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Huntsville Museum of Art opens plein-air exhibit
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Huntsville Museum of Art will open "A Sense of Place: Plein Air Painters of the Southeast," Aug. 7 through Sept. 23 and "Sally Johnson: Projections and Reflections," Aug. 7 through Oct. 7.
"A Sense of Place" showcases recent work by members of the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast, an organization of professional painters bound by a common passion to promote the methods of painting en plein air — a French term referring to the traditional process of painting outdoors, on location, in an impressionistic style.
The exhibit presents more than 70 works by 20 current members of PAPSE. Most finished studio works will be accompanied by their original plein-air sketches, allowing the viewer to study the working methods of each artist. All of the works in the exhibition are available for sale, with proceeds to benefit the Huntsville Museum of Art.
Dee Beard Dean, along with a handful of fellow painters, founded PAPSE in 2001, inspired by a dream to build a professional organization of painters living and working in our region.
"Looking back, how proud I am of this association of distinguished painters whose level of excellence has made this group one of the top plein-air organizations in the country," Dean says.
An opening reception will begin at 2 p.m. Aug. 7 and several participating artists will speak about their work in the galleries, followed by a reception in the Richard and Roper Room.
"Projections and Reflections" is a multimedia installation of painting, sculpture, prints and photographs by Sally Wood Johnson with music by Dorothy Hindman and others.
The artists collaborated loosely to create art influenced by John Cage (1912-92), the avant-garde musician whose theories of aleatory music have driven the development of art, dance and drama created and perceived by chance.
The installation features photographs by Johnson that capture aspects of the concrete wall outside her Birmingham studio and an original composition for cello, French horn, timpani and guitar by Hindman, each played through separate speakers in the installation.
The musical parts and instrumental timbres interact to create an indeterminate flow affected by the random interaction of the arts and viewers.
"The wall is, for me, one huge chance operation," Johnson says.
A live performance piece will open the run of the show at 1 p.m. Aug. 7 in the Haws Gallery. A reception in the Richard and Roper Room will follow the performance.
ASF seeking extras for TV commercial
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Shakespeare Festival is seeking individuals, groups and families of all ages to appear in a television commercial that will launch a new branding campaign for the theater.
The shoot will take place from 2 until 6 p.m. July 25 at ASF in Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, Montgomery. Anyone interested should email his or her name, age, phone number and the names and ages of any additional people they want to bring to the shoot to: email@example.com.
The commercial will be the flagship of a new branding campaign for the theater that will begin in fall 2011. Information on ASF's 2011-12 season, contact the box office at 1-800-841-4273.
Show choir workshop July 28-30 at the Mary C.
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education will present a free show-choir workshop, 6-8 p.m. July 28-29 and 3-5:30 p.m. July 30 at 1600 Government St. in Ocean Springs. The program is designed for ages 10 and older.
Anyone who enjoys singing, dancing or performing is urged attend the three-day workshop at the Mary C School of Art Prior show choir or singing/dancing experience is not necessary — an interest in performing is the only requirement.
With the popularity of the television series "Glee," show choirs have become more popular than ever, giving young people a chance to have some fun putting on a show. The ultimate goal is to make the show choir competitive, and to perform in competitions around the state, regionally and nationally.
Jennifer Carter is program director. A graduate of Gautier High School, Carter has participated in award-winning show choirs for seven years including two years at Cleveland State College in Tennessee. Her show choir Vocal Rhapsody placed third in the national competition in 2010.
Since returning to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Carter has judged local competitions and talent shows. She currently teaches private voice lessons at the Mary C. and also teaches step dance at Dance Revolution in Ocean Springs.
Information, call Sheila Thornburg, education manager for the Mary C., at 228-818-2878 or visit the Web site: www.themaryc.org.
Theatre 98 seeking 50th anniversary memorabilia
FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Theatre 98 in Fairhope is celebrating its 50th season and is seeking memorabilia from the last five decades to commemorate its community theater.
The company is particularly interested in items from productions pre-1984. Anyone with photographs, playbills or any distinctive items from previous shows to share is urged to contact Theatre 98 historian Joyce Vath at 251-929-1726.
HMPS Moundville excursion set for Aug. 27
MOBILE, Ala. — Historic Mobile Preservation Society and the Mobile Historic Development Commission will take a day-long excursion to Moundville Aug. 27.
The trip will include a visit to the Moundville Archaeology Park and the newly renovated Jones Museum, now showing "Lost Realm of the Black Warrior," which explores the rich existence of an ancient people who once populated this site.
A collection of artifacts original to Moundville is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. Included will be the prized Moundville Duck Bowl, the most beautiful piece of prehistoric Native American art discovered in the United States.
The Moundville excursion will include lunch at the Museum Café, admission to the Jones Museum and a private guided tour of the Moundville Archaeology Park. Also on the agenda is a stop at the Pie Lab in Greensboro and the Rural Heritage Center, an Alabama folk art gallery in Thomaston.
Cost of the trip is $48 per person. Seating is limited and tickets can be purchased through the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, the gift shop at Oakleigh and the Mobile Historic Development Commission. Information, call HMPS at 251-432-6161.
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7/30 Rebuild? Retool? Reboot?
Are the Cubs in rebuilding mode? Yes and no.
"There are certain people who won't be back and there are a whole lot of people we should be happy with — young players, two kids in the middle," GM Jim Hendry said Friday. "We're hoping [Tyler] Colvin gets back to where he was. Marlon [Byrd's] been a fine player here and he has another year on his contract.
"You have a bullpen of a lot of guys coming back who are very good," he said. "Everybody should be encouraged by the year Jeff Samardzija has had and where he's going and the year James Russell has had since moving back into the bullpen. Sean Marshall will be here, [Carlos] Marmol will be here.
"You always need some kind of rebuilding when you're in fifth place but you certainly don't look at it like, 'Oh, we're not going to compete.' When somebody says, 'Blow the place up and start over and do it right,' well, OK, does that mean we should get rid of the people who are really young and real good? I've said this a hundred times, wasn't Pittsburgh 20 games under a year ago, and Cleveland? All you need is for your young people to get better and make the right moves, and why couldn't we be right back in it?"
The Cubs did fall to 22 games under .500 after Friday's 9-2 loss to the Cardinals.
"We're having a bad year, and there's no way around it, no excuses for it," Hendry said. "Nobody picked us to be in the first three this year but we felt by now, we'd be at .500. [If we were .500] a week ago, it would've got you two or three back. We didn't do our part. Excuses or no excuses, injuries or not injuries, we haven't played to the level we should have."
At the start of this road trip vs. NL Central teams, Mike Quade said he felt the Cubs still had a chance to get back in the race.
"I respect his optimism," Hendry said. "There are a lot of teams above you. You don't want Mike hanging his head and saying, 'We can't do something, we can't do this.' I'm sure in his heart he believes we can have a good couple months like he had last year at the end and hopefully we will. You've got a lot of people in front of you [in the standings] and you're a lot of games behind. I wouldn't want him to say, 'Hey, we're all done and let's get the guys ready for next year.'"
— Carrie Muskat
7/27 Z says Cubs need changes
Carlos Zambrano repeated Wednesday that he wants to stay with the Cubs but if the team decides it needs to make a change, he'll think about it as the Trade Deadline approaches. Zambrano does have a no-trade clause, and would have the last word.
"I do want to stay here," Zambrano said. "At the same time, I want this team to make some changes. If we want to win here, we need to make changes. If I have to go, I have to go but I'll still have the Cubs in m heart. If the change has to be me, that's OK."
The Cubs haven't approached him about any possible trade.
"If it comes, it comes and I'll think about it," Zambrano said.
What kind of changes would he like to see the team make?
"Change. A lot of change," he said. "A lot of changes to win."
Does that mean change the players?
"Change," Zambrano said.
He did pitch well enough to entice somebody, posting the ninth quality start by a Cubs pitcher in the last 12 games. But Zambrano was clearly not happy about being lifted in the seventh when manager Mike Quade pulled him with two outs and Nyjer Morgan at the plate.
"I think at that point, I had confidence that I could get Nyjer out," Zambrano said. "It's [Quade's] decision. There's nothing I can do about it."
Morgan, who had doubled off Zambrano in the third, began the day batting .333 against right-handers and .231 against lefties. Those numbers were behind Quade's decision.
"I don't blame him," Quade said about Zambrano asking to face another batter. "I thought with the two guys coming up behind Nyjer and the way he's struggled in the past against left-handers [it was time to pull Zambrano]. A lot of decisions ain't easy and that was not an easy decision but I thought we needed to try to stop it right there."
— Carrie Muskat
7/27 Extra bases
Kerry Wood was back with the team Wednesday, recovered from his bout with a virus, and available. The right-hander has not pitched since July 20. He posted a 1.38 ERA in his first 13 appearances and has a 4.91 ERA in his last 20. However, outfielder Reed Johnson was still bothered by his back, and not available Wednesday. He has not played since Saturday.
