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More Ohio women in prison than ever before
Last month, Ohio set a record for the number of women behind bars, and drugs are to blame, officials said.
State prisons director Gary Mohr said he is alarmed by the increasing number of women in prison, which hit an all-time high the week of July 7 with 4,160 women, eclipsing the record of 4,132 set the week before.
The population first crested 4,000 in June 2013 and has typically remained above that number, regularly changing the record high, especially during the past two months. Drug charges in rural counties are fueling the increase, he said.
"These ladies are highly drug addicted. ... The majority of these folks have crimes with their male counterparts, and they're often not the lead folks in this," Mohr said.
Cramped quarters
Although female prisoners are typically less violent than male prisoners, Mohr describes the institutions as depressing, crowded and concerning.
"I think of their kids. This is not just them. Children of the incarcerated are six times more likely to be incarcerated themselves," Mohr said.
Some of the children will be born in prison. According to the monthly prison report, there are 31 women pregnant and three women with babies in the nursery at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.
The maximum capacity at the state's three female prisons, located in Dayton, Cleveland and Marysville, is 4,266.
Although the overall capacity hasn't been hit, the Northeast Reintegration Center in Cleveland was at 160 percent of its capacity, according to the July 28 population count. Marysville sat at 77 percent capacity, and the Dayton Correctional Institution, which was double-bunked and transitioned to women in 2012, was at 94 percent capacity.
"The population is ballooning, and the density is getting to a point I don't like," Mohr said. "If our job is to reduce recidivism among those we touch, just jamming more of these nonviolent folks in here, I think, is a real concern."
In 2011, in an effort to reduce prison populations, sentencing reform began directing first-time, low-level felony offenders toward community programs. Comparing fiscal year 2010, the year before the law went into effect, with 2014, there has been a 12 percent drop in new incarcerations.
During the past two fiscal years, however, that number has been moving back up; there has been a combined 11 percent increase in the number of women sent to prison, which, though not wiping out the drop attributed to sentencing reform, has counteracted the previous trend.
Although there are fewer offenders going to prison than several years ago, fiscal year 2014 saw a 47 percent increase in the number of low-level felony offenders committed than the previous year, keeping prison populations high.
Couple that with no significant changes in the number of more serious offenders with sentences averaging two to six years and you have the recipe for total population growth.
Meanwhile, the male population hasn't seen similar growth. Last fiscal year, there was a 2 percent decrease in the number of men committed, which followed a 2 percent increase.
Addiction fuels increase
The bulk of the charges are drug-related, and the increase has been fueled by burglaries and illegal manufacturing of drugs.
Since fiscal year 2003, the number of women sent to prison with burglary or attempted burglary as the most serious offense has increased 113 percent; the number of women sentenced for making meth has increased 1,040 percent.
Although meth-making also has been on the rise for men — there has been a 473 percent increase since 2003 — Ohio Judicial Conference Director Mark Schweikert said heroin continues to be the primary concern statewide.
"This heroin problem is a tremendous problem. I hear it reported from judges all over the state, and I don't think it has a preference for gender," Schweikert said.
The 99 women Scioto County sent to prison last fiscal year constituted the most per capita in the state — 25 per 10,000 women — and that total is more than twice the number from year before. The majority of charges, 38 percent, were third-degree felonies.
Scioto County Sheriff Marty Donini said the increase is no surprise as opioids continue to be a huge problem despite the state's focus to pump resources into the southern Ohio community touted as being hit hardest by the opioid epidemic.
"We're seeing a lot more often females are being used as mules to transport narcotics from one location to another or they're present during drug sales," Donini said.
Although pain clinics have been replaced by treatment clinics, Donini said, the Suboxone used to treat the addiction has become a problem and is regularly sold on the street.
"I'm not so sure we've accomplished anything," he said.
Since 2000, Mohr said, there has been a 418 percent increase in the number of people sent to prison for addiction to heroin and opioids.
Community answers
Mohr said he believes the answer to the ballooning number of women in Ohio's prison is the same as for men: Judges need to be sentencing more people to community-based alternatives instead of prison.
"I don't know from a research standpoint or analytically that putting people in prison is a nexus to their offense, to getting them better, to improving public safety," Mohr said.
In rural counties, choices are fewer when it comes to community options, especially inpatient drug treatment, so it's not surprising they tend to send more women to prison out of the total female population.
In fiscal year 2014, Fairfield County sent seven out of every 10,000 women, whereas the state's largest three counties sent between two and and four women per 10,000; the state sent five.
The problem communities struggle with, however, is finding funding for those resources while the department of correction struggles with providing more money for community programs because of the growing population.
"It's like a big ship out in the ocean that's carrying a lot of weight — you can't turn right right away. The challenge is: 'How can we start to get this population down, which allows us to expand more resources to the community?' " Mohr said.
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Have nightmares about the future of your favorite musical comedy show kept you up nights?
Did Rachel's and Kurt's conversation about the "c" word, during the Season 2 Glee finale, send shivers up your spine? (I'm talking about "college," obviously. Get your mind out of the gutter!)
Have you spent the past few summer hiatus weeks writing long "fan letters" to Ryan Murphy, in which you plot out, in great detail, scenarios that will enable your favorite McKinley High characters to get left back another year, just so that you can maintain your own sanity?
If so,
then you are a TOTAL NUTBALL! then "The Glee Project" is the summer series for you! Starting this week, every Sunday at 9 p.m. on the Oxygen channel, twelve (well . . . now, eleven) hopeful late teens and early twenty-somethings will duke it out for the chance to win a seven-episode arc on the most popular musical program on Fox that isn't American Idol. And as teen drama fans know, A LOT can happen in seven episodes. (If you recall, Darren Criss's Blaine Anderson was upgraded to a series regular on Glee, after appearing in half that amount.)
Entertainment industry nerds like me will undoubtedly appreciate the "behind the curtain" peek that this show offers at what the casting process for a successful prime time program actually looks like. (Well . . . at least you get a peek at what casting for a successful prime time program WOULD look like, if it was done through a reality television show.) Acting as both mentors and judges of the prospective new Gleeks' are Robert Ulrich (Glee's casting director) Zach Woodlee (the show's choreographer), and Nikki Anders (a vocal coach for the series).
Ryan Murphy, himself, will also be on hand to make the final elimination decisions . . .
As if that wasn't enough, each episode will also feature a REAL GLEE CAST MEMBER, who will basically be there to stand around, smile, look pretty, and collect his or her hiatus paycheck. This week's lucky guest star was the sexy Darren Criss.
Next week, we get Idina Menzel, who played Rachel bio's mom, and former Vocal Adrenaline coach, Shelby Corcoran, during the show's first season.
But I have to say that my FAVORITE Glee cast inclusion into The Glee Project was the "celebrity" who appeared during the "audition" episode. Of course, I'm referring to THIS GUY . . .
Brad Ellis, i.e. "The Random Dude at the Piano" is just the Captain of Cool, as far as I am concerned . . .
Even those of you who AREN'T Entertainment Industry Geeks, will likely get a kick out of observing the various contestants, and trying to pinpoint precisely what type of character each would play, if he or she was lucky enough to make it onto the show. After all, stereotyping people, and making snap judgments about them, based solely on a picture and under ten minutes of screen time per episode, is what Glee is all about, right?
Yes, that was meant to be sarcastic. 🙂
Let's put it a nicer way. The Glee Project gives fans of Glee the opportunity to "play" casting director, and try to envision the future of the show. So, what are we waiting for? Let the
stereotyping casting begin!
(By the way, if you are interested in learning more about the show, or any of the cast members you see here, feel free to check out Oxygen's surprisingly comprehensive show website, which features, among other things, cast bios, photographs, and audition tapes.)
In case you haven't seen this yet, here is a photograph featuring all twelve Glee Project contestants . . .
Please note that this article WILL contain spoilers from the first episode of the show. In other words, I plan to mention that a certain Glee hopeful has already been eliminated from the running. So, if you don't want to be spoiled, you may want to stop here, until you've actually seen episode 1.
Now that I've gotten that little disclaimer out of the way, allow me to introduce the twelve cast members of The Glee Project.
First up, we have Damian . . .
Damian kind of seems to have a Young Hugh Grant thing going for him . . .
First off, he's got the accent (though HIS is an Irish Broque, as opposed to Grant's British lilt). This will work immediately in his favor, I suspect, as chicks tend to dig accents, BIG TIME. Damian also has a baby face, and a sort of goofy, self-deprecating charm, that makes him instantly likeable. Cons for Damian include his dorky dancing (Finn! You have company!), and a quiet singing voice, that might find itself overpowered by Glee's current cast of "belters."
I can envision Damian playing an Artie-type character, someone who is generally liked by everybody, and doesn't make too many waves. In terms of romantic interests, it might be fun to see Damian paired with Rachel, since his low-key, easy-going, nature might balance out her Type-A intensity and diva-like ways.
Next up is Bryce . . .
I'm actually a tad surprised, and a smidge disappointed, that this guy was eliminated so early in the competition, as he's someone I can definitely see on the show, as a friend / rival to Puck. Just like a certain Mohawk-sporting sexpot we all know and love . . .
