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Broncos forced to cut Elvis Dumervil after contract gaffe
- Dumervil%27s %2412 million salary would have been guaranteed if he was on the roster at 4 p.m. Eastern
- Dumervil was signed to his current contract in 2010 after he led the NFL in sacks %28with 17%29 the previous season
- Broncos is now a free agent
Elvis Dumervil had made up his mind.
He would slash $4 million from his salary in order to stay with the Denver Broncos, the team that drafted him in 2006, rather than take a chance on the free agent market and risk playing for less money or a for a team that wouldn't be a Super Bowl contender.
Dumervil informed both his agent, Marty Magid, and the Denver Broncos of his decision around 3:25 p.m. ET, 35 minutes before the 4 p.m. deadline. The negotiating was the hard part. All that was left was to file the paperwork. And that's where it all fell apart.
In a messy situation involving soft and hard deadlines, e-mails and faxes, and late changes to the deal, Dumervil's signed contract didn't spit out of a fax machine at Broncos' headquarters until six minutes after deadline, at 4:06 p.m. Seven minutes earlier, the Broncos had filed paperwork of their own, formally releasing Dumervil and voiding the rest of his contract that was to pay him $12 million guaranteed in 2013.
The latter transaction is the one that will count with league, not the verbal agreement Dumervil and the team reached a short time earlier, and the end result is that Dumervil is a free agent.
The Broncos are relieved of Dumervil's $12 million salary, but have also lost a core player they were hoping to keep. Dumervil has 63.5 career sacks since Denver drafted him in 2006, including 20 sacks in the past two seasons while paired with pass-rushing outside linebacker Von Miller.
The Broncos are also left with $4.869 million in dead money against the salary cap, the result of prorated bonuses spread out through 2015, the final year of the contract Dumervil signed in 2010.
After paying Dumervil more than $31 million over the past two years, the Broncos approached the 29-year-old defensive end last week about taking a pay cut. The team believed $12 million was well above market value, even for a player as accomplished as Dumervil.
Magid and the Broncos exchanged proposals throughout the week, but were at an impasse as the sides couldn't agree on both the 2013 salary and future guaranteed money.
Magid said the Broncos initially had told him that, in exchange for chopping $4 million off of Dumervil's 2013 base salary, the team would add $500,000 to his 2014 base salary of $10 million while also fully guaranteeing $3.5 million of that figure.
Magid said instead, when the new deal was presented shortly after 1 p.m. EDT Friday, the language had been changed to only guarantee the $3.5 million for injury.
"Based on our previous discussions, we believed our offer was fair and were hopeful it would resolve this matter," Broncos executive vice president John Elway said in statement with a timeline that outlined the team's position.
Magid said he told Dumervil that meant the team could cut him before next season, and that the Broncos had changed their stance at the end of the week after committing money to new players like Wes Welker, Louis Vasquez and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.
The Broncos gave Magid and Dumervil a deadline of 3 p.m. EDT to consider that deal.
"That stopped all the negotiations. We had to restart," Magid said. "I had to explain it to him what this meant for him. He took some time to think about it and, in the end, he said, 'I'll take it. I'll go back and play for it and show them what a great player I am.'"
That call to accept the deal came at about 3:25 p.m., while Elway and his staff were in a meeting to discuss plans to move forward without Dumervil. The call set off a furious exchange of emails and faxes, from Denver to Magid's office in Philadelphia, then to Dumervil in Miami. Magid said Dumervil had to find a Kinko's from which to fax the signed contract back to the Broncos.
"Although we expressed our concern regarding the time constraints, we were assured that the signed documents would be submitted to us before the league's waiver deadline," Elway said in the statement.
The team and the agent are in dispute about what time all of the various items of paperwork were sent and received. Magid said Dumervil has confirmation of a fax that went through at 3:55 p.m. The Broncos say nothing was received until 4:06 p.m.
But the end result is that at 3:59 p.m., the Broncos did not have a copy of Dumervil's signed contract, and they went ahead and cut him rather than pay him $12 million.
"Twenty-three minutes to read it, scan it, fax it, get Elvis to a machine and get it through," Magid said. "We tried."
It is certainly possible the Broncos could re-sign Dumervil, though after the drama that ensued Friday afternoon it is hard to imagine Dumervil, Magid and the Broncos quickly engaging in any sort of civil contract negotiations.
But both sides will want to move forward quickly, with free agency now more than three days old.
"Due to this situation, there are now salary cap implications associated with this transaction that we must consider with regard to potentially re-signing Elvis," Elway said. "At this moment, we are discussing all of our free-agency options to determine what's best for the Denver Broncos."
Dumervil immediately becomes the best pass rusher available on the free agent market, though it is possible he won't find another team to pay $8 million like the Broncos were set to in 2013 under terms of the renegotiated deal. For comparison, Cliff Avril, the player most comparable to Dumervil available his year, signed a two-year deal in Seattle with an average salary of $7.5 million per year.
The Broncos, meanwhile, have a major hole at defensive end, where Dumervil's backup is former first-round draft pick Robert Ayers, who was a starter in 2011 and rotational player in 2012. Without Dumervil, the Broncos have the money to sign a veteran free agent. The group of available players includes former Indianapolis Colt Dwight Freeney, a former teammate of Peyton Manning, though Freeney spent Friday visiting with the New England Patriots.
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ST. LOUIS — As hundreds of nuns met in St. Louis on Wednesday to begin crafting an answer to Vatican demands that their leaders toe the line on orthodoxy, there was a pervasive sense that this week's discussions could lead to a fateful juncture in the history of Catholicism in America.
"As you know, this is an assembly like no other assembly we've had," said Sister Pat Farrell, a Franciscan from Iowa who heads the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents most of the 56,000 nuns in communities across the country.
"I suspect we're in for a lot of surprises," Farrell told the sisters as she opened the LCWR's annual meeting.
The options under consideration by the 900 nuns — several hundred more than have attended recent gatherings — range from asking the Vatican to continue the dialogue to shuttering the LCWR and reorganizing the leadership body of sisters into a group that would be beyond the Vatican's control.
But that would also signal a historic shift in a church in which the nuns for centuries simply did the work that the bishops preached about — serving the poor, caring for the sick, and educating the young.
If the showdown reaches such a pass, it would be the latest in a series of dramatic developments since last April, when the Vatican announced that an investigation of the LCWR, authorized by Pope Benedict XVI, had concluded that the group was infected with strains of "radical feminism" and was focusing on social justice issues at the expense of promoting Rome-sanctioned doctrine on issues like abortion and gay marriage.
The Vatican appointed a team of three U.S. bishops, led by Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain, to take control of the LCWR by reforming its statutes and overseeing its activities.
But the move prompted such widespread outrage at the Vatican and such an outpouring of support for the nuns that it may have changed the political dynamics of a relationship in which the sisters have no canonical power.
In fact, a number of leading bishops have privately assured the nuns of their support while others have increasingly praised them publicly.
"We Catholics love the Sisters!" New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote in a blog post on the eve of the LCWR meeting that effusively praised the nuns and voiced confidence that they would survive the "examination by Rome."
Similarly, in a welcoming address to the LCWR on Tuesday, St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson went out of his way to praise the work of the sisters and their influence on his own life. In referring briefly to the LCWR's standoff with Rome, Carlson cited as a model the conflicts between Apostles Peter and Paul in the early days of the church.
"They managed to work things out then, and I pray that you will work things out now," he said.
Sister Sandra Schneiders, a leading New Testament scholar and spiritual writer, admitted that the sisters were surprised and gratified by the surge of support for their efforts to raise questions within the church that apparently many other Catholics are also asking.
"We thought we were doing our little bit," Schneiders said. "We didn't realize how much was riding on our experience."
On each table in the hotel meeting room where the sisters are gathered in downtown St. Louis the LCWR staff had scattered a dozen or so of the thousands of letters of support they have received and testimonials to the role of the nuns in many lives.
More than just a psychological shot in the arm, that support also seems to have emboldened the sisters to compose a forceful response that would let Rome know that the nuns are tired of decades of criticism and that they are not going to blindly comply with the hierarchy's demands.
What form that response will take remains unclear.
"I don't think they're seriously saying 'Let's walk away,' but they're raising those questions," Sister Theresa Kane, a former LCWR president, told the National Catholic Reporter on Tuesday.
What was apparent from the opening day's session -- the assembly concludes on Friday -- is that the nuns are committed to moving ahead with the kind of changes that they have embraced since the reforms following the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The sisters believe those changes better reflect the imperatives of the gospel, while the hierarchy often sees them as innovations that heedlessly upend tradition.
The very title of the assembly summed up the difference in approach: "Mystery Unfolding: Leading in the Evolutionary Now." And the keynote speaker was Barbara Marx Hubbard, a futurist and promoter of "conscious evolution" who is hailed by New Age gurus like Deepak Chopra even as she channels many Christian thinkers.
Indeed, Hubbard's address on Wednesday was replete with what some would consider standard bromides of pop spirituality and what others would value as eternal spiritual profundities. Either way, the sisters of the LCWR welcomed her sweeping panorama of impending change, and in particular their place in it.
