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In 1848, five intrepid American trailblazers set off from Independence, Missouri, to settle in the Williamette Valley in Oregon. They were never heard from again.
However, in 1985, their story was rediscovered when a group of modern travellers, living in conditions far safer than those of old, stumbled upon a body miraculously preserved within a sealed Conestoga wagon. Beside the corpse lay a log of the travels and trials this man had gone through with his fellow passengers. This log would be published as An Authentic Journal of Travelers on the Oregon Trail.
All that would be known of the travellers aside from their inspiring stories were their names: Steve, a carpenter from Ohio; Don; Bill; Paul; and Snot.
edit April 1, 1848
We set off from Independence today. Ironic, the name. By leaving Independence, we pursue it. Oh, never mind.
Cool weather and everyone's in good health, so I reckon we should start off at a grueling pace. We can afford filling rations, if my calculations are correct. We have 1500 lbs of food with us, and I reckon it shouldn't take us more than a hundred days, what with ten oxen pulling our wagon.
Most of my friends, especially Snot—who was especially eager to render the Western buffalo extinct—wanted me to load the wagon up with bullets. However, on account of my not choosing to pursue a career in banking, my options were severely limited. We have 200 bullets, and with my marksmanship that should suffice. We also have 10 sets of clothing, 3 wagon wheels, 3 wagon axles, 3 wagon tongues, and exactly $90 left over after our purchases.
edit April 4
We've reached the Kansas River crossing. The weather is turning rather hot. We'll attempt to ford the river later in the day.
. . .
Alas! Fording the river did not transpire as planned. Despite our mysteriously conveniently accurate knowledge of the depth of the river, we foolishly pushed on. As a result, Don drowned. Furthermore, we lost all extra sets of clothing, 165 bullets, all spare wagon wheels and tongues, one spare axle, and six oxen. We got the bullet count strangely soon.
edit April 6
We have arrived at the Big Blue River crossing. Perhaps I will be able to make some good trades and make some profit.
edit April 14
Are these settlers out of their minds? These trades that they have suggested for the past week are doubtlessly lousy! I refused them all, naturally. Except for the time I traded an ox for a spare wheel.
It has only occurred to me just now that we have no choice but to cross the river. Since fording the river ended in utter disaster, we shall attempt to caulk the wagon. We appear to have an otherworldly supply of tar to plug the wagon floor.
edit April 15
Are we forsaken?! We caulked the wagon—it tipped. Snot drowned. The poor guy will never get to hunt down a single buffalo. More importantly, we lost the wagon wheel, the sole result of my intense bargaining at the other side of the crossing!
No time for mourning, though. We must quickly move to Fort Kearney, and we must make up for this lost time.
edit April 17
A wagon tongue broke. While we feared the worst, seeing that we had no spare parts, we were able to repair the tongue. I told Bill that we must keep an eye out for abandoned wagons.
edit April 18
We came across a gravesite, an intense reminder of the dangers of our journey. On the tombstone was this inscription:
I can only guess that this 'peperony and chease' was what he wanted on his tombstone.
edit April 21
Arrived at Fort Kearney. One hopes for better trades.
. . .
Yes! We bargained to obtain a wheel for 61 lbs of food. We're overstocked on food anyway.
edit April 27
Suddenly the good trades have subsided. The worst thing is that nobody wants the bullets. We ended up buying 4 sets of clothing. Now we are almost broke, but this is perfectly all right since none of the settlers appear willing to trade anything for money.
edit May 1
We continue for Chimney Rock. Paul's behaviour disgusts me; he insists on picking his nose without ceasing.
edit May 10
Arrived at Chimney Rock. While I imagine it is awfully sublime in the moonlight, I was unable to see it clearly. Since setting off from Independence, all of us appear to have contracted an eye disorder, which affects our vision such that we see rectangles that barely form a coherent image.
edit May 19
Lousy trades again. We will wait until Fort Laramie to try more bargaining.
edit May 22
We have reached Fort Laramie. The doctor appears unable to cure our rare eye disorder.
edit May 24
Tired of trades, we bought an ox. $10 left, and still nobody except the stores wants money. It's always some ridiculous trade, like 237 bullets for an ox. Who in his right mind counts out 237 bullets?
edit May 30
Someone suggested that I give him one ox for a set of clothing. This will never, ever happen as long as I live.
edit June 1
82 lbs of food given in return for one axle. Bill and Paul urge me to continue on the trail, but no! more trades must be made satisfactorily before we leave!
edit June 5
50 lbs of food were traded for a single wagon tongue. This sort of trading is pointless.
edit June 6
We set off for Independence Rock. For whatever reason, the count of miles we have left is extraordinarily precise.
edit June 9
Little grass, little food, little water. A lot of alarming statistics, though.
edit June 10
An ox is sick. I don't know how this was called to my attention, but it was.
edit June 15
Independence Rock—where names of great explorers were carved alongside those of humble settlers! Think of it—the names of Frémont and De Smet alongside those of Stinky and Snot.
Despite the discouraging lack of fair trades, I have finally found someone who will trade me an ox. 100 lbs food is hardly unjustified. We shall leave in two days.
edit June 19
We took the wrong trail. It appears we should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque.
edit June 23
Bill has exhaustion. I had advised him to try that energy beverage.
edit June 24
South Pass is crowded. I am afraid we may be stuck in a historical first, wherein wagon traffic skids to a complete halt for an hour or so. I propose the name "traffic jelly".
edit June 26
We bought the wrath of many fellow settlers by passing to the right. I asked for their forgiveness. We have still halfway to go, and now our rations are meagre. We will have to take the shortcut to Green River, even if it kills us.
edit June 27
Bad water. I have a bad feeling about dysentery.
edit June 29
The Green River at the crossing is 20 ft deep. While we are not sure how we managed to measure this, we will wait for conditions to improve for fording the river.
edit July 1
They have not improved in the least. We are now caulking the river. I hope this journal finds itself in safe hands, should we drown.
. . .
We are safe! Heading for Soda Springs.
edit July 5
We have less than 100 lbs food. Bad water and a thirst for soda are the least of our problems.
edit July 11
We found an abandoned wagon. The previous owners left behind a set of clothing, 63 bullets, and a wagon axle. I wonder if they were just out shopping for groceries.
edit July 12
Our food store has been reduced to 54 lbs. Bare bones rationing is in effect.
edit July 13
We have now reached Soda Springs, but have no time for trades. We must make it to Oregon before we starve.
edit July 16
Fort Hall. The supplies here are so expensive! In fact, I even thought about becoming rich not by getting to Oregon, but setting up a store out here and selling whatever supplies I have left, thus ripping off the settlers rather than being ripped off! However, I decided against it since I was assured by both Bill and Paul that they would kill me if I did. Besides, we can't stop! Heading for Snake River crossing as I write.
edit July 20
An ox is dead. I hope it's not from typhoid. You can never tell what these oxen die from.
edit July 21
Paul has typhoid. Shucks.
edit July 22
Paul has died. Bill and I are consciously avoiding anyone named Mary.
edit July 24
Snake River looks imposing. Without hesitation, we traded 2 sets of clothing for a Shoshoni guide and intelligent decision-making.
edit July 25
Rough trail. Let's hope none of the oxen gets injured.
edit July 26
An ox is injured. Besides, we are in very poor health, with 16 pounds of food left, and a bad water supply.
