Blast injures 7 at Ga. metals plant

- An explosion rocked a metals plant in west Georgia early Thursday, leaving seven people injured, authorities and witnesses said.

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The explosion happened around 8:45 a.m. at G&S Metals in Manchester, a little more than 60 miles south of Atlanta. About 20 workers were inside at the time, Manchester Fire Chief Greg Lehtimaki said.

Truck driver Gary Highley, 62, of Wabash, Ind., said he was switching trailers at the plant when he heard the blast.

"I saw the roof blow up," he said. "That was enough for me to get out of there."

The injured men were all plant employees, Lehtimaki said. Their names were not immediately released.

Three of the men were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, where spokeswoman Denise Simpson said one patient was in critical condition and two were in serious condition. Four with less serious injuries went to other hospitals, Lehtimaki said.

The cause of the explosion was not yet known. The blast broke natural gas lines, causing a fire. The blaze was extinguished within 15 minutes, Lehtimaki said.

Siding and insulation were blown from the rear of the building, which is made of sheet metal, and the blast apparently left a hole in the structure. Broken glass and yellow insulation were scattered nearby, but the building's frame appeared intact.

A city official said that a half-mile area around the plant was being evacuated. However, by midmorning, spectators lined a roadway behind the plant, and it was unclear if an evacuation order was ever issued.

Nana Harris, 25, said she was sleeping in her house a few blocks from the plant when she was awakened by a loud boom. She initially thought her house was on fire.

"It shook my whole house," she said. "I thought if I opened my bedroom door then I'm going to be seeing fire out front."

A team from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency was on the scene Thursday morning, surveying the damage.

The company buys, sells and processes and converts aluminum scrap, and provides metallurgical services, said Carolyn McKinley, executive director of the Meriwether County Chamber of Commerce. The material is used for auto wheels, brake parts and structural components and other applications in the casting industry.

The plant's parent company, G&S Metal Consultants is a privately held company with its only facilities in Wabash, Ind., and Manchester, Ga.

Ken Rauch, human resources manager at the plant's parent company, said Thursday morning that he and other executives were about to get on a plane to get to the plant.

Former officer gets 17 years in beating

MILWAUKEE - A former police officer was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in prison for the beating of a biracial man in a case that outraged the city and sent protesters into the streets.

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A judge also sentenced Jon Bartlett, 36, to three years supervision and ordered him to pay $16,365 in restitution.

Bartlett was convicted with two other former officers of taking part in the beating of Frank Jude Jr. outside a housewarming party in October 2004.

The other two former officers, Daniel Masarik, 27, and Andrew Spengler, 28, were scheduled to be sentenced later Thursday.

A federal jury determined in July that the three violated Jude's civil rights and conspired to assault him while acting as officers. Officer Ryan Packard was acquitted of federal charges.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

MILWAUKEE (AP) ― Three white former police officers face at least a decade behind bars for violating the civil rights of a biracial man during a street confrontation, a case that outraged the city and sent protesters into the streets.

Sentencing was scheduled Thursday for Jon Bartlett, 36, Daniel Masarik, 27, and Andrew Spengler, 28, who were convicted of taking part in the beating of Frank Jude Jr. outside Spengler's housewarming party in October 2004.

A jury determined in July that the three violated Jude's civil rights and conspired to assault him while acting as officers. Officer Ryan Packard was acquitted of federal charges.

The trial is the second round in a case that has haunted Milwaukee. The three men were acquitted of most state charges by an all-white jury in April 2006, angering the community. Federal authorities filed the civil rights charges six months later.

In the days after the state trial, black and white residents, including the mayor, expressed their outrage at community meetings. Up to 2,000 people marched from the Milwaukee County courthouse to the federal courthouse.

Jude, 29, said he had been at a party on Oct. 24, 2004, when a group of white men who identified themselves as off-duty officers kicked and punched him, put a knife to his throat and jammed a pen in his ears as he begged for mercy. Jude said he heard Spengler call him a racial slur.

"They came close to killing Mr. Jude," said his attorney, Jonathan Safran. "They caused him serious permanent physical injuries and mental injuries he and his family will have to deal with the rest of their lives."

Jude said the confrontation began as he and a friend were leaving the party, when a group of men surrounded their truck and dragged him out, accusing him of taking Spengler's badge. No badge was ever found.

The community has cried injustice since the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a front-page photo in February 2005 showing Jude's swollen, misshapen face just after the beating.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mel Johnson was expected to ask the judge to sentence Bartlett and Masarik to 15 years or more in federal prison and possibly a few years less for Spengler.

Bartlett's attorney, Bridget Boyle, didn't return a call for comment Wednesday. Masarik's attorney, Jonathan Smith, and Spengler's attorney, Michael Hart, declined comment.

The police department disciplined 13 officers after the beating, including nine who were fired. Two of the fired officers won back their jobs, including Packard after a 20-day suspension.

Four others have pleaded guilty to similar federal charges. One has been sentenced to two years in prison and another a year in prison along with a year of probation, a fine of $3,000 and 100 hours of community service.

Two others are scheduled for sentencing Dec. 6.

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Theatergoers lined up for tickets Thursday as Broadway returned to business following a crippling 19-day strike that cost producers and the city millions of dollars.

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Tickets sold at a discounted $26.50 as people lined up for the musical "Chicago."

"I never thought I'd have the opportunity to see a Broadway show! And the price is right," said Susie Biamonte as she waited for tickets. The play was re-opening with a new cast ― Aida Turturro and Vincent Pastore of "Sopranos" fame.

The stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday, ending a strike that kept more than two dozen shows dark for nearly three weeks. The strike took an economic bite out of New York, with businesses like restaurants, stores, hotels ― even hot dog vendors ― losing an estimated $2 million a day.

But Biamonte and her friends from Canada said they'd help fix the damage during their weekend in the city.

"We're going to make sure they'll be successful again, because we'll leave money behind," Rosemary Girardo said as the "Chicago" line moved ahead.

The settlement came Wednesday night, the third day of marathon sessions between Local 1 and the League of American Theatres and Producers to end the lengthy work stoppage that has cost producers and the city millions of dollars.

Most plays and musicals that were shut during the walkout, which began Nov. 10, were expected to be up and running Thursday evening.

"The contract is a good compromise that serves our industry," said Charlotte St. Martin, the league's executive director. "What is most important is that Broadway's lights will once again shine brightly, with a diversity of productions that will delight all theatergoers during this holiday time."

Union President James J. Claffey Jr. was equally effusive in signing off on the agreement, saying, "The people of Broadway are looking forward to returning to work, giving the theatergoing public the joy of Broadway, the greatest entertainment in the world."

Details of the five-year contract, which must be approved by the union membership, were not disclosed.

But negotiations, which began last summer, were difficult, right up to the last day, as both sides struggled with what apparently was the final hang-up: the issue of wages. It concerned how much to pay stagehands in return for a reduction in what the producers say were onerous work rules that required them to hire more stagehands than are needed.

Until then, the talks had focused on how many stagehands are required to open a Broadway show and keep it running. That means moving scenery, lights, sound systems and props into the theater; installing the set and making sure it works; and keeping everything functioning well for the life of the production.

The strike couldn't have happened at a worse time for Broadway. Such popular shows as "Wicked," "Jersey Boys," "Mamma Mia!" and "The Lion King" were shut during the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday week. It's normally one of the best times of the year for Broadway, when the city is filled with tourists and Christmas shoppers.

Financial losses were staggering. But it wasn't just producers and stagehands who were hurt. Actors, musicians and even press agents lost paychecks, too. And theater-related businesses also suffered.

City Comptroller William Thompson estimated the economic impact of the strike at $2 million a day, based on survey data that include theatergoers' total spending on tickets, dining and shopping. The league put the damage even higher.

Eight shows remained open during the strike (their theaters had separate contracts with Local 1), and they were joined by a ninth when "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" got a court order to let it reopen.

The end of the walkout means a scramble for new opening nights for several shows that were in previews when the strike hit. They include Aaron Sorkin's "The Farnsworth Invention," "August: Osage County" from Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company and an adaptation of a long-lost Mark Twain comedy, "Is He Dead?"

Disney's "The Little Mermaid" already has announced it would push back its scheduled Dec. 6 opening ― with a new date still to be set.

"We are so excited," Tituss Burgess, who portrays Sebastian the crab in the lavish musical, told New York 1 TV. The actor said he hadn't anticipated the strike would last as long as it did.

"We hope everyone's satisfied ... the atmosphere around our stage door was: We tried to remain positive," Burgess added. "We're just happy to be going back to work."

Alecia Parker, executive producer of "Chicago," said that she wasn't worried theatergoers might not come back to Broadway.

"I think people have been very disappointed to have Broadway dark," Parker told the television station. "I think we'll see an outpouring of support from the community."

Parker said rehearsals were planned Thursday to get the cast back up to speed, but she anticipated few problems. "You can imagine the adrenaline for coming back after 19 days," she said.

Broadway's last strike occurred in 2003 when musicians staged a four-day walkout. The musicians also struck in 1975, shutting musicals but not plays for 25 days.

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Associated Press Drama Writer Michael Kuchwara and AP Writers Dino Hazell and Jennifer Peltz and contributed to this report.

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The average Thanksgiving involves football on the tube, board games with boozed-up family members and slick dodging of any chore that presented itself, along with obscene amounts of food. Then, you sleep well into Black Friday and wake up in time to watch Arkansas upset No. 1 LSU in a scintillating college football game.

Two athletes fared slightly better than you did. Little-known Serbian point guard Marko Jaric flew his new supermodel girlfriend, Adriana Lima, to Denver to spend Thanksgiving with him. Jaric starts for the Minnesota Timberwolves, is making $6 million this year and is a big fan of Tupac.

He also entered a rarified pantheon previously occupied by the likes of Tom Brady and Chris Webber, two athletes who have also dated Victoria Secret lingerie models ― Gisele Bündchen and Tyra Banks, respectively. (Aside: A friend of ours actually asked us, "Since she's a lingerie model, and everybody has seen her in lingerie, does that remove some of the allure of dating a model?" We have discontinued this friendship.)

The arrival of Lima to Jaric's side had a profound impact after Thanksgiving ― he averaged 18 points and six assists over his next three contests. It should be noted, however, that Lima told GQ Magazine last year, "Sex is for after marriage. [Men] have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't want me."


The other athlete who passed the cranberry sauce to a celebrity over the holiday was Dallas quarterback Tony Romo. After easily dispatching the Jets, it was reported that Romo and Jessica Simpson got together with others for dinner. The two may have had something cooking last year at about this time, which happened right after he told the Dallas Morning News he was "always a Jessica Simpson fan."

It would be silly for us to

speculate about the nature of their relationship ― this is what, the third potential "girlfriend" of his in a few months (Carrie Underwood, Sophia Bush) ― but here's something that would be infinitely cool: If the Cowboys met the Steelers in the Super Bowl, Simpson might attend to cheer on Romo, and her ex-husband Nick Lachey probably would attend to cheer on his pal, Ben Roethlisberger. Fun times.

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Antrel Rolle
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Antrel Rolle Arizona Cardinals ― No. 21
Cornerback
Date of Birth: December 16, 1982 (1982-12-16) (age 24)
Place of Birth: Homestead, Florida
Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Weight: 208 lb (94 kg)
National Football League Debut
2005 for the Arizona Cardinals
Career Highlights and Awards
No notable achievements

Career History
College: University of Miami
NFL Draft: 2005 / Round: 1 / Pick: 8
Teams:

Arizona Cardinals (2005-present)

Stats at NFL.com
Antrel Rocelious Rolle (born December 16, 1982 in Homestead, Florida) is an American football cornerback, drafted eighth overall in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals out of the University of Miami.

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3 Arizona Cardinals
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Antrel Rolle attended South Dade High School in Homestead, Florida. As a senior, on defense, he posted three interceptions and 86 tackles. On offense, he had four receptions for 160 yards (40.0 yards per rec. avg.) and a touchdown. As a junior, on defense, he posted three interceptions, 85 tackles, and five pass deflections, and he returned three kickoffs and three punts for touchdowns.


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Rolle was an All-American CB at Miami where he especially exceled in press-coverage. Notable performances included shutting down future All-American receivers Larry Fitzgerald (3 catches for 26 yards) and Calvin Johnson (2 catches for 10 yards).

In 2001, his freshman season, Rolle was one of four true freshman to letter at Miami. He appeared in eight games, recording eight tackles and an interception. Rolle started 11 games as a sophomore in 2002, earning All-Big East first-team honors. Rolle totaled a career-high 66 tackles with two sacks, six tackles for a loss, seven pass deflections, and an interception for the season.

In 2003, as a junior, Rolle recorded 51 tackles, 3.5 tackles for a loss, seven broken up passes, and two interceptions on the year. In his final season, 2004, Rolle was a consensus All-American. He recorded 58 tackles his senior year, 6.5 tackles behind the line of scrimmage, six pass deflections, and an interception. He was hurt late in the '04 season and missed the Virginia Tech game due to a foot sprain.


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Rolle's career did not start off well mainly because of torn cartilage in his left knee suffered September 25, 2005 in a game against the Seattle Seahawks. The torn cartilage required surgery on October 3, 2005 and put Rolle out for almost the entire 2005 NFL season.

Rolle returned and played on December 11, 2005 against the Washington Redskins, where he recorded his first interception and returned it for 29 yards. He played in week 14 and again in week 15 against the Houston Texans.

The 2007 campaign did not start well for Rolle as he lost his starting spot in the preseason. [1] However, he battled back and had the highlight of his career on November 18 when he intercepted 3 passes by Carson Palmer of the Cincinnati Bengals, returning the first two for touchdowns of 55 and 54 yards. He returned the third interception all the way to the end zone as well, but it was called back on a penalty. [2][3] Rolle was rewarded for his performance when he was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week. [4]


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Actor Andy Garcia hailed his niece's slain boyfriend, NFL star Sean Taylor, as a ''free safety until the end'' who showed bravery in the last moments of his life to protect his family...
''His heroic action on that tragic night saved their life and is a testament to his humanity and courage,'' Garcia said in his statement, which was provided to The Miami Herald through his manager, Joanne Colonna. ``His spirit will live forever, in our hearts and through the legacy of his achievements and the family he leaves behind.''...

''Sean was known to many as an extraordinary athlete and unquestionable teammate,'' Garcia said. ``To those of us who had the good fortune to count him as a member of our extended family, we will always remember him as a caring and loving individual especially to his new family, his precious daughter Jackie and to the love of his life and mother to his child my niece Jacqueline.''

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One of our favorite little quirks in sports is that, when a hockey player is listed as active or inactive for a given game, the announcers say "so-and-so will [or will not] be dressed for tonight's game". It made us giggle as eighth-graders; it makes us giggle today.

But giggling seems somehow inappropriate at today's Globe story about the New York artist named Kurt Kauper, who's causing a splash in the art and hockey world with his nude paintings of Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson. The former Bruins stars (who didn't pose for the pictures and didn't know about it until the Globe contacted them for comment) are part of a big hockey-art exhibition by the Scituate native. Images are available at Boston.com, but they've cropped the ones you're interested in.

Kauper, who similarly uncloaked Cary Grant in a previous show, says, "It occurred to me that it would be interesting to try to make a painting of an icon in the nude and see what kind of response I got from viewers." You want to push the boundaries, buster, we've got two words for you - Rich Garces.

Otherwise, the local sports scene is quiet right now. The Red Sox are talking to Minnesota about what sort of package they might put together for Twins ace Johan Santana. Just what we need, another reason to consider Minneapolis Boston's AAA team. Since any trade would have to involve at least 2 out of [Lester, Buchholz, Ellsbury], it's possible the Sox may just be talking, possibly to drive up the price that Hank Steinbrenner will have to pay to get Santana to the Bronx. Incidentally, the Sports Guy compared Hank to Spaulding Smails from Caddyshack; we're stealing that and running with it for the rest of time.

The Celtics host the incredibly dysfunctional Knicks at the Garden tonight; the Bruins visit the Florida Panthers. The two best teams in the NFC meet tonight; the Packers visit Dallas in a game that most of America can't watch because the NFL and cable companies are too busy whining and blaming each other about who's responsible for making sure people are able to watch it. The whole thing makes us sick, but not as sick as we'll be when the Pats-Giants regular season finale will be in the
The look is unmistakably Bobby Orr: the tousled locks, boyish face, and muscular body turned to make a quick stop on the ice.

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more stories like thisBut there is something missing in Kurt Kauper's 7 1/2-foot-tall oil painting of the Boston Bruins legend: Orr's uniform. Or any clothing at all.

The image of the iconic hockey star is a centerpiece of the former Scituate resident's latest exhibition at the hip Deitch Projects gallery in New York, "Everybody Knew That Canadians Were The Best Hockey Players." Along with non-nude portraits of several hockey players, Kauper's show features an homage to former Bruins center Derek Sanderson, who is painted standing next to his locker with his hockey stick - and nothing else.

"Hey, you know, he has poetic license, he can pretty much bloody well do what he bloody pleases," said Sanderson, now a 61-year-old investment manager for Boston's Howland Capital Management, who, like Orr, did not pose for his portrait and did not know about it until contacted by a reporter. "I just hope he's a good artist."

Sanderson declined an offer to view the image, but art-world types would tell him not to worry. They say Kauper, whose works have been shown in the Whitney Museum of American Art's prestigious biennial in New York and at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, among other places, is a masterful painter who creates realistic portraits of subjects he has never met. Some pieces in the current show sold for $135,000. (One nude Orr remains available; the other has been sold, as has the Sanderson.)

A Kauper painting of a fictitious opera diva was shown as part of a 2002 group show at the Worcester Art Museum, placed next to a work by 19th-century painter James A. M. Whistler. Susan Stoops, curator of contemporary art at the museum, said Kauper's skills as a realistic painter drew viewers into the work.

"His painting held up to every old master picture that was in the gallery at the same time," said Stoops. "You have to believe what you're looking at in order to be seduced. He makes the seduction happen because of his technical skills."

Those who have organized exhibits featuring Kauper's earlier nude portraits of Cary Grant said that the artist inspires debate and discussion among gallery visitors.

"This idea of his is not an ephemeral idea, it's a serious idea of the way in which we respond to the naked body," said Zina Davis, director of the University of Hartford's Joseloff Gallery, which showed one of the Grant nudes in 2004. "What are the trigger points, and what are the things that move us from what our expectations are into another realm? It's a high-concept kind of thing."Continued...

Kauper isn't the first contemporary artist to create imagined celebrity nudes. John Currin's 1991 topless portrait of actress Bea Arthur during her "Maude" era established him in the art world. But Deborah Kass, who curated a 2002 Brooklyn gallery show featuring a Kauper portrait of Grant, noted that Kauper has advanced the idea further.

"He takes these people we identify and idolize and presents them at their most stripped down, and because it's a male nude it makes people incredibly uneasy," Kass said. "I really don't know anybody else who is doing that."

And the Kauper paintings are selling. The artist said that seven of the eight paintings in the New York show, which runs through Dec. 15, have sold for between $50,000 and $135,000.

Not everyone is a fan. Orr didn't return calls about the paintings. And former Bruin Brad Park, who played briefly alongside Sanderson and Orr and looked at the works online, said he "would not walk across the street to view this art."

"I see a picture of Bobby with some genitals, and a picture of Turk with some genitals. That's hard to take," said Park. "I definitely would think Bobby would be uncomfortable with it. Derek, in his heyday, would have posed for it."

Park also wondered how an artist could create a nude of a celebrity without permission. George Tobia Jr., an attorney at Burns & Levinson specializing in entertainment and copyright law, said Kauper could run into trouble were he to try to mass market Orr's image on T-shirts or postcards. But he has every right to paint him.

"There's a First Amendment right to artistic expression," Tobia said.

Kauper, 41, said he never intended to upset either player. Growing up in Scituate, he said, he was a huge fan of hockey and of Orr in particular. He remembers the pain of watching the Bruins lose to the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1974 Stanley Cup finals.

"I would call my interest in Bobby Orr more of an obsession at that age," said Kauper. "When we would play games in the neighborhood, cops and robbers, I would pretend I was Bobby Orr moonlighting as a cop."

Over the years, Kauper, who earned his undergraduate degree from Boston University and taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts until 2000, has earned praise for his portraits.

The hockey portraits, Kauper said, began in 2000 after he came across photographs of a series of old hockey trading cards and created his own versions of Orr and several other long-retired players. Then he set the portraits aside.

Inspiration struck after a visit to Paris. There, Kauper saw one of his favorite works, a 19th-century image of Napoleon ascending to heaven by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. In the work, the French general is nude.

"You certainly couldn't do that nowadays - represent a cultural icon in the nude as a gesture of adoration and immortalization," said Kauper. "That gets to how nudity is perceived today. It occurred to me that it would be interesting to try to make a painting of an icon in the nude and see what kind of response I got from viewers."

Returning home, Kauper first created the Cary Grant portraits. The reaction, he said, surprised him.

