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I scrambled out of bed at dawn's first light, dashed to the barn to milk a cow, stopped by the chicken coop to collect fresh-from-the-hen eggs, then doubled back to the farmhouse for breakfast. Six of us gathered around the table at Verdant View Farm B&B, prefacing our early morning meal with the cheerful strains of the Johnny Appleseed Song.
"Oh, the Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord, for giving me the things I need, the sun and the rain and the apple seed...."
Just another morning in Paradise.
That's Paradise, Pa., in
Dutch country. Home of Amish, Mennonite and Brethren religious groups. Farm folk who begin their day in a very different way from the way I usually begin mine.
The hilly region, a 90-minute drive west of
, is a scenic collage of fertile dairy land, horse-drawn carriages, clapboard farmhouses and Amish men, women and children wearing solemn black clothing.
Once, the closest a visitor could get to becoming acquainted with an Amish family was to wave when passing a buggy. But with the recession making it harder for everyone to make ends meet, the Amish have turned to tourism, revealing more of their lives to visitors. You can sleep at an Amish or Mennonite bed and breakfast, shop at their quilt and furniture stores or stop at their farmhouse bakeries for a little chitchat and a big slice of shoofly pie.
Their participation in the booming tourism that marks this part of the country — 11 million visits annually — has broadened the scope of visiting Lancaster (pronounced Lankisster) County. Other recent developments have helped too: Pennsylvania Dutch country now boasts eclectic shopping, high-end accommodations and haute cuisine.
But that doesn't mean all the "low" points have vanished. The main highways are awash in billboards, buffets serve heavy, salty food, and tacky souvenir shops and hotels line the roads. On the roadways in summer, Southern California-style gridlock is common.
But there are ways to avoid the frenzy. Explore the farmland back roads, where the sideshows disappear, and the Amish go their own way, driving somber black buggies down the two-lane roads, their high-stepping
clip-clopping on the pavement.
You can visit small towns such as Bird-in-Hand, Intercourse and Paradise, where you'll have a better chance of meeting the people who make the area interesting.
Ben and Anna Riehl, an Amish couple, opened their Beacon Hollow Farm to visitors as a B&B. There's no TV, but "most people who come here don't want TV," Ben said.
"They want to get away from all the gadgets and spend time together playing games and reading books."
Ben and Anna have eight children — large families are common among the Amish — and their brood does without the trappings of modern life. The farm has 130 head of stock, which means everyone is busy from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
School takes on a different meaning here. Amish children attend a one- or two-room schoolhouse through eighth grade and usually receive no education after that. (In the 1950s, a group of Amish parents went to prison for refusing to send their children to public schools. Eventually, the
ruled Amish children could end their formal education at 14.)
The school controversy is just one of many involving the Anabaptists: Amish, Mennonite and Brethren groups, whose members call themselves the "Plain People." They were persecuted in their native Switzerland and began settling in Pennsylvania in the early 1700s in search of religious tolerance. Most spoke German, or Deutsch, which is how the term Pennsylvania Dutch evolved.
Of the three spiritual groups, the Amish are the most conservative, focusing on family, community and separation from the non-Amish world, which includes a reluctance to adopt modern conveniences such as electricity.
"We don't want to be tied to the outside world," Ben Riehl said.
But those who stay in the Riehls' two-bedroom B&B cottage do have electricity, which is provided through a battery pack. And every morning, the Riehls supply farm breakfasts of pancakes, scrambled eggs, homemade sausage and milk, of course.
The couple offers an honest look at an iconic American way of life.
"Where's Amishland?" I overheard a boy ask while dining at Good 'N Plenty, a tourist zone mega-restaurant that serves as many as 30,000 people a day. I could tell from the conversation that he expected something akin to
That's what many Lancaster residents don't want.
"Ultimately, we don't want to destroy what makes this place unique," said Lancaster businessman Dave Witmer, who owns Prince Street Café. "We want to preserve the county's rural atmosphere. Agriculture is still our largest industry."
At the same time, he's happy to talk about downtown Lancaster's evolution. "People are surprised to find a cosmopolitan, urban flavor here," he said. "Things are changing."
I didn't stay in town long, despite those changes. I wanted to meet more Plain People.
I hit the byways, and in New Holland found Witmer Quilt Shop, where Emma Witmer, 72, showed me her wares, about 150 quilts. There were mariner stars, pinwheels, broken stars, bow tie, shooting stars and
-style quilts. The average price was $525, but Witmer said she once sold one for $9,000.
Many Amish dislike being photographed, but Witmer let me click away. "As long as it's not Sunday," she said.
I also stopped at a roadside stand where red beets and chowchow (a pickled relish) were the big sellers. "We put up 1,000 to 2,000 jars a day during the busy season," said Annie Stoltzfus, whose nine children help her.
I had planned my trip to coincide with a special time in the community: mud sale season. The events, which raise funds for local volunteer fire departments, draw thousands of people and take place in the county's small towns, usually in the spring when the ground is wet from snow or rain.
Over the years, the sales have evolved into major auctions, with horses, mules, buggies, tools, quilts, handicrafts, furniture, clothing, sporting goods and other household items on the block. It's a frenetic event, with a dozen concurrent mini-auctions.
I visited during the first mud sale of the season, Feb. 26 in Strasburg. Auctioneers' sing-song voices drew crowds of Amish boys and men.
In one corner, three boys played on a snowmobile, a type of transportation they probably would never use. Inside a building, dozens of quilts were being auctioned. In a nearby tent, Plain People examined horses' teeth and hoofs. Soon the animals would be auctioned off.
You still have time to catch a mud sale this year: June 24, Bird-in-Hand; June 25, Refton; Aug. 27, Kinzers; and Oct. 22, Cochranville. (For more information, go to
Besides bargains, the mud sales offer an opportunity to meet the Plain People on their own turf. And if you go to a sale on a rainy day, as I did, you can get the full flavor of the event by wading through deep mud.
I returned to Verdant View Farm B&B — the farmhouse where I was staying with a Mennonite couple — in my muddy shoes and pants. Don and Virginia Ranck, my hosts, didn't mind. Mud is a natural commodity at a dairy farm.
Staying with the couple reminded me of visiting my Aunt Angela when I was a kid: I had my own bedroom and bathroom, and I felt like a member of the family.
I could do a few chores or relax on the porch swing. The latter seemed like a good choice after my hectic morning. I eased into the swing.
A flock of birds winged by, and a buggy rolled down the highway pulled by a massive black stallion. I opened my book, thinking that I'd probably doze off.
Just another lazy afternoon in Paradise.


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Defendants Atlas Iron Processors, Inc., Anthony J. Giordano, Sr., Anthony J. Giordano, Jr., David Giordano ("Giordano defendants") have moved to obtain further information from the United States in response to their original motion for a bill of particulars.(1) Defendant Randolph J. Weil has filed a motion to join the Giordano defendants' motion.(2) For the reasons stated more fully below in this Memorandum, the defendants are not entitled to the information requested in their motion.ITHE MOTION FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL BILL WAS NOT FILED
On March 30, 1998, this Court granted the Joint Motion for Extension of Time to File Pretrial Motions and entered an Order providing that all pre-trial motions were to be filed on or before April 20, 1998. (Order on Motions.) The instant Motion for a Supplemental Bill of Particulars was served on June 18, 1998. The defendants did not seek leave of court to file this motion.
