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When Channel 12 first went on the air on July 1, 1953, the news looked very different than it does today. Reporters from existing news organizations like radio and newspapers were the first faces that greeted viewers on black and white TV. For example, Dick Cornish, father of KWCH anchor Roger Cornish, had been working at a Hutchinson radio station in the 1950's. He applied for a job at Channel 12 and was hired as a staff announcer.
"There were no TV people to hire, obviously, so you hired from radio. It was the only broadcasting there was at the time," said Roger Cornish. "If I have my story right, he was on the staff the day they went on the air."
Click here to see black and white photos of Channel 12's history
Changes in Technology
In the beginning, there were no special sports reporters or meteorologists. Commercials were live and often read on the air by the anchor because there was no spare film to "pre-record" an advertisement.
"It wasn't out of the ordinary for the anchor to either walk over to a different spot or sit at his desk and do a commercial for Pepsi or cigarettes," said Kent Cornish Kansas Association of Broadcasters President.
Laverne Goering, Channel 12's Director of Programing and Operations, says the station did a live commercial for the Hutchinson bus every day. "The announcer would say, 'Our sponsor today is the Hutchinson Transit System,'" said Goering. "Then they would take a camera and shoot it out the back door and show the bus as it drove by the station, on time, every day."
Today, television cameras shoot on digital cards, video tape or even smartphones. But in the early days, images were captured on 16 millimeter film reels that had to be developed before they could go on air. Roger Cornish, who first was a Hutchinson reporter, remembers he had a one o'clock deadline to make the evening news. "When I was working in Hutch in the news department, I had to shoot my film and get it to the bus station so it got to Wichita on time," said Cornish. He was later promoted to morning and noon anchor in 1976.
In 1984, Channel 12 upgraded to using video but getting tape from the Statehouse in Topeka still took an unusual route. Channel 12 General Manager Joan Barrett remembers when she worked at a TV station in Topeka. They used to share video tape with KWCH.
"We would ask our photographers go take the tape to the turnpike and ask drivers if they would carry the tape to Wichita and give it to the Turnpike attendant," said Barrett. The box would be labeled to call the KWCH Newsroom when it arrived at the Wichita exit.
"The turnpike attendant would then call the station, I think they hated doing it, but they did," continued Barrett. "My photographers also hated doing it. They always tried to get the reporters to come with them – usually pretty young women – as they had much more luck getting drivers to take the tape!"
"You couldn't count on the tape for the early show," said Barrett. "And sometimes it would be dropped off at the turnpike stall furthest away from you – but I can say we never lost a tape!"
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Changes in Programing
In the early years, television shows weren't on twenty-four hours a day. In 1953, the broadcast day started at 5:30 p.m. and ended at 9:30 p.m. The network aired a fifteen minute newscast. Within a few years, Channel 12 produced a six and ten p.m. newscast. The station would simply sign off after the last show.
Kent Cornish says as the networks started provided some programing, like soap operas, stations realized they had to create some local shows to get viewers to stay for the evening news.
"To do a local show, like Dialing for Dollars, didn't really cost the station any money because the technology was so simple," says Kent Cornish. "You basically had a camera and a host."
Channel 12 produced shows like Take Your Pick, Dialing For Dollars, Fifo the Clown, Woman's World and Hi Fi Hop.
But as viewers became more sophisticated, they expected more - better graphics, three camera angles, better audio. "A lot of local programing tried to keep up with what network television was doing," said Cornish. "But at some point networks started doing some syndicated game shows." Cornish says local television stations couldn't afford the cost, so they eliminated local shows. It was less expensive to pay for syndicated programs.
Changes in the Newsroom
In 1966, Channel 12 was the first station in Kansas to broadcast in color. Later that year, the station broadcasted live coverage of events outside the studio.
Early on, the station produced programs like "Women's World", for female viewers. The shows were hosted by women like Charlotte Brisco, Lou Grant and Joyce Livingston, but by the 1970's women started to make an appearance in the newsroom.
Andrea Joyce was one of the earliest female anchors at Channel 12. Starting in 1978 she sat at the anchor desk along with Dennis Shreeffer.
"I think what stations began to realize in the 1970's was that women were important, vital members of the community and that the news could not accurately be presented without that voice, that input," says Joyce. "It happened for other minorities as well. Newsrooms reflected the changing times and became microcosms of our society."
When she first graduated from college, Joyce says she was surprised how hard it was to get a news job. She eventually accepted an offer as a "weather girl" a TV station in Colorado Springs to get her foot in the door.
Four months later she received a call from Channel 12 in Wichita, looking for a female anchor. She first anchored on weekends and reported during the week, shooting and editing her own stories. Joyce says she learned from the experience but wasn't as aware of the historical significance when she first sat at the anchor desk.
"You know, I was so young, I'm not sure at the time I thought of it as a 'breakthrough'…just something I really wanted to do and eager to make my mark," she said. Joyce is now a national sideline reporter at NBC SPORTS and getting ready to cover her 11th Olympics.
Today, viewers expect to see a female anchor during the newscast. Current KWCH anchor Cindy Klose has helped lead the KWCH news team for the past 22 years. Before being hired in Wichita, Klose anchored at the cable network CNN.
Over the years, the look of the newsroom has changed and there are more sources of news than ever before. But Kent Cornish says one thing stays the same.
"If you are interested in what's happening specifically in your community, whether it's news, sports or weather, you are going to rely on a local station."


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LAKE TAHOE -- The dusting of snow that appeared atop Tahoe's highest peaks was inaccessible to most who saw it Friday morning, short-lived and good for little more than a few fistfuls of snowballs, but resort operators said that first flurry serves as a psychological ping alerting people that the white season is approaching.
"It's one of those things that gets everyone excited about the season," said Sally Gunter, spokeswoman for Heavenly Mountain Resort. "It's been so warm, and it just shows that seasons are changing and winter is coming back."
