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The sleek iron frame of our Perkins Bar Stool gets a casual companion with the fabric seat and backrest. Finished in chic gray and black, this seating mixes easily with contemporary decor, and works well in a kitchen breakfast nook or in larger entertainment spaces.
- Frame is made of iron with a stonewash gray cotton or tan leather seat and back.
- Iron features a waxed Black finish.
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Counter Stool
- Overall: 20.5" wide x 24" deep x 40" high
- Seat: 19.5" wide x 15.5" deep x 26.5" high
- Backrest: 19.5" wide x 10" high
- Legs: 1" diameter, 27.5" high
- Floor Clearance: 6.5"
- Distance Between Legs: 18.5" (at back); 19.5" (at front); 19.5" (side to side)
- Weight Capacity: 500 pounds
- Weight: 24.5 pounds
- Packaging Dimensions & Weight: 24.5 x 22 x 43"; 35 pounds
Bar Stool
- Overall: 21" wide x 24" deep x 44" high
- Seat: 19.5" wide x 15.5" deep x 30.5" high
- Backrest: 19.5" wide x 10" high
- Legs: 1" diameter, 31" high
- Floor Clearance: 18.5"
- Distance Between Legs: 18.5" (at back); 19.5" (at front); 19.5" (side to side)
- Weight Capacity: 500 pounds
- Weight: 26.5 pounds
- Packaging Dimensions & Weight: 26 x 22.5 x 47.5"; 36 pounds
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Chef'sChoice 463 Pronto Manual Asian Knife Sharpener
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- Summary
This is the fastest two-stage manual sharpener for Asian double bevel knives on the market today. In a minute, it puts a durable 15-degree, razor-sharp arch-shaped edge on straight and serrated Asian-style blades.
- Manual two-stage sharpener for santokus and other double-bevel Asian-style knives.
- Criss-Cross technology uses 100% diamond abrasive wheels that sharpen simultaneously into and out of the knife edge, for a burr-free edge with lots of bite.
- Compact size stores away in a drawer.
- Soft-touch handle for easy, secure grip.
- Assembled in USA.
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- 2 1/4" x 9 1/2" x 7 1/4" high.
- This product is intended for use in the United States and Canada and is built to United States electrical standards.
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UPS can deliver most in-stock items within 3–5 business days. UPS is unable to deliver to P.O. boxes.
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For an additional charge of $26 per address, we can expedite delivery to most destinations. This service is not available for some oversize items, items shipped directly from the supplier (including perishable and custom-manufactured items), out-of-stock items and items to be shipped outside the contiguous 48 states.
Orders received by 9:00 p.m. ET Monday through Thursday will arrive the next business day; orders placed Friday through Sunday will arrive on the following Tuesday.
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For all cutlery returns (knife sets, single knives, cutting boards, knife sharpeners and knife storage), please contact us at 888.922.4108 to initiate the return.
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You Won't Find Your Passion from a Test
Oh geez, I thought as I answered my office phone, first thing this morning. A PR call at eight a.m.? The young man on the phone was trying to sell me on writing a column about his company's career-path-calculating software. This was not the call I would have picked to start my day, but the universe is in charge, not me, so I gritted my teeth and stuck with it.
"You know," I said, "I'm not a fan of instruments and assessments that purport to tell people what they should do for a living." The young man halted in his pitchman's spiel. "What?" he asked. "Don't you think an instrument like ours will do a better job of picking a person's career path than the person will do, himself?"
"I think that may appear to be true," I said, "only because it is very hard for most of us (perhaps all of us) to get outside ourselves enough to have a clear perspective on our own situations. However, our friends do a great job of telling us what we're good at and where we shine. When we can take time to listen to our creative right brains and our bodies, listen to our friends and think about where we're happiest at work, we can pick perfectly wonderful career paths. I don't trust any algorithm to do that work. That's about as human a task as we could imagine. Why would we entrust it to an equation?" Read more…


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Jamie Lynn Sigler Gossip
Jamie Lynn Sigler gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Don't hide your love!
It's Turtle and his girl this weekend in Hollywood pretending to be all shy and sh-t for the paps. Why??? Here are Jerry Ferrara and Jamie-Lynn Sigler at Madeo the other night. Jerry of course attended the Globes with his boys on Sunday. They went home empty handed. And deservedly so. This season was balls. Full Story


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Books for Teen Writers
Article in Young Adult Nonfiction category.
