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I later bought Eat to Live and the message that fruit and vegetables should occupy a predominant place was dead on. I adopted the ETL diet and the very specific recommendations for emphasizing high nutrient and low calorie foods. Slowly, but surely, the weight started to come off. What was amazing to me was how much food I was eating yet how I continued to lose weight.
My journey with eating a high nutrient diet has had its ups and down. I now know what true hunger is, to feel very satisfied with a meal, to not snack until the next meal, and, most surprising, I have greatly reduced my desire for the fatty desserts and other processed foods I loved so much. I would never have thought that I would look forward to a fruit and nut "ice cream" as much as the full fat dairy variety back during my food addicted-20s…continue reading.
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Melanie Mele earns Navy honors
Seaman Melanie Mele earned distinction as an honor graduate upon completion of Electronics Technician "A" School at Center for Surface Combat Systems Unit in Great Lakes, Ill.
Only top performers in the training courses Center for Surface Combat Systems Unit are designated Honor Graduates.
Mele graduated from Yosemite High School in 2010 and joined the U.S. Navy Feb. 28, 2011.
Crotti and Malcolm married Jan. 7
Jonathon Murphy Malcolm and Melissa Ann Crotti were married Jan. 7, 2012 at Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp.
The couple were married by Pastor Bruce Newton.
The matron of honor was Heather Davis, the bride's sister. The best man was Jayden Malcolm, the groom's son. Ring bearer was Gunnar Davis, the bride's nephew.
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Labor Standards Clash With Global Reality
By LESLIE KAUFMAN and DAVID GONZALEZ
Published: April 24, 2001
SAN SALVADOR— Six years ago, Abigail Martínez earned 55 cents an hour sewing cotton tops and khaki pants. Back then, she says, workers were made to spend 18-hour days in an unventilated factory with undrinkable water. Employees who displeased the bosses were denied bathroom breaks or occasionally made to sweep outside all morning in the broiling sun.
Today, she and other workers have coffee breaks and lunch on an outdoor terrace cafeteria. Bathrooms are unlocked, the factory is breezy and clean, and employees can complain to a board of independent monitors if they feel abused.
The changes are the result of efforts by Gap, the big clothing chain, to improve working conditions at this independent factory, one of many that supply its clothes.
Yet Ms. Martínez today earns 60 cents an hour, only 5 cents more an hour than six years ago.
In some ways, the factory, called Charter, shows what Western companies can do to discourage abuse by suppliers. But Gap's experience also demonstrates the limits to good intentions when first-world appetites collide with third-world realities.
Ms. Martínez's hours are still long, production quotas are high, and her earnings are still not enough to live on. She shares a two-room concrete home with a sister, two brothers, her parents and a grandmother.
Yet the real alternative in this impoverished nation is no work. And government officials won't raise the minimum wage or even enforce labor laws too rigorously for fear that employers would simply move many jobs to another poor country.
The lesson from Gap's experience in El Salvador is that competing interests among factory owners, government officials, American managers and middle-class consumers -- all with their eyes on the lowest possible cost -- make it difficult to achieve even basic standards, and even harder to maintain them.
''Some have suggested that there are simple or magic solutions to ensure that labor standards are applied globally,'' said Aron Cramer, director of human rights at Business for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit advocacy group that receives support from business. ''In fact, it takes a great deal of work.''
Fed up with abusive conditions, Ms. Martínez and a small group of other workers organized and began to hold strikes at the factory, then called Mandarin International, in 1995. As tension rose, workers took over the factory and shut down power to the plant. Security guards forcibly ejected strikers; union members said the guards dragged women out by their hair and clubbed them with guns. The factory's owners fired hundreds, including Ms. Martínez.
It might have ended that way, except that it occurred just as concern about sweatshops was rising in the United States. Groups like the National Labor Committee, a union-backed, workers advocacy group based in New York, had formed to oppose sweatshops. Mandarin offered a media-ready case of abuse, and the revolt was widely publicized.
Still, two of the four retailers using Mandarin left after the protests -- J. C. Penney and Dayton Hudson (now Target). Eddie Bauer, a unit of Spiegel Inc., suspended its contract. Gap Inc., which is based in San Francisco, intended to quit, too, but a group of Mandarin workers pleaded with the company to save their jobs. Some blamed union organizers for the trouble. ''Problems were made to look worse by the union,'' said one employee, Lucía Alvarado, who has worked at the factory for eight years.
Gap executives chose to stay after deciding that all the groups involved -- workers, labor activists and factory owners -- were willing to make changes. The workers were expected to stop disrupting the plant, and managers had to agree to more humane practices and to accept outside monitors.
To make sure the changes stuck and to arbitrate disputes, Gap decided to try the then innovative idea of hiring local union, religious and academic leaders as independent monitors who would meet regularly with workers to hear complaints, investigate problems and look over the books.
''It's not a paradise,'' said Carolina Quinteros, co-director of the Independent Monitoring Group of El Salvador, as the monitors call themselves. ''But at least it works better than others down here. They don't have labor or human rights violations.''
The push for change ranges far beyond the Charter factory, or El Salvador. Today, activists on college campuses are calling for an end to sweatshops everywhere. [As recently as this past weekend in Quebec, world trade officials debated how to clean up those operations, and the United States has pushed developing countries to raise pay and working conditions in thousands of plants from Bangladesh to Brazil.]
Results, however, have been negligible. The basic problem is that jobs and capital can move fast these days, as the president of El Salvador, Francisco Flores, is keenly aware. ''The difficulty in this region is that there is labor that is more competitively priced than El Salvador,'' he said.
Here, as in many other countries, labor advocates say the problem is made worse by the government's cozy ties with factory owners. When a Labor Ministry committee issued a report critical of forced overtime, poor safety and threats against labor organizers, factory owners complained. The government swiftly withdrew and disowned it.


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Certain diet restrictions may be necessary for horses that are insulin-resistant as well as horses with laminitis, EMS, PPID, and other maladies. These horses will probably need to ingest low-carb nutrients. Exercise is also highly recommended. It is very important that these horses keep an optimum weight and are not allowed to become obese.
Professor Geor of Michigan State suggests feeding a high-forage diet with little to no grain added. Forage should consist of low-grade hay. Vitamins and minerals that are missed from such a low-calorie diet can be given to balance out the horse's individual requirements. Special attention should be paid to the horse's intake of vitamin E, copper, and zinc.
Pasture-grazing should be very closely monitored or possibly not done at all. Pasture grass can sometimes put weight on a horse very quickly.
It is not a good idea to starve the horse when reducing its intake. Any feed changes should be done very gradually and carefully. Meals should be given in three to four small rations per day. A dieting horse may be tempted to eat its bedding; therefore, it is best to try to use something other than shavings, straw, or other materials a horse might eat.


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Ganassi partners with diabetes group
Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 3:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 3:36 p.m.
