city and county are collaborating on an area plan for La Posta, near the Animas Air Park. The plan maps out land-use designations and provides guidance for future infrastructure development.
The fundamental idea with area planning and transitional standards is to get ahead of development in order to avoid the kind of haphazard building that has occurred in the Grandview area, Lieb said.
If you get out in front of inevitable growth, if you plan for it properly, the extension and facilitation of infrastructure becomes a lot less expensive and a lot easier when you have to build it, he said.
The La Posta project also has a distinct economic bent because it creates the kind of predictability that allows business to locate and grow there, LeBlanc said.
The current system is very cumbersome and very political, said Ken Willyard, a homeowner east of Three Springs.
He has been through a tremendous amount of paperwork and meetings to try to switch his property from residential to commercial use within the framework of the current intergovernmental agreement.
It makes no sense, he said of the process.
He, and many others, hope the city and county can come up with a better solution.


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Apparently Larry Tradlener does not read the newspaper that he writes a guest column for. More than a month ago, the Cortez Journal editor debunked the same claim that Tradlener made in his latest column, i.e. that an armed citizen reduced the casualties of the shooting at the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. I have enclosed a copy of the interview with Nick Meli, the individual Tradlener referred to, that appeared in the Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, issue of The Oregonian of Portland, Ore. Official verification of this story, as well as the enhanced versions now appearing on the Internet, has not yet been provided to our family by the chief investigating officer for this case.
Among the reasons given by the Portland Police for why only two innocent people were killed, one of whom was my son-in-law, and one person was seriously injured, were that the police were on the scene within one minute of the first 9-1-1 call, and that first responders, as well as mall and store employees, had participated in a drill rehearsing this exact disaster scenario at this mall earlier in the year. These people did what they were trained to do: Get people under cover, secure their store, and get customers and employees safely outside as quickly as possible. They were not trained, or expected, to confront the assailant. That is the job of the police.
One of the most courageous individuals involved in this incident was the 15-year-old girl who refused to leave the side of her seriously wounded friend, Kristina Shevchenko, as approximately 60 shots were fired by the assailant.
The police reported that the assailant simply surreptitiously took the assault weapon from the gun's owner, an acquaintance of his, the previous night. The gun had been legally purchased, but left unsecured, by its owner. Simply put, the common-sense step of securing this weapon by its owner to prevent its unauthorized use would have prevented this tragedy, the Sandy Hook massacre, the recent shooting of his entire family by the 15-year-old boy in New Mexico, and countless suicides. Common sense cannot be legislated and its use is exceedingly uncommon.
Greg Kemp
Editor's note: In the enclosed story from The Oregonian, Meli said he aimed his weapon at the shooter but did not fire because he was worried about hitting an innocent bystander. He did not say whether he had been seen by the accused shooter, Jacob Tyler Roberts.


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It's been only a year since Jeff Gural took the reins at the Meadowlands Racetrack, but he isn't waiting long before trying to adapt to some of his earliest challenges.
The historic harness racing venue will reopen tonight to kick off its 2013 season, incorporating several changes Gural hopes will boost business and narrow the gap between his track and "racinos" in other states. The new year also will bring a new grandstand to the 36-year-old track, though it's not expected to be open until the fall.
The changes for 2013 start with a new schedule that includes more live race dates in cold-weather months, when fewer tracks are open and when "there's less for people to do," Gural said. After ending its main season Aug. 3 — two weeks earlier than usual — the Meadowlands will hold a fall calendar from Thanksgiving weekend to late December.
"My observations have been that we simply do better in the winter," said Gural, chairman of New Meadowlands Racetrack LLC. "It's kind of a mystery, but those are the facts."
The venue also has added dates and prizes to encourage races with older horses, which he said is attractive to hardcore customers. And the Meadowlands is introducing "classified" racing starting tonight — meaning horses are categorized by ability, not their prior winnings, in an attempt to make races more competitive and have full fields.
