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Komodo Kamado 23" OTB Gen 2.6
Komodo Kamado 23" OTB Gen 2.6
Komodo Kamados may be the most striking cookers in the world. The Gen 2.6 with a 23" wide top grate, stands 50.5" high, 30" wide at the base, and is 36" deep. It weighs a whopping 534 pounds. They arrive fully assembled, but you might need help getting it out of the crate and into position.
The first thing you notice is how well built this zaftig sweetheart is. From the serious 304 stainless steel spring assisted hinge assembly for the easy-open lid, to the fingertip release latch, to the beautifully inlaid tiles. The casters are large enough to roll this beast across bumpy brick pavers. The cooking grates and charcoal basket are thick 3/8" 304 stainless rods, and the upper grate is hinged so you can add more charcoal without removing the food.
The air inflow damper at the bottom is a rotating dial, and the entire assembly slides out easily if you want to allow max airflow. The upper damper looks like a helmet, and you turn it on a screw to lift it and allow hot air and smoke out. This is fairly precise and it keeps rain out, but it is pretty easy to lose track of how many spins you've given it. Airflow can also be managed with a digital controller like Rock's Stoker or a BBQ Guru and it comes with a port designed for them. There is a hole drilled in the dome for a dial thermometer, and a port on the side at grate level for digital probe cables. Although the Tel-Tru bi-metal dial thermometer that comes with it is pretty close to accurate at low temps, it is way off at high temps. This is one of the few cookers we've used where the dome thermometer is anywhere close to accurate. As usual we recommend you get a good digital grill thermometer.
One of the most unique features of KK's Gen 2.6 is the ability to be set up for 2-zone cooking, an essential technique that allows cooking on direct hot heat and indirect moderate heat simultaneously. This enables cooks to slide foods back and forth from cool to hot zones for crisping skin and reverse sear steaks. This is difficult to acheive on standard round kamados and most concede the best way to create different heat zones in round cookers is by moving foods closer to or further from the coal. This is typically accomplished using a variety of accessories that can be costly and awkward to use. Click here to read more about Kamado and Ceramic Grills and Smokers. One useful device that is a match made in heaven for any kamado is the BBQ Dragon, a well-made, battery operated, clip on, variable speed fan that can convert a charcoal bed from quiet gray to rip roaring red hot in a matter of minutes. Very good for switching gears from low and slow to searing hot.
KKs have mounts for rotisseries, can be fitted with side tables, and there is a pizza stone available, too. This 23" model has three racks, an upper, middle, and lower, and the lower can be positioned right on top of the coals for max heat searing. It can even be fitted with a gas igniter.
The 2" thick sandwich of two refractory materials is like concrete. One might be concerned that the tiles will need extra maintenance. Apparently they are not held in with a normal grout. The manufacturer claims it is elastomeric so it expands and contracts with heat and it is said to be UV resistant so it does not require any maintenance. If you knock a tile loose, the manufacturer ships the unit with a repair kit.
You can start the coals by simply dumping them in the coal basket and lighting them with a Weber parafin block from below or some bunched up newspaper. Many owners use small torches to fire up in a hurry. Or you can use a chimney, which makes it easy to measure the amount of coal.
Managing temp is relatively easy once you get the hang of it. The manufacturer recommends that you always fill the charcoal basket, even if you are cooking at a low temp, and control the temp with the air vents. It will take a little practice to learn what settings get you where you want to go, especially since the first hour is spent getting those thick walls loaded with heat. When you give 'er all she's got, Scotty, she can easily surpass 700°F.
Once you hit a target temp, man, she is rock solid with all that mass holding that heat and radiating it back slowly. Surprisingly, it is very responsive to the slightest increase in oxygen supply, a tweak to the vent openings, top or bottom, and within minutes the temp starts to climb. It is a bit less responsive to shutting down oxygen supply because of all that thermal mass, but it does choke down nicely.
Minor issues: The handles on the grates are almost flush against the interior making it awkward to grip them unless you turn your hands so your thumbs face you; the lid handle can get hot when cooking with the lid open because it hovers right above the cooking surface; and the latch has a nasty habit of smashing your fingers if you close the lid too quickly. All these are niggling things that you can easily work around once you get used to them.
This is a top choice for low and slow smoke roasting and for large cuts of meat, but it is not our first choice for recipes that call for moving from indirect to direct because removing the deflector plate when food is on is a bit of a hassle.
Lifetime warranty on everything included. The Komodo Kamado website has a lively message board with tips on technique.
All sales are direct from owner/designer, Dennis Linkletter, (grandson of TV legend Art Linkletter), in Bali, Indonesia. Check out our Manufacturers Profile of Komodo Kamado for more info.
$4,260 Manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), actual price may vary.
Primary Function:
Egg or Kamado Style
Combination Grill & Smoker
Pizza Oven
Primary Capacity:
415 square inches ( about 20 burgers )
Manufacturer claims that all or practically all of this device is made in the USA
Review Method:
Cooked On It
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iHerb Customer Reviews
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very good
Posted by Reviewer2169000 on Dec 26, 2009
very good for sprouting :) ordered another one to use also :D
Plastic under the lid
Posted by Reviewer2509092 on Feb 27, 2016
My previous sprouting jar was made of plastic and therefore could not be sterilized by heating. I had to throw it away becouse it once got molded and after that would get moldy every time. I thought that this would be easy to sterilize in the oven, but the lid has plastic inside.
Easy sprouting
Posted by Reviewer2164014 on Jan 21, 2010
Great for sprouting.
Posted by Reviewer1693246 on Apr 12, 2011
the only drawback to this jar is that the measurements is given in american way, so i had no idea i was buying such a big jar. but, not really a problem. easy to use.
A lot better but not as good as I was hoping.
Posted by Reviewer1920270 on May 14, 2011
I bought these so I didn't have to deal with the cheesecloth and rubberband tops anymore but the tops on these haven't been without their own problems. When they first came it took a long time to get the lids off. We still haven't been able to remove one of them. Using the other two has worked well so far but they just don't turn on and off easily. Overall, a good size though and if the lids last I will be happy. Just now, I have a concern over their quality.
Sprouting jar.
Posted by Reviewer2672073 on Jul 03, 2011
The lid is not as good as I expected it to be. It's a little difficult to take it on and off. It would be nice if it came with another screen that had smaller holes.
Good sized jar
Posted by Reviewer3036770 on Jul 06, 2011
The jar is very hard to open initially. But once opened, it works nicely for beans and grains -- soaking & washing can all be done in the same jar.