. . . Bryce has the body of an athlete, the style of a rebel, and the confident swagger of a guy who SEEMS like a conceited jerk on the surface, but who hides hidden depths. Had Bryce won the competition, I could definitely have envisioned him as being a fun love interest for Mercedes (if the whole "Sam" thing doesn't work out) and/or for Quinn.
Then, there's Samuel . . .
I must say that this guy is one of my early favorites. I already love his voice, his style, and his maturity. (Though, admittedly, I suspect this actor, in particular, might have some difficulty passing for a 16-year old.) If Samuel wins this competition, he could bring an element to New Directions that we haven't seen yet, that of the "sensitive hippie." I can envision Samuel's character intially butting heads with either Rachel or Quinn, and, eventually developing a love/hate relationship with either female.
Love/hate relationships are always my favorites on teen dramas, as I tend to find them SO INSANELY HOT! It's high time they put one of those types of relationships on Glee. And that is yet another reason, why I am rooting for Samuel to take it all in this competition.
My other favorite to win The Glee Project is Cameron . . .
This guy is the epitome of Geek Chic. Sure, he's skinny, and a bit clumsy, when it comes to "fancy foot work," but there is something undeniably sexy about Cameron. He plays guitar, and has a sweet mellow voice and singing style that evokes comparisons to artists like Jack Johnson or Bruno Mars. Personally, I would love to hear Cameron sing a duet with either Mark Salling (Puck) or Kevin McHale (Artie), as I think those two voices would compliment his quite well.
In terms of love interests, no one really sticks out for me just yet, who would be a good match for Cameron. However, in terms of social networking, I do think a character like this could become fast friends with Artie, Sam, or even Mike Chang.
Another early fan favorite to take this competition is Lindsay . . .
The first thing that struck me about this contestant is how much she looks like a Young Carla Gugino . . .
The cool thing about Lindsay, in terms of character development, is that she seems pretty versatile. She's obviously pretty enough to play a cheerleader / Queen Bee type, like Quinn. And yet, she also has the style, and relatability, to play a more Earthy / Do-Gooder type. Romantically, I could see Lindsay paired with any of the main male characters on the show, with the most obvious candidates for her affection being Puck and Finn.
One of the more unique casting choices on the show would be Ellis . . .
Ellis is kind of a dichotomy, in that she looks and dresses like a middle-schooler, but has the sad soulful eyes, and singing voice of a thirty-something. I can picture Ellis playing one of those child-prodigy types, who skipped a few grades to get into McKinley High. Her character would be precocious, and very serious, verging on dour. Depending on HOW much younger this character would be than the rest of the cast, I could potentially see her as a love interest for Artie.
Next up, we have Hannah . . .
Having been voted Class Clown in her own high school, Hannah demonstrates the perkiness of Rachel Berry, the humor of Lauren Zizes, and the powerful voice and dancing skills of Mercedes Jones. On the surface, this would seem to make her the ideal candidate to be a character on Glee.
And yet, I wonder whether these positive attributes will ultimately end up working against her. Specifically, I fear that the casting directors might have difficulty envisioning for Hannah a place within the Glee cast that is not already inhabited by other characters.
Another Gleeky hopeful who might experience the same problem as Hannah is Marissa . . .
. . . with her confident attitude, perfect figure, and Pantene Pro-V hair, Marissa seems primed to play a Mean Girl. She would also make a rather sexy romantic pairing with Puck. But with Quinn and Santana already constantly battling one another for Queen Bee status, does McKinley High really need another Alpha Female?
Speaking of characters who would undoubtedly but heads with Santana, check out Emily . . .
Since Emily struck me as a perkier (some might say, more annoying) version of Santana, I could envision her playing either Santana's younger sister, or her scheming neighbor, over in Lima Heights Adjacent . . .
Other viewers have suggested that Emily would make a good love interest for Santana. But, personally, I don't see it. I think these two are WAY too much alike to mesh well as a couple. In fact, it's their similarities that may work against Emily in this competition.
Another character who may be too much like a pre-existing one on the show is Alex . . .
. . . this sweet and rather flamboyant teen, with a love for all things fashion, and a high voice, perfect for belting out show tunes is . . . let's face it . . . the African American version of Kurt Hummel . . . and I mean that in the nicest way possible. 🙂
One type of voice Glee has genuinely lacked in the first two seasons is that of a country singer. And, though I am not necessarily a fan of country music, myself, the need for that kind of voice on Glee was what intrigued me most about McKyleigh . . .
This Texas' natives love of all things country definitely makes her stand out in a crowd. In fact, I suspect the character SHE would play on Glee would be much like the person she is in real life. It would be fun to watch McKyleigh and Mercedes interact with one another, in particular, as the two couldn't have more different tastes and styles.
And hey, why not take that one step further, and have McKyleigh show some romantic interest in Sam? A little love triangle never hurt ANY show!
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Finally, last, but certainly not least, we have the adorably diminutive Brazilian native, Matheus . . .
Of all the cast members, this was probably the one who got the most screentime in Episode 1 of The Glee Project. There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) he has the most uplifting personal story of the group, having taught himself English just months after emigrating to the United States, and having survived a near fatal accident, that almost deprived him of the use of his limbs; (2) he won the first "homework" challenge on the show, giving him an early lead amongst his competitors; and (3) everything about Matheus is just so DARN likeable, from his short stature, to his kind eyes, to his brace-faced smile, to his surprisingly cut abdominals (which he gladly flashed to the cameras . . . TWICE), to his unfailingly upbeat outlook on life.
Though I honestly don't have a clear picture of what role Matheus would play on Glee, he definitely seems like he would be a stellar addition to the cast, one that would immediately resonate with fans. Oh yeah, and he has an amazing voice too!
So, there you have it, a brief glimpse into the twelve prospective Gleek hopefuls who will be competing this summer on The Glee Project. Which one is YOUR favorite?


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Thursday morning we had 24 hardy eclipse family members arrive for a run.
Today the other runners decided to award me today's jacket for organizing the running. Thanks!
Special thanks to EclipseSource and the Eclipse foundation for sponsoring this event. It was a lot of fun! I had someone come up to me at the poster session last night and say that they had found a new business partner while running. That's what EclipseCon is all about. Community and conversation.
A special kudos to Olivier Thomann, the JDT Core lead, who ran 5K every day despite not being a runner before attending the conference. Also, thanks to everyone who came out so early in the morning despite some very late nights.
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Dear List members, We would like to draw your attention to our inter-disciplinary session (see below) at this years AGU Fall Meeting (December 2011) in San Francisco, CA. The deadline for abstract submission is 4th August 2011. Session Title: Modern Insights Into the Paleo-carbon Cycle: A *13C and Biomarker Perspective Invited presenters (confirmed): Prof. Philip Meyers (Michigan, USA - Stable isotopes in modern and palaeo environments; Palaeoceanography) Dr. Jennifer Dungait (BBSRC, UK - Soil processes, stable isotopes and biomarker distributions) Prof. Kliti Grice (Curtin Univeristy, Australia - Mass Extinction Events; biogeochemistry of extant organisms; organic matter preservation) Prof. Howard Griffiths (Cambridge, UK - Plant physiology, photosynthesis and stable isotopes) Description: Understanding the carbon cycle is central to constraining environmental processes from biological productivity to palaeo environmental interpretations. Rigorously quantifying these processes at different spatial and temporal scales requires an integrative inter-disciplinary approach. This session aims to bring together ecologists, biochemists, palaeoclimatologists and geochemists that use bulk and compound specific δ13C and biomarker distributions in marine and terrestrial environments. We particularly encourage contributions investigating biological productivity (i.e. photosynthesis); carbon fluxes; diagenesis and soil processes; the use of carbon to investigate modern and palaeo-environments; and method development. Link: http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/scientific-program/session-search/92 Convenors: Chris Brodie (Hong Kong University, China); James Casford (Durham University, UK); Erin McClymont (Newcastle University, UK); Melanie Leng (NIGL, UK). Abstract submission is via http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/ and the deadline is 4th August 23:59 EDT. Student Travel Grant Applications: https://www.agu.org/education/grants/travel.shtml We are very keen to receive abstracts from researchers working in modern through to palaeo, terrestrial and aquatic environments using bulk and compound specific δ13C and biomarker distributions across all disciplines. This session will be of interest to many users of this forum (and others not on this list, so please do pass this on to any colleagues you think may be interested). We are very open to all strands of research utilising these proxies to gain an insight into modern and palaeo biogeochemical processes (including water column and surface sediment research), and what this means for understanding environmental and climatic processes, and the caveats in the scientific understanding from an inter-disciplinary perspective. All the best, Dr. Chris Brodie Dr. James Casford Dr. Erin McClymont Prof. Melanie Leng -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/photosyn/attachments/20110701/857e7f74/attachment.html


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It's hard to find another band that's stayed as true to its vision as Low. Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have been making Low records for 20 years now, and just released their 10th full-length album, The Invisible Way.
At the invitation of Jeff Tweedy, the Minnesota band traveled to Chicago to spend just five days tracking the new songs at Wilco's space. Tweedy captured Low being Low, but with one key difference: Parker handles more than her usual share of lead vocals. In this segment, the band plays four songs from The Invisible Way, while Sparhawk offers tips on how to play in front of a noisy crowd.
