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U.S. District Court Judge Lance Africk has been named the Sugar Bowl Committee's President for the 2011-2012 year. Judge Africk, who has resided in New Orleans since 1975, is the 54th president of the organization. He will oversee both the 78th Annual Allstate Sugar Bowl and the 2012 BCS National Championship Game.
Since joining the Sugar Bowl Committee in 1998, Judge Africk has served in several officer positions and has been involved with numerous Sugar Bowl committees. He succeeds David B. Melius, who directed the organization through the 2010 year as well as the January 4, 2011 Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic between Ohio State and Arkansas. He will serve with Jack Laborde, President-Elect; John A. "Jay" Batt, Jr., Vice-President; Dennis J. Waldron, Treasurer; and T. Carey Wicker, Secretary. The Sugar Bowl's 52nd President, Richard R. Smith, was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee. Kyle M. France, Gary J. Glueck and William J. Kearney, IV, were elected to the Executive Committee.
"Being elected Sugar Bowl President is a tremendous honor which I welcome as an opportunity to further serve the community," remarked Judge Africk.
"Through the energetic work of our volunteer members, staff, and fellow citizens, the Sugar Bowl serves as a catalyst for the preservation and continued growth of our city and state," Judge Africk stated. "As the second oldest bowl game in the United States, the Sugar Bowl has a long history of community service through amateur athletics and the organization remains resolute in its commitment to that legacy and to the economic growth of our community. Being permitted to act as a steward of this historic bowl is an opportunity for which I am most grateful."
Judge Africk is currently a United States District Court Judge, a position he has held since being nominated to that position by President George W. Bush in 2002. Prior to that, he served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for twelve years. He also previously served as Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for approximately eight years and as the Director of the Career Criminal Bureau of the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office. In addition to serving as an adjunct professor of law at the Tulane University School of Law, Judge Africk has lectured at many continuing legal education programs, including the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and U.S. Sentencing Commission conferences. He has authored several articles in the area of criminal law and he is currently serving as a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, having been appointed to that position by the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and reappointed by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. Judge Africk is to be inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame in July of 2011.
After earning his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1973, Judge Africk went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the same school in 1975. He came to New Orleans, La., to work as a judicial law clerk following his law school graduation. Judge Africk is married to Lisa Michele Africk, who practices law in New Orleans.
The Sugar Bowl Committee was founded as the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association in 1934 for the purpose of promoting amateur sporting events that would stimulate tourism and have a positive economic effect on the New Orleans metropolitan area. The 2011 game is estimated to have had an economic impact of over $180 million. When the organization last "double-hosted," it brought over $400 million of economic impact to the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. The Sugar Bowl has brought over one billion dollars of economic stimulus to the region over the last five years.


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Sacramento Papa John's Restaurants Run Out of Dough
Eight Papa John's take-out and delivery pizzerias in the Sacramento area closed Friday to the surprise of employees and customers.
The eight stores are on Folsom Boulevard, Sacramento; Fulton Avenue, Sacramento; Elverta Road, Sacramento; Foothills Boulevard, Roseville; Sunset Boulevard, Rocklin; Blue Ravine Road, Folsom; Peabody Road, Vacaville and N. Texas Street, Fairfield.
A note on the door of one of the shuttered stores identified the franchisee as APNA Investments.
The note blamed "circumstances beyond our control" for the shutdown.
One employee in Folsom found out the franchisee was in trouble when the bank refused to honor his paycheck.
The note said APNA Investments anticipates filing for bankruptcy and advised employees to seek unemployment compensation from the Employment Development Department.
Three Sacramento-area Papa John's locations will remain open, Papa John's corporate spokesman Darryl Carr said.
The eight stores that are closed had been struggling, but that corporate officials were blindsided when the franchisee notified them Friday morning that he was shutting down the same day.
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Topper site dig featured in new PBS series
The University of South Carolina's Topper archaeological dig site—home to some of the most significant research on earliest man in America—will be the subject of an hour-long episode in a new national PBS television series airing at 8 p.m. July 15 on SC-ETV stations.
Topper, located in Allendale County along the banks of the Savannah River, will be the second episode of the Time Team America series. The series launches July 7.
Based on a long-running British series, Time Team America takes viewers inside some of the most intriguing archaeological sites in America. The show's crew, comprising archaeologists and scientists, share the rush of discovery with viewers as artifacts emerge from the ground.
"This is the first one hour national broadcast on Topper, which is some measure of the importance of the site and the amount of public interest in the archaeology of early humans in the Americas," said Dr. Al Goodyear, the University of South Carolina archaeologist whose research at the Topper site has captured international attention and has put the archaeology field in flux.
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Goodyear's findings suggest an occupation of an earlier pre-Clovis people dating back some 50,000 years or more and have sparked scientific debate and interest.
"A scientist may work for decades and not find anything extraordinarily rare or exciting, but we've had more than our share of these really cutting-edge discoveries," Goodyear said.
The Time Team America crew filmed at the Topper site in early June 2008. Producer Graham Dixon and a 20-member crew followed Goodyear and his team of graduate students and volunteers as they combed the depths of the Pleistocene layers to find Clovis and pre-Clovis artifacts, adding to the extensive artifacts previously excavated.
They also caught up with Arizona geophysicist Dr. Allen West who, with Goodyear in 2007, conducted research to support a theory that a giant comet exploded over North America around 12,900 years ago, killing the large beasts of the day (the wooly mammoth and mastodon), and, probably, many of the Clovis people.
PBS calls Time Team America "part extreme adventure, part hard science and part reality show." Dixon said he wants viewers to have the sensation of being on a dig and eavesdropping on conversations by top scientists.
"Time Team is about showing the reality of archaeology to the ordinary person and demystifying some of the processes going on. We never know what is going to happen on a dig. It's very exciting," said Dixon last June during the show's taping.


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'Two misconducts. Two fights. Too many scrums to count. Four players helped to the dressing room. Heads banged off glass. Sticks under helmets. Pucks banked off faces. Blood on the ice. Orange-clad fans thirsting for more.'
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"Green River has helped me to develop good study habits. I have learned how to manage my classes and social life. This is good because I have met so many friends from all over the world - not only American and Asian students, but also African, Turkish, German and Swedish. I am a lot more open now - not so shy."
Lynn is very active on campus, she not only works as a marketing Assistant in the International Programs Office and an Economics Tutor, she is also a member of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for two-year colleges. One of her greatest GRCC memories to date, was participating in an 8-day business experience trip to Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. This trip was organized in conjunction with Phi Theta Kappa and the International Scholar Laureate Program (ISLP). The students got a great introduction to the world of business, both profit and non-profit, and met entreprenuers including the founders of foursquare.
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Mainly because it is, as my annoying college roommate would term it, a tautology.
Mr. Poste observes in his note: The sophistic locus of tautology may be considered as a caricature of a dialectic locus.
The milk pails were on the fence twice, Lady Blue, that is tautology.
For the tautology; you have, with their vain mysterious art, twice repeated; magic charms can ne'er relieve you, three times.
If he had laboured with no other defect, had he the gift of tautology?
Say a repentant tenant—no, that sounds like tautology—say a remorseful tenant brought it to you.
He doth likewise the same thing, is a tautology characteristic of the writer: il fet meismes ceste chose, F.
A great deal of it is so absurd, trifling, and full of tautology that it requires no little patience to read much of it at a time.
There is certainly a great deal of verbiage and tautology about them.
And somebody says, 'Yes, that is tautology, that is saying the same thing twice over in different language.'
1570s, from Late Latin tautologia "representation of the same thing," from Greek tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to say" (see lecture (n.)).