Big sprouts
Posted by Reviewer2826125 on Oct 04, 2011
The size of the jar is great, so big. A little hard to get the lid off sometimes but maybe I'm not strong enough :-)))
Excellent jar
Posted by Reviewer1603018 on Dec 02, 2011
The jar is very useful and practical for sprouting large amounts...I wish I had bought one size smaller. Anyway, great product.
Eat fresh sprouts
Posted by 4866988029820378500 on Oct 28, 2012
Very nice glass sprouting jar, except the lid is extremely difficult to get off.

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This was likely the wrong way to go about it, as the average fan struggles to see past the colors of its own team. That's completely understandable. You pay good money to support your team – in this case, the Philadelphia Phillies – so you do not want to give props where props are due.
And you're probably looking at that title and wondering why I'd write nice things about another team, within the division, no less. Well because we are fair and we wont be blinded by our fandom here at Phillies Nation (sometimes we will).
On Monday night via Facebook, I put up a seemingly innocuous post that read:
From the comments on that thread, you would have thought the Washington Nationals were the New Evil Empire. The reaction to that two-sentence paragraph led me to write this – and stick up for the Nationals.
(Note: this goes out to the Phillies fans who claimed they could not congratulate the Nationals for a number of reasons.)
As fans, we often forget where we came from. In this instance, the Phillies were a floundering team playing in a hole at Veterans Stadium, turning in bottom-feeding season after bottom-feeding season. Hell, if it weren't for a little bit of taxpayer money, and due to the fact that Philadelphia were one of the largest markets in the U.S., MLB probably would have thought long and hard about contracting the Phillies. I say that with a dash of sarcasm, but you get my point. Things were bad.
Not unlike in Montreal, where for decades, winning wasn't an option. No one showed up to games at the old Olympic Stadium and we were forced to live in a world where Youppi! was no longer a major league mascot.
Let's debunk some of these myths as to why WE should dislike the Nationals.
You: "I wish the Nationals nothing but failure because of the way they handled Stephen Strasburg."
Me: Childish, but perhaps you feel as though the Nats made a mistake in sitting down their best pitcher for the postseason. I, too, believe it to be an massive error in philosophy within the organization. But you know what, it's a move we aren't used to.
So you almost have to applaud Nats GM Mike Rizzo in his approach, as he attempts to save the arm of a guy he hopes will be around a decade or more. By attempting to reduce the stress on his pitching arm, Rizzo would like Strasburg to be the anchor of many division titles and many trips to the World Series. Can't fault him for that.
For those who liken this situation to that of Cole Hamels, the two don't quite match. First off, Hamels wasn't sidelined a year after having his elbow rebuilt. And Hamels was eased into the big-innings year of 2008 by pitching 132 in 2006 and 183 in 2007.
Strasburg basically made the jump right to the major leagues out of San Diego State University, where he had limited innings in a shorter baseball season. And Mike Rizzo doesn't want to see Strasburg become Mark Prior or Kerry Wood, flaming out early in his career.
You: "Forget the Nats. They don't have real fans."
Me: Kind of hard when your stadium sits 40 miles from another baseball town, Baltimore. And it hurts when you've only been in town since 2005. Building a proper fan base in a city that hasn't had a team since 1971 is a patient task.
When you saw a less-than-full crowd in D.C. last night, celebrating the Nationals clinching the division due to a Braves loss, you probably wondered why. Well, it takes winning for people to notice. The Yankees don't have fans all over the country because they have three championships in their history. It's because they're perennially on the largest stage, so people want to connect with that. That hasn't happened yet in D.C., but it could be heading that way with the young talent they've assembled.
You: "I hate Jayson Werth and Bryce Harper, I can't root for them."
Me: You're obviously entitled to your opinions about players. Jayson Werth has certainly done his best through the media to rub the Philly fans the wrong way recently. He's also entitled to his opinion about a city he called home for four seasons.
And if you're still upset about him taking $126 million when the Phillies offered half, you can save that argument. No one wants to hear it. So you dislike him for what, exactly? Because he makes a lot of money? He went to the enemy? Well let's say you worked at Wegman's as a manager and Whole Foods liked you so much they wanted to build a new store around you and triple your salary. You'd run right through the front doors of Wegman's and never look back.
Bryce Harper wears eye black all over his face. He's also the center of his team on a nightly basis as people want to see what the 19-year-old will do next. He also wears eye black on his face BECAUSE HE'S 19. He's still a child, so he might not be as grown up as you'd like him to be. But, really, other than not wanting to watch him crush the Phillies on a nightly basis, I can't think of any reason why you'd hate the kid. He's an incredible talent and it took years of futility for the Nationals to get him in the draft.
You: "Man, that Davey Johnson really makes me mad. He's no Charlie Manuel."
Me: OK, I made that up.
But seriously, the Nationals have won the division in 2012 fairly and squarely. Their young talent stepped forward and as a whole the franchise took a huge leap forward. For that, you have to tip your cap.
However, something tells me the Phillies will be right in the thick of things once again next season.
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Bob Carpenter, the most pompous condescending ass to ever broadcast a baseball game. That's my reason for wishing them failure. Where I live, just south of Baltimore, I am forced to hear that jerk 18 times a year when we play them, or turn the sound off.
If this seems a silly reason to hate a team, think of it like being water-boarded 18 times a summer, you'd despise the guy doing it you and everything he represents, too.
I feel your pain l live in the middle of DC and Baltimore, and can't stand Carpenter not a big fan of F.P either.
I don't dislike Jayson Werth at all ( loved him when he was here and would have taken that contract in a heartbeat!) and Davey Johnson has my full respect. However….I will NOT be rooting for the Nats….even if they face the Yankees.
Pat – fair point. Ok…I respect what they did. Gotta give them that. The scary thing is that they are a YOUNG team. We could be dealing with this for many years to come.
I love the Phillies and I will back them 100% win or lose. But the Nationals did win the NLeast far and square. Congrats to them! We always have next year.
That's a good point Lefty, I could never root for a team with a terrible TV crew
I'm hoping they fizzle in the Division Series. Swept, ideally. However, when I lived in DC I sorely missed living in a baseball town… and maybe this recent success will make it better (silver lining, I know).
Rooting for the As all the way. Baltimore, too. In the NL, not the Cardinals, Braves, or Nats… so I guess the Reds?
