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The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it was requiring companies that make Ambien and similar sleeping pills to sharply cut the doses of the drugs.
The agency says it is taking the step for the brands Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar and Zolpimist, as well as generic versions of Ambien, because tests showed the active ingredient in the medications, zolpidem, stays in the body longer than had been thought. That raises the possibility that people taking the drugs will remain drowsy the next day, making activities such as driving and operating heavy machinery dangerous.
"To decrease the potential risk of impairment with all insomnia drugs, health care professionals should prescribe and patients should take the lowest dose capable of treating the patient's insomnia," Ellis Unger, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in the statement.
The problem is especially a concern for women because the drug tends to stay in their bodies longer than it does in men, the FDA says.
As a result, the FDA is ordering companies to cut the dose for women from 10 milligrams to 5 milligrams for immediate-release products — which include Ambien, Edluar and Zolpimist — and from 12.5 milligrams to 6.25 milligrams for the extended-release product Ambien CR.
In addition, the FDA ordered companies to change the labeling on the drug for men, recommending doctors consider prescribing the same lower doses for them.
"Patients who must drive in the morning or perform some other activity requiring full alertness should talk to their health care professional about whether their sleep medicine is appropriate," Unger says.
The move does not affect other popular sleeping pills that contain different active ingredients, such as Lunesta and Sonata. But in an interview with NPR, Unger said the agency is evaluating those as well.
The agency has long known that all these products can leave people drowsy in the morning, says Unger, and there have been about 700 reports of people getting in traffic accidents after taking them.
About 40 million prescriptions for drugs containing zolpidem were dispensed in 2011, making them the most widely used sleeping pills, according to IMS Health, which monitors drug sales.
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And I'm Melissa Block.
The Food and Drug Administration says people who take some of the most popular sleeping medicines should be taking much lower doses. The FDA points to new research showing that when people get up the next day, the drugs are still in their bodies and they can't drive as safely. Here's NPR's Rob Stein to report on the dangers.
ROB STEIN, BYLINE: The FDA is changing the dose for drugs sold under the brand names Ambien, Zolpimist and Edluar, as well as generic forms of these medications. These are the most widely used insomnia treatments out there. Ellis Unger is an FDA scientist. He says the agency has known for a long time that there can be some dangerous side effects when people are on these drugs to try to sleep.
DR. ELLIS UNGER: We've known for years that all of these drugs sedate. That you should think about driving. You should understand how the drug works in you. You shouldn't operate heavy machinery.
STEIN: And this isn't the first time the agency has issued an alert about these medications. About five years ago, the FDA warned that these medicines can sometimes make people do strange things while they're sleeping.
UNGER: We're talking about cooking or driving or actually having sex while asleep.
STEIN: But now new studies say that these sleep aids can leave people groggy the next day because the medications are still in their bodies after they wake up in the morning.
UNGER: So this for us was a bit of a red flag.
STEIN: And driving tests confirmed that people taking these drugs can be dangerously impaired even after the medications have supposedly worn off.
UNGER: It wasn't until we received the new data where we got the blood levels and the driving simulation studies and we better identified the frequency of next morning impairment.
STEIN: It looks like this is a much bigger problem for women than men. The drugs just seem to hang around a lot longer in their bodies for some reason.
UNGER: The way the drug is metabolized in women is just slightly more slow.
STEIN: So the FDA ordered the companies that make them to cut the doses for women in half. But just to be on the safe side, the FDA is also recommending that doctors prescribe about half the dose for men too. And the worry isn't just for people driving or operating heavy machinery.
UNGER: A patient who is a lifeguard or, you know, runs a daycare and has a room of children, those activities require vigilance also.
STEIN: The FDA's decision came as a surprise to some doctors like Sam Fleishman, president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
DR. SAM FLEISHMAN: It makes us all as providers think about caution before we start prescribing these medications at the doses that we routinely prescribe them.
STEIN: Fleishman says some patients who depend on the drugs to treat their insomnia are likely to get frustrated if the lower dose just doesn't work as well.
FLEISHMAN: Not only does it make them feel fatigued and tired the next day, but it can precipitate other medical problems. If people don't sleep well, sometimes it exacerbates their, for example, migraine headaches or, you know, their pain issues get worse.
STEIN: Some people even end up missing a lot of work. Another worry is that if the lower doses don't work as well, that could leave some people so tired from lack of sleep that they get into car accidents and have other problems.
FLEISHMAN: I am concerned there may be a little bit of a backfire with this report.
STEIN: The FDA stresses that patients should consult with their doctors to make sure they're getting the dose they need to sleep well but wake up alert and ready for the day. Now, the FDA hasn't cut the doses of other popular sleeping pills such as Lunesta and Sonata, but that's only because officials haven't taken a close look at those drugs yet. That's something they're planning to do now. Rob Stein, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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STOCKTON - Two women working at a gas station Thursday described the harrowing scene that unfolded inside and outside their store a day earlier when police shot a fugitive wanted for a DUI traffic collision that injured two California Highway Patrol officers.
STOCKTON - Two women working at a gas station Thursday described the harrowing scene that unfolded inside and outside their store a day earlier when police shot a fugitive wanted for a DUI traffic collision that injured two California Highway Patrol officers.
When the shooting occurred shortly after noon Wednesday, the women were inside the store in the 1600 block of West Fremont Street with six customers, including two young boys. Officers fired multiple shots at Nathaniel Smith, 43, as he attempted to carjack a Ford Expedition in the parking lot, authorities said. The sound of gunshots triggered a momentary state of panic inside the store, said the employees, each of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared for their safety.
"We heard shots, and all my customers ducked," one employee said. "One lady threw her son back inside the store. Another lady grabbed her son and put him behind the beer and told him to get down. It scared the crap out of me. I've never heard gunshots before, so it freaked me out."
Smith was shot at least once and underwent surgery at a hospital, where he was listed in critical but stable condition Thursday, police said. Smith's mother, Katherine Smith, said she was given little information and not permitted to see her son again Thursday.
"I'll be on the hospital steps protesting (today)," she said. "If my son dies and I don't get to see him, I'm going to be very angry."
Nathaniel Smith was sentenced to nine years in prison after an April 3, 2010, DUI collision with a CHP patrol car left two officers seriously injured, but he failed to surrender to authorities, police said. Police sent out news releases in recent weeks seeking the public's help in apprehending Smith, and on Wednesday they received a call advising them that Smith was at a home in the 1200 block of West Harding Way.
One officer spotted Smith getting into an Oldsmobile Bravada driven by a pregnant woman, identified by police as 31-year-old Natasha Whitfield. Another officer attempted to stop the Bravada as it traveled south on North Pershing Avenue, police said.
Smith exited the vehicle, ran up an embankment and crossed eight lanes of traffic on Interstate 5 before barreling down the embankment on the other side of the freeway toward the gas station's parking lot, authorities said. It was then that one of the gas station employees saw Smith coming down the embankment.
"He was rolling down the hill on his side," she said. "I always look up there, because I've seen kids up there playing before. I just thought it was a grown man being an idiot."
When Smith reached the parking lot, he attempted to steal a silver sport utility vehicle, police said. Authorities said witnesses told them Smith shouted that he had a gun, but he was unarmed, police said. He was inside the vehicle on the passenger's side when he was shot, witnesses said.
The gas station's parking lot was cordoned off by yellow crime scene tape, and surrounding streets were closed for hours as law enforcement officials investigated as part of a multiagency protocol investigation into the shooting. Witnesses who were inside and outside the store were taken to the Police Department to be interviewed. The gas station didn't reopen until about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, employees said.
"It was scary," one of the employees said. "I've never experienced anything like that."
