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(CNN) — Emergency crews in Colorado braved racing floodwaters early Thursday, rescuing a man from a partially submerged car, live on television.
The scene in Lafayette, Colorado, unfolded in video from CNN affiliate KCNC after a night of torrential rain that left at least three people dead. Rock slides and flash flooding collapsed homes, put dams at risk and forced hundreds of people to evacuate.
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In Larimer County, a dam break trapped three people, and weather was preventing rescue helicopters from launching to help them.
In nearby Boulder County, emergency officials were getting calls for help "by the dozen" Thursday morning, Boulder County spokesman Andrew Barth said. Crews couldn't reach some places because of debris, mud and steep terrain, he said.
Hundreds of people left their homes. At least one shelter was nearly full, according to the Boulder County Office of Emergency Management.
At least two people died in Boulder County, Sheriff Joe Pelle said. Another person was reported dead in Colorado Springs, in El Paso, County.
One of those who died was trapped in a collapsed building in Jamestown, Boulder County spokeswoman Gabbie Boerkircher said.
The circumstances of the other deaths weren't clear early Thursday, but the Colorado Springs Fire Department said on Twitter that the body had been recovered by a "heavy rescue team."
Rescue workers have not been able to reach isolated canyons and other locations, and Pelle said the death toll could rise.
"This was a devastating overnight storm in the area, and I anticipate that as the day goes on, we are likely to find other people who are victims of this storm," he said Thursday.
Among those in danger: a fire crew whose truck was washed away by water. They were huddled early Thursday on a mountainside, Pelle said.
Dramatic rescue
In the Lafayette rescue, firefighters approached the submerged car on a yellow dinghy, broke out a window and handed the man a life jacket. As he was getting ready to get out of the car, the floodwaters flipped it onto its roof. But a firefighter was able to open the car's door and free the man after a few agonizing seconds.
"I think everybody's heart sank for a minute there," Lafayette Fire Department Battalion Chief Dan Garrett said. "Luckily, everything turned out OK."
The man, whose identity wasn't immediately known, waded out of the water with the aid of firefighters. He was taken away on a stretcher.
The heavy rain overnight turned what is normally a dry drainage ditch into a raging river, according to Sara Farris, a spokeswoman for North Metro Fire Rescue. The force of the water eroded dirt beneath the road, causing a wide section to collapse.
Video from KCNC also showed two other vehicles, one dangling from the edge of a washed-out road and the other in the water under what appeared to be a telephone pole. The man and two others rescued earlier were taken to the hospital for evaluation of minor injuries, Garrett said.
How the incident unfolded — whether the cars were on the road when it gave way or slid into the gap — wasn't immediately clear.
Building collapses, dam breaks
Numerous other buildings had collapsed, but it was unclear how many or whether there were any other injuries, Boerkircher said. A rock slide was hampering access to the site.
The Larimer County dam break released a small amount of water and caused flooding to some homes. Three people were trapped, said Sheriff's Office spokesman John Schultz.
Officials called on Colorado National Guard helicopters to help rescue three trapped residents, but the aircraft were unable to launch Thursday morning due to weather, Schultz said.
About 20 miles north of Boulder, in Lyons, water was flowing over the tops of five dams, Boerkircher said. The dams had not broken, but emergency officials were monitoring them very closely, she said.
Officials urged residents in the county of 305,000 people to stay home and off flooded and sometimes impassable roads. City and county offices, schools and the University of Colorado Boulder — where minor flooding was reported — were closed Thursday.
The school had to move more than 400 graduate students and research faculty members from family housing units because of flooding, a spokesman said. The school also had to relocate 13 undergraduates from two residence halls, the spokesman said. No injuries were reported on campus.
The chaos is the result of the enormous rainfall overnight: about 7 inches in Boulder, CNN meteorologists said.
"The rain, it almost feels like hail, the drops are so thick," University of Colorado Boulder student Ryan Colla told CNN affiliate KUSA. "It just keeps coming and coming, and when you think it's going to subside, it starts to rain down harder."
The sudden influx of water turned Boulder Creek — which runs through the city and the university campus — into a high, fast, muddy and dangerous torrent, Colla told the station.
"It freaked us out," he said.
CNN's Sara Weisfeldt, Tina Burnside, Shawn Nottingham and Sherri Pugh contributed to this report.


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Just for fun, take a look at the highlight tape Diddy posted of his son, Justin. Actually, not too bad. Judge for yourself. Somebody can help me out with embedding, if necessary.
Just for fun, take a look at the highlight tape Diddy posted of his son, Justin. Actually, not too bad. Judge for yourself. Somebody can help me out with embedding, if necessary.
Thanks man.
I don't know why they had an athlete like him play so far off the ball. But he looks like he deserves a shot, I hope we bring him into camp. Tackling is obviously an issue, but he atleast shows the willingness to hit.
So what high school is Puffy Jr. playing for and has anyone actually offered him? I assume he's not D-1 material at that height/weight.
I'd kill for him to be a preferred walk on. Be worth it just to have Diddy sitting in the parents section with a goofy pin with his son's picture on it and his son's blue Michigan jersey with Combs on the back.
get a Zia Combs jersey
Not sure bout the son, but Puffy went to Mount St Michael academy... it was one of our rival schools... Their sports teams had the block M, and for that reason, i felt weird freshman year getting all Michigan attire. I don't believe their football teams had the winged helmet... unfortunate for them!
Looks like he goes to Iona Prep... another rival hs of mine. I can't speak for the football program, but their baseball program was very good when i was in hs (1998-2002). They're also technically not in NYC but in New Rochelle, NY. They were the big shots with their own, nice field. That's probably standard for you Michiganders, but that was crazy to us who went to school in Manhattan. We had to trek to either Red Hook Brooklyn, or Randall's Island to practice or play a home game.
This brings back a fond memory of freshman year baseball... We were playing Iona Prep, (and they had just pounded us earlier in the season.) Two outs, and a groundball hit to me at short, i bobble it but make the throw to 1st, but the umpire calls the runner safe. My coach comes yelling "THANKS A LOT BLUE, YOU JUST COST US THE GAME!" ... It was the first inning...
I wasnt impressed. He doesnt look seem to have very good (D-1) athleticism and seems maybe a bit cocky. But I'm just an internet guy judging a teenager
just has no tackling technique i dont think i saw one pure tackle in the first 1:30 i saw litterally just throws his body at the players
On one play in the flats he wiffed on a tackle but still got the guy tangled up. He is definitely aggressive though. Can't find a height or weight on him anywhere.
The opening screen has his height and weight listed 5'9" and 165lbs... Look again.
5'9" 165 lbs.
You would figure I would look there, but I was checking Scout and Rivals. Thanks for giving me the obvious that I missed.
5'9" is basically the minimum height you can be listed at when you're a recruit. This kid looks more like 5'6".
He is tiny but he hits pretty well. He must be smokin' the Jeffrey he stole from dad.
His dad's highlight reel is actually better:
What the hell was that at 0:46? A leg tackle!?
that wasnt a very impressive tackle but he isnt afraid to hit. But with someone like mattison to coach him up, and his father's large donation to the AD, we might have a winner.
Gotta keep the donors happy for sure, but I don't know if there's a large enough donation in the world for us to justify taking on this kid as a player.
He needs to wrap up....but still not to bad.
An article by rivals on him titled "Diddy's son gets shot at state championship"
Likes Florida State...but probably won't get offered
That first kid got Jeffrey'd.
On every play... Gerg must be coaching back in NY state...
Always good to hear Biggie. Diddy could definitely score one of the suites.
Can't nobody take his pride ... can't nobody hold him down ... hes been all around the world and been player hated ... take that ! uh huh
I hope Michigan State recruits him.
He's got about as much talent as his Dad. Zing!
Can't tell if he can cover or not but he's not scared to hit just needs a lot of technique work which he would get under our coaching but still not worth an offer yet maybe unless he has 4.2 speed. Man I wouldn't mind having Diddy pouring money into the program and imagine the half time performances...lol...Let's Work (Diddy voice)
5 yard hitches all day, once he plays up boom he's smoked down the sideline. He's probably playing that deep cause he's not that fast.

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EMPORIA, Kan. — Dr. Kristie Ogilvie will become dean of the School of Business at Emporia State University by July 1, according to Dr. Michael D. Shonrock, president of Emporia State University.
Ogilvie currently is associate dean of academics in the College of Business and Public Administration at California State University at San Bernardino. Ogilvie visited the Emporia State University campus April 23 and 24 for interviews.
"The students and faculty were so inspiring," Ogilvie said of the visit. "They made the decision for me that Emporia State University would be a good fit."
