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Dear Bob,
Thank you for penning the column. I read with interest your notes on cycling deaths. You raise an interesting point: many cycling deaths result in no criminal legal accountability. I think we all know cyclist who have died on the road. In every instance that you bring up had there been a vehicle involved instead of a cyclist I am sure charges would have been filed as a result of material damage. A question I have, is there a statistic or information on what percentage of cycling deaths result in criminal charges (or any for that matter) being filed? And as a follow up questions is there an organization that pursues this matter on behalf of cycling in general. Until cyclists are taken seriously, deaths will continue to happen and those in power (i.e. law enforcement, transportation planners, insurance companies, etc.) will continue the status quo of ignoring cyclist as not only a valid form of transportation and recreation, but as human beings. The current catch-all clause is "it was an accident," but an accident is not being hit by a vehicle. There is a difference.
K. S., Winter Park, Colorado
Now let's take a look at some of these recent textbook incidents of anti-cyclist bias.
Lloyd Clarke, 43, was a member of the Cumberland Valley Cycling Club; as would be expected of an avid cyclist, Lloyd typically logged over 150 miles per week on his bike. After putting in the years of hard work to earn his Ph.D. from the Systems Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania, Lloyd held a faculty position at the Georgia Institute of Technology, before pursuing a career in private industry—a career that eventually brought him to Incline Village, Nevada, where he was working on temporary assignment for his company. On September 20, Lloyd went for a ride on a borrowed bike. He never returned. As he was riding along Country Club Drive, a motor vehicle approaching from the opposite direction turned directly into Lloyd's path, killing him instantly. The driver, a 17 year old, was not cited. In fact, not only was the driver not cited, but the police department went out of its way to paint Lloyd as being "at fault." As the local media reported,
We all ride, so we all know about the infamous "left cross"—as you're riding straight through an intersection, a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction turns left across your path, violating your right-of-way, often causing a collision. The left cross accounts for nearly 6% of collisions between bicycles and cars. And yet, if you hold a bias against cyclists, the possibility that an inexperienced driver turned into the cyclist's path so suddenly that the cyclist was unable to stop isn't even taken into consideration. The only possible explanation that restores some semblance of sense to law enforcement's auto-centric paradigm is that the cyclist "must have been speeding." And if the cyclist is an out-of-towner, and the driver is a local, it makes even more sense to blame the cyclist. In Lloyd's case, the police went into contortions in their efforts to exonerate the driver and blame the cyclist:
Captain Kelly even "stressed it was an unfortunate accident in which no one should be blamed." Note, however, that Captain Kelly was placing blame—on the cyclist. A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper went one step further, blaming all cyclists:
While cyclists should observe the law, this was not a case about a cyclist riding the wrong way, or failing to stop at a stop sign—it was a case about a driver violating a cyclist's right of way.
Of course, the media reported the police account.
Which is unfortunate, because if the media had conducted any sort of independent investigation, they would have noted that:
Tracey Sparling, 19, was both a top student and a talented artist. After her freshman year at Syracuse University, Tracey, feeling homesick, had returned to Oregon to study at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. On October 11, Tracey was returning from her apartment to school after her noon break. As she approached a red light, she stopped, waiting for the light to change. When it did change, the cement truck to her left made a right turn, across the bike path, knocking her off her bike and killing her.
Despite the fact that Tracey was in the bike lane, and therefore had the right-of-way over the cement truck, Portland police declined to issue a "failure to yield" citation to the driver. Jonathan Maus reported on Bikeportland.org that:
Now, to put Lt. Kruger's comment in perspective, it's helpful to know what the law actually requires. ORS 811.050 is the statute governing right of way in a bicycle lane; it is clear from reading the statute that the cyclist always has the right-of-way over a motorist who is making a turn:
By Lt. Kruger's interpretation of the law, the motorist only has a duty to yield the right-of-way to a cyclist if the motorist sees the cyclist—in other words, "I didn't see her" means no citation is issued. Now, "I didn't see her" might be a legitimate defense to a citation under certain circumstances. However, it is not up to the police to plead the driver's case; rather, the police have a duty to investigate collisions for possible violations of the law, and to let the driver plead his defense at trial. In this case, the law is clear that a driver making a turn must yield to a cyclist in the bike lane. There is nothing in the law that adds "if the driver sees the cyclist." In fact, every driver owes every other person on the road a duty to keep a proper lookout, and a duty to exercise due care. Furthermore, commercial drivers owe a greater duty of care to others than do non-commercial drivers. Simply put, if the cement truck driver had been keeping a proper lookout before turning across a bike path, he would have seen Tracey. The fact that he didn't see her indicates a failure to keep a proper lookout, rather than a defense to violating her right-of-way, as the Portland Police Bureau would have us believe.
Brett Jarolimek, 31, was both a talented artist—a graduate of the same college Tracey Sparling was attending—and an avid cyclocross racer. On October 22, eleven days after Tracey's death, Brett was riding in the bike lane on his route in Portland, Oregon; he was passed midway down a hill by a garbage truck, which then stopped at the bottom of the hill, signaling to make a turn. As Brett approached the intersection—he had the right of way over the truck—the driver turned into Brett's path, killing him instantly. It was a classic "bait-and-hook"—the driver stopped, with his turn signal on, preparing to turn. To an approaching cyclist who has the right-of-way, it appears that the motor vehicle is yielding the right-of-way—that's the bait. Then, at the last second, as the cyclist is legally passing the motor vehicle, the driver turns into the cyclist's path—that's the hook.
Once again, the police declined to issue a citation, despite the fact that Brett had the right-of-way over the truck. And as the Incline Village police did in Lloyd Clarke's fatal collision, the Portland Police Bureau shifted the blame to the cyclist for "speeding," rather than placing it on the driver for "failure to yield." And again, the police read a non-existent clause into the statute exonerating the driver of any fault. Jonathan Maus reported the police explanation on bikeportland.org :
In response to this official misinterpretation of the law, Portland attorney Mark Ginsberg explained to Bikeportland readers:
In other words, the Portland Police Bureau has unlawfully inserted a non-existent requirement into the law that failure to yield must be an intentional, rather than a negligent act. This unlawful interpretation of the law is outside the bounds of police authority, and the Portland Police Bureau's refusal to enforce the law is damning evidence that an anti-cyclist bias permeates the Bureau's Traffic Division.
