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Adrienne Ivey (Ashburn, Va.) was named the recipient of the 8th Annual Chris Canning Award of Excellence and its accompanying $1,000 scholarship on June 30 at the USA Taekwondo National Championships in Dallas, Texas.
A list of Adrienne Ivey's accomplishments...
Martial Arts Accomplishments include
* 1st Degree Black Belt, competing for 7 years, winning 7 state, 6 national and 4 international titles
* USAT All American
* Competed as a member of the Jr. National Team, Youth Olympic Games Team, Jr. World Team, winning a total of 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze in those international competitions
* Best Fighting Spirit Award at 2009 Jr. Olympics
Achievements outside of the martial arts included
* High Honors student with a straight A average
* Inducted into Center for Talented Youth for John Hopkins University, AP Scholar with Honor
* Member of National Honor Society with a commitment to community service.
* As a Girl Scout, Adrienne has helped the homeless and disadvantaged, volunteering at the senior center, library, & youth sporting events, Relay for Life, Member of Youth Advisory Council, the BSU Outreach Committee and Camp Counselor
* Played varsity soccer for her school and lettered all 3 years
The Chris Canning Award of Excellence was adopted in honor and tribute to Christopher James Canning, an accomplished martial artist, who died accidentally in June of 2001, at the age of 15. Chris was an honor student, a star athlete for his school in football, basketball, and baseball, a classical pianist, worked at an animal shelter, and helped the homeless and needy. In just four years as a martial artist, he earned his first degree black belt in Taekwondo, was a member of 11 state teams, won over 30 medals at the national and state level including 15 state and three national titles, was an AAU All American, member of the U.S. Elite team training at the Olympic Training Center, invited to the U.S. Gold Team training and was a five-time athlete of the week and Illinois' USNTF athlete and student of the year.
The Chris Canning Award of Excellence is presented to the one martial artist who most exhibits what Chris represented and achieved. He or she has excelled academically, has gained national and international acclaim as a martial arts competitor, given back to the community they live in and demonstrated the same personal attributes as the awards namesake.
The other finalists for this year's award were Zachery Budde (Maple Grove, Minn.), Aziza Chambers (Springfield, Ohio) and Gregory English (Chicago, Ill.).
Past winners of the Chris Canning Award of Excellence
•Haley Kong (2011)
•Olie Burton (2010)
•Matt Dunlap (2009)
•Paige McPherson (2008)
•Jermaine James (2007)
•Maia Eubanks (2006)
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ORLANDO, Fla. (July 6, 2009) – The United States opened the FIVB World Championship NORCECA Pool G with a 25-10, 25-9, 25-5 victory over Netherlands Antilles on Monday evening at UCF Arena in Orlando.
Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) led the United States in scoring with 11 points apiece. Haneef-Park converted seven of her 10 attacks into kills, while Barboza provided 10 kills on 21 swings. Jane Collymore (Seattle, Wash.) added eight points, while Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) chipped in seven points.
"I was happy that our team could implement some changes from the Pan Am Cup," U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon said.
Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) added five points, six digs and 14 assists. Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.), from a suburb just outside Orlando, added three in the victory including two blocks despite being just 173cm in height. Christa Harmotto (Aliquippa, Pa.) and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah) each tallied one points to round out the scoring. Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) lifted up 14 digs and five excellent receptions on 10 attempts to pace the U.S. back-row defense.
McCutcheon started Collymore and Barboza at outside hitter, Scott-Arruda and Harmotto at middle blocker, Haneef-Park at opposite and Thompson at setter. Sykora was the designated libero for the match.
Christine Anthony provided Netherlands Antilles with a team-high four points, while Sonela Philips contributed three points.
Team USA held a 7-2 block advantage during the match, while adding a 9-0 margin in aces. Setter Courtney Thompson scored four of her five points with aces. The Americans also held their miscues to 12 and gained 28 points directly off Netherlands Antilles errors.
"My compliments to Netherlands Antilles," U.S. captain Danielle Scott-Arruda said. "They played some good defense during the match."
Netherlands Antilles stayed close in the first set trailing only 5-3. Barboza sparked a 5-0 run with two kills while Haneef-Park chipped in an ace. After Netherlands Antilles cut the deficit to 13-8, the U.S. finished the set on a 12-2 run that included four of Haneef-Park's 11 points in the match.
