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My thoughts on Chloe Angyal's Miley Cyrus post for Tiger Beatdown, or why I fight
Five days ago, Chloe Angyal wrote a piece for Tiger Beatdown entitled "Miley Cyrus < Betty Friedan: On the Search for a Feminist Pop Star." Springboarding off The Frisky's Jessica Wakeman's assessment that Miley Cyrus's new single and accompanying music video for "Can't Me Tamed" is empowering for girls, Angyal chided some critics' need to claim female celebrities who project even the slightest sense of self-empowerment as feminist. She also called into question whether or not feminism and pop culture can ever really go together. As a fan of the site (it's on my blogroll), I of course read it and RTed (follow me @ms_vz).
I'm right with Angyal on most of this. I had just read Rachel Fudge's essay "Girl, Unreconstructed: Why Girl Power is Bad for Feminism" that a Girls Rock Camp Austin volunteer forwarded, so I was certainly in the right headspace. The line "It's tempting, but ultimately misguided, to try to make feminist mountains out of girl power molehills" particularly spoke to me. Also, I was also frustrated by Wakeman's piece, as it assumed that pop music and MTV were the portals through which all girls take their cues, thus absenting girls who don't have access, reject these offerings, or perhaps find some middle ground. Also, I thought the clip was a blatant attempt to reinvent a girl pop star into an "adult" artist who equates edge with wearing lingerie and smudged eyeliner.
However, I took issue with some of Angyal's argument. Kristen at Act Your Age left a great comment outlining the lack of actual girls' perspectives in feminist criticism. She also pointed out that pop music is still often assumed as the bad object against which punk and riot grrrl fought and superceded, a bias we confront in our work with GRCA by trying to dialog musical genres with one another in our music history workshops. But I thought I'd add a few additional concerns. Originally, I was going to post them as a comment to the article. However, it's been nearly a week since the article was published — a lifetime in the blogosphere. Plus, I figured I could work through some of these issues here and reassert this blog as a communal space for feminist exchanges about music culture.
1. Angyal's major critique seems to be less about who gets labeled a feminist role model and more toward who does the labeling. To me, she was lobbing her complaint at writers who want to argue the progressive powers of pop music with minimal consideration for enlightened sexism, capitalism, division of labor, corporate enterprising, branding, media saturation, and taste engineering cultivation. I say "here here." But then I also do this sort of analysis myself. What's more, I'd like to think I do it on both sides of the mainstream/underground divide, where the lines continue to blur. I know I don't have the clout or name recognition of more prominent feminist bloggers, and perhaps I'll cultivate it with time. But I'm here, and so is this blog.
I think Angyal might also be frustrated with how quick writers are to jump on Tweeting trends and topics that guarantee high SEOs. I may be projecting, as this is something that bothers me and I rebel against. Often, I find myself recalling and revisiting bygone or obscure texts to argue their historical merit or dialog them with the present. If I do write about current popular texts, I don't have much interest in covering them quickly at the expense of evaluation time. I'm not sold on the idea that trends = cultural relevance any more than I am that Sleater-Kinney is inherently better than Nicki Minaj. While I have upon occasion covered a person or topic that was popular and got me some hits, I only did it when I felt I had critical insights to lend. Thus, it can be frustrating when I get traffic because a bunch of people were Googling Megan Fox, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Taylor Momsen, or Miley Cyrus, as has happened to Kristen. On the one hand, hits are great. But those figures are bloated and misleading and may misrepresent my work, because this blog has only sporadic concern with what's of the moment. But when it does, I hope I treat it with a consistent critical rigor. After all, there truly is no perfect text.
2. Since there is contention between mainstream and indie culture, I'd like to point out that the matter of identifying as a feminist is just as much a concern in the underground and on the fringes of music culture as it is under the mainstream's spotlight. As a feminist music geek who tends to root for the underdog, I'm often faced with the reality that many of the artists I love — indeed, many of the artists who pointed me toward feminism — don't identify as feminists. Björk and PJ Harvey don't, nor does Patti Smith. Rappers like Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and many others don't either, though for reasons that perhaps speak more to racial exclusion, as feminism tends to be a white women's domain. There are many artists I like whose feminist politics I don't have a grasp on, including forward-thinking women like Kate Bush, M.I.A., Joanna Newsom, and Janelle Monáe.
There are also artists who do identify as feminist who give me pause. Courtney Love has used feminism to validate her outspoken persona and rail against industry sexism. She has also used it to justify getting plastic surgery, an argument that I take issue with because it obscures class privilege, ingrained beauty standards, and weakens the political potential of choice. Lily Allen has employed the term at times, though her actions and behavior at times suggest that she extols the supposedly feminist virtues of being a brat. Lady Gaga is only starting to claim any identification with feminism. Even confirmed feminists like Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Le Tigre, Gossip, and Yoko Ono — who I admire a great deal for their musical contributions and political convictions — should be subject to scrutiny and considered as individual feminists rather than as a monolithic representation of who a "good" feminist is.
Also, rather than considering pop music as an endpoint or part of a binary, it should be dialoged with other genres and mediums. Recently, Anna at Girls Rock Camp Houston dropped me a line asking about my thoughts on new criticism against Lady Gaga from Mark Dery and Joanna Newsom. As their criticisms questioned her supposed edginess, called out her obvious indebtedness to Madonna, and argued over a lack of musical songcraft, it immediately recalled recent sound bites from Michel Gondry, M.I.A., and Grace Jones deflating the pop star's artistic inclinations.
I'm of two minds about these detractors' comments. On the one hand, I still agree. In the year since I first posted about Gaga, I've essentially gathered greater nuance for the pop star while still arriving to the same conclusions. Save for a few hits ("Beautiful, Dirty, Rich," "Bad Romance," "Monster"), I still think her music is fairly boring and could have much more political bite than it actually does. I thought her American Idol performance of "Alejandro" was overblown. It's also a fair point to bring up how Gaga lifts from other cultural texts, just as Madonna has throughout her career. And like Amanda Marcotte, I think there are lots of other interesting female musicians doing work we should be following. I mean, is it really a crime not to find Gaga interesting? Does Gaga have to be the female savior of pop music? Can we not look elsewhere? Also, in the cases of Newsom, M.I.A., and Jones, do we have to assume that their criticisms are just examples of female cattiness?
Yet something about these comments smacks of the idealized notion of art vs. commerce, with Gaga imitating one while supposedly embodying the latter. So, I call bullshit, because it's not like these musicians and this video director don't also dabble with both. Also, how would they speak of, say, Karen O, another female musician who makes femininity Marilyn Manson grotesque. Would they simply sniff that she did it before Gaga? Would they give her the point because she's mocked art stars while also being one?
In short, feminism is tricky from all sides. It's not one thing and it's never perfect.
3. Finally, I follow commenter Tasha Fierce and take issue with Angyal's supposition that Betty Friedan is an exemplar of feminism. She penned The Feminine Mystique and founded NOW. She also helped position feminism as a middle-class, college-education, white ladies' game. She also referred to lesbian separatists as "the lavender menace," though later recanted. Thus, just as I don't want Miley Cyrus to be the ambassador for girl power, I don't believe we should have one (straight, white, middle-class, adult, cisgender, able-bodied) female represent feminism. Let's encourage discourse, even at the expense of comfort. Consider me a willing participant.


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Commission approves four small-power projects
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is approving four small-power project agreements with Idaho Power Co., including the utility's first agreement with a developer of electricity from an anaerobic digester at a dairy near Caldwell.
Also approved are two more Cassia County wind projects and a small-hydro project. All the agreements are 20-year agreements.
CKTV1 Energy, L.L.C. will sell up to 3.2 megawatts from its anaerobic digestion facility south of Lake Lowell in Canyon County. The facility converts animal manure into electrical energy. One megawatt is one million watts, enough energy to power 650 average homes.
CKTV1, whose president is Sot Chimanos of Eagle, anticipates an operation date of March 31, 2007.
Cassia Wind Farm, LLC
IPC-E-06-10, Order No. 30086
Cassia Gulch Wind Park, LLC
IPC-E-06-11, Order No. 30087
The wind agreements approved are with two projects in the Bell Rapids area near Hagerman.
The first is with Cassia Wind Farm LLC, a 10.5-megawatt facility that will include five, 2.1-megawatt turbines. The second is with Cassia Gulch Wind Park LLC, which is an 18.9-MW facility consisting of nine, 2.1-MW turbines.
