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Dorothy I. Height library in D.C. to host free book giveaway for kids on Saturday
WASHINGTON (AP) - Educators and local officials will give away more than 2,000 books to District of Columbia children this weekend.
The Washington Teachers' Union says the new books will be given away Saturday at the Dorothy I. Height library on Benning Road in northeast Washington. Teachers, school support staff and others will give away books for first through third graders starting at 10 a.m. Older children will be encouraged to get library cards.
The books are being provided through First Book, a District of Columbia-based nonprofit.


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Museum of Flight adds antique replica of Earhart's plane
Published 10:26 pm, Friday, March 8, 2013
Seattle's Museum of Flight already owns the only known piece of the Lockheed Model 10-E Electra that Amelia Earhart was flying on her ill-fated attempt to fly around the world in 1937. Now, it's getting a whole Electra.
The aircraft is scheduled to arrive in September from Reno and become the centerpiece of a new exhibit honoring Earhart.
The Electra was Lockheed's response to the Douglas DC-2 and the Boeing 247 passenger aircraft. It could carry 10 passengers, plus a crew of two, at a cruising speed of 190 mph, with a ceiling of 19,400 feet and range of 810 miles.
Lockheed built 149 Electras between Aug. 4, 1934 and July 18, 1941, including four commercial and five military versions.
Earhart's Electra was lost with her and navigator Fred Noonan near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, during their second attempt to fly around the world. The museum's piece of the plane is a bit of crumpled metal approximately four inches by five-and-a-half inches.
The museum's new Electra was the 15th built and started its life as a Model 10-A, delivered to Northwest Airlines in 1935. The U.S. Army Air Forces "drafted" the airplane after the attack on Pearl Harbor drew the country into World War II and used it briefly as a VIP transport before returning it to Northwest in May 1944.
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Eventually, the plane was returned to the United States and, after several private owners, Lockheed, which converted it to a Model 10-E configuration.
San Antonio businesswoman, pilot and aviation historian Linda Finch happened upon the plane in 1994 and restored it to Earhart's custom specifications with the help of original engine maker Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed drawings and vintage photographs. She matched everything from rivets to the exterior color scheme and registration of NR16020.
In 1997, the 60th anniversary of Earhart's flight, Finch flew as close to Earhart's original flight plan as possible. While flying over Howland Island, which was to be Earhart's final destination, Finch dropped a wreath in salute of Earhart and Noonan.
Late last summer, the Museum of Flight launched a fundraising campaign to buy the plane.
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his year Hanukkah started the night before Thanksgiving which is just a little unusual.
2013 brings "Thanksgivingukkah." Normally Hanukkah is celebrated around the time of Christmas or slightly earlier. It sometimes even stretches past New Year's Day. This year it begins before Thanksgiving for the first time since 1888. This convergence between Thanksgiving and Hanukkah will not occur again for almost another 78,000 years.
78,000 years. You really must enjoy the mashup this time around.
Most American Christians know little of Hanukkah (also spelled "Chanukah," "Chanuka," "Chanukkah" and a few other renditions) apart from candles and Adam Sandler. Here's a long explanation of the Jewish celebration. Here's a summary.
This video by The Maccabeats (a nice play on Maccabees) is every bit as good as Sandler's comic songs while enlightening viewers to the meaning of the celebration. Does not hurt that they use Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" for the tune.