Ogilvie earned a bachelor's degree with a marketing concentration from California State University at Sacramento, a master's of business administration degree from University of Tulsa and advanced research certificate and doctorate of business administration from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
She was a senior business analyst at GenCorp Corp./Aerojet in Sacramento, Calif.; and taught at California State University at Sacramento and California State University at Fullerton before moving to San Bernardino where she served on the management faculty and as director of AACSB accreditation before becoming associate dean. As associate dean, Ogilvie is responsible for graduate programs, accreditation, administrative affairs and student services.
"I am very excited to bring what experiences I have to take the School of Business to the next level with support of a wonderful combination of faculty, staff, community and Emporia State leadership," said Ogilvie.
"Kristie is a real 'go-getter,'" said Shonrock. "She brings energy and ideas that will move Emporia State University's School of Business forward."
For Ogilvie, the move allows her to return to her roots. Her father returned to the family farm in South Haven, Kan., after his retirement, and her mother, who recently died, grew up near Emporia.
"I often say I have the work ethic and mindset of being raised with parents from Kansas, but in the unique environment of California," Ogilvie explained. "It's exciting to get back to family."
Ogilvie's appointment closes out two national searches at Emporia State. Dr. David Cordle also will begin by July 1 as the new provost at the regional university. Both searches worked with the Witt/Kieffer executive search firm.
"Witt/Kieffer did a remarkable job securing exceptional candidates for both positions," said Shonrock. "Thanks to local media, our campus constituents and the local community participated in candidate forums and provided feedback.
"As we celebrate our 150th anniversary, this is an exciting time to announce two new administrators. Both Kristie and David will be important members of the Hornet team that will move us to our next milestone."


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(RNN) - To get a better sense of where the Doctor has been in time and space, fans should check out classic episodes of Doctor Who, some of which is available for streaming on Netflix.
The British sci-fi television show that has found diehard, dedicated fans here in the states celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Classic Doctor Who is a fun, fresh trip through hand-crafted "alien" worlds probably made of papier mache and clay, aliens that look like clown rejects with wigs, rubber masks and body paint, and a TARDIS model that's probably about 8" inches tall.
The classic show, which aired from 1963 to 1989, exuded a more traditional BBC feel than the current show, as if it were a drama performed for the stage rather than a show shot for TV.
You'll not find any stylized lens flare, for the most part no CGI worlds spinning in space, no Matrix-like bullet-time or fancy stunts. And that, along with the feeling that anything can happen at any time, is part of the show's charm.
The few fight scenes in the featured episodes involve the third doctor and a few other characters doing self-defense throws and some basic wrestling moves - no hokey, improbable sword battles like what plagued Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
The temptation may be strong to avoid the black-and-white episodes and head right to the warm familiarity of Tom Baker's fourth doctor, plucky companion Sarah Jane and faithful robotic dog K-9. Don't. You will be missing out on some fun, and funny, television.
Take, for instance, an adventure with the second doctor, The Mind Robber.
This 1968 yarn exudes a trippy ambiance despite the low production values - for instance, a TARDIS interior with "futuristic" gadgets that were likely scooped out of a junkyard and repurposed, for instance, a washer window used as a sort of communication screen, big buttons, switches.
The story involves his young companions - Zoe from the year 2000 (whose home looks a lot like an oil painting) and Jamie from historical Scotland.
The Doctor hides the TARDIS out of the time stream so he can repair it after an escape from a lava flow that looks like runaway marshmallow cream.
The two are lured out of the TARDIS and step into nothingness. For some reason, "nothingness" looks a lot like a sound stage dappled in white.
Then the TARDIS disintegrates in trippy fashion, with screaming from Zoe as she hangs onto the control panel in a skin-tight, sparkly "futuristic" bodysuit. The overwrought doctor, under mind attack, turns toward the corner a la Blair Witch Project.
They wind up, safe and sound, in a land with tree-like structures that turn out to be words.
The trio is menaced by comical and non-threatening slow-moving robots, minutemen and a clay-mation Medusa. They interface with storybook characters and observe huge "futuristic" room-sized computers.
At the end of the adventure, the villainous story-writer and the offstage aliens for which are defeated. The viewer knows that things have been put right again because the hard-crafted TARDIS model reassembles. End scene.
One aspect of Doctor Who's past that hopefully remains forever past is the patronizing attitude male characters exhibited toward female characters, a reflection of the patriarchal values of the time.
The Doctor often commanded other males to "look after" whichever female characters were present, as if they were children.
In one story arc, Jo, one of his companions, didn't seem to have a backbone that functioned properly and thus clung to the arm of whichever male happened to be closest, as if she were attending a lifelong prom and had to be escorted everywhere. Hopefully, Sergeant So-and-So of UNIT didn't have sardine breath.
Even Sarah Jane was not above being "looked after" and sometimes playing the damsel in distress.
The arrival of Leela, a woman from a primitive planet, was refreshing, even as she provides a bit of fish-out-of-water entertainment as a version of a physically strong female character and the show's belated answer to the feminist movement.
Yes, she's eye candy, as so many female companions are, but at least she's facing danger head-on.
When confronted with a Victorian (or perhaps even Edwardian) version of femininity in The Terror at Fang Rock - in the form of a woman going into hysterics after seeing a dead body - she reacts with a decisive slap.
The fifth doctor, firmly ensconced in the modern age, had a more difficult relationship with accidental TARDIS traveler Tegan, who was less impressed with the enigmatic time-traveler. Their sometimes combative interactions, although a bit too 90210, at least reflected a less patronizing attitude toward women on the part of the Doctor Who writers.
One refreshing aspect of classic Who is how the Doctor remains romantically uninvolved with his companions, maintaining a Sherlock Holmesian aloofness, strangeness and distance, sometimes even looking down on his companions and their human foibles.
A failing of the modern version of Doctor Who is that so much dramatic tension has relied on love or unrequited love. It's as if the Doctor went through some sort of mid-life crisis after the fall of the Time Lords, which caused him to become too attached to average gal Rose Tyler, so much so that he continued to moon over her for the duration of Martha Jones' time as his companion.
Classic doctors didn't stoop to romantic love, even with fellow Time Lords such as Romana, as most of the classic doctors appeared quite a bit older than the modern doctors.
A exception to this was the young fifth doctor - whose unfortunate opening credits feature a glowing star flying out of the vicinity of his nose. Maybe that's why none of the girls fancied him. Or it could have been the celery in his lapel.
As seen from the vantage point of the 21th century, the fourth doctor, played by Tom Baker, seems mean and callous at times. That appraisal could be also a side-effect of exposure to kinder, gentler doctors played by David Tennant and Matt Smith.
Baker's doctor spent part of one episode endlessly ripping on the intelligence of cricketer Harry Sullivan, which is pretty fun but mean-spirited nonetheless.
He also seems unmoved and cold-hearted when faced with collateral damage.
At the conclusion of Horror of Fang Rock, in which the Earth was saved from an alien invasion by glowing jellyfish creatures, everyone in the lighthouse died except the Doctor and Leela.
He even contributed to one character's death by throwing down a handful of diamonds, something he knew the avaricious man couldn't resist. This action allowed one of the glowy green aliens to catch up to him. The Doctor's reaction to this needless death: blase.
Despite all the death, at the end of the story arc, he still manages to enter the TARDIS with a huge smile on his face for a job well done.
Tennant's doctor would have had a nervous breakdown.
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|Educator earns Livingstone Hall of Fame
|Elijah Peterson also a community leader, activist
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Elijah Peterson of Rockingham has been inducted into the Livingstone College Hall of Fame.
|Elijah Peterson
A 1956 graduate of Livingstone, Peterson is a former educator, child's advocate, community leader and political activist. For the past 16 years, he has served as chairman of the board for Richmond County Community Support, which serves Richmond, Montgomery and Moore counties.
Peterson was among 14 recipients honored at the 12th annual Celebration of Livingstone College Leaders Banquet earlier this year in Salisbury.
The tribute "recognizes successful leaders for their undying commitment and dedication to others," said Jimmy Jenkins Sr., Livingstone's president. "This award is being bestowed upon individuals who have given tirelessly of themselves as they serve their communities and/or professions, and have demonstrated the qualities of a servant leader."
He credits Livingstone, where he entered as a freshman at age 16, for providing the foundation for his educational and professional life. After graduating from Livingstone College with a bachelor's in mathematics, Peterson continued his education at North Carolina A&T State University, where he earned a Master of Science degree in 1961, and a Master of Arts degree in chemistry in 1965.
