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Over the years, comedian Jim Breuer has created some memorably outrageous characters, from the stoner in the movie "Half-Baked" to the over-the-top "Goat Boy" from "Saturday Night Live."
So a lot of people might assume that his stand-out act would be equally off-the-wall, filled with risqué jokes and R-rated pot jokes, right?
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High School Rivalry Gets Out Of Hand
Hundreds of students from Inglemoor and Bothell High Schools were involved in a brawl caught on videotape before a football game Friday night.
Kids from both high schools had gathered for the 'Boomer Bowl' -- an annual tradition of touch football before the real football game that night.
We're told these brawls went on for hours, with students punching and kicking one another.
Northshore School District officials say the video, which was shot by a student, shows the students involved in a vicious fist fight on a playfield in Bothell.
"It was upsetting for the school principal," said district spokeswoman Susan Stolzfus. "We're not sure how the students feel, but I hope at this point in retrospect they feel they made some bad choices."
The student who taped the fight apparently edited the footage with music and captions and was showing it off at school.
The district says it can't take any disciplinary action because the fight did not take place on school grounds.
Parents of the students involved are being notified and the tape has been turned over to the Bothell Police Department. But police can't really do anything about what they see unless someone comes forward to file an assault complaint.


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The Windrow-Ravenswood Deck. Long thought lost in the annals of history and urban legend, this simple deck of playing cards has long been thought to be something more than its basic nature. Replacing the standard four suits with a much more strange and macabre set of artwork, the Windrow-Ravenswood Deck's imagery sets the stage for a much more intense game than the usual diversion that playing cards provide.
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Pride as team completes Dakar Rally
Posted: January 24, 2014|
A TEAM of injured soldiers including an Army mechanic from Yate has fulfilled its ambition of completing the Dakar Rally for a second year running.
Lee Townsend, 43, was a team mechanic on board a support vehicle for the Race2Recovery team.
During last year's rally he was badly injured in a head-on collision in which two people lost their lives.
But Mr Townsend returned this year to face his demons and again was one of the support crew for Race2Recovery, a group of injured soldiers and civilian volunteers who made history as the first disabled rally team to complete the Dakar Rally.
Sadly the team was forced to retire its two race cars after Stage Two of this year's race but the team then focused all its efforts on its remaining T4 race truck.
At 2.30pm local time on Saturday, the Race2Recovery truck crossed the official finish line to jubilant scenes from the team's support crew. The truck and team then made its way to the final podium in Valparaiso, Chile, to celebrate with the crowds packed into the city centre.
Its race truck crossed the 2014 Dakar finish line after 9,100km in what is dubbed 'the world's toughest race'.
A total of 204 vehicles completed the 2014 Dakar, meaning just over 50 per cent of racers across all categories were forced to withdraw.
Speaking at the finish line, Corporal Daniel Whittingham, a member of the truck's onboard team, said: "I'm so proud of the team. To finish one Dakar, last year, was amazing. To finish a second consecutive Dakar is just unbelievable."


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Some follow up to yesterday's Hedge fund discussion:
We start out noting Barron's comparison between S&P500 and Hedge Fund Performance:
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Barron's observes:
"[f]unds' current popularity was fueled by a good run after 1998, an annus miserabilis in hedge-fund history. That year, as the S&P 500 leaped 28.60%, the CSFB/Tremont Index fell 0.36%.
But in '99, the hedge-fund index was up 23.43%, while the S&P rose 21.04%. The index climbed 4.85% in 2000, 4.42% in 2001 and 3.04% in 2002 — years in which the S&P fell 9.10%, 11.90% and 22.10%, respectively.
The strong performance in the 2000- 2002 bear market turned out to be a great selling point, especially as institutional investors began looking for alternative assets that didn't correlate as much with stocks and bonds. Soon, a tidal wave of cash cascaded into hedge funds. Net inflows hit $72 billion in 2003 and $123 billion last year, says Tremont Capital Management. Indeed, perhaps nothing would help the industry more than another bear market.
In this year's first quarter, HFR estimates that inflows rose to $27.4 billion, producing a growth rate of 23% — nice, but way below the 180%-plus seen a year earlier. Tremont, however, estimates that inflows actually fell by $13 billion. (The reason for the wide disparity in estimates is unclear, although the firms' data, to some extent, may cover different funds.)
Many in the industry blame hedge fund's less-than-stellar investment performance in the past 18 months on the paucity (at least until recently) of volatility and strong market trends — crucial elements for generating gains. "In a low-volatility environment, even the smartest investors have problems making money," observes Jan Loeys, a JP Morgan strategist who has analyzed the industry. Among the big-name firms that have been struggling is John W. Henry, which trades managed futures. Its Global Finance and Energy Portfolio was down an estimated 27% in this year's first four months."
Next, we get into the detains of those numbers, along with an interesting analysis of Hedge fund performance, from CogentHedge.com:
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At the Cogent fund site, this chart is dynamic — each category can generate another chart of all the subspecialties with each fund style.
Cogent Dynamic Averages
Cogent Hedge
For Hedge Funds, Is the Party Over?
Lawrence C. Strauss
Barron'S, Monday, May 30, 2005
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So What Do You Do, Allison Arieff?
The former editor of Dwell opens up on design, sustainability -- and her 'cool' new job- June 27, 2007
When we last asked Allison Arieff "So What Do You Do?" way back in 2003, she was editor-in-chief of a three-year-old magazine named Dwell, the little shelter publication that went on to become a hit with a growing design-crazy audience. But after citing differences with the magazine's mission in August of last year, Arieff left her position for a role as senior content lead at multidisciplinary design firm IDEO. Leaving Dwell also opened up other opportunities for Arieff: She currently writes a TimesSelect blog and will begin writing the regular "Living Design" column for the Op-Ed section of the New York Times in September. The author of the books Prefab, Spa, and Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America talks to us about life after Dwell, what's exciting about design today, and why the prefab industry is like organized crime.
Name: Allison Arieff
Position: Senior content lead
Company: IDEO
Education: B.A. in History, UCLA; M.A. in Art History, UC-Davis; Ph.D coursework in American Studies, NYU
Hometown: Fort Hood, Texas
First job: Valet parking attendant
Resume: Editor-in-chief (2002-2006) and senior editor (2000-2002) at Dwell; editor, Chronicle Books; assistant editor, Oxford University Press
Birthdate: October 29, 1966
Marital status: Married, one child
Favorite TV show: "Invariably the quality drama that gets cancelled."
