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- Jun 7:
- Bosley: Boston had bigger impact
- May 27:
- Bolder Boulder: Mountin family perseveres through all
- Bolder Boulder: Entrants dip below 50,000 for first time since 2006
- Bolder Boulder: Sterkel accepts challenge
- Bolder Boulder: Allan Kiprono wins men's pro race, Kenya ends Ethiopia's streak
- Bolder Boulder: Scott Parson repeats, Susannah Scaroni wins first wheelchair race
- Bolder Boulder: Ethiopia's Merima Mohammed wins women's elite race
- Bolder Boulder: Lidia Simon, 5-time Olympian, wins women's citizens race
- Bolder Boulder: Jeremy Freed wins men's citizens race for second time
- Bolder Boulder via social media: Photos, tweets and more from Memorial Day 10K
Jessica and Piper Catlin, of Boulder, trained hard this year and beat their previous time by two minutes.
"She holds my hand," Jessica Catlin said of her 12-year-old daughter. "When one of us gets tired, the other one pulls us forward."
Isabel Scott and Dee Ann Wolfe, of Parker, hardly trained at all.
Their goal was simply to finish the race in honor of Scott's son, Joseph Scott, who is deployed in Afghanistan. They planned to share the pictures with him over Skype on Monday evening.
Brenna McFadden ran dressed as the Hulk with other members of the girls cross-country team from Kearney, Neb., all dressed as superheroes (and a few villains). There was Superwoman and Catwoman, Captain America and Batman.
"The atmosphere is great," McFadden said. "We love it."
They were among the tens of thousands of runners who converged on Boulder on Monday morning for the 35th running of the Bolder Boulder, the city's much-loved Memorial Day 10K. According to race officials, 48,741 people registered for this year's race -- down from 51,681 last year, a drop organizers say could be attributed to the after-affects of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Boulder's Jeremy Freed won the men's citizens race in 30 minutes, 57.6 seconds. Another local, Lidia Simon, of Boulder, won the women's citizens race, finishing 46th overall with a time of 34:04.59.
Wheelchair racer Scott Parson won his second consecutive Bolder Boulder, finishing in 24:29. Susannah Scaroni, of Champaign, Ill., finished first for the women wheelchair racers with a time of 26:06.
And Allan Kiprono, of Kenya, won the men's elite race with a time of 29:29, according to race officials. Merima Mohammed, of Ethiopia, won the women's elite race with a time of 33:59.
Increased security
This year's running of the Bolder Boulder came with new and unprecedented security procedures following the Boston bombings earlier this spring, an attack that killed three and injured more than 140.
Spectators bringing items into Folsom Field for the finish were limited to soft-sided bags no larger than 12 inches by 12 inches by 12 inches -- and those bags were searched. Police used metal detectors to "wand" all people coming in to Folsom Field -- including vendors -- and spectators were made to pour out any water or beverages that weren't sealed.
Security lines, though, were short and moved quickly.
Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel said police had extra dispatchers on duty to deal with calls about unattended bags. However, they received only a handful of reports, all of which turned out to be clothes left by racers.
"I think people listened to us when we requested their cooperation," she said.
CU-Boulder police spokesman Ryan Huff similarly reported that security operations went smoothly. Procedures were similar to those followed at commencement earlier this month and are likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
"With the Boston Marathon bombing and today's current conditions, you will probably see this in years to come as well," he said. "We certainly appreciate the public's cooperation in packing light and limiting what they bring."
The legacy of the Boston bombings was visible on runners' bodies, as well, with some people sporting "Boston Strong" or "We Run for Boston" T-shirts.
Huff said there were a total of 125 medical contacts at the stadium, slightly more than normal, with most calls related to the heat.
Eleven people were taken to area hospitals, including a 63-year-old male runner who suffered a "cardiac issue" near Folsom and Grove streets around 8:40 a.m. Kobel said paramedics performed CPR on the man before he was transported to the hospital, but he was alert and with his family later in the day.
Paramedics responded to a second cardiac arrest and a stroke later in the day, neither fatal.
'A fun family vacation'
As it does every year, the race drew longtime partisans who never miss the Bolder Boulder and new runners enticed by its reputation.
Bill Obert, 74, of Conifer, has been running the Bolder Boulder since 1985. He started running at age 30 after having one of his kidneys removed, and he hasn't stopped since.
"The doctor told me I needed to stay in shape," he said.
He runs eight to 10 races a year, but the Bolder Boulder is his favorite, he said.
"I like the crowds," he said. "I like how it's organized. I don't know what happened to the belly dancers, though."
(They were there when the first wave passed soon after 7 a.m., so they must have run out of steam or taken a break.)
"You always see what a big event it is and an iconic event," said Jerry Buza, of Los Angeles. "I thought I should do it."
Buza ran with his sister, Cari Laitsch, of Cortez, and her daughter, Heather Wu. All three wore "runs in the family" T-shirts.
"It makes for a fun family vacation," Laitsch said.
Laitsch, who started running three years ago, hopes to qualify for the Boston Marathon next year.
Kent Coghill and Chris Dirolf, wildland firefighters with Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, ran the race in costume as Lorenzo the Bear and Coyote Bob.
At any point during the race, did they wonder what they were thinking, donning complete animal costumes?
"Before it even started," they said.
But the suffering is worth it, they said, for the reaction they get from kids lined up along the race route.
"We do it for the kids," they said.
Cam McWilliam, of Scotland, ran the race in a full-body "morphsuit" that covered even his face with the blue and white colors of his country's flag.
Asked if there was any advantage, perhaps some aerodynamic benefit, to his suit, McWilliam said, "None. None at all. I'm very hot. I'm soaked."
McWilliam moved to Denver six months ago, and everyone told him he had to run the Bolder Boulder.
"Everyone said it's the best run," he said.
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Pontiac scored more points in the fourth quarter than in the first three combined and walked away with a 55-34 Corn Belt Conference victory over Olympia Friday night at PTHS.
"Defensively, we were much better in the second half," PTHS head coach Brandon Martin said. The Indians put up 39 points over the final two frames to improve to 5-4 in the Corn Belt and 10-8 overall.
The defense had a huge part in Pontiac's second half surge. It limited the Spartans to just two points in the third quarter as the Tribe gained the advantage.
Trailing 20-16 at the break, the Indians allowed the first basket of the half to Olympia before shutting the Spartans down until the fourth quarter.
In the meantime, PTHS put up 10 straight points in the third period. William Meiner and Logan Gschwendtner each hit a 3-pointer to help the run.
The Indians were also keen on shooting free throws in the final frame. Pontiac was 15 of 17 from the charity stripe to seal the victory.
Neil Lambert led Pontiac with 14 points. Shawn Milhauser added 12 points and Meiner chipped in 11. Trent Smith threw in 9 points and was followed by Gschwendtner with 6 markers.
Martin added that he was pleased with the defense of his inside players. Carter Jacobs missed the game due to an injury and the coach pointed out the play of Gschwendtner, Aaron Jiles and Brett Mueller.
The Indians are slated to travel to Fairbury next Friday to take on the Hawks in a rematch from a Dec. 11 contest won by the Tribe at PTHS.
SOPHOMORES: Drew Mills poured in 33 points as Pontiac overpowered Olympia 82-61 in the preliminary game.
Kye Comincioli added 17 points and Kevin Lewis chipped in 15 for PTHS. Mikey Carroll added 7 points.


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Broomfield police will step up extra patrols near all of Broomfield's elementary and middle schools until a suspect in Jessica Ridgeway's disappearance is identified.
Between 20 and 25 officers began extra patrols around schools Thursday morning, and they will continue the patrols as a precaution until investigators can identify any suspects in the disappearance of the 10-year-old Westminster girl.
Ridgeway has been missing since Oct. 5, when she left her home to meet friends to walks to school at Witt Elementary. Ridgeway never made it to school. Westminster police will not say if a body found in Arvada Wednesday night is that of Ridgeway.
Police have cleared Ridgeway's parents as suspects, but have not identified other suspects."Because there are no suspects at this time ... we will be very visible around the schools," said Broomfield police chief Tom Deland.
Deland said parents should consider driving their children to school or accompany them on their walk to school or the school bus stop. Anyone who sees something suspicious near a school is asked to call 911.
No suspicious activity has been reported near any Broomfield schools, and the increased patrols are just a precaution, Deland said. "These incidents are very rare," he said.
The Broomfield Police Department is among the agencies assisting in the investigation of Ridgeway's disappearance, Deland said."We hope this case can be cleared quickly. Until then, our officers will continue patrols until something changes."


