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Kyle Teague gave up a solo homer over the center-field fence to Swartz Creek's Damien Keehn in the bottom of the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader Thursday.
That was about the only thing the Oxford junior did wrong as he tossed a four-hitter with 10 strikeouts to lead the Wildcats to a 9-1 Metro League victory over the host Dragons.
"It was belt high and down the middle," Teague said. "It was a big boy up there and, if he got ahold of it, it was going to go. I'm happy with one run."
Teague's performance enabled Oxford to clinch the outright Metro championship. The Wildcats, who won the nightcap by a 9-2 score, finished league play with a 14-1 record.
"It's incredible how businesslike and focused they are on every pitch," Oxford coach Kurt Nuss said. "They come to compete. Our seniors have been outstanding all year."
Teague's delivery might look a little odd to some, but its perfectly natural to him. Unlike most hurlers, the right-hander throws sidearm.
When he was a youth, he had difficulty getting the ball over the plate using the typical over-the-top motion.
In eighth grade his pitching coach, Joe Fletcher, changed his delivery to sidearm. This spring, Teague has been nearly unhitable.
Entering Thursday's contest he has been clocked consistently between 84 to 85 mph and he had an 0.88 earned run average.
"He's pretty special," Nuss said. "He does the important stuff that transfers to baseball. He works on his core (strength) and his weights. He works for everything he gets."
Against Swartz Creek, Teague's unusual delivery appeared to baffle the Dragons' hitters. After allowing three hits in the first four innings, he yielded only one in the final three.
The 16-year-old threw 98 pitches against Swartz Creek and fanned five of the final eight batters. He improved his overall record to 8-2 and has 96 strikeouts in 62 innings pitched.
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Brandon Duggan had five hits and four RBIs, Bobby Rhodes had four hits and five RBIs, Teague had four hits and Jeremy Bukoski threw a four-hitter with three strikeouts to win the second game for Oxford (24-5).
Trevor Cope had four hits and Trevor L'Hommedieu had three for Swartz Creek (17-15-1, 11-5 Metro).


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School band programs may cut back on trips soon
POULSBO — Susan Peters has seen the band budget cut each year since she took the band instructor job at North Kitsap High School about six years ago. Despite budget cuts, the program continues to grow.
The cuts, to both North Kitsap and Kingston high school bands, has put a larger burden on band boosters.
The North Kitsap band budget is about $200,000. Of that total, the district provided $2,477.92 for band transportation per quarter during the 2011-12 school year.
"We've been taking hits to the point where we have no budget at all," Peters said. "It puts a tremendous burden on students and parents."
In order to avoid a $125 pay-to-play fee this year, band program leaders and boosters agreed to try and raise more money. Marching band students already pay a $125 fee to participate.
For a few years, Peters expects the cuts won't have too much of a impact. However, to maintain fundraising for an extended period of time might be unrealistic, she said.
The band programs may reduce the amount of travel that is done throughout the year.
Randy Borek, North Kitsap High School Band Booster president, said it's possible the band program will be scaled down in the 2012-13 school year. That would include attending fewer competitions. The marching band, for example, attends four competitions per year. It could be reduced to two, he said.
Borek, who has two children in the band program, said he would like to see his sophomore student go through four years of band.
"I would certainly like to see it scaled down before it goes away," he said.
The band booster clubs rely on parents. At North Kitsap, parents must have a student in band in order to participate in the school's band booster club. Student enrollment has been steady with the program, despite the district losing students, Borek said.
The Kingston High School Band Boosters are in the same boat. Shawna Reimann, the KHS band booster president, said the total amount the program received from the district was $5,500 in 2011-12. Reimann said taking the band to Portland for the Portland Rose Festival cost about $30,000.
Reimann said the KHS band program is fine this year because boosters were successful last year. The program is surviving on savings.
The cuts have also forced the boosters to become creative when cutting costs. Along with filling buses to capacity, parents are doing more chaperoning, Reimann said. Instead of renting a truck to transport instruments and equipment, they are using a horse trailer.
In the future, if money gets more tight, Reimann echoed her North Kitsap counterparts; the marching band will have to reduce its number of performance venues.
Reimann said she still expects the school board to charge a pay-to-play fee for band students. If that happens, she said she would like to see the band programs receive more funding, like sports.
Dan Weedin, North Kitsap School Board president, said he was pleased that the boosters were willing to fundraise more, instead of the board imposing fees. Weedin said he does not see a scenario where there would be a fee, such as the one suggested during the budget adoption process. However, he cannot say it will never happen.
"In my personal opinion, it's highly unlikely that we would see that," he said.
Weedin, who is the regular football announcer at North Kitsap Stadium for the Vikings, said the band programs are necessary, 100 percent. Not only are the programs successful, he said they help build the culture of the schools.
To help with expenses, the band programs continue to host fundraisers throughout the year.
On Dec. 1, North Kitsap will host Putting on the Ritz, 7 p.m., at First Lutheran Church. The event includes an auction and will include performances by the Jazz Band, with guest performers. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door.
On March 8, North Kitsap will host "Poulsbo's Got Talent" in the North Kitsap Auditorium, from 6-9 p.m. The talent show is community-wide. Auditions will be held in January. Acts will include music and comedy. Guests will have the chance to vote for their favorites.
On Dec. 15, KHS band boosters will host a Papa Murphy's takeover in Kingston, where money from each pizza purchase goes to the band.
On Feb. 9, KHS will hold its silent auction at the Indianola Club House.
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LANSING -- The state Senate is officially in the market for new office space.
Secretary of the Senate Carol Vivendi issued a request Thursday for bids to provide offices for senators, according to Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville's office.
Senate offices are housed in the state-owned Farnum Building at the southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Allegan Street adjacent to the Capitol.
Lawmakers are considering legislation to transfer ownership of the building from the executive branch to the Senate, which would then sell the structure and use the proceeds to purchase office space elsewhere.
The sale is necessary because the building, which was purchased by the state in 1978, has problems including asbestos, substandard security, outdated technology and volatile heating. Repairing those problems would cost more than moving to new office space.
Richardville said in December that earlier estimates for upgrading the Farnum Building were "scary," citing a potential cost of around $24 million and suggesting it might make more financial sense to explore other options. The Farnum Building recently was appraised at $5.4 million, according to the Senate Fiscal Agency, and the parking lot was valued at $225,000.
