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Moving Day
The last time it occurred was twenty-seven years ago.
When it did, there were mattresses falling to the ground like impossibly large, improbably rectangular, hailstones. Baseball jerseys drifted through the air like the maple leaves of October. There was crying and screaming and tears and dust.
Last week it happened again.
I am speaking of Moving Day in the Roach household.
Moving anyone anywhere comes with a certain amount of emotion. This month weepy parents are loading up their giddy college freshmen and taking them off to adulthood. In other households, little ones are taking the leap from crib to big bed.
Boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, are moving in and out on each other with the kind of intensity that inspired the Bare Naked Ladies to actually write a song about it, with the memorable lyrical question, "Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?"
As for our clan, my widower dad moved last month from his condo to a more manageable apartment. Unlike one score and seven years ago, he did it without Mom, who passed away in 2003.
But somewhere this week she was laughing at the pandemonium that ensues when the Roaches try to engage in any large undertaking. When together we always revert to the Bedlam Model of our childhood.
Back in their move of 1985, Mom and Dad had to purge our house on Vilas Avenue of the twenty years of memories and detritus that they and their six children had managed to accumulate. My mom, so overwhelmed with the sheer mass of stuff, stopped in the midst of her careful boxing and labeling and began simply throwing crap out the windows onto the lawn.
I also have a memory of a mattress being thrown from the third-floor attic that served as a bedroom for my brother Bob and me. This may or may not have happened, but I can absolutely see a Roach making such a decision.
"I mean, it's a mattress for God's sake. How can you hurt a mattress?"
This summer, since all six of Dad's kids are now grown adults, any action triggered six opinions. Add to that the views and schedules of spouses and grandchildren, and all of a sudden you have more than forty varying positions on how to get Dad's Lazy Boy through the front door.
There were also spats. Dad's move stirred hard feelings and grudges that caused venting. This will happen when big families gather. Let's face it: Just because you shared the same birth canal does not mean you are destined to always like each other. As best as I can tell, if you are from a large family and currently speak to two of your siblings, you're doing pretty well.
The move caused debate about what to do with everything. Keep or toss?
Like many folks his age, Dad has started spontaneously giving things away to the person who happens to be standing closest to him.
"Here. Take this mirror. I don't even look in the damn thing anymore. No. Seriously. Take it. Why do I need a mirror?"
Many of the things Dad owns are filled with emotion, but not functionality. Example? My sister came to me with tears in her eyes, holding a New Yorker magazine. "This is what Mom was reading when she died."
And then there are the photos. Kodak made it very easy for us to take a vast amount of awful shots. My parents snapped more pictures of their children, posing clumsily with embarrassing hair and enormous eyewear, than Mathew Brady took of the Civil War.
Although each album holds a gem or two, many others are simply novel. Madison Flyweight teams. Prom pics. Grade-school class photos that challenge you to name each kid.
Mom saved them all.
In the end, Dad's transition was successful. Though change is difficult at the age of eighty three, he moved on.
I visited him today. As I was leaving, it occurred to me that he was comfortable in the new apartment, not because of what it had, but what it lacked.
A reminder of his wife of fifty years everywhere he turns.
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Recap: Top Chef All-Stars, Episode 14, Island Fever
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We've whittled our way down to the final four on Top Chef: All Stars! This week, the chefs bagged their own conch and cooked on a deserted island. Padma showed up in a bikini, Richard showed off his swimming skills, Mike Isabella went topless, and someone was sent packing!
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The Quickfire
This week's very brief Quickfire challenge was all about consistency and precision. The chefs worked in pairs (the girls versus the guys) and were tasked with making 100 identical dishes in one hour. Or as Richard Blais calls it: "Stuff I do for fun on a Saturday night."
Richard and Mike made pork bolognese with homemade pasta, while Tiff and Antonia made seared beef tenderloin salads. The guys thought they had the win in the bag, but Padma and guest judge Lorena Garcia disagreed. They gave the win to the girls, based on consistency and flavor. They each took home $5,000.
The Elimination Challenge
The chefs headed to the dock, where they were met by the lovely Padma in a bikini. She told them they'd be incorporating conch into a meal in celebration of the Nassau Yacht Club's 80th anniversary, and the theme would be "deserted island." The gang piled into a boat driven by the ghost of Sammy Hagar, and they were off.
Everything they could possibly need to create a wonderful island meal was waiting for them on the beach. That is...except for the conch. The chefs were forced to don snorkel gear and collect their own conch from the ocean floor. The only person who really struggled with the task was Blais. Even thought they were only in 3 feet of water, he said the conch were "too deep for his swimming skills." Wow. Let's hope no one ever leaves him unattended in the shallow end of the swimming pool. Somebody get that man some bright orange arm swimmies—stat!
The chefs spent the next 20 minutes hammering the hell out of their conch shells to extract the meat. Mike Isabella was the only one who thought to boil them so they'd loosen up and come out more easily. Smart move, Isabella. Now please, run along and put a shirt on.
Judges' Table
The chefs didn't have electricity or running water, and cooked over an open flame using only pots and pans. It was windy, and they had a hard time maintaining the temperature of the fire, but overall they did a great job with the limited provisions they were given. Tom noted that there wasn't a grain of sand on any of the plates, which was truly an impressive accomplishment.
The best dish of the night went to Mike Isabella. He made a banana leaf-wrapped grouper with braised pineapple and conch vinaigrette. The judges congratulated him, and then he disappeared into the back room to drink a beer by himself and fantasize about Padma's string bikini-covered breasts. Or as he calls it: "Stuff I do for fun on a Saturday night."
Blais made pasta noodles out of sweet potatoes—a creative move which probably saved him from elimination. He was spared, even though he served undercooked lobster to one of the judges. Here on the internet, we call that a MAJOR FAIL.
Antonia moved on as well. Her red snapper with conch tartar, while conventional and somewhat predictable, was bursting with flavor.
The judges ultimately decided to send Tiffany home. She made a conch and coconut chowder, but the soup was cold by time it made it to the dining table. The dish wasn't bad; Tiff just got out-cooked.
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Fletcher Named Tewaaraton Finalist, Second Defender To Earn Honor
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Loyola University Maryland men's lacrosse senior Joe Fletcher (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesse H.S.) was named one of five finalists for the 2014 Tewaaraton Award as the nation's top lacrosse player, and in doing so, he became the second close defender in the awards history to be in the final five.
Fletcher joins the Princeton University's Tom Schreiber, the University at Albany's Lyle and Miles Thompson, and Duke University's Jordan Wolf as those in contention for the award that will be presented on May 29, 2014, at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian in the Nation's Capital.
He is the second close defender to be named a finalist in the 14-year history of the award, joining the University of Virginia's Ken Clausen who was so honored in 2010. Fletcher is also the second Loyola player to be named a finalist, joining Mike Sawyer who was one of five in 2012.
Fletcher is a member of the 30-man United States Men's Lacrosse National Team from which the roster for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships will be chosen. He was the only collegiate player on that list, and he was the lone current collegian in the 52-man training pool.
This season, he has been named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year, the Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year, to the All-Patriot League First Team, the Patriot League All-Tournament Team and as a finalist for the 2014 Senior CLASS Award.
Fletcher leads all close defensemen nationally in ground balls (76) and ground balls per game (4.25) while causing 28 turnovers. During the year, he was a five-time Patriot League Defensive Player of the week, and through 16 games, the players who he has had primary marking responsibilities for have combined for 16 goals.
