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As the department, university and community mourn the passing of our Chairman Dr. Frederick Meyer, his spirit lives on with the faculty, staff, friends and residents he leaves behind. His was a legacy of leadership, skill and compassion. He will be greatly missed and he will forever be the "Boss", in our hearts and minds.
Moving forward with strength and vitality our orthopaedic surgery residency training program will continue in the tradition established by Dr. Meyer. A small yet robust program with support from the community and local physicians provides excellent surgical training in orthopaedics. The information included here is designed to furnish a quick look into our program and we appreciate the opportunity to provide it to you. Again, thank you for your interest in our program and best wishes for a bright and successful future in orthopaedic surgery.
Our program is a dynamic five-year curriculum that includes twelve months of combined orthopaedic/general surgery education and four years of direct orthopaedic education. In addition to our staff we offer complex integration with the community where there is a wealth of superbly trained surgeons eager to teach. During your third year of training you will be afforded the privilege to rotate with the prestigious Dr. James Andrews at AREI, as an adjunct to your sports education with Dr. Pearsall covering division IA athletics at the University of South Alabama. In addition, there is opportunity for research and outreach around the globe to enhance your training.
Our program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). During your five years of residency training at the University of South Alabama, you will study the prevention of musculoskeletal diseases, disorders, and injuries and their treatment by medical, surgical and physical methods.
The University of South Alabama Department of Orthopaedic Surgery residency training program is one of the finest in the nation. We accept three (PGY-1) residents each year and applications are only accepted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). All faculty members fully review and evaluate every application. Candidate selection is based on grades, board scores, letters of recommendation, and extracurricular activities. Upon final review of the applications, the invitation for a personal interview is extended to approximately thirty young men and women from across the U.S. Our program fully participates in the National Resident Matching Program. For details and complete information on how to apply to the University of South Alabama, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program, please contact your medical school.
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Marlow, UK, 16 October 2013 – The Sunday Times has ranked Softcat at 48th position in 2013's Top Track list of the 250 top-performing UK businesses. Softcat's chairman Martin Hellawell and managing director Colin Brown attended the awards last week at a ceremony in London. The Times attributed the position to the recent company expansions and 'strong year-on-year sales'.
The Sunday Times Top Track 250 league table vets and ranks the UK's leading mid-market businesses in order of turnover, and companies require a minimum of 10% growth to rank at all. The list is compiled by Fast Track and sponsored by Grant Thornton and Barclays. Softcat's ranking is a testament to this financial year's turnover and 30% growth, following a three-year growth stint that has seen revenues climb from £146m to £400m.
Commenting on the ranking, Martin Hellawell said, "I am delighted to enter the top 50 of the Top Track for the first time. There are some fantastic companies on that list, many of them are Softcat customers. It's tremendous for Softcat to be recognised in such esteemed company. A few years ago we were named as the number one company in the Sunday Times 'Best Company to Work For' list. We have to aspire to be number one in the Sunday Times Top Track now!"
Colin Brown, managing director, said, "We've invested heavily in building strong teams and as a result we've won business deals with the NHS, local government and other public services this year, which have all had a positive impact on revenue growth. I'd like to thank our hardworking employees for their on-going enthusiasm and dedication. Having joined Softcat a year ago, I can say with conviction that it's the most motivated, results-driven workforce I've encountered – and the most fun."
The Sunday Times is not the only body to recognise Softcat for its business achievements this year. Softcat has won several partner awards and accreditations as a result of its performance. Last week it announced the attainment of HP's Platinum Partner status, and won the Canalys EMEA Revenue Partner of the Year award.
About Softcat
Softcat (www.softcat.com) is a leading provider of software licensing, hardware, security and related IT services. Softcat, founded in 1993 by the then chairman and majority shareholder Peter Kelly, remains privately owned and currently employs 600 people. It achieved a turnover in excess of £400 million in its last financial year and has been profitable since inception, resulting in a strong balance sheet and very firm financial foundations.
The company sells and supports products and solutions from all the world's leading IT companies. On all its portfolio products and solutions it offers a full range of services, including advice and guidance, technical design, product sourcing, implementation, support and project management. It enjoys a trading relationship with over 8,000 longstanding customers, predominantly from the UK corporate sector but also including large enterprises, small businesses and public sector organisations.
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Name of website or photo Brilliant Bookmarks
What materials did you use? Crochet cotton, size 10, in desired colors; a size 9 (1.40 mm) steel crochet hook; and a small amount of satin ribbon, if desired.
What are you most proud of? I created five different borders so each bookmark would have a different look. I think they turned out pretty cute!
What advice would you give someone starting this project? This is a quick and easy project to use up scrap thread. The pattern uses a modified filet stitch; it uses 2 stitches per square instead of the typical 3 per square. Be sure to read the definitions for the blocks and spaces. Instructions and graphs are included to make the "love to read" and "i love books" bookmarks, in addition to personalizing your own 4- or 6-position bookmark. This pattern is available for $3.00 and is written in U.S. terms.
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An electrical power and phone system failure forced Rio Rancho officials to let out classes early at Lincoln Middle School on Monday.
Buses started to run at 10 a.m. and parents were allowed to pick up their children at the school.
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As federal and state governments pull back on child-care aid and struggle to find affordable ways to help families with problems of elder care, family advocates are looking to the private sector for more help. They're urging employers to let caregivers have more flexible schedules to ease the burden of looking after young children and frail parents.
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Will Happen In Afghanistan?"
By Steve Sailer
UPI National Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Sep. 26 (UPI) -- No
great adventure movie, not even "Lawrence of Arabia,"
offers more insights into the upcoming war in Afghanistan than
John Huston's 1975 film "The Man Who Would Be King."
Starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine, the film is based on
Rudyard Kipling's 1888 short story set in Afghanistan.
the last two weeks, a couple of contradictory assertions about
Afghanistan have become commonplace in the press.
first is that outsiders inevitably face horrifying defeat in
second is that the U.S. must not only kill Osama bin Laden and
batter the Taliban regime, but should then take up the Imperial
Burden in Afghanistan. The U.S., they say, should conquer and
pacify the entire Texas-sized country, build a unified nation out
of its warring ethnic groups, reconstruct its economy, liberate
its women, calm its furious holy men, and make it a middle class
Man Who Would Be King" reminds us that neither despair nor
utopianism is a realistic attitude for anyone contemplating a
military incursion into that harsh land.
may seem strange to look to a Victorian costume drama for
perspectives on a 21st Century war, but few movies have benefited
more from the energetic inspiration of a young genius and the
skeptical wisdom of an old artist who'd been everywhere and done
Kipling, the youngest man to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
(at age 41 in 1907), was only 22 when he wrote "The Man Who
Would Be King." Yet, he'd already been shot at by a Pathan
tribesman in the famous Khyber Pass that links Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Although out of fashion for decades, the Bombay-born
Kipling is now the literary immortal of the hour as America
contemplates the same question that so long plagued the British
Empire: What to do about Afghanistan?
was long despised for his imperialism. Yet, at a time when many,
including more than a few anti-Taliban Afghans, want the U.S. to
occupy and take responsibility for Afghanistan, Kipling's sharp
eye for the rewards and dangers of imperialism is suddenly
relevant once again. In
the words of critic John Derbyshire, Kipling "was an
imperialist utterly without illusions about what being an
imperialist actually means. Which, in some ways, means that he was
not really an imperialist at all."
it took 69-year-old John Huston to richly flesh out Kipling's tall
tale. Huston gave the story a classic arc. From a slow beginning,
it ascends to a peak of cynical yet rousing adventure comedy, then
descends into inexorable tragedy.
Further, Huston added an astute post-Vietnam moral. While
Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (the inspiration for
"Apocalypse Now") is the allegory of a good man
corrupted by absolute power over natives, Huston's movie is about
a rascal ennobled - yet ultimately doomed - by his growing sense
of kingly responsibility for the welfare of the natives that he
had come to plunder
film Kipling's story was the obsession of the erratic second half
of Huston's long Hollywood
career. Having previously written and directed such Humphrey
Bogart classics as "The Maltese Falcon," "The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre," and "The African
Queen," Huston cast Bogey and Clark Gable as Kipling's
anti-heroes, Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot.
charismatic rogues -- former British Army sergeants turned
gunrunners and conmen -- intend to make themselves "Kings of
Kafiristan." They plan to become the first Europeans since
Alexander the Great to penetrate this isolated region in
Northeastern Afghanistan that was the last refuge of Afghanistan's primordial pagan culture. Then, they'll "loot it six ways
from Sunday."