* Alfonso Soriano and Carlos Pena are both in a funk. Soriano did not start Wednesday. He's batting .171 (12-for-70) in July after hitting .265 in June. He has one home run in his last 32 games — July 22.
"He hasn't been able to be consistent," Quade said of Soriano. "It's been a tough run for him. We'll give him a mental day off, or at least won't start him, and give Blake [DeWitt] a needed game."
Pena entered Wednesday's game 0-for-15, and batting .219 overall.
"He goes through these things," Quade said of his first baseman. "Hitters go through this a lot and I don't think it's unique to Carlos. Nobody works harder than him on his swing."
* Quade is a proponent of instant replay or possibly challenge flags, like coaches use in the NFL, to get close calls like the one that ended the Pirates-Braves game correct.
"The question I had is if you went to a challenge flag system, would you still have the flag in your pocket in the 19th at 2 in the morning?" Quade said Wednesday about the 19-inning marathon game, which the Braves won on a controversial play at the plate.
Quade is an advocate of instant replay in football and would support something similar in baseball. That said, he doesn't want 15 replays a night.
"[The umpires] don't want to get those calls wrong," he said. "They're bearing down and these things are going to happen. If you have the ability to correct it, in some sort of form that doesn't have us all here for five hours, maybe you look into that."
* Edwin Jackson, whom the Cardinals acquired Wednesday in a three-team multi-player deal with the Blue Jays and White Sox, will open the Chicago-St. Louis series on Friday. Kyle Lohse will start Saturday. Jackson was the winning pitcher when the White Sox beat the Cubs, 6-4, on July 1 at Wrigley Field in an Interleague game. He gave up four runs on five hits over six innings, including a home run by Aramis Ramirez.
— Carrie Muskat
7/27 Big Z "enticing?"
There were reports on Wednesday that the Cubs had tried to get the Yankees interested in Carlos Zambrano, and the Cubs would pick up part of his remaining salary. However, the Yankees are not interested. Zambrano was to start Wednesday against the Brewers at Miller Park, where he is 7-0 with a 2.40 ERA in his last eight starts.
"I hope nothing comes of it and he pitches lights out and entices whoever is here to look at him," Cubs manager Mike Quade said. "I think he, like a few guys, are in control of their own destiny."
That's true. Zambrano has a full no-trade clause in his contract.
The right-hander is 2-3 with a 6.23 ERA in his last seven starts after posting a 1-0 mark with a 2.03 ERA in his previous four starts. Zambrano was on the disabled list because of lower back stiffness. He's still getting back on track.
"Guys don't always come back ready to roll like when they left," Quade said, not worried about Zambrano. "Some of that is understandable. He felt good about his finish in his last outing."
That was against the Astros, when he gave up two runs on nine hits over six innings on July 22.
— Carrie Muskat
7/26 Extra bases
Kerry Wood did not make the trip to Miller Park but stayed in Chicago to deal with flu-like symptoms.Wood was too ill to get on the team bus for the start of the Cubs' three-game series against the Brewers. Jeff Samardzija will likely fill Wood's role as the right-handed set-up pitcher.
Catcher Koyie Hill, who had similar symptoms on Sunday, was back and healthy. However, the Cubs were without outfielder Reed Johnson, whose back was stiff and sore, which made him unavailable on Sunday.
"Right now, it's OK," Johnson said of his back. "I'll probably give it a day or so and make sure it's moving in the right direction and if not, then we'll have to make a decision as to what to do with me. If things keep moving in the right direction then I won't have to go on the [disabled list]. That's always the goal."
* GM Jim Hendry and his staff were in Chicago to monitor moves heading into Sunday's Trade Deadline. Manager Mike Quade is staying focused on the current roster. The Cubs began play Tuesday 12 games back in the National League Central. That doesn't deter Quade.
"Why not?" he said as the team began a 10-game trip against the Brewers, Cardinals and Pirates. "What if we win 10 out of 12 — who knows?
"It's an interesting division," Quade said. "What are there, 60 games left? Let's go play 'em and see. Daunting task, four clubs in front of you, not having played well, but why not?"
Does that mean Quade wants to the Cubs to be active and make some deals?
"That's not my business," he said. "My business is to see if we can beat [Chris] Narveson tonight.
"Time will take care of all the prognostications," Quade said. "I'm not a lunatic. There's a lot of work to do ahead of us but we're playing the right clubs and let's see if we can't put something together."
* Quade and several players took part in the 15th annual Ron Santo golf tournament on Monday to benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Quade didn't golf but rode in a cart around the Kemper Lakes course with Santo's wife, Vickie and "antagonized" the other golfers. Santo, the popular Cubs radio broadcaster and third baseman, died in December 2010. The Cubs will honor Santo when they unveil a statue of him at Wrigley Field on Aug. 10.
— Carrie Muskat
7/24 Extra bases – post-game edition
Finally. The Cubs finally posted a three-game win streak with a 5-4, 10-inning win Sunday over the Astros to sweep the series. It's their first
"What a way to do it," Mike Quade said. "You knew it wasn't going to be easy."
Marlon Byrd tripled and scored on pinch-hitter Jeff Baker's single with one out for the game-winner. Matt Garza deserved the win, but didn't get it. He gave up two runs on five hits and departed after seven innings with a 3-2 lead. This was the sixth time he's left a game with the lead but did not factor in the decision.
"We won a ballgame because he gave us seven great innings," Quade said.
"Every time you contribute it's a plus," Garza said.
Cubs starters posted seven quality starts in the 10-game homestand, and a 1.32 ERA in those games.
The reason Garza didn't get the decision was Carlos Lee's two-run homer in the eighth off Jeff Samardzija. The home run didn't bother Samardzija as much as the walk to Hunter Pence to set up Lee's blast.
"What Lee did is what he gets paid to do, hit home runs, but Pence, you have to make him put the ball in play, and that way if Lee does hit one, it's just a one-run home run," Samardzija said.
Samardijza had not given up a run in 12 straight outings prior to Sunday.
"You're asking a guy to pitch three days in a row and it's a lot," Quade said of Samardzija.
* The Cubs were a little short-handed. Koyie Hill and Reed Johnson weren't available; neither was feeling well. Both Sean Marshall and Kerry Wood were not available either but both did volunteer to pitch if needed. Wood had warmed up a few times in the last few days.
"News flash. Sometimes guys need a day here and there," Wood said. "Nothing new. I pitched a lot in the pen."
* The Cubs notched the three-game win streak in their 102nd game of the year. Only once in team history has it gone longer into a season without winning three in a row. In 1966, the Cubs picked up their first three-game win streak Aug. 4-6 in games No. 106-108. Six previous times that year, the Cubs had won two straight only to lose the third.
The only other time the Cubs ended the month of July without a three-game win streak was in 1960. That year, the Cubs won three in a row for the first time July 30-Aug. 2 in games No. 95-97. Thanks to Cubs historian Ed Hartig for the info.
"It took a while but we finally got it done," Byrd said of the three-game streak.
* Byrd was playing in his 1,000th game, and went 4-for-5 with three runs, a double and a triple. He's hitting .359 with three walks, 10 runs, four doubles, a triple, two homers and four RBIs in 17 games since July 4. The four hits were a season high, and the first time he's done that since July 9, 2010, against the Dodgers.
* The Cubs are 6-3 in extra-inning games, including a 5-0 mark at home.
— Carrie Muskat
7/24 Extra bases
The Cubs will be vying for their first three-game win streak on Sunday.
"I'd like to get 12 [wins in a row]," Mike Quade said. "I'd like to see [Matt Garza] pitch well and win. If we get three, don't think we won't be hungry for four. It's still a part of playing well and doing stuff consistently, whether it's getting consistent starting pitching or driving in runs or finding a way to finish games. Three in a row doesn't happen unless those things happen."
* The trade deadline is one week away but Quade doesn't think any of his players should be distracted by it.
"Show up every day and focus on who we're playing," Quade said Sunday about what their approach should be. "Everybody deals with stuff differently, whether it's speculation or reality. I do think that when I look at the veterans who are here, this is not their first rodeo and this is not stuff they haven't experienced before, whether it's them personally or a teammate. I suppose [the rumors are] out there but I would expect them not to be distracted at all."
* The Cubs have a tough road trip ahead, facing the three top teams in the Central Division in the Brewers, Cardinals and Pirates. The rotation against Milwaukee will be Ryan Dempster, Carlos Zambrano and Randy Wells, and Garza will open the series in St. Louis on Friday, followed by Rodrigo Lopez. Lopez remains in the bullpen for now.
"He'd be available even through the second game in Milwaukee," Quade said. "He's been pretty resilient. His experience is important."
* Garza, who started Sunday, has not let the lack of run support bother him.
"To his credit, he just keeps pitching," Quade said. "He's something. He shows up and he's ready to go every day. I don't notice any wear or tear because he's not getting the breaks. He comes back to pitch and wants to pitch well for his club."