The companies who received the proposal include the Boji Group, Christman Company, City of Lansing, Clark Construction, Eyde Company, Ferguson Development, Gentilozzi Real Estate and Management Company, Gillespie Company, Gillespie Group, Granger Construction, Granger Group, Paul Gentilozzi, Peninsula Capital Advisors and Sam Eyde Management, according to an announcement from Richardville's office.
Each was invited to respond because they have expressed interest in providing office space over the years or are in the vicinity of the Capitol and may be able to provide office space, according to the announcement.
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Nationals Game Notes — May 31 vs. Texas Rangers
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Game #54: Washington Nationals (26-27) vs. Texas Rangers (28-27) | 12:05 p.m. | Nationals Park
Pitching Match-Ups: RHP Doug Fister (2-1, 3.42 ERA) vs. RHP Nick Tepesch (2-0, 2.95 ERA)
Washington Nationals right-hander Doug Fister's four career wins over the Texas Rangers (postseason included) have all occurred when pitching at "home" (three at Comerica Park, one at Safeco Field).
Radio: 106.7 FM / 1500 AM, also on nationals.com (for subscribers to MLB.tv)
TV: The game will be televised on MASN and MLBNetwork
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With three more hits on Friday night vs. the Rangers, Nationals outfielder Denard Span is hitting .367 (18-for-49) in his last 10 games, during which he has registered seven multi-hit efforts. Span also leads the Nationals with 11 extra-base hits (nine doubles, triple, home run) in the month of May.
Here are the lineups for tonight's match-up:
Nationals (26-27)
7 Denard Span CF
6 Anthony Rendon 3B
28 Jayson Werth RF
25 Adam LaRoche 1B
20 Ian Desmond SS
15 Nate McLouth LF
8 Danny Espinosa 2B
59 Jose Lobaton C
58 Doug Fister P
Rangers (28-27)
17 Shin-Soo Choo LF
1 Evlis Andrus SS
18 Mitch Moreland 1B
29 Adrian Beltre 3B
51 Alex Rios RF
61 Robinson Chirinos C
2 Leonys Martin CF
73 Rougned Odor 2B
23 Nick Tepesch P
Here are tonight's game notes, courtesy of the Washington Nationals PR department. Enjoy!
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The driver of a yellow Jeep Wrangler was traveling south on Thompson at about 10:25 p.m. when his car had some sort of mechanical malfunction or a tire blowout, said
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The driver of the Jeep wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the car. Both drivers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, the trooper said.
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No one has been arrested in the disappearance of Kyron Horman, who was last seen at the age of 7 with his stepmother at Skyline School in June 2010. But Kaine Horman said several agencies are working leads on the case.
"There are still a lot of tips coming in," he said. "When we talk to detectives, they're adamant that we continue to do what we're doing" to push the investigation forward.
Horman has long stopped torturing himself with speculation about what happened to his son but remains confident Kyron is alive, six months before his 10th birthday.
On Friday, Horman helped string up banners and set up tables near the entrance to Hall D in the Expo Center in North Portland, where hot rodders will swoon over gleaming engines and tuck and roll upholstery through Sunday.
Horman will be on hand -- just as he has at other events over the past two years -- to raise awareness about his son.
"This is our first time out this year," Horman said. "It's nice to be back out doing stuff instead of waiting."
Horman, who lost 30 to 40 pounds in the aftermath of his son's disappearance, has gained back about 10. He sweats through a gym workout every morning, spends 50 to 60 hours a week on projects for Intel, where he's an engineer, and spends much of the rest of his time taking care of his daughter Kiara.
"She's thriving," he said. "She's got a stable environment."
And she's cuter than ever, he said.
He's has learned to pretty her up, doing her red hair and painting sparkly polish on her nails.
Kiara is in preschool and has become a little chatterbox. Horman will not take her to the show this weekend, however. Like any 3-year-old, she's drawn to shiny things.
"You're not supposed to touch the cars," Horman said.
He's tried to maintain his health through exercise -- something that's long been a part of his life -- and eating nourishing food. He continues to see a therapist and regularly touches base with his lawyer.
He filed a divorce suit against Terri Moulton Horman, Kyron's stepmother, but those proceedings have been put on hold. She's not been named a suspect but stopped cooperating with police and hired a high-profile defense attorney. She's still in Roseburg with her parents, retired school teachers.
Horman tries not to think about her, but instead focuses on attending events Kyron would appreciate. The Kyron Horman Foundation, which he set up, is also working to help families of other missing children.
Horman has not taken a vacation since his son disappeared -- and plans none.
"I'll go on vacation with my kids," he said. "It won't be a vacation until he's back."
He said other children have disappeared and turned up years later -- so why not Kyron?
"We could still have a good outcome," he said.
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One of the more striking moments from last year's MusicfestNW was watching a packed Berbati's Pan lose its collective shit to the jumpy, giddy pop of Dirty Mittens. The band, especially firebrand frontwoman Chelsea Morrisey, fed off that energy and threw everything into the performance. It had the joyous abandon of a basement house show, leaving both the Mittens and their audience sweaty and spent but with huge grins on their faces.
"The thing that I've always heard from people is, 'Man, you guys look like you're having the best time up there,' says guitarist Ben Hubbird, picking at the weeds in the overgrown backyard of bandmate Josh Hawley. "Good! 'Cause we are! I'm so glad we can communicate that."
That spirit flows out of the band's first full-length album as well. Heart of Town (released this week on Magic Marker Records) is a crisp and positively infectious concoction that finds a fruitful valley between the worlds of disco, twee, '70s pop and the underground rock that the band's four core members were reared on.
Effortless as it may sound on record and in concert, the Mittens found their voice (and captured it for mass consumption) through a lot of trial and error. The band was started by Morrisey and keyboardist Noah Jay-Bonn in 2006 playing a ramshackle version of folk music. "We didn't know what the hell we were doing," Jay-Bonn says.
"That's an understatement," counters Morrisey (a onetime WW music intern). "We didn't know how to play our instruments, but we started playing shows anyway. And because we had a lot of friends in bands, we were playing big shows." Out-of-town engagements were a tougher prospect.
Over the course of the next three years, Morrisey and Jay-Bonn started enlisting the help of more accomplished players, while also learning how better to play their instruments. And the Mittens finally started to settle on a sound they could call their own.
Then came the struggle of recording it for posterity.