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my neighbor brought me back a deer ham from his recent hunting trip. its my first time cooking venison (I've eaten it before once or twice) so I googled it and found that I should brine the ham. I had to go and buy a huge stock pot to fit it in, and I mixed up the salt water this morning and left it on the counter.
should I have put it in the fridge? the pot absolutely would not fit. its been in the mid 60s in my house all day. fwiw, the meat is super fresh and was kept chilled for the 10 hr drive home. it was never frozen. my neighbor brought it next door to me in an open cardboard box.
my intention was to let it sit in brine for 24 hrs and then either slow roast or slow simmer. haven't decided which yet. am I gonna kill all of us bc of room temp brining?
It looks like your post might have been missed, so I'm bumping it up for attention. Anyone have recommendations to share?
I really have no idea having just brine d my first rabbit (in the fridge) a couple of weeks ago.
My guess is that the salt water brine is in and of itself not able to breed bacteria because of the salt. In addition the meat will be cooked through, right? I don't think I would keep it a room temp overnight... I would put it in the tub with some bagged ice if you are brinning longer than a few hours.
Just saw this in new posts and wanted to pop back in and say that I let the meat sit in the brine at room temp for an ungodly amount of time, cut it with a 30 yr old electric knife, and then popped the smaller hunks in the crock pot and the bigger ones on the bone went into a stock pot on the stove with a big bottle of organic chocolate stout. Both cooked for a good, long time although all these weeks later I don't recall exactly.
Well, FDA be damned bc all the meat tasted amazing and none of it killed any of us!!! lol
The bone broth was pretty good and lasted forever. The boneless pieces that cooked in the crockpot got turned into BBQ pulled "pork" and my kids tore it up.
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|YDS: 5.10a French: 6a Ewbanks: 18 UIAA: VI+ ZA: 18 British: E1 5a R [details]
|Percy Wimberly & J. Seay, @ 73
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By Bob Rotert
Dec 23, 2006
|I added Diff Ritchie in on the FFA of this route as he had also freed the first pitch of this route close to the same time period.
By Brent Roaten
From: Anchorage, AK
Mar 22, 2007
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a R
|Climbed in September 2005 with Dave Pearson. One of the best routes I have ever climbed anywhere. The traverse definitely tightens up one's sphincter. Probably best to tackle the 5.11 start if you are not a solid slab aficionado.... a fall in the difficult section beyond the bolt will not end well.
By Grover Cable
Sep 21, 2007
The way I remember it, Dave Black and I climbed the entire route before anyone at the end of July or beginning of Aug 1977. Bobby and Tom, not knowing we'd done it, made the second ascent a few/several days later. Personally, I don't think it makes any difference. It wasn't like years passed before the second ascent. Both parties essentially climbed it the same time. The first pitch --left side, via slabs -- had been climbed several times. While the first pitch might be more technically difficult and aesthetically pleasing the second pitch is geniunely one of those Looking Glass "what-the-hell-am-I-doing-here / I'm-going-to-die" pitches.
It was a typical hot, muggy, thundershower-interrupted Transylvania Co. summer afternoon when Dave, his fiance, Kathy, and I arrived at the parking turnout for the Nose. As usual, we got there mid-afternoon and had to wait out a rain shower or two. I think we intended to do Odyssey but ended up on Hyperbola. The tribe of copperhead snakes that used to sun themselves all over the slab below the starting ledge had mysteriously disappeared after the unusually cold winter of '76/'77. Jeep and the Hun will attest to the added objective danger of venomous, irritable copperheads. So we didn't have to sweat the snakes. We farted around on the first pitch, swapping leads. Dave made it on his last try to surmount the left-leaning flake, above which is the ledge at the bottom of the main dihedral. Suddenly we were committed to go to the top despite the lateness of the afternoon and Kathy doomed to waiting alone for us in the woods or at the car. "Drastic Dave" was (and is) a superb climber but not naturally gifted like Jeep, Bobby, et al. Dave was very athletic, intelligent, & stubborn /irresistible when willful --gifted and handicapped by incredible will. More of the Joe Myers/Henry Barber type that attracts or induces epics. He spent an hour wandering around the featureless section at the start of the second pitch: he actually went right few feet -- maybe four or five -- and managed to stay on the rock as he worked his way up. He was on the edge of falling every second for 30 minutes. As I understand it, Bobby took the route more logically straight up from the top of the first pitch --- and placed a bolt (he later regretted, I heard) several feet above the start of the first pitch: and understandably/justifiably -- the first part of the second pitch is intimidatingly featureless, a long fall both likely and unhealthy. I don't think Dave could have even placed a friend where he meandered. I'm not sure friends were even available then. Dave wouldn't have bought one anyway: he religiously stuck to his 1960s rack of hexes and a few wired stoppers -- fine for Tahquitz, useless for most of the Glass. Thank god he didn't place some protection out there in the middle of nowhere so that I would have had to go that way to retrieve it -- I went straight up. There were no bolts on the route before and just after we did it. Dave wore an ancient pair of Kronhoffer "climbing shoes" (a cross between blue Royal Robbins boots,Chuck Taylor high tops, and gray Hush Puppies) and I wore a cruel pair of EBs. Anyway, it was nearly dark when I arrived at the upper ledge with Dave belaying me up. We 3rd classed to the top and coiled our ropes in the dark. We yelled down to Kathy that we were at the top and on our way down -- wouldn't take long. We were on the/a trail for about 100 ft then lost it for the rest of the night. The next 4 hours was an epic bushwhack off the top of the Glass in pitch black darkness, crashing through cat briars, rhododendron hells, falling off boulders, and nearly stepping off into the black void once or twice. We stumbled out of the Stephen King National Forest and onto the dirt road not far from the fish hatchery around 3 AM. All along we thought we were descending the north side somehow. Some crazy sob and saint gave us a ride back to our cars(and a frantic Kathy) around 3:30 or 4 AM. No doubt Bobby and Tom's descent several days later was done in better style.
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By saxfiend
From: Decatur, GA
Sep 21, 2007
Thanks for the nice bit of history on this route, Grover! Keep the stories coming for other routes/areas.
By Jay Young
Sep 25, 2007
|That's a great story, Grover! Thanks! Hyperbola was my first ever 5.10 lead and holds a special place in my heart.
By Mike Carnes
Oct 20, 2007
|How does this climb stack up to other climbs of it's grade? Is it solid, soft, or stiff. Just climbed last week with the direct start and trying to guage the ratings in the area for future visits. Stellar line though
By Bob Rotert
Oct 23, 2007
|Great addition Grover. Sorry I didn't remember that you & Dave had done this to the top when you freed it. Hell it was only 30 plus yrs ago!!
By Mike Anderson
From: Colorado Springs, CO
Jul 27, 2009
|I didn't see anything mentioned here or in the guidebook, but it seemed to me that the direct 5.11 start relies heavily on the decaying tree at the base. There was chalk all over it, and freeing the moves without the tree looked every bit as difficult as the 5.11 crux, but with no gear. Do others use the tree? I think another bolt may be in order if that tree falls down.
By Dave T
From: Charlotte
Apr 20, 2010
Direct Start is every bit of 5.11a. Very insecure. Tree is definitely not needed but might be good to sling before first bolt. ( you can get gear before first bolt as well but not really inspiring) The business is definitely before and after the second bolt (which also could use replacing, it did not really seem flush with rock)
Great route, definitely exciting and probably warrants a PG-13 rating.
By Sam Stephens
Apr 6, 2011