— Carrie Muskat
7/23 Extra bases
Alfonso Soriano just needed a day to clear his head. He hit his first home run since June 19 on Friday, and said part of the problem was that he was thinking too much about the team's struggles.
"The way we lose, the way we play, sometimes I think about the team instead of thinking about me first," Soriano said. "Sometimes those things affect me mentally. The day off [Thursday], I said, 'I have to control my situation. I cannot control the whole situation.'
"Sometimes you try to control the whole situation and mentally I get tired," he said. "Now, I just think about me and see the team and how it plays but I have to think about what I can do to help the team win."
His homer snapped an 0-for-18 skid. Soriano hit .265 in June but was batting .186 (11-for-59) so far in July.
"Sometimes it's very hard, the way we play, to keep your mind strong," he said. "That's the difficult part of this game, the mental part."
* Aramis Ramirez has held the cleanup spot in the Cubs' lineup most of his career but was bumped up to the No. 3 spot and is producing. In 19 games batting third, he was hitting .324 with eight homers and 19 RBIs. In 65 games batting fourth, he hit .291 with eight homers and 32 RBIs.
"Knock on wood, day in, day out, it's not like he takes three games off," Mike Quade said of his third baseman. "He's been not just good but consistently good and hitting in big situations. He's what you need in the three-, four-hole and especially if you're not producing a lot of runs, whatever he can give you is good."
Ramirez has been hot, batting .358 this month with eight homers and 20 RBIs. The Cubs have been a litte sluggish in eight games since the All-Star break, batting .242 with seven homers and 23 RBIs.
* Carlos Marmol struck out two batters in the eighth inning, which was a good sign.
"That was the guy I know," Quade said Saturday.
Expect Marmol to be used in a save situation next time.
* The Cubs want to see if they need Rodrigo Lopez this weekend before announcing the starting rotation for the upcoming series against the Brewers, which starts Tuesday. Because of off days on Thursday and Monday, the Cubs didn't need a fifth starter and Lopez was assigned to the bullpen. One pitcher who will face the Brewers will be Ryan Dempster, who has a 15-3 career record against them.
— Carrie Muskat
7/22 Marmol back as closer
Carlos Marmol needed one more tune-up on Friday, and now is back as the Cubs' closer. He struck out both batters he faced in the eighth to help preserve the 4-2 win over the Astros.
"He's a closer and he pitched like it today," Mike Quade said.
Marmol was given a few days to work with pitching coach Mark Riggins to get his mechanics straightened out. Before the game, Quade said he hoped everything was back to normal. But Riggins wanted Marmol to be the set-up man before he pitched the ninth. Sean Marshall got the final three outs for his third save.
"I feel very good now," Marmol said after the game. "I've got my confidence back."
Carlos Zambrano gave his support to his teammate.
"Marmol's a good pitcher and he's a great closer," Zambrano said. "But he's human, too. The most important thing is he keeps his head up, like I told him the other day, and comes back ready.
"He has to try to be the same guy that he was last year and the year before and the year he went to the All-Star Game," Zambrano said. "That's what the game is about is making adjustments and come back stronger after a bad outing. Consistency is the most important thing in baseball."
— Carrie Muskat
7/20 Q: "Play with some freaking intensity"
Mike Quade was hot after Wednesday's 9-1 loss to the Phillies and it wasn't because of the weather. He was upset about Starlin Castro and Darwin Barney failing to catch Michael Martinez's pop up in the first.
"We set a bad tone there," Quade said. "A ball's in the sun, they're communicating, Cassie thought he had it all the way. I look back at this whole game and look at that play, and the sun's been in the same [darn] spot for however long Wrigley Field has been here.
"Those are the kind of mistakes — there are certain ones you'll accept but there are other ones that have to be taken care of," he said. "Those are two talented kids in the middle of the diamond. We make enough mistakes that we need to clean them all up. It's so important for those guys to play well in the middle. Everything goes through them, everything. If we're going to be good pitching, we have to play good in the middle."
Quade felt Dempster might have escaped the first if the ball had been caught. Instead, Martinez was credited with a single, Dempster walked the next batter and both eventually scored. The Cubs manager talked to both Castro and Barney after the game about the importance of defense. His message?
"Put the negativity behind us, play with some freaking intensity and continue to work on playing the game the way we need to play, and we're not," Quade said. "That's what we're looking for. It's not universal. We have to clean up some specific areas."
He spared the veterans, saying they were doing a darn good job.
"I just know the value of the middle of the diamond," Quade said. "We have two talented kids there who need to get better. They've got 60-some games to prove that and to show that the rest of this season and go on from there."
Barney said he wasn't surprised that Quade was upset.
"I'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier to be honest," the second baseman said. "When it comes down to it, you've got to play better. We're playing the best team in baseball. We want to be the best team in baseball and we've said many times we believe we can be. I guess it's time to take a gut check and try to get better and come out and work hard in BP and get quality ground balls and turn this thing around. It's not going to happen overnight."
Barney didn't want to comment on the play specifically. Quade did say the two communicated, and Castro thought he had it. The problem isn't lack of experience.
"We're here for a reason," Barney said. "You don't come to the big league level and have the excuse of being inexperienced. You have to get the job done. The way I look at it, Starlin's 21 and I'm 25. If he wasn't ready and he didn't have what it takes, he wouldn't be here and neither would I. We've got to do it, we've got to get the job done and we've got to get better."
— Carrie Muskat

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Unless Darrelle Revis is telling the world he's happy to be Buccaneer despite reports to the contrary, he's not what you'd call a prolific tweeter.
But he took the time to respond to @Jason_Owen, who tweeted about the cornerback and wondered if Revis would rather be lighter in the wallet than even more rich and playing for Greg Schiano:
Back in the good old days when @Revis24 played for a team that mattered. Wonder if 12MM per and Rex as coach has any merit vs Schaino & 16MM— Jason Owen (@Jason_Owen) November 4, 2013
Apparently, that struck a chord with Revis around 4 a.m. on Monday morning after Schiano's Bucs blew a 21-point lead in Seattle:
@Jason_Owen naw 16 is better— Darrelle Revis (@Revis24) November 4, 2013
The verdict: Revis will take $4 million more to play under Schiano and the winless Bucs despite the fact that he could have been on a team that's one of the league's biggest surprises in Gang Green.


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Preston road erodes; home ravaged
The flooding that drenched Western Washington and cut Carnation off from the outside world abated Wednesday, but in Preston, just east of Issaquah, the Raging River wrecked a bridge, stranding some residents for days.
They could cross on foot, but since Chris Birchem can't walk to Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue where he is a registered nurse, he missed two days of work before finding a solution.
"I called Enterprise," he said. "They pick you up."
King County road workers closed Upper Preston Road from the intersection of 312th Avenue Southeast easterly to Southeast 97th Street while they stabilized the slope, later opening it only intermittently. It was closed after further collapse Nov. 13 and likely won't reopen for months.
"The challenge that we are now faced with is that we could potentially experience significant delays to that area. Traffic back ups and the integrity of the road means we respond, but it could take us longer to get there," said Eastside Fire and Rescue (EFR) Battalion Chief Greg Tryon.
Fire officials are asking that residents living in that area pay particular attention to their fire safety practices. Kitchen fires, chimney fires and unattended candles are some of the common fire responses we receive during this time of year. A 10 to 15 minute response could mean the difference between fire damage and the total loss of property, Tryon said.
EFR Chief Lee Soptich said about 200 homes are affected by delayed response times.
The road is not expected to be completely repaired for several months. A gravel bypass is being built for emergency vehicles and may be available for residents if county staff determine it is safe for regular use. For road closure information in King County, call (206) 205-9150. For fire safety information, contact EFR at (425) 392-3433.
The river also destroyed the home Mike and Mary Nichols built and were preparing to move into, until the rising waters began carrying part of it away.
"It looks dangerous, totally dangerous," Tim Carlson, a neighbor, told KIRO TV. "The house is going to fall any time."
Information from King County Journal reporter Amy Roe is included in this report.
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SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, MI — White Pine Middle School has implemented a new lunchtime program in an attempt to reduce the amount of missing and incomplete homework assignments.
Every day, 90 students — 30 from each grade level — participate in the school's Lunch n Learn program. The students selected for the program are notified on a Friday that they will be participating the following week.
From Monday through Friday those select students spend the lunch period working on their incomplete homework assignments in classrooms supervised by teachers while eating lunch. They have two sandwich choices and the meals are delivered to the classrooms.
White Pine Middle School Principal Kristen Hecht said the program is not intended to be a penalty, but an opportunity.
"This is another opportunity to get your homework done," she said while explaining the program to the Saginaw Township Community Schools Board of Education during its Monday, Nov. 12, meeting. "It's another form of intervention. We just have to keep trying."
