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Bobby Gray became my favorite high school football player of all time Tuesday afternoon.
I couldn't put my finger on why. I just couldn't help but feel anxious to meet Bobby Gray on Tuesday. Something told me that meeting him was going to change how I look at life.
I was right.
After arriving at Mike Papoccia's office at Newman high school, Bobby strode into the room. He'd been busting his butt in the weight room. He took a breather to chat about his season-ending carry Saturday afternoon.
His voice isn't loud. But it speaks volumes. Just ask his teammates. His coaches.
Bobby and I talked football for a bit. The young man, who was failing classes at Reagan Middle School in Dixon before making the move to Newman, was incredibly eloquent. He spoke about his football family, and how a senior class took him under a protective wing. Over 4 years, that protection has never faltered.
That's why Bobby does anything and everything in his power to build up those who feel like they're about to crumble. Coach Papoccia and his assistant/athletic trainer, Andy Accardi, told me about Bobby's speech before the playoffs got under way.
One of Newman's most powerful traditions – which is kind of like saying one of Pink Floyd's best albums – is each player saying what they plan to dedicate to the team while adding a link to a chain.
Even having gotten to know him for only about 15 minutes, I would've given anything to have heard Bobby's speech. I was told there wasn't a dry eye in the room, and that Bobby borderline sobbed while telling his football family that they saved his life. It took the coaches longer to leave the room to deliberate than it took them to decide Bobby would be the Tender of the Chain on the sideline throughout the playoffs.
This is a young man who, just because he's physically challenged after nearly losing his life as an infant, was given hell by his peers at Reagan. The coaches told me I don't know the half of it, and I'm rather glad I don't. I can't handle the thought of kids ridiculing those who overcome physical and mental challenges every day. That's pretty much the definition of spineless.
But Bobby sat before me today a transformed person. He says Newman football saved his life but, as Coach Papoccia pointed out, he's taught his teammates and coaches more than they could ever teach him.
How cool is that? Story's like Bobby's are why I love my job. They inspire me. And they point out that I waste an awful lot of my time unnecessarily fretting trivial matters.
It took 15 minutes for him to inspire me to change. To become better.
I'm going to start small. Bobby went back to the weight room after our conversation and rattled off a batch of chin-ups. Not sure how many. I lost count. I can do three. I will do more.
I will do more because of people like Bobby.
Usually I write a story first, then post one of these blog entries. I couldn't wait until Friday to tell you at least a little bit of Bobby's story. I feel honored to share it.
Be sure to pick up a copy of Friday's paper and read up about him.


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The North Union boys basketball team dropped its first two games of the season.
On Monday, the Warriors lost 76-24 to Bishop Garrigan.
The Golden Bears led 18-7 after one quarter, 41-15 at halftime and 64-24 after three quarters.
On Tuesday, North Union lost 70-41 to Garner-Hayfield/Ventura.
The Warriors trailed 16-9 after one quarter, 30-20 at halftime and 45-33 to start the final frame.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Spread the word
I've got to say, I was pretty psyched when I received my Maker's Mark barrel dedication certificate. Barrel No. 804410. And get this: it already has a personality—Well-rounded with a distinct character. Sound like anyone you know? It all comes with the territory of being an ambassador for Maker's Mark.
And in our endless plight to spread the bounty of a good horse race, the game we either love or indifferently follow, seeks ways to recruit new fans. Always. Night racing? Good idea. Kegasus? Awesome idea. Cameras on the ground? Terrible use of pixels.
The game tries to be its own ambassador and in its inability to empower its electorate it falls somewhere less-than-tall. The sport should consider it a victory if it loses zero fans over the course of a year. Breaking even is a win. So what if it reached out to its die-hards? Its gamblers? Its horse lovers, and give them a big hug? Even give them a sweet barrel dedication certificate and business cards.
I tell you, all I want to do is spread the gospel of good bourbon and all it took was a good buzz and a cool piece of paper I value more than my high school and both college diplomas (with none of the debt!).
I will happily pass out my Maker's Mark business cards and tell party goers Maker's uses walnut bungs. Many other distillers use a soft bung, but no, not Maker's. Soft bungs can "swell up and when wet can only be removed by cutting them out, making any sampling of the bourbon difficult at best." Enough about bung.
Horse racing needs to adopt a similar program that empowers its loyal followers. Make them happy and they will spread the word. My friend who got me into racing back in 2002 merely stumbled upon Saratoga. Where would we be had he not found this diamond in a haystack? Had he not we'd likely be successful business tycoons cut from the mold of Barney Stinson. But instead we traveled down less awesome paths … or did we? We'll explore this in another column.
Ambassadors will get two dozen complimentary past performances and vouchers for each newbie they bring to the track. They will receive honorary diplomas for the preservation of the game they love. They will be honored with exclusive parties. They will be made to feel like the Kings and Queens they are because without ambassadors, without people waving the pride banner, where will the sport be?
The answer is painfully clear: it will continue to lose its base and a sport with its base cannot stand.
Now, where's that red wax-dipped bottle? It's about that time for some charred American white oak-colored brownest of the brown. To quote Homer Simpson from when the "Simpsons" was actually funny, "They looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
That's all from Ambassador 762,589.
Brendan O'Meara is the author of Six Weeks in Saratoga and he totally gets his tweet on.
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Great Britain's women took a step closer to the Olympic hockey semi-finals with a dramatic if very nearly bungled 5-3 victory over South Korea, in which their makeshift defence clearly missed the hugely experienced captain, Kate Walsh, who broke her jaw in the opening game.
The second straight win in Group A takes Britain joint top on six points with the Netherlands, the 2008 champions, with three more group games remaining.
Walsh, 32, the most experienced British player, had a plate inserted in her jaw following an accidental clash with a stick near the end of the opening 4-0 win against Japan.
Although the injury happened only on Sunday there had been speculation Walsh, who has played 288 times for the national team, could return. The captain was reportedly determined to play against Korea and her target is now the next game, against Belgium, on Thursday.
Walsh's absence was certainly felt by a British team more vulnerable in defence than they might have been against a slightly limited South Korean side, who lost their opening game 4-0 to China.
Britain were significantly more confident marauding forwards, showing a buccaneering and almost reckless style at times reminiscent of Kevin Keegan's Newcastle United side of 1990s vintage.
The game should have been wrapped up fairly easily. Inside five minutes Nicola White slalomed and twisted down the right, beating two players before her shot was half-stopped by Jan Soo-Ji in the South Korean goal, only for the ball's momentum to spin it into the net.
With the ball splashing over surface water following a pre-match downpour, a skittish GB defence conceded mid-way through the half, Kim Darae's scuffed shot following some chaotic ball pinging in front of the British goal.
But a penalty corner following another snaking run from White, at 24 one of the youngest in the squad, saw Christa Cullen restore the lead. Early in the second half, Alex Danson scored her third goal of the tournament from a short corner.
The advantage was pegged back by Han Hye-Lyoung following another GB defensive scramble, also after a short corner before, to gasps of horror from the hugely partisan crowd, Park Mi-Hyun deflected in a long shot to make it 3-3.
With just 10 minutes to go Britain were visibly nervy, and hanging on. Relief came from a penalty corner, which though initially bungled allowed Georgi Twigg to fire in. Safety came with Chloe Rogers's goal soon afterwards.
The win gives GB some vital breathing space in their six-team group, from which just two teams proceed to the semi-finals. While the Dutch have also won their opening matches, China, the silver medallists in Beijing, slipped to an unexpected 0-0 draw against Belgium earlier on Tuesday.
After the match with Belgium on Thursday, Britain end with their toughest two group games, against China and then the Netherlands – by then, hopefully, with Walsh back to steady the defence.