"You are the best seedbed I know for evolving the church in the 21st century," Hubbard told them. "That may be a surprise to the world."
David Gibson is an award-winning religion journalist, author and filmmaker. He writes for RNS and until recently covered the religion beat for AOL's Politics Daily. He blogs at Commonweal magazine, and has written two books on Catholic topics, the latest a biography of Pope Benedict XVI. Via RNS.
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DWTS Season 12, The Finale – Dancing by the Numbers
You know, this series is WAY easier when there are only three couples left. 🙂 Well, easier to write, not necessarily easier to predict.
Surprisingly, the judges didn't really make it easier at all. With Hines and Chelsea tied, and Kirstie only 5 points back, it's a horse race between Chelsea and Kirstie for second place. In my opinion. 🙂 You guys will be arguing for weeks over whether Kirstie was overscored, or underscored – same for Chelsea and Hines – but I actually didn't have too much trouble with the scoring. I think Chelsea's freestyle was over scored by 3 points or so – that just wasn't good. Sorry, Kanenballers. Kirstie? I loved her freestyle just for what it was at this point in HER life. The woman is nearly FORTY years older than Chelsea. I would bet that 40 years is more than most of us here have in actual age. 🙂 Just amazing. And that's one of the odd things about this show. You pit a 60 year old actress against a 23 year old actress and a 30-something athlete and you expect comparable dancing or fair?? Come on, now. It's just not going to work. Surprisingly, the most "fair" finale I can remember is when it was Evan, Nicole and Erin – all about the same age and fitness level, and all three had experiences that benefited them going into the show.
Anyway, as I've said ad nauseum, I don't have a problem with the judges ranking them – they're entitled to do that, when they're not on crack. They've ranked for the last two seasons now. Hell, they SHOULD rank the contestants – that's like, their JOB. There is no way that all of them dance equally well. But that begs the question….how do you rank when the contestants are so vastly different?? Sure, Chelsea is (usually) technically better (don't think that was true at all last night), but HINES is a true performer AND a decent dancer. He gets done dancing and I CLAP. I am entertained. Who's to say that's less important than technique? Besides Kanenballers. 🙂 I think at the end of the day, I probably would have done what they did, although perhaps I would have given Kirstie a couple tens – she's 60 and she's competing, after all. So, barring some over scoring of Chelsea and a bit of underscoring of Kirstie, I got no problems. Of course, I recognize also that with this group the over and under scoring probably won't make a difference. I could be wrong. 🙂
At the close of Monday night's show, this is where we ended up:
The Judges Scores and Percentages
As you can see, a 5 point judges score spread translates to a 2.91 percent spread. That in turn means what? Well, for Kirstie to take second over Chelsea, she needs 29,070 more votes per million votes cast – after these two dances, anyway. It's difficult to say, but I think that's doable. Right at this moment, in order to WIN, Kirstie needs that many more votes that BOTH Hines and Chelsea. Not impossible, I don't think, but difficult to beat Hines. Hines, of course, only needs ONE more vote than Chelsea to win and he needs Kirstie not to get that 29k more than him. That's how he wins. Right now. 🙂
But that's not the end of the story. The one remaining question that seems to be rolling around out there is this: does the 3rd and final dance happen before or AFTER someone is eliminated?? No idea. If they ALL do their favorite dance and score them about the same as they did last night, it has virtually no impact. If they give Hines and Chelsea each a 30, and then give Kirstie a 27, they only increase the number of votes she needs to almost 31k – less than 2 thousand per one million votes. Chump change, actually. I'm thinking 2k votes for Kirstie isn't that hard, but what about the initial 29k?? That is less clear. I think she can do it – she seems to have a tremendous amount of support. In order to win the show at that point, Kirstie would have to get that number of votes more that BOTH Hines and Chelsea.
What about Hines? Well, right now (and if he scores the same as Chelsea tonight), he only needs ONE more vote per million votes cast to beat Chelsea and take first place, provided that Kirstie doesn't blow both of them out of the water.
What happens if the judges rank them like they have in the past? Well, let's say they give Chelsea the 30, Hines a 28 and Kirstie a 26. That would mean that Kirstie needs the following to WIN:
– She would need about 35,200 more votes per million votes cast to beat Chelsea, AND;
– She would need about 27,400 more votes per million votes cast to beat Hines.
In the above scoring scenario, what does Hines need to WIN the show?? He needs BOTH of the following to happen:
– He would need about 7,900 more votes per million votes cast than Chelsea, AND;
– He needs for Kirstie to NOT get 27,400 more votes per million votes cast than him.
As you can see, we're dealing in pretty big numbers here EXCEPT for what it takes for Hines to beat Chelsea or Chelsea to beat Hines. Could be ONE vote, could be 8k. If all three of them dance their favorite dance, and it shakes out similar to how it did last night, I see Hines winning. As for who will take 2nd and 3rd – I have NO idea. I am very tempted to say that Kirstie will beat Chelsea, but that is a good number of votes. By having fewer dances this season, they actually inflate the spread a bit – that nearly 30k is going to be tough. I will be really interested in the outcome, for sure.
Scenario number TWO is the one where they eliminate one of the couples (3rd place) and THEN have the remaining two dance their favorite dance. For the sake of argument, first we'll hypothesize that Kirstie takes 3rd and doesn't dance again. Let's also say that they give Chelsea a 30 and Hines a 28. For Hines to WIN in this scenario he needs 8,700 more votes per million votes cast than Chelsea. See, eliminating Kirsties 26 points means a lower overall total which translates to a slightly bigger spread and more votes for Hines. But not a huge number by any stretch. I would be shocked if he doesn't win in this scenario.
Frankly, I'll be very shocked if Chelsea wins in any of these scenarios, but it's always possible that we over estimate Hines' fanbase and the Steeler Nation. I sure hope someone told them how to vote. But I would also wager that he has the overall "independent" vote – which I think is far and away the larger voting block. I think if Hines somehow ends up in third place, that is Chelsea's best chance at winning because Kirstie would still have to make up anywhere from 29k to 35k.
More interesting is what happens if, in Scenario Two, Kirstie beats Chelsea and Chelsea lands in 3rd place. That would mean that Kirstie got 35,200 more votes per million cast than Chelsea did – a very large number. If she can get that many more than Chelsea, can she beat Hines?? And that should be the question on everyone's mind if Scenario Number 2 goes down. I'm going to wager that this is Hines' game to lose.
Only a few more hours till we find out! 🙂


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AT&T Demands Payment, Doesn't Care If Business Owner Made $900K Worth Of Calls To Somalia Or Not
When a small Massachusetts business that never in the past ever called the Africa nation of Somalia racks up almost $900,000 in calls in four days to that country, some might find that unusual. Instead, AT&T decided that was totally normal and that the business — which usually runs up a bill of about $700 per month — should be on the hook for $1.5 million, including charges and interest. And the kicker? AT&T apparently doesn't think he made those calls either.
The owner of the small manufacturing firm is now being sued by AT&T for $1.15 million for charges incurred over a four-day period in September 2009. He claims someone hacked into his company's phone system to make hundreds of calls to Somalia.
"Nothing about this makes sense," he told the Salem News, adding that a bill that size would force him into bankruptcy, and leave 14 employees without jobs.
His business, which makes equipment and supplies for machine shops, uses a private telephone network system called PBX with eight lines. A hacker could potentially gain access by dialing the company and then entering access codes until they get in, allowing them to then place calls anywhere.
The business's phone service is provided by Verizon, which did notice an unusual amount of international calls — $260,000 worth — in one weekend, and shut down the company's ability to make such calls. Verizon later wrote off the bill.
AT&T was used as by the hackers as a "dial around" long-distance service, claims the business owner, who says he never had a contract with AT&T for phone service.
"This is the crazy part," he said. "AT&T is not arguing over whether these calls were fraudulent. There's no dispute there."
AT&T claims the company should've taken more precautions to prevent unauthorized access to its phone system, and that under Federal Communications Commission regulations, it's allowed to collect the money from the owner of the phone line used to make the calls, even if the business wasn't the one making the calls.
The business owner has filed a countersuit against AT&T, alleging abuse of the legal process and violation of state consumer protection laws. The case is scheduled for a mediation session next month.
"It could all be over if there's a judgment against us," said the business owner. "It's my life. It's 14 families that I love dearly. We're all vulnerable."
A million-dollar bill: Victim of phone hacking now facing lawsuit over charges [The Salem News]
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But she did not dare say anything. Although the Feng family had some plans, but this was all still uncertain. She had to consider these things and preserve her position as the Feng family's daughter to the first wife, thus she had to preserve Chen shi's position as the head wife. When things go well, they go really well. When things go poorly, they go really poorly.
Thinking like this, Feng Chen Yu might as well kneel before the matriarch and kowtowed: "Chen Yu begs for forgiveness from grandmother on mother's behalf. It's all because mother did not think it through completely and overly doted on brother. Chen Yu is willing to take on the punishment and only hopes for grandmother to take care of her own body. If you were to become sick because of what happened with my brother, then even if Chen Yu died ten thousand deaths, it would not be enough to bear the blame."