Heavenly staff wasted no time assembling the first little snowman of the year, then plopped a season ski pass around its neck and tweeted the image out to followers.
"Lifts aren't open right now and no one could get to the snow, but there's a lot of social media chatter," Gunter said. "Lots of likes and shares and comments. People are thinking about it."
A chance of snow was predicted, and it's not particularly early for a debut appearance, said Jessica Kielhorn, a Reno meteorologist with the National Weather Service. She said they often see measurable snow in late October or early November, adding that the earliest recorded arrival was an inch that fell on Sept. 11, 1952. Annual snowfall at the ski resorts on Lake Tahoe averages between 300 and 500 inches.
Kielhorn said that with temperatures expected to be unseasonably high in the coming week, a repeat snowing isn't expected until a storm system possibly moves through Oct. 22 -- and even that is unlikely.
"Confidence is very low at this time," she said, adding that there are other sights to see than snow.
"I was up there last weekend; the colors are turning, everything's beautiful," she said. "It should be gorgeous."
But resort operators aren't thinking about colors and are prepared to whitewash their slopes themselves if conditions are uncooperative.
"Hopefully Mother Nature will give us some of her love," said Squaw Valley spokeswoman Amelia Richmond, "but we will start making snow as soon as it gets cold enough."
Gunter said Heavenly has similar plans.
"No matter what, we'll make it snow here," she said.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The A's are preparing to be without pitchers Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin in their rotation to start the season.
Parker appears to be having a recurrence of the right forearm pain that slowed him late last season and will be examined by specialist Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala., on Monday. Griffin was due for an MRI on Friday because of soreness in his right elbow.
The A's began spring training talking about having six pitchers for their five-man rotation, but with Parker and Griffin out for at least the short term, they'll need seven. Left-hander Tommy Milone, who's won 25 games over the last two seasons but was the sixth man until the latest news, seems set to take one spot. Right-hander Jesse Chavez, who hasn't allowed a run in 122/3 innings this spring, is ready to move into the other.
"Obviously, it's a couple of blows for us," manager Bob Melvin said. "But it's also why we have the depth we have. We have Tommy Milone and Jesse Chavez pitching really well, too. Until we get a final evaluation of what is going on with these two guys, we're very comfortable with Milone and Chavez."
While Milone and Chavez had the day off Friday, Dan Straily threw four solid innings, allowing one run to the Kansas City Royals in a game that ended in a 9-9 tie.
The right-handed Straily could go from fifth to third in the rotation behind Sonny Gray and Scott Kazmir, one of whom likely will now be the opening day starter March 31 when the A's host the Cleveland Indians. Milone and Chavez would complete the rotation.
As recently as Thursday, Parker was scheduled to start one of Saturday's split-squad games, though news that the supposed opening day starter was out had begun to leak. Griffin, meanwhile, was "feeling great" after throwing against the Rockies on Thursday night, despite a troublesome 10.38 spring ERA.
Melvin said Parker talked about the tightness in his forearm on Thursday after playing catch. Asked how much time Parker could miss, Melvin said, "I really don't know, but certainly the start of the season is in jeopardy."
Melvin said it was likely that Griffin wouldn't be ready to start the season because of the time it takes to get even a minor elbow issue cleared up.
"It's not like if there's a completely clear evaluation, we're going to run him out there next time," the manager said. "We're two weeks from the start of the season. They're both in jeopardy of not starting the season."
Melvin suggested the news about Parker was sudden.
"His bullpens were really good leading up to it," the manager said. "We felt confident he was over the issues he had last year. Then when he started in games, it took a little while to get loose. Playing catch yesterday, it didn't look like he was feeling great about it. So I called him in to talk, and he admitted his forearm was a little tight. We're going to be proactive."
Chavez, who threw four shutout innings Thursday, was making a case for the rotation even before the injury news came down.
Gray has been a contender all along to start the opener. But he has been so-so this spring with a 5.14 ERA.
That could leave room for the left-handed Kazmir, signed in the offseason for two years and $22 million, to be on the mound for the opener. Kazmir, like Gray, has pitched seven innings this spring, but the lefty has allowed just three hits and no runs.
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
Giants' Affeldt feels better than ever after surgery for groin injury.
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"It's a humbling sport," said Legion Post 69 manager Nick Richter after his team was unceremoniously bounced from the playoffs. "You can go 5-for-5 one night and 0-for-5 the next. You learn something new every time you step on the field."
Granite Falls began Legion play with an 8-0 record, only to lose four straight to end the season. The last two losses came in the playoffs. The first a 10-0 no-hitter against Madison and the second a 15-0 dismantling at the hands of Sacred Heart.
"I'm proud of the guys. We had guys playing out of position all season. They played hard all year long. It just didn't work out here at the end. But, yeah, I'm proud of them. They're a good bunch of kids."
Granite Falls 000 00 — 0 2 1
Sacred Heart/MACCRAY: Cody Boonstra 2-for-4 2 rbi, Mitch Treml 2-for-3 rbi, Ryan Fransen 4-for-4 3 rbi, Tucker Harazin 2-for-4 rbi, Tyler Donner 1-for-2, Colin Thompson 1-for-3
Granite Falls: Elliot Carmany 1-for-2, Aaron Zieske 1-for-2
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Sacred Heart/MACCRAY: Ryan Fransen (W) 4-2-0-0-1-0, Griffin Schaub 1-0-0-0-1-0
Granite Falls: Austin Thorstad (L) 2-3-7-2-3-2, Jake Sharkey 1-6-6-5-2-2. Austin Vikander 2-3-2-2-2-2
Madison 10, Granite Falls 0
Madison pitcher Brandon Bornhorst was too much for a slumping Post 69 team to handle Thursday night as he blanked Granite Falls for a five inning no-hitter as Madison left Richter Field with a 10-0 victory in the first round of divisional playoffs.
Bornhorst gave up just two walks and struck out 11 batters in just five innings.