Contact reporter Jason Anderson at (209) 546-8279 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/crimeblog.

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I Surrender Dear (1931): Bing Crosby, the radio singing sensation and future movie megastar, is seen here in one of his very first screen roles, as a cafe and radio singer whose "eye for the ladies" results in non-stop comic fun�including slapstick run-ins with a dueling-obsessed marquis (Luis Alberni).
Little Jack Little Revue (1934): Musical master of ceremonies, Little Jack Little, croons his own song "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town," introduces the Do-Re-Mi Girls and singer-accordionist Gypsy Nina, performs the patriotic toe-tapper "There's Something About a Soldier."
Styles and Smiles (1938): A lively lineup of entertainers are on hand at the opening of a new fur salon, among them singer Virginia Verrill, dancers Harrison and Fischer, and loose-limbed acrobatic dancer Marion Daniels, who made real-life news the following year by traveling to Germany to dance for Hitler!
Sing for Sweetie (1938): A young June Allyson pines for a handsome supper club singer despite the objections of her fianc� and parents. There are plenty of comic complications - including the intrusion of some scar-faced gangsters!


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Softball Spring Break Trip Blog
Follow along as the Dartmouth softball team blogs its way across the Sunshine State during its annual spring break trip. Big Green players will share stories and photos from the trip so make sure to check in on DartmouthSports.com each day to see what the Big Green are up to in Florida.
Day 1: Welcome To Florida
We had a long and tiring but successful first day in Florida! Our "morning" began at 4am when we met outside the locker room to load the bus and make sure all the equipment was packed. After a sleep-inducing bus ride to Manchester, we made it through the crowded lines and past security without a hitch.
Luckily, we had a direct flight into Tampa and arrived around 10 a.m. After finding a Starbucks at baggage claim, we re-energized and headed to lunch. We excitedly returned to our perennial favorite, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, but were disappointed to find that they discontinued our favorite sandwich: grilled flatbread with peanut butter, granola, banana and honey. The quality Blimey Limey smoothies made up for it though. Then we checked into the hotel and most of us napped before our opening game. After a quick PB&J+fruit snack break by the hotel pool, we headed to the complex to play Robert Morris.
Our first and only game of the day started and ended strong for us. Slightly exhausted from waking up early for our long day of traveling, we were able to refocus on the game and pull out the W. Rums pitched a full game against the Colonials as both teams battled throughout the full seven innings. It was 0-0 until the 4th inning when Morgan McCalmon got on base and began the string of hits that led us to scoring three consecutive runs. We held the Colonials to a 3-0 ball game and prevailed as the winning team!
After the game we headed to one of our favorite eateries for dinner, Chipotle. Katie Adams in a flurry of excitement and hunger tripped over a curb and into a sharp bush while trying to get in through the back door. In line she made a mess with her oozing blood from her tumble. Napkins were needed. After backing up the line as well as ordering just about all the food Chipotle had, we all relaxed and ate to our heart's content. After dinner, we headed back to the hotel for our postgame team meeting, and then headed off to our rooms, anxiously awaiting the moment our heads could hit our pillows for a good night's rest after a long, successful day.
Jonele Conceicao, Morgan Wharton & Alex Jarvis
Day Two: The Post-Exam Glow
The day started a little slow for the Big Green after the post-finals adrenaline wore off. However, by the 6th inning, our bats finally joined the game, stringing some hits together, but it was too little too late. After a fortifying meal and a two-hour retreat in the shade, the Green had all the rest they needed to push through the final game of the day against Quinnipiac. Luckily the bats were hot, making up for some mathematical mistakes regarding outs and pitch counts. Kristen Rumley pitched a shutout and Morgan McCalmon helped the offense with a clutch home run. The Big Green pulled away with a 4-0 win. Starved and exhausted, made a quick pit stop at the hotel to get some much needed ice and then headed to Panera. After waiting impatiently for dinner, the Big Green scarfed down their meals and headed back to the hotel. It was a very early night for most and some even passed out by 8:30 (Katie Miller, I'm looking at you.) Tomorrow the team takes on Liberty and Maryland in the final two games of the tournament.
Day Three: Video Blog
In an effort to keep this new and exciting, Kristen Rumley and Brianna Lohmann dedcided to do a video blog for today's post. Take a peek, you know you want to!
Day Four: ABC's of Dartmouth Softball
Today was our off day here in Florida! We all had a great time, as you could imagine! But, instead of telling you about it, we are going to do the ABC's with Dartmouth Softball!!
Cotton pants...who thought that was a good idea in Florida?!
Do one more
EBAs in the KDE basement
Fried food (prohibition of)
Gladiator Ball
Humidity in Florida is not good for our hair
Ivy Champs 2013!!!!
Jarvy loves to harmonize
Katie's....got a gun
Lincoln Memorial (selfless with)
Morgan, Alex, and Rachel are the best, amiright?!
New Hampshire skin is so grim
Off day today, practice day tomorrow!!!
Quipment (forgotten often)
Tropical Smoothie
Umm....is it really snowing in Hanover....??
Valentine's treats, consumed by Vanover's Dog
We wished you a Merry Christmas
Xoxo, lots of love from room 202!!
Yup yup green!
Zzzzzzzzz, sleep we are finally getting now that finals are done!
Editors note: They did forget R and S in the original post above so I decided to help them out:
Run Test, Fun Test
Salisbury Steak
Alex St. Romain, Rachel Hein and Morgan McCalmon
Day Five: Rapper's Delight
Check out this rap from the catchers, Katie Adams and Kathy Dzienkowski. The music video is below as well.The best part is the gold elevator in the background, really sets the tone:)
The lyrics are below:
Now this is the story all about how
D softball went crazy in this town
And we'd like to take a minute just don't be late
We'll tell you how we became the queens of the sunshine state
In beautiful Florida, our bodies worn
On the diamond is where we spent most of the morn
Hitting throwing and fielding never felt like a chore
We were getting all sweaty from always one more
When a couple hours passed we returned to the pad
Relaxed or swam around or hung out with dad
Our coaches said one little thing and we instantly knew
To Mugs and Jugs we would go, it felt too good to be true
Turns out that was so, because we had to leave
Instead staged a poetry slam, don't disbelieve
The 15s and 13s gave the performances of their lives
Coaches talked it over and the seniors won the whole prize
But the best was celebrating Rhi turning twenty
All in all it was a good day and we had laughs a plenty
Tomorrow we travel to USF to play
But for now Katie and Kathy signing off for the day
Day Six: #HashTagMuch?
#happybirthdayrhi #dontshakethetable
Hillary Hubert, Kelsey Miller & Rhiannon Saucedo
Day Seven: Dartmouth Softball: A Slam Poem
Last day
Long drive
To Quiznos
No, to subway
Coach says hurry
We played tough
tough loss
Salad and Starbucks
shower and sleep
Take two tomorrow
(Take two)
Alex Jarvis, Jonele Conceicao, Morgan Wharton
Day Eight: On the Road Again
Today we have to leave this oasis of a hotel and travel across the sunshine state. After a relaxed morning around the hotel, we enjoyed a traditional pregame meal at Panera Bread.
We then began our LONG trek in the minis towards Fort Myers. In order to make our own fun, we worked on our relays in the parking lot of the gas station while the coaches were filling up.
We then began a wild goose chase to find a sandwich shop for lunch. Coach Hanson is always the leader of the pack so the vans followed her nose to nose trying to find a Quiznos. After driving 20 miles out of the way, the restaurant was no longer open for business. We then settled for Subway. We began to run behind schedule on game day so we inhaled our lunch.
Arriving to the cages dressed and ready, we prepared for warm ups and the game against FGCU in record timing. There was definitely a large crowd in the stands because the entire state of Florida came out to support Brianna Lohmann and the Big Green! After a great team performance, we dropped the game in extra innings 3-2.
