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- Dennis Rodman leads a "Happy Birthday" singalong with crowds at a Pyongyang stadium
- His "basketball diplomacy" team loses to North Korean squad, state media reports
- "It was, as you might imagine, a bizarre and unusual occasion," a tour leader says
- Rodman angered many Tuesday by implying that a U.S. man held in North Korea is guilty
Courting yet more controversy, Dennis Rodman on Wednesday led a singalong of "Happy Birthday" to the leader of North Korea, a man he calls a friend and a "very good guy," but considered by many a brutal dictator who recently lauded the execution of his own uncle.
Images released by The Associated Press also show Rodman appearing to bow to Kim Jong Un at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, the site of a basketball exhibition Wednesday -- Kim's birthday -- between a North Korean team and Rodman's squad of former NBA players and others.
"It was, as you might imagine, a bizarre and unusual occasion that won't easily be forgotten," Simon Cokerell, general manager of Koryo Tours, said in a YouTube video posted after he accompanied tourists to watch the match.
Even before Wednesday's spectacle -- in which his team lost to a North Korean squad 47-39, according to North Korean state media -- Rodman's visit to North Korea had already generated enormous controversy.
The colorful former NBA star known as "The Worm" elicited widespread condemnation Tuesday when he suggested in an exclusive interview with Chris Cuomo of CNN's "New Day" that American Kenneth Bae had done something to deserve his 15-year sentence.
On Wednesday, Bae's family accused Rodman of "playing games" with Bae's life. Relatives and U.S. officials have insisted Bae committed no crime.
"There is no diplomacy, only games, and at my brother's expense," Bae's sister, Terri Chung, said Wednesday in a prepared statement.
Bae, described by family members as a devout Christian who ran a legal tour operation in North Korea, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2012 on charges that he planned an operation to topple North Korea's government through religious activities.
The regime also accused Bae of urging people to carry out "hostile acts" against the state.
The married father of three has suffered a series of health problems during his detention and has been transferred from a labor camp to a hospital.
Bae's relatives say Rodman, who once urged Kim in a tweet to "do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose," could have helped put pressure on the North Korean government to release him.
Instead, she said he made the situation worse in his Tuesday CNN interview by intimating that Bae was guilty.
"Do you understand what he did in this country?" Rodman asked Cuomo. "No, no, no, you tell me, you tell me. Why is he held captive here in this country, why?"
Chung said Wednesday she was shocked by his statements.
"Dennis Rodman could do a lot of good by advocating for Kenneth to Kim Jong Un, but instead he has decided to hurl outrageous accusations at my brother, insinuating that Kenneth has done something sinister," Chung said.
'A lot of showboating'
Rodman's trip to North Korea is his fourth in the past year.
Wednesday's match took place at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, according to Cokerell, whose company stages tours for Western visitors to North Korea.
After Kim emerged to cheering crowds that for several minutes wished him long life -- ending only when the leader hushed them -- Rodman gave an impromptu speech, then he led the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday" to Kim.
Rodman's squad and a North Korean team played two games, Cokerell said. The first featured his team in a 20-minute match in a loss against the North Korean squad. The second game pitted squads with Western and North Korean players on each team, he said.
"That game was actually much better; there was a lot of showboating, showing off, alley-oops, slam-dunks and that sort of thing," he said.
Controversial friendship
Rodman struck up a friendship with Kim in February, when he first traveled to North Korea with a team of Harlem Globetrotters for an exhibition game. He has since described Kim as a "very good guy" and his friend.
"I love my friend," Rodman said Tuesday in a reference to Kim. "This is my friend."
Rodman has described his series of trips to North Korea as a "basketball diplomacy" project and defended the latest trip in his interview with Cuomo, saying it was a "great idea for the world."
Much of the rest of the world, however, has been less enthusiastic.
Western governments and human rights groups have accused North Korea of human rights abuses, including arbitrary detentions and operating a network of labor camps -- including one to which Bae was reportedly sentenced before his health deteriorated.
Kim is also believed to have led a purge that culminated in the execution of his uncle, who had been instrumental in leading the current leader to power after the death of his father.
U.S. officials have taken pains to note that Rodman is on a private visit. On Tuesday, Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, also criticized Rodman's comments.
Richardson, a former New Mexico governor who has visited North Korea multiple times, said Rodman "drank a little bit too much of the Kool-Aid from the North Koreans."
Charles D. Smith, a basketball player who accompanied Rodman on the trip, apologized for "the storm that has been created by our presence." But, he added, "We're not apologizing for doing what we do ... we're connecting people to basketball and people to people."
NBA unimpressed
The NBA also has distanced itself from Rodman's trip.
"Dennis will be Dennis, but I think there is a lot at stake here in terms of a ... a very dangerous country," outgoing NBA Commissioner David Stern said Tuesday on "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."
The NBA has had preliminary discussions with Pyongyang about a cultural exchange, Stern said. But he said he wouldn't send any players to North Korea without White House approval.
"Sports diplomacy is a wonderful thing," he said. "But they should be done in a far more dignified fashion than this particular trip is being carried out."


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Nicholas immediately took advantage of IWP's new partnership with AMBerg, and decided to study Russian in St. Petersburg. He had taken Russian area studies during his undergraduate career at St. Joseph's University, and hoped to deepen his knowledge.
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Back at IWP for the fall semester, Nicholas is continuing his Russian language studies with Professor Basil Bessonoff. For Prof. Robert Stephan's class on Spies, Subversion, Terrorism and Influence Operations, Nicholas is examining how the Soviet Union attempted to subvert our culture through our educational system. They strategically placed people who were either communists or sympathizers in U.S. schools, who would then create sympathy for communism among their students, who in turn would influence others in the culture. "Targeting institutions who train future leaders can be very effective," Nicholas comments. "They end up making policy decisions."


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Timing light. Buy, burrow, or rent one. You can also do it by ear and get it pretty close
Hmm I was jus thinkign more... are you talking about cam <-> crank timing or ignition timing ?
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Dirty sock smell happens when swapping from heat to cool. So she says it happens when aux heat is operational - My guess it is happening in defrost which will turn on the aux heat (she sees this displayed) and it shifts into cool momentarily.
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"The European Commission has imposed a EUR 561 million fine on Microsoft for failing to comply with its commitments to offer users a browser choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred web browser. In 2009, the Commission had made these commitments legally binding on Microsoft until 2014. In today's decision, the Commission finds that Microsoft failed to roll out the browser choice screen with its Windows 7 Service Pack 1 from May 2011 until July 2012. 15 million Windows users in the EU therefore did not see the choice screen during this period. Microsoft has acknowledged that the choice screen was not displayed during that time." Burn.
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Escaping from jail with a year left on a 99 year sentence is still a crime...
That's actually not the case everywhere - IIRC, at least in one Nordic country. There escaping from jail is seen as a natural human need, hence carries no additional penalties itself (as long as the escape didn't involve any other crime!).