I do not like them because the front office has had an all-out war on Phillies fans that live in the DC Metro area. I go to games with a Phillies hat on and I'm cursed out be employees. I stopped going to Nats games because I just can't stand how i am treated.
I do NOT like Harper at all. I respect the talent. The kid is packed with it, but his attitude needs to be checked. There is a difference between confidence and cockiness. Harper is cocky. Even last night, he was mouthing off to KK after he hit a double. Don't tell me that's an age thing, because I don't buy it. It's a respect thing. He has no respect for anyone else.
I wasn't a Werth fan when he was in Philly, and I'm still not. However, I didn't begrudge him for taking the money. That's a no brainer. He just needs to keep his mouth shut about Philly though, that's when my dislike for him grows.
The team is talented. Zim is one of my favorite 3B's in the game. Strasburg is about as composed of a pitcher that you will find at his age. Zimmermann is a silent force. But overall, they are not a likeable bunch.
You pretty much summed up how I feel about the Nats. Well stated.
I'd still rather the Nats win than the Braves.
Pat this is a fantastic article. It's well thought out and is a dash of mild, reasonable thinking that we as Philadelphia fans should sometimes embrace
I grew up in SJ and moved to DC one year ago. You can imagine how hard it is living down here, listening to that god awful duo of Carpenter and Santangelo and seeing the wrong type of red. However, it is hard not to respect what the Nationals have done and give them credit where it is due, like you have.
The Phils had no business winning the NL East this year and the Nationals did; it is a tough pill to swallow but it's the truth.
One can respect a team, but still be aggravated by that team and hope that that team loses.
What really gets me, though, is not that the Nationals were good this year, but that the Phils weren't.
The nats fans are why that team is so hated in philly. Remember those two jackasses that posted that shitty youtube "take back the park" video they filmed in moms basement? The crowd was full of asshats wearing NL East Division Champs hats and shirts before they even won. One good year does not constitute a great or even good team.
If the Nats contend next year, then theyll be respected. Right now, I still think this year was the perfect storm of a failing NL East division with the Phils injured all year, the marlins and mets performing as usual.
Basically, a whole lot of luck.
Remember, it wasnt too many years the Astros won their division too. Now look at them. Philly has suffered 100 years of bad baseball, and Ive lived through 20+ of just pathetic baseball. Fans in philly have grinded out. Nats have been around a few years, been awful and now have won the division. I dont respect a one hit wonder. I give the Giants props because they keep coming back. The nats have a few years to prove this wasnt just a single year anomaly
Agree with your overall point, although if I had to guess I think the Nats will be good for at least the next 3-4 years.
I just want to throw out two things against the "oh woe is me to be a Phillies fan" litany.
First, the Phillies have been over .500 since 1961 (52 years).
Secondly, the Phillies have had 130 years of history, and you can separate it into two periods:
1) 1919-1948 (30 years) when they had an abominably bad .371 W-L%
2) The other 100 years, when they've been over .500
Grasping, I know, but as the season winds down no postseason to look forward to, it at least helps me to avoid the "losingest franchise" mentality.
Yeah, I don't really *hate* any team, I just don't give a crap about them.
Well, maybe the Yankees I hate a little. But really, if a team is winning and it's not the Phillies I just hope they lose. This year, I hope the Nationals lose because I want to see Rizzo's terrible handling of Strasburg come back to bite them in the ass, just so I can laugh at him and his big stupid head. But I liked Werth, I think Mike Morse is kind of fun to watch, and Zimmerman's arm amuses me.
As for Bryce, well, yeah, he was kind of a pompous assbag. And you know what, if I was a millionaire 19 year old and posting a .270/.340/.477 line (and .330/.402/.651 since Sept 1) with 22 jacks and another 9 triples, I'd be an arrogant ass as well. I mean, hell, I'm already one except I have none of those talents or money. I don't begrudge him for acting like most humans would in his situation.
Anyway, this year I'll kind of be pulling for Cincinnati, just because they've been nice and rolled over for the Phillies for the last few years, including that time they went out of their way to get zero hits in the playoffs. I'll also be sort of rooting for Baltimore, because (1) they're not the Yankees, and (2) they've got Gentleman Jim Thome on the roster, and if you're not a Thome fan you're probably history's greatest monster.
But if neither of those teams win, it won't bother me too much, and I'm not going to hate on whoever does because in the end I know that the playoffs are just a silly tournament which doesn't really do a good job of determining the best team in baseball, and we've got next year which should be a decent year for the Phils again.
I don't literally hate guys on other teams. This is sports and if my team doesn't make it I do root against and in a sports context dislike the team or teams that beat them out. I think Bryce Harper is very talented but probably the most disliked player in baseball so I totally root against the nationals because of him. I don't buy that he's young. Look at Mike trout. He's young and great and very well liked. Bryce Harper is so unprofessional. I wouldn't be surprised if his own team didn't like him. So I root against teams like the cardinals who had no right winning a ring last year. If the phillies can't go to the series I root for an American league team. So go orioles.
There have been a lot of teams with good if not great talent. It takes a general to put it all together.
Davey Johnson. He is the man and he is the reason I would like to see the Nats in the WS – winning? No, I would like to see the Rangers take it this year.
My big problem with the nats outside the fact that I can not cheer for a NL east team outside the Phillies, is the fact that it proves if you are bad enough for long enough and have money to spend eventually you can be good. K, City does not have this path to take I do not care how many #1 they can pick they can not afford the pay the best so they can not draft them. THen they overpay to get a bat in Wreth who still has not performed for the money, and is a mouthy cocky mid level outfielder. I know I am biased and that the Nats are young but I do not think they will maitained 90+ wins over a long period of time, mainly outside of Zimmerman they have no class, and I am pretty sure that outside their ace I do not see Gio continuing his success next year. That is just me, and i think Bryce is going to have a few years that he willnot equal what he did this year why? because I said so LOL. that is why I do not respect them for what they did this year, do it again next year and I will dis like them for being good.
Great article. I love the Phillies.
But Jayson Werth has taken enough abuse from Phillies "fans." Mocking him as he walked off the field after breaking his wrist???- really?!?! Classless.
Sometimes we boo just to boo. And it's quite frankly stupid!!
Sad season for us…but I love our heart and determination battling back!!! We had such a good bench too!!! Too bad those players were forced to start.
Keep Ruf on the roster in 2013.
Who cares who wins the WS, out of our hands.
