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WATERFORD TWP. >> Federal aviation investigators were at the scene of a plane crash Saturday in the Pontiac Lake State Recreation Area that left a 32-year-old Waterford resident dead Friday night.
The pilot, Andrew Demos, was flying a twin-engine Cessna 310 back from Atlanta, said J. David VanderVeen, director of Oakland County Central Services, which oversees the Oakland County International Airport. The plane crashed during its final approach at 7:48 p.m. Friday night, killing Demos, the only one aboard.
VanderVeen said Demos has "all the appropriate licenses" and carried multiple degrees in aviation.
"He was real qualified," he said of Demos, adding, "It's always tragic when the aviation community loses one of our members and our heartfelt sympathies go out to the family."
Demos received a master's in aerospace operations from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and earned his certification from the Illinois Aviation Academy, according to his LinkedIn profile.
VanderVeen said the 32-year-old's next of kin had been contacted. Demos was married, he said, but it's unknown if the couple had children.
The plane was owned by Royal Air, an air freight and charter company based at the airport. The company declined to comment Saturday.
Royal Air flies private charters and cargo delivery planes, according to the company's website, with a fleet that consists of seven types of aircraft. It was founded in 1962 at the Oakland airport.
It's unclear what caused the crash. Visibility was low Friday night with rainy conditions.
"It's way too early to speculate," VanderVeen said. Investigators will turn information over to the National Transportation Safety Board, which will "take some time" to conduct an investigation and deliver a final report, he said.
"These things typically take a matter of weeks or months before they make the final determination."
A jet landed 15 minutes at the airport before the crash and two planes were en route, VanderVeen said, "so, the airport was operational."
But, on Friday, the airport was under instrument flight rules, meaning visibility was limited and pilots had to use aircraft instruments to take-off and land.
The airport closed for about two hours after the crash, he said. It reopened at 9:55 p.m. Friday.
A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration could not be reached Saturday.
Waterford Regional Fire Department Capt. John Lyman spotted the plane as he was headed toward home Friday. He said he witnessed a glowing light in the sky, followed by a fireball, which shot above 50-foot trees.
Lyman said he headed to the crash and located the plane about 150 yards from the park boat launch off a snowmobile trail.
Waterford Regional Fire crews who responded had to climb through deep snow to get to the crash, he said.
Waterford police, which had no additional comment Saturday, also responded. "He just missed the lake," Lyman said.
About two hours after the crash, Bill Clink and his family heard helicopters hovering near the crash site, which sat just about a mile from his home in the 9100 block of Gale Road — near Williams Lake Road — which overlooks Pontiac Lake.
"We didn't even know what it was until my wife looked at her phone and saw the news," said Clink, who has been worried in the past about the size of the planes that fly over his home to the airport.
An investigator at the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office could not confirm the identity of the pilot Saturday, saying the body was badly burned in the incident.
"He's beyond recognition," the investigator said. "We cannot say who he is ... we're going to have to do dentals."
Crews had to use fire extinguishers on the flames.
This is the second fatal plane crash within seven months at or near the airport.
On June 21, a rented Cessna 172 private, single-engine plane crashed at 1:40 p.m. in a field at the airport's north end. The crash killed four people — three men and one woman.
Staff writers Carol Hopkins and John Turk contributed to this report.
Contact staff writer Ryan Felton at 248-745-4654 or email@example.com.


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The Framingham Girl Scout Service Unit is hosting a town-wide roller skating event on Saturday night, Nov. 1 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Roller Kingdom in Hudson.
The cost for each Girl Scout is $4 to cover the cost and the participation patch.
Girls may rent skates at additional fee of $3 at the rink.
The deadline to respond to Missy, who is coordinating the event, is October 20. All Money is due at that time too!
If you have e-mailed your troop will come and how many before the date great, but if Missy does not have the money by October 20th you troop will not make it into the final count for patches and the event.
Missy must give Lee Theise at Roller Kingdom a head count then, so NO late registrations will be accepted.
Please keep in mind that this is a Girl Scout only event.
Safety-wise ratio rules for parents apply.
No family skating allowed for this event.
Girl Scout Troop Leaders who have questions should contact Missy or post questions on the leader group at Yahoo!

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Union delegates voted overwhelmingly to suspend the strike after discussing a proposed contract settlement that had been on the table for days. Classes were to resume Wednesday.
Jubilant delegates poured out of a South Side union hall singing a song called "Solidarity Forever," honking horns and yelling, "We're going back." Most were eager to get to work and proud of a walkout that yielded results.
"I'm very excited. I miss my students. I'm relieved because I think this contract was better than what they offered," said America Olmedo, who teaches fourth- and fifth-grade bilingual classes. "They tried to take everything away."
Mayor Rahm Emanuel called the settlement "an honest compromise" that "means a new day and a new direction for the Chicago public schools."
He said the talks achieved goals that had eluded the district for more than a decade, including an extension of the school day, which had been among the nation's shortest, and a new teacher evaluation system.
"In past negotiations, taxpayers paid more, but our kids got less. This time, our taxpayers are paying less, and our kids are getting more," the mayor said, referring to provisions in the deal that he says will cut costs.
Union leaders pointed to concessions by the city on how closely teacher evaluations would be tied to student test scores and to better opportunities for teachers to retain their jobs if schools are closed by budget cuts.
The walkout, the first in Chicago in 25 years, shut down the nation's third-largest school district just days after 350,000 students had returned from summer vacation. Tens of thousands of parents were forced to find alternatives for idle children, including many whose neighborhoods have been wracked by gang violence in recent months.
Union President Karen Lewis said the union's 700-plus delegates responded to a voice vote with an estimated 98 percent in favor of reopening the schools.


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Celebrating Fatherhood and Family
Wayne Steinman and Sal Iacullo have been together for nearly 41 years and were the first gay couple in New York State to legally adopt a child. This Father's Day, we honor them, and fathers everywhere, by telling their SAGE Story.
We became dads when our daughter, Hope, was placed in our arms in August 19, 1987 in New York City and she was four months old at the time. Sal was actually the lead parent in the adoption―he was the first openly gay male to experience single-parent adoption. However, we were both Hope's dads. We had legal papers, the court made sure from the get-go that we had both guardianship papers and wills so that if anything happened to Sal, Hope would become my child. We did our second parent adoption in 1994 or '95, to make it official, but quite honestly, I never felt any different. It was love at first sight and we knew she was our daughter. Papers didn't matter.
We celebrate Father's Day and Mother's Day. It's nice to be able to share cards and special moments together. We note how much we accomplish as dads. Sal's dad is still alive and we have supportive families surrounding us with birthdays and other things at this time of year, so it's just a big celebration. We also all plan a trip to Provincetown for Family Week in August, which is a nice way to stay in touch and celebrate our family within the LGBT community.
Hope is now 26 and she is a strong, independent, intelligent woman―we couldn't have asked for a better daughter. When she was placed with us 26 years ago there were all sorts of issues―health and otherwise― but we gave her all of our love and support. By fourth grade, she was in the gifted program. She got into Staten Island Tech, a top school and graduated from Wesleyan University. She actually came out in high school, so we have a daughter-in-law as part of the family now too! Hope is now in L.A. and we wish she lived closer, but we're proud of her and ourselves as parents. Happy Father's Day to all!


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My 9 month old son is 3 weeks in to a complete nursing strike. We have had a very smooth, very easy, and wonderful breast feeding relationship up until this point so this has come as a complete shock and we are both struggling with it. Three weeks ago he had a nasty cold with a very sore throat. When he tried to latch he would cry out in pain. He went from nursing every 2-3 hours, night & day, to completely refusing the breast. I have been optimistic all along that we may be able to gently coax him back to the breast but he continues to refuse it. He is now finally over his sickness but shows no interest in nursing.
