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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Duke men's tennis team posted 12 victories during the first day of competition Friday at the United States Tennis Association Clay Court Invitational at Disney, hosted by Florida State at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
Juniors Fred Saba and Chris Mengel each earned their 10th singles victory of the fall campaign in the first round of the gold singles draw as top-seeded Mengel cruised to a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Florida's Billy Federhofer and Saba outlasted USTA junior Deiton Baughman in three sets, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. After dropping his first set, freshman Michael Redlicki rallied to defeat USTA junior Roy Lederman in a decisive third set, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, while sophomore Jason Tahir earned a 6-3, 7-6 (4)win over Penn State's Bryan Welnetz.
In the round of 16, Mengel defeated USTA junior Ronnie Schneider in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4. He will face Kentucky's Juan Pablo Murra in Saturday's quarterfinals. Saba advanced to the quarterfinal round by edging Dominic Cotrone in three sets, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., product will now face second-seeded Yannick Hanfmann of Southern California in the quarterfinals. Redlicki earned his 10th victory of the fall season by easing past Kentucky's Tom Jomby, 7-6 (8), 6-7 (5), 6-2. He will take on Chris Konigsfeldt in the quarterfinals, while Tahir will play USC's Robert Quiroz in the quarterfinals after cruising past Colorado's Dragos Ignat, 6-0, 6-2.
In the garnet singles draw, freshman Josh Levine posted a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 victory against Georgia Tech's Eduardo Segura, while fellow rookie Daniel McCall fell to USTA junior Ryan Smith 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the spear singles draw. Levine will face David Orces of The Citadel in the quarterfinals, while McCall will take on Georgia Tech's Anish Sharma in the consolation draw.
As a team, the Blue Devils won 24 of the 30 games they played in doubles. In the gold doubles draw, the duo of Mengel and Saba improved their record to 6-1 for the fall after cruising to an 8-2 victory against USTA juniors Baughman and Martin Redlicki, the younger brother of Duke's Michael Redlicki. Meanwhile, Redlicki and Tahir defeated 28th-ranked Russell Bader and Roman Trkulja of Penn State, 8-2. Mengel and Saba will face the Kentucky pair of Tom Jomby and Kai-Wen Lai in the quarterfinals, while Redlicki and Tahir will take on Max de Vroome and Michael Grant of Southern California.
The freshmen pair of McCall and Levine downed USTA juniors Smith and Chase Perez-Blanco, 8-2, in the garnet doubles draw. They will face João Gauer and Cristian Gonzalez Mendez of Florida State in the quarterfinals.
Two rounds of singles and one round of doubles are scheduled to be played Saturday, beginning at 8:30 a.m.


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Atlassian's Giancarlo Lionetti says that development teams can now replicate the benefits of an open source model with the security they need to maintain control and accountability. "The new features in Stash 2.4 include fork support so that any user can fork a project through Stash, insulating code from the original author to unwanted changes or errors. The original author can receive feedback or improvements in the form of pull requests."
Personal repositories also feature here so that developers now have the freedom to innovate and store their private snippets of work, kick-start their own project, contribute a bug fix for a project they are not a member of, or add a feature to a common component maintained by a small group in an organization.
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This month's silver screen stars
June 2009
This month's biggest action event certainly is Michael Bay's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", a sci-fi demolition fest well-endowed with teenage humor and explosive special effects. Transforming robots from outer space –they preferably transform into fast cars – carry out their power struggle on planet Earth, making the whole human history a part of it and also involving a college boy and his sexy girlfriend…
A family leads a peaceful life in a solitary house situated in a rural surrounding, but just next to an abandoned highway, which they have to cross when going to school or to the grocer's. This is the initial setting in "Home", a bizarre film starring marvelous French actress Isabelle Huppert. When one day the highway is reopened and massive motorcades destroy the peace with noise and pollution, the family members summon an extraordinary amount of persistence and obstinacy, refusing to leave and insisting to go on with their habitual life.
In "State of Play", a suspenseful crime story set in the world of journalism, private corporations and politics, a Congressman's assistant dies and a newspaper reporter (Russell Crowe) follows lead after lead from a complicated puzzle of arguable information. The plot revolves not only around the review of criminal and political events by the media, but also reflects the mechanisms and difficulties at work in the press industry. Beside Saturnian motifs of social responsibility and guilt, all of the above clearly emphasizes the Gemini-Sagittarius-axis.
The remarkable Argentinean film "Lion's Den" ("Leonera") is about motherhood. A young woman, Julia, is sentenced for the murder of one of her two lovers and bears a child in prison. How she discovers her maternal feelings amidst the harsh circumstances of the prison's mother and child unit, how she fights to raise her son, is the Cancer-Capricorn-story this movie illustrates in it's own touching manner.
"Small Crime" ("Mikro Eglima") is a cheerful, sunny comedy follows a police officer, who is transferred to a remote Greek island, but harbors greater ambitions. When a villager falls from a cliff to his death, the young policeman tries to detect a murder and falls in love with a TV actress, who is the only one showing some interest in his investigation. This likeable little film about big career dreams sparkles with merriment and – fitting the Leo-energy – celebrates the lust for life in a sunshiny setting.
How a regular, average man, motivated by his sense of decency fights a big corporation in an unequal fight is told by the (true) David-versus-Goliath story "Flash of Genius". Engineer and college professor Bob Kearns is a neat, unobtrusive guy who likes to puzzle out practical things and one day he invents the useful intermittent windshield wiper. A typical Virgo-type, whose obstinate and increasingly obsessive, long lasting battle for his copyright also reflects Saturn in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn.
For their film "Alle Anderen", director Maren Ade and leading actress Birgit Michichmayr won awards at this year's Berlinale film festival. The movie revolves around relationship models, gender roles and the unavoidable struggle, if you are trying for some unorthodox concepts: While on holiday Gitti and Chris meet Hans and Sana and in the encounter prove unsure in handling their own love concept… Libra as the sign of mental constructs and the symbol of encountering the Other is in the center of events here.
A Scorpio bloodbath of the unusual kind is to be witnessed in Julie Delpy's costume drama "The Countess". According to legend, the Hungarian 17th century female serial killer Erzebet Bathory bathed herself in the blood of young women and girls to preserve her beauty. Trying for a less demonic interpretation of the extraordinarily powerful woman, Delpy's film adaptation highlights Erzebet's obsessive love for a younger man and thus strengthens the Libra-motifs of beauty and love, which are another important aspect of the story.
"Crossing Over", a film with good intentions and a humanist message, is about illegal immigration and the search for a better life, appealing for tolerance and understanding towards the strange and alien. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is haunted by the death of an immigrant, a fifteen year old girl is accused of having ties to terrorism and threatened by deportation, a Green Card approval supervisor misuses his position for sexual blackmail – these are only three of the many characters gravitating around the conflicted field of cultural, ethnic and national intersections and demarcations. Including some sentimentality, which is adding a bit of Cancer-quality to the Sagittarian topics, "Crossing Over" is a fervent plea for a more liberal treatment of cross-culture issues.
Finally the long awaited fourth part of the John-Connor-Saga, "Terminator Salvation", hit the theaters with a lot of grim action scenes. The exhausting battle against the machines lead by the remains of humanity amidst a devastated, largely leaden-colored world; the emotionless, efficiency-driven extermination of human life by the machines, and the story (resembling ancient Greek tragedy) about a cyborg believing himself human, unwittingly contributing to the fatal blow against John Connor and then sacrificing himself for him – all of that makes this movie a Capricorn-film.