Two weeks later, on November 6, Siobhan Doyle, 31, was riding down the same hill that Brett Jarolimek had been riding down. As she approached the same intersection where Brett was killed, a car passed her, and turned abruptly into her path—despite the fact that Siobhan was highly visible in her fluorescent yellow cycling jacket. Siobhan was somersaulted over the car by the impact. Fortunately, she survived the collision, although with several broken bones. Again, the police declined to issue a citation. As Jonathan Maus reported on Bikeportland.org:
This was a somewhat different explanation for why the police were coddling a negligent driver. When a negligent driver violated Lloyd Clarke's right-of-way and took his life, the driver was not cited for "failure to yield" because the cyclist was "speeding." When a negligent driver violated Tracey Sparling's right-of-way and took her life, the driver was not cited for failure to yield because he "didn't see her." When a negligent driver violated Brett Jarolimek's right-of-way, the driver was not cited for failure to yield because he "didn't perceive" that he had to yield.
But how do you coddle a negligent driver when the cyclist is wearing a fluorescent yellow cycling jacket? Do you haul out that old chestnut—that the driver "didn't see her"—anyway? That doesn't seem very plausible, does it? Do you claim that the cyclist was speeding? When the driver passed the cyclist only a moment before turning into her, that doesn't seem to be a very plausible explanation either. No, in Portland, you simply fail to conduct any investigation at all.
Which brings us to Kyle Egertson. Kyle is 24 years old, a student at Portland State University, and a bicycle commuter. On October 24, Kyle was hit by a motor vehicle, and based on the statements of a witness, was cited for running a red light and riding against traffic on a one-way street.
Think about that for a moment.
In most of the collisions between cyclists and negligent motorists, the police coddled the negligent motorist by talking about non-existent statutory requirements like the need for the driver to see the cyclist, or the need for the driver to perceive that he is violating right-of-way, or even by assuming that the cyclist "must have been speeding." But in Siobhan Doyle's collision, the police had none of these tried and true excuses available, so they simply refused to investigate, because her crash did not "meet the criteria for an investigation"—according to the Portland Police Bureau, investigations are only performed—and citations are only issued—when the crash involves "serious, trauma-level injuries."
In Kyle's crash, he did suffer a concussion, although it is unlikely that the responding officer knew that at the time. Nevertheless, even if the officer did know of Kyle's concussion, it did not rise to the level of injury that the Portland Police bureau claims to be the threshold for an investigation leading to a citation.
And yet an investigation was conducted, and Kyle was cited.
Now, if the police can conduct an investigation and issue a citation in Kyle's crash, why did the police retreat behind "department policy" in refusing to conduct an investigation in Siobhan's crash? If the Portland Police Bureau didn't have an institutional bias against cyclists, shouldn't they have responded to both crashes in the same manner—either by not issuing a citation to Kyle, or by issuing a citation to the driver who violated Siobhan's right-of-way?
Recently, Kyle's mother contacted me, and told me his side of the story. So far, the only side of this story heard by the public has been the version reported to the media by the police: A cyclist was riding the wrong way on a one-way street, tried to beat the light—raising the obvious question about how he could have even seen that the light was changing if he was riding against traffic on a one-way street—and was hit by a pickup truck when he ran the light. As I've discussed in Bicycling & the Law, and now here, this is an example of the media bias against cyclists. The police conduct a biased investigation of a collision involving a cyclist, and the media dutifully reports the results of that biased investigation. It happened with Lloyd Clarke when the media reported that he had been speeding, it happened with Tracey Sparling when the media subsequently reported that she "slammed into" the side of the truck when in fact the truck slammed into her, it happened with Brett Jarolimek when the media reported that he had been speeding, and it happened with Kyle Egertson.
As might be expected, when you talk with the cyclist involved—something that we can't do when the cyclist is killed—an account emerges that is quite different from the account reported by the police and the media. In Kyle's case, he was riding home from Portland State, along the route he always takes. In order for Kyle to have been going the wrong way on that one-way street, he would have had to be riding away from his direction home. As he was riding home, he was hit from behind by the driver of a pickup truck, who was going into diabetic shock at the time he hit Kyle. The driver behind the pickup saw the collision, and said that Kyle must have been going the wrong way because he came out of nowhere. Note that the only eyewitness to the collision did not say that Kyle had been going the wrong way—he said that Kyle "must have been going the wrong way." In other words, nobody saw Kyle going the wrong way.
But what about that red light Kyle ran? It's also an assumption, based on the witness's statement that Kyle came out of nowhere, and based on the police officer's conclusion that Kyle must have done something wrong because Kyle wasn't able to answer questions about the accident—something that would not be unexpected for somebody suffering a severe concussion. In other words, nobody saw Kyle run a red light.
Meanwhile, as the officer was concluding that the cyclist who couldn't answer questions must have done something wrong, the driver of the pickup truck was also unable to answer questions, because he was on the verge of a diabetic coma. And yet somehow, the police officer did not conclude that the driver also must have done something wrong. There were two people at the scene in need of medical attention, both unable to respond to a police investigation—an investigation that is apparently against department policy—and the cyclist is once again assumed to be the one at fault. What other explanation could there be in an automobile-centric society? It made sense to the driver who didn't actually see what happened, it made sense to the police who suddenly and unexpectedly decided that investigating accidents and issuing citations is within the scope of their duties, and it made sense to the media who reported the biased police assumptions as fact.
After hearing Kyle's side of the story from his mother, I accepted his case, and will be telling his side of what happened if and when his case goes to trial.
When I wrote Bicycling & the Law, one of my motivations was to tackle the problem of cyclistharassment, and as I note in the book, a social bias against cyclists liesat the root of cyclist harassment. In each of the collisions I've discussed in this column, we've seen powerful evidence of police bias—one componentof the social bias against cyclists. It is up to all of us, as cyclists,to speak up for justice when bias against cyclists, operating under color of authority, violates the rights of another cyclist.
Before I close, I'd like to thank all of my readers who have contactedme to request my appearance at their event on my upcoming speaking tour.I will be speaking extensively in 2008, and will make plans to appear beforeany club, bike shop, or other engagement that is interested in hostingme. If you would like me to appear to speak at your event or shop, or toyour club or group, please drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'm looking forward to meeting as many of my readers as possible.
(Research and drafting provided by Rick Bernardi, J.D.)
This article, A fatal bias?, was originally published on VeloNews on November 8, 2007.
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Aiken's second-place finish doesn't spoil his chances of success. Music exec Richard Sanders signs the singer to RCA after noticing what he tells Time is Aiken's "emotional connection" with the Idol audience. His single, "This Is the Night"/"Bridge Over Troubled Water," shoots straight to No. 1 on the Billboard chart and becomes the fastest-selling single since Elton John's "Candle in the Wind." Released the same day, Studdard's single "Flying Without Wings/Superstar" sells 100,000 fewer copies.
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Aiken hits the road for the American Idols Live! tour. Entertainment Weekly notes that Aiken clearly elicits the most ear-splitting shrieks from the crowd. The magazine says that at a show in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one fan holds a sign that says, "Elvis, the Beatles, and now Clay."
