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Gerry and Mary Gay of Avondale Estates, Ga., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Meredith Paula Gay of Raleigh, to Philip Grant Culp of Raleigh.
The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Shirley and the late Bradley Gay of Ocala, Fla., and Carol and the late Robert Lancaster of St. Petersburg, Fla. A 2003 graduate of St. Pius X High School, Meredith graduated from Elon University in 2007 and attained her Master's degree in Accounting from N.C. State University in 2008. She is an accountant for Fred Smith Company in Raleigh.
The future groom is the son of Philip and Patty Culp of Salisbury and the grandson of Amy May of Salisbury; the late Tracy Culp of Gold Hill; the late Floyd Eller of Salisbury; and the late Nancy Morgan of Salisbury. A 2001 graduate of East Rowan, he received his Bachelor of Science from N.C. State University in 2006. He is the General Superintendent of the Commercial Construction division of Fred Smith Company in Raleigh.
The wedding is June 15 at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh.


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LeBron James is right now in the middle of a stretch of years during which he's been the most decorated basketball player on the planet. We can only speculate on how long the King will stay at the peak of his powers (or if he's even there yet), but three straight NBA Finals appearances and back to back championships suggest there's still plenty more to come. And while we're definitely not going to give all the credit to the shoes, an obvious common thread between both championships has been the Elite Series version of his signature model on his feet come playoff time.
With the third generation of Nike Basketball's Elite Series set to release later this week, we thought we'd take a look back at LeBron's first round of Elites, and a shoe that we'll always remember for coinciding with his first successful title run. The Nike LeBron 9 Elite pushed the envelope both from a technical perspective as well as pricing, and also stood out for keeping a bunch of tasty colorways unreleased. As we wait to see if a third Elite shoe will bring LeBron a third ring, let's go back and examine some of the best 9 Elites in tonight's NINE@NINE.
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Today at 5 p.m. is the deadline for former partners of the bankrupt Dewey & LeBoeuf law firm to sign up for the "Partner Contribution Plan." Under the terms of the Plan, which in its latest iteration seeks $90.4 million in "clawbacks" from ex-partners, participating partners would contribute specified amounts to the Dewey bankruptcy estate in exchange for releases from future liability (to the Dewey estate, to other participating partners, and to Dewey lenders, thanks to recent revisions to the PCP).
When talk of the Plan first surfaced, I opined that "[s]uch a deal sounds reasonable in principle." I later observed that even if the PCP might not be perfect, "[i]f you're a productive partner, happily ensconced at a new and stable firm, and just want to forget the D&L debacle and return to serving your clients, this deal may Dewey the trick."
But now, after numerous revisions to the Plan, seemingly endless extensions of the deadline to join, and a still-insufficient amount of participation, I'm beginning to think that maybe it just won't fly — and Dewey should just be allowed to die, i.e., slip into a straight-up liquidation. Perhaps Dewey's bankruptcy advisers should stop trying to flog a product that nobody seems interested in buying.
UPDATE (4:35 PM): It looks like the Dewey estate's perseverance has paid off. The $50 million participation threshold has been reached.
Here's one good thing about the Partner Contribution Plan: thanks to the PCP, we now have detailed information about how much each of Dewey's partners received from the firm in 2011 and 2012. And yes, we're willing to share the data for the top earners with you, in spreadsheet form.
Some people are big believers in the virtues of black-box compensation. But here at Above the Law, we're all about transparency….
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On and off throughout my life, American Eskimo dogs (Spitz), hereafter referred to in my family as Doogles, have wandered into and out of my existence. My first experience with the breed came through my grandmother. When I first met Ginger, she said to me Be careful, she can be snippy. We immediately became fast friends and she would flop in my lap whenever I sat on the floor. I believe I was somewhere around six at the time.
Many years and a few dogs passed and much later, when my wife and I were on vacation in Canada, we got the news that we had adopted a dog from down the road from some folks who were moving into a retirement home. That dog found its way to our doorstep via my son Justin. From nearly two thousand miles away I had the most vivid mental images of my hands closing around his scrawny neck tightly enough to choke the breath from his body and make his eyes pop out of his head. We had already had ample experience with his bringing vermin to our home with unfulfilled promises of Ill take care of it/him/her/them/etc. Invariably, my wife bore the burden of the pet maintenance while cursing the fauna de Jure fell to me.
When we returned from our trip and made it home again, I was mentally well steeled to the task of evicting the infiltrating pooch and illuminating my son (again) as to the error of his ways. We opened the front door and there was my Mother-in-Law (bless her heart) stretched out on the sofa with a white, fluffy, Eski draped across her shoulder! Not only was she wearing the dog, she was wearing a huge smile!
