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Tuesday afternoon the YMCA weight area was wrapped off with caution tape. Not because there was an accident, but because brand new strength training circuit equipment was being installed for its members.
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TOKYO, May 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 21, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) held the Invest Tokyo Seminar as a part of its initiatives to attract foreign companies with the aim to create a global business city. Around 120 people from foreign companies with operations in Japan, foreign embassies and chambers of commerce in Japan participated in the seminar.
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In his opening remarks Governor Yoichi Masuzoe touched on the fact that Tokyo was selected as one of the National Strategic Economic Growth Areas, and mentioned new projects to be implemented within this special economic zone including the creation of a more comfortable international business environment, the formation of a hub for healthcare and drug development innovation, and the creation of an accommodating international city.
Governor Masuzoe said that through these efforts the TMG will dramatically transform Tokyo into a business and innovation center that will be even more attractive to companies around the world by making Tokyo a global business hub open to the world. He said he is looking forward to welcoming many foreign companies to a Tokyo that will be reborn as it prepares for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Following this, a talk session was conducted by Mr. William Mallard, Deputy Bureau Chief, Japan, Reuters, and the representatives of foreign companies receiving TMG's support in their advance into Tokyo's Special Zone for Asian Headquarters (program established in 2011). They exchanged opinions on matters such as the free tailor-made consulting services provided by the TMG and the allure of Tokyo including its wealth of business partners and human resources, efforts to protect intellectual property, transportation convenience and clean living environment, as well as business opportunities provided by Tokyo 2020 Games.
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The mission of the early childhood programs at Sanilac District Library is to highlight the importance of reading and sharing books with children, especially during the critical developmental ages of 0-5. Our programs are designed to promote literacy and increase awareness of our library as we provide services to families that lay the foundation for reading and school success.
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Neighbors dying alone, homeless
Published: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 2:28 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 2:28 p.m.
"If families are out on the street, we're not doing good enough."
— Mike Johnson, CEO of COTS
More than a month after a badly decomposed female body was discovered on McNear peninsula, just a few blocks from Petaluma's bustling downtown, police have yet to determine the woman's identity. What's known is that she probably died alone, with no friends or family members around to say goodbye. By the time she was located, police said her corpse was skeletal.
Last Thursday, someone walking their dog along Willow Brook Creek at the north end of town discovered the body of a dead man lying near a string of homeless encampments mostly hidden from public view. Evidence on the scene indicated that he too had died alone.
Both of the deceased are believed to have been homeless, members of a growing population of transients hunkered down in a series of makeshift encampments alongside the Petaluma River.
While most of us don't know them personally, these people are our neighbors. Should we not try to do more to help them?
With a median household income in excess of $76,000 a year, Petaluma is one of the more affluent cities in the country. We have a model emergency homeless shelter and program, COTS, that is recognized nationwide as one of the most effective and innovative of its kind, supported by dozens of caring volunteers and generous benefactors.
Despite this, hundreds of people in Petaluma are still living on the edge and, sometimes, dying long before their time.
In her story this week on the river's homeless encampments, reporter Janelle Wetzstein interviewed some of these people who, in just a few weeks, will begin to face more challenging circumstances as the weather turns colder and wetter. While not all of the homeless in our community are inclined to seek help, many of those who do will encounter a discouragingly long waiting list to access COTS' services.
Of the roughly 500 people who come to COTS each year, the organization is only able to place about half in permanent or temporary housing. The half who are not placed continue to cycle through the emergency shelter because there is not enough affordable housing in the community to accommodate them.
Such people, according to COTS' CEO Mike Johnson, often work entry level jobs and don't have enough income or work history to qualify for a rental. They often don't qualify for disability, veterans' benefits or other state or federal assistance, and so remain homeless.
Johnson has said that he and COTS want to eliminate homelessness in Petaluma, and they have an ambitious plan to achieve that very difficult goal. It's called Integrity Houses, where unrelated adults share a rental house in order to reduce each individual's costs. With three to five adults sharing the expense, their combined rents add up to the going rate.
There are nine Integrity Homes in Petaluma. Johnson's goal is to expand that number to 50. The challenge is finding home owners willing to participate, so COTS is diligently seeking people willing to rent out their 3- to 4- bedroom houses at market rates.
If you or someone you know is in a position to help, please consider participating in the Integrity Homes project. Or consider making a donation today. To reach the Committee on the Shelterless, call 765-6530 or visit www.cots-homeless.org.
Achieving COTS' ambitious goal will require this community's strong support. But given Petaluma's collective generosity and compassion for helping neighbors in need, it's not impossible. Now is the time to see whether COTS' call to action will resonate enough to eliminate or significantly reduce the homeless problem in Petaluma.
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Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers (USW), today condemned Senate Republicans for blocking passage of the 'Bring Jobs Home Act' (S.2569). The bill would advance tax credit for companies returning jobs to the U.S. ... more
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Erik Kain, Contributor
I write about video games: the industry and the culture.
Hawken is a multiplayer mech combat game that would be a great buy. But it's free to play, and that comes at a price.
Update 6/21/13: Having spent more time with the game and had discussions with Hawken's developers, I think my early gut reactions and first impressions to the free to play nature of the game were wrong. I still have some quibbles with the model, but as far as F2P models go, Hawken does a very good job and is only getting better over time.
