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ALBANY — Archery as a sport and as an alternative for hunting deer appears to be growing rapidly, according to observations and some local sources.
Austin Albright, archery manager at Backwoods Outdoors in Leesburg, said he has seen his store's bow-related sales increase by as much as 30 percent annually for the past three years.
Albright added that he figures about 75 percent of his customers are hunters using bows to get a good six-week head start on the deer season each fall before going back to the gun.
"Deer hunting is easier with a rifle," Albright said. "Most anybody can do that, really. A big part of bow shooting, whether for the sport itself or for hunting big game, is the challenge to the shooter. Deer stands are more difficult with a bow, and you have to be 40 yards or closer. The bigger deer didn't get that way by being dumb."
Albright said he became a hunter at around 12 years old or so, his weapon of choice a .270 rifle. At least it started out that way.
"I was a kid, you know," he said. "When I got my first (deer) with the rifle, then I went to the bow."
Albright said he enjoys not only the challenge of using a bow, but also the increased closeness with nature he experiences than with the more traditional hunting weapons.
According to Albright, most bows sold in south Georgia and across the nation are of a general design first marketed in the 1970s. The weapons are called compound bows. Patented in 1969 by Wilbur Hollis Allen, a mechanic searching for greater power in a bow, the compound design bears little resemblance to the traditional bows many of us saw as children or in physical education classes.
The variety of compound designs varies greatly, but most are constructed from cast or forged aluminum with a roughly triangular-shaped pulley, or cam, mounted at the end of each of the two limbs of the bow. When the bow is drawn over the cams, a cable system helps bring the opposite limbs closer together. Most bows can be adjusted fairly easily to account for personal preferences such as draw weight.
Smaller shooters, women or children may be comfortable with lower draw weights of around 30 pounds, while mature shooters may go with 70 pounds or better.
A big advantage to compound users is the unique let-off feature of the bows, made possible by the end-mounted cams. As the bow is drawn nearly to its limit and pulled over the end of the cam, the original resistance of the pull decreases by 50 percent or more, depending on the bow's design. This allows the shooter to more easily hold the draw until he's ready to release. Albright refers to other bow designs, such as long bows and recurves, as primitive.
One regional representative for archery accessories sees the sport as one of the easiest, most cost-effective ways of introducing young people to hunting or the outdoors, saying that with basic safety precautions, almost any backyard can be adapted to archery practice.
Even though it's possible to invest more than $1,500 in a premium high-tech bow, perfectly adequate bows are available for children and adults for around $500, the representative said.
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July 27, 2006
John H. McWhorter
Last weekend I was on a panel about blacks and voting. Predictably, much of the black audience got quite a thrill from assailing Republicans as racists.The whole idea of Republicans as bigots is hardly the open-and-shut case that many assume. This week in the Times Paul Krugman has it that black people see Republicans as anti-black because of things like resistance to the estate tax and raising the minimum wage. But things like this are more of interest to Krugman, other economists, and political junkies than the man on the street of any color. Even liberal black Newsweek writer Ellis Cose has said that "rage does not flow from dry numerical analyses of discrimination."
More to the point is the idea on the vine that the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina meant that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," as one of our bards of the moment couched it. However, the black community mantra "Know Your History" applies not only to the Scottsboro Boys, but to things like Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Ground zero this time was mostly white Homestead, Florida.Yet it was the same storythe days of inaction, people stranded in the steaming dark. Katrina was about incompetence, not bigotry.
Then there are allegations that Republicans have been suppressing the black vote. I suspect that only a certain unreachable fringe truly believe that such people are committed to a return to white supremacy, opposed to the black suffrage out of a conviction that we are an inferior race who ought have no place in the electoral process.
There is always the seamy side to an election, and the blunt truth is that for someone committed to shaving away Democratic votes by hook or by crook, sheer pragmatism dictates that there is no more dependable or efficient way to go at this than to target the black vote.This is because we are the Democrat's most dependable supporters, in contrast to Latinos and Asians who split their vote between Bush and Kerry more evenly.
Deliberately discouraging voters is disgusting. It should be aired, condemned, and prevented. But then, cynical operatives would have less reason to even try to get away with it if we split our vote more like other groups.
Still, nothing could budge many from a steadfast wariness based on any number of controversial timeline snippets: Reagan's "welfare queen" jokes, the Willie Horton ad, and so on. However, the idea that black people's wedge issue must be a party's "sensitivity" about race is a new one. Back in the day the assumption was that there was ample racism on both sides and that our job was to choose the party that was, nevertheless, most likely to address any of our concerns. By modern standards both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were bigots. W.E.B. DuBois supported Wilson in 1912 as the lesser of two evils because Wilson promised to make federal patronage color-blind and to veto anti-black legislation.
Many will object that while that was the best they could do a century ago, today, we have the option of voting for the party that "isn't racist." But in doing that decade after decade, what do we get? In 2006, the "racist" Republicans are the party behind programs saving children from failing schools, assisting religious organizations (e.g. black churches) in turning around their neighborhoods (e.g. black inner cities), and maintaining welfare programs as focused on job training. A funny kind of racism, this, regardless of whatever Trent Lott once said after dinner one night. Naturally there have been snags in carrying these programs out, and none are magic bullets. But the Democrats did not create them. Often they have even opposed them.
And for what? Under Mr. Clinton, there was, we recall, the Conversation on Race. This would appear to have led to precisely nothing,especially given the conviction so regularly expressed by black commentators today that there still needs to be some kind of "conversation" on race in America.
If we are a strong people, it cannot be at the top of our list that a party's members be, to a man, paragons of racial enlightenment and goodwill. What should matter is proposals and policies designed to help the disadvantaged, and the assorted rituals of "acknowledgment" do not meet this standard.