In total, Heart of Town took a full two years to finish. The sessions, overseen by veteran producer Jim Brunberg, were squeezed in around the band's work schedules with extra time tacked on for string and horn overdubs. That took all of eight months with the rest of the time devoted to mixing.
"We mixed the whole album once," says Jay-Bonn. "We went through this collaborative process of mixing the whole album ourselves. All of us would have notes on it."
Bassist Patrick Griffin laughs. "There were some early mixes that we thought we were pleased with. But a couple of days later, simultaneously, an email chain started going out saying, 'Yeah, I hate this.' 'Yeah, me too.' 'What were we thinking?'"
"I don't think it was a problem," Jay-Bonn continues. "It just wasn't what we were looking for. It was a very clean studio record. It was missing a lot of youthfulness."
To bring it back to the band's original vision, the Mittens enlisted the help of Paul Laxer, after admiring his work on Typhoon's Hunger and Thirst. "He pulled out entire parts that we spent hours and hours recording," says Hubbird. "Cut out drums in places. Changed the structures of songs in some ways."
Jay-Bonn agrees, "It was always a shock at first, but then I'd listen to it again and realize, 'Oh, that's great, actually. Why didn't we think of that?'"
Now there's a palpable sense of relief among the members of Dirty Mittens. Relief that they finally put the big debut album to bed, and that they have reached a point where they don't have to beg for out-of-town shows anymore. "I almost feel like I want to send each person who replies to my emails a fruit basket," says Morrisey.
But Morrisey also feels like the Mittens have a long way to go here in their home town, in spite of shows like last year's MFNW triumph. "It's been a little bit of an uphill battle. I feel like people still remember shows where we were just bad. We're constantly winning people back or winning them over.â
SEE IT: Dirty Mittens play Mississippi Studios on Thursday, July 14, with the Black Whales and Orca Team. 9 pm. $10. 21+.


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Most college football fans seem to believe that the BCS system worked OK this season. It provided a matchup of two undefeated teams — the Oregon Ducks and Auburn Tigers — in what could be a fantastic game. But there are still plenty of fans who believe you can't spell BCS without, well, you know.
What if college football were more like all those other sports with a playoff system? What if teams such as TCU, Stanford and Boise State could get in on the mix, to have the chance to overcome a regular-season mistake here or there and battle for a championship? You know, like the Seahawks.
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"A new kind of war," Roman soldier Quintus Dias (Michael Fassbender) intones, as the camera roams a frontline fort in northern Britain. "A war without honor. A war without end," he says, before a disposable conscript enjoying an alfresco piss catches a spear in the groin. Centurion thereby establishes its lumbering rhythm: Some tough guy gravely recites a war movie platitude, something sharp and deadly glints in the gray light, blood vamooses from burly bodies, then some tough guy gravely recites a war movie platitude. This spin cycle continues until the flickering images are scrubbed into a constant, becalming drone of perfect mediocrity, and I sort of did not hate it, in the same way I sort of don't hate beige walls or the sound of a cloud moving.
You won't care a whit once the film begins humming its familiar tune, but I suppose you should know that it's 137 A.D. or thereabouts, and Rome is running the Risk board. However, the Picts, a tribe of recalcitrant British guerrillas, like so many goddamned blue-faced bedbugs, just won't give in. When General Titus Flavius Virilus (The Wire's Dominic West) is apprehended by the Picts, Quintus and a small troupe of beefcake soldiers penetrate enemy lines to save Private McNulty. The rescue mission eventually morphs into a cat-and-mouse chase across tundras and over waterfalls, and something strange happens, something almost good, something director Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday) likely never intended: Somehow, in its wonderfully middling way, Centurion manages to match a viewer's body temperature, conveying you to a place between pleasure and pain, need and satiation. You will be given nothing, but you won't want anything either.
I am certain Centurion will one day find its rightful resting place in the early-morning cable mausoleum, along with moving wallpaper like Reign of Fire and The Sixth Day, brilliantly generic nonentities that function as soporific solace for brains burned by insomnia. It's a shameful kind of immortality, but I will tell you this: There will come a time when I will be grateful Centurion exists, grateful for the chance to let my mind wander its bland halls, grateful it asks nothing of me, grateful there is no scene or moment or image worth staying tuned for, grateful for the blessed arrival of sleep. Centurion comes close to providing the state of something-ish nothingness one arrives at during meditation, but it is almost better than that, for I must not even consider my Self as I experience Centurion. Thought dissipates. Eyes glaze over. Ohm. Zzzzz. R.
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HOLYOKE – Improv Asylum, the acclaimed improvisation comedy theater headquartered in Boston, will make its second appearance here on Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Log Cabin Banquet and Meeting House to support the programs of the Friends of the Holyoke Public Schools.
The event is a partnership with the Log Cabin-Delaney House. Leadership sponsors include Furtures Education and Sullivan, Hayes & Quinn.
Last year, this event drew approximately 250 guests to see the amazing Improv Asylum troop, while supporting a great cause.
According to Christian LaChapelle, president of Friends of the Holyoke Public Schools, the event will help to fund the organization's long support of the Summer Strings Program, the new literacy grant, special events benefiting students, and a planned expansion of programming to provide new enrichment opportunities for Holyoke school children throughout the year.
Friends of the Holyoke Public Schools is a private non-profit organization.
LaChapelle noted that Improv Asylum was chosen for a second time because of its renown as one of the country's premiere improvisation companies, one that many area residents have enjoyed in Boston and at special public and corporate shows in New York, Chicago, and other major cities.
Opened 15 years ago in Boston, Improv Asylum has performed more than 3,500 shows attended by a half million people. Its appearance in Holyoke will be the first for Western Massachusetts.
The event will include hors d'oeuvres and specialty food stations and a cash bar beginning at 7 p.m. The show will begin at 9 p.m.
Tickets are now on sale at the Log Cabin website at logcabin-delaney.com. Â


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Gun rights supporters head to Capitol for rally
Published 10:16 AM EDT Apr 23, 2013
Gun rights activists are assembling in and around the Pennsylvania Capitol for a rally to show their support for the right to keep and bear arms.
The Pennsylvania Second Amendment Action Day on Tuesday in Harrisburg features speakers on legal issues related to firearm ownership.
A few hundred people are expected for what's been an annual event in recent years.
Its organizer is Butler County Republican Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who's one of the Legislature's most outspoken members on the subject of gun rights.
