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Nurse: Cruz told me she had been beaten
Woman has said that she fell down, landed on a rock
A woman told police and a nurse after losing her 5-month-old fetus in April that her boyfriend had assaulted her and jumped on her abdomen, witnesses testified Wednesday in her boyfriend's capital murder trial.
Virginia Cruz, 20, said Tuesday that she lost her footing and fell on a rock or tree stump in a grassy area the night of April 6 while walking after an argument with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Thomas Short. Short is charged with capital murder in connection with the loss of Cruz's fetus and faces life in prison if convicted.
"She said she had been assaulted, said she had been hurt by her boyfriend," said Mary Pilsner, a Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial nurse who first cared for Cruz when she arrived by ambulance at the hospital. "She said he had stomped on her stomach two times."
Pilsner said Cruz was upset but not angry or hysterical when she was first admitted. Pilsner said that while she was questioning Cruz, she and other medical staff performed tests, and Cruz was able to hear the heartbeat of the fetus.
Just before Pilsner was getting ready to end her shift at 6 a.m. the following day, she told doctors she no longer could hear the heartbeat of the fetus. When Pilsner came back to work at 7 p.m., she was notified Cruz would be given drugs to induce labor because the fetus no longer was alive.
After midnight, Pilsner said she was the only one in Cruz's hospital room when the woman started having contractions. The baby was delivered a few minutes later while still in the amniotic sac and placenta, Pilsner said.
"I wrapped the baby and asked if she wanted to see it," Pilsner said. "She held the baby in her arms for a little while. After a while she just laid the baby next to her.
"She looked sad and very quiet," Pilsner added.
In other testimony Wednesday, three Corpus Christi police officers who initially responded to Cruz's house following an assault call from their dispatcher said the then-19-year-old told them Short hit her, choked her and stomped on her abdomen. The officers' testimony is similar to accounts of the incident from two of Cruz's sisters, who shared the house with Virginia Cruz and were home during the incident.
This is the second trial in which District Attorney Carlos Valdez has pursued capital murder charges in the death of a fetus since a 2003 fetal protection law took effect. Valdez said the prosecution likely would rest this morning.
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Netflix shares tumble
Oct 25, 2011
Netflix stock could use some mouth-to-mouth today. The company's shares fell more than 30 percent today, the first time they have been below $100 since the summer of 2009.
"Goldman Sachs rules the world"
Sep 26, 2011
Sweet tooth -- traders buy commodities
Sep 26, 2011
Commodities priced jumped today, after prices fell to a ten-moth low last week. Sugar spun up to its highest price in more than a month. Aluminum rose, and coffee perked up, too.
Why Banks Don't Listen to their Risk Managers
Sep 19, 2011
Woodbine Associates sent me an opinion piece this morning. It's a bit long, but it makes for interesting reading....
Glug glug glug - cash drains out of stocks
Sep 19, 2011
Money continues to flow out of the stock market. A report by Bloomberg News today cites research by the Investment Company Institute and EPFR...
Bernanke: nothing for now
Sep 8, 2011
The Fed Chairman said today that he "expects economic growth to improve slowly and inflation to ease":http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents...
The problem with Operation Twist
Sep 7, 2011
Or should I say, another problem. Operation Twist is designed to lower long term interest rates, in order to make it cheaper or consumers to borrow...
Europe: Nooobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition. Yet.
Sep 7, 2011
If you thought America's problems - four years into the financial crisis aftermath - were bad, it's particularly sobering to realize that Europe,...
When the market's up, we buy cars...
Aug 31, 2011
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Hedge funds taking a hammering
Aug 30, 2011
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Belton (November 6, 2012) -- University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Javicz Jones has been named to the D3football.com Team of the Week for this week. Jones is being honored for his record-setting performance in the Cru's 54-20 victory over East Texas Baptist University.
Jones, a senior linebacker from Katy Morton Ranch High School, posted 13 tackles and returned two interceptions for touchdowns for the Cru. He became the all-time leading tackler in American Southwest Conference history by pushing his total to 416 and also became the first UMHB or ASC player to return two interceptions for touchdowns in the same game. His 92-yard interception return in the fourth quarter is the longest interception return in school history. Jones also recorded a sack, a tackle for loss and a forced fumble in the game.
This is the second Team of the Week appearance for Jones this season. The Cru is 9-0 overall and 6-0 in ASC play on the year. The win over ETBU clinched a postseason berth and at least a share of the conference championship. UMHB will close out the 2012 regular season with a 1:00 PM kickoff against Mississippi College (2-7, 1-5 ASC) at Tiger Field.


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The Obama Administration and supporters of the Affordable Care Act never fail to tout one of the innovations in the law that has already come into practice. That's the allowance of children to stay on their parents' insurance up to age 26, which has allowed by one estimate over 2 million sons and daughters to maintain their insurance coverage. With youth unemployment at a high and more and more entry-level positions coming with no insurance plan, this has allowed a smoother transition into adulthood for millions of people.
However, if those same under-26 plan beneficiaries want to have a child, they may have to look elsewhere for coverage.
Group health plans with 15 or more workers are required to provide maternity benefits for employees and their spouses under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. But other dependents of employees aren't covered by the law, so companies don't have to provide maternity coverage for them.
Although hard numbers aren't available on how many companies don't provide dependent maternity benefits, "I would say it's common," says Dania Palanker, a senior health policy adviser at the National Women's Law Center. And the number could grow with the recent expansion of coverage to children under age 26, she says.
Dan Priga, who heads the performance audit group for Mercer, a human resources consulting company, estimates that roughly 70 percent of companies that pay their employees' health-care claims directly choose not to provide dependent maternity benefits.
This is a quirk in the law that had almost no effect when the cutoff date was 18, that now becomes a problem when that gets expanded to 26. I would think it will be difficult to get employers to suddenly open up maternity coverage to dependents, which is a pure cost outlay with little in the way of benefits. Either this causes premiums to rise considerably for those who elect maternity coverage, or a substantial number of young women on their parents' plans are out of luck should they find themselves pregnant. Perhaps the young women, if they have no visible means of support, could get on Medicaid, if they're lucky enough to find a doctor to accept it. Some employers may be forced to take up maternity and pre-natal care as part of the preventive services mandate, but only on new plans, and not at all for large-group employers or self-insured plans. Oh well, fortunately young women don't have a lot of children or anything.
All of these little quirks and unintended consequences spring from the fact that we do not have a coherent health care system in the United States. Instead, we have a series of overlapping systems that often conflict or contradict with one another. The obvious solution to this is to create a system where everyone is covered under one standard, eliminating the proliferation of these Easter egg surprises from cropping up.


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LAWRENCEVILLE -- A defense attorney for Gwinnett County Sheriff's Deputy Hendryx Colon said battery charges against him were the result of a conniving girlfriend bent on having her way via the legal system.
A jury recently agreed.
Colon, a 13-year department veteran, was acquitted May 20 of simple battery and battery charges against his live-in girlfriend, claims that had landed him in jail and jeopardized his career, his attorney, Niria Baggett, said Thursday.
