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I loaned a foil trainer kite to someone who returned it in less than perfect condition. It's fun to have around, so I was wondering where to find dacron tape. Will the local shops have it in March or do I need to go to a sail shop??
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Ssholtis needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Leopard books is a new product designed for the web and mobile platforms which helps businesses promote and sell their products across many channels quickly and easily. With a swipe of a finger and a push of a button, users will be able to promote their business and products on facebook, twitter, google, ebay, yahoo, and more. To help our customers make sure they are maximizing their potential leopardbooks provides intuitive feedback on competitors, pricing, trends and more ensuring that customers have the information they need to compete. The software itself will be available online at http://www.leopardbooks.com as well as in native app formats for ipad and android tablets in a subscription format.
Small to medium size businesses selling products both on and off line.
We need a logo and splash page graphic which communicates the leopard books brand, social promotion, integration and style. The splash artwork will be used on the ipad and android as well as a backdrop on the web so it will need to scale, but should incorporate elements of the logo design in it. We are not looking for a flat look like other "books" software has, but would rather have something which has some pop, yet professionalism.
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Missouri House members have given first-round approval to legislation that seeks to prevent children and younger teens from buying electronic cigarettes and other devices.
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A winner was selected from 20 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
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Gun Sales Rising in South Dakota: Is This a Good Thing?
In wake of the shootings this year and especially after the school shooting Friday in Connecticut, gun sales are surging. Nationally and locally. Especially the AR-15's, one of the guns used in the school shooting.
Locally, they are selling just as fast.
Because gun owners are scared of having their rights taken away.
The stores in Sioux Falls are extremely busy. In fact, the first time I dialed Gary's Gun Shop it was busy. When I did get through I had a chance to talk to the Steve Naatjes. Steve was very busy but did take a few minutes to talk to me about the increase of sales.
In an exclusive interview with Steve here is what I asked him.
Q: What items are buyers purchasing in the wake of the shootings?
A: Handguns, shotguns and rifles, along with other accessories.
Q: Are there AR-15's available?
A: The AR-15 is hard to get right now, but we have some.
Q: Have you seen sales like this happen before?
A: Yes. The Clinton administration during the days of the Brady Bill.
Q: Do you think that Legislation will go through that will outlaw these types of guns?
A: Probably
Q: Are you worried about that?
A: Yes.
Q: How are sales in general right now?
A: Highest I have ever seen. Through the roof.
When I asked Steve what he thought about all this going on with the possibility of legislation taking away rights for American's to own certain guns, his answer to me was simple.
"It starts with society. When there is separation of church and state and separation of church and government when they take religion out of the schools it doesn't allow discipline to be taught. Nobody learns a thing. Like always, it's not the guns fault," Steve said.
He also mentioned that the violence in video games should be a concern, not the guns.
I asked Scheels for their opinion on the subject of gun sales and they had "No Comment":
From FoxNews.com this static was quoted from the FBI:
Yet, statistics show, unlike handguns or shotguns, rifles account for only a fraction of homicides in the United States. Of 12,664 murder victims last year, only 323 were killed with rifles, according to the FBI.
Is it likely that Obama will push through a legislation banning certain types of guns? Yes. Is it necessary? Probably not, but it depends who you ask.
If you ask me, yes something needs to be done. Is it taking away my right to protect myself, I don't think so.
I grew up around guns. In fact, guns have been in my life one way or another. Do I feel safer owning a gun, that if necessary I can use it for my children's and my protection? Absolutely!
Personally, my daughter had a death threat this summer. It turned out to be a couple kids "playing a prank." I didn't take it lightly, police were involved and my gun was loaded.
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There hasn't been a new versions of Agenda Fusion for more than a year. Are there any plans for future versions or has it been discontinued?
We are not planning further upgrades for Agenda Fusion. There have been 6 years of constant upgrades to Agenda Fusion and we did a survey of a large number of users about a year ago to determine what features were desired and if further development was really necessary. Many of our users stated that they did not even use all the features offered in Agenda Fusion. Also, the program came to take up so much memory because of all the added features, that we listened to our users and have stopped development of the program. In the year since then, -- we have continued to sell Agenda Fusion at the same rate and have had very few feature requests, so we will stand on the decision.
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Yahoo employees soon will be giving up their company-supported Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry devices as the search company moves its workforce over to iPhone, Android and Windows 8 smartphones, according to a published report.
"New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of Yahoo's full time and part time employees in the US, promising them a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone," said a Sept. 15 story on BusinessInsider.com.
Most notable about the program, which was revealed through an internal memo obtained by the Web site, is that RIM's BlackBerry devices will no longer be among the options for employees to choose from when the program begins, according to BusinessInsider.com. In the past, RIM BlackBerry devices were the primary supported devices for the company's workers.
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"We have a very exciting update to share with you today-we are announcing Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun! As of today, Yahoo is moving off of blackberries (sic) as our corporate phones and on to smartphones in 22 countries. A few weeks ago, we said that we would look into smartphone penetration rates globally and take those rates into account when deciding on corporate phones. Ideally, we'd like our employees to have devices similar to our users, so we can think and work as the majority of our users do.
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"We're getting started right away and taking orders starting now."
As part of the new program, Yahoo will cover the monthly bills for the new smartphones for its workers, according to BusinessInsider.com.
In an email reply to an inquiry about the report, a Yahoo spokeswoman wrote: "We don't comment on rumors, speculations or internal matters."
Several analysts say that the purported move models what is already being seen in the mobile marketplace as smartphones are dominating the landscape, much to the dismay of companies like RIM.
"It's simply a realization of where the smartphone market is going," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst with Interarbor Solutions. "It first and foremost validates the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach in productivity with a twist-the twist being that they'll buy the device but that you'll still get to choose it as a worker."
Dropping RIM as its device provider is not a huge surprise, Gardner said, because BlackBerry devices can't support the key business productivity apps that are being sought by business users. Instead, those apps are available for iPhones, Android and even Windows smartphones.
"This is a leading adopter kind of a position, which you would expect from a company like Yahoo-at least the newer Yahoo," he said. "I would expect more companies to realize that different workers have different preferences, but that the smartphone provides an always-on, hyper-productivity for their employees. It's a nice balance between an employer's technology preferences and user choice and self-sufficiency."
Kevin Benedict, an analyst with Netcentric Strategies, said he recently completed a survey of 120 IT companies on their choices for mobile devices for their workers and that Yahoo's move mirrors the results he collected.
Asked how those businesses prioritized the mobile operating systems they plan to support in the next few years, the No. 1 choice was Apple's iOS, followed by Android and Windows, said Benedict. RIM's BlackBerry was a "distant fourth," he said.
"The data supports it loud and clear," Benedict said of the Yahoo move. "I recently talked with a company of 100,000 users which is preparing to switch from BlackBerry to iOS" because that's what the employees wanted. "It's the entire ecosystem around iOS, from iTunes to the App Store to the volume of quality apps that are available. And the capabilities that you are getting are so greatly enhanced."
