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Courtesy of UMass-Dartmouth Sports Information Department
NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass.-Stephanie Kinchla scored twice in the second half to lead the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's field hockey team to a 4-2 victory over visiting MIT in a non-conference game Saturday.
Kinchla scored on the rebound of sophomore midfielder Kellie Finn's shot to give the Corsairs a 3-1 lead 3:37 into the second half. She drove home the rebound of a shot by senior forward Rebecca Stephens with 6:40 remaining to allow UMass Dartmouth to once again open up a two-goal lead.
Junior midfielder Kylie Treat gave the Corsairs a 1-0 lead when she converted a pass from sophomore Becca Festinger 5:05 into the game. Anna Teruya tied the score for MIT when she beat Corsair junior goalie Seana Golden on a penalty stroke 13 minutes later.
Sophomore midfielder Jenna Miedzionoski made it 2-1 when she converted Treat's pass four and a half minutes before the halftime intermission. Jessica Oleinik scored the other goal for the Engineers.
"It's a big victory," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Nicole Castonguay. "MIT is a very good team and they are very well-coached, and we knew that we would have to play well. It was good to see us make the necessary adjustments in the second half."
The Corsairs out shot MIT, 24-14. Golden made seven saves, while Engineer goalkeeper Keri Dixon made 12 stops.
UMass Dartmouth improved to 1-0 with the victory, while MIT fell to 0-3 with the defeat. The Corsairs will return to action when they visit Clark Tuesday evening, while the Engineers will visit Lasell Tuesday.


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Welcome to EC&M's monthly forum where power quality experts Mark McGranaghan, vice president of Electrotek Concepts, and Mike Lowenstein, president of Harmonics Limited, address your PQ problems and concerns. This month, editorial director John DeDad is pinch-hitting for Lowenstein.
Q. Can shielded isolation transformers provide power conditioning? Designers of electronic instrumentation and data processing systems have made recommendations for their installation, but I'm not sure about their effectiveness.
DeDad's answer. Shielded isolation transformers aren't true power-conditioning devices because they can't adjust their output voltage to compensate for sags or surges on the input line. Nor can they protect your system against voltage spikes of subcycle duration. To accomplish the latter, you would need to add surge suppressors to the system.
Instead, isolation transformers are "noise rejectors" — they provide good electrical noise isolation. Most of the noise currents that couple onto victim communications cabling are common-mode type. This noise can corrupt the communications signals sent by the equipment connected to the cable ends. In extreme cases, these noise currents can be disruptive enough to cause electrical damage, such as component burnout to circuit elements used at both ends of communications cables. The industry expresses achieved common-mode noise attenuation either as a ratio (Vti/Vto) or in decibels (dB) (Figure above and Table at right). Typical applications of isolation transformers include protecting critical loads, such as computers, electronic instrumentation, and data process peripherals, from electrical noise.
Isolation transformers can be designed with a 1:1 ratio, for isolation only, or to provide voltage transformation. While unshielded transformers use capacitance coupling between the primary and secondary windings, a shielded isolation transformer uses primary-to-shield capacitance. It also uses the shield-to-secondary capacitance resulting from the small electrostatic field around the shield. The primary-to-shield capacitance conducts most of the transient energy to ground so the effective capacitance between primary and secondary windings of a shielded isolation transformer is much less than that of an unshielded transformer.Q. Our machine shop is equipped with a number of computer-controlled machines. A high harmonic content (3rd and 5th harmonics) present on the building's incoming power supply is causing our machines to alarm out. The outside power supply, not the AC drives, is causing the problem. Can you suggest what we can do to address the problem on the 3-phase, 240V, open delta power supply?
McGranaghan's answer. It's unlikely that the harmonic problems you're experiencing are related to the fact that the supply is open delta. I've heard of some problems with open delta systems, but they're usually associated with very unbalanced load conditions. So let's discuss other possibilities for your harmonic problem.
You say the building's incoming supply has a high content of 3rd and 5th harmonics. I don't know if you're referring to voltage or current distortion, but you should consider a few things regardless.
Assuming you have an open delta supply, third harmonic components in your facility would have to be caused by unbalanced conditions. Delta connections on the transformer secondary (closed or open delta) prevent the flow of zero sequence harmonics from the primary system into your facility or from your facility onto the primary system. Balanced third harmonic components are zero sequence, so they shouldn't be showing up in the supply current. However, unbalanced third harmonic components aren't zero sequence and they can exist. As a matter of fact, if the voltage is unbalanced, adjustable speed drives (ASDs) can draw a significant amount of unbalanced third harmonic current from the system. If you measure it, you'll see that it's not in all the phases. It's possible that the open delta connection is contributing to unbalances in the voltage, which in turn leads to the third harmonic components in your load current.
The fifth harmonic is more common and could be coming from your own AC drives or from the supply system because it goes right through the open delta transformer connection. The fifth harmonic component of the voltage is usually the highest component for most supply systems, but it should be less than 3%, according to IEEE Standard 519-1992. If the fifth harmonic voltage on the supply to your facility (primary of the transformer) is greater than 3%, then it's an issue you should bring up with your utility.
Your facility is more likely interacting with the supply system to cause the high harmonic components. For instance, if you have any power factor correction equipment on the low-voltage system, it could easily magnify harmonic components from your own equipment and from the supply system. This would result in high-voltage distortion on your low-voltage system and thus cause the harmonic problems you're experiencing.
Consider installing a tuned capacitor bank (tuned to about 4.7X the fundamental) that can supply both power factor correction and prevent resonance problems. This would help solve the problem, regardless of whether you currently have power factor correction equipment installed on your system.Q. I've seen references to the term "decibel" in electrical measurements. In this context, what is a decibel and how is it calculated?
DeDad's Answer: The decibel (dB) is used several ways in electrical measurements. For example, it describes the magnitude of signal lost over a transport path, such as a coaxial cable or similar metallic path, or the gain of an amplifier.
A dB is expressed in relation to the electrical units to which it's being used. For example, dBV and dBmV represent decibels expressed in terms of volts and millivolts, respectively. Similarly, dBA and dBmA represent decibels expressed in terms of amperes and milliamperes. Prefixing dB with a minus sign (-) means loss while no sign or a positive sign (+) means gain.
The equation for calculating dB gain (+dB) or loss (-dB) for any set of two voltages on a path of equal impedance is expressed as:
dB=20log (E1÷E2).
Solving this equation isn't difficult if you have a calculator with a LOG key. Compute the ratio of the input to output voltage (E1÷E2), press the log key, and then multiply the result by 20. This will give you the result in terms of -dB or +dB, depending upon whether the signal was lost or added to in the circuit.
Power calculations, on the other hand require you to use a factor of 10 instead of 20. The power equation for computing dB in a circuit of the same impedance is expressed as:
If you need a shortcut, you can use the Table at right as a quick reference. These dB values were calculated using the equations based on varying ratios of power and voltage/current.
There are also some important dB relationships worth memorizing to quickly estimate a value:
Doubling or halving of voltage or current is a ±6 dB change.
A numerical ratio of voltage or current of: 10=20 dB; 100=40 dB; 1,000=60 dB; and so on.
Doubling or halving of power is a ±3 dB change.
A numerical ratio of power of: 2=3 dB; 4=6 dB; 10=10 dB; and so on.
One benefit of dB notation is that you only need to add or subtract arithmetically the gains and losses in any given circuit to find the final value of gain or loss. Then with a little algebra or using the ANTILOG key (10X) on your calculator, you can find the voltage, current, or power ratio from the resulting answer.

