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Not an overly busy night Monday on midstate girls' basketball courts.
But there were two key division finals — and a milestone.
* In a Mid-Penn Keystone clash, Mechanicsburg knocked off Susquehanna Township 33-21 as the Wildcats remained alone atop the division.
* In an L-L League Section 1-2 crossover showdown, Lebanon kept a firm grip on the Section 2 lead compliments of a 44-35 victory over the Black Knights, who fell another game behind undefeated Manheim Township in the Section 1 hunt.
* And a milestone for Columbia senior Megan Seibert, who scored her 1,000th point during the Crimson Tide's nonleague setback vs. Northeastern. She's the 11th player in program history to reach a grand.
In case you missed it ...
REINHART: Columbia's Megan Seibert joins 1000-point club (WATCH VIDEO OF MILESTONE HOOP)
UPDATED District 3 girls' basketball power ratings (through Saturday's games)
Lancaster Catholic's Danielle Atkinson tabbed PennLive's Player of the Week
Mid-Penn VIDEO Q&A: Camp Hill junior Addie Guyer
First glimpse at Mid-Penn girls' basketball playoff bracket
This Week in Girls' Basketball column
Monday's midstate roundup, leading with Lebanon's win over Hempfield
Monday's leading scorers and shooters ...
Oluwafeyikemi Makinde, Linden Hall 10-2-23
Megan Seibert, Columbia 7-7-22
Alex Scheel, Hollidaysburg 11-0-22
Shea Mathison, Northeastern 10-0-21
Tayler Forrester, Central Dauphin 8-4-20
Alison Kobzowicz, Covenant Christian 8-2-19
Megan Smith, West Perry 8-3-19
Ashleigh Williams, Mifflin County 7-4-18
Leah Springer, Camp Hill 7-3-17
Jenn Grove, Chambersburg 8-1-17
Kasi Horning, East Juniata 5-7-17
Megan Eichelberger, West Shore Christian 5-6-16
Laura Mowery, Harrisburg Academy 8-0-16
Bridget Kilgallen, Hershey 5-4-16
C. Storm, Hollidaysburg 6-3-16
Christine Ogunleye, Linden Hall 7-0-14
Payton Hauck, Northeastern 6-2-14
Jayneisha Davis, Central Dauphin 5-4-14
Jen Fairbanks, Elizabethtown 5-4-14
Addie Guyer, Camp Hill 3-6-14
Rebeka Knable, Mifflin County 4-5-14
Allison Good, Covenant Christian 5-1-13
Claire Mackin, Harrisburg Academy 5-3-13
Alexis Marshall, Harrisburg 6-0-13
Brittany Ulrich, Lebanon 5-2-13
Gabriela Blackburn, Hershey 5-1-13
Brittany Robinson, CD East 6-1-13
Aisha Hall, Reading 4-3-13
Mercedes Rideout, Chambersburg, 3
Gabriela Blackburn, Hershey, 2
Hannah Brown, Mechanicsburg, 2
Kiki Davis, Hollidaysburg, 2
Allison Good, Covenant Christian, 2
Addie Guyer, Camp Hill, 2
Aisha Hall, Reading, 2
Becky Kauffman, Linden Hall, 2
Bridget Kilgallen, Hershey, 2
Ashley McClain, Hollidaysburg, 2
Ashley Meyer, Northeastern, 2
Sydney Newman, Camp Hill, 2
Carli Ripka, Penns Valley, 2
Kaitlyn Rush, Chambersburg, 2
Jessa Wright, Mifflin County, 2
Monday's box scores ...
Lebanon 44, Hempfield 35
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MID-PENN CAPITAL - Standings
West Perry 53, Milton Hershey 16
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MID-PENN COMMONWEALTH - Standings
Central Dauphin 57, Harrisburg 40
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MID-PENN KEYSTONE - Standings
Mechanicsburg 33, Susquehanna Twp. 21
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Linden Hall 60, West Shore Christian 36
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Northeastern 59, Columbia 36
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Harrisburg Academy 60, Covenant Christian 40
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Hershey 53, Elizabethtown 33
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Camp Hill 54, Chambersburg 46
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CD East 54, Reading 39
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Hollidaysburg 72, Mifflin County 45
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Penns Valley 37, East Juniata 33
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Pigeon River, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) --- A man drowns on Lake Winnibigoshish after the canoe he was in with another man capsized.
The Itasca County Sheriff's Office received a call of a possible drowning just after 1 p.m. Saturday on Lake Winnibigoshish
Deputies learned that a canoe with two adult males capsized about 100 yards from shore.
One man swam to shore and the other was unaccounted for. No life jackets were worn.
Authorities recovered the body of the missing man from the lake shortly after 3 p.m. The victim was identified as Todd Raymond Roy, 45, from Cass Lake.
The victim was transported to Grand Itasca Medical Center by Deer River Ambulance and pronounced dead by the Itasca County Coroner.
The Itasca County Sheriff's Office, Itasca County Search and Rescue, Leech Lake Conservation Officers, and Minnesota State Conservation Officers responded to the scene.
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Lua, located in uptown Hoboken at 10th Street, will be featured in a book about interior design called Monochrome, scheduled to hit stores next month.
Monochrome author Paula Rice Jackson included Lua because the bar represents the book's overall theme -- interior design that uses many different shades of only one single color.
"Lua glows with a rich, caramelized color that suggests the top of a classic Spanish flan," writes Jackson. She credits Lua designer Rysia Suchecka for turning the color palette of the Latin restaurant/bar from "sight into flavor -- mango, papaya, turmeric, cayenne pepper -- a spectrum of tropical, heated tones."
Lua joins Tall Oaks, a Virginia farmhouse, a Manhattan townhouse and a Hollywood bungalow, among other homes, in the pages of the book.
For those looking for a coffee-table addition, "Monochrome" is not available in stores yet, but will go on sale October 28.


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GRAYSVILLE, Alabama -- Graysville Mayor Doug Brewer had a member of the city's Water Board arrested following a disagreement after a City Council meeting last week.
Brewer on Thursday went to a Jefferson County magistrate and signed an arrest warrant for disorderly conduct against Water Board member Mary Blackstone. In a report made to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Brewer alleged Blackstone was disorderly and made threatening comments to him.
Blackstone turned herself in to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Friday and posted a $500 bond. Today, she denied any wrongdoing in the incident.
Blackstone said the arrest stemmed from an incident following a Graysville City Council meeting on Tuesday. Blackstone said she was talking to Graysville Councilwoman Mary Sue Morgan when Brewer approached her. Blackstone said Brewer, who is superintendent of the city's gas and water systems, started talking to her about Water Board matters and eventually became agitated.
"He raised his voice, and he kept raising his voice," Blackstone said. "And I told him, he should not be talking to a woman that way."
Blackstone said that when Brewer would not stop talking, she walked away. She said the mayor asked a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy to arrest her, but the deputy told her to go home, and she left.
Blackstone said she was notified of the disorderly conduct warrant against her on Thursday and turned herself in the next day. She said she suspects Brewer had her arrested because of some concerns she has expressed about his dealings with the Graysville Water Board.
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Skip to comments.Unemployment Set to Explode
Posted on 10/13/2012 5:39:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Now that the average price of gasoline in the United States is clocking in at all-time record levels for this time of year, especially in California, what effect will that factor have upon the official U.S. unemployment rate, which just clocked in at its lowest level since early 2009?