The event is planned for the Capitol steps but will be moved indoors if it rains.
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Ouachita Parish Judge Benjamin Jones re-heard arguments Thursday in a Monroe teacher tenure case that threatens the constitutionality of Gov. Bobby Jindal's 2012 education reforms. Plaintiff's attorney Brian Blackwell expects a ruling within 10 days.
Act 1 strips out many job protections historically offered by tenure and gives a terminated teacher recourse to a three-member appeal panel. However, that panel may not reverse the firing decision, and two of its members are chosen by the school and the superintendent, leading critics to say it's stacked against the teacher.
Teacher DeAnne Williams was sent a notice last year that she might be laid off. She said the law violates her due process rights. Jones agreed in an August decision and ruled part of the law unconstitutional.
However, the state Supreme Court vacated the decision in January. It said Attorney General Buddy Caldwell was not given proper notice to participate, as is required when a law's constitutionality is challenged.
Blackwell said Jones will deliver his decision within 10 days. He expects another victory for Williams. Blackwell said he filed a similar suit for a Vermilion Parish teacher about three months ago.
At the same time, the courts are reviewing a larger challenge to Act 1. It, too, is in its second trip through the system.
Baton Rouge Judge Michael Caldwell recently ruled again that the Act 1 unconstitutionally bundled too many items together. Jindal said he would appeal to the state Supreme Court.
But in a surprise move, Jindal indicated this week he would consider making changes to the law. He said he's met with the Louisiana Federation for Teachers on the matter.


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Foxconn Ships Over 1 Million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile
Apple's major iPhone assembler Foxconn shipped about 1.4 million iPhone 5Ss to China Mobile last week, according to a person familiar with the matter, ahead of the mobile giant's launch this Friday.
While the initial shipment volume doesn't represent the total sales at China Mobile for January, the figure helps to gauge early demand for iPhones from China Mobile, the world's biggest carrier by subscribers with more than 760 million customers.
China Mobile began taking preorders for iPhones Dec. 25.


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By Marc Isenberg
I mostly write about sports and business, not politics. But perhaps sports and politics aren't all that different, especially if you believe metaphorically-challenged coaches who can't help but describe sports as war. Then there are those in the military who pitch the benefits of war (good for something, despite what the song says) just like some ADs push woeful graduation rates (apparently not that bad after all).
All this brings me to the military's handling of Pat Tillman's death. Pat Tillman gave up a $3.6 million NFL contract to serve his country as an Army Ranger. Everything that has happened since the moment Pat Tillman was shot dead by an American soldier has been characterized as one lie after another.
Pat's mom, Mary Tillman, makes a compelling case that the aftermath of her son's death is the absolute lowpoint of the War on Terror.
The death of Pat Tillman, as unfortunate as it might sound, was a huge opportunity for the military and the Administration to generate interest in a just war. Despite the fact that high-ranking military officials (perhaps as high as Rumsfeld) knew that Tillman had not died by enemy fire, as was touted, no one stopped the charade until after Pat Tillman's nationally televised memorial service.
Pat Tillman will always be the symbol of everything that is great in our country. Great intellect, sports icon, patriot. Everybody's All-American. He was a hero in life and in death (although not in the way the military had in mind).
As if the Tillman family hasn't been through enough, high-ranking "leaders" keep giving them different accounts of what really happened. Perhaps Bob Arum could serve as a military spokesperson. At least he was honest about his lying when he famously said, "Yesterday I was lying. Today I'm telling the truth."
The Tillman family has released a statement pushing for Congressional hearings to uncover the truth. Also, Pat's mother Mary appeared today on the Dan Patrick Show. Definitely worth listening to, whatever beliefs you have about this war. (Look under Pat Tillman Investigation for the audio from The Dan Patrick Show.)
Here are some of the lowlights:
Mary Tillman: They also said they had Pat's diary. Pat's diary in our minds has been missing for three years. And they said well no, they did find Pat's diary. They burned it. They said there was information in there that had to do with operations or missions or something like that which was kind of ridiculous because Pat was really only an E4. He wouldn't have had anything that was classified in his little notebook. That diary would belong to Pat's wife.
Patrick: On the essential question, are you convinced that they are not lying to you when they tell you this was an accident?
Mary Tillman: I don't know what you deem an accident. I think there was such gross negligence. In fact, the first investigative officer said there was evidence of homicidal negligence and criminal intent. And he stands by that. But yet his report has been devalued because it does not go along with what they want out there in the public eye.
Patrick: Why would they try to cover this up given the notoriety of your son?
Mary Tillman: Their attempts to cover it up are so outrageous from the outset that if they started admitting wrong then they would have to keep admitting such atrocious lies that it would get out of hand. The idea in my mind that this was not something that possibly even Rumsfeld was aware of is kind of ludicrous. You have admittedly four generals who are claiming they knew it was fratricide, didn't act appropriately or there was errors and missteps. It seems to me that Rumsfeld would have to be aware of it.
They're not going to destroy the uniform of their most high-profile soldier who was killed by fratricide without the knowledge of the Secretary of Defense. That's my opinion.
Dan Patrick: In death do you believe this Administration used your son as a sales tool for war?
Mary Tillman: Absolutely...I definitely think Pat was used, When he was killed I think they saw this as an opportunity.
Mary also revealed that Pat Tillman had turned against the war and at the time of his death believed the war in Iraq was "illegal," which may explain why Pat's diary was destroyed.


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Hi readers. I'll be on the Amazon River in Peru and the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador thru the first week of August. So if you don't see any new posts for a couple weeks, you know why!
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Word in Silicon Valley is that Splunk, which has filed its S-1, may be valued at $1.2 billion says SiliconAngle founder and CEO John Furrier. The S-1 is a sign that a company will soon file for an IPO. You can find the paperwork here.
Splunk has been rumored to be planning an IPO since last month. Earlier this week it launched a new version of its product, which makes it easier to search and data mine machine data such as log files for insights. The company refers to this as "operational intelligence."
From what we've been hearing, Splunk is really killing it, but is now facing competition from a range of companies including Loggly (founded by former Splunk employees), Nodeable and LogLogic.
But Splunk may have one big advantage in its existing relationships with system integrators. Lately we've been hearing more lately about Splunk being used for big data analytics applications such as more traditional BI. Splunk is certainly embracing this idea with the new version, and executives have been talking up the way it can be used much like you'd use other NoSQL databases.
