tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28713849570713750412024-02-08T12:02:34.901-08:00236236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.comBlogger556125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-78995381616070436092007-12-10T09:29:00.000-08:002007-12-10T09:27:40.317-08:00Student threatens LA campus shooting Los Angeles police arrested a 21-year-old Loyola Marymount University student in connection with an online threat to shoot people on campus, officials said Saturday.
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<br>Police arrested Carlos Huerta, a senior at Loyola, for investigation of making criminal threats. Huerta was taken into custody on Saturday night near his apartment on campus.
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<br>Huerta is suspected of posting a message that he would shoot and kill as many people as possible on campus before being killed himself by police, authorities said. The threat appeared on Juicycampus.com, a chat board that describes itself as having the "simple mission of enabling online anonymous free speech on college campuses."
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<br>University officials reported the threat to police around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, said Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Mike Lopez. Calls made to Loyola were not immediately returned.
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<br>Some officers were dispatched to patrol the campus as a precaution and campus entrances were restricted.
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<br>Investigators working with campus officials were eventually able to determine that the threat had come from the computer registered to Huerta, police said.
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<br>"There was never an indication the threat made was a valid one, and there is no on-going threat to LMU," said Deputy Chief Michael Downing, head of the LAPD Counterterrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau.
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<br>It was not immediately known if Huerta had an attorney.
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<br>This is the second time in less than a week that someone has been arrested for allegedly posting an online threat to go on a shooting spree in Los Angeles. Both occurred just days after the mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, that left eight holiday shoppers and the gunman dead.
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<br>On Friday, an Australian man was arrested after he allegedly posted a message saying a shooting attack would take place at The Grove mall near Beverly Hills.
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<br>Jarrad Willis, 20, of Melbourne, was arrested after Los Angeles Police Department detectives traced to Australia the address of his Internet provider. Willis has been charged in Australia with creating a false belief ― a violation of Australian law.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-41213647216799865842007-12-10T09:25:00.000-08:002007-12-10T10:01:46.056-08:00channel 5 boston DAYVILLE, Conn., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Natural Foods, Inc. (the "Company") today announced the promotion of Carl F. Koch to the position of Vice President, Human Resources and the appointment of Robert A. Sigel, former president and CEO of Millbrook Distribution Services Inc. ("Millbrook"), to the newly created position of President of Specialty Distribution of UNFI. Mr. Sigel will continue as President of Millbrook, which was acquired by United Natural Foods in November 2007.<p>In making the announcements, Michael Funk, United Natural Foods' President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We continue to position the Company for sustainable growth and we see the wealth of operating experience and management skills of both Robert and Carl as integral components to the senior management team we are building at United Natural Foods."<p>Mr. Koch, age 39, joined United Natural Foods in 2001 and most recently served as the Company's Vice President of Risk and Compliance with corporate wide responsibilities for risk management and human resource functions. Prior to joining the Company, he worked for a nationwide construction staffing company as their Director of Finance and Risk Management and, previously, was a manager with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Group. He is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the Risk and Insurance Management Society. Mr. Koch graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a BS in Finance & Insurance and Management and also holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Hartford.<p>Mr. Sigel, age 54, held several management positions at Millbrook since 1977, including Vice President, Sales and Merchandising, and Executive Vice President, and was a key factor in building the company from a small distributor to a full-line distributor with a substantial specialty food business and an extensive selection of health and beauty care items. In 1986, McKesson Corporation acquired Millbrook and Bob was promoted to President and CEO of Millbrook Distributors in 1990. He became a Corporate Vice President of McKesson in 1995, a position he held until 1997. He graduated from Bowdoin College with a BA in Economics and from Syracuse University with an MBA in Accounting and Finance.<p>2007 Annual Meeting Results<p>The Company also announced today the results of its Annual Meeting of Stockholders, held Thursday, December 6, 2007, at the Company's Western Region headquarters located at 1101 Sunset Boulevard, Rocklin, CA.<p>The Company's stockholders voted in favor of the two proposals presented for action at the annual meeting: the re-election of three incumbent independent directors, Gordon D. Barker, Gail A. Graham and Thomas B. Simone, to serve as Class II directors until the 2010 annual meeting of stockholders and the re-appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending August 2, 2008.<p>Stockholders can access a webcast replay of the annual meeting via the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at <a href="http://www.unfi.com">www.unfi.com</a>. The webcast will be available on the Company's website through January 5, 2008.<p>About United Natural Foods<p>United Natural Foods, Inc. carries and distributes more than 40,000 products to more than 17,000 customers nationwide. The Company serves a wide variety of retail formats including conventional supermarket chains, natural product superstores, independent retail operators and the food service channel. United Natural Foods, Inc. was ranked by Forbes in 2005 as one of the "Best Managed Companies in America," ranked by Fortune in 2006 and 2007 as one of its "Most Admired Companies," and ranked by Business Ethics as one of its "100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2006."<p>For more information on United Natural Foods, Inc., visit the Company's website at <a href="http://www.unfi.com">www.unfi.com</a>.<p>"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding the Company's business that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to general business conditions, the impact of competition and our dependence on principal customers, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission on December 6, 2007, and its other filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and, as such, speak only as of the date made. The Company is not undertaking to update any information in the foregoing reports until the effective date of its future r<br> eports required by applicable laws. Any projections of future results of operations should not be construed in any manner as a guarantee that such results will in fact occur. These projections are subject to change and could differ materially from final reported results. The Company may from time to time update these publicly announced projections, but it is not obligated to236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-81303604337660296952007-12-10T09:20:00.000-08:002007-12-10T09:18:39.092-08:00new life church colorado wounded after the gunman opened fire in a car park following a Sunday worship service at New Life Church, Colorado Springs police said.
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<br>Police were searching the sprawling campus of the 10,000-member church for reported bombs that may have been part of the shooting.
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<br>Officers said the gunman opened fire 30 minutes after a service ended and as many as 7000 people took shelter in buildings or fled as the congregation locked down.
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<br>Of the four wounded, three were admitted to Penrose Hospital, where one was listed in critical condition, one in fair condition and a third in good condition.
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<br>Pastor Brady Boyd said one of the dead was a New Life member.
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<br>"My heart is broken," he said.
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<br>Hundreds of New Life members remained locked in church buildings for up to four hours as police searched for more gunmen, police Lt Fletcher Howard said.
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<br>Police asked the families of victims and witnesses to gather at the Rampart Range Campus of Pikes Peak Community College near Interstate 25 and Interquest Parkway.
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<br>Police said officers arrived at New Life two minutes after getting the first 911 calls of gunshots.
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<br>Mr Boyd said he heard the gunfire and was told by a church worker that there was shooting in the church.
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<br>"It was surreal," he said.
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<br>Mr Howard said officers arrived to find a bullet-riddled car in the parking lot and several people with gunshot wounds.
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<br>It was unclear whether the violence at New Life was tied to an early-morning shooting at a training centre dormitory for young Christian missionaries in Arvada, a Denver suburb, that left two dead and two wounded.
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<br>"That is an open question," Mr Howard said.
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<br>In that case, a lone gunman reportedly opened fire after he was denied shelter in the dormitory.
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<br>The gunman in that case fled and has not been found.
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<br>Mr Boyd asked for community support and said "please pray for those who were injured".
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<br>The New Life shooting led to a huge call-out of local police, with dozens of police cars from more than three jurisdictions rushing to the church.
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<br>Colorado Springs Police Chief Richard Myers said federal agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also helping with the case.
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<br>ATF agents are the federal government's bomb experts, who could help police identify and defuse what officers suspect are bombs still at the church.
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<br>"There are several suspicious devices identified," Mr Myers said.
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<br>Churchgoers were herded into a basement of New Life by church leaders, who Associate Pastor Rob Brendle said were implementing a preset plan for violence at the church.
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<br>New Life members began gathering in the parking lot outside the church soon after the shooting.
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<br>One woman who asked to be identified only by her first name, Autumn, said she and other members felt a need to be near the scene of the violence.
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<br>New Life Church made headlines last year when its nationally known pastor, Ted Haggard, stepped down after admitting to a long-term relationship with a male prostitute.
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<br>Sunday's guest speaker at New Life was Jack Hayford, pastor of Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, and one of the New Life spiritual overseers who helped them navigate through the Haggard problems.
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<br>Churchgoers on Sunday said they thought their troubles were over when they got a new pastor and seemingly left the scandal behind.
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<br>"Why would somebody walk into a church and do something like that?" asked New Life member Kim Ho-F
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<br>Two people were killed and two wounded at the YWAM training center on the grounds of Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, a Denver suburb. A man walked into the center around midnight and after about 30 minutes of talking with staff members, he asked to spend the night there. The receptionist at the center told him no, that no unauthorized person were not allowed. The man reportedly said, "Then this is what I've got for you," pulled out a gun and began shooting.
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<br>About 70 miles away and 12 hours later, three people were killed after a man in similar dress opened fire at New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
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<br>Sisters Stephanie Works, 18, and Rachael Works, 16, died from gunshot wounds. David Works, 51, was shot twice in his abdomen and groin area and is in fair condition. Also wounded were Judy Purcell, 40, and Larry Bourbannais, 59. They were treated and released.
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<br>Witnesses told the Gazette in Colorado Springs that a man in a black trench coat opened fire in the parking lot setting off a smoke grenade before blasting cars and church members. Police said that the gunman was shot and killed by a plainclothes security guard with a law enforcement background and who is a member of the church.
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<br>"They came to church with their families to worship, and what happened today was a tragedy," New Life's senior pastor, Brady Boyd, said at a press conference. "As a pastor, my heart is broken today for people that lost their lives."
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<br>The two dead victims at the YWAM center were identified as Tiffany Johnson, 26, of Minnesota and Philip Crouse, 24, of Alaska. Youth With a Mission leases property on Faith Bible Chapel's property.
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<br>The choir had planned to kick off Sunday's service with "Joy to the World."
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<br>"We couldn't do it, Phil Waters, a member of the church choir, told The Denver Post. "There was no joy this morning."
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<br>The choir instead sang a piece about bringing offerings to God, he told the Post.
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<br>"We are really close to these kids," he said. "It was tough to be out there (singing) and not have tears running down your face,"
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<br>New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. is a megachurch, founded by Ted Haggard and currently led by Senior Pastor Brady Boyd. Brady Boyd previously served on the Senior Pastoral Team at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas.
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<br>Haggard founded the church in his home in 1984, and the church has since grown through a succession of larger spaces. The ministry moved through a series of strip malls, for example, before establishing its current home. The old sanctuary at the current location seated 1,500; the current main sanctuary seats 7,500.[1] The congregation is estimated at 14,000 as of 2006.[2]
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<br>The current facility is adorned with work by artists such as Thomas Blackshear. Upstairs from the sanctuary is "Woo-Gah Land," a Bible-themed play land for the children's ministry.[1] Internally, the church uses a small group ministry model.[2]
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<br>New Life Church, along with Focus on the Family, established Colorado Springs as a conservative evangelical center in the 1990s.[3] In 2005, Jeff Sharlet claimed that while New Life is "by no means the largest megachurch…[it] holds more sway over the political direction of evangelicalism" than any other church in America.[1]
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<br>The New Life campus is also home to The World Prayer Center, which is responsible for (real-time) prayer for many people around the world. Open 24-hours a day for prayer and worship, The World Prayer Center is home to several ministry internships including the Furnace, YWAM Strategic Intiatives, TwentyFourSeven Worldwide and Desperation Internship.
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<br>On August 27, 2007, the church's Pastoral Selection Committee announced that Pastor Brady Boyd - formerly of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas - would replace Ted Haggard as the Senior Pastor of New Life Church. Pastor Boyd spoke at New Life Church during regular services for three Sundays prior to the decision. A two-third majority vote was required from the congregation to approve Boyd as pastor; he received more than ninety-five percent approval in the congregational vote.
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<br>New Life Worship is the worship ministry of New Life Church. Internationally known, several of New Life Worship's songs are sung in church services across the world, including "Rescue" by Jared Anderson, and "I Am Free" by Jon Egan which has been recorded by several artists including the Newsboys. The Desperation Band is the collective youth bands of New Life Church led by Jon Egan, Glenn Packiam and Jared Anderson.
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<br>The New Life Church bylaws specify a Board of Overseers, for the purposes of disciplining the Senior Pastor while "protect[ing] the hearts of all involved" [4], among other duties. It currently consists of:
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<br>Pastor Mark Cowart from Church for All Nations in Colorado Springs, CO
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<br>Pastor Chris Hodges from Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, AL
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<br>On November 2, 2006, Mike Jones, a male escort, accused Haggard of paying him for sex in monthly trysts over the past three years.[5] Further, Jones said Haggard snorted methamphetamine before their sexual encounters to heighten his experience.[5] KUSA-TV released voice mails, in which a person, purportedly Haggard, said, "Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more. Either $100 or $200 supply."[5] Jones said "supply" referred to methamphetamine.[5]
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<br>Later that day, the Rocky Mountain News stated Haggard stepped down as pastor, and quoted him as saying, "I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity. I hope to be able to discuss this matter in more detail at a later date. In the interim, I will seek both spiritual advice and guidance."[5] Two days later, the Board of Overseerers at the church announced that they had decided to permanently dismiss Haggard from his role.[6] In a letter read to the Congregation on November 6, 2006, Haggard stated that he and his wife "will never return to a leadership role at New Life Church."[7]
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<br>On November 20, the search for a new senior pastor began with the creation of a nine person Pastoral Selection Committee. Any committee recommendation would need approval by the church's Board of Overseers and a two-thirds majority congregation vote.[8][9][10] [2]
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<br>Just four months after Haggard's departure, the interim senior pastor Ross Parsley announced that the church had to lay off 44 people, or about 12 percent of its work force, due to falling church income.[11][12] In addition, according to associate pastor Rob Brendle, church attendance has dropped 20 percent since Haggard's departure, and giving has fallen 10 percent.[13]
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<br>[edit] Shooting236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-86355975011359764902007-12-10T09:13:00.000-08:002007-12-10T09:57:27.667-08:00northern illinois university CHICAGO (Reuters) - Northern Illinois University was closed on Monday after the school received an anonymous threat, including a racial slur, that referenced the Virginia Tech shootings in April, according to a university statement.<p>NIU said in a statement on its Web site that the threat was scrawled on a restroom wall in a residence hall. The note warned that "things will change most hastily" in the final days of the current semester.<p>The DeKalb, Illinois, university on Sunday notified students, faculty and staff through postings on the school Web site, e-mail, voicemail, fliers and news media.<p>"My primary concern is for the safety of all members of our campus community, and to that end, we will err on the side of caution in all our actions," said NIU President John Peters in a statement.<p>A NIU spokesperson was not available for further comment on Monday. Campus police gave no update beyond the information on the Web site.<p>The threat, discovered on Saturday, made reference to a shooting at Virginia Tech by a student who killed 32 people including himself in April.<p>The university initially said final exams scheduled for this week would proceed as planned. But a later campus alert said the school would be closed on Monday due to icy streets and concerns about the threat.<p>Virginia Tech was criticized in the months following the shooting for being slow to notify students and faculty about two killings on campus hours before the later rampage that took 30 other lives.<p>WMBD/WYZZ TV - DEKALB -- Northern Illinois University is shut down after a threat was found in a dorm bathroom over the weekend, according to DeKalb police. <p>Two seperate threats were found Saturday night referencing the Virgina Tech massacre.<p><br>University leaders notified students and faculty through e-mail and security has increased around all residence halls and the student center.<p><br>The campus remains under a security alert through the end of the semester.<p><p>Anyone with information about the threats is urged to call the N.I.U. tipline at 815-753-TIPS or the local CrimeStoppers or law enforcement agency.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-45927527621319567302007-12-10T09:04:00.001-08:002007-12-10T09:04:09.674-08:00will rogers airport Will Rogers World Airport
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<br>Will Rogers World Airport
<br>IATA: OKC – ICAO: KOKC
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<br>Airport type Public
<br>Operator Oklahoma City Airport Trust
<br>Location Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
<br>Elevation AMSL 1,295 ft / 394.7 m
<br>Coordinates 35°23′35.11″N 97°36′02.64″W / 35.3930861, -97.6007333
<br>Website FlyOKC.com
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<br>17L/35R 9,802 2,988 Concrete
<br>17R/35L 9,800 2,987 Concrete
<br>13/31 7,800 2,377 Asphalt/Concrete
<br>18/36 3,079 938 Asphalt
<br>Will Rogers World Airport (IATA: OKC, ICAO: KOKC) is located in southwestern Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Will Rogers airport (as it is often called) is located 6 statute miles from downtown Oklahoma City and is the principal commercial airport of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area.
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<br>The airport is named in honor of comedian and legendary cowboy, Will Rogers, who was killed in a plane crash.
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<br>In 2006, over 3.6 million passengers[1] passed through Will Rogers World Airport, making it the busiest airport in the state in terms of passenger traffic.[citation needed]
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<br>3 Transportation
<br>4 Key Staff
<br>5 References
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<br>Will Rogers World Airport (WRWA) has undergone a massive renovation in recent years. The 1960s-era twin concourses of the old terminal building were demolished to make way for a larger, expanded terminal with modern functionalities with integrated concourses and high ceilings.
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<br>The architecture of the building uses native stone along with loft-ceilings, plate glass and brushed metal. This provides a more open feel to the terminal waiting areas, similar to the large hub airports without being quite so large in scale.
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<br>Passenger departure areas at OKC-Will Rogers World Airport.There were also updates outside the buildings, such as landscaping improvements.
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<br>Phase-II of the renovation project was officially completed in November 2006.[2] The terminal currently has 17 gates via the West Concourse and Main Terminal airside in addition to expanded baggage claim areas, restaurant, bar, and retail space. [3]
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<br>Will Rogers has wi-fi options available throughout the facility. The airport recently opened cafes in the passenger departure and arrival areas, to provide an option for guests who are not flying passengers. [4]
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<br>The airport is currently seeing construction of a new parking facility, which will increase capacity by a reported 40% due to increase passenger demand. Currently there are roughly 5,500 parking spaces at the airport.
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<br>The Federal Aviation Administration has major facilities on the airport grounds, including the headquarters for the 'Air Route Traffic Control' and Training Academy. AAR Oklahoma has a major MRO (maintenance, repair, overhaul) facility and regional headquarters at Will Rogers World Airport; in addition there are other aircraft maintenance and AOG (aircraft on ground) organizations based there.
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<br>Will Rogers World Airport is home to MetroTech's aviation career center, and is also usually the site of the annual Aerospace America airshow.
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<br>Will Rogers World Airport is used by military flights of the Oklahoma Air National Guard as well as air taxi and corporate service, although most of these flights utilize the Wiley Post Airport, Oklahoma City's FAA-designated reliever facility.
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<br>Will Rogers World Airport is unique in that its name only mentions a famous person and makes no reference to its city location, much like John F. Kennedy International. It is also one of only a handful of major airports not to use the "International" designation and is the only airport to use the term "World" in its name.
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<br>Will Rogers World Airport provides the Oklahoma City area with over 91 departures a day, with daily non-stop service to 26 cities. [6] Many of the flights continue as direct service to other major markets and international connections.
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<br>OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The ice storm that's hit Oklahoma is causing delays at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City.
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<br>Airport spokeswoman Jennifer McCollum says there are many cancellations today because no incoming flights were able to land at the airport last night.
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<br>But the truth is much more civilised than that. It almost always is.
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<br>Lounging around on sofas having just finished their lunch, the girls are the picture of normality. Dressed casually and chatting among themselves, they could be close friends at a sleepover or similar girly gathering.
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<br>As if that were not enough to keep spirits high, the five-piece � Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding, Nadine Coyle, Runcorn-born Nicola Roberts and Cheryl Cole, have also just been named the most successful girl group of all time.
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<br>That accolade came after the first single from Tangled Up, the punchy Sexy! No No No became their sixteenth to crack the Top 10 and landed them a place in the Guinness World Records book for the most consecutive Top 10 hits in the UK by a female group. The follow-up release, Call The Shots, released last week and reaching number three, took that number to 17.
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<br>It puts the Spice Girls and Destiny's Child in the shade. Our own Girl Aloud, Nicola, sums up the band's appeal thus: "We're a people's band, an accessible public band. The public have had a part in all of this � not just the fans. They chose to get on board right from the beginning."
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<br>In the five years since they appeared on X-Factor precursor Popstars the Rivals, the girls have certainly matured into sassy young women with very different public personas.
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<br>"The songs are all in the same vein, whereas the others have been quite random. On the last record, for example, we had a song called Swinging London Town, which was dancey, like trance almost, so not like our usual material."
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<br>"It's more mature, definitely. Less tongue-in-cheek," adds Sarah.
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<br>If their critics are to be believed, Girls Aloud are nothing more than pretty pop puppets told what to sing by their producers, what to wear by stylists, and how to behave by their manager. Naturally, the girls are at pains to put paid to such claims.
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<br>Brian Higgins is the man responsible for all Girls Aloud songs, making him one of the most successful British songwriters of all time, but they have plenty of input.