Something paradoxical in black America is how gleeful people often are in talking about sad things. For example, another observation on voting that black audiences often applaud is that the Democrats exploit our vote. For those wondering why anyone would applaud such a glum observation, the applause is for the idea that we are getting one over on the Democrats by having figured out the exploitation in question.
But we aren't. The applause changes nothing.
Rather, instead of the spirited debates that the black community once had about which party to endorse and why, every four years almost everyone votes for whoever the Democrats happen to have settled upon. If the Democrat wins, we can't expect to be a priority since we were such a cheap date. And never mind if the Democrat loses. What the Bush administration has done nevertheless,then,is further evidence that the idea that real black people don't let their friends vote Republican is getting old.
That idea leaves black America politically powerless, making do with scraps from the table. It actually brings to mind the plantation that Mrs. Clinton "acknowledged" not long ago, as something about which even a well-heeled black audience presumably "know what that's like." Of course, unlike our slave ancestors we have our precious "acknowledgment." But in 2006, we sell ourselves short in pretending that this is enough.
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2010 Wisconsin Softball
Wisconsin vs Texas A&M
Feb 12, 2010 at Tempe, Ariz. (Farrington Stadium)
Score by Innings R H E
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Texas A&M........... (11)00 5X - 16 13 0
Umpires - HP: Oscar Segura 1B: Edward Cooper 3B: Mike Bartley
Start: 9:00 AM Time: 1:55 Attendance: 146
Weather: 51 degrees, mostly sunny
2010 Wisconsin Softball
Wisconsin vs Texas A&M
Feb 12, 2010 at Tempe, Ariz. (Farrington Stadium)
Wisconsin starters: 4/cf Krueger; 17/lf Grimm; 9/3b Blackshear; 7/1b Spence;
2/2b Massey; 12/dh Olivarez; 24/rf Hanewich; 5/c Strange; 8/ss Soderberg; 21/p
Texas A&M starters: 14/ss Morrow; 10/lf Spittler; 13/dh May; 15/p Kliesing;
5/3b Reynolds; 4/rf Schroeder; 1/2b Dumezich; 3/1b Rau; 2/cf Orsak; 9/c
Wisconsin 1st - May to c. Schwirtlich to dh. Krueger
struck out swinging. Grimm struck out looking. Blackshear grounded out to 3b.
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Texas A&M 1st - Morrow walked. Spittler walked;
Morrow advanced to second. May walked; Spittler advanced to second; Morrow
advanced to third. Kliesing popped up to 3b. Reynolds singled to right field,
RBI; May advanced to second; Spittler advanced to third; Morrow scored.
Schroeder singled to center field, RBI; Reynolds advanced to second; May
advanced to third; Spittler scored. Dumezich doubled to right center, 3 RBI;
Schroeder scored; Reynolds scored; May scored. Rau walked. Hansen to p for
McIntosh. Orsak singled to left field; Rau advanced to second; Dumezich
advanced to third. Morrow walked, RBI; Orsak advanced to second; Rau advanced
to third; Dumezich scored. Spittler walked, RBI; Morrow advanced to second;
Orsak advanced to third; Rau scored. May doubled to left center, 2 RBI;
Spittler advanced to third; Morrow scored; Orsak scored. Kliesing doubled up
the middle, 2 RBI; May scored; Spittler scored. Reynolds struck out swinging.
Schroeder walked. Dumezich struck out swinging. 11 runs, 6 hits, 0
errors, 2 LOB.
Wisconsin 2nd - Spence singled to left center.
Spence advanced to second on a passed ball. Massey walked. Olivarez reached on
a fielder's choice; Massey advanced to second; Spence out at third p to 3b.
Hanewich struck out swinging. Strange struck out swinging. 0 runs, 1 hit,
0 errors, 2 LOB.
Texas A&M 2nd - Rau doubled to left field. Tovar
pinch ran for Rau. Orsak struck out swinging. Morrow flied out to cf. Spittler
fouled out to ss. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Wisconsin 3rd - Rau to 1b for Tovar. Soderberg
struck out looking. Krueger grounded out to ss. Grimm lined out to 2b. 0
runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Texas A&M 3rd - May fouled out to 3b. Kliesing
struck out swinging. Reynolds walked. Schroeder walked; Reynolds advanced to
second. Dumezich walked; Schroeder advanced to second; Reynolds advanced to
third. Rau flied out to lf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
Wisconsin 4th - Reynolds to 1b. Rau to dh.
Schwirtlich to 3b. Blackshear singled up the middle. Blackshear advanced to
second on a wild pitch. Spence walked. Massey struck out swinging. Olivarez
singled to pitcher; Spence advanced to second; Blackshear advanced to third.
Gregory pinch ran for Olivarez. Hanewich struck out swinging. Strange hit by
pitch, RBI; Gregory advanced to second; Spence advanced to third; Blackshear
scored. Soderberg struck out swinging. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3
Texas A&M 4th - Orsak walked. Morrow singled, bunt;
Orsak advanced to second. Spittler homered to right center, 3 RBI; Morrow
scored; Orsak scored. May popped up to 3b. Kliesing singled to right field.
Shannon pinch ran for Kliesing. Reynolds homered to center field, 2 RBI;
Shannon scored. McIntosh to p for Hansen. Schroeder singled through the right
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Schroeder advanced to second. Rau walked; Morris advanced to second; Schroeder
advanced to third. Orsak struck out swinging. Morrow flied out to rf. 5
runs, 6 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
Wisconsin 5th - Kliesing to 1b for Shannon. Reynolds
to 3b. Dumezich to p for Morris. Schwirtlich to 2b. Krueger struck out
swinging. Grimm struck out swinging. Blackshear singled to left field. Horton
pinch ran for Blackshear. Horton advanced to second on a wild pitch. Spence
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Twin Falls County Commissioners are working on a proposed livestock control ordinance that may help with some of the safety issues involved when livestock get out of their fences and wind up on public roads. Fines are proposed in the ordinance for livestock owners who persistently do little to keep their livestock from getting out. A first time violation would could cost violators $50 per day per animal. The second would cost $100 per day per animal.