Unfortunately, that's the wrong question to be asking today, because it takes roughly two years for a major change in the price of oil and gasoline to play out and fully impact the U.S. unemployment rate. The right question to ask today is: "what was the price of gasoline doing two years ago that put the events in motion that are just now about to affect the U.S. economy?
The answer is revealed in our chart below, in which we've shifted the average price of motor gasoline in the United States forward in time by two years to visually correlate the price of gasoline with the recorded official U.S. unemployment rate for each month since January 1976 (or actually, since January 1978):
Here, we see that the U.S. unemployment rate has been tracking pretty closely with where the two-year time lagged price of gasoline in the U.S. would put it - including the "unexpectedly" low 7.8% unemployment rate that was just reported for September 2012.
The bad news is that if that correlation between the time-lagged price of gasoline and the U.S. unemployment rate continues, the U.S. is about to see a major spike upward in its unemployment rate, corresponding to the sustained surge in gasoline prices that began at the end of 2010.
It's only a coincidence that this surge in unemployment would appear set to take place just as the U.S. government approaches its self-created "fiscal cliff", where the ongoing failure of the Obama administration to negotiate government spending reductions in good faith with the U.S. Congress threatens to push the U.S. directly into recession in early 2013!
To start getting a feel for what the real forces are behind the relationship between oil and gasoline prices and the U.S. unemployment rate, let's turn to the San Francisco branch of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Dr. Econ for an explanation:
What effects do oil prices have on the "macro" economy?
I've just explained how oil prices affect households and businesses; it is not a far leap to understand how oil prices affect the macroeconomy. Oil price increases are generally thought to increase inflation and reduce economic growth. In terms of inflation, oil prices directly affect the prices of goods made with petroleum products. As mentioned above, oil prices indirectly affect costs such as transportation, manufacturing, and heating. The increase in these costs can in turn affect the prices of a variety of goods and services, as producers may pass production costs on to consumers. The extent to which oil price increases lead to consumption price increases depends on how important oil is for the production of a given type of good or service.
Oil price increases can also stifle the growth of the economy through their effect on the supply and demand for goods other than oil. Increases in oil prices can depress the supply of other goods because they increase the costs of producing them. In economics terminology, high oil prices can shift up the supply curve for the goods and services for which oil is an input.
High oil prices also can reduce demand for other goods because they reduce wealth, as well as induce uncertainty about the future (Sill 2007). One way to analyze the effects of higher oil prices is to think about the higher prices as a tax on consumers (Fernald and Trehan 2005). The simplest example occurs in the case of imported oil. The extra payment that U.S. consumers make to foreign oil producers can now no longer be spent on other kinds of consumption goods.
Despite these effects on supply and demand, the correlation between oil price increases and economic downturns in the U.S. is not perfect. Not every sizeable oil price increase has been followed by a recession. However, five of the last seven U.S. recessions were preceded by considerable increases in oil prices (Sill 2007).
Alan A. Carruth, Mark A. Hooker and Andrew J. Oswald connect the macro-economic dots then between yesterday's oil and gasoline prices and today's unemployment rates in their 1998 paper:
Intuitively, the mechanism at work is the following. An increase in, for example, the price of oil leads to an erosion of profit margins. Firms lose money, and begin to go out of business. To restore a zero-profit equilibrium, some variable in the economy has to alter. If labor and energy are the key inputs and interest rates are largely fixed internationally, it is labor's price that must decline.
But there is only one way in which this can happen. If wages and unemployment are connected inversely by a no-shirking condition, equilibrium unemployment must rise, because only that will induce workers to accept the lower levels of pay necessitated by the fact that the owners of oil are taking a larger share of the economys real income.
The same kind of process follows any rise in the real rate of interest. When capital owners' returns increase, the new zero-profit equilibrium requires workers returns to be lower. In a world where the level of unemployment acts as a "discipline device," higher real input prices lead to lower wages and greater unemployment rates.
This effect is what Obama administration officials are after in part when they state their political objective that the price of fuel must "necessarily skyrocket", as it gives the administration a target to scapegoat (capital owners) while simultaneously increasing their client base of unemployed individuals who will become dependent upon government-provided welfare for their income.
Or maybe they're just a bunch of screwups where all this can all be chalked up to "bad luck"....
"Unemployment Set to Explode"
Only if Mitt wins.
The Hussein Heads will be emboldened by their current manipulations to pay America back once again for electing the "wrong man".
you dumba**es in California, you just keep voting for Democrats and you'll WISH you had fallen into the sea.
I'm skeptical about this correlation. First of all, if you look closely at the graph it doesn't look all that correlated. Secondly, there are so many factors involved in unemployment that comparing it to any single other variable has to introduce the chance of a certain amount of coincidence in any correlation that you do think you see.
Bottom line: kill Obamacare and watch employers start hiring again, regardless of the price of gas.
I'm not skeptical. Cheap energy has been the underlying factor in our economic booms for the past 200 yaers. It's not different this time. Cheap energy is a psychological gift that allows us to make spending decisions.
I'm not skeptical. Cheap energy has been the underlying factor in our economic booms for the past 200 yaers. It's not different this time. Cheap energy is a psychological gift that allows us to make spending decisions.
huh? which graph are you looking at? This is an incredible correlation
Exactly right. Peak oil was misnamed. It should have been titled peak CHEAP oil ... ditto any other form of energy you care to name. If it is not cheap to capture, it's going to be a problem for our economy as currently structured.
A surge in fossil fuel prices also encourages development of marginal recovery projects. Low interest rates, shale recovery, and high gasoline prices will combine to boost spending and employment to take advantage of the spread between oil recovery costs (shale) and the high price for refined products like gasoline. Money spent on gasoline instead of whatever does not disappear. Why is it bad to spend money at the Chevron station instead of Safeway? Economic growth is about finding something relatively worthless, processing it, and selling it in a useful form.
They just need to keep jimmying the numbers until December when it will no longer matter.
First, they do not tell you the source of gasoline price data. National average? Who pays the national average? Employment is also quite regional in America. Even with the two year shift in the plot, the correlation is hardly perfect. Note that correlation is not cause. GDP is a function of many variables, lagged or not. It is difficult to represent the largest economy on Earth with a two dimensional graph/model.
I am a "You" and I do live in California, has never voted for a demorat nor do I wish to fall into the sea, but as to a "dumba**, I am not.
Were you aware that Free Republic originates in California started by your termination, dumba**es or are you simply too much of a "smarta**" to know this.
Since they found this stuff worked on President Bush, expect a double dose daily for four years daily once Romney is sworn in.
Uh...because high fuel costs drive the prices up at Safeway too?
Thanks Kaslin.
Wow. I couldn't have said that better myself!
Now, can we do something about the moron's in Illinois that keep voting Democrat? I'm for shipping them to California or better yet, just cutting Chicago off from the rest of the state and letting it sink into the middle of lake Michigan.
Unless you voted DEMOCRAT it didn;t apply to you, *******....OMG!!
Bless your heart. For someone who wrote previously in another thread, a statement that should be entered in the Freepers' Hall of Fame, I am surprised you did not "comprehend" your proclamation in which I as a proud Californian, responded to.
Unless you voted DEMOCRAT it didn;t apply to you, *******....OMG!!
Where in your original statement does it state for those that just vote democrat? I read "you dumba**es in California". I guess I should have read what you meant not what you wrote.