Many of these books have been profiled in meetings of Musings, the Crozet Library's teen writers' workshop, which meets the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm.
Improving Your Craft
- Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly, by Gail Carson Levine. This popular author talks about her own inspirations and hints for improving your writing, and gives lots of really fun exercises and writing prompts to try. We've used this for more than a year in Musings.
- Seize the Story, by Victoria Hanley. From freeing your imagination to chatting with successful YA authors, this book will guide you through exercises to perfect your writing - draft better characters, write better dialogue, create conflict and amazing plots.
Sparking Creativity
- What It Is, by Lynda Barry. This artist explores creativity - with powerful memories, great exercises and prompts - all told in a visually rich way.
- The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg. This is a picture book that's great for inspiring stories - each page has an eerie or fantastic full-page illustration, a title, and one cliff-hanging opening line ...all designed to spark your imagination.
- The Fruit Bowl Project: 50 Ways to Tell a Story, by Sarah Durkee. This novel shows a class project in which the same story is told in fifty different formats or genres - screenplay, haiku, poem, fairytale, rap, etc. - read it to understand and appreciate all the different ways to approach a piece of writing.
- Writing Down the Days: 365 Creative Journaling Ideas for Young People, by Lorraine M. Dahlstrom. Just like the title says, this book offers journal prompts each day for a year.
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg. This book combines writing practice with principles of Zen meditation to give advice on writing creatively, and includes writing exercises.
- Try the website for NaNoWriMo's Young Writer's Program, which has a nifty "Dare Machine" that dares you to do some crazy things to your characters or plotline - a good way to spark those creative juices in ways you'd never think up on your own! They're also a great community for support when you're trying to keep writer's block at bay.
The Writing Business
- A Teen's Guide to Getting Published: Publishing for Profit, Recognition, and Academic Success, by Jessica and Danielle Dunn. Talks about the craft of writing, how to get good feedback on your writing, and gives info about freelancing and getting published in other ways.
- Your Name in Print : a Teen's Guide to Publishing for Fun, Profit, and Academic Success, by Elizabeth and Timothy Harper.
Teens as Writers
- Red: the Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls-on What Fires up their Lives Today, edited by Amy Goldwasser. Nearly sixty teenage girls from across the country create a rich portrait of their lives as teen girls in America, revealing their complicated inner lives, humor, hopes, struggles, thrills, and obsessions.
- Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life, a Guide for Teens, by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Expressing your feelings through writing can help you understand yourself better, follow your dreams, and get in touch. This book has reasons for writing, ways to develop the habit, tips for revision, and ways to connect to other writers through groups, classes, and getting published.
Also check out the periodicals Teen Voices and Teen Ink.
Also: The Virginia Writers Club is a free nonprofit group that encourages and assists writers. They have a Young Writers section...see information here: Young Virginia Writers Club
How's this for inspiration...
The following authors all had successful books published before they reached 20 years old:
Christopher Paolini was 15 when Eragon was published.
S. E. Hinton was 15 when The Outsiders was published.
Amelia Atwater Rhodes was 14 when In the Forests of the Night was published.
Ned Vizzini was 19 when Teen angst? Naaah... was published.


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Qantas felt it was urged to complain more loudly about the carbon tax to rebuild its damaged relationship with the Abbott government, according to a Qantas source.
That feeling appears to have prompted a Qantas media release on Wednesday revealing for the first time a half-year carbon tax bill of $59 million. It came soon after a telephone conversation between Treasurer Joe Hockey and airline chief executive Alan Joyce.
Confirming the talks on Thursday, just minutes before legislation was introduced to repeal the foreign ownership restrictions in the Qantas Sale Act, Mr Hockey denied he had applied pressure on the airline to clarify the tax's impact on its balance sheet.
''No, not at all, we haven't leaned on the carrier,'' Mr Hockey said.
Yet Fairfax Media has learnt senior management at the Flying Kangaroo felt, through general public statements and private communications, that the government wanted it to make more of the carbon tax's part in its $252 million half-year loss announced last week.
Strained relations between the national carrier and the Abbott government had turned sharply south on Monday when, as cabinet was discussing a request for a debt guarantee, the airline issued a statement seen as contradicting the Treasurer.
The Qantas statement, which came after Mr Hockey had said that Mr Joyce had blamed the carbon tax for a significant part of the company's loss, said: ''The major issues faces [sic] Qantas are not related to the carbon tax.''