DAYTONA BEACH — Chip Ganassi Racing will help driver Charlie Kimball with his quest to raise diabetes awareness by partnering with sponsor Novo Nordisk and the Race with Insulin program in all three of its racing series.
Kimball was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2007. He races in the IndyCar Series for Ganassi with Novo Nordisk as his sponsor.
He'll have his traditional Race with Insulin paint scheme during the weekend of April 5-7 at Barber Motorsports Park. NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray will use Kimball's paint scheme on his Sprint Cup car the same weekend at Martinsville Speedway.
In addition, all of Ganassi's cars will race with blue rims to help launch the "Race with Insulin Unites" campaign. The rims emulate the blue circle that is the International Diabetes Foundation's global symbol.
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After mustering two hits in a 3-1 game one loss, Seward came back with a 12 hit attack in game two and an 8-3 win over visiting Garden City.
In game one, Garden City scored single runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh. They won despite five errors.
In game two, Seward scored three in the second, four in the third, and one in the fourth in route to the 8-3 win. Becky Allen was 3-4 with two runs. Ashley Kirkes was 2-4 with two runs and an RBI. Felisha Vogelaar was 2-3 with a double. Brittany Hopkins scattered seven hits but didn't walk anyone in the win.
Seward is 18-13 overall and 1-3 in the Jayhawk West while Garden City is 9-12 overall and 5-1 in the Jayhawk West. Former Saint and Sublette native Becky Holland is in her first year as Garden's head coach.
Seward hosts Barton (6-8, 0-4) Friday at 2 p.m. at Lady Saints Field.
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Srinagar : Dr Saugata Roy, Minister for State Ministry of Urban Development Government of India conducted an extensive tour of Dal and expressed satisfaction over the conservation works in the lake.
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SEATTLE, - The 20th-ranked Washington baseball team finished up a four-game Pac-10 North series sweep of Portland State Sunday, beating the Vikings, 8-2, at Husky Ballpark.
The Huskies (12-4 overall, 4-0 in the Pac-10) used strong defense and timely pitching to win what was a close contest through much of the game. Freshman starter John Gillespie (1-1) picked up his first career win. The Lake Washington HS grad threw five innings, allowing only one run on three hits. PSU starter Tony Blackhurst (2-2) worked four and one-third innings in the loss as his team fell to 6-12, 0-4. It was the Huskies' 15th straight win over Portland State.
Reliever Bryan Williamson used a double play to get out of a jam in the seventh, when the score was 4-1. In the eighth, with the score 6-1, junior Wayne Lee came in with the bases loaded and no out, and got a 1-2-3 double play and a strikeout to get out of it without allowing a run.
Down 1-0 in the fourth inning, the Huskies took the lead for good when first baseman Ed Erickson blasted a two-run homer, his first of the season.
Third baseman Ryan Lentz went 2-for-5 with three RBI and hit his fourth homer of the year. Nick Stefonick doubled and tripled in four at bats and catcher Ryan Bundy went 3-for-4 with three singles for Washington. DH Russ Riehl led PSU with two hits, and Rick Southall, who hit four home runs in Saturday's doubleheader, went 1-for-2 with a double and two walks.
The Huskies take the week off for finals before departing on Friday for Stanford, where they'll give the No. 1-ranked Cardinal a rematch of last season's Pac-10 Championship Series, which Washington won, two games to one. The series begins Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and continues through Monday.
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Will its pretty clear on the question, my daughters father is white and I am black. But she doesn't seem to be getting any draker or even look like she's getting a tan. I am really worried about it,but what I am worried about is when she goes to school I don't want the kids to my fun her because she doesn't seem to carry both racises physically. And her dad its sorta pale white so we figured she wouldn't have that tan look. help me please
White Dad & Black Mom...making fun of the child. advice plz
How old is she? My kids didn't have a tan before they were a few months old. My first one even got first really dark when she was about 18 months. My little one got darker earlier. Compared to other biracial kids, mine are pretty dark. When they are still little, you can't really tell. Wait until she's a year or so and don't worry about it. Either way, she will be your pretty little girl
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My son is not dark but his dad is light skinned. It pops up alot in his family so I wasn't surprised my son is so light. We get plenty of looks though when we go out as a family. I have had most people ask about his dads race more than his.LOL.
As my five yr old nephew (who is hilly billy white) said, my son is white with blacks hair.
The main reason we get looks is because we both have full blood daughters from previous relationships. So when we go out there is my white daughter his black daughter and our mixed son. I wouldn't worry about your baby girl being made fun of. She will be beautiful regardless of how deep her tan and as the previous said it could take awhile to reach their full potential.
My diverse family is beautiful in all its colors :)
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I'm african american and my 9 year old daughters father is half puerto rican half german. My daughter is not brown at all and I knew this was going to be the case when she was only hours old and her nipples were pink. When summer rolls around she doesn't even tan, instead she burns so sun screen is a must.
I understand the worry regarding her being teased. We live an a mostly black suburban middleclass neighboorhood with many mixed children as well a pretty good amount of Latino families and beleive me that makes it easier.
After living in the same place for so long we no longer get the looks of shock when people find out that a child that light has one black parent. I do still worry sometimes about new situations (summer camp etc) Also based on my personality not too many people are stupid enough to actually comment on how light my daughter is. I'm just not having it.
Point blank it gets better and people actually become color blind.
She is 5 weeks old. My mom says she might get darker bc her ears are tan; like a really nice natural tan.My husband and I sorta knew that she would be better light though.
I'm biracial and my husband is white. My son doesn't look black at all. Once when we were out without my DH, someone refered to me as his "nanny".
I'm so tired of people saying "Wow, he's so fair" or "Gee, he must look like his dad". I carried this little nut for 10 months and then feed him for a year - he's my SON!
Even though I grew up with a mother who appeared to be a different race than me, I'm still worried about my son and how he will deal with having a black mom. I was always proud of my family diversity and I'm praying my son will be just as proud.
I'm confused as to what your concerned about. What if she never gets dark and looks "only white?" Is she going to go to an all black school? Maybe she's just going to look like her Dad. Who would tease her about that?
I am with alonauno. I don't see the problem..
My boys never got dark. I am white, the dads are black. They have never been teased.
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She is still young, at the hospital they told me that the real color does not start to settle in before after 6 months. my boy where tan at birth, he is now 20 months and keep getting darker and darker


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After a rather quiet year in which there has been a drought of interesting Blu-ray titles, late September has suddenly emerged as the time in which the heavens open and out pours a flood of must-have discs. Four key titles in particular are set to really strain the disposable incomes of any film fan.
On September 18th comes "Indiana Jones: The Complete Collection" containing all four films, the first three making their high definition debuts. The set is expected to be the biggest catalog box set seller on the market since last year's "Star Wars" complete saga set.
One week later on September 25th comes three major juggernauts. Marvel's "The Avengers" makes its disc debut in various formats and will no doubt break disc sales records as much as the film itself has done at the box-office.