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<br>"It's not like an interview or anything," says Kimberley. "We know him so well that we can talk to him about anything. He just wants to know whatever. He's like a sixth member, I guess!"
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<br>"Brian takes inspiration from all that, so it's important he's up to date with where we are. Our songs have to reflect us so that's why we do it," adds Nicola.
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<br>After that, songs are written, demos are recorded and ideas are swapped. Normally, a Girls Aloud album will be recorded in a matter of weeks, but Tangled Up took much longer.
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<br>"It took six months this time, which is a long time for us," explains Kimberley. "We normally do it in more concentrated periods, but we spread it out a bit, plus the single Sexy! No No No came out in the middle of recording, so we had to take time out to promote that."
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<br>All five members are united in praise for the current single, while Can't Speak French, rumoured to be the next release, is a particular favourite of Cheryl's.
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<br>"It gives me goosebumps that song, I love it," she beams. "I can't speak French although I did go out with a French boy for a little while, so I got some CDs to learn the language. I picked up a bit, but I've forgotten most of it apart from a few bad words
<br>opened up my email this weekend and was greeted by a message from Todd Brown at Twitch, who wanted me to check out the movie trailer for a Japanese movie called Machine Girl. He assured me that this might be the cult film of next year, and judging by the trailer, he might be right.
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<br>The film features yakuza ninjas, flying guillotines, a drill bra, a Japanese teenage schoolgirl, and probably more blood than I've seen on screen this year in all the films combined. Seems like Planet Terror236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-17597467971547424662007-12-10T08:50:00.000-08:002007-12-10T10:07:33.102-08:00oklahoma road conditions OKLAHOMA CITY � A winter storm moved across Oklahoma on Sunday, leaving a thin layer of ice on the ground and creating power outages for thousands as a prelude to even worse conditions expected to develop overnight.
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<br>The highest accumulations of ice were reported at a half-inch in Miami and Bartlesville in northeastern Oklahoma and one-third of an inch in the eastern Oklahoma City suburb of Midwest City, and more pockets of freezing rain were still moving through the area, according to the National Weather Service.
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<br>Roads in all but the southeastern portion of the state were considered slick and hazardous by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, and at least two deaths had already been attributed to the conditions.
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<br>The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said 58-year-old Aruna Patel of Altus was riding in a pickup truck that hit a patch of ice and slid into a bridge railing on U.S. Highway 62 in Tillman County early Sunday morning before a sport utility vehicle came along and broadsided the truck. Patel died later Sunday morning at a hospital, the patrol said.
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<br>Michele C. McDaniel of Elk City was killed in another crash involving a pickup truck on an icy road, this time in Beckham County. The highway patrol said McDaniel, 44, was partially ejected from a truck driven by her husband when it ran off the side of Interstate 40 and rolled one and a half times.
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<br>Public Service Co. of Oklahoma reported about 29,400 customers without power � including about 22,500 in the Tulsa area � while Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co., which had nearly 7,000 customers without power at one point, counted about 4,800 customers without electricity by Sunday afternoon. Most of OG&E's outages were in Oklahoma City and the eastern suburb of Midwest City.
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<br>And that was only a preview of what was expected in the storm's second round. Another batch of ice was expected to move northward into the state overnight and continue dropping freezing rain into Monday. Up to three-quarters of an inch of ice was expected in some areas.
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<br>"Tomorrow may be even more of a dilemma than today because we're going to get even a little bit more colder," John Pike, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service's Norman office, said Sunday.
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<br>The storm brought the cancellation of many church services, and Oklahoma State University also called off its football practice in Stillwater.
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<br>"Tomorrow morning's commute may be a little difficult, and I think schools will have to consider if they're going to hold classes or not for tomorrow. It's possible you could see a lot of cancellations," Pike said.
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<br>Pike said the most severe weather for Monday was expected along a line from Stillwater to Altus that would run directly through the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Slightly warmer temperatures were expected to melt some of the ice Tuesday, although rain remains in the forecast Tuesday and Wednesday.
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<br>Meteorologist Ray Sondat in the service's Tulsa office said temperatures in northeastern Oklahoma could reach into the upper 30s and even beyond 40 degrees in some areas Tuesday.
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<br>"I guess what we have to do is just get through to Tuesday," Pike said. "It probably wouldn't be a bad idea if people ... would maybe prepare not to go out anywhere Monday, depending on how bad it is."
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<br>This morning, crews in the Oklahoma City metro continue plowing slush accumulations off the roadways and applying salt and sand as temperatures remain below freezing. Areas in western Oklahoma County and Canadian County are extremely slick at this time and presenting more of a problem due to heavier precipitation received overnight. In the Tulsa area, crews are also salting and sanding and addressing slick spots. Downed power lines and fallen trees are prevalent and are posing problems for crews.
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<br>Statewide, weather and road conditions are continually being monitored as temperatures remain below freezing and following storms through the night. As the storm contines, crews will be applying materials on all highways and interstates and plowing sleet off the roadways as necessary as conditions are continually changing. Westbound I-40 west of the OKC metro area is still reporting slick spots, crews are out.
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<br>Motorists are reminded to be cautious of "black ice" which looks wet on the roadway but is a thin layer of ice. Working around-the-clock, crews have been out all night addressing these issues and prepraring roads for the morning drive.We ask everyone to please be patient, plan ahead and to allow extra time in the morning to reach your destination.
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<br>The hope comes hot on the heels of a meeting held by the team's top brass on Wednesday at Alendo Hotel in Blantyre.
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<br>Former chairman Sunduzwayo Madise, who was appointed spokesperson of the meeting, Thursday said the meeting, which drew 20 people including high profile figures came up with short and long term resolution to save the team.
<br>Madise said the short-term solution would take into account the team's needs for the remaining three games.
<br>The long-term plans will see the team coming up with solutions to meet outstanding arrears for the players.
<br>"Bullets will not die all we are asking is for well-wishers to contribute money or come up with ideas which can make help us to raise money," Madise said.
<br>He said the meeting raised K104,000 towards the assistance of the team.
<br>He said as a grouping of well-wishers their main interest was to assist the executive committee for the good of the team.
<br>"There's an executive committee in place and we don't want to work as a parallel committee to them," he said.
<br>A top official who also attended the meeting but spoke on conditions of anonymity said there was no way they could sit and watch Bullets die.
<br>"We will come up with solutions to save the team, we can't just let the team die," he said. "We should come up with something good for the club after the next meeting on Sunday."
<br>Among the people who attended the meeting were former chairmen Rashid Nembo, Yusuf Matumula, former general secretaries Harry Mtuwa and Willie Phalula and former treasurers Gideon Kalumbu and Mankhamba Phiri.
<br>Phalula and former vice-general Joseph Kamkwasi conceived the idea for the former officials and players to meet.
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<br> Akon arrived at the Town of Fishkill Police Department to be processed in advance of a scheduled 9 a.m. court appearance .
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<br>Akon arrived at about 8:20 a.m. in a black Cadillac Escalade SUV. He is due in court to answer charges related to his tossing a fan into the audience at Dutchess Stadium in June.
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<br>The Journal first reported the charges Thursday and media outlets from around the world picked up the story. One major television station satellite truck just arrived in the parking lot of Fishkill Court, but the parking lot remains devoid of a media crush.
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<br>Charges of endagering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, and second-degree harrasment, a violation, have been filed against Akon. On June 3 at Dutchess Stadium, security guards plucked a fan out of the audience and handed him over to Akon, who picked him and tossed him back into the crowd. Other fans said Akon was provoked by somebody who threw something at him.
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<br>KFEST is an annual concert at Dutchess Stadium held by WSPK (104.7 FM), known as K104. To read the whole story, click on the link to the right.
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<br>Check back to <a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com">www.poughkeepsiejournal.com</a> later this morning to track this developing story.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-80260067782000579162007-12-10T08:39:00.000-08:002007-12-10T10:09:07.204-08:00wtsa Container lines in the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (WTSA) have announced plans to introduce separate bunker fuel surcharges on recovered fiber contracts.<p>Contracts on recovered fiber shipments from the US to Asia have typically included provisions mitigating bunker surcharges, using instead an all-inclusive base freight rates.<p>"WTSA lines are taking a first step with respect to the leading commodity in the trade in terms of volume," WTSA executive administrator Brian Conrad was quoted saying. <p>"Wastepaper... BRATTLEBORO -- The new owner of WTSA radio has loved radio since he was 7, when he used to listen to find out if school had been canceled due to weather. Later, when Bill Corbeil turned 16 and bought his first car, he asked for license plates that read WBIL. <br>"This has been my dream to do something like this," he said, about buying the radio station. "I can't even put into words what this means to me." <p>Corbeil, who was born and raised in Brattleboro, graduated from Brattleboro Union High School in 1987 before attending the University of Vermont, where he met his wife Kelly, co-owner of WTSA. <p>While in high school, he interned at WTSA, where he "really got the bug," later working at WIZN radio in Burlington for 10 years. He returned to Brattleboro in 1997 to manage R.S. Roberts, an auto dealership that was owned by his family, which eventually became Auto Mall before being sold. <p>In the summer of 2006, Corbeil announced he had an option to buy WTSA from John and Michelle Kilduf, who had owned the radio station since 1986. <p>"Having grown up listening to WTSA, I appreciate its history and its commitment to the community," said Corbeil. "Locally <p><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<p>Advertisement<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>owned radio stations have a flexibility that big companies don't have." And he should know, having spent some time working for Clear Channel Communications, the nation's largest owner of radio stations. <br>On Dec. 1, the sale of WTSA to Corbeil's company, Four Seasons Media, was finalized. <p>WTSA was the first AM radio station to set up shop in Brattleboro, in 1950. Twenty years later, WTSA began to broadcast on an FM frequency as well. In 1993, WTSA's studio was moved from the location of Top of the Hill Grill on Putney Road to its current location on Western Avenue. <p>Corbeil is now in the process of moving the studio back to Putney Road, building a new facility in the old Rollerdrome near the Brattleboro Marina. Corbeil hopes that in the next two weeks the move to Putney Road will be finished. The move puts the studio closer to both its FM and AM towers, allowing WTSA to send digital signals to both and improving the quality of the station's sound. <p>The sale and some of Corbeil's actions -- including the termination of long-time disc jockey John Ashley and former owner John Kilduf, who was known on the air as John Clarke -- have not been without controversy, especially among those who are concerned the changes mean WTSA doesn't care as much about the community as the previous owners. <p>"The decisions (to fire Ashley and Kilduf) were really difficult business decisions," said Corbeil. "(But) we felt they put us in a good position for out startup. Our commitment to local programming will stay as strong as ever." <p>"I want to be a gentleman, but I am mad for the audience, which may feel disenfranchised," said Ashley, about his dismissal from the job he held for 23 years. Ashley said he was given 20 minutes to clean out his desk when he was notified by Corbeil that his services were no longer required. Clark was fired shortly thereafter. <p>"I am upset because the listeners got blindsided just like us," said Ashley. "Most people don't know what happened. It didn't need to be handled like it was with John and me. I certainly wish it had been otherwise." <p>"Change is difficult, but stay with us," said WTSA newscaster Tim Johnson. "I think you'll be pleased." <p>While there have been changes at WTSA, said Johnson, he expects he will continue to work there until it's time for retirement. <p>"I'm still here and I'm going to be here for a long time." <p>Corbeil said listeners will still hear some of the voices they've grown to love over the years, including Dan Taylor, Doug Brigham and Bob Coffey. <p>The format of WTSA-FM, adult contemporary, won't change, he added. In fact, he said, in the last 18 months, the size of the station's music library has been doubled and is all digitized, available at the DJs' fingertips on a touch screen. <p>"We have put everything we have into this project," said Corbeil. "It's a big financial commitment to do what we are doing." <p>WTSA-AM will continue to carry live high school sports and new technology in the newsroom will allow Johnson "to be in more places at once." It became an ESPN Radio affiliate earlier this year and has also started carrying more pro and college sports game coverage. <p>WTSA-FM will use a technique called "voice tracking," which allows DJs to record their voices in advance of shows, especially for overnight programming. <p>"That is part of today's technology," said Corbeil, which will help save money, adding it won't take away from local programming. <p>"The upgrades in technology means I can put the news together and get out into the community where the action is rather than wait for it to come to me," said Johnson, adding WTSA's old studio "was in woeful need of a modernization. Bill and Kelly have allowed us to do that." <p>"Brattleboro is a great audience," said Corbeil. "We hope they give us a chance to share our vision for the new station." <p>Ashley said that though he has had job offers, he's not sure what he will do. <p>"I have taken very little vacation time over the years and plan to take a couple of months just to see where things settle," he said, adding he has received more than 100 e-mails of support since he was released. <p>"To all my listeners I thank you more than you can know for your support, your loyalty and your friendship over the years," he said. "It was a great fit. Thank you for the happiest years of my adult life." <p>Kilduf said it was his and his wife's intention when they sold WTSA that it remain local, but he was surprised when Corbeil told him he was no longer needed. <p>"I expected to remain with the radio station and was given assurances that I would, but it didn't turn out that way. I was jettisoned and never really saw it coming." <p>Despite his disappointment, Kilduf said he realized that's the way the industry works. "I wish I had known all along I was going to be let go, but that's business." <p>Kilduf signed a non-compete clause when the station was sold and is forbidden from taking a job for the next year at any broadcast facility within WTSA's range. <p>"I miss the business, I miss the people and I miss the wonderful perch it provided overlooking the community. I met so many wonderful people and236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-21683068137321466422007-12-10T08:19:00.000-08:002007-12-10T11:16:29.242-08:00tulsa news Ben Uzoh set career highs with 28 points and 14 rebounds Sunday to help Tulsa snap a three-game losing streak with a 65-52 victory against Central Arkansas.
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<br>Uzoh's 3-pointer with 2:41 to play pushed Tulsa's lead to 59-45 and got him past his previous career scoring best ― a 23-point performance in his college debut last season.
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<br>"This win was crucial for us," Tulsa coach Doug Wojcik said. "We regained our identity as a team that works hard and plays defense. We just could not make a basket. But it was a phenomenal effort by Ben Uzoh."
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<br> The Bears had won eight straight games after losing their season opener at Kentucky, and they got out to a strong start against cold-shooting Tulsa. The Golden Hurricane shot only 25 percent in the first half and trailed 31-25 at the break.
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<br>Tulsa outrebounded Central Arkansas 47-31 and held the Bears to 35 percent shooting. The Golden Hurricane had allowed two of their last three opponents to shoot over 50 percent after never allowing that to happen in Wojcik's first two seasons at Tulsa.
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<br>"We're hoping it will get to 33 (degrees)," he said. "It should do it, but if it suddenly stayed 31 instead of 33, it could make a big difference."
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<br>The warning was in effect until noon in Tulsa, Osage, Washington, Nowata, Craig, Ottawa, Pawnee, Rogers, Mayes, Delaware, Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Wagoner, Cherokee, Muskogee and McIntosh counties.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-24846444451237251152007-12-10T08:10:00.000-08:002007-12-10T08:09:15.680-08:00renee sloan Scott Baio married longtime girlfriend Renee Sloan on Saturday in a small ceremony. The couple wed on the rooftop of a luxury high-rise in Los Angeles. Among those who attended the ceremony was Sloan's 18-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, and the couple's newborn daughter.
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<br>Erstwhile Happy Days denizen and infamous Playboy Mansion troller Scott Baio gave up his single status on Saturday, tying the knot with longtime steady Renee Sloan.
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<br>Paparazzi photos showed the couple swapping vows atop the roof of a Los Angeles high rise.
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<br>And while the matrimony belies the premise of the former child star's VH1 reality series, Scott Baio Is 45...and Single, the ceremony was captured by cameras for the second season, according to People.
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<br>The show, which costars Baio wingman and Wonder Years alum Jason Hervey, launched last summer with a seven-episode run. The premise: Longtime lothario Baio, who has hooked up with everyone from his Happy Days onscreen love Erin Moran to such Hollywood hotties as Pamela Anderson, Heather Locklear and Denise Richards, hires a life coach to help overcome his commitment phobia.
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<br>Of course, the "reality" of the show was virtually undermined from the getgo, once E! Online's Ted Casablanca confirmed that Baio not only had been dating model-actress Sloan on and off for a decade but she was pregnant with his child.
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<br>Baio, whose credits also include Bugsy Malone and Charles in Charge, and Sloan first met in the 1990s during one of his regular excursions to the Playboy Mansion. Sloan, who turns 35 on Dec. 24, has an 18-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
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<br>Apparently, the new season of the show will deal with the birth of their daughter―who was born last month but whose name has not yet been announced―and their marriage.
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<br>No word whether will VH1 plans on changing the title of the show. Aside from no longer being single, Baio turned 46 in September.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-72603605809635709072007-12-10T08:06:00.000-08:002007-12-10T08:22:28.910-08:00wtol The holiday season should be a time of joy. I hope that's true for you and your family. <p>The reality for many people in Northwest Ohio is much harsher. It has been a difficult year. Jobs have been lost and are not coming back. The demands on charities are greater than ever. <p>The easiest thing to do is to just ignore the bad news. It is much simpler to walk on by the volunteers who are ringing bells or asking for your help in some other way. <p>Yet even the smallest donation of cash or food or clothing makes a significant difference. To those who have almost nothing, anything that is received is a blessing. <p>For most of us, Northwest Ohio is a pretty good place to live. So, go ahead and enjoy your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. <p>And I hope you find a little something to offer to the unfortunate people for whom the holiday is not much of a celebration. Thanks for caring.<p>TOLEDO AREA -- An accident was reported on northbound I-75. A metal portion of the DiSalle bridge caused a Chevy to spin out, roll over and hit a wall. Northbound lanes were blocked off at Collingwood but are now clear. <p>We've also been told roads are very icy in Fulton County.<p>In Northwood, police report they've had two minor accidents because of icy bridges and overpasses. <p>Oregon has had one weather-related accident. Perrysburg Township says bridges and overpasses are icy, too.<p>Wauseon Police says they don't have any accidents, but report icy conditions on their roadways.<p>ODOT spokesperson Theresa Pollick says drivers should be careful on bridges and overpasses because they freeze first.<p>Stay with WTOL.com and News 11 for Breaking News First.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-84276125448740353512007-12-10T07:58:00.001-08:002007-12-10T07:58:08.326-08:00there will be blood LA critics pick 'There Will Be Blood' as year's best film, Day-Lewis best actor
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<br>Based on the novel "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair, the film received three other honours: best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis as a California petroleum baron who clashes with his son and a local preacher in the early 1900s; best director for Paul Thomas Anderson and production design for Jack Fisk.
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<br>The best-actress prize went to Marion Cotillard as singer Edith Piaf in "La Vie En Rose," while Anamaria Marinca was runner-up for "4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days," a Romanian drama in which she plays a woman who helps to arrange a friend's illegal abortion.
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<br>Frank Langella was runner-up for best actor as an aging novelist who forges an unusual relationship with an admiring young woman in "Starting Out in the Evening."
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<br>The Los Angeles group's picks and Monday's upcoming choices from the New York Film Critics Circle precede Thursday's nominations for the Golden Globes, Hollywood's second-biggest film honours, after the Oscars.
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<br>Runners-up for supporting honours were Cate Blanchett for her gender-crossing role as an incarnation of Bob Dylan in his mid-1960s electric transition in "I'm Not There" and Hal Holbrook as a lonely widower who befriends a wanderer in "Into the Wild."
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<br>Tamara Jenkins received the screenplay prize for "The Savages," about an estranged brother and sister forced to care for their ailing father. Anderson was runner-up for his "There Will Be Blood" screenplay.
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<br>The crime saga "No Country for Old Men," one of the year's most acclaimed films and considered an Oscar best-picture contender, was shut out for Los Angeles critics' honours but it was the key winner Sunday for prizes from the Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association. That group honoured "No Country for Old Men" for best picture, directors (Joel and Ethan Coen) and supporting actor (Javier Bardem).
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<br>"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" - adapted from the memoirs of French Elle editor Jean-Dominque Bauby, who suffered a paralyzing stroke - was runner-up for the Los Angeles group's best picture and foreign-language honours. Its filmmaker, Julian Schnabel, also was runner-up to Anderson for the directing prize.
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<br>The group chose Janusz Kaminski as best cinematographer for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," with Robert Elswit the runner-up for "There Will Be Blood."
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<br>There was a tie-in the animated-feature category between the rodent tale "Ratatouille" and the coming-of-age saga "Persepolis."
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<br>Charles Ferguson's "No End in Sight," examining the President George W. Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war, was selected as best documentary, with Michael Moore's health-care study "Sicko" the runner-up.
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<br>The independent hit "Once," a romance between an Irish street busker and an Eastern European immigrant to Dublin, earned the music prize for its two stars, musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead was the runner-up for "There Will Be Blood."
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<br>The critics gave a special honour to actress Sarah Polley for "Away From Her," her acclaimed directing debut starring Julie Christie as a woman succumbing to Alzheimer's.