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ROME, JUNE 24, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Those who claim the Vatican tries to hide behind a veil of secrecy should read its newly published 783-page book on the Inquisition.
The "Minutes of the International Symposium 'The Inquisition'" is a remarkably candid exposé of the tortures and injustices committed by various national Inquisitions (in England, Portugal, Spain, France, Goa) and the Roman one, under the guidance of several Popes and the auspices of the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas. The symposium was held in October 1998.
It is a tribute to the visionary leadership of Pope John Paul II that the Church opened up its archives on this period to Catholic and non-Catholic historians and published their findings. The findings do not shy away from strong criticism of Catholic leadership of the time.
Consider these excerpts:
"In 1559, on express desire of Paul IV, in a systematic and detailed way, all Christians who went to confess their sins were first interrogated about their criminal offences, or their knowledge of crimes of heresy or reading of prohibited books; and if something emerged, they were sent to the tribunal of the inquisition to make a formal denouncement ... if the violence of torture and the gallows broke the body, the moral violence exercised by the subordination of confession to the inquisition broke consciences ... the profound effects of this choice still need to be evaluated in full" (p. 761).
"The largest spurt in executions by the Roman Inquisition occurred shortly after the Council of Trent, during the pontificate of an ex-Inquisitor General. Because of the Roman Inquisition, Pius V has more legal murders staining his record than any other 16th century pope, including Paul IV and Sixtus V. Nevertheless, he has become the only one of this group to be canonized, while the other two remain bywords for bigoted ferocity" (p. 545).
"That the wisest and saintliest among the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, through their personal authority, gave credence to this 'communal doctrine' [of torture and death] to the point of seeming to imbue it with a quasi-Magisterial authority, necessitates that the authentic Magisterium of the Church make honorable amends" (p. 767).
Not a few at the Vatican were concerned that the publication of such details would give ammunition to those who wished to attack the Church.
Yet the Pope insisted on this research as part of his Jubilee Year "purification of memory," which required a scholarly investigation into the truth of what happened during the Inquisition -- not simply to set the record straight, but to ask for forgiveness for the injustices that occurred.
Now it is a tricky theological question how, and indeed why, one can ask for forgiveness on behalf of Popes who have been canonized, and doctors and saints of the Church whose teachings encouraged injustice.
I spoke to the theologian of the Papal Household, Cardinal Georges Cottier, who headed the commission that published the work on the Inquisition.
"The Church does not ask forgiveness for the Inquisition as a whole," Cardinal Cottier clarified. "She asks forgiveness for the fact of the violence employed during the Inquisition."
"The individual guilt of saints or Popes involved in the Inquisition is not judged by the Church; it is a secret of God," he said.
In any moral act, the cardinal explained, there are different levels of responsibility. So, for example, the use of drugs may mitigate the responsibility of an individual who sins under their effect.
Likewise, given the mentality of the age of the Inquisition, when the use of torture and burning was widely accepted, the responsibility of those involved must be considered in this light.
So while the conscience of say, St. Pius V, may have been deficient, it must be considered against the "communal conscience" of the time, said Cardinal Cottier.
"Communal conscience evolves," the cardinal said. "What was considered acceptable for a certain time, may be seen later as unjust."
The cardinal cited the death penalty as a modern example of the evolution of communal conscience.
And just as there can be a progression of conscience, so can there be a regression of communal conscience, as is the case with abortion, said the cardinal.
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Fighting the Trafficking of People
The Vatican and the U.S. government did not see eye to eye on the question of the Iraq war. But there is another issue to which the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See has been devoted that has the full support of the Vatican: combating trafficking in human persons.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to the cooperation between Congress and the administration on opposing trafficking as an example of "complete institutional mind-meld."
The "mind-meld" on human trafficking between the Holy See and the U.S. government is important because much of the frontline work in combating the issue of human trafficking is done by Catholic organizations that assist immigrant women and children and direct them to the relevant government programs.
Vatican officials, including Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and Monsignor Pietro Parolin, undersecretary for relations with states, joined with the U.S. Embassy in a June 17 conference on human trafficking, to meet international experts on the topic.
Trafficking refers to the illegal buying, selling and transportation of mostly women and children across borders for purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation.
The U.S. government estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 women and children are trafficked across borders each year, and this doesn't include those who are illegally exploited within their own country.
The U.S. Department for Health and Human Services in the last three years has directed $8.1 million to nongovernmental organizations in the fight against trafficking.
The difference dollars can make was evidenced by two of the speakers at the conference: Sister Mary Ellen Dougherty and Sister Eugenia Bonetti.
Sister Dougherty works under the auspices of the U.S. bishops' Office of Migration and Refugee Services, which deals with the 18,000 people trafficked to the United States (mainly from Central America) each year.
"In my building I have access to all of the dioceses, international networks and refugee services," said Sister Dougherty.
"We have workshops to educate the staff of the USCCB and give semiannual reports at the meetings of the U.S. bishops," she said.
Sister Bonetti in Italy fights trafficking without such sophisticated networks or the support of the Italian bishops' conference, she said.
Named as a "hero" in the U.S. government's 2004 report on trafficking, Sister Bonetti has a team of 250 Italian nuns who "leave their convents, even at night, to reach out to prostitutes."
They staff 100 centers that offer shelter, language courses, vocational training and most importantly, assistance with legal paperwork, for women and children who "no longer know who they are."
