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All in the family: A good fit
The Workingman's Store has been family-owned and operated since 1921, when businessmen Fred P. Bay and Will Koester opened the facility on Greene Street in Marietta.
"They were the initial partners, then it went to our grandparents, Thelma and Graydon Bay," said John Schramm, who currently operates the store, now at 113 Putnam St., with brother Dave Schramm.
Sister Susan Satterfield is a partner in the ownership, but does not work in the business with her brothers.
John said their mother, Joan Bay, married Carlton Schramm and continued operating the business from around 1977 to 1982.
"Dave went to college and went into military service at the time, so I was working with mom," John said. "When Dave came out of the service he didn't have any plans, so I asked him to come back and help run the store."
In 1985 the Schramms bought another Workingman's Store on Market Street in Parkersburg.
"It wasn't related to our business, but the store just happened to have the same name," Dave said. "We bought it in 1985, and then moved it to Grand Central Avenue in Vienna in 2000."
He noted there are several small businesses with the name "Workingman's" across the country, but none of them are affiliated with the Marietta and Vienna stores.
The brothers say operating a family-owned business has its good and not so good moments.
"There's a tendency to express your opinion more openly-without being concerned about getting fired," John said. "But there's also a tendency to pitch in more and help each other out. And we've had few problems working together."
Dave agreed.
"Working with family certainly has its pros and cons," he added. "You know who you're working with, so there's less anxiety, but there can also be concerns because you're too close. Sometimes hard business decisions have to be made that may not jive with family decisions."
Although the Schramm brothers have worked together for nearly 30 years, they don't hire other family members at the store.
"It can be hard on other employees who are not family members," Dave said.
Asked if they would recommend starting a family business, Dave said it can be tough to start any business, but that shouldn't stop someone from trying if they have a solid business plan.
"And if family members are going to be the employees, make sure they have the skills to contribute," he said.
The brothers agreed the best thing about running their own business is being their own boss.
"You can do what you need to do. If we need time off we can take it," John said.
But on the other hand the pressure to operate the business and make it successful is entirely on the owners, Dave added.
"You're always working without a safety net," he said.
One reason the Workingman's Store has remained in business for more than 90 years is the flexibility to change with the times, Dave said.
"We have our retail business here at the store, but we're also on the Internet," he said. "And we have a mobile shoe facility-a truck that holds a thousand pairs of shoes we use to call on area industries that subsidize the cost of their employee's safety shoes. We can go to them instead of the employees having to come here."
Dave said specialization also helps the store compete with the much larger box stores.
"We sell a lot of public safety clothing products-police, fire and EMS uniforms and footwear," he said. "We also provide tuxedo rentals at the store, as well as our regular line of work and casual clothing and shoes."
The brothers hope to continue the business for many years to come, but admit they could be the last of the Schramms to operate the Workingman's Store as none of their children or other family members are planning to take over the business.
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Excerpted from "Historical Miscellanea: An Early History of North Carolina," North Carolina Manual, 1991-1992, published biennially by the NC Department of the Secretary of State.
North Carolina, on April 12, 1776, authorized her delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence. This was the first official action by a colony calling for independence. The 83 delegates present in Halifax at the Fourth Provincial Congress unanimously adopted the Halifax Resolves, which read as follows:
The Select Committee taking into Consideration the usurpations and violences attempted and committed by the King and Parliament of Britain against America, and the further Measures to be taken for frustrating the same, and for the better defence of this province reported as follows, to wit,
It appears to your Committee that pursuant to the Plan concerted by the British Ministry for subjugating America, the King and Parliament of Great Britain have usurped a Power over the Persons and Properties of the People unlimited and uncontrouled and disregarding their humble Petitions for Peace, Liberty and safety, have made divers Legislative Acts, denouncing War Famine and every Species of Calamity daily employed in destroying the People and committing the most horrid devastations on the Country. That Governors in different Colonies have declared Protection to Slaves who should imbrue their Hands in the Blood of their Masters. That the Ships belonging to America are declared prizes of War and many of them have been violently seized and confiscated in consequence of which multitudes of the people have been destroyed or from easy Circumstances reduced to the most Lamentable distress.
