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Enhanced custom fields such as response times, transition overdue, user and date custom fields, issue tab panels (reopenings and stateoscope), counters (reopening, resolved, ..), workflow extensions, ..
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Work of Barnard's Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing called "a very important contribution to Irish-American literature."
Professor Autesserre, political science, is honored for ideas set forth in her book, The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History receives the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Inspired by the successful career of her father, Brian Blessed, actress Ros Blessed is also carving out a career in acting.
The former University of Exeter student stars in an explosion of live music, story telling and mischief.
From the antics of adulterous lovers to the revenge of cuckolded husbands, the characters remain as engaging and recognisable today as they were in the 14th century. Tickets £15 to £20.50.


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Waste Site Cleanup & Reuse in New England
Atlas Tack Corporation Superfund Site
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« Back to Atlas Tack Superfund Site Fact Sheet
Projected Work for the Week of July 18 -- July 22
- Continue window caulking removal in the boiler building
- Continue demolition of 3-story building
- Transport construction debris off-site
- Continue air monitoring
- Delivery of sampling results of additional samples taken in the previous week
Activities for the Week of July 11 -- July 18
- Complete mobilization of demolition equipment
- Complete window caulking removal on 3-story building
- Continue removal of coating on brick interior and exterior walls
- Construction of decontamination pad and culvert protection system
- Begin demolition of 3-story building
- Begin transporting construction debris off-site
- Continue to establish control points for survey of site features
- Continued air monitoring
- Collection of PCB ballasts complete
- Additional samples taken from oil tank, transformer pad, plating pits and trench beneath concrete slab
- Atlas Tack relocated fire alarm panel in boiler building to front office building
Air Monitoring Information
Charter Environmental and Axiom, Inc. continue to monitor the four sampling locations during the 8 -hour day for dust particulate and asbestos.
The four perimeter sampling stations are set up in the following locations:
Station 1 -- Site fence gate on Pleasant Street
Station 2 -- Site fence at bike path near Adams Street
Station 3 -- Site fence on bike path at Tripp Street
Station 4 -- Site fence on east end of Church Street
The dust particulate and asbestos sampling results recorded at each station every hour in a monitoring log. These results are compared to the action levels established for each parameter. These action levels are concentrations at which it is deemed unsafe and work would have to stop.
Results of the air monitoring data has shown that exposure of unsafe conditions to workers in the exclusion zone and to the public is well below the actions levels.
Dust Particulate Monitoring -- The National Ambient Air Quality standard for particulates is 150 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3) over an average of 24 hours. This value will be used, however, for a one hour period. The average levels recorded at these locations range from 0 to 0.04 (µg/m3), with most readings valued at zero. The maximum level for this week is also recorded and ranges from 0 to 13 (µg/m3).
Asbestos Monitoring - Asbestos monitoring is conducted on a continuous basis as well. Readings are taken and recorded every hour. The personal space for asbestos workers is also monitored continuously.
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The General
1927. USA. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman. Approx. 80 min.
Salvador Dalí: Home Movie
1954. Spain. Alma DeLuce. 2 min.
With piano accompaniment by Ben Model
Monday, July 7, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
The General
1927. USA. Directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman. Silent. Approx. 80 min.
Salvador Dalí: Home Movie
1954. Spain. Directed by Alma DeLuce. At home in Port Lligat, Spain, Dalí clowns around with a wooden pitchfork as a prop and mimics the mannerisms of silent film comedians. Silent. 2 min.
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And what does it mean to say the universe is expanding equally in all directions? Naively, we might imagine a spherical universe that is getting bigger and bigger, with all the stars and galaxies flowing away from a center like the luminous colored specks of a large fireworks burst.
However, in order to reconcile our view of the universe with this simple-minded perspective, Earth would have to lie precisely at the center of the universe. If Earth were not at the center, our view of the universe would be asymmetric: We would see "the edge of the universe" closer in one direction than in others, and we would see the universe expanding unequally.
The odds that the solar system lies at the center of the known universe are astronomically long: Of all the stars in all the galaxies of the entire universe, the sun and Earth would need to be at the very center.
Modern cosmological theories of the universe, however, don't need the solar system to occupy such a special place because these theories claim the universe doesn't have edges or a center.
Which makes one wonder how the universe can be finite in size but without a center or bounding edges.
It seems that cosmologists — who are mostly mathematicians — can imagine just about anything. But a finite-yet-unbounded universe is not as fanciful as it seems at first blush. To see why, however, it is best to think through an analogy.
Suppose you are an ant that lives in a two-dimensional universe — you know only of north and south, east and west; but not up and down. Your world has length and width, but not depth.
If the 2-D ant version of you lived on a flat plane — like a large, round sheet of paper — your universe would be finite, like our own, but it would have an edge. And if you were not exactly at the center of the round, flat universe, the edge would be closer in one direction than in others.
But suppose the 2-D ant version of you lived on the surface of a very, very large ball. Your universe would be finite (in that it could fit in a larger ball), but it wouldn't have an edge that you could run into. And your universe would look the same in all directions (remember, you can't look up or down, into or off the surface of the ball) no matter where you were.
Suppose further that the ball was expanding. For the 2-D ant version of you, that would mean that every point in your curved, 2-D universe would be expanding away from every other point equally in all directions.
The analogy recreates every observable aspect of our own universe — in two dimensions, not three.
To imagine the reality of our own universe, you only need to think about how our 3-D space is curved around on itself somehow in a fourth spatial dimension to form a finite but unbounded 3-D space.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The ingredients were there, as they have been throughout Rick Pitino's hugely successful coaching career.
Playing with Pitino's signature style - a little full-court pressure, some timely 3-point shooting, high energy at both ends of the court - Louisville made Pitino the 17th active Division I coach with 500 career wins in an 85-75 victory over Marshall on Tuesday night.
Though Pitino received a rousing ovation at the final buzzer, he called the milestone "insignificant" and was more pleased with his team's performance as the Cardinals (6-3) snapped a two-game losing streak.
"We tried to suffocate them with our defense," Pitino said. "We were very active."
Perhaps just as importantly to Pitino, the Cardinals were unselfish.
After watching his team play recklessly in recent weeks, Pitino decided to change the usual pregame introduction in an effort to get their attention.
Rather than the jubilant bouncing and chest-thumping that accompanies the player introductions, the team huddled quietly in front of the bench with the starters simply raising a hand as their names were called.
It worked, eventually. After letting the Thundering Herd (5-3) stick around for the first half, Louisville took control thanks to an energetic press and some nifty passing in the open court.
"We couldn't get the ball past halfcourt for a while," Marshall coach Donnie Jones said. "We just weren't getting the shots up."
The Cardinals forced 17 turnovers and shared the ball at the other end. Louisville finished with 19 assists, their highest total since a season-opening rout of Hartford. The Cardinals also had a season-high 13 blocks, five by Terrance Farley.
Earl Clark scored a career-high 23 points and Derrick Caracter had 18 points and eight rebounds in his return from a one-game suspension.
Pitino suspended Caracter indefinitely last week for a curfew violation, but lifted it on Monday saying Caracter met his obligations. The decision to reinstate Caracter, who has had several run-ins with Pitino over the last year, raised some eyebrows. Pitino defended his actions, saying he hasn't gone soft on his players.
"Let me tell you, I'm not sticking up for DC," Pitino said. "Just so you know, he's not getting off easy. What we're doing is 10 times what I've ever done to a basketball player. ... He has no life."
Caracter said he made a mistake and is trying to change his ways.
"I've really had to prove myself to my teammates," said Caracter, who had four blocks and two rare assists in 23 minutes. "I had a lot of bad habits. ... I want to show everybody I belong here."
Markel Humphrey had 24 points and Mark Dorris added 21 for Marshall, but the Thundering Herd went cold in the second half and withered in the face of Louisville's press.
"We knew we could turn them over with our pressure," Louisville's Jerry Smith said. "We didn't contain them in the first half, they were hot. We did a much better job in the second half."
Louisville held the Thundering Herd without a field goal for nearly seven minutes during a 20-3 run in the second half as the Cardinals broke open a close game by taking a 66-49 lead.
"We dug down deep, got out on the press and that allowed us to get some easy baskets," Clark said.
Marshall, however, didn't go away easily. The Thundering Herd closed to 66-59, and nearly cut it to four, but Humphrey's wide-open 3-pointer from the top of the key rolled out.
Caracter took over from there, scoring six straight points as the Cardinals put together their most complete game in a month.
The victory upped Pitino's career record to 500-185, but after disappointing performances in losses to Dayton and Purdue, he was simply looking for his team to play like the one that began the season ranked in the Top 10.
"Your confidence is lacking when you lose two games in a row," Pitino said. "We needed this victory tonight badly."
Humphrey kept the Thundering Herd in it in the first half. He hit all four of his 3-point attempts as Jones, a former assistant under Pitino protege Billy Donovan, employed the same up-tempo, shooter-friendly system that Pitino perfected early in his career.
Caracter checked in with 14:35 remaining in the first half, but he did little to help the Cardinals compete on the glass against the smaller Thundering Herd.
It wasn't until Louisville's press got going in the second half that the Cardinals were able to snap out of a weeks-long funk.