Bill managed to get some of that energy beverage, and felt better for about five hours. However, at this moment he appears to have collapsed entirely.
edit July 27
Bill has a fever. We have very little water, and I am trying to persuade Bill to drink more of that energy drink.
. . .
Bill has died. I never knew energy drinks could crash you to death, but apparently this one did.
I am now the only survivor of this party.
edit July 28
I lost the trail for 5 days. It could be worse, though. I could get dysentery.
edit August 5
Fort Boise is in sight. But I move on, for I must avenge my brethren's deaths and settle Oregon.
edit August 8
Since I have no food, I am going out for a hunt. I am leaving this journal behind in the case that I get mauled by a bear.
edit August 10
Strangely, all the bear seemed to pass right through me. This experience was rather disconcerting. However, today I managed to count a total of 2032 pounds of meat. I am quite sure I have rendered as many subspecies extinct. However, I could only bring back 100 pounds. Next time, I must make sure to construct a wheelbarrow before I go hunting.
edit August 13
Heavy fog. I can't see anything in front of me, but then again, this is always the case when everything looks like it's made up of little colored rectangles.
edit August 17
I successfully repaired a wagon wheel. Unfortunately, I will never get to win that bet against Snot.
edit August 18
I found another abandoned wagon, with two sets of clothing and two wagon tongues left behind. However, the clothing made me appear overweight.
edit August 19
I see the Blue Mountains, but alas! I must continue to head for the Dalles. I've been having some problems with the water supply, so I hope I don't get dysentery. If I do get dysentery, it will throw all of my plans into disarray.
edit August 20
I have dysentery. I am giving up on continuing my life. I only hope that this journal and my body is found not overly tarnished by time.
edit Epilogue
Steve appears to have died the very next day. Eventually, his body, possessions and journal were all found mysteriously preserved inside his wagon in 1990. A tombstone was erected, with the following inscription:
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I have had 3 miscarriges in the last 3 months, so the doctor decided to investigate and did aload of blood tests which came back im a severe anemic with a very low level of 4-im now on 600mg of iron tablets a day
i have been on them just over a month now and i have found out im pregnant (only time will tell ) so hopefully everything goes well !!
so the actual question is could lack off iron be the cause of my miscarriges????
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Probe into Gaseous Pollution and Assessment of Air Quality Benefit under Sector Dependent Emission Control Strategies over Megacities in Yangtze River Delta, China
Dong X, Y Gao, JS Fu, J Li, K Huang, G Zhuang, and Y Zhou. 2013. "Probe into Gaseous Pollution and Assessment of Air Quality Benefit under Sector Dependent Emission Control Strategies over Megacities in Yangtze River Delta, China." Atmospheric Environment 79:841-852. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.07.041
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On February 29th 2012, China published its new National Ambient Air Quality Standard (CH-NAAQS) aiming at revising the standards and measurements for both gaseous pollutants including ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2), and also particle pollutants including PM10 and PM2.5. In order to understand the air pollution status regarding this new standard, the integrated MM5/CMAQ modeling system was applied over Yangtze River Delta (YRD) within this study to examine the criteria gaseous pollutants listed in the new CH-NAAQS. Sensitivity simulations were also conducted to assess the responses of gaseous pollutants under 8 different sector-dependent emission reduction scenarios in order to evaluate the potential control strategies. 2006 was selected as the simulation year in order to review the air quality condition at the beginning of China's 11th Five-Year-Plan (FYP, from 2006 to 2010), and also compared with air quality status in 2010 as the end of 11th FYP to probe into the effectiveness of the national emission control efforts. Base case simulation showed distinct seasonal variation for gaseous pollutants: SO2, and NO2 were found to have higher surface concentrations in winter while O3 was found to have higher concentrations in spring and summer than other seasons. According to the analyses focused on 3 megacities within YRD, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, we found different air quality conditions among the cities: NO2 was the primary pollutant that having the largest number of days exceeding the CH-NAAQS daily standard (80 μg/m3) in Shanghai (59 days) and Nanjing (27 days); SO2 was the primary pollutant with maximum number of days exceeding daily air quality standard (150 μg/m3) in Hangzhou (28 days), while O3 exceeding the daily maximum 8-hour standard (160 μg/m3) for relatively fewer days in all the three cities (9 days in Shanghai, 14 days in Nanjing, and 11 days in Hangzhou). Simulation results from predefined potential applicable emission control scenarios suggested significant air quality improvements from emission reduction: 90% of SO2 emission removed from power plant in YRD would be able to reduce more than 85% of SO2 pollution, 85% NOx emission reduction from power plant would reduce more than 60% of NO2 pollution, in terms of reducing the number of days exceeding daily air quality standard. NOx emission reduction from transportation and industry were also found to effectively reduce NO2 pollution but less efficient than emission control from power plants. We also found that multi-pollutants emission control including both NOx and VOC would be a better strategy than independent NOx control over YRD which is China's 12th Five-Year-Plan (from 2011 to 2015), because O3 pollution would be increased as a side effect of NOx control and counteract NO2 pollution reduction benefit.


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Sixteen going on Seventeen from The Sound of Music by the Granville High School Drama Club. Here Rolf and Liesl played by Cameron Gallagher and Amber Daigle perform one of the musical's signature numbers.
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'Do-Re-Mi' from the Sound of Music from the second night of the three night stand at the Granville High School auditorium. In this scene Maria Rainer, played by Elle Leach, begins teaching the von Trapp children (including Liesl played by Amber Daigle; Friedrich played by Philip Hicks; Kurt played by Brett Colvin; Lousia played by Shelby McEachron; Brigitta played by Katelynn […]


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Wilo-DrainLift XS-F
Small sewage lifting unit (front wall installation)
Sewage lifting unit ready for connection for limited use (directly connected to a wall-mounted toilet) for special installation on the front wall. For the sewage disposal of an individual toilet, in addition to a hand washbasin, a shower or bidet, the wastewater/sewage of which cannot be discharged to the sewer system via the natural slope and/or for the disposal of wastewater/sewage that accumulates below the backflow level. Compliance with DIN EN 12050-3 and DIN 1986-100 is required. We recommend using products of the Wilo-DrainLift S to XXL and FTS series when connecting several or different drainage fixtures.