|Did the direct start to this today. If you add in the fear factor I think it bumps up a few letter grades. Stellar route though, no two ways around that. Had an interesting time working out the moves from the second bolt up to the finger crack. Hard tenuous, and scary. Amazing route.
By Ryan Williams
From: London (sort of)
Oct 7, 2011
rating: 5.11- 6c 22 VIII+ 22 E3 5c
I climbed this today and don't remember using/needing any tree. I also thought that the stoppers below the first bolt were bombproof, and the move getting to the first bolt is more like 10+.
The crux for me was after the first bolt, where I screwed up the feet and blew the on-sight. After getting the feet right the move felt normal 11- to me and I on-sighted the rest of the climb. Another 11- move after the second bolt, this one more straight forward but still hard. Get bomber gear and locks in the short splitter finger crack, then get bomber gear below the roof and the 10- move. 5.9 after that and lotso fun!
This was the first route of the day so was planning on doing the original start (5.9R), but after seeing the fall potential I decided to do the direct start. Way more fun and not nearly as scary!
By Wei-Ming Lam
From: Phoenix, AZ
Apr 6, 2014
|Beta note, the bolt on P2 above the anchors was real rusted and not confidence inspiring. Guidebook said there are two bolts on this pitch, but I either missed the second or it's missing entirely. Cool climbing!
By Curtis Baird
Jun 22, 2015
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a R
|This route is classic! The runout slab move is scary. All there but the mental crux for sure. If you slip there its not gonna be good. But once your in the crack its smooth sailing. Plenty of gear options and a nice technical crux. I wish it went on longer! A must do at Looking Glass!!!!
By Mike Reardon
Jul 1, 2016
|Fun route! Replaced the bolt on P2 today. There was not a second bolt on this pitch as the guidebooks suggested.
By nbrown
From: western NC
Apr 5, 2017
|With modern gear pitch 2 is very safe and much easier than the 5.9 grade suggests (most of the pitch is < 5.8). Cool funky spikes of rock to pull on too.


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Yesterday I was horrified to see the media clips of the Scottish government's release of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted terrorist of Pan Am flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. Apparently, officials in Scotland were over-whelmed with compassion for the murdering scoundrel because he is dying of prostate cancer. The jubilant celebrations upon the arrival of the mass murderer in Libya were stark in contrast to the morose resignations of the victims. Apparently, Scottish compassion doesn't extend its reach to the innocent victims and their family as they watched this killer walk away from justice after a mere eight years in prison.
This link attached is the victims' web site. You may express your outrage there. Please remember their loss, be respectful, and show true compassion.


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It seems Weber Middle School on Port Washington, Long Island hates children and wants them to get fat.
Earlier this month, the school banned footballs, soccer balls, and baseballs. They also banned games of tag and cartwheels unless an adult supervisor is present.
School administrators cited an overinflated, unreasonable fear of serious injuries, despite the fact that nearly every child in the history of the world has survived playing tag, doing cartwheels, and playing with footballs and soccer balls.
According to a story on CBS 2 News' website, they told students no more football, "hard soccer balls," baseballs, lacrosse balls, and that adults had to watch the kids play tag or do cartwheels, because as everyone knows, no child has ever been injured while an adult watches disinterestedly from several feet away.
However, to show that they still understand that children need to burn off energy, they allowed soft Nerf balls, because "the softer foam balls put students in the best situation to cut down the chance of getting injured."
Apparently they're not concerned about foam poisoning.
Port Washington schools superintendent Kathleen Maloney told CBS 2 they created the policy because they felt the community's helicopter parents weren't doing enough to ruin their own children's lives, so administrators decided to see if they could ruin everyone's.
Actually, what she said was "Some of these injuries can unintentionally become very serious, so we want to make sure our children have fun, but are also protected." Then she cackled, "everything I just said was true except for wanting our children to have fun."
But the Weber students aren't taking this lying down. At least not until administrators force them to sleep in those slime-filled pods from "The Matrix."
"I think we need the soccer balls, the footballs and everything, so we can have some fun," one student told CBS 2.
School administrators say that without protective gear, such as helmets and kneepads, children are more likely to get injured. This may be true, but no kid wants to go through childhood wearing a helmet and protective harness whenever they leave the house like Phillip the hyper hypo kid from Saturday Night Live.
"Children's safety is paramount, but at the same time, you have to let them live life," said Ellen Cohen, a Weber parent. Many parents echoed Cohen's sentiments, and said this was yet one more case of interfering lawyers wringing their hands about liability issues, instead of letting kids do the one thing that comes naturally to them: mildly injuring themselves.
Or as Arthur Caplan and Lee Iger wrote in Forbes, "(t)he idea that attorneys should decide what goes on during recess is akin to asking accountants to decide what would be the best way to spend your money at an amusement park."
But it's only going to get worse before it gets better: several school districts from Long Island have already been in touch with the school, possibly considering banning childhood from — and raising fat kids in — their own schools.
As the years continue to waddle by, there is less and less incentive for kids to go outside, thanks to 500 channels of TV, epic-length video games, and helicopter parents who won't let their precious snowflakes go past the driveway, kids will only continue to get fatter.
And no matter how many times First Lady Michelle Obama tells us to Just Say No to cheeseburgers, kids who don't engage in physical activity when they're young won't know how it's done when they're adults.
It's an ongoing problem. Schools cut physical education because George W. Bush didn't want to leave any kids behind. The problem is now many of them are too fat to keep up. Then schools started cutting down on games like kickball and football, because kids might get hurt. And now they're coming after balls and harmless games and activities.
To top it off, you get doctors like Salvatore Pardo who, on one hand, think kids shouldn't play unless they have helmets and body armor, and on the other, scratch their cotton-filled heads and wonder why there's a childhood obesity epidemic.
The two groups of people who are supposed to make sure kids have a fun childhood are now the same two groups responsible for ruining it. The whole point of childhood is to play and have fun, not to waddle through life wrapped up in bubble wrap and a parent's terror.
Because if Weber Middle School and these other school districts have their way, we'll have so many fat kids in the United States, the planet will tilt on its axis and send us spinning into the sun.
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Long Island Middle School Bans Childhood
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From: Hooksett
Jul 20, 2007
|Where's "Pete's Tree Right"? It a fun climb and easy too(5.7) Crimpy little flakes... My favorite!
By Sean Kurnas
Jun 27, 2016
|I've been here a number of times this June - perhaps it is just the mild summer we're having this year, but this slab seems to be shady, dry and free of bugs even when the rest of the park is a swamp.
By Andy P.
From: Wisconsin
Aug 20, 2016
|Delightful area to spend a half day or more. I went on a weekday and still ran into 7 other climbers (3 parties) so I can only imagine how crowded a weekend must be. Easy TR setups off of big trees however there isn't really a true cliff edge here so a large amount of your webbing or rope might rub against the rock. IMO, Bring more than usual amounts of edge/abrasion protection.