It seems obvious to assume Aquarius-quality in the biography of a famous revolutionary and of course Steven Soderbergh's "Che: Part One" (starring brilliant Benicio del Toro as Che) reflects this in its depiction of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's time as revolutionary leader in Cuba. Considering furthermore that Saturn traditionally ruled the sign of Aquarius, the motif of military discipline fits the picture just as does the relevance of responsibility and social conscience. Soderbergh refrains from sentimentality and pathos and describes revolutionary community and collective fighting from a distanced, observant point of view – thus again reflecting Aquarius.
Michael Glawogger calls his film "Contact High" a "Psychedelic Road Movie Comedy". It is populated with stoned hot dog stall owners, demented small-time criminals and campy car mechanics, and it is laced with images straight from a drug induced trip. A film about a lost bag and the efforts to get it back. Doubtlessly including some Uranian tones, this wacky comedy mainly is a motley colored trip through Piscean poetic nonsense and surreal chaos.
Vesna Ivkovic studied literature and linguistics, sociology, philosophy and history and as well took a profound interest in psychology, mythology and different belief systems. Along the way she also explored various paths of body awareness such as the martial arts of Kung Fu, Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong and several other methods of body work and motion arts. In 1993 she discovered astrology as an instrument of knowledge and graduated in 2004 in Markus Jehle's and Petra Niehaus' master class at the Astrology Center Berlin. You can find out more about the author and her work on her own website www.astrosemiotics.de
The Cinemascope is meant to give an overview of current movies and their main themes from an astrosemiotical perspective (i.e.: regarding film as semiotic system and translating it into the astrological semiotic system). A well made movie not only has a story and a certain theme, it also provides a special atmosphere, a certain feeling and it draws us into its very own world. This basic quality that is contrived through characters, plot, setting and many other components also translates into one or more astrological principles. Quite simply: a fast-paced action-flick confronts us with plain Aries energy, a horror-movie evokes Scorpio-like abysmal depths and fears etc. We step out of the theatre and – if the film succeeded in sucking us in – find ourselves dwelling on and engaging in that special energetic quality.
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Thanks man. If its not in the previous part 1 (The Spell of Shrouding) then I think it's coming up in one of the next chapters...
DeviantArt Gallery
Week Daze - my webcomic
The Return to Anwat Gar
Excellent... *steeples fingers* I'm looking forward to it!
In fact, I want to see all the 30th characters fed back through the same "Classiciser Machine" the 200X characters and elements go through to transform them into 200X designs!
Okay, so we've got Draego Man already (who looks crazy awesome), but you know what I mean. :P
Evil Simian Mechanic of the Horde!
I can't wait to see Dragstor bio dude!
Great transactions with : Royalt1us, dark knight, masterenglish, TIN, Dagodfather, He-Ryno, Son of Keldor, Sdilks, nemesis154, pain, bobtheodd, joseephus, Patreek, 2-bad, MldMnrdReporter, Facelessone101, Xantor, Mern-Ra, Shenlon, Troy-Klpos.
Any more bios in the works?
Quote the Raven, Nevermore.
It can't rain all the time.
"Live the journey, for every destination is but a doorway to another."
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VOTE!!! REDESIGN CHALLENGE #106: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...e-106-RAM-MAN!
I really love the avatar of Cy-Chop. When they revealed him, I thought that he was a cool new character and became anxious to know more about him. I can't wait to see your complete picture of him. Your art work is amazing and I thank you for sharing it with us.
Be sure to read Book of Evil Part 2: The Bells of Doom, only in the He-Man.org Fan Fic & Media forums!
My friend is not serious, but I must admit that I look forward to your other biographies tellemnt thou dessines well perosnnages Motu.
How are things coming along?
Does Galactus fart?
Just found this thread...absolutely amazing work! I'm blown away, gbagok! How do you find the time?
Hey Super 7, Snake Mountain rocks! Let's Kickstart it!
Your art is awsome.
gbagok: Is there any secondary link where we can see/download the complete version on png as the latest ones you have posted?
What the heck, I am just another rebel!
I too was wondering about the potential for desktop downloads of your work.
Happy New Year!!!
I'll be updating the bios fairly soon, and I'll be including links to all the bios in the first post when I do that. It's not as good as a one-click download, but I'm still adding to the bios so a zip would be incomplete before too long.
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Be sure to read Book of Evil Part 2: The Bells of Doom, only in the He-Man.org Fan Fic & Media forums!
Great to see some new bio's G
Love your Flutterina and Rotar designs. I love the Spinwit design but I've never like the toy colours I much prefer the darker cartoon colours.
Great Ileena design as well, can't blame Adam for letting her seduce him
MOTUC Most Wanted: Kayo, Vizar, Hoove, Lizorr
UK MOTU Fan Club Members - Add You Member Name to this Thread
Trade my Red Stone He-Ro Staff for a Green one
Oh yeah greatness returns......awesome!
Great to see new bios!
"That's very interesting...but silly."
Beautiful, always beautiful your designs, and characters are sublime remake you do honor to Masters of the Universe, bravo and thank you.
Awesome work as always Gbagok - loving what you've done with the Flutterina design.
Quick question: it seems that 'Spector' (the young scientist, who later becomes 'Mighty') is not the same as Nillek Spector, the Palace Guard we met on page 4? The 'official' MOTUC bios suggest that they are the same character, albeit with a different first name. For you, would you rather see them as two separate characters who happen to share the name?
One day Skeletor will finally conquer Grayskull...
...And pigs might fly!
Wonderful to see new bios! I loved 'em all!
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SACRAMENTO — Opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to build tunnels to send water past the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta didn't wait for the project's key environmental documents to emerge before criticizing them.
Water experts, an environmental activist and an attorney for the Californians for a Fair Water Policy said Dec. 6 the tunnels will end up costing Central Valley farmers more than they benefit and that the project isn't environmentally sound.
"It's evident to most people that the tunnels don't make any economic, financial or environmental sense," said Jeffrey Michael, director of the Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. "At this point the beneficiaries of the tunnels will be the water agencies' officials who are looking at their legacy and construction companies."
In a conference call with reporters, Michael said Central Valley farmers will be tasked with paying 60 percent of the debt service for the tunnels, which could be $2 billion per year, as well as other costs. He said the costs far outweigh the roughly $134 million in increased agricultural revenue the state believes will result from the project.
"So agriculture's share of the total cost is more than 10 times … the value it will receive from them," Michael said. "It's insanity for farmers to engage in this."
Bob Wright, senior counsel of Friends of the River, called the project "a fraud on the public and against the law." He said the tunnels would violate the Endangered Species Act by taking needed water away from fish and that agencies failed to prepare proper biological assessments on the tunnels' effects on fish species.
Also panning the project were Conner Everts, director of the Southern California Watershed Alliance, and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta. Barrigan-Parilla said urban ratepayers and taxpayers will end up footing the bill for a project that will benefit rich farmers.
The speakers were anticipating details of the long-awaited environmental impact documents on the nearly $25 billion project, which were set to be unveiled Dec. 9. A 120-day public comment period on the documents is scheduled to begin Dec. 13.
Over the years, the tunnel proposal has come under fire from farmers who feared that construction would ruin their land. This summer, state officials realigned the tunnels' path away from several Delta communities to a land preserve, raising concerns among environmentalists.
Nancy Vogel, spokeswoman for the California Department of Water Resources, said water districts that depend on the Delta spent $200 million on planning for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan because they believed it is in the best interests of their agricultural customers.