Last book read: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Most interesting media story right now: "Maybe the media itself and what's happening to it -- and of course the '08 campaign."
Guilty pleasure: "The Project Runway/Top Chef/Top Design genre on Bravo."
You've made a pretty unique career move: You were an editor-in-chief of a magazine covering design, and now you're working at headline-making design firm IDEO. How does it feel to be on the other side?
It feels great. After seven years spent writing about design, I'm now able to take part in the process rather than just reporting on the finished result. And that process part is what I've always been most intrigued. I feel like I can get in at the ground level, so to speak, and help influence the way design (of buildings, services, environments) is thought about and executed on from the beginning. I'm working on projects related to affordable housing, sustainability, and community-building right now. These are exactly the kinds of things on which I want to be focusing my energy. It's a luxury to have the time to research and think about this stuff -- that doesn't really happen when you have to produce 140 pages of magazine content every four or five weeks.
What's it like working at IDEO? As cool as we think it is?
Yes, I think it probably is. There is such a fascinating mix of people with different talents and backgrounds. All the work is hugely inter- and multi-disciplinary. You could find yourself working on a project with a team consisting of an anthropologist, an architect and an MBA. That diversity of knowledge and perspective truly brings new thinking to old problems, and makes for lots of interesting conversation in the lunchroom.
You seem to have your own diversity of knowledge and perspective from having three very different degrees: a B.A. in History, an M.A. in Art History and a Ph.D in American Studies. How have these areas of study come together to inform your career?
I just kept pursuing what was interesting to me. I guess I was, naively perhaps, not thinking too hard about the practical applications. I was attracted to NYU's American Studies program, for example, because it was completely interdisciplinary; I could take classes in film, art history, performance studies, anthropology. For a variety of reasons, I was getting frustrated with academia and I didn't end up doing my dissertation. A year and a half into my Ph.D program I attended a panel at the College Art Association called "If Not Teaching, What?" -- five incredibly interesting people who'd received their Ph.Ds in art history but were not teaching told the story of their respective career trajectories. One woman had moved to Spain, worked as an art critic, married a bullfighter, and had then gone on to become a museum director. It was an inspirational moment -- I realized I could leave grad school and still be OK.
I got a job with Random House and started at the absolute bottom of the ladder there but all the interests I'd cultivated and the skills I'd acquired over the years really seemed to come together at that time. Editing just made sense -- and in just about five years I moved from editorial assistant there to editor-in-chief of Dwell. Though all the paths I took seemed quite disparate at the time, it feels like everything I've learned along the way resurfaces just when I need it.
And you were also at Dwell from the very beginning, which started an incredibly interesting chapter not only for shelter and architecture magazines but also for design and sustainability in the U.S. What was it like? Could you feel the country start to warm up to the Dwell message?
I was part of such a super-smart and amazingly talented creative team -- the chemistry just worked. We were just so excited to have this opportunity. The fact that most of us had almost zero magazine experience, I think resulted in a far more creative endeavor as no one had deeply ingrained ideas about what a magazine should be or how it should be done. We each brought our particular strengths and quirks to the table and pretty much made it all up as we went along.
In the beginning, I think architects and designers appreciated the kind of unslick-ness of Dwell, and really responded to our interest in not just showing stuff but in telling the story behind the design process. Dwell's growth felt (and was) gradual -- first it seemed no one had ever heard of the magazine. But then, I'd get on an airplane and see someone reading a copy and feel very excited to be a part of it all. When the media became interested in the whole prefab thing, I could most definitely feel the country start to respond to Dwell and it was pretty great. And the fact that the magazine really began to expand the larger conversation about things like prefab and sustainability has been super exciting -- certainly more than I could have hoped for.
"Prefab has become like the mafia for me."
You've been writing about design for the Times, too. Has explaining design to a more mainstream audience helped you to see it in a different way than you did at Dwell?
With the Living Design column I can write about any and all aspects of design. It's a great opportunity to show how integral design is to our daily lives. The more research I do, the more and more fascinating interconnectedness of things emerges -- such as how might the introduction of agricultural parks into "shrinking cities" like Detroit help not only in urban renewal but also in fighting the obesity epidemic? Though that may not initially seem like a design issue, it involves landscape architecture, urban planning, systems design, the whole localism movement, etc. Also, because Living Design is part of the Op/Ed section, it means that people who don't normally read about this stuff may read about it here -- and that only expands the audience for good design.
You wrote a book, Prefab, which came out in 2002, way before the industry was transformed by the current boom of consumer demand. Almost five years later, what changes have you seen in the way prefab is perceived? Will there be a Prefab II?
Prefab has become like the mafia for me -- I try to step out and they keep pulling me back in! But seriously, I could never in a million years have anticipated the interest this topic would generate. It's been a pleasant surprise to say the least. Food + Wine even did a prefab issue a couple of years ago. So I think it is safe to say that the perception of prefab has changed quite dramatically.
But it hasn't changed for everyone. The majority of prefab houses are just as cookie-cutter now as they were five, 10, 20 years ago. There is indeed a great interest in prefab; however, the transformation you mention in the industry has not really occurred, and the number of modern prefab homes actually built remains quite small. The housing industry is not the most innovative or groundbreaking -- I mean really, how much have houses changed in the last 50 years? They've just gotten bigger!
Change can happen, but it isn't happening as fast as anyone would like. I remain optimistic about the future of prefab though I am perhaps a bit more realistic about what is possible and how fast. The Museum of Modern Art in New York is organizing a prefab exhibit, which is very exciting. As for a Prefab II, I'd like to wait and see what emerges from the fascinating work being done with digital prefabrication and rapid prototyping.
You mention two areas of technology that are really going to change the way designers work. What designers and architects, or maybe even bigger trends, are exciting to you at the moment?
Sustainability -- the interest in which I hope is not a trend but a paradigm shift. Not long ago, it still felt like people were just paying lip service to it, but now real change and innovation seems to be happening. I recently wrote an article for Travel + Leisure on green hotels (June 2007), and it was great to discover how much proactive change is taking place even by the major hotel chains. I am also particularly interested in the notion of community -- to what extent can community be designed/created? -- and to that end am looking at a lot of work and research on self-sustaining neighborhoods, innovative multi-family housing structures, and the like. This may not be trendy, but it is very exciting to me.
