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Gardening Articles: Care :: Seeds & Propagation
All About Dahlias
by Diane Bilderback
Favorite novelty-form flowers include 'Alloway Candy' and 'Fidalgo Julie'.
From cactus dahlias like bursting fireworks stopped in time to pompon dahlias with intensely colored petals, dahlias make a dramatic addition to any garden. All but the smallest kinds provide an abundance of showy bouquets for the home. All are easy-to-grow plants that produce prolific flowers in the summer and fall. In my Missoula, Montana, garden, they bloom for more than six weeks, beginning around July 20. In most milder climates, bloom starts anywhere from early June to August 1 and continues until frost. Cutting the flowers for indoor bouquets encourages more blossoms. Dahlia foliage provides extra landscaping accents, as colors range from light yellow-green to a purple-green.
But many gardeners have never tried dahlias. They may have the mistaken impression that they're tricky. Dahlias are no more difficult than potatoes in most of the United States. Named varieties are propagated by sweet-potato-like tubers that rapidly grow into vigorous, multi-stemmed plants. In fall you divide and overwinter the tubers, increasing your stock each year.
You can also grow dahlias from seed. This works well with smaller kinds for bedding plants, and you'll see flats of these in garden centers in spring. Seed catalogs offer a range of seed-grown kinds, including larger cactus types and single colors that come true. If a seedling looks especially good, you can save tubers from it.
I hope this guide to dahlia landscaping, varieties and culture will encourage you to include these beautiful, prolific flowers in your garden.
Colors Galore
Popular formal-decorative dahlias are 'Jess Lynn', 'Steling Silver', and 'Tonya'.
Dahlias' wide color range -- from the darkest red or purple to all shades of pink, orange, yellow, white, blends, variegated and even bicolors -- makes it easy to include them in any gardening color scheme and mix them with other annual or perennial flowers.
The height of most dahlia varieties ranges from three to six feet, so plant them in the middle to rear of your flower bed. The taller varieties also perform wonders as accents at the edge of a corn patch or around a pole bean trellis. Dahlias also are effective visual screens surrounding a garden nook or behind border plants because of their dense foliage. In perennial beds, use them as color spots along bed edges so you can easily dig the tubers in the fall. Edge a bed of dahlias with early-blooming annuals, such as ageratum, petunias or Hero or Aurora marigolds, to provide color at the beginning of the season.
Thousands of Varieties
The dahlia's great variety in flower form and color results from the crossing of primarily two species. All dahlias are native to Mexico. In 1789, botanical explorers collected native dahlia species that had 1- to 2-inch flowers, a single set of petals and a central disk. The overall effect was similar to common sunflowers. Grown together, these native species naturally hybridized and produced flowers with many more ray flowers and colors. By the late 1800s, intensive breeding had developed most of the various flower forms and colors. Currently, there are nearly 2,000 named varieties in the world.


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Pasta Crab Casserole RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 8 ounces uncooked spiral pasta
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 pound imitation crabmeat, chopped
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a skillet, saute onions, mushrooms and green pepper in butter until crisp-tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Remove from the heat. Drain pasta; add to vegetable mixture. Stir in the crab, sour cream, salt and basil.
- Transfer to two greased 8-in. square baking dishes. Sprinkle with cheese. Cover and freeze one casserole for up to 3 months. Cover and bake the second casserole at 350° for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake 5 minutes longer.
- To use frozen casserole: Thaw in the refrigerator overnight. Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Cover and bake at 350° for 55-60 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 2 casseroles (3-4 servings each).
Light-Bodied White Wine
Enjoy this recipe with a light-bodied white wine such as Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Grigio.
Reviews for Pasta Crab Casserole
"This is a very good casserole & quick to make. I've made it several times. I also agree that 2 onions are too much. 1 is plenty."
"I've made this a couple of times and my family likes it. Instead of making 2 casseroles, I just put it in a 9" x 13" dish. I like a traditional mac and cheese, but this is nice for a change."
"made this last nite it was terrible as waste of good crab meat i doubled the recipe and thinking it would be good only to throw it out"
"This was very quick and easy to make."
"I made this recipe almost exactly as written the first time I tried it, only using less onion. Two large onions is WAY too much. As I suspected, 8 ounces of pasta for two casseroles was WAY too little. The second time I used a pound box of pasta. I think it worked much better!! Other than that, my family loves this recipe. The imitation crabmeat often goes on sale buy one get one free around here, so now I always grab it and eagerly look forward to this meal!!"

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Home range and habitat selection of a reintroduced African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) pack in a small South African game reserve
The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is an endangered species and South Africa has only one remaining viable population. Reintroduction of this species in South Africa is of high conservation priority and knowledge of the species' ecology is crucial for success. In this study, important information ...
Development of a network based model to simulate the between-farm transmission of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
In this study, we employ the discontinuous molecular dynamics simulation method to investigate the collapse properties of a single heteropolymer chain in an explicit solvent. Solvent density ρ, fraction of hydrophobic monomers n H (defined as the ratio of the number of hydrophobic monomers to the t...
The coil-globule transition of a polymer in a solvent has been studied using Monte Carlo simulations of a single chain subject to intramolecular interactions as well as a solvent-mediated effective potential. This solvation potential was calculated using several different theoretical approaches for ...
Habitat use and home range size of red foxes in Prince Edward Island (Canada) based on snow-tracking and radio-telemetry data
There is a lack of information regarding the ecology and behaviour of red foxes that can be used to elaborate effective management programs for this species on Prince Edward Island (Canada). The main goal of this study was to provide baseline information on habitat selection and home range size of r...
Event-driven molecular dynamics simulations are carried out on two rigid-body systems which differ in the symmetry of their molecular mass distributions. First, simulations of methane in which the molecules interact via discontinuous potentials are compared with simulations in which the molecules in...
A general framework for performing event-driven simulations of systems with semiflexible or rigid bodies interacting under impulsive forces is outlined. The method consists of specifying a means of computing the free evolution of constrained motion, evaluating the times at which interactions occur, ...
Discontinuous molecular dynamics simulations were used to study the coil-globule transition of a polymer in an explicit solvent. Two different versions of the model were employed, which are differentiated by the nature of monomer-solvent, solvent-solvent, and nonbonded monomer-monomer interactions. ...
We examined the influence of habitat characteristics at the microhabitat, macrohabitat, and landscape spatial scales on small mammals occurring in 12 forest patches within four agricultural landscapes of Prince Edward Island (Canada). Landscape features were important determinants of small mammal va...
A density-functional theory for the isotropic-nematic phase transition in fluids of rigid or semiflexible fused hard-sphere chains, developed previously by the authors, is extended to diblock chains each consisting of both a rigid and a flexible part. The theory is compared with recent Monte Carlo s...
A density-functional theory of the isotropic-nematic phase transition in both rigid and semiflexible hard-sphere chain fluids is described. The theory is based on an exact analytical evaluation of the excluded volume and second virial coefficient B-2 for rigid chain molecules, which demonstrates tha...
In this work, we examine some of the properties of a model Langmuir monolayer, which consists of surfactant molecules (amphiphillic organic molecules) deposited onto a water subphase. The surfactants are modeled as rigid rods composed of a head and tail segment. The tails consist of 'nt' ≈ 4-...