That's a big opportunity for consultants who can help companies leverage Splunk for new applications. And it's a big advantage for Splunk having those consultants in their corner.
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32,000 people in Japan turned 100 this year and the economy can't keep
Seniors are eating up resources at a pace younger generations can't match
Seniors are eating up resources at a pace younger generations can't match
When most of us think of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, we think of moai, the 887 magnificent statues that guard its shores. But the mystery of BBC4's Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World wasn't how these monoliths were made, or how they were moved into place (aliens, obviously) or even whether the ancient Rapa Nui people were responsible for their own decline, it's why the myths have persisted for so long.
The likelihood of people developing diseases including type two diabetes and Crohn's could be affected by genes inherited from Neanderthals
Six NHS trusts have "persistently" high death rates for patients who die in hospital or within 30 days of discharge, according to new data.
The peace talks are offering a way out of a vicious cycle, and it is one of the very few hopes for the vast majority of Syrians who reject extremism
Black rats are also implicated in both outbreaks, which took place 800 years apart
Francis has already used the symbolic power of his office to change attitudes
Protecting habitat and engaging the local community are crucial for both rhinos and elephants, says Christian Lambrechts, the managing director of Rhino Ark
Australian police have shot dead two crocodiles after a 12-year-old boy's disappearance
To most of us, lions are African, but many of the great beasts of legend were Indian. Now a zoo plans to breed more of them
Gone are the days when a "Save the Rhino" advert was enough. Only about 25,000 rhinos are left in the wild, and thanks to poaching the species is critically endangered. Now, in an effort to drive down demand, conservationists are working on campaigns to understand what makes rhino horn consumers tick.
Spend most of the first day in Largo Bay, south-west of Kirkcaldy. There may be no finer location to watch the wintering seaduck for which Scotland is renowned. If the tide is high and the sun shining, start with the light behind you at the bay's eastern edge, Ruddon's Point. Look westwards for dense black rafts of scoters, mainly common scoter. A flash of white wings draws your attention to velvet scoters secreted among them. Check the flock carefully and you could even see surf scoter. There is no more regular British site for this North American visitor.
Freedom Party event welcomed Marine le Pen and 'extremists'
Identity of swine shrouded in secrecy
In the late 1980s, Africa's elephant population was decimated to just 600,000. Bringing the elephant slaughter to consumers' televisions had a profound impact. Can it be done again?
The Home Secretary is under increasing pressure from Jewish groups and others to ban the Hungarian ultra-nationalist party from spreading hatred at a London rally this weekend
Gypsies and Irish Travellers are more likely to live in a house than a caravan, the first official data on the group shows.


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'p7zip' PETsWe have been discussing a problem with extracting Mandriva/Mageia RPMs:
Woof is now requiring the 'p7zip' package to be installed, to be able to extract Mageia RPMs.
I have created a 'p7zip' PET and uploaded it to the 'Puppy-common' repo (953K, 67K):
Note that the Busybox 'rpm' applet does seem to work with Mageia RPMs, so petget/PPM may not need to use rpm2cpio. 'rpm' does have a '-i' (install) option, which I have yet to test. I can't use that in '2createpackages' as the script has to extract the RPM into a temporary directory, not '/'.
I have so far confirmed that "busybox rpm -qpl" does list the contents, I will test installation next.
Comments:Posted on 19 Jun 2011, 7:54 by linuxcbon
I never understood why you need external packages, since yours are better.
Posted on 19 Jun 2011, 7:59 by ttuuxxx
p7zip 4.58 was 263kb pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=13809 almost 1/4 the size you posted for the latest. Does the older version work?
It was part of the xarchiver parts I uploaded to murga forum for puppy 4 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=328720
p7zip was popular it was download 1170 times
Posted on 19 Jun 2011, 17:26 by BarryK
7zr only
I just looked at your 7Z PET, but it is only '7zr', which is the smallest version and does not handle Mandriva/Mageia RPMs.
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The first official New Zealand airmail to the United States left Auckland for San Francisco on Pan American Airways' Samoan Clipper. The Sikorsky S-42B flying boat was piloted by Captain Ed Musick.
Musick, Pan Am's top pilot, had flown the first survey flight from San Francisco to Auckland in March 1937. Thousands of intrigued spectators had watched the aircraft arrive at Mechanics Bay, heralding what they hoped would be a regular air service between New Zealand and North America.
The flight was postponed on 30 December because of bad weather. It took off on 2 January carrying 25,000 items posted by New Zealanders. After crossing the International Date Line, Musick arrived in Pago Pago, American Samoa, on 1 January. He then landed at Kingman Reef, an uninhabited atoll 1700 km south of Honolulu, Hawaii, and was met by a schooner with supplies. On 3 January the Samoan Clipper arrived in Honolulu, where the mail was transferred to a Martin 130 flying boat on the regular Manila–San Francisco route. This arrived in San Francisco on 6 January.
Disaster struck on the return trip. Shortly after taking off from Pago Pago on 11 January, Musick reported an oil leak in one of his engines. In an attempt to ensure a safe landing, he tried to lighten the plane by dumping fuel. Tragically for Musick and his crew, fuel vapours collected in the wing structure, causing a fire and explosion. There were no survivors.
At the time of his death, aged 43, Musick was the world's most famous pilot. He had appeared on the cover of Time magazine and achieved a number of early commercial aviation firsts. As a result of the accident a regular service between Auckland and San Francisco did not go ahead until 1940.
In 1939 a long-range radio station began operating on Te Waiarohia, the headland on the eastern side of the Tamaki River, which was renamed Musick Point in the pilot's honour.
Image: Sikorsky S-42B flying boat
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Who Is the Best Team in the Western Conference? — Sports Survey of the Day
While things are pretty much set in the Eastern Conference, the West is a totally different story when it comes to the best team.
While things are pretty much set in the Eastern Conference, the West is a totally different story when it comes to the best team.
Is there a topic that can incite more debate than tipping?
You would think that with a sluggish economy, saving money would make Americans happy, but it's actually spending that can put a smile on their faces.
The days of getting dolled up for photos at Sears are over.
Today's top sports stories:
The team with the best odds to win the World Series this year is the Washington Nationals, with a 7-to-1 chance, just edging out the Blue Jays and Tigers, who are both at 8 to 1.
