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Record Crowd Watches Gymnastics Season High
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BATON ROUGE - In front of the largest crowd in school history with 8,574 fans in attendance, the fourth-ranked LSU gymnastics team posted the highest team score since 2008 with a 197.500, but it was not enough to beat No. 5 Alabama who finished with a 197.725 Friday night in the Maravich Center.
The meet marked the Sixth Annual Etta James Memorial Meet to raise money for Foundation 56, an organization created by former LSU football star and current NFL linebacker Bradie James to fight breast cancer. It was announced after the meet that LSU and the local community raised $95,042 for Foundation 56, bringing the six-year total to more than $345,000 to support the fight against the disease in the local community.
Lloimincia Hall ended the meet in style with a perfect 10.0 on floor, her second 10 of the season in the event. She scored her first career 10 at Missouri on Feb. 8, and she is the only gymnast in the country with two 10's this season.
For the seventh time in 10 meets this year, Rheagan Courville won the all-around title as she tied her career high with a 39.600.
LSU (9-4) posted the second-best vault total in school history with a 49.600, and the Tigers also added a 49.350 on floor, 49.300 on bars and 49.250 on beam to finish with a 197.500.
The final score ranks as the eighth-best score in school history, and it is the highest for the Tigers since April 12, 2008 when LSU scored a 197.625.
"It was a tremendous team effort, and our team will be better for this effort tonight," LSU head coach D-D Breaux said. "However, we gave it away and didn't stick some landings that were critical in the outcome of the meet, and that is something we will work tirelessly on to improve going forward."
Ranked as the No. 2 team nationally on vault, LSU delivered a fantastic performance with the 49.600. Courville, Kaleigh Dickson, Randi Lau and Sarie Morrison all tallied a 9.925. Jessie Jordan posted a 9.90, and Britney Taylor added a 9.875. The 9.925 marked a new career high for Dickson, while the 9.925 for Lau and the 9.90 for Jordan equaled their career bests.
LSU led Alabama 49.600-49.350 after the first rotation, and the Tigers moved to bars where they posted a 49.300. Courville, Morrison and Randii Wyrick all scored a 9.925 to tie for the event title, and Britney Ranzy earned a career-high 9.825. Lloimincia Hall recorded a 9.70 to add to the final total.
After two rotations LSU held on to a slight lead 98.900-98.875 heading to beam, and the Tigers earned the second-best total of the season with a 49.250. Jordan led the way with a 9.875 from the anchor spot, and Courville and Hall posted 9.85's. In her final performance in the Maravich Center, senior Ericka Garcia matched her career high with a 9.85 from the leadoff spot. Randii Wyrick scored a 9.825 in her first beam routine as a Tiger, and Taylor added a 9.80.
LSU closed out the meet with a 49.350 on floor, highlighted by Hall's perfect 10. Courville and Jessica Savona recorded 9.90's, and the Tigers also counted 9.775's from Taylor and Wyrick.
Alabama improved to 6-2-1 on the season after scoring a 49.525 on vault, 49.350 on bars, 49.350 on beam and 49.500 on floor to finish with a 197.725.
The crowd of 8,574 shattered the previous school record attendance of 7,717 set on Feb. 22, 2008 in the inaugural Etta James Memorial Meet against Alabama.
LSU heads to Raleigh, N.C., to face North Carolina State at 6 p.m. CT on March 15. Live audio will be available free of charge in the Geaux Zone on www.LSUsports.net/live.
1. Alabama 197.725 (VT - 49.525, UB - 49.350, BB - 49.350, FX - 49.500)
Individual (Includes first place and all LSU competitors)
All-Around - 1. Rheagan Courville 39.600
Vault - 1. Kayla Williams (Alabama) 9.975, t2. Rheagan Courville 9.925, t2. Kaleigh Dickson 9.925, t2. Randi Lau 9.925, t2. Sarie Morrison 9.925, 7. Jessie Jordan 9.90, t8. Britney Taylor 9.875
Bars - t1. Rheagan Courville 9.925, t1. Sarie Morrison 9.925, t1. Randii Wyrick 9.925, t1. Ashley Priess (Alabama) 9.925, t8. Britney Ranzy 9.825, 11. Lloimincia Hall 9.70, 12. Kaleigh Dickson 9.15
Beam - 1. Ashley Priess (Alabama) 9.95, 3. Jessie Jordan 9.875, t4. Rheagan Courville 9.85, t4. Ericka Garcia 9.85, t4. Lloimincia Hall 9.85, t8. Randii Wyrick 9.825, t10. Britney Taylor 9.80
Floor - 1. Lloimincia Hall 10.000, t3. Rheagan Courville 9.90, t3. Jessica Savona 9.90, t9. Britney Taylor 9.775, t9. Randii Wyrick 9.775, 12. Maliah Mathis 9.625