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Aiken's debut album Measure of a Man hits stores. It sells 613,000 copies its first week to become the third best debut of the year. "Clay has struck such a tremendous, responsive chord with the American public," music mogul Clive Davis tells PEOPLE. Aiken is also named one of PEOPLE's Sexiest Men Alive. "I [once] had a lady take her bra off during the tour show and throw it at me," he says to PEOPLE. But mostly, "women want to take care of me like I'm a little boy. They want to make sure that I'm fed well."
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Found a duck fajita recipe on the DU website and tried it last night. Needless to say I ended up taking my old lady OUT for dinner! It was horrible. Im looking for different ways to cook up ducks and looking for help. Does anybody have any good recipes? Fajita recipes?
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I tried duck fajitas once. It was a blue bill and I marinated it in italian dressing for over 24 hours(this is how i make my chicken fajitas). It was ok, though my wife hated it. She doesn't enjoy duck any way I have cooked it so far. The closest I ever came was slcing the breasts really thin, breading them and frying them. Serve with A1 and the well done duck kind of tastes like steak.
I usually bacon wrap the breasts and share with people who can appreciate them. My 17 YO step-son loves bacon wrapped duck and dove breasts, so at least I have at least one other person who likes them in the house.
I am thinking of trying the smoked/pulled duck recipe from DU the next time I get a mallard.
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I saw the pulled duck sandwich with coleslaw recipe. I have a huge smoker and next group of ducks Im going to leave hole and try it.
Found a Mississippi shrimp and duck skewer over wild rice recipe that my fiance was actually impressed by. That may be the winner. Shes a trooper and keeps at least trying my odd recipes for all the critters I harvest!
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When your making the fajitas (goose or duck), I first season the the breasts with liquid smoke (mesquite) and mrs. dashs smoky chipotle. Leave em in the fridge for 12-24 hrs. After the intial marinade, dice up onions, peppers (bell, jalapeno, etc.) and put them with the meat in large bowl/dish. Cover in orange juice. (Many restaraunts use OJ for their fajitas.) Allow another 12-24 hrs. (Whichever you prefer) Take out meat, slice in 1/2" cook to medium at most. No more. Wrap meat in foil to keep warm and fry up the veggies quickly. Toss together and serve with lettuce, cheese, salso, sour cream, etc. I have made these several times and everyone has absolutely loved them. Just don't over cook it. This is when the bad game taste comes in.
P.S.- Brine all waterfowl for a couple hours before beginning any preparation. Also, do not skimp on marinade time. This is what gives the meat "good" flavor when cooked. Good luck!
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HA Ha LOL when I read it. I started brining the birds with skin on then roasting them in a hot oven or on a hot grill with seasoning and they're great. I've since started severeringthe breast taking the breast out whole like you would buy a turkey breast in a store and did them the same way. Brining is the key as well as cooking them so that they are not overdone .
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Fajitas is one of my favorite ways to eat duck. I start out by soaking the breasts in milk that I season with chili powder, garlic powder, and cumin for at least 8 hours. I don't measure anything, just eyeball it, so I can't help you there. I cut the meat into either strips or cubes and season with the same seasonings when I fry it. Like others have said, do not over cook those pieces. In a separate pan I fry peppers, onions, and tomatoes with a very light coating of the same seasonings. I then layer them in a tortilla with whatever other toppings I choose, usually guac, sour cream, cheese and salsa. The best part is, if I get a bad tasting bird I can just add more toppings and eat the bird anyway.
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I make duck fajitas all the time. first breast out your birds. 2nd soak them in salt water for 36 hours. then marinate in mexican seasoning and chiles to taste for 24hrs. fry in pan with mexican seasonings,peppers,onions, and hot sauce then serve with guac, salsa, sour cream etc.
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Hey, I think that there have already been some great methods posted in reply to this question, but here's my two cents. You can generally find a pretty good bottle of mesquite marinade at your local grocery store, if you don't have the time or inclination to make your own. Last season we cut several breasts into long strips and soaked them in a marinade like this overnight before tossing them on the BBQ grill. Rolled 'em up in flour tortillas with sauteed bell peppers and onions, and they were spectacular.
Just be sure that you don't cook them too long on the grill. Thin strips will only take 2-3 minutes per side before they are overdone.
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I usually prep my duck breasts for fajitas by slicing them in about a 1/4 inch slices. then I give them a salt brine bath for about 15 minutes. A salt brine draws the blood out, and the blood is mostly what gives wild game that twang. Peppers onions and fajita seasoning and you'll turn anybody into a duck eating fool. lol
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Buffalo Bills guard Andy Levitre has the same conditioning routine every week of the NFL season. ¶ He takes a 12-minute soak in a 38-degree ice bath once a day, sometimes twice, from Monday-Saturday. He gets a massage once a week, either Monday or Tuesday. He is diligent about getting treatment for bumps and bruises in the trainer's room. ¶ It's nothing out of the ordinary by NFL standards, but it produces uncommon results for Levitre. ¶ The Bills' left guard has started every game of his four-year NFL career. Sunday's meeting with the St. Louis Rams will be his 61st straight start. ¶ What's more, Levitre hasn't missed a single offensive snap since Week Two of the 2010 season. That's 42 straight games and 2,574 straight plays. ¶ "It's always a good
trait to have as a player," Levitre said. "Obviously the coaches want to have you out there as a player as much as you can be out there. Being as lucky as I have been to not be injured, it kinda adds to my value."
The Bills are particularly thankful for Levitre's durability this week, because the offensive line is in flux. Center Eric Wood and right tackle Chris Hairston are out. Making their first NFL starts in their places will be David Snow and Sam Young, respectively.
Levitre rolls on.
"It's amazing," Bills coach Chan Gailey. "At that position, that trait is really almost unheard of these days. For our continuity up front and his versatility on top of that, it's really a valuable commodity for us. He's played extremely well and we're fortunate to have him."
"We've asked him to do a lot and he always steps up," said center Eric Wood. "That's what you want from an offensive lineman - consistency."
Consistency is Levitre's trademark. He's one of the most technique- and assignment-sound players on the team. He's a mobile athlete who pass-protects exceptionally well. His good feet allow him to get to the second level of the defense in the run game and disrupt linebackers. He's an asset to the Bills' quality screen-pass game, because he's so good at getting a piece of defenders in space.
At 6-foot-2, 305 pounds, Levitre does not have the burly size or long arms of some of the NFL's elite guards. He's not a road-grading mauler in the run game like Tampa Pro Bowler Carl Nicks.
Levitre was well tutored to play with good leverage in college by Oregon State line coach Mike Cavanaugh.
"I've always taken flexibility pretty seriously," Levitre said. "I think being flexible helps me get out in open spaces and be able to react to guys in the open field. Also going through college, my O-line coach preached a lot about technique, so that's something I've always strived to get better at. It's something I always want to strive to get better at to get better at my craft."
