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Ball State University Hillel
Student Center L-1
Muncie Indiana 47306, United States
President: Brooklyn Schreier
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Be Part Of Our Team As We Begin 7th Year
The Jewish community's Thoughtful Thursdays volunteers are beginning a 7th year helping the 72 children who attend Brightpoint Head Start at the Temple. Under the leadership of Jamie Berger, our team will assemble bags on the dates listed below. All are welcome to assist.


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The 13,400 acre, private golf and ski enclave, Yellowstone Club (YC) sale to CrossHarbor Capital is finalized at a price of $115 million, according to Yellowstone Mountain Club's CB Richard Ellis.
The Big Sky, Montana bankruptcy sale was finalized August 5, 2009, ending a long battle for control between Sam Byrne and Edra Blixseth.
The many Yellowstone Club real estate and Montana luxury home choices include large homesites on which to build your own, custom luxury estate; on-the-mountain chalets; single-family custom homes; private ranches, or condos in either The Enclave or at Sunrise Ridge. Many of the Yellowstone Club real estate offerings include access to the golf course or ski lifts.
Dine at one of three rustic Yellowstone Mountain Club lodges; choose the Rainbow Lodge with its own outdoor, heated pool and views of Lone Peak; the Warren Miller Lodge at the base, offering the most elegant mountain dining in Montana; or the Timberline Café, right off the main lift for a quick, gourmet lunch before skiing undiscovered powder in the back-side trees.
The YC maintains a 24-hour professional security staff, public safety and traffic staff, Fire Department, and EMT - Emergency Medical Team.
At Pioneer Mountain's base, the 143,000-square-foot Warren Miller Lodge includes over 20 elegant condos; grand dining room; comfortable lounge; ski shop: retail and office space; business center; world-class spa; exercise room; casual café with games, TV, tables, and bar; and teen center.
The Yellowstone Club boasts more than 2,700 vertical feet of skiing, 60 skiing and snowboarding trails, children's instruction area, Magic Carpet kids' lift, terrain snow park with rollers, jumps, rails, boxes and more, and all on the 2,200 acres of ski and snowboard terrain, boasting an over 300 inch average annual snowfall.
giving you the advantage...® - 406.579.9683
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Boston Celtics Team Report – November 8
=== Boston Celtics Team Report – November 8 ===
(Sports Network) – The Boston Celtics suffered their third straight loss
Friday, falling to the New Jersey Nets, 94-87, Friday at the FleetCenter.
Paul Pierce paced the Celtics with 27 points and 10 rebounds. Kedrick Brown
netted 18 points and Mark Blount chipped in 12 points and eight boards for
The teams went back-and-forth over the first 8 1/2 minutes of the fourth
quarter. Pierce's basket with 3:30 remaining tied the contest at 84-84.
New Jersey then scored the next six points, including four by Kerry Kittles,
to take a 90-84 advantage with 1:45 left.
After the teams traded baskets, Marcus Banks hit 1-of-2 free throws for the
Celtics to make it 92-87 with 1:01 on the clock. Boston then forced a missed
shot by the Nets and Pierce grabbed the rebound. However, he was stripped of
the ball by Jason Kidd, who was later fouled with 29.2 seconds remaining.
Kidd proceeded to make both attempts from the stripe to seal it for New
The Celtics are off until Sunday when they host the Sacramento Kings.


text: It's possibly container-seal design month here at Giz, but we've found a winner in the Snap Capp. It's a cheap and cheerful plastic gizmo that pops onto a standard 12- or 16-ounce drinks can, and turns it into a resealable bottle, with a lid, to stop your refreshments going flat. Simplicity itself, and it's reusable too. Available now, in a variety of colors, packs of three for around $10. [Coolest Gadgets via Oh Gizmo]


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Career Advice >> Browse Articles >> Resume, Cover Letter & Interview Tips
8 Creative Ways to Improve Your Resume
Charles Purdy | Monster+HotJobs senior editor
Career experts are unanimous on the importance of customizing our resumes for each new job we apply for. But for many of us, when it comes to revising our resumes, the first question is "How?"
It's easy to get stuck in rut when you're working with material you know so well. So here are some ways to take a fresh look at revising your resume.
1. Analyze the job post's wording.
An easy way to make sure your resume gets you in the door for an interview is to echo the language in the job post. Look for ways to use the words in the post; a resume reader—human or software—may be screening for them. (If there is no job post, check the company's website—especially the About Us page and any corporate mission statements—for language you might adopt.)
If your resume says "supervise," but the job post says "manage," change it. If your last job title was "Social Media Ninja," and you're applying for a "Social Media Marketing Specialist" position, include the term "Marketing Specialist" in parentheses after your Ninja title (as long as you feel that this term could describe your past role).
Of course, don't stretch the truth!
2. Weed out fibs.
It's all too easy for little fibs to make their way into a resume. Several years ago, you added an unearned certification to your resume, just to get your foot in the door at a new company. Or you claimed competence in a software program you figured you could learn on-the-fly.
Then, as the years went on, those temporary resume fibs somehow became set in stone. Now's the time to chisel them out. Any lie—even a seemingly inconsequential one—can put your job search and your future job security in jeopardy.
Replace lies with truths—or set about making them true. It could be as simple as putting the word "pursuing" before that imaginary degree on your resume.
3. Get rid of the "objective statement."
Beginning a resume with an objective statement (a phrase that starts with something like "Seeking a challenging position …") is out. As Lauren Milligan, resume expert at ResuMAYDAY.com, says, "Employers already know that your objective is to get a job, after all." She suggests, instead, creating a personal summary statement that "illustrates how you are better than other candidates for the job." She adds, "Identify a few areas in your profession that you excel at … and that you really enjoy doing."
Tell the hiring manager who you are and how you can solve her or his company's problems, not what you want.
4. Get rid of redundancies.
Don't waste time telling hiring managers what they already know. Many people do this in their descriptions of past jobs. For instance, if your last job was as a copywriter for an online rug retailer, saying something like "wrote marketing copy for a wide variety of rugs" is unnecessary. Instead of taking up space with definitions no one needs, describe specific achievements. Did your work improve sales, get praise from management, or improve SEO rankings? Use job highlights, not job descriptions.


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CJ Miles
Filipina model CJ Miles is today's HotPic and a pretty ravishing one at that.
Miss Miles is known for being a little bit too sultry and provocative, given that she's on her eighth Instagram account because the other seven were deemed too inappropriate. That's our jam. We love a woman who loves her body and enjoys showing it off, so CJ's style is right up our alley.
Become a fan of the incredibly sexy CJ on Instagram, Twitter and her own NSFW website. Well, pretty much anything of hers is NSFW, just the way we like it.


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Update - Tues., Dec. 17, 2013: According to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, the Humboldt County Coroner has confirmed that the body found in a shallow grave off of Jewitt Ranch Road, in the Harris area of Humboldt County, is that of missing person Garret Rodriguez, 29 years old from San Diego, California. KMUD News offers condolences to the friends and family of Garrett Rodriguez. On April 25, 2013 Garret Rodriguez was reported missing by his father who told the investigating deputy that Garret told him he was coming to Humboldt County to work on a ranch that was growing medical marijuana. Anyone with information about this case is requested to contact lead Humboldt County Sheriff's Detective Jennifer Turner at: 707-268-3642 or the Sheriff's Office Crime Tip line at: 707-268-2539. The press releases, updates, and original posts on this incident appear below.
Use the player below to hear more on this story in an update submitted by Eileen Russell and aired by KMUD News Director Terri Klemetson on the Local News on Tues., Dec. 17, 2013.
The audio below includes an extensive interview with Jennifer Turner, lead HCSO detective on this case.
HCSO Press Release, dated 12-13-13:
The Humboldt County Coroner has identified the human remains located in a gravesite off of Jewitt Ranch Road, Harris area of Humboldt County as that of missing person Garret Rodriguez, 29 years old from San Diego, California. Rodriguez was reported missing by his father to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office on 04-25-2013. His father told the investigating deputy that Garret told him he was coming to Humboldt County to work on a ranch growing medical marijuana. Garret told his father the ranch was located in an area known as "Murder Mountain."
A Forensic Pathologist has also confirmed that Rodriguez is the victim of a homicide. Anyone with information about this case is requested to contact lead Humboldt County Sheriff's Detective Jennifer Turner at Ph. 707-268-3642 or the Sheriff's Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( F.B.I.) is assisting the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office with this investigation.
Gravesite Report HCSO Press Release:
On 11-30-2013, at approximately 5:00 p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office received a call from a citizen who wanted to report a possible human gravesite. The citizen told deputies where to search for the possible grave. On 12-01-2013, approximately 7:00 a. m. Humboldt County Sheriff's Detectives went to the location described by the citizen which was off Jewitt Ranch Road, the Harris area of Humboldt County. Detectives located a possible gravesite which they dug up and located human remains. The Humboldt County Coroner's Office was summoned to the scene. The identity of the deceased is unknown at this time, along with the cause of death, age and sex. Detectives are treating the deceased as a homicide at this time.