After the game we headed to Jason's Deli which pleased our Texas folks!!! How can anyone pass up the amazing salad bar and ice cream?
Continuing in our cluster of caravans, the coaches needed to make a pit stop at Starbucks. They said it was so that they could stay awake for the 3 hour drive ahead of them. After finishing the post game scouting reports while on the road, one van slept, one watched a movie and one van played multiple games in order to help their drivers stay awake.
After a long day of travel and games, we safely found our hotel in Boca Raton and fell sound asleep and dreamt the night away.
Join us again tomorrow to hear about our 9th day of activities.
-Britta McOmber from Hanover
Day Nine: Dartmouth Softball Superlatives
Upon our long journey through Florida, our Spring Break trip has finally come to an end, so we thought we would send everyone off with some superlatives to mark the end of a great great week! So here goes…
Most Likely to be in a Tornado and not know it is even happening....Katie McEachern
Most likely to fail her last term on purpose in order to stay another year....Katie Adams
Most likely to die from a heart attack from eating too much bacon....Katie Adams
Most likely to be the next star to TLC's "18 Kid's and Counting"....Britta McOmber
Most likely to publish a cookbook of desserts....Megan Averitt
Most likely to turn a innocent game of Go Fish into a fist fight....Kara Curosh
Most likely to tame a wild cat and walk it around as her pet....Kristen Rumley
Most likely to take up UFC fighting after graduation....Hillary Hubert
Most likely to become a billionaire and not know it....Rhiannon Saucedo
Most likely to quit softball and join the basketball team....Kathy Dzienkowski
Most likely to become a cadet....Brianna Lohmann
Most likely to be in an arm wrestling competition....Coach Hanson
Most likely to become an All American....Ali Hart (Oh wait, that already happened)
Most likely to create her own political party....Morgan Wharton
Most likely to work to strut her stuff at a fashion show....Kelsey Miller
Most likely to cry....always....Alex St. Romain
Most likely the voice of the infomercials that talks really fast...Morgan McCalmon
Most likely to get stuck on a deserted island and like it....Jonele Conceicao
Most likely to have a disease named after her....Jonele Conceicao
Most likely to be a judge on American Idol....Lammers
Most likely to be in a Broadway show....Alex Jarvis
Most likely to be a pageant mom...Coach Vanover
Most likely to work her angles.
^Well, duh.
Most Likely to Make Out With a Hot Dog....
Most Likely to Be Friendly to Your Face and Then Secretly Tell Everyone That You Made Out With a Hot Dog....
....name that movie go!....
-Kathy Dzienkowski, Rachel Hein, Alex Jarvis
Day Ten: Almost Time to Go Back to Hanover
Today was yet another beautiful day in Florida, though the ending is looming near as we pack up and head home tomorrow. A beautiful sunrise welcomed the team as we started Saturday morning with a (relatively) early 7:00 am wake-up call. After a breakfast of hearty bacon and hotel coffee we headed for the fields for back-to-back games against Elon and Bethune-Cookman.
The coffee proved to be a quite necessary as the Big Green beat Elon in nine innings, taking advantage of the International Tie Breaker rule, timely hitting, and a RECORD BREAKING performance from the cool Texan in the circle. Rums had 15 strikeouts, a new school record, throwing the complete game. Of course, nobody realized it until after both games, and, as per usual, Rums was very casual in learning that her name would be going down in Dartmouth athletic history.
The second game was a battle throughout, though unfortunately we were on the losing end this time. Morgan McCalmon pitched a fantastic game, shutting out Bethune-Cookman (hey, they looked familiar…) after the first inning. Kelsey Miller was a perfect 3 for 3, just a measly home run shy of matching fellow freshman Katie McEachern's hitting for the cycle performance the day before.
Now, enough about softball. We had the honor of being invited to Kathy Dzienkowski's babcia's (grandma in Polish) house for dinner! All of the families were invited, Kathy's dad slaved over a beautiful brisket, and we all stuffed ourselves silly. It was fantastic to just relax and enjoy time with all of the wonderfully supportive family and friends that have braved the beautiful sunshine and 80 degree weather to watch us play. Be sure to check out the Dartmouth Softball Facebook page for some gem photos of players and family (though some not so good ones made the cut too… thanks for that Vanover). After a wonderful evening thanks to our generous hosts (thanks again Dzienkowski's and Babcia!) we retired back to the hotel for an early night, and possibly some quick hot tub action (what up Kara).
Bellies full and already dreaming of brisket (maybe that's just me), we reluctantly go to bed tonight knowing it's the last one in Florida. Tomorrow morning we will rematch FAU before we make the trek back up to the Northeast. But for now, we are going to enjoy the last hours of warm weather, softball, and no school!


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Chad Billingsley (6-3, 2.80) vs. Jon Garland (4-4, 5.75).
COMMENTS: Halfway home (wow, I had no idea Oscar from The Office was in this!) on our journey through the Manny Ramirez suspension, and the Dodgers are still playing at a cool .600 (15-10) clip, maintaining our major-league leading record by four full games. Even if we play .500 ball for the rest of Manny purgatory, going 27-23 through the full 50-game suspension, our nine-game lead over the second-place Giants doesn't seem like they would be a realistic divisional threat. And with Hiroki Kuroda back from the DL and looking pretty good Monday, plus Ramirez back in the lineup in a month...things look promising even if the Dodgers go through their typical June swoon.
At least, that's what comeback wins like we saw Tuesday night, in which the Dodgers scored five runs in the eighth inning to take the lead, would have you believe. Heck, they almost pulled off a three-run comeback in the ninth on Monday night, too. So as we go into the rubber match, let's see the team can show up prior to the late innings, and hang a Garland early.
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Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday called for raising an additional $1.2 billion a year to patch up Michigan's ailing roads and bridges, describing the higher taxes and fees that would be required as investments that would provide long-term savings for motorists.
Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday called for raising an additional $1.2 billion a year to patch up Michigan's ailing roads and bridges, describing the higher taxes and fees that would be required as investments that would provide long-term savings for motorists.
Generating new money for Michigan's transportation network was the centerpiece of Snyder's third annual State of the State address, delivered to a joint session of the state Legislature in the Capitol. The Republican governor sought support from both parties midway through a turbulent term in which he has pleased business interests but alienated Democrats and organized labor with tax relief for corporations and measures that have weakened unions' powers.
Snyder provided few details in his nearly hourlong speech, which also touched on education, insurance reform and a variety of other issues. But in a briefing for reporters beforehand, senior policy adviser Bill Rustem said Snyder favored replacing the tax on fuels paid at the pump with a levy at the wholesale level, which could be passed on to consumers and rise with inflation. He also supports raising the annual motor vehicle registration fee and allowing local governments to increase it even further to raise money for fixing local roads, Rustem said.
Instead of proposing specific tax and fee increases, Snyder tried to make the case for raising the money in the first place — which could be a tough sell in a legislature led by tax-averse Republicans and with Democrats still resentful over his last-minute embrace of contentious right-to-work legislation last month.
"We need to invest more in our roads ... it's time," he said, arguing that while his plan would cost about $120 per vehicle, motorists would recoup most of that by having lower repair bills as highways and local roads are improved. "This is not about costing us money. It is about saving us money and building for the future."
He appealed to legislators — all of whom will be up for re-election in 2014, as will Snyder — to put political considerations aside, acknowledging that his road program "will go nowhere" otherwise. Instead, he said they should approach the matter as a family would, putting long-term needs first.
"We can decide how long we want to argue about it, how political we want to make it, or we can just use some common sense and get it done," he said.