A standout in the classroom, as well, he entered his senior season with a 3.812 grade point average and will graduate this month with a bachelor of business administration in accounting degree. Last month, Fletcher received Loyola's John R. Mohler Award as the athletic department's top male senior student-athelte.
He is also a member of Loyola's Green & Grey Society, a group of 14 student leaders who meet regularly and serve as liaisons to the University's president, administration and board of trustees. Fletcher served as the co-president of Loyola's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, as well, in 2013-2014.
Over the course of his career, Fletcher has collected 187 ground balls and caused 73 turnovers. He is a two-time USILA All-American (first team in 2013, honorable mention in 2012), the 2013 ECAC Lacrosse League Defensive Player of the Year and three-time all-conference honoree.
Fletcher and the Greyhounds will open play in the NCAA Championships on Saturday, May 10, when they face two other Tewaaraton finalists, Lyle and Miles Thompson of Albany. The game will start at 12 p.m. at Ridley Athletic Complex and will air live on ESPNU. Tickets can be purchased at www.loyolagreyhounds.com/


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Traditional Irish Colored Houses
Wandering Cobh's Streets
Memorial to the Sinking of the Lusitania
Irish stacked houses
Cobh Harbor
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Beara Coastline
Old Irish Homestead
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A Potato Patch
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Ring of Kerry Coastline
Brilliant Irish Heather and Yellow
River on Iveragh Peninsula, Ireland
Small Irish Town
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River bed
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I've been using Linux for about two years now and I love to see Linux progress, but one thing I've had a difficult time trying to do is HTML editing. Linux has a number of html editors (Bluefish, Quanta Plus, Komodo Edit, Screem) but I left them all behind because I found with each the process became too laborious for creating quick web pages. But I did find one that I do like. A quick synopsis of why below.
Bluefish is the most common Linux HTML editor (though I would label it a html-css-php editor). Bluefish has a nice feature that lets you add common tags to a toolbar, unfortunately the space of the toolbar runs out quickly and you'll find yourself digging alot for tags. Bluefishes oversight (as of last testing a year ago) is that it doesn't wrap tags around text. Highlighting a sentence and then clicking the tag will output the tag at the beginning of the text (both open and close).
Komodo Edit is a growing code editor in Linux that many people are beginning to migrate to. I hear it is a good editor for many different projects, however, HTML isn't one of them. With the HTML plugin you'll get a few tags HTML tags but HTML support is very very limited.
Of all the mentioned html editors, Screem by far is the best because it concentrates on HTML and XML use and does them well. After taking a bit to set up Screem, Screem became a nice tool to work with.
Unfortunately Screem is not being developed anymore and you'll still find yourself digging for tags. Also Screem tends to crash every now and then. Here's the config for screem to save you time (includes auto-save option):
Why none of the above editors make more tags available in the toolbar and feel that all tags should be nested in one menu?… I don't know. But I found two applications that were designed better for basic HTML editing. They both do a good job of making tags and features more available: Amaya and Arachnophilia.
Amaya, Nice but Not Quite There
HTMLs' lost editor from the web consortium itself, Amaya looks to be a great upcoming editor in it's own right. Ergonomically Amaya has done a really good job of making popular tags accessible:
One of the better designed interfaces I've seen for a web editor. Amaya makes most tags available on the right toolbar with immediately below them options for those tags. Creating pages in Amaya is easy, quick and straightforward. I wrote a couple pages in Amaya and enjoyed it thoroughly. However this was when I discovered Amaya's key flaw: Amaya inserts hard returns for carriage returns at the end of each visual line. Meaning that hard returns are Automatically entered depending on the width of the Amaya window. In proper HTML this isn't a problem and pages appear correctly, but if you also use your HTML editor for blog posts like I sometime do, you end up with paragraphs that look like this:
This is just random typing that says nothing of real value, I just have to type enough to demonstrate this bug, or oversight possibly. At version number ten this is a hard to believe that this errant feature wasn't one of the first bugs fixed.


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Style Secrets
The design duo Otto Droegsler/ Joerg Ehrlich live on a farm in the countryside, which serves as a safe haven and point of inspiration after many business trips to big cities. London is always a fixture, several times a year. But stores like A.GI.EMME in Como are also very inspiring. For the personal wardrobe as well as for the feel for fashion that the store conveys. London's vibrant Eastend and Shoreditch are full of inspiration. No matter whether for the look of the crowd or for browsing through vintage stores, there is always a point that goes click in the heads of the designers. Paris and Stockholm shouldn't be forgotten either. ODEEH has a very cosmopolitan way of thinking, is influenced by everything, and interprets the currents of the trends.
But the designers' rose garden, which includes rare historic roses, also offers impulses for their prints, floral designs and colours. Nature and naturalness are reflected in the look by ODEEH. Often accentuated with a daring lipstick or unusual nail polish. We personally find it best and most effective when there is only ONE cosmetic accent to perfect the look. For outfits, we love a breach of style. An army parka with a pencil skirt and stilettos is a great example of this, or a lumberjack shirt combined in an edgy way. With an intense lipstick OR a dramatic eyeliner. "Create your own style!"
Since I have to fight my way through the Berlin traffic and the Eastern wind by bike on a daily basis to go to my early morning ballet training or head to Jivamukti in the "Alte Backfabrik" with my yoga matt before starting my work day, my "daily look" needs to be practical: a black turtleneck, jeans. Or a pleated skirt and leggings. A must: flat shoes. Simple high boots in the winter, the laced "Cross" shoes by Trippen during the transition period, ballerinas in the summer.
My morning beauty ritual is very important to me, too. A stimulating hot/cold shower, "Tonucia shampoo" by Furterer, "British rose" shower gel and body butter with the same name. Complemented by a hint of "Splendida Rose" by Bulgari (yes, I'm a fan of roses). Just as important: the make-up. This includes red lips, black eyeliner, my current favourite eye shadow palette "The Precious Copper Collection" by CATRICE – and: red toe nails… - even in the wintertime.
When I go out it's mostly to vernissages - or I meet friends for an Apero at "Contandino Sotto le Stelle Mozzarella Bar" in the Augustusstreet or at "La Premiata Ditta" on the Rosenthaler Platz. The Venetian "La Pecora Nera" in Neuköln is also absolutely amazing… I can't deny it: I've fallen for the Italians. Not surprising: before I studied fashion, I lived in Venice for six months and worked for the couturier Stefano Nicolao. During this time, I learnt to love the "Serenissima". I fly there regularly to enjoy the lack of traffic noise, the view of the lagoon and Ciccetti with Baccalà. Far from the tourists, of course. I'm happy to provide insider tips on demand.
Last but not least, a little trade secret: fabric needs to be treated with respect, flair, courtesy, patience…- and passion! In other words: Don't kill me, I am in love!
The Strenesse design team gets a lot of its inspiration from nature with its constant changes. This is reflected in the new AW collection 2018/19: the Antarctica, the northern lights, the icy cold force of nature but also the mystique, beauty and longing can be found in the new collection. Their style secret is clear: simply me!
A dress style that underlines one's own personality, doesn't disguise or bend into shape, feeling comfortable in one's outfit. High quality materials and a perfect fit play a significant role for the team. Luxurious accessories but also individual pieces of jewellery enhance any outfit and reflect the wearer's personality. The same goes for make-up, it should never conceal one's own personality. Less is often more.
Since I don't really like wearing trousers, I mainly wear skirts and dresses for work and leisure.