And whereas the moderation hitherto manifested by the United Colonies and their sincere desire to be reconciled to the mother Country on Constitutional Principles, have procured no mitigation of the aforesaid Wrongs and usurpations and no hopes remain of obtaining redress by those Means alone which have been hitherto tried, Your Committee are of Opinion that the house should enter into the following Resolve, to wit
Resolved that the delegates for this Colony in the Continental Congress be impowered to concur with the other delegates of the other Colonies in declaring Independency, and forming foreign Alliances, resolving to this Colony the Sole, and Exclusive right of forming a Constitution and Laws for this Colony, and of appointing delegates from time to time (under the direction of a general Representation thereof to meet the delegates of the other Colonies for such purposes as shall be hereafter pointed out.
The Halifax Resolves were important not only because they were the first official action calling for independence, but also because they were not unilateral recommendations. They were instead recommendations directed to all the colonies and their delegates assembled at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Virginia followed with her own recommendations soon after the adoption of the Halifax Resolution, and eventually on July 4, the final draft of the Declaration of Independence was signed. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn were the delegates from North Carolina who signed the Declaration of Independence.
References and additional resources:
North Carolina Digital Collections.
LearnNC. n.d. "Revolutionary North Carolina." North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-revolution/contents.
North Carolina. Secretary of State; North Carolina. Legislative Reference Library; North Carolina Historical Commission. North Carolina manual [serial]. [Raleigh]: North Carolina Historical Commission.
Tomberlin, Jason. 2007. "April 1776: The Halifax Resolves," This Month in North Carolina History (April). http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/nchistory/apr2007/index.html.
WorldCat (Searches numerous library catalogs).
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William Hamilton and George Noble, The Manner in which the American Colonies Declared themselves INDEPENDENT of the King of ENGLAND [detail], 1783. Photo ID: LC-USZ62-11336. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr12.html
1 January 1991 | Anonymous
Who were the 83 delegates who
Who were the 83 delegates who signed the Halifax Resolves? Am interested in the ones from North Carolina.
Dear Wendy,
Dear Wendy,
Thank you for visiting NCpedia and taking time to share your question.
That's a great question! For starters, please visit the State and Colonial Records of North Carolina. Here is a link to a full-text transcribed version beginning with the meeting at Halifax in April of 1776. You'll see a list of those who attended with their respective counties -- http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr10-0250. And I will update the entry with this link showing attendees for future visitors.
I have contacted the Halifax state historic site and have spoken to the site historian to get a bit more information about the resolves document. Unlike the Declaration of Independence, the Halifax Resolves had no signers. The resolves were unanimously passed by the Colonial Assembly (Provinicial Congress) in the course of business conducted at the gathering in April 1776. The only signature that appears is that of the assembly clerk, James Green.
I hope this helps! And I'm sending this information to the email address you left with your post.
Please visit NCpedia again and best wishes,
Kelly Agan, NC Government & Heritage Library
I talk about the Halifax
I talk about the Halifax Resolves every time I give a tour of Independence Hall. This entry will be going in our reference binder in the West Wing (where Dunlap broadsides of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution are displayed).
Hi Nicole,
Hi Nicole,
That's fabulous and thanks for sharing this with us! We're glad to be able to share this content with you.
Best wishes,
Kelly Agan, NC Government & Heritage Library
so its north carolina's
so its north carolina's declaration of independence in a way
I think the halifax resolve
I think the halifax resolve is the best thing ive ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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okayso i need help on the
okayso i need help on the halfax rloves
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A man convicted in the 1974 murder of a 17-year-old Iowan won't be prosecuted for the slaying of an 18-year-old who'd been with her.
The Gazette reports that 67-year-old Atwell Conner has been serving a life sentence since he was convicted of first-degree murder.
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Authorities say a Des Moines man has died after being shot at least six times earlier this month.
The Des Moines Register reports that 31-year-old Rashad Adair died Tuesday.
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We do not know where it was built, but it known that it left Spain in 1552 to San Juan de Ulua, where it arrived in 1553. Left again to Spain in 1554 and wrecked off Padre Island on April 29, 1554, together with another two ships, the Espiritu Santo and the Santa Maria de Yciar all caught by a storm. In that same year a salvage operation recovered half of the cargo of the three ships. Its remains were found and salvaged by treasure hunters in the late 1960s, and localized again and excavated in 1972 and 1973, and briefly in 1975 by the Texas Antiquities Committee. The hull remains were raised and the conservation of the timbers was completed in 1982.
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The site was a large area with scattered artifacts and ballast stones embedded in dense Pleistocene clay, under a layer of fine sand 1.5 m thick. The wooden remains are composed of 5 m of keel, and sternpost, stern knee and several hull planks.