As she spoke, two pearl-like tears slowly fell to the ground.
Feng Chen Yu had been born incredibly beautiful. Pairing her beautiful appearance with those two pearl-like tears, it was truly a sight that could capture anyone's heart.
The matriarch had already let off some steam, so her anger had been reduced. Currently, seeing that Chen Yu was in such a state, her heart began to ache.
"Dear granddaughter, quickly get up. Grandmother does not blame you."
How could Chen Yu get up just like that. The more she cried, the more heart ache she caused, "I beg grandmother to forgive mother and brother! Presently, getting brother treatment is important and grandmother's health is important!"
The matriarch nodded, "Then Chen shi will be given solitary confinement in Jin Yu courtyard's temple! Jin Yuan." She called Feng Jin Yuan, "You must invite the best doctor to attend to Hao'er's illness. Have them come up with a method to cure his illness."
"Do not worry, mother. Son has remembered it all. Mother should return and rest first. Leave this to the servants. Son will go find the best doctor to come treat Zi Hao."
Seeing Feng Jin Yuan express this, the matriarch relaxed and returned to Shu Ya courtyard with the support of grannies and maidservants. Others began to find it improper to continue staying, so they all began to leave. As Jin Zhen left, she looked affectionately towards Feng Jin Yuan. Feng Jin Yuan waved to her but did not say anything extra.
Worrying that the matriarch's body would have some mishap, he followed them out and called for Feng Yu Heng to stop: "Follow them over and take a look. Make sure grandmother is fine before leaving."
Feng Yu Heng nodded, "Daughter understands. Does father have any other instructions?" There was no response for a long period of time.
Feng Jin Yuan finally remembered the matters of this night and how he had yet to show any care for Feng Yu Heng. He turned and looked at Feng Zi Hao. He could not help but feel worried.
"A-Heng." He pointed at Feng Zi Hao, "Although what your brother did was wrong, but you have beaten him and even cursed him. Based on his current condition, father can not do anything to him. Based on the events of tonight, let's just say the Feng family owes you a favor."
She raised an eyebrow: "Feng family will owe me a favor? This is father pushing A-Heng out."
"Father did not have that meaning." Feng Jin Yuan really found speaking to Feng Yu Heng to be headache inducing. It was as though everything he said would have an opposite meaning. "Father just means that if you ever have any requests from the Feng family, the Feng family will not sit idly by."
She laughed. Wasn't this still just saying that she and the Feng family were two separate entities. This too was fine. "Then A-Heng will thank father. A-Heng will remember the words father said today. In the future, if there is any requests to be made of the Feng family, I hope father will not refuse."
"Naturally." Feng Jin Yuan waved his hand and quickly allowed for Feng Yu Heng to leave with the matriarch.
The matriarch did not truly reject Feng Yu Heng, quite the opposite in fact. Feng Yu Heng returning to Shu Ya courtyard with her allowed her to breathe a sigh of relief.
Speaking of the moment she felt dizzy, she immediately felt frightened beyond belief. It was as though there was a sudden influx of blood that rushed straight to her head, and there was nothing she could do to suppress it. If a person is not in control, they will naturally fall down. She really was not certain if she could stop herself if it happened again. Currently, there were no doctors in the manor. If she fell later, who would come take care of her?
"A-Heng." The matriarch was not stupid. Since she had a request, then putting on airs was not good. Moreover, she could see that this granddaughter was most definitely troublesome to deal with. She had suffered for three years on a mountain. Who knew how much retribution would befall members of the Feng family. Now that she had the support of Prince Yu's contingent, she had even less to fear.
That's right!
The matriarch suddenly remembered that Feng Yu Heng had the backing of Prince Yu's contingent. How could she have acted in such a way to this granddaughter? It truly was regrettable.
"Grandmother, A-Heng is present." She quickly advanced a few steps and arrived beside the matriarch, but she did not take over the role of supporting her from a maidservant. Instead, she just slowly followed along.
The matriarch sighed softly and said: "Earlier, it was grandmother who had spoken too harshly. Do not take it to heart."
Feng Yu Heng gently smiled, "A-Heng wouldn't dare."
"Chen shi is completely to blame. This entire disaster was caused by Chen shi's actions." The matriarch directed the guilt in Chen shi's direction, "A-Heng, do not worry. If she dares stir up trouble again, grandmother will personally take care of her."
"A-Heng does not wish to be too involved in the affairs of the manor. I just request to quietly live until marriage. I hope grandmother will aid me in this matter."
"Definitely, definitely." The matriarch saw that Feng Yu Heng was not as sharp as before and she breathed a sigh of relief internally.
Feng Yu Heng did not plan to offend everyone in this manor. There were still some opportunists who could be taken advantage of. At least while her age was still young, and while she still had to reside at this manor, she would have to bring down all of her enemies within this manor. This was not just a promise she made to the body's original owner. It was also because she wanted to provide a way out for Zi Rui and Yao shi who were exactly like her previous life's little brother and mother.
Arriving at Shu Ya courtyard, the servants helped the matriarch lie down, and Feng Yu Heng checked the matriarch's pulse.
"Is everything ok?" The matriarch really cherished her life. Seeing that Feng Yu Heng would not speak, she quickly said: "Aside from my waist hurting, normally there aren't any major illnesses."
Feng Yu Heng nodded, "Grandmother's body can be considered healthy, but became too angry over the matter with brother, so your pulse is a little uneven." As she spoke, she explained to the servants of Shu Ya courtyard, "Go use warm water to wet a handkerchief and wipe grandmother's face. Remember that the water temperature must be mild and can not be overly hot." Seeing the servant leave while expressing understanding, she continued speaking to the matriarch: "Grandmother, when you get up in the future, do not get up too quickly. When you wake up in the morning, do not get up immediately. Stretch your muscles and tendons while on the bed for a while before rising. When it comes to meals, eat slightly less oily foods, and do not drink strong tea."
She provided the basic directives once then said: "For the coming days, my side will be organizing. Prince Yu's contingent sent a great number of medical herbs and supplements. When I have moved in to the courtyard next door and have finished organizing everything, I will give grandmother something to help adjust your body."
The matriarch was moved! It really was this granddaughter that was intimate. As for that Chen Yu, aside from being born pretty and occasionally asking for some nice things from Chen shi, she truly was inferior to Feng Yu Heng in many aspects.
After helping the matriarch fall back asleep, Feng Yu Heng finally took Qing Yu and returned to Willow courtyard.
Zi Rui had already fallen asleep. Yao shi was still waiting for her. Seeing her return, she finally relaxed. She did not say too much, only rushing to have her go back to sleep in her room.
Feng Yu Heng still did not allow Qing Yu to remain and keep watch and entered the room alone. Not long later, the sound of Wang Chuan's voice came from outside the door: "Young miss, have you slept?"
She replied: "Come in."
Wang Chuan pushed on the door and entered, then closed the door behind her.
When Feng Yu Heng was escorting the matriarch to Shu Ya courtyard, Wang Chuan stopped following along at some point. It was under Feng Yu Heng's orders that she returned to Jian Ling pavilion.
"As expected, it went as young miss predicted. After everyone left, master ordered his servants to bring the two pages out and beat them to death. Also, he sent people to Xiao Zhou to get take care of the little girls living at the residence."
Feng Yu Heng slightly frowned. She figured that Feng Jin Yuan would clean up all of Feng Zi Hao's blemishes. But hearing the two pages mention the girls were only ten years old, who knew what methods Feng Zi Hao used to lure them in. Although it was said to take care of them, it was just another way of saying to kill them. But for these people who were condemned to die, if they could be of use, it would always be better than dying with grievances.
"Take a trip over to Xiao Zhou." Feng Yu Heng ordered Wang Chuan, "Save those girls beforehand and find a place to settle." As she spoke, she walked over to the dresser. Taking out the box of bank notes given by Prince Yu's contingent, she took out two bank notes and handed them to Wang Chuan, "I do not know how much it costs to buy a safe house. Do you think this is enough?"
Wang Chuan received it and looked. Each one was worth two thousand taels, so two was worth four thousand taels. She nodded: "It's enough. Young miss, do not worry. Leave the matters of You Zhou to this servant, but what about the Feng manor…" She was a little worried about about this Feng manor.
"It's fine." Feng Yu Heng shrugged, "They still don't dare do anything to me? Furthermore, isn't Huang Quan still here."
Only then did Wang Chuan worry a little less, "Then this servant will depart this very night. This servant will first go explain to Huang Quan. Young miss, do take care of yourself."
As Wang Chuan said she would leave, she left. She had already left the capital before the sun even rose.
Having been disturbed for the better part of a night, none had slept well. The morning of the second day, the matriarch had foregone the paying of respects to elders. Feng Yu Heng felt she may as well sleep until noon before rising.
After getting up, the first thing she did was check out the progress on the moon gate.