Sister Bonetti's funds are scarce, but she said, "We have a special bank that never goes bankrupt: That is Providence."
Monsignor Parolin reiterated the Holy See's commitment to the issue of human trafficking and applauded those Catholic institutions that work in the sector.
The problem, however, cannot be solved solely through direct initiatives, he said, but by confronting the greater problem of poverty with solutions for economic and social justice.
"Our world has not been capable of defeating prostitution, pedophilia or pornography," Monsignor Parolin said, "not even in Western society. John Paul II has encouraged the study of this problem and the search for concrete answers."
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Page 1: Fruita to Carbondale
Page 2: Carbondale to Bond
Page 3: Bond to Hot Sulphur Springs
Page 4: Hot Sulphur Springs to Fort Collins
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Colorado is a wonderful state for bicycle touring, with beautiful mountain scenery, abundant public land for camping, and challenging climbs over mountain passes. I've bike toured in Colorado in both the past two summers, but my family has stayed home while I ride alone. The mountain roads have always seemed too difficult for our family of four to ride them together.
This summer we're putting those concerns aside and embarking on a 2-week bike tour across the Rocky Mountains. Yesterday we packed a rented minivan full of bicycling and camping gear and drove west to the home of friends in Fruita, Colorado, near the Utah border. Today we've enjoyed visiting John, Chandra and their children, and tomorrow we'll start a 14-day bike trip back to Fort Collins. Kathy and I will ride our tandem bicycle, Daniel will ride his attached trailercycle, and Maggie will ride in her child trailer. We're not sure what path we'll follow across the Rockies, but we have a few ideas and we will cross at least four mountain passes. The ride is bound to be very hard, but we finished a fun bike trip in South Dakota's Black Hills last month, and that has given us the confidence to attempt Colorado.
It's hard to know what weather to expect. Here in Fruita the high temperature has been over 100°F each day, typical for this time of year, but when we cross Cameron Pass near the end of our ride we need to be prepared for snow or freezing temperatures.
I've wondered, with all the steep roads and hot days and cold nights ahead, "Is this going to be a fun family vacation?" I hope so, but I don't really know; we just need to try it. I'm sure it will be a memorable vacation, fun or no fun. We've planned to take a few rest days, and we'll try to find fun diversions in the mountain towns along our route.
Preparing to leave home in our rented minivan. Our tandem bicycle fit inside fully assembled.
Abby and Maggie on the backyard playground in Fruita.
Abby and Daniel follow Kimee up the slide.
Dinner at John and Chandra's house.
Sunday, July 18
Distance: 54 miles
Riding time: Unknown (bike computer error)
Maggie woke up in our room at about 3 a.m. this morning, and after nearly an hour of trying to get her to go back to sleep I gave up and began getting ready to ride. I knew we needed an early start to have a chance at beating the afternoon heat, but after stepping outside I realized that was impossible. Before sunrise it was already warm, maybe 80°F, and the sky was clear. When we started riding at 7:30 a.m. we could feel the temperature rising as the minutes ticked by. While riding through Fruita and Grand Junction sweat poured off my body because the surrounding irrigated farmland held the humidity high, but the humidity dropped abruptly when we turned onto Highway 50 and rode into dry grasslands.
We liked seeing the hills and grasslands today, which looked like a good place to film a cowboy western, but we only observed them from our bike. We didn't dare stop in this heat without a shady spot to cool off in, and there were no trees or shade along the road. At lunchtime we stopped at an isolated cluster of houses - the last buildings that we would see for the next 18 miles - and knocked on a door to ask if we could eat in the shade of the front porch. The kind owners invited us into their living room instead, which was a welcome relief. We talked with the family while we ate our lunch, and Maggie played with their pet dog, a husky much bigger than her.
Riding out of Fruita in the morning.
We rode past the cliffs of Colorado National Monument, across the Colorado River from us.
When we arrived in Delta around 2:30, Kathy and I were so exhausted that we parked at a roadside hotel and laid down on a concrete walkway under the shade of an awning. We were told that it was 102°F outside. Daniel stood next to me with a confused look, so I had to explain that Mommy and Daddy were so hot and tired that we could barely move. We drank a few cold sodas from the vending machine, then eventually got up and biked into the old downtown.
Before we started this trip, Kathy and I decided that we would try to eat at locally owned restaurants in the old downtowns rather than at national chains. On the road we cook most of our meals, but we do use restaurants occasionally, and downtown restaurants give us a better feel for the character of a town. We tried to find a local place to eat today, but we failed because it's Sunday. Nearly all the downtown businesses were closed, and we weren't in the mood for the two Mexican restaurants that were open. We ended up at a Wendy's Restaurant that felt exactly like the Wendy's Restaurant at home in Fort Collins. It was still fun to walk through downtown, mostly because we saw around ten excellent large murals painted on the walls of old buildings.
We set up camp at a private campground on the edge of town, where we all cooled off in the swimming pool. We somehow lost our camping pillows during the ride, and I hope that doesn't keep us from getting a good night's sleep. It's been a long day.
A welcome mural on the edge of downtown Delta.
Old-fashioned bicycle sculpture and mural in a small downtown park.
Kathy talks to a mural man outside an apartment building.
Cooling off in the campground swimming pool.
Eating a late dinner at camp.
Monday, July 19
Distance: 48.7 miles
Riding time: 5 hours, 9 minutes
Average speed: 9.4 mph
Maximum speed: 38.1 mph
Our family had a much better ride today than yesterday, even though the weather was nearly as hot and we climbed much more. A few small changes made a big improvement, beginning with sleep. We woke up at 6:30 a.m. instead of 3 a.m. this morning, so we weren't tired before our ride even started. Of course this meant the temperature was much higher when we started, but by good luck some clouds arrived at 11 o'clock and shaded us for an hour or two, providing a desperately needed break from the heat. The views were better today as we rode closer to the mountains of the Elk Range in the northeast. We'll need to cross some of those mountains in the next day or two, and they look really steep.