Are these two of the concepts you'll be looking at through your work at IDEO?
We've just finished a project with developers of affordable housing and have a number of other housing-related projects in the pipeline. I'm also doing a lot of work/research connected to sustainability and media.
Here's the one question that I'm sure everyone wants to ask of a design maven, former Dwell editor and prefab expert: What's your own house like?
A few years ago I wrote my editor's note in Dwell about how much I liked living in my Edwardian apartment. Several readers wrote in to express the betrayal they felt upon learning that I didn't live in a modern home. I moved in 2005, but those same readers would still be disappointed because now I live in a 100-year-old house!
[Alissa Walker is editor of mediabistro.com's design blog UnBeige.]
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she is not innocent for what i dont understand this law
I hear CAYLEE CRYING, SHE WANT'S JUSTICE!!!!
Linda, I think it's time for your medication. Yes, you can watch Nancy Grace re-runs after you take your medication.
I know that I fear for her safety. I'm afraid she is too safe.
I think Linda's hearing things and unless you were sitting their when caylee died you have no idea if she is guilty or innocent. It is up to court to decide justice not silly people who listen to Nancy Grace and the other HLN crew. If you just listened to the evidence you might understand why she was found "Not Guilty" . Everybody should remember the saying "things aren't always as they seem" I f I was on the jury I would have found her "Not Guilty" also
I blame the idiot judge for this fiasco...The defense, speaking for the defendant, claimed the drowning of the child & sexual abuse of the defendant in front of the jury, then didn't have the defendant take the stand...The idiot judge should have demanded that if these outrageous claims were made on behalf of the defendant, then justice would demand cross-examination of the defendant...The idiot judge , like judge Ito in the OJ trial, was clearly over his head...
Everyone should pay no attention to when she gets out of jail. She loves this. I really wish no one shows up or even watches coverage. That will hurt her more than the signs and shouts. She murdered her daughter. She is do hard she won't be affected by the negativity. She will be shocked if no one cares. Spread the word.
You can't convict on suspicion. Where's the evidence?? She may have done it but there is nothing directly linking her to the murder.
I think protecting Casey Anthony is a waste of resources, when those resources should be used for other law abiding citizens in need of protection.
Anonymous. Just read your comment. You can convict on circumstantial evidence. Duct tape and garbage bag materials were determined to be from the Anthony household (confirmed by lab).
Actually, you can convict on circumstantial evidence---and with enough pieces of circumstantial evidence, each facet will corroborate the other.
But on this matter, public backlash has all ready (IMHO justly) condemned this woman. Her face is instantly recognizable. Frankly, I don;t see what good her freedom will be to her when she is a social pariah, alienated from her family, with no education or means to support herself.
The state failed in its duty to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, each and every element of the crime. Yet, so many people are angry at the defendant and/or the jury, not the prosecutors.
Where is the sanity in this country? Almost 80% of Americans think reasonable suspicion is good enough to convict and almost half of Americans think Obama is doing a great job. Is this country INSANE?
Can someone please tell me why Nancy Grace just can"t seem to let the topic go? I like her show but even today she continues to show the jailhouse videos of all the lies she told. Is Nancy trying to recruit more C .A haters? She can't be retried and all she is doing is making this girl more famous. She is going to make millions and is even gaining more fans who like her.
people know how to lie dogs dont ! why didnt the police investigate by the second day roy kronk called !
BOO FREAKIN' HOO!!!!!!!!!!!! What about CAYLEE'S SAFETY????? Too bad someone wasn't concerned about that!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think she did anything, if she did she had help. Everyone needs to leave her alone. Let her and her family live their lifes. Don't be crazy, or do anything to them,that may land you in jail.
ask scott peterson on death row in califormia if someone can be convicted with circumstantial evidence. having sat on a jury before we were instructed to use our common sense and life experiences along with any evidence presented in determining our verdict. common sense should have made the verdict guilty. if the child accidentally drowned in the pool why would it be made up to look like a murder. showing pictures of the child swimming in the pool does not prove accidental drowning. i suppose if they had a picture of her standing by a car they could claim that the car slipped out of gear and rolled over her. casey was the last one seen with the child, she did not report her missing or report the "accident " for over a month. She is out partying and buying booze and snacks and was showing no signs of even a little sadness during the immediate days following the childs disappearance. Lets not forget the lying-why do people lie---to cover up something. If it was an accident why sit it jail for 3 yrs-in acidental drownings usually no charges are ever filed against the parent. Out of all of this the thing that offends me the most if the tactics of the defense lawyers. Baez, who reminds me of a pimp, accused people of horrific things and then never presented evidence to back up his statements. Is this justice? He is upset with people believing that casey is a murderer but what about his statement about George. For the rest of his life people will always be wondering if he is a molester. At least the prosecution presented what they believed was good evidence but the defense could not find any evidence that George was a molester. Very unethical tactics. KARMA
If she did not do it,then why will they not spend money trying to find out who did instead of turning this women into a celebrity,I saw her face already on the cover of People magazine at the grocery store yesterday,I was outraged,it is already apparant she loves a good photo shoot,I think it is a sham when people become popular because of crime. I say keep the camara's and news media out of the court rooms!
yes i do have a comment ithink this jurorer is gonig over board this person does not need to quit his or her
job if this persons being botherd by other co workers thaN THEY SHOU REPORT THEM , YOU JUST
DON'NT QUIT A JOB . inless you plan on profitting from it because you cannot handle a litte back lash
in this day in age either you have know stones or you want to make money saying they mentaly upset you
they cost you money an you just have not been ablbe to function,plus i have an idea you will get together
with the other juors to see if you can sue write book or make amovie mean while forgetting this is not about
the jurors the prosucuation Casey or her defence team this is actually about alittle girl that was brutally
murdered and she will never grow up instead shes 6 feet under. And ye all anyone can talk about is how who when will allyou low lifes profit from the MURDER OF ALITTLT GIRL NAME CAYLEE ANTHONY...
P.S.And if money is made it should go to familys of murderd children and to cope with the children they still have.
I do NOT subscribe to the WSJ to read this kind of stuff. Lots of other papers and TV stations are full of Casey Anthony if I want to read about her. Please stop running these stories on my dime!!
As soon as I saw this article, I knew the commenters were going to be by and large a bunch of nut jobs. People, get a grip on yourselves. Law and cases shouldn't be decided by our passions, but by reason and evidence. Stop demonizing the jury and worry about something else for a change. Oh and stop watching Nancy Grace - it'll help with your intelligence level!