View other updates and the original post on this story below.
Update Tues., June 25, 2013-Family of missing person, Garrett Rodriguez, hires private investigator.
The family of Garrett Rodriguez who has been missing for well over half a year has hired Cook & Associates, a local private investigation company, to find their missing loved one. Rodriquez (pictured above) is from Ocean Beach, Calif. and according to his family went missing after coming to Humboldt County to work in the marijuana industry in the Rancho Sequoia-Alderpoint area. The player directly below contains the latest audio update on this story.
Anyone with information about the disappearance of Garrett Rodriguez is asked to call Chris Cook with Cook & Associates at 707-839-7422 and/or the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office at 707-445-7251, or the Sheriff's Tip Line 707-268-2539. See photo below for Rodriquez without a beard.
This update, submitted and aired by KMUD News Correspondent Eileen Russell, includes interviews with the missing man's mother and aunt and the owner of the private investigator company hired by the family. The piece aired on KMUD Local News Tues., June 25, 2013.
The original post on this story appears below.
The father of 29 year-old Garret Rodriguez (Garret is shown in the photo above), recently notified the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office that he has not heard from his son for over six months. Garret had informed his father that he was coming to Humboldt County to work on a ranch growing medical marijuana, and that the ranch was located in an area known as "Murder Mountain." According to a KMUD interview with Garret's father he believes that "Murder Mountain" is in the Alderpoint area. Anyone with information relating to this missing person, Garret Rodriguez, is asked to contact the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriff's Tip Line 707-268-2539.
Click here for another reference to "Murder Mountain".
Read the full press release below:
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a missing person. On 04-25-2013 a Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputy spoke on the telephone with the father of Garret Rodriguez who reported him as a missing person. His father told the investigating deputy that Garret told him he was coming to Humboldt County to work on a ranch growing medical marijuana. He told his father the ranch was located in an area known as "Murder Mountain". The father has not heard from his son for over six months which is highly unusual. The father contacted all of Garret's friends and they have not heard from Garret either.
Garret Rodriguez is described as follows: 29 year old white male, 5'8" tall, 180 lbs, brown hair, green eyes.
He is driving a 1998 Dodge Ram Pickup Truck, California plate 7P63498.
Just ahead of Earth Day 2013, the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (HIIMR) hosted an Earthday Symposium on Marijuana and Environment. The event, held on the Humboldt State University Campus on April 19 and 20, 2013, attracted policymakers, grassroots environmental organizations, activists, scientists, students, and community members.
According to a description of the symposium on the HIIMR website, "We are at a critical juncture regarding marijuana policy in the United States, where the shifting legal and political landscape requires policymakers, environmental organizations, researchers, and growers to adapt quickly. Panelists will share their expertise and insights around the multitude of environmental issues related to the marijuana industry – whether it be climate harming reliance on indoor growing nationwide, or the local Northern California issues of fish and wildlife protections, land use policy, water quality, forest degradation, and other environmental impacts."
The Symposium was sponsored by:
The HSU Sociology Department, the Environment and Community Program, the Environmental Protection Information Center, the Salmonid Restoration Federation, and the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research.
Related KMUD News Post:
HSU Symposium on Marijuana and the Environment-audio posted
Use the players below to hear or download the audio from each of the presentations/panels. The audio was provided by KMUD News Correspondent, Eric Black.
Earthday Symposium on Marijuana and Environment
Friday, April 19,10:30 – 12:30 pm-Stories from the Frontlines:Reporting on the Culture and Practice of Marijuana Agriculture
Mikal Jakubal, Plants for the People
Kym Kemp, Reporter, Lost Coast Outpost
Emily Brady, author of Humboldt Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
Kerry Reynolds, KMUD
Note: the sound at the start is a bit rough on this clip but clears up quickly.
2:00 – 2:50 pm-Sustainable vs Unsustainable Practices
Craig Benson, Redwood Community Action Agency
2:00 – 2:50 pm-Impacts on Cultural & Natural Resources from Marijuana Cultivation on Tribal Lands
Troy Fletcher, Executive Director, Yurok Tribe
Josh Saxon, Executive Director, Salmon River Restoration Council
Mark Higley, Yurok Tribe
3:00 – 3:50 pm-Ecological Data:What Do We Know? What Do We Need To Know?
Brad Job, Bureau of Land Management
Sarah Schremmer, Sociology Department, HSU
Scott Bauer, Department of Fish and Wildlife
3:00 – 3:50 pm-Timberland Impacts: Trespass, Conversion, and Solutions
Gary Rynearson, Green Diamond Resource Company
Noah Levy, Sanctuary Forest
Tom Shultz, Humboldt Redwood Company
4:00 – 4:50 pm-Legislative Update on Marijuana PolicyPanelists:
Ellen Komp, CalNORML
Mason Tvert, Executive Director, SAFER (Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation)
4:00 – 4:50 pm-The Impacts of Marijuana Agriculture on Public Lands
Larry Glass, S.A.F.E Alternatives for our Forest Environment
Andrew Orahoske, Environmental Protection Information Center
5:00 – 7:00 pm–Keynote Speaker:
Samantha Miller, Pure Analytics
Saturday, April, 20,10:00 – 11:15 am - BSS Native Forum Room 162, HSU-Environmental Impacts of the Marijuana Industry: Worst Case Scenarios
Mourad Gabriel, Wildlife Disease Ecologist, UC Davis
11:30 – 12:30 pm–Symposium Roundup:Confronting the Environmental Problems of Marijuana Agriculture: Strategies and Solutions
Tony Silvaggio, Mow and Sow
Tyce Frasier, Put em in the Sun
Other Resources:
HSU Earth Day forum begins today...Times Standard Article
Green Rush Google earth tour
HIIMR First Annual Speakers Series:
HIIMR Speakers Series-audio/video
An item appeared on the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Agenda for their April 16, 2013 meeting which will begin the process of vacating a portion of county owned property known as the Jim DeMulling Memorial Park in Garberville .
The agenda item and accompanying recommendation appeared as quoted below.
"Vacation of a Portion of Redwood Drive (C6B105) and Thomas Drive (6B150), also known as the Jim DeMulling Veterans Memorial Grove in Garberville."
"RECOMMENDATION: That the Board of Supervisors direct staff to prepare the necessary documents for the vacation of a portion of the unused right of way of Redwood Drive (C6B105) and Thomas Drive (6B150)."
Click here for a pdf version of a County document giving the details on the background and current situation involving the DeMulling Park area.
According to the document above removing the property, not used for public road purposes, will allow the county to manage the property for non-road related purposes, and could ultimately allow the county to, "lease, license, or sell the property."
The DeMulling Park area, at the Northern entrance to Garberville, has been, and is currently, used as a meeting place, resting area, and refuge for the Houseless, Homeless, Traveler (HHT) population in Southern Humboldt. At times, however, it has also been the site of incidents of illegal activity and violence, making the continued use of the area by the HHT Community a point of controversy between various factions in the SoHum Community at large.
Use the player below to hear or download the audio of a report on this Board item, submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Daniel Mintz. This piece was aired by News Director, Terri Klemetson, on the KMUD Local News Tues., April 16, 2013.
Related KMUD News Posts:
Other related links:
Law enforcement responds to fight at Veterans Park; two deputies slightly injured-Redwood Times
Even Laundry Nazi's Get Hurt Feelings- Kym Kemp's Red Headed Blackbelt Blog
In January, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency required new limitations on some of the most dangerous rat poisons to protect families but left loopholes that will still leave wildlife at risk.
The Center for Biological Diversity previously reported that recent research concludes that rat poisons have been implicated in deaths involving at least 25 different species of animals in California. And last February, the CBD submitted a formal notice of intent to sue the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to, "...protect the endangered San Joaquin kit fox, golden eagle, Pacific fisher and other wildlife from unintended poisonings from "super-toxic" rat poisons."
According to KMUD News,"Rat Poison disappeared off of some Southern Humboldt shelves this month...other stores continue to sell the second generation anti-coagulant."
More can be heard on this story using the player below. This report was submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Travis Turner, and was aired by KMUD News Coordinator, Terri Klemetson on Mon., April 15, 2013.
Additional Resources:
Raptors Are The Solution
See exactly who's being poisoned with rat poison
Got Rats? Let Raptors Do Their Job
Previous related KMUD News Posts:
"New lawsuit targets rat poison regulation"
"See Biologist Mourad Gabriel- Pot and Endangered Wildlife-Sept. 27 Arcata"
According to a the 2011 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Humboldt Creamery in Fortuna made up 30% of the total toxic release in Humboldt County. The releases were in the form of nitrates as a by product of its milk manufacturing process.
According to Wikipedia, The Humboldt Creamery was established in 1929 as a local association of 152 dairy farms and, until 2009, creamery production was based on 50 small family dairies located in both Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. Wikipedia futher states that, "It was one of only two dairy operations in the United States to have 'free-farmed' certification, a designation related to the extraordinary quality of life attributed to cows who live in pastures."