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Barry Bonds' Dec. 16 sentencing for obstruction of justice is an anticlimactic addendum to a sterling, though marred, baseball career.
Without a doubt, Bonds was a great hitter who didn't need performance-enhancing drugs to put up Hall of Fame numbers. Bonds had dedication and self-discipline. He worked hard for many years to stay in shape, prolong his career, and be the best he could be. Unfortunately for his reputation, the consensus is that he went too far.
It's interesting to reflect on how far people will go to gain an edge. Movie and TV stars "cheat" on what nature gives them—some with plastic surgery, others with breast augmentations, perhaps some even with steroids. Like them, Bonds tried to give the public what they were looking for—in his case, the ability to hit a baseball an awe-inspiring distance. In sports, though, cheating to gain an unfair advantage offends most Americans' sense of fair play.
At this unhappy time for baseball, let's look back at a player to whom Bonds was frequently compared—the game's greatest icon: Babe Ruth. When Bonds surpassed Ruth's career homerun total, he remarked that we shouldn't have to hear about the Babe any more. It's sad that he resented being spoken of in the same breath as the Babe. He should have felt honored.
Babe Ruth was sui generis—one of a kind. He occupies an irreplaceable and unmatchable spot in American sports history. In fact, you can make the case that he single-handedly elevated professional sports to national prominence.
Ruth became a legend by virtue of his prodigious athletic feats and his larger-than-life character. Where Bonds was sometimes reserved and cool toward reporters and the public, the Babe was gregarious and sunny. The fun-loving Babe led a colorful life, and he gladly made numerous visits to children in hospitals. He loved people, and people in turn loved him.
As a slugger, Ruth has no equal. Only 35 times in major league history has a player achieved a season slugging percentage of at least .700. Ruth did it nine times. Bonds did it four times, all after bulking up late in his career. Ruth hit at that level much longer, compiling an incredible cumulative slugging percentage of .711 for his 15-year career with the Yankees.
Bonds' highest slugging percentage, in 2001, was an astounding 127 points above the runner-up, Sammy Sosa (another slugger who tested positive for steroids). That is dominance! But Ruth's highest slugging percentage, in 1920, was even more impressive. The runner-up, Hall of Famer George Sisler, batted an eye-popping .420, was second in the league in doubles, triples, and homers—yet had a slugging percentage 215 points lower than the Babe. The next year, Ruth's slugging percentage was 240 points higher than the runner-up, Hall of Fame outfielder Harry Heilmann, who batted .394.
The bulked-up Barry Bonds smashed some long home runs, but never did he hit a 500-foot homer. Ruth hit dozens of homers over 500 feet, set the distance mark in every American League park, and hit the longest verifiable home run in major league history in Detroit in 1921—at least 570 feet on the fly. Bonds' power was concentrated in four seasons. Babe hit his last 500-foot home run 18 years after his first. It's scary to think what Babe would have accomplished if he had half of Barry Bonds' commitment to training.
Babe's preternatural power was such that he occasionally reached second base before an infielder would catch one of his pop-ups. (Showing his fun-loving personality, he hit one pop-up so high that the infielder lost sight of it, so Babe caught it himself in his bare hands.) Another news account tells of Babe hitting a screaming line drive that nearly hit the pitcher's head before sailing over the centerfielder and hitting the centerfield wall 500 feet away (yes, some of those early ballparks were that deep in center field) on one bounce.
The greatness of Ruth would not be complete if we did not acknowledge several other dimensions of his baseball skills. Tris Speaker, Hall of Fame outfielder, testified that Ruth was one of the five or six greatest outfielders he ever saw. The Babe stole home 10 times in his career. As a pitcher, Ruth won over 100 games; still has the 17th-lowest career ERA and the fourth-lowest World Series ERA; had a winning record in head-to-head match-ups with the great Walter Johnson; and pitched complete game victories in 1930, after not pitching for a decade, and again in 1933 after an additional three-year hiatus. He also played on seven World Series winners (three in Boston, four in New York).
In this Christmas season, I wish Barry Bonds peace. Meanwhile, baseball fans, let us rejoice in the baseball miracle that was Babe Ruth.


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County board chairman addresses LWV annual meeting
Tim Wells, chairman of the Henry County Board, gave am uplifting and often humorous talk at the League of Women Voters annual meeting at The Kewanee Dunes.
Wells told the members and guests he moved back to the area in 2001, and described himself as a "boomerang." "I was gone for a while, then came back," Wells said. "I did graduate from the University of Annawan," he said, adding that it was much more than an education.
Wells, his brothers and a sister grew up on a dairy farm where they always had something to do. He learned early on to get things done, and in 2010 when he ran for the county board for the first time, his platform was that he wanted to become chairman, because, he said, "I wanted to get things done. I didn't care how they used to do it, or if it was never done that way before, I just wanted to be efficient."
By December, he was elected chairman by a split vote of 13 to 11, Republicans versus Democrats, and was the first county board chairman to hold the majority in 22 years.
In 2012, Wells tried to see how they could get rid of the political system at the county level, believing the current system was more a hindrance than a positive. "It takes 28 signatures for a Democratic ballot, 29 for a Republican ballot, and 300 signatures to get on as an Independent. The system is stacked against it."
Wells was told the county would never have ethanol in the region, or wind turbines. Today, there are two ethanol facilities and 186 wind turbines.
Wells acknowledged there is some debate on the turbines. "Are they positive or negative?" he asked. "Even now the southern half of Henry County is referred to as the new red-light district."
When the wind farm was put into commission in September of last year, it brought in over $2.1 million in new taxes. Wells noted the money goes into schools, townships, the county and all the elements in between. "That is a big deal," he said. "I'm very proud of that fact."
People also question the benefits of producing ethanol, and Wells pointed out, "It's a lot better than foreign oil." He said the entire 26 percent protein portion at the end of the ethanol process is sold to China. "They're paying $15 a ton premium for it, and all the shipping costs."
Wells praised the Rock River Arms business in Colona, noting that Israel purchases firearms from there.
Wells said he focuses on the three Es: economic development, education and employment. "Those all drive each other," he said.
He noted Black Hawk College offers a renewable energy degree, and are now working on a gunsmithing degree by working with gun manufacturers, using state-of-the-art machining.
Besides informing the group about the board, Wells said he was also on a recruiting mission. He encouraged those in the League to run for the board, saying there were six women out of 20 members, with the youngest at 24 years old and the oldest at 77. He said it was a diverse group, and that diversity is needed with issues that will come at them in the future.
Wells said each board meeting is opened with a prayer by board chaplain Kathy Nelson. Public comment was moved from the bottom to the top of the agenda so people can state their opinions before the board gets into action items.
In answer to the question of the main purpose of the board, Wells said their focus is on fiscal responsibility, providing direction, and committing to fair policies for all.
"I would really hope that in 2016 we will be debt-free in the county," Wells said.
Future economic development project ideas include transportation, gun manufacturing and renewable energy. Wells said he was proud of the national USDA and Economic Grant that resulted in a full-time director, Kathleen Repass, and a part-time support assistant, Katie Hobbs.
"We have a lot of talent," Wells said. "This is a vibrant county, rich in abundance and heritage, with natural resources and hard-working citizens. The greatest asset in our county is our people."


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One of the perks of being a world-renowned* barbecue blogger is occasionally getting free stuff in the mail. Usually the bounty is barbecue cookbooks but sometimes its edible.
Recently the good folks at SAAS Hot Sauce sent me samples of their two fiery and flavorful hot sauces, Original Flavor and Onion & Garlic. I am still struggling to figure out why these seemingly competent folks would bother to mail their sauce all the way from the, ahem, barbecue capital of Upper Montclair, New Jersey to North Carolina. Regardless, I feel compelled to say some kind words because they deserve a plug.
Both SAAS sauces I sampled are really, truly excellent. And, in case you wondered, my kind words can't be bought for $10 worth of hot sauce. (Ten bucks worth of beer on the other hand… .) The sauces have a thin consistency that works well as a flavor enhancer at the table or as a marinade, if applied cautiously. They are generously spiked with habanero peppers, among other ingredients, so they are seriously HOT and have a deep, layered flavor profile. (I sampled the "spicy hot" varieties, not the mild ones, so cannot comment on the latter.) If you enjoy heat, give 'em a try.
A word of caution: I don't think the SAAS spicy hot sauces belong anywhere near traditional barbecue–their flavors are simply too strong–but the sauces would work nicely for spicy chicken wings, adding heat/flavor to Asian cooking (a hipster alternative to the now ubiquitous Sriracha?), and so on. If you live in the New York area check out SAAS' sauces at a local grocer, or anyone can order online.
Thanks for the sauce, y'all. Now can someone please ship me a whole hog for a change?
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The win moved The Citadel (35-22) into a winner's bracket semifinal on Thursday at 7:30 where it will meet Appalachian State. With the loss, East Tennessee State (22-31) drops into the loser's bracket and will face Furman at 10 am on Thursday.
In the decisive eighth inning, Randall led off the frame with an infield single. David Griffin sacrificed Randall to second and then a wild pitch moved Randall to third. ETSU starter Reid Casey walked Brook Dantzler before being relieved by Jackson Simerly. The first batter Simerly faced was Mainor who lifted a fly to right field. Nathan Copeland made the catch but his throw to the plate was not in time to catch Randall. The run gave the Bulldogs a 3-2 lead.