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A pork chop by any other name tastes just as juicy and delicious--and now has a new identity in the meat case. In an effort to make both pork and beef more consumer-friendly, new names such as porterhouse pork chops will help retailers differentiate and merchandise pork cuts more effectively, according to the National Pork Board.
The National Pork Board and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association collaborated on in-depth research over an 18-month period before implementing the renaming process. The research showed consumers are often confused by the different names for similar cuts of meat. Consumers also don't know how to cook the variety of cuts in the meat case. The new naming scheme is designed to simplify pork cut names in order to help consumers identify the proper usage and preparation guidelines.
Several cuts of pork will now match the names for similar cuts of beef. Look for new pork names such as the pork porterhouse chop (previously a loin chop), pork ribeye chop (previously a rib chop), pork New York chop (previously a top loin chop). The National Pork Board's Patrick Fleming, director of retail marketing, says research shows consumers buy cuts they are familiar with. "Now, once they get their New York chop or ribeye chop home, they can grill it in the way they're familiar with, too."
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Joseph Cordray, professor of animal science and the director of the Iowa State University Meat Laboratory, says the new labeling system is going to be beneficial to the meat industry. "It's a win-win," he says. "It's positive for producers and processors because they can do a better job of marketing their products, and consumers have a better understanding of what they're purchasing."
At first I was a little bit skeptical. Were consumers really that confused? Is it a good idea to name beef and pork cuts in such a similar fashion? Won't there be the potential for some brand/species confusion? My first job out of college was information specialist with the National Live Stock and Meat Board, which was devoted to the promotion of beef, pork, lamb, veal and processed meats. That organization was dissolved due to commodity group concerns about spending checkoff dollars to jointly promote "competing" meats. Apparently we no longer worry about that sort of thing.
Admittedly, there has been a lot of media "buzz" and attention surrounding this new naming system. Conveniently, this attention is coming just in time for grilling season! I guess time will tell whether or not this was a good decision for pork promotion. The porkbeinspired.com Web site is prominently featuring information about the new names, along with the ever-popular recipe section. Everyone from major network news stations to USA Today has carried a prominently featured story, which promotes meat!
What do you think about the new meat names? Share your thoughts in the Comments section, or email firstname.lastname@example.com. In the meantime, fire up the grill!
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Parents have strong opinions about the Abercrombie and Fitch's padded bikini top. We received plenty of comments on Facebook and through e-mails about our column on the subject, and even though Abercrombie has pulled back on the marketing campaign, readers still have some pretty strong feelings about it.
Liz said, "That is horrifying! I will never put that on my daughter! Ever!"
"I do have only boys. But must say that it is bad enough that teen girls are dressing too slutty as it is and to promote this at that young age is ridiculous!" said Judy. "I don't approve of the boys with their boxers showing either and thank God that my boys aren't fans of that idiotic look."
Kim said, "Really, what is the point? It's like what those pageant parents do to their toddlers with the make-up, high heels and big hair. It's so not for little girls. Let them be kids!"
"Says more about the parent than the child," wrote Mark.
"Would you put a 9-year-old boy in padded swim shorts?" asked Mary. "Don't think so. This is so wrong."
"We have walked into Abercrombie & Fitch a few times," said Phaedra. "I've noticed things like necklines that seem too deep for a tween, and shorts that are entirely too short. At 37 I struggle with my self image. And it's my goal that my daughter likes herself as is. "
Some readers thought a little padding never hurt anyone.
"This is a liner—I don't think it's meant to make you look busty," said Joe. "I don't think it's such a bad thing to have a little liner in there so when kids get cold, they don't worry about showing that to the world. I have two girls, and they get self-conscious."
"Premature puberty is not Abercrombie's fault," added Gina. "Maybe we should examine the motives that drive marketing and clean up our own acts and not blame the retailers for studying us!"
"They have those suits already at Target," said Carol. "The liners pop out in the wash and they are so annoying."


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25 Delicious Things I Saw (and Sometimes Ate) at the Minnesota State Fair
I love the Minnesota State Fair. I get this kind of childlike giddiness when I think about it: the animal barns, the concerts, the people-watching, and of course the crazy yet somehow delicious fried food served on a stick. This year when I went home to fulfill my annual fair destiny, I went with a large group and we tried everything and anything that crossed our path.
An incredible 236,197 people showed up for the fair on Sunday due to the cool weather — a Sunday attendance record. Although the lines were longer than normal (I waited almost an hour for Sweet Martha's cookies), it was worth the struggle.
Within 10 minutes of getting to the fair I had already downed an entire thing of cheese curds. Yes, some might say it's gluttonous, but then these fried bundles of joy are reason alone to visit the fair.
Arguably the best thing I had that day was the fried green tomatoes. We scarfed these sweet/salty gems down and then ordered seconds immediately.
Did you visit your state fair this year? Eat anything crazy or incredible (ideally both)?
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Harold Reed McKee
Harold Reed McKee
April 18, 1916-Feb. 23, 2013
ELKHART — Harold Reed McKee, 96, of Elkhart, died at 9:10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 at Elkhart General Hospital.
Harold was born April 18, 1916 in Bruce Lake Station to Reed and Josephine (Stark) McKee. He married Estella Mae Shirar on Nov. 23, 1946. She passed away July 4, 2000. He then married Carolyn Shultz on March 20, 2009. She survives along with his daughter, Lynne (Kent) Gwin of Elkhart; his son, Philip (Janet) McKee of Bend, Ore.; grandchildren, Dawn Bushnell and Alden (Christy) Bushnell; great-grandsons, Scott, Elliott, and Reid Bushnell; sister, Margaret Cook of Plymouth; brother, Robert (Marianne) McKee of Boston, Ky. He was preceded in death by brothers, Forest, Charles and Wayne McKee.
Harold was honorably discharged as 1st Lt. of the United States Army, serving in New Guinea during WWII. He was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Elkhart. Harold served many years on the Elkhart Library board of directors and on the City Beautification Development with the Chamber of Commerce. He was a former member of the Kiwanis and was active with the Boy Scouts.
A private family gathering will be held at a later date. Hartzler-Gutermuth-Inman Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Online condolences may be sent at www.hartzlergutermuthinman.com.
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New Stem Cell Techniques Could Reverse Infertility
Producing a family is one of the most basic urges and families that have trouble with fertility can face plenty of issues. Being told you're infertile is a shocking blow to young families but scientists and researchers are doing more to reverse these issues every day, and the answer to a major type of infertility might come in stem cells.
The new technique is something out of science fiction, but researchers have already found success in trials dealing with mice. Some men simply don't produce enough sperm to property fertilize an egg, but the new cell therapy could use skin cells as the new frontier in fertility medicine.
A normal male body contains two chromosomes, an X, and a Y. However, 1 in 500 men suffers from Klinefelter Syndrome, a condition which causes the man to produce an extra X chromosome and 1 in 1000 men suffer from double Y syndrome. In cases where the man has three chromosomes, it is difficult to produce viable sperm for reproduction.
Luckily for tens of thousands of men, James Turner of the Francis Krick Institute may have found a solution for men with three chromosomes and the fertility issues that those conditions cause. In the study, Turner and his team bred mice that had an extra chromosome, they then reprogrammed skin cells from the animals and transformed those cells into induced pluripotent stem cells. To the team's surprise, the reprogramming was enough for a third of the skin cells to drop the extra chromosome. These reprogrammed cells were then reprogrammed to act like sperm cells and were used for a nearly 60% successful fertility rate.
The early results are positive, though the team still needs to perfect what has made stem cell research so difficult reproducing stem cells in culture. What we really need to make this work is being able to go from iPS cells to sperm in a dish, says Turner.