I started playing Hawken yesterday. The mech combat game is graphically stunning, especially for an indie title. The terrain, the mechs themselves, all of it looks gorgeous. Indeed, beyond graphics, the control scheme and movement of the mechs feels great, though I haven't played a mech simulator in ages so I have little to compare it to.
But I just couldn't play for that long, because I knew that almost the entire game was blocked off to me behind the Freemium paywall. Such a good-looking game, such a shame it's been chopped up into pay-as-you-go morsels.
For instance, you start off with just one mech and you have to buy access to the others.
Yes, you can earn currency to put toward this effort as you play but you'll realize quickly that such an endeavor will cost you a great many hours.
And you'll be forced to fight against paying customers as you go since match-making is, as Nathan Grayson puts it, "basically broken. Seriously. It does not make matches. It breaks them. I'm not sure what arcane principles guide it to make the pairings it does, but a markedly higher-than-zero number of level 1-5 teams tossed into the deep end against level 20s forces me to suspect warlocks are involved."
Pay to win is a death sentence as far as I'm concerned. Free to play can work. In theory it could work quite well, but in practice very few games achieve that perfect balance and only a handful achieve a good balance. They almost always feel unsportsmanlike to me, and Hawken is no exception.
Now imagine the game cost $20 like Torchlight 2 (which sold over 1 million units in 2012) or even $40 or more. You'd have access to everything from the get-go, but might have to purchase DLC later on. Everyone would start out with access to all the mechs or would be able to unlock them simply by playing the game for X amount of hours. The playing field, at least in the beginning, would be level since everyone would have the same access.
I understand that people are looking to find better revenue streams for their games, but we shouldn't be breaking the very nature of games in order to do that. Free-to-play too often goes against the very grain of competitive gameplay and fairness that makes games fun in the first place. Hawken is certainly a very promising title, but it's been crippled badly by its adoption of a freemium revenue model.
Yes, this is still a game in beta form, but in a sense most free-to-play games always feel like they're in beta form unless you fork over a great deal more money than you would for a typical PC or console title.
As Grayson also notes, "free-to-play comes at a paradoxically high cost, roping off all mech classes except a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none recruit machine that looks like a walking television. (Somewhat hilariously, its codename is CR-T.) Hawken's XP/in-game currency accumulation rate is quite slow, too, so unlocking any of the more interesting classes takes hours. In the meantime, you can always drop precious spacebucks on a slow trickle of items, weapons, and other miscellaneous upgrades, but the agonizing rate of progress certainly doesn't befit Hawken's race of fleet-footed colossi."
It's quite similar to the model you see utilized in so many free mobile games, and is another reason I find the prospect of the Ouya console with its "free only" game catalog a less-than-exciting one.
This guy plays for one day and then starts spouting total lies. You don't have to pay a single cent in Hawken to be competitive. The only things that actually require real money are cosmetic- changing the looks of your mech.
You get 125+ points per match, a new mech costs 6k+ points. So far every weekend has had double points, so 250-ish points per 15 min matches. You can get a new mech in like 20 matches. That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I've been playing for two weeks, a couple hours per day (if that), I haven't spent a single cent and I have 4 mechs I own and 2 free ones in my garage. One mech is fully decked out with all the equipment it needs. So stop your lies.
And about the matchmaking- the devs have said that they're going to include it but honestly… what happened to the good old days when you picked a server and just played. If some fps god was playing there, you probably got owned. But that was the game, isn't it? You got better over time, the first few days or weeks are learning experiences. What's with everybody wanting to be babied in their games nowadays? It's like everybody thinks they're entitled to do well the very first time they pick up the controls and they all want their backslaps.
Ok that little rant aside, levels have very little impact in this game. A level 25 has at most an 8% advantage over level 1′s. In fact, the starter mech is actually one of the best mechs in the game- there is currently no reason to buy the Assault mech other than for looks because it is essentially identical to the starter mech, except the starter mech has a couple of "rookie" advantages.
In what game nowadays do you have all options available to you from the very beginning? Even in casual CoD you have level restrictions on the types of guns you can buy. And mechs in Hawken are just that- different weapon setups with one unique "perk."
And what's wrong with 20 matches? Again, that just goes back to my original comment about gamers these days wanting everything straight out of the box. How many total matches do you think you played when Counterstrike first came out? 20 matches… is nothing.
But my real point, and the reason for me calling you a liar, is because you imply very strongly that this game is Pay to Win. Which is utter nonsense. I have shown that casual people can pick this game up and be competitive with ZERO real money investment- that's what makes you a liar, or "misleader" take your pick.
If you were to create a new Hawken account right now, you have access to the starter mech (which is more or less equivalent to the Assault class), the two free mechs, the berserker and the brawler, and 10k credits with which you can buy whichever mech you want.
So, thats 2 owned mechs and 2 free ones the instant you boot up the game. For people who haven't played Hawken yet, there are 9 total mechs in the game. By the time you get a couple of mechs leveled to 25, you will have more than enough HC points to buy whatever you want to buy. And even with just the starter mech, you are competitive right out of the box.
Where's the Pay to Win? Maybe in theory, maybe the author just doesn't like the IDEA of P2W, and I doubt most people do. But to use an online pulpit to demonize this game based on some pre-existing hatred for a theoretically offensive business model… especially when the game in question isn't P2W… as I have pointed out… amounts to no more than lies.
People have to grind a bit to open access to more weapon setups. Other people can pay for this. But most people will not pay because the nature of an fps game means that you grind matches. And most mech unlocks are just different weapon configurations (not even actual weapon unlocks). So there isn't even an inherent advantage in having a access to all mechs. It's just variety.
