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|Hi there everyone,
I am volunteering to help redo the native animal displays at the children's museum. This is an indoor display currently with several animals native to Maryland such as a corn snake, gray tree frog, a hermit crab, many turtles and more. I plan on creating beautiful and captivating environment for each animal. I want to also include native plants in the displays for the animals to climb on or hide in.
What plants can I use that will be okay indoors without need a stage of dormancy?
Aquatic ones for the turtle display?
Woodland ones for the corn snake?
Ones that like moist soil for the tree frog?
Beachy looking ones for the hermit crab environment? Succulent's maybe?
I plan on moving the eastern box turtles outside because they really benefit from hibernating (and there really is no room for inside) so plant choices there are also appreciated. Though my main concern is having native plants in a non native indoor environment!
The important considerations are that this is a children's museum so colorful and interesting textures are desired!
Also the plants need to be non toxic of course: for both the children's sake as well as the animals.
Thank you all in advance for your help!
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|I had the same mission for a nature center where I used to work. We displayed freshwater animals native to NY State. The outdoor stuff was relatively easy but the installations were over a long period of time.
Indoor displays were another story. I ended up using quite a bit of moss and various small ferns in the displays. Some grasses and sedges did well also. Pocket plantings where the animals (mostly turtles) couldn't trample or disturb the plantings worked well. We made fiberglass inserts that looked naturalistic. We worked in concert with the NYSDEC and were able to field collect native specimens. In addition I used things that would peeter out after a season and then be replaced or more often moved outside to recover. Good wide spectrum lighting for the displays helps.
A year after I left a big donor had a garden installed in his own honor... Inoki cypress and some crazy junipers.
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|Mar 05, 2011, 11:25 AM
United States, NV, Las Vegas
Joined Nov 2010
3,139 Posts
mine is on it's way! :-)
Curious about those using a 2 bladed prop... any suggestions for use with the stock motor? Thanks!
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|Mar 13, 2011, 01:12 PM
If I can't find a parking lot I'll do what I did with the Super Cub - double the size of the foam wheels so it can land on rough grass. It won't look scale and I may have to adjust for CG but gotta keep flying somehow.
|Mar 13, 2011, 05:24 PM
I would be interested in seeing it when it is done if you end up doing it. I imagine it would look something like the Multiplex Fun Cub's oversize wheels when you are done.
|Mar 19, 2011, 11:28 AM
United States, NV, Las Vegas
Joined Nov 2010
3,139 Posts
my SR is here, and fully assembled... I got a light kit from hobbypartz, but haven't installed it yet. Has anyone else put a light kit on, and if so, do you have any installation pictures?
|Mar 19, 2011, 05:10 PM
Well It finally happin I bent my motor shaft. I would like to get some advice on what motor I can put in the sr and still keep the 3 blade prop and nosecone. Or if someone has advise on switching it to a 2 blade would be fine also. Thanks
|Mar 19, 2011, 06:28 PM
United States, FL, Brooksville
Joined Apr 2008
1,866 Posts
Here's the exact replacement motor. Don't be concerned that it says it's for the Grand Cruiser - same motor. I have both planes.
|Mar 19, 2011, 07:39 PM
|Mar 19, 2011, 07:44 PM
wonder if there is a better motor out there with a tougher shaft ? I also found this motor........ http://www.hobbypartz.com/60p-exa010.html wonder if it would work with the sr
|Mar 19, 2011, 08:13 PM
United States, FL, Brooksville
Joined Apr 2008
1,866 Posts
I ordered the hobbypartz motor thinking it might be the same - it's not. Probably won't make the power of the stock one, either.
There are lots of other motors that can be used on the plane - many with stronger shafts. Most are going to preclude the use of the Dynam 3 blade prop and spinner, however.
One like this would be a good candidate:
|Mar 21, 2011, 03:42 PM
United States, IL, Glen Ellyn
Joined Sep 2010
230 Posts
I have this one. works well.
|Mar 26, 2011, 12:46 AM
Hi! New to the Group. Just today I received my Dynam Cirrus SR22 RXR from Nitroplanes. The reports of shipping damage are, sadly, true. Unboxing revealed that he tip of the port horizontal stab was broken off. Also, the motor mount was broken loose from the fuselage. I elected to repair the damage rather than wait for a replacement - which may well have worse damage than this. Pictures are attached.
I like the Dynam planes and they seem to fly well. I'm not sure if I'll use the Dynam 2.4GHZ TX / RX from my Skybus, or my new HobbyKing 2.4GHZ TX / RX in this plane.
The forecast here is for stormy weather with high winds - not good conditions for a maiden flight.
Any advice you SR22 fliers can offer will be welcome.
I'm ready to take it to the sky and have some fun!
|Mar 26, 2011, 11:09 AM
Welcome to SR Trainer initiation Jeff! Yes, unfortunately some of us have to fix the plane before we can fly it for the first time. Looks like yours was beat up pretty bad en route to your hangar.