Board member Marianne Bird said she appreciates the effort to work with those students who have missing or incomplete homework assignments, but isn't sure the Lunch n Learn program is the right method.
"It sounds very punitive to me and very negative," she said.
Hecht said the program is intended to help those students who need an extra nudge and to help prevent their grades from slipping.
Read more about the program here.
MLive.com readers discussed the program in the comments section. Some disagreed with the method and some said students who don't care enough to do their homework won't be helped by this program. One reader offered a suggestion for an alternative solution.
Following are some of the comments MLive.com readers made:
saginawress: I am troubled by Ms. Birds comments. They sound like she is totally out of touch with today's students. Stigmatized? really?
Secondly, How long is their lunch? Is a half hour really time enough for kids at that grade level to eat and do lunch? Prisoners at the Freeland facility time to eat and socialize, so should kids.
Third, Principal Hecht said their are opportunities to volunteer opportunities for parents? How about using paid paraprofessionals for the job and stop the union busting and trying to get free work. You know PCMI could get White Pine a principal for a lot less than Principal Hecht.
Bad idea all the way around from administrators who probably secretly wish school of choice would go away.
Vagabond5: I am interested in Marianne Bird's ideas on what programs she would endorse.
haselhofster: "Hecht said the program is not intended to be a penalty, but an opportunity." I would have to say George Orwell might disagree, let the "Animal Farm" begin...
saginawress: Why not make the last hour at White Pine a study skills class. It's a class where students can do homework and learn effective ways to study material. It could be co-taught.
nowaygreatlakesbay: Another fools errand. But, that's the new normal at STPS.
keith_cameron: Hell No. Leave the Kids alone at Lunch!
saginawtude: In my opinion, not a chance. It's just a pathetic waste of time. Good students do their work anyways, anytime. Bad students don't care, even when they're forced to in waste of time advisory periods like this. It's just a great time for the bad kids to get together and talk shop. This is another pathetic idea, brought to you by bureaucrats in Lansing and DC, and academics that have never taught in a rough public school.
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Roussel met today with Patricia Wilty, principal of Gretna No. 2 Academy for Advanced Studies; teacher Kristin Harris and Rosalind Mathes, the district's director of innovative programs and schools, who were all suspended with pay after the investigation began in late September.
"Personnel have been given time to review the recommendations with their legal counsel,'' according to the statement. "Superintendent Roussel will present her recommendations to the Jefferson Parish School Board once the review time concludes.''
District policy gives employees 20 days to respond to disciplinary action.
While an initial review found 83 problems with admissions and testing at Gretna No. 2, ranging from questionable test scores to students who were admitted despite not meeting requirements, an independent team hired to conduct the investigation found no evidence of racial discrimination. But the team found more than 120 problems at Gretna No. 2 and that 20 students were wrongfully denied entrance to the school, Roussel said last week.


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It's another wonderful day to be alive with good friends and a happy family. Not everyone can share such joy. One of the first things we teach in college is erroneous information leads to erroneous conclusions that only fools would base their "lives" on. Looks like ebay suffers from erroneous information too. I hope that helps.
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Yvette Wilson, one of the stars of "Moesha" and, better known as Andell Wilkerson on "The Parkers" … died at the age of 48 yesterday after battling cervical cancer, TMZ has confirmed.
Wilson, played Moesha's friend Andell Wilkerson through 5 seasons of the hit show — and she played the same role in the spinoff "The Parkers."
Wilson's cancer was Stage 4 when she passed away.
Her "Moesha" co-star Shar Jackson tweeted, "F*ck Cancer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh God. My heart is soooo unbelievably broken. I wanna thank all my tweeties for their prayers but God has chosen to take my sister Yvette home."
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As a resident of the town of North Elba and an enthusiastic outdoor person, I was happy to see both the boards of the village of Lake Placid and town of North Elba get off the fence and make a decision on the rail-vs.-trail issue. I endorse Dorine Peregrim's letter of Sept. 25 in your paper supporting the dual-board, positive resolution for the trail.
As Dorine expressed, removing the rail also represents a vote for being active, experiencing nature rather than passively looking through a train window at the scenery.
I am, however, surprised that our supervisor and mayor did not vote for the trail. We expect them and their boards to make decisions for us and don't need a referendum or further study. Studies have been performed and presented. Enough is enough. If one can't take a position now, one will never be able to. A lot of this "further study" business just means to me our representatives or elected officials don't want to commit to one side or another ... ever.
Congratulations to those of you who swung the vote. I would guess the vast majority of us are grateful for your stance.
Linda Friedlander (Mrs. W. John)
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SPRINGFIELD - Lido Ristorante planned to begin serving at 3 p.m on their final day of business, but when a line formed outside the building at 11 a.m. Saturday morning, the owners opened the doors ahead of schedule.
"I've been crying for two days. Customers are hugging and kissing me and asking me where I'm going. I've been here 35 years and it's breaking my heart," said Karen Arpin, a Lido server, shortly before sharing a cry with a long-time customer leaving her table for the final time.
Inside, painted murals, aging photographs and framed newspaper clippings from The Republican and The New York Times traced the family owned Italian restaurant's storied 64-year history.
Serafino and Olimpia Cerasa founded the restaurant in 1948, and three years later moved to the Worthington Street location where sons Joseph and Donald Cerasa served the family's famed Italian cuisine until Saturday night.
"It's sad to leave but all these people make you feel good. It's a good way to end it," said Donald Cerasa as he carried a cardboard box, filled to the brim with takeout, to a customer's car.
"You see a lot of people walking out with Styrofoam takeout containers and ordering up extra food to take home. People are just trying to save it a little longer," said Bob Cookish, a Chicopee photographer who came to the restaurant to photograph the memorabilia on the walls of the restaurant he remembered his parents taking him to as a kid.
"It's nice. It really is nice," Joseph Cerasa said of the outpouring of customer appreciation, well-wishing handshakes, and assurances that the family's dining room will be sorely missed.
After news broke Friday of Lido's closing, generations of long-time patrons rushed to the restaurant. On Friday willing customers waited three hours for a table, and on Saturday Joseph Cerasa stopped predicting wait times altogether as the line to speak with the maître d' extended out of the room. The phone, by 3 o'clock, endlessly ringing and endlessly unanswered had been unplugged from the wall.
"The best thing about this restaurant is it always stayed the same. Fifty years ago the spaghetti sauce was exactly the same. That's what's nice. It's something consistent," said Jeanne Ahern, 64, of Chicopee.
When Ahern heard the news Friday she called her sister because she needed someone who would be as upset as she was. Ahern's first boyfriend took her to Lido Ristorante for her first date.
"It was always our restaurant," said Ahern. "I have to have my last Lido meal."
Richard and Jane Belleville, came to Lido's on their first date too. Jane probably ate spaghetti, and Richard probably ate Black Angus beef, their favorite Lido dishes, the couple joked. Forty-three years of marriage later the couple returned once more.
"The best restaurants are the family owned restaurants like this one. You say 'Lido's' and the dinner party very easily grows from about four to 10," Jane Belleville said.
Elsewhere in the dining room, the Metayer dinner party spanned three generations. Greg Metayer's parents started taking him to the Worthington Street restaurant as a child, and when Metayer had a son of his own, he and his wife did the same.
All told, five Metayers - Greg Metayer's 7-year-old son Isaac, wife Pam, father Theodore and mother Linda - made one last trip to the restaurant that had played host to family birthdays, holidays and anniversaries. Last year at Lido Ristorante Theodore and Linda Metayer celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
"It's a landmark," said Greg Metayer.
Joe Occhioti, made the drive from Enfield, Conn. when he learned of the Lido's closing.
"My greatest memory here was when Joe Cerasa's son Mark and my son Mark were on the same Little Leage team back in I believe '83, and they won the district championship. Everyone was so happy, and the parents were saying, 'Where are we going to go to celebrate?' And Joe Cerasa said, 'We're all going back to the restaurant,' and everybody came down, the kids, the parents, the grandparents, and when it came time to pay the bill, there was no bill. That's the way the Cerasa family operated," said Occhioti.
"This is probably the best family restaurant in the city of Springfield that I've ever experienced," Occhioti said, but in the Lido Ristorante dining room on Saturday, those words could have been anyone's.


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We booked the cross keys because of its location and good reviews and we were not disappointed. Its a gem.Building itself full of character and the proprietor and staff all very welcoming and good company.Room very comfortable and a bar with a nice atmosphere serving both residents and locals. The food could not be faulted with a substantial breakfast to set you up for the day and a good choice of evening meals of excellent quality and quantity.Although New Galloway itself is somewhat quiet it is an excellent base from which to explore the area.We really enjoyed our stay
The staff was very friendly and helpful
Very outdated and grungy. Needs lots of work. Because of the bar downstairs very loud. Till 11:30
Friendly, convivial and accomodating hotel.
Having arrived at lunch time and then found our room, the room was freezing cold and we were told the heating was on a timer and would not come on till 5pm. To be fair, we were then given a fan heater.