This game doesn't require a single cent to be competitive. It amazes me to see how all these people just basically spewing nonsense about something they obviously know nothing about.
One guy actually compared the F2P model to cell phone games with limited free trials. AFTER admitting that he hasn't played any of the F2P games listed by the tard author. I know this is the internet and everybody is entitled to an opinion, but ffs, at least do a little bit of research before opening your mouth.
Wow, such a strong fanboy defense mechanism you got there. Even if you said thousand of times that in Hawken you can still survive without pay a penny it still doesn't deny that it gives advantage to paying-player. Erik wouldn't make this article at all if ALL player PAYING or NOT still have to grind to unlock things. Its about sportmanship since its a frikkin MULTIPLAYER. If you don't believe sportmanship in multiplayer-oriented video games, then the games are still have a long way to go to become "sports".
Serious fanboy-ism sometime shutdown even basic logic. No wonder the industries think of us like cash cow they can milk in the way whatever they want.
The problem is that Erik is labeling Hawken as a pay-to-win game, when pay-to-win (as I understand it) refers to any game where monetizing players have access to content that is *denied* to free players and which constitutes a clear advantage over them.
The starting mech that everyone gets, the CR-T Recruit, has the same stats as any other middleweight mech.
It is not underpowered compared to any other mech in the game. In fact, it has some advantages that most other mechs do not.
A player is not competitively disadvantaged by using the CR-T.
This is what's so frustrating about articles that misrepresent a game. People who have never played the game for themselves, or even heard of it, take the article as truth and then dismiss anyone who has experience with the game and disagrees with the article as a "fanboy."
It's not as QED as you make it sound, Erik, especially as you seem to be ignoring certain points. The problem is that you insist that players who are using a mech other than the starter *must* have some kind of competitive advantage, when that's not case. Ergo, you are misrepresenting the game.


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I visited my grandchildren last weekend—and my daughter and son-in-law, too, of course. It's hard living so far away, but I try to get there about once a month if the weather and the airlines cooperate. My newest grandson is a little over 3 months old, and he is kind of hefty—weighing in at 17 pounds, about the size of a typical 7 –9 month old. He is healthy and is obviously thriving on his diet of breast milk only. While I was sitting on the couch, holding him, talking with him, cuddling him and making him laugh, I started to cry. I was overcome with sadness. I was thinking about how much love this little guy receives now, and will for the foreseeable future, and at the same time, about how many children may never know love, kindness, or a full belly. Even now, just thinking about that moment, I am choked up.
Children in our society are so vulnerable.
We have developed societal methods to protect them, yet these protections often fail. We stand on a precipice. I see a lot of movement in our country to do things that will inevitably harm children. I see cutbacks happening in all areas of our community services. I see young girls, deprived of access to birth control, forced to bring children into the world without the means to provide those children care. So many teens and young adults are no where near ready for parenthood. Being a parent is HARD. You have to have patience, understanding and the ability to postpone fulfilling your own needs in order to tend to your child's needs. That takes a fair bit of maturity. Some thing that not many 20-somethings are ready to do. Imagine being 15 and having to do that. Usually without a positive role model.
My heart bleeds
for all the children I have seen over the past three decades who, while they may have been loved, were also harmed by someone close to them. I see the beautiful smile of my youngest grandson, and think of many, many stories of lives that were cut short, or made so much more painful than they needed to be. I feel a need to share these stories with my readers. Not to be morose, or to make you sad. But perhaps to help you see my perspective. It is the perspective of many professionals who care for children. We have come to realize that the only way we can truly care for the children in our society, is to care FOR our society. Over the next little while—until my heart stops hurting, or until I run out of stories—I will blog about the true stories of children who have moved me. They may not have all been categorized as abuse. But abuse can come in many forms, as I think you will see. I hope you will stick with me.
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i'm in.
kathy hudson replied on Permalink
I read your heart felt comment...It is a compassion I have come to understand and strive to help...Children do not have a choice and a voice to speak for them..Too many come from broken homes, drugs, and grandparents as myself needing to give them the home and love they deserve. I (like you) find myself realizing my grandson has a good life filled with love and comfort, but my heart goes out to those who do not have this in their life.
Alice Ackerman M.D. replied on Permalink
Lorna, I appreciate that you took the time to visit and comment. I would love to hear how other readers feel about this important issue. From my perspective, some of the problems in our society, perhaps components that you are lucky enough to not have to see on a daily basis, make it difficult for an approach such as yours to work universally, and in the end it is the babies who suffer. But I am willing to listen.....
Lorna Martin replied on Permalink
I do not agree with giving girls birth control. That is telling them, "Here, we know you are going to have sex anyway, so at least protect yourself." I was taught that it was wrong to have sex before marriage. This actully sends the message that it is OK, and expected. Morals are not taught anymore. What they should do is use those life- like babies as part of the sex- ed classes- a requirement. This will help girls understand what it is like to have to deal with a baby. From what I understand, they are pretty realistic. There should also be a part where they have to "buy" formula,diapers, bottles, etc, on paper. This will give them an idea of the expence of having a baby. The bottom line is that sex-ed programs should be structured in such a way as to discourage sex- until marriage.