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Now I want to add a menu bar to the top. I can't extend the size of the form downwards so that I can then select all the controls and move them all down a bit to give room at the top for the menu. Instead when I extend the size of the form downwards, all the controls resize and move.
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Being the only two area wrestling squads to compete Saturday, Lansing and Pleasant Ridge chose to do it at the same place.
Participating in the Sadowski Tournament Holton High Tournament on Saturday, the Lions nudged the Rams by 1.5 points. Lansing racked up 71 points to place eighth overall while PR accumulated 68.5 to come in at ninth.
"I don't think anybody was satisfied with our performances," Lansing coach Ron Averill said. "We would've liked to come home with a few more medals and a few more placers than we did. We felt like we really didn't wrestle to the best of our ability, but hopefully that will serve as motivation heading into this final month."
Individually, Pleasant Ridge's Jared Johnson captured the biggest achievement by winning gold in the 170-pound class. The grappler, who is unbeaten this season, won 18-3 in the finals.
The rest of the Ridge medalists were Clayton Gum (106) winning fourth, as did Aaron Brown (195), and Tony Weber won fifth at 113. All three Rams went 2-2 on the day.
Three Lions headlined Lansing's tourney. Jordan Girard (113), Sky Summers (120) and Cole Hoing (126) all went 2-2 to earn fourth place medals.
Will Gering in the 138-pound class, Caleb Ward at 182 and Treyvon Taylor in the 195 division all went 1-3 and placed sixth.
Lansing will compete at the Baldwin Invite Saturday at 9 a.m. while Pleasant Ridge is off until the Onaga Tournament on Feb. 1.
Wrestling roundup: Rams, Lions tangle during Holton Invite
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- Ex-Boulder cop Christian McCracken sentenced to 90 days jail, 10 years probation
- Feb 11:
- Ex-Boulder cop Christian McCracken takes plea deal in attempted-murder case
- Nov 26:
- Judge: Statements by ex-Boulder cop Christian McCracken allowed at attempted-murder trial
- Aug 24:
- Judge refuses to reduce sentence for Treven Hunter in assault of ex-Boulder cop
- Aug 23:
- Ex-Boulder cop charged with attempted murder opposes his assailant's early release
- Aug 16:
- Christian McCracken, charged with attempted murder, resigns from Boulder Police Department
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- Attempted murder case against Boulder cop will go to trial
- May 29:
- Boulder cop Christian McCracken, charged with attempted murder, working on plea deal
- May 10:
- Christian McCracken, Boulder cop facing attempted-murder charge, re-arrested on drug counts
- May 3:
- Treven Hunter sentenced to 2 years for assault on Boulder cop now facing charges
- May 1:
- Police: Boulder cop Christian McCracken threatened to kill ex-girlfriend, 2nd dispatcher, self
- Aug 10:
- Boulder police: Man assaulted cop after refusing to pay $3 bar tab
Boulder police Officer Christian McCracken was formally charged Friday with attempted first-degree murder and four other felonies stemming from allegations he planned to kill his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.
Prosecutors charged McCracken, who remains in custody at the Boulder County Jail, with one count of attempted first-degree-murder, one count of felony menacing and three counts of felony stalking in a court appearance at the jail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 29.
The five-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department was arrested just April 29 after police say he told his roommate -- a fellow Boulder police officer -- that he intended to kill his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend in front of her, and then kill himself. Both the ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend are Boulder police dispatchers.
McCracken, who had been on leave from the department since being injured in the line of duty last summer, is being held on $500,000 bond in that case.
In an unrelated case, McCracken was arrested on drug charges at the jail Thursday after Longmont police say they were informed that a package of Skittles candies containing prescription painkillers had been mailed to his house.
McCracken is scheduled to be charged Tuesday with possession of a Schedule III controlled substance and conspiracy to obtain a Schedule III controlled substance, both misdemeanors, in connection with that arrest, Boulder County Assistant District Attorney Ryan Brackley said.
He is being held on $10,000 bond in that case.


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CORAL GABLES, Fla. - The Duke baseball team limited No. 24 Miami to just six hits, but the Hurricanes took advantage of their opportunities, defeating the Blue Devils 5-3 in the series finale Sunday afternoon at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field.
In total, the Blue Devils issued seven walks and hit two batters in the game while the Miami staff walked just two batters. Junior Robert Huber (2-1) suffered the loss despite not giving up a hit in two innings pitched as the Plano, Texas, native struck out two but walked three.
"Our guys competed well," said head coach Chris Pollard. "But the difference today versus the first two days is that we gave them too many free bases. You've got seven walks and two hit by pitch. We've seen it enough; when we don't walk guys, we have success. We gave their offense an opportunity to get going with the free bases. When we don't do that, we give ourselves a chance. But unfortunately today
Miami starter Andrew Suarez (2-1) threw seven complete in the win allowing two runs, one earned, while recording four strikeouts.
Sophomore Andy Perez continued his strong performance at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. For the series, Perez was 6-for-12 with two doubles and four runs scored. Senior Jeff Kremer also turned in a 2-for-4 performance while junior Jordan Betts, junior Anthony D'Alessandro and freshman Kenny Koplove recorded hits for Duke.
After two scoreless innings to being the game, Duke (8-7, 2-1 ACC) put a run on the board in the third, taking advantage of a Miami (13-4, 1-2 ACC) error. D'Alessandro reached base after a throwing error by Miami shortstop Brendon Lopez pulled first baseman Chris Barr off the bag and sophomore Andrew Istler laid down the sac bunt to advance the runner to second. Koplove, who was 5-for-9 at the plate in his first ACC series, ripped an RBI single to right center for the first run of the game. Perez and Kremer followed suit with singles of their own to load the bases with one out. Miami got out of the inning on the next play as junior Jordan Betts flied out to center and Angelo La Bruna, who had entered the game for Koplove, was gunned down at the plate by UM center fielder Dale Carey.
"That was a big play," Pollard said. "We're going to send him every time in that situation. We're going to make them throw us out every single time. It was the right decision to send him. Carey made a great throw. You just tip your hat. Carey's a really good athlete; he's a really good player. He made a perfect throw and he beat us."
In the bottom half of the inning, a pair of walks ignited a Miami rally as both Hurricane runners scored on a Chantz Mack two-RBI single to right center, giving Miami its first lead of the series 2-1. Mack would later score on an Alex San Juan base hit through the left side to put Miami on top 3-1 before Duke was able to work out of the inning.
The Blue Devils pushed a run across in the fifth after D'Alessandro once again reached base to lead off the inning. The Mahwah, N.J., native drilled his third triple of the season down the right field line to start off the frame. Suarez retired the next two Blue Devils before Perez laced a double to left for his second hit of the day.
Miami capitalized on Duke's first error of the series in the sixth, scoring two unearned runs to go ahead 5-2. Garrett Kennedy reached base on an error to start the frame and scored on an Alex Hernandez RBI single before Mack sent a sac fly to center to bring home Lopez, who had walked earlier in the inning.
After Betts tagged a solo shot over the wall in left center, his third home run of the season, in the top of the eighth to cut Miami's lead to 5-3, Duke looked to put together a rally in the ninth. Sophomore Grant McCabe drew a leadoff walk and pinch hitter Mark Lumpa appeared to have a single through the right side, but Miami second baseman Hernandez made a sliding stop to get Lumpa at first. Eric Nedljkovic recorded a strikeout and a groundout to end the game, earning his first save of the season.
Following the series against Miami, Duke returns to Durham for a pair of midweek games. The Blue Devils will face N.C. Central at the Durham Athletic Park Tuesday at 6 p.m., before hosting Quinnipiac Wednesday at 6 p.m., at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.


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First there was the party platform and then the stump speech. But those were too long.
So it boiled down to the slogan, and the 30-second spot, and shrunk to the off-hand comment and the quick debate quip. Still that was too much.
So this time around the two men running for president of the United States have added to their messages by subtracting even more: They're down to exactly four letters.
It's not just Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney battling it out in 2012.
It's the Big "O" vs. the Triple "R."
Both want to be ruler of Logoland.
Consumers don't have to work very hard to see that the men selling themselves for the job of America's CEO have packed a lot into their simple logos, honed and deployed like never before in a national political campaign.
In some ways, the designs use the same tricks. Last name, first initial. The right shades of red, white and blue. Neither makes a murky endorsement of their man. We all know who O is, and we've seen enough commercials interrupting "Dancing with the Stars" to get that R-omney is running with Paul R-yan and they're both R-epublicans.