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General demoted for lavish travel, spending
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This article was published November 13, 2012 at 11:41 a.m.
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WASHINGTON A senior U.S. official said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has demoted the former head of U.S. Africa Command who was accused of spending thousands of dollars on lavish travel and other unauthorized expenses.
The official says Panetta stripped Gen. William "Kip" Ward of a star, which means that he will now retire as a three-star lieutenant general despite some arguments against the demotion.
Ward will also repay the government $82,000.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to discuss a personnel matter.
The demotion comes as retired Army Gen. David Petraeus resigned as CIA director because of an extramarital affair and Marine Gen. John Allen is being investigated for improper communications with a woman.
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Jackabbott says... November 13, 2012 at 1:35 p.m.
Where are these bums and free loaders coming from?
One place Congress and the President need to cut spending is the lavish pensions that these people get. The miliiary should not be set up as an ATM machine but a defense and fighting machine.
This is what happens when all the Presidents beginning with Reagan. except for the first Bush, do not have one iota of knowledge about military affairs.
Carter was a USN grad and commanded a sub and knew the system, that is partly the reason the military brass was uncomfortable with him because he was the man who knew too much,
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jetjohn says... November 13, 2012 at 1:57 p.m.
When will they learn???? They all think they are above everyone else!! We, the taxpayers, are funding all this nonsense!
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mainlyinpain posted 2/24/2014 15:40 PM
I have talked about being shunned before, or the silent treatment, whatever. I have been having this since Thursday I think after I told him
I found some information that made me heartsick.
I know I am pathetic and pitiful to be letting it get to me so hard and not being strong and refocusing. I am doing the refocusing and putting my energies into things that are positive for me. But lunch time just passed again, and we always talk at lunchtime and this is the fifth lunchtime in a row with no contact not to mention no contact the other 24 hours of the day. I know he will take the stance that he had to cut off contact with me because he is under such extreme stress at work and could not handle any stress from what I had discovered. I also know that this is bs and it is emotional abuse.
It makes me feel very small.
This morning he thought I was in the shower but I had stepped out into the bedroom to get something. He was coming down the hallway into the bedroom. When he saw that I was there he stopped and turned around in the other direction. I cant describe how that felt.
karmahappens posted 2/24/2014 15:45 PM
Please begin to take care of you. This type of behavior is abusive and manipulating.
He thinks if he treats you this way you will buckle, stop asking questions and be a "good little wife".
Surprise him, pull a 180, get yourself strong and start making the necessary changes you need to make in order to put you first.
You deserve a husband worthy of your love, he has chosen not to be.
Be good to you.
jstbreathe posted 2/24/2014 15:54 PM
I totally get this. If I'm not all sunshine and rainbows WH completely shuts down and stops talking to me. He travels for work and I won't receive any communication for days, I don't even know if he is coming or going. Then out of the blue he just shows up and tries to act like nothing happened. They are just so much more comfortable with their heads firmly buried in the sand or in some orifice of their bodies.
IDK if it's shame, guilt, or maybe he hates to see first hand what he has done. Or could just be that he doesn't really give a shit and is waiting for the storm to pass. Who knows, you can't make sense out of nonsense!
norabird posted 2/24/2014 15:55 PM
You are not pathetic or pitiful.
But you do deserve more.
I HATE that this is being done to you. Somewhere deep inside you there must be anger over this. Work to find it.
Stop hoping for him to give you what you need honey. Only you can make yourself happy. So start working on it!
Tomorrow? Find something else to do at lunch.
Getting to Happy posted 2/24/2014 16:14 PM
...I also know that this is bs and it is emotional abuse.
It makes me feel very small.
This morning he thought I was in the shower but I had stepped out into the bedroom to get something. He was coming down the hallway into the bedroom. When he saw that I was there he stopped and turned around in the other direction. I cant describe how that felt.
That is soooo childish! What a douche'!
My dear Queen MIP, as long as you react to his abuse he will continue to mete out this abuse.
I know it is easier said than done but you will have to change the way that you react to his shitty abuse. He is not going to change because he is getting the desired response from you:
It makes me feel very small.
I am so sorry. You are responding to the 'buttons' that he has installed. HE is getting his desired response from you.
This is why the 180 is so important. You will have to detach from him, your 'Give A Shit' will have to break. Turn away from him. Treat him like he is not there. At first he will act like this is what he wants. But there will come a turning point where he will realize that he will not get that response he needs from you and he will begin hoovering you.
Poor sap sucker, Passive Agressive WS are so predictable.
You must ditch him for your own mental health. As you know he can keep up the 'silent treatment' forever. He is waiting for you to break so he can further abuse you with some bullshit backwards thinking...like you need to be a better wife and woo him so he will be nice to you.
No matter how much you protest and try to reason with him, he will twist your words in hurtful ways to push you into a corner with only him to 'save' you...FTG!
This guy is not worth your love and loyalty. You are a kind and loving Queen, your the prize!
Detach your highness! He just a boorish commoner, he is not worthy of your beauty and grace.
Don't feel bad or pathetic. You are still trying to un-install those pesky buttons. It takes practice. The 180 is a cheat sheet guiding you, showing you the shortcuts. Even if you don't understand it all, just fake it for now. Your heart will catch up with your head, because you know he is wrong, wrong, wrong. And now with his crappy behavior he is adding insult to injury.
The nerve....That Bully needs to 'B-GONE'.
Do something nice for yourself during your lunch hour. After a few days of that you will barely think about his shitty treatment of you.
Besides who wants to hear what he has to say...when his lips are moving he is lying!
Have a better day your Highness.
[This message edited by Getting to Happy at 4:16 PM, February 24th (Monday)]
jstbreathe posted 2/24/2014 16:24 PM
He thinks if he treats you this way you will buckle, stop asking questions and be a "good little wife".You nailed it on the head!
I tried the 180 on WH, I held out for 2 weeks! Complete NC! Even when he came home I held out and completely avoided him, didn't speak to him ect.. I finally had to call him because his brother had been admitted to the hospital and was in the ICU. Again, he just acts like nothing happened. I was an emotional wreck the whole time and he was completely unfazed. He's a master at 180!
redrock posted 2/24/2014 16:37 PM
This morning he thought I was in the shower but I had stepped out into the bedroom to get something. He was coming down the hallway into the bedroom. When he saw that I was there he stopped and turned around in the other direction. I cant describe how that felt.
The silence standoff. Cold silence is a bitch. It hurts to feel discarded and unwanted. In all reality silence is exactly what he wants. He doesn't have to face up to the newfound phone with the side benefit of casting himself in the victim role- she won't talk to me- she is mean- I am so busy at work-how could she do this now... blah, blah, blah....
My H used the one short interval of his work career when things slacked off to have an affair. It is REALLY hard for me to find my empathy for his job situation now. Even when I know his stress level is through the roof. He cried wolf too much for too long.
His job, my temper, the kids, 'just wanting to have a nice night' are all go to answers for not talking, conflict avoiding, not doing what he knows he should. I would want to understand how in this specific instance your H feels it is okay to play silent chicken?
You are never going to get the perfect circumstances to heal on 'good days only'. So you better face up to the days you have. You can't make him face his actions and participate in the marriage. I know that it hurts. It is designed too. That is the worst part.
You do have control over you. He is trying to hurt you. He would rather hurt you than tell you the truth. SEE that.
It is hard to draw the line in the sand. To let go of the outcome when you want so badly to repair. I spent months and months in appeasement mode, love mode, work it out mode. It wasn't until I couldn't stand it one more minute that I drew my line in the sand and meant it -that R really began. It sucks that it took that. But I will also tell you that it is very freeing to get to the point where you know you can handle either outcome.
I am sending you hugs. Limbo with a passive aggressive sucks balls. They LOVE limbo, silence is in their comfy zone. Hang in there. Be kind to yourself.
jstbreathe posted 2/24/2014 17:03 PM
It wasn't until I couldn't stand it one more minute that I drew my line in the sand and meant it -that R really began. It sucks that it took that.
What did you do exactly? What was your line in the sand?
Getting to Happy posted 2/24/2014 17:37 PM
Oh My Redrock~
You are never going to get the perfect circumstances to heal on 'good days only'. So you better face up to the days you have. You can't make him face his actions and participate in the marriage. I know that it hurts. It is designed too. That is the worst part.
You do have control over you. He is trying to hurt you. He would rather hurt you than tell you the truth. [bold]SEE that.[/bold]
THIS^^^ Wow, there is the answer right there^^^!
Let go of what how he acts and protect you. He is not hurt or sad, he is deliberately trying to hurt you. And now that you have heard from another survivor talking about living with a PA-WS...she said what I was thinking, he is a coward. This is why he is silent, he cannot cope. He seems so stoic, so strong by ignoring you but really he just is scared. He is scared of the repercussions from his actions...UGH!
Learn that 180, put it into force, Ditch him.
Hugs to you Queen (((((MIP.)))))
Rebreather posted 2/24/2014 18:34 PM
Have been conditioned, to little by little expect less and less until YOU have nothing inside. And you survive on the morsels he deigns to feed you.
Someone very wise wrote this to another member today. Do you recognize it?
nowiknow23 posted 2/24/2014 18:40 PM
Sadmumma posted 2/24/2014 18:45 PM
But lunch time just passed again, and we always talk at lunchtime and this is the fifth lunchtime in a row with no contact
Can you o something else at lunchtime? Can you go for a walk, head to the shops, preferably something where you dont have your phone with you.
mainlyinpain posted 2/24/2014 19:41 PM
I feel so unmoored without this contact. Our lunchtime conversations were my touchstone .I know where he is, I know how the morning went, I know what the rest of the day holds. I can talk to him about the carjacking that happened yesterday two blocks from our house. .. I feel relative safety in that day. I have this daily caring ripped from underneath me where I already had a new major revelation that I laid on the table. I have to deal with that without any anchoring of any kind.
Its like he was holding my hand and a fog came in and he just let go.
Yes Rebreather, you saw that I was really talking to myself, didnt you?
I should really take my own advice.
GTH, I am going 180. This one will not break me. I have in the past always been the one to break this, to appeal to him and say I just cant take this anymore. THIS TIME THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN. I hate games, I hate manipulations, but I will not bend or give in. Yes, this button pushed had destroyed me before where I would (yes, Rebreather) just take the morsels he then deigned to feed me. I am conditioned. This feels like the heaviest chains wrapped around me. What an effort it feels to work them off.
Redrock, (What was your line in the sand? I second the question)
I know silence is exactly what he wants. It has been a tried, true, tested go-to for him. Another coping mechanism he uses to turn me off. Like a TV, blip, change that channel. But although he treats me like an object, I am a human being. I hurt, I bleed.
I am so busy at work-how could she do this now... blah, blah, blah....
And also his just wanting to have a good night Word For Word the same.
I responded to this for years and you know what I realized now? This is his victim card that he wants to play. He now enjoys the attention that he is given for being so overworked. Both I and his psych, everyone, tells him that he has to reduce workload. And he could, easily, he is his own boss. I realized that not only has his not doing this led to his continued stress, It has also kept him from being available for me. At a time where I need extreme comfort and attention.
He would rather hurt you than tell you the truth. Thats what all the lies are. Choosing to hurt instead of owning the truth. Coward.
Thank you all for your insightful words of support that helped me get through another day.
Like magical little compasses, you are pointing me in the right direction.
Ostrich80 posted 2/25/2014 01:59 AM
Omgosh what a big baby. 180 his ass. I use to hate when my ws would would do this. I would try to be nice and ask what was wrong, try to coax him into a conversation. Finally I just ignored it and continued on my merry way. I kind.of started liking it when he would go in the bedroom and pout with the door closed all night. The last time he did it was the night I made one of his fave dinners. I didn't go into the room and tell him it was ready, I just let him stay in there. The kids and I ate and I fed the rest to the dogs. He cane in hhe kitchen much later and opened the microwave to get his plate he assumed.I saved...he hasn't done it since. Such immature behavior.
joannie posted 2/25/2014 02:02 AM
So sorry for you too, you give me such good advice..head up, like me you are not weak...but we just don't know how to be strong yet. Thoughts to you from France, always
Sparkle0504 posted 2/25/2014 02:10 AM
The time has come for me too. No more, huh?
We Can Do This.
mainlyinpain posted 2/27/2014 22:15 PM
There really isn't anything any of you can say or advise...
Just crying and slipping from being strong. I'm on day eight of shunning. No one knows and I just need for someone to know this is happening to me. I have no motivation to find out any more about any phones or anything...which I am sure is fine with WH. Living with echos.
I should not approach him right? I don't want to but I just want this limbo to end. I want to not hurt. Not be hurt.
mainlyinpain posted 2/28/2014 10:00 AM
I am dying and I think he is doing much better with shunning me. I do not want to and will not be the person who ends this or tries to end this. In the past I always have been and it is demoralizing esp because he will not at first relent he will be angry when I approach him and that is the worst. But I am broken. I know the answer is "dump that guy". I am not even in the realm of wanting to do anything but make this silence end. I have no bitch boots to pull up, no strength to be righteous. I just want this silence to end. I want him to acknowledge there is another human living with him. I am in so much pain, I could not do anything that would bring pain or arguing or discord. I feel like a burn victim. Anything that disrupts will bring horrendous pain. Only thing that would help is soothing comfort. But any kind of contact at all is being withheld. I feel worse than a dog kicked into the corner. I am not even left a water bowl. I feel so pitiful writing this.
norabird posted 2/28/2014 10:11 AM
(((big hugs)))
This is abuse. He's pushing your buttons. You CAN find bitch boots.
Do you have a good friend nearby who you can go see for the weekend? I think you should get out of that environment. Don't explain, just pack a bag and go stay in a close family member or friend's guestroom. Let them take care of you if possible. Or propose you and the friend do something you both enjoy for the weekend.
Please get out of this situation. You are at a point where you'd be happy with a crumb. It's awful. Please PLEASE find something to do this weekend for you that gets you out of the home.
mainlyinpain posted 2/28/2014 20:13 PM
norabird, I think you are clairvoyant. I should have left the house. He was just a timebomb waiting to explode.
I just blew everything up. He came home early and I knew he was just going to ignore me and go to another hockey game or somewhere. When he came in I went to him. He just showed me anger that really escalated. He started saying-I'm not going to talk to you-I'm going to a hockey game! I said that is just not acceptable this is the third game in a row you have gone to while not speaking to me at all. Then he screams how he has the right to relax after working all day and I spend all my time looking for things to destroy us and he is tired of it all. I say I am tired of it too. He says I am tired of you accusing me of things I didn't do. I said I didn't accuse you of doing anything. OH YES YOU DID
No, I try to say but he keeps yelling over me saying he doesn't want to hear anything I have to say. Finally I get to get out--What I said to you was that I found something to make me heartsick. He yells, you just want to find out stuff to destroy us. I say I want to find out the truth. He says we're over. I say fine. Then I tell him that I found a phone, another secret phone from 2009 that shows he had contact with OW then and that shows 750 hours of previous use. He yells he had no other phone. I say I found it in garage. I say it was paid for by her. He says no she didn't get it for me. I say she didn't get it? It thought it didn't exist! The he screams we're over and he's tired of it all. Just screaming at me that I should have better things to do that spend time on the computer (SI) talking to these people. Just a whole rant and rant and tearing me down leaving me shaking and crying and desolate. Is this the end? Have I tried and endured and in the end he will decide it is over? I could not have found the phone and not confronted about it right? That would be rugsweeping. I have a right to question and verify and express fears about what may be happening, right? I am so alone against him. I don't know if I can just give up when we haven't even had any MC but he has had IC and he is at this place, no empathy, no understanding, saying it is over. Would MC do any good? Does he really mean it's over? This hurts so much.


