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St. Joe CEO to Resign, Company to Begin Search for New CEO
Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Results Conference Call Cancelled
WaterSound, FL - February 28, 2011 - The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) today announced that it has reached an understanding with its largest shareholder, The Fairholme Fund (FAIRX), a series of Fairholme Funds, Inc., on certain corporate governance matters.
Britt Greene has resigned from the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately, and he will step down from the positions of President and CEO later this week. St. Joe will commence a search process and expects to engage an executive search firm to identify potential candidates to serve as CEO on a permanent basis.
Hugh Durden, Chairman of the St. Joe Board of Directors, said, "Britt has been instrumental in the growth and development of St. Joe over the past thirteen years. We are grateful for his many valuable contributions to the Company and wish him the best in his future endeavors."
Recognizing the desire of St. Joe shareholders for the Company to pursue a different course, Michael L. Ainslie, John S. Lord and Walter L. Revell have also agreed to resign from the St. Joe Board of Directors later this week.
St. Joe will add four new directors previously proposed by Fairholme. The St. Joe Board of Directors will consist of Bruce R. Berkowitz, Governor Charles J. Crist, Charles M. Fernandez, Howard S. Frank, Hugh M. Durden, Thomas A. Fanning, and Delores M. Kesler. St. Joe also expects to engage an executive search firm to assist in identifying at least one additional independent director.
Mr. Durden added, "St. Joe is committed to acting in the best interests of shareholders, and in light of the feedback the Board of Directors has received, we are taking steps to change the Company's governance and leadership. We look forward to working with the new members of the Board to build shareholder value and advance St. Joe's leadership position in the Northwest Florida real estate market."
In connection with the governance and leadership changes announced today, Fairholme has indicated that it will not be soliciting written consents or proxies to effect further changes to the St. Joe Board.
The Company also announced today that it will not hold its previously scheduled conference call regarding its fourth quarter and full year 2010 earnings on Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
Bruce R. Berkowitz is the Founder, Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of Fairholme Capital Management, L.L.C., and President and a Director of Fairholme Funds, Inc. Mr. Berkowitz has served as a Director of Fairholme Funds, Inc. since 1999. He has also served as a Director of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., AmeriCredit Corporation and TAL.
Governor Charles J. Crist is the 44th Governor of the State of Florida and served as Governor from 2007 to 2011. Governor Crist previously served as Attorney General of Florida from 2003 to 2007 and Education Commissioner of Florida from 2001 to 2003. Governor Crist also served as a Senator in the Florida Senate. Governor Crist, a member of the Florida Counsel of 100, is currently an attorney with the law firm of Morgan & Morgan and a Distinguished Professorial Lecturer at Stetson University College of Law.
Charles M. Fernandez is the President of Fairholme Capital Management, L.L.C. and Vice President and a Director of Fairholme Funds, Inc. Mr. Fernandez is also a member of the Board of Directors of Miami Children's Hospital Foundation. Mr. Fernandez was a Director of Lakeview Health Systems, LLC, a privately held healthcare company specializing in rehabilitation until October 2009 and served as President until 2007. Mr. Fernandez was also the Chief Executive Officer of Big City Radio, Inc. and held various positions with IVAX Corporation until 2003, serving most recently as a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Howard S. Frank is the Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Carnival Corporation & plc, the largest cruise vacation group in the world, and is responsible for directing corporate-wide business development strategies. Mr. Frank joined Carnival Corporation as Senior Vice President - Finance and Chief Financial Officer in July 1989 and has served as the company's Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer since January 1998. Mr. Frank is a past Chairman and current Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the New World Symphony and currently serves as Independent Director on the board of directors of Fairholme Funds, Inc.
Hugh M. Durden has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since August 2008, and he served as Lead Director from 2003 to 2008. He has also served as Chairman of The Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust since January 2005. From 1972 until 2000, he was an executive with Wachovia Corporation, serving as President of Wachovia Corporate Services from 1994 to 2000. He is a director of The Nemours Foundation, Chairman of the EARTH University Investment Committee and a director of Web.com Group, Inc., a website design and internet services company.
Thomas A. Fanning is the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Company. Mr. Fanning has worked for Southern Company for 29 years and was most recently Chief Operating Officer until August 2010, previously serving as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2003 through 2007. Mr. Fanning also serves as a trustee of the Southern Center for International Studies and as a member of The Georgia Institute of Technology Alexander Tharpe Athletic Board and Management College Board. Mr. Fanning has current executive experience in a large, complex organization operating in a highly regulated industry. Especially important are the extensive skills he has acquired in the areas of financial reporting and risk assessment and oversight.
Delores M. Kesler has served as Chairman of ATS Services, Inc., a human resource solutions company, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Adium, LLC, a capital investment company, since 1997. Ms. Kesler is also a founder of Accustaff, Inc. (now MPS Group, Inc.), a strategic staffing, consulting and outsourcing company, and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1978 until her retirement in 1997. Ms. Kesler currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of PSS World Medical, Inc., a distributor of medical products.
About St. Joe
The St. Joe Company, a publicly held company currently based in WaterSound, is one of Florida's largest real estate development companies and Northwest Florida's largest private landowner. St. Joe is primarily engaged in real estate development and sales, with significant interests in timber. More information about the Company can be found on its website at www.joe.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about our beliefs, plans, goals, expectations and intentions. Forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty, and there can be no assurance that the results described in such statements will be realized. Such statements are based on our current expectations and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or reissue any forward-looking statements. Risk factors that may cause the actual results to differ are described in this press release and in various documents we have filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
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Can Spiced Rum Be Serious?
Weekly insight into the world of drinks with Paul Clarke from the Cocktail Chronicles and Imbibe magazine.
Images of leering pirates and tattooed sailors have worked out great as marketing tools for producers of spiced rum. But for those seeking to elevate spiced rum from the realm of boozy training wheels to the arena of fine sipping spirits, this cartoonish character can get old quick. In an article in the November/December issue of Imbibe magazine, I wrote about several spiced rums that are trying to move out of the boisterous, party-hearty shadow cast by the giants of the field.
The biggest-selling spiced rums on the market aren't really designed with nuanced flavors in mind. Sweetened and spiced with easy-to-love flavors like cinnamon and cloves, and with a big, oftentimes cloying punch of vanilla, these rums are made mostly to be mixed with cola, consumed by people who like the idea of rum and Coke (but not the taste of it).
Some of the newer spiced rums, on the other hand, are pushing the concept of "rum" further forward, and are sidestepping the crowd-pleasing burst of vanilla in favor of a drier, more pronounced spice character. Along the way they're producing a product that's arguably more interesting to older drinkers (including die-hard rum lovers), and more versatile for adventurous mixing.
The possibilities of spiced rum became clear to me this past summer at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans. I had a taste of a new spiced rum from Chairman's Reserve, which lightly laces a base of aged St. Lucia rum with delicate touches of nutmeg, allspice, and orange peel. Rich, complex and surprisingly dry, the rum demonstrated that it's possible to venture into the "spiced" category without the spirit becoming a syrupy caricature of itself.
Since then, I've tried other spiced rums that have accomplished this to varying degrees: Seven Tiki Spiced Rum, from liquor giant Bacardi, still has a pronounced vanilla note but has a pleasing depth of nutmeg; Cruzan 9 is big with cloves and nutmeg, and avoids the sticky sweetness found in so many spiced rums; and The Lash, a smaller label made in the Netherlands from aged Trinidadian rum, is dark, dry and almost aggressive with the pyrotechnic flashes of allspice and cinnamon.
Of course, homemade spiced rum is easy to make—we'll get to that in Friday's "Time for a Drink" column—but the debut of these new rums seems to mark a new phase of maturity for spiced rum. These are a few brands that are available. Do you have others that you like? What are some of your favorites?