The Motion for a Supplemental Bill of Particulars and the Memorandum in Support do more than argue the merits of the defendants original request for a bill of particulars; they seek new information in fifteen separate particulars.(3) This Court, therefore, should deny the Motion for a Supplemental Bill of Particulars because it has not been filed within the time set by the Court.
The Indictment in this case charges the defendants with agreeing: (a) to fix and maintain prices paid for scrap metal; (b) to coordinate price decreases for the purchase of scrap metal; and (c) to allocate suppliers of scrap metal. (Indictment ¶ 3.) The Indictment further defines the agreement as follows:
(Indictment ¶ 4.)(4)
The Bill of Particulars explains the conspiracy charged in the Indictment. The Bill of Particulars sets forth the identities of co-conspirators, the identities of suppliers allocated in the conspiracy, and the geographic locations discussed by the defendants. (Bill of Particulars at 2-5.) The Bill of Particulars further provides that:
With respect to specific scrap suppliers, the defendants and co-conspirators agreed upon maximum pricing to these suppliers. With respect to suppliers in specific geographic areas, the defendants and co-conspirators agreed upon maximum pricing to suppliers in these geographic areas. The defendants and co-conspirators also agreed upon over-the-scale prices for particular grades of scrap, including, sheet metal, appliances or white goods, unprepared and prepared scrap, whole cars, and logs.
(Bill of Particulars at 6.)
In addition, the defendants have received extensive discovery of documents which the United States believes are material to the preparation of the defendants' defense. Among those documents are calendars which set forth the dates of conspiratorial meetings, the same meetings that are set forth in the Bill of Particulars. The defendants have also received portions of the grand jury testimony of a key witness, who is a former employee of the defendant Atlas. That grand jury testimony sets forth the substance of the agreement in the words of Atlas' own employee and more than satisfies the defendants' request to learn more about the "substance" and "terms" of the agreement.
The case law, moreover, does not support the defendants' position. As explained throughly in the Memorandum in Support of United States' Response to Defendants Atlas Iron Processors, Inc., Anthony J. Giordano, Sr., Anthony J. Giordano, Jr., and David Giordano's Joint Motion for a Bill of Particulars; and in Response to Motion of Defendant Weil to Adopt Motion of Codefendants for a Bill of Particulars, pp. 4-10, the Bill of Particulars the United States previously filed satisfies the requirements for bills of particulars as established by Eleventh Circuit case law. Even though courts have uniformly held that a bill of particulars is not intended to function as a discovery device, United States v. Rosenthal, 793 F.2d 1214, 1227 (11th Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 919 (1987), United States v. Davis, 582 F.2d 947, 951 (5th Cir. 1978), cert. denied, 441 U.S. 962 (1979), the nature of the defendants' requests prove that this is exactly how they intend to use their proposed bill.(5)
The real purpose of a bill of particulars is threefold: "to inform the defendant of the charge against him with sufficient precision to allow him to prepare his defense, to minimize surprise at trial, and to enable him to plead double jeopardy in the event of a later prosecution for the same offense." United States v. Anderson, 799 F.2d 1438, 1441 (11th Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 931 (1987) (citing United States v. Cole, 755 F.2d 748, 760 (11th Cir. 1985) (citations omitted)). Because the defendants have already been afforded extensive discovery in this case, these delineated purposes of a bill of particulars have already been met.
The defendants, on the other hand, rely on two, 20-year-old district court cases and one 30-year-old district court case (none of which are from the Eleventh Circuit) to justify their panoramic bill of particulars request. In their Memorandum of Support of Motion for Supplemental Bill of Particulars, the defendants argue they are entitled to "particularization as to: (1) the substance and terms of the alleged agreement; (2) the effect of the agreement; and (3) any overt acts deemed in furtherance of the agreement." In support of this argument they cite three cases: United States v. Greater Syracuse Bd. of Realtors, Inc., 438 F. Supp. 376 (N.D.N.Y. 1977); United States v. Tedesco, 441 F. Supp. 1336 (M.D. Pa. 1977); and United States v. Covelli, 210 F. Supp. 589, (N.D. Ill. 1962). The defendants also attempt to distinguish the instant case from United States v. Deerfield Specialty Papers, Inc., 501 F. Supp. 796 (E.D. Pa. 1980), a case the United States cited previously in its Memorandum in Support of its Bill of Particulars. Analysis of these cases shows that neither Greater Syracuse, Tedesco, Deerfield nor Covelli offers support for the defendants' bill of particulars request; in fact, the opposite is true: those four cases support the United States' position that it has already provided the defendants with a more-than-adequate bill of particulars.
Id. at 380 (some citations omitted). The court also pointed out that occasionally courts have required specification of overt acts to be proven at trial to allow for adequate defense preparation and avoid unfair surprise. Because the Greater Syracuse court anticipated a complex case, it followed the latter line of cases and ordered that all overt acts and effects of the agreement the government intended to mention at trial needed to be "specified to an extent sufficient to allow the defendants to identify and investigate them." Id.
The United States finds Greater Syracuse instructive for three reasons. First, it holds that many courts do not require the government to specify any overt act, while only "other" courts take the opposite tack. The majority of courts, therefore, would not even require the United States to produce as extensive of a bill of particulars as it has already.(6)
Second, the Greater Syracuse court made the government specify overt acts only because the case was complex. In contrast, the instant price-fixing case is simple. It involves no more than two Miami-area scrap metal processing companies whose principals met a few times and agreed on means of manipulating the Miami scrap metal market. Though antitrust cases can at times be complicated, the instant case involves a conspiracy much simpler than most of the conspiracies that come before the Court.
Third, even if the Court were to adopt Greater Syracuse's disfavored approach to bills of particulars, the United States has already met those more stringent requirements: (1) it described for the defendants overt acts (including conspiratorial meetings) it intends to prove at trial; (2) it named the meetings' principal participants, and listed where and when the meetings occurred; and, (3) it stated the "effect" of the conspiracy was to establish prices which the two defendant companies would pay for scrap metal.
Murray, the Fifth Circuit decision relied upon by the court in Greater Syracuse but curiously omitted by the defendants in their Memorandum in Support, specifically held that there is no general requirement that the United States must disclose all the overt acts it intends to prove in a conspiracy trial. The Bill of Particulars provided by the United States is perfectly consistent with the Murray decision.
The defendants' reliance on Tedesco is misplaced. In that case the court required the United States to reveal these particulars as they related to the substance of the agreement:
Tedesco, 441 F. Supp. at 1343-44. If this Court follows Tedesco's lead, the United States will not have to produce any more specifics than it has already produced in its initial Bill of Particulars. When juxtaposed with Tedesco, the United States has already informed the defendants that the conspiracy agreement included an agreement: (1) among competitors to charge maximum prices; (2) and (3) are not applicable; (4) to maintain specified prices upon over-the-scale prices for particular grades of scrap, including sheet metal, appliances or white goods, unprepared scrap, whole cars, and logs; (5) to charge prices on a geographical basis; (6) which did not involve bid rigging; and (7) which involved particular grades of scrap, including sheet metal, appliances or white goods, unprepared scrap, whole cars, and logs. See Bill of Particulars at p. 6, Indictment at ¶ 4. These particulars provided by the United States to the defendants closely track those the Court mandated in Tedesco. For this reason, Tedesco provides no support for the defendants' argument that the Court should require the United States to produce a more extensive bill of particulars.
