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The USDA's Economic Research Service, which tracks the U.S. organic industry, recently released several reports showing changes in both cropland and pasture acreage.
Fewer than 100,000 acres total were certified in 1992, and the number grew fairly steadily until 2008 through 2010, when acreage dipped as sluggish growth in consumer demand dampened the short-term outlook for organic producers, according to ERS analyst Catherine Green.
Since that downturn, acreage has rebounded, increasing to about 5.4 million in 2011.
Despite the fluctuation in acreage, demand for organic food has continued to grow, albeit at a slower rate than before. The USDA does not maintain official statistics on food sales, but industry data show a steady increase year over year.
In 2007, demand grew more than 15 percent, according to those data. That growth dropped to about 5 percent in 2009, and has recovered to about 10 percent annually, a pace projected to continue at least through 2014.
The market share of sales held by various food categories has been stable over the past decade. Produce (fruits and vegetables) and dairy are the top two categories, accounting for 43 and 15 percent of total organic sales in 2012.
That 43 percent is generated on only 16 percent of certified organic cropland. At the other end of the spectrum, hay is grown on 39 percent of certified land, yet accounts for only a quarter of 1 percent of organic sales.
The ERS report also looked at the international organic market , where both production and demand are growing, as is competition.
The U.S. imports tropical and semitropical crops like bananas and coffee, which totaled $353 million the first five months of 2013. Organic soybeans are also big imports, totaling $42 million in that time frame.
Big-ticket exports were led by apples, totaling $88 million the first six months of 2013, followed by lettuce ($45 million) and spinach ($16 million).


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I have added the May 2010 Schaumburg Township District Library Genealogy Newsletter as a PDF file into the NEWSLETTER Category on the right sidebar of the blog.
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It's hard to miss this historic and beautifully restored home on Post Road. Its warm golden color and architectural features are both impeccable and inviting at the same time. You might never guess that this eye-catching building is actually home to one of the most popular and desirable restaurants in the region, The Remington House Inn. This cozy, family owned and operated restaurant is well known for its casual, upscale ambiance, its excellent service, and mostly, its delicious Italian-American style homemade food.
While the original Remington house was built in 1801, it was brothers Mike and Patrick Berek who brought it into the 21st century when they bought and revived it in 2000. Inspired by a grandmother who was "the best cook EVER", Mike and Patrick wanted to create a dining destination in Warwick that appealed to every palate, every preference and to every kind of customer - thus was born The Remington House Inn. Each menu item is made to please, just like their grandmother's - with lots of love and attention to flavor and presentation. "Nothing fancy", says Patrick, "just good homemade cooking."
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Behind 23 points from Kramer on 8-16 shooting, Jefferson County North (23-2) defeated Moundridge (21-4) in the first of Friday's girls semifinals.
An excitement had built itself within the Moundridge players and fans when they stood just three points behind the top-seeded Jefferson County North Chargers after one quarter.
Unfortunately for the Wildcats, sharp shooting guard Jacee Kramer caught fire in the second quarter and couldn't be stopped.
Behind 23 points from Kramer on 8-16 shooting, Jefferson County North (23-defeated Moundridge (21-4) in the first of Friday's girls semifinals.
The Chargers will advance to play Smith Center (23-2) in today's 4:00 p.m. championship game.
"She's one of the best players in the state that I've seen," Moundridge head coach Kenroy Wilson said of Kramer's game. "She's determined and athletic. She can jump, she rebounds and she has a nose for the ball. She's always around the ball if it's loose. She's got it all."
Knowing they'd have to keep it close to stay with the Chargers offensive pace, Moundridge was unable to convert on the offensive end and the Chargers took over.
"We knew we'd need to keep it tight," Wilson said. "I was hoping that if we'd keep it tight, they haven't been in any close ones and maybe they'd get tight themselves. They just got too many early transition points in the first half."
The transition game of the Chargers kept the Wildcats on their heels, forcing them to play from behind for a majority of the contest.
"They would release two players at times in transition," Wilson said. "We told our kids to get back but we traditionally pressure on a missed shot so it's hard to get them to get back and they hurt us."
Moundridge struggled to find its offensive game, finishing at 37.8 percent and shooting 17-45 from the field.
Freshman Ashley Holler provided a punch for the Wildcats off the bench, scoring all five of her baskets in the paint and finished with 11 points in the game.
"They got out in passing lanes and they put some ball pressure on us," Wilson said. "We were able to get to the paint on a drive and I thought we could, and Ashley Holler really had a great game finding the paint on the drive. They play good defense and you're going to have to earn your points."
Now preparing to face Sterling in today's 12:00 p.m. third-place game, Wilson said a quick adjustment from the semifinal loss is important.
"This one hurt us," Wilson said. "You want it to hurt when you lose because these girls have worked so hard and have come so far this year. We didn't quite reach our goal but I told them when we walk out that locker room door, we have to leave it behind."


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J. D. Shepherd of Tumbling Shoals died November 9, 2012, at his home. Born in Wynne on April 11, 1926, he was 86. He was the son of the late Joe Dick and Lillie (Dennis) Shepherd.
He proudly served our country in the United States Air Force.
He is survived by his many nieces and nephews, other relatives, and friends. Graveside services and interment was held November 17 at 11 a.m. at Cleburne County Memorial Gardens with Rev. Al Henager officiated.


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Living with Pluto / Part 1
Interview with Liz Greene, by Nicholas Campion
Liz Greene is one of the most influential astrologers of the postwar period. Building on the work of predecessors such as Alan Leo and Dane Rudhyar, she drew lessons from 20th-century psychology, particularly from the writings of C. G. Jung, to create a psychological astrology that is rooted in the understanding of psychology as consisting of dynamic processes rather than personality descriptions. Beginning with Saturn in 1976 and Relating in 1977, she has produced a remarkable series of books which have deepened and elaborated her original insight that astrology is as much about what we can become as who we are. She holds a doctorate in Psychology as well as the Diploma of the Faculty of Astrology Studies (she is a Patron of the Faculty) and is a qualified Jungian analyst. She is Director of the Centre for Psychological Astrology, which she formed in 1983 with the late Howard Sasportas. For the Centre's training and seminar series, see www.cpalondon.com
I met Liz in London on August 14, 2001 to conduct this interview. In view of the disaster of September 11, her enunciation of the Saturn-Pluto zeitgeist has taken on a profoundly prophetic air.
The original article appeared in the American astrological magazine "The Mountain Astrologer" (Dec/Jan 2002). The edition is still available on their website www.mountainastrologer.com
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Nick Campion: To start with, Liz, I'd like to talk a little about Pluto, the planet of the moment, especially in view of the current Saturn-Pluto opposition. I've been reading what you wrote about Saturn and Pluto in your book Saturn; you stated that, when these planets combine, "there often seems to be a carefully and deliberately organised movement towards some sort of self-destructive experience."[1] You added that the person may be aware of this obsessive movement but may not be able to control it. I have that Saturn-Pluto opposition squared my Sun at the moment, so I was thinking: "How can I be conscious about it?" In fact, how does one become conscious of something? Have you experienced that opposition this year, in terms of your clients? Has it been noticeable?
Liz Greene: Oh yes, very noticeable. There aren't many people who are not getting it in one form or another, because it doesn't just involve planets in the mutable signs. It is also hitting things by semi-square and sesquiquadrate. That pulls in all the cardinal signs as well. So, yes, a lot of clients are beginning to put on their armadillo suits.
Nick Campion: Do you mean that they're getting into a self-protective posture?
Liz Greene: That's one reaction to it. I think it is a very common reaction - and probably a natural reaction. Saturn is much more individually graspable, whereas Pluto feels so overwhelming that the initial response is to pull into Saturn and try to defend oneself against Pluto. It is not "wrong" to do that. It is an inevitable, natural thing to do. But it is not necessarily the best thing to do. The aspect will work itself through anyway, but that certainly seems to be what people are doing.
Nick Campion: In view of the respective planetary positions, do you think that there is a particular Gemini-Sagittarius character to this Saturn-Pluto opposition?
Liz Greene: I think so, because it seems to be raising issues that have to do with morality, as well as with knowledge versus intuitive realisations of some kind. It is creating a lot of intellectual polarisation. There are ideas being battled out, although the form that the Saturn-Pluto opposition takes can be very concrete in lots of people's lives. With all the conflicts that seem to be arising on both personal and collective levels, it is ideologies, concepts, belief systems, and bodies of knowledge that are at stake, even behind whatever wars are being fought.
Nick Campion: Is there one particular example at the moment of an ideological clash that you'd point to?
Liz Greene: Well, how about Northern Ireland? That's been going on for a very long time, and I don't think that it's unique to Saturn-Pluto, but it may enter a new phase now.