Other Progress in Stem Cell Research
The work of Turner and his team illustrates that stem cells may be much more versatile than previously thought and other research teams across the globe are finding new uses for stem cells as we speak. Recently, Dr. Kenneth Pettine of link Northern Colorado completed a three-year study which found safe and effective use of stem cells to treat chronic degenerative conditions like osteoarthritis. The work of teams like Turners, Pettines, and more will bridge us into an age of medicine led by stem cells that could eliminate and eradicate several types of medical issues.


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VENICE, Fla., Jan. 28, 2008 – With the launch of a new vinyl line offering unmatched benefits from design detail to service and delivery, PGT is once again proving that it is Visibly Better®.
PGT, one of the nation's leading manufacturers of custom windows and doors, will unveil Vinyl Series 2100 at the 2008 International Builders' Show® (IBS) in Orlando from Feb 13-16. Additionally, PGT will showcase several of its latest products: ETERNATM, a replicated woodgrain finish; PGT® WinGuard® Sliding Glass Corner Meet Door, which will be displayed with ETERNA Finish; and Architectural Systems, a line of commercial products engineered for high design pressures.
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PGT promises delivery of 2100 Series complete and on-time in one week, and backs the line with one of the best warranties in the industry--a lifetime warranty on the frame, insulating glass components and hardware. Products are available in white or beige and meet AAMA, NFRC, FBC certifications.
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Made with strong, weather-resistant aluminum frames, this uniquely configured sliding glass door is ideal for projects where withstanding the elements and opening up a home to spectacular views are both priorities. Builders will welcome the opportunity to create a signature look for their homes with this product, which is not widely available in the industry. Available with two, three or four tracks, WinGuard sliding glass door Series 780 is also available as a bypass or pocket door. It comes standard with corrosion-resistant hardware and fasteners, and fully weatherstripped construction. Maximum reinforced corner door panel size is 4' x 10.' Choose white, bronze or gray. The corner meet option is also available on PGT Series 680 aluminum sliding glass doors.
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- What I Love About My Small Home:
- I love that it's just one open space. It's very easy to try different layouts anytime! South-east orientation and the height of the windows are definitely pluses. Another nice feature is that the building is a renovated old bakery warehouse where some details are kept as the original. And finally, the two steel columns (see picture 3) are my favorite elements of the house.
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- The biggest challenge was to bring a nice and affordable sofa to the third floor of an old building with a very narrow staircase. The solution was a cheap inflatable couch which is quite comfortable, and can also become a guest bed.


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Nathan Wilkins pleads no contest
Police: Man fakes his death to avoid sex charge
Nathan Wilkins pleads no contest
PANAMA CITY, Fla. —
A Georgia man who officials say faked his own death to avoid prosecution on sex charges in Florida, has pleaded no contest in the Florida case.
Nathan Wilkins, 19, pleaded no contest Thursday to charges that he traveled to Panama City with the intent of meeting an 11-year-old child for sex.
Wilkins was arrested in a sting operation by investigators who placed phony child sex advertisements on the Internet and arrested those who responded.
Wilkins was out on bond when a Georgia fisherman found a supposed suicide note and Wilkins' clothing on the banks of a river.
He was found three days later in Colorado. Authorities say he had attempted to fake his death to avoid prosecution.


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Friends, I have a confession to make. For about 2 months, I had in my possession an automobile.
Here, let me return your jaw to you from it's place on the floor.
I did not own this car, it was on loan to me from some friends who were traveling overseas. Spouse and I had a few car-intensive errands to run while we did some renovations to our house, so it seemed like a good idea to have the car around. Plus, our friends needed to park their car somewhere, and in Providence, you just can't leave your car on the street overnight. In the two months we had it, we drove about 1,000 miles. There were home improvement errands, day trips, a trip to the beach, and one overnight trip to upstate New York that made up the plurality of the miles.
About a week before my friends were due to return and reclaim their car, I decided to make a stock-up run to Trader Joe's – about 10 miles from home. Because I am a car-free smugmonger, I left the car in the driveway and took my bike. Some other friends had recently offered me the use of their bike trailer and I wanted an excuse to try it out. So I hooked up the trailer to my city bike and headed out.
Riding with the trailer was a little easier than I expected. At times, I felt like I was flying down the Washington Secondary Bike Path. I stopped for a while to help out somebody with a flat tire. He wasn't quite sure how to use the patch kit, something I didn't really know how to do until about 2 years ago, so I was happy to lend some assistance. Besides, is there anything that can make you feel more smug than being the Good Samaritan?
To get to the Target, I have to ride on a wide, fast suburban road for about a mile. It's never fun, and I thought it would be worse when pulling the trailer. However, I didn't realize that cars would give me more room and not hassle me when I'm pulling a trailer – probably because they think there's a kid back there. When I pulled into the Target lot, I saw this:
A $20 bill stuck in a bush! What great luck! I figured it was a little Karmic reward for my Good Samaritanism (to mix religious metaphors). This resulted in a general feeling of increased smugness. Next, however…
The bike rack was blocked by a big construction fence! I was slightly angry, but I was riding on such a wave of smugness that I didn't really mind so much.
I bought a basketball at the Target, thus using up my $20 bill.
Next stop was Target, which still lacks for a bike rack, as does the EMS next door which actually sells bikes. I felt smug as I locked up to whatever this thing is:
A little more navigation of the big 4-Lane road, and I was back on the bike path. I was definitely moving slower than when the trailer was empty, but it was still easy to pull. Around the Point Street bridge, I passed the stragglers of the Rhode Island 70.3 Triathlon. Evidently a portion of the running course went up Olney Street this year. That's just mean.
After recovering at home for a bit, I decided to test out my basketball. I pumped it up a little, then took a few shots. The first was a brick, not surprisingly since I hadn't taken a shot in at least a decade. Soon, however I was landing a few bank shots and even a swish or two. Unfortunately, my basketball net has seen better days. Being stuck outside for years, it's shrunk at the bottom so the ball will not go through. So, every time I made a shot, I had to jump up and punch out the ball. After making a few close ones, I backed up for a 15 footer. I missed, and the ball headed towards my friends' car. It bounced once on the pavement and then landed on the windshield – and cracked it.
That's one way to get rid of a day's worth of accumulated smugness!
Speaking of accumulated smugness, the dedicated reader(s) of this blog may have noticed that I have not included a check-in on the SmugCalc in a while. This was a spreadsheet I started at the one-year anniversary of being car-free. I used this spreadsheet to track all of the miles I traveled using various forms of transportation (except for planes, that's where I cheated). I was able to keep going with it for months, even tracking my miles after I broke my collarbone and could not ride my bike for a while (I was racking up transit smugness points instead). Finally, however, it just got boring tracking the miles on the bus. But now I'm back. Starting today, the SmugCalc is in full force. It's not quite my Carfreeniversary, but August 1 makes for a nice round starting date. I'm at 5.5 SmugMiles so far.
And also speaking of accumulated smugness, the ladies at Let's Go Ride A Bike are holding their 2nd annual LGRAB Summer Games. I have to do 4 of the following 10 items and blog about them:
- on vacation? rent a bike and go for a ride!
- write a letter advocating for bicycling infrastructure (bike lanes, bike rack, etc) to your alderman/council representative, mayor, or a local business.
- take a picture of something along your commute that says "summer" to you, and explain why
- commute to work by bike or bike/transit if you don't already
- perform a maintenance task on your bike
- explore a greenway or bike path in your city that you haven't previously visited
- test ride a different type of bike than you normally ride (road bike, mountain bike, etc.)
- read a book about cycling
- ride your bike somewhere new in your city
- go on a group ride
These things have to be done between July 21 and August 8. I'm late to the game, but there's still time for me to slay it! * So even though this post may be titled "The End of Smugness", this is really just a renewal of smugness.