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LANSING (WILX)-- As much as 500 gallons of oil has spilled into the Grand River according to the State Department of Environmental Quality.
The turbine oil spilled Sunday night from the Lansing Board of Water and Light's Eckert power plant. Environmental experts tell us animals and plants will be affected.
Three booms have now been set out on grand river, in hopes of soaking up most of the spilled oil, but experts say they may not catch all of it.
"It's entirely possible some might have gotten past the booms. That's why we put three out," said D.E.Q. Brad Wurfel.
The state says fish and wildlife will be affected by the spill, but that it's too soon to tell how bad it's going to be. Wurfel did say that Lansing's drinking water will be safe.
"This is a sheen, very light oil. It's not crude oil that will coat wildlife all over. But hydraulic fluid should not be in the Grand River," said Wurfel.
The spill is only a small portion of what could have gone into the river.
"There was a lot more material lost out of their process, but this is what got into the river," said Wurfel.
Bwl has been following standard clean up procedure but some say it's not enough.
"You look at oil. It's a toxic substance and harmful to humans and wildlife. It's tough to put a quantity on how much oil is allowable in a river," said Michigan Clean Water Action Association Nic Clark.
Playing along side the river with her three sons, one mother has some big concerns.
"I'm concerned about the local playgrounds how clean it's going to be on the river trail. How safe is it going to be for the kids to come and play?," said Brie McThall.
The DEQ says no one should fish, play, or go in the water for at least a few weeks until most of the clean up is finished. The river booms will remain in place for several weeks and will be properly disposed of once they have collected the oil.
DEQ confirmed it will fine BWL for the spill although how much has yet to be determined.


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In February of 1973, President Nixon called future president and then-Republican National Committee chairman George H.W. Bush, and recounted a recent visit to the South Carolina state legislature.
"I noticed a couple of very attractive women, both of them Republicans, in the legislature," Nixon told Bush. "I want you to be sure to emphasize to our people, God, let's look for some… Understand, I don't do it because I'm for women, but I'm doing it because I think maybe a woman might win someplace where a man might not… So have you got that in mind?"
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Lorraine A. Roiger, age 85, of Sleepy Eye, MN died on March 4, 2013, at Divine Providence Community Home, Sleepy Eye.
Lorraine A. Roiger, age 85, of Sleepy Eye died on Monday, March 4, 2013, at Divine Providence Community Home, Sleepy Eye. Visitation will be on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. and will continue on Saturday from 7:30 until 9:30 a.m. at the Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye. Service will be held at the Church of the Japanese Martyrs, Leavenworth, on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. The clergy will be Fr. Andy Michels. Interment will be at the Japanese Martyrs Cemetery, in Leavenworth. Arrangements are with the Sturm Funeral Home in Sleepy Eye. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.sturmfh.com
Lorraine Angeline Roiger was born on August 28, 1927 in Mulligan Township, Brown County, the daughter of John R. and Anna M. (Sellner) Windschitl. Lorraine married Arnold Joseph Roiger on August 28, 1958 at the Church of the Japanese Martyrs in Leavenworth. They lived and farmed in Albin Township from 1960 to 1992 when Arnold passed away. Lorraine moved to Sleepy Eye and later to Divine Providence for the last five years. Lorraine was blessed with many talents, creativity and had an artistic hand. She enjoyed sewing, quilting, needlework, vegetable and flower gardening, and decorating cakes. She served on church committees, extension groups and was a 4-H leader. Lorraine loved to see children learn and expand their own talents. She also enjoyed spending time with her family and grandchildren.
Lorraine is survived by her daughter, Gina (Dale) Windschitl of Sleepy Eye; grandchildren, Jacob and Cordell; brothers, Harold (Yvonne) Windschitl of Sleepy Eye and Ervin (Barbara) Windschitl of Sleepy Eye.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Arnold on June 22, 1992; a son, Arlen; and daughter in infancy; and nephew, Tim Windschitl.


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ADAMS TWP — Mars High School is exploring a new type of teaching concept that is the polar opposite of the traditional lecture-and-text format, but parents are unsure of the idea.
About 35 parents and school board members attended a forum Wednesday night in the high school to learn more about the "flipped classroom" method.
In a flipped classroom, students watch an online video at home that details a lesson, complete with the teacher on the video explaining the subject matter. The video can be repeated as needed, and students must summarize the most important points in the video and come up with at least one question regarding the material.
Assignments are then completed in class the next day, where teachers can interact with students individually.
Seneca Valley School District Superintendent Tracey Vitale and Assistant Superintendent Matt McKinley attended the forum to learn about the flipped classroom concept.
Aaron Sams, a former chemistry teacher at Woodland Park High School in Colorado and a flipped classroom practitioner and consultant who lives in Pittsburgh, discussed the concept.
Since the beginning of the school year, Mars has been teaching chemistry and physics using the flipped classroom method.
The program at Mars started when teachers Janet Adams, Nicole Avon and Rebecca Winek wanted to enrich the classroom experience of all students by ensuring everyone understood the concepts being taught.
Parents had several concerns for administrators after they watched an abbreviated video and did some work themselves to get a feel for the method.
Principal Todd Kolson assured parents that their input and that of students would figure into the program as it continues at Mars.
Mars junior Kaitlin Rymer said she enjoys the flipped classroom method. She said it makes students responsible for learning, and gives them choices in how they learn.