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You've heard the statistics about drug violence deaths along the US-Mexico border – more than 70,000 lives lost in the last six years alone. Acclaimed journalist Ed Vulliamy spent years travelling the frontier to write his book "Amexica". He takes us behind the scenes and tells Catherine Nicholson why he thinks we're all implicated.
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Posted by Rot at 7:00 AM
Labels: bean, jack o'lanterns, photography, polaroid, pumpkin, rotten, rotting pumpkin
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How does she get such great colors with just a polaroid camera, or are they altered after? Either way, Awesome photo Bean.
- January 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- Rot said...
Happy to say she doesn't alter them at all. Just scanned and saved in photoshop.
She takes a mean photo.
- January 17, 2009 at 5:07 PM
- The Captain said...
Yea no joke, it almost looks like she used a filter. Again Awesome photo.
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great article. Tells it like it is.
I didn't know Rex and Tebow shared the same agent. I guess that blows out the "Rex didn't want Tebow here in the first place" excuse for all the Rex lovers out there.
The New York Jets made former general manager Mike Tannenbaum the fall guy for their bumbling, grotesque, laughable 6-10 season of underachievement. They fired Tannenbaum on "Black Monday" via a statement from owner Woody Johnson, which included the explanation that coach Rex Ryan would return because of "the passion, the talent and the drive to successfully lead our team" that Ryan possesses.
Apparently, Johnson didn't watch the Jets this season, or he doesn't understand how his football operations worked.
In a year that included the Tim Tebow insanity, Mark Sanchez's gruesome underachievement, and the expression "butt fumble" becoming forever a part of the football lexicon, Monday's decision to keep Ryan and fire Tannenbaum was the Jets' worst moment of 2012.
Hey -- happy New Year.
The Jets had two choices: Take a deep breath and retain both Ryan and Tannenbaum -- a duo that won more games than they lost in their four years together -- or fire both. The one thing they shouldn't have done was attack the issue piecemeal.
The decision was very simple, but the Jets messed it up in "butt fumble" fashion.
You can make the case that Tannenbaum deserved to lose his job because of the extension given to Sanchez last offseason, guaranteeing the quarterback more than $8 million for 2013. It was basically money to pump up the confidence-deficient signal-caller coming off a shaky 2011. One could also cite other bad player contracts in making a case against Tannenbaum.
But Ryan and Tannenbaum should've been attached at the hip.
Ryan worked hand-in-hand with Tannenbaum on shaping the Jets. He had more power than most head coaches.
Ryan was convinced Sanchez had the talent and personality (which is laughable to think now, after Sanchez's postgame press conferences this year) to handle New York and thrive. He wanted to draft Sanchez. He pushed for Tannenbaum to give him that contract after speculation arose that the Jets wanted Peyton Manning.
Ryan wanted Tebow. He wanted to run the ball and get back to "ground and pound," and he envisioned Tebow as a threat in the red zone, in short-yardage situations and in the Wildcat.
Remember the toxic Jets locker room in 2011 and all the finger pointing that was part of that season's collapse? Ryan thought Tebow could help the locker room. That's a fact.
Yes, Tannenbaum was on board with the trade. But Ryan, who shares an agent with Tebow, drove the bus.
Tannenbaum wanted to sign Chad Henne to be Sanchez's backup. The Jets did, in fact, sign Drew Stanton before the Tebow trade. After the Tebow trade, Tannenbaum did right by Stanton, dealing him to the Indianapolis Colts. As it turned out, Stanton would've been the best quarterback on the Jets' roster this year.
Ryan hand-picked Tony Sparano as his offensive coordinator to run the ball. As Ryan told me, "I wanted to find the mirror image of me." It was an unmitigated disaster. The Jets' offensive line was the worst it had been in years. Ryan wanted Dave DeGuglielmo as his line coach. Ryan told me on SiriusXM this summer that he knew DeGuglielmo was his guy when he saw him kick over a garbage can, showing fight. Garbage, as it turned out, was the ideal metaphor.
It's easy to say that Tannenbaum put together a poor roster, and it's a valid criticism. However, I'd argue that the bigger issue was giving Ryan so much say, listening to him when he claimed he could coach up the likes of Aaron Maybin and Wayne Hunter and turn them into signature players.
In a related story, both Maybin and Hunter are now ex-Jets.
The collaboration between Ryan and Tannenbaum sometimes worked, as it did when it came to Muhammad Wilkerson, Antonio Cromartie or LaRon Landry. But don't get confused. These are Rex's Jets, from Chaz Schilens to Bart Scott. Ryan told me that, when Tannenbaum told him Santonio Holmes was available via trade, he ran down to Tannenbaum's office faster than he ever had in his life.
Nobody had a worse 2012 for the Jets than Rex.
Sparano lost faith in Tebow early on because of bad practice and Tebow's weight gain. Last summer, Tebow was behind both Kyle Orton and Brady Quinn on the Denver Broncos' depth chart before leading the team to the playoffs. If you get in bed with Tebow, you don't judge on practice.
Ryan is a sub-par in-game coach. His usage of timeouts and challenges is laughable.
He consistently had the wrong quarterbacks active down the stretch. He went into the Thanksgiving game against the New England Patriots with Tebow as the backup quarterback, even though Tebow was hurt. After Greg McElroy saved the Jets in the offensively challenged matchup with the Arizona Cardinals, Ryan had him inactive for the next two weeks. That included the ill-fated Week 15 loss to the Tennessee Titans, during which Mark Sanchez turned the ball over five times. Would have been nice for Jets fans if Ryan had been able to go to McElroy in that one.
Ryan coaches his team like a glorified defensive coordinator.
He looks especially bad when one considers how the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills closed out their seasons. Like the Jets, the Chargers and Bills were merely playing out the string over the final few weeks, but unlike the Jets, the Chargers and the Bills kept fighting. In Week 16, San Diego had to travel to the East Coast to face the Jets for an early start; the Bolts easily could have quit. Instead, they sacked McElroy 11 times in a 27-17 win. However, both the Chargers and Bills fired head coaches Norv Turner and Chan Gailey, respectively.
Ryan, meanwhile, got to keep his job, even though he can't coach, manage, or properly evaluate players or coaches.
What legit general manager candidate would take this job and inherit Rex?
Think about the dynamic for next season. The Jets aren't close to competing with the New England Patriots and winning the AFC East. This offseason calls for the Jets to be re-shaped while the cap ramifications of Tannenbaum's bad deals are handled. The new GM should want to stockpile talent and build the team smartly. Ryan, on the other hand, will be coaching for his job; he'll favor band-aid-type solutions, even though surgery is what the Jets need.
Historically, things don't work out when the new brass keeps the old coach. Look at Chicago Bears GM Phil Emery and former coach Lovie Smith. Analyze what happened when Mike Holmgren joined the Cleveland Browns without jettisoning Eric Mangini. Such moves simply delay the inevitable.
The Jets either needed to keep both Mike and Rex, or they needed to start over.
Keeping Ryan for another year with a new GM just ensures more wackiness -- and that I'll be penning a "Rex Ryan has been fired" column 365 days from now.
Woody Johnson should really reconsider.
I feel terrible for the diehard, long-suffering Jets fan, who deserved a better and clearer direction for the team to go.
great article. Tells it like it is.
I didn't know Rex and Tebow shared the same agent. I guess that blows out the "Rex didn't want Tebow here in the first place" excuse for all the Rex lovers out there.
Not surprising at all to see Adam Schein is the author. While I don't always agree with him, in this case I do.
Hyperbolic Buffalo fan par excellence....he knows saying this crap to a SOJF is like saying "Alpo" to a dog, they lap it up
NYG kept Coughlin when Reese came in, so much for history
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What if they do share the same agent? So ****ing what?
Oh, Adam Schein. Shocking.
The Jets worst move was, in hndsight, drafting Mark Sanchez.
Worst QB of the past 4 years. No accuracy. Worst in turnovers.
Mark Sanchez alone turned a 4 year stretch of potential into what we have today.
An average, 15th-rated QB, and we're a 4 years running Playoff Team and possible Super Bowl winner by this point.
Rex is responsible for Sanchez, but Sanchez is the core of our teams failure.
WTF is this idiot writer making such ridiculous claims?
This guy doesn't have the faintest f*cking idea what he's talking about. So instead of gathering some real insight, he'd rather talk through his A$$ in "butt fumble" fashion.
Rex Ryan is a great HC. If the NYJ had even the least competent veteran QB in 2009 and 2010, we would talking about back to back rings for the Jets. Unfortunately, he was stuck with the biggest f*cking bust QB the league has ever seen. That POS was a turnover machine.
Rex got everything he could out of each and every player, unfortunately Sanchez's best was to f*ck us out of the championship.
Sanchez is a big reason for our failures the last 2 seasons, but was the reason we advanced as far as we did those 2 years.
I stopped reading at Adam The Slimeball Schein....Village Idiot of the NYJ media village
But no matter. When it comes to the Jets, pundits and "experts" are free to just make stuff up. Maybe Schein got this info from the same "NFL source" that Myers and Manish rely on for their breaking news.
And Rex went to two AFC Championship games but Rex "can't coach."
Schein's becoming Francesa lite. Yawn.
We get it. Rex made a bunch of mistakes. The team underachieved. You want him fired.
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For you to give Sanchez ANY credit for those wins is MORONIC at best. Give me a f*cking break?!
The ONLY game where Sanchez was legitimately the reason why we won was the NE game.
Sanchez was along for the ride in the rest of those games. The team had a dominant OL to the point where Sanchez could STARE down his receivers and still complete the ball. That's not good QB play, I'm sorry to say. That's an after-effect of having truly dominant team at the LOS. Go back and actually WATCH the games and you'll see that Sanchez was staring down his intended receivers ALL THE TIME.
And as you might recall, being that you seem to know so much about it, in the Pitt game SANCHEZ was the reason we lost. Remember when he got stripped by a Pitt defender and returned for a TD? That made the deficit 24-0. Well, the defense as you would like to blame them, BLANKED the Pitt offense the entire 2nd half. The Jets scored 19 in the 2nd half.
SO, if Sanchez takes better care of the football, Pitt never scores that last 7 points they had. Then, the Jets score 19 in the 2nd half and win by two points? And if the defense was to blame for 24 points in the 1st half, what about Sanchez? Does he get a pass for doing absolutely NOTHING with the offense in the 1st half of that game? I think not.
Also, in the Indy game in 2009, yes the defense got gashed in the 2nd half but what about Sanchez and the offense? Was there ANY good reason why they couldn't score points against the terrible Colts D in the 2nd half? Mark Sanchez decided to take the rest of the game off, just like he did so many times before and after. Sanchez was the MOST inconsistent sh*tbag of a player I've ever seen.
Now I feel the need to ask you...
Did you really watch those games? Maybe you did, but you must've been completely blind when it came to Sanchez. His flaws, and the reason why the Jets are trying to cut him, were on full display in ALL of those playoff games.