I love flared dresses, and especially our Rainbow Strap Skirt. Combined with a loose, soft top, the tight-fitting shape of the skirt instantly creates a feminine silhouette and emphasizes the waistline. Zara Basics are perfect for tops.
Then I add a statement bag like our Kasper Stripes Bag and the look is complete.
I like to upgrade simple outfits with elegant, high-quality shoes. The suede Oaxacana pumps by Christian Louboutin are especially eye-catching.
If I'm looking for something truly extraordinary, I like to go to Alexander McQueen as his extravagant designs are a great source of inspiration.
The striped shirt. It is my daily companion because it is so versatile. Depending on how you combine it and turn up the sleeves, it can either look classic or casual. The Alma Shirt always makes me look good, no matter what the situation.
Old Chinese films whisk me away into another world. They make me dream and inspire me with their stories from a different era. I love the colours and the music that go with the nostalgic tales.
My lambskin slippers are the most comfortable shoes that I own and accompany me indoors as well as outdoors. Wearing them feels like walking on clouds, and they're always an eye-catcher.
Workwear has a big influence on my collections. Many of my looks are inspired by the simple cuts. I love the idea of pure functionality and practical details.
Gold is a must. In my opinion, the warm colour adds a perfect balance of elegance and coolness to any wardrobe. Personally, I wear a lot of gold jewellery, I never leave the house without it!
For the new S/S 2018 Collection, I have finally designed my first womenswear collection, which is inspired by my menswear designs as well as the style of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. In doing so, I have also revealed my style secrets. I like the architectural construction, clarity and, so to speak, the sober austerity expressed by the classic menswear, which I have translated into the womenswear for my label.
As far as labels go, I am still a big fan of Veronique Branquinho, for whom I interned during my time as a student. At the moment, I also really like Dries van Noten, who has designed some strong collections over the past few seasons. Both are from Antwerp.
My last purchases: there is a fantastic charity shop around the corner from my atelier. I recently discovered a great pair of pleated trousers by Zegna made of fine, light wool there. I like to combine them with a merino jumper from my own collection and white Birkenstock sandals or Chelsea boots as well as a light oversized coat, probably from the 80's, which I also found in the charity shop.
Flowers are sure to put everyone in a good mood – every day and at any time of year. You can find gorgeous bouquets at Marsano, for example.
Mykonos is our favourite place to spend the summer. This season, we have a pop-up store there. Of course, sandals by Ancient Greek Sandals are a must! The model Clio Pearls in platinum makes us wish that we were back at the beach.
The inspiration for the perfumes by Coqui Coqui spring from their origins: originally established as a resort on the Mexican peninsula of Yucatan, each scent reflects a part of it. Our favourite is Coco Coco, which instantly catapults us back to paradise.
Why sunglasses? It's simple. They give each of our outfits that extra-special touch. It doesn't even matter whether the sun is shining. We usually find our favourite models at Andy Wolf.
In the evening, we exchange our sandals for high-heels. And we always take one of our kimonos along with us wherever we go.


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The family came over New Years eve and spent the night! Jeff and I slept at our neighbor Debbies house to give Mom and AJ our room! we all slept great!! Played games till late... taught the family how to play hand and foot.. naturally mom and I won :)
Here are some photos of us in the morning making the trek to the Parade... we took the metro (1mile) from our house up 2 stops .. then walked about .5 a mile.... it wasn't too bad!!! Even had time to stop and grab starbucks on the way! (Jeff was happy)
Up Bright and early!! and all bundled up! Okay maybe I was a bit excessive ....
Sisters waiting at Starbucks
Lex's favorite shop!!
Let me show you how this works guys!! I'm buying everyones train passes...
Waiting waiting waiting... took 3 trains before we could get on... apparently this was a common way to travel to the Parade!!
Here we go! She is such a natural
Yippeee we made it! Found a great spot on the corner right where the floats started!!
Bands were all lined up :)
We decided to walk home! it was a big of a walk.. but enjoyed the sunshine! Oh did I mention the weather was absolutely AMAZING!!
Finish off the day with a bang... Ice cream cones!! :)
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Miley Cyrus is responding to her critics who say she's looking too thin lately.
"For everyone calling me anorexic I have a gluten and lactose allergy," she wrote on Twitter.
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"It's not about weight it's about health. Gluten is crapppp anyway!" the 19-year-old star, who is regularly seen attending Pilates classes in Los Angeles, wrote.
She encouraged her five million-plus Twitter followers to try out her eating regime.
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"Everyone should try no gluten for a week," she added. "The change in your skin, physical and mental health is amazing! U won't go back!"
In a Twitter response to sister Noah, she shared with her fans that's she's eating plenty, but making good choices.
"U saw how much I ate today at Easter lunch," she wrote to her 12-year-old sister. "But all of it was healthy and even more fulfilling! Health is happiness!"
And when it comes to getting her fast food fix, Miley simply enjoys getting a whiff.
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"I can't eat it," she wrote in a Tweet with a photo of herself smelling a Carl's Jr. bag. "So I'm just gonna smell the s--- out of it! My mouth is LITERALLY watering."
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Dow Building & Construction, a business group within Dow's Advanced Materials Division, to lead a multi-year project that will combine research and residential in-home testing to develop enhanced home energy efficiency retrofit solutions and best practices.
Dow will work in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, as well as Michigan State University and Ferris State University, with select contributions from Duke Energy, DTE Energy Corporation and Exelon Corp. Of the 15 research and deployment partnerships named by the DOE, Dow was the only private sector manufacturer asked to lead a research, development and deployment team.
"Today, we know how to build a very energy-efficient new home, but there are still 76 million homes in America that were built prior to modern energy codes," said Carol Eicher, business group vice president, Dow Building & Construction. "It is critical to establish new product solutions and application practices for retrofitting these homes, and what better partner than Habitat for Humanity, which is committed to making home ownership affordable and serves as a benchmark in this industry."
The DOE retrofit project is part of a broader effort to reduce both energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, and establish national guidelines and standards for retrofit methods, materials and practices. On Earth Day of this year, Vice President Joe Biden announced the DOE's Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, which brings communities, government, private sector companies and non-profit organizations together to deliver energy efficiency upgrades—or retrofits—to the country.
Research goals established for the Dow-led Energy Efficiency Insulation Retrofit Program will draw upon the resources and know-how of every partner. The team will conduct pre- and post-retrofit homeowner market research, designed by Michigan State University, to build a stronger understanding of the considerations and concerns consumers have about retrofit costs, procedures and results. Innovative new solutions devised by Dow and Ferris State University's Granger Center for Construction and HVACR will focus on establishing new products and application solutions in wall and roofing insulations as well as overall building air sealing. The team will also draw upon Habitat for Humanity's knowledge of lower-income homeowner issues and Dow's practical marketplace know-how and supply chain strategies to create a business model that results in the commercialization of affordable, prescriptive solutions that can be sold in the retail channel or practiced by retrofit contractors.
The Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies recently reported that of the 116 million houses in America today, approximately two-thirds were built before contemporary U.S. energy codes were adopted – one-third of existing homes are more than 45 years old, and another third are at least 25 years old. DOE has stated that retrofits of these older homes using existing technologies could reduce energy bills by $40 billion annually and lower total associated greenhouse gas emissions by up to 160 million metric tons a year.


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NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $40 million to five research teams to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.