Another analyst, Charles King of Pund-IT, said the Yahoo move also makes sense from the standpoint of a large enterprise wanting to rein in the number of platforms it supports to cut costs. "Everybody is trying to save a buck on IT management," said King. "I imagine Yahoo did some research with employees before making the announcement and discovered that the number of workers preferring a BlackBerry over an iPhone or Android was fairly miniscule."
The big loser in all of this is RIM, which for years had been the mobile device provider of choice for large enterprises that wanted mobility, security and excellent device management for its workers.
"It's certainly not a happy announcement for RIM," King said of the Yahoo move. "RIM is continuing to try to argue for their own relevance, and being abandoned, even though Yahoo is not the company it once was, having them walk away from your platform is not happy news for RIM."


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'''Rare Hazard''' - if you hit a monster for the second time and spend a death protection at the same time, you will lose 13 piety "at once". Since this is a rare occurence, it can be easy to overlook. If you are going tight and playing risky, you can plan for either losing 3 piety or 10 piety and the sudden loss of 13 can mess your careful plans up. Since death protection as a mechaninc is relatively rare, and TT only punishes one other thing,
'''Rare Hazard''' - if you hit a monster for the second time and spend a death protection at the same time, you will lose 13 piety "at once". Since this is a rare occurence, it can be easy to overlook. If you are going tight and playing risky, you can plan for either losing 3 piety or 10 piety and the sudden loss of 13 can mess your careful plans up. Since death protection as a mechaninc is relatively rare, and TT only punishes one other thing, being aware of his dislike of using death protections can also land you in this situation.
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Tikki Tooki is the trickster serpent god. He has a particular soft spot for gold, accepting it as tribute and granting it to faithful followers. This makes him quite versatile both for purist runs (where gold is in short supply) and with heavy preparations (where you often have more than you can spend). He can also be of help to those seeking to fuel items which comsume gold for activationg their abilities, such as Crystal Ball or Alchemist Scroll.
Tikki Tooki is uncovered in the south in a small subdungeon where you must defeat a form-changing imp without getting hit by it in return several times.
Skill Required
Depends on how much you want to depend or rely on him, and when in the course of the run you begin worshiping him or convert into his religion. Early worship requires planning before a run, as does heavy reliance. He is relatively easy to gain piety with, but his few restrictions will severely alter your gameplay, and punish some strategies. He promotes top notch play and rewards it, but there is a chance of locking yourself into a downward spiral if you aren't careful.
Likes and Dislikes
TT rewards piety for killing monsters that are lower level than yourself (+5 piety). He awards successful dodges (+3 piety) and use of the WHEYTWUT and WONNAYT glyphs (+1 Piety). He also awards you +1 piety every time you poison a monster for the first time. You can also gain piety from him by using his "Tribute" boon which gives you +10 piety for 15 gold.
TT dislikes you getting hit by monsters too much, so you get -3 piety every time you get hit by a monster after the first. If you prep TT from the kingdom screen you will get -3 piety every time you get hit by a monster at all. He also dislikes using up death protections which he punishes by -10 piety. He won't punish casting a CYDSTEP glyph, or otherwise acquiring a death protection, but he will punish using it up.
Rare Hazard - if you hit a monster for the second time and spend a death protection at the same time, you will lose 13 piety "at once". Since this is a rare occurence, it can be easy to overlook. If you are going tight and playing risky, you can plan for either losing 3 piety or 10 piety and the sudden loss of 13 can mess your careful plans up. Since death protection as a mechaninc is relatively rare, and TT only punishes one other thing, it's easy to forget TT dislikes them. Not being aware of his dislike of using death protections at all can also land you in this situation.
If your piety drops below zero, he will give every monster first strike, and weakening blow, which is a severe punishment. Consdering that he actually has very few way to lose piety with, it is easier to avoid than it seems.
Desecrating TT's altar - should be avoided unless you're confident about what you're doing, and/or are a heavily focused spellcaster. Even then, it's prefferable not to do it until you are well into a bossfight and are certain that you won't be relying on first strike (or even physical attacks) to finish the boss off.
Early Worship
Early worship of TT is tricky and requires forward planning. At lvl1 the piety for killing lower level monsters can't be acquired, and that is what he awards the most piety for. Using WHEYTWUT, WONNAFYT and APHEELSICK while you explore will give you one piety per use, and in case of the first two prepare lvl1 monsters to be harvested later for added benefits. Finding other altars and collecting the piety sparkles around them can also help, and investing some gold into a tribute will get you closer to your first boon. Bringing items which provide you enough XP to level up at least once in order to "start" at lvl2 is also an option (False Beard, Cracked Amulet of Yendor, Amulet of Yendor, even Balanced Dagger), or using the Goblin conversion bonus for an early level up will also let you harvest lower level monsters for piety. Playing a Fighter (easier to reach lvl2) or an Assassin (starts with APHEELSICK) is beneficial to this approach.
What you are looking for is a fast and eficcent level2, and the soonest possible purchase of the Tiki's Edge boon, which will provide 10 gold and +1 XP per monster killed. After you gain enough piety for the Dodge boon, you gain 10 more gold and allow yourself to gain +3 piety of random dodges. Where you take it from there is up to you to decide, but gaining 50 piety shouldn't be too hard, and with that you can convert to another God with up to 20 extra gold, two helpful small boons, 25 piety to spend with the other deity, and the free GETINDARE glyph TT provides if he is the first deity you join.
The approach works better if you join at lvl2, because you can get your first level without adhering to the principles of not being hit more than once that TT mandates.
Mid-run Worship
Provides you with an ease in early leveling, while leaving many low level monsters to be harvested later with more ease. The principles are the same, except there is much less pressure, and if you convert to his religion with extra piety or join him with extra gold picked up, you can grab Tikki's Edge more easily.
If joined at the right time, this can allow you to mop up all the low level monsters you have saved for a big boost in piety and experience, potentially letting you level up and heal both your health and mana without exploring. Whether you pick anything else up or swap into another god depends on the situation.
Dedicated Worship
Tikki Tooki provides three options for dedicated worshipers:
1) Tikki's edge - if focused provides more XP for "cleaning popcorn", and helps spellcasters level-up while fighting the boss. This restores your health and mana, so you can unload more spells on the boss, as well as increasing your fireball damage directly and PISSORFF damage through physical damage increase. The extra gold can also help you buy cheap items for conversion, expensive items for use, potions from the alchemy shop or simply fuel a Crystal Ball. Just one level ot Tikki's Edge is enough, but some situations can make second helpings worthwhile.
It is effective with Fighters and Assassins, but also works with regular spellcasters, especially ones with large enough mana pools.
2) Poison - acquireing several levels of the Poison boon can help regen-fighting strategies greatly, and the first level can sometimes "pay for itself". The boon was recently reworked so the exact strategies still have to be determined.
It is effective with Monks and Gorgons if you can pull it off.
3) Reflexes - For 35 piety and 1 health potion, TT will provide you a set of potions. The quicksilver potion gives you dodge prediction and 50% temporary dodge chance. If you can "set up a dodge", that is, get hit by non-lethal attacks until your prediction says "DODGE", that means your next attack will cost you no health. You will also get 3 TT piety with that dodge. Before you apply your "free hit" on the boss, you drink the other potion, Reflex. It gives you double strike on your next attack, with the monster hit in between. Since you have secured a dodge with Quicksilver, the monster doesn't hit you, but you hit it twice!