The housekeeper, He Zhong had personally overseen the construction. The progress really was faster than expected. A presentable moon gate was almost complete. It was only missing lacquer and a fine carving.
Feng Yu Heng simply gave the order to begin moving. So long as the door was open, everything could be done slowly.
He Zhong quickly sent a group of male servants to help. Everyone worked hard for a couple hours. In the end, Willow courtyard was emptied out.
He Zhong spoke fawningly to Feng Yu Heng: "Master said that Willow courtyard will continue to belong to the second young miss. Truthfully, the second young miss could bring down this entire wall."
Feng Yu Heng shook her head, "I have no reason to want Willow courtyard. Later on, I will return it to daddy. You do not need to worry too much about this small gate. If people can pass through it, then that is enough." Either way, it would be filled in again sooner or later.
How could He Zhong know that she was thinking in such a direction. He instead thought that she was merely being polite and said "I don't dare, I don't dare. I will definitely make the gate beautiful for the second young miss." Then somewhat embarrassed, said: "Reporting to the second young miss, the master said that because the second young miss is far from marriageable age, thus can not leave the manor on her own. So the main gate of the courtyard next door can not be used. If the second young miss wishes to go outside, she must first visit the matriarch."
Feng Yu Heng expressed that she understood. After all, in this era of feudalism, an unmarried girl living on her own outside of the manor was definitely not good.
After moving, Feng Yu Heng led a group of servants around the new manor.
What made her surprised was, originally, she had heard that it had been many years since anyone had lived in this manor, yet there were no weeds. Moreover, there did not seem to be any mess. It was as though someone taking care of it every day. It was a beautiful spring scene. Even the goldfish in the small pond seemed to be a healthy weight.
Seeing Huang Quan's face form a slight smile, she knew that this girl knew something. She immediately tilted her head and raised an eyebrow while looking at her.
After looking for a while, Huang Quan could no longer resist: "Second young miss, I will confess. When we left the manor, we heard Bai Ze mention that Prince Yu's contingent always sends people to come clean this courtyard. Especially after it was decided that this courtyard would be part of the betrothal gift for the second young miss, even more private guards were dispatched to clean it up again."
Feng Yu Heng's face could not conceal a smile. That person really was not stupid!


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Sept. 12, 2005) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced the guilty verdicts of Alfredo Ortiz, 30 and Pedro Arias, 24, for the murder of Marko Winslow, 19, of Flagstaff. The Coconino County jury returned guilty verdicts September 7. The jury also found the defendants guilty of robbery and aggravated assault.
In January 2004, the defendants sold Winslow marijuana and then began accusing him of working with the police department. The accusations escalated and ended when Ortiz and Arias took Winslow to a deserted forest area outside Flagstaff and fatally shot him.
Ortiz and Arias, both from Mexico, will be sentenced October 19 when the State will seek natural life sentences on the murder counts and aggravated sentencing on the remaining counts.
Assistant Attorney General Desi Rubalcaba prosecuted this case, and Deputy Coconino County Attorney Ted Reed participated in the prosecution.


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Apparently, Sean could not, in fact, save the world.
NBC has shut down production on Sean Saves the World several weeks before the show would have completed its freshman season, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
The Sean Hayes-headlined comedy had finished filming 14 episodes out of the total 18 installments ordered by NBC. 12 episodes have already aired, and the final two are tentatively slated to run after the Olympics. Several high-profile guest stars were slated to appear in the final episodes of Season 1, including Portia de Rossi as Sean's ex-wife, Guy Pearce as Sean's potential love interest, and Hayes' longtime Will & Grace co-star, Megan Mullally.
Fall TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't?
Hayes confirmed the news late Tuesday on Twitter. "Thanks to @SeanSavesWorld actors & crew & @NBC for a wonderful opportunity. Looking forward to Obama's minimum wage increase to $10/hr," he wrote.
Sean Saves the World debuted to 4.9 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic back in October. Its most recent outing paled in comparison, only drawing 2.6 million and 0.7.
Hayes is an executive producer on two other NBC shows: Grimm and Hollywood Game Night.
Will you miss Sean Saves the World?


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The concept of policy is the American political imagination's self-circumscribed border. You can do what you like with policies–build, mold, destroy, rearrange–but the context in which policies appear is static, unchanging. Policies can reflect different governing philosophies, but only those philosophies which endorse governing through policy. Policy can shape philosophy as much as philosophy shapes policy.
Policies deal with the tactile and the quantifiable. If it's not measurable, it's not truly thinkable. Policy is hostile to virtue ethics or theology, but it loves utilitarianism. To the extent that policy addresses psychology, it turns us all into behaviorists. Behavioral economics has made policy more sophisticated, but it has also made its outer limits more sharply visible.
The ultimate end of modern politics is to exert as much influence as possible over policy making. You can do that either by electing your own policy makers or by influencing the ones already in office. Elected officials, public institutions and interest groups form alliances and compete among one another to most effectively dominate the policy-making process. Within those categories, political actors are distinguishable only by their stated policy preferences, the amount of power they wield, and how they use that power. So, for example, all interest groups are identical insofar as they all do more or less the same thing in the same way. A labor union is indistinguishable from a pro-life activist group is indistinguishable from the Chamber of Commerce until you examine their stated policy preferences and the strategies they use to achieve them.
This is essentially why Occupy Wall Street was so baffling: it refused to behave like an interest group. When members of the press urged Occupy to release its demands, they were really asking for a menu of policy preferences. Occupy Wall Street's idea of a politics beyond policy seemed as intelligible as a language spoken without words. But that idea's moment has passed, at least for now, along with its frightening ambiguities. Policy has resumed its central, uncontested place in political discourse. Occupy–cloudy, confusing and inchoate–has ceded to the simple, comforting, and diamond-hard.
Even more comforting: Paul Ryan's appearance on the Republican presidential ticket this election cycle. Conventional wisdom has it that his presence will make the election especially policy-heavy. Here's hoping!


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Promotions for the party included racist depictions of stereotyped Asian speech and a spoof of the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il.
Updated at 4:14 p.m. ET: Students at Duke University in Durham, N.C., gathered Wednesday to protest anti-Asian prejudice after a fraternity hosted a "racist rager" party last week replete with literature that lampooned Asian students.
More than 800 people signed up to attend the rally on a Facebook page published by the university's Asian American Alliance. The alliance later closed the page to public comment, saying national attention had made it an inappropriate forum "for a productive discussion of how to improve our campus."
"Something is deeply wrong with Duke. Something is deeply wrong with our community," a representative of the association said at the gathering Wednesday afternoon. "... This protest is about the destructive prejudice that must be uprooted from every corner of Duke to make this place an inclusive and safe place for all."
The rally was planned after Kappa Sigma fraternity — which was allowed to return to campus last year after having dissolved in 2002 amid a misconduct investigation — threw a theme party Friday at which attendees dressed up in stereotypical Asian costumes, the campus newspaper, The Chronicle, reported.
The event was promoted through flyers and email messages that included stereotyped Asian spellings like "herro" and "peopre" and images of the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. It was promoted on Twitter with the hashtag #RacistRager.
The hashtag was quickly overtaken by tweets objecting to the party, like this one:
"This is not just about Asians, one party or one frat," Ashley Tsai, a senior at the university, told the Chronicle. "This is a consistent thing happening. We want serious things to be done by the student body and the university so that this never happens again."
The Student Government and and the Asian Students Association planned an on-campus open discussion Wednesday night.
The fraternity's president apologized for the party, writing in an op-ed column:
Upon learning of the deeply damaging effects of our email to our fellow students, we should have completely canceled the aforementioned party. The Duke Community in which we exist is one that we see too often as divided, and while our actions have brought attention to and widened that divide, it is our sincere intention to work to contribute to a United Duke."
The paper quoted Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta as saying no discipline was planned because it wouldn't resolve racial tensions on campus.
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Last night's resounding 4-0 win for Spain sealed their third straight major tournament victory and furthered their case to be considered the greatest international team of all time and as such it is no surprise at all that they have dominated my team of the tournament.
The team is as follows…
Formation: (4-3-3)
Iker Casillas:
It is very hard to argue with Casillas' stunning record of five clean-sheets in six games and with him now homing in on a staggering 140 caps for his country one might be forgiven for thinking that he could yet go on to reach an even more unbelievable total of over 200 caps! His form has been terrific and he has fully justified his continuing superiority over and above the likes of Pepe Reina and Victor Valdes in Spain's goalkeeping pecking order which is littered with an embarrassment of riches.
Mathieu Debuchy:
Until he was played out of position in the quarter-final against Spain, Debuchy had looked a very useful attacking right back and it is easy to see why several clubs appear to be interested in acquiring his services in time for the new season.
Mats Hummels:
Having heard much about Hummels' development at Borussia Dortmund but having not actually seen much of him play myself I looked forward to seeing what he had to offer and he didn't let me down. He looks strong, comfortable on the ball and very assured in the challenge whether it be aerial or on the deck and I think he proved that he has the makings of one the world's finest centre-halves.
