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33rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
From Romanticism's spiritual resurgence to the interrogations of Darwinism and science, the nineteenth century was immersed in conversation about the place of spirituality and religion in society, politics, and the arts. Paper and panel proposals are welcome on all aspects of belief, religion, and spirituality in the long nineteenth century, from 1789 to 1914.
Papers might include, but are not limited to: retreats, communes and utopias; group spirit; altered states; awakenings, revivals and reforms; religious doctrines and dogmas; free spirits, lunatics, and addicts; acts of faith and interfaith; non-European spiritual traditions; emotions and the unconscious; revered commodities and capital; sacred texts, pictures, music and shrines; spiritual tours and monuments; shamans, mediums, and psychics; secular and aesthetic spirituality; spirituality of agnostics and atheists; fear of and reaction to spirituality and religion. Please e-mail abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers that provide the author's name and paper title in the heading, as well as a one-page c.v., to Phylis Floyd AND Michael Duffy by September 30, 2011. Presenters will be notified in November, 2011. Phylis Floyd, Michigan State University, email@example.com; Michael Duffy, East Carolina University, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Prep Time 40 minutes |
Cook Time 5 minutes
4 sheets Eden Sushi Nori
2 cups precooked organic white sushi rice, rice should be room temperature, not hotor precooked organic short grain brown rice
1 1/2 Tbsp Eden Brown Rice Vinegar
1 Tbsp Eden Mirin
1 avocado, seed removed, peeled, sliced into wedges
4 Tbsp Eden Shake
2 tsp Eden Wasabi Powder (Japanese Mustard), mixed with several drops hot water to form a thick paste
1 large carrot, cut into 3 inch long sticks, blanched 2 minutes
1/2 cup daikon radish sprouts, rinsedred radish sprouts, or alfalfa sprouts
Place rice in a bowl and mix in the brown rice vinegar and mirin. Toss to fluff and cool the rice. Slice the avocado into 1/4 inch thick wedges.
Cut each sheet of nori, with scissors, into four equal size squares. Spread a thin layer of rice, about 1/4 cup, on top of one square. Moisten your fingers slightly and press the rice firmly until the most of the square is covered. Place a strip of carrot on a diagonal, spanning from one corner to the opposite corner. Spread a small amount of wasabi along one side of the carrot. Sprinkle a little Eden Shake on top of the wasabi. Place 1 or 2 slices of avocado and a little radish sprouts on next. Take one corner of the nori square and fold it over the filling and roll into a cone shape. Repeat the above steps until all cones have been rolled. Equals 16 cones. Eat as is like a sandwich or dip into a little Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce before eating.
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LISBON - Judges Carol Robb and Mark Frost of the Columbiana County Municipal Court have announced that recent changes in Ohio statutes have made it even easier for responsible drivers to get their right to drive restored.
In order to help implement some of these changes the judges have again teamed with representatives of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to hold a workshop that may enable suspended drivers to obtain a valid operator's license or to at least get limited driving privileges.
In a news release, Robb said, "These new laws allow us judges and the BMV to restore driving rights or grant limited privileges to even more persons who have been caught up in the technicalities of the system, while still allowing us to refuse privileges to those drivers who are dangerous."
"It used to be," Judge Frost added, "that drivers who were caught without insurance for the third time could not get privileges. But now they can, provided they have the necessary high risk insurance bond in place."
Other changes in the new law allow for drivers to get work privileges when they have been suspended for failing to pay child support.
The judges strongly emphasized that this program is not designed to put bad drivers back on the road, but rather to let responsible drivers get legal.
The workshop will offer participants a schedule of half hour appointments from 1-4 p.m. Oct. 24 at Municipal Court. It is an opportunity for each suspended driver to have a one-on-one appointment with a BMV worker who can walk that driver through all the necessary steps to get full or limited privileges.
The event is the latest in a series of similar workshops which have been held at the court as a public service since the summer of 2007, and the judges have been very pleased by the enthusiastic public response.
"We have been doing this about every six months, and it has really helped quite a few people," Frost said. "We really appreciate the fact that the BMV has been working to shed their previous reputation of being too bureaucratic. Their workers try very hard to help everyone who attends."
Robb added, "We feel that by helping otherwise responsible drivers 'get legal' we save a lot of taxpayer money, both by preventing additional DUS cases and by allowing people to become self sustaining workers."
To get an appointment, call the court, 424-5326, during regular business hours.


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This shirt is Exhibit A in the argument that, yes, Cage knows exactly what's going on.
Guns N' Roses (at this point, Axl Rose and a rotating cast of stringers, including, coincidentally, a former member of The Replacements) posted this picture on Instagram after the group's June 7 show at the The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
In case most of your synapses have fried, it's a picture of Andrew Dice Clay standing next to Nicolas Cage, who's wearing a cowboy hat, aviator sunglasses, a blue blazer, Mardi Gras beads, what appears to be a set of holsters, (possibly) fringed pants and – most crucially – a shirt with his own face own it, perhaps inspired by Macaulay Culkin's habit of doing so.
The cartoon on his shirt is commonly referred to as "You don't say?" It's a facial expression Cage makes in the film Vampire's Kiss, and it's used in online discussions to "express frustration or condescending incredulity at an incredibly obvious or oblivious statement."
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Family: Top baby names 2012
Expecting a bundle of joy? Don't know what to name the new arrival? Here's some help for you.
A Florida hospital, which delivered nearly 14,000 babies in 2012, issued its list of the most popular baby names for the year.
Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies (Orlando, Florida) said that Isabella (111) and Jayden (90) were the most popular names.
The hospital is one of the top three labor and delivery hospitals in the US and many names on its list were also on lists in other areas of the US, according to Babycenter.com's "100 Most Popular Baby Names of 2012." That site's data comes from nearly 500,000 parents who shared their baby's name with them during the year. So if the top 10 (below) aren't enough, check the link for the top 100 names for girls and boys.
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How do I recognize them?
Crickets come in several different species. The most common are house and field crickets which are ¾" to 7/8" in length. They are either brown or black in color. Often their telltale chirping is the only sign that they are present. A cousin, the cave or camelback cricket as they are also called, appear to be more like large jumping spiders rather than crickets. They are striped and tend to infest damp environments.
Where did I get crickets from?
House and Field Crickets often invade camelback crickets will also do this, but if humidity levels and conditions are right, they may actually breed within the basement or crawlspace. Damp undersides of decks, especially those with leaf debris often harbor these pests.
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Ensuring your home is well sealed is the primary form of defense for house crickets and field crickets. Properly sealing door sweeps, screening crawlspace vents and sealing cracks and crevices helps. Camelback crickets are defendant on high humidity levels. Installing an appropriately sized dehumidifier will help to eliminate the conditions required for this and other pests.
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Crickets do not damage your home nor do they transmit any diseases. They are merely a nuisance pest. Camelback crickets are often an indicator of elevated humidity levels. These elevated humidity levels can lead to wood decay and other more destructive pests. Camelback crickets do not chirp like their cousins.
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Durango�s made a season out of scratching out low-scoring victories.
So what�s one more?
The DHS boys basketball team rallied late, outscoring Grand Junction Central 12-3 in the fourth quarter to pull out a 39-31 victory Saturday to stay perfect at home this season.
It�s the fifth time this season the Demons have been victorious despite scoring less than 40 points, and it took a superlative defensive effort late to do it.
The Demons (12-4, 5-2 Southwestern League) forced nine Warriors� turnovers in the final frame and allowed just one field goal in the last 12 minutes, 47 seconds of the game.
�We step it up. We really rely on our defense and stuff. It�s our key thing; it�s our go-to,� said Dane Mestas, son of Josette Chacon and Dane Mestas.
As the Warriors struggled to score, Durango, which hit just 5 of 22 from the floor in the first half, started to get going on the offensive end.