I have maintained contact with my LLL leader throughout and have tried all the things she has recommended but to no avail. I am pumping 6 times a day and maintaining an output of about 18oz a day which he is drinking from a cup. Has anyone had experience of such a long nursing strike? Could he still return to nursing or is that possibility now dwindling? I will be devastated if this is how it is going to end. I had high hopes of nursing to one, and beyond. This has been such an emotional experience and has left me feeling so sad and missing that bond with my baby so very much.
I really have tried everything to get my son to return to nursing so in many ways this is more me getting this off my chest than asking for advice. At the same time I would love to hear any suggestions anyone might have. Both for encouraging him to return to the breast, and for dealing with the emotional aspect of this.


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*Candy's age was revealed in [[Grand Theft Auto V]], with a magazine article stating that Candy is 50 years old in 2013.
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*In [[Grand Theft Auto V]] she has a star on the [[Vinewood Walk of Fame]].
*In [[Grand Theft Auto V]] she has a star on the [[Vinewood Walk of Fame]].
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"In those days, I didn't know my ass from my elbow. Luckily, a lot of other people did." - Candice Shand in 2002[1]
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|Candy Suxxx
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Steve Scott
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{{quote|"''In those days, I didn't know my ass from my elbow. Luckily, a lot of other people did.''" - Candice Shand in 2002}}
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Candice Shand[1], better known by her stage name Candy Suxxx, is a character in Grand Theft Auto series who first appears as a 23 year old porn star in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She is a character in both the 3D Universe and unseen but mentioned in the HD Universe.
Posters and advertisements featuring her appear in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, and she is mentioned in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories[2]. She is an educator and philanthropist, and a former porn movie star. She is voiced by Jenna Jameson, a former porn actress and entrepreneur.
Character history
Candy Suxxx began to work as a porn star at some point prior to 1984. In 1986 she based herself out of Vice City, occasionally working with porn film director Steve Scott. She also works as a prostitute or escort, often accompanying Congressman Alex Shrub, including to Juan Cortez' parties, in place of his wife Laura. She first meets Tommy Vercetti when he recruits her, first killing her agent, and then taking her to the InterGlobal Films studios with Mercedes Cortez. Vercetti later follows her in a helicopter to a penthouse where she meets with Shrub, allowing Vercetti to take damaging pictures of Shrub, dressed as Martha, and Candy, allowing him to blackmail Shrub into allowing porn films to continue to be distributed in the city. Candy meets Vercetti once again when Vercetti gets the idea to use a spotlight display to advertise their latest movie.
She continues to work in the porn industry through to at least 1992, when posters and a billboard appear in both Los Santos and Las Venturas in San Andreas, whilst posters featuring Candy also appear in Liberty City in 1998. At some point between 1998 and 2002 she became an educator and philanthropist.
By 2013 it is unknown what Candy Suxxx is doing with her life, however there is a magazine article that can be found in 24-7s or randomly placed, about Candy Suxxx and how she feels about being 50 years old. Thus revealing her age.
- Bite
- Closer Encounters
- Vinewood Call Girls
- That Can't Be Legal
- Filthy Chicks
- Return of the Anaconda
- Let Me Bounce
- The player can play as Candy in GTA Vice City by inputting cheats.
- Pictures of Candy Suxxx (featuring her naked) appear in some safehouses in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and in the Vercetti Estate in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
- Some fans believe that her becoming an educator and philanthropist may be a sarcastic reference to her pornography actress (being educational and beneficial to others).
- In video poker in GTA San Andreas, Candy can be seen on the queen of hearts.
- Her stage name may be a play on the two words candy sucks.
- Candy's age was revealed in Grand Theft Auto V, with a magazine article stating that Candy is 50 years old in 2013.
- In Grand Theft Auto V she has a star on the Vinewood Walk of Fame.
- Tracey De Santa, the daughter of protagonist Michael De Santa, uses the name Tracey Suxxx as her porn name for online videos she's made, as revealed by Jimmy De Santa.
Mission appearances
- GTA Vice City
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Great 80s Quotes. Kent Paul.
- ↑ From the mission Conduct Unbecoming:
Jerry Martinez: "That's Candy Suxx! He he he! That's some guy's daughter man!"


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Iranian jets fire on U.S. drone
November 8th, 2012
Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf on November 1, the Pentagon disclosed on Thursday.
The incident, reported first by CNN, raised fresh concerns within the Obama administration about Iranian military aggression in crucial Gulf oil shipping lanes.
The drone was on routine maritime surveillance in international airspace east of Kuwait, 16 miles off the coast of Iran, U.S. officials said. The Predator was not hit.
At least it comes out a week after the elections.Klaatu barada nikto
Well, since it seems the mission seems to have jumped the 7 year unclass period, at least according to the WH... Talk about a bullshit excuse about why nothing was said about this until after the election.
I first heard about this a few days before the election. Maybe it's the cynic in me, but my first thought was Iran committed an overt act of war against us, and that of course the Obama admin didn't say a thing about it until after his reelection had been secured. Political expediency with this admin has just sickened me.In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.
In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.
This isn't exactly a surprise. I'm sure our enemies are laughing their a__ off at how weak we are now. He's made our country appear to be inpotent to our enemies. And sadly we are.
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They can't hit a freakin' DRONE?! Damn! If I couldn't hit a drone I sure as hell wouldn't go back to the boss and tell him I missed. I might tell him I couldn't find the damn thing. I might tell him some bullshit story about this SR-71 that went streaking by, and I tried to shoot it but it outran my bullets. But I sure as hell ain't going into his office and tell him about this unmanned TOY that I missed!
These guys just ain't all that good.
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I hope everyone here is aware that you can impeach a president by a simple majority in the house. Trial in the Senate, sure. But if Republicans had the political will to impeach Obama they could.
11-09-2012, 02:47 AMSolve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf
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Ensuring success for all
Press Release – University of Auckland
A team of researchers from The University of Auckland's Success for All project have been recognised by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) for looking beyond the lecture theatre to better understand Māori and Pacific student …Ensuring success for all
A team of researchers from The University of Auckland's Success for All project have been recognised by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) for looking beyond the lecture theatre to better understand Māori and Pacific student success in degree-level study.
The team comprising Dr Airini, Dr Deidre Brown, Dr Elana Curtis, Fred Luatua, Mona O'Shea, Dr Te Oti Rakena, Gillian Reynolds, Tanya Savage, Pale Sauni, Angie Smith, Matthew Tarawa, Sonia Townsend-Fonu, Meryl Ulugia-Pua and Sofi Ulugia-Pua were awarded the NZARE Group Research Award and commended for the significance of their research for Māori and Pacific student teaching and learning. NZARE aims to foster excellence in educational research in New Zealand.
The multi-faceted five-year research project identified how university teaching helps or hinders the success of Māori and Pacific tertiary students completing their degrees. The collaboration between the faculties of Education, Medical and Health Sciences, the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries and the University's Career Centre looked at how specific non-lecture activities such as tutorials, mentoring and induction programmes and careers services supported Māori and Pacific student success.
Drawing on over 1,950 accounts of teaching experiences, Success for All is the first study of its kind to describe Māori and Pacific student experiences of teaching in non-lecture settings and identified specific teaching and learning practices to support and enhance student success.
"How we teach in our small groups with Māori and Pasifika students in our universities is our future as a nation in miniature, and has major implications for New Zealand's overall future" said Dr Airini, project leader and Head of the School of Critical Studies in Education. "We're so pleased to receive this award and that the students' voices at the centre of this research have been heard. The quality of teaching practices identified through the research has huge potential to help universities ensure Māori and Pasifika students achieve at least on par with other learners."
The research culminated in the development of a Toolkit of Promising Practices for university teaching, which is being used for a number of national and international initiatives. Tatou Tatou investigated how university teaching can help or hinder Māori student success in medical and health sciences. Te Ara Kakena looked into teaching practices with postgraduate students studying Music, Architecture and Fine Arts, in New Zealand, Canada and the USA.