It is effective with any physical damage dealer, particularly Rogues and Berserkers, but can be made to work with most classes provided enough practice. It is also the best way of dealing with certain bosses, namely Bleaty.
Piety Spike
Concentrated TT worship and channeling many resources into repeated uses of the Reflexes boon is TT's piety spike. It requires a moderate ammount of health potions, 35 piety per helping, and decent damage to work, but provides a string of free hits on the boss. That amount of concentrated damage is sometimes difficult to imagine until you try it, but it works spectacularly well against bosses with high health and low hit points like Aequitas, Bleaty and even Namtar.
It is doable with both early and late worship depending on the situation and expirience of the player. It is also advisable to save popcorn with first strike (Goblins, Gorgons), to help setting up dodges with the Quicksilver potion. Hits you take move the dodge prediction counter, and monsters who are lower level than you generaly can't hit you unless they have first strike.
Stuff that makes it work better are damage items, the Dodge boon and Rogue's Dodging, and knockback. If you have a knockback attack, you will knock the enemy back twice when using a reflex potion, causing extra damage.
Tips and Tricks
If you want earn a little bit more gold from a run you have already won, and want to experiment with TT a bit, you can worship him or convert into his religion after you've allready killed the boss or bosses. You can then pick up Tikki's Edge and Dodging for gold, and mop up the remaining lower level monsters and desecrate the remaining altars (except the Glowing Guardian's one) to buy more his of Tikki's Edge.
One little-known trick with Tikki Tooki is that plants can be farmed for piety. It's entirely possible to dodge a plant's "attack" against you, and Tikki Tooki rewards you with piety every time you dodge. This means a Tikki Tooki follower can build up large amounts of piety just by clearing plants (this is also possible with Jehora Jeheyu, but that deity doesn't offer a boon that enables you to dodge). As well, attacking plants will trigger the quicksilver potion, causing your dodge chance to rise. In this way, you can continue to attack plants until your next attack is predicted to be a dodge then attack the boss. On levels with large numbers of plants (Western Jungle, Southern Swamp, and Ick Swamp being the most common) this can make Tikki Tooki a very powerful deity, and also an exceptional choice to convert into after worshipping the Earthmother.
Also, don't be afraid of one or two extra hits which would punish you if it would provide a large enough advantage.
Overall, Tikki Tooki is one of the best "last hour" deities, offering enormous amounts of piety for slaughtering defenseless monsters and superb boons which can improve your odds. His piety spike is also the go-to solution to several bosses and PQI scenarios for several game veterans.


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U.S. health regulators approved Takeda Pharmaceutical Co's alogliptin to treat type 2 diabetes as a standalone drug and in two other formulations in combination pills with older diabetes medicines.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the three approvals simultaneously on Friday.
Alogliptin by itself will be sold under the brand name Nesina, the agency said. The drug in combination with metformin - one of the most common initial treatments for the disease - will be sold as Kazano, and alogliptin along with pioglitazone - the chemical name for Takeda's Actos - will be sold as Oseni, the FDA said.
Type 2 diabetes is a growing health crisis that can lead to numerous serious complications, such as heart disease, circulatory problems and amputations, kidney damage, and blindness. It affects about 24 million Americans and accounts for more than 90 percent of diabetes cases diagnosed in the United States, the FDA said.
Alogliptin, which lowers blood sugar levels by stimulating the release of insulin after a meal, was shown to be safe and effective in 14 clinical trials involving about 8,500 patients with type 2 diabetes.
Due to caution about the heart safety of diabetes drugs after GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia was shown to cause heart problems, the FDA is requiring five postmarketing studies for Nesina, including a cardiovascular outcomes trial to assure that the drug does not increase of the risk of heart attacks or strokes. Another study to be conducted once the drug is being used by the public will monitor for liver abnormalities and serious cases of pancreatitis.
Kazano's label will include a boxed warning for lactic acidosis, a build-up of lactic acid in the bloodstream associated with metformin use, the agency said.
The Oseni label will have a boxed warning for heart failure associated with pioglitazone use. Pioglitazone belongs to the same class of diabetes drugs as Avandia, known as thiazolidinedione, or TZDs.
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At the time of Rodgers' commencement address, the university itself was only 15 years old. It owed its existence to the gold rush pioneers and the preachers and teachers who had followed them west. Their collective vision for a College of California predated even the admission of California as a state in 1850.
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The Brazilian government's recent move to grant an additional $454 million to Brazilian soybean farmers to offset sagging prices could make the country a target within the World Trade Organization.
With this sum, the total allocated for aid to Brazilian farmers reached roughly $1 billion for the 2005-06 season. Some countries could be preparing complaints in the WTO against Brazil's move. At least, this is the concern among Brazilian officials.
The aid package, specifically aimed to help farmers in the central west region of the country — the top soybean producing region of the country — guarantees a minimum price for the commodity growers. All farmers who sell soybeans at a price below production cost are entitled to receive the aid: a surplus payment by the government equivalent to between 40 cents and $1.60 per bushel.
"This could be understood as a direct subsidy to production," said Brazilian Agricultural Foreign Relations secretary Célio Porto. "There could be some questionings in the future, it is true," he said.
Brazil could lose favor in the WTO if it is charged with practicing exactly what Brazil says its adversaries, specifically the European Union (EU) and the United States, practice.
The country's political strength could fade on all fronts within the organization.
While there could be embarrassing questions from the WTO, Brazilian officials are quick to say that the move was completely by the book, and that the country is entitled to have acted as it has.
Currently, there is a 10 percent of Gross Value of Production (GVP) limit for subsidies for members of the WTO.
Brazil says the ceiling for direct government aid has not been reached. One problem is that Brazilian GVP has dropped significantly from last year, thus increasing the percentage.
Brazil is already preparing for a possible struggle within the WTO, this time in a different role — being accused of over-subsidizing its production. As a defense, Brazilian officials point to a study from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) stating that Brazil's use of subsidies reached only 3 percent of its GVP between 2002 and 2004, way below the allowed maximum.
According to the OECD study, developed countries have spent sums that, on average, reach 30 percent of their GVP. In EU, there were subsidy rates as high as 37 percent of GVP during the same time frame. In the United States, the rates were about 17 percent, the study says.
Brazilian officials think they can dodge the bullets fired from its commercial competitors in the WTO. "This should not undermine at all the negotiations for subsidy reductions within the WTO," said one official of the Agricultural Foreign Relations Department.
Although Brazilian officials think they are prepared to fight off international problems related to the new aid package, it is a different situation inside the country. Farmers, suffering from high debt and low prices, did not welcome the plan. They claim the time for aid has long passed and that this package does not get to the heart of the problem — farm debt.
"It doesn't address the real problem, our endemic debt burden," said Homero Pereira, president of a growers association in Mato Grosso, the biggest soybean producing state in the country.
