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According to Julian Pecquet, at The Hill, Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer is leading the legislation to put sanctions on Iran if they fail to live up to the content that is on the table for time-certain action. It is logical because the carrot in the agreement gives Iran more freedom. If they don't follow through as their record is suspect, than the stick must be present to balance the consequences.
"A source close to the sanctions effort said it wouldn't be surprising that someone such as Schumer is whipping given the unusually large number of people who have quickly signed on as cosponsors since the bill was introduced. The source said the pro-Israel lobby American-Israel Public Affairs Committee held a conference call for donors on Dec. 19, the day the bill was introduced, and told them the sanctions represented a "genuine policy disagreement" with the administration and was "going to be a tough slog".
The sanctions bill would slap new restrictions on Iran's energy sector if the country reneges on its commitments under the preliminary deal reached in November or fails to agree to a final deal that bars the country from enriching uranium. The White House says the sanctions could derail nuclear talks and is pressing Reid not to hold a vote."
Surely, Israel and Israel supporters appreciate Schumer's initiative that is a counterbalance to Obama-Kerry's more timid and tentative approach. Historians might argue for the tough approach in these matters, because Iranian leadership view anything else as weakness that can be exploited.


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TEMPE, Ariz.- The Sun Devil volleyball team returns to Tempe to host Oregon State on Friday, Oct. 4 in the annual Pink Game at 6 p.m. Arizona State will face off against No. 21 Oregon Sunday, Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. at Wells Fargo Arena to close out the weekend.
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The Sun Devils return to the friendly confines of Wells Fargo Arena where the team holds a historical advantage over this week's opponents. At home against Oregon State, ASU is 21-6, and against the Ducks they are 16-11. No. 15 Arizona State (12-2, 1-1 Pac-12) is a perfect 4-0 at home this season and looks to improve that record over the weekend.
About the Oregon State Series
ASU hold the advantage on this matchup, leading 39-17 dating back to 1985. The last time the two teams met was Nov. 8, 2012 in Corvallis with ASU sweeping the Beavers 3-0. While Playing in Tempe, the Sun Devils are a dominant 21-6 against OSU.
About the Oregon Series
The Sun Devils lead thus series 35-19 dating back to 1986. Despite holding the series lead, ASU has not beaten Oregon since Oct. 26, 2007, when they took a 3-1 win in Tempe. In the last ten matchups, ASU is 0-10 against the Ducks. ASU does have home court advantage, leading the series in Tempe 16-11
Sophomore outside hitter Macey Gardner ranks first in kills in the Pac-12, fifth nationally, averaging 4.95 per set, 198 total.
ASU ranks first in the Pac-12 in opponent hitting percentage, with opponents averaging a mere .115.
ASU second in the conference in digs with 689 (15.66 avg/s)
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Tucson, Ariz. – The University of Arizona Wildcat No. 17 men's and No. 11 women's track and field teams are host to the Jim Click Combined Events and Jim Click Shootout this weekend. Roy P. Drachman Stadium is where the meet is being held. Friday marked the end of the combined events. The main portion of the meet will take place on Saturday. Saturday's meet will be scored using championship scoring (10-8-6-4-2-1). If any team has athletes that compete in the combined events, they will be scored and factored into the final score of the competition. Admission for Saturday's competition is $8 adult/$5 senior, youth & UA student when purchased in advance; $10 adult/$7 senior, youth & UA student day-of-event and the meet program costs $5.
Senior Amber Passalaqua finished the heptathlon with a personal-best score of 5,235 points, good for third place. She began the day with the long jump and posted the second-best mark of her career, 19-0 (5.79m, 1.2 wind). That mark was good for 786 points overall. She had a personal-best toss of 109-2 (33.28m) in the javelin, scoring 539 points. Passalaqua ran the 800-meter race in 2:24.10, scoring 769 points. Passalaqua was the top finisher among collegiate athletes so she will add 10 points to the women's total on Saturday.
