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ANDERSON, Ind. —
Ending domestic violence doesn't have to be a pipe dream.
The elimination of abuse in relationships — with time, cooperation and commitment — is possible, said Colleen Yeakle, coordinator of the Indiana Coalition of Domestic Violence's (ICADV) prevention initiative.
"For so long people have thought about domestic violence as something that is inevitable," she said. "It is part of our culture, but our culture is us. Everyone has the opportunity to influence, the power to take a stand and say these aren't our values."
The movement to end domestic violence is a young one beginning only about 35 years ago. Its focus for the majority of that time — as it needed to be, Yeakle said — was on intervention. Volunteers, community leaders and organizations wanted to seek the best way to react to the epidemic of family violence and how to help those in the midst of their crisis — how to get help, how to get out and how to hold the perpetrator accountable.
And while that is a crucial component, Yeakle said the aspect of prevention was often overlooked.
"We were saying, 'We have to end this violence,' but we were less prepared to do it or to know how," she said. "But we can. We do it by addressing social norms that engage the violence."
And to do that, a community must work together with the common goal of saying, "we won't tolerate" domestic violence anymore, she said.
"We need to sweat the small stuff," Yeakle said. "We can't let abusive behaviors go by in school — abusive language and behaviors aren't OK with us. We need to address social norms and respectable behavior with organizations, schools and the community where youth and adults spend their time. We need to emphasize healthy and respectable relationships at home, in the community and in the workplace."
Prevention is now key
ICADV director Laura Berry said her call to action for the community would be in implementing preventive awareness and programs.
"We clearly over the years have been doing effective intervention work — providing safe housing, creating laws, improving law enforcement's response to victims of domestic violence, holding offenders accountable, educating courts, creating task forces and commissions for a comprehensive response," she said.
"Now our vision or focus needs to shift. We've been doing it for almost 30 years and the only thing we've successfully done is reduce the homicide rate for men. We have no less domestic violence than we did before."
Victims are safer and there are more resources for them now than before, but the number of victims isn't going down, Berry pointed out.
She said schools need to start early with education about healthy relationships; adults need to be positive role models for youth in practicing appropriate behavior in relationships and parents need to have open conversations with their children about domestic violence and sexual assault.
"We need to step up and create safe environments for the next generation of youth," she said. "And we need to support the work that is being done on the local community level for prevention."
Recognize, respond and refer
Kandi Floyd — a victim's advocate with Alternatives Inc., Anderson's domestic violence shelter and resource agency — said there are three steps the community can use in addressing the epidemic of domestic violence: "recognize, respond and refer."
"We have to learn to recognize that domestic violence can and does happen in every single one of Madison County's communities," she said. "We can't be blinded by the issue."
Once the problem is recognized, Floyd said people need to respond by attending educational sessions hosted by Alternatives or other organizations. Or by responding to a family member or neighbor in crisis.
"We need to address these issues," she said. "We can't keep it behind locked doors anymore."
And referring people to the proper information and resources is critical, and that knowledge, Floyd said, comes with education.
"There is a wealth of knowledge and resources in Madison County," Floyd said. "We need to start utilizing those resources. Our numbers may go up because more people are reporting and getting out of these situations but I hop in the long run it will reduce our numbers and reduce our fatalities."
While action to help prevent domestic violence is the direction experts say the movement should go, the support for increasing intervention efforts should continue.
Alternatives CEO Mary Jo Lee said her women's shelter is always in need of items — cleaning supplies, household and paper goods, hygiene items and food. They always appreciate groups holding drives for those items. Volunteers can always be used to help support staff at the shelter as well.
And another way the community can help Alternatives' efforts is by asking its educators to speak to their congregation, group or workplace. No group is too small, Lee said.
Lee stressed that Alternatives is more than a shelter and that message needs to be spread. Last year they helped about 300 victims who never came to the shelter and answered nearly 3,700 crisis calls.
Making a difference
A young mother with three young children — aged 1 to 7 — came to the shelter in recent weeks. She'd never heard of Alternatives, but a friend knew of the abuse the woman suffered and recently read a story about the shelter encouraging the woman to get out.
In just the short time she and the children have been there staff has noticed a significant change. The children, scared and unsure before, are acting like children now. The woman — who wasn't allowed to work, has been emotionally and physically abused for more than a decade — now has some control over her life, even though it is still chaotic.
Her life has been changed forever, all from one decision.
Find Abbey Doyle on Facebook and @heraldbulletin on Twitter, or call 640-4805.
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Who can stop domestic violence? You
Change will take time, communitywide action
ANDERSON, Ind. —
Ending domestic violence doesn't have to be a pipe dream.
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Who can stop domestic violence? You
The elimination of abuse in relationships — with time, cooperation and commitment — is possible, said Colleen Yeakle, coordinator of the Indiana Coalition of Domestic Violence's (ICADV) prevention initiative.
Legislation comes a long way, but more change needed
Each year the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence sets its legislative priorities based on year-round discussions with its members and legislators to see what needs are out there and what is going on in the field.
Children affected by abuse too
While some may think the atmosphere at Alternatives, the Anderson domestic violence shelter, would be a somber one, instead it is a building filled with laughter and joy.
Kristy Gissendanner: 'Vivacious and sweet'
Six-day-old Gabrielle Gissendanner and her 18-month-old brother Michael weren't far from their mom when Harry Gissendanner shot and killed Kristy in their Anderson home in 2004.
John Davis: 'Defined by your actions and inactions'
John Davis wants his pain to make a difference. He's hopeful sharing what he experienced and witnessed growing up will empower someone else to leave a dangerous situation or avoid it altogether.
'It was life-altering'
Casey Huffman should have taken her son Camdon to his first day of kindergarten this year. She should be picking out a Halloween costume for him. She should be thinking about how to help him achieve his hopes and dreams. Instead, Casey mourns over his all-too-early death.
Tina Tomlinson: 'She was a hoot'
Tina Tomlinson was just "plain fun," her family recalled. The mother of two and dedicated grandmother was someone family could look to for a good time.
Domestic violence prevention is possible, expert says
Gender stereotypes are just one thing that Todd Cawthorn and five other speakers, during a 90-minute panel discussion Tuesday night, talked about that create an environment where domestic violence is accepted.
Teens can be victims of domestic violence, too
Dating violence has been seen locally in relationships as young as sixth grade, Alternatives Inc. prevention specialist Todd Cawthorn said.
Justice for victims
While a protective order is an important piece of the legal puzzle that domestic violence victims have to solve, Judge Stephen Clase stresses to each that it is, after all, "just a piece of paper." "They won't stop a knife or a bullet," he said. "I tell them they need to be on guard at all times."
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At OSCON 2006 I was sitting in one of the green rooms (the spaces set aside for speakers before presentations). My laptop was open and I was happily hacking away on a project. As I killed a bug and checked the code back in, I muttered under my breath, "Python, I love you. You make the hard stuff so easy."
I noticed a few seconds later the room had gone utterly silent. I looked up, and sitting at the table across from me was Damian Conway, tapping away on his own laptop doing his own thing. I blinked a couple of times and suddenly noticed the entire room was expecting a Perl-vs-Python argument to erupt.