Building on their strong publication record, the Success for All project will be shared through a forthcoming publication with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research entitled Uni teaching: Māori and Pasifika stories of uni teaching and student success.
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The lights are on
2011 brought many triple A blockbusters,and 2012 promises to do it again.so waht games are u buying GIO?
my list: Ghost Recon Future soldier
Max Payne 3(maybe,need to play the first 2)
Luigi`s mansion 2
Borderlands 2
Kingdom hearts 3ds
Bioshock infinite
Halo 4
Resident evil 6
Assasins creed 3
I already pre-purchased my copy of Guild Wars 2. Also planning on buying Diablo 3 and AC3. Other than that, there are some great games like Tribes: Ascend, and Blacklight Retribution.
Bioshock Infinite and AC3.
check out my blog!
Rainheart, I'll never forget you.
I'm looking forward to AC3, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands 2, RE 6, and The Last of Us.
New CoD
More apps, naturally.
Need some convincing on GW2.
So far im looking foward to Resident Evil 6, Max Payne 3, Ghost Future Solider, The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite
i already have madden 13 paid off. And I think XCOM Enemy Unknown is being released this summer as well. So those are the two for the summer that I have paid off already.
Madden 13, AC3, Borderlands 2, RE 6, & The Last Of Us are the ones I'm looking forward to the most as of now. We'll see what the rest of this year hold for us gamers.
I'm completely biased here. I'm getting Tiny Troopers of course :D
Finnish Games Developer
for this year, there will be MMO games that will be release, il share you the links.. top of the line is Archeage andBlade&soul.
I am looking forward to Ghost Recon Future soldier
I pre-ordered Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn, and Saints Row 4. I also want to get Dynasty Warriors 8 and Remember me. Also, State of Decay; which comes out June 5th! :D
Saints Row 4 and GTA V
The Last of Us, maybe Project X Zone, If my Heart Had Wings (Visual Novel), GTA V, Rome 2 and Tales of Xilla oh and I nearly forgot State of Decay lol
Watch Dogs and inFamous: Second Son.


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Just don't tell Canada's interim head coach that the task is impossible.
"If I go into this game with a negative approach and build Mexico up to be some superpower, then we might as well just give them the three points," Colin Miller said in a press conference on Wednesday. "I have been in many fights in my life. This is the biggest one I've been in. Our players are well aware of the task at hand."
Standing in front of the Canadian players is a Mexican side that is also coming off an unexpected loss. The Mexicans dropped their tournament opener to Panama, an historic defeat as Mexico had never lost to the Central American side in any previous match.
That puts both Mexico and Canada in desperation mode, as both countries will look to gain their first points before the group stage finales on the weekend.
"Both teams are fighting for survival here," Miller said. "It's a huge occasion for both countries. We have to be positive as Canadian players and Canadian staff.
"We have to be optimistic that we can still get something from this game."
The task at hand got substantially tougher with the news that Canada will be without the services of several players. Team captain Will Johnson has returned home to Portland to recover from an illness that forced him to exit the opening match early, and attackers Simeon Jackson (contract negotiations) and Randy Edwini-Bonsu (knee injury) have also left the squad.
The trio joined defenders Nana Attakora and Dejan Jakovic as expected contributors who are unavailable to Miller. Both defenders were ruled out of the tournament just days prior to the opening match.
It has all led to some major selection headaches for Miller and his staff.
"As one door closes, another one is slamming in our faces at the moment," Miller said. "We have Russell Teibert in bed at the moment with some ailments, as well. He could be a doubt for [Thursday] night as well."
The absences mean that others on the squad will have to step up, Miller said. One player who could take advantage of the situation is D.C. United's Kyle Porter, who flew into Seattle as a replacement after initially being left off the 23-man final roster.
"It means that there's another opportunity for someone else to come in and take an opportunity to play in front of our new head coach," Miller said, referring to incoming gaffer Benito Floro, who is attending Canada's matches strictly as an observer before taking over on Aug. 1. "That's how the players have got to look at it."
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The Indiana Pacers have blown out each of their last three opponents by an average of 30 ppg and target a sweep of a home-and-home series against the Detroit Pistons Saturday night at The Palace.
The Central-leading Pacers have reached the 100-point mark in each of the last three wins and handed the division-rival Pistons a 114-82 setback Friday night in the finale of a five-game homestand. David West scored 18 points and was one of five starters in double figures. George Hill and All-Star Paul George netted 15 and 12 points, respectively, for Indiana, winners in eight of the last 10 games.
Roy Hibbert and Lance Stephenson both scored 10 points in the win.
"I think we've found our identity," said George. "We're a team that's uptempo, and with our smothering defense, it's the best of both worlds."
Indiana is first in points allowed (89.8 ppg) and field goal defense at 41.4 percent, and has scored 100 or more points in 10 of the past 17 games. The Pacers are also second in the East standings, 5 1/2 games behind the Miami Heat.
The Pacers will hit the road and are only 11-16 as the guest.
Saturday's game could mark the return of Pacers star forward Danny Granger, who's been sidelined all season with a knee issue. Granger has led the team in scoring in each of the last five years, and has been back at practice working diligently on returning soon.
Granger is expected to come off the bench for a limited time in order to get back in the swing of things.
"I think there's a chance. We're going to talk, see how he responded to his work today," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said recently of Granger's status.
Detroit had won four of six games until the Pacers spoiled the party with a thrashing Friday night.
Will Bynum scored 17 points off the bench and Viacheslav Kravtsov compiled 14 and 10 rebounds in a reserve role. Rodney Stuckey posted 11 points in defeat as the Pistons shot 35.4 percent and sank just 3-of-19 3-pointers. Indiana registered 24 points off 16 Pistons miscues.
"We didn't get anything done," Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva said. "They came out strong and we couldn't match it."
Pistons point guard Brandon Knight did not play due to a hyperextended right knee and is day-to-day.
Detroit is 15-16 at The Palace this season and has lost both matchups with Indiana. The Pacers, though, have dropped 10 of 14 games at the Pistons.


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It's been nearly 33 years, but San Diego real estate attorney Mike Spilger still remembers his first encounter with Donald Sterling, the embattled owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
"I will never forget this," Spilger told ABC News. "He said, 'I'm so happy to be the owner. I want to get to know all you people. If you are ever at the game, buy me a hot dog. I'd like to get to know you all.'"
It was August 1981 and Spilger was at a promotional event for the Clippers at the San Diego Sports Arena. Guests were promised a chance to meet Sterling, the flamboyant Beverly Hills lawyer who had purchased the team a few months earlier, then plastered his face all over town on billboards with a promise: "I Will Make You Proud of the Clippers."
"He invited all the attorneys in town," Spilger said. "I remember they had some mini-sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres and a $1,000 free-throw contest."
Spilger had been the captain of the San Diego State basketball team in the late 1960s, and he promptly stepped up to the free-throw line to sink 9 out of 10 to win the contest. "In street clothes, I might add," Spilger said.
But when he talked to Sterling later to claim his prize, he was told it was no longer $1,000, but rather 5 days and 4 nights accommodations at a Puerto Rico hotel.
"And I asked Mr. Sterling," Spilger recalled, "'Does that include airfare?' And he kind of mumbled around, 'Well, I, no, no.' I said, 'Well, Mr. Sterling, I have no desire to go to Puerto Rico, let alone pay my own way to get there. I will just take the $1,000, thank you.'"
Sterling, whose net worth at the time was estimated to be about $700 million, suggested Spilger get in touch with the promotions department to work things out. A few weeks later, Spilger said, he got a letter from the team congratulating him on winning three nights and two days in Las Vegas or Mazatlan, Mexico.
"It kept getting worse," Spilger recalled with a laugh. "First $1,000, then Puerto Rico, then Mazatlan and then Vegas. To me it made no sense."
Spilger, who was a season ticket-holder of the Clippers, spoke to the team's general manager, the assistant general manager, wrote to Sterling and talked to him in person and on the phone. But after a year of trying to loosen the grip on his $1,000 prize, Spilger finally got fed up and filed a lawsuit.