The government viewed the statement as deliberately unhelpful, and as evidence Qantas was not as financially stressed as claimed.
Mr Hockey said on Thursday that Mr Joyce had since dismissed Monday's statement as an ''entirely incorrect'' interpretation of the tax's impact and one wrongly issued by a ''low-level person''.
The opposition, however, dismisses the suggestion that a multibillion-dollar listed company had made unscripted public comments, with one insider describing the claim as ''complete bullshit''.
The suggestion of government pressure comes as the Senate prepares to launch two separate inquiries into the airline looking at the impact on jobs arising from the repeal of foreign ownership limits.
A bill lifting the 49 per cent foreign ownership restriction in the Qantas Sale Act cleared the House of Representatives on Thursday with 83 votes to 53 after a rancorous debate in which Labor leader Bill Shorten branded Coalition MPs ''the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of Australian jobs''.
In question time Labor continued its attack, insinuating that Qantas' safety record would be compromised if a foreign takeover meant more of the airline's maintenance was done overseas.
That brought an angry response from Prime Minister Tony Abbott who said instead of taking part in a debate the opposition should take part in a rescue.
''The Leader of the Opposition is trying to suggest that without the restrictions that exist under the Qantas Sale Act an airline can't be safe,'' Mr Abbott said.
The bill faces certain defeat in the Senate by a Labor-Greens alliance, although Labor has signalled it is prepared to discuss limits on individual airline holdings and a cap on individual equity.
The bill coincides with the first murmurs of disquiet within Labor. A senior Labor figure expressed dismay that the party that had shown the vision and courage to sell the once government-owned airline was now standing in the way of its profitability and capacity to compete internationally for foreign investment.
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House


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Ok, you guys know that poser pic I was going to show you. It's like 50% done. It would be complete, except the fact I have to wait until the freaking 30$ replacement pen for my Wacom tablet comes. *screams
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Well there are two characters left in for today and they are also requested by a user that wanted to know "how to draw Pon" and Zi step by step. These characters where created and published by a person named Azuzephre (Jeff Thomas). The images you see here on DragoArt.com were drawn out by hand by Dawn to show members and visitors how to draw their favorite characters of the web. The Pon and Zi characters are owned by Azuzephre (Jeff Thomas), and they are on this educational site to show fans of Pon and Zi how the characters are drawn out. Even though the ones posted here on DragoArt where drawn out by Dragon_Queen, the original characters belong to Azuzephre (Jeff Thomas). This drawing lesson will show you "how to draw Pon" from Pon and Zi step by step. I hope you enjoy this tutorial I will be back with the other half in a bit so stay tuned.
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Hi, can anybody help??
1. When following the guide to install shorewall on openVZ I
receive the following errors when starting shorewall nl:
wiki.vpslink.com/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Debian_Etch:_Install_Shorew all_firewall
2. I can not use the find option nl:FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-spry2ovz028stab053.5-smp/modules.dep: No such file or directory
ip6tables v1.3.6: can't initialize ip6tables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
3. I can not use mysql-admin nl:#find / -name blah
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/sys/net: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
This is a clean installation of debian 4, is there any way of fixing these problems?#mysql-admin -u root
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April 1, 2014, 8:33 am
April Fools: Blizzard announces Outcasts: Vengeance of the Vanquished
Who'd win: A Terran Battlecruiser or a treasure goblin from Diablo III?
Blizzard takes on the question in its April Fools' announcement of Outcasts: Vengeance of the Vanquished.
From Blizzard:
They may not be the greatest heroes that ever lived. They may not be the strongest, the smartest, or the most capable combatants. But if there's one thing they do know, it's how to take a punch!
The website includes everything from a 32-button controller complete with a credit card slot to screenshots of "in-game action." Check out the trailer below.


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Industry and contracting experts find Gates' plan a mixed bag
Some industry associations and government contracting experts are expressing skepticism about Defense Secretary Robert Gates' plan to reduce Defense Department spending by $100 billion over five years by eliminating thousands of DOD positions and thousands more contractor jobs. Others see some benefits to the plan.
"We welcome Secretary Gates' acknowledgement that the Defense Department's savings assumptions associated with insourcing have been vastly overstated and based on incomplete analyses at best," said Professional Services Council President and CEO Stan Soloway, in a statement today.