Get a grip, you received some deserved criticism. If you recall, I also posted a compliment to you on a previous post you wrote. Not a big deal. You've been a freeper long enough to know not to take it personally. A simple apology would have been thoughtful to all of us California Freepers but instead you throw another insult. OMG Life goes on. I'm not going to lose any sleep over this neither should you.
Considering the States have been SLOW to accept new unemployment insurance claims, I suspect the day after the election those claims will magically get processed and the first time unemployment insurance claims will jump several million.
You have proven yourself to be what you are. Thanks....couldn't have said it better myself.
Lets just leave it that you had the last word but whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much. You're not that good.
Money spent at Safeway, money spent by Safeway, money spent at the Chevron station all local businesses. Not all costs are passed to the customer. Price is a matter of supply and demand. Cost of production — or in this case — cost to put it on the shelves at Safeway is a factor to manage. People will not pay more for a product than it is worth to them no matter the cost to the business supplying it. Same thing goes for gasoline. It must be worth 4.35 or whatever per gallon because someone is buying gasoline at that price.
Phrases scheduled to make a MSM comeback in 2013:
homeless problem
recovery for Wall $treet but not Main Street
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While the Big Nine has always been strong locally in sports like football, hockey and soccer, it's been an absolute powerhouse on the state level when it comes to girls golf.
In fact, Big Nine teams have been so good over the years that for a long time the league was the best in all of Michigan when it came to girls golf. There's no doubt about it.
Numbers back that up.
Since 1977, Big Nine Conference teams have not only won 15 state championships, they finished second 14 other times. Think about that: In 34 years, a Big Nine team finished either first or second a whopping 29 times.
The only other local league with that kind of dominance is the Genesee Area Conference in wrestling. The GAC has won an amazing 24 state wrestling crowns since 1975, when it was known as the Genesee Eight Conference. That includes 14 in a row from 1975-88.
While New Lothrop (12) and Montrose (9) have accounted for the majority of those wrestling championships, Grand Blanc and Powers Catholic have done the heavy lifting for the Big Nine in the girls golf department.
Grand Blanc has won eight girls golf crowns — four coming in a five-season span beginning in 2004 — while Powers has accumulated five. Both won in 2007.
Swartz Creek and Flushing won the Big Nine's other state championships and nobody has more close calls than Clio, which has been the runner-up a heart-breaking six times, including four straight years in from 1995-98.
Grand Blanc and Powers were both three-time runners-up.
Impressive, eh?
Well, there's more.
While golf is a team sport at the high school level, there's no way those teams would have been so successful without some talented individuals. And the Big Nine has had some great players since girls golf became a varsity sport in 1973.
When Powers Catholic senior Chloe Lawrie won the Division 4 state championship two weeks ago in East Lansing, she gave the Chargers their fifth individual winner while capturing the area's ninth title.
Powers' Katie Strawser is the only area player to win two state titles, doing it in 2002-03. The Chargers also got state championships from Monica Mayhew in 1989 and Ashley Swanson in 2008.
The area's other individual champions were Clio's Courtney Reinhardt (2001), Kearsley's Jenna Walter (2002), Linden's Missy Ward (2004) and the Grand Blanc duo of Mandi McConnell (2003) and Ashley Bauer (2005). Walter and McConnell were also named Miss Golf.
There were also lots of great players who didn't win state titles. At the top of the list is Shasta Averyhardt, who has played in the last two U.S. Women's Opens as a professional. She led Grand Blanc to a team title but didn't win an individual title.
Neither did Amy Loviscek of Flushing or Jill Boring, Meagan Bauer, Austin McDermaid and Noel Bishop of Grand Blanc.
Big Nine golf began to slip when schools like Clio, Swartz Creek, Kearsley and Grand Blanc slowly began moving to other leagues for various reasons.
Now, girls golf in the Big Nine is history as the four remaining Big Nine schools --- Carman-Ainsworth, Davison, Flushing and Powers ---- move to the Saginaw Valley Conference next year.
The good news for Big Nine golfers is they should continue to dominate when they move to their new league because despite what the folks up north might say, the Valley isn't renown for girls golf.
The only Valley member with any kind of history is Mount Pleasant, which won state championships in 1978 and '80. But the Oilers weren't even in the Valley back then.
It would be nice to see Grand Blanc leave the Kensington Lakes Activities Association and get back into a league closer to home — something that sure seems like a no-brainer — but that's another column for another day.
For now, let's just tip our golf caps to the ladies who have made the Big Nine a state powerhouse over the last three-plus decades.
They were very special.
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Women are the key factor in the buying power of the Hispanic population, integrating the Latino and American cultures into their decisions, according to a study released Thursday by Nielsen.
The study, entitled "Latina Power Shift," found that 86 percent of Latino women make the main purchasing decisions in their households, meaning that the management of the Latino community's $1.2 trillion in buying power - which will rise to $1.5 trillion by 2015 - is in their hands.
"Due to their unique place within the multigenerational family, the modern Latina is 'ambi-cultural,' that is, capable of moving from English to Spanish or vice versa, feeling just as Latino as American. The majority of these Latinas are proud of this duality," Monica Gil, Nielsen's senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, told Efe on Thursday.
"Today, 73 percent of Hispanic female high school graduates are enrolled in the university," compared with 61 percent of Hispanic men and 72 percent of non-Hispanic women, Gil said.
The Nielsen study particularly emphasizes Latinas' consumption of technology and their use of social networks.
Hispanic females are more apt to seek, share and publish information online, both in English and in Spanish, where cooking recipes constitute the No. 1 category in their searches, followed by music, health issues, beauty and show business.
Contrary to what is commonly thought, they are also big buyers of electronic items, especially smartphones.
All this signifies a real challenge for companies and brands that want to reach these purchasers who have the last word in their households, and therefore - Gil emphasized - it is important to understand the cultural duality of these women. EFE


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"The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!" was an amazing show of musical talent and diversity with remarkable performances and an Album of the Year category that carries an eclectic group of nominees that stretch across four genres of music.
Country music was well represented last night with an electrifying performance from Taylor Swift. Even from Sydney, Australia Taylor captured the night with her rendition of "I Knew You Were Trouble." Opening her performance Taylor was in a white and gold angelic like gown surrounded by dancers who appeared to be at a masquerade ball. Halfway through the performance, in true Taylor fashion, her wardrobe changed to a flirtatious black lace outfit. One thing is certain, Taylor knows how to entertain and she owns the stage. Taylor received 4 GRAMMY nominations, including Album of the Year, Best Country Song for "Begin Again," Best Country Album and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for "Highway Don't Care" with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban.
Keith Urban and R&B artist Miguel paid tribute to Bill Withers with a killer performance of "Ain't No Sunshine." It was a slow, sexy and very soulful rendition of the oldie but goodie GRAMMY award-winning song. Keith is already a four-time GRAMMY winner and could add another to his mantel for his collaboration with Tim and Taylor on "Highway Don't Care."
It was a big night for country music newcomer Kacey Musgraves who earned four nominations. The "Follow Your Arrow" singer is likely to take home at least one win. Kacey received nominations for Best Country Song for Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart," on which she was a songwriter, as well as receiving a nod for her own release, "Merry Go 'Round." Kacey also netted a nomination in the Best Country Album group for Same Trailer Different Park. She represents country music for Best New Artist — an all-genre category which includes Taylor's tour mate Ed Sheeran, James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, plus Macklemore + Ryan Lewis.