"I got ticked off. I thought, 'This is ridiculous,'" he said. "It just made no sense. Pay me the damn thousand dollars."
A week after filing the lawsuit, he finally got his money, but not before being admonished, he said, by the team's business manager in the lobby of the team's headquarters.
"I'm sitting in the chair and he towers over me and points his finger at me and he says, 'You know, what you did was chicken s***. All you had to do was call me.' So I kind of politely mentioned, you know, I had three or four personal conversations with Sterling. I wrote him two letters. I don't know how much more I can do to keep something private. But anyway, thank you for the check."
Neither Sterling nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment by ABC News.
The encounter all those years ago gave him a glimpse into Sterling's hard-driving business dealings, and while he said he harbors no ill will to Sterling over the dispute, he does have an opinion about the team's owner when it comes to the current controversy over Sterling's racially charged remarks. "I think it's time for him to go," he said.
Spilger dropped his lawsuit after cashing the check. He said he ran into Sterling one more time at a party a year or two later. When a friend of Sterling's brought him by to say hello, he saw Spilger and said, "Oh, I know him."
He said Sterling turned to him and, in a whispered tone, said, "You know, what you did is reprehensible."
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Local firefighters will join their colleagues across England and Wales for a 24 hour strike next week over pensions.
A 24-hour strike — the longest yet in the three-year campaign — will take place from 9am on Thursday 12 June.
The Fire Brigades Union announced the decision today after the government confirmed it would implement a new pension scheme without further negotiations.
Another walk out was also agreed for Saturday June 21 between 10am and 5pm.
In addition to the two strikes firefighters will not carry out any voluntary overtime which is routinely needed by many fire and rescue services to maintain fire cover or conduct training of strikebreakers between the beginning of the first strike and 9am on Sunday 22 June.
Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said: "The minister has decided to bury his head in the sand, but he must accept that firefighters simply will not give up fighting for their futures — and our fire and rescue service.
"Concerns over these unworkable proposals remain as valid and grave as ever, and the government has ignored all the evidence including it's own reports.
"It is as ever a difficult decision for us to take, but the only way for us to resolve this unnecessary and costly dispute is for the government to start listening to reason."
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The city's auditor general was fired 13 days after he filed a three-year work plan that called for a wide-ranging investigation of municipal departments and agencies.
In a Jan. 18 report to the city's audit committee, Todd Langlois laid out an ambitious review of 28 areas at city hall beginning this year. The review would have looked at operations involving Enwin, the Windsor Utilities Commission, Windsor Airport, social services, the city treasurer's office, the tunnel corporation and the WFCU Centre, among others.
The report also called for a risk assessment of the $78-million downtown aquatic centre.
But the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Star, never saw the light of day.
"I don't think they ever wanted an auditor general's office," Langlois said in an interview. "I don't think there was any intention to ever allow me or this office to succeed. It was all for the optics."
The auditor general's desire to dig into so many high-profile, municipal entities was done in the public interest based on the fact they had large budgets and carried heavy risk for taxpayers, Langlois said.
"These are all areas never looked at before. They are areas that deserve attention because of the money involved," he said.
"I'm not there to please everybody and look at what they want me to look at. They kept trying to steer me away from things that are important.
They kept saying it's too premature to look at the aquatic centre. Well, no it's not. I was doing what I was hired to do and that's protect taxpayers. By holding council and administration responsible, I was doing what I was paid to do."
On Jan. 23, eight days before he was fired, Langlois raised concerns to Mayor Eddie Francis in an email, suggesting Max Zalev, chairman of the city's audit committee, was trying to stonewall attempts to make his action plan public.
Langlois told the mayor that Zalev, as CEO of Enwin — one of the agencies that would be subject to a review by the auditor general — was "clearly in a conflict of interest position."
"Based on the recent actions, I plan to write a public report as such and make some recommendations," he said in an email obtained by The Star.
Francis summoned Langlois to his office after receiving the email, leading to what both described as a heated discussion.
In an interview Friday, Francis said Langlois was not happy after learning he would not intervene in the affairs of the audit committee.
"I told him I don't want to get involved in audit committee stuff and (for him) to deal with the clerk," Francis said.
"At that meeting before we even started he was venting. It was the first time he said to me he thought (Zalev) was in conflict. I said to him if you feel that strongly I will take it to council and have Max removed from the committee."
Francis claims he received an email from Langlois on Jan. 24 asking him to hold off on taking the Zalev conflict issue to council until after the audit committee meeting.
The issue of Zalev possibly being in a conflict on the audit committee has come up at council when making committee appointments.
"We just appoint the members, but it is the committee themselves who chose the chairman," Francis said. "We knew at council (Zalev) has a lot of experience on the committee and wanted to keep him there for continuity. (Langlois) never expressed anything about Max to me until a couple of weeks ago."
Also on Jan. 23, Langlois emailed Bill Carter, vice-chairman of the audit committee, complaining that Zalev was taking a "hard line" by insisting that a planned meeting that week not include a public discussion of his three-year work plan.
Langlois told Carter he was dismayed the conflict situation involving Zalev was never addressed, even though he mentioned it as a problem to the mayor and CAO Helga Reidel.
"I am clearly frustrated at the lack of support for the function," Langlois wrote in his email. "I want to get into the audits that I was hired to do; yet, more blockades. Tone at the top is as weak as I have ever seen. Lack of co-operation is unprecedented."
Langlois said there was a "complete lack of support" for an independent auditor general. "The resistance throughout sure raises a red flag."
He also vowed to blow the whistle to "an outside body to deal with this unfortunate situation (the province perhaps)."
Carter, who is on vacation in Florida, could not be reached for comment despite several attempts Thursday and Friday.
Langlois in his interview with The Star, said he felt Zalev's position as chair of the audit committee and CEO of Enwin presented a "huge" conflict.
"It's not just blocking a look at Enwin, but you can make the office inefficient so you never get in there. There are just so many ways to do that and clearly it succeeded."
Contacted this week, Zalev said he stands behind his actions, maintaining the firing of Langlois has nothing to do with the aggressive work plan to shine the spotlight on key municipal entities.
"No, categorically, no," he said in an interview with The Star. "The work plan wasn't related at all. It's a personnel issue, but it wasn't the work plan."
Zalev refused to detail what led to the firing of Langlois.
"The reason I won't comment simply put is they are contemplating litigation," he said. "I'm not going to add fodder for somebody who has a potential claim against the city.
"The decision made by council was based on appropriate information. There certainly was a situation that wasn't working between the corporation and auditor general. I'm not able to speak about it."
The mayor said he first saw the work plan when Langlois came to meet him in his office on Jan. 17.
"He said here it is and I told him it was not appropriate and give it to the audit committee," Francis said.
Discussions about terminating Langlois had started long before then, the mayor said.
"He was not terminated because of the work plan," Francis said. "It had nothing to do with it. I will take the same plan, take (the city audit function) to an RFP and them let them work on it.
"This had no connection to the work plan whatsoever. Some people had reservations about his performance."
It was information from audit committee vice-chairman Carter that he and council based much of their decision to terminate Langlois, Francis said.
"He was the one who worked closet with him and Bill's words to me were the situation was not salvageable."
Zalev says the agenda for audit committee meetings gets set after discussions with administration.
"Everybody, administration, the auditor general puts forward issues they want to get on the agenda," he said.
The action plan was not included in the Jan. 26 audit committee agenda because there were in-camera issues at that meeting which may have directly impacted the plan and auditor general's office, he said.
"It was about auditing protocol, resourcing of the office and potential request for an RFP (for outsourcing)," Zalev said. "What had to happen was the in-camera had to be dealt with first by the committee. Until we knew what went on with the office and how they function, we really couldn't deal with the work plan."
Zalev said he doesn't believe his role as both head of Enwin and the audit committee is a conflict of interest.