The defendants also claim that the United States has inaccurately characterized United States v. Deerfield Specialty Papers, Inc., 501 F. Supp. 796 (E.D. Pa. 1980). The truth is, in Deerfield the court denied all but two of the defendant's bills of particulars requests. The first request the Deerfield court granted tracked extremely closely the requests the court granted in Tedesco. Id. at 808. For reasons explained above, the United States' first Bill of Particulars provided the defendants with the answers to each of the questions contained in the first request. The second request the Deerfield court granted asked whether the government contended the defendants acted with "a conscious object of producing anti-competitive effects," or whether they acted with "with knowledge of the likely occurrence of anti-competitive effects and that such anti-competitive effects actually occurred." Id. In the instant case, the United States has never made any representations about the defendants' intention to produce anticompetitive results in the market. The defendants' actions may have had an anticompetitive impact on the market, and such evidence would certainly be admissible at trial; however, any discussion of whether the defendants intended to produce an anticompetitive impact is not properly within the scope of a bill of particulars.
Finally, the defendants cite United States v. Covelli, 210 F. Supp. 589, (N.D. Ill. 1962), in which the court held,
Covelli, 210 F. Supp. at 590. The defendants represent that Covelli is an antitrust case, which is not apparent from the opinion. More than likely, it is not.
The United States has provided a Bill of Particulars which includes the time, date, location and participants with respect to each Miami price-fixing meeting of which it has knowledge. In requiring the government to describe overt acts in a bill of particulars in conspiracy case, Covelli constitutes the minority case law. Even were Covelli a correct statement of the law, however, the United States has already more than met Covelli's bill of particulars requirements. Moreover, as previously mentioned, the United States has met the bill of particulars burdens established Greater Syracuse and Tedesco, the two other cases the defendants cite.
Throughout the six months of pretrial proceedings that have taken place in this case, the United States has presumed this case would result in a jury trial. Assuming trial is likely, the defendants' ability to plead their convictions as a defense to a subsequent prosecution does not turn on the bill of particulars.
The defendants' concern about double jeopardy is based upon a lack of fundamental knowledge of the protection's basic principles. Jeopardy attaches in a jury trial, in most instances, when the jury is empaneled and sworn. Crist v. Bretz, 437 U.S. 28 (1978), Downum v. United States, 372 U.S. 734, 734-38 (1963); United States v. Baggett, 901 F.2d 1546, 1548 (11th Cir., cert.denied, 498 U.S. 862). The basis for choosing this point for the attachment of jeopardy is "the need to protect the interest of the accused in retaining a chosen jury." 437 U.S. at 35. At the present time, therefore, jeopardy has not yet attached to the defendants in this case.
Following a jury trial, when a second court decides if the accused has been twice put in jeopardy, the court first looks to the trial record from the initial prosecution as the clearest proof of what the defendant has been convicted of in the first trial. SeeUnited States v. Benefield, 874 F.2d 1503, 1506 (11th Cir. 1989) ("[I]t is particularly difficult, because of the absence of a trial record . . . to determine whether the conspiracies arose from one unlawful agreement or two"); United States v. Stricklin, 591 F.2d 1112, 1117 (5th Cir. 1979 cert.denied, 444 U.S. 963 (1979)). Assuming there is a trial in this case, the trial record will be the basis of asserting the defendants' double jeopardy claim.
The defendants' stated concerns about double jeopardy are only meaningful in the context of a plea of guilty to the Indictment. In that situation, a second court would look at the Indictment, the Bill of Particulars and the discussion at the plea hearing because a trial record does not exist.(7) However, even assuming that the defendants enter guilty pleas in this case, the Indictment and the Bill of Particulars are more than sufficient to protect them from a second prosecution for the same offense. The Eleventh Circuit has set forth various factors to be considered assessing double jeopardy conspiracy claims.
Those factors include:
(1) time, (2) persons acting as co-conspirators, (3) the statutory offenses charged in the indictments, (4) the overt acts charged by the government or any other description of the offense charged which indicates the nature and scope of the activity which the government sought to punish in each case, and (5) places where the events alleged as part of the conspiracy took place.
United States v. Harvey, 78 F.3d 501, 505 (11th Cir. 1996), (citation omitted).
The Indictment and the Bill of Particulars in this case provide the time of the offense, the identities of co-conspirators, the statutory offense, the principal meetings held by the defendants in the Southern District of Florida, the dates, locations and participants of those meetings and the means and methods by which the charged conspiracy was carried out. In addition, the Bill of Particulars sets forth the identities of various suppliers and the geographic locations discussed by the conspirators.
The Bill of Particulars, in fact, broadens the double jeopardy protections to the defendants. The Bill specifies that the conspiracy ended sometime in January 1993, further defining and extending the time period set forth in the Indictment. It also sets forth the dates of the principal conspiratorial meetings, the latest of which occurred in December 1992. The Indictment and the Bill of Particulars are more than sufficient to allow the defendants to assert their conviction as a bar to a subsequent prosecution for the same offense.
Based upon the foregoing, the Joint Motion of Defendants Atlas Iron Processors, Inc., Anthony J. Giordano, Sr., Anthony J. Giordano, Jr., and David Giordano for Bill of Particulars with Supplemental Request for Particularization of the Substance and Terms of the Alleged Agreement and the Motion of Defendant Randolph Weil to Adopt Joint Motion of Defendants for a Bill of Particulars with Supplemental Request for Particularization of the Substance and Terms of the Alleged Agreement should be denied.
1. Joint Motion of Defendants Atlas Iron Processors, Inc., Anthony J. Giordano, Sr., Anthony J. Giordano, Jr., and David Giordano for Bill of Particulars with Supplemental Request for Particularization of the Substance and Terms of the Alleged Agreement. ("Motion for Supplemental Bill of Particulars".)
2. Motion of Defendant Randolph Weil to Adopt Joint Motion of Defendant for a Bill of Particulars with Supplemental Request for Particularization of the Substance and Terms of the Alleged Agreement. Collectively, the Giordano defendants and Weil will be referred to as the"defendants."
3. The defendants original request for a bill of particulars was entitled Defendants Atlas Iron Processors, Inc., Anthony J. Giordano, Sr., Anthony J. Giordano, Jr. and David Giordano's Joint Motion for a Bill of Particulars (filed March 26, 1998).
4. The defendants have referred to a comment by Judge Nesbitt that the Indictment is "not much help." This comment concerned the appropriateness of venue in the Southern District of Florida, not the terms of the agreement to fix prices. The defendants, moreover, have not contested venue in the Southern District of Florida.
5. "The rationale for restricting the use of the bill is to protect the government from forced disclosure of its evidence and its theory of the case, and to avoid 'freezing' the government's case as a result of the rule that evidence at trial must conform to the bill of particulars." United States v. Raineri, 91 F.R.D. 159, 160 (W.D. Wis. 1980). In United States v. Nacrelli, 468 F. Supp. 241, 250-51 (E.D. Pa. 1979), in a fact situation similar to the case at hand where the government had provided the defendant with the date of each alleged racketeering act, set forth the date of each act and produced Rule 16 discovery (each of which the government has done in this case), the court denied a nine-page bill of particulars because the defendant already had such "clear and definite information as to make a bill of particulars unnecessary." Id. at 250.
6. Interestingly, the Greater Syracuse court observed that in antitrust cases decisions on bills of particulars vary widely and that their use as precedent is "futile." Id.