The Bulldogs staked a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Daryl Byrd walked, moved to second on a single by Dallas McPherson, and advanced to third on a passed ball. He scored on an infield ground out by Philip Hartig and The Citadel led 1-0.
ETSU tied the game in the fourth when Andy Baxter doubled and scored on a basehit by Brandon Cross.
The Citadel regained the lead in the fifth when McPherson reached on an error, stole second, and scored on a Stuart Jordan double.
The Bucs tied the game in the eighth when Kirk Keithley singled with two outs and scored on Baxter's double.
Randy Corn earned the win with 1.1 innings of work with one walk and four strikeouts. Eric Talbert went 7.2 innings as The Citadel's starter and scattered seven hits and did not issue a walk while fanning seven.
Reid Casey, the SoCon strikeout leader, fanned five and walked seven in 7.1 innings. He took the loss as his record fell to 3-8.


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So this is my 100th story, and it's not so much a story, as it is a look back on the first 99…
I had no idea I had so many inside me, but they're here.
For those of you who've commented on them and helped me get better at writing through your critiques, thank you.
For those of you who were unwitting characters in some of them, I thank you.
For my sister who created this blog in the first place and felt I needed to get my writing out there, thank you.
For my family who often saw nothing but the back of my laptop as I was writing – I'm working on that – and thank you – really.
And to some very special people who decided I was worth keeping around – thanks for your help in all of that. You know who you are.
As for the stories – I think the most fun stories for me to write were the ones where you, the reader, figure out whatever punchline was coming, just about the time your eyes hit it.
All of the stories are true. Some took an astonishing amount of research, ballooned into huge, huge stories, then were often allowed to simmer for some time until I could edit them down to whatever the essence of the story actually was. I have one unpublished one that has so much research it that it's ballooned to 12 pages when there's really only about 3 pages of story in there, but that's how the writing process is… Find what you need. Distill it down to its very core, then take that and make it better.
I did a little looking through the stories and found some little snippets that made me think – and made me smile as I read through them all. They're below – in the order they were published (not the order they were written in), so the subject matter and themes are pretty random, but there was a reason for each one of them. So, cue the music, and here's a selection of quotes and thoughts from the stories (with links to the originals) that made me smile, or laugh, or think, or sometimes just cry.
1. From the story: "Cat Piss and Asphalt"
"Pop, is it possible for the memory of something to be better than the event itself?"
This was when my son went to Paris. In Springtime. And he had memories he needed to share. I listened, and smiled, and I wrote.
2. I wrote a story about a friend named Georgiana – who taught me so more about writing software code than any book I ever read, any class I ever took, and more than she could possibly have imagined.
3. Then there was the story "Have you ever been in a dangerous situation and had to drive out of it?" when I was trying to jack up a car with a flat tire, in a forest fire, next to a burning ravine, on a hill on a one lane road the water tanker trucks were using, "Most of the things that I would have used to brace the car to keep it from rolling were on fire, so that limited my options a bit. "
4. There's the story I called "Point and Click" – which really isn't about pointing, or clicking – but is very much about – well, it's short – you'll get it – and even if you don't, that's okay. I hope you don't have to.
"This time, there's a loud "click" of the hammer slamming down on an empty chamber."
5. On managing to borrow a car, and within a couple of telephone calls finding myself taking pictures of an F-4 Phantom out of the back of a KC-135 tanker over Missouri.
"It had to be harder than this…"
The look on the face of a classmate as I was printing the pictures that evening was absolutely priceless.
6. Then there was the story called Salty Sea Dogs – just one of the weird little things that seems to happen to me when I go out for walks…
"Into this nautical environment walk two characters straight out of central casting for Moby Dick"
7. There was just a little snapshot of a conversation between two people, one of whom really understood what was going on, and the other who didn't. And the funny thing is, I'm not sure which one was which. It's just something that happened On the Bus…
8. Sometimes stories happen in the blink of an eye – or in the ever so slight smile of a spandex covered cyclist riding past.
9. I wrote about a lesson I learned about plumbing once, (water doesn't ONLY flow downhill – and it's not just water)- which my kids still laugh about.
10. There was the story where I wasn't sure whether my daughter was complimenting me or insulting me – or a little of both, but it made it in here in the story Compliment? Insult? You decide…
11. And somehow, I managed to get phrases from the movies "The Lion King", Monty Python's "Meaning of Life", and both the old and new Testaments of the Bible into the same story, combining them with a sermon I heard and an attitude from my boss that all ended up in the lesson you can find in the story The view from the Balcony… Forgiveness, Writing in the dirt, and "No Worries"
12. I learned, and wrote about, buried treasure – and it's often not buried, and it's not what you think it might be.
13. I had a story bouncing around in my head for years before I finally wrote it down, and was astonished when the right brained creative side of me finally let go of it and the logical left brain started analyzing it. if I'm wrong on the numbers, I'd be happy to have someone prove me wrong, but when you hit a certain set of railroad tracks at a certain speed in a 1967 Saab, you will catch air, and a lot of it. It was the first of many Saab Stories…
14. I remember a story that came out of a single sentence. This one is called, simply, "Stalingrad" – and is about – well, here's the quote – it's: "a story that boils down to six words, but at the same time, could not be told in a hundred lifetimes" – it was also one of the first stories that caused me to cry as I wrote it. I wasn't expecting that, and I think it was interesting that people asked me to put "hankie warnings" on the stories I'd written from that one.
15. That one was hard to write – emotionally, so for the next one – I wanted to have a little fun – and this story, too, came from only a few sentences my dad told me, but it, too, required a surprising amount of research and I figured out the rest, and realized there were three stories inside this one, and I decided I'd try to braid them together in such a way that they came together – ideally, not in just one word, but the same syllable of that one word. You'll find that story called "B-52's, Karma, and Compromises…".
16. I learned that one person can do something stupid, but if you get a few guys together, even without alcohol, not only does the quantity of the stupidity go up, but the quality is almost distilled to a concentration that you couldn't make up… in the story Synergistic Stupidity, The Marshmallow Mobile, and the Little Tractor that Could… I learned that I could help people, I could do something stupid with a friend, then, while trying to figure out how to un-stupidify this thing, watch as several others got involved, ending up in exactly the same spot we'd gotten ourselves into, break the law, 'borrow' a tractor, and in the end, put everything back where I found it, and my grampa, whose tractor it was that I'd 'borrowed' – didn't find out about it till years later. You'll find that in the story, along with a map of where it happened. Really.
17. I often learned as I wrote – the story about The Prodigal Father took me back a few thousand years, to standing beside another dad, waiting for his son, and I suddenly understood a whole lot more about what he must have been feeling.
18. Some stories were just silly. I mean, Water Skiing in Jeans?
19. Or Jump Starting Bottle Rockets… ? With Jumper cables attached to a 40 year old car?
Yup… I did that.
20. But it's not just my generation. I wrote a story about my mom, who – well, let's say she has a healthy dislike for snakes. Not fear, mind you. Dislike. And when they started getting into the goldfish pond and eating her goldfish – well, she armed herself. First with a camera to prove it – and then with a pitchfork to dispatch it. And sure enough, 432 slipped disks later (Thank you Johnny Hart for that quote), that snake was no longer a threat, and mom, bless her, was quite satisfied…
21. I never think of my mom as a feisty little old lady, she's my mom – but she's awfully close in age (well, in the same decade) as another feisty little old lady named Cleo. I never thought I would get airborne trying to take a picture of an 88 year old woman emptying a mop bucket, but I did, and it made for a wonderful story, and a wonderful image.
22. I took a little break from writing actual stories and spent a little time explaining why in the "story" Scalpels, sutures, and staples, oh my… It was a hard "non-story" to write – but it was what was happening that week, and I was a little too busy living life in the moment to be able to write much about something that had happened in the past.
23. As some of you know, I spent a few years as a photojournalist, and as I was going through some of my old images in a box in the garage one day, I found they were a time machine – taking me back to when I was younger, and when there was so much of life still ahead of me. I remember sitting across a parking lot from a dad trying to teach his daughter how to rollerskate at Saltwater State Park between Seattle and Tacoma, just knowing she was going to fall, and as I sat there and waited to capture the image as she fell, her dad, unseen behind her, was there waiting to capture her. I had a little 'aha' moment about God right then. How many times things have looked like they were going the wrong way, and yet, He was in the background, orchestrating stuff to make it right in the end? (I don't know the answer to that question, just know it's worth asking)
24. Another "Proving Darwin Wrong" moment – as my son says – I was working for the Muskegon Chronicle in Michigan, and these thunderstorms would come in off the lake, and I wanted a lightning picture with a lighthouse in it. Now I'll be the first to tell you that it's not the best lightning shot in the world out there, but there was, shall we say, a flash of inspiration that came rather suddenly as the film was exposed – the only frame, the 28th one (yes, shot on film), in Lightning bolts, metal tripods, and the (just in time) "Aha!" moment…
25. Sometimes the most profound bits of wisdom come from the simplest things. I was astonished to find out how many people read the story "Mowing dandelions at night…" – and what they thought about it. Some of those comments are on the blog – some were sent directly to me, but they were all fun to read, and to ponder.