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Justin Bieber Almost Caused a State of Emergency in Norway. For Real.
No joke: Justin Bieber's arrival in Norway literally almost caused the police to declare a state of emergency. Talk about some crazy fans!
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You know, I was going to try to come up with a really clever and hilarious headline for this one—something like, "Run For Your Life! It's a Norwegian Bieber Emergency!"—but I gave up because the news more or less speaks for itself: Justin Bieber actually caused an official, police-declared state of emergency in Norway yesterday.
I… Just… What?!
Okay, perhaps more accurately, it was his crazy European fans that caused the state of emergency, and even more accurately yet, it was more of an almost state of emergency than a full-on, no-holds-barred one (thankfully, things never got quite that out of hand, though it was close). Here's what happened, according to (of course) TMZ: Justin Bieber arrived in Oslo, Norway yesterday in order to perform four new songs outside the city's famed opera house as part of his upcoming Around the World TV special. Naturally, European Beliebers from all over the continent therefore descended upon Oslo in droves—tens of thousands, says TMZ—and they did NOT go gentle into that good night.
Apparently the masses overwhelmed the police, demanding that the Biebs hit the stage early. And by early, they meant now. RIGHT NOW, DAMMIT. This madness, then, is what caused the police to threaten a state of emergency. Because, I mean, how else are you going to get the reins back from that many wild Bieber fans?
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Ever the thoughtful one, (at least, when he's not busy getting into altercations with the paparazzi) Justin reached out to his fans via Twitter:
As odd as this may sound, Tweeting at his fans was actually a pretty good move; Justin's Twitter account is the second most popular celebrity account in the entirety of the Twittersphere (Lady Gaga has the lead on him), so his plea was most likely received by a lot of the people in the crowd. Just in case the whole thing wasn't already cloak-and-dagger enough for you, though, the Biebs was held in a secret location until he was helicoptered to the stage.
Weirder yet? There were 50 injuries in the madness. 50! 14 of which required emergency medical care! This is crazy, right? It's crazy!
Video of the performance here for the curious:
And for the even more curious, here's a video of the Biebs getting chased by his wacky fans:
I feel a little weird comparing Justin Bieber to the Beatles, but… well, you do the math.
Anyway. Just thought I'd share said craziness with you, Bettys. Carry on!
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Humberto holds his own, Gabrielle crawls northwest of Bermuda
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Hurricane Humberto continues to hold his own with maximum sustained winds near 85 MPH just northwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
"The forecast is coming together as expected with Humberto," said Storm Team 2 Meteorologist Josh Marthers just before the start of News 2 Today. "Humberto will not become a monster hurricane and will likely weaken over the weekend as it bends more to the west."
The latest forecasts show Humberto heading west over the weekend before turning north early next week.
"This storm poses no threat to the United States mainland," added Marthers.
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"There is another area of disturbed weather we are watching which will likely be named in the Gulf by the weekend," said Marthers. In addition to that disturbance, several tropical waves are poised to roll off of the African continent over the coming days which will be monitored carefully.
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Carole Ann McLemore
Oklahoma Connection: Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1960
Carole McLemore worked as an engineer at NASA starting in 1985. She helped design the International Space Station, among other work.
James Webb
Oklahoma Connection: Moved to Oklahoma in 1953
James Webb moved to Oklahoma City to work for Kerr McGee. In 1961 he became the administrator of NASA under President John F. Kennedy. He served until 1968, helping to get the first man on the moon.
Photo courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, nasa.gov (accessed January 16, 2013).
Jerry Elliott
Oklahoma Connection: Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Jerry Elliott is a Cherokee and Osage Indian. As a child he had a vision that he would help get people to the moon. He became an engineer for NASA in 1966. He worked on the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. He was working in Mission Control when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. He also founded the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.
Jerry Elliott with Iron Eyes Cody and the Apollo-Soyuz docking module (22318.104.22.168.7, Jerry Elliott Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division).
Celebration in Mission Control Room during Apollo 11. Jerry Elliot's childhood dream had come true. Photo courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, nasa.gov (accessed January 16, 2013).
Donna ShirleyOklahoma Connection: Born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, in 1941
Donna Shirley dreamed of going to Mars as a little girl. She enrolled in the University of Oklahoma's engineering program and her advisor told her "girls can't be engineers." In 1994 she became the Mars Program Manager in the Office of Mars Exploration. She helped get the first rover to land on Mars in 1997.
Read the transcript of an oral history featuring Donna Shirley (PDF)
Photo courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, nasa.gov (accessed January 16, 2013).
Velma Clark
Oklahoma Connection: Born in Custer City, Oklahoma, in 1910
Velma Clark graduated from Oklahoma A & M with a degree in journalism. In 1968 a company hired her to work on writing, editing, and proofing NASA handbooks.
Wiley Post
Oklahoma Connection: Born in Maysville, Oklahoma
Wiley Post is best known for setting a record for flying around the world. He also wanted to fly higher than anyone else had before. He could not do so, though, in his plane, the Winnie Mae, because it was made of wood. The pressure in the air was too strong to allow him to fly so high. So he contacted the B. F. Goodrich Company to design him a suit that would allow him to fly high into the atmosphere. In 1934 Wiley Post flew the Winnie Mae to 40,000 feet and later flew to as high as 50,000 feet. Wiley Post made it possible for astronauts to survive in space by helping develop the first pressurized suit.
Wiley Post in the pressurized suit (23115-AL-19-4, Arch Dixon Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society Research Division).
Wiley Post Helmet Replica (Oklahomans and Space, Oklahoma Historical Society Collections).
Geraldyn Cobb
Oklahoma Connection: Born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1931
Geraldyn Cobb learned to fly her father's plane by age twelve. She became the first woman astronaut trainee in 1960. She also became a consultant for the future use of women astronauts. In 1963 NASA decided not to use women astronauts. Cobb resigned and became a humanitarian aid worker to South America, winning many awards for her work.
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Deputies to conduct DUI checkpoints: The Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies will conduct DUI checkpoints in three cities today and Friday.
The sheriff's department didn't release the locations of the checkpoints; the department only releases the cities and checkpoint times.
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Copenhagen International Airport Kastrup is only 55 km away across the Öresund Bridge, about 50 minutes' drive. There are also airport coaches from Kastrup to Malmö every 1.5 hours offered by the company Swebus Express.
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Your best bet from most of Europe is to take a high-speed train to Copenhagen and connect from there via regional trains to Malmö. The Malmö main station is called Malmö Central (or just Malmö C); from there take bus line 1 out to Hyllie, where the venue is located. www.sj.se (Swedish Rail System) www.skanetrafiken.se (Malmö public transportation)
Coming from Copenhagen on the E6/E20, cross the Öresund Bridge (toll: about €39, for current prices see uk.oresundsbron.com/); it's the first exit after crossing into Sweden. From northern Sweden, take the E6/E20 all the way to exit 11, just before the Öresund bridge.
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Wisbech Town boss Appleby content with his side's FA Vase fourth round opponents
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Wisbech Town boss Steve Appleby was in a relaxed mood last night after learning who the Fenmen's next FA Vase opponents will be.
The Thurlow Nunn Premier Division title-challengers will visit Midlands Football Alliance Division One Gornal Athletic in the fourth round of the competition on January 19.
Having won 4-2 at Bradford-based Thackley at the weekend to seal their place in the last 32, Appleby admits the draw could have been much tougher, saying: "I'm fairly happy. Without counting our chickens there were worse draws, even if they might fancy their chances at home.
"I suppose it could have been worse. It's not a million miles away and although you always want a home draw at least it's not a 600-mile round trip to somewhere like Bodmin.