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Madison: Colby Siegert 3-for-3, Sam Haas 2-for-3 2b 2 rbi, Preston Kraft 1-for-4 rbi, Jared Roland 1-for-3 rbi, Nick Berkleo 1-for-3, Paul Blone 1-for-3, Jaylen Boldan 1-for-3 2 rbi
Granite Falls: no hits
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Madison: Brandon Bornhorst (W) 5-0-0-0-2-11
Granite Falls: Aaron Ziske (L) 2-5-7-3-2-1, Elliot Carmany 3-5-3-3-2-2
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BERKELEY-- Cal's football season continues to head down a deep, dark hole to oblivion.
A return to Memorial Stadium didn't help the Golden Bears, who lost 27-17 to Arizona State on Saturday before 51,634 fans, dropping to 1-4 for the first time in coach Jeff Tedford's 11 seasons.
No Cal team has recovered from a 1-4 start to play in a bowl game.
"As far as making a bowl game, that's a little farther down the line than I'm thinking about," linebacker Nick Forbes said. "I'm thinking about next week."
The Bears (1-4, 0-2 Pac-12) lost for the third straight game after consecutive road defeats to Top-25 opponents Ohio State and USC. Cal plays at home next Saturday night against UCLA.
"We're not going to quit," Tedford said. "If you want me to say we're going to quit, we're not going to quit. We're going to come back to improve."
The checklist of areas that need work is growing:
The Bears battled within 20-17 when Forbes blocked an ASU field goal try with 11:27 left, then Keenan Allen caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Maynard with 9:33 left. The play was initially ruled incomplete, but a replay showed Allen's right foot brushed the turf before he went out of bounds in the end zone.
"Those two plays gave us some encouragement to keep going," said Allen, who sat out portions of the second and third quarters because he was throwing up.
But ASU (4-1, 2-0) answered with a 74-yard scoring drive, pushing the lead back to 10 points when Taylor Kelly delivered a 22-yard TD pass to Kevin Ozier with 6:17 left.
Kelly finished 26 for 45 for 292 yards with three touchdowns, while Maynard threw incomplete on all six of his attempts after the TD pass to Allen.
Cal had beaten the Sun Devils four straight times and had not lost to ASU at home since 1997. Now the Bears must win five of their final seven games to become bowl eligible.
The Bears managed just 285 total yards, their second straight game being held under 300. Tedford said the Bears never found a rhythm, and certainly that was the case on plays of third-and-7 or longer, where they converted just 1 of 11 chances.
"Getting stuck in third and extra long all the time is not the best situation to be in," Tedford said.
The result was Cal had as many punts (9) as pass completions.
ASU went in front 7-0 when Kelly threw a 1-yard TD to tight end Darwin Rodgers with 7:11 left in the first quarter. Through five games, the Bears have been outscored 44-7 in the opening period.
Cal answered when Sofele dashed 24 yards up the middle for a TD with 13:06 left in the second quarter. A 44-yard pass play to Allen helped set up the score.
ASU led 10-7 when Sofele fumbled with 3:11 left in the half. ASU converted a 37-yard drive, capped by Kelly's 9-yard TD strike to Ozier with 53 seconds left.
Maynard said the Bears won't quit on themselves.
"The 1-4 record for us is just putting more demand on us as a team to win," Maynard said. "I'm going to be harping on our guys this week. We've got to create focus, got to make things happen, practice harder than we've ever practiced. We gotta play better."
But sophomore Brendan Bigelow, who rushed for 191 yards on eight tries the previous two games, did not carry the ball. "If there's not things we feel he's suited for and other guys are better suited for them, they'll be in the game," Tedford said.
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Kansas City firefighters battled an apartment fire in the Beacon Hill area on Saturday afternoon.
The fire in the 2600 block of Harrison Street was reported just after 4 p.m.
Firefighters reported heavy smoke and fire showing from the backside of the apartment.
Crews brought the fire under control quickly.
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The skinny: I know it's early, but can we just name Nick Cave's latest as the best album of the year and be done with it? Cave and his Bad Seeds' 15th studio album, "Push the Sky Away," is a work of uncommon beauty, intoxicating twists and superb songwriting -- and I doubt anything will top it, artistically, in 2013. It's Cave's finest offering since 1996's "Murder Ballads." As an added bonus, these new songs sound just as mesmerizing on the stage. Cave and his marvelous band performed four "Push" tracks during its 10-song showcase at SXSW, and all of them were equal to the longtime fan favorites performed. That Cave, now 55, is still putting out songs that can go toe-to-toe with the likes of "The Mercy Seat" is quite amazing.
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HOUSTON (December 3, 2012)--Former President George H.W. Bush started the week Monday in a Houston hospital where he's spent several days for treatment of a lingering cough related to bronchitis.
Bush, 88, remained in stable Monday, George Kovacik with Methodist Hospital said.
Aides said earlier the 41st president would likely be discharged over the weekend.
Bush has been in and out of the hospital for treatment of the cough.
Bush also suffers from a form of Parkinson's disease that requires him to use a wheelchair or motorized scooter.
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As a follow up to my post a couple up, though prob not relivant just as weird. I reinstalled windows7 (64) the other day on the same machine but sperated HDD and as a temporary measure untill I can figure out why PMserv isn't muxing correctly, I decided to convert everything new to m2ts and AC3. But I was going bonkers over why evertime I created a file using tsmuxer or mkv2vob the file couldn't be rendered in MPCH.
I don't know why but it seemed to be because I was either running from or using folders on the ext3 drive as temp folders. Once I moved Tsmuxer back to C: (ntfs) and the temp dir in mkv2vob also, the files were coming up fine.
I really don't know why but thought I'd put this info here too just incase it might help with my question above. FYI I'm using ext2fsd to mount my pmserv drive (fixed mount).
