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This is an appeal to the people who live at or frequent Guilford Lake boating and swimming facilities.
We have a pontoon boat at the state docks near the public beach and for the third time this summer we have had a theft off our boat.
This time an entire full gas tank with hoses was taken. This would have been quite heavy and would have taken some effort.
We have reported this to the state park ranger, the sheriff's office and highway patrol. There is just one park ranger per shift who must cover three different parks – Guilford, Beaver Creek and Milton.
My husband and I are retired and on a limited income, we pay to dock our boat at this facility, but are receiving no service of someone watching out for our boat.
I know there are low-lifes who would rather steal from others, but, please, if you see someone around the boats after hours walking away with others property, call the sheriff's office. My husband has a heart condition, this is not helping him and makes us both wonder about why bothering to have some pleasure without others stealing it. Why are we paying the state a yearly fee if they can't protect us? Next time it will be something of value of yours these bums take.
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The owners of the Pretzel Bell building want to add 8,000 square feet of office and retail space to the historic downtown structure.
Developer Ed Shaffran and his partner Don Van Curler intend to submit their plans to the city in the first quarter of 2008, work through the approval process and then bide their time until they believe market conditions are right.
They expect to move forward when they secure tenants, though right now they don't have any. Shaffran plans to position the building in the middle of downtown rental properties, asking $22-$24 per square foot for office space and $22-$26 per square foot for the retail.
"It's a good time," Shaffran said. "Site plans are good for three years. You might as well get it in there now."
It's located at the corner of South Fourth Avenue and East Liberty Street. The addition would be three stories with a mezzanine. It would be constructed in a space that's currently a private, seven-car parking lot directly west of the building.
Van Curler, of Van Curler & Associates, would design the structure, featuring glass and an updated look. Shaffran and Van Curler have owned it since 1983.
Current tenants include Champion House, a Japanese steakhouse and sushi bar, and the Washington Street Gallery. Automobile Magazine is the major office user. Shaffran said some of the current tenants could consider expansion, or he might line up new ones.
"So many possibilities exist there," Shaffran said.
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Some figures released this week by the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors indicate the city's housing market is experiencing a bit of a rebound.
The number of homes sold increased to 76 in November, a 19.7-percent increase over November 2006. The average sale price also spiked to $359,469, up from $322,322 a year ago.
This November was helped by six properties that sold for more than $800,000, including one for $2.75 million and one for $1.28 million, said Rob Guilloz, information services director for the Board of Realtors.
Take away those six deals, and the average prices drops to a more pedestrian $329,657, though the figure is still more than $7,000 ahead of last year.
Real estate agents aren't ready to celebrate, but are cautiously optimistic the improved sales totals could be the beginning of a positive trend.
"It feels to me we are probably done bumping along the bottom of this market and are poised for more activity as we go forward," said David Lutton, president of Charles Reinhart Co. Realtors.
Tonya Ireland, of Real Estate One in Ann Arbor, said the uptick could be stemming from an increase in consumer confidence after the domestic automakers signed new labor contracts with the UAW and hundreds of Pfizer employees resolved their future employment situations.
"I think now that those are kind of behind us, people are looking to move forward," she said.
Dawn Foerg, vice president of Edward Surovell Realtors, said the mood has shifted locally, though she hadn't seen tangible results until the numbers came out.
"Many agents are very busy right now," she said. "It just feels quite different from the way it felt last year."
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A new gangster culture is emerging in certain enclaves of the South Asian diaspora.
Lets first consider the scene in North America.
Mimicking the tough street hustlers among the inner city youth, South Asian American gangs are to be found in Jersey City and Edison, in Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, and in Brooklyn's Midwood area, reports Ana Arana in the Village Voice.
The groups adopt symbols and names that define their religion or locality. The Punjabi-by-Nature-Boys used to wear Sikh symbols and hang out in Flushing, Queens. The Medina Boys, named after the Muslim holy city, is made up of Pakistanis who mostly reside in the Jackson Heights area. The Malayalee Hit Squad is named for the Indian area where most of its members' families come from. The 74th Street Boys got their name from the Jackson Heights street lined with Indian and Pakistani bazaars.
According to community activists, the gangs are loosely organized and do not engage in heavy criminal activities as Indo-Canadian gangs do. But they suggest that there are deeper issues of alienation and identity crisis. "They're an American relflection of what's going on," says DJ Rekha, an Indian-American who grew up in Flushing and Long Island. Rekha explains: "They're defining a new sense of self; they're not white, they're not black. They're picked on by everyone. They have conflicts with their parents, who still behave as if they don't belong here."
Until the mid 1990s it was the story of a successful model community. And todays gang culture, found primarily in the working-class community of cab-drivers, restaurant workers, and service industry employees, is seen as damaging to this reputation of well-mannered, hard-working, high-achieving ethnic group. Which is why few experts in the community are willing to talk openly about youth problems and alienation.
DJ Rekha observes: "The parents want the gangs to go away and want to say they're only poor kids. But [the groups] also include sons of doctors and other professionals. They're only an expression of the difficulties youth are facing. ..It includes second-generation kids who want to belong and are reacting to the idea that Indians and other South Asians are nerds or Gandhi types."
DJ Rekha and others trace the origin of South Asian gangs to the late 1980's and early 1990's, when gangs of white youths beat unsuspecting South Asians and vandalized shops in Jersey City. The so-called Dot Buster Gang attacks opened the eyes of the young South Asian population and led to the creation of consciousness-raising groups in colleges. In the streets, and at the high school level, it led kids to the realization that they would have to fight back so as to not get beaten up in school.
Community activists also say that some of the behavioral problems leading to gang culture are connected to youth's feelings of inadequacy in their new country. A lot of the kids who join gangs just want to become Americans quickly.
CBC Network News reporter Natalie Clancy notes, In terms of organized crime, police say the East Indian gangs are small players who get a lot of attention only because they are so brazenly violent. She adds, these gangsters get into shootouts on the street regularly, sometimes over nothing more than a dirty look or a love triangle.
The head of British Columbias Integrated Gang Task Force provides a glimpse into the violent world of South Asian Canadian gangs, saying the body count for the last six years alone numbers 60 people.
Supt. John Robin of the Delta police department also said the number of kidnappings linked to the same criminal gangs has doubled since 1999. It is also well known that police have had limited success in solving violent crimes in the close-knit Indo-Canadian gang world.
Consider the following incidents of Indo-Canadian gang-related killings during just six months in 2005:
- Sept. 30, 2005 -- Hardev Singh Sidhu, 27, was found shot to death in a car at 136th Street and Grosvenor Road in Surrey. He is believed to have been involved in the drug trade.
- Aug. 28, 2005 -- Hartinder (Harry) Gill and his girlfriend Lexi Madsen were gunned down at a busy intersection in Abbotsford. Gill was facing an attempted murder charge at the time of his death and was well-known to police. His house was hit by gunfire in July.
- May 13, 2005 -- Surrey resident Dean Mohamed Elshamy, 30, was found slumped in a late-model grey Audi in the parking lot of a Mac's store at 72nd Avenue and Scott Road in Surrey. While Elshamy is Egyptian, the intended target of the hit is believed to have been his buddy, Sandip Singh Duhre, who was uninjured in both the May shooting and a second incident in July 2005.
- May 7, 2005 -- Inderjit Singh Rai, 23, shot to death about 2:30 a.m. in the 9800-block 140th Street in Surrey.
- April 2, 2005 -- Sukh Jawanda, killed on a rural road in Abbotsford. His friend was injured in the shooting.