Levitre grades out ninth among NFL guards this season, according to the ranking of Profootballfocus.com. He ranked sixth last season. The Bills rank fourth in yards per rush and 11th in sacks allowed per pass attempt, two relative markers of offensive line performance.
"I feel like I've been pretty effective this year but not dominant the way I strive to be," Levitre said.
"Andy leads the pack when it comes to bringing levity to the room," Wood said of the offensive line group. "He doesn't take himself too seriously. That's just his nature. Maybe it's coming from a California background, but before a game you're never going to see him bashing his head against something. He's even-keeled and that says a lot about the way he's played - he's consistent."
Levitre has set himself up for a big payday after the season. His contract is up. He says there's nothing to report on contract talks.
"I'd love to stay here," Levitre said. "It's a great place. I love the staff. I love the people here in Buffalo. I've had a great time since I've been here. As of right now, there really hasn't been anything going on. My focus right now is to finish the season as best I can and let the chips fall where they may."
"Mr. Reliable," Andy Levitre, has the most consecutive starts – 60 – of any current Bill. Next in line are Jairus Byrd with 43; Stevie Johnson with 39, and Ryan Fitzpatrick and Nick Barnett, both with 28. The Bills play the Rams at Ralph Wilson Stadium with kickoff at 1 p.m. Sunday. TV: Ch. 29, Radio: 550 AM Latest line: Bills (-3)
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Lodging and Accommodations
Lodging and Accommodations
Westminster College offers two varieties of overnight accommodations. All of our residential properties have air-conditioning, security doors, front desk attendants, laundry facilities and wireless internet. Most halls also feature spacious common lounges with large-screen TV and game room, which may double as reception areas.
Traditional Residence Halls
Our traditional residence halls are standard double dormitory rooms (twin beds). These facilities have a common lounge area on each floor and a common lavatory/shower facility on each wing (two per floor).
Apartment-Style Suites
Our apartment-style suites are configured with six private bedrooms (twin beds) and two baths, opening onto a central lounge/kitchen space, including full-size refrigerator, range and microwave oven. . (Accompanying photos are of the apartment-style suites)


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Board names new superintendent and hikes taxes
June 19, 2013
The Williamsport Area School Board unanimously voted Dr. Don Adams, assistant superintendent, as its newest superintendent starting this summer. The announcement of Superintendent Dr....
Sure we should go backwards with technology... Jobs today don't require any technological skills. Just a hammer to make large rocks into small rocks. <---Sarcasm for those who do not recognize it.
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Some software requires yearly usae contracts or service contracts for usage. Once a computer is installed it needs to be maintained and sooner or later replaced. Computers will be added, and networks will get larger, adding more network systems and servers. As the technology infrastructure increases so does the needs to personal to maintain everything. We have it operating in libraries,the food services,offices, class rooms, and so on. Once expanded into all these areas we are pretty much stuck with a VERY large cost to maintain permanently. Grants only go so far and sooner or later dry up. Many of the cost to support technology in districts end up being spread around different departments to ease costs. So a question is. Do we need as much technology as we now have in our schools. Many of the districts have technology installed that exceed businesses in our area. Is that warranted? We can't keep raising taxes forever. We need to look at something else.
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The story is the same for all school districts and for every tax payer. We have to decide what is important. Over all should we be teaching some few students special courses? I went to WACC VoTech and that was more cost effective at the time. Fast forward to today. Each school district is trying to teach semi votech programs one their own. In some districts teaching special courses like business at a college level. While all the is nice the reality of life is employers seek college level graduates to fill jobs. Not High school students who took classes with the flavor of college level courses. Students today are not receiving the same education I received people received decades ago. As time has gone by basic education has cheapened while special interest classes have received more attention depending on the district. Technology also has caused a exponential increase in costs. Adding a computer also means a addition of software of some nature, virus software,yearly software upgrades,
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The school district does not show any fiscal responsibility ever.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - President Barack Obama made history in the fight against pancreatic cancer by signing the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act into law recently. The legislation, formerly known as the Pancreatic Cancer Research and Education Act, passed the U.S. Congress on December 21 after it was attached to the National Defense Authorization Act.The landmark legislation requires the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to examine its current research efforts on cancers with very low survival rates and work to develop early detection methods and better treatment options to help improve outcomes for those diagnosed with the most deadly forms of cancer, including pancreatic and lung cancer."The adoption of the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act is a historic victory in the fight against deadly cancers - particularly pancreatic cancer - as it is the first legislation designed specifically with the disease in mind," said Julie Fleshman, president and CEO of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. "On behalf of thousands of pancreatic cancer advocates and patients around the country, we are deeply grateful for the incredible bipartisan support in Congress and to President Obama for signing the bill into law. Above all, this legislation provides hope for pancreatic cancer patients and their loved ones. Today we celebrate this important step, but we do so while honoring the memory of so many people whose lives were cut short by pancreatic cancer."Locally in the advocacy effort, the tireless work of several Incline Village residents and other passionate Nevadans whose lives have been touched by this disease helped keep this legislation in our Congressmen and Senators' view over the past four years. Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller were co-sponsors of the Senate version of the bill, and Congressman Mark Amodei co-sponsored in the House."Volunteers tirelessly reached out to their elected officials with phone calls, emails, personal visits to their offices locally and in Washington, D.C., and obtained proclamations to let it be known that Pancreatic cancer does not have an early detection method or effective treatment options, and that the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act needed to be passed into law", said Ginnie Jed, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's Northern Nevada/Lake Tahoe Community Representative.The Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act requires the NCI to establish scientific frameworks for pancreatic cancer and other deadly cancers. These frameworks will help to identify scientific advancements, evaluate the sufficiency of researchers, and outline a plan for ongoing research. The bill is a balanced approach that complements current research at the NCI and includes recommendations to advance research and measure progress through appropriate benchmarks.The NCI will be encouraged to rigorously evaluate existing research efforts and examine how well they are supporting progress in the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of these deadly cancers.Currently, pancreatic cancer does not have an early detection method or effective treatment options, which is why President Obama's signing this into law means so much to the pancreatic cancer community. This legislation ultimately provides an opportunity to change the future for pancreatic cancer patients.About 44,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year and more than 37,000 will die from the deadly disease. Pancreatic cancer currently has the lowest five-year relative survival rate of all major cancer killers, at just six percent. Because of the lack of early detection methods and effective treatment options, pancreatic cancer is the only one of the current top-five cancer killers for which both the incidence and death rates are increasing in recent years. And a recent report indicates that pancreatic cancer is anticipated to move from the fourth to the second leading cancer killer in the U.S. by 2020 and possibly as early as 2015.
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Infinity: A Free WordPress Theme
- By The Smashing Editorial
- August 8th, 2008
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If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that we love high-quality freebies. Over the last years we've featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free — among other things we presented high-quality free fonts, free WordPress themes, free wallpapers and, of course, free icons. You can find many of them in our section Freebies1.
Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are quite often pretty impressive.
Today we are glad to release Infinity — a free professional WordPress-theme. The theme has 3 fixed columns, thumbnails integration, Flickr, Delicious and Twitter integration as well as an attractive visual design. The theme was designed by Zhang Yichi, the creative mind behind Vikiworks Studio3 from Shanghai, China especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download the theme for free! Link
You can use the theme for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it's forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both designer's and Smashing Magazine's permission — please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish, but if you are planning to release your modification, please ask our permission first.
- Preview5 (0.56 Mb)
- Download the theme6 (.zip-package, 2 Mb)
- Download PSD-sources7 (.zip-package, 7 Mb)
Features of the theme and Development Kit Link
- 3 fixed columns design
- Thumbnail covers style
- Flickr, Twitter and delicious integration
- not widget-ready (see the development-kit below)
Currently Yichi is working on an extended version of the theme presented above which will have a style switcher, integration with social networks and a number of JavaScript-based animations. However, at the moment it is quite buggy and he needs your help to get the theme done.
The theme (which is called Mashup) works eventually, but has some strange bugs — for instance, sometimes it freezes for some reason. Please get in touch with him to get the theme done or modify the theme directly:
- Mashup development kit8
(similar to Infinity, but widget-ready and with a style-switcher)
Motivation behind the design Link
Here are some insights about the design process and development from the designer himself.
"Thanks to Vitaly for this great opportunity! I have to admit that I'm not very good at telling stories, basically it's always been hard to explain every detail on how I get it done and why I did this and that… Partly the idea for this theme is based upon my own theme which has a slightly personal touch and uses vibrant and appealing colors. With some rambling designs and fancy head imagery, I've tried to put all pieces together to make the theme literally stand out.
Among other things, the start page window of the Infinity theme has thumnails and offers delicious-integration.
I tried to keep it as simple as possible, unlike regular post entries style, with WordPress custom filed functions. I've used them to show off image titles next to the thumbnails. This design decision is intended to catch reader's attention in a better way, and it could be a huge advantage for portfolios where designers want to present their photos or design works.
I hope you enjoy this theme and I would love to hear any comments you have about my new theme, and for more information please visit my website. Or feel free to ask any questions regarding the theme in comments to this post — I'll do my best to answer them!"
Posting preview of the Infinity theme
Thank you, Yichi. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.
Special requirements Link
- The theme has no problems in modern browsers and also works fine in Internet Explorer 6.
- WordPress 2.5 or higher is required.
- Some plug-ins are required for the theme to work (all of them are included in the download-package).
Last but not least… Link
We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists. You may not know it yet, but we might feature you in one of our upcoming posts.
If you would like to release a high-quality free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers or an icon-set please contact us11 — we would like to support you (both financially and with the broad coverage on Smashing Magazine).
You may be interested in the following free WordPress-themes as well:
- WordPress.Fun: A Free WordPress Theme12
- Fervens: A Free WordPress Theme13
- Dilectio: A Free WordPress Theme
- Smashing: A Free WordPress Theme
Footnotes Link
- 1 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/freebies/
- 2 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/infinity.jpg
- 3 http://vikiworks.com/
- 4 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/preview-large.png
- 5 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/preview-large.png
- 6 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/infinity-theme.zip
- 7 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/infinity-psd-sources.zip
- 8 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/infinity-development-kit.zip
- 9 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/yichi-prev.jpg
- 10 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/infinity-wordpress-theme/yichi-prev2.jpg
- 11 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/contact/index.php/form
- 12 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/16/wordpress-fun-a-free-wordpress-theme/
- 13 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/05/fervens-a-free-wordpress-theme/
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Methoprene is referred to as an insect growth regulator because it interferes with the maturation stages through which an insect goes: from egg, larvae, and pupa, to adult.
Methoprene is a chemical that interferes with the development of insects, and some related arthropods. There are a number of similar chemicals that act this way and they are all called insect growth regulators (IGRs) because they stop normal insect growth and development. So, for example, if a larval flea (right) is exposed to methoprene it will not complete development to an adult flea and will eventually die. Manufacturers often refer to this as "breaking the flea's life cycle".
Growth regulators make it impossible for insects to mature to the adult stage of development.
Methoprene is considered a biochemical pesticide because rather than controlling target pests through direct toxicity, it interferes with the insects' life cycle and prevents them from reaching maturity or reproducing


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We count on the experts. We count on them to tell us who to vote for, what to eat, how to raise our children. We watch them on TV, listen to them on the radio, read their opinions in magazine and newspaper articles and letters to the editor. We trust them to tell us what to think, because there's too much information out there and not enough hours in a day to sort it all out.
We should stop trusting them right this second.
In their new book Trust Us, We're Experts!: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, authors of Toxic Sludge Is Good For You, offer a chilling exposé on the manufacturing of "independent experts."
Public relations firms and corporations know well how to exploit your trust to get you to buy what they have to sell: Let you hear it from a neutral third party, like a professor or a pediatrician or a soccer mom or a watchdog group. The problem is, these third parties are usually anything but neutral. They have been handpicked, cultivated, and meticulously packaged in order to make you believe what they have to say—preferably in an "objective" format like a news show or a letter to the editor. And in some cases, they have been paid handsomely for their "opinions."
For example:
You think that nonprofit organizations just give away their stamps of approval on products? Bristol-Myers Squibb paid $600,000 to the American Heart Association for the right to display AHA's name and logo in ads for its cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol. SmithKline Beecham paid the American Cancer Society $1 million for the right to use its logo in ads for Beecham's Nicoderm CQ and Nicorette anti-smoking ads.
You think that a study out of a prestigious university is completely unbiased? In 1997, Georgetown University's Credit Research Center issued a study which concluded that many debtors are using bankruptcy as an excuse to wriggle out of their obligations to creditors. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen cited the study in a Washington Times column and advocated for changes in federal law to make it harder for consumers to file for bankruptcy relief. What Bentsen failed to mention was that the Credit Research Center is funded in its entirety by credit card companies, banks, retailers, and others in the credit industry; that the study itself was produced with a $100,000 grant from VISA USA, Inc. and MasterCard International; and that Bentsen himself had been hired to work as a credit-industry lobbyist.
You think that all grassroots organizations are truly grassroots? In 1993, a group called Mothers Opposing Pollution (MOP) appeared, calling itself "the largest women's environmental group in Australia, with thousands of supporters across the country." Their cause: A campaign against plastic milk bottles. It turned out that the group's spokesperson, Alana Maloney, was in truth a woman named Janet Rundle, the business partner of a man who did P.R. for the Association of Liquidpaperboard Carton Manufacturers—the makers of paper milk cartons.
