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Ferries to be busy for Fourth of July holiday weekend
Have visitors coming to the island for the holiday, or heading to town for a fireworks show? Washington State Ferries said ferries will be busiest during westbound trips on Thursday and Friday, and eastbound sailings on Tuesday.
The Clinton-Mukiteo route will operate on its regular summer sailing schedule throughout the long weekend.
WSF officials said travelers on the Clinton-Mukilteo route will face heavy traffic in the afternoons and evenings on Thursday and Friday. Heavy traffic is also expected on the route on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
The worst time to travel on July 4 on the Clinton-Mukilteo run will be between 1 and 5 p.m.
And on Tuesday, the longest waits at the Clinton terminal will be before 10 a.m., officials said. WSF advises travelers to wait until after the morning commute, if possible, before heading to the ferry terminal.
On the Coupeville (Keystone)-Port Townsend route, reservations are filling up fast, according to WSF, and travelers should make reservations as soon as possible. The route will operate on its regular summer sailing schedule throughout the long weekend; reservations are available online or by calling 511.
For travelers heading off Whidbey, officials with the Washington State Department of Transportation said work at most construction projects around the state will move off the highway from noon Friday, July 1, to Tuesday morning, July 5.
Drivers headed to Seattle on July 4 should be prepared for heavy congestion and evening lane and ramp closures on southbound I-5. Closures will start at 9 p.m., about one hour before the fireworks show on Lake Union.
Over the holiday weekend, drivers should also expect congestion and delays on Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass, US 2 over Stevens Pass, Interstate 5 near the U.S.-Canadian border and I-5 between Olympia and Tacoma.
Officials with AAA said many Americans will stick closer to home this Fourth of July holiday weekend. The car club expects 39 million Americans to travel 50 miles or more from home, which is about a million fewer travelers from the year before, because of high gas prices.
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By Alicia McCarthy – December 13, 2012
EventNow reports Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman decided to perform a couple of songs while they were attending a luncheon in their honor, which happened to have some Oscar voter attendees.
The premiere was a star-studded event that took place just a couple of nights ago, here in New York City. All of the cast and crew members had a fantastic time at the premiere, but mostly at the after party that was a fantastic event and had everyone talking about it.
The next day, was something more low key and casual. There was a luncheon hosted in their honor and they had a chance to answer a couple of questions in regards to the upcoming movie, Les Miserables (which as we commented before, will be a huge box office success and we are smelling not many Oscar nominations and guarantee wins).
Some of the cast members decided to take a different route instead of answering some of the questions that were asked. They decided to belt out a couple of tunes.
First and foremost, all of the attendees appeared and shared a couple of laughs as they mingled with the other guests and made their way to their seats. While they were enjoying the festivities, they had a tasty lunch in their honor.
After their meal, they decided to go on with the show. Hugh Jackman hit the stage and decided to serenade his beautiful wife. Anne Hathaway couldn't let this opportunity just drop. She decided to belt out a tune, but not before asking two of her younger cast mates to join her along with Amanda Seyfried.
In general, this cast knows how to be the life of the party, and you will get to see what we are talking about once you have a chance to see the movie, Les Miserables.
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- ChinaŌĆÖs surprise purchases help ease pressure of huge peanut crop
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"China has helped alleviate the surplus, but we will need a reduction in acres in 2013 to get supply back in balance with demand."
With fewer peanut acres needed this year, some growers will use the cutbacks as an opportunity for rotation to non-legume crops. Don Self, Mississippi's delegate to the National Peanut Board and a producer in Monroe County, Miss., says "If we don't have a contract by March, we'll cut way back on our peanuts to probably less than a third of last year's acreage. That's pretty much in line with what Marshall Lamb has said, that 35 percent would be a good number for growers to back off on acres.
"Everyone I've talked to feels things aren't really favorable for a very good contract price this year, so this may be a good opportunity for us to back off and plant more some alternate crops — corn, cotton, or grain sorghum — and that's what we're planning to do at this point."
"We planted our entire acreage in peanuts last year. That was somewhat against my rule of thumb of adhering to a strict one-third rotation program, but for that kind of price we felt we could make a one-year exception."
Self says peanut yields on his farm last year varied widely. "Because of late season leafspot, we wound up averaging about 4,200 pounds. We had some fields that picked over 6,000 pounds, while others that were devastated by the leaf spot had really low yields.
The rains we got during the season were very helpful, though and we were really pleased with our yields."
Joe Morgan, president of the Mississippi Peanut Growers Association, who farms with his son Joe Jr. just south of Hattiesburg, says "With both cotton and peanut prices expected to be down this year due to surpluses, we're planning to plant 750 acres of corn – the most we've had in a long time, and about all the land we have under center pivots.
"We'll drop back from the near 1,250 acres of peanuts we had last year to about 800 acres this time. Even when peanut prices are down, with good yields they still have a good profit potential.
"At this point," Morgan says, "our plans for cotton are up in the air. We'll just have to see how things go as we get a bit farther into the season. It could be that we'll try double-cropping some of our wheat ground with cotton, or maybe we'll plant some milo."
The Morgans were winner of the top award in the association's yield contest in the 800 acres and above category, with a 5,600 pound average for 2012.
"We've had consistently high yields the last three years, thanks to good weather and better-performing varieties," Morgan says. "We planted 895 acres in 2010, with a 5,086 pound average, 835 acres in 2011, with a 5,077 pound average, and 1,244 acres in 2012, which produced our highest average ever."


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Muskegon Heights' favorite son Sonny Grandelius had a bright future ahead of him when he returned home after a tour of duty in the Korea War.
The Chronicle said on May 19, 1953:
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Last weekend Sonny came home after an 11-month stay in Korea, where United States troops believe they are in a WAR. ... And he's going to spend some time before he commits himself to a positive future.
Sonny appears ready to step back into a football uniform today. Weighing around 195 pounds, which was his best playing weight while with the Michigan State football team ... the weight he carried when he was just about a unanimous choice for All-America teams ... and he is thinking of football as his future.
First, there's a trip tomorrow to Michigan State, where he has an appointment to talk over that future with Clarence (Biggie) Munn.
That's not all, however. Sonny is seriously considering trying professional football or rugby. During his long Korean service, Wellington Mara of the New York Giants team in the National Football League has written at least once a week since Sonny went into the Army and especially since his discharge drew near, and it appeared he'd be out in time for football practice this fall.
Sonny was the top choice of the Giants from the draft meeting that covered seniors of 1950, his last year in college, when he not only made All-American, but was an outstanding star in the East-West football Shrine Hospital game and the Hawaii Hula Bowl game against professionals.
But Mara will have to bid high, it seems certain. Clem Crowe, the old Notre Dame star who is coaching pro rugby in the Canadian Northwest, already has made an offer for Sonny's services and declares he'll go as high as the Giants.
Two other rugby offers from Canada have been received, but until he has talked with all of them the All-American will keep his own counsel.
"I've been in Korea 11 months," Sonny declares. "I've decided to get acquainted with my wife all over again and really get to know my son, Steven John, who was born in November. Of course, being out of the army now, I can take my family with me wherever I go."
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By Dave LeMieux
The world was at Sonny Grandelius' feet when he came home from the Korean War in the spring of 1953.A football legend at Muskegon Heights and a record-setting All-American for Michigan State, the new father had his pick of job offers.
No surprise then that it would be the last time Sonny called Muskegon Heights home.
Sonny's future would be a far different one from his father's.
Sonny's dad, Everett J. Grandelius, was a displaced Yooper who moved here from Bessemer at age 19 in 1923. He would never leave. The elder Grandelius worked 45 years at Lakey Foundry before retiring in 1969. He died here in 1991.
