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VINCENT, Ohio - When Warren visited Logan to compete in the Mingo Relays a week ago, it was basically a two-school battle between the two Southeastern Ohio Athletic League schools.
The Warrior girl thinclads edged the Chieftains, 64-62, with Meigs finishing a distant third with nine points.
"We've still got some work to do," said Warren girls head coach Sally Maddox, whose team was also first in a quad at Vinton County on Tuesday. "We're still not where we need to be."
On the boys side at Logan, the host Chiefs topped the Warriors, 68-56. The Marauders were third with 14 points.
That SEOAL confrontation is scheduled to resume in the Warren Warrior Invitational at 10 a.m. today. Only this time, the field will be a lot bigger.
Also expected to be in the track and field mix at Vincent will be Morgan, Belpre, Cambridge, Eastern, Fort Frye, Frontier, Marietta, Maysville, Parkersburg Catholic, Philo and River Valley.
"It should be a great meet," said Warren boys head coach Al Riffey, whose team was first in Tuesday's Vinton quad. "Logan should be the favorite, but it looks like a very strong field."
The Warren girls were last year's champs at the meet, while the Chiefs finished first in the boys division.
The Warrior girls look strong again in the throws with Emma Ryan, a three-time All-Ohio honoree in the discus, leading the way. At Logan, she had a toss of 135 feet, 4 inches in her specialty.
"Emma had a good day," Maddox said. "She's thrown consistently well all season."
In the shot put, Ryan had a throw of 35-11, which was runner-up to Logan freshman Allison McNeal's 37-00.50.
Marietta's Haley Bonar should provide plenty of competition in the throw events.
At last Saturday's 16th annual Clear Channel MOV/Russ Parsons Invitational at Stadium Field in Parkersburg, she was first in the shot with a heave of 33-9.5 and runner-up in the discus at 103-5.5.
In the pole vault, Warren's Raelyn Gardner is expected to be an early favorite, but could be challenged by Fort Frye's Kylynn Buchanan. At Logan, Gardner cleared the bar at 9-6.
A couple of long jumpers to keep an eye on will be Belpre's Allison Gherke and Sarah Walker.
Belpre's Taryn Carr and Gherke, and Gardner are also talented hurdlers.
In the distance events, Caldwell's Jenna Furr, Marietta's Julie Fobes, Fort Frye's Natalie Hart, Warren's Hannah Dugan and Lana Sydenstricker are all expected to set a fast pace. The relay events look wide open with several schools in the hunt.
On the boys side, Marietta will be featuring Mitchell Grose, the high-point individual at the Russ Parsons invite with wins in the 800 (2:04.73) and 3200 (9:39.1).
Look for Grose to be challenged by Warren's Sam Goodman and Parker Blain.
Tiger pole vaulter Will Cogswell cleared the bar at 12 feet, good for first place at PHS. He'll be challenged by teammate Caleb Hall, and Warren's Cole Wigal, Eli Duff and Andrew Vincent, who combined forces to win at the Mingo Relays.
Wigal cleared 14 feet in the finals.
Duff is also a standout long jumper.
Another track standout who will be competing at the Warren oval will be Belpre's Dakota Hoffman, the high-point individual at the the Belpre Shrine Relays with first places in the long jump (19-10.5) and 300 hurdles (41.06). He was also runner-up in the 200 (23.87) and 100 hurdles (16.06).
Some other thinclads who bear watching will be Marietta's Quinton Coffield (200, long jump) and Eddie Kimbrough (throws), Belpre's Sam Petty (100, 200), and Warren's Chris Massey, Blake Staley and Dylan Leffingwell (throws).


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Petite sirah used to have something of an identity crisis. Despite its name (and the fact that some wineries added to the confusion by labeling their wines as "petite syrah"), the grape isn't a diminutive version of syrah. To the contrary, wines made from petite sirah are usually inky-dark, full-bodied and sometimes very tannic.
Now the variety is better understood. It has gained enough of a following to have spawned its own fan club of sorts: P.S. I Love You. And acreage in California has been climbing steadily in recent years, rising to more than 8,600 acres last year. (Not exactly huge numbers -- there were 80,000 acres of cabernet sauvignon -- but healthy nonetheless.) Among the coastal counties, San Luis Obispo County is by far the leader, with more than 1,400 acres. And most of that is in Paso Robles.
Petite sirah and Paso Robles seem to be a good fit. I recently judged petite sirahs at the Central Coast Wine Competition in Paso Robles. Although the competition is open to entries from a number of counties, the vast majority of the 20 petites we evaluated were from Paso Robles. Judging a category of 20 big, often tannic reds can be an ordeal, but this group was actually pretty exciting. Sure, there were some duds -- too much tannin, oak or both were the most common complaints -- but most of the wines were good or even exceptional.
The top petite sirah was the 2011 Broken Earth Winery Petite Sirah ($22, but not yet released), from the winery's estate vineyard on Highway 46 East in Paso Robles. Although petite sirah can sometimes be big, bruising and a little one-dimensional, this one is spicy, floral and structured, with ripe black fruit, a note of lavender, some spicy oak and firm tannins.
Chris Cameron, winemaker at Broken Earth, says he has worked with petite sirah for many years in other places (including Australia, where it's called durif), and he always found it to be a handy blending component. But he thinks that Paso Robles petite sirah is much more expressive.
Paso Robles, he explains, is able to produce grapes with concentrated flavors and high acidity to go along with their high sugars. "Petite sirah in Paso loves the dry heat and benefits from the much cooler evenings," Cameron says, "although 2011 and 2012 had relatively warm nights by comparison through ripening. This, I believe, has advanced the fruit ripening to be more in balance with sugar ripening -- hence the wonderful results. The variety is a bit of a juggling act but certainly worth the effort."
Another gold medalist was the 2009 Donatoni Petite Sirah ($25), which has lots of exuberant fruit, a note of dark chocolate and firm tannins. Hank Donatoni, owner and winemaker at Donatoni Winery in Paso Robles, says, "If you can't make wine out of petite sirah, you shouldn't be making wine. That and syrah are two of the easiest grapes to work with."
The final gold medalist was the 2011 Hearst Ranch "The Pergola" Petite Sirah ($25), also from Paso Robles, which will be released in July. It offers ample lively black fruit, a lovely floral note (not unlike the Broken Earth) and firm but approachable tannins.
Other standout petite sirahs, all from Paso Robles, included the 2010 San Marcos Creek Petite Sirah ($28), with its ripe, spicy black fruit, hint of tobacco and very firm tannins; the dark, glass-coating 2008 Frolicking Frog Petite Sirah ($32), which is lively and quite fruity; and the 2009 Hidden Oak Petite Sirah ($30), a wine with fresh, dark fruit, a note of cedar, and tannins that are more polished than what you find in many petite sirahs.
One interesting wine that we tasted displayed petite sirah's potential in a cooler climate -- in this case, Edna Valley, an appellation better known for chardonnay and pinot noir. The 2010 Phantom Rivers Petite Sirah ($28) is from Wolff Vineyard and displays some peppery, cool-climate character. It's also spicy and rich, with dark fruit and firm tannins. I've tasted several petites from Wolff Vineyards over the years, and it's proving to be a great spot for more savory versions of the variety.
This was the first year that wines from Contra Costa County were part of the competition. Two wineries scored impressive best-of-class wins for their dessert wines. From Martinez, the 2007 Viano Zinfandel Port ($17), a winner in the fortified category, offers sweet berry and dried fig flavors, accented by a hint of white pepper. The 2011 Cline Cellars Late Harvest Mourvedre ($32), from a vineyard in Oakley, was the top dessert wine; it's very well-balanced, with luscious, sweet berry, some raisin flavors and a hint of coffee.
The top wine of the competition was the delicious 2010 Bodegas Paso Robles Monastrell ($39) -- monastrell is the Spanish name for mourvedre. It was a dark, smoky wine that displayed notes of roasted meat and lavender and finishes with approachable tannins.