This paper examines some of the basic properties of a model Langmuir monolayer, consisting of surfactant molecules deposited onto a water subphase. The surfactants are modeled as rigid rods composed of a head and tail segment of diameters sigma (hh) and sigma (tt), respectively. The tails consist of...
In this paper various extensions of the parallel-tempering algorithm are developed and their properties are analyzed. The algorithms are designed to alleviate quasiergodic sampling in systems which have rough energy landscapes by coupling individual Monte Carlo chains to form a composite chain. As w...
A coarse-grained model for surfactant molecules adsorbed at a water surface is studied at zero temperature to elucidate ground-state tilt ordering. The surfactants are modeled as rigid rods composed of head and tail segments, where the tails consist of effective monomers representing methylene CH2 g...
We present a modification of the generalized Flory dimer theory to investigate the nematic (N) to isotropic (I) phase transition in chain fluids. We focus on rigid linear fused hard-sphere (LFHS) chain molecules in this study. A generalized density functional theory is developed, which involves an a...


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EMEA Regional Council
Amada Marcos Blázquez
Head Librarian, IE Business School Library, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid
Amada Marcos is the Head Librarian of the IE Business School and IE University at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) of Spain in Madrid and Segovia, and has held that position since 2006, combining it with her academic duties as a Professor of Information Technologies and Systems in the IE. She has worked on IE for many years, and prior to her tenure in the Instituto, she held several positions there for more than two decades. These positions included Library Specialist on Information in the Academic and Marketing departments.
She is currently also a member of IFLA, where she participates in the Management and Marketing Section, and she is a member of the Latin America and the Caribbean Group. Few days ago she presented "The responsibility of marketing library services: new challenges for libraries, the Library for IE". 2nd Regional Forum Discussion: "Information, environment and development: academic and professional views on trend report IFLA". The Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). As an expert on special librarianship, she is often asked to share her knowledge and expertise in the field of Library and Information Science.
Among Amada Marcos's recent publications is the chapter on 'Digital Marketing Tools Applied to the IE Library' in Marketing Library and Information Services II, published by IFLA.
She is member of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries), in 2013 she presented a paper Sustainability and Academic Libraries in Spain: REBIUN Report. Spanish Academic Libraries Network (REBIUN), Madrid, Spain. LIBER 42nd Annual Conference "Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries". Munich, Germany.
CLADEA, where she belongs to the Association of Directors of Information Centres; its main goal is to build a network for co-operation and mutual assistance between Libraries and Information Centres. She has also chaired various committees this year, whose purpose is to support and provide a forum for managers where they can discuss issues of common interest and share information.
Term end date: 30 June 2017
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Instituto de Empresa, Madrid
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Coffee tasting (also called coffee cupping) is done to determine the characteristics of a particular coffee blend. A coffee taster judges coffee based on appearance, aroma, body, and flavour by first smelling and then tasting the coffee. He or she will taste the coffee at various temperatures to discover all the complexities of the blend or bean.
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As the legend goes, the first person to ever drink a cup of coffee was the 9th century goat herder Kaldi who noticed that his flock had more energy when consuming the red berries of a certain plant. He collected the berries and took them to a Muslim holy man who threw them into a fire. The roasting scent was so delicious that they quickly gathered up the beans, ground them, mixed them with water and drank them.
The 2 main types of commercially grown coffee are Arabica and Robusta. Arabica beans account for around 65% of total coffee production, Robusta make up the rest.
Over 1400 million cups of coffee are drunk around the world each day. It is one of the most consumed drinks after water


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Bernard Terry Casey
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Height: 6-4 Weight: 215 lbs.
Born: June 8, 1939 in Wyco, WV
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Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1st round (9th overall) of the 1961 NFL Draft.
Drafted by the New York Titans in the 9th round (69th overall) of the 1961 AFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 54 (1227th overall since 1950)
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This year, the display is going to be part of a larger event that will be held Saturday, Oct. 13, and Saturday, Oct. 20, called the Fall Festival, said Amy Lineen, Homestead Resort marketing director.
"We wanted to expand the convention with some more activities that showcase our amenities here and make it more family friendly," Lineen explained. "While the scarecrows are still going up to be judged we will have more than 50 of them set up on our front lawn and on display through Oct. 21 we are incorporating other activities."
One of the new activities will include a horse-drawn, family hayride to a pumpkin patch.
"They all can get on the wagon and pick out their pumpkins and ride back to the resort and decorate them," Lineen said. "We have some special pumpkin-face stickers that everyone will get to choose from to do the decorating. There will be no carving or painting."
In addition, a roving witch will read a spooky story every 30 minutes throughout the day.
"We will also open a small putting course for children, because we have a large golf course for the adults," Lineen explained.
The Fall Festival will offer spa activities for adults as well.
"We will offer mini hand massages and a place where parents can design their own body scrubs," Lineen said.
Food, cooked by chef Joey Pezner, will also be available throughout the event.
"He will prepare a fall barbecue that includes a lot of apples, pumpkins in the menu items," Lineen said. 'We'll also hand out some discounts to our restaurants and the spa."
Although admission to the festival is free, there will be additional costs for some of the activities, Lineen said
"People can come and enjoy looking at the scarecrows and walking about to watch some of the activities, but there are some fees required to participate in the hayride and pumpkin decorating," she said. "The pumpkin patch activity is $5 per pumpkin, but also includes the hayride to and from the main area, and the scrub bar and barbecue also will require payment."
The Homestead is the perfect place to host a fall festival, Lineen said.
"There are a lot of fall activities that go on in the greater Salt Lake Area, but we feel the fall here at the Homestead is magical," she said. "We have a unique atmosphere and it lends itself perfectly to hold these family events and programs.
"Since the resort has been around for more than 126 years, many families have been coming here year after year, and we hope this fall festival will become a tradition for them," she said.
The Homestead Resort, 700 North Homestead Drive Midway, will host a free fall festival on Saturday Oct. 13 and Saturday, Oct. 20, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. Activities will include horse-drawn hay rides, a pumpkin patch and a spooky story time for the kids, a mini hand massage, food and crafts. Package deals are also available. For more information, visit http://www.homesteadresort.com/ .


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RACHEL KNEEBONE Regarding Rodin
This exhibition sets up a thematic and visual dialogue between new works by the British artist Rachel Kneebone and iconic works by the nineteenth-century French master Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). This pairing brings together the Brooklyn Museum's exceptional Rodin collection, a gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation in 1984, and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which is dedicated to presenting art that addresses feminist issues from a range of historical perspectives. The exhibition highlights the interest shared by two artists born more than 130 years apart in exploring and representing the human experiences of sexuality, desire, loss, and despair through figurative sculpture. The conversation between these creative voices continues the Brooklyn Museum's commitment to fostering expanded readings of works of art across traditional collections and historical boundaries.
Kneebone's work engages directly with the histories of art and literature. She regularly draws her titles from literary and biblical sources, and was particularly influenced by the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who served as Rodin's secretary, in choosing the thematic pairings of artworks and quotations for this presentation. Her formal allusions to the history of sculpture, including genres such as funerary statuary, commemorative monuments, and triumphal towers, have led to comparisons with artists ranging from Michelangelo to Louise Bourgeois, but this exhibition marks the first time Kneebone's work has been presented alongside one of her important historic referents.