You think that if a scientist says so, it must be true? In the early 1990s, tobacco companies secretly paid thirteen scientists a total of $156,000 to write a few letters to influential medical journals. One biostatistician received $10,000 for writing a single, eight-paragraph letter that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A cancer researcher received $20,137 for writing four letters and an opinion piece to the Lancet, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and The Wall Street Journal.
Rampton and Sta…
"If you've ever wanted to see a TV spin doctor hog-tied and dragged through the streets, Rampton and Stauber do the next best thing. This book is modern muckraking of the best variety, skewering hype and showing us how to separate real experts from snake oil salesmen and hired corporate know-it-alls." —Jim Hightower
"Trust Us, We're Experts is a brilliant piece of investigative journalism and a powerful vaccine against the stupefying effects of the corporate PR machine. Spread it around!" —Barbara Ehrenreich
"Rampton and Stauber have once again exposed the ugly underbelly of corporate America's psychological war on our citizens. Trust Us, We're Experts! shows how giant corporations employ sophisticated psychiatric techniques, unscrupulous public figures, paid biostitutes, junk science, tainted studies and clever PR mercenaries in a relentless effort to market products that routinely kill, maim, deform and poison consumers and our environment." —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President, Water Keeper Alliance
"Finally a long-overdue expose of the shenanigans and subterfuge that lie behind the making of experts in America. Rampton and Stauber take us behind the scenes, inside corporate boardrooms, where marketing chiefs literally manufacture their own 'independent experts' to defend their products and practices. This groundbreaking book gives us a first look into the seamy side of corporate public relations, where academic experts of every stripe and kind are bought in various ways. An eye-opener." —Jeremy Rifkin
"This is a great book, and I think you should buy it. But since the point of the book is to get you to think for yourself and not trust experts, perhaps you should thumb through it yourself for a little while. I think of it as a field guide to the kinds of lies you can expect from the information age." —Bill McKibben
"Rampton and Stauber's book explodes the cult of expertise and shows how easily the media and their readers can be misled by public relations claims masquerading as science. This book makes the best case I know for complete disclosure of the financial conflicts of interest of scientists and the corporate influence on university research." —Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts University Professor, author of Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
Table of Contents
1. The Third Man
2. The Birth of Spin
3. Deciding What You'll Swallow
Part II: Risky Business
4. Dying for a Living
5. Packaging the Beast
6. Preventing Precaution
7. Attack of the Killer Potatoes
Part III: The Expertise Industry
8. The Best Science Money Can Buy
9. The Junkyard Dogs
10. Global Warming Is Good For You
11. Questioning Authority
Appendix: Recommended Resources


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Workshops and Events
Workshops and Events
Fall semester workshops:
Introduction to Canvas
In this workshop we will cover the basics of what you need to know to get your Canvas course setup. By the end of the workshop you will have added a syllabus, uploaded documents, created assignments, publish a course and message students. We will also discuss adding students to classes and setting notification preferences.
Become a Grading Guru
Creating Online Exams
Come learn how to take advantage of the online testing you can do in Canvas.
Canvas Pitfalls and Common Questions
This workshop is intended for those who have already begun using Canvas. We will be discussing and demonstrating some of the typical challenges faculty face when using Canvas. For example, we will discuss using the attendance tool, peer reviews, crocodoc and more.
Course Evaluations with Evaluation Kit
Beginning in the Fall of 2013 a new course evaluation tool (Evaluation Kit) was implemented. This workshop will demonstrate how faculty can add custom questions to their evaluations.
Recording Presentations with Panopto
There are 15 classrooms on campus equiped with recording equipment. However, any computer with a webcam and microphone can be used to record presentations. This workshop will step you through the process of adding Panopto to your Canvas account so you can create and share these presentations with your students.


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Exploring different ways of thinking about the wheel of the year, reflecting on aspects of the natural world to provide Pagans alternatives to the usual solar stories.
Celebrating the flowers
Imbolc, when the little snowdrops emerge from the earth, the first flowers, and the first sign that spring is on the way. Except if you're dealing with floodwater just now, you probably won't see them because they will be submerged. If you are a bit further north than I am, there will be no sign yet. People in colder climates can't expect flowers at this time of year – my other half, who originated in Maine, continues to be perplexed by anything trying to grow at this time. Not everywhere has snowdrops, and not everywhere has winter.
There are no doubt a lot of Pagans out there who feel they should be celebrating Imbolc this weekend, because it's the ancient Celtic festival marking the first signs of spring, and it's here. Some will no doubt go out with scripts that talk of things which simply are not happening in their lives. I've done that myself. I stood in a hailstorm one year, trying to picture the gentle, generous spring maiden and her magical wild flowers, whilst getting cold, wet, miserable and confused. It was one of those key moments in my journey towards rejecting a dogmatic approach to dates and festivals.
As it happens, the catkins have been opening for a while now, and I saw my first snowdrops last week. The weather forecast is dire, and I do not fancy my preferred hilltop, in case we do get some of those predicted 150 mile an hour winds. I like to think the Druids of old had enough sense, and enough respect for the natural world not to be out in it unnecessarily when it might do them serious injury.
I find it difficult to celebrate the first signs of spring as an event. The birds have been behaving differently for a few weeks now. I've watched the shoots of first leaves and the fattening of tree buds. Every day the sunset is a little later, and I've been alert to those light shifts.
If there had been heavy snow, I would want to go out and celebrate the melt. I get excited about the first day I can go walking without needing a coat. That's the true arrival of spring, for me. The first day I can manage to be barefoot again. My circulation is poor, and to avoid chilblains I need thick socks and shoes through the winter, even indoors. It reduces my sense of connection with the earth, so the first day I can go barefoot is a time of reconnection, and that one is important to me, too.
Honour the ancestors by recognising their festival, but keep in mind that not all of them celebrated it, and that the seasonal features underpinning it may make no sense where you are. If something else calls out to be honoured and recognised, then perhaps that would be the better focus for your seasonal celebrations.
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SALEM - From kitchen newbies to the Julia Childses in the crowd, Cheryl Cohen said her advice for cooks of all kinds is to "just keep on trying."
A Taste of Home culinary specialist, Cohen traveled from her home in Dover to the stage at Salem High School to share some recipes, cooking tips and savory suggestions during the fifth annual Taste of Home Cooking School held Thursday night.
"We all have to eat, right? You gotta make it fun. Never give up," she said.
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Carol Turney of New Waterford was the big winner at the Taste of Home Cooking School in Salem. She won this Kitchen Aid stand mixer — plus the 50/50 cash. To the right is her niece, Judy Powell of Petersburg.
Taste of Home offers recipes for cooks of all skill levels. She recalled watching her mother and grandmother while they cooked and how natural it seemed and the ease of it. They made it look easy.
"Don't be afraid of trying something new - that's how you grow in the kitchen," she said.