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Wolf Conservation Presentation
Honors College students welcomed a furry visitor to campus on November 9th. His name is Atka, a traveling wolf ambassador from the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) in Westchester. Atka was accompanied by two Conservation Center speakers who came to advocate on behalf of Atka's wild, wolf brother and sisters. The Wolf Conservation Center in Westchester was founded in 1999 and promotes the preservation of wolves through active education. The WCC teaches young people about wolves and about mankind's role in protecting this once endangered species.
Speaker, Ms Maggie Howell, gave students a brief history of wolves in America, following their population decline and rise, and the crucial role they play in the environment. Ms Howell also discussed the difference between wolf species and the importance of keeping these interesting creatures at home in the wild.
The event was held in Gottesman Room and nine-year -old, Arctic Grey wolf Atka surveyed the crowd, guided by a trained representative from the WCC. Atka is the WCC's oldest wolf ambassador and travels all over the Northeast helping to promote wolf conservation. In the last year alone, Atka has been to over 150 schools, museums, nature centers, and libraries teaching welcoming audiences about his life. Unlike most wolves, Atka enjoys all of the travelling his job entails.
Although students were not permitted to pet Atka, they still got an up-close look at this beautiful animal's massive coat and paws. Ms.Howell warned that unlike many domesticated pets, including the wolf's oldest living relative, the dog, wolves are very frightened by humans and tend to hide from our two-legged population. Senior accounting major Eddie Redden especially loved seeing the wolf up-close, saying "I've never seen a wolf that big before, it was really cool and definitely one of my favorite events so far."
If you missed this event and would like to learn more about the WCC, feel free to visit their website, www.nywolf.org. The WCC hosts many events that give people the opportunity to interact with the wolves, as well as observe them in their natural habitat, so I encourage you to visit their Westchester location!
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- Paint-A-School with Honors Students
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- United Nations Trip
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- Decorate the Pleasantville Cottage School for the Holidays
- Honors Yoga Workshop
- Domestic Violence Presentation
- Honors Awards Dinner
- Honors Cooking Class at Don Coqui
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Calatrava gets the New Yorker treatment
If you haven't seen it already, Santiago Calatrava is profiled in the Sept. 1 New Yorker. I'd love to know what you think of the profile. I thought it quite good. The writer, Rebecca Mead, lets Calatrava reveal himself, in his many manifestations, via quotes.
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Undergraduate Degree: BS - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hometown: Boston, MA
Where I Live
Shadyside - I am currently living in a rented one bedroom apartment in an actual apartment building. I live with my cat. I found my apartment by looking for availability on craigslist while I was in Pittsburgh for the weekend. I highly recommend meeting your landlord before deciding if the apartment is right for you or not.
Best Place To Eat
I probably couldn't name a favorite restaurant to eat, but the food in Bloomfield is fantastic. Between the Polish food at BBT, burgers at Tessaro's and number of Italian places, you can't go wrong.
Best Off-Campus Activity
Trying new bars and restaurants with my fellow Tepperites is always fun activity. I also enjoy going downtown to watch the Pirates and Penguins play.
Best Grocery Store
I tend to shop at the Giant Eagle Market District on Center and Negley. I shop there because of its proximity to my apartment and also because it has fresh veggies and meats.
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I tend to get a small workout in at my apartment. However, I also get a lot of exercise by biking to campus and the occasional football game at Schenley Park.
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The Fall Orientation program is designed, with input from current students, to meet the many needs of new students. All new full-time students are expected to attend the program which begins Friday, August 22 and ends Tuesday, August 26. Classes begin on Wednesday, August 27.
When you arrive on campus, you will be greeted by the Orientation Leaders or OLs. These are current students who have volunteered their time to help new students make the adjustment to the University. Every new student will be assigned to a group that is led by OLs. These students will be your guides through the weekend.
Parents and family members are encouraged to attend the activities on the first day of Fall Orientation, August 22. The programs are designed with the specific needs and interests of parents and family members in mind. Parents will also receive separate mailings over the summer with additional information.
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People younger than 60 are welcome to read this column, especially ones who have trouble recalling names on short notice. But mostly this column is for the older crowd. For many of us, because of illnessor disability or just from too many birthday parties, dredging up names quickly can be a chronic stress and embarrassment.
For instance:
Here comes someone down Main Street. We've known one another 20 years, and we grin and stick out our right hands. He says, "Jim! Great to see you! How're you doing?" And I'm struck dumb. What the hell's this old friend's name? And so I temporize.
"I'm doing well, buddy! I say heartily. I add, "How are things in your world?" hoping desperately his response will bring some hint. And he says (of course), "Great, too. I know you were sorry to hear about Fred."
As a hint, that's a dud. In fact, it worsens things! Is Fred sick, dead, in a messy divorce, locked up in jail or rehab? Is Fred a brother, uncle, wayward son or grandson, mutual friend? I try a sympathetic shake of my head. "Well, I'm really sorry about it." He shrugs.
"It happens to us all, I guess." "WHAT?" I don't yell that, but instead try, "How long ago did it happen?"
"Oh, I don't know. You'll have to ask Louise. She's the one who remembers things."
Forget Fred! I've got the guy's wife's name! But why did it have to be "Louise"? Why not Bernice or Hyacinth or Serena — some name that might strike a match inside my sodden head? And worse! Louise may be this guy's sister or daughter, or maybe his secret squeeze that he presumes that I, his old friend, already know about. Oh, Lord! I try a shotin the dark.
"And how's Louise doing these days?" I ask this with cheery concern, but his face darkens.
"Well, she's back in school again. Didn't know if that was going to happen after the split-up and then the accident.
