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Saturday 4/9
We don't care if it's cloudy, rainy or super hot outside, we're still hiding eggs for #FullertonEggHunt! Weekend means more than one goes out each day! Will you find one?
8am-3pm: The Public School Arts Semi-Annual Fundraising Cactus and Succulent Plant Sale will be held at 1005 E. Commonwealth Ave. sponsored by Operation Art Gardens.
9am: Learn to Swim, a swim instruction program offered by Titan Recreation at Cal State Fullerton in the KHS pool. Lessons are available Saturdays and Sundays April 9 – May 14, 6 classes per session, and each session is $30. All ages and skill levels are welcome, private lessons are available upon request. For more information, visit titanrecreation.fullerton.edu or call (657) 278-5196.
9-10:30am: Morning Yoga in the Garden at the Fullerton Arboretum is $13/members $15/nonmembers. The class is appropriate for all levels including beginners. Ages 16 – 17 allowed with an adult. Wear comfortable clothing, and bring a mat if you have one. Call (657) 278-3407 for more information.
9am-12pm: Eat the Yard! Organic Edible Gardening Series Part II: Eyes on the Harvest at the Fullerton Arboretum is $20/members, $25/nonmembers (Full series discount price: 3 classes for $50/members, $60/nonmembers). Gardener Jonathan Davis welcomes you back to his outdoor classroom at the Arboretum's Organic Vegetable Garden to learn organic pest control, plant maintenance, and succession planting.
9am-2pm: For under $20 you can enjoy brunch at Matador Cantina for breakfast classics with a Mexican-cuisine twist (omelettes, Huevos Rancheros, Mexican Breakfast Pizza and more). Drink specials include $8 Bottomless Champagne or Mimosas and $5 Bloody Marys, Greyhounds and Screwdrivers.
10am: Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp at the Student Recreation Center at Cal State Fullerton. To register, please visit the Recreation Services Desk, located on the second level of the SRC.
10am: Discover Meat and Dairy Alternatives in the Happy Cooking Company (549 S. State College Blvd.) class for $45. To register call Liz at (714) 388-0240.
10am-2pm: Chomp sushi in Fullerton has Champagne & Punch Family Brunch for $24.95 adults and $12.95 children. They have eggs, pancakes, omelettes, breakfast burritos and more.
10am-2pm: Prom Project's first Boutique Day will be at the United Methodist Church of Fullerton (114 Pomona Ave) where girls will have the opportunity to be pampered by personal shoppers, who will assist them in finding the perfect dress and accessories to match. Make-up artist and hair dressers will be available to give beauty advice and demonstrate techniques.
10am-4pm: The Clearance Sale in The Potting Shed at the Fullerton Arboretum is open this weekend. No charge for admission and clearance sales apply to plants only.
10am-6pm: The Anaheim Heritage Music Festival will be held at the Wilshire Auditorium (315 E. Wilshire Ave.) Hear high school and middle school choral competition performances.
10:30am: Kids Climb Time at the Cal State Fullerton Student Recreation Center is $5 per visit for kids aged 7-17. Climbers will have the opportunity to learn how to properly climb a rock wall and improve communication, increase trust, encourage risk taking, and build teamwork skills among participants. Equipment provided by the SRC. For more information call (657) 278-7529 or visit the website.
11am: Curious George will visit Storytime at Barnes & Noble (1923 W. Malvern Ave.) All ages are welcome (as are cameras!).
11am-2pm: Camp Bow Wow (91 fwy @ State College Blvd.) will have a Wiener Hunt for dogs! Instead of hunting for eggs, dogs get to hunt for hot dog pieces. Prizes awarded for fastest times by dog size. The event is free and will have dog-related and human-related vendors, food, raffles (all money donated to FOCHP.org). and more. Call to sign up your pooch (714) 533-2267.
11am-4pm: For $16.99/person you can head to AMF Carter Lanes for 2 hours of bowling, shoe rental and All You Can Eat Pizza! (cheese or pepperoni, served by the slice). No other coupons can be accepted and there's a minimum of 3 bowlers per lane.
11am-4pm: The Bicycle Tree will be holding a hands-on bicycle repair workshop at the Fullerton Train Station (120 E. Santa Fe Ave.) providing the tools and help you need to learn how to fix your own bike. (There is a $5 suggested donation per hour but now one will be turned away for lack of funds.)
11am-10pm: To promote their new kids menu launch, Chipotle is giving away a free kids meal every Saturday and Sunday in April when parents purchase an entree meal (burrito, salad, burrito bowl or tacos). (501 N. State College Blvd. # A)
11am-2am: Yager My Weekend at House of Eden means you'll get $3 Yager Bomb shots AND Happy Hour from 4-8pm gets you $2 well drinks and domestic beers and $3 call drinks and import beers.
12pm: FC Baseball vs Golden West College will take place at Fullerton College.
12pm-2am: The Twisted Vine has their weekly flight for wine & beer tasting. This week Flight 1 is $30 for 3oz. pour of 3 wines from Napa Valley, Flight 2 is $15 for 2oz pour of 3 reds from Argentina, and Flight 3 is $15 for 5oz pours of 3 beers from Brasserie Dubuisson – Wallonia, Belgium.
1-4pm: Eat the Yard! Organic Edible Gardening Series Part II: Eyes on the Harvest at the Fullerton Arboretum is $20/members, $25/nonmembers (Full series discount price: 3 classes for $50/members, $60/nonmembers). Gardener Jonathan Davis welcomes you back to his outdoor classroom at the Arboretum's Organic Vegetable Garden to learn organic pest control, plant maintenance, and succession planting.
1-4pm: Steve Kaye will conduct a class on Nature Photography at the Fullerton Arboretum in the Pavilion classrooms. Cost: Members $25, nonmembers $30 (Special Price! This time only.) Call the Fullerton Arboretum for more information (657) 278-3407.
1-5pm: Cal State Fullerton's Chicana and Chicano Student Alliance and Chicana and Chicano Studies Department is presenting a free symposium, "Jornada: Chicanos in Academia" at Cal State Fullerton Titan Theatre in the Titan Student Union. The keynote address will be delivered by Elizabeth G. Macias, a federal public defender in Santa Ana.
2pm: Footloose: The Musical is presented at Cal State Fullerton's Little Theater for $20.
2-4pm: The Heritage House Weekend Tours continue this weekend at the Fullerton Arboretum. Reservations not required; tours free however voluntary donations of $2/person are encouraged to help support the Heritage House.
2-5:30pm: Bootlegger's Brewery will have another Sport Your Stein Night with the Short Stop BBQ food truck there to serve you dinner. Bring your own stein/cup/drinking vessel, and we will fill it for a special price! Plus there will be a Best Stein competition at 7:30pm!
3-8pm: Fullerton Parks and Recreation present Urban Art Festival at Independence Park (801 W. Valencia Dr.) for free. This all ages events will feature music, art, dance workshops, and more. Hear Rakaa with DJ Babu, Dilated Peoples and more performing live. B-Boy exhibitions, freestyle dance workshops, etc. (All are invited to PÄS Gallery at 8:30pm for the 2nd weekend of the "SOUNDS ON COTTON exhibit presented by X IS THE WEAPON & LISTEN CLOTHING…")
4-7pm: Happy Hour specials in Fullerton still exist on Saturday, use our HH Guide page to find out where.
4-7pm: Max Bloom's Cafe Noir will have music by the Geezer with the Guitar.
4-10pm: Kids Eat Free at IHOP (151 W. Orangethorpe Ave.) with each adult entree purchase. Valid for kids 12 and under on the "Just for Kids" menu items. Drinks not included unless otherwise specified on "Just for Kids" menu. Not valid with any other discounts or coupons. Dine-in only.
5-8pm: Cuban-born New York artist Manuel Pardo will exhibit both new and recent artwork at Cal State Fullerton's Begovich Gallery in an exhibition titled Manuel Pardo: Stardust.
5-8pm: Saturday Scotch & Steak at The Pint House in downtown Fullerton is $18.95 (plus tax, gratuity) for a Black & Bleu 10oz Rib-Eye Steak with mashed potatoes, green beans, and a side salad, plus 50% off Premium Scotch.
6pm: The Cal State Fullerton baseball team plays UC Irvine in a single Big West Conference game at Goodwin Field. General Admission is Adults: $10, Seniors and Youths: $6.
6:30-9:30pm: The Parousia will play live with In An Emergency, Tides, Eighth City Takeover, Come Back Alive & more and The Recovery (4121 Artesia Ave.)
7pm: The Tropics Lounge (1842 W. Commonwealth Ave.) will host Hot Rod Trio, Wino Boogie, Gino & The Lone Gunmen, Classis 89s & The Shag Rats tonight for $10 at the door, 21+ to drink.
8pm: Footloose: The Musical is presented at Cal State Fullerton's Little Theater for $20.
8pm: As You Like It continues the Hunger Artists tradition of presenting modern, relevant Shakespeare productions. General admission is $18, $15 for students/seniors with ID.
8pm: The Maverick Theater presents The Wedding Singer. The show ticket is $25 and suitable for ages 13+.
8-10pm: Get $3 well drinks & $3 domestic beers at 2J's Lounge for Power Hour.
8-10pm: Max Bloom's Cafe Noir will host Life on the Bhang Bus live.
8pm-12am: Lucky John's has $3.50 YOU-CALL-IT on some CALL Mixed Drinks.
8pm-1am: The Rockstar Back Bar is open at The Continental Room with DJs and drink specials every week. This week hear DJ Scotty Boy spin all night with DJ Thrifty Lips & Whitey White.
8pm-1am: Slidebar will have Rancid Devil's Brigade playing live. Bring your Angels game ticket stub in with you and you'll get your first beer for $1!
8:30-11:30pm: Enjoy the free Dueling Piano Show at Ziings'/TAO in downtown Fullerton featuring 2 grand pianos played by some of the world's best piano bar entertainers.
8:30pm-1am: PÄS Gallery will be open to the public for the 2nd weekend of the "SOUNDS ON COTTON exhibit presented by X IS THE WEAPON & LISTEN CLOTHING…" with tunes from Listen Recovery Crew, June22 and more.
8:30pm-1am: Steamers Jazz Club & Cafe presents The Francisco Aguabella Latin Jazz Band for $8.
9pm: Big's Bar & Grill brings you Bob Wayne taking the stage for a legendary night of live music. The Fister's, Orange County's favorite 3 piece punk band will be opening up the night. $5 at the door.
9pm: Comedy Kaze is an improvisational, stand-up and sketch comedy group performing out of the Monkey Wrench Collective Theater (204 N. Harbor Blvd.) in downtown Fullerton. This week's theme: The Wizard of Oz.
9-11pm: Club Plush at the Cantina Lounge brings you DJs, 1/2 off drink specials and bottle service. Dress code enforced, 21+ club, private booth sections and VIP service also available.
9pm-12am: Neon Nights, only at Titan Bowl & Billiards at Cal State Fullerton is on the lower level of the Titan Student Union. Combine bowling with an exciting club atmosphere for your Saturday night. Call (657) 278-2144 for more information.
9:30pm-1am: Sing karaoke in Fullerton, find out where with our karaoke Guide.
10pm-1am: Hear Ron Sleezy spinning top 40 hits at Commonwealth Lounge.
10pm-1am: The Babylon Saints will play Stubrik's.
10pm-2am: DJ Ruffnek will spin all night at Bourbon Street.
10:30pm-12am: The Kogi BBQ food truck will be at 2J's Lounge (120 W. Houston Ave.)
11pm: The Red Light Revue – Folly of the Fools returns to the Hunger Artists Theater. Come ready to laugh, cringe, drool, and don't forget to bring your zombie repellent for $15 General Admission / $12 Students & Seniors. (18+)
11pm: Laugh at Improv Shmimprov at Maverick Theater for only $5.
12am: Looking for late night food near downtown? Our Guide can help you!