If something happens to her, I hope that they indict Nancy Grace for inciting to violence.
If something happens to her, I hope that they indict Nancy Grace for inciting to violence.
I'm a little surprised that no one has commented on how the jurors are now being persecuted and fear for their own safety. Even if you're for a public lynching of Casey Anthony, what possible excuse is there for the vigilantism against jurors?
When they couldn't take the time to read the jury instructions and the foreman playing csi on George Anthony, not even look at the evidence, but, as that foreman said he had to orchestrate them shows the job they did not do.
All these people protesting the Anthony verdict are wasting their time..double jeopardy will not allow her to ever stand trial again. IF people want to truly make an impact on a horrific judicial judgement, protest the guilty verdict of Paul Cortez. There was so much evidence that was not looked at and an innocent man is being caged for something he did not do. FREEPAULCORTEZ.ORG
Well said circumstantial case! Too bad you weren't on this jury. . . You clearly understand the concepts and components of a circumstantial case. Perhaps this injustice would not have occurred if someone like you with reasoning and common sense skills would have been on the jury! So sorry justice for baby Caylee will have to wait. . .
bz12 got it right. the foreman said that"we found out stuff we didnt know before" talking abiut jb'sopening statement ugh, lie that cauldron drowned and George helped afterwards. That comment admits that he had prior knowledge about the case and that he believed this as evidence . One if the rules the judge read was that opening statements should not be treated as evidence. Do, then he did act like an investigator and started looking at George as a suspect. I can hear how this went during deliberations. Thus is why reasonable people are upset with the jury. There were two jurors who originally voted guilty. They probably bullied them to change. This was the wrong verdict and I feel more will come out about this terrible jury.
Is Jose now collecting his fees from Casey horizontally?
Hey did anyone else pu in the comments cindy made about her dogs being do tired. I bet Casey practiced using chloroform on them. I wish the investigators tested the dogs.
ttoo late now.
there is a possible civil suit against ca by a guy claiming patternity. i think if all of these suits and more will be her undoing. she doesnt deserve to live a normal life like some are saying. dont firget there is an investigation on jury tampering.
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At whom is the Virgin Mary looking? She is looking at each and every one of us. And how does she look at us? She looks at us as a Mother, with tenderness, mercy and love. That was how she gazed at her Son Jesus at all the moments of his life – joyful, luminous, sorrowful, glorious – as we contemplate in the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, simply and lovingly.
When we are weary, downcast, beset with cares, let us look to Mary, let us feel her gaze, which speaks to our heart and says: "Courage, my child, I am here to help you!". Our Lady knows us well, she is a Mother, she is familiar with our joys and difficulties, our hopes and disappointments. When we feel the burden of our failings and our sins, let us look to Mary, who speaks to our hearts, saying: "Arise, go to my Son Jesus; in him you will find acceptance, mercy and new strength for the journey".
Mary's gaze is not directed towards us alone. At the foot of the Cross, when Jesus entrusted to her the Apostle John, and with him all of us, in the words: "Woman, here is your son" (Jn 19:26), the gaze of Mary was fixed on Jesus. Mary says to us what she said at the wedding feast of Cana: "Do whatever he tells you" (Jn 2:5). Mary points to Jesus, she asks us to bear witness to Jesus, she constantly guides us to her Son Jesus, because in him alone do we find salvation. He alone can change the water of our loneliness, difficulties and sin into the wine of encounter, joy and forgiveness. He alone.
"Blessed is she who believed!" Mary is blessed for her faith in God, for her faith, because her heart's gaze was always fixed on God, the Son of God whom she bore in her womb and whom she contemplated upon the Cross. In the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Mary says to us: "Look at my son Jesus, keep your gaze fixed on him, listen to him, speak with him. He is gazing at you with love. Do not be afraid! He will teach you to follow him and to bear witness to him in all that you do, whether great and small, in your family life, at work, at times of celebration. He will teach you to go out of yourself and to look upon others with love, as he did. He loved you and loves you, not with words but with deeds".
O Mary, let us feel your maternal gaze. Guide us to your Son. May we not be Christians "on display", but Christians ready to "get our hands dirty" in building, with your Son Jesus, his Kingdom of love, joy and peace.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Announces the Resignation of Administration for Children's Services Commissioner William C. Bell
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the resignation of Administration for Children's Services (ACS) Commissioner William C. Bell. Commissioner Bell was appointed in December 2001, and had previously served as a Deputy Commissioner at both ACS and the Human Resources Administration.
"William Bell has spent his career protecting New York's children and is leaving a legacy of excellence at ACS," said Mayor Bloomberg. "He is a gifted administrator, a powerful advocate and a creative and talented policy maker. Since joining ACS in 1996, William has been instrumental in making ACS the outstanding agency it is today. I join all New Yorkers in thanking him for his dedication to our children and I wish him all the best in his new endeavors."
"The past 21 years have offered me the greatest gift anyone could receive – the gift of service to the City's most vulnerable children," said Commissioner Bell. "In the past two and
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Under Commissioner Bell's tenure, ACS has made dramatic strides forward in the protection of New York's children. Today there are 23,000 fewer children in foster care than in 1996, and, in 2003, the number of children in foster care was reduced by a record 14.3% to 21,829. Foster care admissions are down significantly, more children are living with their families safely, more adoptions are being completed, and significant improvement has been made in the provision of quality childcare and Head Start services.
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We need to remember the context of the current Democrat debate. Democrats routinely kill immigration law by insisting that any new law allows free citizenship to anyone who has broken into our country, overstayed a Visa or, simply said, citizenship for anyone. The Democrat reason is to give out many food stamps, free medical and housing money hoping for more Democrat votes. That is the context to remember when top democrat Harry Reid comes on Sunday and claims that Republicans will not vote for any immigration law. The truth is that Republicans have presented several immigration laws that give reasonable opportunity for fair immigration and Democrats have killed every bill, insisting that we should have no limits.