But she's back on her feet, with just a little hitch in her walk." He tries a weak grin. "I dunno, some guy might find that little bit of a roll pretty sexy. Maybe she'll get another man out of it. God knows she needs help with the twins and Fred — he's 13 now."
FRED AGAIN! Is it this teenage Fred the one that was first mentioned? Was he in the accident with Mary and now is in trouble in school? Or is he Fred, Jr.?
Or was Mary married to some bum named Fred, some fool who couldn't hold a job, insisted his name was spelled Phred, and finally fricasseed his liver with a quart of booze a day? Is Phred in jail? Drying out? In a vegetative state?
Help! I'm losing track of all this, and so I pull the most shameless trick in the book. I suddenly look surprised, glance at my watch, and say hurriedly, "Hey, old friend, I'd like to hear more about this. But if I miss another dental appointment, my Anne's going to skin me." He laughs.
My Alice's that way with me, too. You go along. We shake hands and, on a sudden impulse, he gives me a big hug!
"You keep truckin,' Jim." His voice is choked with emotion. "Old friends are the best friends!"
We part, and I head off down the sidewalk, feeling like a shamed dog. I stop dead in front of Sal's Pizzeria.
Wait! His wife's name is Alice. I strain my cerebrum, but it doesn't help. And so I go in Sal's and have a meat-eater's slice, my favorite. It's great comfort food but doesn't help my memory ...
You all know moments like that, don't you? But here comes help, galloping in like the cavalry. I got the word at the Farmer's Market from Mary Marx. She's got a solution!
Mary and I were commiserating about name problems, which she says that she shares with a large circle of friends.
They've made a delightful, practical contract among them: 1) We've known each other for years by talents, quirks, rich personalities. 2) That kind of real knowledge is more important than any name tag attached to a neck, a tag temporarily out of sight. 3) So, failing immediate recall, let's use any name that comes to mind, and let's respond with laughter when others have to do the same!
And laugh they do, says Mary, especially when the substitute name is especially off the wall. Hortense, maybe, or Bathsheba or Clytemnestra.
What an inspiration, Mary! You could have simply contracted to use "George" for any unidentifiable man, or "Helen" for any such woman. But your group decided on something more imaginative, more zany; something that reflects the best solution to any unchangeable annoyance. Laugh at it!
I'm recommending Mary's practice to all of you in our tight little community. If we all agree, then we've solved the problem. And what a relief for us.
I'm giving fair warning: Mary's practice is going to be my own. So best wishes, friends, from Clovis or Hildebrand or whoever that wobbly What's-His-Name is, out in Fly Creek.


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Gary Church
New Castle News
My wife often asks, "How do you come up with all that stupid stuff you say?"
I would have to say that my sense of humor comes from the Church side of the family.
My dad's brother, Uncle Raymond, never said a sensible thing in his life.
After he did make a statement, he would always laugh.
Since Uncle Raymond lived in southern Ohio, I rarely saw him.
I'm pretty sure he was injured in the war, because I never knew him to work a day in his life.
Mom did tell me one time that Uncle Raymond lost one of his thingies, and I think that was in WWII.
I really don't know what disability he had.
I remember seeing him at his brother's funeral, and noticed he had a bandage on his hand.
After viewing the body, I went over and to him and asked, "Uncle Raymond, what happened?"
With his southern drawl, he said, "I was chopping wood, and a piece went flying way up in the air. Didn't it take a notion to turn around and come back down and hit me right in the hand."
That was followed by his usual laugh.
When it got so that he could no longer take care of himself, he was placed in a nursing home.
Having not seen him in several years, when I went to visit, I wasn't sure he would recognize me.
He was sitting at the lunch table with other patients when I approached him.
I said, "Hi, Uncle Raymond."
He looked up at me and asked the big question, "When are you going to shave that mustache off," followed by his laugh.
I still don't know if he had recognized me.
Of course, Uncle Raymond had his dark side. When his monthly check would come, he enjoyed celebrating its arrival at the local tavern. He would be passed out for days.
Fortunately, I did not inherit his love of liquor, just his sense of humor.
My brothers and sisters all inherited the Church family humor. Perhaps my brother Bill inherited a little more than his share.
One thing nice about being in a family of comedians — we never have any arguments.
Just don't expect us to enter into a conversation on nuclear physics.


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August, 29, 2013
By DAVID RAINER
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
For those of us who love to hunt waterfowl, a prediction from the "Farmer's Almanac" should be welcome. That publication, which touts its accuracy in predicting weather trends at 80 percent, sees a "bitter cold" winter ahead.
If that prediction is realized, Alabama's waterfowl hunters could be treated to waterfowl migrations not seen in many years. Mild winters allow ducks and geese to find food and open water in areas to the north, which hinders the migration and leaves fewer birds in Alabama.
"For Alabama duck hunters, I hope that prediction is true," said David Hayden, Assistant Chief in the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries' Wildlife Section. "As I say every year, we have to have cold weather up north to move the ducks down here."
But before we even talk about cold weather, there is an opportunity for waterfowlers on the near horizon. The early teal and early Canada goose seasons are just ahead. And the bag limit for teal has been raised from four birds per day to six birds per day. The early teal season is set Sept. 7-22.
"Teal numbers are still really good," said Hayden, who represents Alabama on the Mississippi Flyway Council. The green-winged teal numbers are estimated at 3.1 million, which is similar to last year and 51 percent above the long-term average. Blue-winged teal are at 7.7 million, down 16 percent from last year but 60 percent above the long-term average.
