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North Carolina State�s stock is still relatively high this season, but the Wolfpack has whiffed on a couple of chances to make a significant national impression during the opening month in men�s basketball.
So that means the Wolfpack ought to be itching a little tonight with a game against Connecticut on a grand stage: At Madison Square Garden on national television as part of the Jimmy V Classic.
�Sometimes your record may not be as glamorous, but the goal is to make sure you�re getting better,� N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said. �You�ve got to get to the point where you are winning those marquee games.�
The Wolfpack has dropped two of its last three games, falling to Oklahoma State in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off championship game and at Michigan. After tonight, N.C. State�s other six games this month are at home.
N.C. State�s participation in the Jimmy V Classic is appropriate given that Jim Valvano is a former Wolfpack coach.
�When you look around the country, a lot of people will be watching, recruits will be watching,� Gottfried said. �We�re trying to do things that set us apart, and (this event) is going to be a fun night because of all the things.
�I think it�s a privilege for us to be in that game. I think that�s a big deal for N.C. State.�
This is the second time N.C. State will participate in the Jimmy V Classic. The Wolfpack lost to Gonzaga in 2002.
Valvano�s widow, Pam Valvano, was scheduled to be on Monday�s flight with the team to New York.
�I don�t know if she will speak to the team, but I want the guys to know who she is,� Gottfried said.
N.C. State will wear a specially designed uniform for this game. It was something Gottfried requested of adidas, which supplies the jerseys, this summer.
�They came up with the design, which I thought was really good,� Gottfried said. �When I first saw it, I thought it was really cool.�
The matchup pits the Wolfpack against a Connecticut team that�s barred from the NCAA Tournament this season. And the Huskies had their feelings hurt last week when it was bypassed for an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, which picked Louisville instead.
Who:No. 25 N.C. State (4-2) vs. Connecticut (6-1)
When:9 tonight (ESPN)
Where:Madison Square Garden, New York
Series:Tied 2-2, with N.C. State winning the most-recent meeting in March 2005 in the NCAA Tournament�s second round.

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A press release from State Rep. Mike Tryon:
Rep. Tryon Named to Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability
CRYSTAL LAKE….. State Representative Mike Tryon (R-Crystal Lake) is one of three House Republicans who has been named to the prestigious Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (CGFA).
CGFA is a bi-partisan Illinois commission which includes 12 House and Senate members. Membership is determined by the Republican and Democrat leaders of both chambers of the General Assembly.
Tryon joins Republican State Representatives Patti Bellock (R-Westmont) and Raymond Poe (R-Springfield) on the commission.
"It is an honor and a privilege to serve on this commission," said Tryon. "This bi-partisan group does some incredibly important work."
The Commission was created in 1972 by the 77th General Assembly, and provides the Legislature with research and information regarding state and national economies, revenue projections and operations of Illinois Government.
The group is also charged with monitoring the long-term debt position of Illinois and for monitoring the administration of the State Employee Group Insurance Program.
Each year CGFA creates several reports that are shared with the General Assembly, including
- the annual Revenue Estimate and Economic Outlook, which describes and projects economic conditions and its impact on state revenues;
- the Legislative Capital Plan Analysis, which examines the State's capital appropriations plan and debt position;
- the Liabilities of the State Employees Group Insurance Program, which provides the General Assembly with an estimate of liabilities of the Group Insurance Program each fiscal year; and
- the annual Budget Summary.
CGFA also absorbs several pension duties, including
- reviewing the laws and practices relating to public pensions,
- retirement and disability benefits for people serving in State or local government and their survivors and dependents.
The Commission
- evaluates existing laws and practices and makes recommendations on proposed changes to the Illinois Pension Code and
- annually issues a Report on the Financial Condition of Illinois Public Pension Systems.
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A full array of former professional sports stars, including three NFL legends, will be converging on the Westchester County Center in White Plains to sign autographs.
Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Parcells will be joined by former Giant great Lawrence Taylor as well as star quarterback Joe Theismann to sign autographs from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug.19.
The trio will be appearing as part of the August East Coast National Show, which runs from Aug. 18 to Aug. 20.
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If all goes as planned, Great Wolf Resorts will add Fitchburg to its list of a dozen cities in the U.S and Canada that are hosts to the national family entertainment conglomerate's water park and entertainment resorts.
The plans are grand and call for a complex more than double the size of the CoCo Key Water Resort, currently on the site at 150 Royal Plaza Drive. Great Wolf would add 166 rooms to the hotel, now a Holiday Inn, and increase entertainment space to make what the company hopes will be a one-stop vacation destination for families and draw 400,000 visitors a year.
"We are extremely pleased about the project," Mayor Lisa A. Wong said. "Great Wolf Resorts is a big company with a national reputation and we believe that their investment will be wonderful for the city in terms of job creation and in terms of establishing the area around West Fitchburg as a recreation destination."
Great Wolf has entered a purchase and sale agreement with K. Durga LLC, the current owner of the water resort and hotel, and is in the planning phase, according to local officials. The Planning Board will review the initial site plan Tuesday night, and the same night city councilors will consider the company's application for a 20-year tax increment financing agreement — approved last week by the city's TIF Board — and a special permit to expand the water park.
According to the company's application for the TIF agreement, 250 construction and trade jobs will be created during the construction phase, which will take around 10 months starting in the summer. The company predicts 500 permanent jobs once the resort is completed.
The TIF application says Great Wolf is making a $59 million investment in the facility, increasing its real estate value by $26 million.
The requested TIF exemption schedule for real estate and capital investments is for 50 percent of the increment for 10 years, from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2025, and 25 percent for 10 years through June 30, 2035.
Great Wolf will assume responsibility for the fiscal 2014 property tax, the application says, and is requesting 100 percent personal property tax exemption for the first five years and 50 percent for the remaining 15 years of the agreement.
The water park will close during the expansion, but the hotel will continue to operate, Ms. Wong said.
The former owner, Courtyard by Marriott, did not build out the hotel's top two floors, though it was permitted for 325 rooms, the Planning Department said.
Great Wolf proposes to increase the number of rooms from 245 to 325 on the top two floors and convert the mezzanine area into another 81 rooms, bringing the total to 406 rooms.
The project would increase the area from 400,000 square feet to 430,000 square feet and also include approximately 30,000 additional square feet of water park and 55,000 square feet of entertainment space, including areas for mini golf, a kid spa, a bowling alley and an arcade, the application says. The company is also looking at establishing walking trails behind the resort that will connect to existing hiking trails in the area, according to officials.
Employees would increase from 100 employees currently to approximately 500 employees, including salaried management and full- and part-time hourly employees, to serve the 400,000 visitors expected annually.
"With the extension of the Wachusett train station and probably the addition of the ski train (for the Wachusett Mountain ski resort), these will be big draws for a lot of people around the Northeast to come out to this area year round," Ms. Wong said. "It will create a lot of opportunity for small businesses and entrepreneurs to think about how to build businesses and be successful in the Great Wolf marketplace."
The mayor said she anticipates restaurants, retail businesses and services will increase in the West Fitchburg area.
"Great Wolf was looking for a place for quite some time and looking to have a Northeast presence," she said. "The closest one is in the Poconos. When the property was auctioned a few years ago, they looked at it, but they were not able to move forward at that time."
The location and the demographics of the region — and the facility's already having been built as a resort — made it attractive to Great Wolf, she said.
In the past, the water park and hotel were operated as separate entities, she said, creating a disconnect between business travelers and families visiting the water park.
"They were not as successful as they could have been," the mayor said. Great Wolf "markets their resorts as a 'one-night stay and two days of play' that helps for that development to be successful, rather than try to run two separate businesses. They've been operating resorts since 1997 and they are all still in business and doing well."
So far, the project has no opposition from local officials, she said.
If the council approves the tax break, the agreement will be sent to the state for approval, she said. The state application is due in August.
"We really don't see any issues," she said. "The company is in good financial standing. The question is always, how quickly can we get this done. The sooner they start operating as a business, the sooner they can hire hundreds of people in the region."
Additionally, she said, the city is looking forward to collaborating with Great Wolf on marketing the region as an indoor/outdoor destination.