"People didn't really ask the question so much as assume that I'm gay," said Kauper, who is straight and lives in New York with his wife, photographer Annelizabeth Wells, and their two children. "If a woman paints another woman in the nude, it would be interpreted as a painting having to do with a woman's identity. But when a man paints this painting, it's associated with homoerotic activity."

After completing the Cary Grants, Kauper returned to the ice. He looked at the images on the hockey cards, which reminded him of 19th-century locket portraits.

"A locket portrait is a portrait of somebody you love and want to hold close to your heart," said Kauper. "When I think back to my obsession with Bobby Orr, it had a lot to do with almost a crush on Bobby Orr - and I don't mean that sexually. So is it physical? It's not physical in the sense of erotic lust, but there's definitely some physical attraction to Bobby Orr's image and his body."

Geo For more on the arts, visit boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist.

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There is no crying in baseball or whining in big business. Sears CEO Aylwin Lewis said, regarding the company's 99% drop in earnings in the last quarter: "We are very disappointed in our performance for the third quarter. We cannot blame our results entirely on the retail and macro-economic environments."

With the company's stock down 14% to under $100, a 52-week low, Lewis may be more than disappointed. He may be fired. Sears controlling shareholder Eddie Lambert already looks the fool for his investment in the retailer and another recent purchase of stock in Citigroup (C). His reputation is on the line now and Lewis holds the future of that reputation in his hands.

But, perhaps not for long.

At $100, shares in Sears will be down 40% for the year. Shares in Wal-Mart (WMT) are flat for the year. The same holds true for Target (TGT). Costco (COST) is up 20% for the period.

The reason that these other stocks have done well is because their earnings have dropped, but not collapsed. They have managed expenses better. Same store sales are up some. At Sears they are running off 4%.

The economy is not what is killing Sears. Management is.

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It's painful, in a way, to watch a movie and feel nothing for characters who are clearly begging for your acceptance and sympathy. In Noah Baumbach's "Margot at the Wedding," Nicole Kidman plays Margot Zeller, a successful New York fiction writer and extremely difficult person who sets out with her younger son, a sensible, thoughtful adolescent named Claude (Zane Pais), to attend the wedding of her sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), at the family home -- or might it be one of the family homes? -- on a New England island. During the trip -- the two travel by train and ferry, like good, urbane New Yorkers -- Margot babbles at Claude as if he were a miniature adult (which, in a way, he is), airing her venomous thoughts about the allegedly crazy Pauline (even though, in the movie's early minutes, it becomes pretty clear who the real crazy is) and making snotty pronouncements about the so-called loser guy she's marrying. (His name is Malcolm, and he's played by Jack Black.)

When we meet Pauline, she's possibly a little crazy, but mostly just eccentric in that specifically New Englandy, too much Boston Symphony Orchestra, not enough Red Sox way: She stomps around the family property in summer dresses with wool scarves swathed around her neck, the better to keep the chill out of her Pilgrim bones. She defends her unemployed fiancé in a whiny voice that sounds more like an indictment: "He'll spend up to a week writing a response to a music review. He's very smart." She pauses, pregnantly (and, as it turns out, she is): "Maybe too smart for his own good."

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A surface weather analysis for the United States on October 21, 2006.A surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map that provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather stations.[1] Weather maps are created by plotting or tracing the values of relevant quantities such as sea level pressure, temperature, and cloud cover onto a geographical map to help find synoptic scale features such as weather fronts.

The first weather maps in the 19th century were drawn well after the fact to help devise a theory on storm systems.[2] After the advent of the telegraph, simultaneous observations of weather became possible for the first time, and beginning in the late 1840s, the Smithsonian Institution became the first organization to draw real-time surface analyses. Use of surface analyses began first in the United States, spreading worldwide during the 1870s. Use of the Norwegian cyclone model for frontal analysis began in the late 1910s across Europe, with its use finally spreading to the United States during World War II.

Surface weather analyses have special symbols which show frontal systems, cloud cover, precipitation, or other important information. For example, an H may represent high pressure, implying good and fair weather. An L on the other hand may represent low pressure, which frequently accompanies precipitation. Various symbols are used not just for frontal zones and other surface boundaries on weather maps, but also to depict the present weather at various locations on the weather map. Areas of precipitation help determine the frontal type and location.

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1 History of surface analysis
2 Station model used on weather maps
3 Synoptic scale features
3.1 Pressure centers
3.1.1 Low pressure
3.1.2 High pressure
3.2 Fronts
3.2.1 Cold front
3.2.2 Warm front
3.2.3 Occluded front
3.2.4 Stationary fronts and shearlines
4 Mesoscale features
4.1 Dry line
4.2 Outflow boundaries and squall lines
4.3 Sea and land breeze fronts
5 See also
6 References
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[edit] History of surface analysis
See also: History of surface weather analysis

Surface analysis of Great Blizzard of 1888 on March 12, 1888 at 10 pmThe use of weather charts in a modern sense began in the middle portion of the 19th century in order to devise a theory on storm systems.[3] The development of a telegraph network by 1845 made it possible to gather weather information from multiple distant locations quickly enough to preserve its value for real-time applications. The Smithsonian Institution developed its network of observers over much of the central and eastern United States between the 1840s and 1860s once Joseph Henry took the helm.[4] The U.S. Army Signal Corps inherited this network between 1870 and 1874 by an act of Congress, and expanded it to the west coast soon afterwards.

At first, all the data on the map was not taken from these analyses because of a lack of time standardization. The first attempts at time standardization took hold in Great Britain by 1855. The entire United States did not finally come under the influence of time zones until 1905, when Detroit finally established standard time.[5] Internationally, other countries followed the lead of the United States in taking simultaneous weather observations, starting in 1873.[6] Other countries then began preparing surface analyses. The use of frontal zones on weather maps did not appear until the introduction of the Norwegian cyclone model in the late 1910s, despite Loomis' earlier attempt at a similar notion in 1841.[7] Since the leading edge of air mass changes bore resemblance to the military fronts of World War I, the term "front" came into use to represent these lines.[8]


Present weather symbols used on weather mapsDespite the introduction of the Norwegian cyclone model just after World War I, the United States did not formally analyze fronts on surface analyses until late 1942, when the WBAN Analysis Center opened in downtown Washington, D.C..[9] The effort to automate map plotting began in the United States in 1969,[10] with the process complete in the 1970s. Hong Kong completed their process of automated surface plotting by 1987.[11] By 1999, computer systems and software had finally become sophisticated enough to allow for the ability to underlay on the same workstation satellite imagery, radar imagery, and model-derived fields such as atmospheric thickness and frontogenesis in combination with surface observations to make for the best possible surface analysis. In the United States, this development was achieved when Intergraph workstations were replaced by n-AWIPS workstations.[12] By 2001, the various surface analyses done within the National Weather Service were combined into the Unified Surface Analysis, which is issued every six hours and combines the analyses of four different centers.[13] Recent advances in both the fields of meteorology and geographic information systems have made it possible to devise finely tailored products that take us from the traditional weather map into an entirely new realm. Weather information can quickly be matched to relevant geographical detail. For instance, icing conditions can be mapped onto the road network. This will likely continue to lead to changes in the way surface analyses are created and displayed over the next several years.[14]


[edit] Station model used on weather maps
See also: Station model

Station model plotted on surface weather analysesWhen analyzing a weather map, a station model is plotted at each point of observation. Within the station model, the temperature, dewpoint, wind, sea level pressure, pressure tendency, and ongoing weather are plotted.[15] The circle in the middle represents cloud cover. If completely filled in, it is overcast. If conditions are completely clear, the circle is empty. If conditions are partly cloudy, the circle is partially filled in.[16] Outside the United States, temperature and dewpoint are plotted in degrees Celsius. Each full flag on the Wind Barb represents 10 knots (19 km/h) of wind, each half flag represents 5 knots (9 km/h). When winds reach 50 knots (93 km/h), a filled in triangle is used for each 50 knots (93 km/h) of wind.[17] In the United States, rainfall plotted in the corner of the station model are in English units, inches. Internationally, the standard rainfall measurement unit is the millimeter. Once a map has a field of station models plotted, the analyzing isobars (lines of equal pressure), isallobars (lines of equal pressure change), isotherms (lines of equal temperature), and isotachs (lines of equal wind speed) can be easily accomplished.[18] The abstract present weather symbols used on surface weather analyses for obstructions to visibility, precipitation, and thunderstorms were devised to take up the least room possible on weather maps.


[edit] Synoptic scale features
See also: Synoptic scale
A synoptic scale feature is one whose dimensions are large in scale, more than several hundred kilometers in length.[19] Migratory pressure systems and frontal zones exist on this scale.


[edit] Pressure centers

Wind barb interpretationCenters of surface high and low pressure areas are found within closed isobars on a surface weather analysis where there the absolute maxima and minima in the pressure field, and can tell a user in a glance what the general weather is in their vicinity. Weather maps in English-speaking countries will depict their highs as Hs and lows as Ls,[20] while Spanish-speaking countries will depict their highs as As and lows as Bs.[21]


[edit] Low pressure
Low pressure systems, also known as cyclones, are located in minima in the pressure field. Rotation is inward and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere as opposed to inward and clockwise in the southern hemisphere due to the coriolis force. Weather is normally unsettled in the vicinity of a cyclone, with increased cloudiness, increased winds, increased temperatures, and upward motion in the atmosphere which leads to an increased chance of precipitation. Polar lows can form over relatively mild ocean waters when cold air sweeps in from the ice cap, leading to upward motion and convection, usually in the form of snow. Tropical cyclones and winter storms are intense varieties of low pressure. Over land, thermal lows are indicative of hot weather during the summer.[22]


[edit] High pressure
High pressure systems, also known as anticyclones, rotate outward and clockwise in the northern hemisphere as opposed to outward and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. Under surface highs, sinking motion leads to skies that are clearer, winds that are lighter, and there is a reduced chance of precipitation.[23] There is normally a greater range between high and low temperature due to the drier air mass present. If high pressure persists, air pollution will build up due to pollutants trapped near the surface caused by the subsiding motion associated with the high.[24]


[edit] Fronts
Main article: Weather fronts

Occluded cyclone example. The triple point is the intersection of the cold, warm, and occluded fronts.Fronts in meteorology are the leading edges of air masses with different density (e.g., air temperature and/or humidity). When a front passes over an area, it is marked by changes in temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, and often a change in the precipitation pattern. Cold fronts are closely associated with low pressure systems, normally lying at the leading edge of high pressure systems and, in the case of the polar front, at approximately the equatorward edge of the high-level polar jet. Fronts are guided by winds aloft, but they normally move at lesser speeds. In the northern hemisphere, they usually travel from some west to east direction (even though they can move in a more north-south direction as well). Movement is due to the pressure gradient force (horizontal differences in atmospheric pressure) and the Coriolis effect, caused by the earth spinning about its axis. Frontal zones can be contorted by geographic features like mountains and large bodies of water.[13]


[edit] Cold front
Main article: Cold front
A cold front's location is at the leading edge of the temperature drop off, which in an isotherm analysis shows up as the leading edge of the isotherm gradient, and it normally lies within a sharp surface trough. Cold fronts can move up to twice as fast as warm fronts and produce sharper changes in weather, since cold air is denser than warm air and rapidly replaces the warm air preceding the boundary. Cold fronts are typically accompanied by a narrow band of showers and thunderstorms. On weather maps, the surface position of the cold front is marked with the symbol of a blue line of triangles/spikes (pips) pointing in the direction of travel, and it is placed at the leading edge of the cooler air mass.[13]


[edit] Warm front
Main article: Warm front

Illustration clouds overriding a warm frontWarm fronts are at the leading edge of the temperature drop off, which is located on the equatorward edge of the gradient in isotherms, and lie within broader troughs of low pressure than cold fronts. Warm fronts move more slowly than the cold front that usually follows because cold air is more dense, and harder to displace from the earth's surface. This also forces temperature differences across warm fronts to be broader in scale. Clouds ahead of the warm front are mostly stratiform and rainfall gradually increases as the front approaches. Fog can also occur preceding a warm frontal passage. Clearing and warming is usually rapid after frontal passage. If the warm air mass is unstable, thunderstorms may be embedded among the stratiform clouds ahead of the front, and after frontal passage, thundershowers may continue. On weather maps, the surface location of a warm front is marked with a red line of half circles pointing in the direction of travel.[13]


[edit] Occluded front
Main article: Occluded front

A guide to the symbols for weather fronts that may be found on a weather map:
1. cold front
2. warm front
3. stationary front
4. occluded front
5. surface trough
6. squall line
7. dry line
8. tropical wave
An occluded front is formed during the process of cyclogenesis when a cold front overtakes a warm front.[25] The cold and warm fronts curve naturally poleward into the point of occlusion, which is also known as the triple point in meteorology.[26] It lies within a sharp trough, but the air mass behind the boundary can be either warm or cold. In a cold occlusion, the air mass overtaking the warm front is cooler than the cool air ahead of the warm front, and plows under both air masses. In a warm occlusion, the air mass overtaking the warm front is not as cool as the cold air ahead of the warm front, and rides over the colder air mass while lifting the warm air. A wide variety of weather can be found along an occluded front, with thunderstorms possible, but usually their passage is associated with a drying of the air mass. Occluded fronts are indicated on a weather map by a purple line with alternating half-circles and triangles pointing in direction of travel.[13] Occluded fronts usually form around mature low pressure areas.


[edit] Stationary fronts and shearlines
Main article: Stationary front
A stationary front is a non-moving boundary between two different air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other. They tend to remain in the same area for long periods of time, usually moving in waves.[27] There is normally a broad temperature gradient behind the boundary with more widely spaced isotherm packing. A wide variety of weather can be found along a stationary front, but usually clouds and prolonged precipitation are found there. Stationary fronts will either dissipate after several days or devolve into shear lines, but can change into a cold or warm front if conditions aloft change. Stationary fronts are marked on weather maps with alternating red half-circles and blue spikes pointing in opposite directions, indicating no significant movement.

When stationary fronts become smaller in scale, degenerating to a narrow zone where wind direction changes over a short distance, they become known as shear lines.[28] If the shear line becomes active with thunderstorms, it may support formation of a tropical storm or a regeneration of the feature back into a stationary front. A shear line is depicted as a line of red dots and dashes.[13]


[edit] Mesoscale features
See also: Mesoscale Convective System
Mesoscale features are smaller than synoptic scale systems like fronts, but larger than storm-scale systems like thunderstorms. Horizontal dimensions generally range from around 50 miles[vague] to several hundred miles.[29]


[edit] Dry line
The dry line is the boundary between dry and moist air masses east of mountain ranges with similar orientation to the Rockies, depicted at the leading edge of the dew point, or moisture, gradient. Near the surface, warm moist air is more dense than dry air of greater temperature, and thus the warm moist air wedges under the drier air like a cold front.[30] At higher altitudes, the warm moist air is less dense than the cooler, drier air and the boundary slope reverses. In the vicinity of the reversal aloft, severe weather is possible, especially when a triple point is formed with a cold front.

During daylight hours, drier air from aloft drifts down to the surface, causing an apparent movement of the dryline eastward. At night, the boundary reverts back to the west as there is no longer any sunshine to help mix the lower atmosphere.[31] If enough moisture converges upon the dryline, it can be the focus of afternoon and evening thunderstorms.[32] A dry line is depicted on United States surface analyses as a brown line with scallops, or bumps, facing into the moist sector. Dry lines are one of the few surface fronts where the special shapes along the drawn boundary do not necessarily reflect the boundary's direction of motion.[33]


[edit] Outflow boundaries and squall lines

A shelf cloud such as this one can be a sign that a squall is imminentOrganized areas of thunderstorm activity not only reinforce pre-existing frontal zones, but they can outrun cold fronts. This outrunning occurs in a pattern where the upper level jet splits into two streams. The resultant mesoscale convective system (MCS) forms at the point of the upper level split in the wind pattern in the area of best low level inflow. The convection then moves east and equatorward into the warm sector, parallel to low-level thickness lines. When the convection is strong and linear or curved, the MCS is called a squall line, with the feature placed at the leading edge of the significant wind shift and pressure rise.[34] Even weaker and less organized areas of thunderstorms will lead to locally cooler air and higher pressures, and outflow boundaries exist ahead of this type of activity, whd "SQLN" or "SQUALL LINE", while outflow boundaries are depicted as troughs with a label of "OUTFLOW BOUNDARY" or "OUTFLOW BNDRY".


[edit] Sea and land breeze fronts

Idealized circulation pattern associated with a sea breezeSea breeze fronts occur mainly on sunny days when the landmass warms up above the water temperature. Similar boundaries form downwind on lakes and rivers during the day, as well as offshore landmasses at night. Since the specific heat of water is so high, there is little diurnal change in bodies of water, even on the sunniest days. The water temperature varies less than 1 °C (1 to 2 °F). By contrast, the land, with a lower specific heat, can vary several degrees in a matter of hours.[35]

During the afternoon, air pressure decreases over the land as temperature rises. The relatively cooler air over the sea rushes in to fill the gap. The result is a relatively cool onshore wind. This process usually reverses at night where the water temperature is higher relative to the landmass, leading to an offshore land breeze. However, if water temperatures are colder than the land at night, the sea breeze may continue, only somewhat abated. This is typically the case along the California coast, for example.

If enough moisture exists, thunderstorms can form along sea breeze fronts which then can send out outflow boundaries. This causes chaotic wind/pressure regimes if the steering flow is light. Like all other surface features, sea breeze fronts lie inside troughs of low pressure.

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ANDREW T. GALLAGHER/Standard-Times special Paul Gagnier, who has been bowling for 30 years, finally rolled his first 300 game.
By VICKI PREVOST
Pin Tales
November 26, 2007 6:00 AM
It took 30 years to accomplish his No. 1 goal in the sport, but Freetown's Paul Gagnier bowled his first career 300 game three weeks ago in the Center League at Wonder Bowl.

The 53-year-old went right from warmups into league play throwing strikes on that unforgettable Wednesday night, saying everything felt good right from the start.

"My hand was comfortable and I felt like I was lined up," Gagnier said, "and if I threw the same shot over and over, I'd pull out a decent game."

After opening with 11 strikes, he had to take a deep breath and tell himself not to baby it up on the approach for the 12th. The right-hander had visions of a 298 game momentarily when the four and nine pins looked like they were going to remain standing.

They, however, were only teasing and finally fell to the deck.

"I just hope," he said, "it doesn't take another 30 years to bowl another one."

Basically a once-a-week bowler, he started the second game with a strike, then left a handful of nine-count spares before he opened. For the night, he went 660.

"I was hoping for a 700," Gagnier said, "but it wasn't meant to be and it didn't really bother me that I didn't get it."

He usually bowls one 700 a year, and has a career-high 756 from 20 years ago that included his previous high, a 299. His yearly average hovers around 200, with a career-high 206 two years ago. It's now a 193.

Gagnier's taken on a couple of other leagues throughout his career, but now the Center League is his only league. His team has won a league championship or two, and they enter the state and city annual tournaments and try to win those as well.

"But mostly I bowl for fun," said Gagnier.


upcoming events
Holiday Lanes in Westport has a Christmas Tournament from now until Dec. 15 whenever lanes are available. It's a doubles event with one in six doubles team advancing to the 1 p.m. finals on Dec. 16. Handicap is 90 percent of 220. Entry fee is $20 per bowler. Call the lanes for more information at (508) 674-2224.

A NEBA Tournament isthis weekend at Westgate Lanes in Brockton. For more information or to register, visit bowlneba.com.

The Southeastern Massachusetts USBC Bowling Association has its annual Open and Women's Senior Tournament this weekend at AMF Holiday Lanes in Somerset. Entry fee is $35 per bowler and entry forms are available at all area ten pin centers.


highlights
Clayton Jenkins, in the Center League at Wonder Bowl, bowled a 300 game on November 23.

Corey Laliberte, in the Holiday Lanes at Westport's Junior Program, bowled his first 300 game on Nov. 24.

Senior scores were:

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John Grobe Mixed Seniors League: Don Caisse, 217, 224/637; John Zeb, 204; Leo Desrochers, 224; Del Picard Sr., 202.

Wonder Bowl

NFL Seniors: Hal Rose, 268, 205/666; Don Caisse, 233; Joe Weaver, 231; Ed Pendleton, 229, 215, 206/650; George Roy, 228, 223/639; Larry Barcellos, 224; Richard Dube, 221; Steve Drew, 215; Conrad Thibeault, 213, 202/603; Joe Teixeira, 212; Russ Chace, 209; Henry Simon, 207; Paul Lestage, 205; Hal Rose, 205; Paul Picard, 204; Ernie Bourque, 204; Bob Florent, 204.

Wednesday Senior Mixed: Conrad Thibeault, 259, 211/652; Lou Kaeterle, 205; Joe Weaver, 214, 211/613; Steve Baldyga, 201; Ray Cardoza, 200; George DaCosta, 212/602; Henry Simon, 206; Manny Rezendes, 201; Ron Dupont, 200.