Cohen has been a culinary specialist for Taste of Home for six years and does cooking shows all over. Some of the recipes she showed the audience how to prepare included mango lime pie, Italian sausage pot stickers, pineapple upside-down cupcakes, spicy gazpacho salad, chicken paillard with cherry sauce and parsley rice, stuffed baby red potatoes and French onion pizza au gratin.
"All of our recipes at Taste of Home come from people around the world," she said, noting they're tested in the Taste of Home test kitchen. Anybody can submit recipes at www.tasteofhome.com/submit.
Salem residents David and Connie Buckoski said they have come to the event nearly every year and always enjoy the night. David is retired and said he does a lot of the cooking since Connie works. They said they've tried some of the recipes, and they turn out okay.
"We like the desserts," Connie said, with David adding they're into meat and potatoes, like steak or hamburgers.
Lisbon resident Melanie Hiner and Salem resident Bonnie Gordon were first-timers and said they heard about the cooking school from someone else, and both like to cook - and to eat.
"I want to learn shortcuts in cooking, make it quicker," Bonnie said.
Many attendees come in groups every year, either with friends from work, from the neighborhood or family. Cousins Cindy Rodrick of Leetonia and Cheryl Newhouse of Salem said it's a family affair, with family members coming together every year.
"We enjoy it, it's a fun evening out," Cheryl said, echoed by Cindy and Toni Manzetti, another Leetonia resident.
"We love the prizes," Cindy said.
Attendees had a chance to scope out products from 42 vendors who were set up in the school cafeteria before cooking school began and win one of 115 door prizes given throughout the night which was emceed by John Steven Bloom, a master illusionist.
Hosted by the Morning Journal, Salem News and The Review, the event proceeds benefited the Newspapers in Education program. The 1,000 ticket holders for the sold-out show were asked to bring a non-perishable food item as part of Cooks Who Care, with all the goods to be donated to the Community Action Agency of Columbiana County and Ohio Department of Job and Family Services food pantry. Everyone who brought a food item received a chance to win a Kitchen Aid stand mixer donated by Home Savings. Each ticket holder also received a goody bag containing 55 items contributed by area businesses.
Before the show started, a lucky attendee whose name was drawn earned the "Best Seat in the House," a chance to watch the cooking show from the stage. At the end of the night, the winner received the five-piece patio set donated by Walmart.
"What a fun-filled night for all attendees who enjoyed vendors, goody bags, door prizes and delicious recipes. This event could not take place without the generosity of our major sponsors and businesses that contributed to the success of the cooking school. Many thanks to all," Salem News Publisher Beth Volosin said.
Major sponsors for the cooking school included: Giant Eagle of Salem, Calcutta and East Liverpool, who donated bags of groceries for door prizes and food for the recipes; Papa John's, pizza for the concessions; Home Savings, donor of a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer for Cooks Who Care; Diamond Cut, landscape sponsor and flowers; Walmart, donor of the Best Seat in the House; Grove Appliance, appliance sponsor; Kitchen Solutions, cabinet sponsor; Akron Children's Hospital Mahoning Valley, goody bag sponsor; and Salem High School, which donated use of the auditorium.


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The Hollywood Reporter announced today that CBGB has not only been picked up by a North American distributor, but that it will also premiere during the annual CBGB Music Festival!
The CBGB Music Festival runs from October 9 - 13 in New York City. A screening date has not yet been revealed, but stay tuned!
XLrator Media has all U.S. distribution rights, but it's unclear at the moment how wide of a release CBGB will get. But not much longer now until fans get to see Rupert on the big screen as Cheetah Chrome! In the meantime, check out our gallery featuring posters, behind the scenes pics and movie stills.
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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Daddy long-legs
So, before this one becomes untopical:
Britain is having a 'plague' of crane flies, or as the Daily Telegraph (their photo, right) and everyone else around me puts it, daddy long-legs. In AmE, daddy long-legs refers only to certain types of spiders that have very long, thin legs and a small body. In BrE, it can refer to spiders (although then it's usually called the daddy long-legs spider), but also to just about any insect that has similar legs.
I first heard the term used thusly a few months ago, when I went to eradicate a bug in my kitchen and Better Half and his sister protested. BH'sS said, "Don't kill it! It's a daddy long-legs!" I'm not sure that it really mattered to her that it was a daddy long-legs; she is a friend of all creatures great and small. I protested, "No, it's not. It's only got six legs." BH and sister replied that that's how many legs a daddy long-legs has.
The insect in question looked like a daddy-long legs spider, except for being two legs short of spiderhood. It looked kind of like this picture (via Google Images from a website that no longer exists, so I don't know what the insect is). But the plague of crane flies has inspired an epidemic of using daddy long-legs in a more specific sense, to refer to these flying things--usuallly in the expression Ugh, get it out of here! I hate those daddy long-legs! The OED lists the crane fly meaning first, with examples of the term going back to the early 19th century.
I was going to write this and wait a day to post it, but (AmE) what the heck...
20 comments:
- Aviatrix said...
It's a daddy long-legs in Canada, too.
- 24 September, 2006 01:07
In Scotland, or at least my wee corner, they're called Jenny long-legs which I always thought was a much nicer name
- 24 September, 2006 01:30
Actually, that reminds me of an eprisode of Mythbusters when they said that daddy long-legs are the most poisonous type of spider (or words to that effect) picture me and my Mum looking at each other with a WHAT? If you were a really cruel kid, you caught them and pulled their legs off but poisonous? When they should footage of spiders, the penny dropped.
- 24 September, 2006 01:36
- City Slicker said...
I can confirm
There was annoying little beast torturing my curtain the other evening!
- 24 September, 2006 12:46
- Rebecca said...
If it's a spider I can let it live, if it's fluttering around a light it has to die, whatever it's called. Hate hate hate hate them. There were lots of them on holiday, plaguing me.
- 24 September, 2006 12:51
- AllieTheKiwi said...
Adding a geographic 'same here' for New Zealand. Although I must say I'd not noticed that some have only 6 legs and others have 8. I presumed that the ones with wings were perhaps males whilst the ones without were females or vice versa ... a theory that would no doubt make any Entomologist cringe.
- 24 September, 2006 12:55
- lynneguist said...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica points out:
"In English-speaking countries other than the United States, the crane fly is popularly called daddy long legs because it has a slender, mosquito-like body and extremely long legs. (In the United States, "daddy longlegs" generally refers to an arachnid.)"
So, while Canadian English is like American English in many ways, this is one way in which it's like the rest of the British Commonwealth.
- 24 September, 2006 17:18
- Aviatrix said...
Hmm. Canadian English straddles the gap between American and British in so many ways I can't say which it is closest to. Pronunciation is closer to that of the northern states than of anywhere in the UK, but I will choose a British spelling checker over an American one. The main differences being "gaol" "tyre" and the ize/ise words. We keep the U in words like colour, and all the double letters in words like traveller and jewellery.