He was awarded a special certification in physics by UNC-Chapel Hill in 1962 and was one of the first to be selected for certification to teach modern physics. This curriculum was designed to prepare students to understand research being performed by the NASA Space Program.
As an educator, Peterson served as a teacher and principal. He taught math, chemistry and physics in three different high schools including Peabody in Troy, Booker T. Washington in Reidsville and Charles Drew.
For 26 years, he served as principal of five different schools including Cameron Morrison State Training School for Boys in Hoffman and Samarkand Manor for Girls in Eagle Springs.
Peterson won Principal of the Year in 1986 and North Carolina Citizen of the Year in 2012 by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; although he is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. In 1976, North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt appointed Peterson to his Advocacy Council on Children and Youth, where he served for 26 years. In 1989, Gov. Jim Martin appointed him chairman of the same and he held that position for eight years.
He has also served as chairperson of the Eighth Congressional District of the N.C. Democratic Party; state chairman of the Black Leadership Caucus; on the board of trustees for Montgomery Community College; is a life member of the NAACP; and trustee board chairman for Mt. Zion United Church of Christ.
Carrie Peterson, his wife of 54 years; their three daughters, Clairice, Valerice and Laurice; and his brother, Robert; as well as other family members and friends attended this special occasion in Peterson's life. He was the only recipient to receive a standing ovation.
Prior to the event, Peterson was the guest of honor at a reception at a local hotel in Salisbury, where he was showered with kind and loving words.
In his unselfish and humble nature, Peterson did not accept full credit for his accomplishments. "I am extraordinarily grateful for all the encouragement and support I have received from the wide range of individuals I interacted with while carrying out my life's work. In the words of the English poet, John Donne, 'No man is an island.'"
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Book list Rogasky: Gr. 4^-6, younger for reading aloud; Wisniewski: Gr. 3^-6. Drawing on Jewish legends, two very different versions tell the story of the giant monster of sixteenth-century Prague, created by the holy Rabbi Loew from the clay of the river to help protect his people in the ghetto against racist persecution. Rogasky tells it in 13 expansive chapters, with a colloquial warmth and a Yiddish idiom ("Why? Who knows why?" ) that makes you read it aloud. There's terror when the Poles come after the Jews, especially when they accuse the Jews of killing children to drink the blood, a lie used for centuries to fuel anti-Semitism. In a foreshadowing of the Holocaust, the evil priest Thaddeus, being led away to prison, curses the Jews ("I will return and you will not recognize me . . . I will tell the same lies . . . You will burn, burn as if in the ovens of hell" ); a picture of the gates of Auschwitz ends the chapter. Some of the plotting and counterplotting gets convoluted. But the terror is framed by the rabbi's wise control and by uproarious episodes of domestic farce when the golem takes his household orders literally. Hyman's illustrations in shades of brown and blue, some tall and full-page, some small and unframed, reveal the ordinary and the mysterious in the ghetto community. From the rabbi in his library among his piles of books to the golem rampaging through the streets of Prague, there is a depth of perspective, an expressive sense of character, and an exquisite detail of line. Both author and illustrator provide endnotes about sources in Jewish mysticism and history. Wisniewski's large picture-book version is stark and terrifying. His extraordinary cut-paper collages show and tell the shape-shifting and changing perspectives that are the essence of the story. Chanting spells from the holy books of the Cabala, the rabbi creates the giant, whose task is to protect the Jews and catch those planting false evidence of the Blood Lie. When the mob storms the gates of the ghetto, the golem is a huge Frankenstein monster who smashes the people and their weapons. But Wisniewski adds an element of melancholy to the creature (just as Mary Shelley did). This golem can talk, and when his work is done, he begs to be allowed to go on living. The pictures of the desperate giant trying to prevent his hands and face from dissolving are scenes of horror and sorrow. Wisniewski ends with a long, detailed background note about the religious roots and folklore and about the history of Jewish persecution through the ages. --Hazel Rochman
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School Library Journal Gr 3 Up?Wisniewski's retelling of the golem legend varies only slightly from the traditional version recounted by Beverly McDermott in The Golem (HarperCollins, 1975; o.p.). It is the tale of a clay giant formed in the image of man to protect the Jewish people of medieval Prague from destruction by their enemies. His master, the chief rabbi of Prague in the late 16th century, was a highly regarded Cabbalist (a mystic). In this telling, the golem speaks with the simplicity of a child (In many versions he is mute), and he is destroyed when the emperor guarantees the safety of the Jewish people. (Traditionally, the golem goes berserk and must be returned to the earth.) A lengthy note explains the idea of the Golem and details Jewish persecution throughout history. Wisniewski has used layers of cut paper to give depth to his illustrations, many of which have a three-dimensional appearance. A wispy layer, which begins as the vapor of creation, becomes smoke from torches carried by an angry mob of armed silhouette people and horses. The colors are browns and grays of the earth, sunrise mauve, and the pumpkin and burnt orange of fire and sunset. Skillful use of perspective enhances the Golem's immense size. While the plot is stronger than in Mark Podwal's retelling (Greenwillow, 1995), Wisniewski's text lacks the power and child appeal of McDermott's spare, well-crafted tale. Still, collections wanting another edition of the story might consider this one.?Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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Publishers Weekly Elaborately composed cut-paper spreads give a 3D, puppet-show-like quality to a retelling of a Jewish legend. Rabbi Loew has a prophetic vision in 1580 when the Jews of Prague are accused of mixing the blood of Christian children into matzoh: he must create a Golem, "a giant of living clay, animated by Cabala, mystical teachings of unknown power." Brought to life with apocalyptic explosions of steam and rain, the Golem seeks out the perpetrators of the Blood Lie and turns them over to the authorities. Thwarted, the enraged enemies of the Jews storm the gates of the ghetto, but the Golem grows to enormous height and violently defeats them with their own battering ram. Once his work is done, he pitifully (and futilely) begs the Rabbi: "Please let me live! I did all that you asked of me! Life is so... precious... to me!" Wisniewski (The Wave of the Sea Wolf) emphasizes the Golem's humanity and the problems with his existence; instead of reducing the legend to a tale of a magical rescuer, the author allows for its historical and emotional complexity. The fiery, crisply layered paper illustrations, portraying with equal drama and precision the ornamental architecture of Prague and the unearthly career of the Golem, match the specificity and splendor of the storytelling. An endnote about the history and influence of the legend is particularly comprehensive. Ages 6-10. (Oct.)
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CSX will install mast-mounted flashing lights and roadway gates at the Feree Road/Township Road 144 (538-739A) grade crossing in Perry Township, Shelby County. The railroad will also install flashing lights and gates at the Liberty West Road/County Road 125 (513-811S) grade crossing in Union County. W&LE will install mast-mounted flashing lights and roadway gates at the Allen Avenue SE (142-854J) grade crossing in Stark County.
The railroads will be responsible for completing construction of these upgrades by July 2013.
Funding for the three Ohio upgrades will be provided by federal funds.
In California, Burbank Public Works Department and Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA), will begin construction work October 22 on a joint project to improve rail crossing safety at Buena Vista Street near Vanowen Street.
The completed project will include new traffic islands, a second left turn lane on Vanowen Street, an entirely new rail crossing gate protection system with four pedestrian protection gates, new rail control systems and a new rail communication system that will be installed by the rail contractor. City staff estimate that the project will take six months to complete.


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President challenges states to cut college costs, support teachers, prevent dropouts and beef up job training
The U. S. Department of Education has released portions of President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, which I have excerpted below. The complete address is at www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2012.
College Affordability: "When kids do graduate, the most daunting challenge can be the cost of college. At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July. Extend the college tuition tax credit we started that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars. And, give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work-study jobs in the next five years …. Of course, it's not enough for us to increase student aid. We can't just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we'll run out of money. States also need to do their part — by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. And, colleges and universities have to do their part, by working to keep costs down. Recently, I spoke with a group of college presidents who've done just that. Some schools redesign courses to help students finish more quickly. Some use better technology. The point is, it's possible. So, let me put colleges and universities on notice: if you can't stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Higher education can't be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford."
Teachers: "At a time when other countries are doubling down on education, tight budgets have forced states to layoff thousands of teachers. We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000. A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to a child who dreams beyond his circumstances. Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory of their lives. Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay, sometimes digging in their own pocket for school supplies, just to make a difference. Teachers matter. So, instead of bashing them or defending the status quo, let's offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn."
Dropouts: "We also know that when students don't walk away from their education, more of them walk the stage to get their diploma. So, tonight, I am proposing that every state requires that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18."