Michigan's retail-level motor fuels tax has been stuck since 1997 at 19 cents per gallon for gasoline and 15 cents per gallon for diesel fuel.
Aides acknowledged it would be difficult to win approval in a legislature where tax-averse Republicans are in the majority, but said the state has no other choice as it seeks to attract new businesses and jobs. Studies show that if nothing is done to generate more funds to fix potholes and repair bridges, 65 percent of Michigan's roads will be in poor condition by 2020, Rustem said.
State Rep. Matt Lori, R-Constantine, issued a statement regarding the State of the State address.
"I look forward to working with Governor Snyder to keep the economic momentum going and fostering a healthy economy in which more jobs can be created," Lori said. "We have achieved much in putting Michigan back on track, but there's more work to be done.
"I am eager to work with the governor to improve our roads and bridges. A good infrastructure is vital to Southwest Michigan," Lori said. "This is not an issue we can just kick down the road to the next group of lawmakers. Very recent studies have shown that if we do nothing, in the next 10 years the cost to upgrade roads and bridges could double. Something has to be done now."
Elsewhere, Snyder was calling for an array of new initiatives dealing with education, the environment and the economy.
He proposed moving more state social workers into troubled elementary schools, reforming Michigan's no-fault auto insurance program, establishing an agency to crack down on insurance fraud, and improving mental health services.
Snyder also voiced regret about the bruising legislative battles of 2012, when thousands of angry demonstrators protested the Legislature's quick approval of right-to-work measures making it illegal to require non-union workers to pay fees to the unions that negotiate their wages.
"I hope we can work together," he said, promising "to work hard to find common ground."
But Democrats criticized what they described as a lack of meaningful details in his speech. And several hundred protesters clustered near the main entrance of the Capitol, beating drums and chanting, "Liar." A banner stretched across the stone stairway read, "You can't trust Snyder."


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We also signed JC Romero for 2007.
01 Schilling
02 Matsuzaka
03 Beckett
04 Wakefield
05 Papelbon
06 Timlin
07 Delcarmen
08 Tavarez
09 Okajima
10 Donnelly
11 Romero
12 ? Lester/Hansen/Snyder/Breslow/
01 Schilling
02 Matsuzaka
03 Beckett
04 Wakefield
05 Papelbon
06 Timlin
07 Delcarmen
08 Tavarez
09 Okajima
10 Donnelly
11 Romero
12 ? Lester/Hansen/Snyder/Breslow/
Quality reliever; an obvious set-up guy, and I wouldn't mind seeing him close, frankly. He goes thru long periods when he's unhittable, assuming he's healthy. What's not to like?
Seibel's nearing 28 and has been plagued by injuries. I like this no-risk move.
Seibel wasn't One Of The 25, but he did get a ring!
J.C. Romero as well -- I'm remembering him as a good pitcher, but evidently he's gone downhill some and has never had great control.
SoSH is having a conversation on the bullpen and who could be in it. Looks like a lot of mediocore guys competing for a few spaces and no closer yet, but -- at least we'll have options. It can't be worse than last year.
Can it?
Yo Theo! You're a brainiac. I've got a Word Jumble for you - "ESLORC". Now solve it.
Who are you guys suggesting he gets for the closer job...and at this point it would have to be a trade , so Pena or Crisp would most likely be on the block.
Is he missing someone you guys like...
They also might force Papelpon back into the postion ....I think he would do it..
If they sign Clemens , which isn't far-fetched, is it? Pap might be left out..
Jesus he did have .92 era last year
Theo Epstein = The Penis Toe
Daisuke Matsuzaka = Ask Us, Muzak Aid Tea
Paps WILL NOT be closing!
Sox docs say the strain of bullpen work (multiple days per week (some consecutive) of warming up and pitching) will ruin his shoulder and he needs the steady routine of starting.
Theo et al. have said this repeatedly.
One other thing I will be suprised if Delcarmen makes the opening day roster.
He ain't got it........yet
I cant wait to see Jack's prediction on wins for this season!!!
This squad is shaping up....
They still may need a backup corner infielder..
Dustin Pedroia is a great one!
Dispute Inroad
Did Sap Routine
An Outside Drip
Dupont Diaries
Nora Studied Pi
Unparsed Idiot
I thought I was bored
Just taking a short break from work .... now back to it.
Thats cool....did you see my post about the new radio crew...Dave O'brien is pretty good.....
Since I hate Joe and Jerry, this has to be an improvement.
But isn't O'Brien the fool who still goes on and on (and on) about Manny's HR showboating against Oakland in the 2003 playoffs?
I don't buy that about Papelbon. So if he fails as a starter, he's just forced to retire? Because he, unlike everyone else, just can't possibly pitch more than exactly once every five days? Is there nothing he can do to pitch more than that? With all these doctors and trainers know? We've got possibly the best closer in the league. I think we should keep him right where he is.
Geez, get busy at work and everyone starts playing with anagrams. What's next, palindromes? I gotta get a piece of this.
Dave O'Brien??? I just realized who that is!!! God, I loathe that guy. Well, thank goodness we don't listen to the Sox on the radio...
By the way, this
Unparsed Idiot
is to good to waste on Dustin Pedroia.
manny ramirez =
ram in ny maze
it was more obscene the first time. i toned it down.
david ortiz
dad or vizit
vat did i roz (roz, did i vat?)
the zeds are too difficult
daisuke matsuzaka
i make us data, kuza
no, kuza is not a word. just a made-up name to use the leftover letters.
i'm not doing so well. i'd better stop.
Mike Lowell
Like mellow
Willy Mo Pena
A Lonely Wimp
Redsock will like this one
Theo Epstein
teethe in ops
Brain freeze
Willy Mo Pena
A Lonely Wimp
That's great!!
I must be picking the wrong names. :)
Jonathan Papelbon = Anal Job Not Happen
I have to get a bunch of these together for a post. Too good to hide away in comments.
Boy, after this sordid display, I'm not taking ANY crap about my next song parody.
Z: with very few exceptions, nobody can predict from season to season which relief pitchers will be outstanding and which will be mediocre. But Brendon Donnelly so far in his career has definitely NOT been mediocre. Any pitcher who averages a K an inning with an ERA under 3.00 is a candidate to close.
And if Hansen and Delcarmen turn out to be just mediocre, I'll be even more steamed at Theo for not addressing the teams weaknesses last July than I am now. My bet is that at least one of them emerge as a legitimate relief star in '07.
Meanwhile,casey,I'll wait to see how Pedroia, Varitek, Lester, Schilling, Lugo,Crisp and Closer X look in the Spring before making my next idiotic forcast.
Jack, your song parodies would be unfair competition around here.
curt schilling
hill, cut, rings
jason varitek
jive son karat
i should have quit after curt
Please, stop! and that ain't no anagram!
kevin youkilis
olive ink is yuk
vile kink is you
curt schilling
clinch lug stir
roger clemens
closer erg men
You can do about a million of them with his name.
I must have been too tired last night.
david ortiz
diva or ditz?
Newsflash! I've just been informed that while I was wracking my poor, tired brain to create anagrams on my own, Redsock was just plugging players' names into one of the many online anagram generators.
Here I was all impressed by his ability to turn Dustin Pedroia into this --
Dispute Inroad
Did Sap Routine
An Outside Drip
Dupont Diaries
Nora Studied Pi
Unparsed Idiot
-- when he really was just typing.
No wonder my anagrams suck! I was thinking them up on my own.
OK, who else was cheating? Jack Marshall will be taking your names.
This is like when I did anagrams for Sox blogs. (Joy of Sox is a hard one.)
I am absolutley offended by the use of these anagram generators! Use Scrabble tiles!