"Overall, I think I did really well," Passalaqua said. "It's hard with multis, you have so many different events that you have to focus on so if one doesn't go so well, you need to be able regroup and move on to the next one. I had one bad event which was my high jump (mark) but other than that I really persevered in everything else. I still feel like I have a lot left in every event so I need to up my score and get ready for a mark that can get me to the NCAA Championships. I really think I need to improve my mental confidence. In practice, I'm hitting my personal bests and then when I get to a meet I'm a little nervous. I really need to move passed that barrier and be able to compete at the best level I possibly can."
Freshman Aleah Hurst finished the heptathlon with 4,840 points, good for ninth place. She long jumped 18-4.5 (5.60m, 1.8 wind), a personal-best mark. Hurst threw 82-3 (25.07m) in the javelin and scored 384 points. Hurst had a time of 2:53.66 in the 800-meter race. Hurst added eight points to the women's team total for Saturday's competition.
Redshirt sophomore Harrison Ivie scored 6,895 points in the decathlon, good for second place overall. His personal-best score is the No. 21 mark in the country this year. He started the day with a personal-best time of 15.55 (0.9 wind) in the 110-meter hurdles. That time was good for 784 points. He threw the discus 120-3 (36.65m), tallying 597 points. Harrison Ivie had a personal-best clearance of 14-5.25 (4.40m) in the pole vault, good for 731 points.
On Thursday, Passalaqua began the day with a time of 14.26 (0.0 wind) in the 100-meter hurdles, good for 942 points. That is the fastest wind-legal time of her career. Passalaqua cleared 5-3.35 (1.61m) in the high jump competition, good for 747 points. In the shot put, Passalaqua posted a personal-best mark of 37-6 (11.43m), tallying 623 points. In the 200-meter sprint, she clocked a time of 25.64 (1.7 wind) and scored 829 points.
On Thursday, Hurst cleared 5-4.5 (1.64m) in the high jump and scored 783 points. It was the first time she has ever high jumped in a track and field meet. Hurst had a personal-best toss of 33-3.25 (10.14m) and scored 539 points. She ran the 200-meter sprint in 26.73 (1.7 wind) and scored 734 points. She finished day one with 2,056 points after only completing three events.
On Thursday, Ivie had a personal-best time of 11.22 (0.8 wind) in the 100-meter dash, good for 812 points. He long jumped 22-0.75 (6.72m, 0.0 wind) and scored 748 points with his personal-best mark. In the shot put, Ivie threw 40-8.75 (12.41m) and tallied 631 points. Ivie cleared 6-4 (1.93m) in the high jump, a personal-best clearance that was good for 740 points. Ivie finished the day with a personal-best time of 52.02 in the 400-meter race, tallying 723 points.
For continued coverage of Arizona Wildcat men's and women's track and field, visit ArizonaWildcats.com and follow @ArizonaTrack on Twitter.


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Milan-based design duo Carnovsky's production spans art, design and decoration. Composed of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla, they have collaborated with a wide variety of galleries, museums and institutions, such as the Helsinki Design Museum, the Drake Hotel in Toronto and Jaguarshoes in London.
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But the over-riding themes of his book were above and beyond the simple description of zoology: in Haeckel's work there emerges the idea of order out of chaos in nature, and the implied connection between nature, science and art. His prints presented organisms with the maximum possible sense of symmetry, organization and pattern-structure, while maintaining an awareness of the underlying chaotic variations that nature supplies us with. Much like Missoni's iconic patterns, Carnovsky's jellyfish also exist at the intersection between the man-made and the natural, the chaotic and the orderly, the mysterious and the known.


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This web portal is designed to facilitate the use and understanding of high resolution copy number data amassed from multiple cancer types specifically through the TCGA project. Pre-performed analyses include by gene and cancer type.
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May 09
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lorelle2009 says:
Hi not been on here for a while and as some of you may no i have 3 horses the problem is Rudy my 4 year old who i have had from being a foal who come out of my mare is now ready to start being backed slowly i am not expirienced with this and have only ever had horses what have already been broken. i have had tack on him and had someone sat on him and maybe abit of lunging what should i do will kill for me to sell him but is it best to do so
Mar 09
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Micki says:
If you will find it too upsetting to sell him then don't.
Can you afford to pay someone to set him off for you? If not just take each step at a time and don't progress to the next stage unil he is ready. I would spend a couple of weeks lunging and then start longreining so he understands the basics of what your hands mean. Only when he is longreining confidently should you then move on to backing. At this stage he should be walking, trotting and cantering on command on the lunge and walking and trotting, stopping and turning easily on the longreins.