Job Training: "I want every American looking for work to have the same opportunity …. Join me in a national commitment to train two million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job. My administration has lined up more companies that want to help. Model partnerships between businesses like Siemens and community colleges in places like Charlotte, Orlando, and Louisville are up and running. Now, you need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers — places that teach people skills that businesses are looking for right now. And, I want to cut through the maze of confusing training programs, so that, from now on, people have one program, one website, and one place to go for all the information and help that they need …"
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By Tiernan Ray
Trip Chowdhry of the boutique research operation Global Equities Research, this afternoon offers his survey of chatter picked up in Silicon Valley of late, which includes challenges and opportunities for VMware (VMW) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and opportunities in enterprise for Apple (AAPL).
On Apple, Chowdhry, who Friday wrote in a separate note that his survey of people at Samsung Electronics's (005930KS) unveiling of the Galaxy S4 Thursday suggested the device is "overhyped" and will "underdeliver," takes a fairly favorable slant toward Apple.
He offers that "Adoption of Apple iPhone 5 seems to have accelerated within the enterprise," and that "most of the adoption is coming from users switching out of [BlackBerry's (BBRY)] BlackBerry, and from new employees, who seem to prefer Apple iPhone over both Android and Blackberry." Chowdhry does not say which sources or data lead him to this conclusion.
As regards enterprise computing, Chowdhry's conversations suggest to him that a new service offering from Amazon.com (AMZN) on its "Amazon Web Services" (AWS) platform, called "RedShift," is gaining in popularity among the Fortune 500:
Amazon recently launched a new AWS Service RedShift, which is off to a very storng start and may create headwinds for Teradata (TDC) in long-term. RedShift has Columnar Storage,and can scale up to 32 nodes, 128 CPUs, 4.2 TB of RAM and 1.6PD of Disk. 50% of Fortune 500 companies have started experimenting with RedShift, and seem to be liking the service a lot. Early indications are that some of the new workloads may be directed to Amazon's Redshift and not towards Teradata.
That brings Chowdhry to discussion of EMC (EMC), VMware, and HP and the emerging database battle. Hewlett-Packard may have tough competition coming from EMC and VMware's "Pivotal Initiative," which they are spinning out next month as a separate operation, in the field of Big Data and data analytics.
But both HP and EMC/VMW/Pivotal, as well as Red Hat (RHT), are at risk of being pushed aside by the the startup VoltDB:
Pivotal has an early lead in batch processing Big Data Anlytics with Pivotal HD offering; Pivotal Query Engine HAWQ is far superior to Cloudera's query engine called Impala; Early indications are that Pivotal may be succeessful in the Big Data batch-analytics space; However, VoltDB may provide stiff competition to Pivotal's GemFire in the Real-time in-Memory Analytics [...] Currently Pivotal HD is the fastest Hadoop Implementation in the market, and with the Marketing resources available from both VMWare and EMC, the converged view is that HP Hadoop may face headwinds from Pivotal in probably 3 to 6 monthsHP's Vertica offering may face headwinds from VoltDB in in-memory real time analytics space, in about 6 months [...] RedHat is one of the major contributors to the OpenStack project, however VMWare has recently announced dual stack support. VMware will be supporting both its proprietary Stack as well as OpenStack. OpenStack is not longer a strategic differentiator for RedHat [...] The value is now migrating to a much higher level of the stacks, over and beyond the Operating System and Middleware. Value is now concentrated in the in-memeory real-time data base layers, such as what Volt-DB is providing. This value migration to Database layer may cause pricing pressure in Red Hat's core buiness, which is still Operating System.


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Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist won an NCAA title together last season with Kentucky and became the first college teammates to be selected with the first two picks of the NBA Draft.
Davis went to the New Orleans Hornets with the No. 1 pick and the Charlotte Bobcats plucked Kidd-Gilchrist in the second slot. Both teams will clash Friday in the Big Easy, but Davis could miss another game as he is dealing with a mild concussion.
Darius Miller, who went with the 46th pick to the Hornets, played with Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist at Kentucky and could be in the starting lineup versus the Bobcats.
New Orleans will play its fourth home game in five chances and dropped a 77-62 decision to Philadelphia on Wednesday.
Al-Farouq Aminu scored a team-high 10 points and pulled down a game-high 16 rebounds, while Ryan Anderson added nine points and 10 boards for the Hornets, who had a two-game winning streak stopped and were without Davis and fellow rookie Austin Rivers. Rivers is questionable Friday with a sprained left index finger.
"My first thought is we didn't have the same juice that we normally have," New Orleans coach Monty Williams said. "I've told our guys since we've been here that there's one way that we play, and there's one way that we're going to be successful, especially when we have guys out. We have to play with more force. I didn't see that tonight."
The Sixers forced 24 turnovers, leading to 26 points. New Orleans hasn't reached the 100-point mark yet, but hasn't allowed that many points, either.
Charlotte has dropped two straight since opening the 2012-13 campaign with a win versus Indiana. It was blown out at Dallas, 126-99, on Saturday, then dropped a 117-110 decision versus Phoenix on Wednesday.
Byron Mullens had 24 points and eight rebounds, Ramon Sessions had 17 points and nine assists and Kemba Walker finished the game with 17 points and eight assists for Charlotte, which was beaten on the boards, 50-39, and shot 43.7 percent for the game.
"The signs are there that we don't let go of a game," Charlotte head coach Mike Dunlap said. "But we expended too much energy coming back and (Shannon) Brown was making shots with guys all over him."
The Bobcats haven't started 2-2 since the 2009-10 campaign, when they opened the season 3-2 and lost the next seven games. Gerald Henderson, Charlotte's leading scorer last season, is still out with a sprained left foot.
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FOXBOROUGH — Defensive tackle Tommy Kelly seemingly has gone from one extreme to the other. In his first nine seasons in the NFL, all with Oakland, he was never on a team that made the postseason.
Now he's with the Patriots, who have been in the playoffs nine times over the past 10 seasons.
"I've been waiting for this opportunity," Kelly said Saturday. "I played nine long years out in Oakland. Enjoyed it. We didn't win enough, but I still enjoyed my time out there. I'm late in my career, I want to have a chance to play for [a championship], so this was the best opportunity for me."
Kelly also said he didn't want to pass up the opportunity to play next to Vince Wilfork. Not only because of the physical presence the veteran defensive lineman provides, but the experience and knowledge of the system he can share.
"He makes it real easy. He's been in the defense for so long, he knows it like [Jerod] Mayo, or Bill [Belichick], or Matty [Patricia] knows it, so it's real easy playing next to the guy," Kelly said, referencing the Patriots' linebacker, head coach, and defensive coordinator. "Makes me real comfortable."
Kelly has the reputation of being a durable player (he hasn't missed a game in five seasons, starting all of them) who can get to the quarterback. He has 34½ career sacks, and had his best two-year total in 2010-11, when he combined for 14½.
Last season, Kelly only had 1½ sacks.
Even before signing with the Patriots, Kelly had an idea of what the team was like, courtesy of former Raiders teammate Richard Seymour, who previously played in New England. It's helped with the transition.
"There's really no surprise to it because I talked to big Rich while we were out there and he always told me how it was run," Kelly said. "So I had a certain expectation level of how they do things up here."
And how, exactly, is that?
"Either you get the job done, or [Belichick is] going to get rid of you and get somebody else in here to do it," Kelly said. "I have no problem with how they run their program. It's strictly business; you know where you stand with them. He laid out what he needed from me when he brought me in."
Someone spending his first training camp learning a different system with a new team might not feel entirely comfortable. But Kelly appears completely at ease, and seems to know exactly where he can make a difference.
"Just do my job, whatever he asks me to do, whether it's playing the run or crushing the pocket," Kelly said. "Just do my job and don't try to do more than what he asks me to do."
Collins adjusting
Jamie Collins, the Patriots' first draft pick this year, has been thrown right into the mix at linebacker through the first days of training camp, seeing reps with the top unit.
One thing quickly has become clear to the Southern Mississippi product.
"It's a faster pace. It's way faster than college," Collins said. "It's just something you've got to get the routine of and get going."
Defensive captain Mayo said earlier in the week that Collins "has been doing all the right things" since arriving in Foxborough as the 52d overall pick — and Collins said Mayo is one of the players he's been relying on.
Collins welcomes the playing time, wherever it comes.
"I came here for a reason, that's to play, so that's what I'm going to do," he said. "It's complicated, but if you get your head in the playbook, it's not too hard. I've got a couple veterans I look up to, guys I look at and follow, like Mayo, [Dont'a] Hightower, [Brandon] Spikes, those guys."
The 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Collins entered college as a safety, but moved to linebacker and defensive end.
Spotlight waning
The intense media spotlight that was trained on the Patriots beginning Wednesday when Belichick addressed the Aaron Hernandez situation began to dim Saturday, as many of the national reporters had moved on to different stories and teams.