For classic film fans though it's also one hell of a day. There's the "Bond 50" set, a box-set containing all 22 official James Bond films from "Dr. No" through to "Quantum of Solace" and featuring nine key films which haven't made their debut on Blu-ray before including "The Spy Who Loved Me," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," "You Only Live Twice," "GoldenEye," "Diamonds are Forever," "The Living Daylights," "Octopussy," "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "A View to a Kill".
If that weren't enough Universal is releasing "Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection", a box-set containing fifteen of the master's most famous films - thirteen of which are making their Blu-ray debut. Amongst the titles are some of cinema's greatest works including "Rear Window," "Vertigo," "North by Northwest," "Psycho," "The Birds," "Rope" and "Shadow of a Doubt". If that weren't enough, Blu-rays of both "Strangers on a Train" and "Dial M For Murder" hit two weeks later on October 9th.
Busy month? That's not even taking into account the Blu-ray debut of James Cameron's "Titanic" on September 10th, a flurry of high-profile TV releases, and a few other key smaller film titles like Criterion's release of David Fincher's "The Game" on the 25th as well. Start saving now.


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Kenneth C. Brown
Participated and lettered in football and basketball at Baldwin High School. At Baker, participated in football and baseball. Received four letters in football and one in baseball, (Baker did not field baseball teams three years of his attendance.) Chosen three times to the Kansas Conference First Team in football. Graduated in 1940 with a B.S. in physical education. The last two years at Baker were spent as an assistant coach to W.W. Ridgeway. Played professional football for the Phoenix Tigers in 1940. Began 32-year high school coaching career in El Paso, Texas, in 1943.
First assignment was with El Paso High from 1943 to 1950. Then in 1950, moved to Austin High. Coached several teams in football, track and baseball. Won league, city, district and regional championships, and participated in state championships twice. Received El Paso coach of the year in track, 1944, and coach of the year in football, 1945; was named coach of the year in baseball six times, and was presented the Temple of Mt. Sinai Sportsman Award in 1965. Has had several original articles published in professional magazines. Belongs to numerous local, state and national educational and athletic coaching associations.


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For entrepreneurs and small businesses struggling to hire employees at reasonable starting wages, the announcements yesterday, September 1 that union membership is declining may be a blessing. Fox News reported that union membership is only a fraction of what it was during the 1950s, the heyday of unions.
The most recent statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal that only 11 percent of the workforce belonged to a union in 2012 and 2013, down from approximately 30 percent during the 1950s. However, public sector unions are still going strong, with teachers, police and firefighters belonging at 35 percent. It's the private sector union membership that has dropped to 6.7 percent, resulting in the overall decline in union membership. That drop is attributed to the drop in the manufacturing sector, which has seen most of its jobs shipped overseas.
Fast food workers have been the most recent beneficiaries of union membership, which brought them wage increases. However, small businesses and entrepreneurs have managed to avoid the headaches of negotiating with unions, as they tend to hire non-union employees, mostly teenagers and college students, to fill minimum wage, entry-level jobs to keep costs manageable.
According to Inc., small businesses generally do not support unions, and for good reason. Many fear strikes, wage increases and lower profits, which tends to be the case when unions step in and make demands on behalf of their members. For small business owners and entrepreneurs, the decline in union membership should provide some reassurance that their businesses will be able to continue operating, if not thrive.


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General Information
The 35th Charlie Butt Scullers' Head of the Potomac will be held Sunday September 27, 2015 over a 2.8-mile course that extends down the Potomac River along the Virginia shore across from the Georgetown/Foggy Bottom waterfront in Washington, D.C. The sculling events that give the regatta its name will be complemented by sweep events. Results will be available at Regatta Headquarters (Potomac Boat Club) and at Thompson Boat Center no sooner than one hour after each race. Spectators will find excellent viewing from the foot of Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown; the banks of Roosevelt Island (entrance on the Virginia side of the river); the Washington Harbour complex; the Thompson Boat Center near the intersection of Rock Creek Parkway and Virginia Avenue N.W.; and the footpath and park in front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Lightweight cutoffs have been raised to 165 lbs. for men, 133 lbs. for women (specifically impacting event 3). Medals will be awarded for Men's and Women's Senior Veteran Singles (age 70+) if the regatta receives sufficient entries – three or more competitors from two or more boat clubs.
Entries – Please register online at Ronin Racing.
To guarantee a place in the regatta, and to avoid a late entry charge, entries must be submitted by September 13. From September 14 to September 20, there will be a late fee of $20 per entry.
Online registration ends September 20 and there will be no registration race day.
Race packets will be released only upon submission of all waiver forms. Under no circumstances will a competitor be allowed to pick up a packet and race without payment of the entry fee or submission of a complete waiver form. Please fill out waivers on Ronin Racing here.
The official address for the regatta is:
Charlie Butt Scullers' Head of the Potomac
Potomac Boat Club
3530 Water Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
For complete entries submitted by September 13:
Singles – $30.00
Doubles and Pairs – $40.00
Quads – $55.00
Fours – $65.00
Octuples and Eights – $70.00
After September 13, add $20.00 per entry.
For an event to be a medal event, a minimum of three entries from at least two organizations must start the race. Sweep events will be awarded medals for first place only. Sculling events will receive medals according to the following formula: 3 to 10 entries – 1st place only; 11 to 15 entries – 1st and 2nd place; and 16 or more entries – 1st through 3rd places. In events 1 and 23 a separate medal will be awarded for each division, all other requirements having been met.
The regatta committee reserves the right to rule on any situation not specifically covered by these guidelines and to penalize or disqualify any competitor or crew that appears to violate the spirit or letter of the rules of competition or sportsmanship, on the water or off.
|Youth/Novice Single (M&W)
|8:30 a.m.
|Open Single (M&W)
|8:45 a.m.
|Lightweight Single (M&W)
|9:00 a.m.
|Masters Single (M&W)
|9:15 a.m.
|Senior Master Single (M&W)
|9:30 a.m.
|Grand Master Single (M&W)
|9:45 a.m.
|Veteran Single (M&W)
|10:00 a.m.
|Sr. Vet. Single (M&W)
|10:15 a.m.
|Men's Youth Eight
|10:30 a.m.
|Men's Club Eight
|10:45 a.m.
|Masters Four-with (M&W)
|11:00 a.m.
|Women's Club Eight
|11:15 a.m.
|Open Double (M&W)
|11:30 a.m.
|Women's Youth Eight
|11:45 a.m.
|Men's Open Eight
|12:30 p.m.
|Women's Four-with
|12:45 p.m.
|Club Double (M&W)/Parent-Child Double
|1:00 p.m.
|Open & Masters Quad (M&W&Mixed)
|1:15 p.m.
|Masters Eight (M&W)
|1:30 p.m.
|Youth Four-with (M&W)
|1:45 p.m.
|Men's Four-with
|2:00 p.m.
|Women's Open Eight
|2:15 p.m.
|Masters Double (M&W&Mixed)
|2:30 p.m.
|Mixed Eight
|2:45 p.m
|Grand Challenge Octuple
|3:00 p.m.
|Award Ceremony at PBC
|3:30 p.m.