<br>There Will Be Blood
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<br>There Will Be Blood
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<br>Promotional film poster
<br>Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
<br>Produced by Paul Thomas Anderson
<br>Daniel Lupi
<br>Scott Rudin
<br>Eric Schlosser
<br>Joanne Sellar
<br>Written by Novel:
<br>Upton Sinclair
<br>Screenplay:
<br>Paul Thomas Anderson
<br>Starring Daniel Day-Lewis
<br>Paul Dano
<br>Mary Elizabeth Barrett
<br>David Willis
<br>Music by Jonny Greenwood
<br>Distributed by Miramax Films
<br>Paramount Vantage
<br>Release date(s) December 26, 2007
<br>Country United States
<br>Language English
<br>Budget $25 million
<br>IMDb profile
<br>There Will Be Blood is a film adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Shooting began in mid-May 2006 in New Mexico and Marfa, Texas, with principal photography wrapping August 24, 2006. The film is scheduled for release on December 26, 2007.
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<br>Music for the film was composed by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.[1]
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<br>Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Plainview
<br>Paul Dano Eli Sunday
<br>Dillon Freasier H.W. Ailman
<br>Kevin J. O'Connor Henry Brands
<br>Ciarán Hinds Fletcher Hamilton
<br>David Willis Abel Sunday
<br>Mary Elizabeth Barrett Fanny Clark
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<br>It has been reported that 30 days into the shoot, the role of Eli Sunday was recast from the original choice of Kel O'Neill to the final choice of Paul Dano.[citation needed]
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<br>Best Production Design
<br>Best Cinematography (runner-up)
<br>Best Music (runner-up)
<br>New York Film Critics Online 2007
<br>Best Picture (tie with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
<br>Best Director
<br>Best Actor
<br>Best Cinematography
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<br>Best Cinematography236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-32250081018186008202007-12-10T07:53:00.000-08:002007-12-10T07:54:17.928-08:00tinker afb Many have heard the saying, "If you step on a crack, break your mother's back." If Air Force aircraft inspectors miss a tiny crack in an engine or a critical component on a plane, the bird could fall out of the sky.
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<br>The Air Force nondestructive inspection, or NDI, team at Tinker Air Force Base ensures aircraft inspectors use the right tools and processes to catch the smallest cracks in order the keep aircraft in the sky.
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<br>"It's not the smallest flaw you can find, it is the largest one you may miss that's important," said Karl Kraft, the Air Force NDI program office lead engineer.
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<br>"Anywhere there are aircraft flying, there will be an NDI presence," said Michael Paulk, the chief of the Air Force NDI office.
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<br>The NDI team is testing new equipment and improving inspection processes to increase the reliability of field inspections and the probability of finding smaller flaws on aircraft critical components.
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<br>The first step was a $1 million grant to take the mechanical probes used on the current systems at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center here and use them for manual inspections on aircraft parts in the field and at depot maintenance repair facilities.
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<br>Throughout the aerospace industry, a traditional manual eddy current inspection (a process used to find small cracks invisible to the human eye) is roughly capable of finding a one-tenth of an inch crack as opposed to the OC-ALC's engine inspection shop that can find cracks a tenth of that size with the automated systems, Mr. Kraft said.
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<br>"One key performance parameter of this program is to cut the current probability of detection size of surface eddy current inspections in half Air Force wide," Mr. Kraft said. "If we can reliably detect smaller flaws, then maintenance intervals may be extended, increasing aircraft availability to the warfighter."
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<br>The manual probe is similar to a pencil tip and very susceptible to titling that would reduce sensitivity. The new mechanical probes contain a specially designed coil that conforms to the surface and allows less degree of movement, increasing the probability of finding a smaller crack.
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<br>"This type of equipment will be used to reduce human factors that adversely affect inspector performance," Mr. Kraft said.
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<br>Another human variable affecting performance is the type of training an inspector has received, Mr. Kraft said. NDI program office members want to create a new NDI reliability system that will standardize training throughout the Air Force.
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<br>The team has been performing probability of detection, or POD, studies for the past three years to measure the reliability of surface eddy current inspections in the field to identify shortcomings in inspection capability.
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<br>"The data is pointing toward the training," Mr. Paulk said. "Typically inspectors trained at the Air Force NDI school did better in the POD studies than those only receiving training locally."
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<br>The team is supporting the air logistics centers on a training plan to overcome gaps between requirements and capability. The team is developing a standard training program where half of the training will be completed in the classroom. The other half will involve hands-on training. Tinker AFB is the lead in this effort, Mr. Paulk said.
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<br>The NDI team is also working on acquiring noncontact scanning equipment that would allow for inspections without the probe contacting the surface of the part. A proposed scanner would allow a single device to scan aircraft skin surrounding a fastener without having to change probes . Andersen Air Force Base, Guam - Repairs on a B-1B Lancer will soon be completed and the aircraft is expected to be ready for combat by next year.
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<br>In September 2005, the B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) in South Dakota, landed at Andersen and burst into flames while taxiing off the runway.
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<br>The brakes on the right main landing gear failed, causing a catastrophic fire resulting in damage to the right wing, nacelle, structure and landing gear.
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<br>Two years later, after months of planning, the damaged B-1B is being rebuilt and set to fly from Guam to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma, for completion of its repairs.
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<br>The aircraft will then be returned to fully mission capable status and ready for combat.
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<br>The wing, nacelle and landing gear parts were removed from "donor" B-1s that have been retired to AMARC (aircraft maintenance and regeneration center), or better known as the "Bone Yard," at Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona. Inactive aircraft are parked there for future use or to recycle their parts.
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<br>After the parts were removed they had to be shipped from Arizona by "wide load" trucks to California, and then placed on a ship for their two-month journey to Guam.
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<br>Maintenance support is being provided by the 36th Maintenance Squadron to include sheet metal, machine and electric shop. They also are providing aircraft ground support equipment Tinker Air Force Base
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<br>Tinker Air Force Base
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<br>IATA: TIK - ICAO: KTIK
<br>Summary
<br>Airport type Military
<br>Operator USAF
<br>Elevation AMSL 1291 ft (393.5 m)
<br>Coordinates 35°24′52.8″N, 97°23′12.0″W
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<br>Direction Length Surface
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<br>17/35 11,100 3,383 PEM
<br>A water tower on the north side of Tinker Air Force BaseTinker Air Force Base ― Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (OC-ALC)― is a major U.S. Air Force base located in Oklahoma City, near the suburb of Midwest City, Oklahoma. The base has more than 26,000 military and civilian employees and is the largest single-site employer in Oklahoma. The installation covers 5033 acres (20.368 km2) (7.864 m2) and has 760 buildings with a building floor space of over 15.2 million square feet.
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<br>Tinker AFB is home to seven major Department of Defense, Air Force and Navy activities with critical national defense missions.
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<br>The 552d Air Control Wing (ACW) flies the E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft and is part of the Air Force's Air Combat Command major command. The E-3's radar and other sensors provide deep-look surveillance, warning, interception control and airborne battle management. The 552 ACW encompasses 3 groups: the 552d Operations Group; the 552d Maintenance Group; and the 552d Communications Group. In the Operations Group (OG) there are 7 squadrons: the 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron (AACS), 963 AACS, 964 AACS, 965 AACS, 966 AACS, 970 AACS (Reserve), and the 552d Training Squadron. The 552d Communications Group consists of the 752d Communication Squadron and the 552d Computer Systems Squadron, which is the sole AWACS software development squadron in the USAF. The wing was formerly located at McClellan AFB, California, and prior to the delivery of the E-3 in 1977, was the home of the EC-121 Warning Star; one of which is on static display near the Wing's headquarters building.
<br>The 507th Air Refueling Wing is an Air Force Reserve flying unit. OC-ALC is the primary source of depot maintenance for the wing's KC-135R aircraft and engines. The Wing also supports U.S. Military and NATO aircraft with aerial refueling and Airborne Warning and Control System missions world-wide.
<br>The 76th Maintenance Wing Provides maintenance support for the Oklahoma Cith Air Logistics Center.
<br>The 327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing
<br>The 448th Combat Sustainment Wing
<br>The 507th Air Refueling Wing
<br>The 38th Engineering Installation Group has worldwide responsibility for engineering and installation of all communications and electronic facilities for the Air Force.
<br>The Defense Mega Center Oklahoma City is the local branch of the Defense Information Systems Agency. The Mega center operates computer systems for the base and serves 110 other bases in 46 states.
<br>Tinker AFB, main gate, 1995.The Navy's Strategic Communications (STRATCOM) Wing ONE is a one-of-a kind unit in the Navy. This Wing provides a vital, secure communications link to the submerged fleet of ballistic missile submarines. OC-ALC airframe artisans perform depot work on the Navy's E-6 Mercury airplanes while sailors perform field level work.
<br>The Defense Distribution Depot Oklahoma provides the receipt, storage, issue, inspection and shipment of material, including material quality control, preservation and packaging, inventory, transportation functions and pick up and delivery services in support of OC-ALC and other Tinker-based organizations.
<br>The 3rd Combat Communications Group (colloquially known as the "Third Herd") provides deployable communications, computer systems, navigational aids and air traffic control services anywhere in the world.
<br>the 654th Combat Logistic Support Squadron
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<br>A C-47 Skytrain on display at Tinker.In 1940, the War Department was considering the central United States as a location for a supply and maintenance depot. Oklahoma City leaders offered a 480 acre (1.94 km2) site and acquired an option for 960 additional acres (3.89 km2) of land. On April 8, 1941, the order was officially signed awarding the depot to Oklahoma City.
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<br>In 1942, the new installation was named Tinker Field in honor of Major General Clarence L. Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation from Pawhuska, Oklahoma. General Tinker was a graduate of Wentworth Military Academy who went on to become the first Major General of American Indian descent in U.S. Army history. Tinker was killed in a crash while leading a flight of B-24 Liberators on a long-range strike against Japanese forces on Wake Island during World War II.
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<br>Tinker Field was the site of a Douglas Aircraft factory producing approximately half of the C-47 Skytrains used in World War II. The site also produced a number of A-20 Havocs. Production ceased in 1945.
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<br>The first successful tornado forecast in history was issued on March 25, 1948 from Tinker, about three hours before the tornado hit the southeast corner of the base. A granite marker in the Heritage Airpark on the base commemorates the event.
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<br>On September 29, 1957, Buddy Holly and The Crickets recorded "An Empty Cup", "Rock Me My Baby", "You've Got Love", and "Maybe Baby" in the Tinker Air Force Base Officer's Club.
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<br>On November 14, 1984, a massive fire that burned for two days destroyed or damaged over 700,000 square feet in Building 3001. The resulting repairs cost $63.5 million.
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<br>During much of the 1990s, Tinker was home to the Automated Weather Network switching facility, which consolidated all U.S. military weather data worldwide. Originally based at Carswell Air Force Base, this unit was later moved to an Air Force Weather Agency facility at Offutt Air Force Base.
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<br>On May 3, 1999, a deadly tornado caused extensive damage to the northwest corner of the base and surrounding communities.1 For many days afterwards, Tinker personnel helped by providing shelters, search and rescue, and clean-up efforts.
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<br>In July 2005, Tinker hosted the US Air Force Thunderbirds as part of their Star Spangled Salute, the base's annual Independence Day celebration. This was the first time the Thunderbirds had performed in Oklahoma in almost 20 years.
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<br>Tinker celebrated the 30-year anniversary of the E-3 Sentry from June 29 to July 1, 2007. Past and present airmen were invited236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-74353618364368235302007-12-10T07:48:00.000-08:002007-12-10T08:26:15.817-08:00paul janka young teen. For grades three and up. DuPont Theatre, Hotel du Pont, 11th and Market streets, Wilmington. 656-4401 or (800) 338-0881. $7.50.<p>"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" (Abridged) Dec. 5-23. Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water St., Wilmington. 594-1100. $31-$49.<p>53 Stations The jazz quartet will perform original compositions from their upcoming CD, "The Hilltop Sessions." Part of Music Masters Series. 7:30 p.m. Wilmington Music School, 4101 N. Washington St., Wilmington. 762-1132. $5-$10.<p>Thu. 12/6<p>"Scrooge" Presented by Clear Space Productions. 7 p.m. Dec. 6; 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 8-9. Little Theater at Cape Henlopen High School, 1250 Kings Highway, Lewes. 226-4103. $15-$25.<p>Cartoon Christmas Trio The trio will be playing music of Vince Guaraldi from "A Charlie Brown Christmas." 12:30-1 p.m. First & Central Presbyterian Church, 11th and Market streets, Wilmington. 654-5371. $2.<p>Christmas Show and Luncheon Enjoy lunch and a Christmas show created by Lighthouse Productions. Noon. Lewes Senior Center, 310 Nassau Park Road. 645-9293. $10.<p>Georgetown Christmas "Balloon" Parade Theme: "A Sparkling Christmas."Featuring Macy's-style balloons. 7 p.m. Downtown Georgetown, Market Street. 856-1544 or <a href="http://www.georgetowncoc.com">www.georgetowncoc.com</a>. Free.<p>Moonlight Brass Quintet Delaware City Arts Center, 60 Clinton St. 838-8740 or <a href="http://www.delawarecity.info">www.delawarecity.info</a>. Donations.<p>Fri. 12/7<p>"A Farmer's Christmas" For the family. 6-9 p.m. Dec. 7; 3-9 p.m. Dec. 8. Delaware Agricultural Museum, 886 N. Du Pont Highway, Dover. 734-1618. Free-$5.<p>"A Chili Sumo Christmas" Reservations encouraged. Presented by the Delaware Comedy Theatre. Seating starts at 6 p.m.; show 8-9:30. Atlantic Seafood Grille, Atlantic Sands Hotel, 101 N. Boardwalk, Rehoboth Beach. 227-2511, ext. 660. $10, dinner and show package $45.34.<p>"A Time for Christmas" 7 p.m. Dec. 7, 9, 14 and 16. Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church, 2880 Summit Bridge Road, Glasgow. Free.<p>Chocolate Festival Weekend Chocolate confections, candy village, electric toy train display, choral performances, ice sculpting, holiday crafts and gifts and more. Dec. 7-9. Dover Downs -- Lobby Bar, 1131 N. Du Pont Highway. (800) 711-5882 or <a href="http://www.doverdowns.com">www.doverdowns.com</a>.<p>Tomaseen Foley's "A Celtic Christmas" A story of a night before Christmas in a remote farmhouse in western Ireland where neighbors gather around the fire to share stories, enjoy music and dance. 7 p.m. Schwartz Center for the Arts, State and North streets, Dover. 678-5152 or (800) 778-5078. $12-$39.<p>Winterfest Featuring the lighting of the holiday tree, live entertainment, retail and dining specials. 6-9 p.m. Dec. 7. Academy Building Lawn, Main Street and Academy Street, Newark. 366-7060. Free.<p>"A Very Jazzy Christmas" Roundabout Brass and Opus One Vocal Jazz concert. 8 p.m. Newark United Methodist Church, 69 E. Main St, Newark. Betsy Kent, 368-8774. $5-$7.<p>Sat. 12/8<p>"The Nutcracker" Performed by the Brandywine Ballet. 2 p.m. Dec. 8-9 and 15, 6 p.m. Dec. 16. West Chester University Philips Memorial Building-Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall, University Avenue (off South Church Street), West Chester, Pa. (610) 696-2711 or www. brandywineballet.com. $15-$35.<p>"The Nutcracker" Performed by the Delaware Dance Company. 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 8; 2 p.m. Dec. 9. John Dickinson High School, 1801 Milltown Road, Milltown. 738-2023. $15-$28.<p>"You're a Good Man Charlie Brown 7 p.m. Schwartz Center for the Arts, State and North streets, Dover. 335-2569. $6.<p>Bazaar and Cookie Walk Featuring white elephant table and baked goods. Refreshments available. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Church of the Nativity, 206 Sykes Road, New Castle. 328-3445. Free.<p>Brandywiners Chorale Performing songs of the season. 7:30 p.m. Smyrna Opera House, 107 S. Main St. 653-4236. $5-$12.<p>Christmas Gospel Jazz Brunch Presented by Doers of the Word, featuring saxophonist Tony Smith. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sheraton Suites, 422 Delaware Ave., Wilmington. 325-1215. $35.<p>Cookie Walk Homemade Christmas cookies for sale. Benefits Handicap Access Project. 9 a.m.-noon. Calvary Presbyterian Church, 701 S. Maryland Ave., near Newport. 