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World War II was the largest armed conflict in the history of mankind. The Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944 was the turning point of the war in Europe; it established a foothold through which men and supplies could move inexorably towards Berlin. "Intact: A First-Hand Account of the D-Day Invasion from a Fifth Rangers Company Commander" is an enthralling eyewitness account of the landing of the Fifth Ranger Infantry Battalion on Omaha Beach during the Normandy Invasion. The Fifth was one of the few units to land intact as a full battalion on Bloody Omaha and played a major role in establishing the Omaha Beachhead. Told from the viewpoint of Headquarters Company Commander John C. Raaen, Jr.-a US Army Captain at the time who eventually rose to the rank of Major General-the story begins a few hours before the invasion launched. It recounts Raaen's trip from the troopship to shore, the assault up the bluffs and off the beach, the battles inland through the hedgerows and villages of Vierville-sur-Mer and St. Pierre du Mont, the thrust to relieve the Ranger force at Pointe du Hoc, and finally the battle at Maisy Battery.
An authentic nugget of American history, "Intact" draws heavily from several period documents written by Raaen during and shortly after the war and details precise locations of events wherever possible. Also included are appendices that contain the After Action reports of the Fifth Rangers and Motor Launch 304-the guideboat that led the Ranger forces assaulting Pointe du Hoc to the wrong objective-along with citations for the award of the Distinguish Service Cross to members of the Fifth Rangers.
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Intact: A First-Hand Account of the D-Day Invasion from a Fifth Rangers Company Commander
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Major General John C. Raaen Jr., US Army (Ret.) was born at Fort Benning, GA, the son of an Army officer. Raised on army posts, he attended the Military Academy at West Point, and graduated in January 1943. His battalion, the Fifth Ranger Infantry Battalion, landed on "Bloody Omaha" early on D-Day. After the war, he served until his retirement in May 1979. He currently lives in Central Florida with his wife and family.
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Enfield parents sounded off Wednesday night about a new plan to place armed guards in all their schools.
The proposal was approved by the board of education in a 5-4 vote Tuesday night, and its passage means security officers will be in place by next year.
On Wednesday evening, the board is expected to hold an informational session, but many parents are expected to voice their opposition.
Some parents told Eyewitness News that they are upset because they feel the city and school board should have waited until after the informational session to make their decision.
"More harm is going to be done to our children, if we put them in a school with bars on the windows, locks on the door," said parent Lynn McClain. "We're making it a prison."
There are currently three school resource officers at the high and middle schools. However, the new plan will call for more than two dozen more.
"I wouldn't put retired police officers in there because maybe they not be up the task of what would happen in a school, in that situation," said parent Kevin Sterling. "I would want someone young enough to respond to it."
The Enfield Board of Education meeting is expected to begin at 7 p.m. inside the high school auditorium.
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This newspaper puts too much emphasis on reporting local crime.
Or not enough.
Or not the right kind.
At not the right time.
Just about everyone has an opinion about the job we do in reporting crime and punishment in this community.
And we welcome their willingness to speak out on the subject.
IN THE FOUR YEARS this column has been published, the subject of crime has been a frequent topic.
A search of this newspaper's electronic library shows the word "crime" appeared in 44 different columns among more than 200 that the editor has written.
Those columns usually were written in response to readers' questions, concerns or criticism about how the newspaper reported on crime.
Of course, some of that feedback came from readers who have grown weary of reading about the pre-trial exploits of murder defendant Nicholas Sheley of Sterling, who was charged with killing eight people, five of them in Whiteside County, over a few days in the summer of 2008.
More than 4 years after the homicide spree, Sheley stands convicted of only one murder – in Knox County. The defense continues to frustrate justice by seeking further delays in his next trial, scheduled for Whiteside County.
Each story we publish about the case is a reminder of the horrific acts involved.
But even if they are weary of the coverage, readers need to know how the criminal justice system – their government – is proceeding in State v. Sheley.
And it's our job to report that.
COMMENTS ABOUT crime coverage often are complaints that the newspaper puts too much emphasis on lawless behavior and puts too many crime-related stories on Page 1.
If you read last Saturday's edition, you might have seen a different complaint – that the newspaper put a particular crime story on Page 4A of the Aug. 11 edition.
That opinion was voiced in a guest column by Gary Spencer, state's attorney for Whiteside County. He argued that the newspaper should have used Page 1 to report on an 85-year prison sentence for a repeat felon convicted of attempted murder, being an armed habitual criminal, and three lesser charges.
Spencer wrote that he believed the judge wanted to send a message with such a severe punishment: "that our community will not tolerate this Chicago-style lawlessness."
"The decision by the [newspaper] to place this very important story on Page A4 of the Saturday paper did little to assist the court system in sending the message that violence of this nature will not be tolerated in Whiteside County," Spencer wrote.
He might be right.
CHOOSING STORIES for Page 1 is an inexact process.
What is important? What is interesting? And to whom?
Our Page 1 on that Aug. 11 had four stories: the hiring of a new financial director in Dixon in the wake of the $53 million city hall scandal; the "Knock and Talk" campaign of the Sterling Police Department to discourage neighborhood crime; the dwindling stock at local food pantries this summer; and the background on how Dixon landed the Mumford & Sons concert that brought 15,000 people to town last weekend.
All are important to the community – or, at least, to different people in the community.
But so is punishment that is intended to deter crime. Spencer called the 85-year term "effectively a life sentence for this 28-year-old defendant ... who was proved to have shot three people on two separate occasions" in recent years.
On the other hand, you could argue that nobody died when a guy shot an acquaintance in the leg during a quarrel over a woman. Had it been a first offense, it would have been ripe for a plea bargain for aggravated assault.
But it wasn't a first offense, and the offender was slapped with a deservedly long prison sentence.
Maybe the story should have been on Page 1.
ANOTHER COMPLAINT we hear on occasion involves our Monday morning roundup of criminal and civil cases scheduled for court that week – Court Call, we call it.
Many of those items, about scheduled court hearings, include a photo of the person involved. Marc sent an email to say that might not be fair – especially to those who are not convicted.
"You have plastered their faces and charges so many times that they are going to be guilty on the street anyway," he wrote. "... I would think that's some kind of defamation of character by you.
"I understand your reporting the news, but nothing has changed in these articles. Always waiting on courts. If they are guilty so be it, not for me to decide. But you can make it difficult for them in a small town when potentially looking for a job, or place of residence.
"So are you going to report that they are innocent as many times as you make them look guilty? If not shame on you."
WHETHER THEY "look guilty" is not for us to decide.
But if they are acquitted, we will certainly report that. And if the arrest was placed on Page 1, the acquittal deserves Page 1, too.
Will we report an acquittal "as many times" as we report other developments in the case – the arrest, the entering of a plea, the pre-trial hearings, the trial, and the verdict?
A criminal case can take years to come to a legal conclusion, so the newspaper might publish dozens of reports on the progress of prosecution.
A conviction will lead to another story on the sentencing, and appeals can drag out the case for a few more years.
But an acquittal almost always ends the story. It's over.
So, too, is the need to continue reporting it.


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In David Dalati's piece on hometown boy Jarred Cosart, we find that Cosart didn't really want to sign with the Phillies in 2008:
"When the Phillies called, I was like, 'Thanks, but no thanks.'" But sly old Ruben Amaro got him to sign as a 38th Round pick, instead of going to Missouri.
And he doesn't think he'll make the roster out of Spring Training:
"I want to make the team. But I wouldn't give myself a legitimate shot. I'm still young, I have things to work on but I'm going in there with the mindset that I'm going to make the team."
(He's probably right).
Friday, January 27, 2012
Jarred Cosart doesn't give himself a legitimate shot
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- OremLK said...
That's the right mindset for him to have. He's barely scratched the upper minors and didn't perform that well in AA ball. He needs a full year at AA/AAA to hone his game.
- January 27, 2012 at 9:42 PM
take out his 2 non-quality starts and he pitched very well, but.... yes he does still have a lot of work to do so he is best suited for AA/AAA until at least sept. we will see how he looks then.
- February 4, 2012 at 1:35 PM
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Release Notes: This is a minor release that fixes a configuration problem that was preventing the enhance program from finding a pseudo terminal on some recent systems.
Release Notes: This release fixes a few bugs, remedies a configuration problem under Mac OS X, adds configuration support for IRIX, and adds a few minor features. gl_get_line can now be forced to treat a terminal as a non-interactive stream, by setting the TERM environment variable to the word "dumb". The line-buffer returned by one call to gl_get_line can now be passed as the initial input line of the next call for further editing. There is a documented way for file descriptor and inactivity timeout callbacks to safely suspend line editing, in case they need to interact with the terminal.
Release Notes: This release fixed a few bugs and added two functions for controlling what goes in the list of historically entered input lines, a function for prompting the user and awaiting a single character reply, and another that invisibly reads a character from the terminal without the user having to hit return. The configure script now also has an option to compile the library for embedded OSes without filesystems and option for removing built-in actions that users could otherwise exploit to explore the host filesystem.
Release Notes: There are several major new features, including an optional non-blocking mode, which allows gl_get_line to be called from arbitrary external event handlers without blocking the caller, an added provision for binding multiple completion handlers, improvements to error reporting and history recall behavior, added facilities for reliable signal handling, the option of inactivity timeouts, and an explicit way to set the terminal size on systems without SIGWINCH. There are also several bugfixes.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. It includes minor changes to support 3 operating systems, Mac OS X (Darwin), the QNX real-time operating system, and Cygwin under Windows. It also fixes an oversight that was preventing the tab key from inserting tab characters when users unbound the complete-word action from it.
Release Notes: There have been many additions to gl_get_line. The history can now be grouped, displayed, queried, disabled, saved, and loaded by applications. Signal handling is now customizable. File event handlers can now be registered. Configuration can now come from any string or combination of files. A no-echo mode has been added. The prompt can now contain text attribute directives. 8-bit foreign locales are now supported. There is also a new program that adds command-line editing to most programs, without them being linked to the library.
Release Notes: Signal handling in gl_get_line has been rewritten, and is newly documented in the gl_get_line man page. In addition to eliminating race conditions and appropriately setting errno where pertinent, many more signals are intercepted, making it less likely that the terminal will be left in raw mode by a signal that gl_get_line doesn't trap. Intercepted signals are resent to the calling application after restoring the terminal settings.
Release Notes: A number of improvements have been made to vi mode, including the addition of a lot of new vi key-bindings, the implementation of the vi constraint that the cursor can't backup past the point at which input mode was entered, restoration of overwritten characters when backspacing in overwrite mode, correct cursor positioning after undo, parenthesis matching, a repeat-command, and more. A bug has also been fixed that irrevocably locked up output if the user pressed C-S under Linux.
Release Notes: In vi mode, the history-search-backward action didn't do anything on empty lines. It now works like up-history, as in emacs mode. Versions 1.2.3, 1.2.4, and 1.3.0 of the tecla shared library used the soname feature wrongly under Linux. Linux programs linked with these versions will ignore later versions of the library until relinked with version 1.3.1 or later. The configure script has also been updated to cope with oddities in old versions of Solaris and Linux.
Release Notes: The tecla command-line editor now provides an optional vi editing mode, which includes a large number of default bindings. A bug in the key-binding table expansion code which caused problems for those who used lots of personalized key bindings has been fixed aswell.