For the most part, this plane is pretty straight forward to fly. It can be a little squirrelly on the ground when you take off, but this can be alleviated a number of ways. Some have changed the hole position on the steering linkage to the inner most hole. I was able to tone it down with my programmable TX by adding a dual rate/expo into the input.
The plane balances out nicely with a 2200mah battery so it is pretty much plug it in and fly. Good luck on your maiden
|Mar 26, 2011, 11:14 AM
FYI - for anyone wanting another Dynam plane NP has 10% off by using the DYNAM10 coupon code through the end of the month.
|Mar 26, 2011, 11:52 PM
I'm trying to get my Dynam SR ready to fly, but the weight and balance has me stumped. Mine weighs in at about 977g vs the 880g spec in the manual. CG is at 45mm vs the 30 - 35mm specified in the manual. I added flaps and the Turnegy servo speed reducer, but all that shouldn't add more than 25g, and the added weight is all close to the CG. My 977g is 10% over the spec weight. To get it to balance at the 30mm point, I have to add 86g of ballast on the firewall under the cowl - that's 30 quarter-inch washers - bringing airplane weight up to 1063.2g to balance. That's 20% over the spec weight!
The 30 - 35mm seems like a pretty nose-heavy position to me. Can anyone currently flying their SR tell me the weight and CG position they have? I'd like a slightly nose-heavy position for first flight, but nearly a half pound over weight sure doesn't sound good. Sure would help to have someone elses numbers to compare to...
|Mar 27, 2011, 01:29 AM
But wait! There's more! One of the aileron servos doesn't work. It just grinds and grinds...
Also, the nose gear isn't aligned properly - the final bend is insufficient and the wheel cants off at an odd angle. Speaking of the nose gear, see how the ESC was factory installed right across the nose gear mount? I did a quick mod to reposition it and route the wires through the firewall as they logically should;
I'm also going to add some magnets to hold the cowl in place.
The weather might be OK for a maiden tomorrow, but to do so I'll have to steal an aileron servo from my Skybus - which, by the way, arrived undamaged and flew beautifully until I made a rookie mistake and stalled it.
Despite the setbacks we shall, as the saying goes, "continue with style."
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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim (Hebrew: אֶפְרַיִם / אֶפְרָיִם, Modern Efrayim Tiberian ʾEp̄ráyim / ʾEp̄rā́yim ; "double fruitfulness") was one of the Tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh together with Ephraim also formed the House of Joseph.
The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas each of the other sons of Jacob was the founder of only one tribe.
From after the conquest of Canaan by Joshua, who himself was a descendant of Ephraim (1 Chronicles 7:20-27), in c. 1200 BCE, until the formation of the first Kingdom of Israel in c. 1050 BC, the Tribe of Ephraim was a part of a loose confederation of Israelite tribes. No central government existed, and in times of crisis the people were led by ad hoc leaders known as Judges. (see the Book of Judges) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Ephraim joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king. After the death of Saul, all the tribes other than Judah remained loyal to the House of Saul, but after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son and successor to the throne of Israel, the Tribe of Ephraim joined the other northern Israelite tribes in making David, who was then the king of Judah, king of a re-united Kingdom of Israel.
However, on the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BC the northern tribes split from the House of David to reform a Kingdom of Israel as the Northern Kingdom. The first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was Jeroboam, who came from the Tribe of Ephraim. (1 Kings 11:26)
The accents of the tribes were distinctive enough even at the time of the confederacy so that when the Israelites of Gilead, under the leadership of Jephthah, fought the Tribe of Ephraim, their pronunciation of shibboleth as sibboleth was considered sufficient evidence to single out individuals from Ephraim, so that they could be subjected to immediate death by the Israelites of Gilead.
Ephraim was a member of the Northern Kingdom until the kingdom was conquered by Assyria in c. 723 Before Christ and the population deported. From that time, the Tribe of Ephraim has been counted as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
However, some[who?] see Ezekiel 37:16-19 as prophesying that one day Ephraim (the Lost Tribes) and Judah (the Jewish People) will be made one people again. However, some[who?] also see that before this takes place, Zechariah 11:14, Zechariah 9:10, Jeremiah 30:1-5 indicates that Ephraim and Judah will be in conflict with each other, and that Deut 33:17 also indicates that Ephraim would one day be in a conflict with many nations.[citation needed]
Ephraim is often seen as the tribe that embodies the entire Northern Kingdom and the royal house resided in the tribe's territory (just as Judah is the tribe that embodies the Kingdom of Judah and provided its royal family).
Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes after about 1200 BCE,[1] Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. The territory allocated to the Tribe of Ephraim was at the center of Canaan, west of the Jordan, south of the territory of Manasseh, and north of the Tribe of Benjamin. The region was later named Samaria (as distinguished from Judea or Galilee) mostly consisted of Ephraim's territory. The area was mountainous, giving it protection, but also highly fertile, giving prosperity,[2][3][4][5]
The territory of Ephraim contained the early centers of Israelite religion - Shechem and Shiloh.[6] These factors contributed to making Ephraim the most dominant of the tribes in the Kingdom of Israel, and led to Ephraim becoming a synonym for the entire kingdom.[6]
Bethel was allocated by Joshua to the Tribe of Benjamin.[7] However, even by the time of the prophetess Deborah, Bethel is described as being in the land of the Tribe of Ephraim. (Judges 4:5) Some twenty years after the breakup of the United Monarchy, Abijah, the second king of Kingdom of Judah, defeated Jeroboam of Israel and took back the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.[8] Ephron is believed to be the Ophrah that was also allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua.[9]
According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Ephraim a son of Joseph, from whom it took its name;[10] however Biblical scholars view this also as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.[11] In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.[12]
Though the biblical descriptions of the geographic boundary of the House of Joseph are fairly consistent, the descriptions of the boundaries between Manasseh and Ephraim are not, and each is portrayed as having exclaves within the territory of the other.[6] Furthermore, in the Blessing of Jacob, and elsewhere ascribed by textual scholars to a similar or earlier time period,[13] Ephraim and Manasseh are treated as a single tribe, with Joseph appearing in their place. From this it is regarded as obvious that originally Ephraim and Manasseh were considered one tribe — that of Joseph.[6] According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost;[6][11] Benjamin being differentiated by being that part of Ephraim which joined the Kingdom of Judah rather than that of Israel.
A number of biblical scholars suspect that the Joseph tribes (including Benjamin) represent a second migration of Israelites to Israel, later than the main tribes,[11] specifically that it was only the Joseph tribes which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout;[11] in the narrative in the Book of Joshua, which concerns the arrival in (and conquest of) Canaan by the Israelites from Egypt, the leader is Joshua, who was a member of the Ephraim tribe. According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife began as a metaphor for the second migration, with Jacob's new family, possessions, and livestock, obtained from Laban, being representations of the new wave of migrants;[11]
In the account of the deuteronomic history, Ephraim is portrayed as domineering, haughty, discontented, and jealous, but in classical rabbinical literature, the biblical founder of the tribe is described as being modest and not selfish.[6] These rabbinical sources allege that it was on account of modesty and selflessness, and a prophetic vision of Joshua, that Jacob gave Ephraim precedence over Manasseh, the elder of the two;[6] in these sources, Jacob is regarded as sufficiently just that God upholds the blessing in his honour, and makes Ephraim the leading tribe.[6] Nevertheless, other classical rabbinical texts mock the tribe for the character it has in the deuteronomic history, claiming that Ephraim, being headstrong, left Egypt 30 years prior to the Exodus, and on arrival in Canaan was subjected to a disastrous battle with the Philistines;[6] in the Midrashic Jasher this is portrayed as a rebellion of Ephraim against God, resulting in the slaying of all but 10, and the bleached bones of the slaughtered being strewn across the roads, so much so that the circuitous route of the Exodus was simply an attempt by God to prevent the Israelites from having to suffer the sight of the remains.[6]
Though from the point of view of an increasing majority of archaeologists, there were always two distinct cultures in Canaan, a strong and prosperous northern kingdom and a weaker and poorer southern one,[14] in the Biblical account the Israelite tribes were initially united in a single kingdom, and only later fractured into the northern and southern kingdoms; this fracture is blamed by the Bible on the jealousy of Ephraim over the growing power of Judah. In the Book of Chronicles, Ephraim's act of splintering from Judah is denounced as forsaking God,[15] and Ephraim is portrayed as becoming highly irreligious, particularly in their resistance to the reforms enacted by Hezekiah and Josiah.[16]
It was not until the close of the first period of Jewish history that God 'refused the tabernacle of Joseph (Hebrew Bible), and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which he loved'. (Ps 78:67,68) When the Ark was removed from Shiloh to Zion the power of Ephraim was sequestered.[citation needed]
As part of the Kingdom of Israel, the territory of Ephraim was conquered by the Assyrians, and the tribe exiled; the manner of their exile led to their further history being lost. However, several modern day groups claim descent, with varying levels of academic and rabbinical support. The Samaritans claims that some of their adherents are descended from this tribe, and many Persian Jews claim to be descendants of Ephraim. Further afield, in India the Telugu Jews claim descent from Ephraim, and call themselves Bene Ephraim, relating similar traditions to those of the Mizo Jews, whom the modern state of Israel regards as descendants of Manasseh.[17]
Several western Christian groups, in particular those of the Church of God in Christ, claim that the whole UK is the direct descendant of Ephraim, and that the whole USA is the direct descendant of Manasseh, based on the interpretation that Jacob had said these two tribes would become the most supreme nations in the world.[citation needed] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall (Genesis 49:22, interpreting the "wall" as the ocean).[18]


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Both adults and kids will love wearings these fun caps to greet trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Create a bat or ghost theme hat with craft foam and these instructions from Heidi Borchers of Inspired at Home.