The profile of Indo-Canadian gangsters varies. Some come from well-off families, while others are from poorer homes.
Indo-Canadian crime groups are known to specialize in the transportation of marijuana, and the smuggling of South Asians into the United States.
In British Columbia, Canada, most of the gang related violence is happening in the South Asian community, according to the Integrated Gang Task Force (IGTF). Their summary report, Responses to gang violence, indicates the task force is concentrating on gang activity within South Asian groups due to (their) high profile and level of violence.
The task force reports, The majority of crimes are opportunistic extortion, kidnapping, drug rips, drug smuggling, homicides and violent acts. And it suggests that the bad boys with the guns still adhere to traditional Sikh values of image, status, reputation and respect.
On an Internet chat group, Surrey blogger Raj confirms this, saying the guns and gangster attitude are a way to get respect. Im all for some arrogant racist white guy getting put in check for making a racist comment to a Desi, Raj says. Its empowering to be a Desi thug, to have these a..holes who look down on us, to fear us. Its good in a way, for us to unite and look out for each other.
Research by VIRSA, the Sikh Alliance Against Violence, shows that gender inequality and authoritarian parenting may help lead to the creation of gang culture. The studies show many young boys killed in gang violence were either the only son or the first son in the family, writes Harbans Singh Kandola, president of VIRSA. Parents give boys everything they want such as expensive cars, permission to come home late and other special treatment while girls are restricted and treated differently.
Kandola says there is often poor communication between immigrant parents and their Canadian-raised offspring. The common complaint of our boys and young girls is that their parents do not listen to them. Some describe their communication with their parents as talking to a brick wall. Children growing in western culture do not take orders, they ask for logical discussion and logical answers rather than decisions being forced on them.
VIRSA is campaigning for public education programs and early intervention to prevent more young men from joining the gun culture.
Most recently, another Canadian government task force, with input from ten Indo-Canadian professionals, many of them social workers, has called for peacemakers to be sent to gangland "war" zones in an effort to curb the toll of young Indo-Canadian men killed during years of gang-related violence.
The proposed emergency conflict resolution team, to consist of family members, former gang associates and social and religious leaders, would be dispatched to "hot" spots between "warring parties" to try to resolve conflicts in a non-violent manner, the task force suggests.
The bold recommendation was one of many in a wide-ranging, comprehensive report that says misguided family and cultural values are a chief cause of the disputes that have killed more than 100 Indo-Canadian males, almost all in their 20s, during the past 15 years.
While not discounting the role of racism and the marginalizing of Indo-Canadians by mainstream society, the report pinpoints many other causes for the continuing violence, including:
*The absence of emotional security and structure, particularly for boys, in family life. "Boys experience a very unstructured, controlled and forgiving environment. Girls experience a very structured, controlled and unforgiving environment."
*The importance of status, reputation and image in South Asian culture, "fostering the use of violence as a means of saving face, earning respect and deterring further violence."
*The loss of a "moral compass" and the acceptance of unethical means of pursuing and achieving power, money and status by some South Asian people.
*The lack of accurate understanding of religious history and the true meaning of Sikhism, "resulting in misguided perceptions regarding the acceptability of violence."
The main proposal by the task force is the establishment of a broad-based, youth and family integration strategy, funded for its first five years by the federal government, to facilitate, co-ordinate and monitor the community response to youth violence.
The task force also recommends more community counseling, a help line, after-hours school programs aimed at Indo-Canadian youth and a parent education program to help people raise their children in a Canadian context.
"Many South Asian parents believe that 'old ways' of parenting are effective and acceptable," the report said. "In the Canadian context, these ways can contribute to children disconnecting from their home and family environment."
A final recommendation is for a media watchdog to monitor the role of the media in stereotyping Indo-Canadians.
Meanwhile, writing about the Indo-Canadian gang violence, journalist Navin Jagasia observes, the level of violence in the South Asian community is escalating to disturbing levels, and no one can be certain whether the worst is still to come. But theres one thing that is certain: few, if any, parents will admit to their childs involvement, because of the cultures insistence on maintaining a polished image of family life.
This attitude has allowed even worse problems to flourish behind the scenes. One such problem has now reached epidemic levels and is the catalyst for much of the violent activity, but it almost never gets addressed because of the public embarrassment it would cause the community. The problem is substance abuse.
Who are these gangsters? According to Jagasia: Theyre largely East Indian males, approximately aged 18-35, from middle, and even upper-middle class backgrounds. They violently engage one another as a way of settling disputes involving bruised reputations, because someone was talking shit, or because of gangland-style battles for turf. Still others attack for no better reason than an unwanted look.
Jagasia observes that there is a long-held notion among many Desis that binge drinking is a routine part of social life. For this reason, alcoholisms effect on violence and our community as a whole has been largely overlooked. Ignoring it has only allowed substance abuse to advance to another level. For example, in todays generation, cocaine has increased dramatically in popularity, but the community remains in denial, in spite of the public acknowledgement by law enforcement that East Indian gangs are involved in dealing drugs, and often fighting for turf as a result.
Jagasia concludes by warning: Violence and substance abuse are serious problems in our society today, though not exclusively the problem of the East Indian community. But there are many cultural obstructions that impair our ability to understand the problems in our community. We must shed our outdated desire to uphold reputation within the community, our prideful nature and our draconian attitudes of retribution and revenge in our eye-for-an-eye culture. Only then can we summon the courage to confess our worst-kept secrets, and admit that we are a community in crisis.
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Food Trucks and Fire Pits in New Egypt — Food trucks, wine, vineyard tours and live music add up to a good time at the Food Trucks and Fire Pits event at Laurita Winery in New Egypt Saturday and Sunday. Food trucks on hand include Amanda Bananas, Bacon on Wheels, Empanada Guy, Hoffman's Ice Cream, Red Hook Lobster, the Cow & the Curd, and Waffle de Lys. Join in country line dancing, or enjoy music from Blues Tattoo, Filthy Rich and the Poor Boys, and other bands. Admission is $8 and includes a wine glass, parking, vineyard tours and activities. Children 12 and under are free. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. Laurita Winery is located at 35 Archertown Road, New Egypt. For more information, visit lauritawinery.com. (Peter Genovese)
4-H Fair in Chester — Come see the pride of young agricultural enthusiasts at the Morris County 4-H Fair. Various animal shows star horses, rabbits, goats and dogs. There's also amusement park, pony and hay rides, along with live music, demos and food, including watermelon-eating and cake-decorating contests. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Chubb Park in Chester. Admission free, a $5 donation is asked for parking. Call (973) 285-8301 or visit morris.njaes.rutgers.edu/4h (Amy Kuperinsky)
Girl Scout festival in Maplewood — The Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey organization hosts the Camplified music festival Saturday, with Bad Seed Rising, Go Down Moses, 5 Angels and Seconds Apart. Concertgoers also try their hand at a scavenger hunt, ring toss and crafts. Young music heads can attend a DJ or instrument clinic while glam-queens in training can dive into a manicure camp spa. Noon to 5 p.m. at Camp Oval, South Orange Avenue, South Mountain Reservation in Maplewood. Tickets $10. call (908) 518-4400 or visit gshnj.org; rain or shine. (Amy Kuperinsky)
Sourland Music Festival in Hillsborough — Jazz singer Jo Wyman headlines the 11th annual Sourland Music Festival. Also on the bill: Norman Taylor, Slackjaw, Dave Stryker, the Matt O'Ree Band and CB Radio. New to this year's festival: tethered balloon rides ($15). 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Hillsborough Golf and Country Club, 146 Wertsville Road, Hillsborough; rain date Sunday. Tickets $20 online, $25 at the door; $5 for children 12 and under, children 7 and under free. All proceeds benefit the Sourland Conservancy, which protects the Sourland Mountain region. Call (908) 369-3322 or visit sourlandmusicfest.org (Amy Kuperinsky)
Wooden Boat Festival in Toms River — New Jersey's largest wooden boat show returns for its 38th year Saturday in Toms River. Hosted by the Toms River Seaport Society and Maritime Museum, the aptly named Wooden Boat Festival features various sailboats, powerboats, rowboats and canoes. Visitors can also watch skits by the Valhallas Pirates and vote on their favorite boats. The festival takes places from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Huddy Park in Toms River. Admission is free. Call (732) 349-9209 or visit tomsriverseaport.org. After the boat festival, visitors can also check out the NJ State Ice Cream Festival, which takes place from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Washington Street in Toms River. The festival includes ice cream eating contests, live music and plenty of ice cream samples. Call (732) 341-8738 or visit downtowntomsriver.com. (Jessica Iannetta)
Garden State Cat Show and Expo in Somerset — Have a soft spot for cute kitten videos or Grumpy Cat? Take a look at the real thing this weekend at the Garden State Cat Show and Expo. Felines will race through hoops and tunnels, and two will even ride around in a remote-controlled car while wearing sunglasses and vests. Purebreds, domestic pets and shelter cats will compete in a wide variety of contests. Many on the agility course will dazzle with their speed, while others may decide they're not interested, making for a mix of athleticism and entertainment. There will also be seminars, activities and opportunities to adopt a cat Saturday and Sunday, gardenstatecatclub.com
Our Three Tenors in Ocean City — The Ocean City Pops continue the tradition of presenting three emerging tenors at once in a concert this Sunday. William Davenport, Jonathan Boyd and Jeffrey Halili — singers whose credits include stints with New Jersey State Opera, New York City Opera and the New York Philharmonic —
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Just curious…
When Byron Scott picked out his tie… did the swastika pattern not catch his eye? And what about all the people around him… including the photographer? Did NO ONE look at his neck wear and say… "hey Byron… you know… that pattern sorta reminds me of something"?