Rodin, who stated that "sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump," made daring use of negative spaces and rough-hewn surfaces. These techniques are also characteristic of Kneebone's work, and they invite metaphorical readings that allude to the hole, or the absence of the phallus, that defines womanhood in Freudian thought and to the biblical lump of earth that gave birth to Adam. These multiple points of reference within both artists' work—from the art of modeling figures to the psychosexual formation of the individual—are the focus of Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin.
Catherine J. Morris
Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
The inner life that makes up this age is formless and intangible; it is, in short, in flux.... [Rodin] took hold of everything that was vague, developing, and constantly changing—all of which was in him too—and gave form to it.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, 1902
A fluidity of thought imbues my practice with an almost photographic quality, making permanent through material a moment; capturing what is always, and can only ever exist, in a state of flux.
—Rachel Kneebone, 2011
In their smaller works, one can appreciate how Rodin's and Kneebone's chosen materials dictate their working processes, and how repetition plays very different roles in their respective oeuvres. Rodin's The Burghers of Calais, First Maquette shows the sculptor roughly working out ideas in clay for a large bronze memorial. Rodin arrived at his final composition after numerous rounds of experimentation, but because these clay models were also cast as bronze multiples, his process ultimately produced an array of repeated or slightly modified Burghers. Kneebone's works, on the other hand, are always unique, because porcelain sculpture cannot be cast in editions. Nevertheless, within each piece and within her practice, there is a compulsive repetition, exemplified by the profusion of figures, body parts, and organic matter seen in When I doubt I exist again. Thus, despite working in a medium that arrests movement, both artists incorporate flux and mutation into their artistic processes.
No part of the body was insignificant or trivial, for even the smallest of them was alive. Life, which appeared on faces with the clarity of a dial, easily read and full of signs of the times, was greater and more diffuse in bodies, more mysterious and more eternal. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, 1902
Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.
—Auguste Rodin, interview in The Englishwoman, April 1910
In works such as Mine heart is turned within me and Eyes that look close at wounds themselves are wounded, both from her Lamentation series, Kneebone seeks to produce the same pathos and visceral connection that Rodin introduced into modern memorial sculpture more than a century earlier with his The Burghers of Calais. Mourning, loss, and despair—experiences of the most profound and universal nature—find their expression here through the body. The Burghers was controversial in its time for showing the struggle that accompanied self-sacrifice, thereby honoring heroism as the product of a difficult human choice rather than as a superhuman capacity. In Eyes that look close, a traditional shroud of mourning hoods a seated figure resembling the Madonna in Michelangelo's Pietà, but the body beneath the garment is an amorphous mass of organs and orifices, projecting strength and vulnerability at the same time.
This was a man whose eyes needed nothing; had the world been empty, he would have filled it with his gaze.... This was Creation itself, in all its presumption, arrogance, frenzy, and ecstasy, making use of Balzac to appear in this form.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, 1902
I know I will never make a definitive work; sometimes I think—at best—I aim for a "triumphant failure."
—Rachel Kneebone, 2011
Here Rodin's proud, naked figure of the realist French novelist Honoré de Balzac appears alongside Kneebone's two newest works, The Paradise of Despair and For Beauty's nothing but beginning of Terror we're still just able to bear. In these large-scale towers covered with writhing forms, Kneebone combines and subverts two conventions of sculpture: the triumphal column, a classical monument to military victory dating back to ancient Rome, and the theme of the male artist's generative power, often associated with phallic iconography and metaphors of sexual virility. In The Paradise of Despair, the two traditions are twisted together, undermining or parodying the fantasy of military invincibility and artistic mastery inherent in these cultural precedents. Headless bodies climb the base to join a teeming mass, but rather than ascending to great heights, they fall back, a jumbled heap of arms and legs, suggesting both orgiastic frenzy and corpses piled up after battle.
Death is the inevitable consequence of superabundance . . . made necessary by multiplying and teeming life.
—Georges Bataille, Eroticism, 1957
I want to talk about "loving death" because this alone signifies loving life without restriction, loving it that much, death included. Not being terrified by death anymore than by life.
—Laure (Colette Peignot), unsent letter, 1936
The centerpiece of this gallery is The Descent, Kneebone's largest work to date, and one she created with Rodin's The Gates of Hell and its source, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (circa 1308–21), in mind. Dante's vision of a carefully ordered afterlife becomes complicated in both these artworks, despite their hierarchical compositions. Life wrestles with death, male and female energies and organs intertwine, momentary ecstasy faces off against eternal damnation, and the promise of sexual union meets the threat of existential isolation. The Descent is paired here with isolated elements from Rodin's Gates, including the contorted lovers of Damned Women and Youth Triumphant; figures of introspection, such as Andromeda, and of supplication, such as The Prodigal Son; and a parable of physical pride and decay, She Who Was the Helmet Maker's Once- Beautiful Wife.


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We have created a NXT robot which uses the OpticalDistanceSensor from Mindsensors to scan an unknown area around it. The robot will be able to navigate and stream data in realtime to a computer who will paint up a map from the data gathered by the robot. The robot is programmed using LeJOS and the server uses common JAVA.
This is an ongoing project which will continue until sometime early spring next year, by the time we hope to have an advanced AI and server software. To follow the project you can visit our blog, which also have a more elaborate project description.
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Crawfish Beignets with Cajun Dipping Sauce RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 pound chopped cooked crawfish tail meat or shrimp
- 4 green onions, chopped
- 1-1/2 teaspoons butter, melted
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/3 cup bread flour
- Oil for deep-fat frying
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/4 teaspoon prepared horseradish, optional
- 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- In a large bowl, combine the egg, crawfish, onions, butter, salt and cayenne. Stir in flour until blended.
- In an electric skillet or deep fryer, heat oil to 375°. Drop tablespoonfuls of batter, a few at a time, into hot oil. Fry until golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels.
- In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, ketchup, horseradish if desired and pepper sauce. Serve with beignets. Yield: about 2 dozen (3/4 cup sauce).
Reviews for Crawfish Beignets with Cajun Dipping Sauce
"Do you have to use bread flour?"
"i have already made this recipe , and will do it again and again"
"I made these tonight and they were just missing something in the taste to me. Hubby didn't like them and I was just hmmm. I may try again with shrimp and adjust some seasonings."
"you can find frozen crawfish in the frozen seafood isle of your store, if the fresh fish area doesn't have it. no need to clean all those crawfish!"
"These were amazing. I really should have doubled the recipe, because these were gone in minutes. I used 3/4 teaspoon of horseradish in the sauce and 1/2 teaspoon of hot sauce. I used crawfish, but I think I will try them with shrimp next time as it was time consuming cleaning all those crawfish.Overall really easy recipe to make and really yummy. I wonder how these would be if I used crab or lobster?"


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So yet again cable tests give more questions than answers.
Two thing for sure need to be carried out for any test to be worth something
"Only one thing can be changed at a time"
This is true be you testing a mains cable or a new drug, if you change more than one thing, there is no way on earth you can be 100% sure what caused the change durring the test be the change real or in the mind.