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Times: 11 am – 1 pm or 2 – 4 pm
Levels: Girl Scout Juniors – Ambassadors
Cost: $12 per girl
Come to Camp Ilchester and learn about ARCHERY! This two-hour program activity will concentrate on safety, shooting techniques and target practice. Volunteer instructors will lead each session. It doesn't matter whether you hit the target or not—you can have a blast!

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September 16, 2010
New Technology Enhances Visitor Safety
In early August, the suspected presence in Yellowstone of escaped prison inmates and their accomplice made national news. These fugitives, two of whom are charged with committing brutal murders during their flight, effectively evaded authorities for weeks. It was later confirmed that at least one of the fugitives had, indeed, traveled through Yellowstone. If Park rangers had state-of-the-art technology available to them, these fugitives may have been apprehended much sooner.
This wasn't the first time individuals fleeing from law enforcement have decided that the vast wilderness of Yellowstone seemed like a good place to hide. But in the near future, fugitives from justice will be up against new technology in Yellowstone.
Federal Signal, a global leader in the design and manufacture of communications and security systems, has contributed its Automated License Plate Recognition system to Yellowstone National Park. Donated through its subsidiary PIPS Technology, this system -- valued at $100,000 -- will greatly assist the ranger division with law enforcement efforts.
The state-of-the-art camera and software system will photograph vehicle license plates as cars enter the Park. Then this information is instantly downloaded and cross-referenced against national databases with information on known or suspected felons and license plate numbers of stolen vehicles. Best of all, if a match is made, dispatchers are automatically and immediately notified. Once the dispatcher has quickly double-checked that the information is correct and current, the rangers on patrol where the vehicle was spotted are notified.
Another significant application would be in the case of AMBER Alerts in the region, when a child is missing. In these situations, the ability to communicate information and act quickly is of the utmost importance.
The partnership represents the first time that Federal Signal/PIPS Technology's expertise and products are being applied in a remote area like Yellowstone National Park.
The new system, which is being installed this month and should be fully operational later this fall, will ultimately make the visitor experience safer in Yellowstone.
Learn more about how the Automated License Plate Recognition system works from this news video on YouTube>>