I'm really not sure how that tie even gets designed… produced… sold in stores… and worn by anyone not writing manifestos in the middle of Montana or diving out of the way of the Blues Brothers
So… um… nice tie, Byron. Off to a rockin' start in Cleveland.
(editors note: We know Byron didn't wear that tie on purpose and that he wouldn't have worn it if he noticed. We know)


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AUBURN, Alabama -- Until Dee Ford returned to the lineup against Mississippi State, Auburn had no true proven pass rusher on a defensive line filled with players long on potential.
"We affected the quarterback quite a bit, but did we get as many sacks as we wanted, no," defensive end Nosa Eguae said last week. "We know we have to continue to compete and continue to get better."
"That was a blitz we run where the two tackles pop out late in case they're running any kind of underneath screens or whatever," Johnson said. "We bring what almost looks like a seven-man pressure, and we're really dropping a couple of linemen out late."
The versatility of defensive end LaDarius Owens has added another wrinkle, one used sometimes last season.
In that package, Owens, the fourth lineman, is a standup rusher, moving all over the line at the snap. A former linebacker who played the position in spring and early August before moving back to end, Owens brings the athleticism to make the package effective.
"We call it a rover. He moves around to setup different twists and then on certain formation he drops in the middle right in there to take away things," Johnson said. "That's a four-man rush most times with him moving around, setting up twists by being a penetrator and so forth."
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Good things come to those who wait. We've earned a weekend like the one we're about to get.
High pressure has arrived from Canada, and has plans to stay for a while. As a result, we're looking at a splendid spring weekend, with plenty of sunshine and high temperatures both days topping out in the low 70s, about 10 degrees ABOVE normal for a change.
Looking farther afield, we see no chances of precipitation in the forecast, and temperatures either seasonably mild or a little warmer for the next several days. Enjoy.
Meanwhile, this will be a great weekend to observe Earth Day, which is Sunday. And how exactly does one going about doing that?
Earth Day, which came to the fore in 1970 after one of those big protests that were so popular back then for any number of causes, has no set protocol, so feel free to make it up as you go. Get indoors, take a hike, plant a tree, plant some flowers, clean up some trash, or better yet, don't litter. Better still, don't buy that SUV that's so big it won't even fit in your driveway, but will leave a huge carbon footprint wherever you go.
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives" --- Henry David Thoreau


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My husband and I spent a lovely evening walking the Cocoa Beach pier earlier this week on a short but sweet vacation to Florida. As low tide pulled the water in, I noticed all these pretty (yes, pretty), clumps of seaweed brightly contrasted against the dark, smooth sand. (Emily Zoladz | The Grand Rapids Press)
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Where Is The Best Place To Get A Tattoo In East Texas?
I personally don't have any tattoos, but if I was thinking about getting one (No promises) where would I go?
I personally don't have any tattoos, but if I was thinking about getting one (No promises) where would I go?
Looking for something to covering up a blemish? Have we got a product for you.
Who knew the fine people of Norway had such a thing for McDonald's?
A grandfather in Florida recently lost custody of his grandchildren after allowing his 10-year-old grandson to get a permanent tattoo as a rite of passage. Jeez, what comes after that? Cigarettes and hard liquor?
Next time you get a tattoo in Lufkin or hit the tanning beds, you may find new rules and tighter health codes.
Yesterday at the Angelina County Commissioner's Court meeting a representative from the health department said several health code violations have been discovered recently.
What's the solution?
Gotten any tattoos removed lately? If so, you're not alone. A survey conducted by The Patient's Guide, an online skincare reference center, shows laser tattoo removals are up by 32 percent this year compared to 2011.
And will you keep your tattoo into your eighties? One of my family members did.
Although he's been keeping his manly assets under wraps while Van Halen has toured the states, the group's arrival in the Great White North seems to have loosened up both singer David Lee Roth's belt buckle and inhibitions.
Megan Fox has confirmed what has been apparent from recent photographs: the 25-year old actress is in the process of removing the prominent Marylin Monroe tattoo from the inside of her right forearm.
He already has two prominent TV co-hosting gigs under his belt. And when it comes to tattoos, well, let's just say that he has four times that amount on his fingers alone.
That unique combination of credentials will serve Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro very well in his new job: as the host — and a judge — of the new Spike TV tattoo competition series 'InkMaster.'
When you break up, maybe you have relationship tattoos to deal with. Now what? According to E!, Eva Longoria wears their wedding date on her wrist...


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The Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins faced off in a rematch of the Stanley Cup Finals, and the Penguins told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Dave Molinari that the Wings' remembrances of their Stanley Cup championship served as no intimidation:
November 12, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It is standard procedure at Joe Louis Arena to paint the names of those involved with Detroit's Stanley Cup-winning clubs -- everyone from executives to players to the team masseur -- on the concrete-block walls at ice level.
Those who had a part in the Red Wings' 2007-08 championship are listed on a wall just outside the corridor leading to the visiting team's dressing room.
That means the Penguins, who lost to Detroit in the Cup final this spring, had to walk past it on their way to the locker room for both the morning skate and the game last night against the Wings. And while some, including winger Pascal Dupuis, professed not to have noticed the wall, not everyone was oblivious to it.
Unlike the wall-sized mural outside the visiting club's quarters at Scotiabank Place, which depicted the handshake line between the Penguins and Ottawa after the Senators eliminated the Penguins from the 2007 playoffs, the Penguins didn't take the Joe Louis display personally.