Gural's operating group, which took control of the state-owned track last December, has in store several other changes geared toward customer service, he said. But one high-profile addition could come around Thanksgiving, when Gural expects to open a new 155,000-square-foot grandstand. With the $85 million facility being significantly smaller and more modern than the current grandstand, he hopes it will energize the track's clientele.
"It's the right size for today's business model," in which a majority of customers bet on the Internet, at another racetrack or at an off-track wagering parlor, he said. He later added, "I kind of knew it would be a struggle until we got into the new building."
Gural is also trying new tactics to help his own OTW parlor in Bayonne, which he said has been "a little disappointing" in terms of betting business since it opened in July. Aside from continuing to shuttle customers from Staten Island, N.Y., the firm is also considering bringing in customers from Chinatown, in Manhattan, and simulcasting races from Hong Kong. He noted that Chinatown once had the busiest site in New York City's now-defunct OTW system
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The desire to establish un-equivocally the identity of the composer of a piece of music has only become an issue in the last couple of hundred years. This means that for much music written before the 19th century, we cannot categorically say who wrote it or, indeed, whether any one person is responsible for the piece as we now know it. In the former category, we might label the composer as 'anonymous'; in the latter we might well refer to the music as 'traditional'. In effect this is to say that a piece of music, or more likely a melody, has been passed down from generation to generation in the manner of a tradition.
Often melodies or pieces of music can undergo changes as they travel through history with each succeeding generation choosing to adapt the tradition to fit more appropriately with the current social situation. With folk music, this is often an oral process that doesn't write down the music but retains it in the collective memory of a community. In this case, we have no way of reconstructing what the melody used to sound like. Often, though, the same melody will be remembered by two different communities, and remembered differently as time goes on. Eventually the two versions of the melody, having passed through many generations of variants, may eventually sound substantially different, though we can say that they derive from the same source. In the 20th century, composers like Vaughan Williams and Bartók wrote some of these down, anxious to preserve the repertoire before the folk tradition died out.
'Traditional' could also be applied to music that was composed by an un-identifiable individual. Where as 'anonymous' might be a more accurate way to describe its composer, the piece may well have entered our cultural language to the extent that its performance constitutes a tradition to be passed to succeeding generations. Certain Christmas carols perhaps fall under this bracket. Essentially, though, the word is a way of making music from a time when the individual was less important than the act of music-making itself, fit in with our composer-dominated view of music.


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The final score of the quarterfinal game Saturday against the Mexico Bulldogs and Normandy Vikings did not reflect the closeness of the game. It was a hard fought battle by both teams with Normandy coming out on top 60-52.
The Bulldogs came out strong and had a 5-0 lead with 6 minutes left in the first quarter and were leading at the end of the first quarter 13-11.
Jon Anderson had a great first quarter from behind the arc and inside scoring 8 of the Bulldogs first 13 points. The second period went back and forth but the Bulldogs executed a play and Matt Ridgway hit a 3-point field goal to put the Bulldogs up 4 points. Skylar Harrington came up with a steal and hit Jake Willer for a lay-up at the buzzer. The lay-up put the Bulldogs up by 6 points at the half 24-18. The two quick baskets at the end of the second quarter brought the large number of Bulldog fans to their feet.
The third quarter hurt the Bulldogs as Normandy extended their full court pressure which turned into points for Normandy. The Bulldogs were outscored 27-16 in the third quarter and trailed 45-40 going into the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs made several runs in the fourth quarter but could not close the gap.
Coach Brennan Scanlon was pleased with the effort the Bulldogs gave in the first half and especially in the second quarter and is proud of the accomplishements his team had this year with an impressive final record of 24-4.
"We struggled with their defensive pressure and overall team quickness. I am extremely proud of this team and the leadership that these seniors exhibited this season. This is a great group of young men that set goals and achieved all their goals except for a trip to the Final Four," said their coach. "They went through the NCMC with a perfect 11-0 record, repeated for a third straight district championship, and won a sectional title in one of the best basketball games I have been associated with," added Scanlon.