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Reviewed by Alejandra Z. (age 9)
My opinion is that this is my second favorite book. I like this book because the girl and the boy go out and trap the bad witch. I was glad they were able to trap the witch. My favorite part is the end because it is a happy ending. I like the pictures in the book because they are colorful. I enjoy reading books with lots of pictures and this book has a picture in every page.
I recommend this book because it comes from the author's imagination. I like it because it is a make believe book.


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|2004-09-10, 20:04
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|2004-09-10, 20:35
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What do you mean by "Neji kick Lee's ass?' ? The whole point of learning to open the 5 gates was to defeat Neji as Gai said that's the only way to beat Neji. Neji and Lee are rivals you can say.
|2004-09-11, 00:22
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I didnt really like this epi because Im not really a Lee fan. Though I like him and his spirit, and find him and Gai to be funny sometimes. So it was not too bad. Though, I would really like more stuff on Shino and Tenten. And if possible also Nara Shikamaru, because hes my fav. char
Well, I also thought Lee looked a lot older than before.
|2004-09-11, 06:59
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Ya know, I'm not a Rock Lee fan, but this was a good ep. Been hoping he'd take the surgery all along, and that my 5th Hokage would agree to it.
I have to agree with the last post..I wish they'd flesh TenTen out more. And Shino and Shikamaru to a lesser bit. And wasshisname, the dog kid. And maybe even Ino!
|2004-09-11, 08:25
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heh, I think this episode kinda sucks
I hate that it is straying from the manga, and all of you
non-manga readers, your missing out on quiet a story...
I dont really care what Kakashi looks like....anyways
just sucks in my opinion
ps. whoever mentioned Hellsing, were you saying that Hellsing was alot better than the manga? then I would have to disagree, the first 6 episodes were cool, but the last episodes just sucked ass. and I was personaly disapointed
|2004-09-11, 12:07
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But this episode was actually in the manga, but just added too many flashbacks and dragged on and on.
About the Kakashi thing. That was in the manga too, it was a Special Chapter. The ramen shop thing.
|2004-09-11, 12:14
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Everyone has their own opinion and they have the right to say it. If you don't like this then don't visit forums like this. ^^
|2004-09-11, 16:24
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Well, obviously the story doesn't focuse on Rock Lee. It mostly focuses on Naruto and his growth in power. He said it himself. He wants the whole village to recognize him as the next hokage. Rock Lee's good, but he just his other teammate that Naruto worries about (and not the main character).
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|2004-09-11, 16:59
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|2004-09-11, 17:02
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What a trashy episode. I mean, Rock Lee is too much of a fucking pussy; not to mention he looks like a fucking Sakura crying. God, I respected Lee for being a man, now I see him as an emotional bitch. Honestly people, we see Sakura constantly reminding us of Sasuke, and now Lee is constantly nagging the words, "Gai Sensei." Please pull a Sakura some more Lee, because what we need is more pointless phrases in Naruto. The conclusion: Rock Lee and Sakura are both retards.
My point is that the atmosphere they're trying to set isn't there. When Haku died and Zabuza cried I was in total shock; that episode was how to set an atmosphere. This one, episode 100, had Rock Lee crying like a little child who had lost his fucking pacifier. I hope Rock Lee dies in the surgery, then maybe my ears can have a rest from the bullshit phrase "Gai! Sensei!" Also, the animators should start find a better way to present emotion, and quick, becuase my thoughts during this episode were not sad but more along the line of: "Wow, Rock Lee is such a fucking pansy, cry some more you little bitch...."
|2004-09-11, 18:02
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I can clearly see that there isn't a shread of humanity in you, Enodu. On top of talking a bunch of utter BS about the episode you went further and wished that he'd die. I don't understand that. ANYONE would cry if their dreams were taken away from them and there's nothing they can do about it. He cried especially a lot because it means THAT MUCH to him. Lee can't just walk it off like its nothing going "Oh well, fux teh ninja life!! :D" ...but obviosuly you can't see that. All you can see is black and white and nothing more. That's too bad.
|2004-09-11, 20:32
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Hell, Haku KNEW he was going to bite Raikiri and still went out with a smile on his face. The shots of Sasuke potentially dying, Zabuza crying and Haku actually dying were done in an excellent manner. I actually felt sad when I saw all three scenes.
The only thought going through my mind with Gai/Lee scenes was "Okay... can we get to the part in the Manga already?... so unnecessary, even the manga didn't stretch it out this long..."
This is POINT BLANK filler, and I have every right to hate it. This was all explained in what... two fifteen page Manga editions? Give me a break. Anime is supposed to be fast. It's not my fault they'll run out of Manga material soon, so they have to put filler garbage into the Anime.
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|2004-09-11, 23:20
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1. My points aren't bullshit, go back to the zabuza fight.
2. You had no point to begin with.
3. You have no facts. A fact is something that holds truth to it, what you presented is a child's opinion ex, sasuke is the main character, there will be no series without sasuke, etc....
4. I told you to look up biased, and from what I'm reading you clearly haven't done your homework.
5. I'm wondering where is your fact that Sasuke is the main character? After all, you did argue that whole point blindy.
6. I couldn't understand the last point you made
Last of the Uchiha, if you want to argue against me don't go rushing in like a moron, take your time, otherwise all you're doing is stepping into a minefield. I honestly hate arguing with people, almost as much as I hate people, so the simplest thing to do is just let this go. All I was saying is the poor atmosphere or sad themes in Naruto are pissing me off.
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There needs to be a bored smiley. It would get some serious work.
Naruto is THE main character. Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sakura are all secondary main characters. Everyone else is a secondary character, period, and then there's the regular bit characters.
Enodu_2, if you hate arguing with people so much, please refrain from posting pointlessly inflammatory replies.
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SPRINGFIELD (MCT) — State lawmakers Wednesday took a step closer to granting special incentives to companies seeking thousands of dollars per job created or retained in Illinois.
Agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. is seeking $5,000 per job per year, chemical distributor Univar Inc. almost $3,000 and OfficeMax, which became Office Depot after its merger this week, $1,570.
All the companies are seeking to collect their employees' tax withholdings instead of forwarding them to the state. The reason for the requests is that companies have years in which they have little or no state tax obligation and can't take advantage of incentives negotiated with the state.
The ADM measure would tie incentives to 300 jobs: moving 100 jobs from Decatur, where it's based, to the company's new global headquarters, and creating 100 jobs at the headquarters and 100 jobs in Decatur. The company would also be required to fill 100 positions annually in Decatur for five years, including jobs created because of retirements. The incentive will total about $1.5 million a year for 15 to 20 years, a company spokeswoman said.
Sen. David Luechtefeld, of downstate Okawville, asked during a Senate committee hearing whether ADM would guarantee it would keep its headquarters in the state if the measure is approved.
"I don't know about the guarantee part," said Greg Webb, ADM's vice president of government relations.
He later added: "I'm going to tell you that we have a preference for Illinois."
ADM has said it plans to retain a workforce of 4,400 in Decatur, but the measure doesn't include language that requires the company to keep that promise. The company is said to prefer Chicago for its new headquarters, although it has entertained offers from other states.
At the same hearing, Office Depot interim co-CEO Ravi Saligram said a new proposal requiring the company to create 200 jobs in the state, in addition to retaining 2,050, would cost Illinois $53 million over 15 years.
Saligram said the newly merged company is also seeking incentives from Florida before deciding where to locate its new corporate headquarters. Office Depot, which merged with Naperville-based OfficeMax, employs 1,700 at its Boca Raton, Fla., headquarters.
Office Depot already has a multimillion-dollar package of incentives with Florida and Palm Beach County based on job creation.
An official in Palm Beach County said Wednesday that she's talking with city, county and state officials about potential additional incentives.
Florida won't let Office Depot go without a fight, she said.
"Are we serious about it? This is one of our major employers. It would be a huge loss not only to Boca Raton, but to our economic development efforts," said the official, Kelly Smallridge, president of the county business development board.
Saligram said he didn't know the value of the incentive package the company's other interim co-CEO, Neil Austrian, is seeking in Florida.
"We just want both states to put their best foot forward," Saligram told a Senate committee.
The ADM and Office Depot proposals moved to the full Senate. Approvals would send them to the House.
Separately, House lawmakers Wednesday approved a bill that paves the way for chemical distributor Univar Inc. to receive incentives worth $5 million over 10 years. The Redmond, Wash.-based company is considering moving its headquarters to Downers Grove, said Rep. Michael Zalewski, D-Riverside, the sponsor of the bill.
Zalewski said Univar is different from other companies seeking incentives because it's considering moving its headquarters to Illinois.
Univar declined to comment until "all is finalized."
The bill, which needs Senate approval, would allow the company to keep its employees' personal income tax withholdings if it retains at least 100 full-time jobs in Illinois and creates at least 69 jobs.
Lawmakers have criticized such deals for individual companies but continue to approve them.
Rep. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, attached an amendment to the Univar bill that would expand the state's tax credit program to all companies in Illinois' main economic development program. That would mean companies could collect their employees' taxes instead of forwarding them to the state.
In an interview, Ives said only large companies that can hire lobbyists ask for the tax breaks. Small businesses, she said, are locked out.
"If we enhance (the program) for one company, it is good for all," Ives said.
Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, a critic of the special incentives, urged lawmakers to reject the bill during a short debate.
"There is no evidence that this is a good deal for the state," Franks said.
• Tribune Newspapers reporter Marcia Pounds contributed.
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SYCAMORE – The families of Tim Getzelman and Alexis Weber try to honor the memories of the 21-year-olds who died in a car crash almost three years ago in positive ways.
On the first anniversary, they hosted a blood drive. Last year, they encouraged friends and community members to do something nice for someone else through a Random Act of Kindness day.
They plan to repeat the Random Act of Kindness Day – T-shirts for the event were sold to benefit Casey's Safe Haven in Elburn, a rescue for dogs and horses – but first they have to sit through the first part of a criminal trial for the 48-year-old Sycamore woman who was driving the pickup truck that collided with Getzelman's four-door sedan.
"This is really going to be incredibly painful and difficult for both our families as well as for friends and community," Tamara Getzelman, Tim's mother, said in a written statement. "It has been a long process that has now taken us to a trial … finally … it will be now three years on Feb. 21."
Patricia Schmidt, of the 28500 block of Brickville Road, will stand trial before DeKalb County Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert on charges of reckless homicide and aggravated reckless driving. She asked that Stuckert, rather than jurors, decide her fate. Schmidt has been free since posting $50,000 bail April 6, 2011.
The trial, originally expected to start Monday, was pushed back to today because weather concerns closed the DeKalb County Courthouse on Monday. The trial will pick up again March 3 through 5.
About 5:30 p.m. Feb. 21, 2011, Schmidt was driving south on North Main Street in Sycamore when she collided with Getzelman's vehicle, which was traveling east on Peace Road.
Schmidt's attorney, Gregg Smith, did not respond to calls and emails requesting comment, but Assistant State's Attorney Phil Montgomery said Schmidt had a pre-existing seizure condition.
Prosecutors have said evidence suggests that Schmidt suffered a seizure or blackout in the crash and that they plan to argue that her medications were never at an appropriate level to drive. Stuckert agreed with prosecutors Nov. 15 that Schmidt's medical condition wasn't an affirmative defense, meaning it did not relieve her of responsibility for her actions, if she did commit reckless homicide or aggravated reckless driving.
"It's our position she shouldn't have been driving a car as a result of her medical condition," Montgomery said.
If convicted of reckless homicide, the more serious charge, Schmidt could be sentenced to probation or up to 5 years in prison. She had been charged with aggravated driving under the influence, which is punishable by between 6 and 28 years in prison, but prosecutors dropped those charges Sept. 4 because they did not think they could prove them beyond a reasonable doubt.
Prosecutors dropped the aggravated DUI charges because the prescription drugs found in Schmidt's blood did not exceed the prescribed doses, DeKalb County State's Attorney Richard Schmack said last week in a letter to the Daily Chronicle. Under his predecessor, former State's Attorney Clay Campbell, prosecutors "consulted three independent labs and found no qualified expert would testify that Schmidt was under the influence," Schmack wrote.
"To [pursue the DUI counts] would have totally undermined the state's credibility in pursuing a conviction based on reckless conduct, rather than impairment," Schmack said.
Montgomery said the state will call witnesses of the crash, medical personnel and police officers to testify during the trial.
Meanwhile, Getzelman's and Weber's families aren't the only ones who remember the couple. Getzelman was seven months away from earning his associate degree to become a firefighter, and Weber, a Kaneland graduate, who wanted to become a teacher, supported Feed 'Em Soup, a nonprofit organization that has a children's section called Lexi's Corner in her honor.
They were outstanding citizens who each wanted a career dedicated to giving back, said Sycamore Assistant Fire Chief Marc Doty, who knew both victims.
"That was their dream," Doty said. "That says a lot about those two. Not everybody is willing to do that."
Getzelman, a Sycamore graduate, was hired as an intern to the Sycamore Fire Department on Sept. 15, 2008, and had a license for basic EMT. A memorial site was dedicated to the couple July 15, 2012, at Sycamore Fire Station No. 2, 2100 Frantum Road, Sycamore.
"His dream was to go help somebody," Doty said. "And his dream was to obtain a full-time position as a firefighter."


