text: Track history: Built in 1968 by Lawrence H. LoPatin, a Detroit land developer, at a cost of about $6 million, Michigan International Speedway is a 2-mile asphalt D-shaped oval located on 1400 acres in the Irish Hills of southeastern Michigan. Charles Moneypenny, designer of the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway, designed the Michigan oval as well. It has 18-degree banking in turns and 12-degree banking in the tri-oval, which is part of the 3,600-foot frontstretch. The 2,242-foot backstretch is banked five degrees. After LoPatin got overextended financially and filed bankruptcy, Roger Penske took over ownership of Michigan International Speedway in 1973 and invested millions in improving the facility.In 1999, Penske teamed up with International Speedway Corporation to jointly own the speedway.In 2004, SAFER walls were added to the track.In June 2010, MIS unveiled its new suite/media center building along pit road, which features state-of-the-art accommodations for its suite customers and visiting media members.The track was resurfaced in 1977, 1986, 1995 and once again after the 2011 season.Since the corners are so long, drivers are in the gas hard all throughout the race. This may contribute to the engine failures seen in past races at MIS. It's not unusual to see cars racing three or four and sometimes five-wide on the long straightaways.Track Quick Facts (courtesy NASCAR Media):Last five winners: Greg Biffle 8/19/12, Dale Earnhardt Jr. 6/17/12, Kyle Busch 8/21/11, Denny Hamlin 6/19/11 and Kevin Harvick 8/15/10.First Cup start here (Active drivers): Ted Musgrave 8/19/90, Carl Edwards 8/22/04 and Landon Cassill 6/13/10.First Cup pole: Jeff Burton 8/18/96, J.J. Yeley 6/17/07 and Marcos Ambrose 6/17/12.First Cup win: None.June 15, 1969: Donnie Allison clocked a 160.135 mph lap in the No. 27 Banjo Matthews Ford to start up front for the 1969 Motor State 500. He blew an engine 115 laps into the 250 lap event. Cale Yarborough started the famous Wood Brothers No. 21 Mercury Cyclone fourth in the field of 38 cars and went on to win the event. He beat David Pearson's No. 17 Ford by five car lengths and earned a $17,625 payday.June 17, 2012: Dale Earnhardt Jr. broke his 143-race winless streak with the win in the Quicken Loans 400. He started the No. 88 Chevrolet 17th in the lineup and picked up his 19th victory in 450 NSCS races. This was his second victory and ninth top-10 finish in 26 races at Michigan. Drivers leading five or more laps: Pole-sitter No. 9 Marcos Ambrose 15 laps, finished ninth; No. 17 Matt Kenseth 17 laps, finished third; No. 14 Tony Stewart 18 laps, finished second; No. 16 Greg Biffle 38 laps, finished fourth and Race-winner Earnhardt led the most laps (95 of 200).August 19, 2012: Greg Biffle won the Pure Michigan 400, his 18th victory in 353 Cup races. It was the No. 16 Ford driver's second victory and 14th top-10 finish in 2012. It was his third victory and 12th top-10 finish in 20 races at Michigan. Pole-sitter No. 55 Mark Martin led 54 laps but wrecked on lap 64 and was credited with a 35th place finish. Other drivers leading 10 or more laps: No. 56 Martin Truex Jr. 12 laps, finished 10th; No. 2 Brad Keselowski 17 laps, finished second; No. 15 Clint Bowyer 19 laps, finished seventh; No. 48 Jimmie Johnson 23 laps, engine failure (27th); No. 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 25 laps, finished fourth; Race-winner Biffle led 26 laps and Martin's 54 laps were the most.Fantasy games won't allow you to pick all track favorites so Mid-Pack Attack is here to help. A mid-packer may not win the race but has as good a shot at a top 20 finish as track favorites Greg Biffle, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth. There were 44 cars on the preliminary entry list for this weekend's Cup race. Here are our picks for Sunday's Quicken Loans 400 in Brooklyn, Michigan. Mid-Pack picksThe June 2012 race at MIS turned out to be a 'career day' for Marcos Ambrose. Not only did he win his first Cup career pole but it was the first pole in NASCAR history with a lap faster than 200 mph on a non-plate track. The 203.341 mph lap is still the track record. He finished that race in ninth place. In August 2012, Ambrose started eighth and finished in fifth. Said Ambrose: "Michigan is an oval track that we have circled as a place where we feel confident I could get my first oval win." Granted, last season's two top-10s were preceded by seven finishes of 15th or worse (averaged 27th for those seven) but we're looking at how he has been running this season. His last three races were 19th or better and that puts him in our top-20 category. Give the No. 9 Ford driver a look as a fourth or fifth driver on your team.Whether you want to consider this an audition race or not, AJ Allmendinger may bring some help to the JTG Daugherty No. 47 Toyota Camry this week. He will 'fill in' for Bobby Labonte in five races. Allmendinger said: "…it worked into me driving for them at Michigan International Speedway. We're doing a total of five races together just for another opinion to help their team." AJ has 10 Cup starts at the track, averaged a 21st place finish, had a best finish of 11th (two times) and his last five starts resulted in top-20 finishes. We're looking for another possible top-20 this weekend.Martin Truex Jr. has an average finish of 16.6 in 14 Sprint Cup starts at MIS. Only one of his last six races here ended in a finish outside the top-20. He once said he likes racing at Michigan: "the speed—it's fun to run that fast and slide around. It's like running a big old dirt track." He also knows he's running out of races to get back into Chase contention. He said this week: "I can't wait to see how the track has aged since the winter. It should still be really fast. A top-10 is a must for us this weekend." Maybe, but a top-20 should be counted on for the No. 56 Toyota Camry.Last week we picked Ryan Newman and he came thru with a fifth place finish at Pocono Raceway. So, why mess with success. This week he's at a track that accounts for two of his 16 Cup career wins. That was back in 2003 and 2004. That was also the timeframe when Newman earned two Nationwide Series victories at Michigan. Since joining Stewart-Haas Racing in 2009, Newman raced at MIS in eight Sprint Cup events. In the first four, his best finish was a 15th (finishing average: 23.3). In his last four, his worst finish was a 15th (averaged an 8.5). We like that! Find a spot on your roster for the No. 39 Chevrolet SS this week.


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Perhaps you sneaked a peak at some new pages I recently created. My blog stats indicate that is so. So you may have witnessed the data for this story. But lets take a step back for a moment.
In Poland, most Gminas or Powiats or large cities (ex. Warsaw) have a website, much like our cities or counties in the USA. These are the basic administrative units: Gminas make up Powiats which make up Voivodeships . Comparable to Townships(Boroughs) -> Counties -> States in the USA. So an understanding of these units of administration and their historical changes is fundamental to tracing your genealogy. Like us, they also have a history and their history is long, VERY LONNNNG in duration. In Poland, the Church is also an organizing presence and like here, they have parishes, deaconates, and dioceses. These too have very long histories. Understanding these units of administration, both civil and ecclesiastical can aid you in finding records to research. So this long preamble leads to my next useful website, which is quite specific to the locale of my ancestral villages and what you need to do is to find the one that corresponds to your ancestral village and do likewise. Mine is:
So grab your Google Translator and follow along, please. Pacanow Gmina is the organizing unit for most of my ancestral villages (and the neighboring gminas cover the remainder). The above link (on a line by itself) is an older web page that I have kept for years and it is now becoming buried in the official government page that is useful to residents. This page is useful to historians and family history researchers. It covers the history and tradition of both the civil and the ecclesiastical (i.e. parish) histories. Why do I or you care about these fine histories that a local historical society has produced — well if you have been a genealogist for a while you know that Historical Societies are the genealogist's best friends. They have collected and preserved much of value that will further aid in our family history research. And so it is here. Pacanow is both a parish/deaconate (thus the ecclesiatical) and the civil gmina so they have both histories. From their pages, I have culled Church Censuses for this area covering circa 1340 through 1787 (not continuous, but snaphots at various times) that their local historians researched from church records. So on my Parish Census page is my resulting spreadsheet from a couple of their mages. These are statistical summaries, not individual records. So to be clear I am not talking about a Spis Ludnosci which contains a family and its names for generations in a parish. May we all be so lucky to find such in our individual researches.
Years – 1340, 1618, 1664, 1699, 1747/48, 1782/82, 1787
These are early years. In Biechow, one the parishes these censuses mention, my actual church records that LDS have microfilmed only go back to 1674-1675, then nothing until some deaths from 1697-1743. I have looked at these microfilm and the records are sparse (and in Latin). That being said, these censuses now allow me to evaluate what I have "detailed" records for. From the 1747/48 census I can see how Biechow has many more females than males. That explains why I can see men have many second wives (no doubt after their 1st wives die in child-birth or from the rigors of life with many children) to often much younger wives who can bear the man still more children. I have to wonder at the sizes of the homes. Even with the astonishing infant/child mortality rates of this era, families are large. Deaths are overwhelmingly people under 18 with the usual percentage of deaths for mature adults only a small percentage of the overall total. Populations are growing since the births outnumber the deaths, slightly.