Jon Anderson led the Bulldogs in scoring with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Jake Willer and Cole Jaramillo had 10 points, Matt Ridgway and Jae'on Nunnelly put in 5 points, and Jake Anderson chipped in 4.
The loss ends the basketball careers of five senior standouts, Jake Willer, Jon Anderson, Jake Anderson, Jae'on Nunnelly and Matt Ridgway. These young men have been committed as Bulldog basketball players. They finish with a three-year record on varsity with 74-11, three District Championships, two NCMC titles, two Sectional Championships and two trips to the State Quarterfinals. Normandy advances to the final four on Thursday with Sikeston as their first-round opponent.
In the girls quarterfinal competition Saturday Kirks-ville lost to Incarnate Word 78-26. Incarnate Word plays Thursday against Dexter at Mizzouri Arena in Columbia.
Mexico: 13-11-16-12
Normandy: 11- 7-27-15
Jon Anderson: 18P, 12RB, 1 assist, 1 steal.
Jake Willer: 10P, 2RB, 3 steals, 2 assists.
Cole Jaramillo: 10P, 1 steal, 2 assists.
Matt Ridgway: 5P, 8RB, 1 assist.
Jake Anderson: 4P, 6RB, 1assist, 2 blocks.
Jaeon Nunnelly: 5P, 2 assists.
Skylar Harrington: 3 assists, 1 steal, 1 block.


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Gabe sighs, pushes play on his DVD player, and tries to sit still for 16 hours...
Lorelai Gilmore, 32, has such a close relationship with her daughter Rory that they are often mistaken for sisters. Between Lorelai's relationship with her parents, Rory's new prep school, and both of their romantic entanglements, there's plenty of drama to go around. This season Lorelai gets engaged, and Rory quits school to live with her wealthy grandparents.
Those who may've read my Smallville: Season 5 review may recall a little whining I did about receiving entire seasons of television shows I did not ask for in the mail to review. About two days after Smallville showed up, Gilmore Girls: Season 6 followed. I admitted to unfairly prejudging the cult Superman series, and actually found watching the series in its entirety sometimes enjoyable, and rarely a chore. After this shameful revelation I decided to give Gilmore Girls the same chance.
This was the wrong choice.
I understand why people love this particular slice of 'dramedy', but cannot for a second claim I enjoyed myself. The show's theme seems to be that of people miscommunication in all facets of life. They miscommunicate their intentions, their emotions, and their words are constantly misunderstood or not heard all together. In an early episode, in a somewhat feeble attempt to compare what I'm sure the series' writers assume is witty dialogue to classic Hollywood fare, Lorlai refers to her conversation with her fiancé as a bad Abbot and Costello bit. If only she knew how much I agreed with her.
The constant witty banter is kind of obnoxious, but not enough to shake me from my unmitigated boredom. Had I been fully annoyed with the characters I may've at least been paying attention in hopes that a rock would fall from the heavens and smite them, but alas, I just didn't care. This lack of interest may have something to do with my Y-chromosomes, as I'm made to understand that this is a 'chick-series'.
I'd like to think I'm mature enough to transcend my gender on occasion, and I love a good romance, but watching Gilmore Girls was kind of like watching afternoon tea featuring Grandma Boringpants and her closest friends. There was some dialogue, some drama, some comedy, but I was so desperate for entertainment I was looking for it rather than just experiencing it. In the end, I was busy enough with other, more pressing reviews, not to mention real life, to decide not to bore myself any further. I stopped watching and started writing this review.
I know it's not very professional of me, but sitting through almost sixteen hours of something that was boring me so seemed fair. If I missed some spectacular revelation, I apologize to the series fans for this uneducated review. Honestly though, nothing short of the town catching fire, Rory becoming a serial killing hooker, or Lorelai growing an extra head was going to keep me interested. The series is very well made, it looks nice and theatrical, and I thank God for the lack of a laugh track. The actors are all solid, though Alexis 'The Forehead' Bledel seems to only know how to look concerned and slightly annoyed (her small roll in Sin City doesn't really show much more range).