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Keel and stempost were bolted to a stern knee that measured, as preserved, 2.7 m long, 20.5 cm sided and 18.5 cm molded.
No frames were preserved but a series of notches (5 cm sided) on the sides of the stern knee indicate that the frames may have been 21-25 cm sided and the room and space may have been 42-44 cm. It seems that all floors were spiked to the keel and every 4th floor was run through by a keel/keelson bolt.
Garboard carved. The preserved planks were 10 cm thick and 19 cm wide in average, narrowing in the forward direction.
Ceiling, thick stuff and wales
None of these timbers was preserved.
The garboard was nailed to the keel with iron nails. There is evidence of both iron nails (sq. 1.2.-1.5 cm) and treenails (oak, no section given) on the stern knee, from the fastening of the planking. The keel and sternpost were bolted (forelock bolts, 2.7-2.9 cm) to the stern knee.
Oakum and hair have been used as caulking materials. The seams were covered with a resin soaked cloth and protected with lead strips tacked along the seam. There was a layer of pitch on the mating faces of the keel, sternpost and stern knee.
Although the site plan was lost, the ballast seems to have been scattered along an area 15.5 m long .
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Three different estimates for the size of this ship have been advanced: 20.12 m long and 5.49 m in beam , 27.1 m long and 8.88 m in beam , and 20-21 m long and 5.5-6.5 m in length . I find the scantlings too strong for a ship as small as 20-21 m overall length but I do not have any means to advance other numbers.
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Keel, sternpost, stern knee, planking and treenails were all of oak (Quercus sp.). Bibliography Arnold III, J. Barto & Weddle, Robert. The Nautical Archaeology of Padre Island. The Spanish Shipwreks of 1554, Academic Press, NY 1978. Rosloff, Jay & Arnold III, Barto "The keel of the San Esteban (1554): continued analysis", IJNA (1984) 13.4: 287-296.
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A public school in New York is taking heat for nixing a kindergarten show in favor of college prep time for its youngest students.
"These are 5-year-old children! This is outrageous!" parent Ninette Solis wrote in her Change.org petition to reinstate the student performance at Long Island's Harley Avenue Primary School.
"The kindergarten show is a positive experience and beneficial to the children's development. … This helps them build confidence in themselves. The show also helps develop public speaking skills while allowing the children to celebrate a big accomplishment."
Her petition had more than 3,100 signatures as of Tuesday morning.
School officials made no qualms about the move, citing tougher early education standards in a letter to parents.
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Skip to comments.Archie Comics First Gay Wedding
Posted on 09/14/2011 11:29:32 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
Can you believe such a comic book could have existed from Archie Comics just a few years ago?
In Life With Archie #16, which looks at the world of a twenty-somthing Archie cast has recently created gay character Kevin Keller returning from war to get married to his partner in Riverdale. And everyone turns up to the ceremony just as Archie is separating from his wife, Veronica.
Is this proof that gay marriage does destroy traditional marriage after all? Written by Paul Kupperburg, drawn by Fernando Ruiz, Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy, Al Milgrom, Bob Smith with a cover from Batmans Norm Breyfogle, Life With Archie #16 will be available for sale for the first week of January 2012.
The character in question is a veteran so the Don't Ask Don't Tell angle gets some traction in the story as well.
Reggie and Jughead?.............
Thank you Lord for letting me grow up in the 60's and 70's before all this pc bulls**t took over.
It's NOT Veronica and Betty?!!
In your dreams, pal. Sadly, the reality of lesbians in real life never matches up to the fantasy. Plaid work shirts, fat bodies and severe haircuts. Except for their legs.
Shoulda gone with Betty to begin with, Arch. I always liked her better.
Sorry to hear it. I guess I missed Archie's marriage to Veronica, too.
It's been a LONG time since I've seen one of these comics.
That makes at least two of us.
If they really wanted to be "cutting edge", they should have Archie marry Muhammad.
I remember when they had Christian-themed Archie comic books where the Bible and conservative values were emphasized.
How is Reggie not in prison?
The artist, the author and the publisher must all be Jughead.
Naw, he should marry that new Spider Man
no comment on that one
That, is a good one.
When I was young I used to buy Archie comics. Now if my kid showed up with one in the house, that would be a catalyst for a deep talk on why Archie is unacceptable.
But I guess Archie isn't for kids anymore... is that the message of the owners? Because the ones buying this comic will be gays and... well, gays and perhaps uniformed parents.
whoops, uninformed parents.