The context of the deficit is that Democrats did increase spending and deficit by $1 trillion dollars. The deficit grew immensely, now $17 trillion; Now because Nancy Pelosi lost speakership and budget power to Republican John Boehner, Harry Reid uses his Senators to stop reasonable budgets. Reid's action forces us to stay with Pelosi's budget on continuing resolutions and her endless trillion dollar deficit. Republicans have and Boehner's House have passed budgets with lower spending. Reid refuses to allow a Senate vote so we are stuck with Pelosi's trillion dollar deficits. This is the context you need to remember when any Democrat comes on Sunday and claims Republicans won't do anything about the deficit. Harry Reid and President Obama officially demand this spending deficit.
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HERSHEY — Redbank Valley wrestling coach Mike Kundick at first suggested the year 2000, but then he paused and dug deeper into his memory Saturday afternoon at the Giant Center during the PIAA Class AA Individual Championships' medal round.
After a few more moments, he came up with the correct answer to the trivia question: When did the Bulldogs last bring home two state medalists?
For the first time since 1990 and just the second time in program history, two Redbank Valley wrestlers left Hershey with hardware. Junior 113-pounder Willie Gruver placed seventh with a 6-2 win over Bentworth junior Jacob Rothka, and senior 160-pounder Cole Shirey took eighth after South Fayette sophomore Jared Walker reversed and pinned him in the tiebreaker period of overtime.
Their accomplishments added to a season in which Redbank Valley secured its 500th win in program history, claimed both District 9 team titles and advanced to the quarterfinals in its PIAA Class AA team tournament debut.
"It's been a dream season for us," Kundick said. "To come down here and win two medals is just a fantastic ending."
Gruver, in his second state tournament appearance, went 3-2. His losses came against the eventual champion, Derry Area freshman George Phillippi and to fourth-place finisher Justin Patrick of Ligonier Valley.
"It feels great to medal," said Gruver, whose loss to Patrick by pinfall in 33 seconds dropped him into the seventh-place match. "I think (that loss) was just nerves about what place I'd be going for after that. The nerves just got to me. … But it got me ready for the next round."
Shirey, who went 2-3 in his tournament debut, also struggled with stress, which sapped him of energy by the third day of wrestling.
"The previous couple matches I wrestled, I never really got to a point where I felt tired or exhausted; I was just so in the moment," Shirey said. "But something about (the seventh-place) match, I got out there and just felt tired, and that's what decided the match. He was in better shape."
Shirey, who plans to wrestle at Mercyhurst, said he needed some time to get past his medal-round loss before he could find satisfaction in his tournament experience. But he explained that the season, as a whole, brought him plenty of joy.
"We've accomplished more than anybody would give us credit for," Shirey said. "Nobody thought we'd do as well as we did. I'm glad I got to go out on top with those guys."
Redbank Valley's two medalists in 1990 were J.P. Kirkpatrick, who placed second at 119 pounds, and Toby Allen, who took sixth at 140.
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|Direct sibling contact and bacterial colonization in newborns.
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|PMID: 3903079 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|A two-phase, experimental study tested the hypothesis that no significant association exists between direct sibling contact and the bacterial colonization rates of neonates during their initial hospital stay. In Phase I, 44 infants were randomly assigned to experimental (N = 23) and control (N = 21) groups. Infants in the experimental group had direct contact with an older sibling who had been screened for communicable diseases; infants in the control group did not. The dependent variable, bacterial colonization, was measured using cultures of nasal and umbilical swabs of all neonates in the study. Swabs were taken at admission and discharge. In Phase II, the same procedures were followed except that swabs were taken from the neonates (N = 33 in each group) at admission, before the sibling contact, and at discharge. Analysis of the data using the standard error of the difference between proportions showed no significant differences in the proportion of infants colonized by staphylococcal and streptococcal organisms. Thus, bacterial colonization rates and older sibling contact were not associated. Implications for care and further research are discussed.
|M D Kowba; P M Schwirian
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|Title: Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN / NAACOG Volume: 14 ISSN: 0884-2175 ISO Abbreviation: J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs Publication Date: 1985 Sep-Oct
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|Created Date: 1985-12-03 Completed Date: 1985-12-03 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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Barry Steenkamp, third left, the father of Reeva Steenkamp, greets people as he and others attend her funeral, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, today. Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is charged with the premeditated murder of Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day. The defense lawyer says it was an accidental shooting.
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The double amputee said in an affidavit read by his lawyer at his bail hearing that he felt vulnerable because he did not have on his prosthetic legs when he pumped bullets into the locked bathroom door. Then, Pistorius said in the sworn statement, he realized that model Reeva Steenkamp was not in his bed.
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An infusion of new blood was just enough to keep the Hawaii men's basketball team kicking against Hawaii Pacific.
In an exhibition to launch the 2012-13 season, the Rainbow Warriors received quite a test from their Division II neighbor. They needed the full 40 minutes to put away the scrappy Sea Warriors in a 75-67 decision before a crowd of about 3,000 at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Christian Standhardinger, a high-energy transfer from Nebraska who redshirted during last year's 16-16 campaign, carried the 'Bows with a triple double of 20 points, 15 rebounds and about 10 full-body dives to the hardwood. Four other 'Bows scored in double figures, including three (Brandon Spearman, Brandon Jawato and Isaac Fotu) playing their first game action for UH.
But shakiness at the free-throw line (23-for-39, 59 percent) and the absence of injured senior center Vander Joaquim made it impossible to call this tune-up a rousing success. The real opener is next Friday vs. Maryland-Eastern Shore in the Outrigger Hotels Rainbow Classic.
"I thought overall these guys did a nice job," third-year UH coach Gib Arnold said. "It's probably nothing to write home about, but it's something to build from. And for that I'm pleased."
HPU, down 14 just a few minutes into the game and again early in the second half, chipped away all night and put a scare into its second D-I opponent in four days. The Sea Warriors lost 64-63 at Santa Clara on Tuesday.
They came within 68-64 on a Marko Cukic tip-in with 1:09 left, but Spearman, freshman Manroop Clair and Standhardinger put it away at the stripe.
Standhardinger, this season's projected starting power forward, was the difference.
"I can just say that every night the fans can expect one thing from me, that I give 100 percent and I have all the hustle plays, and that I compete," the junior from Germany said. "Sometimes the shots fall, sometimes the shots don't fall, but I will always compete and always give you all I got."
UH came in totally new at the point guard position with senior Jace Tavita, a Utah transfer who has sat out games for nearly two seasons. Converted point guards Garrett Jefferson and Clair split the workload behind him. UH finished with three assists and five turnovers from its point guards.
"Some good things and some things we need to work on from all three of them," Arnold said.