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Monument to the 1916 Russian Expeditionary Force at Paris
On February 5 representatives of Russia and France laid wreaths at the monument honoring Russian soldiers on the bank of the Seine in Paris. Sergey Naryshkin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, took part in the ceremony, RIA Novosti reports.
In 1916 the Russian Expeditionary Force was sent to Europe to assist allies during World War I. The Russian soldiers together with French troops defended the Champagne-Ardenne region. The Russian infantry performed a key role in stopping the German army and preventing the capture of Paris.
"Without Russia's participation, many of the battles of the Allies would have ended differently, and for France in particular," said General Elrick Irastorza, who heads the France's interdepartmental commission on commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
Following the February Revolution, the Russian Expeditionary Force was demobilized, but approximately 1000 Russian volunteers continued to serve among allied forces. This group was called the Russian Legion of Honor.
The monument to the Russian Expeditionary Force was unveiled in summer of 2011 during a visit to France by Vladimir Putin. It is situated in the historical center on the right bank of the Seine not far from the Grand Palais and Pont Alexandre III.
The Russian delegation met at L'Hôtel national des Invalides with representatives of France to discuss preparations for the 100th anniversary of World War I in Moscow and Paris.
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"Day in the Life" of a Firefighter 10/5
October 1, 2013
MACOMB, IL -- To pay tribute to rescue personnel and to give individuals a first-hand look at what it takes to be a firefighter, the Western Illinois University Fire Protection Studies Club will host a variety of hands-on fire protection-related activities Saturday, Oct. 5.
Beginning at 1 p.m. in Thompson Hall, the club will demonstrate proper fire extinguisher use using live fire scenarios and will provide CPR and Heimlich demonstrations, and will host six activities related to the day-to-day responsibilities of firefighters. Many of the members of WIU's club are current or former firefighters.
Participants can try on "bunker" pants, a helmet and fire coat and attempt to run up five flights of stairs; carry a fire hose load up four flights, followed by a tool bag and a medical bag. Individuals wishing to participate in these hands-on activities must wear tennis shoes or other closed toe shoes (no sandals).
"We really want to show the general public the rigors and challenges faced by firefighters every day in their job," said Walter Kirkland, a senior emergency management major from Brimfield and club event committee chair. "Like many other rescue personnel, firefighters must be physically able to handle any situation at any given time."
The program is open free to the public. For more information, contact Kirkland at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For nearly 34 years, Western has offered educational opportunities to firefighters from across the United States, first with its Open Learning Fire Services program in 1979 designed solely for fire professionals and later with distance learning degree and certification opportunities in fire administration. Beginning in this fall, the University began offering its first bachelor's degree in fire protection.
For more information on the bachelor's degree or one of the fire protection minors, contact the School of LEJA at (309) 298-1038 or visit wiu.edu/coehs/leja/fire/index.php.
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This quantitative experiment involves lab teams in comparing a sample of room air with one of the greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or methane - and measuring their heat capacity. The activity requires an infrared heat source, such... (View More) as a heat lamp, two 2L beverage bottles, #4 one hole rubber stoppers, and a thermometer or temperature probe, volumetric flasks, a graduated cylinder, and tubing. Nitrous oxide can be obtained from a dentist, methane from gas jets in a chemistry lab, and becomes CO² can be generated using vinegar and baking soda. A worksheet guides student calculations of heat capacity of the different samples. The investigation s is supported by the textbook, Climate Change, part of the Global System Science, an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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In this activity, student teams design and conduct a scientific investigation in which they explore the conditions necessary for life. They conduct observations of environmental conditions both indoor and outdoor, and determine the range of... (View More) variation they see. They compare these data with published temperature data for Earth, Mars, Pluto and Venus. The activity supports inquiry into the real world challenge of searching for life in extreme environments. The resource includes several student data sheets, data table and images, and a teacher's guide. Materials needed for this activity include weather instruments (e.g., thermometers, barometers, anemometers). This is Activity A of two activities in the first module, titled "Temperature variations and habitability," of the resource, "Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate?" The course aims to help students to develop an understanding of our environment as a system of human and natural processes that result in changes that occur over various space and time scales. (View Less)
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School lunches
School lunch menus for the week of October 15.
Glenford/Somerset/Thornville Elementary
Monday: Grilled chicken on WG bun, sweet potato puffs, and choice of fruit.
Tuesday: Toasted cheese, chili soup or vegetable choice, and choice of fruit.
Wednesday: Chicken & noodles, whipped potatoes, and choice of fruit.
Thursday: Hamburger on WG bun, seasoned fries, and choice of fruit.
Friday: Specialty pizza, romaine garden salad w/dressing, and choice of fruit.
Hebron Elementary/Jackson Intermediate
Monday: Crispy chicken wrap w/lettuce & cheese, green peas, and frozen yogurt cup w/strawberries.
Tuesday: Cheesy ravioli, garden fresh salad, garlic stick, and oreo cookie.
Wednesday: Veggie pizza, celery sticks w/dip, and fruity salad.
Thursday: Turkey joe on bun, cheesy mac & trees, chilled fruit cup, and animal crackers.
Friday: Baja fish shapes or PBJ sandwich, smiley fries, mixed fruit medley, and brownie bar.
Lakewood Middle/ High School
Monday: Mini twin chicken sandwiches, oriental chicken soup, mixed fruit salad, and gingerbread w/topping.
Tuesday: Hot dog, baked beans, creamy cole slaw, choice of fruit, and fun sized chips.
Wednesday: Multi cheese pizza, garden salad, pineapple tidbits, and pudding parfait.
Thursday: Chef salad w/croutons or pulled pork sandwich, honey glazed carrots, fruit, and lemon velvet supreme dessert.
Friday: Fish filet sandwich or shaved steak & cheese sandwich, minestrone soup, and choice of fruit.
Liberty Union Elementary/ Middle School
Monday: Bosco sticks w/ marinara sauce, steamed broccoli w/cheese sauce, fruit cocktail, and choice of fruit.
Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes/gravy, green beans, roll/butter, and peaches.
Wednesday: Pepperoni pizza, tossed romaine salad, buttered corn, and fruit slush.
Thursday: Macaroni & cheese, baked beans, steamed peas, WG choc chip cookie, and fruit.
Friday: Sliced turkey, goldfish bread, sweet potato fries, and choice of fruit.
Liberty Union High School
Monday: Chicken tender or buffalo tender wrap, cheese cup, veggie boat/lt ranch, peas, shredded lettuce, and applesauce cup.
Tuesday: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes/gravy, veggie boat/lt. ranch, roll/butter, and diced peaches.
Wednesday: Pepperoni calzone w/marinara sauce, tossed romaine salad, broccoli/cheese sauce, veggie boat/lt. ranch, and fruit delight.
Thursday: Mini corn dogs, baked beans, veggie boat/lt. ranch, Baked Cheetos, choice of fruit, and WG choc chip cookie.
Friday: Bosco sticks w/marinara sauce, green beans, veggie boat/lt. ranch, and fruit.
Millersport Elementary
Monday: Cheeseburger on WG bun, oven fires, pickles, and fruit choice.
Tuesday: Turkey sub on WG bun, carrot coins, fresh fruit, and Elf grahams.
Wednesday: Sweet & sour popcorn chicken, W/G steamed rice, mixed vegetables, fruit choice, and fortune cookie.
Thursday: Hot dog on WG bun, baked beans, macaroni & cheese, and fruit choice.
Friday: W/G stuffed crust pizza, steamed broccoli, and fruit choice.
Millersport High School
Monday: Pulled pork on WG bun, potato wedges, and fruit.
Tuesday: General Tso chicken, steamed brown rice, mixed vegetables, mandarin oranges, and fortune cookie.
Wednesday: Bosco sticks, romaine mix salad, and fruit.
Thursday: Traveling taco - beef/cheese/lettuce, black bean corn salsa, Mexican corn, and fruit choice.
Friday: Macaroni & cheese, carrot coins, warm pretzel stick, and fruit choice.
Sheridan Middle/ High School
Monday: Grilled chicken on WG bun, sweet potato puffs, and choice of fruit.
Tuesday: Meatball sub, romaine salad, and fruit.
Wednesday: Chicken & noodles, whipped potatoes, fruit & roll.
Thursday: Tostado w/beef/ cheese/refried beans, spanish rice, and choice of fruit.
Friday: Specialty pizza, romaine salad, and choice of fruit.