26. I am constantly astonished at the amount of wisdom that can come from simple things. I remember – again – being in the garage, and finding an old, cracked cookie jar – and as I looked at it, and held it gently, I could almost feel the stories it held, and as I started writing – it gave me more and more detail for the stories that I was able to write and share.
27. The next story published was one I actually wrote in 1998, but happened in 1977, and it was then that the phrase, "Really, they don't shoot on Sundays…" entered into my vocabulary. It was also the story that inspired my son to ask me the question, "How did you get old enough to breed?"
Hearing that from anyone is a little weird.
Hearing that from your own offspring is a little mind bending…
So should you be interested, the story involved a 1973 Pinto station wagon, a hot summer afternoon, some ducks, a cannon shell, and Elvis Presley.
Actually, in that order.
28. I then found myself writing about a cup of coffee, and the friends involved in making it. I've lost touch with Annie – but LaRae is now an amazing photographer, Stevie can still make an incredible cup of coffee, but is making a much better living in the transportation business.
29. I was trying to write a story a week around this time, and had no idea how much time it would take, and found myself staring at Father's day on the calendar, and realizing how, as hard as our relationship often was (I think an awful lot of father-son relationships have their rocky moments, and I remembered back to the time I taught both of my kids to ride a bike. There was this moment, I realized, where you have to let go of the saddle – and as I talked to more and more dads about this, I realized that they all, instinctively held their right hand down by their hip, palm out, fingers curled, as though they were, indeed, Letting go of the saddle…. I have to warn you – this story took a turn toward the end that I wasn't expecting, and it was very, very hard to finish. You'll understand when you get there. I found this story crossed cultural barriers, age barriers, gender barriers, and I ended up putting a hankie warning on this one as well.
30. I needed a little levity, and a smile after that story (remember, they were coming out once a week, but they were taking more than a week to write – so I had spent quite a bit of time on this one, so I, writing, needed a break, and remembered a song we used to sing when I was growing up – and the dawning horror in my wife's eyes as she realized what it actually meant. (Think German sense of humor (heard of Grimm's Fairy Tales?) and leave it at that).
The thing about these stories is they just come. In fact, they're all there – all I have to do is listen, and they'll come…
31. The next story required listening for something that's very hard to hear, and listening for about 20 years before it all came together. It ended up being two stories that morphed into one, and started out as a story about old Saabs, and ended up being a story about listening to God in the weirdest places. At the time, I had no idea that God talked to people in Junkyards, but, it turns out, He does. He talks to us everywhere – if we're willing to listen. I have to say this one's one of my favorites – it was fun to write, fun to search for the right words, fun to put the little vignettes together (there's a bit about Harley Davidsons in there that I really like) and it was fun to see it all come together. I hope you enjoy it – even if you aren't a fan of old Saabs, or maybe haven't heard God in a junkyard. Believe me, I was just as blown away by that as you might expect. If you end up reading the story – let me know what you think, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
32. And we go back into the time machine (in the garage, looking suspiciously like an old box of black and white photos) where I found the picture behind the story "Fishing, Gorillas, and Cops with – well, just read on…" I like the story – love the picture – I think, because it's just a normal day – nothing special about it except that – well, that it was so normal, and if you're looking, you can find beauty everywhere, even if it's an old guy fishing. (actually not far from where I took that lightning shot a few stories up)
33. My next story brought me a little closer to home, and my mom had just made some jelly. I always joked with her that the jars of Jelly were Time Capsules of Love…– and they were. It was neat to be able to finally write a story about them and what they meant to me. I even took a picture of one of those jars for the story.
34. I'd broken my leg that spring, and found myself in an amusing, cross cultural situation afterwards – which ended up in the story, "Knocking down walls with an old brown purse…" I still wonder how the fellow in the story's doing. I did print out a copy there and leave it with people who could get it to him.
35. I'd written a few stories about my son, and decided that it was time to write a couple about my daughter – and the wisdom you can learn about yourself and your kids showed up in two stories, one ostensibly about greasy fingerprints (and Infinite Teenage Wisdom ®)
36. …and one about Pizza – and finances, and if you're not careful in college (or in life), how prioritizing one over the other can affect things in a significant way…
37. I wrote about letting go – something hard to do – but with a smile in the story, and letting go in a location you might not expect.
38. I wrote about Veteran's day – and memories of my dad, crossed with a scene I'd seen when I was a newspaper photographer years earlier, and I suddenly understood what the family whose privacy and grief I chose not to invade were feeling. There is a lot of pain in that story. Writing it down finally helped me to let some of it go.
39. And I needed a smile, so I wrote about Fifi…. This is one of my favorite stories, in which I simply chatted with folks and talked my way onto the only B-29 in the world, but at the same time, talked the photo editor of a paper I'd never seen into holding space on the front page for me because I was going to get a picture from the plane as I flew to the town where that paper was. it was an all or nothing thing from both sides, and was truly an incredible experience. I recently took a training class in "Win Win Negotiations" – and that one was held up as an example of how to do it.
40. There's a story I wrote about rear view mirrors, and it actually has very little to do with mirrors.
41. and another I wrote about pouring a cup of coffee… which, surprisingly, has a lot to do with pouring a cup of coffee.
42. ….and my favorite prank of all, a story about (and yet not about) spinach.
43. My daughter got mad at me for the next one, called "Playing Digital Marco Polo in Seattle…" – which happened over lunch one day. "Why do these things keep happening to you? – I want things like this to happen to me, and they don't – and yet here you go out for lunch and get… " and she trailed off, not sure how to finish it. As it was happening – it had all the drama of a spy thriller – and I wasn't sure what I'd walked into – but it was fun.
44. By this time it was near Christmas, and we as a family had worked our Boy Scout Troop's Christmas tree lot for years, and something special happened this time that made both my wife and an old veteran cry. Tears of joy and gratitude – for having the privilege of being part of something special – but nonetheless tears. And I wrote…
45. We'd gone to Arizona that spring to tape me doing some presentations, and I realized there was a story that needed to be written about not that, but about a very special thing that happened down at the Pima Air Museum, as well as McChord Air Force Base many years earlier, so I shifted gears to write a story for the "Stupid things that Papa did when he was Little" series, it's the story called "Can I help you, sir?"
46. There was a sad story about a fellow with hope, on the bus – made me realize that as bad as things were sometimes, they could always get worse, but this fellow wasn't feeling sorry for himself, he was just taking things one day at a time. From the story: "He said he'd take anything for work, but right now there just wasn't anything."
47. I pondered electrons, and the monthly "Patch Tuesday" we have at work, and my thoughts wandered from very small things like electrons to the really, really big picture of Who made them., and what it all means.
48. Those of you who've been around me for some time have heard me use the term Butthead… and one day I decided to just write the story down about how and why that term came about, and what it means. (it's usually a term of endearment, delivered with all the warmth of a cuff upside the head.)
49. At one point, my guardian angels were sharing pager duty, and all their pagers went off when I was miles from anything, no radio station in range, just, for a rare moment, bored out of my mind, crossing North Dakota one year in that old Ford I had. And I did something to pass the time that apparently set the pagers off. I still wonder, sometimes, how I survived some of these things – or whether they were as crazy as they seem when I write them, or if they were just me paying attention to things other folks just let slide.
50. Often the stories are just from oddities that happen in life. I never thought a broken TV would make a story – but sure enough, it did.
From the story: "Now Michael, because I have educated him in the ways of complex electronics repair, performed the first task one always does when troubleshooting and/or repairing electronics, which is to smack the living crap out of it."
51. And then there was the story about my friend Betty… and I have to tell you, that was one hard, hard thing to write. It was her eulogy, and it took me a week to recover emotionally from writing it, much less giving it. I still miss her.
From the story: "I'd come into that room, with that pile of trampled masks outside the door…"
52. I wrote about my son's and my time in Boy Scouts – with trips to Norwegian Memorial one year and Shi Shi beach the next year. The places aren't much more than 15 miles apart, but the experiences were literally night and day. And after months of pondering I learned that while there was absolute joy in the trip to Norwegian, there was so much more in the way of life lessons from the trip to Shi Shi. They were completely different, but I wouldn't trade either of them for anything.
The thing about these stories is they're just out there in the order they come into my mind… Some get finished quickly, some slowly. Some are written in a couple of minutes – some take decades to live and weeks to write. Some I don't even remember myself until I read them again, and at that point, they're just as fun (or painful) for me to read as they were the very first time…
53. There was the story of Humpty Dumpty in Winter… – (because we all know he had a great fall) – and I think it's safe to say that that particular story was the epitome of understatement. It's just the absolute tip of the iceberg from when I broke my leg.
54. I didn't write for awhile after that, and when I did, needed something to cheer me up a little, and wrote a story called What Heaven must be like… about an afternoon that was both planned and spontaneous, and I did something that I had never done before. I met new friends, I saw a smile from my son I wish I'd actually caught (there's a picture in the story *after* he stopped smiling – I was trying to hold the camera steady while we were still coasting toward him at a good clip and missed how big that wonderful smile actually was. That story is very much in my top ten favorites – assuming I have a list like that…
55. And then… for a little fun, I wrote a story that was a combination "Saab Story" and a date with a young lass who shall remain nameless, but who – well, here's the title: Old Saabs, Big puddles, and Bad dates. You'll figure it out.
