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LOWELL -- While prosecutors say they have an eyewitness to Michael Ferreira's role in the 1969 murder of 15-year-old John McCabe, defense attorneys say they have a handful of other suspects -- alive and dead -- they want to pin the murder on.
In Lowell Superior Court on Monday, defense attorney Eric Wilson, who represents Ferreira, argued that he has a list of at least four other men who were suspects at the time of the Tewksbury teen's Sept. 26, 1969 murder.
Wilson, with co-counsel Stanley Norkunas, want to show that someone other than Ferreira may have killed McCabe and that police have the wrong man.
But before the jury sees any such evidence the judge must approve it. After a hearing Monday, Judge David Ricciardone took the matter under advisement.
Prosecutor Thomas O'Reilly objected to the other suspects being introduced into the trial.
"We have an eyewitness to the murder against Ferreira,'' O'Reilly said.
Co-defendant Edward Allen Brown, 60, of Londonderry, N.H., is cooperating with police.
Wilson countered, "Mr. Brown's testimony won't match the evidence from 1969.''
O'Reilly said the suspects on Wilson's list were investigated by police and ruled out decades ago.
To suggest someone else killed McCabe would be "pure speculation,'' O'Reilly said.
Ferreira, 57, of Salem, N.H., is scheduled to go on trial first. He is charged with first-degree murder and perjury. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday, with opening statements either Thursday or Friday.
Walter Shelley, 61, of Tewksbury, is charged with murder and intimidation of a witness, and Brown is charged with manslaughter.
Tewksbury police say McCabe was walking home from a school dance at the Knights of Columbus building on the evening of Sept. 26, 1969 when he was pulled into a car, assaulted and then taken to a vacant field in Lowell. His body was found the next day in the field.
Police say McCabe died from strangulation. He was found "hog-tied'' with a rope around his neck that bound his feet. His wrists were tied and his eyes and mouth were taped shut.
McCabe was allegedly abducted as a prank to teach him a lesson for flirting with Shelley's girlfriend, prosecutors allege.
There were a number of possible suspects at the time, but no one was charged and the case went cold until last April, when three former Tewksbury teens, now in their late 50s, were arrested and charged in connection with the murder.
Last year, an unnamed witness and Brown came forward with information about the murder and Brown, Shelley and Ferreira were arrested and indicted.
After digging through police documents and evidence, Wilson resurrected the names of four men, one of whom is deceased, who were investigated by police as suspects in the murder but were never charged.
One man allegedly made a telephone call to a Catholic priest claiming he killed McCabe and wanted to turn himself in, but the last time he turned himself in to police he was beaten, Wilson said.
The caller gave specific links to the murder, saying McCabe was wearing a black belt to the dance, but when he was found he wasn't wearing it.
The caller also said no fingerprints would be found on the tape because he was wearing black gloves. Testing of the tape yielded no fingerprints, but the tape had black cotton fibers on it, Wilson said.
"This was something only the killer would know,'' Wilson argued.
Wilson said this man's whereabouts are unknown.
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Another suspect was convicted of a similar crime when he abducted and sexually assaulted an 18-year-old girl using handcuffs and white tape on her eyes and mouth. He strangled her with a rope.
Wilson argued there is no evidence McCabe was hog-tied.
Another man, who has since died, was turned in to police by his brother because of his bizarre behavior, Wilson said. Police found the man's insurance card among the trash in the area of the crime scene.
The fourth man was an alleged member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in New Hampshire as a suspect in the drug trade, Wilson said. While the man was in prison, his house was broken into and a large stash of drugs were stolen, Wilson said.
A letter was sent to police linking the man to McCabe's death. Police performed handwriting analysis, but the man was never charged.
The state medical examiner couldn't say whether McCabe was sexually assaulted, but there was a bruise on the boy's private parts, Wilson said. But O'Reilly countered there was a sore on the boy's body, but no evidence of a sexual assault.


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Duke Ihenacho was a senior at San Jose State when a new, inexperienced football coach walked in the doors and started giving orders.
"At the time, I was just so used to doing things a certain way and he came in and it was kind of an adjustment," said Ihenacho, who is now a second-year safety with the Denver Broncos. "He was more strict about things like wearing earrings or hats in meetings --little things, which naturally turns off somebody like me that's been there and is a senior."
It wasn't long before Ihenacho and his teammates got past the little things, though, and realized that Mike MacIntyre just might know what he's doing.
"He started growing on us and we started trusting him and he kind of lightened up as a coach," Ihenacho said.
MacIntyre is now in his first season as the head coach at Colorado, and some of the things he's going through are similar to what he and Ihenacho went through together at San Jose State.
Ihenacho, who played for two seasons under MacIntyre, was so impressed with what MacIntyre and his staff did at San Jose State that he's convinced it won't be long before Colorado starts winning football games on a regular basis.
"Eventually, yeah (CU will win)," Ihenacho said. "Just remain optimistic, because the players need your support. At San Jose State, a lot of times we didn't have support like that from fans. But, out here, the fanbase is incredible. The players, the coaches and the team, they need the support of the community and the school.
"With that support, they're going to play better."
From a distance, Ihenacho is already seeing some similarities in what MacIntyre and his staff -- which is almost entirely the same staff he has at CU now -- did in 2010 to what they're doing now in Boulder.
San Jose State didn't go through a dramatic turnaround in MacIntyre's first year, which was also his first year ever as a head coach. In fact, after going 2-10 in 2009, the Spartans went 1-12 in 2010. Ihenacho broke his foot in the only win in Week 3. That allowed him to earn a redshirt year and, thus, come back for the 2011 season.
CU, which went 1-11 a year ago, is 3-4 right now. It's the 0-4 Pac-12 record that bothers most fans, though, because the Buffs have seemingly not yet turned the corner on being able to compete with their conference foes.
Within the locker room, though, there has been a general sense that CU is competing better in Pac-12 games than it did a year ago.
Ihenacho and his Spartans went through that experience, as well, in 2010, and he said there is merit to what CU players are saying this season.
"The way we lost was different, so I was pretty optimistic," Ihenacho said. "You could see the whole potential of the team and the direction that he had the program headed.
"Even though our wins didn't show it, we saw it. We just trusted in coach Mac and eventually he got us going."
As he did in 2010, MacIntyre has several older players on this year's CU squad. For many of them, another losing season could be disheartening. MacIntyre, however, said he's handling CU's older players the way he handled his older players, such as Ihenacho, at San Jose State in 2010.
"I'm just always honest with them," MacIntyre said. "We needed to do this, this and this. You need to improve in this. We need to do this. (Ihenacho) bought into everything we were doing, just like the guys are here."
In addition to MacIntyre, Ihenacho had Kent Baer as his defensive coordinator and Charles Clark as his defensive backs coach. Both are in those positions at CU, as well, along with several other coaches MacIntyre brought to Boulder from San Jose.
Ihenacho remembers how well the staff handled the team through a difficult season in 2010.
"They were just encouraging and optimistic," Ihenacho said. "Even though we lost games, they were still like, 'We're this close,'" Ihenacho said. "Eventually, it turned into, two years later, an 11-2 season.
"I kind of see that for Colorado, too."
Ihenacho encouraged CU fans to stay on board and to be patient while MacIntyre builds the roster through his own recruiting.
"He's an aggressive recruiter," Ihenacho said. "He's not scared to go after somebody that everybody else wants."
In the past two weeks, MacIntyre has displayed some fiery emotions during halftime and postgame news conferences, as well on the sidelines. Ihenacho said that's part of the package with MacIntyre.
"You're going to see a lot of screaming, a lot of facial expressions," Ihenacho said. "You'll see a lot of that, but he's good for the program and good for the school."
CU may not be getting the results it wants right now, but Ihenacho has no doubt wins are coming.
"You just have to give it time," Ihenacho said. "The good things aren't formed over night. It takes patience. It takes more than just a year to get the pieces you need to get to win a conference title or go to a bowl game."
Ihenacho is convinced, however, that CU got one major piece in place when it hired MacIntyre in December.
"I've never heard of somebody playing with coach Mac and say they didn't learn something and that he wasn't a good coach," Ihenacho said.
"Everybody got better from playing under him."
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Jason Lytle is the man behind the Modesto, Calif., band Grandaddy. The band released its debut in 1997, but it was Grandaddy's second album — The Sophtware Slump — that broke through with critics and fans. Even David Bowie called himself a fan when he approached the band members after seeing them play.