Damian looked up from his work, noticed everyone was looking nervous. He looked over at me, I gave a "I don't know what's up with them, uh, help?" look and a shrug.
Damian then looked back at the crowd and grinned. "Listen, the only thing I love more than Perl is well-written software, even if it's written in Python." He looked back over to me. "Kill a bug, didja?" I nodded. He gave me a smile and a thumbs-up, then returned to his code. I returned to mine, and after a few seconds the room let out his breath.
I love Python. But the only thing I love more than Python is well-written software, even if it's written in Perl.


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The wind energy controversy has brought about the statement, "You cannot believe what you read on the Internet," the pro-wind supporters' phrase of the year. Most recently the Tipton County Wind Farm Communications Committee stated the Internet is "not a credible source of information."
The committee contacted universities in Indiana and the surrounding states for their extensive studies and conclusions about wind turbines. Does that mean they drove to these universities or contacted them by mail, because they cannot get valid information from the Internet? They could have driven to the Wildcat Wind Farm and gotten the up-to-date information firsthand. There are 49 hand-written complaints, for which no elected official from Tipton County has taken responsibility.
The Communications Committee was impressed by the willingness of these universities to share their research information. Could any of this information have been paid for with money received from wind energy companies? How about tax dollars given to universities? Aren't the wind energy companies subsidized with billions of taxpayer dollars? Aren't these pro-wind farm lessees paid by the wind energy companies with our tax dollars? Who are all these people spending taxpayer dollars they haven't earned? Does every taxpayer have a right to challenge the fact that industrial wind turbines do not belong in populated areas, and have the right to state their reasoning?
The Internet is the encyclopedia for our school children. The farmers guide their implements using Internet-based GPS. Local farmers have Internet websites telling us how to cook the crops they produce. A farmer's subsidy payments are transferred over the Internet to their bank accounts. I'll bet the universities use the Internet daily. So the statement "not a credible source of information" is not really applicable. I think the pro-wind turbine supporters are just trying to say anyone that does not agree with them are liars.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but one of the only businesses today that makes money the old-fashioned way is any Internet-associated company. They make a profit without government taxpayer subsidies. If the tax subsidies stopped today, there would be thousands if not millions of businesses that could not exist from money they actually earned. With the absences of subsidized businesses, we might get a company to produce a worthwhile product at a fair price.
The Internet has brought down dictators and exposed wrongdoing everywhere. What credible truths will the Internet divulge about Tipton County?
Russell Turk
Commissioner Cline ought to resign
Mike Cline should resign his elected position as Tipton County commissioner. Cline's interests are being positioned above those of his constituency. For some unknown reason, Cline believes his title places him above the law.
From tit-for-tat spats with fellow colleagues to sketchy lawn mower deals, this man answers to nobody but himself. This is not the type of person I envisioned as a leader of Tipton County.
Cronyism is in full-blown effect down at the Tipton County Courthouse, and Mike Cline has been leading the charge. How many investigations does it take until Cline realizes his actions are just plain immoral? Cline was elected to embody citizens of Tipton County, but in actuality only represents his own welfare.
I'm starting to wonder if any of the Tipton County decision makers could even plan a picnic. Is it really all that much to ask for the rules to be followed?
John Pope


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A recent United Nations study focusing on media coverage of corporate social responsibility (CSR) found that as CSR has become more mainstream in business practice, media coverage of it has increased. The report, called "Good News and Bad," also found that companies and the media are challenged to get the CSR message out. A distinguished panel of three senior financial reporters and one corporate manager discussed these challenges at a breakout session of the 14th annual Net Impact Conference, "Business Leaders Building a Better World."
The relationship between companies and the media is improving as companies make greater efforts to be socially responsible and candid about the challenges they face and as the media make greater efforts to report on these issues in a balanced way. For example, the Wall Street Journal recently ran a front-page story about Gap's internal review of its factory and labor conditions, and the Financial Times, which frequently covers CSR, ran a notable story in 2002 about the efforts of banana giant Chiquita. In both cases, the companies were candid about their problems and were able to draw positive attention to their efforts to deal with those issues.
"I think there's a lesson for companies in communicating about CSR in terms of a warts-and-all approach," said Gavin Power, senior adviser and head of public affairs at the United Nations Global Compact, who moderated the session, "Media as a Social Watchdog."
Still, there is tension. Media coverage of CSR is not always positive, or even always accurate — especially in headlines, where editors of newspapers and television networks want to hit hard and grab an audience. "When the Fair Labor Association submitted its report this year, I spent a lot of time with journalists talking about why Nike supported the Fair Labor Association and the fact that it is a transparent mechanism for identifying incidents in our supply chain, cooperating with other brands who happen to be in the same factory and resolving issues," said Caitlin Morris, senior manager of Nike's global issues management. "Several times, I got a great story by the reporter and a headline that said, 'Sweatshop Abuses Identified by Independent Labor Organization at Nike.' How do I explain to my senior management the value of being transparent and working with the Fair Labor Association if that's what ends up on their desk Friday morning?"
Many companies continue to distrust the media and remain gun-shy about communicating their CSR initiatives. Abbott Laboratories, for example, has quietly worked to make its AIDS drugs more accessible to countries in Africa. "One of our reporters at the Journal got wind of what they were doing, went to them and said, 'Why aren't you telling us?'" said Ronald J. Alsop, news editor and senior writer at the Wall Street Journal. "We ended up doing a story, but they were just so afraid that it would make them out in a negative way that they wouldn't even approach the media themselves about it."
"What we have to do in the media is to build trust with the corporations so that they feel more comfortable in telling us these stories," said Sarah Murray, U.S. editor of the Financial Times. "Because I think that in the end, if they do, they can actually build credibility."
Businesses recognize that opportunity but are challenged to package their message for the media. In the wake of its sweatshop scandals in 1995, Nike reevaluated its labor standards and considered the meaning of CSR, Morris said. People at the company who were passionate about the environment generated a groundswell of support for environmental reform through the elimination of toxins and waste in Nike's production process. The company has succeeded in eliminating PVCs from most of its products and has reduced its use of ordinary cotton, which is treated with pesticides.
But these stories are nuanced and complicated, Morris said. Nike can't advertise its products as PVC-free because it doesn't want to take on that industry, she explained. And, while Nike is the world's largest purchaser of organic cotton, its 100 percent organic cotton line is very small. The company makes its biggest environmental contribution through a commitment to a 5 percent blend, but Nike doesn't advertise that because it's not a selling point to its client base. "Do 14- to 20-year-old boys care about organic cotton?" Morris asked. "Probably not." Even if they did, she added, "it's hard to make a market-sell to people that 5 percent blend is cool."
"So the only way to really get into the story about the importance of organic cotton is through the media," she added. "I need the media to tell the stories for me that I can't tell in an advertisement and that I can't stick on a hang tag."