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Lemon-spiced chicken with chickpeas
Nutrition and extra info
- 2 of 5-a-day
- Healthy
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal290
- fat7g
- saturates1g
- carbs14g
- sugars3g
- fibre4g
- protein42g
- salt1.03g
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
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- 1 onion, halved and thinly sliced
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 4 skinless chicken breast, cut into chunks
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp ground cumin
An aromatic spice native to eastern Mediteranean countries and Upper Egypt. This warm,…
- zest and juice 1 lemon
Oval in shape, with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile fruits…
- 400g can chickpea, drained
- 200ml chicken stock
- 250g bag spinach
Used in almost every cuisine across the world, spinach is an enormously popular green vegetable…
Heat the oil in a large frying pan, then fry the onion gently for 5 mins. Turn up the heat and add the chicken, frying for about 3 mins until golden.
Stir in the spices and lemon zest, fry for 1 more min, then tip in the chickpeas and stock. Put the lid on and simmer for 5 mins.
Season to taste, then tip in spinach and re-cover. Leave to wilt for 2 mins, then stir through. Squeeze over the lemon juice just before serving.
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The cinnamon does come through a bit overpowering. I would maybe not add the stick next time but just a half teaspoon of ground cinnamon. I found a nice way to balance out the zingy flavour of the lemon was to pair the fish with some roasted butternut squash. More spinach could also be added as it boils down a lot!
I love this recipe. It makes a clean tasting, fragrant, delicious meal. I make it with 2 chicken breasts rather than 4 and bulk it up a bit with sliced chestnut mushrooms. Makes 4 single portions which reheat brilliantly. Served with steamed wholemeal couscous and a little spicy mango chutney on the side it's low fat, low calorie, it's a winner!
This dish just needs a little help with some spices - this is what i did: add 3 crushed cardamom pods /seeds and three cloves chopped garlic at end when frying, then with spices add 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp chili powder, 1/4 C minced coriander /cilantro; then with liquid add the lemon rind that has been sliced into about 6 pieces (you can remove later or eat), a handful of cherry tomatoes and handful of tart green olives. Simmer and add the spinach. When ready to serve throw some browned pine nuts or almond slivers on top. It is FABULOUS! can serve w rice, couscous or just plain with garlic naan. I also had some lemon infused oil that i used with corn oil to fry - it added some nice flavor.
Read the advice and added extra cumin, coriander and chilli. I also put in a clove of garlic. The dish has loads of flavour (what are those guys doing wrong?). Only gets 4 star because there really is not enough time for the spices to sink into the dish. Leftovers might well taste better.... But delicious - quick - easy - cheap. Healthy too.
Easy to make but disappointing. To watery and sloppy for me, if I make it next time ill drain a little of the lemony juice and add it to some couscous to make it more filling. Whilst low in calories and fat you only get two ladles full from the recipe so its not really a main meal on it own and needs more substance.
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The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;…
There was going to be a terrible spat.
In this case, the calico cat is Beeville Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Sue Thomas; Dr. Brett Belmarez, superintendent of the Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District, is the gingham dog.
Faced with substandard assessment test scores, the BISD board asked Dr. Thomas to contact the parents of district students who have transferred to other schools.
Thomas stresses that all she wants to do is to send a letter to parents to ask why they transferred out of the district.
"I may not want to hear their reasons, but that's one way to try to address the problems," Thomas says. "I have no ulterior motive; what I'm seeking is feedback."
Still, at least one BISD board member has charged that S-TISD only accepts potential transfer students with higher grades.
Thomas has speculated that if transfer students were being taught at BISD, the district's test scores would be higher — adding that if that should occur, the district would be forced to build another school to accommodate them.
Last February, Thomas contacted all nearby districts, asking for the lists of transfer students.
As an indication of the heightening enmity between BISD and S-TISD, in his initial reply, Belmarez asked if Thomas' request was personal or done in an official capacity? Belmarez said he was curious to know why Thomas had not simply called him as a friendly, neighborhood district official.
"As for any neighborhood cooperation," Thomas wrote "when you sent the letter home last year with your students about the Beeville ISD superintendent, you destroyed any neighborly district communication. I received death threats after you sent that letter."
Belmarez says he doesn't know to what Thomas is referring, saying he remembers no such letter.
In the fall of 2011, S-TISD buses picked up students at St. Mary's School, which denied further use because of liability issues. S-TISD then asked the First United Methodist Church for permission to pick up students there, which the church denied for the same reason.
In late August of 2011, in an unsigned letter to parents, S-TISD told parents the buses would pick up Beeville students at Walmart, saying First Methodist had changed its mind because of numerous complaints from the Beeville ISD superintendent and members of the board who also attend this church.
A year later, Thomas admits that when an anonymous caller promised her that she would regret her action and that she would be sorry, it might not constitute a death threat, but she nonetheless felt it was at the time.
At the regular BISD board meeting April 16, Thomas read the results of her survey.
Students who have transferred to BISD include Goliad, 3; George West, 3; Pettus, 12; Pawnee, 1; S-TISD, 3; Mathis, 1; Three Rivers, 1; and Kenedy, 1.
Those transferred out of BISD include Pawnee, 38; and Pettus, 43.
How many from S-TISD?
Thomas doesn't yet know, citing a number of certified letters mailed to Belmarez, with receipts signed by Robin Moore – who works in the S-TISD business office — but returned to Thomas unopened.
Belmarez says there was no need to open the letters because all of his replies were via email and, in some cases, hand-delivered to BISD.
In documents received by the Bee-Picayune, on Feb. 26, Thomas asked Belmarez why he had not responded, threatening to contact the attorney general's office.
The next day, Belmarez warned that Thomas' threat to contact the attorney general "would not advance your interest in receiving that requested information in any meaningful way."
Belmarez explained the school's entire directory would have to be perused to obtain the transfer data, noting that S-TISD does not maintain a separate database on transfer students.
Ironically, the Texas Education Agency mandated districts to maintain a list of transfers but dropped the requirement two years ago.
He estimated it would take up to 60 days to complete the request at a cost of $675.
At issue is the Federal Education Right for Privacy Act (FERPA), which forbids the release of student information without parental consent.
On Feb. 27, Thomas suggested that if S-TISD did not have the time to sift through its directory, could Belmarez send it to her so that her staff could do it? BISD, she said, would pay the $675.
Belmarez maintains that such a release without parental consent violates FERPA.
Thomas countered that the act does not require prior consent and S-TISD policy states the district can release such data to anyone who follows the procedures for requesting the directory information.
Thomas also noted that at the beginning of each school year, S-TISD sends a letter to each parent instructing them to notify the district if they do not want their children's information released. In others words, if a parent has not replied, the district has permission to release the information.
On March 4, Belmarez told Thomas that S-TISD considers a student's enrollment status falls under FERPA's confidentiality guidelines.
However, he said S-TISD would prepare the requested list, once it had removed the names of any students whose parents objected.
Belmarez said he hoped the list would be complete in the required 10 working days.
On April 2, almost a month later, Thomas wrote Belmarez to say that she still had not received any data.
S-TISD has mailed a letter to parents asking for permission, but the letter is dated April 4, exactly a month after Thomas' letter.
To date, Belmarez says, about 10 percent of the parents have objected.
This week, Thomas says she has received an email from S-TISD saying the list was almost complete and to please send a check for $420 for processing.
Thomas replied the same day that the check would be in the mail, but asked to verify the S-TISD address considering "Dr. Belmarez has refused to accept my last two letters. Will he refuse to accept this letter as well?"
While she waits, Thomas is asking parents of BISD students who have transferred to contact her to discuss their reasons for enrolling their children at S-TISD. She also plans to make the request in recorded public service announcements for local radio stations.
"I'm not a bully," Thomas says. "I don't like litigation. We don't need this kind of conflict when there is an assault against public schools."
Both superintendents have sought legal advice.
On his part, Belmarez says he would welcome having a one-on-one or a moderated discussion with Thomas "to help in subduing the hostilities she feels for S-TISD and me."
Such a summit is not without danger, according to the poet Field:
Next morning where the two had sat
They found no trace of dog or cat;…
But the truth about the cat and pup
Is this: they ate each other up!
Bill Clough is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at email@example.com.


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Welcoming Reception
Sunday, 27 March, 6–9 p.m., Garden Courtyard. Join friends old and new for the opening of the exhibits.
GSA Business Meeting
Monday, 28 March, 5:30–6:30 p.m., D.H. Holmes C.
South-Central Section Management Board Meeting
Monday, 28 March, 6:30–8 p.m., The Board Room.
University of New Orleans Alumni Reception
Monday, 28 March, 7:30–8:30 p.m., Atrium.
Association for Women Geoscientists Breakfast
Tuesday, 29 March, 7–8 a.m., Atrium.
Please join us for a short presentation by Dawn Lavoie (USGS Gulf Coast Science Coordinator; and member of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force) on her role in response to, and restoration of, the 2010 oil spill. Both AWG members and non-members are welcomed. This is a ticketed event. Fee: US $30 (purchase on registration form).


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In advance of the Michigan Ice Fest in Munising this February 5th – 8th, festival organizer and ice climbing enthusiast Bill Thompson lets us in on some of his tips for ice climbing a frozen waterfall in Pure Michigan.
In casual conversation when it comes up that I enjoy the sport of ice climbing, the usual response is, "there's ice to climb in Michigan?" followed closely by "you guys must be crazy". The fact of the matter is that Michigan has some of the highest concentration of ice climbs in the country, and no we are not crazy!
Ice Climbing in Michigan has changed a great deal over the years. Back in the "olden days", only a handful of climbers danced up routes that seldom saw two ascents in a single year. Now with the popularity of ice climbing it is common to see climbers "up here" every weekend.
Nestled on the shores of Lake Superior, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore offers some of the country's most outstanding ice climbing. The area is predominately sandstone which rises magnificently up to 200 feet above the shores of Lake Superior which has been shaped over the decades by wind, ice and pounding waves. These cliffs, colored in shades of brown, tan, and green by the iron, manganese, limenite and copper in the water, give the area its name sake. During the cold winter months, these sandstone cliffs seep water that forms spectacular ice curtains and pillars which ice climbers are drawn to. Add dozens of true water falls to the mix and suitable climbing conditions December through April and Munising becomes an ice climber's paradise!
For me the attraction of ice climbing is part location and part sounds. Image being on the shores of one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world, snow lightly falling and not a sole around for miles. The sound of your ice axe sinks into to the pillar with a confident "THUNK". Moving your feet slowly up, crampons biting into the ice, you ascend to a place where few people are privileged to visit. The sounds, sites and movement are truly addicting.
Now ice climbing isn't a sport where you run down to your local outdoor store, purchase the gear, and head on out to climb…….now that WOULD be crazy! The best way to experience the sport to see if you like it is to head on out to the Michigan Ice Fest. Traditionally held the first weekend in February in Munising Michigan, this grass roots event has been taking place since the early 1990's, making it one of the oldest Ice Fests in the country. During Ice Fest there are opportunities to try out the latest climbing gear and clothing, take instructional courses and clinics on a variety of ice climbing-related subjects, as well as interesting and inspiring slide shows from world-class climbers. If you are an aspiring ice climber- the Michigan Ice Fest should be on your calendar!
With the right training, just about everybody can ice climb. Many are driven by the challenge, others to the opportunity to experience the unique landscape and beauty of the Upper Peninsula in winter. Whatever their reasons are, I can assure you that there are thousands of ice climbs in Michigan, a unique opportunity to learn how to do it, and you really don't need to be crazy to try!
Have you tried ice climbing in Pure Michigan? Tell us about it!
Bill Thompson is co-author of An Ice Climber's Guide to Munising, Michigan. For the last 28 years, Bill has lived and climbed in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He is co-owner of Down Wind Sports in Marquette and is also the organizer of the Michigan Ice Festival, which draws 400+ climbers to the region annually. Bill enjoys traveling to different climbing destinations nationally or internationally, but can be just as happy cragging locally with his son, Blake.