It's a funny, phonetic choice though, relying on a letter more than a concrete image, like say, a flag or something with a silhouette of the U.S. The candidates might have picked a friendly face like Betty Crocker as their insignia, or a fruit like Apple.
Because in a literary country like ours, where even T-shirts and automobiles display words, our first impulse when we see a letter is to actually read it. So it's not just the symbols we interpret but the sounds, and that's where a candidate can lose control of things.
Oh! Oh? Oooooooh...
Rrrr! Ehr? Roar! Ruff! Or maybe, if the weather's cold enough in Minnesota, Brrr...
There's some danger there, and opportunity. Little noises can be heard loud and clear during a campaign where neither guy seems able to get out his deeper sounds. If an electorate can't be make it past No. 2 of your five-point plan, a single syllable might be all you can communicate.
And so Romney, soaring on the convenient winds of alliteration, puts forward his matchy-matchy letters in a very Romney way.
His upper-case repetitiveness sends out a message of strength, consistency, power. Linked so closely, even dependent upon each other, the letters present a sense of unity; if there's a GOP split between the Tea Partiers and the Old Guard, you wouldn't know it from this brand.
Romney's mark doesn't use purely serif type for its "R," but the bend in the right knee and the way the leg ends in a delicate point gives it the same feel. It is fancy and formal, carries a rich and regal flair. Those are R-words Republicans run from.
Obama goes in the opposite direction. His basic blue "O" is austere, focused. It telegraphs a message of clarity and purpose. Perfectly round, it promises a holistic sort of leadership that favors no special interest, even ignoring Joe Biden's presence on the ticket.
The president's own embellishment is the addition of three horizontal ribs that appear to stretch out from the "O" as if they were the Great Plains themselves. The "O" portrays Obama as not just the ruler of the earth, but the very earth itself, redistributing his bountiful cornucopia across the land. He might as well have used an "S" — as in Socialist.
True, most voters will ignore the logos; clever symbols lack influence when your ballot is pretty much cast before the primaries are even over.
But for those few in the middle, who have trouble sorting between flips and flops, little things serve as clues. Graphic design can matter as much as a candidate's stand on Afghanistan, or at least as much as his haircut.
A good voter doesn't need to know the issues this election, just the alphabet.
And now back to..."Dancing with the Stars!"
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During football season, there's a lot of talk about getting in the zone, that focused flow that happens when we find ourselves progressing, undistracted, toward our goals. In this third installment of our four-part series on resiliency — becoming stronger in mind, body and spirit so that you can bounce back from whatever life throws your way in 2014 — two members of the ColoradoFit team target ways to help you find and keep your focus. To read earlier installments in the series — from coming up with a game plan and paying attention to what you eat to practicing self-love and learning how to say, "No, thank you" — visit denverpost.com/fitness.Practice emotional resiliency
For Denise McGuire, "getting in the zone" is about strengthening the connection between the mind and the body.
"When you listen to athletes being interviewed, they say, 'I don't know how I got there,' McGuire says. "They will describe things like the fact that the strike zone was larger than normal, or time stood still."
A licensed psychologist who offers emotional fitness training at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, McGuire says that "the zone is really our natural state of performance. The thing is, we get in our own way sometimes, so we have to remove the obstacles and the distractions that keep us out of it."
"That's what peak performance is really shown to be about," says McGuire, who is also a golf coach ( getinthezone.net). "You want to work on integrating the mind-body into a seamless entity so it can perform with the least amount of effort."
McGuire teaches these three skills to help people reach their potential in the zone.
Try to be fully present in the moment
Notice what is happening to your body while you are participating in activities, McGuire says.
"Mindfulness is one of the tools that has been researched up and down, and proven to demonstrate that people are much better at being able to bounce back from stress when they notice and understand what's happening when they move and perform," McGuire says.
Whether they're playing in a golf tournament or presenting a project to the board of directors, people who are aware of their responses to stress are more able to adjust and train themselves to react.
"It can be helpful to just check in with yourself," she says. "Come up with a mental checklist or a way of assessing where you are, physically and mentally, so you can then move on to damage control, improvement or giving yourself encouragement or a pat on the back for being where you want to be."
Pay attention to your breathing
"The ability to calm the body and the nervous system, integrate the mind and body fully — that's a skill that will help you in every aspect of your life," McGuire says.
When you experience stress, your breath starts to come in more shallow and rapid bursts. As soon as you notice that happening, try to take deep, slow breaths, which will increase oxygen to the brain and also trigger it to calm down.
"The way the body is designed, is that when we breath out, we activate one part of the nervous system," McGuire says. "Breathing in causes our nervous system to speed up, and breathing out causes our nervous system to slow down. Sometimes, holding the exhalation a little bit longer can be even better, especially if we're feeling performance anxiety or if the body has been in a stress response."
McGuire advises athletes she's training to look for breaks in the action — for instance, when a tennis player is changing sides or between serves — to use that time to utilize slow-breathing techniques to their advantage. It's a tool that can be used by anyone, though, to relieve stress and bring balance back to the situation.
"Say you're about to give a speech or you have a presentation to give your boss, or you're about to have a conversation with someone that's going to be uncomfortable," McGuire says. "Take a moment to assess where you're breathing is, and that will help you get back to the balanced state you need to be in."
Shift your emotional gears
If you're in a stress state and know you have to stand up and present to a group of people, or you're about to go up to the golf tee and have butterflies in your stomach, it can be helpful to be able to mentally transport yourself back to a time when you feel sure of your abilities. The good news is, you can.
"Research is overwhelming that even standing in a confident pose will make you feel more confident," McGuire says. "The key is, you have to get yourself to do it."
McGuire says that it takes some practice, but you have more control over your emotional state than you realize.
"Any emotional condition you've ever felt is encoded in your body as a memory," she says. "If you start to cue the brain and go back and re-experience that time when you've felt confident, you can go back and think, 'Where was I? What was I doing?' Put your brain back in that experience.
"If you cue it in the right way, it will release the neurochemicals that will reproduce the same feelings."
We do this in a negative way far more often.
"If I were to ask you, 'I want you to start telling me about one of the most embarrassing moments you've ever had, or one of the times when you were the most angry or felt bad about yourself,' you would start to feel that way again immediately, right?" McGuire says. "We make ourselves experience those lousy feelings all the time.
"But we haven't fully embraced that it works in the positive ways, too, and we could really be using that to our advantage."Bend, don't break
Over decades of coaching runners and being a runner himself — including winning the Leadville 100 race series three times — physical therapist Douglas Wisoff has found that much of the time, it's what is in our heads that causes the most injury to our bodies.
"We just tend to hold so much of our stress and our day-to-day stuff, our tension and what's going on up in our heads, tightly down in our muscles and in our chests," says the Lafayette-based owner of Radiant Running ( radiantrunning.com). "That means we aren't breathing properly, our posture is wrong, and it just sets us up for injury."
Wisoff likens his two-pronged approach toward bringing harmony between the mind and the body to bamboo, which is famous for bending rather than breaking.
"The symbol of stress in the martial arts is bamboo, because it is flexible; it bends and goes with the flow," he says. "In the West, we have this tendency to just try to muscle through everything, and sometimes that works for us, because we can be so mighty and have this sense of our will to overcome. But then we find ourselves hurt, and we're kind of caught off guard. I think we can take some lessons from bamboo."
Have a plan — and a backup plan
At the start of the New Year, many of us are starting a new exercise program, or now winter has set in and it's just after the holidays, and we're getting back off the couch again.
"This is where I suggest that people do what I call 'measured steps,' " Wisoff says. "Just as in running, you don't want to overstride; in working out, you don't want to take too big of a step and wind up with an injury that will sideline you and keep you from your goals."
Instead, Wisoff recommends setting your goal, coming up with a plan for reaching it — and then also scheduling contingency plans.
"A lot of coaches come up with the idea for the goal-setting and the strategies, but you don't always hear about the contingencies," he says. "But I hear from people who say, 'Well, I was going to go for a run, but then it rained, and I didn't go.' But then they wind up on the couch or out to lunch with friends.
"You go off your strategy, and then you kind of lose your focus."
Wisoff says he finds this is the biggest problem with New Year's resolutions — when people are trying to build a base of fitness. "Early on in your program, it's easy to miss one workout, then it's easy to miss two, and then you're not even on your program anymore," he says.