You must now be made aware that she was of a generation where dogs were kept as mousers, protectors of chickens, hunting dogs or garbage disposals but not things to be allowed onto the furniture or cuddled and here she was cuddling this dog. I was floored. First by Memas behavior and then that Justin had somehow acquired an AKC animal that I thought was beautiful. While Justin did eventually get his due chastisement for dragging home yet another stray, he was given dispensation in that his find was of the highest quality. That Eski became known as Maxx.
Maxx lived with us for almost eighteen years. During that time his name morphed into Maxx Doogle and eventually the exclamation Look, theres a Doogle! became code for Look, theres an American Eskimo! So it has remained until this very day. When Maxx left us, both my wife and I thought we were going to die of broken hearts. It took over a year before the subject of bringing another dog into our home could be broached without my bursting into tears. I know, big, tough, 240 pounds of stodgy, curmudgeon Opa but it is the truth.
My wife found a rescue Doogle on the internet and after a trial week or two, he decided he would stay. His name is Bentley but sad to say, the damage has been done. I call him Doogle just like Maxx. He has been with us now for about four years and still sometimes when in the heat of battle (you know, tripping over the dog while in the kitchen) I still call him Maxx. Its OK. This Doogle doesnt respond to anything but food anyway so I dont think his feelings are hurt too badly.
One thing about the Doogles I have known is their sensitive digestion. If you start feeding them strange things with odd flavours of extra fat they have a nasty habit of barfing or otherwise having accidents on the floor. Bentley is very good about asking to be let out and we have a little routine that comes every day at about five thirty AM. If Im not out of bed, he will put his feet on the side of the bed and stare at me until I comply with his wishes (Why you arent up yet, Daddy?). Then, throughout the day, at regular intervals, we go through a similar routine until bedtime. If there is even the slightest deviation, I get the call at all odd hours of the night wherein I must stand guard by the back door, in the pitch dark, sometimes freezing to give him re-entry to the house.
It was not too many days ago that I began getting Bentleys call of nature at all kinds of strange, unpredictable hours. I would dutifully drag out of the sack (I dont mind telling you a particularly warm. soft, comfy sack.), let the mutt out and then stand by while his business was completed and then fall back into bed.
In the morning, I would query the other members of the household as to their guilt in the matter of recreational feeding of the hound and without exception, all were innocent .INNOCENT! In particular, my son was INNOCENT!
Then, this week my son spent a few days in town without returning home. A day or two after he had gone to town Gail and I went to the Costco and of course bought a boat load of goodies including two of their rotisserie chickens. We came home, unloaded the goodies and had the chicken for dinner. As usual, Bentley had his fair share (Sounds like a tax deal, doesnt it?) while my wife and I were eating. Another fact I must point out about the Doogle breed: They would sell their mothers for chicken, let the burglars clean out your home for chicken and possibly sacrifice a foot or two or even a tail just for a taste of chicken.
The following is an absolutely accurate (painfully so... for some) recounting of the following events.
Gail and I had finished our dinner and set the plates aside. The aforementioned dog, (You know, the one who quivers with a chicken rush when given odd bits of roasted skin.) trots (he only moves at a pace above stroll when properly motivated) trots between my wife and I, sniffing the air for molecules of chicken and finding none, whirls about on his heels and proceeds at the previously mentioned rate of travel down the hall and into Justins vacant room. When I followed him into Justins lair, I found the Doogle sitting at attention and staring intently at Justins empty chair.
Now I ask why the Doogle would go searching for morsels of chicken in an area of the house where he had supposedly never been previously successful.
The only conclusion that my feeble logic can conjure is that the innocent perhaps are not so innocent.
My mother was famous for saying One lies and the other swears to it. when searching for the truth amongst us boys. Apparently the dog and my son have the same sort of pact at least when it comes to food. In all honesty I cant be too critical of the boy because the dog is pretty cute. Its just that I am the one who gets woken up at 2 AM.


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The Animal Agriculture Alliance recently kicked off its 12th annual Stakeholders Summit with a wide range of speakers, from online moms to the former Under-Secretary for USDA Food Safety Inspection Service.
While the speakers came from different backgrounds and had very different personalities, one theme resonated above all the rest. In the first presentation of the day, Joe Miller, General Counsel for Rose Acre Farms, stated about consumers: "they don't need to know us, we need to know them."
The theme of getting to know our true stakeholders, asking them what they want, and giving it to them is one that resonated during most presentations throughout the day.
Beyond the actual presentations, however, Summit became an excellent case study about just how much words matter. The presentations on May 1 were streamed live via the Internet. Individuals both "for" us and "against" us were able to see and hear each and every presentation.
Our speakers were aware of this, but I don't think anyone—myself included—expected the live streaming video to get the number of views it did. Nor did I expect quotes from certain presentations to become fodder on Facebook and Twitter, at least not to the extent that they did.