Nick Campion: The Sun in the chart for the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (December 7, 1922) is at 14° Sagittarius.[2]
Liz Greene: The Sun and the Descendant are within five degrees of each other. The chart for southern Ireland[3] and the chart for the U.K., including Northern Ireland, are one day apart. They are both getting Saturn-Pluto.
Nick Campion: Yes, often with a complete inability on either side to identify with the other's point of view. Or even acknowledge there is a point of view. What archetype do you think Pluto corresponds to? Is it slightly artificial to say, "This planet is this archetype and that planet is that archetype," as if they existed in little boxes?
Liz Greene: Yes, it's artificial.
Nick Campion: You spoke about Pluto at one point as Lucifer, the dark angel who brings the night, and you spoke about Pluto somewhere else as feminine and then also as the archetype of immortality and the endless cycle of death and rebirth.[4]
Liz Greene: I don't think you can say, "Here's this planet, here's this archetype, they match," because that's trying to squash two different symbolic systems together. They will never fit properly. It is probably better to see planetary symbols as having family relations with a whole range of images, all of which combine in different ways. One of the Plutonian archetypes is certainly Lucifer. One of them is the Fates. One is Goethe's Mephistopheles, and another is Kali. There is a whole range of mythic images that can help us to get some sense of the Pluto principle. It is almost impossible to articulate it, except in poetic metaphors. There is an intelligent life in substance itself, which seems to be associated with the life force in living things. It is nature itself, or the life force in nature, that will survive. And in order to survive, of necessity, it must go through permutations, changes, death processes that break down forms when they have reached their sell-by date and then generate new forms. We experience Pluto as something destructive, so we then look at Mephistopheles. Or we experience it as nourishing, so we look at the Great Mother. Or we experience it as fate, so we get the image of the Moirae, the Greek Fates. Because of the various ways we experience it, we need several different images.
Nick Campion: Pluto was discovered in 1930, and astrologers often talk about the connection between fascism and the eruption into consciousness of the Plutonian archetype. It's such a strong correlation that it's difficult to ignore. But do you think that, since that point, the Pluto archetype has been stronger?
Liz Greene: I don't think it has gotten stronger. What has happened is that we are more aware of it, as something operating both in society and in nature, than we were before. But I don't think it is stronger. And although it is difficult to ignore the rise of fascism and the discovery of nuclear power, I think we need to be careful, because dictators, genocide, massive collective invasions, upheavals, and deaths have occurred for as long as we have. The difference is that there is now an awareness of the Pluto archetype as something which we have named. We have become aware that it is something operating in the world, and this awareness may give us more room to use or abuse it in a conscious way. That doesn't necessarily make it stronger. It just means that we start taking it on board, rather than enacting it in a blind and oblivious way.
Nick Campion: In terms of the enactment of things, I was reading The Horoscope in Manifestation.[5] At one point, you say to one of the people in the seminar: "You are in the play," and this person replies: "What, I'm in the play?" and you say: "Yes, you are, enacting Jupiter." So, how do you expect people to enact Pluto? How would you begin to approach somebody who came to you with an incredibly strong Plutonian problem?
Liz Greene: I would first want to hear, and talk about, what they are feeling and experiencing with that problem. The outer planets can feel so overwhelming that it is easy for the person to lose their boundaries completely. That's what people go through under or during the course of Pluto transits. Anything that can help the person to get perspective on what they are experiencing helps immediately. Whether the feeling of being overpowered is internal or external, it is very important for someone to be able to say, "I am feeling desperate. I feel as if everything around me is dying." It's important to try to find a ground where there is an individual rather than just an overwhelming tide. So I would always start with how the person is feeling, before I start talking about what the planet might mean. What sometimes happens is that people disconnect from what they are feeling because they get very scared. I have noticed that, for some people, when they come under Pluto strongly, the sense of being overwhelmed is so scary - especially if there is a fragile ego - that they disconnect from it. And then they start behaving like Pluto. They are taken over by whatever is bubbling up.
Nick Campion: So, behaving like Pluto would mean what? Obsessive?
Liz Greene: Obsessive.
Nick Campion: Confrontational?
Liz Greene: Not necessarily confrontational. Pluto can be very circumspect although still locked in an attitude of "This is life or death, and I have to win or I will be destroyed." That is what makes people behave very badly sometimes. They get into power battles and they start manipulating, or they set themselves up in some way whereby they are victimised by something very powerful. Pluto isn't necessarily confrontational. It is locked into a pattern of nature itself and is a force which will either grind over everything or become the victim of everything.
Nick Campion: Putting oneself in a victim position in relation to authority sounds like the classic Sun-Pluto combination.
Liz Greene: It is certainly one of the classic manifestations. Do you mean natally, or in transit?
Nick Campion: Natally. But would you draw a distinction between natal and transiting aspects in that way?
Liz Greene: Yes, I would, because if it is natal, it is an ongoing process. If it is a transit without a natal aspect, it's an experience that a person will go through, but it may not be one that they need to build their lives on. But if it is there natally, then it is necessary to get some idea of what dimension of life is essential to take on board and live with. You have got to make some kind of relationship with it.
Nick Campion: If somebody has the Sun-Pluto natally, they may well incorporate it into their state of being, so when a transit of Pluto occurs, they might feel it to be far less profound, perhaps, than someone who has the same transit but without the natal position.
Liz Greene: Well, maybe not "far less profound," but maybe far more familiar. The individual might say, "Yes, I know this one, it is just that the volume has been cranked up a bit." Whereas if there is no natal aspect, it's more like: "What is this?" It helps a lot if you have Pluto links with your Ascendant, Sun, Moon, Mercury, or have the planet angular when you come under a Pluto transit, because there is already a sense of the Plutonian dimension of life. It requires humans to accept something at work in life greater than themselves. You can't manage Pluto without that acceptance. If it is already there, then navigating the kinds of things that arise under the transit is easier if you know the name of the animal. It can be freak-out time if you don't know the name of it.
Nick Campion: So, obviously something perfectly useful that people gain from going to astrologers is that they learn the name of the animal they're dealing with. The astrologer will give them a label, and they can then objectify the label or somehow give it a presence, a personality, which they can relate to.
Liz Greene: Yes, it is the same process by which techniques like active imagination or dream work operate. If you can give whatever you are experiencing a container through a symbol, like an astrological symbol, or a painting or a drawing or a piece of music, you have created distance between it and yourself. You may not objectify it in the sense that you now know what it is, but it gives you a sense that you can make a relationship with it rather than being swallowed up by it - and then you can bring consciousness to bear on it.
Nick Campion: What distinction would you draw between Moon-Pluto links and Sun-Pluto? Is Moon-Pluto going to have more to do with the family?
Liz Greene: I think so. Moon-Pluto operates much more through the physical and psychological inheritance. One experiences the Plutonian dimension of life viscerally, either in the body or through the feelings or through relationship. It operates at a gut level, whereas Sun-Pluto tends to translate more into something that affects, or is part of, one's journey, one's destiny, one's purpose and direction.
Nick Campion: In The Horoscope in Manifestation, you said to a member of the audience with Pluto square Moon, "You are carrying complexes related to the family inheritance, the wounded world, the suffering of others, and the sense of obligations which such suffering invokes."[6] That sounds more past-related, as opposed to Sun-Pluto, which is more future-related.
Liz Greene: Yes. Moon-Pluto carries a big wardrobe with it. Family objects are in the attic and basement.
Nick Campion: Skeletons in cupboards?
Liz Greene: It's skeletons in cupboards. The child born with Moon-Pluto knows that life is very dangerous. Nothing is permanent, everything could be destroyed. There is no real sense of being able to relax and have a nice safe time, because there is an inbuilt understanding or inbuilt instinctive awareness of the cyclical nature of life and the mortality of everything - the inevitability of change. It is that sense of constant danger that could be turned into an extraordinary attribute. It also brings with it a very understandable tendency to depression, because you can't just go and have a party. You can, but at some point when the clock strikes midnight, you realise that all these people are one day going to get old, and they will get sick, and they are going to die, and what is the point? What are we here for? It brings up all these deep questions and anxieties.
Nick Campion: One point which you developed very strongly in your early writings is the idea that a planetary combination which might have a possible negative consequence also contains the means by which you can do something about it. So, if Moon-Pluto brings a natural tendency to depression, what would be a natural way for somebody to turn that into an upward path, or bring it back to the light, or however you want to put it - and get the smile back on their face?
Liz Greene: I think it may involve not trying so terribly hard to get the smile back. Part of the problem is that we perceive states of depression and mourning as pathological conditions that should be cured. Half of America is medicated in order to avoid depression. Depression or melancholy has a long tradition of being the only state in which you can contact the soul. If you go around with a perpetual smile, that level of life cannot make itself known in a helpful or creative way. The cyclical tendency to depression with Moon-Pluto means, first of all, understanding depression differently - perhaps calling it melancholy instead - to go down into the depths in order to return to the light. All the deeper questions come up. Because everything dies in Pluto's world, there is a constant grieving for what passes. It is like losing a human being that you are close to, and unless you go through the mourning process, something gets very blocked up and sick. It can actually be helpful to work with depression as something useful and creative, rather than trying to place the smile back on. I think the smile begins to form with a sense of irony. It is a different kind of smile. Also, it can lead to the kind of humour that deals with an appreciation of the absurd.