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15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting Worse As We Head Into 2013
December 10th, 2012
How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving" when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated? According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than 600,000 in a single month to an all-time record high of 47.7 million. Youth unemployment in the U.S. is at a post-World War II high and large companies have announced the elimination of more than 100,000 jobs since Barack Obama won the election. Consumer debt just hit a new record high and the federal government is accumulating debt at a much faster pace than it was at this time last year. So where is the evidence that the economy is getting better? The mainstream media says that the decline of the unemployment rate to "7.7 percent" is evidence that things are improving, but I showed how fraudulent that number is yesterday. The percentage of working age Americans with a job today is exactly where it was back in September 2009 in the midst of the last major economic crisis. The mainstream media is desperate for any shred of evidence that it can use to make people feel good and show that the Obama administration has our economy on the right track, and so they jump on any number that even looks remotely promising and they ignore mountains of evidence to the contrary. They don't seem to care that poverty is absolutely exploding and that the number of Americans on food stamps has risen by nearly 50 percent while Obama has been in the White House. They don't seem to care that the U.S. share of global GDP has fallen from 31.8 percent in 2001 to 21.6 percent in 2011. They don't seem to care that more good paying jobs are being shipped overseas with each passing day. They don't seem to care that formerly great U.S. cities that were once the envy of the entire globe are now crime-infested hellholes. All they seem to care about is putting out news that makes people feel warm and fuzzy and making sure that Obama looks good. Unfortunately, the truth is that the U.S. economy is steadily getting worse, and 2013 is not looking very promising at all right now. Hopefully at some point the mainstream media will take a break from coverage of the royal pregnancy and the latest celebrity scandals to report on the real problems that we are facing right now.
The following are 15 signs that the economy is rapidly getting worse as we head into 2013…
#1 According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps has risen to a new all-time record of 47.71 million. That is a huge increase of more than 600,000 over the previous reading of 47.10 million. After about a year of slow growth, it looks like the number of Americans on food stamps is starting to skyrocket once again. Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps. Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps.
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If you were driving down a freeway and an animal appeared on the hood, would you pull over?
What if that animal were a snake?
A video making the rounds on the Net shows a Memphis family cruising down a highway at 65 mph when a snake crawls out of the engine compartment and onto the hood of their SUV. With mom Rachel clenching the wheel, dad Tony pulls out a camera phone and and tapes 2 minutes and 24 seconds of confused, writhing serpent.
"I don't know how we're going to deal with this! I want this thing to fall off!" exclaims hysterical Dad, who erroneously identifies it as a water moccasin. (It appears to be a nonpoisonous species.) The family shrieks, titters, laughs nervously, but Mom never pulls over.
Dad gets his wish: The unfortunate creature finally drops over the side, likely to its death.
Comments seem divided into two camps – those cheering the mother's cool behind the wheel and welcoming the snake's demise, and those condemning the family's action as potentially dangerous and tantamount to animal cruelty.
Here's a sampling:
I hate snakes too. When I lived in Florida I ran over a snake with the lawn mower.
I was going to say that I would have been happy to run over their snake. A lot more challenging than squirrels and chipmunks.
I've run over snakes in my driveway and some of them just crawl away. The only way to be sure you got the snake is to park a rear wheel over the snake and then peel out. Does it every time.
No I don't know what I would have done!!! Other than screaming & screaming. I hope I could have kept driving straight. I would be trying to figure out what to do, if I pull over will it go back in side??? Could it get into the passenger compartment??? Honestly my last thought would be for the safety of the snake. I'm an animal lover but in this instance my thought would be on my safety & that of my family in the car!! ( when I got home I would need to change my underwear )
I would have turned my windshield wipers on when it was laying across it. The snake would have flown right off.
Melissa Christenson:
I would of sprayed it with the water, just glad it fell off before they parked.
I would have lost my mind. Snakes scare the hell out of me. My kids would have thought it was awesome but I would have been in tears. And I would have kept driving for fear if I stopped it would somehow get to me!!
I don't think it's fair to say the women's a hazard. I know if it was me in her place I'd be freaking out, which would freak the kids out. So I commend her for staying relatively calm.
Cool? video dude ! The folks complaining must have animal rights issues ! Perhaps they are jealous of your video ! I would have done the same "dumb" thing !
Wow. Yikes. I have to question why they didn't IMMEDIATELY pull off the road. Seems like that would be a dangerous distraction, especially going 65mph down the highway! I wouldn't have been too worried since the windows were up and the snake was on the OUTSIDE, but I wouldn't have gotten out of the car until someone came to remove it. But, yeah, driving with that thing on the windshield- not very safe.
I would have helped the Snake. All they had to do was pull over and let the Snake off the car instead of acting like they had no common sense.
This is a family of idiots. I hope they have both been fixed so they don't make any more than they already have. I hear he is a preacher but his disregard for life is quite apparent. Why couldn't they have pulled over somewhere and let the snake get off of their SUV?
Pull over and let the snake go. I can't be the only one with this level of common sense.?
What do you think? If it had been a bird or chipmunk trapped on the hood, would you have pulled over? Are snakes, feared and despised by millions, less worthy of your concern?
Snake on a car! Memphis family watches as snake slithers over windshield while driving on highway (New York Daily News)
Huge Snake on Car Windshield Takes Family for Wild Ride (VIDEO) (The Stir)


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Fuglesang ready for mission
When Space Shuttle Discovery lifts-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the waiting will finally be over for Swedish ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang. Fuglesang took some time out from final preparations for the flight to talk to the ESA Portal.
The moment when the Shuttle clears the launch pad and roars into a night sky over Florida will be one of the highlights of the mission for Fuglesang.
"When the solid booster rocket lights up," Fuglesang explains, "then you know that we are going somewhere, and that somewhere is up!"
"The waiting has been tough" adds Fuglesang, who was assigned to the STS-116 mission in 2002. On the plus-side the crew has got to know each other well and there is plenty of good advice from the more experienced astronauts. "They have given us tips about things such as how you sleep and using the toilet in space."
There has also been some practical guidance from Fuglesang's spacewalk partner Robert Curbeam, himself a veteran of three previous spacewalks from the ISS, "It is easy to find your way during training in the pool, but once you get up there, in weightlessness people tend to get disorientated."
The next part of the mission that Fuglesang is looking forward to is eight and a half minutes into the flight when the Shuttle's engines are switched off. "From then we will be able to feel the weightlessness, and we can look out the window and watch the Earth go by," he says.
Moving around in weightlessness isn't always easy for first-time flyers; Fuglesang expects to experience some difficulties at the start. "It is something you learn as time goes by – how to coordinate your motion. To begin with you have to be careful you don't hit your head when you fly around the Space Shuttle."
Three days into the mission and it will be time for Christer Fuglesang to take part in his first spacewalk outside the International Space Station. "The first time you go out of the hatch – that will be a really big moment of course."
In amongst a busy work schedule, Fuglesang hopes to find some time to look out the window at planet Earth. For Sweden's first astronaut there is one other thing that will help complete his mission – he is hoping to get a glimpse of his home country from space.


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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Sports News
Broduer earns 120th shutout as Devils top Flyers
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[January 23, 2013]
(AP) -- Martin Brodeur made 24 saves for his 120th NHL shutout, Ilya Kovalchuk scored on a short-handed penalty shot, and the New Jersey Devils won their home opener in front of an enthusiastic sellout crowd with a 3-0 victory over the winless Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night.
Travis Zajac and David Clarkson scored first-period goals for the defending Eastern Conference champions, 2-0 in the lockout-shortened season.
The Flyers dropped to 0-3, matching their worst start since they also lost their first three games in the lockout-shortened 1995 season.
Philadelphia rebounded that year to win the Atlantic Division, and the Devils won their first Stanley Cup championship that season with Brodeur in goal.
Brodeur was the difference this time in recording his 10th shutout against Philadelphia. He was outstanding in the first period, stopping nine shots when the Flyers played with desperation.
The Devils, had only three shots in the period against goalie Ilya Bryzgalov. Zajac and Clarkson, who scored in the Devils' 2-1 season-opening win over the Islanders on Saturday, both scored again.
New Jersey never looked back.