Lilburn police arrested Colon, 46, in October when the 25-year-old woman told police he'd assaulted her at the Indian Crest Court home they shared, causing minor injuries.
Jurors in Gwinnett County State Court deliberated only an hour before declaring Colon innocent, Baggett said. Additional charges of third-degree child cruelty had been dropped prior to trial, she said.
Baggett contends the woman concocted the story and self-inflicted her injuries in an attempt to gain custody of their child. She was also trying to gain a so-called U visa, which gives victims of domestic crimes temporary legal status and work eligibility in the United States, Baggett said.
Baggett was unsure from where Colon's girlfriend had emigrated. A Lilburn police spokesman was out of the office late Thursday and wasn't sure if the alleged victim has been charged by police.
"We had information the victim ... had previously accused men of the same charges," Baggett said. "We had a witness -- her ex-husband -- who said she'd self-inflicted injuries" a few years ago, she said.
Stacey Bourbonnais, Sheriff's Department spokeswoman, said Colon remains employed as a deputy, though disciplinary action is pending.
"The sheriff found that there were violations of internal policies" during an investigation, Bourbonnais said.
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Feasibility study for new arts center will determine the project's potential
In early 2011, members of Peninsula Art League's (PAL) board of directors were lamenting the lack of a venue in the Gig Harbor area suitable for presenting large-scale art exhibitions. Anne Knapp, then president of PAL, decided it was time to stop complaining and start doing something.
She contacted other local artists and arts organizations that were also frustrated by the dearth of spaces for concerts, plays and other performances.
That small effort has grown into a movement to build an 80,000-square-foot, $30 million regional arts center in Gig Harbor across Harbor Hill Drive from the YMCA.
Dubbed the Gig Harbor Arts Center Alliance (GHACA), the 30-plus member organization has written its bylaws and articles of incorporation, elected a board of directors and filed the legal paperwork to become a 501c3 non-profit.
Board members include Jonathan Bill, drama and history teacher at Peninsula High School; Louie Labayan, founder and artistic director of the Gig Harbor Peninsula Symphony Orchestra; Merrie Reardon, musician and founder of the Gig Harbor Peninsula Civic Orchestra; Juleen Murray Shaw, an actress and award-winning producer/director; Mark Hoppen, former Gig Harbor City Administrator and Knapp.
BLRB Architects, the firm that designed and built the Gig Harbor Civic Center, donated its services and, after a series of charettes in which each participating organization defined its needs and wants, BLRB presented a design concept for the new arts center.
The design includes performance and rehearsal spaces of varying sizes, separate studios for classes and workshops, photography, filmmaking and recording and a large 1,250-seat performance hall that will also be used by Harbor Christian Center for Sunday morning church services. The church has offered to donate 6.5 acres of land for the arts center, in exchange for leasing space on Sundays.
"It's really exciting," Jonathan Bill, GHACA president, said. "It's a big campus concept that includes all the facilities we discussed. There's usable spaces for every organization, which is really exciting to me — the integration of different arts in one facility and the amazing possibilities for collaboration."
Reardon agreed. "The arts center will pull all the creative resources of the community together in one location. It will provide a place for all the creative artists in the greater Gig Harbor area to come together and share their work," she said.
It will be a source of community pride and community identification, Labayan added. "It will be a regional center that will be a model for arts initiatives. It will be a huge jewel in Gig Harbor's crown."
PAL has felt the need for a suitable space for art shows and workshops for years, and has been stockpiling funds in hopes of someday purchasing a building downtown.
Both Reardon and Labayan also have personal knowledge of the need for performance spaces. "It was really difficult to find a good place for our symphony orchestra to perform," Labayan said. "Either the acoustics weren't good, or there was no piano or the lighting was terrible. There really was no place that was dedicated to performances. This will provide a focus on artistic performance within the community and will encourage the growth of the arts in the entire area."
Reardon's Civic Orchestra currently has to stage its concerts at Peninsula High School. The new arts center "would provide a place for our community orchestra to perform the three concerts each year that we're currently performing at PHS." she said.
The arts center concept "has been well-planned to provide multi-useful spaces for local artists, visiting entertainment and the community at large," Knapp said. "It will also serve as the long-desired conference center."
The facility will be located on 11 acres of land in Gig Harbor North, near the YMCA. In addition to the 6.5 acres donated by HCC, an adjacent property owned by Olympic Property Group has been identified as a potential site for a new elementary school. If the school is built, it's likely that the arts center and the school would share parking space, Knapp said.
The anticipated price tag for the 80,000-square-foot facility is about $30 million, according to Hoppen, He mentioned several other visionary projects that have been built in recent years. "We have a YMCA, a Boys and Girls Club, a major history museum, three National Historic Registry-eligible parks and a great Sehmel Homestead Park. So why shouldn't we also have a cultural centerpiece? I think we all deserve it — including our young people."
Where the money will come from to build and sustain an arts center is a major consideration.
Hoppen spoke recently with Gerry Johnson of Pacifica Law Group about forming a Public Facilities District to manage the on-going obligations of such a facility. "Gerry thinks such an entity can be developed, and offered his firm's legal services pro bono to help in that effort," he said.
Coincidentally, Hoppen added, Johnson's great aunt was Lucy Goodman, one Gig Harbor's first and most beloved schoolteachers. But long before the question of a capital campaign is tackled, the very first step in the process is a feasibility study to determine the economic viability of the project.
The study, which will cost approximately $50,000, also will answer questions related to the economic impact on the area, including the number of jobs it could create.
"The feasibility study is essential," Labayan said. "It will let us know in advance if this whole idea is doable or not. As much as the arts groups want it, the community also has to want it and they have to be willing to support it. In order for the arts — and an arts center — to be sustainable, we need to have the support of the people."
If the research findings show a lack of support, "then we re-design an appropriately sized facility according to the data from the study," Hoppen said.
On the other hand, however, GHACA board members and the arts groups are hopeful that the study "will show that this facility and the small businesses it encourages foster new ways to live, work and play in Gig Harbor," Hoppen said.
"It will truly become a cultural center and an economic driver for our community," Knapp said.
Added Bill, "It would dramatically change art education in this area and give young artists new avenues for developing their talents. I think it has the potential to be the best thing this community could do for itself."
Currently, GHACA board members are raising funds to pay for the feasibility study. To contribute to the effort, contact Hoppen at (253) 279-2415.
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Persona 4 for the PS2 . It's dripping in style, and the game is amazing. (seriously considering getting a Vita for Persona 4 Golden)
dtbaker said"Indentation should consist of 4 spaces. Tabs are not allowed." Tabs > spaces. :/
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Bumping this for justice. Just had to turn down an extended sale because it wouldn't allow multi-site use.
It looks like MySpace is going for what it's known for … no not perverts, music! I won't use it as my social network of choice, but I may use it to find new bands.
CodingJack saidRegardless of whether it's in the description or not doesn't matter. It says nothing about it in the sidebar, thus it's their fault if they buy it expecting it to work with WordPress.
But what if an author doesn't add this information to their item's description? Regardless, support is probably burdened with complaint emails, and the author is now at the mercy of a buyer who wasn't able to use their product (which could lead to unjustified poor ratings).
