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posted 8.14.14
"As a research tool, the Internet is the best thing to happen to writers since the invention of the modern library. On the other hand, it can be a colossal time-suck and an addictive distraction for many writers—myself included. One of our most important challenges, then, is negotiating the use of technology in our daily writing practice. My creative nonfiction explores the intersections between personal history, cultural history, and ecology. The Internet makes research so easy—with a few keystrokes I can access endless information about, say, whaling, or early twentieth century mining accidents. The problem, as we all know, is how easily we get sucked down the rabbit hole of research. It's more than that, though—we now believe we can know everything via Google. But those habitual Google searches foster a superficial kind of knowing that kills one of the most essential aspects of writing and creating: allowing ourselves to rest in profound uncertainty. It's from this primordial darkness of unknowing that some of our best work comes alive on the page.
"What works for me lately is to head for the coffee shop first thing in the morning. I leave my cell phone at home. I write standing up at a tall countertop. As a firm rule, I stay 100 percent clear of e-mail and social media. I try to get comfortable with the uncertainty, puzzling together strands of research and personal narrative, filling out scenes, speculating, and hoping to find unexpected resonance between the personal and the historical. I save my online research and correspondence for later in the afternoon, when my creativity tends to wane. Once I've done my creative work for the day, some time on the Internet feels less like a compulsive habit, and more like a deliberate element of my overall practice."
—Justin Hocking, author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir (Graywolf Press, 2014)
posted 8.08.14
"What works to drive me to write is probably so idiosyncratic that it might not be generally useful, but it's been my way of finding the motivation and the passion to put pen to paper. Sure, I like the hot afternoon walks in the hills of Altadena with my dog or even desperately trying to keep up with my marathon-training wife, but when I'm physically enduring, I'm not thinking of writing. I think of writing when I'm doing mindless yard work—raking and trimming trees and bushes. Or when I'm organizing my papers and books and endless stacks of comics; a task so stultifying that my imagination takes over and useful glimmers of where I might want to go with a project come to me. Sometimes while digging holes to plant or dragging fat bags of compost, buzzed by relentless flies, I get shards of dialogue. But by far what works best is when I recall a slight by a reviewer or editor—that's when the fires burn bright. A condescending statement about my inability to write authentic Black dialogue, for instance, will come back to me from decades ago, while I was in a workshop in the MFA program at the University of California in Irvine, and I'll be driven anew to start work on the memoir or explore an idea for a new novel or biography. Seemingly, what most motivates me to write is drudgery or the venal and vindictive. It's gotten me this far, being a maladjusted but productive writer."
—Jervey Tervalon, author of Monster's Chef (Amistad, 2014)
posted 7.31.14
"My cures for writer's block are alarmingly pragmatic and physical. So pragmatic that they arrange themselves in list form! To wit: 1. Get up and walk around. A few years ago, I realized that the solutions to most of my writing problems would come to me in the bathroom. It wasn't the bathroom itself, of course, that was magic, but the act of getting up from my desk and walking there, getting the blood flowing, and tearing my eyes away from the computer screen. So now, when I'm staring down a huge plot problem, I take a long walk—without a notepad. It's nearly always solved by the time I get back. 2. Vitamin B. It's better than caffeine. It makes you both calmer and smarter. I keep a bottle on my desk. 3. If you can, sleep late. That last cycle of sleep is when the weird dreams come, the ones you'll actually remember. (And how great is it to say, "I have to sleep late for work?") 4. Yoga. My point with all of these being: Writing isn't entirely mental. You're a physical being, and sometimes when your writing is broken, it's your body that needs attention, not your mind."
—Rebecca Makkai, author of The Hundred-Year House (Viking/Penguin, 2014)
posted 7.24.14
"The very worst times in my life have been marked by silence: times when I wasn't allowed to write, or couldn't write, or when language completely failed me. I didn't write a word, beyond e-mails or Facebook status updates, for nearly two years after I finished graduate school. After I had finished each of my two books, I spent at least six months casting around, writing nothing new. Each time, what finally got me off the block was digging for its root: It wasn't so much that I couldn't think of anything new to say, it was that I believed what I had thought of wasn't any good. I realized that when I approached the page, I brought with me a ruthless, internal critic who killed words, lines, and whole essays before giving them a chance to breathe. Now I'm in the practice of writing nearly every day, and it's because I learned to silence the voice of that ruthless critic, especially when starting something new. I type whatever comes to me, and do so with curiosity, not judgment. If I bring anyone to the page these days, she's an adventurer, not a critic. She says only one thing: Let's see where this goes."
—Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Other Side (Tin House Books, 2014)
posted 7.17.14
"I do various things to keep the muse going, but mostly, I read, read, read! I make myself the 'expert' of the particular form I am attempting. I am a big poetry nerd and proud of it! The history of literature is rich and various. The more rigorous we are in our practice, the more interesting our poems will be. For instance, in my latest book of poems, Hard Love Province, I prepped myself by reading thousands of quatrains from different traditions: from the Chinese jueju 'cut verse' tradition of the High Tang poets of Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei to western ballads written by anonymous songsters (the 'Unquiet Grave' is a chilling ballad); from Auden's work and Dickinson's weird hymns to children's nonsense verse and even that reviled form, the limerick. The quatrain and the ballad are versatile and beloved forms that are here to stay. I listened to folk songs from all over the world, work songs, blues songs, and rap. And that Nicki Minaj is nasty! I love her. I'm researching hard, but I'm also having fun learning about my genre. It's about loving and honoring my art. It's about appreciating the work that came before us. It's about adding and talking back to the tradition and passing on the good news."
—Marilyn Chin, author of Hard Love Province (Norton, 2014)
posted 7.10.14
"In the morning when I walk to work, I try to think up stories for everything I see along the way. Three birds sitting on a bag of trash behind the used record store. A waterlogged ball cap in a parking lot. A turtle gliding past sun-bleached beer cans in the stream that winds its way through downtown. Each has enough story in it to fuel an entire writing career. There are stories upon stories in the peeling paint of an empty storefront's façade: the lives of the people who painted it, the store owner's excitement when opening the front door of the new enterprise for the first time, the joy of children hiding in the racks while parents shop, the landlord noting the declining condition of the building as he stops by to serve an eviction notice. My morning walk—without music, without computer—is a chance for me to remove myself from the landscape and to see everything—bugs, gravel, garbage—with compassion and interest, especially those things that I usually ignore. The goal isn't to think of a story and to tell it, but to remove myself enough to see the story that is already there and to help it surface. I want to relinquish control—of the story, of the sentences, of the sounds—and to serve the work, to be the instrument and not the song. A morning walk is an opportunity to find the innumerable stories within each fallen thing."
—David Connerley Nahm, author of Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky (Two Dollar Radio, 2014)
posted 7.03.14
"Before Knockemstiff made him famous, my friend Donald Ray Pollock came home from work at the paper mill, rolled a page into his typewriter, and began to copy, word by word, passages by writers he admired. One day Raymond Carver, the next day Cormac McCarthy, the next day Dawn Powell, the next day Larry Brown. This, he told me, was the bulk of his writerly education. Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, painstakingly slow, a process not dissimilar to what literary translators do when they bring a work from Japanese into English. I thought I'd give it a try, and almost every week of my life since, I've done it a little or more than a little. If I'm reading something and it makes me feel something, I want to know why, so I slow down, and I copy it out, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, savoring the pleasures, and doing my damnedest to uncover the secrets. This evening, I'm at a stopping point in the novel I'm writing, and I have a beautiful book on my tabletop. The Virgins, by Pamela Erens. It does a thing with first person I'm dying to try—a thing Philip Roth and Alice Munro have done, too—and The Virgins is waiting there, ready to teach me how."
—Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk (Sarabande Books, 2014)
posted 6.26.14
"Earlier this year while I was finishing my novel, I was reading Dani Shapiro's wonderful book, Still Writing. I swear every page was like another delicious choice in an intellectual, emotional, and creative buffet. I especially love the section on 'Shimmer,' which is what Shapiro calls the unmistakable, indelible epiphany a writer has when she discovers her subject matter. Shapiro says: 'We must learn to watch for these moments. To not discount them. To take note: I'll have to write about this.' When I've been fortunate enough to experience this kind of creative energy, I'll pluck the spark from wherever it comes: a song lyric, a situation or moment or character that takes root in my mind, a minor detail someone has shared with me in a completely different context than where I put it in my work. At my luckiest, I feel mostly like a harried but devoted transcriptionist, following my characters around so as not to miss anything they say or do. But when that energy, that magic, is absent, I have a very tough time writing. More than once I've resorted to staying in the chair for a specific and painful amount of time only to write very exaggerated, purple, really lamentable prose. In the end, it makes me laugh, and forces me to cut myself a break and realize that although it may be a purposely false start, it's a start nonetheless."
—Polly Dugan, author of So Much a Part of You (Little, Brown and Company, 2014)
posted 6.19.14
"As both a poet and clinical psychologist with a therapy practice, I tend to lose time in a very cerebral world. Concrete, really physical activities help me emerge from a more linear modality toward an enlivened creativity. I try to immerse myself in things like digging in the garden, exercise, cooking, or art projects like collage. I believe that if we give ourselves over to something wholeheartedly, we enable our art to emerge. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has written about creative jumpstarts from the psychological construct of flow: I highly recommend his books. I also find my voice by letting go of it for a while. I love to go to museums, galleries, even coffee shops to watch and listen to other people—not simply for observation but for empathy. I really think when we step outside of ourselves to connect with others, we connect more deeply with our own humanity. I also believe in doing hard things for inspiration. The hardest for me is visiting with my brain-injured sister who lives in a locked facility for people with dementia. Every time I am there, I think about our common desire for self-expression and validation, no matter how diminished one's 'faculties' are. After those visits, I can't wait to get to my desk and write my heart out."