Farmers have already begun protesting against the lack of help they get from the Agricultural Ministry. What farmers really want is a renegotiation of about $3.5 billion in unsolved debts that go back to 1995.
"Without this renegotiation, no package that could help us," said another farmers' association president.
"The renegotiation has already been announced with the last aid package. If there were another one coming, it would be to a specific region, not for all farmers," Agricultural Minister Roberto Rodrigues said.


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Mount Etna volcano erupts; airspace briefly closed
October 26, 2013
ROME (AP) — Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has erupted, sending up a towering plume of ash visible in much of eastern Sicily.
Etna's eruptions aren't infrequent, although the last major one occurred in 1992.
Catania airport said the eruption Saturday forced the closure of nearby airspace before dawn, but authorities lifted the order in early morning.
Several inhabited villages dot the mountain's slopes, but evacuations weren't necessary despite the lava flow.


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April 1, 2009
Complete Release in PDF Format
Cal Poly Invitational Meet Information Packet
The Schedule
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Cal Poly Invitational
at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
note: hammer throw will take place on Friday, April 3
Last Time
Scott Smith and Scott Finley became the first Gauchos to qualify for Regionals in the 2009 season. Smith competed at the Stanford Invitational on Friday, March 27, coming away with a new personal best in the 5000m of 14:03.26. On Sunday, March 29, Finley cleared a seasonal best of 16-6.75 (5.05m) in the pole vault at the Cal/Nevada Championships. Other noteworthy performances last weekend were Waleed Totari and June Farley reaching the Gaucho all-time lists in the 10,000m, Irene Kujore reaching the all-time list in the discus, and Barbara Nwaba reaching the all-time list in the high jump.
This Weekend's Meet
The Gauchos will travel north to San Luis Obispo to compete at the Cal Poly Invitational. The meet is on Saturday, April 4, with the hammer throw taking place on Friday, April 3 at 3:00 p.m. For the main meet on Saturday, field events will begin at 11:30 a.m. with the men's javelin. Track events will begin at 12:15 p.m. with the women's steeplechase. The final event will be the men's 4x400m relay, which is scheduled to begin at 3:50 p.m. Meet information and parking information can be found here. (note: link to PDF file)
Great Scott
The first two Regional-qualifying performances of the season were earned by two athletes who share a name, but compete in remarkably different events. Scott Smith recorded the third-best 5000m mark in UCSB history, finishing at14:03.26 at the Stanford Invitational. Scott Finley recorded the third-best pole vault clearance in UCSB history with his vault of 16-6.75 (5.05m) at the Cal/Nevada Championships. Both athletes have now punched a ticket to the NCAA West Regionals in Eugene, Ore.
The Irene Scene
Freshman Irene Kujore opened the season strongly at the Gaucho Round-Up and has started to improve as the season progresses. At last weekend's Cal/Nevada championships she threw 148-4 (45.21m) in the discus, which is good for eighth all-time in UCSB history. Kujore has qualified for Conference in the discus and the hammer.
Keep `em Coming
With her clearance of 5-7 (1.70m) in the high jump, Barbara Nwaba reached the all-time list in yet another event. She is now in a tie for seventh in the high jump and holds a position on the all-time list in four different events: the 100m hurdles, the 400m hurdles, the high jump and the heptathlon. Nwaba also came within four-hundredths of a second of qualifying for Conference in the 400m dash.
Go the Distance
At 25 laps and nearly 6.2 miles, the 10,000m is a tough race to prepare for. Last weekend, members of the distance squad participated in their first official 10,000m races of the season. Waleed Totari logged the first race on Friday at Stanford, and he reached ninth all-time for UCSB by running 29:54.16. Totari currently leads the Big West Conference in the men's 10k. The next day at Cal/Nevada, June Farley reached ninth all-time for the women by running 36:44.99, which was good for third place in the race. Farley is currently second in the Conference in the women's10k.
Sprinting Ahead
A few of the sprinters and hurdlers improved their seasonal marks to solidify their positions in the Conference. Jason Newland set a new personal best in the 200m at 21.79, which moves him up to sixth all-time at UCSB. Drew Johnston and Barbara Nwaba improved their hurdles times, with Johnston setting a 110 highs time of 15.23 and Nwaba setting a 100m hurdles time of 14.78. Nwaba moves up to fifth on the Gaucho hurdles list, and Johnston has now qualified for Conference in both the 400m hurdles and the 110 highs.
Quick Recap: USC Trojan Invitational March 21
Tamara Thomas took second place in the triple jump, recording a mark of 39-1.25 (11.92m) that currently stands as the third-best in UCSB history. Scott Finley cleared 16-0.75 (4.90m) in the pole vault to take fifth place and reach eighth all-time at UCSB.
Quick Recap: Sam Adams Combined Events, March 13-14
Barbara Nwaba set a new UCSB record in the heptathlon with a score of 4772 points, which also won the meet. In the decathlon, Derek Masterson won the meet with 6463 points in his first multi-event competition.
Quick Recap: Ben Brown Invitational, March 8
Barbara Nwaba and Scott Smith entered the UCSB record books with great early-season performances in their respective events. Nwaba set a personal best of 14.94 in the 100m hurdles to reach eighth all-time for UCSB, and Smith set a personal best of 14:14.09 in the 5000m to also reach eighth all-time.
Calling On All Former Gauchos!
The UCSB Track & Field and Cross Country program is updating its database of former Gaucho athletes. A new section has been added to the sidebar of the track & field site of UCSBgauchos.com, where team alumni can enter their contact information and preferences. By providing this information, the team will be able to contact you more directly and keep you informed of upcoming activities and events. Fill out the form soon to stay up-to-date with UCSB Track and Field.
BE Great
Earlier this year, UCSB Athletics unveiled the BE Great initiative. BE Great is dedicated to maximizing leadership ability, strong on-campus interaction, and general welfare for all 450 student-athletes and Intercollegiate Athletics staff at UC Santa Barbara. BE Great also focuses on personal and career development, diversity and social awareness, and ensuring academic success. UCSB has a 92% student-athlete graduation rate.
Gauchos Give
With the arrival of Mark Massari as Athletics Director in October, UCSB Athletics also launched the Gauchos Give community outreach initiative for all 450 athletes and 20 sports. Gaucho athletes give back to their community through free clinics, helping families during the holidays, providing financial and emotional support during tragedies, and touching the lives of youth.
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Street Rods Imply Performance, or at Least They Used To. Today, They Are Megadollar Show Cars. Is There Still a Place for Them in HOT ROD? Or Do We Need an Attitude Adjustment to Appreciate Them for What They Are?
In these days of editorial upheaval there's a daily banter in the office as to what does and does not constitute a HOT ROD magazine car. It's accepted that each vehicle we feature should be a standout in its realm, but which are the acceptable realms? Of particular debate is the subject of professional show cars, and in particular, pro show street rods.