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The tree has grown quite a lot since the route went up and may need pruning soon.(July 2014)
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post1129472502191663381..comments2015-10-08T09:17:56.843-04:00Comments on The Blue Jay Hunter - A Toronto Blue Jays Blog: Sergio Santos Swapped to the Blue JaysIan Hunterhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-52124408214273871752011-12-08T08:55:09.510-05:002011-12-08T08:55:09.510-05:00Tony, hey-o! Though I wouldn't be shocked if K...Tony, hey-o! Though I wouldn't be shocked if Kenny Williams was somehow trying to get rid of Rios. And here I thought that was a bad trade!Ian - BJHhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-85613001360210168502011-12-07T21:21:26.869-05:002011-12-07T21:21:26.869-05:00At least we didn't get Alex Rios as a throw-in...At least we didn't get Alex Rios as a throw-in..Tonyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-1292923100774602212011-12-07T10:50:02.032-05:002011-12-07T10:50:02.032-05:00Peckinpah, I guess in the grand scheme of things a...Peckinpah, I guess in the grand scheme of things a pitcher with big league experience is better than a prospect. We'll never know if Molina will even make the bigs (even though the odds are very high that he will).
Ultimately, Molina's sample size in AA is small even though his numbers in High A were outstanding.

Who am I kidding ... I'm just trying to talk myself out of downplaying Molina, but to get talent you have to give up talent.

George, it sounded like the Blue Jays might convert Molina into a reliever down the road anyway, so it makes sense to get a reliever who can pitch now rather than wait a couple more years for Molina to make the jump to the bigs.

Psmith, I think there might be some concerns with Santos as well. Judging by his "all-out delivery", I just hope Tommy John isn't in his future.Ian - BJHhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-54373259327415325922011-12-07T08:51:51.744-05:002011-12-07T08:51:51.744-05:00I think the issue with Molina is his delivery type...I think the issue with Molina is his delivery type leads to shoulder injuries, and his delivery reminds them to much of BJ Ryan, which means he may be a stellar closer but, only for 3-4 years. Don't forget the jays do have other relief options around the same age, Carreno (is only 24).email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-56743877049549013962011-12-07T08:42:15.892-05:002011-12-07T08:42:15.892-05:00The Jays projected Molina as a middle of the order...The Jays projected Molina as a middle of the order guy according to AA, and they have a ton of horses at his level that can eat innings in the 2-3-4 hole. They would have had to make room anyway as they all squeezed into AA/AAA ball, so when the opportunity came along to fill a hole long term, it was a no-brainer.
Even though Molina projected as a starter, he came with more risk than Santos, who has a couple of seasons in the majors on his resume. Pretty even-steven value-wise, I would say.
Santos will also offer immediate relief (pun intended), rather than trying to develop internal email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-43597363725289302082011-12-07T01:49:36.185-05:002011-12-07T01:49:36.185-05:00I'm not sure about this trade. First off, Sant...I'm not sure about this trade. First off, Santos is an unproven quantity with only 3 seasons as a pitcher.

