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Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery
Also known as Jersey City Cemetery
435 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, 07302 USA Show Map
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Named the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, it was incorporated in 1831 with a cholera epidemic and privately owned by the plot holders. This is the oldest cemetery in New Jersey and built on land that was once a 16th century military base. By 2007, the last Board of Trustees president died, and with no more space for new lots, and no money to pay for upkeep, the venerable old cemetery closed its gates. The neglect of time and natural rapidly began to reclaim the graveyard. The history shows that the Jersey City cemetery was a runaway success. Many of the well-heeled members of Jersey society bought plots, among them William Colgate, founder of Colgate-Palmolive; the President of the Board was David C. Colden, son of the Mayor of New York. While other old cemeteries in the state became National Historic Landmarks, Jersey City Cemetery fell by the wayside. In 2008, a group of volunteers finding the cemetery in chaos started clearing away the weeds that covered the over-turned markers. The homeless, who had pitched tents in part of the cemetery, were relocated. The group found in a cottage on the grounds a metal canister. Inside was the original map of the cemetery from 1831, which listed who was buried where and the cause of their death. Over the years, the group had been clearing away the dense undergrowth plot by plot, lane by lane, but the map showed that the graveyard continued up the hill to the west, where now there was only dense forest. One day, clearing undergrowth, a volunteer stumbled upon a stone step, which led up to a staircase going up a hill and ended in an old rusted iron door set into the hillside. Breaking open the old door and stepping inside out of sunlight, they found a marble-walled antechamber. It had been undisturbed for over 100 years. Torchlight showed a series of tunnels disappearing into the hillside, snaking left and right. These were used by the military hundreds of years ago. Many coffins "waiting for burial" were found in the tunnels including an ornate one for a 19th century Viennese Count. He had been visiting New York and died unexpectedly. Unclaimed and forgotten, the Count is still in the Jersey hillside without a marker to remember him just like the hundreds of others in the coffins there. One area was clearly a military bunker with weapons left over from the War of 1812. The on-going clearing and claiming of graves and history continues with goal that one day this cemetery will also be recognized by the National Historic Landmarks.
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UNC is set to open its tournament action against No. 14 seeded Albany, but the Great Danes could prove a tough match—they're at 27-3 overall, compared to 28-6 for the Heels, and they're coming off 19 straight wins. Albany also goes into the tournament with an America East Conference championship title, along with a perfect conference record at 16-0.
Senior guard Tierra Ruffin-Pratt is leading the Heels, with team high averages for both points and assists, at 15.4 and 4.5, respectively. Meanwhile, senior Krista Gross is dominating on the boards, at 8.5 rebounds per game. For the Great Danes, senior guard Lindsey Lowrie is averaging a team-high 11.6 points, and she scored 12 in Albany's America East championship game against Hartford; sophomore center Megan Craig managed seven rebounds during that outing.
If the Heels win, they'll play on Tuesday in the round of 32, taking on the winner of Sunday afternoon's game between sixth-seeded Delaware and eleventh-seeded West Virginia.
Tipoff between UNC and Albany is set for Sunday afternoon on the University of Delware's campus at 2:30, Eastern Time. Due to our coverage of the UNC men's NCAA tournament, the game will not be broadcast on WCHL, but it will be available online; click here for to the live stream.

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Roberto Di Matteo was facing his biggest selection dilemma since Chelsea's Champions League triumph ahead of their Group E clash at Juventus on Tuesday night.
Blues boss Di Matteo was contemplating dropping Fernando Torres and others in his underachieving squad in order to avoid the defeat that would leave Chelsea on the brink of being the first Champions League holders to fail to reach the knockout stage.
Torres has started every game when available this season, but Di Matteo said on Monday: "I've always said that we have two strikers in our team, Fernando and Daniel Sturridge. They're both fit and I'll have to see how we're going to go tomorrow. I will do whatever I believe is best for this game."
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Erie police today reported that they have arrested a suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing that occurred in that city Friday afternoon.
Cmdr. K. Stewart said police returned to the scene of a stabbing in the 400 block of Young Court, described as an industrial area, and located Matthew Jensen, 30, in a vehicle and arrested him without incident.
Stewart said Jensen is alleged to have stabbed a 54-year-old male acquaintance in the leg, during a fight. That injury was not life-threatening, and the victim was treated at the scene. Jensen's arrest occurred in the same area where the incident occurred.
Jensen was taken to the Weld County Jail, where he was booked on suspicion of second-degree assault, felony menacing and third-degree assault.


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Susan Drake
Never, ever hesitate to look things up. This admonition is closely related to, "Never assume anything." Both of those are why my face was red a couple of days ago.
I was editing a paper in which the author had written that two legislative bodies struggled over their "collegial" relationship. Here comes the red pen, because I knew it was contradictory to say they struggled over a collegial (friendly) relationship, correct?
In journalism, everyone wants at least two sets of eyes on whatever they write, just to be safe. I marked up the sentence for the writer to correct it, and passed it along to Joe, the second set of eyes.
Joe disagreed with me. I became adamant. Then Joe showed me the definition of collegial: "power-sharing, with power shared equally between colleagues." Uh-oh. Apologies for the writer and a red face for me.
There's a very quick way to lose your credibility; be a writer who misuses words. Ergo, look it up. No writer in the world should ever stop learning about words and usage.
Believe it or not, to us this is fun and games. I used to joke that I was such a daredevil, I would work The New York Times Sunday crossword in ink. Take that!
If you're not a professional writer, remember that no matter what your job, you still have to speak and write effectively to be taken seriously. And if you want to expand your personal power, you'll definitely want to become a better writer.
Start by enhancing your vocabulary.
Each day, choose a word from the dictionary. Better yet, check out a word-a-day website. Pick a word that intrigues you. Feels good as you say it. And will be natural to use in your everyday speech.
To illustrate, I picked a word out of the dictionary: spall. (Non-Southerners will think this is the proper spelling for "spoil," as in "spall the baby" or "ball" the water.) Anyway, spall is a chip of stone or ore. Then I try to use the word in a sentence three times that day. It works.
Of course, even if you only use the vernacular, or ordinary language, you still have many choices. Do you drink a soda, a cola or a soft drink?
So, as I was writing this, I looked up how many words there are in the English language. The short answer is, about 250,000. How many does the average person know? A whole lot fewer than that – about 12,000 to 20,000.
Even if you do this exercise every day for the next 10 years, you will only learn about 36,000 words. At the same time, you'll also have to learn the new words that are joining our vernacular, such as "drone," "bot" and "selfie."
It's clear: If you want to work your way up to 250,000, you'd better get busy.
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Las Vegas, NV) A high-rolling Las Vegas businessman already accused of defrauding investors of $191 million is facing new allegations that he failed to pay federal income tax on more than $87 million in unreported income.
An indictment handed up Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas accuses Ramon DeSage of four counts of wire fraud stemming from casino and bank wire transfers totaling $15.1 million, and four counts of failing to pay nearly $31 million in taxes from 2006-2009.
DeSage previously pleaded not guilty to fraud charges in the Ponzi scheme case and is being held on house arrest.
He's due for arraignment Aug. 15 on the new charges.
Prosecutors allege DeSage used his companies including Cadeau Express, Beryt and Merits Incentives to defraud investors.