7. This procedure is consistent with the double jeopardy component of the purpose of a bill of particulars.


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Still bewildered, I told my male friend B. this story years later. I
didn't understand why this Adonis chose Glow-in-the-Dark Terry over the
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"In a pair of Levis?"
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Most men prefer to wear panties because they are more comfortable in it. While most men won't admit it, survey shows that men have worn women's panties at least for once in their lives. It could be their wife's, mother's or sister's, but the thing is that men would like to get a feel of how panties feel like. In the process though, some men gets hooked on the comfort of the panties and swear by wearing the same on a regular basis.
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Men's wear in the 1920s is not very different from men's business attire today. A good suit, tie, hat, and shoes were all a man needed to dress in the day. Evening events were much more formal will full tuxedos even for a dinner party with friends.
To dress like a man from the 1920's you will need the following:
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Hat- Men do not wear hats today as they did in the 1920s. Winter hats included the bowler, flat cap (also known as a cab driver hat), panama (felt), or its cousin the Fedora. Summer hats were made of straw, such as the straw Boater (aka Skimmer) or the Optimo Panama hat. Top hats were still used for formal wear.
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Six months ago, in an interview with the Calgary Sun, Eddie Guerrero was asked about the best year of his life.
"I still haven't had it," Guerrero responded. "(Life) just gets better and better. And the best is yet to come."
Sadly, that would prove not to be the case. On Sunday morning, Guerrero was found dead in a Minneapolis hotel room. Heart failure was listed as the cause of death, although more detailed toxicology and autopsy reports are pending.
Guerrero was one of the most popular stars in WWE, largely responsible for a boom in wrestling viewership among Latinos over the past two years.
He was regarded as one of the better in-ring workers in the industry and beat all odds in 2004 when he was crowned WWE champion, despite being only 5 ft. 7 in. in a league usually dominated by giants.
He was also considered one of wrestling's success stories outside the ring, having beat the demons that plague so many others in the industry.
A 2004 UPN documentary chronicled his battles with drugs, alcohol and depression, which tore apart his family and nearly cost him his life. Guerrero went through rehab, cleaned up his act and reunited his family, leading to the most successful run of his wrestling career.
He celebrated his fourth year of sobriety just before his death.
On the night he died, WWE scrapped plans for the Raw and Smackdown TV tapings, instead presenting two shows that paid tribute to Guerrero.
No angles. No storylines. Just straight-up wrestling matches and heartfelt tributes from his friends and colleagues.
The 10-bell salute at the top of the show had most of WWE's stars and much of the audience in tears.
Guerrero had flown to Minneapolis the night before. He was booked to take part in a three-way Smackdown main event, acting as the workhorse in a match that was expected to see the world title moved from Batista to Randy Orton.
On Sunday morning, when Guerrero missed his 7 a.m. wake-up call, security was alerted by his nephew and fellow WWE wrestler, Chavo. They found him lying face-down in his bathroom and he was pronounced dead soon after. He was 38.
Guerrero is survived by his wife, Vickie, and three children.
There are questions that naturally surface after such a tragedy.
Questions about the toll the business takes on wrestlers and why so many of them drop dead before the age of 40.
But those are questions for another day, as the focus right now should remain on the loss of a wrestling legend.
Guerrero's passing hit hard within the wrestling world. Thousands of e-mails and letters of condolence have arrived at WWE offices, with his death garnering more mainstream coverage than any wrestling death since Owen Hart.
According to John Bradshaw Layfield, Guerrero's close friend and storyline nemesis, the reaction is because Guerrero connected with the audience in a way few others could.
"Eddie touched hundreds of lives personally," Layfield tells the Sun.
"He overcame more obstacles than I'd ever seen to get his life and his family back. It was an amazing story and I think a lot of people relate to that."
Layfield, known to fans as Smackdown star JBL, said it won't be easy for the wrestlers to recover from the loss.
"He was incredible in the ring and an incredible man outside of it. There'll never be another Eddie Guerrero."
EDITOR'S NOTE: We'll have more from JBL on Eddie Guerrero on Monday on SLAM! Wrestling.


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I looked up Charles McCorkle, he who married Hattie Wood. On p. 89 in a section where Mary Ann collected items from old newspapers, I found that "Mrs. Charley McCorkle, Miss Louesa
I also learned in the same section that "After spending a month visiting friends and relatives in this community, Mr. and Mrs. Charley McCorkle returned to their home near Alexandria, Indiana, early Saturday morning."
Later on I learned that McCorkle was a member of and made tables for the new Christian Church in 1905 and that he had been a janitor in an Illiopolis school.
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Also working at the school was Sanders Rice. Remember, Hattie Wood McCorkle's mother was a Rice. Those Rices weren't from the same county area and the census does not list other Rices in the area. But I do know Sanders Rice. He was married to Lovina Wood, my great grandaunt from my maternal Wood line.
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The new live oakie: Annica Rose, who teaches yoga to people with disabilities, surprised herself by loving her new neighborhood behind the East Cliff Village shopping center.
Live Oak Grows Up
Santa Cruz County's most populous unincorporated area ponders a smart-growth future.
By Traci Hukill
Annica Rose admits she had some classist notions about Live Oak when divorce brought an end to her time in Santa Cruz's Seabright neighborhood. But with retirement around the corner and housing prices dwarfing her settlement, the petite, gray-haired yoga instructor needed to get practical. "I had resistance to moving to Live Oak, because Seabright is more upper middle class," she says. "And of course I didn't want to live in a mobile home. But in the end, that's what worked out, so here I am."
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The interior of Rose's new coach is a serene, aromatic zone of incense and pale neutral tones, except for an enormous red chair where Rose sits curled up, talking about her adopted home. In her three years at Shoreline Mobile Estates, an orderly community tucked into the mishmash of houses and apartment buildings between Portola and Brommer on either side of 17th, her ideas about Live Oak have changed. Not only has she seen more divorced, older women like herself in the mobile home park, she's also come to appreciate the diversity of Live Oak. "What I love about Live Oak is it includes all kinds of people," she says. "There's less separation. People aren't afraid because they're used to people who are different from them--Hispanic families, poor people, older people. And it's more relaxed. We're all here," she grins, "hanging out in the orchard."
Live Oak's agricultural past persists in street names like Chanticleer and in a semirural feel along Seventh Avenue and some other roads. But although it remains unincorporated, Live Oak's simple country days are behind it. It's as dense as Scotts Valley and Capitola, according to a new report released earlier this year by the Live Oak Family Resource Center. The third-largest population center in the county, its Latino component is growing; the Live Oak School District now serves equal numbers of white and Latino students. In schools just blocks from Pleasure Point, nearly half the students qualify for free lunches. Graffiti peppers signs all over the community. A brazen public shooting in January drove home the realization that Live Oak has changed irrevocably.
Though it isn't even a city, Live Oak knows the travails of urban life. The amenities, not so much. Rose dreams of a store within walking distance where she can buy soy milk, but the nearest grocery stores are on 41st Avenue in Capitola and on Morrissey in Santa Cruz. Roy Johnson moved his light fixture manufacturing facility to Live Oak 18 months ago and loves it, except for having to drive everywhere. "One of the things that struck me when I moved here is, man, you couldn't get a sandwich anywhere," he says.
The combination of a lack of services and economic development, an economically stressed population and the fact that it's under huge pressure to develop could spell disaster for Live Oak--especially as it loses its slow-growth guardian on the county Board of Supervisors, Jan Beautz, to retirement.