"That was about as good as it got, though, you know," Lytle says. "And things would go up and down, and then we'd get through this current crisis on and on to this next magical moment. And that happened pretty regularly throughout the history of the band. And then it finally got to the point where it had kind of maxed out. And I knew it."
With Grandaddy poised on the edge of mainstream success, Lytle called it quits in 2006.
"I didn't like music anymore. My connection to music had just become obligation and exhaustion," he says. "It had gotten too far away from where it started, which was basically me loving music so much that I had to write songs and I had to make recordings. I needed a big lifestyle change, and that required getting away from Modesto and just starting fresh, with an emphasis on getting a little healthier and living around mountains and being outdoors."
Soon after, he moved to Bozeman, Mont., a college town surrounded by mountains — a far cry from Modesto.
"I still laugh about the fact that this thing I do, which is writing songs and recording and spending lots of time in the studio ... goes completely against this other thing which I'm really passionate about: spending as much time as I can outside."
Lytle's new solo album, Dept. of Disappearance, is out this week.
We're hearing music of Grandaddy, a band that reached legendary status in indie circles and even counted David Bowie as a fan. It's a band but it's also a solo effort by one man, Jason Lytle. He's from California's Central Valley in the hot, dusty city of Modesto where, in his home studio, he wrote and recorded, all by himself, Grandaddy's albums, a process Lytle describes as torturous.
JASON LYTLE: I'm like in my boxers; my hair is messed up and bags under my eyes.
MONTAGNE: And he allows drugs were part of that creative process.
MONTAGNE: Grandaddy's albums were by prized critics, some calling them among the greatest of the last decade.
LYTLE: That was about as good as it got though, you know. And there was - things would go up and down. And then we'd get through this current crisis and on and on to this next magical moment. And that happened pretty regularly throughout the history of the band. And then it finally got to the point where it was like, it kind of maxed out. And I knew it.
MONTAGNE: So, on the very edge of mainstream success, Lytle called it off, ending Grandaddy six years ago.
LYTLE: I didn't like music anymore. I was like my connection with music was - had just become, you know, obligation and exhaustion.
MONTAGNE: He left his hometown of Modesto and moved to Montana where he wrote a new solo album.
MONTAGNE: Now in Montana, Jason Lytle says he's healthier. He figures he spends half his life in the studio and half outdoors. He still skateboards on concrete but he's also taken up running on trails.
LYTLE: I like the solitude and I like the long distances and the kind of the weird mental places that you - I mean it's obviously a lot of physical stuff. But it's just as much or even more, you know, digging deep and hitting these roadblocks and just, kind of, powering through them and seeing what you're made of.
MONTAGNE: A process he likens to his songwriting. Jason Lytle's new album is out today. It's streaming now at NPRMusic.org.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Coach Mike MacIntyre said Colorado State holds an advantage over his Colorado Buffaloes in at least one way going into his first Rocky Mountain Showdown on Sunday.
The majority of the Colorado State coaching staff and players have been together for a season and have a feel for each other -- a chemistry of sorts -- while most of the Buffs will be playing their first game in a new system for a new coaching staff.
MacIntyre is trying to become just the second CU head coach in the past 15 coaches to win his debut game with the Buffs. His counterpart, CSU coach Jim McElwain won his debut against the Buffs last season.
"I think it would definitely give them an advantage," MacIntyre said. "...Continuity is always good."
The first weekly press luncheon of the season Monday was MacIntyre's sixth press conference since he was hired in December. He has also had several informal media roundtables and dozens of post-practice interviews.
"You've done all this work. Now you want to see them play," MacIntyre said.
While MacIntyre believes the continuity on the CSU side is a big plus for the Rams, he said that advantage is mitigated somewhat by the fact that most of the CU coaching staff was together last year at San Jose State and that team played CSU and beat the Rams.
He said that familiarity works both ways.
"I think it helps, but it helps them also," MacIntyre said.
Starting quarterback Connor Wood and senior linebacker Paul Vigo, two of the team's six captains, joined MacIntyre in the Flatirons Club on the west side of Folsom Field. Both players said the 22-17 loss to the Rams last season has stuck wth them for a year and they are constantly reminded of it.
"The big L has been looming over our heads for almost a year now," Wood said.
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Speakers include Greg Allen, Washington, D.C. - based filmmaker, arts writer, and curator of Exhibition Space: Images, Objects and Perception from the Early Days of the Space Race; Alan Binstock, sculptor, architect, Washington, D.C.; Genna Duberstein, lead heliophysics multimedia producer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; Michael Lentz, designer and animator, Conceptual Image Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Moderated by JD Talasek.
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CUPERTINO -- Confirming weeks of rumors, Apple executives on Tuesday unveiled a new, gold-colored iPhone 5S and a cheaper iPhone 5C designed to appeal to overseas markets.
The iPhone 5C borrows a page from Apple's iPods and will come in multiple colors. Prices start at $99 for a 16GB model and $199 for a 32GB model -- both with two-year contracts. The 5C features a case made out of plastic, which Apple's design guru, Jony Ive, described as "beautifully, unapologetically polycarbonate."
Apple marketing head Phil Schiller called the 5C's higher-end brother, the iPhone 5S, the "most forward thinking phone ever" that's been designed to run both 32-bit and 64-bit apps and will include an upgraded camera along with a new fingerprint sensor built into the phone's home button that's intended to provide convenient security.
Several analysts embraced Apple's upgraded 5S.
"You can't under-estimate how important security has become for consumers," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies. "The camera clearly delivers a new set of features, larger pixels, a wide space for images and all these filters. It's just absolutely stunning. It'll make the iPhone 5S one of the best smart phone cameras available."
Investors and advertisers also may be impressed by the new phone's 64-bit upgrade, which Bajarin called the "kind of new processing power that will allow software developers to create even more interesting and powerful applications, not just games. It'll provide a more intense experience and increase the speed of video and the quality."
The iPhone 5S will cost $199 for a 16GB model, $299 for a 32GB version and $399 for a 64GB model -- all for two-year contracts. An "unlocked and contract-free" version carried over T-Mobile will be available for $549 for the 16GB version and $649 for a 32GB model. The iPhone 5S will come in silver, gold and "space gray."
Pre-orders for the iPhone 5C and 5S will begin on Friday. They will be available for sale on Sept. 20. Apple also will keep its 8GB iPhone 4S, which will be available for free on a two-year contract.
It's unclear how the public will react to the announcements.
Some analysts said Tuesday's presentation offered no surprises following weeks of leaked media reports and Apple stock fell $11.53, or 2.28 percent Tuesday to close at $494.64. Shares dipped slightly in after-hours trading.
"There were no surprises at all," said Bob O'Donnell, an analyst at technology research firm IDC. "Some people are going to be disappointed."
The iPhone 5C is not a "cheap" version of the iPhone, noted Avi Greengart, an analyst with market research firm Current Analysis.
"It's an iPhone 5, just made out of different material" Greengart said.
Apple's announcements came as the company arguably needs another hit product. As a company, Apple's sales growth has slowed to a crawl and its profits have slumped. Meanwhile, its stock price, despite recovering recently, is still down more than 30 percent from the highs it set last year.
While Apple's iPhone sales have held up better than its tablet and computer sales, they still have been hit by the slowdown in the company's business. And thanks to that slowing growth, Apple's market share in smartphones has slumped. In the second quarter, Apple held about 14 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, compared with about 19 percent a year earlier, according to Gartner.
One of the attention-grabbing aspects of the iPhone 5S is its new level of security aimed at preventing anyone else from accessing the phone. Apple's fingerprint recognition "Touch ID" sensor is designed to scan through the sub-epidermal layer of skin.
Fingerprint information will be encrypted and stored inside the A7 chip and will not be backed up to the iCloud or to Apple's servers, according to an Apple video.
The Touch ID technology also can be used to make purchases at any of Apple's iPhone stores -- to buy books, music, movies and apps -- without entering a password.
Forrester Analyst Frank Gillett called the new fingerprint security system "jaw droppingly easy" and "the first painless biometric I've seen."
Tony Cripps, principal device analyst at Ovum, said, "Apple is certainly offering meaningful innovation here. Moving to a 64-bit architecture means Apple can genuinely claim to have brought something new to the smartphone party. It should certainly help the company further cement its lead as a mobile gaming platform and will give the Android fraternity something to think about in a space whose significance is sometimes downplayed beyond the gaming world."