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Farewell the Dragon
Drawing on his experience from the three years he spent teaching in China, author Lee Barckman offers this compelling tale about Nathan Schuett, also a teacher living in China,... Read More
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When Gloria Lieberman was asked why she wanted to write a book, her response was steadfast and unchanging: God told her to do it. This is a common reason behind many religious... Read More
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The father and son team of William J. Clark and William J. Clark, Jr., return with the second book in their Keys to Understanding Life series. Feelings 101 promises to inform... Read More
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The 2013 co-Big West Champion UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team has added six freshmen to their roster for the 2014 season.
"We are excited about our 2014 recruiting class," Head Coach Nicole Lantagne Welch said. "After arriving here in Feb. of 2013, we had to really get going on this class in a hurry and we are pleased that this talented group will provide help in various areas."
Sydney Bast is a 5-6 libero who played for the Mizuno Long Beach Volleyball club and prepped at St. Lucy's Priory HS with head coach Sean Douglass. She's coming off a senior season with the Regents when she was named All-CIF, the team's Defensive Player of the Year, and the San Gabriel Valley Tribune Player of the Year. During that same year, she made the switch from her traditional position of libero to outside hitter, yet her defensive numbers only improved. Bast recorded a career-high 258 digs in 2013 and also tallied personal-bests of 239 kills and 48 aces. At St. Lucy's, Bast led the team to four league titles and back-to-back CIF Championships during her freshman and sophomore years.
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With the Mizuno Long Beach Volleyball Club, Bast played a pivotal role in the club and was a team captain for seven years. She helped lead her 2010 team to a silver medal finish at the Junior Olympics.
She is also an accomplished beach player, as she won the AAU Beach National Championship with Susannah Muno in 2011.
"Sydney has the distinction of being my first recruit here at UCSB," Lantagne Welch said. "In fact, she came back just a few minutes after her visit to give me the good news. We've been following Sydney for quite some time and we know not only are we getting a great person, but we are also getting a consistent, reliable, and team oriented back court player."
Kelly Bielaski is a 5-8 libero who competed for the Rage Volleyball Club and prepped at Dougherty Valley HS under head coach Jen Cincotta. The Walnut Creek, Calif. native concluded her high school career by becoming the Wildcats' all-time leader in kills, digs, and aces. In her senior year, Bielaski served as the team captain and was named the MVP and, for the second time, the Offensive Player of the Year. Seeing time at both libero and outside hitter, Bielaski was a four-time all-league selection, earning first team accolades three times. In concluding her freshman campaign, she was named the Wildcats' Rookie of the Year and helped bring her school to its first ever postseason. From there, her school made four consecutive North Coast Section championship appearances.
Competing with the Rage 17s, she helped the club finish first in the Northern California Volleyball Association. She also competed in the Open and National divisions of the Junior Nationals with the club.
"Kelly made her mark with us with her solid passing every time we saw her play," Lantagne Welch said. "She has a quiet way of just getting the job done. She will be one of several players in this class helping to add to the consistency of our back court."
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Chanel Hoffman, Jane Lamp, Megan Sullivan
Chanel Hoffman is a 6-0 outside hitter who played for the Mavericks Volleyball Club and prepped Santiago High School under the tutelage of Arlen Elvik. Hoffman ended her high school career as Riverside County's all-time kills leader with 1,338 kills. That year, she was also named the Div. II Player of the Year, the All-CIF Player of the Year, the All-League MVP, the HS GameTime Player of the Year, and a Prep Volleyball All-American. The accolades came on the heels of a season where Hoffman led the Sharks to their first appearances in both the CIF and State Championships. The team won their CIF Sectional and finished the season 40-1 and ranked among the top-50 in the nation. In her team's final game of the season against Archbishop Mitty HS, the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, Hoffman recorded 21 kills and swung for a forceful .667 hitting percentage. A team captain for three seasons, Hoffman has been named all-league in every year since she was a sophomore. She picked up her first All-League MVP as a junior, and was All-State, All-CIF, and All-Area First Team that year as well.
With the Mavericks Volleyball Club, Hoffman was named all-tournament at Junior Nationals in 2012 and 2013. Under head coach Phil Sutherland, she led the 16-1's Mavericks VBC to a silver medal at the 2012 Junior Olympics.
"Chanel is a six rotation outside hitter with an outstanding all around game," Lantagne Welch said. "With her ability to pass, attack and defend at a high level, she will have opportunities to make an impact early and often in her career here at UCSB. We love that she has been her team's go-to hitter in both high school and club, and that she has the confidence and experience to deliver key kills."
Jane Lamp is a 5-3 libero who competed with Sports Shack and the San Gabriel Elite Volleyball Club, and played at Thousand Oaks HS under head coach James Park. She was named the Lancers' MVP after the 2013 season when the team finished 12-2 and pulled off a 3-0 sweep over Calvary Chapel in the first round of the CIF Southern Sectionals. As a junior, she was selected as the team's Best Defensive Player after the Lancers went undefeated in league play, the team's third consecutive year in doing so. During her junior campaign, she was voted the team's Defensive Player of the Year after playing in every set (76) and leading the team with 4.3 digs per set, averaging nearly 13 per match. In both her junior and senior seasons, Lamp made First Team All-Marmonte League along with the All-Ventura County team.
On the club level, Lamp played for Sports Shack during her junior year and helped the team get the silver medal at the Junior Olympics. She played for San Gabriel Elite as a senior and helped the team place fourth at the Southern California Volleyball Association.
"From the first time I saw Jane play and what continues to stand out to me is her court energy and fire," Lantagne Welch said. "She really has a positive presence on the court that will help all of those who are playing around her. She has that take charge attitude that you want in a libero."
Noa Nightingale is a 6-0 setter/right side hitter who played for Force/Synergy Force Volleyball Club and prepped at St. Francis HS, along with Megan Sullivan. In her senior year, she was listed in PrepVolleyball's Players to Watch and Senior Aces list. She swung for 197 kills that year and never missed a start, as the Troubadours achieved a top-25 national ranking from PrepVolleyball. In that same year, her team was the Northern California runner-up, placed first at the High Sierra Invitational, and repeated as league champion. During her junior season, Noa helped St. Francis capture its league title and a second-place finish in the State Championships.
Beyond high school, Nightingale competed in Junior Nationals with Force/Synergy Force WBC from 2008-14 and also had experience in sand volleyball with USA Beach Volleyball. Highlighting her sand career was competing in the 2013 USAV Beach High Performance Championships.
"Noa is a great athlete and we've been happy with her progress since she first committed to us, her 'dream school'. She is also that player that you can use anywhere you might need (having experience at setter, right side and outside hitter) and she'll embrace whatever role she is asked to play," Welch said.
Megan Sullivan is a 6-3 middle blocker/right side hitter who played for Alynn Wright at St. Francis HS. She is coming off an impressive senior season when she led the Troubadors to an impressive 34-9 record and a No. 14 statewide ranking. That year, she led all of the state's Div. I right side hitters with a .353 hitting percentage and garnered numerous honors. She was selected to the Delta River All-League team, the Sacramento Bee All-Metro team, and was listed in PrepVolleyball.com's Senior Ace: The 150 & Just Missed. Sullivan had some of her best performances in the postseason, most notably in the NorCal Regional semifinals against No. 13 Homestead, when she hit at a .474 clip and made the game-winning kill. As a junior, Sullivan dominated at the net as a middle blocker when she swung at a .440 hitting percentage in season when her team finished second in the CIF State Div. I Championship.
"We were able to immediately address a key need in playing higher at the net with Megan," Lantagne Welch said. "We will count on that high touch to positively impact our blocking and attacking. Megan also brings versatility to be used as both a middle and a right."
The Gauchos are coming off a 2013 season when they captured the Big West crown in recording its best conference record (13-3) since 2005. UCSB is already preparing for next season with its spring schedule.


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Sheriff's departure stalls Dwight prison revival
SPRINGFIELD — A plan to use a part of the now-closed Dwight Correctional Center to house county jail inmates is a question mark right now.
Livingston County Board Chairman Marty Fannin said Monday the departure of Sheriff Martin Meredith has put an end to talks aimed at transforming the former all-female prison into a potentially profit-making overflow jail for the county.
Sheriff Meredith, the chief cheerleader for resurrecting at least a part of the facility, announced last week he was stepping down Oct. 1 to pursue other opportunities.
Meredith is under investigation and could face official misconduct charges.
He had been leading talks with the state to use one of the newer cellblocks on Dwight's 100-acre campus to house prisoners from other counties as a way to earn extra money for the county.
As many as 56 additional jobs could be created under the proposal. Before it was closed, the prison employed more than 350 workers.
The Livingston County Board has 60 days to weigh in on who will serve out the remainder of Meredith's term, which runs through January 2015. Meredith has said he'll step down October 1st.
Even before Meredith announced his departure, a number of potential candidates were lining up to challenge him in the 2014 election. Among them are former Sheriff Marvin Rutledge, former Fairbury Police Chief Jack Wiser and Mark Scott, an officer with the Dwight Police Department.