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Greetings, dear readers, from Consol Energy Center, where C EVGENI MALKINhas returned to practice. He has skated during the session on a fourth-line slot. He hasn't played since Jan. 18, because of a sore left knee and a sinus infection. C SIDNEY CROSBY (concussion) is not practicing. He is expected to miss a 10th straight game Tuesday at the New York Rangers.
= A personal note: My colleague Josh Yohe and I have tried to keep at "Chipped Ice" more this season than in campaigns past. We went dark last week, including nothing from the All-Star Game at Carolina. That was on me. My trip to Raleigh was scrapped because my grandmother, the late Jean May Oliverio, passed unexpectedly last Tuesday morning. Her death was the latest of three to hit my Mom's family since July, and in between there have been some other big issue with which we've had to deal. Many readers reach out last week via social media or email to extend condolences. I appreciated every one of those kind thoughts, as did my family.
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Los Angeles, Feb 7 (IANS) Socialite Kim Kardashian's mother Kris Jenner says she is still in love with her husband Bruce and that she will never divorce him.
Earlier, there were rumours that Kris will file for divorce from Bruce.
"We are not getting divorced, not in a million bazillion years," contactmusic.com quoted Kris as saying.
The 54-year-old has two teenage daughters, Kendall, 17, and Kylie, 15, with Bruce.
She also opened up about her pregnant daughter Kim's divorce from her estranged husband Kris Humphries and said it is taking a toll on their family.
"She got married for the right reasons at the time, he is a great guy. It didn't work out, let's move on," she said.


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Check out this premiere of Misser's "Weightless."
The band, which features Tim Landers of Transit and Brad Wiseman of This Time Next Year, will be releasing their debut full-length Every Day I Tell Myself I'm Going To Be A Better Person next month via Rise Records. They have a pair of shows coming up, info for which can be seen below.
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Was Prince Harry Secretly Romancing A Shop Girl Named Margaret?
Say it isn't so!
Prince Harry, the official scamp of the royal family, often does what he pleases. The royal family can't disown him – where would they be without a second heir (of course Kate Middleton is about to take care of that!) And now, we've got more details about Harry's shenanigans, not that that's anything new.
According to the Daily Mail, which has been publishing [probably a largely embellished] version of Harry's biography, Harry used to have a secret romance with a 'lowly' shop girl named Margaret.


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TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration says it will appeal a judge's ruling that allowed scientists to go ahead with blasting sound waves in the ocean for research.
The state government says the research could harm ocean wildlife and that, in turn, could affect New Jersey's fishing and tourism industries.
The decision to appeal came Tuesday evening, hours after a federal judge ruled the blasting could move forward. The judge rejected the state government's argument that it was excluded from commenting on the blasting plans.
He said he would halt blasting for a day if the state appealed to a higher court.
Researchers from Rutgers University and other institutions want to map what happened to the ocean floor in times of sea-level change.


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The Belmont Stakes are a Grade I horse race held annually in New York, and are the final event in the US Triple Crown. The 1.5 mile race attracts a larger audience and more TV viewers than most other races, and is easily comparable to the Kentucky Derby. The origins of this race can be traced as far back as 1866, and was first arranged by August Belmont. In 1931, the race was included as the final attraction of the Triple Crown races. The Belmont Stakes is widely known as 'The Test of Champions' for it attracts the top thoroughbred horses from around the country. Among the traditions of the Belmont Stakes are a specially designed silver trophy for the winner and a blanket of white carnations which is draped over the winning horse.
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Of the many exciting horse races that take place each year in the US, the 2014 Belmont Stakes is perhaps one of the most eagerly awaited, in so far as thoroughbred horse races are concerned. This exciting equestrian event takes place at the Belmont Park and was first held way back in 1867. Today, it is over one hundred and forty seven years old and thus one of the oldest such events. It is also one of the most prestigious and most attended horse races on the annual calendar. Book your Belmont Stakes tickets and catch the best jockeys and horses in one of the most famous races in the world live.
The 2015 Belmont Stakes, just like its predecessors, is a grade I stakes thoroughbred horse race, that will cover a distance of one and a half miles or twelve furlongs. The legendary horse, Secretariat, holds the record for the fastest run which stands at two minutes and twenty four seconds, The record was created back in 1973 and it hasn't been broken since then broken by no other thoroughbred horse. The track itself is a dirt filled, left–handed track and only three year old horses are allowed to race. For a colt or gelding, the average weight is roughly one hundred and twenty six pounds, and one hundred and twenty one pounds for a filly. The purse, one of the largest in the US, is worth one and a half million dollars, of which eight hundred thousand goes to the winner.
The Belmont Stakes is dubbed The Test of the Champion and this year's edition will also be the final and third leg of the US Triple Crown as it will be held several weeks after the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, the other two events in the US Triple Crown. In terms of attendance, the event ranked fourth overall in US and Canada, passed only by the Preakness Stakes, the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks. In 2004, the event drew nearly twenty two million viewers on TV and holds the record for the highest household viewing since 1977. The US Triple Crown was won by the Seattle Slew.
The Belmont Stakes have a long and rich history behind it. The very first edition of the race was held at the Jerome Park Race track back in 1866. It was organized by stock market speculator Leonard Jerome and sponsored by August Belmont Sr, after whom the race is also named. It was held at the Jerome Park for many years until it moved to the Morris Park Racecourse, a nearby venue, in 1890.
It was held at the Racecourse until 1905 when the new Belmont Park opened in Elmont, New York. This four hundred and thirty acres large racetrack on Long Island and just outside Queens became the Belmont Stakes new home. Due to New York's anti–gambling legislation, the race was not held in 1911 and 1912 but continued thereafter. From its founding until 1921, the event was held in the clockwise style of English racing, but then changed to the counter–clockwise American direction. The winner of this grade I thoroughbred horse race also goes home with one of the most prestigious trophies in the US, the August Belmont Trophy.
Legendary horse Secretariat holds the record for the fastest win, as well as the record for the victory margin at thirty one lengths. Eddie Arcaro and Jim McLaughlin hold the record for the most wins by a jockey, at six each, with Earl Sande and Bill Shoemaker following them with five wins each. James G Rowe Sr holds the record for the most wins by a trainer, at eight, followed by Sam Hildreth with seven wins and Jim Fitzsimmons with six. Woody Stephens is one place behind with five wins, all of which were won in five consecutive years.
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- May 30, 2012, 1:28 PM
The FAA is proposing an airworthiness directive for the Agusta A109E and A109S based on cases of damage to the main drive shaft caused by improperly secured metallic spacers. The AD would require a one-time inspection of the lower semichannel assemblies to determine proper installation of the metallic spacers on the semichannels and for the correct seating of the gaskets. The FAA is taking comments until July 23.