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Gates' announcement that he's curtailing most of the department's insourcing activities because they have not achieved the projected savings "validates PSC's view that his well intentioned April 2009 initiative has devolved into a budget drill based on arbitrary quotas and significantly overstated savings assumptions," Soloway said.
"But even as he acknowledges that insourcing is not achieving the projected savings, he announced new, arbitrary reductions in funding for contract support and based his decision to close Joint Forces Command at least in part on the large number of contractor employees supporting it."
"It's unclear what relationship the number of contractors has to the mission for this or any other major command or for specific work it performs," Soloway said.
He agreed that the department needs to cut costs and find major operating efficiencies, and added that PSC is "actively working with DOD to identify those efficiencies."
But, Soloway added, "identifying and capitalizing on opportunities for efficiencies and savings is not a matter of who does the work. Indeed, smart contracting is often the best means to achieving that important goal."
Soloway urged the department "to look across all of its activities, regardless of who is performing them, and determine what activities are no longer needed and what activities can be done more efficiently."
"As we learned from the department's failed actions regarding insourcing," he added, "effectively addressing the department's mission and budgetary challenges must be a holistic and strategic exercise."
TechAmerica said the technology industry applauds Gates' motives, but it cautioned that some aspects of the plan could harm the government's ability to acquire and manage technology capabilities critical for ensuring national security.
"The underlying aim here is particularly prudent in a time of war, but the administration needs to be careful that these actions don't unintentionally undermine our national security," Phil Bond, TechAmerica president and CEO, said in a statement.
"On first blush, the technology industry is concerned that some of the planned measures could undermine the government's own ability to acquire the 21st century capabilities our war-fighters need," said Bond, who previously served as under secretary of Commerce for Technology and, from 2002-2003, was concurrently chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Donald Evans in the Bush administration.
"We look forward to learning the details and to working with the Pentagon however we can to help ensure taxpayer dollars go where they are most needed," he added.
Bond said that "some aspects of the plan could weaken the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the Department of Defense, a position critical to effectively and efficiently managing technology implementations in any enterprise."
Pointing out that Gates' plan would eliminate the assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information, a position traditionally occupied by the DOD CIO, Bond said the plan would also eliminate another important technology office, the Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems Directorate of Joint Staff.
He urged the administration to be careful in categorically targeting programs where private-sector companies are performing "inherently governmental" work due to a lack of clear definition for that term.
"It's important to note that developing and implementing technology solutions has never been a core competency of the federal government. Therefore, we would ask [Gates] to account for that fact and be clear about his working definition of inherently governmental," Bond said.
Bobbie Kilberg, president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, called Gates' plan "a very serious blow to Virginia's statewide economy. The economic impact of these decisions on Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads will be particularly devastating."
She said the announcement and the underlying rationale offered in its support "are full of ambiguities which raise many more questions than they answer. The perceived cost savings offered thus far are unconvincing."
"Moreover, the announcement itself is premised on the false notion that the path to cost savings and enhanced efficiency and effectiveness lies in arbitrarily reducing the size of the government's federal contracting workforce," the NVTC statement said.
"Statements by defense officials that these cuts are a preemptive strike to forestall further deep cuts in military spending ring hollow and their impact on Virginia's economy in a time of recession is inexcusable," she said.
The NVTC has been in communication with the Virginia congressional delegation and Gov. Bob McDonnell's administration. "We will work closely with them in response to this situation over the coming days, weeks and months," Kilberg said.
Robert Burton, former deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Budget and Management and now a government contracts partner at Venable LLP law firm, called the announced cuts in contractor support "drastic" and raise serious concerns.
He said the proposed savings from reducing contractor work "simply does not provide any support for the assumption that cutting contractor employees results in cost savings."
"First, small businesses will suffer most of the losses in jobs and revenue," he said in a statement, because when large prime contractors are forced to make cuts, they will first reduce their subcontractors, which are frequently small businesses.
Burton said it was unclear how the reduction in contractors would save the DOD any money. "In fact, he said, "to the extent the contractor work is absorbed by DOD personnel, it may end up costing the taxpayers a lot more."
He said recent studies have shown that federal employees cost significantly more than contractor employees, especially when retirement and health benefits are included in the cost comparison.
But some industry analysts say although Gates' plans might be a painful process, they are a step in the right direction toward achieving better efficiency, saving money and reducing red tape.