Isn't anyone ticked off about the Take back the Park nonsense. And isn't anyone ticked about Rizzos comments about Cole? I won't be rooting for the Nats anytime soon. It's good to despise another team, it makes a good rivalry.
Nice job by Washington. With so much young (and inexpensive) talent they should be favorites in the division for the next four or five years. I'm not sure if they'll be able to afford some of these guys as they reach free agency though. As I said back in spring training, this year presented the perfect storm for the changing of the guard in the NL East.
I have to agree Jeff. Though the writing was on the wall last year as well despite the 102 wins.
Hey, Nats fan here. Just wanted to say that after reading the garbage printed by David Murphy today, it's nice to see a Phillies blog piece that gives our Nats some respect. As a Nats fan that has looked up to the Phillies for the past half-decade, I've perused these blogs often and have always found this to be the best written and most reasonable. Yes, our fans hate Phillies fans, but that's mostly for the small contingent of knuckle heads that give you all a bad name. I get the feeling most of you don't like those folks either. I know it seems unfair to have a team this talented in a city that hasn't followed baseball and seems rather unknowledgeable, but give us a few seasons of good baseball and I think you'll see that turn around.
Best of luck to your Phils next year. You have a team that may be a bit long in the tooth, but is still very talented when healthy and may be just a couple of pieces away from wrestling that crown away from us – I wouldn't bet on it though.
And to the guy who hates the Nats because of Carpenter, please remember that most of us aren't too fond of him either.
Again, best of luck in 2013.
P.S. I still hate every last one of you.
Great comment, and welcome 1st inWar. Honestly, I like David Murphy's work, but didn't care very much for his piece today either. I don't think he was taking into account that you didn't have a major league team for such a long time. I actually thought the on field celebration was refreshing. Fans who didn't have a team for thirty years and then get one and pay for tickets for years watching a garbage team deserve to have that when they win.
Enjoy it while it lasts, you're team is going into the playoffs kind of cold, that's not a good sign. We hate you too 🙂
The only way I could justify 'sticking up' for the Nats is if the post season concludes with a game 7 vs. the Orioles
No one should congratulate Mike Morse for anything…ever. What an awful face.
Oh I'm sticking up something for the Nats, alright. 2 of them, in fact.
Well I live and teach 8 miles from DC in Va, I am surrounded by Nats fans and players, some of the kids in my class play on the same little league team as Jayson Werth's and Adma LaRoche's kids.
I am a diehard Phillies fan always. I respect what the Nats have done, not going to become a Nats fan, but will pool for them to do well as it is good for our Region and economy. Actually I am hoping for a Nats/O's series would be good for promoting Baseball in the region as well. Since the Deadskins are still that it is time to get baseball more pub here.
I agree with Lefty, I hate Carpenter, and F.P is an idiot. Having to listen to those ignorant fools is hard.
The Nats have to win it all to make themselves a bigger rival with the Phils in my opinion.
Braves are that since they won a Series title and a bazillion NL east titles in a row and we all know the story with the Mets.
If the Nats are out in the first round then they are just an up and coming team.
In repsonse to the 'losing franchise' mentality, I agree since the 60's we have really only had some bad dry spells, late 80's mid to late 90's. but an average to above franchise in the last 50 years


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Lynn Camp Report
Just got back from fishing lynn camp prong today. Fishing was pretty good. It was not as good as it was when i fished there several times last week but it was still a fairly productive day. Got there a little before lunch time and dry flies seemed to be the ticket all day starting at about noon. I started out using nymphs, a #14 bead head pheasants tail and took one small one. The nymph action never got any hotter than that so i switched to dry flies. I put on a Doculator which i find to be an excellent yellow sally imitation and it floats extremely well. This really got the trout going. Later on in the day i got into a few sporadic hatches of some light cream colored mayflys that the trout were busting pretty hard. I then switched to a #12-14 Light Cahill and caught several. By the end of the day i had caught a handful of them most in the 6-8 inch range with a few dinks thrown in here and there. I had the pleasure of meeting Ben aka. Milligan Trout Degree today. He should post up later about how his day went too. All in all it was a great day to be on the stream with nice weather. Saw a monster rainbow rise to the top of a deep pool that seemed to dwarf the 12 inch bow i caught last week. I know it couldnt have been that much bigger but it seemed huge when i saw it. Ben (Milligan Trout Degree) went back to that pool and put a nymph down deep hoping to draw a strike from it, but no luck:frown: . Would have loved to have seen him hook into it. Hey Ben, maybe that size 4 Hares Ear nymph would have done it!:biggrin:
Greg, I'm gonna start calling that big hares ear my drowned mouse imitation. I'll use it as a dropper fly next time I'm fishing a 2/0 hopper pattern up lynn camp.
I also fished up lynn camp today, probably for my last time for a long time. I hiked up maybe ten minutes past the cascade before fishing. I came up to my first hole. A beautiful small plunge leading into a perfect run into a gorgeous pool. A place you know a fish will be sitting. I casted my para adams and pt dropper perfectly at the head of the run. One of those cast you just know will catch a fish. After a quick mend, I had the most outstanding drift you'll ever see. The flies drifted through run and into the fishy pool, then just as the flies neared the end of the pool.....I pulled up and made another cast. Never want to catch a fish on the first cast ;) . I moved upstream fishing as I went. I caught two or three on the pt, then a couple on the green weenie. A little after noon, little yellow stones started hatching. I put on a yellow stimi and began getting hits regularly above the panther creek crossing. Then I though, "if yellow stones are hatching heavily, why aren't I fishing a stonefly nymph"? So I put on a tellico behind the stimi and smoked a few more fish that way. As Greg mentioned, I tried to coax a big fish up with a #10 lead wrapped princ with a #4 split shot in a deep pool. Nothing happened, but I gave it a good shot. I hiked back to the car around six and decided to fish around the trailhead. I hit the stream in front of about ten tripods set up along the bank fifty yards downstream pointed to where I was standing. So, I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and show off my casting skills for them. I pulled out a reasonable ninety foot of line and smoothly executed a double hauled double speyed reached and tucked roll cast. Then as I was getting my flies from the tree, I noticed the mayflies had really started kickin. I had seen a few all day. Small cream colored one's mostly. I had one land on my rod which I think was a sulphur species. Yellow body, red eyes. The hendrickson were going strong along with yellow sallies late in the evening. I didn't see many rises to them, but I caught a few more on the stimi and pheasant tail.
This was my first day back in the smokies this year. Can't wait to get back out and explore some new water this year.