Kovalchuk, who played in Russia during the lockout and was a little late in getting back for training camp, brought the crowd of 17,650 to its feet on the Devils' fourth shot early in the second period. He was hooked by defenseman Kimmo Timonen on a semi-breakaway and was awarded a penalty shot at 2:44.
The 29-year-old Kovalchuk wasted no time once the puck was put down at center ice. He skated quickly at Bryzgalov and beat him with a backhander to the upper part of the net for his first goal of the season.
The only question after that was whether Brodeur would add to his career-leading shutout total. Wayne Simmonds had the best scoring chance with a shot from the right circle that had Brodeur out of position. However, the 40-year-old goalie slid across the crease and made a pad save.
It must have frustrated Simmonds because he bumped Brodeur after another glove save later in the period, sparking a little melee. Clarkson and Simmonds traded punches in a third-period scuffle.
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The Flyers, who lost to the Devils 4-1 in the conference semifinals last season, dominated the first period and held New Jersey without a shot for 12:25. But they still trailed 2-0.
Zajac gave the Devils the lead after only 67 seconds. The center who signed a $46 million contract last week, stopped a point shot by Bryce Salvador right at Bryzgalov's doorstep and tucked the puck around the goalie into an open net.
Clarkson extended the lead to 2-0 with 24.9 seconds left in the opening period with a fluky power-play goal. He centered the puck from the side of the net, and it hit off the stake of Flyers forward Ruslan Fedotenko and caromed into the net.
Brodeur had three excellent saves in the opening 20 minutes. He made a skate save on a point shot by defenseman Andrej Meszaros, stopped Fedotenko on a rebound, and made a one-on-one stop against Scott Hartnell with the Flyers coming at him in waves.
NOTES: Brodeur has a career-leading 10 shutouts against Philadelphia and the New York Islanders. ... Kovalchuk's goal was the Devils' first short-handed, penalty-shot score since Zach Parise had one on Oct. 21, 2011 vs. San Jose. ... Kovalchuk has scored on three of four penalty shots in his career. ... New Jersey is 17-8-5 in home-openers. ... Tye McGinn, recalled from Adirondack of the AHL on Monday, made his NHL debut for the Flyers. He replaced Zac Rinaldo who sustained a cut to his right thigh against Buffalo on Sunday. ... Philadelphia RW Danny Briere missed his third straight game. He broke his left wrist playing overseas during the lockout. ... Former Islanders D Bruno Gervais, who signed as a free agent during the offseason, made his Flyers debut.
Press; By TOM CANAVAN]
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The classical ideal of perfection in athletics was defined by physical prowess displayed artistically. Modern tastes have added "swagger," "attitude," or perhaps just pride to that equation.
Shaun White, in achieving the first-ever snowboard SuperPipe perfect score in Winter X Games history, demonstrated the aesthetic and athletic ideals necessary to produce such a feat. The third part comes when you realize he could have skipped the run altogether and still win gold—his fifth consecutive in the event. Yes, Shaun White did what no snowboarder has ever done at the time he least needed to do it: with victory already assured. That's swag. [ESPN]


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Lady and long straight prom dresses
Absolutely nothing adorns the lady, as a complex long straight prom dresses!
Long dresses are suitable for almost any kind, so it is rarely the case that a lady refuses to get an attractive, female dress that is floor-length.
The beauty of a long straight prom dresses
On a warm day, you can constantly do without outerwear, taking with you just a cape suitable for the situation when the night is amazing. On cool or cold autumn days, you will definitely need to wear outerwear — a natural leather coat, coat, coat, or fur vest, and you can also wear long straight prom dresses — coat, cardigans, and coat — over long dresses.
For a long straight prom dresses fits a large number of ornaments. There are no restrictions if you do not create them yourself. The belt is a great addition to numerous outfits.
Perfect mood and long straight prom dresses
Dresses do not just adorn ladies, they create a romantic mood. People who will certainly pay attention to the lady in a beautiful, long and fashionable dress. Pants, as well as coats, can not share the femininity of the rooms, as well as the curves of the body. Only long straight prom dresses have this ability.
Wear long straight prom dresses and be happy!


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DIY Camera Fun
Using this I built my own remote shutter trigger this evening. I found a Body Glove Earglove Sport at Walmart for $10, sadly every Dollar store I tried didn't have any wired mobile phone headsets, Big Lots was no help either. As per instructions I did have to remove the microphone, but honestly the hardest part of the whole thing was getting into the housing the contained the button and the mic. I tested it with about 15 shots in different modes with my Canon T1i and it works great.
The one drawback is that the button doesn't depress half-way so you can't enage focus lock without also engaging the shutter. My plan to counter act that is to compose and focus beforehand then switch to MF to prevent AF from refocusing unintentionally, if anyone has any additional ideas leave them in the comments.
August 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Very cool…Was able to test it with my Canon XT..Worked like a charm.


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As part of honoring its commitment to charitable giving, today Insomniac made a $115,000 donation to five charities: four Las Vegas charities as well as a contribution to a national initiative with Rock the Vote. Funds raised through the annual Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), Las Vegas, helped Insomniac contribute $30,000 toward Rock the Vote in support of Spin the Vote as well as $25,000 each to the Clark County School-Community Partnership Program, University of Nevada Reno (UNR) Foundation's Emergency Medicine Resident Research Fund and the Injured Police Officers Fund – Las Vegas. An additional $10,000 was gifted to the Speedway Children's Charity – Las Vegas Chapter.
"I'm so grateful that for the second year in a row the success of this year's Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas, is able to directly benefit these amazing organizations, each of which provides unique and vital services to the community," said Pasquale Rotella, Insomniac's founder and CEO. "Each of these groups touches our event in one way or another. Whether it's through encouraging youth to participate in the arts or educating our fans to become politically active, we're honored to give back to Las Vegas as well as to those who help make our event a success."
The Clark County School-Community Partnership Program connects business and community resources with schools to enrich the educational experience and increase student achievement. It began in 1983 as a pilot program of seven schools partnered with seven businesses. Since that time, it has grown to hundreds of partnerships with programs that range from kindergarten to twelfth grade, from tutorial programs to scholarships, from science activities to fine arts programs. Insomniac's partnership and $25,000 donation will help support, supplement and complement Arts Education Programs in Clark County public schools.
The UNR Foundation's Emergency Medicine Department has an established gift fund called the Emergency Medicine Resident Research Fund used to support resident research activities. The physicians that planned and directed the care for the Electric Daisy Carnival are local physicians that are involved in teaching and training emergency medicine residents for the University of Nevada School of Medicine. The $25,000 donated by Insomniac directly supports this program.
The Injured Police Officers Fund (IPOF) was formed in October 1982 to help reduce the financial burden suffered by police officers and their families in the event of a line of duty injury or death. IPOF currently assists more than 8,000 officers in Nevada by providing monetary assistance to them and their families. For the second year in a row, Insomniac is contributing $25,000 to the organization's efforts.
Making a difference in a child's life is the focus of Speedway Children's Charities. SCC strives to do this in collaboration with the non-profit organizations it supports nationwide. Individually, SCC's local chapters identify the needs of children in their communities and award grants to organizations that address them. Last December, the Las Vegas Chapter of Speedway Children's Charities granted more than $260,000 to 46 local children's causes during its annual grant distribution ceremony. Insomniac contributed $10,000 as the presenting sponsor for their 10th Annual Drive for Charity Golf Tournament Fundraiser on June 3, 2012.
This year, Insomniac and Rock the Vote joined forces to develop and launch "Spin the Vote," a voter registration initiative engaging electronic dance music fans across the country and encouraging them to participate in the upcoming 2012 election. The program encourages festival attendees to register to vote, receive election information and share their opinion on the importance of voting. Spin the Vote connects young voters online at www.spinthevote.org and at Insomniac music festivals throughout the year including all four Electric Daisy Carnivals, Nocturnal Wonderland and Escape from Wonderland.