* by "slay it" I mean complete 4 tasks, blog about them, then get entered in a random drawing to win some prizes.


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Whether you're cashing in on an investment property or moving into a new home yourself, selling real estate is a big decision. Here are our top recommended rules to make the process go as smoothly and easily as possible.
Take a moment to think about what the house looks like from the outside. Is there room for a potential buyer to park their car? If not, perhaps you could move your own car in order to enable a hassle-free arrival for viewers. Are any repairs required; even minor ones, such as replacing cracked tiles or arranging a fresh coat of paint for the front door? Objectively document your property's shabbier aspects, then hire a gardener or handymen to instate improvements as needed.
Think of yourself as a host
Potential buyers should be welcomed as guests when they come to view your home. You could put out some chilled bottles of water, if it's a hot day, or brew a pot of fresh coffee during the winter. Baking some cookies beforehand not only means you have refreshments to offer, but will also fill the house with a decidedly homely scent. Welcome viewers warmly, then take a step back and allow them to explore the property independently.
Spring clean
Even the most spotless home benefits from a little extra attention before a viewing. Ask your housekeepers to concentrate on the places guests wouldn't normally see, such as the inside of kitchen cupboards or bedroom wardrobes. Potential buyers will want to check storage space, so it's important not to overlook these areas. You could also consider booking a window cleaner before starting to show your house. Newly cleaned windows not only create a good external first impression, but will also let more natural light into your property.
De-personalise the house
Removing your own family photographs and personal possessions will make it easier for viewers to envision their own possessions in your property. As far as possible, try to make each room a blank canvas that viewers can paint with their own tastes. Prevent these spaces from looking bare with strategically placed vases of fresh flowers or scented candles.
Provide documents
Gather together any relevant paperwork a potential buyer might like to see and put together a comprehensive pack for them to peruse while on-site. Examples might include the home inspection report, appraisals and any manuals for high-tech appliances or integrated systems, such as cinema rooms and smart home technology.
Hire a broker
There's a reason why 70-80% of homeowners use the services of a broker when buying or selling a home. Not only can brokers help you price your property accurately, but they also save you time by taking responsibility for arranging viewings, organising marketing materials and negotiating offers from buyers. Additionally, brokers have the relevant expertise to guide you through real estate procedures, contracts and legal jargon, while also offering advice on financial services and conveyancing.
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Runway, Your Way: Fashion-Inspired Spring Colors for your Home
It's just getting to that part of the winter where you start to be really, really anxious for spring. After a season of greys, I'm ready for a little color, so I turned to the fashion world for inspiration.
Last fall, Refinery29 identified 10 hot new color trends from the Spring runways. Apartment Therapy has some ideas for how to bring these bright new colors from the runway into your home.
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9. French by Design
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With the sleekly trashy misfire "Passion," Brian De Palma turns his gift for artfully decadent imitation into a kind of regrettably soulless greatest-hits packaging. Frenchman Alain Corneau's venal 2010 thriller "Love Crime" is the skeleton, its story only slightly reworked by the man behind "Dressed to Kill." It's now Rachel McAdams as the cold-blooded corporate executive with manipulative boardroom and bedroom designs on her seemingly mousy creative underling, played here by Noomi Rapace.
McAdams and Rapace are gesturally awkward and wildly miscast — more sorority sisters in a spat than cross-generational power antagonists like the original's Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier. But De Palma never intended anything but his deliberate style to be the ultimate star. As the leads warily dance around each other — using a boyfriend pawn (Paul Anderson) and concerned assistant (Karoline Herfurth) as needed — and the gamesmanship takes a deadly turn, De Palma unloads his bag of tricks: creeping zooms, split screens, subjective-camera trickery, shocking violence and a drawn-out rug-pull ending willed to operatic heights by a Pino Donaggio score.
But after the clinically dull first half, it's more desperate pantry raid than feast. That these suspense tools have given so much perverse pleasure in De Palma movies past make their only marginally enjoyable use here even more dispiriting. "Passion" will only rekindle your love affair with De Palma to the extent that his luridly artisan chiller classics are readily available afterward for another viewing.


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Thursday is Overrun with All-Ages Shows—Get out of the house, already! There's a full night of under-21 music starting at Sol Arts (712 Central SE, 244-0049) where We Were Born as Ghosts will release their brand-spankin'-new EP, titled Winter. The Overnight and Southpaw round out a progressive indie rock-type lineup. Cover is $5 and doors open at 7 p.m. Next up, five-piece rez rockers Pueblo Revolt are playing the Blue Dragon between 8 and 10 p.m. Admission is ... free? I don't know, don't quote me on that. Then there's the My Bloody Valentine Party at Pulse at 9 p.m., where gothic/industrial kids of at least 18 years can explode into a giggling matrix of post-Valentine's dance fever. Renowned musician, animator, writer and toy designer Voltaire will headline, with local two-man electric riot Vertigo Venus opening. Tickets are $10 at the door, which also qualifies you for a ton of Voltaire goodies valued at over $100.
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"An insect who dreamt he was a man, and loved it."
"But, now the dream is over, and the insect is awake." Featuring the magnificent two-man Swearing at Motorists (who released their latest album, Last Night Becomes This Morning, just last week), plus The Oktober People, Lousy Robot and Chris McFarland. Friday, Feb. 17, at Atomic Cantina (21-and-over). Free! (LM)
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Just in time for Father's Day, OPPO has released another upconverting DVD player. The DV-983H produces even better details, color, and a picture closer to HD. Hook it up to your HDTV and turn standard DVDs into high-def 1080p. The player can also convert PAL to NTSC and is multi-level zoom capable. And for those music videos, the DV offers 7.1 channel audio with Dolby Digital Surround EX. Your dad will probably hand you the keys to his vacation home if you present him with this as a gift at a price of $399.99, which can be purchased online at the OPPO store.
By the way, we got a look at the OPPO 980H PL unit and were incredibly impressed with it and all its features. However, if you do not have an HDTV it will not upconvert your standard DVDs.
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Wesley Chapel Orthodontics
Younger dentist wanting to promote modern feel for new office. Orthodontics is braces (teeth straightening) only.
Entire local community, especially moms. Create a "hip, modern" feel
I do not want to create an external logo, just want to to something fun with the "Wesley Chapel Orthodontics" wording. Most dental logos end up fairly meaningless. So the idea is to keep it simple yet creative. I like modern/retro fonts like Harry Pro, I like Harry Pro Heavy. You can experiment with others but I'd like something similar. I was thinking of using all lower case lettering. Experiment with different framing, I like logos that are framed (by an oval or some unique shape) such that there is a background color and it "sticks out" a bit. I'd like to use a blue as the base color, I like the blues that tend toward violet, a "web 2.0 blue". I can see a great logo of blue, black and white. Can also experiment with complimentary and/or other colors. Had an idea to not have a space in between "wesley" and "chapel" but distinguish them by shade or color, might look neat. Have at it, need this to be quick and creative! Thanks
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Does anybody really know what time it is ?
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somebody else that has a different time showing on their computer,...
It is morning here, the sun is just now coming up. But on the "other side", it is evening, and the sun is going down,
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Downtown, San Diego Travel Guide
Downtown San Diego Summary
- Beautiful weather (average daily temperature is 70 degrees)
- Culturally diverse
- Great nightlife in the Gaslamp Quarter and East Village
- Home to the San Diego Convention Center and San Diego Concourse
- Excellent restaurants
- Seaport Village, Maritime Museum and a marina
- Necessary to drive to many popular sites
- Vagrancy in some areas
- Expensive parking
What It's Like
Downtown San Siego is the city's business and cultural center. It's known for great ethnic dining, corporate offices, shopping, and excellent nightlife. It includes a number of smaller neighborhoods, such as Little Italy and the East Village, and is home to many of San Diego's top destinations, like the harbor, Petco Park, San Diego Convention Center, and Maritime Museum.