—Lisa C. Krueger, author of Talisman (Red Hen Press, 2014)
posted 6.12.14
"Sometimes I do this thing where I convince myself that writing is really hard. I bang my head on the desk. I suffer and moan. When I am being silly and insufferable like this, the only remedy is to listen to the Band. More specifically: to listen to Levon Helm, a man I think of as a kind of patron saint for my writing life. Levon Helm sang 'Ophelia.' He sang a cover of 'Atlantic City' that is better than the Boss's (don't argue, you know it's true). He played the drums like no one's business and a mean mandolin. And he was grinning the whole time he did it. The best part of listening to Levon play is this: You can hear him enjoying doing what he does best. So, when I catch myself thinking that 'writing is hard,' I put my headphones on. I remember the night I saw Levon play at the Ramble where he sang harmonies with his daughter and cracked jokes and let us all pet his dog. I remember to write because I love it. And because a book or a song can make an excellent vessel for joy."
—CJ Hauser, author of The From-Aways (William Morrow, 2014)


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Book your room at Comfort Inn at Carowinds
Get an overview of this hotelHotel with free breakfast, near Carowinds Theme Park
Situated in Fort Mill, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of NarroWay Theater and Carowinds Theme Park. Regent Park Golf Club is 2.5 mi (4 km) away.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features an outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a 24-hour business center. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a seasonal outdoor pool, and conference rooms are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 153 rooms feature comforts like premium bedding and pillow menus, while conveniences include refrigerators and microwaves. Free WiFi and coffee makers are standard, as are flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Limited housekeeping is available.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Comfort Inn at Carowinds3725 Avenue Of The Carolinas Fort Mill SC 29708-9292
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Comfort Inn at Carowinds features an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Event facilities measuring 1000 square feet (93 square meters) include conference space. This Fort Mill hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, coffee/tea in a common area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Comfort Inn at Carowinds is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Computer station
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 1000
- Conference space size (meters) - 93
- Designated smoking areas
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 4
- One meeting room
- Outdoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 153
Family Friendly Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Microwave
- Outdoor pool
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
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- Cable TV service
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Free weekday newspaper
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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- Premium bedding
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Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
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Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Comprehensive Description
Range and Habitat in Illinois
National Distribution
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Range and Habitat in Illinois
Flower-Visiting Insects of Monkey Flower in Illinois
(bees, butterflies, and skippers suck nectar, Syrphid flies probably feed on pollen, while the wasp either sucks nectar or explores the flowers; the larger long-tongued bees are effective pollinators, while the remaining insects are probably non-pollinating; observations are from Robertson, Mitchell, and Conger)
Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Bombini): Bombus fervida sn fq (Mch), Bombus griseocallis sn (Mch), Bombus impatiens sn (Mch), Bombus pensylvanica sn (Rb, Cng), Bombus vagans sn (Rb); Anthophoridae (Ceratinini): Ceratina dupla dupla sn np (Cng); Anthophoridae (Xylocopini): Xylocopa virginica sn (Cng); Megachilidae (Megachilini): Megachile latimanus sn (Cng)
Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Agapostemon sericea sn np (Cng), Agapostemon splendens sn np (Cng)
Sphecidae (Bembicinae): Microbembex monodonta sn/exp np (Cng)
Syrphidae: Allograpta obliqua fp np (Cng), Eupeodes americanus fp np (Cng), Sphaerophoria contiqua fp np (Cng), Syritta pipiens fp np (Cng)
Papilionidae: Battus philenor sn np (Cng)
Hesperiidae: Epargyreus clarus sn np (Cng)
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage: Mimulus ringens
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 7
Species With Barcodes: 1
Conservation Status
National NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure
NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Mimulus ringens
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Mimulus ringens is a species of monkeyflower known by the common names Allegheny monkeyflower and square-stemmed monkeyflower.
It is native to eastern and central North America, and there are occurrences in the western United States, some of which may represent introductions. It grows in a wide variety of wet habitat types.
This is rhizomatous perennial growing 20 centimeters to well over a meter tall, its 4-angled stem usually erect. The oppositely arranged leaves are lance-shaped to oblong, up to 8 centimeters long, and sometimes joined or nearly so clasping the stem. The herbage is hairless. The flower 2 to 3 centimeters long, its tubular base encapsulated in a ribbed calyx of sepals with pointed lobes. The flower is lavender in color and divided into an upper lip and a larger, swollen lower lip.
One variety of this plant, var. colophilus, is rare, ecologically restricted, and vulnerable. It is known from Quebec, it has been reported in Vermont, and there are a few occurrences in Maine, where it grows only in freshwater sections of tidal estuaries.[1] This plant variety faces several threats, but its current status is not known due to a lack of data.[1]
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Thanks to Mikael Johannsson for his PECL project on WBXML. He has just released a new PECL package that does all the encryption and decryption for us. That takes such a load of this project because that is a very hard nut to crack. I am not saying we are stopping from making a class object that does this all in PHP but we can set it down the ladder a bit and focus more SyncML standardization and sync logic.