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1Ls and 2Ls are eligible to apply for summer internships in Bangkok, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deadline to apply is Feb. 1, 2011.
For more information on the Thailand internship, go to law.wisc.edu/ealsc and click on "summer internships in Thailand" or go to law.wisc.edu/ealsc/jd_students/thailand_internship.html
For more information on the Vietnam internship, go to law.wisc.edu/ealsc and click on "in Vietnam" near the bottom of the page -- or go to http://law.wisc.edu/ealsc/jd_students/vietnam_internship.html
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The District 99 School Board voted unanimously Monday to switch school bus companies next year following what was described as poor service.
"We've experienced some very bad service," District 99 Controller Mark Staehlin told the board Monday. "We've had administrators who've devoted full days to deal with parents who were irate about busing. It's never been this bad."
The district is currently in its third year of a five-year contract with the current provider, Westway, Inc. Staehlin said issues began the first year with Westway but he did not provide specifics. He said service improved last year but problems returned this school year.
Westway chose to opt out of the final two years of the current contract and reopen it for bidding this spring because the current contract only allowed them to increase rates in the final two years by the CPI, Staehlin said, despite the fact that the district told the company they would not be chosen during re-bidding due to service issues.
"In March, [Westway's owner] felt it was in our best interest and probably his to go to an outside bid for this work," Staehlin said.
The board voted Monday to accept a bid from First Student, the only other company to bid other than Westway.
Westway also provides busing to Downers Grove School District 58 and Woodridge Elementary School District 68, and those two districts are also expected to switch to First Student, Staehlin said.
First Student was the company used by the district prior to Westway.
Board member Keith Matune asked if the district believes whatever issues led it to leave First Student two years ago would return.
"The service we received form First Student was not perfect, but it's not so bad," Staehlin replied.
He added that First Student touted routing systems that should improve its performance.
"If nothing else we're committed to working with them to make sure we don't have substandard service," Staehlin said.
He said the fact that First Student still has property in the district that it can use as a bus terminal was a plus.
"The very late notice that Westway would not honor the existing contract left us in a precarious position," he wrote in a memo to the board. "Bidding this service out in April would require a replacement vendor to secure a terminal location and approximately 90 to 100 vehicles and drivers in a three- to four-month period. That is very hard to accomplish."
In bidding this month, Westway's three-year bid of $5.714 million was less than First Student's bid of $5.755 million, but Staehlin said contracts for student transportation are not required by law to be awarded to the lowest bidder.
The new contract with First Student is about $400,000 more than the current contract with Westway, but Staehlin said the district hopes to reduce that number to $250,000 through route efficiencies.
"This is a large and unexpected increase," he wrote to the board. "However, the late notification by Westway that they would not honor the current contract terms places us in a position that we need to secure a contractor for next year immediately or face the possibility of not having adequate bus services in place at the start of the next school year."


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text: UMW News BureauThe Bulldogs edged Montana State University-Northern in the conference playoff semifinals and now play Westminster College for the Frontier Conference playoff title. Tipoff is 7 p.m. from Salt Lake City. By Wally Feldt What looked like a yawner turned out to be a heart-stopping 60-59 victory for the Montana Western Bulldogs over the Montana State University-Northern Lights on Friday, March 5 in the semifinal round of the Frontier Conference men's basketball playoffs. The Bulldogs missed few shots in the game's first 13 minutes and quickly jumped out to a 20-point lead. The Lights came roaring back to cut the lead to seven at the halftime break and stayed hot in the second half as they grabbed their first lead of the game six minutes into the second half. The teams exchanged baskets and leads until two free throws from Layne Glaus sealed the Bulldog victory. The Bulldogs now face regular season champions Westminster College in the championship game Monday, March 9. Tipoff is 7 p.m. from the Behnken Field House on the Westminster campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The game will be broadcast in southwest Montana on KBEV radio. The Griffins downed Rocky Mountain College 80-68 in the other playoff semifinal. The Bulldogs split their regular season series with Westminster winning in Dillon 82-76 and losing in Salt Lake City 95-77. The loss to the Bulldogs in Dillon was the last loss for the Lights, who are riding a 12-game winning streak. Montana Western enters the tournament with a 24-8 record and is ranked No. 22 in the NAIA Division I Top-25 while Westminster is 25-5 and ranked No. 4. The winner of the championship game receives an automatic bid to the NAIA national tournament beginning March 17 in Kansas City, Mo. with the runner-up assured an at-large bid.


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James Mitchell Orrell
James Mitchell Orrell, 63, of Jessieville passed away March 10, 2014. He was born May 7, 1950, in Steve, Ark., to Bob and Lillie Orrell. Mitchell was a U.S. Army veteran and a longtime employee of Alcoa. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He loved to garden and raise his animals. He had a great sense of humor and was a devoted family man.
Mitchell was loved by all and will be deeply missed.
He was predeceased by his father, Bob Orrell, and a sister, Wanda Sue.
Mitchell is survived by his loving wife, Ruth Orrell of Jessieville; his children, Mark Orrell and Melissa (Terry) White, all of Benton; his mother, Lillie Orrell of Benton; his stepchildren, Allen (Randi) Dill of Hot Springs, Paul Dill of Story and Kim (Eric) Lund of Hot Springs Village; his brothers, Lloyd (Diane) Orrell of Bauxite and Kenneth (Jerri) Orrell of Benton; his sisters, Virginia Messner of Mabelvale and Loretta (Kevin) Mansfield of Benton; and his grandchildren, Madison, Kalynn, Catlyn and Erin.
Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 15, at Prairie Grove Church of God in Fanny with Brother Ed DePriest and the Rev. Davy McCool officiating. Burial will follow at Nooner Cemetery in Hollis.
Pallbearers will include his brothers, children and Michael Faila.
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'Iphigenia in Tauris' to be staged at WCSU in November
DANBURY, CONN. — The Leonidas Loizidis Theatre Company will stage its world-touring production of "Iphigenia in Tauris" at Western Connecticut State University on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The classic Greek tragedy will be performed at7 p.m. in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university's Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury.
Produced and directed by Leonidas Loizides, "Iphigenia in Tauris" stars Eftychia Papadopoulou as Iphigenia, Francesco Andolfi as Orestes, and Taso Mikroulis as Thoas. Classified as a romance and melodrama, the play focuses on the young princess Iphigenia who has been swept away to Tauris and forced into religious servitude. Her relatives, who live in Greece, think she is dead and Iphigenia wants to inform them that she is alive and would like to return to her homeland. The play is an original drama by the Greek playwright Euripides written between 414 B.C. and 412 B.C.
Loizides, a Cypriot by birth, earned his degree in film directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He worked in theaters in Athens, Greece, and staged a series of plays ranging from ancient tragedies to contemporaries. With the Leonidas Loizidis Theatre Company, he has staged performances in Cyprus, England, France and the United States. The theater company consists of 12 members including the actors, the director, the technicians and the production organizers.
According to loizidis.com, the Leonidas Loizides Theatre Company was established as a nonprofit organization with the goal of spreading Greek culture through traveling productions of Greek drama. The company has staged many plays including "The Trojan Women Today," "Love Letters," "Apokalypse," "Galateia" and "The Holy Sermon."
The production at WCSU is funded by a grant from the foundation of Brookfield industrialist and philanthropist Constantine "Deno" Macricostas and his wife Marie. Macricostas is also the chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president of Photronics Inc.
The performance will be free and the public is invited. For more information, call (203) 837-8486.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.


