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I think it is a fascinating question: What is the best use for this building? All that parking, close to downtown and to the highways will certainly get someone's attention. Would offices work?
When do they stop serving? Sometime in the third quarter?
People drive to Boston to see the Red Sox , Celtics and Bruins. People go to Gillette to see the Patriots. Why not a little road trip to see your school? If the trip is the problem, I'll expect to see you in the stands when they play at UConn. That's a shorter drive.
The smoking areas were probably a maintenance problem.
In related news, Walter Szulc Jr. is the new world record holder for long-distance speed kayak paddling having done 1,500 meters in 3 seconds. Congratulations, Walter.
For my Hemingway fix, I'll stick to imitating the trout-fishing sequences in the Nick Adams stories. I have no interest in angry cattle.
It is a crying shame that this once beautiful property was allowed to deteriorate to this point. Yanksfan, i don't get your point about the neighborhood. there is nothing wrong with this neighborhood other than it isn't particularly residential. You are next door to the federal court house and the cathedral and down the street from the museums. heck, the closest neighbor is the computer center.
Scolded: There are those rather large municipal lots behind the buildings to the west side of Elm. Also, the new parking lot on East Main, near The Tavern. There is also paralel parking on Elm, Main and the side streets. I have never ever not been able to find a place to park in Westfield.
Watch "A Face In the Crowd" to really appreciate what a great actor he was.
Why don't they stop catching them if the price is so bad? Whey can't they put them in pens and fatten them up until the price rises?
jodobro: I live in Westfield. The public parking is around the corner on East Main, by The Tavern. I do think the new parks, bridges etc look great. Park Square is also looking better and better as it grows in. It's certainly better now than it was before.
yes, there are too many vacant storefronts. But that might change. Some new places have opened only re3cently, Paddy's, Momma Cakes etc.
That's why people lose a lot of money playing the commodities markets, Jeff.
Patient-centered medical homes would be one way of avoiding fraud and abuse. Much of the fraud comes from charging for procedures that never occurred. But if a provider is paid x for keeping y people healthy, well then there just isn't that much incentive for fraud.
It's as free as a bird now...
It's hard to argue with the Doc's point. I'll never get why a simple safety warning gets people's libertarian blood all angried up. Just don't play with fireworks. Just don't. You could get hurt. The reward associated with that risk will never justify it.
I really have to hand it to these women, though. It can't be easy to rebuild a life.
A better way to think of inventory is in months of supply. At the end of May, the current inventory of 3,163 homes would take 9.7 months to sell if homes continue to sell at their current pace. A market is considered in balance when it is at 7.5 and 8.5 months of supply.
I have no idea what that has to do with the labor market.
Q: How do I get my car out of the sand trap.
A: Try any open-faced club. Like a sand wedge.
Q: Mmm. Open-faced club sandwich.
As I have explained repeatedly, people who have run out of unemployment are counted in the labor force if they are still looking for work.
That's a good point. It doesn't fold up.
That being said, it was a lot of fun to pedal around in. With the continuously-variable transmission, I could really start picking up speed. With the low gears, it was easy to get rolling quickly. It was like having a giant big wheel.


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Charles C. Johnson Biography
At 22, Charles is a graduate of Milton Academy and Claremont McKenna where he studied government and economics. At Claremont, he edited the Claremont Independent and founded the Claremont Conservative, an award-winning daily campus website. There he exposed abuses like the banning of two pro-life students from campus for asking questions of a pro-choice speaker. Outrage over the ban resulted in a complete overturning of their sentence and an administrative apology just seven days later. His honors thesis is on the political thought of Calvin Coolidge.
Charles has worked for Charles Kesler at The Claremont Review of Books, Carl Schramm at the Kauffman Foundation, Seth Lipsky at The New York Sun, and Alan Dershowitz at Harvard Law School. While still in college, Charles started his own opposition research firm where he has worked for several candidates and helped pay his way through school. His written work has been published in The Claremont Review of Books, City Journal (online), National Review Online, The American (online), The Weekly Standard (online), Andrew Breitbart's sites, The Pope Center for Higher Education (online), American Thinker (online), and The New York Sun. He has spoken before the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on the use of technology to enhance freedom.
Charles has won several awards this year, including the Harrison Fellowship at the Salvatori Center, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Honors Fellowship, the Bartley Fellowship at the Wall Street Journal, the Special Alumni Award at the Phillips Foundation, as well as the Eric Breindel Collegiate Award.
After completing both the Breindel and the Bartley internships together this summer, he plans to return to L.A., obtain his driver's license, get married, and start another business that prices car insurance in a technologically novel way.
Claremont McKenna's Pro-Islamist Professor
By: Charles C. Johnson
Claremont McKenna College is a nationally recognized leader in training Defense Department officials and State Department personnel (including numerous ambassadors). Professor Bassam Frangieh is head of Claremont McKenna's Arabic Department and Middle East Studies program, where he teaches tomorrow's diplomats about the Middle East, plans study-abroad programs — and supports recognized terrorist groups, namely, Hezbollah and Hamas.
In the wake of Hamas's election victory in 2006, Frangieh told an interviewer that he looks to Hamas with "great joy" and supports violence against Israel. Hamas's control, he said, "might be able to produce the beginning of salvation. . . . I wonder what else would the Arabs have without Hamas and Hezbollah? Nothing. Except humiliation. I congratulate Hamas on its victory." Meanwhile, in his academic work, he has written in favor of suicide bombing and martyrdom. In a speech at the University of Bridgeport in 2007, he said that Islam is "very democratic," and he praised Saddam Hussein as a model leader who "wasn't a thief" and who "really did something for his country."