"There's way too much bureaucracy – it just really seemed to balloon during the last administration. This will force decision-making into knowledgeable, more effective management," said Robert Guerra, of Guerra, Kiviat, Flyzik & Associates, a consulting firm.
According to Guerra, many decisions currently – and unnecessarily – go up the chain of command when they could be better made at lower levels, cutting out some of the layers of bureaucracy.
Cutting down on the chain-of-command decision-making also will improve accountability, Guerra said.
There are so many levels of approval now, he said, it's easy to pass the buck and avoid being accountable for decisions.
"There's a sense of, 'Well, the chain of command approved it, so I'm not accountable," said Guerra, noting that such phenomena could change with implementation of new policies for better efficiency.
Warren Suss, of president of Suss Consulting, said much of Gates' policy shift underscores some measures already being taken, including insourcing.
"Insourcing is already well underway," he said, and he predicted that the practice will only increase under new rules.
"We're going to see government agencies making their contract workers an offer they can't refuse – 'come work for us or get fired,'" he said.
Suss said he believes better efficiency will also trigger a change in the types of contract awards.
"I think we'll continue to shift away from time-and-materials contracts, where it's a contracting body in place of a government body, and more toward fixed-price contracts that allows the contractor community to establish their own measures to meet government standards," Suss said.
Ray Bjorklund, chief knowledge officer and senior vice president at Fed Sources, said the new regulations don't uniformly spell doom.
"There will be more cuts to contracted services, but there also may be increases in weapons systems because of Gates' focus on funding the [Afghan] conflict," he said.
"This is more about reallocating support spending that's not really helping the warfighter," Bjorklund said, rather than reducing the overall budget.
About the Authors
David Hubler is the former print managing editor for GCN and senior editor for Washington Technology. He is freelance writer living in Annandale, Va.
Amber Corrin is a former staff writer for FCW and Defense Systems.
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I'm getting a little tired of hearing how JFCOM has so many more contractors than the other Combatant Commands and monies therefore could be saved by cutting out these contractors. JFCOM is a functional command vice a geographic command. JFCOM deals with future doctrine, capabilities, requirements, and weapons technologies. Roles requiring Modeling & Simulation Subject Manner Experts (SMEs), Test & Evaluation SMEs, Systems Engineers, Experimentation SMEs, IT SMEs - in other words highly technical people normally not found wearing uniforms or being employed by the Government on a permenant basis. If Secretary Gates is upset there are so many contractors at JFCOM, who's fault is that? Contractors only provide a service if there is a contract available asking for that service by the customer. If JFCOM has too many contractors, then the fault is with the DoD not the contractors. And all I've heard is many of these functions performed by JFCOM will return to the Joint Staff (JS). Forgive me Secretary Gates, but who do you think tasked JFCOM to perform these functions? The JS farmed much of this work to JFCOM in the first place due to the lower costs of doing business in southeastern Virginia vice the Beltway in Northern Virginia. A SME costs a lot less in Norfolk than he/she does in Fairfax to perform the same job. I'm not denying there isn't fat to trim. But an entire command of 6000 people being told they're no longer needed thanks for the fair work? Does that seem logical?
Phil Bond needs to check his history. In the forties, fifties, and early sixties, government was the leader and creator of technology solutions, then there was about ten years of transitional mix of public and private systems development and implementation.
Many of the association and other sources quoted have a strong vested interest in more spending, and, in the government not being efficient. Mr. Bond's little hint that the cuts threaten national security is somewhat of a hoot. Actually, profligate wasteful spending on services, including IT services, keeps some needed expenditures on weapons systems (and yes, some wasteful ones) from being fully funded.
does anyone ever bother to look at all the mundane things that are required for Government acquisitons or additional duty type stuff?
I agree with Mr. Gates: make improvements, reorganize the overhead staff, and keep supporting the war fighters. Positive changes are a good thing; and there will always be some who do not concur. We all have choices in life. Mr. Gates is doing a very good job in his work as the manager of the DOD.
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Heritage conservation areas and building contributions
Heritage maps
There a number of heritage conservation areas in the City of Sydney local area.
The Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 details the boundaries of these areas in its list of heritage maps.
Building contributions maps
To identify whether buildings and sites in heritage conservation areas are contributory, neutral or detracting, review the development control plan sheet maps. Then select the building contributions map for the relevant area.