The newly selected teams are from the University of Washington; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and University of Southern California. Average funding to the teams is almost $8 million each. The interdisciplinary teams will become members of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), headquartered at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
"These research teams join the NASA Astrobiology Institute at an exciting time for NASA's exploration programs," said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "With the Curiosity rover preparing to investigate the potential habitability of Mars and the Kepler mission discovering planets outside our solar system, these research teams will help provide the critical interdisciplinary expertise needed to interpret data from these missions and plan future astrobiology-focused missions."
The University of Washington's "Virtual Planetary Laboratory," led by Victoria Meadows, will integrate computer modeling with laboratory and field-work across a range of disciplines to extend knowledge of planetary habitability and astronomical biosignatures in support of NASA missions to study extrasolar planets.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team, led by Roger Summons, will focus on how signs of life are preserved in ancient rocks on Earth, with a focus on the origin and evolution of complex life, and how this knowledge can be applied to studies of Mars using the Curiosity rover.
The University of Wisconsin team, led by Clark Johnson, will study how to detect life in modern and ancient environments on Earth and other planetary bodies.
The University of Illinois team, led by Nigel Goldenfeld, seeks to define a "universal biology," or fundamental principles underlying the origin and evolution of life anywhere, through an interdisciplinary study of how life began and evolved on Earth.
The University of Southern California team, led by Jan Amend, will study life in the subsurface, a potentially habitable environment on other worlds. They will use field, laboratory, and modeling approaches to detect and characterize Earth's subsurface microbial life.
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When some people retire, they have to search for a hobby to keep them busy. Ray Simpson is not one of those people. Through the years he has refined his customizing and rod building skills waiting for the day when he could retire from the restaurant business and cook something up in his three-car garage. Ray also has the vision to see what others may not, so when this '48 Chevy basket case came up for sale, Ray could see the possibilities. The previous owner, Dave Barns, chopped the top but then lost interest in the car. Ray liked what he saw and bought it.
Once in Ray's garage, a plan was set to start by getting the coupe on a solid foundation. Barns had already discarded the stock '48 chassis and rolled a '76 Monte Carlo chassis under the coupe to take its place. It was now Ray's job to get it sitting right and the fit to the coupe's body. A lot of time was spent shimming and aligning the two mismatched pieces until the body's gaps were perfect.
During this process Ray was also working on getting the sheetmetal into shape and started by filling what he smilingly refers to as "several hundred holes." Once the cross-ventilation problem was solved, he continued the process of smoothing the body of factory hiccups in order to let the original lines of the car show through. One original line he didn't want to retain was the hood line, so he whacked a 4-inch pie-cut out of it to give it a lower profile to match the chopped top. The new rear roll pan blends into the fat Chevy fenders for a smooth, bumper-less look in the rear. Simpson created a new front bumper from sheet steel and painted it to match the body.
When the body was finally ready, Ray sprayed the PPG deep metallic purple. Although he prefers to do most of the work himself, Ray knows when to farm out some of the work to a professional. He sent the coupe to B.J. Byrd for an interior that would give the Chevy a modern feel.
At this point the coupe was done, or so he thought. After cruising the Chevy for two years, Ray ran into airbrush artist Ray "Solo" Fuentes, owner of Art by Solo in Claremont, Florida. After a few discussions about ways to add a little more punch to the coupe, Ray turned it over to Solo to do what he does best. When he got it back, the coupe was two-toned with a cream top (separated with Solo's trademark woodgrain trim stripes) and had a subtle Cobalt Blue ghost flame job.
Now that the coupe is done, what does the future hold? "I am looking for a new challenge," Ray says, smiling.
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ChassisThe '48 Chevy chassis gave way for a '76 Monte Carlo chassis upgraded with Fatman tubular control arms, cut stock coils, and 2-inch dropped spindles using the stock 11-inch disc brakes. The Monte's coil springs and trailing arms were retained in the rear to support the 10-bolt rearend.
DrivetrainJim Russell rebuilt a small-block 355-cid V-8 and then mated it to a 700-R4 transmission rebuilt by Fourth Gear in Apopka, Florida. The engine runs 9.5:1 compression, a Pete Jackson gear drive, an Edelbrock 600 carburetor on a Performer Air Gap intake, MSD ignition, and ceramic-coated, 2-inch Hedman headers that feed into twin Smitty mufflers. A Walker radiator, Perma-Cool oil cooler, and Flex-a-lite fan keep temperatures on the 270hp motor in the green.
InteriorB.J. Byrd from Minneola, Florida, covered the Mazda buckets, cut-down Monte Carlo rear seat, custom console, and door panels with shades of purple and cream vinyl and accented it with light brown wool carpeting. Faria Performance Instruments white-faced gauges add sparkle to the custom dash. The custom stereo, LeCarra wheel-topped tilt column, and Vintage Air A/C make the car an enjoyable highway cruiser. The trunk now holds the relocated battery and hidden gas filler pipe. All the modules for the electric doors, tool storage, rear mounted battery, and more are located behind the upholstered panels in the trunk.


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I really wanted to feature a diaper cake as the main thing on the dessert/candy table as a gift for the mom-to-be (or should I say the baby!). I carried the turtle theme and the carnation flower arrangements the guest tables as well. These flower arrangements were done using recycled bean cans and covered with scrapbooking paper in a variety of patterns and designs, arranged in trios in each table. No two were alike.
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Since my baby's second birthday, I've been wanting to work a little more on fondant figurines. So I found these little turtles online and thanks to a tutorial I found at The Cake Journal, I ventured into making them, as well as the little flowers. I believe they came out great. Of course I made my usual cupcake toppers to complement the cupcake stands. A customized banner and beautiful balloons tied it all together.
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Figure 2. The relationship between protein concentration of phospho or non-phospho lysates and the absorbance at 450 nm is shown. Unstarved K-562 cells were cultured (106 cells/ml) and lysed with or without addition of phosphatase inhibitor to the lysis buffer (phospho or non-phospho lysate, respectively).
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Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953.[1] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man nineteenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.[2] Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[3]
Ellison says in his introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition[4] that he started to write what would eventually become Invisible Man in a barn in Waitsfield, Vermont in the summer of 1945 while on sick leave from the Merchant Marine. The letters he wrote to fellow novelist Richard Wright as he started working on the novel provide evidence for its political context: the disillusion with the Communist Party that he and Wright shared. In a letter to Wright August 18, 1945, Ellison poured out his anger toward party leaders for betraying Black and Marxist class politics during the war years. "If they want to play ball with the bourgeoisie they needn't think they can get away with it.... Maybe we can't smash the atom, but we can, with a few well chosen, well written words, smash all that crummy filth to hell." In the wake of this disillusion, Ellison began writing Invisible Man, a novel that was, in part, his response to the party's betrayal.[5]
The book took five years to complete with one year off for what Ellison termed an "ill-conceived short novel."[6] Invisible Man was published as a whole in 1952. Ellison had published a section of the book in 1947, the famous "Battle Royal" scene, which had been shown to Cyril Connolly, the editor of Horizon magazine by Frank Taylor, one of Ellison's early supporters.
In his speech accepting the 1953 National Book Award,[7] Ellison said that he considered the novel's chief significance to be its experimental attitude. Rejecting the idea of social protest—as Ellison would later put it—he did not want to write another protest novel, and also seeing the highly regarded styles of Naturalism and Realism too limiting to speak to the broader issues of race and America, Ellison created an open style, one that did not restrict his ideas to a movement but was more free-flowing in its delivery. What Ellison finally settled on was a style based heavily upon modern symbolism. It was the kind of symbolism that Ellison first encountered in the poem, The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.[8] Ellison had read this poem as a freshman at the Tuskegee Institute and was immediately impressed by The Waste Land's ability to merge his two greatest passions, that of music and literature, for it was in The Waste Land that he first saw jazz set to words. When asked later what he had learned from the poem, Ellison responded: imagery, and also improvisation—techniques he had only before seen in jazz.