The 16th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival took place June 8-10, 2012, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway with an estimated 320,000 attendees throughout the three day festival. The 1,000-acre complex transformed into a fully immersive audiovisual adventure with more than 150 DJs, 500 theatrical performers and dynamic art installations creating an interactive environment along with state-of-the-art lighting and sound production and nightly pyrotechnics displays.
Insomniac's Charitable Giving Initiative donates $1 per ticket transaction and $10 per guest list attendee to charitable organizations in the local communities where the festivals are held. In 2011, Insomniac donated $75,000 to local and regional organizations following EDC Las Vegas and more than $150,000 to communities nationwide.


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If you enclose a sequence of characters in square brackets and double quotes ["like this"], that makes it a page name. That can be used for specific uses of MoinMoin (like organizing a list of items, e.g. your CD collection, by their "natural" name).
This is a configurable feature enabled by allow_extended_names, so it might not work!
URLs and Inline Images
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direct URL insertion; if the URL ends in an image extension (".gif", ".jpg" or ".png"), the URL is converted to an image tag.
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If you enter URLs into normal text, there is the problem of detecting what belongs to the URL and what not. There are four ways to force the ending of an URL:
put a space after the URL.
use the SixSingleQuotes escaping.
put the URL into double quotes.
use the bracketed URL syntax.
The supported URL schemes are: http, https, ftp, nntp, news, mailto, telnet, and file. The administrator of your wiki can extend the supported schemes by using the url_schemas variable (see HelpOnConfiguration).
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KATU spoke with members of both families, including Petitclerc's widow, who was deeply concerned that the ashes she received after the fact were not her husband's.
The DOL report states that several mistakes were made in the process but Anthony said no one else including Brown Mortuary was at fault.
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It was only later, when Burns arrived at Dahl McVicker, that the report states he incorrectly placed ID bracelets on each man.
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Gamespot Score: 7.5 (Good)
My Score: 7.7
(+)Pros: - Unique skill-based combat that completely deviates it from many other regular MMORPGs, - Stellar visuals, all in environments, characters and monsters, - Great dungeon experiences, - Party focused events are fun and require different jobs, - You aren't restricted to certain things other MMOs probably would, - Massive PvP scale.
(-)Cons: - Gets a little slow paced after you hit 25, - Since it became globally free to play, the lag was OP, - Rehashed versions of the same skills means that you actually don't have as many different abilities as you think.
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What is a game review? A game review is somebody's OPINION about a game, it is not FACT. Somebody's "9/10" maybe somebody else's "7/10", because the other person didn't get that much fun out of the game. However if somebody's "9/10" is somebody else's "5/10", then you know there might be some disagreement there. If a "9/10" becomes a "1/10", that's just being biased. Now with that out of the way, I'll say this up straight, "Tera Online -Rising-" was voted as the current BEST MMORPG that is free to play out there right now. This, is their opinion, and to me, that is just wrong. I thought "Tera" was a great game and I really anticipated it, but honestly, its not the best after I've played it. It has many things that make it fun, but being the best free MMORPG? No, far from it actually. Its a triple A production title, but sometimes, that kind of thing doesn't really matter, though it does play a part of the game.
To its credit, "Tera" actually has a story, albeit a pretty uninteresting one at that. It talks about a world that the gods created in harmony, and they started having arguments with each other. To separate the world that they so happily created themselves, they created the different races, each bearing their own traits. The Humans, High Elves, Castanics, Amans, Barakas, Poporis and Elins. The races had wars with each other in retrospect like their gods did, but it didn't last for long. Many were killed, and now a new threat has arisen, the Argons. The Argons are a demonic race that just want to destroy anything, and its up to the seven races to team up together to face this common threat.
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The one unique thing about "Tera" that everyone knows and wants to try...is the battle system. This is easily one of the most in-depth and non brain-dead battle systems available to any MMORPG at the moment. Whenever you battle or fight monsters, you have to study their attack patterns and memorize them. You attack the monsters as per every MMORPG, but when the monsters telegraph their attacks, you either move out of the way or dodge. This makes the game rather easy if you know what to do against every monster, and eventually, you'll walk over most of the huge hulking monsters that take forever to hit you. The small nimble ones however, can still prove to be bitches. Skill based gameplay in MMOs is starting to become staple for attracting hardcore MMO fans that want something new, and I think that is completely acceptable. I hope to see gameplay similar to "Tera" in future MMOs....though improvements can be made. I'll explain later.
There are 7 classes total, with the 7 races I explained before. Warriors, Berserkers, Slayers, Mystics, Sorcerers, Lancers, Archers and Priests. Berserkers and slayers are your melee DPS, warriors are your evasive melee DPS class with the most mobility, mystics are support classes with buffs and debuffs, sorcerers and archers are your ranged DPS with a variety of physical and magical damage, lancers are your tank class, while priests are your traditional support healing class. Nothing too ground breaking, except that having a party of lancers of priests can be really broken. Though this is a skill based game where you won't take damage if you're good, priests and lancers are still a godsend, and in a PvP, the party with lancers and priests always wins.
|Well there's always the Elin for you lolicons. MOE MOE KYUN~~
"Tera" is 20+ GB. Yes, it takes ridiculously long to download, which means that it must have a ton of content and look ridiculously amazing, right? Fortunately, the answer to that is yes. "Tera" is beautiful, everything about it. The characters, environments, and even the monsters. Hell, in some situations, the monsters look so badass that they could kill a hundred players by themselves (only to get soloed by a single dude). Main cities look beautiful, and some of the landscapes are breathtaking. Character customization isn't amazing, but you can make some pretty sexy women or uber cute Elins. Dungeons are a complete blast, with tons of variety added with a boss at the end of every one. These are of course, required with a party, and this game has some really fun party based activities (gotta love the first time when I fought basilisks).
Another really great thing that "Tera" does for the players, is for the fact that you aren't really restricted to doing whatever you want. Since the game IS skill based, you can explore far and wide, take on monsters 10-20 levels higher than you, as long as you have the skill, you can do it, even though it takes awhile. This pretty much makes exploration A LITTLE worthwhile, and the game has a lot less "invisible walls" than you think. Massive PvPs are also fun. These require parties, and fighting other parties depending on the varying combination of classes or race types can really make this a fun experience. Its always fun to have different combinations every time you go for a fight and beat up some of those other players.
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As I said, "Tera" has its set of flaws that I think prevent it from being, you know, amazing. First off, the game gets slow paced after a certain level (around 25 for me). It takes longer to kill stuff, and the need for parties get higher and higher as you proceed. Of course its fine if you have friends playing with you but solo players can really have it rough here. Since its release as a free-to-play game, the game also had some issues with lag, with lots of players complaining on forums. I too, experienced lag and a friend of my DCed almost every 5 minutes. And the thing that bugs me the most is the fact that most new skills you obtain are just upgraded versions of old skills with an additional number to prove that its "stronger".
"Tera" is a beautiful free-to-play game that looks visually stunning. It's combat system draws in new players and keeps them engrossed in it, though in the long run interest may dwindle. New strategies are required for different enemies, but with the reskins of similar enemies and putting them on a higher level with different names there's really not as much to go around as you think. Well, since it IS free to play, it won't hurt to give it a shot.
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Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced her resignation on Monday, effective September 2. Best, who is the city's first Black female police chief, decided to quit hours after the City Council passed cuts to her department's budget. The Seattle Police Department's $409 million budget was reduced by $3.5 million for the rest of the year, which will likely result in about 100 officers being laid off.
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Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it quoted a former member of the national coronavirus taskforce as saying the country's tolls from the epidemic could be 20 times higher than official figures, state news agency IRNA reported. "The Jahan-e Sanat newspaper was shut down today for publishing an interview on Sunday," the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Mohammadreza Saadi, told IRNA. On Sunday, the newspaper published an interview with Mohammadreza Mahboubfar, in which he said: "The figures announced by the officials on coronavirus cases and deaths account for only 5% of the country's real tolls".