The next component of this is the emotional jam, when we then start to stress out about not working out. "We hate to feel this way," he says. "So to avoid it, we stop working out. And then that's it, we're done."
Your best defense against this common issue, Wisoff says, is to anticipate that some workouts are going to be canceled each week, schedule extra ones, and go with the flow.
"If a morning cycling class doesn't work out, then get one going for after work right away," he says. "Don't let your plan defeat you."
Figure out how to release and relax your body
A new workout regimen is the fast track to muscle tightness, soreness and injury, and that can also be an easy way to convince ourselves this isn't for us.
But it's not just the muscles we're stressing — it's also our lifestyles and what's going on in our heads that affects them.
"The important thing to be aware of here is that you have tightness," Wisoff says. "The tightness shapes your posture, and your posture keeps it in the shape it's in. As soon as you start to work those muscles, if you do too much, they're going to get way too tense, and that's when you get hurt."
You want to do as much as you can to release tension so you're not working against your muscles, he says. Try yoga, Pilates, meditation, stretching, massage — anything you enjoy that will work out the tension and get the muscles moving in a way that relieves the stress on you, and your body.
"If a place is starting to hurt, that's probably where you're holding [tension]," Wisoff says. "I find that I can tell people some of what's going on in their lives by the way they hold themselves and what they've injured."


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2004: The Year in HP: A Leaky Cauldron Review
Dec 31, 2004
Happy New Year everyone! Because 2005 is going to be such a big year for Harry
Potter fans, we thought now was a good time to look back at 2004, which
wasn't too shabby either where we're concerned. Editor Sue scoured our archives
and found all our 2004 highlights, so we hope you enjoy this little review,
which reveals 2004 as a strong mix of Prisoner of Azkaban highlights
and the unmitigated fun the fandom got in JKRowling.com. We know you'll
join us when we say: bring on 2005, the year of Goblets and Princes! It's going be a long one, but we're happy to take up our front page with this.
2004: A Year in Harry Potter Review, by TLC
January brought our first glimpse at the Prisoner of Azkaban
sets, with the first part of TLC's six-part fan-exclusive set
report, which included an interview with Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and
Rupert Grint. The interview marked the first (of many) times the kids talked
about the essays they wrote for Alfonso Cuaron, and featured this little bit
of canon-esque hilarity:
Q: How did you get on with the cat playing Crookshanks?
[Instant groans from the boys.]
EW: Oh, I love my cat! They are so rude to my cat!
RG: It's the ugliest cat.
DR: It looks like it's been thrown against the wall at birth.
EW: Okay, so it's got a flat nose.
DR: It doesn't have a nose! It's just 2D! It's like the cartoon cat!
EW: It's beautiful in its own ugly way.
DR: Notice the word UGLY.
As the month went on more and more little bits of Azkaban goodness
were revealed, including the LA Times interview
and photos, which were the first to reveal the pink hooded sweatshirt that
spanwed a thousand fan debates.
In February the Azkaban hype intensified, with many
trailers and exclusives, including the Super Bowl TV
spot and commercial
on Feb. 1, frenzy over Cho
Chang auditions, an international trailer (description,
video, screencaps)
on Feb. 17, a TLC exclusive
first-look at Wormtail and a TLC exclusive
first look at the Prisoner of Azkaban Web site. In book news, Smith
Barney projected
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for Summer '05 (but "more
likely" for Summer '06).
March came in like a Gryffindor Lioness, with a headspinning
Book Day Chat from J.K. Rowling. Several TLC readers had questions answered
and the comment thread (one of a few) on the subject reached 3,194
comments, all reeling over revelations about the Marauders, the ages of
the Weasley children (which she later had to re-clarify),
Hermione, Draco and more, and nursing wounds when she shot down some popular
fan theories. On March 6, TLC got
a new look and welcomed designer John Noe and on March 11 Jo Rowling lunched
with the queen. March 12 brought a moment of sadness as we remembered our
readers who were affected by the terrorist attacks in Spain the dya before. On March 14 we
got some tremendous
Azkaban photos, and the very next day Jo Rowling won the WHSmith
Book Award, her first major adult book accolade. USA Today revealed
some stunning Azkaban
while on March 24 the Azkaban site went live, heralded by our exclusive
sneak-peek, complete with a new trailer
to make us all twitter. TLC's shot-by-shot
of the trailer went live the next day.
April was a lot of fun (no fooling), as it began with a visit
from the Leaky Cauldron's very own Tom
the Innkeeper, who came by to tend bar. A week later Tom
Felton debuted his site, and after that "Greg's
Preview" puts the Goblet release date where it still is, Nov.
18 2005. On April 18 the track
listings for the Azkaban soundtrack are released, and on April
27 we announce the
Azkaban IMAX event.
May started with the good ol' rumormill, as the Being
John Voldyvich rumor erupts, erroneously pinning John Malkovich as
Voldemort in Goblet of Fire. On the same day, Ain't It Cool News
posted a a review of Azkaban. May 4 began the furor over the HP
cards (which we eventually compiled
into one master list); fans got the most extensive look at the movie yet with
the nearly scene-by-scene breakdown on the backs of the cards. That Sunday,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone airs on ABC, with a special that
showed 10
minutes of Azkaban. Cho Chang is revealed
as Katie Leung by a tabloid, and the week
is just full of interviews with Azkaban cast. On May 15, the
fandom once again got turned on its ear by J.K. Rowling, as she redesigns
her Web site and places on it enough canon information to keep our head
spinning through the movie release. On May 23 the Azkaban premieres
began, as TLC attended the World Azkaban premiere in New York
and returned with video
and a transcript
of interviews. During press for Azkaban, Jo
Rowling says that clues for books six and seven are in film three. On
May 29 TLC attends the London Cast
and Crew Screening and on May 30, the European premiere. A short while after
that an editor promises reports of the premiere party and never delivers (quick
version: it was very cool). As an apology, here are never-before-seen pictures
of the Azkaban after-party.
June came with the worldwide premiere of Azkaban on
the 4th. The next day, scriptwriter Steve Kloves told the Baltimore Sun
that he thought Lupin was "in love with [Lily] in many ways." The next
day a rumor surfaces which is later proved true, that Stanislav
Yvaneski has been cast as Viktor Krum in Goblet. On June 14, Newsround announces Clemence Poesy as Fleur. Jamie Waylett
(Vincent Crabbe) opens his site
(though archives date back to Oct. 2003). On June 23, famous Potter fan
and poet Mattie
Stepanek, 13, dies after a battle with muscular dystrophy. Goblet cast
members Roger Lloyd-Pack (Barty Crouch), Pedja Bjelac (Karkaroff), Jeff Rawle
(Amos Diggory) and David Tennant (Barty Crouch) are announced.
Later that week, the infamous JKRowling.com hoaxer
strikes, claiming the title of book six is Harry Potter and the Pillar
of Storgé. Fans are baffled and theorize wildly for a full weekend,
though on Monday morning Jo Rowling updates her site to tell everyone to "get
a grip;" she also suggests
Harry Potter and the Toenail of Icklibõgg as a similarly likely
title, and later the Storgé moniker comes back on her site to
signify the utterly ludicrous, as in "pile of storgé."
Shortly after this debacle, the truth comes out: after what will be the first
of many break-ins into JKRowling.com's Room of Requirement, fans
find the true book six title, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(at that time without the hyphen). However, with no explanatory note, fans,
now dubious after being storgéd, and despite assurances
from TLC (we told you!), remain ambivalent. TLC readers instantly
note that this was the working title for Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets, and wonder if that means it is definitely or is definitely
not the book six title. The next morning Jo Rowling sets the
record straight and sends June 2004 down as one of the busiest months in
HP history.
In July, TLC's server overheated. We asked
you for help and you came through in
flying colors, leading the Chicago Tribune to write about how TLC's
fans sent them $12,000 in less than 24 hours for a new server and the new deal
with Idologic that will
help us stay in business a very long time. On July 8, Jo Rowling got a doctorate;
three days alter news of her
feelings about caged children in the Czech Republic leaks. Later she announces
that she is expecting
a third child. On the 23rd TLC
reports exclusively that Miranda Richardson will play Rita Skeeter in Goblet,
and on the 29th exclusively reoprts that rumored Voldemort Ralph Fiennes
is thisclose to signing a contract (both are confirmed
by WB on August 4). July 31 is Harry's and Jo Rowling's birthday, which which
we celebrate with art
by fandomer Marta.
On August 15, Jo Rowling appears at the Edinburgh
Book Festival, implying that Half-Blood Prince is at least half-written.