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In today's On the News segment: The big banks are buying up distressed real estate by the boat load, and renting or selling it back to the public for huge profits; today, the chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will present his semi-annual report to the Senate Banking Committee; yesterday was the last day for public comment on the Keystone XL Pipeline; and more.
Jim Javinsky here – in for Thom Hartmann – on the news...
You need to know this. The banksters are cashing in off their own disaster. The big banks are buying up distressed real estate by the boat load, and renting or selling it back to the public for huge profits. And, in addition to making it even more difficult for economically-strapped Americans to become home owners, the banksters are increasing the likelihood of another Wall Street-fueled bubble that could crash our economy. According to the Washington Post, institutional investors account for as much as 70 percent of sales in some markets, and their purchases are increasing home prices in those areas. Some investors are bidding on as many as 200 homes in a single day, crowding out individual buyers, re-inflating prices, and taking on a huge volume of inventory that can't be liquidized quickly if and when big banks get into financial trouble. Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, expressed his concern about the risk the banksters are taking on. He said, "This is frightening to me. At some point the music stops. The investors, if they get hurt, that is their problem...but invariably a lot of other people will get caught up in that." Because of the risky trading practices and sub-prime mortgage scandals of the big banks, the taxpayers were forced to spend 700 billion dollars bailing out the banksters. Now, they are putting our economy at risk again, and they're making huge profits off of the homes they foreclosed on. And, taxpayers could be left holding the bag, when the big banks get into trouble again. This practice must be stopped. Let's break up the big banks, and stop the banksters from cashing in on the very disaster they created.
In screwed news... This is why we needed filibuster reform. Today, the chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will present his semi-annual report to the Senate Banking Committee, but Republicans say he is not welcome to present that report in the House. According to Representative Jeb Hensarling, the appointment of CFPB Director Richard Cordray was not legal, and the House Panel on Banking will not accept his testimony. President Obama selected Cordray to head the agency with a 2012 recess appointment, but a federal court has since redefined how and when such appointments can be made, and invalidated three of the President's appointments. As Republicans have continued to block the confirmation of virtually all of the President Obama's nominations, agencies like the CFPB are in legal-limbo waiting for that court's decision to be appealed to the Supreme Court. Had the filibuster process been reformed, many of Obama's nominees – like Richard Cordray – could be confirmed, and agencies meant to protect the public could finally get to work.
In the best of the rest of the news...
Yesterday, Americans had a reason to be proud of our Justice System. As some on the Right were calling for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be denied his civil rights, and treated as an enemy combatant, the U.S. Attorney's Office, a federal public defender, and Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler brought the Justice System straight to the suspect's bedside. Judge Bowler advised Tsarnaev of his legal rights under the law, and he was officially charged with the Boston Marathon bombing. Tsarnaev was remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, although he will physically remain in the hospital receiving medical care. This is what justice is supposed to look like. In our nation, every citizen is guaranteed their civil rights – even when their alleged crime is especially heinous. We should be proud of what happened in that hospital room yesterday, and proud that we have the fortitude to defend Constitutional rights even for someone like Tsarnaev. This is the real "American Exceptionalism."
Yesterday was the last day for public comment on the Keystone XL Pipeline. In addition to the thousands of comments from individuals, the EPA also raised a serious objection about the State Department's assessment of the pipeline's environmental impact. Cynthia Giles, of the EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, called on the State Department to reassess the amount of carbon that would be emitted by the tar sands pipeline. She also suggested that the State's report underestimates the amount of oil that could be released in the event of a spill. The EPA's criticism of Keystone will certainly be used as political ammunition by opponents of the pipeline, and it could force the President to weigh in on it's approval. There is no word yet on whether the State Department will reassess these risks, and they are no longer accepting public comments about the pipeline. It is now up to President Obama to stand up for the environment, and for the American people. Call the White House today and tell the President he must take this last stand in the fight to stop Keystone XL.
And finally... If you've ever had the fear that you'd accidentally end up dating your cousin... well, there's an app for that. Three university students in Iceland have developed an app that will alert you if you share a grandparent with your would-be sweetie. So far, more than 3,000 people have downloaded the app, which has been dubbed "Incest Spoiler." Perhaps this is a big problem in Iceland, but we doubt anyone will complain about this spoiler alert.
And that's the way it is today – Tuesday, April , 2013. I'm Jim Havinsky – in for Thom Hartmann – on the news.


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After being closed for almost a year, the satellite jail in downtown Rockford will reopen in mid-September.
The jail was shut down because the county could no longer afford to keep it open. But a new plan approved by the Winnebago County board Thursday night will change that.
The county will sell bonds backed by the one cent sales tax increase, which goes into effect July 1. Those funds will not only allow the jail to reopen.
The county will also be able to hire more attorneys, correctional officers and clerks in the criminal justice system.
Criminal justice officials are hoping the opening of the satellite jail will ease jail overcrowding issues.


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Two University of Hawaii astronomers awarded prestigious prizes from the American Astronomical SocietyUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Dr. Lisa Kewley is the 2008 winner of the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy for her work that has shown how the properties of a galaxy depend on how long ago it was formed.
Prof. J. Patrick Henry is one of four scientists to receive the 2008 Rossi Prize for their pioneering work that used observations of X-rays to study clusters of galaxies and the dark matter they contain.
Kewley and Henry both make use of the fact that light from distant parts of the Universe can take billions of years to arrive at Earth. By pointing their telescopes at objects that are at different distances from Earth they can study how the average properties of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies have changed over the 14-billion-year life of the universe.
Kewley studies individual galaxies. Using telescopes on Mauna Kea and elsewhere, she discovered major differences between old and new galaxies in properties such as the rate at which new stars are formed, the concentration of oxygen, and the presence of a quasar-like nucleus. As a by-product of her research, she calculated that most of the oxygen atoms we breathe were created between five and 12 billion years ago.
Born and raised in South Australia, Kewley received her PhD in 2002 from the Australian National University. She first came to the UH Institute for Astronomy in 2004 as a Hubble postdoctoral fellow, and in 2007 she became an assistant astronomer, the research equivalent of an assistant professor. In 2006, she won the Annie Jump Cannon Award, also given by the AAS.
Henry focuses his attention on galaxy clusters because they contain the largest known concentrations of dark matter-the mysterious invisible substance that makes up most of the mass of the universe. By studying galaxy clusters with X-ray telescopes in space and optical telescopes on Mauna Kea, he was able to determine how fast clusters of galaxies were being formed at different times in the past. From this he could deduce how much dark matter there is in the universe and how lumpy it is. The Rossi Prize recognizes Henry for being one of the first astronomers to do this type of research using X-rays and for improving the method.
Henry received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. While working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. from 1974 to 1981, he developed the High Resolution Imager for the Einstein X-ray Observatory. He has been a professor at UH since 1981, and is known for his lively Astronomy 110 classes as well as his strong research program. Henry is also the recipient in 2003 of the Senior Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation of Germany.
"These awards show the overall strength of the Institute for Astronomy faculty, both senior faculty such as Pat Henry and younger faculty such as Lisa Kewley," said Rolf Kudritzki, director of the IfA.
The AAS awards the Pierce Prize annually for outstanding achievement in observational astronomy over the past five years to an astronomer who is under 36 years of age. The prize includes a $1,500 award.
The High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society awards the Rossi Prize in recognition of significant contributions to the field of high-energy astrophysics. The prize is named in honor of Professor Bruno Rossi, an authority on cosmic ray physics and a pioneer in the field of X-ray astronomy. The prize includes a $1,500 award. The winners of the Rossi Prize will give a joint lecture at the 213th AAS meeting in January 2009 in Long Beach, Calif. The co-winners with Henry are Steven Allen (Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and Maxim Markevitch and Alexey Viklinhin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.).
Founded in 1967, the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets, and the sun. Its faculty and staff are also involved in astronomy education, deep space missions, and in the development and management of the observatories on Haleakala and Mauna Kea.
For more information, visit: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/darkenergy/index.html