I would have regular lessons on him once he is backed at then your instructor will be able to tell what you need to work on. Good luck with him, i'm sure you will be ok to set him off and bring him on if you want to.
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SuzyA says:
If you're intending to keep him then do keep him and get some professional help. If you are backing him just so that you can sell him on, then either get him backed with some help or sell him as unbacked.
Oct 07
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Fenris says:
You've done it all a bit bum about face. You need to get a mouth on him before you do anything else - lots of long reining, halts changing direction and so on. Why don't you send him to a breaking yard? That way you know he is well started and you don't have to sell him.
Apr 10
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AMLS says:
Ask around your area and see if someone experienced with this can give you a hand, you don't want to make a mistake now as horses remember bad experiences for a long time. If not, and you have the money you could as Fenris suggested send him to a breaking yard to be started, although I think it's important to have his future handler/rider involved in the process so if you do this I would suggest you go there a few times a week and if not help out, then at least observe and "be there". If you have an instructor he/she can point you in the right direction maybe of contacts/professionals that do breaking.
Don't whatever you do attempt to break him yourself unless you are confident and know the correct order for things to be done in. It would be a real shame to make a mistake. Also don't sell him without looking at the options for breaking him as this would also be a real shame and you don't want to end up regretting the decision.
Good luck and looking forward to hearing how you get on !!!
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- 1 August 25, 2008 at 8:20 pm
There was a hilarious advertisement that the Hungarian government used to promote cycling that basically said that bike riding "keeps you young and virile." You can see it here:
- 2 September 3, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Dead blog alert!
- 3 September 15, 2008 at 9:25 pm
3 weeks no posts. What happened?
- 4 September 17, 2008 at 5:18 am
Come on carectomy, [u][b]DW: DO WORK!![/b][/u]
- 5 September 22, 2008 at 10:47 pm
This was one of my favorite blogs. It is very strange to just stop being updated with no explanation. I hope everything is ok?
- 6 September 26, 2008 at 4:07 am
Hey, all. Kate (Carectomy blogger) here. Apologies for being dead in the water. We're just waiting on some administrative stuff to be smoothed out and should be back in business soon. Hold your breath! Thanks for your readership.
- 7 October 5, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Okay, That makes me feel better. I've been missing it. A lot.
- 8 October 11, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Hello there! one of my favorite blogs seems to be dead.javascript:void(0); Can I suggest a topic to help out? In the sunny state of Victoria in the land of Australia we have a state government that seems to really love cars! The Greens party has put together a counter plan to the current car centered options that expands our public transport, walk-ability, and cycle friendliness. Nice little TV add on the first link.
- 9 October 20, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Is the top photo in Dudley? (not many people will get that)
- 10 October 25, 2008 at 8:37 am
RIP and thanks for the fun!
(sound 21 gun salute follows)
- 11 November 4, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Who killed Carectomy???
- 12 November 12, 2008 at 12:00 am
Come on Carectomy! Sort it out. Please :'(
- 13 November 25, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Just kill it already! I'm sick of looking at the smut article every 2 weeks when I check if the site has come back to life. Give up. your dead. Go away already, let a real carectomy web page take your place. gees!
- 14 November 26, 2008 at 11:34 am
Me too. It shouldn't take this long to sort out Administration problems. There is lots going on in the auto industry that needs writing about eg Honda are closing plants in the UK for 2 months due to lack of demand, hurrah! Refit the factories to make bicycles and segways!
- 15 November 29, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Bring back Carectomy or else I will buy a big hummer
- 16 December 4, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I click on the Carectomy link everyday in the hopes that one of these days it'll be back … oh well, another day goes by
- 17 December 4, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Me too! Twice a day or more (sad I know). If all the other ecogeek networks sites are still running why not this one?
The car industry is up the creek and Carectomy should be reporting it.
Please can we have an update Kate?????
- 18 December 17, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Chrysler shutting all factories for 1 month….