Nick Campion: I remember once, a long time ago, there was an article in the Astrological Association newsletter, Transit, in which Eve Jackson looked at the horoscopes of the Monty Python team and the prevalence of Pluto.[7] One thinks of images like the sad clown with the tears running down his face.
Liz Greene: Pluto has its own form of smile. It is a bad mistake to think that smiles should always be Steinway smiles, with "have a nice day" pasted onto them. Getting something regenerating and rewarding out of Pluto really means treating the god with respect and not trying to turn him into a bundle of laughs.
Nick Campion: One image that occurred to me while you were talking is the sight one encounters in Mediterranean countries, of dark Catholic churches with old ladies in black, lighting candles, probably for lost members of their family. That's their form of working with Pluto and loss.
Liz Greene: Yes. It may be appropriate for those cultures. It may not necessarily work in Britain. Also, some cultures are much less frightened of venting grief and the rage that goes with grief, because we quite appropriately should be enraged when things die. Again, if you look at Faust, Goethe had the Sun square a rising Pluto in Scorpio. At one point Mephistopheles says, "What does it matter if this woman dies?" and Faust comes out with an outraged declaration that the death of a single young woman like this is a terrible tragedy. We should experience that reaction in the face of Pluto. It is appropriate because then we clean out the rage and grief. In some cultures, they do this more easily.
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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
© 2001 Nicholas Campion - all rights reserved
Nick Campion is Past President of the Astrological Association of Great Britain. He has been a student of astrology since the early 1970s and has taught the subject since 1980 - for London's Camden Institute, the Faculty of Astrological Studies, and most recently, for Kepler College. He is also currently a graduate student in the Study of Religions Department at Bath Spa University College, England. Nick is the winner of the 1992 Marc Edmund Jones Award, the 1994 Prix Georges Antares, and the 1999 Spica Award for Professional Excellence. His books include Mundane Astrology and The Book of World Horoscopes. Information about these books is available on his Web site: www.nickcampion.com
[1] Liz Greene, Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, Wellingborough, U.K.: Aquarian Press, 1976, p. 142.
[2] Nicholas Campion, Book of World Horoscopes, Bristol, U.K.: Cinnabar Books, 1997, Chart #358, p. 395.
[3] Ibid., Chart #92, p. 147.
[4] Greene, Saturn, pp. 140, 189; The Outer Planets and Their Cycles, Reno, NV: CRCS, 1983, p. 140.
[5] Liz Greene, The Horoscope in Manifestation, London: CPA Press, 1997.
[6] Ibid., p. 103.
[7] Eve Jackson, "Monty Python, Pluto and the Fool," Transit, No. 43, November 1983, pp. 13-17.
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Kemi Lala Akindoju vs Toke Makinwa
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- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:43
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See This I Must Comment. Beta Crawl Back To That Village You Came From, That Obviously Isn't Close To Civilization. Thats A Camisole Not Tank Top. Village Vagrant.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 20:16
mgbeke calling someone mgbeke. you are such an mgbeke that you don't know wha ta clutch is and how it adds extra to dressing up. i'm sure you will carry a big bag instead. now that's mgbeke feeling funky.Delete
- sexyboocalher17 January, 2013 08:30
So U̶̲̥̅̊ prefare d 1 wit pressed sag breast dat is showin abi???**pity face**Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 11:18
omo abeg i just have to comment on this. una don finish this 'okoro feeling funky' @ano 18.45.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:46
its the same dress. kemi was decent enough to put a camisole beneathReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:50
kemi wore it better okonjo n kimReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:50
Toke of course. Is that other girl a housewife? No offenseReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:08
I'll say the Kemi lady atleast she covered herself unlike madam Toke.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:14
Toke breast has gone flat. So someone that knows her should kindly tell her to cover up next time. *Unsightly*. Kemi looks like a woman who is out of place.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:20
kemi lukks kulReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:22
Toke Makinwa on this occasion rocks it better, for once. However, that breast she needs to do something about it.ReplyDelete
- Richard16 January, 2013 19:37
It's the same but different designs. Both look good in it.Toke, your breast is succulent.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:39
Nope its saggedDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:40
I like d one wit a complete breast, KemiReplyDelete
Nenye in d building
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:41
Kemi Lala because she covered her chestReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:44
Camisole rulesReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:58
Not in this case. I'm sorry.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:39
Yes it doesDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:44
@anonymous 18:45.... look who's calling someone an mgbeke. You don't even know the difference between a tank top and a camisole. So because Kemi was being decent/modest, she's an mgbeke...what is wrong with you? That girl probably has more class than u could ever think of! Instead of you to just answer the simple question you started writing off point...biko, ka mmadu nu ife!ReplyDelete
and no, I am not Kemi or in anyway related to her but I can't stand people who just want to put others down. They need to get a life!
- Ms. Bee16 January, 2013 19:46
Nse also rocked the dress.....see link belowReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:46
Gorgeous TokeReplyDeleteReplies
U mean old cargo tokeDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:47
Ms MakindeReplyDeleteReplies
You wishDelete
- happy yoruba bunny16 January, 2013 19:47
toke's breasts r flatReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:47
Toke made the dress look glam she certainly wore it betterReplyDeleteReplies
Not trueDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:51
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:51
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:54
- Terrence.16 January, 2013 20:12
A Well Dressed Babe Is Beautiful, A Half Dressed Babe Is Hot. Heaven Is Beautiful Hell Is Hot. Do The Math.ReplyDelete
Talking about decency,please be quite; i dont agree on both, maybe Kemi shld not have had the dress in the first place,because the consept of the dress is to bare it,so by wearing a camisole in it, kemi is hiding the consept. only thing i could add to Toke is please there are kind of sexy bras to go well with this lovely dress and it will still rveal a nice cleavage. Toke rocks it better.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 07:54
its quiet and concept!Delete
- sexyboocalher17 January, 2013 08:34
Don't mind him or ha!!! Birfd of a feather flock 2geda in d directn** olodo grp**Delete
Toke wore it better, making it meaningful. i comment earlier.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:41
- sexyboocalher17 January, 2013 08:35
Like toke lik U̶̲̥̅̊ anon**olodo grp**Delete
Toke's breast looks like pancake hereReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:04
Nse etim also has dis dress. Toke did it for me thoReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:09
We dnt need 2 expose dis lovely body of our 2 be beautiful.good one kemiReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:39
Ours pleaseDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:41
They both rocked it wellDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:14
#Crying n a loud voice# pls someone remind me wat job toke does againReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:37
so much hatredDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:01
Its 2013, GOOGLE HER.......duh.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:42
She is An old cargo lookin for publicityDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:35
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:41
They both rocked it wellReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:42
The kemi ladyReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:42
The kemi ladyReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:57
People this is not about TOKE trying to expose herself. Its about her respecting the creative view of the designer. The mesh [ net material ] is there for a reason. That doesn't mean that the other young lady is not dresses well. But in my opinion I think TOKE displays the true beauty of the dress.ReplyDelete
For the nay sayers, leave this TOKE chick alone. She is leaving her dream, I strongly suggest u do the same. If Beyonce had on that same dress, yallbwould be on the band Wagon. Support your fellow sister.
Im out.........Replies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:17
O se Toke.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:44
No my dear its a crime for u to wear a dress like this when your boobs are sagged. Toke should be in jail. This is a fashion offenceDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 08:30
Toke nxt time, get either a Silicone invisible bra or a Scultping bra, no need saying your boobs was.......ReplyDelete
bitch stole my look,Toke is Fugly...........kilodeReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 08:39
fashion police should not throw her in jail,they should kill those breast by hangingReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 08:43
There is something about Toke's complexion that irritates meReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 08:47
Toke's dress is like Kemi's face, UGLYReplyDelete
IF YOUR BREAST IS FLAT AND YOU ARE STILL EXPOSING IT,WHO ARE YOU.................ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 09:02
The dress is fine to me,just that Toke revealed a littleReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 09:04
I choose Kemi's dress anytime anydayReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 09:11
wait ooo, why are you all complainig about Toke's dress?she is not revealing too much and you cant even see her nipples, if Jlo or Nikky Minaj was the one wearing this i bet y'all will be admiring her,give her a break from your hating world pulizzzzzzzzReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 09:26
Toke killed that dressReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 09:31
I rep Kemi's dressReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 January, 2013 21:29
THE FIRST PERSON THAT COMMENTED, WAT IS WRONG WITH TOKE? IF YOU PREFER THE OTHER SAY SO. I KNOW BOTH LADIES ROCKED IT WELLA IN THEIR OWN WAYReplyDelete
- Anonymous20 February, 2013 15:55
Toke wore ıt better!!!She ıs confıdent.ı love confıdent women.She no send nobody.Haters can go and hug a transformer.Next pls.....ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 April, 2013 13:18
Nse Etim has worn this dress before and it looked best on herReplyDelete


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A group of investors and individuals got a sneak peak Friday at the completion of Phase 1 of the Capital Fund Project on the Fremont Campus of Pueblo Community College.