Ellison always believed that he would be a musician first and a writer second, and yet even so he had acknowledged that writing provided him a "growing satisfaction." It was a "covert process," according to Ellison: "a refusal of his right hand to let his left hand know what it was doing."[9]
Invisible Man is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, an unnamed Black man who considers himself socially invisible. Ellison conceived his narrator as a spokesman for Black Americans of the time:
Ellison struggled to find a style appropriate to his vision. Wanting to avoid writing "nothing more than another novel of racial protest," he settled on a narrator "who had been forged in the underground of American experience and yet managed to emerge less angry than ironic." To this end, he modeled his narrator after the nameless narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, which similarly applies irony and paradox toward far-reaching social criticism.[10]:xv
The story is told from the narrator's present, looking back into his past. Thus, the narrator has hindsight in how his story is told, as he is already aware of the outcome.
In the Prologue, Ellison's narrator tells readers, "I live rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century." In this secret place, the narrator creates surroundings that are symbolically illuminated with 1,369 lights from the electric company Monopolated Light & Power. He says, "My hole is warm and full of light. Yes, full of light. I doubt if there is a brighter spot in all New York than this hole of mine, and I do not exclude Broadway." The protagonist explains that light is an intellectual necessity for him since "the truth is the light and light is the truth." From this underground perspective the narrator attempts to make sense out of his life and experiences and his status in American society.
The narrator begins with the claim that he is an "invisible man". His invisibility, he says, is not a physical condition—he is not literally invisible—but is rather the result of the refusal of others to see him. He says, because of his invisibility, he has been hiding from the world, living underground, and stealing electricity from the Monopolated Light & Power Company. He burns 1,369 light bulbs simultaneously and listens to Louis Armstrong's "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" on a phonograph. He tells the reader that he has gone underground in order to write the story of his life and invisibility.
As a young man, in the late 1920s or early 1930s, the narrator lived in the South. Because he is a gifted public speaker, he is invited to give a speech to a group of important white men in his town. The men reward him with a briefcase containing a scholarship to a prestigious black college, but only after humiliating him by forcing him to fight in a "battle royal" in which he is pitted against other young black men, all blindfolded, in a boxing ring. After the battle royal, the white men force the youths to scramble over an electrified rug in order to snatch at fake gold coins. The narrator has a dream that night in which he imagines his scholarship is actually a piece of paper reading, "To Whom It May Concern . . . Keep This Nigger-Boy Running".
Three years later, the narrator is a student at the college. He is asked to drive a wealthy white trustee of the college, Mr. Norton, around the campus. Norton talks incessantly about his daughter, then shows an undue interest in the narrative of Jim Trueblood, a poor, uneducated black man who impregnated his own daughter. After hearing this story, Norton needs a drink, and the narrator takes him to the Golden Day, a saloon and brothel that normally serves black men. A fight breaks out among a group of mentally imbalanced black veterans at the bar, and Norton passes out during the chaos. He is tended by one of the veterans, who claims to be a doctor and who taunts both Norton and the narrator for their blindness regarding race relations.
Back at the college, the narrator listens to a long, impassioned sermon by the Reverend Homer A. Barbee on the subject of the college's Founder, whom the blind Barbee glorifies with poetic language. After the sermon, the narrator is chastised by the college president, Dr. Bledsoe, who has learned of the narrator's misadventures with Norton at the old slave quarters and the Golden Day. Bledsoe rebukes the narrator, saying he should have shown the white man an idealized version of black life. He expels the narrator, giving him seven letters of recommendation addressed to the college's white trustees in New York City, and sends him there in search of a job.
The narrator travels to the bright lights and bustle of 1930s Harlem, where he looks unsuccessfully for work. The letters of recommendation are of no help. At last, the narrator goes to the office of one of his letters' addressees, a trustee named Mr. Emerson. There he meets Emerson's son, who opens the letter and tells the narrator that he has been betrayed: the letters from Bledsoe actually portray the narrator as dishonorable and unreliable. The young Emerson helps the narrator to get a low-paying job at the Liberty Paints plant, whose trademark color is "Optic White". The narrator briefly serves as an assistant to Lucius Brockway, the black man who makes this white paint, but Brockway suspects the narrator of joining in union activities and turns on him. The two men fight, neglecting the paint-making; consequently, one of the unattended tanks explodes, and the narrator is knocked unconscious.
The narrator awakens in the paint factory's hospital, having temporarily lost his memory and ability to speak. The white doctors seize the arrival of their unidentified black patient as an opportunity to conduct electric shock experiments. After the narrator recovers his memory and leaves the hospital, he collapses on the street. Some black community members take him to the home of Mary, a kind woman who lets him live with her for free in Harlem and nurtures his sense of black heritage. One day, the narrator witnesses the eviction of an elderly black couple from their Harlem apartment. Standing before the crowd of people gathered before the apartment, he gives an impassioned speech against the eviction. Brother Jack overhears his speech and offers him a position as a spokesman for the Brotherhood, a political organization that allegedly works to help the socially oppressed. After initially rejecting the offer, the narrator takes the job in order to pay Mary back for her hospitality. But the Brotherhood demands that the narrator take a new name, break with his past, and move to a new apartment. The narrator is inducted into the Brotherhood at a party at the Chthonian Hotel and is placed in charge of advancing the group's goals in Harlem.
After being trained in rhetoric by a white member of the group named Brother Hambro, the narrator goes to his assigned branch in Harlem, where he meets the handsome, intelligent black youth leader Tod Clifton. He also becomes familiar with the black nationalist leader Ras the Exhorter, who opposes the interracial Brotherhood and believes that black Americans should fight for their rights over and against all whites. The narrator delivers speeches and becomes a high-profile figure in the Brotherhood, and he enjoys his work. One day, however, he receives an anonymous note warning him to remember his place as a black man in the Brotherhood. Not long afterward, the black Brotherhood member Brother Wrestrum accuses the narrator of trying to use the Brotherhood to advance a selfish desire for personal distinction. While a committee of the Brotherhood investigates the charges, the organization moves the narrator to another post, as an advocate of women's rights. After giving a speech one evening, he is seduced by one of the white women at the gathering.
After a short time, the Brotherhood sends the narrator back to Harlem, where he discovers that Clifton has disappeared. Many other black members have left the group, as much of the Harlem community feels that the Brotherhood has betrayed their interests. The narrator finds Clifton on the street selling dancing "Sambo" dolls—dolls that invoke the stereotype of the lazy and obsequious slave. Clifton apparently does not have a permit to sell his wares on the street. White policemen accost him and, after a scuffle, shoot him dead as the narrator and others look on. On his own initiative, the narrator holds a funeral for Clifton and gives a speech in which he portrays his dead friend as a hero, galvanizing public sentiment in Clifton's favor. The Brotherhood is furious with him for staging the funeral without permission, and Jack harshly castigates him. Jack rants about the Brotherhood's ideological stance. The narrator accuses Jack of not understanding sacrifice. Jack removes a glass eye from one of his eye sockets. The narrator leaves shocked. The Brotherhood sends the narrator back to Brother Hambro to learn about the organization's new strategies in Harlem.