She answers
fan questions, revealing that there is a character in HBP called McClaggan,
confirms that the bartender in the Hog's Head is Aberforth Dumbledore, and tantalizes
with many other goodies; fans oblige by theorizing like wild once more. The
next day the door
on her site opens once more to reveal what we can only assume was an excerpt
from HBP. A week later we are thrilled to report exclusively the biggest
news there EVER WAS! (That there
will be a hyphen in the title of Half-Blood Prince, in America
and England, despite it not being used on JKRowling.com. Happy to bring you
punctuation news, we are, here at TLC.) In late August we got back
to Goblet news, with photos of filming
at Bodlian library surfacing.
In early September, the identities of the Patil twins are
revealed as Shefali Chowdhury (Parvati Patil) and Afshan Azad (Padma Patil);
also announced is Angelica Mandy as Gabrielle. The next day Devon
Murray launches his official site. On Sept. 26 the auction of a Jo Rowling
minibook for charity is
announced; the Tatler runs a preview
in October and it sells
for 20,000 GBP on Nov. 2.
On October 5, TLC reveals
its HBP FAQ: "Everything there is to know about Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (If You're Not J.K. Rowling)," a
compendium of information on HBP and the rest of the Potter series.
Later Jamie Waylett reveals
that the cast is singing "Hoggy Hoggy Hogwarts" in Goblet.
Photos of the Quidditch World Cup tents begin
to surface, and the first
report of Franz Ferdinand playing the Weird Sisters hits the net, which
is later debunked
when Ferdinand's name is replaced with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.
Cocker is rumored as scoring the film but it's the Patrick Doyle rumor that
sticks; we later learn that Cocker is to
be a Weird Sister. Halloween brings a treat from Jo Rowling in the form
of three
HBP chapter titles.
In November, Lightmaker wins
a big award for their work on JKRowling.com,
and explains some of the inner workings of the site. On Nov. 8, the official
WB sweepstakes
begin, promoting the Azkaban DVD. A photo
of the Death Eaters' destruction in Goblet hits the net.TLC attends
the DVD launch party for Azkaban and returns with loads of interviews,
an exclusive report (part
one, part
two) and the news that producer David Heyman is "cautiously
optimistic" that the three main kids will return for the film of Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. On the 22nd TLC exclusively
confirms many Goblet cast members and provides the first picture
of Angelina Johnson; on the 29th our exclusive
interview with Goblet intern Greg Anderson goes live.
December was our holliest, jolliest month in a long while,
bringing some decorations to all the HP sites (started
by Jo Rowling's). At very long last TLC announces its Sweepstakes
winners and announces themselves the happiest people on earth to do so.
On Dec. 3 TLC's third "Get
a Clue" drive begins (results to be announced in January), and later
includes a very
special message from Jamie Waylett, Matthew Lewis and Devon Murray. Azkaban
is nominated for a Grammy,
the Broadcast Film Critics nominate
Dan, Emma and Azkaban. Late in the month, the real excitement begins:
a sharp TLC reader tells the fandom that there has been a
tweak to JKRowling.com's front page that suggests that book six is near
or completely finished. On Dec. 20 Christmas
itself comes early as Jo Rowling confirms that HBP is finished and that
we will have a book releaes date in less than 24 hours; about 14 hours later
publishers announce that the
book will be released on July 16, 2005, and the earth shakes with all the
worldwide cheering. We end the year on a sadder note, joining
the world in mourning the many, many thousands who perished in the South
Asian Tsunamis. Today, we got our first look at Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter, and we published this report!
And that's where we are now. The 2004 news was just a sampler
for what's coming in 2005 – so we wish you all a happy, healthy and safe New
Year. We can't wait to bring you another year full of news, theorizing, hand-wringing,
and fun. We've got a book, a movie and a lot more to look forward to. See you
next year!


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In this Blog post: https://worthy2be.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/in-search-of-montmorenci/ I continue my search for these two staircases. Earlier, I mentioned that the 2nd staircase was located at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. I joined there, with my daughter, so we could visit this wonderful museum and learn more about it and the staircase Its a wonderful place to visit.
Recently, they started a blog:
So, I posted this question:
To the Staff:
Wonderful new Blog. Thank you.
I hope it's OK to ask here.
In the museum, you have the Montmorenci Staircase. That staircase, as I understand it, came from South Carolina from a house called Montmorenci. I have seen photos of that house and have seen a couple of brief stories.
However, not an hour south of Winterthur is another Montmorenci which also has a Montmorenci Stair case.
So, my question is, how come there are Two Montmorenci's and both of those houses have similar staircases.
My guess is, that the answer lies within architectural information about one or both of the houses. Did the architect or Mr duPont know of the Maryland Montmorenci.
I have posted some information on the Maryland Montmorenci here:
Thank you for your time an consideration and I look forward to your new Blog posts. With any luck, I'll get back down to Winterthur this fall.
Thank you,
I did get an answer. Perhaps not the answer I wanted, but here it is.
Russ, I checked with our estate historian, and here's what she says: The answer has to do with a coincidence of name. A French aristocrat named Montmorency commanded troops under Rochambeau in the American Revolution and became an American hero. There are many towns and houses named after him. The staircase in Maryland is curved like the one from the house named Montmorenci, which was located near Shocco Springs, North Carolina, but is not free-standing. The free-standing curve is what interested du Pont. Hope this helps!
So, for now, I will put my research aside for a while, as there may not have been a connection in the first place. The time for the naming of the property may be the connection, but what about the stairs. I need to make another visit to Maryland to get a better look at the staircase and to see if I can find "the rest of that story".
So, for now, back to my Civil War Hero.


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So, like an idiot I sold an item on ebay rather than the forums.
I posted multiple pictures, mentioned and pictured damage to the finish, and sold it as "for parts".
So this idiot (with, may I say, the WORST username ever) sends me a handful of messages offering to buy it outside Ebay for under my starting-bid price. Then he bids on it and wins. I mailed it out, and it arrived within 3 days. At this point, he leaves me neutral feedback based on the issue that was pictured/described, and sends me an email stating that he will change it to a positive if I give a full refund, and a negative if I don't. Then (after feedback and email) he sent me an Ebay message saying "Before I leave feedback, I wanted to discuss this issue with you..." to which I responded that he ought to send me a picture of what he feels is a problem, which he won't.
What's the deal here? And why can't I leave him negative feedback?


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Residents of Hudson County will once again this week have a front row seat to the nation's largest Fourth of July fireworks display, courtesy of Macy's. For the sixth straight year the iconic retailer will host its signature fireworks show from barges set in the Hudson River, a site that offers residents in the waterfront towns of Hoboken, Weehawken, Jersey City, Guttenberg, West New York, and North Bergen prime views of the show. Several other towns, like Secaucus, are having July 4 events as well.
The Macy's show gets underway on Thursday, July 4 at sundown, shortly after 9 p.m.
Local municipalities are encouraging people to use mass transit, if possible.
The North Bergen Police Department is encouraging its resident to see fireworks in Guttenberg and other points south this year since two community parks at 75th Street and 79th Street are currently closed, due to construction. In the past, these parks have offered the best vantage points of the fireworks in North Bergen and have attracted dozens of spectators in recent years.
Below is a rundown of activities and rules. For more, see each town's government website.
Where to go
The best viewing in Hoboken will be from the numerous waterfront parks on Sinatra Drive from about First Street to 12th Street, or from the 14th Street pier. According to the city, Sinatra Drive along the waterfront will be closed to vehicular traffic but will be accessible to pedestrians.
Take note that Pier C Park will only be open to disabled spectators on the fourth.
In Weehawken, Boulevard East has it when it comes to great viewing sites. The town's high elevation makes it one of the best spots in our area to see the Macy's show. Spectators who plan to see the fireworks display in Weehawken should head to the cliffs along Boulevard East between 50th Street and Highwood Terrace for the best viewing.
Weehawken residents only will be permitted into the Lincoln Harbor Park next to the Chart House Pier and proof of residency is required. There will also be no parking on the waterfront.
Hamilton Plaza, Weehawken Stadium, and the new Waterfront Park will be closed all day July 4 to prevent damage. All neighborhood parks are open until 4 p.m., after which they will be closed to the public.
Jersey City offers fewer prime viewing locations along its waterfront than Hoboken and Weehawken, but strategic early birds can still find good places to see the show. The best viewing spots are along the waterfront close to the Hoboken city line in the Newport neighborhood. Experienced spectators can attest that spots near the Exchange Place and Paulus Hook waterfront areas yield only obstructed views of the Macy's fireworks display.