Mestas scored eight of his 11 points in the third quarter as DHS began to claw back into the basketball game.
Willy Frownfelter, a pest to Central�s ballhandlers in the second half, scored six of his seven points in the fourth quarter.
Durango was much more efficient after halftime, connecting on 6 of 13 field goals. And the Demons were solid from 3-point range all afternoon, with Mestas and Ty Elliott, who also scored 11 points, hitting all of Durango�s 3s in a 6 of 10 effort.
�We said it at halftime. Our defense was not the problem. ... It was just executing on the offensive end,� DHS head coach Alan Batiste said.
�That second half, we started slowly executing � getting easier shots, getting wide-open looks � and it paid off.�
While Nick Hamlin had an off game offensively, he was critical on the glass, pulling in nine rebounds. And Durango forced 20 total turnovers while committing 17.
The hustle plays almost entirely went in Durango�s favor in the fourth quarter, as well, after Central battled DHS for a 28-27 lead after three quarters and led by as many as seven at 26-19.
Frownfelter nearly singlehandedly iced the game, drawing an offensive foul on Preston Grandbouche with DHS up 35-29 with 1 minute, 24 seconds to play. He then buried a pair of free throws, picked up a steal, then drilled two more foul shots to push the lead to 39-29 with 37 seconds to play.
�It�s that type of brand of basketball we like to play. Low scores and being on the W end is a good thing,� Batiste said.
Edward Becoat led the Warriors with 14 points as only five players scored for Grand Junction Central.
DHS was without freshman gunner Lucas Baken for the second consecutive day with an ankle injury. Batiste is hoping to have him back next weekend.
After spending 12 of their first 13 games on the road, the Demons have taken advantage of their home court, winning all four games in their gym. And they�ll try to keep their overall winning streak going at Montezuma-Cortez on Tuesday.
�You�ve got to protect the house, you know?� Mestas said.
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The high school musical season is getting under way. The A-T has received information on the following shows.
ATTICA - Seneca East High School is to present "Once Upon a Mattress" at 7 p.m. March 7 and 8 and 2 p.m. March 9. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for students.
For tickets and information, call the school at (419) 426-3312.
Columbian High School has chosen "All Shook Up" for its spring production, with performances at 8 p.m. March 14, 15, 21 and 22.
Call (4190 447-6331.
FOSTORIA - St. Wendelin Catholic School is to present "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." The musical is to open with a dinner theater at 7 p.m. March 13. Limited pre-sale tickets are available at $25 for the buffet and show.
Other performances are set for 7 p.m. March 14 and shows at 2 and 7 p.m. March 15.
All shows are performed in the south gym at the school.
Show-only tickets Friday and Saturday are $8 for adults and $6 for seniors/children. For reservations and information, call (419) 435-8144.
SYCAMORE - Mohawk High School is to stage "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." Show times are 7 p.m. March 14 and 15 and 2 p.m. March 16.
Tickets are $7 and reservations can be made by calling the school at (419) 927- 6222 during school hours.
Calvert High School's musical production is "The Little Mermaid," to be performed March 21 and 22.
Call (419) 447-3844 for more information.
FOSTORIA - "The King and I" is coming to Fostoria High School at 7:30 p.m. March 21 and 22 and 3 p.m. March 23.
For tickets, call (419) 436-4110.
CAREY - "Little Shop of Horrors" is to be staged at Carey High School at 8 p.m. March 27-29 and 2 p.m. March 30.
For more information, call (419) 396-7638.
BELLEVUE - Bellevue High School is to present "Xanadu" April 4-6 at Bellevue Elementary School, SR 269 north of Bellevue.


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Fifth Consumer Product Safety Trilateral Summit Joint Press Statement
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Lake Rabun Hotel & Restaurant
Lakemont, GA 30552
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Lake Rabun is one of the most beautiful lakes in the mountains of North Georgia. From Atlanta it's a 2 hour drive. It sparkles, gleams and is one of the most coveted spots in the Southeast to vacation and return to the joys of full engagement with nature.
The Lake Rabun Hotel built in 1922, has been lovingly restored. It features native stone landscaping, original woodwork, scenic decks, fine art, oriental rugs, antiques, free WiFi, full bar/ restaurant serving farm to table gourmet entrees, award winning wines, specialty drinks. It offers warm hospitality and mountain adventure concierge services.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER named it a TOP STAY HOTEL, SOUTHERN LIVING rated it "one of the great small stays in the state." BEST OF ATLANTA awarded it "Best Use Of A Tank Of Gas, Discerning A List Restaurant." ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSITUTION said "The Lake Rabun Hotel is a place to love, or fall in love," OPEN TABLE Diner's Choice Award, TRIP ADVISOR Certificate of Excellence.
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Sunday: 11:00AM - 3:00PM
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Thursday: 6:00PM - 10:00PM
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The liver is a complex organ composed primarily of hepatocytes, along with supporting vascular tissue and Kuppfer cells. It is responsible for normal metabolic functions and is also critical for the processing of xenobiotics taken in from the environment. Liver damage from viral assault and other types of toxin-mediated injury can lead to disease states resulting in reduced hepatic function and even death. The study of hepatic functions are thus of keen interest to areas of environmental toxicology, disease modeling, and drug development.
Existing in vitro models of liver function currently employ immortalized cell lines, such as HepG2, HepaRG, and Huh7, as well as primary tissue isolates from human and animal donors that can be studied as intact liver slices or though the dissociation and isolation of primary hepatocytes. Limitations of these cell and tissue models include reduced function in culture that may also change with passage number.
Primary tissues can be supply limited and also represent a variable source of functional material as there can be dramatic differences in phenotypic responses to stimuli based on the genetic background and environmental exposure history of the donor. For isolated primary cells, this heterogeneity can be mitigated by pooling donor tissues to generate a mixed sample of tissues for study, but this can still yield batch-to-batch variability in culture.
To overcome the limitations in supply, culture stability, and inconsistent function, recent efforts have produced and made available human hepatocytes differentiated and matured from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). iCell® Hepatocytes, currently available from Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), are human iPSC-derived hepatocytes generated from a single genetic background, enabling consistent performance, produced in limitless supply, and offering superior functional stability in culture over existing cell lines and primary cells.
Further, because iPSCs can be derived from adult donors via noninvasive methods (i.e., from a single peripheral blood draw), the potential exists to generate a panel of distinct hepatocyte cultures representing a series of defined genetic backgrounds for enabling the study of differential metabolic and toxin sensitivities as well as disease phenotypes. As such, the iCell Hepatocytes represent a new era for the study of liver function in vitro.
iCell Hepatocytes represent a highly pure (>95%) population of hepatocytes that demonstrate key morphological, phenotypic, and marker expression characteristics of those typically observed from primary tissue isolates (Figure 1).
These traits include a cobblestone appearance when plated in 2D culture as well as evidence by phase contrast microscopy of bi-nucleation and the formation of bile canaliculi. In addition, immunostaining illustrates the production of alpha-1-antitypsin (AAT) and albumin in the differentiated cells at levels suggestive of a highly pure culture. PAS and CDFDA staining further highlight the glycogen storage function and the formation of tight junctions and bile canaliculi in culture.
The failure of drug candidates in both the preclinical and clinical development phases of pharmaceutical research can be extremely costly and also have significant negative outcomes for patient health. The ability to accurately identify molecular liabilities of drug candidates, both in terms of metabolic susceptibility and/or hepatotoxic effects, early in development would significantly benefit the pharmaceutical discovery process. Thus researchers would be enabled to triage and deprioritize molecules with significant, predicted in vivo limitations from development while focusing on safer and more in vivo-stable therapeutics.
In addition, predictive toxicity models could also identify patient genotypes that should be excluded from specific clinical treatment groups if there is evidence of a population that could be particularly sensitive to an agent and have the potential to exhibit drug-induced liver injury (DILI) or even idiosyncratic toxicity.