56. Not long after that, my friend Beth wanted me to go out and do something fun, and take pictures to prove it. It was also a time when my friend Greg wondered out loud whether I embellished my stories. I'd heard that question before, and given how weird some of the stories are, I understood the reason behind it. I told him no, I didn't embellish them, and then, to Greg's incredible shock, he walked right into one of the stories with me, literally as it happened. The look on his face when he realized what was happening is something that will live on with me for a long time. He insisted I write it down, and that I could most definitely put his name in it, so here it is… There were three main parts to the story – and they all made it into the title: Blackbirds, Blue Saabs, and Green Porta Potties
57. Some of my stories are what I guess you'd call a 'profile' of a person – and in this next case, it was of a fellow who was a stranger, was assigned to be my officemate, became a friend, I followed him to another company where he became my boss, and as we grew older and professionally went our separate ways, we still remained friends, and I still have a lot of fondness for the memory of that first meeting of my friend Jae…
58. Then there was the time when my mom used a phrase I'd never, ever heard her use – and I'd only heard used one other time in my life. But that time had a story wrapped around it so tight that you couldn't hear the words without going into the story. And, as is often the case, the story spans a couple of generations, some youthful stupidity, global warming, and how difficult it can be to keep a straight face when being asked a simple question… You'll find all that in An "Inconvenient Truth" – and how important asking the right questions is.
59. I went back several years on the next story, which was called, simply, Bathtime… I didn't realize how – much that little activity with your kid could change your life, but it does, and the story still brings a smile. (yes, there are pictures, but no, they weren't included in the story, for reasons that will become obvious as you read it)
60. I did quite a bit of thinking as I wrote Dirty Fingernails, Paint Covered Overalls, and True Friends – and liked the way it came out. Life lessons that took a number of years to happen actually came together in an 'aha' moment as I was writing this story – and it just made me smile. I opened up a bit more in this one than I had in others, I thought, but it was all true. I found myself happy with the result.
61. Amazing Grace simmered in my brain for several years before I felt it was ready. It was one that happened as it's described in the story – but I spent quite a bit of time trying to be absolutely sure the images described in the story were written correctly so that whoever read it could not only see them, but feel them. It was an experience, on so many levels, physical, emotional, spiritual. I hope that feeling comes through. Let me know how it affects you.
62. I changed pace completely with the next story. Shock and Awwwwww… took place in the lobby of Building 25 on Microsoft's main campus. It's the classic story of "Boy Meets Girl" but there's a twist… it's not just a Boy… It's a Nerd. And it's not just a Girl, but a drop dead gorgeous girl in the eyes of said Nerd. Everything is going fine until the paperclip enters the picture, and then sparks literally fly.
63. Over the years I've found that chocolate has totally different effects on men than it does on women. I mean, if it's chocolate from Germany, or Switzerland (both are kinds I had when I grew up) then it's okay. Other than that, I generally don't go out of my way to find it. I don't have a reverence for it like you see in some ads, and simply didn't understand the whole "oh, it's so WONDERFUL" idea one mother's day weekend when we went to Cannon Beach in Oregon – and there, I learned that strange things happen when you put Men, Women, Cannon Beach, and Chocolate in the same story.
64. And then I had a week in which – well, I couldn't quite write a story.
65. There was so much going on, a little fun – but then so much teetering at the edge of life and death thing that it was hard to think of something fun or funny to write about. Life was happening, and I needed to deal with it. I didn't realize how personal this would become in the next little bit. I was hoping to write a story about graduation for the young people I knew who were graduating, but a lot of the echoes of what had recently happened to me followed in the next few posts,
66. And I wrote a story about Graduation, dodging bullets, and other life lessons… that seemed to encompass all I needed to say, plus telling the young graduates something that might help them along their way.
67. And then, of course, there was the 4th of July – a holiday that carries with it many memories that would have my son convinced that Darwin was completely wrong. In this case, the story was about Rockets, Styrofoam airplanes, the Fourth of July, and Jimi
68. And an example of how some stories come from the weirdest places – all I can do is point you to this one: TEOTWAWKI* (if you're an arachnid) – so if you're a spider, you might not want to read this one.
69. And then, in a story about an event my mom found out about literally as she read my story about it, and, as she told me, had her heart beating a little because she didn't remember it and wasn't quite sure of the outcome. Again, proving Darwin wrong, we have what happens when you Take one teenager, add horsepower, and get… It's entirely possible that that's when my Guardian Angels were issued their first pagers.
70. After that, I found a couple of stories I'd asked my dad to write. He'd written four of them on the computer and printed them out – just before the computer was stolen. I wrote a 'wrapper' around the stories to put them in context, but otherwise, they are exactly as written. I did that with three of his stories, and they are One act of kindness that's lasted more than a lifetime,
71. Puff balls and Pastries – in which – well, a little mishap caused a problem that had some surprising consequences.
72. …and Some things matter, and some things don't. I was truly stunned at the world he was describing in this one, in large part because there was something in it that was considered by the people of that time and place to be "normal". I often wonder about his friend there, what happened to him.
73. By this time it was summer – and it was time for the kids to visit the grandparents back east, and it got me thinking about that time many years ago when I had to do some Rat sitting while they were gone, so I wrote about that one, and smiled at the memory.
74. And then, a story that had been in my head for years, and I think by far the most read story on the blog, and it was a simple story about Tractors, Old Cars, and a Farmer named Harry
I checked with his family first, having a long conversation with his son before I published this, and got their approval. I heard from his friends, I heard from people who didn't know him, and because of the story, felt they did or wished they had. I had no idea what an impact a story like that could make – but it clearly did, and I felt it was – and had been – a privilege to know Harry and his family.
75. The next story took place in church – where often children are supposed to be quiet – but one child made her presence known in a totally different way in
Thump. Thump… ThumpThumpThumpThump!
76. Writing the story about Harry made me think of Grad School, and I found myself humming the song "Try to remember the kind of September…" and wrote a story around that – my first couple of days in Athens Ohio – what a cultural shift it was, and simultaneously, what a neat and terrifying experience it was to do this (go 2500 miles from home, to a place where you knew no one, and see how much of a success you can make of yourself…)
77. That got me reminiscing a bit, and the next story was from when I was about 12, when I spent part of a summer Haying, growing up, and learning to drive a clutch… It was a fun summer – and both trucks, the '66 Dodge and the '54 Ford, the truck that could pull the curves in the Nisqually River straight in the story still exist. They were sold to a neighbor who still uses both of them. And my uncle's back has completely healed.
78. "The only thing missing was an old Jeep and mugs of bad Army coffee." I found myself thinking about how God reaches for us in some of the strangest places – and remembered thinking this as we were walking back from a Civil Air Patrol Search. It was our first real search instead of a practice one – and we were quite excited about actually being able to put our training to use… The combination of all of those things brought me to the story God, Searches, and ramming Aaron through the bushes
79. Lest anyone think I'm so incredible (you should know better) that God talks to me like He talked to Moses – there was a little story about – well, it fell squarely into the middle of the "Stupid things that Papa did when he was Little" series. I learned a lot about keeping the fire (and, come to think of it… starting the fire) in the stove.
80. If you've been reading the stories, you might remember that I took a trip down memory lane – on the Autobahn, to Munich, at 110 mph, in the story Octoberfests, Museums, and Bavarian Waitressess – it combined almost getting kicked out of one museum, getting locked out of a second, and trying to drown our sorrows in a very famous place, Munich's Hofbräuhaus. …and – I wonder if the waitress (in the story) is still there… Whether she is or not, she made a memory that's lasted over 30 years…
81. Taking risks…
"…there was nothing but air between me and the roof about 30 feet below, and had I slipped, I would have rolled down, then off the roof and fallen another 40 feet or so before becoming one with the pavement" Yeah, there's a story that wouldn't have happened if the scaffolding hadn't held, if the receptionist hadn't called the janitor, or if, simply, I hadn't thought to ask if I could climb out on the roof of the courthouse to get a closer shot of the construction going on. Sometimes, to get what you want, you have to be bold, step out of your comfort zone, and ask for EXACTLY what you want. You'll be astonished at how often you'll actually get it. And sometimes, you might even have proof that you asked…
82. We go from the top of the courthouse to sitting in the shade on Mr. Carr's front stoop. And I never thought that I would (or could) write a story about a sandwich, but this one was worth writing about. I still remember how cool that water was, how moist the – oh, I'd better stop, pretty soon you'll want your own Mr. Carr's Sandwich
83. A story about my friend Jill – including the only picture I was ever able to take of her, as well as the line, "WHAT have you DONE to my CAR?" – said in a way you might not expect.
84. The story behind my son's famous quote, "Sometimes, things go wrong…" There's a lesson there that we could all learn a lot from.
85. In the story A tale of Three Christmas Trees, and a little bit more… you'll find the line,
"In fact, it's safe to say, that in that year, God did not have Christmas trees falling out of the sky for us. Well, actually… I take that back. He did."