text: Saje knows this because she and i were online when it happened. But i havent seen Maxis the stray in a couple days and of course i was worrying and wondering what he was up to. Well late last night one of my motion detector lights flipped on and I look out at my shed and underneath I see this big red bum facing me. And i knew it was him and had to heave a sigh of releif. Today after returning from runs and cleaning out kennels in the barn i walked out to watch the mutts playing in the field lol. And low and behold I see Maxis sitting at the outside of the fencing closer to the house then ever before watching everyone play or rest. Eventually Pakak of all dogs ran up to where Maxis was sitting and they sniffed noses. I was watching this from a pretty far off distance and was holding my breath the whole time. I then watched Pakak give Maxis alittle play bow and then yapped at him and they started running back and farth along the fence both dogs wagging their tails like crazy. Some of the other dogs attention got caught but only Tracker and Zeus starting barking aggressively at him and he just kinda tucked his tail and ran off on to the trails . And so just a halph hour ago when everyone got their lunch I walked across the field/pasture and tossed a few peices of meat off onto the trail. I figure if i get Pakaks assistance with this we can win his trust and finally get him penned. Im hoping Tracker and Zeus did'nt scare him too bad and that he won't come back . Anyways just thought I would give a update on the stray.


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Gouvães, Portugal, 2016/08/05 - ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH has been contracted by the Spanish energy utility IBERDROLA GENERACIÓN to supply the electro-mechanical equipment and the penstock for the new pumped storage hydropower plant Gouvães in Portugal. Reuters: ANDR.VI
ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH, a member of international technology group ANDRITZ, has been contracted by the Spanish energy utility IBERDROLA GENERACIÓN to supply the electro-mechanical equipment and the penstock for the new pumped storage hydropower plant Gouvães in Portugal. The total contract value for ANDRITZ amounts to about 140 million euros.
The scope of delivery comprises design, manufacturing, supply, and installation supervision for the complete electro- and hydro-mechanical equipment, including reversible pump turbines, motor generators, and electrical power systems, as well as design, manufacturing, supply, and complete installation of a penstock (including three bifurcators) with a total weight of about 12,000 tons, an average diameter of about 5,400 mm and a length of 2.5 km.
With four pump turbines with a capacity of 220 MW each, Gouvães will be the heart of a new hydroelectric generation and storage scheme, which finally will consist of three power stations and total power production of almost 1,200 MW. It will be built on the Támega River in Northern Portugal, close to the city of Porto. Gouvães will cover the need for peak-load energy and provide fast-responding regulating power. Together with the base load generation from the other two power stations of smaller size, this scheme will ideally complement the volatile electricity generation from wind power, which has been growing significantly in recent years. Additionally, the project will have a very positive impact on the employment situation in the region.
To provide a safe basis for the design of the technically outstanding high-head pump turbines with a net head of about 660 m, extensive research and model testing activities have been performed in ANDRITZ HYDRO's own test laboratory in order to make sure that the requirements of IBERDROLA GENERACIÓN regarding feasibility and reliability will be met in an optimum way.
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Thirsty Thursday #17
Thirsty Thursdays are back for the summer! Expect a new variety of fresh tracks every thursday with a picture of a beautiful lady. This week we feature three new remixes and two mix tapes, from Theatre of Delays, Maxxi Soundsystem, to Midibots, and a new mix tape from our friend Le Visiteur. Enjoy!
Daft Punk – Doin' It Right (Theatre Of Delays Remix)
Shiny Objects – Higher Ground (Maxxi Soundsystem Remix)
Make The Girl Dance – GIRLZ (Midibots Remix)
Treasure Fingers – Mix for Dim Mak Studios on Evolution Radio
Le Visiteur – Le Deuxième Mixtape


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Grateful Families: the fine art of raising thankful kids
During the holidays, our thoughts may turn toward family, friends, and all of the blessings we have to be thankful for. The holiday season is the perfect time to start instilling thankfulness in our kids that will hopefully last all year long.
Be a grateful parent
One of the best ways to show our kids how to be thankful is to express our own gratitude. Talk with them about what you are thankful for in your life. Being open and honest with your children is a great way to get them to start thinking about what they are thankful for.
Mother of two, Sierra Ansley, says "I think the first thing is to tell them how grateful you are to have them. I think in general, modeling grateful [behavior] in front of them (having a grateful attitude ourselves, and talking about it) is important. I think kids learn what they live. If they see us pining after a nicer car, a bigger house, etc, that's what they'll learn to do."
A Season for Service
Doing things for others is an important lesson for children. "Children can learn to be grateful and gain a sense of compassion by actively participating in a giving activity," according to Dina Aronson, mother, Registered Dietitian, and blogger for VeganRD. "Taking action results a measurable outcome, and this is more effective than talking about being grateful or how other children may have less. For example, have your child bring gently used toys to a children's hospital playroom, or volunteer with them in a soup kitchen."
There are many volunteer opportunities available to families. These include things as simple as making holiday treats for your neighbors and friends or making holiday cards for relatives.
Your family can also volunteer for non-profit organizations as well, as they are always looking for volunteers. Older children can volunteer at your local food bank putting together food boxes. If your family is unable to volunteer at a food bank, you can donate food, which is greatly appreciated. Find your local food bank by visiting here: http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx
"Meals on Wheels" is an organization, which prepares meals and organizes volunteers to deliver meals to homebound seniors. Your child can ride along and help you to deliver meals. This type of help is always needed and appreciated. You can locate your local "Meals on Wheels" organization here: Find a Meal page
Most malls have a "Giving Tree" during the holidays, which connect children in need with people who have the means to give. The process is very simple. You select a card from the tree, which gives the child's name, age, and holiday wish list. You then purchase or make a gift for the child, wrap it, put their name on it and place in under the giving tree. The gift will then be delivered to the appropriate child. Your children can earn money to help purchase the gift by helping around the house. They can then have the satisfaction of working to buy a gift for a child who has very little.
Practice Simple Living
Living simply and caring for the environment is an important way to teach kids about being thankful and caring for what they have. Practice recycling in your home, and explain to your children that you are doing this in order to protect our earth, which we love and call home. Take them out hiking so they can explore nature and learn to love the natural world. Take them to the zoo and teach them about protecting the endangered animals. Be creative and try to think of some other ways to model thankfulness through simple living.
Keep your expectations low
While it is important to teach our kids to be thankful, we also need to be mindful about going so far that children lose interest.
High school art teacher, Liz Randall, points out that "there is a fine line between grateful and GUILTful! As a teacher I know that while soup kitchens, donations and other such things go a long way to make kids grateful there is a point when pushing the subject creates guilt and discourage them. I would push the positive interactions with your kids up on the list. Happy children are grateful children."
Written by Angela Coate-Hermes
©2009 www.RawPeople.com
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They have learned how long it would take a runaway slave to walk to freedom from deep in the south.
A year.
"Now think how much longer it would take if you had children with you," prods the teacher. "Or if you lost your shoes wading through the river to throw bloodhounds off your scent."
Not a paper rustles; even the girl eating lunch at the back is fixed on the front.
In this unusual new "sold-out" class at a Scarborough high school, students are learning a new kind of history: African history.
As the Toronto District School Board debates trying an "African-centred" alternative grade school next year to battle the high black dropout rate, this course – and a dozen like it sprinkled through Toronto's 150 public high schools – provide a glimpse of how such a school might work.
"This is my history, miss. The first university in the world was in Timbuktu – in Africa!" gushes Karar Jafar, 18, who moved to Canada five years ago from Libya.
Adds classmate Tashauna Mullings: "I was curious to take this course; I'm in Grade 12 and I've never learned any of this stuff except a bit in Black History Month about Martin Luther King, Louis Armstrong and that black people were slaves, blah, blah, blah.
"What about black people from the Caribbean? What about black characters in the books we read?"
Making these links – using the past to understand the present – is the whole point, says teacher Nicole Aloise of Winston Churchill Collegiate, who proposed the idea last year as a way to engage black students who feel detached from mainstream curriculum.
Twice as many students wanted to enrol than could be accommodated. Two classes are planned for next year and Aloise hopes the education ministry will accredit the course for those who want to continue their education.
"I begged the guidance counsellor to get into this course when I heard about it," said Nathaniel Wilson, 17, who transferred to Winston Churchill this fall. "It's important to know about your history."
In a lesson on the legacy of slave songs, Aloise plays Bob Marley's haunting "Redemption" as students parse the lyrics for references to slavery.
Dashing from CD player to chalk board, the teacher with a master's degree in African studies explains to the iPod generation how many "negro spirituals" contained secret references to the Underground Railroad: "Wade in the Water" (to throw dogs off the trail), "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" (Underground Railroad); "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (a map north to freedom); "Amazing Grace" (penned by captain of a slave ship who felt remorse and became an abolitionist).
"A lot of you probably sung these songs in church," says Aloise – and a couple of students start singing.
Aloise's concern about a number of black students prompted her to suggest the course.
"I call them my Lost Boys, students who roam the halls disengaged from school, who don't go to class and may even have seen the wrong side of the law, but I thought if we gave them a course about their history maybe they'd get engaged.
"And they are. It may be the only class they come to, but they come. It's a start."
Not everyone in the class is black. A few white faces and at least one brown are among the 28 glued to the front. Aloise is black and the colleague who helps teach the course is white.
While parents who are pushing the board for a black-focused school have urged that it have as many black teachers and staff as possible as role models, the school board has said it would be open to students of all backgrounds.
"You don't have to be black to be interested in black history," says Shopiha Santhalingam, 16, who is Sri Lankan.
"Some Sri Lankans have been treated badly through history too; this is just really interesting stuff to learn."