Also I said before that it was only mkvs that weren't working. I actually came across a set of avis that had the same problem yesterday. Cheers


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October 20, 2005
Experts say that on average teenagers begin to feel pressure to have sex around age thirteen. That's about five years sooner than pervious generations. News 12 is on your side with why the peer pressure may be biologically difficult to resist at this age.
It has to do with developmental changes in the brain. In the early teen years, the part of the brain responsible for making judgment calls and forming individual ideas is under construction. This clouds teens' ability to connect the consequences of sexual activity with their actions.
Counselor John Hill has worked with sexually active teens for more than ten years.
"The pressure seems to have gotten worse from the teens I've talked to," Hill said.
Across the country today statistics say about 10,000 teens contracted a new STD.
"The age seems to be going down for sexual experimentation," Hill said.
Anyone who has sex under the age of sixteen can be charged with fornication. The Columbia County Sheriff's Office has had five reports of statutory rape this year, and in an average year they get between five and ten. For statutory rape to be considered a felony, there must be at least three years of difference in age. The maximum penalty for this is up to twenty years in jail. For aggravated molestation involving sodomy or injury to the victim, the maximum penalty is thirty years.
But are teenagers thinking about the consequences?
"It's just a lot of young people doing a lot of adult things they're not supposed to do," said Kenescia Wilson, student.
And have expectations changed?
"It's high school, they're just guys, ya know?" said Christina Kernaghan, student.
Dr. Hill's advice is talk to your children.
"There needs to be a lot of education on the part of homes and schools and churches," Hill said.
Proper education will teach them how to make smart choices. Nationally, one in three teens will get a sexually transmitted disease and one fourth of those cases will be HIV.
You can help your kids by keeping the relationship strong by spending as much time as possible with them. Communication and parental approval is more important than your kids might let on.


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Samarian Kaskaske of Tecumseh and Ricky McGirt of Tecumseh announce the birth of a daughter, Isabell Rene McGirt.
She was born at 11:56 a.m., Feb. 6, 2013, at St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital. She weighed 10 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 ½ inches long.
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I think to write you have to face some demons. I am sure I have read that often in writers interviews. Fortunately I think it is in the Geordie personality to be unnervingly honest.
I hadn't thought about this photo in the way I described and it has been a eye opener to me to view it this way. A useful exercise in many ways.
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LOS ANGELES (October 8, 2012)—President Barack Obama walked on stage at a weekend celebrity-studded fundraiser after performances by such singers as Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and Stevie Wonder and remarks by actor George Clooney, marveled at how they are able to perform flawlessly night after night and then said, "I can't always say the same."
It was a shot at his listless debate showing against Republican Mitt Romney on Wednesday.
Supporters in the crowd laughed at the line.
Mr. Obama was raising millions of dollars over two days of campaigning in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
He capped his night at a ritzy 150-guest dinner costing $25,000 person.
As the president tried to raise campaign cash, his surrogates were continuing to pound the theme that Mitt Romney's success in last week's debate was the result of dishonesty.
Obama strategist David Axelrod told CBS that Obama was "a little taken aback" when Romney, "walked away from his record."
Axelrod said there will be adjustments for that in the next two debates.
Romney and Mr. Obama are both airing new ads saying their opponent has distorted their positions.
Mr. Obama's ad uses debate footage to argue that Romney grossly misrepresented his own positions as well as the president's on taxes.
Romney's campaign has a new ad claiming that Mr. Obama is not telling the truth when he says Romney wants to cut $5 trillion in taxes.
Both campaigns are preparing their running mates for Thursday's vice presidential debate, and trying to keep expectations low.
Republican Newt Gingrich suggested to NBC that GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan might hold back on any hostility out of respect for Vice President Joe Biden's status as a senior statesman.


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Here's one for those of you who love design and football! In a collaboration with Hey for the World Cup 2014, Dave Sedgewick has produced a beautiful book of illustrations to celebrate this years football frenzy in Brazil. The book features a variety of players from the 32 teams competiting, each with their own unique facts and statistics.
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Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, second from right, and Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, right, walk past two Swiss guards as they leave after a meeting at the Vatican, Friday, March 8, 2013 The Vatican says the conclave to elect a new pope will likely start in the first few days of next week. The Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters that cardinals will vote Friday afternoon on the start date of the conclave but said it was "likely" they would choose Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. The cardinals have been att


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Shenzhen Scope has sold 900,000 units for use in Thailand schools in 2012. These tablets have a 7-inch display, 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB RAM, 16GB storage, wireless LAN support of 802.11b/g/n, 6 hours of battery life and are powered by a Rockchip SoC chip, which is based on the ARM Cortex™-A8 processor. These units cost about $80 and after 3 years, are the students' to keep. The government is now planning to supply 800,000 tablets that are more robust in 2013 to students entering the 7th grade.
In the past, students in developing nations have relied on notebooks or netbooks, devices that tended to be more power hungry. ARM partners can deliver cost-effective, full-featured products to schools at price points that are affordable in developing nations. For example, Amlogic shipped over half a million tablets to Brazil, Allwinner designed devices for the Indian market and Nufront is working with education partners in China.
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Plain Bagel Dough (adapted from Peter Reinhart's Bread Baker's Apprentice)
The sponge:
1/2 tsp instant yeast
2 cups (9 ounces) unbleached high-gluten flour (I used Sir Lancelot)
1 1/4 cups (10 ounces) water, room temperature
Whisk together the dry ingredients in a 4 quart mixing bowl. Whisk in the water, stirring to make a smooth, sticky batter almost like pancake batter. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature for about 2 hours, or until the batter has nearly doubled in size and is very foamy and bubbly.
The final dough:
1/4 tsp instant yeast
1 3/4 cups white whole wheat flour
1 1/2 TBSP vital wheat gluten
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp diastatic malt powder
Add the instant yeast to the sponge and stir well. In small bowl whisk together the flour, wheat gluten, salt, and malt powder. Add to the sponge and using dough hook, knead until dough is smooth and elastic, about 6 minutes. Remove dough from bowl and place on clean countertop.