Both projects are anticipated to begin operation by Dec. 31. The project manager for both is Jared Grover of Hagerman.
Developers of small-power projects are entitled to a rate – now about $61 per megawatt-hour – that is determined and then published by the commission as required by the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, or PURPA. The federal act requires electric utilities to offer to buy power from qualifying small producers of renewable energy projects. The published rate to be paid developers is called an "avoided-cost rate" – equal to the cost the utility avoids if it would have had to generate the power itself or purchase it from another source.
The Cassia projects bring to 18 the total of PURPA wind projects approved by the commission in just the last 18 months. Combined, the projects will have the capacity to generate up to 246.8 megawatts once installed. In the last 18 months, the state of Idaho has witnessed a 66 percent increase in PURPA project capacity due almost entirely to the development of wind projects. Wind projects now represent 45 percent of the state's total 552.2 MW of PURPA capacity.
In addition to PURPA projects, Idaho utilities have also entered into negotiated wind agreements with independent developers of projects too large to qualify for the PURPA rate. These projects are selected primarily through a bid process. For example, 62.5 MW of wind have been added from the Wolverine Project, which sells to PacifiCorp in eastern Idaho. Idaho Power plans to solicit bids of an additional 200 MW of wind by the end of 2007. PacifiCorp is seeking an additional 300 MW in its six-state territory and Avista Utilities, which serves northern Idaho, is seeking another 100 MW by the end of 2007.
Riverside Hydro LLC
IPC-E-06-13, Order No. 30088
The commission also approved an application by Idaho Power Co. to enter into a sales agreement with Riverside Hydro LLC for up to 1.9 megawatts. The facility also qualifies for the published rate under provisions of PURPA.
Riverside's Mora Drop Small Hydroelectric Facility is southwest of Kuna. The project was scheduled to begin operating July 1.

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This week's video touches on what is truly most important to me: family. If you have children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews then you understand the joy, happiness and new perspectives that they bring to your lives each day. Which begs the question…what steps are you taking to give back and what role are you playing to ensure that they develop into the happiest, healthiest and most responsible people they can be? Take your time, think about it….no pressure!
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text: Ashley Armstrong '13 presents at American Astronomical Society News Home 01.14.13 By: Buff Lindau Atop a summer of funded research in astrophysics at Harvard, a study abroad semester in Ireland, induction into Phi Beta Kappa as a junior (usually only seniors are inducted), Ashley Armstrong '13, a physics and philosophy double major, added another accomplishment. Ms. Armstrong presented her astronomy research at the American Astronomical Society meeting, held Jan. 6-10, 2013 in Long Beach, California. Her research was based on data from the enormous Keck Observatory, and was part of a section titled "Intergalactic Medium, QSO Absorption Line Systems." The lead author, Ms. Armstrong and her group presented their work at the conference on a poster titled "The Keck Observatory Database of Ionized Absorbers Toward QSOs (KODIAQ): II. A large Sample of CIV Selected Absorbers in the IGM and the ISM and CGM of Galaxies at z>1.6". Ms. Armstrong's adviser, Physics professor John O'Meara, was one of the authors on the study, although she was the first author. Professor O'Meara is a widely published researcher in the field of astrophysics. Ms. Armstrong was also a researcher on another project using Keck data, titled "The Keck Observatory Database of Ionized Absorbers Toward QSOs (KODIAQ): I. Hunting for OVI Absorbers in Strong HI Absorbers at z>2." Background Ashley Armstrong was awarded a grant to participate in the summer 2012 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Solar REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program. "I'm looking forward to gaining a better perspective on the different kinds of research going on throughout the astronomical community, as well as seeing what graduate level research might be like," she said in June. "This experience is sure to shape my future plans in a very important way. I think that it's going to be a summer of adventure in Cambridge, as I explore our Sun through the project titled: Thermal Energy Content of Solar Flares." Her participation in the national astronomy meeting this month confirms her view of the impact of her summer at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard - all part of her ever-expanding science education. Also attuned to the beauty of nature on earth, Ms. Armstrong said of a sight she saw on her study-abroad visit to Kylemore Abbey in Ireland: "[This scene] shows no sign of the nearby castle nor of the tourists flowing in and out of that structure. Instead here [I see] the serenity and simplicity that is the lake, the hills, and the tangled tree. I wonder how many of the tourists ever see this tree. It's a pity that in one's effort to see the world and its wonders, the field of vision is often restricted by a call for efficiency." The daughter of Mary Jo and Steven Armstrong of Rome, NY, Ms. Armstrong graduated from Rome Free Academy before coming to Saint Michael's.


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enter What makes a Christmas tree extra special? Ornaments! Yearly we've purchased 1-2 meaningful ornaments for the girls and ourselves. This year in their stocking they will get the following ornaments. Cayley will get a guitar as she takes lessons and enjoys it. Courtney turned 21 in January, so she is of legal age to drink hence the martini glass. Caryn is a photographer and I couldn't pass up this cute camera that Cayley found. Jon will personalize and date each ornament with a Sharpie marker.
follow site When Christmas decorations come out of the attic and it's time to decorate the tree we each have our own personalized box of ornaments to place on the tree. Ornaments reflect our hobbies such as running, biking, photography, art, piano, etc. There are ornaments that remind us of important milestones from our marriage, the birth of our daughters, new house, career change, our 25th anniversary, daughters turning 21, giving up a pacifier, high school and college graduations, etc. Then there are the ornaments that show the places we have traveled to all over the globe. I also have ornaments that reflect what we have studied in school. There is a mummy for Egyptian history, Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, and # 1 Teacher for me 🙂 There are plenty of heart and nativity ornaments to remind us the reason for the season and His immense love for us. We also have some pretty humorous ornaments we've received at ornament exchange parties like a cow, pink flamingo, and a flying pig. Lastly, we have the various homemade ornaments that the girls have made over the years.
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MonoTouch and Mono for Android developer Xamarin has created a new client SDK designed to provide compatibility to Windows Azure Mobile Services.
The portion of Microsoft's cloud designed to provide a scalable backend for mobile applications, Xamarin has identified this part of Azure for adding login capabilities and remote data storage to an application.
Essentially, this means that developers do not have to think about building their own backend.
A permissive open source license will now govern the technology's residence on the GitHub repository. In addition to login and storage functions, Xamarin also identifies "cloud streamlining" options including functions for scalability, user authentication, and push notifications.
Xamarin says that it has partnered with Microsoft to bring Mobile Services to iOS and Android developers, "enabling them to easily use Microsoft's cloud service from a common C# code base."
The framework, which is a port of Microsoft's own Mobile Services client library, will make it easy for developers to use Microsoft's hosted backend in their Xamarin-powered Android and iOS applications.
According to a Xamarin blog post, "Azure Mobile Services offers elastic scalability, allowing you to get the capacity that you need as the popularity of your application grows. The client framework takes advantage of your favorite C# features to simplify data storage and retrieval. For example, you can access your remote data with LINQ queries instead of crafting your own REST API calls. Instead of dealing with a schema and parsing database output, you use attributes to associate remote data fields with class properties."


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As you may recall, back in June, nearly every seasonal hurricane forecaster under the sun predicted a busy season. NOAA even predicted a possibly "hyper-active" season.
Since we're now approaching the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, and such hyperactivity has yet to materialize, a number of readers have asked whether such seasonal forecasts might be considered a bust. My answer: Not yet.
Herein I explain why.
So far there have been five named storms in the Atlantic basin this season, which is in fact ahead of what we normally would expect. During a typical Atlantic season the fifth named storm doesn't form until Aug. 31. This would suggest prognostications of a busy season have come to pass.
But this statistic alone is highly misleading. Most of these storms, from Andrea to Erin, have been short-lived wimps. None have become hurricanes. A more accurate measurement of a season's storm activity is accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), a statistic that combines both the intensity and duration of a storm.
According to Ryan Maue, the ACE value for this season in the Atlantic is 7.8, when the normal value for the season through Monday is 17. So overall activity this year is about 45 percent of that during a normal season. By this much more accurate measure, then, the Atlantic hurricane season is off to an extremely slow start.
Unfortunately for coastal dwellers, the overall intensity usually isn't defined in August. Rather September, and to a lesser extent, October, are the defining months.
With that being said, if the 2013 hurricane season is going to be a busy one, it had better start producing some serious storms.