So in testing cables rule one has to be, the system and the music MUST ALL STAY THE SAME. Changing tracks is not a good idea.
Item two is the test must have lots and lots of people taking place three is no good, if one dis likes the music and another has an ear infection, its been a waste of time
The more the merrier,
To carry out a test like this needs a system set up at a show you get four people sit them down they listen to a track cable a then cable b it could be a mains cable or interconect
change cable ask which they liked a or b
then the next five then the next and do that all day 3 minute track allowing for getting them in and out, you might get a 100 in a day :dude:
thats the way to do it


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By Dr. Jason Hamed
"Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him." 1 Corinthians 7:17
I am honored to have the opportunity to run with Team Catholic Charities as it allows me to fulfill two purposes simultaneously. First, I get the opportunity to bring awareness to a group that does great things in our world and second, I am able to inspire my children and community to live a healthier lifestyle.
This year will mark the 12-year-anniversary of the passing of my father to cancer. This event could've been viewed as solely a tragic event. Instead I have viewed this for the positives it has brought in my life. First and foremost, the illness of my father strengthened our family bond and deepened my relationship with Christ. Second, it motivated me to be a better doctor, educator and living example of how to implement healthy lifestyle choices in a not-so-healthy world.
My calling is to inspire and educate those around me to live to their fullest potential. My hope is that by living Godly principles my actions will allow others to see in themselves what is truly possible.
I am blessed to have an amazingly supportive wife, Whitney, and three beautiful children, Reese, Boston and Taylor. My wife and I are very active and enjoy triathlons and exercise in general and our children enjoy watching "Mommy and Daddy race." As we have created solutions to managing a busy two-working-parent household, we our teach our patients how to easily implement exercise and proper nutrition into any busy lifestyle.
On a purely selfish note, I always thought it would be an amazing experience to run the New York City Marathon. I know it will be a day I will remember , as will my oldest daughter, as we will have a wonderful Daddy and Daughter "date weekend" in New York City. (She is already excited to see the Statue of Liberty).
Thank you to Team Catholic Charities for the work you do for those in need and thank you for the opportunity for me to experience an amazing event while fulfilling my life's purpose.
God Bless.
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Absolutely! It's dangerous not to. Research has repeatedly shown that the best way to protect your growing baby is to protect yourself by wearing a properly positioned safety belt each and every time you're in a car or truck.
To avoid injuring yourself and your baby, the seat belt must be properly fastened. Secure the lap belt below your belly, low and snug on your hipbones. Never wear the belt across or above your belly. During a crash, the sudden jolt from a belt in this position could cause the placenta to tear away from the uterus or cause other injuries.
If you're wearing a winter coat or heavy sweater that makes the seat belt slide up on your belly, consider removing your outerwear once it's warm inside the car.
Always use the shoulder belt, too, which should fit snugly between your breasts. If the shoulder belt cuts across your neck, reposition your seat or the belt so it fits better. Do not place the shoulder belt under your arm or behind your back.
Air bags offer additional protection, so make sure yours are turned on. However, air bags do not replace the need to wear your seat belt. (In fact, an air bag can be dangerous if it opens and you're not securely buckled up.)
When you're driving, adjust the front seat so it's as far away as possible from the steering wheel and dashboard while still allowing you to reach the pedals comfortably. If your steering wheel is adjustable, aim it up and away from your stomach. That way, the air bag will deploy toward your chest, not your belly.By the way, if you're in a car accident – even a minor one – see your healthcare provider right away. Although you may feel just fine, it's important to make sure both you and your baby are unharmed.


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Men's Basketball Shakes Off Finals Rust, Defeats TCNJ 71-33
Princeton (8-7) hadn't played in 15 days, while TCNJ (5-15) was playing its second game in a span of 25 hours. The shortest member of Princeton's starting lineup, T.J. Bray, was 6-foot-5, while the tallest member of TCNJ's lineup, Mitch Miller, was 6-foot-6.
The Tigers have won five of their last six games heading into Friday's resumption of Ivy League play against Cornell at 7 p.m. in Jadwin Gym. Princeton will host its first five Ivy games at home, the first being the league opener against Penn on Jan. 12. The weekend will continue against Columbia Saturday at 6 p.m.
The Tigers scored the first nine points of the game, holding TCNJ scoreless for the opening three-plus minutes, before the Lions found their touch and cut the Princeton lead to 19-14 just past the midway point of the first half.
Princeton returned a few members of its starting lineup at that point after they'd left the game with a 12-6 lead, and the Tigers closed the half on a 20-3 run. The last four-plus minutes of that was an 8-2 run with four members of the starting lineup - Bray, Will Barrett, Denton Koon and Ian Hummer, taking a rest.
Princeton didn't let TCNJ back in the game in the second half, growing its lead to as many as 42 points with less than three minutes to go before TCNJ scored the final four points of the game.
The Tigers exploited their height advantage to a 60-30 rebounding edge, with Hans Brase grabbing a career-best 15 boards to match the most for any Princeton player since 1999, when Mason Rocca '00 had 18 against Georgetown. Since then, Ian Hummer had 15 in a three-overtime game at Florida State last season, Kareem Maddox '11 had 15 against Dartmouth in 2011, and Zach Finley '10 had 15 against Penn in an overtime game in 2009.
Princeton held the visitors to 23 percent shooting, including 0 of 14 from beyond the arc. No TCNJ player had more than 10 points, with Emmanuel Matlock and Ryan Keegan co-leading the team, while Denton Koon had a game-high 12 for Princeton and Brase enjoyed his first double-double and the first double-double for any Tiger this season with 11 points to go with his 15 boards. Princeton had 18 assists on 21 baskets, and got to the line for 29 tries compared to just eight for TCNJ.
Postgame notes
• TCNJ's point total was the lowest for a Princeton opponent since Rice scored 28 points in a 51-28 Princeton win in Jadwin Gym on Jan. 6, 2007. Princeton's 38-point margin of victory was its largest since defeating Goucher 88-35 (53-point MOV) in the 2010 post-finals game.
• Princeton's coaches were wearing sneakers during the game as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers weekend, showing their support for the American Cancer Society, part of a national event among coaches this weekend.
• Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson will continue his participation in Coaches vs. Cancer work, heading to Manhattan Monday with a delegation that will ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ exchange in Times Square. Henderson also participated in the event in May 2011 soon after his hiring.
• Princeton swept the other two NCAA-affiliated schools in Mercer County this season, having defeated Rider on Dec. 20.
• Chris Clement had six assists in the game, a third of Princeton's total. He had not had more than one assist in a game previously, and the junior had five career assists coming into the game.
• Hans Brase's double-double was the first of the freshman's collegiate career.
• Princeton has now won all 25 of the Division III games played at the end of the finals break since the tradition began in 1986. The Tigers didn't play a lower-division opponent post-finals in 2006, 2007 or 2012.
• Princeton began playing against The College of New Jersey in 1998, and the only one of the previous four meetings that had a final margin of more than 11 points was in 2011, when the Tigers won by 33. The 38-point win today is the largest margin of victory in the series.
• Sophomore Bobby Garbade had six blocks against TCNJ, a career high and the most for any Tiger since Patrick Saunders '12 had six in an OT game against Penn in 2009. All six of Saunders' blocks in that game came in regulation.