(Joy of Sox is a hard one.)
Hot Foxes! Joy!
"we move to canada" is great!
woo! advance team!
wet avocado, amen
eat wood, caveman
adam can't woo eve
mad eva tow canoe
damon weave coat
move to canada = vacate and moo
I am absolutley offended by the use of these anagram generators! Use Scrabble tiles!
Yay Jere. :)
Scrabble tiles would make my life easier. I've been writing down the name and crossing out the letters. Not too efficient.
woo! advance team!
eat wood, caveman
These are so great. And relevant! Maybe I'll start an anagram thread at wmtc.


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The Skyline girls' basketball team ended the regular season on an upbeat note Tuesday, turning aside the South Barber Lady Chieftains 48-36.
The Skyline girls' basketball team ended the regular season on an upbeat note Tuesday, turning aside the South Barber Lady Chieftains 48-36.
At times this season, the T-Birds have struggled against teams who d'd them up man-to-man, but no such offensive woes were in evidence Tuesday night at the Thunderdome on Senior Night.
Skyline was able to make effective use of backdoor cuts against the Chieftains aggressive overplay style of defense in order to establish a 15-10 lead after one quarter.
The second stanza saw the Skyliners extend their lead on the strength of good defensive play. The T-Birds were able to anticipate the Chieftains pattern against their zone and step into the passing lanes frequently to interrupt the South Barber offense. The Chieftains were only able to manage 4 points in Q2, so the Thunderbird lead was up to 24-14 at the intermission.
The second half started out with more of the same. Skyline was able to get the ball into the half-court against South Barber's full-court pressure, run their offense and get shots to fall. At the other end, South Barber was having difficulty getting anything going, and Skyline pushed the lead out to 20 points midway through the 3rd quarter.
The Lady Chieftains regained some traction when they began adding double-team trapping to their full-court pressure scheme, making a little run toward the end of the 3rd frame and getting the deficit back to 15, 38-23, heading into the deciding period.
In the 4th quarter, Skyline employed a more deliberate offensive strategy, burning clock while working the ball until someone could shake their defender for an open look. The problem was that South Barber's double-team trapping was starting to have an effect, and the Skyliners weren't able to advance the ball into the half-court as efficiently as they had earlier.
Luckily for Skyline, the Lady Chieftains failed to convert many of their transition lay-ups and so they were not able to close the gap as quickly as one might have expected. The Thunderbirds were able to break the press often enough, and keep the Chieftains from getting many Windex buckets after they had blown a lay-up, in order to maintain their lead until the final buzzer.
Skyline was far enough ahead that, even though South Barber was able to make a run at them down the stretch, the lead was never really in serious jeopardy.
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Over 500 brave weather for chili
Over 500 people were served chili during a cold blustery snowy Wednesday. The annual Chili Day was held in the basement of the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church.
"Chili Day was a huge success. Attendance was definitely up this year. The community really came out in support of the youth of Boonville and Kiwanis," said Kiwanis member Lance Reynolds.
Reynolds said extra tables had to be set up to accommodate the growing crowd around noon while lines of people waited to get their bowl of chili. Kiwanis members were busy serving chili, getting drinks and washing dishes. Pie was served as the dessert.
While chili was being served, individuals were able to bid on silent auction items.
"We had great support from the businesses of the community that donated items to our silent auction. We had close to twice as many items in our silent auction this year. Lots of patrons supported us and bid on items," Reynolds said.
The bids of the silent auction have not been counted yet. Reynolds said this should be done in the next couple days.
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FOL schedule events
The Cedar Key Friends of the Library have the following events scheduled:
- Silent Film Festival: Three Ages, starring Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery with Jesse Beller on the keyboard will be shown on Thursday, Feb 9, at 7 p.m., upstairs in the Library.
- Valentine's Day Flower Sale: Monday, Feb. 13 and Tuesday, Feb. 14 from 1-2 p.m. near the post office.
- Used Book Sale: Saturday, Feb. 18, from 1-2 p.m. behind the Library.
Chamber Mixer set at Ken's
The Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce will be holding its next mixer at Ken's Diner on Dock Street at 5 p.m. on Feb. 9.
The $5 admission will get you one beverage of your choice and you will be supporting the Chamber's Welcome Center operations.
The dinner fare at Ken's is optional, cash or credit cards are accepted.
Come spend an evening networking with Chamber friends. Bring a guest - for an additional $5 - and be eligible for one of several drawings. If you join the Chamber that night, membership dues will be reduced by $5.
Airstream RV Owners Club Rally
The Airstream Owners Club of Big Bend Florida will be hosting a family camping weekend in historic Cedar Key at the Cedar Key RV Resort. The family camping event will start on Feb. 9 and will end on Sunday, Feb. 12. Airstream and Argosy RV owners from as far away as Texas are expected to attend this camping rally. The theme of the rally will be "Springtime in Cedar Key". Please contact the club president, Elna Thompson, for registration information at (850) 766-0036. Visit the club's website at www.bigbendfl.wbccinet for more information about the club.
Butterflies in refuge topic of talk
Barbara Woodmansee will give a presentation about the butterflies in the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge at 10:30 a.m. at the Cedar Key Library. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge.
Using her extensive collection of photos from the Refuge, she will focus on the families of butterflies in the refuge. Barbara will provide tips on how to distinguish different species and how to locate them. She will also distinguish the difference between day-flying moths and butterflies. Barbara will bring a check list for folks interested in recording their sightings of butterflies.
'Armchair' tour of Levy cemeteries
The Genealogy and History Society of Levy County will meet on Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Levy County Quilt Museum, 11050 NW 10th Avenue, Chiefland.
Guest speaker will be Levy County Historian and author, Toni Collins, who will present a PowerPoint program on the history of some of the 82 known Levy County family, church and community cemeteries. Collins also will give a brief history of the persons interred in the cemeteries which will be visited on the "armchair tour."
Historian Lindon Lindsey, author of "Cemeteries of Levy and Other Counties", also will attend to answer questions and help interested persons with the location of cemeteries.
The program starts at 2 p.m. and the public is welcome to attend to learn more about the history and heritage of Levy County.
For more information please call President, Bonnie Hill at (352) 507-2428.
Book Club to meet
The Book Bunch will meet on Monday, Feb. 13, at 1:30 p.m. at the Cedar Key Library's top floor meeting room when Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key will be discussed. Subsequent books include: Geraldine Brooks' March for the Month of March; Jane Smiley's The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton for April.
Lion's Valentine's Dinner and Dance
The annual Lion's Club Valentine's Dinner and Dance will be held Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 6 p.m. at the Community Center.
Cost is $25 per person. Dinner will be catered by The Island Room Restaurant and feature live music by The Dock Street Band. A silent auction will also be held.
Dinner menu consists of: garden salad with buttermilk herb dressing, fresh baked rolls, Fruit de Mer (fresh seafood in a hearty tomato sauce), beef brisket, baked Mahi-Mahi, roasted new potatoes, steamed vegetables and desserts.
Tickets are available from any Lion's Club member.
Feb. 21
Democratic Committee to meet
The Levy County Democratic Executive Committee will be holding its' regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6 p.m. at the Bronson Restaurant, 157 Hathaway Avenue, in Bronson. All party members and supporters are invited to attend this very important, open meeting.
Feb. 22
Summer Arts benefit dinner
The 2012 Children's Summer Art Program Benefit Dinner, sponsored by The Cedar Key Arts Center, will be held Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m., upstairs at the Art Center.
The dinner will be a three course gourmet dinner created by The Island Room. The cost is $25 per person and includes beverage, tax and tip.
There will also be a raffle of original art and other fun items.
Call 543-6520 to make reservations.