All of these years are before the partitions of Poland, except for the last two censuses (which come after the first partition of 1772). Now this last census(1787) is interesting for another reason. There was a census of Jews by parish. Now we cannot expect that the Jewish peoples attended the churches and the year 1787 was prior to the 1810-1830 years when the Catholic Church was also required to be the civil registrar and the Jews needed to register their births and marriages with the Catholic Church priest who was also the civil registrar. Like New Orleans which organizes its administrations by parishes, these early/rural parishes acted also as civil units of administration and collected censuses. The overall percentage across all parishes, was that Jewish peoples were about 6.44% of the total population. In Biechow, I see the percentage was 2.6% and that fairly closely matches the rates of Jewish records I see in the overall births from the years 1810-1830 in the Biechow parish church register.
Now that gives us a window into the first partition of Poland. Even though Stanczyk writes of Biechow/Pacanow being in the Russian-Poland partition, this early era was pre-Napoleon and these parishes were in the Krakow voivoide and Stopnica powiat, which were controlled by Austria (more properly the Austrian-Hungarian Empire). At any rate, in the interest of the Blessed Pope John Paul II and his ecumenical efforts and to honor my own Jewish wife, I have included the Jewish census numbers here with the Catholic numbers to aid the Jewish researchers in their quest. I have collected some records in the early 1810's that were in Biechow, since I noticed the JewishGen and JRI have not indexed Biechow. Now you know why. There were only 2.4% of the total population and those scant numbers may have gone unnoticed so far by researchers. I would encourage JRI/JewishGen to take a look at my Parish Census blog page (in reality on Rootsweb).
Well this posting is too heavy on numbers and too slight on story, so let me end it here for today.
P.S. I am glad I put their numbers into a spreadsheet. I did find they had numerical errors (one total) and also an editing error, as the total for Jews was 1,000 more than the 821 they showed, thus they dropped the leading '1' by some editorial typo. A spreadsheet quickly caught those errors.

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DRACUT -- Every college spring break for 30 years since he graduated from high school, Gary Meuse has happily agreed to help televise and direct Dracut's own, unique, circus-like version of March madness.
Meuse, 47, is again executive producing the Dracut Scholarship Foundation Telethon as it completes a third decade, airing March 12-15, from 6:30-9:30 p.m., on town cable-TV channels 8 and 22. It is also being streamed live at www.dracutscholarship.org.
"Behind the scenes at the telethon is far crazier than Miami Beach at spring break, I can guarantee you that," said Meuse Monday in the Dracut High School TV studio, which houses the telethon's control room, next to the school's auditorium and front lobby where all the live-entertainment and auction-board magic happens.
Meuse said he'd just completed several more hours of the prep work required to produce more than 12 hours of live television.
The goal of this year's telethon is to raise at least $100,000 for 2013 Foundation scholarship recipients, said DSF President Donna Yackel.
The telethon's 30-year track record of success can largely be attributed to the experienced and steadying hand of Meuse and his crew of technical helpers and camera operators who return annually to volunteer, according to Yackel.
"Gary has a plethora of knowledge of all things telethon," said Yackel. "The technical part he has down to a science, and he's a great guy to work with. His technical crew comes back year after year and for many of them it's during their spring breaks.
As might be expected approaching such a milestone event, Meuse said many of his friends and acquaintances have asked him a similar question: Just how much longer does he plan to go on calling the shots for the DSF Telethon?
"That seems to be the million-dollar question, because a lot of the people who come back every year to help tell me, 'We'll do it as long as you do, Gary, but when you retire, we're going with you.' So there's a lot of pressure that I do feel to not leave it," said Meuse. "Someday, I'm going to have to walk away from it, but I really have no immediate plan to do that."
Meuse said he's still having far too much fun manning the controls of what has become perhaps the most unique, community-backed, fundraising event in the country.
"I have not found a town, a community, that does something quite like what Dracut does with our telethon," said Meuse. "If other towns do anything like this, I believe it's a one-day, one-evening type of thing. Ours has always been a four-day, 12-hour event. That, in itself, is unique, because there are not many communities where you're going to get that many people to devote that amount of time to an event."
Meuse's best analogy for the telethon is, "a big circus that we put on television," he said. "A lot of the stuff is scheduled, but a lot is off-the-cuff, as well. We bounce around all night, going from dancers to musicians, to auctions and the tote-board number, to folks who have come in and given us celebrity appearances through the years."
Yackel said one special guest she's hoping will attend the opening night is Bruce Hutchins, the former longtime Dracut High principal, who is credited with coming up with the original idea for the DSF TV telethon along with the late, then-Superintendent of Schools Christos Daoulas.
"We're also going to be running some clips of our telethons from past decades," said Yackel. "And one of the oldies but goodies we're bringing back from many years ago is the gong we used to ring before we had the (digital) tote board of recent years.
"We also have a couple of other surprises in store that we don't want to divulge just yet," added Yackel.
One of the "surprises" Yackel referred to will not be a retirement announcement made by the telethon's 30-year cameraman, producer and executive director.
"I don't want to worry anybody. I don't have any immediate plans to walk away from it," said Meuse. "But I will say with the ongoing renovations to the high school in the next few years, I am going to be keeping an eye out to making the telethon turnkey for the coming generation to take over."
The Dracut High expansion plan calls for the leveling of the school's auditorium, meaning this will be the last year the telethon is staged there, Meuse noted.
"Next year's telethon will be done partly from the band room, so we won't be able to go with the same large-scale, live entertainment," said Meuse. "It means the 2014 telethon will be a tricky year, and we may have to pre-tape a lot of acts, including the bands. But as far as 2015, we're excited because that'll mean a new auditorium, and new TV studio and big, brand-new way of doing things. That's sort of what we're looking forward to, although we have a lot of challenges before then."
Meuse recalled that In 120 scheduled evenings of the telethon over 30 years, it has only been postponed once, due to a massive snowstorm that shut down the show on the final Friday night of the first telethon, in 1984.
"We had to come back on Monday and go on for maybe an hour just to sort of close things out," said Meuse. "That was the only year we were actually interrupted. We've had challenging nights over the years since then, where we had snow and some groups decided they couldn't make the trip, but the show still went on."
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Erie's elected leaders Tuesday night approved the annexation of a 632-acre parcel in unincorporated Weld County that is planned to become the site of the 2,152-home Summerfield community.
The project, which represents one of Erie's largest planned residential communities, nearly died an early death last year after Community Development Group pulled the plug on Summerfield. But the town and developer managed to revive the project a few weeks later.
Summerfield is proposed for the southwest corner of Colo. 52 and County Road 7, and proponents claim it would allow the town to fund critical infrastructure improvements east to Interstate 25, where Erie has long-term commercial development plans that will provide a more lucrative tax base for the town. Building permit fees alone from the project could put up to $86 million into Erie's coffers.
Any site plan would need to be approved by the town before construction could begin, but the trustees did approve a planned development zoning designation for the parcel.


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Obituary: Mary Margaret Milam
Mary Margaret Milam of Columbus, IN, formerly of Paris, MO, passed away Monday January 7, 2013, at Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inpatient Facility in Columbus, IN, surrounded by her family.
Mary Margaret was born April 3, 1910, in Glasgow, MO. She was the beloved daughter of Benjamin W. Heiman and his wife, Lezzetta A. Meyer Heiman.
She was predeceased by her younger brother and only sibling, Walter Heiman.
Mary Margaret enjoyed an idyllic childhood amongst many friends and relatives in a picturesque small town on the banks of the Missouri River. She married Joseph E. Milam in Glasgow, MO, a young professor and coach at a nearby college. They moved to Paris, MO, where they raised two children, Joanne Meyer of Rochester, MN, and Dr. Donald Milam of Kalamazoo, MI.
Both Joe and Mary Margaret were dearly loved and active members of the Paris community. Mary Margaret was a dedicated teacher whose career began in a one room schoolhouse and culminated in the local Junior High school. She cherished her relationships with her students and colleagues.
Mary Margaret was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church and PEO among other organizations. Her strong Christian faith held her in good stead throughout her life, bringing her great strength and understanding.