"I think quite a few people are missing out on good waterfowl hunting opportunities with teal. All it takes is a little bit of water, and you can have a good shoot for a day or two. But with teal, they move in and out pretty quickly. When they're there, you need to take advantage of the opportunity. It's statewide. There are good opportunities in the Tennessee Valley, in west Alabama along the river systems, as well as the Mobile area. You can find teal just about anywhere when they're moving through. But it doesn't take much of a weather change to make them move."
The possession limit for waterfowl has also been increased to three daily bags. But Hayden cautions, "That means you have one daily bag limit after the first day, two daily bag limits after the second day and three daily bag limits after the third day and the rest of the season. It does not change the daily harvest limit, just the possession limit."
The early Canada goose season is scheduled for Sept. 1-15 statewide with a daily bag limit of five birds and a possession limit of 15 after the third day. Although it falls under the regular waterfowl season, another Canada goose-only season is scheduled for Sept. 21 through Oct. 8.
"These are primarily resident geese that can become nuisance animals," Hayden said. "We want to pressure them and make them wary of people to cut down on some of the problems. The thing about Canadas is you have to hit them hard when you can, because they are smart birds and get wary very quickly."
Hayden said most hunters have the most success when targeting feeding and roost areas.
"They're mostly grazers, so if you can locate some, they'll usually feed in that area until they are disturbed," he said. "Find out where they're feeding and roosting and plan accordingly. You get out there before they come to feed and before they head to roost. But you have to be careful about shooting hours at the roost. Shooting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise until sunset."
There is one more special waterfowl season in Alabama. In Escambia and Monroe counties, a special blue goose and snow goose season is set for Oct. 26-Nov. 10 with a five-bird daily bag limit.
The regular waterfowl season for ducks and all geese is set for Nov. 28 through Jan. 26. The daily bag limit is the same at six birds, although there have been some changes to certain species. The six-duck bag limit can contain no more than four mallards, only two of which can be hens. Hunters can take three wood ducks, one mottled duck, one black duck, two redheads, two pintails, two canvasbacks and three scaup. That is an increase of one canvasback per day and a reduction of one scaup per day compared to last season.
For the goose season, the daily bag limit for the Sept. 21-Oct. 8 Canada goose season is three birds per day. For the remainder of the goose season, the daily bag limit is five birds with no more than three Canadas or two white-fronted geese (specklebellies).
The merganser daily limit is five with no more than two hooded mergansers. The coot daily limit is 15.
In terms of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey, the numbers still look promising. The mallard population, the benchmark for waterfowlers, is estimated at 10.4 million birds, which is similar to last year and 36 percent above the long-term average.
"That's a good sign in terms of production and the condition of the habitat," Hayden said.
Gadwall numbers are estimated at 3.3 million, similar to last year and 80 percent above the long-term average, while the American wigeon numbers are at 2.6 million, 23 percent above last year and similar to the long-term average. Pintails come in at 3.3 million, similar to last year and 17 percent below the long-term average. Northern shoveler numbers are at 4.8 million, similar to last year and 96 percent above the long-term average.
Diving duck numbers are mixed with good news on redheads and canvasbacks and disappointing news on scaup. The canvasback population is estimated at 800,000, similar to last year and 37 percent above the long-term average. Redhead numbers are 1.2 million, similar to last year and 76 percent above the long-term average. Scaup numbers, however, are 20 percent below last year at 4.2 million, 17 percent below the long-term average.
Although waterfowl managers did reduce the scaup bag limit to three this year, Hayden doesn't think the bluebills are in trouble.
"The numbers are down, but there is a little bit of a concern whether the survey is hitting the scaup just right," he said. "The survey may not be covering scaup very well.
"Overall, the duck numbers look great. We just need some cold weather."
Visit http://outdooralabama.com/images/file/FinalWaterfowl%20Leaflet%202013.pdf for the 2013-2014 Waterfowl Guide
PHOTOS: (USFWS) Early teal season is only a few days away and blue-winged teal are plentiful again this year. The number of canvasbacks recorded in the annual survey showed a stable population that is well above the long-term average, allowing waterfowl managers to increase the daily bag limit to two canvasbacks.


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First-year students in the Honors Program take two Colloquium courses organized around interdisciplinary themes. In the first semester (HON 101) the course emphasizes the humanities and social sciences. The second semester (HON 102) explores a theme related to the natural sciences.
The sophomore year in Honors (HON 201 and HON 202) helps students to explore the nature of knowledge, cultural differences and the individual's place in society. During the second semester (HON 202) students combine scholarly research with experiential learning.
By invitation, selected Hood students may begin the program at the sophomore level. These students are exempt from HON 101 and HON 102.
Students in the Honors program will complete two 300 level electives and HON 470, Seminar in Honors. Students who study abroad for at least one semester may count that experience as one of their honors electives. Students who complete a two-semester departmental honors paper (499) may count that as one of their Honors electives. Honors students may begin taking their electives in the sophomore year. Because Honors electives are offered on an irregular schedule, students who are especially interested in a particular elective are urged to take it the first time it is offered during their eligible years.
As an alternative to a departmental honors thesis, students in Hood's Honors Program may elect to complete a 3-credit interdisciplinary paper or project (HON 499) during the fall or spring semester of the senior year.