"You won't get an easy game at this stage but we are certainly looking forward to it. We definitely proved on Saturday we're as good as anybody at this level. But we've got to prove it every game to have any chance of getting to Wembley. It's as simple as that."
Gornal's 1-0 triumph over UCL Boston Town at the weekend ensured their name was in the hat for yesterday's draw – the furthest stage of the competition they have ever reached.
Wisbech were knocked out in the fourth round last season to eventual winners Dunston UTS, after a replay, and Appleby is now looking to prolong the Fenmen's Wembley dream well into 2013.
The Boston-based manager said: "We're not planning to go just one better, we hope to continue for quite a while yet. It's important we don't look too far ahead mind. I've spoken to Boston Town, who felt they should have got something from their game on Saturday. I was able to get an idea of what they are all about."
Gornal, who play in a village in the West Midlands area near Dudley, have already knocked out Coventry Sphinx, Lye Town, Nuneaton Griff and Atherstone in this season's competition.
Appleby's men – who like Athletic play at Step Five of the non-league ladder – came into the Vase at a much later stage and have only had to see off St Ives Town and Thackley so far.
Goals from Steven Reid, Chris Bacon, Adam Millson and Dubi Ogbonna saw the Fenmen stroll to victory in West Yorkshire at the weekend after a near faultless display. The winners of tie will pocket £2,000 prize money as well as a place in the last 16.
The Fenmen are back in action tonight when they host Thetford Town in the League Cup.


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CULVER CITY - An autopsy was pending on an 89-year-old man who died this weekend, three weeks after he was allegedly beaten on an MTA bus near Culver City by a suspect now jailed for felony assault and elder abuse.
Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said the autopsy would be scheduled and a positive identification made when the man's body was transported from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to the coroner's office.
The 89-year-old victim was apparently hurt on the bus near Venice Boulevard at Main Street, in the city of Los Angeles but next to downtown Culver City, on Oct. 21.
Luke Schoedel, 35, was arrested at the scene of the attack three Sundays ago, a sheriff's spokesman said. He was booked for felony assault and felony elder abuse and remained jailed in lieu of $80,000 bail, according to jail records.
The victim's name or hometown were not released.
Schoedel might be charged with more serious crimes if the autopsy justifies that, spokesman Steve Whitmore told City News Service.
``We are waiting for the coroner to determine the cause of death,'' Whitmore said. ``We don't know yet whether the man died as a result of that assault, or for some other reason.''
The elderly man was treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, but left the hospital. He checked himself back in to Cedars-Sinai last Tuesday, and died at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Whitmore said.
Detectives were not sure if the alleged bus assault or the victim's advanced age led to his death.
``That's why we're not sure what caused his death,'' Whitmore said. He said he had ``no idea'' what the victim's attending physician at Cedars-Sinai might think caused the man's death.
Sheriff's homicide detectives responded to the hospital as part of their continuing investigation into this crime, he said.
``If the coroner determines the man died as a result of the assault, then Schoedel may be rebooked on a murder charge,'' Whitmore said. ``But right now we're waiting on the coroner's report.''
Schoedel was scheduled to appear for arraignment on Dec. 12 at the Airport Court near Los Angeles International Airport.


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East football players gathered at their school early Thursday afternoon, sitting quietly in the hallways and on the staircases of the building, talking in hushed tones.
They had been watching film that morning when they heard the decision that had taken almost a full day to reach them: The executive committee of the Utah High School Activities Association decided to wipe out all but one win of their 8-1 season after learning of ineligible players who had played for the team.
The team had waited to see if maybe the five-member panel that had heard its case would uphold the Region 6 penalties: serious sanctions, but no forfeits. The Leopards had suffered a 51-34 defeat to Logan, all the while wondering if they were losing their final game this year.
The No. 1-ranked team in Class 4A, a team some believe is the best in Utah, will be excluded from the playoffs unless East can appeal successfully the decision to the UHSAA's Board of Trustees.
"It definitely hurts a lot," said Zach Swenson, a senior captain of the team. "I can't really say much more about it."
The UHSAA panel came down hard on a program that had four players who inappropriately had been declared eligible, a situation characterized in the written decision as "a severe lack of institutional control."
East has defended itself at the region and state level by saying the ineligible players saw the field only because of confusion about rules that were changed this spring. A region hearing determined that forfeits wouldn't be necessary in lieu of other sanctions, including a $1,500 fine, probation and two-game suspension for coach Brandon Matich. The UHSAA panel ended up overriding the region's penalties.
East athletic director Kathy Butler testified before the UHSAA panel Wednesday that she had fallen into a "gray area" when she told the four players and Matich they were eligible when they weren't.
She had approved two players from charter schools since it had been more than a year since they had attended their original schools from Highland and West, respectively. A transfer from Oklahoma had played baseball at East this spring, so East approved him, not knowing that he needed to file paperwork to the UHSAA under rules new to this year.
The last student had moved in with his father in East boundaries after a custody battle and did not file a hardship waiver.
At the end of her statement, Butler announced she would resign, ending a career of more than 23 years as athletic director at East.
While East and the Region 6 principals had characterized the errors at the school as clerical mistakes made by an adult, the UHSAA framed it as "a wholesale failure" to determine the athletes' eligibility. The majority of the panel decided that forfeitures, although harsh, had been the standard set forth by the state as punishment for ineligible players.
The sentence was tough to swallow for East, which knew the panel had a "tentative decision" Wednesday afternoon but didn't hear until Thursday morning after the UHSAA had issued a written decision.
"The only thing I have to compare it to is death of a family member," Matich said. "This has turned into a policy thing and not a people thing, and we're not doing right by what's right for kids. Not everything in life is black and white, especially when you're dealing with kids."
East wasn't the only one punished with sanctions for ineligible players Thursday. The UHSAA upheld a Region 8 decision to force Timpview to vacate its wins and region title from last year after an ineligible player was discovered retroactively. The Thunderbirds also will have to forfeit two preseason wins and a region win over Mountain View which goes against the region's ruling that skews the playoff picture not for Timpview, but for other teams in the region.
Salem Hills and Springville appealed the forfeits not in Timpview's interest, but in their own after the schools learned Mountain View's extra win would catapult the Bruins out of a three-way tie for fifth and into a play-in game. The Skyhawks and Red Devils will be left out, and Timpview still is the No. 1 seed.
"I don't think it's right that another team's mistake is going to cost our team their right to play," Springville coach Willy Child said. "In East's region, the only team that suffered was East. Timpview hasn't been punished, but it messes with us and Salem Hills."
Both schools have hearings scheduled for Friday morning in a last attempt to change their fates. Timpview will present at 9:30 a.m. for a panel of UHSAA Board of Trustees members, and East will argue its case after.
East principal Paul Sagers said he would keep working to get his students in the playoffs.
"I feel like I'm in the last round of a heavyweight fight," Sagers said. "People have asked me if I think we have a chance. Of course I do, or else I wouldn't be going. I'm down, but there's one last round."
Not just the schools directly affected were troubled by the UHSAA rulings. Woods Cross principal John Haning, the Region 6 chairman, said he was disappointed that his region had been overruled with penalties he disagreed with.
"I think the sanctions that we put out there are going to make a school more diligent about what it's going to do," Haning said. "We penalized them in every way you can without taking away opportunities for innocent kids. With forfeits, we're basically saying to them, 'Your administrator made a mistake, so tough luck.' "
In its decision, the UHSAA said it was charged to protect the interest of other schools and fair competition. Child, like many others, said he was sympathetic to East's plight, but more so for his players.
"I feel bad for East: They paid the ultimate price and I can only imagine what it would feel like," he said. "But I feel worse for our kids. We had nothing to do with what happened to us."