Regarding them rating it, that's why in it's current state the rating system is pointless. There needs to be some sort of justification(as in, they have to give a valid reason as to why they're rating an item with a poor rating) for the rating. Until something like this is implemented the rating system is quite frankly useless, but sadly you have a point. Your best bet would be to offer a WordPress version, and link to high up in the description.
If buyers are stupid enough not to read the description it's their own fault imo.
eBay, or some mac forums buy and sell section. Macs typically depreciate value very slowly so you'll get way more by selling to another person.
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The Single European Sky project seems to have been around for ever. Is it making any headway?
There are two ways to look at the European Union. On the one hand, it is the source of bold initiatives that take the responsibilities of the nation state and blend them into much more efficient, continental schemes that point the way forward for global co-operation. Think of the euro, or the EU's common aviation area, where any EU carrier can operate as it pleases.
On the other hand, the EU is viewed as a tangle of mind-numbing initiatives, producing legislation that brings about lame compromises or deliberate fudges, and a place where supposedly unifying regulations are ambiguously worded, leading to different interpretations by the member states.
The Single European Sky currently seems like it belongs in the latter category for now, but could well in time become the former. The idea of taking the airspace of many nations, and managing it in a unified and efficient way surely could have applications well beyond the EU's boundaries.
But to try to find out when the Single European Skies might finally be achieved is a daunting task. Any probe soon leaves the investigator caught between accusations and counter accusations, sensitivities and technical issues and all of them neatly summarised in jargon-filled 50-page reports.
The argument for SES can be reduced to a few simple facts. Europe currently has more than 650 air traffic sectors, controlled from 50 en route units or air traffic control centres, and this, the European Commission estimates, makes it half as efficient as the US system.
Fragmentation costs European airlines €1 billion ($1.35 billion) a year, and according to IATA means they burn 12% more carbon dioxide than they need to. With the number of flights in European airspace expected to nearly double to 16 million by 2020, the continent is also running out of space in the current system. Something more efficient is needed.
It was in 1999 that the then EU transport commissioner Loyola de Palacio first suggested the SES, although the project arguably has much older roots. Eurocontrol is a body that was set up to produce a kind of SES, and since the 1970s it has been operating the Maastricht control centre, which controls the upper airspace over northern Germany and the Benelux countries, and performs other pan-European functions.
But Bo Redeborn, director of air traffic management strategies for Eurocontrol, says its past attempts to produce common rules for air traffic control across Europe were ignored. "A lot of good work was wasted," he says.
The SES legislation, a series of regulations agreed by the European parliament and the Council of Ministers (that is, ministers from each member state) in 2004 was supposed to change all that. But the "package" (as it is called in Brussels-speak) was a classic European compromise between a "top-down" solution imposed by the Commission, and a "bottom-up" approach where the member states and their air navigation service providers worked together to produce a solution.
The bottom-up approach generally won, with ANSPs agreeing to work together on creating functional airspace blocks. They got just under five years to show this approach could work. "Finding tangible results within the five years window of opportunity is the acid test for the bottom-up approach," says an EC document. "If discussions on technical issues linger on, it is an indication that the political and economic pressure by member states is not sufficient and the bottom-up approach needs to be adjusted."
This "adjustment" will take place at the end of 2008, when the EC will review progress on the FABs. The problem with this is that no informed observer of the FAB process seems to think that anything meaningful will have been achieved by that date. "Even the best of the FABs are proceeding slowly," says Jeff Poole, director of industry charges, fuel and taxation for IATA, and one of its experts on SES.
That is true even in the Northern Upper Area Control FAB - which includes Denmark and Sweden, with Estonia, Finland and Norway potential members - where, as Poole puts it, "they are Scandinavians and so they want to co-operate". But "there is not a chance they will be ready by 2008", he adds.
The EC, meanwhile, issued a statement in March saying that "it is clear that member states need to speed up efforts to obtain robust and meaningful efforts by 2008" and pointing to "big discrepancies in the intensity of efforts of member states and their air navigation service providers".
Airlines tend to blame this lack of progress on a lack of will by member states to surrender sovereignty over their airspace, and protectionist attitudes by air traffic control unions. "There are so many interests and all have to have their view, and that is why it is taking so long," says KLM. British Airways agrees, noting that states are "very reluctant to give up control of their airspace" because of politics.
Both airlines are calling for more push from the EC, and more commitment from member states. "This is a leaderless initiative," believes Poole. "It needs the Commission to be more eloquent, to give it a sense of direction."
The ANSPs, however, accuse such critics of impatience. "It is a long process, and we are working on it," says Belgocontrol, which is involved in FAB Europe Central, uniting Benelux, France, Germany and Switzerland.
An ambitious project
Belgocontrol says 100 staff from the various ANSPs are working on the FAB, and that there are seven working groups meeting every two weeks. "We are at cruising speed and it is fantastic to see all the people with their critical thinking and exchange of ideas - it is very fruitful. But these are complicated issues and it is a very ambitious project."
Even Belgocontrol cannot say if FAB Europe Central will resolve all outstanding issues by the 2008 deadline. "It is too early to say. We are still doing the studies," it says.
Alexander ter Kuile, secretary general of CANSO, the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, suggests that this is maybe not surprising. "The development of FABs is more complex than anyone foresaw," he says. "It is only as we go down the lane we discover there are more hurdles than expected, and we get the knowledge and develop the understanding to deal with these."
He thinks the EC and the airline community just need to give the process time. "FABs are not overnight events. They involve highly complex, institutional, national and defence issues, and take Europe into legal issues that have never been addressed before. We need to think and talk and discuss about these matters to find the answers."
Among the complexities are different ATC technologies in different member states, different ATC philosophies, and even different definitions of basic terms. Redeborn at Eurocontrol points out that it is doing lots of rule-making work on behalf of the EC that is addressing these areas. "They go all the way from detailed technical definitions to high-level implementation rules about the co-ordination and transfer of data between centres," he says.
These rules must be formulated with input from the member states and then go to the Single Skies Committee of the EU to be ratified by member states, the EC and other interested states such as Norway and Switzerland. Through this painstaking process, issues such as where upper airspace starts have now been harmonised across Europe at 19,500ft (6,000m).
Eurocontrol and the so-called High Level Group set up by the EC to bring all interested parties together are also responsible for working with Europe's military on SES. The issues here are that in some, but not all, EU countries military airspace is handled separately, and often sits awkwardly in the way of key commercial traffic lanes.
Airlines say that now the Cold War is over, this airspace should be freed up, and that SES is not possible without it. But the military would in some cases like more airspace, given the increasing speeds of modern fighter aircraft.
Whether military airspace is a roadblock or a convenient excuse for member states depends on who you talk to. Redeborn at Eurocontrol says the military are happy to entertain more flexible use of military airspace, which is not required all the time anyway. "The idea is to allow the military space to operate missions, but not let them control the airspace outright, and they seem ready to play," he says.
Military catch up
But according to CANSO's ter Kuile, the military needs time to catch up on the issue. "The military side of Europe has not gone through a harmonisation and integration process like the civil side, so there is a 50-year time lag in the institutional development on the defence and civil sides," he says.