Secondly, Molina's progressed strongly through the minors with a career 1.032 WHIP and a 5.89 SO/BB rate. Like you, Ian, my reaction was why wouldn't the Jays simply give Molina the closer job (or a least a bullpen shot) out of spring training? Not to suggest Molina could be the next Craig Kimbrel but Nestor's minor league numbers (except for K/9) are all better than the minor league stats of the 2011 NL Rookie of the firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-12166304864952556182011-12-06T16:14:39.418-05:002011-12-06T16:14:39.418-05:00Wes, seems like a shrewd move to me, but it's ...Wes, seems like a shrewd move to me, but it's always a possibility. If I'm the competition though, I don't alter my scouting report (even if the opposing team gives a gleaming report about that player in the media).Ian - BJHhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7069118812751480198.post-37638666187347038972011-12-06T15:09:38.526-05:002011-12-06T15:09:38.526-05:00I'm probably reading too much into this, but i...I'm probably reading too much into this, but is it coincidence that a few weeks before he was traded that several Jays' personnel were praising Molina? Maybe they were trying to build the hypew3leonghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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CHISUM, ISHAM (1818–1884). Isham Chisum, farmer and Confederate officer, was born on August 5, 1818, in Mississippi, the son of Parmellia (Roberts) and Isham Chisum. On January 16, 1841, he married Charlotte Martin of Nacogdoches County. Chisum originally settled in Sabine County in 1844 and then moved to Rusk County in 1846. In 1854 he and his family moved to Kaufman County where he owned eight to fourteen slaves from 1854 to 1860.
As a leader of the community in Kaufman County, Isham Chisum attended the Secession Convention in Austin in 1861 and voted with secessionists in favor of leaving the Union. He chose to enlist on June 3, 1861, in the Confederate Army, and on June 13, 1861, he served as captain of Company F of the Third Texas Cavalry. In March 1863 he joined the Second Texas Partisan Rangers and served as a colonel in the regiment. The Rangers fought mainly in Louisiana, engaging in the June 28, 1863, battle in Donaldsonville and in the November 3, 1863, battle at Bayou Bourbeau. By 1864 the Rangers were back in Texas and were recruited to fight in the Red River campaign. On October 24, 1864, they fought at Hurricane Creek near Benton, Arkansas. On the orders of Gen. John B. Magruder, Isham Chisum was arrested and faced court martial on September 16, 1864. Reports are unclear for the reasons behind the court martial. In any event, the court martial led to his suspension for six months, and Chisum resigned from the regiment in April 1865. After the war, the regiment disbanded in Houston.
Life after the Civil War was difficult for Chisum. His adjustment to life in a post-slavery world created financial and physical problems for him so devastating that he considered moving to Central or South America with other former Confederates. Instead, he moved to Bandera in 1869 to live with his son, Isham, Jr., and he died there in 1884. He is buried in the Vanderpool Cemetery.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives and Records Service, Washington.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Stephanie Piefer Niemeyer, "CHISUM, ISHAM," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fch75), accessed October 13, 2015. Uploaded on March 27, 2011. Modified on April 6, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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Vimeo announced today a partnership between its pay-per-view service, Vimeo on Demand, and the Toronto Film Festival that will offer a $10,000 advance to filmmakers who stream their movies exclusively on the site for 30 days.
As part of the deal, the movies Vimeo on Demand picks up from the film festival will go for $4.99 per stream--comparable to most feature films on the platform--and if Vimeo recoups its $10,000 advance, any additional revenue will be split so that filmmakers get a 90 percent cut, after transaction costs.
For Chief Executive Kerry Trainor, the festival partnership made sense, not only because the spirit of independent filmmaking is "a core part of our community," he said, but because the platform is still figuring out "the right formula" for original content.
Trainor also said he thinks there is a future for big-budget blockbusters in this respect. "Just the economics of bringing them to market is enormous," he said, noting Hollywood's frustration with doozies like The Lone Ranger, which may have fared better as a straight-to-DVD venture, saving Disney, which produced it, a massive write-down and marketing costs.
The news comes as several video platforms experiment with original and exclusive content. Netflix's foray into original content--with House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black-- has been wildly successful (while presenting new challenges for the company to figure out), while Hulu has joined the fray with original series featuring the likes of Kevin Smith (Spoilers) and 500 Days of Summer producer Marc Web (Battleground). In the meantime, Amazon is rumored to be dabbling in TV production.


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There's more to succeeding in the sign business and creating a stable, growing business than just hanging out a sign and creating a website. And any savvy sign shop owner knows that it makes a lot of sense to build on the success of other shop owners than it does to just go it alone.
Mark Agnew is a great resource for shop owners like that. For 27 years, Agnew Graphics has served the small town of Owosso and the neighboring small towns in central Michigan. He's built a stable, successful business, and has worked hard at it.
He's done all the common-sense marketing, from direct mail to his website. His support of local schools is important to him. (See It pays to give your work away.) But when you talk with Mark you soon realize there's more to his success that that. It's the result of many seemingly-small things that combine into one very solid marketing approach. Take a look:
Let them know they're at the right place. Make sure your own signage looks great. Make sure your building and showroom look professional. Give them plenty of examples of effective, attractive signs to look at. The first impression really matters. It establishes your credibility. Before you've even said a word, your shop's appearance lets them know that they are dealing with professionals who know what they're doing.
Answer the phone. "I try to answer the phone when they call," says Mark, "and I see people when they want to be seen." That sort of personal contact is missing in business these days, and clients really respond to it. It gains their confidence.
Tell them what you do--often. "You have to have the postcards, brochures and business cards," says Mark, "and you need a good website. We make sure our customers see them, as well as every new business that we hear of. We make it clear that we can handle all their marketing needs. We show them what we do. We don't want them to think we just do truck lettering or flat signs or whatever."
Exceed their expectations. Whenever possible, give them a little more than they expect. Have the sign done ahead of time, do something to punch up the design a bit, add a gold leaf border. Do something that will be a little surprise. (Rich Dombey gives them some small stickers of their logo--see Give 'em a sticker and sell more signs.)
Follow up with them. Stay in touch with your past clients. Don't be surprised if they're glad you called because they were thinking about another sign they need.
Watch for potential customers. Mark likes to do fleet work, so whenever he's on the road and sees a company that has a fleet of trucks, he stops in. If he doesn't have time to stop, he calls and talks to the person in charge of the fleet graphics. "I find out if and when they're getting new trucks," says Mark. "I send postcards showing what we do. I stress that I can save them money and add value to their trucks. I'm relentless, because I know we should be doing their work."
Use quality products. Trying to save a little money by using low-quality products in your work is a proven marketing disaster. "When the product fails," says Mark, "it will cost you. You'll be the one they tell other business people about: 'He made me a sign, but it didn't last…'."
Don't try to be the cheapest. That only insures that you'll stay busy making the cheapest signs for the customers who only care about price. "Someone who comes in looking for the cheapest price is not my customer," says Mark. "It used to scare me to think like that, but it doesn't anymore."
Look for trends. If car dealers are calling you for signs, or there's a new historic district in downtown, this may mean there is an opportunity in this market—especially if it is the type of work you can do profitably. Contact other businesses and let them know you want to handle their signage.
Don't wait for clients to come to you. Make every effort to reach the clients who use the type of work you want to do. Identify who you want to work for—the businesses who use the work you do most profitably. Then make contact with them, in person and via direct mail. "I go after them," says Mark. "I don't wait for them to walk in the door."
Keep learning. "I went to school for graphic design," says Mark, "so that I could learn those fundamental principles of design. I wanted the tools to create effective design. I went to school at Watchfire Signs to learn how to install and maintain LED message boards. You've got to keep learning."
Remember: The customer is not an inconvenience. "We all get the occasional customer that you want to tell to leave and never come back. What's the reason you went into business? What's the reason you hung out that Open sign? To make money making signs—and that takes customers. They're the reason you're in business.
"I tell the folks who work with me that every time someone walks in that door, they've taken time out of their day to come to see about buying what we do. They chose us. They have money in their pocket and a problem they want to solve. If they walk out without a solution, they will find someone else to give that money to. It's that simple. I'm glad to see my customers. I love to answer their questions, swap ideas with them, help to solve their sign problem."


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Exposure to fine particulate matter can lead to a variety of health effects. For example, numerous studies link particle levels to increased hospital admissions and emergency room visits, and even to death from heart or lung diseases. Both short-term and long-term particulate matter exposures have been linked to health problems.
Short-term exposures for several hours or several days can aggravate lung disease, causing asthma attacks and acute bronchitis, and may also increase susceptibility to respiratory infections. To those with heart disease, short-term exposures have been linked to heart attacks and arrhythmias. Long-term exposure has been associated with problems such as reduced lung functioning and the development of chronic bronchitis and even premature death.
PM2.5 is the major cause of reduced visibility or haze in parts of the United States, including national parks and wilderness areas. Fine particulate matter can be carried long distances by wind and then settle on the ground or in the water. The settling or deposition can make water bodies acidic and can damage sensitive forests and farm crops.