Feb. 29
Non-Fiction Book Bunch
The Non-Fiction Book Bunch will meet on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 1:30 p.m. when The Immortal Live of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot will be discussed. Subsequent book include:
• Thomas L. Friedman's and Michael Mandelbaum's That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back for March;
• Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer for April;
• Erik Larson's Issac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History for May.
March 15
Woman's Club raffle benefits veterans
The Cedar Key Woman's Club is fund-raising for Fisher House, the home away from home for veterans' families while they are being treated at the VA Hospital in Gainesville. While many other states have a Fisher House, Gainesville's facility has yet to be built.
The club is selling 250 raffle tickets for $10 each, with a prize of $500 going to the winner. The drawing will be at the club's fashion show on March 15 at the Cedar Key Community Center. Tickets are for sale at Déjà Vu, Curmudgeonalia Book Store, Kona Joe's, and from any club member.
A multitude of people in Cedar Key utilize the VA medical facility in Gainesville. By supporting the CKWC and buying a raffle ticket, you will be helping to insure that our local veterans and their families have a place to stay when receiving care at the VA.
For more information call, Eileen Senecal at 543-9850.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Maryland juniors Ashleigh Crutcher and Adreené Elliott have been named to the 2013 Preseason All-Atlantic Coast Conference Volleyball Team, the league announced on Monday.
An honorable mention All-American last season, Crutcher led the Terps in kills (443) averaging 3.79 per set. The Raleigh, N.C., native had the second-most kills in the ACC and ranked third in kills per set. Crutcher's 443 kills is the sixth most in a single-season in school history and helped Crutcher grab All-ACC honors and AVCA All-East Region honorable mention honors, as well.
Elliott, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., was the most efficient hitter on the team. Elliott converted 36.3 percent of her attacks to finish fourth in the conference in hitting percentage. Her average is the fourth-highest in a single season in school history and for her career, Elliott is hitting .310, the fifth-best average all-time. A member of the 2011 ACC All-Freshman team, Elliott also led the team in blocks (119) last season.
A total of 10 teams were represented on the 2013 Preseason All-ACC Team. Miami led all conference schools with four selections, followed by Duke, Florida State, Maryland, North Carolina and Notre Dame with two selections apiece.
The Terps return 12 letterwinners from a year ago and were picked to finish 10th by the league's head coaches. Two-time defending champion Florida State was a unanimous selection to win the league.
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World's smallest high pressure (4500 psi) air compressor.Products:Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How much will it cost?
A: Currently the target price is 3-400 dollars retail but this could change.
Q: How fast will it fill a tank?
A: It will fill a 68 cubic inch tank in about 4 hours to 4500 psi.
Q: I hear it needs another compressor?
A: Yes, it needs an 85 psi input from a shop compressor for maximum fill rate. If you don�t use a shop compressor it will take 6 times longer to fill a tank.
Q: What shop compressor can I use?
A: Almost ANY shop compressor that puts out at least 85 psi at 1 CFM or more will work fine. The mini-compressor takes very little air and a shop compressor will only kick on a few times. Small shop compressors are so cheap it didn�t make sense to try and build one into the mini-compressor.
Q: How many CFM does the mini-compressor use when pumping?
A: It takes about 0.04 CFM which is nothing.
Q: Can I use a compressed air tank instead of a shop compressor?
A: Yes you can. Some thing like a portable air tank for filling tires should work but it needs to be big enough to maintain some type of pressure during the 4 hour fill time.
Q: Can I fill a scuba tank?
A: Yes but you have to provide a fill hose and attachment fittings. I estimate it will fill an 80 cubic foot scuba tank to 3000 psi in about 24 hours.
Q: Can I use a low pressure scuba with a regulated output to 85 psi to feed the mini-compressor?
A: Yes but we don�t recommend it because a high pressure regulator is more expensive than a small shop compressor that can be bought new for 80 bucks.
Q: How much noise does it make?
A: Not that much but its not completely silent. Its less noisy than your mothers sewing machine.
Q: Does it turn off by itself?
A: Yes but the pressure is preset at the factory. You have to buy either the 4500 or 3000 psi model.
Q: What else do I need to get to make it work?
A: To keep the cost down we only supply a stainless nipple output from the compressor. This is the same nipple you find on your paintball markers tank. You need to get a hose to connect what ever type of tank you have, scuba, paintball, pellet gun, to the compressor.
Q: What size is it?
A: Its about 16� wide, 12� deep and 6 � inches tall. The picture on Facebook shows a pencil for scale in front of the compressor.
Q: When will it be available?
A: We are making the pre-production prototypes now and hope to have the first run out within two months.
Q: Is there any water or particle filtration on the mini-compressor?
A: No there is not to keep costs down. You can put a water trap between the shop compressor and the mini-compressor if that�s a concern.
Q: How much electricity will it take?
A: It will cost less than 5 cents an hour to run the compressor.
Q: Can I put say 1000 psi into it to make it fill faster?
A: No not 1000 psi because it will overload the first piston and stall the motor. It will probably handle up to about 100 psi or a bit more which will give you a faster fill.
Q: Will it be sold in Europe?
A: YES, working on the distribution now.
Q: Does it have a degas valve to disconnect the tank?
A: Yes, the knob to degas the line is directly above the output port. You screw it in to release the pressure.
Q: Will it be convertable from 3k to 4.5k?
A: No, there are too many liability issues.
Q: Any safety features built in?
Yes, there is a standard replaceable burst disk built into the compressor. The shut-off system is made to shut down if the spring breaks, if the lubrication gets too low and increases the friction, or if there is an overpressure in the first stage. If your filling a paintball tank, there is a backcheck valve there, and two others in the compressor to prevent 4500 psi from getting back into your fill compressor.
Q: What voltage does it take and can I plug it into a wall?
A: It takes 115vac so yes you can just plug it in the wall.
Q: Can I just top off a tank or do I need to drain it all the way before hooking it up?
A: You don't need to drain it. The compressor will start pumping from what ever pressure your at so you can top off your tank.
Q: Who is behind the design and production?
A: Tom Kaye owner of Airgun Designs is responsible for the development of the compressor. He is getting back into the paintball business after 5 years in retirement.


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EDMONTON - The short-staffed Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is wooing job-seekers in Toronto and Halifax with the promise of making a difference in a young, fast-growing frontier community.
Representatives from Wood Buffalo, including Fort McMurray, on Friday wrapped up a four-day recruiting excursion to the two eastern cities. They were seeking to fill about 100 vacancies in a 1,300-strong workforce.
Sudhir Sandhu, Wood Buffalo's executive director of corporate services, said the municipality is looking for entry-level administrative and labour workers, as well as technical, professional and managerial staff.
Alberta's April unemployment rate was 4.4 per cent, compared to 7.7 per cent in Ontario and 9.0 per cent in Nova Scotia.
"In the region, anything from mechanics to heavy-equipment operators are hard to find, and sometimes gaining that seasoned, veteran experience is a challenge," Sandhu said. "We're looking at the full gamut."
The rapid growth of Wood Buffalo's largest community, Fort McMurray, means urban-planning professionals are in particular demand, he said.
"It is a city under redesign … so experienced planners, people who have done large-scale redevelopment and planning around cities, are of particular interest to us."
To lure job-seekers from Canada's largest city and the East Coast, recruiters are pitching a chance to help build a city.
"What we are selling is an opportunity to live on the fringes of creativity," Sandhu said. "Most other mature cities are already there. There's very little opportunity for people to take a blank canvas in many respects and build it to sustain and endure.
"We do pitch it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
Halifax was selected because of a long relationship between Fort McMurray and oilsands workers from the East Coast.