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OAKLAND -- A hypothetical question has been making the rounds lately asks if the current Warriors were to play a series of crucial games against the "We Believe" team of 2007, which would prevail.
It is chewy candy for the mind and the answer, for now, is the "We Believe" bunch.
Not because it was more talented; it wasn't. Not because it was more athletic; it wasn't. Not because it shot better; it didn't. Not because it played better defense; it most certainly didn't.
But the "We Believe" team, inferior in so many ways, would have a decisive edge in two elements crucial to success: mental toughness and NBA experience.
Those ingredients are missing from the current Warriors as they stagger through the final weeks of the regular season, and every now and then they've gotten spanked because of it -- most recently in Wednesday's distressing home loss to lowly Sacramento.
These Warriors are destined for the playoffs but still digesting the rules required to gain admittance to the NBA elite, the room where the sign over the entrance says "Grown Men Only."
"We're a playoff team, there's no doubt about it," Richard Jefferson, the senior member of the team, said after practice Thursday. "It's just a matter of us learning and growing. It's the growing process. It's getting hair on your chest. It's your voice cracking. It's about becoming a man."
The "We Believe" squad, led by cocksure Baron Davis and fearless Stephen Jackson, was dominated by men mature in the ways of the league. Al Harrington and Jason Richardson were at their peak. Monta Ellis was the raw firecracker who might start or might come off the bench. That team's blue-collar attitude and junkyard dog mentality offset many of its shortcomings -- most notably lack of raw talent.
Those Warriors played their most important games as if defending their manhood.
That's how they managed to win 16 of their last 21 games and nine of their last 10 to nab the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference in the final game of the season.
That same machismo pushed them past No. 1 seed Dallas in the first round.
The current Warriors lack that kind of rugged spirit. When at their best, draining 3s and sprinting up and down the court and playing actual defense, they operate with orchestral rhythm and precision. They are capable of beating any opponent.
Even then, however, they are missing the grit and toughness so essential to becoming a serious player in the league.
Not the superficial toughness of a Draymond Green flagrant foul or David Lee's hard foul on LeBron James in December or the stray elbow Lee delivered to Dwight Howard on Monday. Those represent little more than stand-your-ground statements.
Yet these Warriors are not completely, um, soft. Andrew Bogut and sixth man Jarrett Jack, in particular, bring an edge that would have fit in with the 2006-07 team. "We Believe" coach Don Nelson, an expert at distinguishing the difference between real toughness and fake toughness, would have loved those two.
But Jack is on a one-year contract, and Bogut still is in the process of blending with his teammates. Can their fortitude spread to others? Would their teammates recognize it and respond?
Real toughness is less related to hard fouls or swinging elbows than to forcing the issue, finding a way, getting it done. It's about embracing the big moment and, as Jackson used to say, "making love to pressure."
It's about, above all, severe intestinal intolerance for unacceptable defeats.
The Warriors believe they'll get to that point, eventually, with maturity.
Meanwhile, they ask fans to be patient, for even if they were reduced to puddles under feral attack by the "We Believe" team, they have good reason to believe they'll someday grow into a team that could exact revenge.
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Some call them crazy...some say they simply have convictions.
Whatever you may call them, they could change the way you live.
A few years ago a California man started Christian Exodus. His goal: to get group members to move to South Carolina and create a godly, limited government.
So far, a few dozen families have joined in. But are they making change where we live?
It depends on who you ask.
Meet the Janoski family.
They have four kids, two dogs, and an SUV...a pretty typical American family.
But the Janoskis are also very different.
You could call them modern-day pilgrims.
In January of 2005 they moved to South Carolina as part of Christian Exodus.
"People who see us strictly through the media probably think, 'These guys are a bunch of crazies'," says Frank Janoski.
And they've certainly been called that.
Everyone from The Daily Show to GQ magazine has criticized this group.
Christian Exodus is a political, Christian organization that wants to move its members to South Carolina.
Once in the state, the group plans to effect change through the government.
Some of their basic beliefs are limited government and states' rights.
"We want to have a godly influence in our government," says Frank. Since he and his wife Tammy moved their family here, seven other families have joined them...and other people already living in the state joined in too.
CE's members aren't from a certain political party. Their Christian backgrounds vary too, ranging from Methodist to Baptist to Catholic.
"The movement itself, Christian Exodus, is fundamentally concerned with issues that I can't imagine anyone who is truly patriotic and truly a Christian would have any problem with," Frank says.
The original goal of Christian Exodus was to have 2500 families here by 2007. Clearly, that won't happen.
"It doesn't matter," says Frank.
He admits the group is growing slowly. But no matter how many people come, he still expects change.
"In terms of God's ability to use us, we don't need numbers," Frank says.
CE plans to start by endorsing candidates on the local level.
Their first endorsement is John Cobin, a candidate running to represent South Carolina's fourth district in the US House.
"I'm very delighted to have to support of Christian Exodus for my campaign," Cobin told News 12.
Eventually CE wants to have so much influence in the state they can vote for things like banning abortion and gay marriage.
If the federal courts resist that, they have a plan.
"Secession is definitely an option," Frank says.
"It can't work," says USC Aiken political science and religion professor Steven Millies. He says South Carolina could never cut itself off from things like phone lines and federal funding.
"It's hard to imagine it would be peaceful," says Millies. "Even if it's peaceful, hard to imagine it would be effective."
"It happened in Czechoslovakia," Frank says. "It happened recently, so yeah absolutely secession is definitely feasible."
Why be willing to go through such a fight?
The Janoskis say God has called them to this state to be salt and light, like it says in Matthew.
"For us to be salt and light, it's not just giving the gospel and sharing Christ, but its also standing for righteousness...and that means getting involved in your local politics," says Frank.
"This is a very old ambition in the history of Christianity and the history of the world, to try and bring religion and politics together in the same place. But it's never worked terribly well," Millies says.
And Millies also defends his stance with scripture.
"If you take a look at the gospel of John, Jesus says very plainly, 'My kingdom is not of this world'," Millies says.
The Janoskis know many will still think they're a little crazy, but they say they'll stay in South Carolina for the rest of their lives, trying to change things.
"The people that we're touching, that we've influenced or we've helped sort of rekindle the flame...that's success in and of itself," Frank says.
A typical family trying a very radical idea.
If you identify with Christian Exodus, but don't want to get that extreme, Dr. Millies' advice is: speak up when you vote.
But if you do want to get involved, you can visit CE's website at http://christianexodus.org.


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Health, Wellness Expo Is Saturday
Published: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 5:03 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 5:03 a.m.
The city of Mulberry is hosting a Health Awareness and Wellness Expo on Saturday with free health screenings, nutritional and fitness advice, home safety tips and fun activities for children.
The event will take place at the Mulberry Civic Center, 901 N.E. Fifth St., from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Door prizes will be given away each hour.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 72 is providing face painting, storytelling, balloon art and a bounce house for children.
For more information, call Bonnie Titus at Mulberry City Hall, 425-1125.
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Sometimes I get the notion that everytime someone sneezes at Google, the snot shows up in 50 blogs the next day. Everyone seems to love imagining Google as the underdog in a boxing match with Microsoft, and Microsoft even seems to like playing into the role. At any rate, everyone is talking about Google's New Spreadsheet, though the reactions are somewhat mixed. What's really exciting about the project for me are the collaboration features, which would make designing things like this Game System Matrix a heckuva lot easier. I've also been using Google's web word processor, Writely, for several months and find it more than adequate for the task, and of course Gmail is my preferred mail client. I've been growing more and more tempted to ditch my Thunderbird and just use Gmail exclusively.
Is Google aiming to eventually produce an "online office" with all the functionality of a Microsoft Office or Open Office suite?
google's online software
Aren't all of the google's online applications proprietary?