Line a baking sheet with a silpat or parchment paper sprayed with cooking spray. Divide dough into 3 ounce portions for the bagels and 2 1/2 ounce portions for the bagel dogs.
Roll each portion into a ball and place on prepared baking sheet. Cover with a damp towel and let rest for 20 minutes.
Roll balls into 6-7 inch ropes for the bagels and 10-12 inch ropes for the bagel dogs. If the dough resists, just let it rest for a few minutes and try rolling it again.
For the bagels, wrap the dough around your palm and the back of your hand, overlapping the ends by an inch or two. Press the overlapping edges against countertop, rolling the bagel back and forth to seal the seam.
For the bagel dogs, wrap the dough around the dog, making sure to tuck the ends in.
To finish and bake bagels and bagel dogs:
Bring a large, wide pot of water to a boil and add 1 TBSP baking soda. Remove bagels from the fridge and gently drop them into the boiling water. Let them boil for one minute, then flip them over to boil on the other side for one minute. Remove bagels from water with a slotted spoon and place on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with kosher salt and poppy or sesame seeds if desired.
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Summer sports are kicking into high gear, and more time outside means more chances to get hurt.
In a News 12 Special Assignment, Stephanie Baker tells us about mistakes children in all sports make.
We looked at the most common injuries in several popular sports and found a common theme. Using isolated muscle groups during sports like baseball can set kids up for serious sprains and tears.
We found that exercises many young athletes are skipping could prevent them from getting hurt.
Different sports...same underlying problem.
With baseball, coach Jamie Dukes says it's all that throwing.
"The most common injuries are right here in the bicep," he says. "It's mainly a conditioning type thing."
Pitch after pitch...it works the arm and shoulder too much, and neglects a lot of other muscle groups.
"He had two groin pulls, two hamstring pulls...he had a shoulder separation," says football coach Randy Hill. That's one of the more extreme injuries he's seen. The most common?
"The knee gets rotated the wrong way or they get hit in the knee."
Quick movements on the field...the feet face one way...the body goes the other. It's a perfect recipe for a torn knee.
Same for soccer, according to coach Kevin Kennedy.
"It's an all-weather sport," he says.
Soccer players have the added hazard of playing through wet and muddy conditions. A slippery field makes it harder to control your body in a fast-paced sport.
"You have someone putting their cleats into you and maybe kicking you in the ankle," Kennedy says.
In competitive cheerleading, it's the knees and ankles, according to coach Nikke Milford.
"They do fly 10 feet in the air, sometimes higher," she says. "The kids need to know what they're doing."
Brynn Regan knows first hand. She suffers from the knee injury common to most of these sports: an ACL tear. That's the ligament that keeps the knee in line with the rest of the leg.
"I still have pain when I do certain things," Regan says.
Uneven muscle mass, ankle and muscle tears...the most common injuries share a solution.
With any sport, trainers say body awareness and controlled movement are important the entire time you're working out.
"All movements come from the core," says Kyle Holloman, a trainer at a cutting-edge Atlanta fitness club. He says your strength and stability come from your midsection. The "core" is the body's powerhouse, made up of the pelvis, abdominal, and back muscles.
Your joints and limbs aren't designed to work on their own. Strengthening the core stabilizes all your movements and gives you more power.
"Everyone is so focused on getting bigger muscles that they're not really training to be better athletes," Holloman says.
Holloman showed us a few ways to get a stronger core: several exercises with the medicine ball. A twisting motion strengthens the whole area. And bench-pressing weights on a large ball is also a good exercise, because it's not as stable as a bench...so it forces you to tighten up.
How do you apply this to sports?
In baseball, keeping the body in line means the power in the pitch comes from the core, not just the arm.
It's also about following through in football...and a strong core controls the limbs. Keeping them in line means fewer tears on the field.
A strong midsection also means fewer ligament tears for soccer players. If it's weak, hips go one way, knees the other.
For cheerleading, it's about knowing where you are in the air.
Brynn Regan lost body control. That is the root of many sports injuries. A strong core means your whole body is in line and working together. That could mean less time on the bench and more in the action.
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Rats Rising: Using the Rat as a Model Organism for Autism Research
Autism Speaks has partnered with SAGE Labs, a division of Sigma Life Science, to create and validate the first line of rat models of autism. Previous rodent models of ASD, which are important for understanding the biological basis of autism and drug discovery, have used mice. Such models allow scientists to examine the downstream effects of genetic mutations on brain development and behavior. For studies of behavior, learning and cognition, the rat is the animal of choice due to its complex behavioral repertoire. With these new genetically modified rats, the richness of previous behavioral and physiological research can be leveraged and applied directly to autism. These new rat models will now be validated in the laboratories of several scientists who will be studying brain development and behavior of the animals.
Edward Weinstein, Ph.D., the Director of SAGE labs, answers some questions about the new model animals and how they will benefit autism research.
1) Generally speaking, why do we need a rat model of autism when mouse models exist?
Dr. Weinstein: Researchers have been able to create genetically modified mice for the past 25 years, so a large number of mouse models have been created, addressing all sorts of human diseases and disorders. But mice are not always the best model system for every condition. For example, researchers who study ocular disease greatly prefer the rabbit. And the rat is an excellent model for toxicology, cardiovascular, and cognitive research. In the past, researchers would create the best genetically modified mouse model possible to answer their scientific questions. Now they can create the most relevant genetically modified model in whatever species best models the condition they are studying.
2) Why can't the same technology that one uses to make a genetically modified mouse work with rats?
Dr. Weinstein: Genetically modified mice, also sometimes called knockout mice, are created by making changes to the DNA in a mouse embryonic stem cell. Researchers tried unsuccessfully for decades to develop rat models using the same technology. SAGE labs has developed a new technology, called zinc finger nuclease technology, which allows us to create knockout rats without the use of embryonic stem cells.
3) Can you describe how the Sigma technology works in a manner accessible to our community?