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WoW has so many ongoing storylines that it's hard to keep track of them all. Occasionally, they blend and merge, and sometimes they simply drift off without any sort of resolution. Sometimes we can get all caught up in the story and then abruptly it's gone. Sometimes storylines are resolved in books and unless you make a point of reading the novels or the comics you have no way of knowing what eventually happened, unless you can find some random NPC who will drop hints.
I've never managed to pull off Loremaster, so I've missed the ends of lots of storylines. I do always perk up a bit when I hear bits about the Old Gods. This particular storyline is fascinating to me, and it always just seems to show up in hints and winks, with occasionally an Old God turning up as a big boss. I know I would like to see more happening with these guys, like the sneaky little voice that show up sometimes with archaeology.
What about you? Are there any stories that petered out that you want to hear the end of? Do you like catching the beginning of the story and filling in the blanks in the Caverns of Time? Do you hope other old stories get revived?


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If you're a tabletop gamer, you're pretty used to using your imagination to create fantastic imaginary worlds were anything can happen, so our virtual landscape for all things tabletop should be a home away from home for you.
does anyone collect warhammer 40k or any games workshop products? if so, could you please tell me what team,race, or army you collect. i have started collecting necrons for 40k so i want to see some people who collect warhammer to chat with me.
I have an old Plague army. I haven't played in years, but I still have my army. I have the Great Unclean One, some Nerglings, some Terminators, some Death Guard, a Defiler, some Plaguebearers, some Beasts of Nurgle and Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle.
If you bred HK-47, Shale, Chai Ka and Wrex, the gaming world would explode from sheer badassery.
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I wouldn't even call it a rebuilding. If they weren't so crushed with so many top-heavy contracts, they'd be able to sign quality NFL depth and be more competitive. They are not in that position this season, but 2014 should be much better cap wise.
They have some really good players in key positions who are in their prime. Problem is, when you whiff on acquisitions for certain, extremely important positions, it's a total kick in the sack.
They will let guys walk, maybe Greene and Keller. But really, every team does that every season. And Powell is better than Greene anyway. As for Keller, he's not exactly a Pro Bowler.
QB play, injuries and lack of depth due to cap constraints killed the Jets. It's really not a rebuild, no need to turnover the whole roster. A few tweaks are definitely needed, obviously. But I don't think it's a total rebuild.


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I recently bought a couple bottles of white Cornelissens. These can be very difficult to find because the production is tiny: IIRC about 2000 bottles per year. I have sometimes commented on a certain sameness in orange wines. But I have also hypothesized that it might simply be because even though I try to drink them a lot, I don't have as much exposure to them as I have with "conventional" whites. And exposure always helps to clarify or even create differences. So I did what logically should be done and opened both wines to try side by side. If there were such drastic differences between two vintages of a single wine, surely there must be as great or greater differences in the whole field of orange wine?
Cornelissen MunJebel Bianco 7
i.e. of the 2010 vintage; 13% abv. Cloudy, dark orange colour though I had stood it up for a couple days before opening. Explosively aromatic, exotically perfumed yet not at all cloyingly sweet aroma. (I learned after this tasting when googling that 2010 had a bit of botrytis which might explain the exotic perfume.) Tannic, sweetly fruity, pleasantly astringent - perhaps a touch of VA, too. A wine that divided opinions but I loved it.
Cornelissen MunJebel Bianco 8
i.e. of the 2011 vintage; 13,5% abv; 70% Grecanico Dorato, 15% Cattaratto, 10% Carricante, 5% Coda di Volpe. A gentle wine - but only when compared to the 2010 - and much more mainstream. In fact, if one doesn't see the hazy orange colour, I suspect no one would have to make snide remarks about "natural" wine. A lovely, ripe and sweet aroma of peaches; slightly tannic but wonderfully acidic and mineral so it isn't just a fruit forward simple drop. A wine that didn't divide opinions: everyone liked it.
I really couldn't decide which I preferred: the 2010 was wild and funky and exciting; the 2011 was ripe and almost mainstream but also fantastic.


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Don't let my blog absence fool you — there's a lot going on behind the scenes; it's just that most of it isn't knitting blog fodder. But all is well! I'm interacting more heavily on Twitter right now because I'm away from my computer more than usual — follow me on Twitter if you wish!
I hardly remember the last time I was able to knit a few stitches — it's probably been weeks! But when I need a reminder of what I have on the needles (when the inevitable urge to start something new strikes), or what I want to knit (my queue), or take a quick peek at my stash (or to "shop" my stash), I use one of my favorite apps: Wooly.
Some of what I'll share is redundant, because other knitters have reviewed Wooly. However, Wooly's creators are listening to feedback and incorporating our suggestions, and some features might have been enhanced since you last checked it out.
Wooly accesses your Ravelry notebook, so you will have to be a member of Ravelry to use the app. And while you won't have all the queue editing capabilities within Wooly, you'll be able to access your projects, queue, and stash.
When I want to show my projects to somebody, the Wooly app is my favorite way to do that — all my project photos are there:
As for the stash feature — I think this is one of my favorite uses of Wooly. Even though I have yet to finish adding all of my stash, the most robust feature of Wooly (in my opinion) is this one.
I can sort by weight, yarn company, color family, or the default (which appears to be the order in which you added items to your Ravelry stash — the yarn you've had the longest is what appears first).
Of course, I love sorting by color:
. . . and by yarn company:
The one feature I don't use very often is the "Friends" feature. It lists all my Ravelry friends alphabetically by Ravelry ID. On an iPhone, the corresponding alphabet letters on the right are super tiny and I can't usually target the right letter – just the general vicinity. Here's what happened when I tried to hit "S":
A recently-added feature is the ability to update some fields of existing projects, including notes related to the project, so I try to add a lot of information to my project page in order to access that information later. But if all else fails, a great place to put information is the "notes" portion of your project page in Wooly.
A recent rumor is that there's another update coming . . . I can't wait!
Next up: another indispensable iPhone app to use with Ravelry.


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Five girls' teams have shot at 2A, Section 6 title
- Article by: DAVID La VAQUE
- Star Tribune
- February 4, 2013 - 9:24 PM
Minnetonka and Benilde-St. Margaret's once again rank as the top two seeded girls' hockey teams in Class 2A, Section 6.
But a third consecutive finals showdown is less assured, given tough section opponents Hopkins, Buffalo and Wayzata. All five teams are ranked among the state's top 11 and none came through the regular season unscathed against fellow section teams.
"No question about it, Section 6 is the toughest it's ever been," Minnetonka coach Eric Johnson said. "There are five teams with a legitimate shot to win."
Top seed and two-time defending Class 2A champion Minnetonka split the regular-season series with Benilde-St. Margaret's. The Skippers lost to No. 7 Hopkins and No. 11 Wayzata in consecutive games, their first two-game skid in four years.
Meanwhile, No. 1-ranked and second-seeded Benilde-St. Margaret's fell 3-1 to No. 9 Buffalo, when the Red Knights played without standouts Kelly Pannek and Liv Halvorson.
Both the Red Knights and Skippers recovered down the stretch. Benilde-St. Margaret's, which has not reached the state tournament since 2008, won its final 10 games by a combined margin of 75-4.
Minnetonka finished the regular season on a 6-0 surge, featuring four victories against teams ranked in the top five of Class 2A or 1A. The Skippers posted four shutouts and allowed only two goals.
"I like the way we're playing right now; it looks familiar to how we've looked in the past," Johnson said. "We didn't always play that way this year."Class 2A, Section 5
A loss and a tie closed an otherwise brilliant season for No. 1 seed and third-ranked Mounds View (22-1-2). Repeating as section champions will require strong goaltending. The Mustangs duo of Paige Kittleson and Mary Dingman are joined by Andover's Maddie Rooney and Blaine's Courtney Jensrud among the state's statistical leaders between the pipes.
If the seedings hold, Rooney and Jensrud will meet in the section semifinals. No. 2 seed Andover and No. 3 seed Blaine split their regular- season series.Class 1A, Section 5
Breck and Blake have played in five consecutive section title games, and Breck has won the past four. But the Bears, led by Ms. Hockey semifinalist Dani Cameranesi, could gain some ground in the rivalry.
No. 1 seed Blake is 1-0-1 against No. 3 seed Breck this season, including a 6-1 victory against the defending state champion on Dec. 1.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — February is Financial Aid Awareness Month, and officials are urging parents of college-bound kids not to delay seeking assistance.
The agency that administers Illinois' need-based financial aid is hosting nearly 200 events this month. They're posted on the website of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.
Executive Director Eric Zarnikow says it's especially important in uncertain economic times to get a quick start applying for funds.
Many of the events for this month are geared toward helping parents fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms. The FAFSA forms are key to determining eligibility for an array of aid.
Eligibility for state MAP grants that don't have to be repaid is based on FAFSA applications. And last year, MAP-grant funds were essentially depleted by April.