Shortly after noon we came into the little town of Hotchkiss and found a perfect place to take a break: a gallery run by a local artists co-op, featuring artwork, photography, ice cream and ice-cold water. It also had a dog for the kids to play with. I like galleries featuring local artists because their art usually reflects what people find special or important in that area. We spent almost 3 hours there eating lunch, looking at art and snacking on ice cream while waiting out some of the afternoon heat. There was lots of wildlife and landscape art, not surprising in this part of Colorado, plus pottery, jewelry, stone carving and more.
Maggie helped me squeeze air out of our air mattresses every time we broke camp.
Looking north from highway 92 to the foothills of 10,000 ft. Grand Mesa.
Walking the bike through a highway construction zone.
Cooling off in a gallery of the Creamery Arts Center in Hotchkiss.
Maggie pets her new friend outside the Creamery Arts Center.
When we finally left it was still 97°F, but at least we knew the day wouldn't get any hotter. Daniel did some irrational complaining from his trailerbike, starting with, "Mommy, I'm too hot."
"Do you want to ride in the trailer with Maggie?" asked Kathy.
"No, I want us to ride really fast to cool me off," he answered.
"Daniel, we can't go fast while riding uphill. Mom and Dad are tired."
"I want to ride downhill right now!" demanded Daniel.
"We can't go downhill until we reach the top of this hill. And the weather is cooler up high in the mountains. Will you help us pedal up the hill?"
"No Mommy, I'm too hot!" Daniel began again.
Towards evening the day cooled down to a comfortable temperature, and then the biking was great. I think we felt stronger just because we were comfortable. We pushed on to Paonia State Park, on the north fork of the Gunnison River, and ate our dinner in the dark. Finishing a ride well improves our impression of the whole day, and our whole family was in a good mood tonight.
Our campground and the surrounding mountains are covered with tall pine trees, and the night is getting chilly. We're truly in the mountains now, and tomorrow we will see if we can truly handle mountain roads.
Mount Lamborn (11,395') and Landsend Peak east of Hotchkiss.
A retired train engineer in Paonia tells Daniel what to expect during the rest of our ride today.
Snack break beside Paonia Reservoir.
Evening sunlight on the Ragged Mountains north of Paonia Reservoir.
Tuesday, July 20
Distance: 39.1 miles
Riding time: 3 hours, 38 minutes
Average speed: 10.8 mph
Maximum speed: 42.6 mph
It's my birthday! I turned 37 and spent most of the day biking through the mountains with my family, which seemed like a good way to celebrate. Kathy and the kids sang "Happy Birthday" at our picnic table this morning, and I blew out a candle in one of the four brownies that Kathy brought along just for this occasion.
We crossed our first named mountain pass today, 8755 ft. McClure Pass. The first three days of our trip have all been climbing towards this pass, but today was the toughest. When we were 4 miles from the summit our legs couldn't pedal up the steep grade anymore. We got off the bike so that I could push it up the hill, but my body couldn't handle that either. We were hot and dehydrated (I hadn't purified enough water for us to drink this morning) and feeling weak. Fortunately, I'd planned for this situation. Instead of pushing the bike, I pulled it up the hill using our rope and a set of backpack shoulder straps that I'd brought along for this purpose. I pulled the bike like a mule while Kathy walked and kept it balanced. I had no trouble towing the bike that way, although it was hard work for Kathy to keep it balanced.
Celebrating my birthday during breakfast at Paonia State Park.
Sterilizing beaver pond water for drinking, because there was no drinking water at our campsite. We were surprised by the water's good taste; it was better than typical well water.
Towing our bike up the 8% grade to McClure Pass.
The hardest part of towing our bike up those last 4 miles was not the pulling or the balancing, but the constant interruptions from our kids. It seemed like every few minutes they would start arguing, or open the trailer and drop something out, or Maggie would try to climb out of the moving trailer (she knows how to wiggle out of her 5-point seatbelt.) Meanwhile a thunderstorm was brewing above the mountains, and eventually Kathy began to loose her temper. There wasn't really a good reason to get upset since our bike trip is already about a day ahead of schedule, but between dehydration and fatigue I don't think that Kathy or the kids were behaving rationally.
Everyone behaved better after we reached the top of the pass. The thunderstorm caught up with us there, so we walked into the aspen forest and waited out the storm in our raincoats. That gave us some rest, and then we climbed back on our bike for a fast, 17-mile ride through the Crystal River Canyon and into the small mountain town of Carbondale. Downtown we found the house of Aaron, a host from the "Warm Showers" hospitality group that I contacted before our trip. Aaron and his wife, Midge, have a home that lets them host in style. Guests stay in a separate apartment over the garage, complete with multiple beds, kitchen, widescreen television, deck, porch swings, and access to the hot tub. Down in the garage is nearly a whole bike shop worth of tools that I could use to service our bike.
Staying here after a long day of biking was like paradise, but we did have a couple unfortunate faux pas between our hosts and us. Midge arrived later in the evening and seemed surprised to find us at her home. Maybe Aaron hadn't told her when to expect us - I hope she wasn't annoyed. Worse, tonight Maggie fought going to sleep for almost 2 hours, crying most of that time. Our vacation has changed her routine so much that she's been uncooperative at bedtime. At 10 o'clock an upset Aaron came out to us on the deck and said, "She's got to stop. A little bit of this is O.K., but she has got to stop." We didn't know that he could hear Maggie in the house, or that his family was trying to sleep. It turns out that this neighborhood gets very quiet at night, so everyone leaves their windows open, and the houses are so close together that any noise echoes through the whole neighborhood. Maggie's crying had probably been annoying 6 or more neighbors. We went back into the apartment, closed all the windows and rocked Maggie yet again, and this time she fell asleep. Lesson learned. Aaron and Midge must enjoy hosting guests, or they wouldn't have built such a nice place for them to stay. It's too bad that we annoyed them on our first night here. We're planning to stay for two nights to visit the area better.