Bogart died in 1957 and Gable in 1960. Over the years, Huston had
three screenwriters pen adaptations. Finally, Huston and his
long-time secretary Gladys Hill collaborated on a brilliant fourth
version. In Huston's proud but accurate words, "We did a lot
of invention, and it turned out to be good invention, supportive
of the tone, feeling and spirit underlying the original short
story… I like this script as well as any I ever wrote."
the early 1970's, Paul Newman and Robert Redford were on-board.
Then, Newman, always one of Hollywood's least selfish stars, told Huston his script deserved British
actors. He exclaimed, "John, get Connery and Caine!"
Connery and Michael Caine went on to make what might be a more
delightful buddy movie than even Newman and Redford's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Connery's
performance as the Scotsman Daniel is widely considered the
greatest of his majestic career. And Caine's turn as the clever
Cockney Peachey might be better.
in the movie, Connery's Daniel tells an incredulous Rudyard
Kipling (played by Christopher Plummer), "We have been all
over India
…and we have decided that India isn't big enough for such as us."
Peachey chimes in, "We are not little men, and there is
nothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a
Contrack on that. Therefore, we are going away to be Kings."
two reasons they expected success in their audacious project are
directly relevant to the question of whether the U.S. can win in Afghanistan.
is widely remarked these days that no external power has ever
permanently dominated Afghanistan. True, but what's forgotten is that no internal power has either,
suggesting that the life expectancy of the five-year-old Taliban
regime might be limited.
severity of the Afghan terrain works against both conquest and
unified resistance. As Kipling warns the buccaneers, "It's
one mass of mountains and peaks and glaciers."
Daniel responds, "The more tribes, the more they'll fight,
and the better for us." The more broken the ground, the more
broken the society, and thus the harder it is to form a cohesive
army to resist an invader.
located in the Hindu Kush mountains northeast of Afghanistan's capital of
Kabul, remains even today a scale model of Afghanistan's overall fractiousness. In this region that only covers 2
percent of the entire country, there are currently fifteen ethnic
groups speaking five different languages.
his 1896 jihad, Amir Abdur Rahman, Khan of Kabul, changed the name
Kafiristan ("land of infidels") to Nuristan
("land of light"). He offered the conquered Kafir pagans
the choice of being put to the sword or to the knife. Most of the
men chose the latter and were circumcised into Islam, although in
that era before anesthetics and antibiotics, the pain couldn't
have been all that much less.
Jonny Bealby spent four weeks retracing the fictional footprints
of Daniel and Peachey in 1997, walking 250 miles across
Kafiristan-Nuristan. (Even today, there are no roads.) "On
the four week journey, I'd heard of twelve murders and enough
tales of thieving and brigandage to fill a small book,"
Bealby recounted. "When I asked Ismael, our Nuristani
translator, why this should be, he simply shrugged, 'It is our
culture,' he said." (Nuristan, by the way, was the first
place in Afghanistan to rebel against the Soviets.)
concluded, "If [Daniel and Peachey] were to tumble from the
skies once again, more than a hundred years later, the task
confronting them would be exactly the same. Kafiristan is now Nuristan; the infidels have been enlightened. But beyond religion, little
of their ways seem to have changed."
Afghanistan as a whole remains subdivided into hostile ethnic groups. The
Taliban rulers, who control most but not all of the country, are
drawn overwhelmingly from the Pashtun (know as the
"Pathan" in Kipling's day), but they only make up
three-eighth of the population and are concentrated south of the Hindu Kush. They may be the most war-like of the Afghans, but the reason
they are experienced at fighting is because they so often try to
kill each other.
22-year-old Winston Churchill fought them in an 1897 "butcher
and bolt" punitive expedition (depicted in the 1972 film
"Young Winston"). Churchill observed, "The Pathan
tribes are always engaged in private or public war. … The life
of the Pathan is thus full of interest."
second insight into the difficulties faced by the Taliban at
waging modern war - beyond their small and rusty arsenal - is
implicit in Daniel's explanation to Kipling of their strategy for
becoming Kings of Kafiristan. "In any place where they fight,
a man who knows how to drill men can always be a King,"
Connery's character expounds. "We shall go to those parts and
say to any King we find - 'D'you want to vanquish your foes?' and
we will show him how to drill men; for that we know better than
anything else. Then we will subvert that King and seize his Throne
and establish a Dynasty."
confidence in the might of properly drilled men goes to the heart
of the difference between irregular and regular armies. For tens
of thousands of years, men have been waging irregular war -
shoot-from-behind-a-rock style raiding. If you assume, like many
Afghans, that war sputters on forever - that it is the natural
state of human relations - then sniping is the sensible fighting
method for clans willing to lose some young warriors but not risk
everything on one battle. Ambushes allow your men to slip away
into wild country if the enemy proves too strong.
nation-states long ago developed a more formidable style intended
to win wars. The ancient Greeks discovered that trained,
disciplined armies could maneuver to win decisive battles.
Alexander the Great used this Greek breakthrough to conquer Afghanistan, among much else. (Kipling asserted that Alexander then married a
Kafir princess named Roxanne and had a son.)
famed military historian John Keegan wrote in "A History of
Warfare," "It is a general rule that primitives lose to
regulars over the long run; harassment is an effective means of
waging a defensive war, but wars are ultimately won by
when Daniel and Peachey arrive at Er-Heb, their first Kafir
village, headman Ootah, familiar only with irregular war, offers
them two goats for each of his Bashkai neighbors that they will
kill for him. Peachey, the embodiment of regular soldiering,
replies suavely, "A handsome offer, but rather than knocking
them over one at a time, we'll do the whole thing in one fell
swoop: storm Bashkai and give you a proper victory."
next morning drill instructor Daniel starts teaching the men of Er-Heb
to march in ordered ranks like British soldiers. "When we're
done with you," he roars at the recruits, "You'll be
able to stand up and slaughter your enemies like civilized
explains to his uncomprehending boot privates, "Good soldiers
don't think. They just obey. Do you think that if a man thought
twice, he'd give his life for Queen and country? Not bloody
likely!" Noticing an Er-Heb man with an extremely small head,
Daniel remarks, "Him there with the five and a half hat size
has the makings of a bloody hero."
their drilled army, stiffened by twenty smuggled rifles, quickly
goes from victory to victory. And their pinheaded rifleman
distinguishes himself for loyalty. By treating newly conquered
villages well, Daniel and Peachey recruit their men into the
ever-growing army.
general, regular armies have been able to take from irregular
fighters the kind of land that's most worth taking: flat, fertile
what's a regular army to do in a place like Afghanistan that's eminently not worth conquering? In 1842, the British lost
all but one of 16,000 trying to retreat from the Afghan capital of
Kabul. This showed once again that irregulars could destroy a regular
army in severe enough terrain.
1878, however, the Afghan ruler was again flirting with the
expanding Russian Empire. Fearing the Czar's army would soon be
pouring through the Khyber Pass and into the lightly defended
plains of colonial India, the British set out to take control of Afghanistan's foreign policy.
his conquest of Kabul
and Kandahar, Sir Frederick Roberts solved the problem of how to beat Afghans
in their own mountains. "General Bobs" used
professionally drilled mountain men as his shock troops. Passes
were taken by the Scottish Highlanders (in which Daniel and
Peachey fictitiously served) and the Nepalese Gurkha Rifles (like
their loyal translator Billy Fish, who is played by the tremendous
Indian actor Saeed Jaffrey).
the U.S. has about 30,000 elite Special Forces troops trained in both
regular and irregular fighting. America's British allies have superb S.A.S. commandos, as well as 3,400
Gurkha troops.
was General Bobs' campaign simply another long-term failure? It
depends on whether you consider 40 years of success a failure.