The real competition for country music will be in the Best Country Album category. All 5 albums in this category hit #1 as a Billboard Top Country Album and are seriously strong contenders. Jason Aldean's' Night Train was released in 2012, but was still spinning strong on radio through all of 2013. Tim McGraw's Two Lanes of Freedom packed on the hits for him this year and it would be great to see him return to the GRAMMY stage with a win. Based on a True Story put Blake Shelton at the #1 Billboard spot for three weeks and could earn him his first GRAMMY. Taylor Swift's Red album was undeniably a favorite for country radio and fans this year.
Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel" received a nomination for Best Country Solo Performance. Darius admits he doesn't necessarily have to win, but he felt the song certainly deserved the nomination. Hunter Hayes also received a nomination in this category for his upbeat, fun-loving "I Want Crazy" single. Rounding out this category is Lee Brice's "I Drive Your Truck," Miranda's "Mama's Broken Heart" and Blake's "Mine Would Be You."
The Best Country Duo/Group performance nominees show the true range of today's country music. Little Big Town's "Your Side of the Bed" would be a great follow-up to their win for "Pontoon" in 2012. A great surprise in this category is to see the traditional side of country music being represented with Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's nomination for "You Can't Make Old Friends." The Civil Wars came away with a nom for "From This Valley." Although the duo is no longer performing together, the magic The Civil Wars make together still shines through. Rounding out this category is Kelly Clarkson's duet with GRAMMY award winner Vince Gill. "Don't Rush" was a big hit with country radio and the fans seemed to love the throwback sound. Again, the undeniable team of Keith, Tim and Taylor make "Highway Don't Care" an obvious threat in this category.
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I have a piece today in the Canada Free Press on the perfidy of the media in their lack of coverage of the Iranian revolution. This historic event has cataclysmic implications for the course of human events; instead, the media obsesses over the cocktail of drugs has-been Michael Jackson was using to assuage the pain of his oh so tragic life. Ugh.
Go here and read every word. It's a thrilla.
Despite Obama's passivity, Iran and its henchmen are blaming America for the uprising. Hezbollah's deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said Thursday: "The extent of Western and American involvement in Iran's internal affairs is now clear. What is going on in Iran is not a simple protest against the results of the presidential election. There are riots and attacks in the streets that are orchestrated from the outside in a bid to destabilise the country's Islamic regime."
As that regime strikes back hard, I do not believe the movement has been quelled, but I do believe it has been silenced. And this is partly due to the failure of the Western media. The mainstream media fearlessly took on Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney. They were so tough on those who didn't share their ideological views. They had no fear of those they ridiculed, marginalized, tongue lashed mercilessly. Who can forget how they climbed all over each other to get embedded into Iraq so that they could make America look terrible?
But when it came to really doing their job, they have been absent on Iran. Why weren't they clamoring to get into Iran to cover an historic, cataclysmic event? CNN has been the only news network to cover Iran in any depth. FOX has been negligent in its lack of coverage. Left leaning sites on the Internet have been leading the way – notably the Huffington Post, whose reporter Nico Pitney has been almost a singular voice in speaking up for the Iranian protesters. And blogs like Revolutionary Road and Get Honest Third Eye deserve commendation for doing the job the mainstream media has not been doing. Get Honest Third Eye had the first video that showed an Iranian being shot on camera by government officials. The shooting occurs while the person filming is quite far away, but the video then shows closer images of his body.
It is indelible images like those that reveal the full horror of what has been going on in Iran. But now, Iran's citizen journalists have gone dark. The tweets are not coming in. "New" twitters, pro-Ahmadinejad (twitters with ironic names like "antifascista") have been tweeting vile propaganda. The media can talk about Michael Jackson all day, with no news coming out of Iran to distract them.
The only losers are those who are yearning to be free.


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Othniel [Ŏth'nĭel]—powerful one or lion of god. A son of Kenaz, younger brother of Caleb, who, after the death of Joshua, judged Israel for forty years. He is the first to be mentioned among the "Judges" (Josh. 15:17; Judg. 1:13; 3:9, 11: 1 Chron. 4:13). The Othniel mentioned in 1 Chronicles 27:15 is probably the same person.
Little is recorded of this saviour who came from the tribe of Judah. He followed the Lord with all his heart, and, Spirit-empowered, he fought for Israel and prevailed.
Devotional content drawn from All the Men of the Bible by Herbert Lockyer. Used with permission.


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Penn State's upped the members of its 2010 recruiting class to 12 today when lightning-quick dual threat quarterback Robert Bolden committed to the Lions.
Bolden's verbal confirmed what many had been speculating, including the Patriot-News' Bob Flounders.
The 6-4, 199 pound Orchard Park, Mich. gunslinger's verbal comes on the heels of pledges from highly-touted defensive linemen Evan Hailes and DaQuan Jones. Those three all attended Penn State's football camp together at the end of June alongside State College's Alex Kenney.
At that time, reader redsox53 wrote, "The best JoePa will do is get one of them, the kid from State College, and he'll be a bust...as long as Joe is there, blue chippers will stay away."
Recent events have proven redsox53 wrong as Paterno's 2010 class continues to pull in stellar recruits.
The oft-whispered (and often disproved) conclusion that JoePa's tendency to reward upperclassmen has had little effect this year as blue chip after blue chip have jumped at the chance to play for the defending Big Ten champions.
Bolden is one of the country's top-rated quarterbacks. Scout.com ranks him as its 8th-best QB, ESPN.com charts him in their Top150 overall players and Rivals.com lauds him as the 6th-best dual threat QB.
But where does this leave Penn State's other QB recruit, Sto-Rox's Paul Jones? It's difficult to say, especially after Jones' recent broken ankle injury. Jones is rivals.com's No. 5 pro-style QB.
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Wagner's failure at the free-throw line and on the defensive glass helped New Hampshire record a 73-72 overtime victory last night at the Spiro Center.
Denise Beliveau made just one field goal but she made it count when she connected on a six-foot putback off a missed 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left for the Wildcats. The Wildcats overcame an 11-point second-half deficit.
Wagner led virtually the entire game and appeared in control when a layup by Marie-Laurence Archambault capped a 13-6 run that staked the Seahawks to an 11-point lead at 52-41 with eight minutes left to play in regulation. UNH answered with a 17-6 run to cut the deficit to 58-54 with 1:15 left to play.
Over the final 75 seconds, UNH fouled on every Seahawk possession and Wagner went 1 for 8 from the foul line, three of those misses coming on the front end of one-and-ones.
The Wildcats tied the game at 59 with 21 seconds left and Wagner had a chance to win the game in regulation but Archambault's jumper narrowly missed.
The overtime period went back-and-forth until Wagner took a 72-71 lead with under 30 seconds left as Kelly Clark delivered a nifty pass to Kanifa Hicks for a layup.
UNH worked the ball into the frontcourt and into the hands of Cari Reed who missed a 3-pointer with eight seconds left. Reed got her own rebound and passed to Ariel Gaston who misfired on a 3-pointer from the right corner. Beliveau corralled the offensive rebound and converted her floater in the lane with two seconds to go, lifting the Wildcats to the pulsating victory.
Wagner turned in season highs in points (72), field goals made (29), assists (22), blocked shots (11) and three-pointers made. In addition, the .492 shooting percentage was the Seahawks' second-best effort from the floor this season and the .364 shooting percentage from three-point range was also second-best on the year. Here are video highlights:


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Lynn Dell, Derry Township School District director of Special Education, will be leaving the district to accept the position of Pennsylvania State Assistant Director of the Bureau of Special Education.