The reporters on the panel agreed that CSR is a positive trend worth covering. Marc Gunther, senior writer for Fortune magazine, said the trend has led to a new business model that is about relationships and partnerships rather than transactions and that is focused on the long term rather than the short. He said companies demand improved conditions in their supply chains because they understand that employees who are treated well work and produce better. Nearly half the Fortune 500 companies offer domestic partner benefits, and many support affirmative action. Companies are taking steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. And corporate America has become more transparent and less secretive. "I really believe something big is going on here," he said. "The question is, Why haven't you read more about it?"
For several reasons, the reporters agreed: Americans are cynical about big business. Nearly 70 percent of the 22,000 people surveyed in this year's Harris Poll rate corporate America's reputation as either not good or terrible, noted Alsop, who was involved in the project. So reporters and readers are skeptical of corporate changes. Furthermore, those changes are complicated and incremental and are therefore difficult to report. CSR spokespeople want to talk about process, and the media want to report results. The language and jargon used to talk about CSR get in the way of coverage. And because the terms and concepts are vague and abstract, coverage tends to be driven by specific issues, such as climate change, human rights or corporate irresponsibility.
Good news is hard to tell and even harder to sell. "The plane lands is not a story," Gunther said. "It is very, very hard to sell good-news stories to editors." There is also the danger that in focusing on good news, reporters will miss the bad news, Murray said. For example, positive coverage of the IT industry's efforts to increase Internet access in poor countries and address the digital divide missed problems in the industry's factory conditions. Reporters ignore press releases about corporate philanthropy if not accompanied by real reform. And, most important, there is little demand for these stories. Financial publications cover issues important to businesspeople and corporate executives, and CSR is not what keeps them up at night or what they think about first thing in the morning, Gunther said.
According to the Harris Interactive survey, the public almost unanimously wants to know more about companies' good deeds, even if it is divided on how it wants to hear about them. Gunther encouraged students to do something about it. "When you see a story in FT or the Wall Street Journal or Fortune that you like, send an e-mail, send a letter," Gunther said. "Because if our readers are not responding to our stories, we're not going to be able to get them in. A little bit of reader response, a little bit of push, can go a long way in getting the stories in that I think we all want to see."
Nearly 1,400 MBA students, professionals and sponsors attended the 2004 Net Impact Conference, "Business Leaders Building a Better World," which was organized by the Social Enterprise Program and took place November 11 to 14. The sold-out conference drew participants from 80 business schools, 167 companies and 11 countries. Hosted by a different business school each year, Net Impact's annual conference is one of the largest and best-known gatherings of socially minded business leaders in the world.


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The Fort Gordon Spouses and Civilians Club and the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation are hosting the Fall Flea Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 5 on Barton Field during the Fort Gordon Oktoberfest. Spaces are available to sell items. The Fort Gordon and Central Savannah River Area communities are invited to the flea market.
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I've invited a crew of brilliant artists and thinkers, including representatives from Parson's School of Design, to help us further facilitate my vision of developing a vocational school for artist education.
We begin our voyage in Jacmel, meeting up with the amazing David Bell, touring the beach town and visiting with local crafts people. The following day we head to the school that David founded, the Ciné institute, where I have the privilege of speaking to the students about the power of creativity, and then it's off again to the city of Port-au-Prince.
Over the next several days, I lead the parson's team all over Port-au-Prince and the surrounding villages to give them a first hand introduction to the lives and lifestyles of the local Haitian artisans. Visiting paper måché designers, leather workers, hornisons, jewelry and ceramics designers, we discuss the craftspeople's latest creations, equipment needs, as well as taking time to collaborate and come up with inspiring new design possibilities. We held several meetings-of-the-mind with both social leaders and the leaders of the Haitian artisans to come up with the best strategies to both provide the next level of artist training and development, as well strategies for implementing sustainable business models. I was so inspired listening to everyone's visions for Haiti's great and prosperous future!
One of the most moving moments of this trip happened when I finally had the opportunity to visit the Instituion Mitxte Unions des Aportes in Cite Soleil, a school our friend Caroline Sada (and a local priest) built. It exists in the poorest neighborhood in the western hemisphere, but the richness of these beautiful children's spirits filled me with joy. While the school still has much need for support, these children's lives have been forever changed by the commitment of Caroline. *to find out how you can contribute to Caroline's school, please email the Urban Zen Foundation, email@example.com
After all these years, I finally had the pleasure of visiting Haiti's neighbor, the Dominican Republic… WOW!!!! I can't believe I never took Oscar de la Renta up on any of his offers to visit! What a stunning country! While in the DR I was blessed with an opportunity to visit fine arts school Altos de Chevon, run by fellow Parson's graduate Steven Kaplan. It is always so wonderful to witness the next generations of artists.
We pop back to Haiti to finish up with our meetings. I leave this magnificent country with an overflowing heart and visions of magnificent possibilities. Can't wait to go back to Haiti in a few weeks to shoot the Donna Karan ad campaign, once again with my partners in Crime Russell James and Adriana Lima, to further raise awareness and continue to share the beauty of this extraordinary country.
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In 2004, Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesdal stepped close to her goal of becoming an astronaut when she became the first African-American woman to fly a U-2, a high-altitude aircraft used for reconnaissance missions.
"You've got to be kind of special to fly that plane," she said. "The altitude puts a lot of stress on your body."
For six years, Tengesdal donned a 30-pound pressure suit and flew more than 900 flight hours at 70,000 feet—more than 13 miles above the Earth. "If I can't become an astronaut, this is the next-best thing," Tengesdal said.
In December, Tengesdal moved to Colorado Springs to work as a staff officer at Peterson Air Force Base.
Growing up, Tengesdal, 39, enjoyed studying math and science, and played multiple instruments in band. At the University of New Haven in Connecticut, Tengesdal said she was one of three women to make it through the electrical engineering program.
Tengesdal's fascination with flying and space began at an early age. "I watched a lot of 'Star Trek' as a kid," said Tengesdal, who listed Chekov and Capt. Kirk as her favorite characters.
At age 7, Tengesdal said she dedicated herself to school. In middle school, she and her lab partner performed a science experiment using cryogenics and mealworms."It was inspired by the episode 'The Wrath of Khan,'" Tengesdal said, laughing."My science teacher put up with my shenanigans."
After graduating college, Tengesdal took a four-day bus trip to San Diego to test to become a Navy pilot. "There was a lot of push by the Navy to recruit minorities" in themid-90s, Tengesdal said. "From what I saw, only 25 to 30 percent made it through."
Tengesdal said she was the only one of five African-American women to make it through pilot school. "I had my goals, and I knew what I wanted to do," Tengesdal said. Tengesdal became a naval aviator, specializing in helicopters. For 10 years, she flew missions in the Middle East, South America and the Caribbean.
In 2004, Tengesdal left the Navy for the Air Force to join the U-2 program."That was a highlight in my Air Force career," said Tengesdal, referencing her acceptance into theU-2 program. "The U-2 is difficult to land and fly."
Designed for high-altitude flying, the surveillance plane has a long wingspan, and its landing gear has two wheels instead of the usual three. "When you land, you actually have to stall the aircraft at 2 feet because of the wings," said Tengesdal, who listed the nine-hour-plus missions, decompression sickness and claustrophobic conditions of the plane as other challenges.
