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Hands-On Cooking Classes and Guided City Tours in Abruzzo Region
Along Italy's central eastern coast lies the Abruzzo region of Italy, known for its artisanal cheeses and full-bodied wines. On this seven-day, six-night trip from Epitourean, you'll stay in the quaint town of Carunchio, nestled in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains near the Adriatic Sea. Each night, you'll turn in at the Palazzo Tour d'Eau, a 19th-century mansion turned hotel perched on the town's highest hilltop. Your days will be filled with gourmet meals, hands-on cooking classes, and sightseeing excursions throughout the Italian countryside.
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Culinary-Tour Highlights
Cooking classes: During a pasta-making class, you'll learn to craft your own gnocchi, cavatelli, and chitarra. Later on, the Palazzo's sommelier will conduct a lesson on the art of pairing food and wine. Chefs will also demonstrate preparations for classic Italian sauces, and during a dessert-making class, you'll enjoy sweet bites alongside regional liquors. Last but not least, you will also make authentic Abruzzo-style pizza and appetizers.
In the peasant food and biscotti class students learn old-world recipes. In addition to a vegetarian dish you'll create an almond biscotti.
Truffle hunting and salami-plant tour: The group will learn how salami is made on a tour of the plant. Truffle-sniffing dogs assist in a morning truffle hunt.
Excursion to Vasto: On a day trip to Vasto, an ancient settlement on the Adriatic coast, the tour swings through the historical center of Vasto, stops at Piazza Rossetti for shopping, visits a unique Trabocco fishing house, and is topped off with a "Taste of the Adriatic" seafood lunch.
Cheese-making tour: During an afternoon excursion to the inland town of Agnone, you'll observe the artisanal techniques used to make mozzarella, ricotta, and caciocavallo cheeses.
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Wind Symphony - George is an expert at making noise, so Mr. Zoobel asks for his help in creating a one-of-a-kind rooftop Wind Symphony. George and Zoobel listen closely to the different sounds of everyday objects, whether it's banging pots, clinking silverware, or flapping laundry, and find the perfect instruments for a wind-powered orchestra. But as the crowd gathers below, the promised wind isn't arriving and George has to think of a way to save the day. George and Allie's Automated Car Wash - Spish! Spish! Blub blub! George and Allie are so impressed by Sprint Quint's automatic car wash that they decide to build their own...for toy cars! Remembering each stage of the car wash by the sound it makes, George and Allie assemble picnic benches, slippers, car mats, paint rollers and other everyday objects into a one-of-a-kind automatic toy wash. But will it be as successful as the full-sized car wash?
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LEMONT – When he joined the Cub Scouts in first grade, Kevin Leahy set the goal to become an Eagle Scout.
"I have three older cousins who are all Eagle Scouts ,and it really made me want to achieve that," he said.
Leahy had two Eagle Scout projects fall through before he completed renovations to the conference room at Lemont United Methodist Church. That project took three revisions and a year-and-a-half of planning to complete.
The renovations, which were conducted April 5 to 14, included framing and dry walling the concrete block room, installing closets and shelves, staining and hanging the wainscoting and painting the walls.
In order to finance the project, Leahy approached a number of area stores for donations. He also did odd jobs such as yard work to earn the approximately $2,000 needed to complete the project.
Leahy came up with his first Eagle Scout project idea in seventh grade. He wanted to build benches and put out garbage cans for the nature area on the west side of Timberline Drive near the Community Center.
After that project fell through, he approached Lemont United Methodist Church, which initially wanted him to build an additional shed. He had started planning for the project when the church council changed its mind. He went back to the church, which came up with the conference room project.
"I learned more through the failed attempts of the project," he said. "Just rethinking it and trying to figure out how to make it work."
While completing his project, Leahy watched his older brother, Kevin, finish his own Eagle Scout project.
"I thought it was really cool," he said.


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His brother sat in the back of a wagon, his legs dangling, waving goodbye as the wagon got further and further away.
That is the last memory Bill Becker has of his family. He never saw them again.
Becker was 3 years old when his German family, living in Russia, were taken away by the Russians from their small Estonian town to Siberia, most likely to be killed in a concentration camp.
Becker escaped Russia to Austria with relatives and lived there for 10 years before making his way to the United States. Now, the 77-year-old Loveland resident has the opportunity to return to Salzburg for the first time since World War II with his wife and daughter because of a wish that has been granted by the "Wish of a Lifetime" Foundation (started by Lovelander and Olympian Jeremy Bloom in 2008).
Wish of a Lifetime
To find out more about Wish of a Lifetime and its other programs, visit seniorwish.org"
Becker didn't understand at the time that he would never see his family again.
"They (the Russians) left him behind because he was too young and sick. They thought he would die along the way. His maternal aunt took him over," said Becker's daughter, Kathy Gross, on Thursday. Becker's aunt had another son and didn't really want him. He slept in a barn with a dog.
Eventually, Becker was rescued from that aunt by another aunt — Helene — on his Russian father's side. She also took in a 2-year-old niece whose father had also been killed in the war. They became a new family.
The trio escaped to Salzburg, Austria on a wagon train and ended up in a displaced persons camp where they lived in sectioned-off barns for almost 10 years.
Becker remembers being constantly on the move at first because they were usually placed in undesirable locations, like by railroad tracks that would get bombed. His suitcase was always packed and ready to go."They would go back and see friends there that hadn't made it," his wife Cindy said. "It was all hard for him to understand."
After the war, American soldiers settled in Salzburg.
"They threw candy, which was fine; cookies, which were fine; but what do you do with gum?" Becker said. "We started chewing the gum. Pretty soon people have it in their hair and their parents say, 'Throw that away.'" The children had never seen gum before.
Becker always passed the American Army base on the way to school and a Russian man named John Dobrinin who worked in the mess tent started giving him leftover food to feed his family and neighbors. Dobrinin fell in love with Becker's adopted mom and their family was complete.
The family stayed in a small room of a horse barn in stalls that were first curtained off with blankets and ropes, and later with rugged walls.
In 1952, the group made their way to Wiggins, Colo. where they worked for a farmer who bought them a 1937 Chevy and enrolled Becker in 4-H Club and the Future Farmers of America program.
After a year and a half, when work on the farmer's property dried up, the group moved to Johnstown and the men found work clearing ditches of debris.
They eventually discovered at least four European families who had settled in Chicago, who were all from the same displaced persons camp in Salzburg. The family moved to Chicago, Ill. in 1956, which is where Becker met and married his wife, Cindy.
His friend, Art, knew Cindy and Becker wanted an introduction. She often rode by his house on her bicycle
"To catch a worm, you got to put a hook on the line," Becker said, so he threw thumbtacks in the road so Cindy would get a flat tire on her way by.
"That story didn't come out until much later," Cindy said ruefully. Becker and his wife finally settled back in Colorado, first in Berthoud and then in Loveland.
"When my Oma and Opa were still alive, I remember talking at an early age about going back (to Austria) to see everything," Gross said, referring to the German names for her grandparents, John and Helene Dobrinin. "Actually, Opa was still afraid to go back because he was afraid of the Russians, after everything that had happened."
They were all set to return to Austria in 1977 but her grandfather suffered a heart attack and died suddenly.
"(Going back) never happened," she said. "We kicked it around but different things have come up. And we're not getting any younger."
About eight months ago, Gross suddenly felt an urgency to come up with a plan to take her father back to Salzburg.
She found Wish of a Lifetime and sent in an application with her father's story.
"This is a story that spoke to all of us," said Jillaina Wachendorf, CEO with Wish of a Lifetime. "We're really excited to be able to fulfill Bill's wish."
Every wish is brought before a board, which evaluates basic criteria. Wish receivers must be U.S. or Canadian residents, 65 years or older and unable to grant the wish to themselves.
"Being orphaned at such a young age and having to fend for himself through Europe... We thought he was very deserving," Wachendorf said.
The foundation grants about 200 wishes a year, for around $5,000 each or less.
"We were all nervous. I was afraid because if it didn't happen now, then what?" Gross said. "And then all of a sudden, it happened!" The foundation granted Bill and Cindy Becker roundtrip airfare to Austria.
Gross and her parents are leaving April 16 to fulfill the wish of a lifetime and will stay in Salzburg for two weeks. Becker is most excited for Easter, when he'll take his family to a hill where his parents always took him. His mother used to distract the children while his father hid eggs there.
"Stories like Bill's are inspiring to every generation. Our purpose is to shift the way our society views and values aging, we believe that by sharing the inspiring stories of our elder citizens, we change the way people view them," Wachendorf said. "In our society we're so youth-obsessed. They become someone invisible as they age; they become forgotten."
Jeremy Bloom became passionate about the cause because of the influence of his grandparents and the fact that he saw that elderly people are revered in other cultures.
Contact Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Jessica Benes at 970-669-5050 ext. 530 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter: twitter.com/jessicabenes.


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School's back in session
In Charlotte County alone, 88 school buses set out every morning to get children to their classes. As school begins today in Charlotte, Sarasota and DeSoto counties, officials would like to remind residents to respect all traffic laws related to stopped school buses and active school zones.
Thousands of students from Charlotte, Sarasota and DeSoto counties are heading back to school today, and authorities are reminding drivers to remain vigilant and watch their speeds.
"It can sometimes take a few weeks for drivers to get used to the routine of having school zone lights flashing again at certain times of the day," Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell said in a press release. "So we want to remind everyone to remember to slow down and watch out for children, particularly at bus stops and crossing zones. If necessary, leave a little early so you don't feel rushed."