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Jewelry. It conveys our most intimate messages of love and commitment, style and individuality, beauty and power. A single diamond or string of glittering gems speaks volumes about the one we love -- or about ourselves.
There's a shadowy side, though, as precious metals and stones come at a cost that doesn't tally up at the register. The mining of these pretty pieces, unfortunately, can leave a substantial environmental footprint. What's worse, some of the best gemstones often come from the world's poorest countries, where pay is low and working conditions treacherous.
It's a devastating picture, but not a hopeless one. A campaign for better practices in developing mining nations is underway. Meanwhile, some jewelers are creating pieces with ethical responsibility in mind. Here, we sort the good from the bad, and map out the best options.
Accessing gold, silver, and platinum is no easy task. These metals exist in minute quantities, threaded through tons of rock and ore. Mining operations displace huge amounts of earth to get to them. A standard gold wedding band, for instance, leaves 20 tons of mine-site waste. "The scale of destruction is unimaginable," says Payal Sampat, international program director at Earthworks, a responsible mining advocacy group. It doesn't end there. Miners commonly use cyanide or mercury to extract the metal out of the ore, and even with proper containment, these toxic residues can persist for decades, contaminating community wells and entering the food chain.
Best Bet
The most ecofriendly option is to buy antique (also known as estate) jewelry or recycle what you have. Ask your local jeweler to melt down your old pieces and design something new. For recycling platinum, you will need to work with a specialty refiner such as Hoover & Strong (hooverandstrong.com). If you must buy new, check out nodirtygold.org, which lists jewelers that have pledged to support socially and environmentally responsible mining.
The good news is, miners don't need chemicals to extract them. But our quest for diamonds causes other problems. Like gold mines, gemstone pit mining carves away chunks of landscape. In Canada, diamonds have been found under lakes, which are then drained to dig mines. Getting to the site requires companies to build infrastructure, often on pristine lands.
Then there's the most infamous example of the diamond-trade dark side: the conflict, or "blood," diamonds used to fund violence and civil wars. According to the human rights group Global Witness, in the late 1990s about 15 percent of diamonds fell into this category. Now the figure lies between 1 and 4 percent, thanks in part to the establishment of the Kimberley Process, a monitoring system backed by 71 nations that certifies diamonds as conflict-free and individually tracks them from mine to jeweler. The system, however, relies on participant countries to uphold its principles with limited accountability; Liberia, the Ivory Coast, and the Democratic Republic of Congo don't comply with the Kimberley Process at all.
Best Bet
For starters, Canadian and Australian diamonds are conflict-free, miners receive a fair market wage, producers monitor safety, and, in some cases, unions are involved. On the eco-front, several mining companies in Canada have pledged to restore the land once the diamond source is depleted. The most earth-friendly choice? Human-created diamonds, also known as cultured diamonds, are identical to naturally occurring gems. Grown in a lab such as the one at Apollo Diamond (www.apollodiamond.com), they don't require the disruption of large quantities of earth, and they sell for about 10 percent less. Even trained gemologists can't tell them apart without specialized equipment.
Colored Gems
Like diamonds, some colored gemstones have been linked to destructive pit mining and violence. Taliban warlords in Afghanistan have historically controlled much of the mining for lapis lazuli, a deep blue semiprecious stone. As for rubies, most of the world's supply is locked in Myanmar, formerly Burma, a Southeast Asian nation controlled by a despotic military government. Imports from the country have been banned, but rubies enter the United States through a loophole that legalizes stones cut in Thailand.
On top of this, nearly all colored stones receive some form of treatment (radiation, heat, resin fillers) to enhance color and correct flaws. While this poses no risk to you, the wearer, those who work in poorly filtered factories in China and India can develop lung diseases from continually breathing the damaging dust released as stones are cut and polished.
Best Bet
Colored gemstones create less ecological damage than diamonds because they sit closer to the rock surface. Peridot from Arizona, tourmaline from California, and fire opal from Oregon are all abundant and easy to access. "For emeralds, look to the Brazilian state of Goias," says Saleem Ali, Ph.D, an associate professor of environmental planning at the University of Vermont who has studied the global ecological impact of mining. "It has become more active in reducing mine-related pollution and enforcing cleanup of sites." As always, resetting unused gems or buying estate jewelry remains the top choice for minimizing your eco-impact.
Be the Change
Help push the jewelry industry to do the right thing by asking questions about where and how the gems and metals you're buying were procured. "If people start demanding that jewelers have this information, eventually they will," says Eric Braunwart, president of Columbia Gem House and a pioneer in ethically sourced gem supply efforts. We as consumers always hold the power to demand change.
By Katherine Bowers


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July 25th/26th....there's a thread about it.
Looks like my weekend might be freed up. Should I bring the Aztek? Does anyone know which meter is being used? What classes are offered?
I'd like to get some info before I go. It's an hour and a half drive for me.
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I'll see you guys in the morning @ Auto Zone still...right?
Yea me and mike are leaving about 8:15 to head up there
Cool cool. ***** that it's an ac mic but we still can show them up. This should be fun
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anyone gonna have a meter just to bring up there for people who arent gonna enter the comp? i might be going up there witha few people to check it out
I have a feeling the "comp" will never happen and the meter will never come out. This shop pushes JL/Memphis big time and when they hear our AQ/DD stuff doing demo's and being loud I bet the meter will end up lost or broken
Guy is shady like that...
Only if certain people show up and call people out but im not saying any names
well i hope it happens cuz i wanna check it out..i only live like 15 mins away so if not, not to big of a deal..me n mazda kid were thinkin bout goin up there, if we go prolly around 11
I think I'm going to come up for a little bit...ever since I heard Mike's car the other week I'm dying to hear something real loud again.
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Two Sydney men involved in the 2009 "stray-bullet" shooting of Sydney truck driver Bob Knight will not spend another day in jail over the crime, after a judge gave one a suspended sentence and the other a sentence equal to time already served.
Tarek Elbadar and Moustafa Mariam were among five young men from south-west Sydney who initially faced murder charges for their role in the shoot-out between two gangs.
The confrontation was sparked by a verbal spat between two youths at a shopping centre.
During the course of a violent confrontation in the car park of a KFC chain in Milperra, a stray bullet flew into a busy roadway and killed Mr Knight as he sat in the cabin of his truck.
Neither Elbadar nor Mariam were tried over their involvement in the crime, with prosecutors accepting guilty pleas on the less serious charge of affray. Both men spent time in jail over the incident, but were since placed on bail.
In the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Megan Latham handed down sentences that meant neither man will spend another day in prison.
Elbadar, whose crimes included lying to the NSW Crime Commission about what had happened in a bid to protect his friends, was given a 20-month suspended sentence and placed on a good behaviour bond, after Justice Latham found that his role in the shoot-out was limited to assisting others.
"The offender removed himself as soon as it became clear that guns were going to be used," she said of the June 25 confrontation.
"It appears clear that he was shocked by this level of violence."
Elbadar also alerted authorities to the fact that a number of those involved in the shooting had been injured.
Justice Latham noted that the 34-year-old suffered from Tourette syndrome that resulted in feelings of shame and sadness, making him more compliant and susceptible to peer pressure.
Mariam had also played a lesser role in the 2009 fight than some of his fellow gang members, Justice Latham found.
"He was meant to stay in the car," she said. "But he knew there was a risk of grave violence occurring."
Mariam was now suffering from stomach problems and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his involvement in the crime and had shown a degree of remorse for his actions.
Earlier this year, the man who fired the fatal shot, Mahmoud Mariam, was sentenced to at least five years and nine months' jail for manslaughter.