It's easy for me, as a communicator working for a national non-profit, to take the view that "all press is good press." I've been called a "firecracker," so when the activist groups began to "spam" our Twitter feed, taking quotes out of context and attacking our speakers, I was indifferent.
Well, truth be told, I was pleased. In my mind, if the activists help generate buzz about the very important issues being discussed, that means I can continue to talk about them and educate consumers and media in larger and larger forums.
That being said, I recognize not everyone shares this opinion. Specifically, my Midwestern heart was hurting for our Joe Miller as he was called out in the very public social media platform: Twitter.
To set the record straight, Mr. Miller was discussing farm protection, or as it is more commonly and "catchily" known: "ag gag." Mr. Miller was discussing undercover videos and what they're used for, the actual text of the legislative measures being discussed in various states, and the legal arguments for and against these measures.
As an attorney, Mr. Miller is perhaps better equipped to lead this discussion than anyone else. The problem came, however, when Mr. Miller was discussing constitutionally protected property rights (a subject, as a recent law graduate myself, that still makes me shudder).
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I'm considering a camera upgrade from my five year old Konica Minolta A200. It's been a great little camera but i could use a longer zoom, i like the look of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ38EB-K.
I'm also pondering on maybe a secondhand digital SLR such as a Sigma SD10 with the following included..............
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family has had an unlucky streak recently with cars and appliances breaking one right after the other. Realistically, we should assume that nothing will last forever, but it is still a shock when something breaks that you thought still had life in it.
Today, there is a premium price for appliances and electronics. With a plentiful supply of choices and products, the market is also competitive. Manufacturers are always looking to capture more market share. There is a constant message that we shouldn't be happy with what we have and should always want the newest. The by-product of this constant consumerism is that products are not made to last, nor made to be fixed.
Why should they be, when the newest thing will make it obsolete?
Obsolescence hits you hard when everything starts breaking. As an example, some time ago, we replaced our tract house standard-issue electric oven and low-wattage microwave oven. They had survived 15 years but functioned at the lowest standard — the original microwave took twice the estimated heating time.
So we made an investment — the best we could afford at the time — and upgraded. The appliances were not entirely reliable, with parts like knobs, vent covers and handles breaking. We lost a burner and had to replace an element, but everything still worked.
However, six years later, both appliances from two different manufactures gave up the ghost within three months of each other. The microwave broke first. Since I believe it is more sustainable to fix rather then replace, we fixed the microwave. It broke again — the same piece. We fixed it again, then something else broke. We fixed it again, and that lasted four months before it broke again.
We were done fixing it and went microwaveless. It was unfamiliar ground for my kids — a world without instant heating. My husband and I remember the olden days before microwaves. For my kids, it was how the Earth turned, and they whined considerably when we said it would be some time before it was replaced.
Then the cooktop broke into a spectacular burst of flames.
During the regular repair appointments, the repair man had looked at the range. He and I both agreed that it was a bad design. Right below the knobs was the electronic circuit board for the stove and cooktop. To fix one burner, the whole top would need to come off, and all the circuit board and horsetails of wiring be replaced.
As that strategy didn't work so well for the microwave, I was done fixing inferior appliances. So we bit the bullet and bought another microwave and range. It was an expensive lesson in getting what you pay for.
For me, I have had only one alarm clock in my lifetime, my refrigerator is approaching 30 years old and my freezer, well, is older than I am. I would love to replace all of them for more energy efficiency, but I hesitate to replace something that works perfectly fine when that which will replace it is not expected to last — per industry standards — more than 10 years.
If I had replaced all these items following today's consumerism standard, I would have saved on electricity but would have replaced each at least three times. That is not a sustainable use of resources.
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we are not buying for the future but buying for the moment with little assurance and expectation of longevity. How many cars have you had in your lifetime? Now change the question to how many cellphones and you see an unsustainable rise of constant purchasing that leads to the inevitable disposal.
Compounded by the fact that what we are buying is not made well, we will run out of resources and landfills before we obtain appliance nirvana. So this holiday season, make sure that your purchases are made well, or the gift will be in the trash and the giving will need to occur again.
For a change: When something breaks, try fixing it. If it can't be fixed, dispose of it in the proper way at an electronic waste event or the household hazardous waste facility in Stockton, free to all residents.
To make a difference: When you have to buy an appliance or electronics, look for the more sustainable, energy-efficient model. Look for more pieces that can be recycled at the end of the item's use.
To make a stand: Don't buy. Find a way to do the task another way without that extra, single-use appliance.
• Christina D.B. Frankel has lived in Tracy for more than 22 years and is an architect and mother of three. Her column, Living Green, runs every so often in the Tracy Press. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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