Sonny, on the other hand, criss-crossed the country, moving from job to job, with wife, Marty, and their growing family in tow, before finally settling down in Beverly Hills, Mich.
There was much success, and one notable setback, along the way.
First stop for the 11th pick in the third round of the 1952 NFL draft was a single season with the N.Y. Giants (278 yards in 108 carries, 1 TD, 3 fumbles).Next came five years in East Lansing as an assistant to Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty, before Grandelius landed the head coaching job at the University of Colorado in 1959.
In three seasons in Boulder, Grandelius compiled a 20-11 record, capped in 1961 with a perfect 7-0 regular season, the Big Eight Conference championship and a trip to the Orange Bowl — a 25-7 loss to Louisiana State University.
It all ended in 1962 when Colorado fired Grandelius following what some reports called flagrant NCAA recruiting violations.
Within a month, though, Grandelius was back in the NFL as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Eagles. Following a one-season stint with the hapless Detroit Lions (7-5-2) in 1964, he signed on at CBS as a color commentator for one season.
Outside one year as general manager for the Detroit Wheels of the ill-fated World Football League in 1974, Grandelius spent the rest of his career as a businessman.
As well-traveled as he was, Grandelius never forgot his roots, taking the time in 1987 to write a letter thanking the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame for making him one its inaugural inductees.
"It was by far my biggest thrill and I'm sure it always will be," Grandelius wrote. This from a man who played in what the Detroit News called the best high school football game ever played in the state, the Tigers' 7-6 win over Muskegon in 1945.
Grandelius was inducted into the MSU Hall of Fame in 1994 and died in 2008.
Video of Sonny Grandelius (No. 24) in MSU's 1949 game against Notre Dame:


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Meego, an open mobile platform jointly developed by Nokia and Intel, is getting its first mobile phone in the form of the Nokia N9. With the unique "no front buttons" design of the Nokia N9, swipe gestures is the focus of the Meego design. From navigating the three home screens (notifications, main screen, running apps) to switching and accessing mobile apps, the Meego design lets users do things with a simple swipe.
The Nokia N9 is made of a single piece of polycarbonate that has been machine precisioned and seamlessly integrated with a curved glass. The 3.9-inch AMOLED screen is made from scratch-resistant curved glass. The N9 is equipped with an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus camera with a wide-angle lens. It is capable of capturing HD-quality video capture and the large lens aperture provides great pictures even in lowlighting conditions. The Nokia N9 is also the world's first smartphone with Dolby® Digital Plus decoding and Dolby Headphone post-processing technology.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Universal Pictures and the filmmakers behind the planned N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton" are distancing themselves from an offensive casting announcement for the film.
The company said in a statement late Thursday that "the filmmakers ... did not approve and do not condone the information in this casting notice. We regret and sincerely apologize for being in any way associated with the offensive descriptions it contained."
Sande Alessi Casting posted an open call earlier this week that sought women in four categories. "A girls" were described as "the hottest of the hottest" and could be of any ethnicity. "B girls" were to be "light-skinned," whereas "D girls" were "African-American... Poor, not in good shape. Medium to dark skin tone."
Gawker quoted the "racist" casting call in an article Thursday. The casting company has since removed the announcement from its Facebook page.
A woman who answered the phone at Sande Alessi Casting on Thursday declined comment and would not identify herself.
Universal has not said if it is still working with the casting company. The Sande Alessi Casting website shows it is still inviting African-American men and women to audition as extras for "Straight Outta Compton" at an open call later this month.
The film is set to show the early days of the seminal hip-hop group, whose members include Ice Cube (played by the rapper's son O'Shea Jackson Jr.), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell) and Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins). Nominated twice for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, N.W.A.'s notable songs include "Gangsta Gangsta," top 10 rap hit "Express Yourself," and the controversial "F--- tha Police."
"Straight Outta Compton" is scheduled to be released in theaters Aug. 14, 2015.


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Motorola Removes Its Android Devices From The German Market
Motorola Mobility has decided to completely remove all of their Android devices from the German market. Currently as of this time, on Motorola's website their Android product page has had all of the Android smartphones or tablets removed as well. All of this is despite the Google owned company not being found guilty of infringing upon Microsoft patents. Many believe that Motorola has done this in an effort to rework the software in order to avoid future infringment cases on any patents.
Motorola's official statement, however, hints at something different:
"As we have previously stated Motorola Mobility is focusing on fewer mobile devices. As a result we have phased out some of our lower tier devices in Europe/Germany."
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The very first thing you should know before you try standing up on a surfboard is whether you are a 'regular' or 'goofy' surfer. No, not whether or not you look goofy surfing, because trust me, all beginner surfers look goofy while learning to surf.
So what am I talking about? Well, the terms regular and goofy refer to which foot you naturally place forward on your surfboard. A 'regular' footer surfs left-foot forward, while a 'goofy' footer surfs the opposite, right-foot forward. If you have ever tried skateboarding or snowboarding, then it's usually same stance.
Not sure? These three techniques should help you figure it out:
#1 Bend your knees and find a relaxed and balanced stance as if you were surfing. Try to determine which foot forward feels the most comfortable. Usually the stronger foot is placed towards the back to help put weight on the tail of the surfboard for turning purposes.
#2 Lay on your stomach as if paddling and then quickly pop-up into your surfing stance. Notice which foot you naturally place forward.
#3 This simple trick requires help from a friend. Find a level place to stand, close your eyes and relax, and without announcing when, have your friend lightly push you in the back so that you naturally step forward. The foot you place forward to catch your balance will most likely mirror your natural surfing stance.
Still not sure? Don't worry you should be able to figure it out after a few rides.
Note: Its important to always place your leash on your back foot. This will help prevent your leash from getting tangled around your legs.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Newly-minted City Councilman Steven Matteo (R-Mid-Island) wants Staten Islanders and other city residents to stop using the city's 311 system to harass their neighbors.
Matteo has introduced a bill that he hopes will keep New Yorkers from becoming victims of disgruntled neighbors who report them anonymously to 311 because of a grudge or disagreement.
The bill would give a three-month cooling off period if three anonymous complaints made are unsubstantiated. The property would effectively be off limits to anonymous complaints through 311 in that time.
"With this bill, we can make sure that our city resources are being used for the benefit of New Yorkers and not as a weapon against them," he said.
Looking to hit the ground running at the beginning of his Council tenure, Matteo also introduced bills to protect religious buildings and to reform the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA).
Matteo also introduced a bill to extend a civil penalty of up to $25,000 against those who damage houses of worship to include cases where damage was done to buildings with a religious use, such as convents.
The bill seeks to close a loophole in current law that was laid bare after the arson at the convent of St. Joseph Hill that left one sister badly hurt.
"We have to make sure that buildings dedicated to religious life like convents have the same protection as churches, synagogues, mosques and other centers of religious activity in the five boroughs," Matteo said.
Another Matteo bill seeks to reform the BSA so that developers can no longer use the zoning regulations in force at a site as a basis for a financial hardship waiver.
Matteo said that developers will frequently buy a property knowing full well what was permitted and that they could then argue they would suffer a financial hardship unless a variance was granted.
Said Matteo, "It's time that developers knew that if they are buying a lot not suited to their investment plans, then they should look elsewhere."
He said the BSA "has not proven to be an effective enforcer of zoning standards in our neighborhoods."
Matteo introduced the bills on his first day in the Council last week. He had pledged to introduce the legislation during his 2013 campaign.