The narrator leaves feeling furious and anxious to gain revenge on Jack and the Brotherhood. He arrives in Harlem to find the neighborhood in ever-increasing agitation over race relations. Ras confronts him, deploring the Brotherhood's failure to draw on the momentum generated by Clifton's funeral. Ras sends his men to beat up the narrator, and the narrator is forced to disguise himself in dark glasses and a hat. In his dark glasses, many people on the streets mistake him for someone named Rinehart, who seems to be a pimp, bookie, lover, and reverend all at once. At last, the narrator goes to Brother Hambro's apartment, where Hambro tells him the Brotherhood has chosen not to emphasize Harlem and the black movement. He cynically declares that people are merely tools and the larger interests of the Brotherhood are more important than any individual. Recalling advice given to him by his grandfather, the narrator determines to undermine the Brotherhood by seeming to go along with them completely. He decides to flatter and seduce a woman close to one of the party leaders in order to obtain secret information about the group.
But the woman he chooses, Sybil, knows nothing about the Brotherhood and attempts to use the narrator to fulfill her fantasy of being raped by a black man. While still with Sybil in his apartment, the narrator receives a call asking him to come to Harlem quickly. The narrator hears the sound of breaking glass, and the line goes dead. He arrives in Harlem to find the neighborhood in the midst of a full-fledged riot, which he learns was incited by Ras. The narrator becomes involved in setting fire to a tenement building. Running from the scene of the crime, he encounters Ras, dressed as an African chieftain. Ras calls for the narrator to be lynched. The narrator flees, only to encounter men he initially thinks are policemen who want to know what's in his briefcase. In his attempt to evade them, the narrator falls down a manhole. The men mock him and pull the cover over the manhole.
The narrator says that he has stayed underground ever since; the end of his story is also the beginning. He states that he finally has realized that he must honor his individual complexity and remain true to his own identity without sacrificing his responsibility to the community. He says that he finally feels ready to emerge from underground.
Critic The New Republic said Ellison "is a master at catching the shape, flavor and sound of the common vagaries of human character and experience."[13] In The Paris Review, literary critic Harold Bloom referred to Invisible Man, along with Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, as "the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all."[14]
Nobel Prize in Literature, University of Chicago, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, John Updike
Nobel Prize in Literature, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow
Del Rey Books, Penguin Random House, United States, Bertelsmann, Pearson PLC
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Alice Walker, Blues, Booker T. Washington, Pulitzer Prize, African-American culture
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My rapidshare account comes to an end in a few days time and I shan't be renewing it because, along with most people it seems, I've found it increasingly frustrating and unworkable in numerous ways. What this means for you is the contents of the Downloads page, and links in other posts, are likely to disappear gradually. If they were an easy way to mirror the lot of them in one go I'd do it, but frankly I haven't the time or patience. Mind you I'm sure you'll be able to find most over at the John Peel Wiki perhaps or on one of the various sites listed in the margin.
Oh, john peel everyday is still up and running of course.
In all I don't think it's that big a deal. The lack of updates is due to poor health, as usual – yawn, but things on a less ambitious scale will appear at T.B.C. What with letting the domain slip, it's probably best to wrap things up now.
We had a few laughs though didn't we?
Caio. (";)
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text: ABX procedure project 2017-09-13 21:16:15 I'm on my quest to share the ABX comparator and knowledge to my fellow on audio forumsI'm an active on two ''audiophile'' forum and I' m planning to prepare a tutorial to use foobar2000 and the abx comparator.I know there's already a good procedure but I don't want to copy it without the owner's agreement.I know people will have to convert the music their own but I would also be able to provide files, like Ethan Winer provide on his web site. I have a couple of tests idea and I hope I could at least help a couple of forum users.I sent a facebook message to Ethan and A. Kruger to get help + a comment on archimago's publication, but as always with facebook the message are not seen.Someone here wants to help or we could organise ourselve to publish on a lot of forums at the same time? Last Edit: 2017-09-13 21:29:10 by patate91


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Note, if you wish to compile it yourself directly from our repo:
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git fetch origin --tags
git checkout 3.1.3
(that means, use something like this to make faster builds.)
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./configure --disable-debug CFLAGS="-O2 -gstabs -g -g3" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -gstabs -g -g3"
We are a very small team of volunteers, that have actual jobs, and unfortunately, time is short for all of these days, so we have to use our time as best we can, and the majority of that has been working on the next version of Warzone that will be released after the 3.x version.
This project has no paid members, and all donations go directly to our web hosting provider that supports these forums, our lobby server, our bug tracker, and also the addons site.
Special thanks to forum member kaikiai for making the mac builds!
We also would like to thank Berg & Terminator & montetank... for testing out the testing builds, and reporting issues they found!
We also would like to thank all the donors who have donated to the site's operating costs, without which, we wouldn't be here, and all the contributors who have helped make Warzone a better game with improved textures, models, mods and maps.
If you would like to make a donation to help with the ongoing server cost, (the only thing we use the funds on) please visit http://donations.wz2100.net
We are still looking for volunteers, be it helping with the Campaign conversions forum post and ticket #4234, or fixing bugs or if web design is your thing, or, helping out the AR team upgrade the graphics to the units, or if you want to help write some new campaigns, forum member Goth Zagog-Thou is working on that front, feel like testing things, then forum member crab's Warzone guide Database could use some heavy testing before that goes final, and if none of that interests you, I am sure you can find something creative for you to do.
We would again like to thank all the volunteers that try to make Warzone the best RTS it can be, and never forget, Strategy by Design!
Don't forget, if you play the campaign, we strongly encourage you do download the videos as well!
They tell more about the story, and have more information about some campaigns.
Get the campaign videos from here Campaign Videos
Please report all bugs to http://developer.wz2100.net/newticket, NOT ON THE FORUMS!
With that out of the way...
What is new in the 3.1.3 release?
Features & Changes:
- Config Dir - the config directory is now named after the version number and located inside the main 3.1 directory.
On Linux, for example, look in .warzone2100-3.1/3.1.3/
- Rank is no longer displayed.
We plan on revisiting this when the lobby supports registered players.
- Custom Backdrops - Custom backdrops and credit screens are now supported.
Backdrops are chosen randomly from files in the base/texpages/bdrops/ folder. File names start with 'backdrop' or 'credit' depending on their intended role. (backdrop*.png, credit*.png ). Image format is PNG.
- In Multiplayer, PING times are now only displayed to the host
- We have stomped a bunch of bugs and fixed some crashers.
- A number of problems were found and fixed thanks to static analysis tools


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In the past year, officers and deputies arrested 1,616 people who reported being homeless, according to data compiled by the Sheriff's Office.
His 15th arrest of the year occurred much like the ones before.
Kenneth Shelton was drinking a beer along Indiana Avenue in Englewood in September when he was picked up for trespassing, his usual charge.
Shelton, 72, is homeless. Perhaps more accurately, he is a part-time resident of the Sarasota County jail, where he spent 139 nights between September 2012 and September 2013.
Taxpayers paid $9,889.85 for his stays.
If he spent 139 days at a homeless shelter it would have cost $2,085 and Shelton would have received addiction and health services, says Bill Spitler, Sheriff's Office director of planning and research.
Whether you're an altruist or economist, Sarasota County leaders and law enforcement officials say building a homeless shelter makes sense. People who need services and lodging are being detained, and a shelter would save money.
That's the conclusion of a consultant hired to help the community address its homeless population, and elected officials appear to be in agreement. On Monday, consultant Robert Marbut will discuss his recommendations during several public meetings.