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Much better. A little bit of effort can make a massive difference.
A'ight Melo setting screens, rebounding, plus passing the ball
Melo will be rewarded by his teammates throughout this game
Jorts & Jordan
Rookie Isiah Thomas will suprise alot of teams that passed him in the draft.
Much better. A little bit of effort can make a massive difference.
Sac is horrible. Knicks have literally got a break on their first 4 games with the injuries suspension and this jv team. let's see if they can actually win this one.
I have to stress once again that this is not the team to judge our effectiveness without amare. They are bad and still in rebuilding mode.
Real Talk
35 point 1st qtr. without Stat?
I like the 41 - 20 lead ..... but I hate the 3 point shooting in the first half of a game
Ok, so ball movement is better. See, Knicks? Isn't it much easier to score when you confuse the defense?
All of this is fools gold. This is the only way dantoni's offense looks effective. no team can make 3s at this clip over an entire game consistently. IMO this gives players the false impression that each possession can end in a 3 pt attempt.
Other than that, good ball movement. when amare comes back he needs to keep the offense flowing and not hold the ball so long and then force shots.
Real Talk
@CA7: if STAT keeps playing soft and Jorts plays like this I have no problen with benching Amare.
Chandler gets into foul trouble too easily, but Harrellson, c'mon 11 points and 4 rebounds, no fouls and no turnovers.


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BSC Teacher Ed. Interim Co-Director Attends American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Conference
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(Bluefield)—Dr. Darrell Thompson, Interim-Co-Director of Teacher Education/Bluefield State College of Education, attended the recent American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Conference, "Imagine the Impact: Providing a Learning Journey for All."
The Chicago, IL-based conference was sponsored by the AACTE and featured presentations relevant to educators. "The conference challenged educators to idealize, develop, and deliver innovative and impactful programs that meet the needs of today's students," Dr. Thompson explained. "It connected teacher educators with the very latest developments in policy and in professional development,"
Sessions included technology applications, the role of schools of education in implementing the Common Core Standards, adopting and implementing the teacher performance assessment for program completion, program certification, and teacher licensure.
Keynote speakers addressed problems in higher education, national standards, standardization, and the cultivation of global competitiveness. "The conference provided an opportunity to network with other colleagues, and share ideas and strategies from various institutions, while also gaining information that will better serve the teacher education program at Bluefield State College," Thompson concluded.


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Marriage is different for everyone. Some view it in the more traditional sense, some are fighting just to have it (legally) and others see it as an archaic institution that's simply not for them. Whatever marriage means to an individual, it's essentially an extension of love.
When local artists Adam Brouillette and Meghan Kwast get married (and celebrate their love) in late May, it will have a specific meaning encompassing both their personal and professional passions.
The couple, who met in 2009, has curated an art show featuring more than 50 artists conveying their interpretation of marriage or life-long commitment. The exhibit at the Cultural Arts Center, which opens to the public this Saturday, will also serve as the setting for their ceremony and reception.
"It started as a conversation about what kind of wedding we want. What would we want our family to experience? We're part of art shows, in the art community and around artists, so we said that should be part of it," Brouillette said during an interview last Sunday at Tacocat, where the couple has studios. "I did a piece a long time ago about the two of us, so we thought why don't we ask people to make art, their versions of the same thing?"
"This is a way of showing our out-of-town family and people who know us who don't come here, to see what our lives are like on a regular basis," reiterated Kwast.
While all couples have keepsakes and/or memories from their weddings, and Brouillette and Kwast will in the quilt piece they collaborated on, the couple is hoping to take away some wisdom from "Happy Together."
"Along with the artwork, we're asking the artists to write a narrative about what their piece represents in accordance to lifelong togetherness, happiness and marriage," said Brouillette, who founded Tacocat last year after the closing of Junctionview, where he was the manager. "The viewer will get the image or artifact and a description of what [the artist was] thinking. And that's what we're looking at as marriage advice."
Therefore the exhibit is as much about presenting the creative process and ideas as the art work itself. Art always has multiple interpretations and themes, but here attendees can read the artists' message.
Brian Reaume, a mixed media artist whose Birchwater Studios is located in Tacocat, created a piece about an artist's individuality remaining strong in a committed relationship.
"This is all about the individuality of self and the coming together of being married … two people [forming a union] but maintaining their individuality," Reaume said. "So I wanted the two separate houses … they each have their own shelter. The red thread is this idea of connectivity, being that there's something that connects everybody that we meet and love within our lives."
Kwast immediately fell in love with Reaume's piece, partly for its aesthetic but also because it reminded her of her own childhood, growing up, like Brouillette, a child of divorce.
"I had to do a drawing of my family [in kindergarten] and I drew two houses next to each other with a tunnel [from] mom's house [to] dad's house. And that little string reminds me of that. My dream wasn't to have them living in the same house. It was just to have a tunnel between them. I knew two houses was the reality," Kwast said.
Since Brouillette and Kwast had similar childhood experiences — not bad ones, just not the best examples to follow when it comes to maintaining a marriage — they looked to these artists for guidance. There are pieces created by couples, singles and even divorcees.
"There are a couple divorced people … and we asked if they could make work about lifelong togetherness and happiness. They were like, 'no, no, no.' But no, we want that. What went wrong and how would you have made it better," Brouillette said of the diversity of artists and their relationship histories.
Catherine Bell Smith, who's been happily married for 27 years and serves as a role model for Brouillette and Kwast, created a beautiful and massive installation piece using wood and a mirror. Smith will also officiate the couple's ceremony.
"It's about the mirror for the person you're in the relationship with; to present the cleaner part of you and then you have all of this other stuff that's behind you. But when you come together, you try to be the best you can be," Smith said. "[The rings represent] that you're building layers to your relationship. You can't just think of it as a line, because you're actually adding material, [like] a tree grows."
A good example of a relationship not following a linear path is Brouillette and Kwast's. Their first date, a "really nice" walk together, happened only after Brouillette "got up the guts" to ask her out. (He'd seen her often at Adriatico's pizza, where Kwast worked and he was a regular customer.) But after that one date, Kwast informed Brouillette she was moving to Cleveland.
A year later Brouillette called Kwast around her birthday and the romance rekindled. Weekend road trips were the norm for six months, until Kwast moved back to Columbus and the couple was able to be (happy) together.