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Why East must forfeit games
East played at least one ineligible player in every game this season up until the Highland game. Seven of its wins this season were wiped out.
Who is authorizing the forfeits • The Utah High School Activities Association, through a five-member panel of its executive committee members. The panel signed off a written ruling that overrode Region 6 sanctions that included a fine, probation and a coaching suspension but no forfeits.
Why the players were ineligible • The players all were transfers into the school who had not filed the appropriate paperwork for eligibility to the UHSAA. East has said the athletic director had applied the previous year's rules and thought they didn't need to file.
Why Timpview is forfeiting only three games this year • Timpview's ineligible player was used in only three games two preseason contests and one region contest. Last season, Timpview used an ineligible player throughout the year, which is why it must vacate wins and a region title from 2011.
Further recourse for Timpview and East • The schools both will have an appeal hearing Friday morning, Timpview at 9:30 a.m. and East at 10 a.m. The UHSAA will convene a panel out of members of its board of trustees. This is the last possible appeal within the framework of the UHSAA. Legal action could follow, but neither school has yet said that will happen.
East's ineligible players
The top-ranked East Leopards had a total of four players who did not file appropriate paperwork to the UHSAA. The school has said that each was declared eligible by the athletic director.
Tennessee Suesue, the lone starter • He played football at West as a freshman but stopped due to a heart defect. He attended Salt Lake City Center for Science Education for a year and a half before transferring to East. He required a waiver since he wasn't returning to his home school.
• The first player discovered, who was at Highland as a freshman, transferred to Horizonte, then before his junior year, he transferred to East. A junior varsity and back-up player, he required a waiver because he wasn't returning to his home school.
• A sophomore player who moved from his mother's home in West boundaries to his father's home in East boundaries. He required a waiver because it was not a full family move.
• A special teams and junior varsity player who came from out-of-state to live with his father in East's boundaries. He required a waiver because it was not a full family move. He had played baseball at East in the spring under the previous year's guidelines, adding to confusion at the school.


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I know that the Twilightsaga has some awsome abilities, but some of them are so random and to be honest some of us new that they would come. So I decided to search and creat some abilities, which I really like.
So which one would you like to have, or add on this list?
Ability obtainment
Ability obtainment is the raw talent to attain the extra abilities of other vampires through physical contact.
Mental imprisonment
- "He/She is able to trap people inside their own minds, a permanent lockage, until he/she frees them".
- -Entry of the gift
Mental imprisonment is the power to trap an individual within their own mind.
Like many special talents, the power can only concentrate on one person at a time, allowing others to easily defeat her. This ability is only mind based, so it wont work against Mental Shields.
Weakening shield
- "She/He is in command of a formidable shielding skill, able to severely weaken those who come into contact with him/her. The shield can completely incapacitate his/her victims, yet it is purely a mental skill"
- ―Entry of the gift
Wakening shield is the supernatural talent to make others feel overwelmingly weak when they come into contact with the user.
The user's shield doesn't work to keep others out, he waits for his persuers to enter. When the user persuers enter the shield, they become unbearably weak and disorianted. The shield works against multiple individuals at once, and the shield is able to project several metres away from the user, some say it can project over an entire room. The user can also control how weak his victims become.
The power is only a mental talent and cannot affect mental shields. Renesmee Cullen could penetrate the gift as easily as her mother could with her gift to penetrate shields. Physically, the affect of his shield does nothing to the user's targets.
Suggestive compelment
- "He/She is overwhelmingly commanding over humans and vampires. Resisting any of his/her spoken words is very difficult, especially when he/she is desperate to be in control"
- ―Entry of the gift
Suggestive compelment is the raw talents to make others obey their spoken imperatives and demands.
People, human and Vampire, are instantly drawn to the user's command by his/her suggestions or mere orders, resisting his/her words are nearly impossible to resist.
It is unknown how to resist his/her influence over someone, as it based within the mind instead of being physical, it can be blocked by Bella's Shield.
Protective aura
- "He/She has the ability to make his persuers feel frightened by his/her presence, and make those people unable to feel safe"
- ―Entry of the gift
Protective aura is the raw power and presence to scare his/her persuers away.
Little is known about the talent, the user can use the power to shield others. The target doesn't see anything unusual while being effected, but the are led to believe they are scared of the user, too scared to be around him/her.
The power is required to stand infront of his/her persuers for his/her talent to work. As his/her power is merely mental, it does not affect mental shields.
Addictive assaultment
- He/She is able to create a strong addiction to those around him/her, causing them to either attack him/her head on or fight another whom he/she chooses himself."
- -Entry of the gift
Addictive assaultment is the raw talent to induce an addiction around others, causing them to attack him/her and others around him/her unintentionally.
The user has the power to induce a strong addiction in those around him/her, his/her power often works when he/she doesn't pay attention. Those affected by his/her gift are suddenly drawn to attacking. The power has 'evolved' into allowing him/her to also force people to attack each other, instead of only himself.
The gift has been said to be similar to Chelsea's gift, in that it can send allies and friends to fight each other, but it is also abide to bypass the emotional ties of family, so he/she can make family members attack one another too.
His/Her gift can be overcome by people who have been constantly affected by it. It is unknown if his/her power is completely mental or physical. His/Her gift effects someone's mood, and it is also an illusion, but since his/her power is mind based like so many other talents, it can be blocked by mental shields. Vampires who have an extraordinary amount of control might be able to overcome his/her influence during a small amount of time
Alchemy is the special ability to change any object into gold.
It is unknown if the power is an illusion or truly physical.
Atmokinesis, also known as Weather Manipulation, is the special talent to physically control the weather with their minds.
His/Her power is matched to Benjamins power to physically influence the elements. Like Benjamin, the user still has yet to master his/her talent. This power works with his/her's will to control the weather and the atmosphere, like Benjamin, he/she channels that will through his/her hands to control the weather and atmosphere.
His/Her power's manifestation began with his effect to make it rain and turn the atmosphere dark, before his/her other powers manifested. By controlling the weather, he/she can control wind and possibly even lightning, lightning could be devestating to vampires with the temperature of 30,000 degrees.
Although it is extremely powerful, her/his gift has no effect against mental abilities, it would easily make her/him an open target to mental powers.
Balance deprivation
Balance deprivation is the raw power to trick the mind of his/her targets, making them increasingly incapable of balance and concentration.
The user can induce a sensation of weakness in any target of her/his choosing. The sensation is powerful enough to incapacitate his or her movements, until the effects are lifted. Anyone affected by her/his gift instantly crumbles to the ground, unnable to move properly, they are able to stagger back to their feet, but the affects will increase until his/her targets are unnable to get up again.
The power works less effectively on those who aren't standing, as they wouldn't use balance, with the gift being mental based, it wouldn't work on mental shields.
Boundary inducement
- "He/She can create boundaries inside anothers mind, leaving them unable to move past the 'line' he/she has drawn"
- -Entry of the gift
Boundary inducement is the shielding ability to create boundaries inside the minds of others, which they are unable to enter.
The gift is a shielding skill. The gift is exceptional in that it remains inside his/her targets mind until she removes the effect.
The power most likely only works on one individual at a time. As, like most abilities, it is based within the mind, it would not effect mental defences.
Ability redirection
- "The user can redirect any offensive ability back on it's original user. This ability is a minor shielding skill, but powerful, especially in the correct situation"
- -Entry on the gift
Ability redirection is the raw talent to rediect mental abilities.
The gift only seems to work against offensive or dangerous abilities, such as Jane's projection of pain. It can't redirect such gifts as telepathy or lie detection.