To celebrate the completion, a ribbon cutting ceremony will be offered at noon Nov. 7 at 51320 W. U.S. 50.
"Over the summer, we dodged many things in the hallways and different rooms," said Fremont Campus Dean Dr. Lana Carter. "We renovated the testing area of the Resource Center and the classrooms. We were able to re-size and re-purpose some rooms, switched some others and provide collapsible walls that are soundproof. Likewise, we put in a testing center ... quiet rooms and individual study rooms (in the learning center). Now we have an art room where the computer rooms used to be. Classrooms (also) were restructured."
Research shows that students need specific things to be competitive in today's world. They learn and work in teams much more than they once did. They are also engaged in numerous activities and PCC Fremont Campus students want to experience some of the things they would if they were at the University of Colorado at Boulder or Colorado State University at Pueblo, Carter said.
However, there is still work to be done.
During the event, Advisory Committee member John Merriam talked about the history of the college, from its start at the Abbey to its current status.
"After the campus was built and after we settled into it, classes began to run. We always invariably find additional things we would like to have and programs we would like to add to the curriculum, (as well as provide) needs and space," he said. "A plan was developed about six or seven years ago to add to this campus substantially at a rate of about $2.5 million. It started a growth, but the timing was not right in that the economic recession hit. We also saw a little bit of decrease in student enrollment and we had a change in the administration at PCC."
When the committee re-evaluated where they were and where they were going, the committee conducted an efficiency study and found what they didn't need was more, but instead the need to utilize the space they had to make it more efficient. For example, the classrooms were built for 30 students; however, the size of classes averaged about 15 students in any one class.
"The students held out for one thing," Merriam said. "They felt the one aspect of the building plan that was no longer going to be part of our Phase 1 and 2 plan included a commons area.
So Merriam, Marvin Bradley and Myron "Smitty" Smith agreed to be a core of the Capital Fund Committee.
"There was still some money left over from the first fundraising that was not used in the renovation for Phase 1," Merriam said. "There had been money set aside by the college and there had been money set aside by the students --- about $250,000 over a four year period. When it was all said and done, the budget was about $100,000 short."
In June, Merriam, Bradley and Smitty met with Cañon City Councilwoman Pat Freda, Carter and Diana Porter, of PCC, to talk about raising money. At the beginning of the meeting, Advisory and foundation member Walter Schepp said he and his wife, Gloria, had decided to put $100,000 up-front so the approval process could get started along with the architectural design and bidding to build the commons area.
"(We continued to collect) funds to alleviate all the responsibly for the $100,000 to the Schepp family," Merriam said.
The committee also continues to request matching grants from such foundations as El Pomar and Boettcher, along with residents to help with matching funds, grants and support for the last phase, which has been approved by all the bodies needed.
"That's where we have been," Merriam said. "That's where we are going. I think it's a wise decision, based on this structure and the needs of the people who work and learn in this structure and we're very supportive of that."


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COLDWATER � At Monday's meeting of the Coldwater Community Schools Board of Education, Lakeland Elementary principal Gary Dancer praised Lakeland Elementary fifth grade teacher Stephanie Aughenbaugh and asked�the board to recognize her tenure.
"She has written a grant to secure just the right books for the classrooms, led tech bites during staff meetings and is emerging as a one of our teacher leaders at Lakeland," said Dancer.
During the superintendent's report Tina Kerr mentioned the United We Read day that was part of��the national March is Reading Month initiative.�She explained that the local United Way office wanted to expand the district's concept of volunteers reading in classrooms.
United We Read saw 174 readers volunteer to read to elementary classes across Branch County. All but�two classrooms in Branch County and Union City schools had volunteer readers during the one-day event.
Also discussed was a recently-completed administrative retreat. TMembers spent a whole day together talking about how to make sure�an Academics First plan can be initiated.
Eighty�people attended the recentparent advisory committee meeting, where they were discussing the Acadamics First plan. Kerr said the conversation was positive.
When speaking about the Michigan House of Representatives passing the Education Achievement Authority Bill Kerr said, "I am personally disappointed because we spent a lot of time with the state and our representative trying to make sure that this legislation, which is bad to start off with, did not continue to grow."
The Michigan Association of School Administrators has asked for a select few superintendents to serve on the State Systemic Reform Committee. The selection was an election process through MASA. Kerr has been asked to join the committee with 22 other superintendents.
"We need to be proactive in changing education versus continuing to have our legislators mandate changes," said Kerr.
The school board adopted the amendments to Section 9000 General Public and Organizational Relations policies and others.
The school board accepted�a bid from Michigan State Electrical for $343,897 for lighting on the football, baseball and soccer fields.
"We had some local bidders on this program. We discussed this�at length, because obviously we have favoritism toward our local business," said James Hiscock.�"The differences between the low bid and what they are proposing to do and our local bid was too great to give in."
Kerr reminded everyone that the money for this project came from the sinking fund, not the�general fund.The board adopted the 2013-14 school calendar, keeping the same format as last year. There will be 187 teacher days and 180 student days.
Part of the Academics First inactive restructuring concerned how to utilize Lincoln Elementary school. The English Language Learners program has outlined a plan for the next year to service E.L.L.
students. It is �in their best interests to have a home school so they can be immersed in the English language as well as getting help and support at Lincoln.
Lincoln will operate in its current capacity as far as housing Great Start and�Head Start.
To make sure employees have as much notice as possible the board approved a plan to lay off para-pros that are grant-funded based on Title�I and at-risk, depending on where their positions were. The reason for the lay-off was reduction in grant funding over and above what was anticipated.
The school district will be laying off para-pros that are associated with those grant funds. There is still a need for recess and lunch room para-pros. There will be fewer Title�I funds available because of the sequester, and�there won't be carry-over funds.
The district was told to expect only 85 percent�of standard allocation funds, a significant reduction in Title�I funds.
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A wild, 30-mile ride across the highways and biways of San Joaquin County has resulted in 23 criminal charges against three individuals.
A wild, 30-mile ride across the highways and biways of San Joaquin County has resulted in 23 criminal charges against three individuals.
The three have been identified:
� Jaime Lee Castellon, 34, a male, Lathrop: 14 charges ranging from evading a police officer in a reckless manner to possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle to assault with a deadly weapon against a peace officer.
� Cheri Grace Hanson, 18, a female, address unknown: Six charges ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice to resisting arrest to possession of drug paraphernalia.
� Chalissa A. Robinson, 33, a female, French Camp: Three charges, including evading a police officer and accessory to felony/aid in avoiding arrest.
All three played a part in a high-speed chase that included driving against traffic on Interstate 5 and highways 99 and 4 as well as speeds up to 100 miles per hour.
"At one point, we perceived that this was a carjacking," said Officer James Smith, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, "and that upped our response."
Involved in the high-risk incident were an aerial unit, a highway patrol sergeant and three CHP ground units.
As it turned out, there was no carjacking - only an accomplice, Robinson, who helped Castellon and Hanson toward the end of the chase.
It started at 11:52 a.m. when an officer tried unsuccessfully to stop Castellon, who was driving a stolen red Nissan pickup. Hanson was his passenger. The pair stole a Volvo in the middle of the high-speed chase.
It ended at 12:39 p.m. after a pursuing CHP car employed a tactic known as PIT that is designed to force a fleeing vehicle to abruptly turn sideways, causing the driver to lose control.
PIT is an acronym with several definitions, most of them involving immobilization technique.
It took two such attempts. By the time the pursuing officers employed this tactic, Castellon and Hanson were passengers in a waiting vehicle with Robinson as the driver.
After the ramming attempt, Castellon shoved Robinson out of the vehicle and got behind the wheel. A second PIT maneuver by the highway patrol disabled the Mercury.
Castellon, suspected in two robberies, one of them in Manteca, was arrested trying to run away from the scene.


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No reasonable explanations for way Chiefs are playing
By JASON WHITLOCK
If Carl Peterson and Herm Edwards woke up Sunday morning determined to prove that Eddie Drummond no longer belongs inside an NFL uniform, Kansas Citys 2007 Arrowhead Stadium finale was a smashing success.