On one hand they represent the pinnacle of automotive craftsmanship and styling expertise. They push the boundaries of both subtlety and audacity, and they trade for Robb Report kind of money. They appeal to a vast audience of fringe car enthusiasts who have likely never turned a wrench, yet have the potential to inspire die-hard backyard wrench wielders. The question is whether they inspire creativity or ire. Because, let's be honest, we get a lot of hate mail about megabuck cars that can't be driven. Yet, just as Top Fuel is the ultimate exaggeration of Calvin Rice's first Nats-winning digger, pro show is the evolution of every Barris, Alexander Bros., Ed Roth, or Dean Jeffries car.
Consider Dan Carter's '32 Rat's Glass Vicky SpeedStar-a ride that's in stark contrast to the performance cars that occupy almost every other page of this issue. In true show car fashion, the odometer reads under 500 miles, the sparkly rotors show not a scuff, and the plush carpet reveals not a shoe imprint. But it's got a thundering 12.5:1 big-block.
What makes these cars interesting is the surprise creativity, and phantom cars with body shapes that never existed are more popular than ever. Study the Vicky from the grille shell back and something doesn't seem quite right-or perhaps it's odd from the cowl forward. Credit the Rat's Glass Vicky SpeedStar body, one of the long line of the Thom Taylor/Bobby Alloway-inspired cars that became available in fiberglass, first as a highly stylized '33ish roadster, then as a coupe, and now available as a Vicky. They're liberal, cartoonish interpretations of the original design-period incorrect, if you will-and have become just slightly less than ubiquitous in the rodding realm. So, after finding out that several other Vicky SpeedStars would be competing at the Indy Goodguys show, builder Jack Sheppard knew he'd have to bust out a trump card to take the win. He decided to graft on a stock-style '32 roadster grille shell, an upright piece that vastly contrasted the SpeedStar's rearward-tilted configuration.
Sounds straightforward enough, but something as simple as integrating a '32 roadster grille shell required massive reconstructive surgery. The SpeedStar's body featured a sharply forward-raked stance, resembling a wolf hunched down on its front legs, ready to rumble. To get the body lines to match, the increased grille-shell height necessitated raising the cowl and flattening the hood and roof on a horizontal plane more parallel to the ground. Says Jack, "I had to cut the floorboard out to change the car's side profile, stretch and widen the hood three inches, then relouver it to match body lines." In essence, the body was modified to fit the grille, not the other way around, and the upright shell blended traditional Vicky cues back into what was a somewhat cartoonish figure.
Once completed, the Vicky started rounding up trophies and magazine coverage. At a NSRA show in Louisville last August, it caught the eye of Dan Carter, who offered to buy it on the spot. That's common for Jack, who builds a top-notch rod every year only to sell it right away, sometimes before it's even completed. His creations have consistently made a big impact, and he's earned a reputation for building stellar street rods. With skills groomed over decades, Jack exercises new creative ideas through building cars in his personal shop. The guy's an incredibly talented homegrown wrench. Can you fault him for building a car the way he likes it, then turning a profit to move on to the next one? He already has a lucrative day job, so it's not about the money. "I don't miss the Vicky at all," he says. "I've been playing with cars since I was a kid, so for me, the fun is in building the car." If someone wants to throw money at him, he might just take it. Now the car is for sale again for $125,000.
Clearly, the street rod culture attracts the upper echelon of fabrication talent and craftsmanship. It also has an endless cue of rich guys seeking to one-up the competition with gushing streams of cash. The result is some beautiful cars that don't get driven. Do they belong in the new HOT ROD? Let the world know on the HOTROD .com message boards or e-mail us directly at email@example.com.
Quick Inspection: '32 Rat's Glass Vicky SpeedStar
Dan Carter, Yorba Linda, CA
Engine: Built by David Cooper (Knoxville, TN), the 468ci big-block Chevy runs on 110-octane race gas and puts out 550 hp. The package includes a steel crank and rods, and 12.5:1 compression slugs. It breathes through Edelbrock aluminum heads and intake and a 750-cfm Demon carb. Fumes exit out of Sanderson shorty headers and custom 3-inch pipes.
Transmission: A Lokar shifter controls a B&M TH350 trans and 3,000-stall converter.
Rearend: The Winters quick-change rearend is polished and houses a 4.11:1 ring-and-pinion with 3.74:1 quickie gears.
Frame: Bobby Alloway custom built his trademark SpeedStar-style chassis and reworked it to accommodate the standard '32-style grille shell.
Suspension: Up front is a Heidt's independent suspension with upper and lower A-arms, coilovers, and rack-and-pinion steering. Out back is a custom Winters quick-change converted to IRS with two transverse links and coilovers on each side.
Brakes: Wilwood discs at all four corners provide the whoa.
Wheels: Accentuating the wicked stance are a set of custom billet-aluminum Boyd Coddington wheels, measuring 17×7 up front and 20×10 in the rear.
Tires: BFGoodrich P215/45R17s and P275/55R20s.
Body: Rat's Glass provided a '32 Ford Vicky SpeedStar body, which Jack Sheppard custom modified to fit a '32 roadster grille shell. The taillights are custom one-offs.
Paint: The two-tone treatment features DuPont Milano Red from a Honda and Mercedes Silver. Between the bases and clears, there are 13 coats total.
Interior: Paul Adkins (Coleman, Alabama) completed the interior with a matching red and silver theme. The seats, dash, and center console are all custom.


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SANFORD, Fla. - After four days of testimony, the defense rested its case in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
[WATCH/CHAT LIVE: Tony Pipitone in courtroom | SPECIAL SECTION: Zimmerman trial]
Judge Debra S. Nelson denied the defense's second motion for judgment of acquittal based on self-defense, saying it should be decided by the jury. The state is asking in the jury selections for the inclusion of two lesser offenses--manslaughter and aggravated assault.
The defense objected to the lesser included offenses and they will argue it further on Thursday morning
The state presented its rebuttal case with at least two witnesses being recalled. Adam Pollock, the owner of the gym where Zimmerman trained at, was the first rebuttal witness.
The state said Pollock is marketing "Zimmerman training" on his website. Pollock said he does not market that on his website and the defense objected to the state's question. Nelson ruled the state cannot ask the gym owner about website advertising his Zimmerman training program.
The state's second witness is Arthur Fleishman, the Alochol Tobacco and Firearm agent who arrested Zimmerman on battery on a law enforcement officer charges in 2005. The defense objected to the state calling the witness. The state said the defense has given testimony that Zimmerman was unable to fight and their witness may refute that. That testimony may occur Thursday morning at 10 a.m.
The state also decided not to call Florida Department Law Enforcement's David Lee.
Closing arguments will follow on Thursday, with the jury to receive instructions from Judge Debra S. Nelson before beginning deliberations. Closing arguments are expected to take 6 hours, 3 for each side and will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara said he is going to argue the applicability of manslaughter in jury instructions.
The jury is expected to begin deliberations on Friday.
After jurors left for the evening Wednesday, Nelson denied the state's motion for sanctions for a sequestration violation of witness John Donnelly. Donnelly testified on Day 10 of the trial, but was sitting in court on Days 2 and 3--June 25 and 26. O'Mara said Donnelly was only in court to support Zimmerman's wife, Shellie. O'Mara said the defense noticed his presence and Donnelly left.
Nelson said Donnelly's testimony will stay, but she said she is very concerned with the disobeying of the rule. She said she doesn't believe Donnelly knew of the rule prohibiting his presence.