After experiencing financial problems and a scandal following the resignation of CEO Rich Ghilarducci, bankruptcy was filed and the assets of the Humboldt Creamery were sold at auction on August 27, 2009 to Foster Farms Dairy. Click here to see the Northcoast Journal article on this story.
Use the player below to hear a report on the toxic release, submitted by KMUD News Correspondent Dan Young. This piece was aired by KMUD News Coordinator, Terri Klemetson, on Friday, April 12, 2013.
Water is necessary for the existence of our species, as well as other life forms on our planet. An article in the Huffington Post, titled, "Water Wars? Here in the US?", uses the term "peak water" to describe the coming water crisis, while a post in Aljazeera.com, states that, "...almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030."
Focusing on water issues in our local area, the third Annual Water Day was held at the Mateel Community Center in Redway on March 30, 2013. This all-day event was sponsored by the Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) and co-sponsored by a dozen other environmental non-profits.
Kmud News recorded the event and is bringing highlights from the day's offerings of presentations and panels.
Use the player below to hear a report from Water Day, submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Eric Black, and aired on the KMUD Local News on Mon., April 8, 2013. The piece includes information from a presentation by Tasha McKee (Sanctuary Forest) and ideas offered by Sungnome Madrone of the Mattole Salmon Group.
The player below hosts an audio report submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Eileen Russell and includes highlights from a presentation on Algae Blooms in the Eel River by Keith Bouma-Gregson from the UC Berkeley, Mary Power Lab; Survey work done by the Eel River Recovery Project, presented by Pat Higgins ERRP Volunteer Coordinator; and toxic algae monitoring discussed by Paul Domanchuk (ERRP Toxic Algae Team). The report was aired by KMUD News Director, Terri Klemetson, on Wed., April 3, 2013.
Photos below show (top to bottom) Tasha McKee doing her presentation; morning panel - (left to right) Sara Schremmer (HSU/SRF), Tasha Mckee (Sancutary Forest), Sungnome Madrone (Mattole Salmon Group), Larry Desmond (Mendocino Water Works), Andrew Orahoske (EPIC); Morning WDIII Audience.
April Cannabis Science Update:
A social work research study recently published in the International Journal of Drug Policy finds that children living in homes where marijuana is cultivated do not suffer from adverse health effects at any greater rate than do comparable children in cannabis-free environments.
Chronic cannabis consumers may test positive for trace, residual levels of THC in their blood, even after abstaining from cannabis use for several weeks. This is according to clinical trial data published in the journal of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry.
The National Institutes for Health and the National Institute for Drug Abuse - both US government agencies - are offering $2 million to researchers who want to study the negative impacts of marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington.
A new study published online in Diabetes Care finds that chronic cannabis smoking can induce subtle metabolic changes that include increased visceral adiposity (also known as belly fat) and increased body fat insulin resistance. The study found no evidence, however, of an association between chronic cannabis smoking and more severe metabolic impairment.
And new research from Australia provides evidence that Adults who inhale cannabis report significantly better health outcomes than those who smoke tobacco, or a combination of both substances.
Use the player below to hear the April Edition of Cannabis Science Update.
Cannabis Science Update is a regular feature of the KMUD radio show, Cannabis Consciousness (1:30-3:00pm on the first Sun. of every month), and is written by Kerry Reynolds, read by Harold Day, and recorded by Dave Smith.
Missing - Genevieve Alexander described as approximately 5' 6", 115 pounds, 30 years of age, curly brown hair, possibly wearing eye glasses.
According to information from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, 30 year old Genevieve Alexander, shown in the photo above, has been missing since April 4, 2013, at around 3:30 pm. Ms. Alexander was last seen by family members at the Pomo Campground in Fort Bragg, and there was a confirmed sighting of her later at 4:00 pm at the Botanical Gardens in Fort Bragg.
Mendocino County Search and Rescue and the U.S. Coast Guard conducted a search along the coast with negative results.
If you have any information regarding Genevieve's whereabouts, please call the Sheriff's Office at (707) 463-4086.
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center between March 13-17, among 1,501 adults, shows that for the first time in more than forty years of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans now favor legalizing the use of marijuana. The survey indicates that 52% say that the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 45% say it should not. This represents an increase of 11 percentage points in those favoring legalization since 2011. Young people between the ages of 18 and 32 polled the highest, with 65% in support, up from just 36% in 2008.
Additionally, within the Baby Boomer group (those born between 1946 and 1964), 50% now favor legalizing marijuana, among the highest percentages ever. In past studies, statistics have fluctuated in the Boomer group. For example, in 1978, 47% of Boomers favored legalizing marijuana, but support fell during the 1980s reaching a low of 17% in 1990. However, since 1994 the percentage of Boomers favoring marijuana legalization has more than doubled, going from 24% to 50%.
For further survey details see: www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/
Confrontation escalated this morning, April 2, 2013, between those protesting the Caltrans Willits Bypass Project and California Highway Patrol Officers, the agency charged with safety and enforcement at the project site. Using CHP SWAT Officers trained in climbing techniques, the tree-sitter known as Warbler, who was also engaged in a hunger strike, was removed from high in the tree that she has occupied for over two months. Additional tree-sitters were extracted by the CHP team later in the day.
In response to today's removal of Willit's Bypass Project protestors, by the California Highway Patrol, California Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) issued a statement which can be read below.
Use the player below to hear details on this story in a piece aired on the KMUD Local News on Tues., April, 2, 2013 by KMUD News Director, Terri Klemetson.
For more information, photos and video see the Save Little Lake Valley web site: http://www.savelittlelakevalley.org
California State Senator Evans' Statement, dated April 2, 2013:
CHP was deployed to remove the protestors of the Willits Bypass Project just hours before I was set to meet with the director of Caltrans to have my questions answered. According to some reports, protestors in trees were extracted by CHP using "rubber bullets", and that CHP officers significantly outnumbered protestors.
I am shocked and dismayed at what seems to be an excessive use of force on unarmed protestors.
Thus far, I feel Caltrans and CHP have been slow to respond to my questions and quick to act regarding the Bypass Project.
It also was extremely disturbing to learn that the press was excluded from observing the removal of the protestors.
I had asked to be kept informed on a daily basis prior to any extraordinary action on this project as I represent the 1.3 million Californians living in the Second Senate District where this project is taking place. Regretfully that did not happen today.
I met today with Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty to express my dismay at today's events. I have additionally requested an immediate meeting with CHP Commissioner Joseph Farrow.
I urge everyone to remain calm and for protestors to remain peaceful in their opposition.
Photo below shows Warbler in her perch in March-Photo from Save Little Lake Valley Web Site.
Photo below provided by Jennifer Poole shows the remains of the Warbler tree-sit.


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Visit Stockton needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Stockton California
Stockton, California is a waterfront city located in Northern California. Though we are 75 miles inland we connect to the ocean via the California Delta. We were founded in 1849.
We recently launched a new "Celebrate" brand, graphics and info below!
We have gone through major revitalization in downtown and are about to open our new marina.
We are looking for a shirt with broad appeal, as our target audience are men and women of all ages who want a cool looking piece of apparel to wear that represents their city!
Looking for a shirt with a coll and hip design. Ed Hardy style is one thought, but could also be just great artistic design. May incorporate history and present.
One sided preferred, though open to back, neck and sleeve options.
Need to think realistically about how this will be printed. Considering silk screening, we want to keep to 3 colors or less. Graphics must be layered and provided in vector format.
The Stockton logo - It should be integrated, but is not a must. Swirly square can be used in any way.
The word Celebrate is also part of our brand and our tagline.
We like our architecture, can it be worked in?
To get a feel for the look and colors of the Stockton brand (official Stockton logo and "Celebrate" theme visit http://www.VisitStockton.org or http://www.DowntownStockton.org.
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Emails From Dead Man Shock Friends
In June 2011, Jack Froese died from heart arrhythmia at age 32. But five months after his death, his friends started receiving posthumous emails from Froese's account. At first they were shocked, but as the emails continued to come in, and with a personal touch, Froese's friends say they don't mind the messages anymore.
The first to receive an email from Froese's 'ghost' account was childhood best friend Tim Hart. In an interview with the BBC, Hart explained:
One night in November, I was sitting on my couch, going through my emails on my phone and it popped up, 'sender: Jack Froese.' I turned ghost white when I read it. It was very quick and short but to a point that only Jack and I could relate on.
The subject line was "I'm Watching," while the body of the email read, "Did you hear me? I'm at your house. Clean your f—ing attic!!!". Shortly before Froese's death, Hart said that he and Froese had a private conversation in Hart's attic, during which Froese teased him over the attic's messy state. Even one of Froese's cousin received a posthumous email from Froese, warning him about an ankle injury that occurred after Froese's death.
Friends and family don't know the source of the emails. There have been cases of emails sent from a deceased person's account, even on Facebook, but those were usually traced back to spam accounts or friends and family of the deceased who had access to the account.