"Toronto, quite frankly, we think the economy is depressed here and lacking opportunities and that was verified by the number of people that walked in the door that currently are unemployed."
The municipality was hosting its career fair at the Hilton Hotel on Richmond Street West, in downtown Toronto. Sandhu said the response was promising, with recruiters conducting followup interviews on Friday.
However, while Wood Buffalo and Fort McMurray are familiar places for many people from Halifax, the same can't necessarily be said of most Torontonians.
"It's much less the case in Toronto where people readily know who and where we are, so it's a dual purpose to get people familiarized. We just did an interview with the Business News Network to spread the word.
"If we come back to Toronto, we'll be better-known than we were the first go-round."
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Christ and sexting allegations in the Stonington selectman race
The race for first selectman in Stonington is shaping up to be one of interesting contrasts.
On the Democratic side, you have incumbent Edward Haberek, who has been accused of sending by phone a photograph of his genitals to a female town gadfly.
The sexting accusation, which Haberek denies, remains the grist of an unresolved lawsuit brought by a woman who claims the picture of the first selectman's privates, which she says she deleted from her phone, causes her continuing pain from migraine headaches.
On the Republican side, Haberek's opponent is Glee McAnanly, a graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., a school that prominently promotes its Christian mission.
I asked McAnanly, when I had a chance to chat with her this week, whether she subscribes to the school's mission statement, which suggests that graduates go forward into a world "wounded by sin and hoping for redemption" and, "by the grace of God," make a "difference for Jesus Christ all over the globe."
She said she does.
The bulk of her working career was with ServiceMaster Corp., which was founded by an evangelical Baptist and for many decades declared its primary mission "to honor God in all we do."
McAnanly, who is active in her church, the Groton Bible Chapel, owns and operates with her husband, a retired submariner, ServiceMaster franchises in Hartford and Springfield. She said there were none available closer to Stonington when they bought them.
To McAnanly's credit, she has so far avoided raising the sexting allegations against her opponent, even though they might be construed to suggest a Town Hall wounded by sin and hoping for redemption.
McAnanly's supporters, though, often in front of her, have no trouble complaining about Haberek's alleged sins, from dragging the town into the sexting lawsuit to abusing his expense allowances.
McAnanly doesn't stop these attacks when they occur, either during public radio interviews or in an official campaign rally.
The attacks strike me as a little less than Christian in nature, but fair politics.
I asked McAnanly to discuss some of the hot social issues that are often the fare of political campaigns, like gay marriage and abortion, since she is a person of strong religious commitment.
She responded that those generally are not relevant to the job for someone elected to serve as first selectman.
It's a fair answer, one she made politely, although I pursued the questions a few more times, mostly out of a reporter's habit of persistence. She said she would be glad to have a conversation about it sometime later.
I was surprised when she asked me several times whether gay marriage is legal. She also called it a "lifestyle choice."
After I expressed some surprise that she didn't seem to know that Stonington issues marriage licenses to gay couples, and questioned her more about it, she said she actually does know it's legal.
She called me back after our initial phone call ended to say that she wanted to elaborate more on the abortion question but wanted to talk to her husband first.
They have adopted two children from Russia, she said in our second call, a country where she said women are encouraged to put children up for adoption rather than have abortions, and that personal fact influences her thinking on the subject.
I did tell McAnanly that I believe she is disingenuous in including on her r�sum� a master's degree in business.
Exactly what it says on her official bio, under education, is that she "completed an Executive MBA Program through ServiceMaster in 2000."
She told me this is exactly true, which I don't doubt. She says it was, essentially, a training program run by the company and that is how they describe it.
Still, I think listing MBA on your r�sum� implies that you have a master's degree from an accredited school, not that you finished a training program at your company.
Haberek, too, has a quirky education listing on his r�sum�. He includes a Ph.D. in management from the International Academy of Management and Economics in the Philippines, a school that says it offers a holistic education experience.
Haberek also has a traditional MBA in marketing from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, a school most of us here know.
Stonington voters, it seems, have an interesting choice ahead of them in this race.
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Richard D. Meehan, 54, a resident of Chillicothe, Mo., died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at his residence.
Richard was born the son of James and Susan (Mitchell) Meehan on Feb. 1, 1958, in Chillicothe, Mo.
He was a 1976 graduate of Chillicothe High School, Chillicothe, Mo. In that same year, he joined the United States Navy and served for five years. He is a former member of the Mendon Masonic Lodge. Richard worked as a Security Guard at Bio Diesel Plant in Bogard, Mo.
Survivors include his mother, Susan Meehan, the home; two brothers, Steve Meehan and wife Vanda, Raymore, Mo., Pat Meehan and wife Penny, Ridgeway, Mo.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father; paternal grandparents, Frank and Jessie Meehan; Maternal grandparents, Holly and Ilene Mitchell; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services will be held at the Lindley Funeral Home, Chillicothe, Mo., on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at 1 p.m. There is no scheduled family visitation. Friends may call at the Lindley Funeral Home, Chillicothe, Mo., on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, from 12 to 8 p.m. Burial will be held at Resthaven Memorial Gardens, Chillicothe, Mo.
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HOUSTON — Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling has been resentenced to 14 years as part of a court-ordered reduction that closes one of the country's most notorious financial scandals.
Skilling was resentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Sim Lake in Houston.
Skilling already was in prison for his role in the once-mighty energy giant's collapse, having been sentenced in 2006 to more than 24 years. That sentence was vacated by an appeals court.
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We're really reaching back here for Halloween gold - all the way back to 1989. Back in the day, the whole school had a costume parade in the Morton Center gymnasium. It was a big year for bunnies, clowns, and superheroes.
Montessori School of Greater Lafayette Staff, 1992
Here are the year's class photos. If you recognize any of the children, all should be in their mid-twenties now, consider directing them here. We would love to hear from them and from the teachers.
Class A - Morning Preprimary, 1992
Class B - Morning Preprimary, 1992
Class D - Morning Preprimary, 1992
Class E - Afternoon Preprimary, 1992
Class C - 3-day and 5-day Toddlers, 1992
Class C - 2-day Toddlers, 1992
1998 was a big year for MSGL because we announced our expansion so we received lots of media coverage. This week's Wayback Wednesday post features another story from the Lafayette Journal and Courier. On July 7th, a story about our summer camp cooking class filled the 4 Kidz Only page. (I love that the J&C embraced phonetic spelling!)
The photos are beautiful and the children's quotes, especially about date math, are really sweet.
Featured teacher, Revati Nemani is still with MSGL today in the Catalpa class. The children featured in this article are now in college. Are any of them studying to be chefs? We would love to know. If you know Alie Magnante, Daniel Plesniak, Asher Bogdanove, or Andrew Staiger, please pass this along. It would be great to hear from them.
And maybe you and your young ones will give one of these recipes a go? We would love to hear about that, too.
..and this was its steeple.
When we remodeled the former Calvary Baptist Church in 2000-2001 to become our Montessori school, we had to replace a few fixtures. The steeple was detached from the roof and lowered by crane to the parking lot below.
What do you do with a second-hand steeple? We gave it to a church down the road.
The demolition crew also removed the fiberglas baptistry by cutting it into pieces. All of the beautiful wood pews were sold. You can see one being used today in the school office. The colored windows were eventually replaced with clear glass.
This is what Building B looks like today.
Have a great Wednesday!
15 years ago the Lafayette Journal and Courier announced MSGL's plans to add an elementary program and move all of its programs to a new space.
The Morton Community Center on Chauncey Avenue had been MSGL's home since 1985.
As the article states, the new elementary program was originally going to be housed in a home on Rainbow Drive that had been donated by an MSGL family. A change of plans relocated that first class to some available classroom space inside the Temple Israel on Cumberland Avenue.