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The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth remains closed today as law enforcement officials continue their investigation into a student suspected as the Boston Marathon bomber.
The university said in a written statement today that campus and law enforcement officials continue "logistical and investigative operations."
The campus was evacuated Friday morning amid a manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He was captured Friday night in Watertown and is in serious condition at a Boston hospital. His older brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police.
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth remains closed today as law enforcement officials continue their investigation into a student suspected as the Boston Marathon bomber.
The university said in a written statement today that campus and law enforcement officials continue "logistical and investigative operations."
The campus was evacuated Friday morning amid a manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He was captured Friday night in Watertown and is in serious condition at a Boston hospital. His older brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lived on the third floor of the Pine Dale dormitory. His classmates say that they saw him on campus after the bombings and that he was calm.
The school wouldn't say what he was studying there.
After a day filled with action on the state university campus that included constant presence of law enforcement vehicles, military-type helicopters and bomb squad units, university Chancellor Divina Grossman released a statement thanking those who responded to the campus and that following an "extensive search" the campus is once again safe.
"Law enforcement and university officials, operating with an abundance of caution, have determined that the campus is safe. We are grateful that the suspect identified as one of our students is in police custody. After an extensive search of the campus, including a thorough inspection of the student's residence hall room, police have concluded that the campus is secure," Grossman stated. "Due to logical considerations the campus remains closed. An update on the campus status will be released (today)."
The statement continued with Grossman noting the orderly evacuation of the campus and offered the university's sympathies to the victims of the marathon bombing.
"On behalf of the UMass Dartmouth family, I want to extend my deepest appreciation t the many law enforcement officials who came to our campus help protect the safety of our community. UMass Dartmouth had a system in place to ensure our campus was notified and avacuated in an efficient and effective manner. Our evacuation was calm and safe, and our faculty, staff and students performed admirably throughout the process," the statement reads.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and families affected by this week's tragic events. UMass Dartmouth is committed to being part of the healing process that will unfold in the days and weeks ahead."
Student evacuation
Much of the focus Friday was on the Pine Dale Hall, where 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly resided. Students said they were awakened Friday morning to text messages from the school alerting them the campus was being closed. The order left students scrambling to exit the campus. Cars packed with students lined the ring around the campus that leads to the only exit, while students with no ride scurried on foot, some dragging wheeled pieces of luggage and others filling containers like laundry bags with whatever possessions they could grab.
Bianca Auletta, a freshman, had two friends visiting and received the notification Friday morning to evacuate the campus. The order left the trio scrambling to retrieve their clothing. They walked toward the school exit in an effort to reach someone who would provide a ride home.
"My main goal is just to get out and get my friends out, " Auletta said. "It's just scary, you don't think it could happen like that."
As students moved toward the exit, a fire alarm blared from the area of Pine Dale Hall and police strung yellow crime scene tape around the building. Some students still milled about, unsure about their next steps.
"I feel like he's not here, so we're safe," sophomore Carole Giannopoulous said as she and a friend sat in her car, parked a few feet from the dorm.
Some left the campus immediately after the alert was issued figuring they would be able to return, only to find police guarding the entrance and stopping them from returning. Others began to realize the connection between Tsarnaev and the Dartmouth campus.
Gabriel DeSouza, a junior from Cape Cod who has an internship at Government Center in Fall River, said he recognized Tsarnaev from the widely publicized photos.
"All my friends were like, 'I played soccer against him,'" said DeSouza, sharing his reaction to the bizarre events. "He was on a different team than I played on."
"I've probably seen this kid 100 times, and for it to have gotten to this point, it must have been something really bad," DeSouza said. "It's very eerie, very unexpected."
James Tice, Josh Nichols and Ryan Smolinski said they met Tsarnaev earlier in the year when he rushed their fraternity.
"He was a really quiet kid," Tice said. "It's scary to think we were that close to evil."
"He was normal, seemed like a decent kid," Nichols added.
Aidan Nsubuga, a sophomore, said he lived in Pine Dale Hall with Tsarnaev but never thought he could do something like the marathon bombings.
"He was the kind of person who just walked by and said hi" Nsubuga said.
But another student had a different take.
"To me, there always seemed to be something going on in the back of his mind, that he was contemplating something," sophomore Tim Walsh said.
But Tsarnaev seemed like a nice, quiet kid, said Walsh, so when he found out Tsarnaev was a suspect in the bombing, it was surprising.
As students exited the school, the tactical unit established in Lot 6 could be seen stopping a man at gunpoint. He was ordered to his knees and could be seen lifting up his shirt. Officers then ordered the man to his stomach, where they proceeded to pat him down. He was then moved to a vehicle in the lot, with his hands appearing secured behind his back.
John Hoey, chief of staff at UMass Dartmouth, said he was not at liberty to say when the suspect was last known to be on campus and declined to give any information about his major or interests at the university, except to confirm he was a sophomore. Hoey reported the campus was cleared of students by about 1 p.m. and said he thought the university responded well to the demands of evacuating 4,300 residential students, 1,500 employees and probably another 1,000 to 2,000 commuting students by early afternoon Friday.
In conjunction with Dartmouth officials, the school moved hundreds of students to Dartmouth High School — where students are on spring break — to wait for rides, and be fed and kept comfortable, Hoey said.
By 3:30 p.m., all of the students had been picked up, while an additional 40 to 50 who did not have a place to go were put up in hotels.
Hoey also stated that, in addition to Friday's closure, the Dartmouth campus would remained closed Saturday.
Tactical response
As students exited, law enforcement entered. Parking Lot 6 appeared to become a staging area, with tactical units in heavy armor standing by, along with an armored vehicle. They were later joined by a Dartmouth ladder truck, ambulances and K9 units from the towns of Bridgewater and Plympton. Police units from New Bedford and Dartmouth and the Massachusetts State Police response command truck were also on scene.
A fire alarm rang out from the building, while yellow crime scene tape was strung around the exterior. A Rhode Island fire marshal bomb squad unit left the campus' public safety facility around 1 p.m. and moved to the Liberal Arts building, where K9 units scoured the interior and exterior. Those units then proceeded down the driveway toward Pine Dale Hall.
Twice during the afternoon helicopters descended on the campus. The first occasion included two helicopters that landed in the open field near the university's wind turbine. The second time, additional personnel were dropped off and were picked up by an armored tactical truck.
Throughout the afternoon into early evening a carousel of vehicles entered and exited the campus. At about 3:15 p.m., a dozen marked state police cruisers entered the campus at a high speed with lights flashing. They were followed minutes later by nearly a dozen more vehicles with license plates from states such as Connecticut, Virginia, New York and Massachusetts.
Those watching the action at UMass Dartmouth got a good look at the tactics and equipment law enforcement has at the ready.
There were two armored vehicles on the college campus, one a humvee and one that appeared to be a more heavily armored MRAP vehicle designed to withstand bomb blasts.
The personnel in the MRAP wore helmets and full tactical body armor.
There were a half-dozen civilian vehicles with heavily tinted side windows. Some of the personnel in those cars were also wearing helmets and full body armor. Though many of those cars bore license plates from other states, the cars had flashing blue lights and were waved through the checkpoint University of Massachusetts Police operated at the entrance to the UMass Dartmouth campus.
At least two of the seven officers at the entrance carried assault rifles. They arranged their cruisers so that vehicles entering the campus had to slow and thread their way through parked cars.
The college campus was the staging ground for operations in this region of the state. When a call related to the manhunt came from New Bedford, more than a dozen cars and cruisers left the campus, heading east.
Staff Reporters Michael Holtzman, Jo Goode, and Kevin P. O'Connor, and photographer Jack Foley contributed to this report.


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Windows XP Mode is built on the next-generation Virtual PC 7 product line, and requires processor-based virtualisation support in order to run. It comes with "coherence" support, which means that you can run Windows XP applications as if you were running Windows 7 applications. What all this means is that Windows 7 with XPM delivers full Windows XP application compatibility, a massive advantage Windows 7 will have over Windows Vista, and a major selling point for enterprises still using Windows XP now.