Spectators are allowed to stand and watch the show from the foot path that connects Hoboken and Jersey City. This path does get very crowded, however. So, be prepared to get very friendly with your neighbors.
Secaucus will hold a townwide Independence Day celebration at the Secaucus Swim Center on Tuesday, July 2 at 6 p.m., with a fireworks display scheduled to take place at 9 p.m. This event is only open to town residents and members of the Swim Center. Residents need not be Swim Center members to attend this event. Proof of residency or Swim Center membership is required.
In Union City, Mayor Brian stack and the Board of Commissioners will host a citywide Independence Day celebration on Tuesday, July 2 at 6 p.m. on Palisade Avenue, between 32nd Street and 38th Street. The celebration will include live music, free food, and kid-friendly activities.
Transportation to the celebration will begin at 5:30 p.m. from the following locations: 4545 Palisade Ave.; 3911 Kennedy Blvd., the Bella Vista Apartments; 3700 Palisade Ave.; 1509 Bergenline Ave.; 1104 Palisade Ave.; 1015 Central Ave.; 380 Mountain Rd.; and 49th Street and Hudson Avenue.
Also, the State Fair Meadowlands, currently running at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, hosts fireworks shows on July 3 and 4 at 10:30 p.m. See the fair website for more information.
Checkpoints, rules
Hoboken has issued a "zero tolerance" policy for Independence Day. This means there will be heavy fines given to people who violate various city restrictions that day.
Spectators heading to the Hoboken waterfront for the festivities will be subject to bag searches, and the Hoboken Police Department will bar visitors from taking the following items beyond checkpoints: backpacks, fireworks, coolers, glass bottles, grills, BBQ materials, propane tanks, weapons, tents, liquor, and cans.
Factory-sealed beverages in a clear plastic bag, such as water, will be permitted, with the exception of alcohol.
Use of rooftops for viewing of fireworks or any activity is prohibited and will be strictly enforced. Landlords and/or property owners are responsible for keeping rooftops clear of people.
In Weehawken, public alcohol consumption is prohibited, as are personal fireworks or sparklers. Barbeques on balconies and terraces and viewing fireworks from residential rooftops are also prohibited.
In West New York, backpacks, coolers, alcohol consumption, individual fireworks and sparklers, barbecues on balconies and terraces, and rooftop viewing are prohibited.
Street closures, parking bans in areas of Hob, Weehawken, NB, WNY
To accommodate the expected crowds, and for security reasons, several streets throughout Hudson County will be closed on the fourth.
In Hoboken, Sinatra Drive between First Street and 15th Street will be closed from 8 a.m. until crowds leave the area, which could be midnight or later. River Street and Hudson Place from 4th Street to 15th Street will also be closed from 8 a.m. to midnight, as will 5th Street at Castle Point Terrace.
No parking will be permitted on various streets. See the city's website for the complete list.
Nonresidents in need of parking will be directed to municipal garages B and D. Municipal garage B is located at 28 2nd St. Municipal garage D is located at 215 Hudson St.
The west side of Hudson Street from Hudson Place to Observer Highway will be the designated taxi area on Thursday.
For those in need of medical care, the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps will have first aid stations in Pier A Park, Sinatra Park, and along Sinatra Drive at 8th, 12th, and 14th Streets.
In Weehawken, Boulevard East between North Marginal Highway in Weehawken to the Bergen County line in North Bergen is scheduled to be closed at 7 p.m., but may have to be closed earlier, depending on pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Mayor Richard Turner said the town will make every effort to keep it open until 7 p.m., however
Highwood Terrace, Hamilton Avenue, Hudson Place, Duer Place, Bonn Place, Clifton Terrace, Fulton Street, Cooper Place, 47th Street, 48th Street, 49th Street, 51st Street will be closed at the same time as Boulevard East.
The waterfront roads from 19th Street to the Bergen County border, Gregory Avenue, Washington Street (20th), Highpoint Avenue, Oak Street, Shippen Street, Dodd Street, Jane Street, Angelique Street, and Hackensack Plank Road at 19th Street and Ridgely Place may also close any time after 4 p.m. Once closed, these roads will be open only to pedestrians and emergency vehicles.
Vehicles parked on either side of Boulevard East may be subject to damage because of the large crowds expected. It is recommended residents park in other locations for the night, if possible.
The town requests that residents who live on closed streets call the police at (201) 863-7800 or dial 911 if they need to leave their homes in the event of an emergency.
Gerry Sanzari, deputy police chief of the North Bergen Police Department, said Boulevard East and River Road in North Bergen will be closed beginning at 6 p.m. The town is telling residents who plan to entertain that night to be sure their guests arrive by 5 p.m. Those who need to travel on River Road or Boulevard East should not expect the streets to reopen until 11 p.m., at the earliest, Sanzari said.
In West New York, Blvd. East will be closed some time between 4 and 7 p.m. on July 4 from 51st to 67th Street, but definitely by 7 p.m. Port Imperial Blvd. will be closed from the Weehawken border to the Guttenberg border starting around the same time.
Parking will be prohibited earlier in the day, so check with your local town hall to see if you should move your car.
Mass transit
With all the street closures and parking restrictions that will be in effect for the fourth, local municipalities are encouraging people to use mass transit.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will increase service on its 33rd Street to Hoboken and 33rd Street to Journal Square lines on the Fourth. For scheduling information regarding the PATH system, visit www.panynj.gov/path.
For scheduling information for NJ Transit buses and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, visit www.njtransit.com. Mass transit users should be aware that transit systems may bypass specific bus, train, or light rail stops if crowd conditions become a safety concern or if buses and rail cars become full.
About the show
Macy's has once again enlisted SOUSA Fireworks to organize the show's featured attraction. The length of the barge from which the SOUSA staff will work will run from approximately 24th Street in New York to 40th Street. The display will feature more than 40,000 pyrotechnic shells that will be set off during a 26-minute show, according to the release, with roughly 1,800 shells launched every minute.
Macy's and SOUSA are partnering with Grammy-winning singer/producer/songwriter Usher to curate the music so that the pace and rhythm of the songs selected are in sync with the light show. The musical portion of the show will be broadcast by NBC.
Macy's estimates that the fireworks show will be seen by three million people nationwide, with most of those viewers seeing the show on TV.
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So here's a mystery for the holiday season: someone is leaving enormous, four- and five-figure tips on small checks at restaurants all over the country. But who, and why?
The "who" is the person or persons who goes by the pseudonym "Tips for Jesus." As for why? Well, the name seems to say it all, as does their Instagram slogan: "Doing the Lords [sic] work, one tip at a time."
"Tipsforjesus" has been active since at least September. The tips range from $500 to $10,000, and are being left at a random assortment of restaurants from Michigan to Chicago to Los Angeles. According to The Daily Dot, the tips left total more than $54,000.
The person or persons responsible is also making sure that the tips get in the right hands. When a waiter at Legends of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., complained that the $10,000 tip hadn't been given to him, "tipsforjesus" took action.
"Notre Dame is stiffing you?" tipsforjesus replied. "Hmmm, let me make sure the charges went through since they claim they did not. If they're lying to you, I can talk to AMEX about it, then you should get a lawyer, and call the local paper and ESPN. What they're doing flys in the face of what Jesus would do." The account later posted a photo of the cleared AMEX charges.
So, servers of the world, be generous to your patrons. You never know when one of them will drop a four-figure bounty in your lap.
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The premises described in the mortgage will be sold on April 10, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. local time, on the premises, by virtue of the power of sale in said mortgage made by Stephanie A. Ryan and Thomas Lloyd Ryan, dated January 30, 2009, and recorded in the Warwick Land Evidence Records in Book 6990 at Page 116, the conditions of the mortgage having been broken. This sale is subject to all prior liens and encumbrances and any matters which may constitute valid liens or encumbrances after said sale.
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Big River Steel plans to build a 1.1 billion dollar steel mill near Osceola
We had great news recently for the industrial economy in Arkansas. Big River Steel plans to build a 1.1 billion dollar steel mill near Osceola. The significance of this project is vitally important for Arkansas jobs.
It is reported that Big River Steel will employ about 2,000 construction jobs in the Arkansas Delta to build the plant. Even more significant is the permanent employment of about 525 workers whose annual pay should average around $75,000 per worker. If I have my decimals in the right place, that adds about 40 million dollars annually to the Arkansas payrolls.