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More than 100 people packed into the room at the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District meeting Monday in Soldotna.
The group, made up of teachers, staff and union supporters, spoke for more than an hour about the lack of a contract between the school district and the two unions and how they thought the board of education members could help.
"I feel like you guys wield a lot of power," said Terri Tidwell, a member of the KPESA bargaining team. "Power that holds all of the employees and all of the students in this district at your hand."
So many people stood to speak for themselves, or read statements submitted by other teachers and staff in the district who couldn't attend the meeting, that Joe Arness, board president, allowed an extra 30 minute period for statements.
The district and unions have yet to come to an agreement and are currently waiting for a judgement from a non-binding arbitration meeting during the first week of October.
Buses from Seward and Homer arrived with teachers and supporters who rallied outside of the meeting before packing into the room still holding their "fair contract" signs.
Teachers and staff spoke of having to hold down second jobs to support their careers in education and the skyrocketing cost of health care.
"I have people at my church say 'You guys make too much money.' Well, let's take a secretary that makes — let's say — 16 dollars an hour. She only works nine months out of the year," Tidwell said. "They cut back support people, hour by hour, little by little, just so we can make it up. So we can make up what we need to run the building. We take that nine months of pay and try to stretch it out to 12 months."
Arness thanked everyone who spoke at the end of the meeting but said he was concerned at the amount of misinformation clouding the contract issues between the school district and the unions.
Board members were also told by district administration that money was tight.
Superintendent Steve Atwater told the board that the district was in the middle of its 20-day count for certified enrollment and while its numbers were close to what it had projected, there would still be close to a $2.9 million shortfall and the district would have to dip into savings.
The district's state and federal legislative priorities were revised an approved by the board as was its strategic plan.
The school district also had to submit a district improvement plan after preliminary Adequate Yearly Progress Data given to the state suggested that the district would move from level one to level two of improvement.
Each district receiving federal Title I funding that is identified as a level two district must submit a District Improvement Plan according to information provided to the board by the administration.
The plan was due to the Department of Education and Early Development by Oct. 1 and covered a two-year period of improvements within the district according to board documents.


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Indie: An American Film Culture
My book has been published! Woo hoo! It was on the table of the book room at the recent Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in New Orleans, where at least eight people got to take a copy home. I'm told the date retailers can sell the thing is April 12, though they are taking orders. If you want to buy it directly from CUP, follow the link above and use the promo code INDNE for a 30% discount.
Columbia UP's publicist emailed me to see if I can help promote the book by posting to listservs, alerting my social networks, etc. Yes I can do that!
This post is going to take you BEHIND THE SCENES of the thrilling production process of an ACADEMIC MONOGRAPH!!! I have been saving some of these tidbits for years, carefully guarding them until this day.
-The idea for the book was suggested to me circa 2002 by my graduate school advisor, David Bordwell at a restaurant in Madison called The Saz that no longer exists. I wanted to write a dissertation about narrative theory and in particular about character, and he thought independent cinema would offer a good body of work within which to explore my ideas. These things take time. The dissertation was completed in 2005, and in the meantime I had a child and found my interests expanding into television and new media and taste and cultural studies. I have found that parenthood is a great motivator. I waste much less time when someone else is looking after my kid while I'm supposed to be working. People think having a baby around must kill your productivity, and maybe it's my male privilege speaking, but I have found it to be the opposite.
-The title changed a few times. When I proposed the book to CUP it was to be called Indiewood: Storytelling in American Independent Cinema. I changed it when I saw storytelling becoming only one aspect of the work rather than a singular central focus. I also didn't want the book to have the same title as Geoff King's Indiewood, USA, and I saw "Indiewood" as too specific a term, leaving out what some see as the "true" indies. My wife, Elana, suggested the title Indie. I'm pretty sure the An American Film Culture part was mine. At one point I wanted to rename the book Home is Where the Art Is, which is the title of a chapter about film festivals and art house theaters and a headline from a NYT article about independent cinema from 1989. My editor at the press thought it was a bad idea, and I think she was right.
-As in any long-simmering project, this book is the product of an abiding personal interest and a connection with many events in my life. In some ways this is the ultimate expression of my youthful cinephilia, which in most ways I have outgrown. When I was in my late teens and early twenties I was eager to be initiated into the world of serious film passion. The first film I ever saw at a film festival was Jarmusch's Mystery Train, at the 1989 Toronto festival with the director and Screamin' Jay Hawkins in attendance. I worked managing the candy counter of the Carleton Cinema around that time, where Do the Right Thing and sex, lies, and videotape were playing (along with Jesus of Montreal, 36 Filette, The Little Thief, as well as some more popular titles like When Harry Met Sally...). After moving to New York in 1994 I became a pretty passionate follower of independent film, regularly spending weekend afternoons at the Angelika. In some ways the book is an effort to make sense of one kind of cinema that was part of what made me want to become a film -- later media -- scholar. I have never thought of myself as a fan of independent films per se, and I have probably been a bigger fan of studio-era Hollywood and some foreign cinema (at times, Godard, Bergman, Antonioni, Ozu, Kiarostami, 1980s Hong Kong action films). But having seen so many of the canonical indie films, the ones like sex, lies and Pulp Fiction, at an impressionable age, the centrality of this form of cinema to my conception of artistic film practice was pretty important. Later I would see this in a context of a film culture producing distinction for its elite audience, but having a critical perspective on indie's social functions hardly diminishes my feeling for some of these films.
-Maybe some processes are quicker and easier, but my revision process was slow and painful. Between proposal and proofs stages, there were at least four readers who wrote reports. The shape of the project shifted as my interests developed toward more of a concern with social issues and less with narrative. I like how it turned out, but it took a long time to get there. One thing I'm especially pleased with is how Indie balances two senses of culture: as works to be analyzed, and as social ways of knowing and experiencing. A film culture functions in both of these senses, and I try to combine an analysis of indie's value as a cultural category, and its coherence as a body of films calling on a coherent set of expectations about form and meaning. When I say film culture, I always mean both of these things.
-I am pretty pleased by the cover. I suggested images from Lost in Translation and Juno, and for various reasons the press preferred Juno. One reason I like seeing her on the cover is that Juno is both a film I liked a lot, and a great example of the contentiousness of indie as a cultural category. As I discuss in the final chapter, Juno is an example of a movie that some members of the indie community sought to de-authenticate, to remove from consideration as indie because of its heavy marketing by Fox Searchlight, its mainstream appeal, its lack of indie bona fides. One of my central claims about indie cinema is that it's a slippery, contested category, and that it can only be understood as it is used within indie film culture. I would not exclude it because it is so widely thought to belong, but the efforts of some critics and bloggers to distance themselves from Juno (and of many people I have talked to personally) reveals much about the values sustaining independent cinema. I suggested handwritten for the type but the designer did it better than that, and gave it more of a DIY scissors cut-out look.
This is the Lost in Translation image I had suggested. Pretty but not really fun. Related: I use the term bokeh in the chapter where I discuss Lost in Translation to describe the effect of out-of-focus abstract shapes of lights like we see in this image. That's one of my favorite words in the book, just cuz.
-Some people have asked how it feels to have a book published. It's kind of like asking how it feels to be 39 years old. I knew it was coming for a long time, and it's not that different from before. But publish means to make public, so now I have this sense that what I have done is out there and outside of my control, and I like that. It means my work is done. It belongs to you now.
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- Christopher Lucas said...
I love this, thanks - and I've very much looking forward to reading the book. That summer of 1989 really was some kind of watershed for those of us of a certain age! Absolutely that was when I felt like my eyes opened to cinema as an art form and as a culture and social force and I started going hunting for the other 1980s output of those filmmakers. Besides the films you name, I associate Drugstore Cowboy and Powwow Highway with that moment. Also Matewan, although it came out a few years before - somehow I think I saw it that year.
- jason sperb said...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and congratulations.
Yes, I suspect the 90s post-Sundance moment in Hollywood inspired quite a few media scholars (for better and for worse), even though as you note most eventually move far past it. For me, befitting my age (33), it was more five years later, with Pulp Fiction. It was the first time I really noticed that films could *do* something besides entertain (a ridiculously naive statement now, of course). So, I guess I grew up on more on the second wave of filmmakers.
At the same time, that initial cinephiliac impulse is so strong that it worms its way into scholarship. So that, ten years later, you're still writing through it--as much to be able to let go of it as anything else.
But then the final irony is that, though interests have changed, its what you'll now be known for now, thanks to the book. The flip side of losing "control," I suppose.
- michael z. newman said...
Thanks for these comments. In addition to the films I mentioned, which are really more the famous ones rather than my favorites, I would list Slacker as an early eye-opener. As much as the film itself, the posters plastered around the student union made an impression. I liked Dazed and Confused much more. It was around the time of Pulp Fiction that I became more aware of independent cinema as a cultural force, as it became more visible in mainstream pop culture. The films I remember most fondly from the Angelika days are Smoke, Before Sunrise, Safe, and Kids, though initially I didn't like either Safe or Kids. The important thing was they engaged me passionately.