Where to Stay
Downtown's San Diego's most popular neighborhoods are the Gaslamp Quarter and Marina; they're so popular, in fact, that we dedicated separate guides just to them. Core-Columbia shares borders with both of these neighborhoods, so it's a convenient, and sometimes less expensive, alternative. The East Village, Downtown's warehouse district, offers easy access to art galleries, bars, restaurants, and the San Diego Padres' Petco Park. Little Italy has authentic Italian food, cool public art, and a location near the San Diego International Airport and San Diego Zoo.


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Changes are ahead for the Hood River Valley High School swim team. But no one is afraid.
Everyone, including second-year head coach Jane Nichols, is excited about the upcoming season. And despite the graduations of a number of top performers, the Eagles appear to be paddling along rather nicely.
"It's weird to think that I am already one of the guys that the younger swimmers look up to," said junor Adam Brown, who was voted team captain last week.
"It seems like only yesterday that I was in awe, watching Oliver Burton, Erik Hidle and Cody MacMillan win every race. But this year is different, and we're all looking forward to it."
Joining Brown as the new team leaders for the boys team are juniors Louis DeSitter and Jeremy Fogle, as well as senior Henry Burton — a two-time state qualifier who is shooting for a top eight state finish this year.
Senior newcomers David Chance and Chris Perry will also be asked to shoulder some of the leadership responsibilities for the 12-man team. Sophomore returnees Tyler White and Tanner Hall may also have incresased roles along with juniors Spencer Johnisee and David Voigt.
"We may not be as strong individually as we were last year," Nichols said, "but I think we're a very strong team overall. Having kids like David, Chris and Zed (Debbaut) walk on was a huge boost for the team, and all three should help us in many ways."
Meanwhile, on the girls team, the varsity core hasn't been disrupted from last year, giving Nichols plenty to look forward to.
"They were such a young team last year, and I think that experience will help the girls this year," she said. "Our numbers are also way up, which makes it easier to fill events at every meet."
Two-year varsity veteran Elsie Denton is the lone senior on the team, but a handful of other swimmers — including Kelsey Hale, Ariel MacMillan and Nicole Shames — also carry with them some big meet experience.
Kendra Mohar, Elizabeth Cobarrubius and Danielle Mellow are the other returning members of last year's team, while a core of nine freshmen will try to build experience early on.
"The best thing about this year is that we've grown," said Hale, a junior butterfly specialist. "There are a lot of new faces, which is a good sign for the future."
At least one of the team's newcomers will be asked to fill varsity events (Fatima Valle). But Nichols wants to focus on getting the younger swimmers ready for next year and beyond.
"It's going to take me a few meets to see where we are at," she said. "We started out this year with a little harder practices, so I'm hoping that will pay off as the season progresses. Conditioning is always a factor, and I would like us to start peaking when district rolls around."
Nichols said most of the varsity events would be filled by her returning swimmers, but there will also be a chance for the freshman group to prove itself.
Nickayla Benway, Margaret Phelan, Daniela Huizar, Rose Saunders, Sara DeSitter, Allysa Johnisee, Amanda Butler, Sarah Lee and Valle will all be looking to impress coach Nichols.
But, more importantly, they will be looking to gain valuable meet experience so that they can guide the team when they reach their junior and senior years.
"Watch out for these young swimmers," Nichols said. "They are really working hard and showing that they want to compete. And a lot of them are starting to try new strokes, which will only help them in the long run."
So with so many new faces, what can a team like HRV expect to do at the district meet?
"Now that all of last year's leaders are gone, we are really going to have to compete hard every meet," Brown said. "We can't count on those guys earning us a bunch of points anymore, and that's going to be an adjustment for us."
Brown, who served as an alternate on last year's state-qualifying medley relay team, said he hopes to reach state in the 100 freestyle this year. And even if he has to wait one more year, he plans to be a factor at the district meet.
"A realistic goal for me would be top three at district," he said. "I really surprised myself last year by dropping 5 seconds. A lot of the credit goes to Jane for pushing me. But now it's up to me to improve again this year."
Also hoping to use the 2003-04 season as a springboard is Burton, who placed 10th in the 100 fly at the 2003 state meet. He said his goal is to reach the "big finals" (top eight) in 2004, and to help him get there, he has put in a ton of extra time with the Hillsboro Swim Club.
"Henry is so focused, and with one more year of maturity, I think he can go as far as he wants to," Nichols said.
Individual state hopefuls for the girls team are Hale (100 fly) and MacMillan (200 IM, 100 breast), while the "A" relay team of Shames, Denton, Hale and MacMillan also hopes to make a splash at the district meet.
"Our relay team is all the same, so that should help a lot," Hale said. "But I really want to go to state this year in the fly, so that's what I'm going to shoot for."
Hale already improved on her 2003 district time at Tuesday's first meet against Reynolds. Other girls posting big improvements over last year were Denton (500 free), Valle (200 IM, 100 back), and Mohar (200 free).
Boys team improvements were turned in by Fogle (50 free, 100 free), Hall (50 free), Johnisee (100 breast), White (50 free), Burton (100 free) and Voigt (100 free).
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(Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan's cause for canonization has been opened by Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha. This article highlights Father Flanagan's place in the history of juvenile justice in the United States and his first efforts toward the establishment of juvenile courts for youths in trouble.)
Father Edward Flanagan, together with Judge Benjamin Lindsey1 of Denver almost single-handedly created the Juvenile Justice System of the United States, and their example was copied far and wide in other countries like Germany, Italy and even Great Britain.
Father Flanagan's experience had come from his work with homeless boys on the streets of Omaha, which culminated in the founding of his first home for boys on 25th and Dodge Streets in Omaha. But it was only when his pioneer efforts at establishing a home for boys culminated in his move outside the city that his experience went way beyond Omaha, as he traveled with his boys throughout the Midwest and as far as New York and California.2
His first work was setting up a hotel for farm and harvest workers who were out of work because of a drought that had struck the Midwest in 1913.3 In 1914, these harvest workers returned to their jobs and his hotel became a refuge for men off the streets, who only wanted a free meal and a place for night.
Father Flanagan housed as many as 500 men a night. Concerned about their welfare, he made a survey of 2,000 of them and concluded that he was working at the wrong end of their lives."4
Father turned his attention to boys on the streets after a nine-year old wandered into his hotel needing a place to stay. He became aware of boys on the streets of Omaha who got in trouble, were brought up before the courts and sentenced to the state reformatory at Kearney.
He spent time in the courts5 talking to judges, and he convinced them to parole a number of boys to his care. He met with them weekly, found a coach to occupy their time with sports and other activities, and then closed down his hotel for men and started his first home for boys.
In 1913, when Father Flanagan came to Omaha, the city was the gateway to the West. For over half a century, pioneers, Indian scouts, gold seekers, cattlemen and wave after wave of immigrants passed through the city, on wagons trains across the prairies or up the Missouri River from St. Louis, and then, as the railroad lines were laid, on the trains of the Union Pacific westward to California and Oregon.
In 1913, when he arrived at St. Patrick's Church in Omaha, the city was expanding from the Missouri River west, and from the city center north and south, making Omaha the largest city between Chicago and San Francisco.
With it came all the problems of an open city: brothels and bars and gambling dens where the city met the river, and closed neighborhoods of Italian, Irish, Polish, Bohemian, German, Greek, Jewish and Scandinavian immigrants. Most of them poor, they gathered around their churches and synagogues in a city of corrupt officials and a political machine that had ruled the city since the turn of the century.