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Samsung Electronics said on Friday its net profit soared 75.6 percent to a record 7.04 trillion won ($6.6 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2012, driven by strong smartphone and memory chip sales.
The world's largest technology firm by revenue and top smartphone maker also saw a record operating profit in October-December of 8.84 trillion won, up 89.7 percent from a year earlier.
For all of 2012, Samsung logged a net profit of 23.8 trillion won, with revenue and operating income reaching 201.1 trillion won and 29.05 trillion won respectively.
"Despite uncertainties in Europe and concerns over the U.S. fiscal cliff creating a difficult business environment, we did our best this quarter to achieve strong earnings based on a strategic focus on differentiated and high value-added products as well as our technological competitiveness," said Robert Yi, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
Highlighting the quarterly performance, Samsung's Mobile Communications generated quarterly revenues of 27.23 trillion won, a 4-percent increase compared with the previous quarter. The growth was mainly driven by solid sales of Samsung's GALAXY S IIl and GALAXY Note ll. Operating profit for IT & Mobile Communications, which encompasses four business units including Mobile Communications, was 5.44 trillion won on revenues of 31.32 trillion won. While Samsung does not provide figures for quarterly smartphone shipments, analysts estimate the company sold 63 million smartphones on total handset sales of 110.5 million units.
At the world's biggest electronics show in Las Vegas this month, Samsung unveiled a prototype phone with a flexible display that can be folded and the Exynos 5 Octa microchip with eight processing cores, creating a buzz that these may be used in the next Galaxy range.
"The furious growth spurt seen in the global smartphone market last year is expected to be pacified by intensifying price competition compounded by a slew of new products," Samsung said. "In the first quarter, demand for smartphones in developed countries is expected to decelerate, while their emerging counterparts will see their markets escalate with the introduction of more affordable smartphones and a bigger appetite for tablet PCs throughout the year."
Samsung's IT & Mobile Communications - comprised of Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Imaging and Media Solution Center businesses - posted operating profits of 5.44 trillion won on 31.32 trillion won in revenue for the period. Out of the total IM earnings, the handset-making unit claimed 27.23 trillion won in revenue in the October-December quarter.
Samsung's Display Panel Business recorded an operating profit of 1.11 trillion won on revenue of 7.75 trillion won in the fourth quarter. This represented a 5-percent decline in profits compared with the previous quarter but was up from the corresponding quarter of 2011.
Despite slower-than-expected economic recovery in developed markets, panel demand in China and emerging economies remained favorable in the quarter. This was led by solid sales of TV and tablet panels which offset the slowdown in notebook and monitor panel demand.
Samsung was able to secure stable growth for the quarter with an improved product mix and strengthened sales of high-end panels. Sales of LED and narrow bezel panels for premium TVs continued to grow, although the company's TV panel sales dropped in the mid single-digit percentage range from the same period last year. However, increased sales of tablet panels as well as OLED panels for premium smartphones contributed to steady growth.
Looking ahead to 2013, the company expects the market for large-size TV panels, those over 60 inches in size, to grow. Strong sales of tablet panels are also forecast to continue throughout the year. For the first quarter, however, panel demand is expected to be adversely affected by off-peak seasonality before recovering in March with new TV and tablet product launches by manufactures.
On the components business side, demand for PC DRAM remained weak but growth of high value-added products such as server and mobile DRAM was constant due to increased sales of mobile devices.
Samsung's Semiconductor Businesses - including Memory and System LSI - posted consolidated 9.59 trillion won in revenue, a 10-percent hike from a quarter earlier. The Memory chip unit accounted for 5.33 trillion won in earnings and with the logic chip unit yielded 1.42 trillion won in operating profits, up 39 percent on-quarter.
The company's Semiconductor Business sustained profitability in the quarter, amid weak market demand, thanks to a mix of high-margin products such as servers and Solid State Drives (SSDs) coupled with 20-nanometer class NAND flash chips. A competitive edge in mobile application processors for smartphones and tablet PCs also contributed to the bottom line.
Looking ahead, Samsung expects demand for memory chips to be stifled in the first quarter, due to the seasonably weak demand for PCs and mobile devices. However, for the remainder of 2013, high value-added DRAM for mobile devices and servers will sustain profitability. The company expects demand for logic products and NAND solutions including SSDs to remain strong throughout the year, as the industry puts greater emphasis on devices with higher capacity, greater processing power and mobility.
Samsung's Consumer Electronics Division - encompassing the Visual Display and Digital Appliances businesses - posted revenue of 13.95 trillion won for the quarter, up 20 percent quarter-on-quarter. The operating profit of 740 billion won amounted to an increase of 87 percent on the previous quarter and an increase on-year.
Heading into 2013, sales will be led by emerging economies and the LED TV segment, which will expand its proportion of total TV sales into the mid-80 percent range. In the first quarter, Samsung expects off-peak seasonality to dampen on-quarter growth, although demand will be up in comparison with the previous year.
As for this year's capital expenditure, Samsung's investments are expected to be similar to that of 2012's. The weakening global economic recovery and looming market uncertainties are anticipated to weigh on plans for investment and performance this year, but despite global economic jitters, Samsung said it would "respond to the market's ebb and flow with a capex plan that is flexible in manner."
"Heading into this year, we are expecting a slow recovery in the component business due to reduced capital expenditures, while competition in the set business will intensify further as demand slows and the mid- to low-end market expands," he added. Mr. Yi also expressed caution over the continued strength of the Korean won in 2013.
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The New Zealand dollar rose after prices gained in Fonterra's latest sale of dairy products, the nation's biggest export, and as America votes for the next president of the world's biggest economy.
The kiwi dollar rose to 82.84 US cents from 82.61 cents at 5pm in Wellington yesterday. The trade-weighted index rose to 74.09 from 73.94.
Prices of dairy products rose 1.1 per cent in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, the second straight gain on the sales platform. The auction comes after the ANZ
Commodity Price Index rose for a third straight month in October, with cheese up 4 per cent while butter and milk powders rose 3 per cent. Prices also rose in New Zealand dollars as the currency firmed.
"The strengthening dairy prices add to the case that the NZD/USD will remain supported at historically high levels," Bancorp Treasury Services said in its morning note.
As American's vote, the race between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney is too close to call. Shares rose in the US and the greenback declined against most major currencies as the vote got underway.
"Currency markets continue to be fairly subdued as voting in the US election is underway," said Kymberly Martin, market strategist at bank of New Zealand. "With voting in the US election underway the outcome is still a close call. Results will trickle out during our day."
The kiwi dollar traded at 79.3 Australian cents from 79.23 cents late yesterday, having tumbled when the Reserve Bank of Australia unexpectedly kept its cash rate unchanged at 3.25 percent.
The New Zealand dollar traded at 64.61 euro cents from 64.56 cents and rose to 51.73 British pence from 51.69 pence.
It rose to 66.6 yen from 66.17 yen after a Bank of Japan official said his bank's new unlimited lending program may further weaken the yen, according to Bloomberg.