PHP Architect has published an article I wrote about creating a PHP SyncML application. I hope this gets more involved with development of this API. I have gotten lots of emails asking for a finished product but no one wants to help. I am just as excited as everyone else to get it done but I need help.
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Dunkin' Donuts at Taste of Minnesota ... without donuts
Hey, could y'all come back with some donuts?
courtesy of Dunkin' Donuts
Scores of Minnesotians are psyched to have the Dunkin' Donuts set up shop in town, especially for next National Donut Day. And when we heard that Dunkin' Donuts was on tour in a big pink bus, and making a stop at Taste of Minnesota, we were going in for the high five when we realized they are not bringing us donuts.
It turns out their Big Taste Tour stop in the Twin Cities to promote Dunkin' Donuts coffee--Dunkin' Turbo--and our smiles faded. Not that we have any problem with Dunkin' Turbo, it's just that we want to be dunkin' some round pastries with holes in the center into it.
So, here is our chance to stop on down to the Dunkin' Donuts bus and let them know if they come to the Twin Cities, we will greet them eagerly with smiles and empty bellies ready to be filled. St. Paul is the fifth stop on the Turbo Tour, and they will be handing out prizes and coupons, and you can get your picture taken with their mascot. Wonder if they ever get Dunkin' groupies aboard: dudes in sweatpants and ladies in curlers? Apparently Dunkin' Donuts coffee is owned by Smucker's, and the donuts are are owned by Dunkin' Brands, but we want them to come together and bring it on home.
WHAT: A giant Dunkin' Donuts RV designed to be a coffee-brewing kitchen on wheels to dispense free coffee samples and coupons to consumers at the Taste of Minnesota.
WHEN: Friday, July 2 - Monday, July 5, 11:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. daily
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Refuge from the Storm
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|February 7, 2013
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|Michael Madsen, Kristen Quintrall, Jane Santos, Aaron Massey, Christian Madsen
|Elias Acosta
|Elias Acosta, James Ellis
Description: Linda the daughter of an affluent American family is left a shell of her former self by spiritual forces beyond her control. Linda meets Aspiring writer Steve Grecco while working for Katrine at Midnight Moon. Steve who has been looking for the "Meaning of Life," gets pulled into a world of drugs and spiritual darkness propagated by Katrine. Meanwhile Linda begins to see beyond Katrine's world, with the knowledge she receives from a total stranger. With her new understanding she turns her life around and unknowingly changes the course of many lives along the way. The world would little notice the work she accomplished except for those she touched.
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A device useful for getting rid of door-to-door salesmen and religious advertisers.
Door rings. It's a JW.
"Let the woodpussy answer the door"
"Let the woodpussy answer the door"
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another word for a skunk
dude, it smells like woodpussy
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a skunk
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a punk band fron norman, oklahoma
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Skunklike smell in them thar woods.
Smells like WOODPUSSY to me!
by wonderwarthog August 12, 2010
You'r in the woods. It stinks. You smell Wood. You smell Pussy. It must be "woodpussy"
"dude, what's that stink?"
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Would U Buy It #24: "What If? Timequake"
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We all have trade paperback (TPB) collections we'd like to see. Here's one of mine:
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Timequake is the only unified set of What If? stories that I know of, and I think that fact alone makes it worthy of reprinting. Pretty simply, a group called The Time-Twisters cause some multiversal havoc, trying to be the last people in time. A team of Marvel heroes from various realities has to band together to stop them. The issues relate back to two previous issues of both What If? series, and to two events: Operation: Galactic Storm and Atlantis Attacks. The final issue is where the heroes band together to stop the Time-Twisters.
I included #1 of the 1977 series, and #24 of the 1989 series, because they relate directly to two of the Timequake issues. However, I think I'd put them at the end of the TPB, as "easter egg" extras, rather than at the beginning, in order of publication. I think putting them in the front of the book would break the flow of the Timequake story, and may confuse unfamiliar readers when they don't seem like part of the arc. If this story arc ever does see print, Marvel will more than likely leave those two issues out, but hey, this is my dream, so I'm including them.
For the cover, I'd go with What If (1989) #39, because it shows the Watcher in the background, and doesn't look like it's linked to any one particular scenario.
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High Springs Fire Department renovated
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HIGH SPRINGS – Looking at the building for the fire department in High Springs, it might be hard to believe the department has been around for a century.
For 100 years now, High Springs has been able to lay claim to their own fire department housed by their own station. The building has only been around for about 46 years of the department's long history, but a recent facelift makes it look even younger.
The remodel included a 1,867 square-foot addition increased and improved storage, added a server room, hosts enhanced laundry services and has a lobby for the public's convenience, said Bruce Gillingham, chief, High Springs Fire Department.
The department unveiled the new addition and renovations in a ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, open to anyone to attend. The construction project was funded by a donation from Clora Belle Watson Simpson in memory of her husband, Harry H. Simpson Jr., a former member of the department.