In addition to her children, Mary Margaret is also survived by five grandchildren, Meri Knight (Steven) of Columbus, IN, Marsha Neibling (Howard) of Kimberly, ID, Melanie Arnold (Scott) of Newark, DE, Debi Springfield (John) of Mesa, AZ and Stephen Milam (Caroline) of Kalamazoo, MI; 12 great-grandchildren, Jason Knight (Niccole), Courtney Knight, Angela Knight (Steve Rose), Jen Neibling, Kristin Neibling, Jeremiah Neibling, Anna Neibling, Britainy Springfield, John F. Springfield, Sierra Springfield, Alyssa Milam and Sarah Milam; and three great-great grandchildren, Solomon Knight, Julius Wilder and Ayla Knight-Rose.
Mary Margaret dearly loved her family and took great pleasure in spending time with them. She enjoyed gardening, bird feeding, travelling and reading. She delighted in maintaining ties with friends and past students when she moved from Paris to the Four Seasons Retirement Center in Columbus in 2004.
Her strong and resilient spirit allowed her to meet life's challenges with an unsurpassed grace. Her warmth and liveliness nurtured friendships with people of all ages. The quintessential lifelong learner, she lived a full and abundant life. The legacy she leaves evokes the timeless lessons of old: loyalty, perseverance, integrity and love for one's fellow man.
T he funeral service for Mary Margaret will be conducted at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 9, 2013, at Four Seasons Retirement Home Chapel in Columbus, IN, with Dr. Gary Schaar and Chaplain Phyllis Hawkins officiating. A reception will follow the service in the dining room.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Myers-Reed Chapel in Columbus, IN, where online condolences may be submitted to the family at www.myers-reed.com.
Calling hours will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m., on Friday, January 11, 2013, at the Paris United Methodist Church in Paris, MO.
A 2nd funeral service will be conducted at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, January 12, 2013, at the Glasgow United Methodist Church in Glasgow, MO, with Rev. Robert Frey officiating. Burial will be in Washington Cemetery in Glasgow, MO.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions in Columbus, IN, be made to Four Seasons Retirement Center or Our Hospice of South Central Indiana. Memorial contributions in Missouri may be made to Paris United Methodist Church.
Funeral arrangements in Glasgow, MO. are under the direction of Friemonth-Freese Funeral Service.


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Saturday, November 3, 2012
9:30 am
Stop at the information desk on the first floor for meeting location.
Programs for Genealogists
The Genealogy and Local History staff will introduce novices to the basics of research at an informal orientation. After the session, you are welcome to begin your research. A reference librarian will be available to provide suggestions and assistance. Reservations not required.


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- Oct 22:
- Police: Definitive link between May abduction try and murder of Jessica Ridgeway
- Oct 20:
- Jogger choked 8-year-old boy near Ketner Lake in Westminster in May
- Westminster police: Cross could lead to Jessica Ridgeway's killer
- Oct 13:
- Investigators follow all leads to find Jessica Ridgeway's killer
- Crowd, purple balloons celebrate life of Jessica Ridgeway
- Oct 12:
- Police moved quickly in first hours of search for Jessica Ridgeway
- Boulder experts offer tips on talking to kids in aftermath of Jessica Ridgeway murder
- Officials: Body is that of missing Westminster child Jessica Ridgeway
- Long search ends: "Justice for Jessica" as hope turns to grief
- Oct 11:
- Jessica Ridgeway case makes Longmont parents think twice about letting kids walk to school alone
- Jessica Ridgeway search: Westminster police say body found is not intact
- Jessica Ridgeway search: FBI asks for help finding suspect who fits profile
- Oct 10:
- Maine police one of many agencies investigating Jessica Ridgeway tips
- Parents ruled out as suspects in search for Jessica Ridgeway
- Oct 9:
- Hundreds attend vigil for Jessica Ridgeway in Superior park
- FBI probing link between Wyoming kidnapping and Jessica Ridgeway case
- Jessica Ridgeway search continues in Superior, Westminster today
- Oct 8:
- Jessica Ridgeway case: Neighbor noticed backpack on Superior street night before
- Dual prayer events to be held for Jessica Ridgeway in Superior, Westminster on Tuesday
- Jessica Ridgeway search expands to open space areas surrounding Superior
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- Jessica Ridgeway search in Superior: 'We believe it is her backpack'
WESTMINSTER — There are fresh sheets on the top bunkbed in her room and a nest of stuffed animals waiting for 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway to come home.
"Everything is up there how she likes it," said Jessica's mom, Sarah Ridgeway said Tuesday afternoon during a meeting with media at the Westminster Police Department. "We want her to be able to sleep in it again. Nice and warm and safe, where she is supposed to be."
Jessica has been missing since 8:30 a.m. Friday, when she left her Westminster home to meet friends to walk to school. Police, state, federal and volunteer investigators have been searching the area around her home and in Superior, where her backpack was found, since she disappeared.
Jessica's father, Jeremiah Bryant, had one thing on his mind: "I just want to find my daughter and bring her back home," he said.
Bryant and Ridgeway, flanked by eight family members and a close friend, talked about their daughter's disappearance and the pain they have felt.
"If there was a string, we would all be tied together," Ridgeway said of her support network.
Hundreds of volunteers have searched areas around the girl's home for any clues and police investigators have been working around the clock trying to find the girl.
"I'm trying to stay positive about it," said Bryant, who lives in Missouri. "It is hard, extremely hard."
Jessica was described Tuesday as a happy girl, who loves animals and enjoys "performing" in front of family, garnering cheers.
She especially liked playing "waitress," taking imaginary meal orders from adults willing to play. Jessica's favorite color is purple, she likes telling jokes and is a "giggler."
"We know how scared she is," said Gay Moore, Jessica's great aunt. "We are just as terrified."
On Friday Jessica's alarm clock went off at 7:45 and the girl started preparing for her day. She turned on the TV and ate a granola bar while getting ready for school.
Sarah and her daughter peeled an orange together, a snack she'd have at school.
Jessica enjoys school, her mother said, especially math and physical education.
She took the bus last year, but the school district imposed a fee and Sarah insisted she could get there and back, rationalizing that "everyone else is walking," Ridgeway said.
She walked out the door Friday morning as her mother looked on.
"That's the last time I saw her," Ridgeway said, breaking into tears. "I need her to walk back through that door."
With Jessica on her way to school, she typically met friends to walk with, Ridgeway, who works a night shift, went to bed, she said.
She left her cell phone in another room, downstairs, so her sleep would not be disturbed, she said.
The school phoned and left a message that Jessica never made it to school. Ridgeway didn't get it until she awoke at 4 p.m., about the time her daughter would typically get home.
Ridgeway said she checked with friends, Jessica wasn't with them. She went by a playground, she wasn't there. Ridgeway even drove by the school, she said. It all came up empty and she called police.
On Sunday investigators were tipped off about the discovery of Jessica's school backpack and water bottle, found abandoned on a sidewalk in Superior, about 6 miles from her home.
"I felt a sliver of hope" with the discovery, Ridgeway said. "If anything really bad had happened to her, they wouldn't have gotten rid of the backpack."
Ridgeway, a night-shift worker, told police she last saw her daughter walking toward school Friday morning. She reported the girl missing later in the afternoon when she woke to find a phone message saying Jessica hadn't arrived at Witt Elementary School, about a mile away at 10255 W. 104th Drive in Westminster.
Westminster Police spokesman Trevor Materasso said Monday there are no suspects in the case. But "we do not have reason to believe a person is going around abducting children," he said.
No evidence points to any family involvement, Materasso has said.
Investigators have not said whether Jessica's disappearance could be linked to any other suspicious incidents in Jefferson County. For example, Arvada police in September reported that a man apparently tried to lure children to his vehicle with candy.


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Utah city works for wildlife habitat certification
09/02/2014 9:18amOne northern Utah community is on track to be the state's first city certified as a wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.
Woman who broke back in snowboarding accident defies odds, walks again
09/02/2014 10:42amKylee Schraft is an optimistic, happy person. She's always in motion, going from one adventure to the next; but this really shouldn't be happening. Two years ago, she was in a terrible snowboarding accident and was told she would never walk again.
With gimme out of the way, real season begins for Utes on Saturday
09/02/2014 12:30pmThe Utes kicked off the 2014 season with a convincing win over FCS foe Idaho State last Thursday, but now the real season begins this week as Fresno State visits Rice-Eccles.
Limit raised for bobcat hunting permits
09/02/2014 12:40pmAs the bobcat population in Utah grows, the cap for the total number of permits to hunt or trap bobcats has been lifted.
Is male infertility on the rise?
09/02/2014 2:08pmIs male infertility something you should be worried about? Dr. James Hotaling from University of Utah Hospital speaks on the matter.
State fairpark chair to seek unanimous approval for minor league stadium
09/02/2014 2:31pmA proposed soccer stadium at the Utah State Fairpark is a step closer to becoming a reality.
Missing dirt biker found safe in Utah County
09/02/2014 4:24pmCrews rescued a man who spent a cold night in the mountains near Pleasant Grove after losing his way while dirt biking. "My teeth are still chattering," John Parker said after his rescue.