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WASHINGTON — President Obama sought to calm jittery Democrats on Wednesday as they prepared to head home to face voters, assuring them they are "on the right side of history" despite problems with the launch of his massive health care overhaul and an immigration fight with Republicans.
In back-to-back closed sessions with House and Senate Democrats, Obama delivered his message about economic prosperity and expanding the middle class. But in return he was confronted with questions from Democrats who are nervous about implementation of the health care law as they look ahead to town hall meetings during the August recess — and to midterm elections next year.
The meetings at the Capitol offered a rare chance for the party's rank and file to press the president about budget talks with Republicans, the next Federal Reserve chairman, and jobs projects, as well as to appeal to him for help in next year's campaigns. In a lighter moment, House Democrats presented Obama with a birthday cake. He turns 52 Sunday.
The White House is seeking to keep up enthusiasm among Democrats following a rough start to Obama's second term.
He has gained an agreement in the Senate to get at least some long-blocked nominees confirmed, and the Senate has passed its version of sweeping immigration legislation. But the immigration overhaul faces a deeply uncertain future in the Republican-led House, where many in the GOP oppose a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.
Obama's landmark health care law continues to baffle many Americans, and the administration failed to assuage the public when it announced this month it would delay a major provision requiring employers to provide coverage, due to concerns about complexity.
While major provisions of the overall bill kick in Jan. 1, uninsured people can start shopping for health plans on Oct. 1, and some Democrats are wary of the system being ready. Representative Carol Shea- Porter of New Hampshire said that in her state there is not enough competition because only one company had entered the health care exchange.
Obama told House Democrats they "are on the right side of these issues and the right side of history in terms of providing health care to Americans and to ultimately finding comprehensive immigration reform," said Representative Janice Hahn of California.
Representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky said, "I just think he was trying to bolster the courage of the group."
Obama spoke about his administration's roll-out plans for health care exchanges, which could be critical to the health care law's success or failure.
Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with Democrats, said Obama told senators not to be defensive in discussing the law.
"He said we have to remind people that a lot of good things are happening," King told reporters after the senators-only meeting. King listed several of what he said are the law's accomplishments, such as children being able to use their parent's insurance until age 26 and reduced costs for drugs.
King said there needs to be more emphasis on explaining what the health care law really means to Americans because of repeated attempts by House Republicans "to essentially sabotage it and frighten people."
The sessions came just days before lawmakers leave the capital for a six-week recess and the prospect of facing constituents back home, at town halls at a time when polls show Congress being held in low regard.
"We have a positive, forceful message, and the Republicans, all they can talk about is repealing Obamacare as if that is the answer to our prayers," said Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. "They're just wrong."
Durbin made clear that Democrats had no intention of allowing a repeat of the congressional recess in August 2010, when loud opposition to the Affordable Care Act propelled the GOP takeover of the House in that year's elections.
"We're not going to leave a void here," Durbin told reporters. "We're going to fill this [recess] with our message, and we're going to do it in a very forceful, positive way."
In the Senate session, Obama declared that he would not negotiate with Republicans on raising the nation's borrowing authority and risk a repeat of the 2011 budget showdown.
"He also made clear that we need to sit down and work together on these issues and that there's certain points that he will insist upon," said Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland.


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Friday, April 13, 2012
Fiber Arts Friday: Spinning Via Verde Alpaca
After the VM-filled batt of Llama that I finished up in January, this pencil roving was especially wonderful to put on my wheel.
Have I mentioned how much I love spinning alpaca? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy... I really, really do.
I love the medium fawn color and the silk gives it a beautiful sheen.
If you're still wondering about how important the preparation is to yielding a nice yarn... the above photo shows the yarn straight off the wheel. I have not set the twist yet... and as a bonus, there was not one spot of over-spun yarn. That tells me that a good preparation helped me become a significantly better spinner. :-)
It's even prettier after the twist has been set, even though it was a cloudy day.
If you have the opportunity to put your hands on some of Via Verde's roving (80% alpaca, 20% tussah silk), do it. Your fingers will thank you. :-)
Happy Fiber Arts Friday everyone!
17 comments:
- Kate (KnitsInClass) said...
So gorgeous - I love the natural fawn color. Perfectly balanced, too - there doesn't look like there is one bit of over/under twisted yarn.
- April 13, 2012 at 6:15 AM
- Dutch Hollow Acres said...
Wow it did come out beautifully. Love the fact you kept it at a single ply and it fluffed up nicely after setting the twist.
Great job!
- April 13, 2012 at 6:20 AM
- pinkundine said...
It looks gorgeous, I want to come and pet it!
- April 13, 2012 at 6:29 AM
- MarmePurl said...
Alpaca and silk. Be still my heart.
- April 13, 2012 at 6:44 AM
- Heather Woollove said...
How beautiful! I think a bit of silk really adds something special!
- April 13, 2012 at 7:40 AM
- Anna said...
That is gorgeous!!
- April 13, 2012 at 8:08 AM
- Katja said...
Oh, it's beautiful!
- April 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM
- Melissa Plank said...
I have had the pleasure of spinning some of this blend myself from Tamara, you're not kidding, it practically spins itself!
- April 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM
- Vivian said...
What a beautiful yarn! I can just imagine how nice it feels running through your fingers.
- April 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM
- Jocelyn said...
Nice singles! Still, prepped or not, your fingers did a wonderful job.
- April 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Alittlebitsheepish said...
It sounds and looks absolutely heavenly. Pencil roving is my favourite to spin, it goes so fast
- April 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM
- AC said...
Wow, you're a master spinner!
- April 13, 2012 at 3:31 PM
- WonderWhyGal said...
That is some beautiful yarn!
- April 13, 2012 at 5:12 PM
- Voie de Vie said...
oooh, ooooh - it's just mahhhvelous. :)
- April 13, 2012 at 6:45 PM
Thank you! Thank you! Your compliments are greatly appreciated~ I am so glad you enjoyed the fiber. You must take credit for a beautifully spin skein!
- April 14, 2012 at 6:27 AM
- Jess Schleicher said...
Beautiful. I really want to pick up spinning. One day.
- April 14, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- AllyB said...
I recognize that fiber! I've got some too. Tamara's alpacas are so very nice. I'll be attending her shearing on the 12 of May. Bunch of spinners getting together at her farm that day. Wish you could join us. Have a great week!
- April 15, 2012 at 5:55 PM


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"and now all the pirates are going to use running Linux as their covert reason!"
Nope, piracy is not the main purpose of the hackers that broke the PS3 wide open, with its organs still beating with life. The hackers wanted to... HACK ! Sony removed the hack service provided through OtherOS, they restored back the hack service through... hacking the console. Pirates don't have the knowledge to do that (otherwise the console would have been wide open long before) but instead are pro at bittorrent.
Currently the hackers have withdrawn some vital informations that could lead to widespread piracy on the PS3, mostly because they are not pirates, they just wanted to access a legacy feature of their bought console : OtherOS ! However since reaching this point requested to break several barriers, the last obstacles to piracy are now pretty thins, and of course, pirates will be eager to spend their money in the new USB dongle instead of original games.
The hackers done a pretty good job at trying the revert back the console into its original claims. Buy a car with integrated gps and tv/radio, whatever. Then after 2 years the manufacturer comes to you, open you car with a special key and remove them for "your own safety, your supposed to drive, not listen to music or whatever" Silly behaviors, hackers are not that stupid not to protest.
What would be cool is to 'enable' piracy through the use (recompilation ?) of Linux, so that pirates wouldn't be just covering their ass pretending the hacking exploit is to play with Linux, they would actually HAVE to use it, if not code it to actually play their pirated games. At least they'll get some knowledge, that, perhaps would use the force on the Jedi front...
I phrased it poorly. I didn't mean the pirates were behind this - I agree that they barely have the technical skill. I meant that now that there's a legitimate (if TOS breaking) reason to hack your console, then purveyors of tools that just so happen to enable piracy (that is to say, not the ones that actually just happen to enable it, but those with the goal of it - sarcasm is a pain in the ass in text) can claim the main purpose is Linux, and they can't be held responsible for the reprehensible and illegal acts of their entire community.