• Ian Hummer finished with eight points, putting him at 1,402 for his career as the seventh player in program history to reach 1,400 points. In sixth place on the Princeton list is current assistant coach Brian Earl '99, who had 1,428 points.
• TCNJ's .230 clip from the floor was the lowest for a Princeton opponent since the 2002 Division III game against McDaniel College, then Western Maryland, shot .182.
• Princeton's .362 shooting clip was its lowest in a win since the season opener against Buffalo on Nov. 10, when the Tigers shot .345. Princeton is now 2-3 this season when it shoots below 40 percent.


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They Breed Like ... Well, Like Rabbits
At six months, take the doe to the buck, never the other way or they'll fight. Don't blink or you'll miss everything. Rabbits have earned their reputation for fast mating and reproduction. Gestation is 31 days. On the 28th day, add a nest box with two to three inches of wood shavings topped with handfuls of straw. You can buy or build one. Make it 10 inches by 18 inches and eight inches high; use the same wire as on the hutch floor, or wood. The doe will line the nest with fur from her chest and stomach. Litter size averages eight. When the litter is due, keep things quiet: no noisy children or dogs. After the birth, give the doe all the feed she can clean up in a day.
In two weeks, the litter will come bouncing out of the box and want to start eating solid food, although they will nurse for another six weeks as well. Keep all green stuff out, and as a transition, give a little dry oatmeal or whole or cracked oats along with the pellets.
Wean young rabbits at eight weeks, moving one or two a day to another cage. Once all are weaned, you can rebreed the doe. You can keep weaned rabbits together for another month or so. Females can stay together longer, but each male needs his own hutch after 12 weeks or they'll fight. Each doe typically produces four litters a year. Occasionally, a doe will fail to conceive on schedule, but well-bred rabbits are dependable.
New Zealand-size weanlings will weigh four pounds at eight weeks. About half of that is good freezer meat. A little arithmetic shows that eight litters from two does produces as much as 128 pounds of meat a year. Florida Whites or Tans produce half as much meat but need less food.
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We don't tend to think of the vagina as empowering; to the contrary. With a legacy of Western shame, from the church fathers' insistence that the vagina was "a sewer" and "the devil's door" to pussy jokes on college campuses, the vagina has long been cast as a shameful hole, or an absence, or a fetishized sex organ, or something to be mocked. In our culture, it's most often medicalized or commodified, as by rock musician John Mayer, who told Playboy there were days when he viewed 300 vaginas on porn websites before getting out of bed. When a woman considers how vaginas are regarded today, she is unlikely to feel deeply empowered. Even if she has a positive attitude toward her own vagina, she might feel awkward, exposed or conflicted about how others value or devalue it. Indeed, the vagina seems to be the one body part that is also a Rorschach: The way a given culture views the vagina is often the way women are expected to see themselves.
But the latest neuroscience challenges everything we think we know about the female organ and sexuality. It turns out that the vagina (I use this term to include the whole nexus of vagina, clitoris, labia, etc.) really is women's superpower. Because of the delicate relationship between the female brain and the vagina—the pelvic nerves connect to the spine, sending impulses to the hypothalamus, which regulates hormones—many cutting-edge scientists regard these two organs as parts of a single system. The vagina is really the gateway for the neurotransmitters that generate confidence, creativity and the sense of interconnection. Sexual stimulation and the anticipation of orgasm release dopamine, the ultimate feminist chemical: It motivates and energizes; it makes you more assertive and more confident. Orgasm releases oxytocin and opioids. Oxytocin makes you trusting and able to bond, and opioids give you that sense of bliss and ecstasy that often inspires creative work.
So a woman's vagina can help make her bold, courageous and imaginative—in short, exactly what patriarchal culture has historically feared. This explains why, for at least 5,000 years, around the globe, so much male energy has gone into subduing, controlling and even traumatizing the vagina.
I studied the letters and biographies of many women who accomplished great leaps in their creative work—women who, for instance, broke away from the frame of realism in painting, like Georgia O'Keeffe, or made breakthroughs in their writing, like Edith Wharton, who was transformed by her three-year affair with the seductive Morton Fullerton. The work of revolutionary Emma Goldman escalated after her involvement with physician and activist Ben Reit-man. While we can't prove cause and effect, there's evidence that the women's creativity was enhanced by an apparent erotic awakening, -experienced either on their own or with a partner. By inflaming the woman's physical passions and provoking her mind, the man seemed to unleash her dormant energies and spark her appetite for risk and self-assertion (in the examples I looked at, most of the partners were men, though the same-sex awakenings were at least as passionate). What these women's stories suggest is an inspiring message to us all. The well-treated vagina—one that is never harmed, threatened or traumatized, one that is lovingly tended by the woman herself or by a lover—can free up aspects of women's creative potential.
The latest science confirms the mind-vagina synergy in multiple ways and shows that our understanding of female sexual response—fixed for many of us in the 1970s by The Hite Report and Masters and Johnson's research—is far out of date. For example, Professor Barry Komisaruk and his team at Rutgers University in New Jersey have found that several areas of the female body send out sexual impulses and that different kinds of stimulation—vaginal, clitoral, cervical and nipple—light up different parts of the brain, each part associated with a specific function (memory, pain, etc.). And according to Jeffrey Cole, MD, a pelvic-nerve specialist in New York City, every woman is wired differently, not just psychologically but physically, which means each woman has her own path to sexual pleasure.
Further, research by Professor Jim Pfaus at Concordia University in Montreal shows that female rats lose interest in several types of engagement with the world around them when they are injected with a chemical that blocks their ability to feel the pleasure of sexual stimulation. They remember good and bad sexual experiences and will avoid male rats whose scents remind them of the bad sexual experiences of the past!
Can all this new information change how a woman feels about her vagina? I believe it can. These findings confirm that the search for a loving, fulfilling relationship is not trivial. Actively seeking out good mind-body experiences that protect the vagina-brain circuitry (by providing the regular dopamine boosts produced by skillful lovemaking and good sexual self-care) is integral to women's overall well-being.
If a woman understands her own sexual response and can explore her own sexuality, she will have access to energy and insight that help her feel connected to a higher purpose in other areas of her life. In the light of 21st-century science, the vagina has the potential to become a combination of muse, energy generator and powerhouse of confidence to the lucky person who has one.
NAOMI WOLF is a cultural critic and best-selling author. Her latest book, just published, is Vagina: A New Biography.
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Three cities have been selected as finalists to host the 2014 and 2015 USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships, USA Cycling announced Wednesday. The three potential host cities are Asheville, N.C. (Biltmore Estate), Austin, Texas (Zilker Park) and Boulder, Colo. (Valmont Bike Park).
With six bids under consideration, USA Cycling evaluated potential host cities using various criteria, including: accessibility, community support, course options, technical expertise and the organization's commitment to volunteer recruitment, marketing and lodging.
USA Cycling will conduct site visits before making the final determination. The strength of each bid will be re-examined after reviewing the proposed course, venue location and available facilities. Additionally, USA Cycling will meet with the local convention and visitors bureau and sports commission staff.