- 19 December 19, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Ever find yourself in need of hauling something to the recycling depot, but no matter how hard you try you just can manage to stuff it into your little sedan. Fridges, stoves and bathtubs come to mind. Well sometimes those 4-wheeled machines just can't cut the mustard, and it makes you realize that they just aren't as convenient as you might once have thought.
So what's the best way to solve this problem?
Well, it turns out some have turned to the trusty old bike and trailer. As it happens, you can apparently haul an awful lot by bike, and it'll cost you a lot less than a pick-up truck.
http://www.bikesatwork.com/ has a great some awesome info on maximizing the usage of your 2- (or 3-) wheeled steed. Follow some links and you'll even be pointed to people who moved they're household by bike in an Ottawa snowstorm. Now that's impressive!
- 20 December 21, 2008 at 10:57 pm
thanks for posting that smithinparis. Has anyone else got any useful /interesting carectomy style links to share? Happy Christmas to all carectomy comment readers!
- 21 December 23, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I was just cleaning through my RSS reader and I noticed there haven't been any updates for months. It's a real shame. Is there any chance of an update?
Will Carectomy be coming back from the dead, or should I pull it from my RSS reader for good?
- 22 January 5, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Happy New Year! 2009 promises to be a wild ride, all cyclists love a big downhill descent, the planet probably appreciates the economic downturn too. Maybe GM will be making bikes in a few months.
- 23 February 5, 2009 at 2:53 pm
- 24 February 28, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Really incredible.
Sex Sells Bikes, Bikes Sell Sex?
- 25 February 28, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Really incredible.
- 26 February 28, 2009 at 3:21 pm
- 27 March 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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Deutschland in der Krise
Es brennt an allen Ecken. Längst sind es nicht mehr nur die Banken und Autohersteller, die in Schwierigkeiten sind. Es hat die ganze deutsche Wirtschaft erwischt und mit ihr den Kern unseres Erfolgs: den Export. Schon rechnet die Ausfuhrwirtschaft mit dem schlimmsten Jahr in der deutschen Geschichte. Die Krise trifft nicht nur einzelne Länder. Sie verändert das gesamte Gefüge der miteinander verwobenen Weltwirtschaft. Die liebgewordene Rollenaufteilung unter den Staaten funktioniert nicht mehr. Und eine neue ist nicht in Sicht.
Jahrelang war es gutgegangen. Die Welt hatte mit gewaltigen Ungleichgewichten gelebt. Es hat Staaten gegeben wie Deutschland. Die wirtschafteten sehr sparsam und verkauften für mehr Geld Maschinen, Autos und Anlagen ins Ausland, als sie Fernseher, Nahrungsmittel und Öl einführten. Der Export war größer als der Import. "Leistungsbilanzüberschuss" nennen das die Fachleute.
- 28 March 19, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Uk motor show cancelled, first time outside world war ;D
- 30 July 27, 2009 at 4:48 am
Hey, all. Kate (Carectomy blogger) here. Apologies for being dead in the water. We're just waiting on some administrative stuff to be smoothed out and should be back in business soon. Hold your breath! Thanks for your readership. nice post.
- 31 August 12, 2009 at 1:42 am
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- ½ pound taro
- ½ pound carrots
- ½ pound parsnips
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Architect, Lauri Morrison has worked on both contemporary and traditional residential projects primarily on the West Coast for the past 10 years. Lauri has also helmed high-end residences in the state of Washington, Carmel Valley, and Kauai and California. Lauri received her Bachelor's of Architecture from the University of Minnesota and worked for prominent firms on commercial projects including hotels, healthcare, retail, office and entertainment (Imax Theater in Caesar's Forum in Las Vegas). Just 2 years in the profession, Lauri was then recruited out to Seattle where she worked for Curtis Gelotte Architects and then later again recruited to another firm, Stuart Silk Architects, both high-end, well respected, well published firms.
Recent awards include the 2008 Excellence in Masonry Award. Her work has been featured in Elegant Homes, Country French, Beautiful Homes, Trends, Seattle Homes and Lifestyles, Pacific Northwest, and the coffee table book, Dream Homes. She is known for her attention to detail and passion for sustainable homes and living.