In four days, the defense called 18 witnesses, including Zimmerman's mother and uncle and friends of Zimmerman—all of whom testified that the voice screaming in the background of the 911 call was Zimmerman, not Martin.
O'Mara also called Sanford police investigators, Martin's father Tracy Martin, former Police Chief Bill Lee and forensic and law enforcement experts.
The state called 38 witnesses, consisting of Martin's mother and brother, the teen who was on the phone with Martin just before the altercation, the medical examiner who completed Martin's autopsy, neighbors who heard the altercation, Sanford Police Department members, forensic experts, Zimmerman's former law enforcement teachers and the non-emergency 911 dispatcher who suggested Zimmerman not to follow Martin.
The state began its case on June 24 after nearly two weeks of jury selection and rested its case July 5.
Nelson's first ruling on Wednesday was that Zimmerman's attorneys will not be allowed to present a computer-animated fight reenactment as evidence and also cannot introduce text messages from Martin's phone.
Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder. The former neighborhood watch volunteer has pleaded not guilty, claiming he shot and killed Martin in self-defense.
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It was interesting to hear Jerry Manuel evaluate his performance last night on SNY, admitting he pushed the envelope in bringing back Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran, and the experiment with Reyes at third.
Much of the self-evaluation had been written by posters at the time, but it must be remembered Manuel is working off different information and conditions that we were.
Quite simply, Manuel knew there was pressure on him to win this year, and that only made it easier to be tempted, especially when the player says he's ready.
Manuel didn't get into it, but there was inconsistency in how he made out his lineup, set up his bullpen and bench. Lest we not forget, it was Manuel's insistence to stay with Jenrry Mejeia, who has been shut down with a shoulder injury.
I also didn't like how Manuel handled Jeff Francoeur and John Maine, but there are always be dust ups in the player-manager relationship.
Last night Manuel was candid, forthright and honest. There was very little excuse making, other than to say the collapse of the offense played a major factor into the season's outcome. And. I don't look at that as an excuse as much as a statement of fact.
If this had been Manuel's first season with the Mets, you could make an argument for another chance, but he presided over the September collapse in 2008 and last year's disaster. There were extenuating circumstances after both that warranted a second chance, the bottom line is that through a myriad of reasons, the Mets have taken a step back since 2006, and in this market, with this stadium and the expectations, somebody will have to pay the price for failure.
Keeping Manuel with roughly the same payroll as this season is to tell the fanbase "our hope is that we stay healthy and improve,'' which is something they've been saying since Carlos Beltran took that third strike from Adam Wainwright.
Keeping Manuel would be saying this year was acceptable.


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Microsoft has opened its Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview program and is now accepting applications from developers who wish to participate.
However, much to the consternation of many developers, Microsoft is limiting access to the SDK and is not publically releasing it because all the features have not been announced.
In a post on the Windows Phone Developer Blog, Microsoft's Todd Brix said:
"I know that many of you want to know why we simply don't publically release the full SDK now. The reason is that not all Windows Phone 8 features have been announced and our SDK includes comprehensive emulators that allow developers to test apps against a wide range of Windows Phone features. We recognize that this is a different approach to delivering tools than we've taken in the past. Our goal is to generate as much Windows Phone 8 excitement as possible to attract new customers when phones go on sale. This is one of many steps we're taking to help give you what you (and we) want most."
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Brix added that "Windows Phone 8 remains on track to hit store shelves later this year and we very much want developers to create new apps for the platform, so please bear with us. There will be more SDK news in the coming weeks."
Microsoft is accepting developer requests for access to the SDK with the objective of enabling developers of Windows Phone's most-downloaded apps to start optimizing them for Windows, "and we expect the majority of published developers in this situation to qualify for access," Brix said.
To apply for access, developers must visit the Microsoft Connect site and complete a short application. Microsoft will be accepting applications until Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. PDT.
Meanwhile, developers wasted no time expressing their dismay for Microsoft's strategy, posting comments to the Brix post.
"There is no universe in which this makes sense," wrote a commenter identified as DrPizza.
Another commenter, identified as LostLogic, wrote:
"I find this strategy very strange. With today's technology as soon as the SDK is released to the limited amount of developers, one of them will end up posting it on a message board like XDA or a torrent tracker. The features of the emulators will be unveiled in quick succession following the leak.Wouldn't it be more prudent to announce all the wonderful features officially first, then release the SDK to the public, instead of this attempt at cloak & daggers?"
A commenter identified as Martin Anderson, said, "I understand that there are unannounced features that you want to keep hidden from people until you are ready to detail them. But it is a shame that this is holding devs back from testing the more basic features. In the past you have had locked down emulator images, could this not be done at least before the full announcements are made?"
And a commenter identified as HowieC42 said, "Not releasing the SDK to interested developers prevents apps being ready for the release of Windows Phone 8. With all the competition in the mobile phone arena, this makes little sense. Phone purchasers are swayed by both the number and quality of apps. A must have app can sell a lot of windows phones. You should be encouraging all developers, not just those with present apps."


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For anyone who pays attention to my whereabouts or reads this column regularly, you may know that I left town recently to attend a memorial service for my father, who died Sept. 6 at age 86.
It was a good trip. The service was a true celebration of a wonderful life well lived, and I was able to spend some quality time with my mother, who maintains her warm and bright outlook on life. Plus, I saw more family than I could count and left feeling blessed to have such a big and boisterous clan to which to return during times of loss.
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If you listen hard, you can hear a rumbling undercurrent of discontent from the Southern United States about the controversial issues of the failed drug war and the massive negative societal damage it has wrought in one of the poorest and most remote corners of the nation.
Welcome to the buckle of the Bible belt, a place long known for its desire to punish with Old Testament vengeance instead of progress with New Testament kindness, compassion and tolerance.
A place where sin has been confused with crime and as a result almost 30,000 of my fellow Alabamians are rotting away inside the prison system, which was built to hold only 12,000.
A place where the first pot offense is a misdemeanor, but a second is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Current law sends nearly 500 people to prison each year at a minimum monetary cost of $5 million to Alabama taxpayers.
According to the prison commissioner, 80 percent of our folks in jail or prison are illiterate or have a drug problem, which is really no surprise, because in Alabama we spend more to incarcerate someone for smoking a joint than we spend per child in our education system. For instance it costs around $10,000 a year to imprison a pot smoker but only around $3000 to pay a years tuition at the University of Alabama. As long as we are willing to spend more to incarcerate than was are to educate we will always have full prisons as lack of education is one of the major factors in determining who goes to jail.
However, Alabama is also known for her rebellious streak and her strong sense of independence from the federal government. I represent that streak and am on a mission to remind Alabamians of that proud heritage.
Hope springs eternal and even in the Deep South things eventually change. The winds of change began to blow in Alabama in September of 2002 when the drug war kicked in my front door and hauled me off to jail. That supreme injustice is responsible for my entrance into Alabama's 2006 Gubernatorial Election as the Libertarian Party Candidate.