Satire, please be satire!
Have Archie Comics been sold? They actually seemed to be of a Christian bent the last time I saw one.
Sgt. Rock would disapprove.
I remember those comic books!
Sgt. Rock would disapprove.
His Tommy gun alsways sounded strange!
her ankles inspired Hillary's legs
Of course, back then "beat off" had a different meaning.
BTW- Betty has a nice bum ;)
As I said in a previous posting a few weeks ago, we have to have a website to warn parents about all the up coming assaults in movies, tv shows (Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars), youth books and now comic books. They will not stop with their maniacal propaganda war.
Gia Carangi or Amber Heard might have disputed that but who cares. I'm sure your fashion and styling expertise would exceed theirs.
>>> just as Archie is separating from his wife, Veronica.
Now that is news to me. When did Archie and Veronica get married? Last I hard about Archie's age the company was going to reset them back several years younger into tweenies. There was a thread on it three years ago or thereabouts.
I have a vague recollection of a time when "comic books" actually used to be funny.
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A Campbellsport man has been convicted of tying a teenager upside-down and ordering his dog to attack because the man thought the teen was burglarizing his home.
A Reporter of Fond du Lac report said 59-year-old Richard Lisko was convicted Friday of first-degree reckless injury and false imprisonment.
Prosecutors said Lisko hung 18-year-old Joel Kennedy upside-down by his ankles for more than an hour and periodically ordered his dog to attack. Kennedy suffered cuts and punctures to his neck, ears and scalp.
Defense attorney Dan Stevens told jurors that police made a "snap judgment" to believe the teen's story, and investigated accordingly. He said the teen lied to police to hide his burglary attempt.
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The title pretty much says it all. For about the past week or more my daughter has had dark green diapers. Sometimes they are seedy other times more runny.
I have started blocked feeding as I don't think DD is completely emptying the breast when she nurses and is therefore getting too much hindmilk. I think this is the right way to handle it but would appreciate any input from the more experienced moms.
I've been doing the block feeding for the past 2 days and while my breasts are much softer and feel more empty at the end of a feeding, DD seems more gassy now than before. Last night she woke up every very frequently due to what appeared to be gas pains. Prior to this she'd been sleeping for much longer stretches, not seeming to be bother by any gas/
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Recently, my husband and I indulged in a spate of Masterpiece Theater and BBC mini-series (I call them high-class soap operas), spurred on by our earlier delight with "Cranford" and "Downton Abbey." We've since hunkered down for marathon sessions of Dickens' "Bleak House" and "Little Dorrit," as well as the 2002 version of "The Forsythe Saga."
I particularly enjoyed the depiction of 19th century British "civilization." As one inclined to bouts of nostalgia for a past I never actually experienced, I'm now convinced that I'd much rather live in 2012 than in a time when central heating, indoor plumbing and electricity were inconceivable notions. I prize those inventions that make my life easier, not to mention more hygienic.
My affection for modern conveniences was particularly reinforced as I watched scenes in which women wearing long dresses walked along unpaved streets while their expensive silks and brocades dragged over mud or cobblestones littered with horse manure. The wealthy had servants to launder the soiled hems (daily, I imagine, and by hand); the more downtrodden had to tend to the task themselves.
In fact, manure in America's large cities reached crisis proportions by the turn of the last century. Elizabeth Royte, author of "Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash," cites these unimaginable but true statistics: In the mid-1800s, when the population of Manhattan was less than one million, its streets were daily the dumping ground for 500,000 pounds of manure and 45,000 gallons of urine. Not to mention the garbage that residents routinely tossed out their windows. And the ashes from all those fireplaces. All I can say is "Ugh."
Ironically, just when the problem of manure reached crisis proportions, the Model T (1908) began to replace horses as the preferred mode of transportation. Problem solved? We wish.
CO2 is the new manure. With our planet quickly becoming one big city, the automobile is just one of this century's horse manure-making machines, compromising not the hems of our skirts but all life on the planet.
Even if we succeed in curtailing the dumping of CO2 into the atmosphere, our ecological problems will not be solved. There are just too many people on earth, all of them using the world's finite resources to fulfill both real and imagined needs.
When I was in high school in the late '60s, I wore a white button emblazoned with the black letters, ZPG, the acronym for Zero Population Growth. The idea was that every procreating couple would have at most two children so the world's population would stabilize. The idea did not catch on. The world's population is exponentially increasing from the current seven billion to a projected 11 billion by 2050 according to Population Connection.com, the current incarnation of ZPG. That's a lot of manure.
