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EDGEFIELD, S.C. -- It's the unsolved crimes that leave families devastated with no closure. That's the case for one Edgefield mother.
Two years after her son was murdered, the case is still unsolved. Desperate for answers, she stood at a rally begging people to "Stop the Violence."
"It's hard. It's really hard, but I know I can't let this control my life. But I need to find out what happened to my son," mother Carolyn Bates said through sobs.
Desperate words from a mother whose son was murdered in July of 2010 and still has no answers to who pulled the trigger.
"I gotta know. I just got to. I got to know. And I know somebody knows something. I know somebody knows something. I know they do," Bates said.
That's why people gathered at Trinity Community Church for a rally they're calling "Stop the Violence."
Larry Sanders Jr. was killed after someone broke into his house and shot him in the chest, but the family knows little more than that.
"All I know is that somebody came in to his house and murdered him. Even still now, I really feel like I'm still in a dream," Bates said.
Another mother suffers the same pain of the unknown. She lost two children and a brother to murder.
She says the memory of finding her oldest son's remains still haunts her.
"Today I see people walking around that look like him. 'Cause I didn't get a chance to see him, put him in the ground. I put bones in the ground," grieving mother Cheryl Robertson Weldon said.
Through the grief, these mothers are speaking out and raising awareness in honor of all the victims of violent crimes.
"My grandchildren are gonna ask me, 'What happened to my Daddy?' and we need to be able to tell them, because they need to know," Bates said.
While the pain of unanswered questions gnaws at her every day, Bates says one thing will make her son's death worth it.
"If my tragedy would stop another criminal or murderer from taking somebody else's child, and if they heard my story, then like I said, it's fine," Bates said.


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Over the next couple weeks, GoIslanders.com will be introducing you to the newest members of the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team. Today, meet Nate Maxey, a freshman from San Diego, Calif.
Nate spent last year in Arizona at Westwind Prep, where he played on the same team as fellow freshman Jordan Pope-Didier. It's also the school where sophomore Ted Wang played before he came to the Island University.
Get to know Nate a little better by watching the video below.
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Breastfeeding rates continue to increase in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Science World Report reported July 31. Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of mothers who said they breastfed their babies during the early postpartum period increased from nearly 71 percent to 77 percent. For those who continue to nurse their child for six months, that number has increased from 34 percent to nearly 50 percent, with some continuing on even past a year.
"This is great news for the health of our nation because babies who are breastfed have lower risks of ear and gastrointestinal infections, diabetes and obesity, and mothers who breastfeed have lower risks of breast and ovarian cancers," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a statement.
More News to Cheer This Week:
Obamacare's birth control benefits hit a one-year anniversary this week. An estimated 27 million women are currently benefiting from Obamacare's no-cost services, with coverage that now includes contraceptive care, HPV vaccinations, mammograms, STD screening and domestic violence counseling, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Through that provision, Obamacare has helped prevent women from continuing to pay disproportionately more for their health care than men do, Think Progress reported Aug. 1.
Mervat al-Tellawy, head of Egypt's National Council for Women, announced the formation of a watchdog committee to monitor women's rights during the nation's transitional period, Egypt Independent reported Aug. 1. The committee will also prepare a document regarding the demands of women after reviewing all Egyptian legislation issued since 1929 to identify areas of weakness with regards to women's rights.
President Barack Obama nominated Sarah Bloom Raskin to be deputy treasury secretary, The New York Times reported July 31. If confirmed by the Senate, Raskin would be the highest-ranking woman to serve in that department.
Irish President Michael D. Higgins signed the first law making abortion legal in the country under specific conditions, NPR reported July 30. The legislation provides women with access to abortion in cases where their lives are at risk, including medical emergencies and cases in which suicide could be a factor.
A federal judge halted the implementation of a law barring Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky from receiving Medicaid funding, the Indianapolis Star reported July 30. A law passed in 2011 made Indiana the first state in the nation to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving federal money because it offers abortions.
Medicare and Medicaid turned 48 years old this week. "Medicaid expansion is a critical piece of the puzzle to ensure more Americans get the care they need," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a press release July 30. "The Affordable Care Act allows all states to expand Medicaid coverage to reach even more people, and to make sure that your zip code doesn't determine your health care."
A new combat uniform specially designed to fit the female body is now available in the U.S. Army, the Daily Mail reported July 29. The debut of the combat uniform-alternate is the first in a series of moves the Army hopes to make in the next three years to help fully integrate female soldiers.
Twitter has faced a major backlash over claims it failed to deal with threats of sexual abuse made on its site last week against a British feminist campaigner, The Guardian reported July 29. Caroline Criado-Perez faced a deluge of hostile tweets, including threats to rape and kill her, after she successfully campaigned for a woman's picture to be put on a new English banknote. A campaign in her support, calling on Twitter to introduce a button to allow speedy reporting of abuse, has received thousands of signatures and support from United Kingdom members of parliament and celebrities. Scotland Yard said a 21-year-old man was arrested in London July 28 for sending rape and murder threats to the woman on Twitter, The Raw Story reported July 29.
Just a few days later, several female journalists received bomb threats on Twitter, The Guardian reported July 31. Hadley Freeman, columnist for the British publication, got a tweet from an anonymous user who claimed that a bomb had been placed outside her home and would be detonated at 10:47 p.m. Several other women received identical threats. Police are investigating.
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed into law a measure to regulate abortion clinics based on the same standards as those for outpatient surgical centers, USA Today reported July 30. Critics say the move will close most of North Carolina's 16 abortion clinics because only one now meets the standards of an outpatient surgical center. North Carolina's health agency has already closed three abortion clinics in three months for violating health and safety regulations that previously did not cause suspensions, USA Today reported Aug. 2.
Two additional women accused San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment this week. Emily Gilbert said that the 70-year-old Democrat harassed her at a fundraiser where she was hired to sing in December, Politico reported Aug. 2. Another San Diego woman told KPBS News in an exclusive interview on July 30 that Filner tried to kiss her after a business meeting in 2011 when he was a congressman. So far, nine women have reported unwanted sexual advances.
About a third of American youth say they have been victims of dating violence, but nearly the same amount also said they have been on the offending end, U.S. News and World Report reported July 31. Of the young women surveyed, 41 percent said they had been victims of dating violence, but 35 percent said they had committed dating violence at some point. The divide was slightly greater for young men, with 37 percent saying they had been victims of dating violence and 29 percent saying they had been the perpetrator.
A law has been proposed in Texas requiring any woman seeking an abortion to take a three-hour adoption class beforehand, Jezebel reported July 31. There would be exceptions for women whose health is in imminent danger and teens who are victims of rape or incest.