British eventually placed Abdur Rahman on the throne in Kabul. Within
's now carefully defined borders, they let him have his way - such
as waging jihad against the poor Kafirs - so long as he delegated
the conduct of Afghanistan's external relations to London. In the "Great Game" (the subject of Kipling's
masterpiece "Kim"), Britain's spies and diplomats used bribes and threats to keep the Afghans
from being bought off by the Russians.
policy worked well enough for four decades. Finally, exhausted by
WWI, Britain
lost control in 1919, a date now considered by Afghanistan to be the year of its independence.
began to slowly tip toward the Soviet Union, which ultimately led to the Soviet invasion of 1979, a full
century after General Bobs' invasion.
if a war in Afghanistan
does prove winnable, which it should, ought the U.S. to undertake a long-term benevolent occupation to attempt to turn
that desolate land into a peaceful "normal country?"
Huston's movie offers a skeptical perspective.
the two pirates' plan succeeds wildly. The pagans believe Daniel
is a god, the son of Alexander. The high priests place the great
Greek's crown upon his head and offer him a treasure room full of
rubies and gold. All Daniel and Peachey need to do to become the
two richest men on Earth is to fill their packs, wait four months
for the snows in the
Hindu Kush
to melt, and then walk out.
awaiting Spring, Daniel amuses himself by playing at being king.
To the applause of his new subjects, he enforces peace, dispenses
justice at traditional durbars, sets up granaries to insure
against famine, and builds bridges to tie the country together.
the passes finally open, Peachey learns to his horror that Daniel
now feels too responsible for his people to grab the loot and run.
The grandiose nation-building urge that in the 1990's helped
inspire American interventions in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia has infected him. "A nation I shall make of it, with an
anthem and a flag," King Daniel thunders.
Daniel has decided to take a Queen. He has picked out a local
beauty called Roxanne - the same name as Alexander's wife. The
priests demur. Billy Fish tries to explain to the king why his
marriage would be an affront to Kafir beliefs. Daniel, blinded by
his victories - "Have I not put the shadow of my hand over
this country?" - fails to grasp that what seems a quibble to
him is of dread import to the Kafirs.
fiction novelist Orson Scott Card ("Ender's Game")
summed up "The Man Who Would Be King:" "This is the
classic tragedy that Aristotle spoke of - so powerful that some of
us can only stand to see the ending once."
who advocate that we stay in Afghanistan long after Osama bin Laden and the Taliban are dealt with should
ponder Kipling and Huston's parable.
Steve Sailer
is the national correspondent
and film critic for UPI.


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The Serial Killer's Wife
For 13 Years Judith Mawson Was Blissfully in Love with Her Husband, Gary Ridgway-Then She Learned He Was the Notorious Green River Serial Killer
But what she simply couldn't believe, at least at first, was when police showed up at her door one chilly November day and told her that her husband of 13 years was not at all who she thought he was. He was, they told her, the notorious Green River Killer, suspected of murdering more than 70 women in the Seattle area over a period of 20 years. "I was crying," she recalls, "saying, 'No, it can't be him.'"
It wasn't until nearly two years later, after Gary confessed to 48 of the murders in exchange for life without parole instead of the death penalty, that she saw the truth that lay beneath his lies. "I found out he'd had the carpets removed because he'd killed women on them and there were bloodstains," says Judith, now 67. "He got rid of the bed because he'd had sex with some of his victims there, then killed them." That wasn't all. Despite what she describes as their "very active" sex life, she discovered that on many of those supposedly work-related late nights and early mornings, he was actually out hunting prostitutes. "I think back, 'Was my life real with him or did he just use me?'" she says. Judith was so thoroughly deceived that even some of the victims' families empathize with her. "I felt kind of sorry for her, that she had to go through something like that," says Kathy Mills, 76, mother of 16-year-old victim Opal Mills.
Now living a quiet life in Graham, Wash., in a mobile home her late parents left her, Judith still has trouble understanding how the man who never showed a hint of violence to her was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. "He made me smile every day," says Judith. "I had the perfect husband. Perfect life. And," she said, placing her hands over her face, "he was the perfect killer."
It was 10 years ago on Nov. 30 that police arrested Ridgway, now 62, as he walked out of the truck factory where he worked as a painter, bringing to a close the mystery that had residents in the area of northwest Washington trembling with fear. Though his victims had been primarily prostitutes, families even in the best neighborhoods had been on edge for two decades. "We didn't let our kids just roam and play like they normally would," says Kathy Fast, 66, who lived not far from where Ridgway dumped some of his victims' bodies in Auburn, Wash. "It was always in the back of everybody's mind that there was a murderer out there." Ridgway's arrest was particularly satisfying for then-King County sheriff Dave Reichert, who'd been hunting him down since the first victim was found in 1982. "Finally I knew I didn't have to wake up, wonder if he had taken another life," says Reichert, now a U.S. congressman from Washington state. "This guy destroyed many families."
After the arrest Judith too became a target of the community's outrage. "People would drive up my private road and pick up my planters and smash them," she says. "People would come holler and yell things at my house." A neighbor later refused to give back one of her cats she'd asked him to watch. "The husband said, 'You're married to the Green River Killer. You can't have it back.'" When she visited her husband in jail those first two years, she told him what was happening, and he insisted police had the wrong man. "We were trying to touch each other through the glass," she says. "I'd cry."
Judith had been fresh off a 19-year marriage when she met Gary at a singles event at a Seattle country-western bar in February 1985. The two instantly clicked and stayed up all night talking at a friend's house after they left the bar. "I thought, 'He's goodlooking. He's nice. He likes country music,'" she says. Three years later she married Gary in a small ceremony in a neighbor's front yard, and the couple built a quiet life together-going camping on the weekends or visiting junk yards to hunt for knickknacks to sell at the garage sales they held at their home. If there was anything amiss, nobody saw it. "They were a very loving and affectionate couple," says Jim Bailey, Gary's coworker and best friend. "It was a match made in heaven."
Though he left for work each day between 3 and 5 a.m., Judith made sure he had a lunch to take with him, freezing the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches he liked so much so they would last until lunch time. Then she would count the hours to his return. "If I was shopping at the mall, I'd look at the clock and say, 'Oh, Gary's going to be home,'" she says.
To this day those who knew Gary struggle to reconcile the Gary they knew with Gary the cold-blooded killer. "I'm saying to myself, 'Why didn't I see?'" says Bailey, who was so upset he couldn't even talk about the case for three years after the arrest. After Gary confessed in 2003, Judith stopped visiting him in jail and asked a friend to tell him she was in love with another man-a lie-to get him to stop writing.
She spent most of the next few years in virtual isolation at home, drowning her sorrows in wine and pain pills. "I was scared. In hiding. Ashamed." She went to therapy but stopped after a few sessions because all she did was cry. And then there were the nightmares. "I dreamed about him all the time," says Judith. "He kept reaching out to me." Jim Bailey's wife, Linda, came to stay with her for weeks on end but finally grew so concerned she suggested Judith write a book. "It may help you heal, and it may help other women," Linda told her. Judith was interested, so Linda introduced her to her friend Pennie Morehead, a handwriting analyst who knew a few professional writers. "I saw the saddest eyes I've ever seen on a human being," says Morehead. "She hugged me and she cried." The two women became fast friends and eventually decided to write the book together. "When we first started meeting, she'd try to talk and her throat would spasm," says Morehead. "She literally could not talk about it." Morehead would sit quietly with her and hold her hand.
It took two years, but they finished the book, Green River Serial Killer: Biography of an Unsuspecting Wife, which came out in 2007. "If it wasn't for her, I probably would have become an alcoholic," says Judith of Morehead. "Telling my story, getting all the poison out of me helped me to heal."
Sitting in her favorite restaurant near her home in Graham, Wash., she pulls out pictures, cards and letters and pushes them across the table. One shows the couple looking adoringly into each other's eyes. "That's the man I knew," she says. "Does he look like a killer?" She pulls out a card he sent her for Mother's Day in 2003 (she has two daughters from her first marriage). "Before I met you I had a big empty hole in my heart," Gary wrote. The words touched her then and now. "I cry every time I read that letter," she says. "It's from the man I loved, not the man I didn't know."