Lauri has always been intrigued and experienced in green architecture, acting as the project manager of a Level 5 Built Green (the highest level). It was the 2nd residence in King County to receive a 5 star rating. Lauri has since moved to Los Angeles in 2008 where she continues to work on high end residential and is enjoying little commercial work as well. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, working out, and attending film and theatre.
Specialties:High-End Residential Design
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, US, BArch, CALA
Excellence in Masonry Design Honorary Award, Honorable Mention
Excellence in Masonry Design Honorary Award, 2008
AIA 2004 Honor Award for Washington Unbuilt Series, Honorable Mention
Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, Home of the year, 1st Place
other publications:
Trends Magazine 2007 – Selah Residence, Trends Bathroom Magazine 2007- Selah Residence
Books: Dreamhomes Pacific Northwest, 2007 – Selah Residence


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Born: July 1, 1923 in Pinckneyville, IL
Died: September 12, 2000
High School: Pinckneyville
College: LSU (school history)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 17th round (152nd overall) of the 1947 NFL Draft.
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Cantel Medical Corp. (CMN)
F2Q09 Earnings Call
March 9, 2009 11:00 am ET
Andrew A. Krakauer – President
Charles M. Diker – Chairman of the Board
Craig A. Sheldon – Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Roy Malkin – President & Chief Executive Officer of Minntech
Steven C. Anaya – Vice President & Controller
Mitra Ramgopal - Sidoti & Co.
Mark Cooper - Wells Capital Management
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Now I would like to turn the conference over to Andrew Krakauer, President of the company. Mr. Krakauer you may begin.
Andrew A. Krakauer
Thank you [Nikki] and welcome to our second quarter fiscal year 2009 conference call. Before we begin I would like to remind everyone that this conference call may contain forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including without limitations the risks detailed in the company's filings and reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such statements are only predictions and actual results may differ materially from those projected.
Okay. Well good morning to everyone. With me today on our call are Chuck Diker, Chairman of the Board; Craig Sheldon, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Roy Malkin, President and CEO of our Minntech subsidiary; and Steve Anaya, VP and Controller of the company.
About three months ago on Cantel's first quarter conference call I expressed my continued optimism about the future of Cantel and our prospects to grow profitably. Well, our second quarter of performance supports that optimism as the results were outstanding. In fact, it was one of our best quarters in many years. Before Craig and I address the details I just want to thank our loyal and dedicated employees for their impressive accomplishments in a difficult economy.
We reported second quarter earnings of $0.23 per share compared to the prior year's second quarter earnings of $0.13 per share and an increase in net income of 75%. Very broadly our positive results were mostly due to improved gross margins and operating expense leverage, driven by our numerous profit improvement and sales and marketing initiatives. Most importantly this quarter with our success in expanding the sales mix of higher margin disposables including disinfectants, sterilants, parts and filters. We also made continued progress with programs to improve manufacturing costs as well as with our company wide efforts to tightly control operating expenses.
Again in this quarter Cantel benefited from having a broad portfolio of infection prevention and control products sold into diverse business segments. Our Endoscope Reprocessing, Dialysis and Therapeutic Filtration segments produced exceptional results while our other reporting segments performed reasonably well. There is no assurance that this across the board performance can be achieved every quarter, especially given the economic downturn. However, these results do demonstrate the fundamental strength of our businesses and the earnings potential of the company.
Now the best performance of the quarter was in Endoscope Reprocessing, which was also the star performer last quarter. In this quarter we enjoyed a sales increase of 11%, primarily due to gains in the United States which came mostly from sterilants, disinfectants, service and accessories. This growth was aided by higher selling prices and the continued improvement in our direct portion of U.S. sales and service. We are now seeing the payoff after years of investing heavily in sales, marketing and R&D in this business. Additionally, we are also benefiting from recent manufacturing cost reduction activities.
I am very impressed with the accomplishments of the Endoscope Reprocessing team and especially the success of our direct U.S. sales and service group. Overall the increase in sales of these higher end improving margin product lines, coupled with the cost reduction programs, drove operating margins to over 13% for the segment. Now we are seeing some slowdown in equipment sales of endoscope processors to hospitals worldwide and we expect this to continue in the near term. However we have a large installed base of equipment upon which we can offer consumables and service. And we should continue to experience reasonable growth in these areas, especially where we have our large direct sales and service force in the United States.