Women and children are increasingly the victims of the 12-year-old war in Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report, Reuters reported July 31. But women's rights in Afghanistan risk being further undermined in the fragile country's peace process due to entrenched patriarchal attitudes, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women warned, Reuters reported July 29.
Close to 30 percent of women surveyed in a new study reported having experienced a time when they couldn't afford diapers for their children, Think Progress reported July 30. The study found that 8 percent of women had to stretch their diapers when the supply was running short.
One hundred and fifty people were arrested and 105 children involved in child prostitution rings across the country were found, the FBI announced, USA Today reported July 29. The FBI said the children ranged from 13 to 17 years old.
Pope Francis said women should be given a bigger role in the Church, but refused to consider their ordination, saying the "door is closed" on the issue, France 24 reported July 29. On the matter of homosexuality, he said he does not judge homosexuals but condemns the gay lobby as a "serious problem."
Hundreds of women -- many of them very pregnant -- took to the streets in Istanbul, Izmir and other Turkish cities under the motto "It's my body. It's my decision," Deutsche Welle reported July 29. The protests followed an Islamic pundit's remark that women who are seven or more months pregnant should not be out in public. Non-pregnant people joined as well, with some men stuffing balloons under their shirts in a show of solidarity.
In New York, mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's campaign manager quit last weekend, CBS News reported July 28. Danny Kedem, a 30-year-old who oversaw Weiner's candidacy, told Weiner that he could no longer manage his campaign after new revelations about his salacious online contact with women over the last week. Yet Weiner gets broad support from young women. Sugar daddy dating website SeekingArrangement.com found that 78 percent of female clients between ages 18 and 26 approve of Weiner, U.S. News and World Report reported July 30. Republicans turned the term "War on Women" back on Democrats in a memo that highlighted the Democratic leadership's failure to condemn Weiner and San Diego's Mayor Filner for their behavior towards women, Politico reported Aug. 2.
Thousands of women have dropped out of a health care program since Texas altered it seven months ago in a fight over Planned Parenthood, state statistics show, The Dallas Morning News reported July 31. Since the state began operating its own Texas Women's Health Program, claims have dropped 23 percent, or about 4,000 visits monthly.
A majority of the Democratic women serving in the House of Representatives are urging President Obama to nominate Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve instead of economist Larry Summers, who is rumored to be the frontrunner, The Huffington Post reported July 31.
Tunisia's Femen activist Amina Tyler was released from jail, Middle East Online reported Aug. 1. The young woman who has been detained since May faces trial for painting the word "Femen" on a cemetery wall in protest at a planned meeting of radical Salafists. Earlier this week, a Tunisian court also dismissed a case in which she was tried for contempt and defamation, Al Arabiya reported July 29.
A poll released July 29 indicates that opposition to legal abortion is highest in the Southern Central part of the United States, including Texas. By contrast, support for legal abortions remains highest in the Northeast (in particular New England) and the West Coast states.
New York City fast food workers went on strike to ask for a minimum wage of $15 per hour against $9 currently, The Huffington Post reported July 29. Women make up two-thirds of fast food workers in New York, according to a report by Fast Food Forward. The strikers were also joined by workers in cities that included Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Flint, Mich.
A majority of Americans, 52 percent, would support a law legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states, according to the results of a new Gallup poll, RTT News reported July 29.
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After the gifts have been opened and the fudge has been eaten on Christmas Day, folks are invited to enjoy two free hours of skating at the Marietta Roller Rink.
A free public skate has been held at the rink on Christmas Day for more than a decade; however, this year's event is unique because the rink is teaming up with the First Settlement Derby Dames roller derby league to hold it.
"It's to get the community aware we started a league and let people know who is on the team," said Sally Thompson, president of the league.
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Members of the First Settlement Derby Dames roller derby league skate laps as part of a recent practice. Members of the team, Hades Ladies, will meet and greet the public at a free skate, which is offered annually at the Marietta Roller Rink, inside the Washington County fairgrounds.
Thompson said there is currently one team within the league, called Hades Ladies. It was formed in September and there are about 20 women on the team.
"We have a few from Parkersburg and a few from the Coolville area but most are from Marietta," Thompson said.
Thompson said many of the team's members will be at the free skating event from 7 to 9 p.m., meeting and talking with community members. While the league is accepting new members, Thompson said the event is not necessarily being held for recruitment purposes.
"It's not just if you're interested in the derby team but it's a nice family event," she said. "There is a charge for the skate rental but they're welcome to bring their own, and we're hoping the kids who got skates for Christmas can come and try theirs out."
Hades Ladies member Ashley Cunningham, 26, of Marietta, said she hopes the event raises awareness about the team.
"Not too many know about roller derby or they don't think it's around here," Cunningham said. "People have a different aspect of what roller derby is - they think it's women beating on each other...but it teaches communication and discipline and you have to work together. Roller derby is like a family."
Thompson said the team plans to have its first scrimmage at the end of January against a team from Athens. She said before the Hades Ladies team can officially compete against other teams in bouts, all members must pass a skills test.
"The goal is for all the members to pass it by April," she said.
If you go:
What: free public skate and meet and greet with the Hades Ladies team, of the First Settlement Derby Dames roller derby league.
Where: Marietta Roller Rink, 922 Front St., Marietta.
When: 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Skates at the rink are $2 each or attendees can take their own.


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Caroling concert kicks off Woodbury Christmas Festival
The Connecticut Choral Society Chamber Singers and the Valley Chordsmen Barbershop Chorus will present a joint concert at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 30 in the sanctuary at the North Congregational Church, 11 Main St. North, in Woodbury. The event, open to the public, will include audience participation in singing favorite carols. The concert marks the opening of the 2012 Woodbury Christmas Festival and the holiday season.


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Eagle resident Katie Townsend can't vote yet, but she is more involved in politics than most adults.
The Eagle Valley High School freshman campaigned for Mitt Romney from August up to the election Nov. 6. She even got to meet the Republican presidential candidate.
She did a lot of volunteering with the Eagle County Republicans and got her parents to drive her to Denver on two occasions when Romney appeared at rallies.
"I was in the front row," she said. "He came up, shook my hand and said he was impressed with how young and involved I was. If he had been elected, I was planning to go to his inauguration in hopes that he might remember me."
The teenager spent election night with her fellow Eagle County GOP members.
"We were disappointed, of course," she said. "I cried and got really emotional because I had worked so hard on the campaign, but I don't regret it. On the next presidential election, I'll be just as involved and I'll be able to vote."
"Katie takes herself seriously, dresses like a professional and works incredibly hard," said Nicole Dewell, who teaches English and social studies at EVHS. "She also has a huge heart and is very concerned about other people."
Dewell said there were other students who worked on campaigns but Townsend seemed to be the most involved.