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Board hears results of survey, strives to correct misinformation
West Richland School District Board of Education continued its discussion of what course the district will take in the future Monday during its monthly meeting.
According to a survey taken of the public, 54 percent would like the district to continue operating normally while 46 percent prefers the board either choose consolidation, annexation or deactivation.
A total of 33 percent of students would like all students to be under one roof, said Superintendent Gary Miller. However, 67 percent of students surveyed want the board to take steps to move forward with consolidation, annexation or deactivation.
Most students voted for consolidation and most of the public preferred annexation, according to Miller, adding that most of the staff prefer deactivation.
Many students would rather attend school in Clay City than East Richland. Students who were surveyed were in seventh-12th grade.
West Richland Junior-Senior High School Principal Kevin Westall said when he talked with students, many did not understand why the district has to possibly consolidate, annex or deactivate.
"They want to keep their school," he said.
Several students who said they would rather attend school in Clay City said they had more friends there than in Olney, Westall said.
Board member Lisa Hemrich said there has been some misinformation spreading because some students seem to believe they would be able to choose where they attend school.
The board would have to choose the parameters, she said. Hemrich said she also heard someone comment this weekend that they heard that any decision will not go into effect until 2015.
She said she explained to the individual that is not true and the board has not indicated that to be the case.
On Monday, Miller and several board members met with East Richland Superintendent Marilyn Holt and several East Richland board members.
West Richland board President Carolyne Brooks said she believes that East Richland also wants to do "what's best for the children in the entire county."
Miller said East Richland does not seem to be interested in consolidation because of the costs involved and other reasons. Instead, East Richland prefers annexation without a referendum.
Deactivation would cost East Richland $750,000 per year for a four-year period because the district would have to take 10 WRHS teachers. However, East Richland could have a Reduction in Force (RIF) of teachers after the first year those 10 teachers would start working for East Richland.
Those 10 teachers would not necessarily be the ones would be RIFd, depending on where they would fall on the seniority schedule.
Miller said there has been some discussion with East Richland of possibly having full-time substitute teachers instead of layoffs.
East Richland would also receive approximately $260,000 in incentives from the state over four years and both districts would have to negotiate a tuition agreement for West Richland students.
After two years of annexation, there could be representation from West Richland on East Richland's board.
Westall wondered why West Richland wants consolidation.
Hemrich said, "You lose a little less identification." She noted that she would like the district to be Richland County School District as opposed to just East Richland if the two districts are to merge in some way.
A possible 1-percent sales tax, which was discussed at a recent public meeting, would "not be silver bullet" people are wanting it to be, Brooks said.
Board member said it would also be a "drop in the bucket" of what is needed. Illinois Department of Revenue would also collect 2 percent of what would be earned for administrative costs.
Some board members seemed to favor annexation. Board members Brian Weidner and Steve Kinkade said they favored it.
Board member Dennis Anderson said he prefers deactivation.
Kinkade said he is afraid that deactivation is a "temporary fix."
Anderson, who filed for re-election Monday, said he has heard many people say that they think the board has already made up its mind of what it will do. He estimated that half of the people with whom he has spoken want to keep the high-school building open and many people want to keep the elementary school open.
VanBlaricum said that the "last thing I want to do is burden the taxpayers of this district with more debt."
A parent in the audience wondered what would happen to South Eastern Special Education classrooms.
Miller said the discussions between the two districts has not gotten that far yet. He said there could be a kindergarten-fifth-grade attendance center in Noble if annexation were approved or even a fifth- and sixth-grade attendance center.
Brooks said that whatever is decided it will lead to a difficult and emotional transition and that the board should not rush into a decision.
A referendum, which would be required of a consolidation and deactivation, would not be able to be on the ballot until 2014.
Annexation without a referendum could be voted on soon, but would more than likely not take effect until the 2014-2015 school year, Miller said.
A couple of other parents in the audience said the transition will probably be harder on parents than on students. They said they would be in favor of annexation without a referendum and have faith in the board to make the best decisions for what is best for the district and students.
In other business:
• School Report Cards were approved for WRES, WRHS and the district.
• Smart plans were approved for the elementary, junior-high and high schools.
Miller said the plans are mandated by the Race to the Top program.
• The board approved applying for membership with Southern Illinois Junior High Athletic Association for Fiscal Year 2014.
• A 403(b) plan update for the HEART Act was approved.
Miller said it is an insurance plan for district employees who are in the military.
• The Industrial Arts Club will be taking a field trip Feb. 16 to Chicago to the automotive show.
• Miller was authorized to seek bids for a new bus.
• Miller said that as of Dec. 31, the state and federal government will owe the district $179,766. He said federal dollars are coming in more regularly than state dollars.
(Note: All votes are unanimous unless indicated otherwise. Board members include board President Carolyne Brooks, Dennis Anderson, Lisa Hemrich, Steve Kinkade, Aaron Wease, Brian VanBlaricum and Brian Weidner.)
Kevin Ryden can be reached at email@example.com.


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While many are traveling by car to the Washington Summer Festival this weekend, others are coming in by boat.
The waterfront dock master says all 36 paid boat slips are booked, with at least 10 boats on a waiting list. Dock officials say they began advertising the open spaces in April, in anticipation of the festival. By May, all the slips were booked.
Below is information from the City of Washington's website on boating along the waterfront:
Boating - Washington Waterfront
36 boat slips with electricity and water available for a charge of 75 cents per day per foot of vessel or $180 per month, paid quarterly. Short-term docking also is available for $5 for up to six hours per slip.
Additional boat tie-ups are available at no charge for up to 48 hours along five 80-foot parallel docks. Water and electricity are not available at these locations.
Reservations are accepted for boat slips by calling the Washington Recreation Department at (252) 975-9367, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday (closed holidays). Call early for popular weekend, special events, and holiday periods. Reservations are not required (nor are they accepted) for tie-ups at the parallel docks. This area is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Dock attendant is on duty on the west end of Stewart Parkway.
All vessels are required to register with the dock attendant.
Boat slips can accommodate vessels up to 35' long and 15' wide with drafts up to 10'. Longer vessels can be accommodated along the ends of the boat docks and along the parallel docks.
Boat slips have standard 30-amp maritime connections with provisions for 50-amp connections.
Canoe launch area available from the dinghy dock on the west end of the bulkhead.
Pump-out station available at boat slips with assistance from dock attendant.
Shower facilities are available for registered boaters.
To open train trestle, phone (252) 975-1017 or blow horn; a trestle attendant should be on duty at all times.
The Washington waterfront is approximately 25 nautical miles from the Intracoastal Waterway, and 65 nautical miles from Ocracoke. Channel depth is 12-25 feet at the Washington waterfront. Thin water east of the train trestle.
Time limit for free docking may be waived prior to and following special events. Call the Recreation Department at (252) 975-9367 to confirm schedule.
Water, showers, and pump-out station may be unavailable during cold weather.
Rules and Regulations for Boaters on the Washington Waterfront
A no-wake zone is in effect on the Pamlico River between the U.S. Highway 17 bridge and the railroad trestle. No-wake zone may be lifted for special events.
No swimming or diving from the bulkhead.
No dumping of flammable liquids or solid wastes.
Leashed pets are allowed in the Stewart Parkway area. Owners must clean up after pets. Scoopers are provided.
Pets are banned from the waterfront during special events, such as Summer Festival (last full weekend in July) and Fourth of July activities.
During special events, the City of Washington may reserve dock space for public safety and/or official vessels.
Free Boat Launching Facilities
City Boat Docks at Runyon Creek, East Main and Park Drive. Two boat ramps, docks, parking for cars and trailers, and a covered picnic shelter. Restrooms and outside showers located across Park Drive in the Havens Garden park.
Mason's Landing at Tranters Creek, Clark's Neck Road. Handicapped accessible facility with two ramps, docks, and parking for cars and trailers.


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Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis clarifies Rafa Benitez comments
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has clarified earlier comments regarding a deal being agreed with Rafa Benitez.
By Nadia Carminati
Last Updated: 24/05/13 8:02pm
Earlier on Friday, De Laurentiis was quoted as saying that current interim Chelsea manager Benitez had agreed a two-year contract to take charge of Napoli.
However, De Laurentiis now appears to have backtracked slightly by stating that he is not in a position to announce who will replace Walter Mazzarri.
De Laurentiis has identified Mazzarri's successor, but has claimed he is unable to publicly name his next coach until permission has been granted by his target's current club.
"I've closed the negotiations for the new coach, but I can't officially announce it until I get permission from the other club with which he's under contract until June 30th," De Laurentiis told reporters.
"I met in the hall of my hotel here in London a group of people who I have known for many years and I told them, 'I got myself a gift', but I don't name names.
"It could be Pellegrini, Benitez, Blanc, Heynckes or someone we know who is looking for a bench for the future.
"Unfortunately, I can't say due to UEFA's rules, because I am waiting for the club who has him under contract to give us permission to announce it."
Of the names mentioned by De Laurentiis, former Liverpool boss Benitez is not the only potential candidate who will shortly be out of contract.
Manuel Pellegrini has already confirmed he is leaving Malaga, although he is widely expected to take charge at Manchester City, while Jupp Heynckes is being replaced at Bayern Munich by Pep Guardiola.