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No longer simply framed as is for hanging, photos today are available in different mediums — i.e., printed on aluminum panels or canvas — and can be manipulated by computer programs like Photoshop to form an image that stands out and adds an appealing element to a room's decor.
George Roos, one of the founders of the Island-based Creative Photographers Guild, said professional photos still can be a hard sell, but believes consumer interest is growing.
"The main thing is to create an interesting and beautiful image," Roos said. "People buy something they associate with."
The non-profit guild maintains a New Brighton gallery, where members' works are on display and may be purchased. The current exhibit, "Work," which runs through Feb. 13, focuses on photos of people engaged in a variety of tasks.
Other shows this year will highlight images revolving around themes including "Abandonment," "Common Objects, Uncommon Views," and "Poem."
Those interested in photographic art also can visit the Alice Austen House, where reprints of works by the reknowned Island photographer of Victorian New York, are for sale. Additionally, the Rosebank museum hosts photographic exhibits throughout the year and images often may be purchased from individual photographers.
"Whereas people used to see art [only] as oil paintings in frames, that's no longer the case," said Carl Rutberg, the museum's executive director, insisting, "A photograph can have the same aesthetic value as any other art form."
Alice Austen House has been host to a mix of local and well-known photo artists, including Donald Weber, Tim Hetherington, Jason Nocito and William Meyers.
"Fire" is the theme of the museum's current exhibit and features photos of fires in New York City around the turn of the century. The spring exhibit will revolve around Staten Island's car culture, with photos culled from the Advance's archives.
Photographic art often is on the menu at Art at Bay, the Staten Island Creative Community's collaborative gallery.
Founder Joyce Malerba Goldstein said it has done well in the past, pointing to shows featuring works by members of the Creative Photographers Guild and students from the AHRC New York City's Melissa Riggio Higher Education program at the College of Staten Island for people with developmental disabilities.
"When you're decorating and have something very personal [like a photograph], it makes it more meaningful," Ms. Goldstein commented.
Digital photography has made it easier for amateur photographers to get good, display-worthy results, observed Charlie Stoffers of Hall of Frames.
"You don't have to wait to get something developed to see if it's a dud or clear and crisp. You can just keep taking pictures," said Stoffers, who owns the Grasmere shop with his wife, Janice Giacalone-Stoffers.
Connie Mauro, owner of Mauro Graphics, noted that about 80 percent of those who bring photos in to her Sunnyside establishment for framing took them themselves. But while she believes the trend toward photographic art is becoming more popular in general, she said she's yet to see a big uptick on the Island.
Many of the images photographers bring to her for framing are of landscapes, including abstract forms of objects, like window boxes and gates that offer, she said, "a juxtaposition of different objects that are interesting."
Ms. Mauro pointed out that photographic art tends to be less expensive than paintings, which can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Photos, which can be reproduced exponentially, can cost a few hundred dollars or less, making photographic art "an art form available to all people."
Andrea Boyarsky is a features reporter for the Advance. She may be reached at email@example.com.


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"All you need to make a movie," Jean-Luc Godard once proclaimed, "is a girl and a gun."
The French Crime Wave, a great new retrospective starting tomorrow at New York's Film Forum, has both in spades.
Along with crooked cops, double-dealing mistresses, high-tension jewel thefts, perfect crimes that go perfectly wrong -- and a cool, sophisticated and perfectly Gallic philosophical attitude about it all.
It's a treat -- and to casual film buffs, a revelation.
Like other American art forms -- jazz, say, or rhythm-and-blues -- despairing, hard-boiled mysteries had to go abroad to find any respect. It was the French who first appreciated the dark '40s thrillers, and gave them a name, noir. And it was the French who first began to copy them during the '50s, adding and enriching the genre.
Programmer Bruce Goldstein goes nicely outside the box with his selections, too, unreeling a couple of well-known films that still aren't often seen in this context.
"Les Diaboliques," for example -- remade several times, very badly in America, once with Sharon Stone -- doesn't fit the usual definitions of noir. Part ghost story, part murder thriller, part menage-a-trois drama (this is a movie where the man is so hateful, his mistress and his wife join forces) it's still a murky, moody masterpiece, though, full of clammy photography and one great shock. And it shows how expansive the definition of "crime thriller" is.
Ditto "Eyes Without a Face." Both gruesome and poetic (the clothes are by Givenchy), beautifully shot and exploitive (there's some queasy operating-room footage), it's the story of a mad doctor trying to restore his daughter's ravaged features, and is generally thought of as a horror film. In fact, in its first American release, it showed up, chopped up, as "The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus." But George Franju's film is about so much more than that -- obsession, beauty, cruelty -- that the real crime is that it's so rarely seen in a clean, complete print like this.
Those are two, off-the-beaten track selections, but with the bulk of his choices Goldstein also wittily suggests how often this "Crime Wave" -- and the New Wave -- intersected. The young filmmakers of France's post-war generation -- Godard, Chabrol, Malle -- are all well represented here. Francois Truffaut gets not only a week to himself and "Shoot the Piano Player" but a screening of "Mississippi Mermaid," the story of a mail-order bride who isn't quite as advertised.
That Truffaut film was also later remade, wretchedly, as "Original Sin," and shows the strong connection between the two genres. The source material for some of these movies includes American authors Patricia Highsmith, Cornell Woolrich, David Goodis and Jim Thompson, for example, while the screenwriters of "Diaboliques" later did the script for Hitchcock's "Vertigo."
The series continues up until the present day, with modern erotic thrillers like "La Ceremonie" and "Murderous Maids" but I think the retrospective's greatest strength is its revival of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville. Hugely influential across the board (his muted colors and compositions inspired Michael Mann, his cold elegance and philosophical acceptance John Woo) he was a leading artist in the field. This mini-festival revives "Le Cercle Rouge," "Bob Le Flambeur," "Le Flic" and "Le Doulos" and every one is a small taut classic of crime.
The series runs from tomorrow through September 11; visit the Film Forum's website to find out more, and make plans to take in one of these films now. After all, what's cooler on a hot muggy day that the icy frisson of suspense?


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C.T. Vivian Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
Today, November 20th, sixteen people received the highest civilian honor given by the President of the United States. The Presidential Medal of Freedom was presented to a diverse group of individuals. As WABE's Rose Scott reports, an Atlanta-based civil rights leader was among the honorees.
He was born Cordy Tindell Vivian.
But, throughout his involvement in the civil rights movement, he was known as C.T. Vivian.
Born in Howard, Missouri, Vivian began his work in civil rights as a student in Nashville.
He helped organize student sit-ins and rode on one of the first Freedom Buses that entered the South.
During the award ceremony, President Obama highlighted Rev. C.T. Vivian's work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"C.T. Vivian was one of Dr. Martin Luther King's Jr.'s closest advisors. Martin taught us, he says, that it's in the action that we find out who we really are. And time and again Rev. Vivian was among the first to be in the action."
One of Vivian's priorities has been building opportunities in education for African Americans.
He conceived a college scholarship initiative that later would be known as the Upward Bound program.
Now in his eighties, Rev. Vivian hasn't slowed down.
In 2012 Vivian returned to the organization he first joined in 1961.
He became interim president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Charles Ford and Tearrance Jackson were both recently released from the justice system in separate cases, and now one is charged in the other's death.
Cleveland police homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Ford, 26, in Jackson's June 7 killing at a West Side park.
Police said in an affidavit filed Wednesday that Ford fatally shot Jackson, 22, about 5 p.m. at Thrush Park at West 107th Street and Adeline Avenue, according to Cleveland Municipal Court records.