"If something comes up involving Enwin or the utilities in any way to be dealt with on the agenda, I take a look at the situation and deal with it appropriately," he said. "There have been situations in the past where I have (declared a conflict)."
Zalev said the committee will examine whether it would be best if he and Carter switched roles as chairman and vice-chairman, but he said he has no plans to step down from the audit committee.
"I'm here, going to serve and add some value," he said. "If council says to me 'thanks, but you are not needed on the committee,' so be it."
He claims to have never laid eyes on the three-year action plan of Langlois that included an audit of Enwin until the night before the Jan. 26 meeting when the decision to keep it off the agenda had already been made.
"I never saw it before then," Zalev said. "I didn't know until then Enwin was on the list."
The review of the Enwin-related companies was projected in the action plan to take the longest — at least 875 hours — and designed to review the company's structures and operations.
Enwin embarked on a number of private ventures after the 1999 changeover that moved responsibility for overseeing hydro from the province to municipal entities and converted it into a for-profit venture. Many of the same board members overseeing the operation when the private ventures were launched are still in place today, including Francis and Zalev.
Among the costly ventures launched by Enwin was a private third-party billing operation which the utility felt could provide services to other utilities for a fee across the province and in the U.S. — but few customers came on board. It involved the hiring of dozens of employees and managers, new equipment and training.
The utility's debt reached $104.4 million in 2003, but has since largely been recouped through rate hikes and belt-tightening.
Also included in the plan was a post audit review of the city's 400 building. Langlois hoped to study whether recommendations for cost savings and efficiencies that were made in that audit were being applied to the new downtown aquatic centre. That review was already started by Langlois and was to come forward in March.
Another audit was to be done of the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Corporation, which oversees operations for the Canadian side of the tunnel and is owned by the City of Windsor. In 2008, tunnel revenues — including tolls, rent and foreign exchange — totalled about $11.4 million.
Quoting a city hall source, The Star reported last week that the auditor general was fired because he refused to outsource his own office and that there had been complaints from senior staff about his conduct around the workplace.
But emails and reports from Langlois illustrate nearly a half dozen attempts over several months by the former auditor general to issue a Request For Proposals for outsourcing his office.
One of the those reports was also to be presented at the same Jan. 26 meeting. An in-house model with two senior auditors, junior auditor and clerk would cost the city $615,000 for 2012, while full staff outsourcing with a contracted firm could potentially cost $1.4 million to $2 million. The report, nevertheless, recommended issuing an RFP for outsourcing.
"They didn't want that outsourcing report to go public because it showed the move doesn't make sense," Langlois said.
Outside auditors would charge rates of $400 to $500 per hour of work, up to triple for what in-house city employees receive, he said, citing the outsourced audit of the WFCU Centre as an example.
The city paid KPMG $170,000 to complete the WFCU audit, but Langlois said city staff had the time-consuming task of gathering all the information.
Langlois, a Windsor native, spent 20 years working in Michigan as an internal auditor for various auto-related companies and accounting firms that included General Motors, Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche. He also worked previously for Revenue Canada.
His hiring came amid years of turbulence within the city's audit department that first saw former city auditor Mike Dunbar take early retirement in frustration over interference.
He was never replaced, but Angela Berry stepped up as lead internal auditor. In 2008, the city began its search for an auditor general. The job hunt was an endless process that resulted in an unnamed candidate being selected after 18 months. But when city council took more than six months to sign off on his appointment, the candidate said he didn't want the job anymore.
Then last year, Berry took a leave, accusing city officials of creating a "toxic" workplace. She has hired a lawyer and has still not returned to work.
The audit search committee decided to hire Langlois over a year ago, but because of council delays he didn't start the job until April.
In his previous postings, Langlois said he conducted audits around the world, but has never been through an experience like he has in Windsor.
"I've worked in Europe, Japan and in Egypt ... I encountered some difficulties but never this bad in my entire career — and it's right in my backyard.
"These people made it clear they didn't want my work going forward. It's supposed to be administration, council and auditor general working together to make sure the information you are getting is good. It shouldn't be this incestuous, three-ring circus. Everything we put forward was challenged. It shouldn't happen this way."


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A legal tug-of-war could be building in the aftermath of the leak of classified information about the Obama administration's sweeping electronic surveillance programs.
The White House on Saturday warned Hong Kong against slow-walking the U.S. request for the extradition of 30-year-old Edward Snowden, the man who revealed the sensitive information. He has been hiding in Hong Kong.
The administration's tough remarks Saturday reflect concerns about the possibility of a prolonged legal battle before the government contractor ever appears in a U.S. courtroom to answer espionage charges.
A formal extradition request to bring Snowden to the United States from Hong Kong could drag through appeal courts for years. Such a scenario would pit Beijing against Washington at a time when China tries to deflect U.S. accusations that it carries out extensive surveillance on U.S. government and commercial operations.
White House national security adviser Tom Donilon tells CBS News in an interview that Hong Kong has been a historically good partner of the United States in law enforcement matters" and he says he expects that to continue.
DEL NORTE, Colo. (AP) -- A wildfire threatening a tourist region in southwestern Colorado has mushroomed to nearly 100 square miles.
But fire officials said Saturday night that they are still optimistic they can protect the town of South Fork.
Officials provided an estimate of the size of the wildfire burning through a rugged and remote mountainous region, but say they won't know for sure until infrared imaging is done overnight.
The fire's rapid advance prompted the evacuation of hundreds of summer visitors and South Fork's 400 permanent residents Friday, and it could be days before people are allowed back into their homes, cabins and RV parks, fire crew spokeswoman Laura McConnell said. South Fork Mayor Kenneth Brooke estimated that 1,000 to 1,500 people were forced to flee.
Despite everything, officials say no structures had been lost and the fire was still about 5 miles from the town.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The woman who intervened when an officer pulled over one of her sons, leading to a racially-charged scuffle that set off the 1965 Watts riot, has died.
The Los Angeles Times reports Saturday that Rena Price died of natural causes on June 10. She was 97.
On August 11, 1965 Price rushed from her home in South Los Angeles to a nearby traffic stop where a white California Highway Patrol officer had pulled over her son Marquette Frye. Accounts vary on what set off the scuffle, but a patrolman hit Frye on the head with a baton and his mother jumped on another officer.
A crowd witnessed their arrests. After rumors spread that police had roughed up a black woman, angry mobs formed and six days of deadly rioting ensued.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri woman and her daughter have confessed to fatally poisoning two relatives with antifreeze and attempting to kill a third over a 14-month period. Court documents show that 51-year-old Diane Staudte of Springfield was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree assault and one count of armed criminal action. Her 22-year-old daughter Rachel Staudte, 22, was charged with the same counts Saturday.
Both women are jailed without bond. A spokeswoman for the Greene County prosecutor's office didn't immediately return an email from The Associated Press.
A court document said Diane Staudte initially told law enforcement that her 61-year-old husband, Mark Staudte, hadn't been feeling well and suffered from seizures before his April 2012 death. And it said Diane Staude told authorities that her 26-year-old son Shawn had been sick with flu-like symptoms before his death in September.
The medical examiner in Greene County had at first ruled that the husband died of natural causes and the son as a result of prior medical issues.
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) -- The two rivers that converge on the western Canadian city of Calgary are receding after floods devastated much of southern Alberta province, causing at least three deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate.
The flooding forced authorities to evacuate Calgary's entire downtown and hit some of the city's iconic structures hard. The Saddledome, home to the National Hockey League's Calgary Flames, was flooded up to the 10th row, leaving the dressing rooms submerged.
Flames' president and CEO Ken King says Saturday the Saddledome is a "real mess," with water still up to row 8 of the lower bowl. He says the flooding has caused a total loss on the event level with all mechanical equipment submerged under 15 feet (4.5 meters) of water.