Will it?
It just might.
Looking ahead to the end of August and first couple of weeks of September, there are several factors that favor the development of storms.
There is, of course, the fact that it's that time of year when waters are at their warmest. But beyond this, one of the biggest factors in the slow season so far has been prodigious amounts of Saharan dust choking the life out of tropical waves trying to develop. It looks like the dust is going away.
One reason is a pulse from the Madden Julian Oscillation, or MJO, which is essentially a large-scale pulse of rising or falling air that propagates across the Indian, Pacific and eventually tropical Atlantic Ocean. When the MJO is in a phase of "rising" air this generally favors low pressure and thunderstorms, both of which are beneficial to tropical storm development.
Below are a couple of images from NOAA's seasonal forecast model, CFSv2, that shows four different runs of a model that is forecasting sea-surface air pressure anomalies. In essence, blue means lower pressure, and conditions favorable for tropical storms.
Here's the view of each of the four runs — the place to look is between Central America and Africa.
And here's a zoom on one of the four model runs to showcase the area of storm-formation that I'm referring to.
The bottom line is that as we head into the busiest time of the year for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes, conditions out there appear to be aligning for busy times indeed.
Does this guarantee the development of large hurricanes? Absolutely not. And if they do not form then I have no problem at all with beginning to talk about how seasonal forecasts this year were a bust.


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Connerty, Field, Vonachen, Arsenault, and Lange recognized for Panthers
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Five Plymouth State University student-athletes were recognized by the Little East Conference (LEC) Monday with top weekly honors for their performances in spring sports action last week.
PSU junior Shannon Connerty (Nashua, N.H./Tyngsboro, Mass.), freshman Caroline Vonachen (Framingham, Mass.) and senior Lorin Field (Hollis, N.H./Hollis-Brookline) were named LEC Women's Lacrosse Offensive Player, Defensive Player and Rookie of the Week, respectively, while freshmen Curtis Arsenault (Berlin, N.H./Berlin/Phillips Exeter) and Masha Lange (Danville, N.H./Timberlane) were selected LEC Baseball and Softball Rookie of the Week, respectively. They were key players as the Panther women's lacrosse and softball teams head into the conference tournaments while the baseball team enters the final week of the regular season.
Connerty led PSU to a pair of LEC victories by scoring nine goals and adding three assists in the two games. She scored four goals and added two assists in Wednesday's win over Southern Maine, and she tallied a game-high five goals and added an assist in Saturday's victory over Rhode Island College.
Connerty ranks second on the team in scoring with 40 points on 26 goals and 14 assists, and she is tied for fourth in the LEC with 1.08 assists per game.
Vonachen anchored the defense in the two LEC victories, recording six draw controls, six caused turnovers, and eight ground balls as PSU allowed just 10 goals in the two games. She tallied four draw controls, a caused turnover and two ground balls in Wednesday's win over Southern Maine, and she collected two draw controls, five caused turnovers and six ground balls in Saturday's victory over RIC.
Vonachen is enjoying an outstanding rookie campaign at both ends of the field. She leads the team with 18 caused turnovers and 45 ground balls and ranks third with 21 draw controls and 30 points on 28 goals and two assists.
Field posted a 2-0 record with a 4.93 goals against average and a .760 save percentage in just 73 minutes between the pipes. She made 15 saves while allowing five goals in 50 minutes in Wednesday's win over Southern Maine, and she stopped four out of five shots in 23 minutes of action in Saturday's victory over RIC. Field also made her first career appearance as an attacker against RIC and tallied three goals and an assist.
Field, who led the nation in 2013 with a .569 save percentage, has climbed to fifth in the NCAA Division III this season with a .566 percentage. She also ranks second in the LEC with an 8.57 goals against average.
Arsenault posted a 1-0 record with one save and a 0.84 earned run average in two LEC appearances; he pitched 10.2 innings and surrendered only one run on four hits and three walks, striking out nine. Arsenault started and earned the win Tuesday against rival Keene State College, going seven innings and allowing just one run on four hits and a walk while fanning six, and he finished Saturday's game against UMB, pitching three-and-two-thirds innings of hitless baseball, walking two and striking out three, to preserve the win and earn a save.
Arsenault is enjoying an outstanding rookie season, posting a 3-1 record with two saves and a 2.68 earned run average. He is ranked eighth in the LEC in ERA and opposing batting average (.236). Arsenault was also an LEC Men's Basketball Rookie of the Week this past winter.
Lange batted .565 (13-for-23) in six games with11 runs scored after collecting three doubles, a triple, a home run, four RBI, and two stolen bases in a 5-1 week for PSU (4-0 LEC). She had at least two hits in five of the six games, going 3-for-7 with a home run, three RBI and three runs scored in a sweep of Keene State and 4-for-9 with a double and three runs scored in a sweep of RIC.
Lange is also experiencing a superb rookie campaign, batting .422 in 32 games with 15 extra-base hits (nine doubles, two triples, four home runs), 30 RBI, 33 runs scored and 17 stolen bases. She leads the LEC in hits (49) and stolen bases, ranks third in batting average and total bases (74), fourth in home runs, fifth in slugging (.638), sixth in triples and RBI, seventh in doubles, and eighth in on-base percentage (.447). Lange was also a starter on the PSU field hockey team last fall.
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"After this harsh winter I am trying to liven up my landscaping in the front of my home. What flowers or plants would look really attractive from the street but would be really easy to upkeep? Are there flowers or shrubs that would especially thrive in this area?"
In a most pleasant turn of events, hubby came home Sunday night. When he left on July 5, we didn't expect to see him again until the end of September, but now we have two wonderful weeks to spend together.
I told our teenaged daughter, "Daddy has a lot of summery things he wants to do over the next 14 days, so whatever he suggests, we are gonna be excited about it."
She agreed that we would make his time at home as carefree and fun as possible, then she asked, "What exactly causes a midlife crisis?"
A vacuum salesman was making his first call in rural Tennessee. He had his vacuum cleaner and excitedly knocked on the first door. A kind-looking lady answered the door and he said, "I've got the most exciting vacuum cleaner you have ever seen. It will clean your house from top to bottom. You only have to pay so much down."
The lady acted interested so he said, "You see that big pile of dirt right there on the floor with all those fur balls and bugs and things. This vacuum cleaner will pick it all up or I'll eat it."
Pastor Bob Russell writes in his book Jesus, Lord of Your Personality, that having a lot doesn't tend to produce a grateful spirit.
It is unfortunate that people had an accident and were hurt and killed, but I disagree with my fellow Oldham County residents' opinions in the article that say the intersection of 53 and Old Sligo Road 'has become too dangerous.' That's ridiculous. It's no more or less dangerous than it ever was.
Acting in my role of "Mom the Chauffeur," I hauled my teen daughter to Grand Rapids, Iowa last week for her Rotary Youth Conference. That gave me three days to fill with my six and seven-year-olds, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that Grand Rapids offers a number of family-friendly activities. Our time there was only slightly marred by an old man so cantankerous he made Archie Bunker look like Happy Goodman.
On a summer afternoon I was listening to a radio broadcast of a Cincinnati Reds vs. St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. I heard the announcer say, "It's a brand new ball game." That meant the score was tied. It's like starting all over again.
We are now in the second month of the Interim Period – the time period between June and December during which Interim Joint Committees (IJC) meet and discuss various topics within their respective scopes. I am chairman of the IJC on Transportation and also a member of five others.
A pastor thought God gave him an idea and he presented it at the church board meeting. After giving his most impassioned plea and really "selling" the idea, the board voted down the pastor's proposed changes 12-1. The head elder looked at the pastor and said, "Well pastor, its 12 votes to 1. It looks like you've been outvoted and it is time to go home. Will you please close in prayer?"
Twenty years ago this month, our son Trent was murdered as he sat celebrating his 21st birthday on his front porch in Lexington. The aftermath of such tragedy was, as you can imagine, devastating to our family, but it was also devastating to our local community.
Because Trent was a University of Kentucky football player and that the crime went unsolved for so long; this case played out over the following 20 years with many twists and turns, even making the local and national news as recently as last month.
For the past quarter of a century, I have been with the same bank. It is a fine, loyal institution that has seen me through good times and bad. They were there for me with a low interest car loan when no one else would even look at the credit of a waitress struggling to make ends meet for her three kids.