User photos: This week in news
09/02/2014 4:34pmSome of this week's user photos include: a fatal sport bike accident in Mountain Green, a car fire outside of St. George, more Utah flooding and a big show of support for the BYU football team.
Huntsville goose hunter becomes 'Mother Goose'
09/02/2014 6:02pmA Huntsville man says he's being treated like Mother Goose, and it's made him the talk of that small town. It all started last spring when he decided to rescue a nest full of duck eggs.
Police seek burglars who immediately used stolen credit cards
09/02/2014 6:43pmPolice are looking for two men who they believe stole a credit card from a Salt Lake residence before charging the card at a nearby grocery store.
Police: Pharmacist steals 10,000 pills from clinic, has stolen pills before
09/02/2014 7:05pmA Utah pharmacist who was allowed to keep his state license after admitting that he stole 5,000 prescription pain pills in 2012 is facing new charges in Duchesne County, where he's accused of stealing twice as many pills.
Clearfield woman killed in motorcycle crash identified
09/02/2014 7:23pmA 28-year-old woman who died Monday in a motorcycle crash near Snowbasin has been identified.
Surge in SLC bank robberies linked to heroin addictions
09/02/2014 7:27pmPolice attribute a dramatic uptick in bank robberies in the Salt Lake Valley to a heroin epidemic. More than 90 percent of the robberies are related to the cheap, highly addictive drug, Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said Tuesday.
Surveillance video shows missing man at SLC convenience store
09/02/2014 7:40pmSurveillance video of a man reported missing Sunday shows him at a Salt Lake City convenience store hours after he disappeared, officials from the Summit County Sheriff's Office say.
82-year-old man dies in 3-car crash
09/02/2014 7:43pmAn 82-year-old man was killed in a three-car crash on Highway 91 in Cache County Tuesday, police said.
Mitt Romney, Pixar president to speak at BYU
09/02/2014 8:04pmFormer presidential candidate Mitt Romney will speak at a Brigham Young University forum, the school announced Wednesday.
Man wanted in case of lewdness turns himself in to police
09/02/2014 8:05pmWithin hours asking for the public's help to identify a man who allegedly committed lewd acts in a store, West Jordan police say the man turned turned himself in.
66-year-old SLC man becomes world-class athlete after battling heart disease
09/02/2014 8:28pmLloyd Hansen recently ran the fastest half marathon in his age group in the country and finds himself with a new title: world-class athlete. His story doesn't end there. At age 54, this father of five, was diagnosed with heart disease.
83 percent of Utahns want body cameras on police officers, poll shows
09/02/2014 8:54pmUtahns overwhelmingly favor police officers wearing body cameras, a new poll shows. But they're split on whether police are too quick to use deadly force.
DWR tells anglers to keep more fish
09/02/2014 9:20pmThe Division of Wildlife Resources is encouraging Utah anglers to keep fish rather than catching and releasing.
Pioneering WASP recalls 'joy' of flying B-25 in WWII
09/02/2014 10:19pmDuring World War II everyone made sacrifices, and female pilots proved they were up to the task. Salt Lake resident Nell Bright is one of the roughly 1,000 Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, who flew those war planes.
Protected bike lane project causes confusion on 300 South
09/02/2014 10:33pmSalt Lake City leaders are in the middle of moving bicycle lanes around on 300 South. As the project becomes reality, the idea of "protected lanes," as they're called, is being both applauded and criticized.
Max Hall arrested for alleged shoplifting, drug possession
09/02/2014 11:14pmFormer BYU quarterback Max Hall was arrested Saturday for allegedly shoplifting.
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Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, the story follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own...
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Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, the story follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha," a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other.
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Spike Jonze doesn't waste any time introducing us to the technology at the center of Her. "An operating system that can mimic human sentience?" a dangerously lonely Joaquin Phoenix wonders after catching glimpse of an ad in a transit station. "Don't mind if I do!" (He doesn't actually say that, don't worry.) But by the time we're meant to believe that such a world can seamlessly integrate characters like Scarlett Johansson's automated voice Samantha into the lives of living, breathing men and women like Phoenix's Theodore, we're already established residents of this arresting, icy, quivering world the filmmaker has built. We meet Theodore midway through his recitation of a "handwritten letter" he penned on behalf of a woman to her husband of many years. That's his job — tapping into his own unique sensititivies to play ghostwriter for people hoping to adorn their spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, parents, and children with personal notes of personal affection. Theodore is no independent contractor; he's part of a thriving company, and we almost get the feeling that the folks on the receiving end of these letters are in the know. Before we ever encounter Samantha, we're embedded in the central conceit of the movie: emotional surrogacy is an industry on the rise.
What makes Jonze's world so palatable is that, beneath its marvelously eerie aesthetic, this idea is barely science-fiction. Theodore, humbled and scarred by a recent divorce from lifelong love Catherine (Rooney Mara, who contrasts Johansson by giving a performance that, for a large sum of the movie, is all body and no voice), accesses the will to go on through interractions with video game characters and phone-sex hotlines. But the ante is upped with Samantha, the self-named operating system that Theodore purchases to stave off loneliness, deeming choice a far less contorting one than spending time with old pals like Amy (Amy Adams)... at first.
Samantha evolves rather quickly from an articulate Siri into a curious companion, who is fed and engaged by Theodore just as much as she feeds and engages him. Jonze paces his construction of what, exactly, Samantha is so carefully that we won't even catch the individual steps in her change — along with Theodore, we slowly grow more and more enamored and mystified by his computer/assistant/friend/lover before we can recognize that we're dealing with a different being altogether from the one we met at that inceptive self-aware "H-hello?" But Jonze lays tremendous groundwork to let us know this story is all for something: all the while, as the attractions build and the hearts beat faster for Samantha, we foster an unmistakable sense of doom. We can't help but dread the very same perils that instituted one infamous admission: "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
But Jonze's sci-fi constructs are so cohesively intertwined with his love story that our dread doesn't exactly translate to an anticipation of HAL's hostile takeover. Her wedges us so tightly between Theodore and Samantha that our fears of the inevitable clash between man and machine apprehend a smaller, more intimate ruin. As Samantha's growth become more surprising and challenging to Theodore, to herself, and to us, the omens build for each.
And although all three parties know better, we cannot help but affix ourselves to the chemistry between Theodore and Samantha, and to the possibility that we're building toward something supreme. A good faction of this is due to the unbelievable performances of Phoenix — representing the cautious excitement that we all know so painfully well — and Johansson, who twists her disembodied voice so empathetically that we find ourselves, like Theodore, forgetting that we have yet to actually meet her. The one castigation that we can attach to the casting of Johansson is that such a recognizable face will, inevitably, work its way into our heads when we're listening to her performance. It alm
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What's In A WordBy: Bob Hannaford
"Swing," "Swinger," what do these words mean to you. How about the word "lifestyle?" Funny how words mean so many different things to so many different people. My dictionary defines "Swinger" as: "One that swings: a good swinger of baseball bats." I always had a suspicion that Barry Bonds was a "swinger." My dictionary also says: "A member of a couple, especially a married couple, who exchanges sexual partners." Now we're getting somewhere, although I didn't know marital status had so much to do with "swinging." I'll have to call Webster and explain to him that non-married couples swing too. I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that.
The word "swing" dates back to the 20's when the black community discovered a new form of music called Jazz and called it "Swinging Jazz." The reference described the form of dance where a man would literally "swing" his partner through a series of dance moves. Like the Charleston and the Lindy Hop were born, and so was the term "swing." Most conservatives couldn't believe it when they saw people shaking their hips and frolicking to this new underground sensual music.
Eventually, in the 30's and 40's, band leaders like Cab Callaway, Duke Ellington, Glen Miller and Count Basie brought in the big band era and "Swing was King." The popularity of swing music faded after WWII until the late 50's when Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack redefined the word "swinger." The word's connotation reached beyond their music and started to represent their lifestyle. They were hip, fashionable, cool and sexy. They were swingers, man. Playboy magazine was first published and a new era of sexuality was born. "Swinger" had a positive connotation, everyone wanted to be called a "swinger." Of course the term was only relegated to men. Being considered a swinger would never be considered appropriate for a woman.
Of course the "shagedelic swinging sixties" followed and once again the term "swinger" took on a new, cartoon-type of character. Towards the end of the 60's, swinger clubs started to form. Publications were printed and different forms of alternative relationships like swinging, polyamory and communal living started to show up.
It wasn't long before the 70's and rumors of "key parties" and "wife swappers" became the common explanation of the "new swingers." Again, sexist overtones dominated the "swinger" scene, the very term "wife swapper" implies that the man owns his wife and can trade her at will for another partner.