He points to "fundamental questions the aviation industry alone will not be able to resolve" - for example, the control of the skies above airbases, which cannot just be moved to suit commercial aviation needs, or at least not without enormous costs.
"These are parliamentary decisions, not decisions for ANSPs," says ter Kuile. "The only way forward is to talk to everyone, win their buy-in, get their understanding. It needs to involve not just the ANSP and ministry of transport, but also the ministry of defence, parliament, the cabinet, so there will be no fast progress."
As well as the role of the military and the willingness to create FABs, some think the original SES legislation also needs clarification. There are some signs the EC agrees, and is preparing to use its 2008 review to tighten up the definitions of what FABs should be doing.
In particular, the new rules would ensure FABs were creating cross-border synergies and not operating like "cosy gentlemen's clubs" as one expert puts it. The EC might also need to pick from the different models of each FAB and decide the most suitable for SES.
With the EU committed to a 20% cut in carbon emissions by 2002, there is also the question of the environmental impact of airlines, and how SES could reduce that. This, a highly placed source explains, was not a consideration when the 2004 legislation was drafted.
Another important factor in the progress towards SES is SESAR, the Single European Sky ATM Research programme. This has brought together airlines, manufacturers, ANSPs and other interested parties, including the US FAA, to look at the creation of a next-generation ATC system.
Set up in 2005, SESAR is currently in its definition phase, which is to be completed in 2008. A development phase will then produce a detailed plan for a new ATM system by 2013, to be implemented between then and 2020.
SESAR runs parallel with the other SES initiatives. Unlike the FABs, it will not address the fragmentation of European airspace, yet the work of the FABs presumably must take into account that it will ultimately be SESAR technology and approaches that will put true European single skies into effect.
In theory, the two initiatives should come together in 2013, producing a grand plan that can then be approved by all parties. SESAR seems to be making good progress, announcing the completion of a series of "deliverables" over the past year. But one insider believes the definition phase will be when "the wheels come off the cart". There are also some complaints that equipment providers are too dominant on SESAR and ANSPs don't have a loud enough voice.
The need for clear regulation
One final issue for SES could be regulatory, in that each country is responsible under the Chicago Convention for the safety of its own airspace. Some point to the July 2002 crash between a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 and a DHL Boeing 757 freighter over Uberlingen in southern Germany as an example of the problems that could occur.
Though under Swiss air traffic control at the time, liability for the crash nevertheless ended up with the German government. So how would SES sort out such situations? Some think the fledgling European Aviation Safety Agency should have a role here, but others say existing regulations will do. "All you need is an agreement between states to cover liability," says Redeborn. "Uberlingen was only an issue because there was no agreement between states, only between ATCs."
Can these issues be resolved, and will SES become a reality some time soon? As so often in the EU, there are grounds for optimism and grounds for despair. Yes, there are complexities and compromises and politicking. But the continent did after all produce the euro, borderless trade, and the common aviation area. SES might just turn out to be another such success.
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Monument Plant
Allen and I are driving up Highway 65 to the Grand Mesa again — I never tire of these scenes! We've just passed through aspen stands and are coming into the tall conifers at mesa's top.
We cross the full beaver ponds and on our right is an area where large cattle trucks can park, hence my name "cattlemen's curve."
We park and look across the highway for the monument plants that we've seen here for many years. And there are the clusters of huge leaves … at least a dozen plants. We cross the highway for a closer look and these leaves are huge, over a foot long … another over two-feet long and at least eight inches wide. It's soft to the touch. Upslope and just beyond the small waterway are more plants. So up we go.
Here's a plant in full bloom. Nearly as tall as I am. No wonder it's called monument plant! The stem is covered with closely crowded blossoms. Each inch-wide flower has four separate petals, pale greenish or white, with many purple spots. There are four sepals that protrude slightly beyond the petals. Thus, it is an unusual-looking flower. I pick up a fallen blossom. With my hand lens I can easily see long, purplish hairs near the center …
and there's a darker purple area; I suppose that would be called a "gland." And a couple of pollinators come out …
now many minute insects appear. Sorry to have disturbed you!
This plant provides plenty of nectar during most of the summer.
I know this plant, but it's always good practice to check it out with Janet Wingate's "Rocky Mountain Flower Finder." This leads me to the plant's leaves be-ing "whorled." The term means that more than two leaves come out from a single point on the stem, in this case four. This leaf arrangement is not often found in our Colorado plants, and so it's a good clue to monument plant.
And all of this leads me to the Gentian Family. But that family has autumn blue flowers occurring in damp places. Now it's the middle of the summer, my plants are on dry sunny slope and the flowers are greenish. So another exception and the common name of Green Gentian. My current references give it a new name (Swertia radiate) but I prefer the old name, Frasera speciosus honoring John Fraser, a colonial botanist, and speciosa, meaning beautiful.
I recall that the plant may live for many years with the basal leaves dying in winter and sprouting in spring. With favorable conditions, the plant may send up the heavy flower stalk and after that single blooming, the plant will die. This is called "monocarpic" with "mono" meaning once and "carpic" meaning fruiting. A similar situation occurs with the century plants in the deserts to our south.
Clear blue sky, a bit of breeze, and the beauty of the monument plants today and those yet to come this summer.


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Lim Yan Liang – Straits Times Indonesia
Controversial tech company Fusion Garage, once touted as an exciting local start-up, has bitten the dust.
The company that beat Apple to the market with a tablet device back in 2010 published notices in newspapers in Singapore on Tuesday, stating that it would be closing down as it could not pay its creditors.
A search with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority revealed that the business is in liquidation, under a creditors' voluntary winding-up.
This means that accountants have been appointed and, in the likely scenario that they find the company insolvent, its assets will be sold to pay off its debts.
The advertisements came on the back of reports three weeks ago that Fusion Garage's public relations (PR) firm and its legal representative – both based in the United States – had quit.
The PR firm, McGrath Power, had said earlier that Fusion Garage had been uncommunicative for weeks, while the law firm, Quinn Emanuel, said its fees had not been paid for several months.
Fusion Garage had earlier stopped selling its flagship product, the Grid10 tablet, on its website.
The company has been embroiled in a lawsuit with its former partner, US-based tech blogger Michael Arrington, since December 2009.
Repeated attempts to reach its chief executive officer and co-founder Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan for comment were unsuccessful.
While it is unclear how much its creditors are owed, prominent shareholders in the firm include Ernst & Young partner Choo Eng Chuan and The Hour Glass executive chairman Henry Tay Yun Chwan.
Last month, Rathakrishnan told The Business Times that the firm had put itself and its intellectual property on sale in an effort to stay afloat, as investors were reluctant to inject more capital.
Analysts The Straits Times spoke to said cut-throat competition and razor-thin margins meant Fusion Garage's demise was not unexpected.
In the initial days following the iPad's successful launch in April 2010, a long list of players tried entering the market because everyone thought tablets were going to be the next big thing, said Melissa Chau, research manager for client devices at IDC Asia Pacific, a research and analysis firm.
"They threw everything at the wall in the hopes that something would stick, but it's not that easy," she said. "Other than Apple, few companies could gain traction in the market."