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Video: See No Evil 2012October 25, 2012
In August, Bristol, Uk became a destination for international artists to participate in the See No Evil festival, transforming the walls along Nelson Street into a permanent art gallery. A new video has been released documenting the events and highlighting a number of artists who participated including Mark Bode, Nychos, M-City, Flying Fortress, She-One, Conor Harrington, Cheba, Inkie, and much more.
The events organizers are already taking submissions for up and coming artists to particpate in next year's events. A single piece of artwork to impress judges (10Mb Max,), the See No Evil Curators, can be submitted no later than October 26, tomorrow! Send in your submission with your contact details to: [email protected]


text: Symphony to crown an Idol this weekend By Sara Busse February 8, 2012 Story Share WANT TO GO?"Symphony Idol"Presented by the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday and SaturdayWHERE: Clay CenterTICKETS: Adults $10-$62, students and children $6-$15INFO: 304-561-3570 or online at www.wvsymphony.org CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- This weekend, all eyes at the Clay Center will be on the eight finalists in the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's "Symphony Idol" competition. The audience will decide who wins the coveted title, but the judges also feel the heat of the spotlight, as they were in charge of selecting the finalists from a field of more than 50 competitors."In narrowing down the field from 50-plus to eight, our job was not only to judge the talent of the contestants but to decide whether they could use that talent with a symphony orchestra," explained judge Larry Groce. "Not every good singer can perform comfortably with a symphonic arrangement. We didn't have written guidelines, but all of us, including Maestro Cooper who was probably the most important judge, were aware that the winner was to sing a pops program with the orchestra, and we took that into consideration." Groce, a singer, songwriter and arts/entertainment producer, has seen a lot of talent as the host and co-founder of "Mountain Stage" and as executive director of FestivALL Charleston."I have been part of judging the 'Mountain Stage' NewSong<co > Contest for a while now, so the judging experience was not as foreign as it might have been," he said, adding that the current judges panel (which also includes Mariel Van Dalsum and West Virginia Division of Culture and History commissioner Randall Reid-Smith) judged the first "Symphony Idol" competition in 2008 as well."I'm glad we don't have to make the final decision because often there are several equally qualified contestants, and it comes down to a matter of taste: do you prefer the 'Broadway' singer, the more classical voice or the pop stylist? In my experience, it's often easier to go from 50 contestants to eight finalists than to go from eight finalists to one winner."Van Dalsum, a voice instructor at the University of Charleston, agrees with that. "It is difficult to define exactly what I'm looking for in these contestants because all eight are so diverse," she said. "We have a blues singer, a country singer, pop singers, Broadway singers and a few classically trained singers. If I would look for clarity of sound and beauty of line in the blues singer, I would be in trouble. So ultimately what I'm looking for is, 'Does it work, and does it work fabulously?'""Symphony Idol" is a unique production for the orchestra in that the program is different each night. On Friday, each finalist performs two songs, chosen with Maestro Cooper and arranged especially for the singer and the orchestra. At the end of the night, the group is narrowed to four, as determined by audience voting.On Saturday, all eight will perform another song. The final four will be announced prior to intermission, and the audience will vote. The second half of the program features one additional song by each of the top four as well as one by each of the judges and inaugural "Symphony Idol" winner Ryan Hardiman. The winner is announced at the end of the night. The finalists are from throughout the region. They include Christopher Conard, Brynna Horswell and Mira Stanley of Charleston; Amy Hypes of Tioga and Joshua Butcher of Logan. Daniel King, a Charleston student attending Oberlin College in Ohio, and two natives -- Billy King of St. Albans, now living in San Francisco, and Courtney Stanley of Fayetteville native now living in Atlanta -- round out the pack.Van Dalsum, a native of the Netherlands, studied voice at the New England Conservatory of Music and performed in its opera program. Since then, she has sung operatic roles at Tanglewood, Academy of the West and Opera North and has done concert work and recitals all over the United States and in the Netherlands. She said there are many factors that came into play as the judges winnowed the field."Did the singer choose the right song in the right key? Did the singer sing all the right notes and all the right words? Does the voice sound good throughout the entire range? How were the very high notes? How were the very low notes? Was there enough contrast to make/keep the piece interesting? Is the song/piece age and voice appropriate? Does the singer do justice to all the lines/phrases within the piece, and does the piece emerge as a cohesive, beautiful entity?"And after all that, I look at the presentation. Was the singer's appearance appropriate? Was the singer doing anything that was distracting from the beauty of the song? Was nervousness an issue, and if it was, how did the singer use the nervous energy? Was the singer communicating or singing to him/herself? And perceiving the piece as a whole, I always ask myself: 'Did it work?' and 'How well did it work?'"Groce said after the initial audition, the panel of judges immediately agreed on four of the contestants."Then we debated who the other four finalists would be among maybe six or eight possibles," he said. "There were at least 10 or 12 overall who we considered and discussed. Most of those who became finalists had experience performing in musicals, show choirs, church choirs or in formal voice study programs. A couple were more from the pop/rock world." The fate of the winner is in the hands of the audience, and the judges have given them a good slate for making the important choice."I tried not to 'go with my gut' because that is the job of the audience," Van Dalsum said. "People in the audience like a piece or dislike a piece but might not be able to explain why."Reach Sara Busse at email@example.com or 304-348-1249. 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The Salvation Army is hosting the ninth annual Rochester Hills spring antique and collectible auction on Saturday.
Beginning at 9 a.m., auction-goers will have the opportunity to preview nearly 600 lots that will be available for bid starting at 11 a.m. The auction is expected to end by 5 p.m.
"Shoppers are often surprised to see what comes across the auction floor. From vintage housewares to full-size cars, we've seen it all at our annual spring auction," said Brian Smith, manager of the Rochester Hills thrift store. "Last year the auction experienced record-breaking sales, raising just over $38,000. We're hoping for another prosperous year, as all proceeds benefit a great cause."
All proceeds from the auction benefit The Salvation Army Southeast Michigan Adult Rehabilitation Centers, independently funded, 180-day residential rehabilitation programs for adults.
"I started shopping at thrift stores to furnish my home, but it quickly turned into a hobby," said Jordan Tasich, veteran Salvation Army thrift store shopper and Rochester Hills local. "All the unique, vintage collector's items come out during the Rochester Hills auction. It's a great opportunity to find pieces that you never thought you'd come across, like the Star Trek Next Generation Phaser laser pointer I bid on last year."
This year auction-goers can expect to see antique and collectable pieces including a French sterling silver desk caddy, a mechanical singing bird cage, various autographed tchotchke, musical instruments and many more items. Among the pieces expected to ring in at higher bids are a prayer card signed by Mother Teresa, a circa-1890 temperance tea cup, a 36-inch Heinrich Handwerk porcelain doll, a 1960s baseball signed by Hank Aaron, a mini Cleveland Cavaliers basketball signed by Lebron James and a Hull Pottery Little Red Riding Hood cookie jar.
The Salvation Army Thrift Store in Rochester Hills is located at 823 E. Auburn Road in Rochester Hills.
Absentee bidding is available for those unable to attend the auction. To learn more about absentee bidding and see a full lineup of auction items, visit www.eagleauction.com or contact Oz Zamora at 586-978-0369.
Auction items are collected throughout the year at all 34 Metro Detroit Salvation Army thrift store locations.
To donate, drop off gently used clothing, accessories, housewares, furniture and toys to the nearest Salvation Army thrift store donation center.
Donation centers are open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
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The Sexyloops Mobile App flycasting instruction
Hi Everyone,
We signed up as business members here to promote the unique product we have worked on for more than a year. It is an application for mobile phones and tablets with maybe the finest fly casting instruction you have ever experienced. 3 hours of HD video right in your hands. No video streaming, so after you have downloaded it you won't need internet connection anymore to watch. You can take this instructional video to a field, pond or river and learn each cast using Paul Arden's step-by-step teaching method in combination with numerous practice drills taught.
Paul Arden is an AAPGAI Master Instructor with 30 years of teaching experience. He is one of the world's best distance casters and owner of the Sexyloops website.
My name is Ákos Szmutni, I am an FFF Master Casting Instructor, writer and filmmaker. I am responsible for the filming side of the project.
You can download the app in AppStore for your iPhone and iPad and in Google Play for Android devices. Sexyloops
We have a free video section so you can test if the application works on your phone or tablet. You will need approximately 4GB space and a Wifi connection to download all the videos. Despite Apple's specifications it won't work on iPhone 3GS only on iPhone 4 and later.
We are very keen to have any feedback from the users. You can contact us via e-mail, on our Facebook site dedicated for the app: https://www.facebook.com/SexyloopsMobileApp or on our main Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/Sexyloops
If you have any specific questions on the casts taught in the videos we have a section on our board dedicated for the app: The Board • Index page After reading the flycasting threads on this great forum I am sure you will find many answers in the video for your casting related questions!
I hope you will enjoy the work we have done!
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Good work! Is this a particular "style" of casting or something for all fly fishermen?
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The app has 6 sections, it starts right at the beginning and goes to the highest instructor level:
1. Essentials, grip, stance, loop formation, pick up and lay down cast, roll cast, double haul, etc.
2. Intermediate casting, the drift and the switch cast, tailing loops and Bill Gammel's 5 essentials (a little bit of useful theory)
3. Distance and accuracy, tips for both fishing and competition distance casting
4. Handling the wind (all directions) and trick casts, like the Galway, the Pendulum or the Bow and Arrow cast
5. Presentation casts, for example curves and slack line casts
6. Single handed spey casting
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Sounds like a worthwhile app! I need to clean out a few non-worthwhile apps on my iPhone first. Lord knows I need all the help I can get! :)
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App now downloading and fingers crossed that it works and is all you say it is.
Is it easy to access certain parts of the clips to play again and again? Some of out here need constant reinforcement. :o
How would you rank it as a teaching tool to help an instructor instruct? It seems like it could be the best thing going if it's anything like the Sexyloops website.
Jack, Peddler and more!
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If you download the videos you can watch them as many times as you wish.
It will help any instructor to pick up a few new tricks for teaching. Even more help it will be if you would like to take a CI or MCI exam.
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That's an excellent question Peter! The "styles " debate is a fascinating one. At one extreme we have instructors so frightened to teach style that they teach little apart from components, and at the other we have instructors who simply clone! There are undoubtedly "styles" that are good to learn, and I think good instruction is using both components as well as cloning techniques - and deciding which is appropriate at the time.
What I have done here, as much as possible, is to give several ways of learning the casts/techniques. Often when teaching, an angle we take simply doesn't work, and then we need to find another method, and if that one doesn't work we try a third. Of course with experience we can often select the right approach to begin with. In the case of an App, we will have all possibilities and so I have tried to put all these different approaches into the App (which is one reason it's 3 hrs long!).
Most of the people who have the App so far are already instructors or competitors. That's not the purpose of the App! What we would like to do is get this out to a wider audience because that is its purpose! If there are any casting questions related to the App I am more than happy to help.
Cheers, Paul
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Hey, I downloaded the app. The introduction is great but when I went to download the triangle method it gave me a download error (403) HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden.
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Is this the guy with the weird "pulling" forward cast with continental drift (a la Alfred Wegener)?
I absolutely cannot cast in that style (I'm a "pusher") but I learned a lot about my casting via this website -- very cool.
You also argue that hauling works via increased line speed and not additional rod bend. Ed Jaworowski disagreed with you almost 1 month ago at the fly festival in Waynesboro, VA ;).
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I'm just welcoming Akos to the forum business group with this post. It is good to see the members having an interest in this product already. I'm sure that any glitches with downloads will be supported so lets get behind another new sponsor here :)
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The Housing Authority of New Orleans faces a looming Aug. 31 deadline for moving thousands of households that have been receiving disaster housing assistance to long-term Section 8 rental assistance.
But the rush to meet that deadline doesn't excuse HANO's refusal to say how many housing vouchers are available -- or its failure to start a new waiting list for the rental help.
The federal government increased the number of Section 8 vouchers after Hurricane Katrina to help people who had lived in now-demolished public housing developments and those who would be needing help after temporary disaster housing assistance ended.
But it's unclear how many vouchers the agency has available -- or even how many have been allocated to New Orleans. While some HANO employees who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Times-Picayune that the agency has received 15,000 Section 8 vouchers -- up from 9,000 before Katrina -- HANO won't say how many it has or how many are being used.
The agency purged its waiting list for vouchers more than a year ago, after running newspaper ads asking for residents who had been on it to contact the agency and update their information. It then offered vouchers to 2,000 households that remained on the list.
The waiting list had 10,000 names on it when Hurricane Katrina hit, and clearly not all of those people have returned. But it's also clear that some people have fallen through the cracks and are struggling to pay rent.
Ayesha Lewis is an example. She was on the waiting list but didn't see notifications about the purge and didn't meet the deadline to change her information. Her rent takes up 80 percent of her income.
With the cost of rental housing climbing, she's not alone in facing difficulties paying rent. But no one can apply for unused vouchers if there's not a new waiting list.
HANO shouldn't keep the number of unused vouchers secret. Officials should disclose that information immediately and start a new waiting list.
The task of moving people from the federal Disaster Housing Assistance Program is critical, given the time crunch. But the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is overseeing HANO, has sent 10 employees to lend a hand. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan should send more people if that's what it takes to address other Section 8 issues.
After all, there's another deadline to be considered -- the end of the fiscal year. HUD normally will not renew payments for vouchers if they're not in use by the end of a housing authority's fiscal year, which is Sept. 30 for HUD.
HANO's preoccupation with the end of disaster housing should not result in New Orleans losing vouchers that could help struggling residents pay the rent.