"On the way in, we noticed," defenseman Brooks Orpik said. "That's just something they put up. They deserved to put that up.
"It's not like what Ottawa did last year. I think it's just a little extra motivation, although I don't think anyone's forgotten anything [about the Stanley Cup final] in five months."
As such, Jordan Staal, who scored a hat trick in the Penguins' 7-6 comeback win, says that the Penguins didn't have the "good sense" to worry about deficits of 3-1, 4-2, 5-2, 5-4, and 6-4, as he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Bob Rossi:
November 12, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Usually quiet center Jordan Staal spoke loudest with an eye-popping offensive outburst in the third period. His second career hat trick fueled an unlikely comeback. He scored each of his three goals over the final 12 minutes in regulation, including a pull-even tally at 19:37. Staal recorded the only assist on left wing Ruslan Fedotenko's winner at 3:49 of the overtime session.
"I don't think anyone on this team has good sense," Staal said, jokingly, after the Penguins' extracted a small measure of revenge against a traditionally defensively stout Red Wings squad.
Make that a traditionally defensively stout Red Wings squad that won a six-game Stanley Cup final against the Penguins last season.
Staal failed to score a goal in that series, and awoke yesterday with only two goals in 14 games. He now is tied with center Evgeni Malkin and close friend and right wing Tyler Kennedy for third on the team with five tallies. Staal has scored all of his goals over the past four games.
"I'm really happy for him," said goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who allowed six goals on 34 shots.
Staal was "really happy," too, as he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Dave Molinari:
November 12, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "It seemed like everything I touched went in the back of the net," Staal said. "I'll take it."
A lot of the pucks he has touched lately have turned up there. Staal has five goals in the past four games, the kind of rampage he hasn't produced since scoring 29 times as a rookie. The key now is to show up on the scoresheet regularly to make this a trend.
"It's only one step," he said. "As long as I keep working the way I have been, I'm sure the puck will keep going in."
Staal's hat trick was his second in the NHL and allowed the Penguins (9-4-2) to claim a tiny measure of revenge for their six-game loss to Detroit in the Stanley Cup final in the spring.
"The last time we played them, it wasn't the best," Crosby said.
The Penguins, of course, got just two points for this victory, the same as they had in each of the three games that preceded it. Nonetheless, pulling off that kind of comeback against an opponent of such high caliber, has the potential to make a lasting impression on their season, much as a come-from-behind victory in Ottawa last Thanksgiving did. They didn't play a perfect game -- not even close -- but still found a way to manufacture a victory, on the road, against one of the league's elite clubs.
"We just battled back," Therrien said. "We showed a lot of character winning that game."
Crosby agreed, as he told the Windsor Star's Dave Waddell:
November 12, Windsor Star: "I think shift after shift we just came at them," said Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby, who opened the scoring 4:34 into the game. "We didn't really have a shift where we lost momentum.
"When you have the puck that long in their zone, something is eventually going to give and you'll get chances.
"Luckily for us, we capitalized on everyone we got."
As Staal relished the Penguins' win, the Red Wings lamented their repeated and gargantuan collapses, as USA Today's Kevin Allen notes:
November 12, USA Today: "A team like that doesn't panic too often," Staal said. "But we kept putting pucks on the net, and if you keep doing that, some will go in. Once we got the first one (in the third period), it set them back a bit."
Given that Detroit defeated Pittsburgh for the Cup just five months ago, the Penguins' win had added meaning.
"You have to be impressed with a comeback like that," Therrien said.
Red Wings coach Mike Babcock was not impressed with his team's play: "I don't think it was a lack of preparation. It was a lack of poise and good judgment."
Babcock's comment was directly aimed at the Detroit Free Press's Mitch Albom, who questioned whether the Penguins were "hungrier." Albom stuck with the "hungry" bent in his take on the game:
November 12, Detroit Free Press: [W]ith a three-goal lead, the Wings forgot that a denied team is a hungry team. And that hungry team chewed them up.
In one of the worst collapses in recent memory -- and one that is simply inexcusable for a roster of this caliber, playing at home -- the Penguins outhustled, outmuscled and out-swarmed the Wings to rise from a 5-2 deficit in the third period and win in overtime, 7-6.
Pittsburgh put five goals past Chris Osgood in less than 17 minutes. He looked like a man being attacked by bees. The Wings turned it over, then turned it over some more. Their defense sagged. They could barely squirt the puck from their own end.
"It was like we stopped playing," Hossa said.
Look, nights like this matter. I know it's November. I know few things are breezier than an NHL regular-season score. But some games are about tone. When you're the reigning champion, to paraphrase "The Godfather," you keep your friends close and your enemies losing. You don't let the guys you beat for the Cup come into your building and score seven goals. That tells teams you can lose your focus. That says you may be resting on your laurels.
"We were a little too nice in our own end," Zetterberg said.
To say the least. Hossa and the Wings believe that the Penguins' goal on their 5-on-3 advantage (nice chintzy penalty, refs) led to their demise, as he told the Free Press's Helene St. James:
November 12, Detroit Free Press: "I think we played good, but I don't know what happened in the third period," former Penguins forward Marian Hossa said after contributing two assists. "The period was so long and we looked like we stopped playing. They started skating and took advantage. They got a power play five-on-three and scored an important goal and they got momentum and we couldn't stop them. It's unacceptable. They stole this game from us."
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby conceded the victory was sweet because of the opponent.
"Yes," he said, "Yes, it is. Not trying to sound overconfident, but it feels good."
What hurt the Wings was when the Penguins got 1:56 with a two-man advantage almost midway through the third period. Evgeni Malkin scored during the two-man power play, and Jordan Staal netted a third-period hat trick and then added another killer play in overtime when he knocked the puck off Pavel Datsyuk, who was a minus-three, and fed Fedotenko for the winner.
Datsyuk and Rafalski were particularly horrible defensively, but the entire team refused to bear down on pucks and clear their zone, make sure that they didn't turn over pucks in the neutral zone or just over the blueline, and they made "cutesy" plays instead of getting the puck up the ice. Babcock agreed with the last part, anyway:
"I didn't think we were great in the first 10 minutes, and then I thought we really took over the game," Mike Babcock said. "And then when they got the five-on-three goal, at the blue line we turned the puck over too many times. We turned it over for two goals. Too many soft plays by us in the third period. Losing games is one thing, but the way you go about doing it is what drives you crazy, and tonight was one of those games. Obviously, we can't let that happen." ... "After two periods, I thought we did a lot of real good things," Babcock said. "Then they got momentum when they scored on the five-on-three. You can't give up seven goals and expect to win. I thought it was going to be over when Hudler scored. Then we self-destructed."
Nicklas Lidstrom lamented the Wings' inability to kill the game-changing 5-on-3 in discussing the game with St. James:
November 12, Detroit Free Press: Unlike in last year's Stanley Cup Finals, when the Wings twice held the Penguins scoreless during two-man power plays, the Penguins used a nearly two-minute-long one Tuesday night to turn the game in their favor. They rallied from a three-goal deficit to win, 7-6, in overtime at Joe Louis Arena. Evgeni Malkin converted with 38 seconds remaining in the 5-on-3.
"That gave them some life in the game," said Nicklas Lidstrom, who killed off nearly a minute of the situation together with Andreas Lilja and Henrik Zetterberg. "They're good puck movers, and they're going to find that open line. We just got out of position just a little bit, just enough for them to find the open player for the shot."
That goal made it 5-3 for Detroit. They went up 6-4, but then allowed three straight goals.