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Transfer to CSU
- The start date at CSU must be within 5 months after the last day of your last term at your current school. This means that you can remain in the United States for NO MORE than 5 months between completing your current school and beginning studies at CSU.
- For students on OPT, the course of study must begin within 5 months of the end of OPT.
- The electronic transfer MUST occur within 60 days after completion of your last term or in the case of OPT, the last day of your OPT.
- Once a SEVIS record is sent, it cannot be retrieved past the "release date.If you inform your current school prior to the "release date," they can cancel the transfer.
- CSU does not have a transfer form to be sent to your current school.
- If you are not in valid F-1 status, your record can still be transferred but CSU must file for reinstatement of your immigration status upon your arrival.
You should inform your current school of:
- You intent to transfer
- The complete name of Cleveland State University and its code CLE214F00211000.
- Your current school will transfer your record in SEVIS to CSU and enter a "release date" ( the date that your SEVIS record will transfer to CSU and usually the end of the current semester)
- CSU will issue a new I-20 as soon as it receives the following documents:
- Bank statement that will show sufficient funds to cover your expenses at CSU.
- Your address in your country of origin and your new Cleveland, Ohio address.
- The Center for International Services and Programs at CSU will issue you a transfer "Form I-20". This becomes your current, valid I-20.
- You must have this new I-20 no later than 15 days after the start of classes or you will be considered to have violated your F-1 status. Once you are registered at CSU and classes begin, this will be recorded in SEVIS and your SEVIS record will change from "initial" to "active" and the transfer will be considered completed.
To TRANSFER your SEVIS record TO A NEW SCHOOL, you must do the following:
- Complete the "Transfer Out" form from CSU, attach a copy of your admission letter from the new school. You may FAX everything to (216) 687-3965, or drop it off in MC 106.
- In choosing a "release date," you should choose the last day of your last term at CSU, unless there are extenuating circumstances that require you to have the I-20 from the new school sooner.
SEVIS works very much like paying your bills online. A request to transfer can be made in to the future and the record will be released on that date. For example, if you request that your record be transferred in February for a release date of May 13th-the record will be released on May 13th, even though the request was made many months earlier.
Please direct any questions to firstname.lastname@example.com


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By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
RICHMOND, Ky. - Inclement weather forced several adjustments and led to rough playing conditions Friday as the Tennessee Tech women's golf team wrapped up the first 18 holes of play at the Colonel Classic hosted by Eastern Kentucky with a team score of 338.
Led by freshman Whitney Robertson, the Golden Eagles fought through the adverse conditions to set themselves up for a big second day of action on Saturday. Robertson finished the first round in a tie for 28th, shooting 82 on the day.
Sophomore Megan Williamson followed just one shot behind her teammate, carding an 83 on the day to tie for 37th overall. Fellow sophomore Maddi Everts shot 84 to help add to the team's first round total, tying for 42nd.
Three other members of the squad recorded identical rounds on Friday, including sophomore Allison Geer and freshmen Lydia Triplett and Haley Davidson. Each Golden Eagles put together an 89 on the day with Davidson competing as an individual.
Originally scheduled as a 54-hole event, the tournament will now feature just 36 holes as the 12-team field will play one 18-hole round on Saturday beginning with a 10 a.m. shotgun start. Tech will look to climb the leaderboard throughout the day and make moves.


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SPRING VALLEY — Ground should be broken next spring for the Sullivan's grocery store planned in Spring Valley.
Scott Sullivan, president of the Savanna-based Sullivan's Foods, said soil studies are still being done, and the ground needs to be bought before then.
"We are happy to be working on it," he said. "We have a few other retailers who may or may not come in. We want to check out all these opportunities before we have any plans drawn up."
Sullivan added any retail stores may either be inside or outside the grocery store.
If ground is broken for the 32,000- to 35,000-square-foot building on the seven-acre site next spring at the former Bassick property located on Route 6 near Hall High School, Sullivan expects the store to be open for business by August.
Spring Valley was chosen as a location for a new Sullivan's Foods, according to Sullivan, because, "Spring Valley is a nice little town of 5,000 to 5,400 people. We advertise there and with the loss of Jewel (in Peru), we felt there is an opportunity to pick up some business," he said.
The Spring Valley City Council voted at its meeting on Aug. 5 to pay 50 percent of the estimated cost of about $100,000 to move a water line at the site at 600 Strong Ave.
Sullivan's Foods currently has 12 stores located in Princeton, Mendota, Kewanee, Lena, Marengo, Morrison, Mount Morris, Rochelle, Savanna, Stockton, Winnebago and Freeport.
Comment on this story at www.bcrnews.com.


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Ex-GCHQ superspook can lobby MoD on crypto
No rules broken
Thales UK, the French-owned defence giant that hired recently-retired GCHQ chief Sir David Pepper as an advisor, is bidding for a massive government cryptography system that GCHQ has been closely involved in designing - including under Pepper.
The firm is leading one of just two industry consortia vying to implement the Ministry of Defence's CIPHER Programme at a price understood to be hundreds of millions of pounds.
Pepper - 12 months ago the UK's most senior electronic spy with direct authority over the technicalities of government information security - will be allowed to lobby for the contract on Thales' behalf immediately. The MoD does not plan to award the deal until early 2011, so the firm's bid will enjoy the benefit of his support, contacts, and recent experience for more than a year.
There is no suggestion that Pepper's intervention would break any rules on former civil servants working in the private sector.
GCHQ has been involved in CIPHER via its Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), the government's authority on cryptographic technology. It advises other departments and agencies on information security.
CIPHER has been running commercially since at least January 2008, when the MoD brought in engineering firm Atkins to help manage the programme. At that time, Pepper was in charge of GCHQ, and the strand of CIPHER that CESG is most involved with - creating centralised oversight of cryptography across government to allow "firewalls, cryptographic functions and authentication servers, to be initialised, configured, updated and managed in a trusted, secure way" - had already been in development for years under him.
An MoD spokeswoman said CIPHER was created in 2007 by integrating projects already up and running, so Pepper had ultimate responsibility for the elements of the programme GCHQ was involved in for at least a year. Officials haven't arrived at a final cost estimate for the programme, the MoD spokeswoman added.
The other strands of CIPHER are the MoD Interoperable Electronic Key Distribution Project and the MoD Future Crypto Programme. According to CESG's 2006 annual report, it was already playing an "integral role" in the latter.
Pepper left GCHQ in October 2008 following a three-month handover period working alongside his successor Iain Lobban. The following month Thales Team was selected to bid for the CIPHER contact.
According to civil service rules, senior officials such as Pepper must seek ministerial approval for any commercial appointments for two years after they leave the service. Scrutiny is carried out by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACBA), a quango appointed by the Prime Minister and physically located in the Cabinet Office.
Pepper's Thales UK appointment was announced last week. The ACBA advice panel, composed of peers and former senior servants, said: "Approved subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK government ministers or Crown servants, including special advisers, on behalf of his new employer."
Given Pepper did not take up his advisory role until exactly 12 months had passed since he retired from GCHQ's Concrete Doughnut in Cheltenham, (although according to documents held by Companies House, he set up a consultancy firm to collect fees from such work in February 2009). The condition has no bearing on any lobbying he might do for Thales UK, including on the CIPHER contract.
Sir David Pepper
ACBA exists in part "to avoid the risk that a particular firm might gain an improper advantage over its competitors by employing someone who, in the course of their official duties, has had access to technical or other information which those competitors might legitimately regard as their own trade secrets or to information relating to proposed developments in government policy which may affect that firm or its competitors."
A spokesman for Serco, one of the firms involved in the other consortium competing for CIPHER, declined to comment on Pepper's appointment. Messages left at the Thales UK press office were not returned by time of publication.
Any other commercial relationships between Thales UK and GCHQ, around its core communications spying function, are unknown because the all of the agency's own technology contracts are secret. ®
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PEORIA – Kaneland sophomore Victoria Clinton's goals evolved as Saturday's IHSA Class 2A Girls Cross Country State Meet unfolded.
"My goal was to be in the top five and stay up there," Clinton said. "When I stayed up there and realized I had a pretty good chance of being in the top three, I knew I should just go for it."
Clinton's time of 16:56 at Detweiller Park in Peoria was a personal best by about 30 seconds, according to Knights coach Doug Ecker.
"It was a really fast course," Clinton said. "It went by incredibly fast. It was nice ground, not too hard, but not too soft."
Clinton becomes the first Knights cross country runner – female or male – to win an individual state championship, Ecker said. The program's previous best was third place by Kerry Rink in 1986 when Illinois had a one-class system.
"You have to have the talent and you also just have to have it on that day because there are so many good runners in Illinois," Ecker said. "You could run your best on that particular day and someone else could be just a little bit sharper. I think it's an amazing thing. State champions are hard to come by."
Clinton finished 11 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Stephanie Saey of Galesburg, who clocked in at 17:07. Marengo's Katie Adams, who relegated Clinton to a second-place finish at sectionals and was unbeaten on the season, finished ninth in 17:32.
As a team, the Kaneland girls placed sixth. Freshman Brianna Bower was 32nd in 18:09, junior Sydney Strang was 38th in 18:14 and sophomore Aislinn Losdwig finished 69th in 18:36. Amanda Lesak (81st place), Maggie Brundige (98th) and Abby Dodis (120th) also were solid for the Knights, with Brundige battling through plantar fasciitis, according to Ecker.
St. Francis' Katie Roback finished 18th individually in 17:45.
Kaneland boys coach Chad Clarey said his runners wondered how they could provide a suitable encore after Clinton's dramatic performance in the girls race.
"That's exactly what we wound up doing," Clarey said. "We had two runners in the top 50 and as deep as the whole Class 2A field is, we had some other guys in the low-100s."
Clarey said the Knights' cumulative team time of 78:34 was the best in 16 downstate appearances by the program.
Senior Conor Johnson (36th place, 15:18) and junior Kyle Carter (48th, 15:22) were the leaders for the Knights, who landed in 13th place as a team.
In Class 3A, Geneva placed sixth in the 25-team field and could challenge for the podium again for years to come.
Freshman McKenzie Altmayer (36th, 17:27) and sophomore Brooke Nusser (42nd, 17:31) paced the Vikings, who rode a similar youth movement to successive state titles in 2007-08.
St. Charles North placed 17th behind junior Ashley England (40th, 17:29). St. Charles East sophomore Torree Scull was the top area finisher in the race, running 31st in 17:20.
Batavia freshman Dakota Roman placed 58th in 17:44.
In the boys race, North placed 20th in the team standings as senior Spencer Gray took 45th in 15:02. Nathan Klair (106th, 15:26) was next for the North Stars, who had their sights on a more productive day.
"We're kind of walking away not feeling great," North coach Kevin Harrington said. "We know that we accomplished a lot and did some good stuff, but we walked in with high expectations of ourselves. It's one of those things where it's great to have those expectations, but you can't always run the perfect race."
Batavia senior Trevor Hollis (62nd, 15:09) paced the area's contingent of individual qualifiers. Geneva senior Mike Bianchina, who was recovering from a fractured left leg suffered during track sectionals last spring, took 90th in 15:20.
Kaneland's Clinton wins girls cross country 2A state title
PEORIA – Kaneland sophomore Victoria Clinton's goals evolved as Saturday's IHSA Class 2A Girls Cross Country State Meet unfolded.