The 80's saw a surge of new clubs forming until the AIDS scare forced many swingers underground and many clubs closed or dropped in membership. Eventually, swinging became a lot more open, clubs rebounded and national conventions like Lifestyles in California and Las Vegas gained in popularity and thousands of couples came to meet other open minded couples. "Recreational swinging" became a powerful economic factor, in fact it became an industry. Today, you can find articles on "swinging" in Time magazine, the New York Times, Details, on HBO, MTV, Showtime, VH1 and most national and local newscasts, newspapers and magazines. Conventions and clubs have popped up in every state. Resorts and hotels now cater to "swing" groups like never before. Recently, in New Orleans, over 1,000 "swingers" paraded down Bourbon St. in the first ever "swinging parade" behind a jazz (swing) band with a police escort. Swinging has almost become mainstream.
It has become so mainstream that swing clubs and businesses finally have their own trade association. Imagine the effect of an organized effort to put forth positive images of this "swinging lifestyle." This is the first step in gaining acceptance and tolerance for a sexual minority that is steadily growing and we are being noticed.
By the way, I looked up the word "lifestyle" and my dictionary said: "A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group." When the term "lifestyle" became popular over a generation ago, it had many critics that objected to it as trendy and superficial because it was mainly used to justify habits of consumption, recreation or fads to categories in a system of social classification. Many different forms of sexual minorities all consider themselves to be living a different "lifestyle" from the mainstream. Nonetheless, the term has been useful, in fact, because they help explain ourselves when referring to social values and behavior.
Why the history lesson? Most people I run into find the label "swinger" as a negative term with which they don't want to be labeled. While I understand their reasons, most do not understand that the terms "swing" and "swinger" have undergone many transformations over the last century and will continue to change over the next few years. My favorite dictionary definition defines "swinger" as: "A person who actively seeks excitement and moves with the latest trends." Now that is a term we can live with. Maybe we should print that definition on shirts, come out of the closet and show the world who we are. OK, maybe not this week... but soon?
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FORT KLAMATH, Ore. — Many ranchers in Oregon's Upper Klamath Basin appear to grudgingly accept a water-sharing settlement between irrigators and the Klamath Tribes that was finalized earlier this month.
Rancher Roger Nicholson, a harsh critic of water calls by the tribes and federal government that led to a shutoff of Upper Basin irrigation pumps last summer, says the deal is the best that ranchers could hope for and predicts it will be agreed to by a vast majority of affected landowners.
"This at least allows some usage, and in some years quite a bit of usage probably," said Nicholson, who was involved in the talks. "The only other alternative is years more of litigation."
The talks came after a court last year granted the tribes senior water rights in the Sycan, Wood and Williamson river watersheds draining into Upper Klamath Lake, where the tribes say a decline in sucker fish populations has threatened their livelihoods and traditions.
The pact that the parties have been ironing out since late December includes various restoration projects, stipulated in-stream flows and the permanent retirement of 30,000 acre-feet of water for restoring fisheries. Nicholson said landowners won a key concession in that they'll be compensated for land they can't use as a result of the deal.
If approved by ranchers and tribal members, the pact will be included in legislation by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to authorize and fund the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and a companion measure to remove four dams from the Klamath River.
To be certain, opposition to the Upper Basin agreement persists. Jerry Jones, who operates a small ranch south of Chiloquin, Ore., believes the agreement could spark new legal battles.
"It does away with our private property rights," he said.
Bruce Topham, a rancher in the Sprague River Valley, said he's unsure whether he'll sign the agreement. He objects to the amount of land that ranchers would have to put in easements – 130 feet on each side of a river or stream, he said.
"We basically aren't allowed to use it," Topham said. "In our case, it's a lot of acres … You're controlled on what you can do on your own land."
But rancher Becky Hyde, a vocal KBRA supporter who was involved in the Upper Basin negotiations, said most landowners realize that "everyone needs to bring their log to the fire so we can make this thing work," and that more participation means more water.
"We know what the alternative to settlement looked like because we lived through it last year," Hyde said. "I think we have more momentum toward a settlement than we've ever had.
"The thing about it is it also deals with our endangered species issues to the best of their ability under the law," she said. "Frankly some of us are pretty interested in that part of it for protection. We'll see how it goes. I think right now it's just an important time for folks to understand what it means for them."
Nicholson believes this is the landowners' last chance to achieve a settlement over water.
"I've been involved in several other attempts to settle it, and this probably is the last one," he said. "If this isn't settled now, it will go into litigation for a long, long time."
Proposed Upper Klamath Basin Agreement: http://www.oregon.gov/gov/GNRO/Pages/Upper-Klamath-Basin-Agreement-and-Exhibits.aspx


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Former Colorado coach Jon Embree cried and struck a defiant tone at times today during his portion of an awkward press conference announcing his firing at the Dal Ward Center.
Embree paced, took a big swig of water from a bottle and sighed deeply before sitting at a folding table in the Varsity Room on the second floor just down the hall from the office he occupied for slightly less than two calendar years.
Members of his family, much of the team he coached this year and his assistants stood or sat in the back of the room, showing their support and also their displeasure with athletic director Mike Bohn's decision.
Embree began by addressing his players.
"As we move forward, know I'll always have your back and I'll do anything I can for you," he said.
"...To my kids, the ones who carry my last name and the ones I coach, just remember, don't let anyone take nothing away from you. They can't if you don't let them."
At one point an unidentified player spoke to the coach from the back of the room.
"Thank you coach," he said. "We love you."
"I love you, too," Embree responded.
Embree was fired Sunday after a 1-11 season and going 4-21 in his two years on the job. He was the first black head coach in the history of the program and the only coach to be given fewer than three full seasons on the job since 1962.
"If this decision were based on passion for CU and dedication, there is no doubt Jon would be coach for life," Chancellor Phil DiStefano said. "But it also has to be based upon progress and results, which we simply did not see enough this year.
"We looked at the performance on the field and did not see the development and the cohesion nor progressive strategy that gave us confidence in the future. That's why this decision was made."
CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard confirmed the total buyout for the three years remaining on Embree's contract and offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy's contract is $2.437,500. Hilliard said CU attorneys determined Monday Embree is owed $1.625 million and Bieniemy is owed $812,500.
No public funds will be used to pay the buyouts. They will be funded by private donations and other resources such as Pac-12 Conference television revenue.
Bohn said the school hasn't hired an outside consultant to aid its search but it has talked with at least one. The school is forming a search committee. Bohn said he has a favorite in mind for the job who is currently a head coach at another university. He said previous experience as a head coach is important to him.
Embree was hired in 2010 away from his job as tight ends coach with the Washington Redskins. He had no previous experience as a coordinator or head coach.
Bohn and DiStefano acknowledged they will have to significantly increase the annual salary of the next head coach to attract a coach with the right credentials. They said that could mean paying the next coach between $2 and $3 million annually. The rest of the staff will likely cost another $1.5-$2 million.
Embree and his entire staff were making less than $3 million combined.
Embree said as recently as Friday that he had been assured he was safe in his job. He said he doesn't know what changed between the season finale against Utah on Friday and his firing on Sunday.
"I don't know because I know Saturday Utah didn't get an extra touchdown," he said.
While most of Embree's assistant coaches were seen packing their belongings in the coaches' offices Monday the school has only officially fired Embree. Longtime sports information director Dave Plati said the next head coach will probably be given the option of retaining any members of Embree's staff.
Embree made it clear he doesn't agree with the decision to fire him. He said he thought he had the program heading in the right direction in every area and just hadn't been able to show it on the field. He said the university provided enough support for the program in some ways but not in others during his tenure. He was not specific about where CU fell short.
Embree said CU officials say they want to be competitive in the Pac-12 Conference and nationally, but the actions and choices made by administrators don't back that up on a day-to-day basis. Embree has worked behind a desk he brought from home because CU didn't want to buy a new desk. He routinely purchased water for everyone in the football offices. He said CU officials want a first-class program without devoting first-class resources to building it.
Embree said he wouldn't change his approach if given the opportunity to coach CU over again knowing he would only have two years to show improvement. He said he would have had to cut corners and put players in bad situations to do so and he would never be comfortable with that.
"Obviously disappointed sitting here today," Embree said. "I did things the right way. I don't care what they say or what anyone says."
When Embree completed his remarks he walked to the back of the room where he was surrounded by players who hugged him. It made an awkward event ever more uncomfortable because Bohn and DiStefano were forced to wait to begin explaining their decision and watch the outpouring of emotion.
CU President Bruce Benson is traveling out of the country but participated in the press conference via conference call.
"We desperately wanted it to work," Bohn said. "We had incredible hope and expectations for that to come together. We believe we provided the support to try and help Jon and his staff. I thought Jon was incredibly honest and I enjoyed working with Jon a great deal."