If they awakened with the intention of providing frustrated Chiefs fans with a smidgen of hope for next season, well, lets just say my dietitian had more success at Ollie Gates all-you-can-eat-and-take-home Christmas party.
With the Tennessee Titans in town, the Chiefs mired in an extended losing streak and patience wearing razor-thin on King Carls two-decade Super Bowl plan, Arrowhead Stadium has finally turned into a hostile, half-empty environment for the homeboys.
As the Chiefs lost their seventh straight, 26-17, Kansas City football fans watched while wearing paper bags, waving smart-aleck signs and shouting expletives.
We dont have a home-field advantage right now, defensive end Jared Allen said, stating the obvious.
Nope, Sundays debacle dropped the Chiefs to 2-6 at the crib this year and 4-10 overall.
Hey, Im all good with the losing and improvement in KCs draft position. Its the way the Chiefs are losing that has me up in arms. Theres no rhyme or reason to what is transpiring with the Chiefs.
Prosecution witness No. 1: Eddie Drummond.
Why? That has been the question about Drummond all season. Why was Drummond signed at the end of training camp when Justin Phinisee, a kid who fit KCs supposed youth movement, had performed so admirably as the Chiefs return man? And now why would the Chiefs return Drummond to the active roster after he enjoyed a very productive month of standing along the sideline in street clothes?
Drummond cant help the Chiefs in 2008, and he damn sure cant help them in 2007.
Drummond fumbled a punt, botched a perfectly blocked return with needless juking and stutter-stepping, and slipped and fell inside KCs 5 on another return.
When I asked Edwards why Drummond was dusted off and put in position to embarrass himself and the organization again, the coach had no plausible explanation.
Reasonable explanations have become a scarce commodity at One Arrowhead Drive. King Carl and Edwards keep referencing a Plan to fix this mess. A Plan is exactly what has been missing from day one.
What Im about to write isnt mentioned to toot my own horn; its referenced to demonstrate that none of us should be surprised by what were witnessing. I refer you to the column I wrote the day before Kansas Citys season opener. It was headlined Chiefs on a trip to nowhereland.
Heres the key excerpt:
If you watched HBOs Hard Knocks, you didnt hear a lot of talk about the Super Bowl or even the playoffs. We were just treated to unprecedented access into the Chiefs organization, but we have no idea what the goal is for this years squad.
Good coaches and sound organizations find unique, compelling and entertaining ways to repeat the same message over and over again. What was Herms message? The lack of one says a lot about where this organization is headed. Nowhere. The Chiefs are neither rebuilding nor reaching for the playoffs.
This thing is stale and in need of a drastic overhaul. There is no singular vision driving this organization. King Carl has run out of fresh ideas. Thats no crime. He had a good run. The crime is holding on well past usefulness. The crime is not getting out of the way and giving others a chance. By holding on, hes allowed chaos and desperation to run wild.
Ive harped on the Drummond-Phinisee stupidity all season because its a sign of the organizations insecurity. The personnel department and coaching staff watched a kid win the job, then gave it to a washed-up old-timer with a decent resume and connection to KCs special-teams coachs dad. What a bunch of clowns.
Greg Wesley, despite his frustrations about losing his starting spot, has actually shown up each Sunday and given a solid effort. He didnt suit up against the Titans to make room for an additional cornerback. Meanwhile, three-year free-agent bust Kendrell Bell was back in action. Why?
Clark Hunt told me Sunday that hell speak with the media after the season. He needs to be wearing his Big Boy shoes. Chiefs fans are ready for a new direction, new leadership. If Clark sticks with the status quo or tries to elevate one of Petersons cronies to general manager, the Chiefs fans that show up at Arrowhead next season will be angrier than the crew that just left.


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A news reporter covering the aftermath of a snowstorm in New Jersey was blasted with snow from a passing plow Monday morning, but didn't miss a beat in his live report.
Philadelphia's FOX 29 posted video on its website showing reporter Steve Keeley getting hit from behind by a wave of snow as a plow pummeled past him during a live broadcast from the side of a road in Woodstown, N.J.
Philadelphia journalist Dan McQuade tweeted out this GIF capturing the moment of impact.
This is the 15th storm Keeley has reported on this winter, according to the station.
Keeley spoke about the incident during a later broadcast, joking a reporter from another TV station must have been behind the wheel of the plow. The station reported someone claiming to be the real driver called to apologize and said he didn't notice Keeley at the side of the road.


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Billy Joel sang "Uptown Girl" to ex-wife Christie Brinkley on Thursday night at New York's Madison Square Garden.
There were other people there too.
The supermodel, who was the inspiration for the song and starred in the video more than three decades ago, sat in the front row, according to MSN.com. A video posted to YouTube shows Joel telling the camera crew to get a shot of Brinkley, as she danced and sang along. At song's end, Brinkley is seen on the arena's big screen with a large smile on her face.
This is all so disgustingly cute, I'm not sure I can find anything to make fun of.
Brinkley later posted a photo of herself and daughter Sailor at the show, with the caption "He's still got it."
Brinkley and Joel divorced in 1994 after a nine-year marriage that produced daughter Alexa Ray Joel.
Tony Hicks provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Contact him at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/thicks67.


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FIRESTONE -- An offer to return the trappings of the old Firestone post office almost got lost in the mail.
Back in February, Erie resident Joe Bertron wrote the town with an offer. His mother, Clemmie, had been Firestone's postmistress for 31 years and kept the old post office boxes, money order window and mail window after operations switched to a new location. Would Firestone like them back?
He got an excited "yes." But not for about six months. The letter, oddly enough, had slipped out of sight after reaching Town Hall.
"It had fallen behind the filing cabinet," Bertron said. "They didn't find it until they were getting ready to put in new carpeting."
"It was meant to be," chuckled Trustee Paul Sorensen, a member of the Carbon Valley Historical Society. After a call back by Sorensen, discussions, and a short flood-related delay, the pieces finally returned to Firestone last week.
The wood, brass and pebbled-glass furnishings date back to the original post office built in 1907, before Firestone was incorporated. It's the first time they've been back in the town since 1969.
"I've always wanted to give them back to the town," said Bertron. "Being 100 years old, you don't just toss that into the dump."
The items had been in storage at a Boulder home that was recently sold and is due to change hands Tuesday. The furnishings had been scheduled to be moved on the day of the flood; the disaster forced a 12-day delay, but did not damage the post office pieces.
When Bertron's mother first became postmaster in 1938, Firestone was still a "fly through" mail stop for trains, hastily dropping off the post -- sometimes with unfortunate consequences.
"At Christmas time, in parcel post, there'd be a lot of glass and it would break," Bertron said. "There'd be a lot of complaints."
So how did his mom wind up keeping the post boxes? Well, they were technically hers. The tradition at the time was that each new postmaster paid the previous one $100 for the boxes. When she retired, the old boxes weren't needed and stayed with her.
"Maybe it would be appropriate if the town gave you $100," Sorensen said to Bertron with a chuckle. "You could frame it and put it on the wall."
The town currently has the furnishings in storage until a permanent location can be settled on.
"They're smaller than I thought they would be, which is a good thing," Sorensen said. "We should be able to find some cases for them." Not only is the donation welcome, Sorensen said, but it might encourage others to step forward with their own bits of history.
"I'm hoping once people know about this, they'll say 'Oh, I've got this sitting in my closet that used to belong to so-and-so that the town might be interested in having,'" he said "I'm sure there must be plenty of coal miner lunch buckets, hats ... I'd love to get anything and everything that people might have."
As it turned out, Bertron himself wasn't done yet. While giving an interview for a DVD history of the town, Bertron mentioned that he also had an unpublished memoir of a Firestone coal miner named Albert Monseau -- 958 handwritten pages, filling each page from end to end without a margin.
"I've got 500 pages left to read," he said.
A cousin gave a copy of the manuscript to Bertron about six or seven years ago. He agreed to make a fresh copy for the town.
Monseau was the stepson of Bertron's great-great-uncle Pete Popineau, Firestone's first occupant; Popineau lived in the town until his death in 1943. Much of the manuscript deals with Monseau's experiences in the mine, and sometimes its dangers as well.
"They'd get into a place where they heard the timber cracking and have to move out all the equipment," Bertron said. "And if you could salvage the coal, you were lucky, because you only got paid for the coal that you loaded."
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NEW YORK - Following the completion of the most successful season in Columbia baseball history, 18 student-athletes headed to their respective summer league teams. Below is a round-up of the players representing the Lions around the nation.
A trio of Columbia players are competing in the Perfect Game New York College Baseball League (PGNYCBL). Jordan Serena and Mike Fischer are both playing for the Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs, while David Vandercook is a member of the Newark Pilots.
Serena's stellar defensive effort from the spring has continued in Mohawk Valley. In 25 starts, the rising junior has yet to commit an error, while hitting at a .275 clip at the top of the lineup. Serena is third on the DiamondDawgs with 91 at bats and fourth with 10 stolen bases.