I'm still not sure about the cream mayflies.
I'd like to meet up with that mutated brown. I saw a picture of a trout with two mouths one time. Maybe he'd eat it.
I'm hoping I see myself on a postcard sometime soon from those photographers. That'd be sweet.
I saw the yellow bodied red eyed sulfur species you were talking about. But i just cant seem to figure out what those pale cream colored mayflies were. The hatch would come in short bursts and they were almost translucent when first comming off the water. I figure it must be a cahill or maybe even some pale colored sulfur species. Anyway switching to a size #14 light cahill was enough to convince the trout it was the same;) . It was great to meet you Ben. Hopefully we can get together and harrass some more trout sometime. I dont do much tailwater fishing so maybe you can show me a thing or two up on the SOHO. I am always up for fly fishing so just hit me up sometime if you are looking for somebody to go with, and i will do the same.
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Shadyside routs Barnesville, 62-39
Second-chance points will kill any team, especially when you have a team such as the Shadyside Tigers, who patiently await their open shots to cash in on the most of the opportunities given to them.
Ed Andes' Tigers (5-4) took a 16-4 run off the tip-off in the first quarter, and never glanced back on the way to a 62-39 win, as the Barnesville Shamrocks (4-5) made the trip to Lincoln Avenue Friday evening.
The Shamrocks, who were outpaced on the boards 33-24, suffered setbacks as the Tigers collected 11 offensive rebounds to extend several possessions.
"We got a lot of initials stops but we allowed second and third chance plays, we had some turnovers of the unfortunate variety," explained Shamrock head coach Chris Pack. "When you give a team like Shadyside those kinds of possessions and chances, they are going to make you pay eventually."
Shadyside's Skyler Gibson enjoyed a sparkling night from three-land as he netted 5 of 6 attempts to lead the Tigers with 15 stripes.
"Skyler shot the ball really well for us. He had a nice all-around game tonight," praised Andes.
The Tigers, who distributed the ball smoothly and efficiently all night, benefitted from each other more than creating shots in one on one situations.
"We were just trying to share the ball and get good shots. That was our goal. We had 15 assists tonight, which shows no one really worries about who is scoring on this team, which is very nice." he added.
The Tigers took advantage of the charity stripe, dropping a near perfect 8 of 9 opposed to a 8-for-17 Shamrock effort. Austin Dorris contributed a double-double, collecting 11 points, snagging 11 boards, and adding length on the defensive end of the floor.
The Shamrocks did manage to put a run together at the end of the third stanza to come within 10 after being down as much as 16 in the second quarter. Barnesville was paced by post man Zach Houston and point guard Dylan MacMillan who tallied 10 and nine, respectively.
"We got off to a slow start, and didn't clean it up enough. If you have difficulty making foul shots and lay-ups, you don't win too many games," commented Pack. "We know what they are about, and they know what we are about. This is always a tough place to play. We were driving to to the hoop and got good looks but couldn't know them down."
The Tigers reserves picked up a win on the night. Shadyside continues through its campaign when they head to Monroe Central Tuesday, with Barnesville making the trip to Shenandoah the same night.
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Mountain School shows the wayJuly 18,2013The kerfuffle that erupted in the state Legislature this past year after North Benningtons decision to close its local public elementary school and embrace a school choice/independent school model to educate its children ended, as so many Montpelier kerfuffles end, with the appointment of a summer study committee.
Act 56 states, There is created a committee to research and consider both the opportunities and challenges created by closing a public school with the intention or result of reopening it as an approved independent school that serves essentially the same population of students and receives publicly funded tuition dollars.
The Mountain School at Winhall is the first place to look for answers to those questions. The Mountain School is a public school that went independent 15 years ago (1998) and served as the model for North Benningtons new independent Village School opening next fall. Both schools are established upon Vermonts town academy model, just like the long-standing institutions of Burr and Burton, St. Johnsbury Academy, Thetford Academy, and the Lyndon Institute, in which public tax dollars flow to independent schools through community approval and parental choice.
So far, Winhall and North Bennington are the only modern-day communities to take this step of going independent, and the Mountain School is the only one with a track record we can evaluate.
The timing of Winhalls decision to go independent, essentially taking a very local, free market-based approach to education reform, interestingly coincides perfectly with Vermonts state-driven, centralized education reform, Act 60, which became law in 1997. So how have these parallel experiments fared where the rubber meets the road controlling costs, attracting students and, most importantly, educating kids?
According to Daren Houck, the current headmaster at the Mountain School, the public Winhall Elementary School had the highest per-pupil spending of any K-12 school in the state in 1997 at $12,600 (the state average at the time was just under $7,000). Academically, it was one of the worst performing, with low test scores in the bottom 5 or 10 percent, disciplinary problems and, naturally, disgruntled parents.
For the 2012-2013 school year, tuition at the Mountain School, which replaced Winhall Elementary, was $13,160 significantly less than the current Vermont statewide average of $16,000 per student. To put these numbers in perspective, since the Legislature passed Act 60, the independent Mountain Schools tuitions have increased by 4.4 percent, well below the rate of inflation, while the traditional public school cost has increased by 138 percent.
Test scores? Today in the New England Common Assessment Program, Mountain School eighth graders score 13 points above the state reading average, 16 points above the state math average, and 19 points above the state writing average. Statewide test scores in the public schools since passage of Act 60 have essentially remained flat, despite the explosion in costs.
Another Vermont trend the Mountain School is bucking is falling student populations. The Mountain School opened in 1998 with just 36 students. Today it attracts more than 80 students from nine towns and two countries through an international student exchange program. Statewide, since the passage of Act 60, the K-12 student population in Vermont has dropped from 106,000 to roughly 85,000 and is expected continue this downward trend.
No doubt some folks are thinking that the independent Mountain School must be cherry-picking the top students and abandoning the special needs kids. Nope. The Mountain School guarantees admission to any child from the sending towns that vote to pay the tuition and is approved for all 12 categories of special education by the Vermont Agency of Education.
Whats the secret to success? Houck told a meeting of the School Choice Caucus in Montpelier, [Parents] understand that there is choice. And that understanding to the Mountain School really motivated us to enhance our programs to increase our achievement, to do whatever it would take to draw families students from surrounding areas.