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A delivery guy for furniture came to my house last week and my dog got out of the bedroom and jumped up on the guy. I pulled my dog off before he was able to bite but the furniture guy fell over and banged his head on a table. He said it was OK and didn't start threatening to sue or anything but I was wondering if he could sue even though there was no bite. Thanks.
I cannot say whether he would prevail if he did sue, but I can tell you, that under the Massachusetts dog bite and liability law, it does not matter if the dog actually bites anyone. All that is required to create a cause of action and potential liability on the part of the dog's owner is that the dog injure a person or damage property. Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 140, Section 155 states in relevant part:
If any dog shall do any damage to either the body or property of any person, the owner or keeper . . . shall be liable for such damage, unless such damage shall have been occasioned to the body or property of a person who, at the time such damage was sustained, was committing a trespass or other tort, or was teasing, tormenting or abusing such dog.
As you can see, a bite is not required to trigger liability. Any type of damage will do. Hopefully the delivery guy is OK and/to decides to let the matter go.


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[3 June 2013]
On May 30 the Indian film director Rituparno Ghosh died of cardiac arrest in his home in Kolkata. He was 49.
"His death has been extremely shocking for all of us," wrote the veteran Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan in his blog (Bachchan plays Meyer Wolfsheim in Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby). "49 years is no age to die, but Ritu Da, as we affectionately called him, has gone. He has left a huge void in the world of some of the most progressive work done in recent times."
Shekhar Kapur, the director of Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth movies, tweeted: "Shocked by passing of Rituparno Ghosh. He was dreaming of getting into what he called his 'next phase'. Hugely creative explorer on film."
Rituparno Ghosh's death is a massive loss to the creative vitality of Indian cinema. I'm reluctant to make comparisons, but to give one a sense of its scale here in the U.S., it would be like finding out that Paul Thomas Anderson just died. After nearly 22 films (most of them in Bengali, two in Hindi, and two in English), Ghosh, as Kapur aptly said, was indeed beginning the next phase of his career. He had made the transition from a successful regional film director of independent art-house Bengali cinema to a sought-after director of urbane Hindi cinema, and finally, to being an Indian filmmaker of international acclaim on par with Shyam Benegal and Mira Nair.
Ghosh was often compared to another famous Bengali-born director, Satyajit Ray. Ray was India's first global celebrity director. Winning awards in Cannes in the '60s, Ray was championed by Pauline Kael and Martin Scorsese. Wes Anderson used many of Ray's Indian classical music scores to score his 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited.
Ghosh in turn reinvigorated and reinvented the Ray canon of Bengali cinema. He took Ray's early material, stage and literary adaptations of the great 19th century Indian writer, Rabindranath Tagore, and breathed new life into them by focusing on the psychological complexities of women's lives in colonial India.
Chokher Bali
Ghosh's most well-known Tagore adaptation is Chokher Bali("A Grain of Sand in the Eye"). The film starred Bollywood's most famous actress Aishwarya Rai (Bride and Prejudice), The Pink Panther 2) as a beautiful young widow whose misfortune turns her into a manipulative creature of revenge. Rai has never been better in any role. The film is memorable in its depiction of the indolence of the upper-class landowners in late 19th century Calcutta. I reviewed Chokher Bali for PopMatters back in 2008 knowing then that the film would stand the test of time.
Ghosh's first breakthrough film was a small Bengali art-house picture called Bariwali ("The Lady of the House) made in 1999. The story centered around a day-dreaming, ageing spinster who's trying to come to terms with a life of loneliness. His next film, Utsab ("The Festival", 2000), depicted a family reunion in a decaying Kolkata mansion during the Durga Puja festival. Echoes of Ray, Alain Resnais and Chekhov pervaded the nuanced story of repression and unexpressed bitterness.
One quality that set Ghosh apart from other Indian directors was his ability to depict female characters on screen. His women stand out in one's mind in terms of their psychological complexity. Perhaps Ghosh had a sharper insight into women in India—of what it means to be an outsider. He was openly gay. Towards the last few years of his life he adopted a feminine persona, wearing wigs, makeup, and women's clothes to public appearances and events. In the West, we take for granted some of our openness and tolerance in comparison to other countries. India, and especially Kolkata, is still very conservative in many ways. Ghosh was an icon to India's newly emerging and confident LGBT community, and with his death, they lost a great activist and a champion of human rights.
In the first decade of the new millennium Ghosh was building his artistic reputation and taking on unconventional, critically-promising new projects. He worked again with Aishwarya Rai in a Hindi-language adaptation of O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, Raincoat (2004). His next film, another period piece, Antarmahal ("Views from the Inner Chamber," 2005) was unsparing in its depiction of sexual violence towards women often enacted in the name of ritual and tradition. A Bengali landowner marries twice in the hope of begetting an heir. He doesn't spare his young second wife, who he ravages sexually in the presence of a priest reciting hymns. Later, in another attempt to appease the gods, he forces his first wife to sleep with five Brahmin priests in a perverted form of an ancient ritual, Ashwamedha Yagya. I believe Ghosh's strongest films, Bariwali, Chokher Bali, and Antarmahal, deal with the unexpressed agony of women's lives in India. Few directors had his insight when it came to writing a nuanced screenplay or coaxing a strong performance out of an actor.
The Last Lear
His last significant films were The Last Lear, Sob Charitro Kalponik ("All The Following Characters are Imaginary…") and Noukadubi ("Boat Wreck"). The Last Lear starred Amitabh Bachchan as an eccentric ageing actor who can't accept the popularity of movies in India to the wane of theater and high art. It was a strange, unexpected, and at times, uneven performance from Bachchan, but it was his most unique and fearless role, stripped of any vanity. Ghosh had this ability to make very guarded and seasoned movie stars come out of their shells and that's not an easy thing to do.
Rituparno Ghosh's death is a rude shock to anyone who believed in the future of independent cinema in India. The world lost a unique voice in directing and screenwriting.
In his own view of himself, Ghosh cited Satyajit Ray as a main influence, but felt at odds with his own sexuality in a close-minded country: "Ray set a masculine prototype for film directors. People were proud of his height and his ability to speak posh English. People like me who wear danglers and kajol (eyeliner) to parties are regarded as an insult to Ray." Ray cast a long shadow in terms his artistic legacy but also his sheer physical presence.
I once spoke to David Denby about Satyajit Ray and Denby said that he cut quite a figure—tall, impossibly lean, constantly chain-smoking his pipe like Sherlock Holmes. At times there was a bracing haughtiness to Ray that could intimidate anyone. Ghosh by comparison seemed gentler and more open to frailty. Perhaps he was a man of a more postcolonial politically-correct age, though I think it had to do with his singular intuition as an artist.
Though Rituparno Ghosh left us far too early, we still have his movies. They are surpassingly good in their erudition and emotional clarity. Ghosh was a true original who maintained his integrity and creative vision in the commercialized and conformist world that is showbusiness in India. It's hard to believe that he's gone, but his spirit will always be alive in the dynamism and grace of Tagore's great work and in the eternal struggle of the outsider who's just trying to get his voice heard.
Published at: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/172114-farewell-maestro-rituparno-ghosh-1963-2013/