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PERKIOMEN TWP. — The driver of a car was injured when his vehicle crashed into the side of the Perkiomen Fire Company Tuesday around noon, though it did not stop people from voting at the polling site.
Details of what caused the older man to crash into the side of the fire company building were not immediately available from police.
John Barnshaw, president of the fire company, said the driver hit the side of the building near the double doors and that the crash caused some interior damage, but it did not cause a shut down of the polls. Barnshaw said no one besides the driver was injured in the crash. The driver was transported to an area hospital after the noontime crash. His name and condition were not available as of 2 p.m. Tuesday.
A Mercury photographer who visited the polling site said the damage to the wall was clearly visible between two polling machines, but poll workers would not allow a photo to be taken of the damage.
The fire company, which sits at the corner of Trappe Road and Gravel Pike/Route 29 in Perkiomen, is the only polling site listed for the township on Montgomery County Voter Services website. It will remain open and accessible to voters until polls close tonight at 8.
The trooper in charge of the investigation into the crash was not available for comment when the state police barracks in Skippack were contacted by The Mercury Tuesday.


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Dorothy Velta Huffstutler
Funeral service for Dorothy Velta Huffstutler, 68, of Sweetwater, will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 6, 2012, at Faith Harvest Pentecostal Church with Rev. Jimmy Don Bennett officiating. Interment will follow at Sweetwater Cemetery under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.Huffstutler died Tuesday, July 3, 2012, in Abilene. She was born September 27, 1943, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She married Wesley Milton Huffstutler on March 25, 1961 in Sweetwater. Dorothy was a member of Faith Harvest Pentecostal Church and had lived in Sweetwater most of her life. She worked as a waitress and a store clerk for many years. She had worked for Stars Drive-In and the Lawrence Family in their stores here in Sweetwater. She and Wes were in the restaurant business in Fort Worth in the 1980s and they also had Modern RV in Sweetwater for a few years.Survivors include her sons, Mike Huffstutler and wife Shona of Merkel, David Huffstutler of Longview, and Jerry Huffstutler and wife Donna of Longview; daughter, Debra Thomas and husband David of Snyder; seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; mother, Euvelta McLaughlin of Salem, New Mexico; sister, Karen Brogan of Albuquerque, New Mexico; brothers, Bill McLaughlin of Salem, New Mexico and Ronald McLaughlin of California. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wesley M. Huffstutler, on July 6, 2011; and her father, Ralph Walker.


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Skip to comments.Ted Turner, Prodded by CNN, Calls for Nuclear Disarmament; Says War Is Just About Over With
Posted on 12/13/2012 4:14:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
CNN founder Ted Turner is well-known for his outlandish liberal views, and CNNs Suzanne Malveaux teed him up on Thursday to rant against nuclear weapons, call for higher taxes on the wealthy, and announce that the big, intelligent, well-educated countries have already quit war.
President Obama, he says in his second term he wants to make climate change and protecting the environment a top priority. What do you think he should do? What should he do first? Malveaux prodded the liberal Turner. He answered that Obama should do both and might as well add getting rid of nuclear weapons too, while were at it. When Malveaux later asked, So you think Ahmadinejad should have nuclear weapons as well?, Turner answered, I think nobody should have them.
Turner also sniped at the United States when he said that the big, intelligent, well-educated countries have already quit war. He added that war is just about over with.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I think he's been eating the 'shrooms off the cowpies from his ranch.
The "shrooms" grow under the cowpies. Don't ask me how I know this.
Something like that was said prior to WWI. Nations were too industrialized to go to war.
Ted Turner, Prodded by CNN, Calls for Nuclear Disarmament; Says War Is Just About Over With
With the introduction of the machine gun it was widely thought that war was now too terrible to contemplate. That was just prior to WWI. Then they came up with poison gas which intellectuals said would never be used because it was too terrible to contemplate. Those same intellectuals said that war was impossible because the countries of Europe were to interconnected with business and finances.
Lets not forget, With this paper bearing Herr Hitlers signature, I give you peace in our time.
Mr. Turner seems to lack imagination and any historical perspective. He also seems to have missed the point that Islam is about obliterating all things non-Islamic, which includes, well, everybody he knows.
Given the nature of Irans government, the first person who gets the bomb and then decides not to use it will be replaced by somebody who will. Therefore, the first person to get control of it will use it immediately.
History repeats
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
Ah, Ted, one word: Islam.
Okay, I won't ask. I'll just post a music video for you.
tell it to the carthaginians.
Betcha Ted is gonna hitch a ride on that jet-black spaceship that's hiding in the wake of that invisible comet he thinks is coming soon.
What an arrogant nitwit.
big intelligent countries have quit nuclear weapons? oh really
which ones exactly?
just another libtard pushing for the destruction of the United States
How much worse can it be than allowing leftwing academic ideologues setting policy?
Disarming our nuclear capability will guarantee WW3 and our complete destruction. ANYONE who attempts this needs to be taken out IMMEDIATELY with EXTREME prejudice as the traitor they would be.
ted's life is just about over.
war is never over, he's senile.
Really? What evidence does this moron have of this claim???
In 1988, I believe it was, Ted Turner -- then the owner of the Atlanta Braves -- was found crawling around the lobby of the hotel at the MLB Winter Meetings, on his hands and knees, barking like a dog.
I propose we take him as seriously as the other major league owners took him at the time.
Isn't this the same Ted Turner whose butt buddies include Bill Ayers? Yep, someone to take seriously.
The world has never seen the likes of war that is going to commence before the return of The Lord. The beginnings of which may be starting in the M.E.
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By: Lanetra Bennett
August 1, 2014
Bainbridge, GA - The tax-free holiday shopping weekend is underway in Georgia and Florida.
With all of the heavy traffic expected in stores this weekend, smaller retailers say they're hoping to reap some of the benefits.
Randee Eubanks, the manager of Bella's Boutique in Bainbridge, Georgia, says things haven't been booming too much over the summer. She says, "We were a little slower because we felt like people were going to Tallahassee, Dothan, Albany, surrounding areas to do their back-to-school shopping."
But, then came along the tax-free holiday! "We have definitely seen an increase in traffic." Eubanks, says.
Small business owners and workers hope an increase in traffic continues as shoppers take advantage of the sales tax exemption period.
Clothes, shoes, and accessories are tax-free up to $100 per item.
School supplies up to $15 per item.
The first $750 of the total price of computers and hardware are tax-free.
Megan Kelley works at A to Z Boutique in Bainbridge Square. She says, "It is a little challenging. You know, small business, small town. It's important to support the local businesses because you're letting your community grow; instead of helping the bigger businesses that do have a lot of money. You're putting it back into your community."
Many local stores are also holding additional sales on top of the tax-free.
"Come shop this weekend with us." Kelley, says.
The tax-free holiday is August 1 - 2 in Georgia and August 1 - 3 in Florida.
There's more information on what falls under the tax-free category at www.myflorida/dor.