"We are extremely excited about the quality and depth of the bids we received for this event," National Events Director Kelli Lusk said. "All of the cities offered spectacular presentations. We're confident that any of these three cities would make a great host for this event in 2014 and 2015."
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
$85 Entry Fees. No wonder everybody wants to host Cross Nationals!
*I noticed none of the categories have fill up yet this year. Last year a lot filled day after registration opened. Is it Wisconsin or is it the fact that it is the weekend after Christmas/News Years break?
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Submitted by Eric Rydholm (not verified) on
also due to people deciding to go Worlds instead.
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Nationals qualifier for Worlds?
Submitted by Anonymousssssssssss (not verified) on
Shouldn't being top 10 at Nationals be a Qualifier for Worlds?
...Or is Worlds just based on who signs up first for $100?
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Worlds Start Order
Submitted by David on
I am not going to worlds but I assume so of the fast guys from around here are. I looked into how call-ups and seeding are done and its pretty random.
Take a look
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
VBP is a great venue but it lacks close-in parking for racers and spectators. Being within a short walk of the course is important for racers, especially if weather is bad and they are wet & frozen after racing and need to get to a warm car fast.
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Submitted by comptonius (not verified) on
I have to agree. The course at VBP is great but the parking situation really limits the ability to stage a truely great race. It would be great if the organizers could get permission to use the police parking lot just to the north on big race weekends. That would be a big improvement.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
there is plenty of parking within a 2 min bike ride or 5 min walk up the hill in the office park. like over 1000 spaces. any euro venue would kill for that parking. the upsides of valmont greatly outweigh any downsides, wouldn't you agree?
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Course Overuse?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Interesting that the park has been closed to riding the last month because of the snow/mud. Wouldn't 4-5 days of racing just kill all the trails?
Boulder Rez might be a better course for thousands of racers...
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Valmont Bike Park - Bad Weather
Submitted by David on
I was wondering the same thing. If Boulder did get cyclocross nationals what would be the venue? How would Valmont Bike Park fair if the conditions were like they are today. 4+ days of racing with wet muddy conditions would really do a number on the park.
Where else could we have it? Boulder Res? Xilinx?
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It would be at Valmont
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Valmont is the proposed venue according to the reports. Yes, there would be damage if the weather caused muddy ground. It could also be frozen which wouldn't cause much damage. The CX courses only use limited segments of trails. Most trails would not be damaged. The off-trail CX segments would be damaged the worse, but those are just native grass and pretty easy to repair. Any venue that hosts a big event suffers some damage, but typically it is judged to be an acceptable cost. The great thing about Valmont is that bike races are an accepted use of the park, and damage within reason and with a repair program in place seems to be part of the plan.
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As an injured worker, returning to work can be a concern. All parties benefit when a worker returns to work as quickly as possible after an on-the-job injury. The Employer-at-Injury Program (EAIP) encourages the early return to work of injured workers by helping defray an employers early return-to-work costs and reducing claim costs. This voluntary program is funded by worker and employer contributions to the Workers Benefit Fund and is administered by the insurer responsible for the claim. The insurer helps the employer develop the early return-to-work job (transitional work), make EAIP worksite modification purchases, and request reimbursement from the department.
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Women and Age Discrimination
At 52, you're one of the oldest employees in the office and among the best paid. Your evaluations have been glowing; in fact, you just won a productivity award. Then one day you meet the new division head, who appears to be some 20 years your junior. He asks how long you've worked at the firm and if there's anything you still hope to accomplish there. And are you getting enough time to visit with your grandchildren?
Your bias detector — the one you honed back when bosses still dared to call you "honey" — is twitching. And it should, because, after decades of climbing the ladder and playing the game and perhaps paying a personal price, it turns out that seniority and a big salary can endanger your job security. Especially if you're a woman.
Age discrimination used to be more blatant than it is now. Airline "stewardesses" were forced to retire at 32. And help-wanted ads blithely sought "applicants between the ages of 25 and 35." The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects the rights of workers 40 and older, helped to end the most barefaced bias. But we live in a culture where beauty is youth and change trumps experience (a culture, some would argue, that the upper tier of our own demographic helped to foster decades earlier with slogans like "Don't trust anyone over 30"). As the massive baby boomer generation grows older, age-based complaints to the federal government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have increased; they're up nearly 21 percent from 10 years ago and now comprise nearly a quarter of the commission's workload. "People are living longer and wanting to work longer," says Elizabeth Grossman, an attorney in the EEOC's busy New York office, "and quite a few employers resist keeping these employees on the payroll past a certain point." Or hiring them in the first place: Job candidates ages 35 to 45 were 40 percent more likely to be called for an interview than candidates with similar backgrounds — and more years of experience — who were 50-plus, according to a study published this year by Joanna Lahey, an assistant professor of economics at the Bush School at Texas A&M who specializes in age discrimination. For each decade of age, job seekers needed to apply for four and a half more positions just to get an interview.
"Search consultants have told me their clients say, 'Don't bring me anyone over 50,'" says Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at the University of Pennsylvania. "The clients don't say why; the implicit suggestion seems to be that older workers don't have the energy to do the job." Or that we're inflexible, or unsociable, or unused to new technologies, or any one of a number of other maddening stereotypes. And often the bottom line is, simply, the bottom line: They think we cost too much.
"As companies want to cut back, they do that by getting rid of people who have been there for 20 to 25 years and hiring younger people for far less money," says Trish Bangert, a Denver-based attorney specializing in civil rights, constitutional law, and discrimination. And then there is that other elephant in the corner office: health insurance. "It's not exclusive to age, but I think it's an unspoken thing, looking at potential employees and wondering how they will impact healthcare costs," says Terri Swain, a former EEOC investigator who now does human resources consulting in Fort Worth, Texas.
Bangert began noticing an increase in age-discrimination clients about eight years ago, when the first of the boomers hit their mid 50s. Until recently, most complaints about age bias came from white male middle managers, who were "especially dumbfounded," she says, because they had never experienced discrimination before. Now older women are filing nearly as many EEOC complaints as older men. Some allege both age and sex discrimination. In these "age-plus" (or "gender-plus") cases, sex discrimination — typically in such male-dominated fields as finance and law — worsens with age. Older women, she says, "are probably the least valued persons in the workforce — after having given the most."
"These women who broke the mold and got the positions now seem to be more easily disposable than the men in the same age group," says Wendi Lazar, a partner in the New York employment law firm Outten & Golden. "I think the reality is that most of the women who achieve success are excluded from the boys' clubs that continue to exist at the highest levels. As a result, when there are layoffs, many of these women — particularly older women — are the first to go. They have no rabbis and little political protection."
Of all the employment biases, age discrimination can be the hardest to prove. That's because "age is an area where stereotyping is somewhat acceptable," says Susan Coler, a partner at Sprenger & Lang in Minneapolis, where she's handling a class-action age discrimination suit against 3M. "It can be hard to persuade a jury or judge that those age stereotypes are prohibited by law the way race and gender stereotypes are."
Think about what is socially acceptable today — and what isn't — in terms of office banter. "We know now that sexual jokes are bad," Swain says. "Racial and ethnic jokes — not a good idea. But it's still okay when someone turns 50 to bring in those black balloons or to call someone the grandma of the group … [If you're older], you're supposed to have a thick skin and take it."