994-4044. Free.<p>First State Harmonizers Present Christmas Memories Featuring the First State Harmonizers Chorus and quartets including Diamond State Four and Vintage Harmony. 2 and 7 p.m. Milford Senior Center, 111 Park Ave. 678-0834, 422-8620 or 674-1227. $5-12.<p>Holiday House Tour Self-guided tour of Wilmington homes and art gallery. Includes live music, pre-ordered box lunch and raffles. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington. 571-9590. $20.<p>Holiday House Tour Tour of historic homes. Benefits Milton Theatre. 2-7 p.m. Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 684-3400. $10-$12.<p>Holiday Improv for Kids All ages. Presented by Delaware Comedy Theatre. 2-3:15 p.m. Booksandcoffee, 113 Dickinson St., Ruddertowne, Dewey Beach. 226-4280 or <a href="http://www.delawarecomedytheatre.com">www.delawarecomedytheatre.com</a>. $5.<p>Holly Festival 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Milton Fire Company, 116 Front St.<p>Murder Mystery Dinner Theater 7-11 p.m. Adas Kodesh Shel Emeth Synagogue, Washington Boulevard and Torah Way, Wilmington. 762-2705. $90.<p>Righter Than Rain String Duo Violinist Janka Pernisz and guitarist Chris Braddock. 6-9 p.m. Costa's Grill & Wine Bar, 1000 West St., Wilmington. 777-2268. Free.<p>Santa's Workshop Holiday-themed games, arts and crafts. Pictures with Santa available. Food Bank of Delaware will be accepting nonperishable canned goods. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 8-9, 15-16, 20 and 22-23; 5-8 p.m. Dec. 21. Lieberman's Bookstore, 45 E. Main St., Newark. 283-9980. Free.<p>Spirit of Christmas in Old New Castle Shopping, historic house and museum tours, carriage rides, choral concert, craft show, live music, food, used book sale, silent auction and appearance by Santa and Mother Goose. Culminates with tree lighting on the Green. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Second Street. 328-3279. Free.<p>Sun. 12/9<p>Christmas at Westminster Choir, brass, timpani, bells and organ present featured work "Savior of the Nations, Come" by Michael Burkhardt. Paul Fleckenstein, organist/conductor. 4 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1502 W. 13th St., Wilmington. 654-5214. Offering.<p>Christmas Concert Presented by Aldersgate's Chancel Choir, Junior Choir, Bell Choir, Orchestra and soloists. Reception afterward. 7:30 p.m. Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2313 Concord Pike, Fairfax. 478-2575. Free.<p>Christmas Gala Featuring St. Mark's Choir and Concert Choir Band. 2 p.m. Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 12 Winder Road, Garfield Park, near New Castle. Free.<p>Georgetown Historical Society's Christmas House Tour Preregistration required. Noon-5 p.m. 510 S. Bedford St., Georgetown. 855-9660. $10.<p>Georgetown Historical Society's Craft Show 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Marvel Carriage Museum, 510 S. Bedford St., Georgetown. 855-9660.<p>Handel's "Messiah" Complete performance with orchestra. 3 p.m Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Buck Road East, Greenville. 655-3379. $25.<p>Historic Holiday Home Tour Tickets required. 4-7 p.m. Downtown Kennett Square (Pa.), State Street. (610) 444-8188. $20.<p>Holiday "Deck the Zoo" Winter snack, holiday music and time with friends and family. Held outdoors. Dress for the weather. 1-3 p.m. Brandywine Zoo, 1001 N. Park Drive, Wilmington. 571-7747. Free-$4.<p>Holiday Green Show and Crafts Sale Movies, crafts, storytelling and Santa visits for children. Children's workshop will create projects for a local senior center and children's organization, $5 per child, preregistration required. Soup, salads and sandwiches ($10, advance registration recommended). Proceeds distributed to social service agencies funded by the church's outreach program. 10 a.m-2 p.m. Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Buck Road East, Greenville. 655-3379. Free.<p>Holiday Walking Tour of Smyrna Tour of historic homes. 1-6 p.m. 659-5081.<p>Israeli Dancing With Sharon Kleban. 7-9 p.m. Arden Gild Hall, 2126 The Highway, Arden. 478-7257. $4.<p>Peniel United Methodist Church's Annual Christmas Concert Features the senior choir and hand bell ringers and the New Castle County Community Band. 3 p.m. 115 E. Market St., Newport. 994-9519. Free.<p>Trip to "Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular" Hosted by the Premier Centre for the Arts. Preregistration required. Departure 7 a.m.; return at 9 p.m. Premier Centre for the Arts, 27 Anderson St., Middletown. 378-1384 or <a href="http://www.pca-de.com">www.pca-de.com</a>. $189, includes coach bus, dinner, show and backstage tour.<p>Mon. 12/10<p>Hand Bell Choir Festival Choirs from Centenary United Methodist Church of Laurel and St. John's United Methodist Church of Seaford. Seasonal favorites and other traditional music. Light refreshments served. 7 p.m. Laurel Public Library, 101 E. Fourth St. 875-3184.<p>Tue. 12/11<p>CeCe Winans Christmas 8 p.m. The Grand, 818 N. Market St., Wilmington. 652-5577 or (800) 374-7263. $35-$39.<p>Hunter's Den Dinner Train Ride on vintage railcar to the restaurant in Marshallton. Hors d'oeuvres served on board, dinner and dessert at the restaurant. Reservations required. 7 p.m. Wilmington & Western Railroad Greenbank Station, Del. 41 just north of Kirkwood Highway, near Prices Corner. 998-1930. $25-$47.<p>Thu. 12/13<p>"Scrooge" Presented by Clear Space Productions. 7 p.m. Dec. 13-14. Schwartz Center for the Arts, State and North streets, Dover. 678-5152 or (800) 778-5078. $10-$17.<p>Center City Chorale: "The Twelve Days of Christmas" Neil Harmon, organist; Hiroko Yamazaki, pianist; David Schelat, conductor. Featuring a humorous music-history-based version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." 12:30-1 p.m. First & Central Presbyterian Church, 11th and Market streets, Wilmington. 654-5371. $2.<p>Fri. 12/14<p>"A Christmas Carol" Re-telling of Charles Dickens' Christmas fable. 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14-15. Smyrna Opera House, 107 S. Main St. 653-4236. $5-$12.<p>"Best Christmas Pageant Ever" 8 p.m. Dec. 14-15; 2 p.m. Dec. 16. Chapel Street Players, 27 N. Chapel St., Newark. 368-2248. $5-$10.<p>"Nuncrackers" Christmas musical. 7 p.m. Dec. 14-15; 2 p.m. Dec. 16. Milton Theatre, 108 Union St. 684-3400. $15-$20.<p>"Philly-Nutt-Crak-Up" Spoof of "The Nutcracker" combines comedy, hip-hop, jazz, modern and ballet dance. 8 p.m. Dec. 14-15; 2:30 p.m. Dec. 15; 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dec. 16. Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., Philadelphia. (215) 925-9914 or (610) 225-3007. $22-$50.<p>"The Gifts of the Magi" A musical telling by Randy Courts and Mark St. Germain of O. Henry's story teaching the true meaning of giving. 8 p.m. Dec. 14; 2 and 8 p.m. Dec. 15. Arden Gild Hall, 2126 The Highway, Arden. Reservations, 475-3126, ext. 4, or ardenclub theatre@verizon.net. $8-$12. Group rates available.<p>"Let There Be Light" Christmas musical. A Toys R Us gift card will be given away each night. 7 p.m. Delmar Church of God of Prophecy, Dorothy Road, Delmar. 875-7824. Free.<p>Pennsylvania Ballet presents George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker" Featuring the original Tschaikovsky score performed by the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and the Philadelphia Boys Choir. 11 a.m. Dec. 15 and 22; noon Dec. 16, 23-24, 27 and 29-31; 2 p.m. Dec. 26 and 28; 3 p.m. Dec. 15 and 22, 4 p.m. Dec. 16, 23, 27 and 29-30; 7 p.m. Dec. 14-15, 20-22, 26 and 28. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust streets, Philadelphia. (215) 551-7000 or <a href="http://www.paballet.org">www.paballet.org</a>. $22-$129.<p>Sat. 12/15<p>"A Feast of Carols" Presented by the New Ark Chorale directed by Michael Larkin. Music by Charpentier, Ransol Bass, Larkin, Crocker and others. Program features "Midnight Mass for Christmas" by Charpentier, accompanied by orchestra, carols from around the world and a singalong of holiday songs, accompanied by orchestra and a special holiday guest, 7:30 p.m. Newark United Methodist Church, 69 E. Main St., Newark. $5-$15.<p>"Nutcracker" Students perform Act II. 3 and 7 p.m. Delaware Technical & Community College, Seashore Highway, Del. 18, Georgetown. 858-5475.<p>"The Nutcracker" Presented by Anna Marie Dance Studio. 2 p.m. Dec. 15-16. Archmere Academy, 3600 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont. 475-3949. $15-$20.<p>"Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price" 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Dover Public Library, 45 S. State St. 398-4895. Free.<p>"You're A Good Man Charlie Brown" 7 p.m. Dec. 15; 2 p.m. Dec. 16. Wells Theater, Slaybaugh Hall, Wesley College, North Governors Avenue (near Division Street.), Dover. 335-2569. $6.<p>Chester Children's Chorus Holiday Concert 8 p.m. First Pentecostal Holy Church, 324 Pusey St, Chester, Pa. Free.<p>Christmas Chorale Presented by the Chorus of the Brandywine and Concord High School. 7 p.m. Concord High School, 2501 Ebright Road, Brandywine Hundred. 655-7464. $5-$12.<p>Everett Chorale "Songs of the Season." Presented by Everett Theatre and ACT Inc. 7:30 p.m. 45 E. Main St., Middletown. 378-7038. $12-$15.<p>Righter Than Rain String Duo Violinist Janka Pernisz and guitarist Chris Braddock. 6-9 p.m. Costa's Grill & Wine Bar, 1000 West St., Wilmington. 777-2268. Free.<p>Sun. 12/16<p>"Welcome, Dear Winter!" Concert Features traditions of Russia, Scandinavia, Poland and others. Afterward dessert buffet and meet the artists. Part Archmere's 75th anniversary celebration. 7-8:30 p.m. Archmere Academy's McLaughlin-Mullen Life Center, 3600 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont. 798-7290, ext. 747. Free.<p>An Evening of Christmas Music Choirs, bells, soloists, organ and piano classics, carols and contemporary music. 6 p.m. Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 308 Possum Park Road, Newark. 737-2300 or <a href="http://www.epcnewark.org">www.epcnewark.org</a>. Free.<p>Feast of Carols Christmas Concert Featuring Grace Church Choir under the direction of Dr. Neil Harmon, accompanied by harp, oboe, guitar, marimba and piano. Free child care for 5 and younger. 8 p.m. Grace United Methodist Church, 900 N. Washington St., Wilmington. 655-8847. Offering.<p>Handel's "Messiah" The Concord Concert Series, under the direction of Matthew Pressley, presents an interpretation with full orchestra, professional soloists and the Concord Concert Choir. 7 p.m. Concord Presbyterian Church, 1800 Fairfax Blvd., Fairfax. Offering.<p>Newark Symphony Orchestra "Myths, Legends, Fairytales" Hansel & Gretel Overture by Engelbert Humperdinck; "Mysterious Mountain" by Alan Hovhaness; "Scheherzazde" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. 3 p.m. Independence School, 1300 Paper Mill Road, Pike Creek. 369-3466.<p>Post-Cana Christmas Dinner and Dance Meeting Cocktails and dancing for widows and widowers. Proof of widowhood and residency required. 5:30-10 p.m. DuPont Country Club, 1001 Rockland Road, Rockland. 654-4435. Free.<p>Spirit of the Season Dance performance by students 4 and older from the American Dance Academy. Includes dancing snowmen, penguins, Polar Express conductors, angels and other Santa helpers. 2 p.m. Salesianum School, 1801 N. Broom St., Wilmington. 234-9900. Advance $15, at door $17.<p>Winter Choral Concert Directed by Michael Larkin, Marybeth Miller and Joanne Ward. Features the Wilmington Youth Chorale, Delaware Children's Chorus, Select Choral Ensemble and Delaware Women's Chorus. 4 p.m. St. Helena's Catholic Church, 602 Philadelphia Pike, Bellefonte. Free.<p>Mon. 12/17<p>Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Live radio broadcast on WVUD 91.3 FM. 7 p.m. Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water St., Wilmington. 594-1100. $10-$12.<p>Chesapeake Brass Band, featuring popular favorites from the band's Holiday Brass CD.7:30 p.m. Wilmington Music School, 4101 N. Washington St., Wilmington. 762-1132. $5-$10.<p>Holiday Night Express 45-minute ride aboard the 1929 railcar, The Paul Revere. 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Wilmington & Western Railroad Greenbank Station, Del. 41 just north of Kirkwood Highway, near Prices Corner. 998-1930. $5-$8.<p>Thu. 12/20<p>"Christmas Music on Flute" 7 p.m. Corbit-Calloway Memorial Library, 115 High St., Odessa. 378-8838. Free.<p>"Power 99 Holladay Jam" Featuring Chris Brown, Bow Wow, Soulja Boy, Shop Boyz, Sean Kingston and Lil Mama. Wachovia Center, Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, Philadelphia. $39.75-$69.75.<p>Holiday Night Express 45-minute ride. Vote for your favorite holiday light displays. 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Wilmington & Western Railroad Greenbank Station, Del. 41 just north of Kirkwood Highway, near Prices Corner. 998-1930. $5-$8.<p>Fri. 12/21<p>"The Nutcracker" Presented by the New Castle Dance and Music Academy. 1 and 6:30 p.m. Smyrna Opera House, 107 S. Main St. 653-4236. $15.<p>Holiday Night Express 45-minute ride. 5<br>High Honors - Andre Altaly, Winston Amon, Andrew Anderson, Kelsey Anglin, Rachel Antrim, Elizabeth Asgian, Sidney Ashmore, Alex Ashworth, Alexander Austin, Jessica Baas, Mary Ballentine, Molly Barnell, Rachael Barnes, Tyler Beachy, Presley Benzinger, Michael Berger, Hannah Bisig, Rebecca Black, Chelsea Boeres, Hailey Booth, Joseph Bota, Nathan Boucher, Alexandra Brizzi, Austin Brotherton-Whipple, Matthew Brown, Margaret Bruns, Hannah Burkhard, Bethany Burks, Tiffany Busch, Meredith Bush, Adam Combs, Shelby Copenhaver, Andrew Crall, Suzanne Culbertson, Allison Dee, Jordan Della Bella, Thomas Demers, Robert Demoret, Bailey Denzy, Brian Derrick, Jaclyn Deutsch, Aidan Dolan, Alexandra Dolbier, Alexandra Dschaak, Andrea Dubell, Zachary Elias, Leigh Ellexson, Anna Eltringham, Clare Ernst, Rachael Flege, Benjamin Foster, Cara Genbauffe, Chase Giles, Katie Gilgen, Barron Gilmore, Emma Goetz, Megan Hadley, Angela Hays, Brian Henderson, Katherine Henke, Michelina Henskens, John Hoenle,<br> Jonathan Hoge, Adam Howaniec, Frederick Howard, Nina James, Kristen Jones, Hyun Kim, Shannon Knutson, Kateland Koch, Richard Koth, Patrick Kudo, Wesley Kyles, Ernest Lawrence, Hannah Leeper, Maxwell Lehmann, Nikita Lewis, Kevin Linnevers, Emily Lloyd, Tori Lynch, Ellen Mack, Conner Mansfield, Michael Massung, Matthew Mautino, Cynthia Mayo, Taylor McDonald, Kelsey McGohan, Regan Meinking, Erik Michelfelder, Robert Mulvey, Emily Myers, Eric Nedeljko, Jacob Newman, Julie Nguyen, Chidima Okafor, Elizabeth Orsinelli, Domenic Panepinto, Robert Park, Andrea Peeler, Andrew Pickens, Natalie Pippa, Allison Randall, Caleb Redslob, Diana Reese, Hillary Regel, Reid Relatores, Jaime Ricci, Julia Richmond, Katherine Rieger, Nathaniel Robbins, Alex Robinson, Thomas Rooney, John Ross, David Rutter, Patrick Salay, Peter Samyn, Dory Sanders, Nolan Scheibel, Alexandria Schmidt, Nicholas Shea, Leah Slyder, Chandler Smith, Ryan Smith, Samantha Smith, Austin Stahl, Lindsey Stalnaker, Lyndsey Stea<br> rns, Edward Stecki, Susannah Steele, Kathryn Stenftenagel, Rachel Stewart, Ian Streicker, Yeugeniya Sushanskaya, Wyatt Susich, Julia Texiera, Eric Thiel, Hannah Trate, Emilie Triot, Madeline Vance, Mackenzie Vizgirda, Jennifer Walls, Nicole Walls, Lindsey Watson, Jacob Weiss, Avery Werner, Marcus Werner, Joshua Williams, Krista Williams, Morgan Williams, Anna Worcester and Matthew Worsham.<p>Honor Roll - Cameron Adams, Nicole Ayers, Tessa Bangert, James Beeler, Deitra Bell, Amy Berkoff, Benjamin Braddock, Lauren Brooks, Brandon Carson, Andrew Centers, Jonathon Clifton, Robert Crawford, Alisha Davis, Justin Diaz, Rachel Donnelly, Madison Evans, Tekeyah Foggie, Connor Gagnon, Michael Gayda, Zebulun George, Ciara Gilbert, Benjamin Hadden, Shelby Henson, Nicholas Hoffman, Melissa Jessup, Bianca Johnson, Stephanie Johnson, Aaron Jones, George Kallis, Kody Ketring, Sarah Klein, Brandon Kramp, Chelsea Kuhn, Sommer Lofland, Ethan Malloy, Kirsten Martinez, Kelsey McLaughlin, Kyle Meineke, Marshall Miller, Angelina Misyukovets, Joseph Molinaro, David Moran, Adam Napier, Autumn Oakes, Kelsie Olberding, Kevin Parks, Stephanie Pontsler, Ashley Rankin, Kayla Rhoades, Justin Riedmatter, Jessica Rockett, Kristina Rolfes, Justin Rue, Lesley Sabga, Stephanie Sawyer, Christopher Shelley, Jessica Shokler, Logan Smith, Katelyn Tracy, Bradley Vanover, Alexander Westcott, Mason White, <br> LaRon Williams and Anthony Wolfram.<p>SOPHOMORES<p>High Honors - Chelsea Ackell, Jessica Ajunwa, Edward Alten, Toni Alten-Crowe, Casey Baker, Kirsten Baker, Elizabeth Bangs, Michael Behne, Erin Berger, Austin Bessey, Sarah Blumberg, Joshua Brennock, Alexander Bryant, Kelley Byrne, Samuel Carl, Camille Carre, Sarah Clawson, Meghan Cole, Sarah Congleton, Briana Conner, Andrew Cooman, Fred Coulson, Beau Cybulski, Zachary Dalton, Kathleen Daly, Katherine Dannemiller, Michael Degrace, Samantha Demmerle, Sander DiAngelis, Matthew Eltringham, Matthew Eng, Adam Engel, Michael Ethridge, Mackenzie Fahey, Roger Farnham, Courtney Farrell, Katelyn Ferguson, Charles Fisher, Sarah Fisher, Katelyn Fletcher, Ryan Frazier, Matthew Garbarino, Victoria Gatherwright, David Gayda, Sean Hadley, Brittany Hall, Mathew Haunert, Kasey Hawk, Kyle Heimbrock, Emily Holzderber, Tyler Hunt, Ellen Iaciofano, Jennifer Jancsics, Katelyn Jarvis, Rachel Johnstone, Shannon Jones, Scott Kamphake, Adam Kavka, Zachary Kelly, Kelsey Kerkhove, Gretchen Kessler, Madeli<br> ne Kincaid, Michelle Klaene, Emilee Kraus, Terra Kreiner, Brian Kuramoto, Christopher Kuramoto, Mollie Kuramoto, Michael Lawson, Spencer Leamy, Megan Leever, Caitlin Lennon, Lina Lopez, Mitchell Louis, Jamie Lowery, Benjamin Lynch, Juliette Marcello, Rhiannon Marcello, Lauren Marlatt, Joel Mary, Laura Matacia, Jefferson Mayerle, Megan Mayerle, Julia McCullough, Abigail McIver, Emily Meder, Hannah Morrison, Sarah Mosby, Joanna Myaka, Elizabeth Nelson, Saina Nemoto, Andrew Newbold, Alexa Nicastro, Mariam Noory, Matthew Oberholzer, Jack Ogilvie, Isioma Okafor, Thomas Osorio, Ashley Paulson, Jerrah Pickle, Brittany Pierce, Samantha Pinella, Gregory Pitman, Sean Plagens, Rachel Putman, Erin Randall, Olivia Reaney, Katherine Reineck, Daniel Repaske, Albert Rice, Lindsay Rodier, Emily Routt, Margaret Sanders, Alexander Santangelo, Ankita Sharma, Malvika Sharma, Amanda Shelton, Natalie Siddique, Matthew Sierzputowski, Victoria Simokov, Kasey Sizemore, Andrew Smiertka, Adam Smith, Ma<br> lia Smolenski, Matthew Snyder, Michael Sonnenberg, Bridget Sova, Alexandra Spaw, Taylor Spaw, Isaac Spence, Maria Stamatakos, Shauna Stease, Sheridan Stease, Alexander Steger, Mackenzie Storch, Corey Tipton, Tina Torbati, Thomas Treloar, Lauren Turley, Amanda Vance, Abby Vargo, Maxwell Vest, Robert Wassel, Rachel Wasson, Shellby Weaver, Catherine Wells, Christopher Wells, Elliot Wells, Mark Wells, Samantha Wheeler, Anna Wilson, Jessica Wilson, Benjamin Winoker, Daniel Wright, Emily Zetterberg and Ethan Zimmerman.<p>Honor Roll - Lynn Agee, Courtney Allen, Ella Ames, Carli Bachtell, Thomas Baucke, Alexandria Besl, Brett Bitzer, Casey Brown, Dustin Brown, Samantha Burpee, Allison Cadwallader, Kevin Caines, Daniel Canada, Nicholas Chaney, Elise Clepper, Michael Clifford, Eric Conard, Thomas Conners, Amanda Deaton, Caroline Demellia, Sarah Demers, Ryan Denney, Zachary Dewitt, Zachary Eaton, Jordan Evans, Alexander Fackler, Christopher Ferris, Joseph Ford, Lexi Freeman, Molly Gardis, Sean Gilligan, Anthony Hamann, Monica Hannan, Jordan Hawk, James Hill, Alexander Holtmeier, Taylor Jones, Madeline Kenter, Albert Kiser, Kelsey Klaene, Kathryn Kolp, Tara Main, Kristen Malarky, Taylor McConney, Ashley McFerron, Vincent Misiti, David Molloy, Caitlin Moorhead, Mitchell Moragne, Haley Mueller, Sara Mullowney, Rachael Nosewicz, Jacob Nye, Katherine Phillips, Abigail Ping, Courtney Richter, Marcus Sarnecki, Christopher Schmahl, Emily Schwarberg, Laura Smith, Shane Spring, Alexander Stafford, Jaden Tal<br> bot, Samantha Taylor, Ronald Tipton, Jason Tobias, Genevieve Trewiler, Spencer Vance, Paul Waked, Alexander Wernke and Jacob Zimmerman.