Today's top sports stories:
Louisville is well-represented right now in both the men's and women's NCAA Tournaments. Can the Cardinals capture both titles?
Nothing adds character to your garden—at least in a caveman-like, primordial sense—than an outdoor fire pit.
The IRS has issued its annual warning about the "Dirty Dozen" schemes out there—ways that certain disreputable folks will try to steal your money or methods people use to hide financial information from the tax agency.
The Miami Heat hadn't lost in 53 days, but last night in Chicago, their 27-game winning streak came to an end.
Financial security is a goal a lot of women have accomplished, but many still think they're head for the poorhouse.


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From the creators of the ultra-popular Warcraft III mod -- DoTA Allstars -- comes the latest from its newest creation League of Legends: Clash of Fates for the PC. The latest trailer features actual gameplay while profiling some of the game's heroes.
It definitely looks like a Warcraft III offspring. Anyways, try a new brand of Hero PVP sometime later this year when Clash of Fates goes live.
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Costume Craze takes up to 90% off select costumes as part of their Blowout Sale. Check out the Kid's Indiana Jones Mutt Costume, originally $36.95, now $3.69, the pictured Batman Dog Costume, reduced from $18.95 to $5.68, and the pictured Sexy Judy Jetson Costume, lowered from $61.99 to $18.59. Shipping is $2.99 and there is no sales tax.No longer available


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Only 32 men per year can call themselves first-round draft picks. That man you see on the left will likely be the first of the 2010 class come this Thursday.
Of course, that doesn't mean that there aren't more than 32 who are "worthy" per se, but for those near the cut it sometimes comes down to the luck of the draw.
Even after all the combine activities, pro days, and private workouts are done and the "grades" are finalized, there are still external personnel factors in play that can move a fringe player either into or out of the top 32.
Based on what they've done and where they fit in (and perhaps a little draft-day maneuvering), a few guys who were initially considered second-round prospects inevitably find their way into the bottom of the first round—an honor that's also accompanied by a lot more money.
While anything can still happen in the final few days leading up to the draft, these five players could likely be the one or ones who find their way into Thursday's proceedings.
NOTE: All rankings courtesy of NFL Draft Scout and cbssports.com.


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Old data as you can see its still called the Revolution. They simply have not updated their website in a while it seems.
I found something interesting. This was on the Gametraders Australian website under the 'consoles' page for the Wii.
Backward Compatibility: Revolution will play all of your favorite Nintendo GameCube games. An innovative self-loading media bay will play both 12-centimeter optical discs used for the new system as well as Nintendo GameCube discs. You can also equip a small, self-contained attachment to play movies and other DVD content.
Is that just old data or is there supposed to be an attachment for Wii avaliable already?
Old data as you can see its still called the Revolution. They simply have not updated their website in a while it seems.
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Yeah thats what i thought... that means they were planning a DVD playback feature from day 1, but never did it for some reason.
that sucks do u know if it will be able to play dvds????
no...the wii cannot play dvds...use search
iMac 2.4ghz Aluminum, 4GB iPhone, 12 iPods!
heard they making a version w/ dvd playback.
is it like a system update or is there gonna be another wii??/
most likely an update. but IMHO there is not need for it. There are better DVD players for cheaper and the major thing is 480P max. if you don't know what I am talking about then wait for you wii to play DVD's and enjoyOriginally Posted by 24forlife
Nintendo Support Help
-No External Links
A DVD playback software is already being developed for the Wii.
1. Its "free" (homebrew)
2. It runs in Gamecube mode ,,, meaning it will get even better someday.
Nintendo screwed us by intentionally not including DVD playback and only allowing analog Stereo output
okay the wii IS going to have DVD playback soon? and it's free?


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What board would be suitable for me to get in to speed sailing? I aim to spend more time at Sandy Point with some of my mates this year and would like to give speed sailing ago. I also would like to know what sail size would be good for me to start with (e.g. 5.5m). I am about 80kgs and 6'2" tall.


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Without looking at the calendar you can tell that the summer tourism season has arrived. All you have to do is look at the price of gas, which is just a gnat's wing shy of $4/gallon. It must have been a new ploy by the oil companies raising the prices a week after Memorial Day to really throw us and the media off and not garner so much bad press. Really?
At any rate as you venture forth this summer trying to fulfill those travel fantasies you dreamed, when it was below zero with thigh deep snow just off your driveway, remember to make your home a hard target for burglars.
LOCK IT UP! Lock all of the doors and windows on your home. Two thirds of all home invasions—the current legal term for what used to be known as a breaking and entering—involve the suspect waltzing straight through an open door.
These "walk-in" home invasions happen both when residents are home and away. In the case of burglars who strike when they know residents are home and usually asleep the burglar is termed a "cat burglar."
Cat burglars are much more dangerous, scary and creepy because they do it for the thrill of knowing there is someone sleeping in the home and thus they are much more likely to be caught. Depending on the cat burglar that thrill is an adrenaline driven power trip or a sexually driven perversion. Either motivation is dangerous for the resident inside the home and could be easily remedied by merely locking doors.
The reason we lock up our valuables is to make it more difficult for a thief to steal them. Granted all locks can be bypassed by the most proficient movie Pink Panther or Ocean's Eleven types, but those are the miniscule minority of thieves.
Most thieves are junkies looking to steal your money, jewelry and I-things for drugs at the dope house. One step above those thieves are the "professional" burglars who are relatively clean and sober, but are too lazy, stupid and have lengthy criminal résumés that prevent them from obtaining and keeping a real job.
It does not take very much initiative or intelligence to walk in an open door, where no one is home and steal things. Merely locking doors and windows on your home will stop most of these opportunist burglars.
For the more determined burglar your crime prevention strategies should be a two- pronged attack: trying to make it more physically difficult for some one to enter your home and making your home look currently inhabited.
When physically protecting your castle, the goal is to force the burglar to really have to exert a lot of force to enter—which takes time—time that could potentially get someone to notice the burglar and call the cops.
The other goal in physically protecting your home is to force the burglar to make noise. Breaking windows and having to kick doors numerous times make a lot of noise. The noise it takes to get a burglar noticed and thus captured.
Installing good dead bolts on doors is the first step. I am not a proponent of "double cylinder" deadbolts—where you have to use a key on either side of the lock to open it—because I want you to be able to safely get out of your home in case of fire. However some use double cylinder deadbolts where there is an easily broken window within a thief's reach of the lock it self.