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Former Hooters waitress claims she was fired because of her blond streaks
Farryn Johnson, 25, files discrimination claim
BALTIMORE - One former Hooters waitress says she was fired because of her appearance.
Farryn Johnson, 25, of Baltimore, said the trouble started when she came to work one day with blond highlights in her hair.
"I actually started noticing there was an issue when other African-American employees ... tried to come in to work wearing their hair curly, and they would get in trouble by management and they would tell them, 'You can't come back to work unless you straighten out your hair,'" Johnson said.
She claims her managers told her to change it or else, WMAR reported.
"I didn't see that it would be a big issue just because there were a lot of other employees working at the restaurant of other races with color in their hair. For instance, there were Asian girls with red hair and Caucasian girls with black hair and blond streaks so I didn't think it would be an issue for the little piece of blond highlight in my hair," she said.
Balancing school with her work on a limited budget, Johnson says she couldn't afford to return to the hair salon to change it, and a few months later she was fired for what the company deemed as her 'improper image.'
She has since filed a charge of discrimination.
"The law is clear that employers can't have two separate unequal sets of rules—one for African-Americans employees and one for everybody else, and yet that's exactly what Hooters did here in firing Miss Johnson, an African-American employee solely because she's African-American. They targeted her because of her hair solely because of her race," said Johnson's attorney, Jessie Weber.
We asked the parent company about this case, and Hooters of America responded by saying it will not comment on the pending litigation at this time.


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Martin Anderson, a key adviser to Ronald Reagan, leaves behind a lasting legacy.
By Peter Roff • U.S. News
As an economist and political scientist, Martin Anderson was a man without peer. A senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution since 1971, he did much to advance the cause of freedom as expressed in his love of big ideas.
Many credit the case he made against mandatory conscription inside the White House as a special assistant to former President Richard Nixon as an invaluable, perhaps even decisive contribution to the campaign to end the draft, which Nixon did in 1973 as the war in Vietnam was winding down.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Anderson was a key adviser to Ronald Reagan, helping him formulate a successful economic policy that permitted the liberation of American capital through tax cuts that, when combined with declining interest rates and a stable monetary policy, triggered an economic boom that led the world out of a long recession and laid the groundwork for the West's ultimate victory in the Cold War. [Read more...]


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Two arrested for forged financial transaction cards
by Wes Mayer
Two men were arrested Monday afternoon when investigators with the Coweta County Sheriff's Office discovered they had numerous forged financial transaction cards in their possession.
Around 5 p.m., investigators with the sheriff's office's crime suppression unit noticed two men acting suspiciously in the Kroger parking lot on East Highway 34, said Lt. Col. Jimmy Yarbrough with the sheriff's office. The men were making numerous trips into the store, and at first, the investigators were suspicious the men were doing something drug-related. It turned out they were making purchases inside with different forged financial transaction cards, Yarbrough said.
Apparently the men had been going into a number of stores in Newnan, such as Home Depot, Kohl's, Academy Sports and Kroger, and they were using the forged Visa cards to purchase gift cards, Yarbrough said.
Investigators stopped the two men, identified as Devin Eugene Bassett, 22, and Lamont Chavez Hannah, 21, and they found multiple financial transaction cards in their possession – mostly hidden in their shoes, Yarbrough said. None of the names on these cards matched the cards' numbers, and they appeared to have been altered.
Bassett was charged with 12 counts of forgery in the second degree, and Hannah was charged with 10 counts of forgery in the second degree, and both men were transported to the Coweta County Jail. Yarbrough said more charges are likely to follow.


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Barron Collier's Jacquie Lista (12) is guarded closely by Gulf Coast defender Allison Smilanich (16) during their game Tuesday night, January 6, 2008 at Gulf Coast. The lady Sharks shut out the Cougars, 2-0. / KEN LANE, STAFF
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Lely point guard Heather Chairez takes to the air against a tough Immokalee defence during firast quarter action Tuesday night at Lely HS. Keith Isaac
Barron Collier's Katie Arnold controls the ball as her lady Cougars visit Gulf Coast, Jan. 6. Barron came away with the 55-49 defeat of the Sharks. / KEN LANE
Gulf Coast's Jennifer Martin had two goals in the first half for the Sharks as they hosted 5A District 15 counterpart Barron Collier, Tuesday night, January 6. Going into the match, Martin led the Sharks in scoring with 22 goals and six assists. / KEN LANE, STAFF
Barron Collier's Sophia Dasilveira (20) and Gulf Coast's Stephanie Rodriguez (15) battle for control of the ball during their match, Tuesday night, January 6, 2008, at Shark Stadium. The Sharks defeated the lady Cougars, 2-0, on two goals by Jennifer Martin. / KEN LANE, STAFF


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For over thirty years, Infinity HealthCare has positively impacted healthcare in the Midwest region and become the premier provider of Emergency Department Management services. Infinity HealthCare is an expanding group of residency trained, board certified physicians providing a wide spectrum of healthcare services:
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Infinity HealthCare has a proven track record of excellence in providing the highest quality management and staffing to its partner hospitals. Because Infinity prides itself on excellent patient satisfaction, efficient operations and integration throughout the medical staffs and communities it serves, a measurable level of service is provided that exceeds expectations.
Infinity HealthCare invites you to explore and learn more about the website; contact us directly at any time.
Are you a physician? Infinity HealthCare can help you achieve your career development and lifestyle goals. Learn more about available Emergency Medicine Physician jobs, Anesthesiologist jobs, and Radiology Physician jobs.
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Driven by an Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP), Infinity is 100% employee owned and every full-time team member has the opportunity to achieve full partnership within the organization. Career development through opportunities in hospital management/administration, educational programs, faculty appointments, clinical research, and publications are enjoyed by Infinity clinicians. This unique partnership model is designed to attract and retain top quality clinicians.
In partnering with client hospitals, Infinity has successfully created local group practices that are backed by its many quality resources, including recruitment, information systems and management services. An executive dashboard developed by Infinity contains key metrics that are used to evaluate department operations as well as patient satisfaction and productivity.
Infinity believes quality healthcare is intrinsic to the strong relationships it has built with its client hospitals. These relationships benefit from Infinity's far-reaching vision that also supports pre-hospital care systems, ongoing education and training programs, and vital physician feedback and referral systems.
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By TERRY WILLISSun Advocate reporter
In the region opener, it was Delta who managed to find the net the most. Carbon lost 1-3 to the Rabbits on Friday afternoon in Delta.
Coach Patric Clifford was hopeful going in that his team had what it takes to beat Delta on their home field. Statistically, both teams played equally as hard. Shots on goal were almost identical in the first and second half. But shots on goal don't matter if they don't penetrate and that's where the difference in the game was.
Delta began with a solid shot to lead. Carbon scored from a cross throw in from Travis Hobbs. Austin Dalton headed it to the corner of the goal and Beau Morley stuffed in for the score.
According to Coach Clifford, it was Carbon that contributed to their own defeat with defensive mistakes that led to the other two Delta points. But in all he was happy with his team's effort.
"Both teams played well and when the game is as hard fought as this one was it is hard to see one team lose, especially when it is your team," he remarked. "It was a little more physical than I would have liked. I felt like the officials let a little too much go, but I can't really say whether that hurt or helped us in the long run."
Two more tough contests await the Dinos next week. One of the best teams in the state, Juan Diego, rolls into town on Wednesday to play. Then North Sanpete shows up for a game on Friday afternoon. Both games will be played on the Carbon High soccer field, directly behind the high school and varsity action begins at 3:30 p.m.