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On the third part of the Juice with Toolz on Ndani.tv Here is what D'banj said about signing Tonto Dikeh. Hehehe Tonto don blow O.
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43 comments:
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 01:06
Lol. Dbanj is just a crazy dude. Tonto go blow.ReplyDelete
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thank GOD i pray he signs her so all the talentless hacks will be easy for us to identify his recording company will simply be synonymous with people like them,omotola too will join then osuofia.someone who is still struggling for acceptance music wise since his departure from don jazzy,his last attempt tanked and he is barely floating if not for his past efforts and the stage presence he has going for him.. out of the millions of talents its tonto dike he wants to sign..he is not only clueless but his comments shows that he clearly does not have what it takes to spot talentsReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 10:35
Gosh! Reading your comment left me breathless. Please learn how to use punctuations more appropriately.Delete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 11:53
Luca! Luca!! D BABA of all blog commentators! i bow 4 u o!!Delete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 12:07
as in,,.......Lucabracee for someone who shouts it down our throat that you schooled abroad, why is your punctuation so bad.Delete
Also regarding ur comment to dbanj , i have noticed that hypocrites who do worse in secret are always the first to criticise
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 14:10
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 14:17
Dis luca abi wetin u call ur sef why u hate dbanj ad davido like dis dem collect something impotart frm u hand,hanhan free dem joor dey are better dan uDelete
- happy yoruba bunny05 January, 2013 15:12
i tot all insults went down wt 2012 but no some people just wl not changeDelete
if u are looking for a punctuation teacher, make goggle ur spouse or go back to school, how can u be looking for correct punctuations on blogs???? hian una no go school????
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 15:43
Luca na fool na. Talks OP! MoronDelete
sorry o role soyinka/chinua achebe…carry pen and paper and write my name in the book of noise makers lol first,a blog is an informal hangout forum where you are allowed to converse without having to watch punctuations,syntax writing style, upper and lower case i dont know about you but when most people are in an informal setting hanging out with friends they chat/interact in pidgin english,or if normal grammar or their native lingo ….since my schooling abroad is giving you this much of an headache lets both assume i lied and i actually schooled in a college of education..will that make you feel better?loolDelete
the as in you started your comment with I'm sure its the grammatically correct way koh? I'm surprised you also forgot to put full stops in your last paragraph physician heal thyself lmao
*hope you noticed the last of punctuations in this comment as well*lol
you are really clueless if you really think i have anything to do with the music industry,sycophants like you are the ones who won't allow the guy to improve slurping his ass of the brown stuff in there for acknowledgement
@anon i mean the sane anon not the insane oneDelete
better persin,double twalle for you too o i hail
Luca my darl,sometyms,u get to ignore irritants lik ds! Sm pple come on here to get noticed thru insults. Hey guys,free urself of hate abeg!! Its nt even lik wtout d punctuation,u cld see any spellin error. SlikkyDelete
true you r right when one joins a mad person to trade words its difficult for bystanders to differentiate lol
maybe i ll lay off them when they grow up,act matured and behave in a sensible way how they approach issues
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 01:49
Kokomaster, smart guy bang dis tonto girl well, well o. Blow am beyond proportion. And remember blowjob really matter in record deal. Na ur time blow all d blowables especially this sexy and wierd kokolet actress. No long thing, my brother.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous06 January, 2013 03:24
Omg this your comment is just too funny.... " blow all the blowables" fi leDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 01:50
Kokomaster, smart guy bang dis tonto girl well, well o. Blow am beyond proportion. And remember blowjob really matters in record deal. Na ur time blow all d blowables especially this sexy and wierd kokolet actress. No long thing, my brother.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 03:28
- Ms. Bee05 January, 2013 04:09
Yeah a different kinda blow.......Blow jobReplyDelete
Lol. I hope she dosent kill your career.ReplyDelete
Koko mMster a.k.a Eja Nla wanna bring one Eja Nla to his record label. lol :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 05:56
Hey, I am here to advertise this Christian blog, It's NOT A RELIGIOUS BLOG,IT'S A CHRISTIAN BLOG.ReplyDelete
It contains short spiritual nuggets to keep u going daily. I hope some of us will take the Word of God a little more seriously this year. God bless you as you come.
- D'banj05 January, 2013 06:11
You D'banj can't even sing so what will your feature do to make a change, go rest oga.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 06:56
Db records; a label 4 wack voiced fame hores!!! SmhReplyDelete
Abeg I gat a 'job' 4 hawt, smart & virtous gals ONLY 293287F0 don't 'blow' dis chance! Lol
Ehyaaaaaah! I guess he'll take anytin he can get.ReplyDelete
- bulls_eye05 January, 2013 07:30
Wetin tonto dikeh go blow? Hehehe... Bad boi Dbanj, KOKO master, u sure say na money?. *lipssealed*ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 07:30
Afi tonto go blow naa,she go blow our head wv r Noisy musik#lwkmReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 08:12
Lol hehehe tontlet, mamalet all d kokolet. U go blow with plenty paperlet! #pokoReplyDelete
Everyone is2 not perfect pease leave Tonto Dikeh alone if Dbanj wanna make her dream come Τ̲̅ǿ reality pray Ƒσя her please if you3 hate her don\'t write up always say good things to people.ReplyDelete
knw be lie she go soon join iluminatiReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 09:34
Hiah! Dis 1 dbanj has bin singn rubish lately, so his rubish muzik + her untalented talent = 9ja muzik listners in trouble...... Hiah! #gurls Rock#ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 20:10
Dbanj Ȋ̝̊̅ƨ̣̣̣̇̇̇ really cluelessDelete
Let's wait and seeReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 10:58
Don't u c dey sing same kinda musicReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 14:23
@anon 10:58. My point exactly... #gurls rock#ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 14:24
@anon 10:58. My point exactly... #gurls rock#ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 14:24
@anon 10:58. My point exactly... #gurls rock#ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 19:27
That is not Luca. The writing style is completely different, and his punctuation/grammar is not this poor. Either Ladun is up to her normal crap or someone is pretending to be Luca.ReplyDeleteReplies
give it a rest and think productive thought you no dey tire?Delete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 19:56
TONOTO , BETTER AGREE O, B4 TOMORROW YOU GO TWEET SAY 'STICKING TO POKO RECORDS' NA YOU GO SABI,ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 January, 2013 20:09
Dbanj Ȋ̝̊̅ƨ̣̣̣̇̇̇ simply clueless!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous06 January, 2013 22:07
- Anonymous07 January, 2013 12:14
And that was the end of the Koko masterReplyDelete


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T he Boulder Running Company will pay tribute to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in its stores and at Saturday's 12th annual Boulder Distance Classic, which they're sponsoring.
Stores are selling men's and women's "Runners for Boston" T-shirts, and race T-shirts will be adorned with the "Runners for Boston" logo on the sleeve.
All proceeds from sales of the shirts at retail locations will be donated to the Boston One Fund, which raised $20 million within a week of the attack. Money from the fund will be distributed to victims' families and survivors.
Boulder Running Company's Henry Guzman said the design for the T-shirts came from the Independent Running Retailers Association, which encouraged its nearly 800 member companies across the country to use the logo in some way.
"It is a connection," Guzman said. "If anybody has a connection with running or any passion for running, even if you haven't run Boston, you've heard of Boston or you've aspired to do Boston or it's been on your bucket list. Everyone has a sense of community and also they're connected in that running community."
Guzman ran the 2013 Boston Marathon -- his 101st marathon -- and was in his hotel room flipping through TV channels to see who won the race when he heard an explosion. His room looked out over the finish line, and when he looked outside, he saw smoke.
Guzman said his initial reaction was that race organizers decided to blast a cannon at the finish line. In his 10 trips to the marathon, Guzman had never heard of anyone using a cannon at the finish line.
He remembers growing concerned, but couldn't find anything on his TV that explained the loud blast and smoke.
"It was a big sonic boom, but a lasting boom," he said. "I looked outside and there's all that smoke. That's a lot of smoke for a cannon. And then the smoke cleared and you saw all the people."
He came back to Colorado and knew he had to do something to remember the victims of the bombing and show the support of the running community, he said.
When he received the "Runners for Boston" logo, Guzman said he thought about the upcoming Boulder Distance Classic at the Boulder Reservoir on Sunday.
"When we got the PDF (for the logo), as soon as I heard that, I said, 'I have to get that on the race shirt. I have to put it on before they start printing them,'" Guzman said. "If we have the opportunity to help, we will."