Ford, whose address is listed as Corlett Avenue on the East Side in court records, is wanted on an aggravated murder charge. He had not been arrested as of Thursday afternoon.
Records show Ford was released from a two-year prison stint on March 3. Ford pleaded guilty to a weapons charge after prosecutors dropped drug trafficking and promoting prostitution charges.
Jackson was in the middle of pretrial hearings on felonious assault charges. He posted bail and was released from jail more than a month before his death.


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U.S. Rep. Tim Scott made an appearance in Beaufort County on Saturday for the opening of Republican Party headquarters as the 2012 election cycle rounds its last corner on the path to November.
Voters have overwhelmingly approved land-buying referendums twice since 2000, but officials acknowledge the latest round of bonds up for a vote in November presents a slightly different scenario with the certainty of a property value drop that could prompt a tax increase.
The Nov. 6 ballot includes ...
Elected officials, business leaders and town staff gathered today for a ribbon cutting introducing the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce's new Bluffton location.
The new office at the four-way stop in Old Town on Bluffton Road makes the third in the town but the first based at what C...
Just weeks into a crackdown on a sign ordinance that's been in the books for more than a decade, the town of Bluffton is running into resistance from business owners who say they depend on roadside ads to attract customers.
Bluffton officials amended sale agreements for the Wharf Street properties Tuesday to allow the town to rent them if some go unsold by the end of next year.
Senior Planner Danny Wilson said the federal grants providing most of the funding for the $1.2 million project could force the town to rent hom...
As the town of Bluffton prepares for another annual beach and river sweep it celebrates the reopening of about 21.5 acres to shellfish harvesting three years after the state handed down restrictions over bacteria levels.
The town of Bluffton held a ceremony honoring those who died and the first responders who worked to save lives in the Sept. 11 attacks more than a decade ago.
Public utility officials briefed the Beaufort County Council on Monday on saltwater intrusion threatening water supplies in an effort to build support for potential legal action to force Savannah to curb the excessive pumping that's considered a major culprit.
Intrusion into the Upper Floridan Aq...
The League of Women Voters for the Hilton Head Island and Bluffton area is hosting a Wednesday bus tour of lands preserved through bond referendums in support of a fresh round with November's election.
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Intellectual Property
If you've paid attention to news reports about the global economy, advances in technology and the Internet, then you've probably encountered intellectual property law.
Practice of this specialty has grown dramatically in recent years and takes place in a wide variety of settings, but the common ground is in four primary areas:
- Trademark
- Copyright
- Trade secrets
- Patent
One of seven concentrations at the School of Law, Intellectual Property offers students a strong foundation in these areas as well as in entertainment law, computer and Internet law, franchise law and more.
This is a great path to choose if you're interested in taking advantage of Connecticut's extensive base of biomedical research and pharmaceutical businesses.
Requirements + Courses
Concentration Prerequisites
In order to be eligible for the intellectual property concentration, a student must take Administrative Law as one of the core electives. Credits for this course do not count toward the 18-credit concentration requirement, but the grade in this prerequisite does count toward the concentration GPA requirement.
Concentration Requirements
To receive the certificate for this concentration, a student must earn 18 intellectual property specialty credits, divided as follows:
Required Course Work
At least 15 of the 18 credits must be earned from the following list of basic intellectual property courses. Credits for these courses will count toward the 18-credit concentration requirement.
- Intellectual Property (this course is required) (3-4 credits)
- Patent Law (2 credits)
- Patent Litigation (2 credits)
- Advanced Patents (2 credits)
- Communications Law (2-3 credits)
- Computer and Internet Law (2-3 credits)
- Licensing of Intellectual Property (2-3 credits)
- Entertainment Law (2 credits)
- Sports Law (2 credits)
- Unfair Trade Practices (2-3 credits)
- Franchise Law (2-3 credits)
- Externship with intellectual property emphasis (up to six credits with written approval by director of concentration program)
- Independent Research with intellectual property emphasis (with written approval by director of concentration program and supervising professor)
Remaining Credits
The balance of the credits, if any, may be earned from the following courses that are related to intellectual property or from other required courses listed above (not all of theses courses are offered every year).
- Antitrust (3 credits)
- Law, Science & Technology (3 credits)
- International Trade (3 credits)
- International Business Transactions (3 credits)
- Other course or journal work as approved by the director of the concentration program
- Courses taken at other law schools or in summer programs (up to 5 credits with prior approval of the direction of the concentration program)
Writing Requirement
You must write a substantial paper -- or a series of shorter writings that together comprise a substantial amount of written work -- on a topic or topics related to intellectual property. (If the student writes a substantial paper, the student may use that paper to satisfy the law school's advanced writing requirement, provided that the student meets the guidelines for the advanced writing requirement as set forth in the academic catalog.) The topic or topics for the written work used to satisfy this requirement must be approved by the concentration director. A paper written for a journal may qualify, if the topic is approved by the concentration director.
Students who achieve a GPA of 3.2 or better in the coursework used for the concentration will receive the certificate for the concentration with honors.
A student may designate any course or paper as not counting towards the concentration, so long as it is not required for the concentration, and you meet the concentration requirements with another course or paper.
The concentration director and the associate dean for academic affairs may waive any requirements for the concentration (other than the GPA requirement), if they both agree to do so.
Contact Information
For specific information on the program offerings, please contact:
Professor Dale Carlson
Mail Stop: LW-FAC
Quinnipiac University School of Law
275 Mount Carmel Avenue
Hamden, Conn. 06518


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Claudio Valeri has never coached a regular-season field hockey game.
That doesn't mean Valeri, who stepped in when Sheila Hughes stepped down as the head of the Susquenita program, is a field hockey rube.
A longtime fan of Blackhawk hockey, Valeri knows the game — and the history of the sport. He's also well versed in the quality of field hockey played in Perry County. There won't be any surprises when Valeri leads his team into the season-opening county tournament and a date with Greenwood, the eight-time defending champs.
"The field hockey tournament is the best county tournament. There's always at least three good teams. And this year, I think there's four," Valeri said. "We know Greenwood is a top program, but so are we. (Susquenita) has been a stalwart (in mid-state field hockey) for over 20 years. I'm really looking forward to the tournament and seeing how we match up."
The Wildcats, who pinned a 4-1 defeat on the Blackhawks in last year's title game, will have to retool after losing a handful of starters from a 19-3-2 ballclub that won county and Tri-Valley League championships, played in the District 3-AA final and made it to the PIAA-AA tournament round of eight before losing to Villa Maria.
Coach Kent Houser believes his team has the skill to build on that success.
"We have a chance to be a really good team," said Houser, who is 369-101-20 in 22 years with the program. "We've had an excellent preseason. The girls have worked hard and the seniors have done a good job with leadership."
The Wildcats return a dynamic all-star caliber core, staring with goalkeeper Katie Osborne.
The senior, back for her second full-time term in the cage, had 13 shutouts and a sterling .8 goals-against average. Osborne has signed to play at Wake Forest.
"Having Katie (in goal) is a good place to start," Houser said. "She's really improved."
Houser has to rebuild his two-back defense after graduating his starters. He's looking at some combination of seniors Sierra Stephens, Steph Byers, Justice Winters and Michaelli Wise, with junior Raina Sweger in the mix.
"All five kids are good players," Houser said. "Four of them are seniors and Raina can play anywhere on the field. We'll find out what we have soon enough."
Houser, whose emphasis is always on outscoring opponents, will push up with three mids, two links and three forwards.