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Tied for fifth on the MSU career list with a 74.19 scoring average ... Has two career collegiate victories, five top-10 finishes and nine top-20 showings ... His sophomore stroke average (73.94) is 12th on the Spartans' single-season list ... Had one of the best freshmen seasons in Michigan State history; his freshman scoring average of 74.59 was the third-best all-time among Spartan newcomers.
SOPHOMORE (2008-09): Second on the team with a 73.91 scoring average, good for 12th on the MSU single-season list ... Won a team-best two events, also posting four top-10 and seven top-20 finishes, second on the team in both ... One of two golfers to compete in all 13 events ... Opened season by placing ninth at the Spartan Classic with a 73 ... Tied for 22nd with a 214 (76-69-69) at the Wolverine Intercollegiate ... Tied for 20th at The Prestige with a 223 (81-70-72) ... Earned his first collegiate title at the UNCG Bridgestone, finishing with a career-low 213 (69-70-74) ... Finished in a tie for 11th at the Rees Jones Invitational at 226 (76-75-75) ... Went 1-1-1 at the Big Ten Match Play Championship; beating Matt Hoffman of Illinois (4&3) and halving with Danny Zimmerman of Wisconsin ... Placed ninth at the Western Intercollegiate with a 216 (71-76-76) ... Followed it up with a 11th place showing at the Boilermaker Invitational, finishing as the top Spartan at 216 (71-74-71) ... Won the Fossum Invitational for his second career title with a 177 (69-71-37); Earned Big Ten Golfer of the Week for his victory (April 29, 2009) ... Part of MSU's competitive lineup at the Big Ten Championship and NCAA South Central Regional; second on the team at the Big Tens and third for MSU at the NCAA Regional.
SUMMER 2008: Advanced to match play at the Michigan Amateur.
FRESHMAN (2007-08): Appeared in the last seven tournaments of the season, posting a 74.59 scoring average, good for fourth on the team ... In his second tournament of his collegiate career, tied for sixth at the Western Intercollegiate, carding a 220 (72-69-79) ... His second round 69 was his season-low 18-hole score ... Tied for 29th at the Missouri Tiger Intercollegiate with a 228 (77-78-73) ... Match the score the following weekend to place among a tie for 19th at the Kepler Intercollegiate ... Tied for 22nd at the Big Ten Championship, shooting a 302 (74-75-74-79), finishing third on the team ... Also third on the team at the NCAA East Regional, tying for 65th with a season-low 216 (71-73-72).
SUMMER 2007: Advanced to semifinals in match play at Michigan Junior State Amateur ... Tied for 28th at the AJGA Coca-Cola Junior Championship at Boyne Highlands.
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner and two year captain of Gabriel Richard Catholic High School golf team ... As a senior was named to the All-State Super Team, given the "Mr. Golf Award" and named Catholic League Athlete of the Year .. Also a member of the All-Catholic and all-area teams ... In his junior year was named all-state and all-area ... Named All-State Honorable Mention, All-Catholic, and all-area his freshman and sophomore years ... A Catholic League Championship medalist sophomore and senior year ... Division-3 State Finals Medalist as a senior ... Competed in the 2006 US Junior Amateur Championship.
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San Francisco 49ers team medical director Dr. Daniel Garza passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday according to a news release from Stanford University.
Garza was an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery and emergency medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. In addition to his duties with the 49ers, Garza taught undergraduate classes in human physiology, sports medicine and exercise anatomy at Stanford. He also tended to Stanford's intercollegiate athletic programs.
Garza's primary research focused on the prevention of traumatic brain injury in athletes. He was conducting extensive studies on the risk of concussions by fitting athletes with mouthpieces to measure the impact of collisions.
The 49ers confirmed Garza's passing and released a statement Tuesday night.
"The 49ers organization has been informed of a tragedy. We were saddened to learn Dr. Dan Garza died unexpectedly Tuesday. Our sincerest thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends during this trying time," via Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com.