Without injured top returnee Joaquim — the senior center is out at least another week with a right MCL tear — senior forward Hauns Brereton was the only active player from last season in the starting lineup. Brereton fouled out with 15 points with 3:11 left, putting the onus on the newcomers to finish off the Sea Warriors.
"I think we took a very important step today. They didn't take the lead the whole game," Brereton said. "We want a build on that, but we took that first step. We want to build leads."
Tavita, Spearman, Standhardinger and Fotu got the other starting nods. Fotu, an afro-sporting true freshman from New Zealand, had a big block on Malte Ziegenhagen with three seconds left to help seal it. He and Standhardinger led the way on the backboards for a 48-25 advantage.
What was less convincing was UH's execution on both ends, but Arnold said he expected that with a young team. The 'Bows fouled three HPU players on 3-point attempts, but the Sea Warriors had to be respected from distance; they buried seven of 15 from long range, compared to two of 12 for UH.
"UH is a pretty good basketball team," HPU coach Darren Vorderbruegge said. "What hurt us was just our consistency. It was a game of runs and momentum, and I thought they sustained better than we did."
There would be no quick start for the Sea Warriors in this one. HPU's top scorer and rebounder against Santa Clara, Ziegenhagen, battled foul trouble early and UH went up in short order, scoring its first seven possessions. He finished with a team-high 19.
But the PacWest Conference visitors kept at it. They closed the half on an 8-0 run, capped off with a Michael Pierce corner 3-pointer to beat the halftime buzzer and make it 36-32 UH.
Last year's season-opening exhibition between these teams was similarly close, won 62-56 by the 'Bows.


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What can chronic arthritis pain teach about developing new analgesic drugs?
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Arthritis Res Ther 2004, 6:279-281 doi:10.1186/ar1450Published: 15 October 2004
Chronic pain remains an important public health need with greater impact on the US economy than most other chronic conditions. Current pain management is largely limited to opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, indicating a gap in the translation of new knowledge to the development of improved pain treatments. Strategies suggested include the re-evaluation of current drug screening methods, a recognition that molecular-genetic events occurring acutely contribute to the development of pain chronicity, the validation of analgesic targets in the intended patient population, consideration of the unique genetic profile that varies between individuals, and the introduction of individual response measures to improve the capture of outcomes in clinical trials.


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Mike Flowers, a Colfax musician, has dedicated himself to bringing cowboy culture back to life by sharing the songs and poetry of the era.
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Sitting at his dining room table, the walls painted blue and a yellow cloth draped over the wood, Mike Flowers strums. The "ki yi yippee yippee yays" he's singing from "Chisholm Trail" make his jeans and button-up denim shirt, woven leather suspenders and bolo tie seem that much more like the genuine article.
When you greet him, he says things like "Oh, I'll make another day of it," and "I'm figurin' on it."
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VirtualBox4.0 Beta2 is released!
Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 2 , this is the second Beta release of VirtualBox4.0 in one week, this beta release bring a number of fixes also the following major new features were added: reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; New settings/disk file layout for VM portability.
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- Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which prevented to install ExtPacks at all
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By Katie Williams on April 15, 2013 at 11:25 am
You'd be forgiven for wanting to sigh, exasperatedly, "Why so serious?" when dropping into a random round with your standard MOBA's tight-lipped, hot-tempered players. But the newly announced Infinite Crisis – which pits everybody's favourite DC comic book characters against each other in the typical struggle for power, fight to restore order, et cetera – is actually a welcome change to the notoriously impenetrable genre. After all, who wouldn't want to send a gift-wrapped box of chomping Joker teeth after a particularly surly player?
games.on.net were invited around to Warner Bros.' event in San Francisco for some hands-on time with this promising entrant in the MOBA scene. After being divided into teams of five, schoolyard-style (guess who got chosen last?), we were seated before the character selection screen, where we got our first glimpse of the line-up. The available playable superheroes comprised characters pinched from various DC universes: there are the standard crimefighters and troublemakers we all know about, referred to here as "Prime;" the steampunky denizens of the Gaslight universe; and the Nightmare characters who, well, live up to their name.
Predictably, Batman's various forms were quickly claimed – I instead settled with Poison Ivy, whose juxtaposition of support role and come-hither aesthetics neatly represented her sweet-and-sour abilities.
Though the developers stressed we were playing only an early build, I've gotta admit I was instantly impressed with Infinite's Crisis visual polish. We dropped into a circular, semi-destructible capture-the-points map that screamed urban smackdown – crumbling streets and crude, metal-plank bridges carved through a gloomy metropolitan landscape, with abandoned cars casually strewn about to facilitate the squashing of one's enemies.
Mechanically, Infinite Crisis isn't too different from the likes of League of Legends – kill stuff, level up, kill bigger stuff, and eventually fight for overall control of the map. What differs, besides the obvious superhero-versus-villain colouring of the world, is its accessibility. It didn't take me long to grasp Poison Ivy's strengths, and I was soon throwing out teammate-healing, enemy-poisoning AoE spells while happily spiking opponents from afar with her oddly satisfying tunnelling root ability. Meanwhile, at-a-glance information kept me updated with how my teammates were progressing.
Whether dabbler or hardcore hours-a-day gamer, Infinite Crisis is easy to pick up (though once the beta goes live, I'd recommend reading up on the superheroes' skills before booting up the game, just to save yourself trying to awkwardly read descriptions mid-combat). With the implementation of a gentle auto-level and -purchase system for newbies, the developers emphasised that Infinite Crisis is as accessible for new players as it is for seasoned experts, a noteworthy ambition given MOBA genre's infamy for brutal communities.
As a player who fell somewhere in the middle on the spectrum, I never felt too frustrated or harried – the friendly teamplay mechanics actually encouraged a camaraderie between my allies that had us shouting in panic or whooping with joy, depending on how well-guarded our nodes were. "Catastrophic events," such as the occasional crater-creation of a massive fireball, also helped keep things interesting by forcing players to alter their strategies on the fly.
Developed by Turbine, known for online heavyweights like Lord of the Rings Online, it's not surprising that the single map we were shown is already looking mighty pretty. In addition to other maps, the release version will also reportedly see an expanded gallery of possible heroes and villains to fill the spandex outfits of. And finally, though not detectable in our preview time, the developers insist there will be an overarching plotline. But even if there isn't, I'm cool with that — Infinite Crisis has got enough going on here that it's looking to be a promising shake-up in the current MOBA scene, and it's worth nudging one's name into the beta for.