The Americans opened the second set with a 6-0 advantage on Thompson's serve, including the first two points of the set via ace. Leading 9-3, the U.S. rolled off nine unanswered points for an 18-3 lead as Haneef-Park capped the run with an ace. Netherlands Antilles scored four of the next six points to cut the gap to 22-8 before the U.S. earned three of the final four points of the set for a 25-9 victory.
Thompson led the U.S. to a 9-0 lead in the third set as Barboza was credited with two aces.
"USA is a great team," Netherlands Antilles Head Coach Patricio Bridgewater said. "I have a young team and in a rebuilding process. I think the players had a little bit of nerves knowing they were playing one of the top teams in the world. I did not expect to win today – but maybe 10 years from now that is the hope. Overall, it was a great honor to be here tonight playing the United States."
"It was an honor to play versus the United States, a team that was on television during the Olympic Games," Netherlands Antilles captain Jeanne Keller said. "We played with a lot of heart and fight against one of the top teams in the world."
The U.S. hosts Barbados on July 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET on the second day of competition, while Netherlands Antilles faces Costa Rica at 5 p.m. ET.
NORCECA Pool G, a four-team round-robin event played over three days, is a third-round qualification tournament into the 2010 FIVB World Championship to be played in November next year in Japan. The Pool G winner advances directly to the FIVB World Championship, while the second-place finisher advances to the NORCECA Playoff round that will fill two additional World Championship vacancies.
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July 6
Costa Rica def. Barbados 25-17, 25-19, 25-17
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2 – Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 – Tayyiba Haneef-Park (OH/OPP, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 – Angie Pressey (OH, 5-8, Lake Mary, Fla., California)
5 – Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
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7 – Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 – Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The two men who want to be the next Lehigh County Executive went head to head Monday. The two candidates participated in a debate at the Jewish Community Center of Allentown.
Tom Muller, the Democratic candidate, and Scott Ott, the Republican candidate, spoke to a group of mostly senior citizens and answered questions on a variety of issues.
"If I should win this election on November 5, it will be by the strength of the votes of senior citizens throughout Lehigh County," said Ott.
Muller is currently the Lehigh County Director of Administration and Ott serves as vice chairman of the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners.
One issue they were asked about is their position on programs to assist seniors economically.
"I am a big supporter of the programs for seniors partially because I will be or I am one already. But more importantly I actually changed parties when my opponent decided he could not vote for the pass through grant of $30,000 to meals on wheels from the federal government," said Muller.
Ott said, "My concern is that we are becoming dependant on a remote control government that doesn't have a face to face contact with the people here. We can fund these programs locally, $30,000 is a doable amount. Now that said, that grant program passed and the money is being distributed and I'll continue to be supportive of meals on wheels."
Washington politics were also brought up.
Muller said, "I truly am here for Lehigh County. I can't solve the problems in Washington; we've got some very good people we send down there."
Ott said, "We can make a difference in this country by what we do at the local level and I am no longer going to accept the answer that there's nothing we can do to change their behavior in Washington, D.C. We can change our behavior right here."
Some voters who watched the debate were satisfied, but others wanted more.
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Joy Miller, another voted who attended the debate, said, "I like to hear the voice behind the name."
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When the lights went up at the Kennedy Center's Family Theater on Saturday night, a scene between two young boys featured a jarring prop: a gun.
The unsettling scene, which ended with the sound of gunshots, was one in a series of 10 short plays and monologues penned by Maryland prison inmates and featuring a GW senior to appear in the annual Page to Stage series run by the Kennedy Center.
During the two-hour performance of "From Prison to Stage," senior Maxton Young-Jones played three roles: a six-year-old child fiddling with a handgun, a young man grappling with sexual assault and a talking German shepherd, for which he crawled around on all fours.
"At the very beginning, it really, really hits you how serious [the content] is. After you keep rehearsing, you forget how impactful it is, then you remember all over again once you perform it live," Young-Jones said. "All of the feelings sort of come out. You do it even if it hurts you because it's important."
"From Prison to Stage" began as a play written by inmates in the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women in Jessup, Md.