Friday Senior Tournament (Nov. 16): 1st, Conrad Thibeault, 701; 2nd, Ed Pendleton, 696; 3rd, Dick Selley, 688; 4th, Ron Dupont, 674; 5th, Richard Dube, 656; 6th, Lionel Bachand, 640; high woman out of the money, Ida Raymond, 615.

Other scores were:

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Center League: Roland Beaulieu, 224; Mike Arpa, 205; Clayton Jenkins, 258; Ron Estelle, 234; Clem Amaral, 269/698; Dennis Bedard, 248, 267, 246/761; Nick Dean, 247; Ed Souza, 278; John Rusin, 297; Bob St. Gelais, 223; Larry Roy, 212; Peder Sivertsen, 227; Brad Raphael, 227; Hal Rose, 201; Mike Sedoma Jr., 259/671; Ken Pelland, 217; Mike Bristow Jr., 238; Paul Arruda, 243; Peter Russell, 233, 233/669; Roger Blanchard, 233; Mario Camara, 238; Dave Dupuis, 232; Vinnie Furtado, 244; Mike Cordeiro, 237, 254/712; Eric Silva, 235; Kyle Rebello, 222; Brad Brissette, 255/686; Steve King, 204; Paul Lord, 204; Joe Sorell, 225; Mike Constant, 235; Jeff Luiz, 215; Michael Alves, 233; Steve Camara, 222; Eric Martin, 225; Mike Monast, 236; Bruce Garnett, 248; John Camara, 225; John Snow, 220; Ken Johnson, 245; Barry Szczupak, 266, 232/711; Joey Cabral, 278, 238/729; Bob Richards, 267/673; Pete Szymanski, 204; Doug Allard, 234; Dave Raposo, 200; Eric Morin, 233; Bob Faria, 223; Tim Rock, 202.

Early Birds Junior League: Dustin Bourque, 191; Jasmine Eldridge, 145; Jared Frade, 154; Isaac Laplante, 144; Tiler Levesque, 185, 167; Matthew Lowe, 189; Evan McCarthy, 184.

Gary's Best: Paul Almeida, 202; Dennis Bedard, 267, 247/749; Phillip Berube, 202; Scott Bourqault, 207; Brad Brissette, 223, 221; Joey Cabral, 237, 267/682; John Camara, 245; Gary Feldmann, 211, 213; Joe Goulart, 228; Bill Hurd, 201; Russ Martin, 215; Peter McConnell, 236; Dennis Medeiros, 204, 202; Ozzie Oswald, 235; Chris Pereira, 204, 206; Wayne Rebello, 210; Ed Rose, 238; Michael Russom, 221; Peter Scieszka, 200; Ron Silveira, 210; Joe Sorell, 238; Jack Spinner, 221; Barry Sylvia, 204; Barry Szczupak, 228, 265/706; Nelson Tavares, 225, 226; James Taylor, 222.

Gary's Best Mixed League: Louis Lemmertz, 243, 226, 214/683; Richard Beaulieu Jr., 222; Richiard Beaulieu Sr., 219; Shawn Oliver, 216; John Fernandes, 215; Eddie Blanchette, 214; Bill Hurd 208; Bob Maurice, 203; Dick Ryle, 202; Marc Oliveira, 201; Karyn Labonte, 257.

Highlighters: Jeannette Whitlock, 203.

Jolly Rollers: Peter Crane, 201; Robert Dion, 212; Cory Durfee, 211; Sharon JOvin, 208/508; Ray Reynolds, 210; Glenn Spindola, 242, 235/678; Chad Sylvia, 223.

Junior A.M. Program: bantams/preps, Curran Desjardins, 167; Marisa Hubert, 132; Bryce Rowan, 159; juniors, Selena Deschenes, 145; Corey Lazaro, 170, 178; Brett Rowan, 203; majors/seniors, Jennifer Boardman, 53i6; Amanda LaBossiere, 202, 221/602; Shane Lavoie, 257, 243/698; Joe Mello, Megan Rich, 237, 202/592; Aaron Rose, 227; Melissa Spindola, 221/532; Jonathan Thomas, 220.

Junior P.M. Program: bantams/preps, Isaiah Ferreira, 100; Joshua Pires, 145; Mason Kuliga, 140; juniors/majors/seniors, Danny Alferes, 227; Amanda Blais, 162; Bobby Bolton, 173; Tyler Domingos, 208; Ashley Fleming, 188; Tyler Fontes, 228; Taylor Kuliga, 200; Jeneffer Lang, 170; Nicholas Lizotte, 165; Chad Maciel, 201; Krysta Morin, 168; Ryan Pires, 204; Marybeth Spindola, 200/524; Jocelynn Teixeira, 193; Daniel Vello, 209, 211; Joshua Wunschel, 201.

Lords & Ladies: Kris Borges, 222/571.

Mahoney's Building Supply: Steve Amaral, 234, 211/635; Mike Gendrin, 229; Mike Lake, 222

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Looking for some great bargains for the holiday shopping season? Before you pay full price, "ShopSmart" magazine shares smart advice on how you can save a significant amount of money with your cell phone, online coupon codes and more:

These five bargains don't require any extra work. You just need to know where to look for them. Once you do, you can save a significant amount of money very easily.

FruCall (Frucall.com, 888-DO-FRUCALL)
Peering at products on a screen the size of a sugar packet is hardly an ideal way to shop. But your cell phone is great for doing a quick price check. Say you're in a store looking at a big-screen TV and the salesperson is offering what seems like a can't pass-it-up deal. You could step outside, punch up a shopping-comparison site on your cell phone, and check to see if you can get the TV for a lower price elsewhere.

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Using a mobile phone and either placing a phone call, using text messaging or the mobile version of their Web site (or maybe sneaking onto an Internet-enabled computer at the store itself), FruCall can look up the price of the product you're looking at and let you know if it's cheaper anywhere else. All you need is the product name, the model number, or its bar code/UPC number. Contact the toll-free number (888-DO-FRUCALL) and enter a product's 12-digit bar code. There is no sign-up fee, and there is no monthly fee.

If you like the idea of comparison shopping via cell phone, another new service is Slifter (Slifter.com), which is currently focused on electronics and sporting goods. You punch in the product info and your ZIP code and it will point you to the nearest stores and provide their prices. "ShopSmart" offers a service that delivers "Consumer Reports" ratings. Or you can check out other cool shopping tools designed specifically for phones.

Online coupon codes
If you shop online, you've probably noticed that when you check out, most Web sites have a space for you to enter an "online coupon code." These codes can save you tons of money, but if you don't have one readily at hand, you might not think twice about it. That's a mistake! You might be able to find one by surfing the Web. Dozens of sites list discount codes for online stores — but not always the one that you're looking for. A quick way to zero in on promotions: Type the store name and "coupon code" into a search engine like Google.

Although no one site will give you everything you need, using a combination of different sites can help you find what you're looking for. Some of our favorites:

Keycode.com is nicely organized.
Currentcodes.com has a huge number of retailers.
Slickdeals.net has a busy message board where members post codes they have found.
Findsavings.com clues you in to rebates and freebies.
The Freecycle Network™ (Freecycle.org)
Need a ski rack, fertilizer spreader or ferret cage? You might be able to nab it for nothing at the online bulletin board Freecycle.org. The Freecycle Network™ is a community-based service made up of 4,182 groups with 4,130,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer. Membership is free, and you join a specific community group that includes your geographical location. People in your area will post items they want to give away.

The caveat: This setup isn't a one-way street — you are expected to post your goodies for swap, too. However, it's an easy way to get odd items from people close to where you live. The products on this site really run the gamut — electronics, furniture, and every odd and end. It also prevents unnecessary waste and keeps good stuff out of landfills. Oh yeah, and it's entirely free!

If you like this community-based site, you can search the Web for other newsgroups of like-minded bargain hunters on yahoogroups. It's like having an extended family looking out for you!


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Out-of-order hotel rooms
Most people will be traveling to visit family this holiday season, and if you're looking to stay at a hotel (as opposed to crashing with the folks), here's a tip that might help you get a cheaper hotel room. When making a reservation or upon arriving at the hotel, ask if the hotel has any "out-of-order" hotel rooms available. Some rooms may have a minor defect, such as a broken TV or a carpet stain that hasn't been fixed yet, but that you may be willing to live with. Make sure to get precise details on exactly what the defect is, and be ready to negotiate for a price you're comfortable paying.

We should point out that when traveling, hotels in general offer a lot more leeway with cost than with any other travel expense. If you're savvy, hotels are the one place where you could really save a significant amount of money.

For starters, a lot of hotel chains are franchises, which means they are individually owned. So your best bet is to wait until you get there and find out what the staff there is willing to do for you. If asking for an out-of-order room doesn't work, ask what other deals they might be able to offer you. If they aren't willing to budge on price, try to negotiate some freebies, like free breakfast.


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If you book your room through a site where you prepay, you can at least try to negotiate for freebies. It doesn't hurt to ask.

By the way, if you're looking to save money on hotel rooms, and out-of-order hotel rooms aren't quite your speed, try Hotwire.com. This site specializes in getting rid of excess rooms for various hotels. You pick a location and a particular number of stars, and the site will give you all the prices for available hotel rooms in that area at that level. However, the site won't give you the name of the hotel until you pay. That's because the discounts can be so good (in some cases hundreds of dollars) that the hotels don't necessarily want to associate their name with those prices.

Dynamic pricing
This one is a little more complicated. Due to a little-known trick called "dynamic pricing," you could be charged a different amount for the same item as someone else when shopping online. The price offered by a Web site depends on the time of day, the availability of the product and whether you've looked at the item online before, which is traceable through the use of cookies. Sometimes, when you have looked at an item online before, retailers will charge you a slightly higher price the next time you view that item, because they already know that you are interested.

In order to take advantage of dynamic pricing and get the best possible deal, do multiple searches on several price-comparison sites in different browsers (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox) and even on separate computers to check if prices vary. You can also clear out cookies from your Web browser to cover up those electronic footprints.

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EVIRONMENTALIST is urging Winchester residents to join a growing network of people fighting to reduce the city's waste.

Giles Gooding said more than 2,000 people in the district have signed up to Winchester's Freecycle Group, which the 37-year-old set up in July last year with the aim to reduce the amount of the city's rubbish going to landfill.

The email list exchanges a range of items between its members, which means homes are found for goods that would otherwise be consigned to the rubbish bin. Dehumidifiers, speakers, Hoovers and beds have been among the goods offered to list members, in the last fortnight.

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Mr Gooding, said: "When I came across the idea I thought it was good because there's lots of things people don't want. It's not necessarily things of great value.

"People buy things, fashions change and people don't then want them. Lots of them are then just taken to the dump. Freecycle just prevents them from doing that and the extra carbon footprint associated with creating new products.

"It's a local community. I like the fact that people are helping each other. Most people join the group to help other people.

"We have had one or two businesses who have not been honest about what they're doing. Some people take things to sell on, which is not what the group is really about.

"I'd urge people to consider Freecycle when they are chucking perfectly good items out. There's always some out there that will want it!"

Clare Read, a Freecycle member from Alresford, said she has used the community to get items as varied as guttering, bike helmets and an acoustic guitar kit.

The 47-year-old added: "I think it's absolutely brilliant. It stops landfill sites being filled and it makes use of something.

"You see cars being advertised and electrical equipment that's broken! I have heard that people have furnished whole flats from the list."

Mike Mordecai, co-ordinator of Winchester Friends of the Earth, said: "We live in a throwaway society and recycling makes sense so it's something we would encourage.

"The more people that recycle the better, whether that's rubbish or things that are perfectly useable to someone else."

The Freecycle Network was launched in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tuscon, Arizona, and to save the desert landscape being taken over by landfills.

The network has around four million members in more than 4,000 regional groups mainly in America, Europe and Australasia.

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FreeCycle

The Freecycle Network (often abbreviated TFN) is non-profit organization registered in the state of Arizona, USA, that organizes a worldwide network of "gifting" groups, aiming to divert reusable goods from landfill. It provides a worldwide online registry, and coordinates the creation of local groups and forums for individuals and non-profits to offer and receive free items for reuse or recycling, promoting gift economics as a motivating cultural outlook. "Changing the world one gift at a time" is The Freecycle Network's official tagline.

Contents [hide]
1 Background
2 Successes
3 Controversies
3.1 Corporate sponsorship
3.2 Management structure
3.3 Trademark
3.4 Deletion of groups
3.5 Free speech
4 Notes and references
5 See also
6 External links
6.1 Official sites
6.2 News and media



[edit] Background
The organization originated as a project of RISE Inc., a nonprofit corporation, to promote waste reduction in Tucson, Arizona. RISE subsequently handed it over to the project leader, Deron Beal. Beal set up the first Freecycle e-mail group for the citizens of Tucson. The concept has since spread to over 50 countries, with thousands of local groups and millions of members.

Each local group currently exists as a Yahoo! Groups mailing list run by volunteer moderators. TFN encourages the formation of new groups, subject to approval by regional New Group Approvers (NGAs). Groups approved by TFN are listed at the official website, can use the name and logo, and are subject to rules enforced by a structure of global and regional GOAs (Group Outreach Assistance). TFN originally planned to move in 2004, then in 2005, and then in early 2006 from Yahoo! Groups to a centralized site, custom-made for the purpose; these plans have now been rescheduled for 2007.


[edit] Successes
TFN has grown rapidly into a global organization of over 3800 (October 2006) local chapters [1], and passed the 2 million member mark in February 2006 [2]. As of August 14, 2007, the membership stands at 3,354,732 across 4,001 communities. The original idea has since been copied and varied by hundreds of similar groups around the world.


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[edit] Corporate sponsorship
In February 2005, Deron Beal accepted TFN's first corporate support of $130,000 from Waste Management, Inc..[3] This polarized opinion amongst group moderators.[citation needed] Some saw it as a sensible way of raising funds from a company Beal describes as America's "largest recycler", but others saw it as selling out to corporate interests. Further criticism was provoked by a decision to take paid Google ads on the TFN web site, contrary to the initial stated principles, and by Beal's green ambassador role for WMI.[4] A second grant from Waste Management was received by TFN in February 2006 in the amount of $100,000, bringing total funding to $230,000 from WMI.[citation needed]


[edit] Management structure
Further criticism has focused on the close-knit friends-and-family board structure, which delayed full registration as a non-profit. Although set to a nominal limit of 15, to date it has been limited to founder Deron Beal (chairperson and treasurer), his wife Jennifer Columbus (vice chairperson) and friend Jolie Sibert (secretary), prompting accusations of nepotism. Beal defends this as a necessary interim measure whilst the organization grows rapidly.[citation needed]


[edit] Trademark
Beal has been criticized for vigorously defending TFN's trademark, at the expense of closing down functioning community groups and imposing precise rules on logos and language for groups. Beal insists this is solely to prevent commercial interests taking the name and establishing an inappropriate freecycle.com. Critics claim that it could equally be protected from corporate abuse by establishment as a generic term. A formal trademark opposition [5] was filed in January 2006. FreecycleSunnyvale filed a lawsuit in federal court against The Freecycle Network [6] in January 2006. An injunction was granted against Sunnyvale Free's group moderator Tim Oey in May 2006 for allegedly disparaging the TFN trademark.[7] This injunction was stayed in July 2006 and was eventually dissolved by the Ninth Circuit in September 2007[8]. During 2006, in order to defend their trademark TFN also pursued other free recycling groups who either mentioned the term "freecycle" or allegedly had "confusingly similar derivations thereof", [9], and made similar threats to a UK community arts festival in 2007 [10]

The term "freecycle" is speculated to have first been used by David Hoekstra [11] "Salvager Dali" in Toronto.[1] The concept and term "FreeCycle" were used and trademark asserted by Hemp Online Inc in 2000.


[edit] Deletion of groups
TFN has removed from YahooGroups many groups not registered, or subsequently de-registered, on their web directory of Freecycle groups. The Freecycle Network cites "refusing to comply with its practices and direction" as the reason for this. Group moderators receive cease-and-desist emails and a request made to Yahoo! to close the group account. The criteria for action, to quote from a TFN warning e-mail, "trademark-protected Freecycle name and logo, as well as any and all copyrighted texts, graphics, rules, and guidelines, in any part of the group including the title, or its URL". However, moderators report being offered no reason associated with the e-mail announcing imminent removal. Deleted groups are often replaced by so-called "astroturf" groups, set up by a central team of interim moderators (IMods).


[edit] Free speech
Free speech advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 38 law professors filed an Amicus brief [12] to oppose a trademark infringement lawsuit TFN filed against Tim Oey. The basis for the opposition is that the lawsuit violates First Amendment rights. Separately Lawrence Lessig, Jimmy Wales, and some other law professors filed a second amicus brief [13] also supporting Tim Oey.

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Leavenworth, Washington
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Leavenworth, Washington

Location of Leavenworth, Washington
Coordinates: 47°35′47″N 120°39′55″W / 47.59639, -120.66528
Country United States
State Washington
County Chelan
Area
- Total 1.3 sq mi (3.2 km²)
- Land 1.2 sq mi (3.2 km²)
- Water 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km²)
Elevation 1,171 ft (357 m)
Population (2000)
- Total 2,074
- Density 1,675.6/sq mi (647.0/km²)
Time zone Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)
- Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP code 98826
Area code(s) 509
FIPS code 53-38845GR2
GNIS feature ID 1521981GR3

Leavenworth's main street reflects its modelling on a Bavarian villageLeavenworth is a city in Chelan County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,074 at the 2000 census.

Contents
1 History
2 Geography
3 Demographics
4 External links
5 Notes



[edit] History
Leavenworth was officially incorporated on September 5, 1906. A small timber community, it became the headquarters of the Great North Railroad in the early 1900s. The railroad relocated to Wenatchee in the 1920s, greatly affecting Leavenworth's economy. The city struggled until 1962, when the Project LIFE (Leavenworth Improvement For Everyone) Committee was formed to transform the city into a mock Bavarian village to revitalize its economy.[1] In this same vein, Leavenworth is home to the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, which opened in 1995 and contains more than 5,000 nutcrackers dating from prehistoric to modern.[2] Leavenworth's annual Oktoberfest celebration is claimed to be one of the most attended in the world outside Munich, Germany.[3] or the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest held in Ontario, Canada where attendance last year (2006) was expected to top 700,000.


[edit] Geography
Leavenworth is located at 47°35′47″N, 120°39′55″W (47.596341, -120.665224)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²). 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.80% is water.


[edit] Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 2,074 people, 899 households, and 543 families residing in the city. The population density is 645.8/km² (1,675.6/mi²). There are 1,107 housing units at an average density of 344.7/km² (894.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 93.64% White, 0.10% African American, 1.45% Native American, 0.34% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 3.04% from other races, and 1.35% from two or more races. 6.17% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 899 households out of which 28.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.4% are married couples living together, 10.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 39.5% are non-families. 32.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 16.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.31 and the average family size is 2.93.

In the city the population is spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 25.0% from 45 to 64, and 18.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 88.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $35,692, and the median income for a family is $48,347. Males have a median income of $35,165 versus $23,854 for females. The per capita income for the city is $18,709. 8.3% of the population and 5.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 9.5% of those under the age of 18 and 12.6% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Pakistan strongman Pervez Musharraf stepped down as army chief Wednesday after more than nine years in that position, handing control of the military to Gen. Ishfaq Parvez Kayani, former head of Pakistan's notorious intelligence agency, the ISI. More on that in a moment.

Musharraf's resignation as army chief is to be applauded as a step in the right direction in re-establishing democracy, although analysts point out that this is more of a cosmetic exercise as long as he continues holding on to the office of president. Musharraf may come from the military, but he's wasted no time learning the tricks of sly politicians.


"He has cleverly accumulated all the powers of martial law administrator in that office, with the authority to remove any civilian government at any time," said Sajjan M. Gohel, a specialist on Pakistan with the London-based Asia-Pacific Foundation.


To pacify Washington, who has been generous in funding Musharraf's government to the tune of $10 billion since 2001, the Pakistani president announced that the elections planned for January 2008, would proceed as planned. But critics say these elections will be a sham.


Says Gohel: "Washington and London must insist that all the judges in the Supreme Court Musharraf illegally sacked and replaced with handpicked puppets on Nov. 3, are reinstated, the subservient caretaker government and election commissioner are replaced by genuinely impartial ones, the original constitution is fully restored, all the thousands detained without charge are released, and all the independent television stations he closed are allowed to operate freely."


Anything short of that will fail to guarantee free, fair, and transparent elections in Pakistan. "The whole process will be a sham," Gohel told the Middle East Times.


Pakistan's judiciary represented the only branch of government in which the people had faith in, until Musharraf's Nov. 3 coup. "It is crucially important that the West insists Musharraf completely restores that," said Gohel.


"Musharraf is a consummate politician, who in pursuit of personal power has usurped democracy in Pakistan, manipulated the constitution and the entire nation, sold himself as an ally in the war on terrorism, and for which he has handsomely been paid over $11 billion in aid," said Gohel. Yet, all intelligence estimates indicate that Pakistan continues to be at the epicenter for al-Qaida, the Taliban, and the global jihadist movement.