"I was impressed she would take all this time as a teenager for something she believes in and when she can't even vote," Dewell said. "She came back from the Romney rally and gave a presentation to the class. Her message was very bipartisan: 'get out there and vote, get involved.'"
At school, Townsend participates in Future Business Leaders of America and Devils Against Destructive Decisions (DADD).
"I've been interested in politics ever since I learned about it in fifth grade," Townsend said. "I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of."
Her family played a role as well. Townsend's dad, John, is a registered Democrat who grew up sharing family dinners with Hubert Humphrey in South Dakota. Humphrey served as Vice President of the United States
with President Lyndon Johnson from 1964-65.
Katie Townsend's mom is a Republican, so dinner conversations can get lively.
"My dad owns an electrical company and my mom stays at home - the stereotype is that their political parties should be the other way around," Townsend said.
She said her dad is very supportive of whatever she does, even when their politics don't agree.
"I think she's making a difference," John Townsend said. "She's pretty smart. I can honestly say I never did anything like this when I was a kid. She has a mind of her own. Sometimes I look at her and think, 'Enjoy your childhood because you only get it once.'"
Townsend also has four brothers who are all in their 20s and living on their own. She said being surrounded by much older people all the time has contributed to her maturity and interests.
As far as dressing in professional attire, she said it helps her feel good about herself.
"I feel more confident and prepared when I'm well-dressed," she said.
Meanwhile, she is still stressing the message - vote!
"It's really upsetting to hear people complain about politics when they haven't voted," she said.


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Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you, he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday, you'll meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we're told, implores to us wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule that sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell the ones who want us from the ones who don't. The ones who'll stay from the ones who'll leave. Maybe this happy ending doesn't include a wonderful guy... Maybe its you. On your own, picking up the pieces and starting over. Freeing yourself up for something better in the future."
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Whole Grain Banana-Chocolate Chip Muffins (and a product review)
NuNaturals makes NuStevia, a complete line of natural sweeteners based on the herb Stevia, a plant widely grown for its sweet leaves. I'll admit to trying Stevia when it first hit my local grocery store years ago and found it difficult to work with because it is so concentrated and I also thought it had a bitter aftertaste. I think if I dug deep into my lazy susan I would probably find the remainder of the bottle that I bought.
I guess this would be a good time to explain why I'm constantly on the lookout for artificial sweeteners and why I typically only use regular sugar for sweets that I give away. You see, it's because I care about my own health, but not yours. (HEE!) Of course, I'm kidding. Hubby and I are both borderline pre-diabetics, which is the driving force behind my development of recipes that contain whole grains and as little sugar as possible. That's why you find so many Splenda recipes on my blog. At least up until today. These muffins that I made with NuStevia Baking Blend were out of this world! No bitter aftertaste and they were incredibly moist without the addition of a lot of fat. Upon reading the literature that accompanied my box of goodies, I discovered that the NuStevia actually binds with the fat in a recipe to create a product with better texture and taste. NuStevia Sweetener also contains both soluble and insoluble fiber, which keeps life moving in a pleasant direction, as well as helping stabilize blood sugar. It's all good!
I'm excited to experiment with the rest of the products I was sent and to fill you in on my successes. The failures I always keep to myself though, remember. Success #1: Whole grain banana chocolate chip muffins.
Whole Grain Banana-Chocolate Chip Muffins
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
3/4 cup oat flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 large egg plus 1 egg white
1 cup plain yogurt
2 TBSP canola oil
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups mashed very ripe bananas (this was three medium sized bananas for me)
1 cup NuStevia Baking Blend (sugar, or Splenda would work here also)
1/2 cup mini-chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with paper liners and spray lightly with cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
In another bowl whisk together the egg, egg white, yogurt, oil, vanilla, bananas and sweetener.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir just until all is incorporated. Do not over mix. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Distribute batter between muffins cups. Bake for 23-25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool in pan for a few minutes before removing from pan to cool completely on cooling rack.
*Disclaimer* Other than receiving the free products to try, I was not compensated in any way for this review. All opinions are my own.
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- SeattleDee said...
They sound delicious! and thanks, II appreciate another healthy solution to using up some spotty bananas. A girl gets tired of banana smoothies.
- December 16, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- June said...
Another winner Mags. Banana and chocolate chip - you got my attention!
- December 16, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- PlumpNotFat said...
I've been reading up on stevia products and have found many comments that this is the best manufacturer! Thanks for verifying that - I'm going to give them a try.
- December 16, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Barbara said...
Thank you a million times! The hubs is a Type 2 and I control his diabetes totally with diet. It is so difficult to come up with nice sweets that he can enjoy. I have been using Splenda in a few recipes but will look for NuStevia as well, as I haven't done any baking with a substitute yet. I'd love to see more baked goods using the new sweeteners!
- December 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
Those muffins are looking pretty tasty! Interesting product, too.
- December 16, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Lyndsey said...
Thanks for the review...they sounds healthy and good!
- December 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Mary said...
Those sound wonderful! I'm not one to say no to a "healthy" muffin!!! How fab!
Mary xo
- December 16, 2010 at 1:49 PM
- stephchows said...
hmmm guess that means I shouldn't use it since I never add oil or butter :) good to know though!
- December 16, 2010 at 3:29 PM
- Design Wine and Dine said...
I will have to tell my in-laws about this product as they are also both prediabetic.
These muffins look delicious! I am a fan of baked goods that are NOT overly sweet so these are perfect for me!
Thanks for the review and the recipe!
- December 17, 2010 at 7:14 AM
- briarrose said...
What a great, healthy muffin. Looks wonderful. It can be such a challenge to reduce the amount of sugar in the diet.
- December 17, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Moogie said...
Mags, your just full of wonderful recipes.
I love freebies also. Its a nice perk for all the hard work we do on our blogs.
- December 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- Jane said...
I've been thinking about trying NuStevia in baked goods but now, based on your positive recommendation, I'm much more inclined to actually give it a go. These muffins look so good, Mags!
- December 17, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- Elpi said...
I will definitely try this at home this Christmas for our family reunion.
- December 18, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- Barbara said...
So glad I visited you today because I'm making banana chip muffins today! I like the idea of whole wheat flour. Also, I saw last night someone roasting bananas in the oven, in their skins, and thought I might try that as well! Can't help but deepen the flavor.
- December 18, 2010 at 7:39 AM


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At the very beginning of the "commercial internet" era, around 1995, the internet was all about communities. Mailing lists and Usenets were crucial tools which allowed people with similar interests (and similar problems!) to hang out together in what was considered a fantastic virtual square.
Then, shops started showing up in this square, and... well, its inhabitants got a little distracted.