Whats more, Houck recognizes that the competition hasnt just improved outcomes at the Mountain School. We recognized that we had to be competitive, and families recognized that there were many good options, both public and independent. And, so, over the last nine years that Ive been at MSW, I have seen the Dorset school test off the charts, Manchester Middle and Elementary has been a traditionally has been a very positive school. Flood Brook is increasing their achievement. Maple Street, which is just down the road is a K-8 independent school this competition has really improved us.
Vermont desperately needs to find a way to contain education costs while improving outcomes for our children. The model is there. Towns like Winhall and North Bennington have seized upon it. According to Daren Houck, Addison, Bethel, Burke, Craftsbury, Killington, Manchester, Rochester, Thetford and others are looking into adopting the independent town academy model, too. Lets hope our legislators learn enough from their study committee to start encouraging these innovations rather than banning them, which, of course, was their first (and very foolish) instinct.
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I am always amazed when I meet people who are extremely positive no matter what happens out there. It may pour rain or thunder but nothing can take their smile away.
Whenever I asked these people what their secret is, they often say, that's just the way I have always been.
Unfortunately, I fall into another category, the often times pessimistic person. Not that I see the world as an awful place but I think about the bad things out there a lot, and sometimes imagine the worse case scenario. Part of it is simply being a writer, spending so much time with thoughts and different characters, sometimes real, sometimes made up in my mind. It's inevitable to get carried away.
Perhaps it's a genetic trait or something that comes from the old world, from my hometown. As a little girl I recall my grandparents and my own parents complaining about many depressing stories and the scary possibilities that were out there. They would often go into lengthy discussions about the fact that every time they turned on the TV or opened a newspaper there was some killing or kidnapping or change of government (which was far too often in Italy). And they would eventually plunge into the chances of something happening to us, concluding with warnings for the kids (don't talk to strangers, wash your hands, and so on).
Some experiences haven't made it easy to keep a positive outlook. When I moved to New York City and was mugged twice (luckily nothing eventful just someone taking my purse on both occasions). After I became a military spouse I realized all of the possible things that could actually happen to my husband and tried to avoid the news altogether. That was pointless, of course, because every time there is a minor incident involving any type of aircraft in any military branch, numerous relatives called to "let me know" just in case I hadn't heard about it.
Still I am grateful for so many wonderful things in my life that sometimes I feel I should have a very sunny and cheerful disposition. It's not that I am not enthusiastic, but sometimes my enthusiasm becomes a negative way of thinking about the bad stuff.
As I have mentioned before I have seen a therapist, actually many different therapists for most of my adult life (maybe this has contributed to too much thinking) — but hey — my mom and my sister and numerous aunts and uncles are therapists. In my house it's practically mandatory, sort of like being vaccinated.
After many years of therapy couch — really chair — I have learned to change my way of thinking when it gets to be too negative and to challenge it creatively.
Practicing positive thinking is just like any other form of exercise — it takes practice and determination. Honestly, from one to 10 I am probably a three right now — 10 being the really annoying person who never ever seems annoyed at anything — really the other extreme.
Even little things help to have a positive outlook, like watching "Reba" when I put the kids to bed, or my husband calling me from far away and telling me about the impending crisis: the most important football game of the season not televised on national TV. It makes me laugh and keeps me going. The little things have a way of cascading into bigger ones.
And so every day I count my blessings, big and little. I might still think too much but I have plenty of reasons to smile.
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MONTPELIER Vermont legal advocates are at odds with state officials over language in new health care rules that they believe could exclude certain populations from long-term care benefits.
The proposed rules are part of the states wider efforts to implement health care reform, one of Gov. Peter Shumlins main priorities.
Because of the concerns raised, the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules voted Thursday to postpone approval of the lengthy set of health care rules until next month.
Vermont Legal Aid told lawmakers that a subset of people would, under the new rules, become ineligible for a Medicaid-funded program called Choices for Care. It offers benefits for long-term care and is designed to assist people who require intensive assistance.
The profile of the person who could be affected is very specific: Younger than age 65, non-disabled, above the poverty income threshold, without dependent minors, not pregnant and not blind.
But defining disability would be the tricky part under new rules, said Trinka Kerr, chief health care advocate for Vermont Legal Aid.
If a person fitting that profile sustained injuries in a massive car accident and requested Choices for Care under the new rules to cover rehabilitation of less than a year, theyd be rejected because they wouldnt be considered disabled, Kerr said.
Under existing Choices for Care, expenses are taken into account for financial eligibility, according to Vermont Legal Aid staff attorney Christine Speidel.
In the new rules only income, not expenses, would be taken into account for determining assistance for the program if you dont fit an existing category of eligibility, according to Vermont Legal Aid.
Increased wait times could also result from the new rule, according to Gini Milkey, director of Community of Vermont Elders, who also gave testimony to the committee.
Any rule changes that will increase administrative burden and increase delays will exacerbate an already broken process, she said.
With the emergency health care rules set to expire at the end of July, the deadline for filing more permanent rules is fast approaching. And its not clear that what advocates are asking for can be accommodated because of federal regulations.
Were happy to work with them and talk about it but we cant change that regulation at this point, said Devon Green, health policy analyst for the Agency of Administration.
How eligibility has been determined is anything but clear.
State officials and legal advocates essentially disagreed with how the rules have previously functioned. State officials say they dont see the rules as a change at all.
Were not seeing this in a change in law, Leslie Wisdom, a general counsel for the Department for Children and Families.
Part of what weve done in this rule is consolidate, said Robin Chapman, policy analyst for DCF.
Clarifying the system showed stakeholders all the elements of the process, some of which might have been unfamiliar to them before, Chapman said.
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Sharlee oversees the children's division of Jeter Publishing, an imprint of Simon & Schuster launched in 2014 that has released New York Times Bestsellers The Contract and its follow-up, Hit & Miss. Sharlee graduated in 1997 from Kalamazoo Central High School and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 2001 from Spelman College in Atlanta. Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sharlee currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her son Jalen.
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~ Aristides, Christian apologist; describing the Christian practice of "saying grace" before meals (c. A.D. 123); all the more impressive because his matter-of-fact description denotes a common practice and therefore one of much earlier origin.


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Roy Brooks has been a name in East Dulwich as a South East London Estate Agent since 1934. From 1950 until his death in 1971 his property advertisements in the Sunday Times and the Observer created national notoriety for one endearing reason; his puckish delight in telling the truth and sometimes even the unwholesome truth about the property he was selling, not only about the properties, but in his incomparable descriptions of their owners.