The Sydney Development Control Plan 2012 further explains these terms.
Heritage database
The City's database of heritage item inventories and conservation areas identified in planning instruments is located on the Heritage Council of NSW website.
While the information for many of the database entries is incomplete, preparing detailed inventory sheets is an ongoing process that is being undertaken as and when resources are available.
Last updated: Thursday, 19 July 2018


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A motion to drop a voluntary manslaughter charge against Preston Ryan Oates is scheduled to be heard in Circuit Court on Thursday in Beaufort.
Oates, 28, of Bluffton is the tow truck operator charged in the Christmas Eve 2010 shooting death of Carlos Alberto Olivera in Edgefield.
Judge Markley Dennis Jr., an at-large circuit judge, will preside. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the spokesman for the 14th Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office.
"There's a potential it might last all day Thursday and it might roll into Friday a little," said Daniel Brownstein, the spokesman.
Oates is accused of shooting Olivera, 34, of Bluffton, six times during a dispute over Olivera's illegally parked minivan. Olivera died at the scene at about 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 24.
Both men were armed with handguns, according to authorities.
The defense motion argues for "prosecutorial immunity" based on the S.C. Protection of Persons and Property Act, which is also known as the Castle Doctrine.
The motion also seeks dismissal of the possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime against Oates.
Oates is represented by attorneys Donald Colongeli and Jared Newman. Deputy Solicitor Sean Thornton will represent the state.
Oates was freed from jail on Aug. 31 on a $200,000 property bond and placed under house arrest in an undisclosed location.
Oates has claimed self-defense since he was held for questioning in the shooting.
The Castle Doctrine stems from English common law and uses a "my home is my castle" theory as self-defense grounds for homicide.
In October, when he confirmed the motion, Colingeli said the state Supreme Court ruling in the case of State v. Duncan allows for a pre-trial immunity hearing to determine if self-defense applies under the Castle Doctrine.
"The state has to rebut the fact that, in fact, self defense did not apply," he said. "A vehicle can be considered a business …. He's a tow truck business owner, so obviously the vehicle applies."


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Reviewed By Timothy R (BREMERTON, WA) Reviewed for a 2013 Hyundai Elantra —2/17/2015 12:20 PM
This rack is exactly what I needed. I'm only rating it 4 stars because the noise amplification is a bit much for me. The base rack is noisy, but once you add this rack and skis, the noise is much louder. If noise doesn't bother you, then you have nothing to fear. The size is perfect, and the capacity is generous. I'm happy with my purchase and would definitely recommend.


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It's been quite awhile since I posted a Follow Friday post. It's time for a change!
After releasing a survey question on FB, Instagram, and Twitter, I've decided to continue the FF series (by popular request!), but to keep it fresh I'm going to streamline the format and number of tweets and scale the frequency down to about once a month. I love these posts, but they are somewhat I'm consuming to put together, and I really want to start working on new posts again.
As always, thank you for your support!
rolldiggity This election is making me realize that a traveling salesman with a miraculous vitality tonic could still do really well in this country.
BillCorbett I need rewrite help on this cynical retort: "Pal, if I could shit pineapples I'd be a fruit salesperson specializing mostly in pineapples"
iantaco Weezer thinks you started to suck after Pinkerton too.
lkoturner I can't believe how many of us have given birth to dogs, women are amazing and strong.
talkwordy Sep 3 Dear 30-something lady with license plate M4M4BEAR: I am sorry MAMABEAR was taken but you have made a terrible mistake.
SuperTeeWhy [Pearly Gates] GOD: what was ur fav part of life? //ME: prob worrying about being fat the entire time //GOD: LOL that was Jeffs idea!! JEFF-
joshgondelman Whenever I say "no offense" I'm secretly spelling it "know offense."
SkinnerSteven Shout out to my self-aware friends, you know who you are
JPHaddadio Forget gender. There should be separate bathrooms for number 1 and number 2.
JennyPentland I'm not going to take this. Lying down.
muzzeltof Text Shorthand: //LMAO – Let My Aunt Out //WTF – Where's The Fridgecake?! //IMHO – I Miss Harambe OK //AF – Ass Fuck //TBH – Tiny Belligerent Hobo
wolfpupy Sometimes the people that hurt us the most are the ones swinging big knives around while screaming and trying to cut us
justintyler34 Do you have any shoes designed for comfort but also so that people think my feet are normal and cool?
dubstep4dads NURSE: Sir… you've been in a coma since 2006. //ME: Fergaliscious
bourgeoisalien As a little girl, everyone said I couldn't be the Pope, but here I am, judging the shit out of everyone and wearing a dope as fuck hat
Jake_Vig YOU: I murdered someone. //YOUR DOG: I'm totally cool with that. I love you. ********* YOU: I murdered someone. //YOUR CAT: Me too.