They could go to the bookshop called Amazon and buy a book. Or, they could go to a travel agent and book an aeroplane ticket; or, they could enter the information office (Google) and ask anything they liked—and always get an answer.
The crowds rapidly changed. By the year 2000, a lot of people joined the virtual square just for its shops. The concept of "Agora" didn't get completely lost; but the flashy lights of thousands of shops made it very easy to get distracted. Spam made Usenets and mailing lists barely usable—and, what was worse, they didn't have the pretty interface that every other shop seemed to have.
By the year 2005, things had changed once more. Online communities became prominent again. After going through a lot of renovation work, and after clearing up text-version rubble, online communities' shops looked as flashy as the expensive shops did. The internet was very different to what it used to be, but that didn't necessarily mean worse.
Now, finally, the internet can claim once more that it's all about communities.
I realised the importance of online communities when I joined two cancer support groups: one runs every Tuesday morning, and involves a short drive to Cottesloe beach. The other one is online, and it's been as important as the "physical" one.
What is impressive, is that a lot of the dynamics in the two support groups are exactly the same: new members are especially looked after; long term members help new ones, and a small number of volunteers work constantly to make sure that the group runs smoothly, often sacrifying huge chunks of their spare time.
Free software has helped online communities immensely. Programs like PHPBB have helped make the transition I talked about, from mailing list/usenets to newbie-friendly web sites (and user-friendliness is crucial, because non-experts are prime users of such web sites).
All in all, in 2006 I am happy to see that, once again, the internet really is all about online communities and commerce, and that these two entities are not at odds with each other anymore—they live peacefully in the same space, using similar software (often free!).
A new balance seems to be in place. It's up to us to make it last.
It's true that communities trive...
But it's also true that S/N in those communities is awfully low. It's all singing and dancing icons, together with me toos and I rulez. Today it's very hard to find communities with strong signal.
Or perhaps it's just that the people who where using the Internet before Al Gore invented it long for the days of yore when the net was the place to find accurate technical information that can't get used to the new net. For those of us who have to deal with the equivalent of a few hundreds of emails per day PHPBB is hell: no threading, no decent editor, no easy way to track replies, ...
Yes, the communities are there, but the information flow has reduced, too.
Good, bad...
Sure, compared with a time when Mosaic reigned supreme and the only use you could get off the Internet were IRC, ftp and mailing lists, today's Web looks like a Dali painting reviewed and corrected by a bunch of retarded monkeys on sugar high.
Still, this pixel- and table-based delirium tremens lookalike has provided us with tools such as Google, SPIP and Wikipedia.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
Why people communicate
Flat threading, as used in PHP BB, is terrific for preserving a "sense of conversation" that deep threading tends to destroy. Because it preserves the temporal nature of the conversation it keeps a more global context available in terms of subject-matter, and allows the conversation to be deeper and more personally meaningful to participants.
But of course, that only works if the participants have a fairly high investment in the conversation. This, and other aspects of common web forums like PHP BB are optimized to maintain the social aspects of conversation.
Deep threading, on the other hand, creates a dry, crisp, even hostile environment to social interaction. Jokes, affirmation, smilies, etc are dismissed as "off topic" or "noise" (as 'magallon' did above). The temporal nature of the conversation, the totality of participants, and essentially all of the social aspects are stripped, leaving only the meaning.
People use deep threading environments to: find out information, develop or promote their own reputation by helping others to find information, or do so because they are required to do so by work-related concerns.
In short, deep-threading is meant to be utilitarian, whereas flat-threading is meant to be fun.
If you think a community is all about people using each other for the attainment of mutual goals, then deep-threading works well. But if you think a community is all about sharing your feelings and thoughts with like-minded people, in a mutually affirming environment, then flat-threading is for you.
Very high-volume groups with many participants will, in a flat-threading environment, tend to break up into smaller discussion groups or "tribes" of "buddies" who like to talk to each other. "Topics" within a flat-threaded community tend not to be actual discussion topics, but rather interest groups of people interested in those topics (but who may be currently discussing something else entirely).
A deep-threading environment tends to erase these interpersonal bonds, while establishing tighter and tighter topic-based organization -- one loses track of who one is talking to, in order to restrict more finely what one is talking about. One feels that one is vaguely addressing "the list", and not a particular group of people. One is not interested much in who replies, but only in whether they get the information they wanted.
So, if you're choosing one or the other, you need to think about why people are going to come to your forum. What do they want out of the experience?
So it's not just about "newbie" versus "pro" -- it's also about "social" versus "utilitarian" communities.
Interesting comments,
Interesting comments, Terry.
Joel Spolsky had some similar things to say about this topic in Building Communities with Software.
For example:
"On Usenet, threads last for months and months and go off onto so many tangents that you never know where they've been. Whenever a newbie stumbles by and asks a germane question, the old timers shout him down and tell him to read the FAQ. Quoting, with the ">" symbol, is a disease that makes it impossible to read any single thread without boring yourself to death by re-reading the whole history of a chain of argument which you just read in the original, seconds ago, again and again and again."
"Branching is very logical to a programmer's mind but it doesn't correspond to the way conversations take place in the real world. Branched discussions are disjointed to follow and distracting. [...] Branching makes discussions get off track, and reading a thread that is branched is discombobulating and unnatural. Better to force people to start a new topic if they want to get off topic."
(There's lots more food for thought there also -- read the whole thing!)
I had used the Agent newsreader for Usenet enough that I frowned at what I thought were dumbed down web discussion forums, but I thought Joel made a lot of good points and I began to appreciate "flat" discussions more.
Occasionally I'll find a long discussion where I want to reply to someone but their comment is so much earlier in the conversation that I feel like the time to reply is past. Maybe that's a good feature. Real life conversations can become tiresome if people keep returning to earlier points and the same can apply to online discussions. Although not always, I'd argue. It can be challenging on a site like Bruce Schneier's, for example, where there are interesting discussions but so many posts that the conversation can be kind of chaotic.
The "watch" feature in newsreaders was helpful for keeping up on conversations. It's difficult to hold up your end of the conversation with so many forums out there. I like how Wordpress makes it easy to add a feed for comments to a specific post -- I'll usually use that when available so I can track the discussion for a while.
Social gratification is also a reason for writing free software
Another interesting thing -- if you read Eric Raymond's "Cathedral and the Bazaar" series, and other essays on why people choose to develop free software, described by people who actually do it, you'll see a number of reasons given: "bettering the world", "seeking reputation", "to scratch an itch".
Yet, it seems to me that one of the biggest reasons is "to spend time with people who have similar interests and values as me". Yet it curiously doesn't get mentioned much. Writing software in Python, for example, is an excuse to be a regular poster on comp.lang.python, and it gives you something to talk about. Writing interesting, ground-breaking, or at least original code makes the conversation more interesting.