For all its pioneer flavor, the city came into its own with a lavish Trans-Pacific Exposition in 1898 that brought thousands to Omaha. It sparked a civic and commercial development that made many of its citizens not only rich and prosperous, but patrons of the arts, education, and civic enterprises that created some of its most durable institutions. The economy was based primarily on the stockyards of South Omaha which employed thousands, and the meat-packing industry which rivaled those in Chicago and Kansas City.
The politics of the city were controlled by a political machine headed by political boss Tom Dennison6 who manipulated the office of mayor for his own purposes and, from his headquarters in the city's Third Ward, encouraged open vice, shady business practices, bawdy houses and underworld activities that gave Omaha the reputation of a crime city.
There was a respectable and prosperous element in the city that ignored the massive immigration poverty and kept aloof from the activities of Tom Dennison and his cronies. These families, most of them part of the business community, were deeply embarrassed by the growing social problems: the poor, the huge immigrant population, and then, this priest reminding them of the juvenile problem and the responsibility of citizens to save the youth of the city.7
The city did finally come to his aid and became proud of the remarkable town of boys that was growing up just outside the city. With wit, humor and brazen audacity,8 Father Flanagan trapped others into his way of thinking and turned the city of Omaha upside down by an unconventional appeal to their better instincts.
Eventually, he persuaded major companies of the city to display paid ads in his Boys Home Journal, and he challenged their investment practices by pointing out than an investment in the future of these homeless boys would bring greater benefit to the city than any other investment.
He was not appealing to their charitable instincts or to what he sometimes called the "Oliver Twist Appeal." He was talking about hard cash and the return on hard cash, and it began to make sense to businessmen who were captivated by his logic and by his huge success with boys off the street.
To publicize his work, Father Flanagan took his boys on entertainment trips9 throughout the Midwest and surrounding states, and it was from that experience that he became aware of the fate of homeless boys in the courts and the complete lack of a juvenile justice system. "I enriched my own experience tremendously in those trooping years. I found that the problem of the homeless boy was not confined to any one section or any particular sized town or city.
"While conditions were aggravated in congested areas in cities, they were not peculiar to those areas. There can be just as much abuse of homeless and neglected children on farms and in small towns, as far as the individual child is concerned, as in any city.
"I took advantage of these travels to study the laws governing juvenile offenses, and found to my amazement that they were in most cases, very similar to those affecting adult crimes. In many states, these same laws are still operating. Every now and then the public is shocked when a child commits what is termed a major crime. Whether he is ten or eighteen years old, he is classed as a criminal, and the law says he must pay the penalty for his crime behind prison bars and high walls."10
Then Father Flanagan made this salient observation: "Rarely does any community in which such a crime occurs take into consideration the environment and home conditions which contributed to this child's delinquency. This child is to be punished, in most cases, for his neglect."
Those "trooping years" were the first eight years after moving his home 10 miles out of the city, where Father Flanagan could set up his own school, gather a staff around him and eventually found a village of boys aptly named "Boys Town." Its city government was run by boys, something that caught the attention of the world when Hollywood came calling and the movie Boys Town took the world by storm.
Turning over in his mind the experience of these trooping years, Father Flanagan turned his mind more and more to the roots and causes of juvenile crime. He found it in the one place that one would least expect: the juvenile justice court system. He found it first in a case that resembled in its stark tragedy a page out of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, which he found unbelievable, inexcusable and almost criminal.
"It was but natural that my interest in the fate of neglected boys who came into conflict with antiquated laws would be ever-widening. My attention was attracted to prominent cases which got into the newspapers in other states, as well as my own."11
One newspaper report caught his attention. It concerned two boys, seven and nine years of age. Like Victor Hugo's hero, these two boys were convicted of breaking into a grocery store. They were arrested, brought before the court and convicted of a crime. They had lived with their mother, whose husband had deserted her, leaving her with no means of support. She often left the boys home alone. They survived as best they could. One evening they went searching the back streets and alleys for something to eat. Finding an open door into a grocery store, they entered and saw food all around them and began to eat. A night watchman making his rounds caught them devouring the food. He called the police and the boys were arrested.
"The law, seeking revenge on the boys' neglect, convicted them and sent them to a juvenile prison."
In his first real attempt to challenge the juvenile justice system, Father Flanagan appealed to the governor of the State of Missouri for the release of the boys, but was informed that the boys must pay for their crime and were not fit to associate with other children in an orphanage or youth shelter. He appealed to the governor again, but received an even less-courteous refusal. Then he offered to accept the boys at Boys Town, but the governor was adamant. Finally, the priest made a public issue out of it. It reached the newspapers, and the boys were removed from prison and placed in a home for dependent children. Father Flanagan suddenly realized the value of public exposure and the power of the press.
More and more horror stories reached him, and Father Flanagan came to realize that the juvenile justice system, as far as the youth were concerned, needed a vast overhauling. No child, whatever his age or the circumstances of his offense, was exempt from the brutal arm of the law. He made his own study of the juvenile justice system and found only one voice that resounded with the same indignation as his own: Judge Benjamin Lindsey of Denver, whom his boys had met at one of their shows in Colorado.
When he began his career in 1900,12 Lindsey began to fight the policies and politics of the court system in Colorado and soon became known as the "Kids' Judge." He fought for a juvenile justice system that treated children as children, looked into the child's home situation and kept them out of adult prisons.
Like Father Flanagan in Omaha, he had to fight a statewide political machine that held both city and state government in hostage, and corrupt Democratic and Republican parties that carefully controlled candidates for public office and the courts and opposed any efforts at social and judicial reform.
By an accident of history, Lindsey was appointed to fill the unexpired term of a county judge where he made a name for himself as he tried to bring reforms in the judicial system.
Right away he became the target of the "Big Boss" organization of the city of Denver, which manipulated the courts and the government of the city to favor whom they willed. This stirred him to call a spade a spade and, in his own words, a beast. In 1910, Lindsey, went public with his reform campaign with the publication of The Beast.13
Through Lindsey's friendship with Jacob Riis, whose photographs of the New York slums, How The Other Half Lives,14 brought the plight of the poor to national attention — in particular, to the attention of New York City's Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt.
Judge Lindsey joined a group of nationally known persons working towards reform of the welfare system and the end of child labor. Among these national figures were Jane Addams, Florence Kelly, Julia Lathrop, Samuel McCone Lindsay, Paul U. Kellogg and Homer Folks.
In 1904, Roosevelt was elected President of the United States and was introduced to Benjamin Lindsey by Jacob Riis. This began a lengthy association of Lindsey with President Roosevelt. The President endorsed Judge Lindsey's basic principles of the juvenile court movement and recommended that such a code be adopted by Congress for Washington, D.C.15
From his friendship with Judge Lindsey, Father Flanagan joined a generation of social reformers and opponents of child labor, became a vocal critic of the juvenile justice system in the country and was a major player in the reform of the system in Nebraska and in the nation as a whole.
Like Judge Lindsey, Father Flanagan decided to fight the system. From his research that began when he first stood before a judge asking that a boy in trouble be paroled to his custody, he knew that the law did not take into account the age of the boy, the circumstances in which he lived, the details of his home life or his supervision by adults. His description of the Missouri case showed the complete insensitivity of the law to circumstances that drove poor and hungry children to break the law.
"The first one of these cases in which I tried to help boys was that of Donald and George, seven and nine years old. These two children were convicted in a nearby state for robbing a grocery store. They were not only accused of the crime, they were convicted for it.
"Let us take a look at their childhood. The father and mother had quarreled for some time, previous to their separation. Soon after the younger boy was born, the father deserted and disappeared from the community. He was never heard of afterwards.