However, it has more far-fetching consequences than that. "Obviously, XPM has huge ramifications for Windows going forward," Rivera writes, "By removing the onus of legacy application compatibility from the OS, Microsoft can strip away deadwood technology from future versions of Windows at a speedier clip, because customers who need to run older applications can simply do so with XPM."
I, and literally countless others with me, have been proposing such a solution for ages now, as a means to allow Microsoft to cut the backwards compatibility cruft from the Windows operating system, allowing them to introduce new features and bugfixes at a much faster pace. It seems Microsoft has realised the same thing.
Windows XP Mode will be a completely free download for users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. It will include a licensed copy of Windows XP SP3, so you don't have to bring your own.
A very wise and very welcome step by Microsoft. I'm not easily excited, but I am a little bit now. I can't wait to test this out!


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If the purpose of this exercise is to 'serve the developer community as a tutorial for both the UML as well as the principles of object-oriented design', I think it should follow the 'right' order of development process. I know it is only a beginning, but I see only class diagrams and some implementation. It is not the right way to start for a tutorial. The first diags explained should the 'Use Cases' with some scenarios.
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Yes, you are absolutely right. That's why this is a preview and not yet fully published. More is coming.
Also, remember that this is a project, not a product, so it is meant to be under development. And this is open-source, so contributions are always welcome...
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at the moment, I'm thinking about, to teach the OO in a different way. Why to beginn like an real OO-developer (with the use case first)? Isn't it better to go the opposit way, to begin with the OO-Fundamentals (object, class, relation, inheritance) and end with the use case?
I think, in the teaching area it is better to show the details first and the global things last (in opposite to the normal development process).
Walter, you have an interesting perspective. There is a lot of value to what you say. This is especially true because new programmers like to learn from the low-level up.
There are many new approaches to software development, such as eXtreme Programming (XP) for example, which advocate getting closer to the code.
Your suggestion, starting with the code and then working up to the design, could be developed as a new and different approach to teaching OO design and programming. Any more ideas you have about this would be welcome.
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Selected readings on US charter schools
When my kids were young, I cherished watching their excitement when they shared what they learned at school, like the first time my daughter read "The Cat in the Hat" to me and my son correctly counted out his allowance. Every parent deserves to share such moments with their child.
Unfortunately, in some communities, there is little or no choice for parents to provide their children with a good education from a quality school. Our public education system is failing far too many children and their families, but there is a proven solution that we've in my home state and across the country.
Charter schools have successfully provided an education alternatives to children in our nation. In the 1990s, there were a mere 20 charter schools in Minnesota. Today, there are nearly 6,500 charter schools in the nation serving 2 million students.
Charter schools bring promise and opportunity to families and communities that might not otherwise have it.
In many neighborhoods in each of our states, we've seen how high-performing charter schools can literally build or rebuild a community. For example, in a study released recently, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that students in charter schools in Louisiana were outperforming their peers at traditional public schools in reading and math.
Over the past 20 years, the growth of charter schools has shown not only the high demand for high-quality options, but also the importance for ensuring that students and families have the opportunity to seek an alternative rather than be trapped in a "one-size-fits-all," low performing school, as too many students across the country are.
Enrollment in charter schools has grown by 100% from 2007 to 2013. While that demand continues to grow, there are still nearly 1 million students on waitlists for charter schools — a lost opportunity for families who seek quality options for their children.
Earlier this year, we witnessed a huge success in the charter school movement as the newly elected and misguided Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City stood down from his fight against charter schools thanks to the leadership of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a leading, successful charter school champion, Success Academy.
This year, Congress was also able to convince the U.S. Department of Education to allow for the use of weighted lotteries to favor students with disabilities, educational challenges, and students from low-income families. In 2013, 12 states made improvements to their state laws, including laws around funding, facilities, and quality authorizing practices.
Perhaps what will be the most critical change in policy this year comes in the form of rare, but promising, bipartisan and bicameral support of an update to the Charter School Program.
This week, we introduced the Expanding Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act, which offers funding to new and promising charter schools as well high-performing charter schools with a track record of success. This bill makes a smart update to the Charter School Program by allowing for increased and flexible use of funding, and it prioritizes access to facilities as well as continually increased student achievement.
This legislation will allow for more than 500 schools to open annually in the next five years, allowing that waitlist of nearly 1 million students to happily be reduced. More importantly, this legislation emphasizes the need for high-quality public charter schools to be an ever-important solution to ensuring access to a quality education.
Perhaps one day soon, even more American families will get to experience that joy of their child reading to them and their kids thriving at a quality school.
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That was Tom Delay's take on his conviction for alleged money laundering last week. No surprise there.
But it also happens to be the take of the Washington Post's board of editors. They point out that in Texas, as elsewhere, money laundering is defined as knowingly using "the proceeds of criminal activity." Typically, that means cash from drug deals or the like.
In Delay's case, as I understand it, he directed money from his political action committee to the Republican National Committee, along with a list of candidates for the Texas state legislature and how much each was to receive. Delay's PAC money had been donated by corporations.
Since it was legal for the corporations to contribute money to Delay's PAC, the Post finds it difficult to see how Delay used "the proceeds of criminal activity." Thus, it concludes, correctly in my view, that "when Mr. Delay, following the conviction, assailed 'the criminalization of politics,' he had a fair point."
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VERGENNES — Vergennes police on May 27 arrested a Bristol man on an outstanding warrant and cited a Salisbury man for driving with a suspended license, criminal offense, after stopping a car in Vergennes following a Vermont State Police alert.
Police jailed Kaleb Gorton, 19, of Bristol in the Addison County Sheriff's Department on an outstanding warrant for violation of conditions of probation, while 26-year-old George Niles Devoid of Salisbury, the driver, received the DLS citation.
Vergennes police stopped the car after VSP told local departments to be on the lookout for the two, who had allegedly stolen copper from a Salisbury farm. Vergennes police said the two discussed that case with them, and police passed on information to VSP. Police also said they performed a consent search of Devoid's vehicle and found drug paraphernalia.
In other action between April 23 and 29, Vergennes police:
• On April 24 cited Thomas Fitzgerald, 28, of Hastings, N.Y., for driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone on West Main Street and for DLS, civil offense.
• On April 24 responded to a one-car accident on North Street.
• On April 24 while on a grant-funded detail clocked a car driving 86 mph on the Bristol-Monkton Road, but decided not to pursue; police have a possible ID on the driver and are pursuing the issue.
• On April 24 while on the special detail cited Paul Szczerbak, 46, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding on Route 7; police said his blood-alcohol content tested at 0.108 percent; the legal limit is 0.08 percent.
• On April 25 helped the operator of a car disabled at the intersection of New Haven Road and Route 7.
• On April 25 handled a complaint of a loose dog in Thomas Circle.
• On April 26 dealt with a minor two-car accident at the Small City Market.
• On April 26 were told there were chickens running loose on North Main Street, but found none.
• On April 26 looked into a complaint that flag holders had been stolen from St. Peter's Cemetery.
• On April 27 dealt with a minor two-car accident on Monkton Road.
• On April 27 told a man to stop making harassing phone calls to a Walker Avenue resident.
• On April 28 cited Northlands Job Corps student Robert Cross, 24, of Canastota, N.Y., for retail theft. Police said they were told by a Champlain Farms clerk that a man had grabbed a six-pack of beer and cigarettes and fled the store; police found Cross in possession of the goods on a side street and caught him after a brief foot chase, cited him, and turned him over to Northlands security.
• On April 28 helped VSP handle an unstable Addison resident.
• On April 29 calmed two men arguing on a West Main Street sidewalk.
• On April 29 helped with traffic control at a fire on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.


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I assume you have done the Seventh Seal thing so..
Quote from: strandman on December 03, 2012, 06:51:29 pmI assume you have done the Seventh Seal thing so..Nope never done it. Is that a good one for self-belayed toprope?
One rope gets you up and off------------is the tree still there There are a couple of newer lines on the left side, but I have not done them
I heard that a bolted anchor has been placed up there.
Quote from: old_school on December 04, 2012, 08:27:48 pmI heard that a bolted anchor has been placed up there.a bolt anchor on the Ethereal Buttress? WTF - CHOP IT!!!! if the anchors on the pedestal on Thin Air were chopped, twice, this should be! it's heresy!