Definitions and Eligibility Rules
Note – unless otherwise stated, all dates shown are in the year of the regatta.
Novice: Any sculler who has not competed in a sculling race prior to January 1 and who has not been a member of any senior national team nor has been a finalist in any sculling event at any national championships, the Independence Day Regatta or Canadian Henley.
Youth: Any rower 18 years of age or younger as of September 27.
Intermediate: USRA rules apply
Master: Any rower at least 30 years of age as of September 27.
Senior Master: Any sculler at least 40 years of age as of September 27.
Grand Master: Any sculler at least 50 years of age as of September 27.
Veteran: Any sculler at least 60 years of age as of September 27.
Senior Veteran: Any sculler at least 70 years of age as of September 27.
Handicaps will be based on the USRA 1000m handicaps adjusted for the 2.8 mile head race distance. A listing of time handicaps used for different boat classes is available online.
Lightweight: Men: 165 pounds or less; Women: 133 pounds or less.
Club Eights: Raced by individuals who, in the current year, did not finish in the top six places of any race at the EARC, EAWRC, Western Sprints, IRAs, PAC-10s or at NCAAs, or the top six places in any elite or open event at any national championships or national team trials.
Parent-Child: This division of event 17 will be raced after the Club Double. This race is for fun: no age requirements or handicaps, no gender requirements, no DNA, no arguments. Separate medal awarded, all requirements (three boats to start, representing at least two organizations) having been met.
Mixed Eights: Half the crew shall be female, half male, excluding the coxswain.
Grand Challenge Octuples: Entries must be submitted under only one club/school name. Four of the eight scullers must be from the same club/school. Mixed sex crews are acceptable.
In Master Events 11, 18, 19, and 23: The average age of masters crews must be 35, with no rowers under the age of 30. Handicaps are based on the USRA handicaps adjusted for the 2.8 mile race distance.
In Events 18 (Masters and Mixed Masters), 24, and 25: Masters crews (minimum average age 35, no rowers under age 30) will receive a handicap but will not race in a separate division. Masters handicaps are based on the USRA standard.
Packet Pickup (Race Day Only)
Race packets may be picked up at Thompson Boat Center, 2900 Virginia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. (at the corner of Virginia Avenue and Rock Creek Parkway) on on race day, Sunday, September 27 from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Competitors may not pick up a packet until all completed waiver forms have been received and entry fees have been paid.
Lightweights must report to weigh-in between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 27 at Thompson Boat Center. Lightweight rowers will not be allowed to pick up a race packet until after weigh-in.
As shown on the accompanying course map, the 2.8 mile course starts almost 2 miles above Key Bridge, just downstream of Fletcher's Cove, and follows the Virginia shore for 1/3 mile to a point just below the Hens and Chickens Islands where it makes a slight turn to port. The course continues along the Virginia shore for 0.6 miles to a point about 400 yards above the Three Sisters Islands where it makes another turn to port. From here the course goes straight for 0.9 miles passing through the second arch (from the Virginia shore) of Key Bridge making a turn to starboard. The course then continues downstream past the upper end of Roosevelt Island where it makes a wide turn to starboard around the island and then goes straight to the finish just above Roosevelt Bridge.
The course will be marked with a pair of buoys at the starting line, a single large buoy at each of the turns to port (Hens and Chickens and above the Three Sisters), and a pair of buoys each at Key Bridge and at the finish line. There will be a line of small buoys marking the shallow water and debris on the inside of the turn around Roosevelt Island. Additional buoys will be in place between the small buoys and Roosevelt Island for safety purposes.
Boats must pass on the Virginia side of the buoy at the Hens and Chickens turn and the buoy above the Three Sisters Islands or be assessed a thirty second penalty per turn (keep the buoy off your port side). No penalty will be assessed for failing to pass between the buoys at Key Bridge or at the finish line; however, your finish time may not be recorded if you cross the finish line too far from the timing boat for the officials to read your number.
Shells without a bow ball will not be allowed to start. Rowers in shells with flexible shoe soles attached to foot stretchers must assure that the heels are attached in such a way as to allow quick exit in case of emergency. All competitors must row a fixed-rigger, sliding-seat racing shell.
Each boat must display its number and be equipped with a bow clip. No boat will be allowed to leave the dock without a number. Back patch and bow numbers will be in race packets. Each competitor is responsible for arriving at the starting line at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled starting time for the event. Course marshals will direct competitors in the marshaling area above the starting line. At the start, shells will be started at 10-second intervals. Any boat arriving late and starting three or more minutes after the last boat in the event will be assessed a 30-second penalty.
When passing, the overtaking boat has the right of way. The boat being overtaken must give way on the side chosen by the overtaking boat. No boat should press its right of way to the point of collision. Good sportsmanship must prevail at all times, and any boat showing disregard for safety may be penalized or disqualified.
See Course Description. All boats must row clear of the finish area and return to launching sites via the DC side of the river.
Dock Assignments for Out-of-Town Entrants
All out-of town entrants (except singles and doubles) must boat from the Thompson Boat Center at the intersection of Virginia Avenue, N.W. and Rock Creek Parkway. Single and double scullers may use the float at PBC. It will not be possible for out-of-town crews to walk shells larger than a double through Potomac Boat Club. No equipment may be stored at PBC. Those launching from Thompson Boat Center should allow 45 minutes to reach the starting line; from PBC, 30 minutes.
Regatta participants and spectators are advised to heed all posted parking restrictions. Access to the Washington Canoe Club immediately upstream of Potomac Boat Club must be kept open at all times. Do not park under the Aqueduct (the old stone arch) or between PBC and WCC so as to interfere with passage of traffic into the Washington Canoe Club.
There is a limited amount of space for boat trailers at Thompson Boat Center. If you plan to bring a trailer to the regatta you MUST inform the regatta committee in advance, no later than September 13, so that parking spaces can be allocated in accordance with U.S. Park Service requirements. Without advance notification we will not be able to assure you trailer parking at the Thompson Boat Center parking lot. If you are bringing a trailer, please inform the Regatta Committee by September 15 using the form below and include the following details:
- Organization Name
- Contact (driver or designated representative)
- Telephone numbers, both daytime and evening
- E-mail address
Additional information including directions to PBC and the Thompson Boat Center is available on the Club's website, www.potomacboatclub.org.
Download the SHOP Program to your phone: SHOP Program 2015
Contact the Potomac Boat Club Regatta Committee
Your Race Committee
Peter Clements: Regatta Chair
Brett Freeman and Lena Wang: Vice-Chairs and Directors of Volunteers
Eric Edmonds: Director of Timing
Victoria Tigwell: Director of Communications
Ken Swain: Director of Permitting
Meli Mathis: Head Course Marshall
Lauren Schumer: Director of Race Course
Will Packard: Director of Registrants


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"You're not going to step through, are you?" Angie seemed incredulous.