Years after accepting the truth, Judith still struggles with trying to forgive the man he really was. "How do you forgive someone who is suspected of killing 70 women?" She hasn't dated since her husband's arrest, instead choosing to spend her days with friends she met at a local church. Whether she'll ever allow herself to fall in love again is an open question. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to trust another man," she says. "On the positive side, I'm getting to know myself after all these years."
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It happened in Etloe Close, Leyton, at around 8.45pm on Tuesday.
Fire-fighters helped her from the property and gave her oxygen. She was then taken to hospital by ambulance and treated for smoke inhalation.
A small part of her flat was damaged.
A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade said: "The fire is believed to have been caused by a tea towel left on an electric hob."
Watch Manager Rod Wainwright, from Leyton fire station, who attended the scene, said: "Never leave anything that could catch fire on top of your hob, even when it's switched off.
"Hobs can be accidentally left on, or can be turned on by mistake – so it's best to keep it clear at all times.
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A group in North Carolina is asking in an open letter to lawmakers for the state to once again issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants.
Maudia Melendez, executive director of the Charlotte-based Jesus Ministry, says her group has been working for a year on a project that has the support of more than 6,000 citizens.
"We can't let this issue die," Melendez told Efe on Thursday. "A change in the law is necessary for public safety, prevention of crimes and economic progress."
Under her proposal, immigrants pay a $50 fee for a license that has to be renewed every two years. They would be subject to a criminal background check and would have to prove they are North Carolina residents.
"We've talked with several legislators and gone around the counties seeking support and people have responded positively. Undocumented people see themselves forced to drive without a license because they have to support their families," she said.
Between Jan. 1, 2002, and Aug. 28, 2006, the state Department of Motor Vehicles issued 220,982 driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants who could supply a taxpayer identification number.
However, the measure motivated immigrants from other parts of the country to come to North Carolina to get a driver's license, which spurred lawmakers to approve a law in 2006 preventing undocumented people from obtaining state-issued identification and driver's licenses.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that around 325,000 of the state's more than 800,000 Latino residents are undocumented.
"People are desperate to have some driving permit and fall into the traps of opportunistic people when they promise some kind of documents. If (the government) gave licenses, it would reduce fraud," said Melendez.
The North Carolina DMV has undertaken several investigations involving the production of false licenses and obtaining documents in a fraudulent manner that have led to several arrests.
DMV spokesperson Margaret Howell told Efe that the most recent case occurred in the Charlotte area, where the department began to send hundreds of letters to Hispanics to notify them to return their vehicle title and registration documents.
Three Hispanics were arrested in August and charged with obtaining at least 600 documents from the DMV using the names of fake businesses and non-existent people.
One of those affected, Danny Galindo, told the newspaper Hola Noticias in Charlotte that he does not understand why the DMV sent him the letter, since he got the title for his car in the name of the painting company he formed legally.
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The Roleplayer is the TabletopRPG player who plays mainly to create a character and tell a story. Most of them aren't too concerned with MinMaxing - their abilities are based more on whether they fit their conception of the character than pure combat effectiveness.
These players tend to be most interested in the storyline of the game, which means they frequently interact with the {{NPC}}s and try to find solutions to in-game conflicts without resorting to combat. They may even insert their own story into the games, providing a wealth of background information which the GameMaster can tap for plot hooks (not all [=GMs=] will do this, though).
The roleplayer is generally considered the golden goose of the TabletopRPG for the depth that he adds to the gaming environment. Not to mention the fact that he's not as laconic or stereotypical as TheRealMan, or as potentially annoying as TheLoonie, and the {{Munchkin}}. However, in some cases extreme roleplayers can be problematic:
* DramaQueen (a.k.a. Thespian): A negative roleplayer who seems a little ''too'' attached to his character. From the description he hands in, you'd get the impression that the character would be a MarySue if the GameMaster wasn't firmly in control of the story (and if they ''are'' the GameMaster, they'll be a {{GMPC}} of the worst kind). These types may have a tendency to [[SpotlightStealingSquad hog the spotlight]], to the point where the other players stop having fun. And ''God forbid'' you kill his character...
* Anti-Munchkin: [[{{Scrub}} The type opposed to optimization of any kind.]] He'll frequently hand in characters which are wildly incompatible with the style of the game (such as an underwater basket weaver in a dungeon crawl), or the rest of the party (like a Paladin in a group where everyone else is evil, though sometimes this is just a {{Munchkin}} looking for an excuse to kill the party). Any objections will be met with a [[BerserkButton rant about character conceptualization]], implying that the other players at the table are nothing but power-gaming Munchkins who are [[StopHavingFunGuys there only to kill monsters and steal their stuff]].
Those above types are frequent punching bags of TheLoonie and {{Griefer}}s for being somewhat high-strung and humorless, especially in the {{MMORPG}} (of all places) where they occasionally show up. Some games, such as ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', even have RP-oriented servers where this style of play is theoretically encouraged (whether a given RP server ''succeeds'' is open to interpretation). ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' in technical terms is a largely static environment, and is far more heavily designed to cater to Munchkin[=/MinMaxer=] players, however; so while it is possible for players of this type to do what makes them happy, WoW will generally require that they work much harder at it, than they might need to in other games.
A PlayerArchetypes subtrope, along with TheRealMan, TheLoonie and the {{Munchkin}}.
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* Zelgadis from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the angst-filled backgrounds many role-players come up with.
* Akatsuki of ''LogHorizon'' keeps roleplaying as a {{Ninja}} even after the Apocalypse.
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* Joanna in ''Film/TheGamersDorknessRising'', although she may only come across this way because of the crowd of (shockingly ineffective) munchkins she games with.
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* The ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' DLC "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep" features Lilith as this, alongside Brick as TheRealMan and Mordecai who isn't really interested in playing at all. Notably, Lilith is willing to emulate the speech patterns of [[GratuitousSpanish Salvador]], [[{{Haiku}} Zer0]], or even [[TalkativeLoon Krieg]] to the best of her ability.
-->'''Lilith:''' I talk to her. In-character, of course. ''[ahem]''\\
'''"Krieg":''' I'LL CRACK YOUR MIND AND BEAT YOUR PROBLEMS TO DEATH!
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* Ben playing Kenobi in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids''. Annie playing Shmi and Anakin even more so.
** Pete's nephew Corey is picking this up while playing "Adam Lars." Even going so far as to continue to try and follow his character's NPC parents demand to destroy [=R2-D2=] and [=C3PO=]
---> "My team is my family. I'm no rebel. Am I supposed to roleplay or not?"
** Jim playing Han Solo as of the [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]] storyline. He has been playing up his character as TheDitz, such as making him call tauntauns "won-tons". Of course, the others have trouble distinguishing between Jim roleplaying a ditz, and Jim just being himself (his previous character thought Jedi was a type of cheese). Until [[spoiler: Jim reveals he's ''actually'' playing Han as an amoral traitor, who's been selling the Rebellion out.]]
* Gimli in ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'': "Who let the roleplayer into the group?". He later eased up and became more of TheSmartGuy, though he's still the only guy who pays attention to the story.
** Also a good joker.
---> '''Gimli:''' Let me see if I follow this: I am either alive or dead, based on the state of a die which we cannot observe without altering. Do I now exist in both states at once? [[SchrodingersCat Am I both living ]]''[[SchrodingersCat and ]]''[[SchrodingersCat dead?]] Have I become some sort of '''Uncertainty Lich?'''\\
'''DM:''' Uh, that really won't be necessary. If I get behind my desk I can see the orc rolled a five. He missed.\\
'''Gimli: Do not mock me, mortal! I am the master of life and death!'''\\
'''DM:''' Just take your turn, rock-jockey.
** From the same writer, one of the players in ''Webcomic/ChainmailBikini'' (whose character wore the titular garment) was a very exaggerated version (later, while playing a bard, sang at the top of his lungs during a battle). Notably, while the other characters were based on the writer's own RPG experiences, the roleplayer was entirely made up.