Frangieh has also made his views known through petitions, which, he says, "stem from the heart and are cast onto paper." In 2006 he signed a pro-Hezbollah petition that was circulated along with a flyer encouraging its signatories to "Boycott Israel. . . . We are all Hizbullah now." The petition, promoted by prominent anti-Israel, anti-American activists like Tariq Ali, Omar Barghouri, and Norman Finkelstein, demanded a boycott of Israel and encouraged Israeli academics to stop the "Zionist killing machine." It called Hezbollah the "Lebanese Resistance" and a "legitimate" army, and praised its "heroic operations" against Israel. A 2007 petition blamed a "Zionist conspiracy" for then-senator Biden's plan to divide Iraq into three separate autonomous regions. In 2009, Frangieh brought the Syrian ambassador, Imad Moustapha, to speak as an honored guest of the college; he had earlier instructed his students to warmly serenade Moustapha with singings from the Koran. (One student even asked, in all earnestness, what students could do to help Syria promote peace.) Syria, designated as a state sponsor of terrorism, has been governed for 40 years by a brutal dictatorial dynasty. Along with the
Muslim Student Association (MSA), Frangieh also brought to campus Imam Zaid Shakir, who blamed the Fort Hood massacre on America's easy access to guns. Yet another major guest was PLO member Sari Nusseinbeh, who during the first intifada helped terrorists avoid arrest and secure funding.
Frangieh's radicalism is shared by his wife, Aleta Wenger. A former State Department official who worked on the Middle Eastern desk, Ms. Wenger is currently director of Claremont's Center for Global Education and, as such, is the public face of the college overseas. Like her husband, she takes a conspiratorial view of Israel's military, accusing it, without evidence, of bombing universities and hospitals. She also supports the Hamas-linked Gaza flotilla movement. In a posting on the New York Times website, she wrote,
I now have a good cause to support financially, and am very happy that my fellow Americans are interested in joining the blockade movement. Now to see if I can get on that boat. As a retired U.S. foreign service officer now unleashed, I can do and say what I want. Now let's hear all of your readers tell me how naive I am . . . but I'm telling you, I've truly been there and seen it all . . . go Gaza flotilla ships go!!!
Repeated requests from alumni, students, parents, and faculty for comment from the college about the allegations against Bassam Frangieh have been consistently ignored. Worse, the college trots Frangieh out for fundraising; CMC Magazine Winter 2011 listed him as reason No. 33 to donate to Claremont McKenna. This was months after his views on Hamas and Hezbollah were established. The college's PR chief, Richard Rodner, scrubbed all mention of Frangieh's views from Wikipedia. Dean of Faculty Greg Hess e-mailed the faculty saying that it was only "a student writer's opinion" that Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist organizations — ignoring the fact that it was the State Department, where many of Frangieh's students hope to work, that designated them as such.
In March 2010, Claremont McKenna President Pamela Gann traveled with Frangieh and Wenger to the Middle East, where she compared Frangieh's advocacy for Hezbollah and Hamas to another professor's testimony in the Proposition 8 case last year. Gann hopes to get funding for Frangieh's Arabic program from the Kuwaiti royal family, several members of which attended Claremont McKenna College.
According to one member of the board of trustees, President Gann recently sent out a memo that essentially copied Dean Hess's. The trustee noted that this was the first time Gann had sent all the trustees a memo since the famous Kerri Dunn incident in 2004, in which a professor of psychology faked a hate crime against herself.
The circumstances of Frangieh's tenure hearing three years ago were rife with procedural misconduct. No one reviewing Frangieh's work spoke Arabic or, according to one faculty source, even Googled his name. Nevertheless, President Gann moved to grant Frangieh automatic tenure — the first time ever that this was done at Claremont McKenna. By way of comparison, Dean Hess took an opposite tenure decision a year later and denied Professor Christopher Lynch a tenure-track position for "lacking substantive publications" — despite the enthusiastic support for him from the Government Department and a significant publication record. Hess refused to comment on this manifest double standard.
At Yale, Frangieh, as a language instructor, was denied consideration for tenure because, in the words of the provost, he lacked "substantive original research." At Claremont, despite his lack of credentials, he has free range to create classes that teach his interpretation of the Middle East. He has a Ph.D. in Arabic literature — not history — and yet he teaches the required course for Middle East Studies majors, "Trends and Movements in the Middle East," which promises to expose students to the "major themes in Arab society, culture, and tradition." Islamist- motivated terrorism, anti-Semitism, and suicide-bombing are indeed major themes in modern Arab society — and Frangieh supports all of them.
Hezbollah has killed more Americans than any other terrorist organization except al-Qaeda. We wouldn't tolerate a professor who supported al-Qaeda, so why do we tolerate one who supports Hezbollah?


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Lore has it that 30A's
Blanketed with the native blue lupine flowers and some of the highest dunes on the
Susan Lucas's parents moved to
"Both of my parents had grown up on the coast and wanted to live on water," said Lucas. "So, when my dad retired, they took a map of the
At that time, there was nothing here but a scattering of little concrete-block houses.
They built a small house on the beach in
In 1965 it was not easy to get a phone man to come out to hook up service, and shopping had to be done in
Even on the 4th of July in the 1960s there would not be a soul on the beach.
"My mom would say, 'Harold, I told you there must be something wrong with these lots'," Lucas recalls now with a chuckle.
There was not a lot to do, but the Lucases had enough friends to get together with to play poker and golf, and they were active in their church, the
"They were busy," she said.
Lucas's parents became active in the community where they had chosen to live, and as the only registered Republicans around at that time, her dad was appointed to various positions when a need for a Republican arose.
"He was appointed to the county commission in 1968 when the lone Republican on the commission died," said Lucas. "He was also active in the Lion's Club, and helped found the Santa Rosa Beach Club and the chamber of commerce."
As for young Susan, however, she remembers standing on the beach and looking out over the water and longing for more young people to hang out with.
Until 1968 30A did not connect, but ended east of Grayton and east of Western Lake, which caused a social division between the west end and the east.