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WINDER – James "Jim" Elmo Mauldin Jr., 75, passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2013.
He was the son of the late James Elmo Mauldin Sr. and Lennie Lee DeLoach Lindsey Mauldin. He was preceded in death by a half-brother, Charles Kelly Lindsey. During his life, he worked as a teletype operator for United Press International, owned and operated a Western Auto store for 12 years, and retired from the Bank of Covington as a purchasing officer.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Eleanor Daniel Mauldin; two daughters, Melody Lynn (Michael) Covington, Athens, and Crystal Elaine (Lynn) Holman, Statesboro; four grandchildren, Catherine Anne (Nathaniel) Barrett, Sharon Elizabeth Covington, Stephanie Mae (Don) Joyner, and Danielle Leigh (Patrick) Lane; and three great-grandchildren, Kaylin Joyner, Britt Joyner, and Mary Catherine Barrett.
Memorial services will be held Friday, January 25, at 2 p.m., in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Irby Stanley officiating. The family will receive friends from 12 to 2 p.m. on the day of the service.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Agape Hospice.
Smith Funeral Home, Winder, is in charge of arrangements.
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The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund: Second Act
Conceived by legendary Washington art dealer Franz Bader and his wife, Virginia, The Bader Fund extends the benefits of their lifetime devotion to art onto others. Since the first exhibition of it's kind ten years ago, the Bader Fund continues to be guided by simple and generous governing principles; providing grants to DC area artists, at least 40 years of age, and with a compelling story. This second exhibition provides one more public look at the extraordinary range and quality of work by artists who have received grants from the Bader Fund in its first thirteen years of existence.
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- American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
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Story by Bethel Sports Information
WINONA LAKE, Ind. - The No. 21 Bethel (Ind.) men's basketball team traveled to Winona Lake on Thursday night to renew their rivalry with the No. 12 Grace College (Ind.) Lancers and collected an impressive 98-88 victory in the NAIA Game of the Week. The win, Bethel's eleventh in a row, improves its season mark to 16-3 and 7-0 in Crossroads League play. The win also snapped Grace's twelve-game home winning streak.
In the game's opening minutes, the Lancers jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead before Bethel could dent the scoreboard. Grace would eventually increase their advantage to ten points (28-18) with just over 11:00 left in the period. But a huge 16-1 Pilot run, pushed Bethel in front by the score of 34-29. After trading baskets, the Lancers would succeed in re-capturing the lead 43-40 just before intermission. However, Bethel would tally the final six points of the half to take a 46-43 lead into the break.
The Pilots came out on fire to begin the second half as they used a 13-1 run, capped off by a four point play from Zach Miller, to assume a 59-44 lead. A bucket from Bethel'sDrew Schauss gave the Pilots their largest lead of the night at 72-55 with 10:00 remaining. Grace was then able to trim the margin to 74-63 before another 6-0 run from the Pilots restored the advantage back to seventeen (80-63). Grace managed to drain five late three-point baskets, but it wasn't near enough as the Pilots cruised to the victory.
The Pilots enjoyed great scoring balance, led by Jordan Bowerman with 24 points on 10 for 15 shooting from the field. Bowerman also hauled down a team-high 8 rebounds.Ryan Benner poured in 20 points on 8 for 11 shooting from the field. Benner also collected seven boards and handed out five assists. Matt Schauss contributed 16 points and seven rebounds while Michael Mislan continued his fine play off the bench with 13 points and six boards. Zach Miller finished with 12 points and six rebounds, and Drew Schauss chipped in with ten points on the night. As a team, Bethel shot a scorching 58.6% from the field and won the rebounding battle by a 39-32 count.
After the game, Bethel head coach, Mike Lightfoot commented: "It was a great atmosphere in a crazy NAIA rivalry. I was proud of our effort tonight on the road. We had great team balance tonight with many guys rising to the occassion. We get no rest however, as another Top 10 team comes along on Saturday in IWU."
Bethel will now return home to host the No. 6 Indiana Wesleyan University Wildcats on Saturday in the Wiekamp Athletic Center. Tip-off is set for 3:00 p.m. EST.
Pilots Stay Perfect in Crossroads League
Bethel takes down No. 12 Grace in Game of the Week
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Striking 'Faces of Addiction' Found in the Streets of the Bronx
Every weekend, Chris Arnade leaves Brooklyn Heights and heads to Hunts Point in the Bronx, searching for subjects of his ongoing Faces of Addiction photo essay. "I post people's stories as they tell them to me," he writes. "I am not a journalist. I don't try to verify, just listen." They talk. These New Yorkers are living in shelters, abandoned buildings, crack houses, and vacant lots are suffering through addiction and recovery, together. Many of them are victims of abusive households, former runaways who grew up on the street, forced into the most dangerous sort of sex work, assaulted, raped and stabbed. They are blunt about their lives; they are grateful for what they do have. The essay is both heartbreaking and hopeful. There's a tentative intimacy to them, a reserved dignity. Flip through some of these portraits and see the full set to read their stories.
"It's easy to ignore others," Chris Arnade says of life in New York City. "By not looking, by not talking to them, we often fall into constructing our own narrative that affirms our limited world view. What I am hoping to do, by allowing my subjects to share their dreams and burdens with the viewer and by photographing them with respect, is to show that everyone, regardless of their station in life, is as valid as anyone else."
After Arnade captures their portraits and stories, he returns to visit with a large print for each. At his upcoming Portraits and Pigeons show at the Urban Folk Art Gallery in Brooklyn, he will be selling prints, with all proceeds going to Hunts Point Alliance for Children. You can keep up to date with the project by following him on Twitter at @Chris_Arnade.
Photo credit: Chris Arnade, Faces of Addiction. Cynthia, single mother of eleven, working the streets since thirteen. Read her story.


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2009 Softball
Lindsey Miller named Female Athlete of the Month
Lindsey Miller again claims HCAC Female Athlete of the Month honors
May 5, 2009
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton's Lindsey Miller (Wapakoneta) has been named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Athlete of the Month for the second consecutive month. The senior second baseman led the Beavers to a 14-4 record in April as well as a third consecutive berth in the four-team conference tournament.
She was a phenomenal 31-of-57 at the plate for a .544 batting average. Miller scored nine runs, had three doubles and two home runs while driving in 23 RBI. She finished the month with a .702 slugging percentage and a .587 on-base percentage.
For the season, Miller led the HCAC in batting average (.458), RBI (46), on-base percentage (.507), and hits (60).


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@NFL_ATL: Karlos Dansby has only taken 3 free-agent visits, but he says he also has interest from Jets, Texans, Falcons http://t.co/LtEEoHOLqs
Free agent ILB Karlos Dansby says he's received interest from the Jets, Texans and Falcons.
- per rotoworld. source nfl.com
I wouldn't mind the signing, we need some depth.
@NFL_ATL: Karlos Dansby has only taken 3 free-agent visits, but he says he also has interest from Jets, Texans, Falcons http://t.co/LtEEoHOLqs
Dansby would be an interesting pickup. I'm not necessarily sold that he would be a depth player.
Harris and Davis both kind of have the same skill set. Hard to figure out which one would play the Bart Scott role of taking out a lead blocker.
Dansby has the speed and size to play that role better than Scott did.
You have to wonder if the real competition is between Harris and Davis.
Give me
Le- Sheldon Richardson
NT- Kendrick Elliss
RE- Mo Wilkerson
LOLB- Karlos Dansby
LILB- Demario Davis
RILB- David Harris
ROLB- Quinton Coples
And he is just not fit to take on the contact of a TILB. He does have a low center of gravity, but he can't sustain activity against a lead blocker or guard with any consistency.
bump Davis to OLB, Dansby ILB.
I'd almost rather see Davis fill the role that Eric Smith did. He's a tweener at the second level.
AZ signs Dansby
Karlos Dansby played his first six seasons in Arizona, excelling enough to be the team's franchise player for two straight years before leaving for Miami to earn one of the largest contracts ever given to an inside linebacker.
After three years in Miami, Dansby is headed "home." The team announced that Dansby agreed to terms on a one-year contract. Dansby will help take snaps while Daryl Washington is suspended to start the year, and could wind up starting next to Washington eventually.
Arizona has quietly enjoyed a nice offseason, and Dansby fits right in. He's no longer at the peak of his career, but he's adds quality veteran leadership and intelligence to a talented defense. The New York Jets and Buffalo Bills previously showed interest.