More than once, they removed overdraft charges when I inadvertently made a mistake in my checkbook.
I spent 12 years in the seminary: six years at St. Thomas Seminary, a minor seminary here in Louisville and six years at St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore. I ended up with a degree in philosophy and a master's in theology. Most importantly the seminary experience taught many life lessons that far exceeded the degrees. Here are 10 of these life-changing insights that have guided my path.
Hanging over my office desk is a picture of General George Washington in humble prayer in a pine grove, with his horse, at Valley Forge. It is an inspiring picture of an inspiring man of prayer. Skeptics want to claim that all representations of our first president as a devout man of faith are false.
Here are some of the things George Washington said about God. They are taken from the book, George Washington, The Writings of Washington, edited by John C. Fitzpatrick.
A recent remark made by a co-worker following a World Cup soccer game got me thinking.
He said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "I'm not really a fan of soccer, but I become nationalistic when America competes on a national level."
Patriotism is defined as love for or devotion to one's country. With the Fourth of July holiday looming, I wonder if we feel devotion to and love for our country all the time or just every four years with a World Cup or every two years with an Olympics or just one day every July.
Summer is here and it is time to enjoy burgers on a grill.
A few weeks ago I wrote about Honor Flights. Since then, a group of Oldham County residents has begun work to identify World War Two veterans who live in Oldham County. The group wants to make sure that all Oldham County veterans that are eligible for Honor Flights are able to participate.
Honor Flights take veterans, free of charge, to Washington DC to visit the World War Two Memorial, the Korean War Memorial and the Iwo Jima Memorial (the Marine Memorial).
In a world of increasing isolation, many of us want to reconnect with the people and the aspirations that are important to us. "Field of Dreams" is a film I love about a man who does just that. Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer with a wife and young daughter, hears a mysterious voice telling him to build a baseball field in his cornfield. Even though this means putting his family in financial jeopardy Ray follows orders, believing, as the voice put it, "If you build it, he will come." Actually, many people come.
I often say, even boastfully at times, that I don't keep stuff. Years ago, I read a fantastic book called, Clutter's Last Stand. It inspired me to regularly de-clutter my home, throwing away, giving away and donating things that are no longer needed. I love the satisfaction of knowing that I hauled away 16 garbage bags totaling 560 gallons of stuff, which means I have acquired 560 gallons worth of space in my home. But as much as I would like to think I'm on top of it, I was recently faced with the truth of my clutter.
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Two weeks ago and with little fanfare, the Ellis County Commission easily was able to accomplish what was impossible a mere seven years ago. The commissioners signed agreements that pave the way for a wind farm to be built between Hays and Ellis.
Spread out over 28,500 acres north of Interstate 70, plans are in place for Buckeye Wind Energy to erect approximately 105 turbines capable of producing a collective 200 megawatts of renewable energy.
"This has been in the works for seven years," Commissioner Swede Holmgren said. "Finally, to come in on the 25th of November and say you're now clear to sink a spade in the ground and start construction. Hopefully, we have won over some of those folks who weren't in favor of wind early on."
Not to dash the commissioner's hopes, but of all the things that have changed since then, winning over the anti-wind crowd was not one. All those principled positions effectively were quieted by moving the project's location.
More pertinent changes were new faces on the county commission, none of whom belong to the Ellis County Environmental Awareness Coalition. That group, which successfully organized a grassroots opposition movement, faded away after the Iberdrola wind farm proposal was stopped dead in its tracks.
Ellis County not only put in place all the appropriate zoning and regulations since then, it also hired a professional administrator to keep the county's business dealings organized, predictable and stable.
Fort Hays State University also brought two turbines online that have performed as advertised and without incident.
But we believe the single biggest factor contributing to Buckeye Wind's successful application was the placement of the farm. Getting the turbines north of the interstate was critical.
We have no doubt the wind farm will deliver the desired green energy to the national grid. As a state, Kansas still has the third highest amount of potential wind power in the country. And all of the data collected suggest Ellis County could be one of the top producers in the state.
County coffers will benefit as a result of the Buckeye project. In addition to signing road maintenance and decommissioning agreements, the two parties reached a deal regarding payments in lieu of taxes. The county will receive $600,000 each of the first two years, increasing to $800,000 for year three and go up 1 percent annually from that point.
"I think all three of these agreements represent a good balance between protecting the interests of the county as well as not overburdening the project," said Dennis Davidson, legal counsel for the county regarding wind issues.
Buckeye Wind Energy is scheduled to begin construction on the project before the end of the year in order to take advantage of federal tax credits.
This particular wind farm project attracted no arguments or debates about water flow underground or surface water runoff being disrupted, potential harm to wildlife, health risks of low frequency noise, possible eye or brain damage from the incessant blinking lights, danger of ice chunks being hurled from the blades, interference with communications, aesthetics of the viewshed, declining property values, the blizzards of shrapnel that could occur if a tornado hit a turbine, and all of the other objections raised in 2007.
We can explain their absence in one of three ways:
* All of the concerns since have been proven unfounded;
* Having a county administrator handling the process professionally and openly squashes any uninformed rumors from taking hold; or
* Those protesting back then truly were NIMBYs who couldn't care less if all those bad things happen outside of their neighborhood.
It doesn't matter at this point. What does is that Ellis County is about to take part in harnessing the power of the wind. Congratulations to everybody involved in bringing this project to fruition.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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Roasted Garlic and Cheese Creme Brulee Recipe
If you go through the previous crème brûlée recipes I've shared so far, this savory version will probably raise some eyebrows. It's not that I've run out of ideas for sweet crèmes brûlées; there are plenty more to come. I've just been toying with the idea of making a savory one because I think the creamy custard and crunchy top create a perfect canvas for savory ingredients.
I chose roasted garlic, goat cheese and herbs because they are intensely flavorful and make an excellent camouflage for the egg flavor. For the top, I mixed parmesan cheese and a bit of sugar and then took my blow torch to the mixture.
Savory crèmes brûlées can be quite an original appetizer to serve at your Christmas party. They are uncommon enough to help mark just about any special occasion though.
Yields: 6 servings1-3/4 cups heavy cream
3/4 cup milk
8 ounces goat cheese
4 egg yolks
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/8 teaspoon red chili pepper
½ teaspoon sea salt
3 tablespoons puréed roasted garlic (click on the link for the recipe)
½ teaspoon dried thyme
¼ teaspoon dried marjoram, crushed
3 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, ground into fine powder
Preheat the oven to 325°F.
In a mini-blender, mix the puréed roasted garlic with milk (don't use cream, otherwise it will turn into butter).
In a saucepan, combine the cream and garlic-flavored milk. Bring to a near boil. Turn off the heat and immediately add the goat cheese, thyme and rosemary. Using a spatula, keep stirring until the goat cheese is fully incorporated (see tips). Strain the dairy liquid through a fine mesh sieve into a bowl to remove the large solids (cheese and herbs).
In a mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks with 2 teaspoons of sugar until they become pale yellow. Add the chili powder, 1 tablespoon of Parmesan and sea salt.
Combine the dairy liquid with the egg mixture by slowly adding a ladle of the dairy liquid at a time to prevent the yolks from curdling.
Strain one more time through a fine mesh and discard all the solids (if any).
Fill 6 ramekins (see tips) with the crème brûlée custard. Place them in a warm water bath in a deep baking pan. The water should go half-way up the side of the ramekins (at least a 1-½-inch-high level of water). Loosely cover the dish with a sheet of aluminum foil and place in the oven for 35 minutes. Open the oven, remove the aluminum foil and continue cooking for another 5 minutes. The texture of the crèmes brûlées should be a little jiggly but not liquid (the custard will get firmer and creamier as it cools).
Allow the crèmes brûlées to cool a little.
In a small bowl, combine the remaining Parmesan and 1 teaspoon of sugar.
When serving, sprinkle the Parmesan sugar in each cup, then caramelize with a culinary torch.
Serve immediately, at room temperature.
Bon appétit!
If you don't own a blow torch, you can place the crèmes brulées under the broiler until the sugar caramelizes. But if you decide to make this dessert quite often as we do, a culinary torch is a good investment.
I used containers I save from St Marcellin cheese. They have a rustic look that I like for this dish. I buy this cheese at a local store called the Milk Pail Market. The address is 2585 California Street, Mountain View, CA 94040. I select ripe St Marcellin cheese and pair it with fig jam; it's a delicious snack.