"The West must not allow itself and Pakistan to continue to be hoodwinked by Musharraf," warned Gohel. "He is about to declare himself as president for another term with the assistance of a sham poll and a stacked judiciary, a maneuver designed to continue his dictatorial rule."


According to Gohel, the United States has provided Musharraf with $26 million to ensure that a proper election system was put in place. All of that money has been spent without anyone quite knowing where it went. Senator Tom Daschle, D-SD, led a delegation in October of the National Democratic Institute from Washington to Pakistan and discovered shocking discrepancies in the electoral system.


The European Union has become so disillusioned with Musharraf and skeptical that fair elections will take place that Brussels canceled plans to send election monitors, according to Balthasar Benz the chargé d'affaires of the European Commission delegation in Pakistan.


Again Gohel: "Musharraf had intentionally amended the constitution thereby ensuring that neither Nawaz Sharif nor Benazir Bhutto can aspire to become prime minister again. Courts controlled by Musharraf ensured Sharif's conviction on criminal charges in 1999 and anyone with a conviction is automatically barred from standing for election. Also, under the changes Benazir Bhutto cannot become prime minister as the new rules forbid anyone from holding that office for a third term."


In resigning his position as army chief Musharraf appointed Gen. Kayani, the former head of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency, the ISI.


"Musharraf should beware," said Gohel. Kayani, according to the expert, has kept an open line of communications with Sharif and Bhutto.


Kayani was the only one among all of Musharraf's handpicked military and intelligence chiefs who did not sign the affidavit against the Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Army House sources say that Kayani was the only one who did not utter even a single word.


Kayani, who was partly trained at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is looked upon favorably by the U.S. administration of George W. Bush. It should not pass without notice that during his visit to Pakistan last week, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte had two long meetings with Kayani and only a single cursory formal one with Musharraf. "This would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago," explained Gohel, adding it could be a sign that Washington has accepted that Musharraf is "in meltdown mode" and could be grooming a successor.


The irony - and dilemma - for Washington is that under Kayani's tenure as head of the ISI, both al-Qaida and the Taliban, with whom the ISI has always had close contact, have according to U.S. National Intelligence Estimate become more entrenched in Pakistan.


In backing Kayani over Musharraf Washington could be jumping from the frying pan into the
day after resigning as army chief, Pervez Musharraf was sworn in as a civilian president Thursday, leaving him with vastly reduced powers and Washington with a far more complex Pakistan to deal with in its fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban.

In his inaugural address, Musharraf welcomed the return from exile of his old foes, former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, saying it was "good" for political reconciliation.

However, neither was present at the ceremony in the state palace in Islamabad, and it remained unclear whether the changeover would defuse the threat of a boycott of forthcoming parliamentary elections. Such a move would undercut Musharraf's effort to legitimize his rule through a democratic ballot.

"This is a milestone in the transition of Pakistan to the complete essence of democracy," Musharraf told an audience of government officials, foreign diplomats and military generals. "Elections will be held in January come whatever may."

Bowing reluctantly to pressure at home and abroad, Musharraf, 64, relinquished his military role in a somber ceremony on Wednesday, ending eight years of military rule. He turned over control of the army to Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, 55, a former head of Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence.

The move sets up the potential of competing power centers in Pakistan, with a new army chief separate from the president and the recent return from exile of the country's two main opposition leaders. That is likely to complicate Bush administration anti-terrorism policy in Pakistan, something officials in Washington were hoping to avoid, and one reason they supported Musharraf for so long.

Senior army commanders grumbled increasingly in recent months that Musharraf was so engrossed in his own political survival that he had become distracted from battling the country's spreading insurgency, Western military officials said.

Though finally stepping down as army chief, he is likely to retain much of his old power as a civilian president, fortified by his emergency decree on Nov. 3, and loyalists he handpicked at the top of the military, according to Pakistani officials and analysts.

But in fairly short order, Musharraf, who plunged the nation into political turmoil with his emergency decree and has been a sometimes frustrating partner in Washington's fight against terrorism, will become a diminished figure, they said, a civilian president in a country where traditionally the power lies with an elected prime minister, or the military chiefs who have overthrown them. Musharraf came to power in such a coup.

Though Kayani is considered loyal to the president, the real levers of power will pass to him, and he is believed to favor removing the army from the center of politics, they said.

"Kayani is loyal to Musharraf, but also to Pakistan," one Western military official said. And as much as Washington has supported Musharraf, having a chief of the army on the job full time is a change likely to be welcomed. Bush administration officials have already praised Kayani as someone they can work with.

Kayani, an infantry commander and a graduate of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., has already played a prominent role in cooperating with the United States. He was promoted to full general and made vice chief of army staff in October. He immediately visited units serving on the front lines in Pakistan's tribal areas, and said that sorting out the difficulties plaguing western Pakistan is a priority, a Western military official said.

Even with his new oath of office, Musharraf will confront considerable political challenges. Before giving up his army post, he transferred the power to lift the de facto martial law to the presidency in a decree last week, and so any decision to lift it remains firmly in his hands.

He continues under intense pressure to rescind the decree, which suspended the Constitution and the Supreme Court and has been criticized by opponents and Western diplomats as a blatant move to have his election as president confirmed.

Musharraf is also under pressure to free the senior lawyers and judges who declared his emergency decree illegal and remain under house arrest.

Not least, with parliamentary elections set for Jan. 8, Musharraf also will have to deal with Bhutto and Sharif, the man he overthrew in a coup in 1999.

Both politicians have called for Musharraf's resignation and for changes in the Constitution to curb the president's powers over parliament. As leaders of Pakistan's largest political parties, either could head the next government as prime minister, perpetuating their power struggles with Musharraf as president.

While the military under Kayani is likely to support Musharraf as president, it is unlikely to intervene to save him in further political tests of will, said a former general and political analyst, Talat Masood.

One indication of the mood is a letter that a group of 20 former generals, air marshals and admirals, including Masood, sent this week to Musharraf calling on him to resign as head of state as well as chief of the army.

They called on him to lift the emergency and restore the Constitution, withdraw curbs on the news media and release political prisoners. Imposing the emergency as chief of army staff was bringing the armed forces into disrepute, they said.

One of the hardest things for Musharraf

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ticket purchased in Rhode Island matched the numbers drawn Wednesday night in the multistate Powerball drawing and is worth $151.9 million, the Louisiana Lottery Corp. said.

The Powerball jackpot drops to $15 million for Saturday's drawing.

Matching the first five numbers drawn without matching the Powerball wins a $200,000 prize, and one winning ticket purchased in Louisiana, in Mandeville, matched those.

In the Louisiana Lotto game, players matching all six numbers drawn would have won or shared a $300,000 prize. That prize will grow to an estimated $325,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.

In the Louisiana Lottery's Easy 5 game, there was one winning ticket worth $150,496 sold in St. Martin Parish. The Easy 5 jackpot will be $50,000 on Saturday.

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One of the tickets sold in Rhode Island for the Wednesday Powerball matched all six numbers drawn, which were 8-23-32-37-39 and 38.

That ticket-holder wins the $151.9 million jackpot. The prize now goes to an estimated $15 million for Saturday's drawing.

Five tickets sold in Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina and Rhode Island matched the first five numbers but missed the Powerball. Those ticket-holders win $200,000 each.

keith kerr

CNN Duped by Clinton Plant" - That was what the headlines were reading heading into Thursday morning following the first ever CNN/YouTube Republican Debate, which at times resembled World War III. There were probably no real winners though experts tended to agree that Mike Huckabee performed well. Depending on who you asked, John McCain and Ron Paul also scored points. And for the most part, the two front runners, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, came off rather weak, as did Fred Thompson for that matter. The real winner then - Hillary Clinton.

At 1/3 odds of becoming the next US President, news began surfacing late Wednesday night that Mrs. Clinton may have planted a retired gay Colonel in the audience to ask a question concerning gays in the military.

It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. He's also part of a film production crew trying overturn the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

Anderson Cooper acknowledges that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association.

Did CNN know that retired Brigadier General Keith Kerr was a plant from the Hillary Clinton campaign? The cable news network is so friendly to the Clintons that many have dubbed it as the "Clinton News Network" and there are many that will not take it serious as a news organization because of what they perceive to be a bias.

Keith Kerr a Hillary Clinton Plant: Joe Scarborough Declares CNN Knew

Last night's CNN YouTube debate certainly won't help that image. The network gave a ton of airtime to Keith Kerr without disclosing that he is tied to the Clinton campaign. The network plated dumb, claiming that they had no idea that was the case.

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Few are buying that. MSNBC host ripped into the network this morning according to Newsbusters. He said on his show, "I'm not blaming Anderson Cooper. He can't do everybody's work for him. But it is total crap to suggest that nobody in CNN knew that this guy was from the Clinton steering committee, and that somehow Bill Bennett, a conservative that -- let me tell you -- does not check the Hillary Clinton gay and bisexual and transsexual Americans for Hillary Clinton steering committee list every morning. If he knows, don't tell me that somebody at CNN doesn't know, and don't tell me that Hillary Clinton's campaign didn't know."

Ouch! CNN gave a quasi-apology last night on air after they were caught. Since then they seem frightened of the issue. They now look like they are in bed with the Clinton campaign completely

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Alexandra Nechita
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Born August 27, 1985 (1985-08-27) (age 22)
Vaslui, Romania
Nationality Romanian, American
Movement Cubism
Influenced by Pablo Picasso
Alexandra Nechita (b. August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist.


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She was born in Vaslui, three months after her father, Niki Nechita, escaped from Communist Romania. She and her mother, Viorica Nechita, waited two years to rejoin him in the United States. The family settled in California, where her father found work as a lab technician, and her mother as an office manager.

At the age of two, she was working with pen and ink and by five was working with watercolors. Upon her seventh birthday, oil and acrylics were her tools. She had her first solo exhibition at the age of eight at the public library in Whittier, Los Angeles County.

She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and has appeared with numerous celebrities, including Bill Clinton. Her talent led to her being known as the "Petite Picasso" as her work, to some, resembles that of the master; she has been known as a child prodigy until late in her teens.

In November of 1999, Alexandra was selected by the World Federation of United Nations Associations to lead a Global Arts Initiative involving more than 100 nations. In 2005, Alexandra Nechita unveiled her United Nations Peace Monument for Asia in Singapore. It is to be set up for display at the Catholic High School.

She dedicated a theatre at the Lutheran High School of Orange County, which was her high school. It is known as the Nechita Center for the Arts, and has 740 seats.


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As a 7-year-old diagnosed with a severe form of leukemia, Naomi Bartley found support and love from her family and inspiration from letters sent by friends.

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She kept those letters in a box she called a hope chest. Twenty years later, after a bone marrow transplant that saved her life, Bartley is using hope chests as a theme for a fundraising gala to raise awareness and money to fund cancer research for children.
Bartley, a Wheaton resident and medical researcher, helped organize the Naomi's Hope for a Cure fundraiser. The Nov. 16 gala will include a live auction of several large wooden hope chests signed and painted by celebrities and politicians, including former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara; U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

''You keep all those memories, pictures and things you keep near and dear to you in the chest," Bartley said. ''... It symbolizes the hope of finding a true cure for kids with cancer, and hopefully it will personally mean something to [the people who purchase] them."

The hope chest signed by Bush was created by Oklahoma artist Denise Duong. Adorned with a painted American flag, the chest includes part of the former president's inaugural speech and photos of Bush in World War II, as president and during his recent skydiving adventure. There is also a painting of a robin in memory of Bush's daughter Robin, who lost her battle with childhood cancer at age 3.

The proceeds will benefit Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, a Kensington-based nonprofit led by Ruth Hoffman, Bartley's mother, and created in 1970 for childhood cancer victims and their families.

Hoffman was able to get the politicians involved through C-Change, an organization made up of leaders in government, business and nonprofits. C-Change works toward promoting early detection for cancer and eventually a cure for the disease. The organization is co-chaired by Barbara and George H.W. Bush, and Feinstein is vice chairwoman.

Bartley was inspired by her own battles with cancer as a child in London, Ontario, and again when she was 24. Her second bout was a direct result of the chemotherapy and full-body radiation she received as a child, she said.

Treatments, she said, that are outdated and too harsh for children.

''Treatment they were using for kids with cancer hasn't developed since I was there," she said. ''... So many research dollars are going to adults over kids."

While Bartley has survived both battles, she has experienced other negative health effects, including high blood pressure, a heart condition and possible infertility.

The idea of auctioning hope chests to raise money developed from her passion to help other children. She enlisted Alexandra Nechita, the first artist for the project, at a Rockville art exhibit. Once Nechita agreed to paint and sign a hope chest for the fundraiser, it was easy to find support from other American and Canadian artists and large corporate sponsors, Bartley said.

The idea of combining art and a fundraiser for scientific research seemed natural for Bartley, who became well known at a young age in Ontario for playing the violin. She came from a musical family, and when she and her brother, Nathan, were growing up, the siblings received plenty of attention, awards and scholarships for their musical skills.

The connection between the two was strengthened when Nathan, then 9, donated bone marrow that would save his sister's life. Without the transplant, she stood little chance of survival. With it, doctors said the 7-year-old still wouldn't live to see her eighth birthday.

Hoffman, who now lives in Kensington, calls Bartley's survival a ''miracle," and said money raised through the gala might help children live a normal life after cancer.

''She doesn't want other children to go through what she had to go through," Hoffman said.

Tina Duong, a former co-worker of Bartley who is the sister of artist Denise Duong, said she was inspired by Bartley's passion to help organize the gala event with her and impressed by Bartley's ability to lift other people's spirits.

''Her passion for this cause moves people," Duong said.

If you go

Tickets are still available for Naomi's Hope for a Cure gala event, which will start 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Washington, D.C. Proceeds will go to Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation's research initiative in Kensington. The gala dinner will include a silent auction and live auction, including 15 wooden ''hope chests," all hand-painted by artists or signed by celebrities. The event is black tie optional. Tickets are $250 per person or $2,500 for a table of 10. For more information, visit www.Hope4aCure.net.

Gentle breezes blew and the moon shined through the clouds as 350 people entered the Lower Delaware Autism Foundation's Blue Jean Ball and Fall Art Show at Nassau Valley Vineyards Saturday, Oct. 20. They helped raise more than $34,000 to provide support and programs for people with autism.


The stage was set for fun from the start as many blue-jeaned women wore glittering tops of silver and gold, and some of the men took the name of the Blue Jean Ball quite seriously, wearing their jeans with cummerbunds and tuxedo shirts. The success of the event to benefit the Lower Delaware Autism Foundation (LDAF) was ensured with wonderful artwork, excellent food prepared by Peggy Raley's staff, live music by Love Seed Mama Jump and some glittery bling for everyone.


"Everyone had a great time, the band was tons of fun, the art was beautiful and it all came together to support LDAF's vision and mission," said LDAF Program and Event Coordinator Mary Green.


"The Blue Jean Ball was an amazing show of support of individuals with autism in Sussex County. The sold-out crowd and the artist and sponsor support was more than we could have hoped for," said Green. "It was truly a success for our kids!"


Artists support LDAF


Continuing their local tradition of supporting their community, 24 artists provided works to be sold to the first taker and at live auction to benefit LDAF. Artist Meg Landis said she is especially drawn to support LDAF because her autistic son, now attending Cape Henlopen High School, has been part of the Sussex Consortium program for 12 years. Her older daughter worked as a paraprofessional last summer and is now attending St. Mary's College of Maryland.


Other artists who supported LDAF are photographers Diana Bennett, Steven Billups and Richard Tikiob. Painters Abraxas, Matty Adler, Tim Bell, Michelle Byrne, Andrew Criss, Michelle Green, Tara Grim, Kim Klabe, Constance Kollock, Lesley McCaskill, Allene Martinez, Alexandra Nechita, Amanda Ponko, Charles Rowe, Jonathan Spivak, Hugh Thornton and Jack Wiberg contributed to the show. Fabric artists Betsey VonDreele, glassmaker Deb Appleby and pastel artists Nicholas Serratore and Laura Hickman joined them.


The artists generously donated 50 percent of the price of works sold at silent auction and 100 percent of monies earned during the live auction.


Art by young people


Young artists with autism between the ages of 4 and 19 displayed their art works in competition as part of the fall art show, where people attending the Blue Jean Ball selected their favorite from 15 pieces on display. Reed Bellinger, 8-years-old, won the art competition with his colorful abstract painting, "Imagination." His parents donated the painting to the live auction, where it sold for $2,300.


Other young artists whose works were displayed are Damien Pulley, Sammy Kelly, Sean Mackesey, Derek Eliason, Brian Wejrowski, Trevor Scott, Mark Kleinstuber, Kevin Dubbs, Reed Bellinger, Charlie Permint, Timothy Magee, Alan Fogleman and Brian Beitzel.


One touching piece was submitted by 8-year-old Alan Fogleman who worked with his father to create a glass bead.


The bead was displayed in a case, hanging from a piece of metal shaped like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle � being the symbol of the LDAF motto, "Fitting the pieces . . . Together."


Next to the display was a small book, unnoticed by many, which had photographs of Alan at work. On the first page was a story told by Alan, "Passing the Flame From Father to Son."

"I watched my Daddy make beads for a long time," Alan said, and explained about how his father taught him what he needed to know to make the bead in the hot flame.

"When I finished the bead it made me feel tingly inside because I never gave up."

Perhaps that's what the LDAF Blue Jean Ball and Fall Art Show was really about � people feeling tingly inside because they were helping LDAF and LDAF never gives up.

dlife

WESTPORT, Conn., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Most Americans look forward to sitting down to a delicious Thanksgiving dinner. But for the 21 million Americans with diabetes and their families, friends, and hosts, Thanksgiving often means challenges and anxiety over what to eat and how to eat healthy. But not this year, thanks to the "dLife Holiday Helpline," the first-ever resource to help people prepare a diabetes-friendly Thanksgiving meal, provided by dLife, the #1 destination for diabetes information, inspiration and connection.
The dLife Holiday Helpline will be staffed with knowledgeable Certified Dietitians and Diabetes Educators who will answer questions via an online forum, and provide tips on how to make standard Thanksgiving fare healthier for people with diabetes. This free service can be accessed through the dLife Holiday Helpline web portPlace oil in the bottom of a saucepan.

Drain mushrooms, discard the juice, and add mushrooms to the saucepan. Cook over medium heat until lightly browned, stirring occasionally.

In a separate bowl, mix together broth, cornstarch, dry milk, and pepper until smooth.

Then add to mushrooms and cook over medium heat until thickened, stirring occasionally.

Mix the chicken and pimiento into the sauce and reheat to serving temperature.
A low carb recipe. ich also features over 8,000 recipes, more than 30 streaming step-by-step cooking videos and a comprehensive list of holiday-related tips. The dLife Holiday Helpline is free, and available 24/7, including last-minute advice on Thanksgiving Day.
Eating right is the biggest challenge for people with diabetes and those who cook for them. According to a recent dLife survey, 63 percent of participants indicated "food-related" challenges as the biggest obstacle in managing their diabetes. The holidays - with carbohydrate heavy traditional favorites, rich foods, desserts and cocktails - present even greater problems. Nearly half (44 percent) of people with diabetes said avoiding food temptations is the hardest part about the holidays.
"As a chef, I find it a great professional challenge to makeover a notoriously unhealthy meal like Thanksgiving dinner, so that it can become healthy fare enjoyed by all around the table," said celebrity chef Michel Nischan, who regularly appears on dLifeTV. "Having two sons with diabetes, I appreciate that the dLife Holiday Helpline will be staffed with trained professionals who can work with the household chef as they prepare to make their Thanksgiving enjoyable, tasty and healthy for everyone invited to their table."
November also marks National Diabetes Awareness Month, a condition that affects 7 percent of Americans. More than 41 million others have a condition called "pre-diabetes," and are at greater risk for developing diabetes.
"Changing habits is one of the hardest things to do when you are diagnosed with diabetes, and good eating habits present one of the biggest obstacles," said Donna Rice, President of the American Association of Diabetes Educators. "The dLife Holiday Helpline helps those with diabetes overcome that very obstacle, making it an innovative resource for patients and their families."
After nearly 40 years of living with diabetes, dLife founder Howard Steinberg knows firsthand the difficulty of managing temptations of holiday meals. "I know how hard the holidays can be for people with diabetes. The anxiety of sitting at a table where there are little choices that don't raise your blood sugar can take all the fun out of the festivities. As the top destination for those living with diabetes, dLife always strives to become the best possible resource to support these challenges people with diabetes face each day. We are hopeful the dLife Holiday Helpline will make Thanksgiving worry-free and diabetes-friendly."
About dLife - For Your Diabetes Life
dLife is the only multimedia network serving the diabetes community. Its award winning media outlets include, dLifeTV - a weekly lifestyle series, and dLife.com - the #1 online destination for diabetes information, inspiration, and connection. The dLife.com Viewing Room offers original streaming video content - unique and entertaining information for people who have diabetes, prediabetes, or have a family member with diabetes. With over 8,000 recipes and 10,000 pages of superior content, dLife.com is the first of its kind. dLife also includes the dLife Diabetes Minute on radio, the dLife Connect direct mail program, and much more.
dLifeTV airs every Sunday on CNBC at 7:00PM ET, 6:00PM CT, and 4:00PM PTI'm pleased to share with you another new writing opportunity I have been given with one of the premier health web sites on the Internet today--dLife. They were impressed by my writing skills and strong blog following and asked me to contribute to their Food and Nutrition section on a monthly basis. It was such an honor to have this opportunity to write about livin' la vida low-carb in an arena that is not necessarily pro-low-carb.