DiStefano and Bohn defended their decision to fire Embree for more than 30 minutes. Some of the toughest questions they faced were asked by former Buffs who are now members of the media such as Joel Klatt, Charles Johnson and Alfred Williams.
Klatt asked why CU fans should have confidence in them to hire another football coach after Dan Hawkins and Embree weren't successful.
"It's not an exact science in hiring coaches," DiStefano said.
DiStefano went on to defend Bohn and his track record at CU, saying Bohn is responsible for building a top-25 men's basketball program, as well as success in other programs in the department.
Bohn said he recognizes he has culpability in the failings of the football program but he is also proud of accomplishments under his watch.
"The landscape has changed across the country associated with college football," Bohn said. "The resources, exposure, the competitiveness and we're not going to be deterred. We've had headwinds with this program for quite some time and we've continued to have headwinds, but the alignment with leadership and so many other key stake holders has never been better."
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President Barack Obama asked huddling supporters in a chilly City Park on Wednesday to stick with him for another four years, calling his GOP opponent out of touch on America's problems and arguing that the presidential election is about trust.
Obama stood with sleeves rolled up beneath overcast skies and boasted about his frenetic schedule with nine swing state stops in a no-sleep 38-hour stretch, 13 days before the election.
In addition to Denver, he hit Iowa and Nevada on Wednesday in hopes of swaying those few — but extremely important — undecided voters in swing states.
"We've gone through three debates, months of campaigning, way too many TV ads," Obama said to a crowd of roughly 16,000. "When you choose a president, you don't know what's going to come up ... Trust matters."
Photos: Obama at Denver's City Park
The president then shifted into an attack on opponent GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, saying his plan is what "led to the Great Recession."
"He's hoping that you, too, will likely come down with a case of what we like to call 'Romnesia,' " he said.
This is the 11th time the president has come to Colorado in 2012.
Colorado's nine electoral votes are considered crucial in either an Obama or Romney victory in a presidential race that remains tight in the final stretch. The state's mail ballots went out last week, and early voting started Monday.
Adriane Gilbert of Denver said she sent in her mail ballot the same day last week that she received it.
At the rally Wednesday, she said she cried as Obama spoke. After he finished his speech, Gilbert got to shake his hand at the rope line.
"He's powerful," she said. "I'm speechless."
Obama's visit follows one by his Republican opponent less than 24 hours before at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. GOP hopeful Mitt Romney and his vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan packed the Jefferson County outdoor venue.
Although polls indicate the race statistically tied in Colorado, Obama supporters say they feel confident they'll win because of their grassroots organization.
"The offices are cranking. In my 30 years involved in politics, I've never seen field organization like that," said Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, who shared the stage with the president Wednesday.
The Romney campaign, though, projected confidence on Wednesday, after a packed rally. At an appearance at a campaign office in Cherry Creek, Matt Romney, the nominee' second-oldest son, said momentum was on the campaign's side.
"The enthusiasm has built a ton," he said. "I think people are underestimating how much support is out there."
Matt Romney criticized Obama's campaign message as, "Just trust me. I'll keep working on it."
Obama on Wednesday stressed that consistency and record matter. He ticked off some accomplishments in his first term, including the repealing of "don't ask don't tell," the killing of Osama bin Laden and keeping taxes low for middle_ class families.
"I mean what I say, I do what I say I'm going to do," he said. "We haven't finished everything we want to get done ... But every single day I step foot in the Oval Office, I'm fighting for families."
His motorcade left within an hour or so of arriving, but he gave notice that this may not be his last stop in Colorado in the next 13 days.
Obama said, "This may not be the last time you see me."
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Contract 'not strong enough'
Ionia Public Schools Superintendent Patricia Batista is declining the offer of the superintendent position from the West Shore Educational Service District.
"I am honored to have been chosen by this excellent intermediate school district, but I have decided to stay in my current position as superintendent of Ionia Public Schools. The offer WSESD extended is generous, but not strong enough to compel me to leave what I have right here in Ionia," said Batista in a statement to all IPS staff.
WSESD board members began searching for a new superintendent in the fall of last year and considered Batista as a finalist following an interview March 14. A second interview took place this week and the board offered her the position.
In her statement, Batista said she feels she desires to stay in Ionia because she wants to support important initiatives in the district, is proud to work with the community, families, students and staff she has been part of for more than 22 years and because she has many family members and friends within the Ionia community.
This year is her ninth as superintendent for the district.
Calls to get in contact with WSESD executive assistant Tracy Lilje were not returned.
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Cenotes and Whale Sharks 2010, Mexico, trip thread
Posted 27 July 2010 - 09:01 PM
I wish I had photos to share, but I was shooting video. In fact, today was my first day with my underwater 3D video setup! I am excited to present my first processed clip:
Use red-cyan glasses for this 3D video (and view full screen for best results)
More details about the clip and workflow can be found on a journal post on my website.
We head to Isla Mujeres on Friday for some whale shark aggregation action. Shawn Heinrichs is there right now with his group, and Jim Abernethy and his group just left.
I'm going to direct the other folks on this trip here. Hopefully, there will be others posting as well.
Posted 28 July 2010 - 04:49 AM
I wish I had photos to share, but I was shooting video. In fact, today was my first day with my underwater 3D video setup! I am excited to present my first processed clip:
I need to get a pair of those glasses, but the footage looks good. Whale Sharks, Cenotes - I am officially jealous
Posted 28 July 2010 - 05:52 AM
And I am indeed jealous of the lovely view you were having outside the dive shop and the views you are having/will have on the trip.
Nauticam D7000, Inon Z-240's, 60 micro, 105 micro, Tokina 10-17
Posted 28 July 2010 - 07:38 AM
Hey Eric,
I hope the little turtles at those Cenotes are cooperative for you. They would be quite cute on video. Their shell growth makes them look like moving bushes with legs and head.
And I am indeed jealous of the lovely view you were having outside the dive shop and the views you are having/will have on the trip.
I was there this past April. The guides forgot to tell us about the helocline. As I approached it, I thought my masked had fogged up. Took my mask off to clear it the "fog" and by the time I got my mask back on and cleared I was in the helocline and everything was a total blurr. I though to myself, "what the hell did I do to my mask?", and then realized what it was that I was in. Had a few words with the guides when we surfaced, everyone got a chuckle out of it and I still smile when I tell that story.
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 04:38 PM
The guys shooting video got as far away from our constant strobe action as fast as possible. Oh well, so much for plans! We didn't get much further before we stopped again to shoot some phenomenal formations just inside the entrance. Sometimes the cenotes are really visual overload.
Alexis and Nathalie checking out some of the formations
Wolcott got some great shots of the formations with natural light from the "second eye" of Dos Ojos in the background.
Tomorrow we head to Taj Mahal for some impressive light shows. All my staff at the shop are fascinated with Erics 3D rig. They've finally found a s use for those 3D glasses they got out the cereal box!
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Tomorrow we head to Taj Mahal for some impressive light shows.
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(Cool work...and I know how gnarly the workflow is!)
Having a diver subject and clear water with landscape made for some good stereoscopic effect.
Keep up the great work!!
Looking forward to seeing much more~
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 11:54 AM
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Posted 31 July 2010 - 06:55 PM
But first, here are 4 images from two dives at Kulkulkan and Chac-Mool cenotes. I only took my still camera in for 2 dives because I was focused in 3D video, but the caves were too beautiful not to get a few still shots.
A sign in a halocline warns divers of impending death upon further exploration of the beginning of a long cave system (Cenote Kulkulkan, Mexico)
Sterling Zumbrunn contemplates his future while in a shimmering halocline at Cenote Kulkulkan, Mexico.
Sterling Zumbrunn at Cenote Kulkulkan, Mexico
Cave diver at Cenote Chac-Mool, Mexico
Our group (me, Sterling Zumbrunn, Wolcot Henry, Heidi Connal, Alexis Tabah and Nathalie Ssi-Yan-Kai) had a one-day overlap with Shawn Heinrichs, Rob Stewart, Bob McNerney, and Brian, who had been here for the last trip out to the whale shark aggregation.
There is simply no good way to photograph 300 whale sharks, but I do have some topside images from the tuna tower that probably show 50 in a frame.
I shot mostly video today, but here are a few stills:
Two whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) feed in a bonito spawning event off of Isla Mujeres, Mexico
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) feeds in a bonito spawning event off of Isla Mujeres, Mexico
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) feeds in a bonito spawning event off of Isla Mujeres, Mexico
A silhouette of a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) feeding in a bonito spawning event off of Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Posted 01 August 2010 - 10:43 AM
I just returned from 2 back-to-back trips in Isla Mujeres. Undoubtably the best place in the world for whale sharks. We had a minimum of 100 whale sharks each day on the water and on the big days, between 200 and 400! With numbers that high, one can only guess at the true count of sharks in the area. Here are a handful of images from the trips. Note: other than a quick levels and WB adjust, these images are otherwise unedited.