The implications of such an increase include a scarcity of potable water, food shortages, continued urban sprawl, deforestation, habitat loss and species extinction, all amid the now irreversible climate change.
Religious and cultural biases sometimes preclude any rational discussion of population planning. But zero population growth may be our only hope out of our current crisis.


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Time is of the essence
Needless to say time figured strongly in the NYSPHSAA Cross-Country Championships as the elite runners of Section IX vied against the best of the best from the state's other 10 sections. For the first time in 30 years, Section IX had two individual state champions crowned. Warwick sophomore Megan Reilly (17:23.5) won the Class A title for the second year in a row, breaking the course record set at Queensbury in 2005 by then Warwick standout Aislinn Ryan by one tenth of a second. Onteora senior Julia Rubin-Armstrong (18:22.4) won the girls Class C honors. The Mt. Academy boys team won the state Class D title for the second straight year. Port Jervis had the next best team showing from Section Nine with a third place finish in boys Class B. Here is a list of Sullivan County runners with their places: Boys Class B: 71, Joseph Klein Monticello (16:49.3); Class D: 72, Jake Willoughby Eldred (18:11.33); 78, Kevin Maas Eldred (18:16.01). Girls Class B: 51, Camryn Johnson Monticello (19:13.2); Class C: 57, Kelsey Dutton Sullivan West (20:17.3); 74, Sabrena Smith Tri-Valley (20:44.8); 87, Autumn Bender Tri-Valley (21:06.9); 89, Brittany Pennell Tri-Valley (21:10.8; 90). Alex Brooks Tri-Valley (21:12.6); 100, Danielle Graham Tri-Valley (21:25.7); 106, Ali Reynolds Tri-Valley (21:35.1); 107, Brooke Gillette Tri-Valley (21:36.5). Class D 29, Kayla Maas Eldred (20:18.4); 77, Sarah Malzahn Eldred (22:15.9).
For a detailed story about the NYSPHSAA championships read "State Of Grace" on www.sportsinsightsny.com. For an album of photos from the storied event visit www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com.


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Written by Guest on 14.12.2006 at 17:51
great album great review... Dark Tranquillity never seize ot amaze me one of my favorite bands and every release is amazing
Written by Black_Sheep on 23.01.2009 at 20:17
I think this album is underrated. It's really good, awesome album. I would give it 8
Written by WorpeX on 12.06.2009 at 00:25
Good album, ^^ My favorites on the album are The Endless Feed, Am I 1? and Mind Matters. All the songs are good though. The lyrics and keyboards on the Endless feed are incredible though!
The only song which I really dont like that much is Out of Nothing. The lyrics are just kind of stupid on it, "How does it feel to be out of nothing?!" Well... I'm not out of anything... so... good? Maybe I just dont understand the lyrics fully. lol


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March 27, 2012 —
The plan to build an esplanade behind the shops on Main Street has been on the drawing board for a couple of decades. In the offices at the Tusten Town Hall, there are a series of sketches, which were part of a study called the Big Eddy Waterfront Revitalization Program.
The study was done by planning consultant Tom Shepstone in 1996, and paid for by funds from the Upper Delaware Council. The aim of the study was to illustrate how to better connect Main Street with the Upper Delaware River, and an esplanade, or boardwalk, was one of the featured components.
Actually, according to Laurie Stuart, publisher of The River Reporter, the plan goes even further back than that. A woman who worked at in the Sullivan County Planning Department in the 1980s did some work regarding the revitalization of the Big Eddy, but documents related to that time could not be located.
The latest development in the project is that the Tusten Town Board voted at the meeting on March 20 to hire the Chazen Companies to do the design and engineering phase of the project at a cost of about $154,000 of which $77,000 is coming from a grant, and the rest coming from the town.
The grant was applied for in 2009, and it was announced that it had been received on January 4, 2010. At the time that the grant was applied for, the Town of Tusten was carrying a substantial budget surplus and, in fact, the auditors at the time advised then-supervisor Ben Johnson that it was not a good practice to have such a large surplus.
However, having the surplus allowed the town to demonstrate to the NYS Department of State Office of Communities and Waterfronts that it could provide the necessary matching funds, if the town received the grant.
Johnson said the only reason the town was able to move ahead with the grant application was because of the study done more than a decade earlier, which meant that the town had a Local Waterfront Project already in place.