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DENVER (AP) Some Republicans running for governor in Colorado will meet Tuesday for their first debate.
Four of six Republicans candidates seeking the nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper are scheduled to debate in Denver. Two of the best-known candidates -- Secretary of State Scott Gessler and former congressman Tom Tancredo -- have declined debates during the primary season.
Tancredo and Gessler say that Republican primary debates will give Hickenlooper more ammunition for the fall campaign. Candidates who are debating include state Sen. Greg Brophy and former state Sen. Mike Kopp.
Colorado's primary elections are June 24. Hickenlooper has no Democratic opposition for the nomination.


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I think Sante_j's blog today about abortion and breast cancer is extremely important information. I have read some of the statistics before, but I've never seen the evidence presented in such a concise manner as it is in her blog.
There is another disease killing women that has also been hushed up because of political correctness - cervical cancer. I'm attaching an edited article from the October 7, 2006 World Magazine. It prompted a very frank conversation between my honorable husband, my darling daughter, and myself. This blog and Sante_j's blog will probably be too much to process in one sitting. Read one today and one tomorrow, but read them both.
Stalking a silent killer
by Lynde Langdon
Eva Perón never knew what killed her. In the early 1950s, before patients' bills of rights and managed care, doctors and families commonly kept cancer diagnoses a secret from those afflicted. But Argentinian president Juan Perón went to great lengths to hide his wife's diagnosis of cervical cancer from her. He never told his wife before her death in 1952 that an American specialist performed her hysterectomy in place of her local doctor. Historians have speculated that the deception was part political maneuvering and part denial; President Perón did not want the country to learn of his misfortune in an election year, and his wife did not want to know.
But there was something neither Perón nor the public knew about Evita, even after a Broadway musical memorialized the story of her populism and humanitarianism. Her cancer was caused by a sexually transmitted virus that she most likely caught from her husband, whose first wife also died of cervical cancer.
The CDC estimates that 80 percent of women under 50 have had human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that causes cervical cancer. Doctors have known about the disease for at least 20 years, but until recently it remained as much a mystery to the public as it did to Juan and Eva Perón. T
The release of an HPV vaccine in June finally gave women a reason to talk to their doctors and each other about the disease. The facts of HPV challenge what they thought they knew about sex and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). As with all STDs, abstinence until marriage will prevent HPV, but it has to be abstinence from all genital contact, and on the part of both spouses. HPV can occur in monogamous relationships if one of the people in the relationship has had previous genital contact with someone else.
HPV is similar to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, only in that both can be transmitted sexually. But statistically speaking, the population that exposes itself to HPV is much larger than the one that exposes itself to HIV. About 40,000 new U.S. cases of HIV occur every year, while there are over 6.2 million new cases of HPV.
There are more than 100 kinds of Human papillomaviruses, all of which cause changes to skin cells. The majority of types cause the common skin wart; about 40 kinds of HPV are transmitted through genital contact. Most HPV infections clear up on their own with no symptoms. Some types of HPV cause genital warts in men and women, while a handful of strains change the cells of the cervix into pre-cancerous cells. The cells will develop into cancer if not detected and removed. Men can carry the kinds of HPV that cause cervical cancer, but they rarely experience any symptoms from it. Doctors now believe HPV is the sole cause of all cervical cancer.
With 6.2 million new cases of HPV every year—more than gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis combined—the Centers for Disease Control predict that if every American ages 14 to 49 took an HPV test on the same day, 15 percent—20 million people—would be infected. More than half of sexually active men and women get HPV at some point in their lives; and, the CDC says, by age 50, 80 percent of women have had HPV. A recent study showed people who use condoms were 70 percent less likely to get HPV than those who do not, but condoms are not 100 percent effective at preventing the virus.
Gynecologists now use HPV testing as a follow-up to an abnormal Pap test, which analyzes cervical cells for early signs of cancer. But HPV has a long, unpredictable latency, so a woman can contract the virus early in her adult life and have it for years before it affects the cells in her cervix. A man can also carry the virus for a long time and never experience symptoms. Without abstinence, both may give the disease to others in the meantime.
Connie Mao, a gynecologist at the Harborview Women's Clinic in Seattle, said most of her patients with HPV had never heard of the virus before she diagnosed them with it. "They want to treat it, they want to know it's gone, and they want to know who gave it to them," said Mao, who is also on the faculty at the University of Washington, the country's leading HPV research center. "All of those questions with HPV are very hard. You could have had it for 10 years, and I can't treat it."
"We do not routinely test the cancers for HPV because it does not affect treatment and they are all positive," said Liz Swisher, a gynecological oncologist at the University of Washington.
FDA approval of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which provides immunity from two kinds of HPV that cause 70 percent of cervical cancer, has sparked increased interest in the virus from women and the media. The vaccine's maker, pharmaceutical company Merck, has started a national ad campaign to promote HPV awareness. Commercials show women talking about "cancer caused by a virus" and direct viewers to the website www.tell-someone.com. The women in the commercial appear surprised to hear that HPV causes cervical cancer.
The Pap test helped doctors in the United States bring cervical cancer rates under control. Between 1955 and 1992, the number of U.S. cervical cancer deaths dropped by 74 percent, according to the American Cancer Society. Dr. Anna Giuliano, a researcher at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Florida, has studied HPV and cervical cancer since completing her Ph.D. in 1990. "Ultimately, as long as people participate in a Pap smear screening program, their risk for cancer is going to be very low," Giuliano said.
"There have been studies looking at how women feel once they have been given an HPV test diagnosis," Giuliano said. "It's almost akin to having been diagnosed with one of the classic STDs. . . . Women don't know if they can have sex again or not. It does create a lot of anxiety even when they don't develop cervical cancer."
Cervical cancer ranks 11th on the list of common cancers in American women, according to the American Social Health Association. But worldwide, it is the second deadliest cancer, next to breast cancer, in women because developing countries lack Pap test screening programs. The World Health Organization reports that 80 percent of the world's cervical cancers occur in developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Central America. In Central America and the Caribbean, cervical cancer is more common than breast cancer.
In the United States, the Gardasil vaccine is already for sale for $120 a dose, more expensive than any other vaccine on a price list published in August by the Centers for Disease Control. Since it takes three doses to develop full immunity, American women can expect to pay $360 for full protection against HPV. Some private insurance companies have already agreed to cover the cost. So did the federal Vaccines for Children program, which provides free immunizations to uninsured or underinsured children. Since Pap testing, which usually costs less than $50 a test, has successfully kept U.S. cervical cancer at bay, Giuliano does not expect rates of the disease to drop significantly lower because of the vaccine. Rather, she predicted, the incidence of abnormal Pap tests and genital warts will decrease.
To develop immunity to HPV, women must receive the vaccine before they expose themselves to the disease. That puts the responsibility on parents to estimate when daughters will become sexually active and to decide whether and when a girl should get the HPV vaccine. The CDC recommended the vaccine for girls as young as 9, stirring a controversy similar to the debate over sex education in schools. States chose not to include the vaccine on their lists of shots required for school attendance.
Conservative family groups that oppose mandatory sex education and condom distribution at schools have said they support the use of the vaccine as long as parents, not schools, choose whether their children receive it. The Family Research Council issued the following statement: "While we welcome medical advances such as an HPV vaccine, it remains clear that practicing abstinence until marriage and fidelity within marriage is the single best way of preventing the full range of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and negative psychological and emotional consequences that can result from sexual activity outside marriage."
Mao witnesses those consequences at the Harborview Women's Clinic, where every day she explains HPV to another patient who has never heard of it. "I've taken care of a lot of young women with fairly significant disease who end up getting procedures done to remove abnormal cells," Mao said. "I've had people tell me, 'I wish someone would have told me about HPV before I had sex with people, and maybe I would have had fewer partners or thought about it a little.' People don't understand the risk of having boyfriends when 15 or 16 years old other than just getting pregnant."
Copyright © 2006 WORLD Magazine
October 07, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 38
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Dale Cooper @ Death + Company.
Penicillin @ Milk & Honey.
(Plus about 6 others I forgot the names of. An expensive but delicious night.)
Dale Cooper @ Death + Company.
Penicillin @ Milk & Honey.
(Plus about 6 others I forgot the names of. An expensive but delicious night.)
"God sends meat and the devil sends cooks." - Thomas Deloney
Chateau Troplong-Mondot 1990
Lynch Bages 1989
Margaux 1986
Leoville Barton 1989
Pichon Longueville 1989
Cos D'estournel 1986
Clerc Milon 1986
Haut Brion 1989
2-4 oz of each at a Christmas party last night. I liked the Clerc Milon the best.
There were at least another 10 wines I didn't try including a Ch. Palmer 1989 and a 1989 Lafit, that was gone before I arrived.
WOW! I never really got into those, they are just not in my price range, but I would sure like to go through a tasting of those wines.
Noted that an 86 of anything was preferred to a number of 89's, including a Haut Brion (ist growth) and a Chateau Lunch Box. I thought 89 was only a notch below the 59 and 82 wines as one of the most uber desirable vintages of the latter half of the 20th Century. I am not surprised that the Lafitte and the Palmer got slurped up early on. I have had Lafitte twice in my life and Haut Brion once, so you outdid me the first 20 minutes of that party.
BTW, was there a 86 Yquem with dessert? No, wait, don't tell me, it will only hurt not to have been there...
Water, gotta get up early.
Tang. Yup, I said it. Tang.