My very first column is now available for you to read: "Research Round-Up: The Case For Low-Carb." I shared about how the new Gary Taubes book Good Calories, Bad Calories has brought low-carb back to the forefront again and that some very exciting research has come out in support for low-carb living in 2007.

These dLife columns will feature much of the research showing why carbohydrate restriction is healthy and why high-carb, low-fat diets are not. My column for November will take a closer look at the high-carb diet studies showing how this nutritional approach leads to a decline in health. You'll enjoy that one! :)

Be sure to tell everyone about Jimmy Moore's new dLife column!

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It's no picnic living on a certain block of Humboldt Street in Denver. Just ask anonymous."If it's not the parties on the front porch late at night or the screaming drunken domestic disputes also on the front porch also late at night, it would have to be the regular visits from the police that makes these people completely obnoxious to live next to," says a posting on the new Web site rottenneighbors.com.

Here's the stuff that real estate agents probably wouldn't know and might not tell you anyway: how the dogs across the street poop in everybody else's yard, whether those 15 kids all live in that one house and what about the four cars on blocks in that guy's driveway?

"I think it rocks," said Carolyn Sandberg, a broker associate with Metro Brokers, when she heard about the site. "I'm going to tell buyers to look at this. Then they can do their own research and can't blame you later."

A home buyer tool, too

Just plug in an address, a zip code or a city, then click on the little red houses that pop up to see what people are saying about a neighborhood, a neighbor - or you.

The Web site, created by San Diego resident and unhappy neighbor Brant Walker, allows people to take nameless swipes and touts itself as a research tool for home buyers.

Under "What We Believe," the site says, "If a bad neighbor exists, this information should be made freely and easily available to everyone," and "The more bad neighbors you add, the better the service."

Read all about it: Man throws television through the living room window! Neighbor parks boat on street year-round! Twenty-somethings party 2 4/7!

"Any nice day during the year, you can count on living next to a bar complete with loud music, drunken bullies that act like 12-year-olds and a steady flow of people and cars," one local posting says. "Sure to continue bringing down property values all around them!"

Speaking of property values - don't you hurt your own by dumping on the neighbors? Absolutely, said Susan Mathews, a broker with Perry & Co.

"Everything changes all the time. Their neighbors could be someone else tomorrow," she said. "I don't think this would be the smartest way to judge where to buy a house."

If there's a lesson here besides "buyer beware," it's how easy it is to be blunt with no names attached.

It's not all bad stuff

"Kids are allowed to roam neighborhood unsupervised, stealing and causing trouble, then call clueless adults on cell phone when they get in trouble. Witless adults then threaten to kill, stab or attack people," an Elkhart Street resident wrote.

"RV is parked in the street all year long. Revs motorcycles and blares music all the time," a posting says about a neighbor in Aurora. The site allows viewers to zero in on satellite maps to see detail - right down to the RV parked on the street.

But despite the Web site's name, some people have nothing but good things to say about the place they live.

"I grew up here and my parents will be moving soon. I'm kind of sad. It was a great place to grow up," someone wrote about their home on Bryant Street near West Scott Place.

Recent East Coast transplants gush over Willow Creek, "Simply the Best Neighborhood on the planet!"

And an Aurora resident writes, "All our neighbors are like family, really close, and always welcoming new neighbors. They always check with us prior to a large event, and we can't say enough good things about this area! We are truly blessed."

November 27, 2007 - Posting complaints about your neighbors is just one part of what's known as on-line shaming. In June, ABC7 told you about people who embarrass their friends and enemies on the web in our special segment "Cyber Smearing." Now, a cybersmearing site that attacks "rotten neighbors," is at 41 million users and counting.

Litter . Drugs. Inconsiderate neighbors. Now people are logging on to air out their dirty neighborhood laundry. The website is called RottenNeighbor.com.

Some local complaints get downright nasty. One on the city's Northwest Side claims that neighbors are dealers, junkies and --- we can't print the last descriptive. The complaint alleges people yelling obscenities, fighting and leaving used needles in the alley. This neighbor did not post the complaint but says it's true.

"I have been here 5 years and it affects me because I have little ones," said Angelina Barreia, neighbor.

The website was created by a San Diego web designer over the summer. He had rotten neighbors of his own.

"Some real estate agents don't want it, they don't like it, think it will hurt their business. People looking to buy homes love it. Some people looking to sell homes think it will bring their values down," said Brant Walker, RottenNeighbor.com.

The Chicago Association of realtors discourages homeowners from using the site - even though exact addresses are usually not listed, users can zoom all the way down to specific blocks and homes, with Google satellite map imagery.

"If you complain about your street or your condo building -- and you complain publically about it -- you are going to create concern from potential buyers, which, in turn, can effect the value not only of your neighbor's unit but your unit as well," said Michael Golden, Chicago Association of Realtors.

Real estate agents say neighbors should try to talk to each other face to face - or mediate problems with a condo or neighborhood association. You can also call your alderman or police about serious issues instead of telling the world on line.

"To me it seems almost caddy - like 'I am telling on you,'" said Gerilyn Gordan.

These college students in Lincoln Park don't think posting problems will have any effect. One of their neighbors is on it for allegedly playing loud music until 4 a.m.

"They are not going to stop because someone blogged about them," said Kateland Vandiver.

What sounds like scoop could be false.

"We all know there are at least three sides to every story and basically you are getting just one side," said Golden.

Grant Dietmeier, for example, disputes a posting about excessive noise on his block.

"I think its a great place to live. Very safe, very quiet, wonderful neighborhood," said Dietmeier.

Walker said video and pictures will be added to his site in a few weeks. As far as legal liability goes for smearing online- only the person posting false information can be sued and, in most cases, laws don't hold websites accountable

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Emily Sander, an 18-year old college student who led a double life as a porn star named "Zoey Zane" has not been found yet. Police are still searching as of Thursday.

Sander, a student at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, recently signed a contract for an online website, ZoeyZane.com, and told her parents about it during Thanksgiving. Sander also recently broke up with her boyfriend, because he did not approve. Many consider him to be a suspect.

A car that police believe to have been used by Israel Mireles, who is wanted in Sander's disappearance was found late Tuesday, hundreds of miles from where the suspect was last seen.

Police said there was no sign of the suspect or Sander and that she may have been the victim of a violent crime inside a local motel room.

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white hunter convicted of killing a Hmong man while both stalked squirrels was sentenced in Marinette to the maximum 69 years in prison by a judge who rejected his claims of self-defense.

Prosecutors said prejudice was James Nichols' true motive in shooting Cha Vang and stabbing him five times in the neck. He was recorded in police interviews as saying that Hmong people are bad, mean and "kill everything" and that "they go for anything that moves."

In court, Nichols, 29, turned to Vang's widow, Pang Vue, and said, "I am very sorry for what happened." She bent over, put her face in her hands and began to weep.


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A couple accused of kidnapping their 20-year-old daughter on the eve of her wedding pleaded guilty in Provo to a reduced charge and a judge ordered mental-health professionals to evaluate them for actions he called "clearly irrational."

Julia Redd, 58, and husband Lemuel, 60, pleaded guilty to custodial interference, a misdemeanor, capping the legal end of a family spat over their daughter Julianna's choice for a husband.

The plea spared them jail time.

The judge sentenced the parents to three years of probation and ordered them to pay $2,000 for the cost of a meal that was missed on the eve of the original wedding date.


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Porn link in case of missing student

A missing Kansas college student believed to be the victim of foul play apparently led a double life as an Internet porn star by the name of Zoey Zane.

Nude photos of 18-year-old Emily Sander appeared on a Zoey Zane website before she vanished, and investigators were looking into whether her modeling had anything to do with her disappearance Friday.

Sander's brother, Jacob, confirmed that the nude woman pictured on the site is his sister.

El Dorado Police Chief Tom Boren said FBI and state experts on Internet crime had been called in.

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Web site may have been taken down, but pictures of an upstart porn star named Zoey Zane can still be found on the Internet.

Now investigators in Kansas who have been searching for 18-year-old Emily Sander, a college student missing since Friday, must consider a startling discovery: Sander and Zane are the same person.

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Bedspread Clue in Kansas Teen's DisappearanceSander was last seen leaving a bar in El Dorado, Kan., with Israel Mireles, 24, who has since taken off. Police say Sander met Mireles for the first time at the bar.

Suddenly the girl described by her grandfather as a "sweet," good kid appears to have been leading a secret double life as an aspiring adult movie starlet.

Sander's brother, Jacob Sander, confirmed last night to The Associated Press that his sister was, in fact, Zoey Zane, an actress who describes herself on an introduction to her Web site as "a spunky little teen with a super sexy side."

"As soon as I turned 18, I started shooting for my site," Sander writes under her screen name.

Nikki Watson, who described herself as a close friend of Sander's at Butler Community College in Kansas, first revealed Sander's double life Wednesday, telling the AP that Sander "enjoyed" making movies for the extra money. "Nobody in El Dorado knew besides her close friends," Watson said, adding that Sander recently signed a contract with a pornography company and had just told her parents over the Thanksgiving holiday. Sander's boyfriend, according to Watson, did not approve.

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Car Found in Missing Kansas Student CaseThe FBI and Internet crime experts from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation have been called in to try to determine whether Sander's work as a porn star may have contributed to her disappearance. So far, the investigation by the El Dorado police has uncovered clues suggesting a brutal altercation involving Sander may have taken place at a motel near the bar.

Eyewitnesses told police that they saw Sander leave the Retreat Bar in El Dorado with Mireles late Friday night. It was unclear whether Sander went with Mireles voluntarily, Capt. Justin Phillips told ABC News earlier this week.

On Saturday, the manager at the Italian restaurant where Mireles worked went to the El Dorado motel -- where his employee was temporarily living -- when Mireles failed to show up at work.

DORADO, Kan. - A missing Kansas college student believed to be the victim of foul play apparently led a double life as an Internet porn star by the name of Zoey Zane.

Nude photos of 18-year-old Emily Sander appeared on a Zoey Zane Web site before she vanished, and investigators are looking into whether her modeling had anything to do with her disappearance last Friday.

"She enjoyed it. She is a young teenage girl and she wanted to be in the movies and enjoyed movies. She needed the extra money," Nikki Watson, a close friend of Sander's at Butler Community College, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "Nobody in El Dorado knew besides her close friends."

Sander's brother, Jacob Sander, confirmed that the nude woman pictured on the site is his sister.

El Dorado Police Chief Tom Boren said FBI and state experts on Internet crime have been called in.

"Investigators are aware that Miss Sander was apparently involved in a Web site situation," he said. "Allegations that this may factor into her disappearance are being thoroughly investigated."

Sander was last seen leaving a bar in El Dorado, about 30 miles from Wichita, with a man identified as Israel Mireles, 24, authorities said. Sander and Mireles had met that night at the bar, according to Watson.

After Mireles did not show up Saturday at his job at an Italian restaurant, his employer went to the motel room where he was staying.

"His motel room was found to appear in great disarray, and a large quantity of blood was found in the room," Boren said. "Bed clothing was found to be missing. The police were called."

A nationwide manhunt was under way for Mireles and his 16-year-old girlfriend. A rental car he had been driving turned up Tuesday in Texas, where he had family. Those relatives have been interviewed, El Dorado Detective Justin Phillips said, but he declined to say whether they had seen Mireles or knew where he was.

On Tuesday, authorities released a photo of a white bedspread with a floral design and asked for the public's help in locating it. Divers searched a reservoir near El Dorado on Wednesday.

"Our hopes kind of diminish each day we don't hear from her," the police chief said.

Sander recently signed a contract for the pornographic work on the Web site, and told her parents about it on Thanksgiving, Watson said. Her boyfriend broke up with her because he did not approve, Watson said.

"What you are telling me now is things we have never been told or heard," said Sander's grandmother, Shirley Sander. "I don't know what to say. We have never heard anything like this, and truthfully, I don't believe it."

picchu

Machu Picchu, Peru: Rocks Used to Build Inca City 250 Million Years Old


(LIP-ir) -- The rocks used to build Machu Picchu, Peru's famous Inca citadel, are estimated to be 250 million years old, revealed a recent study done by Peruvian scientists.

The report, contained in the book "Geología en la Conservación de Machu Picchu" (Geology in the Conservation of Machu Picchu), explains that the rocks used to build the Inca city were formed 250 million years ago and five to ten kilometers (3-6 miles) into the earth's crust.

Over time, the rocks came to the surface as fractured granite and were formed into blocks over thousands of years, explains Víctor Carlotto, one of the authors of the book and the Geoscience Director of Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET).

"The work the Incas did consisted of stabilizing these blocks, a difficult task, using terraces and platforms to later construct their buildings and the drainage systems," said Carlotto.

The Peruvian scientist explained that it most likely took thousands of people to move the blocks towards the platforms where the Incas would form the shapes they had in mind.

Although Japanese scientists have stated otherwise, after the research done, Peru's scientists have concluded that there is not the possibility of a landslide that would do away with the "Lost city of the Incas", said Carlotto.
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Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu*
UNESCO World Heritage Site

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View of Huayna Picchu towering above the ruins of Machu Picchu

State Party Peru
Type Mixed
Criteria i, iii, vii, ix
Reference 274
Region† Latin America and the Caribbean
Inscription History
Inscription 1983 (7th Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.
† Region as classified by UNESCO.

Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, "Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca site located at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft) above sea level[1] on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire. It was built around the year 1450 and abandoned a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Forgotten for centuries by all except for a few locals, the site was brought to worldwide attention in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, an American historian. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction, it was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.

Machu Picchu was built in a classic Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Windows located in what is known by archaeologist as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. There are concerns about the impact of tourism to the site as its visitors reached 400,000 in 2003. On September 2007, Peru and Yale University reached an agreement regarding return of artifacts removed from Macchu Picchu in the early 20th century by Hiram Bingham.

Contents
1 History
2 Location
3 Architecture
4 Concerns over tourism
5 Controversy with Yale University
6 Panoramic views
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links



[edit] History

The Intihuatana ("sun-tier") is believed to have been designed as an astronomic clock by the IncasMachu Picchu was constructed around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire, and was abandoned less than 100 years later, as the empire collapsed under Spanish conquest. One theory maintains that Machu Picchu was an Incan "llacta": a settlement built up to control the economy of the conquered regions and that it may have been built with the purpose of protecting the most select of the Incan aristocracy in the event of an attack. Based on research conducted by scholars such as John Rowe and Richard Burger, most archaeologists now believe that, rather than a defensive retreat, Machu Picchu was an estate of the Inca emperor Pachacuti. Johan Reinhard presents evidence that the site was selected based on its position relative to sacred landscape features, especially mountains that are in alignment with key astronomical events.

Although the citadel is located only about 50 miles from Cusco, the Inca capital, it was never found and destroyed by the Spanish, as were many other Inca sites. Over the centuries, the surrounding jungle grew to enshroud the site, and few knew of its existence. On July 24, 1911, Machu Picchu was brought to the attention of the West by Hiram Bingham, an American historian then employed as a lecturer at Yale University. He was led there by locals who frequented the site. Bingham undertook archaeological studies and completed a survey of the area. Bingham coined the name "The Lost City of the Incas", which was the title of his first book. He never gave any credit to those who led him to Machu Picchu, mentioning only "local rumor" as his guide.


View of the city of Machu Picchu in 1911.Bingham had been searching for the city of Vitcos, the last Inca refuge and spot of resistance during the Spanish conquest of Peru. In 1911, after various years of previous trips and explorations around the zone, he was led to the citadel by Quechuans who were living in Machu Picchu in the original Inca infrastructure. Bingham made several more trips and conducted excavations on the site through 1915. He wrote a number of books and articles about the discovery of Machu Picchu.

Simone Waisbard, a long-time researcher of Cusco, claims Enrique Palma, Gabino Sánchez and Agustín Lizárraga left their names engraved on one of the rocks there on July 14, 1901, having rediscovered it before Bingham. Likewise, in 1904 an engineer named Franklin supposedly spotted the ruins from a distant mountain. He told Thomas Paine, an English Plymouth Brethren Christian missionary living in the region, about the site, Paine's family members claim. In 1906, Paine and another Brethren missionary named Stuart E McNairn (1867–1956) supposedly climbed up to the ruins.

Bingham and others hypothesized that the citadel was the traditional birthplace of the Inca people or the spiritual center of the "virgins of the suns", while curators of a recent exhibit have speculated that Machu Picchu was a royal retreat.

It is thought that the site was chosen for its unique location and geological features. It is said that the silhouette of the mountain range behind Machu Picchu represents the face of the Inca looking upward towards the sky, with the largest peak, Huayna Picchu (meaning Young Peak), representing his pierced nose.[citation needed]

In 1913, the site received significant publicity after the National Geographic Society devoted their entire April issue to Machu Picchu. In 1981 an area of 325.92 square kilometers surrounding Machu Picchu was declared a "Historical Sanctuary" of Peru. This area, which is not limited to the ruins themselves, also includes the regional landscape with its flora and fauna, highlighting the abundance of orchids.

Machu Picchu was designated as a World Heritage Site in 1983 when it was described as "an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique testimony to the Inca civilization".[2] On July 7, 2007, Machu Picchu was voted as one of New Open World Corporation's New Seven Wonders of the World.


[edit] Location

Location of Machu Picchu.Machu Picchu is 70 kilometers northwest of Cusco, on the crest of the mountain Machu Picchu, located about 2,350 meters above sea level. It is one of the most important archaeological centers in South America and the most visited tourist attraction in Peru.

From the top, at the cliff of Machu Picchu, there is a vertical precipice of 600 meters ending at the foot of the Urubamba River. The location of the city was a military secret because its deep precipices and mountains were an excellent natural defense. The Inca Bridge, an Inca rope bridge across the Urubamba River in the Pongo de Mainique, provided a secret entrance for the Inca army.


[edit] Architecture

View of Machu Picchu from Huayna Picchu, showing the Hiram Bingham Highway used by buses carrying tourists to and from the town of Aguas Calientes.All of the construction in Machu Picchu uses the classic Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape. The Incas were masters of this technique, called ashlar, in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. Many junctions in the central city are so perfect that not even a knife fits between the stones.

The Incas never used the wheel in any practical manner. How they moved and placed enormous blocks of stones is a mystery, although the general belief is that they used hundreds of men to push the stones up inclined planes.

The space is composed of 140 constructions including temples, sanctuaries, parks and residences (houses with thatched roofs). There are more than one hundred flights of stone steps – often completely carved from a single block of granite – and a great number of water fountains, interconnected by channels and water-drainages perforated in the rock, designed for the original irrigation system. Evidence has been found to suggest that the irrigation system was used to carry water from a holy spring to each of the houses in turn.


Inca wall at Machu PicchuAccording to archaeologists, the urban sector of Machu Picchu was divided into three great districts: the Sacred District, the Popular District, to the south, and the District of the Priests and the Nobility.

Located in the first zone are the primary archaeological treasures: the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Windows. These were dedicated to Inti, their sun god and greatest deity. The Popular District, or Residential District, is the place where the lower class people lived. It includes storage buildings and simple houses to live in.

In the royalty area, a sector existed for the nobility: a group of houses located in rows over a slope; the residence of the Amautas (wise persons) was characterized by its reddish walls, and the zone of the Ñustas (princesses) had trapezoid-shaped rooms. The Monumental Mausoleum is a carved statue with a vaulted interior and carved drawings. It was used for rites or sacrifices.

As part of their road system, the Inca built a road to Machu Picchu. Today, tens of thousands of tourists walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, acclimatising at Cusco before starting on a two- to four-day journey on foot from the Urubamba valley up through the Andes mountain range.


[edit] Concerns over tourism

Temple of the SunMachu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage site. As Peru's most visited tourist attraction and major revenue generator, it is continually threatened by economic and commercial forces. In the late 1990s, the Peruvian government granted concessions to allow the construction of a cable car to the ruins and development of a luxury hotel, including a tourist complex with boutiques and restaurants. These plans were met with protests from scientists, academics and the Peruvian public, worried that the greater numbers of visitors would pose tremendous physical burdens on the ruins.