Center mid Taylor Tompkins is a senior with vast skills, speed and the will to play both ends of the field. A Providence recruit, Tompkins is a steady stick that will give the Wildcats one of the top players on the field every time out.
Tompkins will be flanked by Mackenzie Wirth, a senior, and junior Lauren Fried, with talented freshman Kelsey Keener pushing for time.
Juniors Jordan Burkepile and Katherine Barton, along with Keener, will get the bulk of the action at link.
Up front, Houser lost his leading scorer and top assist producer. Still, the Wildcats are amply stocked with speed and proven finishers.
Senior Britt Fleisher, who takes 100 points and 41 goals into her final season, is a four-year starter. Hattie Kuhns, a junior, is a second-year starter who knocked in 12 goals, including four game-winners, and dished nine assists. Lauren Wilson, another junior, gives Houser three legs of a nasty sprint relay team. Senior Rachel Stroup, prized freshman Mallory Fortenbaugh and sophomore Alix Fegley provide depth in the forward rotation.
Like Valeri, Houser sees the quality of PeCo field hockey. He said, "There are four good teams in the county, maybe more so this year."
Houser was casting a glance at a resurgent Newport program that comes into the tournament riding the momentum of a strong offseason and the energy of a new coach, Megan Clark.
Back in command after three years away, Clark is intent on boosting scoring, reducing goals allowed and changing the defeatist mindset of the Buffaloes.
A scrimmage against Lewsiburg, a top D-4 program, indicates Clark may be on the verge.
Newport scored in less than four minutes, shook off an answering goal, then pushed in two more to take a 3-1 win. This from a team that had been outscored, on average, 3.5 to 1.1.
"Our goal was to score within the first three minutes and we almost did it," Clark said. "Our objective is finishing ... every ball, every shot, every pass, every game."
To that end, Clark has installed a 4-3-3 with sophomore forwards Jayden Barrick, Emily Bohn, Alyscia Smith and Taylor Hartman tasked with applying and maintaining pressure up front.
In the Lewisburg scrimmage, Barrick scored the first goal off a strong right-side cross from Hartman. Hartman also assisted on a goal by Smith. Bohn completed the scoring.
Autumn Dorritie, one of eight seniors on the squad, and sophomores Brooke Clark and Courtney Young will also see time up front.
Clark is building her midfield around junior Heather Deimler, sophomore Lauren Latchford, seniors Hannah Clegg, Kim Vilk and Sadie Albright. Talented freshman Sophie Grabiec is also making a strong bid for varsity time.
Clark believes her team will score. Preventing goals is a top priority.
"We can't be giving up four and five goals a game," Clark said. "We are working very hard on our defense."
Clark's key move is stationing Jen Campbell at left back to try to neutralize right-side attacks. Campbell, a first-team TVL midfield all-star, has the tackling skills to take on wings and the speed and work rate needed to recover.
Seniors Carley Brinser and Taylor Hench, Hannah Jones and Lauren Kemble, along with sophomore Kelsey Myer, round out the rotation.
"I have quality depth at every position. I'll be able to play a lot of girls," Clark said. "We can be a forceful team with each person taking care of their responsibilities."
In goal, Clark has installed first-year varsity sophomore Megan Reeser, who started at catcher for the softball team as a freshman. Reeser has quick feet and, obviously, a good glove.
"I'm loving what I'm seeing," Clark said. "The girls have put in the time. They've done all the hard work. We're not taking anybody lightly, but we're ready to go."


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Photos: Mixed Feelings For L.A.'s Immigrant Minors
The Supreme Court struck down parts of Arizona's immigration policy on Monday. And earlier this month, the Obama administration announced that it will grant deferred action to certain illegal immigrants who arrived as minors. That does not pave a path to permanent legal status or citizenship, but does delay the threat of deportation for many. Photographer Mae Ryan at member station KPCC in Los Angeles has been following undocumented youth to tell the story.
Hide captionClaudia Ramirez, 25, emigrated from Mexico with her parents when she was 4 and is currently pursuing a degree in nutrition. She doesn't have a work permit and has been taking odd jobs to pay for school. Ramirez hopes she might soon be eligible for a work permit, and says she looks forward to days when she doesn't have to lie anymore. "Now I can go for my dreams," she says.Mae Ryan/KPCC
Hide captionRuben Sanchez was a 1-year-old when he came to the States. He will soon be the first member of his family to go straight from high school to a four-year college. Money will be tough, though; he's been helping his mother make ends meet by selling tortas at school. He seems hopeful that Obama's statement might hint at financial assistance.Mae Ryan/KPCC
Hide captionIsaac Barrera was 4 years old when he came to the U.S. and currently studies at Pasadena City College. About nine months ago, Isaac was stopped by an officer as he drove his car with a broken headlight; he was asked for his license and ticketed. He didn't pay the ticket, and soon after, there was a warrant for his arrest. Now he's out on bail but could face deportation.Mae Ryan/KPCC
Hide captionJohn Perez emigrated from Colombia under political asylum when he was 3 years old. A beneficiary of the DREAM Act, Perez is less optimistic about President Obama's announcement, saying it seems like an attempt to give the Latino community a sense of security to secure votes. He says he would like to see an executive policy granting citizenship to his peers.Mae Ryan/KPCC
Hide captionAlma de Jesus immigrated when she was 6. After finishing her degree, she has been unable to get a full-time job due to her status. Because she is older than 30, she won't be eligible for Obama's deferred action program, but she says she is hopeful that her children, both U.S. citizens, will have bright futures.Mae Ryan/KPCC
Hide captionAna Venegas, who came to the U.S. from Guadalajara when she was less than a year old, recently graduated from college with a degree in sociology. Because she couldn't get a license, she made a 4-hour round-trip bus commute every day. "It's been really, really difficult," she says.Mae Ryan/KPCC
Hide captionThe day before her college graduation, Ana Venegas heard about Obama's announcement. "It's not just going to be for me," she says, "but for thousands and thousands of students in my situation that have already graduated, [who] are stuck in limbo and ... don't know what to do with their career."Mae Ryan/KPCC
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I started photographing illegal immigrant students and graduates in April for a short feature about Isaac Barrera, who is in college and has been living in the U.S. since he was 4 years old.
While driving about nine months ago, Isaac was pulled over for a broken headlight. He was asked for his license, ticketed and later arrested for failing to appear in court. Now he is out on bail but could face deportation.
Barrera's bedroom is covered in photos and drawings by fellow beneficiaries of the California DREAM Act, which has given conditional permanent residency to students like him.
From the day I showed up at his house and met his family, I realized that I wanted to share the faces and voices of these people who had been living in the shadows for so long.
When President Obama announced the deferred action plan a few months later, I called up some of them and was surprised by the varied reactions. Some were ecstatic that they might finally get work permits; others still say it's not enough — and a few won't be eligible for the benefits at all. All of them made one thing clear: To finally leave behind the fear of deportation is a relief, but citizenship is the goal.
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Mowry Slough
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mowry Slough[1] is a 5.8-mile-long (9.3 km)[2] slough (wetlands area) in Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and is the primary breeding ground for San Francisco Bay harbor seals. It is situated among the salt marshes and salt evaporation ponds in the city of Fremont.[3]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Mowry Slough". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 15, 2011
- ^ SFSU, Mowry Slough, retrieved August 1, 2007
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Devils winger Ilya Kovalchuk has yet to unleash his deadly one-timer since returning from a right shoulder injury suffered 18 days ago and he says he isn't sure he'll be ready to play Friday night against the Ottawa Senators.
"I don't know. We're going to decide with the doctors and coaches," he said, "but I don't think so."