ToasterRodeo HAIR LIKE A BOWL / IM 9 YEARS OLD / I'D RATHER DIE / THAN EAT VEGETABLES
MollySneed I saw someone driving while playing Pokemon Go on a dashboard mounted phone. My first instinct was to Snapchat it. We both rightfully died.
andy_sell MAKE AMERICA HARD AGAIN //RAKE AMERICA'S YARD AGAIN //DRAKE, AMERICA'S CARDIGAN
iamspacegirl When there was one set of footprints in the sand, that was when I tripped and fell but Jesus didn't see and he kept walking for a little bit
azninthesun "You wanna see a dead body?" *slowly disrobes*
ArfMeasures [phone] WIFE: Where the hell are u? //ME: Well…u know that shop where u saw that ring you love //W: OMG YES //M: I'm catching Pokemon near there
jpbrammer 2016: [happens] Corpse flowers: "It's time."
liv_thatsme SHIT I LEFT MY ACCORDION ON THE BACK SEAT & DIDN'T LOCK MY CAR! *runs out to parking lot* Weird; now there's 2 accordions on my back seat.
aveuaskew But if I go out, who is going to stick their finger in the cat's mouth and ruin his yawns?
david8hughes ME: gimme a virgin mojito //BARTENDER: here you go //ME [stares at drink for half an hour]: you're absolutely sure nobody's fucked this thing
HollyMemphis DENTIST: "When was the last time you flossed?" //ME: "BRO, you were there."
EmVeeGreen Get out of my way, actual birds, I'm trying to catch pretend animals on my phone right now
HelloJessicaFox A little about me: I'm a beekeeper. I see a bee, I keep it. I don't care whose bee it is. Should have been watching it better.
Fred_Delicious Science defines a baby as "a small smooth poopy man, no taller than a lamp"
povertyluxe Salad doesn't make you feel full so much as it makes you bored of eating
annetdonahue It is now the long weekend which means your automated email reply may be a simple, "How fucking dare you."
MarloMeekins If Minions were real they'd just be jerking off all the time and getting hit by cars
TheNextMartha When I see pumpkin spice out, I know shaving season is over.
KimmyMonte Sometimes, late at night, I'll look up at the stars and wonder if you're also stealing lawn furniture.
pleatedjeans If you're ever feeling stupid, just remember someone invented a wrench and named it Allen
hannibalburess My Uber driver is definitely playing his own mixtape. It's horrible but I accept it as punishment for something bad I've done in the past
markleggett Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night with great ideas, and other times you think "C-3PO's younger brother would be named C-3PP".
DaddyJew [arriving in hell] I was told there would be a special place for me


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College & State University athletic department and director Wendell Staton hosted its Annual Bobcat Athletics Awards Banquet Sunday night, honoring a 2009-10 season of success for the program. Tennis' Diane Danna (Paris) and golf's Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) took home Senior Female and Male Student Athlete of the Year honors, respectively.
Brown "Kool" Marshall won the Bill Childers Award for community member who gives the most to Bobcat Athletics. Sean Harrell (Martinez, Ga.) was announced as the John Kurtz Award for top baseball player both on and off the field, and Johansson made it a double-dip by taking the Dr. Michael Peeler honor for top golfer on and off the course. Soccer's Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.) earned the Comeback Player of the Year Award from the Athletic Training Department.
Danna picked up All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) honors in singles and doubles this season, going 16-4 in singles with a 9-3 mark in conference play. She owns a 3.39 GPA in rhetoric.
A three-time All-American, Johansson owns the PBC's top stroke average at 72.5, taking seven top-10 finishes in 11 tournaments. A two-time All-PBC and All-Southeast Region honoree, Johansson has a 3.42 GPA in management.
Marshall has been a fan of Georgia College athletics for 30-plus years, working on the custodial staff in the Centennial Center.
Harrell has made a strong bid for PBC Player of the Year honors in baseball, hitting .486 with 11 home runs and 51 RBI. He's also stolen 19 bases and scored 69 runs.