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We've all felt it, that ponderous moment when you realize you've accidentally butt-dialed a contact in your phone and you work hard to recall all of what they may have heard. It's an incident that can make or break a relationship. R&B crooner Trey Songz sings about his butt-dialing experience on new song "Smart Phone," the follow-up single to his club banger "Na Na." Trey recalls being caught cheating red-handed and the lies he had to make up to win his girl back.
"She picks up the phone and in my head I know I'm wrong/I just wanna know what she's heard/ I'm pacing back and forth/Cause I know I've been caught/ Trying to think of the perfect words/ So I can come to her and lie right to her face/ I don't know what I'm gonna say/ But I know that I'm gonna say whatever it takes," he sings.
The inventor of sex posted the audio on his Instagram account using iconic stills from classic movies like "Waiting To Exhale" "The Notebook" and "Titanic" teasing the track for his loyal fans.
#TeamBeautiful had the esteemed pleasure of witnessing Trey Songz perform the new ballad at InterludesLIVE in LA last weekend and now you can hear the redemption song for yourself! "Smart Phone" will be on his forthcoming album "Trigga" set to hit shelves June 30.
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It's actually almost exactly how I was thinking I'd have to do it back when I made it in 1998, just a little easier with digital and computer technology. We're going to scan every frame, front and back. Then make, like, 70 images of every frame, print it on film, and stitch it together. There will be two sections to the film. Part One is all the forecasts, and then it goes to the back and shows the back of the forecasts. I think the film is going to be about two minutes long. The idea of the film is that it will loop. It's really exciting.
I remember talking to you a while ago about your decision to move back from New York to Philly and how part of that was because you felt like you didn't have time to produce. Can elaborate on that?
I had been here in Philly; I graduated, and then I got into Skowhegan. It was the greatest experience of my life. It changed me, made me the artist I am today. Eighty percent of the people at Skowhegan moved to New York. So it was just like, I'd just spent the summer with all these great people and realized, "Holy shit, I could live with them in New York!" But I had no money. Luckily, the artist Fred Tomasseli needed a painting moved and a bunch of us at Skowhegan rented a truck. I didn't even drive, but I somehow got roped into it. We sold extra spots in the truck to people who needed other stuff moved to New York, so I made like $100-$150 and that was all the money I had when I moved to New York.
The first year and half was awesome, and then the rest was just a slow slide. I witnessed a murder, my girlfriend broke up with me, and then the World Trade Center fell down, and, you know, I was like, "New York is the worst place in the world. My life is terrible!" But I kept going to galleries and seeing museums, and I was still engaged with a lot of people I had gone to school with. At a certain point, I realized I had a lot of friends and a lot of connections, but I couldn't articulate myself. When I came to Philadelphia in early 2004 is when I could really process and started to make actual work.
Are you still feeling like Philly is a good base for you?
Yeah. In terms of making work, I'm still at a point where I'm still struggling with figuring out how to do it. It still takes a lot of time, and I'm not as productive as I should be. I'm still trying to balance that: thinking about the work, searching for the work—and delivering, getting it done. Sometimes I'm indulgent about thinking about these things, but I have to be because I feel like it is the strength of the work. When the work is there, it's because it's gone through a lot of thought and process. I know if I lived in New York right now, that would be even harder just because of the expense and the distractions. I go to New York twice a month, and I want to go to everything. I mean, I know who I am. I'm guy that's going to movies, concerts, art shows—I just want to be there and see things. And you've to have to have restraint. So, it is good to be here. There are times I do wish I was there. But you can't second guess yourself. You'll go crazy.
You just curated a show at Fleisher Ollman Gallery. How did it feel to be in the curatorial role as someone who usually operates an artist?
It was the best. There were all these things about looking and finding relationships between artworks. Also, it was just pure selfishness. For example, my friend has this really great dice collection, and he would send me the editions online. I hadn't been out to L.A. in three years, and I just wanted to see all the dice together. So I convinced him to show it in the show. Artists like Anissa Mack had these two great pieces that are related to each other but that had never been shown together. Well, I wanted to be the first one to put them together in the same room. I want to see good things put together, and that's why I put together the show. I'm not trying to do this sort of thing all the time, but this year has been an interesting diversion from the studio.
You did not go to graduate school. Do you think artists should or shouldn't get MFAs?
Some should definitely, and some shouldn't definitely. I didn't, and then these other things happened that have actually replaced it. Right after Skowhegan, I was urged to go to grad school by many people. But I just didn't have the money. I'm not the most organized person.
But you're so meticulous!
I'll say it like this: I'm a Braque man, like Picasso-Braque. You know, they founded cubism. The difference between Picasso and Braque is, Picasso took something and then took it apart, you know, fucked it up. Braque took fucked up things and tried to order them. My life is kind of in shambles at all times. I try to make sense of it and put it together. When I do this [through art], I become highly organized and highly observant. And if I had a slightly different personality, I think I would have done good in grad school, and it would have helped me. But the whole initial effort to get your finances together and get the application together, it was just beyond my reach at that point. Four years in New York and then Skowhegan, that's my grad school. That was six years.
You were describing your organization and disorganization, using the example of Braque bring together or making sense of messed up things. You did that to the extreme, once, when you made a drawing to process the murder you witnessed in New York, in 2001.
It took me a long time. I didn't make it until 2010. When I was asked to do the show at Churner and Churner in 2011, that was 10 years after the murder. A lot of time had passed, but it was still fresh for me. So I just worked on writing this really taut and concise yet expressive poem—it's only like a paragraph and a half, and then repeats itself twice. Lenora McDuffy is the subject, and she was the girl who was murdered. She was 18. I was an eyewitness. I went to the trial. It rocked me, I mean, to the point that when 9/11 happened, I was already emotionally troubled and so that was just like, "Oh, that's just Tuesday." I was already so emotionally damaged from Lenora's death.
I mean, it was crazy. It was a great piece to make. I've also been working on another version of it, where the colors are darker. I've been working on a series of works called "At Night," so it's as if the work was viewed at night. All the colors are darker, everything more obscured. Now that I've done the really legible one about the murder, I'm interested in receding it. It was tough to start it, though, because it's an emotional piece, and I kind of don't want to be around that anymore. It's heavy. It's hard.