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File photo Curry County administration submitted capital outlay requests for Curry County roads, the Curry County Adult Detention Center and the Curry County Courthouse.
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Eastern New Mexico entities sent capital outlay priorities Monday at the request of local legislators.
But there's no indication there will be capital outlay available, or that every entity received that information.
"We got word from Santa Fe that if we had any projects, we needed to submit them before 5 p.m. yesterday," Curry County Manager Lance Pyle said. "We submitted three projects to be on the safe side."
Pyle submitted requests for Curry County roads, the Curry County Adult Detention Center and the Curry County Courthouse.
State Sen. Gay Kernan, R-Hobbs, said she sent word to many entities, but said it was done on a "just in case" basis. She's pessimistic that any capital outlay would be available, let alone enough to divide between all of the 100-plus legislators and still make an impact.
"We just never know for sure," Kernan said. "We don't believe there's going to be anything significant. If there is some opportunity, there will most likely be some statewide projects."
Capital outlay is a portion of the state budget devoted to the planning and financing of construction, renovation, remodeling, repair, and maintenance of facilities and capital assets for cities, counties and schools. If capital outlay money is available, it is first given to water projects, schools and Native American lands, then the remainder is divided among legislators.
Claire Burroughes, Clovis' legislative director, said the city heard about the project request from the Clovis and Curry County Chamber of Commerce. She said general road and median improvement was suggested to the Legislature as a second project.
"The Ute Pipeline Project was our No. 1 project," Burroughes said, "and has been our No. 1 project for many years."
Several roads need repair, Burroughes said, and the way the city requested the money would allow them to work on any street.
No one in Roosevelt County reported receiving such a message, and few entities submitted capital outlay requests to the Legislature, under inferences from local legislators that capital outlay wouldn't be available.
Nicole Thornton, Portales' Community Affairs Coordinator, said priorities were approved by the city council and sent before the session began.
"Even if they tell us there's no money, we submit anyway," said City of Portales Community Affairs Coordinator Nicole Thornton.
She said the city requested $180,000 for an aerial ladder truck for the Fire Department, $550,000 for city-wide street drainage improvements, $700,000 for planning, design and construction of a new wastewater facility, $110,000 to replace water lines, valves and fire hydrants and $250,000 to improve city buildings.
At Eastern New Mexico University, President Steven Gamble said employees had submitted capital outlay requests for severance tax bond money, but not regular capital outlay money.
The severance tax comes from oil and gas revenues and a tax on oil and gas producers, he said, and the money is used to take out a bond.
Gamble said the university wasn't expecting any traditional outlay money, and most of the severance tax money would probably go to the Department of Transportation to maintain highways.
"We're not optimistic that anything will be funded, but we do think it's our responsibility to have a project ready for consideration if an opportunity presents itself within the severance bond," he said.
Vice President of Business Affairs Scott Smart said the university was requesting $1 million to re-roof the Greyhound Arena sports complex, $500,000 to resurface South Avenue N, $100,000 for a new fire alarm system in the College of Business building and $100,000 to resurface the Golden Library parking lot.
Gamble said the university always applies for severance tax bond money, and no one has either encouraged or discouraged the application.
Roosevelt County Manager Charlene Hardin and Portales Municipal Schools Superintendent Randy Fowler both said they weren't planning to submit capital outlay requests and hadn't been told money would be available.
Elida Town Clerk Sandra Monks and Dora Village Clerk Becky Fraze also said they weren't submitting requests because there was no money.
Jelayne Curtis of Clovis Municipal Schools said she was not aware of any such message being sent by legislators.
Tom Drake, assistant to the president for business and government affairs at CCC, said that the college didn't submit any requests because of the state of the economy. Drake and Executive Vice President Becky Rowley said that the college is focusing on building the second phase of the Joe and Charlyne Sisler Allied Health project.
"We would like to renovate the space that the Allied Health programs will vacate but we aren't counting on doing that any time soon," Rowley said.


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Minnesota in another midseason slump under Smith
February has mostly been a month to forget for Minnesota under coach Tubby Smith.
The loss at Iowa on Sunday was the Gophers' 16th defeat in 20 games in February over the last three years. This season, they've dropped seven of their last 10 games before a tough trip to 18th-ranked Ohio State on Wednesday.
After rising as high as eighth in the Associated Press poll, Minnesota has fallen out of the Top 25. The Gophers still have, for now, a solid case for an NCAA tournament selection. But their once-promising start has given way to another middle-of-the-pack performance in the Big Ten.
Smith called the 72-51 loss to the Hawkeyes one of the most disappointing of his career.
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14, 2000 -- This morning NOAA satellites and the orbiting
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solar cycle. Space weather forecasters had been predicting for
days that an intense flare might erupt from the large sunspot
group 9077, and today one did.
"Energetic protons from the flare arrived at Earth about 15 minutes after the eruption," says Gary Heckman, a space weather forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center. "This triggered a category S3 radiation storm."
Right: This SOHO animation of the July 14th X-class solar flare was recorded by the spacecraft's Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope at 195 angstroms. A 350 kb GIF movie nicely shows the flare, followed by a torrent of energetic particles that arrived about 15 minutes later, creating snow on the images as the particles bombarded the camera's electronic detectors.
According to NOAA space weather prediction scales, an S3 storm can cause the following effects on satellites: single-event upsets, noise in imaging systems, permanent damage to exposed components/detectors, and decrease of solar panel currents. It can also expose air travelers at high latitudes to low levels of radiation, the equivalent of a brief chest x-ray.
"The energetic particles from this flare arrived very quickly," continued Heckman. "Protons have been observed in the past to arrive between 15 minutes and several hours after a flare. This event was definitely one of the fastest, but we don't yet have all the numbers to say exactly how it ranks in this category."
|"Given the information I have now, if I was advising my own daughter I would tell her it's safe to fly. In fact, if she were going to come visit me today (she lives in Florida and I'm in Oklahoma), I would tell her to take a plane rather than drive because even during this solar radiation event flying would be safer." -- Dr. Wallace Friedberg of the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aeromedical Institute in Oklahoma City, July 14, 2000.
Soon after the solar
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a "full-halo" coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs are
gigantic bubbles of electrified gas carrying away as much as
10 billion tons of solar material. This one appears to be heading
toward our planet at 1300 to 1800 km/s.
Right: A full halo coronal mass ejection recorded on July 14, 2000, by SOHO's C2 coronagraph. "Halo events" are CMEs aimed toward the Earth. As they loom larger and larger they appear to envelop the Sun, forming a halo around our star. The many speckles in the latter half of this animation are energetic particles from a related solar flare bombarding SOHO's electronic detectors. "The SOHO instruments look like someone aimed a Gatling gun at them," commented NOAA's Gary Heckman. Click on the image for a larger animation.
"At this time, I'm making plans to look
for the aurora Saturday night," says Heckman, who lives
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Whether or not an auroral display is triggered by the blast depends on the orientation of the magnetic field within the CME's approaching shock wave. Magnetic fields with a southward directed component can create a weak point in Earth's magnetic defenses and make auroras more likely.
Above: This rare red-colored aurora over North Carolina was photographed by Chuck Adams on April 6, 2000. The bright object near the horizon is the Moon. Also visible in the background are the Pleiades, Taurus, and Orion. The photographer used a Nikon FM2 camera equipped with a 28mm f/2 lens. The exposure time was one minute on Kodak Elite 100 slide film. (Copyright 2000, Chuck Adams, all rights reserved.)
The Moon will be full this weekend when the solar disturbance
is expected to hit. Bright moonlight will outshine faint Northern
and Southern Lights, but vivid aurora could still be visible
in spite of the lunar interference. Observers across the Pacific
might be treated to the very rare sight of shimmering colorful
aurora during the
total lunar eclipse of July 16th!
Sunspot group 9077, which triggered today's solar flare and coronal mass ejection, exhibits a complex magnetic field that harbors energy for powerful eruptions.
Left: This July 14th image of the Sun was captured by the Michelson Doppler Imager on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The large sunspot group, numbered 9077, is near the center of the Sun's visible disk.
"Solar flares and CMEs occur whenever there's a rapid, large-scale change in the Sun's magnetic field," explains David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. "The solar active region that produced the eruptions [on July 14] had a complicated magnetic configuration. Oppositely-directed magnetic fields were seen right next to each other."
Active region 9077 is very near the center of the Sun's visible disk. Solar rotation will carry the sunspot group toward the Sun's western limb by late next week. For the next few days, however, any additional eruptions are likely to be Earth-directed. The fireworks may not be over yet!
Stay tuned to Science@NASA for news and updates about the coming geomagnetic disturbance.
Below: Solar Flares are classified by their x-ray flux in the 1.0 - 8.0 Angstrom band as measured by the NOAA GOES-8 satellite. On July 14, 2000, a solar flare from active region 9077 registered as a powerful X5-class eruption. Another X-class flare from 9077 was recorded on July 12, 2000.
SOHO is a cooperative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. The spacecraft was built in Europe for ESA and equipped with instruments by teams of scientists in Europe and the USA.Web Links
NOAA Space Environment Center -official forecaster of space weather events
SpaceWeather.com -daily updates and news about
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More about the "magnetotail" and what causes aurora - from the NASA/Goddard Space Flight center
All about aurora - from the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute
Aurora FAQ - from the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute
Thursday's Classroom -- lesson plans and educational activities about space weather. - from NASA/MSFC