Hopefully no one will mess this up. Big River Steel is committing itself (no federal government money) to a large economic risk especially when the worldwide demand for steel is slumping and several European steel plants are decreasing production and laying off thousands of employees.
So what could go wrong? Quite a number of complications could hinder progress or completion of the deal. First the mill will have to meet World Bank environmental standards. Who knows what ridiculous requirements will come from the environmental wackos. Remember the delays and tens of millions of dollars additional cost caused by the Sierra Club and other environmentalists in building the modern energy plant in Southwestern Arkansas? You and I are paying for that. In fact had their lawsuit been successful there would have been no new plant.
This deal is not complete. Other states are waiting to see if Arkansas spins its wheels. According to the Arkansas Dem-Gaz Mississippi offered Big River Steel
160 million for the project which is still on the table. Oklahoma's governor is also attempting to convince Big River Steel about the advantages of that state.
Arkansas has a number of strong recruiting points for a large industrial project.
A strong and willing work force is vitally important. Being a right to work state is a must as well as the overall anti-union attitude of Arkansas.
If the Republican legislature can push through some restructuring of Arkansas income tax rules, we will have a better opportunity to land more industrial development. Compared to adjoining states income tax rates are not favorable particularly having the top rate of 7 percent kick in when taxable income reaches 32 thousand dollars is ridiculous and antiquated. The Democrat governor and Democrat legislature in Arkansas never addressed this important point.
Is there an ironic issue in this extremely important development? Wow! - is there ever. During the 2010 and especially the 2012 election, the governor, liberal voices, columns and letters to the editor to The Sun Times (particularly one perennial writer) lambasted, ridiculed and showed righteous indignation about one company in particular that was pouring in money helping to elect Republican legislators. These evil and despicable people were the industrial giants from Wichita, Kansas known as the Koch Brothers.
Guess who are the biggest stockholders in the Big River Steel Company? You got it – the Koch Brothers. The Koch Brothers have an enormous empire in developing and delivering energy other than wind and sun. We can't possible be associated with these demons of capitalism. If these left wingers have any principles, surely there will be an avalanche of protests against Big River Steel. Since the Arkansas legislature is now controlled by Republicans, that could be a major reason why Arkansas was chosen for this new plant site by Big River Steel.
If we can land this baby, it will be a model of how state governments and private industry can work together. The benefits from this proposed project would go to Arkansas and Big River Steel together. There is no reason why the federal government should be involved. Obama's administration has been particularly active in trying to pick winners and losers on industrial projects. The most notable result has been failures with taxpayers losing billions of dollars. A prime example is Solyndra.
You hear supporters of this administration complain that Solyndra is just one over-publicized failure. No, there are many. Has anyone come up with a list of successful industrial projects financed by the federal government? If so, please remit me a copy. You probably shouldn't include the Post Office.
For you math aficionados an important event occurred recently at the University of Central Missouri. They have identified the largest prime number yet. A prime number, as I'm sure most of you know, is one that is divisible only by themselves and the number one. Small numbers in this category are 3, 7 and 11. This magic number has 17 million digits – hard to conceive. They used almost 1,000 computers in this exercise. One might say this is a waste of time and resources, but at least during this research these students were isolated from the liberal garbage that is flooding college campuses.


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What: Boulder County Bombers Bombshells versus the 10th Mountain Roller Dolls
When: Saturday, 7 p.m.
Where: Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road
Tickets: $10 at brownpapertickets.com or $12 at the door. Students, seniors and active military receive a $2 discount with identification. Children ages 12 and under admitted free.
For more: bouldercountybombers.com
LONGMONT -- Inspired by one of their own, the Boulder County Bombers Bombshells will donate $1 from each advance ticket to Saturday's bout against the 10th Mountain Roller Dolls to the Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance.
Jordan Honea, who has been playing roller derby with the Bombers since 2011, found out in November that her mom had Stage 3c ovarian cancer.
In search of support, Honea told her teammates about her family's struggle and immediately the Bombers rallied around her.
"Part of the reason I told them was how involved I was with the league and so I needed to let them know if I had to miss something to be with Mom but I also needed someone to talk to," Honea said.
In June, the Bombers raised more than $400 for the Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance in Jodi's Race, a 5k in Denver. Now the team is hoping to make another donation following this weekend's bout.
Honea, who is known as Lacy Vasive on the track, said she is also hoping to raise awareness about the disease that sneaked up on her family.
"You don't hear a lot about it," Honea said.
"People know about breast cancer and how to check yourself and making sure you go to the doctor and they've made a lot of progress," she said. "These symptoms are so similar to monthly symptoms of most women so usually once you're diagnosed you're so far down the road that there's not a lot you can do."
Honea's mom just finished a round of chemotherapy and is waiting to see if it worked.
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12:21 a.m. Citation on West Church Avenue for driving without a license, driving without insurance and possession of controlled-substance paraphernalia.
1:20 a.m. Disturbance – subject on North China Lake Boulevard.
2:09 a.m. Arrest at West Upjohn Avenue and South Sanders Street for public intoxication.
6:19 a.m. Vandalism report on West Langley Avenue.
6:22 a.m. Residential-burglary report on South College Heights Boulevard.
8:25 a.m. Runaway/out-of-control juvenile on West Wasp Avenue.
8:25 a.m. Petty-theft report on West Graaf Avenue.
8:43 a.m. Found property on North Norma Street.
8:53 a.m. Property-damage traffic-collision report on West St George Avenue.
9:25 a.m. Follow up on West Atkins Avenue.
9:37 a.m. Unauthorized-use-of-access-card report on West California Avenue.
10:04 a.m. Found-property report on West California Avenue.
10:29 a.m. Follow up on South China Lake Boulevard.
10:38 a.m. Follow up and arrest at Mesquite High School for providing false identification to a peace officer.
11:04 a.m. Theft report on East Garnet Avenue.
11:12 a.m. Child-abuse report on North China Lake Boulevard.
1:19 p.m. Follow up and arrest on East Ridgecrest Boulevard.
1:39 p.m. Domestic-disturbance report on West Atkins Avenue.
2:24 p.m. Theft report on South Reese Street.
2:57 p.m. Supplemental report on West Mamie Avenue.
3:06 p.m. Found property on North Jessica Street.
3:23 p.m. Battery report at Burroughs High School.
3:47 p.m. Arrests at East Ridgecrest Boulevard and South Gold Canyon Street for battery of a spouse or cohabitant.
4:12 p.m. Arrest and citation on South China Lake Boulevard for theft.
4:32 p.m. Battery report, warrant arrest and citation on East Ridgecrest Boulevard for spousal abuse.
5:02 p.m. Citation on North China Lake Boulevard of unlicensed driver.
5:38 p.m. Domestic disturbance, arrests and citations on West Atkins Avenue for resisting, delaying or obstructing a peace officer.
6:42 p.m. Attempted-petty-theft report on South China Lake Boulevard.
7:15 p.m. Arrests on North China Lake Boulevard for burglary, conspiracy, possession of a controlled substance and bringing a controlled substance into a jail.
7:58 p.m. Domestic-disturbance report on West Wilson Avenue.
9:04 p.m. Mental-health evaluation on South Sunset Street.
9:26 p.m. Vandalism report on West Church Avenue.
10:05 p.m. Counseled runaway juvenile on North Fairview Street.
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Postseason awards are as fickle as they come, and trying to find a rhyme or reason to whomever gets honored is a pointless quest.
Still, when there are no Class 6A boys basketball players south of Eugene anywhere on the all-state list, it's a head-scratcher.
South Medford, after all, finished fourth in the state power rankings after winning its 12th conference title in 13 years and placed sixth at the state tournament (with two six-point losses at the Moda Center).
North Medford went into the state playoffs with a No. 10 power ranking and the Southern Oregon Hybrid's player of the year in junior Tristen Holmes, who led the league in scoring.
Could someone from either Medford team have made it on the final list of honorees? There's enough evidence to support at least an honorable mention selection. Panthers senior Ben Orndoff gave Holmes a run for player of the year in the SOH, while junior Brayden Massey was a second-team all-tournament selection.
"It's hard to explain the rationale on how those players are chosen but it can't be a popularity contest," said South Medford girls basketball coach Tom Cole. "There's no way at least a single kid from around here on the boys side should've been left off."
Does that mean someone on that all-state list should have been left off to make that happen? Absolutely not. Each of the 17 players were deserving of their honor. And, honestly, there wasn't a huge "wow" factor from any players or teams from the SOH this past season in boys basketball.