Max. pressure pipe lengths DN 32 / DN 25, for optimal operation, the first section of the pressure pipe should be positioned vertically and then the rest continued horizontally if at all possible (2 bends of 90° and a built-in non-return valve are taken into account)
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- Quiet operation for high user comfort
- Reliable due to integrated alarm
- Simple and quick installation:
- Including all connection sleeves
- Built-in active carbon filter
- Ready-to-plug
- Suitable for all standard front wall installation systems
- Motor housing: stainless steel 1.4301 (AISI 304)
- Hydraulics: PP‐GF 30 plastic
- Tank: ABS plastic
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- Mains connection 1~230 V, 50 Hz
- Mains connection cable 1.5 m, with shock-proof plug
- Operating mode: Intermittent operation S3 ‐ 30 %
- Fluid temperature max. 35 °C
- Ambient temperature max. 35 °C
- Free ball passage 25 mm
- Pressure port DN 32
- Inlet connection 2 x DN 50 / DN 100
- Ventilation 2 x DN 50
- Min. suction head (installation level to middle of inlet) 180 mm
- Protection class IP 44
- Gross tank volume 7.9 l
- Switching volume 1.2 l
- Ready-to-plug
- Thermal motor monitoring
- Level control with pneumatic pressure transducer
- Potential-free contact
- Non-return valve
- Inlet seals
- Kit for pressure pipe connection
- Fixation material
- Active carbon filter
Automatically operating small lifting unit incl. all switchgear and control units required , included non-return valve, active carbon filter, flexible pressure port and connection options for one toilet, two additional drainage fixtures and one ventilation pipe. The DrainLift XS-F small lifting unit is connected directly to a wall-mounted toilet. The direct toilet connection as well as connection options for additional drainage fixtures are located on the long sides of the system. The two optional ventilation connection pieces are on the top of the tank. The fluid is discharged through a flexible pressure pipe which can be swivelled. The ventilation pipe is guided into the installation room via an included active carbon filter (odourless) or is guided over the roof. Any malfunction is indicated quickly by means of an integrated, mains-independent alarm signal. This signal can be passed on via an additional potential-free contact.
Inlet connection:
- DN 100 (direct connection)
- 2 DN 50 inlets
Connection pressure side:
- DN 32 via elastic pressure outlet
- 2 x DN50; optionally via supplied active carbon filter in the installation room or via pipe at roof level
Scope of delivery
Lifting unit ready for connection including connection sleeves, non-return valve 1 ¼", DN 32 reducer, active carbon filter, insertion screen for ventilation, accessories for the buoyancy safeguards, drain hose with sealing plugs, elastic pressure outlet which can be swivelled and installation and operating instructions.


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Deep Spending Cuts Pose a New Threat to US Economy
Just as the U.S. economy is making progress despite Europe's turmoil, here come two new threats. A congressional panel is supposed to agree by Thanksgiving on a deficit-reduction package of at least $1.2 trillion. If it fails, federal spending would automatically be cut by that amount starting in 2013.


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Algerian assault ends crisis, 19 hostages dead
AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert on Saturday in a "final assault" that ended a four-day-old hostage crisis, according to the state news agency and two foreign governments. At least 19 hostages and 29 Islamist militants have been killed.
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Common speech tries to distinguish between the "artist" and the "scientist." There is a confused notion that one uses emotion and intuition, drawing support from inward genius, achieving great effects without knowing how or why, but that the other, employing rational analysis, is cold and precise, analytical and detached, surrounded by highly complex instruments that baffle the lay mind. In medicine, wherein a distinction between the "art" and the "science" is traditional, a similarly vague notion obtains. Today a discussion of the "art" of medicine will ordinarily conjure up the picture of a mature physician rich in experience, sympathy, and understanding who, not always knowing why or how, makes his patients feel better. He may, for example, be pictured with an old-fashioned microscope in the background, symbolizing the science that was accurate enough in its day, although its day is long past. The artist in medicine supposedly relies not upon
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The heat of the summer can be rough on a pregnant mama. One of my good friends was eight months pregnant with twins during some of our hottest months and she made it through. The answer for her is the same as what I'll tell you: swimming!
Swim, Mama, swim!
Though you may not want to be seen in your umm condition, swimming will make you feel weightless and free. Truly. Most people at the pool will be super impressed that you are out and active, and nobody is staring at your thighs.
Get off your feet, float in the water, cool off. All good things. I wish I had some pictures of me at the pool during those enormous months, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I wouldn't allow photos to be taken.
Make sure to hydrate and wear ample sun protection. If you're a natural lap swimmer, take it a bit easier than usual. Even non-swimmers deserve to float around.
More ideas for pregnant chicks
If you can't be in a swim suit, I recommend wearing flowy comfortable clothes with flip flops and eating a lot of ice cream. Can you find a comfortable shady spot to curl up with a book? Finding a decent position and seat is hard enough so be sure to mix in a few pleasure books in among all your baby-wrangling research books.
Fun with baby in the summer
If you have a babe to wrangle in the hot months, my advice is similar. How adorable are chubby baby thighs poking out of a onesie in a stroller? So cute. If, instead, your baby wants to be held All The Time, the cool breezes of the stroller may elude you both for this summer. Treat yourself to a mesh carrier that breathes with you. Though I've never tried it, some moms have good luck wearing a baby carrier into the pool (or shower!).
Here are three fun summery activities for both mama and baby:
- Teeny tiny water table. My nine-month old is the perfect age to enjoy splashing around his high chair.
- Swimming. As you know from bath time, babies are slippery when wet. Swim time requires a bit more prep but it is still terrific.
- Shady afternoon picnic. Your baby is a perfect picnic companion with a blanket and some grass in the shade. Food is optional.


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Concord Con is coming to the Centre Concord Ballroom on Sunday April 27, 2014! We will have over 70 tables with vendors selling all kinds of action figures including Marvel, Spiderman, Captain America, Avengers, Hulk, X-Men, Black Widow, DC Universe, Batman, Catwoman, Superman, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lego Mini-Figs & Sets, Comics and movie memorabilia
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'Grannies' ready for some basketball
Featuring old-time rules, long-time players
Friday, January 24, 2014
The Missouri Granny Basketball League kicks off its fundraising season at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Jason Gymnasium on the Lincoln University campus in Jefferson City. Their competition will be a team of local pastors and members of the Lincoln University Athletic Department.
James Klahr, director of the Missouri Ethics Commission and long-time attorney for Gov. Jay Nixon, will serve as announcer for the game, which is usually a fun night for all attendees. There will be a raffle drawing and entertainment during the halftime show. Cheerleaders, all age 50-plus, along with an enthusiastic pep squad, will warm up the crowd. Refreshments are available, too.
Tickets to the basketball game are $5, with children younger than 12 admitted free. All of the money raised goes to the Common Ground Community Center, a ministry that provides financial assistance, educational and outreach services to the community.
Currently there are 35 granny basketball players in the league here organized into three teams: "Passing Fancies," "Shooting Stars" and "Capital Chicks," who can be identified by the colorful socks they wear as well as their uniforms of baggy black bloomers and white blouses. The Grannies must play by their "old-time" rules and the other team is usually handicapped in some way.
The First United Methodist Church of Jefferson City and other partnering congregations, including Grace Episcopal, First Presbyterian Church, Central United Church of Christ and First Baptist Church, support Common Ground. Each visitor to the benevolence center, located at 1015 E. Atchison St., must meet certain requirements to receive assistance. For more information about the services and ministries offered at Common Ground Community Building at www.cgcb.org.
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2007 Wisconsin Badgers Basketball Preview
Last season, after the Wisconsin Badgers (30- 6 overall, 13- 3 Big Ten) tied for second in their conference, they went to the college basketball bracket where they won one versus Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and then lost to UNLV 74- 68. Coach Bo Ryan (142- 55 in six years with Wisconsin and 172- 82 in 8 years) has to figure out how to replace three key players, including the school's leading scorer, Alando Tucker. If anyone can do it, Ryan can. Since he's been on board, the Badgers have compiled the second-most wins in the Big Ten.