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Video CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) 204
My name is Armin Kusig. I work for Lilliputian Systems. We developed the Nectar Mobile Power System, which is distributed through Brookstone in the US. This is a USB mobile charger. It charges anything that plugs into a standard USB port. What makes this different from all the battery chargers is that it is not a battery, it is a fuel cell. And that allows us to put a lot more energy into a device this size.
With this device you can carry about ten full charges for an iPhone or actually 55 watt-hours in one cartridge and that's actually real 55 watt hours that come out of the output. So if you compare this to a battery pack that says it is 3000 milliamp hours, that's 3000 milliamp hours with a 3.5 volt battery inside. So you really have to multiply that with 3.5 not with 5 if you want to compare it to our energy density.
Anything that plugs into your USB port can be charged with it. You can use the cable that comes with your phone. I just use adapter cables that I have available for the show. Can you see this? If you plug in this, the phone we should have tried this firstI think it might have a cable problem there. We will do that later.
So, the way the device works is that it is a hybrid system very much like a hybrid car. So it has inside it a small buffer battery of its own. And it will provide power through the USB output instantly as soon as you plug something into the USB. When the microprocessor senses that the internal battery capacity is getting slightly lower, it will start up the silicon power cell which is a solid oxide fuel cell built on a MEMS silicon chip. And that will take fuel from the butane fuel tank and convert it to electricity to both charge your phone and also recharge the internal battery. Once your phone is sufficiently charged, and the internal battery is full, it will turn off the silicon power cell again and go back into standby mode to be ready to be used again.
With one cartridge, again there are about 10 full charges, so that is about 2 weeks of power that you don't have to worry about plugging in. Once the cartridge runs out, all you have to do is take out the pod, you can recycle the old one, this is recyclable plastic, you pick up a new one from Brookstone, you plug it in, and the device is instantly ready to go. There is no waiting for it to charge, there is no need to plug it in at night. There is no panic in the morning, when you realize you didn't plug in your phone. It is always ready to go. It is always on power.
You can take this with you wherever you go. You can bring it on an airplane. This can go into carry-on luggage. It meets all the safety standards required by the TSA and also internationally. The Nectar pod is what we call the fuel cartridges. They can be put in your carry-on. Because it is a liquid fuel, you have to put them in a little plastic bag with your shampoo but it is perfectly fine to use on the plane. You only have to turn it off before takeoff and landing when you turn off all electronic devices. And this will never have you stand in line for power again. This will always have you be powered up, ready to go.
The Nectar pod is a fuel tank that holds butane gas. It is the same gas that is in a cigarette lighter. These pods are not refillable to meet the safety requirements that the TSA imposes. It has to be a tamper-proof sealed container, so we can't allow them to be refueled. It is also the refilling logistics is a little bit more complicated than for a lighter. So you just have to buy a new pod from Brookstone and dispose off the old one. But it is recyclable plastic so that it can go into the regular recycling stream there. There is really no additional waste incurred with that.
It will actually charge an iPad but it will trickle charge it, so the iPad will not show it is charging. iPads are probably not the intended devices to be charged with this. The output is a standard USB output, 5 volts 500 milliamps. It is really intended for phones, smart phones, GPS units, all the little USB devices. For those devices, it doesn't really matter how fast the charge is, because you are not stuck at the wall, while you are charging, you don't wait for it to charge. There is no dead time when you are charging your phone anymore because you are charging while you are on the go, while you are doing your business, there is no need to wait for the phone to charge.
There have been other small portable fuel cells out there and if you have been following the technology, you've probably noticed that they are not any better than a lithium battery in their value proposition. So if you were to get a lithium battery this size, you'd probably get maybe 2 or 3 charges for your phone. And the same is true for some of the other small fuel cells that have come out. They are also roughly this size and they actually give you maybe 1 or 2 charges for your phone. So, in a way, they are even worse than the battery.
So this is the first one that actually has the high energy density that you can achieve by using a high energy fuel like butane gas, and a highly efficient fuel cell like the solid oxide fuel cell. The combination of those is what really makes it now actually better than a lithium battery. So you get 4 to 5 times as much energy in the same package. And you get the instant refueling and not having to wait all night for the big battery pack to charge.
We would like to refer to ourselves as one of the oldest startups around. The company has been around for about 12 years now. It started with the core technology for this. It came out of MIT and Lincoln Labs. This is our first product. But we clearly have a roadmap in mind where there are some obvious directions we want to go. Clearly we want to be able to shrink the device further to make it easier to carry, maybe eventually integrate the technology into your electronic devices, so you don't have a separate charger but you have a butane-run powered cell phone.
On the other hand, we probably want to grow the device to make it powerful so you can run iPads, so you can run laptops and other higher powered devices.
Okay, so you can use the standard USB cable that came with your phone. In this case, I just used an adapter cable that happens to work. You plug into the phone, you plug the phone – the standard USB plug into the device, and as you do, the device will wake up. There is a little green light that shows that there is still fuel and another green light that shows you it is charging your device. And it is now running as the hybrid system from its internal battery and once that goes low, it will start up the silicon power cell and keeps charging for two weeks until the tank runs out of fuel.
I have been using this. It has come in handy at some points. Mostly our executive team is traveling with these all the time, all over the world, this is why we also have a good record experiencing airport safety in different countries, and we have not had any issues with that. And it is really a handy thing to have. You can walk by all the people that are stuck to the wall in the airport, and kind of laugh at them a little bit.