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My lo and I are battling thrush again. Just when I thought it was gone, it has come back. She used Nystatin well after signs left. I used Nystatin ointment and took a single dose of Diflucan. I have followed all the strict guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting, never worn a shirt or bra more than once, added vinegar to the wash, and boiled everything in sight.
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PORTALES — Freshman Jessica King posted 17 kills and three block solos while senior Nicole Vanderploeg and sophomore Veronica Valdez had double-doubles Tuesday night as Eastern New Mexico University rallied from a 2-1 deficit to upend Wayland Baptist at Greyhound Arena.
ENMU (5-11), which lost earlier this month in five games at Wayland, dominated the fourth game and then scored the final five points in Game 5 — three on Pioneers errors — in a 25-19, 22-25, 18-25, 25-15, 15-11 win.
King, a 6-foot middle blocker from Las Cruces, had two errors on 31 attacks. Meantime, Vanderploeg posted 12 kills and 10 digs while Valdez collected 10 kills and 17 digs.
Sophomore libero Caitlin Murphy had a season-best 37 digs for the Zias, and also led the team in aces with four.
Kimberli Harger had 13 kills and 11 digs for the Pioneers (8-3), while Melrose graduate Audrey Hemminger chipped in with seven kills and four blocks for the Pioneers.
ENMU trailed 4-0 at the outset of the first game, but Vanderploeg's kill tied it 12-12 and set off a game-ending 14-7 run for the Zias.
Wayland fought off the Zias in the second game, then pulled away with a game-ending 9-4 run in the third. But ENMU trailed only briefly at the start of the fourth game, and a kill by freshman outside hitter Sarah Koch started the Zias on their way to a game-ending 15-6 run.
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A blog about my journey with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome including HHV 6, EBV, C. Pneumonia, Bartonella, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and Biotoxin Illness
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But it only accounts for part of what I'm feeling. It's been a long, hard 4 plus years of being sick. A lot has happened and I think it has all caught up with me.
I am looking into trying Cymbalta. I've had bad results after trying a very low dose of Zoloft and then with Prozac. I can't tolerate SSRI's anymore. I think Cymbalta is an SNRI so hopefully that will be better tolerated.
My level of functioning is starting to decrease. I'm hoping its from the Minocycline rather than starting a relapse. I have that gritty, burning eye thing going on. By evening my eyes feel like I have sand in them and they usually turn a bit red. Has anyone else had this? I'm also sleeping 11-12 hours and waking up with that exhausted I can sleep forever feeling. My brain has been feeling thick the past couple days.
I saw my GI doctor Monday. He said things are looking better. He wants me to start doing a taper next week to slowly go off the hydrocortisone. I had another bad bleeding episode yesterday which is curious since things are improving. The bleeding has to stop because that alone could warrant surgery. I'll do anything to avoid having this surgery.
I've been having symptoms of disc problems in my lower back at the L5-S1 level. A few days ago I stood up after sitting and could barely take one step because the back pain was so bad. I had to wait until the pain subsided before I could walk. Last night after doing my back stretches I tried to get up from the floor when the back of my thigh and calf went into a muscle spasm. I could not walk and could barely straighten my leg out to stand. I'm also having an increase in sciatica symptoms.
I saw a doctor today about my back. I'll have another epidural injection this coming Weds. Hopefully that will work but its only a temporary fix. He said my symptoms are due to the disc being bad.
I'm still taking things one day at a time. It's difficult not being able to find a place to live. The supplements for Chelsea's liver cost $80 per month and she's on a special diet for her liver which is also expensive so I have added expenses to consider. I can't afford it but I can't bear to give Chelsea up especially since its unclear how quickly or slowly things will progress. I have an appointment on the 30th to redo her labs to monitor her liver.
I would like for a few good things to happen soon. I sorta need it.
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- Renee said...
Sounds like you are moving forward in some ways and that is good news. Hope that bleeding stops really soon. You have had so much going on the past few years, anyone would be struggling at times. Sending you a big hug.
- March 22, 2012 at 6:15 PM
- Elaine said...
Hang in there. I agree with Renee, it sounds like you are moving forward in some ways. Sometimes its just hard to see:(
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Tenkara fly fishing is the method Japanese fly fishers use when fishing their mountainous, fast flowing, small trout streams. It is a markedly different technique from our western style of fly fishing. A Tenkara fly rod ranges from 10 to 14 feet in length. No reel is ever used on this rod. The line is attached to the tip of the rod, which has a thin one-and-one-half-inch-long woven line permanently attached to it. This short piece of line is called a "lilian." A length of fluorcarbon or nylon monofilament is tied to the lilian. This is the casting line. In reality, you are casting a long leader. The casting line is usually three to five feet longer than the length of the rod, which is made of eight to 10 tubular sections that telescope into each other. When fishing, one section after another is pulled from the butt until the rod is fully extended.
After reading articles written by Yvon Chouinard and Misako Ishimura, I was tempted to try this very different style of fly fishing. After purchasing a nine-foot Tenkara rod, I built a 13-foot monofilament line to use on it. June 18, I drove to a small Catskill tributary and proceeded to fish Tenkara style. With my bad knee, I knew I would have to wade very cautiously, but I just had to go fishing. I fished through the afternoon, at times casting my fly upstream and sometimes downstream. I tried a variety of casts including the bow and arrow cast, which is easy to do with this very flexible rod. I have never felt so frustrated and disappointed on a trout stream. Compared to casting a silk fly line on a bamboo fly rod, casting a Tenkara rod is a joyless experience. The pleasure derived from western style casting is simply absent when casting a Tenkara rod. This disastrous afternoon of fishing came to a perfect end when I was unable to get the tip section to slide back into the next lower section. After struggling to accomplish this for some 20 minutes, I eventually snapped the section below the tip in half. I imagine that for some fly fishers, Tenkara fishing will prove to be interesting. As for me, my desire to fish in this manner has evaporated.
I related my sad story to Ed Van Put, who has used a Tenkara rod successfully. Ed told me he usually tries to fish the small tributaries early in the year, when they are running high, and a bit discolored. When the flows are low and clear, Ed said the trout are very spooky and Tenkara fishing becomes extremely difficult. After the next heavy rain, I will try one of the tributaries again, but will fish western style.
By the time you read these words, we will be preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July. Yeehah! I imagine this will be a time of golfing, swimming, canoeing, fishing and bratwursts and beer. Let the good times roll. I would however, like to suggest you briefly interrupt your celebrations for just 10 minutes. With your family gathered together, have one person thoughtfully read aloud our Declaration of Independence. After all, lacking these words, there would be no Fourth of July celebrations. Is 10 minutes to long to take, in order to rehear these timeless words? I hope not.


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Many of today's pressing issues relate to biblical teaching about God's creation: droughts, famines, being human, sexuality, gene therapy, environmental debates, oppression and injustice rooted in "created differences" such as gender and race, and so much more. But the church has an undernourished doctrine of creation to help us bear witness to the gospel of God's redemption of the world. Come to re-discover the resources in the Bible and our heritage for reclaiming Christian witness to the gospel in our times.During the seminar we will consider
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Wonder how Bob feels today since he wrote last week Finley has wore out his welcome in GB?
He also called for a 10-6 season....he still has a shot to get that one right...even Bob would now hope his forecast will be wrong. I am still holding out for my forecast the Pack would defeat 13 teams....including the sea hawks....they still have a shot!