Belichick was asked if less attention can help his team focus on football.
"We can't do anything about how big the crowd is here or anything else," he said. "Our job is to go out there and prepare and practice and get better individually, get better as a team. That's what we're going to concentrate on. All the rest of it is out of our control.
"That's not anything we can worry about. We can just do what we can do and that's get better and improve, learn from our mistakes, move on, take on new material, try to take that out to the field and execute it at a good level. That's not going to change regardless.
"That will be our same goal every day."
With the rainy weather finally out of the area, Saturday's practice was crisper than Friday's.
Boyce excited
One of the six rookie receivers in camp is Josh Boyce, a fourth-round draft pick from TCU who missed spring drills because of a broken toe. Healthy now, Boyce has turned some heads the first two days with his speed.
Boyce said he doesn't feel like he's at a disadvantage because of the missed time, but he wants to maximize the opportunities when he gets the chance in practice.
"I learned the playbook the same as they did, I just didn't get the reps in the spring, so it's my turn to get the reps now," Boyce said. "It's exciting, I'm just excited to be part of the team."
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VIERA, Fla. (AP) - Chien-Ming Wang took a tumble in his pursuit of a starting job with the Washington Nationals.
Wang, the favorite to become the Nationals' fifth starter, left in the third inning of Washington's 8-5 loss to the New York Yankees on Thursday with a strained left hamstring.
Fielding Russell Martin's grounder near first base, Wang stumbled then fell. As he was falling over first base, his leg went up in the air and was brushed by Martin as he ran through the base.
``I fell on my left shoulder. I'm fine,' Martin said of the play. ``I asked him if he was OK and he shook his head.'
Nationals manager Davey Johnson said Wang would undergo more tests to determine the severity of the injury. Johnson was told by team trainers it appeared Wang was hurt as he bent down to pick up the ball.
Washington first baseman Chad Tracy said Wang had a choice of either trying to field the ball or letting it go by and hoping Tracy could toss it to him at first in time.
``That's probably one of the tougher plays that there is,' Tracy said. ``It's tough to judge off the bat. We're taught in spring training if the pitcher can get that ball, then get it and keep going. He did the right thing, just something happened to throw him off balance.'
Wang had been off to a strong start, allowing two hits and striking out four through 2 2-3 innings. It was his first start against New York, where he spent five seasons and twice won 19 games for the Yankees before being slowed by a foot injury in 2008. In 2009, he had shoulder surgery and has spent the better part of three years trying to regain his form.
``Anytime you see one of your teammates have an injury, you feel bad for him, especially (Wang),' Tracy said. ``He's been battling for a few years to get back. He's a great guy. Hopefully, he's all right. Hopefully, he doesn't miss a lot of time.'
Michael Pineda, meanwhile, gave up two runs and four hits in 3 2-3 innings for New York. He retired the first seven batters. Catcher Jhonatan Solano had an RBI double in the third and designated hitter Adam LaRoche added a run-scoring double in the fourth.
Pineda threw 65 pitches, 41 for strikes.
He was particularly excited about the development of his changeup, a pitch the Yankees have said he needed to compliment his fastball and slider.
The right-hander, acquired in a trade that sent top prospect Jesus Montero to Seattle, should be the Yankees No. 3 or 4 starter this season. But nothing is a lock. He came into camp overweight and the overpowering fastball that helped make him an All-Star as a rookie last year has yet to reach the mid-90s, which is what he was throwing last year with the Mariners.
``Last year, I didn't throw a lot of changeups,' he said. ``This year, I focus a little more on my changeup, make it a good pitch all the time. I'm not worried (about) my fastball. I don't know how my fastball is right now, but it feels good.'
Yankees shortstop Ramiro Pena sustained a sprained right ankle while trying to steal second in the fourth inning.
Third baseman Bill Hall had two hits and two RBIs for the Yankees, who scored six runs - four earned - off John Lannan, who is also a candidate for the Nationals' fifth starter spot.
First baseman Jose Gil also had two RBIs for New York. Tracy and shortstop Steve Lombardozzi each had two hits for Washington.
NOTES: Nationals left fielder Michael Morse didn't take part in any team activities Thursday as he recovers from a strained lat muscle. Johnson said one again that he's not concerned about Morse's injury . LaRoche was Washington's designated hitter Thursday, while Chad Tracy played first base. Johnson joked that the idea came from LaRoche's son. ``Drake said he needed to DH, and not play (in the field),' Johnson said. When asked, ``Are you taking orders from a 9-year-old?' Johnson cracked, ``Yeah, and so does his dad.' Johnson said he wanted to get LaRoche some at_bats and wanted to see more of Tracy, who is competing for the team's final bench spot. . Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos is scheduled to be the designated hitter Friday in Tampa against the Yankees. Ramos has missed the past two games with a heel injury sustained Tuesday night against Detroit . The Nationals trimmed their spring training roster to 41 following Thursday's game by optioning right-handed pitcher Yunesky Maya to Triple-A Syracuse and outfielder Eury Perez to Double-A Harrisburg. The team also assigned right-handed pitchers Jeff Fulchino and Waldis Joaquin to minor league camp . Yankees right-hander Freddy Garcia will likely miss his next start after getting hit on his right hand during Wednesday's game against Toronto. ``The swelling went down, but there's still swelling in there,' Girardi said. ``(His next start) would be Tuesday, but I still don't know if he'll make it. I guess we'll know a lot more in the next 48 hours.' . Girardi said he talked to Nick Swisher Wednesday night, after the outfielder had left Wednesday's game with tightness in his groin. Though he didn't know the severity of the injury, Girardi said the sense he got from Swisher was that if it had been the middle of the season, Swisher would be able to play . Reliever David Robertson, recovering from a bone bruise in his right foot, was scheduled to play catch in Tampa on Thursday . Yankees utility man Eduardo Nunez, who has been dealing with a bruised right han d, is not expected to pick up a bat until Saturday. Nunez was scratched from the lineup prior to Tuesday's game against Boston.


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The Carolina Hurricanes certainly looked rusty in their season debut over the weekend. They hope for an improved effort on Tuesday evening in a home matchup with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
After raising expectations this offseason by acquiring Jordan Staal from Pittsburgh in a trade and signing winger Alexander Semin, the Hurricanes opened the season on Saturday in Florida, where they were routed 5-1 by the Panthers.
Patrick Dwyer had the lone goal, while Staal and Semin combined to post three shots. Staal was credited with eight hits, while Semin took a pair of two- minute minors.
Carolina trailed 4-0 at the end of the first period and went 0-for-6 on the power play.
"That's a tough one, after the first, to come back to," said 'Canes coach Kirk Muller. "We've got to look at the positives to build on. When we played our game and stuck to the system and played it correctly, we put the momentum in our favor. There's still things we can work on to get better."
Cam Ward will certainly hope to improve after failing to make it past the first period. He faced 12 shots and yielded four goals, three of them while shorthanded.
Dan Ellis stopped 12-of-13 shots faced in two periods of relief.
"You've got to be ready for anything. There's been a lot of time off and there's going to be some rust," Ellis admitted. "It's going to take a little time to fine-tune things."
Ward is expected to start this game.
Carolina will look to rebound during a stretch of playing four of five at home. That includes Thursday against Buffalo to begin a home-and-home series.
The Lightning will open a five-game homestand on Friday after wrapping up the second of back-to-back road games on Tuesday. Tampa Bay won its home opener on Saturday, but dropped a 4-3 decision to the New York Islanders on Monday.
The Bolts yielded three goals in the second and another early in the third before netting three straight tallies of their own to close the gap. Martin St. Louis, Benoit Pouliot and Steven Stamkos all scored in the frame, but Tampa could not complete the rally.
"We know we can come back," said Stamkos. "There's a lot of cases of almost and what-ifs. We need to look at the positives in the third (period) and find a way to play that consistently throughout the game."
St. Louis and Stamkos also had assists and Anders Lindback had 40 saves in the game, which was the 1,000th in the career of Lightning captain Vincent Lecavalier. He became the 29th active player to reach that milestone and just the fifth No. 1 overall pick with the team that originally drafted them.
Stamkos' goal was his first of the season after he led the NHL with 60 in 2011-12. He had five goals and three assists versus the Hurricanes last season, including a hat trick in a home victory on Dec. 31, 2011.
The clubs split six meetings last season and Tampa Bay has won five of its last seven at Carolina.


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GOULBURN Local Area Command Superintendent Gary Worboys and Mayor Geoff Kettle are inviting everyone in Goulburn Mulwaree to celebrate 150 Years of the NSW Police Force this Friday.