The town set aside the money for the project in 2009, and $53,150 of it is now in a line item in the budget called Economic Opportunity Grants. Supervisor Carol Wingert said the rest of the money would come from the general fund or from in-kind services. She said, for instance, that she and council person Andrea Reynosa have spent a good deal of time working on the project, and that time would count as in-kind service.
Still, some have expressed concern about spending town money on the project at this time. Wingert said while the project is being designed over the next year or so, her office would be writing grant applications as the various design aspects become available. She said of future grants and funding, "If we obtain them, then we can build, if we don't, then we put off building. We can't afford to lay that burden on our taxpayers at all."
Some have also expressed concerns that the town does not have all the easements in place to build the esplanade and amphitheater. Wingert said an effort to acquire those easements would be made during the design phase. She also said it is possible that the project could be done in phases. Therefore, the 100-seat amphitheater planned for the space where the deck is now located and reaching down the hill, is probably the most expensive part of the plan, and may be put off until last. The cost of the entire project has been estimated at anywhere from $700,000 to $2 million.
But, one way or another, Wingert clearly plans to press on. She said, "We've had this idea going for more than 20 years now, if it takes another 20 years to build it, then so be it, but first you need the design."


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Meh, he had one good game...not sure I'd classify it as him "playing well"...more that he "played well".
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F Jordan Hill, playing with David Andersen out with a sore lower back, showed flashes of the potential that made him an important part of the Rockets' trade deadline deal with the Knicks. Hill had 12 points and eight rebounds, both season bests for the rookie, while playing 23 minutes.
PG-Brooks adding Hill into the offense made Hill feel like a teammate again.
u must admit Jordan Hill does not look like a bust, he look like a raw rookie with NBA potential talent as a bigman.
Meh, he had one good game...not sure I'd classify it as him "playing well"...more that he "played well".
Too bad D'Anphony and Walsh didn't give him a chance. There's a reason why the Rockets wanted Hill. I doubt it was because they thought he was a bust.
Jeremon Linbury
Our PG position got weaker after the trade-deadline....we DNP Nate, Hughes, and Toney Douglas the first 50 games from letting them become a backcourt-tandem to lead the PG position. All 3 players are NBA combo-guards with experience to work together as a tandem in the backcourt.
There was no reason for Wilson Chandler to play one minute at the SG-position during this 2009-10 season.
All the Knicks guards disaproved of Wilson Chandler at the SG position throughout everyone of the Preseason Games, even Wilson Chandler disaproved of playing the SG position by throwing up outrageous 3-balls throughout the preseason games and the first 10 games of the season.
Why do u think Dantoni made rookie Toney Douglas a starter alongside of Duhon early in the season???
Wilson Chandler is a natural NBA SF!!!
Wilson Chandler is not a better SG than Nate or Hughes on offense or defense. He is clueless as a guard on how to tandem-up with the PG to make a decent back-court tandem.
Do u trust Chandler to dribble the ball up court on offense? NO!
How many times have he done that all season? few to none!
That is why Chandler playing at the SG position after training-camp indicated celebrity coach Damntoni is "TANKING" the 2009-10 season.
Or he just do not know how to coach in the NBA.
Every Knick game that Damntoni coached....only show that Shawn Marion and Nash was the catylist calling all the shots in the Phoenix Suns success...
I did not have intention on writing all of the above in this rookie Jordan Hill thread that shows he is a long way from being a BUST.
But alot of people act like they dont know what happen this season, or they did not witness the worst coaching in the Knicks history.
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His next game ^
I'm not loving the Hill trade either man..... But it's not the be all and end all of the situation. If things don't work out before next season, then I'll be backing your every word. Until then.....hmmmmmm
11 Points, 8 boards? Maybe Kiya is onto something...
Zeke picked up to many Enemies as a player in the NBA (having 2 rings while being considered the best PG in the NBA, and then being barred from the "Dream Team".....RED FLAG.....u got enemies!!!
The Annucha Trail was not a coincidence for Gay-Isiah (he was in the life, bi or whatever?).
Listening to the Rockets vs Wizards game announcers....says it all.
The reason why I hate to listen to Breen and Clyde, the two act like our Knick players dont have family and friends watching and listening to the game (their indirect comments had Knick-Fans believing Jordan Hill was a BUST draft pick, by justifying all of Damntoni's stupidity as a NBA coach.).
Our problem is consistency, confidence, and lack of desire to win.