The old original
For years it was just a few little concrete block houses along the road, said Lucas, and families mostly were from south
The group of houses known as "The Brickyard" was originally part of Blue Gulf Resort, which was built in 1967-68 by Bob Davis, who lived in
On the highest point of BMB, where Adagio is now, there was a restaurant, pool, tennis courts, and a few motel-type rooms under the restaurant overlooking the beach.
Lois Maxon, who eventually bought the
"People at that time, late 1960s, marveled at the expanse and niceness of it," said Lucas.
In the early days, everyone pitched in to make the community work.
At some point, maybe the 1970s, residents provided their own emergency phone support.
"When you called 911, you got a volunteer neighbor," said Lucas. "Mom and dad took turns manning the phones at the fire station/community center on 393 near where the French Laundry is now and a pool place used to be."
In the 1980s, the community created its own library. The Walton County Library had sent the Bookmobile one day a week before that and when it was stopped, that was the impetus for the community to create a library of its own, which started out in the strip mall on 98 where the Post Office is located.
"Everybody pitched in to donate skills and finances," said Lucas. "Volunteers worked there every day. It was remarkably well-stocked, well run, and well used," she said.
The library was named the Coastal Branch Library.
After going away to college, marrying and starting a family of her own, Lucas only returned to Blue Mountain for visits until 1999, when she came back to live here full time.
Lucas has seen many changes and growth since the 1950s, but what has remained constant, she said, is the beauty of the beach and trees.
"It has built up so much and is bigger and fancier than it used to be. There used to be more beach and dunes, which we used to walk over to get to the water. I remember my dad getting a land rover and having a great time driving up the dunes. We used to drive on the beach all the way to Destin to get groceries. We lost so much in the hurricanes. We are so lucky to live here and that it has been preserved as well as it has. The people here are so nice and everyone is open to new friendships. No cliques. I always knew I wanted to end up here and it drew me back. I am glad it did," she said.


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Men's Soccer | Saturday, September 8, 2012
Bearcats Pile Up Goals in 5-1 Victory over Northwest University
Kaufman and Yates Each Earn a Goal and an Assist
SALEM, ORE. -- Erik Kaufman (Sr., F, Portland, OR/Grant HS) and Tyler Yates (Fr., F, Kailua-Kona, HI/Kealakehe HS) each scored a goal and an assist to help Willamette University defeat Northwest University, 5-1, on Saturday, Sept. 8 at Sparks Field. Willamette evened its record at 2-2 on the season, while Northwest fell to 2-1-1.
The Bearcats led 2-0 at halftime and held a 3-0 lead before Northwest tallied its only goal of the game on a shot by Nickey Ricks at 61:36. Will O'Neil (Jr., F, Vashon, WA/Vashon Island HS) scored for Willamette just 1:25 later, and Robin Hryciuk (Jr. D, Snohomish, WA/Glacier Peak HS) completed the scoring for the Bearcats at 80:15.
Willamette outshot the Eagles 10-4 overall, including a 7-5 advantage in shots on goal. The Bearcats had 10 players with one shot each.
The first goal of the game was scored on a corner kick that went off a Northwest defender and into the net at 38:13. Trevor Jensen (Jr., MF, Chula Vista, CA/Bonita Vista HS) took the corner kick for Willamette that led to the own goal.
WU took significant momentum into halftime after Yates scored on a counter-attack with 18 seconds left in the first period.
Etienne Galbreath (Sr., D, Portland, OR/Grant HS) began the fast-break by passing to Adan Vazquez (Jr., F, Woodburn, OR/Woodburn HS). Vazquez continued the quick attack with a long through-pass to Yates, who shot from 18 yards past on-rushing goalie Joe Galbraith.
The Bearcats' third goal was scored at 58:08 by Kaufman on a redirection of a free kick by Jensen. Kaufman's deflection was just five yards in front of the goal. Although Galbraith made contact with the ball he couldn't prevent it from going into the net. It was Kaufman's 25th career goal for Willamette.
A corner kick led to Northwest's goal a few minutes later. Corey Wyatt took the kick and the ball was headed-on by Josh Peters. Ricks headed the ball into the net from three yards out near the far post.
Willamette regained a three-goal cushion when O'Neil intercepted a pass intended for Galbraith and scored from 16 yards into an empty net at 63:01.
Hryciuk registered WU's final score on a 7-yard shot. The play began with a free kick taken by Yates from the right side of the field about 25 yards from the end line. His pass was flicked on by Kaufman near the penalty spot. Hryciuk trapped the ball and then shot toward the right post.
Goalkeeper Brayden Calder (Fr., Philomath, OR/Philomath HS) of Willamette achieved three saves while earning the win. Galbraith earned two saves for the Eagles.
Willamette will play at home again on Sunday, Sept. 9, when the Bearcats host Walla Walla University. Game time at Sparks Field is scheduled for 3 p.m. (PDT).
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I am 6' exactly, should I go with the long or would the Reg. be ok?
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Hey Spencer,
I'm 6'-0" and own an Alpinlite. You can pull off a regular, but I prefer the 6'-6" model. I tried both sizes out before I bought, and the reg left me feeling short of shoved into the hood and right there with the draft collar. I longer one also gives me the ability to hunker in a little more and to shove some clothes down in the footbox. This is a great bag!!
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What are muscle aches?
Muscle aches, also called myalgias, refer to any kind of discomfort or pain in any muscle of the body.
Muscles include skeletal muscles that are attached to bones and contract to move your body. Although we often think of skeletal muscle aches and pains, problems with other kinds of muscle, such as smooth muscle and cardiac muscle, can also cause aches. Smooth muscles are found in the walls of hollow organs in your body, such as your stomach, bladder, and blood vessels, and they play an important role in normal organ function. Cardiac muscle, which makes up the heart, is responsible for pumping blood throughout your body.