A march featuring representatives from the Command, the NSW Police Academy and specialist police units will take place on Auburn St from 10am, starting at Clinton Street and finishing in Market Street.
A Key to the City will then be presented to the police in Belmore Park, and interactive police and emergency service displays will be available in Montague St and Belmore Park until approximately 12 noon.
"Police officers not only work to combat crime, but are committed to working with, and for, the local community," Supt Worboys said.
"It is wonderful that our community will come together to celebrate 150 Years of the NSW Police Force. The Force is particularly strong in Goulburn, being the home base of a command stretching from the Southern Highlands to Yass, plus home of the NSW Police Academy.
"Many of our officers have trained in Goulburn and continued to serve this community, demonstrating their commitment not only to the Force, but to this city."
150 Years of the NSW Police Force recognises that after the Police Regulation Act was passed by the colonial parliament, all existing police forces amalgamated to establish the NSW Police Force on March 1, 1862.
"Thanks to the efforts of our Local Area Command, particularly Supt Worboys and Inspector John Sheehan, a range of specialist units will be on hand to march and offer demonstrations on Friday," Mayor Geoff Kettle said.
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"From the first Police through to the officers led by Supt Worboys today, they are fundamental to our City, our past and our future."


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Investigators from the State Fire Marshal's Office and Palatine Rural Fire Protection District Wednesday morning began sifting through the remains of a charred mansion in Inverness.
It may be a couple of days before officials determine what caused the three-alarm blaze that took roughly 100 firefighters from at least two dozen suburban departments more than two hours to extinguish Tuesday afternoon, a fire official said.
Two firefighters had been hospitalized, the second level of the home was nearly gone and officials said the house had sustained at least $1 million in damages.
The homeowner, Per Caesius, and his 16-year-old son both escaped uninjured, but he said they lost basically everything. A second son, 18, was not home at the time.
Palatine Rural Fire Protection District firefighters responded to the fire on Carnoustie Lane, south of the intersection of Palatine and Ela roads, shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, said Capt. Jeff Dill. When the fire was elevated to a three-alarm response, at least 25 departments responded.
Caesius said he was home from work and downstairs when he heard his son screaming that there was a fire.
"I ran upstairs and it looked like it was a small fire on the roof or outside," Caesius said, describing the flames he saw coming out of the extra room over the home's garage.
"It didn't look so bad from there," he said.
He ran outside to get a better look, and that's when he saw that the entire roof was on fire.
"It just escalated so quickly," he said.
He got his son out but wasn't able to get back inside to save any photos or personal belongings.
"Anything that's not gone is wet," Caesius said. "All the photos and memorabilia from when the kids were little is gone. I don't care about the house. I'll rebuild the house. But I can't get those things back."
Because of the high temperatures and flames, two Palatine Rural firefighters were taken to Northwest Community Hospital with heat exhaustion, Dill said. They were released later that night. Even after officials called the fire out, firefighters were still spraying water on the smoldering remains of the home as of 8 p.m.
The street does not have fire hydrants, so water had to be pumped into the area, something that Caesius said seemed to take a long time.
There are only nine homes on the block and nearly all the neighbors were outside Tuesday afternoon talking with the homeowner, bringing water to the emergency responders and trying to help.
At one point officials were concerned about the home next door because of flying embers, Dill said. A small fire broke out on the roof of that home, but it was quickly extinguished.
Many of the area fire departments also fought a large house fire in Barrington last week.
"It's been a rough stretch over this last week with the heat," Dill said.
Departments assisting with equipment or personnel included Elgin, Barrington, Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Des Plaines, East Dundee, Elk Grove Village, Elk Grove Township, Mount Prospect, Palatine, Prospect Heights, Rolling Meadows and Algonquin-Lake in the Hills.
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The Birds and the Bee
Its been a REALLY long time since my last post on this blog. Life kinda got in the way. I also haven't had much time to go out and take pictures anymore so thats another reason for the non-posting. Anyways, I found a spare afternoon one day and decided to be like Elmer Fudd and hunt in my backyard. I was trying to hunt for those rabbits that keep visiting and digging in our backyard but I didn't see them so I opted for birds and bees instead. I propped up a chair in the middle of the backyard and sat there waiting for whatever came in shooting distance. I quite enjoyed the experience of mindlessly shooting everything in sight, although it did leave me with WAAAY too many photos of bird silhouettes flying in the sky…. lol. I managed to find lots of birds but only one bee, hence the title of this post.
"The Bee – This was kinda a lucky shot and everything I wanted to be in focus was in focus. That bee flies REALLY fast!"
"Beautiful Sunset that day"


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Heres mine
1-Write This Down- George Strait
2-Hey Jude- Beatles
3-Cowboys Like Us- George Strait
4-Young- Kenny Chesney
5-Hard Days Night- Beatles
Heres mine
1-Write This Down- George Strait
2-Hey Jude- Beatles
3-Cowboys Like Us- George Strait
4-Young- Kenny Chesney
5-Hard Days Night- Beatles
Lets hear them? You want me to sing 'em? You don't want that!
I've been to dinner at Jimmy Buffet's house, and I've eaten it at a homeless shelter. And there's great joy and harrowing terror to be found in both places.
-Todd Snider
1. "Summertime," Doc Watson (Gershwin)
2. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," Beatles (Harrison)
3. "House of the Rising Son," The Animals (traditional)
4. "His Eye Is Watching Me," Mahalia Jackson
5. "Country Bumpkin," Hal Smith
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."
-- Christy Matthewson
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot."
-- Leo Durocher
There is no way I can whittle it down to just five. I couldn't even get it down to 10.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
London Calling - The Clash
Some Other Time - X
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast
Idiot Prayer - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard - Tom Waits
"It's easier to give up. I'm not a very vocal player. I lead by example. I take the attitude that I've got to go out and do it. Because of who I am, I've got to give everything I've got to come back."
-Ken Griffey Jr.
at the moment
Believe - Savtage
Dante's Inferno - Iced Earth
My Last Words - Megadeth
Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage
Chaos and Order - Darkane
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it changes almost all of the time, however, right now i guess it would be:
Space Is Deep: Hawkwind
Washing Machine: Sonic Youth
Here Comes The Sun: The Beatles
Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who
Sweet Child In Time: Deep Purple.
yeah. very subject to change anytime.
Why dont anyone like the Beatlesn here?!!!
Originally Posted by GAC
Name your top 100!!! haha
I'm the resident Beatlemaniac on here. A majority of my songs would be by them. I'm an old fart, and a vast majority of my tastes are from that decadent decade of the 60's.Originally Posted by #14toHALL
Besides the Beates, other great songs IMO are....
My Generation - Who
Satisfaction - Stones
House Of the Rising Sun - Animals
Mr Tambourine Man/ Turn Turn Turn - Byrds
For Your Love - Yardbirds
Love Her Madly - Doors
Mrs Robinson - Simon and Garfunkel
Wouldn't It be Nice - Beach Boys
You Really Got Me / Superman - Kinks
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes / Ohio - CSNY
Woman From Tokyo / Strange Kind Of Woman - Deep Purple
Gypsy / Easy Livin' - Uriah Heep
I'm Your Captain - Grand Funk
Just to name a few.
I'm currently listening to Deep Purple's 25th anniversary edition of Machine Head.
And I'm also a big Led Zep fan. Jimmy Page IMO could not be matched.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Fascination Street - The Cure
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Because the Night - covered by 10,000 Maniacs
Slide - Dido
Vertigo - U2
"There was like a softness to it, a glow to it. I felt... I felt warm."
-- Joseph Daniel Votto 7/10/2017
All time? No. Impossible. Brain hurts. But, I'll update my "right now favorites" ..
01. "Counting Down The Hours" - Ted Leo / Pharmacists
02. "Pink Bullets" - The Shins
03. "Strung Out Again" - Elliott Smith
04. "King's Crossing" - Elliott Smith
05. "Timorous Me" - Ted Leo / Pharmacists
06. "Saint Simon" - The Shins
07. "Fair" - Remy Zero
08. "Thirteen" - Elliott Smith
09. "Starring at the Sun" - TV on the Radio
10. "Delicate" - Damien Rice
HA! Broke both of the rules.