Statistically, Wisconsin played tough defense as they placed third in scoring defense, limiting opponents to 57.9 PPG, and fourth in rebounding margin as they were plus-4.6. They were solid in point production, hitting for 70.2 PPG, putting them second in the Big Ten and in the winners column for our free college basketball picks. They turned the ball over only 11.3 TPG. Foul shooting, which was at .688, needs to improve.
If senior forward/center Brian Butch (8.8 PPG, 5.9 RPG, 47.5 FG%) can stay healthy, the Badgers will be a force. Butch has skills, smarts and toughness. Center Greg Stiemsma (2.2 PPG, 1.6 RPG, 49.2 FG%) has solid defensive prowess and an accurate jumper. Freshman forward Keaton Nankivil could be a massive force under the boards. Forward Marcus Landry (5.9 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 51.9 FG%), a junior, can score from inside and outside.
Senior guard Michael Flowers (7.2 PPG, 3.9 RPG, 2.9 APG, 44.2 FG%) offers fine defense but must step-up his point production. He'll be this season's floor general. Look for sophomores Jason Bohannon (4.6 PPG, 1.5 RPG, 44.5 FG%) and Trevon Hughes (1.4 PPG, 1.0 RPG, 31.4 FG%) to both start when coach Ryan goes with a three-guard set. Neither started last season.
Wisconsin went from winning 19 games in 2005- 2006 to earning 30 victories last season. Somehow, the Badgers have to find a way to generate points with replacement players. It will be a tough for this team to win 30 games in 2007- 2008. But 25 wins are not out of the question while becoming a favorite for NCAA tournament betting a distinct possibility.


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The David Trubridge Design Story
After sailing the Pacific with his family for several years, British native David Trubridge landed in Hawkes Bay, NZ, in 1985, and stayed. Inspired by their travels, Trubridge put his skills in architecture and ship-building to use in the design of furniture. A pretty much local business suddenly exploded into an international one when, in 2001, his Body Raft chair was picked up for production by Cappellini.
In 2004, Trubridge designed his first lighting piece, the Coral Pendant, an airy wooden sphere that set the stage for all of the nature-inspired contemporary lighting fixtures to come.
Why We Love David Trubridge Lighting
There are very few people who love the earth and its inhabitants more than David Trubridge, and his designs express that. They are created as means of cultural enrichment, to both nourish people spiritually and be environmentally friendly. They are light, airy and organic, and are quite simply gorgeous feats of structural engineering. They are made out of sustainably harvested timber, with recyclable plastic clips. Most are shipped unassembled as part of the Seed System, with "seeds" of a lamp flat packed, using 1/40th the amount of packaging needed for assembled fixtures.
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David Trubridge offers free, easy-to-make designs on his website. Most are pendant lighting fixtures, but there is also one for a cardboard bird feeder.
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My buddies on Team4HIVHope are rockin' the road as they race across America on their bikes! Spare a thought for them as they battle saddle sores, the elements served up by Mother Nature, and the lack of sleep inherent in racing non-stop across the continent.
First Ironman: Wisconsin 2004. Sick heading into the race. Couldn't consume calories or fluids during. Woke up in the back of an ambulance after I passed out half way through the bike. Later diagnosed with parasitic infection.
It has been a whirlwind of racing the past few weeks. I had two races in one of the local race series and had a much improved bike segment and finished fourth in my age group in each race so was feeling a little more confident in my chances of getting onto the podium at the Gay Games.
There, I said it. Admitting it is half the battle, right?
For those not in the know, this is 4 races in 3 days and totals just slightly more than the ironman distance. Many folks use it as a training weekend for their ironman race this summer. Some are racing in the team division, but like most, I'm doing the solo version.
So went the beginning of my most recent doctor's appointment. He went on to say that no tumour was found -- whew! -- and that although I have thickening of my left adrenal gland wall, it is not indicative of a medical condition. Since its been 5 weeks since I've experienced any symptoms associated with the 5 weeks of illness and I've returned to full-on training -- and recovering from hard days very well, better in fact then I was recovering pre-illness -- meant that mentally I had pretty much put the illness in the past. I told him that I was just back to the med induced nausea and all other symptoms had ceased.
I was hoping to give this blog entry a title with a super positive spin -- something like "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands" -- because I hadn't had any 'anxiety' attack episodes for an entire week, only bouts of nausea -- and they seemed to be lessening as the days passed -- and mild abdominal pain that failed to recur mid-week. Sunny skies.
When all this started 5+ weeks ago, the most severe symptoms were profound fatigue and feeling very crappy all the time (much to my chagrin, I don't have a better word then crappy). But not nauseous, as I never felt like I was going to vomit and the crappy feeling didn't seem to emanate from my stomach. As the fatigue and crappy feeling started to lift in the last couple of weeks, I was able to be more functional.
Well, not really -- I was never on the bike enough to get saddle sores, nor immobile long enough to get bed sores, but I have been battling something that I was attributing to the flu. And if I don't get better soon, getting to the start line of Ironman Louisville is in serious jeopardy.
I fell again this week while running. Actually I was almost at a standstill when I went down and somehow landed very hard on my right calf. I have been very wisely avoiding my usual ravine route because its ice covered and have been sticking to the dreaded asphalt streets. However, a full bladder necessitated a visit to the wooded ravine and I very slowly and gingerly made my way a few metres over the ice path toward a tree when my feet went out from under me.


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Handbook of West Coast Countries Panama and the Canal, and the West Indies
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There is no need of apoligizing for the writing and publishing of this book. The interest in Latin American and West Indian countries is growing, but no comprehensive, complete book of general information about them has, as yet, been written in a popular way and published. This seems to justify giving to this volume a little place under the sun, and space in private and public libraries. If there is need of apoligizing, it is because of this: The manuscript has been written very hurriedly during a busy trip in almost record time. It has been printed under difficult conditions on board of a steamship (the Santa Elisa, Grace Line), while at sea. Hence many imperfections of grammar, rhetoric, typography, etc., unavoidable under the circumstances. C.Grand Pierre.242 W.49th Street, New York., U.S.A.
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At the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto on Wednesday July 18, 2007. In her 69th year, Ruth BELROSE (née MARSHALL,) the loving wife of Larry BELROSE. Loving mother of Carol McLEAN (Brian SCHOFIELD,) Cathy and her husband Ray BRANTON. Loving grandmother of Andrew and Nicole McLEAN, Collin and Rose BRANTON. Dear sister of Jean and her husband Robert WILSON, and Harry MARSHALL and his wife Billie BRIDGEMAN. Fondly remembered by her nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral Home on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. Doctor Brad CLARK officiating. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family.
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Police find fourth body on site of triple homicide
By Daniel LEBLANC, Page A10
Ottawa -- Ottawa police were investigating a triple homicide in a single-family home yesterday morning when they stumbled upon a fourth body in the same house four hours later, adding a mysterious twist to a gruesome crime scene.
Police last night believed that the case was a murder-suicide involving a family of four people, according to CTV News. Ottawa police refused to confirm the identity of the victims, who were said to be 45-year-old Sant Bri Singh BRAR, his wife and two daughters.