As an exploration of the utility of human iPSC-derived hepatocytes as a predictive in vitro model for the study of hepatotoxicity, iCell Hepatocytes have been characterized for sensitivity to numerous known toxic agents and demonstrate a dose-dependent sensitivity to a variety of chemistries, including acetaminophen, troglitazone, terfenadine, tamoxifen, and chlorprimazine (data not shown). Further, the iPSC-differentiated hepatocytes exhibit behavior characteristic of metabolism-mediated toxin activation and sensitivity (Figure 2).
In the example shown, aflatoxin-B1 sensitivity is similar for iCell Hepatocytes and primary human hepatocytes in culture. However, the cancer cell-derived HepG2 line does not exhibit sensitivity to aflatoxin at 24 hours of exposure. Further, the addition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) inhibitors reduces the sensitivity of iPSC-differentiated hepatocytes to aflatoxin. Taken together, these data are consistent with a metabolically activated, reactive toxic form of aflatoxin being generated in the cultures and leading to cell death.
Hepatitis viral infections, both HCV and HBV, remain common diseases in both the developing and developed worlds. These infections can lead to liver damage manifesting as fibrotic and cirrhotic liver tissue and can result in the need for liver transplantation. To date, cell-based models of HCV and HBV infection and the viral replication cycle have been limited.
In recent studies, we have observed the presence of markers required to afford HCV attachment to, and uptake by, iPSC-differentiated hepatocytes (Figure 3). iCell Hepatocytes have been observed to exhibit SR-B1 and CD81 proteins, which are required for viral attachment. In addition, the cells stain positively for Occludin and Claudin1, which are required for viral internalization within the cell.
The data shown demonstrate that iCell Hepatocytes are capable of HCV uptake as evidenced by the staining with a luciferase-tagged viral particle. Notably, virus uptake is inhibited in a dose-dependent fashion by the anti-CD81 blocking antibody. The use of human iPSC-derived hepatocytes for the study of HCV activity, as well as for the identification of novel therapeutics to prevent viral injury, are thus enabled by this system.
In summary, CDI's iCell Hepatocytes are a predictive in vitro model system for the study of hepatotoxicity and metabolic function as well as disease modeling, including HCV studies. These human iPSC-derived hepatocytes provide an improvement over existing models by delivering a consistent, reproducible, and limitless source of liver tissue that is reflective of native human liver function.
David A. Mann, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is iCell Hepatocytes product manager, Shannon Einhorn is technical application scientist II, Kristin Block is research specialist III, Peter Fuhrken, Ph.D., is group leader, and Christian Kannemeier, Ph.D., and Jen Luebke-Wheeler, Ph.D., are senior scientists, at Cellular Dynamics International.
David A. Mann, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is iCell Hepatocytes product manager, Shannon Einhorn is technical application scientist II, Kristin Block is research specialist III, Peter Fuhrken, Ph.D., is group leader, and Christian Kannemeier, Ph.D., and Jen Luebke-Wheeler, Ph.D., are senior scientists, at Cellular Dynamics International.
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You can make sure healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables reach Americans in need by helping The Food Project plant gardens in Boston.
The Food Project (TFP) is transforming abandoned urban lots into verdant, productive farms that make nutritious fresh produce available in former food deserts. Diverse groups of teenagers from urban and suburban communities in the Greater Boston area are employed to help grow 250,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables on these farms each year—using organic methods! Approximately 40% of the food grown is donated to hunger relief organizations and homeless shelters, or sold at below-market rates at farmers' markets in Boston and Lynn, where food-assistance benefits are accepted. The Food Project's teenagers also help build backyard gardens in low-income neighborhoods so gardeners can safely grow their own food—and teach peers about healthy eating choices.
Help transform food deserts into food oases! Each dollar of your donation will support one square foot of The Food Project's farmland, where young leaders are cultivated, thousands of pounds of fresh produce are grown and distributed to those in need, and urban neighborhoods and backyards produce healthy food for local residents.
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From Polly Reeve, Director of Development:
The Food Project added the 10,000 square-foot Dudley Community Greenhouse in Roxbury to its portfolio of food production sites. Half the space supports community food learning programs while the other half hosts a youth-driven social enterprise to generate revenue and teach basic business skills to teenagers in the Internship Program.
Besides The Food Project's farms, the organization has piloted a Build-A-Garden program including container gardening project for those without adequate space for a fully raised bed. Gardeners in the program report that they and their children are successfully growing food, enjoying the process, and eating better as a result.
About The Food Project
The Food Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in eastern Massachusetts, engages teenagers in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture. On both urban and suburban farmland, TFP produces youth leaders by giving them deeply meaningful work and responsible roles. In addition to providing hunger relief, TFP teens are provided with valuable job experiences and a personal connection to the food system and issues of food justice. TFP also provides training resources to individuals and organizations interested in TFP's model of youth development and sustainable agriculture.
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Men's and Women's S&D Earn Wins on Senior Night
MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving teams defeated Evansville on Senior Night on Friday evening at Lewellen Aquatics Center. The men took home a 150-81 dual meet win, while the women took a 135-105 victory.
The 400 medley relay of Emily Wisolek, Stacey Wierman, Haley Richter and Mallory Przybylinski won with a time of 3:58.68. Michael Weber, Joseph Morris, Drew Tharp and Michael Oakes captured first as well, turning in a 3:28.78.
The Cardinals came in first in the 1000 free with Cheyanne Jackson turning in a season-best 10:45.11 and Andy Lamb touching at 10:08.28. Leighann Mattson came in fourth with a time of 11:06.63, while Cameron Watters clocked a season-best 10:35.47 for fourth place.
Morris swam in the 200 free, the first time he had raced it this season, and turned in a 1:43.84 for first place. Nick Stevens edged out the Evansville swimmer for second place with a time of 1:46.22, while Neal Fenning turned in a 1:48.89 for fifth place.
The men continued their winning ways in the 50 free where freshman Cole Smith earned a victory for the second consecutive meet with a time of 22.00. Shane Brown and Ethan Hall tied for fifth with times of 22.76.
Ball State swept the 200 IM with Bridgette Ruehl clocking a season-best 2:12.59 and Michael Weber earning a 1:56.78. MacKenzie Imbro came in third and Larah Beaver finished fifth with times of 2:15.10 and 2:17.31 respectively. Conner Snare and Jonathan McCormick turned in times of 2:03.12 and 2:05.98 to round out the men's race.
Drew Tharp took home the 200 fly with a time of 1:55.51, while Mallory Miles also took the top spot with a 2:08.78. Jonathan McCormick finished third in the race with a time of 2:05.53 while Ethan Hall finished third with a time of 2:04.26. Emily Wisolek finished third in the women's race clocking a 2:05.61.
The Cardinals took both 200 back events with Jackie Igelsias clocking a 2:10.34 and Weber coming in at 1:56.23. Larah Beaver took home second with a time of 2:12.66. Tucker Hale and Drew Sullenbarger finished third and fifth with times of 2:00.51 and 2:03.03, respectively.
Nicholas Stevens captured first place in the 500 free with a time of 4:50.33. Lamb earned third with a time of 4:54.88, while Fenning turned in a season-best 5:00.23 for fifth place. Morris earned the last individual win for the Cardinals on the night in the 200 breast with a time of 2:10.29. Conner Snare finished in second place with a 2:17.26, while David Wood earned fifth with a 5:19.54.
Ahmad won the 200 breast with a 2:25.21 while Stacey Wierman right behind in second with a 2:25.21. Iglesias swam in the event for the first time this season and clocked a 2:36.09.
The 400 free relay of Richter, Pitsas, Mattson and Beaver clocked a 3:36.12 for first place, while Hale, Tharp, Smith and Oaks turned in a 3:12.82 for second place.