Dr. Weinstein: The technology is actually fairly straightforward. We create an enzyme called a zinc finger nuclease (ZFN), which has been especially constructed to target a specific gene. We can then inject that ZFN into a one-cell rat embryo where it will bind the targeted gene and cause a break in the DNA. This effectively "knocks out", or inactivates, the gene. The one-cell embryo is then transferred into a surrogate rat and 21 days later you have a genetically modified rat that is born. This genetically modified rat will be exactly like every other rat, with the exception of the inactivation of that one specific gene that was targeted. Part of the beauty of this technology is that it not only works for creation of genetically modified rats, but also mice and rabbits. It should work in virtually any animal model system.
4) What do you see are the next steps in using genetically modified rats for autism research?
Dr. Weinstein: We have worked to create a suite of genetically modified rats that we hope will be useful for autism research. The real challenging work, however, comes in the validation of the models. Testing these rats to see if there really are behavioral differences in them will be key to determining their usefulness.
In addition, autism research is still at the stage where new genetic links are continuously being uncovered. We hope to continue to serve the research community by expanding our platform of autism models as rapidly as possible.
5) Genetics is only one component of the autism puzzle. Research has identified environmental agents that either alone or in combination with a genetic vulnerability lead to the altered neurodevelopment we see in autism. Can environmental and gene-environment interaction questions be posed using these new rats?
Dr. Weinstein: We get kind of hung-up when we say "genetic model." We absolutely can do these experiments. Using the genetically modified rats, we can carefully time exposures both in utero and during early post-natal life. Gene-environment interactions are extremely important to understand and we hope that researchers will seek answers to those questions with these new autism model rats.
6) Why did you partner with Autism Speaks for your foray into rat models of genes important in autism?
Dr. Weinstein: We have a lot of expertise in the use of Zinc Finger Nucleases and the creation of genetically modified animals. However, we don't have the in-depth expertise or background in autism that is necessary for determining which are the best models to create. Working with Autism Speaks has been critical from a scientific aspect. Also, members of Autism Speaks are so well connected to the research community, you know that when you get scientific advice from Autism Speaks, you are getting advice from an entire field of researchers.
We look forward to sharing the results of the behavioral and physiological evaluations of these new rats as scientists begin working with them.


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AIKEN, S.C. --- Gas prices in Aiken are as low as $1.45 a gallon for regular gas. With the lower prices, we're On Your Side with what you can do with the extra money.
There's a smile on Sandra Zender's face and it's thanks to those lower gas prices. She's topping off her gas tank on Wednesday at the $1.45 price. "I didn't expect that and I was surprised when I saw that gas price, so I had to get it," says Sandra.
Big savings for her these days, to the tune of $30 bucks every time she fills up and she says, up to $300 a month. That's because she does a lot of driving back and forth to Atlanta for work.
"I've pretty much taken that money to buy things for my granddaughter and my grandson," says Sandra. She showed us the clothes that she bought for 2-week-old Laila. "I was able to get my mom Thanksgiving dinner from Reids," she adds. "As for Christmas, I'll be able to buy additional gifts."
Now, she's also planning for the future. "I've also taken some of that money and put it back into stocks," she says. "The stocks are low now. You buy them while they're low and once they go back up, then you made a great investment." She knows a little something about the business world too. She's a manager at the Lowe's in Peachtree City.
Those smart investments is what Sandra is looking for. "Spend it on the basic necessities and not going out, buying stuff that you don't need," says Sandra. "So, you had that extra reserve fund."
From stocking her mother's refrigerator, to stocking up for the future, Sandra's just glad dropping gas prices are building her reserve funds, That I wouldn't of really had if the gas prices stayed up."
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1. Ruby: 01:10
Somewhere along the way, I seem to have turned into a Ruby geek. I spent the day converting most of my data analysis code to Ruby because the interactivity of the Ruby shell makes prototyping so much fun. Now if it were more like Lisp, I would be even happier. I suppose I _could_ freak everyone out and start using Lisp - maybe Common Lisp? - within IBM, but... =)
I still haven't quite figured out how to use Eclipse to debug Ruby programs. I keep getting "abnormal program termination" errors. Ah, well, that just forces me to write programs with no bugs. ;)
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2. Carnivore Night XXXVII: Magdalo at Magdiwang: 01:16
My sister just sent me another great invitation to another great party. =) She's an awesome cook and entertainer. Way cool!
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3. My family's moving: 01:29
My sister's having her next Carnivore Night party at the new house. It boggles the mind, actually. I'd lived all my life on Bautista Street, growing up right next to the office. I grew used to always being presentably dressed (although my fashion sense was really dodgy). I liked rubbing elbows with people during lunch and dinner. I loved being around all those books. And of course it was great being able to just wander over and bring my dad a glass of water or give my mom an unexpected hug on those inevitable long days...
How will that change now that we have a proper house some distance away from work?
It's good for my family, though. It'll give them that extra time for relaxation that makes all the difference. From the pictures, it seems like a beautiful house, too.
I'll wake up extra early tomorrow - extra extra extra early, maybe 5:00 - so that I can chat with my mom and my friends before I go to IBM...
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4. Camels: 14:46
Here's a tidbit from "Communication of Innovations" by Everett Rogers:
"For instance, there are 6,000 Arabic words dealing with camels, including ninety to describe camel pregnancy."
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How Oreo Culture-Jacked The Super Bowl
Who Won the Social Media Super Bowl?
After the lights went out at last night's Super Bowl, light bulbs went on above the heads of the creative team behind Oreo cookies ads. When a power outage at the Superdome in New Orleans stopped the game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers for an epic 34 minutes, Oreo's team took action and posted a simple ad that was retweeted, or shared, more than 14,500 times on Twitter. The message: "Power Out? No Problem" accompanied with a picture of a cookie with the line "You can still dunk in the dark." How did 360i –the agency responsible for the ad– do it so quickly?