Hart says he doesn't mind the emails coming in. While it's interesting how the emails manage to contain a personal touch, the messages still provide an 'unexpected connection' with their late friend, and says it has helped Froese's friends and family with the grieving process.
Just as long as they don't start getting Evites to parties Froese is hosting from the beyond.
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Grand Rapids Holds On To 'Beer City, USA' Title
Last year, Grand Rapids had to share the title of Beer City, USA with Asheville, North Carolina. This year, we didn't feel like sharing and after all 50,000 votes were tallied by the folks at Examiner.com, Grand Rapids came out on top. We are, once again (and this time without having to share), Beer City, USA!
Actually, this year, three Michigan cities landed in the top 4 in voting for Beer City, USA. Kalamazoo took second place and Ann Arbor came in a very distance fourth.
Grand Rapids tallied over 27,000 while our co-Beer City from last year, Asheville, only racked up 10,075 to come in third place.
Recently, Michigan was named by USA Today as one of the "Top 10 Craft Brew States in America", and having three cities in the top four in the Beer City poll is a testament to that.
To celebrate our victory, the folks at BarFly Ventures, who own HopCat, Grand Rapids Brewing Company, Stella's, and McFadden's, will be offering $1.50 pints of Michigan beers on Monday, May 20.


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For whatever reason, Martin McDonagh's "Seven Psychopaths" — one of the best films of last year — didn't find its audience. The poster was both blah and misleading, and it probably didn't help that this gun-rich, blood-soaked comedy came out less than three months after the Aurora massacre.
Colin Farrell is the (presumably autobiographical) screenwriter, unable to finish his current script, "Seven Psychopaths." His dopey best friend (Sam Rockwell) is a dognapper, in league with a more sympathetic older man (Christopher Walken, in a wonderful performance). They steal a shih tzu, whose owner happens to be one of L.A.'s biggest mob bosses. Mayhem and laughter ensue.
The film could be crudely described as "Pulp Fiction Meets Adaptation." If it's not quite as great as McDonagh's freshman feature, "In Bruges," it comes close.
The new home video release has a good transfer, but for a new release it has shockingly few extras — six alleged "featurettes" that would be better called "short-ettes." There's nothing feature-ish about them. They run between 1:07 and 2:33 in length, for a grand total of 10 minutes and 14 seconds.
Sad to say, they're also not that good. Maybe Sony is holding stuff back for a Grand Deluxe Edition some time down the road, but it seems unlikely they'd bother, given the movie's disappointing box-office results.
"Seven Psychopaths" (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, $35.99; DVD, $30.99)
Note: In last week's DVD review of the 1953 version of "Titanic," director Jean Negulesco's name was misspelled. As reader Carole Glines Laux pointed out to us, it turns out that while he was born "Negulescu" (the original Romanian spelling, as we had it), the filmmaker used "Negulesco" throughout his Hollywood career
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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Answering Common Oral Hiring Board Questions
Dr. Richard Weinblatt
My last Law Enforcement Career Expert column for PoliceLink.com covered ten tips for mastering the police oral board. This column covers how to answer the questions themselves. While I can't give you the exact wording that will work for you, understanding why certain questions are asked, and how to formulate the answer that fits you, is the key to getting hired in the competitive law enforcement hiring process. Of course that presumes that all political or favoritism issues are removed from the oral panel's judgment of the candidates.
As mentioned in the previous articles, as a police academy manager and former police chief, I have seen many people bomb that first impression formed at an oral board (usually within the first 15 seconds). Having been on both sides of the process as the interviewer and the interviewee (one large agency that I interviewed successfully with told me I scored the highest of any sworn applicant to that date – "Half a point away from a perfect score."), I have learned a few tricks that may help you. Some applicants may be well-dressed and appear sharp on oral board day, but when they open their mouth, it all goes out the window.
Here are some typical questions or concepts posed at oral panels and how to view them. Note that I could not possibly address all questions, but here are the more common ones that crop up. All of these broadly based answers will need to be refined by you to reflect the details that are unique to your life and circumstances.
The key here is to give an honest, heart-felt response that also falls within the acceptable broad parameters of oral interviews. Remember, oral board panels are made up of seasoned patrol officers and law enforcement executives. They are experienced, trained interviewers who are adept at ferreting out answers from people that are deceptive or not genuine.
1) Tell this panel about yourself. This is an open-ended statement, usually posed in the beginning, and it gives you a terrific opportunity to create that great first impression. It is also the point at which many people turn the panel members off. In the words of my good friend and recruiting guru Commander Mark Anderson, of the Altamonte Springs, FL, Police Department: "Tell me the time, don't build me a clock."
All too often the long-winded answer starts with: "Well, it all started 21 years ago when I was born in a small town…" The background sound everyone hears next is the snoring of the panel members. You should only hit the highlights that are relevant to their judging you as appropriate for the position. Relevant information includes education (college degree in criminal justice, etc.), work or volunteer experience (police explorer, sales or managerial experience, and military service), or family background and familiarization with the job (relatives or multiple generations that have served as police officers) that could be used to show your potential success as a law enforcement officer.
Practice your delivery of this brief, albeit important, synopsis of your life in front of a mirror or video camera. You may even want to hold a mock oral panel to hone your delivery and answers. Your answers, as with all of these panel responses, should be delivered with a confident tone that does not trail off at the end of each sentence. If they can't hear the end of your sentence, you convey the message that it's not worth hearing and consequently, they won't exert any effort to do so.
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2) Why do you want to be a police officer/deputy sheriff/trooper? (depending on the type of agency you are applying to) Try to avoid the cliché answers of "I want to serve and protect" or "I want to give back to the community." Cynical panel members are on the lookout for people who tell them what they think they want to hear.
I advise people, when you picture yourself as an officer, what is it that you are doing? If it is helping small children and being role model because the same thing occurred to you when you were a child interacting with a neighbor who was an officer, then say so. If it's because you've tried the indoor, office cubicle type of career path and you are looking for a more varied, outdoor type of excitement, then say so. If it's because you want to help bust drug dealers because your best friend from high school died after graduation from an overdose, then say so.
You have to help the panel understand that your desire stems from more than just the cars are pretty or you want to carry a gun and drive fast. Try not to focus solely on why the agency is good for you, but rather show the synergy between what you can bring to the agency and how that in turn will help you.
3) Why do you want to work for my agency? Here's where something more than the vague "it's the best department" is appropriate. You need to be more specific. First hand knowledge of the agency that you have gained from doing ride-alongs or talking to the officers is crucial to helping you to come up with an answer that is truthful and works.
For example, maybe, after riding with a variety of agencies in your area, you were particularly impressed at how officers on a particular shift handled people at calls for police service with dignity and respect which reflects how you want to practice the art of policing. Or perhaps you found that the agency is heavy into DUI and traffic enforcement, which has meaning for you since a relative died from a drunk driver crash.
4) Tell me about a strength you have. This isn't something like "I can benchpress 500 pounds." What about your character is illustrated in a trait. Are you a hard worker? Are you full of integrity and honor? Do you have a personal story that illustrates that trait in concrete terms.


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Headline crude prices for the week beginning 22 April 2019 – Brent: US$75/b; WTI: US$65/b
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In March 2019, Venezuela's crude oil production (excluding condensate) averaged 840,000 barrels per day (b/d), down from 1.1 million b/d in February, according to estimates in the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) April 2019 Short-Term Energy Outlook(STEO, Figure 1). This average is the lowest level since January 2003, when a nationwide strike and civil unrest largely brought Venezuela's state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.'s (PdVSA), operations to a halt. Widespread power outages, mismanagement of the country's oil industry, and U.S. sanctions directed at Venezuela's energy sector and PdVSA have all contributed to the recent declines. Venezuela's production decreased by an average of 33,000 b/d each month in 2018, and the rate of decline accelerated to an average of over 135,000 b/d per month in the first quarter of 2019. The number of active oil rigs—an indicator of future oil production—also fell from nearly 70 rigs in the first quarter of 2016 to 24 rigs in the first quarter of 2019. The declines in Venezuelan production will have limited effects on the United States, as U.S. imports of Venezuelan crude oil have decreased over the last several years, with average 2018 imports the lowest since 1989. However, there may be upward pressure on the prices of other crude oils imported into the United States.
Venezuela's production is expected to continue decreasing in 2019 and declines may accelerate as sanctions-related deadlines approach. These deadlines include provisions that third-party entities that use the U.S. financial system must cease transactions with PdVSA by April 28 and that U.S. companies, including oil service companies, involved in the oil sector must cease operations in Venezuela by July 27. Venezuela's chronic shortage of workers across the industry and the departure of U.S. oilfield service companies will likely contribute to a further step-level decrease in production.