Sergio Ramos:
Ramos may have spent much of his career as a right back but he looked very assured in the central role and he grew in stature throughout the tournament. His contribution to five straight clean-sheets was immense and it will be hard to see Carles Puyol getting his place back in the side if he were to choose to keep playing international football.
Jordi Alba:
Alba deserves a place in this side even if only for the remarkable off the ball run he produced to score the second goal in the final. He has had a fine tournament and he deserves an enormous amount of praise not only for his attacking value at full-back but also for proving that his defensive abilities are right up there too.
Xabi Alonso:
I think Alonso might well be the most underrated player in the Spanish side. As well as providing a tremendous work-rate and a bit of steel in the Spain's sextet of midfielders, his passing ability sometimes goes under the radar when playing alongside the likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Silva and Fabregas but it is supremely good over both short and long distances. Alonso also deserves great credit for his two well taken goals in the game against France and the composure he demonstrated in scoring his penalty in the semi-final shootout with Portugal.
Bastien Schweinsteiger:
Like Alonso, Schweinsteiger gets through a hell of a lot of work in the 'engine room' of his side's midfield and his ability to play a slick, slide-rule pass is second to none (…well, very few anyway…) Gomez's prowess in front of goal impressed in the group stages for the Germans and it was mainly Schweinsteiger's hard work which earned the front man his best opportunities.
Andrea Pirlo:
If it weren't for the outcome of the final then he would be a runaway winner of the player of the tournament award as he was at the heart of all that was great about a surprisingly strong showing from an Italian side that few people fancied to make a huge impact on this tournament. Against England and Germany in particular Pirlo played wonderfully well from deep in the Italian midfield and his exemplary displays of passing football demonstrated exactly what many of the sides at this tournament lack; a midfielder with so much class and ability that they can create space for themselves and dictate the play from multiple positions on the field.
Andres Iniesta:
Iniesta had a fabulous tournament and even though he may not have scored any goals he was a constant threat to all opposition that Spain came up against and the pressure built by his passing play and smart movement contributed significantly to Spain's third straight major tournament success. He has been named the player of the tournament by Uefa having not managed to get himself on the scoresheet at any point in the tournament and this speaks volumes about his contributions.
Cristiano Ronaldo:
Love him or hate him, you have to respect him. I definitely and unashamedly veer on the side of 'love him' and was pleased to see him have a major impact on a major tournament in international football, as it has put many of his doubters to shame and it demonstrated that he does indeed possess the leadership skills necessary to captain a Portugal side who impressed throughout much of this tournament. He may not quite have inspired his side to make it all the way to the final but he goes home with a share of the 'golden boot' award having bagged three goals.
Mario Balotelli:
As is the case with Ronaldo you may well love or hate Balotelli, but regardless of which side of the fence you sit on it is hard to deny that he isn't a joy to watch one way or another. Throughout lengthy periods of this tournament Balotelli was superb and his behaviour was generally pretty decent by his standards which perhaps showed signs of increased maturity in the unpredictable young front-man. He too will return home with a share of the 'golden boot' and one would hope that he can look back on this tournament as the start of a more consistent and reliable stage of his developing career.


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Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! It's been so long since I posted to this blog that it almost seems like I've abandoned it. Well, I guess to a degree I have but maybe I can do better this year :).
Anyway, I just wanted to make a quick post about two features in google that I have been using fairly often to aid in genealogical research. The first is google books. I have started to find quite a few genealogy-related books on google, including several of the "Biographical/Historical" county books that were so popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Google has scanned them and made them available in pdf format. Continue reading


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Groundbreaking Comedy Troupe "The Kids in the Hall" Reunite on IFC
THE KIDS IN THE HALL: DEATH COMES TO TOWN "Death Comes to Town," an 8-Part Original Series Premieres August 20, 2010 at 10PM ET/PT with two back-to-back episodes
All Five "Kids" Together Again on U.S. Television; Comic Murder Mystery Introduces All-New Narrative Format
Shortly after the arrival of the Grim Reaper to Shuckton, Ontario on a Greyhound bus, everyone in the small town is implicated when one of its most distinguished citizens is found murdered. Death Comes to Town, an original scripted series of eight 30-minute episodes, premieres on IFC on August 20 at 10:00PM ET/PT, marking the return of the audacious comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall to U.S. television for the first time since their cult series ended in the mid-1990s.
Famous for their distinctive and surreal sketch comedy, all five original members of The Kids in the Hall - Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson - star in IFC's new scripted comedy series and play almost all of the characters in their trademark gender-bending style. Co-written by all five Kids, the story of Death Comes to Town unfolds in a serialized format, different from their previous work on television, that uses "act-enders" to carry viewers forward to the next episode.
"It's a gothic comic mini-series," explains Bruce McCulloch. "Like 'Corner Gas' meets 'Twin Peaks'. It's silly and it's dark, and it's about outsiders and people in over their heads."
"It is still very much a Kids in the Hall troupe effort," adds Dave Foley, "As long as what we're pursuing is what we think is really funny, that's what keeps us honest."
Death Comes to Town was conceived by Bruce McCulloch, who is also executive producer. The series is directed by Kelly Makin and produced by Susan Cavan of Accent Entertainment.
I'm crushing your head. I'm crushing your head. Crush. Crush.
The Kids in the Hall burst onto North American TV screens in 1989, launching the careers of five young comics and permanently establishing their wacky humor in the annals of pop culture. Often inappropriate and sometimes shocking, their comedy has been characterized by a skewed perspective on human nature. Produced by Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video (Saturday Night Live) with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), The Kids in the Hall aired in the U.S. for six years, first on HBO and then on CBS. Their only feature film, Brain Candy with The Kids in the Hall, was released in 1996 and instantly became a cult classic. The troupe recently completed a live tour of over 40 North American cities, featuring all new material for the first time since the end of their run on TV.
About IFC
IFC creates and champions authentic, original content that is "Always On. Slightly Off." Since 1994, IFC has cultivated television programming that challenges the conventions of storytelling. Today, IFC continues to embrace content with an indie perspective. Original series - headlined by brand-defining scripted and sketch comedy - air alongside an extraordinary collection of films and cult TV shows. Long and short-form original content inspired by music, web, gaming, animation, news, and culture is available on multiple platforms. IFC provides viewers access to must-see festivals and events around the country, like the Film Independent's Spirit Awards and SXSW. IFC.com features exclusive video, podcasts, blogs, news and reviews cultivated and written by industry experts. The network's On Demand offering, IFC Free, gives fans the opportunity to watch select content from IFC whenever they want. IFC is a subsidiary of Rainbow Media Holdings LLC.
Death Comes to Town Episode Guide:
Episode One and Two - Premiere Friday, August 20th at 10:00PM ET/PT.
Death Checks In
Death arrives on a Greyhound in the small town of Shuckton, Ontario at the same time that the townsfolk and their Mayor are waiting for news on their bid for the next Olympics. We meet the townsfolk of Shuckton: Crim, the Purell-sniffing town ne'er-do-well; Doc Porterhouse, the friendly town abortionist; Marnie, the loveable pizza delivery lady with Alzheimer's; Mayor Larry Bowman and his wife Marilyn, a "secret drinker;" Shuckton's Action News team; and Ricky, a 600-pound ex-hockey star. Mayor Bowman has an ominous visit from his past.
Who Mailed our Mayor?
The town bustles with activity when one of its citizens is found murdered and the police are called in to investigate. Action News anchor Corrinda is awoken by her producer, Levon, from a drunken one-night-stand and called into action. Dusty, the town coroner, attends to the crime scene and bags his evidence. Crim is discovered at the crime scene passed out in his chip truck.with blood on his hands.
Episode Three and Four - Premiere Friday, August 27 at 10:00PM ET/PT.
The Stages of Grief
As the town of Shuckton mourns, Dusty begins his autopsy and ends up taking his work home with him. Meanwhile, the cops review Crim's rap sheet, and Ricky and Marnie begin their own investigation. Corrinda realizes her one-night-stand has had consequences, Marilyn is named the new Mayor of Shuckton, and Death goes a-lookin' for some redheads.
Big City Smackdown
A Big-City prosecutor arrives in town for the start of the trial and the public defender, Sam Murray, struggles to deal with his cat Buttonhole's double coma while simultaneously preparing for the defense. Heather Weather conspires to take advantage of Corrinda's predicament and steal her job and Shaye's affections, and Mayor Marilyn discovers some ugly truths about her husband.
Episode Five and Six - Premiere Friday, September 3 at 10:00PM ET/PT.
The Butterfly is to Blame
As the trial gets underway, housebound Ricky sends Marnie into the field to continue his investigation. Corrinda wrestles with a tough decision. Death gets the call and kicks his ladies out of the No-Tell. Dusty hides a love that dare not speak its name, and young Rampop witnesses another murder in the town, between the two butterflies.?
Cause of Death
When another murder occurs in Shuckton, Sam requests a mistrial, while Big-City uses the shape-shifting defense. Dusty is called to testify, revealing that his autopsy was never completed and the judge orders the body exhumed. Death gets a visit from the Shuckton 5-0. Ricky and Marnie's investigation surpasses the police, as they discover both the murder weapon.and something even more shocking.