Muscles respond to a command from the brain and nervous system or other stimulus, such as a tap from a reflex hammer during a physical examination. Muscles contract when stimulated and relax after a contraction. Any muscle can be affected by various diseases, disorders and conditions, including infection, trauma, autoimmune diseases, neurological and muscular disorders, malignancy (cancer), and even some medications. Muscle aches and pains can also involve the ligaments, tendons, and fascia, which are the soft tissues that connect the muscles, bones and organs.
You may feel muscle aches and pains in a specific area of the body, such as your neck or back, or you may feel aches and pains all over, such as when you have the flu (influenza). Temporary skeletal muscle aches are often caused by minor muscle strain due to an awkward movement or overuse. This type of pain often involves just one or very few muscles and is relatively acute and intense. Usually abstaining from the activity, rest, ice, and anti-inflammatory medications help relieve the aches and pain associated with muscle overuse or injury. Muscle aches and pains can also be related to muscle cramping, which is often due to abnormal signaling from the nerves that supply the muscles.
Muscle aches and pains can also be caused by serious diseases, disorders and conditions, such as fibromyalgia, infection and dermatomyositis, which is an inflammatory muscle disease.
Muscle aches can be a sign of a serious disease, disorder or condition, such as an infection of the muscles or systemic lupus erythematosus. Seek prompt medical care if your muscle aches are persistent or causing you concern.
In addition, meningitis can cause muscle pain in the neck, and chest pain that is caused by a heart attack is a type of cardiac muscle ache. If you, or someone you are with, have chest pain, difficulty breathing or swallowing, change in consciousness, muscle weakness, inability to move a body part, high fever, vomiting, or stiff neck, seek immediate medical care (call 911).
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Muscle aches may occur with other symptoms, which vary depending on the underlying disease, disorder or condition. For example, skeletal muscle aches that are due to an injury may be accompanied by bruising and swelling of the area. Muscle aches that are due to a disorder affecting your whole body, such as an infection, ma... Read more about muscle achessymptoms
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Tony Scott is going home.
The director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Unstoppable has been cremated and his widow, Donna Wilson, will keep his ashes at the Los Angeles house they shared, according to Scott's death certificate, obtained Monday by E! News.
The certificate lists their home address as the "place of final disposition."
Not surprisingly, the cause of his Aug. 19 death was deferred for the time being. It could be at least several more weeks before the coroner gets toxicology and other test results back.
Meanwhile, officials have said that they are treating the case as a suicide, considering Scott jumped to his death from an L.A.-area bridge.
Wilson, with whom Scott had young twin sons, told investigators that reports of her husband having inoperable brain cancer were untrue and the autopsy performed Aug. 20 found no visible signs of cancer in the region. The content of his suicide note, left behind in his production office, has not been released.
Denzel Washington remembers "genuine friend" Tony Scott
Family members, including older brother Ridley Scott, gathered for a private funeral Friday in Hollywood. The family has said that it will start planning another gathering to celebrate Scott's life and work after Labor Day.
Meanwhile, the American Film Institute announced today that the Scott family has created a memorial scholarship to help aspiring filmmakers and is asking that donations be made to the fund in lieu of flowers.
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Tennessee Walking Horses of Minnesota
Cowboy Quotes, Sayings, and Wisdom
The eastern lady who was all ready to take a
horseback ride
said to the cowboy, "Can you get me a nice gentle
pony?" "Shore,"
said the cowboy. "What kind of a saddle do you want,
English or
western?" "What's the difference?" asked the lady. "The
western saddle has
a horn on it," said the cowboy. "If the traffic
is so thick here in
the mountains that I need a horn on my saddle, I
don't believe I want
to ride."
Sun in Gemini
(May 22 -
Gemini is the third sign of the zodiac, and is a mutable air sign, which is ruled by the planet Mercury. The Gemini-
Two farmers were sitting next to each other. One says to the other, "I have such a big farm I could climb in my truck, and it would take me two days to get across the whole farm!" The other farmer turns back to him and replies, "I also used to have a truck like that!"
Years ago I was watching a woman riding her horse over fences. Each time the horse landed after a fence, he threw his head up and bolted. The rider would then jerk the horse around in a small circle, pulling his head around until it nearly touched her boot at which point she would smack him with her riding crop and proceed to make several circuits of the arena at a brisk trot while see-sawing the reins so violently the horse's head wagged back and forth.
After the horse had received this "training," the woman once again rode him to the fence; he jumped it willingly but upon landing, threw his head up violently and bolted. The woman screamed at the horse and went back into her "training" mode. She yelled something to her companion who was watching from the ground, about the new, stronger bit not working. Then she proceeded to jerk mercilessly on the horse's mouth while spurring him relentlessly.
It baffled me that this obviously kind horse continued to willingly approach and jump the fence while receiving this treatment from his rider. It further baffled me that the problem, which was clear to me after the second jump, seemed to completely elude the self-proclaimed trainer and her companion: each time the horse landed, the rider lost her balance and snatched him in the mouth. The horse was trying to escape the pain she was inflicting on him by her incompetent riding. She had failed to develop an independent seat, and her horse was suffering for it.
I wish I had been brave enough then to speak out in defense of the horse but I was young and lacked the confidence needed to approach this intimidating woman. I watched her ride toward the fence and yet again make the same mistake, then punish the horse for her incompetence. "Go get the martingale!" she yelled to her companion, "I'll make him keep his head down!" My stomach churned and I whispered a prayer for the horse before turning back to my work.
That woman was not a rider, she was a parasite. A parasite, by definition is something that attaches itself to a host and harms it. The parasite is completely oblivious to (or perhaps just doesn't care about) the harm it is causing the host. It only takes but never gives. There is not a reciprocal relationship; the parasite is the only one that gets any benefit.