One Worker Fights Back
Karin Tilley, now 54, of Littleton, Colorado, was determined not to take it. By 1999, in her late 40s, she was one of the top salespeople at the Denver Business Journal; at her peak, Tilley earned almost $190,000, pumped up by the commission rate she received: 15 percent, compared with the 10 percent that new hires typically earned. Tilley was also, according to the complaint in a lawsuit she would later file against the paper's parent company, the oldest rep in her division (display ad sales).
In employment reviews and depositions from coworkers, she was described as likable and professional. Even with a 4-year-old son and a husband busy with his real estate business, she often went to the office on weekends to finish paperwork.
Tilley said in her complaint that after she sold more than a million dollars in advertising for two consecutive years, the publisher, Scott Bemis, told her that she made more money than anyone else except two men. (In its response to the complaint, the paper denied this allegation.) According to a determination from the Colorado Civil Rights Division (CCRD), in 2001 she learned that the sales categories were unevenly distributed among the staff; in spite of her success, Tilley felt that her earnings potential was severely limited by this disparity — she could bring in only nine percent of the paper's total ad revenue, as opposed to, for example, the 20 percent allotted to 39-year-old Brad Segura, another sales rep at the paper. The CCRD also said that Tilley complained to her immediate supervisor, Denise Jendrusch, a woman in her late 30s, who reassured her that her concerns would be addressed.
But Tilley would not have been reassured had she heard the remarks coworkers later testified Jendrusch had made. They alleged that she expressed amazement at Tilley's ability to keep up with a young child "at her age"; that she joked about how a male sales rep in his 40s wore his pants high on his waist "like an old man"; and that she described another employee as "an old, washed-up woman" and "an old biddy."
According to the CCRD, some of the sales categories were redistributed, but Tilley felt that the changes were not enough to redress the imbalance in earnings potential. She testified that she tried making a chart, and suggested redistributing categories based on seniority. But according to Tilley's complaint, Bemis said that he would "not be bogged down with this minutiae." Tilley also alleged that Bemis responded to her complaints by pointing out that Segura "had a family to support." (In its response to Tilley's complaint, the paper denied these allegations.)
By the summer of 2002, according to her deposition, Tilley was shocked to hear coworkers ask when she would be "leaving the company." She alleged that, in a meeting, Jendrusch berated her for all kinds of shortcomings (lateness, sloppy paperwork), criticisms Tilley disputed. She called the Journal's corporate headquarters in North Carolina and explained to human resources that she felt she was being subjected to discriminatory treatment. The HR representative promised to look into the situation and, according to Tilley's deposition, assured her Bemis would not be in charge of the investigation. But he was. Jendrusch was subsequently reprimanded in a written warning about her management style, Bemis said in his deposition. That, apparently, is as far as it went.
In February 2003, Tilley faced the end game — a performance improvement plan consisting of a list of sales goals she had to achieve to keep her job. But the goals were unrealistic, she claimed in her deposition, and in October, she was fired. Tilley filed a complaint with the EEOC, which enforces most of the federal laws regarding job discrimination, and with the CCRD in April 2004.
Most of the laws (including the ADEA) in the EEOC's bailiwick require a plaintiff to file a charge with the agency before pursuing a private lawsuit in federal court. If the EEOC is unable to conclude that there is evidence of discrimination, it closes the case and gives you 90 days in which to file a private lawsuit on your own behalf. If it finds probable cause that discrimination has occurred, it will send its findings to both you and the company involved and attempt to find an out-of-court remedy. If that fails, the EEOC then grants you a "right to sue" notice. (Again, the private lawsuit must be filed within 90 days.)
Sometimes the agency itself will take on a case, filing a suit on a complainant's behalf, but that's rare. "We are looking for policy cases," the EEOC's Grossman says. "Ones that involve large numbers of people or disputed applications of the law." Many cities, states, and counties have their own antidiscrimination laws and their own agencies, such as the CCRD, for enforcing them; "work-sharing" agreements between the EEOC and state civil rights offices prevent duplication of efforts.
After a 14-month investigation, the CCRD found probable cause for Tilley's allegations, laying out its reasons in an 11-page, single-spaced determination. The agency noted that although the Journal had fired Tilley for poor performance, "the record substantially demonstrates this reason to be a pretext for unlawful discrimination." The EEOC issued her a right to sue notice. In early January 2006, Tilley went to the federal courthouse in downtown Denver, where, in her precise handwriting, she filled out the paperwork for a lawsuit and paid the $250 filing fee. Then she went to look for a lawyer and landed in Bangert's office.
Because Tilley had already filed, "I didn't get the chance to give her my usual 30-minute 'this is why you don't want to litigate' lecture," Bangert says. But she took the case, and Tilley proved to be a uniquely motivated and well-organized client. While Bangert expected the usual box jammed with random documents, Tilley arrived at the office with neat files indexed and tabbed (she kept her own copies spread across her dining room table for quick reference). And she promised that several managers and coworkers still on the job would testify on her behalf, but Bangert was skeptical: When the choice comes down to helping an old friend or keeping their jobs, most workers end up making poor witnesses for the plaintiff. In Tilley's case, however, an HR director, Pam Guntle, delivered a damning deposition against the Journal in which she apologized for having lied previously about whether she had witnessed any discrimination, harassment, or retaliation against Tilley. "I was very fearful of losing my job," Guntle explained at the time. "It was only to protect myself. I have two kids, [and I'm a] single parent." In addition, several current and former coworkers gave depositions helpful to Tilley's case. Guntle and another coworker, Dee Marsh, told MORE that they were fired two months after giving their testimony. Each says that the reason they were given was misuse of parking privileges. Both women say they filed EEOC retaliation claims against the Journal, but they decided not to pursue the matter further since it would be too difficult to prove. "I didn't have the time or the money," Guntle says. "But I don't regret testifying in the Tilley case. What they did was wrong. I'd do it again in a heartbeat." (Repeated calls to Bemis and Jendrusch went unreturned; Jeffrey Johnson, the lawyer who handled the suit for the paper, said his client did not wish to comment.)
Lilly Ledbetter and the Supreme Court
But despite the confirming testimony of coworkers, Tilley's case soon hit a judicial wall. In June 2007, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in a gender discrimination case that pulled the rug out from under plaintiffs alleging all kinds of job discrimination. Lilly Ledbetter, 70, had sued the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; she was awarded $360,000 as compensation for receiving at least 15 percent less pay than her male counterparts throughout her career as a plant supervisor in Gadsden, Alabama. Ledbetter had sensed her paychecks were smaller, she said, but had no proof until she received an anonymous letter, just before she retired, listing her salary and that of three male employees with the same job description. Goodyear appealed the decision, and the case made its way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that Ledbetter was not entitled to the money. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that Ledbetter's claim was "untimely" because an EEOC claim must be filed no more than 180 days after a discriminatory act has occurred.
To civil rights advocates and others, the ruling didn't make sense. Not only had Ledbetter been in the dark about the pay difference for most of her career, but the disparity also continues to this day, because she draws smaller pension checks than her male counterparts. In a vigorous dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that "the ball is in Congress's court," urging lawmakers "to correct this parsimonious reading of Title VII."