- "He/She can influence time around herself, though his/her gift has no true effect on reality."
- -Entry of the gift
Chronokinesis is the power to 'control time' through the use of mental deception on her/his targets. He/She creates a mental illusion where, to the recipient(s), time itself seems to follow her/his very will; becoming fast, slow, or even standing an absolute still from the victim(s) perspective. Her/His targets are suddenly left with a hazy memory of what occured while the power was in effect
The power is only mental, and has no effect on true reality. The power purely works by deceiving the minds around her/his, affecting the victim's subjective sense of time; he/she can cause others to skip from hours to days without knowing it. This power is a great defense against his/her enemies.
As her/his power is based in the mind, the power wouldn't affect Mental Shields
Distraction deprivation
- "He/She can remove anothers distractions, something useful to keep his/her targets focused on their duties".
- -Entry of the gift
Distraction deprivation is the talent to remove anothers distractions and keep them on task or on course.
The user can only affect one target at a time. As his/her talent is only mental, it doesn't affect mental shields. His/Her power doesn't work on people who are strongly focused
The power works best on vampires as they are most likly to lose control and become distracted by something, mainly blood, humans aren't harder to affect than vampires as they don't lose control.
Dependence magnetism
Dependence magnetism is the special talent to draw other to her/him and make them feel dependant on her/him, and make them feel that they can't survive without her/him.
Entrapment shield
- "She/He is a dangerous shield, able to draw others towards her/his once they enter her/his shield, and no one can escape her/his shield they are inside it."
- ―Entry of the gift
Entrapment shield is the supernatural ability to create a strong shield that traps others inside it.
Illusionary cloning
Illusionary cloning is the raw talent to project identical clones of her/himself into the minds of others.
The user can create several clones of him/herself, and claims to be able to create thousands. The clones physically emerge from her/his body. They are all capable of independent thought and action, and each is apparently capable of producing her/his own clones. The clones are however, mental.
The ability can be stopped by a mental shield.
Illusionary poisoning
Illusionary poisoning is the raw power to trick an individual's mind (human or vampire) into thinking they are being poisoned, and then slowly suffer immense pain.
Though it has no affect on the body physically, it is very useful to him.
As it is a mental ability, it has no effect against mental defences
Mental camouflage
Mental camouflage is the ability to make others around him/he believe he/she is blending into his/her surroundings. The user is able to shield others aswell, but would not be completely shielded, as the power is more based on protecting him/her alone rather than multiple people at once.
The user can willingly blend into his/her surroundings, making him/her invisible to persuers. However, the power is only mental, an illusive talent that decieves the mind.
Though powerful, the power her/his a flaw when it comes to protecting others. Since the gift is only mental, it would have no effect against mental defenses.
Noesis is the raw talent to induece ideas for any given situation.===Description=== Noesis is the ability to induce ideas for any given situation. This ability can be used to help solve nearly any problem, because the user of this ability or the subject that he uses the power on will find a meticulous solution or plan to resolve the problem. This is not to be confused with Omnipotence, but is only a useful psychic ability that allows the user to almost never run out of ideas
This ability can only help in situations that have a definite answer or solution (writer's block or a difficult question, not opinion questions or conundrums).
Personality manipulation
Personality manipulation is the power to mentally alter the personalities of the targets.
The gift is very powerful, as he/she is able to create vampires who manifest a special gift. He/She can change his/her targets personality altogether, giving them a different mood or view of something.
The user can only alter the personality of one person at a time, and like most special powers, it seems weaker on humans.
Reality distortion
- "The user has a strong illusionary talent. He/She can remove and change someone's perception on reality, on what they see, smell, hear and touch simultaneously"
- -Entry of the gift
Reality Distortion is the supernatural ability to distort what her/his targets see as reality, he/she can make what they precieve better or a turn for the worst.
The user can decieve what his/her targets view as reality, making these views better or worse, not much is known about the ability. He/She can change what her/his targets see, smell, hear, and with enough focuse, what they feel
As the power is mind based, it doesn't affect mental shields.
Regressive absorption
Regressive absorption is the ability to turn any vampire, shapeshifter, or non human hybrid completely human by touch.
The limitations to this power is that since it is a phsycial ability, the user must touch the vampire or shapeshifter in order for it to work. Also this power does not work on vampire-human hybrids.
Sedative inducement
Sedative inducement is the special talent to trick his/her targets into falling into a sedated state.
The user can apply it to more than one person at the same time, and takes effect on the target.
There aren't many limits to her/his gift. The only known limit is that she/he can only project her/his illusion from a distance.
Seismic attraction
- "The user is a formidable tracker, able to track where someone is through their movements, over an entire continent with enough concentration"
- ―Entry of the gift
Seismic attraction is the powerful tracking ability to 'feel' the vibrational movements of his/her intended targets once he/she has witnessed their scent.
By being in contact with someone's certain scent, the user can follow his/her tragets movements wherever they go, his/her talent makes him as powerful as Demetri, perhaps even more powerful, as his/her talent is not rendered impotent by mental shields
The limits of his/her talent are unknown, it it likely unnafected by Mental shields as it tracks it's target through their scent and not through their mind.
A vampire could easily evade her/him, as her/his gift revolves around the constant movement of her/his intended targets, and vampires are able to stay as still as statues, halting their movements.
Tracking evasion
- "The user has an impressive shielding ability, able to hide her/his own identity from persuers."
- -Entry of the gift
Tracking evasion is the power to render themselves unnable to be recognised by others.
The user can use the power more effectively the moment she/he meets someone. The power has a strong effect on tracking and mental powers, she/he was able to escape Demetri's tracking skill and was able to block her/his own sent. His/Her mind is rendered unrecognisable so telepath's cant read him/her and Empath's can't see his/her emotions.
As the ability is meant to keep the user safe and not affect others, it is rendered unnafective against Bella's shield.
Retrocognition is the raw talent to percieve the past. The opposite of this power is Precognition, the power to see the future.
The user can uniquely see into the past of anothers life, and by doing so, it allows her/him to see their memories and their secrets. A unique part of her/his talent is being able to see a vampires human life.
It is yet unknown what the limits of her/his power, but the power is supposedly based inside the mind, he/she it wouldn't affect mental defenses. The gift seems to work better on humans more than it does on vampires, because of vampires having two lives, their present and past life in different species.
Memory manipulation
- "The user can manipulate every memory someone has, able to remove, restore and erase them with ease."
- ―Entry of the gift
Memory manipulation is the supernatural talents to manipulate the memories of those around him/her.
The user can use this power to remove, restore, transfer and see into the memories of other vampires.
As this gift is only mental, it cannot affect mental shields. The user can lose the memories she/he takes if she/he doesn't focuse, if she/he looses the memory, she/he experiences a short amount of illness.
Physical petrification
- "He can trick another into believing they are petrifying, turning to solid stone"
- ―Entry of the gift
Physical Petrification is the raw talent to mentally take away the movements of his/her targets.
- "A sharp presence surrounded me, and then something hit me. It was like I was being punched all over my body, and it hurt, in all of a second, I couldn't move. I gasped in horror, and then my mouth didn't close again, what was happening"
- -A target of the gift
When the effects of the power begins, her/his targets feel a strong pressure against them, like they are being punched all over their body, in that instant, they are stuck in their nimble movements and they cannot move, if they gasp or try to speak, these processes are stuck as well
The user can't affect metal shields, as the gift is only mental. The power only affects one person at a time, so this would render him/her vulnerable against several enemies.


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I bristle when I hear people refer to stormwater utility fees as a "rain tax." In fact, these fees generate critical funding for green practices that mitigate the effects that roads, parking lots and rooftops have on our environment.