"We weren't playing as well in our own zone," Lidstrom said. "We were running around a little bit too much. We were chasing the puck a little bit too much."
Babcock told the press, including the Macomb Daily's Bruce MacLeod, that his team's loss was unacceptable:
November 12, Macomb Daily: [I]n the past 11 seasons, this was just the fourth time that the Red Wings have allowed as many as seven goals in a game. Detroit led 5-2 five minutes into the third period when Henrik Zetterberg netted a power-play goal. When that faltered, Jiri Hudler scored with 9:46 on the third-period clock to give the Red Wings a 6-4 advantage.
"When we had the sixth goal, that game's got to be over," said Detroit coach Mike Babcock. "Losing games is one thing. But the way you go about doing it is the part that drives you crazy. Tonight was one of those games. Obviously, we can't let that happen."
What happened between the Zetterberg and Hudler goals were markers by Evgeni Malkin (the sixth 5-on-3 power-play goal allowed by Detroit this season) and Jordan Staal.
And while the Red Wings tried to go into a third-period stall to nurse their lead, the Penguins went into a third-period Staal. Much more effective. Staal scored three goals in the span of 11:24 of the third period -- the final one coming with 22.8 seconds on the clock to tie the score at 6-6.
"It looked pretty tough for us, especially against Detroit," said Pittsburgh coach Michel Therrien. "This is a team that is playing really well defensively. It's tough to generate offense. That's why we've got to be impressed with that comeback."
Hossa told the Associated Press that he wasn't surprised about Staal's scoring ability:
November 11, Associated Press: "He's always in the shadow, but he's a good player -- maybe underrated," Hossa said. "He plays with power and takes the puck well to the net."
If anything, Hossa looked good, posting two assists, and he told NHL.com's Brian Compton that he did one thing that his teammates did not--get focused and worry about the task at hand when the puck dropped:
November 12, NHL.com: While he may have thought a lot about facing his former team going into the game, Hossa said it was just another game once it got under way.
''After the puck dropped for the first faceoff, I didn't even think about it,'' Hossa said. ''I just tried to focus on my game.''
Staal also talked to the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan about his scoring outburst, but this is a Red Wings blog...and both Babcock and Hossa told Kulfan that the Wings need to take this collapse as a colossal kick in the rear and move on:
November 12, Detroit News: Defensively, the Wings lacked poise and didn't execute nearly well enough, which disappointed Babcock.
"Too many soft plays," Babcock said. "Even after two periods I thought we were doing a lot of good things. Then you watch the third period."
Many of the Wings were at a loss to explain the meltdown.
"I don't know what happened," said Marian Hossa , who had two assists against his former team. "The period was so long, and we looked like we stopped playing and they started skating, they got momentum and we couldn't stop them for whatever reason.
"It happened, but it's unacceptable. We just have to look in the mirror and learn from it. It's still early in the season."
Lidstrom agreed, as he told the Detroit News's Dave Dye:
November 12, Detroit News: [T]his team's defense has been surprisingly suspect at times this season, and it again broke down in the final minutes. Staal's second goal cut the Wings' lead to 6-5 with 4:09 remaining.
"We started running around a little too much," Lidstrom said of the defensive-zone problems. "We were chasing the puck too much. That's when they find the open player."
The last word should stick in Wings fans' craws, and this will do:
"It feels good," Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. "The last time we played them, it wasn't the best (feeling).
"It's just a regular-season game, but it does feel a little bit better."
The Windsor Star's Dave Waddell and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Dave Molinari wrote superb sans-quote recaps, PittsburghPenguins.com's Sam Kasan wrote an exhaustive analysis of the game as well. Empty Netters' Seth Rorabaugh provides further reading, and the Macomb Daily's Bruce MacLeod and DetroitRedWings.com's Michael Caples weighed in with their own observations on the game.


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MACEDONIA, Ohio – For the first time in three years, Hawken's boys soccer season ended short of Columbus.
Mansfield Christian earned the ticket to Saturday's Division III state championship game with a 3-0 semifinal victory over the Hawks on Wednesday at Nordonia.
The Hawks were seeking their third straight trip to the state championship game. Graduation and injuries made Hawken's regular season record an uncharacteristic 8-6-1, including losing six of eight games at one point. The Hawks (13-8-1) returned to form in the postseason, winning their first five playoff games by a combined score of 23-4. However, Mansfield Christian was the better team on Wednesday night.
"I am very proud," Hawken coach Dani Giulvezan said. "I had a wonderful group of kids. They worked their socks off. They gave me everything they had from the first day to the very last second of this game. We came up short today but good luck to Mansfield Christian in the finals."
Mansfield Christian (21-1) was led by the Cochran brothers and controlled the pace of the game and took advantage of their opportunities.
Sophomore David Cochran got Mansfield on the board first at the 25:27 mark. He scored on a header on a nice cross from fellow sophomore Sam Paul.
Mansfield continued to press the action. Aggressive play led to the second goal. Senior Josh Cochran scored on a direct kick just outside the box with 12:52 left in the first half. After a slide tackle, Mansfield Christian demonstratively asked for a foul call. The official waited a few beats and obliged. Cochran took advantage of the opportunity sending a screamer past the keeper for a 2-0 advantage.
Hawken had a chance to change the momentum early in the second half but did not get the call. Less than two minutes into the second half, Mansfield Christian's Caleb Young picked a ball a few yards outside of the goal box but there was no whistle.
"We did notice," Giulvezan said. "We saw it a couple of times but it did not go our way. We were not able to generate a lot of offense or shots on goals. If you don't score you lose."
Flames sophomore Brandon Mount erased all doubt with a goal with 31:29 left in the game. David Cochran dropped the ball to the corner to Brendan Ernsberger, who one-touched it to Mount for the goal.
The game was a rematch of the 2011 state semifinals won by Hawken, 2-1, in two overtimes. The Flames gained a measure of revenge with the victory under first year coach Jesse Rider.
"That first half was our best half all year long," Rider said. "It was a great effort. We did exactly what we needed to do. We kept possession of the ball and made no mistakes for the first 20 minutes. We finished off our opportunities."
Zachary Dzurick is a freelance writer from Cleveland
Mansfield Christian 3, Hawken 0
MC (21-1): David Cochran, Josh Cochran, Mount. Hawken (13-8-1): None.
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Curtis vs. MSIT PSAL boys basketball
When all was said and done, the Warriors and Eagles emerged victorious. Curtis beat MSIT, 63-53, behind Hassan Martin's 21 points, while St. Peter's overcame Monsignor Farrell, 49-47, by wiping out a six-point lead late in the game.
In other games, host New Dorp slipped past Tottenville, 70-63; Port Richmond crushed Petrides, 81-51; Staten Island Academy topped Calhoun, 62-50; Susan Wagner defeated CSI/McCown, 73-63; Regis nipped St. Joseph by-the-Sea, 47-46; and Fordham Prep topped Moore Catholic, 75-68.
Click on the links below to read each story.
Staten Island Academy 62, Calhoun 50
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A 24-year-old New Orleans man was shot to death early Tuesday in Central City, police said.
Kendrick Gibbs died from a single gunshot wound to his head, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office.
Police found Gibbs on the corner of Sixth and Danneel streets about 7:40 a.m. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene.
The shooting was the second homicide in Central City this year. Steven Powell, 28, was shot to death a block away at Dryades and Danneel streets Jan. 17 about 9 p.m.
Capt. Bob Bardy, commander of the 6th District, which includes Central City, said investigators do not believe the two deaths are related. "I don't have anything to lead me in that direction at this time," Bardy said.