* Gabe from ''PennyArcade'' is a borderline Anti-Munchkin:
** "[[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/09/05/ What? My character has Alzheimer's!]]"
** Of course, he could just be a [[TheLoonie loonie]] making an excuse.
* Sara of ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable''.
* Arguably, Elan from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''.
** Also arguably, ''Roy''. Note the incident with the Orcs in "The Origin of PC's".
*** Somewhat different in that Roy, while definitely a role player, is actually fairly optimized for his role, stats-wise - it's just that he's optimized as meat-shield and tactically talented party leader at the same time. It helps that he rolled really well on his stats when he was born- he's got all the physical stats necessary to be an effective fighter, plus a combination of mental stats that make his brain [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0031.html Tastier than V's]] (V being the party Wizard, a class that requires high mental stats).
*** This explains his father's disappointment with his career choices.
* Tavros from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is an example of this. He picks a class that is rather ineffective in combat just because it matches his personality and interests. [[spoiler: It turns out badly for him. VERY badly]]
* Vilbert von Vampire from ''[[WebComic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]''.
* ''Webcomic/OnePieceGrandLine3Point5'' has Natalie, who tends to go a little overboard in describing Nami's every move and thought. Gracefully.
** Luke fits to a lesser extent; while not very good at making Luffy introspective, he has a special d20 he breaks out every time he has to make a social skills role. [[CriticalFailure It has nothing but 1s on it]]. It's also noted that [[TheMunchkin Cory]] helped him design his character, but didn't help with his equipment, resulting in Luke spending most of his starting cash on the Straw Hat simply because 'it looked cool'.
* ''Webcomic/FriendshipIsDragons'': Rarity's player is highly invested in her 'social rogue's' CharacterDevelopment. Fluttershy's player is also more interested in her character and the setting than the actual combat aspects of the game.
* In ''Webcomic/LarpTrek'', Troi (naturally) and Data (a bit more surprisingly) fall into this category.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Sarah is interested in [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1853 creating a narrative]] with her [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Magickal Cards]] deck, rather than just using the most powerful cards (although when she gets a ''really'' powerful card, [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1870 she's torn]] until she comes up with [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1871 a narrative that lets her use it]]). She goes on to play Sam, who shares her attitude enough to [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1968 use it against her]].
* In ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'' most of the players have aspects of this due to the generous roleplaying XP in the ''[[ShowWithinAShow FantasiaLand]]'' system, but Bill is the most dedicated. He will refuse bonuses if the situation wouldn't call for it, and when he puts on background music to get his friends in the right mood, it has to be appropriate. He refuses to use "[[Film/TopGun Danger Zone]]" until they are actually fighting in planes.
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* Arthéon from ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'', showing it mostly via interest in the game's background and refusal to de-activate the "taking distance between avatars into account" option on the microphones unless it's essential to the success of the quest. Heimdäl and Ystos show elements of it also in the novel and later seasons of the webseries. In the movie, Battos insists on getting important news via someone else handing him paper messages in-game, depite the existence of the in-game forums.
* Godfree from ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', who plays up his knight persona and speaks in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe. [[DisproportionateRetribution Kuradeel kills him over the latter trait.]]
!!Examples of roleplaying games that cater to this kind of player:
* Essentially, since this kind of gamer tends not to care about the particulars of the rules, systems that are rules-light, rules-free or diceless are said to be favored by these gamers, or to encourage this kind of gameplay. Of course, this is easily misinterpreted as "people using other systems can't roleplay", leading to a common [[FlameWar discussion]] on RPG message board.
* Examples of such rules-light systems include ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber Amber DRPG]]'', ''TabletopGame/OverTheEdge'', ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', and several others.
* Or pretty much any system where a highly experienced character can be killed in one round by a basic weapon, in other words, ''not'' D20.
* GM-less storytelling RPG's tend to be this--like ''[[{{TabletopGame/Forsooth}} Forsooth!]]'', ''TabletopGame/{{Microscope}}'', and ''TabletopGame/{{Fiasco}}''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}}'' the game´s intended audience is people who like to play an adventure type story while playing a Victorian character. The very simple rules do not leave much room for min-maxing or munchkining. A munchkin player with a repeating rifle and a good marksmanship skill could kill the technologically inferior enemies easily, but once the enemy is in range there is very little that will protect him from enemy musketballs and arrows (no dodge skill, no camouflage, no bullet stopping armor unless we are talking about close combat). On the other hand, the detailed background put much emphasis on understanding Victorian society and mindset.
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' is one of the few games with completely dedicated roleplaying servers, mostly due to the easy custom map design and chat systems. A good way to tell how hardcore a roleplay server is would be by looking at the character builds. More relaxed servers have players who are just as good at creating extremely optimized and complex builds as they are at roleplaying. Other servers impose restrictions on multi-classing to keep things more realistic.
* ''MagicTheGathering'' makes allowances for Roleplayers in the form of its own PlayerArchetypes; Vorthos, who is more interested in the story of the cards than the mechanics, and Johnny, who while being best known for [[GameBreaker wildly powerful combo decks]], is also the [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation player type who considers deckbuilding]] ''[[AlternateCharacterInterpretation itself]]'' [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation a form of self-expression]]. They would, for example, build "tribal" decks (that is, decks built around one or two creature types) before such decks were given dedicated tribe-specific support.


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I was sitting on the porch overlooking a secluded bay at Drummond Island a couple of weeks ago, enjoying my morning coffee, when a big doe and her spotted fawn stepped into sight. Unperturbed by my presence, they moved quietly along, stepping forward softly, stopping to feed then looking my way before moving again.
It was one of many delightful wildlife viewings I'd experience while spending a week on the island. There would be the family of loons swimming with chicks in tow, bald eagles flying overhead and the throaty croak of visiting sandhill cranes.
The island, with its abundance of state land, is a magnet for birds and a wonderful place to enjoy wildlife and nature. A bike ride down its uncrowded roads takes riders past sweeping panoramas of purple thistle, delicate queen-Ann's lace and boisterous Black-Eyed Susans.
Arriving at the cottage where I reside there is always like coming home, one of those quiet and comfortable, familiar places set amid the birch and pines looking out over the shimmering waters of northern Lake Huron.
But, what is to become of the island, I wondered that morning? I had just read the Department of Natural Resources is working with islanders and outside groups to develop a strategic plan to govern recreation there.
Drummond is growing in popularity and uncontrolled growth is a point of concern for state officials who worry about losing millions in federal funds annually from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for wildlife-related management. Much of the state property on the island was acquired with hunter dollars and the FWS frowns on uncontrolled recreation on lands purchased for wildlife purposes.
One of those concerns has to with off-road-vehicles. The island has long been destination for the ORV crowd, but it has become increasingly popular in recent years. Hunters and certain islanders now complain about it. The feds have too, according to state officials.
"We had Jeep routes that got established and the federal aid auditors were not fond of the fact that they were there," said Terry Minzey, the DNR's Upper Peninsula regional wildlife supervisor. "Then there were applications to do more development, an example is building kayak camping platforms."
Island tourism officials have been working for a few years to re-create Drummond's persona, hoping to appeal to more than the hunting and fishing crowd. Kayak touring is among the new forms of recreation being promoted there. And, I had noticed, there seemed to be more than the usual number of cars with kayaks on top in parking lots and along the roads.
My first impression was: Well, cool.
"We are in a quandary," Minzey said. "How do we deal with this stuff? We recognize it is a tourist-based economy based on eco-tourism. We aren't interested in destroying that or shutting people out, but we need to have some kind of control that is recognized by the federal government so we're not in jeopardy of losing $26 million in annual federal funding."
Minzey said having a strategic plan will help. It is to be developed by the various stake-holders, the user groups and island constituent groups.
"It's not a voting process, it will be a consensus process," he said.
Meaning everyone will end up on the same page. That should serve, he said, to assure the feds that the state has control over what is happening there.