The original structure was built in 1967 and due to state and local regulations it did not meet the requirements to house the department. One of the notable improvements that were necessary was changing the storage facility for the equipment.
"Prior to the remodel, firefighting equipment was kept in the bay with the trucks," Gillingham said. "This was not only using a majority of the space, it is unsafe for the crew to have their equipment stored where it can be exposed to the truck exhaust like that."
Gillingham referenced a study that linked the uniforms being housed in the exposed manner and a higher possibility for testicular cancer among the firefighters. Now, not only will that risk bereduced, but also the station will be able to preserve their gear better as well, he said.
Another new feature of the improved station is the creation of a lobby as guests enter the building. When they first walk in, there will be a proper waiting area that welcomes people, with access to the chief's office as well as a way to signal for assistance, Gillingham said.
"When I walked through the doors, it hit me, this was much needed," said Linda Clark Gestrin, city commissioner. "This is why you have a government, to provide safety, and we are now able to better serve the people of High Springs."
It has been a very busy time over the last two years and this moves us leaps and bounds closer to where we want to be, Gillingham said. The living facilities have also been vastly improved to accommodate staff.
The renovation would not have been possible without the funding from Mrs. Simpson, Gillingham said. The station placed a plaque above the entry on the outside of the building to honor the donation.
Even though the building saw its original construction in 1967, the department's formation dates back to 1913, with the station being moved since then. Having and supporting a fire department is something not every city can claim.
Commissioner Gestrin reflected on the significance of the new building.
"The intention of this makeover is to keep the fire department self sufficient," Gestrin said. "We wanted to be able to enter the 21st Century with our fire station the way it needed to be."
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Tighter water regulations just around the bend
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HIGH SPRINGS – A study conducted by the Suwannee River Water Management (SRWMD) will likely lead to tighter regulations on water use and consumptive use permits according.
Speaking at the July 11, 2013 High Springs City commission meeting, SRWMD Assistant Executive Director Jon Dinges discussed a project his agency has been working on to establish minimum flows and water levels of the Santa Fe and Ichetucknee rivers. This project is referred to as The Lower Santa Fe River and Ichetucknee River and Priority Springs Minimum Flows and Levels (MFLs).
Florida Statutes direct the state's water management districts to establish a baseline of the minimum amount of water required to keep rivers healthy for fish, the passage of fish through the river and recreation, as well as to continue to provide water to communities.
Dinges identified the study area as the lower Ichetucknee, Worthington Springs to Leon State Park and down to the Suwannee River. "The area is chock full of springs that need to be protected as well as the rivers," he said.
Dinges mentioned several ways in which the SRWMD obtains comments from the public and anyone interested in knowing more about the study, how it was conducted and what it is designed to do.
The SRWMD held a science exposition at their district headquarters July 2, 2013, answering questions about the work and their methodology and requested input from attendees. A stakeholder advisory committee meeting of the North Florida Regional Water Supply Partnership was scheduled for July 15 at Florida Gateway College in Lake City. A July 17 meeting at the University of Florida Water Institute for peer reviews had also been scheduled.
"The degree of public involvement is very high," said Dinges. "We continue to seek input from the public through our web site and will continue peer review and public input through mid October."
Once the minimums are established, Dinges said Senate Bill 244 gives the water management districts the ability to hand off the data to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for adoption. It will establish the distribution of water use across north Florida, he explained.
Once approved by DEP, it will be considered as a flow level standard. "It is expected to provide a mechanism to help the water management districts work together on each water body," said Dinges. With the effects of rainfall and water withdrawals, actual flow has dipped below minimum water levels in the past.
Dinges expects that consumptive use permitting will be an important component of water regulations. "Instead of issuing 20-year duration permits, they may be issued for a shorter time period," said Dinges.
Applicants may be required to provide more stringent water recovery projects as a condition of being issued a permit. Applicants may also have to start participating in water management projects financially. They may have to design and implement their own mitigation projects and have them in place before a permit is issued. "We have to very carefully look at allocations of water and could require an estimate of water use from anyone wishing to drill a well that is 8 inches or larger," he said.
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Judge David A. Glant retires
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HIGH SPRINGS – Former High Springs attorney and Circuit Court Judge David A. Glant, announced his early retirement from the bench on Thursday, June 13, 2013, at the age of 63. Glant, who has been dealing with cancer the past few years, said he felt he was physically unable to meet his own high expectations.
In 1989, Glant set up his law practice in High Springs. He lived in Ft. White for four years and then moved to High Springs in 1994, where he remained in private practice until he was elected to the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida in 2002.
The Eighth Judicial Circuit consists of 13 judges and serves Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union counties.
Being a judge has been Glant's aspiration since law school. During his third year at the University of Florida, he clerked for the Honorable Judge John A.H. Murphree. "I traveled with him to the six counties he covered. It really gave me a fire to want to do that job," Glant said.