Beautiful location, warm welcome, excellent dinner, warm comfortable room.
Rural location but near a town. Nice building.
Leak at top of window was dripping. Was reported but no action taken.
Great staff. Very welcoming and friendly. Clean and good location.
Road a little noisy and flood lights left on all night with light curtains.
Staff very friendly and helpful, food good. All newly refurbished and comfortable
We were in room 2, it was very cold even with the heating up full! Nothing worse!
Cleanliness, attentative staff, good food, quiet enough for a good night's sleep. Good quality and attractive refurbishments.
No separate hair shower spray (main shower fixed to wall so unable to lower it to shampoo my hair). Shampoo too astringent. Toilet seat too high for comfort. Beds too firm. Dressing robes manmade fabric (cotton much preferable).
Excellent facilities - very modern and well furnished. Rooms very comfortable with everything you would want - bathroom superb.
Rooms very warm and the bed was a small double - this was in the details but in other hotels they are bigger. No quilt - just a thin cover, again not what we are used to.
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What I most admire about John Bolton is his steely demeanor and moral clarity. His spectacular fortitude in the face of scoundrels, liars, and internationally sanctioned criminals never fails to surprise and delight me. What was completely unexpected was the other side of Bolton. He was funny, thoughtful, deliberate. I really enjoyed the chat.
Atlas: If I could I'd like to talk about you. [he is looking at me askance, laughing here] What formed you..........what is your favorite book?
JB: That's a good question actually. I'd say one of the things that made a big impression on me was Edmund Burke's book Reflections on the Revolution in France and I've read a lot of John Locke and that had a big impact on me and Ayn Rand.
Atlas: You're just saying that to make me feel better........
JB: No it's true.
Atlas: Growing up, were you one of many?
JB: No, I had one sister, nine years younger.
Atlas: So you were the oldest. Your parents were tough? Encouraging? Non approving?.
Trying to figure out where you developed that spine of yours........I find that quality rare. There's a lot of it in that administration.
JB: My father was a firefighter in the city of Baltimore, my mother was a housewife.
Atlas: YAY, the great American story.
JB: When the President announced my appointment he talked about my father, he talked about how my mother took me to the library when I was a little boy and said go in there and read, stuff like that. Regular American family and I was the first person in my family to go to college and what that says is they did push me, they did encourage me.
Atlas: And did you always want to do this? Did you always want public service?
JB: I thought about it a lot, I thought when I was in high school I might go into foreign service, but I didn't do that. I ended up in law school and when I was in law school I never thought I would join the government until the Reagan administration.
I was practicing law in Washington at a firm there, although I was politically active. I represented Jim Buckley in a suit against the post Watergate campaign finance reform bill to get it declared unconstitutional because it put restrictions on what candidates could raise and spend on political campaigns. I was active in politics but mostly I was practicing law until the Reagan campaign and then I went into government.
Atlas: And it was satisfying? You were getting things done?
JB: Yeah yeah, first at the AID and then in the Justice Department and then when Bush 41 was elected I worked with Jim Baker at the State Department.
Atlas: Do you find it is less difficult, more difficult getting things done in this political climate?
JB: When I was in earlier administrations I was in assistant secretary level positions working hard on my issues and I didn't pay as much attention to the broader.......
Atlas: the big picture? [Atlas interrupting? WTF?]
JB: So when I see it now, it's probably more discouraging how much there is to do.
Atlas: Discouraging how? Discouraging how much there is to do? Or discouraging as in --is it do-able?
JB: Oh its do-able, under the right circumstances. I'm not so naive that I would be doing it if I didn't think there was a chance which makes it in some senses more frustrating. You can see sometimes how close you can get and yet you can't finish a particular thing. Like Iran, I've been working on this for three and a half years
Atlas: And you'll be working on it for three and half more.
JOB: I hope not, I hope not because now that it's in the Security Council, now is the time to say this is their chance that either they give up their pursuit of nuclear weapons or we go to what the President said, we do something else.
Atlas: We do something else? That's a little vague, don't you think? Deliberately vague?
JB: Yeah, sure absolutely. The President said I never take options off the table. And you've got to be that way. Look this has happened to me enough times before .... if I said, well -- I'll give you an example......after the invasion of Iraq, after Saddam was overthrown I said something in a BBC interview like I hope the governments of Syria and Iran take notice of what's just happened and I got into enormous trouble for that because it sounded like I was threatening the invasion of Iran and Syria.
Atlas: yeah but you get in enormous trouble for waking up in the morning
JB: Well that's true too.
to be continued
More to come guys, but right now I am going to take a break, head downstairs, meet up with some AIPAC folks, and have me a glass of pinot noir............I've had it. Long day. But great.
Part II tomorrow.
Update 1:43 am: Will try to finish this tomorrow/today and get to the Panel discussion as well, video egg will not accept a video upload larger than 5 minutes (if I had only known). The transcribing takes an enormous amount of time, laborious -- particularly for the two fingered typist.
Atlas: As a tangential aside, does that stuff get to you?
JB: The criticism, you mean?
Atlas: Yeah, the intense unfair vilification ......... You don't want to know what they call me on the left side of the sphere I am your whatever because I am such a staunch supporter. After awhile, does it sting less? Were you born with a thick skin? The derision is incredible.
JB: Well nobody likes to go through it.I think there's no question about that. But I think there is an [intelligible] effect over time so I don't think I pay much attention to it.
Atlas: Don't [how funny am i?]
JB: It doesn't affect my behavior, it's just a question of..........
Atlas: [interrupting again] there is that silent majority that supports you
Back to Iran.............
Atlas: I think we've moved too slowly and they've gotten too far. It is frightening to me because Israel is such a small country, it would just take one, to get one off
JB: yeah
Atlas: One
JB: Well, the President has used this phrase enough times, I don't know if he ever used it in a speech, but he talks about his concern about a Nuclear Holocaust -- that's his phrase.
Atlas: He's right
JB: He's got Iran specifically in mind. That's why I am confident over time that whatever happens at the State Department, the President knows what he needs to do.
Atlas: You're clear on that.
JB: Yeah, he's got that, he's got North Korea which he calls a prison camp. He said to Kofi Annan last September - it's a disgrace that during our administrations this regime still keeps its entire population in a prison camp -- which Kofi didn't know what to say. There are things he's got in his mind that are very clearly fixed.
Atlas: Do you think the UN is more of a detriment, than it is helpful? Look I do but it doesn't matter what I think, -- the UN, a benefit or a disadvantage to the world? It's sort of an enabling arm.
JB: I think from a cost benefit point of view the point of the reform effort that we are engaged in is to see if we can get it to a point where it's actually effective. You know I went through -- in the Bush 41 administration -- getting the resolutions condemning Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, getting the sanctions in place, getting the authorization to use force to throw the Iraqis out, and we used to say that vote to the Security Council was November of 1990 [after the invasion], Congress didn't vote in favor of the authorization to use force until December so we used to say we got Finland to vote in favor of the authorization to use force before we got Congress.
Atlas: Chuckling here
JB: I've seen it in cases where it's helped us.
Atlas: OK
JB: So I don't take the view that there is no good that can come of it. But it's now so encrusted in this management and corruption. It is so out of our control. That's what this reform effort is all about, you can see it now, if you follow-- and I think you have -- this debate over the human rights commission, the so called reform is so bad even The New York Times and The Washington Post support our position to vote against it.
Atlas: Which is shocking.
JB" Which is amazing
Atlas: [More laughter]
Alright guys, I have got to get back to the convention center. I will try to post Part III later.
Do you not love that Bolton reads the blog. I mean, how cool is that?
JB: But the point is, that's an example where you can make a clear argument that an institution is broken and we've convinced everybody in the existing human rights commission that it is clearly broken. It has zero credibility. Now what it's replaced with is going to make a difference and we're not happy with the result.
Atlas: Yeah, yeah, I know you're not. Listen I don't understand how oil-for food didn't shake up the world.
JB: Look, we just had Security Council meetings this month on fraud, waste, abuse, peacekeeping, procurement. We did a separate meeting on sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers. It did get some attention.
Atlas: Yeah, scant, what got the level of attention was when they said it was not an admissible level, so the turn around was -- what level is admissible when it comes to that [UN peackeepers' sex crimes]?
JB: Yeah, so you can have one day of meetings on these things and then the pressure disappears. And that's what we just fundamentally have to change. Over the next four months, the real battle on getting rid of the unnecessary, outdated, ineffective, counter productive programs, the three Palestinian offices that have been set up by the secretary and all the rest of the waste and abuse that goes on. This is, I mean a lot of it frankly is gonna be my eyes-glaze-over kind of stuff - this is the management program and really not very interesting. But this is where the critical battle is. If we can reshape the organization - at least starting in the next four months, then that's one thing, but if run into the kind of opposition on all that, that we faced on the human rights commission then we are not going to get anywhere.