Episode Seven and Eight - Premiere Friday, September 10 at 10:00PM ET/PT.
Seriously Shocking News
Shuckton is stunned by the news of Dusty's one-sided love affair. Buttonhole the cat has some unfortunate accidents. The lawyers perform their final summations in Crim's trial and Sam's goes really well - until the end. Ricky makes yet another even more shocking discovery! Death gets paged again.
Dead Man Walking
Mayor Marilyn is in top form hosting her first public execution. Ricky and Marnie show up at the execution, in the nick of time, and Marnie makes the most shocking revelation of all. Death finally gets to face off against Ricky.
The Kids in the Hall:
Bruce McCulloch - an award-winning writer, actor, director, producer and recording artist who has spent the last several years developing, producing and writing for American network television. In 2007, Bruce created, wrote and executive produced the TV series, Carpoolers for ABC/Dreamworks. Other series writing credits include two seasons of Saturday Night Live.
His feature film writing and directing credits include Comeback Season, starring Ray Liotta and Glenne Headley, Stealing Harvard for Imagine Entertainment and Revolution Studios, starring Jason Lee and Tom Green, Superstar for Lorne Michaels and Paramount Pictures, starring Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell, and Dog Park, starring Luke Wilson and Natasha Henstridge. In addition to his role with The Kids in the Hall, as an actor McCulloch has also starred in Brain Candy with The Kids in the Hall and Dick.
He has written and performed in several one-man shows, including "Two-Headed Roommate" and "Slightly Bigger Cities." He also co-wrote and starred in a stage adaptation of the book, "Letters to Wendy's". Bruce has two spoken-word/comedy/music CDs, "Shame-based Man" and "The Drunk Baby Project".
Dave Foley - an award-winning actor and writer who has been extremely prolific in both Canada and the U.S. on television and in film. The same year that The Kids in the Hall wrapped their first season on television, Foley began starring as the series lead in the successful sitcom, News Radio, which ran for five seasons on CBS. Other television series successes include recurring roles on Will and Grace, Scrubs, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Robson Arms.
Feature film roles include Brain Candy with The Kids in the Hall, Blast from the Past, with Alicia Silverstone, Dick, Don McKellar's Childstar, The Wrong Guy, which he also wrote and executive produced, and the more recent Toronto International Film Festival hits, Cooper's Camera and Suck. Foley has been a successful voice actor as well, lending his voice to hit animated films including Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
An avid poker aficionado, Foley both hosted and played for more than two years on Celebrity Poker Showdown.
Kevin McDonald - on his first day as an enrolled student in Second City improv workshops, Kevin met Dave Foley and they became friends. They worked together as ushers in an art house theater and together they joined up with Luciano Casimiri and formed the first incarnation of The Kids in the Hall.
Following his time with The Kids, Kevin has gone on to star in feature film and television in both Canada and the U.S. Television includes a recurring role on That 70s Show and appearances on Friends, Seinfeld, News Radio, Corner Gas, Arrested Development, Carpoolers, and Less Than Kind. Film roles include Brain Candy with The Kids in The Hall, The Ladies Man and Sook Yin Lee's feature film directorial debut, Year of the Carnivore.
Kevin has also written for television, notably 63 episodes of The Martin Short Show.
Mark McKinney - a comedian, actor, writer and producer. Following the success of The Kids in the Hall television show, Mark went on to star on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1997 and, in 1998, wrote for Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night. He later co-created the mini-series, Slings and Arrows, in which he wrote and starred for all three seasons. Mark then went on to both write and act on NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Mark has also appeared in several feature films, including Brain Candy with The Kids in the Hall, and the SNL spin-offs Superstar, The Ladies Man, and A Night at the Roxbury. Mark had a leading role in the Spice Girls' movie Spice World, and also starred opposite Isabella Rosellini in Guy Maddin's acclaimed film, The Saddest Music in the World.
Mark is producer, senior story editor and show-runner for Canada's Citytv series, Less Than Kind, which launches its second season in January 2010. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov award for outstanding comedic contribution, following in the footsteps of John Cleese, Bob Newhart, Martin Short, Tracy Ullman, and others.
Scott Thompson - a former member of the Toronto-based improv comedy group The Love Cats, Scott later joined The Kids in the Hall, where he created the infamous character, Buddy Cole, for whom Scott went on to pen the autobiography, "Buddy Babylon".
Following The Kids in the Hall, Scott was a series regular on HBO's The Larry Sanders Show. He co-starred in Showtime's More Tales from the City and played a recurring character on NBC's Providence. He voiced for The Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and the Canadian animated series, Robo Roach.
In addition to Brain Candy with The Kids in the Hall, Scott can be seen in the feature films Mickey Blue Eyes, Super 8 ? and The Pacifier.


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The Halifax Wharf Rats perform from 7:00 - 10:00 pm at this charming bistro with excellent homemade food
Reservations are highly recommended. 604-530-5297
Historic Murrayville Post Office becomes exceptional bistro and live music venue!
The general Store was first built in 1888 at Murray's Corners; however it did not become Porter's General Store until sometime after that. P.Y. Porter bought the store in 1916 and opened it as his own. The store remained open during the Great Depression. Throughout this time, many customers were unable to pay their bills, and so many people were allowed an open line of credit. Their unpaid bills can still be seen in the McCaskey Files which are still on site. Following the Great Depression, and just prior to the beginning of WWII, the store was rebuilt and downsizing commenced. In 1947, after serving 2 years with the Canadian Armed Forces, Eldy Porter took over the store and continued operations until his sudden passing in 1997.
This building had been in the Porter family for over 90 years, and it still has all the original fixtures, floors, and cabinetry. You may notice some dips in the floor; these were caused by the weight of the counters. Porter's was also a Canada Post Office for 80 years, until its closure in 1998. In January of 2009, Porter's received its Heritage Building Status.
There's been a store at this site since 1888. P.Y. Porter started working there at age 14. In 1916, when he was 25, he purchased the place, naming it P.Y. Porter's. It was a general store with everything in it from hardware to clothing to dry goods. When Eldy Porter returned home after the Second World War his father made him a partner in P.Y. Porter and Son. Karen, PY's granddaughter, took over the store and renamed it: Porter's Coffee & Tea House
In 1997 the name changed to Porter's Coffee & Tea House. Along with the morning lattes and homemade muffins, Porter's still sells candies like it did in 1916. And a 1911 cash register is on the premises.
In 2011 Bill Buurmeester became the new owner. Bill is bringing in more music nights with local performers playing jazz, latin, Dixieland styles to add that local flavor to the area.
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I do a slow cooker pulled pork with only orange soda, then I drain, shred and add BBQ sauce. It's divine! I'll have to try this one out though too. thanks!
This sounds amazing!
Root beer and vanilla with pork? Who'd have thunk. I will have to try this!
I'm so excited to try this recipe!!! We had pulled pork sandwiches at a family reunion around Christmas and it was my first time ever having it. So yummy. Can't wait to try this.
Oh! I want to try it, but I don't have rootbeer. I have Coke and Sprite. Do you think it's worth a try, or do I need to run out to the store?
Hi Donna, the coke will work. But you might need to change the name. :-)
Rootbeer ANYTHING: yum.
Cabbage soup? Not so much. Blech.
I LOVE your use of the word shreddy, and the recipe for chili sauce, not to mention the featured recipe, which I plan on trying ASAP. Thanks!
i was gonna ask for a sub for root beer as we dont have that in NZ or maybe we call it something else, i dont know, but coke we do have so will use that
Can there be too many recipes for good pulled pork? I don't think so. ;-) Root beer is making the rounds. Wonder if this root beer pulled pork and Kim's (Cook IT Allergy Free) root beer beans together would be too much. Hmmm. Might have to see!
Thanks, Steph! xo,
This sounds like something my fiancé would absolutely devour! Quick question though, do you think subbing in Diet Root Beer would work? He is diabetic, and I don't want to kill him with regular soda. :) I ask because I saw another root beer recipe that specifically said not to use diet.
Thanks! I'm a new reader, but I love my Crock Pot and I love your recipes!
Looks yummy.
And easy.
Just my cooking style...
Allie, I don't see at all why diet root beer wouldn't work. I've got a few other "add soda" recipes, and readers have successfully swapped the regular out for diet.
The flavor will be just fine, and no one would know the difference unless you were doing a side-by-side comparison.
Do you think this would work with a beef roast? I am swimming in beef roasts and I think I'd freak if I went out to buy a pork roast while I've got all these beef roasts running around.
Hi crittermom, I'd use a beef roast if I already had a bunch in the house. You may need to "help" it get shreddy near the end of cooking time by cutting the meat into chunks and return to the pot to soak up more liquid. The meat will then fall apart the way the pork does.
I would love to try this recipe, but I can't get rootbeer where I live. Is there some sort of substitution I can use? Thanks for sharing!
oops, sorry! I just read through the previous, and I have the answer to my question! I'll try a cola drink and see what happens. Thanks!