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On Monday June 3, 2013 at about 10:35 a.m., Sullivan County 911 polled for a burglary in progress on Strout Rd. in the Town of Bethel. Hearing that no units were available in the vicinity, Sullivan County Undersheriff Eric Chaboty, who was on his way to a meeting, responded to the call.
Upon arriving at the location the Undersheriff located a subject fitting the description given by 911, on the porch of a nearby residence. Bethel Constable Doug Ketchum arrived at the scene to assist and interviewed the complainant who stated that he had observed the subject try to gain entry to his residence.
The complainant further stated that his residence had been broken into earlier in the week, and that several household items had been taken as well as some women's underwear from a dresser drawer.
Further investigation by Sheriff's Detectives later revealed that the subject Michael L. Weaver, 42, of Monguap Valley, had actually broken into the complainant's residence on three different occasions. Weaver was charged with three counts of Burglary in the 2nd degree. He was arraigned before Town Justice Kevin Rhyne and sent to the Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $20,000.


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"The civil authority has been, ever from the days of Herod, the enemy of Christ. The question, now pending, is whether the Church shall admit to ministry those only who, according to the dictation of the civil power, are fit for the office."
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One of the first things I noticed about my wife K's kitchen in Hong Kong was this big, blocky wooden thing in the corner near the back door leading out to the terrace.
"What's THIS?" I asked, flipping a globular wooden knob back and forth.
"It's a grain mill," she said. "A friend brought it from Germany for me."
That really floored me. Her flat was actually quite spacious by the cramped standards of Hong Kong, but the kitchen was little more than a narrow corridor wedged between an oversized living room and the tiny, windowless room we stored stuff in, but was designed as the maid's bedroom. We may have been cooking with gas, but you had to be really organised or you'd quickly run out of counter room. You could stretch your arms across and touch both walls it was so small, so this glorified hunk of wood seems like the last thing you'd need.
But she swore by the results she got by grinding her own whole wheat flour, and I couldn't much argue after she served up some Kaffee und Küchen for the first time.
In Hamburg we have a much bigger kitchen, so the mill seems to take up a lot less room on our counters, and after 22 years it still gets used a lot, especially the last couple of years or so that I've been baking bread regularly.
It's a German product, dependable and built to last out of solid beech, but you have to take it apart once in a while to give it a thorough cleaning or it starts to look a little ratty.
On the inside you'll find a powerful motor and millstones made of a hardened ceramic. The first time I turned loose all the bolts and separated the parts to clean was after it hadn't been used in a few months.
There were a few bug skins clinging to the walls of the flour chute and around the grinding face, which was a bit of a YUCK moment, but once it was scrubbed clean, put back together and burnished with linseed oil, it looked good as new.
For grain I head to the organic food store. I've ground a variety of grains over the years, but usually stick to wheat because that's what the bread recipes I use call for. The only thing I've not tried is corn, because I've never found corn kernels that specially say they're for making corn flour, but what I'd love to do is grind some corn to see if I can make some whole grain polenta from it.
The manufacturer's website has a variety of mills to choose from, and I like the fact they still make the exact model we own. Their website gives you a bit of sticker shock, though. Our model will set you back €454, but they're guaranteed for 10 years. Like I said, they're built to last, so you should have it at least as long as we have with regular care.
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A 25-year-old Fort Sumner man has been arrested in connection with poaching a dozen illegal deer, according to the Department of Game and Fish.
Loy Minton is charged with 12 counts of unlawful possession of deer and four counts of unlawful killing of deer, a press release said. The allegations are misdemeanors.
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• Acting on a tip from a concerned citizen, wildlife officers seized 12 buck heads, several guns, knives and approximately 200 pounds of deer meat while executing a search warrant Jan. 27 at Minton's residence.
• The citizen reported Minton had been poaching deer south of Fort Sumner near Finney Farms.
• Minton admitted to illegally killing four of the deer and acknowledged he knew it was illegal to shoot deer during a closed season.
• Arrested Jan. 28, Minton is being held at the De Baca County Jail on a $5,000 bond.
• Minton faces a maximum sentence of 14 years imprisonment and may also face additional penalties due to the trophy nature of some of the bucks.
• Department of Game and Fish officers can file civil charges in district court to recoup the state's loss of unlawfully killed game animals. Depending upon the size of the poached buck, civil penalties can reach as high as $10,000 per animal.


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Today, my boyfriend and I celebrated our anniversary. I had cooked him a romantic meal and we were planning on eating it in front of the fire. This would have gone great had I not forgotten to unblock the chimney. My entire basement filled with smoke and didn't clear for three hours. FML
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Today, my boyfriend came over for a family brunch, during which he told my mother, in vivid detail, how he gets the shits whenever he eats kale chips. FML
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Today, I went and bought lunch for all the people I work with. The only meal the place forgot was mine. FML
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Today, I have been waiting for a call from a job I applied for. I soon got a text from my current boss, who doesn't know I'm job hunting, letting me know that the recruiter was trying to reach me. Turns out my number on my resumé was wrong. FML
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Today, I woke up to a small fire on my roof, burning up small twigs and branches. The cause? Last night, I threw a sparkling firecracker up very high, only to have it blown onto my roof by the wind. It's going to take $2,000 to fix the damage. FML
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Today, my roommate came back drunk from rushing fraternities. Normally I wouldn't have minded, had he not immediately pissed and thrown up everywhere after entering the room. If only I had moved my guitar and the suitcase full of clothes I had left out after returning from break. FML
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Today, the abandoned cat that I took in for the night and during bad weather seems to have spread fleas around my house. They're everywhere. FML
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Today, I was at the gas station with my grandma. After I slid her card and began to pump, I convinced her that it was a lot easier and more convenient to pay at the pump with your credit card instead of paying inside. She yelled as I realized I went $20 over what she had to spend. FML
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Today, after a drunken New Year's Eve party with friends, I woke up with a penis on my cheek. It wasn't a drawing. FML
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Today, I went for a checkup after having recently been fitted with dental implants. The oral surgeon I chose was supposedly the best in the area, but it turns out that he inserted the implants at the wrong angle. Now I have to have further surgery to correct it. FML
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Performing a legendary genre of music, Drew Gibson is a songwriter with a heart for the simple things – dusty streets, back porch exits, letterboxes, and all things folk and blue. With influences from Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt and Greg Brown, spinning stories and tunes is truly this working man's craft.