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Mobile internet is a growing advertising market. Many mobile operating systems are being upsized to run tablets, which are proving to be the ultimate conversion machines.
Mobile ad spending increasing
Mobile ad spending has been increasing steadily for the last few years. In 2010, marketers spent $743 million on banner, rich media, search and messaging advertising targeted to mobile phones. Total spending in 2011 is expected to reach $1.2 billion. In 2012, mobile ad spending will likely reach $1.8 billion or more. The total numbers are based on the advertising served up to mobile operating systems, such as Android and iOS systems.
Buying power of tablets
Since they first exploded onto the marketplace, tablet computers have been popular. Now that the devices have been on the market long enough, e-commerce statistics are starting to trickle in. Overall, tablet purchases account for less than 10 percent of all shopping online. However, individuals using tablet computers are much more likely to make a purchase and more likely to spend higher amounts. On desktop and laptop computers, about 3 percent of all visits lead to sales. On tablet computers, about 5 percent of all visits result in sales. Tablet users tend to make orders that are 10 to 20 percent higher, on average, than PC or smartphone orders.
Taking advantage of the market
The growth in both mobile advertising and tablet purchasing are trends that marketers would be smart to take note of. First, mobile advertising is important to consider in marketing your product or service, both with mobile web ads and text messaging. Text ads should be double-opt in to avoid being charged with sending spam. You should also ensure that your site is optimized for mobile browsers, both small-screen and tablet-screen sized devices. Finally, if you have e-commerce integrated on your website, make sure that it operates on both mobile and tablet computers.


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Omaha, NE-Omaha police officer Bradley D. Canterbury has been reinstated after being fired for a rough arrest at 33rd and Seward last Spring.
Action 3 News first broadcast exclusive cell phone video of a rough arrest. It shows a police officer pulling Octavius Johnson to the ground and punching him several times. It also shows several officers running into the Johnson home without a search warrant to confiscate video another Johnson brother was recording. Investigators believe officers destroyed that video. What police didn't know, a neighbor was recording the whole thing.
Canterbury is the one in the video who seems to throw Octavius Johnson to the ground. Initially, four officers were fired. The other officers fired were James Kinsella and Justin A. Reeve and Sgt. Aaron Von Behren. Kinsella and Von Behren were both charged in connection with what investigators called a cover up.
Police Chief Todd Schmaderer fired Omaha police officers John D. Payne and Dyea L. Rowland this month for their roles in the incident.
Also this month, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on January 6th against the police department, Schmaderer and 32 officers. The ACLU says this case is the perfect storm of police misconduct. It wants the lawsuit to spark a change in police oversight and classes to better train officers on the street. Everyone named in the suit has 30-days to respond.
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Carmakers developing hi-tech sensors for drivers
Dec 21, 2012
Honk if your palms are sweaty! Carmakers are heading down the road toward biometric technology.
The importance of technology during natural disasters
Interview by
Dec 14, 2012
On Monday, Congress takes up a $60 billion recovery package for areas affected by Superstorm Sandy. When the lights went out and the floodwaters moved in, people needed food and sandbags, sure -- but they also needed information and connectivity.
Nissan to try unconventional steering
Oct 18, 2012
Within a year, Nissan hopes to replace the mechanical method of controlling steering with one that uses electronics.
Is technology to blame for chronic unemployment?
Oct 10, 2012
Commentator Robert Reich says a steady march of technology leaves increasingly obsolete jobs in its wake.
Using radio frequency identification tags to track school kids
Sep 10, 2012
Some schools are testing out RFID tags as a way to keep track of kids and bring in extra money.
Getting away from the office is getting harder to do
Aug 29, 2012
A new survey finds Americans more tethered to work by their mobile devices than they ever were to landlines.
Good things come to those who wait
Interview by
Aug 3, 2012
Turns out, making split-second gut decisions might not be the best way to make great choices. Author Frank Partnoy says those who take a slower pace win the race.
Summer camp for young techies
Aug 3, 2012
Throw another app on the campfire. Kids are crowding into computer camps hoping to be the next Steve Jobs.
Kevlar finds a new use: Protecting tractors from cornstalks
Aug 1, 2012
The stalks of genetically modified corn are tough, so tough that they're puncturing tractor tires. Farmers are fighting back.
Mobile technology big at the London Olympics
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Jul 26, 2012
The Olympic Games get under way tomorrow. There's a big technology and social media push this year.


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Household Supplies Review: Wine Off and Coffee Off Remover Sprays
Tried and Tested: Wine Off and Coffee Off
Due to a fear of red wine stain permanence, I waited until an actual (not fabricated) spill occurred. Unfortunately, it went down in the riskiest of all spots: a light patch of carpet on the living room floor. I made a faster-than-the-speed-of-lightning sprint to grab the Wine Off. There's no photo proof of this (I was too busy hyperventilating to document the scene), but within minutes, it had completely disappeared.
There was no discoloration to my carpet — it was as though nothing had ever happened!
My experience with Coffee Off was similar. Hours after spilling morning joe on a linen canvas tote, I treated the bag with several shots of the remover. In minutes, my brown blob was completely gone; all that was left was a patch that looked like it'd gotten hit by some rain.
In short, I've become a complete believer in Wine Off and Coffee Off stain removers.
Not only are they effective but, at $12.85 for both (including shipping), both also boast a much lower unit price than other red wine and coffee stain removers. My only request: that they start offering Shout-style on-the-go wipes, stat! What are your stain removal methods?


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I have a lot of warriors. A lot lot of them. Scary amounts of warrioring happens over here. One of my favorite in game activities is to roll a new warrior, level through a few zones, then delete it. Even so, I have like 42 warriors on my account now, four or five at max level (I've honestly forgotten what I did with that blood elf I got to 90) and the rest ranging from 87 to 23. The other day, I was helping a friend take screenshots in game and discovered I had an orc warrior with epic riding that I haven't played in forever - I had completely forgotten she existed.
I know I'm a ridiculous, almost absurd case. The fact that I used to often level a new warrior purely as a test case doesn't help matters that much. Oh, will this build work at level 40? Sure will! Great. Don't need that guy anymore.
So let's turn this around - is there anything in game you feel like you do too much of? Are you a crazy mount collector? Battle pets, are they your obsession? Are you running out of space and yet can't stop farming up transmog gear? Share with us, please do.


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Software Quality Assurance in CMM and XPA Comparative Study
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Date Added: Jan 2012
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Software Quality Assurance is a planned and systematic set of activities necessary to provide adequate confidence that requirements are properly established and products or services confirm to specified standards. Successful software engineering strongly depends on the delivery of high quality software. In the present paper, the authors compare Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and eXtreme Programming (XP) regarding their software quality support in terms of software quality development and software quality assurance and also they presented Software Quality Assurance Proposed by ISO 9000-3.