Several school board members wished her well in her new job during this week's school board meeting, but said they regretted her leaving.
"She has such passion for special needs kids," board member Bruce Hancock said.
He said she had "an outstanding opportunity to work at the state level."
Board chairman Chris Morelli said many people seek out the Derry Township School District because of its special education programs.
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"I'm against the project — always have been," I said on a live radio call-in show earlier this year: the Jan. 17 edition of "Radio Noon's Crosstalk" with Ramona Dearing. The topic? "Our question is whether we're rushing the Muskrat Falls hydro project," should any lawyers or their litigious clients wish to look it up and listen for themselves.
"It's a huge waste of money. It'll serve no economic purpose. It'll make a few people a lot of money while it's being built, but afterwards it's going to be this big white elephant sitting in the middle of Labrador, joining the other big white elephant that's sitting further in the middle of Labrador: Churchill Falls.
"The whole thing's been rushed from the start with no regard for the true consequences. Joey Smallwood didn't care about the consequences of building Churchill Falls, rushed it through, wreaked massive destruction across Labrador — still feeling it now — didn't even make anyone any money.
"No government has ever entertained the notion that this project shouldn't go ahead, and every time it has collapsed — because they've tried time after time to get it through (Liberal or Conservative, it doesn't matter) — every time it's collapsed it hasn't been because of the opposition to it … it always collapsed because it failed economically, or politically, or financially, but time after time they keep going back at it and treat these hearings as if they're just things they have to go through before the project eventually happens, regardless of opposition."
That's what I said and anyone could have heard it.
I assume many people did, including the in-studio guest, former Progressive Conservative natural resources minister Shawn Skinner, who could certainly have told his former boss all about it.
Not listening?
But apparently Skinner was either not listening to me (which would not be surprising), or he didn't recognize the grievous offence I'd committed by publicly voicing the opinion that the people who want to build more dams on Labrador's Grand River are motivated largely by short-term greed and display little or no regard for the demonstrably harmful consequences of their actions.
I mean, do you actually have to use particular magic words in order to get sued for defamation?
Apparently so, since former premier Danny Williams chose to wait almost six months before he selected someone else to sue for saying essentially the same thing as me on a provincially broadcast radio call-in show: namely, Bruno Marcocchio, who was supposedly speaking on behalf of the Sierra Club of Canada.
Marcocchio is reported to have used pithier words than I did. He said what I said, only better.
Why the six-month delay when Williams could have been well into the joys of litigation by now?
Well, maybe he and his new bosses just don't listen to the CBC, or maybe just not to me. Maybe he doesn't mind being told he acts a certain way, but doesn't like the specific descriptive noun.
I don't particularly want to be sued by a former premier (despite the boost such court actions often lend to journalistic careers), but I thought it would be fair to point out that if Williams is so anxious to prove that he's not what Marcocchio said, and if he plans to take everyone to court who has ever publicly opposed the Newfoundland government's hydroelectric plans on the grounds that they will only serve to make a few people a lot of money (people who don't seem to care about the environmental, social and economic damage they will wreak), then he's going to have to draw up a long, long list and he'll be spending a long, long time in expensive litigation.
Oh, I have a personal question: if Williams sues me, wins and takes all my stuff, does he assume the mortgage payments on my house, or are they still my responsibility?
Michael Johansen is a writer
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We don't read the Sunday comics anymore. There's nothing in there that appeals to our analytical sense of humor.
In fact, I assigned our Research Bureau (Division of Demographics and the Popular Culture) to find that last time an American comic strip included the Census Bureau as a major plot line. After literally thousands of hours of pouring through the microfilm, they finally came up with this lost gem from a 1928 issue of the Christian Science Monitor:
Actually, the truth of the matter is there is no research bureau, or division of demographics and the popular culture. My wife came across the strip in Hogan's Alley, a magazine about the comic arts.
It was included as part of a piece by the comics historian Allan Holtz, who has an excellent blog that includes a series of posts on Waddles.
And yes, it is true -- this was in The Christian Science Monitor in eighty years ago.


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Former UMS-Wright standout and current University of Alabama player Bobby Wyatt has been named the Alabama Golf Association Men's Player of the Year for 2012.
Wyatt piled up 3,025 points in the AGA's Player of the Year standings to outdistance Trey Mullinax of Mount Olive by 2,300 points. Mullinax also plays at Alabama. Andy McRae of Hoover, who won the AGA State Amateur championship, finished third with 690 points.
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In compiling his runaway points performance, Wyatt earned 600 points for winning the Sunnehanna Amateur, 600 for finishing second in the Southern Amateur, 475 for second in the Players Amateur, 325 for being the medalist in the U.S. Amateur and making it to the round of 16 in match play before falling to Crimson Tide teammate Justin Thomas; 16, 262 for a fifth-place tie in the Northeast Amateur, 250 each for second in the NCAA Southeast Regional and fourth in the Dogwood Invitational, 213 for a fifth-place tie in the Jones Cup and 50 for making it through local qualifying in the U.S. Open.
Kathy Hartwiger of Hoover earned the AGA Women's Player of the Year honor. She won the Women's State Amateur tournament for the 10th time this year and is the AGA's Women's Player of the Year for the third year in a row.


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My mom's birthday is right around the corner, and this year she's requesting a small gathering with her sisters and a few other women whom she wants to celebrate with. Being her only child, I've taken charge of all the party planning, including inviting the guests and preparing the menu. Her only request thus far is having a shindig that's casual and relaxed. I am going to do a brunch (I know that for sure!), but nailing the relaxed and casual part has me stumped. What to do?
I decided to head straight to Target to buy decorations, plates, and party favors. As I was strolling through the aisles in complete party mode, I had an epiphany! Why not hold the party outdoors and make brunch on the grill? For one, it's summertime, and second, grilling the party fare will help cultivate a relaxed, casual atmosphere — exactly what my mom requested! Next, I thought about drinks and what would go well with a breakfast lunch theme. I found the perfect fit: cored pineapple and ginger ale! I thought, how wonderful would it be to grill the fruit then place it in cold ginger ale for a sparkling grilled fruit punch? Sounds refreshing, right?
It's for party-planning ideas like this that I love Target. In my mind, it's the perfect place to go to find party inspiration. Thanks to Target, for my mom's birthday, I made the best fruit punch — ever. When I got home and did a test run on the grilled fruit punch, I just loved it. I can't wait to see all of her friends' — and her — reactions!
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This beautiful grilled fruit punch is the perfect drink for any summertime party.
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Slice the fruit and remove pits.
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Brush fruit with oil, and then sprinkle with brown sugar.
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Place fruit on the hot grill, and cook until grill lines form on all sides of the fruit. Grill each side for about 5 minutes.
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Add all the chopped fruit to the punch bowl, and then pour in ginger ale.
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Garnish with mint and serve in a cup.
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Enjoy this lovely punch chilled or poured over ice.
Ingredients for Grilled Fruit Punch:
- cored & sliced pineapple (6 slices)
- 2 – peaches (sliced and cored)
- 1 – orange (sliced)
- 10 – cherries (stems removed, pitted, and sliced in half)
- 1 – tablespoons of vegetable oil or olive oil
- 1/8 – cup brown sugar
- mint sprigs (optional)
- 1 – six pack of ginger ale (chilled)
- Slice and cut fruit. Remove pits and stems.