Investigators could not immediately provide a motive in Tuesday's shooting, but Bardy said a man wearing a gray sweatsuit was seen running down Danneel toward Seventh after gunfire broke out. Bardy could not provide any other details about the man's description.
Gibbs had several prior arrests including marijuana possession, felon in possession of a firearm, illegal possession of a firearm during a crime, hit-and-run driving, theft and domestic battery.
Homicide Detective Christopher Harris is leading the investigation.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call Crimestoppers at 504.822.1111 or toll-free at 877.903.7867. Callers do not have to give their name and may receive a cash reward.
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B.D. Walls, C.E. Redmond, L.J. Murdick, D.B. Caton (Appalachian State University)
As a Senior Seminar project,. three students were each assigned a night of images of a field containing a variable star observed under our eclipsing binary photometry program. Each field was eight arc-minutes square, with the images coming from the DFM 32-inch telescope at our Dark Sky Observatory. The exposures used a Photometrics CH250 camera with a Tektronix 10242 CCD and V-filter. Darks were obtained throughout the night, as well as sky flats at dusk or dawn. The fields were around the systems V442 Cas, WW Cyg, and V345 Lac. The students used Axiom Research's MIRA AP software for doing the aperture photometry, using one initial coordinates file for all of the reasonably bright stars in the field. This number varied from about 60 to almost 200 stars. The MIRA software is easy to use, with auto-centroiding and calibration built in, so it was just a matter of loading images and applying the calibration. One of the student/authors (BDW) wrote an application in Microsoft Visual BASIC to scan the output data files and produce new files, per star. These data sets were examined using PSI-Plot, to look for variability. Errors due to occasional drift led to centroiding problems, a lesson in itself! There were still some residual variations in a few stars that may be real. Follow-up observations will be made to verify these suspicions.
If you would like more information about this abstract, please follow the link to http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/physics/observatory/observatory.html. This link was provided by the author. When you follow it, you will leave the Web site for this meeting; to return, you should use the Back comand on your browser.
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Conditions will be quieting down as we head into the evening, as the best opportunity for a thunderstorm will be before sunset. This will be good news for the fireworks shows for Springfield, UMass, and Six Flags tonight. Mainly clear skies will dominate overnight, but it remains mild and muggy with lows in the mid-60s
After the 4th, we could be faced with another hot stretch of weather across the region. High temperatures stay in the upper-80s for Thursday, followed by 90s for Friday and Saturday ... with humidity a bit on the high side. A cold front will be coming into the region Saturday night, which will bring a quick chance of rain showers and thunderstorms Saturday evening ... followed by a refreshing cool down for early next week.
Wednesday night: A stray thunderstorm early, skies clearing, mild and muggy, low 64.
Thursday: Hazy, hot, and humid, high 88.
Friday: Mostly sunny, hot and humid, high 90.
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Virtual tour of Newgate Prison. Panorama of Newgate Prison. Maps, travel, photos, videos.
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Old Bailey, City of London, EC4M 7, UK
:For the prison in East Granby, Connecticut, see Old Newgate Prison. .]] Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London. It was originally located at the site of a gate in the Roman London Wall. The gate/prison was rebuilt in the 12th century, and demolished in 1777. The prison was extended and rebuilt many times, and remained in use for over 700 years, from 1188 to 1902.The first prison at Newgate was built in 1188 on the orders of Henry II. It was significantly enlarged in 1236, and the executors of Lord Mayor Richard Whittington were granted a license to renovate the prison in 1422. The prison was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and was rebuilt in 1672, extending into new buildings on the south side of the street. According to medieval statute, the prison was to be managed by two annually elected Sheriffs, who in turn would sublet the administration of the prison to private "gaolers," or "Keepers," for a price. These Keepers in turn were permitted to exact payment directly from the inmates, making the position one of the most profitable in London. Inevitably, the system offered incentives for the Keepers to exhibit cruelty to the prisoners, charging them for everything from entering the gaol to having their chains both put on and taken off. Among the most notorious Keepers in the Middle Ages were the 14th-century gaolers Edmund Lorimer, who was famous for charging inmates four times the legal limit for the removal of irons, and Hugh De Croydon, who was eventually convicted of blackmailing prisoners in his care.Over the centuries, Newgate was used for a number of purposes including imprisoning people awaiting execution, although it was not always secure: burglar Jack Sheppard escaped from the prison three times before he went to the gallows at Tyburn in 1724. Prison chaplain Paul Lorrain achieved some fame in the early 18th century for his sometimes dubious publication of Confessions of the condemned. The old prison was demolished and replaced by a new building designed by George Dance the Younger between 1770 and 1777. He also designed the adjacent court-house. The new prison was attacked by rioting mobs during the Gordon Riots in 1780: the prison was set on fire, many prisoners died during the blaze and approximately 300 escaped to temporary freedom. The prison was rebuilt two years later , to an architecture terrible design intended to discourage law-breaking. The building was laid out around a central courtyard, and was divided into two sections: a 'Common' area for poor prisoners and a 'State area' for those able to afford more comfortable accommodation. Each section was further sub-divided to accommodate felons and debtors.In 1783, the site of London's gallows was moved from Tyburn to Newgate. Public executions outside the prison – by this time, London's main prison – continued to draw large crowds. It was also possible to visit the prison by obtaining a permit from the Lord Mayor of the City of London or a sheriff. The condemned were kept in narrow sombre cells separated from Newgate Street by a thick wall and receiving only a dim light from the inner courtyard. The gallows were constructed outside a window in Newgate Street.During the early 19th century, the prison also attracted the attention of the social reformer Elizabeth Fry. She was particularly concerned at the conditions in which female prisoners were held. After she presented evidence to the House of Commons, improvements were made. In 1858, the interior was rebuilt with individual cells.From 1868, public executions were discontinued and executions were carried out on a gallows inside Newgate. Michael Barrett was the last man to be hanged in public outside Newgate Prison on 26 May 1868.The prison closed in 1902, and was demolished in 1904. The Central Criminal Court now stands upon its site.The original door from a prison cell used to house St. Oliver Plunkett in 1681 survives today and is on display at St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, Ireland. The original iron gate leading to the gallows was used for decades in an alleyway in Buffalo, New York and is currently housed in that city at Canisius College. ... (English)
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"No buyback plan has currently been announced nor are we suggesting one will be announced, but the company has increased flexibility with its new credit facility terms. While many point to the terms of the enhanced credit facility as depicting a share buyback program, it is also plausible that the credit facility was enhanced in order to meet advancing distribution needs, to fill greater pipeline builds and to invest in new product development."
What #$%$ is this? From the 8-K itself: "Amendment allows for the Company to buy back up to $28.0 million of its outstanding common stock." Friggen in balck and white and you even linked to it. The amendment is part of a contract and it is for exactly the contracted purpose, not something else you can dream up and put in your article. How do you call yourself an analyst?
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You need to calm the heck down! The agreement is just that, an agreement and at best it is an amended agreement. The agreement "allows for", it isn't "contracted for". In other words the company was granted permission, nothing more than that. It doesn't even mean they have to do it. They were simply granted the provisional clause to do so if they and the board desired to do so.
I thought the article was great and very factual about today and the now. I believe Seth does feel the buyback will take place but he understands these terms of credit facility and why they are amended from time to time. I wouldn't want everyone buying the stock just because of a buyback and then it doesn't happen, especially when there are other possibilities. I don't think you thought about your post before you posted but I think the article is the most complete right now on Seeking Alpha so you should appreciate that.
I know that it allows for the buyback. I posted it. The amendment is for the contracted purpose, nothing else. I never claimed that that meant that the a buyback has to happen.