As far as I know, yes, Google's online applications are proprietary. There may be exceptions, but certainly Writely is non-free.
For myself, that's enough reason not to use them. Talk about lock-in: not only can you not switch word processors at will, you can't even hang onto your old one, because you never had a copy! That's "software as a service" for you. I'd rather use one of the several free applications that can do the same things (including provide web interfaces for remote users).
But THIS web spreadsheet is GPL ...
This appears to have sprung up during the month of June:
Simple Spreadsheet 0.3
I haven't tried it (I'm not a big spreadsheet user anyway, and when I do, I use Kspread). But of course, for groupware, a web-based spreadsheet would be more convenient.
I think I'd use the Free one, if anything.
Of course, the downside is that you have to handle the hosting yourself. Then again, that could be more of a plus than trusting everything to Google. Excessive dependence on a single supplier always makes me nervous, no matter how much I like them.


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As of lately I have come to a realization, without the internet I would still be shooting 10 over + per round. Although I have talented disc golfing friends, when I first started a good majority of them didn't even play tournaments. Disc golf was a social occasion that was cheap and an easy way outta the house. I have never had a pro level player just be like," Hey lets go shoot a round!" As much as that would make my day in a perfect world it just doesn't happen. To lower my scores and improve my game i have relied on you tube, dgplanettv, discraft and innova sites to find my game. Lots of people on this site talk about little things here and there to improve their game but never break it down in a sequence to better their game. Im sure that a ton of golfers have looked into the videos, tips and whatever else but for those who haven't, heres some food for thought. There is no perfect form. If there was, everones throws would look the same and be boring. Imagination of shots, diff lines, and diff disc selection make the game in my opinion. Dave dunipace has one of the best brakedowns of the disc golf throw that i can find though and i hope someone who hasn't looked into it stumbles across this.
1. Light quick footing
2. Plant foot at about 90 degrees with slightly bent knee
3. Hips opening up first
4. Shoulder turn next and fast (both hands tight to body)
5. Elbow extension following (not concurrent with shoulder turn)
6. Wrist stop
7. Powerful wrist position
8. Powerful grip especially after pivot at rip point
9. Disc held high through throw
10. Wrist down and disc in plane with throw
Ejection and Pull Through Side (where heavy disc springs and rips from grip)
Things to look for:
1. Weight over plant foot and still in front of disc
2. Pull through with full force of shoulders and arm (maximum power exerted at this point, not before)
3. Pull through ending up at least 180 degrees from the target.
4. Plane of arm matches plane of disc
5. Pivot on front foot (ball or heel, but ball is better)
VII. Mental
The most important element in learning is imagining that you can do it.
The next most important element is relaxing all your muscles that aren't throwing.
You can't throw the disc with your brain. No matter how much you know about technique, you have to perform, not recite.
Out of these tips I have summed it up into my own words
1. Get a comfortable grip
2. Stay light on your feet(lead in your boots never gets good results)
3. pull back later then sooner that way you can increase your chance of a successfull "hit" in your throw
4.Starting your forward motion after your run up with your hips insures that your elbow will be bent and right across your chest increasing the chance that you will be able to generate power and spin with minimal effort.
5. Loose and smooth is power. I prefer to keep a loose grip on the disc until its coming across my chest then add pressure according to the distance im trying to "fling the disc"
6. Although a power grip will always have optimum distance, a comfortable grip will have consistent distance more often.
Something I rarely see discussed online that should be is how to turn a disc.
I have found a couple things that have helped me that may help someone out there. Weather it is the right way or not it has worked for me.
Originally when i started throwing hyzers and anhyzers I did most of it with my shoulders on the follow through. (rhbh) If I finished with my left shoulder low it would hyzer, left shoulder high it would anny and if i finished pretty flat it would go straight. Since then I have learned that I can do it with my thumb nail as well. May sound goofy until you try it but with a proper downward wrist angle with the disc inline to the plane of your arm, thumbnail to the left produces hyzer, facing up a straight shot and to the right an anhyzer(torquing over). I used to think that throwing a disc flat meant holding it flat. All that does is produce off axis torque because the disc is not in plane with your arm. I played all of the last year as a 100% arm thrower. Until recently I didn't even have a hit in my throw. Needless to say adding 100ft to your drive a day after reading something online really messes with your approach to the game. I would have liked to have the option of having someone far greater in skill help me out when i first started. Im still not the best but i have an understanding for disc golf mechanics and the benefits of playing with people who are better then yourself. Videos can really help you if you are willing to be bored for a bit. Dave Feldberg has an amazing push putt video on vimeo, dan beto on you tube for driving, towel hit drills and right peck drills as most people know is really all you need to develop a hit. Shout out to random dubs at shaver for allowing me to play with some ballers!!! 5 bucks to play with pros and see what makes them better then you is far worth the dollaz.
O and for you sidearmers out there...
1. comfortable grip
2. incorporating a small X step can increase your accuracy
3. the more you turn your left shoulder away from the target the more torque you can gain.
4. Pull back isn't as important as your forward motion, save your power til the last second.
5.Palm to the sky
6. Pretend there is a hammer in your hand and you are hitting a nail into a wall. When you pound the nail in your wrist stops. That is where you get a true tendon bounce and increases spin/distance
7. Shoulders upon follow through sidearm can direct your angles without getting too wristy. Right shoulder down hyzer, right shoulder up anhyzer.
8. Also.... THUMB POSISTION, if you are rolling your wrist into headwinds, throw more stable and realize that on your thumb you have multiple pressure points. Putting more pressure on the inside or outside of your thumb can produce a slightly diff path on the flight plate. The flick shot should really be broken down to your wrist moving 1 inch back and 3 inches forward. When it stops, the disc is ejected off your finger tip propelled by the tendon from your finger down to your wrist. I prefer a sidearm grip in which the disc is ejected off the tip of my middle finger because its the longest finger I got and the tendon attached is the strongest in your hand. Im just an intermediate player with advanced potential so i may not know what im talking about to some, but if this helps at least one person then it was worth the giant @$$ post i just typed up drunken style at midnight! Good shootin fellas


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Houma boxers take road less traveled
Published: Monday, March 25, 2013 at 7:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 12:31 a.m.
The route to a boxing career usually begins in a gym with a pedigree of training fighters.
But for Houma natives Bobby Douglas and Trey Alexander, becoming the first boxers launched from Pro Athletic Performance appealed to them.
"It seemed too easy. That's like going to good team completely made, whereas I can come to a gym where there's no boxing and prove my worth," said Douglas, 23, on not going with a traditional boxing gym. "I'd rather start at the bottom make it to the top."
"We want to build our own legacy," Alexander, 19, said. "I think it's better to prove yourself than to have it easy."
The duo won their amateur debuts March 9 by unanimous decision in New Orleans. Douglas, a middleweight, defeated D'Antoine Crosby and forced standing eight count in the third round. Alexander, a lightweight, beat Jeremiah Fleming and had a knockdown in the third round.
On March 16, Douglas defeated Henry Gillum by unanimous decision in Ocean Springs, Miss., to go 2-0.
"As nervous as we were, in the back of our minds we couldn't afford to lose after all the training did," Douglas said.
"It's a good feeling knowing all the hard work you put in finally paid off," Alexander said.
The pair had extensive athletic backgrounds before getting into boxing.
Alexander, a 2011 Ellender graduate, played varsity basketball for the Patriots. Douglas, a 2007 South Terrebonne graduate, competed at the 2005 and 2006 Junior Olympics track and field meet in the 4x100 relay and the triple, high and long jumps.
About a year ago, Douglas said he was working out at PAP and started to develop an interest in boxing. That's when he turned to PAP owner and trainer David Butler, who was looking into starting a boxing program at the gym.
"I wanted to try it but needed somewhere to box, so I came to David Butler and ask for help," Douglas said. "He said I came at the right time."