Kovalchuk said he isn't arguing with team doctors to let him get back in the lineup.
"It's actually friendly conversations always, but for sure I want to be back as soon as I can to help the team however I can to win games because it's a crucial moment of the season now," he said.
The big winger took part in the Devils' optional morning skate and was pushed even harder than in yesterday's practice.
"We definitely did more shots and a little battle there at the end. It feels good, so it's definitely a step in the right direction," Kovalchuk said.
But no one-timers or full-force slap shots.
"Not yet. I shot harder for sure today. And when I was skating and did the sprints, it didn't bother me at all, so that's a positive thing," he said.
Coach Pete DeBoer said: "He was good this morning and he's back out there today, so that's a good sign. We're taking it day by day, but two days in a row we're ramping it up a little bit every day. That's a good sign."
Kovalchuk does not have a locker stall in the main dressing room, but came in to talk to reporters. He said the morning went well.
"Good. Good skate. You see I'm still trying to catch my breath," he said with a smile.
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DeBoer said the Devils can't count on other teams losing if they are to claim a playoff spot.
"You can't count on that. The message for our group is we've got to give ourselves a chance by taking care of what we have control over. And that's putting points on the board," DeBoer said. "That's the bottom line right now."
They enter tonight's game with a seven-game losing streak (0-3-4) despite playing well in some matches.
"You have to let it go. There are no other alternatives," DeBoer warned. "If you drag that around game to game with you, it can paralyze you. We just have to take a little bit of comfort in the fact we're doing a lot of things right and hope it translates into points eventually. The worst thing we can do is panic and change what we're doing, or try individually to come up with a solution on our own. That never works."
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Henrik Tallinder will replace Adam Larsson in the lineup tonight. Larsson was hit by a shot in practice yesterday and DeBoer indicated that played into the decision.
"He's a young defenseman. He's had some ups and downs," DeBoer said. "I thought he had a great rookie year for the most part. Sophomore year has had some real good spots and some inconsistent spots. But that's natural.
"There are very few guys that step out of the draft and don't go through the type of process he's going through before they become very good players. I don't have any doubt he's going to be a very good player. How long that process takes, I don't know."
Matt D'Agostini and Alexei Ponikarovsky will play instead of Tom Kostopoulos and Jacob Josefson.
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The last time goalie Keith Kinkaid was recalled, he dressed as Johan Hedberg's backup because Martin Brodeur was out with a pinched nerve in his upper back.
Now Kinkaid is back as Brodeur's backup because Hedberg is nursing an injury suffered in practice yesterday.
"They just get here for practice this morning," Kinkaid said.
The rookie made his NHL debut in relief of Hedberg on Mar. 5 against the Tampa Bay Lightning, allowing one goal on 13 shots. He was returned to Albany immediately after that game and Jeff Frazee was recalled.
"I found out that night," Kinkaid recalled. "The plan was to switch me and Frazee whether or not I got in. It was good to get in. After the game they told me they were going to bring Frazee in for the same experience. He had a great weekend that weekend before and deserved it. It was good to see him get into a game.
"You don't want to go back after you step foot on that ice. You learn what you need to work on. I took a lot of that as positive and to be even better."
He stopped Steven Satmkos on a breakaway in his NHL debut.
"My friends joke," Kinkaid said. "I'm sure if he gets 99 more breakaways he'll score on them all. He's a great player. It was good to stop him."
Albany continues to struggle for a playoff spot.
"We got into a playoff spot the next weekend I got back and then we had a little bit of a slump with a six-game losing streak," Kinkaid said. "The shootouts are killing us. We're 3-12 in shootouts. Say we get half those points, we're in a playoff spot.
"We're four points out (of the AHL playoffs) right now. We need to hope for a few losses from a few teams and win our own games."
The Devils, 2-7 in shootouts, are also out of a playoff spot.
"Like father, like son," Kinkaid suggested.
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Jay Pandolfo is sitting on 899 career NHL games. It would be nice for the former Devils left winger to play in No. 900 in New Jersey, but it is very unlikely Pandolfo will be in the Bruins lineup.


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I tried three versions of these Baked Sesame Tofu Sticks with Peanut Butter, Tahini, and Ginger Sauce to get one I thought was just right. The tofu sticks were delicious warm, and I even liked the leftovers that had been in the fridge for a few days!
Of course this is my Meatless Monday recipe offering for this week. (You can find more meatless recipes by using the label Meatless Monday or checking Vegetarian Recipes in the recipe index. For Meatless Monday ideas from other bloggers, follow our Meatless Monday board on Pinterest, or check Meatless Monday at BlogHer.)
If you want to skip the photos below and watch a video instead, here is a video of how to make this recipe. See more recipe videos on My You Tube Channel.
Baked Sesame Tofu Sticks with Peanut Butter, Tahini, and Ginger Sauce
(Makes about 4 snack servings or 2-3 main dish servings, my recipe combines ideas from several recipes spotted in cookbooks, but the original idea came from a sesame tofu recipe in Power Foods.
14 oz. firm or extra firm tofu, pressed to remove water
4 tsp. toasted sesame seeds
1 tsp. peanut oil or other high smoke-point oil
Marinade Ingredients:
1 T sesame oil
1 1/2 T soy sauce
1 tsp. rice vinegar
2-3 tsp. agave nectar (or other sweetener of your choice)
1-2 tsp. Sriracha Sauce
1/2 tsp. ground ginger (or grated fresh ginger root)
Sauce Ingredients:
1 T ground ginger (or grated fresh ginger root)
2 T smooth natural peanut butter (Use peanut butter without added sugar, such as Adams 100% Natural Peanut Butter for South Beach Diet.)
2 T Tahini Sauce (or if you don't have Tahini, use 2 T more peanut butter)
3 T soy sauce (I used reduced-sodium.)
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NEW YORK — James Harden scored 36 points in his return to the lineup and the Houston Rockets withstood Carmelo Anthony's 45 points to beat the New York Knicks 109-106 Thursday night, giving Jeremy Lin another winning night at Madison Square Garden.
Anthony had the highest-scoring game in the NBA this season and grabbed 10 rebounds, but it wasn't enough for the Knicks in their fourth straight home loss.
Chandler Parsons added 22 points and Lin had 21 for the Rockets, who beat the Knicks for the eighth straight time even on a mostly silent night from Dwight Howard, largely outplayed by Andrea Bargnani.
Howard had just seven points with his 15 rebounds, though he did make a pair of free throws with 1:15 left that gave Houston a five-point lead.
Harden, who missed the Rockets' 123-117 overtime loss in Philadelphia on Wednesday with a bruised left foot, scored seven straight Houston points for nine-point lead with 3:51 left. He finished 16 of 18 at the line.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Andre Iguodala made a baseline fadeaway as time expired to lift Golden State to a thrilling victory over Oklahoma City.
Russell Westbrook's 3-pointer with 2.3 seconds remaining put the Thunder ahead after they trailed by 14 points early in the fourth quarter. Warriors coach Mark Jackson called a timeout to regroup, and David Lee inbounded the ball from near half court.
Iguodala caught the ball and extended over Thabo Sefolosha for the winning shot, sending the sellout crowd of 19,596 into a frenzy. He sprinted toward halfcourt and was mobbed by teammates.
Iguodala finished with 14 points and nine assists.
Klay Thompson scored 27 points and Stephen Curry had 22 points and nine assists for the Warriors, who made 14 of 23 shots from 3-point range.
Westbrook finished with 31 points, nine rebounds and five assists. Serge Ibaka had 27 points and 13 rebounds, and Kevin Durant had 20 points, eight assists and seven rebounds as the Thunder lost for the second straight night to a top Western Conference team.