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WHITE/WHYTE, George Augustine " Skip"
Passed away peacefully at Four Teddington Park Retirement Home, Toronto, on December 25, 2007, in his 95th year. Beloved husband of the late Catherine ('Kaye') WHITE/WHYTE (née MacNEIL.) Lovingly remembered by his son Graham (Cathy KINLIN,) and by grandchildren Katie, Heather and Patrick. A favourite uncle to Donna BRASSET- SHEARER the late John BRASSET; Ron, Jim and Paul BRASSET; Eleanor MOORE, Anne DUNSWORTH; Pam SILVERMAN, Monica GRENIER, Ian and Patricia MacNEIL. George was predeceased by his two sisters, Phyllis and Mary GENEVIEVE ('Toots'.) He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and was educated at Sydney Academy, St. Francis Xavier University and Nova Scotia Technical College. After graduating from Tech' in 1935 with a degree in civil engineering, George worked for the Nova Scotia Government and for National Parks of Canada, building the Cabot Trail. During the war he was involved in naval construction projects in several Nova Scotia ports. Following the war, he joined the Foundation Company of Canada, where he worked for many years on major engineering projects throughout Canada and the United States before retiring in 1977. He was a long-time, active parishioner of St. Anselm's Church in Leaside.
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With great sadness we announce the death of Jean-Luc POULIN on Saturday, July 28th, 2007, peacefully at his home, surrounded by his wife and children, at the age of 67. Jean-Luc died of complications attendant upon the treatment necessary in the very unequal struggle against a brain tumour lymphona.
Jean-Luc was a devoted husband to Linda (Lye) and loving father of Jean-Louis (Aida) and Danielle (Randy). Grandpa to Christian and Matthew TENNANT and Nicolas and Sebastien POULIN. Predeceased by his parents Lucienne TOURANGEAU (1993) and Jean-Louis POULIN (1942) and his stepfather Roland CÔTÉ (2007:) older brother and mentor of Gerard POULIN (Lorraine) Claire BOURGEOIS (deceased) (Rheo,) Jean-Noel CÔTÉ (Jeanne,) Solange (Sally) ROY (Paul,) Real CÔTÉ (Marj), Louis COTE, Louise LEBEL (Tom), Michel COTE and Micheline BRASSEUR (Reg.) Favourite uncle of at last count 52 nieces and nephews.
A teacher of French par excellence at O'Neill Collegiate, Dunbarton H.S., Eastdale Collegiate and Lahr Secondary in Lahr, Germany, Jean-Luc was also French Co-ordinator for the Durham Board for four years. In his ten-year retirement he indulged his love of fishing and the outdoors, spending many happy hours catching pickerel on Lake Scugog.
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At the Elgin Abbey Nursing Home in Chesley on Friday, August 10, 2007. Bob BENEDICT, resident of Elgin Abbey and formerly of R.R.#4 Tara, in his 81st year. Beloved Husband of the late former Eleanor Jane MITCHELL. Dear father of Don and his spouse Joan EDWORTHY of Arkwright, Doris and her husband Ted HACK of Guelph and Jeff of Owen Sound. Brother of Lois and her husband George MAHON and Eleanor SPENCE. Predeceased by son Bill (1984) and brother Frank. Bob will be sadly missed by his grandchildren Lisa and her husband Jay EIDT, Keri BENEDICT, Angela HACK and her friend Chris BRATHWAITE, Kyle HACK and by great-grand_son Harrison EIDT. Also survived by sister-in-law Shirley and her husband Arnold DRAVES of Innisfil and many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Paul H. Eagleson Funeral Home in Tara on Monday from 2: 00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The Celebration of Bob's life will be held on Tuesday August 14, 2007 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in Hillcrest Cemetery, Tara. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society or the Tara Legion Building Fund would be appreciated by the family. Condolences may be expressed online at www.paulheaglesonfuneralhome.ca
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'Ambassador of the saxophone' was a champion of his own virtuosity
Musician who fell in love with the sax as a boy probably performed more music for the instrument than anyone in history, writes Sandra MARTIN. He was also a tireless and polished self-promoter who even invented a fictional front man to ensure concert bookings
By Sandra MARTIN, Page S11
The man and his instrument. During his 50-year career as a professional musician, Paul BRODIE, "the ambassador of the saxophone," probably played more concerts, recorded more albums, toured more countries and taught more private students than any classical saxophonist of his or any other day. He was the champion not only of his own virtuosity as a player, but of the saxophone as a musical instrument.
The saxophone, invented by Belgian Adolphe Sax in Paris in the 1840s, is a hybrid that combines the volume and carrying power of brass with the intricate key work and technical finesse of woodwinds. Although some modern classical composers have written for the saxophone, it is still mainly played in military and blues bands and jazz combos. Mr. BRODIE tried to change that.
"He was a master promoter and the saxophone needed someone like Paul, because as an instrument, it was invented late in the history of music, so it was shut out of orchestral circles," said his former student, concert saxophonist and composer Daniel Rubinoff "The great composers had already established the orchestra and composers in Europe didn't really want to take a chance on this latecomer.
Mr. BRODIE was the first person to teach saxophone at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He was not himself a composer, but he persuaded composers such as Srul Irving Glick, John Weinzweig, Bruce Mather and Violet Archer to write daunting music for the saxophone. In his quest to promote the saxophone he co-founded the World Saxophone Congress with Eugene Rousseau in Chicago in 1969 to bring players, critics, composers and audiences together in a different city every four years.
"He built a career for himself. He was an incredible worker, he believed in himself totally and he never looked back," said Jean-Guy BRAULT, a flutist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra for more than 30 years. "He was an icon in the saxophone world - in the classical sense, but he also taught many jazz saxophonists," said Mr. BRAULT. "He changed my life. He opened my eyes to so many things - the realities of the professional music world," he said. "I owe a lot to him."
Paul (Zion) BRODIE was born in Montreal in the bitterest depths of the Depression, the younger son of Sam and Florence (née SCHILLER.) When Paul was 10 months old, his father, who ran a dry goods store, moved his family to the north end of Winnipeg, where he found work selling radios in an appliance store. The family moved again when Paul was 11, to Regina in neighbouring Saskatchewan.
He went to Strathcona School, sang in the junior choir at synagogue and played the clarinet in the Regina Lions Junior Band. In high school, the only subject that interested him was music. Sick in bed with a cold one day in Grade 10, he heard Freddie Gardner play I'm in the Mood for Love on the saxophone.
He was besotted with the sound and immediately decided to switch instruments. Goodbye clarinet. Hello saxophone.
He earned money to buy a saxophone working at a local deli, but he couldn't find a woodwind teacher and so transferred what he knew about playing the clarinet to the saxophone.
After graduating from high school in 1952, he packed his sax and his clarinet and headed to Winnipeg where he entered United College, but failed miserably in a pre-law program. With support from his high-school music teacher, he was accepted the following year at the University of Michigan, where Larry Teal taught the saxophone.