Dave. the downside of a bolted anchor @ the top of Bombardment is that every time you go out there to climb it there is a top ropeing gang camped out Gunks style . sometimes the road to hell is paved by good intentions.
If your willing to drive to VT, Wheeler Mt has some great areas for toprope soloing. My first recommendation is the Moosehead Crack area. You can easily hike around to the top anchors for that area. From the same anchor you can set up for Moosehead Crack (5.8 crack) and Kind Gesture (5.10b slab/Face) without reconfiguring your anchor or adding directionals. Both are about 90' and clean and safe for toproping alone. Continue past the Moosehead anchors following the trail will bring you to another set of rings. From these anchors you can lower and toprope The Switch and The Apprentice (5.10's). A little more of a commitment since they are 180' and involve a small roof at half height. Sometimes i only rap down to above the roof and climb up from there (5.9 on both from this point).
What should be done now at Ethereal is to topple the flake!!!! Down you go Then you can link Seventh Seal to Looselips in one giant pitch--YEAHThat tree was dead 20 years ago
If it is a 30m 5.8 to bolted anchors gaurenteed it turns into a top rope camp out. Just the laws of nature....
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Rich Sommer is best known for playing the recurring role of Harry Crane on five seasons of AMC's "Mad Men," but he's more than just the awkward Head of Media at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The actor recently arrived in New York to begin rehearsals for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Harvey" starring Jim Parsons ("Big Bang Theory"), and he currently co-stars in "Fairhaven"and "The Giant Mechanical Man," two films premiering at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
In Lee Kirk and Jenna Fischer's "Giant Mechanical Man," Sommer shares the screen with Fischer, Chris Messina, Malin Akerman, and Topher Grace in a story about a woman who feels lost until she falls in love with a street performer. Sommer plays Brian, the goofy but well-meaning brother-in-law of Fischer's character who conspires with his wife (Akerman) to set his sister-in-law up on a date with a self-help guru (Grace). In "Fairhaven," written and directed by actor Tom O'Brien, Sommer co-stars with O'Brien and Messina as three high school friends who are reunited for a funeral in their New England hometown.
Before the Tribeca premieres of "Fairhaven" on April 20 and "The Giant Mechanical Man" on April 23, Back Stage spoke to Sommer about his newest roles, and using costumes to get into character for "Mad Men." Read the first of our three-part Q&A with Sommer below:
Back Stage: How does developing the character of Harry Crane on "Mad Men" differ from creating new roles for film?
Rich Sommer: I've had five years with Harry now, 60-some episodes, getting to play all colors of him: angry, happy, goofy, lascivious, smarmy, whatever. So he's going to be a more fully fleshed out character than anything I could play in a movie or a play.
Harry Crane embodies a lot of me. Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis -- or maybe, no, pretty much just him -- you're cast because you're you. That's who they want to see.
As for "Mechanical Man" and "Fairhaven," I'm like both of those guys too. That's such cheesy actor-speak, but it's totally true. "Mechanical Man" is sort of how I am when I'm goofing around and trying to be light. And "Fairhaven" is a darker movie with a darker spin on things. But they both feel very close to me. I don't look at either of them and say, "That doesn't feel like it's just me doing me up there."
Back Stage: How did you land your roles in "Fairhaven" and "The Giant Mechanical Man"?
Sommer: I did "Mechanical Man" because I had done "The Office" with Jenna [Fischer] a few years ago, and right after I did "The Office" she called and asked if I would do a reading of the "Mechanical Man" script.
While we were shooting ["The Giant Mechanical Man"], I hit it off with Chris Messina, and he was heading off to do "Fairhaven." The guy who was supposed to play my role had recently been forced to quit, and they were sort of scrambling. Chris said, "Would you want to just read the script? It's going to be cold, and weird, and super low budget, but it might be kind of fun." Since we didn't get to really work together one-on-one in "Mechanical Man" and I'm such a fan of his, that was argument enough for me, that I would get to hang out with him for a couple more weeks.
Messina and I were sitting in our hotel room in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, last year in January. We had just done "Mechanical Man" and we were shooting "Fairhaven," and wondering, "What if one of these gets into a festival? Any festival, anywhere. We'll go anywhere just to see the movie at a festival." So to have both of them get in together at a prestigious festival like Tribeca is a very exciting endeavor.
Back Stage: Was it challenging to get back into character as Harry Crane after taking on other projects and enduring a long hiatus before this fifth season of "Mad Men"?
Sommer: It wasn't as hard this time. For some reason, I had a real hard time at the beginning of season four. When we came back at the beginning of season four, Harry had started to become the jet-setter that he now is, so he was wearing a lot of different clothes. He was dressing a little cooler. The bowtie was gone. And I've always, on our show especially, depended on the costumes to get me into the character.
So when I showed up for that first day on season four and I was wearing totally different clothes, I was really having trouble. I had to ask our boss [Matthew Weiner] for a little one on one time, and he certainly gave me shit about it. I came down to the set and he announced to the entire staff, "I have to go teach Rich how to play the character he's already played for four years." And I was like (in halting voice), "But, no, it's different now, because..." (sighs).
I really love that Harry is saying things he shouldn't say, sticking his foot in his mouth. I mean, I do legitimately sometimes stick my foot in my mouth, but my favorite form of trying to make a joke is saying something completely inappropriate and awkward. So it's been fun to let those little pieces of my personality really flourish in a character who has no idea that he's as big a douchebag as he is.
These characters are all inspired by us. Harry is from Wisconsin, I'm from Minnesota. Harry was married early on in the show, and I was one of the only married people at the beginning of the show. He has a daughter that is named after my daughter. Little facts like that make it easy for us to lock in.
Q&A Part 2: Rich Sommer on Improv, Auditions, and "Harvey"
Q&A Part 3: Only Rich Sommer Holds the Keys to Unlock His Golden Handcuffs
For the full 2012 Tribeca Film Festival schedule and to purchase tickets, visit TribecaFilm.com.
How 'Mad Men' Actor Rich Sommer Creates His Characters
Rich Sommer is best known for playing the recurring role of Harry Crane on five seasons of AMC's "Mad Men," but he's more than just the awkward Head of Media at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The actor recently arrived in New York to begin rehearsals for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Harvey" starring Jim Parsons ("Big Bang Theory"), and he currently co-stars in "Fairhaven"and "The Giant Mechanical Man," two films premiering at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Friday, February 8, 2013) – The Colorado Rapids announced on Thursday that the club has re-signed midfielder Jamie Smith, who will enter his fifth season with the club. Smith, 32, has played 56 games for the Rapids scoring six goals and adding 13 assists. Per league and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Jamie will be an important veteran presence on our young squad, and is a very talented and intelligent player," said Rapids Technical Director Paul Bravo. "We're happy to welcome back for another season in Colorado, and look forward to his contributions to our team."
"I'm excited to continue playing for the Rapids," said Smith. "I enjoy being here, my family love it and I love it. I feel a part of this club and a part of the team and I'm excited to progress things."
A native of Alexandria, Scotland and a U.S. Green Card holder, Smith signed with the Rapids on July 28, 2009 and made four appearances in his first season with the club. In 2010, he led the club with eight assists in 22 regular season matches, and also started two playoff games, including the MLS Cup match. After scoring three goals in the 2011 season, he suffered a knee injury in the playoffs and missed most of 2012, making 10 appearances last season and scoring twice.
Prior to coming to MLS, Smith played five years at Aberdeen in the Scottish Premier League, scoring 21 goals in 105 appearances. He played one season with ADO Den Haag in Holland in 2004-05. A product of the Celtic youth system in Glasgow, Smith played for the Scottish powerhouse from 1997-2004, playing 72 matches. He made two appearances with the Scottish National Team in 2003.
The Rapids continue their preseason schedule with the Las Vegas ProSoccer Challenge against Chivas USA on February 15, and open the regular season on March 2 in Dallas before hosting their home opener on March 9 against the Philadelphia Union.