Hi Ya'll,
we dont drink any soda in my household, so is there something we can sub for the rootbeer/cola?
Thanks in Advance
We made this today and it was great. I think tomorrow I will use the leftovers in enchiladas.
TwoDiffSocks, I think the soda has acid in it that helps to break down the pork and give it some sweetness at the same time. You can get a bottle of cheap root beer for the recipe even if you throw out the rest of it. But I have also seen recipes that use vinegar and BBQ sauce.
I will have to try this!
We are having this for dinner. I was sold when you said it was out-of-the-ballpark wonderful. It is in the pot as I type. Thanks for the recipe! I am intrigued. :-) I love your blog. I am new to blog-following and am totally obsessed. ;-)
Yet another happy coincidence! We have root beer in the house that I was looking to get rid of, and I happen to be in a BBQ mood. I'm using boneless country pork ribs, since that's what I've got in the house, but I'm sure it will work great! Thanks again!
Just made this last night and it was fabulous! Even my pickiest eaters ate it and liked it. I have tried with Coke, but love the sweet tang of the Root Beer much better. I am using the leftovers for baked potato night tomorrow night. I WILL be making this again!
I am so glad I stumbled upon this. I am a new crockpotter...(don't think that is a word) I am married and soon to be mommy and the crock pot is amazing when I get home from work and dinner is done. I can't wait to try some recipes from here!!!
My husband loves root beer, but I don't like the taste. I'm curious how "root beery" this is.
I've made this before and people were SHOCKED when I told them
It was made with root beer so I think it's safe to say it's not "root beery". It gives it a nice sweetness. I soak my pork in root beer overnight in the pot (just put the pork in and dump the root beer on). A word of advice: use nonstick spray because the sugar from the root beer is a pain in the neck to clean once it crystalizes on the pot.
I made this last night and it did not go over well with my four kids. Two out of four wouldn't eat more than a bite and the older two did eat a bit more than that but not as much as a normal dinner. I was disappointed. I didn't love the flavor as much as everybody else who commented seemed to. Granted it was easy, inexpensive, and I got to play outside on our first spring like day instead of standing over a stove making dinner but like my husband said after he ate, "I think this dish was a waste of root beer." Sorry. I wanted to love it but it just wasn't that good.
I made this yesterday and it was delicious! I don't care for chili sauce, but I couldn't really taste too much of it. It was a nice mix of sweet and tangy. My 5 yr old daughter didn't eat her sandwich (and was hungry for the rest of the night!) but my 1 yr old son loved it.
I didn't shred the pork, but left it chunky and it seemed to make the sandwich feel more substantial.
It made for a perfect spring lunch with chips and soda. ((Oh, and I cooked mine for 4.5 hrs on high))
I have this in the crockpot right now. Can't wait to get home and try it!!
I made this over the weekend and it was delicious! Some of my guests liked it as it was, others preferred it with BBQ sauce. Either way, it was a winner. One question - my version came out much darker than the one in your picture. It almost looked like beef. I did use the ketchup-based substitute for chili sauce, could that be it? http://sprng.me/9pe0d
Finally made this yesterday. Very very tasty, although to me, it's missing something. I think the next time I make it, I need to throw some garlic in there or something.
That said, totally a keeper.
Oh my goodness! This is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.!!! I made your BBQ pulled pork before and I thought nothing could top it. Well, this did. I can't even describe how incredible the flavor is! I'm glad I used a 5 lb roast instead of 2 :) I'll be eating this all week...ok, if it'll last that long. I have a feeling it'll be gone by Saturday morning. WOW!!!
Thanks, This looks amazing ..I really enjoyed the pulled pork.
Yum!! This was wonderful! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Hi, we are gluten free too. We were told that Root beer -the caramel coloring -contains gluten. Which brand do you use? Thanks, love your site.
Lara Parker in North Idaho
Hi Lara, I think that's not true. You should certainly do your own research ---- but everything I've read has pointed to root beer being gluten free, and that the caramel coloring concern is an Urban Myth. Here is more info.
good luck to you!
Do you think Pepsi would work?
Hi Amy,
Yes! Pepsi will work just fine! The flavor will be different, but you will still have a beautiful, moist meat.
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A 71-year-old former police captain is in custody after allegedly shooting and killing 43-year-old Chad Oulsen and injuring his wife over a texting dispute during a movie. NBC's Katy Tur reports.
The retired Tampa police captain accused of gunning down a man texting during a Mark Wahlberg war movie will be arraigned on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday in a Florida court.
Curtis Reeves Jr., 71, is charged with shooting Chad Oulson, 43, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Monday, after a verbal and physical confrontation.
Chad Oulson was pronounced dead at a hospital, and his wife, Nichole, was treated for a gunshot wound to her hand.
"To have a retired police officer — I don't know what he was thinking at the time," Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told reporters. "I can tell you, anybody, over a cellphone, to take their life, it's ridiculous."
Reeves remained in Pasco County jail overnight Monday, and a judge could decide Tuesday whether to set bail.
Officials are crediting an off-duty sheriff's deputy from neighboring Sumter County for detaining Reeves at the Grove 16 Theatre in Wesley Chapel, north of Tampa. The deputy also secured the weapon, described as a .380-calber handgun, until Pasco authorities arrived, Nocco said.
"He was a true hero in there. He reacted," said Nocco, who also praised the efforts of two nurses who were in the theater and tried to save Oulson's life.
Nocco said that when when the first emergency calls came in, his mind immediately turned to recent shootings at schools and movie theaters, an apparent reference to the mass killings at a theater in Aurora, Colo., in July 2012, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., just five months later.
"Hearing what we heard, we were prepared for a large incident, but I want to reiterate this was just an isolated incident," he said.
"This situation over a cellphone use — to escalate that high, I can tell you it's very scary," he said. "Or the fact it's a movie theater or, you know, a place such as a school, where people have a belief that they should be in a movie theater to relax or a school to learn and have it arise to this kind of level."
Nocco said the tragedy unfolded after Reeves became outraged over something trivial: "somebody texting."
Reeves and his wife were sitting behind the Oulsons as the preview trailers were rolling just before the showing of "Lone Survivor," the Mark Wahlberg movie about a failed 2007 Navy Seal raid in Afghanistan, investigators said.
Reeves asked Chad Oulson several times to stop, to no avail, Nocco said. He then left the theater to complain to the theater's management before returning to his seat, the sheriff said.
Upon his return, "Chad Oulson then starts confronting him verbally, starts saying: 'Oh, did you go in there and start complaining on me? Did you tell the staff about me?'" Nocco said.
"This verbal altercation starts getting louder and louder. During this altercation, it goes from a verbal to a physical altercation," he said.
Then, "the suspect, Curtis Reeves, pulled out a gun," Nocco said.
Only one shot was fired, Nocco said. Nichole Oulson was wounded in the hand when she grabbed her husband as Reeves pulled the trigger, he said.
The theater's operator, Cobb Theatres, said in a statement that it was "truly heartbroken by this incident" and that it was cooperating with investigators.
Reeves retired as a captain from the Tampa Police Department in 1993, said Laura McElroy, a spokeswoman for the department, adding that Reeves helped set up the department's first SWAT team.
"We are not aware of any contact with the department since his departure more than 20 years ago," she said in a statement.
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Gramps 3.1 Wiki Manual - Navigation
As long as any database is open, GRAMPS is focused on a single person usually referred to as an Active Person. This allows you to view or modify the data concerning this person, his or her immediate family, etc. Navigating in the database (i.e. moving from person to person) is in fact nothing else but changing the Active Person. This section describes many alternative ways to navigate through the database using both the complex and the convenient interfaces GRAMPS provides. All these ways eventually accomplish the same thing, but some are more convenient than others, depending what you are doing in GRAMPS at the moment.
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Using the People View
The most intuitive way to select an Active Person is to use the People View. When in the People View, just select the name of the desired person from the list by clicking that list entry. The person you have selected becomes active. The statusbar updates to reflect the change of the active person.
Using the Family View
When in the Relationships View, you can easily navigate between the members of the displayed family as follows:
To make the currently selected spouse the Active Person, click the double-arrow button to the right of the Active Person box. Alternatively, right-click into the spouse box and select Make the selected spouse an Active Person item from the context menu.
To make the currently selected parents the active family (thereby making father the Active Person and mother the selected spouse), click the right-arrow button to the right of the active person's parents box. Alternatively, right-click into the active person's parents box and select Make the selected parents the active family item from the context menu.
To make the currently selected spouse's parents the active family (thereby making father the Active Person and mother the selected spouse), click the right-arrow button to the right of the spouse's parents box. Alternatively, right-click into the spouse's parents box and select Make the selected parents the active family item from the context menu.
To make the currently selected child the Active Person, click the left-arrow button to the right of the children box. Alternatively, right-click into the children box and select Make the selected child an Active Person item from the context menu.
In addition to this, GRAMPS provides an extensive set of keyboard navigation options. The detailed reference to the key bindings is found in the append-keybind.