- Brush sliced fruit with vegetable oil.
- Then sprinkle fruit with sugar. Set to the side.
- Heat up bar-b-que grill.
- Place fruit on bar-b-que and grill on each side for about 5 minutes on each side, or until grill lines form on the fruit.
- Remove fruit off the grill and chop to desired size.
- Add chopped fruit to a punch bowl.
- Carefully add ginger ale. Mix and garnish with mint.
- Enjoy!
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids Public Schools and its former leader have settled a lawsuit by agreeing to pay former Superintendent Bernard Taylor $280,000 of the $330,000 Taylor alleged the district owed him in a lawsuit filed last month.
The agreement stipulates that neither side will comment on the matter, so officials were silent on the matter after the settlement was approved by the school board during a special meeting Tuesday, March 26. Taylor's lawsuit alleged the district hadn't paid some $330,600 owed him under a June 2011 severance package worth about $400,000 in cash, including 18 months salary and two years of an annuity.
Taylor's Grand Rapids attorney has said the district cited the former superintendent's autocratic management style and improper expensing of items like cell phone bills and car washes as rationale for not paying the negotiated settlement the school board agreed to on June 30, 2011.
RELATED: GRPS board to consider settlement with Bernard Taylor over $330,600 in unpaid severance
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Taylor's original contract with the district specified he'd get five years salary or about $1 million upon leaving the district involuntarily, though those terms were negotiated down during discussions leading up to his departure.
"The Grand Rapids Public School District and Dr. Bernard Taylor have come to a resolution regarding Taylor's lawsuit against the district," reads a statement released by district officials Tuesday. "Both parties agree that paying Dr. Taylor $280,000 ends the dispute and puts the interests of their respective constituents to the forefront during these difficult times."
The settlement specifies Taylor be paid a lump sum of $280,000 on April 2. It also releases the school district for any claims for legal or other fees.
Critics of the district's refusal to pay Taylor, like former school board member Catherine Mueller, said the situation amounts to a clash of egos between the former superintendent and school board members. Mueller, who served eight years on the school board including a stint as president, was a strong supporter of Taylor's and called the current board shortsighted for not allowing him to serve out the full school year negotiated under the 2011 severance agreement.
"I think he's due the full amount but it's interesting that this came so shortly after he filed the lawsuit," Mueller said. "It means their argument didn't have any merit.
"Whatever they were thinking, they knew they were wrong," Mueller added. "It was silly on their part not to let him work through that last semester because then they wouldn't have owed him anything."


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Hope Rene' Dockery, infant daughter of Jimmy and Destiny Dockery of Amarillo, died Monday, April 21, 2008.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today in Memorial Park Cemetery by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
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I'll start off with the takeaways in case you're in a hurry:
- Redesign best practices have been well documented for years. If you're not following them, you're not doing your job.
- Even the biggest brands in the world are not immune from losing clicks due to sloppy practices.
- If you're not there to claim your clicks, someone else will be. Probably. Someone. You. Hate.
Point is, Costco had some pretty healthy results for [costco tvs] prior to its redesign: A couple of dupes to its main TV page as well as two subcategory pages. (And what was Walmart doing there? We'll get to that.)
But no 301s went up. Oh, wait. 301s did go up, but they went to the home page. Yes. Every legacy URL on the site got 301-redirected to the root. Chew on that for a while and imagine the sort of chest pains you'd be feeling if this was your site.
A few days later, Google was having some real problems understanding what was going on. Which is to say, Google knew exactly what was going on, but it was taking way longer to process than it should have. Here's the same SERP about five days into the rollover:An "extended warranty" page for TVs, the home page (which is no surprise, given that about 4.6 jillion old pages now redirected there), and Walmart. We'll get to Walmart.
Ten days in, the same SERP shows a link to a specific TV, the home page, and the extended warranty. Walmart still at 4th. We'll get to Walmart:So about two weeks into this redesign, Google is really just starting to put the pieces together. Costco has painted itself into a corner of full, from-scratch crawling and indexing, and their organic traffic likely looks like the backside of a mountain right now.
Moving on, you may find it interesting to see Walmart showing up for [costco]-related queries. (I sure do.) Better yet, it's interesting to see titles with "Costco TVs on Sale" on its site. This seems about as likely as finding a Seattle's Best endcap at Starbucks.
Costco, of course, does not make televisions. So technically, there is no such thing as a "Costco TV." But Walmart is smart enough to know that people search this way to find the televisions at the Costco.com site. To put it in SEO parlance, [costco tvs] is the layperson's version of [intitle:tv|tvs site:costco.com].
What Walmart is doing is really nothing new. They're simply allowing their own internal search results to be indexed, and it just so happens many of these search results are poised to compete for terms that Walmart.com would typically not rank for naturally. It's no secret that Google doesn't care for pages like this ("Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages …"), but again, given Walmart's footprint, it's unlikely to care too much about slight transgressions.
(Digging deeper, about 47 million of Walmart.com's 22 million indexed pages are search results. Yes, you read that right. What an inverted ratio like this typically means is that the vast majority of those 47 million are considered fairly low quality. Obviously not all of them are, though, or we wouldn't see them in SERPs like these.)
The indexing of internal search results is secondary. What's really interesting is how you can go to Walmart's internal search engine, search for [costco] anything (such as costco computers or costco prepaid phone cards), and it comes up with results. This means that somehow, Walmart is tagging these SKUs with "costco" for its internal search appliance and then getting them crawled. Or at a minimum, it's allowing search results to appear even when all query terms aren't satisfied. I can't find any trace of "costco" on the actual product pages for SKUs that show up in these results, or in the user reviews. So all in all, this process is pretty sly. But again, the indexing is secondary. They may exist somewhere in Walmart's vast XML repository or someplace else. So feel free to dig in and find out.
Just the same way, people search for [costco laptops] to find laptops on Costco.com. In this case, Walmart is there too, but they're doing it with a little more class — by buying "costco" keywords through AdWords:
While Walmart doesn't have an organic presence for this query, Costco doesn't do much better. Why? Because its top organic listing results in an error page. A 404? They wish. It's a "connection refused" error, which is such a slap in the face that it doesn't even merit a numerical error code, because the server won't even connect to give you one. So good luck reclaiming any of these clicks. This is another instance where a simple two-column 301 map would have made all the difference:
Here's the conclusion: Walmart is no angel here, but truthfully, if you're going to sleep through the SEO portion of a redesign, you're practically asking your traffic to go somewhere else. When your mistake corresponds with someone else's tenacity, you lose.[author] [author_image timthumb='on']http://blog.intrapromote.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/erik-dafforn.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Erik joined Intrapromote full-time in 2002 after coming on as a contractor in 1999. ]Currently, as President, he divides his time between overseeing the SEO department and managing organic SEO campaigns. Prior to working at Intrapromote, Erik worked in publishing as a development editor in the programming imprints of IDG Books and Prentice-Hall Computer Publishing so if anyone needs a keyboard shortcut, they ask Erik.
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Excellent article, Erik! I think digitally Costco is lacking in many aspects. Their app and email are about as close to par as you can get. What's sad is that they are such a fun brand to do business with.
Just check out their Jobs page on the corporate site. They promote within. I actually live in Issaquah (their corporate headquarters), and it is no secret that warehouse staff, over time, move to corporate positions.