Additionally, U.S. sanctions, as outlined in the January 25, 2019, Executive Order 13857, immediately banned exporting petroleum products—including unfinished oils that are blended with Venezuela's heavy crude oil for processing—from the United States to Venezuela and required payments for PdVSA-owned petroleum and petroleum products to be placed into an escrow account inaccessible by the company. The imposition of these sanctions has already affected oil trade between the United States and Venezuela in both directions. Preliminary weekly estimates indicate a significant decline in U.S. crude oil imports from Venezuela in February and March, as without direct access to cash payments, PdVSA had little reason to export crude oil to the United States. India, China, and some European countries continued to take Venezuela's crude oil, according to data published by ClipperData Inc., while the destinations of some vessels carrying Venezuelan crude oil remain unknown (Figure 2). Venezuela is likely keeping some crude oil cargoes intended for exports in floating storage until it finds buyers for the cargoes.
A series of ongoing nationwide power outages in Venezuela that began on March 7 cut electricity to the country's oil-producing areas, likely damaging the reservoirs and associated infrastructure. In the Orinoco Oil Belt area, Venezuela produces extra-heavy crude oil that requires dilution with condensate or other light oils produced using complex processing units, or upgraders, to upgrade the crude oil before it is sent via pipeline to domestic refineries or export terminals. These upgraders were shut down in March during the power outages. If the crude or upgraded oil cannot flow as a result of a lack of power to the pumping infrastructure, the heavier molecules sink and form a tar-like layer in the pipelines that can hinder the flow from resuming even after the power outages are resolved. However, according to tanker tracking data, Venezuela's main export terminal at Puerto José was apparently able to load crude oil onto vessels between power outages, possibly indicating that the loaded crude oil was taken from onshore storage. For this reason, EIA estimates that Venezuela's production fell at a faster rate than its exports.
In 2019, Venezuela's crude oil production decline has resulted from a combination of disruptions and lost capacity. EIA differentiates among voluntary production reductions; unplanned production outages, or disruptions; and expected declines in production. For the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), voluntary cutbacks count toward spare capacity. EIA defines spare crude oil production capacity as potential oil production that could be brought online within 30 days and sustained for at least 90 days, consistent with sound business practices.
For all countries, involuntary disruptions do not count as spare capacity. Events that could cause a disruption include, but are not limited to, sanctions, armed conflict, labor actions, natural disasters, or unplanned maintenance. In contrast, EIA considers production capacity declines that result from irreparable damage to be lost capacity and not a disruption. EIA no longer counts the lost production because it is very unlikely that it could return within one year and add to global supplies.
Because the power outages in Venezuela resulted from a lack of maintenance of the electricity grid, associated crude oil production declines are considered lost production capacity resulting from mismanagement. As of the April 2019 STEO, EIA includes the portion of Venezuela's production decline that resulted from U.S. sanctions—approximately 100,000 b/d beginning in February—as a disruption (Figure 3). If sanctions persist, the country will likely be unable to restart the disrupted portion of production and the 100,000 b/d will become lost capacity. Although EIA does not forecast unplanned production outages, its forecast for OPEC production totals will reflect declines in Venezuelan production.
As Venezuelan crude oil has come off the global market and as other countries—including the United States—have produced more light, sweet crude oil, the price discount of heavy, sour crudes has narrowed. U.S. refineries are among the most complex in the world, making them well-suited for the physical properties of Venezuelan crude oil (with high sulfur content and heavier API gravity). Heavier, more sour crude oil is typically priced lower than other crude oils because of differences in crude oil quality. Mars—a medium, sour crude oil produced in the U.S. Federal Offshore Gulf of Mexico—traded at a five-year (2014–18) average discount to Light Louisiana Sweet (LLS) of $3.94 per barrel (b). The Mars-LLS discount has narrowed in 2019, averaging $0.62/b in March, and even reached parity on March 27 (Figure 4).
Venezuela's crude oil production is forecasted to continue to fall through at least the end of 2020, reflecting an expectation of further declines in crude oil production capacity. Although EIA does not publish forecasts for individual OPEC countries, it does publish total OPEC crude oil and other liquids production. Further disruptions to Venezuela's production beyond what is currently included would change this forecast.
U.S. average regular gasoline and diesel fuel prices increase
The U.S. average regular gasoline retail price increased more than 1 cent from a week ago to $2.84 per gallon on April 22, more than 4 cents higher than the same time last year. The Rocky Mountain price increased nearly 12 cents to $2.76 per gallon, the West Coast price rose 5 cents to $3.63 per gallon, and the East Coast price increased nearly 2 cents to $2.73 per gallon. The Midwest price decreased more than 1 cent to $2.72 per gallon, and the Gulf Coast price fell slightly, remaining virtually unchanged at $2.54 per gallon.
The U.S. average diesel fuel price increased nearly 3 cents to $3.15 per gallon on April 22, more than 1 cent higher than the same time last year. The Rocky Mountain price increased 6 cents to $3.14 per gallon, the West Coast price increased nearly 5 cents to $3.70 per gallon, the Midwest price increased more than 3 cents to $3.04 per gallon, and the East Coast and Gulf Coast prices increased 2 cents to $3.17 per gallon and $2.92 per gallon, respectively.
Propane/propylene inventories rise
U.S. propane/propylene stocks increased by 1.0 million barrels last week to 57.8 million barrels as of April 19, 2019, 10.6 million barrels (22.5%) greater than the five-year (2014-2018) average inventory levels for this same time of year. Midwest inventories increased by 0.6 million barrels, while East Coast and Gulf Coast inventories each increased by 0.3 million barrels. Rocky Mountain/West Coast inventories decreased by 0.2 million barrels. Propylene non-fuel-use inventories represented 10.4% of total propane/propylene inventories.
A tremor ran through the oil & gas industry last week. It wasn't a by-product of fracking activity, but it is certainly linked. Supermajor Chevron agreed to purchase US independent Anadarko Petroleum for US$33 billion, a 39% premium to Anadarko's last traded price. It's the largest industry deal since Shell's US$61 billion takeover of the BG Group in 2015. That deal catapulted Shell to become the world's largest LNG trader, expanding its reach in the fast-evolving industry. Chevron will be looking to do the same.
The purchase of Anadarko gets Chevron into two prolific areas: the Permian Basin in the US and LNG. Chevron is already one of the largest supermajors operating in the Permian, with 2.3 million acres in the area. In this respect, the purchase is strategic. Combined with Anadarko's assets, Chevron would now have a 120 sq.km corridor in the sweet spot of the shale basin – Delaware, which straddles the Texas-New Mexico border. It's a major salvo fired and a great boost to Chevron's ambitions, which named investment in the Permian as its major focus last year. But more than just extracting oil, the purchase plugs a hole in Chevron's portfolio. Through Anadarko, Chevron will gain major US midstream space, including a 55% stake in the Western Midstream Partners whose pipelines crosses all over Texas, linking the Permian to the processing and exporting base on the Gulf.
Internationally, the acquisition also boosts Chevron's presence in LNG, which had recently lagged behind other supermajors like Shell, ExxonMobil and Total. Anadarko's Mozambique LNG project is neck-in-neck to become the African nation's first LNG project with ExxonMobil. Drawing on Mozambique's prolific Rovuma basin, the LNG export project has a nameplate capacity of 12.88 mtpa, of which 8.5 mtpa has already been committed through sales and purchase agreements. With FID scheduled for this year and operations expected in the 2023/24 timeframe, it complements Chevron's current LNG portfolio – including the massive projects in Western Australia – nicely.
Together with recent investments in the upper echelon of energy companies, it seems the moniker supermajor may not be enough. Within the supermajor category, there was already a hierarchy, with ExxonMobil and Shell outpacing the rest. With this Anadarko apurchase, Chevron leaps into that tier, which analysts are calling ultramajors. That is, if there isn't a spanner in the works. Occidental Petroleum, which is also focused on the Permian, had previously made a US$70 per share bid for Anadarko. It is now considering a counter proposal. The battle for Anadarko will go on, but we expect that Chevron will prevail, seeing how Anadarko's operations fit so neatly into its own portfolio.
But more than just Chevron, could this be a preview of the future? The US shale revolution was kickstarted by plucky companies and ambitious independents, while the majors lost out. With this Chevron deal – along with ExxonMobil's expansion and BP's recent purchase of BHP assets – this could kick off another round of industry consolidation, centred around buying the way into the Permian and other shale basins. This might be a major purchase that shakes up the status quo, but if the signs are correct, there is more of this to come.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale women's ice hockey is well-represented at the 2011 USA Hockey Women's National Festival, as goalie Jackee Snikeris '11 and assistant coach Jessica Koizumi have both earned invitations to the camp. They are in Blaine, Minn., Aug. 10-20 in hopes of earning a spot on Team USA's roster for upcoming international competitions.
The USA Hockey Women's National Festival includes 79 players. Among the attendees are 19 of the 21 members of the U.S. Women's National Team that captured the gold medal at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship. In addition, 14 of the players were on the 2010 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team. The Festival participants will be divided into four teams for daily practices and games at the Schwan Super Rink, part of the National Sports Center. That includes one team consisting of the 28 players who are vying for spots on the Under-18 team; the remaining 51 are divided into three other teams: Red, White and Blue. Koizumi is on the White team and Snikeris is on the Red team. USA Hockey intends to announce the roster for the 2011 U.S. Women's Team on Aug. 19.