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Famed author Truman Capote befriends two murderers while researching his celebrated book, "In Cold Blood" — and finds himself changed to the core.
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Kristen Oliphant's career summary:
Height: 5-3
Class: Senior
Position: Point Guard
Season: Averaging 8.4 points, 4.5 assists, 2 steals while helping Lady Spartans to 22-5 record, including 7-0 MAIS District 3-2A mark.
Career: (2011-12) Averaged 8.6 points and 3.5 assists for 24-7 team. … First-team All-District. … (2010-11) Earned All-District honors as first player off the bench for district championship team.
Softball: MAIS District 3-2A MVP as a senior. Played in MAIS All-Star Game. … Five-year starter as third baseman, catcher and second baseman. … Five-time All-District selection. … Starting second baseman for state championship team as a freshman.
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The game starts out with Professor Oak talking to you about the world of Pokémon and Pokémon themselves. After a bit of dialogue, you are given the option to choose your name. You have four options for your character's name:
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After choosing your name, you are to choose your rival's name. You have four options for your rival's name:
- Blue
- Gary
- John
- Or giving your own name
The gameplay starts off with your character in a room next to a TV with a gaming system. If you press the (A) button while in front of the gaming system, it will tell you that your character is playing the SNES.
Before leaving your room, go over to the PC in the corner of the room. You have a few options of what you want to do while at the PC. Select Withdraw item, once on the withdrawal screen you'll be asked what you'd like to withdraw. Select the Potion from the withdrawal screen. Once you are done, select cancel and then select log off.
Go downstairs and talk to your mother, she'll tell you how all boys leave home one day. You have the option to watch the TV where four boys are walking along railroad tracks.
Leave the house and go over to the larger building on the right. This building is the laboratory. Walking to the back of the laboratory will take you to a table with three Poké Balls. Talk to the person next to the table to find out that Professor Oak is currently absent. This character is Blue, your rival.
Next, walk out of the laboratory and up to Route 1. Just as you enter the tall grass, a voice cries out to you to stop. As the person approaches you, you discover that the person is Professor Oak, who explains that wild Pokémon live in the tall grass, and that you would need your own Pokémon for your protection. He brings you into his laboratory, where Blue complains about waiting. Oak tells Blue to wait and states that there were three Poké Balls on the table next to him, and how after all his years as a serious trainer, he only had those three left. He offers you a selection of three Pokémon: Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander.


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Geneseo senior Devan Griffin can now add her name to the 1,000-career point club at Geneseo High School.
Geneseo senior Devan Griffin can now add her name to the 1,000-career point club at Geneseo High School.
"Oh gosh, no I never thought about getting it and I never thought I would get it this year," said Griffin, a three-year varsity player, of her accomplishment."
The senior currently stands at 1,002 career points after the Lady Leafs' Feb. 4 contest with Davenport North. Going into the game, Griffin needed 18 to reach the milestone, and she put up 20.
"After (Annawan's) Jordan Jackson reached her 1,000th-career point, I started thinking I should be close," said Griffin. "And then coach John Wagner spilled it at practice that I was 32 points away."
"It is a big milestone," said head coach Scott Hardison. "She came into the year with 600 points, so to get 400 in a season is a big accomplishment. It just shows she has been a big part and focal point of the team for more than one season. This just shows how much of a threat she is, how much of an athlete she is, and that she has the potential to get better."
"After Thursday's (Feb. 2) game, I had 18 to go,"?said Griffin. "(Against Davenport North) at one point in the game, I knew I had 16 points, but then I looked at the scoreboard and saw I had 20, then I realized I did it."
"I coached Devan for two years in softball and she is just a workhorse that is ready to do her job everyday," said Hardison. "She is an offensive threat. She might not be as vocal, but she leads by example with her scoring and pulling down the boards. Girls look to her to get things done."
"I am really proud of this accomplishment, not only for myself, but for my whole team because they helped me," said Griffin. "It is exciting because not a lot of people do this. It definitely makes the work worthwhile.
"I play basketball year round, all summer and every weekend. I really want to be a good player."
Griffin said that this year she has noticed how her defense has improved over the season as she has had to make the transition from playing a 1-3-1 zone to man-to-man.
She also said she believes her ability to finish around the hoop after an offensive rebound and giving opportunities to her teammates on the outside is an asset she brings to the Lady Leaf squad.
Griffin said she tries not to get overly frustrated when she knows she is playing with a target on her back.
"Other teams set up plays to double team me, but coach always tells me to just play my game," said Griffin.
Next year, Griffin plans to continue playing basketball at the collegiate level.


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With a hearty mix of tears and toe tappin', hundreds of friends and fans said goodbye to Estelle Benson Tuesday night in the beloved opry house she saved 10 years ago in Weirsdale.
With a hearty mix of tears and toe tappin', hundreds of friends and fans said goodbye to Estelle Benson on Tuesday night in the beloved opry house she saved 10 years ago in Weirsdale.
But the memorial's biggest wallop came at the very end, when Benson's widower announced the Orange Blossom Opry was being sold — to Beyers Funeral Home.
To the great relief of the crowd and OBO musicians, owner Roger Beyers said the opry will remain an opry, just as Estelle would have wanted. The opry will retain its name, schedule and spirit.
On Wednesday, Beyers said he and Estelle, a friend for about 30 years, started talking about selling the opry in March and had been finalizing the deal in recent months.
She died Friday after suffering a blood clot and, after much discussion, he and the family decided to announce the sale at her celebration of life.
Rumors were starting to gurgle, and they wanted to assure friends and staff that the opry would remain an opry.
The news capped a three-hour musical memorial Tuesday. With Benson's rose-draped casket nestled next to the stage, the celebration was a roller coaster of laughter, prayers, country classics, rock oldies, hymns and testimonials. But from the beginning, those leading the celebration urged guests to stay to the end.
Guests whispered curiously about what the surprise ending would be. Some expected an appearance by one of the many Nashville stars the opry has hosted. Mel Tillis, maybe, or five-time Grammy winner Rhonda Vincent.
As the evening closed, Benson's husband, Earl, and son, Harold Wages, walked onto stage amid a mix of emotion and nervous anticipation.
"The opry has been sold," Earl said, prompting gasps. He told the crowd the family sold the opry to Beyers Funeral Home, the very same company helping with Estelle's funeral arrangements, burial and, at that very moment, the opry's celebration of life concert.
Then Beyers joined them on stage.
"I was wearing my funeral director's hat, then I had to put on my opry-owner's hat. It was surreal," he recalled.
Thus, the Lady Lake-based funeral home is now in the opry business. It seems like something out of a Buck Owens song, and the anomaly was not lost on Beyers.
"When I started talking with accountants and lawyers, they asked me, 'Why in the world would you want to buy the opry? You have a successful business, you don't need to do this at your age,' " he nervously told the crowd Tuesday, reading from his prepared words.
"My answer was quite simple. What I do for a living is a calling, of sorts, as a funeral director. We help people in their darkest hours. We stand by them, we hug them, we counsel them ... We honor their loved ones and provide for a legacy so they might be remembered. That's what we've done here tonight. We've helped the family of Estelle and the bigger family of all of you here to remember Estelle and her legacy and begin to heal ... This is a place of healing for me. It allows me to smile, have fun and realize that, with this music, there is always hope and there is always a bright side."
Beyers, who would not disclose the purchase price, said Wednesday he plans to start making some needed improvements to the building soon.
"He'll do it justice. He'll continue her legacy," said Suzanne Morgan, a singer and jam-night host at the opry who also works at Beyers Funeral Home. She said the musicians and staff are very excited, noting "good things" will be coming the opry's way.
Wages said the family is thrilled with the sale. He said it has been in the works for many months, as his mother, who was 85, tended to every detail at the opry and was just "getting tired."
"He's going to carry on my mother's legacy," Wages said. "The opry will be bigger and better."
On Tuesday night, Beyers spoke about attending the opry for the first time and leaving with a huge smile on his face. "I felt good about myself, but more, I felt good about the people in our everyday lives. I felt good about our country."
He spoke after about 20 singers — all familiar faces on OBO's stage – joined the opry's house band Tuesday night, performing everything from "Elvira" and "Swingin" to "All Things Must Pass" and "God On the Mountain."
Earl sat in the front row next to an empty seat; it was where Estelle sat for every show.
In between songs, friends and family recalled stories about Estelle, the tough-as-nails former owner of Estelle's Country Kitchen in Lady Lake who bought the troubled opry in southeast Marion County and then told her husband, Earl, about it after he returned that afternoon from playing golf.
In those 10 years, the 626-seat Orange Blossom Opry has hosted the likes of Roy Clark, Crystal Gayle, Marty Stuart, Lorrie Morgan, The Grascals, Asleep at the Wheel, Ronnie McDowell, Bellamy Brothers, David Ball and, among many others, Little Jimmy Dickens. Estelle prepared Southern meals for all of her performers, from the headliners to the house band, and those savory meals were loved from here to Nashville, performers said.
OBO's season continues Friday with famed harmonica player Charlie McCoy. In the coming weeks, the schedule includes Lorrie Morgan, Janie Fricke, The Gatlin Brothers, Exile, Juice Newton and Connie Smith.