"When he had been head of the family, the family barely eked out an existence. But with that small income gone, the mother had nothing to turn to. She was incapable of earning much for herself, and if she were gone during the day, she had no one to leave her children with. This is the problem most common with those who need help.
"Finally, the mother gave up the struggle. She paid little attention to the boys, both of whom were of school age now. They shifted for themselves as best they could. They were ragged and hungry most of the time.
"But even children will not starve to death without some effort to get food. Donald and George made that effort. One evening they were wandering streets and alleys in search for something to eat. They had had no supper. They came upon a back door of a store that was open. The smells from inside told them that it was a grocery store. They went in.
"Here at last they had landed in the realm of plenty. There was food all around them, far more than enough for their supper.
"The night watchman making his rounds heard a noise in the store and, investigating, found the little boys. He arrested them and charged them with breaking and entering. The law, seeking revenge on the boys' neglect, convicted them and sent them to a juvenile prison."16
This was a classical case that Father Flanagan found repeated over and over again. By making the case public, he got the public on his side. After several refusals by local authorities, and even the governor, to place the boys in some place besides prison, the public outcry finally became so great that the boys were placed in a home for dependent children.
Father Flanagan found such horror stories multiplied and learned from bitter experience that the youth problem was a high-stakes game, with lives at risk and the future of thousands of youth in the balance. His words came sharp and decisive and sometimes caustic. He knew the critical importance of the public forum and the power of the spoken word. When he began his work for boys, it was the insensitivity of judges and juvenile authorities, their inability to see the harm that was done by poverty, homelessness and neglect that stirred him into action, then fired his mind as he put pen to paper.
He discovered early that he was matching wits with principled and unprincipled occupiers of power: judges, state officials, governors, many merely bureaucratic managers and occupiers of office, shaped by political pressures and the demands of the electorate. He learned to appeal to the electorate and it was the electorate that became his ally in his battle for homeless youth.
Father Flanagan's travels with his boys on their entertainment circuit had brought him to all parts of the country, and he found the problem of the homeless boys was not confined to the larger cities. That was the shock. It was a national problem and almost a national crime.
Judge Ben Lindsey's The Beast had fingered the root of the problem: the failure of city councils and state legislatures to recognize that children were not adults, and their failure to recognize the real root of the problem: parental neglect. But the more immediate cause was laid out in Lindsey's book in all its graphic detail: political corruption at the state and city level. This was true of New York City, as Jacob Riis's photos illustrated, and it was true in rural towns and villages where mayor and sheriff often conspired to run a village or town as their own private preserve.
The chapters of Lindsey's book broke down the corruption in great detail, and the book itself became a handbook of political corruption at the highest level. But it was Father Flanagan's experience of this in almost every state and city he visited with his boy entertainers that shocked him into starting his own campaign against the system, since the most innocent victims were children — usually boys.
Father Flanagan studied in particular the laws and practices affecting children. His anger was evident in his words, and there came a firm determination to work, if need be, at the highest levels of government to get rid of this "beast" and to use every store of intellectual, moral and political currency at his disposal.
"Everyone knows, who understands boys, that a child of ten, twelve or sixteen, who makes a serious mistake, has usually been robbed of proper guidance, and the distorted little brain, through neglect, does things which society considers criminal.17
He found himself fighting for individual boys; this brought him into ugly confrontation with state officials and juvenile authorities who did not share his conviction about the patently "bad boy" — the boy who had killed or committed some other crime of violence. To them the Flanagan conviction was criminal neglect and they resented this softhearted priest who could bite hard words into their faces and whose learning and logic could be phrased in language that slashed at their dignity. He stripped the juvenile problem to its naked reality and his fierce reasoning made him a terrible adversary.
One case that broke the back of the old juvenile system that Father Flanagan and Judge Ben Lindsey began to dismantle was the case that made history in the legal annals of Nebraska. It was a case of "boys being boys" in a small town in western Nebraska, where a group of boys playing hooky from school wandered along a railroad track outside of town and ran across a discarded coat in a ditch beside the track. They found a gun in a pocket and decided to play cops and robbers.
They picked up the gun, passed it around and one boy took it and pointed it at a buddy, just as he had seen it in the movies. "Bang, Bang!" he said as he pulled the trigger. The gun exploded and the buddy fell dead on the ground.
The other boys vanished, and the boy with the gun threw it away and saw that his buddy was hurt. In something requiring heroic strength in a nine-year old, he half-dragged, half-carried his buddy into town, pulled him upstairs to a doctor's office and said to the doctor in boyish fashion: "Somethin's happened! Somethin's happened!"
He rushed to where his mother worked in a local store and was nearly hysterical. He had killed his buddy. Within minutes the news was all over town. People were gathering in backyards and on street corners, and it seemed that there might be violence. His mother was worried for his safety. Next day, the local newspaper was full of the story, and news of one boy killing another reached even the Omaha newspapers.
A coroner's inquest was held, and the shooting was declared accidental. But the whole town was aroused, and the mood of the people grew dangerous. Word reached the mother that the older brother of the dead boy was "out to get Donald!"
The news reached Lincoln, and a woman from the State Welfare Department was hurried to investigate. After talking to the boy and his mother, and discerning the mood of the town, she told the mother that there were threats against the boy's life and that he was not safe in the town. The mother was advised to get the boy out of town until the case could be looked into by the proper authorities.
Father Flanagan's boy entertainers had often played in that part of the state, and Father and his Boys Town were legends in these small towns. The mother took the train to Omaha and was at Father Flanagan's door next day.
"I was sitting one afternoon in my office. . .when a mother with a little boy tapped at my door. I asked her to come in, and timidly she entered. The little son followed. The mother poured out her story: 'They want to kill my boy,' she said. 'I had to bring him somewhere, so I brought him to you.'
"I told the mother that I would keep him until I looked into the case, and that, since I always worked with the courts, I would take the boy back if the court so ruled. I would assume full responsibility. She left to stay in a nearby town with relatives and asked me to keep her informed about what developed.
"After the mother left, I had a long talk with Donald. In his childish way, he told me the story. . .yet in the heart of that little boy there was no crime, no taint of murder. He had killed a pal . . .while he was playing. He suffered from that knowledge as only a child can suffer."
Father Flanagan recognized that this was a test case: a boy caught in the tentacles of the law, helpless and alone. It called for immediate action. He called his co-workers together and laid the case before them. They all agreed that this case was a perfect example of why their town of boys existed, even if that meant taking legal action, and for Father Flanagan to do everything possible to take custody of the child.
He called Henry Monsky, his friend and lawyer, and Monsky advised Father Flanagan to accompany the boy to the trial and to act on his defense. The priest girded himself for a big fight.
"Immediately, I got in touch with the county attorney from which the boy and mother had fled. I told him I had the boy. . .and that, since I always cooperated to the fullest extent, I would bring Donald to his hometown whenever the court asked me to."18
Father Flanagan found that the county attorney was bitter because the boy had been taken from his jurisdiction. He held that the mother was trying to escape from the law, but did not perhaps understand that the boy's life was in danger.
"I had given the mother to understand that my home was not a refuge for those escaping from justice, and that I would abide by the rulings of the court in her county."
It is clear from Father Flanagan's account in his memoirs that this case was a turning point in his fight against laws governing youthful offenders. He sensed a passion for revenge rather than justice, and he realized that something resembling gang rule often determined the outcome in the courts.
He was encouraged in this case because "the attitude of the county attorney changed somewhat when he knew that I would produce the child when the court willed. I was taking a gambling choice on winning custody of this little boy, because of the animosity of the community and the nature of the accident."