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Why Do They Do Studies Like This?
A recently published study claims to have shown that a proprietary mixture of velvet bean and Chlorophytum borivilianum improves sleep quality. The journal, Integrative Medicine Insights, is online, peer-reviewed, PubMed indexed, open-access, and it charges authors $1848.00 to publish their article. It advertises editorial decisions in 3 weeks and publication in 2 weeks after acceptance. I can see two reasons why authors might be willing to pay that much for publication: to speed the process of getting important research results out to the public, or because their research is poor quality and they know it would be rejected by other journals.
The quality of this study is unfortunately typical of much of the research on alternative medicine.
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The full text is available for download here. The title is "A Dietary Supplement Containing Chlorophytum Borivilianum and Velvet Bean Improves Sleep Quality in Men and Women." They gave a proprietary supplement mixture to 18 young healthy subjects with self-reported impairment of sleep quality (defined as routine difficulty falling asleep, waking more than twice during the night, and awaking in the morning feeling tired) and had them fill out a questionnaire about sleep quality before and after the trial. They also measured heart rate, blood pressure, CBC, metabolic panel, and lipid panels.
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RSBS Presents: Pain
My morose and oft despondent colleague, Mr. Krause, recently addressed our mutual passion for the sport of long distance running, and in doing so, alluded to the fact that such passionate loyalty requires a certain tolerance for pain.
Indeed, running begets pain. But said pain often calluses the soul, prepares it for the ultimate fight — whether physical or mental — and breeds a certain unparalleled toughness that can guide one through any hardship. This I know.
Pain is a binding precursor to ecstasy. Without it, we wouldn't know a good thing if it hit us in the face… which, would be ironic in this case, because — depending on what the object hitting us in the face is — that could possibly hurt.
But I digress.
Perhaps the following irony deficient examples will help better illustrate my point:
Jayson Werth
(aka Nipple Abrasions — minor yet aggravatingly debilitating)
Congratulations, Washington Nationals, on signing Alfonso Soriano 2.0! No, seriously, I really am happy for you. I mean, y'all have had some painfully troublesome moments in your six year history… y'know, like, sucking and all. Then Strasburg went down… Dunn got away… and now you dole out $18 million a year for SEVEN YEARS to your division rival's 32 year-old third fiddle. Um… okay. The bad news is: you got screwed. The good news is: it'll be over in seven years. By then you will be so learned, so deteriorated, so callused by anguish that every little victory will seem colossal. Maybe you'll even smile. Maybe.
'Merican Politics
(aka Plantar Fasciitis — excruciatingly biting, often chronic)
Eight years of Dubya. A war in Afghanistan. A war in Iraq. The continued waste of an asinine war on drugs, on poverty, on progression in general. The complete upheaval of congress from one extreme to another, to another, then back to where it started again. We don't have healthcare, we do have healthcare, we don't have healthcare. We've no jobs. Our farmers are forced to grow crap crops to make corn syrup which is then injected into all your food so that you are prone to overeat, become obese, get diabetes and die. Yeah. That's some real pain right there; makes Canada sound like the Playboy Mansion. Ms. Teen South Carolina, you with me?
The Pittsburgh Pirates
(aka Hitting the Wall or "Bonking" — worst case scenario your body loses the ability to function due to depleted glycogen stores)
Two words: Matt Diaz. Wow. Just… wow. Dear readers, when signing Matt Diaz is a big deal, you know your team is in trouble. In the Pirates' case, they've been in trouble since 1992, they show zero signs of improvement, and life is just gonna get more and more painful for the handful of baseball fans left in Pittsburgh.
Just remember:
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
My advice? Go Steelers!
Hate me 'cuz I bring da pain, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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I hear ya. This last month for me has been nothing but pain. I should be in heaven come Spring Training…but we'll see…
'Minoring In Baseball'
Since you're so into pain, it's fitting that you said you'll be seeing Black Swan this weekend. Natalie Portman will be on this list. Talk about suffering for your art.
Mike — After pain comes elation, brother! Remember that!
Prince — OMG HOLY MOTHER OF BRUTUS! SCOTT OLSEN! I JUST MADE A MESS!!!!
Jane — Will do… I'm a big Natalie fan… and pain is my thing… so yeah, this should work out well😉
Tried Cross Country running in High School for all of three days. Not sure why people get a drive to pound the payment and produce bone spurs and shin splints, but then again, I maye have missed the whole deal somewhere.
Could be more bout the singular competition and endorphine rush than anything else.
Whereever the drive and desire is rooted, it takes a bit of a sadist ( in my opinion only) to get up at 6 am on a perfectly cold inter day and run outside until your eyelashes fall off from frozen exposure.
But then again I live in Florida where only 5 days a year are too cold to…….run.
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Maggie meetings have a long history of being contentious and rancorous at times. Debate sometimes devolves into a volley of accusations and criticisms between board members and the audience. Town board members are now looking at ways to preserve an open dialogue with the audience during town meetings, with caveats.
ŌĆ£I always hoped as a small town we could have a level of dialogue with the public. It is still my desire to have some of that, but it has come to my attention there has to be some decorum and some rules, and we have to set some limitations,ŌĆØ said Mayor Ron DeSimone.
The town board discussed ways to rein in public comment last week at its monthly ŌĆ£agenda-settingŌĆØ meeting ŌĆö an informal session thatŌĆÖs a precursor and rehearsal of sorts for its official meeting held the following week.
Alderman Mike Eveland said if the public doesnŌĆÖt oblige, the town may have to revoke its generous public comment policy.
Maggie Valley meetings have a more robust public comment arena than most towns.
Legally, local governments have to allow public comment, but itŌĆÖs usually confined to the beginning of the meeting and limited to three minutes per person. But in Maggie Valley, audience members occasionally chime in during the meeting.
ŌĆ£The free dialogue with the board from the crowd just doesnŌĆÖt work. We are going to have to set some ground rules for public comment,ŌĆØ DeSimone said.
But DeSimone said he doesnŌĆÖt want to restrict people to just three minutes, though.
ŌĆ£I would like to do more than that,ŌĆØ DeSimone said.
ŌĆ£We have to find a way to do that,ŌĆØ Eveland agreed.
But, ŌĆ£We donŌĆÖt necessarily have to let one person talk for 30 minutes,ŌĆØ Alderwoman Saralyn Price said.
Eveland joked the town should buy a giant egg timer, holding his hands up shoulder-width apart.
However, Alderman Philip Wight questioned whether the meetings are really out of control.
ŌĆ£They arenŌĆÖt out of control unless there is a hot topic,ŌĆØ said Wight. ŌĆ£If there is a hot topic, how else are people supposed to address their government?ŌĆØ
Wight was unable to make the agenda setting meeting last week, but said he would be against any effort to shutdown the public from having a voice in their government.
Price said she has a problem with audience members bashing town employees during the public comment session. That shouldnŌĆÖt be allowed, she said.
But DeSimone said thatŌĆÖs easier said than done.
ŌĆ£It is a dynamic situation that is moving,ŌĆØ DeSimone said of the public comment periods. ŌĆ£You are trying to keep people from saying a derogatory things about anybody. But you have no idea what is going to come out of their mouth until it comes out of their mouth.ŌĆØ
The town moved its formal public comment period from the traditional slot at beginning of the meeting to the end, hoping that questions from the public about various issues would be answered during the course of the meeting.
But there is a downside. Sometimes, the board will have already voted on an issue that audience members planned to speak out on.
ŌĆ£That is a legitimate gripe so I try to engage the public through the meeting on certain issues,ŌĆØ DeSimone said.
Joining forces
As aldermen formulated their strategy for new meeting protocols last week, it sounded at times as if they were prepping against a guerilla attack.
Eveland stressed the importance of the board having ŌĆ£each otherŌĆÖs backs.ŌĆØ
The board agreed that if they are civil with one another, even when they disagree amongst themselves, that it would help set the overall tone for meetings.
ŌĆ£If this board is showing courtesy to each other, we stand a better chance,ŌĆØ DeSimone said.
The board discussed several ways to make their meetings more orderly and productive ŌĆö like not getting into a tit-for-tat with audience members. Even though it might make board members seem aloof, they should merely listen rather than try to respond, said DeSimone.
ŌĆ£Someone who walks in the door, they have their thinking process already done. But it is the first time we are hearing it and we havenŌĆÖt had a chance to think about it yet,ŌĆØ said DeSimone, who has ended up in plenty of debates with audience members himself.
Eveland said if a board member wants to respond, they should raise their hand and wait to be acknowledged by the mayor before piping up. That way, DeSimone can act as a referee or potentially save a board member from losing their temper when firing back.
ŌĆ£I might be all worked up because someone called me a bobo,ŌĆØ Eveland said.
Another wildcard at town meetings has been surprise topics brought up for discussion ŌĆö or even for a vote ŌĆö at the 11th hour. Sometimes, aldermen would act in concert with audience members to force discussion of an issue that wasnŌĆÖt on the agenda.
From now on, once the agenda is crafted, ŌĆ£nothing should be added,ŌĆØ DeSimone said.
ŌĆ£No more blindsiding,ŌĆØ Alderwoman Janet Banks agreed.
The board also talked about what to do when members of the public want a spot on the agenda to say their piece, instead of being relegated to the formal public comment period.
Town Manager Nathan Clark said the town needs to be more judicious than it has.
ŌĆ£To say, ŌĆśPut me on the agenda so I can tell the town that I hate the townŌĆÖ over and over again, that is not an agenda item,ŌĆØ said Clark.
Clark was just named town manager last month, but early indications are that he will take a more active role enforcing meeting protocols.
ŌĆ£The town manager could have curbed some of that,ŌĆØ Eveland said.
DeSimone said meetings will go smoother if board members talk about issues before the meeting. Legally, the town board canŌĆÖt discuss matters in private ŌĆö at least not as a group, according to the N.C. Open Meetings Law.
But board members can have one-on-one conversations with each other. DeSimone suggested funneling everything through him.
ŌĆ£I try to be command central. I try to contact you and talk about it and then contact you and talk about it and then contact you and talk about it,ŌĆØ DeSimone said, going around the boardroom table.
Will it work?
The various meeting protocols discussed last week give DeSimone more control than heŌĆÖs had in the past.
He can control who speaks at meetings and whether an issue gets put on the agenda. Items canŌĆÖt be discussed unless they are on the agenda. He can also control the message with other aldermen in his pre-meeting one-on-one discussions.
DeSimone has been criticized by some residents and two of the other aldermen for unilateral, top-down decision making over the past year.
Their has been a public outcry at some meetings in an attempt to hold the mayor accountable, Wight said.
ŌĆ£That would go away if we started having honest, open government,ŌĆØ Wight said.
A new sheriff in town
New meeting protocols in Maggie Valley come amid political and leadership changes for the town: a new majority on the town board and a new town manager.
Two seats on the five-person town board were up for election in November, and both were won by challengers ŌĆö Mike Eveland and Janet Banks. They both campaigned on a platform of cooperation and unity, pledging to move past the divisiveness that has hamstrung the town in recent years.
Whether discord at Maggie Valley meetings is inevitable or can be cured is anyoneŌĆÖs guess.
It wonŌĆÖt be the first time new board members have vowed to work together in the best interest of the valley and put personal conflicts aside. Indeed, that was a platform of Mayor Ron DeSimone when he ran for mayor and won two years ago.
But the new day for Maggie Valley once again failed to manifest, and after a honeymoon period, the divisiveness crept back, as it had in the past.
ŌĆ£I have certainly done some learning under fire the past two years,ŌĆØ DeSimone said.
The board was locked in a two-to-two stalemate on some issues over the past year because it only had four members ŌĆö instead of the usual five. A vacancy on the board was created when a former alderman moved away last year. Typically, the other board members would have appointed someone to fill the vacant seat. But the divided board was unable to agree on an appointment, so they waited until election time to let voters choose a replacement.
Now the town board now has a plurality.
Along with the vacant seat finally being filled, one of the sitting alderman, Mike Matthews, was ousted in last monthŌĆÖs election.
And lastly, the town also has a new town manager. Nathan Clark, who had served as town planner for nearly a decade, was named town manager last month after the former town manager resigned amid controversy.