Or it could be a tremendous opportunity for Live Oak to reinvent itself. That's the perspective taken by a group of people affiliated with Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA), a nonprofit pressing for economic and political change in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.
"Can we make communities where people can get the services they need and live and work in a walkable community?" asks Erika Hearon, co-director of the Live Oak Family Resource Center and a COPA member. "What you'll see looking forward in the next 20 years--and this is my personal opinion--is the need to make those types of mixed-use developments and really build more housing on transportation corridors in higher density. Not high density--we're not New York City--but really looking at how to integrate housing and transportation and business for the community, to look at lots of the different pressures on families.
"That is, in my opinion, good planning."
The 'Dumping Ground'
As she prepares to step down from the job she's held for 20 years, District 1 Supervisor Jan Beautz worries about two things: the county budget and growth in Live Oak. Beautz has complained about her district serving as the county's "dumping ground" for low-income and high-density housing. She doesn't want any more of either.
"I have not seen anybody say, 'Get me more high-density housing for my neighborhood,'" says Beautz. "It's already too crowded. When people talk about more crime, it's partly because there's more people."
Beautz also knows more high-density is on the way, regardless of who wants it. One of seven sites in the county designated for relatively high density (think two-story townhouses), with 40 percent of the units designated "affordable," is in Live Oak, off the freeway frontage road between 17th and 41st avenues.
Several other Live Oak sites will likely see some wangling in the coming years. The redevelopment agency owns 3 1/2 acres on Capitola Road near 17th, where the Live Oak Family Resource Center now sits. Barry Swenson Builders has the empty southwest corner at 17th and Brommer, which has seen a surge of activity in recent years with the arrival of Toadal Fitness, People's Coffee and Leo's Taqueria. And East Cliff Village Shopping Center at Portola and 17th--once home to a Deluxe Foods, a pharmacy and a post office, now hosting a dollar store, panaderia and cafe--is frequently cited as an example of underperforming commercial space.
Beautz is not impressed by calls for mixed-use development, which typically combines businesses on the ground floor with housing on higher floors. "Do you honestly think people's lives are going to improve just because there's mixed use?" she asks. She thought a proposal for three-story mixed use at East Village several years ago was too massive, and the neighbors evidently agreed. Nor is she enamored of COPA or the Community Snapshot report published in February by the nonprofit Live Oak Family Resource Center. Beautz questions the worth of the report's findings given that it excludes the sizable section of her district that lies north of Soquel Drive and includes the solidly middle-class neighborhood of Santa Cruz Gardens. (Family Resource Center co-director Elizabeth Schilling says that in the absence of an official definition of Live Oak, the report defined it as the area served by the Live Oak School District--basically south of Highway 1 between Santa Cruz and Capitola.)One thing almost everyone agrees on is the need for more commercial development.
"I think it's important for the community to get this shopping center going," says Karla Oliveira, owner of the Deli-icious Café in East Cliff Village Center. "I'm here all day and I hear people talking. Everyone complains that there's no grocery store. People come here to buy produce and milk." She points to a small cooler near the counter. "I also sell Kelly's bread."
Johnson, the light fixture designer, says he hopes the 17th and Brommer parcel near his studio will help ease congestion. "A restaurant/upstairs housing thing could be in order," he says. "That could be a key little spot for Live Oak. I'm all about people living and working close to each other."Beautz, too, wants neighborhood commercial, though she says there's too much competition for a full-service grocery store. As for housing, she's adamant. "I do think Live Oak has paid its dues."
Unpleasant Subjects
Live Oak may have paid its dues, but the old way of doing business isn't working. On a warm day in late April, Elizabeth Schilling turns into the Pine Knolls mobile home park on Capitola Road, a stone's throw from the border with Capitola. A sheriff's cruiser is parked at the entrance. The place is quiet. The first several rows of coaches seem tidy enough, if a little run down. Behind the main section of the park, though, along the edge of a lower lot, is a scene you'd never find in the neighborhoods where many of Pine Knolls' residents undoubtedly work as gardeners, maids and busboys. A ramshackle mobile home would look palatial here; these are travel trailers and motor homes housing Santa Cruz's invisible workforce. "In the summers they're sleeping on the roofs," Schilling says.
"I wouldn't disagree that it's in bad shape," says Beautz, who sits on the county's mobile homes commission, "but I guess I feel the county has tried really hard with mobile home issues." She points out that Pleasant Acres, an older park on 17th near Capitola Road, is about to get $2 million in infrastructure improvements through a county program, and that the county has helped some residents buy their parks.
For Jorge Zavala, situations like these point to a disparity that's hard to ignore. An assistant director for human resources at the umbrella nonprofit group Community Bridges, Zavala was born and raised in Live Oak. He doesn't remember noticing as a kid that the stretch of his street between 17th and Chanticleer--where the houses are smaller and funkier and most of the families Latino--had no streetlights. "It's pitch black!" he says. "Then I counted on the other side of Chanticleer. There are eight. There it is, right there, that disparity. And I never even noticed it."
As a member of COPA's Community Safety Strategy Team, Zavala works to counteract the effects of poverty and crowding on kids. He wants to get some appealing after-school programs going so boys will have something to do besides hang around with Santa Cruz's half-dozen gangs or try disturbing new drug combinations (a 13-year-old he knows was recently invited to try pot with crushed Vicodin mixed in). Homework clubs won't cut it for this group; Zavala wants something sports-related without the nerdy stigma of an adult-supervised program. Zavala's work is part of a trend that Santa Cruz County doesn't seem to want to acknowledge, says Hearon of the Live Oak Family Resource Center.
"I believe there's a fear that our community, especially in Live Oak, has changed over the last 10 or 20 years," she says. "That California has changed--it's no longer a white majority state. With demographic changes, people can feel threatened. And there is both overt and underlying racism at play here."
Another issue even broader than racism undergirds any discussion of the future: the simple fact of population growth. In the next four years California's population is expected to reach 40 million; by 2032 it will have topped 50 million. How Santa Cruz County deals with its share of this growth will determine whether it remains an inclusive, progressive community or falls into the typical coastal pattern of decrepitude proliferating to serve opulence.
"I think Live Oak is in a sense a microcosm of what's happening throughout the state," Hearon says. "And ignoring the issues will not make them go away."
At the Crossroads
Next month, Live Oak will elect its first new representative in 20 years. Metro Santa Cruz asks the contenders to peer into their complex community's future.
By Steve Hahn
Santa Cruz County would be utterly incomplete without Live Oak, yet the area makes do with the political equivalent of scrimping. Even though it boasts a population larger than Scotts Valley and Capitola combined, it has no city council or staff. It's represented by one lonely county supervisor, and even this political representative has other areas to worry about. When it comes time to get something done for Live Oak on the board, the District 1 supervisor must negotiate with four other supervisors, all of whom have their own constituents at the forefront of their minds. Briefly contrast that with the situation in the city of Santa Cruz, where the District 3 supervisor is joined by seven City Council members, all fussing and worrying about one geographical area, and it's clear that the supervisor overseeing Live Oak will always have an overflowing cup.