Tengesdal deployed multiple times in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Three months ago Tengesdal moved to Colorado Springs to work as a joint staff officer at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). "I'm getting used to the area and the altitude," Tengesdal said."Even though I'm a pilot, the altitude still gets to me."
As for her astronaut aspirations, Tengesdal said NASA isn't out of the question."We'll see how I do here," she said.
Her advice to others is simple: "You decide your fate," Tengesdal said."Don't let anyone tell you that it's too hard."
This story on Merryl Tengesdal, '94 B.S., first appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette on February 22, 2011.
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The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
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Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
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The Xbox One authorization file is "kilobytes," you can authorize your games by tethering your phone
Microsoft's Phil Spencer discussed a few advantages that come with having a fully connected gaming console, including games like Titanfall that do such a good job of mixing single- and multiplayer design and gameplay. Like Microsoft's materials state, everyone who has an Xbox One has a broadband connection, or at least that's the assumption. If you don't have a good online connection, you're not the target market.
This is a fairly radical thing for a company aiming for a wide audience to try; as many Americans without solid internet connections will be excluded. Or at least until we improve the online infrastructure in the United States. Still, they're planning for the internet to go out from time to time, hence the 24-hour time period you can play between checking in with Microsoft.
"We know the internet is not infallible, that's why we put a system in place that if you lose your connection for a period of time, your offline games will continue to work," Spencer said. "We have no way of simulating online multiplayer without a connection, but the games that are offline will continue to work, because we understand that there can be faults, but really the box is built as a digitally native, connected device."
No internet, no go. But that check in process only takes a tiny amount of data, so if things go bad you can always re-authorize your games with… your phone? I asked about the size of the files needed to keep the console working.
"I've been asked this a number of times, so we should probably get some clarity out there. You should think about this on the order of kilobytes and not megabytes, in terms of the update check," Spencer said. "In fact you can do it on your phone, you can tether your phone to the box if you're just going to update. You're probably not going to play multiplayer Titanfall through your phone, or stream a Netflix movie through your phone, but if you think about the update cycle, and to make sure the content you have is available to you, that update is a kilobyte-type transaction, very small."
So it sounds like you don't have to worry about the daily update hurting your data cap, and the process will take only a short time even on slow devices. This is a problem, and solution, that's pretty futuristic. If your next-gen console doesn't work because your internet is down, use your pocket computer's connection.
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In an otherwise remarkable career, Game On Dude has been known to throw in a clunker now and then, resulting mainly from occasional problems leaving the starting gate.
They should all be behind him now since Mike Smith has taken over as the gelding's regular rider two races back, both easy victories, in the Grade III Native Diver last Dec. 1 and the Grade II San Antonio Stakes on Feb. 3. Next up: the March 2 Santa Anita Handicap, a race Game On Dude won in 2011 and is favored to win a week from Saturday.
A subtle maneuver with Game On Dude's tail seems to have rectified previous gate woes and allowed him to "sit" well in the stall until the doors open.
"They've been schooling him a lot with his tail," Smith pointed out. "They hold it up, giving him a light tail and it seems to make him stand still. Before, he was anxious in there. It wasn't like he wouldn't fit in there or anything like that.
"He just wanted to go. He'd hear every noise and he was ready. So he would kind of rock a lot. So they started doing a light tail on him and he's standing better, so hopefully, that's the answer."
A "light tail" was explained by Santa Anita starter Jay Slender. "Once the horses are in the gate, an assistant starter will grab their tail when they back up against the gates, and they're fine. But Game On Dude, he likes to move around a little, so we'll grab his tail and move it up a bit over the back gate. That flattens out some horses, and with him, it worked.
"Like anything, if it helps, you'll try it, and if works, you'll go with it"
"Whatever it is," Smith continued, "I'm excited to be a part of it. When these kind of horses get a chance to hang around and stay sound and get older, they get stronger. Game On Dude is at a point right now where this could be his year.
"He's certainly got the ability and seems to maybe even stepped his game up a notch. That would be pretty impressive, if that's the case."
Probable for the Grade I, $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap at 1 ¼ miles presented by San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino: Game On Dude, Ron the Greek, Called to Serve, Guilt Trip, Stephanoatsee, Handsome Mike, John Scott, Clubhouse Ride and Tritap.
Not only will Santa Anita present three Grade I races on Big 'Cap Day, fans on track will receive free an attractive Santa Anita tote bag with paid admission while supplies last. Festivities also will include popular premium Food Trucks, a KROQ concert featuring Youngblood Hawk, a microbrew and craft beer presentation and a $400,000 guaranteed late Pick 4 presented by Daily Racing Form
First post time on Big 'Cap is 12 noon. Gates open at 10 a.m.
Garrett Gomez is looking forward to riding Breeders' Cup Sprint runner-up The Lumber Guy for the first time in a race in the Grade II San Carlos Stakes at seven furlongs on Saturday.
Gomez was aboard the 4-year-old gray son of Grand Slam owned by Barry Schwartz and trained by Neil Drysdale for a five furlong workout at Santa Anita last Saturday in a bullet 58.40, uncharacteristically quick time for a Drysdale worker.
"Neil told me he's fast and he's a little aggressive when he was kind of laying out the work he was looking for," said Gomez, third in Santa Anita's standings nearing today's halfway point in the meet with 26 victories. "He told me some of the habits, and about his last work.
"He just wanted something nice. The horse broke off, he towed me up the backside, towed me all the way around there and turning for home, I finally got him to shut off a little without getting him turned off completely.
"Honestly, I thought he went about a minute flat. He wasn't doing much down the lane, but he was going fast enough where I felt I was hitting that minute. I didn't want to squeeze him or anything.
"He was traveling well enough where he was doing things just nice. When I came back, Neil thought he went a minute and change. I thought he went a minute and they gave him 58 and two. "We liked the work, we liked the way he did it and hopefully he'll bounce back and run more like his Breeders' Cup race."
The field for the San Carlos: Comma to the Top, Edwin Maldonado, 4-1; Capital Account, David Flores, 4-1; Justin Phillip, Mike Smith, 8-1; Canonize, Jose Valdivia Jr., 15-1; Midnight Transfer, Rafael Bejarano, 3-1; Sahara Sky, Joe Talamo, 6-1; The Lumber Guy, Garrett Gomez, 5-2; and Drill, Julien Leparoux, 12-1.
Joltin' Joe Talamo and his band of basketball brothers push into Pasadena tonight for their 46th annual charity basketball game featuring Santa Anita's jockeys and the Holy Angels School. Proceeds benefit the Holy Angels athletic program and the Kentucky-based Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF).
Game time is 7:15 p.m.; doors open at 6:15 p.m.
"I'll be playing," co-captain Talamo said Thursday morning as the countdown began for tip off. "I don't know if you call it playing or not, but I'll be there. It's definitely for a good cause. A lot of our guys will show up and it's always a good time."