The first competition that Team USA will take part in is the IIHF Eight Nations Tournament, which takes place Aug. 24-31 in Vierumaki, Finland. Other upcoming competitions include the 2011 Women's Four Nations Cup (Nov. 9-14 in Nykoping, Sweden) and the 2012 IIHF World Women's Championship (April 7-14 in Burlington, Vt.). USA Hockey will also host its Women's Winter Training Camp Dec. 26-31 at a location to be determined.
A five-time USA Hockey player development camp pick prior to coming to Yale, Snikeris concluded a stint at USA Hockey's Warren Strelow Goaltending Camp this past May, where she was part of a group of 12 of the best goaltenders in the country. She has been invited to the camp in all four years of its existence.
Snikeris ended her Yale career in memorable fashion this past season, earning a nomination for the Kazmaier Award as the top player in college hockey. She was also first team All-New England, ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Year, first team All-ECAC Hockey and first team All-Ivy League. A standout in the classroom as well, she earned ECAC Hockey's Student-Athlete of the Year Award and was Academic All-Ivy League. She won the Sarah Devens Award, a joint ECAC Hockey-Hockey East honor for the student-athlete who "demonstrates leadership and commitment both on and off the ice."
Snikeris' .941 save percentage last year placed her seventh in the country. That figure set the school record in that category, and gives her four of the top eight single-seasons save percentage marks in Yale history. Her 1.98 goals-against average season ranks third, trailing only her own 1.67 mark from 2008-09 and the 1.978 mark posted by June Mendoza '80 in 1978-79. Snikeris has four of the top seven single-season goals-against averages in Yale history.
Snikeris had three shutouts this season, extending her school career record in that category to 16 -- four more than any other player. She also finished her career with a save percentage of .931, breaking the school record in that category (.915, Sarah Love '06) by 16 points. She had a career goals-against average of 2.12, breaking the school record in that category (2.61, Shivon Zilis '08) by nearly half a goal. Her 2,092 career saves place her fifth on Yale's all-time list.
Prior to coming to Yale Snikeris graduated cum laude from the Taft School, where she was a two-time captain of the ice hockey team and won the school's Patsy K. Odden Award for leadership and sportsmanship. She also played for the Connecticut Polar Bears, earning Easton Skills Overall Best Goaltender and winning the Breakaway competition at 2007 US Nationals.
Koizumi, who earned a gold medal as a member of the U.S. Women's National Team at the 2008 IIHF World Women's Championship, joined the Yale staff as an assistant coach last season. She played for the University of Minnesota-Duluth while Yale head coach Joakim Flygh was an assistant there, and captained UMD to the NCAA Frozen Four championship game in 2007.
In addition to her gold medal at the 2008 IIHF Women's World Championship in China, Koizumi also was part of the U.S. team's second-place finish at the 2007 Four Nations Cup. She was on the U.S. Women's Select Team in 2008-09 while getting her master's degree in education from Minnesota-Duluth. She also played for the U.S. Under-22 Select Team in the series with Canada in 2004 and 2006.
Koizumi has participated in six other USA Hockey National Festivals (2004-2009) and four USA Hockey Player Development Camps (2000-2003). She has also participated in several USA Hockey Holiday Festivals and June Conditioning Camps, and has played for Team USA at three Women's World InLine Hockey Championships (2005-07). That included a gold medal in Detroit in 2006 and a silver medal in France in 2005.
Koizumi, a forward, finished her career ranked No. 7 on the UMD career scoring list with 155 points (84-71-155) and was a team captain for two years. As a senior in 2006-07 she led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Women's Frozen Four championship game after coming back from a torn MCL midway through the season. She scored two goals, including the game-winner, in a double-overtime victory over Boston College in the national semifinal game and was named to the Frozen Four All-Tournament Team. She was also a third team All-WCHA selection that year, and was named to the WCHA All-Rookie Team as a freshman.
Before coming to Yale Koizumi spent a season as an assistant coach for the White Team at the North American Hockey Academy. She also played part-time for Montreal Stars in the Central Women's Hockey League, helping the team to the CWHL regular season title. She had 11 goals and 11 assists in just 17 games. In 2010-11 she played part-time for the Boston in the CWHL, totaling 20 points (10-10-20) and a +14 in 19 games.
Koizumi, who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a 2003 graduate of Marina High School (Calif.). She played for the Cal Selects Hockey Club from 1999-2003, and was named the 2002-03 Cal Selects Player of the Year.
Besides Koizumi and Snikeris, Yale has many connections to the USA Hockey program. Defenseman Helen Resor '09 was the first Yale women's ice hockey player to make the Olympics when she played for Team USA and earned a bronze medal in Torino in 2006. She also has two gold medals (2005, 2009) and one silver (2007) with the U.S. at the IIHF World Championships. Forward Crysti Howser '09 was a member of USA Hockey's Under-22 Select team in 2007 and 2008, playing in the annual three-game series against Team Canada. She scored a goal for the U.S. in 2008. Forward Bray Ketchum '11 was on the Under-22 Team last summer. Ketchum, along with three other Bulldogs (rising junior goalie Erin Callahan (Kenilworth, Ill.), rising senior forward Aleca Hughes (Westwood, Mass.) and rising junior defenseman/forward Natalie Wedell (Arden Hills, Minn.)), participated in USA Hockey's Open Olympic Team Tryouts two years ago.
Additionally, forward Maria Dennis '88 was on the 1990 U.S. Women's National Team that earned silver at the first IIHF Women's World Championship, and goaltender Laurie Belliveau '98 was on the U.S. Women's National Team that earned silver at the 1999 IIHF Women's World Championship.
Yale's USA Hockey connections include positions behind the bench as well. Former Yale head coach Hilary Witt was on the U.S. National Team in 2000-01. Also, former Yale men's hockey assistant coach Ben Smith coached the U.S. women's team at the Olympics three times, winning a gold medal in 1998, and has served as a National Team advisor. Former Yale equipment manager Ed Maturo was equipment manager with the U.S. Women's Olympic Team in 2006 and the U.S. Men's Olympic Team in 1994.
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Fernandes happy with Harry
QPR owner Tony Fernandes wants Harry Redknapp to remain in charge at Loftus Road if the club are relegated.
Rangers' Barclays Premier League future is looking bleak ahead of Sunday's clash with Wigan as they sit seven points adrift of safety with only seven matches remaining.
Speculation will shroud Redknapp's position should they slip into the npower Championship, but Fernandes told London Call-In: "I want stability more than anything. I wanted it with Neil Warnock and Mark Hughes, so it's third time lucky with Harry. I think he is the man."
He went on: "We understand each other well and he knows how committed the shareholders are.
"He has a great coaching staff and philosophy - he's a fantastic man and I would love to keep him as long as he wants to stay."
Fernandes has confirmed there will be departures from Rangers regardless of what happens over the coming seven games.
"We will have to sit down with Harry and discuss who we want to keep and who would go," he said.
"Obviously there will be players that will go regardless of if we stay up or go down. We want players who can give a lot to the club for a long time.
"I do see players going, but we do have the nucleus of a good squad now which we have had to rebuild.
"Every single player who has left QPR has not stayed in the Premier League and I think that shows how much rebuilding we had to do."


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In the space of 40 minutes of basketball, with a continuously running clock, the alumni game ended up 91-80 – 171 points. It was offense, offense, offense…just like the NBA. With lawyer Jon Pactor '71 as a referee, I guess the defense simply rested. For photos, click here and here.
The following alumni returned to play – including a couple of former football players who looked right at home on the court.
Players Raymond Sanford '86 Brett Butler '90 Mike Crnkovich '93 Mike Warren '93 Boomer Grange '94 David Wallace '96 Theo Johnson '98 Jim McCall '99 Antoine Carpenter '00 Kip Chase '03 Nate Bell '05 Kyle Medeiros '06 Aaron Selby '06 Ryan Stephens '07
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Nursing Assistant Level One offered at Umpqua Community College (UCC) is a stand-alone program and does not require the applicant to enroll in additional coursework.
The Nursing Assistant Level One program is an Oregon State Board of Nursing (OSBN) approved course. The course is a 164+ hour training course, which combines classroom, skills lab instruction, and hands-on clinical experience, designed to prepare students for the nursing assistant role in health care agencies. The course includes instruction in basic bedside nursing skills, basic restorative skill, mental health and social service needs, personal care skills, and knowledge of clients' rights. Students will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to care for clients in long-term care and acute care facilities that are under direct care of a licensed nurse.
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Sprint's Kyocera Milano sports a compact design featuring ergonomic curves and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard which is great for heavy texters. The device will have a customizable user interface with Sprint ID.
The Kyocera Milano will feature Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), a 3.2-megapixel camera, 512MB of memory and will be GPS, WiFi hotspot and bluetooth capable.
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The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to over 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. Built for all experience levels, it will help you identify the birds around you, keep track of the birds you've seen, and get outside to find new birds near you.