- For each: Aleene's® Super Thick Tacky Glue™
- 3" high block style alphabet stencils
- Black embroidery floss
- For BOO cap: black fabric cap
- Craft foam: orange, white, black
- Fine-tip permanent black marker
- Wiggle eyes: 4 (1/2"), 2 (1/2"), 4 (5/8")
- For EEK! Cap: white fabric cap
- Craft foam: green, yellow
- Black pom poms: 1 (2-1/2" diameter), 1 (1-3/4" diameter), 2 (1" diameter), 4 (3/4" diameter), 2 (1/2" diameter)
- Wiggle eyes: 2 (1/2"), 4 (1/4"), 4 (3/16")
- 8 (3") lengths black telephone wire (available at hardware stores)
- Patterns
Instructions for BOO! cap:
Transfer stencil patterns to orange craft foam and cut 1 B, 2 O's and 1 exclamation point. Transfer pattern to craft foam and cut 2 ghosts, 2 small eyes, and 4 large eyes from white and 2 small pupils and 4 large pupils from black. Draw facial features on each ghost with marker, reversing 1 ghost. Cut 2 (5") lengths, 1 (4-1/2") length, and 1 (2-1/2") length of embroidery floss. Tie each 5" length in bow. Glue 1 end of 4-1/2" length to top back of 1 ghost. Glue free end of floss length to bill of cap at 1 side (see photo). Glue 1 bow in place on top of glued floss on cap. Repeat to attach remaining ghost to cap, using 2-1/2" floss length and remaining bow. Let dry.
Referring to photo, glue foam pieces and wiggle eyes in place on cap as desired. Let dry.
Instructions for EEK! Cap:
Transfer stencil patterns to craft foam and cut 2 E's, 1 K, and 1 exclamation point each from green and from yelow. Trim 1/8" all around from each green piece. Center and glue green pieces on top of matching yellow pieces. Let dry. Glue letters in place on cap (see photo).
Glue 1-3/4" pom pom to 2-1/2" pom pom to form body of large spider. Shape each telephone wire length to form legs of spider. Dip 1 end of each wire into glue. Push glued end of each wire into large pom pom of spider. Glue ½" wiggle eyes to small pom pom of spider. Let dry. Glue spider to top of cat.
Glue 1 (1") pom pom to each of 2 (3/4") pom poms to form medium spiders. Glue 1 (1/2") pom pom to each remaining ¾" pom pom to form small spiders. Let dry. Glue ¼" wiggle eyes to ¾" pom poms on medium spiders and glue 3/16" wiggle eyes to ½" pom poms on small spiders. Let dry. Thread needle with embroidery floss. Stitch through body of 1 medium spider from top to bottom, leaving 3-1/2" tail of floss above body for hanger. Reinsert needle throug body, exiting body at 1 side. Take 3 stitches through body from side to side, leaving 1" long loops on each side of body. Clip loops and trim thread to form 4 (1" long) floss legs on each side of body. In same manenr, add floss legs and hangers to remaining medium spider and 1 small spider. Glue free end of each floss hanger to bill of cap. Cut 3 (6") lengths of embroidery floss. Tie each length in bow. Glue 1 bow in place on top of each piece of glued floss on cap. Let dry.
Cut 4 (2-1/2") lengths of embroidery floss. Handling all lengths as 1, fold lengths in half and glue fold to bottom of body of remaining small spider. Glue small spider to bill of cap, arranging floss legs on each side of spider body. Let dry.
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Elek Schwartz
|Personal information
|Full name
|Alexandru Schwartz
|Date of birth
|23 October 1908
|Place of birth
|Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (today Timişoara, Romania)
|Date of death
|2 October 2000(aged 91)
|Place of death
|Haguenau, France
|Senior career*
|CA Timişoara
|Kadima Timișoara
|FC Hyères
|AS Cannes
|Racing Strasbourg
|Red Star Olympique
|National team‡
|Teams managed
|AS Cannes
|AS Monaco
|Le Havre AC
|SF Hamborn 07
|Rot-Weiss Essen
|Eintracht Frankfurt
|FC Porto
|Sparta Rotterdam
|1860 Munich
|Racing Strasbourg
|SR Haguenau
|* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 March 2007.
† Appearances (Goals).
Alexandru "Elek" Schwartz (23 October 1908 – 2 October 2000) was a Romanian footballer and coach of the Dutch national football team. With S.L. Benfica he won the national Championship and Cup trophies of 1965 and led the club into the final of the European Cup of Champions.
Player in Romania and France[edit]
Elek Schwartz initially started playing in his hometown of Timişoara. Later he played professional football in the French Ligue 1 with FC Hyères (1932–1934), AS Cannes (1934–1936), Racing Strasbourg (1936–1938) and Red Star Olympique (1938/39).
Beginnings as Coach on the Côte d'Azur[edit]
He started his coaching career in France with AS Cannes (1948/49) and from there continued to AS Monaco (1950–1952) and Le Havre AC (1952/53).
Early years in Germany[edit]
1953 he was hired by SF Hamborn 07. In his second season with the club from the suburb of Duisburg he led the club to promotion to the western division of the five ways split first division of Germany, the 'Oberliga West.
1955 he was appointed as manager by the then German champions, Rot-Weiss Essen. In the next couple of years he led the team to ranks 4 and 8 in the Oberliga West.