Every day, two or three people end up in the Sarasota County jail for crimes associated with living on the street, in cars or the woods: trespassing; drinking a beer on the street; public urination.
Every night they sleep in lockup costs taxpayers $71.15.
In the past year, officers and deputies arrested 1,616 people who reported being homeless, according to data compiled by the Sheriff's Office. Many of those are "frequent fliers" who have landed in jail several times.
About a quarter of the homeless people arrested account for more than 53 percent of the total homeless arrests, according to Spitler's data analysis.
Often people are arrested a second time because they couldn't pay court fines, thus violating their probation. Others suffer from addiction or mental health issues.
"We have effectively criminalized those social illnesses," Public Defender Larry Eger said.
His staff's energy would be better spent representing people who have committed crimes, Eger said.
"There's a lot of folks who come into the jail because we, as a society, find their behavior a nuisance and need to move them somewhere different than where they are at this moment and we use the criminal justice system to do that," said Wayne Applebee, the county's new homeless coordinator.
When the county decided to spend $500,000 in the 2014 budget to address homelessness and help fund a shelter, Commissioner Christine Robinson urged fellow commissioners and the city of Sarasota to allocate money. Robinson was a sharp critic of "overspending" in the county's budget but said the homeless shelter is a worthwhile investment that would cut down on jail costs.
"It has a direct economic impact on our budget," she said.
Deidre Galehouse was drunk and yelling outside an old acquaintance's home when she was arrested for trespassing in December 2011.
She was 24 and homeless. She said the arrest and ensuing jail time continued a downward spiral that she's still struggling to overcome.
She lost her driver's license and her job driving for a lawn maintenance company. She was in and out of jail five times over the next year, including arrests for disorderly intoxication, lodging outdoors and violating a restraining order.
Between jail stays, Galehouse said knew she was violating her probation because she couldn't afford the probation fines and required urine tests, but didn't know what to do.
"It's not like I ran or anything. I kept calling the probation officer. I just couldn't pay," Galehouse said.
She was arrested for the probation violation, and said she owes thousands of dollars in unpaid court fines. That's nothing compared with others.
One man, Willie, has been picked up for open-container violations so many times, "they call him the $100,000 man," said Tommy Boulas, Galehouse's partner.
Instead of ticketing or arresting someone for illegally sleeping or drinking outdoors, deputies could offer to take the person to a shelter, said Spitler. Case managers could help the person get the charge dismissed in exchange for community service.
Boulas said such a shelter would help the couple save money.
He looks for work wherever he can, and is often able to pay for a hotel room, but he can't scrape together enough for a first and last month's rent and a shot at greater stability.
On the nights that the couple cannot afford a hotel, they usually sleep by Sarasota Bay, in an open area where Boulas can see people coming.
"You have to sleep with one eye open," he said.
Police will drive up to them and lay on the horn, he said. They move on, trying to find a better place to catch a few hours' sleep.
To compound their troubles, Galehouse recently broke her ankle when she was biking and hit a curb. She wore a thick, camouflage-print cast — her third.
She constantly has to change them, when the casts get wet from rain and sleeping on the damp ground.
The couple took out a payment plan for the medical bills. They have no idea how they will pay.
In the fall of 2010, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri's office was struggling after budget cuts.
The office was short-staffed. Parts of the jail had to close, but the number of people staying there was creeping toward 3,500. Hundreds of people slept on the floor every night.
"It wasn't sustainable," Gualtieri said. "We had to do something to unclog the system."
A new jail would have cost $3.9 million a year to operate.
Instead, he opted to build a homeless shelter that costs $1.6 million a year.
When Pinellas Safe Harbor opened in January 2011, the sheriff quickly noticed a drop at the jail.
Now, the jail population hovers around 3,000. And while other factors contributed to the drop, Gualtieri estimates that if Safe Harbor closed, some 200 people would be right back in jail.
Sarasota County and city officials who toured Safe Harbor were quickly converted. Spitler said he went from a skeptic to asking, "Why haven't we been doing this?"
The shelter also houses adults who have no place else to go. By connecting people with services and housing early on, Gaultieri said, the system prevents future run-ins with law enforcement.
That preventive role has to be taken into account when Sarasota County looks at creating a shelter, he said.
Just looking at the number of homeless people arrested in Sarasota County for "nuisance" crimes, who would be eligible to go to the shelter, makes the potential population appear small, both the Sarasota and Pinellas County sheriffs said.
On average, 18 homeless people are arrested in Sarasota County every week for those low-level crimes, Spitler said. That's less than 2 percent of the jail's average population.
While 18 people a week may seem low initially, the number of people channeled into the system will steadily increase, said Robert Marbut, the homelessness consultant hired to help the city and county address the need.
Marbut previously consulted in Pinellas County and helped set up Safe Harbor, and urged Sarasota officials to use it as a model for their own facility.
When Sarasota Police Officer David Dubendorf arrests or gives a court summons to someone who is homeless, nine times out of 10 it's not the first time.
He prefers a summons, and tries to avoid taking people to jail for a violation like drinking on a curb.
Bringing them to jail takes an officer off the street for an hour, costs taxpayers more money and is usually ineffective, said Dubendorf, the police department's homeless liaison.
That mentality could contribute to the seemingly low number of homeless people arrested for minor crimes.
However, Dubendorf estimated 40 percent of the time the people he deals with don't show up to their court date and are arrested later for failure to appear.
In the past year, 18 percent of homeless arrests countywide occurred because someone had a warrant out, according to Sarasota County Sheriff's Office data. That warrant is often for failing to appear or pay court fines, Spitler said.
For some homeless people in the city, going to jail is a part of life.
"To them it's just a natural chain of events, to them it's just a circle," Dubendorf said. "It's not that big of a deal to go."
Boulas said that is true.
He once heard Willie — "the $100,000 man" — tell police: "Take me to jail, I want to watch TV."
But many people would be able to transition out of homelessness if they had the right system to help them make the leap, Boulas said.
Sarasota has made it comfortable for people to be homeless, he said, giving them unlimited food and many services. Instead, the county needs a shelter that will hold people accountable and help them save to get their own place, he said.
Dubendorf is not sold on the shelter idea.
"I like the cost differential," he said, but he also worries that if it's located close to downtown, people will just walk away after an officer drops them off — abandoning the shelter like it was a court date.
In the end, Dubendorf said, it doesn't matter how many services someone is offered. People just have to decide they don't want to be homeless any longer.


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Just yesterday, I was very happy with my life. Great job, great family, great friends, house ... But then something happened last night which completely changed my world. I was at a bar in West Hollywood where I got into a verbal argument with a blonde lady (she started it, I'm serious -- instead of saying 'excuse me', she just pushed me out of her way!). Now you know, two people at a bar, you know, tipsy, so an argument or two, not a big deal.But what was different about this situation was that one of the involved parties (me) had dark skin. Just as I was about to walk away from the scene, the lady whispered this in my ear: "Why don't you go back to your county? We don't need you here!" This was such a big reality slap on my face that I was in absolute shock for about 10 minutes. I can do the best in law school, get a job at a great law firm, drive a fancy car ... but in the end, some lady at a bar, who most likely hasn't even set foot in college, can make a racist comment and completely destroy my confidence. Well, to make the long story short, I, after a long time, faced such open racism and it has definitely affected the image I hold of myself. All I can say to this lady is, watch out! I'm an attorney and have so much to lose. But sooner or later, you are going to make a similar comment to a guy who is at your level (i.e. has nothing to lose) and he will not walk away from the scene. I guarantee it!Sweet Revenge--> On a happier note, I ran into this lady after the bar closed. She was getting into her, oh lets just say, "crap" mobile. I, along with my friend, laughed out lound and yelled, "hey, you may not need me, but you definitely need a new car." LOL.