"Of course!" said Rashad. What was the point of having a magical creature at your disposal, if not to use its magic?
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Did you just get fired, laid-off, or did you just arrive in Miami?
As part of its ongoing investment in South Florida, AT&T hired more than 570 employees locally from January through June of this year, and is looking to fill more than 230 current openings from Key West to Vero Beach. Statewide, the company hired more than 1,200 in the first six months of this year and is currently hiring for nearly 450 positions.
The current South Florida openings include more than 110 positions at the company's Miami call center; nearly 100 retail openings throughout seven counties; and approximately 20 wire technician positions.
"People and businesses are connecting in more ways than ever before," said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez. "As a result, the potential for growth in South Florida technology industry is huge. We're excited that companies such as AT&T are choosing Miami-Dade County for additional jobs and investments."
Much of AT&T's South Florida hiring has been spurred by the company's Project Velocity IP (VIP), an investment plan to expand and enhance AT&T's wireless and wireline IP broadband networks to support the growing demand for high-speed Internet access, advanced TV services and new mobile cloud services.
AT&T currently employs more than 15,000 employees throughout Florida and consistently hires new talent. More information on AT&T's current Florida jobs openings can be found here.
And Military veterans can learn more about careers at AT&T here.
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Miami Dade College is one of the most comprehensive and highest rated technical schools in the country. If you're looking for a job in technology and you live here, I highly recommend their classes, guys and gals.


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While we all love watching the mid-air gyrations of NBA players during an intense game, the result of such maneuvers can often lead to a devastating injury. David Hall is CEO of RepliCel, an innovative company that is using cell regeneration to treat damaged tendons - one of the most common types of sports injuries.
When a professional sports player gets injured and is sidelined indefinitely it not only affects that individual but it can change the outcome of the entire team's performance. According recent press specs I received, the research being done at RepliCel Life Sciences, Inc. is a game changer.
The mission of CEO David Hall is to develop a remarkable new medical treatment to reverse these career-ending injuries. "RepliCel is developing science to treat chronic tendinosis suffered by many athletes," Hall says. "We believe we can do this with regenerative cell therapy." Such an approach has never been tried before. RepliCel successfully pioneered regenerative cell therapy as a non-invasive cure for hair loss; that work launched this innovative treatment.
RepliCel Life Sciences Inc. specializes in autologous cell therapy technologies. They are initiating the clinical development of a new autologous cell therapy for the treatment of a variety of chronic tendon injuries including Achilles, patellar and elbow tendinosis. This technology is based on the company's core understanding of the unique biological function of hair follicle cells.
"Our research addresses a serious and chronic disease of the tendon caused by a cycle of injury, healing and re-injury which results in frequent periods of pain and limited function," says CEO David Hall. "Efficacy and safety results from initial studies form the basis for our current plan to conduct a large efficacy trial beginning with Achilles tendinosis."
RepliCel´s preclinical research, as well as published clinical phase I data from its collaborator, Dr. David Connell, indicates that the engraftment of collagen-producing fibroblasts from the dermal sheath of a hair follicle can repair micro-tears and promote the regeneration of damaged tendon associated with chronic tendinosis.
David M. Hall became Chief Executive Officer and President at RepliCel Life Sciences Inc. in December, 2010. Highly committed to governmental policy issues related to the biotech industry, he served as Chairman of the Biotech Industry Advisory Committee to the BC Competition Council and was a member of the BC Task Force on PharmaCare. Mr. Hall is currently a member of the University of British Columbia's Tech Equity Investment Committee.
Mr. Hall previously served executive management roles at Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. and as Chairman of Life Sciences BC Biotech. He currently serves as a Director of GLG Lifetech Corporation and has served as Director of IWG Technologies Inc. since 1993. He received a B.Com in Finance from University of Manitoba and a BA in Economics from University of Manitoba.
For more information about regenerative cell therapy for tendons, click here or watch David in a discussion on this new fibroblast technology here.


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"Beth comes to Arizona with an array of excellent credentials," Busch said. "We are thrilled to have her become a member of our team next fall and I am sure she will make a huge impact on this program."
Botsford, who swims for North Baltimore Aquatics was the 1996 Olympic champion in the 100 meter backstroke in 1996 and was also a member of the gold medal-winning 400 meter medley relay squad at the Olympic Games.
She is currently a member of the 1998-99 United States National Team, which is comprised of USA swimmers who rank in the top-eight in the world in their respective events. Botsford was also a World Championships team member in 1998 and holds the distinction of being the 12th fastest woman ever in the 200 backstroke (2:10.66).
Botsford and fellow gold-medalist Amanda Beard - a fall signee with the UA swimming program - were both 15-year-old sensations on the 1996 U.S. Olympic team and will join the Wildcats squad next August.


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We have some amazing stuff coming up. We'll be moving soonish, so we get to decide what sort of space we want to dedicate ourselves to. We've accomplished our goal of establishing a community of makers, and get to decide where to go next and what to do together. We also need to know how we're getting ourselves to these places.
So we need to have a sit-down. And you need to be there. You want to know where we're going and how you can help, don't you? Of course you do! That's why you read this blog!
The sit-down with happen this Tuesday, the 15th, at 1900 (that's 7p). There are even already notes so you can know what you're getting yourself into! It's a lot to cover and there are a lot of us, so please come prepared by reading the agenda and knowing what the structure will be (see the wiki page). I'll be finishing up the wiki page about finances etc this evening, and the Direction part will be filled out earlier in the day on Tuesday.
Thank you so much, and I look forward to seeing you all!


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A vast stash of untouched powder is usually a welcome sight to skiers and snowboarders — except when that powder is located out of bounds.
Then it's just a tease.
Many times over the years, cruising on my snowboard down the east catch line at Mt. Bachelor ski area, I have glanced longingly at the pristine snow piled deep just below the groomed track. But ditching the catch line to ride through that powder would mean a serious hike through deep snow, or worse, getting lost beyond the ski area boundary.
Soon, though, snowriders at Bachelor will have access to that part of the peak, as hundreds of additional acres on the southeast section of the mountain will be added to the ski area.
The new east-side chairlift planned for that part of Bachelor will not be open until the 2014-15 winter season at the earliest, but this coming season skiers and snowboarders will have access to some 150 acres of new terrain.
Sometime after the Summit chairlift opens this season, Bachelor will open 80 new acres south of the east catch line, according to mountain manager Tom Lomax. The catch line will feed skiers and snowboarders back to the Rainbow chairlift.
Later this winter, the resort plans to open more terrain below that catch line that will require a hike back to Rainbow along a groomed track. Snowriders entering that terrain will encounter informational signs explaining that they must hike back to the lifts.