Atlas: What makes you think you're not going to face it?
JB: Oh I'm sure we will. I mean that's why, you have to do this, you have to view what we're trying to do as a test. And you know, we'll succeed or we'll fail. And the big advantage I have is that I'm not afraid to say that we didn't succeed. If we don't get the reform that we need I am going to say that, and I'm not going to -- like this human rights commission -- say what we want is a butterfly, and then put lipstick on a caterpillar and call it a success. I'm not going to do it.
Atlas: But it might be pretty...........um. Let me ask you something else about Hamas. I see the election of Hamas for what it is. I think they knew exactly what they were doing -- I understand about the social services but they knew what they were doing. They know the Hamas mission statement and to me it's a declaration of war. I know [the world] wants us to try to hold their hand but I don't understand how you can make a silk purse out of Hamas. How is the US going to give humanitarian aid now? Explain.
JB: This a big question on how you avoid supporting a terrorist
led organization while still giving the humanitarian assistance. And I
think it's going to be hard. We just had Alvaro de Soto who is the
Secretary General's coordinator for Middle East peace, talking to the
security council and his position was you have to keep funding the
Palestinian Authority no matter what. And he said -- "so what are we going to do about health care for the Palestinians, because it's all through the Palestinian authority ?" What are you going to do about education for
Palestinian children because it's all through Palestinian Authority."
So we build schools and give [money] to the Palestinian Authority for Hamas to put its teachers in the schools? And this is something that --you know -- the Europeans have already given 130 million to tide them over. This is going to be a real test to see what we're, how we're going to come out [on it].
Atlas: Did you grow up in a Jewish neighborhood?
JB: No
Atlas: Did you know many Jews growing up?
JB: Nope
Atlas: It seems to me you like Jews.
JB: Hysterical laughter
Atlas: Seriously folks. I'm just asking you because I find it's refreshing, and it's unique, and it's not the everyday, so I mean, did you -- was your first love a Jewish girl? I'm just curious........ where'd it come from? C'mon John.
JB: Actually she was, but she wasn't religious.
Both laughing now. I am clapping .............
Atlas: Thank you for that, so much appreciate it. A couple of other things just because I want to know. I know you have no free time but when you do, what do you like to do? Do you like to go to the movies? Do you like to cook?
JB: Just about
Atlas: Do you like to go bowling? Oh c''mon ............
JB: (Laughing) I take care of my daughter
Atlas: Awwwwww..................that's lovely.
Bolton is a fine man. Great. We're lucky to have him. While taking enormous risks...... he is, in a word, unafraid.
UPDATE March 7th : U.S. Envoy Bolton Expects Security Council To Meet on Iran
U.S. Department of State
The 15-nation U.N. Security Council will take up the issue of Iran's nuclear program after the International Atomic Energy Agency board meets March 6, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton says. Describing the matter as a test for the Security Council, he says that if the permanent members of the council agree "an Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable and that it is appropriate to have Iran in the Security Council -- which all five permanent members have said -- then you have to ask what is the council going to do about it,"
"Looking at the lack of Iranian cooperation, looking at the affirmative efforts Iran made to conceal its nuclear activities and difficulties the IAEA has had pulling information out of them. … There is simply no escaping the conclusion based on the evidence that the Iranians are pursuing a nuclear weapons capability," the ambassador said.
"With all due respect to the IAEA, with all due respect, the Charter of the United Nations says that the Security Council is responsible for threats to international peace and security. The Security Council doesn't need a report from the IAEA," he said.


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Welcome to February, all! Hopefully the coldest of the bitter cold in your town is gone. It might be gone here in Edmonton, but who knows? It was minus 40C before it was even officially winter this year. GO CANADA. Anyway, as promised, here is the second installment of our Monthly Calendar Wallpapers. This image […]READ FULL POST


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At least 12 people died and 10 were wounded on Monday in different attacks around Iraq, police told Efe.
Three members of the pro-government militia known as the Salvation Council were killed and two others were wounded when armed gunmen attacked one of the group's checkpoints in the town of Al Hawiya, west of Kirkuk and 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
The police source added that three police officers and a civilian died in an attack carried out by armed men on a police station in the town of Al Asriya north of Tikrit, in northern Salahuddin province.
An Iraqi government official in the same region was murdered by armed men as he was driving a state-owned vehicle in the Al Huyay zone, north of Tikrit.
In the same area, a driver with the Civil Defense department in the city of Al Sharkat, died in another such attack on his vehicle.
The police source also said that an Iraqi army soldier was killed with silenced weapons on a public street in western Mosul, 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) north of Baghdad.
In addition, a civilian died and five others were wounded when a car bomb exploded at an intersection elsewhere in Mosul, while one police officer died and another was wounded in an attack on their patrol car near the university in that city.
Meanwhile, the head of planning for the Mosul police, Col. Faisal Ahmed, and one of the people with him were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded as they were driving by.
Iraq is experiencing a resurgence in sectarian violence and terrorist attacks, which in 2013 killed 8,868 people, of whom 7,818 were civilians, according to United Nations figures. EFE


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The Globe published a good op-ed this weekend by Meta Wagner, a writing instructor at Emerson, about "cartoon dramas":
But, now there's a new, popular TV genre that somehow pulls me in while preventing me from becoming fully invested. I've come to think of it as the cartoon drama.
With cartoon dramas, the people, the storylines, and the situations are so unreal — or perhaps hyper-real — as to be laughable, which perfectly befits cartoons but not traditional dramas. These shows (their precursor is "24") take the most frightening and horrifying political events of the day and present them in an over-the-top, unbelievable, outrageous fashion. It's television for an age where we're concerned and terrified yet simultaneously suffering from compassion fatigue: the age of ISIS, ISIL, the beheadings of two American journalists, war in Syria, a do-nothing Congress, the militarization of our police forces, the Ebola virus, etc.
And so viewers not only turn to sitcoms and reality TV to escape, we also turn to cartoon dramas to confront the ugliness of current events, but in a way that can leave us ultimately untouched. Murder, torture, corruption — none of it sticks.
She identifies "Scandal," "Homeland," and "House of Cards" as three of the biggest offenders, or perhaps I should say "delighters." Ever since Bertolt Brecht, we've known that while drama inherently draws people in, there are also techniques it can use to push an audience away–not in the sense of disengaging, exactly, but in the sense of making people aware, suddenly or stubbornly, that they are watching a piece of staged entertainment. Brecht called it the "alienation effect." If you've ever seen a show where you can see all the ropes and pulleys backstage, or where the stagehands move the furniture around in plain sight, not trying to be unobtrusive–that's a little Brechtianism, right there.
Television can't simply show you the wires and hired help, like theater can, but it has other ways of reminding the audience that this is just a show. (Besides the most obvious one, commercials–which to this day no one has employed to better Brechtian effect than Alfred Hitchcock in 1950s "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" program.) Television can get the alienation effect by being over-the-top, or self-referential, or–and no stage director would dare try this–simply not very good.
I wrote a similar analysis to Ms. Wagner's about "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," which I still consider, pace "Scandal," to be the finest exemplar of the genre.
An aesthetic style that would continually shift audiences between sentimental empathy and critical awareness is called "epic theater." It was a groundbreaking idea a hundred years ago, and the smartest theater artists in the world are still exploring this extraordinarily fertile concept today.
"L&O: SVU" achieves epic theater status by the simple expedient of not being very good.
Or, more precisely, being bad in very specific ways that keep the viewer from being overwhelmed by the horror of the actual stories portrayed in the show. Those stories, and the actors who play them–those are often very good indeed.
In the episode "Disabled," for example, the detectives watch a video recording of a caretaker beating a paralyzed woman with a bar of soap in a sock. The woman in the wheelchair has advanced multiple sclerosis; she can feel the beating, but not dodge or even scream beyond choked moans and grunts. The video goes on for several minutes, one woman mercilessly pounding another across the head, face, breasts. The detectives are repulsed–even Ice-T is visibly shaken. The video cuts out.
After a moment of silence, the forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Huang, speaks. "I think Janice deeply resents having to care for her sister."
YOU THINK? Let me tell you, Bertolt Brecht is kicking himself in his grave, if such a thing is possible, for not putting Dr. Huang in "The Good Woman of Szechuan."
This is how "L&O: SVU" works. It doesn't distance the viewer with theatrical "breaking the fourth wall" tricks. It distances the viewer by providing such an excess of information, which is never understood by the characters to be so, that the "Duh" response of any normal person is triggered several times an episode. This makes it possible to actually enjoy tales of horror that would otherwise be far too disturbing.
Whether the fears are international terrorist threats or the psychopath next door, "cartoon drama" helps you put them in a box and cope. You can read the whole thing here.


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"$250,000 Grant to Finance Website Tied to PBS Series." By Elizabeth Jensen. New York Times. April 21, 2014.