Privately held Fusion Garage, which has $12 million in paid-up capital and an investment of tens of millions of dollars from Malaysian mobile device maker CSL and other private investors, tried to carve out a niche for its second-generation Grid10 tablet by heavily modifying Google's Android operating system into a tile-based system, besides creating its own hardware.
But like its JooJoo tablet – which was launched in March 2010, a week before the first iPad – the Grid10 faced multiple delays and negative reviews in the tech press.
Unlike the JooJoo, which survived in the market for nearly eight months before it was pulled, the Grid10 was never launched in Singapore.
It was launched solely in the US.
"For such a new technology, you need to prove to consumers that you have a very compelling case, as tablets lack the portability and immediacy of the smartphone and the smooth experience and large screen of the PC," said Chau. "I haven't really seen any of these other guys prove themselves."
Fusion Garage is not the first start-up Rathakrishnan has co-founded: He had earlier launched mobile software developer Radix, which folded in 2007.
Reprinted courtesy of Straits Times Indonesia. To subscribe to Straits Times Indonesia and/or the Jakarta Globe call 021 2553 5055.


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Associate Professor
Modern Britain and the Empire
E-mail: email@example.com
Fax: 613-533-6298
Office: Watson 232
D. Phil., Oxford, 1990
Sandra den Otter researches and teaches in the area of late 18th, 19th and 20th century British history with a particular interest in intellectual and cultural history. She is currently working on the reverberations on British intellectual life of colonialism in South Asia.
HIST 289: England since 1851
HIST 460: The British in India, 1765-1947
HIST 459: British Culture and Society, 1780-1914
HIST 855: The British in India, 1765-1947
HIST 859: British Culture and Society, 1780-1914
1) The intellectual, cultural and political histories of Britain in the 18th to 20th centuries
2) The British Empire
3) The Atlantic World
4) Colonial South Asia
The British Idealists and Social Explanation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)(Amazon)
"Historicizing the Political: The Origins of a Historical Political Science in Britain, 1900-1914", in Historicizing the Political (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2005).
"Freedom of Contract, Commercial Civilization and Colonial Law in British India", ed. Martin Daunton, Worlds of Political Economy (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004).
"Freedom of Contract, the Market, and Imperial Law-Making" in Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800-Present Day, edited M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002).
"Rewriting the Utilitarian Market", European Legacy VI (2001), 281-293.
"Thinking in Communities": Late Nineteenth-Century Liberals, Idealists and the Retrieval of Community", Parliamentary History (1997)16, 67-84.


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Teams: Holy Cross (7-4-2, 6-3-2 Atlantic Hockey) vs. Penn State (6-5-0/Independent)
Dates: December 7-8, 2012
Times: Dec. 7: 7:00 p.m.; Dec. 8: 5:00 p.m.
Place: Hart Center (1,600), Worcester, Mass.
Holy Cross Radio: WCHC 88.1 FM, Worcester, Mass.; Listen to games.
Dec. 7: Dominic Dipersia and Eric Sherman
Dec. 8: Dominic Dipersia and Matt Boni
Live Video Streaming: America One Networks
Series Records (Holy Cross varsity games since 1966-1967):
With Penn State: HC leads 1-0-0
Only Meeting: HC 7, Penn State 1 (11/21/87; Worcester, Mass.)
At Hart Center: HC leads 1-0-0
Current Series Win Streak: HC, one game
HC TO HOST PENN STATE: The Holy Cross men's hockey team (7-4-2 overall, 6-3-2 Atlantic Hockey) returns to action when it hosts Penn State (6-5-0 overall, Independent) at the Hart Center on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 7-8. Friday's game is at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday's contest is at 5:00 p.m. The Crusaders are in second place in the Atlantic Hockey standings with 14 points. The Nittany Lions are playing their first varsity season since 1946-1947 and are competing as an independent before joining the Big Ten next season. This will be the first meeting between these two teams as varsity squads. The Crusaders did play a regular season game as a varsity team versus Penn State who was a club team on Nov. 21, 1987. HC won the contest at the Hart Center by a 7-1 score. Last week, Holy Cross went 0-1-1 versus Robert Morris and Penn State split a two-game exhibition series with Arizona State. HC is 1-2-2 over its last five games and Penn State is 2-3-0 over its last five regular season games. The Crusaders are ranked 13th out of 59 teams nationally with 3.23 goals scored per game, while the Nittany Lions are tied for 29th with a 2.82 average. HC is 45th nationally by allowing 3.08 goals per contest and Penn State is 22nd with a 2.55 average. The Crusaders are tied for 43rd with a .133 power play percentage and the Nittany Lions are 54th with a .080 percentage. HC is tied for 40th with a .808 penalty kill percentage and Penn State is 20th with a .855 percentage.
HC OFF TO STRONG START: The 7-4-2 record is the best start the Crusaders have had since the 2005-2006 season when they were 9-3-1 after their first 13 games. The Crusaders' 42 goals scored are their most after the first 13 games since they netted 51 in the 2006-2007 season. The Crusaders opened the season by scoring six goals versus AIC on Oct. 16. The six goals were the most by HC in a season-opener since the 7-6 win at RIT on Nov. 5, 1982.
HC SCORING 3.23 GOALS PER GAME: The Crusaders are averaging 3.23 goals scored per game so far this season, which are third in Atlantic Hockey and 13th nationally. HC is 6-1-1 so far this season when scoring three or more goals.
TOYS FOR TOTS & THE GIVING TREE: At the game versus Penn State on Saturday, Dec. 8, Toys for Tots will be collecting new unwrapped toys. Fans who bring a toy will get $5 off the regular ticket prices. So adult tickets will be just $5 and youth/senior tickets will be just $1. Also on both Friday and Saturday, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee will also be accepting winter hats and gloves for children in local schools for the Holy Cross Giving Tree.
THE SERIES WITH PENN STATE: This will be the first meeting between these two teams as varsity squads. The Crusaders did play regular season game as a varsity team versus Penn State who was a club team on Nov. 21, 1987. HC won the contest at the Hart Center by a 7-1 score.
HC ON ONE NETWORKS: All of Holy Cross' home games and Atlantic Hockey away games can be seen via live video streaming. The games can been viewed through One Networks.
HC AT HOME: HC is 3-2-2 so far at home this season with wins versus UConn and Bentley, RIT, ties versus RIT and Robert Morris and losses versus Army and Robert Morris. The Crusaders went 12-3-2 (.765) last season at home. The Crusaders' home record was their best since going 10-1-2 (.846) in the 2003-2004 season. The 12 wins were the most at home since the Crusaders won 13 in 1998-1999 going 13-3-2 (.778). HC is 326-200-38 (.612) all-time at the Hart Center.
HOLDING ONTO A LEAD: HC is 5-0-0 when leading after the second period this season. The Crusaders are also 3-1-1 so far when leading after the first period. The Crusaders are 4-1-2 when scoring the first goal of the contest.