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Security officers are finding significantly more guns in carry-on bags at airports, which officials say is alarming as fewer passengers are flying during the coronavirus pandemic. Three times as many firearms were detected at airport checkpoints in July compared to July 2019 — up from 5.1 guns per million passengers screened to 15.3, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday in a news release. Meanwhile, the TSA said it screened 75% fewer passengers during that period this year.
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Sturgis Motorcycle Rally attendees are packing bars, wrestling in bikinis, and scoffing at the few who wear face masks. One recovering coronavirus victim at the rally told Insider that he expects an uptick in cases after the event. Bill Converse had never attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally before, but this year he drove 29 hours from Georgia to sell his conservative pro-second amendment novelty T-shirts at the famous annual South Dakota event.
US attorney general Bill Barr made waves with a Fox News interview this weekend in which he called the Black Lives Matter movement "Bolshevik" and "fascistic" – and the fallout is still simmering. Host Mark Levin, who conducted the interview, is now pushing back against the mainstream media's coverage of the segment, accusing newspapers' fact checkers of lying about Black Lives Matter's true nature and declaring that journalists are in cahoots with "violent Marxists". "I think they would be, you know, generally for bringing down any administration," said Mr Barr.
A US Border Patrol agent assigned to Tucson, Arizona, was arrested and charged with drug trafficking after he was found with thousands of pills and substances that tested positive for cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Roughly 350,000 pills that tested positive for fentanyl were found in bags that were transferred from the agent's car. Agents found nearly $330,000 in his home and $40,000 in his vehicle.
A former Obama White House official, Susan Rice, is a top contender to be Joe Biden's running mate. Speaking at a White House cocktail party shortly before Donald Trump moved in, Susan Rice looked wistful. Today Ms Rice, the 55-year-old former national security adviser, is hoping for a return to power.
USA TODAY has an update on the states that are discouraging interstate travel by requiring or recommending that visitors and residents returning from other states quarantine. Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced that beginning August 11, non-Alaska residents need a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours before arrival in the state or proof they are waiting on results from a test taken in that 72-hour period. Testing is free for Alaska residents.
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taken a swipe at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over his decision to allow schools to open this fall, a rare case of Democrat-on-Democrat sparring during the pandemic. "If it's not safe enough for indoor dining, what makes it safe enough for indoor schooling?" Ocasio-Cortez asked in a tweet. Mr Cuomo last week surprised many when he announced schools across the Empire State could reopen in a few weeks.
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A protester died amid clashes between police and thousands of people gathered for a second straight night Monday in Belarus after official results from weekend elections — dismissed by the opposition as a sham — gave an overwhelming victory to authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Interior Ministry spokesman Alexander Lastovsky said the victim was part of a crowd of people protesting results of Sunday's presidential vote. The death came amid demonstrations in at least four areas of Minsk that met with a harsh response from police who tried to disperse protesters with flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets.
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At today's Business Insider Social Commerce Summit 2012, we sat down next to New England Patriots safety Bret Lockett. We were surprised to see him, especially since the event was held in New York City two days after the Super Bowl.
We found out that he's an entrepreneur and in the midst of launching a few different companies this year — something he's had more time for since he's been injured since the pre-season. During one of the breaks we asked him about Sunday's loss to the New York Giants, what he's learned as an entrepreneur and what really happened with Kim Kardashian. Here's what he had to say:
First let's talk about Sunday — what was the most painful thing to watch?
I haven't played the whole season. I had hoped that our guys would have played better. There were moments when we still had a chance. We weren't able to capitalize on them. It was a bunch of missed opportunities.
Why are you here today?
I'm an entrepreneur. I love football, but I also have a passion for music and business. I go to Business Insider to see what's trending. You can't make moves in business before you know what's going to happen next. This world is transitioning to social media. Shopping, everything is done online.
The average career for a professional football player is 3.5 years. You figure that after three to four years, you'll have to get a new job. And you won't get paid close to what you get paid now.
Tom Brady is a brand. I'm a brand as well – entertainment is your brand. Athletes concentrate too much on football, and they don't concentrate enough on the branding aspect of themselves. The way I see it is that all press is good press. People will boo you, but at the end of the day you flip it around and win.
Tell me about your company.
It's called Ground Flights. There are maybe one or two flights that go from Miami to Orlando and vice versa. We figure all these people do business in Florida, but they need transportation. It would sometimes take a connecting flight through Chicago to get to Miami. So we decided to create "ground flights." It's essentially a jet on wheels for business executives. They don't have to worry about going through baggage and security. There's a convenience factor. It's like Warren Buffett's NetJets for the ground.
I met CEO Thomas Duffy on a whim. He used to work as a pilot for United Airlines. I was flying from Providence to New York and he was working the gate and upgraded my ticket. I gave him two tickets to a Patriots game the next weekend. I saw the potential in what he was doing. I helped him elaborate on the concept, and I brought creativity and the marketing side of it.
What's your business model? And what makes you any different from a luxury car company?
There are daily packages. You pay $110/hour for the 25-hour package, $100/hour for 50 hours, $90/hour for 75 hours, $80/hour for 100 hours. There's WiFi and phone conferencing in the car. You're able to do business easily. What we're trying to do is limit the factor of lost time.
When did you launch?
We started working on this in April 2010 and launched in September 2011.
Do you plan to move into other markets?
It depends on how well this does in Florida. I'm from California – there's not as much demand there because there are flights going around the state all day long.
How do you market your business?
We're on social media, but word of mouth is another really strong source of marketing. We all have friends, we all have family – it's hard to keep secrets; if we like something we're going to tell people. It's about getting the brand and product into the right place.
Brian Lee, founder of ShoeDazzle.com [who spoke earlier today at the conference] was talking about the celebrity factor: how do you get a celebrity to support your brand? There are lots of people who approach me and want me to do things. In order to get my attention, you have to be down to earth. It's easier to maneuver through the B.S. if you're straight forward.
Speaking of Brian Lee – he got Kim Kardashian to start ShoeDazzle.com with him. You also have a connection to Kim Kardashian.
We've never met. We talked on the phone and texted.
Ok – going back to branding – what sorts of companies have you attached your name to?
No independent brands. Nike, all those sports apparel companies, are going to come if you're in the NFL. I've promoted some workout videos, clothing products. But unless it's extraordinary, I'm not going to benefit from attaching my name to it. I will do my own thing.
Which is why you launched your own businesses.
Yeah. During my 2nd year in NFL I got hurt within the first two days of training camp. I had a very good first year, and I was just distraught and thought, "What am I going to do?"
I've always had a passion for music, so I thought, why not create a label and do it myself? So I launched Inception Entertainment. We've teamed up with a record called Blaque Roze. I have a CD coming out later this spring CD called Inception. It's rap and R&B.
Do you have any other businesses in the works?
I've got three that are in the works for 2012. Inception International, a company that facilitates product transactions around that world; Inception Enterprise, a commercial real estate and commodities company; and Inception Capital Ventures, which will build up funds for different businesses – ideally the next Twitter or Facebook.
What are some things you've learned on the field?
There are always obstacles to overcome. In the NFL there are seven rounds, and I didn't get drafted, so I had to try out. I have always been the underdog. I always have to prove myself and strive for more. It's to prove myself to myself. That "never die" attitude has helped me see the bigger picture.
Do your teammates know you're here?
I don't think so. My team members probably don't know this about me. We talk about football, what we did last night.


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"Duval County has been in exceptional drought for the last 12 months," says Sammy Guerra, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service district conservationist in Benavides. "Some parts catch a rain that will start greening up the grasses. Then, we have these 40-mile-per-hour winds consistently that dries out [the soil]. We just haven't had the conditions to grow any grass."
Willie Utley is all too familiar with the day-to-day struggles of persistent drought. The Benavides rancher has been hauling water to one of his pastures for months and moved some cattle to leased pastures where there is available water. Normal annual rainfall in Duval County is 24 inches, but Utley's ranch has received only an estimated 10.5 inches over the past two years.