Businesses and residents have been adding impervious surfaces to the landscape for decades, preventing rain from percolating into the ground, where it would otherwise recharge groundwater and provide base flow for nearby streams. Instead, these impervious surfaces increase the volume and velocity of rainwater, causing flooding, damaging property and destroying local waterways. I am not trying to fix blame, but to inform folks about the problems associated with stormwater management and the best ways to correct them.
We are learning how to better manage stormwater by mimicking natural processes. We have found, for instance, that by directing rainwater from our roofs, sidewalks and parking lots into rain barrels or rain gardens, we can keep it out of our storm drains, reducing pressure on aging stormwater infrastructure. On large commercial and institutional properties, we can construct green roofs to absorb the rain so it doesn't need to be discharged to a concrete system that is expensive to build and maintain. Green roofs can even increase the life of roofing systems and provide insulation, reducing heating and cooling costs.
Stormwater utility fees provide an equitable means for generating revenue based on the amount of impervious surface. The revenue can then be used to make these improvements. Most utilities also provide exemptions from these fees for homeowners or businesses that adopt these green practices. By promoting these practices, the costs of property damage associated with flooding are reduced, which can reduce the overall tax burden as well. Mother Nature teaches best and, in the end, it costs less.
Over the last three years, estimates indicate that communities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have made big reductions to the pollution they are sending into rivers and streams.
As part of the Bay's "pollution diet"—or Total Maximum Daily Load—the six Bay states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have curbed the amount of nutrients and sediment running off of land and into local waters. According to data released today by the Chesapeake Bay Program, simulations show that partners have achieved more than a quarter of their overall pollution reduction goals.
Between 2009 and 2012, nitrogen loads to the Bay decreased 18.5 million pounds, phosphorous loads to the Bay decreased 1.3 million pounds and sediment loads to the Bay decreased 431 million pounds.
Excess nitrogen and phosphorous can fuel the growth of harmful algae blooms that create "dead zones" and suffocate aquatic life. Excess sediment can block sunlight from reaching underwater grasses and suffocate shellfish.
But a number of land-based actions can reduce nutrient and sediment pollution. Towns and cities, for instance, can make technological upgrades to wastewater treatment plants and "green" roofs, sidewalks and parking lots to better capture stormwater runoff. Homeowners can install rain gardens in their backyards or plant big trees to boost forest cover in their neighborhoods. And farmers can protect streams from livestock and plant cover crops to hold soil in place.
Read more about reducing nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment in the Chesapeake Bay.
Over the past decade, smallmouth bass in five Chesapeake Bay tributaries have suffered from fish kills and perplexing illnesses—and nutrient pollution could be to blame.
According to a new report from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), excess nitrogen and phosphorous in our rivers and streams could be behind two of the leading problems affecting smallmouth bass: first, the rapid growth of fish parasites and their hosts, and second, the expansion of large algae blooms that can lead to low-oxygen conditions and spikes in pH. When paired with rising water temperatures and ever more prevalent chemical contaminants, nutrient pollution seems to have created a "perfect storm" of factors that are making smallmouth bass more susceptible to infections and death.
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In a media call, CBF President Will Baker called the smallmouth bass "the canary in the coal mine for the Bay's rivers." Because the fish is sensitive to pollution, problems within the population could indicate problems within the Bay.
Smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna, Monocacy, Shenandoah, Cowpasture and South Branch of the Potomac rivers have seen a string of recent health problems, from open sores and wart-like growths to abnormal sexual development. In the Susquehanna, smallmouth bass populations have plummeted so far that Pennsylvania has made it illegal to catch the fish during spawning season.
"Our fish are sick, our anglers are mad and my board and I—protectors of our [smallmouth bass] fishery—are frustrated," said John Arway, executive director of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. "Our bass, and our grandchildren who will fish for them, are depending on us to fix the problem."
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While specific causes of smallmouth bass fish kills and illnesses remain unclear, CBF has called on state and local governments to accelerate their pollution-reduction efforts in hopes of improving water quality and saving the driving force behind a $630 million recreational fishing industry. The non-profit has also called on the federal government to designate a 98-mile stretch of the Susquehanna as impaired, which would commit Pennsylvania to reversing the river's decline.
"This is the moment in time to save fishing in our streams and rivers, as well as the jobs and quality of life that are connected to it," Baker said.
Read more about Angling for Healthier Rivers: The Link Between Smallmouth Bass Mortality and Disease and the Need to Reduce Water Pollution in Chesapeake Bay Tributaries.
When cold weather arrives, blue crabs up and down the Chesapeake Bay stop their scurrying. The summertime rush of food-hunting and mate-finding is over, and the crustaceans will spend the winter months buried in sand and sediment. It is at this moment that researchers in Maryland and Virginia must strike: to count the crabs while they are still.
Known as the winter dredge survey, this annual count of the Bay's blue crab population is a critical part of blue crab management. Without an accurate estimate of blue crab abundance, fisheries managers cannot set harvest limits for the season ahead.
"The winter dredge survey is the most vital tool that we have in crab management," said Chris Walstrum, a natural resources biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR). "This is the best chance we have to assess the [blue crab] population, because the crabs are stationary."
Walstrum and his team are responsible for counting crabs in Maryland waters; the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) conducts the winter dredge survey in the Virginia portion of the Bay. Between the two agencies, a total of 1,500 Bay sites are visited over the course of three and a half months before the numbers are crunched and fisheries managers can make recommendations on how blue crab harvests should or shouldn't change.
From the Field: Winter dredge survey counts Chesapeake Bay crabs from Chesapeake Bay Program on Vimeo.
On a warmer-than-normal January morning, Walstrum is aboard a boat in Broad Creek, a tributary of the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The DNR vessel has been captained for more than a decade by Roger Morris, a fifth-generation waterman who used to dredge for crabs commercially and whose skills are invaluable to the success of the survey.
"Whether people like it or not, the winter dredge survey is the whole basis for our [blue crab harvest] limits," Morris said. "That's why I try to do the best I can do at it. It takes experience. You just can't walk on a crab dredge boat and expect to catch crabs."
At each survey site—six of them in this particular waterway—Morris will line up his boat and drop its so-called Virginia crab dredge into the water. The metal dredge is towed along the bottom for one minute before it is hoisted back on board, where the newly caught contents of its mesh liner are dumped out and sorted through. In each catch, there are brown leaves, oyster shells, little fish and, more often than not, a collection of blue crabs.
Each crab is weighed, measured and sexed before it is tossed back into the water. This provides an accurate picture of the blue crab population, as researchers track the number of young crabs that will form the backbone of the fishery next fall and the number of females that will produce the next generation of blue crab stock.
"The winter dredge survey provides us with a cornerstone piece of data from which to operate our [blue crab] management," said Brenda Davis, chief of the DNR Blue Crab Program.
"It's a long-running survey, and it's been consistently accurate," Davis said. "It gives us a good, static picture of the number of crabs in the Bay."
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Justin Bieber speaks amid legal troubles
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Justin Bieber wants everyone to know he still knows who he is, even as he finds himself in a swirl of legal trouble.
Shortly before midnight on Thursday, the pop star tweeted:
never forget where you come from or those who supported you before anyone else. still the small town kid. thanks http://t.co/9gxipLe8JB
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) January 31, 2014
The tweet directed followers to an article about Bieber's hometown of Stratford supporting him amid the tumult.
The singer also took to Instagram to express his love for dad Jeremy, who's been by his side during the recent chaos.
"I have the greatest Dad in the world. He's taught me how to love, learn, and stay true to myself. I will forever be grateful because he was my superhero #batman," wrote Bieber, posting a picture of Jeremy in a Batman hat (see below).