Having taken a bike ride one day to a remote beach on the island, I'd had the opportunity see just how diverse things had become. A Michigan-based Jeep enthusiast pulled in just about the same time. He was out geocaching with his wife and son and had learned of Drummond while attending an ORV event in a southern state. I got the impression he'd been informed by a local there who'd visited the island.
"I was told it (the island) is one of the most beautiful places you can go and run," he said.
No doubt, I thought.
Two kayakers from Ohio showed up an hour later and had almost the same to say. They pulled their boats down to water's edge and began loading for a three-day camping trip. Just exactly where they would camp was not known. They planned a 5-mile paddle down to a rocky headland known as Marblehead.
"I've come up to do this each of the last four years," one said. "It's just beautiful."
Yes. It is, I thought, and eventually watched them go.
That morning on the porch, I had started to wonder what would become of the island. Would it stay a largely peaceful place or become noisy and crowded, full of well-meaning young eco-tourists. Would area businesses thrive? Would they all love it to death?
It was just about then that the loons began to call out in the bay. It wasn't a raucous call, but a long, soulful mourn. There is something to be said for obscurity if you are a quiet lover.
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1. Amarillo High (6-3, 3-1): Sandies clinched playoff berth by beating Tascosa and can win a share of the District 2-5A title by beating Lubbock Coronado on Thursday and if San Angelo Central loses to Tascosa.
2. Randall (8-1, 5-1): Raiders are headed to the playoffs, but after heartbreaking loss to Frenship are more concerned about the health of quarterback Collin Bowen.
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1. Wellington (10-0, 4-0): The Skyrockets completed their third undefeated regular season in four years and captured the District 2-1A Division II title last week against Wheeler.
2. Sunray (9-0, 3-0): The Bobcats are District 1-1A Division I champions and can wrap up their first undefeated regular season since 2004 with a win Friday over Boys Ranch (5-4, 0-3).
3. Panhandle (7-2, 2-0): The Panthers captured a District 2-1A Division I playoff seed last week and have outscored opponents Lockney and Quanah 102-26 the last two weeks.
— Ricky Treon
1. Valley (8-1, 3-0): The Patriots are the top playoff seed out of District 1 Division I and can enter the postseason with nine straight wins if they beat McLean (1-8, 0-3) on Friday.
2. Follett (6-3, 3-1): The Panthers are the other playoff team from District 1 Division I, and they will tune up for a postseason run Friday with a nondistrict game against Happy.
3. Miami (8-2, 2-0): The Warriors are District 1 Division II champions and take a week off before beginning the playoffs with hopes of a deep postseason run.
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EAGLES MERE - It was the end of the road for East Juniata's Jeremy Pannebaker Saturday. The Tiger golfer carded an 82 - a four-stroke improvement over the first day of the District 4 Class AAA golf tournament - but could not make up lost ground to advance to the eastern regional.
Pannebaker shot a two-day 168, which put him 15 strokes away from advancement.
Defending champion C.J. Tyler of Shikellamy (150) and Selinsgrove's Justin Geedey (153, playoff) were the two who moved on.
Pannebaker was sixth overall in what started as a field of eight; one player withdrew after the first day.
"I'm impressed he shot 82, to be honest," East Juniata coach Mike Zendt said, noting Pannebaker hit the fairway only about a third of the time and had to play thick roughs. "I think his putting maybe bailed him out."
Despite recent struggles, Zendt said the senior never gave up.
"Jeremy's not the type of kid to do that," he said. "He's had a great career for me. I'm really going to miss him."
Overall, the coach said, it was a great accomplishment just to be among the elite on the final day of districts.
"He wanted regionals really bad, but it wasn't in the cards for him," Zendt said.
Boys soccer
Midd-West 3, Williamsport 1
MIDDLEBURG - Corner kicks were a big deal Saturday for Midd-West, which used a pair of them to take an early lead over Williamsport. The Mustangs made it a 3-1 Heartland Conference win over the Millionaires on homecoming, clinching a District 4 playoff berth in the process.
"It was nice to see us finally finish off of corners, as our first two goals came from great serves from Tyler Arbogast," Midd-West coach Chris Sauer said. Those goals came at opposite ends of the first half.
It was the assist that Sauer noted on the final goal, a helper that came from Andrew Sassaman.
"Sassaman was very dangerous for us making some great runs down left side," Sauer said. "We hope to continue to improve heading into district playoffs in the next few weeks."
Midd-West (9-5, 7-3) hosts Lewisburg Monday.
Perry County tournament
ELLIOTTSBURG - A Seth Ferguson hat trick and two Tyler Fegley goals propelled Greenwood to a 7-0 victory in the opening round of the Perry County boys soccer tournament.
Fegley and Hunter Wirth each took delivery of a Hunter Roth ball to win the title.
In the opening game, Susquenita gave up all seven goals in the first half. Host West Perry led the final most of the way but saw the two Wildcats tallies come a minute apart in the second.
"It made it exciting, put it that way," Greenwood coach Tom Magill said. "The game definitely went back and forth in the first half and I thought we were a step slow to the ball."
Altoona 4,
Mifflin County0
LEWISTOWN - Altoona scored three second-half goals and goalkeeper Joe Smith made five saves in a shutout of winless Mifflin County in a non-league boys soccer game Saturday.
Field hockey
East Juniata 2,
Lancaster Country Day 1
LANCASTER - Megan Yeager scored the game winner Saturday as East Juniata slipped past Lancaster Country Day, 2-1, in a Tri-Valley League field hockey game.
For the Tigers, it was close call after the two traded goals in the first; East Juniata needs to keep pace with rival Greenwood for even a shot at the league title. But the win did cement a spot in the District 4 bracket for the Tigers.
Liz McClure had assists on both goals.
East Juniata (9-3-1, 5-1-1) visits Mifflin County Tuesday.
Greenwood 1,
State College 0
MILLERSTOWN -Greenwood needed just one goal to beat State College and Kelsey Keener got it.
Keener's unassisted blast early in the first half held to the end in the non-league field hockey game.
Girls soccer
East Juniata 4,
Line Mountain 1
MANDATA - McKayla Goodling had a goal and two assists as East Juniata topped Line Mountain, 4-1, in a Tri-Valley League girls soccer game Saturday.
Hannah School had a goal and an assist for the Tigers.


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China's oldest aquarium has dazzled visitors touring their new exhibition with a collection of tropical fish specially selected for being fluorescent.
The "Dreamy Blue" pavilion of Qingdao Underwater World plunges guests into bright blue surroundings where fish help light the room as much as anything else.
Honored as a "major cultural site" of the Shandong Province, the aquarium is famed for its jellyfish "palace" and owns 10,000 square feet of exhibition space.
Their newest attraction holds a mirrored enclosure that gives the appearance of a globe - with brightly coloured jellyfish punctuating dark blue surroundings.
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Congratulations, that is awesome!
A year ago, I couldn't do a single pull up, and the other day I managed 10 chinups in a set. As soon as you've got your first unassisted one in, it'll be easier to improve even further :)
Grok it girl!
Congrats! Great way to start out the new year!
Pretty freaking awesome! <bows at heatseekers feet>
I have a lofty pullup goal myself for this year. I can do one or two (have done 4 in the past), though not dead hang. Aiming for 10 in 364 days.
Good stuff.
I had one unassisted muscle-up as a goal in 2012 and i have failed. The quest will continue in 2013.
Congratulations and Happy New Year.
Freaking awesome! I just jointed CrossFit and my goal is to do an unassisted pullup in 2013. Muscle Memory is a great thing --- now you've done one, your body is going to remember and it'll be easier to now do multiple pullups. You rock and congratulations.
Awesome! Congratulations!
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You are what you eat.
Eating and food certainly play a dominant role in all our lives, including kids! We built on last week's theme of fitness and health to teach members how to make healthy choices and to make good decisions related to diet and their general well-being.
Members learned the difference between processed foods and natural foods and where they come from. ChooseMyPlate.gov, a federal government website, offers kids and adults information, games and activities and our members spent time researching what makes a healthy meal on this site. We hope more families will explore this site.