Now another positive note. Last week we received FDA 510(k) approval to market our state-of-the-art Advantage Plus Reprocessor and the new high level disinfectant, Rapicide PA. And with this clearance we are now free to sell this latest technology system with its environmentally friendly chemistry here in the United States as well as worldwide.
Our Dialysis business also had excellent performance in the second quarter. On a sales increase of about 4%, operating income was higher by 32%. In the reuse business sterilant sales were higher and demand for our Renatron equipment was strong.
Additionally we received some very large international orders for dialysate concentrate. The net result of these favorable sales and our Minntech team's continuous skillful efforts to reduce the manufacturing and distribution costs in this business was to further improve operating margins.
In the Therapeutic Filtration business, which is part of the other reporting segment, we also had a great performance in the quarter. Sales were up 67% and profits tripled. Sales were higher in both hemoconcentrators and our pediatric filters. Now these sales are driven by our OEM partners and quarterly demand is somewhat cyclical. We are working to expand our current filter offerings and continue our efforts to uncover new applications for our unique hollow fiber membranes and we are collaborating with several companies in this development activity.
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MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Retail experts predict that American consumers will spend $1.82 billion on Halloween costumes this year, compared to $1.55 billion on candy and $310 million on greeting cards.
Howard Beige, executive vice president of Rubie's Costume Co., one of the country's largest costume distributors and manufacturers, explains why.
Question: What fuels the multibillion-dollar industry?
Answer: It used to be a kids' holiday. It started to change when Halloween became unsafe with poisoned candy and razor blades in apples. Parents wanted to keep their kids safe. So they threw parties, and it became an indoor holiday.
Q.: Why do teenagers and adults embrace costumes?
A.: You get to wear your alter ego You have to evoke your own imagination. People don't just buy costumes, but enhance them. They will buy a hat, a wig or make-up with it.
Q. What costumes will people see most this year?
A. For girls ages 4 to 9: "High School Musical" was a smash hit this year, and "High School Musical 2" came out on Aug. 17, making Sharpay and Gabriella very popular. After that, some of the traditional favorites like Cinderella, Snow White and Belle.
For boys ages 4 to 9: "Star Wars" is hugely popular this year ... the clone troopers, Jango Fett, and of course, Darth Vader.
Teen and adult females: Dorothy from "Wizard of Oz." ... From "300," Queen Gorgo ... pirates, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman.
Teen and adult males: For the first time, the Burger King character, the King himself. Everyone feels he is a little creepy, but he is our No. 1. ... Also, Jack Bauer from the TV series "24" -- that is a new costume this year, too ... including a bulletproof vest, (fake) Taser gun, badge, watch, PDA and fake scars and blood ... The costume is packed in a replica of the shoulder bag he wore the season before last. Anyone that is a fan loves it.
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There they sit, pretty things lined up in rows, begging for your attention as you walk by with your significant other.
Being an outdoor scribe, I tend to get as much enjoyment from thumbing through the hunting and fishing magazines at the bookstore as the ones with scantily-clad women on the front.
On an outing some time back, I perused a lengthy feature in a hunting magazine on spring turkey hunting from an "expert" who had been in the field for more than three decades. The expert laid out many arguments as to why his strategies were superior for bagging boatloads of turkeys.
He also pointed out some things that were set in stone with turkeys. Among them was how turkeys won't cross man-made or other barriers, how they won't walk through tight quarters or downhill and how taking anything longer than a 30-yard shot is pointless.
The funny thing is I've seen turkeys go under and over fences, I've seen them walk through relatively thick underbrush or close spaces, and I've seen a bird taken at almost 60 paces - with a scatter gun.
Though I haven't seen Bigfoot, it goes to show there are plenty of myths out there and you have to take almost anything you read or hear with a grain of salt.
However, there remain certain things that have a solid foundation when it comes to spring turkey hunting.
Here's a look at some of those:
Turkeys have excellent eyesight. There's no doubt many a turkey hunter has fidgeted when they shouldn't have and a wily bird - in front of or behind them - lit out like it was on fire. Turkeys also can see in color, so that white T-shirt sticking out from under your camo probably will end your stakeout early as well.