Critically, the problem here is that all these characters are such archetypes that I can't get excited about any of them. Lorelai's fiancé is taken right out of the women's dream guy journal, rugged (look, he wears a backwards baseball cap), widowed (or ditched, I don't know the back story), good with kids. She works with a saucy gay man who makes Will and Grace look progressive (which it is not). Rory's college friends are a mother's fantasy, they actually care about school, but in order to keep the 15-25 demographic, they aren't afraid to party. The town's full of overweight, Chatty Cathys that keep up on all the 'good dirt'. Worst of all is Lorelai's rich parents, who are so wrapped up in their societal standing that they don't realize how detached and blatantly racist they are. Wow, rich snobs that harp on their only daughter... where have I seen that before?
If you're one of the many that enjoy this series, more power to you. I'm not going to call it awful, because it isn't. It is, however, uninspired, and I did find it excruciatingly boring. Its popularity doesn't blow my mind, and I understand that not all entertainment, especially not that which is made to pander to the largest demographic, needs to be high art, or even original. I'm sure this review wasn't going to do anything for the show anyway, no matter what my opinion may have been, beneficial or detrimental.
Gilmore Girls looks like what it is, a recently minted, medium budgeted TV show with little theatrical ambition. This full-frame transfer leaves me with little to review because it's neither spectacular enough to garner praise, nor dilapidated enough to garner contempt. This is the middle of the road, all the way. The frame is usually colourful, and the colours seem well represented. There is a presence of grain in low-lit sequences, but nothing too obtrusive. On an HD display the picture reveals some pixelisation, and general digital noise, but on a standard tube set these flaws are invisible.
Nothing special here either. The Dolby Surround track is fine for such a show, so centred around the 'clever' dialogue. The music is wretch worthy, but this is to be expected from a WB original series. There was no audio distortion throughout, but there also isn't much in the way of dynamic range to the track.
There's nothing here. Nothing at all. Just six discs of bickering, pretty, white people.
So I didn't like it, but I wasn't exactly the target audience, now was I? The show is well made enough, and seems to successfully fill the void left in plenty of people's lives, so who am I to judge? The DVD set has no extras, and a very average A/V presentation, but the folks that love the show shouldn't be too concerned. Hopefully I won't be receiving anymore surprise TV series sets in the mail anytime soon, and show fans won't have to listen to me not enjoy their favourites any more.
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Release Date: 19th September 2006
Discs: 6
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1
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Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround English
Subtitles: Spanish, French
Extras: None
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Cast: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Keiko Agena
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 968 minutes
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Two local nurses were recognized for their achievements at the third annual Regional Nightingale/Luminary Awards Banquet on March 22.
The banquet was held in Durango, at the Double Tree Hotel, and included nurses from Mercy Regional Medical Center, Southwest Memorial Hospital and private practice offices. Nominees were chosen by their supervisors or other hospital management. The winners from each category will travel to the state awards in Westminster on May 11.
Jamie Gleason, RN, has been a nurse for 19 years. She previously worked for four years at SWMH, left to take several positions at nursing homes in Cortez and Mancos, and is now back in her second stint with the hospital. She works in the intensive care unit and was nominated for the clinical practice-advocacy category.
Gleason describes her philosophy toward nursing as being a translator.
"You need to listen to the patient, be their advocate," she said. "Doctors can sometimes talk above their heads. You try to explain what is going on in layman's terms instead of medical (jargon). Instead of saying 'you have a pulmonary embolism,' tell them they have a blood clot in their lung. Get on their level. Answer their questions."
The other nominee was Heather Nowlin, RN MSN CNOR, who is director of surgical services. She was nominated for the clinical practice-leadership category. Wilson has been a nurse since 1995, the whole time in Southwest Colorado. She has spent 12 years in the SWMH operating room, but also has worked at a family practice/internal medicine office, done dialysis for people with faulty kidneys and been involved with diabetes education.
Neither Gleason or Nowlin advanced to the state awards, but said they were honored to be considered.