This has been the delicate situation facing current Supervisor Jan Beautz for the past 20 years as Live Oak has continued its transition from a rural chicken-farming town to a bustling urban center, with all the associated growing pains. Now, Beautz is ready to let someone else have a whirl at sticking up for the overlooked district wedged between Capitola and Santa Cruz. Beautz acted as a strong, often outspoken, activist for the area's interests, with a particular emphasis on neighborhood preservation, and her shadow will no doubt loom large over whoever takes the helm following the June election.
The four candidates vying to succeed Beautz all have different ideas about the future direction of Live Oak, but all agree that there is great potential in this hidden county gem.
Michael Pisenti, a member of the Live Oak School District board of directors, envisions a future for Live Oak that would include well maintained roads, adequate sheriff patrols and the ability of property owners to exercise their rights without undue interference from county officials. Pisenti is adamant that this vision can be implemented without more taxes. Instead, he advocates tightening up the way funds are currently spent.
"The roads are in terrible condition," he laments. "This is mainly because the Board of Supervisors has taken money that should have been allocated to fixing roads and spent it on useless things, like surveys and polls. They pigeonhole these reports and there's no action taken on it."
Pisenti says he would spend that money directly on road improvements in the Live Oak area. Another hot-button political issue in Live Oak is housing, both where it goes and how many people come along with any given development. Beautz has spent much energy protecting the area from being a "dumping ground" for low-income and high-density housing no one else wants. Pisenti would strike a different chord. When it comes to private developments, he believes politics should be left out of the equation.
Instead, he would revamp the planning process so the supervisors no longer had the ability to approve or deny projects. Under his vision, that power would be reserved for the Planning Department, which would be guided by zoning laws and other regulations set by the board. Supervisors representing neighborhood concerns wouldn't be able to block private developers. "People own property, not the government," says Pisenti. "We have a housing problem in our county, and this is mainly because of limited building permits and excessive charges for those permits."
Where Pisenti would step out of the way of private developers following county law, candidate John Leopold would step in, but in a different manner than Beautz has done. Leopold, who works as development director for the Social Sciences Division at UCSC, believes the supervisor does have a role to play when it comes to regulating development in Live Oak, but that there needs to be a more positive, less adversarial tone to neighbor-developer negotiations. Instead of fighting off housing developers as intruders, Leopold promises to work on compromises acceptable to both sides.
"Building housing that is out of scale with the neighborhood is a legitimate concern, but I think we can prevent housing from being built that is inappropriate while still having a positive vision of what can be accomplished and built," he says. "Right now, Craig French of Red Tree Properties can't even get his phone calls returned. Do you want to run the county in a way that treats people as adversaries or that brings people into the process?"
Leopold envisions bringing together neighbors in Live Oak to create a community plan that could be presented to developers interested in working in the area. This way, guidelines would be set down before developers draw up plans that neighbors will never agree to.
"There's a mentality now that we have to stop everything, that we're a dumping ground, that these developers are trying to hurt us," he says. "Well, what about developing some positive goals? Let's figure out what those are and support the people paying our taxes."
Carolyn Busenhart, owner of Charisma Hair Salon, wants a future for Live Oak that is "crime free." Most days, there are only two sheriffs' deputies assigned to patrol the Live Oak area. After two shootings in the past six months, it has become clear to all the candidates that more deputies are needed. However, Busenhart sets herself apart from the other candidates by promising to focus on harsher penalties as a solution instead of preventive measures such as more after-school activities. "Right now, the strategy is to involve kids in programs, but that hasn't been working," argues Busenhart. Instead, she'd like to see harsher penalties for repeat offenders of gang-related activities. "We need to change our tactics and do something else. We need to get tougher on the gangs. Maybe that would start scaring some sense into them so they will leave the gangs."
Busenhart, who bills herself as the taxpayer's candidate, also envisions a more stringent use of county resources in Live Oak, especially in the transportation realm. While some hold up the purchase of the rail corridor that runs through Live Oak as a way to improve traffic congestion, Busenhart labels it a "useless waste of county funds."
Candidate Betty Danner, a former county employee and executive director of the Santa Cruz Criminal Justice Council, would follow in Beautz's footsteps more than any other candidate, which is probably why Beautz is endorsing her for the position. While Danner's first focus would be on reducing crime, she would also continue the fight against high-density housing being placed in Live Oak.
Her strategies for reducing crime are innovative. She would institute a juvenile drug court that would offer treatment instead of punishment for youth caught up in drugs, but would also hold up high standards to ensure they stay clean. She would expand the teen court program, which prosecutes high school students involved in low-level offenses without putting a mark on their record. Finally, she would reach out to gang members, especially the gang leaders, and attempt to get them involved in more positive group activities, such as a sports league.
"Generally, gang members don't join school-sponsored sports teams, but sports are a great way to engage our youth in positive activities," she says. "If we could set up a youth league, where the kids have a say in how, when and where the activity happens, they want to play. It's amazing how different that is from us telling them how, when and where to play. "Danner would also work to strengthen the Live Oak identity, something that has taken a more coherent form over recent years as neighborhood organizations grow. The first step in this direction could be something as simple as a few signs at the area's borders saying "Welcome to Live Oak."
"It's simple, but you start to build a sense of identity with something like that," says Danner. "People always say, 'Where does Live Oak begin? Where does it end?' Identity is the beginning, and then you need to build upon that."
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Series 1 UCLA Academic Freedom Case, 1969-1972
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University correspondence between members of the UCLA Philosophy Department and Vice-Chancellors, the Chancellor, and the University President. Begins with letters confirming the hiring of Angela Davis and then continues through the controversy. One letter by Davis. 4/16/1969-6/18/1971
Correspondence of support for Davis between Kalish and various members of the UCLA community as well as other academic and professional institutions: Stanford, Yale, American Philosophical Association, York University of Ontario, University of Wisconsin, Cornell, Princeton, and a letter from a former student of Davis. 9/12/1969-3/7/1970
Resolutions by academic and citizen groups supporting Davis' right to teach. Associated Students of University California, Berkeley. Associated Students of UCLA. 25th Assembly District Democratic Club (San Jose, California). USC University Senate. 8/22/1969-1/12/1970
Press releases put out by faculty of the UCLA Philosophy Department.
Radio news editorials and rebuttals by members of the UCLA Philosophy Department, including a letter by Davis.Radio news editorials and rebuttals by members of the UCLA Philosophy Department, including a letter by Davis.
Report by the American Association of University Professors printed in August 1971 and a paper ("The Constitutional Rights of Communist Teachers and the Angela Davis Case") given at the 1972 annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
Series 2 Trial and Defense Movement, 1970-1972
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National United Committee to Free Angela Davis(NUCFAD) Administrative Papers
NUCFAD form letters letters requesting political solidarity and commitment, fundraising letters, petitions from NUCFAD.
Letters to Supporters
Hate Mail
Resolutions by various Democratic Clubs and one from the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU).
NUCFAD newsletters: "Free Angela" and "Because We're Oppressed" newsletters. 1970-1972
Trial bulletins published by the state as well as community groups.
Press releases and press correspondence by NUCFAD and the Committee for Defense of the Bill of Rights. 10/15/1970-4/15/1972
Statements and reports on the trial. Various communist materials. Many undated.
Protest Materials & Political Event Flyers
Statements by Angela
East Germany solidarity materials. Two pamphlets, one published post-trial and follows her travels in East Germany. One open letter from Attorney Professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Kaul. Five statements by the Women's International Democratic Federation.
Political pamphlets from various sources on the Angela Davis trial.