Little reminder on how to obtain freshly grated Parmesan powder: Cut up a chunk of Parmesan and chop the morsels in a mini-food processor until it's a fine powder. Gather about 3 tablespoons. Set aside.
Set aside the egg whites in the refrigerator and save them for making tuiles cookies, meringues or French macarons.
You can check out more crème brulee recipes.Published By: on December 11, 2010.


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Glasgow Warriors wing Tommy Seymour scored two tries to help his side return from a potentially tricky match away to Benetton Treviso with a 24-13 win.
Seymour scored twice after half-time as his team wrested control of the match back from the Italians. Ruaridh Jackson added three penalties, while Scott Wight converted the first try and landed a penalty of his own.
Treviso scored the opening try through Fijian-born Italy international Manoa Vosawai, which fly-half Kristopher Burton converted. He also scored a penalty, as did his half-back partner Tobias Botes.
Heavy rain made for a challenging playing surface to which Glasgow were the quickest to adapt, with a pair of early penalties from Jackson handing them a welcome lead.
From a lineout, though, Treviso's Vosawai powered across the line to narrow the gap, and Burton booted the extras to put the hosts ahead. Burton added a penalty to set back Glasgow's cause even further, but the second-half recovery salvaged the night for the Warriors.
Jackson slashed the lead to one point when he kicked a 44th-minute penalty, and Wight added another three points 13 minutes later.
A twist came when Glasgow's replacement second-row forward Tim Swinson was sin-binned, and when Italian pressure told, Botes found the target with another penalty. The Italians were ahead, but not for long.
Seymour seized on a loose ball to collect and cross, with Wight's extras putting Glasgow six points in front. Wight could not convert the next try, but it was his work that created the five-pointer, a cross-kick finding Seymour to steam over and put the match out of the Italians' reach.


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Using new technology and services from SK Telecom and TrustedFlash-enabled memory cards from SanDisk, mobile subscribers can easily enjoy the paid content they want, virtually anytime and anywhere
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, SPAIN, Feb. 11, 2008 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the proven leader in flash memory storage cards and inventor of MegaSIM™ and microSD™ cards, and SK Telecom Co., Ltd. (NYSE : SKM), the largest mobile operator in Korea, today announced that the companies have completed the development of a new solution for mobile television and mobile personal video recorder (PVR) capability.
Using technology and services from SK Telecom and TrustedFlash™-enabled memory cards from SanDisk, mobile subscribers will soon be able to easily view and record their favorite paid mobile TV content, anytime, anywhere on the network.
"By combining our proven, industry-standard OMA1 DRM2 version 2.0-compliant DRM solution and services, TrustedFlash security technology and mobile storage solutions from SanDisk, we can set new standards for secure content recording and distribution," said Dr. Se-Hyun Oh, president of C&I Biz Company, SK Telecom. "Together, SanDisk and SK Telecom can create new usage and business models that allow mobile TV users to have more freedom to enjoy the purchased content and allow mobile TV operators to adopt a variety of pricing and business models."
This new card solution enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to offer premium mobile TV services that can be securely recorded on SanDisk TrustedFlash-enabled memory cards, while at the same time protecting against unauthorized transfer or distribution. Subscribers can bring this paid mobile TV content with them when upgrading handsets, or port it to other devices, such as a personal media player or personal computer.
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In addition to making available additional mobile applications, such as content distribution for games, movies and e-books and video and animation for their solution, the companies plan to cooperate on commercialization of the mobile TV and PVR solution worldwide.
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No. 101,852
1. Under the facts of this case, the emergency doctrine was not applicable to the actions taken by the police officer.
2. Evidence of a separate independent crime initiated against police officers after an illegal entry or arrest will not be suppressed under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Appeal from Rice District Court; HANNELORE KITTS, judge. Opinion filed September 25, 2009. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Scott E. McPherson, county attorney, and Steve Six, attorney general, for the appellant.
Charles A. O'Hara, of O'Hara & O'Hara, of Wichita, for the appellee.
Before McANANY, P.J., PIERRON and LEBEN, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: The State of Kansas appeals the district court's suppression ruling in its case against Eddie J. Peterman. We reverse and remand for trial.
On October 30, 2007, Rice County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Treaster was dispatched to perform a "civil standby" at Peterman's residence. Treaster understood a civil standby to mean "to keep the peace." Upon arriving at Peterman's house, Treaster met Debra Nelson, who was coming out of the residence. Nelson informed Treaster that Peterman was inside the residence, he was upset with her, and he wanted her to leave. According to Treaster's testimony, Nelson stated that "she would just like for me to come keep an eye, make sure she could get the rest of her items." Treaster's report provided that Nelson said she wanted "an officer to stand by while she received [sic] her last few items."
Nelson entered the residence, and Deputy Treaster followed her inside. Although Nelson did not explicitly ask Treaster to come inside the residence, Treaster believed Nelson wanted him to do so because "[t]hat's where the problem was." Upon Treaster's entry into the home, Peterman came around the corner carrying an assault-type rifle. Peterman pointed the rifle directly at Treaster and stated, "'Get the fuck out of my house.'" Treaster put his hands in the air and told Peterman to stop. Peterman walked closer to Treaster, lifting the rifle up at an angle and repeated, "'[G]et the fuck out of my house.'" Treaster then left the house, fearing he might be shot.
Peterman was subsequently charged with one count of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer, contrary to K.S.A. 21-3411. Officers removed a .308 caliber rifle and a magazine from Peterman's home. Following a preliminary hearing, Peterman was bound over for trial. Prior to trial, Peterman moved to suppress evidence of the assault, alleging that because Treaster lacked permission to enter the residence and none of the exceptions to the search warrant requirement applied, Treaster's entry into the residence was illegal. Following argument on the matter, the district court granted Peterman's motion. The judge stated, in relevant part:
"[Y]ou have someone, an officer, just called to stand by. Not to stand by inside the house, just to simply stand by. And from you telling me that the facts are undisputed that he was not invited by the person who owned the residence, the defendant, and not the person who called to come into the house, the officer had no right to walk into somebody's house, and I don't care if he thinks he has a duty to make sure that nothing happens to the party who called, as long as he is there to stand by and is not invited to come into the house, he cannot go into somebody's residence . . . . If there was an emergency occurring when he is standing by . . . he can stand right outside the door and wait for somebody to ask him to come in or to call or if there is a commotion inside . . . then the officer has a duty to go ahead and go in and prevent a crime [from being] committed. But in this particular case, as I see it, the crime developed when he walked into the house because he was not asked to come into the house. In fact, he was asked to leave the house and he did not do that . . . and that's when the circumstances . . . that developed into this. So I'm going to grant the motion."
The State contends on appeal that the district court erred in granting Peterman's motion to suppress. Specifically, the State claims that when Deputy Treaster entered Peterman's residence, he was performing a community caretaking function and was motivated by public safety concerns because he had reasonable grounds to believe that Nelson had an immediate need for assistance to protect her life or property.
The parties stipulated to the facts presented at the preliminary hearing. When the material facts to a trial court's decision on a motion to suppress evidence are not in dispute, the question of whether to suppress is a question of law over which an appellate court has unlimited review. State v. Porting, 281 Kan. 320, 324, 130 P.3d 1173 (2006). The State bears the burden of proof on a suppression motion. State v. Ibarra, 282 Kan. 530, 533, 147 P.3d 842 (2006).
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and § 15 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights generally prohibit the warrantless entry of a person's home. Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 576, 63 L. Ed. 2d 639, 100 S. Ct. 1371 (1980); State v. Mendez, 275 Kan. 412, 420-21, 66 P.3d 811 (2003). "At the very core [of the Fourth Amendment] stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable government intrusion. [Citations omitted]." Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 505, 511, 5 L. Ed. 2d 734, 81 S. Ct. 679 (1961). Absent exigency or consent, warrantless entries into a home are per se unreasonable. See Steagald v. United States, 451 U.S. 204, 211, 68 L. Ed. 2d 38, 101 S. Ct. 1642 (1981); State v. Thompson, 284 Kan. 763, 776, 166 P.3d 1015 (2007) (listing exceptions to the search warrant requirement).
In granting Peterman's motion to suppress, the district court found that because Treaster was not explicitly invited inside the residence by either Nelson or Peterman, and because there was no emergency, Treaster had no right to enter the residence.