What is an individual with darker skin like yourself doing at a bar in West Hollywood?
ya man, kudos on staying cool about her ignorance. There are people in this world that are just so ignorant that it makes ya want to stick your head in the deep fryer.... balls too...
strange that you would get that in LA. my wife is asian and some kids starting making fun of her (trying to pretend to speak "asian") as she waited for her food (at a CHINESE restaurant). needless to say, it totally upset her. i went back to look for the kids but they were already gone. my wife is totally against affirmative action, but to say racism doesn't exist anymore is pretty ignorant. in any event, sorry to hear it happened, but your thinking is in line. you have more than that lady will ever have. if anything, feel sorry for her and her close-mindedness.


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D-I-Y? The Dollar Stretcher by Gary Foreman email@example.com Dear Gary, We've got water on the basement floor which came from the gas water heater. We two ladies don't know what to do and whether we must have a plumber, which we can ill afford. We're willing to make adjustments or simple repairs and would surely appreciate some guidance.Thanks so much for whatever you can suggest. Dee Most homeowners have found themselves in Dee's position. As an avid do-it-yourselfer I can relate to Dee's dilemma. The trick is to get enough information to make a good decision before you spend a lot of time and money. Dee will want to begin by trying to find out what's causing the problem. In this case, what's the source of the leak. She could start by looking at the water heater and the floor. Where specifically does she see water? On the tank? Near the valve or drain? Is it all over the floor? Or limited to one area? After Dee has checked the 'crime scene' it's time to do some research. In most cases she'll need to learn more about the appliance that's broken. Begin with friends and neighbors who have some do-it-yourself experience. Generally they're willing to share because others have helped them in similar circumstances. Dee can also explore the library. Most will have some guides to home repair projects. Don't be put off by older sources. Many old troubleshooting techniques are still valid. Check the periodicals guide, too. Magazines like Popular Mechanics have regular home repair columns. Many will take you step-by-step from diagnosis through repair. If you have web access you might not even need to go to the library. For instance you'll find many resources online. Two of my favorites are www.PopularMechanics.com and www.RepairClinic.org . Both include a good library of home repair topics. In Dee's case it's probably one of three things. The drain or temperature and pressure (TP) valve could be leaking. It could be condensation on the outside of the tank. Or the tank itself has rusted through and is leaking. How did I know that? The search feature on PopularMechanics.com led me to an article on water heaters. All I had to do was enter "water heater leaks". Armed with the additional information Dee will be able to look at the symptoms with new understanding. She'll probably have enough information to guess what's causing the leak. Next, she'll need to determine what it takes to stop the leak. More research may be required. She wants to know how the specific repair is made. Once she has an idea of how to fix it, she'll need to decide if she's up it. How tough is the job? Has she done anything similar? Does she have the necessary tools? If not, can she borrow or must she buy them? If she runs into trouble is there a knowledgeable friend that could help bail her out? Don't forget to check how accessible the repair is. Many a do-it-yourselfer has taken apart three things to get to the one that really needs replacing! If Dee wants to attempt the repair she should make sure that she understands any physical dangers involved. Electrocution or scalding shouldn't be part of home repair! She'll also need to decide what would cause her to give up mid-project and call in a professional. Before beginning find sources for any needed parts. She doesn't want to find out too late that she can't get a replacement part. Often the same place that you'd call for a service person also sells parts. Dee will want to accumulate a few basic tools. She'll find that many simple home repairs only require common tools. If she faces a job that does require specialty tools, she might want to rethink tackling it herself. Special purpose tools are often expensive. They're also a warning sign of potential difficulty. Even if she goes to a professional at this point, she still is much more knowledgeable about the repair and less likely to be ripped off. Before she agrees to a service call, there's one more question to answer. Is the appliance worth repairing? RepairClinic.com suggests that if a repair is likely to cost more than 50% of an appliance that's more than 6 or 7 years old, it might be better to simply replace it. Obviously, that's a generality. But, it's certainly something to consider before you have a repair technician come out and pay for a service call. Can Dee repair her water heater? It probably depends on where the leak is coming from. But a little work before calling a plumber could help her make a dollar-wise decision. Gary Foreman is a former purchasing manager who currently edits The Dollar Stretcher website www.stretcher.com/save.htm You'll find hundreds of articles to help stretch your day and your dollar.
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Shooting is more than a valuable life skill. Of course its important from a strict defensive point of view but besides that there are two aspects you may want to keep in mind as well. First, shooting teaches responsibility and builds up character. There's no goofing around, no breaking the safety rules and no joking while shooting. We all understand how deadly serious it is (literally!) and it teaches kids how to handle such responsibility.
Second, and probably the best excuse no matter what ends up happening in life, shooting with Dad is without a doubt one of the fondest memories a kid will ever have. Going to the range you and Dad alone for that Father-Son time, the joy of hitting your target and that pat on your back after a particularly good shot leaves an impression in a person. I remember when I went shooting with my own father and now I'm taking my own son to the range. The main objective at least for now is shooting safely and having lots of fun. Groups tighten up on their own in due time.
When to Start
Every instructor has his age but I go more for responsibility rather than age. Last year at age seven, my son didn't pay as much attention as it would have been desired for safe gun handling. This year though at age eight he's clearly more mature and more responsible. I can trust him with certain jobs and assignments around the house that I didn't use to. I can leave a loaded gun by his side and trust that excitement won´t get the best of him, he won't be touching it unless I say so and he can follow orders. There's parents that take much younger kids shooting, kids that sometimes can't even hold the gun they are firing but the father feels good just by letting him pull the trigger. As I said before it's up to each one to tell how mature your child is. My simple advice here will be the following: If in doubt, just hold on for another year. There's no sense in rushing into this.
How to do it
Start with a 22LR. It has little blast and recoil and will work towards improving accuracy. Its cheap too! Shotgun? There are 410 shotguns that a child could use but I'd rather have the minimum blast of a 22LR. A carbine would be a wise choice but you can also use a handgun. The carbine has the advantage though of having a longer barrel that is easier to control by the overseeing adult. The handgun being smaller can be turned in the wrong direction in a fraction of a second so if you're using a handgun watch every single move your kid makes like an eagle.
My son likes a small Bersa 22 pistol which is nicely customized. The trigger is soft and the small gun fits his eight year old hand very well.
Start shooting at close range with the target just three or four yards away. I first placed it a bit further and the groups spread, anxiety grew and both of us were getting frustrated. Then I went with the closer approach and noticed much better general results. Of course he was shooting better at closer range, but the most important part was that he gained a lot of confidence and I noticed that his trigger control was much better. Even at such close range shooting the "X" off the target isn't easy for a kid, so its still a challenge. I had some hard Aguila ammo and in this gun 1 out of 10 would require a second strike. This proved to be an excellent opportunity to check his finger control. I was very pleased when I noticed that the gun didn't fire but he didn't move a millimeter when the hammer dropped. Perfectly still. You can't ask for much more. I placed a small bit of tape for him to aim at and soon we had a small quarter sized cluster of rounds all over it. This is exactly what you want.
As soon as he looked a bit tired we ended the session leaving him wanting for a quick trip back to the range. We then go to the gunclub's cafeteria for some hot chocolate and sandwiches and some talking on how great he did!
Take care folks!
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