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Santini Marina Plaza presents A Community Christmas Celebration and Gift Bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There will be 40-plus Arts and Crafts vendors offering Christmas gift wrapping at their booths, performing children's groups and area choirs singing traditional Christmas music.
The performers involve The LeHigh Children's Choir directed by Candace Sundby at 10:30 a.m.; The Symphonic Chorale of SW Florida conducted by Dr. Tim McDonald at 11:30 a.m.; Fort Myers Beach Elementary School Chorus directed by Carolyn Greiner at 12:30 p.m.; and The Three Oaks Middle School Choir directed by Jim Knecht at 1:30 p.m.
Santini Marina Plaza restaurants will be vending delicious tapas-style tropical and traditional fare as well as scrumptious holiday desserts. Skye's restaurant will be serving pico de gallo, grouper fajitas, shrimp & chorizo and margaritas. Francesco's will have mini calzones, a hot sausage sandwich and garlic knots, The Fish House will offer coconut shrimp and jalapeno poppers, Sand Bar and Grille will present tropical shrimp skewers and Italian sausage with peppers, Truly Scrumptious will offer a sampling from their catering menu plus all kinds of cookies, cinnamon rolls, brownies, pies, cheese cake, carrot cake, banana cakes and gingerbread houses (wrapped).
Dec. 1st is the official grand opening of the Santini Fresh Market for the season vending the freshest of Florida's fruits and vegetables. Bob's Fresh Seafood To Go returns to Santini with fresh from the Gulf offerings. Heather will be blending fresh fruit smoothies and Uncle Dan's Kettle Korn will be popping the best kettle korn in Florida.
Admission to the Street Market and Gift Bazaar is a new, unwrapped teddy bear benefiting the pediatric division of Lee Memorial HealthPark Hospital. All donated teddy bears will be on the Teddy Bear Christmas Tree in the lobby of HealthPark for distribution to the hospitalized children over the Christmas Holidays.
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A 20-year-old girl named Becky from London posted a picture of one the pages of her Moleskine notebook on Tumblr that, as they say, has gone viral and less than a week later is making waves across the Internet.
It's a simple thing: Becky wrote down, the "things we say today which we own to Shakespeare." It's phrases like "send him packing," "makes your hair stand on end," and "lie low."
Click over to Becky's Tumblr blog to see it full size. We agree with the English Muse blog, which tipped us off to the post, that it is "awesome."
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(13) SusanE, March 12, 2010 2:19 PM
Bring in the Clowns.
I look at the faces of those beautiful sick children. Doesn't your heart break for them? They are frightened and not fully understanding why they are hurting and sick. The nurses hurt them, the techs run hurtful tests, the surgeons cut into those small bodies. The little ones don't know who to trust for comfort and they don't know when it will all be over. ---------------------------- While nothing helps a childs fears and hurts more than the loving arms of it's mother, I would love to see the interaction between the clowns and children throughout a whole day. The Doctors in the videos said there have been remarkable results from the interchange between the clowns and the sick children. Did you notice in the video how easily the IV needle was removed, and how the one clown got the child into the examining area? ----------------------------- I also have read about Patch Adams, and saw parts of a movie about his work. I believe he a physician who acted the part of a clown for the sake of the patients. Are there any physicians taking the clown course in Israel so they can improve their interaction with the children?
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To be a medical clown is not a simple task. Imagine that the clown knows that he might be cheering up someone who is terminally ill. This is a very difficult task. To be a medical clown is a mitzvah - bikur holim. The humankind should be grateful for everyone who cares about the well-being of others and does not shrink from a responsibility. If you think that your medical clowns are not enough amusing, perhaps you should get hospitalized only in Israel...
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Herbert Cooper featured speaker at Evangel's Spiritual Emphasis Week
September 4, 2012 | Chase Replogle
Evangel University launched its Spiritual Emphasis Week on Monday, September 4. The Rev. Herbert Cooper is the featured speaker for services to be held September 4-6. The public is invited to attend.
Cooper, a 1997 graduate of Evangel, will be speaking in the Chapel auditorium at 10 a.m. through Thursday, as well as at 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday.
"Evangel has students from a wide variety of academic disciplines and church backgrounds," says John Plake, campus pastor. "During Spiritual Emphasis Week, we all come together to reconnect with God and with one another around our faith in Jesus Christ. It's a very refreshing time for everyone at Evangel."
For additional information, contact the Spiritual Life Office at 417-865-2815, ext. 7396.
Background on the speaker
Cooper is pastor of People's Church in Oklahoma City, one of the fastest-growing congregations in the nation.
The church began with only eight people and now has grown to a congregation of more than 5,000, meeting in three services.
Cooper was the recipient of Evangel's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award for 2009. As a student, he was a football scholarship athlete, full-time student and a part-time evangelist. Every open weekend was spent on the road, ministering in churches.
Immediately following graduation from Evangel, he entered full-time ministry by launching Herbert Cooper Ministries. Shortly thereafter, he married his college sweetheart, Tiffany (Rust), a 2000 Evangel graduate. He was in demand as a speaker at churches, youth camps and conferences across the U.S. and internationally.
After five years on the road, the couple moved to Oklahoma City to start People's Church. The couple now has four children—Cale, 8; Cade,7; Caris, 6; and Case, 4.


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You gotta give credit to actors Chris Hemsworth and the two Joshes -- Hutcherson and Peck -- for trying to infuse their one-dimensional American fighters with as much personality as they can muster.
But they can't do much with Carl Ellsworth's and Jeremy Passmore's perfunctory screenplay when it overdoses on patriotic bromides and imperatives such as (in chronological order) "Hang on!" "Hang on!" "Hold on!" "Go, go, go, go!" "Hang on!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Go, go, go!" "This is war!" "Let's go!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Come on!" and so on.
"Red Dawn"★ ★
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Peck, Isabel Lucas
Directed by: Dan Bradley
Other: A Film District release. Rated PG-13 for language and violence. 114 minutes
Actually, the first 40 minutes of "Red Dawn" jump with excitement and thrills as a sleepy American community awakes one morning to the thunder of overhead engines and the sight of North Korean paratroopers falling from the sky, landing, shooting people in the streets and rounding up neighbors.
The night before seemed like any ordinary Friday night at the local Spokane, Wash., high school where visiting U.S. Marine Jed Eckert (Hemsworth) dropped by to see his kid brother Matt (Peck) lose the football game.
Instantly, we get their back story: Jed left after their mom died, leaving Matt really, really mad that his bro abandoned him and his police sergeant dad (Brett Cullen) when they needed him most.
Then comes the invasion, a full-out assault right after the North Koreans wipe out all our electromagnetic power, presumably crippling our abilities to communicate and detect a whale load of incoming planes.
Jed and Matt have only minutes to escape before the troops land. They jump in their Dodge pickup truck and head to the family's secreted cabin in the woods, along with a few others they pick up along the way, among them Robert ("Hunger Games" star Hutcherson), the Mayor's son Daryl (Connor Cruise) and Toni (Adrianne Palicki), who carries an acetylene torch for the hunky Jed.
Now, with Spokane under martial law presided over by a hissably villainous Korean prefect named Captain Cho (Will Yun Lee), the teens, led by Jed the Iraq War vet, cowboy up to become the Resistance, hitting the bad guys when they least expect it, and fighting for their homeland under their high school nickname, the Wolverines.
"We inherited our freedom!" Jed shouts. "Now it's time we have to fight for it!"
After an impressive and suspenseful start, Dan Bradley's remake of John Milius' 1984 Cold War thriller quickly devolves into a grade-schooler's view of war: a black-and-white, apolitical, us-vs.-them conflict with all the violence suppressed to PG-13 levels (graphic shootings of key characters aren't shown on screen).
We never quite find out how the North Koreans and the Russians (they take over the other coast) pulled off this military coup, although three un-retired ex-Marines (led by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who join up with the Wolverines provide a few sketchy and implausible details.
When Bradley shot "Red Dawn" in 2009 (before Hemsworth did "The Avengers" and "Thor"), the invaders were Chinese. Reportedly, after the film's original studio MGM filed for bankruptcy, the producers changed logos, dialogue, uniforms and flags to make North Korea the villains out of fear of blunting the lucrative Chinese market.
Note to producers: "Rise of the Guardians" earned a pathetic $413 per-screen average when it opened in China this week, so you might just have unrealistic market expectations.
In this increasingly silly "Red Dawn," the Chinese apparently don't even want a slice of the American pie. They let the Russians and North Koreans have it all to themselves.