"$250,000 Grant to Finance Website Tied to PBS Series." By Elizabeth Jensen. New York Times. April 21, 2014.
"Fox executive fired over charity e-mail." By Frazier Moore. USA Today. April 20, 2014.
"Al Jerome stepping down as head of troubled public TV station KCET." By Scott Collins. Los Angeles Times. March 18, 2014.
"A Website Asks Readers to Finance Independent Journalists." By Sydney Ember. New York Times. March 20, 2014.
"New York Public Radio Receives Grant for $10 Million." By Elizabeth Jensen. New York Times. March 20, 2014.
"The future of Wikipedia; WikiPeaks? The popular online encyclopedia must work out what is next." Economist. March 4, 2014.
"Bill Keller, Former Editor of The Times, Is Leaving for News Nonprofit." By Ravi Somaiya. New York Times. February 10, 2014.
Related stories:
"Bill Keller leaving New York Times to head nonprofit media outlet." By Paul Farhi. Washington Post. February 10, 2014.
"His Loss Is Their Gain: Bill Keller Suddenly Exits 'The New York Times'." Nation. February 10, 2014.
"Bill Keller Leaving The New York Times For Nonprofit Journalism Organization." Huffington Post. February 10, 2 "014.">Bill Keller to leave New York Times." Politico.com. February 10, 2014.
"New York Times' Veteran Bill Keller Joins Marshall Project." Morning Edition/NationaL Public Radio. February 11, 2014.
"Robin Hood Radio Tries To Save Local Community Radio." Morning Edition/National Public Radio. February 10, 2014.
"A Reported Opinion Blog on News Media; Glenn Greenwald and the U.S. 'assassination' program." By Erik Wemple. Washington Post. February 11, 2014.
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"eBay Co-Founder's Media Company Launches Digital Magazine." Morning Edition/National Public Radio. February 11, 2014.
"The Wolf of Sesame Street: Revealing the secret corruption inside PBS's news division." By David Sirota. Huffington Post. February 12, 2014.
"WNET to Return $3.5 Million Grant for Pension Series." By Elizabeth Jensen. New York Times. February 14, 2014.
"WBAI, Still Fighting Deficits, Fires Its Programming Chief." By Ben Sisario. New York Times. February 15, 2014.
"The growing silence of 'union radio'." By Mackenzie Weinger. Politico.com. February 16, 2014.
"Glenn Greenwald-Led Digital Magazine's First Issue Will Focus On NSA Documents." By Michael Calderone. Huffington Post. February 7, 2014.
"Boston Globe considers Catholic expansion." By Hadas Gold. Politico.com. January 8, 2014.
"A new power in conservative media." By Hadas Gold. Politico.com. January 4, 2014.
"An NPR news show, reconsidered; The show had been broadcast from D.C. for 36 years before it set up shop in L.A." Politico.com. January 4, 2014.
"NPR Gets $17 Million in Grants to Expand Coverage and Develop Digital Platform." By Elizabeth Jensen. New York Times. December 15, 2013.


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TRENTON -- The Route 29 tunnel in Trenton will have northbound right-lane closures starting today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as the state Department of Transportation replaces light fixtures.
The right lane closure will occur during weekday, daytime hours will continue for about two weeks, DOT officials said.
The Route 29 tunnel is a main artery into the Statehouse area from Route 195 west.
In addition to the lane closures, the the Lalor Street entrance to Route 29 north will be blocked. Drivers will be detoured on Lamberton Street to the Cass Street entrance to the highway.
For information about the daily timing of the lane closures, visit the DOT traffic website www.511nj.org.


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no such thing as "too much fat". I mean, unless you're eating past when you are satisfied/full, but that's just too much FOOD, not too much fat.
Denser is good! Maybe your bones will also get denser over time... if you drank a lot of diet coke I think that can affect bone density, so cutting it out will help, and eating the right foods to "heal" them will help too... of course bodyweight exercises / weight lifting are good for building muscle too.


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Dollar General has marked all toys priced $15 or more 25% off this week. It ends Dec. 5.
There's also a $5 off $25 purchase printable coupon at www.dollargeneral.com or printing on the bottom of your receipts this week. (Coupon is valid Saturday only)
If you spend $100 or more you will get an additional 10% off. That's a great deal! (Just make sure the $100 total is after the 25% discount on those select toys and you are good to go!) See toys: http://bit.ly/vZPSq5
Doing some math with the discount --
1 Toy at $15 with the discount will = $11.25
So you'll need to buy 2 + $2.50 in something else, candy, stocking stuffers etc. to meet the $25 coupon requirement.


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The Schalick High School softball team and Janna Gaburo have slid under the radar in the Tri-County Conference and NJSIAA South Jersey Group I field for the last three years.
After last season's magic run to the final, though, the tiny school in Pittsgrove Township will no doubt be a large dot on everyone's screen in 2014.
As the 12th seed, the Cougars pulled off three straight upsets, including over S.J. champ and top-seed Gloucester, to reach the S.J. championship game against eventual state champ Haddon Heights. The Garnets ended the Cougars' run with a 9-2 loss.
Regardless, the damage was done. The Cougars went from a relatively unknown team to the talk of South Jersey.
"It was great for us being the underdog because no one expected us to do what we did," said Gaburo, who resided in the pitcher's circle for each victory. "We are Schalick and have been quiet for a few years. But I could not be more happy with the outcome. We didn't win and struggled in the final game but for us to make it that far and play as a team and do what we did made me so happy and proud of the team."
Gaburo was right in the middle of the run. In the three wins, Gaburo allowed six runs in 21 innings and fanned 13. In the win over the Lions, she gave up just one run.
At the plate, she went 5-for-12, walked four times, and scored five runs, which was one-third of the entire runs the team scored.
Not found in any scorebook was the inspiration she provided.
"I think we were sparked by the person in the circle," Cougars coach Jami Musey-Lau said. "They started to believe because of her. Her confidence was contagious."
The regular season was no different.
In 81 at bats, Gaburo had a team-high 44 hits, including 13 doubles, and batted .540. The lead-off hitter also drew 18 walks, scored 33 runs, which led the Diamond Division, and finished with a double-taking .630 on-base percentage.
For the season, she went 15-10 and struck out 95 in 159 innings. Over her three years, she's won 41 games and the school record for wins is within reach.
"Being the starting pitcher as a freshman was intimidating, but I know that if I went out there and performed in games like I did in practice I would get results," Gaburo said. "I had to throw strikes and get batters out. Doing that the past three years has given me the results I wanted and I am happy about that. It's great to see because it means all of the hard work is paying off and I am doing things I never thought possible as a freshman."
Ironically, Gaburo entered the program as an outfielder and was pressed into pitching duties because there weren't any other options for the Cougars.
"She is such a selfless player and does what is best for the sake of the team," Musey-Lau said. "All she does is work hard and has that intrinsic motivation. You don't see that in many kids and she just has a genuine love of softball. She leads on team by her actions."
Gaburo understands that she must continue to do so, especially this year. The Cougars are probably going to have a small bulls-eye on their backs.
But the Cougars not only prefer it that way, they are ready for the pressure that accompanies the new attention and are anxious to prove last season wasn't a fluke.
"We have a lot of pressure on us knowing we are on everyone's radar now and people know us," Gaburo said. "We want to maintain that now. We are Schalick and here to play. We are not just that little school that no one knows."
Neither is Gaburo.


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The San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park's pelicans have bird lovers flocking to see them. At the Zoo, four young great white pelicans, two males and two females, live in an exhibit on Park Way, just down the slope from the birds of prey aviaries. They share their home with cormorants, ducks, and other water birds. Read a blog about their arrival: Pelican Keeper Chat.
At the Safari Park, pelicans have been one of its big success stories. The Park has assembled the most comprehensive and productive collection of pelicans in North America and is the only accredited facility with great white, Dalmatian, and pink-backed pelicans. The Park's Africa Tram tour offers the chance to see all three pelican species. In the South Africa field exhibit, Dalmatian and great white pelicans live together. The Dalmatians are fond of nesting on the island in the exhibit, which is only accessible to keepers by boat.
In the Central Africa field exhibit, a dozen pelican youngsters, from all three species, spend their weaning period with two older birds that serve as mentors. Penny, an older female pink-backed pelican, is sort of the bird in charge, helping them learn the ropes. The Park's African Forest houses three pairs of pink-backed pelicans and also features a small island for the birds to enjoy.
The use of the insecticide DDT almost wiped out pelicans and other birds by causing eggshells to thin. Pelicans received large doses of the chemical from the fish they ate, due to pesticide contamination in the water from run-off and the direct dumping of DDT waste, which affected the ocean's food chain. In addition, nesting colonies were disturbed as more people moved to coastal areas. By 1970, brown pelicans were listed as endangered. The ban on DDT use in 1972 proved beneficial for pelicans, and their numbers gradually returned.