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I've always found public folders to be a great benefit for team or group discussions. Now, Microsoft is moving users away from public folders, but you can use SharePoint discussion boards as a replacement. Previously, you were able to access the discussions only on the SharePoint Web site. However, using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 combined with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can now take your SharePoint discussion boards local, and you can read and reply to items when you're offline. This can be a great way to improve team discussions.
I've previously explained how you enable synchronization by selecting the desired SharePoint list or document library and clicking "Connect to Outlook" on the Actions menu ("SharePoint Integration with Outlook 2007, Part 1," April 27, 2007, and "SharePoint Integration with Outlook 2007, Part 2," May 25, 2007). You sync discussion groups the same way. When you do, Outlook 2007 creates a discussion folder that's similar to a public folder; its Outlook type is "Folder containing Mail and Post Items." The folder contains all items from the discussion board, and Outlook's Instant Search indexes them. Thus, all items are fully integrated with Outlook.
You can read and post items to the Outlook folder when you're on the road and offline; when you have a connection again, any new or changed item is synchronized back to SharePoint. If you have a discussion folder that you consider important, you can add it to your Favorite Folders just by right-clicking it and selecting "Add to Favorite Folders." From the Favorite Folders list, you can more easily see whether the folder contains unread items.
You can drag and drop items from other folders, such as your Inbox, to the discussion folder, which creates a copy of the message. When you use this method for moving messages from public folders to SharePoint, the copy will have your mailbox account as the originator; you lose the message's original "From" information. However, it's an easy way to get all your public folder information to SharePoint.
When you open an item from a discussion folder, you have two response choices, which sometimes confuses people. You can use Post Reply, which posts a reply message to the discussion folder, or Reply, which sends an email message to the originator of the item. It's important to tell your users that they should use Post Reply to get the discussion going in the folder.
One of the coolest features of using Outlook 2007 to post items to a discussion board is the ability to add pictures or attachments. From Outlook, just copy and paste the picture to the new item and post it. The picture will be displayed when you access the item on the SharePoint site. If you've tried using the SharePoint site's item editor to do this, you know how much more convenient the Outlook method is. However, sometimes an added picture doesn't show correctly on the SharePoint site; it displays a placeholder for the picture instead. For a workaround, just click "Edit" and you'll see the picture correctly.
Discussion boards are also great for storing your email messages from distribution lists (DLs). As long as the SharePoint site is email-enabled, you can add an email address when creating the discussion board in SharePoint. Then you just need to add this email address to your DL to automatically send all messages to the discussion board. I've created a discussion board for my departmental DL where everybody can look up old messages from the list.
In my department, we use a discussion board as a small knowledge database for any kind of computer-related information. People post questions and solutions and also move messages to the folder that might be important. Showing my coworkers the Outlook 2007 integration not only increased the frequency of their postings tremendously, but they're also now including useful attachments and pictures, which didn't happen before.
Try using discussion boards this way with your colleagues—you'll be amazed at how valuable SharePoint and Outlook 2007 integration is for your organization.
Outlook Internet Site of the Month
This month's focus is an Outlook tool that's especially interesting for all you PST users out there: AddOnMail's BackupMyFolder! for Outlook, which you can use to back up your PST files. You can select a single folder, folder structure, or the complete PST for backup. Also, you can schedule backups so they occur when you're not using the computer. This is a nice, easy-to-use tool—try it! You can download it for free from AddOnMail.
As always, if you find a link for an interesting new freeware tool or add-on for Outlook, let me know! Send me a message at [email protected].


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Memorial Day Speech Given to Indiana Veterans' Home - West Lafayette, Indiana
Contact: AJ Freeney-Ruiz
Memorial Day - 2006
Thank you and good morning.
First of all - it's an honor to be here with you at the Indiana Veterans' Home - our state's only veterans' home. Thank you for letting me share this time with you all. It means a great deal to me that you have asked me to join you.
As many of you can personally attest, Memorial Day is much more than a three-day weekend that marks the beginning of summer. More than most, you know that we are gathered here today to remember the men and women, who for hundreds of years have sacrificed their lives in the service of our country, protecting this great Republic.
But, does the rest of our society really know what that means?
Official observances of Memorial Day began shortly after the Civil War. And for the last one-hundred and forty years, as a nation, we have held this day sacred or so we should. In years past, we have gathered to remember our friends, family members and loved-ones who died for our country in two World Wars, in Korea, in Vietnam, the Gulf War and numerous less well-known conflicts around the globe - but no less important.
Today, many of our thoughts are with our brave men and women in uniform fighting to defend liberty and freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the global War on Terror. And don't let anyone try to tell you, whether it be the French, the Canadians, or the so-called mainstream media that the stakes of the global war are not high.
Indeed, our men and women currently serving are trying to maintain for us a way of life that we know to be morally correct and economically fruitful. A way of life that every day is being threatened by the wrath of maniacs who kill in the name of a religion that they themselves hi-jacked. Similarly, we are all being threatened by the jealousy of a seemingly ever-increasing number of nations who are apparently bent on a socialist agenda for the entire world. Indeed, the stakes are high if you are one that loves this country in its near recent social form.
However, we see that our troops in Iraq are not engaged in a new fight. No not at all - because today, it is impossible not to turn our thoughts to the allied soldiers who sixty-two years ago this summer, landed on the beaches of Normandy, invaded Hitler's Fortress Europa, and freed an entire continent from the brutal grasp of a dictatorial and murderous regime. Indeed, not a new fight.
Many of you, in fact the majority of those of you living here today, fought in that war and because of that, you understand what the stakes are now. You and your brothers and sisters who fought in Korea, Vietnam, and the first Iraq war, and who join you here at the Indiana Veterans' Home, understand what it means to keep the evil of the world at bay.
In our nation's history, there have always been people willing to serve their country in uniform. They serve their nation and their fellow citizens with honor and dignity and when called upon, they bravely sacrifice their own life in the name of freedom and I never more clearly recognized this sacrifice than when I was in Vietnam last fall - representing the state.
While in Vietnam, I had the opportunity to meet and receive a personal briefing with the commander of the United States' ongoing mission to find our fallen in the region. We are the only country in the world to still search for and retrieve every one of our soldiers from the battlefield. That is not only Vietnam, but all wars, present and past. To date we still have 1,800 of our troops unaccounted for from the Vietnam War alone, and have similar missions to find the more than 8,000 in Korea and 30,000 still missing from the theaters of World War II. Never have I been more proud than that day in Hanoi - as I learned of our country's practice.
With that said, I would like to specifically thank and welcome those servicemen and women who are able to join not just in spirit, but to be physically with us today. For those with relatives in the service, you should know that our thoughts and prayers are with you and your brothers and sisters-in-arms wherever they may go.
Thank you for your dedication to your community and your country, you're an inspiration to us all.
It is also important to note that the hundreds of thousands of men and women serving today in Afghanistan and Iraq are an entirely volunteer corps. They choose to serve because, like thousands before them who served in the armed forces, they love their country.
We should not forget their volunteerism and the best way to remember it is to incorporate volunteerism into our own lives. And to preserve our way of life, we don't necessarily have to volunteer for the Armed Forces.
Everyone can do their part to help preserve our way of life by volunteering in other ways. As I travel the state, I encourage Hoosiers to give to their favorite charity, at the hospital, at their church, using their God-given talents free of charge in thousands of ways to help others. Our volunteer spirit is what sets us apart from other nations - and can be something that no one can take from us.
Moments like this give me pause and allow me to reflect on the true meaning of the work the people of Indiana entrusted to me as Secretary of State. As Indiana's Chief Election Officer, I am charged with the duty of protecting the very fabric of our Republic - our right to vote. But of course it isn't me or the county clerks who give the right to vote - to pick our own leaders. It is God, using the United States soldier that assures that freedom! You have sacrificed so much to protect not only our own liberties, but also the liberties of other countries. Speaking before you today, I am encouraged to continue to do what is in my power to guarantee the right and ability of each of you to vote and to have your vote count! But not only you, every eligible Hoosier. For an eligible Hoosier to not vote is an insult to this country, this state, to you, and especially your fellow Brother-in-Arms.