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NORRISTOWN — As the conflict between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas continues with air attacks, death and destruction, being the parent of one of Israel's "lone soldiers" can be fraught with periods of loneliness and feeling powerless.
"It's hard to describe not only how I feel, but all of the parents and friends who also have kids over there in the army. I'm very, very proud of her. For a kid who should be walking at the King of Prussia mall on the weekends shopping, she decided right out of high school to go into the army in Israel and defend the state of Israel, which is very important to its existence," said Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Bradford Richman, referring to his 20-year-old daughter, Rebecca, who is a soldier for the Israel Defense Forces.
"Fortunately, we live in a world where we can communicate. We have email. We have texting. We have Skype and FaceTime and all that so I do get to communicate with her several times a week. I get to see her on video," Richman said poignantly. "That makes it a lot easier, to see her, and look at her, and see that she's well."
Richman's daughter is not in a combat unit but is trained as a soldier.
"Turns out she's very good with an M-16," Richman said nervously, adding his daughter does perform guard duties protecting the perimeter of her base on the West Bank. "But her primary responsibility is not as a combat soldier, although she has many friends that are."
Pangs of loneliness and concern come when Richman hears or reads news accounts about the rocket bombardments during the four week conflict and about the rising death toll of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, strife that makes him wonder how Rebecca is doing in a land where she has no family.
"Powerless is the word and it's not only for Rebecca; I feel powerless wanting to help Israel. Every night in the last three weeks, if I could have left that night I would have booked a flight and left and gone there to do something. There must be something that I could do," said Richman, explaining when Israel mobilizes reservists there are civilian jobs that need to be filled. "But unfortunately for me, that's not a possibility, at least not now."
"I would like to be there for Rebecca just to be able to see her, to hug her and give her the moral support but I know that she's in a very nurturing place. These kids all take care of each other and Israeli citizens have a wonderful view of life despite the tremendous danger they live in. As much as possible, life goes on there and it's a very inspiring place," Richman added.
Richman took comfort in knowing that his eldest daughter, Sarah, a teacher, recently visited with her sister.
"Having them together, it was comforting to know that," Richman said.
During a lunch break last week, Richman stood outside the courthouse scanning his smartphone, looking for the latest email message from Rebecca, searching for words that she is safe. His phone has been a source of confusion and tension when he receives alerts over mobile apps that indicate sirens are blaring in Israel, notifying citizens that they should take cover in a shelter because missiles have been detected headed for Israel.
"It gives us some taste here, to have dinner interrupted, meetings interrupted, classes interrupted and sleep interrupted when this alert keeps going off," said Richman, whose face bore a concerned look when his phone pinged with an alert during an interview. "When that alarm goes off I realize that right at that moment there are Israeli children and elderly, Israeli citizens of every description, who are running for shelters while I'm still holding the phone in my hand. I remind myself this is really going on right now."
Then there are periods where the phone alarms are quiet for an hour, two hours, and Richman hopes, "maybe it's stopped."
"Then it goes off again and there's an emotional reaction to it, 'Like, darn it's started again,'" Richman said.
"The first night when it started going off during the night, three or four times in a row, and I remember thinking 'You ought to turn that off, I'll be up all night,'" Richman recalled. "Then I realized, 'Think how easy that would be in Israel to be able to say I'd like to turn this off tonight so I can get a good night sleep.' But they can't do that."
Richman takes comfort in knowing his daughter, affectionately called "Becca" by her friends, is "happy and passionate about what she's doing."
"She knows that it's a difficult time for Israel and she needs to be there to help Israel get through it," Richman said. "I admire that Rebecca has stepped up and done something in a big way."
Rebecca graduated two years ago from the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Bryn Mawr, after which she and two female classmates emigrated to Israel to become permanent citizens there. Within a few months she entered basic training for the IDF, with which she'll serve two years.
"She has known since a very young age, about 10, that she wanted to live in Israel," Richman recalled about Rebecca, who has dual citizenship. "Rebecca loves the United States. This is not a choice she made because she didn't like it here. She just felt that the need was great in Israel."
For Israeli citizens it's mandatory to enlist in the IDF. But for those lone soldiers who come from abroad it's voluntary.
Rebecca's interest in service was inspired by the story of Staff Sgt. Michael Levin, of Bucks County, who joined the IDF as a lone soldier and who at 22 was killed in Lebanon in 2006.
"She saw that story and that inspired her even further," Richman recalled.
In her blog entitled, "It's Always Sunny in Beit She'an," Rebecca reflected on the impact that Levin's death had on her while she was in middle school and on the inspiration she found in his life, depicted in a documentary shown to every soldier in the IDF during basic training. The documentary provided her an understanding about what it's like to leave everything behind to go to Israel.
"I had already fallen in love with Israel a little more than a year before, but hearing about Michael and his story brought an entirely new dimension to what had up until then only been a fantasy. I could actually move to Israel. I could even serve Israel. Hearing about his life — after his death — was the first time I realized that this is something I could actually, literally do. Visiting Israel at 10 years old may have been the first step in the journey I'm on right now, but Michael's story was the second and the biggest," Rebecca wrote in an August 2013 blog post she called "You Can't Fulfill Your Dreams Unless You Dare to Risk It All."
In the moving tribute, Rebecca called Levin "an inspiringly beautiful person."
Currently, Rebecca is assigned to a civil administration unit with the IDF, which is the point of contact between the Palestinian population and the Israeli government.
"I think she values that while all of this hostility is going on, she's having an opportunity to, hopefully, through her conduct, foster one-on-one relationships with the Palestinian people she deals with to, hopefully, begin to build trust between them," Richman said.
Rebecca's basic two-year stint with the IDF ends in December.
"It's frustrating not being a combat soldier right now. My job has very little to do with the current operation, and so I'm stuck here watching the beginnings of a war with no way to stop it, no way to contribute. But I'm part of something bigger. My unit is the one communicating with the civilians of Gaza, we are the ones who create and distribute fliers warning people to evacuate their homes before an attack. And even bigger than that, I'm part of an army that will do anything to protect my friends who are being torn from childhood and thrown into war," Rebecca wrote in a July 2014 blog post.
Richman said it's terrible that Israeli and Palestinian children face fear each day.
"But I can't help but think about Rebecca and the other kids who weren't inoculated with that growing up. These kids left a pretty sheltered life in the United States and find themselves in the middle of a war zone. They get a lot of support from organizations that support the lone soldiers but I know that they were not prepared for that," Richman said.
The ups and downs — periods of cease-fire and then the resumption of rocket bombardments — are difficult to deal with, Richman said, "nerve-wracking," especially when it's been awhile since he's heard from his daughter.
Richman beamed with joy as his phone suddenly rang, indicating an incoming call from Rebecca.
"Hi sweetie," Richman spoke into his phone and Rebecca gleefully replied, "Hi dad."
"Are you safe?" asked Richman, his voice filled with concern. "Having that question hanging out there without an answer till now it's very nerve-wracking."
"I'm okay. Yes, I'm taking care of myself. It makes me feel better that I can assure you that I'm okay and that I can, you know, calm you down," Rebecca replied on the other end, comforting her dad as her voice filled with emotion.
Rebecca said she's pleased to connect with family and friends while she's so far away from home.
"It's amazing. Knowing he couldn't talk to me, and he gets pretty panic stricken, it makes me feel better that I can call him," Rebecca said, the strong bond between father and daughter apparent. "For me, it's hard being here without family. I don't know how people did it before without Skype and FaceTime."
Smiling, Richman's face expressed great relief after the long-distance conversation between father and daughter concluded.
"I was very happy to talk to her. I was very anxious to hear from her," Richman said.
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Attorney: Sheriff Joe Arpaios lunch and sleep policies interfering with judicial processPosted: Updated:
PHOENIX -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for his unconventional jail policies, which have raised complaints from inmates in the past.
"If they don't like it, I would highly recommend not coming to jail," said Sheriff Arpaio.
Now it is not the inmates complaining, but attorney Jason Gronski of the Maricopa County Public Defender's office.
"We've come to find out clients are not eating, are sleep deprived, and aren't able to assist us at trial, assist council. That's become a major problem," said Gronski.
Sheriff Arpaio confirmed that on trial days, inmates in Maricopa County jails are awoken between 3 and 4 in the morning for trials that begin at 10:30 AM. They are given a breakfast when they wake up, then nothing until 6 in the evening when dinner is served at the jail.
Gronski argues that skipping lunch and waking early on trial days is interfering with the judicial process.
"My clients are not getting fair trials," he said. "What they are doing is giving the state a tactical advantage during trial."
After one client complained of hunger during a trial, Gronski drafted a motion asking the judge to force the Sheriff to provide lunch.
"My client was basically spaced out. He didn't understand what was going on. He was very lost. He couldn't focus," Gronski said.
The judge agreed that the client needed food, but that he had no power to force the Sheriff to provide it.
"The judge made a ruling, granted our motion for lunch and was informed by the Sheriff's Department they would not be doing that and unfortunately the judge said there is nothing I can do," Gronski said.
According to Gronski, legally no one other than the Sheriff or his deputies can provide food for an inmate during the trial.
"If I hand them something to eat, it's a class 2 felony," he said
The self-proclaimed "toughest Sheriff in America" defended both his meal and his sleep policies.
"If they didn't get their full amount of sleep and they're not happy, they can always catch a nap in the holding cell," said Arpaio when asked about waking up inmates 6 to 7 hours before the start of trial.
When asked about skipping lunch, Arpaio responded, "I don't know why they are complaining. They're still getting 2600 calories a day."
Arpaio contends that the meals provided to inmates meet the nutritional guidelines mandated by the state.
Phoenix psychiatrist Dr. Michael Yasinski, who has significant court room experience, said one or two days of skipping lunch or skimping on sleep might not have a big impact, but over time could be devastating.
"We use that as a form of torture," he said. "It's to get people feeling extremely uncomfortable, willing to say and do things they wouldn't do normally."
Dr. Yasinski believes that the Sheriff's lunch and sleep policies could have a direct impact on a trial.
"Over the course of days and weeks your brain can start to be poorly nourished. The memory, the cognition, the behavior all can change pretty drastically and can contribute to someone's performance in a courtroom as a defendant in terms of how they answer questions, their logical thinking can be impaired," he said. "Jurors can perceive some of their agitated behavior as nervous or uncomfortable."
Gronski said he plans to continue fighting the policies in Arizona's court system.
"Under the laws and the constitution, you can't go ahead and punish a person while they're in custody and our argument is that this is basically what Sheriff Joe is doing," Gronski said.