A growing number of people visit Machu Picchu (400,000 in 2003[3]). For this reason, there were protests against a plan to build a further bridge to the site[4] and a no-fly zone exists in the area.[5] UNESCO is considering putting Machu Picchu on its list of endangered World Heritage Sites.[4]

Damage to the site due to usage has occurred. In September 2000 a centuries-old sundial called Intihuatana, or "hitching post for the sun," was damaged when a 1,000-pound crane fell onto it. The crane was being used by a crew hired by J. Walter Thompson advertising agency to film an advertisement for Cusqueña beer. "Machu Picchu is the heart of our archaeological heritage and the Intihuatana is the heart of Machu Picchu. They've struck at our most sacred inheritance," said Federico Kaufmann Doig, a Peruvian archaeologist."[1]


[edit] Controversy with Yale University

View looking down the terraced steps to the Urubamba riverDuring his early years in Peru, Bingham built strong relationships with top Peruvian officials. As a result, he had little trouble obtaining necessary permission, paperwork, and permits to travel throughout the country and borrow archeological artifacts. Upon returning to Yale University, Bingham had collected around 5,000 such objects to be kept in Yale's care until such time as the Peruvian government requested their return. Recently, the Peruvian government requested the return of all cultural material, and at the refusal of Yale University to do so, began to consider legal action.[6]

On March 14, 2006, the Hartford Courant reported that the wife of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo had accused Yale University of profiting from Peru's cultural heritage by claiming title to more than 250 museum-quality pieces that had been removed from Macchu Picchu by Hiram Bingham in 1912 and had been on display at Yale's Peabody Museum ever since. Some of the material Bingham removed was returned to Peru but Yale has kept the rest saying its position was supported by federal case law involving Peruvian antiquities.[7]

On August 14, 2007, the Hartford Courant reported that Yale had agreed to turn over to Peru an inventory of some 300 museum-quality pieces in its collection. The breakthrough in negotiations between Yale and the Peruvian government may help decide who gets to keep the artifacts. Peru's new President Alan Garcia has appointed a delegation to continue talks with Yale and appears willing to settle the dispute without pursuing the lawsuit threatened by his predecessor, Alejandro Toledo.[8]

On September 19, 2007, the Hartford Courant reported that Peru and Yale University had reached an agreement regarding return of artifacts removed from Macchu Picchu in the early 20th century by Hiram Bingham. The agreement includes sponsorship of a joint traveling exhibition and construction of a new museum and research center in Cusco that Yale will advise Peru on. Yale acknowledges Peru's title to all the excavated objects from Machu Picchu but Yale will share rights with Peru in the research collection, part of which will remain at Yale as an object of continuing study.[9]

jason whitlock

Jason Whitlock
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Jason Lee Whitlock (b. 27 April 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a sportswriter for The Kansas City Star, Fox Sports on MSN, a former writer for AOL Sports, a former contibutor to ESPN and a former radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area.

Contents
1 College and sports
2 Journalism career
2.1 Don Imus incident
3 References
4 External links



[edit] College and sports
Whitlock played offensive tackle at Warren Central High School in Warren Township in the eastern part of Indianapolis, where he blocked for quarterback Jeff George, who later became the first overall pick in the 1990 NFL Draft. He went on to play football at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, lettering as an offensive tackle in 1987 and 1988. He graduated in 1990 with a degree in journalism.


[edit] Journalism career
Whitlock previously worked for the Bloomington Herald Times, The Charlotte Observer and the Ann Arbor News. He has also been published in Vibe Magazine and The Sporting News. He posts regularly on Sportsjournalists.com where, unusually for that message board, he posts under his real name. Whitlock is the celebrity spokesman for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City. Whitlock had guest-hosted several ESPN shows, including Jim Rome Is Burning, and Pardon the Interruption. He also appeared regularly on ESPN's The Sports Reporters until he was fired from ESPN in September 2006.

Whitlock announced the departure of his on-line column from ESPN.com's Page 2 in favor of AOL Sports, but initially expected to continue his television work for ESPN. However, after the announcement, Whitlock was interviewed by sports blog The Big Lead, and in that interview, he disparaged two of his ESPN colleagues. Whitlock labeled Mike Lupica "an insecure, mean-spirited busybody", and referred to Robert "Scoop" Jackson as a "clown", saying that "the publishing of [Jackson's] fake ghetto posturing is an insult to black intelligence." Jackson, like Whitlock, is African-American.

After those comments were made public, Whitlock went noticeably absent from any ESPN television work. He soon announced to The Kansas City Star readers in September 2006 that he was fired altogether from ESPN as a result of his remarks; he wrote that the company doesn't tolerate criticism and acted as they saw fit.[1]

Whitlock's first AOL Sports column was published September 29, 2006. Whitlock's first Fox Sports on MSN column was published August 16, 2007.


[edit] Don Imus incident
On April 11, 2007, Jason wrote a column in the Kansas City Star, in which he weighed in on the Don Imus/Rutgers Women's Basketball controversy. He expressed his belief that while Imus's comments were deplorable, the real focus for the black community should be to minimize the negative impact of pop culture elements such as gangsta rap. Jason expressed a mainly negative opinion of the actions taken against Imus by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, saying "It's an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda."[2] His comments were also featured on several television networks, including CNN, where he was featured alongside Sharpton and accused Jackson and Sharpton of "exploiting these young people, making [...] the problems much bigger than what they should be."[3]


[edit] References
^ Whitlock, Jason. Freedom to speak has price Kansas City Star, 24 September 2006 (Retrieved 27 November 2006).
^ Imus isn't the real bad guy. Kansas City Star. 11 April 2007.
^ CNN. Aired 13 April 2007. Video available online at CNN.com.
Sunday Kickoff: Missouri Has That Winning Feeling
By Connor Ennis

Tags: alabama, Chase Daniel, Ed Orgeron, Heisman Trophy, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee

Playing on a neutral field with a crowd split practically down the middle proved that Missouri was simply better than Kansas, writes Tom Keegan of the Lawrence Journal-World. Joe Posnanski of the Kansas City Star writes that quarterback Chase Daniel was the difference for Missouri, and his Star colleague Jason Whitlock says the Tigers left no doubt that they are worthy of the No. 1 ranking.
Daniel's performance also made the Heisman race quite interesting, according to Heisman Pundit.
Meanwhile, in Norman, Okla., the Sooners' rout of Oklahoma State proves that they are once again a dangerous team, writes Berry Tramel of the Oklahoman, just in time for next week's Big 12 title game.
One fan in Mississippi told Kyle Veazey of The Clarion-Ledger that the Rebels had become "the Vanderbilt of the SEC of old," necessitating Ed Orgeron's firing.
Elsewhere in the SEC, the Tennessean's David Climer writes that Tennessee has been enjoying its role as an underdog. Meanwhile, Cecil Hurt of the Tuscaloosa News writes that Alabama lost to Auburn because the Tide could simply not make plays when it needed to.
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14 comments so far...
1.November 25th,
2007
11:17 am I had an odd mixture of satisfaction and longing at the end of the KU-MU game. Both teams showed their mettle. Still, KU made uncharacteristic mistakes (INTs, missed FGs) early, MU got uncharacteristic penalties, yet there was a ton of accomplished play, as well. MU got in their offensive groove first, and that made all the difference. It would have been a lot of fun to see the fireworks of the fourth quarter from the get-go, because those teams are saturated with play-maker receivers.

Pick up the link w/Joe Posnanski of the KC Star: the whole pillow-fight analogy was apt. Mizzou beats you w/an endless rain of persistent blows, not w/jaw-dropping hammer-to-the-temple stuff (although that Maclin guy is certainly capable of a lethal blow by himself).

― Posted by rmutt1917
2.November 25th,
2007
12:58 pm It will be nice for Missouri to be ranked #1, if only for a week. Unfortunately as we have seen all year long the rating system both among the coaches and the AP writers this years is worthless as an indicator of who the #1 and #2 teams are, but it seems to be a pretty good indicator of who is going down next. Is Missouri Good? Absolutely!, is Kansas Good? Yes, but not that Good, is Oklahoma Good? Absolutely! Are any of them Good enough to be competitive against Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, or Florida? NFW. The Big 12 gets its 15 minutes every year and in many years it is totally underserved (as is the case this year) The Big 12's 15 minutes are up, get off the stage. Or do tehy need to be embarrased by teh likes of Boise State Again?

― Posted by James ASh
3.November 25th,
2007
1:04 pm No doubt that as of Nov 25 Missouri is indeed No. 1 (I say so objectively, I'm

jason whitlock

Jason Whitlock
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Jason Lee Whitlock (b. 27 April 1967 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a sportswriter for The Kansas City Star, Fox Sports on MSN, a former writer for AOL Sports, a former contibutor to ESPN and a former radio personality for WHB and KCSP sports stations in the Kansas City area.

Contents
1 College and sports
2 Journalism career
2.1 Don Imus incident
3 References
4 External links



[edit] College and sports
Whitlock played offensive tackle at Warren Central High School in Warren Township in the eastern part of Indianapolis, where he blocked for quarterback Jeff George, who later became the first overall pick in the 1990 NFL Draft. He went on to play football at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, lettering as an offensive tackle in 1987 and 1988. He graduated in 1990 with a degree in journalism.


[edit] Journalism career
Whitlock previously worked for the Bloomington Herald Times, The Charlotte Observer and the Ann Arbor News. He has also been published in Vibe Magazine and The Sporting News. He posts regularly on Sportsjournalists.com where, unusually for that message board, he posts under his real name. Whitlock is the celebrity spokesman for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City. Whitlock had guest-hosted several ESPN shows, including Jim Rome Is Burning, and Pardon the Interruption. He also appeared regularly on ESPN's The Sports Reporters until he was fired from ESPN in September 2006.

Whitlock announced the departure of his on-line column from ESPN.com's Page 2 in favor of AOL Sports, but initially expected to continue his television work for ESPN. However, after the announcement, Whitlock was interviewed by sports blog The Big Lead, and in that interview, he disparaged two of his ESPN colleagues. Whitlock labeled Mike Lupica "an insecure, mean-spirited busybody", and referred to Robert "Scoop" Jackson as a "clown", saying that "the publishing of [Jackson's] fake ghetto posturing is an insult to black intelligence." Jackson, like Whitlock, is African-American.

After those comments were made public, Whitlock went noticeably absent from any ESPN television work. He soon announced to The Kansas City Star readers in September 2006 that he was fired altogether from ESPN as a result of his remarks; he wrote that the company doesn't tolerate criticism and acted as they saw fit.[1]

Whitlock's first AOL Sports column was published September 29, 2006. Whitlock's first Fox Sports on MSN column was published August 16, 2007.


[edit] Don Imus incident
On April 11, 2007, Jason wrote a column in the Kansas City Star, in which he weighed in on the Don Imus/Rutgers Women's Basketball controversy. He expressed his belief that while Imus's comments were deplorable, the real focus for the black community should be to minimize the negative impact of pop culture elements such as gangsta rap. Jason expressed a mainly negative opinion of the actions taken against Imus by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, saying "It's an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda."[2] His comments were also featured on several television networks, including CNN, where he was featured alongside Sharpton and accused Jackson and Sharpton of "exploiting these young people, making [...] the problems much bigger than what they should be."[3]


[edit] References
^ Whitlock, Jason. Freedom to speak has price Kansas City Star, 24 September 2006 (Retrieved 27 November 2006).
^ Imus isn't the real bad guy. Kansas City Star. 11 April 2007.
^ CNN. Aired 13 April 2007. Video available online at CNN.com.
Sunday Kickoff: Missouri Has That Winning Feeling
By Connor Ennis

Tags: alabama, Chase Daniel, Ed Orgeron, Heisman Trophy, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee

Playing on a neutral field with a crowd split practically down the middle proved that Missouri was simply better than Kansas, writes Tom Keegan of the Lawrence Journal-World. Joe Posnanski of the Kansas City Star writes that quarterback Chase Daniel was the difference for Missouri, and his Star colleague Jason Whitlock says the Tigers left no doubt that they are worthy of the No. 1 ranking.
Daniel's performance also made the Heisman race quite interesting, according to Heisman Pundit.
Meanwhile, in Norman, Okla., the Sooners' rout of Oklahoma State proves that they are once again a dangerous team, writes Berry Tramel of the Oklahoman, just in time for next week's Big 12 title game.
One fan in Mississippi told Kyle Veazey of The Clarion-Ledger that the Rebels had become "the Vanderbilt of the SEC of old," necessitating Ed Orgeron's firing.
Elsewhere in the SEC, the Tennessean's David Climer writes that Tennessee has been enjoying its role as an underdog. Meanwhile, Cecil Hurt of the Tuscaloosa News writes that Alabama lost to Auburn because the Tide could simply not make plays when it needed to.
Link E-mail this
14 comments so far...
1.November 25th,
2007
11:17 am I had an odd mixture of satisfaction and longing at the end of the KU-MU game. Both teams showed their mettle. Still, KU made uncharacteristic mistakes (INTs, missed FGs) early, MU got uncharacteristic penalties, yet there was a ton of accomplished play, as well. MU got in their offensive groove first, and that made all the difference. It would have been a lot of fun to see the fireworks of the fourth quarter from the get-go, because those teams are saturated with play-maker receivers.

Pick up the link w/Joe Posnanski of the KC Star: the whole pillow-fight analogy was apt. Mizzou beats you w/an endless rain of persistent blows, not w/jaw-dropping hammer-to-the-temple stuff (although that Maclin guy is certainly capable of a lethal blow by himself).

― Posted by rmutt1917
2.November 25th,
2007
12:58 pm It will be nice for Missouri to be ranked #1, if only for a week. Unfortunately as we have seen all year long the rating system both among the coaches and the AP writers this years is worthless as an indicator of who the #1 and #2 teams are, but it seems to be a pretty good indicator of who is going down next. Is Missouri Good? Absolutely!, is Kansas Good? Yes, but not that Good, is Oklahoma Good? Absolutely! Are any of them Good enough to be competitive against Ohio State, LSU, Georgia, or Florida? NFW. The Big 12 gets its 15 minutes every year and in many years it is totally underserved (as is the case this year) The Big 12's 15 minutes are up, get off the stage. Or do tehy need to be embarrased by teh likes of Boise State Again?

― Posted by James ASh
3.November 25th,
2007
1:04 pm No doubt that as of Nov 25 Missouri is indeed No. 1 (I say so objectively, I'm

lexus recall

Toyota Motor Sales Announces Safety Recall Campaign On Selected 2006 Lexus GS And IS 250/350 Models. The Lexus recall includes about 34,400 various Lexus models.

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., will launch a Safety Recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The campaign involves approximately 34,400 2006 Lexus GS 300 (2WD and AWD), IS 250 (2WD and AWD) and IS 350 models. A possible crack may form over time in two specific fuel pipes in the engine compartment in the affected models. This condition only affects certain 2006 model year IS 250/350 and GS 300 vehicles.

The condition is due to high-stress areas that may have been created in two specific fuel pipes in the engine compartment during the manufacturing process. Combined with other factors such as the presence of corrosive agents in the fuel, a crack may form in the high-stress areas over time that could lead to fuel leakage. There has been one case reported with no related accidents.

TMS will notify owners of the involved vehicles with a Safety Recall notification via first class mail beginning in early December 2007. Newly designed fuel pipes will replace the affected fuel pipes at no charge to vehicle owners at any Lexus dealership.

Toyota has recalled nearly 300,000 luxury cars after discovering a faulty fuel pipe was installed in the vehicles. The recall list includes only 2006 models of the GS300, IS250, and IS350.

The recalled vehicles were sold in the United States, Canada, and Japan. Toyota issued the recall over two fuel pipes in the engine compartment. They say a crack may form overtime and eventually cause a fuel leak. All owners of the recalled cars will be notified by mail. Owners can take their vehicles to a Lexus Dealership where their faulty fuel pipe will be replaced at no cost.

midwest teen sex show

Sex-Ed Podcast Is Frank,
Funny and Controversial
By ANDREW LAVALLEE
November 8, 2007; Page B1

Episode No. 4 of "The Midwest Teen Sex Show," a new video podcast, opens with a shot of a young woman holding a crying baby. Nearby, two young boys are noisily scuffling and trading noogies. Looking into the camera, the obviously stressed-out mother of three says nothing, but her expression says: How did I get into this mess?

Seconds later, the episode's title, "Birth Control," flashes on the screen.


Nikol Hasler and sons in the 'Birth Control' episode of 'The Midwest Teen Sex Show'; she says the older boys are 'actually very proud of me.'
That sort of wry, pointed presentation has helped the show lure thousands of viewers since its debut this past summer. Some may have been attracted by the provocative title, but this isn't pornography. Instead, it aims to teach teenagers about sex using risqué sketches, explicit language and anecdotes that draw on the teenage experiences of its two 28-year-old creators -- host Nikol Hasler, the aforementioned woman, and Guy Clark, an aspiring filmmaker.

The two felt that existing sexual-education efforts were far too prim -- and boring -- to be useful to teens. Their podcast focuses less on birds-and-bees basics and more on real-life scenarios teens are likely to face.

In "The Older Boyfriend," which warns teenage girls against taking up with a guy in his 20s or 30s, Ms. Hasler says, "You may think you're pretty cool for having an older boyfriend, but what you have to remember is he's not cool for dating you. He's a loser. And you can find plenty of losers to date at school."

More than 50,000 people subscribe to the podcast through iTunes. The "Midwest Teen Sex Show" is listed under iTunes' "Health" category, where it regularly is in the top 10. Yesterday, it was No. 7, compared with Discovery Health Channel at No. 20.

Along with growth has come controversy, particularly among sex-education teachers and therapists. While some praise it for tapping a hard-to-reach audience, others worry it's too racy for younger teens, and still others say the podcast focuses too much on humor and not enough on the facts kids need.

'MIDWEST TEEN SEX SHOW'



• "Birth Control"
• "The Older Boyfriend"
• "Abstinence"
• "Gym Class"
WHAT DO YOU THINK?


Do you find this video podcast refreshing or offensive? Would you let your kids watch? Share your comments on The Juggle blog.Amy Bryant, the editor of Planned Parenthood's site TeenWire.com, says she has mixed feelings about the show. "On the one hand, it's edgy and gets teens talking about their health," she says. She's concerned, however, that the content isn't medically reviewed. (The show's Web site has a disclaimer that "all advice given is simply opinion and should not be taken as fact.")

It's the show's tone, not overall subject matter, that has drawn more criticism. Deborah Roffman, a sex-education teacher who works in Baltimore schools, says, "I can see why it would be very popular with kids. It's daring, it's very open, and it's funny, and it has information that they would find very useful. "At the same time, it is satirical in nature," she says, adding that unless teens are intellectually sophisticated, it's not "the right vehicle." She says further: "The entertainment value of this material is not the same thing as its educational value."

One early-episode joke was a crash course in dealing with viewer feedback and balancing the show's tone with acceptable taste. In "The Older Boyfriend" episode, Ms. Hasler says, "If you're in junior high and you're dating someone who's out of high school, he's a pedophile. And pedophilia's a disease. Would you date someone with cancer? No."

The remark drew a torrent of angry responses on the program's Web site, and in emails. But Ms. Hasler remains unapologetic. "We have no intention of changing our style or changing the type of humor we use," she says. "We're going to make the same jokes that cause the same amount of controversy."

Mr. Clark says his goal was to create a podcast that teens wouldn't feel was condescending -- and in the process show off his cinematography skills to would-be employers. He and Ms. Hasler are friends from high school who reconnected at her last birthday party. He asked her to host the show shortly thereafter. "I suppose that the fact that I had two kids before I was even of the legal drinking age would've been a good indicator that I knew a thing or two about sex," she says. "Plus, I'm really funny."

The podcast's third collaborator is Britney Barber, a 25-year-old Chicago comedian who plays characters in many of the show's sketches and holds a day job at a warehouse. She met Mr. Clark and Ms. Hasler after responding to an ad on Craigslist.

The three don't earn any money on the podcast but are looking for advertisers. For now, they work on a shoestring budget: Episodes are filmed at Ms. Hasler's Waukesha, Wis., home and Mr. Clark's mother's house in Woodstock, Ill., a two-hour drive from Waukesha.


Britney Barber in opening credits for 'Midwest Teen Sex Show' video series
Scenes are often lit with a bare light bulb attached to the ceiling with duct tape. Bric-a-brac from Ms. Barber's apartment is used to outfit many of the sketches: She has loaded up her car to bring a rubber chicken, mannequin bust, tambourines, nunchakus and a fire marshal's hat to shoots.

Ms. Hasler, who works as an office manager for a company that sells vegan products, often draws on her own life in the show. In an episode on abstinence, after making it clear she's skeptical that teens can be persuaded not to have sex, she goes on to say, "You can't just ... decide to have sex with somebody because you think it'll keep them around. Trust me, it won't."

In another episode, focused on the self-consciousness that crops up in gym class, she says, "I hated my body in high school, but if I had that body now, I'd strut around the locker room. I'd go to other high schools and strut around their locker rooms. You should appreciate what you have."

"Definitely, I rely heavily on my own experience," Ms. Hasler says. As a child, she spent time in more than a dozen foster homes, and became sexually active at age 11. She would have benefited from a show like the one she's making, she says. "I want to reach out and shake these kids by their shoulders."

She doesn't shy away from the questions her two older sons -- one is nine years old, the other seven -- have about sex, though not everything on "Midwest" gets discussed.