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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- To earn an NCAA tournament at-large berth, bracketologists said Alabama needed to win Saturday at Florida and/or Tuesday at Ole Miss.
The Crimson Tide lost both games.
So that's the end of the discussion. Right?
Alabama remains on the bubble going into its regular-season finale at 3 p.m. CST Saturday at home against Georgia.
That's probably because other teams on the bubble keep losing, too.
Here's the latest:
- Jerry Palm of CBSSports.com says the first four out, in order, are Massachusetts, Mississippi, Alabama and Stanford. The last four in are La Salle, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa State.
- Joe Lunardi of ESPN says the first four out, in order, are Kentucky, Ole Miss, Alabama and Southern Miss. The next four out are Baylor, Arizona State, Maryland and Providence. The last four in are La Salle, Temple, Boise State and Tennessee.
- Patrick Stevens of USA Today isn't listing a last four in or first four out, but Alabama remains in the bubble discussion. And here is a full breakdown of teams on the bubble.
To be clear, Stevens isn't high on Alabama. He singles out the Crimson Tide as a "résumé worth dissecting" and writes:
But if Alabama wins Saturday and Ole Miss loses at LSU and Tennessee loses to Missouri and Kentucky loses Thursday at Georgia or Saturday to Florida and others outside the SEC continue to fall, who knows?
It's been clear for weeks a two-game stretch to start March would serve as the linchpin of any postseason push for the Crimson Tide. Now Alabama has lost them both, dropping consecutive games on the road to Florida and Mississippi. The loss to the Rebels drops the Crimson Tide to 7-7 against the top 100, and there increasingly is less and less of an at-large argument for them. They need to reach the weekend at the SEC tournament to have a realistic chance since there isn't much to gain from beating Georgia to close the regular season.
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San Juan Island National Historical Park annual old-fashioned Holiday Social, tree-trimming and cookie potluck is noon to 3 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, at English Camp.
Visitors are invited to bring holiday cookies and ornaments to hang on the tree, which will be erected in the old British Royal Marine Light Infantry barracks building — just as it was done — most likely — in the mid-1860s, when the camp was in its heyday.
Recipient of the Historical Park's 2012 Volunteer of the Year award will be announced, and a recognition of park volunteers, at 2 p.m. Admission is free.
The park will provide beverages, two crackling fires to warm the bones and entertainment to include staff and volunteer re-enactors in period uniforms and dress, storytelling and contra dancing with "Pig War."
The San Juan Carolers also plan to drop by for a few songs. A motorized golf cart is available to provide transportation from English Camp parking area to the barracks for those with accessibility needs. Info, 378-2240, ext. 2233.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - A flash flood watch in effect Sunday night through Monday afternoon as the National Weather Service forecasts up to three inches of rain by daybreak Monday.
Some thunderstorms could become strong to marginally severe late tonight into early Monday, mainly southeast of a line stretching from Hartselle in Morgan County to Scottsboro in Jackson County. These storms could be capable of hail, damaging wind and possibly a tornado.
The greater threat from the storms is heavy rainfall that may lead to excessive runoff and flash flooding. Through 7 a.m. on Monday, rainfall amounts of one to three inches are likely, with some locations receiving higher amounts.
The threat of thunderstorms will end from west to east as a cold front moves through the area by midday into early Monday afternoon.
Monday night calls for mostly cloudy skies and a low around 41. Tuesday's forecast shows a 40-percent chance of showers. Otherwise, look for mostly cloudy skies, with a high near 62. Tuesday night should be partly cloudy, with a low around 43. There is a 20-percent chance of showers before 1 a.m.
Wednesday's forecast calls for sunny skies, with a high near 62, then mostly clear Wednesday night, with a low around 40. Skies should remain sunny Thursday, with a high near 72.The sun will rise Monday at 6:25 a.m. and set at 7:12 p.m., bringing 12 hours and 47 minutes of daylight.


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Bank CEO addresses business community
December 10, 2012
About a year after assuming control of the failed Citizens Bank, the leader of Tri-Counties Bank addressed the Nevada County business community during a regular meeting of the Economic Resource Council.
Rick Smith, CEO of Tri-Counties, delivered a comprehensive speech detailing how the September 2011 takeover of Citizens Bank, which was judged by the FDIC to be insolvent in the autumn of last year, has affected his operations and how he envisions his financial institution becoming an indispensable thread in the fabric of the county's business community.
Tri-Counties Bank took over Citizens Sept. 23, 2011, after the FDIC determined the bank was no longer operational and seized the bank's assets and liabilities, Smith said.
Upon seizure, the FDIC then collected bids from interested financial institutions.
"I don't think businesses are treated well in this state."
— RIck Smith,
CEO of Tri-Counties Bank
Tri-Counties was the low bidder and agreed to buy a portion of the bank's assets and liabilities at a discounted rate.
"We bought certain assets and liabilities of Citizens," Smith said. "We did not buy the company itself."
Most of the assets and liabilities consisted of Citizens' loans and deposits.
The assets and liabilities of the bank have since paid dividends for Tri-Counties despite being damaged, largely because Tri-Counties was able to purchase the items at a discounted rate, Smith said.
"It's been a very good transaction for us financially," Smith said.
The transition from one bank to another resulted in a net loss of jobs in Nevada County. Tri-Counties is headquartered in Chico, and most of its upper-level executives live and work in that community.
Citizens was owned and operated locally.
"Obviously, the president of Citizens is not the president of Citizens any more," Smith said. "And there are others in other positions (who have moved on), but we certainly looked out for good people we could place in other positions in our company, and we have gone through that process."
Nevada County is lucky in that Tri-Counties, which is still a small, community-minded bank, took over Citizens, as opposed to a large multi-national financial corporation, Smith asserted.
"If Bank X headquartered in New York took over, I don't think the CEO would be here today," he said.
Smith touted the financial health of his institution, saying that it is well positioned from a capital assets and liquidity standpoint.
"We are strongly positioned to lend money," he said, adding that the most important role for a community bank is to provide capital to entrepreneurial enterprises that can drive the local economy and create jobs.
"We will continue to lend money as it is the lifeblood of the economy," Smith said. "Now, we are not going to lend money to anybody who asks for it, as our main goal is to protect our depositors, but we will use good judgement."
The future of business in rural areas like Nevada County lies in the technology sector, as traditional economic drivers, such as resource extraction industries, have gone the way of the dinosaur under the aegis of California's insistence on environmental regulation, Smith said.
Smith lambasted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law in 2010, saying the law has created overly burdensome layers of regulation, which pass along an enormous cost to independent banks, which were not responsible for the financial malfeasances that resulted in the economic tumult that began in 2006 and 2007.
"The Dodd-Frank legislation is 3,000 pages of legislation and only one-third of the rules have been written yet," Smith said. "So we are a long way from doing what is required of us."
Bankers made serious and grave missteps in the mid-2000s, and the legislation came as a result, but a lot of smaller banks that did not partake in some of the irresponsible and sometimes criminal lending practices have been unduly punished, Smith said.
"That's typical of government regulation," he said. "When it comes out, it is one size fits all."
He further characterized the state of California as "dead last" in terms of its approach to business.
"I don't think businesses are treated well in this state," Smith said. "If I could pick up a company and move, why wouldn't I?"
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MAC Metal Urge: Review and Swatches
A rich new vein of rare earth-inspired shine and shadow is ready to be mined. Enhance your precious worth with Brushed Metal-X Eye Shadow. Excavate the delights of new and bring-back shades of Pigment, Reflects Glitter, and Liquidlast Liner. Give in to the urge!