Holmes' chances were likely wiped out when his team failed to get out of the first round of the state playoffs despite hosting No. 23-seeded South Eugene. For all his all-around efforts leading up to the state tourney, Orndoff wasn't really able to separate himself in the three Portland games. As for Massey, only a handful of coaches who caught South's games at the state tourney likely saw first-hand the type of player he can be.
"I think when we've been pretty good and even very good, we've surely been recognized for it," said South Medford boys basketball coach Dennis Murphy. "Right now we're not at that level. You feel bad because you'd like to get some kids statewide recognition but, in my own mind, I didn't feel we had the kids that belonged over someone else."
Still it begs the question of what separates players when it comes to the statewide voting by coaches and, like it or not, exposure and reputation are a big part of the equation. Unfortunately, those are two areas that southern Oregon teams struggle to get in front of year after year.
Murphy absolutely would play again in the Les Schwab Invitational, as the Panthers were able to do during the days of Kyle Singler, but that invitation is a hard one to get and typically a year in the making. No Oregon tournament carries as much exposure as the LSI, but your credentials and expected roster have to meet lofty standards.
Along with the rest of the SOH teams, Murphy said he'd love to play more nonconference games against the Portland-area schools, it's just not always up to him.
"Scheduling has become kind of an art, as hard as that is to believe," he said. "It really is difficult."
When reached Monday, Murphy was en route to a statewide scheduling meeting between Class 6A and 5A boys basketball representatives. To say the issue was a hot-button one for Murphy would be an understatement.
"Our girls basketball team gets out all over and our soccer teams do OK," said Murphy, "but it's really difficult for the rest of us. Everybody will go north but nobody wants to come south. It's so hard to find people that want to come down and play us."
Therein lies the rub for the 6A teams in Medford, Grants Pass and Roseburg, as well as for 5A programs like Ashland, Eagle Point and Crater (beginning next fall).
"You need that competition and you want those games (against Portland-area schools) because it better prepares you," said Murphy. "Anytime we all want to go north and play a couple games they'll take us with open arms, but they're not always OK with flipping it and playing down here the next year."
"That makes it tough because I feel some loyalty to our fans," added Murphy, who also serves as South Medford athletic director. "They should get to see us play a little bit at home before our league starts."
That's where early season games against 5A schools like Bend, Summit and Mountain View have come into play for the largest Medford high schools. As good as those games have been at times, though, it's not like any of those coaches can throw support around one of your players come postseason voting time.
The formation of a Southwest Conference in all sports for the next time block should help with exposure and hardening of a team's mettle for the state playoffs, but it also takes the Eugene-area schools largely out of the equation for scheduling since now those matchups will be in conference.
"Now it's simply you're headed to Salem or above," Murphy said when looking at nonleague scheduling.
"But I really do think our (new) league with the Eugene schools will help us in terms of toughness and that sort of thing."
Being good friends with Wilson head coach Scott Aker, whose team moves from 5A to 6A next year, has helped Murphy fill a void on his schedule, and conversations with Jesuit's Gene Potter allowed him to swing a two-game deal in Portland next winter for those teams to host South Medford and North Medford.
Murphy also tried to arrange two-year home-and-home deals with the Metro League but was ultimately rebuffed by its ADs, who were unwilling to commit to a road trip in the second year.
"Part of it is they just don't have to come down here," he said.
As for the Abby's Holiday Classic, which enters its 25th year, Murphy said he's still trying to fill the final two spots after already getting commitments from Roseburg, West Albany, Franklin and McKay to go with South and North.
"It's never easy, which is why I say scheduling has become kind of an art," he said. "There's things you want to do and things you can do, and those aren't always the same."
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SS Yellow Stone sails up the Mighty MO
Steamboats were a great means of transportation during he early 1800s, but when ascending the Missouri River, one could only go as far as Council Bluffs, Iowa. At least until 1832. On March 26, 1832, the American Fur Company left St. Louis on the SS Yellow Stone and sailed 1800 miles up the Missouri River to the mouth of the Yellowstone River. The return trip was even more eventful--the steamboat averaged 100 miles per day.


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The pool of strong U.S. soy researchers just got a little deeper thanks to the soybean research fellowships program of the United Soybean Board (USB) soy checkoff.
The pool of strong U.S. soy researchers just got a little deeper thanks to the soybean research fellowships program of the United Soybean Board (USB) soy checkoff. The checkoff awarded fellowships to two students who have been recently accepted into doctoral programs emphasizing improvements to U.S. soybeans. The two students will receive $25,000 annual stipends over four years.
"It's important to actively seek out future researchers and nudge them toward focusing on soybean research," says Jim Schriver, chair of the soy checkoff's production program and a soybean farmer from Bluffton, Ind. "With so many veteran soy researchers retiring, or planning to retire soon, it's important that a new generation fills their shoes. These fellowships are just one way that U.S. soybean farmers can help ensure that soy research keeps moving forward."
This year's crop of future soy researchers yielded two soy checkoff-funded fellowship recipients: Zachary King and Eric Wilson.
Zachary King continues the pursuit of his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia's Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics, where he earned a Master of Science degree. King's work centers on obtaining novel resistance to soybean rust and marker-assisted selection of breeding lines. In addition to the USB fellowship, the University of Georgia graduate school also awarded him grants for his work on rust resistance and genotyping. King will study under the watchful eye of veteran soybean researcher Roger Boerma, Ph.D., a longtime USB partner who specializes in soybean breeding and genomics.
Eric Wilson is working toward his doctorate in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota. He began his Ph.D. program this summer, studying soybean production and physiology under the advisement of Seth Naeve, Ph.D. Wilson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy from Iowa State University in 2010 and his Master of Science degree in agronomy from Purdue University in 2012. At Iowa State, Eric gained agricultural experience through corn breeding and production internships with DuPont Pioneer and the Iowa State Corn Extension Program.
"Eric and Zachary represent the top-level students in ag science," says Schriver. "It's good to know that they're focusing their research on U.S. soy. Whether investigating new options for production management or finding new genes for improved varieties, their research ultimately benefits every U.S. soybean farmer."
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A hint as to the actual origins of the version Beyoncé sang came from her own hand: On January 20, the day before the ceremony, Beyoncé posted pictures to her Instagram account that appeared to show her in a recording studio. In one, she holds a copy of the sheet music to "The Star Spangled Banner" in front of a microphone attached to a recording device, and in another she sits in front of recording equipment while members of the Marine Corps Band stand clutching sheet music behind her.
Miming along to a pre-recorded track isn't unheard of at inaugural ceremonies. At President Obama's 2009 inauguration, cold weather and wind meant that a live performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman had to be nixed in favor of a recording. But there are no previously known cases of a singer lip-syncing the national anthem during an inaugural performance.


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Capacity Control software company CiRBA has announced a new Reservation Console for cloud developers (and teams) to control the automation of new workload routing and capacity reservations processes.
The console automates (what is a manual process today) the job of selecting the optimal hosting environment for new workloads, reserving compute and storage capacity in advance of use, and ultimately providing the detailed host-level placement recommendations for the workload.
The Reservation Console features a new, tunable scoring system that identifies the optimal destination environment for new application workloads.
The system provides a new Hosting Score, which is based on a range of criteria including:
- occupancy levels
- technical considerations
- software licensing constraints
- operational policies
- regulatory compliance
Teams can modify the attributes considered and also tune their weighting so that recommendations are aligned with organizational goals and application owner preferences.
"Not only does this ensure that the requirements of each workload are properly matched to the characteristics of the infrastructure, eliminating compliance issues and reducing operational risk, but it also enables the Reservation Console to balance demand across all available infrastructure, including cloud environments, midrange systems, and even different physical data centers," said the company.
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The new Reservation Console provides users with an avenue to reserve capacity in advance of its actual use, guaranteeing that resources will be available for application deployments and effectively acting as a "hotel reservation system" to application groups and lines of business.
The new console complements the environment-level CiRBA Booking Management System by providing users with visibility into all inbound capacity reservation requests and all available environments, enabling routing and reservations into the best environment for each request.
"Many internal cloud platforms focus on automating the process of provisioning capacity in a specific target environment, but this is actually a small part of the overall picture," said Andrew Hillier, cofounder and CTO of CiRBA. "It still forces organizations to figure out which environment, geography, and hosting technology is best for an application or request. This is a time-consuming, inaccurate, and highly manual process, and the Reservation Console solves this by automating the process of evaluating hosting options, routing capacity requests, and reserving capacity in the target environment."