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The need for livestock water brought Utley into his local NRCS field office. He applied for and received funding from the agency to help install a solar-powered water well through the USDA's national StrikeForce Initiative for Rural Growth and Opportunity.
The StrikeForce Initiative addresses high-priority funding needs in rural communities in 16 states, including Texas. The initiative provides an opportunity for NRCS to work with landowners to determine how to best leverage available financial assistance to address their natural resource concerns.
Drilling of the well was recently finished, and a solar-powered pump will soon be installed to provide fresh, cool water to livestock and wildlife. Utley said that without financial assistance through the StrikeForce Initiative, he would not have been able to afford a new well. One reason is that it has been costly over the past couple of years to provide supplemental feed such as hay.
Utley is taking the steps needed to efficiently manage his ranch through the drought. Once forages on the drought-stricken pastures have had some time to recover, he hopes to move his cattle back to the pasture where the new water well has been established.
"It's going to be a big improvement and not having the worry of not having water when you need it," he says.


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Adan Salazar
August 20, 2012
A handcuffed man that had been searched twice shot himself in the head in the back of a squad car. That's the conclusion the Arkansas State Crime Lab has reached today after conducting an autopsy of Chavis Carter.
Following the release of dashcam footage this weekend that shone absolutely no light on the suspicious circumstances surrounding Carter's death, an autopsy report released by the Arkansas State Crime Lab has officially labeled Carter's death a suicide.
The Medical Examiner concluded:
"In consideration of the circumstances of death and after autopsy of the body, it is our opinion that Chavis Carter, a 21-year-old black male, died of a gunshot wound of the head. The agencies responsible for the investigation of his death were the Jonesboro Police Department and the Craighead County Coroner's Office. They reported that he was detained during a traffic stop.He was cuffed and placed into a police car, where apparently he produced a weapon, and despite being handcuffed, shot himself in the head.
At autopsy, the cause of death was a perforating gunshot wound of the head. At the time of discharge, the muzzle of the gun was placed against the right temporal scalp. The bullet perforated the cranial cavity, causing brain injuries, skull fractures, and death. The bullet exited the left side of the head…MANNER OF DEATH: Suicide"
Carter was arrested in Jonesboro, Arkansas on July 28 on charges of failure to appear in court. According to the police report, moments after hearing Officer Ron Marsh thump on his trunk, Officer Keith Baggett says he exited his car and was told by Officer Marsh that Carter had shot himself.
Police say Carter's handcuffs had been double-locked behind his back and he was frisked twice before being placed in the back of a squad car. Somehow, however, police say they managed to miss a .380 caliber Cobra semi-auto firearm.
Sergeant Lyle Waterworth defended his officers' lousy search, stating, "Any given officer has missed something on a search, be it drugs, be it knives, be it razor blades. In this instance it happened to be a gun."
Amid an uproar of protest by the citizens of Jonesboro, police have frantically been racing to convince the public that Carter's death was in fact a suicide, even releasing a police reenactment video showing handcuffed officers of all shapes and sizes seen being able to lift a gun to their right temples while sitting in the back of a squad car.
However, some think the act of producing a video illustrating this is suspicious in and of itself.
Teresa Carter, Chavis' mother, says there's no mystery behind her son's death. Two weeks ago, she told WREG, "I think they [police] killed him, my son wasn't suicidal."
Other red flags pointed out by Carter's mother include Chavis' right temple gunshot wound, despite his being left-handed, and also a call Chavis made to his girlfriend, moments prior to being arrested, letting her know he would be calling her from jail.
Futhermore, Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates has gone from saying the shooting is "definitely bizarre and it defies logic at first glance," to, after the release of their reenactment, stating, "The fact of it is, it's very possible and it's quite easy."
The Jonesboro police department has also faced criticism for their lack of racial diversity, having only three black officers to their 145 white officers.
Believing that police are responsible for Carter's death is not so farfetched.
Almost daily, we are subjected to horror stories of ego maniacal ape bully cops, sexually deviant "public servants," and all around "douchebags," for lack of a better term, that more frequently seem to dominate police stations around the world.
Time and time again, we document and report stories of extreme police corruption that involve sexual molestation, extortion, brutality, lying, invasions of privacy, violations of constitutional rights, and even murder.
Of course, the autopsy is partially biased, its last sentence stating: "The manner of death is based on both autopsy findings and the investigative conclusions of the Jonesboro Police Department." The FBI is also investigating the controversial death and has yet to release its findings.
Baggett and Marsh are on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
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November 26, 2012
The fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Nogales, Mexico, by the U.S. Border Patrol has prompted angry protests in Mexico. Many are questioning the Border Patrol's right to shoot to kill anyone who throws rocks at agents, even children. The Border Patrol says agents must be allowed to protect themselves because border crossers and drug smugglers alike use rock throwers to distract or harass agents, and some agents have been seriously hurt by rocks.
At the same time, at least 16 people have been killed by border agents along the U.S.-Mexico border in the past three years. Homeland Security officials are reviewing the Border Patrol's policy now, but it is unclear if changes will be made. The Mexican government, for its part, is pushing the U.S. to use nonlethal force.
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Tennessee state duals
Site: Williamson County Agricultural Expo/Arena; 4215 Long Lane, Franklin. Directions from Chattanooga: I-24 West to I-840 West to I-65 North.
Price of admission: $10 per person per day. TSSAA will honor, with photo ID, TACA member and TSSAA champion event cards.
Today's schedule (EST)
2 p.m. -- Gates open
3 -- Weigh-ins all divisions
4:30 -- AAA round of 16; quarterfinals Division II, A/AA
5:30 -- AAA round of 16; quarterfinals Division II, A/AA
8:30 -- AAA quarterfinals; semifinals Division II, A/AA
The openers
(from top of bracket)
Class AAA
Cleveland (22-2) vs. Cordova (8-12); Clarksville (28-4) vs. Dobyns-Bennett (21-4); Heritage (26-4) vs. Blackman (22-4); Knoxville Halls (10-5) vs. Independence (21-13); Science Hill (29-9) vs. Soddy-Daisy (13-4); Collierville (25-9) vs. Maryville (18-4); Wilson Central (28-0) vs. Maryville (18-4); Wilson Central (28-0) vs. Bearden (15-2); Beech (26-8) vs. Ravenwood (33-12).
Class A/AA
Pigeon Forge (19-7) vs. Martin Luther King (14-4); Stone Memorial (14-9) vs. Eagleville (15-24); Sycamore (17-12) vs. East Ridge (17-7); Greeneville (15-7) vs. Hixson.
Division II
Father Ryan (22-2) vs. Brentwood Academy (19-10); McCallie (8-5) vs. St. Benedict (25-8); Christian Brothers (26-1) vs. Montgomery Bell Academy (20-6); Baylor (14-3) receives bye.
Saturday schedule
7:30 a.m. -- Gates open
8:30 -- Weigh-ins all divisions
10 -- Consolations
Noon -- Consolations
2 p.m. -- AAA championship semis, consolation quarterfinals; A/AA consolation final; Division II consolation semifinals
4 -- AAA consolation semifinals; Division II consolation finals
6 -- AAA consolation finals
8 -- Championship meets all classifications
Debates are raging across the state regarding clear favorites in Tennessee's state wrestling duals championships.
Christian Brothers in Division II is the one receiving overwhelming support, and numerous observers expect a AAA repeat title bout between Cleveland and Soddy-Daisy and a Hixson matchup with Pigeon Forge in A/AA.
The Chattanooga area has six contenders in the three divisions: Baylor and McCallie in DII and East Ridge in A/AA in addition to Cleveland's Blue Raiders, Soddy-Daisy's Trojans and Hixson's Wildcats.
The tournament begins today at 4:30 p.m. EST at the Williamson County Agricultural Expo in Franklin.
"Unless there's some crazy strategy, I don't see how anybody can touch Christian Brothers," Cleveland coach Jake Yost said of Division II. "I would anticipate another all-purple final last year."