"I was practicing law in High Springs when the state legislature created a brand new seat in this district," he said. "I ran for it against a couple of other opponents and won the 2002 election." Glant, who still lives in High Springs, was eventually also appointed Administrative Judge – Criminal Division in 2009.
"An administrative judge handles administrative matters for the division," said Glant. "When there is new case law to be disseminated, we share it with the other judges. We're there to help determine how the criminal division is run, but we are not 'over' the other judges," he said. "We're there to help the other judges. We are a very collegial body that helps each other all the time."
Glant explained that some judges get appointed and some get elected. Because Glant is retiring before the end of his term, the governor will appoint someone to his seat. The 8th District Judicial Nominating Committee, made up of citizens, attorneys and people from other professions, will come together to create a blended panel. "They ultimately send up to six names to the governor for him to choose from and the governor makes the final appointment," said Glant.
"I have had two satisfying careers and I did the best I could in both instances. I don't feel I need to accomplish anything else. This job is very demanding physically and mentally," he said.
"It has been a tremendous career. I practiced law 23 to 24 years and have been a judge for 10 ½ years. It's been a great experience and I feel I helped a lot of people along the way. It [retirement] was a painful decision because I love the job, but it was the right decision," he said. "That's what judges do…they make hard decisions."
Stacy A. Scott, Public Defender for the 8th Judicial District, commented that Judge Glant "was a very experienced judge. He respected the rule of law. He was a tough sentencer for criminal defendants, but was consistently tough," she said.
As an example of how tough he could be, Scott said she had heard that Alachua County jail inmates nicknamed him, "Father Time."
"I didn't always agree with the sentences that he gave out, but I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. He treated everyone fairly. He didn't play favorites. He applied his way of judging people the same way no matter who the defendant was," she explained.
"Clients knew what to expect from him because he would tell them up front, 'You're getting probation. But if you violate your probation in any way, you will go to jail.' And that is what he would do."
"He evenly dealt out his sentences according to his moral beliefs and the law," she said. "I felt lucky to have spent time with him outside of the court and you couldn't meet a nicer person. I like him personally and respected him as a judge," she said.
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High Springs City Hall closes Fridays
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HIGH SPRINGS – High Springs City Manager Ed Booth announced a trial period of six weeks to try out a four-day work week at City Hall.
"I have noticed very little citizen traffic in City Hall on Fridays and most of what we do get is at the beginning of the day," he said.
Booth said most of the people he has talked with said they wouldn't mind having City Hall closed Fridays as long as there were office hours before and after the traditional work hours.
City Hall will now be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, during this trial period according to Booth. "It is on our web page and we will advertise the change so our citizens know about it," he said.
The employees are interested in trying it out and the City of Alachua says they have saved a lot of money since going to that type of work week, Booth told commissioners. "At the end of six weeks, I will come back to the commission and let you know how it is working out for the citizens," he said. "They are the ones I'm most concerned about."
The City of Alachua went to a four-day work week for City Hall in October 2010, using the same days of the week and hours of operation that the City of High Springs is proposing.
Alachua Assistant City Manager Adam Boukari said, "The savings to the City are not fully known, however after about nine months of implementation, the savings included $18,000in utilities and 1,200 gallons of fuel. Other savings factors were not calculated at that time," he said. No formal savings analysis has been performed since and reduced use of sick leave and other variables were not calculated. Apparently the savings in fuel and utility usage alone was enough for Alachua to continue the practice to date.
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Alachua Woman's Club inducts new officers
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ALACHUA – The Alachua Woman's Club has selected its new slate of officers for the 2013-2014 season. They are Joan Imler, President; Cheryl Hartley, Vice President; Kathy Colson, Treasurer; Emelie Matthews, Recording Secretary; Linda Shaw, Corresponding Secretary; Ruthie Moss , Publicity; Becky De Marie, Parliamentarian; Vada Horner, Historian and Valerie Taylor, Building Manager.
The new officers extend a warm invitation to those who would like to join and become involved in the activities sponsored by the membership.
The Woman's Club celebrated its 100th Anniversary as an organization last year. The club hosts a variety of social and business related events at their historical building on North Main Street in Alachua.
For additional information about joining, contact Vada Horner at 386-462-1760 or Kathy Colson at 386-462-5520.
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MIKE GARFIELD (AMG) continues to cross-train and let his separated shoulder heal. This weekend he discovered the challenge of bowling with his other arm. Needless to say, the score did not reflect the success of at least being able to get out there.
KELLY SCHULTE accomplished two things on her ride up the coast with Mary Cecil and Sarah Moosbrugger this past weekend; she rode her longest ride yet topping it off at 45 miles AND had her first encounter with the pavement. Beware, riders, of crazy women in large SUVs driving through Del Mar
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JIM HINE On Sunday did a sunrise ride in the foothills. Even though the temps were in the high 20's, our trails here in Boise have stayed rideable...up until today (our first decent snow). I made it 18 miles before my feet said it was time for the hot tub. Luckily there was zero-wind, which made for a gorgeous day.