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Cape Coral firefighters successfully completed a world record setting attempt by pulling a fire engine one mile in just over 11 minutes Saturday.
Cape Coral firefighters came out in force, putting together a team of 50 members to pull a fire engine down Chiquita Boulevard. The team began the pull south of the Publix Supermarket at Southwest 50th Street and Chiquita Boulevard after a motivational speech by Fire Chief Timothy Hayes. Hayes then joined into the group and helped pull the fire engine to the entrance of Cape Harbour. The one mile distance was certified and surveyed by the City of Cape Coral. Photographers and videographers were on site to document the event for submission to the Guinness Book of World Records.
A search of the official Guinness website found no official time listed for pulling a fire engine by hand, but the instructions sent to the Fire Department indicated that the pull should be completed within 30 minutes.
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Firefighters flank Cape Coral administrative Chief Jim Heikkila (left), Fire Chief Timothy Hayes, Division Chief of Training Ryan Lamb, Engineer Jim Newland (in full fire gear) and Lt. Greg LaCoste following the team of 50 firefighters pulling a fire engine one mile in 11 minutes, tentatively setting a new world record on Saturday. Annabelle Starr, battling cancer and the reason for the fundraising event, is posed in the center of the windshield surrounded by firefighters who helped raise money for her and other battling cancer here in the Cape.
Source: Cape Coral Fire Department
"There was a laundry list of rules and regulations we had to adhere to," said Division Chief Ryan Lamb in a prepared statment. "We had to make sure every aspect of the pull was properly documented."
The 50 firefighters were able to pull the fire engine in just over 11 minutes and, if certified by Guinness, will give Cape Coral Fire Department the World Record of the fastest time a team pulls a fire truck one mile.
The pull was a team effort between the Cape Coral Fire Department and the Pink Heals Tour, which had a pink fire engine on site for display.
The Department is now awaiting the official acceptance of the effort. If everything holds true and is accepted, the time of 11 minutes 5 seconds will be the new World Record, officials said.
Source: Cape Coral Fire Department


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By Teresa Rivas
Stocks held on to early strength to close higher, notching a third week of gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 3.38 points, nearly flat, to 15,464.30. It's at a new high, bouncing yesterday's close from the top spot. It is now up more than 136% from its 12-year low of 6547.05, on March 9, 2009.
The Nasdaq climbed 21.78 points, or 0.6%, to 3,600.08, a new 52-week high.
The S&P 500 rose 5.17 points, or 0.3%, to 1,680.19, also a new record closing.
In addition, the Russell 2000 also reached a new all-time high, rising 12.76 points, or 1.3% to 1,033. 18.
While the Dow and S&P have had plenty of new closing highs this year—they've broken new ground 25 and 19 times, respectively—the Russell takes the cake, as this is its 40th record close.
Here are the total gains for the week for each index: The Dow is up 328.46 points or 2.17%; the Nasdaq is up 120.70 points, or 3.47%; the S&P 500 is up 48.30 points, or 2.96%; the Russell is up 31.13 points, or 3.10%.
All four indexes have seen triple-digit gains since the March 2009 bear market nadir.
J.P. Morgan (JPM) which delivered a second-quarter beat gave up earlier gains to close down 0.3%. By contrast, Wells Fargo (WFC), which also bested expectations, moved up 1.8%.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY) rose 15% on positive study data, while Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) popped 12.6% on takeover rumors.
UPS (UPS) ended down close to 6% after it warned its second-quarter earnings would disappoint.
Boeing (BA) tumbled nearly 5% on news that another Dreamliner had caught fire. Citi's Jason Gurksy doesn't see the problem as stemming from the battery again, but notes that a fire in a new part would be a concern (as opposed to an innocuous problem like a crew member's mistake, from which the stock could rebound more quickly).


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Miniature 7 GHz RF Reed Relay CRF Series
The CR series is our smallest and most versatile instrument grade reed relay series. The CRF Series has a flat insertion loss curve from DC up to 7 GHz, attained by keeping the signal path as short as possible and using an internal coaxial shield with a consistent 50 Ohm impedance path. Not only is it excellent with RF signals, but is also great for digital signals where the skew rates or effects on the rise time of fast digital pulses is less than 40 picoseconds through the relay.
The epoxy over-molded ceramic package is very rugged and has very good low thermal offset voltage capability as low as 1 microvolt because of its excellent heat conducting alumina substrate. The ceramic substrate has leadless gold plated pads making it ideal for surface mounting with no worry of lead skewing or coplanarity issues. Additionally, the ceramic substrate has a thermal coefficient of expansion that exactly matches the reed switch glass and the reed lead to eliminate any potential packaging stress.
The CR series is only 3.4 mm high, making it ideal for very low profile environments. Because there is an internal magnetic shield, the relays can be stacked very close together without having to deal with magnetic coupling effects between relays. This is the case whether you are dealing with a two dimensional or three dimensional relay matrix. For more height off the PCB, we have a BGA option available.
The CR Series is capable of switching into the billions of operations and can also withstand reflow-soldering operations up to 260°C. Measuring only 8.6mm x 4.4mm x 3.4mm, the leadless design eliminates skewing of leads and co- planarity issues. Insulation resistance typical to all points is >1014 Ohms.
Ceramic / thermoset molded package
Patent pending
Smallest in the industry
No lead frame surface mount design eliminates skewing of leads and co-planarity issues
Available with BGA (Ball Grid Array)
Internal magnetic shield standard
Very low profile
Gold plated leads
Low thermal offset typical of 1 µV
TCE matching of all internal components
Insulation resistance typical of 1014 Ohms
3 volt option available
Test and measurement systems
Medical applications
High frequency
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precisely why adding Hamilton simply doesn't make sense for this team.
i mean he's a top player in the league, and as a manager if you're given top players you are supposed to find a way to make it work.
just given past history with this team and how particular guys on this team are with where they bat in the lineup.....idk maybe it would change if they brought in Hamilton but as of right now i can't see it.