"We're not just going to move the catch line down and say, 'OK, this is all open,'" Lomax explains.
"It'll be gated terrain, and it will be open in select situations. And I don't expect it to open the first day after a storm cycle on Summit. We'll get Summit open, and then maybe it's two or three days later when we can open those gates for that hike-back terrain."
The 80 new acres will not be groomed, but rather off-piste tree skiing that requires the appropriate safety measures, such as not skiing alone and being wary of tree wells (areas of unconsolidated snow around tree bases).
"All of that will be really important," Lomax says. "When and if we do open that hike-back terrain, that'll be really important there, too. Not skiing alone, having a charged cellphone, somebody knows you're out there."
The new 80 to 150 acres could open sometime in late December, according to Lomax. That acreage is part of an additional 620 skiable acres that will be added to Bachelor once the new east-side chairlift is constructed. Even more of those 620 acres (farther southeast) could be open in late winter or early spring, according to Lomax, but skiing there will still require a hike back to Rainbow before the new chairlift is constructed. (Bachelor has about 3,700 acres of lift-accessible terrain, not including the new 620 acres.)
"We would like to put it (the new lift) in next summer but we have to get the funding and buy it," Lomax says. "In the meantime, we're going to include that (80 acres) in the open terrain for this season — 80 new acres below the existing east catch line and southeast of the Flying Dutchman Run. There's some really nice terrain. There's some nice short runs in there. People will have fun in there. It's going to be really nice tree skiing."
The new terrain will be accessible via both the Rainbow and Summit lifts. Lomax reiterated that snowriders should never ski below the "ski area boundary signs," no matter what.
About 70 percent of the trail clearing is complete on the new runs that will be accessible via the new east-side lift, and the lift line has been logged from top to bottom, according to Lomax.
Some of those new runs will be ridable in the 80 additional acres that will be open this season, but nothing will be groomed, Lomax says.
"It's large hemlock, open tree skiing," he adds. "It's benchy terrain. It's fun terrain. Lots of rolls and knolls."
Another plus of the new terrain is that it is located on the east side of Bachelor — which typically means less violent weather. The northwest ridge near the Pine Marten Lodge takes the brunt of the wind and clouds coming in over the Cascade Range, Lomax explains.
"The new area is so far southeast, you just get this natural protection (from clouds and wind)," Lomax says.
The mountain manager says snow conditions so far this season look promising for the planned opening of skiing and snowboarding at Bachelor on Nov. 23. On Monday, mtbachelor.com reported a snow depth of 14 inches at mid-mountain and 7 inches at West Village Lodge.
Bachelor officials fired up the snow-making machines this past weekend to get the ball rolling on another winter of snowriding at the Central Oregon resort.
In the meantime, those who seek to hike and ski at Bachelor before the resort opens are advised that any areas of active grooming or snow-making are closed to the public.
Otherwise, hikers must decide for themselves if there is sufficient snow coverage to ski or snowboard safely before the mountain officially opens.
"There's no patrol," Lomax says. "The mountain's closed."
But it will open soon, and new terrain is not far behind.


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Many states allow early voting. This means that even if you do not have a reason why you cannot get to the polls on Election Day, you may vote before Election Day. Priests for Life has posted the regulations and dates that apply to each state. Visit priestsforlife.org and look for political responsibility.Why is it a good idea to vote before Election Day? Because we should not put off until tomorrow what we can do today. Every vote really does count, and when we wait until the last possible day to vote, we leave ourselves open to the chance that something will stand in our way — we may become ill, or have car trouble, or encounter a family problem, or bad weather, or just forget. Don't let that happen! This year, vote early!
Month: October 2008
We Can All Influence Thousands of Votes
Each of us has but one vote. Yet we can all influence thousands of votes. And we should start with the people who need the least amount of urging. If you have friends who already agree with you on the key issues of the day, and who would probably support the candidates you support, please make sure that they do in fact intend to vote for that candidate. Some information from you, a friendly nudge, or perhaps a promise of assistance to get them to the polls can go a long way.
We should reach for the "low-hanging fruit." If the same amount of energy by which we persuade one who disagrees with us can mobilize ten people who agree with us already, get the ten first; then come back for the rest.
–Fr. Frank
Voting for Vitae
One of the most striking, bold, and sobering paragraphs ever written about the impact of abortion on the common good is the 20th paragraph of Pope John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). It is a great antidote for the thinking that says we can elect a "pro-choice" candidate because "their other positions are good." It's easy to start counting the positions we think a candidate has "right" and see what candidate has the greater "sum" of right answers or "Catholic" answers. But that's a very superficial and flawed way of doing moral analysis. It's like saying to a supporter of terrorism, "I disagree with you on the one issue of terrorism, but what's your health care plan?"
Paragraph 20 of Evangelium Vitae starts by showing the radical and practical impossibility of living with the implications of "pro-choice." The same illusion that separates "choice" from the demands of respect for life is the illusion that makes us think we can separate other "rights" from the right to life. But human rights are integrally interconnected. Take away the basis for respecting life and you've taken away the basis for all human rights. As the Pope says, "At that point, everything is negotiable, everything is open to bargaining."
The Pope then takes aim at the idea that if abortion has been legalized according to proper democratic procedures, then that's all that matters. He says, "The appearance of the strictest respect for legality is maintained …. Really, what we have here is only the tragic caricature of legality; the democratic ideal, which is only truly such when it acknowledges and safeguards the dignity of every human person, is betrayed in its very foundations: How is it still possible to speak of the dignity of every human person when the killing of the weakest and most innocent is permitted?"
Along with this, he has some of the strongest words ever written about what happens when the state legalizes abortion: "In this way democracy, contradicting its own principles, effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism. The State is no longer the 'common home' where all can live together on the basis of principles of fundamental equality, but is transformed into a tyrant State, which arrogates to itself the right to dispose of the life of the weakest and most defenseless members … When this happens, the process leading to the breakdown of a genuinely human co-existence and the disintegration of the State itself has already begun. To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom."
"The disintegration of the State itself…totalitarianism…the death of true freedom." In other words, no "common good" can co-exist with legal abortion. The very foundations of civilization break down. It sure sounds like abortion is more than just one issue among many.
Fr. Frank
I'm Motivated to Vote
Election Day is right around the corner, and I'm motivated to vote and to influence many other votes. I'm motivated because voting is part of what I need to do to fulfill my life's dream – a dream shared by many others – that abortion, the biggest holocaust the human family has ever known, will cease.
Some, even in the Church, don't seem to get the fact that there's no problem in society bigger than abortion. But it's a fact nonetheless. Curiously, those who don't seem to understand this tend to be the least willing to hear the descriptions of abortion or look at the pictures.