And that motivates others to keep talking to you, preserving the social network. I think that is a major motivation for a lot of free software projects.
It's very explicit with a big organization like Debian.
I don't personally do much mechanical work, but I have fond childhood memories of hanging out with my Dad and his buddies, typically rebuilding an engine on a car, motorcycle, boat, or airplane -- or some such thing. I think it's pretty much for the same reason that people in my generation hang out together online, building software packages.
True. Online communities are
True. Online communities are indeed making a comeback. Improved in every way than its predecessors,online communities are as effective as their physical counterparts. I am a member of several online communities and they do help a lot. From moral support to useful information. It's great for these communities to make a comeback.


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I have been overweight for 15 years, after the birth of my middle and last children. Up until 5 years ago my weight maintained between 180 - 190. Due to my improper handling of stress and my use of food as a crutch, my weight has ballooned to 242 lbs. About 3 weeks ago I started eating more fruits,vegetable and healthier proteins, removed sugar and soda (1 diet soda a week), and reduced breads and rice drastically and I have lost 12 lbs. I found the Couch25k site and am now excited to add this program. After reading how great so many others are doing with the program I know this will make a great improvement to my health and weight loss goals. My goal is to reach 200lbs by the end of the program, September 18, 2010, and hope to run at least one 5k and and 10k by summer of 2011.
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
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Good for you! I was in the same boat as you back in the summer of 2007, starting running and eating right and lost 40 pounds, and over the course of my weight loss ran three 5K's and a half marathon in May 2008 in 2:32. Unfortunately, I gained much of my weight back due to some health problems in 2009, but have now started up my running routine again. Good luck...you can do it!!!!!
Welcome graciels! It sounds to me like you're off to a great start with your goals. 12 pounds off in 3 weeks is great - quick enough to be encouraging & it sounds as though you're doing it the right way... through a more healthy approach to eating. I've only completed my 1st week of C25K but let me tell you even 3 sessions is making a difference I can feel. I am tired physically - not being used to anything faster than a walk but mentally I feel more energized & definitely more positive. Completing 3 sessions has really boosted my self confidence. I know I'll have some hard weeks but with the great advice & support here, I'll slog through. I'm starting to have faith that by following the program, I CAN become a runner.
I sure hope others reading these threads are motivated to try it. If you don't think you can handle 60 seconds running, start at 45 or 30. Take your time & build up to the 'proper' week 1 if you have to. I started with week 1 but believe you me my running stretches are happening at turtle pace. The important thing is that they ARE happening. I won't lie. It feels awkward, it's not a habit yet. I'm having little aches & pains - nothing major. Looking at the last few weeks of the program does scare me, more than a little but so many others have done it - I can too. And if this almost 50 year old, soon to be ex-smoker can do week 1, anybody can do week one.
Who else is trying week one this coming week? Say hello!
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Good luck with your first run. I just started C25K (Using Podrunner Intervals by DJ Beatsmith) yesterday (July 16). My story's pretty similar to yours. I used to weigh 200-210 and felt/looked great. In the past 5 years or so, I've gained a lot. At the most, I weighted 280. I've recently dropped down to 250-260ish. My goal is to be 200 by Christmas. I'm working on adjusting my diet as well... that part's a bit more difficult haha.
Good Luck! I'll be running with you tomorrow =P
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I got my run in today! Used the treadmill as it is just too hot & muggy here. Hope you are forging ahead, graciels!
Thank you all for your encouragement. I know I will reach my goal, but I'm learning that even if set backs occur I have to just keep going and not let it discourage me. Glad to here you got your run in grandledgegirl. WOOHOO!!! Congrats are your recent lose nchowning, can't wait to here how you progress and when you reach your 200 lb goal at Christmas, I know you can do it. Slogon, it's very encouraging to here how great you are feeling after completing your first week. I'm looking forward to reporting the same come next Sunday, Keep up the good work.
I am hoping to be able to get in my first run tomorrow morning as early as possible, since lately it's been reaching in the mid-90's by about 11am here. I figure, worst come to worst, I'll just get my run in on my incline treadmill. I did get a pretty good workout I think today, even though it was not running. My husband's unit had a family day today, which allowed the families to get a small taste of the kind of training they do. So I spent from 9:30 this morning to 12:30 walking around in the blistering heat and taking photographs, while my children jumped from a 34' tower, rigged to a line of course that allowed them to glide to the other end, ran an obstacle course, some rappelled down a 60' wall, watched my 14 yr old shot a rifle at the range and cleared a room. Then had lunch and finally got all our tired butts back home around 3:30pm. I have for the last 5 or so years not been real interested in doing many outside activities here once we hit mid-Spring until mid-Fall due to our miserable hot weather, feeling I couldn't handle the heat. After being out all day in it today, I found that not only could I handle it, but the heat can be quite invigorating.I think I'll still try and stay out of it between the hours of 11am and 4pm though, for the sake of my skin at least.
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
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I was about 230-240 back in December 2009 and now I am down to 205-210 in July 2010. I have ran my 1st 5k (23:30) and ran a 10k (57:44). While the weight loss has really helped with my speed when running, the weather has been the biggest factor in my running. My times suffer tremendously when I run in hot and humid conditions. I am planning my 1st half-marathon at the end of September when the temps go down!
Best of luck! Its addicting!
I am just over 200 lbs (by 10) and have started the C25K. During the spring, my daughter suggested I do a 5K with her. I noticed that one could walk it, so I did. I had also decided to sign up for one in September with her. My husband challenged me to run it. I told him I would run as much as I could if he also did the 5K. So, here I am, working on running.
I have just started a C25K plan and am looking forward to tomorrow's workout. I have had to move inside due to the humidity here.
Graciels, can you imagine our Soldiers doing that in full battle rattle? I sure can't. My son is in the Army.
This is encouraging to see several of us in the same weight range pursuing similar goals. Let's keep in touch, keep encouraging each other, and have fun while we train. If anyone's interested in forming a separate group on yahoo for this purpose, just let me know.
I think it's a great idea for all of us to team up and encourage each other!
I got my second run in this morning. It was much easier than the first. I probably could've kept going but I figured I'd follow the directions and not overdo it =P
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I just started C25K this week too! The hardest thing for me so far has been putting on my shoes and getting out the door. It's all mental. Once I'm outside and running everything is great. I even really enjoy it and it isn't much of a struggle. But mentally, it's a major struggle! I find myself coming up with all sorts of excuses to not go run. But I will make it! And so will you! I'm so excited for everyone starting out this week. Be encouraged by all the others on the journey with you!