Elsewhere in Boulder this week, other groups and businesses showed their support for Boston in different ways. On Monday, the University of Colorado-Boulder triathlon team held a fundraiser for the bombing victims, and the CU Recreation Center hosted a "26.2 for Boston" event, which encouraged participants to do 26.2 of something to show support.
Boulder resident Lesley Barnes, a 2004 CU graduate, will be running the Boulder Distance Classic 5K race this weekend.
Barnes said she has family in Massachusetts, so she's been "on edge" the last week as investigators searched for suspects and tried to piece together what happened at the marathon's finish line.
"Showing the solidarity at the race and in the running community is such a beautiful response to it all," Barnes, 32, said. "The best way to respond to things like this is with love and that general positive outpouring and support."
Four-time Olympian Colleen De Reuck will run the 15K at the race this weekend. She's run the Boston Marathon several times, the latest being in 2009. She wasn't there this year, but several of the runners she coaches through the Boulder Striders group were.
The "Runners for Boston" T-shirts demonstrate how close-knit the running community is across the nation and the world, she said.
"Whatever happens, anything big or small, you often find that someone is ill or something happens in their family, and the running community helps each other," De Reuck said.
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Here's the latest forecast on the upcoming snow storm for Western New York. New data continues to track low pressure in a good position for all snow for most of our viewing area. Snow will break out across the region Wednesday morning. Snow will fall heavy at times from late morning through the early evening. During the time, snow fall rates of over 1" each hour are possible. Strong NE winds between 20-30 mph will begin to reduce visibility as blowing and drifting of snow picks up. The low is expected to move across Eastern PA in the early evening hours.
Arctic air will pour Southward Wednesday night and Thursday. Leftover moisture and cold air advection will result in a few more inches of lake enhanced snow near and North of the thruway into the early hours on Thursday. It is for this reason that my forecast map has that area in the over 10" accumulation. Some areas North may end up with 15" if enhancement does what it does historically with lows tracking similarly. I do still believe that a mix will occur near the PA border for the first half of the storm thus lower snow amounts there.
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During her growing up years in Cottonwood County, Karen Beranek was a member of the Germantown Livewires 4-H Club, and she is confident her experience in the organization focused on helping youth to reach their potential helped to make her ready for her new role as the Redwood County 4-H program coordinator.
During her growing up years in Cottonwood County, Karen Beranek was a member of the Germantown Livewires 4-H Club, and she is confident her experience in the organization focused on helping youth to reach their po-tential helped to make her who she is today.
How Beranek can help other youth in her new role as the Red-wood County 4-H program coordinator.
As coordinator for the Redwood County 4-H program Beranek is going to be working closely with the 11 current clubs, 346 members and 100-plus volunteers who help to make the program such a success.
Beranek has already seen that success in action since officially coming on board in December, and her goal is to help build on what already exists to help make the program even better.
After graduating from Red Rock Central High School, Beranek earned degrees in human development and family studies at South Dakota State University in Brook-ings, S.D.
"When I graduated I wanted to work with 4-H," said Beranek, who spent the next eight years working through the Extension Service in South Dakota as part of the 4-H program.
Since earning her initial college degree Beranek has also earned a masters degree in family and consumer science, and a few years ago she moved back to the area as her husband, Chad, started farming in the Wanda area.
Looking for a job, Beranek became the library director at the public library in Lam-berton – a job she held for nearly two years before deciding it was time to get back into the 4-H scene.
"I missed 4-H," said Beranek, adding she had learned so much about community service and leadership that she wanted to be able to share with others.
She is hoping especially to work with the county's ambassador program to help develop those leadership skills she gained with those area 4-Hers.
Beranek's message to those who might be considering 4-H as an option said the best part about 4-H is those involved can do and learn about anything they want – whether it is livestock, photography or needlework.
The Beranek family, which also includes son Carter, a first grader, and Jadyn, their four-year-old daughter, are also members of the Lamberton Lep-rechauns 4-H Club.
Beranek is looking forward to meeting all of the 4-H families, and she said if anyone has any questions for her to call (507) 637-4025 or send an email to email@example.com.


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Kate Moss isn't happy with Lindsay Lohan.
The pair recently got into it after 27-year-old Lohan reached out to the supermodel's husband, Jamie Hince, lead guitarist for indie rock band The Kills, recently upon arriving in the U.K., according to British newspaper The Sun.
"The argument went on for a while and Kate seemed extremely annoyed with Lindsay for contacting Jamie," a source said of the two women, who bumped into each other at London celebrity hotspot Chiltern Firehouse. "She was ranting about it to a fellow diner at the restaurant."
Hince supposedly worked with Lohan on some of the her music last year. No, I really can't imagine what that might sound like. Nor, in fact, would I like to.
Moss, 40, let it be known she felt disrespected by Lohan contacting Hince. And there is apparently is "no love lost" between the women.
"(Kate) knew they'd bump into each other eventually as they're both out on the town so much," the source said.
I get that. Like every time I hear certain male supermodels are flying to the U.S., I'm like, "OMG, am I going to have to run into so-and-so at the nearest supermodel gym and or dance hotspot where us types frequent, and am I going to have to be nice to him and stuff?"
Moss may have to get used to it, as Lohan has talked about moving to London.
According to the New York Daily News, Lohan is London making her West End theater debut in the David Mamet play "Speed-the-Plow," and recently shared a photo of herself standing in front of the stage door.
"At work!" she captioned the shot. "First day ... Read through."
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Lenawee County's prep wrestlers begin their annual marches to Battle Creek and Auburn Hills this week.
Team district tournaments take place Wednesday (Division 1 and 3) and Thursday (Division 2 and 4). Individual districts for all divisions are Saturday.
The county appears poised to make its usual postseason noise. Hudson seeks its fifth straight state championship, which would match the state record (Davison 2002-06). Tecumseh, Addison and Sand Creek also have sights set on the state tournament at Kellogg Arena.
Last season, county teams sent 39 wrestlers to the individual finals at the Palace of Auburn Hills. A similar number could make the trip this year.
Here is a look at this week's district tournaments involving county teams.
Tecumseh at Adrian: No. 6-ranked Tecumseh faces Adrian, while Carleton Airport meets Milan in the semifinals at 5:30 p.m. The final follows the semifinals.
Tecumseh, which reached the state semifinals the past two seasons, has won a county-best 10 consecutive district titles. The Indians beat Adrian 64-14 earlier this season at a Southeastern Conference quad.
The Maples will chase their first district title since 2002.
The Adrian district winner advances to face the Romulus district champ next Wednesday at the Tecumseh regional.
Adrian and Tecumseh will compete in Saturday's individual district at Carleton Airport.
Onsted at Clinton: Onsted wrestles host Clinton, while No. 10-ranked Manchester faces Columbia Central in the semifinals at 6 p.m. The final will follow the semifinals.
Clinton looks for its first district title since 2005. Onsted, meanwhile, eyes its third district crown since 2009.
Onsted and Clinton both competed against Cascades Conference champion Manchester at the Dave Elliott Invitational. The Flying Dutchmen, who bumped up from Division 4 this season, advanced to Battle Creek in five of the past six seasons.
The Clinton district champion advances to face the Dundee district winner next Wednesday at the Onsted regional.
Clinton and Onsted will compete in Saturday's individual district at Napoleon.
Hudson: Thursday's Hudson district features only one match with the top-ranked Tigers wrestling Reading at 6 p.m. Hudson has claimed five straight district titles.
The Tigers defeated Reading last year in the regional finals. The Rangers finished seventh last weekend at the Big Eight Conference tournament.
The winner advances to face the Homer district champion next Wednesday at the Addison regional.
Hudson will compete in Saturday's individual district at Quincy.
Addison at Jonesville: The No. 4-ranked Panthers meet Jonesville in a semifinal at 6 p.m. The winner faces Hillsdale, which received a bye into the final.
Cascades runner-up Addison has won district titles in eight of the past nine seasons. The Panthers will clash with Jonesville, which finished second in the Big Eight under league Coach of the Year Mickey Rowe.
Hillsdale tied for fourth in the final Lenawee County Athletic Association standings.
The Jonesville district champion advances to face the East Jackson district winner next Wednesday at the Addison regional.
Addison will compete in Saturday's individual district at Quincy.
Sand Creek, Blissfield at Madison: Blissfield meets Sand Creek, while Madison faces Erie Mason in the semifinals at 6 p.m. The final will follow the semifinals.