Hide your power alleys; Hide your wife
5. Sweet Sister Mercy - Lynch Mob
4. Alone Again - Dokken
3. I Don't Believe In Love - Queensryche
2. Eyes Of A Stranger - Queensryche
1. Monkey Business - Skid Row
Sparks - The Who
Everything's Not Lost - Coldplay
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Strange Condition - Pete Yorn
Zoo Station/One - U2 (I'm a big Achtung fan)
"It is much easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
With or Without You - U2
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
True Dreams of Wichita - Soul Coughing
Roll (Electric Kissing Parties) - Ultimate Fakebook
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
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Out on a Monday night! How strange, how unexpected, how FUN! The kids are away visiting their NH cousins so my husband and I have some flexibility this week. We jumped into our week free of parental duties by a enjoying a summer night downtown. Our first stop on a nice summer evening is the Saratoga City Tavern. Known for it's 5 floors of diverse musical entertainment - the fifth floor is the place to be in the summer. The roof top bar over looks the city and is the perfect place to enjoy a beverage as the sun sets.
Our next stop? The Wine Bar. We are truly fortunate to have this establishment in our town. The quality, service and impeccable food rivals any 4 star NYC restaurant. Having spent a fair time in NYC and our love of travel has allowed us to eat in many fine restaurants. The Wine Bar's food and wine list delivers the taste and experience you would expect to get in a major metropolitan city. We sat outside, drank some very good wine {I had a glass of white Italian - my husband a White Burgundy}, I had the scallops {delicious} and my husband had the tenderloin {highly recommend} and enjoyed an evening with the man I love in the city I love!
Happy Birthday, Peter!
The Staycation Continues....
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In early 2008, things have gotten crazy in the world of Nine Inch Nails as its leader Trent Reznor in March of 2008 released a double instrumental album entitled Ghosts I-IV on the Internet. With prices ranging from $5 to $300 depending audio formats as well as deluxe versions of the album, the release was an immediate success with over 780,000 transactions made with $1.6 million in revenue. With fans salivating over the dark, ambient industrial album, Reznor's newfound freedom away from major labels have prove to be fruitful as a revolution is emerging where major acts are leaving major labels to release their own music directly to the fans on the Internet. Yet, just as fans seem to get comfortable in Reznor's new album, they were in for another shock as when in mid-April around the time Ghosts I-IV was released on retail. A message occurred in the band's website with the words "two weeks".
The last time those words were uttered was in late February of 2008 and what came out was the release of Ghosts I-IV as when those words appeared again, fans wondered if Reznor is releasing more new material. In early April 2008, pictures emerged of Trent Reznor plus longtime collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder along with members of the NIN live band appeared. Rumors appeared that Reznor is releasing a new record and immediately since those messages occurred, a song was released to radio while another came out through a Facebook application. The big news on May 5, 2008 aka Cinco de Mayo at 12AM Pacific Time was unveiled. A new NIN album entitled The Slip has emerged and it's for free from the band's website at various audio formats.
Written by Trent Reznor, The Slip is an album that features a wide mix of seven songs and three instrumental tracks that stretches a wide variety of the musical style Reznor has done whether its rockers, pop-inspired tunes, art-rock, and instrumentals. The album also returns Reznor to his introspective lyrical territory filled with angst after leering away from that for Year Zero and Ghosts I-IV while also reaching outside of his niche. Produced by Reznor, Alan Moulder, and Atticus Ross, the album also includes performances from members of Reznor's current live band including drummer Josh Freese, keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Alessandro Cortini, and returning the line-up from the days of The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, guitarist Robin Finck. While not as consistent as classic albums like Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, and Year Zero. The Slip is still a strong, powerful album from Trent Reznor and NIN that has something for everyone and most of all, the NIN fans.
The album opener is a one-minute, twenty-five second instrumental intro entitled 999,999 that features a wind-like background that shimmers as warbling bass appears along with a swirling yet hypnotic synthesizer line. The momentum of the track builds up with the bass becoming louder and more squealing as it segues into the first song 1,000,000. Armed with a hard-hitting drum track by Josh Freese and fuzz-rocking guitar tracks by Robin Finck, the song is NIN at their most aggressive as Reznor bites into his smooth croon yet growling vocal style as he gets into confrontational mode. With Alessandro Cortini belting out squealing electronics, the whole song goes into rocking mode with Finck and Reznor's guitar and Reznor's fearful yet numbing lyrics.
Letting You is a faster yet pulsating track with fast-charging beats and shimmering guitars with bass-fuzz electronics courtesy of Cortini. Then Reznor goes into his growling yet distorted lyrics that is reminiscent in the style of fellow industrial compatriots Ministry. With a catchy chorus of "We are letting you get away", the song explores Reznor's political leanings as he delves into the failure of the world around him. With Finck's accompanying guitar, it's truly one of the most sinister tracks on the album. The first single is the wonderfully catchy Discipline with its thumping back beat, smooth bass groove, and snarling fuzz guitar, it's definitely one of Reznor's best singles. The song features great yet catchy lyrics the explores Reznor's fragility and desperation yet with its sexy back beat by Josh Freese, it's a song that has a lot of bite but also something that makes it okay to dance to.
Echoplex is a smooth yet complex song that harkens back to the artiness of Reznor with its sputtering drum machine and a warbling guitar track from Robin Finck as Reznor explores claustrophobia in this song with eerie description and a moody background by Cortini's keyboards. The track is definitely another example of Reznor's genius in setting a mood and lyrical imagery that is accessible yet abstract at the same time. Head Down opens with a smooth yet rollicking drum track by Freese and snarling guitar fuzzes by Robin Finck as Reznor growls through the song as he explores his theme of fear as it features a hypnotic yet shimmering chorus. With Finck and Reznor's guitars still maintaining its snarl, it's definitely a great song that shows Reznor's complexity in his songwriting where he can be dangerous but also sincere.
The piano-ballad Lights In The Sky is a smooth yet haunting piano ballad that has Reznor singing softly with deep piano notes as he delves into death with a somber yet elegant tone. While the song is a break from more rocking tracks, it emphasizes Reznor's knack for melody and being stripped down both musically and lyrically where all he needed is a piano and vocals. Corona Radiata is an eerie, seven-and-a-half minute instrumental that opens with eerie, shimmering background of bass-like synthesizer winds, ambient tones, and melodic keyboard chimes. The track emphasizes the melancholia of its previous track only to add something haunting and mystical. With soft beats coming in the background after about four minutes, a dissonant, washy guitar emerges in the fifth minute with more fuzzy and swirling synthesizers and guitars.
The Four Of Us Are Dying is another instrumental track clocking in at four-and-a-half minutes that opens with sputtering beats from a drum machine as well as hi-hat taps by Josh Freese. A bass appears from Reznor as he plays a wobbly bass line in layer of electronic backgrounds by Reznor and Alessandro Cortini start to accompany the beats and Robin Finck's melodic guitar plucking. The smooth instrumental intensifies a bit with more layering of backgrounds including a siren-like guitar track by Finck. Freese's beats gets a bit louder and Finck's guitar becomes more wailing as does the intensity of the electronics. The album closer is the rollicking Demon Seed led by Freese's hard-hitting, warbling beating drums and fuzzy bass electronics by Cortini as it leads into a smooth yet thumping track. With Finck's dissonant guitar, Reznor begins to sing silently as he sings lyrics of fragility as if he's aware he's about to fall apart. The track intensifies with Cortini playing a soft piano melody in the background as Finck's washy guitar gets more intense as does Reznor's vocals. With its shimmering electronic background and metal-like guitar wails, and Reznor's swirling vocals as he sings the final verse through distortions.
While the album has all the hallmarks of what makes a NIN album unique. What it lacks in comparison to previous albums, notably The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, Year Zero, and more recently, Ghosts I-IV is consistency. Largely because the first half of The Slip with the exception of its opening track is mostly songs at either an upbeat tempo or mid-tempo. Then once it reaches Light In The Sky and the two instrumental tracks that followed, it becomes a different record of sorts. It's flaw is that it's a bit uneven. While some might accuse of Reznor being derivative musically or lyrically, repetitive. Those accusations were definitely true by the time With Teeth came out in 2005 where fans admittedly complained about the album's lack of innovation and edginess.
In The Slip, Reznor brings a new maturity to his usual lyrical theme of fragility while also taking a brief detour to the lyrical tone of Year Zero with the song Letting You. The album's title might seem to refer to Reznor, who had been sober for nearly five years, admittedly expressing his fear of slipping from his sobriety. Whether it's in the first or third person, the complexity and imagery Reznor sings about is definitely relevant to today's world of celebrity drug abuse and such. Musically, Reznor still has a knack for creating unique melodies and hooks while also delving into art-rock mode. While it may not be innovative, the album is definitely a huge step-up from With Teeth where things tend to sound familiar. In The Slip, Reznor sticks with what works while taking a few risks where the result is an album that has something for everyone.