Parasites come in many forms:
Captain Cram and Jam – holds the reins as tightly as possible while relentlessly kicking and spurring the horse in an effort to "get him in frame"
Inspector Gadget – this person is always looking for the next great training gadget to force her horse to do what she hasn't prepared him (or perhaps herself) to do. Training staples include harsh bits, a martingale (or training fork), draw reins and side reins
See-sawer/plane flagger/goat milker –these are the individuals whose hands never stop moving – jerking up, jerking down, to the side, etc. These are easy to recognize as they are the ones riding the horse with the gapping open mouth, chin tucked in chest (usually preceded by nose pointing at the sky), and/or head wagging from side-to-side. These parasites tend to flock to "magic bits" selecting increasingly harsh bits as their horse's mouth becomes scarred and deadened.
The Know-it-all – Usually this is the person who either has had a few lessons and won a couple ribbons and therefore is a self-proclaimed trainer or can take the form of a person who has decades of experience with horses but has yet to learn anything
The Blissfully Ignorant Weekender – this person takes old Frank out of the pasture once or twice a summer and sits crookedly in the saddle for a 4 hour trail ride on an out-of-shape horse.
Conversely, a true rider is not afraid to do the work it takes to become a good rider. She puts in the years of work it takes to develop an independent seat, she seeks to understand the horse, when a "behavioral issue" arises, she first looks at herself for a cause, then considers the possibility of a physical issue with the horse and lastly looks for an actual behavior that needs to be modified. A true rider wants to build a relationship with the horse; she works to ensure the horse is happy to do his work. She also works to understand the horse's physical capabilities and to ensure the horse is physically able to do the work it is being asked to do. She doesn't rely on training gadgets as she understands 99% of the time such devices serve only 3 purposes:
1. Cover up bad riding
2. Cover up holes in training
3. Force a horse that is not mentally and/or physically prepared to do the work it is being asked to do.
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Our horses are a gift and most of them give of themselves until it hurts and even then, keep on giving. Learning to ride in a balanced, independent seat without relying on training gadgets to achieve artificial results is the least we can do for our horses. Pay attention to what your horse is telling you, and you both will benefit. You will connect with your horse on the deepest level and, by being a rider rather than a parasite; you can add many sound and happy years with your horse!
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CHAMPAIGN, lll. — Whenever it hears an unfamiliar song from a male of the same species, the zebra finch stops chirping, hopping and grooming. It listens attentively for minutes at a time, occasionally cocking its head but otherwise immobile. Once it becomes familiar with the song, it goes back to its busy routine. (See video.)
University of Illinois cell and developmental biology professor David Clayton and his colleagues found that microRNAs in the zebra finch brain respond when the bird hears a new song. | Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
Watch as a zebra finch hears familiar and unfamiliar songs. | Video by David Clayton
In a new study, researchers discovered that levels of microRNAs – short lengths of ribonucleic acid that appear to regulate protein production – go up or down in the songbird brain after it hears a new song. These microRNAs likely represent a new class of regulatory agents that fine-tune the brain's response to social information, said University of Illinois cell and developmental biology professor David Clayton, who led the study.
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Clayton and other researchers have documented changes in the expression of many mRNAs in the songbird brain after it hears an unfamiliar song. But no studies have, until now, found evidence that microRNAs also contribute to the process by which the brain responds to its environment.
"The question that we started with was, are there microRNAs that are showing a response to song in the brain?" Clayton said. "And the answer is clearly yes, there are. The bigger question that we don't have an answer to yet is what are they doing?"
The study team, which included researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston, also identified a microRNA that went up in males and down in females after the birds heard a new song. The gene for this microRNA is on the Z chromosome, the zebra finch's sex chromosome. Male zebra finches have two copies of the gene and females have only one, suggesting that even baseline levels of this microRNA differ between the sexes.
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Shortly after 10 am Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Doe v. Reed case. This is the case stemming from Referendum 71. Religious conservatives led by Protect Marriage Washington were unsuccessful in using R-71 to repeal Washington's domestic partnership law, and Washington became the first state in the nation where voters approved, by a 53.2% margin, a comprehensive relationship recognition law for gays and lesbians.
A few days ago PMW posted an essay written by their attorneys, James Bopp, Jr. and Scott F. Bieniek. Presumably this piece was meant to be their final stage-setting statement in advance of the hearing. The essay, which is reproduced in full at the end of this diary, is a regurgitation of the same flimsy legal reasoning, conflation of marriage with domestic partnership, and projection of PMW's own bullying onto The Scary GaysTM we've come to expect from PMW. But there was one new element which was frankly shocking, even amid all that. PMW chose to impugn, without a shred of evidence, Washington's Secretary of State Sam Reed.
Now [Attorney General Sam Reed] is willing to allow access to petitions knowing that they will be used to harass and intimidate individual citizens.
"Knowing"? This is a serious personal attack against Mr. Reed, because nobody can know what will happen in the future. What Bopp & Bieniek should know is that not one of the over 1 million referendum and initiative petition signers whose names have been posted on the internet has ever been hurt as a result. They also surely know that the Washington Public Disclosure Commission voted unanimously against PMW's request to hide the names of their campaign donors because PMW failed to identify even one individual donor who was mistreated because their names were posted online by the PDC. So what PMW and their attorneys have done here is choose to find Sam Reed guilty of an imaginary future crime based on non-existent evidence. Remind me who the bullies are again?
While we wait for the SCOTUS to post transcripts from the hearing, it's worth watching a 3 minute story aired on Monday by KCPQ's Q13 Fox News (video below the fold). The show sought comments on Doe from representatives from both sides of the Referendum 71 campaign: Anne Levinson, Chair of Washington Families Standing Together, and Bob Struble for PMW. Levinson lays out a clear and rational description of the deeper anti-gay and anti-democratic agenda behind Doe. Struble simply categorically attacks gay people as "vicious", "shrieking self-proclaiming homosexuals" bent on "mainstreaming sodomy". (Is Struble on the WAFST payroll? He's the next best thing to Fred Phelps, I swear.) Notice the images of the normal, loving gay and lesbian couples and families that Q13 intersperses throughout the story. I guess their vicious.homo.cam was out for repair.