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Angels return home Friday to begin 10-game home stand against New York, Seattle and Pittsburgh
The Angels return home for a 10-game home stand beginning with a three-game series against the New York Yankees tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m. The sixth home stand of the season includes a four-game series against the Seattle Mariners (Monday, June 17 – Thursday, June 20) and concludes Sunday, June 23 after a three-game set against the Pittsburgh Pirates (Friday, June 21 – Sunday, June 23). Below is a look at the promotions, giveaways and notable festivities/ceremonies taking place at Angel Stadium during the home stand.
The Angels return home for a 10-game home stand beginning with a three-game series against the New York Yankees tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m. The sixth home stand of the season includes a four-game series against the Seattle Mariners (Monday, June 17 – Thursday, June 20) and concludes Sunday, June 23 after a three-game set against the Pittsburgh Pirates (Friday, June 21 – Sunday, June 23). Below is a look at the promotions, giveaways and notable festivities/ceremonies taking place at Angel Stadium during the home stand.
- On June 14 and June 21, the Angels will hold the sixth and seventh Big Bang Fridays of the season at Angel Stadium presented by Wells Fargo. At the conclusion of the games, fans will enjoy a spectacular fireworks display.
- Live Music in the Garden sessions will also continue this home stand from 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. prior to games with Bristol to Memory performing on June 14 and ProgKnowSys taking the stage on June 21.
- Father's Day, June 16 and Sunday, June 23 are Family Sundays at Angel Stadium, presented by Denny's. Dads and their families are invited to take part in the Father's Day and Family Sunday festivities at Angel Stadium. The Family Sunday area at Angel Stadium is located beneath the Right Field Pavilion and features fun activities for the entire family. As part of Denny's Family Sundays, children ages 5-12 are welcome down to the field after the game to run the bases presented by Pizza Hut.
- On Saturday, June 22, the Angels are kicking off their 2013 Summer Concert Series presented by Budweiser with Big & Rich taking the stage at Angel Stadium. At the conclusion of the game, fans are invited to stay and enjoy one of country music's most entertaining vocal duos. Since bursting onto the country music scene in 2003, the duo has produced successful studio albums and popular hits, including the triple platinum album "Horse of a Different Color" and the Top 40 track "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)". For more information, visit angels.com/concerts.
GIVEAWAYS (While Supplies Last)
- Saturday, June 15: Angels Drawstring Backpack presented by Nitto Tire.
- Sunday, June 16: Salute to Mariano Rivera Commemorative Certificate.
- Tuesday, June 18: Mike Trout Fish Hats presented by FreeCreditScore.com.
- Thursday, June 20: C.J. Wilson Bobblehead Night, courtesy of Chevron Extra Mile.
- Friday, June 21: Peter Bourjos/Mike Trout Poster
- The Angels will hold a pregame ceremony on June 15 honoring Yankees closer and all-time career saves leader, Mariano Rivera. Rivera, 43, announced he will be retiring at season's end after a career that has spanned three decades and included five World Series titles and 12 All-Star selections.
- Major League Baseball, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer are teaming up for the 17th annual Prostate Cancer Foundation "Home Run Challenge" to raise funds for research and increase awareness of prostate cancer. During the "Home Run Challenge", fans can make a monetary pledge for each home run hit during all scheduled MLB games from Tuesday, June 11 through Father's Day, June 16.
- On Father's Day, MLB players, coaches, umpires and on-field personnel will wear blue wristbands and blue ribbon uniform decals.
- On Monday, June 17, the Angels are holding a pregame ceremony honoring Women in Baseball as a part of Women in Baseball Night. 2013 marks the 70th anniversary of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), which made its debut in 1943 and lasted until 1954. During the league's 11-year span, over 600 women participated in the AAGPBL. Katie Horstman, who played in the AAGPBL from 1951-1954 and has a permanent display at the Women in Baseball exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Also being honored in the pre-game festivities are former AAGPBL players Maybelle Blair, Shirley Berkovich, Mary Moore and Marge "Pancho" Villa and "League of Their Own" actresses Patti Pelton, Megan Cavanagh, Ann Cusack, Anne Ramsay, Lori Petty, Tracy Reiner and Bitty Schram.
- Major League Baseball and 'PEOPLE' magazine have teamed up to honor the nation's veterans and military service members as part of the "Tribute for Heroes" campaign. MLB and 'PEOPLE' magazine have announced 90 finalists, three per MLB club, with one winner from each of the 30 MLB Clubs to be included in All-Star Week festivities leading up to the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field on July 16 on FOX. On June 18, the Angels are holding a pre-game ceremony recognizing the team's three finalists: Kevin Burciaga of Upland, Calif., Cory Kamerschak of Lancaster, Calif. and Ryan Canada of Groton, Conn. Fans are encouraged to visit TributeForHeroes.com to view the full list of finalists and to vote on their favorite stories through June 30.
- Friday, June 21 is Law Enforcement Night at Angel Stadium. Prior to the game, the Angels will observe a moment of silence in honor of Riverside Police Officer Michael Crain and San Bernadino County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremiah MacKay, who lost their lives in the Christopher Dorner case. As part of Law Enforcement Night, the Angels are also holding a 'Top Cop' ceremony, recognizing San Bernadino County Sheriff's Deputy Alex Collins and Riverside Police Officer Andrew Tachias for their bravery and service during the largest manhunt in Southern California history.
- The yearbook edition of Angel Magazine, the official game publication of Angels Baseball, features a cover photo of Angels reliever Ernesto Frieri and is now available for purchase at merchandise stands throughout Angel Stadium.
- Features in the latest issue include: Southern California's impact on fostering baseball talent, Q&A with General Manager Jerry Dipoto, Angels in the Community, Broadcasters Roundtable with Angels Broadcasters, Q&A with Angels Senior Vice President of Finance & Administration, Molly Jolly and Erick Aybar on his World Baseball Classic experience.


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The Shelby County Schools system would continue to educate school age children in the unincorporated areas of Shelby County and operate the 14 schools in those areas as well as one in Lucy and the three schools in Germantown bearing that city's name under a proposal presented Tuesday, Oct. 22, to the countywide school board by schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson.
The proposal that the school board could vote on as early as next week would reverse the long-held plan by suburban leaders to include students and schools in the unincorporated county as well as the Memphis annexation reserve area in the separate school systems they are forming.
Hopson said the plan would not preclude those students from attending schools in the new suburban school districts. But he also said legally it appears the school system cannot reach interlocal agreements with the suburban school boards because those students and their parents don't have representation on those school boards which are about to be elected.
"If municipalities do not agree to take these kids in perpetuity, at some point they will return to the county school board and then we have a planning issue, regardless of who takes the kids on the front end," Hopson told the board which led into his recommendation to keep operating four schools within the city limits of Germantown and Millington. "We determined that if the board maintained the four schools … that we have capacity such that we would not have to ask the county commission to build more schools."
The plan would move students in unincorporated Shelby County now attending schools that would become part of the suburban school districts into different schools, all of which Hopson added have the capacity to handle more students.
He also told the board that the plan minimized disruption to students and parents.
"This would have quite a bit of impact," said school board member David Reaves. "Is there a more disruptive scenario?"
Hopson said there would be disruption for some students regardless of whether they attend the suburban school districts or remain in the Shelby County Schools system. He also said a large percentage of the students, particularly those in the three Germantown schools, are in the Memphis annexation reserve area.
Reaves said he is in favor of the general plan.
"Basically it came down to four schools," he said of the four schools in Germantown and Lucy. "We have no county capacity in the southeast and the only way to do that would be to build new facilities. And we don't believe that the county commission is going to be amenable to doing that."
Shelby County government is the sole local funder of Shelby County Schools. The school board does not have taxing authority to raise revenue on its own.
Without the four schools that seem to be at issue in the plan, Reaves said, "It puts us in a bit of a bind when it comes to open space. I understand the concern but we also have concerns in the southeast about where we are going to put our kids."
He also advocated selling the school buildings in the suburban towns and cities, apart from those four, to the new school systems for a token amount.
"I'm 100 percent for giving the leases for a dollar because some of these buildings are old and they have tons of deferred maintenance," he said. "So, the reality is we need to get rid of some of these buildings."
Germantown Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy said she was "deeply disappointed" in the plan.
"By their keeping those three schools south of Poplar, it's displacing, by our numbers, 1,300 out of 4,500 students," she said. "Is that not disrupting students especially when you are transporting the great majority of them across Poplar?"
Arlington Mayor Mike Wissman indicated the proposal was the result of private discussions involving the Shelby County Commission and suburban leaders ostensibly around the federal lawsuit contesting the creation of the suburban school districts. But unlike past settlement talks, the last round that began in August also included the school system.
"It's something that we've worked on for a long time. Cooler heads prevailed. SCS has done the due diligence," he said. "I know there are some issues possibly with the building issue with Germantown and Millington. But I think it's a step in the right direction."
Just before Hopson unveiled the plan Tuesday evening, attorneys for the county commission filed a motion in Memphis Federal Court seeking a two-month extension from U.S. District Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays to continue talks to give the board time to consider the proposal. Mays had sought positions from all sides in the lawsuit on what was left for him to decide that they could not settle.
"Negotiations have not been completed because the school board requested that the Shelby County Schools' planning department prepare a comprehensive report on school capacity and enrollment in Shelby County as a whole so that the school board could determine how the creation of municipal school districts might impact the capacity and enrollment of Shelby County Schools," reads the filing by attorney Lori H. Patterson. "The movant presumes that after this report has been considered by the board, the settlement negotiations will resume and final agreements can be reached that may result in a dismissal of all pending claims."
Hopson outlined the decisions the school board needs to make as:
Does the board want to educate children in the unincorporated areas?
If so, does the board keep the schools in those areas and does it keep the four in Germantown and Millington?
And for the remainder of the school buildings within the six suburban towns and cities, does the school board lease them to the new school districts or does it negotiate to sell them outright?


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Latest update : 2010-02-16
The World This Week - from January 18 to 22 (part 2)
Haiti: Obama's reconstruction club that excludes France, Senegal's invitation; Obama: what a difference a year makes; China's great leap forward; Lessons for South Africa's World Cup; and was it a good idea to let Angola host a football tournament? Here are the topics François Picard will tackle with his guests:
Programme produced in partnership with The International Herald Tribune.
- Simon KUPER, Journalist, Financial Times
- Eleanor BEARDSLEY, National Public Radio
- Nicolas NORBROOK, Managing Editor for The Africa Report
- Alison SMALE, Executive Editor for the IHT