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Larry Lessig lead this stellar roundtable on how we can counter the influence of money in politics. Here Larry discusses how movements in the past, such as the (more)
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Here's a really hard problem that Larry Lessig is not sure how to solve. In his own words, here's what he wants to tackle in this roundtable:
"Let's assume we've got a fundamentally corrupt government, in the precise sense that the dependence upon 'funders' corrupts the intended dependence upon 'the people alone,' and that too many within that system are too deeply connected to it to push for its change. That means any effective movement for change has got to come from the outside.
But how would that be done? How would a grassroots movement in the Internet Age motivate enough outsider force to create the pressure such a change would require? How would the people who exploded the internet, who brought the Internet to scale, tackle this problem?"
This roundtable will take on this ambitious problem and will bring together, as Larry suggested, many key people who brought the internet, and internet politics, to scale. Any one of them could anchor their own roundtable : Internet pioneer Tim O'Reilly, Change.org Founder Ben Rattray, Moveon.org Executive Director Anna Galland, VC Brad Burnham, Executive Producer of TED Media June Cohen, Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, and Markos Moulitsas, Founder of Daily Kos.
Cracking big money's hold on Washington is a daunting challenge but not without precedent. At the turn of the 20th century, the robber barons of the Gilded Age dominated American politics, and the railroads and other giant corporations controlled statehouses across the land. But within a decade the progressive movement created the broad-based political pressure that busted up the trusts, shattered John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil into 500 tiny companies, and pushed through Constitutional Amendments creating the first income tax to deal with massive inequality, and giving the right to vote to women, who could help provide a lasting political counterbalance.
How could Americans in the early 21st century do their version of forcing big money out of politics? How could they roll back the influence of today's billionaires emboldened by the Supreme Court's Citizen United Ruling, or corporate lobbies that make such an outsized impact on the legislative process?
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Larry Lessig and many of the key people who brought the internet, and internet politics, to scale hit this roundtable out of the park. This one on how to Reinvent Money in Politics was the best we have held so far for several reasons:
Everyone at the roundtable was A-team calibre and could have anchored a roundtable in their own right: Internet pioneer Tim O'Reilly, Change.org Founder Ben Rattray, Moveon.org Executive Director Anna Galland, VC Brad Burnham, Executive Producer of TED Media June Cohen, Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, and Markos Moulitsas, Founder of Daily Kos. They all brought something valuable to the table and fully engaged to help solve the problem at hand.
We took on an absolutely critical problem that needs to be solved soon in order for America to take on the many other challenges we face and get back to showing real leadership in the world. We have to find a way to crack the hold that Big Money has over Washington and in politics at all levels around the country. To do that, we must scale up the kind of outside public pressure that could force real system change on how money from corporations, special interest lobbies and a relative handful of wealthy people funds our elections – so they can then block real change.
The group hit the highest bar of what we hope to achieve at Reinventors: they engaged a problem that no one individual yet knows how to solve, and by pooling their collective experiences and insights on what works, were able to make some good progress on solving it. In this 90-minute session, they quickly sorted out the approaches from recent years on what's working best, what's missing that needs more work in the near future, and what can we start doing right now.
What's Been Working:
There was surprising consensus that the approach to solving this challenge should be distributed, bottom-up and localized. We should not worry about setting up a big, centralized, national campaign like many political movements through much of the 20th century. Ben Rattray, head of Change.org, gave great examples of how they frequently see very personal campaigns that start at the local level quickly grow to make a national impact.
Lessig made a terrific analogy to what happened at the very beginning of the 20th century with the Progressive Era that faced a similar challenge in taking on the Robber Barons, busting up the giant Trusts, and limiting the hold Railroads had on legislatures. They had an explosion of small campaigns that spanned the gamut of political ideologies – from getting women the right to vote to prohibiting liquor. This was pre-telephone, let alone pre-radio and so they had few means to tightly coordinate. But this loose coalition of many, many campaigns from across society made them extremely difficult to target and defeat.
What's Missing and Needs More Work:
There also was surprising consensus on what is missing and what will be needed to succeed in the years ahead:
- Coordination: We need a light level of organization layered over all the bottom-up efforts so that everyone is working generally towards a similar common goal. Ann Galland, the executive director of Moveon, said her organization of 8 million members has been working on how to do that better in recent years but it still remains a challenge. Getting the balance between national, thinking strategically, and local, acting authentically, is tough.
- Persistence: Tim O'Reilly pointed out the need for persistence over time. Too often the bottom up outbursts don't have the staying power to keep at it over the years. The movement should also consider supporting members who can stay inside Washington to consistently counteract the constant presence of lobbyists.
- Scale: The numbers of those actively engaged outside Washington has to really scale far beyond current numbers. Markos Moulitsas, the publisher of Daily Kos, rightly pointed out that the movement to counteract Big Money through aggregating small donors began well over two Presidential cycles ago, but there is still a long ways to go before being able to raise the numbers to really counter the money of Big Oil, or Big Pharma.
- Trans-partisan: The overarching movement must be trans-partisan. June Cohen, the executive producer of TED Media, talked about how much of the success of TED videos (1.5 billion views and counting) and TEDx conferences comes from being very clear about not being partisan in presentations and trying to spread ideas to a wide variety of open minds. Many others, including Lessig and O'Reilly, chimed in about this as an essential requirement in any scenario to ultimately succeed. Lessig reminded all that you need about 70 percent support in America to ever get real system change.
- Economic Allies: Brad Burnham, managing partner of Union Square Ventures, had a very big idea about how the new companies leading the charge on the new economy should be enlisted more as allies, including their large networks of customers. He gave great examples of how Uber is fighting the taxi lobby in DC, or AirBnB coming up against hotels in New York, or Coursera clashing with the educational establishment in Minnesota. These new tech-enabled players, who often disrupt the status quo through dramatic cost savings, are running into the power of incumbent industries that have long funded the political establishment and seek protection now. Money in politics has economic consequences too.
What More Can we Do Right Now:
There was a general, can-do optimism that carried through to the end of the session. The roundtable was filled with highly successful internet entrepreneurs who seemed to feel confident that we now know much of what works and can just apply those lessons at greater scale, among them:
- Take abstract concepts like Money in Politics and make them personal, with individual narratives making those concepts emotional and alive. (Galland.)
- Focus on being authentic at all times. Rattray gave a great example of an 11-year-old girl who took on the plastic industry in Illinois with a petition and won because no corporation can fight a little girl.
- Give people very specific things to do and reward them with recognition. (June Cohen.)
Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, did make the sober point that we might not be able to crack the hold big money has on politics. But Lessig ended the session addressing that fear by reminding everyone that we have little choice but to solve this challenge for it holds the key to solving almost all our other challenges. Americans need a government that can act wisely and effectively at this critical juncture in history, with climate change mounting and so much at stake. The world needs America to provide needed leadership at this juncture as well.