Turkeys are social butterflies. They find each other by making any number of inflections - purrs, chirps, yelps, gobbles, cackles - and that's what makes hunting them so fun. Sure you can hunt near a feeder with a rifle, but being on the ground and having turkeys you called in bustling all around you is an amazing sight. Just like all other birds and animals, turkeys don't all sound alike. They have characteristics that are similar, but they all have a distinct tone that makes them unique. You don't have to be a champion turkey caller to have success either. As long as you can work the simplest of calls with enough moxie, you'll have the same chance as a seasoned pro.
Turkeys like their safety. They will roost at night in large trees in areas with thicker vegetation, usually, and will stay there until first light. Locating them if they aren't cackling on the roost can be done with any number of locator calls. Once you find where they are, you can set up along a route you think they will take. The thing is, nothing is guaranteed in turkey hunting. You might pick a logical place to ambush them and they may go the opposite direction and pay no heed to your futile calling attempts.
Turkeys can be tough on shotguns. If you attempt to body shoot a tom with a shotgun, its layers of feathers on top of muscle, cartilage and bone usually will deflect or absorb most of the pellets. That's why the best shot placement is the neck and head area. If a tom is strutting, wait until he sticks his head up. Shooting at a tom when he is ballooned out is another way to not come home successful.
Spring turkey hunting estimates in most states put the success rate at or below 50 percent. It's not easy to fool these wily birds if they aren't in the mood. But to borrow an old curmudgeon hunting buddy's wit: "That's why it's called hunting. If you don't like it, go to the store. They've got all kinds of options for ya."
Will Leschper is a Globe-News copy editor and member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and Texas Outdoor Writers Association. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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San Diego, CA---Jada Temple is a senior at San Diego's School of Creative and Performing Arts and attends as a theatre/musical major. She is also the narrator of Lynn Nottage's "Crumbs from the Table of Joy", where nothing is all black and nothing is all white, and yet it is. "Crumbs", directed with love by founding mother Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, is currently in a solid production at Moxie Theatre at Rolando through March 2nd.
Seventeen-year old Ernestine Crump (Temple) and her sister Ermina (Deja Fields also a student at SCPA) are with their father, Godfrey (Vimel Sephus) heading north to Brooklyn from Florida after the death of their mother. "Death has nearly crippled my father slipping beneath the soles of his feet and taking away his ability to walk", states, Ernestine to the audience. "Death has brought us to Brooklyn in a basement apartment, kind of romantic, like a Parisian artist's hat".
The sisters are left to their own resources, more or less, except when being reined in by their father as he tries to instill in them the teachings of his now mentor, Father Devine, a real life evangelist who founded the Peace Mission, and whose photo has a prominent spot on the wall in their Brooklyn apartment next to a variety of movie posters. The girls love the movies.
Every morning Godfrey tips his hat to Father Devine before leaving for work at the bakery. The same Father Devine, who in a letter to Godfrey decided that Ernestine must now be called Darling Angel and Devout Mary for Ermina. 'Father' also encourages Virtue, Victory and Virginity.
For the young girls, this is something they mock by imagining a big V on the aprons of their dresses. Needless to say Father Devine allows no radio on Sunday much to the chagrin of the girls who bemoan the fact that they can't listen to Amos and Andy. He does, however, accept any and all cash gifts. According to Ernestine, Father Devine "stands between us and our enjoyment".
Director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg doing what she does best in Lynn Nottage's memory play, brings to life the struggles, joys, frustrations, fears and realities of this young African American family, minus mom, who after moving to New York to find a better way of life, are confronted with a different set or rules but the same prejudices in a much larger setting.
Nottage's multi layered plot revolves around the ebbs and flow of the Crump's as they try to fit into their new surroundings, come to grips with their own prejudices as well as those they encounter on the streets, keep their faith and continue to grow as a family.
Keeping his two his two teen-aged daughters from the grips of temptations found in the North, Godfrey Crump (Vimel Sephus) faces challenges he never knew existed. While he is oblivious to what is actually going on around him, (he is under the spell of Father Devine who advocates abstinence and celibacy), his oldest daughter Ernestine (the very talented Jada Temple) comes of age.