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So it's no surprise that the county's football fiends would have umpteen opinions about who's leaving "Joisey" with the Vince Lombardi Trophy on Feb. 2.
Will the Super Bowl winner come from the National Football Conference or American Football Conference? And which team will it be? Here's what Hudson residents had to say.
In the Peninsula City, it's those birds from Seattle or the Revolutionary War heroes.
"It's the Patriots," said John Carey, 62, a customer at John's Midtown Tavern, at 26th Street and Avenue E. "My sleeper is New England. I'm a Giants fan, but you get the feel for certain things. Their playoff experience over the last few years will make the difference."
Their opponent?
"It'll be Seattle, also, for the same reason: experience," said Carey, who lives on 33rdStreet. "The Seahawks for the last couple of years have been up there."
Brian Donohue agrees that Seattle will get to the Super Bowl, but he says they'll take the championship trophy.
"My twin brother is a lifelong Seahawks fan, so I'm rooting for them to win," said the restaurant manager and resident of 9th Street. "They've never won one, so it'd be good if they won this year."
Who will they face?
"Probably Denver, because of [Peyton] Manning," Donohue said. "He's having the greatest year a quarterback has had in the history of the NFL."
Donohue thinks the Broncos will face the Patriots in the AFC championship matchup, but he's rooting for the Manning-led squad to win.
"I can't stand [the Patriots'] Tom Brady, to be honest, and I can't see him winning another Super Bowl."
Like his fellow Bayonnites, Joe Sisk, bartender at Danny Boy's Pub on 11th Street and Broadway, thinks Seattle will make it to the NFL title game, and like Donohue, thinks their players will be spraying champagne at night's end on Feb. 2.
"I'm a Dallas fan, but I got to go with the Seahawks," he said. "I've always been a closet Seahawks fan; I don't know why. I've followed them since the Steve Largent days."
"They've never won it, so I'd like to see them win it," he said. "They made it this far, I'd like to see them make it all the way."
Jersey City
"I'm putting my money on the Broncos," said Jersey City resident Ali Huda, 26, a manager at Houlihan's in Weehawken. "I just have the most faith in them. I'm putting all my eggs in this basket."
But Jersey City resident Abel Semunegus, 30, a bartender at Hi Tech Billiards in Weehawken, isn't so sure they're the team to beat.
"I'm thinking the Patriots," he said. "In many situations they've been down a number of points and Tom Brady's brought them back. I think they can get out of a lot of situations, and Tom Brady can pull it off."
Semunegus feels that the New England quarterback's Super Bowl pedigree is not one to be messed with.
"He has a lot of experience. He's been there six times and won it three times," he said.
Devin Dam, 28, a project manager for a waste hauler, disagrees with both his Jersey City neighbors. He doesn't think it's going to be an AFC team at all.
"The Seahawks will win because they'll have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, and they haven't lost at home in two years."
North Bergen
Darwin Espinal, 24, says it won't be any NFC team that will take the title.
"I think it's going to come down to the Chargers and the Broncos," he said. "The way they are playing now—defense wise and offense wise—they're [the Broncos] are putting up the numbers that no one else is putting up."
Espinal believes that the Colorado team is the strongest right now, largely because of field general Peyton Manning, but that isn't the whole story.
"The quarterback has a lot to do with it," he said, "but the way the team is playing now, it's really in sync."
Three patrons of Danny's Midway on Paterson Plank Road were unified in who they think will win the biggest one-day prize in all of North America: the Seahawks.
"It's going to be Seattle because of their quality of play," said Rob Kane of Koelle Boulevard. "Their play's great. Their defense is great, and their offense is competitive."
"If you ask me who's going to win, I'd say Seattle because of the elements," said Rich Wilstermann, 54. He is a crossing guard and resident of Fisher Avenue. "But my Vikings aren't going to be there."
Eddie Stuart, 55, agrees with Kane.
"I think the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl," he said. "I think they're going to play Denver."
"They're the best defense in the NFL now," said the Paterson Plank Road resident. "You see what they did to the Giants, beating them 23 to 0. Now they have the home-field advantage."
On the AFC side, Stuart says it's all Broncos.
"I think Denver will get it, because I think they'll get home-field advantage," he said. "And with Peyton Manning, they'll be right there."
So why pick the Seahawks over the Broncs in the title game?
"It's the defense. I think Seattle has the better defense," said the retired Budweiser brewer. "Denver has the better offense with Manning, but Seattle has the better defense. It's going to be a close game."
In a word: Seahawks.
That's Michael Mitolo's opinion.
"They're strong on both sides of the ball, they have a great defense, and their young quarterback is mature beyond his years—he's really, really good," the graphic artist said. "And he has a great receiving corps and a great running back. They've got it all."
Who will get to the championship game and have the honor of losing to Seattle?
"I would have to say the Patriots, just because of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick," Mitolo said. "Their defense is not that good. But Belichick's just a genius that takes things and makes them work."
Luigi Tollis, 30, thinks either Belichick's squad or that team from the Northwest will be crowned champs on Feb. 2.
"It's probably a tossup between Seattle and New England," the attorney said. "But now [the Patriots] Rob Gronkowski's out injured, so probably it's not them now."
Jackie Chong thinks neither Mitolo's or Tollis's picks are correct.
"It's the Broncos for sure," said the stay-at-home mom, "because of Peyton and all of his little buddies. To me, he's the best quarterback."
Jose Toribio, 21, thinks it won't be any of the teams his fellow residents chose.
"It's the Saints," said the mechanic and store clerk. "I remember the last time they were going to the Super Bowl. They're a good team and they play good."
Toribio believes New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees is the key to winding up in the pigskin promised land.
"The way he plays, the times I've seen them—they win," he said.
Union City and West New York
For Greg Sibella, born and raised in New England, there's only one choice.
"I'm a Patriots fan. I'm from Connecticut and Rhode Island my whole life," said the Park Avenue Bar & Grill bartender. "It's mostly my heart, not my brain, picking them."
Tom Brophy, 64, agrees with his bartender about which AFC team will get to the title game.
"I'm thinking Seattle, and something just tells me that Denver's not going to make it," he said. "So I'll say Seattle and the Jets' arch foe—the Patriots."
And the retired teacher thinks they'll go all the way.
"I think it's the Patriots. They're a northeastern team, they'll be more used to the weather than Seattle," Brophy said.
"I think when it comes down to it, Tom Brady has more experience in Super Bowls," he said. "He's won some and he's lost some. And the Seattle quarterback [Russell Wilson] is young and inexperienced."
Forget about the guys' opinions was basically what Punita Hanspal, 39, said of Sibella's and Brophy's take on the big game.
"It's the Carolina Panthers. I'm a North Carolina girl," she said. "I have to pick them; they're my team. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
In West New York, it's the Orange Crush who will arise victorious, if you believe Erick Fernandez, 22, or Michael Brito, 17.
"It looks like nothing can stop Peyton Manning and the Broncos right now," said Fernandez, shift lead at Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. "It looks like they took care of everything in their way. Even if they have to play the Patriots, I'm sure the Broncos can still make it."
Brito, an A&P employee, agrees.
"It's obviously the Broncos because I think Peyton Manning is playing well every single game he plays."
"The players—all of them—have great ability," said the supermarket cashier. "They've been showing great offense and defense better than any other team."
Richard Acosta, 45, a laboratory technician, was philosophical about the big game.
"I'm a Giants fan, so I don't care who wins," he said.
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It finally became official Thursday: South Point Poker LLC became the first company licensed to offer intrastate online pokerin the United States. Once South Point launches, its poker room will be able to accept players from within the state of Nevada's boundaries, provided they are at least 21-years of age. The company expects to launch sometime in October.
Unlike other online poker license applicants, South Point has developed its own software client, rather than partnering with a developer
South Point actually has an online poker room up and running already, but it is completely different from the one that is coming. The current South Point Poker is a free-to-play room on the ZEN Entertainment Network. The rooms on the network are totally free – no monthly fee is required – and offer cash and prizes to winners of their tournaments.


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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Like me, you may have noticed an increasing number of "Now Hiring" type signs and banners popping up throughout the city, primarily in the retail sector.
My thought is they are a result of increased sales for these businesses because of the influx of oil field related people, and the fact that some employees are being lured away with higher wages and promises of overtime in the oil field sector. In any case these small businesses need more people, which can pose challenges for them to find the right people. Some local small businesses may have to rethink their methods of recruiting candidates for employment.
First of all take a look at your job postings. Of course there are legal aspects of a job posting you need to watch out for, but more importantly look at the wording. Does it accurately reflect the position and what a person needs to do to be successful? In my opinion there is no room for hype here, but an accurate and interesting description of the position, written in a way that meets all legal requirements.
Second, take a look at different groups of candidates for your positions. If you have not already, consider promoting your open positions to more mature-aged candidates and candidates of high school age. It has been my experience when I ran businesses both of these groups can yield excellent employees.
Keep in mind there are legalities you might face in hiring younger people, some depend on your industry and the jobs they might perform. In addition, you may wish to consider promoting job postings to the disabled. I recently encountered what I would call a very disabled person in a food service business. She performed her duties in an excellent way and with a very pleasant personality. I will have to admit she was an inspiration to me and to her coworkers just to watch her. It made my difficult day seem trivial compared to her challenges.
San Angelo has excellent organizations that can give small businesses assistance in finding the right employees, including from the groups mentioned above. The Concho Valley Workforce Solutions, under the umbrella of the Concho Valley Workforce Development Board, has employer service representatives who can help with this task. One way is getting your job posting on WorkInTexas.com, which is a free service. They can also put you in touch with agencies that help find jobs for the disabled. See Concho Valley Workforce Solutions at cvworkforce.org.
For college candidates, ASU Career Development Office has a website where employers can post their positions. It is viewed by ASU students of all ages who are looking for part time employment. Howard College has a similar service on their website.
In addition to these resources there are local human resource consultants and employment agencies that can assist with your hiring needs. Keep in mind a fee may be involved with these services.
The positive part of more people moving to the area because of oil field activity means increased sales for local small businesses. But with it comes the challenges of finding and retaining employees who are also being sought after by oil field related firms. Consider the above ideas and resources to help.
"Business Tips" was written by Dave Erickson, Director and Certified Business Adviser IV, of Angelo State University's Small Business Development Center. Contact him email@example.com.