And it's true. But there's much more to that story, involving things like how much character you get from being poor – and learning to not take things for granted, and making things on your own. All amazing stuff in and of itself, but together, wow.
86. Every now and then, a dream will show a startling reality in a way that simply can't be explained in words. It was new year's day – and I wrote of a dream I'd had – and the lesson in it in A New Year's thought, of flashlights, warm hands, and a wish…
87. …and then – a story that had happened a decade earlier finally made it into print, and I wrote about Meeting Howard Carter in the back of the Garage… If you don't know who Howard Carter is – read the story – you'll find out. There are links to him there – but what's interesting is the story has very little to do with Howard Carter, and much more to do with a dishwasher, and a '70's era Plymouth that was big enough to put a small village in the trunk of.
88. Michael and I, in dire need of a break from everything, hit the road in the story Road Trip! (and Mermaids… and the Gates of Mordor) – and crammed just about as much as we could cram into one 24 hour period as we could, in two states. We combined Horses (a couple of brown ones and a mustang), and music, and too many spices, and old, fun music, and theatre, and sports, and an excellent impression of the Four Yorkshiremen, and it all melted into one afternoon/evening/morning/next afternoon that was a tremendous amount of fun.
89. Even as this next one was happening, and I was smelling a truckload of gasoline in a place I'd never thought I'd smell it, and blocking traffic in the last place I wanted to block traffic, I found myself wondering if this was going to make it into a story. It did. It's here: Caffeine, Clean Engines, and Things that go Whoomp in the Night…
90. If you remember the story about "Transmissions from God", you know that occasionally I hear God's still, small voice telling me to do something. Sometimes I hear Him in a junk yard, sometimes I hear him in the balcony at church, and sometimes in Safeway parking lots in Ballard.
91. If you're keeping track, this next story, in the order they were written, was Norwegian… – though it happened a year before the Shi Shi Beach story. It ranks as one of the top camping trips I've ever been on.
92. And this next story was literally a dream. If you've gotten this far, you know that occasionally I'll remember one, and for whatever reason it will have something significant in it. I called this one Jungles, White Helicopters, and Long Journeys – because when I had that dream, I thought I was near the end of a long journey – but in reality, – well, if you've ever gone through a challenging time – and you can pick your challenge. The story fits. Let me know what you think. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
93. And after I wrote that one, I got to wandering down memory lane a bit – sometimes with a smile, sometimes with a hankie – sometimes both. It's funny how a certain smell rocketed me back to Sidney, Ohio and this story: Black and White, and Read all over… – and it's written pretty much how I told it to my son on the way home one evening. It still brings a smile.
94. While I was in the neighborhood, so to speak – I remembered the time I wandered into a radio station just outside of Sidney, because no one told me I couldn't – and making a new friend with the DJ there. I smile every time I think about that time, and the story Radio Stations, Paul Simon, and Blue Moons came out of it.
95. I've had stories take on a life of their own – and this next one was one of them. I started off just writing a story about me doing something that had unexpected results, and it suddenly turned into something more. Something much, much more. You'd never think that Carburetor Cleaner, Hot Water, and a Cold Sprite could be mentioned in the same sentence and have a common theme – but they were – they do, and I feel, honestly, honored to have been a part of the story.
I will miss Dan. He's one of the best.
It took me awhile to figure out what to do next… the story about Dan was published, along with some of the other "Saab Stories" in the Saab Club Magazine – and I just had to let it simmer a little bit, as it was, if you read it – a hard story to finish.
96. The next story was one I'd written a year earlier, and was one of those things that my daughter would say just happens to me. I don't know why, maybe because I pay attention? I'm not sure… In this case, I was out for a walk, and a little dog interrupted that walk and melted my heart for a good while. When I found out the dog's name, I was stunned, and did lots of research into the name, just to understand it. I think it's because of all the research I did that my mind was completely overwhelmed with the name and what it represented, and I didn't like the story at all. But – a year went by, and I read it again, and sure enough it made me smile. It turns out that Fuzz Therapy with Rasputin is cheaper than any other kind of therapy.
97. Sometimes therapy comes in different packages. I remember one time, years ago, my son was sick, it had been an exhausting day, and I'd just gotten him to bed, but he wasn't sleepy. I was sitting there, in the tired exhaustion felt by all parents of youngsters at the end of a long day, trying to figure out what I could do to make him comfortable enough so that he would go to sleep. Of course, if he went to sleep, that meant I could sleep, too. While I was pondering this, I heard his voice cut through the thoughts, "Papa? Tell me a story…"
A story. It was like I'd been in a dream, and he'd pulled me out of it. A story. I tried to think, and knowing he liked dragons, I figured I'd start somewhere and see where it took me. I'd had a class years ago where we wrote a story, one sentence at a time, but the professor wrote a word on the board, and we had to write a sentence around it. Then he'd write another word, we'd write another sentence. Eventually, we'd have a story, but we wouldn't know, from one sentence to the next, where the story was taking us.
And that's how I started… Blindly going where no story teller had gone before, I started off with my first sentence: "Fred was a Dragon." – and I went on from there, the story slowly taking shape until it became the story you can read as: Of Dragons, Knights, and Little Boys… Let me know what you think when you can.
98. I put this next one out on Father's day. It's a Saab story, but it's more than that… it was a trip my son and I took to visit my mom on the fourth of July – and an adventure that had a fun quote come out of him. It made me smile, and – wow – 6 years later, I finally wrote it down. It became the story called …if Will Smith drove a Saab 96
And – it's still July as I write this… I've been going through a lot of these stories, trying to find my favorites – find the ones that made me smile – that still make me smile, and also find the ones that made me think, or helped me learn something…
Sometimes I learn things that people show me, or teach me, or from some mistake I made.
Sometimes I learn from things God puts in front of me and gives me the privilege of seeing, and learning from.
And sometimes I learn from stories that have made me cry, in living them, in writing them, and again in reading them.
There's a little of every one of them in there. There's tales of youthful stupidity, there's the story in which my son says I've simply proved Darwin wrong – that it's not survival of the fittest – it's survival of the luckiest – and often there's an element of truth to that. The phrase that sticks with me is the one he said after I told him one of my "Stupid Things that Papa did when he was Little" stories. I heard words I'd never, ever have thought to hear from my own offspring, "How did you get old enough to breed?"
99. So to finish that off – a tale that involves a uniquely American holiday, youthful stupidity, a good bit of luck, and the sound of Guardian Angel's pagers going off yet again… It's the memories of July 4th… When I was a kid…
Thanks for being with me through these first 99 – well, 100 stories. I hope you've enjoyed them as much as I have.
Take care & God bless,
It was in "Athens-by-God-Ohio" that I met her, the feistiest, orneriest, funniest little old lady (short of my mom) I could ever hope to meet.
Cleo was 88, and I was there in Grad school a number of years ago, getting my master's degree in photojournalism – and I was there without a car. This limited the stories I could do to pretty much walking or busing distance, and I found that Cleo lived just down the street.
Cleo was as independent as they come, and lived alone, in her own house. She did her own grocery shopping, did her own chores, and spent occasional afternoons at the senior center in town playing cards or just reminiscing with the dwindling group of friends her own age she could relate to.
Her kids thought she was too old to live by herself, so they decided that she needed to be moved into a nursing home.
In Columbus.
68 miles away.
She disagreed, but it seemed that they were pretty insistent, and they moved her there.
Remember "feisty"?
Well, she promptly hopped a Greyhound back to Athens.
They didn't mess with her anymore after that.
In talking to her, I found that she did her chores on Saturday, and since I was trying to find a story – I thought that it would be interesting to see what kinds of stories could be told in the pictures I could get of her doing that – so I made an appointment with her for Saturday morning around 10:00. After we talked and joked a little, I told her that her job was to ignore me, and to just do what she would normally do.
And she did..
She swept.
She dusted.
…and she mopped.
Now when she mopped, she put on these old floppy galoshes, grabbed a bucket of water and whatever cleaner she used, and sloshed water on the floor and mopped it up. There was no grace to the movements, no pretense. She wasn't putting on a show for me, in fact, she was in her own little world, and completely ignoring me, which was just perfect.
I took some pictures of the mop and the galoshes, thinking that would make a good detail shot, and then, as I was focusing, she picked up the bucket and started for the back door. I followed, getting a shot of her opening the old, dilapidated screen door, and at that moment, the light came on in my head – she was going to throw the water off the back porch!
I literally jumped past her as she hung the mop onto a string, spinning 180 degrees in mid air so I landed facing her somewhere in the middle of the little back yard. I must have instinctively focused the lens (a 24mm Nikkor) somewhere in mid air because I don't remember doing it. I hammered down on the shutter release for the motor drive of my Nikon FM-2 just as she did her back swing to lob the water off the porch, and got a series of 5 shots of the water sloshing out of the bucket into the yard.
Number 3 was the best.
1/250th of a second at f/8. It wasn't an easy print. I printed it as high contrast as I could get – but that meant that the highlights (specifically her right arm, where the sleeve ends and the arm begins) were blasted out pure white and needed to be burned down so you could see detail. I dodged out the galoshes, making sure you could see them, and used a touch of potassium ferricyanide on the wet mop hanging on the string to make it less of a blob. I burned the wall of her house down a little darker (photographically, not in real life) so it would fade into the background a little, bringing the water up a bit in the process.