Series 3 News Clippings, 1969-1977
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University of California media, 7/1/1969-10/27/1970
Los Angeles Times, 9/19/1969-4/28/1977
Santa Monica Evening Outlook,9/19/1969-12/20/1969
San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, July 9, 1969-December 1969
Other California Newspapers, 10/7/1969-3/17/1972
Non-California (United States) Newspapers, 9/27/1969-April 1971
Social-Movement/Ethnic Media ( The Black Panther; Muhammad Speaks; Soviet Woman; Feminist and Jewish papers), 1970-1971
Italian and French Media, 10/25/1970-1/20/1971
CPUSA Affiliated Media ( People's World; Daily World; World Magazine), 6/20/1969-12/31/1970
CPUSA Affiliated Media ( People's World; Daily World; World Magazine), 2/2/1971-10/14/1972
Television Commentaries on the Trial (January and February 1971)
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Spurs hammer Heat, take 2-1 series lead
San Antonio, TX – The stars for the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat were again on the bench in the final minutes of Game 3.
Only this time, it was because the Spurs ran away with a humbling 113-77 rout for a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals.
The third-largest margin of victory in Finals history was anchored by two unlikely heroes.
Danny Green and Gary Neal were unconscious from behind the arc, combining to shoot 13-of-19 from 3-point range as the Spurs set a Finals record with 16 makes from behind the arc.
Green poured in 27 points after connecting on 7-of-9 from the perimeter, upping his Finals total to 16 3-pointers after just three games.
"Luckily I've been open and the shots have dropped for me," Green said modestly. "Hopefully we can shoot the ball like we've been shooting and win a couple more games."
Neal, after averaging less than six points in the postseason coming in, chipped in 24 off the bench for San Antonio, which never trailed and led by as many as 37.
Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard each posted double-doubles in the resounding win, while Tony Parker added six points and eight assists and was able to rest his ailing hamstring down the stretch with the outcome decided.
Parker, though, will have an MRI Wednesday to assess the extent of the injury.
"Hopefully it's nothing big and it's just a cramping or got tight on me," Parker said. "I don't know, it was just a weird feeling."
The combination of Green and Leonard shut down LeBron James to the tune of 15 points on a poor 7-of-21 shooting effort.
"We've got to regroup, figure out what we did wrong, which was a lot of things," said James. "I have to play better. I can't have a performance like that."
James also had 11 rebounds and five assists, and Mike Miller checked in with 15 points on a perfect 5-of-5 showing from behind the arc.
Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh had 16 and 12 points, respectively, but combined for just six after halftime. Mario Chalmers went 0-for-5 from the floor and was held scoreless following his game-high 19-point effort on Sunday.
Miami committed 16 turnovers after totaling 15 over the first two games of the series.
"We got what we deserved tonight," began Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra in his postgame press conference. "They got into an incredible rhythm. Every shot they wanted to get, they got. We did not disrupt them.
"They played with more force and more focus."
Since the NBA Finals went to a 2-3-2 format in 1985, the team that won Game 3 of a tied series has won the title 12 times in 13 instances. The only outlier came in 2011 when the Heat lost to the Dallas Mavericks in six games.
The Spurs will host Game 4 on Thursday.
The Heat showed a glimpse of what they are capable of when they erased a 43-32 deficit in under three minutes late in the first half with a 12-1 flurry that featured two Miller 3-pointers.
It resembled the 33-5 run Miami used in the second half to pull away in Game 2, but unlike Sunday's game, the Spurs had time to respond with a game- defining spurt of their own.
With the score even, Parker and Neal both hit 3-pointers in the final minute of the opening half, the latter letting his fly just before the buzzer to give the Spurs a 50-44 cushion at the break.
The third quarter was all Spurs before James closed the gap with a personal 9-1 run, but by that point the hosts had built a 21-point lead.
Seven straight Spurs points pushed the difference to 59-46, and an 11-0 spurt a littler later, highlighted by Manu Ginobili's tomahawk slam, had San Antonio in front by a healthy 73-52 margin with under three minutes to go.
James' late wake-up call helped cut Miami's deficit to 78-63, but any momentum was quickly dispelled by Neal draining two 3-pointers to spark a 13-0 run to open the fourth quarter.
Parker returned briefly after getting his hamstring checked out in the locker room, but he was quickly back on the bench as the Spurs' role players finished off the pummeling.
This was the first action at AT&T Center since Game 2 of the Western Conference finals on May 21, and the Spurs felt right at home in the early going, shooting 61 percent from the field in the first quarter.
They were only ahead by a 24-20 margin after 12 minutes and connected on just one field goal in the second quarter before Green drilled a corner three for a 32-26 San Antonio lead with 6:47 remaining in the half.
The difference reached 11 a little later courtesy of a Neal triple, before the Heat pulled even for one of their few bright spots in the lopsided loss.
Game Notes
Green and Neal both topped their postseason career-high point totals ... The Heat had allowed just one opponent (Indiana) to score 100-plus points in 18 previous games this postseason ... San Antonio improved to 7-1 at home this postseason ... Miami fell to 3-23 in its last 26 games in San Antonio ... Duncan totaled 12 points and 14 boards, while Leonard had 14 and 12 in the win ... The Spurs won the battle on the glass, 52-36 ... The Spurs committed 13 turnovers.


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Walmart bests forecasts amid soft sales
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart saw a diminutive 1% increase in same-store sales at U.S. stores, but beat analyst estimates and delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter profits, the company announced Thursday.
Walmart said total sales increased 3.9% to $127.1 billion compared to $122.3 billion last year. Without the benefit of a favorable currency exchange situation, sales would have increased a lesser 3.7% to $126.8 billion. Full year sales increased by 5% to $466.1 billion compared to last year's total of $443.8.
Fourth-quarter profits increased 7.9% to $5.6 billion and earnings per share of $1.67 were 10.6% higher than the $1.51 reported the prior year and well ahead of the company's guidance and analysts' consensus estimate. Walmart had forecast profits in a range of $1.53 to $1.58 and analysts were looking for $1.57.
"Walmart topped off a really good year with a solid fourth quarter, and I'm proud of what we accomplished as a team," said Mike Duke, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Every day our associates around the world deliver on our mission to help customers save money so they can live better. Together, we added $22 billion in sales to top $466 billion. Walmart U.S. was a key driver of our 5% sales increase."
The 1% U.S. comp increase was at the low end of a forecast range which called for a 1% to 3% increase and a slow start to the first quarter has the company forecasting flat same store sales.
To offset the deceleration in U.S. comps, which can be attributed to a range of external economic pressures, Walmart highlighted its volume growth and market share gains. The company said its U.S. division added more than $10 billion in net sales last year, including $4.7 billion as a result of same store sales growth. The company said it gained share in categories such as food, consumables, health and wellness, entertainment and toys.
"Despite comps at the low end of the guidance, our market share gains, as noted by Nielsen and NPD, along with our two-year positive comp trend indicates the underlying strength of Walmart's business," said Walmart U.S. president and CEO Bill Simon. "Comp sales grew by 1% for the quarter, lapping a solid 1.5% comp last year. This represented $743 million in comp growth for the quarter."
Looking ahead, Walmart faces a challenging comparison against a first-quarter 2012 U.S. comp increase of 2.6% and a variety of headwinds such as increased gas prices and reductions in take home pay. Against this backdrop, Simon expressed confidence that the company's familiar low price strategy will continue to resonate with shoppers.