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- New Head Coach Lovie Smith has moved quickly to construct the majority of Buccaneer his coaching staff
- Kevin O'Dea, who previously worked with Smith in Tampa from 1996-2001, will coordinate the special teams
- Former Buccaneer great Hardy Nickerson also returns to tutor the linebackers
With Jeff Tedford already in place as the offensive coordinator and Leslie Frazier officially announced as the defensive coordinator on Monday night, Smith turned his attention to the third phase of the game – special teams – and to fleshing out the remainder of the staff. On Wednesday, the Buccaneers announced the addition of 11 men to their 2014 coaching staff, including Kevin O'Dea as special teams coordinator and former Buccaneer great Hardy Nickerson as linebackers coach.
In addition, the Buccaneers have named Marcus Arroyo as quarterbacks coach; Joe Cullen as defensive line coach; Andrew Hayes-Stoker as wide receivers coach; Dave Kennedy as head strength and conditioning coach; Larry Marmie as senior defensive assistant; Mikal Smith as safeties coach; Tim Spencer as running backs coach; Ben Steele as quality control coach; and Matt Wiegand as assistant offensive line coach.
Smith's staff features coaches with a variety of backgrounds, from a former NFL head coach in Frazier to men such as Arroyo getting their first opportunity in the pros, much like Smith did on Tony Dungy's first staff in 1996. There are long-time NFL assistants like O'Dea, Marmie and Spencer; up-and-comers like Smith, the eldest of Lovie Smith's three sons and a Dallas Cowboys assistant in 2013; and, of course, the returning Pro Bowl Buccaneer player, Nickerson.
-- New Linebackers Coach Hardy Nickerson played four seasons with the Buccaneers under Lovie Smith
Arroyo joins the Buccaneers with 10 years of coaching experience, most recently having spent the 2013 season as the offensive coordinator/outside receivers coach at the University of Southern Mississippi. Prior to his time with the Golden Eagles, Arroyo worked two seasons under Tedford at Cal, first as quarterbacks coach in 2011 followed by a promotion to pass game coordinator in 2012.
Prior to joining Cal, Arroyo served for two seasons (2009-10) at Wyoming as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He began his college coaching career in 2003, serving as an undergraduate assistant coach at his alma mater, San Jose State, for one year. In 2004, he was the offensive coordinator at Prairie View A&M, followed by four seasons back at San Jose State. There he served as an offensive graduate assistant in 2005, quarterbacks coach in 2006 and co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach from 2007-08.
Arroyo played quarterback for the SJSU Spartans in 1998 and from 2000-02. He finished his career among the school's all-time leaders in passing yards (No. 9, 4,603), total offense yards (No. 9, 4,525) and passing efficiency (No. 10, 115.6).
Cullen spent the 2013 season as the defensive line coach for the Cleveland Browns, where his unit played a key role in leading the team to a top-10 total defensive ranking. His previous NFL experience includes stops as a defensive line coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2010-12) and Detroit Lions (2006-08); in Detroit, Cullen coached a Lions pass rush that finished in the top 10 in 2007 and 2008 in terms of sacks produced.
The former three-time all-conference nose guard at Massachusetts also spent over 16 years coaching on the collegiate level, with stops at Idaho State (2009), Illinois (2005), Indiana (2002-04), Memphis (2001), Louisiana State (1999), Richmond (1992-98; 2000) and Massachusetts (1990-91).
Hayes-Stoker worked under Smith in Chicago from 2006-12, first as the team's football operations and offensive assistant from 2006-09, overseeing football and business related duties, and then spending three seasons (2010-12) as an assistant wide receivers coach. In that latter position, he aided Bears receivers in all capacities while assisting the offensive coordinator with unit meetings and planning. He comes to Tampa Bay following a 2013 season spent tutoring running backs at Florida International University.
Before breaking into the coaching ranks in 2005 as a graduate assistant at Texas A&M, Hayes-Stoker served as a recruiter at his alma mater, Texas Christian University, from 2004-05. As a Horned Frog, Hayes-Stoker was a two-time captain and earned multiple selections to conference academic teams in addition to All-American scholar honors.
Kennedy joins the Buccaneers after six seasons with Texas A&M (2008-13). Before joining A&M, Kennedy spent four seasons with Nebraska (2004-07), the same school he got his start at in 1982 as a student assistant. He graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in strength coaching and worked as an assistant for the Cornhuskers from 1986-88.
Prior to the 1989 season, Kennedy was hired by Ohio State, working there until 2001. During his 13 seasons with the Buckeyes, he worked with many notable players, including 17 first-round NFL Draft selections. Before the 1993 Holiday Bowl, Kennedy received Ohio State's Admiral's Trophy, which is voted on by the players and given to the person whose dedication, hard work and spirit most inspired the team. Kennedy also spent two seasons at Pittsburgh (2002-03).
Marmie has more than four decades of coaching experience, including 13 seasons in the NFL ranks, spending three seasons with Seattle (2006-08), two seasons with St. Louis (2004-05) and eight seasons with Arizona (1996-03). Most recently, Marmie worked as the defensive backs coach for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League (2009-12).
Before joining the professional ranks, Marmie spent 28 seasons coaching at the collegiate level, beginning at Morehead State (1968-71), before moving on to Eastern Kentucky (1972-76), Tulsa (1977-78), North Carolina (1979-82), Tennessee (1983-84; 1992-94), Arizona State (1985-87, defensive coordinator; 1988-91, head coach) and UCLA (1995). Marmie played quarterback at Eastern Kentucky (1962-65).
Nickerson previously worked with Head Coach Lovie Smith in Chicago (2007) as the Bears linebackers coach, helping linebacker Lance Briggs make the Pro Bowl that season.
During his 16-year career, Nickerson played for the Steelers (1987-92), Buccaneers (1993-99), Jaguars (2000-01) and Packers (2002), and was named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade team. During Nickerson's seven seasons in Tampa Bay he was chosen as the NFLPA Linebacker of the Year and earned two AP first-team All-Pro honors.
Nickerson spent four seasons (1996-99) playing under Smith, who was the Buccaneers' linebackers coach from 1996-2000. Nickerson earned a trip to the Pro Bowl in all four of those seasons, averaging 137 tackles per year, while adding a total of eight forced fumbles, 5.5 sacks, five fumble recoveries and four interceptions. In 1997 Nickerson was also chosen as the recipient of the NFL's Byron "Whizzer" White Award, given annually to one NFL player who exhibits excellence both on the field and in the community. Nickerson was a three-time team MVP at the University of California (1983-86).
O'Dea enters his 20th NFL season, previously having coached with the San Diego Chargers (Defensive/Special Teams Assistant 1994-95), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Offensive/Defensive Assistant, 1996-2001), Detroit Lions (Special Teams Assistant 2002-03), Arizona Cardinals (Special Teams Coordinator 2004-05), Chicago Bears (Assistant Special Teams Coach 2006-07; 2011-12), New York Jets (Assistant Special Teams Coach 2008-09) and Kansas City Chiefs (Assistant Special Teams Coach 2013). O'Dea has also coached in the UFL (2010 Hartford Colonials Special Teams Coordinator) and in the collegiate ranks.
Prior to joining the NFL, O'Dea spent eight years as a collegiate coach. He began his coaching career at his alma mater of Lock Haven University, where, when his playing career was cut short, he coached wide receivers (1986). Following his time with Lock Haven, O'Dea spent one season coaching freshman defensive backs at Cornell (1987) before working as a graduate assistant at Virginia (1989-90) and Penn State (1991) before being promoted to assistant strength and conditioning/defensive line/linebackers coach (1992-93) for the Nittany Lions. A native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, O'Dea spent four years in the Coast Guard (1979-83) before enrolling in Lock Haven.
Smith joins the Buccaneers after spending one season as the nickelback coach for the Dallas Cowboys. Prior to his time in Dallas, Smith spent three seasons working for the Chicago Bears, first as defensive quality control (2010-11), before being promoted to defensive assistant/nickelback coach (2012).
Before joining the Bears, Smith was an assistant coach at Trinity International University (Deerfield, Ill.), for two seasons (2006-07), first as the defensive backs coach before adding the duties of special teams coordinator in 2007.
Spencer served as running backs coach for the Chicago Bears for nine seasons (2004-12), coaching under Smith during the latter's tenure in the NFC North. Spencer had great success tutoring Chicago's ballcarriers, with individual players recording 1,000-yard rushing seasons on five different occasions (Matt Forté – 2008, 2010, 2012; Thomas Jones – 2005-06). During that time, the Bears as a team surpassed the 2,000-yard rushing mark twice (2005, 2011), marking the only two times such a feat has been accomplished in Bears history, and fell less than 100 yards shy of that mark again in 2006.
Spencer began his coaching career at Ohio State, where he tutored running backs from 1994-2003. With the Buckeyes, Spencer coached Eddie George during George's Heisman Trophy-winning season in 1995. Spencer was also part of the team's national championship run in 2002.
A Buckeye running back himself, Spencer played for OSU from 1979-1982, leading the team in rushing during his final two seasons. He closed his career with 3,553 yards on the ground and served as a senior co-captain, earning team MVP honors. Spencer was the second-overall pick in the 1983 USFL draft, where he played one year each for Chicago (1983), Arizona (1984) and Memphis (1985), before moving to the NFL and playing for the San Diego Chargers (1985-90), where he was a four-year starter at fullback.
Steele will serve the Buccaneers as offensive quality control coach and joins the team following a season as tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator at University of California-Davis. Prior to his time with the Aggies, Steele spent two seasons (2011-12) at the University of California as an administrative assistant for Cal's offensive staff. He also worked two years with the University of Colorado as an operations and recruiting assistant (2009) and graduate assistant (2010), as well as spending a year at his alma mater, Mesa State, as an offensive assistant coach (2008).
Steele played professionally from 2001-07 with the San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers and Houston Texans. He joined the NFL following two seasons at Mesa State where he was an All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference honoree.
Wiegand joins the Buccaneers' coaching staff as assistant offensive line coach following the 2013 season at UC-Davis, where he served as offensive line coach. Prior to that, he spent two seasons (2011-12) at the University of California as a graduate assistant and assisting tight ends and two seasons (2009-10) at the University of Utah, where he was part of two bowl teams and assisted the offensive line.
Weigand played on the offensive line at the University of La Verne, where he was named to the All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team in 2006.