In one of his first classes in the history of music he heard a recording of French classical saxophone virtuoso Marcel Mule playing the alto sax. His ambitions changed; whereas he once hoped to be good enough to play in a band led by a musician of the calibre of Tommy Dorsey or Les Brown, he now considered the possibilities of becoming a classical saxophonist.
He joined the university band under conductor William Revelli and played the bass saxophone when they performed in Carnegie Hall in April, 1954. He also formed a dance combo called The Stardusters, which helped earn tuition money and taught him a great deal about the business of promoting and organizing a group.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in music education and a master's degree in performance in December, 1957, he went to Paris to study with maestro Marcel Mule. Back in Canada, he moved to Toronto and looked for a job teaching saxophone.
"The Royal Conservatory of Music is now in its 72nd year and we have never allowed a saxophone in the building," protested Ettore MAZZOLINI, director of the Royal Conservatory of Music, but the ever-persuasive Mr. BRODIE succeeded in getting an audition and played so well he broke the embargo. He was a woodwinds instructor from 1959 to 1960. Soon, he was also playing on an occasional basis for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and doing regional tours with Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, first with pianist George Brough and then with Colombe Pelletier as his accompanist.
Late in November, 1959, a musician friend introduced Mr. BRODIE to Rima GOODMAN, a modern dancer (and later a fibre artist) who worked in New York, but whose parents lived in Toronto. They were married on March 13, 1960. Their daughter, Claire, was born in October, 1964.
Mr. BRODIE made his debut as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at a Sunday afternoon concert on December 27, 1959, with Walter SUSKIND conducting and his New York debut at the Town Hall on November 18, 1960, with George Brough accompanying him on the piano and Mrs. BRODIE turning pages.
There were only about 45 people in the audience, but one of them was Raymond Erickson, the music critic for The New York Times. "Mr. BRODIE's skill made everything he played sound fluent and easy although the music was studded with technical difficulties&hellip producing a lovely soft tone when he wanted to… in his splendidly vital performance," he wrote. A jubilant Mr. BRODIE phoned the Canadian Wire Service and begged them to pick up Mr. Erickson's review, which they obligingly did, flashing the news about the Canadian native's success in the Big Apple. Mr. BRODIE carried that tattered clipping in his wallet for the rest of his life.
Because two performance careers in one family meant too much travelling for a couple that wanted to stay together, the BRODIEs decided to make their base in Toronto. There, they established the Brodie School of Music and Modern Dance early in 1961 in a former furniture store. The dance studio was on the ground floor, six music studios were in the basement and the second floor had two apartments. They lived in one and turned the other into an additional five music studios.
One of his first students was Jean-Guy BRAULT, who had played saxophone for fun while studying philosophy at university. He studied saxophone, clarinet and flute for about two years and then began teaching in the Brodie school before taking a master's degree at the University of Michigan with Mr. BRODIE's old teacher, Larry Teal. "He was a fantastic teacher," Mr. BRAULT said of his mentor, describing Mr. BRODIE as "encouraging and never flinching."
When the National Arts Centre was looking for players for its new orchestra in 1969, Mr. BRAULT auditioned and got a job as second flutist. He played with the orchestra for more than 30 years, retiring in 2002 after a concert with jazz singer Cleo Laine and her saxophonist husband, John Dankworth
The BRODIEs ran their school for nearly 20 years, employing about 20 music and dance teachers, and training about 650 students a season - among them Willem Moolenbeek, Lawrence Sereda, Robert Pusching, John Price and Robert Bauer. Mr. BRODIE also taught woodwinds at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 1973 and formed a quartet in 1972 to showcase his own playing and the work of a revolving group of three students. The Paul Brodie Saxophone Quartet played at the World Saxophone Congress in London in 1976 and in the 1981 film Circle of Two.
Never a slouch when it came to self-promotion, the canny Mr. BRODIE invented a fictitious character, Ronald Joy, to serve as his front man in booking concerts. After printing business cards and letterhead, the BRODIEs and some of their students stuffed envelopes and sent them to more than 5,000 concert sponsors throughout North America. When potential sponsors called the school asking for Mr. Joy, the call would be put through to Mr. BRODIE who would lower his voice by a couple of octaves and start bargaining performance fees, hotel rates and dates. Mr. Joy booked nearly 800 concerts for his "client" in the next two decades and also promoted Mrs. BRODIE's career as a sculptor and fibre artist.
Mr. BRODIE was playing his saxophone in his music studio one day in 1978, when the phone rang. The caller was actor Warren Beatty, casually inquiring if he could use a recording of Mr. BRODIE playing the saxophone in Heaven Can Wait, his movie about a football player who also plays the soprano sax. An amateur saxophonist, Mr. Beatty believed that Mr. BRODIE's recording of the fourth movement from Handel's Sonata No. 3 would be perfect background music for the scene in which Mr. Beatty's character plays football with his servants.
After agreeing on terms, Mr. BRODIE put his promotional skills to work. Before long "the Canadian media somehow got the idea that a Canadian saxophonist was being featured throughout the film," according to the account that Mr. BRODIE related in his autobiography, Ambassador of the Saxophone. When Heaven Can Wait was nominated for several academy awards, the BRODIEs and Claire (then 13) flew to Los Angeles, where Mr. BRODIE sent 250 postcards pumping his connection with the film To Canadian media and arranged to do a live telephone interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television the day after the ceremonies.
The following year, the BRODIEs closed down their school and the quartet. The lease was up, he was in "phone ringing-off-the-hook" demand after the release of Heaven Can Wait and she was "wildly busy" with commissions for her work as a fibre artist. He never stopped teaching, however, either privately in a smaller studio or at York University, where he taught from 1982 until the late 1990s.
Concert saxophonist and composer Daniel Rubinoff was one of his last students. "I needed a mentor and I found one," he said in a telephone interview. After studying in Europe, he worked with Mr. BRODIE for 18 months beginning in 1995 and won the gold medal at the Royal Conservatory for the ARCT exams in 1997.
"One of the things about Paul's legacy is that he realized that you had to practice the saxophone to become as good a performer as you could possibly be, but you also had to be a tireless promoter," Mr. Rubinoff said. "He was a wonderful business person and he passed that on to people like me." How to have a career as a concert saxophonist, how to talk to an audience, how to be tough about criticism, how to cold call a concert promoter and how to set up a teaching studio, were among the synergistic "life lessons" that Mr. Rubinoff learned from Mr. BRODIE.
About seven years ago, Mr. BRODIE, who was suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes, developed an aortic dissection - a tear in the walls of the aorta which is frequently fatal. "Miraculously" without surgery "his body glued itself back together," according to Mr. BRODIE's daughter, Claire. "The last seven years were a gift."
Earlier this fall, a Magnetic Resonance Image revealed an enormous aneurysm in Mr. BRODIE's aorta. Mr. BRODIE asked if he had time to make a CD of favourite pieces with harpist Erica GOODMAN before undergoing surgery. (The CD, which was recorded at Grace Church on the Hill in Toronto, will be released shortly.) On Monday morning Mr. BRODIE was wheeled into surgery, but three-quarters of the way through the long operation, his heart gave out.
Paul Zion BRODIE, O.C., was born in Montreal on April 10, 1934. He died during heart surgery at Sunnybrook Hospital on November 19, 2007. He was 73. Predeceased by his parents, he leaves his wife, Rima, his daughter Claire and an older brother.