"Otherwise they would face greater losses of water supply in the future," Vogel said. "It's true the supplies expected to be yielded will be 10 percent more or less than the 20-year historic yield, but still just shoring up those supplies is valuable.
"When you look at climate change and the continued subsidence of Delta islands, if we don't start to reverse the trajectory of a downward decline of fish populations, we'll have a precarious situation for water supply," she said. "What we're trying to do is take a keystone supply and stabilize it."
As for whether the project is environmentally sound, Vogel said the project must assist the recovery of 56 different species, 11 of them native fish, to maintain their federal permits.
"That's the heart of the plan," she said. "Yes, when you build three intakes on the Sacramento River and screen them, there are always concerns the screens won't work or there'll be a predation problem. But we've got screens and intakes of a similar capacity in the Sacramento Valley that are working well."
Bay Delta Conservation Plan: http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Home.aspx
Californians for a Fair Water Policy: http://www.stopthetunnels.org


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The Beach Boys are in harmony again. The group is recording and performing together, after years of disputes and estrangement.
Brian Wilson and Mike Love tell Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered, that they're not surprised at the reunion.
"We've had 50 years' practice," Wilson says, "not just in music but in being guys."
Love says once they got back in the studio and started writing again, it felt like they had never left.
"It was nuts," Wilson says. "It was a nutbuster."
Though the Beach Boys' voices have matured, Love says at moments on their new album, That's Why God Made the Radio, they sound like it's still 1965. Their new songs celebrate how sweet it was back in the day. Wilson says he gets emotional onstage when the band plays along with videos of his brothers Carl and Dennis, who have died, singing.
"We do Dennis' song 'Forever' and Carl always does 'God Only Knows,' " he says. "It's a very sentimental experience."
And if you're just joining us, you're listening to WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
And it's time now for music. And if you're hearing this...
RAZ: ...it must be summertime.
THE BEACH BOYS: (Singing) Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long.
RAZ: For 50 years, The Beach Boys have provided the soundtrack to summer. But after the success of their now-legendary 1966 record "Pet Sounds," the band began to splinter. Mental health issues plagued Brian Wilson, and his involvement waned while other members carried on The Beach Boys name, not without frequent legal battles.
The band also suffered the deaths of Brian Wilson's brothers Dennis and Carl. But now, founding members Mike Love and Brian Wilson have gathered all the surviving original Beach Boys to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a brand-new album, their first together in over two decades.
BOYS: (Singing) We've got beaches in mind. Man, it's been too much time.
RAZ: The new record is called "That's Why God Made the Radio." Mike Love says it all started during rehearsals last year to re-record one of their old hits from 1966.
MIKE LOVE: When we were in the studio doing "Do It Again" at Capitol Records, Brian had some stuff that he showed us, and we went to the piano and then we did some vocal parts to it and, you know, added to what he had already started. So it was really cool because those - you could hear that knack for chord progressions and vocal arrangements that Brian's always had. It was just like there was never any lapse in time, really.
RAZ: How about for you, Brian? What were those rehearsals like when you got back?
BRIAN WILSON: It was nuts.
LOVE: Yeah.
WILSON: We had - Mike's band leader Scott is a slave driver.
LOVE: He is. But that's cool. He's really...
WILSON: He's a slave driver.
LOVE: He's into every single note and chord and everything.
WILSON: He wants it perfect.
BOYS: (Singing) Ooh, ooh...
RAZ: I mean, obviously, your voices have matured. They're different. And so how do you think about taking your voices now, you know, Beach Boys 50 years later?
LOVE: Well, I don't think we've changed that much. I mean, we all have the ranges in which we sound the best. In fact, back in the studio, it sounded like it was 1965 again to me.
BOYS: (Singing) Sometimes I realize my days are getting on. Sometimes I realize it's time to move along. Then I want to go home.
RAZ: I'm speaking with Brian Wilson and Mike Love of The Beach Boys. Their new record is called "That's Why God Made the Radio." We've been speaking, of course, about one kind of harmony, and I want to ask about the other kind of harmony. Brian, you, of course, spent a lot of time away from The Beach Boys. There were many tough years and disputes between the - members of the band. Talk about the band today. I mean, is there harmony within The Beach Boys now, Mike and Brian?
WILSON: Of course. Of course, there is. Of course.
LOVE: Yeah.
WILSON: You know, we've had 50 years practice.
WILSON: Not just in music but as being guys, you know?
RAZ: Yeah.
LOVE: Yeah.
WILSON: In fact, just being a guy, you know?
LOVE: Well, Brian and I go back to childhood together. The first time I remember him singing was on Grandma Wilson's lap singing "Danny Boy" and Christmas carols and singing doo-wop and Everly Brothers together. So we go way back. And so although there might have been separation for periods of time or might have been getting hung up on a dispute over something, those things are way in the past.
And right now, we're in the moment. We're doing some great music together. We're doing fantastic concerts. I mean, the public has responded amazingly to seeing us all together.
RAZ: Do you sometimes think, God, why did we waste our time ever fighting?
LOVE: Yeah, I do. I think of definite mistakes made because of ego and whatever reasons and I just didn't - wasn't thinking clearly enough. And so I'm glad all that stuff is in the past, and we're on the same page together harmony wise. So we're all about harmony these days, both individually and musically.
BOYS: (Singing) Isn't it time we danced the night away? How about doing it just like yesterday? Every time I think of you...
RAZ: There are a lot of references on this record to nostalgia, to sort of remembering the good old days and wishing it could be that way again. Did you go into writing with that theme in mind?
LOVE: Brian got the ball rolling with the tracks. And what I thought about is the nostalgia part and whatever contributions I made. It definitely influenced me in writing these songs, being back together and maybe not having been together for a while.
BOYS: (Singing) The good times never have to end. And now good times will let them happen again. We can have ourselves a blast, good times (unintelligible) aren't only in the past.
RAZ: Brian, when you're on stage with your bandmates, are there moments where you are - they're emotional just, you know, being there and being back and...
WILSON: Yeah. When they fixed up a video of Carl and Dennis singing on screen - we do Dennis' song "Forever" and Carl always does "God Only Knows." And it's a very sentimental experience.
LOVE: Oh, heck, yeah. Yeah. But it's really great, though, to include Dennis and Carl on this tour.
WILSON: They're up on a huge screen behind us up against the wall.
LOVE: Yeah. So it is an emotional experience. There's no doubt about that.
BOYS: (Singing) I may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you, you never need to doubt it. I'll make you so sure about it. God only knows what I'd be without you.
RAZ: How do you guys respond when you hear many, many modern bands and acts say "Pet Sounds" is the greatest record ever made?
WILSON: No, not the greatest. One of the greatest, though.
WILSON: It was a special album. It really was.
LOVE: Oh, yeah.
RAZ: What was the greatest ever made?
WILSON: Oh, I have to say "Sail Away" by Randy Newman.
RAZ: Wow.
LOVE: Wow.
WILSON: But of course, I don't know if anyone agrees.
LOVE: "Pet Sounds" has been a favorite of a lot of people. In fact, Paul McCartney once said something about "God Only Knows" being the perfect song or the best song ever made or something.
RAZ: Yeah. And apparently, when John Lennon heard it, he was - they were terrified about releasing "Sergeant Pepper's" right?
LOVE: I don't know about terrified. I think there was a mutual admiration society going on there back in '65, '66.
BOYS: (Singing) They say I got brains but they ain't doing me no good. I wish they could.
RAZ: A lot has been made, you know, over the years, of the differences that the two of you have had. But what do you share? What do Mike Love and Brian Wilson share?