To help with you reading comprehension issues, Seth wrote "it is also plausible that the credit facility was enhanced in order to meet advancing distribution needs, to fill greater pipeline builds and to invest in new product development." That is an utter lie. Go and suck Seth off if you are so willing to defend his lies.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Actually the company has a 50 million dollar line of credit as stated in the financials and in several presentations. The 8-K filing is actually an amendment allowing for 28 million to be utilized for share buyback (and there is a rephrasing of dividend definition) I can't decipher if the dividend is now allowed or if the definition was just amended to match the wording of the buy-back wording
Either way:
Skullcandy does have a 50 million dollar line of credit
They were NOT allowed to used their credit facility for buy backs or dividends at IPO
The filing WAS to free up and secure 28 million of the credit for buy backs - They sourced other lenders to secure and underwrite the 28,000.
I'm pretty sure I am correct based on my research
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buy the dip..
I honestly only bothered to read the first paragraph in the 8-K. But that was more than enough to know that Seth was wildly misrepresenting the situation. I already knew that the total line of credit was $50 million from other reading. From the little I know, your stuff matched perfectly.
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Sentiment: Strong Buy
From what I can gather from my own research, Skul hasn't lost any of it's appeal to the customer base and the price/earnings looks good at this trading range. The insider selling was due to scheduled transactions, so I'm a little less apprehensive about that issue than I was initially. I never rely on a short squeeze and choose to focus on the business and other clues with regard to the products reputation, but there are a lot of shares out there that have been sold short. The implications of a high short percentage of float can be judged on your own opinions.


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Santorum said he was on a speaking tour and after booking an appearance in Iowa, got a call from a reporter.
"A press guy called me and said 'Are you running for president?... You're going to Iowa. You must be running for president,' " Santorum said.
"I said 'No, I was invited to speak in Iowa.' ... I said 'I'm not not -- or not am running.' "
He said the awkward exchange led to a news headline that read "Santorum considering run for president."
"I showed up in Iowa. I had C-SPAN cameras. I had a packed house of people," he said. "I thought 'This is really good. People will pay attention if I show up in Iowa. Hey, let's see if I go to New Hampshire if people show up then.' And they did... People started to say 'Are you running?' And I would say, 'No, I'm walking.'
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A new wine storage facility, Wine Storage Bellevue, will open in June with 422 secure lockers for preserving valued wine collections.
Owned by the Gilroy family, the facility will occupy 8,000 square feet at the new $4.5 million, 120,000-square-foot Stor-House Self Storage located at 1614 118th Ave SE in Bellevue.
Wine Storage Bellevue can accommodate up to 19,000 cases of wine in individual, all-steel storage lockers that range in size from 10 to 200 cases. Locker pricing will start at $18 per month and go to $295 per month.
This will be the third storage facility owned and operated by father and son entrepreneurs, Dick and Patrick Gilroy, along with a third family partner, Dick's wife, Loraine Gilroy.
"In the year 2000, after 30-plus years in the residential and commercial development business, we decided to pursue a new business opportunity as a family: self storage. Now that we are opening our third storage facility in Bellevue, we wanted to do something really unique that would be well-suited for the Eastside market," said Dick Gilroy, co-owner of Northward Construction and managing partner in Stor-House and Wine Storage Bellevue.
"We have a growing interest in wine and wanted to create something that would combine our design talents with our current business ventures, "said Loraine Gilroy, owner of the Eastside firm, LG Interiors, Inc., which partnered with Moore Design Associates and Peter Schroeder Architects to design Wine Storage Bellevue.
Wine Storage Bellevue will be open seven days a week from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. A dedicated elevator operated by key-card will service the climate and humidity-controlled storage area.
Inside, the all-steel lockers are equipped with cylinder locks rather than the more commonly used padlocks to ensure that wine collections remain secure.
The new facility will feature something else, as well – a Wine Resource Center infused with Old World Tuscan charm.
The Wine Resource Center is characterized by ornate stonework, leather furnishings, hand-carved doors and a dual-sided fireplace. The partners consider it ideal for hosting wine club meetings and small, private tasting events.
The Wine Resource Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., or later by appointment.
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Linking from Summon search results | Digital object identifier (DOI) | Linking to databases | Linking to Addison | Direct linking | Exceptions
Persistent Links are URLs that connect users directly to an article, ebook, ejournal, or library database by clicking a link embedded in a webpage. Persistent links can be useful when creating syllabi, online reading lists or bibliographies, and other research tools. Persistent links can assist instructors in complying with copyright rules when downloading an article from a library database and making it available through a Scholar course or departmental website may not be allowed by the database vendor's contracts with the University. Linking to these articles also provides the University Libraries with more consistent usage statistics for our databases.
When adding these links to your web pages, you will want to be sure they work for off-campus students by adding our Off Campus Sign In (proxy) prefix to each URL. You can either manually add the prefix http://login.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/login?url= to each URL, or you can use the Off Campus Sign In system first, even when on campus, and copy the resulting URLs into your web pages. The proxied URLs will work for off- and on-campus students.
You can also use the converter below to create proxied links.
Everything indexed in Summon has a persistent link: almost all of our ebooks, all our our print materials, the majority of the articles in our subscribed journals, plus conference proceedings, government publications, reference sources, and dissertations. Simply search Summon, right-click on the result you need, and copy the URL. It will be in the form http://vt.summon.serialssolutions.com/link/0/ followed by a long string of characters.
The advantage of this URL is it will always point to the Summon record for this item (the article, ebook, journal, print record, etc) even when the source for that item changes: the journal switches publisher, the ebook changes platforms, or even when the item is no longer available through our subscriptions. The user will always be directed to our current form of access for the item. If we do lose access to an item, the user will see a Get VText screen that will offer access through interlibrary loan.
We recommend using this method over all other below.
A similar method is to use an article's DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which is a standard method for identifying electronic items like journal articles. DOIs often appear in the citation or the abstract of an article or even in its full-text format. To convert a DOI to a Web address add the following URL to the DOI http://dx.doi.org/ to get a URL like http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac0354342 which will then connect to the same service as the OpenURL resolver above to connect users to the actual article. Databases and vendors that use DOIs are listed below.
URLs to our various databases can change over time, either because the vendor for the databases has changed or the vendor itself has changed domains or URL structure. Instead, try linking to the database's entry in our A-Z list. Search for the database on the library's database page, then click the Full Record link under the database's entry. Use the URL of that full record screen as your persistent link.
Linking to individual record screens in Addison for items like books, journal titles, videos, and music CDs is as simple as copying the link labeled Persistent Link to this Record located at the bottom of the page. You can also link to search result pages. Use URLs created from the main search screen and not those generated from subsequent searches from result pages (use the New Search button to start over each time). Also, do not use URLs after paging forward through results. These URLs will no longer work if additional items are added to the collection that match your search criteria after you have copied these links.
You can't similarly link to to course reserve records. Instead, perform a search from the main reserves screen for an instructor or course abbreviation, select the desired choice, then copy the resulting URL. This URL will work as long as that instructor or course has materials on reserve. Remember that online materials can be placed on a reserve reading list just as books can.
The following database vendors allow direct linking to full text (just view the full text article or book and copy the address from your browser):
Many vendors are using Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to uniquely identify articles in their databases. Look for the DOI or doi: field on bibliographic record screens, often found by clicking on the title of the article or a full record link. Simply copy the DOI as it appears and paste it after the URL http://dx.doi.org/ to construct the persistent link, i.e. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110510. Vendors that use the scheme include:
Some electronic resources require additional effort to create a persistent link. Follow the instructions listed by vendor/provider.