What do you think about what Bieber said?
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We are Consumers and Producers
Students are consumers and producers. So are their families. In this lesson students learn how they and family members fulfill these roles at home and in their community. They begin by exploring the goods and services that people use and they identify those that require the payment of money. To help show they can be producers, students sequence the steps in washing dishes. They discuss the fact that family members are often not paid for the work they do at home and as volunteers, taking account of the possibility that the benefits may outweigh the lack of pay. This lesson works well as a follow-up to Simple Simon Meets a Producer.
Consumers, Goods, Producers, Services
- Recognize the ways in which they and their families function as consumers and producers.
- Identify goods and services that they must pay for.
- Comprehend the importance of the work done by people at home and in the community.
Ask the students: Have you ever heard someone say he or she wears many hats? The hats represent the different roles or jobs that people have. People have many roles. At home one could be a husband or wife, parent, aunt or uncle, etc. The same person could also be a neighbor, instructor, and so on.
Ask students:
- What hats do you wear at home? [Child, big brother or sister, grandchild, etc.]
- What roles do you have at school and in our community? [Student, neighbor, scout, choir member, etc.]
Introduce the two main concepts: Did you know there are two more hats you wear? You are a consumer and a producer. A consumer is a person who buys and uses goods and services. A producer is a person who makes goods or provides services. [If you have not introduced these concepts previously, you will have to explain them.]
Tell the students that in this lesson they will learn more about how they and others are consumers and producers.
Simple Simon Meets a Producer: This lesson works well as a follow up to the Simple Simon Meets a Producer lesson.
Kids Care Clubs: Contains information on kids clubs.
USA Points of Light Campaign: Contains volunteer information and opportunity.
Consumers: Students can listen along with the interactive to learn more about consumers.
Interactive Activity 1
Producers: Students can listen along with the interactive to learn more about producers.
Interactive Activity 2
I Can Wash Dishes: Students need to put the pictures in the correct order and write a sentence to describe each activity.
I Can Wash Dishes
We are Consumers and Producers Worksheet: Students draw pictures of three goods and/or services they like to consume and three goods and/or services they like to produce. Instruct those who can print to make lists rather than drawings.
We are Consumers and Producers Worksheet
Gift Coupons: Students can create coupons representing services they will provide to members of their families.
Gift Coupons
Activity 1:
Have students complete the Interactive Activity 1 to learn more about consumers. For students with limited reading skills, audio clips of the text are provided. If you prefer, you can project these activities via an LCD projector or TV monitor and read the text to the students.
Text and possible answers to the questions in the interactive activity listed above:
People who use goods and services are called consumers . You are a consumer. The people in your family are also consumers.
What are the consumers in the picture doing? [Eating pizza]
What goods and services do you use? [Food items, articles of clothing, books, school supplies, movies, bus rides, etc.]
People must pay money to buy some goods and services. At the end of this activity you will pick the goods and services that people must buy.
What other goods and services do you buy with money?
Activity 2:
Have students complete the Interactive Activity 2 to learn more about producers. For students with limited reading skills, audio clips of the text are provided. If you prefer, you can project these activities via an LCD projector or TV monitor and read the text to the students.
Text and possible answers to the questions in the interactive activity listed above:
People who make goods and provide services are called producers . You are a producer. The people in your family are also producers.
What good or service are the producers in this picture providing for their family? [Moving boxes]
What goods and services do you provide your family? [Wash dishes, weed garden, sweep sidewalk, make bed, feed pet, do homework, etc.]
Activity 3:
Have students complete the printable activity I Can Wash Dishes and discuss the following questions with them.
Some children get paid for doing chores at home. Do you have any chores that you get paid to do? [Mowing the lawn, cleaning your room, doing the dishes, ect.]
Do your family members get paid for doing this work? [In most case no, but other children might receive an allowance or other pay for specific chores]
What other goods and services do you and your parents consume? [Cars, furniture, shoes, toys, etc.]
Who pays for the goods and services that you and your family use? [Students and their parents pay for the goods and services used. Students who have an understanding of public goods and services may also point out that the government collects taxes to pay for some goods and services used.]
The work that families do is very important. Why do you think this is so?
[Possible responses:
- Some jobs such as meals and cleaning are essential to the operation of a home.
- If a family member didn't do the work for free, the family might have to pay someone else to do it.
- These jobs are a way to learn how to do something new.
- It feels good to accomplish something and help the family.]
Use Your Producer Hands
Have your students or their families, do something to help their community. These sites will give you some ideas about they might do.
Kids Care Clubs
USA Points of Light Campaign
Using the We are Consumers and Producers worksheet have students draw pictures of three goods and/or services they like to consume AND three goods and/or services they like to produce. Instruct those who can print to make lists rather than draw.
Teacher assessment of student responses during the follow-up discussions will also be used to evaluate student learning.
Summarize the main points of the lesson:
- When we wear our consumer hats, we buy and use goods and services. To get some of these goods and services, we must give money to producers in the marketplace.
- We also wear producers hats. We provide goods and services to our families. Likewise, the other members of our families are also producers. Family members depend on each other for goods and services.
Ask the class to discuss the work that families do. Is the work done at home is important or not? What do they think would happen if people in the family chose not to do the work? Ask the students to identify what goods and services they and their families provide for the community.
Ask each student to secretly write down the name of a good or service he or she uses. Then take turns having the other members of the class ask questions to determine what the listed goods and services are. For example:
- Is it a good or service?
- Who else uses your (good, service)?
- Do you have to pay for it?
- Is it bigger than your desk?
- Can you (hear, taste, smell) it?
- Is it a (durable, non durable) good?
Is it something we would find at (school, home}?
Create a bulletin board labeled We are Producers. Have students cut out or draw pictures of jobs they could do for their family and/or community.
- Have students create gift coupons for services they will provide to members of their families.
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Loveland Fire Chief Earns Fire Chief of the Year
The nation's top annual award for fire chiefs this year belongs to Randy Mirowski, Chief of the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority.
Mirowski was selected from among 12 finalists for the national Fire Chief of the Year award that will be presented this week in Chicago at theJudy and Randy Mirowski, photo by City Manager Bill Cahill in Chicago Wednesday annual meeting of the International Association of Fire Chiefs.
The Chief will be honored Wednesday evening at a dinner hosted by Fire Chief Magazine, the presenter of the award, at the landmark Firehouse Restaurant on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, housed in a former fire station built in 1903.
He will receive official recognition Friday, the final day of the chief's association's annual Fire-Rescue International Conference.
This year's conference draws more than 12,000 of the most prominent fire and emergency service leaders from across North America and around the globe to Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center.
Mirowski is joined in Chicago by City Manager Bill Cahill and Renee Wheeler, the City's Public Safety Administrative Director.
Chief of LFRA since 2009, Mirowski served 26 years with the Poudre Fire Authority based in Fort Collins. He began his firefighting career in Topeka, Kansas.


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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:41 pm
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I am hoping that some of you can give me some ideas as to what my upgrade from my existing gps should be.
Since I just came into a
nice sum
of money
(courtesy of the MN State Lottery
) I am going to upgrade my current GPS (Magellan Sportrak Map), I still like my Sportrak. I have been looking for a while now, but now that I actually have some money I can purchase one. I had been thinking of a Garmin V (I think thats what it's called). If anyone has any other suggestions could you please let me know? Thanks,
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Well, as the happy owner of a Garmin V , I say you can't go wrong with it. But they have been out for a while now and may be going out of style. I'm a little disappointed with the limited memory (19 meg) and the bulky size. The newest (as far as I know) Garmin on the market, or soon to be, is the Garmin 60CS. Large color screen, electronic compass, barometer, 54 meg of memory, special geocaching capabilites, and much more I'm sure I haven't seen or remembered.