WILSON: Fifty years of music.
LOVE: Make it 70.
WILSON: That's a lot of odd years of - you know, to be together.
LOVE: Yeah.
WILSON: And we still love each other.
LOVE: That's right.
WILSON: And we're about to do another concert tonight.
RAZ: Well, Mike Love and Brian Wilson are two of the founding members of The Beach Boys. They've reunited for a new record. It's called "That's Why God Made the Radio." Mike Love, Brian Wilson, thank you so very much.
LOVE: You are welcome.
WILSON: You're very welcome.
RAZ: And if you're lucky enough to go to tonight's concert, it is, where else, in Los Angeles, California. You can hear a few tracks from The Beach Boys' new record at our website, nprmusic.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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SAN JOSE — Nearly 100 cats perished in an overnight house fire here.
Fencing the owner installed to pen the animals briefly trapped her in the burning home before firefighters cut her out and rescued her, the San Jose Fire Department said.
According to fire Capt. Reggie Williams, the resident, a woman in her 70s, had made her South San Jose home into a cat sanctuary.
"There were cats in every room of the house," Williams said.
The homeowner called 911 at 1:43 a.m. after she was woken by the lone dog that lived with her, and saw fire and smoke emanating from a bedroom.
After a fire dispatcher instructed her to get out of the home, and she exited through a rear door and found herself trapped by metal netting intended to keep her rescue cats from escaping.
She was ordered to stay low and responding firefighters found her in a fetal position with smoke and fire wafting above her. Crews used axes to cut through the fencing and pulled her to safety.
"The dispatchers kept her calm, told her to stay low and told us where she was. We went directly to her," Williams said.
It took about an hour for firefighters to put out the flames. Afterward, they removed the bodies of nearly 100 cats, most of whom, Williams said, died from smoke inhalation rather than direct contact with the fire.
Neither the resident nor any of the two-dozen fire personnel were injured. Her dog also escaped safely.
The half-dozen cats that survived the fire were handed over to the city's animal services department.
Williams said the cause of the fire is under investigation, but that it does not appear suspicious.


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Celebrity Sex Tapes Vol. II- Ask and Ye Shall Receive!
After our last installment of Celebrity Sex Tapes Reviewed, we were flooded with messages from readers suggesting other low-rent celeb skinflicks that we just had to review. And because I believe in giving the people what they want, here are more famous (and infamous) sexcapades than you can shake your stick at!
Colin Farrell and Playmate Nicole Narain
Synopsis: The sexy Irish actor and his then-girlfriend decide to forego the Pop Tarts one morning, opting instead to start the day off with a rousing rendition of hide-the-salami. Sounds like a breakfast of champions to me!
What's good: The video is short and to the point - all sex and no filler. Colin's one-liners are hilarious - in his thick Irish brogue, he shouts out "I live for the porn!" And when Nicole stops mid-BJ to pick his mancarpet out of her pearly white teeth, he weighs in with "You're just catching every fuckin' pube I have, man!" I was laughing my ass off! Not to mention, they're both smokin' hot ‒ even though Colin Farrell is bald as a cueball, since the tape was made while he was filming Daredevil. (Obviously, per Nicole's teeth, he has plenty of hair elsewhere.)
I'm not a big fan of Nicole, seeing as how she leaked the tape to further her own career (not to mention she's dating K-Fed and badmouthing Brit in the tabloids) but she has a KILLER body, and her moaning is downright euphoric. I almost had to go looking through my drawers for batteries after hearing that.
What's bad: My biggest problems with this video are that I'm not in it, and Nicole seems to not fully appreciate the fact that she gets to fuck Colin Farrell. Inexplicably, while Colin is stroking his rock hard cock, she keeps him waiting for several minutes while she stands in front of the TV on one leg in a yoga pose, channel surfing. Um, HELLO? If Colin Farrell was naked on my couch with a thick, eight inch cock that's ready to go, I wouldn't give two shits about The View or whatever the hell she was watching!
Technique: Technique was good all around, minus the pube pulling of course. Nicole gives good head, with lots of hand and tongue coordination. And he was really enthusiastic about returning the favor, practically worshipping her shorn clambox as if it was the most amazing thing he had ever seen. However, Colin's dirty talk sucks! He actually says "I didn't know they made bastards as sexy as you, man!" and "If the camera could blush it'd be so fuckin' red, you are SO fuckin' hot! You sexy bastard!"
There was, however, a little reverse cowgirl action, which I particularly enjoyed thanks to the former Playmate's soft, round and bouncy derrière.
The verdict: This video is hot. Not Kim Kardashian hot, but close. And I want to do Colin Farrell.
Karrine Steffans in Superhead
Synopsis: The former hip hop video girl shows us why she was once known in the industry as "Superhead" by showing off her blow job skills on some random cheesy porn guy. Though this video differs from your average celebrity sex tape since it was meant for commercial release, we'll review it anyway because I'm dying to see what this BJ legend is all about.
What's good: Superhead lives up to her name. Watching her go to town on this dude gave ME lockjaw! This girl could suck a golf ball through a garden hose!
What's bad: The movie begins with the cheesy porn guy interviewing Superhead while basically investigating her vagina. And I don't mean in a good way. I mean he was looking and poking like he had never seen a twat before. And the quality of this video is really shitty, even for porn. The first scene was filmed poolside at some apartment complex, which was really weird. I can just imagine some poor old lady zipping out to the pool for a refreshing dip after her Sweatin' to the Oldies exercises, and then she walks into that. Then, the move to some crappy apartment, where it takes the guy FOREVER to get his shoes and boots off. He's lucky Superhead was getting paid, or she may have gotten bored and just wandered off.
Oh and later on there's a ‒ ahem ‒ "guzzling" scene that's just fuckin' gross.
Technique: The things she does with her lips, tongue and hands are crazy! Believe me, it's worth taking notes. Cheesy porn guy even had to stop her a few times so he wouldn't bust one too quickly. As far as the dude's skills, well, all he did was stand there and get sucked off. It sounds like great work if you can get it, but it doesn't make for an interesting porn flick.
The Verdict: As terrible as the quality is, it's worth a look.
Joanie "Chyna Doll" Laurer and Sean "X-Pac" Waltman in One Night in China
Synopsis: Former pro-wrestlers Chyna Doll and X-Pac fill an entire of DVD with what I can only describe as the weirdest sexual display in the history of mankind. Basically, they're on vacay in China, and doing weird stuff to each other in a hotel room.
What's good: The fact that I had alcohol nearby to help me deal with the atrocities I just witnessed. Now if only I could find the jumbo bottle of brain bleach.
What's bad: I don't even know where to start on this one. Between Chyna's blood curdling moans and the fact this movie was AN HOUR long, I wanted to stab myself with the very pen I was using to take notes. Instead of trying to make sense of all this, I will just list the things I found weird and disgusting:
-Chyna looks totally out of it. When she first came out in her biker skank outfit, she was waving around a whip and flailing about like one of the Village People doped up on ecstasy and paint thinner fumes.
-It took FOREVER to get Sean's tight lace-up leather pants off. What is it with these guys taking so long to drop trou? You're about to get SEX for crying out loud! Hurry the fuck up!
-The first time he went down on her, she looked either dead or asleep. Not that I can blame her; he wasn't doing that great of a job.
-During his second muff diving expedition, we get a nice close-up of her twat, which looks like a HUGE pierced clit surrounded by a mountain of stretched out flesh. Note that when I say HUGE, I mean it looks like a mini penis. She could almost have sex with herself if she really wanted to.