Fischer has seen action in 14 games, making 11 starts for Mohawk Valley. Among the three catchers on the DiamondDawgs' roster, Fischer's .991 fielding percentage is tops. His exceptional fielding and ability to manage the entire Mohawk Valley rotation earned Fischer a spot on the PGNYCBL East Division all-star team.
Joining Fischer in the PGNYCBL all-star game as a member of the West Division team will be Vandercook. Among the regular starters for Newark, Vandercook has been the power bat in the lineup, posting a .529 slugging percentage. Of Vandercook's 24 hits, 13 of those have gone for extra bases as he is second in home runs (three), triples (three) and doubles (four), leading to 12 RBI.
Also competing in the Empire State in the New York College Baseball League (NYCBL) is rising sophomore pitcher George Martin. Playing for the Geneva Red Wings, Martin has struck out 14 batters in 11 innings of work. Martin's most recent appearance on July 14 was his longest of the year. He went 3.0 innings, striking out a trio of batters against the Wellsville Nitros.
In the Cape Cod League, rising senior pitcher David Speer began the season with the Bourne Braves before moving on to the Chatham Anglers. With Bourne, Speer pitched to a 1.97 ERA over 13.2 innings. Since joining Chatham, he has thrown three scoreless innings, allowing just one hit. Speer has struck out 15 batters between the two teams.
A pair of Lions, Joey Gandolfo and Nick Maguire, are members of the North Jersey Eagles of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. Gandolfo, who will be entering his senior season with the Lions in 2014, was named an East Team All-star on July 15. The Saddle River, N.J. native has a team-leading 1.56 ERA over 23 innings. He is second on the Eagles with 19 strikeouts and holds a 2-0 record in six appearances.
First baseman and rising sophomore, Maguire, has played in seven games for North Jersey. At the plate, Maguire is hitting at a .286 clip and has walked a trio of times. In the field, Maguire his played his position cleanly, posting 26 putouts and two assists.
Another league populated by three Columbia ballplayers is the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. Pitchers Thomas Crispi and Mike Weisman are each members of the North Shore Navigators, while infielder John Kinne is playing for the Pittsfield Suns.
Crispi is putting together a nice campaign on the mound for the Navigators, recording a 2.86 ERA in 22 innings. On July 15, Crispi raised his season strikeout total to 28 when he sat down seven batters from the Seacoast Mavericks in five innings.
Weisman has an identical 0-1 record to his teammate Crispi, while putting up a 4.72 ERA in 13.1 innings on the hill.
Kinne, a rising sophomore, has spent time this summer at shortstop for Pittsfield. Over 22 games, Kinne has a .260 batting average, 12 walks and 11 RBI. Kinne had a breakout game on July 10, going 3-for-4 at the dish, driving in two runs, scoring twice and reaching base via two walks to help lead Pittsfield to a 17-9 throttling on the Wachusett Dirt Dawgs.
Another Lion playing in New England is Zack Tax. A member of the Dansbury Westerners (New England Collegiate Baseball League), Tax holds a 2-0 mark and a 1.42 ERA in 19 innings of work. Tax, who Columbia fans remember threw five no-hit innings in the NCAA Tournament against Arizona State, also picked up saves in two recent Dansbury victories.
David Spinosa has been a valuable hurler in the bullpen for the Waynesboro Generals of the Valley Baseball League in Virginia. In 17.1 innings of relief work, Spinosa has posted a team-leading 1.03 ERA, having allowed just two earned runs in 11 appearances. He is averaging just under one strikeout per inning, fanning 17 opposing hitters this season.
Crossing the country, Gus Craig and Adam Cline are each competing on the west coast. Craig has appeared in 23 games this summer for the Corvallis Knights of the West Coast League, spraying 11 hits, scoring seven times, driving in five base runners and walking five times. He helped lead Corvallis to back-to-back wins over the Portland Toros and WCL Portland on July 5 and 6, respectively, when he went 4-for-8 with four RBI, two runs scored, a homer and a triple.
Cline has had a strong summer pitching for Top Speed Baseball of the Far West League. The rising sophomore is just one of three pitchers on Top Speed to throw at least 39 innings (39.1), posting the second-lowest ERA on the team at 2.28. He stands at 3-3 on the season, with 28 strikeouts and one save in 10 appearances.
Pitcher George Thanopoulus is in his second season with the Los Angeles Brewers of the California Collegiate League. Thanopoulos has a 3-1 record and a 2.57 ERA in 28 innings on the hill. He currently leads the Brewers with 29 strikeouts, while holding opposing hitters to a .212 batting average.
Heading to the Midwest, rising sophomore Logan Boyher is having an outstanding summer in the St. Louis Metro Collegiate Baseball League (STLMCIBL) playing for the Kats. Boyher's .333 batting average ranks him 10th in the seven-team league. In 22 games, Boyher has driven in 14 runs, walked 12 times and has accounted for 12 runs scored.
Pitcher Kevin Roy, who will return to Columbia this fall as a sophomore, is logging innings in the Texas Collegiate League with the Woodlands Strykers. In seven appearances (two starts) Roy has posted a 3.52 ERA and 14 strikeouts. Roy's longest appearances was on July 12 when he threw six innings of two-hit ball, allowing just two runs, while striking out four.
Playing in the Florida Collegiate Summer League for the College Park Freedom, pitcher Matt Robinson has thrown six innings over three appearances. The rising sophomore has four strikeouts, with three of those sit downs coming in two innings of work against the Orlando Monarchs on June 15.


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Lapa Earns Big Ten Golfer of the Week Award
Freshman Kolton Lapa became the first Husker men's golfer of the 2012-13 season to earn Big Ten Golfer of the Week accolades, the conference announced Wednesday.
Lapa tied for seventh at the NMSU Golf Course on Tuesday after firing a 2-under-par 211 over 54 holes. He finished six strokes behind co-individual champions Chris Gilbert of Kansas and Blake Biddle of UNLV at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate.
Lapa, a native of Mesa, Ariz., opened the tournament with a 1-under-par 70 in Monday's first round. He followed that up by firing a 2-under-par 69 in Monday's second round at the par-71, 7,074-yard layout. In Tuesday's final round Lapa posted a 1-over-par 72. With the award, Lapa becomes the first Husker golfer since Scott Willman in March 2012 to win Big Ten Golfer-of-the-Week honors.
The Huskers will conclude their fall season on Friday and Saturday at the UTEP Miner Invitational in El Paso, Texas. The tournament will start with a 9:30 a.m. (CT) shotgun at Butterfield Trail Golf Course on Friday.
Big Ten Men's Golfers of the Week
Sept. 12 - Grant Weaver, So., OSU
Sept. 19 - Brant Peaper, Sr., IND
Sept. 27 - John Callahan, Jr., NU
Oct. 3 - Erik Van Rooyen, Sr., MINN
Oct. 11 - Adam Schenk, Jr., PUR
Oct. 17 - Chris O'Neill, Fr., MICH
Oct. 24 - Kolton Lapa, Fr., NEB


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At least 300 people were arrested for DWI in Minnesota on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, according to preliminary DWI arrest information from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety.
At least 300 people were arrested for DWI in Minnesota on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, according to preliminary DWI arrest information from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety.
There was one fatality during the late afternoon on Dec. 31, north of Deer River, Minn., and it is unknown at this time if alcohol was a factor in the crash. In the previous four years there were zero drunk driving deaths on New Year's Eve-New Year's Day.
The arrest numbers reflect statewide DWIs from the State Patrol, county sheriff's offices and municipal law enforcement agencies. A breakdown of DWI arrests by agency is not available at this time.
The 300 DWI arrest figure is consistent for New Year's Eve DWI arrests; the state averaged 295 DWIs during the previous five years for the holiday.
"New Year's remains a major celebration, and many people still put lives at risk on the holiday by making the dangerous decision to drink and drive," says Jean Ryan, DPS Office of Traffic Safety impaired driving coordinator. "Those who did not plan ahead for a sober ride and were arrested face serious consequences."
Many law enforcement agencies conducted extra DWI patrols on New Year's Eve as part of a statewide December DWI enforcement campaign.
Drunk Driving in Minnesota
In the last five years, 651 people were killed in drunk driving crashes, 111 in 2011 alone. Each year, nearly 30,000 people are arrested for DWI.
DWI Consequences
A DWI offense can result in loss of license for up to a year, thousands in costs and possible jail time.
Repeat DWI offenders, as well as first-time offenders arrested at 0.16 and above alcohol-concentration level, must use ignition interlock in order to regain legal driving privileges, or face at least one year without a driver's license. Offenders with three or more offenses are required to use interlock for three to six years, or they will never regain driving privileges.