<p>JUNIORS<p>High Honors - Andrea Albrecht, Sarah Bailey, Allyson Ballentine, Jeremy Batterson, Samantha Beachy, Andrew Bjerke, Richele Boucher, Ashley Brellenthin, Kathryn Briggs, Michael Brizzi, Lauren Brown, Calvin Budinger, Emily Bush, Hector Bustamante, Ryan Cahall, Samantha Cardwell, Ryan Cobb, Kristen Coburn, Brittany Cole, Robert Compton, Andrea Conley, Patrick Conley, Lauren Cupito, Nathan Dall, Ethan Daugherty, Breanne Deile, Kayla Distler, Alexandra Dodenhoff, Anna Dolan, Ana Downes, Matthew Dykstra, Allyson Faust, Mollie Fitzgerald, Katherine Foster, Evan Geist, David Gilman, Marisa Gordon, Thomas Gorman, Angelica Gutierrez, Kathleen Hamel, Julia Hamm, Benjamin Hinchman, Joshua Hoge, Lauren Holle, Matthew Jacobson, Andrew Jarc, Zachary Johnson, Jeffrey Kamperman, Matthew Kennedy, Brittany Kenyon, Olivia Kerrigan, Su-ah Kim, Jenny Klein, Kristen Knobbe, Karl Koenig, Caroline Kokal, Jeffery Kolberg, Emily Kowalchik, Midori Kudo, Amanda Lacombe, Alexandra Lawson, Matthew Legg, Em<br> ily Lehmann, Benjamin Lewis, Kate Linz, David Lundeen, Jaclyn Lynch, Lauren Martinez, Sean Massung, Charles Mather, Caroline Mayo, Whitney McConney, Samuel McFarland, Nathan McGlinchey, Meghan McLaughlin, Stacie Meineke, Sydney Meinking, Bryan Nash, Kai Nemoto, Nicholas Nobiletti, Alexander Nosewicz, Haley Nutter, Caroline O'Brien, Ian Patten, Benjamin Pearson, Joseph Pfaltzgraff, Kathleen Pfaltzgraff, Keri Pfaltzgraff, Stephanie Pinella, Emily Rahm, Katherine Ramos, Blake Reaney, Taylor Rice, Fiona Robertson, Kelsey Rodier, Graham Russell, Chelsey Saatkamp, Vidhya Sabapathy, Miranda Sadler, William Schickel, Taryn Schirmer, Austin Schneider, Alexsa Schrader, James Schuster, Ashley Smith, Bradley Smith, Devon Smith, Morgan Smith, Nikolis Snyder, Julia Sos, Christopher Stahl, Victoria Steele, Benjamin Vanderhorst, Jeffrey Varley, Andy Ver Hoef, Sydney Viox, Rachel Voss, Suzanne Waked, James Walerius, Gabrielle Walter, Ashley Warner, Joseph Werner, Jarret Williams, Lauren Wils<br> on, Heather Winterhalter, Lisa Withey, Laura Wright, Aaron Zellner and Jaymie Zetterberg.<p>Honor Roll - Elizabeth Ajunwa, Danielle Ayers, Branden Bertline, Ryan Boggs, Curtis Bohnhoff, Alison Bowdler, Charlene Brown, Robert Capobianco, Courtney Carothers, Sarah Collett, Kaitlyn Cottrell, Anita Csakvari, Jillian Daugherty, Nathaniel Dyer, Stephanie Ellis, Patrick Eschenbach, Maxwell Evans, Alexander Fein, Natalie Gellenbeck, Kelsey Gettelman, James Goebel, Ronald Grethel, Stephanie Hamann, Sarah Helton, Ryan Henke, Kees Henskens, Andrew Holtmeier, Christina Jacobs, Adam Jessen, Justin Jessup, Jonathan Kissick, Dane Larson, Ashley Lowery, Leah Lozen, Eric Ludlow, Erik Lund, Danielle Maple, Layton Mardis, Alex McDonald, Jessica Meinzen, Tyler Panchot, Teesha Parikh, Kelly Pfaltzgraff, Chelsea Pogue, Raven Richardson, Jordan Roberts, Kayla Rose, Arthur Sabga, Robert Sand, Heather Shank, Joseph Shipp, David Slabaugh, Victoria Stahl, Evan Storch, Justin Talbot, Kyle Updike, Kevin Ver Hoef, Colin Weinstein, Kristopher Wittwer and Brian Wozniak.<p>SENIORS<p>High Honors - Corban Bailey, Nicholas Baker, Samantha Baker, Stephanie Bales, Ryan Ball, Laura Battaglia, Erin Bauer, Logan Bernstein, Spencer Bomar, Jennifer Bosse, Marissa Boswell, Elizabeth Bridges, Benjamin Bristol, Taylor Broberg, Laura Bryant, Ellen Budde, Paige Burt, Jared Byrwa, Suzanne Camp, Andrew Carl, Amber Clark, Holly Clark, Emma Clawson, Christopher Collier, Robert Copeland, Emily Cornett, Andrew Couture, Candace Day, Emily Denke, David Derrick, Karisma Desai, Rajvi Desai, Courtney Devoe, Kyle Dewees, Holly Dickert, Claire Dolan, Elizabeth Donaldson, Matthew Dowd, Michael Downing, Alexander Duncan, Benjamin D Duncan, Brie Elking, Tess Elking, Jennifer Elmore, Christine Ernst, Mickyas Eskender, Victoria Evans, Whitney Faber, Nicholas Fackler, Megan Feagles, Ashley Freeland, Jeffrey Gable, Ian Scott Gaddis, Patrick Gellenbeck, Patrick Gilligan, Krystle Gish, Taylor Goode, Julie Griesinger, Kristin Grimme, Sara Gropp, Nolan Hahn, Amanda Harrell, Sarah Harrelson, C<br> hristopher Hauger, Chase Heikkila, Erin Henry, Leslie Hensler, Megan Holland, Jazmine Hoover, Samuel Horn, Brian Howaniec, Mack Johnson, Hannah Jones, Nicole Kasparian, Lucas Keller-Biehl, Stephanie Kellish, John Kennedy, Katherine Kerkhove, Andrew Kerr, Lauren Koch, Kristina Kottenbrook, Shannon Kunkel, Taryn Lachter, Abigail Lawton, Neill Lewis, Ashley Logeman, Alyssa Lohrman, Matthew Louis, Laura Lucas, Jamie Luther, Kevin Lydy, Hannah Mack, Adrienne Mary, Samuel Mather, Chelsea McCarty, Kegan McClanahan, Sarah McDaniel, Kayla McDonald, Brian McGohan, Anna McQuade, Lauren Meder, Emma Mestler, Matthew Monterosso, Rebecca J Moore, Erin Morrison, Victor Napier, Dana Nichols, Daniel Normand, Sarah Nye, Benjamin Oberholzer, Erika Odioso, Aloysius Ononye, Lindy Opelt, Tyler Perry, Genna Petersen, Benjamin Plagens, Steven Polce, Anne Policastro, Jacob Potticary, Jessica Puccini, Natalie Putman, Melanie Pynappel, Emily Ralph, Hannah Rankin, Nathan Rasmussen, Nathan Ray, Jamie Rev<br> is, Matthew Robinson, Laura Rojo-Carrillo, Philip Rosborough, Amanda Ross, Lauren Ross, Chelsea Sanders, Jessica Santangelo, Justin Scheibel, William Sechrist, Catherine Shea, Katelyn Sierzputowski, Brian Smith, David Smith, Sheida Soleimani, Craig Sonnenberg, Caroline Southcott, Curtis Sova, Dominick Stafford, Molly Stancliff, Michael Stewart, Aaron Streicker, Samantha Strome, Sarah Sublett, Mary Swick, Chloe Temple, Amanda Tenhover, Kristopher Texiera, Nickolas Thorvaldsen, Phillip Tilson, James Turner, Jessica Veite, Abbey Veith, Danielle Walerius, Shannon Walls, Elyse Wenger, Rachael Weyman, Kevin Whitaker, Brittany White, Griffin Williams, Allison Wilson, Kelly Wimmert, Brian Witherby, Matthew Wukusick and Sarah Zinsser.<p>Honor Roll - Nathasha Ariapad, Deanna Bailey, Britney Beeler, Matthew Berger, Brenton Calkins, Shannon Coleman, Sarah Conwell, Jordan Deardoff, Megan Deer, Andrea Dixon, Gregory Dudenhoeffer, Theodore Edwards, Kimberly Eggleston, Charles Eiser, Sarah K Ellexson, Stephen Eubanks, Travis Eustice, Jennifer Fisher, Jordanne Fritsch, Edward Gabbard, Andrew Gandersman, Jennifer Gorman, Zachary Griffin, Chelsea Hamm, Blake Hawk, Timothy Howard, Amanda Jamison, Katie Kiraly, Heather Ledford, Cara Lennon, Andrew Lynch, Bryan Maclean, Elizabeth Mason, Leslie McFarland, Hanna McGrath, Matthew Mihalik, Matthew Moran, Jacqueline Necamp, Christopher Oligee, Katelyn Orcutt, Emily Pauly, Rachel Ranz, Courtney Richardson, William Rieger, Steven Rohdenburg, Alyson Rosenbaum, Katherine Sloane, Dana Snider, Ann Sporing, April Sproehnle, Chase Stahl, Rachel Stringer, Nathan Venable, Bennett Werner, Alexander Wessels, Christopher Williams, Nicholas Wilson, Janie Woods and Richard Zerbe.<p>JVS Dean's List - Morgan Deaton and William Rutherford.<p>JVS Honor Roll - Stephen Brandner, Aaron Ernst, Keianna Johnson, Nicholas McGee, Alicia Miller and Jeffrey O'Connell.<p>LOVELAND MIDDLE SCHOOL<p>The following students have earned honors for the first quarter of 2007-2008.<p>HIGH HONORS<p>Seventh grade - Nicholas Aiello, Matthew Becker, Katherine Bedenbaugh, Hunter Behne, Andrew Bessey, Kristen Bisig, Laura Blust, Juliana Booth, Sara Boyle, Kathryn Breyer, Lauren Brodof, Melissa Brown, Alacea Bullock, Jacob Burleson, Jacob Carlsen, Mitchell Casperson, Zachary Cotsonas, Austin Coulson, Natalie Dall, Graham David, Laura Doppler, Taylor Dschaak, Ayah El-Khatib, Elizabeth Foster, Alexander Genbauffe, Leesa Gilgen, James Gilliland, Devin Harvey, Katie Hoderlein, Taylor Hoffman, Jacob Holle, Adam Hughes, Lyndsey Jenkins, Kathryn Johnson, Kathleen Kauffman, Morgan Kiley, Ahou Koala, Renee Koth, Samantha Kuhn, Bridget Landis, Nicole Light, Eeric Linnevers, John Lundeen, Evan Lynch, Collin Maher, Karl Mattes, Kyle Mattes, Daniel Miller, Kelly Molloy, Ryan Moss, Alma Muller, Jenna Myklebust, Cassandra Nedeljko, Katherine Nelson, Sean Noble, Gabrielle Nosewicz, Allen Osgood, Ciara O'Somachain, Shannon Palmeer, Rune Percy, Zachary Perry, Chelsie Pippa, Grant Portune, Mahb<br> od Pourriahi, Traci Powers, James Pun, Matthew Rieger, Maria Rockett, Martynas Rubikas, David Salay, Michael Scherpenberg, Ryan Schroer, Sara Sexton, Allison Shaw, Katherine Shoals, Nicholas Shoemaker, Andrew Stone, Allison Suder, Carley Taggart, Meghan Tegtmier, Alyssa Thiel, Kristopher Timpe, Nicole Utterbeck, Melissa Watson, Anne Weaver, Lena Wilson, Sierra Wood and Nicole Worley.<p>Eighth grade - Andrew Albert, Ryan Altman, Matthew Beachy, Sarah Brizzolara, Alexander Burpee, Megan Clifford, Cameron Conte, Lauren Czebatul, Andrew Dannemiller, Jacob DeGrace, Austin DeWees, Madiosn DeWitt, Ricki Dews, Christopher Doarn, Carson Dudley, Jessican Duncan, Haley Edison, Daniela Fisher, Mary Kathryn Fisher, Ryan Fisher, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Morgan Fletcher, Alexandria Gonzales, Abigail Greer, Julia Griffin, Jazmin Hayes, Erik Henderson, Lisa Hewitt, Griffin Hodges, Abigail Hoff, Jessica Horton, Nicole Hudson, Stephanie Jacob, Nicholas Jerdack, Carly Jewell, Reagan Johnstone, Cameron Kahrs, Amy Kamperman, Gabrielle Kraml, Lindsay Krammes, Kenneth Li, Daniel Liberta, Michael Louis, Jonathon Ludwick, Megan Main, Reece Martinez, John McDowell, Kathryn McGee, Kayla Mitchell, Colleen Molloy, Hannah Moloney, Sabrina Newstead, Kerstin Nilsson, Scott Nugent, Joseph Oberholzer, Ogonna Ononye, Christina Palmer, Zana Percy, Allison Pfaltzgraff, Marie Policastro, Anna Ralph, M<br> olly Reich, Nicole Santos, Cassidy Scheetz, Hilary Schumacher, Emily Shelton, Akaash Sheth, Taryn Shrout, Kyle Sieg, Neha Sinha, Craig Slusher, Kara Smith, Maggie Stancliff, Hannah Staub, Marguerite Strong, Elizabeth Sullivan, Emily Tedford, Megan Tenhundfeld, Alyssa Tipton, Lauren Wachenfeld, Logan Walls, Reed Walter, Thomas Wassel, Taylor Williams, Katherine Winoker, Lindsey Wittmer and Elizabeth Worsham.<p>HONORS<p>Seventh grade - Garrett Arp, Natalie Baker, Tyler Berger, Jonathon Bauer, Jennifer Benesh, Craig Bennett, Jacob Bennett, Lauren Bennett, Erinn Berger, Laura Berkoff, Cassidy Berning, Jordan Bernius, Gloria Bertke, Mitchell Bilotta, Martin Bixler, Lauren Blumberg, David Bolerjack, Tate Bolin, Spencer Boswell, Jordan Breitholle, Neil Brophy, Nathan Bueche, Eric Buse, Justin Byrd, Adrian Carre, Kayla Cavano, Benjamin Clawson, Jessica Comorsky, Samantha Cook, Stephan Cotter, Shelby Cottrell, Daniel Cox, Lauren Crall, Phoenix Crane, Luke Cummings, Marc Czulewicz, Andrew DeMellia, Olivia Denzy, Samuel Distler, Grace Dolan, Kira England-Carroll, Joshua Farnham, Zachary Ferguson, Christy Flaherty, Lindsay Flaherty, Angelica Fleenor, Zachary Flege, Courtney Floegel, Blake Freeman, Joseph Frees, Jasmyn Fuson, Rebecca Gagnon, Bryan Gilligan, Noah Gilmore, Joseph Goit, Lucas Graff, Helene Grauer, Mitchell Greenway, Christopher Grissom, Jonathan Groh, Brianna Harris, Tanner Hawk, Kyle Hen<br> derson, Nicole Henderson, Corey Herdtner, Samuel Hoffman, Adriana Holmes, Austin Hornsby, Chelsea Hothem, Steven Hudson, Kaitlin Hudson, Zachary Hunt, Benjamin Iaciofano, Kyle Jacobson, Katrina James, Austin Jarvis, Austin Johnson, Isabelle Jones, Roger Kallis, Sarah Kanitz, Caitlin Kling, Devin Knutson, Andrew Kovacs, Sarah LaCombe, Rachel Leever, Samuel Lehmann, Katie Loomis, Alisha Lowenstein, Kelly Lowry, Sarah Luti, Patrick Lyle, Brittany MacLean, Aaron Malloy, Julia McCoy, Bryson McGillis, Matthew McIver, Daniel McManus, Mary Meyer, Kyle Michelfelder, Aaron Miller, Austin Miller, Nickolas Miller, Derek Minauf, Michael Montalbano, Hannah Morgan, Karen Moss, Alec Naticcioni, Aaron Nelson, Paul Newbold, Bryant Nichols, Anthony Nightingale, Tyler Oblong, Mollie O'Brien, Michael Ogden, Kyle Oshima, Daniel Peabody, Mikayla Pitman, Michael Plitt, Erin Pogue, Charles Porter, Christian Przezdziecki, Robert Quisenberry, Arianna Ranieri, Nicolas Ranieri, Danielle Reichman, Matthe<br> w Rendl, Sean Rice, Ashley Rivera, Nicholas Rodier, Marjorie Rust, Garrett Said, Gabriel Sanabria, Aaron Santangelo, Cole Schlesner, Danielle Schrader, Kyle Schweer, Christian Sechang, Carlie Sherlock, James Short, Casey Shumaker, Christopher Sloane, Clay Sneed, Angela Snyder, Nolan Snyder, Constance Sporing, Skyler Stease, Allison Stewart, Jacob Stuhlfire, Hannah Sublett, Alicia Sullivan, Catherine Swaine, Paige Switzer, Ryne Terry, Kayla Timon, David Trate, Sarah Tribby, Macy Turley, Kyle Van de Bovenkamp, Lydia Vance, Tyler Vandeventer, Eric Vanhook, Mackenzie Veite, Jonathan Vincent, William Viox, Victoria Vormwald, Kelsey Wagner, Michael Wagner, Luke Walker, Caitlin Walter, William Ward, Adam Warden, Carla Weismantel, Miranda Wernke, Alexandra Williams, Jonathan Williams, Matthew Williams, Lindsey Wittwer, Nathan Wolf, Devin Woods and Matthew Zamagias.<p>Eighth grade - Jacob Alten, Katelyn Altieri, Matthew Amrein, Madison Anderson, Tatiana Ariapad, Katelyn Audia, Rachel Baker, Kalli Barcroft, Shannon Barnell, Eric Bauer, Skylar Bayless, Matthew Belcik, Mary Bell, Richard Berning, Tyler Bernius, Joshua Bertke, Gabrielle Bertline, Kristen Bjerke, Jonathan Bloss, Dylan Bodley, Kevin Boggs, Jackson Bomar, Samuel Bowdler, Christopher Boys, Brittany Breitholle, Tyler Brown, Michael Budde, Christina Capobianco, Bryce Clawson, Hannah Claybourn, Samuel Clements, Caleb Cloud, Natalie Coleman, Daniel Congleton, Logan Cornett, Jonathon Davis, Drew Demmerle, Stefanie Dever, Alexander Dolezal, Shelby Dundes, Julia Eaton, Benjamin Edwards, Jillian Elfers, Katy Engel, Jessica Engstrom, Claire Eschenbach, Nathan Fackler, Ariel Fischer, Maxwell Flannery, Ashley Frees, Toni Gardner, Kirsten Geiger, Steven Goodman, Alexander Gordon, Dakota Griffin, Kristen Hale, Brooke Hall, Nicolette Hayes, Nicholas Hensler, Charles Heyob, Austin Hopkins, Mason<br> Housely, Henry Howard, Jay Hubble, Brandon Huber, Aaron Hurst, Allison Janka, Megan Janka, Morgan Jennings, Emily Jodice, Brandon Johnson, Emma Johnson, Andrew Karle, Dimitar Karshovski, Michelle Kauffman, Jilliam Kemmet, Charlotte Kenter, Nicholas Kerkhove, Sarah Kling, Austin Klueh, Joseph Kremer, Anthony LaMacchia, Olivia Legg, Meghan Lester, Nicholas Lester, Mary Lloyd, Jacob Mangus, Daniel Maples, Matthew Marascalchi, Kyle Mary, Thomas McCarty, Jordan McNally, Garrett Miller, Jessica Miller, Kenneth Miller, Chase Monroe, Danielle Morra, Matthew Morrison, Joshua Moss, Samuel Murphy, Alexander Neal, Reiju Nemoto, Olivia Oakes, Samantha O'Brien, Ekenedilichukwu Okafor, Reagan Owens, Nicholas Papa, Piyavadee Pariyavuth, Rebecca Pearson, Emily Pfaltzgraff, Sarah Pfaltzgraff, Parker Phillips, Jacob Pickens, Pamela Plagens, Nicole Ploof, Bowen Quinones, David Rankin, Kathryn Rice, Kyle Richardson, Danae Ries, Carly Rolfes, Brianna Rubin, McKenzie Rustad, Hannah Ruwe, Heidi Ru<br> we, Grace Samyn, Ryan Scanlon, Haley Scheffler, Reed Schlesner, Abigail Schnure, Mariah Schweiger, Sandy Sechang, Haley Shuemake, Darin Simokov, Amy Simone, Rupert Sizemore, Megan Slabaugh, Darrell Smart, Adrienne Smith, Alexandra Smith, Chloe Smith, Tara Spencer, Ashley Spradlin, Gabrielle Stafford, Kimberly Strong, Ryan Sullivan, Matthew Swaine, Jarron Talbot, Alexandra Taylor, Jerry Thomas, Robert Thompson, Colton Toups, Stelanie Tsirlis, Jenna Turner, Christina Veite, Chandler Viox, Alexander Voss, Nathan Walter, Kallie Warner, Zachary Weaver, Brooklynn Weber, Adam Werking, Clarissa Weyman, Danielle Wheeler, Marisa Whitaker, Andrew Wilkins, Sadie Wilson, Cara Witherby, Leah Wood, Austin Worcester and Jessica Zinnecker.<p>MOUNT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL<p>The following students have earned honors for the first quarter of 2007-2008.<p>SENIORS<p>First Honors - Lauren Cengel, Rachel Creevy, Margaret Franklin, Laura Horton, Leah Pelzel and Emily Rotella.<p>Second Honors - Katharyn Balbach, Caitlin Blaut, Lynley Boone, Stephanie Brooks, Katelin Buehler, Abby Cengel, Allison Crable, Emily Day, Hanna Eckhoff, Samantha Falk, Juliana Grimm, Jennifer Hanzel, Brittany Heskamp, Stephanie Hube, Stephanie Long, Jacqueline Madden, Kathrine McIlroy, Catherine Mock, Devyn Moore, Alysia Murray, Emily Nishimori, Michelle Oeters, Megan Pacitti, Jill Roeding, Rachel Rohlfs, Liane Rousseau, Elisabeth Rutkousky, Adrea Sabo, Jaclyn Schnicke, Claire Walter, Allison Werling and Sarah Winholt.<p>JUNIORS<p>First Honors - Beatriz Cuesta, Mary Dickert and Claire Wolfe.<p>Second Honors - Krista Adkins, Kelsey Bracken, Emily Creevy, Kimberly Cutter, Maria Dienger, Elizabeth Groh, Jennifer Heitkemper, Jessica Keller, Kara Kindel, Kathryn McGaffin, Catherine Monceaux, Kelly Morrissey, Luaryn Page, Meghan Riegler, Jessica Rutkousky, Christine Ryan, Kelly Schuckman, Kylee Tarantino, Rachel Wilfong, Allison Willhide and Anne Wolfe.<p>SOPHOMORES<p>First Honors - Rebecca Bradley, Catherine Ewen, Elizabeth Freemen, Stephanie Mattei, Allison Rotella, Elaine Rousseau, Nicole Sever and Kayla Walters.<p>Second Honors - Julie Altimier, Rebecca Berin, Sarah Bitter, Pamela Brauit, Bethany Carter, Chelsi Creech, Ellen Crema, Kaydee Davidson, Savannah Davis, Lauren Deutch, Natalie Dorsey, Madieline Duckworth, Kathryn Eckels, Anne Eschmeyer, Kelsey Gault, Sarah Gurren, Alyssa Hankins, Molly Hayes, Megan Heidel, Hannah Hobson, Elizabeth Judd, Allison Kelsey, Danielle King, Gabrielle Maresco, Carly Mears, Kaitlyn Moore, Chelsea Murphy, Teresa Pestian, Rebekah, Pike, Jenna Pilipovich, Lauren Rohlfs, Megan Rohlfs, Kristin Sussli236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-81296961466637130102007-12-10T07:38:00.000-08:002007-12-10T10:52:38.113-08:00wbnq This page lists the information on file for: WBNQ 101.5 FM. Click Radio Station Search to browse all of the commercial and noncommercial radio stations in your area, read descriptions of each station's music format or genre, and find phone numbers and/or website address links for your all favorite radio stations. Searches for radio stations can be performed by location and/or format. <p>On The Radio.Net was created to help people find phone numbers and websites for commercials they heard on the radio. Maybe you heard a great commercial for a new product. You were excited about it but forgot the name of the advertiser or the name of the product. You did, however, know the category the product fell in because it was something you were interested in. Previously, there was no way you would be able to contact the advertiser about the product. Now everything is different. With the launch of On The Radio.Net it is now very easy to find any phone number for any commercial you heard on the radio. <p>If you did not find what you were looking for, or for more detailed information about each radio station please visit our friends at Radio-Locator. <p>Take Veterans Parkway southbound over the Main St./Business 51 overpass. At the next stop light, turn left onto Morris Ave. and then immediately turn right onto the frontage road, which is Greenwood Ave. The radio station will be on your left approximately one quarter mile down Greenwood Ave. <p>From I-74: When coming to the radio station from out-of-town, take I-74 to the south edge of Bloomington. Turn off on Exit 134B, which will be Veterans Parkway/Business 55 North. At the junction between the Sunset Inn and Glory To Glory Customs, turn right off Veterans Parkway and left onto the frontage road, which is Greenwood Ave. The radio station will be on the right less than a quarter mile down Greenwood Ave.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-24977807263749875252007-12-10T07:34:00.000-08:002007-12-10T08:23:07.847-08:00pittsburgh gazette Links from Pittsburgh on the Steelers perspective entering Sunday's game against the Patriots:
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<br>The Steelers lead the NFL in total defense, having allowed just three 200-yard passers and only one pass longer than 40 yards this season. Including past seasons, the unit has surrendered just two 100-yard rushers in the last 62 games. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette examines the success of the Steelers' D.