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Have Cat Questions? Ask a Cat Vet Online.
It may be itching due to allergies or infection or a fungal infection.
Sometimes they hit the chin when the real problem is th ears itch so checking them may be worthwhile.
You might want the vet to check for ringworm and you can read about that infection here
Benzocaine is on the list of meds you should never give a cat. Lidocaine also isn't very safe and should only be used under vet direction.
If you happen to feed out of a plastic dish you may want to try using stainless or ceramic as some animals react to the plastic.
You can use a topical antibiotic ointment (no pain relief ones) such as Neosporin to speed healing.
If you really want to keep him frmo scratching it the dreaded lampshade collar may work and your vet can fit your cat with one or you might try this alternative to see if it works
Hope this helps you!
No there is not a topical anti itching product safe to use with cats without direct vet supervision.
When the lampshade collar is on the cat cannot get it off and they do get used to it over time. The alternative collar might also work for you and its far less bulky for the cat.
Cats keep boots on about as well as they keep on bandages but you could see if claw covers like these soft paws would help


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Hard to imagine and way under-reported
Nurses, physical therapists, counselors etc, who provide care in the community are on the front lines identifying potential elder mistreatment. Abuse and neglect of the elderly is a serious and prevalent problem that was estimated to affect more than a million individuals. And that number may be conservative.
Terry Fulmer, PhD, Advanced Practice RN, reported in her article in The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, only one in ten cases of elder abuse are actually reported and there is even serious under-reporting by clinical professionals. Ms.Fulmer attributes this professional under-reporting to, most likely, lack of appropriate screening instruments. Elder mistreatment is defined by abuse (physical, verbal and even sexual), mistreatment, neglect, exploitation, and abandonment.
We use a screening tool called the Elder Assessment Instrument (EAI) which has been present in literature since the 1980's. This tool or some variation of it, may be used in all clinical settings by people who treat the elderly population. The tool takes about 15 minutes to use and includes assessment of five indicators.
These indicators include:
- A general assessment
- Possible abuse
- Possible neglect
- Possible exploitation
- Abandonment
What to look for:
General assessment includes appearance of clothing/hygiene/ skin/nutrition and any additional findings of care and environment.
Abuse and neglect indicators include injuries, bruising, various stages of fractures, sexual abuse, and clinical signs like bed sores, depression, diarrhea, poor hygiene, and failure to respond to warning of obvious disease and repetitive hospital admissions due to probable failure of health monitoring.
Exploitation indicators include misuse of money and finances with reports of demands for goods in exchange for services and inability to account for money and/or property.
Abandonment may include withdrawn care without alternative arrangements, or evidence a senior citizen has been left alone in an unsafe environment without adequate support.
Each of these indicators also may be reported by the elder in question as well. Although there is not a formal scoring system in this tool, clinicians AND care-givers can be more aware of the signs of elder mistreatment by using the tool as a starting point and guide.
As we provide care to our ever-increasing elderly population, responsibility lies not only with clinicians but well-meaning family and friends. If there is ANY question an Elder is being mistreated, a social service referral should be generated.
How to report or inquire about elder abuse:
The National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) serves as a resource center dedicated to the prevention of elder mistreatment. It was first established by the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) in 1988 as a national elder abuse resource center. I have included the link above so you may review this site for more details and contact information for reporting potential elder abuse and local support in your geography.
All of us have the responsibility to participate in the full circle of properly caring for our wise, valued, and vulnerable seniors.


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Malaysian Air disappearance: Echoes of 1950 Northwest Airlines flight
The disappearance of Malaysian Air Flight 370 with 239 people aboard brings echoes from the past as loss turns to wonder of what happened to the ill-fated airliner. With the passing of each agonizing day, the mystery strikes a historic resemblance to a Minneapolis-based Northwest Airlines incident.
As 34 planes, 40 ships and search crews from 10 countries scour hundreds of thousands of nautical miles of the South China Sea and Straits of Malacca, a similar armada was looking for Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, 64 years ago.
In June 1950, also under pleasant flying conditions, the Northwest DC4 flight departed New York LaGuardia Airport in the evening, as scheduled.
Carrying maximum takeoff weight, 55 passengers and 3 crew members, the transcontinental flight was bound for Seattle with an en-route stop planned in Minneapolis. Cruising at 3,500 feet over Lake Michigan, near Benton Harbor, Mich., Captain Robert Lind encountered a line of electrical storms and quickly asked permission to reduce altitude to 2,500 feet.
The Civil Aviation Authority could not grant the request because of congestion in the area. That was the last transmission received from Northwest Flight 2501.
'A terrific flash'
Near South Haven, Mich., a retired Navy commander witnessed "a terrific flash" over Lake Michigan. And at least four residents of tiny Glenn, Mich., were loitering in their cars at the town's gas station at 12:15 a.m. when they heard an aircraft sputtering overhead. One of the bystanders retorted: "Bring that plane down here buddy. We'll fix it up for you!"
Danny Thompson testified that the plane's engines sounded "like a stock car with a blown head gasket." Then Mrs. William Bowie saw a "queer flash."
"It was a funny light. It looked like the sun when it goes down. It only lasted a second, then was gone," she said.
The early investigations into the Northwest 2501 disappearance indicated a midair explosion.
Just as in the Malaysian Air search, Lake Michigan search crews found bubbling oil and floating debris that ultimately bore no connection to the missing aircraft.
The Northwest 2501 crash was the biggest disaster in civilian aviation at the time.
Cause 'Unknown'
After an exhaustive investigation, the Civil Aeronautics Board labeled the cause of the Northwest 2501 crash as "Unknown." Despite the massive proportions of the Northwest aircraft, weighing 71,000 pounds, wings spanning 117 feet and four engines weighing 1,600 pounds each — no significant pieces of the wreckage have ever been found!
Even the renowned author and shipwreck hunter Clive Cussler joined the search in May 2006. He has discovered more than 80 shipwrecks around the world. Cussler funded an advanced technology search, scanning Lake Michigan at a depth of 200 feet, near Benton Harbor, Mich. To this day, his search has come up empty and the saga continues.
The Lake Michigan crash inexorably changed the history of Northwest Airlines.
Top-to-bottom review
The government's chief accident investigator, Donald W. Nyrop quickly stepped in to conduct a top-to-bottom safety review of Northwest's pilot training and maintenance. His comprehensive list of 63 corrective measures so impressed Northwest's board of directors that they began a relentless pursuit to hire Nyrop.
The effort was successful, culminating in his appointment as president and CEO in 1954. Over the next 24 years, Nyrop would lead Northwest Airlines from the edge of insolvency and despair to new heights of profitability and pre-eminence in the history of aviation.
Only time will tell if modern science and technology can write a different ending and bring closure to the Malaysian Air mystery.
Tony Randgaard, of Minneapolis and Chicago, worked for Northwest Airlines for 24 years and has been with United Airlines for eight. He has been published in Air Cargo News, the Forward, CNS Focus, the Rake and other publications.
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Missing airliner.
"...the biggest disaster in civilian aviation at the time." Not so.
Four years earlier, in l956, two airliners collided while flying over the Grand Canyon. I believe the death toll far exceeded the 55 passengers in the l960 Malaysian incident.
1950 occurred 6 years before 1956.
1950 was a bad year for NWA; in March of that year a flight from Detroit crashed on Minnehaha Parkway in South Minneapolis, after clipping a flagpole at the Fort Snelling Cemetary.
This was 1950, not 60
This was 1950, not 60
This looks like a new season of "Lost."
The plane made it. We're all in purgatory.
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