The weather has been pretty high/hot this week, so I've been doing my running on my incline treadmill. I had been having difficulties with the machine at first because all the programs that were either installed or that download from the ifit website have inclines of 15% or more. I am not strong enough for those inclines just yet (feel like I'm going to fly off the back into the wall), but I found that if I draw the map of areas that I know have little to no incline. then it gives me a better program. It's weird to me, because I feel more energized and a bit sore. Who would have thunk it, I could actually feel better and with more energy if I actually exercise, lol.
Grandledgegirl, the idea for a yahoo group sounds great. I'm not really sure how to start one, but if you want to start one my yahoo email is firstname.lastname@example.com
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
-Les Brown
When I ran in the past, I had the same problem as cuppycakegirl. For some reason, I don't have that problem at all anymore. I actually look forward to my runs. My running days are Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. I actually ran today (Wednesday) too. I was in a bad mood (car problems & money haha) and all I felt like doing was running. It really helped. I was in a much better mood. I'm about to start Week two of C25K. I decided to do week 1 a few extra times since I haven't been running at all for the past year or two. I ran Week 1 Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Going to do it again tomorrow then, on Sunday, my week 2 begins!
Watch and follow my journey! It begins, officially, on October 1st, 2010. http://nathanloses.tumblr.com
I'm super excited to have found this post! I just started week 2 of C25K, and it's becoming a little more of a struggle.I'm a little over 200 pounds, and want to lose about 40-50 pounds because I'm only 5ft, and I want to be a healthy BMI. I guess the one thing I will suggest to everyone, is HAVE A BUDDY to go with you! That way you can't back out of it without disappointing your buddy. I run with my neighbor, and it really keeps me going because I know if I slow down, she will too. Also, to initially get out the door to run can be quite a struggle some days too, but if I know that she'll be out there waiting for me has really helped! Anyone else start week 2? The extra 30 seconds of running are a killer! I guess my problem is, I still don't have a breathing pattern yet, so I'm always out of breath when it gets to the walk.
Congrats everyone for getting started! I completed a 6 week C25K program with a trainer the last week of June. It was great, but I still have a long way to go.
I ran/walked a 5K on July 3rd. I think I finished in about 55 min. My next 5K is scheduled for August 29th.
I'm going to see if I can do week 3 or 4 of the program, and go from there.
I have a running buddy on Saturdays, but definitely need some motivation to get out the door two more times during the week.
I look forward to getting more updates from everyone.
Best wishes,
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UPDATE: Tropical Storm Dorian forms; season heats up
Published: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 1:25 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 5:05 p.m.
The forces that transform African storms into tropical cyclones spinning toward Florida are aligning earlier than usual, bringing the possibility of a more active hurricane season this year.
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Dorian is moving across the eastern Atlantic and remains far from land.
The storm's maximum sustained winds Wednesday were near 50 mph. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says it is moving quickly across the Atlantic at 20 mph.
The storm is centered about 500 miles
west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of west Africa. Dorian could get a bit stronger Wednesday, though it is forecast to weaken some on Thursday as it moves over cooler water.
The peak of the hurricane season is still a month away but already four named storms have formed, including two that spun off the coast of Africa in the "deep tropics" region that tends to produce the most dangerous Atlantic systems.
The latest, Tropical Storm Dorian, had sustained winds of just over 50 mph, with higher gusts Wednesday. Forecasters are not predicting much strengthening as Dorian heads west on a trajectory that could bring the system near Florida next week.
Since 1950, there have only been five other hurricane seasons when two storms formed in the deep tropics before Aug. 1. All but one of those years produced an above average number of hurricanes, according to an analysis by Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist with Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project.
Klotzbach said conditions for storm development are "relatively favorable, at least more favorable than normal."
On average, it takes until Aug. 20 for four tropical cyclones to form in the Atlantic, said Accuweather meteorologist Andy Mussoline.
"No doubt there's been a fairly fast pace to the season so far," Mussoline said.
But not all signs point to a hectic hurricane season.
Water temperatures are only slightly above normal, nothing like the warm waters that spawned such devastation in 2005 when four storms hit Florida. And air in the eastern Atlantic is still very dry. Hurricanes feed off of moist air.
That tropical systems are forming so early given those conditions "is a bit surprising," Klotzbach said.
Dorian has been helped by low wind shear in the upper atmosphere. Strong upper winds tend to inhibit cyclone formation.
"We have a lot lower shear than normal," Klotzbach said.
That's a bad sign.
"This year I don't think shear is going to be the thing that kills the storms," he said.
At the start of the season Klotzbach and his colleagues predicted 18 named storms in 2013, well above the 12 that occur on average. That forecast will be revised next week, and Klotzbach said he's anguishing over the data.
"There are a lot of mixed signals," he said.
August, September and October are the most active months for hurricanes, with Aug. 20 through Sept. 30 as the peak period.
Meanwhile, meteorologists are keeping an eye on Dorian.
Accuweather expects the system to remain relatively weak, but some strengthening is possible as it approaches the island nations south of Florida. A generally western path is forecast, but there is a possibility the storm could veer north into the open water of the Atlantic, Mussoline said.
"We'll have to certainly keep on eye on it for the Florida peninsula," he said.
EARLIER: The fourth named storm of the 2013 hurricane season formed off the coast of Africa Wednesday and is expected to be near Puerto Rico by Monday.
Tropical Storm Dorian has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph according to the National Hurricane Center.
The system is expected to strengthen in the short term but the long term forecast is less favorable.
Forecasters predict a slight weakening of the system as it passes over cooler waters. Stronger wind shear later in the weak could also prevent the storm from gaining strength.
The tropical cyclone could approach Florida next week if it stays on a western trajectory and maintains strength.
Check back at HeraldTribune.com for more on this developing story.
EARLIER...A new tropical depression has formed in the eastern Atlantic and is expected to soon become a tropical storm.
The depression is centered about 310 miles (500 kilometers) west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands -- off the western coast of Africa -- moving west-northwest near 20 mph (32 kph). The system's maximum sustained winds early Wednesday were near 35 mph (55 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center, with forecasts calling for the system to reach tropical storm status later today or tonight.
NHC advisors note the system has low-level circulation but currently lacks shower and thunderstorm activity near the center. Additionally, a number of environmental factors stand in the path of the depression gaining strength, including dry, dusty air from the Saharan Desert, cooler water temperatures and some strong winds in the upper parts of the atmosphere.
Because of these obstacles, the system is expected to remain weak through this weekend, likely reaching Puerto Rico on Sunday.
SNN meteorologist Cassie Nall contributed to this report.
By Zac Anderson, H-T staff writer
A low pressure system off the coast of Africa now has a 60 percent chance of becoming the fourth named storm of the 2013 hurricane season, experts say.