Last Wednesday's session included a discussion about appropriate portion size and how to read the nutrition facts on food packaging. Small groups were each given a beverage to study. Within the group they reviewed the nutritional information of one beverage and made a poster illustrating the amount of calories, sugar or any other vitamins or protein.
Before the week was over, kids partook in an activity called "Snack Attack." Members worked in small groups to plan healthy snacks for a variety of occasions and presented findings to each other.
Instructor Jan Eadie is thrilled to see their group skills developing as the summer progresses. Thursday attendees watched some fascinating videos about what breakfast and school lunches look like in the United States and several other countries. We discovered, among other things, that eggs, sausage and cereal are really popular breakfast foods around the world.
At the conclusion, the kids researched one specific country's food. Our members — at least the ones who are participating in Brain Gain this summer — generally have an understanding of healthy foods, due in no small part to the nutritious, well-balanced and well-prepared meals and snacks provided here at the Boys & Girls Club.
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Boy, are the campers loving this week's theme. They have learned all about wildlife indigenous to the area and continued to study the habitats of other favorite animals. After doing their morning stretches and warmups as they do each day and week, the kids enjoyed relay races, tags and other body moving games before moving from the gym to the program area.
The youngsters researched the habitats of their favorites: bears, seals, eagles and together in pairs they created a diorama for a plastic animal and the information they gathered. Kendra and her brother Easton Munger took first place in the judging competition.
The end of the week included a visit from Feiro Marine Life Center and the Coast Guard to discuss oil spills. Members watched a slideshow demonstrating the devastating effects oil spills have on the coastline and wildlife.
Following the presentation, members gathered in small groups given a tray of sand with its own oil spill. With a few tools members were challenged to clean up the spill. The week concluded with a popular field trip to Point Defiance Zoo where the kids were able to get up close and personal with the animals.
Golf camp
Sunland Golf & Country Club hosted members for their annual golf camp. Eight boys and girls were selected to get out on the course and 20 additional kids stayed back and participate in a repeat of run of PGA Sports Academy.
The PGA Sports Academy was launched in 2012 and has expanded its program to 100 Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide – adding the Sequim clubhouse as one of the 25 new sites in 2014.
In April we implemented a five-week class with Tyler Sweet serving as the instructor. He taught basic skills, rules of golf in addition to coordinating contests and games to reinforce both the fun of the game and skill development. Last week's repeat session led by unit director Dave Miller reinforced skills for prior participants and introduced the game to new kids.
The camp will run one more session this fall to allow new golfers more time to practice.
Happy Birthday, Dave!
Not everyone has a birthday party with 200 kids — it's only the lucky leader of the Carroll C. Kendall Unit.
Dave Miller is quickly approaching his one-year anniversary with the club and the kids adore his wonderful leadership. Dave personal spirit shines throughout the club. His office is decked out from wall to wall with Seahawks paraphernalia and club kid pictures. His excitement for the 'Hawks led his staff to have a custom water bottle made that they all signed and a poster made and presented to him in a member assembly where everyone gathered around to sing happy birthday and demanded a speech.
From the heart, Dave told them he was the lucky person on earth to have his job.
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The Sequim School District, First Teacher and the Boys & Girls Club have rallied together to make sure that all students start the school year with the tools they need for success. Every child wants to begin the year with new school clothes, a backpack and the school supplies required for their classroom. Unfortunately, many families can't afford these back-to-school necessities.
The summer club attendees raided the art room and produced amazing banners for last Saturday's "Stuff the Bus" event and several others were out there soliciting community support.
School supplies may dropped off at the School District office or the Boys & Girls Club until 6 p.m., Monday-Friday. All collected items will be sorted and distributed at the Back To School Resource Fair on Saturday, Aug. 23.
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CAMDEN -- Three men armed with knives are being sought in connection with what police are calling a home invasion here early Thursday.
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PATTON - Cambria Heights was heading for a top-two seed in the District 6 playoffs in 2012 before Northern Cambria stunned the archrival Highlanders and squelched the Laurel Highlands Conference school's hopes to host a postseason game after years of gridiron frustrations.
Almost a year to the day, the Highlanders decided to repay the favor.
Josh Fees scored on two long touchdown runs, and the Heights defense stopped the Colts three times on downs deep in CH territory as the Highlanders dashed Northern Cambria's playoff hopes by a 17-13 count in the Coal Bowl on Friday night at Patton Stadium.
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Cambria Heights' Josh Fees zips by Northern Cambria's Alex Kopera en route to a 63-yard touchdown on Friday.
It was only Heights' second win of the year, but you wouldn't have known that by the expression of the Highlander players.
"This win means the world," a teary-eyed and bloodied Heights senior captain Isaac Sclesky said. "This makes up for all the sting of the games this season."
And it inflicted a painful sting on the Colts. Northern Cambria appeared headed to the District 6 Class A playoffs after upsetting Ligonier Valley a week ago, but the loss to Heights allowed both Blairsville and Williamsburg to move ahead of NC in the rankings, pushing the Colts out of the top eight and ending their season with a 5-5 record.
"I just know that's one [tape] I'm putting away in the library, and I'm not watching it, because there's no need to do that. There's no need for me to put myself through that. There's no need for me to look down on high school kids who just put their heart out on that field," said Colts coach Paul Taranto after spending several emotional minutes hugging his players and talking to his family. "It doesn't matter what happens in this game. That's just the way it is."
Northern held Heights to nine first downs and just 273 yards of total offense but was burned by Fees for touchdown runs of 63 yards early in the first quarter and 64 yards in the fourth that staked the Highlanders to a 10-point lead with 9:41 left. Nolan Paronish scored on a 3-yard run to narrow the gap, but NC was unable to get back into scoring position when it got the ball back with 1:38 to play.
Fees finished his scholastic career with 199 yards on 20 carries.
"Words can't describe it. This is just the greatest feeling in the world to end it on this note," Fees said. "I did what I had to do and got us the win. I couldn't be happier."
The Highlander defense had a big hand in making Fees' big plays hold up. Northern Cambria only punted once and didn't commit a turnover but was stopped on downs at the CH 23, the Heights 1 and the Highlander 16. Clayton Schinkle got into the Colt backfield to upend Dartagnan Suchar on fourth down on the goal-line stand in the second quarter.
"We dug deep, we stuck to our positions, and we just played hard football," Sclesky, a linebacker, said.
Cambria Heights also got a 38-yard field goal from Johnny Galinis in the second quarter that loomed large in its victory. Asked if last year's upset was added incentive for the Highlanders Sclesky said "It was that and more."
After the game, fans that crowded the stands from both sides flooded onto the field and congratulate or console the players. It might be the last time in awhile that the Highlanders and Colts square off for the Coal Bucket Trophy - the LHAC is going to a full 10-game schedule next season, meaning conference crossover games like the Coal Bowl will go by the wayside, at least for the time being.
"It's a shame. It's like the Pitt-Penn State series. Everybody wants it, but for some reason we can't seem to get it together," Heights coach Jarrod Lewis said. "It's above my powers, but I'd like to see it, I know everybody in the community would like to see it. It's one of the best rivalries in football, if not the best.
"After losing last year, the kids' focus was primarily on getting this bucket back. That was our entire offseason focus, our entire offseason goal, and they went out and showed it tonight. They came out with a lot of heart and determination and refused to lose this game."
Game notes: The Colts outgained Heights 299-273. Paronish finished with a team-high 47 yards on the ground for Northern Cambria, while Tyler Pershing passed for 77 and Derek Baker rushed for 41, threw for 36 and scored on a 7-yard run. ... Heights, which took a 22-21-1 lead in the series, was celebrating senior night. ... Heights presented Stan Bem a plaque at halftime. Bem was officiating his final football game, ending a 46-year career.
Northern Cambria7 0 0 6 - 13
Cambria Heights7 3 0 7 - 17
First quarter
CH-Fees 63 run (Galinis kick), 8:54.
NC-Baker 7 run (Baker kick), 5:55.
Second quarter
CH-Galinis 38 FG, 7:57.
Fourth quarter
CH-Fees 64 run (Galinis kick), 9:41.
NC-Paronish 3 run (kick failed), 4:50.