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The clinic will offer one-year and three-year rabies vaccines, 5-in-1 and 6-in-1 distemper combos, Bordetella, Lyme and Leptospirosis vaccines, heartworm testing and preventative medication, microchipping, FVRCP distemper combo for cats, FeLV vaccines, FeLV/FIV testing and fecal testing. Prices range from $15 to $35. There are no exam fees.
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The family of Gina DeJesus never for a moment gave up hope she would be found.
Reporter Lydia Esparra has become quite close with the DeJesus family over the years while covering Gina's disappearance, and shared in their joy when Gina was found safe and sound on Monday.
Gina disappeared in 2004 at the age of 14 as she walked home from school.
Her family never lost faith, and always knew Gina would return home.
19 Action News has learned Gina is with her parents in a secluded location.
Gina's brother, Ricky, can't stop smiling since seeing his sister for the first time in nine years.
"I was joyful. I was glad I got to hug her."
"Did she seem different?" asked Esparra."Still the same as the day she went missing when she was 14," Ricky replied.
Family members say DeJesus knew the man suspected of kidnapping her and holding her captive for nearly 10 years.
Family members tell Esparra that Ariel Castro was a relative of DeJesus' best friend, possibly her father.
He's also been to at least two vigils for the missing girls.
"I'm angry. I'm mad right now," said Gina's cousin, Robert. "He involved himself. He was more, like, a step ahead of us through this whole process. But we got him."
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The adolescent brain might not be such a teenage wasteland after all.
Recent research suggests that the activity in teen brains may have some Nostradamus-like qualities when it comes to predicting the hits or misses of popular music.
In a small study, scientists recruited 27 adolescents, ages 12 to 17. They asked each kid to listen to 60 15-second clips of songs from largely unknown artists found on MySpace. The clip included either the hook or chorus of each song, and volunteers only listened to tunes from their three favorite musical categories, which ranged from country, rock and indie to hip-hop, blues and metal.
Researchers recorded the teens' reactions to each song using brain-imaging scans, and they also asked participants to rate how much they liked the music on a scale of one to five stars. By using unfamiliar musicians and vocals, scientists hoped to get a raw response, as if teens were hearing the track for the first time.
For three years after the scanning took place, the scientists gathered data on each song's sales figures to see which ones were fan faves or flops.
Although the teens' tastes in music from their likability ratings showed no link to a song's commercial success, their brain scans told another story: Activity in the ventral striatum -- the brain's reward region -- was predictive of future sales figures and popularity.
"We found that when an area of the brain associated with reward and anticipation was active while listening to the song, chances were greater that the song would eventually go on to sell more than 20,000 units," says Gregory Berns, MD, PhD, a neuroeconomist and director of Emory University's Center for Neuropolicy.
While the teens brains displayed a modest knack for picking out songs that would sell at least 20,000 units -- about one-third of the brain images could predict this -- they were even more accurate at identifying failures: Nearly 90 percent of the songs that showed a weak response in the brain's reward region had tepid sales.
Most of the study songs were duds with dismal sales, but three were industry hits (500,000 units sold) including "Apologize" by OneRepublic and two country cuts, "Don't Laugh at Me" by Mark Wills and "Drink, Swear, Steal, and Lie" by Michael Peterson. But none of these tunes were in the teens' top 10 in eliciting brain activation so they weren't exactly hit-predicting machines.
"The fact that there was any predictive power at all was surprising," says Berns, the study's lead author. "There are so many songs released each year and so few hits, that the odds were stacked against us."
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Priddy Foundation Survey Hopes To Shape Future Of Arts In Wichita Falls
Are you happy with what's happening in the arts community in the Wichita Falls area? Would you like to see more of your favorite type of musical acts? Would you prefer more national theater, comedy, or musical acts coming through town? How about a blues festival? Did you know we already have bluegrass and western swing festivals each year? Maybe you're the type who'd like to see more paintings and sculptures. Whatever you'd like to see more of from the arts community, here's your chance to be heard.
The Priddy Foundation is working on an Arts Plan for Wichita Falls and needs the opinions of area residents on the types of art and cultural activities you'd like to see in the Falls. Music, theater, festivals and more—it's all there.
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Fans remained the biggest winners as "THE ONE: MAYWEATHER VS. CANELO" press tour continued Monday with two stops in Texas.
In Houston, a couple hundred fans began lining up at 3:00 a.m. for a press conference that started at 1:00 p.m. By the time the press conference officially commenced at Union Station At Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros, an overflow crowd of over 1,000 fans had filled the stadium's grand lobby to beyond capacity.
The nine-day, 10-city tour continued Monday night at The Alamo in San Antonio. The press conference didn't start until 6:00 p.m., but fans were in line by 7:00 a.m. Due to a flight delay, Mayweather was an hour and forty-five minutes late and by the time he arrived, Canelo had come and gone.
However, Mayweather provided a little glimpse into his future, saying he may fight more than the five more times after which he has previously said he would retire.
"After my five more fights, guess what? I think after 49-0 we may stay in this sport a little longer," he said. "This September 14, it's just another walk in the park."
As he has throughout the tour, Mayweather thanked the fans. "There is no city like San Antonio," he told the approximately 5,000 in attendance. "You fans have been brilliant over the years. Without San Antonio, Floyd Mayweather wouldn't be where he's at today. If you don't know, Mayweather loves Mexico. Mexican and Latino fans, you know boxing.
"I'm going to sign a lot of autographs and take a lot of pictures because I'm late. That's the least I can do for you guys."
Canelo was his usual classy self at the podium, but he took a couple jabs at Mayweather for being tardy.
"Thank you everybody for being here. It's a great honor for me to be here for a second time. Last time I was treated like I was at home and that's what I feel like again like I'm at home."
"I know many of you have been here since seven in the morning. At six o'clock the press conference was supposed to start, and that's why I'm here at six o'clock because I respect you, because you guys respect boxing. There are Mayweather fans here who also have been here since very early. I'm here for them too."
"He (Mayweather) thinks all the boxers have to respect him and he intimidates everybody, but he doesn't intimidate me. I look forward to the fight.''
"THE ONE: MAYWEATHER VS. CANELO," a 12-round fight for Canelo's WBC, WBA and Ring Magazine Super Welterweight World Championships and Mayweather's WBA Super Welterweight Super World Championship taking place Saturday, Sept. 14 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, is promoted by Mayweather Promotions, Golden Boy Promotions and Canelo Promotions and sponsored by Corona, O'Reilly Auto Parts and Valvoline. The mega-event will be produced and distributed live by SHOWTIME PPV® beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. The event can be heard in Spanish using secondary audio programming (SAP).
Less than 24 hours after going on sale on June 25, the event was sold out, but six MGM Resorts properties will host live closed circuit telecasts of "THE ONE." Properties showcasing the event include ARIA, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Monte Carlo and New York-New York. General admission tickets for the closed circuit telecasts are priced at $100, not including handling fees, and are available for purchase at each individual property's box office outlets and also are available for purchase by phone with a major credit card at 866-799-7711. Closed circuit ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person. Tickets also are available through Ticketmaster by calling (800) 745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
For more information, visit www.floydmayweather.com, www.mayweatherpromotions.com, www.goldenboypromotions.com, www.sports.sho.com and www.mgmgrand.com, follow on Twitter at @FloydMayweather, @CaneloOficial, @MayweatherPromo, @GoldenBoyBoxing, @mgmgrand and @SHOSports, follow the conversation using #TheOne and become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FloydMayweather, www.facebook.com/MayweatherPromotions, www.facebook.com/GoldenBoyBoxing and www.facebook.com/SHOsports.
MAYWEATHER HINTS AT FIGHTING MORE THAN 5 MORE TIMES: "AFTER 49-0, WE MAY STAY IN THIS SPORT A LITTLE LONGER"By Press Release | July 01, 2013
Fans remained the biggest winners as "THE ONE: MAYWEATHER VS. CANELO" press tour continued Monday with two stops in Texas.


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EAST LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan State women's basketball team used a strong second half to pull away from Minnesota 66-51 to win its Big Ten opener tonight at Breslin Center. The Spartans improve to 13-1 overall, while the Golden Gophers fall to 11-4.
Bench production was key for Michigan State, as Jasmine Hines, Kiana Johnson and Akyah Taylor combined for 35 points and 14 rebounds. Johnson led the way with 17 points, adding four assists (no turnovers) and three steals. Hines was 7-for-11 from the field for 15 points. Klarissa Bell added 11 points and a game-high nine rebounds, while Jasmine Thomas posted seven points, eight rebounds, a game-high five assists and two steals.
Michigan State trailed by as much as six in the first half, but closed the half on a 7-2 run to go into halftime tied at 20. The Spartans posted the first five points of the second half and would eventually go up eight (38-30) with 12:35 left. The Golden Gophers scored the next nine points to retake the lead at 39-38 with 9:26 to go. However, MSU quickly responded with a 10-2 run of their own to go back ahead and would not look back. The Spartans would go on to score 46 second half points, shooting 57.1% from the field.
Minnesota entered the game first in the Big Ten in scoring with 74.8 points per game, including 85.8 points over its last four games. The Spartan defense held them to 33.3% from the field, including a 3-for-11 (27.3%) effort from behind the arc. MSU was +12 (45-33) on the glass, even though the Golden Gophers entered the game with a +4.9 margin.
The Spartans return to action on Sunday, hosting No. 9 Penn State at 2:15 p.m. The game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network.