"Because Oreo was a Super Bowl advertiser, we had set up a team of folks at our offices with people from Oreo as well to both listen to and optimize the chatter on the Internet," Sarah Hofstetter, president of 360i told Speakeasy via email. "While we certainly didn't expect the blackout, the team's first instinct upon the blackout was to figure out how Oreo can be relevant in the moment. Having a full team of creative, social media experts and the brand made it quick and seamless."
Oreo's instant Twitter ad stood out on a night when 30-second ads on TV cost $3.8 million. It helped demonstrate the power of ingenuity over money, and social media over traditional forms. It is likely part of a coming wave of real-time advertising that reacts, like a political campaign war room, to real-time events.
Late last year, Oreo and cinema chain AMC Theatres had a funny Twitter spat over the question, "Ever bring your own Oreo cookies to the movie theater?" Hofstetter said Oreo exemplifies some of the "best practices" when it comes to effective digital branding: "They are relevant, visible and constant. And they are a brave brand. So whether it was the Daily Twist program from this summer, their amazing 100th birthday celebration last year, or last night's real-time culture-jacking, Oreo finds a way to be relevant and on brand," Hofstetter said.
Power out? No problem. twitter.com/Oreo/status/29…
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Roger has just completed another stage of the Australian open and gave a stinging master class to yet another opponent on the way - unfortunately for Raonic, he was the student.
Roger said of Raonic's 210kmh plus serve "You try to anticipate it a little bit which happened better and better as the match went on. I got a feel for it, I'm so happy with the way I played. I think we both played a great match. It would be fun to play seven five-setters in a row … but it's not really what you want to do"
Our Champ did not face a single break point and produced just 12 unforced errors on his own serve. The first nine games of today's match went with serve, but the 13th seed Raonic was the first to double fault and gave Roger a set point which he gratefully accepted as Raonic netted a backhand volley. Roger had, amazingly, made just one unforced error throughout the set and although much is often made of Raonic's powerful serve, our champ was more than holding his own in that department too. Just nine points were lost on serve in the second set – Roger dropping only two – and a tie-break was required to decide the outcome. Raonic produced aces with his first three serves, but Roger was simply waiting patiently for his opportunity and seized it with a backhand winner down the line as Raonic came into the net. An ace of his own gave Federer three set points and he took the second with a forehand winner. After that he seemed to break Raonic's spirit and Roger broke serve twice early in the third set on his way to a convincing victory.
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I submitted my first patches to commonkey's tyrant_optimize on November 11th. Since then, I went on to make many other changes to it, including ANP (to make the best raid decks ever) and conquest battleground effects (to make the ultimate conquest tool).
I have been called many things since then. Some hailed me as a hero, or "master programmer" (I'm really not). It makes my heart swell to see my name posted in Fansite comments, though I would say the one more deserving of the credit is commonkey. Others decried my actions, claiming I ruined conquest, and indeed the entire game of Tyrant. That's too bad, but it's just fine.
Was I right in releasing this code to the public? Did I act correctly in opening this Pandora's Box? I'm not sure. I do know that as a coder, I am a supporter of open source. I have benefitted from being able to peruse Moraku's and Netrat's source code for their respective simulators, and I use other open source software on a daily basis. And it certainly would not have felt right to keep my improvements to myself and friends only. So I did what I felt was right.
Whether what I did was right or not, I no longer have the time to support such an endeavor. Just as I took the torch from commonkey, I think it is time to pass the torch back on to the next contributor, whoever that may be. commonkey seems to be working on his own repo again, and there has been a little bit of extra work done by andor. Because of the distributed nature of git, everyone who forked my repository on github has a complete copy of all changes I have made, so anyone can pick up where I left off.
I may be back in a few months, but until then, it has been a pleasure serving you. It's time for me to disappear from the spotlight, back into the shadows (where some have argued that I operate best), and make way for other coders with enormous potential.


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RAY SANTOS is a musician, a composer, an arranger, a conductor, a contractor, a sideman, a bandleader and above all a gentleman. He has played and arranged for Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Cesar Concepcion and many more. He has arranged and conducted for Mario Bauza and Eddie Palmieri. In the late 40s he played with Noro Morales and also on occasion with the Chack-a-ñuñu Boys. He was staff arranger for the movie The Mambo Kings... and lets not forget he is one of a select Latin few to graduate from the Juilliard School of Music. I can only think of Pete Terrace as another Latin Juilliard grad. Ray was an important music contractor in P.R. for many years. He also arranged and conducted for Gema Records that great big band album titled Los Mejores Musicos de Puerto Rico. Lets write letters to the powers that be (Guillermo Alvarez guess?) and see if we can get them to release it on CD.
One of my biggest embarrassments in my producing years was due to a revelation that Ray Santos very calmly and without rancor made me aware of. We were sitting in a car in Santurce waiting for the rain to stop. We were reminiscing when I brought up the subject of the Tito Rodriguez LP Esta Es Mi Orquesta on which Ray played tenor sax (as he usually does). If need be he will play alto. I mentioned to Ray that I couldnt understand why his solo on the title tune sounded so strange. He looked at me straight in the eye and asked me if I really didnt know. I said, No, I dont know, and Ray told me in his tranquil and friendly manner there are 2 solos on separate tracks and then it hit me, of course-I was supposed to douse one track or the other. He was not angry and if it annoyed him originally, that had passed. He could have called me stupid, a jerk, inefficient, etc. but he didnt. Ray Santos, the living legend, is too much of a gentleman for that.
On another note Mary Kent the photo-journalist is putting together a book based on about 50 interviews and her photos. This book will include her comments, opinions and the experiences that she has had with these Latin artists and creative peripherals. A book publisher who is serious enough to realize that this book will fill a void and make money too is needed. Do we hear any takers?