ARCH & CHRISTY FUSTON went to Boulder, CO to visit friends and go snow shoeing. They had to drive west of Nederland to about 9500 feet before they got into enough snow to shoe. After an hour and a half of snowshoeing, they were spent. Great fun, being in the cold, the snow, was great, but getting back to SD was even better.
CHRIS STEED out of the Bothell office continued his undefeated season 9-0 coaching the Squirt (ages 9-10) Seattle Junior Hockey Blades with a win over the Kitsap County (Bremerton) Outlaws.
In between Christmas and New Years Chris will be taking his team to Burnaby for a Christmas Tournament. Look out Burnaby!
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TOBY GUILLETTE was in Joshua Tree National Park this weekend for a group trip. I went for a 20-mile trail run on Saturday and took a bunch of photos of my friends who rock climbed on Sunday. We had great weather and a really nice time.
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Man & Woman of the Year campaign is a fundraising competition among a select group of individuals in the community. While each candidate conducts their own campaign, all candidates are united by one goal: to use their leadership skills to raise funds to help blood cancer patients live longer and more fulfilling lives. By accepting the nomination, candidates will have ten weeks beginning the day of the kickoff to accumulate the most "votes." Every dollar raised counts as one vote. The male and female candidates who raise the most votes during the campaign are named the
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More than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with, or are in remission from a blood cancer. Someone new is diagnosed with a blood cancer every three minutes. New cases of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma will account for nine percent of the 1.5 million new cancer diagnoses in the United States this year. Proceeds from the Man & Woman of the Year campaign support our mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
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Comparativly Not BadThis product is not my favorite remover but it does the job on basic mascara. I find that I have to apply it twice if I have eyeliner or mascara on, which can be annoying and I always have to really scrub my lower lash line and I still wake up with makeup residue in the morning. It is better than some removers I've tried but there are better formulas out there. The only plus side is it has a soft feel to it. — 3 years, 1 month agomoriarty.kt | 213 reviews
Great value!I would compare this to Lancome bi-facial make-up remover. Not only is it the same two materials but its very similar in strength and lasting ability. I buy this specific bottle when Im not itching to try some new luxe product I know I can always turn to Neutrogena. I have used Neutrogena products since I can remember and almost every single one is at least good. This is another winner, it takes off caked-on eye make-up with no problem and the bottle lasts forever! — 4 years, 4 months agoAlisunshine | 146 reviews
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Best Makeup Remover Ever!Extremely gentle for sensitive, allergy prone skin. It removes all makeup very easily including stubborn waterproof mascara just like it promises. It works as well if not better than expensive makeup line brands, plus it is fragrance-free and non-irritating. It is very inexpensive, so give it a try--you'll love it! My fave! — 6 years, 10 months agoareesecup | 133 reviews
Removes makeup well.This eye makeup remover does a great job in removing all eye makeup even waterproof. It did burn my eyes a little at first but I need to try to avoid putting too much on them. — 6 months, 3 weeks agofandrade | 19 reviews
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- That laser look of hers, that glint of instant understanding, came right at me through the media bedlam around her wrecked race car in the garage.
"That's a good point, Ed," Danica Patrick said when I suggested this was really for the best, this no-decision in her NASCAR debut. This would keep expectations from spiraling out of control the way they had in 2005 at the outset of her IndyCar career.
She got invaluable experience Saturday, first in a car that was fitful and then in one her pit crew vastly improved, and she began to move up through the pack, hinting at another crowd-wowing performance to build on that of last Saturday night's ARCA race.
But then she got her first real welcome to NASCAR, getting taken out in her first multicar crash (12 cars in all) when she found herself with nowhere to go.
This was something of a reprieve, she knew.
"I remember my first year in IndyCar," she said, "where in the first couple of races I do really well, and everybody's like, 'Oh, my gosh, you should be winning!' And then it took a couple of years."
They were agonizing years, with the steadily rising tide of "can she really win" questions until, when she finally did win in 2008, she wept more with relief than joy.
Had she gone on up through the field and finished strong Saturday, continued taking to NASCAR like a natural, then Danicamania II might have become a storm surge to obscure the mere groundswell of the original Danicamania of '05.
"So it's important to have realistic expectations," she said. "There's going to be spikes in performance, I don't doubt that. But there's also going to be tough days. And today was, I would say, more a tough day."
She needed to get one of those out of the way early. The public and media needed it too.
Plus, "she got a chance to feel a bad car, and that probably was more valuable to her than anything," said eventual race winner Tony Stewart, who has been a major mentor in her transition from open wheel to stock cars.
"I wish I would have run up there at the beginning and felt comfortable," she said, "but I just didn't. And that just proves how hard it is out here, and how much there is to learn, and how good all these drivers really are."
Perhaps even more than drafting and fender-rubbing, she has soaked up the savvy of NASCAR fandom and protocol. She has shown great respect for the drivers, and they have reciprocated due to her workmanlike humility among them.