The State relies on the emergency doctrine and public safety rationale to justify Deputy Treaster's entry into the home, arguing that it was reasonable for him to do so because he was concerned for Nelson's safety.
However, Deputy Treaster's entry into the home cannot be justified on these bases. Under the emergency doctrine, the police must have reasonable grounds to believe that there is an emergency at hand and an immediate need for assistance for the protection of life or property. There must also be some reasonable basis, approximating probable cause, to associate the emergency with the area or place to be searched. State v. Geraghty, 38 Kan. App. 2d 114, 123-24, 163 P.3d 350, rev. denied 285 Kan. 1175 (2007). Under the public safety rationale for car stops, there must be specific and articulable facts from which a law enforcement officer "'would suspect that a citizen is in need of help or is in peril.'" State v. Gonzales, 36 Kan. App. 2d 446, 456, 141 P.3d 501 (2006). The reasonableness of the officer's belief of the existence of an emergency and an immediate need for assistance is measured by an objective standard. State v. Horn, 278 Kan. 24, 32-33, 91 P.3d 517 (2004).
The facts of the present case are unlike those in other cases where courts have found either the emergency doctrine or the public safety rationale applies. See, e.g., State v. Drennan, 278 Kan. 704, 719-21, 101 P.3d 1218 (2004) (finding reasonable grounds to believe there was an emergency when the officers were aware there was a prior history of domestic violence between the defendant and his girlfriend; a 911 caller heard an argument, a woman's scream, and then silence; and the defendant was agitated and refused to tell officers responding to the 911 call whether his girlfriend was inside the apartment); Gonzales, 36 Kan. App. 2d at 453-54 (upholding a public safety stop where officer observed a bouncing rear tire and an open hatch over the fuel cap).
Here, there is no objectively reasonable basis to conclude that Deputy Treaster's entry into the residence was necessary in order to save lives or property. The circumstances known to Treaster at the time of entry were that Peterman was inside the house, was angry, and wanted Nelson to leave. Treaster did not testify that he thought Nelson was in danger, and there is no indication that Treaster knew Peterman had a weapon inside the house. Thus, the emergency doctrine and/or the public safety rationale cannot be used to justify Treaster's entry into the home. See Mendez, 275 Kan. at 428-29 (finding officers' warrantless entry into defendant's apartment did not fall under the emergency doctrine exception to the warrant requirement because there was no indication that anyone inside the apartment needed emergency assistance).
Other state and federal courts that have considered similar situations–where a defendant sought to suppress evidence relating to his or her violence or threatened violence toward police officers subsequent to an unlawful search or seizure or a warrantless entry–have generally held that evidence of a separate, independent crime initiated against police officers in their presence after an illegal entry or arrest will not be suppressed under the Fourth Amendment. E.g., see United States v. Waupekenay, 973 F.2d 1533, 1537-38 (10th Cir. 1992) ("'On occasion, when the police conduct an illegal arrest or an illegal search, this will prompt the person arrested or subjected to the search to react by committing some criminal offense. He might attack the officer, attempt to bribe him, or make some criminal misrepresentation in an effort to bring the incident to a close. . . . In cases where the response has been a physical attack upon the officer making the illegal arrest or search, courts have . . . held that the evidence of this new crime is admissible.'") (quoting 1 LaFave & Israel, Criminal Procedure § 9.4(f), pp. 759-60 [1984]).
In Waupekenay, police unlawfully entered the defendant's home in response to a domestic violence complaint. Upon their entry, the defendant aimed a semi-automatic rifle at the officers. The defendant was subsequently arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. The defendant moved to suppress evidence obtained as a result of the officers' entry, and the trial court granted the motion, holding that the entry was illegal. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the trial court, finding that although the officers had entered the home illegally, the defendant could not have had a reasonable expectation of privacy once he was aware that the officers were inside his home. 973 F.2d at 1536-38.
The Waupekenay court noted that courts have used different rationales when considering the admissibility of evidence involving separate and independent crimes initiated against police officers in their presence after an illegal entry:
"Some courts have found the intervening act of the defendant to be so separate and distinct from the illegal entry or arrest as to break the causal chain. [Citations omitted.]
"Other courts have stressed the limited objective of the exclusionary rule–i.e., deterring unlawful police conduct by excluding evidence obtained as a result of such conduct–and the strong public interest in preventing and punishing force or threats of force directed against police officers. [Citations omitted.]" 973 F.2d at 1538.
See State v. Bale, 267 N.W.2d 730, 733 (Minn. 1978) (holding that the assault committed by defendant was "an intervening act of defendant's free will which dissipated any taint" caused by unlawful police behavior); State v. Burger, 55 Or. App. 712, 716, 639 P.2d 706 (1982) ("We decline to hold that after an unlawful entry evidence of subsequent crimes committed against police officers must be suppressed. Such a rule would produce intolerable results. For example, a person who correctly believed that his home had been unlawfully entered into by police could respond with unlimited force and, under the exclusionary rule, could be effectively immunized from criminal responsibility for any action taken after that entry. . . . We do not believe either the state or federal constitution compels such a result.").
Peterman continued to brandish the rifle after he was aware that Deputy Treaster was in his home. Therefore, we could rely on any of the three rationales discussed above. We could find that Peterman's conduct was an intervening act of free will that was separate and distinct from Treaster's alleged illegal entry or that Peterman had no reasonable expectation of privacy in committing the assault against Treaster because he was aware that the deputy was inside his home. Additionally, we could rely on the limited objective of the exclusionary rule and the strong public interest in preventing and punishing force or threats of force directed against law enforcement. "[W]hatever rationale is used, the result is the same: Evidence of a separate, independent crime initiated against police officers in their presence after an illegal entry or arrest will not be suppressed under the Fourth Amendment." Waupekenay, 973 F.2d at 1538.
Regardless of whether Treaster had consent to enter the home, the trier of fact should be allowed to determine whether Peterman's actions were reasonable. See State v. Aydelotte, 35 Wash. App. 125, 133-34, 665 P.2d 443 (1983) ("[Defendant]'s response to the police intrusion, if reasonable, may provide a defense to the charges against him . . . This is for the trier of fact to determine, however, not for the trial court deciding a pretrial motion to suppress."). The district court's order granting Peterman's motion to suppress must be reversed.
We make no rulings considering other possible justifications for the officer's actions.
We reverse and remand with directions that the charge of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer be reinstated against Peterman.


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The following is a guest blog by Conor Curran:
I joined Canonical early January 2010 to fill the role of Sound Architect on the DX team. Ever since I have been implementing a redesign of the system sound menu. 'Indicator Sound' is part of a core group of system indicators which sit on the top panel of the Ubuntu desktop. Its main purpose is to allow users to control the system's sound settings (through pulseaudio). PulseAudio which is the sound server generally used on Linux systems ( similar to Apple's CoreAudio or MS's WASAPI ).
From Maverick onwards the inidicator was enhanced to allow for popular Media players to be controlled from the menu. This was made possible by the good work of the MPRIS people particularly Mirsal Ennaimem, Alex Merry, Ian Monroe and Lennart Poettering. I feel our immediate use-case really spurred the new version of this MPRIS into fruition. Currently Rhythmbox, Banshee, Amarok, VLC, Xnoise, Media Player Daemon all support complete integration with the menu.
The Natty release uses exclusively the MPRIS2 protocol including the playlist extension. This will enable applications like Spotify (with the MPRIS extension) to integrate seamlessly into the menu as no extra dependency will be needed.
More information on client registration can be found in the spec. The launchpad home for the project is https://launchpad.net/indicator-sound and the source can be fetched from the development trunk at lp:indicator-sound (or alternatively you can grab a tarball of the most recent release).
I hangout on #ayatana, #ubuntu-desktop on #freenode under the alias of 'ronoc'. Any questions please feel free to ping me any time or ask the developer mailing list.
On my roadmap amongst other indicator concerns will be a focus on the ubuntu user experience for the lightweight audio dabbler to the medium weight MP3 mixer. David Henningsson, Daniel Chen, Luke Yelavich and Rodrigo Moya have been doing great work around this area and as this is something very close to my heart I should really be more involved …


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Update – Louis Vuitton America's Cup CollectionCategories:Louis Vuitton
No, I didn't forget. As promised earlier, here's an update on the Louis Vuitton America's Cup collection post I did a couple of weeks ago. And while I only sneaked you a couple of pieces the last time, this time round I promise a fuller line-up, along with its prices in SGD. The full collection launches proper in Singapore on 1 April 2016, which also means you better wait list with your LV SA like stat if you really want anything.