Most Honors courses may be used to meet Core Curriculum requirements. First-year students and sophomores may apply up to 9 credits toward the 21-23 credits required in the Methods of Inquiry section of the Core Curriculum. (There is a 3-credit limit for any one category. No Honors credit may be applied to the laboratory science requirement. Honors credit may be applied to only one of the Aesthetic Appreciation requirements.) Most Honors elective courses satisfy requirements in the Civilization section of the Core.
All students in the Honors Program must meet the 104-level foreign language course requirement. Students for whom English is a second language should consult with the Honors director to determine possible exemption from this requirement.
The Honors Program welcomes qualified transfer students. Those who have successfully completed two years of an honors program at another college before they transfer to Hood may apply to the Hood College Honors Program at the junior level without having to complete the first-year and sophomore Honors courses at Hood. Such students must take a minimum of 9 credits in Honors Program courses (two electives and HON 470) in order to complete the program.
Students who transfer to Hood in their sophomore year, or students who transfer in their junior year without having completed two years of an honors program at another college, may also apply to the Honors Program. They must take a minimum of 14 credits in Honors Program courses (usually HON 201, HON 202, two electives and HON 470). Sophomore transfers who complete HON 201 and HON 202 may exempt two courses from the Methods of Inquiry section of the Core (not a lab science and no more than one course in Aesthetic Appreciation).
Transfer students should be aware of the Honors Program foreign language requirement (see above).
To graduate from the Honors Program, students must earn a "C-" or better in all Honors courses and maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.25. By doing so, and meeting the Honors Program requirements, they will earn Honors Program recognition on their academic records.
Hood College prepares students to excel in meeting the personal, professional and global challenges of the future. Hood is committed to the integration of the liberal arts, the professions and technology, to the exploration of values, a sense of community and to the preparation of students for lives of responsibility, leadership and service.
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Peak Oil Panic
Is the planet running out of gas? If it is, what should the Bush administration do about it?
The Princeton geologist Ken Deffeyes warns that the imminent peak of global oil production will result in "war, famine, pestilence and death." Deffeyes, author of 2001's Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage and 2005's Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak, predicted that the peak of global oil production would occur this past Thanksgiving.
Deffeyes isn't alone. The Houston investment banker Matthew Simmons claims in his 2005 book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy that the Saudis are lying about the size of their reserves and that they are really running on empty; last September he announced that "we could be looking at $10-a-gallon gas this winter." Colin Campbell, a former petroleum geologist who is now a trustee of the U.K.-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, warned way back in 2002 that we were headed for peak oil production, and that this would lead to "war, starvation, economic recession, possibly even the extinction of homo sapiens." In his 2004 book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, the Caltech physicist David Goodstein wrote that the peak of world production is imminent and that "we can, all too easily, envision a dying civilization, the landscape littered with the rusting hulks of SUVs." Jim Motavalli, editor of the environmentalist magazine E, writes in the January/February 2006 issue, "It is impossible to escape the conclusion that we're steaming full speed ahead into a train wreck of monumental proportions."
And James Schlesinger, the country's first secretary of energy, declared in the Winter 2005–06 issue of the neoconservative foreign policy journal The National Interest that "a growing consensus accepts that the peak is not that far off." He added, "The inability readily to expand the supply of oil, given rising demand, will in the future impose a severe economic shock."
Even some traditionally calm voices are starting to sound panicky. In March 2005, the New York investment bank Goldman Sachs issued a report suggesting that oil prices would experience a "super spike" in 2006, reaching up to $105 per barrel. ChevronTexaco's willyoujoinus.com campaign, featuring a series of full-page newspaper ads that urge Americans to conserve energy, flatly declares, "The era of easy oil is over."
Such forecasts have been bolstered by a steep rise in oil prices over the last three years, going from $18 a barrel in 2002 to $70 last fall. If the price of something goes up, after all, that means it's becoming scarcer.
The good news is that the peak oil doomsters are probably wrong that world oil production is about to decline forever. Most analysts believe that world petroleum supplies will meet projected demand at reasonable prices for at least another generation. The bad news is that much of the world's oil reserves are in the custody of unstable and sometimes hostile regimes. But the oil producing nations would be the ultimate losers if they provoked an "oil crisis," since that would spur industrialized countries to cut back on imports and develop alternative energy technologies.
Apocalypse Yesterday
Predictions of imminent catastrophic depletion are almost as old as the oil industry. An 1855 advertisement for Kier's Rock Oil, a patent medicine whose key ingredient was petroleum bubbling up from salt wells near Pittsburgh, urged customers to buy soon before "this wonderful product is depleted from Nature's laboratory." The ad appeared four years before Pennsylvania's first oil well was drilled. In 1919 David White of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) predicted that world oil production would peak in nine years. And in 1943 the Standard Oil geologist Wallace Pratt calculated that the world would ultimately produce 600 billion barrels of oil. (In fact, more than 1 trillion barrels of oil had been pumped by 2006.)
During the 1970s, the Club of Rome report The Limits to Growth projected that, assuming consumption remained flat, all known oil reserves would be entirely consumed in just 31 years. With exponential growth in consumption, it added, all the known oil reserves would be consumed in 20 years. These dour predictions gained credibility when the Arab oil crisis of 1973 quadrupled prices from $3 to $12 per barrel (from $16 to $48 in 2006 dollars) and when the Iranian oil crisis more than doubled oil prices from $14 per barrel in 1978 to $35 per barrel by 1981 (from $45 to $98 in 2006 dollars).