Technique: I really liked the part where they stopped having sex and turned the camera off.
The verdict: Do youself a favor: forget this movie exists. It's too late for me, but you can still save yourselves!
That's all for now kids! Until the next celebrity sex scandal...
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40 businesses taking part in event this weekend
Downtown Rolla will be full of art, music, photography, wine and food this weekend during the annual Downtown Days – Art & Music Festival hosted by the Rolla Downtown Business Association (RDBA).
The event will take place from 4–7 p.m. Friday, May 17, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday May 18.
Nearly 40 businesses will be participating in the event, with restaurants and bars extending the event both evenings with food specials and some that will have live music.
The event also will be held in conjunction with the Rolla Public Works Day Saturday at the downtown bandshell.
Local musicians will be playing one day or both throughout the downtown business district and the arts and entertainment district.
Arts Rolla will sponsor artists throughout the districts with original watercolors, oils, sculpture, pottery and other mediums.
The Ozark Shutter Junkies will display their photography at Trips & More and other locations, and the Piece and Plenty Quilters will showcase their work at Blossom Basket.
An information tent hosted by Arts Rolla will be located on the Phelps County Bank parking lot at Eighth and Pine streets. Another information location will be held at the Old Red Church, next to Heavenly Divine Cakes on the corner of Sixth and Olive streets. Downtown Days bags filled with coupons will be available.
Flyers with street maps will guide attendees to the participating locations and visitors should look for the red or blue balloons.
Punch cards will be handed out to those attending the event at the two information booths and the participating punch card businesses. Festival-goers who get 20 or more punches on their cards may turn them in at Russ & Rena's or Red Door Gifts 2 no later than Monday, May 20.
No purchase is necessary. Entrants must be 18 or older to be eligible. Three lucky winners will be awarded prizes of gift certificates donated by the 27 participating punch card businesses.
"This gives us a chance to welcome area residents into our businesses while featuring the incredible talents of our local artists, photographers and musicians," said Marilynn Langston, of Red Door Gifts, Red Door Gifts 2 and Langston Interiors.
The Phelps County Historical Society will host informal historical walking tours throughout downtown Saturday, according to member Mark Stauter. There are signs posted on various street corners with text and photos depicting buildings as they originally appeared.
Benton Square, Fisher & Brown's SpeakEasy, Public House Brewing Company, The Locker Room Sport Bar & Grill and Alex's Pizza will extend the two-day event into the evening with food and entertainment.
Some will have live music, bourbon tastings, craft beer tastings, imported beer tastings, dining specials and artists. Several area wineries will be providing wine tastings, as well.
The work of young local artists will be featured at the Rolla Public Library, Kent Jewelry and Sew Dreamy Craft Café.
The businesses will be offering sales, specials and drawings for giveaways during the event, as well as refreshments.
This event is free to the public. Families are encouraged to attend.


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Questions surround Manchester school resignationBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 08. 2013 12:21AM
MANCHESTER - A Manchester High School West coach whose family had ties to the school and to former principal MaryEllen McGorry quit his job last year and surrendered his teaching credentials after allegations arose about an inappropriate relationship with a minor student, according to court records and statements from public officials.
Nicholas Moutsioulis, 33, coached girls' basketball and girls' soccer for three seasons at West until he was terminated half way through the fall 2011 soccer season. Then in January 2012, he was placed on paid leave from his four-year job as a special education teacher at Manchester Memorial High School.
He surrendered his teaching certificate on April 26, 2012, because of an allegation of inappropriate conduct with a student not enrolled at Memorial, said Judith Fillion, who oversees teacher credentialing in the state.
Moutsioulis surrendered his certificate under a provision in state rules that allows surrender with the knowledge that revocation is likely, Fillion said.
Moutsioulis quit his Memorial teaching job the following day, according to Superintendent Tom Brennan.
A telephone message left at Moutsioulis' last known address - his parents' Lucas Road home - was not returned.
Brennan would not give reasons for Moutsioulis' suspension and departure, citing confidentiality policies for school personnel. Nor would he discuss specifics of what steps, if any, school authorities took once they found out about the allegation.
He said school officials followed the proper procedures required when allegations arise involving teacher-student situations. But he would not say if police were notified.
"Our policy is if there's inappropriate behavior, we take steps we deem are appropriate," Brennan said.
Manchester police said they have no record of an arrest or investigation into Moutsioulis. Nor do police in Auburn, where he lived in 2012.
Two months after he quit his job, Moutsioulis' wife - herself a special education teacher at West - filed for divorce, accusing him of "an adulterous relationship with a minor over whom he was in a position of authority."
The divorce petition, which Moutsioulis denied in his official response, referred to the "criminal nature of the conduct" and offered to provide more details if Moutsioulis' lawyer demanded. None was ever asked for, and the divorce was eventually granted.
West High was not unfamiliar territory for Moutsioulis. His mother, Nikki Moutsioulis, taught business education there for 34 years, retiring in 2008.
In her final year there, she orchestrated a staff petition drive to have McGorry, at the time an interim principal at West, named the permanent principal.
Nicholas started working there as a paraprofessional in 2007. After landing a teaching job at Memorial the following year, he remained close to West, taking the junior varsity soccer and basketball coaching positions in 2008-09 and then moving up to the varsity positions the following year.
One parent praised Moutsioulis for his easygoing, light-hearted style, beneficial as the girls struggled through losing seasons.
"He had a very good personality and got the girls through a tough time," said Scott Weldon, whose daughter played on the West teams coached by Moutsioulis. He did not know about the allegations until contacted by a reporter.
Weldon said he knew that Moutsioulis resigned. He had heard that Moutsioulis gave some of his players a ride to a West football game, and some parents believed that was inappropriate.
"It seemed it was as innocuous as that," said Weldon, who added that his daughter did not socialize with the team often.
Brennan would not say whether the allegations against Moutsioulis had anything to do with the investigation that led to McGorry's own resignation in January.
"There's all kind of conspiracy theories out there," Brennan said.
"I wouldn't even begin to respond to that," said McGorry's lawyer, Andru Volinsky, to suggestions that McGorry may have shielded Moutsioulis. "MaryEllen's a principal. She's not the administrator of the school district."


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Solar Thermal Expands With Four New Affordable Housing Installations
Satellite Affordable Housing Associates based in Berkeley, California has embarked on its largest rehabilitation project to date, simultaneously recapitalizing five of their senior communities in Oakland and Berkeley. Totaling approximately 350 units of affordable senior housing, these five properties of Satellite Central, Park Boulevard Manor, Doh On Yuen, Glen Brook Terrace, and Stuart Pratt have provided affordable housing for extremely low-income seniors for over 40 years. Four of these buildings now have solar hot water systems installed by Berkeley's Sun Light & Power.
Dubbed the Satellite First Communities project, the rehabilitation of these properties includes seismic upgrades, energy efficiency measures, replacement of major building systems, community area renovations, and facade improvements. The various "green" attributes for each building include no VOC paint and materials, recycled material carpeting, drought tolerant landscaping, and low wattage lighting. Through financing from Citibank and Enterprise Community Investment, the completion of these rehabs in June 2013 will allow these properties to provide quality affordable homes for low-income seniors for many more decades to come.
The Durant Street building in Berkeley is comprised of 12 Heliodyne Gobi 4x10 solar hot water panels; 21st street in Oakland is comprised of 28 Heliodyne Gobi 4x10 solar hot water panels. The two other affordable housing buildings in Oakland (on 8th street and Park Boulevard) have 10 and 12 Heliodyne Gobi 4x10 solar hot water panels, respectively.