HC ON THE ROAD: The Crusaders are 4-2-0 on the road so far this season with wins versus AIC, Clarkson, Air Force and Sacred Heart, while they also lost to Air Force and Brown. HC went 8-11-2 (.429) on the road last season. Two seasons ago, Holy Cross went 6-6-4 (.500) in road games, which was its best away record since going 13-5-1 (.711) in 2005-2006. The 13 road wins is the school record.
WINNING CLOSE GAMES: The Crusaders are 3-2-0 this season in games decided by one goal. Senior Kyle Fletcher (Kanata, Ontario) broke a 1-1 tie in the third period with the game-winner in the 2-1 victory versus UConn on Oct. 26. Junior Adam Schmidt (Warrington, Pa.) broke a 2-2 tie in the second period in the 3-2 win at Air Force on Nov. 2. With the game tied at 3-3, senior captain Erik Vos (Carlisle, Ontario) scored the game-winner in the third period in the 4-3 win versus Bentley on Nov. 9.
HC WITH DEPTH: The Crusaders have had 20 players already tally at least one point so far. The Crusaders have had 13 players score at least one goal. Nineteen players have at least one assist so far this season.
GINN WITH A 7-3-2 RECORD THIS SEASON: Sophomore goalie Matt Ginn (Lindsay, Ontario) is 7-3-2 so far this season as his .667 winning percentage is second in Atlantic Hockey. Recently he posted 36 saves as the Crusaders tied Robert Morris, 1-1, on Dec. 1. He tallied a career-best 51 saves versus Brown on Nov. 25. On Oct. 22, he was named the Team Travel USA Atlantic Hockey Goalie of the Week. He made 75 saves on 78 shots on the week as he posted a .962 save percentage, a 1.50 goals against average and a 2-0-0 record. He made 39 saves and allowed two goals as the Crusaders defeated AIC by a 6-2 score on the road in the season-opener on Oct. 16. Ginn then tallied 36 saves and allowed only one goal for a .973 save percentage in the 3-1 victory at Clarkson on Oct. 20. For his career, he has a 24-11-4 record with a .908 save percentage and a 2.51 goals against average. His 24 wins are already third all-time in the program's Division I history. Ginn, who was named the HCA's National Rookie of the Month for February last year, was named the Atlantic Hockey Rookie of the Week three times, Rookie of the Month twice and Goalie of the Week once. He went 17-8-2 as his 17 wins were tied for second on the school's Division I single-season list. His 629 saves were sixth all-time for a Division I season, while his 2.42 goals against average was fourth.
ZYCH LEADS TEAM IN ASSISTS: Senior Evan Zych (Kilbride, Ontario) leads the team with eight assists. He is tied for eighth in Atlantic Hockey in assists. He is sixth in the league in points by defensemen and his 0.67 points per game are tied for 32nd nationally by defensemen. For his career, he has 17 assists and has played in 67 career games.
FLETCHER LEADS TEAM WITH 12 POINTS: Senior Kyle Fletcher leads the team this season with 12 points, while he is tied for first with six goals and is third with six assists. His 12 points are tied for ninth in Atlantic Hockey and his six goals are tied for sixth. He was named the Team Travel USA Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 12 for his performance in wins versus Bentley and Sacred Heart. This was the third time he has earned Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week as he received this honor twice during his sophomore season. Fletcher led the Crusaders with two goals and four points on the week, while he was tied for first with two assists. On Friday, Nov. 9, in the 4-3 win versus Bentley, Fletcher scored a power play goal in the first period to tie the game at 1-1, while he assisted on the Crusaders' third goal. Then on Sunday, Nov. 13, in the 6-3 victory versus Sacred Heart, he gave the Crusaders a 3-1 lead in the second period and assisted on the Crusaders' fifth goal of the contest. For his career he has 29 goals and 39 assists for 68 points.
SCHMIDT TIED FOR THE TEAM-LEAD IN GOALS: Junior Adam Schmidt is tied for first on the team in goals with six, while he is tied for second with 10 points. He is tied for third in Atlantic Hockey with two game-winning goals. His six goals are tied for sixth in Atlantic Hockey. Schmidt was named the Team Travel USA Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 19 as he tallied three goals and two assists for five points as the Crusaders went 1-0-1 versus RIT. This was the second time he has earned Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week as he received this honor once during his sophomore season, while this is his third career weekly award as he was named the Rookie of the Week in the 2010-2011 season. On Nov. 17, he scored three goals for his second career hat-trick in the 7-3 win, while on Nov. 18, he posted two assists as the Crusaders tied the Tigers, 3-3. He netted the game-winner in the 3-1 win at Clarkson on Oct. 20 and in the 3-2 win at Air Force on Nov. 2. Last season, he posted a career-best 18 goals and a career-best 37 points to lead the Crusaders. He was second on the team with a career-best 19 assists. Schmidt earned second team All-Atlantic Hockey honors as he was the first Crusader to earn All-League accolades since 2008. Schmidt was also named the Hockey Commissioners' Association (HCA) National Division I Player of the Month for February. For his career, Schmidt has 30 goals and 38 assists for 68 points as he has the most career goals of any current Crusader.
SOMMER OFF TO GREAT START: Freshman Castan Sommer (Shrewsbury, Mass.) has three goals and five assists for eight points. He is tied for fourth on the team in assists, while he is tied for fifth in points and tied for fifth in goals. Sommer is fourth in Atlantic Hockey in points by rookies, while his 0.62 points per game are tied for 25th nationally by rookies.
VOS & LINSMAYER LEAD TEAM AS CAPTAINS: Senior captain Erik Vos has three goals and five assists for eight points this season. He is tied for fourth on the team in assists, while he is tied for fifth in points and tied for fifth in goals. Vos scored the game-winner in the 4-3 win versus Bentley. He has 28 goals and 33 assists for 61 career points. Senior assistant captain Rob Linsmayer (Winnetka, Ill.) has 27 goals and 56 assists for 83 career points. He has the most assists and points of any current Crusader. This season he has three goals and seven assists for 10 points. He is second on the team in assists, while he is tied for second in points and tied for fifth in goals. Last season, Linsmayer tied for first in Atlantic Hockey with five game-winning goals.
DWYER NETS FIRST TWO COLLEGIATE GOALS: Sophomore Tommy Dwyer (Ridgefield, Conn.) scored his first two collegiate goals on Friday, Nov. 30 in the 4-3 loss to Robert Morris. With the Crusaders trailing 3-1 in the second period, he netted his first collegiate goal to make it a 3-2 contest. Then with the Crusaders down 4-2 with five minutes left in the third period he scored his second goal of the game. For the season, Dwyer has two goals and two assists for four points.
LUBANSKI POSTS FIRST COLLEGIATE POINT: Freshman Brett Lubanski (Farmington Hills, Mich.) tallied his first collegiate point. He posted an assist versus Robert Morris on Nov. 30.
POWER PLAY POINTS FOR PINK: For the second straight season, every time the Holy Cross men's hockey team scores a power play goal in the Hart Center, money pledged will benefit PINK Revolution. PINK Revolution is an alliance of dedicated individuals with a unified commitment to those touched by breast cancer. Its mission is to support early detection and prevention strategies, fund clinical research advancements and promote survivorship programs in Central Mass. through its affiliation with the UMass Memorial Comprehensive Breast Center. For more information and to donate go here: http://www.powerplaypointsforpink.com/. The Crusaders' annual Pink the Rink game will be on February 16 versus UConn.