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Stalking The Black Swan: Research and Decision Making In A World Of Extreme Volatility
Book Review: A good practitioner's guide to catastrophic improbability
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When the name "Black Swan" appears in a book title, one must wonder if the publisher is merely attempting to latch onto the coattails of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's very successful 2007 study of the cataclysmic impact of improbable events, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
However, Kenneth Posner, author of Stalking The Black Swan and a veteran Wall Street analyst, is a true adherent. His first footnote cites the famous Jorion-Taleb debate of 1997, in which Taleb attacked the popular "Value At Risk" methodology, not only as impractical, but also as dangerous.
"My refutation of VAR," wrote Taleb, "does not mean that I am against quantitative risk management—having spent most of my adult life as a quantitative trader, I learned the hard way the pitfalls of such methods. I am simply against the application of unseasoned quantitative methods." Philippe Jorion, professor of finance at the University of California, conceded many of Taleb's points in his reply. (You can read the debate at www.DerivativesStrategy.com.)
It is in that spirit that Posner continues the attack on the "Emperor's New Clothes," quantitative investment techniques.
Author's plan of attack
Posner organizes his thoughts about "Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility" (the book's subtitle) into three areas: uncertainty, information, and judgment. His thesis is simple: We will never be able to fully understand our world, so we should overlay judgment when using today's dazzling computerized trading and investment tools to penetrate the avalanche of data in financial markets.
Rules derived from complex models, Posner argues, cannot substitute for sound analysis. In fact, blind reliance on models can make us complacent and thus more vulnerable to devastating Black Swan surprises.
This is a straightforward thesis—and quite refreshing in a field too-often characterized by algorithmic how-to books for technically-oriented investment analysts.
Painful lessons from the Crisis
Posner balances recent research into the limitations of our ability to cope with information overload and rapid-fire market movements with practical examples of "phase shifts" in the beliefs among investor groups. Throughout the book, Posner uses himself and his research team as his primary subjects. Posner examines (and exposes) his own analytic mistakes in a series of case studies which follow one of Taleb's main trading rules: "Read every book by traders to study where they lost money. You will learn nothing relevant from their profits (the markets adjust). You will learn from their losses."
Posner has drawn cases from the research papers he wrote over 15 years as a securities analyst at Morgan Stanley. As head of "specialty finance," Posner led a research team which covered housing finance, including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Countrywide; student lending at Sallie Mae; as well as consumer finance at MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. When describing market volatility, Posner speaks with the savvy of one who carried coffee from the subway to his desk as the biggest names in the financial sector imploded almost every week from the summer of 2007 through late 2008.
Overwhelming force of feedback loops and catalysts
Posner points out that quantitative trading strategies were widely copied after 2000, to the point that in August 2007, when many believe the financial crisis really began, a feedback loop had arisen to magnify the broader market effect of losses in the subprime lending sector.
Citing research by academics at MIT, Posner explains that the investment banks and hedge funds in the subprime sector tried to survive by withdrawing positions from other sectors of the market, creating losses for those investors who remained. Like a fishing boat in a rogue wave, once-profitable strategies were suddenly overwhelmed by a contagion of selling in all trading sectors.
Posner believes that collective action of that nature creates non-linear forces that make successful forecasting nearly impossible. Traders who normally follow strategies that tend to offset each other unknowingly act in unison as their views of the crisis converge. Leverage, he points out, intensifies the feedback effect and adds stress to investors and traders alike.
Posner applies his views to individual securities as well as for market sectors. He recommends that fundamental investors, meaning those who analyze the factors affecting a company's earnings, continually search for catalysts that will trigger a sudden convergence of opinion among other investors. As an illustration, Posner cites as catalyst the loss of confidence by foreign central banks in Fannie Mae's debt that drove the mortgage insurer's stock price, in under three months, to zero from $20. The result was a "black swan" pricing event after a wave of selling by shocked investors.
Modeler's Achilles heel: correlation vs. causality
Posner also recounts the travails of Providian, which fell 96% during four months of 2001.
He and his team had weighted the three variables most influential, they believed, in affecting the earnings of the credit card issuer: the economy, the credit cycle, and the Providian business model. But, in retrospect, Posner came to realize that the economy and the credit cycle were too closely correlated in Providian's business model, so the systemic effect of the post-dotcom downturn on the stock was much greater than expected. He also realized that the true causative variable was Providian's inability to respond to competitive pressures once its own aggressive marketing programs were curtailed by regulators. His team correctly predicted the slowdown in Providian's results, but not its ultimate collapse. For that insight, he says he should have focused on the essential causality in competitive factors.
Posner devotes fully one-third of his book to an outline of techniques intended to help us recognize the limits of today's analytic tools and avoid the overconfidence that results from excessive reliance on complex models. In one instance, he praises the value of Monte Carlo simulations, but then cautions that these recursive estimations "can be extremely dangerous with the wrong correlation assumptions."
This is a valuable insight, especially when introduced within the context of 2007's MasterCard public offering, where his team used a Monte Carlo simulation to combine six seemingly uncorrelated variables to estimate future earnings and resulting stock prices. While their forecasts were relatively accurate, it turned out that management incentives were the true causative variable. In another example, Posner shows how political risk was the real uncorrelated driver of Fannie Mae's stock price when foreign central banks refused to roll over the mortgage insurer's debt.
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Forecasting the subprime collapse was nearly impossible, writes Posner, given the inadequacy of the data and models available to analysts in 2006. He now thinks "the properly specified model for subprime mortgage losses should have included variables for global liquidity, competitive pressure on lenders, and the risk of discontinuous shocks to home prices—and the circular logic between home prices and credit losses. Yet readily available data did not exist for these factors. Nor is there straightforward math to link them."
At that time, Posner asserts, analysts would have had to run better models more frequently and with ever-newer data to get even close to a forecast for subprime losses. Yet, even having the right models would not have been a complete solution to the risk management problem. Conditions were changing in a way that induces resistance to re-thinking by observers. Posner cites a condition called "cognitive dissonance" by experts, which arises when humans persist in a first, but largely inaccurate mindset even when conditions are undermining their original assumptions.
Using interviews to get past scripts
Posner enriches his parables with analytic tricks of the trade. For example, he explains how a good analyst can interview a CEO in such a way as to get behind the formulaic response of the investor relations department.
"The art of interviewing," he writes, "is to maneuver the manager into a spot where she cannot credibly deliver a scripted answer and where even a non-answer would have diagnostic power for critical issues."
Posner recommends that analysts: 1. control the agenda; 2. ask specific questions; 3. aim questions at the "how" and "why"; 4. recognize non-answers; and 5. be wary of revealing their own views.
As always, Posner gives compelling examples to support his views. These rules are just as helpful for CEOs in recognizing the pattern of questions before falling into the analyst's gotcha question.
Posner's examples are intended to foster caution in the use of models—a good lesson as both financial regulators and their regulated entities are moving inevitably toward even more complexity in their formulation and application. Ultimately, Posner concludes that judgment and expert advice must be used to refine the computer's analytic output, especially in the kind of volatile markets that have appeared so frequently of late. As an extra benefit, his narrative examples will refine the lessons learned by those who were at the center of the crisis' storms, while revealing to less-familiar readers the sincere though often-futile diligence of those who tried to steer through the hazards of the financial tsunami of the last few years.
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The Kenmare Kestrels are an Irish Quidditch team from the town of Kenmare, County Kerry, in the South of Ireland, that plays in the British and Irish Quidditch League. Founded in 1291, they have leprechauns as mascots, and their fans also sometimes play the harp at matches. Their robes are emerald-green with two yellow 'K's back to back on the chest.[1]
The Kestrals were founded.
Early in the year the Kestrals defeated the Montrose Magpies. The Daily Prophet blamed Magpies Chaser Alasdair Maddock for the Magpies loss, because of his use of Muggle football techniques in the match.
In June they played Wimbourne Wasps in Bodmin Moor.
In October they played Wigtown Wanderers.[2]
Behind the scenes
- The real world town of Kenmare has taken the name Kenmare Kestrals for its local basketball team.[citation needed]
- Seamus Finnigan is a fan of the Kenmare Kestrels.[citation needed]
- Daily Prophet Newsletters
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Straddling the border of six states of the Southern Appalachians (Northern Georgia, northeastern Alabama, western South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and southwestern Virginia), this biosphere reserve encompasses mainly second growth temperate forests and contains a diversity of habitats ranging from remnant prairie grasslands and swamp forests to high elevation spruce-fir forests and grassy meadows. The biosphere reserve consists of six units (e.g. Great Smoky Mountains National Park) which independently manage their resources.
Regional population growth in the region exceeds the national average but is unevenly distributed. Good health care facilities and recreational opportunities are attracting retirees. Younger, well-educated people are finding jobs in cities. However, many of the long-term residents are finding fewer job opportunities as the traditional resource extraction and textile industries decline. These factors contribute to poorly planned land development and degradation of natural resources. Growing tourism pressure, urbanization, air and water pollution, changing patterns of land use, fragmentation of wildlife habitats, and invasion of alien species are main challenges which faces the region today.