Larry left on an emotional note and I wrap this post up with one too. This roundtable was just about everything I could have hoped for. We took on a hugely important topic and moved the ball ahead. Check out all the videos and see for yourself.
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I have been climbing in Colorado for some time now. It feels like it has all gone be very quickly, but in reality it has been almost 6 weeks. I returned from Hueco Tanks at the beginning of March with the fire, worried about an injured MCL, and feeling pretty beat down from the Desert.
Luckily, the new crib I live at up in Nederland is super pimp. Equipped with a hot tub, lots of plants, a dog named Ziggy who chase squirrels, Dutchez the best cat in the world, and an extremely relaxing environment, I was on the mend from day one, sleeping 12 hours nights, and enjoying my distance from El Paso. Whole Foods never seemed so expensive, nor so vast and incredible after months of Wal Mart eating, and the air was relatively cold, a huge relief, and a nice respite from the overwhelming Hueco calor.
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I have been climbing in Colorado for some time now. It feels like it has all gone be very quickly, but in reality it has been almost 6 weeks. I returned from Hueco Tanks at the beginning of March with the fire, worried about an injured MCL, and feeling pretty beat down from the Desert.
My audio/video studio was good to go, neglected for months gathering dust. DirectTv was all up in the piece, so catching up on new release was no issue, and the Island operations could finally resume. I began to recover, both mentally and physically, on the quick, and it felt great.
Seemingly from the get go, I was out bouldering at the same old spots with the same old crew. Rollin out with Chad, goin to Elkland or into RMNP, meeting up with DanDawg and CamDawg, it was just like before I left, but less snow.
Hueco was a grueling 2 months of developing new climbs and going a muerte nearly every single day, and I had the intuition, that March and April were about to be even more loco.
The Tingster aka DeleteMe was planning on rolling into town for some climbing and skate boarding, and so was Nate Bancroft, to film a segment for Scarred for Life (his new film project), and help finish off Island Episode 1 (A film from back in 2009 I have been working on for way to long). We were about to have a posse take shape, and all the needed to happen was the discovery a brand new bouldering area, full of sick projects for the crew.
Back in Elkland, signs of a change where brewing. Something bigger then us, something more powerful, was happening, and I could sense it. The mountains stopped blowing cold air on us, and subtly, one could sense an immediate change. Our entire zone was getting warmed by an extremely radiant force, everyone noticed, and could feel their own bodies internal temperature, rising, ever so slightly. The Era of Elkland was ending, and we would be forced to migrate…forced to move to a new location, and plants our routes again: find projects, and brush the rocks clean, and make our nests….
Before I left for Hueco, I had been trying an incredible compression project, probably at the top of the 8c scale, yet had failed to many of the movements. I was determined to do all the moves, after "getting stronger" back in the Tanks, and was hell bent to try the rig, even if the tides where changing, plates shifting, and the earth was warming.
I was determined to make some type of tangible progress, but it was going to be a process. Seemingly I was physically strong enough to hold the positions, but to understand the movements involved was an unknown quantity. After many sessions, I unlocked the positions, and did the all moves. It was inspiring, yet depressing. Deep in my heart, I knew this bloc would have to be left to bake in the sun for an entire year, until is was cold enough at its core that I could stick to its slopers on its surface…
As the season started to change, Elkland transformed. There where flowers, summer-type critters, more tourists, and we even saw a bear! This was unfortunate, all the motivation and energy was here, Elkland was our home, yet, things would not stop changing, planet earth was upon us…we needed to accept this an move onwards.
I thought of the Rats of Nimh, the Hobbit, and other childhood cartoon memories, and songs came to mind, stuff you can only find on Youtube or BetaMax these days, and realized, it was time to move on, to keep going forward, let go of, and that the answer was just blowing in the wind.
I fled Elkland, in search of a colder climbing environment, and was taken to a roof by Daniel Woods he had established deep into the winter. It was amazing. I had seen the problem Paint it Black in its infancy, when Jamie Emerson had found the roof, and taken me there a couple years ago. At the time, I cleaned around on all the projects, looked at the non existent landing, and practically pronounced everything impossible. Over the next years, people would go and try it, I would always say, bahhh, "it doesn't go", or "it will break", maybe something like "does the top out really go?" Oh how I was wrong.
I sessioned the problem for the first time with Daniel and he demonstrated me the sequence (which was really impressive to be honest) and explained to me some of the subtleties. I managed to do most of the hand moves, but one of the crux movements revolved around a crazy heel hook/cam maneuver, and it hurt my still fragile MCL wound badly. I was a bit disheartened, but immediately became entranced. As I drifted off hiking back to the car, I realized some things. I would try to climb this boulder, I would heal my knee, I would be able to this sequence, I LIKED this rig. Paint it Black became my project, and it had been some time I had found something so difficult I thought I could manage in a reasonable amount of time.
The Peak to Peak Highway, the road between my hood and Estes Park is a majestic, and the new drive to the park led us right along some of the sickest mountains the park has to offer. With a new perspective on the region, and tons of visible granite and gneiss, I was quite certain we where going to find a ton of rock this round, and I wasn't sure how to prepare myself. I would bring gators in my car to hike in the snow, extra shoes and socks, and bring lots of water, but the next step involved running around like a crazy person in search of rock formations. I was interested in trying Paint it Black, Hypnotized minds, and Mirror Reality, yet deep down inside, I just wanted the thrill of finding an entire new sector, a new zone, a new paradise of alpine granite to immerse myself in and make boulders clean. I cut my finger on hypnotized, failed miserably compared to my previous attempts on Mirror Reality in what I considered sweltering April heat, and realized i need to zone in, not spread out. I started to zero in on Paint it Black, but it was heinous, destroying my tips during every session, and wrecking my lower back. I needed something else to do, something to get me extra fit. Maybe I needed an area with a hike. and a ton of hard new projects.
I decided to go look at an area called Wild Basin next to Allenspark, 35 minutes from our house direction Estes Park. My first day in the valley I didn't find much, but I was astonished by its beauty. A low green trough, littered with glacier erattics, cliff bands and terraces. I meandered around by myself, carrying a rock in one hand to ward off Mountain Lion attacks, and a chalk bag strapped to me in case I discovered the next Dreamtime. I ended up getting lost in some dense brush, finding a moose in the forest who was my friend, and then falling into the river.
I knew there was rock out there, I sensed it. There was some magical draw, something magnetic about the valley, and all I could think of was going back, to hunt for the rock. I returned the next day with Carlo Traversi, and we quested out to where I had seen boulders on google earth map. I was more oriented this time, so there was no need to get lost in the brush, we down the trail, and in now time, BAM. A massive talus field, strewn with massive blocks, projects galore, and cool green moss covering all surfaces, we had hit the jackpot. Carlo had seen a bloc I never made it too, described its majesty, and immediately I was knew we would find much, much more rock. This place was gonna be good.
After that day, it was on. The Tingster and Nate had arrived, and we began filming another segment for Scarred for Life about this new realm. At night, we feverishly hustled on the on edit of Island 1, and like clock work, at around noon, we would be driving to Wild Basin.
Paint it Black was put on hold temporarily, as the quantity of projects which we had cleaned began to overwhelm me. It was getting warmer, but by about 20 degrees, and before I knew it, the temperatures where in the 80's. Now, I have failed to mention this entire post that my time here in Colorado comes to an end on the 7th of May, when I fly to Australia for the second time of my life. It will be a two month bouldering adventure with my friends Nalle Hukkataival and Ian Dory, and evolve directly into another two month adventure, in South Africa. I have been extremely excited about this trip, but I knew my time in the states was limited, and the 6 weeks I had from Hueco till I flew out, always loomed in my mind, taunting me with the idea, that I may not send my projects this round, and it might get too hot.