In the men's 3-meter diving, Jake Brehmer came out on top with a score of 259.50, while Evan Becker finished second at 216.90. In the women's 1-meter diving event, Madie Zirzow came in second with a 276.75 while Natalie Grissom finished third at 236.47. In the 3-meter, Zirzow earned second and Natalie Grissom came in third with scores of 258.00 and 242.62, respectively.
Oaks came in second in the 100 free with a time of 47.70, followed by Cole Smith and Austin Goodman who came in fourth and fifth with times of 48.88 and 49.88, respectively.
Jillian Bischoff came in second in the 200 free with a time of 1:58.63, while Wierman turned in a 2:01.14 for fourth place. Kayla Hussey finished sixth at 2:02.84. In the 50 free, Cori Vormohr turned in a 25.13 for second place, while Przybylinski earned third with a 25.38. Dana Graunke was right behind in fourth place with a 25.67. In the 100 free, Jackson turned in her second season-best of the night with a 54.39 for second place. Elaine Pitsas and Sumaiyah Ahmad came in third and fourth with times of 55.33 and 56.15. Richter swam in the 500 free for the first time this season and turned in a 5:10.07 effort for second place. Mattson and Hussey finished third and fifth with times of 5:23.99 and 5:27.46.
The women are back in action Saturday, Feb. 2 when they travel to Miami for a 1 p.m. meet. The men will travel to the Butler Invitational this Sunday, Jan. 27. Check ballstatesports.com for more updates and information on swimming and diving.


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Head out to the fair
Head out to the fair
With hay to make, machinery to repair, and cows to keep cool, this summer's farm work may seem never ending. What better way to take a break than to head out to the fair.
Many fairs may have already occurred, but there is still plenty of local, county, and state fairs to attend — with everything from dairy shows to talent competitions to butter sculptures. Of course, there is always a large variety of "fair food" you can't find anywhere else.
Many of us exhibit at fairs or have family members that do. Even if that is the case, it's still important to purchase food from the FFA food stand or watch members of your former 4-H club show their dairy animals. Having a crowd supporting the dairy show makes it more meaningful to exhibitors.
Take in the livestock auction, maybe even bid a few times! These auctions are often how young people build up their college fund or purchase new project animals and supplies. At all fairs we have an opportunity to interact with consumers.
So, grab a deep-fried Oreo and enjoy the fair! Just by attending you are helping support 4-H, FFA, and other youth groups and the lessons they teach the next generation.


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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Communities will get the quality of development they demand, said a smart growth and historic preservation expert Wednesday.
Ed McMahon, the Charles E. Fraser Chair on Sustainable Development at the Urban Land Institute, gave a presentation at Town Hall that encouraged planners and town officials to encourage development that fits into the character of Summerville, rather than generic development that could be found anywhere in America.
Not only does such development look better, but it helps tourism and economic development by improving the visitor's overall experience, he said.
McMahon used Lancaster County, Penn., -- Amish country -- as an example.
People go to Lancaster expecting bucolic countryside, he said, showing a picture of an Amish man driving a horse-drawn buggy down a rural road.
Then he showed what the area actually looks like – a wide, busy road with not a tree in sight and signs sprouting atop each other advertising such attractions as the "Dutch Wonderland theme park."
"People go to Lancaster County and they don't come back," he said.
As a result, despite extensive advertising, Lancaster County has seen a slow but steady decline in tourism, McMahon said.
McMahon's presentation was filled with such "marketed image vs. reality" photos. He showed a photo of a historic columned house as it would appear in an advertisement, and then the view from the house itself: of a convenience store and a billboard advertising cigarettes.
The visual image of a community also factors into people's decisions when they decide to move somewhere or move a company somewhere, he said.
The more Summerville starts to look like anywhere America, the less reason there is to visit, he said.
Summerville is actually starting with a lot of assets, he said, including beautiful houses, nature, and a downtown that's more than just one street.
"You've got more assets than a lot of places in South Carolina," he said.
New construction should enhance community character, he said.
Chain stores have a Plan A, Plan B and Plan C for the way their stores look, and they'll always propose the Plan A – the universal design associated with their brand, whether it's McDonald's, CVS, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut or any other chain.
Often officials in small towns think they have to accept Plan A or the development will go elsewhere, he said. Not so, he said.
"What gets built depends on you. … They may complain, they may carry on, they may even threaten to move away," he said.
But, McMahon said, the company has already concluded it can make money by locating on that particular lot. They want to stay.
"The mere act of talking about what a new building will look like can improve it 75 percent of the time," he said.
Plan B is an alternative plan the company has that makes a fairly simple aesthetic change: for example, a Pizza Hut's Plan B was to offer a brown roof instead of the standard red roof. But the real changes come when a community gets Plan C – when the company adapts completely to the community.
And McMahon had photos to show what he meant: a gas station that copied the Adirondacks architecture of its locale, McDonald's restaurants that occupied New England-style houses or adobe-esque buildings in New Mexico or brick two-story buildings close to the sidewalk in historic Richmond, Va., hotels that abandoned their standard looks to occupy and expand upon historic buildings and a Taco Bell that restored and occupied a historic home rather than tearing it down to make way for a generic Taco Bell.
"You have the power, ladies and gentlemen," he said.
Summervillians wouldn't accept the federal government telling them how buildings must look, he said; why should they accept dictates from multi-national corporations?
For existing development, McMahon said the key is to make changes one project at a time.
Incentives are good for this, he said.
Twenty years ago, he said, Staunton, Va., tried and failed to establish an historic district. Building owners didn't want anyone telling them what to do with their property.
Instead, the town offered an incentive – it would give free design assistance to anyone interested in restoring a building façade.
One property owner took the town up on its offer, he said. Once his project was complete and people saw what it looked like, a handful of others followed.
Today, Staunton has not the original one historic district it attempted to establish but five historic districts, he said.
For Summerville, McMahon advised, "Pick the easiest thing you could do on that street and then do that thing."
Councilman Bob Jackson, who wanted McMahon to speak in Summerville after hearing him at the National Heritage Corridor meeting in Columbia, said Summerville is at a crossroads.
Development will occur in Oakbrook, but the type of development and how the Ashley River will fit in is still up in the air.
"That river's just too vital for us to just let it go without some planning and cooperation," he said.
McMahon's visit is particularly timely because the town is holding a planning workshop Friday, Jackson said.
The workshop is from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Town Hall.
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Temperature Sensor: Serial Digital Output Thermometers CMOS/TTL Comp.
Features and Benefits
- Low Cost 3-Pin Package
- Modulated Serial Digital Output
- Proportional to Temperature
- Specified –40°C to +100°C, Operation to 150°C
- ±1.5°C Accuracy (typ) from –25°C to +100°C
- Power Consumption 6.5 mW Max at
- Flexible Open-Collector Output on TMP03
- CMOS/TTL-Compatible Output on TMP04
- Low Voltage Operation (4.5 V to 7 V)
Product Details
The TMP03/TMP04 is a monolithic temperature detector that generates a modulated serial digital output that varies in direct proportion to the temperature of the device. An onboard sensor generates a voltage precisely proportional to absolute temperature which is compared to an internal voltage reference and input to a precision digital modulator. The ratiometric encoding format of the serial digital output is independent of the clock drift errors common to most serial modulation techniques such as voltage-to- frequency converters. Overall accuracy is ±1.5°C (typical) from -25°C to +100°C, with excellent transducer linearity. The digital output of the TMP04 is CMOS/TTL compatible, and is easily interfaced to the serial inputs of most popular microprocessors. The open-collector output of the TMP03 is capable of sinking 5 mA. The TMP03 is best suited for systems requiring isolated circuits utilizing optocouplers or isolation transformers.
The TMP03 and TMP04 are specified for operation at supply voltages from 4.5 V to 7 V. Operating from +5 V, supply current (unloaded) is less than 1.3 mA.