Manager of the Dutch Team[edit]
After leaving Rot-Weiss Essen, Schwartz joined the Dutch football association, the KNVB and took on the reins of the Dutch national football team. He guided the team through 49 matches.
However, this was in an era when Dutch football had yet to achieve the standing it has held since the 1970s. Results varied extremely and included 7-0 defeat to Germany in 1959 in Cologne, as well as back to back 1-0 wins against France and Brazil in 1963. He held the position of national coach until 1964, when Denis Neville replaced him.
European Cup Final with Benfica[edit]
In 1964/65 he coached S.L. Benfica in Lisbon, then with the legendary Eusébio. There he led the team to the championship of Portugal.
After this Benfica overcame Real Madrid in the quarterfinals of the European Cup of Champions and eventually even made it all the way to the final, where the "Eagles" had to yield to the masters of the Catenaccio, the Helenio Herrera coached team of Inter Milan, if just 0-1.
Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt[edit]
From July 1965 to June 1968 Schwartz coached - as successor to Ivica Horvat Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga. There he introduced the 4-2-4 system. Nevertheless, place 4 was as good as it got in the league. During the 1966-67 season he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup and the Coppa delle Alpi Trophy.
No success with the "Dragons" in Porto[edit]
In 1969/70 he coached FC Porto. Not only that the Dragons exited already in the first round of the national cup competition and in the second round of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup - in the end Porto was only 9th in the League. This is still their hitherto worst rank ever.
End of the career in Munich and Strasbourg[edit]
In the season 1972/73 Schwartz coached 1860 Munich, but he could not help them to fulfill their aspirations to return to the Bundesliga after then three years of absence.
He had more luck in 1976/77, when in the course of his last professional engagement he led Racing Strasbourg to promotion to the French Ligue 1.
After this he guided the Alsatian amateur side SR Haguenau, today's FCSR Haguenau, through the 1978/79 season.
Haguenau, he decided, was also a nice place for him to spend the rest of his life.
External links[edit]
- (French) Data about Elek Schwartz
- (German) Elek Schwartz at eintracht-archiv.de
- 1908 births
- 2000 deaths
- Romanian footballers
- Romania international footballers
- French people of Romanian-Jewish descent
- People from Timișoara
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Washington State's economics experts will tell folks how well or how poorly they expect the state to do as far as collecting revenue in the coming months and years at 10 a.m.
It's the Revenue Forecast, which is made roughly quarterly, and lets state officials know whether they need to make any corrections in the budget. The state is already holding its breath to find out whether it will get some $480 million from the federal government in extra Medicare/Medicaid payments, and any drop in tax revenues will be a secondary jolt.
Speaking of that extra fed money, which is known as FMAP for federal medical assistance percentage, the U.S. Senate is supposed to try yet again to get 60 votes to move a bill with that in it sometime today. An attempt earlier this week failed.
Also in Congress, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell have a resolution giving Spokane a congressional high five for being the home of Father's Day, 100 years ago. In honor of the centennial, the resolution establishes 2010 as Father's Year. Even though by June 17 it's actually more of a half year, please resist the urge to go out and buy a tie a day through Dec. 31
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Efforts to avert the "fiscal cliff" offer great drama, but won't solve Washington's budget woes and could precipitate another recession or worse.
The Budget Act of 2011 requires the president and Congress to agree on a nine-year $1.2 trillion deficit reduction program, or annual defense and non-entitlement outlays will be automatically cut $107 billion on Jan. 1. Also, the Bush tax cuts, payroll tax reductions, and other assorted programs expire.
Altogether, $136 billion in annual spending reductions and $532 billion in additional taxes could trigger cataclysmic consequences for the economy. Unemployment would rocket past 15%, state government finances would collapse, homeowners would default on mortgages and hundreds of banks would fail.
To avoid calamity, President Obama and House Republicans will likely agree to raise taxes on high income Americans by $100 billion to $150 billion and curb spending an equal amount. However, those efforts will prove too little, and the economy may still skid into recession -- driving down tax revenues and pushing up the budget gap again.The annual deficit exceeds $1 trillion -- up from $161 billion in 2007, the year before the financial collapse. Spending is up $1 trillion -- outlays for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements have increased by an amount equal to the entire 2013 defense budget. By 2020, runaway entitlement spending will require shutting down the military or crippling many domestic spending programs to head off ballooning deficits. With Americans living longer, the reasonable solution is to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70, and pattern U.S. health care after other national systems that better contain costs. The Germans and Dutch spend one-third less on health care, because their governments more aggressively regulate prices, better ration care and spend less on lawsuits. Democrats, hamstrung by unions, are loath to require Americans to work longer, and are too beholding to tort lawyers and the medical establishment for campaign support -- hence, Obama Care just throws more money into a broken system. Republicans refuse to admit more competition -- we already have plenty of it among providers, drug and device manufacturers, and insurance companies -- won't adequately slow rocketing costs.
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Talladega Superspeedway officials announced today that Brad Arnold, the lead singer/songwriter of rock sensation 3 Doors Down, will perform the national anthem prior to the AMP Energy 500 on Sunday, Oct. 5.