A recent Descarga newsletter (Vol. 1 No. 8, 4/93) made me aware that Mon Riveras originally titled Alegre LP #823 Que Gente Averigua was reissued as a CD under the title Mon Y Sus Trombones. I remember approaching Mon around 1962 with the idea of a band without trumpets or saxophones, just trombones - 3 of em. He liked the idea so much, he composed all the tunes and wrote all the arrangements. Mon also played guitar and clarinet (not on the record). He was also such a good baseball player he could have made the major leagues. In the Puerto Rican baseball league he was a very big star, great long ball hitter and defensive player. But getting back to the first trombone band, I called Barry Rogers who introduced me to Mark Weinstein. For the 3rd trombonist I called Manolin Pazo who had switched to bass but had previously played trombone with Machito, among others. He retrieved his bone from storage and started woodshedding. He got his chops in shape in time for the recording. Among the personnel the studio band included Charlie Palmieri and Kako. Eddie Palmieri played on two numbers, "Lluvia Con Nieve" being one of them.
There has been much discussion and some confusion about who was the first trombone band. Mon or Eddie? It was Mon and I should know. It was my idea and I recorded both Eddie and Mon. Some aficionados seem to think that since Eddies Alegre LP La Perfecta (his debut album) was catalog #817 and Mons was #823 that Eddie had the first trombone band. On the surface it does appear that way but the reality is that Mons 45 RPM Que Gente Averiqua was released before Eddies LP. More important than that is the fact that Eddies Vol. 1 contained three different instrumentations, none of which were strictly bones. One instrumentation was a four trumpet conjunto (without bones) another instrumentation featured Barry Rogers on bone and George Castro on flute. The third instrumentation was a combination of trombones and trumpets. The fact is that Mon was the first trombone band and, of course, Eddie will verify it.
Another item Eddie could verify is, if there is any truth to the story about him and his band and a particular club in Spanish Harlem. The way I heard it (and I think from Louie Ramirez) Eddie and the band were hired to play three Wednesdays in a row at this club, supposedly owned by the Rican Mafia. The first Wednesday neither the band nor Eddie showed up. The second Wednesday the band showed up but Eddie didnt. The third Wednesday Eddie showed up but not the band. Luckily Eddie insisted on playing a solo concert which he didmesmerizing the audience and the owners and he is still alive today to tell it. True or not? Eddie, what is your recollection?
I wish Jerry Masucci would get his execs at his Vaya Record Company to double check their credit info. When Mon and His Trombones was reissued in the late 70s they omitted my producer credits. In their 1993 CD release they gave me producer credits, which I thank them for, but why did they add a co-producer to my name? Ive never met the gentleman. He probably was the reissue director.
While writing this column Ive been listening to the Almendra CD by Aldemaro Romero and Chico OFarrill which was mostly recorded in Cuba in 57. Wow, what a great album! A super big band..well, actually there are three super big bands. The personnel from the 57 big band included many of the personnel from the Cuban Jam Session Panart LP...among them El Negro Vivar, Generoso, and the Penalver brothers along with Richard Egues and possibly Chocolate Armenteros. A second band session recorded in New York City the last day of 53 included Bernie Glow, Leon Merian, Manny Oquendo and Ray Rodriguez. Another session two months before included Sol Schelinger and Willie Rodriguez. In the tune Yo Te Quiero the excellent vocalist Miguel de Gonzalo reminded me somewhat of West Coast singer of the 40s and 50s Andy Russell (a Latino). Andy sang ballads but de Gonzalo does that and uptempos too. Great voice, feeling and improvisations. Im surprised I never heard of him before.
The instrumental cut #10 should have been omitted, it breaks up the continuity with its non-Latin flavor although it shows Aldemaros versatility as an arranger. If you like big bands, this CD is a must for you. The three bands, although studio vente tus sound tight, crisp, in tune and demonstrate unusual dynamics, and phrasing together as if they were a steady working band or as if they had rehearsed plenty, which is not likely. This is a fantastic bunch of musicians that sound as if they loved what they were doing and knew what they were doing.
I recommend this CD as a gift to anyone you know that likes big bands. My compliments to Domingo Echevarria and Harry Sepulveda for their concept and reissue efforts. As peripheral anecdotes I offer you these two: about the time of the New York City sessions in 53 I met Aldemaro at the musicians union. I needed a piano player for that Saturday and he was available and thats how Aldemaro Romero played one night with my Chaka-ñuñu Boys band, It was at the Concourse Plaza Hotel on 163rd street near the Yankee Stadium. My crossway destiny with Chico OFarrill was that after I sold my Alegre label to Tico records I went to work for them as staff producer..It was my good fortune to produce a La Lupe LP in 67 titled Mi Nombre Es La Lupe and Chico wrote all the arrangements for that super big band. We worked together on that project with a studio dream band. I was very honored to be on an assignment with Chico. I was aware of his arrangements for Stan Kenton and Benny Goodman and, of course, I knew his collaborations with Macho and Mario Bauza. My great friendship with Tito Puente got a little strained at that time. He did not like the idea that after he caused La Lupe to reach her zenith as a recording artist and performer I should be producing her LP with Chico and a studio band. It, like most things, passed and we continued our friendship.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- With the Oakland A's filing into Scottsdale Stadium for the Cactus League opener, Giants president and CEO Larry Baer acknowledged Wednesday that he could see the two Bay Area teams sharing AT&T Park at some point, but only under one circumstance.
"They've got to come up with a long-term plan," Baer said. "Once that's arrived at, then maybe you'll take a step back and say, 'Is there something we can do to be helpful?' As a neighborly thing.
"Obviously, they've got to come up with what their plan is and we'll go from there."
If the A's need a temporary home as they build a new ballpark, the Giants are open to discussions. But Baer said that there is nothing new on the A's stadium front. He reiterated that the Giants would like the A's to get their own stadium, but not if it's in San Jose. The Giants hold territorial rights in Santa Clara County and have been unwilling to budge.
"If there's anything we can do to help them get (a new park) in their territory, we'll cooperate," he said.