And this is where things get interesting. In many of my blogs, I tend to describe some of the deeper elements of the struggle behind my experience climbing. Things aren't always perfect, or more literally, its nearly impossible for things be "perfect." Thus there is a lot of my life, while I am pursuing these goals in climbing, where everything just seems to come crashing down. It will get too hot, you will get injured, you will fail for some incomprehensible reason, maybe you will get deported, the idea is, disaster can strike at any point for a climber, and when you are going for it 365 days a year, you can really set yourself up for some disappointment.
This time, there was no disaster. This time all clicked. I think it was because of the full moon, but I haven't even seen the moon lately and I'm not sure if its even full (get that).
I waited out the heat wave which attacked Colorado, threatening us with fires and high winds. I had my sights set on three projects. Two where in the Basin: an amazing Grey boulder with a crazy toe hook crux, an arete which climbed really well, and the looming Paint it Black back in the Park. I had 14 days left in the country to make it all happen, and forecast did not look good. I had nearly sent the first rig in a session with a brief moment of cold air, so I knew I was capable of doing it, the arete seemed to pose no serious threat and would be too heinous in the end if it got cold, and Paint it Black, well, for three days I had fallen on the same move. The last move. A foot move of all things. I was baffled, but extremely close to doing the problem so it seemed. I started to lose hope, I couldn't put my finger on what I was doing on wrong, I felt stumped, like I was trying to solve some bizarre puzzle. It reminded me of these metal ring toys, just giving up, by being utterly baffled at what you could try next.
And then something crazy happened. A cold front swept through the Rockies, and hit Colorado at the perfect moment. I was astonished, it dropped nearly 30 degrees, and low and behold, it was cold as shit. Sending Temps where back, and I was going to try to make the most of it, even though to be dead honest, the last thing I expected would be to send all my projects. I never do that. I am a master at punting.
But this time I did not punt. I went to the Basin the first freezing day, even though it was still snowing a little, and capitalized on the wind. It was epic! Blustery storm clouds, snow squalls, and intermittent sun, I was invigorated and excited to climb, awed by the difference from the last week, and grateful that the giant mosquitos who tormented us for so long where being blown really far away, and hopefully buried in snow.
The Grey was the first rig to go down. I fell off the heinous sloping finish on my first try, utterly devastated I had blown my shot at a First Try Friday (it was a friday, its a fun game) but feeling fit, I fired it the next go, feeling weight lift off my shoulders almost immediately. Its impossible to describe, but all I really wanted to do, before I flew to Australia, was to execute that sequence properly, and glide across the boulder using all four points. It was like a karate exercise, a routine, I just wanted to get it right. To arrive at a concentrated state. To become focused. To rise above what I could not understand.
Somehow, when I sent that problem, I was liberated. I rested for some hours spotting the homies on the amazing Tetris, and then went down to the arete project in the crazy wind. The conditions where amazing, and I somehow felt like I knew how to rock climb, and it was done. After about half an hour, only had one more project in the Park, and I only had 8 days to left to climb it.
The next day I was haggard from the hiking and climbing in the basin. My skin was thin, my back and legs hurt, and I doubted any chance of real success, for no real reason except that I pretty much thought I would fail. We arrived at Paint it Black to find that the conditions where not as perfect as I thought they would be. Immediately I was relieved, and thought to myself that tomorrow, equally, could be a good day to try this thing, especially if I was all sore. I brushed some other problems, paced around, and held back for 2 hours, hoping that when the sun went down, it would get colder. Instead, the clouds developed and it got slightly humid, the wind ceased, and I starting feeling defeated. But at that moment right there, when I was at my low point in confidence, on some other plane, I was at a high point. I started warming up, decided to give it a good run for its money, and test myself once again, even though I feared failure, at the foot swing, like nothing else. I started to make my attempts. I had a brand new Quantum on my left foot, the PERFECT shoe for the heal hook, and a blue team on my right, broken in perfectly. I fell off the foot swing.
I tried again, and fell off the foot swing, but this time I had my right hand affixed onto the crux crimper in the right spot, not too high, not too low. I had felt the position, for the first time, from the ground. I need to dig my fingers into the crimp, and just do the sequence, as I had done so many times from a push in. I then did something improvisational. I used my sandpaper, which is typically for my tips, for my nails. I wanted to really get the crimper deep, and felt like my nails would always grind into that back wall when I dug in deep. So I sanded down my nails, on my right hand, made an attempt, fell before the foot swing but with a good sensation on the right crimp, rested, and climbed the rig.
Now, all I can say about that is: Pure Satisfaction. Like the pepsi add or whatever. But truly, I was content. Wrapping up that problem is a great way to prepare for a trip, and its a rarity for me these days to leave without hundreds of undone rigs looming in my mind. I have 6 more days till I fly to OZ, which will be one of the SICKEST trips I have ever been on, and all I can do at the moment is look forward. For a climber with a lot of projects, its always very hard to do, but somehow, this time around, its my genuine sensation, and I think it will only make me stronger for my journeys ahead.
I guess the moral of the story this time is: it doesn't matter how much you consciously believe in yourself, as you are truly something much greater, then just your conscience self. Even though I have been climbing for a long time, I am still just learning the basics, it keeps things fresh. I love this stuff. Thanks for reading
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What can you tell us about Milwaukee's murals?
I had a wonderful weekend of running around and checking out our city's murals. Through Facebook and Twitter, you made recommendations about what it'd be important to see, and I went and took a look.
Please check out the photo album I've created on Facebook and feel free to share information you know about the history of these murals and the artists who made them. I'll be reporting on this for the next few days for a story that will be published in Weekend Cue.
In the meantime, here are a few highlights.
I loved the "African American Cowboy" mural which has been up on the side of this old-fashioned welding shop for decades. That's welder Eli Bowden sitting out front. Adam Carr of Radio Milwaukee told me about this mural, which he said he drives out of his way to go and see on his way to work.
I had so much fun exploring the alleys of the 3000 block of Booth St. in Riverwest, which hosted the Art in the Alleys project. Sura Furaj, who helped organize the event and who has left detailed information about the murals on Facebook, says there were more residents who wanted art on their garage doors than artists to create murals. I knew of the project but hadn't seen it.
The Inner City Arts Council mural is of course an old favorite, painted by accomplished muralist Reynaldo Hernandez decades ago. The building has been purchased and the mural may be painted over by the new owner. More on this in my upcoming story.
Artist Harvey Opgenorth told me about this garage on Maple St. between 10th and 11th streets. He says the owner got sick of getting tickets for tagging and the task of cleaning it up, so the mural was put up as an anti-tagging effort. Opgenorth says it's been effective. Again, more on this in my upcoming story.
Here's a fabulous mural on the side of Sky High, a skate shop and art gallery in Bay View. It's one of my favorites.
And finally, look at this proud, purple and blue eagle on the wall beside a peace park. Just gorgeous.
I can't see every mural in the city for this story, but if you think we've missed something important, please feel free to comment below with details and an address. And thanks, again, to all of you who've helped with this reporting. It's really been a group effort.
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