Both Douglas and Alexander became actively involved in the gym's boxing program, turning their initial boxing interests into something real.
"They are in the gym training six to seven days a week," Butler said. "It has become a passion for both of them.
In the last six months, Butler said the young boxers have developed their ring skills under the tutelage of Houma boxing coach Ranney Davis.
The pair does a lot of film study of their favorite fighters. For Alexander, it is Floyd Mayweather Jr.; for Douglas it's Muhammad Ali, Roy Jones Jr. and James Toney.
Meanwhile, David and Brandon Butler are building their strength and conditioning with fighter specific workouts designed by nationally known trainer Kurt Hester, who personally trained David at LSU.
"It's testing your muscle durability. Instead of just many explosive for one or two rounds you're explosive for every round," Brandon Butler said. "It's a type of training where you don't show any signs of fatigue."
Two weeks prior to Douglas and Alexander's first fight, the Butlers brought in former world middleweight champion Robert Allen, who dramatically improved their defensive skills, use of the jab and how to trade punches with opponents. He was thoroughly impressed by the duo's stamina and ability to learn quickly.
"They had more conditioning then skill level when we started, but every day they got further along. I'm excited about working with them," said Allen, who trains out of Atlanta. "They seem to be real hungry. The sky's the limit."
"When Robert saw their first fight, he gave them the utmost respect. He's very interested in continuing on," David Butler said. "We just have to work out a schedule where either we're going to Atlanta a couple times, or he's going to come down here."
Douglas and Alexander, who recently discovered they are cousins, know they still have plenty to learn. They need to sharpen the technique, throw quicker jabs and hooks and stay in the pocket.
For now, they are content with coaching boxing classes at PAP while they continuing building their resume in the amateur ranks.
"We're just taking things one step at a time, keep winning, keep working hard, and in the long run I know that it's going to pay off," Alexander said. "Sooner or later we'll go pro."
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Vail official report: 0" new snow, 21" mid mountain base, 111" total snow this season
Weather: Not a cloud in the sky
Liftline status: Eagle Bahn is packed. Nothing at Chair 8
Run of the day: Riva was groomed top to bottomBreakdown: For a Monday, it's a busy one out there. That's likely due to the holiday weekend -- look for it to mellow out again tomorrow. Pretty classic Vail conditions out there right now, plenty of sun and great groomers, and there's even still a bit of soft snow to be found in the trees and stash spots. But it will get icy later in the day, be careful out there. If you're tuning your own equipment, best to err on the sharp side with your edges.
Snowcast: We might get a couple inches Thursday
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A couple of noteworthy mentions. If you make this, take the time to make the herb oil that he suggests. It really, really adds to the overall flavor of this bread. Also, eat it warm. Oh my holey-bread-dipped-in-oil goodness! It actually kind of reminded me of a croissant.... flaky, crispy, chewy, WOW! When it cooled, it was still delicious, but when I make this again, it will be timed to coincide with a meal.
I chose to make the poolish version. I used bread flour in my poolish, but I used Sir Lancelot flour in the final dough. The only toppings I added were the herb-infused oil and some sun-dried tomato pesto. And guess what? I FINALLY learned how to work with wetter dough. My ciabatta experience taught me that wetter is better. This stuff was all new to me folks. And now I know!
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I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of the BART strike. I don't have a full idea of who's right or who's wrong.
I am not as outraged as others that BART workers make an average of $80,000 a year. I also know they need to contribute more for their generous pensions and health care.
But as a transit fanatic and an occasional BART user -- I sometimes take a train from Fremont into San Francisco and back -- I can reflect a bit on what the ordinary commuter has endured.
Here are a few thoughts from my plague-on-all-your-houses reverie:
A) Don't impose a 60-day cooling off period unless there is a real prospect of agreement. Until the end, there did not seem to be serious movement toward a deal. In retrospect, it would have been better for Gov. Jerry Brown to allow a strike to play out in July.
If you are given 60 days and cannot settle, you'd better have a very good reason. What's happened in the interim has only poisoned the atmosphere.
B) If you are going to inconvenience your customers, let them know when and how much. In general, people forgive a lot but not when they have to check their cellphone at 3 a.m. to find out if they have a way to work in three hours. The BART mess has created a whole new population of insomniacs. Commuters would prefer a short strike and have done with it.
C) Don't look to the federal shutdown as a comparable fiscal battle. For BART users, the uncertainty of the trains running was a bigger headache than the closure of Alcatraz. At the very least, both sides should get a good PR team. That way, even if customers are being bamboozled, they won't feel quite like they're being used as pawns.
D) The first order of business when the strike is over -- and it will eventually be over -- is to improve BART's service, cleanliness and security. Over the last decade, I've seen a pronounced deterioration in all these areas. If this is a matter of work rules, they must be reformed. I suspect it's also a matter of culture. As it is now, the station managers look at you like it's your fault when a Clipper card is rejected by the finicky electronic gates.
I'm not holding my breath that any of these suggestions will be taken to heart. One of the biggest problems with BART is that it's a quasi-monopoly, at least for high-speed transit. There are options -- ferry, bus, driving -- but almost all are much slower. If BART offers dirty trains with few cops and surly workers, it does not pay much of a price. People anxious to make the trip into San Francisco or elsewhere in the East Bay will still take BART.
What's the answer? In the long run, I think that the unions and BART directors will have to agree on giving authority to a far more powerful manager who can enforce standards. That matters more than a squabble over money.
The unions may dislike this, but if it's done fairly, better service can only be in their interest. Very probably, they have the best ideas for how to accomplish it. Other systems do it. It's not reinventing the wheel. It's just common sense.
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The gloves have been off in the fight against AIDS for some time, but the National Institutes of Health may finally be going for the knockout. The organization is now planning to redirect AIDS research funds in an effort to expand support for research toward finding a cure for HIV. Over the next three fiscal years, the NIH will be investing an additional $100 million on this area of HIV/AIDS research. NIH says financing for the new initiatives will come from existing resources and also a redirection of funds from expiring AIDS research grants over the next three years.
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Network for police monitoring – monitoring the popularity of solid oak flooring
On our first post on the latest home decoration and fashion trends, we want to talk about the rising popularity of solid oak flooring both in the work place and at home. Public places like police stations, pubs and hotels as well as private businesses are increasingly turning to the use of oak floors. This is in no small part due to the recent affordability of oak as a material, more and more wood is being reclaimed and recycled which has helped to drive down prices and make it an increasingly popular choice for use.
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There are a number of benefits to be gained from using solid oak flooring and oak floors in these types of places. As a wood, oak is extremely resistant to wear and tear that would normally effect other less resilient woods. Of course you have to monitor the oak wood and occasionally maintain it with some treatment but it really is a great hardwood to use for flooring.
Solid oak flooring in homes
As I mentioned earlier, oak beams are increasingly being recycled and this is especially true for the housing market. People can now go to reclamation yards and get these types of flooring incredibly cheaply to what the price would be to buy it brand new. Solid oak flooring has seen somewhat of a boom as people look to add a touch of class and a sense of tradition to a relatively new build home. The future looks very bright indeed for these types of wooden floors with industry experts predicting that their use will continue to grow especially for materials like ash wood.
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In the building and housing industry there aren't often developments that completely change the way that things are done so when something like a block and beam floor comes along, it really shakes things up! Prior to this method of concrete flooring being used, foundations were laid down in a more traditional way of first digging a hole to a certain depth and then filling it with vast amounts of concrete to provide a building with strength. In the majority of new build homes though, this is no longer the case, people are turning to using a block and beam floor technique more and more.