WestsideRentals.com and Meticulous Talent Management will co-sponsor the event which will again enjoy the support of a wide spectrum of people from the horse racing industry, including Hall of Fame jockeys Eddie Delahoussaye, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Gary Stevens and Mike Smith. All will be available to autograph photos and other memorabilia at 6:30 p.m.
The event helps raise money for the PDJF and to brings awareness to the Eye on Jacob Foundation, named for Jacob Desormeaux, the 14-year-old son of Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux. Jacob was diagnosed several years ago with Usher's Syndrome, a rare disorder that causes loss of hearing, imbalance, and eventual loss of sight in approximately 14,000 children in the United States.
In addition to WestsideRentals.com and Meticulous Talent Management, sponsors for this year's event also include: Hollywood Sports Park, KHS Bicycle, Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, and Temple City Bike Shop.
Those attending will be eligible to win prizes which include: A paint ball package to Hollywood Sports Park, an Electra Townie 3-speed Adult Alumni bike (retails for $550), a kids BMX Free Agent Stiletto bike (retails for $350), and a Half Court Prize, to be determined, by Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, as well as basketballs which will be signed by all jockeys and student-players.
This year's jockey team is likely to include: Captains David Flores and Talamo, Rafael Bejarano, Alex Bisono, Brice Blanc, Victor Espinoza, Omar Figueroa, Eswan Flores, Martin Garcia, Garrett Gomez, Aaron Gryder, Mario Gutierrez, Kevin Krigger, Julien Leparoux, Modesto Linares, Edwin Maldonado, Orlando Mojica, Corey Nakatani, Alonso Quinonez, Kayla Stra, Mike Smith and perhaps others.
HRTV's Kurt Hoover will again coach the jockeys' squad, while Joe Mora, Kathy Rameriez and Austin Puertas will lead the Holy Angel's crew.
La Salle High School is located at the southwest corner of Michillinda Ave. and Sierra Madre Blvd. in Pasadena, about four miles northwest of Santa Anita Park. Admission is $5.
Megahertz Stakes winner A Jealous Woman, who finished a disappointing sixth by nearly 15 lengths as the 4-1 second choice in Monday's Grade II Buena Vista Stakes, had an excuse in the one-mile turf race captured convincingly by Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Mizdirection, the 3-5 favorite.
"Apparently she ate a piece of straw that got caught in her throat and caused an infection," said Eddie Meza, husband of Francis Meza, who trains A Jealous Woman for the Three Cent Stable.
"She was not able to breathe properly in the race," Francis said. "Brice (jockey Brice Blanc) said she didn't perform because she was trying to catch her breath. She could have been on the lead with Mizdirection if you look at the (final) time of 1:33.50, because she ran in 1:33 flat when she won the Megahertz.
"But the good thing about it," Eddie continued, "is she didn't bleed. Doctors have given her antibiotics and in about five days the swelling will go down. They'll scope her tomorrow or the next day. If it goes down, we're safe. If not, we'll have to do minor surgery to get the infection out."
Santa Anita will host its sixth Photo Day tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 22, with registration to begin at 7:30 a.m. at Clockers' Corner, located at the top of the stretch.
Photo Day will include tram tours of the stable area between the hours of 8 and 11 a.m.; photo opportunities of horses on the track from 9 to 9:30 a.m., and breakfast beginning at 9:30, with guest speakers including trainer Simon Callaghan.
With the majestic San Gabriel Mountains serving as a backdrop, photographers have an opportunity to capture some of the nation's finest Thoroughbreds as they go through their morning paces and when they compete on both turf and natural dirt in the afternoon.
Additionally, Santa Anita, which opened on Dec. 25, 1934, is revered the world over for its unique art deco architecture and picturesque Paddock Gardens and Infield.
Following morning activities, all participants are invited to stay for the afternoon's eight-race program, which gets underway at 1 p.m. All registered photographers will be granted access to the track's paddock and winner's circle areas.
Participants will also be encouraged to submit some of their photos to Santa Anita's website, www.santaanita.com, and selected shots will be posted.
Those wishing to pre-pay online can register for just $20 at www.santaanita.com. Walk-up registration the day of the event is $25. Children 17 and under can register for $12. Registration fees cover admission, parking, breakfast and press credentials for the day.
For more information or to purchase tickets, fans can visit the track's website, or call Group Sales at (626) 574-6400.
Agapito Delgadillo and Bill Spawr have a relationship of mutual respect. Together, the 46-year-old jockey and the 73-year-old trainer are one of the best-kept secrets outside of racing cognoscenti, but the facts are these: through 35 days of Santa Anita's 71-day meet, Spawr has won with 28 percent of his starters (seven for 25), with Delgadillo winning on six of the 18 horses he has ridden for Spawr.
"He's a good horseman," Spawr said of Delgadillo, whose agent is Saul Marquez. "Agapito reminds me of Laffit (Pincay Jr.). He's that kind of rider. He can come back and tell you something about a horse you wouldn't expect him to know just from one ride. How? It's called experience.
"I'm the trainer. I know. He shouldn't know just being on a horse one time, but he does."
Delgadillo had 10 wins, seven seconds and 11 thirds from 67 mounts through Monday, with six of the wins for Spawr.
"When I work his horses in the mornings, I get to know them," Delgadillo said. "Bill knows what he's doing. He's a very good trainer. It's not too tough for me to win races for people like him.
"I won a race for him at Fairplex a couple years ago and I think that's how I got his attention. Then, little by little, I rode more and more for him and we've done very well together."
FINISH LINES. Slump-buster: When Donato rolled to a front-running three and three-quarter length victory in Monday's third race, it ended an oh-for-44 drought for trainer Barry Abrams this meet and a one-for-65 skid for jockey Alonso Quinonez. Abrams hopes for another victory Sunday when he sends out Starspangled Heat in the $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes for California-breds at about 6 ½ furlongs on turf. "He should run good," Abrams said of the 5-year-old Unusual Heat gelding. "He's training good and he's happy. He's ready to go." . . . Through 35 racing days, according to Santa Anita's crack statistician Jason Hom, Bob Baffert and John Sadler were in a virtual dead heat for Santa Anita's training lead, Baffert holding a 21-20 edge over Sadler, with 102 starters compared to Sadler's 106. Among trainers with at least seven wins, Bill Spawr and Art Sherman at 28 had the best percentage. In the race for leading rider, Rafael Bejarano held a 43-30 lead over runner-up Edwin Maldonado, despite riding 32 fewer horses, 167 to 199. Bejarano was winning at a 26 percent clip. A foursome was bunched behind Maldonado: Garrett Gomez 26 wins from 112 rides, 23 percent; Joe Talamo, 25 for 202, 12 percent; Martin Garcia, 23 for 142, 16 percent; and Julien Leparoux, 23 for 129, 18 percent . . . With seven wins, eight seconds and 14 thirds, Orlando Mojica has caught the eye of trainers and bettors alike. "We're making progress," said Dudley Osborne, agent for the 31-year-old native of Puerto Rico. "It's a grind, but it's fun. We're starting to ride a better quality of horses." . . . Former jockey Goncalino Almeida entered his first two horses as a trainer in Friday's fifth and sixth races, Cosset in the fifth and Unstopper Topper in the sixth. Garrett Gomez is named on both horses.