"I give them as much information as they can handle," Ms. Hasler says. Of her job as the show's host, she adds, "they're actually very proud of me."

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WAUKESHA - A Waukesha mom is creating a stir online with her "Midwest Teen Sex Show." The podcast is regularly one of the most downloaded on iTunes.

Nikol Hasler and her two partners use humor and blunt sarcasm to talk to teens about sexuality.

For example, an episode warns teenage girls not to date older guys. Nikol says to the camera, "You might think you're cool for having an older boyfriend. But what you have to remember is he's not cool for dating you. He's a loser, and you can find plenty of losers to date at school."

It's advice few could argue with. But other episodes are more controversial. In the one titled abstinence, Nikol, with trademark humor, tells teens that abstinence is the way to avoid STD's and unwanted pregnancies.

Later, though they joke around that remaining abstinent is "boring." "Sex takes practice. You can't just read a book to learn how to do it. So how else are you going to learn?" viewers hear before a graphic pops up reading "porn."

Hasler says she's not there to take the place of sex ed classes or parents. "I think people have an idea that we're out there trying to provide education. We're just trying to open communication. We're making them laugh, giving them a place to talk about these things," she told TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Lauren Leamanczyk.

Abstinence groups say while there are many positive aspects to the "Midwest Teen Sex Show," it also sends a mixed message. Some parents think it may go too far. "What's really frightening is to think that you have no control over the message," said mom Karen Schwenke.

Some experts say the information isn't as strong as the entertainment value.

Hasler maintains she's not encouraging sexual activity, just acknowledging that some teens are having sex.

"We just want them to be safe about it she says."

And a message of waiting until your ready is prevalent throughout the online episodes.

The message appears to be getting across. With thousands of online viewers and hundreds of e-mails, Hasler is seeing success she never expected.

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Cayman's equestrian kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves in another competitive afternoon on horseback on Saturday.

The Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation held its penultimate national show at the Equestrian Centre on the Linford Pierson Highway.

Sixteen youngsters competed but only one of them was a boy, Joe Jackson. He came third in the Under�16 equitation event. Coached by centre owner Mary McTaggart, competitors were judged first on grooming and handling before pitting their skills against each other in an equitation event which included jumps.

Show steward Jane van der Bol said: "We had a very successful show with more riders involved than before. We had new handlers in the turn out class that have never entered a show before, like Polly Serrell and Georgina Stockard. They really enjoyed this class and I'm sure we'll see them in the ring at the next show."

The turn out class is judged on the grooming of the horse. The judge looks for a healthy shiny coat, clean face and ears, no dirt under the belly or between the legs and that the handler is presenting their horse properly.

The cross rails class gives young riders a chance to gain experience jumping a course, and for the more advanced riders to warm up their horses for bigger jumps. Sarah Fawkes was the only newcomer in cross rails. She was very excited to show her new skills at jumping and did well. There were eight entries but only four riders made it around the course, one of them was Fawkes.

In the gymkhana, Cari Nelson entered the cup collecting and bending classes in her first show. Van der Bol said: "Cari was a great help throughout the show handing out rosettes to the winners of each class and being involved. Many of the children also participated in walk, trot, lead and the more advanced version, walk, trot, canter, lead and the final gymkhana of the day was the obstacle course."

As a treat for the children, the instructor, Aileen Palmer, set up an apple bobbing race where they ride to a handler who takes their horse, they jump off and bob for an apple and then run to their horse and take it from the handler and then lead their horse as fast as they can to the finish line. All the children participated and it was a nice way to cool off at the end of a show on a blazing hot day.

One of the day's top riders was Van der Bol's daughter Ashley Scaletta, 12, who won the turn out class and got two other seconds on Rambo. Charlotte Hinds, 11, also had a good day, winning the equitation advanced event just ahead of Scaletta.

The final national show is on 15 December and from that the year's national champions will be determined.

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WGCL-TV

Atlanta, Georgia
Branding CBS46
Slogan Atlanta's Channel 46
Channels Analog: 46 (UHF)
Digital: 19 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
Owner Meredith Corporation
Founded June 6, 1971
Call letters meaning We're Georgia's CLear TV (former slogan)
Former callsigns WHAE-TV (1971-1977)
WANX-TV (1977-1984)
WGNX-TV (1984-2000)
Former affiliations Independent (1971-1994)
Transmitter Power 2340 kW/332 m(analog)
49 kW/329 m (digital)
Website www.cbs46.com

WGCL-TV is the CBS television station serving the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia area. Its city of license is Atlanta and the station is owned by Meredith Corporation. Currently it is the largest of any "Big Three" affiliates (ABC, CBS or NBC) on UHF, and the largest CBS affiliate not owned and operated by the network.

Contents
1 History
2 Digital Television
3 Management controversy
3.1 Station timeline
4 Transmission tower
5 Current News Personalities
5.1 Anchors
5.2 Weather
5.3 Sports
5.4 Reporters
6 Former Personalities
7 References
8 External links



[edit] History
Channel 46 first went on the air on June 6, 1971. It was originally owned by the Continental Broadcasting Network, an arm of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. Its original calls were WHAE-TV, which stood for "Heaven And Earth." It originally only programmed for an eight-hour broadcast day. It also had a low-budget lineup consisting of a few hours of general entertainment and another few hours of religious shows per day. It ran only religious programming on Sundays.

By 1976, the station had expanded to a 20-hour broadcast day, airing cartoons, classic sitcoms, family dramas, westerns, and religious programming (including The 700 Club twice a day) on weekdays. Children's programming, westerns and movies were shown on Saturdays and the station continued to air strictly religious programming on Sundays until the fall of 1980. At that time, it began to run general entertainment programming during the afternoon. In 1977, it changed calls to WANX, which stood for "Atlanta IN Christ (X)." It also began offering more mainstream programming. However, it didn't air any programming that would offend fundamentalist/Pentecostal sensibilities.

The station was bought by Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting in 1984. Tribune changed its call letters once again, this time to WGNX, named after then-sister station in Chicago WGN-TV: it took WGN, and added an X from the previous callsign (basically it was WGN + WANX). The 700 Club was now only broadcast once a day, before being dropped altogether. The station continued to air a similar entertainment lineup with newer shows being added over the years, especially shows that it would not have aired under CBN ownership. In 1989, WGNX started its first ever newscast, Channel 46 News at Ten, a seven-night-a-week, 10-11 p.m. newscast. When Tribune partnered with Time Warner to form the new WB Network, WGNX was slated to become the new network's Atlanta affiliate when that network launched in January 1995.

Those plans came to a halt on May 22, 1994, however. On that day, New World Communications announced an affiliation agreement with the Fox Broadcasting Company, months after Fox won the broadcast rights to NFC football games. This resulted in most of its stations set to become Fox affiliates. One of the stations due to switch was Atlanta's longtime CBS affiliate, WAGA. CBS needed to find a new affiliate, but neither WGNX nor Atlanta's original Fox affiliate, WATL, were interested at first. Fearing it would have no affiliate in Atlanta, CBS made a deal to buy WVEU, a low-rated station on channel 69 with the weakest signal of Atlanta's full-power stations in October 1994. Around the same time that the WB launched, another new network, the United Paramount Network (UPN), co-owned by Paramount Pictures/Viacom and Chris-Craft Industries, was set to launch, and with all the other events going on, WATL would have most likely become the UPN affiliate for Atlanta. However, CBS still wanted to affiliate with a station that people were more familiar with. For several months, it continued to negotiate with Tribune, who finally relented in November and allowed WGNX to become a CBS affiliate.

This move left WGNX with cartoons and sitcoms that it would no longer have time to air as a CBS affiliate, so it sold some of its syndicated programming to WVEU, which became the UPN affiliate (while WATL joined the WB), and was later sold to Viacom, which changed its calls to WUPA. As a CBS station, WGNX moved the 10 p.m. newscast to 11 p.m. and added newscasts at Noon (12 p.m.) and 6 p.m., as well as a short-lived 7 p.m. newscast, and more syndicated talk and reality shows. WGCL would add on a short-lived 5 p.m. newscast, a morning newscast, and a 4 p.m. newscast as well.

Tribune began to manage the station in tandem with WATL in 1996 under a local marketing agreement. In 1998, Tribune swapped WGNX to Meredith Corporation in a three-way deal which saw Tribune acquire KCPQ in Seattle from Kelly Broadcasting; that deal allowed Tribune to buy WATL outright the next year.

The station changed its calls to WGCL-TV in 2000 to reflect its new branding tagline, We're Georgia's CLear TV. It began calling itself "CBS Atlanta" again, then two years later readopted the "CBS46" moniker.

On June 20, 2007, WGCL's website underwent a redesign as part of a partnership between Meredith Corporation and Internet Broadcasting, following the successful testing of the websites of five of its sister stations, which had joined Internet Broadcasting the year before. WGCL's website was the sixth Meredith station website to switch from WorldNow to Internet Broadcasting.


[edit] Digital Television
The station's digital channel:

Digital channels

Channel Programming
46.1 / 19.1 Main WGCL programming / CBS HD

In 2009, WGCL-TV will leave channel 46 and move to channel 19 when the analog to digital conversion is complete.[1]


[edit] Management controversy
In 2005, WGCL's General Manager, Sue Schwartz, was fired after blowing the whistle on the practices of Kevin O'Brien, who at the time was president of Meredith's broadcasting group. It was alleged that O'Brien was telling people not to hire African-Americans at any of Meredith's operations, and said that the operations at WGCL were "too black". O'Brien also made statements about other ethnicities as well. O'Brien was fired as a result. [1]


[edit] Station timeline
1971: WHAE-TV as an independent general entertainment/religious station owned by CBN
1977: Callsign change to WANX-TV
1984: Sold to Tribune becoming WGNX-TV
1989: WGNX-TV begins a local news broadcast
1994: Switched to CBS (previously on WAGA TV 5)
1995: Became known as "WGNX CBS46"
1999: Meredith closes on purchase of station, renamed "CBS Atlanta"
2000: Callsign change to WGCL-TV renamed "Clear TV"
2002: Renamed "CBS Atlanta" again
2003: Renamed "CBS46" again

[edit] Transmission tower
WGCL is on the same tower, north of Druid Hills, with:

W04DB (4)
W24AL (24)
WATL (36/25)
The tower also contains construction permits for:

WIRE-CA (40)
WUVG-TV (digital 48 only)
WTBS (digital 20, analog backup 17).
FM stations on the same tower are: WNNX (99.7, newly moved from the WTBS TV main analog tower) and permits for WRFG (89.3) and WKHX-FM (101.5) as well as an application for a broadcast translator from Immanuel Broadcasing Network on 101.9.

Another tower about 120 meters (400 feet) to the west holds the existing WKHX-FM, WLTM (94.9) and WKLS

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Jennifer Love Hewitt Engaged to Ross mccallAccording to Us Weekly, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, 28, is now engaged to be married to Scottish actor Ross McCall, 32.

Jennifer's rep told the mag, "The got engaged last week", and that the couple are currently vacationing in Hawaii.

The engagement ring McCall gave to Hewitt is an antique family heirloom that has been in his family for over 100 years.

So far, Jennifer Love Hewitt's rep had no details on when the actual wedding might take place.

Jennifer Love Hewitt has announced her engagement to boyfriend Ross McCall. The actress's rep, Sarah Fuller, has confirmed that the couple is to be married. "They got engaged last week," Fuller told US Weekly.

McCall asked Hewitt to be his wife while they were vacationing in Hawaii recently. He presented the 28-year-old with an antique ring that has been in the McCall family for 100 years.



No details on wedding plans have been released.



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honors: Patrick Adamiak, Alexander Aguilera, Tyler Arnold, Carlos Arrigo, Daniel Barland, Curtis Barnes, John Bensley, Adam Bright, Sonya Budnovitch, Steven Camasta, Leah Cameron, Jessica Carrigan, Ruth Casadevall, Laura Caserta, Kenneth Ciszak, Kyle Conklin, Daniel Coutts, Cahir Csontos, Samantha Cutrone, Alyssa Czerw, Brittany Davis, Nicole DelRosso, Brandon Denniston, Annette Deutsch, Jesse Dodt, Candra Doron, Michael Dotter, Mark Dotter, Jr., Christopher Duff, Timothy Duncan, Brandon Dutcher, Nicholas Ferrante, Brianna Fischer, George Folk, Kelsey France, Kelly Frey, Ashley Gewitz, Janet Gibbons, Kassondra Gregor, Patrick Grimmer, Tiffanymarie Guzzo, Veronica Hernandez, Samantha Hessling, Shannon Hourigan, David Iachella, Patrick Ingulli, Lee Janusewski, Jacqulin Jones, John Kilduff, Elysa Kolvek, Ashley Lao-Segarra, Sarah Lehman, Caleb MacIntire, Chelsea Mann, Catherine Marro, Karla McCormick, Amanda McDevitt, Marley Miller, Brittani Mosiniak, Jessica Mosiniak, Kristin Nalesnik, Breanna Neff, Samantha Netzer, Meagan Oliveras, Kaitlin Pabst, Ashley Porto, James Reichman, David Relph, Francesca Rizzo, Chrissa Roberts, Lisa Rogali, Zachary Romance, Elizabeth Roy, Iaeton Rozanski, Lauren Ryan, Sarah Schaeffer, Max Schmitt, Ariana Shultz, Rebecca Siegfried, Tabitha Sollenne, Victor Steffen, Dustin Stevens, Deborah Sullivan, Benjamin Swinehart, Mariah Syre, Caleb Vogler and Garrett Zeiler.

Honors: Monika Ambrus, Lauren Aul, Simon Beierle, Eric Beil, Timothy Berger, Brienne Bernstel, Natasha Beskovoyne, Julia Bieski, Phillip Bly, Steven Boo, Robert Cameron, Joseph Cawley, George Clause, Michelle Coletta, Maria DeSanti, Yvonne Decker, Sara DiGiampaolo, Tyler Essex, Mackenzie Fleming, Andrew Folenta, James Frei, Meagan Frisbie, Jessica Fucci, Michelle Given, Kayla Guerrieri, Corrin Hallock, Cassandra Hartmann, Krystle Hertzog, Angela Hosking, Marina Houman, William Hye, Erin Irwin, Ashley Janulis, Aaron Keating,Gabriel Kieffer, Kristen Kleintop, Benjamin Konides, John Kresse, Alexis Leach, Brieanna Lis, Matthew McCullough, Bryan McKane, Tiffany McKane, Connie McKeeby, Kachina Muller, Natasha Neary, Michaela Neumann, Anna Ortiz, Courtney Osborne, Brandy Parker, Baily Paulikowski, Tyler Perez, Jessica Peters, Luke Peterson, Jamie Potts, Ashley-Faith Price, Janese Prickett, Nicole Pupo, Emily Redmond, Steven Rokosz, Kristina Russo, Samantha Salamanca, Thomas Salkoskas, Sade Sanchez, Paul Scarlata, Carrie Scharff, Kyndra Schuman, Marla Seebach, Kelly Smith, Tammy Smith, Riley Stewart, Scott Sullivan, Michael Tasman, Taya Transue, Danielle Valenti, Merrick Voegele-Rinaldi, Scott Watson, Aja Wehrmann, Katelyn Weist, Jared Wierbowski, Matthew Wildenberg and Alexandria Williams.

GRADE 7

High honors: Jeffrey Aldefer, James Bailey, Nicole Bartelll, Lisa Beilman, Tyler Bensen, Christina Brislin, Taylor Campfield, Karissa Celona, Kyler Chern, Allison Chory, Shane Connors, Kayleen Cosgrove, Katarina Croan, Maria Diemer, Gihan Elashram, Brooke Ezzo, Thomas Farley, Aaron Ford, Angelynn Forsythe, Kali Foy, James Franklin, Rebeka Galeano, Mason Gallik, Jasmin Gonzalez, Brittany Guerrieri, Stephanie Halas, Nicole Hamelburg, William Hendel, Ean Hibian, Jessica Hill, Paige Hiller, Brooke Hillriegel, Robert Hoffman, Lauren Ingulli, Stephanie Ingulli, Alexander Jackson, Kyle Jackson, Brianna Jones-Daugherty, Kaitlin Juran, Kelly Kirsten, William Koelln, Kaitlin Kresse, Allison Kubu, Devin Landolfi, Angelique Luessi, Alaina Magnotta, Chiazra Marone, Erika Maxson, Taylor Maxson, Eric Miller, Nicholas Mynarski, Jordan Napoli, Stephany Nistad, Jeremy Oettinger, Danielle Palazzi, Josie Parrella, Oleksandra Plotnikova, Kaelyn Ragonese, Katlyn Reynolds, Jonathan Rickards, Emma Ricupero, James Rockefeller, Alexis Roman, Pamela Rosato, Alexis Rosengrant, Corey Schmalzle, Carly Schuler, Lydia Seifert, Devyn Sivers, Hannah Stack, Deanna Sutton, Phillip Szostak, Dominique Tarbell, Nicolai Tereschak, Kyle Williams, Cameron Wolfson, Jenna Wyatt and Kaitlynne Young.

Honors: Thomas Baker, Andrew Barnett, Bryan Becker, Zachary Blau, Robert Bohus, Lindsay Boogertman, Jake Brown, Jordan Brown, George Cabel, Taylor Casella, Justin Chapman, Marcelina Chimpay, Valerie Christiansen, Hayley, Cohan, Aiya Como, Robin Coolbaugh, Robert Coutts, Maddison DeFrehn, Angela DeLuca, Bryan Decker, Durim Demiri, Alan Dicello, Caitlyn Donahue, Madeline Drake, Michael Durando, Scout Edwards, Autumn Fasceski, Heather Fennell, Gabrielle Gardner, Sylvia Geiges, Lucas Giglio, Brandon Giraldo, James Goetz, Damian Grzejka, Cecilia Hansen, Robert Hiller, Vanessa Hnatko, Arthur Hughson, Greg Inchaustegui, SethJones, William Jones, Kidde Kokole, Benjamin Krochta, Nicholas Krochta, Morgan Krom, Tori Kuhn, Brian Lee, Claire Lodge, Juliet Lucas, Katherine Lutfy, Joshyua Mandel, Robert Mapps, Nicole McAllister, Erin McDonnell, Madeline Miller, Michael Mussmann, Derek Niles, David Pabst, Meagan Pajalich, Sarina Pajalich, Samantha Pallay, William Panzella, Tyler Pino, Michael Plate, Elizabeth Robertazza, Lydia Rowe, Danielle Saar, Joseph Schimitsch, Melinda Sein, Tej Singh, Shawn Slutter, Joseph Solversen, Ashley Strezenec, Ida Struble, Nicholas Sullivan, Shawn Tawfik, Christian Turner, Todd Uhl, Eric Vanderbeck, Andreia Vilares, Jenni Ward and Nathan Wood.

GRADE 6

High honors: Kayla Askey, Jessica Barnes, Justin Bates, Heidi Becker, Glenn Blessington, Anthony Buselli, Savannah, Brunette, Maria Caccese, Luke Camuso, Rachel Chojnacki, Emily Ciaravino, Victoria Ciszak, Justin Clouse, Destiny Cole, Liam Cunningham, Amber Dalessio, Jacob Daniels, Nicholas Denniston, Kristina DiGiazmpaolo, Kristen Dowd, Kyle Dowling, Ryan Egger, Raeann Ehrhardt, Rebecca Elliott, Anais Folk, Rebecca Francesconi, Rakel Galeano, Benjamin Gendelman, Katelyn Gibbs, Joseph Gregor, Matthew Guinard, Lauren Hammond, Kimberly Hanf, Misty Hendrickson, Julia Hessling, Alanna Kieffer, Hannah Kliokis, Nicole Martinez, Emily Matone, Matthew McDonald, Sarah McPhail, Zachary Meling, Alexa Mihalik, Morgan Miller, Robert O'Connor, Shane Oakley, Nate Palmer, Branden Phillips, Gabrielle Pranzo, Danae Pugh, Caroline Rae, Heather Rice, Brian Rose, Marissa Rossitto, James Ruisi, Jessica Rush, Rocco Scartelli, David Schaeffer, Olivia Schneider, Deborah Sculin, Madison Simpson, Daniel Skibber, Allison Slate, Lynn Tortorella, Alicia VanDenHeede, Samuel Vargas, David Wacker, Emily Winkler and Danielle Wontor.