Just as many of you did generations ago to protect freedom, today's armed forces have dodged bullets and bombs so that Iraqis and Afghanis may rise out of their seats and exercise their sacred right to vote. We, as Americans, have much to learn from their actions. We must strive every day to convince Hoosiers to take their duty to vote more seriously by securing the integrity our elections without compromising all that we've done to open up the process. Seeing soldiers prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to protect this liberty and voters willing to do the same, I find the inspiration to continue to help our soldiers defend our right to vote here at home.
Today as we remember those who have gone before us to defend liberty and freedom, and as we honor you and your contributions, let us also remember the young men and women currently serving around the globe, fighting the war on terror.
May God bless you, and all that you have given and continue to give and let us never forget!
Thank you.


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The 25th Annual Tennessee Beef Agribition will be held in Lebanon March 8-10 at the James E. Ward Agricultural Center.
"For beef producers, Agribition is like no other event in the state," says Wendy Sneed, livestock marketing specialist with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.
"Agribition offers producers the opportunity to see top quality animals show on Friday and then, on Saturday, be available for purchase. The benefit of watching breeds being shown and judged just before sale is something few buyers ever experience in Tennessee except at Agribition."
"Producers will be able to find anything their heart desires at the breed sales on Saturday," says Sneed. "From herd sire prospects eligible for Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program cost share, elite show heifer prospects, bred heifers, plus cow/calf pairs and embryo lots."
Nine charted breeds will be represented in shows and sales, with breed shows beginning Friday at noon, and sales for each breed beginning Saturday at 10 a.m.
The junior show, one of the event's most popular features, will take place Sunday. "4-Her's looking for show animals can actually buy a calf on Saturday, then turn around and get show experience with that animal in the junior show on Sunday," says Sneed.
More than 3,300 youth have shown at Agribition over the past 25 years. Additionally, the Tennessee Cattlemen's Association sponsors an Agribition public speaking contest for juniors.
The three-day cattle show and sale event also features a large trade show, giving participants a look at new products and the direction of the industry. This year, organizers expect to have about 60 trade show vendors on site, including representatives from every facet of the livestock industry. TAEP coordinators will have a booth at the trade show with information about this year's opportunities for cost share.
In 2011, beef cattle ranked as Tennessee's top commodity, accounting for 16.7 percent of all agriculture cash receipts and worth around $586 million, according to the Tennessee Agricultural Statistics Service. Tennessee is home to more than 42,000 beef operations and close to 2 million cattle.
To learn more about Tennessee Beef Agribition, contact Quintin Smith at 615-207-0830. Contact Sonya Smith at 615-207-0819 for more information about the junior shows. For trade show information, contact Diane Major at 615-286-2539.


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Alligator hunters in Mississippi set multiple records during the first weekend of the state's alligator season.
Beth Trammell was the first to set a record after catching a 13-foot-5.5-inch, 723.5-pound alligator in the early morning, but a few hours later Dustin Bockman, a UPS driver from Vicksburg, set a new weight record with a 13-foot-4.5-inch, 727-pound alligator caught in the Mississippi River near the Big Black River in Claiborne County.
"He broke all the lines we could put in him. Finally [we] put a snare on him and got him up high enough and put a shot on him. All in all probably took us four and a half hours to catch him from the first time we saw him," Bockman said Monday.
Bockman's catch now holds the current weight record for a gator taken during alligator hunting season by a Mississippi hunter.
The current length record is 13 feet, 6.5 inches from an alligator taken on the Pascagoula River in 2008.
Brandon Maskew of Ellisville also set a record over the weekend with a female alligator after catching a 10 foot long 295.3 pound alligator Friday.


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Oil up near $103 amid Libya, Ukraine conflicts
The price of oil approached $103 a barrel Monday as violence in Libya threatened to once again delay a potential increase in the country's exports of crude.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S. crude for June delivery was up 78 cents to $102.80 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the Nymex contract added 52 cents to close at $102.02, gaining about 2 percent for the week.
Brent crude for July delivery, a benchmark for international oil, was up 35 cents to $110.10 on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In Libya, which has Africa's largest proven reserves of crude, political instability deepened Sunday after militiamen loyal to a renegade general stormed the parliament building in the capital city of Tripoli. On Monday, the country's army chief ordered the deployment of Islamist-led militias in Tripoli, which could lead to a showdown between the two sides.
Libya, earlier a key crude supplier to European refineries, has been struggling to stabilize its oil output and exports since the 2011 ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Production is down to around 200,000 barrels a day from some 1.4 million barrels a day a year ago.
"In light of the latest reports, any significant and lasting rise in the production level appears illusory," said analysts at Commerzbank in Frankfurt in a note to clients.
The developments in Libya also pointed to tighter supplies in the second half of the year, as predicted last week by the International Energy Agency, unless other OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq increase their output.
Oil prices were also supported by a surge in U.S. housing construction and continued fighting between government troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine even as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops near Ukraine to return to their home bases.
In other energy futures trading in New York:
— Wholesale gasoline rose 1.69 cents to $2.9724 a gallon.
— Natural gas added 4.7 cents to $4.46 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil gained 1.56 cents to $2.9642 a gallon.


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STARKVILLE, Miss. – Andriana Collins was named a 2011 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete it was announced by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association on Thursday.
Collins garnered the honor after compiling a grade point average of 3.50 or higher during the 2010-11 academic year.
The pitcher is entering her sophomore season with the Gauchos. As a rookie, she compiled a 12-12 record in the circle and posted a 3.70 ERA with a team-leading 89 strikeouts.


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Combining jazz guitar with Brazilian leanings, percussion beats of a universal nature and American blues harmonica with vocals in the original Portuguese of classic samba and bossa music, Bossa Azul invents a sound both "playful and sophisticated," creating an acoustic/electric blend of inter-hemispheric influences that comes across as simultaneously familiar and distinctive. Translated from Brazilian, the band name means "blue bossa nova" and well describes the intent and form of the tantalizing and tasteful trio of Julie Hulvey (guitar, vocals), Mark Russillo (harmonica, vocals) and Gordon Carvalho (percussion). Over two years ago when Julie overheard Mark singing "The Girl from Ipanema" in Portuguese during a Frank Parker Jambalaya Jam at the Brewhaus, the two became friends as fans of Brazilian music and talked of starting a group. In January of 2012 Bossa Azul came into existence with Gordon joining a few months later. Since then they've played a couple Third Thursday Art Shows (the next one is Jan. 17 at Donnie's Homespun) and the Animal Protective League's Paws and Power fundraiser last September.
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An "In God We Trust" sign, a Veterans Memorial plaque and a new flag pole were recently dedicated at the General Sessions Court on Bus Terminal Road in Oak Ridge.
An "In God We Trust" sign, a Veterans Memorial plaque and a new flag pole were recently dedicated at the General Sessions Court on Bus Terminal Road in Oak Ridge.
The somewhat controversial "In God We Trust" signs were placed earlier on entrances to the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton. The newest sign in Oak Ridge completes the national motto project, which was started earlier this year when a group of citizens made their wishes known to County Mayor Terry Frank. Later, a group of Anderson County citizens formed the "In God We Trust" Committee and collected donations for the purchase of the signs.
The Anderson County Commission approved the project in April for the Anderson County Courthouse and its granite signs were dedicated during a ceremony in July.
General Sessions Judge Ron Murch had requested a sign for outside his court also, but the delay came because the sign had to be made in metal to complement the metal building.
Several people spoke during Friday's hour-long ceremony, including ministers and veterans.
"God worked a miracle to bring us where we are today," said the Rev. Steve McDonald of Calvary Baptist Church.
Former Oak Ridge Mayor Kathy Moore said, "'In God We Trust' is a reminder that God is everywhere." Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church minister, the Rev. Garvan Walls, quoted former President Ronald Reagan, stating "If we are not a nation under God we'd be a nation gone under."
The Rev. Stephen Flick, founder of Christian Heritage Fellowship, and a resident of Clinton, spoke about separation of church and state and the Christian faith and its relationship to the country's founding fathers.
"This nation was founded on principles that are Christian," Flick said.
He said when schools stopped prayer and Bible reading, it "caused the plummeting of America."
Michelle Bamburg and David Farmer sang "God Bless America," which kicked off the Veterans Memorial ceremony.