Water reached the roof of the chuckwagon barns at the grounds of the Calgary Stampede, which is scheduled to start in two weeks. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has said the city will do everything it can to make sure that the world-renowned party goes ahead.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- Four workers were hurt, three critically, when a barn frame collapsed today at an $80 million Texas A&M University equestrian complex that's under construction.
A spokesman for the school, Lane Stephenson, says the accident happened on university property about a mile from the main campus at College Station, Texas.
Fire departments from College Station and Bryan responded, along with campus police and Texas A&M emergency medical personnel. The collapse happened shortly before 11 a.m.
The accident involved an approximately 300-foot barn, according to the College Station Fire Department. Twisted metal beams could be seen at the site, where ground was broken last fall.
The injured workers were transported to hospitals. Their names and further details on their conditions were not immediately released.
For a while, emergency responders had to halt the search for the four because of concerns about another collapse.
HAILEY, Idaho (AP) -- The mother of the only known U.S. prisoner of war said Saturday she's feeling "very optimistic" about his eventual release after his Taliban captors offered last week to exchange him for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's mother, Jani Bergdahl, spoke to about 2,000 people gathered in Hailey, Idaho, his hometown. The rally was in a city park where he played as a toddler and little boy.
About 400 in the crowd arrived astride motorcycles, adorned in leather and patches commemorating America's military missing in action.
Twenty-seven-year-old Bergdahl was taken prisoner in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009. First Jani Bergdahl, spoke, fighting through tears to get her message across. Then his father, Bob Bergdahl, spoke about new hope that their son's four-year ordeal will soon come to a happy conclusion.
Jani Bergdahl told the crowd, quote, "Bowe, we love you, we support you, and are eagerly awaiting your return home."
Buses brought POW-MIA activists to the event from as far as Elko, Nev., some 230 miles to the south.
TOKYO (AP) -- The southern Japan island of Okinawa has marked the 68th anniversary of a decisive and bloody World War II battle that hastened Japan's surrender but left the island with a heavy U.S. military presence that is still the source of intense friction and frequent protests.
Sunday's ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Japanese officials, along with U.S. Ambassador John Roos, who is the first U.S. ambassador to attend the ceremony in 18 years.
More than 200,000 people are believed to have died in the 1945 battle for Okinawa.
Roughly 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan under a mutual security pact. About half, including thousands of U.S. Marines and a major Air Force Base, are located on Okinawa. Protests against the U.S. troops are common on Okinawa amid concerns over crowding, troop-related crimes and the danger of accidents.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Efforts to come to grips with climate change are among the national priorities President Barack Obama has had difficulty advancing, even though he's five months into his second term. Now, Obama says he wants to change that.
In an online video released by the White House, Obama says that in a speech Tuesday he will lay out his vision for reducing carbon pollution. The aim is to prepare the U.S. for the effects of climate change and lead other nations in the global effort. Obama's speech Tuesday afternoon at Georgetown University will come the day before he leaves for a weeklong trip to three African nations.
In the video, Obama says, "There's no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change." But he adds that "when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can."
He says scientists must design new fuels and energy sources, and workers must prepare for a clean energy economy.


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Here's an intersting bargain wine: the 2005 R.H. Phillips Night Harvest Chardonnay, grown by a Canadian company in the Dunnigan Hills AVA, California. (That site doesn't have a lot of info, just a promo for this 25th anniversary wine. Here's the link for the winery's main site.) Does the night harvesting make a difference? I don't know enough about viticulture to comment, though ostensibly it's probably more useful than burying a bull's horn full of manure during a full moon. (I'll save my rants on biodynamic wines for a time when I'm hungry for angry e-mails.)
I've used the R.H. Phillips Chardonnay a lot in the past as a cooking wine, though it drinks well on its own. Those bottles had the odd combination of a screwcap with a promotional cork tied to the neck pointing out the... lack of a cork. The Night Harvest comes with a black synthetic cork. I've got nothing against synthetic corks or other alternative enclosures, but the black plastic cork looks like a stopper replacement for some plumbing assembly. I'll take neon yellow over black any day.
Back to the wine. Sweet, buttery oak Chardonnay aroma, but fairly dry on the palate. Flavors of apples and pears dominate. Strong acidity, medium finish. I've had it multiple ways: with some old tomato-fennel soup I had in the freezer, with leftover shrimp-pesto pasta, and finally with some cheese ravioli. It worked well in all cases without particularly standing out. Considering I bought it for $6, I'd consider it a good purchase all around.
In good spirits towards the night theme, I took the photo next to the eyepiece of my circa 1985 Edmund Scientific reflecting telescope. I got this around that year from my paternal grandfather, who had purchased and assembled it that summer. It's one of the clearest memories of my youth: standing in the backyard of my grandparents' house, beside the strawberry patch, gazing through that little black eyepiece and seeing the rings of Saturn with my own eyes.
Over the years I've kept it out as a conversation piece, though when the weather is clear and the season is right, I like to pull it out and look at the mountains of the Moon, the dark bands of Jupiter, the fuzzy red blur of Mars, and any other interesting points within the celestial realm.


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In Minorin's defense, she was pretty shook up after seeing Taiga in that state. She is her best friend, after all. And she was actually shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that her best friend cared way more for Ryuji than anyone could have thought. That's quite a lot to have on your shoulders...
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well hey, male leads in general are pretty useless, ba da pa! thank you everyone I'll be back stage signing auto graphs, oh wait they actually are. Unfortunately this type of man might actually exist, though I highly doubt he'll ever procreate in the a in vivo situation. At first Ryuuji is billed as your typical male student, except as the show progresses he turns into the biggest bitch ever, he's indecisive, and unreliable, it just makes sense that he wouldn't chase after minorin. Why because he's an idiot. Though this was a contrived situation, it feel ooc for him to acutally get what Minorin says, because he basically ignores all the attraction between the two of them, and suddenly his thick skull is able to interpret the rejection, come on.
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I believe that while she did need to break off with Ryuuji, she doesn't exactly understand that how the break up scenario is going to affect Ryuuji.
If she wants to make Taiga happy, then shouldn't she want to take this whole thing in a different direction? The way she pulled it off could leave Ryuuji in a multiple set of attitudes from having a breakdown like with Taiga or being depressed. And while yes, we do not know what would of happened from a serious confession, I believe it would of been better if she done it that way. I can understand the breakup would be hard but changing to the facade during this incredibly emotional moment feels unnecessary.
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hey just wanted to say, this was a good ep liked it....and that in the end when you see all the chs. and what they are doing at the end, with ami's scene, i think the person behind her looks like he has ryuji's suit (22:04) maybe the one he exchange the bear suit for?
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Ami got it right...why are they playing house...cause in the end its put them in this situation...
What relationship did they have when she talked to Ryuuji about UFOs/Ghosts so long ago..friends right? As friends she told him she didnt want a boyfriend...in a very Minori way. The whole UFOs conversation has only ever been between him and her. To them it is personal...therefore it means something.
Anyway, when does it ever help when someone says, I dont love you anymore but we can still be friends... I mean seriously it doesnt change the magnitude of your heart break at all...
Think about it, everything revolves around Taiga...Ryuuji puts her happiness as first priority and so does Minori at great hurt to herself - yet she's still getting flack because she not doing enough or making so many mistakes.
Im surprised no ones even slightly pissed off that Taiga is off chasing make believe Santas contemplating how she will always be alone - when in fact she has real guardian angels like Minori and Ryuuji putting their happiness aside for her sake.
oh but lets poke at Minori because she making people feel sad...LMAO
Im just saying...thats another way to look at it...
EDIT: I dont hate Taiga...but like Nosauz said there is so much sacrifice for a TaigaxRyuuji end. The other characters are treated pretty bad and people go, oh Taiga's crying..
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I think the subtlety of it could of worked if Ryuuji DID NOT figure it out. But he did, which contradicts how he didn't pick up every other piece of subtlety in this episode.