Honors: Thomas Aguilera, Alden Barker, Jeanine Barnes, Robyn Belmont, Jamel Blanding, Karina Bonilla-Montalvo, Nina Breuer, Emily Brodhead, Monica Brown, Joseph Budnovitch, III, Drianna Buonocore, Mariahdawn Chapman, Macie Coffman, Mackenzie Conrad, Korina Correa, Bradley Day, Kristy DeVoe, Matthew Decristan, Tiffany Demchuk, Sean Duncan, Annette Fernandes, Alixandra Fils-Aime, Brittany Foster, Lisa Gabell, Joseph Gallagher, Melissa Gliskenstein, Robert Goble, Phillicia Graber, Matthew Gregory, Luke Grim, Evan Haggarty, Shane Hansen, Emily Haupt, Kimberly Jones, Frederick Kotten, Emily Lanthier, Tyler Linden, Ashley Loomis, Sara Martin, Nicole Massaro, Shayne McCormack, Rachel Mruczkewycz, Brianna Myrick, David Ortiz, Richard Palma, Emily Paparazzo, Andrew Parker, Katelyn Pellegrino, Kelly Perez, Lauren Peterson, Kelly Ree, Alexandra Reid, Elizabeth Riker, Kyle Roarty, Ryanne Rosengrant, Amanda Russo, Robert Segalla, Amber Shelden, Kira Spencer, Peter Stella, Cody Tuttle, Chance Wallace, Neil Wierbowski, Sean Winterstein and Zachary Wirth.

SCRANTON HIGH SCHOOL

GRADE 12

Leo Aronzon, Cecilia Babarsky, Christy Bambach, Corey Bayo, Sara Bielski, Jessica Bloom, James Bodnar, Matthew Bozym, Molly Brown, Christopher Burke, Sean Butler, Bernie Callahan, Patricia Cannizzo, Kayla Carlucci, Robert Casey, Jillian Castalde, Kyle Cecci, Ling Hsuan Chang, Belkis Chavez, Christopher Corbett, William Corby, Marie Cottone, Joseph Cron, Michael D'Angelo, Daniel Joseph, Quezia Defaria, Samantha DelSerra, Kelsey Doenges, Cassandra Eiden, Caroline Esgro, Isaque Feitosa, Natalie Feliciano, Christopher Fenton, Christa Filipkowski, Micheal Filipski, Leanne Fisch, Renea Fisher, Nicole Fleck, Alaina Gallagher, Timothy Gaughan, Victoria Gawlik, Stacy George, Kelsey Granahan, Ashley Gries, Katelyn Grudzinski, Dana Grushinski, Christopher Grzenda, Alba Guevara, Danielle Hafner, Megan Harris, Emily Hart, Paul Hendricks, Liliana Hernandez, Jessica Hiller, Joanna Hiller, Medinah Johnson, Corey Jones, Kyle Kearney, Drew Kelly, Sarah Khalilzadea, Sheila King, Cory Kolodzieski, Kathryn Lance, Kelly Langan, Melissa Lopez, Austin Lotz, Alexia Loukopoulos, Megan Lucas, Kaitlin Luczak, Kimberly Ludwikowski, Mitchell Luna, Patrick Lunney, Douglas Mallas, Jolina Mangino, Robert Markowski, Christina Martini, Marissa McDermott, Molly McDonough, Brian McGrath, Sean McLane, Joseph McTague, Shane Miller, Alexis Modzelesky, David Moss, Valeria Navarro, Bridgett Nealon, Christopher Noble, Heather Nowlin, Casey Oneill, Caitlin Opsasnick, Charmi Patel, Krishna Patel, Sunak Patel, Erica Pizur, Nicole Pollock, Leonardo Porcello, Benjamin Raines, Daniel Reap, Jessica Reap, Manuel Reyes, Marjorie Reyes, Aida Ribanovic, Francisco, Angelica Ruiz, Colin Saltry, Shawna Sandy, Shane Savitsky, Kailey Schick, Samantha Senecal, Mary Sheerin, Brittany Sheluga, Adam Sheridan, Brianna Shoemaker, Samantha Shotwell, Justin Sillner, Contessa Singleton, Matthew Skoranski, Leony Soekarso, Meghan Srour, Robert Strong, Lindsey Tepjer, Alyssa Tiberi, Georisell Vasquez, Britland Vergnetti, Marissa Wahl, Margaret Walsh, Whitney Wayman, Corrina Weidow, Megan Wyman and Maria Zeron.

GRADE 11

Laura Abreu, Chelsea Armbruster, Jennah Bagaforo, Jenny Bagaforo, Emily Bielski, Leah Bielski, Lauren Blake, Elizabeth Borgia, Kyle Boyd, Brittany Boyko, Joseph Buchanan, Kevin Burke, Megan Burke, Colleen Cannon, Keith Carter, Martin Castaldi, Brittany Cavallotti, Michelle Cecci, Nicholas Cerminaro, Shaung Chen, Nicole Clark, Elizabeth Colacicco, Elisa Colchado, Carissa Cook, Brianna Creegan, Alissa Cutrona, Anish Dalsania, Katlyn Demuth, Anthony Dilmore, Allison Duffy, Brian Dunleavy, Karla Eiden, Amanda Fanning, Brea Fedor, Thomas Flaherty, Brandi Fox, Brandon Frederick, Elizabeth Gallagher, Maura Gallagher, Kaliem Goodwin, Sarah Guard, Heather Hallock, Robert Hannon, Kyle Harmer, Anna Haroun, David Herne, Brian Hill, Ian Hoban, Jamie Jenkins, Casey Jordan, Kirstie Kerekes, Andria Kowalchik, Jaclyn Lee, David Linhares, Alexander Livanos, Kiley Lotz, Katherin Mainetto, Ryan Marcinkevich, Miguel Martinez, Timothy McCormick, Daniel McGuigan, Kristin McHale, Tara McNulty, Brian Miller, Kristin Molitoris, Katie O'Hearn, Taylor Occhipinti, Morgan O'Malley, Amanda Orlowski, Mitchell Oswald, Joseph Palochko, Kristen Patchcoski, Arpita Patel, Jay Patel, Kena Patel, Vikash Patel, Zayra Pena, Molly Pfeiffer, Wen Ling Qiu, Tim Roxby, Margaret Ruddy, James Sabatelli, Jordan Sack, Amber Schmidt, Joshua Schultz, Amity Schwartztrauber, Khushbu Shah, Elizabeth Sharpe, Chelsea Shipman, Joseph Shoemaker, Brian Shoener, Kathleen Smith, Haley Snopek, Ethan Snyder, Gregory Stewart, Kristina Terry, Alexandra Toole, Keri Tucker, Marissa Verchuk, Ardy Wibowo, Brent Wilson, Jaime Zempoaltecatl, Allison Zimmerman, Kathryn Zurinski and Katherine Zwick.

GRADE 10

Katherine Agostini, Kelli Agostini, Korin Albert, Ashlinn Arndt, Hussain Azizi, Patricia Bezerra, Kenna Bresser, Megan Brown, Tyler Buckley, Alicia Burda, Daisha Burgess, Daysi Carreto, Sarah Castaldi, Frederick Chache, Jacob Charette, Laseana Colvin, Timothy Conmy, Colin Conway, Sara Corbett, Bridget Cosgrove, Victoria Cottle, Courtlind Davis, Steven DeJesus, Paola Demarchi, Candice Doria, Mark Dunleavy, Brandon Elman, Matthew Farley, Levi Feitosa, Sara Ferroggiaro, Joslyn Fisch, Craig Fisher, Kali Gargone, Kayla Gatto, Chelsea Gawlik, Yavor Geshev, Terrena Goines, Kaleeb Gordon, Gabrielle Gorton, Autumn Gramigna, Jillian Grudzinski, Leonides Guevara, Tiarra Gwaltney, Eric Hallock, Maggy Hanlon, Alison Harte, Jazmine Henderson, Priscilla Hernandez, Zoe Hildebrand, Mariah Hill, Melissa Izak, Jamie Jones, Cameron Judge, Kelly Judge, Sierra Judge, Selina Kaminski, Catherine Kelleher, Billy Kelly, Kristina Kemps, Alison Kich, Jonathan Kolata, Nellie Kollar, Corey Kroptavich, Alex Krupski, Victoria Lance, Lewis Griffith, Kelly Lucas, Stephanie Lynch, Steven Lynch, Franklin Major, Luis Martinez, Cameron McCloe, Kristen McDermott, Mary McDermott, Michael McDermott, Elizabeth McGowan, Meredith McGrath, Michael McGuire, Ryan McLaughlin, Lauren McTiernan, Anthony Mendicino, Alice Mills, Kayla Mitchell, Paula Moctezuma, Christina Morales, Max Mueller, Nicole Munley, Kathleen Murphy, Chelsea Mursch, Melissa Musso, Caitlin Nealon, Thomas Neary, Vinh Nguyen, Joseph O'Connor, Michael Opshinsky, Stephanie Orr, Brooke Pallien, Ronak Patel, William Peterson, Cara Phillips, Alyssa Potter, Megan Preambo, Farida Qahar, Matthew Raebel, Dylan Reap, Kayla Reichle, Katie Richardson, Evelyn Rios, Yeraldine Rodriguez, Peter Rosato, Mariah Ruane, Ryan Ruddy, Christa Ruscoe, Daniel Sallom, Stephen Sawka, Katie Scott, Christina Seber, Sattie Sewah, Abraham Shagoury, David Slack, Abby Somers, Noah Spott, Lily Tham, Katie Vairo, Mia Vieira, Kellie Walsh, Angeline Wauran, Grace Wazowicz, Chloe Webb and Kaitlin Zielinski.

GRADE 9

Helen Akhondi, Rebecca Albert, Vincent Alu, Edwin Baez, Fortino Baizan, Krystina Banks, Austin Baumann, Avery Baumann, Efrain Bello, David Benway, Jonathan Benway, Andrea Berkoski, Melissa Birch, Kelly Hazel Birtel, Devon Bonk, Sarah Borgia, Sara Brezinski, Gray Brower, Cynthia Brunson, Brittany Buckley, Amber Burke, Kevin Burke, Alannah Caisey, Kristina Castagnaro, Tracy Castaldi, Mariyam Chitsaz, Jordan Chu, Brittany Comstock, Mackenzie Comstock, Richand Conte, Samantha Conway, Mary Cosgrove, Matthew Cummings, Todd Cummings, Cassandra Curtis, Angela Cutrona, Matthew D'Angelo, Justin Davis, Michael Deemer, Mateus Defaria, Krista Dietrich, Michael Dorio, Lauren Dougher, Jessica Dougherty, Ciera Drost, Leila Dubrotsky, Michael Duffy, Mary Dunford, Saffaa Elhady, Bryan Elman, Randall Ettinger, Sarah Filipski, Michael Fisch, Edward Foley, Brianna Freeman, Psalm Fuentebella, Stephanie Fuentes, Courtney Gallagher, John Barrett Gallagher, John Gallagher, Jennifer Gerrity, Isiah Gill, Robert Gilroy, Samantha Grace, Christopher Grassi, Brian Green, Amanda Grippo, William Harrington, Ervin Harris, Marissa Harris, Katrina Hart, Kyle Hetsko, Michael Holden, Glynis Johns, Molly Jones, Meliss Karoly, Arie Kamierczak, Nicole Kerekes, Kacie Kileen, Brittany Klatt, Emily Kolata, Kristi Kozlowski, Stefan Kozolowski, Sadie Kretsch, Autum Lambert, Brianna Laske, Dalton Lee, Nathan Lewis, Desiree Locker, Zachary Lona, Brian Longo, Michael Maguire, Jamie Maloney, Aaron Mattern, Timothy McCabe, George Meshko, Carlos Montero, Nolee Morris, Kristian NG, George Novajosky, Shawna O'Malley, Candice O'Neil, Riley Occhipinti, Dominique O'Connor, John Olek, Troy Olsheski, Sarah Opshinsky, Jazmine Owens, Arpan Patel, Chaitali Patel, Nidhiben Patel, Radha Patel, Samip Patel, Sharvil Patel, Vansh Patel, Jason Pearson, Ariangel Perez, Lora Poulin, Elizabeth Praefke, James Pugliese, Michelle Reap, Paul Reed, Kalie Reidenbach, Sarah Ristics, Chelsea Rizzo, America Rojas, Allison Ruane, Sarah Ruanne, Elizabeth Sallusti, Molly Schick, Jessica Schuler, Rohan Shah, Thomas Shields, Margaret Sillner, Carla Skelton, Megan Smith, Andrew Spangenberg, Zachary Stankowski, Hayden Strickland, Scott Tieberi, Robert Trapper, Kristopher Turner, Omar Urena, Sevyn Vanhassel, Robert Waiters, Yazmen Watkins, Shane Webb, Anthony White, Kayla White, Karissa Worobey, Jason Zaleski and Kimberly Zurinski.

NORTHEAST INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

GRADE 8

Sasha Aronzon, Kevin Bagasevich, Markis Blackwell, Cayla Boezi, Samantha Burke, Corey Calpin, Miguel Caltenco, Nicole Chekan, Alexis Cosgrove, Jonas Crass, Lorena Danun, Karina Depaula, Jamie Doyle, Malik Draper, Chad Engleman, Amanda Friday, Rachael Friedman, Laura Garcia, Mark Granahan, Tamara Green, Jamil Harding, Matthew Harte, Patrick Hein, Charles Hendricks, Max Hildebrand, Edward Hoban, Molly Homesombath, Eva Hopkins, Marissa Howe, Jackelyn Huanire, Joseph Kelleher, Aurora Kelly, Quinn Kelly, Franky Kerekes, Julia King, Lindsay Lapresti, Megan Lewis, Tyler Little, Henry Litvak, Peter Loven, Christopher Lutz, Michael Marichak, Anthony Marra, Steven Matuska, Joseph McCarthy, Sarah McHale, Miranda Mendoza, Austin Miller, Mariah Morrison, Alexandra Moyle, Daniel Novoczynski, Timothy O'Hearn, Cullen O'Malley, Patrick O'Malley, Zuhri Outland, Dafne Paramo, Akshat Patel, Deepa Patel, Himani Patel, Vivek Patel, Yogi Patel, Kayla Pethick, Elise Radzieski, Tichelle Ramirez, Eileen Rodriguez, Marcos Royce, Judson Ryan, Umidjon Saifurrahman, Erin Smith, Meaghan Stevens, Louis Strausser, Kayla Thomas, Shannon Vairo, Nicholas Vieira, Luis Villanueva, Maria Wakefield, Tara Walsh, Maryam Wasal, Michael Watral, Samantha

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Henry J. Hyde



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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 6th district
In office
1975–2007
Preceded by Harold R. Collier
Succeeded by Peter Roskam

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Born April 18, 1924(1924-04-18)
Chicago, Illinois
Died November 29, 2007 (aged 83)
Chicago, Illinois
Political party Republican
Spouse Jeanne Simpson Hyde (deceased; 4 children)
Religion Roman Catholicism
Henry John Hyde (April 18, 1924 – November 29, 2007), an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois. He chaired the the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007.

Contents
1 Early life
2 Political career
2.1 Extramarital affair
3 Retirement
3.1 Presidential Medal of Freedom
4 Death
5 See also
6 References
7 External links



[edit] Early life
Hyde was born in Chicago, attended Duke University, graduated from Georgetown University and obtained his law degree from Loyola University. Hyde played basketball for the Georgetown Hoyas where he helped take the team of the 1943 Final Four. He served in the Navy during World War II where he served in combat in the Philippines. He served in the Naval Reserve from 1946 to 1968, where he retired at the rank of Commander, after serving as officer in charge of the U.S. Naval Intelligence Reserve Unit in Chicago. He was married to Jeanne Simpson Hyde from 1947 until her death in 1992; he had four children and four grandchildren.


[edit] Political career
Hyde grew up as a Democrat in an Irish Catholic family, but by 1952 had switched party affiliation and supported Dwight Eisenhower. He went on to become a state legislator and majority leader for the Illinois House of Representatives. A member of the House Judiciary Committee since 1975, Hyde served as its chairman from 1995 until 2001, at which time he served as the lead House manager during the President Clinton impeachment trial. Hyde maintains that the House was constitutionally bound to impeach Clinton for perjury.

From 1985 until 1991, Hyde was the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Intelligence. He was also one of the most vocal and persistent opponents of abortion law liberalization in American politics, and was involved in some of the highest level debates concerning the response to the events of September 11, 2001.

Hyde and the Committee's senior Democrat, U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), authored America's worldwide response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in 2003 and landmark foreign assistance legislation creating the Millennium Challenge Corporation and expanding U.S. funding for successful microenterprise initiatives. During his long career, he was also involved in crucial debates [citation needed] over U.S.-Soviet relations, Central America policy, the War Powers Act, NATO expansion, the investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, and, sponsored the United Nations Reform Act of 2005 [1], a bill that ties payment of U.S. dues for United Nations operations to efforts mandating reform of the institution's management. An original sponsor of the Brady Bill requiring background checks for gun buyers, Hyde broke with his party in 1994 when he supported a ban on the sale of semi-automatic firearms. An original sponsor of family leave legislation, Hyde said the law promoted "capitalism with a human face."

He was in disagreement with his party on the Iraq War:

" Lashing our interests to the indiscriminate promotion of democracy is a tempting but unwarranted strategy, more a leap of faith than a sober calculation. There are other negative consequences as well. A broad and energetic promotion of democracy in other countries that will not enjoy our long-term and guiding presence may equate not to peace and stability but to revolution.[2] "

Fellow Republican House member Ron Paul introduced legislation to declare war on Iraq as outlined in the Constitution. He stated that he would not vote for his own bill, but if his fellow members of Congress wished to go to war in Iraq, they should properly declare war. In a hearing on the resolution, Hyde responded:

" There are things in the Constitution that have been overtaken by events, by time. Declaration of war is one of them. There are things no longer relevant to a modern society. Why declare war if you don't have to? We are saying to the President, use your judgment. So, to demand that we declare war is to strengthen something to death. You have got a hammerlock on this situation, and it is not called for. Inappropriate, anachronistic, it isn't done anymore.[3] "

He introduced the Hyde Amendment in 1997.


[edit] Extramarital affair
As Hyde was publicly pursuing the impeachment of Clinton, the Internet magazine Salon.com published This Hypocrite Broke Up My Family which stated that from 1965 to 1969, Hyde conducted an extramarital sexual affair with Cherie Snodgrass. At the time, Snodgrass was married to another man with whom she had had three children. The Snodgrasses divorced in 1967. The affair ended when Snodgrass' husband confronted Mrs. Hyde. The Hydes reconciled and remained married until Mrs. Hyde's death in 1992. Although Hyde was 41 years old and married when the affair occurred, he dismissed it as a "youthful indiscretion". [citation needed]


[edit] Retirement
Over the years the demographics of Hyde's DuPage County have shifted, leading his 2004 Democratic challenger Christine Cegelis to garner over 44% of the vote, the highest total of any of Hyde's opponents. Hyde had announced he would retire after his current term expired in 2006. In 2005, Hyde endorsed State Senator Peter Roskam as his successor. Roskam defeated the Democratic challenger, Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth 51% - 49%.

On October 3, 2006, the Washington Times suggested that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert immediately resign his speakership for the final months of the 109th Congress due to his possible involvement in the Mark Foley scandal. The Washington Times then suggested and supported that Rep. Hyde be elected his replacement.[4]


[edit] Presidential Medal of Freedom
Henry Hyde received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on November 5, 2007. The press release stated: "A veteran, a lawyer, and a public servant, Henry Hyde has served his country with honor and dedication. During his 32-year career in the House of Representatives, he was a powerful defender of life, a leading advocate for a strong national defense, and an unwavering voice for liberty, democracy, and free enterprise around the world. A true gentleman of the House, he advanced his principles without rancor and earned the respect of friends and adversaries alike. The United States honors Henry Hyde for his distinguished record of service to America."[5] Hyde was hospitalized recovering from open-heart surgery and could not attend the ceremony in person.

Former Rep. Henry Hyde diesStory Highlights
Former Rep. Henry Hyde dies at the age of 83

Hyde served in the House from 1975 to 2006

Illinois Republican served as House Judiciary chairman from 1995 to 2001

President Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Congressman Henry Hyde, a Republican from Illinois, died early Thursday morning. He was 83.


Henry Hyde served in the House for more than three decades.

Hyde's death was confirmed by a spokesman in the office of House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Hyde had been ill for some time and had open heart surgery in July.

In his final years in office, he was wheelchair bound and frail.

Hyde's wife, Judy, was with him last night at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, according to Tom Mooney, his former chief of staff.

According to Mooney, Hyde said to his wife he wanted to "go home," to which Judy replied, "We are going to get you home." He passed away soon after that.

Born in 1924, Hyde served in the House from 1975 to 2006 and retired at end of the last session. Hyde served as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001.

He chaired the committee during the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998. The committee and the full House approved articles of impeachment stemming from the Lewinsky scandal, in which Clinton was accused of lying under oath about his sexual relationship with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The Senate later voted against the charges.

In a written statement, Boehner called Hyde "a constitutional scholar, a thoughtful legislator, and a passionate orator."

"But above all, he will be remembered as a gentleman who stood as a beacon for the bedrock principles of liberty, justice, and, above all, respect for life," Boehner said.

"He was a forceful advocate for maintaining the dignity of the House and for recognizing the sacrifices and struggles Members make while in its service," Boehner said in the statement. "Indeed, when Henry spoke in Committee or on the House floor, Members on both sides of aisle listened intently -- and they learned."

On November 5, President Bush awarded Hyde the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the president can bestow on an American citizen.

"He proved that a man can have firm convictions and be a favorite of