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<br>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shines a spotlight on the injury status of safety Troy Polamalu and notes that if Polamalu (knee) can't play, Tyrone Carter will step in. "Ty has played consistently for us," defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau told the newspaper. "He steps in there and we do everything we do with Troy."
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<br>After two games at soggy Heinz Field, running back Willie Parker is looking forward to running on a better playing surface at Gillette Stadium, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes.
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<br>Two writers from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review have their point/counterpoint and open by discussing the guarantee of a victory by safety Anthony Smith.
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<br>The Steelers plan to play physical with receiver Randy Moss, as safety Tyrone Carter tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that "I know he doesn't like to get hit, man. I played with him in Minnesota (2000-02). The main thing he had problems with was when guys got in his face, jamming him at the line, hitting him when they got a chance and getting him off his normal pace. I think that rattles him a little bit."Marc USA hired Jon Galatis, manager, direct response marketing; Michael Lux, interactive production artist; and Britton Karon, assistant interactive producer. Justin Schuler was promoted to interactive producer.
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<br>Pittsburgh Regional Minority Purchasing Council elected as chairman Gary L. Evans, senior vice president and director, Supply Chain Management, and named to its board Richard F. Carr, the global director for the Procurement Center of Excellence at Alcoa.
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<br>TriState Capital appointed Paul Oris and Debra Flinner senior vice presidents.
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<br>Cynthia A. Reynolds was appointed to the board of Northwestern Business College.
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<br>Koppers Inc. appointed Travis Gross sales representative for railroad products and services.
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<br>Chris Bezaire was named vice president, advanced Sclairtech technology and licensing, Nova Chemicals Corp.
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<br>The Children's Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center appointed Meghan O'Donnell, medical social worker for The Children's Home, and Katelyn Knox, educational coordinator at Child's Way.
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<br>The Sarah Heinz House, a Boys & Girls Club, named board officers: chairperson, Pamela Meadowcroft; vice chairman, Gary Matson; secretary, Sheila Collins; and treasurer, Geoff Stillson. Sharon Cowden was named to the board.
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<br>Sarah Goldstein, training specialist, Community Care, was named to the Governor's Advisory Committee on People with Disabilities.
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<br>Guaranteed, the New England Patriots are headed for perfection.
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<br>You heard it here first.
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<br>This hardly is the first assertion of this sort about this team in this season for the ages. And it won't be the last. Climbing out on this limb is easy.
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<br>Now 13-0 after yesterday's highly impressive and brutally efficient 34-13 defeat of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Patriots' remaining schedule is hardly daunting � home to the 3-10 New York Jets and 0-13 Miami Dolphins before finishing in New Jersey against the 9-4 New York Giants.
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<br>The thing about guarantees is anybody can make them.
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<br>As Pats quarterback Tom Brady puts it, using what he says has become his team's unofficial motto, "Well done is better than well said."
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<br>Walk the walk (oh come on, strut a little!) all the way into the record books. You paying attention, 1972 Dolphins?
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<br>Coming off three games in their last four in which they won by four points or less, the Patriots appeared to at least one member of the Steelers � safety Anthony Smith � to be ripe for the picking.
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<br>Smith is no Joe Namath, the legendary playboy quarterback made famous for guaranteeing that his underdog New York Jets would win the 1969 Super Bowl over the heavily favoured Baltimore Colts. For one thing, Namath was a bona fide star and played the one position most suited to the issuing of ultimatums and proclamations and money-back, no-questions-asked guar-an-told-you-so-tees.
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<br>Until Smith guaranteed his team would deal the Patriots their first taste of defeat yesterday, most football fans had no idea who he was.
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<br>Brady, who will certainly join Namath in the Hall of Fame when his career is done, said: "I didn't know who he was until we started preparing for them (the Steelers)."
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<br>But after Brady threw his first of four touchdown passes, he made a point of getting in Smith's face, mouthing sweet somethings. Smith later bit deep and hard on a flea-flicker-style circus play involving Randy Moss that saw Brady loft a long touchdown pass over Smith's coverage to Jabbar Gaffney. Gaffney, too, barked at Smith. The hounds were out.
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<br>You don't tug on SuperBrady's cape and get away with it. (And I guarantee Brady will be MVP or I'll eat this page and all of New England will secede from the U.S. of A.)
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<br>Smith, a second-year pro with few NFL credentials, tugged on the cape when he said last week: "Yeah, I can guarantee a win. As long as we come out and do what we got to do. Both sides of the ball are rolling and if our special teams come through for us, we've got a good chance to win."
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<br>He and his teammates did not "do what we got to do." They did to start the game, with their No.1-ranked defence pressuring Brady, actually enjoying an edge in possession in the early going and trailing only 17-13 at the half.
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<br>But as has happened so often this season, the Patriots shredded another opponent while their defence held fast. The dominance was back, rekindling that talk of perfection, of becoming the first team to run the table since the Dolphins went 17-0 in 1972.
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<br>Notably, it was the Pittsburgh press that tracked down some of the old Fish prior to this game.
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<br>One, Bob Kuechenberg, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he was cheering for a Pittsburgh upset.
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<br>"However, if they do go 19-0 I will be the first to congratulate them, buy them a pitcher of beer and let them know they can park their vehicle right behind ours. We have the first parking spot and they'd have the second."
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<br>One thing is for sure, guaranteed even: the Patriots are in the driver's236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-91249715595155176652007-12-10T07:33:00.000-08:002007-12-10T07:55:40.545-08:00fort zumwalt school district Francis Howell school officials would like to make a decision sometime this spring on how to upgrade Howell High, the oldest high school in the district.
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<br>Three different options for Howell High range from a mix of additions and renovations to an entirely new school.
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<br>During the next few months, parents, administrators and the community will continue to discuss the options at meetings at each school in the district, Schuster said. Advertisement
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<br>A new school could cost as much as $110 million depending on the size of the buildings, said Kevin Supple, the district's chief financial officer. The option with mostly new construction except for a gym and auditorium could cost as much as $106 million, he said. The plan of a mix of additions and improvements to old buildings was estimated at $48.7 million.
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<br>About 40 percent of the respondents in a 2006 district survey said that project cost would be an essential factor in the decision on how to upgrade Howell High. The rest of the people who took the survey were nearly split on whether to build a new school or renovate some buildings and replace others.
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<br>The most recent high school to be built in St. Charles County was Fort Zumwalt East, that district's fourth high school. The school opened in August and cost about $36.5 million.
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<br>Fort Zumwalt East is designed for 1,300 to 1,500 students, while Howell High needs room for 2,000 to 2,200. Also, Fort Zumwalt East was built on flat property with no existing school to tear down. At Howell High, the sprawling campus near the intersection of Highways 94 and 40 would require additional work and the old school would need to be demolished.
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<br>After the School Board has voted on how to upgrade Howell High, leaders will then focus on a November bond issue to pay for the project. The options include a no tax increase bond issue in which taxes wouldn't go up but it would take longer to pay off the debt.
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<br>About 1,850 students attend Howell High. Some parts of the building are about 50 years old. The school as it exists today progressed in several phases, and the result is a sprawling campus that includes multiple buildings and entryways, which make security an issue. The school also has smaller classrooms and fewer performance and practice fields than the district's other two high schools.
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<br>O'FALLON, MO. ― Helen Warnecke treated her fellow third-graders to a special snack for her 9th birthday, but instead of ripping into packaged cookies and cupcakes, the class spooned up some orange sherbet, trans fat-free and full of vitamin C.
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<br>"Everyone liked it," said Helen, who attends Emge Elementary School in O'Fallon, Mo.
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<br>The sherbet and other healthy treats such as sliced apples and low-fat caramel, Italian Ice, string cheese and crackers are available for student birthdays as part of a new program this year at some Fort Zumwalt elementary schools. Parents can order and purchase healthy birthday treats for their child's class. The treats are prepared in the cafeteria and delivered to the classroom on their special day.
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<br>The program began at two schools earlier this year, but it is so popular with principals and parents it likely will expand to all 15 of the district's elementary schools by the end of the year, said Paul Becker, director of student nutrition services. Advertisement
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<br>"You know everybody in the class is getting something healthy that won't rot their teeth," he said.
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<br>Fort Zumwalt is at least the second district in the area to try such a program. The Rockwood School District began its healthy birthday treat program last spring in five elementary schools. The program expanded to 17 elementary schools when school began this year.
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<br>The Missouri School Boards' Association was not aware of other similar programs within its member districts, although some have policies with lists of recommended treats for birthday celebrations.
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<br>A survey of 1,200 school districts nationwide found that 89 percent had some type of policy regulating treats for birthdays or other celebrations, but only 30 percent had started using it in classrooms as of May, according to the School Nutrition Association's recent report, "From Cupcakes to Carrots: Local Wellness Policies One Year Later."
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<br>After studying and making changes to cafeteria menus and vending machines, Becker thought about all of the sugary treats students were hauling in for birthday parties and other celebrations. Although it has been several years since the schools have allowed parents to bring in homemade cupcakes or other baked goods from home, plenty of store-bought cookies and cupcakes were still making their way into classrooms.
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<br>"We know if it's healthy for the kids and we can change it, let's do it now," Becker said. "We're constantly working on things and how to encourage healthy choices."
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<br>Fort Zumwalt parents are buzzing about the convenience of the program, not to mention the health advantages.
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<br>For example, a serving of the orange sherbet has 120 calories, 1.5 grams of fat and 25 grams of sugar. In comparison, a serving of Little Debbie packaged Zebra Cakes has about 320 calories, 15 grams of fat and more than 30 grams of sugar.
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<br>The popularity of the program seems to stem from the kids themselves. One child has the sherbet for their birthday and then others want it as well, said Colleen Dalton, who teaches third grade at Emge Elementary.
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<br>With three kids and a full work schedule, Helen's mom, Julie Warnecke, appreciated that the Fort Zumwalt program put nutritious food in her daughter's classroom and at the same time, gave Mom one less errand to run.
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<br>"It was easy and healthy. I just had to send a check in," Warnecke said. "I'm a healthy eater myself, and I really try to teach my kids to eat healthy. Everything you see at the store is sugar bombs."
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<br>Aguilar, a U.S. citizen living in this bustling border town, simply isn't willing to endure what she expects will be new, agonizingly long waits at security checkpoints along the border.
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<br>Stepped-up inspections of border crossers is slowing the ever-growing lines of traffic at the Laredo points of entry. And it could get worse. In less than two months, U.S. citizens will no longer be allowed to enter the country just by announcing their citizenship ― they'll have to prove it.
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<br>The changes are raising concerns that people like Aguilar will stay away from the border, damaging economies on both sides. Laredo officials say 40 percent of local retail activity depends on cross-border traffic.
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<br>Maria Luisa O'Connell, president of the Phoenix-based Border Trade Alliance, said border cities are concerned they'll lose retail sales tax.
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<br>"Instead of choosing to travel to come shopping and have dinner four times, they're going to choose to do it only once," she said. "It's a huge income concern for cities in the U.S. ... What we're worried about is the perception that people will say, 'Why bother?' if it is going to be hard to cross."
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<br>The Texas Border Coalition, a group of local officials, asked President Bush in a letter last month to do something about the long wait times before Christmas.
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<br>"It'll be even longer in a couple of weeks," said Francisco Sierra, who was waiting in a line of cars to get close enough to drop off his wife so she could cross by foot to go shopping.
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<br>People waited 30-40 minutes on Friday to cross the border in Laredo, the nation's busiest checkpoint. At Eagle Pass, a small border city with a population of 26,000, the wait was 55 minutes.
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<br>Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas said such waits are normal, but he expects them to lengthen to two hours or more to cross by car as Christmas approaches.
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<br>Aguilar said that in three border-crossings in the last two months, she had to show a photo ID to get back into the U.S., rather than just announce her citizenship to the border agent.
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<br>The Department of Homeland Security issued a reminder Dec. 3 about the upcoming changes, and Klundt said the department is working with communities on local awareness campaigns.
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<br>But there's also concern that fewer people will cross because they've heard only vague information about the upcoming requirements or they've been warned about lengthy holiday wait times.
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<br>"People right now are confused as to what's required, when is it required," said Stan Korosec, president of the Public Border Operators Association, which represents nine publicly owned U.S.-Canada border crossings. "Then you throw in the delays and I think some people are just going to give up on it."236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-65553951231829385442007-12-09T09:42:00.000-08:002007-12-09T09:40:35.606-08:00Policeman's widow seeks execution of Abu Jamal PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - More than a quarter century after the murder of her policeman husband, Maureen Faulkner wants the man convicted of the crime executed. <p>ADVERTISEMENT<br> <br>"If he is put to death, I would be able to have a normal life," said the widow, whose husband, Daniel Faulkner, was killed on December 9, 1981.<p>Mumia Abu Jamal, a black former radio journalist and taxi driver, has been on death row in a Pennsylvania prison since his 1982 conviction of killing Faulkner, who was white.<p>Abu Jamal says he's innocent, and his supporters have turned him into an international cause celebre for the anti-death penalty movement.<p>But the years of legal wrangling have failed either to exonerate him or bring closure to Faulkner's widow. She has written a book, "Murdered by Mumia," to make her case.<p>"I want to live a normal life and I have not been able to for the last 26 years," Faulkner said in an interview.<p>"That's why I wrote this book, so people can read the truth of what happened when my husband was murdered," she said.<p>Abu Jamal's supporters say he deserves a new trial on the grounds that his first trial was tainted by too few blacks on the jury and by a judge, the late Albert Sabo, who was heard by a court reporter to say, "Yeah, and I'm going to help 'em fry the nigger."<p>Faulkner, 51, said she is tormented by the high media profile of Abu Jamal, who writes and broadcasts from his prison cell, and what she says is abusive, threatening behavior of his supporters toward her.<p>"I have been vilified, spit upon, cursed at, chased down the street, screamed at," Faulkner said. "They held their fingers like they were shooting me, like there was a gun."<p>Abu Jamal's lawyers are seeking a new trial on grounds his first was tainted by racism. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia could rule on the request at any time.<p>Faulkner said Abu Jamal's supporters, who include South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the European Parliament and Amnesty International, have been deceived into believing he deserves a new trial.<p>"Tell a lie, tell it big enough, tell it often enough, and it becomes truth," she said, citing a quote attributed to Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels.<p>Faulkner called for the U.S. justice system to be streamlined to trim the number of appeals available.<p>"If someone is convicted of murder, and a jury of 12 find him guilty, and put him on death row and the post-conviction relief act hearings -- have all shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mumia Abu Jamal murdered my husband, I think that justice should be carried out," Faulkner said.<p>(Editing by Doina Chiacu)236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-92123087375158967702007-12-09T08:55:00.000-08:002007-12-09T08:53:13.830-08:00mayweather hatton round by roundRound-By-Round at Mayweather-Hatton
<br>By GREG BEACHAM � 11 hours ago
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<br>LAS VEGAS (AP) ― Round-by-round action in Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s WBC welterweight title fight with England's Ricky Hatton:
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<br>ROUND 1 ― Hatton charges from the opening bell. Mayweather holds the neck, and they wrestle. Both very active and mobile. Hatton lands a left hand, and so does Mayweather. Hatton trying to work inside, but Mayweather counterpunches early. Mayweather dodges, but Hatton lands a hand. Crowd roaring with every shot. Mayweather loses balance on defense, and his seven-step stumble drives the crowd mad. Hatton chases Mayweather twice into red corner. Repeated clinch, but Hatton keeps swinging one-handed. Mayweather gets a big crack, and fighters briefly scuffle at the bell.
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<br>ROUND 2 ― Hatton draws another roar with a quick opening punch. Hatton wants to brawl, and Mayweather is thinking about it. Hatton charges Mayweather on the ropes, and the champion needs all of his quickness to avoid it. Referee Joe Cortez calls time, warns both fighters. Mayweather bounces and weaves, and Hatton gets a straight right in. Mayweather lands a sharp left on Hatton's nose. Cortez gives another stern lecture, fearful of a wrestling match. Both run and wrestle to the bell.
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<br>ROUND 3 ― Hatton leads with a left while striving to get inside. Mayweather sitting back, playing defense, working the body. Mayweather ducks a left hook. Another clinch. Cortez allowing Hatton greater freedom to stay inside. Hatton hugs Mayweather into ropes, and Hatton turns to Cortez ― but Mayweather lands a straight right and a shoulder shove. Mayweather ducks and dodges. Hatton is fighting a classic brawling style. Mayweather's nose is shiny, but Hatton's right eye begins to bleed
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<br>ROUND 4 ― They trade fierce combinations in Mayweather's corner. Hatton works the body with a left, but Mayweather turns his shoulder. Hatton can't move Mayweather anywhere he doesn't want to go, and Mayweather's counterpunching has improved. Mayweather slips a straight left inside on Hatton's head. Mayweather snaps Hatton's neck twice with right hands, but Hatton stays in tight. Mayweather tattoos Hatton's face with combinations, picking at the cut. Hatton keeps charging, but Mayweather is in charge.
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<br>ROUND 5 ― Hatton charges and shoves Mayweather into the corner, but Mayweather turns his shoulder for defense. Hatton still active with combinations. Mayweather sitting back, catching a breather on the ropes. A tangle of arms and heads in the corner. Mayweather content to sit back, and Hatton gains confidence for a combination. Hatton still vulnerable to Mayweather's speedy straight hands. The fighters lock arms, and Cortez warns. Mayweather puts a glove in Hatton's face, ending a round with little activity.
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<br>ROUND 6 ― Mayweather ducks underneath punches and blocks others, as usual. Hatton catches Mayweather's chin near the ropes, and the ensuing flury ends with Mayweather's upper body through the ropes. Cortez deducts a punch for a blow to the back of Mayweather's head, inciting the crowd's ire. Hatton reacts with disbelief. Another exciting combination results in little damage. Mayweather tags Hatton's chin with a straight right. The crowd produces its first anti-Cortez song of the night. They wrestle in Mayweather's corner, and Hatton plays to the crowd. Hatton is reluctant to go back to his corner at the bell.