In response, the federal government imposed price controls on oil and gas in the 1970s and established fuel economy standards to encourage the sale of more efficient automobiles. The sense of doom did not dissolve. In 1979 Energy Secretary Schlesinger proclaimed, "The energy future is bleak and is likely to grow bleaker in the decade ahead." The Global 2000 Report to President Carter, issued in 1980, predicted that the price of oil would rise by 50 percent, reaching $100 per barrel by 2000.
Most of today's petro-doomsters base their forecasts on the work of the geologist M. King Hubbert, who correctly predicted in 1956 that U.S. domestic oil production in the lower 48 states would peak around 1970 and begin to decline. In 1969 Hubbert predicted that world oil production would peak around 2000.
Hubbert argued that oil production grows until half the recoverable resources in a field have been extracted, after which production falls off at the same rate at which it expanded. This theory suggests a bell-shaped curve rising from first discovery to peak and descending to depletion. Hubbert calculated that peak oil production follows peak oil discovery with a time lag. Globally, discoveries of new oil fields peaked in 1962. The time lag between peak global discoveries and peak production was estimated to be around 32 years, but peak oilers claim that the two oil crises of the 1970s reduced consumption and thereby delayed the peak until now. Hubbert's modern disciples argue that humanity has now used up half of the world's ultimately recoverable reserves of oil, which means we are at or over the peak.
The prophets of oily doom are opposed by preachers of energy abundance. Chief among the latter is the energy economist Michael Lynch, president of the Massachusetts-based Global Petroleum Service consultancy. "Colin Campbell has the worst forecasting record on oil supply," says Lynch, "and that's saying a lot." He points out that in a 1989 article for the journal Noroil, Campbell claimed the peak of world oil production had already passed and incorrectly predicted that oil would soon cost $30 to $50 a barrel. As for Matthew Simmons, Lynch dismisses him with a sneer: "Petroleum engineers know a lot more about petroleum engineering than a Harvard MBA."
One petroleum engineer— Michael Economides of the University of Houston—calls peak oil predictions "the figments of the imaginations of born-again pessimist geologists." Like Lynch, Economides, who worked in Russia to boost that country's oil production in the last decade, rejects Simmons' analysis. Saudi Arabia, which currently produces about 10 million barrels of oil a day, "is underproducing every one of their wells," he claims. "I can produce 20 million barrels of oil in Saudi Arabia."
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Wanda Meadows, age 70, of Ferndale, Mich., passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 in Ferndale.
Born in Lejunior, she was the daughter of the late Beckham and Mildred Nicholson. She was also preceded in death by her husband, William E. Meadows Sr.
She is survived by her two sons, William Meadows and wife Cathy and Lawrence Meadows; and her brother, William Nicholson and wife Chrystal.
A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 18, at the Pine Hill Cemetery. There will be no local visitation.
The family suggests donations in Wanda's name to the American Cancer Society.
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By Barbara Lachance
---- — SANDOWN – Sandown Public Library has planned lots of activities for all ages during the month of October. Be sure to check the Calendar on the library website, www.sandownlibrary.us, for all the details and to register for each event.
Busy Bears Story Hours
in Full Swing: Introduce your child to the joy of reading by attending Busy Bears Story Hour at the library every Tuesday at the library. Miss Jenn has planned a variety of activities and stories for each week including Autumn Leaves, Fire Safety with a trip to the Fire Station, mice stories, and of course, Halloween. Two sessions are held each Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Hawke the Reading Dog: Hawke's monthly visit is scheduled for Thurs., October 4 at 3:30 p.m. Hawke was thrilled with the turnout in September and loved hearing all the great stories. Join the fun and make Hawke's tail wag by reading to her. Children of all ages are welcome.
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on Mon., October 15! Award-winning comedy, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" will be shown twice on Mon., October 15 at 1:00 p.m. and again at 5:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be available at the afternoon performance as part of our monthly Movie and Social program. Because of the popularity of the movie, the library will host Dinner and a Movie beginning at 5:30 p.m. with pizza! Attendees are invited to bring their own non-alcoholic beverage.
Books & Bites! Adult Book Discussion: On Tues. October 16 at 6:30 p.m., Books & Bites book group will discuss this month's selection, "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss. Copies of the book are available at the library.
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---- — Protecting and preserving local farmland will be the topic of a talk Saturday in Delhi sponsored by Farm Catskills.
Jim Oldham of Equity Trust, an organization focused on family farms, will give a presentation titled "Saving Farmland for Farmers" at 2 p.m. at Delaware Academy in Delhi.
"We're pleased to be able to host this event to address an issue of great importance to our community," Farm Catskills' President Amy Kenyon said in a media release. "Equity Trust is a great resource for farmland protection options.
During the past 20 years, the group has responded to requests for assistance from 21 states and two Canadian provinces, and provided consultations to more than 30 farmers, close to 25 land trusts and community farm groups, as well as a dozen land owners and potential farmland investors interested in partnering with farmers."
Oldham will discuss Equity Trust's 20-year history of farm protection projects, and the tools available to communities that are interested in protecting farmland and supporting rural economies. The program is free and open to the public. Time will be provided for questions.
More information about Equity Trust's work is available on its website at www.equitytrust.org. More information about Saturday's program is available from Kate Ryan at 746-6503.
This event is funded in part by a grant from the state Environmental Protection Fund through the New York State Conservation Partnership Program, a partnership of the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Land Trust Alliance.