The TMP03/TMP04 are rated for operation over the -40°C to +100°C temperature range in the low cost TO-92, SO-8, and TSSOP-8 surface mount packages. Operation extends to +150°C with reduced accuracy.
The TMP03/TMP04 is a powerful, complete temperature measurement system with digital output, on a single chip. The onboard temperature sensor follows in the footsteps of the TMP01 low power programmable temperature controller, offering excellent accuracy and linearity over the entire rated temperature range without correction or calibration by the user.
The sensor output is digitized by a first-order sigma-delta modulator, also known as the "charge balance" type analog-to-digital converter. This type of converter utilizes time-domain oversampling and a high accuracy comparator to deliver 12 bits of effective accuracy in an extremely compact circuit.
Basically, the sigma-delta modulator consists of an input sampler, a summing network, an integrator, a comparator, and a 1-bit DAC. Similar to the voltage-to-frequency converter, this architecture creates in effect a negative feedback loop whose intent is to minimize the integrator output by changing the duty cycle of the comparator output in response to input voltage changes. The comparator samples the output of the integrator at a much higher rate than the input sampling frequency, called oversampling. This spreads the quantization noise over a much wider band than that of the input signal, improving overall noise performance and increasing accuracy.
The modulated output of the comparator is encoded using a circuit technique (patent pending) which results in a serial digital signal with a mark-space ratio format that is easily decoded by any microprocessor into either degrees centigrade or degrees Fahrenheit values, and readily transmitted or modulated over a single wire. Most importantly, this encoding method neatly avoids major error sources common to other modulation techniques, as it is clock-independent.
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Helping students to know and understand the world of public works is one of the highlights of National Public Works Week. A successful student outreach program requires intense planning and follow-up. Your Education Committee may want to establish a committee for each program it implements.
The Education Committee should first decide how to approach a community-wide education program by reviewing the organization's goals and objectives for National Public Works Week. Then the committee can determine whether to work with one district, with only one grade level but in all districts, or some combination in line with the objectives of the celebration.
Three programs are described, and a suggested calendar is included. There is one program for elementary students, one for middle school students and one for high school students.
Elementary School T-Shirt Design Contest
Creative Alternatives
Soliciting Corporate Sponsors
Middle School Equipment Show And Tell
Senior High School Shadow Day
A T-Shirt Design Contest encourages students to be creative while they learn about public works. Design subjects include parks and recreation, recycling, road repair and street cleaning. Print the winning design on T-shirts and distribute T-shirts to students and members of the organization to wear during National Public Works Week.
Meet as a committee to begin planning phase.
Review allocated budget.
Send letter to school or district administrator to introduce the program and request a meeting. Include a copy of your proclamation if you'd like.
Representative meets with school or district administrator to present program overview.
Determine the number of T-shirts you will need for employees, students, government officials, teachers and vendor-partners.
Solicit corporate sponsors to provide T-shirts, art materials, screen printing and prizes to contest winners.
Ask to meet with the art teacher to obtain help setting realistic guidelines for participants (size, materials, theme). Provide the teacher with a fact sheet about public works and offer to answer any questions.
Set a deadline for entries.
Develop a campaign to promote the contest through posters, the school newsletter, school calendar and the PTA.
Confirm corporate sponsors. Gauge interest in displaying designs in their office as a way to generate business traffic.
Schedule a time and location for judging, preferably at the school.
Select contest judges. Consider educators, artists, designers, broadcasters or public works officials.
Judge entries.
Coordinate the announcement of winners if more than one school is participating so all winners are notified at the same time.
Arrange to display entries and winners at schools, public buildings, public works facilities or corporate sponsors.
Send media releases or invite the press to attend the awards ceremony.
Have T-shirts screen-printed.
Schedule and publicize the day during public works week the T-shirts should be worn.
Develop and distribute an evaluation form teachers can give to students that captures the information necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Develop a separate form for teachers' evaluations if you like.
Distribute T-shirts and provide information as to the day they are to be worn.
Confirm a date and time with the photographer.
Recognize winners and present prizes in conjunction with a civic meeting, dedication or banquet.
Wear the T-shirts to work. Photograph groups of individuals wearing the shirts.
Send thank-you letters to teachers, students and school administrators. Remind them to send back evaluation form.
Send congratulatory letters to winners.
Send thank-you letters to corporate sponsors.
Include a picture of your staff wearing the T-shirts in correspondence.
Prepare information for evaluation phase.
Have a button design contest.
Display designs and have students or patrons vote to select the winner.
Ask your staff to supply their own T-shirts and give to the students to design. This allows the art teacher to explore alternative materials such as melted crayons.
Make a list of potential sponsors.
Contact prospects in writing, then follow up with a phone call to schedule a meeting.
Be specific about what you want. If possible, be ready with numbers.
Emphasize what the company would receive for their generosity: company logo printed on the T-shirts, mention of company sponsorship in all contest publicity, etc.
Bringing an Equipment Show and Tell to school enables students to see first hand the equipment you use in daily operations. Recycling vans, refuse trucks, pavement recyclers, road graders and lift trucks hold fascinating possibilities for students this age. This activity is ideal if you have limited resources. You could schedule an Equipment Show and Tell at a different school every day of National Public Works Week.
Meet as a committee to begin the planning phase.
Review allocated budget.
Obtain permission from public works divisions to display equipment.
Send a letter describing the program to the school or district administrator.
Work with the school official to schedule the date and time of the program. Try to schedule the program during National Public Works Week.
Inform public works divisions of the date, time and location of the equipment display.
Arrange to transport the equipment to each school.
Confirm scheduled date and time with each school.
Work with the school official to determine the exact location for the display.
Select equipment guides. Ask for volunteers, or persuade individuals capable of developing a rapport with the students. Participating may require the guides to be away from their jobs for the day.
Develop an evaluation form teachers can give to students that captures the information necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the program.
Arrange for a photographer.
Develop a brief orientation of the equipment. Make sure guides are communicating in language appropriate for the age group. When you time your presentation, allow time for a questions-and-answer session.
Confirm arrangements with public works divisions: time, date, address, site location, transportation arrangements.
Confirm date, time, address and site location with guides. Make sure guides know to arrive 30 minutes before the equipment is scheduled to arrive. Also make sure guides know where to go and who to ask for when they arrive.
Send media releases.
Confirm a date and time with the photographer.
Confirm arrangements with public works divisions.
Confirm date, time, address and site location with guides.
Guides arrive 30 minutes before equipment is scheduled to arrive. They introduce themselves to the school official and verify where the equipment will be parked.
Guides direct equipment transporters to the right location as they arrive on the grounds.
Present the program and allow plenty of time for a question-and-answer session.
Send thank-you letters to school officials and teachers. Remind them to send back evaluation forms.
Send thank-you letters to the media for any coverage.
Thank all guides.
Thank participating public works divisions.
A Shadow Day enables a high school student to experience a workday in the life of the public works professional who performs a job of interest to the student. In the process, students learn that public works services employ a variety of professionals, technicians and administrators who have been schooled and trained in a variety of fields.
Meet as a committee to begin planning phase.
Determine how to identify professionals who would be interested in having a student shadow them during their workday.
Select volunteers who will easily develop a rapport with the students.
Make sure volunteers know what is expected of them. They should, for example, provide lunch to the student.
Arrange for a few alternates should a scheduling conflict arise.
Compile a database of volunteers.
Determine the number of students the program can handle.
Send a letter describing Shadow Day to the school or district administrator.
Follow up with a phone call.
Schedule the date through the school administrator. Try to schedule Shadow Day during National Public Works Week.
Discuss with a school counselor how to promote Shadow Day and develop criteria for student participation.
Establish a deadline for students to apply.
Develop and print Shadow Day Participation Request Form.
Deliver applications and promotional material to school counselor.