I kind of like the fact that mine is the only country in which "organized labour" is spelled correctly.
- 25 September, 2006 01:03
- lynneguist said...
...and the vocabulary shares more in common with AmE than BrE, but there are exceptions, like daddy long-legs. (And then there are the things that are just Canadian. Like saying Grade 9 instead of 9th grade. I watched too much Degrassi Jr High in (AmE) grad school.)
- 25 September, 2006 01:15
'What the heck' certainly isn't exclusively AmE; I (BrE) use it a lot.
- 26 September, 2006 01:42
- lynneguist said...
Ah, that BrE label was Better Half's doing. (I usually read him the postings before they go up.)
OED has heck as dialectal in the UK, but they don't say what dialects, and it could very well be that it's not dialectal anymore.
- 26 September, 2006 10:49
- Howard said...
> In Scotland, or at least my wee corner, they're called Jenny long-legs which I always thought was a much nicer name
My Lancastrian grandfathers used to call them "Harry Longlegs".
The small-bodied long-legged spiders are often called "Harvesters" or "Harvestmen". See http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/harvestmen.htm
for a picture and description.
- 27 September, 2006 02:16
Harvestmen are a different thing to those small-body-spindly-leg spiders (Pholcidae)- in fact harvestmen aren't spiders at all (as the website howard's linked to says). The things that hang around in all the undusted corners of my home are definitely real web-spinners though. I don't know what they're called but I'd never refer to them as daddy long-legs (-legses?). Though wikipedia does... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae - lots of other names there too).
Ugh, it's making my skin crawl just typing this. Must stop.
- 27 September, 2006 23:16
Just realised that i said i didn't know what they're called but had previously mentioned they're Pholcidae - what i meant was that i don't have a name for them... just 'those spindly spiders with the tiny bodies'.
- 27 September, 2006 23:19
- dearieme said...
"thusly": you are a tease.
- 28 September, 2006 19:55
"...I'd never refer to them as daddy long-legs (-legses?)"
Daddies long-legs, surely?
- 28 September, 2006 23:22
Long-legged daddies?
- 29 September, 2006 21:09
- John Cowan said...
In discussing the "tire center" (AmE) / "tyre centre" (BrE) / "tire centre" (CanE) trichotomy, a Briton commented that to him a "tire centre" would be a place where you go to get tired.
- 02 January, 2007 23:06
- outerhoard said...
One word that can be fun for scaring the British with is "bluebottle" - which in Australia is a Portuguese Man-o-War, but in Britain is something very common but much less dangerous. Use of the word across dialects can cause the British party to imagine, for a moment, that something as common and inescapable as the British bluebottle might be as dangerous as an Australian one!
- 07 May, 2008 17:05
It's called Jangnim Gummy('Blind Spider', if translated) in here, South Korea, but not commonly known. I also didn't recognize the bug until I visited New Zealand.
- 12 July, 2010 10:02


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Swimming and Diving Faces IUPUI and Xavier Friday
MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving teams return to competition by taking on IUPUI and Xavier at the IUPUI Natatorium on Friday, Jan. 10. It will be the first competition for either squad in 2014.
The women's squad is coming off a sixth place finish at the Miami Invitational. Senior Bridgette Ruehl won the 100 and 200 breast to stay undefeated in the breaststroke event finals. Classmate Haley Richter finished second in the 100 fly posting a season-best time of 55.76.
Junior Jordan VanWinkle added her name to the Ball State record book after posting a season-best time of 5:04.58 in the event finals of the 500 free event finals. VanWinkle's time ranks 10th in program history. The junior also owns the sixth-best 200 free time after posting a 1:52.13.
The men's team was last in competition at the Eastern Michigan Invitational where it finished fourth. Freshman Austin Green posted a lifetime best in the 50 free with a time of 21.54. Senior Drew Tharp finished sixth in the 100 fly with a season-best time of 51.18 while freshman Tanner Barton claimed a season-best time of 51.60. Tharp also finished fifth in the 200 fly with a season-best time of 1:53.89.
Senior Michael Oaks earned 10th place in the 100 free with a season-best 47.44 while Drew Sullenbarger finished 10th in the 200 back with a 1:56.55, a season-best time.
The meet will begin at 6 p.m. and live stats will be available on IUPUIJags.com.


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Family Fun picks for the week: Junie B. Jones, Chinese New Year celebration, a turtle naming contest and more
Lots of fun for kids this week: Junie B. Jones at the Eisemann Center in Richardson and Bass Hall in Fort Worth, a Chinese New Year festival at the Children's Museum at the Museum of Nature & Science, World Record Night at the Texas Brahmas game, an etiquette class with a great meal at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and a chance to score free annual passes to the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park if they can come up with the best name for the facility's 70-plus-year-old, 175-pound alligator snapping turtle. I've got all the details in my Family Fun briefs here.
PHOTO: Kids have a chance to win annual passes for their families in a contest to name the Children's Aquarium's 70-plus-year-old, 175-pound alligator snapping turtle.


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It's the day after Christmas, and we have a toynado in our living room.
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PHILIPPI - After their grant money expired recently, a youth group in Philippi is trying to find another means to stay afloat.
Code Blue Youth Alliance in Philippi is free and open to kids from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. every Friday. It is located on Main Street across from the Barbour County Courthouse.
President Emily Wilkins said it is a place where kids can build relationships with their peers and the volunteers through various games and activities.
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Code Blue Youth Alliance President Emily Wlkins sits at a vendor table featuring the Harley Davidson XL1200 Custom Sportster 110th anniversary edition that the youth group is raffling off to help cover program costs.
Wilkins said since the grant has expired, the group is tasked with raising the money on their own to keep the doors open to children and also is in need of volunteers. Wilkins said the program averages an attendance of about 40 kids.
"For me, it's about making an environment and place for the kids to come and feel comfortable and accepted," Poling said. "I think that it's important that they get to experience a Christian community. I think it's important that they know that they're loved, and that they're not anonymous.
"The less anonymous they feel, I feel like, the more they decide to contribute to the community rather than get into any trouble. I think we have a great group of kids who come in every time. I love their energy, and I hope they continue to come. I hope they bring their friends."
To help raise money, Code Blue Youth Alliance is asking for donations and volunteers. The group also is raffling off a Harley Davidson XL1200 Custom Sportster 110th Anniversary Edition.
"The raffle is an attempt to keep the program open," Wilkins said.
Although the drawing is tentatively scheduled for June 28, it may be extended so that the group can meet their goal of selling 1,000 raffle tickets at $25 each. To find out more about the raffle, volunteering, donating or the youth group, contact Poling at 304-677-3174, or contact a volunteer at 304-457-2844 or 304-457-4433.