Melissa Miyara is Sales & Marketing Services Manager at Sun Light & Power.
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The two biggest questions for the Chicago Bears after they missed the playoffs with a last-minute loss to Green Bay was what to do with quarterback Jay Cutler and defensive coordinator Mel Tucker. The Bears kept both. They almost immediately re-signed Cutler for seven years and announced today that they would keep Tucker, but dismiss two other assistant coaches from their struggling defense.
An email to Bears reporters today said defensive line coach Mike Phair and linebackers coach Tim Tibesar would not return. Phair had been with the team for three years and Tibesar one.
The release also said "the remainder of the coaching staff will remain in place for 2014."
The release quoted coach Mike Trestman saying: "We thank Mike and Tim for their effort and dedication. They are men of high character and integrity. These are not easy decisions and we do not attribute our lack of success on defense to two individuals. We need to improve all areas defensively and that will be a focal point for us this offseason. The process starts with me as the head coach."
Trestman said the team has already begun looking for replacements. And he stuck up for Tucker.
"We believe Mel is the right person to lead our defensive unit. He fully understands where we need to improve, has the skill set and leadership to oversee the changes that need to be made and to execute our plan to get the results we know are necessary."
The Bears (8-8) ranked No. 30 in the 32-team NFL in total defense in their first year under Tucker. That included dead last against the run, both in yards allowed (161 per game) and yards per carry (5.3). They were 15th in most passing yards allowed, but tied for last in sacks (31) and 21st in opponent's passer rating.


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Is Osborne Most Uniquely Qualified Expert?
Randy York's N-Sider
In announcing the 13-person selection committee that will have the final word a year from December on the four teams that will launch a new era of college football, Bill Hancock wanted the public to understand that those 13 members bring roughly 230 years of college football experience to their future task. Hancock, the executive director of the College Football Playoff and a longtime Tom Osborne admirer, pointed out the wide-ranging experience of a committee that includes 10 men who played college football, two former top-level university administrators, five current directors of athletics, three members of the College Football Hall of Fame, three former college football head coaches, a former United States Secretary of State, a former member of Congress and a retired three-star general.
It did not, however, define just who might be the most uniquely qualified expert among those 13 distinguished members. My choice would be Osborne, who represents nearly 20 percent of those 230 years of college football experience shared by 13 committee members. Osborne played four years of college football, coached 36 years in the game, was a top-level university administrator and a director of athletics for more than five years, plus a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and a member of Congress. For those counting, Osborne, 76, qualifies for six of the eight categories mentioned. Granted, he has never been a Secretary of State or a three-star general, but there's another uniquely interesting fact that even the vast majority of Nebraska fans tend to forget or probably don't even know.
T.O. Was Something Else: A Walk-On with Choices
A five-star member of the most discussed/scrutinized committee in the history of college football, Osborne was small-time before he became big-time. He walked on and played football at hometown Hastings (Neb.) College. Nebraska Head Coach Bill Glassford offered Osborne a football scholarship, and Husker Head Coach Jerry Bush offered him a basketball scholarship. But neither would allow him to play beyond their programs, so Osborne spurned both head coaches, plus a scholarship offer from Wyoming, to stay home and compete in multiple sports. "I really wanted to go to Oklahoma, but they didn't offer me a scholarship," Osborne said Wednesday, recalling how he worked construction to help pay his own way through college before going on to play two seasons with the Washington Redskins.
Let the record show that the 13-member selection committee – unanimously chosen by the College Football Management Committee (a.k.a. the commissioners of the conferences overseeing the new playoff) – has a chairman who also played small-college football. Jeff Long, the Director of Athletics at Arkansas, played football and baseball at Ohio Wesleyan, so whenever he and Osborne take on their first challenge in the College Football Playoff, they can laugh and remember how simple the game once was. Hastings College and Ohio Wesleyan never worried about television contracts. They weren't consumed with strength of schedule, head-to-head competition or comparative outcomes of common opponents. Sure, injuries to key players were relevant, but they did not necessitate a high-level group discussion based on the impact one injury might have on national playoff-worthy teams.
Committee Members Will Analyze Injuries, Too
We make that point to project the enormity of what this committee is charged to decide -- exactly which four teams have earned the right to win the only recognized national major college football championship. In this instantly projecting, constantly trending world, one major injury to a pivotal player can change the word "in" to "out" for anyone. Remember when Kenyon Martin was the consensus National Player of the Year in college basketball 13 years ago? His Cincinnati team was ranked No. 1 in the nation at the conclusion of the regular season. Then Martin broke his leg in the first game of his team's conference tournament, so the NCAA Basketball Committee had to measure the impact that unfortunate injury would have on the Bearcats' postseason prospects. What was a shoe-in No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament suddenly became No. 2, and it took a committee of experts to make that determination.
In a conference call and at a media session during Nebraska's football practice Wednesday, Osborne mentioned the need for the College Football Playoff Selection Committee to make similar decisions on factors that influence teams competing to finish among the nation's highly coveted final four.
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney contacted Osborne two months ago, creating "trepidation" for the Hall-of-Fame coach about becoming part of the committee. Hancock's subsequent call formally asked Osborne to commit, and after asking for a couple days to think about it, Osborne told Hancock: "I'll take a shot at it".
His Back-and-Forth Watching Drives Wife Crazy
Osborne is a bit obsessive about college football. "It's probably not healthy," he said. "I tend to watch Thursday night and Friday night, and I probably watch four or five games on Saturday. It drives my wife crazy because I flip back and forth, and she does not like to watch football that way. So I watch quite a bit, but this will be a little different."
Osborne deliberated before accepting membership in the committee "because it's not going to be a bed of roses," he said. "It's going to be controversial. It hasn't been real difficult most years to figure out who's No. 1 and who's No. 2. They tend to separate themselves, but to separate 3 and 4 from 5, 6, 7 and 8 is going to be real difficult. We'll probably have a lot of one-loss teams who are comparable. I think there's going to be a lot controversy over this. It's going to have to be a little arbitrary … hopefully, we'll do the best job we can."
In cases where Nebraska might be involved, Osborne will benefit from automatic recusal. On the same conference call, Archie Manning did not know how to answer the question of his potential role in the cases of Ole Miss, where he and son Eli played, or Tennessee, where son Peyton played. Osborne suspects Archie also will be recused, but added that neither would allow bias to influence their decisions. Moving forward, Osborne expects committee members will be asked to concentrate on certain conference-specific areas, so they can build a high level of expertise for comparitive analysis.
Osborne Will Enjoy Next Year Out of Limelight
Inside the Hawks Indoor Practice Facility, Lincoln columnist Steve Sipple asked Osborne how he could fade out of the limelight when he accepts a position like the one just announced. "I'm not sure how high profile this thing is," Osborne said. "There are 13 members on this committee. There will be a lot of scrutiny over a period of four or five weeks. We probably won't get real serious about it until the middle of the season. We'll have four to five meetings to try and narrow things down a little bit. Then, I imagine there will be a lot of scrutiny in December – a year from now. I'll enjoy being out of the limelight at least a year, so don't call me."
Omaha columnist Sam McKewon asked Osborne who would be the group's spokesperson. Long, his fellow small-college football player, is the chairman, Osborne said before adding: "I don't think they're going to muzzle any of us. I think anybody can certainly say what they want to. I think everybody will be a little circumspect. I don't think they're going to go out there and make a bunch of rash statements."