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This film about the industries that draw their wealth from the raw material supplied by Canada's forests shows how this wealth is being preserved by a long-term conservation program. Filmed in the rain forests of the British Columbia coast, it shows how giant conifers are felled, transported by water routes to sawmills, and cut into lumber or reduced to Canada's greatest single export, newsprint. Realization of the need for conservation has led to an extensive program of aerial stocktaking and a system of planned cutting and reforestation.
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Little, lemon-spiked blueberry pies with a flaky cream cheese crust. Forks entirely optional.
Hostess fruit pies never had it so good! These homemade hand pies put them to shame.
Dripping with a fresh and luscious blueberry filling wrapped in a flavorful cream cheese crust that melts in your mouth.
I'm a crust girl. I used to scrape the filling off the pie and only eat the crust. The picky child in me didn't like mushy fruit.
If you've ever eaten a pie and wished for more crust here's the answer!
These have a higher ratio of crust to filling than a regular pie. Especially the miniature round pies with a mere teaspoon of filling inside. They're crust heavy.
They need nothing more than a dusting of coarse sugar over top of the crackly crust. You won't find them overly sweet. The natural sweetness and flavor from the blueberries shine through.
These are the perfect, portable desserts to tuck along on a picnic, hike or for a day at the beach.
They can't melt and there's no need to lug along plates and forks. Wetnaps, maybe. Blueberry stained hands and mouths are bound to happen.
Such a pretty sight.
Little, lemon-spiked blueberry pies with a flaky cream cheese crust.
- To make the crust: Add the flour to a large mixing bowl or to the bowl of a food processor. Add the cream cheese, salt, and buttermilk powder if using. Use a pastry blender or a fork to cut the cream cheese into the flour until crumbly. If using a food processor pulse a few times until crumbly.
- Dice the cold butter up and work it into the flour with the pastry blender/fork until crumbles the size of dimes form or pulse in the food processor until crumbly.
- Sprinkle the dough with the cold water a tablespoon at a time and toss - squeeze the dough with your hands after each addition - if it holds together don't add more water. If it doesn't stick together keep adding the water a tablespoon at a time until the dough sticks together
- Divide the dough into 2 pieces, flatten each one into a disk, wrap with saran wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile make the blueberry filling: add the blueberries, sugar, lemon zest and juice to a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring often about 10 minutes. Mix in flour and butter and continue cooking until thickened about 5 minutes. If your blueberries don't thicken add another teaspoon of flour and cook 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and mix in vanilla extract. Allow to cool.
- While the blueberry filling is cooling line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. In a small bowl beat the egg with a tablespoon of water.
- On a floured surface roll out one of the disks to 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick (round in shape for round pies and rectangular or square for triangular pies). Cut an even number of circles out with a 2" biscuit cutter or cut 5x5 inch squares.
- For the round pies place about a teaspoon of filling (you'll be able to tell how much filling they can hold after making one; if it gushes out when trying to close it use a little less) in the center, brush the edges with egg wash, brush the top circle with egg wash, place over top and press around the edges with your fingers then crimp with a fork.
- For the pie triangles place about 2 tablespoons of the filling in the center; brush all edges with egg wash; fold over and press with your fingers then crimp.
- Brush the tops with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar. Poke a hole or two in the top of each one to allow steam to escape with a fork or the tip of a sharp knife Place on baking sheets an inch apart. Repeat. Refrigerate the pies for an hour.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Bake rounds about 18-20 minutes and triangles about 22 minutes or until golden brown all over. Cool on wire racks.
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Gwen Wunderlich-Smith had, as she put it, become a "negative Nancy."
Working long hours as a New York City-based publicist and the president of her own company, commuting and gaining a bit of weight had gotten her down. She was "snapping" at her husband and employees and was too exhausted to work out.
It's a familiar feeling this time of year: The holidays take their toll on our minds and bodies. At the same time, the new year offers the chance to start fresh.
A weight-loss vacation offers the opportunity to escape the stress of daily life and at the same time, come back a newer, thinner version of yourself. But these trips often cost thousands of dollars.
So are they worth the money?
Canyon Ranch, one of the nation's most respected wellness facilities with several locations, is looking toward a huge demand in early January.
"It's like a gym in that way," said Chrissy Wellington, the nutritionist for the Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Mass. "We see a surge of people wanting to come this time of year."
Canyon Ranch's "Jumpstart" program is offered four times a year. January's five-day program begins Jan. 12 and costs $2,970 per person. The price includes all meals, classes and a spa credit.
But guests also have access to nutritionists, exercise physiologists, behavioral therapists, acupuncturists and physicians. These experts, Wellington said, are crucial to understanding how to make long-term change.
Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, author of the book A Happy You: Your Ultimate Prescription for Happiness said that while weight-loss vacations aren't necessary, they can be great to get a new mindset. "Think of it as, 'I'm giving this to myself as a pre reward' as you jump-start a healthier you."
But it's sticking to the new, healthy habits that's the hardest part. "You didn't put it on in one day, and it isn't going to come off in a week," said Canyon Ranch's Wellington. "We're ultimately a teaching facility that encourages long-term lifestyle changes."
Weight-loss vacations are a particularly good option for people new to the world of workouts and fitness, Lombardo said. "There's not a lot of handholding at the gym and it can be intimidating at first. These trips are a safe place to give lots of different types of workouts a try while getting the specifics from an expert."
Wunderlich-Smith's September trip to The Ranch 4.0 in Malibu, Calif., resulted in a loss of 6.5 pounds and 10 inches over the four-day trip. That trip costs about $3,800, she said.
When Wunderlich-Smith came back, she was committed to her "new way of life." But then, as she put it, she started "messing up" a bit as daily life settled in. So she pulled out her recipes from her trip and has been making them with her husband. They're down 5 pounds since the new year.
Would she spend the money to go again? "Absolutely. I'm going back in March."


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I find it interesting and a little aggravating that people always imply it is the open source software that isn't interoperable, i.e. "Kivio and Dia can't do that." Visio and the
The problem goes away if the people you work with also use open standards. Even if they don't, usually all it takes is for someone to send you an exported image file instead of a
The article was talking about interoperating with
.vsd files.
Dia can import
Don't you mean Kivio? [koffice.org]?Linux has a Visio Clone: Kvivio.
I find Linux more capable on the Desktop than Microsoft. There are often times when MS's (using XP) internal burning software is inadequate - like burning images. I don't know if it's fixed yet, but for a long time XP just would not burn an image with its built in software and you had to use something like Nero. Never had a problem burning an image running any linux distro. Same with mounting
.iso right from the harddrive as a cd-rom. It usually required some pay-for software (Alcohol 120%) in Windows, while a 2 minute search yield a few command lines to do it in Ubuntu. I know I'd rather save the money.
A two minute search on Google yields CDBurnerXP [cdburnerxp.se] as a freeware CD burning tool and Daemon tools [daemon-tools.cc] as an image mounting tool for Windows.
It might not be free as in speech, but it sure is free as in beer.
it come to our attention that someone released a fake DT PRO version that is contaminated with trojans and viruses, among the fact it is only a DT Lite and not a PRO version!
DT Pro is the version that you have to pay for, thus getting it for free from some shady website should at least make you think twice, in the same way that you probably shouldn't download kernel sources from untrusted websites without checking the MD5/SHA checksum.
Frankly just googling and then downloading stuff that looks like it could help is bound to lead to a malware infested computer.
I haven't been infested with malware in the last decade, although this is only anecdotal evidence.
One of the very clear things that good Linux distros have over Windows is the use of a centralized software repository.
It is indeed convenient for installing various software packages --- which is sorely lacking in Windows --- although the usage of a centralized software repository does not guarantee that the binaries will be free of defects/malware either, since someone could poison the upstream source of software(which already happened in the past [slashdot.org]) and the maintainer would have no clue.
All of that functionality except the virus testing is available on freshmeat.net, which points you to home pages - which hopefully have links to official download sites.
Of course, download.com sounds a lot nicer than freshmeat.net. But whatever.
This is a 100% Linux laptop and still I need to rely on wine and Vmware to use the applications I really want/need.
Windows will be ready for the desktop when (1) I can change my hardware to suit my needs without needing a new key, (2) I can install all of the applications I use on a daily basis from a single dialog, and keep using the system without performance issues while they install, (3) I can install a working OS on my thumbdrive along with my documents, and carry it with me when I travel to use on any PC, (4) the user interface achieves some semblance of consistency and usability, and (5) plugging in a new hardware device doesn't require that I load a special CD first.
Linux is ready - when will Windows be ready?
I may be wrong, but I was taught that there is a division between an operating system and the applications that it runs. The OS is supposed to handle things like IO and memory, while the real functionality comes from userland applications (often third party) interacting with the OS. True, Microsoft gives you almost nothing out of the box, but in a way, so does Linux in some instances. (some distros give you the kernel, bash, compilers, the core utilities like cp, rm, etc, and some sort of package manager and let you fetch the rest yourself, while other distros come fully loaded.)MS seems to deliberately makes their OS do almost nothing useful beyond the basics it seems (or was it that Monopoly ruling that caused this?) It's now just 3rd party apps for most people.
I may be wrong, but I was taught that there is a division between an operating system and the applications that it runs. The OS is supposed to handle things like IO and memory, while the real functionality comes from userland applications (often third party) interacting with the OS.
A typical mainstream Linux distro is ready.
Years ago, when we said "operating system", we meant what today is called a "kernel". Of course, the OS came with enough utilities to organize and execute programs. And there were often extras thrown in.
Then software in general, and OS's in particular, became products that competed. This meant having lots of features became important to the vendors. "OS" came to mean as much, if not more, the stuff that goes around the kernel. When people ask "Is Linux ready
It is also possible to authenticate against an open ldap server (actually osx uses open ldap) and setup kerberos. The LDAP schema (i suck with ldap) has two fields that are used to push down policies. Apple uses an XML format to describe all the policies which can be used even without OS X server.
The reason I feel that OS X is not ready for big environments is that it's inflexible. You can only hack around so many "features". For instance, we had a hack that's worked for 10.4 to bind to a Novell eDir server on campus without using Novell's schema changes for Mac support. We do not control the Novell servers. However, this appears to be broken in Leopard (10.5).
For the most part, we've had good luck migrating from a windows and mac environment to Mac only. I work for the computer science department at a university. I did not make the decision to migrate as I would have chosen BSD or maybe Linux based on our needs.
Good point. The linux community needs to target startups. If the businesses start with linux, maybe they'll get tied to FOSS. This will create a demand for linux software, and we might see replacements for some of the aging windows software so many businesses use.
Upgrades are expensive, but less expensive than conversions to new software (and processes). There are also costs (and questions) regarding conversion of legacy data.
There is some of that, though I'd argue that it's ultimately more expensive long term to stay locked in at the process level. Data conversion, I assume you mean file format conversion. Access db's, linked spreadsheets, that kind of thing. Those can be tricky. Luckily the trend toward the browser as a software front end is making that les
I think if that was the only thing keeping me on MS's suckware, I would find a way around it.
The main reason businesses run Windows is the same exact reason most home owners run Windows, because it is the default OS. They never give it much consideration to begin with, it's just what comes in the box.
The fact that this monopoly has been allowed to continue all these years is outrageous, really. If 90% of people owned Fords, it would mean that either Fords are way better or that they have unfair competitive advantage.
The Microsoft monopoly in the OS market is the single greatest problem in technology today and the negative effects of the monopoly cascades in every direction.
Visio became popular, not based so much on its merits, which I'm sure it's a fine piece of software, but more because MS leverages the Windows monopoly to push software of every sort. People then used Visio and the closed, proprietary formats of Visio and now because they have so much work stored in these formats it is a deterrent to considering an alternative OS. The problem comes full circle.
So there's my anti-Microsoft rant for the day
But most people pay contractors to do it. And it costs a lot of money, and there's a lot of delays, troubles, etc. But eventually they feel happy and comfy.
Just as people use existing software because they are incapable or otherwise unwilling to write their own, people pay contractors to build their houses because contractors know how to build houses and can probably do so a lot cheaper and faster than you.
Of course, if a pipe breaks... when you built it yourself, you're the sole responsible for this.
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I've been having problems getting the 3D acceleration to work on my SuSE 9.0 Personal (using GeForce FX5900). I've done exactly as instructed in the NVidia web page - using YOU to download and install the NVidia graphics driver but the acceleration just won't get enabled. However, after reading the X factor-article on LXF 68 I guess I may have found the reason for that. If I have understood correctly each version of X server requires the correct version of the graphics driver for the 3D acceleration to work so it would seem I've been installing the wrong version each time. IIRC the version of the graphics driver is shown on YOU but how can I find out if it's compatible with my X server version ? Or have I got it all wrong ?
As for using such an old version, I did try installing a later version (first 9.1 Pro, then 9.2 from LXF coverdisc) but both of them had problems with X, giving some X server error, and KDE refused to start so I went back to 9.0 that works fine, although sans 3D acceleration.