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Headlines for Thursday:
- Bookmarklet for the Toronto Public Library 08:18
- CookOrDie: Bacon, eggs and toast 08:40
- The malong and other fragments of Philippine culture 10:53
- Philippine fashion 12:11
- Research report: Schedule 14:53
|@0800 Have breakfast: bacon and scrambled eggs on toast
|@1100 Have lunch
|@1300 Meet Mark re research plan
|@1500 Visit friend in hospital
|@1730-1930 Social Tech Brewing, 215 Spadina
|@1930-2100 Jazz choir practice
1. Bookmarklet for the Toronto Public Library: 08:18
Thanks to Simon Ditner for this totally cool bookmarklet!
Did Dan mention the bookmarklet creator compatible with the TPL? This will suck up ISBN numbers on a page (i.e. Amazon), and search the TPL catalog: Library Lookup bookmarklet
Created from: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookupGenerator.html
(Awwww, he reads my blog! ^_^)
On Technorati: library, bookmarklet, firefox
2. CookOrDie: Bacon, eggs and toast: 08:40
I think I've figured out a neat way to store bacon. If you roll slices up individually and loosely pack them into a plastic container, they're easy to break off even when frozen. I think it's because you minimize the contact points between each slice, whereas freezing it as an entire slab requires you to hack parts off. To unroll, microwave the bacon until soft (30 seconds?), unwind, and cook as normal.
This means that I can have bacon and eggs for breakfast practically any time I want, which *might* not be a good thing. <laugh>
In other news, lunch today will be some kind of cold chickpea salad. I soaked the chickpeas yesterday and then boiled them in my rice cooker while having breakfast. They turned out nicely cooked, and I didn't even have to pay attention to them. Neat.
On Technorati: cooking, cookordie
3. The malong and other fragments of Philippine culture: 10:53
One of the good things about Canada is that I can wear funky ethnic outfits. I invariably get complimented whether I'm at a geek get-together or a fashion boutique. I stand out in a crowd. It gives people something to talk to me about, which has led to quite a few interesting conversations. This is great when I'm among strangers, as I don't have to chat people up - people come to me!
My favorite ethnic outfit is the malong, a tubular piece of cloth frequently embellished with batik designs or embroidery. I love it for its versatility. Not only can it go from casual to formal and back again, but I can also make it a skirt or a dress or a bag with just the strategic repositioning of safety pins.
This malong:
- Slip into the malong's tube and hold it so that the extra part is to your right.
- Loop the extra part behind and over your right arm.
- Fasten the part to both sides of the tube using a safety pin.
- Pin the fold to the opposite side.
Granted, I'm making things up as I go along. I don't even have the vocabulary to describe what I'm doing. <laugh> I'll just have to record a video sometime.
I've seen only one other person wear a malong regularly, and she was one of the hippest dressers in Ateneo de Manila University. I have three full malongs and two skirt-type malongs, which could probably double as short dresses in a pinch. I want more!
Promoting traditional Filipino costumes is one of my little crusades. I think we don't give our culture enough credit, and we don't have nearly as much fun wearing traditional outfits as we could. I love wearing my terno, and wish I had a more casual version that I could wear during summer. I'd wear a Maria Clara if I had one, full skirt and all. I would love to wear the Ifugao belt with the cute pompoms and the tapis with intricate weaving. And I want to discover all the other costumes that have sprung out of the multifaceted culture of an archipelago.
I'd also love to have suits with ethnic accents, whether it's in terms of materials (I miss my barong dress!) or embellishments such as weaving or embroidery. Does anyone know a fashion designer in touch with the Filipina soul? I can't afford an entire wardrobe of custom-made suits, but I don't mind slowly accumulating pieces of quality. (Very slowly, given my graduate student budget!) I want to promote Philippine culture, and this will be a lifelong endeavor.
I'm Filipina, and I want people to know it. I want people to think of Filipinas as not just domestic helpers or nurses or potential wives. I want them to think of Philippine culture as not just Western-aping blandness but rather something richly textured. My body is my billboard, and I want to be a walking advertisement for what is beautiful about my home.
- Previous malong entry
- Wikipedia: Malong
- People who linked here: Filipino Librarian
On Technorati: fashion, philippines, clothing, malong, culture
4. Philippine fashion: 12:11
What would it take to convince, say, someone like Pitoy Moreno to transform Filipino clothing from formal wear to everyday wear?
He dresses the First Ladies in fabulous ternos. What about the common tao?
I wonder what can I do to get in touch with him and to convince him to give it a try. Hmm. Something to work on every now and then...
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5. Research report: Schedule: 14:53
I like these one-on-one meetings. I find myself in the zone, asking questions and figuring things out. I had another good meeting with Mark Chignell, my research supervisor. This time, we worked on my research plan. I'm happy with the result, and I think IBM will be happy as well. We'll do a historical pseudo-experiment looking at factors that may have affected the adoption of social computing across subgroups within IBM. I'll see how I can visualize the data.
Some considerations:
Mark will be in Japan from January to mid-March, and again from April to June. Options for masteral exam:
- March
- I'll be able to make it to June convocation, and I might have a few months of vacation before real work.
- I'll be under stress because of the tight schedule, and I probably couldn't take spring classes.
- August
- Less stress from schedule, can take additional courses in spring, more time around tech scene here.
- Need to renew my visa, which is not a bad thing. I'll miss the June convocation, and will need to make it to November convocation instead. If I find myself working in Canada, then I can still probably graduate with pomp and circumstance. ;) My parents won't like winter, though, but hey... If I'm not working in Canada, then no pictures or ceremony. Oh well, s'okay. Must check fellowship.
Here's the March schedule:
|Resume my commute to IBM. (Waah!) Find as many sources of data as I can.
|Data analysis. Start applying theoretical framework to IBM as a whole.
|CASCON. Start on subpopulation analysis.
|Analyze technology diffusion across subpopulations through interviews.
|Write up research.
|Vacation in the Philippines!
|Write up research.
|Possible date for exam because Mark will be in town?
|Pass thesis just in time for June Convocation
Here's the August schedule:
|Resume my commute to IBM. (Waah!) Find as many sources of data as I can.
|Data analysis. Start applying theoretical framework to IBM as a whole.
|CASCON. Apply theoretical framework to IBM as a whole.
|Analyze technology diffusion across subpopulations through interviews.
|Analyze technology diffusion across subpopulations through interviews.
|Vacation in the Philippines!
|Write up research.
|Write up research. Paper 1 (thesis).
|Study #2: case study of Dogear
|Study dogear adoption.
|Write up research.
|Write up research. Paper 2 (dogear case study).
|Review papers. Exam.
|Something happens.
Whichever schedule we choose, my next action is to hunt for as many data sources as I can and figure out how to mash them up. I need to decide which schedule to follow before I go on my Christmas vacation, because I'll probably renew my US visa then. (That is, unless I can renew my visa from Canada.)
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BEAVER CREEK - Imagine traveling with 13 kids; imagine the potty stops.
Now, imagine traveling with 13 dogs that can't tell you when they have to go, but you have to know anyway.
That's the life of Chris Perondi, the "experience" in the Stunt Dog Experience. He'll put on two shows Friday in Beaver Creek's Vilar Center.
Perondi was on I-70 west when we found him, just west of the Eisenhower Tunnel, pulling a 40-foot fifth wheel packed with 13 animals.
"We're looking forward to it. We have a full show with some of the coolest stunt dogs in the world," Perondi said.
When it's time to hit the road, some of them are at the door going, "Let me in, we're ready to go," Perondi said. "A few of them are a little more reluctant, but dogs are pack animals and they travel well."
"We love our dogs. They're our kids," Perondi said.
Yeah, but can you imagine traveling with 13 kids - or dogs? They require regular attention.
"It takes longer to get places than it would normally. We have to take potty stops every few hours and it can be pretty involved with 13 dogs," Perondi said.
The show lasts an hour an it's broken into 30-minute segments, because a half hour is about as long as an excited dog can wait to, well ... you know.
The show is high energy stunts, comedy and a bunch of stuff you could teach your dog or your kids to do if you'd quit feeding them both Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.