In February 2001, all of our programs, from the parent-infant class through elementary, moved into our permanent home in the former Calvary Baptist church on Soldiers Home Road.
In 2007, the elementary classes moved into the Montessori House, a remodeled home adjacent to the campus.
MSGL has plans to expand once again in the near future to add a second toddler classroom and a gym/gross motor space.


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Who is still here?
I have not been here lately because to be honest, AO just has not been interesting. I actually miss Starbase and Collegeboy.
Who is still here?
I have not been here lately because to be honest, AO just has not been interesting. I actually miss Starbase and Collegeboy.
Do we count as old timers if we remember Starbase and Collegeboy?Originally Posted by 1stdeadeye
Yeh, there replacements, just don't take the abuse without getting emo whiney about being oppressed or something and how nobody likes them. At least those two could try to fight back...
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not" - Dr Suess
Hi 1DE!
Ya define old timer.What "old timers" are still around here?
Ok, that got a laugh Dont need the meds for awhile now.Yeh, there replacements, just don't take the abuse without getting emo whiney about being oppressed or something and how nobody likes them.
Hey you forgot these lohman, / / /
Every so often.
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I've been here for a while..hmmm
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Im still around, lurking around in the deep dark corner.
Starbase maybe, Collegeboy was just to much for me. I had many a dispute with him.Originally Posted by 1stdeadeye
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wait... why do we have so many damned roll call threads these days?
oh well, i'm here still. Usually lurking and postwhoring to piss off the new kiddies.
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Gradually cutting back on the posting more and more, but still come in to check around.
LOL @ collegeboy... ahh the good old days in the Michael Moore thread...Originally Posted by 1stdeadeye
I agree with Lohman446 about Collegeboy and Starbase's replacements, say anything bad about them and they get all teary eyed and to the mods about people "being mean to them"
At least the old timers could actually take some abuse as well as dishing it out.
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im still here.. why, i dont know.
I never posted a lot but for some odd reason I'm still here.
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Shartley, it might be a good thing that you post less now, the new kids would go sit in a corner and listen to their emo tapes while writing poems in their journals.Originally Posted by shartley
I can't believe I've been coming to the same website since 2001. Now you made me feel old.
Well Ive been here since 2001 ... hard to believe four years LOL ... I dont even play anymore and I still come here.
I do have to admit that the conversations pretty much suck now, but everything changes and at someone point everything does fix itself.
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Yeah, I went through high school on AO, kinda weird... I have a feeling that I'm going to be through with college and still an AO regular.
Blah... Ive been here a while I guess. Longer than my profile says anyway. I didnt like the whole idea of AGD buying the forums and figured it would turn into corporate toolsville. Sometimes it did, but it worked out pretty well for a while.
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Heck, I went through Highschool, College, moving out of my rents house, getting married and having children all while on A.O...Originally Posted by FooTemps
Wow, my life has flown by the past almost 5 years!
Corporate toolsville... lol, I remember moments like those. People would post links to "mags suck" or "cockers are better than mags because of x" threads on various other forums and then the majority of AO'ers would jump in and defend the mag. Then we'd proceed to diss on anything that wasn't mag.Originally Posted by kosmo
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Hannah Wilson and Kelsey Sorensen led the way as Luther swept Central 3-0 tonight in Pella. Wilson was credited with 13 kills, while Sorensen had 12. The Norse posted set victories of 25-23, 25-22 and 25-18.
Lindsey Ryan dished out 39 assists and Brandi Knupp and Alexis Dorschner tallied 16 and 15 digs respectively. Wilson, Natalee Johnson and Leah Broderick were all credited with three block assists.
The Norse took a big step towards making the Iowa Conference Tournament. The victory gives the Norse a league record of 3-3, 14-18 overall. Central fell to 8-19, 1-5 in the IIAC.
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Lady Pioneers keep gaining momentum; Immaculata frustrated at Valley Falls; Pleasant Ridge drops fourth straight
Four has been the un-magical number for the Lady Lions basketball team lately.
Tuesday's 36-32 loss to Tonganoxie marked the third-straight game in which Lansing lost by four points.
"I like the growth we've had this year, but our girls have to learn to get over the hump," Lansing coach Christine Robinson said.
The Lady Lions mounted a comeback attempt late in the fourth after Mikayla Zielinski hit two 3-pointers in quick succession. The clutch shots combined with Tonganoxie's inability to shut the door at the free-throw line turned a comfy nine-point Tonganoxie advantage into a two-point edge with a minute to go.
But from there, Lansing was held scoreless and Tonganoxie finally hit a few free throws to ice it.
"Our girls weren't ready to play early, but I like how we played defensively in the third quarter to come back," Robinson said.
The loss keeps the Lady Lions winless in conference play, but on a positive note, the squad has begun consistently competing in games. In the team's first meeting with Tonganoxie this season, the Lady Lions were blown out 60-31.
"For the rest of the year, we want to be in games, and actually win them," Robinson said.
Lansing, 1-13, takes on Turner Friday at 5:45 p.m.
Lady Pioneers keep gaining momentum
Riding high off its performance at last weekend's Emporia Tournament, the Lady Pioneers basketball team kept the ball rolling at Lawrence Tuesday.
Following a slow start, LV took a modest 14-8 first quarter advantage and turned it into a 65-33 landslide victory.
"We didn't play particularly well early, so you have to give credit to Lawrence for getting us out of our rhythm and comfort zone," Leavenworth coach Derek Zeck said. "In the second half though, we were able to get a little more disciplined and control the game better. The whole game our effort was phenomenal."
Over the remaining three quarters, the Lady Pioneers outscored Lawrence 51-25. They did so with constant pressure defensively, which led to easy buckets, as well as quality offensive execution against the home team's assortment of zones.
"They care so much and they have so much passion that it sometimes gets a little too chaotic," Zeck said of his team. "We just talked to them that we have stay disciplined to our game plan and channel our energy. When we did that, we started to take off."
Tashia Jones finished with 18 points, 10 rebounds while Rashayla Mathis had a stat line of eight rebounds, five assists, four steals and just two turnovers.
The win was Leavenworth's fourth in its last five games, pushing the team's record to 8-5. LV will host Olathe North Friday at 5 p.m.
Immaculata frustrated at Valley Falls
From the start Tuesday, everything went terribly wrong for the Immaculata girls' basketball team.
"The game was over before we even walked out on the floor," Lady Raiders coach Terry Jordan said. "For some reason, we just weren't focused, didn't play with passion and were intimidated."
The less-than-stellar effort allowed host Valley Falls to get up early and run away with a 54-20 win over Imac.
"Before Friday, we have to work on a major attitude change," Jordan said. "The skill and development are there. We have to start believing that we are capable of great things. We have got to find the fight."
Kasey Cannon and Lauren Vardiman each scored eight points in the game and received praised from their coach for their aggressiveness.
Imac, 4-9, will play at Maur Hill Friday at 6 p.m.
Ridge drops fourth straight
The losing streak continues for the Pleasant Ridge girls' basketball team.
On Tuesday, the Lady Rams were upended 52-50 in overtime by host Troy, dropping to 7-5 on the season. It was the team's fourth-straight defeat.
"We had a seven-point lead at half, but our offense went away from us," PR coach Mike Koontz said. "They made some big buckets down the stretch and we didn't."
Jordan Adams finished with 16 points. Next was Beth Doty with 14 while Ashten Langley and Kelsey Carpenter each had eight.
Ridge will travel to West Platte tonight for a 6 p.m. contest.
"We have to keep fighting," Koontz said. "We fought very hard tonight, but our defense has to lead to our offense. We played pretty decent, we just need to find a way to stay out of these offensive ruts we get into."