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Best wishes to Alison Leighfield and Trudy. Trudy is having an MRI scan tomorrow. Alison has had more than her fair share of heartache over the years with SM. She has spent many hours, on the phone or emailing, helping me with Dylan and other owners of SM affected dogs, she sure could do with our support now.
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Boise, Idaho-based DBSI Housing Inc. - operating locally as DBSI Houston Levee Galleria LLC - has sold two lots in the 26-acre Houston Levee Galleria retail/office development in Collierville for a combined $1.3 million. The Houston Levee Galleria development is on the east side of Houston Levee Road bounded by Poplar Avenue to the north and East Winchester Road to the south. DBSI sold one lot for $822,022 to a San Diego-based entity operating as Barry-Houston Levee Galleria LLC. And DBSI sold the other lot for $495,040 to a Golden, Colo.-based entity operating as Bentz-Houston Levee Galleria LLC. The two sales, both of which closed Feb. 13, follow the sale of two parcels earlier in the month. DBSI sold one for $877,040 to Strites-Houston Levee Galleria LLC and one for $779,591 to Laughlin-Houston Levee Galleria LLC. DBSI bought a three-building, 65,000-square-foot retail center in January for $9.3 million from the local development company Houston Levee Galleria Joint Venture. A DBSI representative did not return a phone call.
Three first-run foreclosure notices on properties owned by Charles W. Alexander appear beginning on Page 29 of today's Daily News. Alexander, along with his wife, Patricia, has seen more than 40 foreclosure notices filed for their properties in the past couple of weeks. The properties slated for foreclosure sale are 1651 Evelyn Ave., 820 Looney Ave. and 2481 Peres Ave. All are scheduled to be sold March 27 at noon at the southwest Adams Avenue entrance of the Shelby County Courthouse. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. is the owner and holder of the debts owed on the Looney and Peres properties. SunTrust Mortgage Inc. is the owner and holder of the debt owed on the Evelyn property. Alexander mortgaged the Peres and Looney properties in April and May 2002, respectively. The Evelyn property was mortgaged in November 2005. All three properties are subject to a tax lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service in October 2006 for $1,247.10, according to the Shelby County Register's Office. Attempts to reach the Alexanders have been unsuccessful. For more information on earlier foreclosure notices against Charles and Patricia Alexander, visit www.memphisdailynews.com.
Tennessee's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January was 4.9 percent, down .1 percentage point from the revised December rate of 5 percent, the state Department of Labor & Workforce Development said. State unemployment in January 2007 was 4.6 percent. The Tennessee numbers mirror national figures, with U.S. unemployment of 4.9 percent in January, down slightly from 5 percent in December. As far as hard numbers go, seasonally adjusted unemployment reached 149,000 jobs in Tennessee, while non-seasonally adjusted unemployment totaled 165,000. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical tool that eliminates the influence of weather, holidays and other seasonal events to more clearly compare data from month to month. December-to-January gains were seen in machinery manufacturing (up 1,000 jobs), and gasoline station employment and telecommunications jobs (each up by 200). Decreases were seen in trade, transportation and utilities employment (down 21,700), professional and business services (down 18,400) and leisure and hospitality (down 9,700). Year-to-year growth for January was led by educational and health services (up 9,000), while the largest drop was in manufacturing (down 16,100). County unemployment rates for January will be released Thursday.
A Massachusetts U.S. District Court judge has fined Medtronic Inc. and its related companies $10 million for the behavior of its trial lawyers at Dewey & LeBoeuf, who are based in New York, while fighting a patent case brought by DePuy Spine Inc. The company is referred to by a former name, Medtronic Sofamor Danek Inc., in court documents. The company's Spinal and Biologics business is based in Memphis. Senior District Judge Edward F. Harrington also ordered Medtronic, which makes spinal implant devices, to pay some of DePuy's attorney fees. In the lawsuit against Medtronic, DePuy alleged that several Medtronic products used during spinal surgery infringed on a patent DePuy licensed from another party. In his Feb. 25 order, Harrington wrote the defendants "demonstrated a failure to accept the claim construction governing this case" throughout the trial. Harrington also said Medtronic's infringement defense was apparently based "on an attempt to obscure, evade, or minimize" the federal circuit's construction of the patent in question. He also wrote that they "sought to take advantage of the technical and legal complexities inherent in this case." In September, a jury awarded $226.3 million plus interest to DePuy. Harrington also issued a permanent injunction order in December, barring Medtronic from making, using or selling the spinal implant devices.
Lakeside Behavioral Health System soon will be relocating its Cresthaven Outpatient Office at 1037 Cresthaven Road. The move is in response to patient and physician feedback. The Cresthaven programs will be based in a newly renovated 10,000-square-foot conference center on the main Lakeside campus in Bartlett beginning May 5. The Lakeside Cresthaven office has been providing specialized outpatient substance abuse and dual-diagnosis treatment tailored for working professionals for almost 20 years. The last day outpatient services will be offered at the Cresthaven location is May 2. "Because of the increased demand for day and evening dual-diagnosis programs, we've simply run out of room," said Abbott Jordan, program director for the Cresthaven office. "The new location is conveniently located just a few minutes from our current location and will provide the opportunity to add and expand our outpatient services. And, we've timed the move to eliminate any loss of service to our patients, physicians and staff." In addition to the move, Lakeside also is developing a partial hospitalization addiction program with medical oversight provided by onsite physicians.
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC will conduct a series of seminars in China during 2008 that will be designed to present to Chinese businesses the practicalities of investing and doing business in the U.S. market. The first seminar will be Wednesday in Nanjing, one of China's largest business centers. The seminar series, titled "Doing Business in the U.S.," will be led by Joan McEntee, chair of Baker Donelson's China Practice Group. McEntee was instrumental in developing the firm's representative office in Beijing, China. The Overseas Chinese Development Association and the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission, two Chinese entities, are sponsoring the lectures. More than 50 companies are expected to attend this inaugural event. In addition, during the spring, the firm will host a series of events throughout the southeastern U.S. that will focus on intellectual property issues as they are related to Chinese trade. For more information about the seminars, call Johanna Burkett at 577-2201.
Memphis-based Roebuck Auctions will conduct a free clinic today to unveil its home trade-in program. The clinic will be from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at its auction center at 4932 Park Ave. The program was developed to offer a solution to homeowners who want to sell their property quickly at a fair price, said John Roebuck, principal auctioneer at Roebuck Auctions, in a statement. Chris Zuercher of BankTennessee will be a guest speaker. He will discuss home mortgages and new programs the bank is introducing.
The Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau took home a top award from the Mississippi Tourism Association at the recent Governor's Conference on Tourism, an annual statewide tourism conference that was held in Jackson, Miss., last month. The Tunica CVB was recognized as the CVB of the Year among those with budgets exceeding $1 million. It marks the second year in a row the Tunica CVB has received the award. The Tunica CVB picked up two other awards at the conference: the Mississippi Tourism Association's Member of the Year Award and the Media Support Award.