While some people (sadly, many of my colleagues in drug policy reform are included in that bunch) see my candidacy as a joke and think I do not have a snowballs chance in hell of "winning", I beg you and them to look a little deeper and perhaps re-evaluate what the definition of "win" is.
When I entered the political arena in Alabama some three years ago no one was working on drug policy reform. No one was loudly calling for an end to marijuana prohibition. No one was writing or lobbying their elected officials on that issue. No papers were dedicating their editorial sections to the need for change in the way drug use is dealt with in our state or to the fact that our prisons are filled to bursting with people who got caught smoking a joint.
People in Alabama were scared to death to speak up or to step up and say that what has happened here is wrong. With good reason. Speaking up in Alabama is what got me arrested.
The Pot: Recreational
My emergence on the scene has had a dramatic effect however. After three years of letter writing, protest organizing, media interviews, hitting back at the injustice system and finally throwing my hat in the ring for Governor, that wind of change has risen to a howling gale.
Here are just a few of the major breakthroughs my activism and my campaign have brought about.
Members of the third task force on prison overcrowding recently recommended making simple possession of marijuana a misdemeanor no matter how many times you are caught. That is a major change for a state who has handed out 10 year sentences by the bushel for possession of a joint to minorities and poor white people unlucky enough to get caught. It doesn't go far enough if you ask me but it is a step in the right direction, a foot in the door, a leg up.
My campaign calls for outright legalization of marijuana for adults, collecting the taxes from sales and using them to fund a scientific and realistic approach to prevention as well as treatment for people addicted to hard drugs.
Their first move across the drug policy reform chess board is a small one, and before it is all said and done, we will either meet in the middle and agree to something we can all live with or I will win the election and full sanity will reign in this state.
The Pot: Medical
On 4/20/2005 The Alabama Compassionate Use Act was introduced to the Alabama House Judiciary Committee. I sat in on the hearing and thought I had fallen into the twilight zone. Not ever in my life did I think I would hear black Alabama Democrats extol the virtues of States Rights and white Alabama Republicans voice concern about possibly pissing off the federal government. But that dear reader is what happened on that day.
Rep. Laura Hall (D – Huntsville) is a brave and courageous soul for introducing this incredibly controversial piece of legislation into the Alabama House of Representatives. Ms. Hall's son died in 1989 from AIDS. She believes that he might still be alive today if he could have used marijuana to help him keep his medications down and she is adamant that no other Alabamian suffering from any disease which medical marijuana might help should have to do so.
On that day a subcommittee was formed to study the legislation further and a vote was set for 4/27/05. I am happy to inform you that the Alabama Compassionate Use Act passed out of the judiciary committee on a sharply divided voice vote and is set to come to the house floor sometime in January or February of 2006.
After the Supreme Court ruling Ms. Hall was asked if she would bother bringing the bill back to which she responded, "The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday against medical marijuana statutes won't dissuade me."
Hall said she would be back with her bill because she believes it gets around problems that the Supreme Court found with medical marijuana laws in other states.
Come early 2006 Alabama is likely to be the 13th state to enact medical marijuana legislation. 13 has always been my lucky number and it will be even more so when it represents our position in the battle to protect the sick and dying from drug war brutality. Finally our rank will be something other that 50th in the list of things that are good.
The Prison Crisis
One cannot work drug policy reform in Alabama without also becoming involved in prison reform. After all, the failed drug war has fueled the prison crisis across the nation and in Alabama people in prison on pot charges have actually died due to lack of medical care. Since when does a pot conviction equal a death sentence in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?
I have been working with Roberta Franklin who heads up Family Members of Inmates and is host of The Morning Show which I often co-host as well as The Ordinary People Society headed up by Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, a former inmate who served 10 years of a life sentence for crack cocaine in an Alabama prison. Earlier this year we helped organized a Prison Reform March on Washington D.C. with the November Coalition.
When Governor Bob Riley ran in 2002 one of his promises to the people of Alabama was that he would honor the recommendations of the Sentencing Commission. Those recommendations included making marijuana possession a misdemeanor, treatment instead of incarceration for drug offenders, early release of non-violent offenders and more community corrections and drug courts so that judges would have more options than jail for people who pose no danger to the community. Governor Riley has failed repeatedly to do all of those things. At one point around 4000 non-violent offenders were released from Alabama prisons, but since the laws that landed them there in the first place were not changed many of them wound up back in prison for a failed drug test or for missing an appointment with their probation officer. The number of people in prison quickly rose above those prior to the mass release.
Instead of acknowledging the obvious reasons for this and doing the right thing Gov. Riley has formed two additional commissions/task forces to look at the prison problem, and they have all come to the same conclusions. I guess Riley meant he would follow the recommendation of the Sentencing Commission, but neglected to add that he would keep forming them until they told him what he wanted to hear. Unfortunately for Naughty Boy Bob they have all said the same thing.
1. Stop locking up non-violent drug offenders
2. Make treatment and community corrections an option in every county.
On November 16, 2005 their message apparently got through and Governor Riley announced that he plans to dedicate the first two weeks of the next legislative session to prison reform. I'll be there every single day to speak for our people who are rotting away in cages.
My campaign platform calls for releasing all non-violent drug offenders from prison and expunging their records so that all of the extra judicially imposed obstacles placed before them are removed. Again I expect a compromise but I have a weapon that my opponents do not have and that weapon might be just the thing to win me the Governor's Office.
In May of 2005, Alabama Attorney General Troy King issued an opinion declaring that people convicted of drug crimes could vote even while incarcerated. He said drug crimes are not crimes of "moral turpitude".
That means that around 8,000 inmates currently in Alabama's prison system never lost their right to vote nor did the tens of thousands who have served time and are now back in society lose theirs.
In about two weeks I will be teaming up with Reverend Kenneth Glasgow to go into the prisons in Alabama and re-registering drug convicts to vote. We will also be contacting former inmates who may not know about this new ruling so that they can also register to vote. Considering the large number of people in Alabama who have been illegally disenfranchised over the years I fully expect their support in next years election. The Republicans and Democrats wouldn't be caught dead soliciting the vote of "prisoners" and you can take that to the bank.
While the Governor and the prison task forces appear to be moving in the proper direction to some small degree they still have it all mostly wrong. It looks as though treatment instead of incarceration is rearing its ugly head. Without my continued push for real reform, here is what will happen in Alabama.
Marijuana users will be forced into treatment centers simply because marijuana offenders make up the bulk of drug offenses in this state and there is money to be made in the treatment industry. They will still be arrested, dragged through the court system and forced into treatment when they do not need treatment. That will still be a gargantuan waste of our very limited resources and will take up much needed space for people who do actually have an addiction to hard drugs.
The following proposals are what I vow to push for in the upcoming legislative session and throughout my campaign for Governor.
1. Marijuana should be separated from hard drugs and regulated in a way similar to alcohol and tobacco. There should be no threat of arrest, fines, drug testing or any hardship or any other form of punishment imposed on adults who use marijuana responsibly in the privacy of their own homes.
2. Drug courts and treatment resources should be directed at helping those who are addicted to hard drugs. There exists in Alabama a large group of people willing to pay tax on marijuana. The tax money collected could be used to fund drug courts and treatment for hard drug addicts just as the money collected in tax from the sale of alcohol is used to help fund D.H.R.