Sand Creek defeated Blissfield 60-18 and Madison 56-15 during its own tournament. Sand Creek also beat Blissfield at the Addison Duals.
The Aggies, who spent several weeks this season in the Division 4 state rankings, have won two straight district titles.
Blissfield looks to claim its fourth district title in 10 years and first since 2010.
Madison has improved from nine dual wins last season to 17 in the current campaign. The Trojans and Sand Creek each went 2-0 at last week's Tri-County Conference meet.
The Madison district winner advances to wrestle the Memphis district champion next week at the Sand Creek regional.
Madison and Sand Creek will compete in Saturday's individual district at Blissfield.
Local wrestlers ready for districts
Lenawee County's prep wrestlers begin their annual marches to Battle Creek and Auburn Hills this week.


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At least 85,000 wrestling fans will come to the Meadowlands this weekend for Wrestlemania 29, one of several big sporting events coming to the region over the next few years.
"We are expecting a minimum of 85,000 fans and WrestleMania is expected to generate $100 million to the region," said Director for the Meadowlands Liberty Convention and Visitors Bureau Judy Ross last week.
The WrestleMania 29 matches kicked off Thursday and continues through Sunday for fans to see in person and on pay-per-view.
The main event Sunday is a match between feuding wrestlers Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson versus John Cena.
One wrestler in the events, April Mendez – known professionally as AJ Lee – grew up in Union City and now lives in North Bergen, according to a newspaper article.
WrestleMania 29
East Rutherford will see increased traffic on Sunday, April 7 before the main 6 p.m. wrestling match at MetLife Stadium. Also, before and after several of the events, NJ Transit is offering train service to Secaucus Junction with a connecting shuttle bus to the Izod Center. On April 8, for Monday Night Raw, NJ Transit will again run train service to Secaucus Junction with a connecting shuttle bus to the Izod from 6 p.m. until 30 minutes after the event concludes. For schedules and fares, visit njtransit.com or call (973) 275-5555.
"WrestleMania is expected to generate $100 million to the region." – Director for the Meadowlands Liberty Convention and Visitors Bureau Judy Ross
Hudson County diva
For one wrestler, the event is a homecoming.
Born April Jeanette Mendez on March 19, 1987, wrestler AJ Lee has transformed from a fan and spectator into a WWE diva.
According to published articles, Mendez was introduced to wrestling at a young age when she began wrestling at a local gym down the street from her in Union City.
She debuted with WWE on Sept. 7, 2010. Two of her many accomplishments are becoming the first diva - female wrestlers or ring announcers- to ever hold both the Queen of FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling) and FCW Divas Championship simultaneously.
Mendez could not be reached for an interview by press time.
Future event
The Super Bowl may seem far away, but it will take place at the MetLife Stadium on Feb. 2, 2014. Gov. Chris Christie announced in January that there will be an NFL Tailgate Party hours before the game, and other local events for football fans. It is estimated that the Super Bowl will bring in 150,000 out-of-town visitors.
They won't all be at the game at the same time, though. MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford only holds 82,500 people.
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This speculation is simply copying the hysterical media by seeking sensationalist news and making wild assumptions without any data.Best wait for some facts.
Would speculation about racism be reasonable if the story had occurred in Apartheid South Africa? Why or why not?
The question you intended was "If there are details we do not know, is speculation productive?"
As an aside, (i) it did not happen in Apartheid South Africa.
(ii) I suppose that you would agree that not every death (Black or White) in police custody in Apartheid South Africa was as a result of police action.
I am basically very disappointed by the lack of forensic thought in this topic - it seems to have been overtaken by liberal "right-on" political correctness, which is not at all helpful when a potential prison sentence is at stake; it sounds like hysterical mob rule.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
No, that is not the question I intended. -1 for the really obvious and inexcusable lie.
You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
Sure. Now are you willing to answer the question I actually asked, or would that take too much honesty?
The idea that the police story is accurate is no less speculation than the idea that it is not. In absense of data, speculating - but not concluding - is reasonable.
Greybeard -I am trying to understand if you are dismissing concerns about this particular case as a "conspiracy theory" or if you are stating that you do not believe that a percentage of police officers target and often behave inappropriately towards people of color?
I'm trying to understand your skepticism on this particular issue.
Graybeard-I think that you and I are looking at the same pieces of data, and interpreting them differently. I see your charts as evidence of institutionalized racism. I'm almost afraid to ask what conclusions you draw when you look at those charts.
You are a little too free with your accusations of my lying, and to be frank, I don't like it.Take some time and a dictionary and have a look at the meaning of lying, otherwise you may encounter other disappointed posters.
Your silly "Ooo what would happen if it were in South Africa?" Is not on topic and is neither here nor there.
You really must concentrate on what honesty is - it apparently does not have the meaning you think.
To dismiss a question is neither to lie nor to be dishonest.
QuoteThe idea that the police story is accurate is no less speculation than the idea that it is not. In absense of data, speculating - but not concluding - is reasonable.Were that what I was saying, it would be correct.
Just tell Grey he misunderstood your question, and what you meant to express.
Keeps things productive and civil. If he's being obtuse, you can also opt out of the discussion. You've got a lot of options.
[1] 1. According to Mr Blackwell, probably everyday but nobody reports it. White families just bury Junior in the back yard and get back to being oppressed by the world's minority groups. Meh.
This is not racism, institutionalise or otherwise, this is published data.
Quote from: Graybeard on August 25, 2012, 12:27:30 PMThis is not racism, institutionalized or otherwise, this is published data. I would like to start out by saying that I spend a significant number of hours every week examining data concerning issues impacting on the lives of low income people. Some of it is published data. Some of it is data collected by my staff. Data is not simply data. It is a portrait of a reality. Data demonstrates that low income communities have higher crime rates than high income communities. There are a lot of reasons for this. Low income people are more likely to commit the sorts of economic crimes that they will get caught doing, such as robbery. Low income people are more likely to have poor nutritional levels, and people with lower nutritional levels are less likely to handle stress effectively. Low income people are more likely to have undiagnosed/untreated illnesses, including mental illness. And low income people tend to have lower educational levels, and more likely to not have education relative to their innate skills or intelligence. People who understand that they are not living up to their potentials are often frustrated, and frustration often results in poor choices. All of these factors contribute to crime levels.
This is not racism, institutionalized or otherwise, this is published data.
But I continue to suspect police gross misconduct in the death of Chavis Carter.
However, you are confusing race and poverty. The normal distribution graph will tell you that poverty is evenly spread when taken by race.This confusion makes you feel that blacks, to the exclusion of whites and other races, are solely the victims of poverty - this is institutionalized racism... it only happens to blacks. Your own work should show you that it doesn't. The essence is poverty not race, yet you ignore the poverty of other races - how fair is that?
...but I saw no mention of the bullet in the autopsy report.
That Chavis Carter sounds like the reincarnation of Houdini. Maybe he swallowed the gun while the cops had their backs turned, and then regurgitated it in the back seat of the squad car. Next, having demonstrated all this consummate skill at outsmarting the police, although out of his mind on drugs, accidentally shot himself in the head with his non-dominant hand. All while handcuffed behind his back.
I asked about how reasonable it might be to suspect racism if a case like this happens under a famously racist regime. To many, America (or parts of it) comprises a famously racist regime. See how that relates?
I'd strongly recommend that nobody here make any speculative judgment calls based on the way things appear. There's already going to be plenty of people reacting with their gut and emotions in this situation, and we don't need to do so here on the forum. It doesn't matter what speculation would have been reasonable in apartheid South Africa, or in the American Jim Crow South for that matter, because while Arkansas is in the South, it is no longer the Jim Crow era. What matters is what happened here, in this case. It's perfectly reasonable to demand a more in-depth investigation into the facts of this case, but it is not reasonable in my opinion to jump to conclusions about what happened.