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Transcript and video of KCPQ's Q13 Fox News story on Doe v. Reed, broadcast Monday, April 26, 2010.
Bill Wixey: Washington Attorney General Rob Mckenna will go before the Supreme Court on Wednesday to argue one of the biggest cases of his career. It centers around Referendum 71. But as James Lynch tells us, this case goes way beyond gay rights, and could impact every state in the country.
James Lynch: What started as a debate over "everything but marriage" for gay and lesbian couples here in Washington will end before the United States Supreme Court in a case involving free speech and public records.
Anne Levinson: What these folks are trying to do is drive a truck through the Public Records Act.
James Lynch: At issue, should the names of some 138,000 people who signed Referendum 71 petitions be released under the state's public disclosure law? Or, was their signing Constitutionally protected political speech, which can be anonymous?
Bob Struble: Half the states have initiatives and referendums, and if these can be compromised by threats and harassment, why it undermines the entire democratic process.
James Lynch: Bob Struble is a spokesman for Protect Marriage Washington. He himself signed the Referendum 71 petition. He says his group opposes the release of the names for this reason: fear of those who support marriage rights for all.
Struble: These people, I think it's not an exaggeration to use the word vicious. They are sometimes vicious because we dare to oppose their agenda of mainstreaming sodomy, which is what it is.
James Lynch: Struble says he himself has known harassment first-hand while gathering petition signatures.
Bob Struble: Some shrieking self-proclaiming homosexuals started stalking me and raising quite the commotion and screaming and demanding that I stop handing out these petitions.
James Lynch: The threat of that kind of harassment, Struble says, deters people from signing petitions, so the names should not be made public.
Ann Levinson: We've had more than 600,000 individuals sign petitions in the last decade in this state. There's not been evidence of a single person who's in any way been chilled or in any way discouraged from signing a petition out of an alleged fear of harassment. There's simply no evidence to that point.
James Lynch: Anne Levinson is with Washington Families Standing Together. Her group wants the names released.
Anne Levinson: In our state we have a requirement, as does every other state except one that has public disclosure laws that initiatives and referenda are public records. And they are released to the public so that the public can help insure that elections happen fairly.
James Lynch: Levinson says that opponents of expanded domestic partnership rights have an agenda.
Anne Levinson: They've used ballot campaigns – referenda and initiatives – to try to take away other people's rights, and they'd like to do that in secret. They'd like to hide who their contributors are, they'd like to hide who their signators are and they'd like to hide who their sponsors are. And, that's not the way we operate in a democracy.
James Lynch: The high court has at times been receptive to arguments based on the fear of harassment and retaliation. In this case the justices will have to balance the public's right to privacy and the public's right to know. James Lynch, Q 13, Fox News.
Bill Wixey: Now a ruling on this case could take a few months, and this isn't the first time McKenna has gone before the high court. He's two for two there. The court sided with him when he defended an initiative involving teacher union dues, as well as the state's top-2 primary.
Same-Sex Marriage Takes Center Stage at the Supreme Court
Posted April 24, 2010: Will the Court take a step to remove threats and intimidation from the political playbook?
By: James Bopp, Jr. and Scott F. Bieniek
In November 2008, Californians went to the polls and voted in favor of a referendum to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Instead of celebrating the victory, supporters of the referendum became targets of an intense backlash that included death threats and property damage. The retaliation was enabled in part by a California law requiring contributors of as little as $100 to publicly disclose their names, addresses, occupations and employers. The information, which is made available on the Internet by California, was combined with an online map, providing would-be harassers with directions to supporters' homes. And the retaliation was as much about trying to influence the next vote on same-sex marriage as it was about anger over what had just occurred in California.
On Wednesday, April 28, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider a case that can begin to put an end to such campaign tactics. The case, Doe v. Reed, involves that next vote, a referendum from the state of Washington to repeal a statute granting domestic partners the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. Protect Marriage Washington, the group that sponsored the referendum, submitted a petition containing the names, addresses, and signatures of more than 138,000 voters who felt the issue was too important to leave to elected representatives.
Rather than embrace the opportunity to publicly debate the merits of the recently enacted statute, opponents threatened to make use of Washington's public records law to access copies of the petitions in an effort to prevent the debate from even occurring. The opponents hoped to place the names and addressees of the petition signers on the Internet to encourage "uncomfortable conversations." But after what transpired in California, it is clear that these are confrontations, not conversations, and that they chill political speech.
Petitions have not been routinely released throughout Washington's history. Sam Reed became the first Secretary of State to release copies of petitions when he released two initiative petitions in 2006, and R-71 would be only the ninth petition of more than 1,100 petitions filed with the Secretary of State since the public records act was adopted in 1972. Now, he is willing to allow access to petitions knowing that they will be used to harass and intimidate individual citizens. Protect Marriage Washington refused to let harassment and intimidation influence the debate about an important social issue and obtained an emergency court order to prevent the release of the petitions. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted that order, and only an emergency stay by the Supreme Court on the eve of the election prevented opponents from using tactics usually reserved for the schoolyard bully.
Washington argues petition signers are like legislators, and because there is no right to legislate in secret, petitions must be released. But petition signers are not elected representatives, they are sovereign citizens, exercising a right they reserved for themselves in their state constitution. The petition is nothing more than a statement that the issue is too important to be left to the men and women serving in the state house. And petition signers are no more legislators than the 1.8 million voters that cast a ballot for or against the referendum at the ensuing election. The entire process was good for Washington, and it would not have happened if opponents had been allowed to harass and intimidate petition signers.