She was 88 years old back in 1987, so I'm sure she's gone now, but she was a neat lady. I'm glad to have known her.


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What does a man who already controls pretty much everything in his country — from politics to the judiciary to defense — give to himself? How about direct takeover of his country's sovereign wealth fund?
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed himself chairman of Turkey's sovereign wealth fund after recent promises to exert greater influence over the economy. He's nixed the old guard management and hand-picked their replacements, in a move his political rival, presidential candidate who lost the June election, Muharrem Ince, has aptly described as taking "public companies prisoners".
And not to be one to break medieval sultanate tradition, he's further named his son-in-law and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak as deputy chairman. Continue reading


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Dad would have been 57 today and I can't help but think of what he might have done with the last 22 years of his life. Since my dad was a wild soul much like myself, I know that we got robbed of all the creative genius he would have brought into the world. I... Continue Reading →
Holiday Grief
Let's be real, the holidays are tough. Some of us travel hours to get home to find ourselves sleeping on couches that are available for free. Many of us are responsible for ensuring that the small people we've created wake up to a joyous experience. Others of us are running around to make sure that... Continue Reading →
Vacation With My Dad
One of the things I specifically remember about my dad is how much he loved his time in Germany. He spent about a year there when he served in the Army and he always talked about how amazing he thought the country and its people were. He kept a photo album of his adventures in... Continue Reading →
The Truth About Being Fatherless
Being fatherless left a hole in me that I couldn't even begin to process until nearly two decades later. I had recited the words "My father passed away when I was young" more times than I can count to strangers, new friends, potential love interests and anyone who innocently asked about my parents. I hated... Continue Reading →
Pictures in His Wallet
I found your wallet, dad. It had been hiding in the box of your things I've been carrying around all these years and never opened. I recently decided it was time to find out anything and everything I could about your life and doing so meant opening the box. I finally felt strong enough to... Continue Reading →
My Costa Rican Dad
This time 3 years ago, I was heading home from a mission trip to Costa Rica. I decided to travel to this beautiful country with a group called e3 Partners on a trip where I thought I would be used to change lives. I could not have been more wrong about how that turned out.... Continue Reading →
Surviving Father's Day
I have spent the last 20 years without my dad on Father's Day and I know firsthand that all of us who are fatherless dread this day. Some who are fatherless would give everything they have to be able to hug their dad one last time and tell him how much he means. Others are... Continue Reading →
His Favorite Color was Blue
Like many of us who lost a parent young, I have very few memories left of my dad. Throughout my life, it's been tough to discern whether or not the ones I have are actual memories or a creation of the perfect dad I would like to hold on to. The vivid memories that I do... Continue Reading →


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WASHINGTON – An investment firm is offering to buy from the government core businesses of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a $52 billion deal.
Fairholme Capital Management made the proposal Wednesday to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie. The government rescued the two companies in the financial crisis in September 2008 with taxpayer aid totalling $187 billion.
Fannie and Freddie buy mortgages from lenders, package them as securities, guarantee them against default and sell them to investors.
Miami-based Fairholme says it would lead a group of investors to buy the guarantee businesses of the companies. The firm says that would be sufficient to back about $1 trillion in new mortgages.
The Obama administration is seeking to wind down Fannie and Freddie.
An agency spokeswoman declined comment on the proposal.
The goal of the Obama plan is to replace Fannie and Freddie with a system that would put the private sector, not the government, primarily at risk for the loans. That would spread the risk over numerous companies. The government would still be involved, both in oversight and as a last-resort loan guarantor. The White House also wants a guarantee that private lenders will make sure homeowners have access to 30-year fixed mortgages.
Fairholme said its proposal would end government control of Fannie and Freddie and government backing for new mortgages. It would create two private insurance companies to buy the mortgage securities guarantee businesses of Fannie and Freddie. The new companies would have no federal charter or special status, and the names Fannie and Freddie would be ended.
It is unclear whether the Fairholme proposal would fit with the administration's plan. Government officials have said previously that a small group of investment firms taking on such a large risk of mortgage defaults would open the possibility of the government having to bail out the firms if they failed.
The gradual recovery of the housing market has made Fannie and Freddie profitable again. Their repayments of the government loans have helped make this year's federal budget deficit the smallest in five years.
The two companies last week posted strong earnings for the July-September period, enabling them to finish repaying their taxpayer aid or come close to doing so.


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So as followers of this blog will note, we have stayed closely to the more fringe elements of white nationalism and the far right. This means looking towards various Third Positionist movements, National Anarchism, racial paganism, and, of course, neo-folk and related musical genres. We would never claim that the entire genre is fascist in nature, really only a small subset of bands are in the grand scheme of things, but they have been influential in the aesthetics, lyrical content, and style of the movement.
The harbringer of this turn is the seminal neo-folk band, Death in June. People will note them for their extensive use of Nazi and fascist imagery, which people try to claim is either ironic, non-racial pagan, shock value, or some other apologetic notion. Douglas Pearce, the masked front man of DiJ, has repeatedly countered this view with his open racist comments, support for Third Positionist/Strasserite National Socialism, and his racialized Nordic Odinism. This is a point that has been outlined in many, many places before, so instead of retreading the evidence for the band's racist positions and connections, we will simply post a reading list below with links to articles that expand on this. DoJ makes up a racialist undercurrent of bands that all intertwine, including Sol Invictus, Blood Axis, Boyd Rice, and many other neo-folk, martial industrial, pagan metal, and black metal bands.
DiJ and its cohorts are destructive parasites on music culture, where they have infected goth and industrial musical subculture with nationalist notions. Pearce has continued, and will continue when confronted, to hide behind the fact that he is an open gay man and has worked in Jews, but this is only a complexity that is built on a much more deeply running idea of racial folkish nationalism. Even though he may not share every aspect of victimizing fascist ideologies, he certainly pairs the Might is Right, racial separatism, and cult of violence that makes up the genocidal nationalist project. More importantly, he creates a space for a "rainbow" assortment of those on the far right, and almost none of their concerts pass without participation from local white nationalists, skinheads, neo-Nazis, Odinists, Men's Rights Activists, and others on the racist "Alternative Right." Plainly put: Death in June is a "hip" meet-up point for those who want to dethrone equality and democracy and institute a brutal hierarchical order built on racial, gender, and sexual divisions. Whether the followers use fancy terms like "anarcho-Monarchist" or "Dark Enlightenment," they share the same philosophical trend that makes up our direct opposition.
Death in June is heading out on tour for the end of November and all of December. Antifa has seen some of their biggest successes in shutting down Death in June events, which can sometimes be the largest white power event in a city all year. The "no platform" principle of Antifa organizing is incredibly important here, where the first organizing strategy can be to pressure the venue to cancel the show. Most venues do not even know who they are offering the space to, and certainly do not want to invite the kind of conflict or characters that are insured at a DiJ show. If they double down, as they have in many instances, then this means confronting the event as it is happening and doing what is possible to stop DiJ from having a space to operate. In these instances, we can draw heavily from the community, to have a groundswell that is not going to tolerate old-fashioned racist ideas under the guise of hipster irony and nature worship. DiJ actions have been especially successful from the participation of anti-racist pagans and music fans who are tired of being associated with a vile racist undercurrent.
They will also be touring with a band Spiritual Front, which is more up front about their white nationalism than even Death in June.
Below, we are listing all of the Death in June concert dates and location, including the venues. You can choose the venue link or the Facebook to get the phone number and email, both of which are good for contact. It is also a good idea to try posting messages on the venue's Facebook page, but expect DiJ fans to begin insulting you. Locally, groups should begin to organize counter actions, as well and having "call ins" in coordinating blasts to show the venues that the community will not tolerate this kind of racialist music in their city.
|Death in June Reading List
|Below are articles that outline Death in June's nationalist politics and fascist connections.


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Body of 2nd missing canoeist found in Ohio River
LEVANNA, Ohio (AP) — Searchers have found the body of an Ohio River canoeist who was presumed drowned after his companion's body was located in the water last week.
An Ohio Department of Natural Resources spokesman says a Division of Watercraft officer spotted the second body Tuesday, several miles from where the canoeists began their trip.
The spokesman says the Bracken County, Kentucky, coroner's office was called, and the body was identified as 20-year-old Cameron Buerger of Troy, which is north of Dayton, Ohio.
A volunteer found the other canoeist, 19-year-old Marty Stanaford, on Friday. That was six days after the pair set out in a 15-foot canoe from Levanna, Ohio, about an hour upstream from Cincinnati.
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"Collectible dolls signed by Versace" (referring to my Barbie Versace doll)-the big headline
Toys for big children - the smaller headline
Rare collection- a collector, from Thessaloniki, gathers history and big screen heroins in miniature. (text box)
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There are some dolls that have been produced in One Of A Kind editions. Most of them are auctioned for charity purposes so their price can reach astronomical heights. For example, in 2006, a Barbie In Midnight Red was auctioned in London for US$17,000.
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- Fashion Royalty dolls, designed by a real fashion designer, Jason Wu.
- Barbie collector's editions.
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