Place an ad in the school newspaper advertising National Public Works Week and Shadow Day.
Develop an evaluation form to capture students' impressions of the effectiveness of the program.
Confirm date with schools.
Inform public works divisions and volunteers of the date.
Purchase name tags for volunteers and students.
Meet with counselor to review forms and select participants.
Send media releases.
Notify students in writing they have been selected to participate and verify the date. Be clear about transportation, attire, lunch arrangements and what is expected of them during the day. Include the evaluation form and a parental permission agreement form.
Notify teachers and school officials who has been selected to participate and when Shadow Day is scheduled.
Match volunteers with students.
Review with volunteers what is expected of them during the day.
Arrange for a photographer. Make sure the photographer understands the scope of the assignment.
Provide each student with the name and phone number of the person they will shadow, specific location of the facility, directions, where to report and when.
Confirm arrangements with participating public works divisions.
Confirm date and time with volunteers.
Confirm date, time and assignment with photographer.
Confirm arrangements with public works divisions.
Confirm date and time with volunteers and students.
Make any necessary adjustments.
Ask volunteers to meet students at the door when they arrive.
Introduce volunteers to the students.
Complete name tags.
Touch base with the photographer.
Send thank-you letters to school officials, counselors.
Send thank-you letters to the media for any coverage.
Thank all volunteers.
Thank public works divisions.
Follow up with students who have not returned their evaluation.


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Dairy Management Checkoff Update Letter - July 2011
Dear dairy producer organization leader,
DMI and the dairy checkoff have helped generate some very exciting sales results that directly impact you, all U.S. dairy farmers and in fact, the entire industry. Here are some key points:
1. For the 12 months ending February 2011, incremental dairy sales were up 7.8 billion pounds (yes, seven billion, eight hundred million incremental pounds). That is a record.
2. For the 12-month period ending in March, that number is just over 7 billion pounds, reflecting a slight slowdown of some exported products – but still, a very large number.
3. For the 12-month period ending in April, incremental cheese sales were up 453 million pounds. Of this, 60% was sold right here in the USA.
Let's look at some specifics:
So what has DMI and the checkoff had to do with these results? Just about everything.
1. We have worked with pizza companies and suppliers to create a dramatic turnaround in pizza and the amount of cheese sold through pizza. Pizza constitutes most of the other-than-American cheese category above. We have:
a. Taken a category that makes up 25% of all cheese sales and was on a steep multiple-year decline and turned it around to produce 24 straight months of unparalleled growth.
b. Stimulated the industry to invent a better tasting and more nutritious pizza for schools, one that kids love and health professionals support.
c. Helped convert cheese purchases by the big three chains for their Pacific Rimoutlets to U.S. sources, resulting this year in 60 million new pounds of cheese sourced here at home.
d. Invested, on average, $14 million dollars a year for three years through 2012 on these efforts. Our partners have invested more than $100 million per year. That does not include similar investments by the rest of the pizza industry.
2. Domestic American cheese sales growth is coming from food service, not retail, and guess what? That again is due to DMI and the checkoff. Cheese at breakfast and other day parts, on cheeseburgers and other sandwiches, are spurring growth. Did you know:
a. DMI has a multiple-year partnership with McDonald's (serving 26 million people in the U.S.each day, every day) to develop, test and provide marketing research and consultation for new product development. We have three full time DMI food formulators, one full time marketer and one part time registered dietician located at McDonald's corporate headquarters as part of their menu development team to create new, innovative and dairy friendly products. This puts dairy in a unique position when McDonald's considers new product development.
b. Our investment in this relationship is multiplied several times over by McDonald's, and multiplied even further when you consider the copycat efforts by other food service companies.
3. The predominantly farmer-funded U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) has facilitated most of the growth in export sales of cheese and beyond, though the CWT export assistance program has also helped. USDEC has grown to 100+ members paying roughly one million dollars in dues. The Foreign Agricultural Service and others add about $7 million to the $10 million farmers put into this effort. The membership knows the value of USDEC; the sales impact for farmers is evident.
There is much more to tell and I will tell it in future notes to you. I want to put good information in your hands: Brief enough that you want to read it; meaty enough that you get something out of it and pass it along to others who should better understand the enormous return on investment the checkoff is achieving for farmers.
My next note will address the myth that the U.S. is not a growth market for milk. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Let me know if you have any thoughts. Feel free to call me on my cell at 847-980-2872 or on my office phone at 847-627-3200.
Tom Gallagher,
Chief Executive Officer of Dairy Management Inc.


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Katz Came Back
This is John Fisher sporting a rarity: an Alberta Oilers jersey (1972). Fisher was born in Ayre, Scotland in 1947 and played in both the SJHL and OHA (a rare combination) during his junior career. He had a pretty good Memorial Cup in 1966 as a member of the Estevan Bruins (teammates included Ross Lonsberry, Gregg Sheppard and Barry Gibbs).
He had a short pro career, playing in the Black Hawks and then Red Wings systems before rounding out his pro career with 40 games for the Alberta Oilers in 72-73. He had zero goals and 5 assists.
Since 1972, the Oilers have supplied Edmonton hockey fans with the highest highs and the lowest lows: 5 Stanleys plus two other runs to the finals, some supreme teams not meant for the finals (that Moog team who beat the Habs, the late 90s Joseph clubs, '91). The list of talented players who passed through this town is stunning.
The lowest lows? Michael Largue, Brett Callighen's eye injury, trading 99, trading Messier, trading Pronger. Losing G7 SCF 06, Shayne Corson, Jimmy Carson. Others.
There are very few things Oilers fans haven't seen. So it is with some amazement that we watch Daryl Katz and his attempts to buy the team. The idea of an owner who's filthy rich simply never crossed our minds.
I find myself cheering for Katz even though there's no indication he'd spend to the cap or that he'd build a new arena with his own money. The mere thought that these issues could actually be discussed is enough to get me onside.
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Musings of an open source peddler
Open source is an interesting thing to say the least. In fact, that's quite an understatement. Allow me to explain:
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of representing Red Hat with a booth at POSSCON 2010. On the table sat three distinct groups of items: a few Red Hat whitepapers and datasheets, Fedora swag, and finally on the right-hand side were opensource.com fliers and buttons. A volunteer at the event came up to me while setting up and asked if he could have a button. He immediately attached it to his lanyard directly above his nametag. Cool, I thought. I didn't really think much of it as I still had a booth to finish setting up.
However, as people began to filter in, a few came up and said they had seen his button, asked him about it, and wanted buttons for their lanyards. While they were at the booth, many also grabbed a Fedora 12 disc, and we were able to carry on a conversation about Red Hat services and products. Yet I kept getting interrupted by people just wanting a button. It seemed as if it had become uncool to not have a button on your lanyard. Needless to say, by the end of the day I was completely out of buttons.
Regardless of any extra traffic I was able to generate for opensource.com or any extra customers I was able to bring to Red Hat, I know that our primary mission was a success. I helped people new to open source learn how they can get involved. When students from local schools stopped by, they were shocked to learn that they could get involved with open source without knowing anything about code. They told their friends, and those friends stopped by for more information. Judging by the great conversations I had with so many different people, coupled with the visits from people who had heard we had something more to say than that we are selling software that also happens to be open source, I'd say it was a resounding success.
Little did I know that a little button with simple text would be the catalyst for such great interactions.
So, as usual, I like to follow up with a request for comments. Did you come by and talk to me at POSSCON? Did you get a button or a flier? Have you had similar experiences where the open idea you're presenting just speaks for itself? If so, share below.
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Hey Travis.
I'm pretty sure that was me that came up (the Volunteer), but then again, maybe not. I'm glad our event was a success for you. Thank you for taking the time to share with everyone your impressions.
Todd and I appreciate you coming out. Sorry you and the 'hidden-wife' were unable to stay any longer than you could -- I was ready to take you guys out on the town with some of our other speakers.