Yost was referring to Christian Brothers and Father Ryan, a match Christian Brothers won last year.
"Christian Brothers," Baylor coach Ben Nelson responded when asked about a DII favorite. "They've had the season to support their No. 1 ranking, to be honest, and to be the favorite. It will be up to everybody else to step their games up."
Thanks to a first-round bye for Nelson's team, it's expected that CBHS will be Baylor's first action following a Purple Wave win over Montgomery Bell Academy.
"That could be a pretty good match," McCallie's Mike Newman said of Baylor's battle with CBHS. "Baylor's [injured] guys may not yet be 100 percent, but having them back in the lineup is going to help."
On the other hand, Newman pointed out that CBHS again is loaded from 106 through heavyweight.
"They've had some injuries, too, but there are 14 seniors available. They're solid at every weight," he said.
"It's really hard to be interested in anything else when you've been part of this Cleveland/Bradley/Soddy-Daisy blood feud the last several years," Soddy-Daisy coach Jim Higgins said. "If I had to guess I'd think Hixson and Pigeon Forge have the best chances in A/AA."
Hixson coach Garrick Hall, who has produced a pair of championship teams, was cautious when asked for a prediction.
"This may be the year for Pigeon Forge. They've been there but haven't been able to get past Central or East Literature," he said. "We have to wrestle our 'A' game just to get past the first round. The kids have to be ready to go every time out. I've told them every team has earned the right to be there."
As for the likelihood that Cleveland and Soddy-Daisy will wrestle again for the AAA title, Higgins gave a quick "Dancing with the Stars" two-step.
"I'm curious about that Ravenwood/Wilson Central dual," he said. "From what I've heard, both are solid across the board, so it should be a fairly good matchup."
His Cleveland counterpart was just as quick.
"On the other side of the bracket, Wilson Central, Ravenwood and Soddy-Daisy are all solid teams," Yost said. "If you're talking about experience and having been in big matches, I'd have to go with Soddy-Daisy. I want to give Wilson Central some credit, but when it comes down to it the lack of experience will catch up with them."
While the usually blunt Higgins wouldn't come right out and say it, he is anticipating getting to the championship final and dueling again with Cleveland.
"We're not taking anybody lightly. We definitely tried to do our homework and prepare as best we could," he said. "I'm not looking past the semifinal match on our side, but I believe in my team and I find it hard to believe that Cleveland could stumble enough not to make it to the finals. Lord knows they're hungry. They're a darn good team, but we have a darn good team, too."
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^ It's amazing to me that they can get around inspectors with crud like that in the rooms.
What Do You Expect for $99.23 a Night?
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: November 20, 2005
Michael Nagle for The New York Times
The 615 rooms at Hotel Carter, on West 43rd Street near Eighth Avenue, are among the city's cheapest.
Michael Nagle for the New York Times
Room 1105 revealed a dead phone, carpet stains and a moldy patch on the bathroom ceiling. The TV, however, was new, and the bed was comfortable.
It was about 4 p.m. when something crawled on the carpet. A large insect of unidentified species made its way across the hotel lobby, and a group of European tourists tracked it with a cheerful curiosity until a gray-haired man in a baseball cap waiting to check in stomped on it.
No one else noticed the dead bug. The lobby - a sensory overload of neon, mirrors, bright lights, televisions, yard-sale furniture and pay phones - was too distracting. Guests streamed in and out with befuddled stares, mild complaints and curious requests. A woman asked a worker for bug killer after finding a roach in her bathroom. She was handed a spray bottle of kitchen cleaner and sent on her way.
In the rooms upstairs, tales of lodging woe unfolded. One guest said his television played the sound from one channel but showed the picture from another. A couple in Room 500 said they were surprised to discover that they did not have a closet. And a businesswoman from Ukraine on the 23rd floor found that she liked her room better in the dark. "If the curtains close, light is off, it's not that bad," she said.
People have been saying for years that the old Times Square - the seedy, lowbrow ancestor of what is now a largely sanitized, Disneyfied tourist haven - is dead. But those people have never spent a night at the Hotel Carter. The 615-room hotel at 250 West 43rd Street offers travelers a cheap room in an expensive city, and something more: an adventure. In the middle of Manhattan and at the neon-bright Crossroads of the World, the hotel has been a little-known source of grimy hospitality, low-budget accommodations and equal numbers of satisfied and dissatisfied customers from around the world.
As a guest of the Hotel Carter, you may or may not have your room cleaned. You may or may not find the multicolored, multipatterned carpet on the floor and the walls agreeable. You may or may not have a working television and telephone. You may or may not have a smooth check-in, since the front desk keeps track of reservations without the benefit of a computer system.
In short, you may or may not have an enjoyable stay. The answer depends on which room you get - the top floors have numerous large recently renovated rooms with splendid views - and on your answer to this question: What do you expect for $99.23 a night?
The Carter, a tan-brick 24-story hotel on a busy stretch of West 43rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is popular with foreign travelers, students and tourists on a tight budget, and recent guests either loved it or hated it.
Tran Truong, 73, the co-owner of the hotel, and his assistant, Elaine Nguyen, said they tried their best to provide safe, clean lodging at a low price for travelers. Mr. Truong, a Vietnamese businessman who lives in the hotel, bought the Carter in 1977. Ms. Nguyen said they did not have the money or the staff of the big corporate hotel chains, but she defended the hotel's customer service and cleanliness. The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducted an inspection for rodents in July and found no cause for action, according to the report.
"We're not a four-star or five-star hotel," she said. What they are, she said, is "the best bargain for the location."
A two-night stay at the hotel last week illustrated the benefits and the drawbacks of bargain lodging in Times Square. The hotel can be humorously disorienting. People have stood on the sidewalk outside the hotel and tried to decipher, without success, the meaning of one of the hotel's slogans, displayed above its bronze-colored awning: "You Wanted in Time Square & Less."
The lobby is a 24-hour people-watcher's paradise. It can feel, in a narrow room that resembles a cross between a D.M.V. office and a Las Vegas disco, like Saturday night on an early Wednesday morning. At one moment, two elegantly dressed women in evening gowns and high heels appeared. At another, a man sat down and drank from a can of Budweiser. "The best show on Broadway," a former guest wrote on one travel Web site, tripadvisor.com, "is the lobby of the Carter."
Room 1105 was not so much a room as it was a place to lie low. It took eight paces to walk from one wall to the next and 21 paces to get from the door to the window. The telephone was dead. It sat on an old desk, its drawer broken and placed on the stained carpet, a copy of the Manhattan white pages, 1994-5, among the contents inside. The room was lighted by a bare bulb on the ceiling, and the headboard of the bed was a rectangle of blue carpet nailed to the wall. There was a big moldy splotch on the ceiling above the bathtub.
The Sharp TV was sleek and new, but the tiles in the bathroom longed for a good scrubbing. The door unlocked using a modern card instead of a key, but the push-button phone - the typewritten number on its beige face disconnected - was of unknown vintage, perhaps from the 1980's. There were hints of the hotel's rich past, sometimes in the oddest places.
A "Church Directory," about 25 years old, remains posted in the lobby in a glass case, amid a row of pay phones ("Manhattan Church of Christ, James R. Petty, minister"). A sign around the corner reads "Dixie Bar & Restaurant," but the door below it is closed.
The hotel was called the Hotel Dixie when it opened in 1930, the same year as the Chrysler Building. It had entrances on 42nd Street and 43rd Street, and the Central Union Bus Terminal occupied the basement. In 1937, the hotel raised its price for a single room, to $2.75 from $2.50. It was later purchased by a subsidiary of the Carter Hotels Operating Corporation but kept the Dixie name. A 225-seat theater opened there in 1966 with the musical comedy "Autumn's Here."
In the early 1980's, the city housed homeless families at the Carter. These days, Ms. Nguyen said, the hotel is undergoing renovations and service improvements - including the addition of a front desk computer system - that are likely to lead to rate increases.