3. As for start up funding for drug courts and treatment centers, how about doing what Morgan County recently did on a statewide level?
"Morgan County Commission Chairman John Glasscock said he has identified money needed to start the program. He said the money will come from the law enforcement fund that the county uses for matching funds for drug task force grants."
As you can see my work in Alabama has raised awareness of the drug policy and prison crisis to a much higher level than what previously existed here. While I consider all of the debate about these issues a small win for our side there is still much to do.
A key test for being a viable candidate is raising enough money to get your message out. I'm writing to you for your support. Alabama law allows candidates to receive unlimited contributions in any amount from the public and up to $500 from corporations. Any amount you can give will be appreciated. Raising money now will help add credibility for my campaign.
The campaign itself will advance the drug issue and other causes in my platform. I'm sure no other candidate will raise some of the issues I will be raising. How effectively I can raise those issues depends in part on the level of financial support I can achieve.
And, while I realize the tremendous challenge of actually winning office in this race, if I am merely successful in turning this into a three-way race, our issues will get coverage in ways they have never gotten before. And, if we are successful in winning ? an incredible political feat ? then the drug issue and other issues I have been advancing will progress to a new level of political importance. Suddenly, politicians will see these are issues people can successfully run for office on.
Please make a contribution to my campaign. You can do that in one of two ways.
Or if you prefer you may send a check or money order to:
Nall for Governor Campaign
4633 Pearson Chapel Rd
Alexander City AL 35010
Remember that my freedom is also your freedom and together we will gain it across America.
In Liberty,
Loretta Nall
Candidate for Governor of Alabama 2006


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A Brief Chat with Zach Braff and Bill Lawrence
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In celebration of "Scrubs" returning to NBC for its seventh and final season, here's a look at the brief but entertaining few moments I was able to spend on a teleconference with star Zach Braff and director/series creator Bill Lawrence. The guys spent an hour and a half on the line, answering one question after another from reporters from hither and yon, and I was lucky enough to be the second person to get on the phone with them, but to give you an idea of how many people were on the call, by the time I got my second shot at the mike, we were at the hour and a half mark. In fact, I was the very last question of the day...but we'll get to that in a moment.
Bullz-Eye: Bill, what's the status of Aloma Wright (Nurse Laverne Roberts) on the show? I know the rumor had gone around for awhile that she would be coming back and playing Laverne's alcoholic sister, but now I've heard…
Bill Lawrence: Well here's the scoop, man, and you can totally help me out with that because, you know, I have a feeling that I'm going to get a lot crap from our fan base. But, uh…so I wanted to get this story out, which is basically when I killed Aloma last year, I would never take work away from a, you know, an actress that we consider part of the family. We thought last year would be the last season. So when I killed Laverne, it was because we basically said, "Hey, what's a good dramatic arc for the end of the year, since we're kind've ending up the show?" And once we got there, we had already written the stuff, but we had been told by our studios that the show would continue for another year. So I promised her that she would come back. I don't want people to get mad at me. She returns as a nurse named Shirley; she looks slightly different, but she still looks like the same actress. But the only thing we're doing is that only Zach's character thinks the two of them look alike.
Zach Braff: I wanted them…there was talk – and we haven't done this yet – that she would be a Coquettish atheist.
BL: And then there's a lot of talk, too, that because she's a new character, some of the writers think that we should kill her yet again…but, this time, nobody cares.
ZB: Yeah. "Did you hear Shirley got run over by a car?"
BL: It was, "She got hit by a bus. Oh, hey, do they have any donuts?"
BE: (Laughs)
BL: So she will be back, and I apologize to people. And, hopefully, they will let it go, and she will be back as a…you know, I figured "Bewitched" had two different guys play her husband, so I can have someone as a joke come back as a different character.
BE: Zach, is there any side of J.D. that hasn't been explored in the show yet that you'd like to see explored in the final season?
ZB: I…that's a good question. I feel like there's…I mean, seven years worth of sides of J.D.. I don't know. I think we…I like it when we explore his love of Donald Faison (Turk). I think we can always have more of that.
BL: Also, the…Zach's already doing it, even though he's not saying it, which is that I think that this show…the ending of this show will be unsatisfying for people if they don't feel like his character has finally grown up, you know? And, you know, one of the things that's tough about being lucky enough to go on this long is that you can only do the young kind of man child who hasn't matured yet for so long before Zach's coming to me and being, like, "Bill, I'm…you know, my character is 30 years old now. I think he might not wear cartoon t-shirts or jammies to bed." And, so, we're trying to make him a little more mature.
BE: Thanks.
(After Braff and Lawrence had been answering questions for an hour straight…including several from Jewish publications, which amused Braff to no end… the conference moderator – that would be the lovely Carol Janson – came on the line and asked the operator how many questions were left in queue. When it was confirmed that a mere seven questions remained, Ms. Janson asked the guys if they were willing to answer the final seven questions…and, God bless 'em, they were game.)
Operator: Our seventh question does come from William Harris of Bullz-Eye.com. You may ask your question.
BL: Can we take a second and enjoy the seventh and final question?
ZB: I think it would be so funny if the seventh and final question was from another Jewish publication.
BL: "This is from the Jewish Monthly."
ZB: "This is from Torah Nightly."
BE: Sorry, I'm Episcopalian.
BL: No way! By the way, we're going to have a moment now, my friend, because I am as well. Welcome. Zach, this is one of my tribe; you're not going to understand what we talk about.
ZB: One of these days, the Jews are going to get a foothold in Hollywood.
BL: You're not going to understand the way we connect, Zach, but this is going to be some serious Episcopalian shit going on.
ZB: I can't wait.
BE: Plus, I was kind of from your tribe already, because I'm from the Hampton Roads area.
BL: Nice. Look at that: where I went to college, too. That's very cool.
ZB: I'm about to hang up.
BE: You were talking about guest stars earlier. Will you be bringing back Franklyn or is Masi Oka (who now plays Hiro Nakamura on "Heroes") out of your price range now?
BL: No, you know, Masi is very cool, because he's always, like, "Do I have to come back and do something?" And we just haven't been able to work it out yet. But, yeah, he's also…I think he may be more powerful in popular in Hollywood than Zach and I and everybody that works here.
ZB: I don't think we can afford Masi.
BL: Yeah, he's…I always call and say, "Hey, if you're not doing anything at lunch tomorrow, maybe you want to come over here and say a couple of lines as your old character…"
ZB: And he pulls up in his Bentley and rolls down the window and he's, like, "Uh, no."
BL: "No." I'm so happy for him, though. What a good kid. And what a smart guy.
BE: Is there any guest star that you'd like to have that you have not gotten yet?
BL: John Cusack. I always say it because he used to come by here and steal our food, and he always tells me, you know, that he'd think about doing it, and then he's always busy being a movie star.
BE: Anyone else?
BL: Shoot, I don't know.
ZB: Jenna Jameson.
BE: Well, she's retiring from adult acting, so your chances just went up.
BL: There you go.
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