Deadbolts are good deterrents from the burglars who use credit cards or ID cards to slip the lock. Would you believe some of these criminal masterminds use their driver's license to bypass locks in this manner? It is the truth and it only takes a good cop milliseconds to realize a license has been used to bypass a lock. The officer can feel the folds in the normally hard and straight edged Michigan driver's license as soon as the unimaginative—spelled s-t-u-p-i-d—burglar hands the license over on a traffic stop.
Deadbolts installed with 3" screws take a tremendous amount of effort and noise to kick in. I know from personal experience.
One day while executing a search warrant inside a house on Hamilton or Thompson Street I tried to kick an interior door equipped with 3" screws. I kicked and kicked with my wingtip clad foot as the tip of the 250 lb spear of a determined and quickly becoming exhausted and frustrated detective, until the whole door frame was separating from the interior wall. I was exhausted and almost ready to admit defeat and ask for a door ram, when a brighter detective who had crawled in the unlocked exterior window unlocked and opened the door for me. "Oh a wise guy huh," I replied in my best Three Stooges' Curly Howard impersonation.
Windows should be equipped with latches, locks and pins. Sliding glass doors should be equipped with pins at the top to prevent the burglar from merely lifting the door out of its track and a "Charlie bar" to prevent it from being opened it the latch is by passed.
While you are away on your adventure make sure someone is looking after your home. Make sure the lawn gets mowed, your mail and newspapers get taken in by a family member or trusted neighbor.
This is where the "WATCH OUT FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS" comes in. Help them when they go away and let trusted neighbors help you when you are away.
Light timers attached to lights and radios give the impression that someone is inside your home. Consider leaving a radio on in a back bedroom when you leave your home. Hopefully the would be burglar will think it is your crazy uncle cleaning his shotgun and listening to some AM talk radio know-it-all in that back bedroom.
Before leaving you should hide your jewelry in a commercially prepared "stash can" or put it in an empty box of frozen Brussels sprouts—nobody actually eats Brussels sprouts do they? The burglar will not bother to look in all the boxes of frozen vegetable in the freezer. Better yet for safety sake put your small valuables in a safety deposit box when you "get out of Dodge" for some rest and relaxation.
Enjoy your summer, but keep the old homestead safe while you are away!
Rich Kinsey is a retired Ann Arbor police detective sergeant who now writes his "Semper Cop" column about crime and safety for The Ann Arbor News.


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But the bum notion that a 79-year-old woman is too old for anything but kissing grandchildren couldn't keep Gloria Randazzo from her lifelong dream of opening her new restaurant.
"I feel great, outside of this thing," Gloria says, pointing to her knee while sitting inside her new Tottenville business venture, Randazzo's, which opened its doors Saturday night at 5262 Arthur Kill Rd.
"Just a future for my family, that's about it," she says. "I'll enjoy it while I'm here."
Not that Gloria is planning on going anywhere anytime soon.
"I'll be 80 in January, so figure 79," Gloria says with a grin. "I'm in perfect health."
Now she's raring to revisit a dream that took root in the late 1950s, when she and her now-deceased husband, James Cerillo, owned and operated Friel's Tavern in Brooklyn.At Friel's, Gloria handled all the short-order cooking chores, tended bar and learned that the territory comes with long hours and a longer sense of patience when it comes to selling the concept of eat, drink and be merry.
"This is a hard living," Gloria says, a truism she hopes to instill in her twin sons and business partners, Richard and Robert Randazzo. "I owned a bar in Brooklyn. I know what it is. I said, 'If this is what you want, go for it.'"
When they did, Gloria laid the groundwork financially.
"Otherwise, I don't do too much," Gloria says. "They don't expect me to."
Which leaves time for Gloria's one passion in life – dancing.
As a 19-year-old chasing her bliss, Gloria wriggled to rhythms onstage at places like The Palladium and The Savoy with the likes of Cuban bandleader Machito and legendary mambo king Tito Puente, and got paid in the process.
"I had my pictures outside The Palladium with my partner," Gloria recalls of the good old days. "It was a lot of fun."
To make ends meet when she wasn't stepping with her feet, Gloria used her hands.
She got her first job as a meat wrapper at Waldbaum's in Brooklyn. When Gloria and her husband moved to Staten Island, there was another meat-wrapping job, at Penn Foods.
"Then somebody died, and a store next to me asked if I wanted a job, and I worked there for quite awhile," Gloria says, noting she also spent 13 years wrapping meat at Pathmark on Forest Avenue in Port Richmond Center.
The music never stopped.
Dancing for the Fred Astaire Studio out of Grasmere in September 2006 at the age of 75, Gloria took home 12 – that's right, 12 – first-place trophies in all the rhythm dance categories she entered at the Fred Astaire Colonial Dance-A-Thon in New Jersey.
Swing dancing, rumba dancing, didn't matter ... Gloria's steps were down so tight, she walked away with an even dozen prizes and the nickname "Grandma Dynamite."
"I was the only one ever from the Fred Astaire Studio to do it," Gloria says.
Then she took a spill at home; there was a hairline fracture of her kneecap. The injury didn't require surgery, but it ticked her off, akin to the annoyance of an athlete who can no longer play ball.
It's only a temporary situation.
"I can't go back just yet," Gloria says. "It's healing, but I'll get there. Oh, I'm going to go back. Definitely, I'm going back."
Meantime, Gloria has a new restaurant. The ambience is cozy. The cuisine is Italian. The ownership is hers.
Just don't confuse Gloria with the Randazzo's Clam Bar bunch in Brooklyn.
"No relation. Not at all," Gloria says.
But because the name is the same, attorneys got involved to make sure nobody confuses those Sheepshead Bay Randazzos with this Tottenville Randazzo who is proving that life can begin at 79 with no problem other than a sore knee.
"It's our name," Gloria says.
"As long as we didn't make it a clam bar and call it Randazzo's Clam Bar," adds Gloria's friend and restaurant manager, Joanne Poidomani, "it's all right."
That it is, no matter how young you are.


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We'd like to set the record straight about the offer Portland Public Schools currently has on the table.
Developed through intensive, productive negotiations with give and take by both sides, this offer includes the following key elements:
Reduces class sizes and workload by maintaining a workload limit and hiring 88 additional teachers.