Just imagine an entire website team staffed with customer service employees. Sure they will learn over time and could very well become great, but Costco.com is not a site to "learn on the job" with.


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President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both talked this week about bringing the Afghan War to a close. But the U.S. will maintain at least several thousand troops in the country once combat comes to an end at the end of 2014. The U.S. will spend billions of dollars financing the Afghan security forces.


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Traffic Case - The Dirty Dishes and the Dangerous Curves
A beautiful woman is found slumped in a car. It seems to be an accident, but clues suggest someone else was at the scene. Our investigation brought us to the colorful bungalow of Dan Manson, the owner of the car full of dead lady. We questioned him about the evidence.
PRESS to QUESTION flashed on screen.
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Cole PhelpsI was wondering if you knew anything about the dish in the Tucker. And by dish I mean woman.
Dan Manson
(winks repeatedly)
I don't know nothin'!
PRESS to BELIEVE DAN MANSON or PRESS to DISBELIEVE DAN MANSON flashed on the screen
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Cole Phelps
I'm not buyin' it, Manson. Why was this dish in your Tucker car? Spill it cheez-it, before I clop cop hoops on your hoofs.Dan Manson
(vigorously nodding his head and smiling)
Okay, okay, I knew her. But it isn't what you think. She just asked to borrow the car.
PRESS to BELIEVE DAN MANSON or PRESS to DISBELIEVE DAN MANSON flashed on the screen
We pressed
Cole Phelps
I believe you, and that's why I'm not gonna frodo you. Anything else you want to fess up to or are you spittin' marbles and callin' it dice?
Dan Manson
Hey, lay off. I don't know nothin' else!
(he winks repeatedly and jerks his head in the direction of a trashcan)
PRESS to LOOK AT TRASHCAN flashed on screen.
We pressed
Cole Phelps
(to himself)
A clue...in his trashcan.
PRESS for CLUE in TRASHCAN flashed on screen.
We pressed
Cole Phelps
(picks up clue)
We're going to check this out and if it's lousy info we're gonna beat the bones out of your dick.
The clue turned out to reveal an important fact about Dan Manson's past. I won't give away the ending of the case, but there was a twist and nothing was as it seemed.
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Transgenic Mouse Program
The University of Michigan Transgenic Animal Model Program has a large collection of state-of-the-art equipment for mouse embryo collection and microinjection, and tissue culture facilities for ES cell growth and manipulation. Program laboratories include an embryo microinjection laboratory of 993 sq. ft. in Medical Science Research Building I, and ES cell culture laboratories of 194 sq. ft. and 566 sq. ft. in Medical Science Research Building II. These laboratories are in close proximity to each other in the University of Michigan Biomedical Core Laboratory space adjacent to the animal housing area where the Transgenic Program has a dedicated specific pathogen free mouse room with a capacity up to 500 mouse cages. Dr. Saunders' office is down the hall from the Program laboratories, and the director offices are in connecting buildings: Dr. Camper in Medical Science Research Building III and Dr. Samuelson in Medical Science II. The specialized equipment in the Transgenic Program is listed below.
Mouse Embryo Lab Equipment: Five microinjection work stations with Nikon microscope and Narishige micromanipulators are set up for DNA injection into fertilized eggs and ES cell injection into blastocysts. One work station includes a video monitor and camera to view micromanipulations. Three mouse embryo retrieval and surgery workstations are in the same room, which include laminar flow benches, microscopes, and surgical equipment. Support equipment for the microinjections includes pipet pullers, microfuges, incubators, and a Prime Tech PMM1 150 FU piezo drill. A programmable embryo cryopreservation cooler is available to freeze embryos for storage in liquid nitrogen. An AutoGen 740 Robotic workstation is used for purification of genomic DNA from mouse and rat tail biopsies.
Tissue Culture Equipment: Cell culture workstations are available for up to 7 people to work with ES cells. Equipment includes biological safety cabinets, incubators, centrifuges, Bio-Rad Gene Pulser electroporator, microscopes for cell culture and chromosome analysis, Milli-Q PF water purification system, autoclaves, -80oC freezers, and liquid nitrogen storage containers. A Forma 1535 alarm/monitor of the type used in blood banks is used to continuously monitor the incubators and freezers.
Viral Vector Program
The Vector Program occupies 1,475 square feet of wet laboratory space on the third floor of Medical Sciences Research Building II. This space is centrally located near laboratory space occupied by Peptide Center members residing in Medical Science Buildings I and II and Medical Science Research Buildings I, II and III. The Vector Program space is divided into three physically separate wet laboratory modules. One 750 square foot module is configured specifically for the construction, isolation and purification of recombinant adenovirus. This module contains 3 laminar flow tissue culture hoods, four dual chamber CO2 incubators, ultracentrifuge, BioRad iCycler and allows 4 researchers to work simultaneously. Two hoods and incubator stacks have been reserved for core staff use. A second 225 square foot module in 3581 MSRB II is configured for the construction, isolation and purification of recombinant retrovirus. This module is equipped with one laminar flow hood and two CO2 incubator stacks, and an ultracentrifuge that is dedicated to retroviral studies. A third 500 square foot module in 3556 MSRB II has been configured to allow for the construction, isolation and purification of plasmid vectors and related molecular biological analyses. In addition, an adjacent common equipment area has been equipped with an environmental shaker for growth of bacterial cultures, as well as two -80ºC freezers and liquid nitrogen freezer for storage of viral stocks and cell banks. Together these modules provide the Vector Program with the space necessary to comply with biosafety requirements (BL2) for the use and production of these vectors as established by the University Michigan office of Occupational Safety & Environmental Health and the NIH. It establishes a Program facility that can provide investigators with a variety of vector systems for use as in vitro and in vivo reagents.
Microarray Gene Chip Program
The Microarray Gene Chip Program is a component of the Michigan Microarray Core and occupies a 500 sq. ft. laboratory space in Room 7410 of the Cancer Center and Geriatric Center (CCGC) of the University of the Michigan medical school campus. Available equipment includes the large-scale liquid handling Packard MultiPROBE IIex robot, the Axon GenePix 4000A microarray scanner, a Fluidics Station 450, three Hybridization Oven 640s, and a GeneChip Scanner 3000, an Agilent 2100 BioAnalyzer, an ABI 7900HT quantitative PCR and SNP genotyping apparatus, a large -80oC freezer for the storage of cDNA clones, and seven separate computer workstations dedicated to different pieces of equipment or data analysis. Other equipment includes four MJ thermalcyclers, several horizontal gel electrophoresis units and power supplies, microcentrifuges, incubators and bacterial shakers, refrigerators and freezers, a DNA speedvac, vortexes, balances, hotplates, pH meter and smaller lab equipment (micropipettors,etc.). A biostatistical area comprising the office area for Mr. James MacDonald and three computers dedicated to statistical analysis of microarray data (including a Linux box) are also housed in the facility.
Molecular Techniques Training Program
Advisory session will be carried out by e-mail for short questions or approval of protocols or by appointment in her office for more detailed questions. Practical training sessions will be carried out in her lab (1700 sq. ft). Dr. Merchant's laboratory is in the Medical Science Research Building I on the 3rd floor. It is equipped with a Wallac Victor 3 Multilabel luminometer that can read 96 well microtiter plates, a Wallac Trilux Liquid Scintillation and Luminescence Counter, a BioRad Rotofor purification apparatus, a Quantitative PAGE apparatus, a liquid Nitrogen storage container for cell lines, two –80°C freezers and access to a dark room.