Osborne is a soothing, calming voice of reason in the limelight that hangs over college football. He is the most uniquely qualified expert on this 13-person committee. His roots dig deeper into the game than anyone else. He already breaks down tape for a Legends Coaches Panel that he still serves. He receives film that he can click back and forth to understand every nuance that's there ... a skill set that Barry Alvarez has. The former Husker and current Wisconsin Athletic Director also was named to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee Wednesday. Integrity was priority No. 1 for membership, along with football expertise, objectivity, ability to evaluate carefully and then discern information, and experience making decisions under scrutiny.
Who's More Decisive about Ties than Osborne?
"Somebody's got to do it, and I like football," Osborne said about accepting a role that guarantees controversy. "I watch it anyway, so I thought I would go ahead and do it. We have a lot of really good, intelligent people, and I feel I can add something. I think it's important to have people on there who know a little bit about a zone blitz and the short-side option which I used to run all the time and everybody didn't like it."
Osborne laughs when he makes that statement. In my mind, he's not only the most uniquely qualified expert on this committee, but also the perfect tie-breaker if a 6-6 vote ever requires a decision among its 13 members. We all know how much Tom Osborne disdains a tie. We also know that if Coach Osborne ends up on the wrong side of such a situation, he will bounce right back and engage the process with the same fervor he had before losing a heart-breaker. And maybe, just maybe, that's the biggest boost Osborne can bring to everyone who professes a passion for a game that we all love.
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The contest for the seat held by Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, is one of the potentially close 2012 races that could ultimately decide whether Democrats maintain control of Congress' upper chamber.
As such, the battle is attracting attention from outside groups hoping their financial assistance will make a difference for both the first-term Democrat and his Republican challenger, Rep. Denny Rehberg, the state's sole House member and a former lieutenant governor.
Tester ran as a populist in 2006, beating the then-Senate incumbent, the controversial Republican Conrad Burns, by a mere 3,562 votes out of more than 400,000 cast. That was a wave-election year that favored Democrats, suggesting the depth of the challenge Tester faces in gaining re-election in a state that votes Republican in national elections.
Tester has proposed a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. In that decision, the high court held that corporations and unions enjoyed free-speech rights that allows them to donate unlimited amounts of money to third party political groups.
On All Things Considered Monday, Tester explained to co-host Melissa Block his opposition to Citizens United and the concerns it raises from his perspective for American democracy.
TESTER: "Well, I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I don't know corporations that can be put in prison. I do know people that can be put in prison. I mean, it's a totally different entity. I don't think the forefathers envisioned when this country was setup that we would have corporations that had the same rights or more rights than people.
"That's what's happened here. You know, as this whole thing gets fleshed out. And, by the way, in the end, I don't think it helps Democrats; I don't think it helps Republicans. I don't think it helps anybody. In fact, I think it goes against people, it goes against our ability to run this country in a way that makes sense for people.
"And that's really what's sad about it. As a policy maker, as a public servant I come to Washington, DC and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions everyday. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
"Well, if you have corporations out there that have hugely deep pockets, and I'm concerned about re-election — which isn't the top thing on my mind, the top thing on my mind is to make good public policy — well they're going to come into a state like Montana and put $1 million down the year before an election and probably put $15 (million) to $20 million in the year of the election which is what we figure they're probably going to do this election cycle.
"And whether it beats me or not, I don't know, I have great faith in the people of Montana that they can't be bought. But if it does, what a travesty. I mean, you make the right decision, it helps people, it helps families, it helps our next generation and the generation after and you have a big corporation, maybe not even from this country that can blow in with $10 (million) or $15 million which is nothing to them and huge amounts to regular folks and buy an election.
"It's ridiculous and it's not what our forefathers sought and it really goes against our democracy. It goes against what this country is built upon."
Tester criticized the lack of transparency created by Citizens United which doesn't force donors to reveal their true identities, a failure that makes all kinds of mischief possible, he said.
He cited a negative ad recently run against him that he was so false, he said, his complaints led a cable channel to stop showing it though broadcasters continued to. He said:
"That's the kind of stuff you see when you don't have transparency and accountability in government."
Melissa asked the senator about Montana's history in reforming campaign money. A century ago, through a voter initiative Montana passed restrictions on campaign cash to rein influence buying of one of the state's most powerful corporations at the time, the Anaconda Copper Co.
TESTER: "This whole thing about putting corporations into the process, giving them rights as people, Montanans figured out a long, long time ago. I think it's unfortunate that the Citizens United overturned that 100 years of precedence. But we did have the Montana Supreme Court (recently) upholding that voters' initiative that was passed back in 1912. And I think that was the first challenge to the Citizens United decision since it was made (by the U.S. Supreme Court) two years ago."
There is a movement on to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling with a constitutional amendment. One vocal proponent of that movement is Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana. He's finishing up his first term and facing a tight race for re-election. Tester says Citizens United allows corporations to secretly buy American political elections. And he takes issue with one fundamental part of the Court's decision - the idea of corporate personhood. That corporations, like people, have a right to political speech.
SENATOR JON TESTER: Well, I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison. And that's really what's sad about it. As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C. and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
Well, if you've got corporations out there that have got hugely deep pockets - and I'm concerned about re-election, which isn't the top thing on my mind. The top thing on my mind is to make good policy. Well, they're going to come in, in a state like Montana, throw $1 million down the year before an election and probably put 15 to $20 million in during the election, which is what we figure they're going to do this cycle.
And whether it beats me or not, I don't know. I have great faith in the people of Montana, they can't be bought. But if it is, what a travesty. That's ridiculous. And it's not with the forefathers sought. And it just really goes against what this country is built upon.
BLOCK: Conceivably, though, some that corporate money could benefit you or certainly labor union money on behalf of political ads, which has traditionally favored Democratic candidates, that could also benefit you.
TESTER: Well, in the end, I don't think it benefits anybody. I mean, I think in the end, this decision hurts Democrats and hurts Republicans. Regardless if I have my third party people or what happens, I think in the end when you have no transparency, when there's no accountability, it's not good for government.
BLOCK: Senator Tester, I want to ask you about some of the constitutional amendments the Democrats have introduced into Congress that would reverse the Citizens United decision. You signed on as a co-sponsor. To say that this is an uphill struggle would be an understatement. I mean, the pass to get a constitutional amendment ratified means you have to pass it with a supermajority in both Houses of Congress. It then has to be ratified by three quarters of the states.
Is this really, do you think, a symbolic move more than anything that has a practical chance of getting passed?
TESTER: Well, I think you have to fight for what you believe in. And I don't see this as symbolic. I think it can happen. Whether - it's certainly not going to happen before this election is over with in 2012. But I think this is a direct attack on our election system. And I think people will see it as that, and they'll move forward in a way that, you know, keeps his country a great country and keeps our elections free.
BLOCK: I gather that the race, your re-election race, for your seat in the Senate is looking really pretty close. How much of an effect do you think corporate spending is having on that campaign?
TESTER: Well, as I've said, the authority put $1 million in all on attack ads on me. And I think that's just the beginning. Our challenge is, is to make sure we get the facts. If we get the facts out, we win the election. If fiction trumps fact - and that's exactly what these third-party folks are trying to do, is make fiction from fact - then it becomes a real problem.
BLOCK: You know, Senator Tester, that your opponent's campaign says that you're hypocritical for talking about restricting campaign finance. They call you the number one recipient of lobbyist campaign cash out of any Washington politician this election cycle. How do you respond to that?