• Adds two instructional days for K-8 students and three for high school students.
• Updates the contract so that we have just one round of internal hiring and can use competence as a factor in teacher assignment and layoff.
• Provides a 2 percent salary increase each of the three years of the proposed contract, plus 1 percent for the added school days. In total, teachers would receive a 7-17 percent salary increase, depending on whether they receive seniority-based increases.
• Maintains the current health insurance benefit in which PPS contributes 93 percent ($1,397 per teacher per month) and PAT members contribute 7 percent ($117 per month).
• Phases out a no-longer-needed early retirement plan, shifting those funds to hire new teachers and decrease workload.
This is a fair offer that honors the hard work of our teachers while improving the contract for the benefit of students. It's time for us to reach a settlement.
Ruth Adkins
Greg Belisle
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The repercussions of two gunman shooting an Allentown couple to death over an alleged drug debt was far more than two murders, and children are paying the price, a defense attorney said today.
Six-year-old Tabitha was 4 years old when she saw John "Jerk" Boyd and Tykweis Wade shoot her mother and father to death in 2011.
Today Boyd was being sentenced for the murders of Steven Santiago and Adrian Ramirez. The couple's families said the little girl asks for her parents every day.
"No mother. No father. She can never have that loving experience in her life," said Marilyn Ramirez, Adrian's sister. "I see how much my niece is suffering. ... You should not be able to live on this earth and talk to your family, your kids."
Boyd pleaded guilty in January to two counts of third-degree murder. Under the plea deal Boyd agreed to a sentence of 40 to 80 years in prison in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty.
"She's going to remember forever seeing her parents gunned down. What a horrible thing to remember," Judge James Anthony said before handing down the sentence. "She may not be able to have a normal life."
"Were they perfect people? No. Who is?" Anthony asked.
Boyd and Wade, who was 16 at the time, shot the couple outside their home in the 100 block of South Hall Street while Tabitha was on the front porch, authorities previously said.
Autopsy reports indicate Santiago was shot in the head and torso by both a shotgun and a handgun, and Ramirez was shot only by a shotgun.
A sawed-off shotgun and silver revolver were recovered following Boyd and Wade's arrests, according to past testimony. One of Boyd's fingerprints was found on a shotgun shell at the shooting and one of Wade's prints was found on the revolver.
In court today in a suit, tie and shackles, Boyd said he was drunk and on PCP during the killings.
Referring to the victims' families, Boyd said, "I also understand what they're going through. Mistakes happen."
"Don't call brutally murdering two people a mistake," Anthony said.
Defense attorney Karen Shular said Tabitha and Boyd's children were paying the price for his actions. Boyd's young daughter was sitting in the courtroom audience and he smiled and waved as he was being walked out of the courtroom.
"It's all right. You're not going to live forever," someone with the victim's family yelled out, cursing Boyd's smile.
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Oak Harbor Lions construct 2 playgrounds for North Whidbey Head Start
Grass. Part of a parking lot. A few boulders. Those didnt mean much to the children of North Whidbey Head Start until the Oak Harbor Lions Club and other community volunteers transformed the area into two playgrounds.
North Whidbey Head Start serves children from birth to 5 years old with developmental delays.
We wanted an area to foster gross motor development because that has to happen before other development can happen. We dont see that link often in children we serve because they have little access to playgrounds, sometimes due to their developmental delays, said Center Manager Betty Judd.
Gross motor development is directly linked to cognitive development, which includes processes of planning, organizing, abstract thought, self-control and learning to read. The playgrounds are all about developing these.
We wanted the playgrounds to be more like the backyard where we grew up so children can experience the outdoors more naturally to foster development skills, said Judd.
It took three years of planning, fundraising, and work to build the two playgrounds.
Steve Peck with the NAS Whidbey Seabees volunteered hundreds of hours refining plans and guiding Navy volunteers to build the toddler playground.
Later, the Oak Harbor Lions Club entered the project and volunteered hundreds of hours to complete the preschool playground.
Without their volunteer hours, the work wouldnt have gotten done, Judd said gratefully.
The playgrounds are wheelchair friendly and feature various fun surfaces that culture development. Theres blacktop, rubber matting, grass, sand, musical bells and a boardwalk.
This is a space the children can be creative in, Judd said.
There are hills and valleys, tunnels and a bridge, so the children have a sense of being up high and down low, Judd said. The slide is on the side of a hill so there is no danger of falling off.
The climbing wall is a big teaching opportunity.
Some children have low muscle tone or no ability to realize where they are in space. This makes them work hard and realize where they are at and where they need to reach next, Judd explained.
North Whidbey Head Starts dream of bringing child development into the play area has come true, thanks to the Oak Harbor Lions Club, Steve Peck and other community volunteers.
We appreciate what they did. This wouldnt have happened without community support. Were delighted that people care about the children in this community and gave hundreds of hours to help them, Judd said.
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Yvonne Walker will face 30 years to life in prison when she is sentenced March 27 for the stabbing death of Casetta Blunt, 88, who was found dead in the living room of her Irvington home June 16, 2011.
Blunt had been stabbed 11 times. A knife was left in her chest and a brick lay on top of a pillow on her face.
In a taped interview with detectives, which was played for the jury, Walker said she went to Blunt's home to collect $40 that she believed she was owed and that Blunt became angry and struck her in the head with a cane. Walker told detectives that sent her into a blind rage in which she grabbed a knife and then blacked out. Officers also found jewelry belonging to Blunt in Walker's home that Walker admitted to taking that day.
Walker's attorney said her client was provoked and argued that she should be convicted of aggravated manslaughter, which carries a lesser sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
After the three-day trial and less than a day of deliberations the jury found Walker guilty of murder, theft and weapons offense. They found her not guilty of felony murder.
Walker, who had chosen not to appear in court for the trial, was present for the sentencing and lowered her head as the foreman read the verdict.
"I think the jury came to the right verdict," Assistant Prosecutor Justin Edwab said outside of the courtroom, adding that he would deliver the news to Blunt's niece who lives in Georgia.
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The Broad Street exit ramp from Route 22 in Phillipsburg will be closed temporarily next week for concrete work, according to a news release.
The ramp will close 9 a.m. Tuesday and reopen 6 a.m. Thursday.
The work is part of a two-year, $30 million rehabilitation project for the Easton-Phillipsburg toll bridge.
Work is expected to wrap up in spring 2015.