Created specially to commemorate Louis Vuitton's longest standing partnership with the America's Cup that has spanned 33 years, this special capsule collection is said to be available in stores till the end of the year, but knowing how things sell these days, especially with this collection being really nice, my only piece of advise is this. If you see something you like, just buy it now instead of regretting on missing out on it later. Really.
So what can you expect for this collection? Besides the Regatta Whale Lock*, theWaterline Key Boat Holder and the PF Slender Damier Cobalt Regatta that you saw in the first post (click here to have another look) which are priced at SGD395, SGD415and SGD800 respectively, let's tackle (get it, get it, sailing, fishing, nevermind… ) the items in the montage above.
Counter clockwise from top left we've got the Pochette Jour GM Damier Cobalt Regatta(SGD1100), the Marine Anchor Cufflinks (SGD765 a pair), the PF Brazza Pochette Damier Cobalt Regatta (SGD1100), the Pochette iPhone Cordon Damier Cobalt Regatta**(SGD810), the Regatta Buoy Key Holder (SGD590), and last but not least, the Waterline Whale Key Holder (SGD410).
Then there are bags, and there are many many bags in this collection, from a Keepall 'painted' with the same V in the 3 colours (Blue/Red/White) to a pair of backpacks, a couple of messengers and even a duffle inspired by those sailors of yore used to carry. And then there are these, the Pegase Legere Damier Cobalt Regatta (SGD5500) and theMonogram Macassar Steamer Regatta, one of the few things I really love but sadly won't be available in Singapore.
Like I mentioned earlier, this collection is really extensive, and here are more SLGs for your kind consideration. From the Organiser De Poche Damier Cobalt Regatta(SGD570) to the Porte Carte Cordon Damier Cobalt Regatta (SGD490), there's even theZippy Organiser Damier Cobalt Regatta (SGD1540) for those who like their wallets big and erm, organised.
Rounding up the accessories we've got the Waterline Knife Key Holder (SGD1600), theRegatta Compass Bag Charm (SGD1200) and the Regatta Illustre Key Holder (SGD350), which pretty much sums up all the pretty, dangly things from this capsule collection. Besides these, you'll also find RTW from tees to windbreakers and shorts to shoes including sneaker and slides, the selection just goes on and on.
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I have to apologize for the lack of wine reviews this week. Between my various birthday celebrations, the beginning of softball season and other work-related stuff, I've just not had much time for drinking...or taking notes about said drinks.
I'd love to be able to tell you that I'll catch up on that this weekend...but that would only be a half truth. I'll be drinking alright...but few notes will be taken. I'll be drinking...probably in excess...but it will be fun.
I'm heading to Atlantic City Saturday morning with seven other guys...playing a round of golf, checking into the Borgata and then who the heck knows what will happen...all for my bachelor party.
I hear there are some great restaurants at the Borgata...and a good wine bar. Maybe I can sneak away from the non-wine drinkers in the group as they gamble away all their money (I'm not a big gambler unless you consider the possibility of a corked bottle a gamble)...


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WILSON, N.C. --- Senior Matt Harpenau dominated with a season-high 21 kills, but a shaky first set loomed large while the Lees-McRae men's volleyball game lost a heartbreaking five-set thriller, 15-25, 25-18, 21-25, 25-19, 15-17 at Barton in Conference Carolinas action Saturday afternoon at the Dog House in Wilson, N.C.
The Bulldogs (3-7, 2-5 CC) held LMC to a -.040 hitting percentage in the opening set while going for a .455 clip. The Bobcats (5-4, 1-2 CC) amassed 14.5 total blocks while holding BC under a hitting percentage of .200 in the final four sets.
Senior Sam Sheers (Centerville, Ohio) drilled one of his 11 kills to knot the first set at 8.
However, Barton responded with an 11-4 run to take a healthy 20-13 lead. The Bulldogs Jonathan Novoa-Miralles chimed in with a pair of kills while LMC struggled with four attack errors.
The Bobcats were unable to bounce back despite a kill from Harpenau (Cincinnati, Ohio) and fell 25-15 in the opener.
The Bobcats flipped the script in the second set by using an 11-4 run of their own to jump out to a 20-13 lead. Sheers got in a grove and provided three service aces while Mark Shayka (Hamilton, Va.) notched a couple of kills.
The Bulldogs would slice into the lead and make it a four-point match, 21-17, but LMC finished strong and took the set, 25-18 while holding BC to a .000 clip.
Barton led the third set wire-to-wire and used a 9-2 run to distance itself and grab an 18-11 advantage. Zach McCalla racked up four kills during the stretch.
LMC would claw back following a Bulldog attack error to make it 19-16. BC would stave off the Bobcats thanks to a pair of McCalla kills and a duo of LMC service errors.
In the fourth set, a Harpenau kill gave LMC a 9-7 lead before the Bobcats used a 6-2 run to create some breathing room.
BC cut the lead to one, 19-18, but a Kevin Morrison (Norfolk, Va.) kill proved vital while LMC finished the set on a 6-1 run while John Lucas (Cincinnati, Ohio) delivered the final blow.
The deciding set provided entertainment while producing six ties and neither team led by more than three.
Morrison added a pair of kills to tie the set at 12. Shayka and Lucas stuffed a Ladislav Lelkes attempt, but BC's Novoa-Miralles and McCalla lifted the home squad to with two kills and an ace to squeak out a 17-15 win.
McCalla paced the Bulldogs with 20 kills while Novoa-Miralles had 13. Federico Pagliara led the team with 40 assists and Michael McMahon racked up 17 digs.
Harpenau led the Bobcats in kills while Sheers impressed with 11. Ramirez paved the way with 41 assists while Efrain Negron (Caguas, Puerto Rico) chimed in with 11 digs. Lucas and Ramirez both recorded six block assists.
LMC returns to action when it hosts Milligan in an exhibition match Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Williams Gymnasium.


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Editor's Note: Jamie Oliver will appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Thursday, March 25, at 9 p.m. ET.
(CNN) -- Did Jamie Oliver really shape up America's unhealthiest city?
A spokeswoman for Huntington, West Virginia -- the city Oliver singled out as one of the unhealthiest places in America -- says local residents are exercising and eating better. But she's not giving much credit to the cheeky British chef and nutrition activist.
"What people need to realize is there was already a movement to make Huntington healthier," says Brandi Jacobs-Jones, whose West Virginia hometown plays a starring role in Oliver's new macro-makeover show "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," set to debut on ABC on Sunday.
Huntington first made its way into the national consciousness in 2008, when The Associated Press named it "America's fattest city," citing unmatched rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes, and rates of toothlessness among older residents.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a morbidity and mortality report released in February, said that 32.9 percent of the populace surveyed in an area that included Huntington and nearby Ashland, Kentucky, is obese.
Jacob-Jones disputes those findings, saying the survey covered a broad tri-state area surrounding her college town.
"People think we're all morbidly obese, walking around eating pizza," she grumbles. "We have 5Ks every weekend. When the production crew came here, I was like 'We have our teeth. We have master's degrees.' "
Not everyone is so tough on the celebrity chef.
Angela Harrison, a TV reviewer for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, says the show doesn't portray Huntington badly. Actually, she says, "Oliver is very complimentary of Huntington and its people throughout the entire hour -- even when they give him a hard time."
Harrison says "no one cuts him any slack" when Huntington residents learn about disparaging comments the Naked Chef made about them to British press.
"I personally think it's the best moment of the show," Harrison says.
Oliver and his crew descended on Huntington in the fall of 2009 with the admittedly ambitious goal of redefining its residents' relationship with food. His team spent five months consulting with cafeteria workers, coaching veggie-averse schoolchildren and opening up a community kitchen serving wholesome meals.
"The health statistics here are some of the most crippling and scary in the world," Oliver says in a show promo, calling Huntington "a dark place."
Oliver took on Huntington after successfully reforming the school meal system in the United Kingdom.
In the UK, Oliver spearheaded a healthy school lunch campaign that persuaded the government there to allocate more than $400 million for the lunches.
If the trailer can be trusted, he apparently assumed his résumé entitled him to a hero's welcome and was stunned to discover skeptics who didn't share his revulsion to processed chicken nuggets.