Aspen forest on McClure Pass.
Waiting out a thunderstorm in the forest.
Riding down from McClure Pass.
Maggie rides the "bed swing" on Aaron's front porch.
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On Sunday April 29, 2012 at 6:00pm there will a fundraiser for Jewish Family Services of the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Bell Tower Shoppes. Jewish Family Services of the Jewish Federation of Lee and Charlotte Counties provides information, referral and counseling services to the community including support for individuals with special needs, the elderly and indigent. JFS also operates a food pantry. Individual and group counseling services and support groups provide an emotional safety net to individuals and families who find themselves vulnerable. Based on traditional Jewish values of social responsibility and concern for all members of the community, JFS serves those in need without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, or the ability to pay. The Fred Astaire Dance Studios is offering eight complimentary lessons to each of the participating doctors to learn a dance routine for the competition. The instructors will participate in the competition as dance partners for the doctors. They will also open the evening with a professional dance show. The Fred Astaire Dance School has arranged with a costume designer a of costumes for the doctors and instructors, for the evening. Red Salon and Spa will provide complimentary hair and make-up services for the dancers. Our emcee for the evening will be Patrick Nolan, News Anchor on Fox 4 TV. The evening promises to be lots of fun and everyone attending may participate in judging the winners by buying votes for their favorite dancing doctor. Votes cost $1 each. There will also be a silent auction at the event. The doctors participating in the dance competition are: Dr. Lowell Hart, Dr. Amy Wecker, Dr. Tatiana Reynolds, Dr. Konnie Yankopulus Dr. Anne McNamara, Dr. Peter Denk, Dr. Lynn Einbinder, and Dr. Manish Bhalla We thank our sponsors; Arden Courts Memory Care Community, Fred Astaire Dance Studios, Crowne Plaza Hotel Fort Myers, Vein Specialists at Royal Palm Square, Dr. James Rubenstein, Dr. Steven Paletsky, Dr. Ira Zucker, and Dr. Scott Schwartz, Red Salon and Spa and are sponsoring the event. You can become a sponsor too. There are sponsorships available from $200 up to $1500 for more information or to order your tickets visit our website www.DancingWithDocs.com If you have questions please contact Naomi Rubin at Jewish Federation at 239.481.4449xt 3
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A young woman who returned home after eating out with friends was sexually assaulted by the security guard of her apartment in Mumbai, media reports said on Saturday.
The 25-year-old woman was dropped at her apartment late on Friday night by her friends but before she could enter her room she was assaulted by a guard in the upscale Powai.
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Sadly, this initiative is not expected to translate to the US on the same time frame. While companies producing phones in this country may start to adopt similar charges (Motorola and Samsung have already committed to the project, but with no timeline or expected launch date), it's unlikely that the FCC or any other government agency will step in with an enforceable deadline to make companies comply. Fingers crossed that this same initiative will make it across the pond soon!


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A majority of employees believe workplace etiquette affects their career prospects, but they also think people become less courteous as they rise to the top, according to a new survey by Accountemps, a staffing company for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals thats part of staffing giant Robert Half.
More than eight out of 10 of the workers surveyed for the poll indicated that being courteous to others has an impact on a persons career prospects. However, 70 percent of the workers polled said they think people become less courteous as they climb the corporate ladder.
When employees were asked to name the biggest breach of workplace etiquette in an open office space, using a speakerphone or talking loudly on the phone topped the list, at 36 percent. Loitering or talking around a colleagues desk ranked second, at 23 percent. Eating foods that have strong odors was in third place, cited by 15 percent of the survey respondents, while keeping a messy or cluttered workspace was in fourth place, at 14 percent. Leaving the phone ringer on loud was in fifth place, cited by 8 percent of the respondents.
Workplace etiquette is about being aware of how your actions affect those around you, said Accountemps chairman Max Messmer in a statement. Time constraints and external pressures arent excuses for bad behavior. While it takes more than just good manners to rise through the ranks, displaying professional courtesy will only help your career. Open office spaces foster better collaboration, but employees should make sure their actions aren't keeping others from doing their jobs.
The survey includes responses from more than 450 employees 18 years of age and older who work in an office environment in the U.S. The sample was of all types of workers, not just accounting and finance professionals.
The full survey results and an infographic are available here and here.
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I have found that the simple art of saying "Thank You" is has dwindled to a few coworkers and managers in general. Yes, your boss doesn't have to say "Thank you" for your duties but it is a courtesy we should all follow just the same.
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Proponents say this proposal would allow more people to have pets, give landlords incentives to be pet-friendly, and improve quality of life. Opponents say it will lead to higher rents, especially where a tenant and landlord have a verbal agreement allowing a pet, and that landlords should simply be required to accept all pets.
This morning's Forum on KQED featured some heated exchanges regarding this proposal (audio should be uploaded soon). See also the Examiner's (cursory) discussion here, and a blogger's thoughts here.
This is an issue because rent control places strictures on private freedom of contract. It shows that when landlords are limited to increasing rent by 1.5% annually, they will do what they can to reduce their potential costs, i.e. restrict tenants' ability to have pets. This proposal gives tenants and landlords a way to escape some of the rigidity of the system.