For its part, the Denver Business Journal had already been arguing that some of the alleged acts of discrimination against Tilley had taken place too long before she made her filing to the EEOC. On November 6, 2007, federal district Judge Lewis T. Babcock granted the paper's motion for summary judgment and dismissed Tilley's case. Neither Babcock nor the paper's lawyers cited the Ledbetter case specifically, but the timing of that highly publicized ruling could not have been worse, Bangert says. "Ledbetter came up exactly when this was going to summary judgment. It did affect my client, and it's affecting lots of other cases."
Tilley appealed in February of this year, then settled for an amount she cannot disclose. (She cannot speak about the case at all.) Bangert calls the case's resolution an "unjust result and a failure of the legal system to remedy the real-life wrongs suffered every day by older women."
With the settlement money in her bank account this past spring, Tilley paid her son, now 11, to shred the piles of documents, some a foot high, that cluttered her dining room for almost four years. It took him several weeks to fill several dozen large plastic garbage bags, which he carried out to the curb for recycling. Free to move on with her life, Tilley recently switched careers, finding more satisfaction and freedom in selling houses for her husband's real estate business. The timing was unfortunate, of course, given this year's housing meltdown. But Tilley is hopeful. "Real estate is cyclical," she says. "It will cycle back."
Congress Steps In
"When women come to our office, they know they have been treated unfairly," attorney Lazar says. "But many of them can't conceive, after the sacrifices they have made, that they will be cast aside — not promoted, or worse: terminated and given very little in terms of severance for their lifetime of dedication and loyalty." Often an employee's first reaction, Bangert notes, is to blame herself: "If only I had done this or that better. If I had been more polite…"
For a generation of women who witnessed historic strides in abolishing discrimination based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation and, yes, gender, it can be almost impossible to fathom that they might now be getting pushed out simply because they have reached a certain age. But recognizing an inequity is always the first step in resolving it, and by filing an increased number of complaints with the EEOC, women may have set the stage for the judiciary to take a second look at "age-plus" cases.
In a somewhat surprising change of course, the Supreme Court handed down several rulings this year favoring workers over employers. Perhaps the most important was a seven-to-one decision on June 19 that said, in effect, companies must prove that workforce reductions are based on "reasonable factors other than age." The case involved layoffs at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, a federal research center in upstate New York where 31 people were let go, 30 of whom were over 40. Although Justice David Souter, in writing for the majority, acknowledged that the decision would make it more difficult for employers to defend themselves, he said the court had to follow the law — ADEA — "the way Congress wrote it."
The Lilly Ledbetter decision, with its ramifications for workplace discrimination of all types, touched offa firestorm. Congress did, as Ginsburg urged, "take up the matter," in a bill sponsored by Representative George Miller, a Democrat from California. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act states that each discriminatory paycheck is a separate act of bias, triggering a new 180-day window for filing. The bill passed the House in July 2007 but fell four votes short in the Senate in late April 2008. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama returned to Washington from the campaign trail to vote in the bill's favor; John McCain did not but told reporters that if he had, he would have voted against the legislation because it "opens us up for lawsuits, for all kinds of problems and difficulties."
As MORE went to press, the bill was expected to be reintroduced in the Senate; if it hasn't come up for a vote before the new Congress in January, it will have to be reintroduced in the House as well. Meanwhile, the barbs against older Americans keep coming — many now aimed squarely at McCain himself, who, at 72, may end up being the oldest person ever to be inaugurated as president. (A new book, 72 Things Younger than John McCain, lists six dozen familiar things — duct tape, the Jefferson Memorial, statehood for Alaska, area codes — that came into existence after his birth.)
A Public Apology
Judy Yates says she knows all about unfair assumptions — she was specifically trained to avoid making them. During her 23 years as director of the Pinellas County Extension Office in Largo, Florida, Yates says she attended frequent seminars on employment law given by the county's human rights division. Good anti-bias training, she learned, acknowledges that everybody uses stereotypes about others to sort out and understand the world. These stereotypes, however, can be unfair or untrue. (Not all older workers are inflexible or computerphobic, for example; not all members of Generation X or Y are tech-savvy.) And operating from those prejudices on the job can run afoul of civil rights laws.
With that in mind, Yates stresses, she made sure to look carefully at each of her employees, noting their individual strengths, skills, education, and interests as she made decisions on hiring, job assignments, and promotions. But according to the complaint she later filed in federal court against the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners, when Yates herself was up for a promotion at age 55, the job went to "a younger person with less seniority and [fewer] qualifications."
When she interviewed for the position, Yates says, her supervisor asked about her retirement plans. She also contends that soon after the other candidate was hired, she heard the woman playfully call the supervisor "Daddy." (When MORE contacted the woman who won the promotion and asked if she'd ever done this, she replied, "Absolutely not. That's absurd." The supervisor did not return calls for comment.)
Yates filed an age discrimination charge with the EEOC in 2003 but then decided not to pursue the matter, hoping the filing itself might prompt an improvement. But then, according to the complaint in Yates's suit, two of her supervisors "engaged in a pattern of harassing and retaliatory conduct": Her responsibilities were "taken away or reduced"; "false rumors were spread"; she was told that her job was in jeopardy "because she filed a charge of discrimination"; and she was "threatened with baseless legal action." Yates received no performance evaluation or cost-of-living raise in 2004. On January 19, 2005, she filed a second EEOC charge, this time alleging both age discrimination and retaliation. Her complaint said, in part, that she believed that "after 23 years of excellent service to the county, I will be fired or my duties will continue to be reduced to the point [where] I have no authority to perform my job." Later that month, she was let go. A county official arrived at her office, she says, and told her she had less than two hours to leave the premises; meantime, a sheriff's deputy waited. "I'd never been terminated in my life until then," Yates adds.
In October of that year, after once again obtaining a right to sue notice from the EEOC, Yates filed a federal lawsuit claiming age discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. A spokeswoman for Pinellas County said officials there did not wish to speak for this article, but in response to the suit, the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners denied engaging in the unlawful employment practices that Yates alleged. Tracey Jaensch, the lawyer hired by the county to defend the suit, told MORE that the woman who won the promotion was "also over 40, if not by much," as was Yates's replacement. In the summer of 2006, after depositions had begun, the county offered a settlement of $60,000. The money was enough to cover Yates's deposition and attorney fees, with about $20,000 left over. And although she didn't get exactly what she wanted — an admission of guilt and an apology — Yates did receive a measure of satisfaction from another concession in the settlement. In a small, fragrant rose garden within the rambling, 160-acre Florida Botanical Gardens, an illuminated bronze plaque reads: DR. JUDY YATES ROSE GARDEN . . . EVERY GARDEN BEGINS WITH A DREAM. Dedicating the space to her was the county's idea, she says: "They knew the garden would be a very enticing thing for me." Yates now works part-time as an environmental consultant. And because she lives just two miles from the garden, she visits several times a week to work as a volunteer. Each glance at the plaque gives her a sense of vindication, as if she's received a public apology for what she says was her forced early retirement.
"This was never about money," she says. "It was about what was right and what was wrong."
Amy Engeler is a freelance writer in New York City. After looking into cases of workplace bias, she says she feels fortunate to be self-employed.
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