I'm motivated to vote, not because one election will end abortion, and certainly not because I expect our elected officials to be perfect or to do my work for me. The People of God have to do the work of ending abortion – providing alternatives, educating minds, changing hearts, changing laws. But part of that work is electing the people who will pose the least obstacle to that mission. We don't elect people to do our work for us, but rather people who will let us do our own work. So often it's a choice of the person who will do the least damage, or permit the fewer numbers of abortions. And to choose to limit evil is a good.
I'm motivated, because we've made progress. We have two new Justices on the Supreme Court who don't believe in inventing new rights from "penumbras" – and just like in 2004, the Supreme Court is at stake again. The next President and Senate will move the Court in one direction or another.
We have also gained many new federal judges, who understand the limits of judicial authority. And we have new laws that bring us closer to the protection of the unborn, like the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and the first ban on an abortion procedure since Roe vs. Wade, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
So now it's a numbers game. We have to spend our time and energy not convincing the one stubborn person, but reminding the many who will listen, if we simply nudge them a little and tell them who the best candidates are. We should go for the "low-hanging fruit," those easiest to mobilize. And we should vote early. Many states allow voting before Election Day. Let's get others to vote early, so that unforeseen circumstances don't stop them from voting later. Let's help the people who may need a ride to the polls. Let's get our churches to send out reminders to vote.
Let's also donate to and volunteer for the candidate of our choice, and let our lawn signs and bumperstickers be seen. Let's hand out literature, make phone calls, send emails, and put links on our websites to urge people to vote the right way.
And remember, polls don't determine elections; the people who show up at the polling places do. Let's bring them out!
-Fr. Frank
40 Days for Life in Toms River, New Jersey
I was delighted today to join pro-life people at the abortion mill in Toms River, NJ, as part of the 40 Days for Life observance. I spent the 9 to 10 am hour there, and the spirit of prayer was intense. Children were there with their parents and godparents. Many of the prayer warriors are EWTN watchers as well, and so they were very familiar with the Priests for Life mission and message.
Two litanies formed our hour of prayer. One was the Litany in Response to Abortion, which is part of our Priests for Life prayer booklet. The other one was a litany for women who have died from so-called "safe and legal" abortion. I read the names of 242 women slowly and solemnly, and after each name, the crowd prayed, "Lord, have mercy on her." This list is just a fraction of the women who have been killed in this way. The abortion industry must be called to account for the deaths of these women they claim to serve and care about.
Praise the Lord for the many people responding to our call to come out and pray at the abortion mills during these 40 Days and throughout the year! I look forward to seeing many of you in your own communities.
–Fr. Frank
Fr. Pavone on "Choose Life" License Plate Victory
Free Speech Trumps Pro-Abortion Censors
Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said today that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to let stand a lower court ruling allowing the issuance of "Choose Life" license plates in Arizona is a victory against censorship.
"Only a pro-abortion zealot would consider the words 'Choose Life' to be controversial," stated Fr. Pavone. "Abortion profiteers and their political supporters are obviously threatened by the thought that someone, somewhere, sometime might choose an alternative to abortion. Now that the Arizona government's pro-abortion censors have been rebuked by the courts for the last time, drivers can finally exercise their free speech rights and choose 'Choose Life' license plates."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
Divine Mercy
I'm flying back from Seattle today, and had a great Mass for Life with the members of Legatus yesterday, at which I addressed in my homily the critical importance of next month's elections. It was good to see the fervor and determination of so many of them for making sure that pro-life candidates are elected.
In one of the discussions I had with these business leaders, we talked about the relationship between the elections and mercy. Essentially, we are asking God for mercy on the nation when we pray for a good outcome of the elections. The US Bishops said in Living the Gospel of Life that we get the public officials we deserve. Yet we can pray, as we do in the First Eucharistic Prayer, "do not consider what we truly deserve, but grant us your forgiveness."
Today is the Feast of St. Faustina, to whom Jesus gave the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. He gave it to her specifically because the world needed to make reparation above all for the sin of abortion. She even felt the pains representing the women aborting their children. The pro-life movement has made the Chaplet, very appropriately, one of its key prayers. Let's use it intensely in these final weeks before the election.
Fr. Frank
Pro-Life Awards Given by Legatus
At the 2008 Legatus International Fall Summit, which I have been attending here in Seattle, the Cardinal O'Connor Pro-life Awards were presented on Friday night, October 3. Peggy Hartshorn, President of Heartbeat International, presented the awards to the following recipients: Sr. Paula Vandegaer, Chris and Joan (Andrews) Bell, and the Sisters of Life.
Sr. Paula is the Executive Director of International Life Services. Based in Los Angeles, she coordinates pregnancy centers and trains volunteers who devote themselves full-time to pro-life work. Sr. Paula has been doing this work for decades and is highly respected in the movement. She has an advanced training institute at which Priests for Life Associate Director Janet Morana spoke this past summer.
Chris and Joan Bell live in New Jersey. Chris runs the Good Counsel Homes, which take in moms and babies, no matter what challenges they are facing socially, physically, or emotionally. Joan (Andrews) Bell is best known for her heroic witness in the Rescue movement. For peaceful intervention to save babies, she spent some 6 years in jail, with over two years in solitary confinement.
The Sisters of Life were founded in the early 1990's by Cardinal John O'Connor, Archbishop of New York. They have both a contemplative and active dimension to their community, and their full-time ministry is pro-life work.
They take a special fourth vow for the defense of human life.
Priests for Life congratulates these recipients, all of whom are friends and colleagues of ours, and thanks Legatus for recognizing the importance of their work and witness.
Fr. Frank
Fr. Frank and Peggy Hartshorn (l.), both previous recipients of the Cardinal O'Connor Pro-life Award, join this year's recipients, Chris and Joan (Andrews) Bell and Sr. Paula Vandegaer (r.) at the Legatus Summit in Seattle.
Priests for Life Encourages Catholic CEOs Nationwide
Friends, this is a story we placed this morning on our Priests for Life website. Please learn more about Legatus and think of people in the business world who may be interested in it.
From October 2 to 5th, Fr. Frank Pavone is joining Catholic CEOs from around the nation in Seattle for a Summit of Legatus, the organization which was founded by Tom Monahan and which assists Catholic business leaders to live out their faith in the marketplace. Legatus has always been strongly committed to defending the right to life, and as he has done since 1994, Fr. Frank will share with the members some of the latest updates in the pro-life movement and encourage them in their own involvement in this greatest human rights cause of our time.
One of the arenas in which the Legatus members are urged to live their Catholic identity is in politics, and Fr. Frank will point out the crucial role that next month's elections will play in the advancement of the cause of life.
Fr. Frank with John Hunt, Executive Director of Legatus, and his wife Kathy.


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If the present draft annual plan is signed off by councillors
in May, residents of Dunedin will be looking at an increase
in the cost of, among other things, dying, displaying their
goods on the footpath, parking outside their inner-city
homes, using the city's landfills and sports grounds.
The cost of registering dogs will stay the same, as will
being a member of a library, parking tickets, and going for a
swim at Moana Pool - although a swim will cost slightly more
at the St Clair Salt Water Pool.