A Complete Die, etc., runs through Aug. 24, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, 1616 Walnut St. 215.545.7562. fleisherollman.com
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We've recently encountered an unusual number of unconventionally-formatted court documents. To name a couple, there was that graphic novellette of an amicus brief, and the Emily Dickinson-inspired judicial order.
Today we've got another brief that wouldn't appear out of place on a Reddit thread.
It's not high-quality art by any means, but there's (maybe) something to be said for illustrating your points with clip art of crying babies and crickets chirping.
And besides, isn't humor the best way to win an argument?
The case in question is Smoot v. Hopper, out of Oklahoma. I'd like to think the eccentricity of the filing has something to do with the state's overall weirdness, but it doesn't really matter.
This particular motion, from the end of last week, is apparently a continuation of sparring each side's alleged problems with filing court documents in a timely manner. After defense counsel apparently complained about plaintiffs' alleged tardiness, the plaintiffs had a little something to say.
Attorney Jasen Corns has taken the admirable, 'Don't get mad, get funny" tactic:
Ah yes, the sound of silence and unfiled court briefs. But hopefully not his joke falling flat in front of a judge.
Corns's motion is only a few pages (crazily, this isn't a pro se document. He's a real lawyer with a legit website), but it's also got these two gems:
Effective? Who knows. Professional? Eh. Awesome? Definitely.
Response: Smoot v. Hopper [District Court of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma]
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Thousands of cars roll through one of the Smokies most modern trails each year. The Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail winds six miles on a one-way loop just east of Gatlinburg.
Drivers can roll along the scenic trail for automobiles and stop at any of the 15 designated historic sites. Travelers find a thousand reasons to make the final stop at an 80 foot rock bluff known as "The Place of 1,000 Drips."
Cliff Branch cascades down moss-covered bedrock via countless small falls. The water eventually flows into Roaring Fork a few hundred yards away.
A thousand drips may be an average in the wide range of water flow at the falls. When the water is down, the pristine spot can seem more like the place of a few dozen trickles. However, an afternoon shower will quickly result in a pouring tide of infinite drips, leaving little mystery as to how this place earned its name.
While the source for the name is self-evident, it is unknown who gave it the name or exactly when it was given its drippy moniker.
Annette Hartigan, librarian with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, said the name Place of 1,000 Drips does not appear on any of the park's early maps. A search for the name found it printed in newspaper articles in 1963 regarding construction of the new automobile nature trail. That led to speculation that the name could possibly be contemporary in an attempt to attract attention to the new scenic motor route.
However, other historical researchers have documented an oral history of sorts. Allen Coggins, author of the book Place Names of the Smokies, reviewed some of his files and found documentation of a conversation regarding the Place of 1,000 Drips.
"I had interviewed Glenn Cardwell, a legend with the park service who later became the mayor of Pittman Center. He recalled a conversation he had with Herb Clabo, a local man who grew up in the area, is more than 100 years old, and is still very sharp," said Coggins. "Cardwell told me he asked Clabo about the name Place of 1,000 Drips and Clabo's response was, 'That's what they always called it.' So based on that, you can safely assume the name goes back at least to the early 20th century."
Whenever or whoever came up with the numeric nickname, it adds up to a fitting label for one of the most accessible and spectacular sculptures by Mother Nature in all of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Visiting the Place of 1,000 Drips
The Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail begins and ends near downtown Gatlinburg. With the Place of 1,000 Drips being the last stop on a one-way loop, you'll have to navigate the entire trail to reach the falls.
To get to Roaring Fork, turn off the main parkway in Gatlinburg at traffic light 8 onto Historic Nature Trail Road. Follow the road to the Cherokee Orchard Entrance to the GSMNP. Shortly thereafter, there will be signs clearly marked for you to turn right onto the one-way motor trail. The road is narrow, curvy, and does not allow trailers or RVs. The motor trail is closed in the winter.
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The historic and fascinating city of York has over 30 attractions, from York Minster and the city walls to the National Railway Museum.
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Travel to Fountains Abbey, viewing the beautiful abbey, gardens and deer park, then head up to Wensleydale and the historic town of Middleham, where you may see racehorses on the gallops as well as Richard III's castle. Drive on through Wensleydale, taking in the spectacular views before stopping in the market town of Leyburn for some shopping, with various lunch options in the area. After lunch, travel up the 2014 Tour de France route to Aysgarth Falls and Bolton Castle.
North York Moors and Coast
Travel through picturesque villages, stopping for coffee at Beadlam Grange farm shop, situated on a working farm. On to the traditional market town of Helmsley for some shopping, then up to the Moors and the remote village of Goathland, where 'Heartbeat' was filmed before arriving at the seaside port of Whitby for some traditional fish'n'chips.
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This tour begins with a visit to the famous Mouseman furniture centre at Kilburn, then on to Helmsley for some shopping, taking in spectacular views of Yorkshire and the White Horse at Sutton Bank along the way. After lunch at a country pub or the award winning Star Inn at Harome, continue over the beautiful Howardian Hills to Castle Howard for afternoon tea and sightseeing.
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Without a will, all of these options could equal nothing for your family if you had an untimely death. I'm surprised by the number of 40-something friends who haven't drafted a will.
At the dawn of each new year I make a series of financial new year's resolutions. Over the past 4 years, I am at 85% success rate. This jibes well with your statistics.
It is encouraging to me that others do this in regards to their personal financesl. I'm fed up with nutrition and exercise goals being all the rage. Folks need to keep things in perspective!
Sure, people need to save their money, but what does it matter when Obama/Congress is just going to take it all! Why even bother saving it! You should just buy everything now because the money is going to be gone before you know it.
Top on the list of resolutions. I've been promising my Mom for years I would draft a will -- 2013 is the year. I'm also going to have an expert do my taxes for the first time ever just to see if they see something I don't.
I resolve to take control! First I'll solicit and compare three financial planner suggestions, pick one and then fire my current mutual fund advisor - I never phone them and they don't contact me.
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I was left with a $100,000 cancer cost debt when my wife passed away. I had 2 kids 6 & 12. The debt was at 20% interest. I tried ti get it transferred to my mortgage but the banks refused. I struggled for 5 yrs but eventually lost our home and a lovely B&B. Now I am 50, have no money, no house and trying to look after my 2 kids. I wrote a book - dying to get to Oklahoma. It's on Amazon and Kindle. My aim is to sell enough copies to get back on track and help others avoid what we have been thru.
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