Oliver burst into tears after a hostile interview with a radio host who said, "we don't want to sit around and eat lettuce all day."
The trailer then cuts to a weeping Oliver: "They don't understand me," he says, "they don't know why I'm here."
To the contrary, Jacobs-Jones says, the city of Huntington already had anti-obesity programs in place when Oliver showed up. His presence only served to "further the mission" by making healthy habits a popular conversation topic.
"We are creating a committee to evaluate how we can implement some of Jamie's suggestions," she adds diplomatically.
Jacobs-Jones suspects the lasting result of Oliver's extended stay might not be trimmer waistlines, but fattened city coffers.
"I firmly believe anything that puts us on the national forefront is good," she says. "We're applying for a Google program right now, and maybe this will help. You never know."


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Do you have original floorboards or parquet flooring that can be sanded and varnished, stained or painted? In old houses, there are sometimes hidden gems like original stone or tiled floors that have been covered up for years. They may need a little TLC, but they make a great feature.
2. If you don't have flooring you can restore, the next best thing is buying reclaimed flooring. Putting period features back into an old property is a good way to add value and increase its appeal when you come to sell, but reclaimed flooring tends to be expensive. A more affordable option is new wooden flooring, either solid wood, or engineered wood (with a real wood top layer).
Bamboo is an eco choice, despite being mainly grown in Asia, because the plants take around three to five years to reach maturity, which is a lot less than a typical tree. When shopping for new wooden flooring, look for the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) logo. This shows that the wood has been sustainably sourced - all B&Q wood is FSC certified.
3. One of the most environmentally friendly types of flooring (and the cosiest) is wool carpet. Making a wool carpet uses only about 10% of the energy used to produce a nylon one and wool is, of course, sustainable because sheep re-grow their fleeces after being shorn.
While there are plenty of great British wool carpets (70% of British wool goes into carpet), New Zealand wool carpets also have eco credentials. New Zealand may be on the other side of the world, but every kilogram of wool produced there is said to equate to less CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas than driving an average-sized petrol car for a mile.
Most of the impact of getting wool to market is from land and water use, and Wools of New Zealand (a premium brand of carpets and rugs manufactured to quality standards) works with its producers to minimise that impact. What's more, a single fleece from a New Zealand sheep will make about 4sqm of carpet, which is double the amount from wool than from many other places.
4. For an eco carpet underlay, try Crumbwool. A collaboration between Wools of New Zealand and Anglo Recycling, this underlay is made from 100% recycled carpet fibres and 100% recycled rubber. Crumbwool uses carpet offcuts, which would normally go to landfill, from British carpet manufacturers, and recycled rubber tyres for the backing.
5. Wool (and cotton) can be combined with other natural fibres in flooring, but you can also get natural flooring that's purely sisal, coir, seagrass or jute, etc.
This is similar to carpet but tends to have a more pronounced texture. Natural flooring is sustainable and renewable because it's made from plants that grow relatively quickly, but to temper that, they are usually grown in Asia and other far-flung places.


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It's only November, but it sure feels like February around here. The weather is cold, the days are short, and Buffalo Bills football is in short supply. Mostly, though, there's Groundhog Day – a day named for a large rodent where time stands still and the same things happen again, and again, and again.
I sit here this evening wondering what to write about – the anemic Bills offense, the maddening defense, the poor quarterback play, the realization that the Bills won't go to the playoffs this year, either. I've about written all of those things – several times. Read my past articles, change some names and it could be a recap of Sunday's game or even the Bills entire season. I feel like I've been here multiple times before – some sort of Sisyphusian déjŕ vu.
Yes, Groundhog Day is upon us, especially if you're watching the Bills. Sitting in front of the TV on Sunday I got the strange feeling that I was watching the same thing over and over and over again: an offense that can't score, a defense that can't get off the field, stupid penalties, an average opposing quarterback looking like an all-pro, the bitter end to a failed quarterback experiment, a team that is going nowhere. Just like the movie, it's enough to make you want to take a toaster with you into the bath.
The Bills have the 31st ranked offense in the NFL, averaging a measly 15.2 points per game on an average of 267 yards – only San Francisco is worse (even the hapless Dolphins rank 9 spots better). Other statistical lowlights: 30th in passing (166 yards per game), 29th in scoring, 27th in touchdowns scored, 31st in number of plays run. These numbers are virtually unchanged from similar rankings in 2006, 2005 and even 2004 – that's four years. Start up the truck and let the rodent drive.
Defensively the Bills show signs, but can't seem to get the job done, even against mediocre offenses. The Bills' "Two Down Defense" can make some plays and put opponents in 3rd and long situations, but they always seem to let up that third down conversion and fail to get off the field. The Bills are dead last in the league in allowing opponents to convert 49 percent of their third downs, and dishonor they also had in 2005. The Bills rank 31st in yards per game allowed, a stat that again mirrors 2005. This comes from a unit that was supposed to improve over last year due to increased offensive prowess. Time to jump from the bell tower.
Penalties, penalties, penalties – the Bills may not lead the league in this category, but they certainly know how to make them count while looking stupid. The penalty for too many men on the field that kept a Jacksonville drive alive was so typical of this team – it was as dumb as it comes and incredibly painful. It shows a lack of discipline, awareness and coaching. Step off the curb and into traffic.
Somehow the Bills always seem to make statistically mediocre quarterbacks looks great, and Sunday's game was no exception. David Gerrard looked like he was heading for the Pro Bowl against the Bills, not unlike Rex Grossman, Chad Pennington, Jay Fiedler, Vince Young and a host of others who have had rare career days when facing Buffalo. Why can't the Bills ever seem to find some sort of later round gem of a quarterback or get a first rounder to live up to his potential? Time to slit your wrists.
Probably the most painful moment for Bills fans to live over and over again is the sense that the guy playing quarterback isn't the answer and it's time for him to go. Nothing could more accurately descibe the current J.P. Losman situation. Given opportunity after opportunity he has failed to deliver. He has shown some ability but is maddeningly inconsistent and overall does not appear to be a starting caliber quarterback in the NFL. Losman's demotion to the bench is well deserved and likely permanent – his days in Buffalo are over. Oddly, everyone including Losman himself saw the move coming – if you were surprised by the move you haven't been paying attention. The end of an era mirrors the end of the Rob Johnson era, the end of the Bledsoe era, the end of the Kelly Holcomb era – the guy you hoped would step up and be the answer leaving the position in disgrace. Time for the new guy, time to live though his growing pains, time to possibly install a whole new offense that better suits his abilities. Next year we'll be better on offense – next year. Time to take poison.
So overall, the Bills are where they've been for years – a bad team with plenty of deficiencies that optimists believe is on the cusp of returning to the playoffs and realists understand is the perennial unfulfilled promise. Sure, the Bills have some young talent and yes they have been bitten hard by the injury bug, but when the end result is the same does it really matter? Are the bright spots for the future just another reason for the fans to get their hopes built up and destroyed next year? In the modern free agency/salary cap era timing is everything – you have limited windows with your solid players before they move on and if those windows don't line up you never seem to get better. When your offense gets better your defense falls to the bottom – when your defense is good your offense can't move the ball or put up points. Every time you suffer serious injuries, completely retool an offensive line, install a new quarterback, coach or system you throw off the timing and you fall into a rut like the Buffalo Bills, but that's where we've been for years and it doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon.
So life remains tough if you're a Bills fan and doesn't look to improve in the near future. That's not pessimism, that's just the way it is – it's only pessimism if it's unnecessarily grim and this isn't. So when the alarm goes off tomorrow morning and you hear Sonny and Cher crooning "I've Got You Babe", understand you're in for a long, long, long day, even if you elect to simply stay in bed.


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Pick up a stole, tunic, and cap made from musk ox wool in Anchorage.
What kind of wool would a musk ox wear? Only qiviut, a supersoft underwool that this shaggy arctic ungulate sheds after each winter. The fiber—eight times warmer than sheep's wool—can be spun into yarn for stoles, tunics, and caps. Find this Igloo Cap (20 percent silk, $180) and more at the Musk Ox Producers' Co-op in Anchorage (888-360-9665, www.qiviut.com). You can also visit the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer: www.muskoxfarm.org.
Photography by Fred Hirschmann
This article was first published in March 2008. Some facts may have aged gracelessly. Please call ahead to verify information.