Prevent Drunk Driving
· Plan for a safe ride — designate a sober driver, use a cab/public transportation, or stay at the location of the celebration. Let family/friends know you are available to offer a safe ride home.
· Buckle up and wear protective motorcycle gear — the best defenses against a drunk driver.
· Report drunk driving — call 911 when witnessing impaired driving behavior. Be prepared to provide location, license plate number and observed dangerous behavior.
About the Minnesota Department Public Safety
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) comprises 11 divisions where 2,100 employees operate programs in the areas of law enforcement, crime victim assistance, traffic safety, alcohol and gambling, emergency communications, fire safety, pipeline safety, driver licensing, vehicle registration and emergency management. DPS activity is anchored by three core principles: education, enforcement and prevention.


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Sean Renfree threw for 274 yards on 24-of-34 passing to lead the Blue Devils to a 54-17 victory over N.C. Central this evening in the Bull City Gridiron Classic in front 22,829 fans at Wallace Wade Stadium. The Blue Devils finished with 408 yards of offense to improve to 2-1 on the year.DURHAM, N.C. – Duke quarterback
Renfree finished with three touchdown passes, marking the third time in his career he has registered at least three touchdown passes in a game. Jamison Crowder led all receivers with seven catches for 84 yards and a touchdown, while Josh Snead finished with a rushing and receiving touchdown and had 45 all-purpose yards on the night.
The Blue Devils scored an offensive, defensive and special team touchdown in the victory, the first time it has been done since beating Maryland in 2004. The 54-points are the second highest by Duke in the David Cutcliffe era.
Redshirt junior Ross Cockrell led the defensive charge with two interceptions and a touchdown, while Brandon Braxton had nine tackles, including five solo. Sydney Sarmiento had eight stops.
Freshman kicker Ross Martin scored the first points of the game with a 25-yard field goal 6:29 into the opening quarter. The Blue Devils forced the Eagles into their third punt of the game on the ensuing drive to set up a thrilling 65-yard punt return from redshirt senior Lee Butler.
Butler, collecting the punt at the 35-yard line, got pushed all the way back to the 20-yard line. The Anderson, S.C., native eluded a pair of tacklers and raced up the right sideline, spun out of two tackles and into the end zone for the six points. Butler's 65-yard punt return for touchdown was the 37th punt return to the end zone in Duke football history and the 15th longest in program history.
N.C. Central came right back at the Blue Devils as Austin Goforth returned the kickoff 59 yards to the Duke 41-yard line. Eagles quarterback Jordan Reid connected on a pair of passes to get into the red zone at the Blue Devils' 20-yard line. Redshirt sophomore Andre Clarke broke off a 15-yard dash up the middle to Duke's five-yard line. Clarke got the ball on each of the next three carries and dove into the end zone on third down to make it a 10-7 contest with 3:24 to play.
The Blue Devils, behind the arm of Renfree and a pair of penalties by the Eagles, immediately answered by rolling down the field 66 yards for a touchdown. Renfree capped the six-play drive with a 33-yard strike to Crowder in the right corner of the end zone and a 17-7 Blue Devil lead with 1:21 left in the first quarter.
After trading punts to start the second quarter, the Blue Devils took advantage of a Cockrell interception to get a 30-yard field goal from Martin for a 13-point advantage. Cockrell returned the ball to the 50 and Snead scampered 10 yards up the middle to the N.C. Central 40-yard line. Renfree connected with senior wideout Conner Vernon for 20 yards to get into the red zone at the Eagles' 15-yard line, but was unable to find the end zone as Martin came on the field and knocked the 30-yard kick through the uprights for the 20-7 advantage.
Snead got into the scoring action late in the third quarter with an 18-yard pass from Renfree. It was the sophomore's first career touchdown reception and completed an 11-play, 70-yard drive for the Blue Devils. Renfree was outstanding on Duke's final drive of the half, connecting on eight of nine passes for 68 yards. The touchdown pass marked the 10th time the signal caller has thrown multiple touchdowns, tying him with Steve Slayden for fifth on Duke's all-time list.
N.C. Central took over with 3:04 remaining in the half on its own 15-yard line. The Eagles, behind quarterback Reid, gobbled up 76 yards to get to the Duke nine-yard line with 18 seconds to play. Reid accounted for 69 of the 76 yards on the drive. The Blue Devils sacked Reid to push N.C. Central back to the 16 and forced the Eagles to settle for three points on a 33-yard field goal.
Snead tacked on a rushing touchdown with a five-yard run into the end zone, giving the Blue Devils a 34-10 lead with 6:49 left to play in the third quarter. The Blue Devils added three more touchdowns, including an interception return by Cockrell.
The Blue Devils remain at home next weekend, hosting Memphis on September 22 at 6 p.m. Duke will celebrate the 100th football season in conjunction with Duke Homecoming.
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Perez Joins Texas Tech Coaching Staff
Nebraska associate head coach Hayden Perez was officially named the associate head coach at Texas Tech last week.
Perez, who has spent the past eight seasons on Coach Scott Jacobson's staff at Nebraska, helped the Huskers to five NCAA appearances including a Sweet Sixteen showing last season.
Perez assisted Nebraska to a final ITA ranking of No. 16 in both 2011-12 and 2012-13 as well as No. 6 mid-season during the spring 2013 campaign - the highest in school history. Perez helped in Nebraska's recruiting coordination while assisting with every aspect of the program, including day-to-day operations, coaching, scheduling, travel arrangements and the team's budget.Perez earned the ITA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year honors three times at Nebraska in 2007, 2010, and 2012. During his eight years as a coach for the Huskers, the squad went a spectacular 152-58, including a Big Ten regular season title in 2012-13.
Perez developed three All-Americans and the 2013 NCAA Singles Finalist Mary Weatherholt and saw her receive the Big Ten Women's Tennis Athlete of the Year award two consecutive years in 2012 and 2013.
"Coach Perez has served Nebraska tremendously well over the course of the last 8 years," said Head Coach Scott Jacobson. "His commitment to our program and the welfare of the young lives within our program is what I am most grateful for. I am happy for him, his wife Gretchen, and their two beautiful children, Tanner and Tristen and wish them all the best in this new chapter of their lives."
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Police are looking for MMA fighter War Machine -- aka Jon Koppenhaver -- after he reportedly delivered a savage beating to his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old adult film actress Christy Mack.
I bet right about now he wishes he would've come up with another name.
The pair broke up in May, which apparently didn't keep him from showing up at her home Aug. 8. He allegedly assaulted Mack and a male friend, who managed to escape.
Mack wasn't so lucky. She tweeted Monday that she suffered "18 broken bones around my eyes, my nose is broken in 2 places, I am missing teeth and several more are broken. I am unable to chew, or see out of my left eye. My speech is slurred from my swelling and lack of teeth. I have a fractured rib and severely ruptured liver from a kick to my side. My leg is so badly injured I have not been able to walk on my own. I also attained several lesions from a knife he got from my kitchen. He pushed the knife into me in some areas such as my hand, ear, and head. He also sawed much of my hair off with this dull knife. After some time, the knife broke off of the handle and he continued to threaten me with the blade. I believed I was going to die.
Mack wrote that she escaped to a neighbor's house when Koppenhaver went to the kitchen to find a sharper knife. The neighbor took her to a hospital.
If you're feeling nauseous, you aren't the only one.
Koppenhaver is reportedly missing, according to HollywoodLife.com. Las Vegas Police told MMAFighting.com he's currently wanted as the "primary suspect," after leaving two victims with "severe but nonlife threatening injuries."
According to TMZ, there are seven arrest warrants issued: two felony batteries, one strangulation, two felony domestic violence with great bodily injury, felony coercion with the threat of force, felony assault with a deadly weapon, and misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon.
Mack frequently worked with adult product company Fleshlight, which is offering a $5,000 reward for "any information that leads to his apprehension and arrest."
Koppenhaver defended himself Sunday on Twitter, writing that he went to Mack's home Aug. 8 to surprise her with an engagement ring.
"I'm not a bad guy, I went to surprise my gf, help her set up her show and to give her an engagement ring and ended up fighting for my life," he wrote.
He later wrote a series of tweets, saying, "The cops will never give me fair play, never believe me. Still deciding what to do but at the end of the day it's all just heart breaking. I only wish that man hadn't been there and that Christy & I would be happily engaged. I don't know y I'm so cursed. One day truth will come out."
Yes, he's the one who's cursed. It must have been that other guy's fault that a trained fighter named War Machine beat a woman into the hospital.
He also tweeted directly to Mack, writing (pasted together by HollywoodLife) "love you and hope you're okay. I came home early to surprise you and help you set up for your convention. I can't believe what I found and can't believe what happened. All I wanted was to surprise you and help and do something nice ... now this.. I'm so heart broken ... in all ways. I will always love you. I just wanted to see your face when I surprised you with the ring ... this is a nightmare. You're in my thoughts."