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<br>ROUND 7 ― Mayweather dances a full circle, then wraps up Hatton's arms. More wrestling in the corner, but both come out of it punching. Mayweather tries body shots, but Hatton is too quick. Mayweather blocks a nasty-looking combination. Hatton pushes to set up shots, but Mayweather has played this game before. Hatton barely avoids a right hand. They push in the center of the ring, Hatton constantly leaning forward. Mayweather lands a snapping left hand, then chases Hatton in a classic late-round surge.
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<br>ROUND 8 ― Lots of movement, no punches landing for either fighter. Mayweather punches his way out of a clinch, then lands a sneaky right uppercut. Hatton responds admirably, but Mayweather catches Hatton flush with a straight right, sending Hatton staggering into him. Mayweather smells it, chasing him to the ropes and unloading as Hatton crouches. Hatton recovers and goes to the body as a few hundred fans chant "U-S-A!" over the English drumbeat. The fighters lean into each other. Mayweather slips inside and lands another series of shots, starting with a smashing right and punctuated by another. Mayweather unloads with a ferocity we've rarely seen from him in recent years, but Hatton stays upright.
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<br>ROUND 9 ― "Hatton Wonderland" sounds less convincing now. Hatton still charging forward, and he gets Mayweather to the ropes without landing a square punch. Mayweather sitting back, catching Hatton again with another right that's too fast to block. Mayweather turns his shoulder, then lands another right. Mayweather slaps Hatton with a left, then makes Hatton whiff on a left hook. Hatton still stalking, but Mayweather slaps at his head. Mayweather lands another straight right counterpunch, fighting confidently.
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<br>ROUND 10 ― Hatton stays aggressive, chases Mayweather, who doesn't even look winded. Out of nowhere, Mayweather floors Hatton one minute into the right with a big left hook. Hatton gets up easily, but Mayweather staggers Hatton with a left, then sends him stumbling and sprawling flat on his back in a neutral corner. Cortez ends the fight over a prone Hatton, and Mayweather leaps on the ropes
<br>ROUND ONE
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<br>Hatton starts the fight in typical style but finds himself being picked off by Mayweather. However a superb jab wobbles the champion, only for Mayweather to pull himself together and see out the round with more punch-picking.
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<br>ROUND TWO
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<br>Hatton enjoys a better second round, cutting the ring off effectively but still open to Mayweather's counter-punching. Referee Joe Cortez is too keen to get involved and part the fighters any time they look to engage at close quarters.
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<br>ROUND THREE
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<br>Cortez seems intent on spoiling the fight. Hatton, yet to mount an attack to the body, lands a decent left-right combinaton and single right but finishes the round with a small cut on his right eyebrow.
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<br>ROUND FOUR
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<br>Hatton endures a nightmare round, with Mayweather comfortably dodging the Mancunian's assaults and replying with venomous right hands to which Hatton is wide open.
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<br>Mayweather's questionable use of the forearm and elbow, grinding it into Hatton's face, continues to go unpunished by the hapless Cortez. A better round for Hatton nevertheless, soaking up fewer shots and landing more of his own without showing signs of damaging the American.
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<br>ROUND SIX
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<br>Hatton loses his cool after being deducted a point by Cortez for hitting the back of Mayweather's head, despite it being due to the champion turning his back. Meanwhile Mayweather's elbow continues to play a prominent role.
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<br>Hatton continues as the aggressor without managing to pin down the elusive Mayweather. Hatton's lack of body shots is surprising and makes him look one-dimensional.
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<br>Mayweather ups the ante in style landing uppercuts, jabs, counters and some superb body shots. Hatton is hurt by a snapping straight right on the chin but steadies, only to be rocked by another right. A flurry of Mayweather punches almost results in a stoppage until Hatton manages to land one back. A 10-8 round for the Pretty Boy.
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<br>ROUND NINE
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<br>Mayweather's sublime skills come to the fore as Hatton runs out of ideas and the fight starts slipping away from his grasp. Both still look energetic but Mayweather seems completely in control.
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<br>A great left hook by Mayweather sends Hatton flying onto the ringpost and to the canvas. Hatton gets up but another left snaps his neck back and as the champion presses forward, in the process of flooring Hatton again, Cortez waves the fight off to hand Mayweather victory.
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<br>í236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-82151258111185906242007-12-09T08:53:00.000-08:002007-12-09T08:51:48.669-08:00idot Both directions of the Bishop Ford Freeway reopened Saturday morning, a day after the highway was shut down for hours when a dump truck slammed into an overpass at 115th Street.
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<br>The Illinois Department of Transportation removed a 9-foot-wide concrete deck and a beam on the south side of the bridge Friday night before deciding it was safe to reopen the freeway's northbound lanes just after midnight, IDOT spokesman Mike Claffey said.
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<br>The agency has not yet determined the extent of further repairs to the bridge, he said.
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<br>Officials had originally said the mess on the Bishop Ford would not be cleared until the end of the weekend.
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<br>The dump truck hit an overpass support structure around 10:30 a.m. Friday, separating the bed from the cab and spilling gravel onto the roadway.
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<br>The truck's driver, Donald C. Hoth, received 13 citations.
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<br>MANSFIELD -- Village officials are wondering what to do with stray dogs after losing an arrangement with Piatt County.
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<br>"We have no outlet for dogs when we pick them up," said trustee Don "Duffy" Deffenbaugh. "We're on our own to find a place to take them."
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<br>Previously, the village kept dogs for up to three days in a local facility. If they were not claimed, the dogs were sent to a Monticello animal hospital, where eventually they were euthanized.
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<br>"I want to put a cable in and fix it where people can't get in there," Henderson said.
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<br>Residents have been putting leaves in the burn pile and burning other items frequently, Henderson said. "People come in at all times in the evening," he said.
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<br>Without an ordinance, trustee Bambi Roy said, the rules can't be enforced legally. But most board members agreed it was a way to begin addressing the problem.
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<br>Mansfield no longer will have a school crossing guard next year after the Illinois Department of Transportation changed some rules.
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<br>Gaines said school zone lights would continue to be used.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-12211238613923187292007-12-09T08:51:00.000-08:002007-12-09T08:49:28.966-08:00charles nelson rileyAdded exposure is really all show
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<br>Coaches needn't worry about efforts to provide inside access
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<br>10:37 PM CST on Saturday, December 8, 2007
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<br>Miami's Pat Riley knows it will make good TV. But he considers it an invasion of privacy and is convinced it inhibits communication.
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<br>Chicago's Scott Skiles is concerned about exchanges between coach and player that will be taken out of context.
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<br>These guys are so old school. Get over it. Putting a microphone on coaches and selected players during nationally televised games is what fans, networks and your commissioner want. Mounting cameras in locker rooms to record intimate details is the wave of the future.
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<br>So what if it's stolen from NASCAR. This is a great idea. So great, that I agree with San Antonio's Gregg Popovich.
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<br>Let's put a camera and microphone in the next sensitive meeting conducted by David Stern.
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<br>Oh, I know. Stern will argue no one cares about the mundane business matters of the league office. He will allege it's not entertainment and thus should be excluded.
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<br>I disagree. Fans want to understand how Stern arrives at a suspension for a player, what he thinks of putting a team in Las Vegas or what he really thinks of Seattle's potential move. It may not play big nationally, but it should draw decent ratings in Seattle and Oklahoma City.
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<br>Who wouldn't want to know how Stern responds when he's told of Mark Cuban's latest provocative statement or challenge to his expertise? Who wouldn't want to hear the commissioner verbally undress an underling who made an honest mistake?
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<br>It's great TV.
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<br>They are concerned about destroying the bond of trust that is essential during the stressful moments of a competitive game. All they focus on is how it could corrupt the lines of communication.
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<br>Please.
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<br>Cuban has stated that none of this is about busting a coach or a player. He assures all delicate information will be protected, "like Fort Knox."
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<br>That's why Cuban shouldn't have a problem installing a microphone and camera in Donnie Nelson's office the next time he meets with the Mavericks general manager and coach Avery Johnson to discuss a potential trade. It helps bring the sport closer to the public.
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<br>Besides, if the discussion is too revealing, if the comments are too embarrassing, the video will never be released. Privacy and good taste always override prurient interests.
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<br>We've seen that on YouTube.
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<br>The NBA and the networks aren't offering reality.
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<br>They're offering the appearance of reality. They're teasing you with an inside glimpse that is sanitized and controlled. That's what our culture demands.
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<br>That's what Stern and otherwise reasonable intellectuals strive to provide.
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<br>"I think it's the power of TV," Denver coach George Karl said. "TV is a big part of our business and making them happy is a big part of what is going on right now.
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<br>"I don't have any problem with that. I think they've done a great job. I don't think we'd be in the position we are without TV.
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<br>"But it is the sanctuary that coaches have trouble giving up."
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<br>The powers that be have no trouble giving it up.
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<br>That's because it's not their sanctuary.
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<br>All I've heard from Mavericks fans and certain members of the media is that it doesn't matter what goes on during the regular season. The only way to judge this team is by what happens in the playoffs.
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<br>So why have so many people pushed the panic button now that the Mavericks are off to a slow start?
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<br>You can't have it both ways. Does the regular season matter or not? Has a fatal flaw been exposed in this team that can't be corrected over the next four months?
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<br>Avery Johnson has backed off, turned the keys to the offense over to Devin Harris and encouraged a greater cast of characters to step up around Dirk Nowitzki. Did anyone think this transition would be made without a hitch?
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<br>The Mavericks have taken one step back in the hopes of taking two steps forward. Let's give them a little time to regain their footing.
<br>Charles Nelson Reilly
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<br>Charles Nelson Reilly in 2000.
<br>Born January 13, 1931(1931-01-13)
<br> The Bronx, New York, New York, USA
<br>Died May 25, 2007 (aged 76)
<br>Beverly Hills, California, USA
<br>Partner(s) Patrick Hughes III (1980-2007)
<br>Awards
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<br>1962 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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<br>Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 � May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game.
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<br>1 Biography
<br>1.1 Career
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<br>Reilly was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Charles Joseph Reilly, an Irish Catholic commercial artist, and Signe Elvera Nelson, a Swedish Lutheran.[1][2] When young he would often make his own puppet theater to amuse himself. His mother, foreshadowing his future as an entertainer, often would tell him to "save it for the stage". At age 13, he escaped the Hartford Circus Fire[3] where over a hundred people died, and as a result he never sat in an audience again through the remainder of his life.[4]
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<br>Reilly made his first motion-picture appearance in 1957, playing an uncredited role in A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan. Most of his work during this period was on the stage. Reilly appeared in many Off-Broadway productions. His big theatrical break came in 1960 with the enormously successful original Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie. In the ground-breaking musical, Reilly had a small onstage part, and was the standby for Dick Van Dyke in the leading role of Albert Peterson. In 1961, Reilly was in the original cast of another big Broadway hit, the Pulitzer prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. For his memorable creation of the role of Bud Frump ("Coffee Break"), Reilly earned a 1962 Tony Award for featured actor in a musical.[5]. In 1964, Reilly was featured in the original cast of yet another giant Broadway success, Hello, Dolly!. For creating the role of Cornelius Hackl, Reilly received a second nomination for a Tony Award for performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical[5].
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<br>While he kept active in Broadway shows, Reilly would soon become better known for his TV work. Reilly appeared regularly on television in the 1960s. For example, he did stints both as one of the What's My Line? Mystery Guests and as a panelist on the popular Sunday Night CBS-TV program. In 1965, he made regular appearances on The Steve Lawrence Show, which aired for a single season. From 1968 to 1970, he appeared as uptight "Claymore Gregg" on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, which also starred Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare. In one episode, Reilly was reunited with his Hello, Dolly! original Broadway castmate Eileen Brennan.
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<br>In 1971, he appeared as the evil magician "Hoodoo" in Lidsville, a psychedelically flavored live-action children's program produced by Sid and Marty Krofft that aired on Saturday mornings on ABC. The show was about a boy who falls into a magician's hat and enters a magical world of hat-humans. It is through these roles, as well as his playing the titular role in Uncle Croc's Block, that Reilly's voice and mannerisms were embedded in a generation of young fanatics.
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<br>During the 1970s, Reilly also appeared as a regular on The Dean Martin Show, and had multiple guest appearances on television series including McMillan and Wife; Here's Lucy; Laugh In; The Love Boat; and Love, American Style. He was also a frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, appearing more than one hundred times. Because Reilly was such a lively and reliable talk-show guest and lived within blocks of the Burbank studios where The Tonight Show was taped, he was often asked to be a last-minute replacement for scheduled guests who did not make it to the studio in time. During this time, Reilly was perhaps best known as a fixture of game shows, primarily due to his appearances as a regular panelist on the television game show Match Game. Reilly was the longest-running guest, and often engaged in petty, hilarious arguments with fellow regular Brett Somers. Reilly typically offered sardonic commentary and peppered his answers with homosexually themed double entendres that pushed the boundaries of 1970s television standards.
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<br>Match Game '77 cast: from left to right Richard Dawson, Reilly, Brett Somers, and host Gene RayburnFrom 1975 to 1976, Reilly starred in another live-action children's program called Uncle Croc's Block with Jonathan Harris. Reilly was often a guest celebrity in the 1984 game show Body Language, including one week with Lucille Ball and another week with Audrey Landers.
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<br>From 1980, Reilly was primarily active teaching acting and directing for television and theater. He directed episodes of Evening Shade in 1990 and earned a 1997 Tony Award nomination as Best Director of a Play for working with longtime pal Julie Harris, opposite whom he had acted in Skyscraper, and whom he had directed in The Belle of Amherst and a revival of The Gin Game.
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<br>Reilly was a longtime teacher of acting at HB Studio, the acting studio founded by Herbert Berghof and made famous by Berhof and his wife, the renowned stage actress Uta Hagen. Reilly's acting students included Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler.
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<br>In the 1990s, Reilly made guest appearances on The Drew Carey Show, The Larry Sanders Show, Family Matters, Second Noah, and as eccentric writer Jose Chung in the television series The X-Files ("Jose Chung's From Outer Space") and Millennium ("Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"). Reilly was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1998 and 1999 for his performances in The Drew Carey Show and Millennium, respectively. From the late 1990s, Reilly directed theater and opera, touring the country performing a critically acclaimed one-man stage show chronicling his life called Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly and occasionally performing as the voice of "The Dirty Bubble" on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. In 2006, his one-man, autobiographical stage show was made into a feature film called The Life of Reilly, offering audiences a glimpse into his background and personal life.[6]
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<br>Reilly did not publicly proclaim his homosexuality until his one man show Save It for the Stage. However, much like fellow game-show regular Paul Lynde of the same era, Reilly played up a campy on-screen persona. In many episodes of Match Game, he would lampoon himself by briefly affecting a deep voice and self-consciously describing how "butch" he was. He mentioned in a 2002 interview with Entertainment Tonight that he felt no need to note this and that he never purposefully hid his homosexuality from anyone.
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<br>Patrick Hughes III, a set decorator and dresser, was Reilly's partner; the two met backstage while Reilly was appearing on the game show Battlestars. They lived in Beverly Hills.[7]
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<br>On May 25, 2007, Reilly died at his home from complications from pneumonia after a year-long illness.[8]236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-8832175194772605532007-12-09T08:49:00.000-08:002007-12-09T08:47:57.638-08:00wild wild west The Wild Wild West
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<br>The Wild Wild West 1990s VHS release. Pictured: Robert Conrad (top) and Ross Martin.The Wild Wild West was an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons (104 episodes) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1969. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." It was one of the first television series which could be described as a science fiction Western. Two television movies were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980, and the series was adapted for a motion picture in 1999 with a new cast and story.
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<br>The show's creator, Michael Garrison, was no late-comer to the James Bond craze; he and his partner at the time, Gregory Ratoff, purchased the film rights to Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, back in 1955. They pitched the idea to 20th Century Fox, but the studio turned them down. After Ratoff died in 1960, his widow and Garrison sold the film rights to Charles K. Feldman, who eventually produced the spoof Casino Royale in 1967. Garrison, meanwhile, had brought James Bond to television in a unique way.
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<br>The Wild Wild West told the story of two Secret Service agents—James West, the charming gunslinger (played by Robert Conrad), and Artemus Gordon (played by Ross Martin), the brilliant gadgeteer and master of disguise. Their unending mission was to protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats. The agents traveled in luxury aboard their own train equipped with everything from a stable car to a laboratory.
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<br>The show incorporated classic Western elements with an espionage thriller, as well as science fiction/alternate history ideas (in a similar vein to steampunk) and plenty of comedy. In the finest James Bond tradition, there were always beautiful women, clever gadgets, and delusional arch-enemies with half-insane plots to take over the country or the world.
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<br>Each episode's title begins with "The Night" (except for the first-season episode "Night of the Casual Killer", which omitted the definite article). Shows with similar naming conventions include: Friends ("The One ..."); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("The ... Affair"); The Rat Patrol ("The ... Raid"); Rawhide (seasons 1–3 and 5–6: "Incident ..."); and Scrubs ("My ...").
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<br>The one memorable recurring arch-villain was Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless, a brilliant-but-insane dwarf portrayed by Michael Dunn, who performed almost an identical function for West and Gordon as Professor Moriarty performed for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson—the worthy adversary, whose plans could be foiled but who resisted all attempts to capture him and bring him to justice. Loveless was introduced in the show's sixth produced, but third televised episode, "The Night the Wizard Shook The Earth," and appeared in another nine episodes. Initially he had two constant companions, the huge Voltaire, played by Richard Kiel, and the beautiful, Antoinette. This role was performed by Dunn's real-life singing partner, Phoebe Dorin. Voltaire disappeared with no explanation after the third battle against Loveless, while Antoinette was not seen after the sixth one. According to The Wild Wild West Revisited TV movie, Loveless eventually dies in 1880 from ulcers, brought on by anger and frustration at having his plans consistently ruined by West and Gordon. (His son, played by Paul Williams, subsequently seeks revenge on the agents).
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<br>Though several actors appeared in multiple villainous roles, only one other character had a second encounter with West and Gordon, Count Manzeppi, played flamboyantly by Victor Buono.
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<br>While the show's writers created their fair share of villains (Agnes Moorehead won an Emmy for her role as Emma Valentine in "The Night of The Vicious Valentine"), they frequently started with the nefarious, stylized inventions of these madmen and then wrote the episodes around these devices. Stories were also inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne.
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<br>As indicated by Robert Conrad on his DVD commentary for the first season, the show went through several changes in producers in its early weeks of production. This was apparently due to conflicts between the network and Michael Garrison, who had also produced the pilot. Collier Young produced episodes 2-4; Fred Freiberger episodes 5-14; John Mantley episodes 15-21; and Gene L. Coon episodes 22-26. Garrison then returned to the show in time to produce the last two episodes of season one. In August 1967, early during production of the second season, however, Garrison fell down a staircase in his home and died. CBS brought in Bruce Lansbury, head of programming in New York (and brother of actress Angela Lansbury), to produce the show for the remainder of its run.
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<br>There was also a cast change made in the first season: the three episodes produced by Collier Young featured a butler named Tennyson who traveled with West and Gordon; this character was dropped after the fourth produced episode, though due to the episodes not being broadcast in production order, the character was seen in an off-and-on fashion.
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<br>The first season episodes were filmed in black and white, and were appropriately darker in their tonality. (Cinematographer Ted Voightlander was nominated for an Emmy for his work on these episodes.) Subsequent seasons were filmed in color and the show became noticeably campier. Still, some episodes could be astonishingly violent, and that ultimately was its downfall: according to Susan Kesler's book (see below), CBS bowed under pressure from watchdog groups and cancelled the show. However, the network re-ran several episodes in the summer of 1970 before the program moved into syndication and new life on local stations across the country. In 1994, it was broadcast on cable channel TNT. The channel usually preferred the color episodes, however, rather than the black and white shows.
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<br>Robert Conrad and a stock company of stunt players choreographed at least two fight sequences per episode. Conrad also insisted on performing all of his own stunts, such as leaping off a 2nd-floor balcony or running in front of a team of horses. During the filming of one episode, "The Night of the Fugitives," Conrad fell 12 feet from a chandelier onto a concrete floor and suffered a concussion. [1] Production of the series, then near the end of its third season, was shut down two weeks early. (The episode eventually aired during the fourth season, with footage of the fall left in.) Ross Martin broke his leg in a fourth season episode, "The Night of the Avaricious Actuary," and suffered a heart attack a few weeks later after completing "The Night of Fire and Brimstone." His character was replaced temporarily by other agents played by Charles Aidman (four episodes), Alan Hale, Jr. and William Schallert. Aidman said that the script rewrites he had been promised amounted to changing the name "Artemus Gordon" to "Jeremy Pike" (his character's name)[1]. Pat Paulsen is frequently thought of as a Martin substitute, but he in fact appeared in one of Aidman's episodes, and his character would have been present even if Martin had not been absent.
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<br>Ross Martin once called his role as Artemus Gordon "a show-off's showcase" because it allowed him to portray over 100 different characters during the course of the series, and perform dozens of different dialects. Martin sketched his ideas for his characterizations and worked with the make-up artists to execute the final look. Martin was nominated for an Emmy in 1969.