Using the Pedigree View
The Pedigree View also allows you to move along the family tree. The benefit of this method is that you can see more than one generation of the family tree. Also, you can jump directly from a great-grandson to a great-grandfather without going through the intermediate generations.
Note that after changing the Active Person in the Pedigree View, the display is re-adjusted to show up to five generations, starting from the newly selected Active Person. When in the Pedigree View, you can easily navigate between the members of the displayed family tree as follows:
To make any displayed person the Active Person, right-click the corresponding box and choose the first entry in the context menu.
To make a child of the currently Active Person (if any) the Active Person, click the left arrow button to the left of the corresponding box. If there is more than one child, the button expands to the menu listing the children to choose from.
To move the whole family tree one generation back, click on the corresponding right arrow button on the right-hand side of the display area. Clicking the upper button will move the tree along the paternal line. Clicking the lower button will move the tree along the maternal line.
Clicking either of these buttons is completely equivalent to double-clicking the lines connecting to the left of the corresponding boxes for father and mother.
You can also quickly access any of the spouses, siblings, children, or parents of any displayed person. To do this, move the mouse over the desired person's box and right-click to invoke a context menu. The appropriate menu items will contain submenus listing all spouses, siblings, children, and parents of the corresponding person.
Advantages of using right-click menus
Direct access to spouse and siblings. Complete lists of all member of all categories, not only the preferred members.
Setting the Home Person
One and only one person in the database can be selected as the Home person. Once the Home person is selected, moving to that person becomes a matter of a single click, regardless of which view you are using at the moment.
To set the Home person, first navigate to that person using any method you like. Then choose Edit ->Set Home person . Once this is done, you can move to the Home person from anywhere in the database by simply clicking the Home icon on the toolbar. You can also choose Go ->Home from the menu or select Home item from any context menu available on the right click.
Using history-based tools
GRAMPS also features a powerful set of history-based navigation tools. These tools are similar to those commonly used in web browsers. They include Back and Forward items available from the Go menu, context menus (available in People, Family, and Pedigree views), and the toolbar buttons. They also include the list of the recent selections available under the Go menu that allows you to jump directly to any of the recent selections. Finally, right-clicking on the Back and Forward toolbar buttons invokes the popup menu with corresponding portion of the history. Select any item from the menu to jump directly to it.
Similar to setting the Home person, you can bookmark other people from the database to simplify further navigation. To bookmark a person, first navigate to that person, then choose Bookmarks ->Add bookmark . To move to that person from anywhere in the database, choose Bookmarks ->Go to bookmark ->Person's name .
You can manage your bookmarks by choosing Bookmarks ->Organize bookmarks... . This opens the following Organize Bookmarks dialog with the list of bookmarks and the controls to modify this list.
Use the Up en Down button to change the list sequence. Use the Remove button to remove a Bookmark. The Help will bring you to this page, and you close the Organize Bookmarks window with the Close button.
The Bookmarked People can be selected through the People View, as explained above, but also through the Relationships View, Families View, and the Pedigree View.
On a similar basis you can also Bookmark: Events, Sources, Places, Media, Repositories , and Notes
Finding records
To find a record in a database, first switch to the appropriate View that provides the list of the desired records: People, Sources, Places, or Media. Then start typing the name of a person or the title of a Source, Place, or Media object that you are looking for, respectively. You may also press <Ctrl> + F to turn on the search mode, but simply starting to type is also enough.
As you type, the first record in the list that is compatible with your input will be selected.
Finding People
For more complex people searches you may want to use filters.
Enable filter controls by choosing View ->Filter , select the desired filter, and click Apply . For details, see Filters.
Using the Clipboard
This tool provides a temporary note pad to store database records for easy reuse. In short, this is a sort of the copy-and-paste functionality extended from textual objects to other types of records used in GRAMPS.
Clipboard makes extensive use of drag and drop technique
To invoke Clipboard, either choose Edit->Clipboard or click the Clipboard button on the toolbar.
Clipboard supports addresses, attributes (both personal and family), events (both personal and family), names, media objects references, source references, URLs, and of course textual information of notes and comments. To store any type of these records, simply drag the existing record on to the Clipboard Pad from the corresponding editor dialog. To reuse the record, drag it from the Clipboard on to the corresponding place in the editor, e.g. Address tab, Attribute tab, etc.
Clipboard storage is persistent within a single GRAMPS session. Closing the window will not lose the stored records. However, exiting GRAMPS will.
The accelerator key is now <CTRL+B>. For an application like GRAMPS the Clipboard is very important. Just one example: You find a birth certificate of a person. In this certificate also the witnesses are mentioned. And the birth certificate also determines a source where the information was stored. The best way is to open the clipboard and drag the source you want to work with there. Then use drag and drop to use it in new items you use. Now you can finalize the information on the person editor screen. Drag that info also to the Clipboard. Now you add two new persons for the witnesses (assuming you do not have them already in your database). Simply drag and drop the birth info to the witness event screen. You are then presented with the screen where you can change the role of the witness to witness for this birth event. You do the same with the other witness.
This saves you a lot of typing and possible errors.
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The next New Bern Artwalk is a month away, but new and continuing exhibits abound along a stroll of Pollock, Middle, Craven and South Front streets as the early summer months begin.
The next New Bern Artwalk is a month away, but new and continuing exhibits abound along a stroll of Pollock, Middle, Craven and South Front streets as the early summer months begin.
At Carolina Creations on Pollock Street, ceramic artist Andree Richmond of Bridgeton, a native of Somerset, England, has whimsical characters, including a variety of frogs enjoying water sports.
Her work has been exhibited in Georgia, Arizona, California, Oregon, New York City and extensively in North Carolina. She currently has work displayed in Chicago, Raleigh, Denver, Colo., Atlantic Beach and Portland, Ore.
The gallery also continues its fourth annual Garden Art Show through the end of the month, with garden-inspired art and distinctive hand-crafted garden art in a celebration of creative outdoor living.
There are paintings and tile wall hangings by Jan Francoeur; whirligigs by Gary Lenz; Peace Poles with art by Stephanie Burgess; blown-glass garden twirls by Gary Guydosh; birdhouses, birdfeeders and birdbaths by Paul Anthony and Steve Fabrico; wind chimes by Hazel Olsen, Keith Neissel and Roxann Chalfant; garden stakes by Catherine Murphy; and blown-glass gazing balls by Lisa Oakley.
New Bern ArtWorks Fine Art Gallery on Pollock Street has �Coastal Views,� a body of works by landscape painters Barbara Hesketh, Ken Wallin and Karen Crenshaw. The exhibit continues through July 6.
Painting landscapes in oil has become a main focus for artist Hesketh, with an interest in beach scenes, skyscapes and seascapes. She has expanded her subject matter to include scenes from around North Carolina.
Wallin captures the beauty of the ocean and the marine life of coastal areas.
Crenshaw�s painting palette shows the influence of the Impressionists with her use of high-keyed hues � soft cobalt and cerulean blues and deep, rich greens and violets.
More than 40 artists, crafters and authors display their works at the Greater Good Gallery on Craven Street. Some of the exhibitors demonstrate their creativity on-location while painting en plein air or making jewelry and other crafts.
Carol Jones shares her oil painting techniques with tourists and James Herring documents New Bern architecture with his oil pastels and acrylics. Meg Wethington and Amber Ayala present multi-media abstracts. Susan Spirko offers watercolors and Jon Derby visits regularly to discuss the relevance of digital art. Alice Bilello and Suzette Wetherington craft jewelry and local author Ken Capps tells the tale of his book �Forgiving Waters� and its journey to award-winning status.
The resident artist this month at The Next Chapter Bookstore on South Front Street is Jan Hoppe, whose talent is widely recognized. She is a writer, a graphic designer, an editor, a master gardener and, above all, a creator of beautiful paintings and sculpture.
Next Chapter also has three book signings this month. On Saturday, Debra Hagaan is on hand from 1 to 4 p.m. with her first children�s book, titled �Amazing Animals By Design.� With text and illustrations, Haagen answers often-asked questions such as, �Why is a giraffe�s neck so tall?� and �Why do Zebras have stripes?� A free audio book download is included with each book.
On June 15, Tim Whealton is at the store from 1 to 4 p.m. with his recently published book, �According to Tim,� a collection of humorous and insightful stories about growing up in Eastern North Carolina.
Ray Clark comes to Next Chapter on June 22, 1 to 4 p.m. for signing of �The Never-Ending War,� his first-hand account of combat and the men of �K� company during their service in Vietnam. This thriller chronicles the suspense and danger of close combat and the residual problems of post-war struggles.
While renovations continue on the Craven Arts Council�s Bank of the Arts on Middle Street, the main exhibit is at Duffy Gallery at the North Carolina History Center. It is titled �Visual Feast� and features participating artists Sally Anger, Brenda Behr, Chris Bennett, Janet Dixon, Jill Eberle, Janet Francoeur, Robert Hennon, Bill Lease, Ed Macomber, GeeVee Meyer, Rob Rigsby Jr. and Sally Rowe.


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