"Brad Arnold is an exciting addition to our pre-race show," said Talladega Superspeedway President Rick Humphrey. "Since their debut, 3 Doors Down has released multiple hits with Arnold as the frontman for each. We are looking forward to him helping us welcome back all of our fans to Talladega Superspeedway and the AMP Energy 500, Race Number Four in the Chase for the Sprint Cup."
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Jim Ryan, the WWFS/Fresh 102.7 program director, is adding to his workload. Ryan takes on the title of WCBS-FM program director, effectively immediately. He assumes the role vacated by Brian Thomas, who moved to Florida to head CBS Radio's Tampa cluster.
"Jim knows New York radio and its core audience like no other, which is a perfect fit for the station that embodies and personifies the city," said Don Bouloukos, senior vice president and market manager, CBS Radio New York. "I have had the good fortune of working with Jim for the past two years and his day to day performance made my final decision an easy one. This legendary institution [CBS-FM] begins its 41st year in very capable hands."
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Best Western could do better
You'd think a big hotel-motel chain would know and share the rules when it comes to service dogs — even one whose inns are "individually owned and operated."
By federal law, service dogs are allowed. No ifs, ands or buts.
But a Best Western in Baton Rouge, citing its policy prohibiting dogs, recently denied reservations to a North Carolina family whose golden retriever serves as an epilepsy alert dog to their 13-year-old son, Beau.
Chip goes everywhere with Beau, who has a rare type of epilepsy called Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. "Chip alerts us to when Beau is having a seizure," Beau's mother, Karen Vaughn, told KPLC.
But after Vaughn made an online reservation at a Best Western in Baton Rouge, pointing out that service dog Chip would be among their party, the motel notified her that the reservation was being refused because the inn doesn't allow dogs.
Vaughn, who is an attorney specializing in the rights of children with special needs, said that after she raised a stink the corporate office called back, a week later, saying they would honor the reservation. She said no thanks.
Normally, we would say sue the pants off the motel's individual owner, and sue the pants off Best Western corporate honchos, too.
But Best Western has an unusual corporate structure — one they've argued doesn't comprise a profit-making corporation, but is more of a cooperative. All hotels are individually owned and operated, and Best Western, from its headquarters in Phoenix, provides only reservations, marketing, brand identity and support services.
Individual owners of Best Western inns are allowed to make their own rules — but not rules that violate federal laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act.
A Best Western spokesman told ohmidog! that the Baton Rouge motel has been temporarily banned from representing itself as a Best Western hotel.
"Best Western International has restricted the hotel on our reservations systems and we have required the hotel to stop representing itself as a Best Western branded hotel (cover or remove all Best Western signs and logos) until its representatives attend a hearing at our corporate headquarters at which their future association with Best Western will be decided," he said.
"Best Western International requires each independently owned and operated hotel to comply with all federal, state and local laws and standards, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We provide extensive training to ensure our hotels understand and address the needs of guests with special needs. When this matter came to our attention, we immediately provided direction to the hotel and a reservation was offered to the family.
"We deeply regret the matter and we will continue to proactively communicate ADA requirements and training to Best Western branded hotels to ensure all guests are treated with the utmost dignity and respect."
Best Western's website boasts about their 1,600 pet-friendly locations.
Posted by John Woestendiek June 26th, 2014 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: alert, americans with disabilities act, animals, baton rouge, best western, branding, cesar millan, corporate, corporation, denied, disability, dogs, epilepsy, federal, headquarters, hotels, law, lodging, louisiana, marketing, motels, pets, reservation, responsibility, service, service dogs, travel
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Condo association to pay for its stupidity
A Florida condo association that told a woman with multiple sclerosis that her service dog was too big has agreed to pay $300,000 to atone for its collective stupidity.
The settlement followed a federal judge's declaration that Sabal Palm Condominiums in Davie, which sued to force the woman to get rid of the dog, had behaved in a manner both absurd and unreasonable, not to mention in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
"Sabal Palm got it exactly — and unreasonably — wrong," U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola wrote in his order.
"This is not just common sense — though it is most certainly that."
Scola ordered the condo association to allow Deborah Fischer, a retired art teacher, to keep her service dog, the Miami Herald reported.
Fischer, who uses a wheelchair and has limited use of her arms and hands, received a service dog in November 2011 from Canine Companions for Independence, a nonprofit group that provides dogs for people with disabilities.
The dog – a 5-year-old Labrador-golden retriever mix named Sorenson — has been trained to help Fischer pick things up, open and close doors and retrieve items from counter tops.
The condominium association, saying the dog violated its 20-pound limit on pets, began demanding medical records and other information to prove that Fischer needed Sorenson — and it sued Fischer when, it said, she failed to provide it.
Fischer, along with her husband, Larry, counter-sued, saying the condo board's demands violated the federal Fair Housing Act, or FHA.
Judge Scola, in a 30-page ruling, strongly agreed with Fischer.