There are plenty of details yet to be forthcoming. It is always a good idea to search other news sources when it comes to any national headline to see what information is left out and what new information has been added. The huff story said nothing of this:Also released were details from Carter's cell phone. Police say text messages on Carter's phone show he had stolen the gun in question from a woman or individual in Jonesboro. Police say other text messages show he had the gun on him to bring to another individual, Brandon Renald Baker. Baker is currently in the Greene County Jail on aggravated burglary charges, and admitted to police on Tuesday that he did request the gun from Carter.Police also say that Carter's girlfriend told them he called her from the rear of the police car and told her that he loved her and that he had a gun on him in the rear of the police car and that he was scared.Police also readily admit that Officer Marsh missed the gun on the initial pat-down of Carter.and For the autopsy, Arkansas' state crime lab says it didn't perform gunshot residue testing on a man fatally shot in the head while handcuffed in a patrol car because it doesn't do that kind of analysis on victims of homicides or suicides.Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates told The Associated Press that the department had requested gunshot residue testing in the shooting death of 21-year-old Chavis Carter.The lab's chief criminalist, Lisa Channell, told the AP that kind of the testing can indicate whether a person was in an environment with gunshot residue, but not whether he or she pulled the trigger of a gun.These little revelations don't prove anything more than all the facts aren't in yet. Is is shady? Yup. Is it a clear case of police brutality? Not yet. Is it racially motivated? Hard to tell really.
EDIT: By the way, you didn't mean to say "no" to my quoted question in your post. You meant to say "yes". If it's not dishonest for you to declare that I meant to say something different, then...well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right?
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A former Nebraska All-Big Eight linebacker is trying to multitask at his athletic director's desk in Madison, home of one-half of an emerging college football rivalry that's brewing with Nebraska, his alma mater. Barry Alvarez is laughing because it's the day after he announced that Wisconsin would play Alabama in a 2015 Labor Day weekend marquee match-up at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Alvarez is laughing because he's already moved on from the blockbuster announcement that Wisconsin will play Alabama for the first time since the Badgers beat the Crimson Tide 15-0 in 1928. He's laughing because he's trying to watch his No. 14 hockey team upset No. 8 Minnesota State, 7-2, and getting ready to pick up Tom Osborne at the airport while finalizing plans to drive to Milwaukee early the next morning, so he can catch a flight to Kansas City and watch his No. 5 seed men's basketball team get upset by No. 12 seed Mississippi in the NCAA Tournament at the Sprint Center.
At 66, Alvarez can still move fast and tackle anything in front of him. He's a Big Ten icon who can climb on a stage with Osborne to kick off the 2013 Wisconsin Coaches Association's annual clinic two weeks after flying to Omaha to be part of a Tribute to Tom major fundraiser. He can pinch-hit as head coach for the Badgers in their 2013 Rose Bowl game against Stanford and be an ally for and a confidant of the most powerful commissioner in college athletics. He can influence a chancellor's decision on who might succeed a legend like Osborne, and he can raise the flag for Nebraska recruiting at the same time he honors the Wisconsin city that made him famous. Alvarez whirls so fast, we had to catch up with him again Friday just to find out how everything went Thursday. Please join our conversation with one of the top two candidates (Osborne is the other) to represent the Big Ten and serve on the BCS selection committee for a college football playoff that will begin in 2014:
Q: How did Thursday's session go for two legends?
A: Everything went like clockwork. We sent a plane to Lincoln. I picked up Tom at 3 o'clock at the airport. We had a little lunch, and at 5 o'clock we kicked off the clinic with a Q&A that lasted an hour and 15 minutes. It was awesome. We sat up there and answered every question. I talked about getting into coaching through the high school ranks, and Tom talked about going straight to Bob Devaney's staff at Nebraska. The coaches loved the format and were very excited to learn from a guy like Tom. He has great wisdom. He really does. He's won a lot of games and sustained that program for a long time. He has strong beliefs and our coaches thought he shared good information about everything, including Nebraska's transition to the Big Ten. Tom and Joe Paterno did a similar Q&A about four years ago at the national coaches' convention in Dallas, and I did the same thing with (former Air Force coach) Fisher DeBerry the next year. Tom and I both like the format, and we were very candid. We covered the gamut, even got into a few philosophical things. We both agreed that when it's all over, everything comes back to the relationship you have with your players and the way you treat them. We finished the program at 6:30, and I drove him straight to the airport. He probably landed back in Lincoln about 8 o'clock (Central Time). It was a quick, but a fun day.
Q: Speaking of "when it's all over", you hired yourself to coach Wisconsin's Big Ten championship team in the Rose Bowl. Did you give any thought to keeping that job beyond the bowl game, especially since you're tied with Woody Hayes with the most Rose Bowl wins for a Big Ten coach and the only league coach to win back-to-back Rose Bowls in Pasadena?
A: I did, and I was very serious about it for a while until my wife made me answer a few questions. The experience of going back became very emotional for me. I had some assistant coaches who would be looking for a job. They wanted me to stay. So did all the juniors on the team. They all came in and asked me if I would stay another year. I was getting emotional for the coaches and the players, and I went home and told my wife and Cindy said: "You can't go back and just coach for one more year because you'd have the same problem the next year. If you're going to do it, you'd have to do it for three years." I didn't want to do that. I was looking at everything emotionally. She thought it through much better than I did.
Q: Let's talk about the new divisional alignments that everyone seems to embrace, particularly the proposed Western-most division that would include Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Wisconsin and whoever wins the Purdue-Indiana coin flip to join what some call the farm states. How do you view being in the same division with your alma mater?
A: I like it because it keeps our natural rivalries together. Proximity makes it easier on our fans and you still preserve the competitive balance within and between the divisions. Purdue and Indiana would be the only crossover game needed because everything else makes so much sense. I wanted Wisconsin and Nebraska to be in the same division from the beginning because we were natural rivals, but we couldn't do that. We've developed a rivalry based on the three games we've played against each other in the first two years together in the Big Ten. Our people love going to Lincoln, and I think Nebraska people love coming up here. It's an easy trip both ways. Before expansion, we had to protect our rivalry with Minnesota because it's the longest running rivalry in college football. We were also opposite Iowa, and our longstanding rivalry with them was very similar. It's an easy trip for both teams' fans. We were kind of odd man out the first time. We wanted to be with Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska all along. Competitive equality was the No. 1 priority and six teams separated themselves, so we had to go 3-3. I knew we were going to be displaced that first time around. We didn't want it, and we didn't like it, but you have to move forward because sometimes you have to give a little bit. I'm very pleased with the way we're going now. Our fans will embrace it."
Q: Nice job getting 'Bama to open the 2015 season against your Badgers in Dallas. Did the 'Bama-Michigan opener there last year help the cause?
A: I did talk to (Michigan AD) Dave Brandon about their experience there. Michigan got beat, but the overall experience was good. Their fans loved it, and they thought they were treated right. I thought it was good for us to do something like that, too. If you want to be a player, you have to play games like that.
Q: Can you describe the process it takes to make such a big game?
A: We've been working with ESPN, Alabama and the Cowboys. There were lots of pieces to the puzzle, and it worked for everyone. We talked about something like this as a league. We have a commissioner going back to the marketplace for another TV contract, and we all agreed we need to improve our non-conference schedules. When you look at the whole league's non-conference schedule over the past four years, it's not very good, not very appealing. Nobody wants those kinds of games in the inventory. So we agreed in principle that after the 2014-'15 season, there would be no more lower-division opponents after that.
Q: What about the expanded divisions? Won't that necessitate moving from eight to nine Big Ten Conference games a year?
A: If we go to nine conference games, and it appears that's the way we'll go because we're splitting divisions, scheduling gets pretty tough. You schedule at least one BCS Conference game a year and the rest need to be Division I schools. That's the only way we're going to improve our league and the only way we're going to improve the kind of inventory we need for TV contracts. I thought playing Alabama was healthy for everyone. Some years you're going to have five conference games at home and some years only four. That's why I started studying the impact of playing neutral site games – because almost all BCS schools are going to want a home-and-home contract. Getting a game like Alabama just once helps you come close to the financial equivalent of what you make for a home game. The more I looked at it, the more I realized that it would be good for the fans and special for our athletes to play in a stadium like the Cowboys play in. Players and fans are the two groups that count the most. If it works out like we think it will work out, we might schedule more one-time games at a neutral site.
Q: I'll be honest. Most people tell me they were underwhelmed when the Big Ten invited Maryland and Rutgers to join the nation's oldest conference. How do you view adding them to the league?
A: I've thought about it a lot. We could sit here for the rest of our tenure, and it probably wouldn't bother us. But as population continues to decrease in the Rust Belt and increase in the Eastern Corridor and the Southeast and in Texas and California, it can be a real factor for the league you're in. When that population shifts, you better be prepared for the consequences. It can hurt you in recruiting and really set you back from the foundation you've already built. If we didn't do something, the day might come when Penn State might step back and say: "What are we doing out here all by ourselves?" This move was for TV sets and the league and BTN. It opens up a lot more for all of us and, in my opinion, protects us for the future. I'm 67, but I have to think long term instead of short term for all those who will be in the Big Ten and want it to remain the best conference in the country. Short term, adding those two schools doesn't move the needle for some people. Long term, I think, those two make a big difference.