Lets put it this way: Those Knicks players already consider themselves winner just for being able to play on the big stage ( Garden )
Thats why we need another owner who can actually put pressure on the coaching staff and players to play better and harder.
It hurts me to watch Jordan Hill try to go up with the ball in the paint.
He is so weak and can't even get a shot up.
Otherwise he did look awesome and energenic.
Helps having a point guard and some decent players.
I don't know why we gave up on Jordan Hill so quickly but two games really don't tell me much either about his upside. He could still be a bust.
Did you guys catch that play which JJ blew a layup and the Houston announcers yelled "Jeffries missed another layup." LMAO.
he's a dime a dozen...look at Channing Frye
its about the system you are playing in.


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Transboundary pollution, for instance, can disrupt relations between neighbouring states, which share a common resource base. Health risks and involuntary migration due to water scarcity, inequitable access to land resources, uncontrolled stocks of obsolete pesticides or other forms of radioactive waste and hazardous substances have been identified as threats to stability and peace.
However, common problems linked to the use of natural resources can also bring people to work together towards a common goal; thus, environmental co-operation can act as a powerful tool for preventing conflicts and promoting peace between communities and societies.
The Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) is an inter-agency initiative consisting of UNDP, UNEP, NATO, OSCE, UNECE, and REC. It was created to encourage key public decision-makers in the pan-European region to act to advance and protect peace and the environment at the same time.
Since 2003, ENVSEC has responded to these challenges by supporting pilot interventions on a country and regional level with a span from in-depth vulnerability assessments, international conventions and cartographic tools to capacity building and enhancing of civil society for stronger institutional dialogue and improved environment and security policies.
The four thematic focus areas of ENVSEC are:
ENVSEC implements regional work programmes in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine), South East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (territory under UN resolution 1244), and South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia).
In the ENVSEC regions, the Initiative adapts to the changing geo-policitical landscape and responds to emerging issues, such as the risk nexus of climate, water, energy and food security.


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Consider Food as Medicine
In many medical systems, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, or Native American, food has always been an important way to treat illness and maintain health. Little by little more 'traditional' medical institutions and environments are recognizing the legitimacy and importance of these approaches. An increasing number of studies provide evidence for the preventive or curative properties of certain foods, as well as the effects of utilizing food and diet as part of a comprehensive approach to health. For example:
- Garlic is often used in the U.S. for its ability to lower cholesterol and serum triglycerides.
- Green tea is a good source of antioxidants, which can protect cells, tissues, and cellular components from damage by so-called Reactive Oxygen Species.
- Some studies suggest that ginger may be an effective treatment for nausea.
There are many other plants that contain protective, disease-preventing compounds known as phytochemicals. Often, it is important to eat the whole plant, as the skin or outer hull contains nutrients and fiber that offer significant health benefits.
For much more information on food as medicine, including the role of various food categories and which foods to eat for specific health conditions, see the Food as Medicine topic on this website.
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Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward
A web of conversations
Having surveyed in previous articles the variety of theological conversations in Britain—ranging across patristics, history, philosophy, biblical interpretation, literature and the arts, the natural and social sciences, ethics and politics, and other religions—it probably occurred to some readers to ask: But what about the classic topics of Christian theology?
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Preservationists lose Hessinger Building battle
It was not a good day for Palline Plum. She has been fighting, on and off, with officials from the Town of Callicoon for 12 years about the fate of the Hessinger Building.
Once she thought the 160-year-old structure, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, could be used for an artists' residence program. On April 8, workers began tearing the building down, peeling away the main front portion and exposing the rear interior rooms to the elements.
In a reference to the meaning of the name Callicoon, Plum wrote in an email, "The town of the turkeys has lived up to its name. It's very sad and very dumb."
Officials from the Town of Callicoon, councilman Howard Fuchs and supervisor Tom Bose, who had won the most recent months' long battle to demolish it, watched as the building was gradually pulled apart.
Greg Semenetz, as former supervisor of the town who is now running for a seat on the county legislature, said most of the people in the area wanted the building gone. Semenetz, who has restored various old buildings in the area, said this one was too far gone to have been of any value, but he said the crew would try to save the vaulted basement room.
Town officials said the building had to be torn down because it presented a danger to the public, but that is a matter over which there has been considerable disagreement.
Tom Ward, an engineer for the town, issued a brief report saying that the building was unsafe.