And so it is through her eyes that we see the world both as it is and how she wished it to be. When her aunt Lily comes on the scene, well, lets just say that a new perspective in the Crump apartment changed significantly.
Lily (Cashae Monya) a woman well ahead of time in her fight for racial equality, a firm believer and follower of the communist movement, and not afraid to slug one back, has more of an influence on the younger sister Ermina than on Ernestine, whose goal is to graduate high school.
The new stepmother Gerte (Jennifer Eve Thorn), a white German woman who might never fit into the family dynamics but does her hardest to try is all but thwarted by Lily who believes that Godfrey should belong to her. Her sabotaging is contagious and both girls treat her like she has the plague. But after what might have been 'giving into the flesh' moment, Godfrey takes off and leaves the four women to fend for themselves for three days, isolating Gerte even more.
Jennifer Eve Thorn is perfect foil here, patient, enduring and persistent even in the face of adversity. But when she breaks out in Marlena Dietrich's "Falling in Love Again" she comes to life; but alas, it's another one of Ernestine's fantasies.
The playwright, no stranger to either San Diego audiences or Sonnenberg, has seen the staging of three of her other plays, "Intimate Apparel", "Ruined" and "Las Meninas" mounted here. Many moons ago as a student in New York Sonnenberg worked as production stage manager on 'Crumbs' world premiere production at NYC's Second Stage. That was in 1995.
While the play takes place in 1950 the issues of segregation continue to remain in place, not as overtly but covertly and subtle, something that firebrand aunt Lily would never have allowed without a push back. Cashae Monya just about upends the entire Crump family unit and she does it with expertise; a sashay here, a flirtatious glance there, a swig of whiskey and a cigarette, a sly look and an I don't give a damn attitude that keeps us wanting more even when she's standing still, which isn't often.
Vimel Sephus, who was so wonderful in Ion's production of "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" does a one hundred and eighty degree turn around from his flamboyant boxer role to a stoic, heartsick and bereaved husband with two teenaged daughters on the thresh hold of womanhood and what to do with them. His dedication to Father Devine (he even marries a white woman as did Devine) has him jotting notes and questions to him on small pieces of paper hoping one day all will be answered.
Downtrodden with so much on his mind to worry about, Sephus' Godfrey still shows some pride and joy when he manages to pull from his pockets, crumbs and cookies from his days work at the bakery. On the other hand he finally gets the racial implications when he and his now white wife are refused entrance to the local movie theatre and let's a sampling of his pent up anger show through.
And what to say about two young women not yet old enough to vote who can turn the theatre community upside down as the two sisters who venture out into the world, each heading in different directions, yet both honing in on their individual skills to portray three dimensional characters and making them real.
Deja Fields is just contrary enough to give her character Ermine the right amount of spunk to tell it like it is. She's feisty and street smart, learning the language of the city (scat cat, hip, jive, cool baby, dip dive, far out sweet daddy, hang tight, dig this) as Ernestine calls it.
Jada Temple's Ernestine, narrator of our story, will go on to be the first Crump to graduate high school and to do wonderful things. When she comes out in her white graduation dress, (Jennifer Brawn Getting's), the one she made from a pattern, her from ear to ear smile saying I'm ready for the next chapter in my life, we know it's not the stuff of movies, but her reality. That reality will carry her to into the next phase of her life a smarter and wiser woman. Both Jada and Deja deserve kudos for jobs done and to perfection.We'll keep our eyes open for great things to come.
Tom Nottage designed the basement apartment with movie posters covering the back brick wall of the Crump apartment indicative of the girl's romantic fascination with Hollywood's Golden Era of movies and its stars. Melanie Chen's sound design with noises from the upstairs apartment TV set blaring to Ross Glanc's lighting design, "Crumbs from the Table of Joy" is Nottage's commentary on a slice of life in the Crump family and their desire to break the bonds of segregation and repression and to equal the playing field one little step at a time.
Hats off to Moxie Theatre and the Moxie Team. Job well done.
See you at the theatre.
Dates: Through March 2nd.
Organization: Moxie Theatre
Phone: 858-598-7620
Production Type: Comedy/Drama
Where: 6663 El Cajon Blvd.
Ticket Prices: $20.00-$27.00
Web: moxietheatre.com
Venue: Theatre at Rolando