However, this proposal also appears to accomplish an end-run around rent control. Would the increase, up to 5%, be permanent, or only contingent on the tenant staying and keeping the pet? If the doggie dies, does the rent decline? This much is not clear.
Finally, I don't think it's a good idea to require all landlords to accept pets into apartments. While pets improve quality of life, I see far less compelling reasons for this than for other measures, such as prohibiting discrimination based on race, age, religion, etc. There are good public health, safety, and aesthetic reasons not to mandate pet-friendliness. I am reminded of this every time I come home and my neighbor's dog starts yapping. I haven't yet figured out how to get my fuchsia to bark back.


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AHC Greater Baltimore is part of AHC Inc., a private, nonprofit developer of affordable housing in the mid-Atlantic region that has been providing quality homes for low- and moderate-income families since 1975.
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WBBF-TV Fox 45 featured AHC Greater Baltimore's nutrition education program on Good Day Baltimore.
Thanks to healthy eating tips and recipes from the University of Maryland's Extension Program, the program provides healthy preparation tips for 7 to 12 year olds in AHC Greater Baltimore's Resident Services program. (11-14-13)
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|Painting, Oil on canvas, 273.5x184 cm
|Origin: Italy, Circa 1625
The painter and engraver Guido Reni was from 1614 head of the classicizing Bologna Academy. His works were extremely popular with contemporaries. The choice of the extremely rare subject of this painting is probably linked with renewed activity in the Catholic Church in the 17th century. The dogma of the immaculate conception was put forward in the 4th century by the Fathers of the Church, but was officially confirmed only by a bulla of Pope Pius XII in the middle of the 20th century. Reni shows the appearance of the Virgin Mary to the Fathers of the Church, all deep in thought. In the foreground are Saints Jerome and Augustine, behind them are Ambrosius, Gregory the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysotostom. They are the embodiment of the artist's conception of noble and wise old age. A daring combination of large areas of yellow and red give the canvas an imposing, monumental feel.
|Personage: Madonna
|Source of entry: Collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, 1779
|School: Bologna
|Theme: The Bible and Christianity
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|18 Oct 2007
|Filing date
|17 Apr 2006
|Priority date
|17 Apr 2006
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|Publication number
|James Riley, Sanjay Jain, Mark Greer
|Original Assignee
|Riley James M, Jain Sanjay K, Mark Greer
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|Referenced by (21), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Wristbands formed by die cuts made in multi-ply forms so as to be processible by printers and especially laser printers are known in the art. One of the inventors herein is an inventor of a number of different wristband forms as shown in his prior U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,933,993, 6,000,160, 6,067,739, 6,438,881, 6,510,634, 6,748,687, 7,017,293 and 7,017,294, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. Each of the wristbands disclosed in these prior patents are self laminating, meaning that they contain a laminate layer or ply which, when the wristband is separated from its carrier, may be folded over to encapsulate an imaging area typically defined by a die cut in a face stock ply. These imaging areas are desirably sized to extend along a substantial length thereof so as to provide "real estate" for receiving printed data. This printed data may include the patient's name, the attending doctor's name, a patient ID number, admission date, medical information such as special precaution concerns such as allergic reactions, etc., and even more recently a bar code which is swiped numerous times a day. Some are putting photo images of the patient in the imaging area, taking advantage of the recent advances in digital photographic technology. As a result of the desire to put ever increasing amounts of data and even images on the imaging area, the size including especially the length of the imaging area is desirably long.
Although this desire to provide maximum "real estate" for imaging leads to longer imaging areas, the anatomical limits of the patient's wrist around which the wristband wraps create some practical limitations to this length, even for adult sized wristbands. As the imaging area is typically made from a face stock or other print receptive material such as bond paper, it typically exhibits a relative stiffness when compared with the laminate backing ply. This relative stiffness helps the imaging area to lie flat against the wrist so as to enhance the readability of the data imaged onto it. However, as the imaging area is typically a single length of regularly sized face stock, formed into the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners, the imaging area can have a tendency to bow, or assume an arcuate shape, to more closely fit about the patient's wrist especially if the wristband is tightened close to the wrist. While this does present some inconvenience for a nurse or other medical professional seeking to read the information contained in the imaging area, it is more of a problem now that bar codes have come into common usage. That's because bar code readers are better able to accurately read when the bar code is lying flat and not on a curved surface.
In order to further improve on the good and valuable inventions previously developed, patented, and for which great commercial success has been achieved, the inventors herein have succeeded in designing a self laminating wristband along the lines of several of those disclosed and claimed in the patents mentioned above, except that the single imaging area has been formed, preferably, into two or more separated imaging areas. Between each pair of imaging areas, there is created a natural hinge or fold point therebetween which permits the wristband to bend around the wearer's wrist so that each imaging area lies flat against a portion of the wrist instead of "bowing" or even perhaps wrinkling or crinkling at a point of stress determined at random as the wristband is secured and tightened about the wrist. The space between the imaging areas is bridged by two layers of laminate, which necessarily is of a thinner dimension than that formed in the imaging areas as there is no face stock in the intervening space. The types of imaging areas preferably include a main area of larger length and one or more "side car" or auxiliary imaging areas spaced from the main area and arranged along the longitudinal axis of the wristband, or crossways to the wearer's wrist. Alternatively, multiple equally sized imaging areas may be provided. If two smaller auxiliary imaging areas are provided, they preferably are located on either side of the main imaging area.