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William Hammons pleaded guilty on Friday to rape, kidnapping and other charges in the death of Sharon Anderson Norfus on or about May 4, 2012.
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The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner says she was strangled.
Hammons faces up to life in prison. He will be sentenced on August 12.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota man imprisoned for drug dealing is among 22 Americans named Carnegie Heroes.
Pierre Johnson says he's grateful the selection board was able to look beyond his criminal record and give him a chance. Johnson wins the award for his bravery in rescuing a 91-year-old woman from the second floor of her burning home in Brooklyn Park in May 2012. The following month, Johnson pleaded guilty to selling cocaine.
On Oct. 15, Johnson is expected to be released from the Willow River Correctional Facility, an intensive boot camp program.
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The University Program Board is the programming entity at St. Cloud State University. The organization has many employment opportunities available to undergraduate and graduate students. Below you will find information regarding various positions within UPB.
Graduate Assistantships
The University Program Board employs three (3) graduate assistants that serve as program advisers to eight (8) of the programming committees within UPB. Graduate Assistants are hired for two-year terms.
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The Municipal Utilities Department provides water service to the residents and businesses in the North and South Stockton areas. California Water Service (CalWater), a private company, is the provider for most of central Stockton.
Areas served by the City of Stockton, Municipal Utilities Department are identified on the Water Service Area Maps. The water fee estimator will calculate your estimated fees if you are in the City's service area.
For additional information about service providers for your address, please visit the About Your Address web page.
If you are within the City of Stockton, Municipal Utilities Department, Water Service Area and would like to start or stop water service, please contact the Utility Billing Customer Service.
Water Supplies
Approximately 25% of the City's water supply originates from groundwater wells with the remaining water supply from treated surface water supplied by the Stockton East Water District (SEWD). Information on SEWD, can be found under External Links below.
The Delta Water Supply Project has been completed. The Municipal Utilities Department will reduce the amount of water received from Stockton East Water District and reduce the amount of groundwater pumped each year, improving the City's water supply reliability and protecting its groundwater resources. The new facility can supply up to 30 million gallons per day (MGD) of drinking water to Stockton residents. A daily report of water pumped from the Delta and a 15-day running average is available.
Delta Water Treatment Plant
The City recently completed construction of its new 30MGD drinking water treatment plant, and intake and pump station facility. The Delta Water Supply Treatment Plant provides a new supplemental high-quality water supply for the Stockton Metropolitan area.
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The Delta Water Supply Project Water Treatment Plant was awarded Gold LEED*, established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). The Plant achieved Gold LEED certification for energy use, lighting, water and material use, as well as incorporating a variety of other sustainable strategies. For more information on LEED, or to see real-time power generation activity at the Delta Water Treatment Plant, visit the External Links section below.
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Water Resources Planning
Urban Water Management Plans (UWMPs) are prepared by California's urban water suppliers to support their long-term resource planning and ensure that adequate water supplies are available to meet existing and future water demands. Every urban water supplier that either provides over 3,000 acre-feet of water annually or serves more than 3,000 or more connections is required to assess the reliability of its water sources over a 20-year planning horizon considering normal, dry, and multiple dry years. The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires the City of Stockton to prepare this plan every 5 years and submit to the Department of Water Resources.
Recycled Water
The 2010 Joint Water Recycling Facilities Planning Study is an effort between the City of Stockton and the City of Lodi to consider the feasibility of using Lodi's treated wastewater as a recycled water source for the North Stockton area. The use of non-potable water would extend the City's water resources, address groundwater overdraft, and re-use water that would otherwise be disposed.
Water Conservation
Water conservation is important to protect our future. The City's comprehensive Water Conservation Program includes long-term planning; incentives; water-saving tips; residential, business and landscape conservation; school programs; and programs designed for resident and business customers.
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Currently, the Municipal Utilities Department's residential and business customers pay a monthly water rate based on both a fixed charge (determined by meter size) and a consumption charge (determined by how much water is used each month). In 2009, the Stockton City Council approved a four-year water rate increase as defined in the 2009 Water Rate and Financing Study.
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Scotland winger Sean Maitland has been ruled out of Saturday's Calcutta Cup clash with England at Murrayfield.
The British and Irish Lion went off injured in the first half of Scotland's opening RBS 6 Nations defeat by Ireland in Dublin on Sunday.
The Scottish Rugby Union's head of medical performance, Paul McGinley, said: "Sean suffered a concussion as well as injury to his right leg (on Sunday).
"He will be subject to further investigation (on Monday) at Spire Murrayfield hospital and will be assessed later by consultant surgeon Graham Lawson.
"We also have a number of injuries at this juncture which will impact on availability to train at the start of this week, but we are optimistic that players will recover in time for the England game."


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2011 NLSC Souvenir DVD Reminder
Relive the excitement of the 2011 Week of Champions! The 2011 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference DVD is now available. Use it to share the memories with your students. The DVD is organized in chapters for each major NLSC event so it can easily be divided into instructional topics. The DVD is $14.95.
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There were many strange yet incredible sets at the North Door this past SXSW, and local Austin trio Holiday Mountain was no exception. The band brought their hyper electro-psych music to the North Door stage on the opening night of the 2014 SXSW Music Festival and did not...
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Spider-Man is a fictional superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics, and has been the star of a number of television shows and film. The Spider-Man theme song, first used for the 1967 cartoon show, includes the words, "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can". However, at other points, the theme song explains some things Spider-Man can do that a real spider obviously couldn't, such as crime-fighting. Randall is pointing out that while the abilities attributed to Spider-Man make a good superhero story[Citation needed], they are not real abilities of a spider.
This comic depicts Cueball as a far more realistic Spider-Man, behaving and thinking much more closely to a real spider than the Spider-Man from the comics. Cueball is shown ballooning, a trait used by spiders to move between locations, rather than swinging on web cords as in the comics and films. As he is floating, he sees a good spot to land, eat some bugs and make an egg sac. Again this contrasts the real life of a spider with Spider-Man, who would doubtless be rushing to fight crime or save a pretty girl.
Only female spiders create an egg sac. Male spiders spin a sperm web in order to transfer their sperm from their epigastric furrow into their pedipalps (reproductive organ located on the front two appendages, in the position where a scorpion would have pincers), which will then be used to transfer the sperm into the female during copulation. Cueball/Spider-Man, being nominally male, should in fact be looking for a place to create a sperm web, not an egg sac. However, thanks to being featured in childrens books, the actions of female spiders are much more widely known.
The title text refers to the mating ritual of some spiders, in which the male performs a dance to court the female. Mary-Jane is the love interest throughout the Spider-Man stories, and so Cueball is planning to court her by dancing in front of her. In doing so he hopes that he is lucky, and she doesn't eat him before copulating with him, as sexual cannibalism is a trait associated with spiders.
- [Cueball is shown floating on the wind, attached to a large balloon. The balloon is made of spider silk.]