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YONGSAN GARRISON, Republic of Korea - United States Army Garrison Yongsan was once again honored as an Army Community of Excellence (ACOE) during a ceremony at the Pentagon May 1. Col. William P. Huber, garrison commander, Casey Ross, chief of Plans, Analysis and Integration Office (PAIO), and Jeff Mones, lead management & program analyst PAIO received the ACOE Bronze award on behalf of Yongsan.
The Yongsan team was presented with a trophy and a check for $150,000. USAG Yongsan is one of just six installations around the world to receive an ACOE this year, for demonstrating leadership, best practices, workforce engagement, efficient use of resources, customer focus and results.
Huber was thrilled that the tireless work done by Servicemembers, Families, Civilians, Local National employees and contractors at USAG Yongsan was once again recognized in the highly selective competition.
"Winning this award says a lot about the great staff we have at U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan," said Huber. "Our Community members are justifiably proud of living in one of the Army's best Communities. We are always striving to provide a quality of life commensurate with the service and sacrifice of our Soldiers and Family Members."
How does an installation become a top Army Community? The Army Communities of Excellence program involves a highly competitive and arduous year-long process where the garrison identifies and tracks the improvements and efficiencies made in their programs and services. The garrison assembles an application that includes an assessment survey and organizational profile, which shows how USAG Yongsan stacks up against rigorous performance excellence criteria. Lastly, the garrison compiles data that reflects metrics toward attaining mission and command requirements.
Jim North, strategic planning specialist, PAIO, emphasized the crucial role the Community plays in the successful operations of the garrison.
"Even though the ACOE award is an organizational award, it's really about the people in the organization," said North. "USAG Yongsan is privileged to have such a great and diverse workforce committed to delivering quality installation services and programs to the Community."
The levels of excellence required of ACOE winners require dedication and hard work to sustain and grow. The Community and Leaders alike are committed to winning the gold in future years, even with tighter budgets and scaled-down resources.
North is confident USAG Yongsan will rise to the challenge and reach "Gold Status" service and program delivery.
"It is important that we continue to strive for excellence and create a cost-conscience culture based on improvement, innovation, and creativity to provide efficient and quality services and programs," said North. "Our continued pursuit of ACOE Gold is a key tool to get us there."
North recognizes that, though maintaining excellence may be difficult, the Yongsan Community deserves no less than the best.
"Military Servicemembers, Families, and Civilians sacrifice a lot when serving their country," said North. "It's only right that we do our best to meet their needs and challenges while serving here in Korea. The award reaffirms to the Community that Yongsan is a caring, safe and secure environment that is customer focused on being the best possible installation in the Army."
This story is part two in a special report highlighting U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan's win of the Army Community of Excellence -- Bronze Award. Melissa Wetherbee is a volunteer public affairs specialist at USAG Yongsan.


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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Triple try or not, here comes the Belmont Stakes.
Some years, the Belmont can be the most important horse race in the world. Others, when a Triple Crown isn't on the line, the scramble is on for the next best story line.
This is one of the other years. When Kentucky Derby winner Orb was beaten in the Preakness by Oxbow two weeks ago, the dry spell without a Triple Crown champion reached 35 years and counting.
"It's not the same buzz as when a horse wins the first two legs," trainer Todd Pletcher said. "But to me, the Belmont Stakes is still one of the most coveted prizes in racing, and certainly with New York's stature as America's leader in racing, I would say it's one of the two premier events for 3-year-olds."
Certainly, when the field lines up for Saturday's 145th running of the Belmont, there will be plenty of subplots waiting to unfold over the 11⁄2-mile tour of Belmont Park.
Among them is the next best thing to a Triple shot — a rematch between the Derby winner and the Preakness winner. Also, Pletcher is set to run a record five horses in the race, and one — Unlimited Budget — could give Rosie Napravnik a chance to become the first female rider to win a Triple Crown race aboard a filly.
It's a far cry from the buildup during last year's Triple Crown campaign, when I'll Have Another won the Derby and Preakness in thrilling finishes but was scratched the day before the Belmont with a tendon injury.
"The goal every year is to compete in the classics," said trainer Tom Albertrani, who won the 2006 Preakness with Bernardini and will send out Freedom Child in the Belmont. "When you see Triple Crown races on TV, you know you are watching the best of the best competing."
The Belmont fills the bill if the probable lineup holds up by post time.
Orb looks to be back in top form following his fourth-place finish in the Preakness, where the colt ridden by Joel Rosario was unable to find much running room after breaking from the inside post.
"He's doing fine, his appetite is good, and I'd like to run him," Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey said.
Co-owned by Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps and Stuart Janney III, Orb would be attempting to become the first horse since Thunder Gulch in 1995 to complete the Derby-Belmont double.
He'll have to beat Oxbow, as well as about 12 others expected to be entered Wednesday. Trained by Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, Oxbow posted his final major Belmont tuneup on Thursday, working 6 furlongs in 1:14.60 at Churchill Downs. Lukas' Will Take Charge also worked 6 furlongs in 1:15.67.
The trainer who now has a record 14 wins in Triple Crown races said his colts "are feeling great" since the Preakness.
"I feel like we're in real good shape toward this race," he added.
Oxbow, with Hall of Famer Gary Stevens aboard, could become the first horse since Afleet Alex in 2005 to complete the Preakness-Belmont double.
Pletcher, the nation's leading trainer, has another full house of runners for a Triple Crown race. In the Derby he sent out a record-equaling five horses, with Revolutionary's third-place his best finish. He skipped the Preakness, and his lineup for the Belmont is Revolutionary, Overanalyze (11th in the Derby), Palace Malice (12th in the Derby), Unlimited Budget, and possibly Midnight Taboo.
Pletcher said each of his horses has its own running style, and the outcome likely will depend on the pace of the race.
"We're blessed with a lot of 3-year-olds this year that seem to carry their speed and stretch out and the Belmont can be a very demanding race," he said. "Pace was a factor in both the Derby and Preakness and it'll dictate who is going to do what. A slower pace will allow some of these horses to run a little further and a fast pace will really expose some of them. I think we have a well-bred group who, from a pedigree standpoint, have the credentials to run this far."
Others set to take on the challenge of the longest race they'll ever run include Derby runner-up Golden Soul, Giant Finish (10th in the Derby), Vyjack (18th in the Derby), Always in a Tiz and Incognito.
Unlimited Budget, a daughter of 2007 Derby winner Street Sense, won her first four races before finishing third in the Kentucky Oaks. Rags to Riches gave Pletcher his first Triple Crown race win in 2007 when she became the first filly in 102 years to take the Belmont.
"Both are big, strong fillies," he said. "If you look at Unlimited Budget's speed figures, they match up against these colts. The key is getting the mile-and-a-half. She's won at a mile-and-a-sixteenth twice this year and won going a mile-and-an-eighth as a 2-year-old, so that's encouraging and suggests she can compete here."
Freedom Child is a horse worth watching. In the Wood Memorial in April, he was declared a nonstarter by the stewards because he was still in the hands of an assistant starter when the gates opened and fell way behind. Just over a month later, Freedom Child came back and won the Peter Pan by 131⁄2 lengths.