But another problem confronts the brown pelican. They have discovered that food is easily attained from fishermen in boats and on bridges or piers. What they haven't discovered, however, is a way to avoid the fisherman's dangerous hooks and lines. Birds have received serious injuries to almost every part of their body from barbed hooks. When fisherman snag a pelican, they often cut their lines rather than bringing the bird in and carefully removing the hook. And the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has caused the slow decay of mangrove swamps where thousands of the birds used to nest.
Likewise, things are looking grim for the Dalmatian pelican, which is native to eastern Europe and parts of Asia. As a ground nester, shrinking wetlands caused its population to drop. But recent conservation efforts, including legal protection, have greatly helped this pelican species. Although it is still a vulnerable species, there is some hope!
Even though pelicans may be unusual looking, they have successfully adapted to their various habitats for millions of years. So far there are no endangered pelican species, and we hope that with continuing conservation education, this is how their status will remain.
You can help us bring species back from the brink by supporting the San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy. Together we can save and protect wildlife around the globe.


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Fall victim rescued near Hoyt's Crossing
August 8, 2013
A female fall victim was transported Saturday by North San Juan and Nevada County Consolidated fire departments.
The patient was located about a mile up the South Yuba trail toward Hoyt's Crossing, said North San Juan Fire Protection District Public Information Officer Christoffer Montelius.
The victim was transported on a wheeled rescue basket to an ambulance at the old 49 Bridge, Montelius said.
The narrow trail near Hoyt's Crossing is a site where multiple people are injured every year, Montelius said.
"We've been there quite a few times for people who seem to break their ankles on the last stretch of Hoyt's Crossing," he said.
The two fire departments have combined efforts several times this year, Montelius said, because their areas of jurisdiction meet in the middle of the river, which has been a site for increased injury as more people have visited the river this year than previously.
"North San Juan and Consolidated have done quite a few rescues together this year — more than average along the river," he said.
The same overlap exists near Edward's Crossing and Purdon Crossing where North San Juan fire department and Cal Fire Station 42 combine efforts to assist injuries, Montelius said.
"We oftentimes end up carrying people out quite a ways, sometimes two or three miles, so we definitely need the manpower of at least two departments."
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NEWARK, N.J., March 14 (UPI) — Heavy rains and winds exceeding 70 mph in the U.S. Northeast knocked out power to 500,000 people and left at least three people dead, authorities said.
Officials in West Virginia blamed flooding for one death and police in Teaneck, N.J., said two people were killed when gusty winds caused a tree to fall on them Saturday night, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger reported.
Winds and rain also toppled a crane in Atlantic City, N.J., led to the shutdown of parts of the New Jersey Turnpike and caused several houses to collapse in the state, the Star-Ledger said.
The National Weather Service said the storm has caused flooding and travel delays, and dumped as much as 4 inches of rain since Saturday in an area of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic stretching from West Virginia to Connecticut. With up to 3 inches expected in some areas Sunday, the weather service extended storm and flood warnings.
CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said the high winds have died down but the region is still threatened by heavy rain and flooding, and further travel delays.
"This storm is such a slow mover that it's not going to pull out probably until Monday," Jeras said.
The power outages hit hardest in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. About 100,000 customers in New Jersey and about 30,000 in Pennsylvania had their electrical service restored Sunday, authorities said.
Wind gusts fanned a fire that destroyed historic homes on the Jersey Shore and knocked down other buildings, The New York Times reported.
The storm prompted Amtrak to suspend service between New York and Philadelphia, while New Jersey Transit stopped running trains on several lines.
Forecasters predicted the storm would move to central New England Sunday before heading out to sea Monday.
Flooding persisted in the U.S. Midwest Sunday, the result of melting snow, rains and ice jams, CNN said. In North Dakota, authorities said the Red River is expected to reach major flood stage Tuesday near Fargo and Moorhead.
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SR 520 full closure this weekend
SR 520 will be closed in both directions this weekend. Construction crews will close all lanes of SR 520 from Montlake Boulevard to I-405 from 11 p.m. Friday, July 11 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 14.
This closure will allow crews working on the SR 520 West Connection Bridge to continue pouring concrete for the new bridge deck on the west end of Lake Washington. Crews on the Eastside Project will also continue paving activities. Crews will also close 108th Avenue Northeast/112th Avenue Northeast and all connecting ramps to SR 520 to place new pavement on that street.
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- U.S. Beef Trade Still Stymied In Indonesia
- BSE-related restrictions lifted, but will it help?
U.S. beef exports to Indonesia plummeted 90% last year when that country imposed severely restrictive import quotas.
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BSE-related restrictions lifted, but will it help?
In a recent move specific to U.S. products, Indonesia reopened the market to imports of U.S. bone-in beef, offal and beef products – items that had been banned following the BSE case detected in California in April 2012. This action was taken after the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) upgraded the BSE risk classification for the U.S. from controlled risk to negligible risk. Except for certain specified risk materials, the market is now open to U.S. beef and beef products from cattle of all ages.
This appears on the surface to be a very positive development for U.S. exporters. However, it will be of limited benefit to the U.S. industry unless importers are able to navigate the permit system and get the product into the country.
In mid-July, Indonesia's Ministry of Trade announced it might adjust the volume of imported beef allowed into the country in order to stabilize supplies and ease the pressure on beef prices. The announcement, however, included only vague details of a domestic price trigger mechanism that will be used to determine whether the import volumes will be increased.
Is there any relief in sight?
In January, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced that the U.S. would request consultations with Indonesia under the dispute settlement provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) concerning many trade-restrictive measures, including those targeting imported beef. USTR is pressing ahead with this case, as Indonesian officials continue to publicly defend their misguided and unrealistic goals for beef self-sufficiency.
Responding to consumer unrest over rising prices and pressure from its major beef suppliers, Indonesia has tweaked its import policies but the changes don't go nearly far enough to bring it into WTO compliance. For Indonesia to reach its potential as an export market for U.S. beef, it must first acknowledge that it does not have the capacity to achieve self-sufficiency and then introduce trade-compliant import policies.
This isn't likely to happen without continued pressure from the U.S. – along with Australia, New Zealand and other beef-supplying nations.
Joe Schuele is communications director for the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
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On Friday, August 31st, CMT will host the 72-hour exclusive world premiere of Randy Houser's new music video, "How Country Feels." Fans can tune in during CMT's Top 20 Countdown at 11 a.m. EDT / 10 a.m. CDT to watch.
Wes Edwards of Ruckus Film directed the new video, and it was filmed at Glenn Leven Farm in Nashville, Tenn.
"Wes took the story in the song and delivered a concept video that we both envisioned," Houser shares. "I think he captured it in a way that will hopefully allow viewers to experience that much more of 'How Country Feels.'"
"How Country Feels" is Houser's current Top 30 and climbing Billboard Country single, and the coinciding video paints a picture of a girl who has never experienced anything other than urban life. This song animates her to step into the country and experience things from a new perspective. The single is Houser's first release on Stoney Creek Records and is the follow-up to his No. 2 Billboard Country hit, "Boots On," and hits, "Anything Goes" and "Whistlin' Dixie."
For more information on Randy Houser, visit www.RandyHouser.com.
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Daniel Joseph McFarland, the former president of the Grand Rapids Jaycees, died Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at the age of 47.
He grew up in Essexville, Mich., and graduated from Central Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in marketing. While living in Louisiana, he further developed one of his great joys, grilling and cooking, which he loved to share.
In Grand Rapids, he became president and a lifelong member of the Grand Rapids Jaycees. He was known for his laugh, his personality, kindness and wit – as well as his willingness to help others.
He is survived by his wife, Krista (Rye) McFarland; his mother, Elaine E. (Arndt) McFarland; sister, Mary (McFarland); and her husband, Jack Conners; sister, Ann (McFarland) and her husband, Mark Allen; brothers, Thomas and his wife, Judy McFarland, Richard and his wife, Sarah McFarland, Mark and his wife, Nancy McFarland, Jim McFarland and his wife, Kathleen O'Brien, John McFarland and wife, Susan Gosdick; and many beloved nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by his father, Thomas A. McFarland, he will also be mourned by his in-laws, Samuel R. and Patricia A. Rye, and brother-in-law, Scott Rye.
The funeral home visitation will be at Arsulowicz Brothers Remembrance Mortuary, 3525 Remembrance Road, NW, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday, January 30. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 a.m. Friday at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, 224 Carrier St. NE, with visitation one hour before the service.
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Director Mike Leigh's acclaimed Oscar-nominated drama "Another Year" will premiere tonight at Montgomery's Capri Theatre.
Leigh's film takes a close and emotional look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their sometimes eccentric family and friends.
Starring British acting veterans Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville and Ruth Sheen, the film earned one Oscar nomination for best original screenplay and collected considerable buzz for Manville's zany turn.
The film received universal acclaim, scoring a terrific 92 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Critics single out the strong performances and Leigh's trademark nuances of everyday life.
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