Q: Everyone wonders which major BCS conference will be the first with 16 teams. Might that league be the Big Ten?
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When and why did you start training for fighting? I love the combat aspect and martial arts in general. Fighting has made me who I am and I owe everything to this sport - my wife, son, house, life, everything.
What ranks and titles have you held? Tachi Palace Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion. FILA World Champion in Pankration, Grapplers Quest Champ
Do you have any heroes? My older brother Herculez Gomez
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It's all I ever wanted to do growing up.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? UNLV. No degree
What was your job before you started fighting? Cabana Attendant at the Hard Rock. I still work there.
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Black belt in Pankration, Brown Belt in BJJ
Favorite grappling technique: rear naked choke
Favorite Striking technique: jab
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Granite Falls' iconic popcorn stand recently received some world-wide recognition when it was featured in the December issue of the Kiwanis International Magazine.
The popcorn stand was featured in an article that highlighted interesting and notable "Kiwanis properties" in locations at a global level. Included was a mini "Kiwanis train" in Enid, Oklahoma that carries an average of 15,000 passengers a year along a 1.2 mile track and a Kiwanis clubhouse in Kopavogur-Eldey, Iceland that had once been the original store for one of the Icelandic nation's largest hardware companies.
Granite Falls' iconic popcorn stand recently received some world-wide recognition when it was featured in the December issue of the Kiwanis International Magazine.
The popcorn stand was featured in an article that highlighted interesting and notable "Kiwanis properties" in locations at a global level. Included was a mini "Kiwanis train" in Enid, Oklahoma that carries an average of 15,000 passengers a year along a 1.2 mile track and a Kiwanis clubhouse in Kopavogur-Eldey, Iceland that had once been the original store for one of the Icelandic nation's largest hardware companies.
According to member Les Bergquist, the Kiwanis Club of Granite Falls was contacted by the magazine sometime after a KARE 11 "Land of 10,000 Stories" article and video about the popcorn stand brought notoriety to the Granite Falls icon in May. A photographer was dispatched to capture its image, and as it happened Les's son, William, is featured in the spread.
"The popcorn stand is such a great asset," said Les. "Not only does it generate money which Kiwanis inturn uses to support all sorts of community organizations, but it's just a great service to the community that people really enjoy coming to. It's got a lot of notoriety here there and everywhere."
In light of the magazine article, the Advocate Tribune thought it would be an ideal time to recall the history of the popcorn stand, which is recapped in the following paragraphs from an article written by former A/T staffer Adam Rynkiewich roughly a decade ago.
Jule and Fred start 80 year summer tradition
No one can recall the day, nor even the year, that the popcorn stand first appeared on the riverside corner of Prentice and Seventh Avenue.
Jule and Fred Ernston built the first incarnation of the stand, as far as any record states, in the mid-to-late 1920s on the present location. Some say they recall the stand beside the walking bridge at Prentice Street and Eighth Avenue. Chuck Ernston, grandson to Fred, said that back before Jule and Fred made the popcorn stand permanent, when they were only operating a portable stand during the summer months at Granite Falls events, Fred Jr. (who was actually a nephew to Jule and Fred, a son of their sister who died in a house fire) also started a portable popcorn stand and operated mostly at the base of the foot bridge.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Jule and Fred had operated a horse drawn coach, "a sort of glass-enclosed box with seats running down each side and with a couple of steps in the back by which you entered the thing," according to Jay L. Putnam in his Look Out column in 1950. The coach ran from the east side Milwaukee Road depots to downtown hotels like the Elizabeth Hotel (also known as the Commercial, the Winter and the Keagan) for many years until the advent of the automobile pushed them out of business.
Jule first began the business in the early 20s with that portable stand already mentioned and a gas operated popper. Chuck Ernston said that though his family was not sure, Fred and Jule's father, Andrew, the town blacksmith, may have built that first and long-used kettle.
Before the end of the 1920s Fred had joined his brother in the business and the two constructed a permanent, though they may not have foreseen how permanent, structure, where the present stand, built in 1969 now resides.
Jule died in 1945 and Fred in 1950. The two owners that most people still recall, took over after Fred's death. Bennett Ernston, son of Fred and his wife Arlene grew and harvested their own corn with the help of George Orvall.
In a 1973 article, provided by Chuck Ernston, one of the two sons, Gary is the other, of Bennett. the price of popcorn was still five cents for a bag with no butter and 10 cents for a bag with butter – the same as it was 45 years earlier when the stand was founded.
The price of popcorn did finally go up and the Ernston family did finally hand over the business.
In 1974, Bennett died, leaving Arlene to run the stand until 1981 until her own death. After Arlene's passing, the stand bounced every few years from one local family to the next. Barb and Tom Agre purchased the stand in 1982 but sold it again in 1985 to Pam and Bill Liester who ran the stand until 1990, when Dean and Dana Baldry and Jeff (Gunnar) and Becky Mensink took over. The Mensinks and Baldrys sold the business to Joe and Janelle (Johnson) Nielsen who in turn sold it in 1997 to Dave and Jill Kafka.
Kiwanis takes over
Then, in 2002 the first service organization, and the first anything other than a private family, took over the stand. The Granite Falls Kiwanis are in their second year of ownership.
"This is pretty unique," said the Kiwanis Granite Falls Chapter President Lisa Lundell of the service organization owning a business. "No other organization that I am aware of does soemthing quit like this."
Lundell said that Kiwanis probably would not have had the opportunity to own the business if they had to purchase it, but since the Kafkas donated the business, the Kiwanis have had a great opportunity to raise funds for their children-oriented projects.
"All our profits go to projects we support," said Lundell. "We have a fund to support the operations at the stand so we are able to give a lot back to the community."
The Kiwanis support projects at the Kilowatt Community Center and help the Parks Commission do upkeep on playground equipment around the city, among other projects. One night last week, all the profits went to the DRUM (Discipline Respect and Unity through Music) program at Bert Raney Elementary. The DRUM participants entertained a good-sized crowd at the stand while reaping the financial benefits.
"We want to do things to make kids welcome at the stand. All our profit goes to them so it is important that they also feel welcome and a part of it as well," said Lundell.
One popcorn stand tradition that has faded a bit is feeding local ducks the "old maids" (unpopped kernels and small bits of older popcorn) every night. In times past, a veritable horde of ducks waited for the night's leftovers, but as time passed fewer and fewer ducks waddled near the stand. Fred Ernston said in 1973 that the ducks got one bushel of old popcorn a day. Only one pair of local ducks has been regularly around in the past couple of years, said Lundell, and they no longer come up. Still, Lundell said that she has boxes of older popcorn and old maids that the stand gives away for free to anyone hoping to go to the river and feed the ducks there.
So will the Kiwanis break the Ernston family record of some 60 years in the popcorn business?
"We hope," said Lundell.
The popcorn stand is open every night of the summer from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., including holidays, until August 31.
Information for this article came from many, some unattributed, sources via interviews and from past stories written in the Tribune by Tom Cherveny and by Cheryl Erickson.


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A University of Colorado student who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Boulder police officer after refusing to pay a $3 bar tab last summer was sentenced to two years and one day in prison Thursday.
Treven Hunter, 23, pleaded guilty in March to third-degree assault on a police officer after an incident on University Hill last August that left Boulder police Officer Christian McCracken with a serious head injury.
In an unrelated case, McCracken is facing attempted first-degree murder, stalking and harassment charges after Boulder police say he threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, then commit suicide.
At Hunter's sentencing, Boulder District Judge Thomas Mulvahill noted that the minimum sentence for the assault charge is two years and one day in prison, but his plea deal allowed for a lesser sentence. But Mulvahill said that, in this case, jail time was appropriate.
"This community needs to know that when you assault a police officer, you will go to jail," Mulvahill said.
On Aug. 5, the manager of The Sink, 1165 13th St., called police to report that Hunter would not leave the bar after refusing to pay his tab. The manager told police that Hunter repeatedly punched him as he escorted Hunter out of the bar, leaving the manager with minor injuries.
When McCracken approached Hunter on the street, witnesses told police, Hunter -- who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol -- immediately became aggressive. When McCracken tried to handcuff him, Hunter tried to get away, and McCracken was injured in the process.