E-MAIL ALERTS: Get all the latest news and results on the Holy Cross men's hockey team sent directly to your e-mail. To sign up for e-mail alerts go here: http://www.goholycross.com/list-signup.
HC PICKED SIXTH IN PRESEASON POLL: Holy Cross was picked sixth in the Atlantic Hockey Association Preseason Coaches' Poll. The Crusaders received 74 total points. Air Force was first with a total of 112 points and eight first place votes, followed by Niagara with a total of 101 points and three first place votes. Mercyhurst was selected third with a total of 89 points. Bentley and RIT were tied for fourth in the poll with 87 points. The Crusaders were picked sixth, followed by Connecticut (65 points), Robert Morris eighth (61 points) as well as receiving one first place vote, Canisius (38 points), Army (30 points), American International (20 points) and Sacred Heart (19 points).
HOLY CROSS HEAD COACH PAUL PEARL: Paul Pearl is in his 18th year at the helm of the Holy Cross ice hockey program, and is just the fifth head coach in the history of ice hockey at Holy Cross. On January 21, 2006, with a 3-2 victory at Dartmouth, Pearl became the school's all-time winningest coach with the 168th victory of his career. Pearl has forged a 270-261-65 (.508) record at Holy Cross over 17 years and has been the man behind the bench in eight of the 10 most successful seasons in Holy Cross history, while he has had four teams post 20-plus win seasons. Pearl led the Crusaders to their first two NCAA Tournament appearances in 2003-04 and 2005-06, while he coached the Crusaders to their first ever NCAA Tournament win with the 4-3 overtime victory over Minnesota in Grand Forks, N.D., on March 24, 2006. He has been named the Atlantic Hockey Coach of the Year twice (2004 and 2011). In 2005-2006, Pearl led the Crusaders to a school single season record 27 victories, as the team posted an overall record of 27-10-2. Holy Cross also claimed the Atlantic Hockey regular season and tournament titles. During the 2003-2004 campaign, the Crusaders tallied a 22-10-4 overall record. Holy Cross swept the Atlantic Hockey tournament, and captured two shutout victories en route to the title. Last season, the Crusaders went 20-15-4 overall for the sixth 20-win season in program history. The Crusaders' 15-8-4 Atlantic Hockey record was their best since going 19-7-2 in 2005-2006.
NUNN NAMED A SENIOR CLASS AWARD CANDIDATE: Senior Brandon Nunn (Fairport, N.Y.) has been named one of 20 candidates for the 2012-2013 Senior CLASS Award as college hockey's outstanding NCAA Division I senior student-athlete for the men's hockey division. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. The 20 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, Division I men's coaches and fans who will select one finalist who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition. Nunn has played in 87 career games with 28 goals and 23 assists for 51 points. Nunn has also been strong in the classroom as he has a 3.67 total grade point average as an Economics major and has earned Atlantic Hockey All-Academic team honors every season. Nunn started Power Play Points For Pink. All home power play goals raise money through pledges from the community. The money pledged benefits PINK Revolution. PINK Revolution is an alliance of dedicated individuals with a unified commitment to those touched by breast cancer. Last year he raised over $4,000 for breast cancer research. Nunn has also took part in Crusaders for Kids, a big brother type of program set up by the players to bring inner city kids to other sporting events on campus as well as in the community.


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Children at Risk
Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
Spring 2003
Section 1. (Downey & Putnam) General Background.
Bronfenbrenner, U. (1986). Ecology of the family as a context for human development research perspectives. Developmental Psychology, 22, 723-742. [this article will be distributed on the first day of class].
Section 2. (Putnam, Downey) At risk for what?
Schorr, L.B. (1989). Within our reach: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage. NY: Doubleday. read Introduction, chaps.1 and 2. (L)
Section 3. (Putnam) Growing a good brain: Prenatal risk factors and early infant development.
Section 4: (Downey) A. A Risk for What?
B. Quality of early parent - child interaction: Antecedents and consequences.
Section 5: (Putnam) School problems: Prevention and Intervention
Section 6: (Downey) Child abuse and Community Violence: Antecedents and consequences.
(14) Sections from NYSPCC handbook on child abuse.
Section 7: (Downey) Resiliency, Intervention
(21) Werner, E. E. Resilient children. Reading #5 In E.M. Hetherington & R.D. Parke, Eds. (1988). Contemporary readings in child psychology, 3rd. edition.
Midterm Exam. (short-answer and essay questions)
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Injuries and Prospect Development
July 09 2010 04:55PM
The mind is a funny thing. It selects portions of events for storage, so that years down the line our memory "plays tricks on us." Many years from now, fans might check out Oilers draft history and think "boy Doug Lynch was a poor pick" without knowing (or remembering) his major injury and how it impacted Lynch's career.
UPDATE from 3-on-3 Tournament...MPS impresses and changes his name.
Jason Gregor
July 09 2010 08:06AM
I return home from the greatest fishing trip of my life (more on that in a few days) and I see that the Hall-hype is in overdrive, the Oilers still don't have a veteran 3rd liner, Ilya Kovalchuk is still an UFA and Lebron James might have the biggest sports ego of all-time.
The Blue
July 08 2010 07:43AM
A glance at the current Oilers depth chart tells us a lot about the future. Up front, this team is loaded with tremendous potential. The list of young forwards (Gagner, Cogliano, Brule with the big league team; Hall, MPS, Eberle, Omark, Hartikainen, Lander, Vande Velde) is long, deep and varied; I dare say the only time this team has enjoyed such a large list of potential quality forwards was 79-81 (although the mid-90's had a large and impressive group).
Ryan on Ryan: is Smyth a fit here?
Robin Brownlee
July 07 2010 02:26PM
Ryan Rishaug of TSN has generated some buzz by throwing it out there that a return to the Edmonton Oilers by Ryan Smyth might make sense if the right cards fall into place.
This Generation's Stan Weir
July 07 2010 07:41AM
This is Stan Weir. He is a very important figure in Oilers history, because of his role on the first three Oiler NHL teams. He was a vital part of the group in 79-80, his role began to fade the following season (as detailed by Peter Gzowski in his classic book The Game of Our Lives).
Weir did the difficult work until the gifted kids could take on the chores, and in that way lives forever in Oiler lore.


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Sleaford teenager found guilty of murder
Posted: September 28, 2011|
A TEENAGER convicted of murdering a pensioner after agreeing to meet his victim for sex is facing a life sentence.
Aiden Jackson tricked his victim David Cowley, 67, into meeting him and took him to a derelict site where he was strangled.
Jackson denied murder during a 21-day trial at Lincoln Crown Court, but accepted he was guilty of manslaughter.
He claimed a second teenager was involved in the killing, which took place at the Ballast Pits, off Mareham Lane, Sleaford.
A jury of six men and five women spent six hours deliberating before returning a verdict of guilty of murder.
Judge Michael Heath adjourned sentence until October 20 to allow for the preparation of a pre-sentence report on Jackson, who was 17 at the time of the killing.