- Cueball: Ooh, that looks like a good spot to land, eat some bugs, and make an egg sac!
- ♫ Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can ♪
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Greensburg —
In celebration of the now Mayorally-mandated Youth Appreciation Week, the Greensburg Optimist Club presented representatives from Decatur County 4-H and the Decatur County Family YMCA with plaques Thursday morning.
The Optimist Club has received a certificate from Mayor Gary Herbert, making Youth Appreciation Week official. The event is now considered a yearly occurrence, Nov. 12 to 18.
In celebration, several local businesses have agreed to provide special discounts, including Wolf Theatre, the YMCA, and Parkside Lanes.
Optimist Club co-chair Bill Wenning presented the plaques, which were intended to thank the organizations for being integral parts of the Decatur County Community.
"Each of us are an accumulation of the things we've learned in our lifetime," said Wenning.
The community has a responsibility for creating opportunities for youth to learn, said Wenning, and 4-H and the YMCA have fulfilled that responsibility for many years.
4-H extension educator, Heather Millett was given an opportunity to speak before the ladies and gentlemen of the Optimist Club. Decatur County has more than 600 children in the 4-H program, according to Millett, and 190,000 children participate in the state of Indiana.
4-H is also the only youth development program connected to Purdue's technology advancement. Millett spoke about many changes planned in 4-H, including a third-grade program intended to prepare children for financial responsibility.
YMCA CEO Diane Hart-Dawson followed Millett with a summary of some of the YMCA's programs. The Decatur County YMCA works with 5,000 children, according to Hart-Dawson. There are 100 children in their preschool program, 30 percent of whom receive financial aid in order to participate.
The YMCA also provides $61,000 a year in scholarship money. Camps are organized during school break periods, and there are also a number of youth sports programs, the CEO said.
In addition to the YMCA's paid staff, there are more than 200 volunteers who help run the programs, particularly in the area of sports.
The Optimist Club also shared three thank you letters, which thanked the club for scholarship money, the Youth of the Month award, and a letter of thanks from Big Brothers Big Sisters.
A club member announced that Greensburg Junior High is in need of judges for the upcoming science fair. The science fair will be 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Dec. 12, with a lunch following.
The yearly Daily News Cheer Fund is also planned to be at Main Street Market, Dec. 14 and 15.
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In general, when it comes to taking an opponent down more effort is required than simply latching on to an individual's legs or waist and tackling him/her. In reality there are a variety of ways to set an adversary up the right way to maximize the likelihood of dragging action down to the mat.
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3. Menhaden (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast)
Familiar to East Coast anglers as pogies, mossbunker or just bunker, menhaden are important forage and bait, especially for kingfish in the southern reaches of the species' range and striped bass in the north.
Find: Capt. Brant McMullan, owner of the Ocean Isle Fishing Center in Ocean Isle, North Carolina (www.oifc.com), whose team last November caught the largest king ever in the history of the Southern Kingfish Association, finds menhaden along the beach. "Diving pelicans are the telltale sign," he says.
Capt. Chris Gatley, who fishes New Jersey and New York waters (www.ardentangler.org), finds menhaden in back bays, around boat slips inside harbors and offshore. "On the ocean," he says, "you look for brown water, which is the oil and slime coming off the bunker schools."
Catch: McMullan uses a 10-foot cast net with 11/2-inch stretched mesh. "I wouldn't use anything less," he says. "Higher-quality nets have more weight. The pogies go straight down, and you need to let the net sink over them."
Gatley recommends a 2-inch mesh and a 10-foot net in the backwaters. "On the ocean," he says, "you use the snatch method." Reel a leaded 10/0 treble hook through the bunker school. When you snag a bait, free-line it in place to be picked up by stripers following the bunker school.
Keep: McMullan says he generally keeps one bait for every gallon of water in the well. "I run a 1,000 gph pump with a 50- to 60-gallon round livewell, with the inflow turned so the bait swims into the current," he says.
Gatley runs 50-gallon wells fed by 1,500 to 2,000 gph pumps, but he stretches the 1-gallon-one-bait rule, often carrying 80 to 100 baits. "I have two 1-inch scoops on the transom that pull water into the wells with a lot of force when my boat's on plane," he says.
Rig/Deploy: McMullan rigs for kings with No. 3 to No. 5 single-strand or 30- to 60-pound braided wire and No. 4 or No. 6 trebles, typically spaced four inches apart, one through the nose and the other hanging or pinned in the bait. "I like the braided wire," he says, "because I like the motion and can tie rigs fast with it." He fishes 20-pound main line blood-knotted to 10 feet of fluorocarbon, tied to a No. 8 or No. 10 black swivel above the wire rig.
Gatley opts for a bigger rig on stripers: "I use an Owner SSW Inline Circle, 10/0 and the Quick Rig bridle system through the nose. This keeps the hook exposed at all times. I'll run 40- to 80-pound fluorocarbon leader when bluefish are around," he says.
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Obama transforms?
TO THE EDITOR: Obama's "transformation" in regards to gay rights could be fueled by his past?
The 2003 New York Times story "Double Lives on the Down Low" by Benoit Denizer-Lewis reported on a growing underground subculture in the black community known as "Down Low." It was comprised largely of men secretly engaging in homosexual activity while living "straight" lives in public.
Times writer J.L. King wrote a book in 2004 based on his personal involvement with the subculture, titled "On The Low Down: A Journey Into the Lives of Straight Black Men Who Sleep With Men."
Coincidentally, Obama was a member of the "Down Low Club" at Rev. Wright's Trinity United Church in Chicago and reportedly a lifetime member of Man's Country, a gay Chicago bathhouse?
The 2009 non-fiction book "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Lies and Murder" by Larry Sinclair might shed further light on his transformation. Sinclair, a openly gay man, professed that he and then Sen. Obama engaged in homosexual acts accompanied by cocaine use.
Donald Young, the openly gay music director at Trinity United Church, also professed to engaging in sexual liaisons with Obama. In December and November 2007, Young and Larry Bland, another black, gay member of Trinity United, were murdered execution-style in their homes; both deaths remain unsolved.
Coincidentally, this is the year Obama's presidential campaign started.
Why didn't the press explore Obama's "Down Low" connections? Probably the same reason his illegal drug consumption was not covered; they wanted to protect their national idol. A self-professed drug abuser and alleged homosexual participator undoubtedly wouldn't instill memories of Ronald Reagan?
So is it a "transformation or "affirmation?"
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Reverse Engineering of Content to Find Usability Problems: A Healthcare Case Study
Shadi Ghajar-Khosravi, Flora Wan, Samir Gupta, and Mark Chignell
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, November 2012, pp. 16 - 28
Article Contents
About the Authors
Shadi Ghajar-Khosravi
Shadi Ghajar-Khosravi is currently a PhD student in the Human Factors Engineering program at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department of University of Toronto. She is interested in the design and analysis of information systems including recommender systems from a user-centered perspective.
Flora Wan
Flora Wan was a MASc graduate in the Human Factors Engineering program at the University of Toronto in 2009. She is currently working as an Assistive Technology Consultant at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and has an interest in healthcare and rehabilitation engineering research.