I honestly believed that if she broke up with him in a serious way, then it would of been a much gentler blow. I just believe that the way this break off was performed is completely going to change the the Ryuuji/Taiga/Minori atmosphere by shoving all of the pressure onto Ryuuji.
I'm more of concerned how this whole thing is going to be played off because Ryuuji's character has been treated like CRAP during this whole arc and it feels like it's going to rub off on the rest of the series. Taiga isn't the center of this whole thing, even though she's been treated like it. It would of been nice to see a little bit of Minori/Ryuuji development before the break up so that there's some mutual understanding.
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But what i surelly agree is the part about the pressure... Unfortunately it goes to Ryuuji mainly now.
But what he could do? I hope he will find a better way that i can imagine.
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Pretty nice episode.
Taiga is trying her hardest to supress those feeling yet, it the end, her heart unable to supressed it any long and she crying unconsciously ....A very nice scene IMO.
and Kitamura, The man know no shame..and I have to respect him for being that.
and It seem Ryuji care Taiga more than his own affair in the end.
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The best laid plans and all that.
I'm going to resonate what Vexx said earlier about timing and chance. Throughout the series, it seems nobody gets together like they expect to. Trying to come up with a mastermind plan to hook up Ryuuji and Minorin is a sure fire way to doom yourself from the start.
Even the simplest of plans such as sticking around at a party and waiting for Minorin to show up gets messed up when Ryuuji suddenly can't bear (<_<) the thought of Taiga being alone.
The saddest thing, though, is that Taiga tried so hard. She put all of her effort into the Christmas party to create the perfect place for Ryuuji and Minorin to meet one another. And the wrench that brings the gears to a screeching halt is her own feelings.
There's only one thing to do after the machinations crumble though: see what's still standing and rebuild from there.
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Freight and shipping asides...
I really haven't felt this WAFFY about a Christmas-themed episode since I saw the 5-episode AMG OVA almost a decade ago. Think it was when Ami and Taiga sang that Christmas song that made me incredibly warm and fuzzy inside...
Damn, I want that song RIGHT NOW
Also, I don't get how anyone can say Ami got shafted, when she gets an entire 3 minutes in the spotlight singing an insert song with Taiga. There are worse cases of shafting out there >_>
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I thought it was a pretty cute episode. We got to see a surprise singing duo at the Christmas party, and there was a very adorable moment between Ryuuji and Taiga. Plus, it was also nice to see Taiga beginning to both realize and admit her feelings for Ryuuji to herself. Minorin was under the suspicion that Taiga was in love with Ryuuji and it kept her away, but in the end it seems her misunderstandings weren't so misunderstood.
It's a bit of a sad thing though. Minorin not getting what she wants isn't 'too' bad, I'm sure she'll get over it if Taiga is happy. She's not much for selfishness it seems. Ami though, well Ami is going to miss out. I feel a bit bad for her, but she's a good sport for sending Ryuuji along to Taiga's side to help her out and be with her (at least for a little while). On the happy side though, Kihara is free to date Kitamura full with all his glorious nudity (Eek...).
I'm surprised people are putting blame on people for this situation. Nobody is really to blame, it was a team effort. Taiga left to be alone, being scared that Minorin and Ryuuji becoming a couple would leave her out of the loop (and she's not entirely wrong to think that either people, it does happen). Ami in a way sent Ryuuji off to be there for Taiga. Most importantly, Minorin falsely suspected Taiga loving Ryuuji (as I said before) and thus avoided him, then found out she really was in love with him (although Taiga may not realize it herself quite yet). Ryuuji is just sort of along for the ride, he's the one being pushed around and lead in to all this stuff, and in the end he prioritized his very special friendship over a chance to be with a girl he's in love with for some odd reason. I'd rather make my friends feel better, and then seek love. Better than seeking love and leaving your friends to their own sad ways.
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I think our government should just abolish the first amendment. They clearly don't believe in it. This just makes me so sick. Where is wikileaks when you need them?
This government, I would not call it "ours", has not believed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights since at least the late 60's. The peak of this country was some time in the early 80's. The downward spiral has begun.
Your history is a little too molested for my taste. the real destruction of the US constitution started during the civil war time and really became institutionalized during FDR. You are at minimum 100 years off and generalship at least 30 years off the most noticeable disregard of it.
FDR said at a speech that the government shouldn't be involved welfare or social issues two years before he was elected president. He then did did an about face and trampled all over it. In 1930 FDR said:
As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been
surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely,
people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject, but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere.
This s[eech was given considering the Volstead Act. He states that he knows they need a constitutional amendment in order to act on matters of the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare and of a dozen other important features. Yet he totally ignores that two year later as president, creates a standoff with the supreme court in which they ended up backing down and bending the interstate commerce clause in order to save face, and this was the biggest disregard for the constitution by the government in recent times and it's still being conducted to this day. Why you just now think it's happening is a mystery to me. but it still happening is not surprising at all seeing how when you allow one infraction, others will follow.
The downward spiral began with Lincoln violating the Constitution and starting a war to prevent people from peacefully leaving the US. I have an old Lit. book from college with personal letters in it written by Lincoln - there's one where he writes to the Confederate leaders and in very plain terms says that he's ok with letting them keep slaves as long as they rejoined the US and acknowledged his supreme power - if they refused to bow before him, he would destroy them. Then once FDR came to power and violated just about every last inch of the Constitution.........but I just expanded a comment below and saw that he goes into FDR, so I'll stop there.
The first amendment is irrelevant. From TFA, the military's attempting to keep hidden the real names of intelligence officers involved with some actions. Any criticism of the military actions is still likely in the second edition, which is already approved. The first amendment does not grant the right to endanger others by means of speech. It grants the right to hold and express any opinions you want, and Congress will not render such expression illegal.
Something I think many forget, or never know is that part of a security clearance is a non-disclosure agreement. You agree not to disclose classified material. It is as binding as any other NDA, and in fact has criminal penalties behind it. Now that doesn't mean you can never talk about anything. Things get declassified, after long enough passes this tends to happen by default (50 years usually).
However it does mean that you have to be careful what you disclose. In general, the government works with people in this regard. You want to write a book about something that is legal for you to disclose, they'll review it to make sure nothing goes in there that shouldn't. In this case, it sounds like the events can be talked about, but not the names. Makes sense.
What happened here is that it got missed somehow. They noticed they missed it, but to until after the printing run was done. So "mea cupla," they ask the author to change it, and teh publisher to do another run. However the first run is still done, the money spent. So they buy it up. Now everyone is happy.
Actually the idea of some entity trying to buy every single copy of a book to keep it secret, strikes me of more like a PR stunt than something feasible.
If you want to actually bury something, you buy the _rights_ to it. Then you get copyright extended until kingdom come like Disney. Copyright is just as misused for preventing something from being seen as it is used as originally intended.
Trying to just buy the copies off the market is purely pointless if someone else has the copyright, as basically nothing
I think our government should just abolish the first amendment. They clearly don't believe in it. This just makes me so sick. Where is wikileaks when you need them?
The author is a vet and had the military review the book. After publishing someone thought something had erroneously been left in. The author and publisher are cooperating, a new version is already being printed without the part in question. Buying the first printing of books may be the simplest way to deal with them. The military reviewers goofed not the publisher so the publisher should not suffer any loss. Given that the author and publisher do not want to reveal anything sensitive and are cooperating with the government I don't see censorship. Censorship is when someone wants to publish and is prohibited, not when someones says is all this ok with you
They sent out their minions to buy up Hubbard books in order to artificially push them into the charts.
Maybe the Pentagon is trying something similar here?
Sure, and a Florida pastor was recently trying to make a start in doing the same to the Koran.
He should have a copy transcribed, and release it in a torrent.
"He should have a copy transcribed, and release it in a torrent."
Government employees, military and civilian, are subject to NDA regarding classified information. Naming names is desirable to those who want to expose everyone involved in classified ops, but not necessarily required for the public to be entertained.