Rob Stewart and Shawn Heinrichs filming in the tuna tower
Arriving at the aggregation
Whale sharks converge around boat
Bobby McNerney jumps into the action - whale sharks everywhere!
Rob Stewart with 5D and Shawn Heinrichs with EX1 film topside action
Shawn filming whale shark
Shawn with several whale sharks
Whale shark gulping bonito eggs
Shawn filming whale shark with EX1
Whale shark filtering eggs on surface
Whale shark in blue water
Shawn filming whale shark with 3D rig
More 3D filming
Danielle Heinrichs tries her hand at 3D
Danielle shooting more 3D
Watch out!
Nice lipstick!
Shawn with whale shark on surface
Parting shot
Marshall Lally, Shawn Heinrichs, Rob Stewart, Bobby McNerney - celebrating after a great day on the water!
Posted 01 August 2010 - 06:13 PM
We have had incredible luck out here so far. Today, there were in excess of 500 whale sharks out there (by Rogelio's count), and it was sunny and absolutely dead calm. The surface of the water was like a mirror.
I am way behind in processing images and video. I'm running:
5D Mark II (stills and video)
Dual Sony CX550V 3D rig
Dual GoPro
That's 6 cameras worth of downloads and processing, not to mention the time-consuming 3D workflow. It's killing me.
Here's a slow motion whale shark gulp
Here's the same gulp in 3D. (converted to black and white because red-blue anaglyph obviously doesn't work with blue water in the picture)
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This has been an unbelievable trip! I'm joining the team after nine days in Cocos, and I thought the diving there would be tough to top, but this trip has been even more epic! The cenotes were gorgeous (thanks for hosting us Karen, it was awesome) and the first two days with the whale sharks were simply mind-blowing. I'm pretty beat, and dealing with data management issues (shooting around 50GB per day), so I don't have too much more to say at this juncture. I'll let the pictures do the heavy lifting.
Alex, Eric and our cave guide, Jean Loup
Eric ready to do a cave dive.
A cave diver in the Taj Majal Cenote
Eric swimming with his 3D rig through the Jardin de Eden Cenote
Whale shark aggregation from the tuna tower. This is the only way to get a true perspective of this wildlife spectacle.
Whale sharks feeding on bonito spawn at the surface
Watching these animals feed is an unbelievable experience.
Eric puts his camera in for a mouth's eye view.
Conditions are remarkably calm - flat enough to do splits.
A "botella" happens in the afternoon when a whale shark parks upright and stays in one position for a few minutes. Incredible to watch.
While the number of sharks is less at the edge of the school, the visibility is better due to the diminished concentration of spawn.
Eric filming in 3D from the bow of the Lilly M.
What a privilege to spend so much time in the water with these gorgeous animals.
Posted 01 August 2010 - 09:16 PM
The split is remarkable. I thought it was amazing to swim with one whale shark at a time; seeing 5 in one day was great!
I can't even imagine how this was!
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My great great grandfather, Samuel ETHERINGTON, was a "brickwall" for many years. For only 1 of his children could I find a baptism (in 1859) and that document referred to "Samuel Etherington, engineer". Every other reference was to "Samuel Etherington, builder".
Except one – when his daughter Emily married in 1883, her father was named as "Samuel Etherington, baker". I could not find Samuel born, married or died, nor immigrating – he just seemed to be there, fathering children. I tried all sorts of spelling variations, hunted him through directories, electoral rolls and every other source I could find. I followed the family's rates payments to local councils. I learned a lot about his life – but not where he was born or died.
Eventually I expanded the search and started researching everyone surnamed ETHERINGTON in 19th century Australia, placing them in families and looking for a Samuel. (Fortunately the name was not too common.) When that didn't solve the mystery, I expanded the search further, looking for those families' origins back in England. I found one possibility – Thomas ETHERINGTON (who migrated from England to Sydney) had had a brother Samuel born in England, whose death I could not find.
By this time Internet bulletin boards and email lists were available. Wherever I could, I posted queries – did anybody know anything about this English ETHERINGTON family of Thomas and Samuel? Eventually somebody saw my message who knew someone who knew something – and he put me in touch with a lady in England who held family documents which explained the puzzle.
This lady's ancestor had received a letter from Australia in 1903, from a Henry HOLMES, who wrote – "you don't know me but I am the son of your brother Samuel ETHERINGTON, who has been living here in Australia under the name of Samuel HOLMES". Henry HOLMES was the oldest son of Samuel and Hester HOLMES. With that clue, things started falling into place.
Samuel HOLMES, baker, had 6 children surnamed HOLMES with Hester HOLMES. Samuel ETHERINGTON, builder, had 8 children surnamed ETHERINGTON with Sarah EVERETT. I'm guessing that the dual lives must have been revealed at some point, hence the ETHERINGTON daughter's marriage certificate, naming Samuel ETHERINGTON as a baker, just before Samuel ETHERINGTON disappeared from the records.
It appears that Samuel eventually abandoned the ETHERINGTON family and moved away with his son Henry HOLMES, until his death (as Samuel HOLMES) in 1903 in Bombala (southern NSW). In 2003 I visited England and saw where Samuel was born in Bermondsey – later that same year I visited Bombala and saw his grave.
Because I had hunted so hard for Samuel, for more than 10 years, I eventually knew a lot about him. When I found that bankruptcy file (mentioned in an earlier blog post) for Samuel HOLMES, it included the signature of Samuel HOLMES, baker. The English ETHERINGTON family had a prayer book inscribed by Samuel ETHERINGTON – what do you think of the 2 signatures?
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Comparing the two signatures, I would say that they are probably by the same person. There are some convincing similarities e.g the slant, the neatness, the embellishment, the lower case e. I think you have solved your problem. If Hester was not deceased when Samuel married Sarah, then you have a reason for the name change too. You have certainly made a case for the two individuals being one and the same. Well done!
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The Chiefs are one of more interesting teams in the league, and could be one of the easiest to rebuild. In my opinion, the following owould be the best way:
1. Be very, very active in free agency and fix your lines.
Sign free agents O-linemen Jordan Gross (LT) and Marc Colombo (RT) to long term deals. Both are under 30. Overpay both of them if you have to and you will). Make gross the highest paid o-lineman in the league if you have to (and you'll have to) - just get them signed. This will also allow you to move Albert back to his natural position at RG and shoudl give the Chiefs an above average o-line.
Then sign Julius Pepper, Terrell Suggs, and Albert Haynesworth to long term deals for your d-line. All are under 30. Overpay them if you have to. Keep Dorsey at DT. The Chiefs will have the cap room to do this, even if you ignore step 2.
2. Clear out the dead weight.
Cut Brodie Croyle, Tamba Hali, MacIntosh, Donnie Edwards, all WRs not named Bowe, Pollard, Tank, Turk, Surtain, and every other project player that hasn't worked out. Try to trade those tradable and cut the rest.
3. Fix the QB position
Sign JP Losman to a two-year deal for near the minimum. Draft Stafford out of Georgia with the overall number 1 pick (which KC probably will have). Sit Stafford for a year at least and don't get him killed.
4. Convince Gonzalez and Waters not to retire.
This will be difficult, but a new regime committed to winning might be able to do it.
5. Don't cut or trade LJ
It makes no sense to cut him and eat his cap hit. Try to get 2-3 good years out of him. Behind a revamped line and with a good QB, he may become rejuvinated.
6. Draft well
Everyone needs to stop pretending Herm Edwards has drafted well. He hasn't, and most of his draft picks will be out of the league when their rookie contracts are up.
Even if the free agency plan above goes to plan, the Chiefs are still deficient at most positions. Stafford in the 1st round, and some mixture of WR, OL, LB, and CB over the rest. Do NOT draft any more DTs, RBs, TEs, or Ss.
7. Clean out the coaches and management personnel
Even if they weren't terrible at their jobs (and they are), you need to do this to rebuild faith in the franchise.
Cowher probably won't coach here (quit dreaming, people). Get Lane Kiffin (at least he'll care about Raiders games). Let him rebuild his staff. Throw a dumptruck of money at Scott Pioli to GM here.
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The spectacular High Sierra features almost limitless opportunities for exploration. Over the past few years I have had the opportunity to visit many places in the "range of light" but the gorgeous views and memorable experiences keep me coming back for more! Here are some adventure run ideas for the High Sierra for this summer:
- The Whaleback and Big Wet Meadow: One of the most remote spots in the entire range, it takes 18 miles just to reach Big Wet Meadow in order to get a glimpse of The Whaleback, but I hear the views of the sheer granite cliffs and meadows are magical. A trip here would be a good opportunity to climb peaks on the Great Western Divide, including Milestone, Midway, and Centennial.