Hope to see you next year... and yeah, maybe some more buttons. ;)
Well no... not for 'myself' but for POSSCON ... much as I am now, re-directing me back to this page again!
Look forward to seeing you there. This year 3 days at the Metropolitan center. Good times, great oldies. We'll be opening up registration in the next day or so (shhhhh....) :D
Funny, how as I typed the subject, I had to back-space to add quotes around open. As, POSSCON is *cough* "Open" for registrations, we're certainly "Open" by many meanings.
Either way. Feel free to let our fellow Openeers (That's Open Pioneers) know about POSSCON 2011. Registration is open with an amazingly low Very Earlybird registration until the end of December at only $79 for the three days.
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The Democratic incumbent coasted to victory Tuesday in his race for a third term on the Hancock County Commission, where he currently serves as president.
Unofficial results from the office of Hancock County Clerk Eleanor Straight showed Davis defeating Republican challenger Mark Tetrault by a vote of 7,944 to 3,630 late Tuesday.
The results, from all 25 precincts in Hancock County reporting, will be certified after the canvass at 9 a.m. Monday.
"I'm very thankful that my friends in Hancock County have chosen to re-elect me to my third term," Davis said. "I appreciate their confidence in the job I have done."
Davis, 49, of New Cumberland, is a small-business owner who has occupied the commissioner's seat for 12 years. He previously served for four years in the West Virginia House of Delegates.
In his campaign for re-election, Davis stressed his and his fellow commissioners' oversight of the county's finances, especially the establishment of a rainy day fund, a long-term capital improvement fund and a special projects fund.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Push the Sky Away
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Rating: 4 stars
Nick Cave's restless creativity has made him a moving target all these many years since he first emerged from Australia fronting the deliciously awful punk apocalypse known as the Birthday Party. With his Bad Seeds, Cave has crafted a handful of stone cold classics – "Let Love In," "Henry's Dream," "The Boatman's Call," "Nocturama" among them. He's led the side project Grinderman, with a disturbing fury that bordered on zealotry. He's published two novels and two collections of lyrics and prose. With fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis, he's crafted a few highly evocative movie soundtracks, to boot.
This relentless flurry of artistic activity has presented several Cave personas, and different factions of his fan base have their favorite. Yet, at heart, Cave remains a romantic poet, and a crafter of sublime, simple and indelible melodies. This is the Cave who sat at the piano and cranked out some of the most affecting ballads of his age with "The Boatman's Call." And it's also the Cave who's steering the ship throughout "Push the Sky Away," the 15th album to bear the Bad Seeds imprimatur, and certainly one of the most moving.
"Push the Sky Away" is stuffed to the brim with some of Cave's most achingly ruminative melodies and devastatingly beautiful lyrics yet. There is much space in this music for these melodic poems to do their damage, too. Without Bad Seeds guitarist Mick Harvey, who left in 2009, there is ample room for the variegated contributions of multi-instrumentalist Ellis and the spare but spot-on pulse provided by rhythm section partners drummer Thomas Wydler and bassist Martyn Casey. The music breathes with more assured elegance than anything Cave has done this side of "Boatman," and Ellis, who co-wrote every tune, shares much of the responsibility for this sonic eloquence. His string arrangements for his own multitracked violin and viola add immeasurably to the tragic beauty of "Jubilee Street," as does Cave's lyric, a vaguely sinister tale of flawed love that concludes with the narrator intoning "I am alone now/I am beyond recriminations." Similarly, "We Real Cool" crawls through the dust on hands and knees as a creepy primal blues, until Cave's piano and Ellis' strings help it to its feet and splash a little water on it. It's not so much a song as it is an implied short film set to music. The same could be said for "Higgs Boson Blues," a twisted take on the "meet the devil at the crossroads" tale that name-checks Robert Johnson and suggests familiarity with Bob Dylan's recent multiversed epics. David Lynch could make a deeply disturbing movie out of this one.
At 55, Cave remains as fatalistic as ever. In his cosmos, love is doomed, though still worth striving for, and humans are deeply and incurably flawed. And yet, with "Push the Sky Away," he makes such a fallen state sound desirable.
– Jeff Miers
Aaron Neville
My True Story
[Blue Note]
Rating: 3½ stars
Aaron Neville has needed to make a record like "My True Story" for several decades. As its title implies, this new record gives us the genuine Neville, the New Orleans soul man with the voice of a fallen angel whose roots are planted deep in the soil of gritty R&B, early rock 'n' roll, doo wop and primal funk. Away from his siblings in the Neville Brothers, Neville has been treated poorly by producers, who for the most part have buried this national treasure of a voice in tired pop tropes and sickly sweet treacle. "My True Story," instead, has sparse and subtle arrangements centered on Neville's gorgeous voice.
Co-producers Keith Richards and Don Was can take the credit for this, surely. Not since Rick Rubin reintroduced Johnny Cash to Cash's own genius back in the early '90s has the choice of producer done so much to reconnect an artist to his roots. A core band featuring Richards and Greg Liesz on guitars, Bob Dylan band drummer George Receli, bassist Tony Scher, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench keeps things delightfully simple, leaving Neville and his background vocalists more than enough room to cavort freely through a playlist of seminal R&B, rock 'n' roll and soul standards from the likes of Curtis Mayfield ("Gypsy Woman"), Doc Pomus ("This Magic Moment"), Hank Ballard ("Work With Me Annie") and Phil Spector ("Be My Baby"). Not a dud in the bunch.
Neville could sing the morning announcements over a high school public address system and still sound amazing, one suspects. That said, we owe Richards a tip of the hat for bringing Neville back home where he belongs.
The Slide Brothers
Robert Randolph Presents The Slide Brothers
rating: 3 stars
It was the Randolph family band that brought us the musical news about something called the "sacred steel" tradition in American gospel music – a whole different way of both playing and featuring the pedal steel guitar that bore no relationship to the whine and treacle so common among pedal steel players in country music. Suddenly the Randolph family let us in on the secret – that in the House of God, the pedal steel guitar was featured in music that rocked so hard it moved a lot of earth on its way to heaven.
The Slide Brothers – Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell, Darick Campbell and Aubrey Ghent – were huge influences on the Randolphs, especially Cooke, who has been called "the B.B. King of gospel steel guitar."
What Robert Randolph says in the notes here is that "for 80 years this music has been hidden inside the churches and these older guys were not allowed to play anything else. Now we're all hanging out with the Allman Brothers, Buddy Guy and B.B. King and can use gospel and mainstream music to tell our story." And that, finally, is what the Slide Brothers do here, playing George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord," the Allmans' "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'," and Elmore James' "The Sky Is Crying," along with their own music and such traditional gospel fare as "Wade in the Water" and "Motherless Children."
It would be a wee bit unfair to compare the horsepower of the unfettered Randolph Family Band with the Slide Brothers. The Randolphs, untrammeled, can just about blow the doors off any hall they're in (their appearance on the TV show "Austin City Limits" became something of a legend). But their major influences are awfully good on their own, if not necessarily on their version of "My Sweet Lord" (the weakest selection on the disc, frankly), then their own songs and the great gospel and blues classics.
– Jeff Simon
Mark Winkler
The Laura Nyro Project
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Rating: 2½ stars
Once upon a time, everyone and his cousin Chauncey played, sang and recorded the sensitive songs of Laura Nyro (The Fifth Dimension, Three Dog Night etc.).
It's been years, maybe even decades, since we've seen anything that even vaguely resembles a Nyro wave on disc, which is, without question, the most unusual thing about West Coast jazz singer Mark Winkler's full disc of Nyro songs.
After the first two – "And When I Die" and "Stoned Soul Picnic" – you're in pretty recondite Nyro territory, too – songs like "California Shoeshine Boys," "Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp," "Sweet Blindness," "Emmie."