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Dr Yvan Guichaoua visits from the University of East Anglia – "The Puzzle of Recruitment in Irregular Armed Groups
21 March, 2013
On 19 March 2013, the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) hosted a roundtable with visiting academic Dr Yvan Guichaoua from the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia for postgraduate students and members of the Centre and the Department of Government and International Relations.
Dr Guichaoua's roundtable included an intimate look at recruitment in irregular armed groups specifically in West Africa. He shared his thoughts on the motivations, recruitment and trajectories of those involved in irregular violence, discussing the reasons why people join, and why they remain, in irregular armed groups.
The talk and roundtable discussion was based on the findings of Dr Guichaoua's recently published book, Understanding Political Violence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
The event was both informative and thought-provoking, finishing with a vigorous Q&A after the presentation.
Dr Guichaoua completed a PhD in Development Economics at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in 2004 then joined the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) in Oxford as a research officer. In 2009-10, he held a teaching fellowship at Yale University, as a member of the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence (OCV). At CRISE and OCV, he worked on the drivers of youth enlistment in violent irregular armed groups. Dr Guichaoua has consulted with the French and Italian governments as well as NGOs such as Medecins San Frontieres, commentated extensively on the Sahel in the media, and he wrote the International Crisis Group's July 2012 report on Mali.
Dr Guichaoa's visit to Australia is sponsored by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
Professor James Der Derian, Dr Yvan Guichaoua and Jacob Berah (DFAT)


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Asian Lettuce Cups with Spicy Ground Turkey Filling
I vividly remember when I first had lettuce wraps, at a Chinese restaurant in Salt Lake where a friend named Mike was hip enough to order them even though they weren't on the menu. This was about 20 years ago; now lettuce wraps like these Asian Lettuce Cups (or wraps) with Spicy Ground Turkey Filling are somewhat mainstream, and made with lean ground turkey like this, they make a wonderfully low-carb and South South Beach Diet friendly dinner option.
This dish with spicy meat eaten inside pieces of lettuce can be called lettuce wraps or lettuce cups, but I like to pile up the lettuce cup with lots of filling rather than wrapping it, so I'm calling them lettuce cups.
Start with finely minced red onion (or shallots), garlic, and ginger, which are sauteed in oil before the meat is added.
Add the chopped cilantro to the cooked meat mixture and cook a few minutes more.
Asian Lettuce Cups with Spicy Ground Turkey Filling
(Makes 4-6 servings, recipe adapted from California Sol Food, a great cookbook I got as a gift from Alice Q. Foodie, who I met when I visited San Diego.)
1 T peanut oil or vegetable oil (or slightly more, depending on the pan you have)
3 T minced red onion or shallots
2 T minced garlic (I used minced garlic from a jar but fresh garlic would be even better)
2 T grated ginger root
1 1/2 lbs. ground turkey
4 T soy sauce (I used Tamari; use gluten-free soy sauce if needed. For Paleo use coconut aminos instead of soy sauce.)
1 T Chile Garlic Sauce (or slightly more if you like spicy foods; look for a version without sugar for Paleo)
1 tsp. fish sauce (probably optional, although I like fish sauce!)
1 cup chopped fresh cilantro (about 1/2 large bunch)
1/3 cup chopped peanuts (optional, especially for braces wearers!)
1 large head or 2 small heads Boston Lettuce or butter lettuce, or substitute 1 head iceberg lettuce
Add ground turkey to frying pan (with a bit more oil if needed) and break apart and spread out with turner, then add soy sauce, chili garlic sauce, and fish sauce. Cook until the turkey is brown and crumbling apart, and the sauce is slightly reduced, about 5 minutes.
While turkey cooks, wash and chop fresh cilantro to make 1 cup. Remove the core end from lettuce, separate leaves, and wash in salad spinner and spin dry (or wash under running water and dry with paper towels.) Chop peanuts and put in small bowl to serve at the table.
When turkey is done, add chopped cilantro and cook 1-2 minutes more. Serve filling and lettuce leaves in separate bowls, with chopped peanuts in another small bowl. Each person takes a lettuce leaf, fills with desired amount of turkey mixture, adds chopped peanuts, and then eats the mixture from the lettuce cup. I fold the lettuce cup over when I eat it, so it's kind of taco-shaped, but some people like to wrap the lettuce clear around the filling.
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Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
With lean ground turkey and other low-carb ingredients, this is a perfect dinner option for any phase of the South Beach Diet or other low-carb eating plans. If you use gluten-free soy sauce or coconut aminos instead of soy sauce this can easily be suitable for gluten-free or Paleo/Whole 30 eaters.
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Wendel's Bakery and Bistro, since it was first established in 1999 on Taipei's Zhongshan North Road (中山北路) Sec 6, has become something of an institution both for foreign and local residents of the city. It is one of only a handful of foreign run and owned restaurants with such deep roots in Taiwan, but as Michael Wendel is also keen to point out, these roots extend all the way back to Germany and the family bakery that opened in 1932. This unusual combination of close ties with the culinary tradition of his home, and his strong bonds with the local community will be celebrated in Essence and Heritage of Culinary Art, an activity organized by the Chinese Gourmet Association (中華美食交流協會) to be held on Friday.
Essence and Heritage of Culinary Art is a panel discussion and cooking demonstration that will feature five pairs of chefs, each of which represent a parent and child transition of culinary art across two generations. Michael Wendel, who will be joined by his father Walter Wendel as one of these five pairs, will celebrate a passing on and a relocation of his family's culinary tradition.
Carl Lin (林俊鴻), deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Gourmet Association told the Taipei Times in a telephone interview earlier this week that they had selected Wendel in part because of his international reputation and recognized presence in Taiwan, but also, quite simply "because it is such a great story."
"Through Michael's participation in this event, we also hope that other international chefs will realize that Taiwan is a great place to develop their career … Taiwan on the whole is very accepting of foreign traditions and culture, and if they can find the right course, Taiwan offers great potential."
The Taipei Times caught up with Michael Wendel at his new bistro located in the Neihu Science Park, a venture that represents a new departure and an expansion of his vision, introducing many new dishes, while at the same time cementing an authentic German culinary standard in Taiwan.
Master baker
"There are quite a few German restaurants in Taipei," Wendel said, "but this is the only one that is owned and run by a German from the food industry. Many of the other German restaurants are run by people not from the industry, but are opened by people who have come here with a trading company and fallen in love with this country, and have then opened a restaurant to stay here. In Taiwan there is no requirement to obtain certification to be a master in your field (for a chef), so many people like this can open a restaurant. Most of these restaurants are quite home style, and most have a Taiwanese touch to the food. Nobody dares to be as authentic as we are, because this is not easy."
Wendel recalls the early days of running his bakery in Tianmu, when customers would complain about his bread because it was not soft and sweet as the imitation western breads they were used to.
When Wendel opened his bakery, he said he faced considerable difficulty introducing authentic German bread to Taiwanese clientele. "It was especially with the German breads. There were some bakeries that were making this at that time. They called it German bread but this was totally nonsense. So we had to spend a lot of time educating our customers and we are still carrying on with this."
Wendel believes there is a burden on the chef to provide an authentic product. "Our bread is still made in a very traditional way. Some of the bread we make uses the recipe from my grandfather [also a master baker] … And it is not just educating the customers, but also the staff. They would think in the beginning that the bread was too hard, and would tell me the customers would complain: the bread was hard, was not sweet and had no stuffing inside. The first six years or so was very difficult, but now more and more customers appreciate what we do."