Production wise, Reznor along with Alan Moulder and Atticus Ross is superb as the layering of guitars, synthesizers, and other instruments definitely work. Especially from the contributions of Josh Freese, Alessandro Cortini, and Robin Finck that adds a band-like sound to the album. Usually, it's Reznor by himself and sometimes, input from other musicians with the exception of the last album Ghosts I-IV. With Moulder and Ross providing a production that isn't too polished but not too raw, the quality of the album itself is worth noting for bringing surprises on when a song might stop or a song fading. The album is also the shortest among its full-length release at forty-three minutes and forty-five seconds where at 10 tracks, it does leave the listening wanting for more.
The contributions of Freese, Cortini, and Finck definitely add some excitement to the songs where Freese is noted session musician while Cortini is becoming a key collaborator in the same way that former members Chris Vrenna, Danny Lohner, and Charlie Clouser were in creating songs as he was given several songwriting credits in Ghosts I-IV. Then there's Robin Finck, a live guitarist from The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, who had been working for Guns N' Roses for some time returns to the NIN fold. This time around, the guitar contributions he brings are definitely true to the NIN sound as he's given more room to play what he feels like. It's another example of Reznor's newfound openness to have musicians play around him that makes The Slip a real highlight.
If the album itself is a great example of Reznor's growth as an artist. It's nothing compared to the way Reznor is promoting the album. Whereas he released Ghosts I-IV on the Internet through the band's official website with a price range of $0 for the first volume and $5 minimum for the whole album in a variety of digital formats and up to $300 for 2500 limited edition copies of an ultra-deluxe version. For the release of The Slip, Reznor essentially gave away the album for free. In his words, Reznor said "thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years-this one's on me". Under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, Reznor is allowing fans to download the album for free and to share it with other fans and also remixing it for free with multitrack files released through the band's remix subsite.
For its release, the album is released in various digital formats that included the album's artwork with lyrics and artwork also in the song files: high-quality MP3s, encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged in 87 mb; FLAC lossless audio at 259 mb; Apple lossless audio in 263 mb; and the high definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24 bit 96 kHz audio. A physical version of the album is set for release sometime in July through the Null Corporation.
While The Slip isn't the best album by Nine Inch Nails, it's still an exciting release from Trent Reznor and company that once again proves his staying power. While the album is no doubt something NIN fans will enjoy, those outside of the NIN circle will enjoy its sense of variety as it ventures into esoteric art rock as well as catchy rockers. With many artists slaving away in trying to create the right product for the public and for their label executives. Trent Reznor has proven that freedom can guarantee satisfaction both artistically and commercially without the use of a major label and other corporate promotional tools. In the end, The Slip is an insatiable album from Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails.
NIN Reviews:
Halo 2-Pretty Hate Machine (1989):
Halo 5-Broken (1992):
Halo 8-The Downward Spiral (1994):
Halo 14-The Fragile (1999):
Halo 17-And All That Could Have Been/Still (2002):
Halo 19-With Teeth (2005):
Halo 24-Year Zero (2007):
Halo 26-Ghosts I-IV (2008):


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Most tourists in New York City head straight to the Empire State Building to get their sky-high view of the city. We did the same thing. We waited over 90 minutes in line, paid $16 and finally got out into the open air 86 stories above the street.
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Remembering Warwick Downs
To the Editor:
Your story about Warwick Downs was extremely interesting to me.
My newly widowed mother and I moved there in 1930. Our address was 3 Scandia Avenue. (That cottage is still occupied.) My aunt and uncle, Annie and Joe Lizotte, owned and operated a grocery store on Naushon Ave. (We shared a backyard.)
Uncle Joe and my maternal grandfather made some improvements to our new home, enlarging the "parlor," installing a flush toilet and digging a small cellar.
The land was owned by the Swedish Working Men's Association. A Mr. Phil Krantz went from door to door to collect the rent.
I lived there until, at age 20, I reported for active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Rosetta (Furey) Desrosiers
I had Swedish relatives that lived across the street off Narragansett Pkwy in the 1950's. Probably why they built a home in that vicinity.


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The third item I picked up from the IMATS weekend is this pretty trio which consists of a bronzer, blush and highlighter:
The shades are all slightly shimmering – quite a good multi use product since you have a blush/bronze/highlighter all in one.
The powder is very soft – you have to be careful not to rub it too much because it comes off quite easily.
Here is the blusher and highlighter on (and the eyeshadow and HD Foundation):
The Eve Pearl foundation, blusher and eyeshadow together and my gormless expression:
I am so impressed with the whole Eve Pearl Pearl range – its glorious, really. Can't wait to try out more items!
Ever tried the range? Want to?


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Dick Dowsett's book, God, That's Not Fair, had been sitting on my shelf, unread, for a number of years and in the wake of the storm in the Christian blogosphere over what Rob Bell wrote in his new book, Love Wins, it seemed like a good point to start reading it. Originally published in 1982, the copy I have is a new edition from 2006 with a new preface by Dowsett. The book makes a case for the necessity of hell argued from scripture and from what we know about the character of God. He also deals with mission, other faiths, suffering etc – anything that we might be tempted to say "God, that's not fair". It is a pretty good and accessible read about why the gospel is as it is, and why it is good news.
Regarding hell, he makes the point that although it may not seem nice to us, it is fair by God's true and just standards. God is sovereign, sin is worse than we think, but Jesus is better that we think. He frames the book as an imaginary correspondence, question and answer style, between a young Christian away at university, and his home pastor. Dowsett doesn't attempt to discuss the nature of hell, but makes the point that although we may not like the idea of it, hell is real and Biblical and is consistent with God's character. What it is like for those there, he doesn't attempt to discuss. In fact his new preface leaves open the possibility of annihilationism:
When I wrote the first edition, I read passages about lostness, perishing, and the destruction of the ungodly through a grid which assumed all people were immortal. I have had to think again. Is the punishment of Hell unending torment? Or is the punishment relative in length and intensity to the wickedness of the sinner? For the moment I would say that neither position fits comfortably with every scripture.
But that isn't his point. Dowsett comes from the biblical conviction and that those who do not respond to Jesus in this life are lost and separate from God and which leads, for him, to a missionary zeal for those lost. There is no post-death second chance that we're told about in scripture. Talking of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in which Jesus mentions the great chasm between them:
Such a comment from Jesus would be pointless unless he had wanted his listeners quite clearly to understand that there was no second chance after death. There is no concept of serving time in Hell before going to Heaven… Those who die in their sins are terribly, irreversibly, lost.
But God is a merciful and compassionate God as well as being a just God. He gives many opportunities to those who are lost to turn to him. In fact "God wants people to be saved". He passionately wants people to come to him.
So far there have been over 20 centuries in which the Lord has patiently waited in order to give folk the opportunities to become Christians.
Now, we have all heard preachers try to scare the living daylights out of their hearers by giving in-depth descriptions of the terrible tortures that await those who will get there. Time magazine have recently published a photo essay of pictorial depictions of hell throughout history. None of them are nice. To those who object with the doctrine because of the type of evangelism it might promote, he says:
You may object to the very idea of frightening people into the Kingdom the Kingdom, and it is true that fear may not be the best of motives for coming to Christ. But then, whoever has come to Christ with anything but sinful and mixed up motives? Fear is a perfectly valid incentive to respond to Christ. People are in danger. People are lost. They are Hell-bound.
So his response is although it is not ideal to use fear (certainly not the way I want to preach), his response is: if it works, use it. This is not too far away from what Paul was saying about motives for preaching Christ:
Phil 1:18 The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.
Dowsett's emphasis is not how the gospel is preached, it is that the gospel is preached. Dowsett comes at the topic making clear the Sovereignty, love and Justice of God and the seriousness of sin. Our reaction to this, Dowsett argues, is to pray and to share the gospel. Since hell is a very real separation from God as a result of sin, there should be an urgency amongst all Christians to help others respond to God's love and mercy through Jesus. Have we missed opportunities to pray for and chat (naturally) about Jesus to our friends? Then we should repent of the missed chances and pray to be more open to God leading us into those conversations.
Dowsett's theology is a traditional, reformed and, I would argue, correct interpretation of God's character and work through Jesus. There is one earthly life for each of us on this broken world which has been damaged and corrupted by the ravages of sin and which often results in injustice pain and suffering for many. However, there is also one enormously loving God who wants us to understand the extent of Christ's love for us and realise the extent of who he has made us to be. He invites Christians into sharing this urgent message good news with those around us, before it is too late. Love does indeed win. And everyone has the opportunity to accept or reject it.
I would recommend this book for new (or old) Christians who are struggling with the whole concept of how a just and loving God might not save everybody.


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