In 2008 The Washington Area Music Association nominated Letterbox for Best Debut Album and Drew was nominated for Best New Artist. In addition, Letterbox was recognized by Indie Acoustic in Boulder, Colorado, as one of the best albums of 2007, and the Just Plain Folks International Music Awards, which are held in Nashville, Tennessee, nominated Drew for Best Male Singer/Songwriter in 2009.
Lauded for his guitar finger-picking ability reminiscent of the blues greats Mississippi John Hurt and Gary Davis, as well as his heartfelt lyrical and songwriting style, Gibson definitely turned some heads with his first album. With its roots and acoustic blues sound Letterbox definitely struck the right chord with critics. "An independent release deserving mainstream attention," writes David Kleiner of Mintor7th.com. "An artist with enormous writing, picking, and vocal chops." Letterbox also garnered positive reviews from USA Today and the Washington Post.
In December of 2011, Gibson released his follow up to Letterbox. The album, entitled The Southern Draw, was slowly crafted over a period of four years. "I began working on this record right after Letterbox was finished, but with limited funds, music sometimes gets pushed to the back burner." Produced by longtime friend and musician, Paul Curreri, The Southern Draw, was recorded entirely in Charlottesville, Virginia, mostly in Curreri's home studio. Drew would travel the two hours from DC as much as he could on weekends and on vacation days from work. "It was difficult to find times to record," recalls Drew. "Paul has his music career and I could only really come down on weekends. But we got it done. Slowly. But we got it done."
"It wasn't just growing up in the eighties, in the same town. It wasn't just The Thompson Twins or Devo in the background. But our later influences — getting into all the country blues records in our late teens, for instance — all that lined up as well," says Curreri. "As a producer, it was a blast to be able to turn round, sing a guitar idea, and for Drew to just play it straight away." The Southern Draw skillfully blends indie sounds of blues, alt-country, and folk. "More guitars, more drums, more vocals, more keyboards. I'm really proud of this new album," says Gibson. The record features various walls of sound including heavy percussion with a more electric feel than his debut, but still draws from the same songwriter well. "It's a bit different with the instrumentation. But it's very much me at the same time," Gibson adds.
Curreri agrees. "Drew and I grew up together, sat across from each other in art class, watched The Joshua Tree videos at sleepovers when we were twelve," remembers Curreri. "Somehow, being on Earth for the exact same time mattered. We shared soft spots for certain sonics, a willingness to play in the same studio sandbox. I've banged on doors and cookie sheets on a decent handful of albums at this point, but Drew was one of the first who needed no convincing or explanation about why to do it."
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(Bluefield)—As one of Bluefield State College's newer faculty members, Amy Bennett has a solid grasp on her students' perspective. That's because it wasn't so long ago that Bennett was a student in the Bluefield State College Radiologic Technology program where she now serves as a Clinical Coordinator and Instructor.
After graduating from the Radiologic Technology program at BSC in 1993, she entered the workforce Summersville. Later, she worked as a clinical coordinator for Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital and as the clinical instructor for BSC students at Beckley ARH.
"I was always interested in the classroom," she noted. When the opportunity to join the faculty at BSC arose this academic year, she made the move. "As a student at Bluefield State, I received an excellent education," the Daniels, WV resident explained. "By returning to the classroom, I could give back to other students the same type of quality education I had received here."
"This is an exciting time in our field," she added. "We have seen the development of more advanced modalities for imaging with a greater utilization of CT (computed tomography) scans and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), and that's reflected in how our students are taught and trained."
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"Outside the Golden Rectangle" examines a variety of ways in which mathematical and artistic principles interconnect, from geometry to tiling and group theory. Works of art that demonstrate these principles will be on display, as well as interactive elements allowing visitors to create their own artworks. Artists include Carrie Spencer, who earned her MFA in ceramics from JMU in 2012 (wallpaper tilings) and Patti (Cannon) Parsons, who earned a BFA in painting, photography and printmaking in 1984.
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The father of the man fatally shot by a Madison police officer is speaking out for the first time since the shooting.
John Heenan said he's ready to talk about his son, Paul, a young man he called a renaissance man who was a musician and had a knack for computers.
"You might have to lose a child to understand what it's like, and I don't wish that on anyone," Heenan said.
Left with nothing but memories, Heenan recalled the night in November that changed his life.
"Capital punishment seems to be a lot for being drunk and possibly disorderly," he said.
Heenan was shot three times as Madison police officer Steve Heimsness responded to what was reported to be a home burglary in the 500 block of Baldwin Street.
The Dane County District Attorney and a Madison Police Department investigation both cleared Heimsness of wrongdoing in the case.
It was later determined that Heenan was drunk and entered a neighbor's house by mistake. Police said Heenan, who was unarmed, charged at Heimsness and reached for the officer's gun.
"He was shot three times, and they went clear through him, and, somehow, that made it worse," John Heenan said.
He remembered him as a music-loving renaissance man with a knack for computers and a wide array of passions.
John Heenan said he feels he has to do something in response to his son's death.
"If I don't try to make a difference, I couldn't forgive myself if this happens again without me at least trying," he said.
Heenan now has Michael Bell by his side. Kenosha police killed Bell's son on the exact day Heenan was shot eight years earlier.
Paul Heenan's sister reached out to Bell for support. Bell also brings a political mission. He has helped other family members of those killed in officer-involved shootings across Wisconsin and has lobbied with billboards and handshakes for a change on a state level.
"If in 110, 120 years there's never been an unjustified ruling," Bell said, "it's telling you the system is probably broken."
Bell added that his family received a $1.75 million settlement from the city of Kenosha. To him, that was proof that the shooting was unjustified.
The Madison Police Department conducted an in-house review of the case, and Heimsness was found to be in line with police protocol.
It's a review that police Chief Noble Wray said is fair in its findings, but he's open to changing the way investigations happen in the future.
"I believe that the set of circumstances would have resulted in the public outcry, the public scrutiny that we're currently seeing because it's conducive of that. This was a perfect storm," Wray said.
One source of comfort for the Heenan family is that Paul was an organ donor, and his corneas are helping someone else see.
"Knowing that his eyes are out there still in the world, that's a good thing; that's helped," Heenan said.
But he said it's the pain his family has felt that have him speaking up now.
"The hurt is so great, I don't want anyone else to go through this. I really don't," Heenan said.
"Somehow if these investigations are done fairly, and somehow these officers can be removed before violence has escalated, if somehow we can prevent this from happening to another family, if I don't try to make a difference, I couldn't forgive myself if this happens again without me at least trying," Heenan explained.