Several bystanders were able to help hold down Hunter until other officers arrived. McCracken sustained a serious head injury and has been unable to return to work since.
"Officer McCracken was a respected officer who loved his job and had a steady relationship with his girlfriend," Deputy District Attorney Karen Peters told the judge. "This injury completely devastated him and changed his life."
Officer Kathleen O'Toole -- a friend and co-worker of McCracken -- said it was important not to let an assault on an officer go unpunished.
"I deal with drunk college students every day," she said. "If we don't show them that when police show up, they need to cooperate, I could be the next victim. Any of these officers back here could be the next victim."
In a phone interview after the sentencing, Boulder police Chief Mark Beckner agreed that jail time was necessary.
"Anytime you resist arrest, you are putting yourself and the officer at risk, and it's only going to get you in more trouble," he said. "We fully believe anybody who assaults a police officer should be punished severely."
Hunter's attorney, Nancy Salomone, said the incident was a typical case of resisting arrest that just happened to end in an unfortunate injury, and that Hunter has made significant efforts to try and make amends.
"He has left no stone unturned trying to show his remorse and make this right," she said.
Hunter's family and counselor testified that Hunter has been making strides since the incident to curb his drinking problems. Hunter himself also said he learned from the experience.
"I had a tendency to drink to the point of being unable hold in my suppressed emotions," he said. "I do, however, believe this incident was necessary for my growth. I'm grateful for everything I've learned during this experience.
Mulvahill agreed that Hunter appeared to be making progress, but note that Hunter already was on probation for DWAI when the incident occurred.
"You should have had a huge wakeup call when you got arrested for drinking and driving," the judge said.
Hunter will be allowed to finish his finals at CU before serving his sentence.
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Buresh ties school record for threes
With a few days between high school's winter and spring sports seasons, let's take a quick look at how some Star Courier-area athletes are faring on the collegiate level.
Buresh puts name in QU record book
Annawan graduate Kelly Buresh tied Quincy University's school record for 3-pointers in a game as the Lady Hawks defeated William Jewell 68-59 Feb. 7.
Buresh, a redshirt-sophomore at Quincy, scored a season-high 28 points and matched the school record with eight 3-pointers in the win.
Buresh scored 18 points in the first 20 minutes on 6-for-7 shooting. Five of her 3-pointers came before halftime. She finished 8-for-10 from long range and 9-for-14 overall from the field. Buresh's eight threes tied Libby Lewis (2001) and Danyelle Harrison (1996) for the school record.
Buresh has started 25 games for Quincy and is second on the team in scoring with 11.7 points per game. She's also averaging just under five rebounds per game.
Buresh leads the team with 63 3-pointers and is shooting 42 percent from the arc, 63-for-150. She's also shooting 80 percent from the free-throw line.
The Lady Hawks concluded the regular season with a 14-12 record and finished 12-6 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Quincy plays UW-Parkside at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Evansville, Ind., in the opening round of the GLVC tourney.
Kohler named second team All-Midwest Conf.
Illinois College junior guard Nathan Kohler has been named to the All-Midwest Conference men's basketball second team.
The Wethersfield graduate averaged team-high totals of 16 points and 4.9 assists per game in 2012-2013. He also averaged 3.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game, while shooting 45.7 percent from the field, 36.2 percent from beyond the 3-point arc and 82.7 percent from the foul line. The junior guard started all 23 of the Blueboys' games this winter while averaging a team-high 32.8 minutes per game.
Kohler averaged 15.5 points at the Bill Merris Tournament to open the season, earning all-tournament team honors. He topped the 20-point mark in five games this year, netting a season-high of 28 points in a 123-114 win at Grinnell College on Dec. 11. He pulled down a season-high six rebounds on three different occasions and dished out a season-high nine assists in a 78-74 win over Ripon College on Dec. 8. Kohler finished the season with 991 career points, needing nine more to become the 28th player in Illinois College men's basketball history to reach 1,000 career points.
The Illinois College men's basketball team finished the season with an overall record of 9-14 and a Midwest Conference mark of 6-11.
Bennett plays at Illinois College
Also at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Wethersfield graduate Kayla Bennett logged minutes as a freshman guard for the women's basketball team.
Bennett played in 22 games and averaged 2.3 points per game. She had season highs of nine points in a 55-45 win over Ripon College Dec. 8, including making 7-of-8 free throws; four assists in a loss Jan. 15 to Grinnell College; and three steals in a loss Dec. 19 to Cornell College.
She finished with 15 steals and 16 assists on the season, and averaged just under 11 minutes per game.
The IC women finished 7-16 overall and 5-13 in the Midwest Conference.
Draminski Augustana's defensive MVP
Senior linebacker John David Draminski was named Augustana College's defensive most valuable player for the 2012 football season.
The Wethersfield graduate was a second team All-College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin selection at linebacker and was second on the Vikings in tackles with 64 — 44 solo and 20 assists.
Draminski also had five tackles-for-loss and two quarterback sacks. He blocked two kicks, had two pass break-ups, one interception and a forced fumble.
He also earned CCIW Academic All-Conference honors. The Vikings finished the season with a 5-5 record.
Area athletes lead St. Ambrose track sweep
Three Star Courier-area athletes earned all-conference honors as the St. Ambrose track and field teams swept Midwest Collegiate Conference indoor titles last month.
St. Ambrose had 33 athletes earning all-conference honors for finishing top three in individual events or part of a top two relay performance, including Nicole Wager, Nick Wager and Tanner Ewing of Wethersfield.
Nicole Wager won the mile and placed in the 3,000-meter run, while Nick Wager placed in the pole vault and Ewing placed in the 55-meter hurdles.
The men won their third MCC indoor championship by just 17 points, while the women captured their first indoor title by an impressive 64 points.
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Wethersfield graduate Devin DeClercq played some minutes a freshman member of the Rockford College men's basketball team.
The 6-6 forward played in six games for the Regents, scoring four points and grabbing three rebounds. He averaged 4.5 minutes per game for a Rockford team that finished 8-18 overall and 6-10 in the Northern Athletics Conference.
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Rise Of The Guardians
Despite a generic and instantly forgettable title, "Rise of the Guardians" is a dazzling adventure that is a mostly solid holiday treat suitable for anytime of the year.
On the cusp of Easter, Jack Frost (Chris Pine), invisible to the world around him because no one believes in him, is recruited to join Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), and the silent Sandman as a guardian of the hopes and dreams of children when the boogeyman, Pitch (Jude Law), decides to obliterate goodness from the world by stopping children from believing in their heroes. The problem is Santa, Tooth, et al, exist only if children do believe in them.
It's a fun idea and the visuals, sound, and 3-D are stunning (it's definitely worth paying the 3-D surcharge). First-time feature film director Peter Ramsey has a sure hand and knows how to impress with color and action. The action sequences are breathtaking, creative, and over-the-top. The actors all have fun with their roles, with Law's gravitas, Fisher's comedic timing, Jackman's braggadocio, Pine's eagerness, and Baldwin's bluster being perfect fits for their respective characters.
But for all its flashy pizzazz and hyperkinetic action set pieces, "Rise of the Guardians" still never resonates deeply enough to be a home run. The issue is the script by Pulitzer Prize winner and multiple Tony Award nominee David Lindsay-Abaire ("Rabbit Hole"). It's silly and sweet and clever (a nod to 1986's "Crocodile Dundee" will go over the heads of kids, but parents will chuckle), but it drags in parts and there's so much exposition it draws attention to itself and becomes plodding, making the film feel longer than its 97-minute running time. Some people may go into sugar shock as Santa's elves (basically the minions from "Despicable Me") and Tooth's helpers, the Baby Teeth, charge past the border of Cute into Cute Overload.
And though this may have been in the pipeline long before "The Avengers" was in production, it's similar in theme (disparate heroes must band together to fight an evil that is bigger than they are individually, then quarrel and quibble and eventually suck it up and learn how to get along). Even more problematic is that it's not as clever or thrilling or emotionally fulfilling as this past summer's superhero caper.
Will this bother children? Of course not. Will it bother adults? Probably not either. And should it? No, not when there's energy and beauty to spare. "Rise of the Guardians" may not reach the heights of "Toy Story," but it also doesn't hit the lows of "Cars 2." Children, parents, and those who are simply young at heart will be happy to be transported even if it's not a journey they remember for long after it's over.