That the condo association "turned to the courts to resolve what should have been an easy decision is a sad commentary on the litigious nature of our society. And it does a disservice to people like Deborah who actually are disabled and have a legitimate need for a service dog as an accommodation under the FHA," he wrote.
Condo board members suggested that Fischer could get a smaller service dog, but Scola didn't buy that argument.
After Scola ruled in the Fischers' favor, their attorney negotiated a $300,000 settlement with the attorney representing Sabal Palm.
Fischer said Sorenson can recognize 40 separate commands.
"He has made my life so much better," she said.
(Photo: Courtesy of Matthew Dietz)
Posted by John Woestendiek May 30th, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, association, condo, condo association, condominium, countersuit, court, davie, deborah fischer, disabilities, dog, dogs, fair housing act, federal, fha, florida, golden retriever, judge, judge robert scola, labrador retriever, lawsuit, matthew dietz, mix, ms, multiple sclerosis, pets, robert scola, ruling, service, service dog, settlement, sorenson
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Florida vet reunited with his service dog
A disabled Army veteran whose service dog went missing after a car accident will soon be reunited with her.
"I am totally ecstatic … If I had two legs, I'd do a back flip!" 7-year Army veteran Luke Macner, of Tampa, said upon learning Nina, his German shepherd-Rottweiler mix had been found.
Macner broke his collar bone in the car accident, but in interviews afterwards he was more worried about what happened to Nina, his constant companion since he lost his leg.
"I'm lost without the dog. I really am," he told WTSP at the time.
"Please, let somebody find you and please bring you back to me," he pleaded.
After the accident, the dog was found wandering in South Tampa by Amy Abdnour.
While she was playing with the dog another woman, who had seen news reports about the missing dog, approached Abdnour.
"A lady said, 'Do you know this dog has been on the news?'" Abdnour said.
After a call to the Humane Society, she got in touch with Macner.
Macner plans to reclaim the dog when he gets released from the hospital.
Posted by John Woestendiek April 24th, 2014 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: accident, animals, bond, car, companion, dog, dogs, found, lost, news, pets, reunion, reunited, service, tampa, vet, veteran
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Marine's support dog shot by police
A former Marine sniper's support dog was shot by police in Dacono, Colo., after escaping from his yard and acting in what police say was an aggressive manner.
Mongo, a 3-year-old pit bull, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the chest.
His owner, James Vester, is seeking an explanation and an apology from police, whose behavior, he noted, seemed more like something you'd see on the streets of Iraq.
"I didn't think I would see that again. You see it in Iraq — and then you see your best friend here get shot," said Vester, who got Mongo, a certified emotional support dog, to alleviate stress after returning from combat.
Vester said he was doing yard work when Mongo got loose. A neighbor called police because Mongo began barking at her dogs from across a fence. When two officers arrived, Mongo barked and growled and lunged at one of them, according to police reports.
Some neighbors disputed the police account, according to Fox 31 News in Denver.
"There was no noise at first, I just heard the gunshot — then the dog started crying," said Heather Viera, who was told by police to go back inside her home when she stepped outside.
Another neighbor, Jenny Stevens, says she was a few hundred feet down the road, walking her dogs, when she heard the shot. She said she didn't hear any barking or growling before it was fired. "It was dead silent. There was not a bark, there wasn't a growl. The cop did not say stop to the dog, the cop didn't yell anything."
Dacono Police Chief Matthew B. Skaggs said an investigation was being conducted.
"I think it is important to remember these things develop very quickly," the chief said. "If you look in the report, the officer did say specifically that the dog got within six feet of him and at that point he felt like it was his only option."
Posted by John Woestendiek May 9th, 2013 under Muttsblog, videos.
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Darling won't you ease my worried mind
Layla — a dog most appropriately named for this particular story — has become the subject of a custody battle in Pittsburgh.
A pit bull mix, she served as an unofficial helper to her owner, a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. But when he moved to a new apartment, Layla, lacking documentation as a service dog, wasn't allowed to live there.
Tim McGill began working to get Layla certified, and in the meantime asked some friends to look after his 3-year-old dog.
Now McGill has gotten the certification, but he can't get his dog back.
McGill served in the Army in South Korea and Iraq and left the service with a brain injury, anxiety and flashbacks, KDKA in Pittsburgh reports.
A doctor recommended a dog, and — though Layla wasn't a certified service dog — having her by his side helped, said McGill, a tattoo artist.
McGill says he moved to a Lawrenceville apartment to go to the Art Institute, but that, without any documentation that Layla was a service dog, she wasn't permitted to live there.
So he asked a friend, Laura Stratemier, to watch over Layla until he could get her certified. In exchange, he offered to repay her with free tattoos for both her and her husband.
Stratemier admits she was only supposed to have Layla for two weeks, but said that as time went by — six months worth of it — she realized the dog was better off with her.
By the time the certification papers for the dog came through McGill, Stratemier was unwilling to give Layla back.
KDKA reports that local animal control officials are looking into the dispute.