As far as Magellen products, I really don't know but I know there are some geocachers on this forum that can tell you more about them.
If you got the dough, get the best and maybe I can live vicariously through your wallet. I'd like a new one and I've only had this one less than 6 months!
--EDIT--Or you can get the latest and greatest which I just reread in Silent Bob's post, the
Garmin 76CS.
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nice....i hope you won big...hmmm...anybody wanna go to the next cache place by loneeagle???
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 10:20 pm
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I guess I would look at the GPSMap60C or the CS. The C is out and the CS should be out in the next couple of weeks. Also there is a 76C and CS series coming out. I think the C will be out in a couple of weeks and the CS will be out the end of June if you can wait. Check around a bit and take your time. I know you won yourself some money but let's do spend it hastly unless you just want to send some to me.
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 10:25 pm
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I am still considering the Magellan Meridian Color, but seeing how I didn't win the lottery, I will have to wait. The pluses for that model are the ability to use removable SD cards so your mapping memory is vitually unlimited, especially since you won the lottery. Also, the color screen would be nice to have.
Most also come with the new navigational software that will talk to you and tell you where to turn, etc. I don't know how good it is but I think that would be very usefull when finding your way to a cache, especially a metro cache, so you don't have to keep looking at the laptop while driving.
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Kitch wrote:
nice....i hope you won big...hmmm...anybody wanna go to the next cache place by loneeagle???
Maybe loneeagle will place a new one, I've been itching for a first to find prize
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Thanks for the replys. I have done some checking on the two units recommended. It looks like the 60 cs would probably be the better unit for me. Just so you all know, I got lucky
on one of the T-Wolves scratch offs. Went down to Marshall on Friday and collected my check for $2500.00.
I couldn't believe my luck. Probably won't be placing a cache until sometime later next month. Maybe it will have to be Lottery themed? We'll see!
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I sure hope you saved all your losing tickets so you can offset the income on your tax return.
If not, I've seen a few used tickets in caches that might help.
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I'd go with the V. I have a III+, love it. My friend has a V, I'd prefer that now:)
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I've got a Garmin III. Love it. Would like to upgrade to a V at somepoint maybe. Haven't really looked any thing else to recommend. Don't forget you will have to pay your taxes on the winnings. They do have your number.
Like they said start collecting used tickets so you can offset the winning. Otherwise don't spend more than 60% of your winnings. Uncle Sugar will take the rest.
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With the little regard he holds for Lakers fans, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban hardly seemed surprised of the reaction over suggesting in a radio interview Friday that the Lakers use the amnesty clause on Kobe Bryant.
"That wasn't what I was looking to accomplish," Cuban said. "But it's always fun to hear Lakers fans respond to anything."
Instead, Cuban said he wanted to explain the ramifications surrounding the new collective bargaining agreement that imposes harsher luxury taxes this offseason for teams over the salary cap.
The Lakers have a $100 million payroll and are spending an additional $30 million in luxury taxes this season. Bryant will earn $30.5 million for the final year of his contract in the 2013-14 season.
"I'm sure if he wants to amnesty Dirk (Nowitzki), that's something we'll entertain," Bryant deadpanned.
Cuban admitted missed trading barbs with a certain Lakers coach and center.
"It's nowhere near as fun as it was with Phil (Jackson) and Shaq," Cuban said. "They would always take the bait."
Cuban nonetheless praised Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who died last week from an unspecified form of cancer.
"I loved Dr. Buss," Cuban said. "When I first got into the league, he sat me down and basically told me to ignore everybody and just be myself."


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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Public Law 90-507
|Indians of California descent. Judgment funds, distribution.
|Public Law 90-507
|Sec. 2
|Equal shares.
|Sec. 2
|Exempted groups.
|Sec. 3
|Equal shares.
|Sec. 4
|861 Equal shares. Heirs of deceased enrollees.
|Sec. 4
|Tax exemption.
|Sec. 5
|Filing deadline, etc.
|Sec. 5
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of persons of Indian blood who apply for inclusion thereon and (i) whose names or the names of a lineal or collateral relative appears on any of the approved rolls heretofore prepared pursuant to the Act of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 602) and the amendments thereto or (ii) who can establish, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, lineal or collateral relationship to an Indian who resided in California on June 1, 1852, and (iii) who were born on or before and were living on the effective date of this Act.
(b) The roll so prepared shall indicate, as nearly as possible, the group or groups of Indians of California with which the ancestors of each enrollee were affiliated on June 1, 1852. If the affiliation of an
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enrollee's ancestors on that date is unknown, it shall be presumed to be the same as that of the ancestors' relatives whose affiliation is known unless there is sound reason to believe otherwise. Applicants whose ancestry is derived partly from one of the groups named in section 2 (b) of this Act and partly from another group of Indians in California shall elect the affiliation to be shown for them on the roll.
(c) Application for enrollment shall be filed with the Area Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sacramento, California, on forms prescribed for that purpose.
(a) The Secretary shall distribute to each person whose name appears on the roll prepared pursuant to the first section of this Act, except those whose ancestry is derived from one or more of the groups named in subsection (b) of this section, an equal share of the moneys which were appropriated by the Act of October 7, 1964 (78 Stat. 1033), in satisfaction of the judgment of the Indian Claims Commission in consolidated dockets numbered 31, 37, 80, 80-D, and 347, plus the interest earned thereon, minus attorneys fees, litigation expenses (including the reimbursement of funds expended under authority of the Acts of July 1, 1946 (60 Stat. 348), August 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 460), and July 14, 1960 (74 Stat. 512)), a proper share of the costs of roll preparation, and such amounts as may be required to effect the distribution.
(b) Persons whose ancestry is derived solely from one or more of the following groups and persons of mixed ancestry who elected to share, other than as heirs or legatees of enrollees, in any award granted to any of the following groups shall not share in the funds distributed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section: Northern Paiute, Southern Paiute, Mohave, Quechan (Yuma), Chemehuevi, Shoshone, Washoe, Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Band of Snakes.
The Secretary shall distribute to each person whose name appears on the roll prepared pursuant to section 1 of this Act regardless of group affiliation an equal share of the undistributed balance of the moneys appropriated in satisfaction of the judgment of the Court of Claims in the case of The Indians of California against United States (102 Court of Claims 837; 59 Stat. 94), plus the interest earned thereon, including the reimbursed moneys and unexpended balances of the funds established by the Acts of July 1, 1946 (60 Stat. 348), August 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 460), and July 14, 1960 (74 Stat. 512), minus a proper share of the costs of roll preparation and such amounts as may be necessary to effect the distribution.
Each share distributable to an enrollee under sections 2 and 3 of this Act shall be paid directly to the enrollee or, if he is deceased at the time of distribution, to his heirs or legatees unless the distributee is under twenty-one years of age or is otherwise under legal disability, in which case such disposition shall be made of the share as the Secretary determines will adequately protect the best interests of the distributee. Funds distributed under the provisions of this Act shall not be subject to Federal or State income taxes.
The Secretary is authorized to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act, which rules and regulations shall include an appropriate deadline for the filing of applications for enrollment under the first section of this Act. The determinations of the Secretary regarding eligibility for enrollment, the affiliation of an applicant's ancestors, and the shares of the cost of roll preparation to be charged to each of the two funds referred to in sections 2 and 3 of this Act shall be final. Not more than $325,000 in all shall be available under this Act for the costs of roll preparation and of the distribution of shares.
Approved, September 21, 1968.