TESTER: Well, first of all, I've put up incredible standards in my office for lobbyists; went far, far, far above the Senate standards, number one. Number two, the fact that you know that people give money to my campaign shows that there's transparency there. But the fact is you know about it.
The problem with these third party folks is that you don't know who they are, where they come from. And yet, they're going to put as much money into this campaign potentially as either one of the candidates put together.
BLOCK: Conceivably, there would be a third-party group, a superPAC that would say, you know, we're going to back Senator Jon Tester. If that's the case, what do you do? Do you say, no, I don't want that? Do you...
TESTER: First of all, I wouldn't know who to go to, number one. And number two...
BLOCK: Because you're not supposed to go to them, right?
TESTER: Number two, if there was listening to this program, I would just a deal with the facts. Deal with facts. Don't make stuff up.
BLOCK: Senator Tester, thank you very much.
TESTER: Thank you.
BLOCK: That Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, talking about why he's backing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Colorado football coach Mike McIntyre has hired a former teammate of Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and a man who has played in the Rose Bowl to be his wide receivers coach.
Troy Walters announced he is joining MacIntyre's staff using his Twitter account. Walters served as the wide receivers coach at North Carolina State this season. He held the same job at Texas A&M the previous two years.
"I am excited about the new chapter in my life. I am the new (wide receivers) coach at University of Colorado!" Walters wrote.
Walters will inherit a group led by junior Paul Richardson, who is coming off a redshirt season and a knee injury. Tyler McCulloch and Nelson Spruce also return after receiving much of the playing time in 2012.
The program has commitments from three wide receivers and grayshirt Jeffrey Thomas who is scheduled to join the program this month. Peyton Williams, another player who signed with CU last February and grayshirted because of a knee injury, has decided not to attend CU, Rivals.com reported.
MacIntyre is expected to fill the remaining positions on his coaching staff by the end of the week. He has two jobs left to fill, a running backs coach and a defensive assistant who will most likely coach safeties.
Walters starred at Stanford before his pro career. He won the Biletnikoff Award in 1999 as the nation's top receiver. He caught 74 passes for nearly 1,500 yards and 10 touchdowns that season and also helped lead the Cardinal to the Pac-10 title and a Rose Bowl berth.
Walters still holds Stanford's career receiving recors with 244 career catches for 3,986 yards.
Walters, 36, played for four different NFL teams and finished his career in 2007 with 102 career catches for 1,135 yards and nine touchdowns. He played four seasons with Manning as a member of the Indianapolis Colts.
MacIntyre's first commitment
MacIntyre received his first commitment from a recruit at Colorado when defensive lineman Markeis Reed pledged to join the program, Rivals.com reported over the weekend
Reed is a 6-foot-5, 220-pound prospect from Napa, Calif., was recruited to play linebacker in Boulder.
"They need linebackers, that is the biggest thing that they need right now," Reed told Rivals.com. "I have played defensive end and linebacker in high school. I know college is different but my main position in high school was defensive end and my second position was linebacker but I think they can mold me into a good linebacker."
Reed graduated from high school in December and will enroll at CU this month. He was originally planning to go to USC but the Trojans didn't have a scholarship for him and asked him to walk on.
Colorado has 13 known commitments, one quarterback, three wide receivers, three linebackers, five offensive linemen and an athlete.
Stoltenberg services
Funeral services for former Colorado All-American offensive lineman Bryan Stoltenberg will be today at 11 a.m., Sugarland Baptist Church in Sugarland, Texas. Former teammates such as Heath Irwin, Derek West and Rashaan Salaam are expected to attend. An education fund is being set up through Chase Bank and the details will be announced at a later date. Stoltenberg is survived by his wife and three sons.
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Taste of Mystic is bitter among feuding parties
Mystic - Downtown Mystic restaurant owners are fighting with their own chamber of commerce over the Taste of Mystic, after the chamber initially canceled the well-known food festival and the merchants decided to organize their own event for the same weekend.
The Greater Mystic Chamber of Commerce announced in mid-February that it would cancel the Taste, which attracts about 40,000 people on the weekend after Labor Day and has been held downtown for at least the past decade. The chamber cited logistical concerns as the issue.
When merchants heard this, the owner of Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream and other downtown businesses decided to set up an alternative food festival under a different name: Mystic Eats.
In March, the chamber reinstituted the Taste and signed a three-year contract to hold it in Olde Mistick Village outside the downtown during the same weekend, Sept. 5-7.
The prospect of two festivals the same weekend has incensed some merchants who said they're proceeding with their downtown event and it threatens to confuse tourists, who are the bread and butter of the region's summer economy.
"They're yanking the event out of our downtown and moving the event to another location on the same weekend," said Rod Desmarais, owner of Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream and chairman of the Downtown Mystic Merchant Executive Committee. "What chamber holds a competing event with members of its own chamber?"
But the Taste is still in Mystic and will benefit all merchants, said Stefan Ambrosch, president of the Olde Mistick Village Merchants Association.
"Downtown and the shops and the hotels are going to be just as busy because it's a mile down the road. It's not like we're moving the Taste of Mystic to Maine," said Ambrosch, who also owns Mango's Wood-Fired Pizza.
Ambrosch said he contacted the chamber the day after he heard the Taste would be canceled because he's attended since he was 18 years old. He offered the village as a venue, negotiations began and the chamber and village then signed a multiyear contract, he said.
Downtown restaurants are welcome to participate, and the Village will offer better parking, more space and a larger public tent for people to sit under if it rains, he said.
"Some people have a very 'us versus them' mentality in Mystic. As if downtown Mystic is somewhat different than any other area of Mystic," he said. "We do not want that."
Jim Bates, chairman of the chamber's board, said he's pleased with the arrangement. "We're excited that Taste gets to stay in Mystic. ... We're looking forward to it, and that's what we're focused on," he said.
But the chamber created a void when it initially canceled the Taste, downtown merchants said. They said they had to act because tourists book hotel rooms a year in advance and would have arrived downtown to find nothing going on.
"You've got to do something," said Leo Roche, owner of The Harp and Hound pub. "You can't just take the event out of the downtown with everyone coming in from all over the state. ... It just doesn't make sense."
Many guests return year after year for events, including Taste of Mystic, said Sandra Chapman, innkeeper of the Steamboat Inn. Marinas also remain open and people arrive by boat to attend the festival, she said. "If it wasn't going to be happening here, we needed to step up. We were in a position where we needed to fill a void," she said.
But the chamber owns the event and has the right to move it if it believes that is a sound business decision, Ambrosch said. "It would not be a financially sound decision to hold an event that you feel you cannot pull off successfully," he said.
The Seaport Marine boathouse, which served as the beer and wine house in the past, was leased and unavailable, Ambrosch said. "As far as talking about expenses, they're massive," he added. "It's very costly between the bands, the police presence, the insurance and the permits. This is no easy deal."
Stephanie Marshall, vice president of Downtown Mystic Merchants and owner of Tidal River Clothing Co., said the chamber knew last fall that the boathouse would not be available but never contacted the downtown merchants. "My second biggest issue was we had told them that we were going to put something together to fill that void and then they were approached by the Olde Mistick Village and instead of telling them the downtown is already taking care of it, they went into negotiations," she said.
The chamber might own the name Taste of Mystic, but it doesn't own the downtown or the weekend after Labor Day, Desmarais said, adding that the Taste shouldn't be about money. "I don't think they'd lose money on it, but even if they did, so what?" he said. "What's your mission here? Is it to make profits for the chamber or is it to help the business community?"
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