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Bret Bielema and the Arkansas coaching staff probably wish they could have weekends like this more often.
After starting Sunday morning with only five commits, the Razorbacks are up to 12 after Saturday. Four players who were in attendance for the Razorbacks' elite prospect camp -- all from the state of Louisiana -- gave their verbal pledges on Saturday. The Metairie (La.) Archbishop Rummel duo of safety/outside linebacker Dwayne Eugene and three-star cornerback Henre' Toliver and the Geismar (La.) Dutchtown receiver duo of four-star Corey McBride and Torrance Mosley each committed to Arkansas.
"The Boot's coming to Arkansas," a proud Mosley said. "I guess the other guys felt the same way I felt. They fell in love with the campus and the coaches. It's pretty cool; I'm not going to lie."
Eugene is a 6-foot, 218-pound defender with 4.5 speed in the 40-yard dash, making him a target to be a hybrid safety/linebacker if the Razorbacks choose to utilize him in such a way. Toliver, a 6-1, 180-pound athlete, is a big, physical cornerback who might be the most intriguing recruit of the four. He has offers from Oklahoma, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Nebraska and others.
"We're doing big things in Louisiana," Toliver said. "For me, it was my choice. I liked it athletically, academically and socially. I liked the town and everything."
Perhaps the biggest pickup of the four is McBride, a 6-1, 172-pound receiver who is ranked No. 43 in his position. McBride said he and Torrance, a 5-10, 162-pound receiver, went in together to speak with the Arkansas staff. McBride is expected to be more of an outside receiver, Mosley more of a slot receiver.
"I'm very happy and lucky to be in the SEC with the Razorbacks," McBride said. "It's beautiful out here, kind of like another world. Plus, I want to major and drafting and architecture, and they're like No. 2 in the country."
Added Mosley: "I liked the coaching staff and the new facilities they've built. I met some of the team [Friday] night and had a great time. The coaches are real. I don't think it gets any better than this."
In addition to the Louisiana commits, Arkansas also scored a 2015 pledge Saturday in 6-6, 291-pound offensive tackle Colton Jackson (Conway, Ark./Conway). Jackson, who also had a Central Arkansas offer, is the third 2015 commit for the Razorbacks and the second in-state pledge.
Along with the five Saturday pledges, Arkansas picked up three-star offensive tackle Jovan Pruitt (Dallas/Bishop Dunne) on Friday. On Thursday, junior college cornerback Kweishi Brown (El Cajon, Calif./Grossmont College) became a part of the 2014 class. Three-star 2014 cornerback Christopher Murphy (Marietta, Ga./Lassiter) kicked the week off with a verbal commitment on July 14.


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June 16, 2009 - The first Afghan officer to train in the United States in nearly 50 years earned his silver Air Force wings in a June 12 ceremony at Columbus Air Force. Col. Roger Watkins, 14th Flying Training Wing commander, presented pilot wings to Lt. Faiz Mohammed Ramaki upon his completion of the Aviation Leadership Program there.
The USAF Aviation Leadership Program is a scholarship for USAF flying training that includes English language training, 25 hours of flight screening in a civil aircraft, such as a Cessna 172, 335 academic and ground training hours and about 167 flight hours and simulator sorties. The USAF flying portion of the program takes about 10 months to complete.
"The ALP program was challenging and difficult" Ramaki said. "Succeeding in the ALP is an accomplishment. While this is a good day for me, it is a great day for my country."
Ramaki will continue his flying training in his next aircraft, the C-27A Spartan. The Afghanistan military expects to receive the first of 20 Italian-built C-27's late this summer.
When asked what he missed most about his native Afghanistan, Ramaki glowed at the memories of his family, his countrymen, culture and language. "It will be good to return," he said.
Following in Ramaki's footsteps, 61 Afghan pilot candidates are scheduled to spend up to 30 months in the United States, attending English language training and follow-on pilot training with the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy. Also, 30 experienced Afghan Army Air Corps pilots will spend up to 10 months in the United States, attending English language training followed by aircraft instrument flight qualification and return to the Kabul Air Wing for C-27 qualification training.
One of the first Afghan pilots to train in the United States was retired Col. Ghulam Mustafa Tayer, who traveled to the United States in 1958.
"Be proud of your accomplishments at Columbus," Watkins said. "You will go back to your country and share what you learned with other air corps pilots."
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Approval of Gratiot County's upcoming budget did not come easy Tuesday.
Only three of the five commissioners approved it, with Jan Bunting and Donald Zinn voting no.
Bunting said she wanted to go through the $11 million general fund budget, line item by line item.
She had asked why the planning commission's budget was increased -- from $2,200 to $5,500.
Commissioner John Renneberg explained that the budget had been increased at his request. A lot more work will be undertaken by the planning commission since they will be updating the zoning ordinances, he said.
Commission Chair Laura McCollum explained that the commission will have a lot more planning to do and the money is there if need be for extra meetings.
"But they have to come to the board and ask (for increases)," Bunting said. "Let me make this clearer. I have asked to go line by line. A lot of money has been added to the budget."
She said she wants to go over the budget page by page and not make amendments later on.
Those departments receiving increases "never came to us," she said.
McCollum said she and the rest of the board had individually gone over the budget, line by line since April. For any questions they had, they checked with Interim Administrator Jeff Huff and the departments.
"As a 13 year commissioner speaking to an eight month commissioner, we need to do this so the public can know," Bunting said. "I've requested line by line and I've been turned down. Don't you think we all learn when we discuss this and we let the public know."
For her part, McCollum said that the budget has been made public and is online. The county was conducting a public hearing Tuesday evening and no questions had been raised by the public.
"I believe we have done our diligence," she said.
Renneberg suggested that in the future, the various departments visit the board and explain their needs throughout the year.
Bunting recalled that no line by line budget meeting had taken place among the commissioners because "we were waiting for the millage (vote) and union negotiations. Still, we could have gone page by page. It's not one or two pages, it's all the way through the book."
For his part,Commissioner Scott Showers said he had gone through the budget and was concerned about the $200,000 increase in retirement costs from last year's budget. He lamented the fact that there was little or nothing the counties could do about it.
The budget proposal passed by a 3 to 2 vote.
In another matter, the board approved three union contracts that had been ratified several weeks ago.
All three were two year contracts.
Members of the Police Officers Association of Michigan received a 2 percent increase for each year of the contract.
The Technical and Professionals Office Works Association of Michigan, received a 1 percent year increase for each year. That union is largely made up of court employees.
Members of the Government Employee Labor Council employees, consisting clerks and secretaries, received a 1 percent increase for each of the two years, Huff said.
Employees not represented by a union and elected officials each received a 1 percent increase.
On another issue, the board unanimously agreed to refund the local cities and townships for their expenses in the special August election. Total net re-imbursement was about $17,000.
In still another matter, the county board unanimously passed a resolution stating that this board for this term will not levy a P.A. 88 millage.
That resolution will be passed on to the state legislators, other counties and the governor's office.
Commissioner Scott Showers said that Sen. Roger Kahn (R-Saginaw Township) is looking to repeal P.A. 88 except for those counties currently using it.


text: UMW News BureauThe Montana Western women's basketball team makes their 2009-2010 home debut when they host Eastern Oregon on Sunday, Nov. 1. By Wally Feldt The University of Montana Western women's basketball team makes its 2009-2010 home debut hosting Eastern Oregon University, Sunday, Nov. 1. The contest also marks the first Bulldog home game for new head coach Cara Cocchiarella. Tipoff is 2 p.m. in Montana Western's Straugh Gymnasium. The game will be broadcast on KDBM radio in southwestern Montana. The Bulldogs are 0-2 on the season after losing two at the University of Lethbridge last weekend in Lethbridge, Alberta. Montana Western made the trip with a squad depleted by illness. Cocchiarella is building her team around returning starters Jamie Lake, a 5'7" junior guard from Ronan, Mont.; Heather Brooks, a 5'10" senior guard from Stoughton, Wis.; and Chloe Mosey, a 6'0" junior post from Bremerton, Wash. Also returning from last season, Lauryn Lynch, a 5'7" guard from Ronan, Mont.; Kristen Luedtke, a 5'8" senior guard from Butte, Mont.; Nicole Tams, a 5'9" sophomore guard from Lincoln, Mont.; Kelly Cole, a 6'0" senior post from Turlock, Calif.; and Stephanie Dana, a 6'0" senior forward from Forsyth, Mont. Cocchiarella will rely on a talented freshman class to round out the Bulldog roster. They include Rheanna Padden, a 5'8" guard from Thompson Falls, Mont.; Hattie Bowen, a 5'8" guard from Big Fork, Mont.; Alecia Wilson, a 5'10" guard from Helena, Mont.; Laura Geis, a 6'1" post from Frenchtown, Mont.; and Megan Crist, a 5'11" forward from Twin Falls, Mont. Sunday's game with Eastern Oregon is the first of six non-conference home games for the Bulldogs.