This side car auxiliary imaging area is preferably a square, although it could be formed in any convenient shape as desired and to suit the individual application. For example, the auxiliary imaging area may be formed in the shape of a circle, or it may be intended to be merely decorative, or it may be intended to receive a trademark or logo or other indicia for identifying an organization or even the individual. This auxiliary imaging area may also be imprinted with any data, as desired or to suit individual needs. For example, the imaging area may be imprinted with a photo of the patient taken by a digital camera upon admission. Or the bar code identifying the patient may be imprinted there. Another example would be for "special precautions" flags or markers to be placed on the auxiliary area. Yet another use for this auxiliary imaging area may be to separate critical patient care data from administrative data. For example, legends such as "Do Not Resuscitate", blood type information, or other important data may be separated from other administrative and identification data to guide the health care provider in the event of an emergency or the like. In other words, this area could be designated as a "look first" zone, and highlighted by the use of color to catch the nurse's eye.
To further implement this special precautions application, printed lines may define target areas of the face stock for adhering matching laminate portions peeled off the laminate ply of the form in which the wristband is carried. In one such example shown in greater detail below, three ellipses are defined by printed lines in the auxiliary imaging area which may be individually used. On the back of the laminate ply are a series of matching ellipses of different color with each color providing an indication of a different special caution condition. Although special precautions indicators are preferably applied prior to laminating the wristband, with this arrangement a special precautions indicator may be added after the wristband has been applied to the patient's wrist which eliminates the need to "re-band" the patient with a new wristband in those instances. There are other uses for the auxiliary imaging area, limited only by the imagination of the designer.
The wristband invention disclosed herein may be provided in a "sheetlet" or envelope sized page containing the wristband and perhaps an extender which, as is explained in the inventor's prior patents, may be used to extend the length of the wristband for those patients having particularly large wrists. Also disclosed herein is the wristband as provided in a "combo" or larger sized page combined with a matrix of a plurality of self adhering labels. Yet another embodiment is a page having four wristbands, two of adult size and two of infant size such as might be used in a maternity or pediatric ward of a medical facility. In these embodiments, the wristband is preferably defined by a plurality of die cuts formed in a two ply business form comprised of a page. The top ply is a face stock or imaging layer, the bottom ply is a laminate layer, and a layer of patterned adhesive joins the two layers. The die cuts are arranged to permit the separation of the unassembled wristband from the page in an assembly, with the laminate ply including a clamshell portion for folding over and encapsulating both imaging areas. In one embodiment shown, a pair of integrally formed, adhesive coated tabs at opposite ends of the wristband are used to attach the wristband to the wearer's wrist, as shown in the inventor's prior patents. In another embodiment, the wristband further includes a cinch attachment, again as is disclosed in several of the inventor's prior patents, generally comprising a strap or tail portion extending to one side of the imaging areas and a slot portion on the opposite side of the imaging areas and through which the tail portion is inserted for securing the wristband. Preferably, a patch of adhesive at the tip of the tail portion is then used to adhere it back onto itself after passing through the slot and finish the attachment of the wristband. The cinch is operably formed in the laminate ply alone.
While the principal advantages and features of the invention have been briefly explained above, a more thorough understanding of the invention may be attained through referring to the drawings and reading the description of the preferred embodiment below.
The wristband 100 of the present invention is shown as a first embodiment in
The laminate ply layer 104 as shown in
As depicted in
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Yet another embodiment of the present invention is shown in
Still another embodiment of the present invention is shown in
The full length, clamshell laminating portion 181 as would be typically used with the face stock ply depicted in
Use of the wristband 100 is shown in
The present invention has been disclosed and described in several embodiments. It would be understood by those of skill in the art that various changes and modifications could be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, the imaging areas are depicted as having a particular shape although other shapes could be used. Also, two or three imaging areas are shown but more could be provided. Furthermore, the arrangement of the imaging areas may be changed. The relative size of the imaging areas could be varied. For example, the imaging area are all shown to be of approximately the same width, which is substantially the full width of the wristband. However, different height imaging areas could be provided, with some imaging areas being stacked one above the other, and the hinge feature would only be active between those imaging areas arranged along the length of the wristband. The self laminating clamshell design of various size as disclosed in the inventor's earlier patents has been incorporated into the present design although separated laminating portions could be used and assembled as would be apparent to those of skill in the art. The ellipses arranged on the second imaging area are merely design choices and different shapes or colors for the special precaution markers could be used. The choice of materials is optional and would be those well known to those of skill in the art. Yet other changes could be contemplated, and those as well are to be considered within the scope of the invention which is limited to the scope of the claims and their equivalents.
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|13 Mar 2006
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|5 May 2009
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|U.S. Classification
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|26 May 2006
|27 Jan 2014
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|31 Oct 2014
Owner name: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC. AS THE COLLATE
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A second-generation anchored genetic linkage map of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)
1 Reprogen, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics
3 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
4 Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
5 School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
6 School of Marine & Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
BMC Genetics 2011, 12:72 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-12-72Published: 19 August 2011
The tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii, a small kangaroo used for decades for studies of reproduction and metabolism, is the model Australian marsupial for genome sequencing and genetic investigations. The production of a more comprehensive cytogenetically-anchored genetic linkage map will significantly contribute to the deciphering of the tammar wallaby genome. It has great value as a resource to identify novel genes and for comparative studies, and is vital for the ongoing genome sequence assembly and gene ordering in this species.
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Construction of this second-generation genetic linkage map is a significant step towards complete coverage of the tammar wallaby genome and considerably extends that of the first-generation map. It will be a valuable resource for ongoing tammar wallaby genetic research and assembling the genome sequence. The sex-pooled map is available online at http://compldb.angis.org.au/ webcite.


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"We have, for example, many people who die in the attempt to escape from their country, from Mexico to the United States, from North Africa to Europe, from Africa across the Red Sea to Yemen," he added. "It is important, therefore, that the Holy See has decided to join this organization in order to emphasize its involvement in this phenomenon of great global importance and one which, despite the economic crisis, is expected to continue to grow."
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