Their tails are wagging and they want to please, not just Perondi but also the audience.
In some places they do three shows a day.
"It's not uncommon to do more than 600 shows a year," Perondi said.
It takes about a year to train a dog for the show. They perform everything from big air stunts and pawstands. During a black light and fog-filled segment, the dogs catch glow-in-the-dark Frisbees.
They're all rescue dogs. When he was a kid Perondi bought a puppy from a pet shop, but the dog died before it was 4 years old because its liver had not developed properly. Bad breeding practices were to blame. Never again, Perondi promised.
"We'll take the dogs other people don't really want, the ones that are a little hyper and might jump on you," Perondi said. "People generally want the ones that are more calm."
The Stunt Dogs need to be friendly, not shy, but focus and drive are the two main factors, Perondi said.
"We don't force the dogs to do anything they don't want to do, so they need that drive to perform and to learn something new," Perondi said.
The show encourages people to think adoption first when getting a pet, something he lives by.
In 1996 he adopted a dog from the pound - Pepper, a border collie cattle dog mix - and taught him to play Frisbee. Pepper is 16 and still with us. Perondi's parents watch him when he's on the road.
Anyway, Perondi founded a Frisbee club for dogs and owners, and won the national Frisbee championships. People started asking him to do stunt dog demonstrations, so he found a few more dogs and put together an act. He started touring regionally in 1999 after quitting his tech job and selling his house. By 2001 he was on the road nationwide almost full time.
He said he didn't know how to market himself, but it turns out he didn't need to. The show caught on, quickly and he found himself performing at animal parks, fairs and the Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
"The distractions of the audience takes them the longest to get used to," Perondi said. "That's why it's important for dogs to have focus, that want to play and have fun, and don't want to do anything else."
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TAHOE, Calif. — Free, family-friendly, one-hour performances of an adapted "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," by William Shakespeare will be presented as part of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival's D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program. The 2012 D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare production, an adaptation of the Festival's mainstage offering, is designed with the young audience member in mind and runs July 29-Aug. 9 at a variety of outdoor venues.
"With a cast comprised of professional actors and infused with local middle and high school students, the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival's D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program offers children and families in Reno-Tahoe and Carson area a fun and interactive performance of one of Shakespeare's great comedies and is proof of the Festival's commitment to educational outreach within our community," said Joe Atack, the education director for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
Each year, the program affords aspiring young actors the opportunity to work with theater artists in a professional environment and perform at multiple venues throughout the community.
To reserve free Young Shakespeare tickets call 800-74-SHOWS or visit www.LakeTahoeShakespeare.com. Groups of 10 or more call 775-832-1616.


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RIPON - Law enforcement officials apprehended three of six burglary suspects who jumped from a moving vehicle while being pursued by police Monday afternoon near Caswell Memorial State Park in southern San Joaquin County, authorities reported Tuesday.
The Ripon Police Department received a report of a residential burglary at 4:58 p.m. Monday in the 1000 block of Ash Avenue, officers said. The burglars were seen leaving the residence in an older white van with blue or green stripes, police said.
An officer spotted the vehicle leaving the area. Ripon Police Chief Ed Ormonde saw the vehicle again a short time later on Mohler Road and followed it to Caswell Memorial State Park, which is located along the Stanislaus River southwest of Ripon. The burglars failed to yield when police initiated a traffic stop and jumped out of the vehicle while it was still moving, authorities said.
One man was arrested following a short foot pursuit. The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department found two others hiding near Bacon Road and the Stanislaus River, police said.
Inside the van, authorities found stolen property, including electronics, jewelry and ammunition, police said. Some of the stolen property was connected to a residential robbery Monday in Manteca, and some was connected to an earlier robbery in Manteca, officials said.
Eric Silva and Edgar Felix, both 18-year-old Riverbank residents, and a 17-year-old Modesto boy were arrested on suspicion of burglary, conspiracy, evasion and resisting arrest, authorities said. Police are still trying to identify the three other burglars, officials said. Anyone with information is encouraged to call Detective Alex Burgos of the Ripon Police Department at (209) 599-0254.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
Conviction is a story of how elite government agent, Sam Fisher, turned the bitterness of his past into the fuel to drive his quest for answers. For years, Fisher has been off the grid and on his own, chasing his daughter's murderer. But the trail leads him to Washington D.C. - the last place he ever wanted to see again. Now Sam must stand against vast, faceless enemies and battle the corrupt government agency that made him into the merciless warrior he's come to be. Free from constraints, he must now outwit, outmaneuver, and outgun his enemies to get what he's seeking: the truth. You've never played a Splinter Cell like this before.
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A's first round pick Matt Chapman can throw a 98 mph fastball, but the Cal State Fullerton product doesn't expect to find himself on the mound.
"That's always something to have in the back pocket," Chapman said of pitching. "My goal is to play infield and hit and play every single day."
The A's used the No. 25 pick in Thursday's Major League Baseball draft to take a player who calls himself the best defensive third baseman in college baseball.
"I know that my arm strength and my glove can change a game defensively and help my team out," Chapman said.
The A's went to an actual pitcher with their second-round pick, taking right-hander Daniel Gossett from Clemson.
But in Chapman, the A's grabbed a player who played third base at Cal State Fullerton the past two years after playing shortstop as a freshman. He played second base as a freshman in high school and is confident that he can play any of those three positions as a professional.
While the prospect of Chapman becoming the next Sean Doolittle, a former first baseman who the A's converted into a hard-throwing reliever, is intriguing, Chapman doesn't see that in his future.
"I know I can hit at the next level," Chapman said. "Once I tap into that power, I don't see the need for me to ever pitch."
The A's agree. Of the prospect of converting Chapman into a pitcher, A's scouting director Eric Kubota said: "We have no intention of doing that."
Chapman never pitched in college, but two appearances on the mound last summer with USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team delivered intrigue thanks to his velocity. It's something Chapman downplayed.
"I didn't really pitch," he said. "I just kind of got up there and threw as hard as I could."
Chapman knew he was on the A's radar after he worked out Tuesday for the team at the Oakland Coliseum. Shortly before his selection was announced, he received a text message from A's scout Eric Martins welcoming him to the team.
"My initial reaction was just so happy," Chapman said. "I still can't even believe it that I can to play baseball and the next level."
Chapman is the sixth position player drafted in the first round by the A's in the past seven years. The lone exception is ace Sonny Gray, the 2011 top pick.
The team views Chapman as a potential power hitter and plus-defender.
"He's got a chance to be an elite defender at third base. He can really throw," Kubota said. "We think his bat is ever-improving. We think there's untapped power there. We think this is a guy who is going to develop into a power hitter."
Oakland went the pitching route for its only other pick Thursday when it grabbed Gossett.
The righty is listed at 6-1, 185 pounds but may be smaller than that frame. According to Baseball America, he can touch 95 mph with his fastball but sits in the 88-93 range and projects as a future reliever because of his size. The A's disagree.
"We've only seen him start," Kubota said. "He's a starting pitcher in our mind."
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LATHROP - Two men, one wearing a black mask and the other carrying a semiautomatic handgun, walked into Lathrop Liquor at 15326 Harlan Road shortly after 12:30 a.m. Monday and attacked two employees, taking an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.
The man wearing the mask jumped over the counter and punched one clerk in the face, causing him to lose consciousness and fall to the ground, according to the sheriff's report. His armed accomplice pointed his gun at the second clerk and ordered him to open the cash registers.
When the robbers got what they wanted, they fled the store on foot, heading west through the parking lot toward Harlan Road.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sheriff's Office at (209) 468-4400.
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This year we will continue to provide many fun activities based on favorite children's books. These monthly group meetings will give you and your child the opportunity to enjoy special time together while meeting new friends. Activities will be provided for ages 0-5.