There are certainly other budget hotel rooms in the city that are smaller, shabbier and do not come with their own private bathrooms. The price of Room 1105 - $232 for two nights for one occupant, after taxes - made it among the cheapest of the city's 71,000 hotel rooms. The bed was firm but comfortable, and the room muffled the noise of the city, the only sounds an occasional siren and the drip-drip-drip of one of the bathtub's leaky handles.
Such distractions do not sit well with some. Anders Lindqvist, 33, a lawyer from Copenhagen, said on Thursday that he would probably not return to the hotel after his weeklong visit. "I was surprised that there was still plumbing and installations that bad in the center of Manhattan," he said.
Other Carter guests have a way of looking on the bright side.
"As long as there's a bed and a roof and running water, that's all I really need," said Kee-Hyun Kim, 23, a musician from Boston who checked out on Wednesday and said he liked the hotel's price and central location. "I'm pretty low maintenance, and I think anybody who stays at a place like that has to be."
Michael Nagle for The New York Times
Room 1105 revealed a moldy patch on the bathroom ceiling.
^ It's amazing to me that they can get around inspectors with crud like that in the rooms.
Eons ago you could get comparable levels of quality and service at YMCAs throughout Manhattan --with the added attraction of communal bathrooms that featured gym-style gang showers (no partitions) and toilet stalls without doors. The standing caveat was: don't bend over if you drop your soap.
Are these facilities still available?
I think its nice. I would stay here.
Just go down the hall until I find an unlocked door and give some guests another suprise when they are going to sleep after a night at the theater.
Dear, I think theres something under the bed....
Oh dont mind me I dont snore. The door was locked so I came in through the hole in the wall.
^ Lol!!
This place looks disgusting, even at $99 / night.
Look here for pics of some of the beautiful conditions at the Carter (click on "view candid traveler photos"):
I dont see what the problem is.
The shower ceiling looks like the one in my dormitory.
It looks like it's about to sprout mushrooms.
Hey, JB ^^^
Looks like the Carter is trying to spruce up its act (but seemingly can't even do that well ) ...
They need to keep the light bulbs changed.
Hotel Carter tops the TripAdvisor list of the Dirtiest Hotels in US http://www.tripadvisor.com/DirtyHotels
I wonder if this had anything to do with the rating.
New York
Manhattan: Body Found in Times Square Hotel
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Published: August 31, 2007
The body of a woman was found under a bed in the Carter Hotel in Times Square yesterday, with her head and legs covered in plastic, the police said. The victim, who was described by the police as in her 20s but whose name was not released pending family notification, was discovered shortly before 2:30 p.m. in a sixth-floor room of the hotel on West 43rd Street. The medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death, the police said.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company.
Hotel Carter doesn't seem that bad from the outside (referring to Edward's picture), but from the pictures that were included in the article, and the murder article brianac posted ... absolutely not.
You couldn't pay me to stay here.
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Rangers upend Canadiens 3-1, take 2-0 series lead
MONTREAL (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist has the surging New York Rangers two wins from the Stanley Cup finals.
Lundqvist made 40 saves and the Rangers took control of the Eastern Conference final with a 3-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night.
The Rangers lead the best-of-seven series 2-0 heading back to New York for Game 3 on Thursday and Game 4 on Sunday.
"I thought we played well, and the only reason we lost was Lundqvist," Montreal coach Michel Therrien said. "He stole that game."
The Canadiens, missing star goalie Carey Price because of an injury, came out strong in a bid get past a 7-2 thumping in the series opener only to run into Lundqvist.
Lundqvist, who was bested by Price at the Sochi Olympics as Canada beat Sweden in the final, has allowed only three goals on 63 shots in the series.
The Canadiens got the opening goal at 6:14 of the first from Max Pacioretty, but Ryan McDonagh tied it 17 seconds later on a shot that went in off defenseman Josh Gorges and a post.
"We knew they were going to come hard, but we put ourselves in a tough spot there by not getting pucks out," Lundqvist said. "They were all over us.
"But to tie it up quickly like that, I think that was important to kind of even out the momentum a little bit."
Rick Nash and Martin St. Louis also scored on Dustin Tokarski, the surprise starter for Montreal ahead of regular backup Peter Budaj.
St. Louis scored a day after he and his teammates attended the funeral of his mother, who died just before Mother's Day. The Rangers have rallied around the grieving veteran and have won five in a row since her death.
"It's been an emotional weekend," St. Louis said. "I'll definitely never forget this weekend for many reasons, but I think the grieving process will still take a while.
"But that stuff is behind me. Tonight, we wanted to make sure we'd have the emotion we'd need to win this game because we knew they would come out hard, especially rallying, losing their best player, so I thought we answered."
Tokarski looked shaky at times, but had no chance on two of the Rangers' goals.
"It was a lot of fun," Tokarski said after his first NHL playoff start. "There was a lot of adrenaline. You grow up as a kid wanting to play in the playoffs, and I got the opportunity and just came up a bit short."
The Canadiens had announced Monday morning that Price, the Olympic gold medalist who hurt his right knee in the series opener when he was crashed into by Chris Kreider, would miss the rest of the series.
Therrien said he opted for Tokarski over Budaj because of the youngster's record of winning championships at other levels.
The 24-year-old from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, has a Memorial Cup, a world junior championship and an AHL title on his resume.
"He's a winner," Therrien said. "I thought he played well. We talked to Peter and he reacted as a pro. He's a good teammate."
New York coach Alain Vigneault said Montreal's goalie choice was no surprise.
"Somehow, we had an inkling (Sunday) night that it was probably going to be that gentleman (Tokarski)," Vigneault said with a grin. "Hockey's a small world."
In the end, Vigneault agreed that Lundqvist was the difference in the game.
"He's the only reason we were still in the game," he said. "They had total control of the pressure."
Montreal outshot New York 41-30.
Montreal's worst fears were realized in the first period, which it dominated while still falling behind 2-1.
A long period of sustained pressure produced the first goal as Lundqvist's clearing attempt went off Pacioretty and into the net at 6:14.
But only 17 seconds later, McDonagh swiped a puck toward the net from the point and saw it go in off Gorges' leg and a post. McDonagh had a goal and an assist to give the defenseman six points in the opening two games of the series.
"The Canadiens were coming wave after wave in the first period," St. Louis said. "If it wasn't for Lundqvist, there might have been a different result after the first."
The Rangers played a thorough defensive game in the third to prevent a comeback.
NOTES: Montreal's Alex Galchenyuk returned from an injury to see his first playoff action for Montreal, replacing Michael Bournival. He got 13:23 of ice time. ... New York forward Derick Brassard, who suffered a suspected shoulder injury in Game 1, was replaced by Dan Carcillo. ... Price was photographed at the Bell Centre with a brace on his right knee. ... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended the game.


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Welcome to The Ratchet, as in ratchet up the accountability in politics across California. It's Prop Zero's new weekly weigh-in from contributor Keith Esparros. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
It's like Christmas in Sacramento.
Everyone is getting what they want. At least the politicians are.
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The voters are too (well, sort of).
As much as voters ever get what they really want.
They demanded a budget on time, and they got it.
It may be a Democratic biased plan that some GOP legislators like George Runner have already labeled as a sham, but it's a budget nonetheless.
The Democrats got what they wanted. The Dems have the majority in Sacramento, and now that we got rid of that pesky two-thirds hurdle, majority rules.
So you would think the GOP is unhappy. Republicans shouldn't be.
They will distance themselves from this spending plan at a time when a new Field Poll shows Californians' growing distaste for the taxes Governor Jerry Brown says are critical to our state's future.
So critical that the temporary taxes are extended in this budget until the fall, when voters can decide to keep them alive.
The new poll indicates voters won't, and that will give the Republicans even more clout as they pursue a no-new-taxes future.
So the GOP should raise a glass to the Democrats.
The state has a budget, the GOP may soon have more juice, and all the legislators keep drawing that paycheck.
Unless you're one of those unfortunates to face even deeper cuts from Sacramento, what's not to like about this budget?
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