Brad Heun, Veterans of Foreign Wars Manhattan Project Post No. 12051 commander, and Leon Jaquet, Anderson County Veterans Office director, raised the flag on the new flag pole.
Murch, who had asked for a flag pole and the memorial plaque, said, "When the flag went up and was waving, I got chill bumps."
The Veterans Memorial plaque is at the base of the pole and lists Anderson County's fallen soldiers from Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
The names listed include: Sgt. First Class Stephen C. Kennedy, Oak Ridge; Staff Sgt. Daniel M. Morris, Clinton; Staff Sgt., James D. Connell Jr., Lake City; Cpl. Jason D. Hovater, Lake City; and Staff Sgt. Christopher Ward, Oak Ridge.
Heun said the memorial plaque is the first monument in Oak Ridge for "soldiers who gave their lives." He said he didn't want to disrespect the city of Oak Ridge, but said veterans had not been recognized.
"Oak Ridge shows more tribute to the Japanese than to those who fought for our freedom," he said.
The men whose names are listed on the monument are not only "brothers in arms" but also "brothers in blood. They laid their lives down for our freedom," he said.
"We've got their six," he said explaining that "got their 6" in military terms is what others call "got your back."
"Not until I walked into a third world country and saw the difference did I understand freedom," Heun said.
Omer Cox, commander of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter No. 26, talked about POWs and MIAs (prisoners of war and missing in action). He said he believes some are still in Vietnam.
Cox said POWs read the Bible and "knew they had to put God in their trust." He said their faith kept them alive under torturous conditions. He said their captors asked them to save themselves by explaining their God, but they told their captors "we are already saved."
"I am proud and honored by this (the memorial)," Glen Morris, father of slain Staff Sgt. Daniel M. Morris.
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You just never know what's around the corner. You think you have your life planned and you're planning it a certain way and it's going to go the way you want it, and it doesn't happen that way. Things happen in a moment's notice and it changes your life completely. —Kathy Campos
ST. GEORGE — Reggie and Kathy Campos met while on track scholarships at Southern Utah University, married young and quickly welcomed two girls into their family.
They worked several jobs while they finished school, moved several times, welcomed two more children more than 12 years later.
"It was really really crazy," Kathy Campos said. "We had a good marriage, but it was hard, also, and then we got to this point where it started paying off. He was a CPA and I was a social worker and we were living the American dream. We were getting the things we desired.
The last four years before her husband was sent to prison, she said, "was our happiest time ever."
She now believes, in some strange way, that her husband was "destined" to shoot and paralyze a man in their Bluffdale neighborhood, despite the heartache and struggles it has subsequently brought to her and their children. She sees a greater plan in the shooting and the events that led to it — and also thinks that it was all somehow necessary in order to land the man her husband shot behind bars.
The shooting that changed everything occurred July 22, 2009, just 100 meters from the front door of their dream home in Bluffdale. That's where Reggie Campos shot and paralyzed David Serbeck.
"Our world just crashed," she said. "Everything changed."
From that day on, Kathy Campos has stood behind her husband "100 percent." She firmly believes he shot Serbeck in self-defense, as he claimed since placing a 911 call just after the shooting. She believed him even when a jury did not, finding him guilty of attempted murder.
She conceded she would have stood by him no matter what his explanation was. She is firm in her belief that he was calm that night and was trying to protect their daughter.
"He's never lied to me," she explained. "Even if he said, 'I lost it and I shot him,' I would have supported him then."
Today, Campos is in prison in Gunnison serving a three-years-to-life sentence. Serbeck is at the prison in Draper for an unrelated crime of having sex with a teenage neighbor — although Kathy Campos doesn't believe the events are unrelated.
The girl whom Serbeck would later be convicted of sexually abusing said she came forward to report the abuse only after seeing news reports that Serbeck had been following teenage girls on the night of the shooting. She went to authorities during Campos' trial and filed a civil lawsuit against Serbeck in an effort to help Campos' case.
Two versions
On that summer night in 2009, Reggie Campos and David Serbeck were both on the streets of Bluffdale. Serbeck said he was conducting an unofficial neighborhood patrol, prompted by a recent rash of burglaries. He and his neighbor, Troy Peterson, encountered Campos' then-16-year-old daughter, Stephanie, and her friends.
The girl testified that Serbeck asked them what they were up to. Soon after, she noticed the same men following her and several of her friends while she was driving them home.
One of those friends said during Campos' 2010 trial that the girls were "freaking out" when the SUV aggressively followed them. Stephanie called her father, who met up with the young women at the Campos' home and followed them all to their homes. He then grabbed his gun and his daughter to went back out to search for the vehicle that had been following them.
When his daughter identified Serbeck's vehicle, Campos made a U-turn, pulled in front of it and braked, prompting Serbeck to stop. Serbeck testified that Campos exited the car yelling, with his gun raised. Serbeck said he tried to talk to Campos and neutralize the situation by telling him he had a gun but was going to put it on the ground. Serbeck said he knelt to place it on the ground and kicked it away from his body, but Campos opened fire.
In Campos' version of the story, he told a 911 dispatcher: "He (Serbeck) pulled a gun on me and cocked it. ... He got out of his car, pulled a gun on me, cocked it, and I let him have it."
"It was like you just can't believe it happened," Kathy Campos said. "It's like one minute your life is great and everything is going well, and in a split second decision your whole world is crashing around you. I can't explain it, it's just devastation."
She, and those in her husband's camp, still believe it was self-defense and say Serbeck's narrative about putting the gun on the ground and talking with Campos is a story that doesn't add up.
Prosecutors, however, described Campos as an enraged "man on a hunt, pursuing and later finding his prey" — a vigilante who took the law into his own hands.
"The only thing he did wrong was he confronted the people," Kathy Campos said of her husband. "He could have made a different decision, he knows that, we all know that. If he would have, this would have never happened, but he did. But the thing is, I've had a lot of dads and even wives say, 'My husband would have done the same thing.' 'I would have done the same thing in the situation.'"
Reggie Campos went to jail for seven days and was released on bail. In the near-year between the shooting and his trial, there was stress and anxiety, regret, but also a good amount of hope.
"We had the preliminary hearing and we could see that Troy Peterson's story and Serbeck's story were different and we were really hopeful," Kathy Campos said. "It seemed like things were coming together. Then girls came forward (with allegations of sex abuse against Serbeck) and I thought once they charged (Serbeck), things would change."
But Serbeck was not charged with unlawful sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old until 2012. The Campos family said they were confused and frustrated by the lies they believe Serbeck told at trial and the lack of information allowed into the trial about Serbeck and the sex abuse accusations against him.
"We were still hopeful" up until the day of the verdict, Kathy Campos said. "I just thought it would all work itself out."
But jurors declared Campos guilty. Even 3rd District Judge Mark Kouris called the self-defense claim "pure crap" and sentenced him to prison. Campos did not apologize during the sentencing, but reiterated that he had acted in self-defense.
Campos' family said he struggled with how to reconcile his remorse with his belief that he had just defended himself.
"I know that he never wanted to shoot anybody," Kathy Campos said. "He's not happy that Serbeck is in a wheelchair. He doesn't think he deserves that. But what's he supposed to say? He thinks it's self-defense."
The trial left the family in debt and without a breadwinner. Their "dream home" was just one of many things they sold to make ends meet. They relocated into a family home in southern Utah and Kathy Campos counts that move as the second most difficult part of the last few years since the trial.
"We didn't make really anything off of the home," she said. "We didn't make a profit, but it helped me these last couple years a little bit. It helped me to raise my family, because it's been difficult for me to find a job. I've struggled, especially down here. The economy down here is not as good as in Salt Lake and so it's been a struggle to survive these last three years."
She notes, however, that there were 30 people waiting to help them unload since they have family in the area. Campos has since found part-time work that has helped her make ends meet.
Once a month, she drives three hours to Gunnison for a two-hour visit with her husband.
It is community support, family and faith that have helped her and sustained her since the shooting. She said regularly attending LDS temple and church services has helped her keep her head above water.