"I am moved by both her music and her words. Her songs create their own vocal world," writes Winkler. Which is true, and that makes jazz vocal versions of her own vocal world – from a singer whose previous disc tribute was to the more congenial music of Bobby Troup – both less apt and less original than those leaving them in the mainstream folk rock tradition where they belong. It has some of the same problems as Roseanna Vitro's recent versions of the music of Randy Newman: jazz rhythms and piano accompaniments do precious little for this music but interfere with their wildly individualistic melodies and words.


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BULL BAY, Jamaica � The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica�s southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand.
Around him at the sprawling Bobo Ashanti commune on an isolated hilltop, a few women and about 200 dreadlocked men with flowing robes and tightly wrapped turbans prayed, fasted and fashioned handmade brooms � smoking marijuana only as a ceremonial ritual.
�Rasta church is rising,� declared Priest Morant, who wore a vestment stitched with the words �The Black Christ.� �There�s nothing that can turn it back.�
The Rastafarian faith indeed is rising in Jamaica, where new census figures show about a 20 percent increase in the number of adherents during the last decade, to more than 29,000. While still a tiny sliver of the mostly Christian country�s 2.7 million people, Jalani Niaah, an expert in the Rastafari movement, says the number is more like 8 to 10 percent of the population, since many Rastas disdain nearly all government initiatives and not all would have spoken to census takers.
�Its contemporary appeal is particularly fascinating to young men, especially in the absence of alternative sources for their development,� said Niaah, a lecturer at the University of the West Indies.
A melding of Old Testament teachings and pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism emerged in colonial-era Jamaica in the 1930s out of anger about the oppression of blacks. Its message was spread by the reggae songs created by musical icons Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear and others in the 1970s, and the movement has attracted a following among reggae-loving Americans, Europeans and Asians. Academics believe at least 1 million people practice it worldwide.
Founded 80 years ago by descendants of African slaves, the Rasta movement�s growing appeal is attributable to its rejection of Western materialism, the scarcity of opportunities for young men in Jamaica and an increasing acceptance of it.
For the black nationalist Bobo Ashanti commune, the Rastafarian faith is a transforming way of life, where Rastas strive to live a frugal existence uncomplicated by binding relationships to �Babylon� � the unflattering term for the Western world. They share a deep alienation from modern life, and Jamaica is perceived as a temporary harbor until prophecy is fulfilled and they journey to the promised land of Africa on big ships.
Life is highly regimented at the isolated retreat, cut off from most of the comforts of modern society. But it has a strong appeal for some, among them 27-year-old Adrian Dunkley, who joined the strict sect two months ago after years of questioning his Christian upbringing and struggling to find work as an upholsterer.
�This place is helping me a whole heap. I�m learning every day, and things are starting to make sense,� the new recruit known as Prince Adrian said in the shade of one of dozens of scrap-board buildings painted in the bright Rastafarian colors of red, green and gold.
Other Rastafari adherents follow a more secular lifestyle, marked by a passion for social justice, the natural world, reggae music and the ritualistic use of pot to bring them closer to the divine.
In the United States, the population of Rastafarians appears to be steadily growing due in part to jailhouse conversions, said Charles Price, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica.
�I regularly get letters from inmates seeking information,� Price said. �I also get regular invitations to talk to prisoners at local North Carolina juvenile facilities, often from chaplains trying to figure out what to do.�
Besides the well-known ritual use of marijuana, Rastas endeavor to reject materialist values and practice a strict oneness with nature, eating only unprocessed foods and leaving their hair to grow, uncombed, into dreadlocks.
Most of its many sects worship the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, even though he was widely considered a despot in his native land and paid little heed to his adulation by faraway Caribbean people whose ancestry tended to be West African and not Ethiopian.
The worship of Selassie is rooted in Jamaican black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey�s 1920s prediction that a �black king shall be crowned� in Africa, ushering in a �day of deliverance.� When an Ethiopian prince named Ras Tafari, who took the name Haile Selassie I, became emperor in 1930, the descendants of slaves in Jamaica took it as proof that Garvey�s prophecy was being fulfilled. When Selassie came to Jamaica in 1966, he was mobbed by cheering crowds, and many Rastafarians insisted miracles and other mystical happenings occurred during his visit.
Adherents were long treated as second-class citizens in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, looked down on for their dreadlocks and use of marijuana. But discrimination never stopped businessmen from cashing in on the faith, whose red, green and gold clothing and accessories earn millions in sales of T-shirts, crocheted caps and other items. Marley�s music and the faith�s pot-laced mysticism has also been used to promote Jamaica as a tourist destination.
Rastafarian and veteran reggae luminary Tony Rebel said discrimination against Rastas has faded considerably in recent years in Jamaica.
�That discriminatory vibe has relaxed. But even so, we still don�t see a person with locks working in a bank these days, we don�t see a person with locks in the police force as we would see in America or other places,� Rebel said.
The first dreadlocked politician in Jamaica�s Parliament was elected only last year.
Many Rastas advocate reparations for slavery and a return to Africa. The latter is a particularly fervent desire among those at Bobo Ashanti, who differ from other Rasta sects in the belief that their founder, King Emmanuel Charles Edwards, was the black incarnation of Jesus Christ.
Some Jamaicans dismiss the faith as bizarre.
�There is a whole part of the society that would still consider Rastafari to be delusional, and this is largely hinged on the claims made about Emperor Haile Selassie and also the consumption of (marijuana) and the idea of repatriation,� Niaah said.
But for adherents like Prince Xavier, a 27-year-old Frenchman who moved to the Bobo Ashanti commune a couple of years after being introduced to Rastafarians in his native Paris, it�s providing answers and a positive self-identity.
�I�m learning a lot about Rastafari and about our heritage,� said the bearded Frenchman, clad in a red turban and black robe. �It is a matter of life and death.�


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Besides working her full-time job as a teacher's assistant, Monroe spends hours at the Guilford County Animal Shelter and the PetSmart Adoption Center.
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MARTINSBURG - With Monday's temperatures reaching unseasonable highs, Martinsburg residents took to the outdoors to bask in the December warmth.
"They're the last ones to drop," Jessica Wetzel said, motioning to the crisp golden leaves dangling from the tree she was raking around.
Each year Marilyn Cullison and her daughters, Jessica and Sierra Wetzel, take time to shake the trees, setting loose leaves free, and rake up outside of their Martinsburg residence.
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Three-year-old William Wagner enjoys the weather at War Memorial Park on Monday, as temperatures reached a high of 65 degrees.
"We do it as a family," Cullison said. "We get out, we do it, we get it done,"
And the time to get it done was Monday, with temperatures reaching a reported high of 65 degrees.
According to local weather watcher Ed Dashiell, the average yearly temperature for Dec. 3 is settled at a high of 48 and low of 28 degrees.
Monday's temperatures well exceeded last year's 48-degree high.
"It's nice," Cullison said. "Unseasonably pretty for this time of the year. I'd like to see many more days like this."
Three-year-old William Wagnor echoed agreement while skimming down a red slide at War Memorial Park. His mother, Shauna Wagnor, said she doesn't often get to the park, but Monday's pleasant temperatures were hard for her to resist.
"It's great," she said. "Thought we'd squeeze in a last trip to the park before Christmas."
Dashiell said Martinsburg residents can expect warmer weather still, as today's temperatures are predicted to reach about 70 degrees.
While this week's conditions are not likely to set records, Dashiell said the climate change can simply be chalked up to "seasonal variations."
"It doesn't seem to be that unusual, (just) a slight spike in temperature," he said.
Martinsburg's Dec. 3, 1998, temperature high of 75 degrees will continue to hold the record.
Though if West King Street, cluttered with walkers, was any indication, Martinsburg residents were more interested in enjoying Monday's warm weather than in setting records.
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