The National Hurricane Center reported Monday morning that the system is expected to strengthen throughout the day, but weather conditions will quickly become less favorable to storm development.
By Wednesday "environmental conditions become less conducive" for the system to gain strength, according to the Hurricane Center.
The system is currently a few hundred miles south, southeast of the Cape Verde Islands. It is moving at 15 to 20 mph. If a tropical cyclone develops it could be near Puerto Rico by the end of the week.
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EDWARDS, Colorado - The five county commissioner candidates squared off in a forum in Homestead that asked them about everything from regulations to rebates.
The five are competing for two seats.
Republican Courtney Holm is challenging Democrat Jon Stavney, the incumbent in District 2.
Unaffiliated candidate Dale Nelson is challenging Democrat Jill Ryan and Republican Jeff Layman.
The forum was moderated by Homestead resident Richard Carnes and the candidates took questions from the audience.
What is the single biggest challenge facing Eagle County in the next four years, and what do you propose to do about it?
Courtney Holm: Jobs and stimulating the economy, she said.
"If we don't have economically diversified jobs, we don't have a lot to regulate," she said.
About 300 businesses closed in the last three years, two a week, she said.
She suggested pursuing location-neutral businesses to move to the area and promoting the county's assets, things like recreation, medical tourism, Colorado Mountain College.
"That's the most important thing right now," she said.
Jon Stavney: "A catastrophic fire would the one thing that would be a game changer around here. I'm not sure second homes owners would stick around for 50 years to watch the forest grow back," he said.
The airport could lose a significant number of routes as the airline industry contracts.
"The airlines are on a year by year agreement and they might not cut us off but they could wean us," he said. "It's a risk factor. People assume it's always going to grow."
Dale Nelson: He suggested looking for ways to diversify the economy.
"We have to do all those things we've talked about to make our local economy as robust as possible," he said.
Jeff Layman: "We're a microcosm of the rest of the nation. We do need to support our economic powerhouses, recreation. Development and real estate come along with that," he said.
He suggested going after location neutral businesses.
"We've been successful in attracting those people to our valley," he said. "I've talked with a number of second homeowners who would love to talk about how we could grow our economy."
Jill Ryan: The economy is important, but she came at it from a healthcare perspective.
"Eagle County's uninsured population is 24 percent, 13,000 people," she said. "That means they wait until they don't have options besides hospital emergency rooms."
Local medical providers write off a lot of charity care, but the rest of us pick up the tab for that.
She suggested pursuing a federally qualified healthcare center to provide primary care and indigent care.
"I think this is a way to keep our premiums down, to keep the number of uninsured residents down, and save on our overall healthcare costs," she said.
Is an international terminal feasible at the Eagle County airport?
Jeff Layman: It would bring more visitors to the valley, he said.
"I'm not a financial planner and I haven't seen final numbers on it," he said. "It's being studied, but if the studies say 'go,' I'll be the first one to pull the trigger on it."
Jill Ryan: "International flights need their own terminal and luckily we have a terminal that's not being used," Ryan said.
Renovating that terminal would cost the county $2.5 million.
The preliminary study showed it could pump $50 million a year into the county's economy. That study is scheduled for completion in 2013.
International flights would mean bigger planes, more staff and facilities and other expenses. It's a fine idea if it generates enough money to pay for itself, she said.
Courtney Holm: "There's no question that it would bring in more tourists, but we'd have to be careful that there's a sustainable market for it," she said.
Homeland security is an issue, and whether or not Eagle County could get stuck with a year-long tab for a security staff that's here only in the winter, she said.
"If the feasibility study indicates that it could be sustainable, then yes, go for it," she said.
Jon Stavney: The airport is funded through its own revenue streams, he said. Renovating the terminal is no big deal. The question is customs. Right now there is nowhere to put people who are only working here for 15 weeks, he said.
"In 15 weeks can we get enough enplanements to pay for all that," Stavney said. "We're working with Vail Resorts and they'll probably be charter flights instead of commercial flights."
Dale Nelson: "We have about 16,000 passengers that would be considered international," Nelson said. "Is that enough? Probably not."
He said it's a business decision.
"It's a business plan," he said. "We can't get emotional about it. It's a numbers decision. If the numbers work, fine. If they don't then it's not personal."
Affordable housing
We went though a 15 years period when all anyone wanted to talk about was affordable housing. How do the housing policies work now?
Jill Ryan: "The current affordable housing guidelines require that 35 percent of a development needs to be deed restricted," she said. "I think that could be lowered."
The housing industry is cyclical and we don't want to create a shortage when it comes back around, she said.
Courtney Holm: "Everything needs to be addressed on a regular basis," she said. "We have a glut of housing and a glut of foreclosures. Let's find creative ways to keep that owner in that home."
In many cases the county's housing regulations have driven the cost of building higher than the cost of materials, she said.
Jon Stavney: The county, to much fanfare, unveiled all the regulations just as the industry collapsed.
"If we'd had 10-20 percent of inclusionary housing 20 years ago, we might not have a problem now," he said.
Eagle County is limited by the land we can use. In most places affordability is made possible by sprawl and we're surrounded by national forest land, he said.
"I'd rather be land banking so we could do a Miller Ranch, or create public/private partnerships," he said.
Dale Nelson: He suggested a moratorium on some of the county's housing regulations.
"ECO Build has always seemed punitive to me. It should be incentive based instead of penalty based," he said. "People building homes want those kinds of efficiencies anyway. If someone puts in a high efficiency appliance, give them $50 for that."
"I'm a carpenter and I haven't built anything new for two years," he said.
Jeff Layman: These sorts of guidelines should consistently be revisited, he said. "We're talking about affordable housing and it's important to the success of our resorts, and let's face it, that's why we're all here," he said.
But, when we require 35 percent affordable housing in every project we create a disincentive, he said.
How would you bring Edwards' infrastructure up to date?
Dale Nelson: "Roundabouts have been proven to work in moving traffic," Nelson said.
He'd put one at the intersection of Lake Creek Road and Highway 6, if possible, saying it was one of the county's more dangerous spots.
He also advocated putting more pressure on developers to help pay for the traffic impacts their projects create.
Jeff Layman: "In my 32 years of public service I've found that cooperating and collaborating helps get things done," Layman said. "You always work with developers to make sure their project does not erode the quality of life residents have come to count on."
He suggested that getting all of the Edwards area's property owners associations and homeowners associations together at the table is a responsibility of county government.
Jill Ryan: Ryan suggested cooperation, collaboration and seeking out new funding partners to help do some of the upgrades needed.
Courtney Holm: "It comes back to being collaborative," she said. "It's not what traffic is doing today, it's what traffic will be doing tomorrow."
The valley has only two major arteries, I-70 and Highway 6 and if the population continues to grow, at a certain point we'll have to consider how it will be accommodated, she said.