Posted by John Woestendiek May 1st, 2013 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: animals, apartment, certification, certified, custody, dispute, dog, dogs, Laura Stratemier, layla, mix, move, ownership, pets, pit bull, pittsburgh, post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd, service, tattoo artist, tattoos, therapy, tim mcgill
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A matter of Faith: Girl, 5, gets service dog
A family in northern Maine says it is "overwhelmed" by the generosity they saw from friends and strangers who donated enough money for them to get a service dog for their 5-year-old daughter, Faith.
Faith has spina bifida and experiences seizures. The new dog — a black Lab named Dandy — has been trained to detect when they might be coming.
Bruce and Beverly McNally, of Island Falls, took Faith in as a foster child, then as their adopted daughter. They quickly realized they needed help monitoring her for the seizures, which could be deadly if not addressed.
"The family became very worried, which is why they wanted to get the dog," Michele King, Faith's aunt, told the Bangor Daily News.
King is also the chief administrative officer for Brave Hearts, a nonprofit Christian home for young men in Island Falls, and that organization sponsored a fundraiser last month to try and raise the $2,500 that was needed.
King said that donations came from the more than 100 people who attended a benefit supper, and from people as far away as North Carolina.
"We just couldn't believe it," Beverly McNally said. "We eventually had enough money and we had to gently turn people away. We had to tell them that we had enough for the dog, but that we wanted them to donate the money to a charity of their own choosing."
Dandy came from CARES — Canine Assistance Rehabilitation Education and Services — a nonprofit organization in Concordia, Kansas, that trains and matches assistance dogs with owners.
"Dandy has just been wonderful for Faith," McNally said on Friday. "She picks up on a chemical change in the body when a seizure occurs. One day when we got back, Faith was very lethargic. She was in the chair with me and needed to be snuggled a lot more. And the dog got up in the chair and started whining. And I didn't realize what was going on. And 45 minutes later, Faith had a seizure. Then I realized what the dog was trying to tell me."
(Photo: Michele King)
Posted by John Woestendiek April 23rd, 2013 under Muttsblog.
Tags: assistance, benefit, black, brave hearts, canine, cares, dandy, detecting, dog, dogs, donations, education, faith, fundraiser, fundraising, island falls, lab, labrador retriever, maine, rehabilitation, seizures, service, services, spina bifida
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Kayla can stay, landlord must pay
The landlords of a Boston apartment building have been ordered to pay $25,000 to a tenant with HIV/AIDS for trying to force the man to get rid of his dog.
The ruling, issued by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, pertained to a mutt named Kayla, who — though not a service dog or a certified therapy dog — provided emotional support to her owner.
The complaint was brought against the owners of the Brighton Gardens building by Richard M. Blake, who was diagnosed with HIV infection more than two decades ago, according to the Boston Globe.
After his diagnosis, Blake isolated himself and rarely left the house.
"He was depressed, basically lounging around the apartment all day long, and his weight rose and blood pressure got out of control,'' said Denise McWilliams, general counsel for the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts.
Blake's doctor recommended a dog to help lift Blake's mood and improve his mental and physical health.
"She's just given me sort of a routine in my life,'' Blake said of the boxer mix he got in 2008. "She's given me a lot of joy. Animals just seem to make it hard for you to be in a bad mood … Ever since I have had her, the walks and the tons of exercise I do with her have helped.''
Blake said his landlord gave him permission to get the dog, but two months later tenants were notified that a no-pet policy in their leases would be enforced.
After unsuccessful attempts to get the landlords to make an exception, Blake filed a complaint with the state commission in December, 2008.
In its ruling, the commission said that evidence "supports a finding that requiring Complainant to give up his dog would seriously jeopardize his emotional and physical well-being.''
Posted by John Woestendiek April 6th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
Tags: aids, assistance, brighton gardens, commission, discrimination, dogs, emotional, health, hiv/aids, housing, kayla, landlords, massachusetts, richard blake, rules, service, support, tenants, therapy
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My son is with his dad so it is a quiet night alone. I bought some sleepytime tea and took a bubble bath. Bedtime soon. I'm such a partier, lol.
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Don't know yet. It's only Friday.
Ah, just fixed that.
LOL. I had to double check, I've been known to get my days wrong, in fact, I kept thinking it was Thursday all week last week....
Quietly. The boys didn't get home until about 9pm, so I had a nice hot shower, a quiet dinner, then did some reading for school. After they came home, I folded some laundry, and now I'm relaxing in bed, playing on CM and listening to some music. Yep, I'm a wild one too.....lol.
I'm having a quiet night now. The kids are sleeping and I am going to hopefully get some work done around the house until I go to bed.
Have a nice weekend.
Same as always.. I'm very tired going to be soon. My head is killing me.
That sounds nice BeachMommy.I am enjoying some quiet time on the computer while my 8 year old son is asleep on the couch and 5 year old Grandson is in my bed asleep.It feels good to unwind after a hectic and emotional week.I do not get many quiet moments like this to myself.
Quietly for now. The kids are both in bed and sick and I'm soon for be in bed which means dh will have to deal!! Uh Oh!!! I'm so tired I'm really suprised I'm up this late!