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A listing of candidates for the April 9 election that ran on page A9 of Saturday's Daily Chronicle contained incorrect information. Cortland mayoral candidate Chuck Lanning's name was misspelled. Robert P. Knudsen is running for Clinton Township assessor, while Melody Birdsell is running for Cortland Township assessor. There is no Pierce Township assessor position.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court — after a day of marathon arguments in the first death penalty case before the court in 50 years — now must decide if the state's only death row inmate becomes the first convicted killer executed in New Hampshire since 1939.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court — after a day of marathon arguments in the first death penalty case before the court in 50 years — now must decide if the state's only death row inmate becomes the first convicted killer executed in New Hampshire since 1939.
Michael Addison was sentenced to death for gunning down Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006, as Briggs was attempting to arrest him on armed robbery charges.
Addison's lawyers have raised numerous issues on appeal, including the trial judge's decision not to move the trial out of Manchester, where the courthouse is located roughly 100 yards from police headquarters.
Attorney David Rothstein argued Wednesday that holding the trial in Manchester injected passion and prejudice into the death verdict — fueled by prosecutors' arguments to jurors that Briggs died protecting the community from Addison, an outsider.
"The watershed event in this case was not moving the trial out of that courthouse," Rothstein argued.
But Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Woodcock argued that the killing of a police officer — though rare in New Hampshire — is not tantamount to an act of terrorism and mass murder.
"It's not that kind of heart-stopping event, even though it's a tragedy," Woodcock said.
Prosecutors argued that both sides worked hard to guarantee Addison a fair trial and that jurors certified their verdict was not influenced by arbitrary factors.
"This court is not sitting as the 13th juror," Woodcock argued. "Consider the strengths of the state's case as well as the weaknesses of the defense case."
Members of the Briggs and Addison families attended the daylong hearing but declined to comment.
Briggs, 35, was 15 minutes from the end of his shift when he and his partner — both on bicycle patrol — confronted Addison and another suspect Oct. 16, 2006. Jurors found that Addison shot Briggs in the head at close range to avoid arrest.
Addison was later convicted of going on a violent crime spree in the days leading up to Briggs' death, including two armed robberies and a drive-by shooting.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin said the justices have waded through thousands of pages of briefs and transcripts of a trial that spanned three months. He said he wouldn't be surprised if it takes a year or more for them to issue their ruling.
If the court vacates Addison's death sentence on constitutional grounds, Strelzin said, the state would be barred from again seeking a death sentence.
Outside the courthouse Wednesday, death penalty opponents held signs in a silent vigil.
"This is a momentous occasion," said Arnie Alpert, spokesman for the Coalition Against the Death Penalty. "Inside the court they'll be talking about the legal issues. But ultimately, the death penalty is a profound moral issue, economic issue and political issue."
Manchester Police Officer Dan Doherty — recovering from being shot multiple times while pursuing a suspect in March — said he attended part of the hearing because he was "almost in the shoes of Officer Briggs."
"I felt it was a necessity for people who have been close enough to his position to be here and stand together," said Doherty.
The courtroom was nearly full for the morning session, but the crowd thinned out in the afternoon. Typically, a hearing before the justices lasts a half an hour.
Rothstein also told the court Addison may not have faced the ultimate penalty if jurors had been allowed to hear his assertions that he did not intend to kill a Manchester police officer in a dark alley six years ago.
"Addison said he did not act purposely," Rothstein said, noting that he repeated the assertion nearly two dozen times. "He maintained that position under intense questioning."
Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley countered that the trial judge was well within her discretion in keeping the statement out of the record because it was inherently unreliable and rife with lies.
The justices peppered the lawyers with questions, but the tenor of the arguments was even, calm and dispassionate.
New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union Attorney Barbara Keshen thought they were too dispassionate.
"The dispassion might be what's necessary," Keshen said. "But it lacks the core understanding that what we're talking about is executing a human being."


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I visited the farm early last Sunday hoping for a chance to milk Melissa, the 6 year-old Jersey cow. Chris made no promises:
You're welcome to visit the animals any time. They do love visitors, and I like showing them off. Getting the opportunity to milk my cow is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.
Melissa allows me to milk her because she knows and trusts me. We've developed a routine, and she knows that I'm going to look out for her well being, and am going to be kind and gentle with her. If a strange person attempts to handle her udder, she's probably going to be upset. She's going to walk away, and might even kick. It's likely that she won't "let down her milk" as well, and will be disturbed for the rest of the morning. Let me put it this way: how comfortable would you be allowing a stranger to put his hands on your body? Jersey cows have personalities and feelings. They really are unique creatures. They aren't milk machines that plod through life (although the food industry typically assumes such a thing).
On the other hand, Melissa is an amazing cow. While most cows would not allow themselves to be milked by anyone if a stranger walked into the barn, Melissa tolerates visits from the oil truck, the propane guy, and various and sundry visitors. She will tolerate noises, distractions and changes to the routine better than most. She just might get fussy about touches from strangers.
If you'd like to visit, and watch, you're more than welcome. You might get lucky, and she'll allow you to milk her. Just don't set your heart on it.
When I arrived, the animals were roaming around the yard, with minimal fencing to keep them at bay. They had barns where they could retreat from rain, snow and wind. Otherwise they walk around, unfazed by the sub-freezing temperatures.
Chris finished his chores, and led Melissa to the front driveway where she's fed and milked. First he brushed her coat. This helps rid her of loose hair that might otherwise fall into the milk. Then he sanitizes her udders with a vinegar and water solution. Finally, he rinses the "line" by pulling a few ounces of milk out of each udder.
He milks by hand: pinching the top of the udder with the base of his thumb and first finger, and then squeezing out the milk with a firm tug. The milk flows out in a steady, rhythmic stream.
After the first two udders are drained, he lets me take a turn. I pet Melissa, showering her with affection in hopes that she will let me also milk her.
Indeed, I'm able to milk her. I have a few false starts with handling the udders, trying to squeeze the milk. I'm timid -- fearful that I will hurt her, I don't tug hard enough. I get the hang of it and the milk starts to flow, though not as vigorously as when Chris did.
In the end we Chris got about ½ gallon of fresh milk. The milk is poured through a coffee filter to strain out any hair which may have fallen in.
In its natural state, the milk is about 5% fat. Since it is not homogenized, the cream rises to the top, and after 24 hours, I can separate low-fat milk from the cream. I poked a whole in the bottom of the milk jug and let the lighter milk, which had settled on the bottom strain out.
For more details about raw milk, you can read here.
And what better way to enjoy the sweet, creamy, fresh taste of raw milk than with a plate of cookies!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is adapted from Bo Friberg, my pastry instructor in culinary school.4 1/2 oz. unsalted butter, room temperature
3 oz. brown sugar
3 oz. white sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
6 1/2 oz. flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
6 oz. chocolate chips
1. Using the paddle attachment of a mixer, cream the butter and the sugars at medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and mix to combine.
2. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Add the butter mixture and mix over low speed until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
3. Using a spoon, measure out about 2 tbs. of dough. Use your hands to shape into a ball and place on a cookie sheet. Continue until all the dough is formed into cookie balls. At this point you can freeze the balls to bake later or bake all immediately. Make sure you properyly space them so there's about 2 inches between them.
4. Bake at 375F for 10 minutes, or until the edges are lightly brown and the middle still looks a bit sticky.


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EAU CLAIRE, Wisc. (WEAU) - With the snowfall expected to stick around, many are rushing to stores for last minute winter gear and buying snow blowers, shovels and salt.
Like it or not, three or more inches of snow are on their way to Western Wisconsin and many have taken notice.
"People are getting ready for the big snow storm tomorrow," Eau Claire Ace Hardware clerk Sam Hankel said.
Friday night's dusting of snow kept Eau Claire snow plows out until 5:00 a.m., and city street maintenance staff said it expects to use at least 12 plows Sunday, hitting all city streets if there are three inches or more. Drivers were reminded to park on even sides of the road on even days and odds on odd days to avoid getting a ticket or being towed.
Bruce Scherlin at Zacho Sports Center in Chippewa Falls, said after a calm winter last year, snowmobilers are excited for the forecast.
"There is some pent up demand for that. So we've got a little bit of the cabin fever going for enthusiasts for the winter recreationals," Scherlin said. "We've had two units go out today that in anticipation of the snowfall coming," he said.
Winter supplies have been in high demand at Ace Hardware too, but the change is getting mixed reviews.
"We've had a lot of people come in for snow shovels, salt, sold a couple snow blowers this morning," Hankel said.
"You gotta be careful for all the drivers that are not cautious enough to be driving in this stuff anyways," Cindy Whipps of Eau Claire said.
"It reminds us of Christmas coming soon, the holidays, being with friends, family. That's always a good change," Kaylene Zambito of Eau Claire said.