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Objective 2: The efficacy of resistance (R) gene intervention in Hessian fly populations will be assessed by documenting the change in frequency of virulence alleles in populations across the southeastern United States as a function of R gene deployment. Frequency of virulence in populations will be determined by diagnostic PCR based markers for virulence/avirulence alleles to specific R genes. The durability of resistance in a R gene pyramid will be documented by screening populations having low levels of virulence to the R genes in growth chamber tests. The number of generations required before significant increases in the level of virulence occur in the test populations will be used to evaluate the efficacy of the gene pyramid. Documentation of fitness cost of virulence in Hessian fly to R genes in wheat will be assessed by determining effects on survival to adult and fecundity during selection for virulence to specific R genes over multiple generations.
Objective 3: An in planta translocation feeding assay that allows toxic proteins to be ingested by Hessian fly larvae will be used to discover potential transgenes for resistance in wheat to this pest. The most efficacious toxic proteins documented in the feeding assay will be selected for biolistic transformation of wheat in collaboration with a cooperator at Kansas State University and tested for efficacy of resistance in transgenic plants to Hessian fly as well as the other major insect pest of wheat (i.e. green bug, Russian wheat aphid and wheat stem sawfly). With Hessian fly, the ultimate goal is to have transgenes for resistance under the control of Hessian fly responsive promoters so that toxic proteins are expressed only at the feeding site of larvae and not ubiquitously in the plant. If issues arise with evaluation of toxic proteins with the Hessian fly feeding assay we will evaluate candidate toxic proteins in bioassays with Drosophila melanogaster. If Hessian fly responsive promoters do not become available, we will use other wheat promoters, such as a phloem specific promoter, to avoid ubiquitous expression in the plant. A phloem specific promoter should also be effective against aphid pest of wheat.


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On 31 January, Singapore celebrated the Lunar New Year – this is one of the most important holidays in the Chinese calendar as it symbolizes the coming of spring. I personally love the Lunar New Year celebrations because it is a wonderful opportunity to get together and celebrate with the family.
The Chinese culture has its own zodiac or astrological signs, which rotate each Lunar New Year. The different signs are named after 12 different animals, (see my post HERE for more information on the animals and the story behind them). This year marks the year of the horse.
Like the western astrological signs, each character in the Chinese zodiac has unique characteristics and personality traits. As a result, different signs are more compatible as friends, companions and lovers than other. Because we are approaching western culture's Valentine's Day, I thought it would be fun to share a chart outlining compatibility. You may be surprised to learn that many people still rely on these charts when determining if a mate is suitable for them!
If you are in Singapore and would like to know more about your zodiac sign, you can always approach a Capella Singapore Personal Assistant who can arrange you meeting with a Chinese Astrology expert to teach you more about your sign and the significance of the Chinese zodiac.


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I've been doing a lot of thinking about how tough times are and how hard it would be for me to buy one of my own knives if the roles were reversed and I was the customer. It seems that I would have to save up the money for many months before I could even place an order. This made me think about a way to help with this situation, something that could help the would be potential customers as well as myself the maker.
What I've come up with is something that I think might just be what fits the bill here pretty good. I'll now offer our pre-order knives to be purchased with a monthly payment plan. The plans will be set up in either 2, 4, or 6 month time frames with equal automatic monthly payments being made.
I believe that this will allow for some people to become a knife purchasing customer who might not otherwise be able to make such a purchase and for myself this will allow me to better plan and work more effectively while hopefully also taking more orders....all good.
My plan of attack from the knifemaking side would be to forecast my workload ahead of time to eventually be able to meet a finished knife with a final payment. Initially this may be a tough goal to measure up to but I feel strongly that having orders laid out with payment deadlines will allow me to adjust and meet customer goals in a much better fashion than I can currently offer.
I really think that this payment program has potential and I hope that you'll give it consideration. Please see Dave Martell Knives - Payment Program for details.
PS - I'm still more than happy to accept orders but as always those paid for in advance will have priority.
PSS - Knives will be made in the order to which initial payments were received. This means when you start paying you get in line on that day. The only way someone could get ahead of you is to make an early (full) payment. All work will be done as fairly as possible in order.


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9.18 Denying the accusation that he is a racist, Irving said that he has in the past employed several members of the ethnic minorities. He produced photographs to prove it.
9.19 Irving explained that the ditty which he composed for his daughter, set out at (ii) in paragraph 9.6 above was his angry response to an article which had appeared in a magazine, which had put a sneering and offensive caption beneath a photograph of himself and his daughter. It was not intended to be racist. He said the same of the entry in his diary which refers to God moving in a mysterious way towards a Final Solution wiping all the blacks, homosexuals and others in Africa through an AIDS epidemic, which is at (vii) in paragraph 9.6 above. Irving explained that he is a religious man and was musing about the strange way in which God works. He was not approving the spread of AIDS.
9.20 Irving stated that he does condemn as traitors those politicians who condoned the immigration into this country on a large scale of black people in the 1950s and 60s. He admits to chauvinism. He was joking when he told members of the Clarendon Club that he was glad to see coloured families arrive at London airport and glad to see them go. This was part of a standard speech which he gives for debating purposes. He denies that he is anti-coloured or a racist. He argued that it was not racist for him to say that it got up his nose to see "one of them" reading the news on television or to suggest that black news-readers should be confined to the less important news about muggings and drug busts. (The extract is set out at (iii) in paragraph 9.6 above). He hankers after the days when the BBC news was read by a man wearing a dinner jacket.
9.21 Irving defended his comment that he felt "queasy" about black people playing sports for England as an expression of his "patriotic" private thoughts on the topic. When he said that it was "humiliating" to have his passport checked by a Pakistani, he as not making a racist remark. What he meant was that an Englishman would be better at controlling immigration than someone born out of this country. Irving's comments are at (iv) and (viii) in paragraph 9.6 above.
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Smarty Girl, Honor Molloy's autobiographical account of her tumultuous Irish childhood in 1960s Dublin, tells the story of her parents' troubled marriage, her father's epic destructiveness and her mother's determination to save her family at any cost. Cahir O'Doherty talks to the Brooklyn based writer about overcoming the reflexive Irish reluctance to embroider the past and tell it straight, and how writing the new book has helped rescue her.
Stories make a straight path through the confusion of what happens. They clear the way. And in life the way usually needs to be cleared for us, before we can see the world for it is and what it has made us.
Irish people are good at telling stories. The trouble starts for us when we decide that there's a right and wrong way to tell them.
We don't have a big appetite for unvarnished reality, it turns out. Most of the horrors of our recent history could have been confronted and tackled decades earlier if we'd shared James Joyce's impulse to have a good long look at ourselves.
Thank God for Ireland's writers then. Since the foundation of the state they have shouldered the often unenviable task of holding a mirror up to the realities of Irish life and we're indebted to them.
Though she might hesitate to see herself as part of that tradition, writer Honor Molloy's candid and blistering memoir of a 1960s Dublin childhood, Smarty Girl, takes up the challenge of inviting us back to the tumult of her 1960s Dublin childhood with a lighthouse intelligence that doesn't miss a stitch.
Molloy clears the way by making Smarty Girl fiction. Allowing herself the remove of making what happened in reality become a story happening to an invented character, she finds enough space to look her past in the eye.
That's also why the language of Smarty Girl sings with the big eye wonder of childhood itself, because reading the book you'll slowly understand that something is being released and what it turns out to be Molloy's own captive spirit.
"I thought by writing fiction I could write a more true story than by writing a memoir," she tells the Irish Voice, shrugging at the paradox.
"I think the impulse comes from the way I make theater (Molloy is an award winning playwright) every time it is always autobiographical. I had to add the parents and adult's perspectives as a way to approach the serious themes of the book. I also ransacked my mother's personal journals from that period and in that way you can actually hear the screams from the inside of the war zone of that house."