And she is already clearly a draw, both in TV ratings and in the grandstands. Saturday's crowd wasn't as good as in better economic times, but it was better than last year -- the grandstands were perhaps 60-70 percent capacity -- and Danica had been the attraction to many of them.
She didn't get a chance to wow them, but that's OK. She's getting a foothold, getting a grip, instead of the meteor ride of '05.
Stewart had said Friday of the expectations piling up on her after the ARCA race, "Everybody should expect to let her learn. There's a lot of focus on her, and pressure. She's done a great job dealing with that "
(Indeed, when she climbed out of her wrecked car in the garage, she gazed at the throng of media awaiting her across the lane for the last interviews of her Daytona debut, and cracked to a NASCAR publicist, "Man, I was just getting used to that" -- as if she will miss it.)
"Everybody's got to remember she's a rookie," Stewart had said Friday. "Everything she does is not like she didn't meet a goal or she exceeded a goal.
"This is a learning experience this week. If everybody treats it that, then everything will be fine," Stewart concluded.
So I asked Stewart after he won whether this seals the week as a mass-perceived learning experience for Danica.
"I don't know if that does it today or not," he said.
Well, I think it does -- and that's because I was one of the guiltiest journalists of sending expectations soaring out of her control after her first Indy 500, which she nearly won before finishing fourth, highest ever there by a woman.
For her very next IndyCar race that year, a thundering herd of media followed her to Texas Motor Speedway, where she had a terrible night with a badly handling car.
I questioned her about her drive that night, probably in a critical tone, until she gave me the first of those laser looks of hers and said, "I am what you write that I am."
No meteor this time, I say.
Much better than that. A hard worker, a quick learner. This methodical climb at least gives her a foothold that assures she'll do better in NASCAR, in the long run, than she has in IndyCar.
This is all for the best. She agrees.
Ed Hinton is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Clue cells are certain cells in the vagina (vaginal epithelial cells) that appear fuzzy without sharp edges under a microscope. Clue cells change to this fuzzy look when they are coated with bacteria. If clue cells are seen, it means bacterial vaginosis is present.
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When Naomi learned that the wife of her dead son, Ruth, might have the eye of a man with some standing in Bethleham, Boaz, she made this strong and clear recommendation:
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking. And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
The seduction worked. But that is not the point of this brief note/post. What is interesting here, and is related to James Cameron's recent claim that he not only found the tomb of Jesus but has proof that his wife was Mary Magdalene and they had a son named Judah, is the "uncovering his feet."
Now with biblical scholarship, the close examination of archaeological sites is often not as rewarding as the close examination of existing texts. For example, in the Old Testament, washing a man's feet is a symbol for sex—"uncover his feet, and lay thee down." Now let's go to the New Testament, to John 12:
Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
Well, if this feet washing happened outside of the context/co-text of the Old Testament, the modern Christian could pretend with some peace that it is nothing more than an act of spiritual love, but that peace is not possible, Matthew's enthusiam made it impossible to imagine the Old and New as separate. What the business of washing feet meant to Ruth is what it must mean to Mary. No need to dig up old tombs to see what's really going on.


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"Happy Meals" is one of those phrases that no longer simply applies to the McDonald's kids meals to which it actually refers. Kind of like "Kleenex" and "Coke" (referring to facial tissues and cola drinks), a "Happy Meal" is now a universal reference to a kids meal that comes in a box along with a toy or sometimes a book at a fast food restaurant. Traditionally, though, FoodFacts.com has always thought that a Happy Meal isn't really a happy meal – at least not nutritionally. The term "miserable meal" would be much more fitting when you take a good look at what goes into those boxes.
Now, a new bill to improve the nutritional value of fast food restaurant meals marketed to children — like McDonald's Happy Meals — could have a wide enough impact to reduce calories, fat, and sodium, according to a new study led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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The "Healthy Happy Meals" Bill, proposed by New York City Council member Benjamin J. Kallos, who represents the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island, would require that fast food meals marketed to kids using toys or other promotional items include a serving of fruit, vegetables or whole grain. They must also be limited to 500 calories or less, with fewer than 35 percent of calories coming from fat, fewer than 10 percent coming from saturated fat, fewer than 10 percent from added sugars, and fewer than 600 milligrams of sodium. The bill is currently being considered by the City Council, and is similar to legislation recently enacted in California.
To identify whether the bill might make a public health impact on nutrition improvement and number of children reached, the researchers analyzed receipts collected in 2013 and 2014 from 358 adults, which included purchases for 422 children at multiple New York City and New Jersey locations of Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's, three fast food chains that market kids' meals.
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"While 54 calories at a given meal is a small reduction, small changes that affect a wide number of people can make a large impact," said Brian Elbel, PhD, lead author and associate professor in the Departments of Population Health at NYU Langone and at NYU Wagner. "Passing the bill could be a step in the right direction, though no single policy can singlehandedly eliminate childhood obesity."
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