However, a slow start to February caused largely by a delay in tax refunds has dimmed enthusiasm for the first-quarter and resulted in a flat same store sales forecast.
"We continue to monitor economic conditions that can impact our sales, such as rising fuel prices, changes in inflation and the payroll tax increase," Simon said.
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How Engaged is Your Subscriber? Yahoo! & Gmail Want to KnowDaniel Randa
A recent announcement by Responsys confirms that Yahoo! is now using engagement metrics to help determine email delivery just a few months after Gmail started using engagement to make filtering decisions. We wrote about the importance of this back in February. This basically means that having a highly engaged subscriber list will be another key factor in whether or not your email makes it to the inbox. As a result, you'll need to pay close attention to your delivery and response metrics to troubleshoot potential problems and take preventative action before the ISPs block your mail. Here are few tips:
- Remove the Inactives (a/k/a) non-responders. While inactives are doing nothing but inflating your numbers and deflating your response metrics, they now could be harming your delivery. Actively segment and remove them from your list. To make it easy, you can use the Event API to automate the removal of email addresses that have not clicked on a link in the past six months, or you can automatically send a win-back campaign to confirm their interest (or disinterest) before you remove them.
- Make it easy to unsubscribe. CAN-SPAM requires that you provide a one-click unsubscribe so users can easily remove themselves from your list. When you make it difficult to unsubscribe, they will instead hit the "Report as Spam" button which registers as a complaint to the ISP. High complaint rates = poor delivery. Therefore, make the unsubscribe button prominent and make sure it works. If you do get complaints, remove them immediately from your list. You can use the Event API to automate this process, just like Team Snap did.
- Send relevant email. Subscribers may unsubscribe or complain if the content isn't meaningful. Analyze your open and click rates to determine what is yielding the highest response and tailor your messages to user interests. You can use the Event API to segment your lists and the Parse API to extract key activity data for each email address based on category. Together, you can create a campaign that is highly targeted and relevant to each subscriber on your list.
Removing non-responders and complainers is low risk especially when you think about the negative impact it could have on emails reaching your active subscribers. Therefore, focus on building a list with loyal subscribers rather than a huge email file that does nothing but weigh you down. To learn how SendGrid APIs can help, download your copy of the SendGrid API Guide.


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HaveGodWillTravel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Have God Will Travel Interventions, LLC
My name is Stephen Fuccello. I am an Interventionist. Interventionists are professional counselors who help families get their loved one into drug and alcohol treatment when the addict is out of control and unwilling to ask for help on their own.
I offer a wide range of services in addition to alcohol intervention and drug interventions. I also conduct executive interventions, family intervention and additional alcohol and drug intervention programs. Watching a family member, friend or co-worker self destruct is extremely painful especially when they do not seem to understand the severity of their disease. Often they think they can handle the problem and aren't aware of their impact on others.
I have been sober for 25 years and have dedicated my life to helping others recover from the dealdly illness of addiction. This website should convey to the visitor a sense of professionalism, compentency and should inspire confidence in the visitor that I can help them through the difficult and complicated process of identifying the right treatment center for them and helping coordinate all aspects of recovery.
1. Families who have a member suffering from any form of addiction (Drug/Alcohol/Eating Disorders/Anger Issues/Gambling/Sexual addiction)
2. Friends of a sufferer
3. Employers/Co-workers of a sufferer
This website needs to be informative and compelling. It is a sales tool to help convince the visitor to contact me. I would like the site to have powerful images of addicts/alcoholics who are struggling as well as imagery of someone who has been through the process and is well.
Please visit the following websites for a better understanding of what interventionists do and what the site should feel like:
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There needs to be a contact form prominately on the site. Also, my phone number should be appear repeatedly. 972-333-6997


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by Tom Utescher
After sputtering to an 18-17 halftime edge last Wednesday against the visiting girls of Engineering & Science High School, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy began firing on all cylinders and pulled away to win, 51-27.
Lions power forward Michelle Boggs led all scorers with 21 points, while point guard Gianna Pownall produced 11 points and guard/forward Sydni Epps (recently returned from an ankle injury) accumulated seven points and six rebounds.
A day earlier, the Lions upped their Girls Inter-Ac League record to 2-0, beating the visiting Owls of Agnes Irwin, 50-31. Each team had one player score in double digits (senior Elana Roadcloud with 13 points for SCH and Emily Wetz with 11 for Irwin), but the locals had eight different players contribute to their total.
The Lions cruised after assuming a 25-12 halftime lead. Boggs, a senior, finished with nine points and sophomore Julia Schumacher scored seven, while Epps and senior Alexis Giovinazzo each added six points. Three points apiece came from juniors Maddi Hinchey and Gianna Pownall, and sophomore Madi Sehn.
On Wednesday, the Lions stumbled to a 3-2 advantage over the first five minutes and called a time-out. They had already missed eight lay-ups, and there were more errant shots to follow from under the basket. Boggs bagged 10 points in the first half, but in the second quarter alone that total was matched by E & S's Monique Whaley-Briggs. With standout guard Brittany Hrynko having moved on to DePaul University (where she is a freshman classmate of Germantown Academy's Alexa Gallagher), Whaley-Biggs is the top returning offensive threat for the Pegasus.
After their spate of errant lay-ups early in the game, the Lions had made a number of attempts from the outside, but their shot selection wasn't as good as it could've been.
Still wanting his team to take the ball down low, coach Steve Purcell asked his Lions at halftime "We're bigger than them, so why are we settling for jump shots? Get the ball inside. Just focus, take your time, and don't worry about getting fouled. That's all there is with lay-ups."
From a slim 18-17 edge at the intermission, SCH pulled away by increasing its offensive production and by limiting the visitors' Whaley-Biggs to just two points in the second half. It was still only a six-point game at the start of the fourth quarter (32-26), but the Lions opened it up with a 12-0 surge over the first five minutes of the final frame. Boggs hit two lay-ups and a short jumper during the spree, which also included a basket in transition by Pownall, a jumper by Hinchey, and a pair of free throws by Roadcloud (five points total).
With the game clock under two minutes the Lions had five subs out on the court, and received a lay-up by Olivia Byron off an inbounds play and a three-pointer from the left corner by fellow freshman Caroline Henry.
UPDATE – The SCH squad ended the week with a winning record of 4-3 overall after defeating St. Hubert's Catholic High School, 47-39. Pownall and Epps finished with 16 and 13 points, respectively, for the Lions, who roared out to a 13-5 lead in the first quarter.


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Beyonce: Super Bowl Note for African-American Women
Beyonce and her Destiny's Child band mates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams jump for joy after their 2013 Super Bowl performance on Sunday (February 3) in New Orleans, La.
After the amazing performance, the 31-year-old songstress wrote a note celebrating African American women, highlighting the ladies that performed that evening.
"What a proud day for AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN!!!!" Bey wrote in a note posted to Instagram. "Kelly, Michelle, Alicia, JHud. You are all beautiful, talented, and showed so much class! It was an honor to perform at the Superbowl with you phenomenal ladies. Love, Beyonce"
"Beautiful note from @beyonce!! Big Love 2 @KELLYROWLAND & @realmichelleW 1 of my Favorite parts of the show!!! Still on 10!! #SB47 ;-)" Alicia tweeted about the note.
Also pictured inside: a promo image for Beyonce's upcoming Mrs. Carter Show World Tour!