The main mission of the Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) is to promote environmental health and stewardship of natural and cultural resources in the Southern Appalachians. It encourages community-based solutions to critical regional issues through cooperation among partners, information gathering and sharing, integrated assessments, and demonstration projects. The SAMAB is a private, non-profit organization, established to complement the activities of the Cooperative of Federal and State Agencies. It comprises university, community, corporate and non-governmental organization collaborations. One example of these cooperation activities is the Southern Appalachian Assessment (1996) which reports on the status and trends through time of atmospheric, aquatic, terrestrial, and socio-economic and cultural resources of the region.
SAMAB is currently planning an assessment of the environments surrounding the 3,467 km Appalachian Trail that extends from Maine to Georgia. This project engages managers, researchers, educators, entrepreneurs and communities in order to illuminate the needs, capabilities and constraints that each of them face.
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|Forests; pasture land; cropland; developed areas; water bodies and wetlands
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Air quality
Exotic species
Human resources
Global environment
Forest health
Fresh water initiatives
Threatened/endangered species
Long-term ecosystem processes
Landscape studies
Environmental biotechnology
Environmental assessment and education
Geographic information systems (GIS)
Sustainable development issues
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|Air quality, geology.
|Alien/Invasive/Exotic/Introduced species, biodiversity, biotechnology, ecosystem assessment, ecosystem functioning/ecosystem structure, forest systems, freshwater/inland water, rare/endangered/threatened species.
|Integrated monitoring
|Education and public awareness, geographic information system/gis, integrated studies/interdisciplinaty, landscape inventorying/monitoring, sustainable development/sustainable use.
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Robert S. Turner
Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
314 UT Conference Center
37996-4138 Knoxville, Tennessee
United States of America
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Nine billion people are expected to live on earth by 2050. What's everyone going to eat?
Venture capitalists are investing in startups that are engineering new foods for a hungry planet–alternatives to chicken, beef, eggs and salt that deliver environmental or health benefits. The food industry, they say, desperately needs reinvention.
"The way we generate protein today is just not sustainable," says Samir Kaul of Khosla Ventures, which has invested in a half-dozen food startups. "We're running out of fertile land. There are water issues. Health issues."
"Our population is growing, and agriculture just hasn't kept pace," says Amol Deshpande, a chemical engineer who worked in the seed business before joining Kleiner Perkins.
One company that's getting lots of attention: Beyond Meat, a startup that has developed a vegan alternative to chicken. Kleiner invested. So has Bill Gates, and the founders of Twitter, Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
I've written a long story about Beyond Meat that was posted today at fortune.com. It was originally destined for the print edition of the magazine, but Wired has just run an excellent story about Beyond Meat, so my editors chose to post my story on the web. Here's how it begins:
FORTUNE — Most people consume protein in what vegetarians call "the secondhand form," that is, after it has been digested and converted into meat by chickens, cows, and pigs. This is inefficient, as Winston Churchill noted In "Fifty Years Hence," an essay published in 1931. Churchill wrote: "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Synthetic food will … from the outset be practically indistinguishable from natural products, and any changes will be so gradual as to escape observation."You can read the rest here. The story goes on to explain that one advantage that Beyond Meat should enjoy over "real" chicken is that its product will use less feed than chicken. As I write:
Then again, predictions are hard — especially about the future. Food scientists and entrepreneurs have tried to reinvent meat for decades, with little to show for it. Last summer, Dr. Mark Post, a Dutch scientist and medical doctor, unveiled a five-ounce hamburger that was grown in a laboratory from cow muscle, at a cost of $325,000. (Google (GOOG) founder Sergey Brin picked up the tab.) Closer to home, mock meats from companies like Kellogg (K) and Kraft (KRFT) can be found in supermarket freezers, branded as "Chik'n Nuggets," an "All-American Flame Grilled Meatless Burger," and "Classic Meatless Meatballs." Soy-based, mushy, and more expensive than the real thing, they remain niche products.
And yet, the need for alternatives to meat has never been greater. Global demand for meat has tripled in the last 40 years, driven by population growth and a doubling of per-capita meat consumption, according to the Worldwatch Insitute. That has intensified pressures on land, water, feed, fertilizer, and fuel. Meat is a climate change problem, too: Animal agriculture is said to be responsible for about 18% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, more than the transportation sector.
This presents a big opportunity for someone who can devise a tasty and affordable plant-based substitute for meat. That is exactly what Ethan Brown, the founder and chief executive of a California-based startup called Beyond Meat, aims to do, and he has persuaded some smart people to put their money behind him. Beyond Meat makes vegan "chicken-free" strips that it says are better for people's health (low-fat, no cholesterol), better for the environment (requiring less land and water), and better for animals (obviously) than real chicken; most important, if all goes according to plan, they will cost less to produce than chicken. Fortune has learned that Bill Gates is an investor; he sampled the product and said he couldn't tell the difference between Beyond Meat and real chicken. "The meat market is ripe for invention," Gates wrote in a blog post about the future of food. Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, made Beyond Meat its first investment in a food startup. "KP is looking for big ideas, and this qualifies as a big idea," says Amol Deshpande, a former Cargill executive and a partner at the venture firm. "The single biggest inefficiency in agriculture is how we get our protein." Other investors include Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the founders of Twitter; Morgan Creek Capital Management; and the Humane Society of the United States, an animal-welfare group.
It takes four-tenths of a pound of feed, mostly soy and pea protein, to make a pound of Beyond Meat. (A chicken breast is more than 60% water.) By comparison, even after decades of selective breeding and production efficiencies, broilers require nearly three pounds of feed, mostly corn and soy, to yield a pound of ready-to-cook chicken. Feed accounts for about 35% of the costs of chicken, so when corn prices spiked last year, the prices for whole chickens rose by 21%. As the costs of feed increase over time — and they likely will, as the costs of energy and fertilizer rise — Beyond Meat's competitive advantage should emerge. "A chicken is just a bioreactor raised for the purpose of delivering protein to humans," says Kleiner's Amol Deshpande. "If you can do that more efficiently another way, that's good for everyone."I've tried Beyond Meat, and it's good, especially when chopped into a "chicken" salad or used with a sauce. In his Wired story, Food Network celeb Alton Brown writes that Beyond Meat's "Chicken-Free Strips could replace chicken in at least 30 percent of the existing chicken recipes floating around out there," to no ill effect. Brown is also pursuing a b-to-b strategy for his product.
I don't know if Beyond Meat will grow into a big company. But I'm pretty sure that the way we produce and consume meat today is unsustainable. One way or another, we need to figure how to produce meat more sustainably or, better, eat a lot less of it.


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John T. Carbaugh Big Cove Tannery, 83
John Thomas Carbaugh, 83, Big Cove Tannery, died Thursday, April 29, 2010, at Chambersburg Hospital.
He was born July 19, 1926, in Mercersburg, the son of the late John and Ethel (Seville) Carbaugh. He was married to Ruth M. Fix Carbaugh on May 5, 1946.
He was employed by H.B. Mellott in Warfordsburg, as a foreman for 30 plus years before his retirement. He enjoyed spending time in the outdoors, especially hunting.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Ruth Mayetta Carbaugh, Big Cove Tannery; two children: Linda Mellott, McConnellsburg; and John A. Carbaugh, Spring Grove, Pa.; four grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, John E. and Ethel Carbaugh; two brothers; and a sister.
Funeral services were private. Memorial donations may be made to John R. Marsh Cancer Center, 11110 Medical Campus Road, Suite 129, Hagerstown, MD 21742.
Kelso-Cornelius Funeral Home, McConnellsburg, was in charge of arrangements.


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Belmont, N.C. – The Coker Lady Cobras basketball team dropped their sixth straight game on Tuesday night with a 59-48 loss to the Belmont Abbey Crusaders in Conference Carolinas women's basketball action. The loss drops the Lady Cobras to 0-6 overall and 0-2 in the conference, while the Abbey improves to 3-1 overall and 1-1 in the conference.
Neither team shot the ball exceptionally well, with the Crusaders shooting 33.3 percent from the field and Coker shooting only 30 percent from the floor. The difference in the game came at the charity stripe, where Coker sent the Crusaders to the line 33 times, converting on 25 of those times.
Lotta Aaltonen (Rauma, Finland) led the Lady Cobras in scoring for the second straight game, dropping 22 points and grabbing six rebounds. Jasmine Alston (Sumter, S.C.) and Kiesha Beavers (Williamstown, N.J.) had seven and six points respectively, with four rebounds apiece.
For the Abbey, Asha Hardaway had 14 points and eight rebounds to pace the Crusaders, while Ashley Giddens had 12 points and six rebounds. Kelsey Daniel just missed a double-double scoring nine points, while pulling down 11 rebounds, with Shayla Jackson also scored nine points with seven rebounds.
Coker returns to action on Wednesday night when they take on non-conference foe Morris College at 5:00 p.m. in Sumter, S.C., while Belmont Abbey will face Shaw University on Saturday, Dec. 5.


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