Click on the full citation link for the article. Find the link labeled Bookmark: Use this link to bookmark this Article and copy that link.
AIP uses DOIs but also provides their own method for creating persistent links starting with the base http://link.aip.org/link/? to get a link like http://link.aip.org/link/?cha/12/995.
When viewing a document, look for the blue button labeled Durable URL.
Click the Cite Now! button and look for the URL listed after the citation.
Factiva doesn't directly support persistent links, but you can manually construct a link to an article. Search for an article, using the full article display, scroll to the end of the article and locate the accession number which will look something like this - RNKE000020090402e54100005. Enter that accession number into the form below and click Convert to get the persistent URL.
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When viewing a full-text article, click the CITATION/STABLE URL link at the top of the screen. Then copy the provided "Stable URL."
Copy the View PDF link. Then delete all but the standard http URL portion:
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When viewing Metapress ejournals, look for the URL: Linking Options link at the top of the screen, whether viewing at the volume/issue level, or at the individual article level. The linking options page gives three types of persistent URLs: using Metapress's object identifier method, using an OpenURL method, and using a DOI method. Any of these URLs will work as a persistent URL.
When viewing an entry, copy the URL and remove everything after the ? (http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50176204?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=persistent&first=1&max_to_show=10 becomes http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50176204).
View the Ovid Full Text article. In the Output box on the right of the screen, click the Email Jumpstart link (not the Email Article Text link). The persistent link URL is listed as Your Jumpstart URL is.
Click on the article title on the search results page (not the full text link). This shows bibliographic information. Find the field labeled Document URL and copy the listed address.
The persistent link to the book is at the bottom of any page for that book, i.e. http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/0596005768.
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Greenwich Township committee unanimously adopted its $750,009.98 budget on April 16.
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So here's some fodder for your Monday morning, courtesy of Reuters:
"AT&T Inc plans to pay $48.5 billion to buy DirecTV, in the latest sign that the wireless industry and the U.S. television market are set to converge as customers consume more video on their mobile devices.
The deal, announced on Sunday, highlights AT&T's pressing need for fresh avenues of growth beyond the maturing U.S. cellular business, which has become increasingly competitive.
The combination with DirecTV, the No.1 U.S. satellite TV provider with 20 million customers, would beef up Dallas-based AT&T's packages of cellular, broadband, TV and fixed-line phone services.
For DirecTV, the deal will enable it to offer broadband Internet for the first time to its U.S. customers, filling in a gap that had made the company vulnerable to cable rivals, which can provide Internet service through their networks."
Some questions to ponder:
Are you a DirecTV or AT&T customer? Do you think this merger will make your life better, worse or leave it largely the same?
So what do you think of this latest mega-media merger (anyone remember Comcast/Time-Warner)?
Are you worried about increased media consolidation and what it will mean for consumer choice and cost?
Who really benefits from these deals? Customers, stockholders or their corporate overlords?
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MONTEVALLO, Alabama -- The University of Montevallo's Social Work Program is hosting the 2013 Advocacy Day conference from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Sept. 20 in Anna Irvin Hall on campus.
The conference will provide participants with information about changes in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual - Fifth Edition (DSM-V) and how the changes affect professional practice.
The keynote speaker is Daniel Marullo, a licensed psychologist with Children's Behavioral Health at Children's of Alabama. His clinical interest areas include pediatric psychology, the neuropsychology of children with chronic medical conditions, childhood physical and emotional trauma and the neuropsychology of developmental disabilities.
Following Marullo's talk, participants can tour the recently opened University of Montevallo on Main building, dubbed UMOM.
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Social gamer Gungho gets Softbank Mobile acquisition offer
Is this a case of big brother partnering younger brother with Softbank and Gungho? But the game company has its big hit Puzzle & Dragons reaching 10 million users earlier this month. Who is the gung-ho one now?By Elaine Huang 26 Mar, 2013
Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Mobile announced yesterday that it will offer to acquire majority shares of Gungho Online Entertainment, a social gaming company.
Remember Ragnarok Online? It used to be a huge hit, with some 40 million players on the massive multiplayer online role-playing game. Well, just recently, Gungho also received a lot of press coverage for its newest hit, Puzzle & Dragons, something which also got us at e27 hooked on for a while now. Two weeks back, it was reported to have passed the 10 million download mark.
With this partnership in place, Softbank is looking to expand sales of online and smartphone game titles globally. Gungho's success to date has been kept very much local within Japan, though it has a US subsidiary. Recently, the company also launched its online store for Puzzle & Dragons's merchandise like plush toys, iPhone cases and mugs.
Read also: GREE, Yahoo! Japan partner to push mobile and social gaming platform
SD Japan likewise points out a relationship between the companies: Softbank was founded by Masayoshi Son, and Gungho was established by his brother, Taizo Son, a serial entrepreneur who also runs a tech startup incubator by the name of Movida Japan.
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Investigators discovered at least nine "irregular" traffic citation transactions, ranging from $75 to $260, conducted by a former Milwaukie deputy city recorder, according to court documents released Tuesday.
Juli K. Howard, 40, was arrested Feb. 13 and faces charges of theft, computer crimes and official misconduct.
The documents allege Howard misappropriated more than $1,000 between May 25, 2011, and April 25, 2012, by manipulating a software program that documents Milwaukie Municipal Court fines.
The first discrepancy came to light when a man who had paid a $200 fine in cash on March 25, 2011, received a drivers license suspension months later for failing to pay the fine. When the man brought his receipt to court, Howard transferred $200 from another man's account, according to the documents.
When the second man produced a receipt that showed he had also paid his fine, Milwaukie assistant finance director Rina Byrne investigated. She found additional "irregularities" and notified Milwaukie Police in August 2012.
Milwaukie Police Officer Kevin Krebs found what he called a "common theme" among the suspicious citations. Defendants paid their court fines in cash. Howard handled those transactions, placed the defendants on a payment plan and logged their cash payments as a check in the software program, then voided the check payment to make the reconciliation balance at the end of the day, the court documents allege.
An audit "of all citations Mrs. Howard processed could reveal other thefts," Krebs wrote.
A Clackamas County grand jury indicted Howard Feb. 8 on four counts of theft I, one count of theft II, one count of theft II, six counts of official misconduct and six counts of computer crimes. Her bail was set at $150,000.
Howard previously worked as an Administration Specialist until she was promoted to Deputy City Recorder on October 9, 2009, according to the documents. Howard also served as Treasurer of the Milwaukie Soccer Club Board.


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BRIDGETON -- A lawyer for Millville police Sgt. Robert Vanaman is concerned his client can't get a fair trial in Cumberland County.
Vanaman, 38, is charged with murder in connection with the May 11, 2006, shooting death of his 37-year-old wife, Barbara, which occurred at their Wedgewood Court home in Millville.
Joe O'Neill, a Vineland attorney, is filing a motion to potentially have Vanaman's trial moved to another county or bring in a pool of jurors from another jurisdiction.
O'Neill said Tuesday that the attention Vanaman's case has received from the media may make it difficult to find jurors from Cumberland County without preconceived notions regarding the case.
"Since there has been so much media attention, we want to bring in a pool of potential jurors and interview them ... to know whether the trial should be moved to another jurisdiction," he said.
Bringing in a "test jury" is not typically done in criminal trials.
But O'Neill said waiting until jury selection begins to weed out bad jurors may not be effective, as jurors often answer questions during the jury selection process based on whether they want to serve or not
"The difficult problem is finding someone who can give an honest answer," he said.