Zeke Boyle, a registered historic preservationist, disagreed as did architect Robert Dadras. Both said the building had problems that needed to be addressed, but that it did not represent a danger to the public.
Robert Silman Associates, a New York City engineering firm, issued an 18-page opinion on the question that was highly critical of Ward's brief report. The report said, "In its present state, the building, as a whole, does not present a danger to the public; it is not an "unsafe building." Demolition, which has been recommended by Mr. Ward and the Town of Callicoon, is an extreme and irreversible measure that, based on our prior experience with similar structures and our engineering judgment, is both not warranted and not recommended."
Judge Frank LaBuda, in ruling on whether or not the demolition could go forward, did not mention the Silman report in his decision, apparently because it was submitted too late into the process to be considered.
LaBuda ruled that the town had adhered to their unsafe building procedures and could proceed with the demolition. That was on April 1. Seven days later, the teardown began, leaving precious little time for an appeal or to ask for a stay.
Even though the original building can never be brought back, there is still some chance that Plum could appeal to the appellate court. Plum's attorney, Ronald Litchman, said, "I'm disappointed with LaBuda's decision and I believe an appellate court would decide differently."
But Plum, who is 68, suffers various physical problems, lives in Indiana and has limited resources to mount an appeal. Although she has been unable to afford to renovate the building, she has been paying taxes on it for years at an assessed value of $30,000.
Now, the cost of the demolition will be added to the tax bill, which she will likely be unable to pay. The building will ultimately be foreclosed by the county and sold at auction and county taxpayers will likely foot the bill for the tear-down.


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NASA scientist on climate change
October 16, 2013 —
As part of the ongoing Weather Project, Tannis Kowalchuk and the NACL Theatre brought Elaine Matthews of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) to speak about climate change at the NACL Theatre on October 7.
Matthews began by stating that she was there as a private citizen because of the government furlough. She also stated that we are approaching the warmest temperature in 1 million years and that if we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions immediately, the earth would still heat up for another 60 years. She said, "We need to make a change, and quite soon."
Going back to the rise in temperature, Matthews pointed out that this is not merely a random variability. Although the earth has gone through temperature changes that rise and fall, the temperature, and the levels of methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) are much higher than they have been for hundreds of thousands of years. She showed a chart that went back about 650,000 years that measured temperature, methane and CO2. One could see that the chart went up and down in about equal increments. However, when it came to present day and going back about 100 years ago to the Industrial Revolution, the levels of methane and CO2 were literally off the charts. She said that, "Climate has been changing for a long time, but we didn't have 7 billion people, we didn't have cities." The earth has changed, and she said 90% of species are now extinct.
Although the temperature in the chart did not rise drastically, Matthews said that the mean global temperature has warmed by 1.2 degrees F, and there has been radical warming in the north, by about 3.4 degrees C.
She went on to talk about the impacts of climate change. She said that with warmer temperatures, the surface ice in Greenland melts, causing the sea levels to rise. When the sea levels rise, it erodes the coastline (she showed pictures of deteriorating coastlines and glaciers falling apart). In 2012, the amount of sea ice was at its lowest. She also talked about thawing permafrost in the arctic. Permafrost is soil at or below the freezing point of water 0 °C (32 °F) for two or more years. Thawing permafrost causes the coastline to fall off and can shift the ground. For example, she showed a picture of a house sitting on permafrost that fell down. She also mentioned that the Alaska pipeline sits on permafrost.


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A couple interesting facts shown in there.
they handled lead - that probably wouldn't be allowed today.
the industry went away from soldered on toneholes - a players saliva attacks the solder causing leaks.
the neck is filled with lead before being "punched" into shape
The video is nice historically as it shows each piece of the saxophone. Selmer France has a shorter, more modern video too somewhere on the web
fyi, when you get to the sandblasting section - does that look like granny in the background working on a sax?
plus rare video of Adolphe Sax making the saxophone ... okay, probably contrived a bit.


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February 16, 2012
Error for 2012 IAA Field Test Item
Grade 4 Form 6 of the 2012 Illinois Alternate Assessment contains an incorrect answer on the teacher's primary task page on Science Task 11. We are requesting that all teachers administering Grade 4 Form 6, skip Science Task 11 and record a score of 4 on the student's score sheet for this task.
This will not affect your student's overall score on the assessment as this Science Task is a pilot task. We apologize for the inconvenience.


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I wanted to welcome you to the IPAS2 system and let you know that you are not alone.
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