- Dusy Basin and North Palisade: A trip over Bishop Pass to Dusy Basin provides an awe-inspiring view of the West side of the Palisades group of extremely rugged peaks. Last year I climbed Mount Agassiz and Columbine Peak. Next time it would be nice to climb North Palisade, the highest point in the Palisades at 14,248 ft.
- Palisades Circumnavigation: A complete tour of the Palisades Group including passage through five high passes: Scimitar Pass, Potluck Pass, Thunderbolt Pass, and Jigsaw Pass.
- Benson Lake Loop: A big loop (over 45 miles) out of Twin Lakes down to a large alpine lake with a full fledged beach and then up the spectacular Matterhorn canyon with great views of Sawtooth Ridge. This aesthetic loop has a nice chunk along the PCT. I visited the beginning and end of this loop last year on my run of the Crown Point Lollipop last year.
- Hamilton Lakes and Kaweah Gap: Last year we visited this spectacular section of the High Sierra Trail and climbed Mount Stewart. This area has tremendous views and the magnificent amphitheater of rock walls of the Valhallas surrounding the Hamilton Lakes has been likened to a little Yosemite Valley. It was also great to visit Precipice Lake, location of Ansel Adams' famous photo "Frozen Lake and Cliffs." The only difference is that the entrance to this place is 16 miles from the nearest trailhead. The views were so amazing that I plan to return this year and climb a different peak, perhaps Eagle Scout Peak or Lion Rock. As a run, the High Sierra Trail from Crescent Meadow to Bearpaw camp is very enjoyable and runnable stretch of trail.
- Arrow Peak via Bench Lake: The view of Arrow Peak from Bench Lake is one of the classic views in the Sierra. It's quite a slog to get back there via Taboose Pass, but it looks like it will be worth it!
- Lyell and Maclure: I climbed these peaks in 2008, but look forward to returning for a faster time. The first several miles along Lyell Canyon are mostly flat and smooth running.
- Great Western Divide Traverse: One of the most remote and rugged areas in the High Sierra. These peaks form a spectacular skyline from the Sierra Crest. There are many options and routes up various peaks.
- Russell-Whitney-Muir: Fun scrambling up Russell and the north face of Whitney on this very aesthetic loop of the Whitney region.
- Mount Langley: Another great trail run up the southermost fourteener in the Sierras and one of the highest trailheads at over 10,000 feet.
- John Muir Trail: 222 miles from Whitney Portal to Yosemite Valley, the JMT is one of the most famous trails in the world. At the very least, I'd like to cover significant portions of this trail that I have not already seen to prepare for a future speed attempt.


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"Fighting" – the title alone makes it unmistakably clear: this is about the Aries-subject par excellence. A young street hawker with a great talent for fighting is discovered by a clever wheeler dealer and introduced to New York's underground world of street fighting – it is the old tale about a fighter, who would not at any price allow himself to lose. This story has often been told in movies, but yet it can still be fun to see incorruptible and pure Aries-energy occupied with its favorite pastime...
It is the particular abilities and talents we are endowed with as well as the things or people we appreciate and love, that ascertain our identity and make us feel secure – one of Taurus' pivotal denotations. In "Julie & Julia" we watch two women discovering their talents and searching for that certainty with great taste and a lot of perseverance. One of them, Julia Child (sensuous and earthy, played by Meryl Streep) in the early sixties brings French cuisine into American homes, in 2002 the other one, Julie Powell, cooks her way through Julia's recipes and reports about it in her blog (thus building a bridge to following Gemini)...
"The Taking of Pelham 123" – a wordy title and a movie which along with the popular Aries-motif of a race against time focuses on the criminals' cleverly plotted modus operandi and the mental duel between the two antagonists and thus gets a lot of Gemini-quality. John Travolta as the equally eloquent and brutal gangster with a Wall Street past and Denzel Washington as the quick thinking transit executive negotiate hostages, time and money transfers in a movie that might be a bit superfluous, but has it's strong moments, when the ordinariness of daily life (e.g. a hero's wife's request to bring some milk on his way home) slows down the speeding cinematography.
A grumpy old man feels ousted from "his America" and decides to pursue an old dream and go on a trip – without leaving his home, which he converts into a flying object by a myriad of balloons. Involuntarily a little boy scout with a sunny disposition accompanies him as a stowaway, since his search for adventures and good deeds brought him to the flying house. Of course he befriends the misanthrope. The animated film "Up" is a lovable modern fairy tale about dreams, emotional bonds and human strengths and weaknesses.
Based on Eliot Tiber's memoirs – he's the man who made the greatest rock festival in the history of music possible – Ang Lee's latest, humorous film "Taking Woodstock" is dedicated to this extraordinary event's local background and atmospherically emphasizes joy and high spirits in a story that touches on the Aquarius-topic of oddity as well as on the Leo-motifs of creative self-expression, self-fulfillment and the love for music and happy partying.
Margarete von Trotta's biography of belatedly acknowledged naturopathic healer and mystic, "Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen" (no official English title, literal translation: "Vision – From the life of Hildegard von Bingen") is a film, which with its depiction of the hard-working and humble life in convents expresses the energy of the Virgo-Pisces-axis and thereby includes the ambivalence between individual and revolutionary vision ("it is our divine right to rule and decide for ourselves" – quoted from the trailer) and accustomed, obedient traditionalism, that is mirrored in the recent opposition between Saturn in Virgo and Uranus in Pisces. The character of Hildegard von Bingen also provides a rare cinematic image of the Vesta-archetype with its signature features of autonomy, the inner fire, the bond with nature etc.
Because of a genetic anomaly Henry De Tamble keeps traveling through time involuntarily. His abrupt and unpredictable appearing and disappearing – corresponding Uranus in Pisces – complicates his relationship with Clare, who was a child, when she met him for the first time and whose life has been determined by his time travels and her love for him ever since. "The Time Traveler's Wife" is a Libra-typical romantic and charming story of love and relationship with lots of emotion (emphasizing Cancer) and an unusual impediment, which could also be read as a metaphor for running from commitment or the estrangement in love (Uranus in Pisces!).
Lars von Trier's scandalous new film "Antichrist" is a psychological tour de force. After their baby son had died in a horrible accident, a psychotherapist attempts a kind of vivisection on his wife's soul by forcing her to confront her greatest fears and thus triggers a furious and bloody fight, which crosses all boundaries and literally cuts to their bones. Along with the internal Scorpio-hell, the outer scenery – an isolated cabin in the woods, with the morbidly humorous name "Eden", as well as the gloomy and eerie imagery – largely represents Capricorn-quality. A more graphic depiction of the current Pluto in Capricorn hasn't been in theatres a lot until now…
With its story about jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann and her intersexual rival Marie Ketteler the German film "Berlin 36" combines several complex issues that belong to Sagittarius: A critical look on discrimination, intolerance and narrow-mindedness, the overcoming of all that through mental generosity, the physical equivalent of broadening intellectual horizons is also found in the ambitious athletic competition. But there's also the racial megalomania of a "Third Reich" that pursues universal power. Moreover, the beginning and intention of the Olympic Games once was a religious ritual dedicated to godfather Zeus and the quest for sublime knowledge, expressing pure Sagittarius-energy.
The South African drama "Disgrace" focuses on the consequences radical changes in social power relations have and the ways of dealing with them. In an adaptation of J.M. Coetzees award-winning novel John Malkovich portrays the cynical professor of literature David Lurie, an intellectual with an openly egotistical attitude towards women. Malkovich's masterful mannerisms imbue the character with Libra- and Aquarius-qualities. After a scandal about an affair with a student Lurie quits and changes the university campus for his daughter's farm, where by dramatic events he is forced to deal with the Capricorn-issues of guilt and atonement, moral and responsibility.
Not only because of their technical gimmicks Science-fiction movies mostly belong to Aquarius, but also because they deal with the topic of being alien, being different and highlight the relations between individual and community. "District 9" is about the marginalization and discrimination of Aliens, who were forced to land on earth because of some technical problems in their ship many years ago. Our attitudes toward refugees are not accidentally mirrored in this film. Yet there is also a sentimental father-son-plot and combined with the aliens longing for their home planet - this adds some qualities of the Cancer-Capricorn-axis…
The hypnotic rhythms and the often dreamy cinematography of his films made Wong Kar-wei one of the most renowned directors of Hongkong-cinema. Varying the genre of Chinese Martial Arts epos, "Ashes of Time: Redux" ("Dung che sai duk") in its story covers a range of topics from sword fighting to schizophrenia (Aries to Pisces), yet the meditative atmosphere, the images that sometimes even appear abstract and the emphasis on excessive, ecstatic visuals create the Pisces-like quality of this film, that was shot in 1994 and now revised.
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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