Overall, the metal urge eye shadows are an improvement from Metal-x collection. The eye shadow texture applied very smooth and cremey, but yet have good color pay-off. If your not into creme based textures, I'd pass on this one.
Yesterday at the MAC store, only two items came home with me: Verdigris eye shadow and Spiritiualize pigment. My MA had both these shades piled on with no creasing, this is a good sign.
Check out the swatches below.
The Metal Urge collection is now available for a limited time at MAC stores and maccosmetics.com.
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vampyvarnish said on Nov 22nd, 2008 1:34 am
I love Verdigirs and Dress Khaki. They have so many collections it's impossible to keep up, it's like a new one comes out almost every week!
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Dress Kahaki was my second favorite! I know right? It's like a love hate relationship with MAC but we always come back :)!


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How Can Johannesburg Cops Call Five Similar Gay Murders "Unrelated"?
Over the last 18 months Johannesburg, South Africa has had five murders against gay men—each of which has occurred in very similar ways: police find each man bound and usually strangled, with no sign of forced entry and almost no theft, implying that the victim knew his killer. So how is it that despite the similarities local police have ruled out the possibility of a serial murderer?
According to Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, one person could not have responsible for all the killings. In fact he says that one man is already on trial for one of the murders, two others involved in another murder have been extradited, and police have leads for possible suspects in the remaining homicides.
Dlamini's conclusion also seems plausible considering the varying modus operandi used in two of the slayings—in one, the murderer poured acid over the victim's dead body and in the most recent killing, the man was much older than the other victims and died of blunt force trauma to the head rather than strangulation. How gruesome.
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The Johannesburg police can't even stop or solve "regular" murder (that sounds wrong? lol, but you know what I mean) – The only "serial" they know is "cereal". They don't want to even consider this as a serial murder because they simply wouldn't know how to deal with it. They have no experience dealing with any sort of planned or organized crime and this is exactly why it's so easy to get away with anything in South Africa, including murder. Sad but true.Oct 12, 2011 at 3:36 am · @Reply ·
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We did bounce 50% off the lows. I believe this is a shakeout.
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While I was working on my Christmas projects this year, I had a stroke of genius... or maybe just a stroke!! :-) But, I just couldn't get this crazy idea out of my head. Where are my manners? I am Joan, popping in for a visit from "MooseStash Quilting". I have long been a fanatic about saving scraps and threads and itty bitty things that would make anyone who is OCD crazy, I am sure. But there was this eureka moment, while working on my Christmas project last November. I had all these little corners that I cut off my blocks. You know, the ones left over, when you stitch on the line and then cut them 1/4" away when making, flying geese for example.
After you press open your little piece, you get these dog ears.
And you know they have to go!!
Which leaves you this...
Now we are on to something!!
We need tulle, you know the stuff with little tiny holes in it. I put a piece of fabric under it, so you can see it. It's really hard to photograph.
We are also going to need some water soluble stabilizer. I like the woven kind personally. Now layer the tulle on top of the water soluble stabilizer and stitch around the edges. We need 2 of these one for the top and one for the bottom! :-)
Dog ears!! Yep we need dog ears. And you thought I was crazy!
With the water soluble side down sprinkle on your dog ears.
And now for the fun. We are going to take this little sandwich to our machine, drop those feed dogs and start quilting. Nothing fancy, just some loops and wiggles, something to keep things together. Once you have the entire piece somewhat stable, you can start quilting the bejeebers out of it.
Bejeeber: A very technical word that is about the same as "heck" or "mess" or "stuffing"... You know, whatever favorite word you like to use!! :-)
It's fun to change out the thread colors and scribble away. It really does need to be pretty densely quilted so when we dissolve the stabilizer, everything stays put. Here is my finished piece.
Then off to the sink, to dissolve the stabilizer.
What I am left with is this fabulous piece of fabric, just waiting to have an art quilt designed for it!
Remember those little pieces - the ones the dog ears came from?
They make up great pin wheel blocks. And just the right colors to match our art fabric!! Who knew!
So I gathered a recycled zipper and some polka dot ribbon and I start to play. A zip up shirt is what popped into my mind, and don't you know that every zip up shirt has to have a matching brooch. It is a rule, I'm sure!
So here you go. My Valentines version of an art quilt.
And from left overs from this Christmas Quilt...
Who'd a thunk!
I hope to have inspired you, to start your very own OCD fabric art quilt. Cause there is nothing better than getting a Bonus "quiltie" from leftovers!!
stop on by the MooseStash for a visit
I have a jar full of thread and a bag of dog ears...
What's a girl to do??? You gotta help me!!!
Have a fabulous Valentines day!!
And don't forget to show us your " OCD Art" quilt!
A big thanks to Madame Samm! It's always a pleasure for me to be able to share with so many talented people. You "all" keep me inspired, each and every day!


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One of the most notable network windbags, ESPN's Mike Patrick, breathlessly proclaimed during the Oregon at Tennessee game that "Virginia Tech lost and the computer will kill them [Boise State] for that!" If this guy ever did his homework on anything about this system, he might get a cramp. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The computer formula weekly will enter dozens and dozens of results under Boise's ledger from both its opponents and its opponents' opponents. One tangential game by itself means next to nothing. And besides, the computer never likes BSU much anyway because it plays in the low-ranked Western Athletic Conference which never does very well against FBS competition as a league.
The greater impact stood to come from the two polls, one of which won't even be compiled until week 6 (the Harris poll of former players, administrators and a sprinkling of media). Public perception and human debate will drive the Boise bus one way or the other. We already have a pretty good idea where the computers will stand and they only account for a third of the formula anyway.
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Showtime renews 'Penny Dreadful' for an expanded second season
Well, I guess I'm spending my afternoon catching up on the past two episodes of "Penny Dreadful."
Showtime announced on Wednesday (June 3) morning that the Victorian horror mash-up "Penny Dreadful" has been renewed for a second season.
[Note: I was already planning on using part of my afternoon to catch up on the past two episodes of "Penny Dreadful."]
In addition to renewing "Penny Dreadful," Showtime announced that the second season will be expanded to 10 episodes, up from the eight for the current first season. Production will continue to be in Dublin and "Penny Dreadful" will return in 2015.
"Picking up 'Penny Dreadful' was one of the easiest decisions I've made," blurbs Showtime President David Nevins, not explaining why the decision didn't come until half-way through the season. "The series has had worldwide impact, drawing big, passionate audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, and more than any other show on our network has hit the bullseye with viewers who want to watch television in all the new ways that are available. John Logan has deftly created an epic series that has drawn raves from a wide-range of audiences from quality drama lovers to critics, to hardcore genre fans. We look forward to working once again with our partners at Sky Atlantic and are extremely excited for what's in store for season two."
Across various platforms, "Penny Dreadful" has averaged 4.8 million weekly viewers through its first three episodes, with particularly strong play on Showtime OnDemand -- which I will be using for my afternoon catch-up -- and Showtime Anytime, where it is the network's most watched new show. The first episode, which went up early online and on various digital platforms was Showtime's biggest-ever sneak preview as well.
Starring Eva Green, Josh Hartnett and Timothy Dalton, "Penny Dreadful" was created by John Logan. Showtime is making a big point of emphasizing that this week's episode is an important one, teasing that it will expose the bond connection Dalton's Sir Malcolm, Green's Vanessa and Olivia Llewellyn's Mina.
Like I said... I'm off to catch up.
Are you enjoying "Penny Dreadful"?