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There are four kinds of people in this world:
people who like you for the wrong reasons;
people who like you for the right reasons;
people who dislike you for the wrong reasons; and
people who dislike you for the right reasons.
And it's only the last group you need to worry about.
These aren't the four people, but the article was really screaming out for this layout-wise, don't you think?
I have googled variations of this phrase many times and have always failed to find its origin. Guesses include the writings of Jean Paul Sartre and/or an old episode of TV's The White Shadow. Regardless, I believe it is the truest and wisest thing ever uttered by an existentialist French philosopher and/or fictional inner-city high school basketball coach. And because this maxim comes in list form, it seemed appropriate to examine it further in a Cracked article. (Also, Jack "I have no nicknames" O'Brien nixed my original submission entitled 9 Venereal Diseases the Cracked Editors Picked Up at Comikaze.)
I have placed a picture of breasts next to this paragraph in the hope of attracting the Net's attention to this important introductory point. The expression suggests that you be most concerned about the people who are right to dislike you. Basically, listen only to valid criticism, and become a better person. But as I examined the expression further, I realized that in order to understand which people fit into that final category, you need to examine all the categories, and each category has its own value. The way I see it, the last category is set aside more as the best place to start for self-improvement -- not the only one that matters. So that's what I did below. I examined each category using examples from my life to illustrate. Specifically, two very formative areas of my existence: college and writing for the Internet (I would have used examples from your life, but I don't know you that well. You seem cool, though. You read Cracked and pay attention to breast-based paragraphs. We should hang out.)
4People Who Like You For The Wrong Reasons
Who are these people who like you for the wrong reasons? Well, there are many kinds. People who like you because other people like you or because they think they're supposed to like you. People who like you for superficial qualities like money, appearance or social standing. And there's a more interesting category too: People who like you because they think you have traits and characteristics you don't actually have. People who like a fake version of you.
College-Based Real Life Example:
When I look back at my life, there is definitely one category of person who liked me for the wrong reasons: just about any girl who had sex with me in college. I went to school at Cornell, which in my day was composed almost entirely of either sorority chicks or hippies. Neither group was particularly attractive to me.
Please note, neither beautiful on the inside either.
In fairness, at 18, I'm not sure how attractive I was to them either.
Here I am as a freshman doing a super cool thing where I made my fridge look like a person. I called him "Mr. Hungry Spoon Man," and he was super good at helping me not have lots of sex.
I seemed incapable of finding any girl who didn't fit into these two dreaded categories. Making matters worse, Cornell was also devoid of my dream girl: the bohemian, sexually-perverse, dangerous chick with emotional issues that both Hollywood and my own retarded sexuality had trained me to admire.
No trace of her. Not even in the School of Human Ecology.
Feeling terribly alone, but not wanting to actually sell out and become a hippie or a frat guy, I did the only thing I could: I grew out my hair. "Long hair!!! Hippie!" you say. "Not so fast," I reply. It was the '90s. I was a grunger, baby.
Please note the necklace made from a holographic dinosaur watch I got in a box of Cocoa Pebbles.
And just like that, hippies started having sex with me. It didn't matter that I hated Phish and the Grateful Dead or that I didn't get high. I had long hair and they saw something in me that probably wasn't there. And with the influx of hippies, came more confidence, and then girls who shaved and wore make up too. Even some who thought they had feelings for me beyond sex. But I didn't get a big head about that. I knew it was smoke and mirrors. They had fallen for an illusion, and feeling special about their love or lust would have been a mistake.
I had a short-term girlfriend who used to think I was the nicest guy in the world because on nights she slept over, I'd drive her to class the next morning. To me, it was just being polite, but she told me it was because I was a sensitive, caring guy. If I'd believed her, I might have been fooled into thinking courtesy passed for compassion. That civility passed for love. I might have kept acting in the same superficial way (being a crappy boyfriend to her or other women) and I might have missed out completely on the next category.
3People Who Like You For The Right Reasons
This is very subjective. It's quite possible you have no idea what the right reasons for liking you are. Maybe you think you're "passionate," but in reality you're just an abusive, loud-mouthed asshole. And while not as important as the final category on the road to self-betterment, reflecting on who likes you for the right reasons is still a beneficial exercise. For one thing, it requires you to have an ounce of self-esteem. To accept that there are real reasons for people to like you. For another, as I was hinting at above, it provides a definition of love.
College-Based Real Life Example:
Something I forgot to mention about my college days. I went to school at the height of political correctness. So when I say there were hippies there, understand that these were '90s hippies without all those positive traits you could attribute to actual '60s hippies like non-violence, idealism and a predilection for orgies. At my school, hippie meant privileged kids with long hair and Birkenstocks who were so emotionally scarred they could only interact with others by sitting in a circle and passing weed.
"Here's a song about rainbows that almost silences the memories of what Daddy did when he'd been drinking."
And so periodically throughout college, I was vilified as a fascist for disagreeing with some of the following statements:
Calling any girl over 12 a "girl" is hate speech;
If you sleep with a girl who has had a beer that night it's date rape;
AIDS is the biggest crisis facing America (which even in the '90s, by the way, was not the biggest cause of death in America);
A man has no right to say a mom is being selfish about anything ever (especially getting high while pregnant); and
Guns of any and all kinds should be outlawed in America.
Even more annoying, none of these disagreements were ever met with an actual debate. There was no capacity for debate. Only an unspoken agreement as conveyed by the passing of a bowl. But then, after college, I met a very liberal-minded, educated, assertive young woman from UC Berkeley, and you know what? She didn't hate me. She didn't even disagree with most of the above, and if she did, she didn't see those opinions as some evidence of my dark spirit. And where there was disagreement, there was the capacity to discuss and get deeper into someone's head, and for the first time, I felt known. I felt she liked me for the right reasons, the real me, and I married her.
Of course, years later, I woke her at 3 a.m., screaming, "Fooled ya!!! I totally suck!" But that's not important right now.


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