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<br>The Wild Wild West featured numerous gadgets. Some were recurring devices, such as James' sleeve gun or breakaway derringer hidden in his left and right boot heels. Others only appeared in a single episode.
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<br>Sleeve gun (a Remington derringer, featured in many episodes). In a few episodes the ejecting/retractable support-arm of the device had other useful gadgets attached to it instead of the derringer (i.e. a tiny squirt-can containing acid, iron climbing-claws, various blades, etc.)
<br>Lock-pick in the lapel of the bolero-style jacket.
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<br>Various explosive devices fitted in the lining of his jacket, inside his belt (and its buckle), and a secret compartment in his holster.
<br>A flat metal barbed climbing-spike and a thin, but strong attachable rope or cord that could be shot into a wooden beam or wall from either his deringer or revolver.
<br>A small hand-held rod with a built-in spring-loaded motor-driven winch. When used in conjunction with his climbing-spike and rope, the rod-winch can either hoist him upwards to a building's roof, for instance, or lower him into a deep pit, the distance depending on the length of rope deployed.
<br>An ejecting knife-blade in his boot, just between the outer sole and toe-box of the boot.
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<br>A thin, but extremely strong wire flexible enough to be coiled and fitted in the inner lining of the crown of his hat; the wire has multiple uses, and is also capable of sawing through a steel bar.
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<br>A break-away blow-torch, hidden in each boot heel.
<br>Two pistols on a wooden stand on desk-activated by a knob on the fireplace.
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<br>Several pistols, a few rifles, and other assorted weaponry hidden behind a wall-panel behind the map at one end of the railway car.
<br>A shotgun hidden under a revolving table-top.
<br>The Juggernaught, a steam-powered tank that was triangular in shape, and had a barbed tip.
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<br>For the pilot episode, "The Night of the Inferno," the producers used Sierra Railroad No. 3, a 4-6-0 locomotive that was, fittingly, an anachronism: it wasn't built until 1891. Footage of this train, with a 5 replacing the 3 on its number plate, was shot in Jamestown, California. Best known for its role as the Hooterville Cannonball in the CBS series Petticoat Junction, Sierra No. 3 probably appeared in more films and TV shows than any other locomotive in history. It was built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in Paterson, New Jersey.
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<br>When The Wild Wild West went into series production, however, an entirely different train was employed. The locomotive, a 4-4-0 named the Inyo, was built in 1875 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. Originally a wood-burner, the Inyo was converted to oil in 1910. The Inyo, as well as the express car and the passenger car, originally served on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad in Nevada. They were among several V&T cars sold to Paramount Pictures in 1937-8. The Inyo appears in numerous films, including High, Wide, and Handsome (1938), Union Pacific (1939), The Marx Brothers' Go West (1940), Meet Me in St. Louis, (1944), Red River (1948), Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) and McLintock! (1963). For The Wild Wild West, Inyo's original number plate was temporarily changed from No. 22 to No. 8 so that footage of the train could be flipped left or right without the number appearing reversed. Footage of the Inyo was shot around Menifee, Calif., and re-used countless times during the run of the show. (Stock footage of Sierra No. 3 occasionally resurfaced as well!)
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<br>These trains were used only for exterior shots. The luxurious interior of the passenger car was constructed on Stage 6 at CBS Studio Center. (Neither Stage 6 or any of the western streets still exist.) Designed by art director Albert Heschong, the set reportedly cost $35,000 in 1965.
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<br>The interior of West and Gordon's train was used in an episode of Gunsmoke titled "Death Train" (aired 1/27/67).
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<br>After her run on The Wild Wild West, the Inyo participated in the Golden Spike Centennial at Promontory, Utah, in 1969. The following year it appeared as a replica of the Central Pacific's "Jupiter" locomotive at the Golden Spike National Historical Site.. The State of Nevada purchased the Inyo in 1974; it was restored to 1895 vintage, including a wider smoke stack and new a pilot (cow catcher) without a drop coupler. The Inyo is still operational and currently displayed at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City. The express car (No. 21) and passenger car (No. 4) are also at the museum.
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<br>Another veteran V&T locomotive, the Reno (built in 1872 by Baldwin), was used in the two Wild Wild West TV movies and in the 1999 theatrical film starring Will Smith. The Reno is located at Old Tucson Studios.
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<br>The main title theme was written by Richard Markowitz, who was brought in after the producers rejected two attempts by famed film composer Dimitri Tiomkin. However, Markowitz was never credited for his theme on any episode of the series (although he did receive "music by" credit for episodes he'd scored or where he supplied the majority of tracked-in cues); it is generally believed that this was due to legal difficulties between CBS and Tiomkin over the rejection of the latter's work. Markowitz had previously composed the theme to the TV series "The Rebel."
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<br>The cartoon teaser for the opening credits was another unique element of the series. The screen was divided into five panels, the center containing a cartoon "hero" who interacted with characters in the surrounding panels. The cartoon Hero actually bears more of a resemblance to Clint Eastwood in Rawhide or James Arness in Gunsmoke than Conrad or Martin, and the vignettes in the teaser reflect Western movie cliches rather than the fanciful situations typical of The Wild Wild West.
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<br>Hero strikes match, lights a cigarette and begins walking in profile
<br>Behind the Hero, in the lower left panel, a robber backs out of a bank; the Hero subdues him with a karate chop
<br>In the upper right panel, a cardsharp tries to pull an ace from his boot; the Hero draws his gun and the cardsharp drops his card
<br>In the upper left panel, a gunman points a six shooter at the Hero, who puts his hands up. Hero then shoots the gunman with his sleeve derringer; gunman's hand falls limp
<br>A woman in the lower right panel taps Hero with her parasol. He pulls her close and kisses her. She is about to stab him but turns away and slumps against the side of the frame, still holding the knife, mesmerized by his kiss. He tips his hat and walks away from camera. This final vignette changed when the series changed to color: the Hero knocks her out with a right cross to the jaw! [Note: This variant can be seen in the original pilot version of the opening credits (included on the DVD release) when the series was under the title The Wild West.] Despite the new version, James West never hit a woman in any episode, although he grappled with some. The original animation, with the Hero winning the woman over with a kiss, was a more accurate representation of West's methods than the right cross. Ironically, it is another example of the emphasis of violence of the show.
<br>The camera then zooms into the middle panel and the title The Wild Wild West appears. Camera swish pans to an illustration of the train, with Conrad's and Martin's names on the ends of different cars.
<br>The four panels were then utilized for the commercial breaks. Each episode was divided into four acts. At the end of each act, the scene (usually a cliffhanger moment) would freeze and a sketch of the scene would replace one of the panels. (The commercial break freeze frames usually didn't follow in the same order as the main title; they only do so in four episodes - "The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo," "The Night of the Man-Eating House," "The Night of the Deadly Blossom," and "The Night of the Winged Terror, Part 2.") This art was changed slightly over the course of the series; in all first season episodes other than the pilot, the panels of the freeze-frames were live-action stills made to evoke 19th Century engravings. In season two (the first in color) the scenes initially dissolved to tinted stills; from "The Night of the Flying Pie Plate" on, however, the panels were home to Warhol-like serigraphs of the freeze-frames. The end credits were displayed over each episode's mosaic in every season but the last, when it was replaced by a standardized design.
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<br>Conrad and Martin reunited for two TV-movies, The Wild Wild West Revisited (aired May 9, 1979) and More Wild Wild West (aired October 7-8, 1980).
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<br>The 1990 Wild Wild West comic bookThe series spawned several merchandising spin-offs, including a seven-issue comic book series by Gold Key Comics, and paperback novel, Richard Wormser's The Wild Wild West, published in 1966 by Signet (ISBN 0-451-02836-8) and adapting the episode "The Night Of the Double-Edged Knife".
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<br>In 1988, Arnett Press published The Wild Wild West: The Series by Susan E. Kesler (ISBN 0-929360-00-1)
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<br>In 1990, Millennium Publications produced a four-part comic book series ("The Night Of The Iron Tyrants") scripted by Mark Ellis with art by Darryl Banks. A sequel to the TV series, it involved Dr. Loveless in a conspiracy that affected the presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes. Despite their early respective departures from the villain's side in the original program, Voltaire and Antoinette were prominent here.
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<br>In 1998, Berkeley Books published three novels by author Robert Vaughan - The Wild Wild West (ISBN 0-425-16372-5), The Night of the Death Train (ISBN 0-425-16449-7), and The Night of the Assassin (ISBN 0-425-16517-5).
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<br>The first season of The Wild Wild West was released to DVD in North America on June 6, 2006, as a special 40th anniversary edition. For the first season set, Robert Conrad recorded special audio introductions for all 28 episodes and the set also included interviews and 1970s era footage of Conrad and Martin being interviewed. The second season was released on March 20, 2007 but the set contained no special features. The third season was released on November 20, 2007. In France, all four seasons of the show (known locally as Les Mystères de l'Ouest) have already been released in a DVD boxed set.
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<br>A new fan made Wild Wild West series is being developed by the creators of Star Trek: New Voyages
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<br>Main article: Wild Wild West
<br>In 1999, a theatrical motion picture loosely based on the series was released. The film, Wild Wild West (without the definite article used in the series title) made several substantial changes to the characters of the series, reimagining James West as an African-American (played by Will Smith), almost completely ignoring the racial issues that certainly would have made it difficult, if not impossible, for a black man to be a United States secret service agent in the late 1800s. (However, at the end of the TV episode "The Night of the Returning Dead," West and Gordon invite an African-American played by guest star Sammy Davis Jr. to join the department.) Significant changes were made to Dr. Loveless (played by Kenneth Brannagh in the film). He went from a dwarf (TV) to a man without legs (film); his name was also changed to Arliss Loveless. Kevin Kline plays Gordon, whose character was similar to the version played by Ross Martin, except that he was bitterly competitive with James West, and much more egotistical. The film script had Kline's Gordon invent more ridiculous, humor-related, and implausible contraptions than those created by Martin's Gordon in the television series.
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<br>The film also depicted West and Gordon as competitive rivals (almost to the point of a mutual dislike and distrust of one another), whereas in the television series, West and Gordon had a very close friendship and and trusted each other with their lives.
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<br>The series is set during the presidency of Ulysses Grant, 1869-77; occasional episodes indicate a more precise date.
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<br>"The Night of the Glowing Corpse" is set during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1.
<br>"The Night of the Eccentrics" takes place four years after the assassination of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, placing the episode in 1871.
<br>In "The Night that Terror Stalked the Town", Loveless has a headstone prepared for West, showing his birthdate as July 2, 1842. If West's age during this episode was equal to Robert Conrad's age when it was first shown, the date would be March 22, 1873.
<br>"The Night of the Whirring Death" opens with the caption San Francisco 1874.
<br>In "The Night of the Flaming Ghost" Jim West says, "If the real John Brown had lived he'd be almost 75 years old by now," placing this episode not long before May 9, 1875.
<br>In "The Night of the Brain" Artemus Gordon shows James West a paper dated July 12, 1872. West states, "July 12, that's an interesting date, but it happens to be tomorrow." Later they again get tomorrow's newspaper and we see the date: July 14, 1872.
<br>In "The Night of the Arrow" President Grant reads a request from General Baldwin to be relieved from active duty on 6th of April, 1874 and comments that Various "The Music of the Wild West" (Varese Sarabande)
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<br>These forty-five pieces were originally produced by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's John McEuen as a soundtrack for the like-named documentary series. The mosaic of 19th century American music includes homemade folk, western themes, Native American chants, brass bands, military bugle calls, and filmic orchestrations that reflect the immigrant-fed melting pot. The stories and legends of the songs' lyrics served as a keepsake for settlers as they ranged across the continent, and retain their potency as a conduit between yesteryear and today. Today's long-range nostalgia of "Home on the Range" was ever more immediate to explorers who'd just left their home range to venture into the wilds.
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<br>McEuen gathered country and cowboy musicians (including Marty Stuart, Gary Morris, Michael Martin Murphy and Rod Steagall) together with bands that specialize in recreating nineteenth-century American music. They weave together the musical and instrumental influences of America's immigrant forebears, intertwining Irish, German, Italian and gypsy sounds with uniquely American creations such as the Sousaphone and hammered dulcimer. The songs of the West were brash and adventurous in proclaiming freedom in a new home but leavened by a longing for places and loved-ones left behind.
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<br>Music was a central element of Western life, whether sung on a hand-hewn back porch, plucked trailside on guitar, performed in a town square, made bawdy in a saloon, or revved up to energize troops on the charge. American song of the nineteenth century encapsulated entertainment, tradition, news and faith; curiously, the soundtrack doesn't include any church songs. Still, this is an enterprising project that provides a unique, musical view of the American west. [©2007 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871384957071375041.post-65599770193411436822007-12-09T08:48:00.000-08:002007-12-09T08:46:18.685-08:00tim tebow In a season in which the uncommon became commonplace and each week offered the elimination of another previously held truism regarding college football, one more never-going-to-happen event took place last night at the 73rd Heisman Trophy Award ceremony.
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<br>A sophomore took home the sport's most celebrated honor for the first time.
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<br>Florida's Tim Tebow, who himself expunged some previously held notions about a quarterback being able to run and pass with equal efficiency, won with 1,957 points (462-first-place votes), becoming the first Gator to take the award since Danny Wuerffel in 1996. Darren McFadden, the Arkansas running back who was the runner-up to Ohio State's Troy Smith last season, finished second with 1,703 points (291 first-place votes).
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<br>Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan was third with 632 points and Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel was next with 425.
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<br>"There's a lot of great players that had great seasons as freshmen and sophomores and didn't win," Tebow said. "It's an honor to accomplish that."
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<br>He accomplished it during a Heisman campaign that in many ways reflected college football's regular season that started with I-AA Appalachian State upsetting then-No.5 Michigan and ended with a team from Honolulu making it to a BCS Bowl.
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<br>Just as no team could latch onto and hold the No.1 or 2 ranking, no Heisman candidate successfully separated himself from the field the way Smith did last season or USC's Reggie Bush did in 2005. And as early-season favorites like Michigan's Mike Hart, Rutgers' Ray Rice or Boston College's Matt Ryan fell off the radar, Tebow's numbers couldn't be ignored, sophomore or not.
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<br>Tebow helped lead Florida to last year's national title, sharing time with but mostly playing behind starter Chris Leak. In his first full year as a starter, Florida went 9-3, landing in the Capital One Bowl Jan. 1 against Michigan. But the 235-pound quarterback earned almost cultlike status in Gainesville, playing at times more like a running back, the perfect fit many envisioned coming out of high school for Florida's spread offense.
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<br>Tebow threw for 3,132 yards and 29 touchdowns with only six interceptions. He also rushed for 838 yards and an SEC-record 22 touchdowns, which gave him an NCAA-record 51 total touchdowns. He was the first player in NCAA history to pass and throw for 20 or more touchdowns.
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<br>"Fifty-one touchdowns in a season is unbelievable," said Daniel, who ranked fifth in the NCAA this season in passing yards (4,170) and fifth in touchdown passes (33). "He deserved it. Everyone knew it was going to him."
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<br>Even Brennan, the NCAA career record holder for TD passes (131) who averaged 379.5 yards per game in leading Hawaii to a 12-0 record and a spot in the Sugar Bowl Jan. 1 against Georgia, shook his head at Tebow's numbers. "He had an unbelievable season," Brennan said. "I really think he deserved it."
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<br>Though Brennan's coach, June Jones, hinted he did not, causing a stir last week in saying Tebow's numbers were the product of the "system" in which he played. Florida coach Urban Meyer bristled. "Personnel is all that matters and Tim Tebow can run any offense," Meyer said. "That's one coach's opinion. This was a great player making great plays."
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<br>Tebow said he didn't seriously consider his Heisman chances until the Gators' third-to-last game against South Carolina, a 51-31 victory in which Tebow passed for 304 yards and ran for 120. He passed for two TDs and added two on the ground.
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<br>"After that is when I really thought I might have a chance," Tebow said.
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<br>Now that he has broken the Heisman sophomore jinx, the question becomes if Tebow can equal the two Heismans won by Archie Griffin or, gulp, can he surpass the Buckeye great by winning three?
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<br>Tebow laughed at the suggestion. He's happy with one. "It's surreal, I don't know what it means right now," Tebow said. "Knowing that forever, the rest of my life, I'll be known as a Heisman Trophy winner ... it's overwhelming."
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<br>Tim Tebow
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<br>Tim Tebow
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<br>College Florida
<br>Conference SEC
<br>Sport Football
<br>Position QB
<br>Jersey # 15
<br>Class Sophomore
<br>Major Family, Youth and Community Sciences
<br>Career 2006 � present
<br>Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
<br>Weight 235 lb (107 kg)
<br>Nationality United States
<br>Born August 14, 1987 (1987-08-14) (age 20)
<br> Philippines
<br>High school Homeschooled,
<br>played for Nease High School, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
<br>Awards
<br>2007 Heisman Memorial Trophy Award
<br>2007 Davey O'Brien Award
<br>2007 Maxwell Award
<br>Bowl games
<br>2007 BCS Championship - Florida 41, OSU 14
<br>Timothy Richard Tebow[1] (born August 14, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the Florida Gators and winner of the 2007 Heisman Trophy, finishing ahead of (respectively) Arkansas's Darren McFadden, Hawaii's Colt Brennan, and Missouri's Chase Daniel.
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<br>He played quarterback for Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where he became a Division I-A recruit and ranked among the top quarterback prospects in the nation.[2] He chose to attend the University of Florida. A dual-threat quarterback who can run and pass, he was used in his freshman season largely as a change-of-pace to the Gators' more traditional pocket passer, Chris Leak.[3] His contribution as a key reserve helped the Gators win college football's national championship game for the first time since 1996.
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<br>A sophomore in 2007, he became the Gators' starting quarterback and has broken Southeastern Conference records for rushing touchdowns and touchdowns accounted for.[4] He also became the first NCAA player to rush and pass for 20 touchdowns in a season.[5] His performance has earned him the Maxwell Award as the nation's top player and the Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's best quarterback, and made him the first underclassman to win the Heisman Trophy.
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<br>The fifth child of Bob and Pam Tebow, both of whom are University of Florida graduates, Tim was born on August 14, 1987 in the Philippines, where his parents were serving as Christian missionaries.[6] Pam suffered infection with a pathogenic amoeba while pregnant with him, and an abortion was recommended by her doctors. She chose to go through with the pregnancy.[7]
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<br>All of the Tebow children were homeschooled by their mother, who worked to instill the family's deep religious beliefs along the way. In 1996, legislation was passed in Florida allowing homeschooled students to compete in local high school sporting events. The law specifies that homeschool students may participate on the team of the local school in the county and school district in which they live.[8] The Tebows lived in Duval County and Tim played linebacker and tight end for Trinity Christian in Jacksonville for one season, but his dream was to play quarterback. Trinity did not pass the ball much and Tim didn't want to hand it off every play, so he began to explore his options. Nease liked to throw the ball, and Coach Craig Howard was known for his passing offense, so Tim and his mother moved in to an apartment down the street from the Nease High School in St. Johns County so he would be eligible to play there. With the rest of his family living on a farm in Jacksonville, Tim began playing quarterback for Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach. His performance soon began to turn some heads which even led to a minor controversy over him being a homeschooled student.[9]
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<br>As a junior, Tebow's stock rose as he became a high profile, highly recruited major college quarterback prospect. The 6'3", 225 lb (1.91 m, 102 kg) quarterback continued to impress during his senior season, leading the Nease Panthers to a state title, earning All-State honors, was named Florida's Mr. Football and a Parade All-American. Tebow finished his high school career with 9,810 passing yards, 3,186 rushing yards, 95 passing touchdowns and 62 rushing touchdowns. He played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Game in San Antonio, Texas which features the top 78 senior high school football players in the nation and is shown nationally on NBC television.
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<br>Despite having parental and sibling ties to the University of Florida, he remained open-minded during the recruiting process and became very close to Alabama coach Mike Shula.[10] However, after careful consideration he decided to play for the team he felt best suited his skills and style of play.[11] Tebow chose to play for Urban Meyer's Florida Gators, who employ a similar "spread option" offense that he excelled in at Nease High School.
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<br>Tebow was considered one of the nation's top recruits and was the subject of an ESPN "Faces in Sports" documentary. The segment was titled "Tim Tebow: The Chosen One", and focused on Tim's homeschool controversy and missionary work in the Philippines, as well as his exploits on the field of play and the college recruiting process. Tim Tebow was also featured in Sports Illustrated on the "Faces in the Crowd" page.
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<br>On January 7, 2007, Tebow was featured prominently in an ESPN "Outside The Lines" feature on homeschooled athletes seeking equal access to high school athletics in other states. In fact, his popularity inspired "equal access" supporters in Alabama to name their bill in the Alabama Legislature "The Tim Tebow Bill".[12] The bill, which is pending in the Alabama Legislature, will allow Alabama home school athletes to play for their local high school teams just as Tebow did in Florida.236http://www.blogger.com/profile/11273708334869337409noreply@blogger.com0