Samir Guptua
Samir Guptua is an associate scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His main research interests are in rare lung diseases and knowledge translation. He is Vice-Chair of the Canadian Respiratory Guidelines Committee.
Mark Chignell
Mark Chignell is Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and Director of the Interactive Media Laboratory. He is a visiting scientist at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies and at Keio University. His research is concerned with augmenting human capability through innovative user interface design.


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2008 Maple Sugar Season
Farming and rural life discussion forum. Cooking, hunting, gardening, fishing, critters, etc.
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2008 Maple Sugar Season
We're starting to get ready here in Vermont, so I assume some of you out in the Midwest must be nearly underway.
I'll have two gigs again this year- boiling on a 5 X 14 ahead of 6000 taps and a 2 X 8 ahead of 150 taps. Guess which uses less wood!
Good luck to all and hope to see someone with a Cub in use around the sugar bush. Snow hear makes it likely the only thing we'll get to use it for is cleaning up in late April.
Rusty, I've never in your area during syrup season. Does 6000 taps also mean 6000 buckets, or can you connect them together somehow? What does the 5 x 14 and 2 x 8 refer to? Thanks.
6000 taps, he probably uses tubing for most if not aall of them. The other is the dimension of the pan.
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
suger season
I see the local Suger Shack running thier hoses and getting things ready hope for all it is a good long season.
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Have fun! Nothing like hot dogs cooked in the flue pan! Boiled eggs are good also. Oh, the memories!!!
"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." Edwin Conklin, biologist
Bill: For someone who knows nothing about collecting and processing maple syrup does the residue in the pan give the hot dogs/eggs a maple flavor. Dan
We boiled the dogs and eggs in the flue pan. The flue pan was where the raw sap entered the evaporator from the storage tank. At that point the sap still had lots of water to be evaporated to get to the maple syrup. Therefore, there was not a strong maple flavor in the flue pan.
The dogs would have a sweetness to them that was very good. As for the eggs, a little different (probably in my head) taste.
I can't wait until next month because the AYCE pancake breakfasts start in earnest. Many non-profits hold these events and make some serious money to support their activities.
Hope this helps.
"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." Edwin Conklin, biologist
Sorry to be late in answering back-- Yes, many of the 6000 taps are on tubing (about 75%). There are 10-12 collection tanks, depending on how much snow there is, and we typically pull a thousand gallon tank to each with a substantial tractor- new last year a 225 horsepower fwd New Holland. If the snow's really deep, we end up borrowing a bulldozer, plowing out the sugar road ahead of the season and letting it freeze. In the smaller operation I work on, it's all buckets, so we get some good exercise going tree to tree with 6 gallon pails, which we gather into a 150 gallon tank on the back of a Yanmar tracked vehicle. In both cases, I mostly boil after work, so I miss the sap gathering except on weekends.
Dimensions are the size of the evaporator in feet. There are two pans in that space, both divided with baffles into compartments. Lots of fire below, lots of steam above!
We have boiled hot dogs and eggs in the rig many times, but I prefer my dogs fire grilled, so I usually cook them in front of the arch on a stick. The larger of the two operations is inspected for both kosher and organic, so cooking in that rig is out now a days.
We are getting ready in Indiana. Monday, Feb 25 projects good weather for tapping. This is about 10 days later than our average tapping date.
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Sugar time is getting ready up here also. Don't forget putting Maple Sugar on your oatmeal or rubbing it into BBQ ribs and ham gives it a really great flavor. Maple Sugar beats brown sugar any day. Of course nothing is better than Swedish Pancakes with the Real stuff poured all over the melting butter. OK now I am hungary. I hope you fellows have a good run. Don
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"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
do or will any of you guys sell a southerner a bottle of the real stuff and not what i have to get here from kroger. my grandparents made sargum syrup every year until my grandpa passed away. sure miss those times
' its just plain ole Ron '
Nothing better than pulling that bucket off the tree and taking a good long swig of that ice cold sap. Trudging thru a couple feet of snow with those buckets sure makes you thirst.
Then again that big cup of hot chocolate in front of the wood stove after taking off 30 lb of coats, hats, boots, mittens and scarves with a plate of warm chocolate chip cookies ----- oh to be 10 again.
I grew up in Glens Falls NY on Grampa's 450 acre dairy. The neighbors had gardens and the maple syrup farm.
Just got the word that I'll be tapping at least one day this weekend-- starting with pipeline. Those taps don't dry out as easily as buckets, so you can put in them earlier, and they can take longer to set up if repairs have to be made. We're at the end of the snowiest February on record, so it's likely tapping will be from snowshoes.
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Friday Finds 05.04.12
Editor Real Talk, a Ryan Gosling–like meme featuring econospeak, a young design company out of New Zealand, and more in this installment of Friday Finds.
Kelsey: Found Architecture Photo Series
German photographer Marcus Bock's Found Architecture documents the imprint of demolished buildings on their still-standing neighbors. The differing rooflines make a strong visual impact, almost more so than if the disappeared building were still standing. Such are the effects of nostalgia, I suppose.
New Zealand–based Resident, an up-and-coming design and manufacturing company established in 2011, exhibited at the Milan Salone this year as part of Tom Dixon's MOST show (they'll also be exhibiting with Matter for ICFF if you're looking to find them stateside). I really love their polished-brass Oud lamp and ceramic Bing pendant. In this video, they show us how the Bing is made. Can't wait to see what they release next!
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Taylor Farms Retail is voluntarily recalling select Organic Baby Spinach products with the potential to be contaminated with Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, or EHEC, according to a news release from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
EHEC is a strain of E. coli.
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Williamstown Adds Lewis Black and Debate Society's Blood Play to Summer Season
By Adam Hetrick
The Debate Society's Blood Play, as well as stand-up comedian and playwright Lewis Black's My Fair Lewis have been added to the Williamstown Theatre Festival's summer season.
Black, the popular political comedian who played a Broadway run last fall – and appeared as a special guest on Playbill's Broadway on the High Seas 2 cruise – will offer a July 22 benefit performance on the Williamstown Mainstage.
Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen wrote Blood Play, which premiered last season at the Bushwick Star. It will play Williamstown's Nikos Stage Aug. 7-18 under the direction of Oliver Butler, who developed the work with the Brooklyn-based theatre troupe.
According to Williamstown, "A tranquil suburban evening in the early 1950's: the kids are away on a Junior Cherokee camping trip and a string of coincidences spawns a spontaneous grown-up party in the basement of a new ranch house. Exotic cocktails are imbibed, raucous games are played, and new friends are made, but much is happening that no one is talking about. And something is stirring underground. A darkly comic thriller of post-war verve and pre-adolescent disquiet, Blood Play brings New York's critically lauded The Debate Society to the Festival stage."
Williamstown has also announced that Gordon Greenberg (Working, Jacques Brel…) will take over as director of Johnny Baseball — the musical about the Boston Red Sox, featuring a score by Tony Award nominees Robert and Willie Reale, and a book by Richard Dresser — which runs July 24-Aug. 4.
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