Father Flanagan decided to take the boy home by train, a distance of about 500 miles, almost to the western edge of the state, and decided to go at night, just so the boy could get some needed rest and so he could get to know him better.
"We decided to make it at night. I didn't want Donald to sit all day at the train window and think of what he was going back for, nor to await with dread and fear coming back to the town from which he was a little exile. We would take a Pullman and take the trip at night."
Here is Father Flanagan's very long account of the trip, the events that followed and the touch of greatness that his work with boys brought him to. It was not only a deep paternal instinct that he had developed for these troubled boys, but also a tenderness that pulled at his heartstrings for these young lives bewildered and broken by events beyond their comprehension.
"I dressed my little companion in a nice suit. . . anyone who could look at him and say he was a murderer would be laughed at."19
His description of their ride together is almost like something out of Dickens, and he must have sensed that this was another Oliver Twist story — but in real life, not in fiction.
"Donald clung to my hand, as if he wanted protection on this strange ride. Night fell round us, and Donald soon fell asleep with the motion of the train. I knew he would be lonely during the night, so we had berths across the aisle."
"During the night I heard him tossing and knew he was awake. 'Father?' It was a timid little call. I got up and looked in on him. He was sitting up in bed with a frightened look on his face." 'I'm here, Donald. Don't worry.' 'Father, you won't leave me, will you?' 'No, I won't leave you. I'll be right here. It will soon be morning and we'll have a nice breakfast.' "20
They arrived at the courthouse in the county seat, and the judge, county attorney and town officials were waiting for them. The judge and attorney were disturbed that the mother had run off with the boy to escape justice, and Father Flanagan could do nothing to change their minds. The county attorney, Father noticed, was "ready and willing to exact his pound of flesh."
The boy was sworn in, put on the stand and interrogated as if he were an adult. At this Father Flanagan interrupted and reminded the court that this was a juvenile case and that the interests of the child should come first, and he insisted that any questions to be answered should be referred to him. Then he came out with a blast that turned the whole case around and, in a sense, put the county attorney on trial.
"My purpose in being here is in the interest of this child. I refute the charges made by the county attorney, and I deny that this child is a murderer. I know that he is neglected and therefore, Your Honor, I appeal to you to turn this boy over to me. I am willing to abide by your decision in this case for I know it will be just. I know you want this boy to have a chance."21
The county attorney, apparently surprised by this eloquent defense of the boy, chimed in that the boy was a criminal and a murderer and that he deserved punishment according to the full extent of the law.
It was seldom that Father Flanagan had shown his anger in public, but this time he turned on the attorney and said, "Do you in your heart believe this child to be a murderer? Look at him! Do you see anything in that little face that looks dangerous to society? I admit he is a victim of environment and neglect. But he is not a criminal!"22
Then he reviewed the facts of the case.
"Murderers do not drag their victims to the nearest doctor. They shoot to kill. This child and his pal were playing. Do you think that if he intended to kill that child he would have then taken him to a doctor, pleading for the doctor to save his life?"23
Turning to the judge, he pounded home his point. "Your Honor, you may have a son. Perhaps he is a grown man. But once he was a child as blue-eyed as this child, whom your county attorney wishes to call a criminal. This accident could have happened to your boy when he was playing Indian. Would you call him a criminal or a murderer? Would you send him to a reform school until he was 21?
"You know you wouldn't. I admit the boy needs care and supervision. He has been neglected. If he is permitted to go on as he has, he may become a dangerous man. I am here ready and willing to take full responsibility for this boy and give him the care, education and training that he sorely needs. I promise it will not cost the county one cent."24
The whole atmosphere of the courtroom had changed dramatically after this outburst. The judge was in tears. Donald was crying. "The county attorney was wilted." Father Flanagan knew the boy was his.
There was a long silence in the courtroom as feet shuffled, and it took a few moments for the court to come to order and for the trial to continue. An official report of the trial had to be drawn up, recorded and signed. The case would have to be recorded according to usual court procedure. But Father Flanagan's task was not finished. No record of the boy's "offense" must enter the official records or he was marked for life and his good name destroyed. That would affect his whole future.
However the county attorney was not finished. "He proposed that the charges he had made against Donald remain on the records and that he be paroled to me."
"Some day," I said, "this boy may return here, who knows, perhaps the graduate of a law school. He may be running for office as county attorney. I do not want to be so negligent that any opponent can come to these records and find something that might be used against him. It is unfair to any boy who has already had more than his share of burdens, to leave a record behind him that will, in any way, be detrimental to him. I want that boy's past to be buried and forgotten."25
"You may write the record, Father," the judge said quietly.
Father Flanagan's final words on this piece of drama that shook the Nebraska law community and changed forever the juvenile justice system of the state.
"The case was closed for all concerned. Never in my life do I remember being so spent as I was then. I bundled up my little charge and left the courtroom."26
1 The Good Fight: The Remarkable Life of Judge Ben Lindsey, by Charles Larsen. Quadrangle Books. Chicago, 1972
2 His Lamp of Fire, memoir of Father Flanagan, unpublished, Ch. 7., p. 107. Boys Town Archives.
3 Ibid., Ch. 2., pp. 20-26.
4 Ibid., pp. 27-30.
5 Ibid., Ch. 2, pp. 43-45.
6 River City Empire, by Orville D. Menard.
7 Boys Home Journal
8 His wit and humor and gift for the caustic aimed specifically at the business community of Omaha is evident in this semi-editorial in his Boys Home Journal of September 1919, p. 2.
"The casual reader of the more or less prosaic pages of this periodical may have noticed that we made a plea for financial assistance in our August issue, and even burned the midnight oil in working out an equitable plan for financial assistance, to suit, as we thought, all purses, fat and lean — but maybe it's the recent hot spell, or absence from home — at any rate, the building fund has NOT increased by leaps and bounds.
"Now if we were financiers such as the late George Fitch used to tell about, we might increase our building fund, either in hot or cold weather, after the following manner which George related. It was about the way the average financer turned the trick.
"If a financier had a dollar and needed two, he would use the dollar as first payment on a $10 bill, and would bond the bill for a $20 gold piece at $17, for one dollar down, to forty-five people, and then would dispose of a half interest in the entire transaction for $150, two dollars down, and the rest payable in short term notes."
9 His Lamp of Fire, Chs. 4 & 5: pp. 83-107
10 Ibid., Ch. 6, p. I 18.
11 Ibid ., p. 120.
12 "Judge Ben Lindsey and the Juvenile Court Movement," by D'Ann Campbell. Arizona and the West, Vol. 18, No. 1. Spring 1976, pp. 5-20.
13 The Beast by Ben B. Lindsey and Harvey J. Higgins. University of Colorado Press, 2009.
14 How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis. Reprinted: Dover Publications, New York, 1971.
15 The Beast, xviii-xix.
16 His Lamp of Fire, Ch. VI., pp. 120-121.
17 Ibid., p. 119.
18 Ibid., Ch. VII, pp. 155-161
19 Ibid., Ch. VII, p. 164
20 Ibid., pp. 164-165
21 Ibid., p. 170
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid. p. 171
24 Ibid., pp. 171-172
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid., p. 175
FATHER STEVENS, a priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, ordained in 1956, is author of a number of books on religion, religious history and morality. During the 1960s, he served as an Air Force chaplain. After leaving the Air Force, he became executive editor of The Priest magazine and was editor/publisher of Schema XIII, a Journal for the Priest in the Modern World. In the 1980s, he pursued his dream of founding a monastery with a purer ideal than he had seen in contemporary orders. He founded Tintern Monastery, a contemplative house of prayer, on a farm near Oakdale, Nebraska. The experiment was ended in the mid-1990s. He writes from retirement at Boys Town.
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