His employers don't seem to agree; MMA tournament group Bellator terminated War Machine's contract.
"We have a zero-tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence," Bellator president Scott Coker told TMZ. "After learning of this latest incident involving (Jon Koppenhaver) War Machine, Bellator is releasing him from his promotional contract with the organization."
Tony Hicks provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Contact him at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/tonyhicks67.


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Posted on December 3, 2011
by Jade Newman
As this is my first time writing for Newberry's Genealogy blog I'd like to take a few lines to introduce myself. I am a student of the University of Illinois at Chicago and have spent the semester working as the Newberry's Polish language intern. In my time here I have been indexing the insurance applications of the Polish Women's Alliance of America (PWAA). I will be graduating in the spring of 2012 with a B.A. in English and a minor in Polish.
During my study of the P.W.A.A. records, I have noticed that a large number of Polish immigrants originally hailed from Galicia. This is unsurprising due to the fact it was during the late 19th century that the largest flow of emigrants out of Poland began. This great migration lasted until the beginning of World War I.
The great migration concerned mostly members of the peasant class and, to a lesser extent, Jewish-Poles. In considering this information it is of interest to define "peasant" in the context of Poland during the partitions. In this period, dated from 1772-1918, there were five distinctive classes of citizens: Nobles, clergy, burghers, peasants and Jews. A Polish peasant (chłop) is a fieldworker who is historically landless. Poles who had themselves been serfs and even their descendants were still viewed as "peasants" after serfdom's abolition in 1864. In her work The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland Keely Stauter-Halsted nicely paraphrases the historian Jan Słomka: "To be a chłop in nineteenth-century Poland was to share certain elements of a subculture, including attitudes and customary practices inherited from serfdom."
A cultural nod to the migration can be seen in the epic poem "Mr. Balcer in Brazil" (Polish: "Pan Balcer w Brazylii") by Maria Konopnicka. A verse of the work, written in 1910, translates as follows:
A chłopy trwały setny, nic tej duszy
Nie popuszczając głosu ni lamentu.
chłop, jak się zawziąl,to prędzej ukruszy
Skałki, niż jego. Ma twardość djamentu.
"The peasants endured
not giving voice to this soul nor to this lament.
A peasant, if he makes up his mind, will sooner crush stone
than it crushes him. He has the hardness of a diamond."
The Konopnicka verse signifies the wide-reaching cultural and literary impact of the great migration. The broader peasant consciousness is exemplified by the strength of a single brave Pole with the fortitude to seek new opportunity in a foreign land.
Why should a genealogist today consider the great peasant migration as being of such consequence?
A majority of the applications in the early P.W.A.A. records I've been studying list the applicant's date of birth from 1870-1900,with the applications themselves being filed from 1915-1930 approximately. These ranges designate that many of the applicants were likely part of the historic move.
To demonstrate the trend of migration I'll use an example. In groups #154-160 there is a great concentration of applicants who have listed their birth place as Galicia. Given that earlier groups #47-52 have only a handful of applicants who have listed Galicia as their birth place, there are two logical conclusions. The first is that over time the P.W.A.A. encountered more Poles who had emigrated from Galicia and the second is that Poles who had originally lived in Galicia resettled near other Galician- born Poles. Based on my study of the records, I find strong support for this second conclusion is based on the fact that some groups of applications are predominantly Galician-born, while others, even in the same city, have very few applicants from Galicia. .
These records provide a broad context for understanding these women who are so much more than a given name and birthplace, even to those of us who are not their descendants.
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DENVER -- State Rep. Jonathan Singer appears on track to better the legislative batting average he posted in 2012.
By the time the Colorado General Assembly concluded its 2012 session -- Longmont Democrat Singer's first -- one of his bills had been signed into law, but three others failed their first committee tests in what was then a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
This year, with Democrats having captured a majority of House seats in last fall's elections, Singer has already gained initial committee approvals for three of the four bills he's introduced in the Legislature's 2013 session. Singer's fourth measure also is still alive but hasn't yet been heard in committee.
Two of those four Singer bills reprise proposed laws he unsuccessfully pushed last year. One, which awaits House Appropriations Committee consideration, would allow 16- and 17-year-old Coloradans to pre-register to vote in elections that occur after they reach age 18. The other, which awaits a House Business, Labor, Economic and Workforce Development Committee hearing, would crack down on "wage theft" by employers who refuse to pay the previously agreed-upon wages or other compensation a worker has earned.
People can find and read the bills once they're introduced by state lawmakers, can track the status and any changes made to those measures as they're considered, and can check calendars telling when bills are scheduled to be heard in committee, by going online to the Colorado General Assembly's home page, leg.state.co.us, and clicking "2013 Regular Session."
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Singer said in a Saturday interview that he's optimistic about the eventual outcomes of his proposals this year -- and about the overall package of legislation that'll emerge by the time the 2013 session ends -- but that he's learned that "it's important to take the time to be thoughtful" about the bills he's introducing and his votes on other lawmakers' proposals.
"I've got a real responsibility to make sure that whatever I'm trying to put into law isn't just a good idea, but that it works," Singer said.
He said that he hasn't made up his mind about how he'll vote, for example, on some of the gun bills sponsored by fellow Democrats, measures that produced nearly 12 hours of debate on Friday.
"I'm still weighing some of the gun issues in my own head," Singer said, adding that he's continuing to do his homework on the points raised by proponents and opponents of some of those bills.
Singer said his taking the time to make those decisions "gives a lot of people on both sides of the aisle a lot of heartburn."
The change in the Colorado House's partisan mix may also prove beneficial for the lawmaking efforts of freshman state Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette.
Foote already has gotten a House committee's approval and, this past Thursday, a 37-27 vote in the full House, for one of the four bills he's introduced this year, with 35 Democrats and two Republicans voting for it, 26 Republicans and one Democrat voting against it, and one Democrat absent. That measure, which next will be considered by a Senate committee, would specify that a firearm is legally considered a deadly weapon if it's possessed during the commission of a crime, regardless of whether it's discharged or whether the perpetrator actually intended to shoot anyone.
Today is the 40th calendar day of the four-month-long 2012 legislative session that began on Jan. 9 and must conclude on or before May 8. So far, lawmakers have formally put forth more than 500 bills proposing new state laws or the repeal or revision of existing laws. Fifty-two of those bills have been introduced by the 12 legislators whose districts represent parts of Boulder, southwest Weld, southern Larimer or Broomfield counties.
A bill's chances of becoming law may be boosted if the sponsor is a Democrat -- the political party that holds 20 of the 35 state Senate seats, as well as 37 of the 65 House seats -- but the sponsor's party affiliation doesn't always predict a bill's fate. A bill bearing too high a budgetary price tag -- or one that's particularly radical or politically ideological or that prompts strong lobbying pressure from groups with stakes in its outcome -- can go down to defeat regardless of whether the sponsor is a majority-party Democrat or a minority-party Republican.
Six of the 52 thus-far-introduced bills from area lawmakers have already died during the first third of the 2013 session. All had Republican sponsors -- two bills from Berthoud-area Sen. Kevin Lundberg, two from Dacono Rep. Lori Saine and two from Fort Collins-area Sen. Vicki Marble.
Singer, Foote and Reps. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, Claire Levy, D-Boulder, and Dianne Primavera, D-Broomfield, haven't yet seen any of their 2013 bills go down to defeat. Nor have Sens. Matt Jones, D-Louisville, Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, or Jeanne Nicholson, D-Gilpin County.
A House Transportation Committee vote killed a Saine bill that would have allowed the county commissioners in Weld, Boulder, Larimer counties -- and the city and county of Broomfield -- to exclude parts of their counties from the metropolitan area's mandatory motor-vehicle emissions testing program, as long as those areas don't violate national ambient air quality standards for carbon monoxide or ozone.
Saine, a former Dacono city councilwoman, said Saturday that her legislative experience "has been very cordial" so far but that she'd been "hoping that a couple more of my bills would have seen daylight."
Said Saine: "I didn't think it would be so party-line." She said the bills measures passing with bipartisan support "seem to be what I call 'pH neutral.'"
Killed in a Senate Education Committee vote was a Marble bill that would have allowed public school employees to join or quit membership in a labor union at any time, without any restrictions from the school district or labor organization.
Still alive -- but facing uncertain fates in committees -- are three other Saine bills and three Marble bills, as well as three from one of their fellow first-year Republican lawmakers, Rep. Perry Buck of Windsor. And while veteran legislator Lundberg has had two of his bills rejected in Senate committee votes, he also collected unanimous Senate floor votes to advance two of his other proposed laws to consideration in the House.
One of Lundberg's two bills still progressing toward potential passage would remove a requirement from existing law that now makes motorists use their turn signals when they're in a traffic roundabout.
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