Plunkett rebounded from off-season mononucleosis to bring home the first fall semester sport All-American trophy in school history. A goalkeeper, she posted a paltry 0.59 GAA and a .896 saves percentage while piling up five shutouts.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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[Market House, San Antonio]
Description: Postcard of the Market House in San Antonio, Texas showing a large building with ornate architecture and a manicured park area with a fountain. There are various people and horse-drawn wagons on the streets and buildings visible in the background. A handwritten note at the top says, "Henry do you remember this place?" A letter on the back is addressed to Henry Kahn from Mary thanking him for a letter and asking about whether or not he plans to go to the Fair.
Date: October 26, 1909
Partner: Laredo Public Library


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The temporary wooden press boxes that were constructed on the grandstand roof in 1946 were replaced with permanent steel press ones for the 1949 Red Sox season, which ended in heartbreak for the second consecutive year. In the fall, Boston University's football team competed at the ballpark regularly and when BU played Maryland on November 12, 1949, Vin Scully, the legendary Dodgers broadcaster, made his professional debut when he provided the game's play-by-play for CBS Radio.
Record: 96-58, 2nd in American League
Manager: Joseph V. McCarthy
Attendance: 1,596,650
For the third time in four years, the 1949 season went down to the final day and again, the Red Sox fell short. On October 1, the Red Sox entered Yankee Stadium with a one game lead over New York and with only two more regular season games remaining, both against the Yankees, Boston needed only one win to clinch the pennant. However, the Red Sox lost the October 1 game by a 5-4 score and fell into a first place tie with New York. In the pennant-deciding final game of the season, Boston fell behind 5-0 but fought gamely to cut the deficit to two runs. The Red Sox even brought the tying run to the plate before the Yankees ended their hopes. In his first two seasons managing the Red Sox, Joe McCarthy's Red Sox teams had lost the pennant on the final day of both campaigns.
Despite the painful ending, the season had been an outstanding one for several Red Sox players. Mel Parnell won 25 games for Boston in 1949 and broke Babe Ruth's club record for victories by a left-handed pitcher, while Ellis Kinder went 23-6. Vern Stephens and Ted Williams tied for the AL RBI crown with 159 apiece and Williams missed out on his third Triple Crown by a single base hit; his batting average was .0002 lower than Detroit's George Kell. However, Williams did win his second MVP award in 1949, playing in every game and reaching base in all but five contests. In one late summer streak, Williams reached base in 84 consecutive games and Dom DiMaggio set a franchise record that still stands by hitting safely in 34 straight contests in 1949.
In 1949, the temporary wooden press boxes, which were installed on each side of the grandstand roof in 1946, were replaced with permanent steel boxes. The club also built a television and radio perch located at the top of the screen behind home plate. In addition, the photographer's box was enlarged and a new catwalk was built to access the expanded press facilities on the grandstand roof. Below the catwalk, the trucking entrance (present-day Gate D) was widened.
On the left-field side of the ballpark, the grandstand concourse was extended and, for the first time, Fenway Park was connected to the John B. Smith Building via a steel bridge on the building's second floor. In 1955, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey bought the Smith Building, located at 70 Brookline Avenue, and named it the Jeano Building, after his wife Jean.
In 1949, Boston University played five football games at Fenway Park, with multi-sport athlete, and future Red Sox first baseman, Harry Agganis, making his Fenway debut. After the 1949 season, Agganis entered the Marine Corps but returned to college in 1951 and became BU's first football All-American. Though drafted in the first round of the 1952 NFL Draft, Agganis signed with the Red Sox and made his MLB debut in 1954.
On November 12, 1949, another famous figure made his debut at Fenway Park. That day, future Dodgers broadcasting legend Vin Scully provided the play-by-play call on CBS Radio for the football game between Boston University and Maryland. It was Scully's first career assignment after graduating from Fordham University; the following year, Scully began working for the Dodgers, and has ever since.
|1949 Non-Baseball Events At Fenway Park
|October 14
|Boston University 52, West Virginia 20 (Football)
|October 22
|Boston University 38, New York University 0 (Football)
|October 29
|Boston University 46, Scranton 6 (Football)
|November 12
|University of Maryland 14, Boston University 13 (Football)
|November 19
|St. Bonaventure 19, Boston University 0 (Football)