Families that have experienced a massive disruptive crisis are not always intelligible to families that have not. They can begin to speak a different language, the language of despair and loss. They can begin to live like victims in the aftermath of an explosion, fated to wander around the edges of the smoking crater where their former selves had once lived peacefully, tasked with trying to make sense of what happened to them, and why.
Molly's family was one of those families in crisis. A local schoolteacher saw the first unmistakable signal that something was wrong in the Molloy house when she set them an assignment to write their life story. Molloy's then 13-year-old sister handed in a 20-eight page handwritten essay, something the teacher had never seen before.
"She wrote an account of my father beating my mother. It was an accurate account and I kept the language she wrote it in as much as possible throughout the book. I was like a magpie, I took all the elements and I wove it all together," says Molloy with a dispassion that belies the cost of those matter of fact words.
As an American woman in Ireland, Molloy's mother was often mystified by the familiar strangeness of the Irish. They spoke the same language but they did not usually mean the same things in it.
It was their remarkable distaste for anything confrontational or unpleasant that struck her most. They'd cross the street and even the city to avoid a potential reckoning.
Any American woman is going to have a hard time in Ireland, sooner or later, because directness isn't valued there. It's avoided, and any attempt to make people account for themselves is seen as impermissibly gauche.
"Shut up you stupid big Yank," they told her. "You and your feelings," they added, for good measure.
Reading Smarty Girl can give you a sensation of vertigo as you realize what the young and all too innocent narrator cannot -- that her situation is broken beyond repair and whatever her future holds her present is blighted.
It had all begun so promisingly. In the early 1950s her mother had come to Ireland from the U.S. to study at Trinity College to write her thesis on the plays of J.M. Synge and get her PhD. One day she met a young actor who had heard about her actor training classes and he invited himself along.


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A Sprinter train arrives in Oceanside during the press conference that announced that the Sprinter service will resume this Saturday. The Oceanside-to-Escondido light rail system has been shutdown since March 9 due to accelerated brake rotor wear on all 12 Sprinter trains.
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Last Friday, Gilles Lapierre (seen here on the left with Seattle Bike Supply's Tim Rutledge) was in town to present the 2008 Lapierre bicycle line. Mr. Lapierre, whose grandfather founded the company in 1946, is hoping to steadily expand into the US market with a selection of performance road and mountain bikes.
The Yuba is rolling out in the UK and Ghana this week, and the US and the antipodes next month. The Yuba's an integrated longbike style cargo bike, promising lateral stiffness and lots of capacity (220 kg total load). Built in horizontal racks for hauling the stuff that won't fit in a pannier or two. Nice touches: chain guard, choice of kickstands, bikes in Africa.
As much as I love the idea of more cargo bikes here in the land of giant SUVs, I love the reality of cargo bikes in the developing world even more. It's great to see a manufacturer actually shipping to Africa in their initial foray into the markets. Good for you, Yuba!
I was googling for something else and found this Bay Area Bike Culture multimedia piece and photo essay. I can't tell when it was produced but judging by the Saturn jerseys, I'd say a while ago.
With 2008 well underway, those of us "fair-weather" riders are looking forward to another cycling season that lies just around the corner. As you try to keep warm through the last few weeks of winter, here are some exciting events to kick off the season…and they don't all require riding in the freezing cold.
- Seattle Bike Swap: Grab some great deals and get your bike tricked out for the upcoming season. Back in Magnuson Park's hanger #30, this year's swap is sure to get you ready to ride!
- Clif Bar Chilly Hilly: No other event name describes a ride so well. Back for its 34th year, Chilly Hilly will once again kick off the Northwest cycling season.
- Bike Expo 2008: Sponsored by Group Health, the Seattle International Bike Expo is sure to provide a good time in the new downtown location, Cruise Terminal 30. As in years past, Cascade has lined up a bunch of great FREE presentations, from Chris Carmichael to The Metal Cowboy and a list of others. Stop by to check out the latest in bike gear, new rides and stay for some fun shows.
And for the rest of us weenies, grab your cup of hot coffee and curl up in front of the Amgen Tour of California, set to ride in only a few short weeks!
Spotted on Stone Way, in the Fremont Neighborhood of Seattle. Can anyone identify that bike? I hadn't seen it before and the shop girl just said that the owner had bought it from Europe.


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FRINGE SALE DOUBLES APPRAISED VALUE PUTTING JUVENILES Dixon: The Tribal Council has decided to continue its review of the forestry program before acting on the sale of a wesi-reservation logging unit.This in spite of the fact that the high bid for the Fringe Unit more than doubled the appraised value of the timber. The Fringe, the first of three west-boundary units to be sold this spring, contains nearly 2-million board feet of timber northeast of Rainbow Lake. The high bidder at an April 1 auction at the Ronan BIA Agency was Kendall Dupuis of Pol-son. Dupuis, a tribal member, outbid six other Indian loggers and U.S. Plywood of Missoula with an offer of $118,413.50. Dupuis offered $109,376 for ponderosa pine, or $64.00 per thousand board feet. His bid was $9,037.50 for fir and other species or $37.50 per thousand. These bids compare to appraisals of $37.50 for pine and $9.00 for fir. BIA Foresters said that all bids were substantially higher than the appraisals. The Fringe was the first of three west side units to go on the block this month. On May 16 the largest of the three, the Hot Springs Unit, will be auctioned off at the Ronan Agency. Hot Springs contains some 25-million board feet and is the only one of the three which is not being sold Indian preference. Appraisals for Hot Springs are slightly above the Fringe with pine valued at a minimum of $46.15 per thousand and fir priced at $9.00. The third unit is the Welcome Springs sale which will offer about 12-million board feet at an appraised value of $29.00 per thousand for pine and $9.00 for fir. The Welcome Springs auction is scheduled for May 20. The Tribal Council voted April 4 to delay approval of the Fringe unit sale until April 11. The reason for the delay, according to Council-man,Tom "Bearhead" Swaney, St. Ignatius, is to allow the council to continue its review of the tribal forestry program. Among other things, the council is miffed at the restoration of Fred Malroy as BIA Agency Forestry Manager. Last summer the council resolved to discontinue acting on forestry proposals until Malroy was replaced. In November, Malroy was detailed to Washington D.C. and it was assumed that the transfer would be-(Turn to page 2) TRIBE UNDER TO TRIBAL ONE ROOF Pablo: Plans to construct an ultra-modern tribal complex in Pablo have been tentatively approved by the Tribal Council. The council narrowly approved siting the $850,000 building on tribal lands west of Highway 93, on March 14th The vote was four to three to complete an engineering study of the site. If completed, the new complex would house most tribal operations under one roof. These would include, under preliminary plans, the tribal administration...tribal credit... Tribal Council...tribal Law and Order and jail...Reservation planning...EDA...tribal Realty...and Char-Koosta. The council selected the Pablo site, which is located across the highway from Mc-Cauley's Snowmobile sales, primarily because of the availability of sewer and water facilities. Other sites considered for the giant building-complex were Kicking Horse and St. Ignatius. But there may be several obstacles in the complex plans. The most serious, according to Reservation Economic Development Administration Director, Johnny Neuman, is the weak mandate for the (Page 2) COURT Dixon: Juverftie cases involving tribal members will now be processed through the Tribal Court in Dixon. Chief Tribal Judge Donald Dupuis said the new policy began April 1 under an agreement with state district court Judge Robert Brownlee. According to Judge Dupuis, the new tribal court authority will extend to all juvenile court matters including civil and criminal hearings, custody judgment and corrective detention. The agreement, however, still provides for district court approval for sentences to state institutions. State District courts have handled Indian juvenile cases on the Flathead Reservation since 1964. Juvenile authority was one of eight areas of jurisdiction handed over to the state by the tribes and the federal government in the con-current jurisidiction agreement. Under the agreement...House Bill 55-Tribal Resolution 40-A... the tribe retained judicial authority over its own ordinances and Law and Order code but relin- See Page 3 /
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