After the verdict, the senior investigating officer Detective Superintendent Stuart Morrison, of Lincolnshire Police, described the case as "complex".
He said: "It was a difficult case to investigate. It was not made easier by being given different versions of what happened.
"However I have been satisfied all along that the fatal attack on David Cowley was at the hands of Aiden Jackson and no one else.
"I have spoken to David Cowley's family and they are pleased with the verdict. They say that this is a milestone and a chance to move on."
The jury heard that Jackson, whose only income was his £30 a week education maintenance allowance for attending an FE college, "strung along" Mr Cowley into believing he was interested in gay sex with the pensioner in return for cash and mobile phone top-ups.
They met at Sleaford Railway Station and Mr Cowley, of Coningsby, gave Jackson a lift to the Ballast Pits in his Smart car.
Jackson then strangled the old man who was unable to fight back because of his poor health caused by asthma and a stroke.
Jackson then took his victim's car, together with his money, phone and a ring.
Jackson spent the next day driving around in the Smart car before crashing into a parked vehicle and abandoning it.
He later took his sister and some friends to view the body alongside a lake at Ballast Pits on the outskirts of Sleaford, Lincs.
Jackson made a second trip to the Pits with his mum, who called police as a result of what she saw.
Jackson was arrested after he was found hiding inside his home.
He initially claimed to have found the body, but later said he carried out the killing with another 17-year-old.
That boy was arrested for murder, but no charges were brought against him.
The jury was told Jackson was a habitual liar and petty thief, but his defence counsel, William Harbage QC, suggested he was "a 17-year-old prat" rather than a cold-blooded killer.


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Leaders from Alcoa's Mt. Holly plant recently presented two surprise grant checks, $10,000 to Junior Achievement and $3,000 to St. Stephen Elementary School, from the Alcoa Foundation on behalf of Mt. Holly employee volunteers.
During the Alcoa Worldwide Month of Service in October, 14 Alcoa employees participated in "JA in a Day," teaching five JA lessons about business and economics to third, fourth and fifth grade classes at St. Stephen Elementary.
JA was selected to receive the surprise $10,000 grant through an Alcoa Foundation initiative for non-profits with whom Alcoa employees volunteered during the Month of Service. The grants bolster the volunteer work of thousands of employees given to the communities in which Alcoa operates.
"Alcoa is a leader in connecting business and education," said JA Executive Director Chad Vail. "These funds speak volumes about Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation's commitment to ensuring students are prepared to succeed and to be good citizens in the community and in South Carolina.
This support will enable more programs specifically in the St. Stephen community."
Through the Alcoans Coming Together in our Neighborhoods program, St. Stephen received a $3,000 grant for Mt. Holly's volunteer efforts at the school. The program recognizes employee volunteer groups by awarding grants of $1,500 and $3,000, depending on the number of employees and hours volunteered, to the charitable organizations they serve.
"Our partnership with Alcoa, which began over six years ago, has been phenomenal," said Dr. Elaine Norton, St. Stephen Elementary School Principal. "The recent project with JA was an awesome opportunity for our students, and as a result several Alcoa employees have come back to volunteer again and adopted classrooms.
I believe in the Chinese proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child,' and we are so fortunate to have Alcoa in our village."
In 2012 Mt. Holly employees have completed 32 group volunteer projects with community organizations across the Trident region. Volunteer teams earned $34,500 in ACTION grants for the organizations where they volunteered during the year, including the Habitat for Humanity, Lowcountry Food Bank, Ronald McDonald House and The Nature Conservancy.
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Dan River spill hits too close to home
Not to alarm anyone about the impact of the recent coal ash spill into the Dan River, which feeds directly into Kerr Lake, but I do want to report on the changing tone in recent reports.
Early this past week, headlines were "Officials say Kerr Lake safe to drink" after reports that 82,000 tons of coal ash spilled into the lake through a 48-inch pipe that ran under the storage pit where the sludge was stored.
When the pipe corroded, it allowed all this toxic ash to enter the river. A mention was made of three recent lawsuits that were effectively halted by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Then Wednesday the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advisory warning people not to come in contact with water near the spill site.
No mention of how close "near" is was indicated. While one arm's length might be near to some people, 50 miles is "near" to me. This spill was identified as the third largest of its kind in U.S. history.
Then Friday reports surfaced of a federal criminal investigation being launched by the U.S. Attorney's Office involving Duke Energy and the NCDENR.
The story hinted at collusion — or an official criminal investigation of a suspected felony being conducted by a U.S. and federal grand jury — between regulators and regulated regarding this spill.
As a side note, our governor worked for Duke Energy for 28 years before retiring and running for office in 2008.
Despite recent lawsuits, Duke Energy let a giant pool of toxic mess set atop of a rusty pipe that dumps directly into the Dan River. That is negligence to a high degree. And now we are getting indications that our state regulators may have done more than just look the other way. They might actually have colluded with big money.
My weekly column is about fishing and I've intentionally stayed away from political or other subjects not involving the outdoors. This is fishing related. We may end up suffering for many years due to what appears to be at best criminal negligence, and at worst felonious collusion and sweetheart deals between government officials and big energy.
From here on I will let the writers that focus on this type of thing do the reporting on it, and I will keep my focus on fishing, at least as long as there are fish left in Kerr Lake.
Switching gears to more positive stuff, Chris Bullock, a well-known Kerr Lake catfish and crappie guide, took me out fishing for giant blue catfish last Sunday. This was part of my research for a magazine article to be published this fall, and we had a great day on the water.
While we didn't catch any big ones, we did land eight good keepers. Chris kept a 30-pounder he'd caught Saturday alive in a tank so that we could take photos. We released that big one, but I kept four good-sized ones for eating.
Back last summer while stopped for gas near Madison on the way home from a weekend of fishing on Kerr Lake, two elderly ladies also getting gas asked whether I'd caught any fish.
"Oh yes," we said, as fishing had been great that weekend. She asked what we did with them and I told her they were released alive. She exclaimed we should have kept them and brought her some. Telling her that if I'd known she wanted some I surely would have, she gave me her phone number and we left with a promise to bring her some fish.
Six months later I called Annie Ellington and her sister and asked if she was still interested in fresh fish.
"Whoooweeeee" she said. So I carried her some fresh blue cat filets and she gave me some slices of delicious chocolate cake. Life doesn't get any better than that.
Kerr Lake fishing report – Folks are catching big blue cats using cut shad, crappie and white perch. Look for marks on your depth finder on points in small creeks off Butcher Creek, then anchor down and fish on the bottom. Be prepared for a giant, as Kerr currently holds the world record at 143 pounds.
Upcoming area tournaments – My first tournament of the year was delayed until next Sunday, Feb. 23 due to inclement weather. With the warm spell forecast for this week, the big bass there should be biting well as they feed up for the spring spawn.
Next week's report – Presidents Day report from Walnut Cove and fishing on Belews Creek Lake.
Tip of the week — Anchor down versus drifting when fishing for cats in water colder than 50 degrees as they are very slow to bite. A bait sitting still will get more attention than one passing by.
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