RUSHING: Northern Cambria-Paronish 7-47, J. Frontino 15-44, Baker 8-41, Weiland 7-36, Suchar 7-20, Pershing 2-12, TEAM 1-(-14). Cambria Heights-Fees 20-199, Legros 5-22, D. Link 4-12, Coy 3-1, TEAM 2-(-4).
PASSING: Northern Cambria-Pershing 5-10-0-77, Baker 1-2-0-36, TEAM 0-1-0-0. Cambria Heights-Legros 1-1-0-43, E. Link 0-1-0-0.
RECEIVING: Northern Cambria-Olish 2-47, Weiland 1-36, Prasko 1-19, J. Frontino 1-9, Paronish 1-2. Cambria Heights-.
INTERCEPTIONS: Northern Cambria-none. Cambria Heights-none.
First downs159
Passing (comp.-att.-int.)6-13-01-2-0
Yards passing11343
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This is my journal to document me and my families journey into the primal lifestyle. It has been about 2 weeks so far of no grains or processed crap, and buying organic fruit and vegetables, and grass fed meat.
It was a bit of an adjustment for everyone else to remove the grains, as cereals were a big part of everyones breakfast, but they are all now eating eggs and whatever I serve for breakfast. I have a husband and 2 boys (4 and 18 months). We are all sleeping better and just in better moods over all. I have lost about 30 kg in the last 18 months, in the CW way, IE low fat etc, but half of that was pregnancy weight, so really it has been horribly slow, plus I had bingeing issues, but now have resolved them. I have about 20-30 kg to go, but primarily I want to be healthy, losing weight will be a bonus. It has become apparrent to me though due to feeling quite sick I do need to give up dairy too, I have cream with 1-3 coffees each day, and I feel horrible after. I imagine its the coffee too though. So that is my newest challenge as it is hard to give it up.
I am a kiwi living in Australia.
During my weight loss journey, I was doing a lot of gym classes, then was doing a lot of running and trained for a half marathon (which I completed in 3 hours in July, so very slowly) then a lot more classes, but then I realised I needed to start lifting heavy which I have been, but then have done very little cardio lately, so will start doing some sprints too. Will also do some of the WOW from this site. I am also hoping to get into crossfit soon too.
Will add some pics of my journey so far. I am looking forward to seeing the changes in my body from following this primal lifestyle Heres hoping without the dairy the belly will disappear, as its my most hated body part
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Just did the self assessment for the PB Fitness plan, which my husband and I are starting tomorrow.
Did a bit worse than I thought, but I do have a very sore foot as we bought a chin up station today and I dropped a large piece of it on my foot. I can walk on it just, but pushup and plank position is awful pain.
Pushups - 10
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Full squat - 61
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omg that coffeee!!!!!!
opps wrong thread :/
been checking Ketone and Glucose levels, and it seems first thing in the morning I have none, but by mid morning to before bed it gets progressively higher. I have a weird feeling in my head, almost lightheadedness, but not too bad, and so I test and that is when I notice the ketones. Glucose is staying at 0.
Been trying to get my protein up to do the leptin reset too. Been following the PB fitness plan this week, tonight is LHT
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I love how now I am living this WOL I am not having to eat every 2-3 hours, and when I needed to eat then I got starving, it was awful, I had to eat right then or else. Now I generally eat 3 meals a day, but sometimes don't need lunch. I am learning to go with only eating when hungry, not just because, as I have had food issues, which have disappeared with this WOL. My relationship with food is much much easier now, when before I struggled with binge eating for over 9 years.


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NC STATE GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE:The NC State History Graduate Student Conference will be held from 8:00am-5:00 pm on March 22, 2014. The conference provides a friendly and welcoming environment for scholarly interaction and professional development. Each presentation will last approximately 15 minutes, and each panel will be followed by comments from area faculty as well as general discussion. Lunch will be provided for conference attendees who pre-register through the conference webpage by March 7, 2014.
This year's conference will include 30 graduate research papers on a diverse range of topics including:
"We Were Part of That": Northern Ireland, Republicanism, and the Global Sixties"A Fast Ride into the Depths of the Earth": Integrating Natural and Technological Wonders at Carlsbad Carerns National Park
"From Pirates to Pax Romana: The Economic Transformation of Crete from Hellenistic to Roman Periods"The conference will also feature National Humanities Center fellow Sumathi Ramaswamy who will speak on "Global Encounters, Terrestrial Lessons, Worldly Selves."


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Australian telco Yatango Mobile offering discounted call rates to Facebook users and phone credit to customers
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- February 11, 2013
A NEW Australian telco is offering discounted call rates to Facebook users and phone credit to customers who provide their own technical support in a world first social media experiment.
Launched today, Yatango Mobile is the world's first "social telco", allowing customers to connect with their Facebook friends to get almost 50 per cent off per-minute call rates.
The SIM only service, which operates nationally on the Optus network and is only available to Facebook users, offers up to $5 phone credit for users who recruit their friends on the social network as well as call rates of 8 cents a minute to other Yatango users.
Calls to other carriers will cost 15 cents a minute.
The telco has also done away with call centres, handing technical support services over to members in exchange for call credit.
While the company will provide some online support, Yatango customers can earn 10 cents phone credit for every tech support question they successfully answer on the network's online self-service forum.
Yatango founder and CEO Andy Taylor, of Sydney, said the community-based service was an example of the trend towards "collaborative consumption", an economic model based on sharing in which customers can leverage the power of their social networks for better consumer deals.
"The telecommunications industry has a worse reputation than banking, where greed rules and complexity reigns," he said.
"We harness the power of social media to offer a personalised service and pricing system that's dictated and driven by the community."
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As East Fork justice of the peace, candidate Wayne Fazzino said he would put the township's safety first, and use the court to address the increase in crime and the breakdown of the family.
Fazzino, 59, is a special investigator with the Nevada attorney general's office. He has 36 years in law enforcement investigating all types of crimes including elder abuse, child abuse, financial crimes and public integrity.
Nevada justice courts are limited jurisdiction, created by statute. The court hears criminal matters (which include traffic violations), small claims, evictions and civil matters up to $10,000. Justice court also issues temporary and extended protective orders against domestic violence and/or stalking and harassment.
The Wildhorse resident said his goal is to restore justice court to a nonlawyer judge, as permitted by the Nevada Legislature.
He is running against Tom Perkins, a lawyer, who was appointed to the court in 2010 by Douglas County commissioners.
Fazzino also applied for the job in 2010.
The successful candidate will serve for six years.
"This is the people's court," Fazzino said in a recent interview. "It's their right to have that - to control their court."
Prior to Perkins' appointment, Fazzino said East Fork never had a lawyer serve as judge.
"He (Perkins) is knowledgeable about the law, but I think I far exceed him on human nature," Fazzino said.
Because of his background and training, Fazzino said he is up-to-date on criminal behavior from gang-related offenses to homeland security.
"Because my background is so vast, I have been staying up on every issue," he said. "I know what's going on and what's being done. I have direct access to agencies to help me address matters as justice of the peace."
Fazzino said his supporters agree the justice of the peace should be a nonlawyer.
"The Nevada Legislature set the requirements so that people have one of their own representing their interests," Fazzino said. "The Supreme Court backs it up."
Fazzino said he has visited 8,000 homes in his campaign.
"I am blown away by how nice people are," he said. "The consensus is we need a stronger law enforcement presence in justice court."
The judgeship is nonpartisan.
"I'm focused on everybody's safety, not party politics," he said.
Fazzino began his investigative career 32 years ago when he was appointed as the county's first special investigator in the district attorney's office.
"I am extremely qualified for the job," he said. "I will do everything in my power to make this a safer community."
Fazzino said he would like to create outreach programs to address bullying and domestic violence.
"I care about people," he said. "I am a servant of the people. I will protect you."
Fazzino said he owes no political favors.
"People will be faceless in my court. I will focus on their actions," he said.
Fazzino and his wife, Debbie, are raising their granddaughter, Jocelyn, whom they adopted.
He has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association, the Nevada Narcotics Officers Association and the Nevada State Law Enforcement Officers Association.