The case is a blockbuster because of the social issue, but Doe v. Reed is bigger than same-sex marriage, Protect Marriage Washington, or the 138,000 individuals that signed the petition. The case is about the right of everyone to speak freely on the most important and controversial issues facing our nation, and to do so free from threats and intimidation. And we all benefit when the discussion of those issues is uninhibited, robust, and wide-open. The names of the 138,000 individuals that sought to start the conversation are simply irrelevant to that debate.
Fittingly, Wednesday's case is Justice Stevens' last as a member of the Supreme Court. In a few weeks, the attention will turn to the individual nominated to fill his vacancy, and no doubt, the nominee's record. The question is, should the fact that the nominee signed a petition thirty years ago be part of that record? And should it be part of your record the next time that you apply for a job? If the First Amendment means anything, the answer must be no.
Mr. Bopp and Mr. Bieniek are attorneys at Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom. Mr. Bopp will deliver the oral argument on behalf of Protect Marriage Washington before the Supreme Court.
Cross-posted at Washblog.


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When healthy, he was a dual-threat quarterback who could both beat teams through the air and on the ground. He finished with 2,242 yards and 25 total touchdowns while throwing seven interceptions.
He now returns to a wide receiving core that is one of the conference's most talented but is also recovering from injury.
"I'm still a senior but each year I feel, as a quarterback, I think [certain things] come with the territory," he said. "In terms of leadership and, you know, guiding the younger guys."
The "younger guys" will be vying for the backup job behind him, including Caleb Rowe, who started in Brown's place when he was injured in 2013, and Perry Hills, who continued to recover from a knee injury last season.
"Guys look to me," Brown said. "[They] look to see how I'm doing, look how I'm performing and how I'm feeling when I come out here so I think it's big...to be out here, to have some fun."


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In this guide we present to you an engineer build guide focused on utilizing turrets. I will forewarn however that utilising turrets sacrifices a great deal of utility in comparison to the flexibility of elixirs. What makes this turret build guide interesting s the fact it's great 1 on 1 and is formidable at point defence. I'm not suggesting it is better than HGH but I believe this to be the best turret build currently possible.
Please Note: This build transfers directly to PvE however due to the nature of boss damage (and notably area of effect spells) turrets aren't always viable.
+ Capable of "locking down" an area
- Relies heavily on turrets surviving in order to support your damage/control
+ Remains potent at dealing condition damage
- Lacks the condition removal of an Elixir build
+ Excels at 1 on 1 through its use of turrets
- Isn't as high damage as a HGH build
+ Has reasonably high survivability
- Turrets die easily if focused and need to be actively managed
+ Is a fun and original build
- Knee Shot
- Hair Trigger
- Protective Shield
- Power Shoes
- Deployable Turrets
- Kit Refinement
- Adrenal Implant
Why these Traits?
With only one weapon set (Med Kit doesn't count) it's important to ensure that your pistol cooldowns are as short as possible. To compliment this, Knee Shot is taken to ensure that your foes when glued (from the offhand pistols Glue Shot) remain in place as long as possible. This gives you time to move but also greater time for your turrets to track your target. Protective Shield is taken to add additional defence based on this build having few escape methods while Power Shoes provides a reliable and near permanent swiftness when in combat (to further compliment Adrenaline Implant). Lastly, Deployable Turrets is invaluable to place your turrets in sneaky positions or in unexpected locations while Kit Refinement (when using Med Kit) offers Magnet Aura to add further defense and reflection back at your foes.
What all this brings together is a replication of Swiftness and Vigor you can achieve from existing traits (albeit differently) to instead take alternatives traits to bolster your turrets and/or survivability. Many might wonder why I wouldn't take Rifled Turret Barrels (turrets deal more damage and have more range) and the reason for this is the fact that Adrenal Implant is better.
Please Note: It's viable to change Protective Shield for Cloaking Device if you want a trait that offers utility over raw protection.
- Med Kit
- Elixir R
- Net Turret
- Rocket Turret
- Supply Crate
Why these Skills?
Your choice of turrets is entirely dependant on your play style. I choose to take Net Turret and Rocket Turret primarily for their utility and tool belt skills. The Net Turret is incredibly annoying to fight against as it offers an immobilise as its tool belt skill (you fire a net out) but also a net the moment you drop it. Rocket Turret does deal good damage (direct and burning condition), but where it really shines however is when you overcharge it, causing knockdown to those it hits. What I would recommend is using your tool belt skills first before you place your turrets, as placing a turret down will replace your tool belt skill with "Detonate Turret". If I were to recommend a turret not to take, it would have to be the rifle turret simply because the damage is awful.
The use of Med Kit over Healing Turret is a difficult choice, but primarily because Healing Turret doesn't function too well with the minor traits that allow you to use your heal twice, while specialisation in the Tools trait line (reducing your tool belt cooldowns) allows for your heal to be as little as 15 seconds. The Med Kit also pairs nicely with Kit Refinement, giving you some added protection through Magnet Aura.
Lastly Elixir R is designed as your condition removal, self revive and stun break. It's your get out jail free card but be sure to use it sparingly as it's the only stun break you have.
Please Note: The alternative to Elixir R is to use Elixir S which provides you with immunity, shrinks you to confuse your opponent and also provides stability or stealth from the tool belt.
- x6 Superior Rune of Earth
- Superior Sigil of Earth
- Superior Sigil of Corruption
- Rabid Amulet and Shaman's Jewel
Why these Upgrades and Amulets?
Maximising Superior Sigil of Earth affords you with x2 Magnetic Aura: one when you drop to 50% health and one when you change to and from the Med Kit. What this allows is for a good amount of breathing space under heavy fire and buys you enough time to heal up, or evade several attacks. The additional toughness and chance to cast protection on yourself is also an additional bonus as this support your Protective Shield trait.