Advice on ChiP Assays
Dr. Merchant recently completed a sabbatical in which she performed chip assays using antibodies to ZBP-89 and -99. Some of this work was published in a collaborative study with Dr. Gardner of the NCI with whom she completed her sabbatical (Smith et al., PNAS 2004). Together with Dr. Bai, she has continued studying the regulation of the p21waf1 promoter by ZBP-89 using ChiP. An example of this ChiP assay is shown in Fig 1. Both the ChIP Kit from Upstate Biotechnology and ChIP protocol developed by Dr. Gardner has been used with great success. She has found that the quality of the antibodies and the efficiency of the DNA extraction to be critical elements in the success of the assay. The method developed by Dr. Gardner is detailed below under the section H on Specialized Methods. We plan to offer both technical advice and practical training to those who want it. However polling the center investigators revealed a 6 to 1 preference for advice. Practical training will be carried out under the direct aegis of Dr. Bai. Figure 1 below is an example of the quality of a ChIP assay performed with the Upstate Kit.
Fig. 1. HCT116 cells were treated with 2.5 mM sodium butyrate for 1h and soluble chromatin was prepared. The immunoprecipitation was performed with anti-ZBP-89 IgG and rabbit IgG control. The final DNA extractions were amplified using pairs of primers that cover the regions flanking p21waf1 transcription start site as indicated. The input is 0.2% of the total reaction mixture. The results show ZBP-89 inducible binding to the region –322 to –33 and identified a novel constitutive binding site at +251 to +500.
Fig. 1. HCT116 cells were treated with 2.5 mM sodium butyrate for 1h and soluble chromatin was prepared. The immunoprecipitation was performed with anti-ZBP-89 IgG and rabbit IgG control. The final DNA extractions were amplified using pairs of primers that cover the regions flanking p21waf1 transcription start site as indicated. The input is 0.2% of the total reaction mixture. The results show ZBP-89 inducible binding to the region –322 to –33 and identified a novel constitutive binding site at +251 to +500.
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We are requesting funds for a service contract on the luminometer used currently by six Center investigators. The luminometer is the Wallac Victor3 1420 Multilabel luminometer (by Perkin Elmer) and is capable of dual substrate-injection. Due to heavy use by the six investigators, we need to maintain the equipment in good working order. Even within the first year the machine has required servicing twice.
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Chicago Archbishop Doubles Down On His KKK/Pride Parade Comparison
After an online petition and a local LGBT Catholic group are calling out Archbishop Cardinal Francis George of Chicago for comparing KKK marches to gay Pride parades, he took the time to re-explain why he's right.
George told ABC 7 in Chicago:
"Obviously, it's absurd to say the gay and lesbian community are the Ku Klux Klan, but if you organize a parade that looks like parades that we've had in our past because it stops us from worshipping God, well then that's the comparison, but it's not with people and people—it's parade-parade."
Nevermind that the Chicago Pride parade changed its start time so that his congregants could attend Sunday Mass—they're pretty much identical! Except for the burning crosses, white sheets and talk of racial purity.
But what would a priest know about KKK marches and Pride parades? Uh oh, does the Cardinal have something he'd like to confess?
I see what he's saying. America has people in it, and Atlantis also had people in it. So America is exactly like Atlantis who God smote like Sodom and Gomorrah but with lasers.
Archbishop Cardinal Francis George sounds like a babbling idiot. I would hope a reporter might ask him how many priest-child rapists he's protected over the years? Even if the number is just one, it is too many.
The Catholic church is dying, at least in the USA. They refuse to budge on their absurd stance on birth control, even condoms for safe sex. They take credit for "miracle" healings that involved three month hospitalizations, powerful antibiotics, and a huge team of actual trained professional healers. Their income is way down. People are leaving the religious orders in droves and young people aren't coming in. And of course they don't seem to get the whole pedophile priest problem.
They remind us that pedophile means sexually attracted to pre-pubescents and that the majority of victims were actually older boys. Hence they say it's a gay problem. That they covered for these creeps and told victims it was their fault is irrelevant, as are the sufferings of the female and pre-pubescent male victims.
The upshot of it is that they need an enemy to blame, they're obsessed with other people's sex lives, and if they picked on feminists who use condoms everyone would just laugh at them. Poor Cardinal George is living in a fantasy where he's obviously right and obviously evil people are out to get him. He doesn't even comprehend that he's on TV because he's making a fool of himself.
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The city decided the parade route should go down a street that runs in front of the Catholic church. Nothing is preventing the Catholics from worshiping. The priest might want to put on an extra mass, either early or late, to accommodate the expected traffic.
If the Catholics were truly Christian, they would invite the gay people in, and offer them food.
Okay, those words literally did not make any sense to me…
@Steve: From what I've read elsewhere, the problem the actual church in question (as opposed to the archbishop) had was that the parade, or those attending it, would block their doors. (More specifically, I've read that, as the parade turns the corner there, even the back entrance would be blocked.)
If that's true, the original complaint was reasonable. That doesn't mean the parade *had* to be moved, but if there was another time that didn't cause the same or greater trouble elsewhere, moving it was the decent thing to do, and that's what was done.
What makes priests think they dictate who is and will continue to be a catholic? Dumb idiots. Most catholics have a relationship with god that will never be effected by what an ignorant priest says or does. That is the truth. Nixon had a name for such people. He called them the silent majority.
What a freak …typical of the arrogant, moronic, sanctimonious Catholic criminal hierarchy.
Why anyone continues to support this bizarre & corrupt organization is beyond me.
@Hyhybt: Thank you, I had not seen the schedule change.
I still think the Church should invite the gays in and offer hospitality. A nice cup of fruit punch on a hot afternoon in June, would be appreciated.
Oh. Well, allow me to retort. The Catholic hierarchy can be compared to a massive ongoing pedophile conspiracy. Because it is.
I don't feel particularly clever making that comparison. It's shooting fish in a barrel. However, it makes the point: why would Catholics even attempt to slander others with disparaging comparisons?
Historically, the rhetorical phrases most used by LGBT people are terms such as: "compassion, love, fairness, citizenship, equality, rights," and "justice."
But the cardinal, his Pope, their employees, and official church policy all preach that LGBT people are "intrinsically disordered" and "immoral" and "evil."
In calling an entire class of people irrecoverably flawed and lacking in morality and Satanically possessed, it is the cardinal who is spewing rhetoric, not LGBT people.
This archbishop/cardinal wants to deny all citizens their human rights based on some supernatural assumptions belonging to a religious sect. He is a dangerous demagogue spewing religious rhetoric, trying to turn everyone else's democracy into his own theocracy.
Let me just call the kettle black here. Cardinal George had to settle a sexual harassment case between an unamed boy and a priest named Daniel McCormack who pleaded guilty in 2007 to abusing five boys (ages 10-12) and was sentenced to five years in prison. http://bit.ly/uni9Gr


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Dan Pluari led a well-balanced scoring attack with 13 points to help Shore defeat St. John Vianney, 58-50, in Holmdel.
Kevin Bloodgood and Brian Dubois notched 12 and 10, repectively, for Shore. Jake Brown and Ben Hess also contributed with nine points each. Vinny Facchino scored a game-high 15 points for St. John Vianney.