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Fritz Fehrer (real name) was trained in chemistry, mathematics, materials science, and counseling psychology, and has a Ph.D. in materials science from Stanford. His experience occurred in 1977 when he was 34. He has now left the engineering profession and is a graduate student at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, working on his second Ph.D. The circumstances leading up to his experience and subsequent life changes are common to many successful people in our culture: a very rich, fulfilling life by ordinary cultural standards, but an ultimate feeling of shallowness when it's realized that something vital is missing, that there should be something deeper in life. It was people like this who helped trigger the birth of humanistic and then transpersonal psychology.(If I may confess to a little editorial bias, Dr. Fehrer is personally known to me as I am on his Ph.D. committee, and I regard the dissertation research he is doing, on using awareness type training procedures for anger control, as quite innovative and important.)
Jesus said, "Follow me"
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I was at a week-long seminar with about 10 participants and six staff of the Creative Initiation Foundation in Ben Lomond, California.One day we were confronted with a proposition, something like, "Do you accept God as the sole (or was it soul?) authority in the universe?" We had about a half hour to an hour to work with this by ourselves.I remember having a struggle with it because so many adults that I had known when I was young claimed to believe in God, and I felt that they were less truth-seeking and less kind in how they treated others than I was. These people seemed incongruent with the belief I had that to really have God in your life was to be truth-seeking and loving, perhaps like the Jesus I had been exposed to in Sunday school. So the word "God" had a charge on it and was redolent of hypocrisy.As I pondered this question, the image that came to my mind was that I was on a large plateau of life experiences. I had had many experiences that I had thought would be fulfilling. I had gotten a good education at private universities, a BS from Tufts and a Ph.D. from Stanford; I had worked overseas and had traveled around the world, I was an expert skier, I had played on championship baseball and football teams, I was an avid backpacker, I was very big and very strong and in excellent physical shape, I had had several long term relationships with beautiful women, I always had more money than I needed, I had partaken of the 60's revolution with sex, drugs, and rock and roll as well as protest movements, and so on. Yet at some deep level I, or some deep part of me, knew that I did not feel deeply fulfilled, although I had done many of the things that I had been led to believe from our culture that would lead to happiness. So in terms of my metaphor, I felt that I had pretty much covered the plateau of our culture, and came up empty at some deep level. It felt like the realm of God was another plateau that was separated from the one I was on by a very deep chasm. I began to realize that I was being called on to leap over onto that plateau ... with absolutely no "hold-back" or reservation. The thought of "So this is what a leap of faith is all about" came to me. A major problem or hesitation for me was my earlier experience during my youth of people who claimed to believe in God, yet did not live in any special way. I thought that the "God plateau" was inhabited by hypocrites, and the truth-seeking part of me did not want any part of that, and did not want to go there. From my life experience of so-called religious people and my scientific and engineering training, I had come to disregard religious and spiritual people as those who simply could not comprehend the concept of infinity.Then the thought came to me that if there was nothing of value on the "God plateau," I do have the integrity to "jump back." Then the fear arose in me that perhaps everyone who was there went through the same process as I did, i.e. wanted to preserve their integrity, but there was something there that was somehow intoxicating and they lost their integrity and became hypocrites. So I was confronted with the fear of losing my own integrity. Then I had a sense of who I am, my deepest core sense of who I am, i.e. a truth seeker for whom truth is the most important value that I hold. I would preserve my sense of integrity, and if the "God plateau" did not have to do with God, i.e. noble values and beings like truth, beauty, justice, compassion, kindness, etc., I would leap back. So after these considerations, I, in my mind, took the leap of faith.After this contemplation time, one at a time, we were asked to publicly address the question/proposition. I described my experience and then said to the group, "Yes, without reservation I believe in God as the sole authority in the universe."When everyone was finished sharing their experience, we did a long meditation, about a half hour. During that meditation I heard the unmistakable voice of Jesus, who said, "Follow me." I knew it was the voice of Jesus at the first syllable, "fol." It was so clear. It was like having stereo headphones inside my head, just interior from my ears. This voice was so clear and real, more real than the voices I normally hear. This voice had simultaneously two aspects. It was the most loving, caring, compassionate voice that I have ever heard. I felt totally loved. And it was the most grounded voice of authority that I have ever heard, authority grounded in the source of the universe.After the meditation I knew from the depths of my being that there is indeed a God.
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Even though I experienced this in 1977, this is the first time I have written it down. It is as clear to me today as it was soon after it happened.It was indeed a leap of faith. In retrospect, I was opening to the spiritual dimension for the first time in my life. Doing it publicly, i.e. with other people, seems to have been important. Subsequently I read that Jung called Jesus an archetype of the Higher Self. The voice "embodied" a perfect blending of positive masculine and positive feminine.At times when I think of what I am doing with my life, having left the "whole catastrophe" of a career in Silicon Valley, non-fulfilling marriage, mortgage etc., to pursue another Ph.D. (this one in transpersonal psychology), sometimes I feel fear of lack of financial security. Often at these times, I remember the voice, "Follow me," and remember that I am doing what I am being called to do from my inner depth.
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Israel is endangered today as it has never been before. The Turkish-Hamas flotilla two weeks ago precipitated a number of dangerous developments. Rather than attend to all of them, Israel's leadership is devoting itself almost exclusively to contending with the least dangerous among them while ignoring the emerging threats with the potential to lead us to great calamities.
Since the Navy's lethal takeover of the Mavi Marmara, Israel has been stood before an international diplomatic firing squad led by the UN and Europe and supported by the Obama administration. Firmly backed by European and largely unopposed by Washington, the UN is moving swiftly towards setting up a new Goldstone- style anti-Israel kangaroo court. That canned tribunal will rule that Israel has no right to...
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San Francisco 49ers Linebacker Holding Football Clinic at Hylton High School
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks will host a USA Football FUNdamentals clinic for children ages 6-17 on Saturday, June 21, at C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Va., his alma mater. The free, one-day clinic is designed to introduce children to football by teaching basic skills in a fun and energetic environment and is supported through a grant from the NFL Foundation.
FUNdamentals incorporates a series of drills to teach passing, catching and running skills in a non-contact setting. All skills and drills selected are based on USA Football's Player Progression Development Model, ensuring children are learning in an age-appropriate manner, based on their cognitive and physical maturity. Participants also will be introduced to the basics of USA Football's Heads Up Tackling techniques through non-contact drills. USA Football programs are supported and endorsed by leaders in medicine, child advocacy and sport for a safer, better game.
USA Football is the official youth football development partner of the NFL and its 32 teams.
WHO: San Francisco 49ers linebacker and Fairfax native Ahmad Brooks
Children ages 6-17 from throughout the Fairfax County area
WHAT: Ahmad Brooks Camp 55 in partnership with USA Football FUNdamentals
WHEN: 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 21
WHERE: C.D. Hylton High School
14051 Spriggs Road
Woodbridge, VA 22193
HOW: Registration is available at www.usafootball.com/fun.
Media outlets are welcome to attend. Brooks and other instructors will be available for interviews following the clinic.
CONTACT: April Allen: (256) 415-0228Send news and photos to Potomac Local
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