The use of Superior Sigil of Earth and Corruption are based on the fact you only have your pistol to deal damage directly if your turret dies, so stacking bleeds remains a priority. Superior Sigil of Corruption is there to bolster your relatively low condition damage to above 1,000.
When it comes to the Amulet, there's very little point in choosing anything other than Rabid as you need the critical strike chance to stack your bleeds while the toughness it offers gives you some much needed defence. Were I to suggest any other Amulet it would have to be Shamans simply for the higher toughness.
Please Note: If you would rather increase your damage further, it is a possibility of replacing Superior Sigil of Corruption with Superior Sigil of Battle as changing to and from Med Kit will trigger its effect.
- x2 Pistol
Why these Weapons?
There is the possibility of using a shield with this build, but your damage would plummet and you would lose out on the high condition damage of Blowtorch. In addition, Glue Shot really helps keeping players in place to make your turrets job easier. What I would recommend is the fact that you open with Glue Shot, followed by Blowtorch and Static Shot. It's a powerful rotation that will deal high damage in a short window, all (hopefully) supported by your overcharged net and rocket turret.
Hey thanks for all the effort
Hey thanks for all the effort, I wanted to ask if it would be possible to release a Warrior build too someday, like some sort of "how to get the maximum dps possible" for PvE dungeons and stuff. Thanks and keep the good work up!
I think that pretty much
I think that pretty much covers all the Engineer builds, so the Warrior should be next up I imagine :)
Great, but u are missing some
Great, but u are missing some build with elixir gun!!! Please!
Great page, the most informative of all!
I like the Elixir Gun so that
I like the Elixir Gun so that's definitely a possibility :)
Thanks so much for this build
Thanks so much for this build :) but can you kindly tell me what gears for this build you post ,i need to in w vs w / pve, knight or rampager ?


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Islanders go over .500 level again with win
CORPUS CHRISTI - The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball team lost the lead late against Dallas Baptist on Saturday afternoon, but rallied in the eighth inning to take a 6-3 victory and clinch the series win.
The Islanders (6-5) got back above .500 with the win, and did so against a team that appeared in the NCAA tournament a year ago, and has reached the Super Regional round in recent years. Dallas Baptist (4-5) lost another close game as Islanders pitching did enough to get the victory.
Matt Danton came on in relief after the Islanders lost the lead and held to Patriots hitless over two full innings, pitching the seventh and eighth in no-hit fashion and allowing no runs while walking one and striking out none. Jacob Dorris came on and made things interesting before earning his second save of the year in a scoreless ninth inning.
Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh, the Islanders got three runs on just one hit while Dallas Baptist committed two errors. After a throwing error led to the tying run, Brad Porras' fielder's choice plated Brad Lambert with the go-ahead run. With runners on first and third, Porras stole second, stopping halfway down to draw the throw, and Lee came home on a delayed steal to make it 5-3.
The Islanders added another run in the bottom of the eighth, with Lamberti coming through with an RBI single to plate John Paul product Dominic Lopez for the 6-3 advantage.
That is when Dorris came on to close it out in the ninth, but he did not do so without a little excitement.
After hitting the leadoff batter with a pitch, Dorris struck the next player out swinging. With one away, Dorris hit another batter, but he would settle down, striking out the next batter for the second out and getting a fly out to Eric Weiss in center field for the final out of the game.
The two teams will play the finale on Sunday, with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m. at Chapman Field.
Porras led the Islanders with a two-hit game, his second in as many days, while Jordan Lee, Cody Stephens, Weiss, Lopez, and Lamberti each had one.
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what's the project all about?
In 2011 I was injured whilst working as a photographer in Afghanistan. I spent the next 46 days of my recovery fighting for my life in intensive care. During that period, I was often awake for days, unable to move or communicate as I was incubated and my remaining shattered hand was in a cast. My mind wandered, drifting on a mixture of morphine, exhaustion and fear and so battling to keep my sanity and to pass the dragging hours I'd challenge myself with mental exercises. My favourite was thinking of portraits I wished I could do, creating a list of the 100 people I most wanted to photograph.
My first love in photography was portraiture. I love telling someone's story through an image, trying to capture some essence of character in a frozen moment. For ten years I worked as a portrait photographer before cynicism with celebrity culture and a desire to document humanitarian issues took me in a different direction. I had always hoped to return to portraiture in time.
Lying there, trapped in my body, I imagined all the portraits I wanted to take, aware that now I'd probably never get the chance. This wasn't just a list of heroes or inspirations; more a collection of people who had shaped my cultural identity or whose large personas drew me in. Ben Okri whose writing first opened my eyes to Africa and storytelling; Tom Waits with his gnarled voice; Natalie Portman, hypnotic in the last film I'd seen before my accident; Don McCullin who inspired me to first pick up the camera. The list grew in my mind; eclectic, eccentric characters I wished I'd captured in frame.
I resolved that if by some chance I made it through, I'd contact the names on my list and ask them to sit for a portrait. I would not waste my second chance at life.
I have no idea where this project will lead, who will say yes, who will say no, or what I will learn about the people I meet and about myself. I'm aware I'll face practical difficulties brought on by my injuries and the challenges of working within a celebrity culture, but through this journey I hope to develop my abilities in portraiture, to explore my own cultural identity and broaden my understanding of photography. Most importantly to fully regain my life and identity post accident, with more than a little fun along the way!
As for the list? From PJ Harvey to Dead Prez, from Samantha Morton to Jean Paul Belmondo, the names on the list are united by a common trait. When I thought I was going to die and when I had to come to terms with my new life, one thing kept me going, my photography. It is my lifeblood. The sitters for my portraits may all be famous, but I believe they have become that because of what they do, not because they craved celebrity. I believe for each one their craft is also their lifeblood.
So here I am. It's taken two years, 30 operations and a long rehabilitation, but I'm ready to start.
100 Portraits Before I Die: A Photographers Odyssey….
Giles Duley July 2013