Recent hikes in the council-owned landfill fees have been
criticised by residents and the council has asked for a
report on a weigh bridge at Green Island. A weigh bridge
would mean people were charged by the weight of their waste,
rather than the size of the vehicle they brought it in.
Council staff have indicated they could have the weigh bridge
installed by July.
If the council decides not to go with that option and stick
with its present regime, fees will rise more - the cost of
dumping a single black bag will go up from $2.10 to $3, a
car-load will go up to $20, and a single-axle trailer-load to
Green waste fees will go up too, another $3 to $15 for a
car-load; and another $5 to $35 for a trailer-load.
The fees have been increased over time since last year, to
better meet the actual cost of disposing of the waste.
Burial, interment and cremation fees are again to increase
next year, by about 2% across the board, compared with an
increase on average of about 3% this year.
The parking enforcement team is also seeking to raise some of
their fees, including a $16 increase in annual fees for
residents' parking permits and a 26% increase in construction
parking permit fees.
Team leader Daphne Griffen said the increases reflected
increased contractor costs and an adjustment to better
reflect the true cost of the loss of income from metered
spaces where permits were issued.
Her team also enforced the council's commercial use of
footpaths policy, under which some permitted users were about
to experience a dramatic hike in annual fees.
Those increases reflected the change in the street furniture
situation from that which existed in 2005 when the policy,
which has been under review for 18 months, was drafted.
''Back then, there were hardly any tables and chairs on
paths, or goods displayed in the streets. Now they are
The policy was taking her staff a lot of time to enforce and
the increases also reflected that, she said.
Parks manager Lisa Wheeler said slight increases in sports
ground fees reflected increases in maintenance costs, while
Aquatic Services manager Steve Prescott said the cost of
swiming at the St Clair Salt Water pool would go up to match
an increase in Moana Pool fees last year that reflected
increased operational costs.
The fee changes will be part of the draft annual plan, which
people can have their say on through the submission process
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I hope your vision of the future doesn't involve hordes of
people driving round Dunedin looking for empty bins.
Actually if it's done before the trash collectors come and
peoples skips are empty I think its a good use for other
people to dump their recycling or garbage in half full bins.
Unbelievably we just watched a passing car stop at our
wheelie bin, waiting at the curb for collection tomorrow, and
dump their rubbish in and drive off.
At least they didn't just throw it onto the footpath. This
This is the future for Dunedin while we have a profit before
common sense council, driven by staff whom we don't
Brilliant idea johnkey. Or, how about we train some pigs to
be acrobats and put on shows for visiting cruise ship
passengers? That would no doubt fill those empty seats while
the spectators enjoy watching something uniquley
Dunedin...flying pigs..
Make the stadium pay for itself by growing cannabis. This
could be done legally under special license which the council
could give to itself using a by-law. Export the crop to
Colorado where it is legal to consume.
This would mean the stadium will be productive 365 days a
year instead of 0 days a year. Then the city fathers who
pushed this white elephant as a financial boon for the city
will truly be able to say to all the doubters and nay-sayers
..............."we told you so!"
This is horrendous news for the retailers who make the city
so vibrant with their wares. I find it hard to believe
that any of them are making such major profits that it
warrants dcc to tax yet again the people who make our city
It seems that seeking revenue from the ratepayers is the only
thing the DCC can do to accommodate the "elephant still in
the room". It needs to stop. It feels as though
our own council is stealing from us.
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AFOSR-Supported YIP Research Leads to Algorithms that Deflect Network Attackers
Young Investigator Research Program computer scientists are making large strides in developing new tools and techniques to reverse-engineer data-hiding algorithms from watermark detectors, which once commercialized and deployed, will improve the security of the GlobalInformation Grid of the Air Force computer networks.(Graphic by Craver, Binghamton University)
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-- The Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Young Investigator Research Program is enabling new scientists and engineers with exceptional ability to do creative basic research, enhance their career development and develop tools and techniques.
The current researchers are using the program with algorithms to improve the security of the Global information Grid of the Air Force computer networks.
"The YIP program is also significant because it allows program managers to have even more freedom in selecting researchers like AFOSR-supported scientists, Dr. Scott Craver of Binghamton University and Dr. Yan Chen of Northwestern University," said Dr. Robert Herklotz, AFOSR program manager.
Craver and Chen worked on two separate projects involving detection and evasion algorithms that when implemented will prove to be cutting-edge.
"The new technology will not only accurately block the known existing attacks, but will also defeat future possible attacks on networks, including wireless ones," said Dr. Yan Chen who accomplished his research goals by designing state-of-the-art algorithms, implementing them in prototype and evaluating them thoroughly. He will complete his YIP grant in November 2010.
Craver and his researchers who recently completed their YIP grant already, investigated reverse-engineering, detection and detection evasion algorithms.
"Our videoconferencing work requires that we tamper with existing software, a task that involves programming in multiple languages on multiple levels," said Craver. "On top of that we had to author entertaining computer animations for use as special effects and for our self-destructing e-mail project, we amended video signals."
Rather than waiting for attackers to define their method of defense, the researchers took a proactive approach. They searched and then found potential vulnerabilities in the emerging wireless network protocols and ultimately devised the cutting-edge algorithms.
"Our project generated the first network-based intrusion detection and prevention system that is both highly accurate and fast, up to tens of gigabits per second," said Chen.
"There are many security problems in which one party attempts to detect unauthorized behavior by another party; in response an attacker tries to find strategies for evading a detector by adapting to its algorithm," he said. "Our primary area of focus is the detection of a secret watermark concealed in an image or video clip."
Craver and his co-researchers discovered their largest challenge is the lack of a strong mathematical foundation for detection and evasion algorithms.
However, under the three year long YIP program, they have been working to put adversarial detection challenges on a strong mathematical foundation that will allow them to be confident about the security of future detection algorithms.
"Our vision is to significantly improve the current network defense technology, not only against the existing known attacks, but also for unknown attacks, while still being able to match the high-speed network environment," said Chen.
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Lillie Moore Leonard, 80, of Leonard Wade Lane, died Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, at Hinkle Hospice House after three weeks of declining health.
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Mrs. Leonard was born Nov. 23, 1931, in Cabarrus County to Clarence Marvin Moore and Sarah Janie Helms Moore. She had worked at Duracell Battery and retired from Edgewood Apparel Manhattan. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Ray Leonard, who died in 2005.
Surviving are son Billy Joe Leonard and wife Christy of Lexington; grandchildren Jason Leonard and Jessica Leonard, both of Lexington; brothers Bobby Moore and wife Diane of Rockwell, Charles Moore and wife Frances of Salisbury and Donald Moore and wife Shirley of Landis; and sister Peggy Kelly and husband Jimmy of Lexington.
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New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton is optimistic he'll have his top two running backs soon. Just how soon still is in question.
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