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Hi All. I am trying to load Google Earth-64 rpm onto Fedora19-64..The install fails with a message about a file clash problem. On the internet I found that this is a known problem due to an incorrect line in the rpm file and the fix suggested is to use rpmrebuild to delete that line. I put the downloaded rpm file in a file called Fedora19 and ran rpmrebuild on it.. The result seems to default to a vi view and it is quite easy to edit out the errant line, but when I save the revised version it says it is putting it in a hidden tmp file.
I cannot find this anywhere on the system. I looked at the man page for rpmrebuild and saw a switch(-d) for directing the output so I put in (Fed19) to see what it did. As soon as it started it generated the Fed19 folder but at the end there was nothing in it! It still claimed to be saving to a hidden tmp file but didn't put it in the Fed19 folder
I expected vi to overwrite the original rpm file but I have obviously misunderstood the method of using rpmrebuild or possibly vi.
Any suggestions welcome. In case it makes a difference the Fedora19-64 is running as a guest on a Fedora16-32 version via virtualbox.and other than being rather slow seems to be doing what I expect
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At the banquet, the St. James Women of Today members voted on various awards for their chapter members.
Members of the St. James Women of Today gathered at the St. James Golf Course for their year end banquet on May 31, 2013 to celebrate the successes of the past year.
Awards received from the Minnesota Women of Today Annual Convention included: Donna Barrett – Key Woman of the MNWT; Jaine Firstbrook – State Delegate Medallion; Sue Renz – District Director Medallion & bronze key award for her year –end evaluation; Melissa Schiller – Presidential Pin;"Fired-Up" District Program Manager – Brenda Nommensen; and the St. James chapter received a "Project of the Trimester" Award for their Valentine Cupcake/Song Gram project.
At the banquet, the St. James Women of Today members voted on various awards for their chapter members. Sarah Fast was chosen as Outstanding Member of the Year; Jaine Firstbrook as Local Program Manager of the year; and the Christmas Sharing Tree as Project of the Year.
St. James Women of Today are always looking for more members to share in the fun and the friendship and the service our chapter provides to the area and throughout Minnesota. They meet at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Brandt Ridge Community Room, 1102 2nd St. S, in St. James.
The next event is a cookout and campfire at Donna Barrett's home, 1027 7th St. S., at 7 p.m., to celebrate the date the Women of Today was founded. For more information contact Sue at 375-3395.


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Rants, musings and incoherent thoughts from a guy who is way too obsessed with the Washington Nationals.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Is This 'The One?'
I very much want him to be The One.
The One pitcher you know is going to get it done almost every time.
I watch Hamels, Lincecum, Webb, Peavy (you get my drift) with envy. When do the Nationals deliver a guy like that?
Is this The One?
We won't know for sure after one start, be it an arse kicking or a no hitter. But we should get an idea, a hint. I've watched Clippard and Mock twice each (three of them in person) and I haven't been blown away. They'll maybe make good big leaguers one day. They aren't The One.
I have a theory, backed by zero research, that every ragarm good enough to get to the majors will have a minimum five games a year when they are "on." They'll win four. The other guy will be more on or they'll have bad luck of some kind in the fifth. Heck, even Ramon Ortiz had a near no-hitter (with a home run). They'll have five games when they are way off and lose four. The other guy will be more off or they'll have good luck in the fifth.
It's those 25 starts in between that make the difference. If you are The One, most of those starts are games where you have your top stuff. Where you go to All-Star games, threaten to win 20, make someone talk about you in Cy Young discussions. Where you consistently get into the 7th, 8th, even 9th innings.
We need The One. Badly. I don't know all that much about Balester but I'm hopeful. We keep hearing about the improved farm system and the future and all that. Let's hope we see a significant piece of fruit from all that labor tonight.
An aside - don't get too excited if I eventually come on and declare Balester (or anyone else) as The One. My track record isn't good. I saw John Patterson pitch a number of times during that glorious first season and was convinced he wasn't just The One - he was The One and Only. We see how well that worked out.
10 comments:
- Chris Needham said...
Ah, yes! The early signs of creeping oriolisism whereby fans get so down and dejected by the team of old mediocrities that they start latching on to any ol' prospect as the superstar of the future! :)
He'll be fine.... just don't put him in a class with those other guys. This isn't Clayton Kershaw debuting tonight. It's more like Corey Lidle. (hopefully with a better ending.... TOO SOOOOOON!)
- July 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- MikeHarris said...
Way too soon and I am ashamed of myself for laughing.
If not this dude, who the hell IS our Hamels? Is there a Hamels?
- July 1, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Brian said...
who the hell IS our Hamels?
Hmmmm. Hold on. Let me check the Big Board.
::looking ... looking::
Ummmm. Would you settle for Mark Hamill? Or maybe Cole Porter?
- July 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Chris Needham said...
The only one who I think has a chance to be significantly better than average (putting aside Detwiler, cause we just don't damn know with his performance this year) is Zimmermannnnnnnnn.
He, to my eye, looks like he's got some breakout potential. The rest all look like they're pitchers who could be #3s in their very best seasons.
- July 1, 2008 at 11:36 AM
- Nationals Fan said...
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Since he was 9-1 at AAA, he's definitely the real deal. Just ask JimBo.
- July 1, 2008 at 11:53 AM
- Sam said...
You people clearly haven't given Marco Estrada a close enough look.
- July 1, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Aaron Crow! He's the one...
(and if JimBo is right, why the heck haven't they signed him yet?
- July 1, 2008 at 11:29 PM
- Brian said...
A big reason Crow hasn't signed yet is the likelihood that he is going to get an above slot deal and possibly a major league contract. Those types of things lead to pen to paper closer to the August 15 signing deadline.
- July 2, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- MikeHarris said...
Who was the kid who signed about 15 seconds before the deadline and then went on to Stanford?
The Braves fan in my office who follows college baseball thinks Crow was a great pick, was stunned that he was still available. But it does no one - especially him - any good to be sitting on his ass in July. Get signed and get pitching.
- July 2, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- Brian said...
Jack McGeary is the guy you are thinking of.
And it's sometimes more a function of MLB not wanting to announce above slot deals early for reasons that make sense only to them (the most commonly mentioned reason is to control other player's bonuses)
As for getting them signed, I agree to a point but honestly a guy like Crow has laready thrown a bunch of pitches and I'm guessing the Nationals are not too upset about limiting any more IP on his arm ... especially for a guy they are likely to make a big investment in.
- July 2, 2008 at 12:57 PM


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A national farm cooperative's pending decision to convert itself into a publicly traded corporation could have major financial consequences for its members, according to an Alabama Cooperative Extension System economist.
Like other farm cooperatives, Gold Kist, which also happens to be the nation's third largest chicken company, is owned by its members. Company profits are earned by these members/owners in what are known as patronage dividends.
That, however, will change if the membership votes to convert to a corporation.
Members will be given cash and stock in exchange for their retained patronage dividends, according to Jerry Piece, an Extension farm business economist based in Scottsboro.
Therein lies the rub. Cash the members choose to receive before the conversion occurs will be subject to state and federal income taxes as well as self-employment tax. Tax liability could be steep in some cases, Pierce says.
Poultry growers will not be the only people impacted by these changes. Hog producers, former peanut and pecan producers, and patrons of the old Gold Kist Store also will be affected.
Pierce has used data compiled by the Alabama Farm Analysis Association to illustrate how steep these tax liabilities could be.
Based on the average poultry farm participating in Farm Analysis, total taxes would amount to $4,800, providing the farmer opts to receive no cash. This assumes the operation is a four-house broiler operation with some beef cattle and custom work income, a $46,000 off-farm income, with one child using the standard deduction.
Electing to receive $12,000 in cash would increase the tax liability to $8,690, though the farm would remain in the same federal tax bracket.
However, opting to receive between $12,000 and $76,250 would move the farm into the 25-percent tax bracket. At the highest end of that bracket, taxes would exceed $35,000 — roughly 40 percent of the cash received.
"Clearly, members who choose to receive cash should be prepared to pay larger than usual income tax bills next spring," Pierce says.
That's why he is advising everyone affected by the conversion to work with their tax advisors to develop an individual tax estimate this fall.
By estimating their tax liability now, members can make plans to reduce their overall tax burden, he says.
Stock received by members as a result of the conversion will not be taxed until it's sold. Gains from the sale of New Gold Kist stock will most likely be treated as long-term capital gain. Long-term capital gain tax rates currently are 5 and 15 percent, depending on the individual's federal tax bracket. Capital gains are not subject self-employment tax, Pierce says.
It's important that individuals affected by the changes understand one other important but often misunderstood point, he says — namely that the basis of the new stock will not be its fair market value.
Pierce says it will be zero for member's non-qualified equity and the actual amount of member's qualified equity.
"Qualified equity is the retained patronage dividends that already have been taxed — not the price stock brings at conversion," Pierce says.
A gain on stock is the sale price minus the member's basis, he says.
Gold Kist's board of directors announced in June its desire to convert from a cooperative to a for-profit corporation.
Pending approval by its membership, Gold Kist will be merged into a newly formed corporation called Gold Kist Holdings Inc. The conversion not only requires approval by Gold Kist members but the completion of an initial public offering of common stock by Gold Kist Holdings.
In the initial public offering, the corporation expects to offer 18 million shares of the common stock of Gold Kist Holdings. Proceeds from this offering are expected to be used to provide cash to Gold Kist members in connection with the conversion, repay certain indebtedness and cover general corporate purposes.


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Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading", Nature, vol. 452, p. 202-206, 2008., "