"I would probably need to go on anxiety medication if it weren't for the temple," she said. "I've always been a really calm and just easygoing person and until you experience something like this, you don't realize you can relate to others who have depression or anxiety. It's really hard to get up and go and function. I still have depression and anxiety, but I'm trying to do the things I need to do to shake it and get through it."
Meant to be?
There is a lot that her husband has missed. Their oldest daughter left for an LDS mission to Thailand and will return in three weeks. Stephanie Campos will get married a week after her sister's return. Soon, their son, R.J., will be baptized.
Kathy Campos does not blame her husband for that.
"I just feel like, gosh, everybody makes mistakes in their life and sometimes we make mistakes in the spur of the moment and that's what happened to Reggie," she said. "But I'm not sure it was really a mistake. Everything just came into place for this event to happen."
Weeks before the shooting, the Campos' mail was stolen and their garage was burglarized. Before then, her husband had always kept his gun in storage and seldom used it. But he took it out of storage and moved it to a lock box in the couple's closet after the burglary.
Kathy Campos believes all of it happened for a reason: the fact that they put offers on homes in Lehi and Saratoga Springs only to end up in Bluffdale, the burglaries, the way it worked out that both men were still on the road the night of the incident.
"I totally feel like this whole thing was kind of destined, because I don't think the stars, the moon or the sun could have been lined up any better that night. If he had come home five seconds earlier or waited five seconds, they would have never crossed paths and this never would have happened," she said. "But then had he been found innocent, these girls wouldn't have come forward and Serbeck wouldn't be in prison."
"I think, had this never happened, we'd be in our beautiful home in Bluffdale and just going on our happy way and everything would be fine," she said, before gesturing toward Stephanie and her fiancé. "But these two would have never met. Also, Reggie had been inactive in the church, he had fallen away and this has brought him back."
She said the wake of the shooting pushed her into the stages of grief, with anger, bargaining, depression. But she has decided not to cling to the anger or resentment.
Prison has softened her husband and she said he just wants to be home with his family. She is hopeful that her husband's lack of criminal history will work in his favor and that once he spends three years in prison, he will be released soon after. He has been tutoring and helping other prisoners and taking guitar and piano lessons.
"He's doing the best he can in a bad situation and I told him, 'If you get resentful or bitter, I don't want you when you come home,'" she said. "I don't want that. I don't want him coming home and being angry and bitter all his life. I want to move on. I want to move past this."
Campos will go before the Utah Court of Appeals Monday to ask for a new trial on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct and arguing that the judge was wrong about what evidence to admit. The Utah Attorney General's Office will seek to uphold his conviction.
Whatever happens, the Campos family is prepared. If anything, they have learned how unpredictable life can be.
"You just never know what's around the corner," Kathy Campos said. "You think you have your life planned and you're planning it a certain way and it's going to go the way you want it, and it doesn't happen that way. Things happen in a moment's notice and it changes your life completely.
"You just have to learn from those experience and try to make the best of it and move forward and good things happen … other blessings happen. It's not always doom and gloom.
"There's always another door that opens and you can have joy and happiness again. You have to put things in an eternal perspective."
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Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago Silva has revealed he would be open to a return to AC Milan in the future.
The Brazil international left the Rossoneri for les Parisiens last summer, but the rumor mill has again linked him with a move away from the French capital.
And though he insists he is happy with the Ligue 1 leaders, Silva also admitted that he could pull on a Milan jersey again before he hangs up his boots.
"In Paris I'm happy, although I'm sorry for the Milan fans. They always carry a place in my heart," he told Simona Ventura TV.
"Yes, there could be great opportunities to return to Milan one day. All the good things in my life I miss, among them Fluminense and Milan."
Silva also recalled fondly his first visit to Milan before signing for the club in 2009.
He added: "I still remember the first time I went to the San Siro. I was in the stands to watch AC Milan vs. Fiorentina. From then on I wanted to belong on that stage, and I did it for three years."
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Rugged Johnson gives Hawks hope against Pacers
ATLANTA (AP) — When Ivan Johnson is banging around in the lane and staring down opponents, the Atlanta Hawks are a different team.
They hope the bearded, bruising forward can keep it up in Game 4 of the playoffs against the Indiana Pacers.
While Al Horford was the star of Atlanta's Game 3 rout, it was Johnson who set the physical tone the Hawks so desperately needed after losing the first two games in Indianapolis. He played more than 26 minutes off the bench, scoring seven points, grabbing seven rebounds and picking up five fouls in 90-69 blowout.
"The thing that frustrates the opposition more than anything is the fact that this kid plays hard," coach Larry Drew said Sunday, when both teams practiced at Philips Arena to prepare for Game 4. "He doesn't take possessions off. He will stand up to any challenge, whoever he has to defend. He's a physical, rugged player. A lot of guys don't like playing against guys like that."
Johnson isn't exactly a kid, even though this is just his second year in the league. The 29-year-old has a notorious temper, which resulted in a lifetime ban from the South Korean league for flashing an obscene gesture during a playoff game, and it took a long time before any NBA team was willing to take a chance on him.
The Hawks are glad they did, though Johnson has struggled at times to keep his emotions in check. He was sent home last season for conduct detrimental to the team and, judging by the ominous stare he flashes anytime things don't go his way, he always seems on the verge of crossing the line again.
"The unfortunate thing about Ivan is he has a little bit of a reputation," Drew said. "If he can work at it hard enough, he can shake that. He's just too skilled. A big guy, with his size, with his ability and his mobility, he frustrates a lot of people. He knows how to play. He's got a good knack for the game."
Johnson's defensive presence helped free up Horford to focus more on the offensive end. He responded with 26 points, along with 16 rebounds, as the Hawks built a commanding 24-point lead by halftime and were never seriously threatened.
Atlanta will try to even the best-of-seven series at two wins apiece on Monday night.
The Hawks hope to stick with the lineup that worked so well in their victory — 7-footer Johan Petro starting at center, with Horford moving to power forward and Josh Smith shifting down to small forward.
Petro missed practice Sunday, returning home to Miami to be with his wife during the birth of their child. She was scheduled to deliver in time for her husband to get back to Atlanta for Game 4.
The bigger lineup — 3-point specialist Kyle Korver came off the bench — allowed the Hawks to match up much better with the Pacers at both ends of the court. Guarded by Smith, Paul George was held to 16 points after averaging 25 in the first two games. Indiana's 7-2 center, Roy Hibbert, managed just 8 points after scoring 15.5 per contest in Indiana.
"The whole thing helped us size-wise," Horford said. "We were able to get Petro in there, which made an impact on Hibbert. Then Ivan came in and did the same. They freed me up to get more offensive minded. It just goes hand in hand."
The Pacers turned in a stunningly poor performance after playing so well on their home court, where they averaged 110 points and a 16-point margin of victory. They shot just 27 percent (22 of 81) and turned the ball over 22 times, leading to 24 Atlanta points.
"We really just beat ourselves," George said. "We've got to play tougher and with more of an edge."
Indiana made four of its first six shots, building an 8-1 lead that prompted Drew to call a timeout less than 3 minutes into the game. After that, it was all Hawks. The Pacers missed 30 of their next 36 attempts, trailed 54-30 at halftime, and matched the lowest-scoring first half in the franchise's playoff history.
"Shots weren't falling, but we allowed those shots not to fall," George said. "We weren't aggressive. We weren't taking up our own air space. They were making us catch the ball where they wanted. We really weren't fighting for spots."
If Petro isn't available for Game 4, the Hawks will be in a bit of predicament. The 6-foot-8 Johnson could get the start at center, allowing Horford and Smith to stay in the roles that worked so well Saturday.
Then again, Drew prefers to use Johnson as a backup.
"I don't want to disrupt that," the coach said. "He's done such a good job bringing us energy off the bench. I would hate to lose that if I put him in the starting lineup."
Johnson will accept whatever role he's given.
"I'm just trying to make my presence felt," he told reporters after the game. "That's a matter of being a big man. We've got to throw our bodies around to get what we want."
The Pacers know they'll have to contend with Johnson if they want to regain control of the series.
"He's a great energy guy, a guy that just constantly battles," George said. "He's an emotional player. The whole team feeds off his energy and his motor."
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