Jon Stavney: The Edwards roundabout projects were shovel ready for six years. The $8 million to pay for it came from the feds as part of the stimulus spending.
The next project is a roundabout at Highway 6 and the Edwards spur road, one of the most dangerous intersections in Eagle County, he said.
Developers should pay for some of their impacts, but in the case of projects like the West End project in Edwards, "you can't make enough money to pay for a $3 million roundabout."
Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 or email@example.com.


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Definition of thread in English:
- Woven gauzes are manufactured from cotton yam or threads and woven like fabric.
- She sighed and let her hands rest on her lap, her fingers absently playing with a loose thread of cotton.
- Asbestos is the name of a group of minerals that occur naturally as masses of strong, flexible fibers that can be separated into thin threads and woven.
- The cotton would be cleaned and then spun into yarn or thread.
- She was on a production line that spins cotton thread onto the spools.
- After the nurse stitched the wound with a sewing needle and cotton thread, the mother and baby were transferred and treated by Dr King and his colleagues at the nearest hospital.
- The older woman looked much like Jenna, only her face had a few more lines and the long black hair was touched with threads of silver.
- Her hair had silver threads in it, and on her face were the beginnings of lines.
- Now that he's close, I can see a few threads of silver in the thick black hair.
- A common thread throughout this discourse is the sense that members of the subjugated regime are outside the mainstream.
- And throughout, the common thread is the implications of property rights.
- The common thread that ran throughout the entire discussion focused on the chasm that sometimes exists between teachers and retailers.
- I know there are other threads on this subject, but they are more specific in nature.
- One of the unexpected benefits of posting the article to a newsgroup was that a thread developed on the subject of competition on the London to Manchester route.
- If you have any problems that aren't resolved here, then you can post on the forum thread by clicking here
- Multiple streams of data are characteristic of applications which execute multiple threads and processes in parallel.
- It solves the performance problem by executing all requests as threads in one process, or in a load-balanced system, in one process per server in the cluster.
- All processes are considered threads by the operating system.
- This can be done either by putting a screw thread of the correct pitch on the barrel's axle or, more often, by shifting a lever.
- She took a standard coffee pot and put a perforated cylinder - similar to a sieve - in the middle, into which she put a plunger on a screw thread.
- A gouge auger is similar, but instead of a screw thread there is a sharp-ended tube with a slot cut in the side.
- Besides, what's the point of wearing the coolest threads of the season if your jacket doesn't say it all?
- I'd love to dress up in the latest threads from designer brands, but I'm a student and just cannot afford it.
- The new womenswear and menswear designer emporiums showcase threads from cutting edge houses, but you can still buy tartan shortbread in the food hall.
verb[with object]
- I threaded up a needle with linen thread, and took one of the new-cut pieces of fabric and folded back a hem, and began my work.
- I demonstrated how to thread the blunt tapestry needle, where to place the knot and how to hold and move the needle when stitching.
- I stand and look down at the needle as I thread it with ease and neatly begin stitching.
- The cameraman would show me how to thread the film and how to repair it.
- APS cameras all auto-load these cartridges, so there is no messing about with threading film through a series of rollers.
- I pulled on my pants, threading a black leather belt through the belt loops.
- Carefully we threaded our way through the beach maze, around and between and over what seemed like an endless array of towels, blankets, beach umbrellas, and beach chairs.
- He wanted a car small enough to thread through city streets, yet big enough to take three people and their luggage.
- It was from Manorbier that I persuaded the children to join me in a walk along a small stretch of Pembrokeshire's 186 mile coastal path, threading between heather, sea pinks and campion along a volley of headlands.
- The play tells the story of his life amidst the turbulent times of the Penal Laws, and the narrative is threaded with her music.
- Assertive, clean, black-fruit flavours are threaded with a necessary acidity and backed by chewy oak.
- Waves of aromas and flavours of cigar boxes, ripe juicy blackcurrants and spice all harmoniously integrate with perfumed French oak and are threaded with firm acidity.
- A weight followed by another smaller bead were threaded on the wire.
- It's just a case of threading them together like beads on a string, whether they make sense or not.
- During the fourth year the child learns to cut with scissors and to thread beads, develops a mature pencil grasp, and learns to draw.
- That way you'll have a little wiggle room to finesse each screw into its respective hole and get it threaded.
- What they do is to drill a pilot hole in the bolt, and place a bit into the hole that is reverse threaded so that while you are tightening up the bit, it is backing out the bolt.
- For hardwoods, such as flooring, siding and rafters, use spiral threaded nails that turn as they are driven into the wood.
hang by a thread
- Be in a highly precarious state: their lives were hanging by a threadMore example sentences
- But whatever had triggered it - impulsiveness, buttressing his position, or to soothe whatever remained of his conscience - his position hung by a thread.
- Now Louis is fully recovered, and it is hard to believe looking at this happy little boy that his life once hung by a thread.
- The tax authorities must be aware that York City's future hangs by a thread.
lose the (or one's) thread
- Be unable to follow what someone is saying or remember what one is going to say next: she lost the thread of the conversation after a timeMore example sentences
- At this point I lost my thread and was unable to write a further paragraph.
- It's achingly frustrating for the count to keep losing his thread, his memory, his balance.
- You've made me lose my thread.
- Example sentences
- So we left the chatter at the refreshment kiosk and did just that, explored the place off the beaten track, navigating rock to rock, picking up thread-like paths through the heather.
- Our body cells contain 23 pairs of thread-like structures called chromosomes.
- The spinal cord, which runs from the brain down through the bony spinal column, contains thread-like nerves that branch off to every part of the body.
Old English thrǣd (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch draad and German Draht, also to the verb throw. The verb dates from late Middle English.
A Germanic word distantly related to throw. The expression hang by a thread goes back to the 16th century, and comes from the legend of Damocles. He was a flattering courtier of Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse in Sicily in the 4th century bc, who constantly told his ruler that he must be the happiest of men. Eventually the king decided to give Damocles a graphic demonstration of how fragile his happiness was. Dionysius invited him to a sumptuous banquet, but then Damocles realized he had been seated under a sword suspended by a single hair right above his head. The legend has also given us the expression a sword of Damocles for an imminent danger or ever-present threat.
Words that rhyme with threadabed, ahead, bed, behead, Birkenhead, bled, bread, bred, coed, cred, crossbred, dead, dread, Ed, embed, Enzed, fed, fled, Fred, gainsaid, head, infrared, ked, lead, led, Med, misled, misread, Ned, outspread, premed, pure-bred, read, red, redd, said, samoyed, shed, shred, sked, sled, sped, Spithead, spread, stead, ted, tread, underbred, underfed, wed
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