The blurb is intentionally misleading here. The govt gave the OK for the book but then upon a later review they were worried about some names released and a 2nd printing has already been agreed upon by both parties. They are just deciding what to do with 10k books that were already printed. Obviously the publisher spent money to already print them so they aren't going to just destroy them.
mod parent up, case dismissed, nothing to see here, move along...
misleading blurbs FTL.
No kidding, let's not become the Fox News of the internet.
Too late.
Don't US officers have to agree to let the military vet any books about their experiences if they want the job?
"agreed upon by both parties"
Maybe you missed that bit. It's not government forcing anything. The publisher agreed to it. The government made a reasonable request and was willing to compensate the publisher for their trouble, and everything is fine. The 2nd version will be printed and anyone can buy it.
The publisher probably can't be prosecuted (which is one reason they're being paid off instead, probably), but ex-intelligence officials do need permission to publish about their work. When accepting employment, they sign a contract agreeing to run any future publications about their work by the Publication Review Board for prepublication clearance.
The Supreme Court upheld that arrangement in 1980 in Snepp v. US [google.com], in a short 6-3 per curiam opinion. It's a strange opinion, because this sort of thing usually
Comes with being in the military. I believe as an officer you have to pretty much sign a statement saying you give the military approval of anything you write.
You say the guy is no longer on active duty? Fine, but if he was an officer he probably is still an officer, just not active duty. You have to go through a lot to actually resign your commission.
If the guy was just a grunt this wouldn't apply.
The publisher is in the clear, but if classified info is in there the author can go straight off to prison. The issue here is that the DoD erroneously okayed the first edition on that issue.
Crap i had a rant all prepared and you go and take the fun out of it....
Seriously this type of reporting is akin to all those emails I get from my Tea-Partier Mother-in-Law and I have to take time to let her know she is spreading lies and misinformation in order to incite and such is harmful to a democratic system of government.
1. write a book about a subject
2. the subject must be something that someone or some organization wants to cover up
3. the said someone or organization buys all your copies in order to cover up the subject
4. profit!
So the government is going to buy all prints straight from the press?
How about a second print?
Surely this will become the most popular book of all times, as measured in sales.
So the government is going to buy all prints straight from the press?
How about a second print?
Surely this will become the most popular book of all times, as measured in sales.
Except the second edition has been edited to remove the information that the DoD objects to in the first edition. They're just trying to clean up after a mistake (the book was cleared for release, but now they're claiming it wasn't cleared by the "proper" authorities).
Yea!!! Modern day book burning!!!!
We American's have finally come full circle now. Next week, burning a witch at the stake (Sponsored by Kingford)
That was Assange's palm smacking his rather large forehead!
For all the people say "LOL they'll just print more" or "OMG censorship is bad!" here are the relevant parts of the story:
"[T]he Defense Intelligence Agency objected to the use of the names of American intelligence officers, among other issues." and "A new print run, without the disputed passages, is being prepared by the publisher."
This compromise is reasonable and legal. We still get the story but the intelligence officers names won't be published.
The issue is, of course, that the publisher paid to have a first run done. Would rather suck if they couldn't sell any of those. It would be a big sunk cost. Never mind if the government would even have the authority to tell them not to sell it, it would be a really dick move, one that would hurt the publisher. So the government instead said "We'll just buy up the entire production run. You agree to sell them to nobody else, we take all of them and destroy them, you go ahead with the 2nd edition with our bl
"Thank you for giving us a green light to print money, Pentagon." --The Publishers
The first printing was so popular, we're going to crank out another 100K pronto!
...if the entire first printing sells out almost immediately (Regardless of the reason), doesn't that pretty much ensure it will get another printing?
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Being a diabetic with hearing problems (especially in crowds), I have days when I probably shouldn't be "out and about." A few months ago, when I was attempting to read the menu in a local restaurant without my glasses , I noticed that the decibel level resembled Walmart on Christmas Eve. The lights were too bright, the TVs (several of them) were proclaiming world disasters and a child was screaming in the next booth. I guess I ended up staring about in confusion. Then, the waitress smiled and said, "And what does Mr. Grumpy want this morning."
Mr. Grumpy? Was she talking to me? Then, I caught my reflection in a mirror above the counter and saw that I looked a bit like the old Irish actor, Barry Fitzgerald - a crusty old geezer who always looked like he was sucking a lemon as he threatened folks with his walking stick and said things like "Ahh, you dirty git."
Now, here is the thing. I wasn't feeling especially contentious. In fact, this was one of my better days. The problem was, my facial expression was at odds with my disposition. When I told a friend about the comment by the waitress, his response surprised me. He said that I had a reputation as being a bit ... crusty.
"Yeah, you know, a bit of a curmudgeon."
"Really? Well, thank you for brightening my day."
"There now, see what I mean?"
Okay, so I am a bit testy. Aside from the fact that I think a lot of this has to do with ill-fitting dentures. Anyway, I'm not sure that I am ready to let my acquaintances provide me with a "label." I mean, isn't that a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy? Since I have become aware that I am "Mr. Grumpy," I feel a kind of obligation to act like the person I am perceived to be. Now, when people don't agree with my taste in literature, movies and politics, I realize that I have an opportunity to be downright abusive without actually offending anyone. They merely look at each other and smile because they have "pulled my chain," and I have lapsed into my role as a contentious old geezer. The Rhodes Cove Grinch.
So, the fact that I usually have a frustrated expression on my face ... well, this facade does not honestly reflect my inner self - my complacent, gentle soul. Now, it is true that I am occasionally disgruntled by some computer problems ... (AOL is a blundering, incompetent and arrogant entity, and I have told them so frequently), and come to think of it, I had a number of unkind things to say about the IRS when they mistakenly attached my social security check. Then, too, I was a bit outspoken when Duke Power doubled my electrical bill. Well, come to think of it, all this rancor developed about the same time that the company contracted to pave the street in front of my house cut down over 20 trees on my property without consulting me and I began proclaiming my discontent to the neighborhood. But, usually, such events are just minor blemishes on my otherwise sunny disposition. Really.
Recently, I have been eating lunch in the Jackson County Senior Citizen Center and I think I may have stumbled into a brotherhood there. Yesterday, an old coot sat his tray down at my table and stared at me.
"Aren't you the jolly soul," he said.
"There are plenty of empty tables in here. Why don't you move?"
"Well, to tell you the truth," he said, "I feel it is my civic duty to run you out of here so the rest of us can eat without looking at your face."
"Lots of luck," I said. "Who the hell are you anyway?"
"Don't recognize me, huh? I'm one of your old neighbors from Rhodes Cove. If I remember correctly, you shot me with your Daisy air rifle once."
"Good for me," I said.
After more of this camaraderie, I finish my lunch and got up to leave.
"See you tomorrow, he said.
"Not likely," I said. "You dirty git."
Frankly, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's lunch. Chicken and dumpling with a kindred soul.
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I get it, how you're feeling that is. My kids always thought I looked unhappy, but I wasn't feeling sad at all. I think my true voice is reflected in my writing rather than my face. And I sure like your writing voice, and I don't have to look at you anyway, so I hope you keep on writing stories like this! :)ReplyDelete
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Technically, Judson Phillips is correct as he outlines the ways in which the Twelfth Amendment can prevent President Obama from serving another term. In order for the Electoral Votes to be certified, a quorum of two-thirds of the 50 states must participate in the Electoral College. If seventeen of the twenty-four states can be persuaded to do this, the Electoral College will not have a quorum and will be unable to renew Obama's lease at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Phillips calls on readers in what could call dubbed the "Twelfther" movement to contact the Secretaries of State in the states Romney carried and tell them not to participate in the Electoral College in the hopes of denying Democratic states the necessary quorum.
If the Electoral College does not choose a president, the decision constitutionally goes to the Congress, with the Republican-dominated House being likely to choose Romney as president and the enlarged Democrat majority in the Senate reelecting Vice President Joe Biden to his post. If that happens, what then?
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