Director Betty May was commissioned to help the inmates write a comedy about life in prison to teach children from the inmates' mistakes, but she wanted to present the content in an honest way.
"The kids don't need comedy, they need honesty," May told the inmates.
With May's help, the finished scripts present visceral accounts from convicts, including a scene featuring a prisoner tormented by sadistic guards.
Young-Jones, a dramatic literature major, said the heavy material shifted his perception of the incarcerated and their treatment.
"A lot of these people should be in prison, but we don't think about them," Young-Jones said. "We don't provide for their needs in an adequate way."
May heard stories from prisoners firsthand and shared anecdotes about their lives with the actors to help them connect with the people they portrayed.
Young-Jones also informed his acting by reading prisoners' unedited scripts and studying their original syntax.
"We read their original plays to figure out what had been changed, what their mental stage was, because it's very useful to know what they were thinking while they were writing it," Young-Jones said.
The emotional commitment was accompanied by an intensive rehearsal schedule, which demanded daily three-hour rehearsals in the two weeks leading up to opening night.
Dennis Sobin, director of Prisons Foundation, an organization focused on enriching prisoners' lives through art, helped bring the inmates' scripts to life after May submitted their drafts to him.
Sobin said he hoped the show highlighted the experiences of society's marginalized.
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While the rest of the United States is sweltering, southern Oregon is closing in on a record of consecutive days without the mercury recording a 100 degree temperature. A look at the local forecast calls for temperatures to remain in the upper 80s to around 90 through Thursday of next week.
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All it really does is cause you and I to pay more/higher taxes – and – everything you can buy then, also goes up in price. You then purchase more foreign made products because you cannot afford to buy the very things you worked to make. Because we don't purchase what we've produced, our employers must lay off some of us and/or move their businesses overseas – but Obama gets more taxes from you and I to pay for his ObamaCare, etc.
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As the 2013 trout and salmon fishing season gets underway, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has already begun stocking more than 300 lakes and ponds and around 3,000 miles of streams across the state with nearly 2.5 million catchable-size brook, brown and rainbow trout.
Ask any northeastern angler about fishing in the Adirondacks and you are certain to hear about brook trout, with their distinctive markings and their remarkable power and fighting ability. To many an avid fisherperson, these highly regarded trout epitomize what is the heart and soul of the sport fishing experience.
Beginners and experienced anglers alike consider fishing for brook trout to be an integral part of the Adirondack experience, as well. The clear, cold headwaters of many Adirondack rivers and streams and the crisp, clean, oxygen rich water of many of our lakes and ponds, are home to the largest populations of brook trout in the state. They are also home to some of the largest individual specimens of these lively, aggressive game fish found anywhere in the Northeast.
Brookies, as they are often called, were once common throughout New York State; so common, in fact, that early surveys ignored bodies of water where they lived, designating instead only lakes and streams where they did not exist. Over time, however, water quality degradation, siltation, pollution, habitat destruction and the introduction of competing fish species have all contributed to their demise. But thanks to the management, restoration and maintenance efforts of concerned individuals, scientists, sportspersons, and environmentalists, brook trout fisheries, many of which were previously degraded to a point where restoration was considered unattainable, have been restored.
Nonetheless, many heritage species have been lost to these conditions or to interbreeding with similar, hatchery-raised species. Scientists at Cornell University have been working with DEC biologists, for many years now, to identify and preserve all of New York's remaining strains of heritage brook trout. Only a few remain. One of these, the Windfall Brook Trout, developed as a result of rare environmental conditions that occurred in our region approximately 12,000 years ago, as the last of the glaciers receded. The species is exclusive to our area.
DEC generally releases more than 150,000 hatchery raised brook trout into small- to moderate-sized streams, lakes, and ponds every spring. However, due to an outbreak of a fish bacterial disease called furunculosis at the Rome State Fish Hatchery, 131,000 brown and brook trout had to be destroyed last September. As a result, DEC anticipates stocking only 224 Adirondack lakes and ponds this year; 102 less than originally planned. A DEC statement issued last September notes that "many of the ponds not stocked will still have holdover fish from previous years' stockings" and will, "continue to provide excellent angling."
The brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, was adopted as the official state fish of New York in 1975. It is officially recognized as the state fish of Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, as well. It is the official freshwater fish of New Hampshire and the official cold water fish of Vermont. Salvelinus translates as 'little salmon'. Fontinalis means 'living in springs'.
The current state record for a brook trout caught in New York is 5 pounds, 14 ounces. That record belongs to William Altman, an angler from Warren County, who caught his record breaking fish, using a Lake Clear Wabbler, in an unnamed lake in the West Canada Lakes Wilderness in Hamilton County, on May 5, 2012. Hamilton County waters have been regaining their reputation as a great brook trout fishery and, by many accounts, DEC's efforts at stocking have been so successful that the population has become self-sustaining again. Altman's record breaking fish is considered a Temiscamie hybrid, a cross between a domestic brook trout and a wild Temiscamie (Canadian-strain) brook trout. Hybrid Temiscamie fingerlings are stocked because they have a better survival rate than other strains of brook trout in some of the more acidic waters of the Adirondacks.
Mr. Altman's catch marked the seventh time in eight years that the state record has been broken. The previous record was held by Dan Germain, from Oneida County, who caught his 5 pound, 8 ounce brookie, also with a Lake Clear Wabbler, on South Lake, in the Black River Wild Forest of Herkimer County on June 15, 2011.
Although environmental conditions, genetic composition and fishing pressure all play a part in the maximum attainable size a brook trout can achieve, because of their slow growth rate and short lifespan; usually two to five years, it is considered atypical for a brook trout to grow to weigh more than five pounds. In fact, three pounders are uncommon. Those living in Adirondack rivers and streams generally range from about six to ten inches long; ten to twelve inches in lakes and ponds.
Just for the record, although none are found in New York State, there are coastal river populations of brook trout that inhabit salt water. New Englanders and Canadians living in the Maritime Provinces often refer them to as salters, coasters, or sea trout. Early European settlers reportedly caught these species in Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. There is debate about whether or not populations ever lived in Lake Ontario.


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Google slashes Nexus 4 price
Google has slashed the price of its Nexus 4 Android smartphone by $100 in Australia, fuelling suggestions the device is due for an upgrade in the near future.
Google has slashed the price of its Nexus 4 Android smartphone by $100 in Australia, fuelling suggestions the device is due for an upgrade in the near future.
Leaked press images have all but confirmed that Google is set to launch a white variant of its Nexus 4 Android smartphone.
Google's much-anticipated, rarely-seen Nexus 4 smartphone is back in stock on the Google Play online store.
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Smartphone and tablet buyers snapped up Android products five times more often than they chose Apple iOS devices during the third quarter, according to a new study from Gartner Research.
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Author/actor Malachy McCourt to appear at Opera House
Acclaimed Author/Actor and Activist Malachy McCourt will appear in a special evening of Irish jokes, stories, song and dance at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House on March 15 at 7:30 p.m. The event will be hosted by Fredonia's own Irish storyteller Doug Manly and also will feature a performance by dancers from Clann Na Cara Irish Dance.
Throughout his rollicking life, McCourt has held a multitude of careers, from dishwasher, longshoreman, and pub keeper to actor, writer, radio and TV host … and candidate for governor. He's done everything he's ever wanted to do in his life and encourages others to do the same.
McCourt was born in Brooklyn, and from the age of 3 was raised in Limerick, Ireland. A very undistinguished academic career, combined with the need to eat, led him to leave school at the age of 13 to begin work in Ireland and England as a laborer. He returned to the land of his birth at the age of 20 and again worked at manual tasks such as longshoreman, truck loader and dishwasher. The story of his and his siblings' impoverished childhood and early adulthood became the basis for his late brother Frank's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes."
Eventually, Malachy discovered acting and became an actor. That career took him to Broadway and Off-Broadway and to regional theatres in plays such as Mass Appeal, Da, The Hostage, Inherit the Wind, Carousel and Translations. Soap operas such as Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live and All My Children also were a good source of work and sustenance, as were the movies The Molly Maguires, She's the One, The Devil's Own, Green Card, and TV movies such as You Can't Go Home Again and The Dain Curse.
In the early 1970s, McCourt was one of the first radio talk show hosts on WMCA in New York. He also worked at WOR, WNYC and WABC, and was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show, Merv Griffin and Tom Snyder shows.
As well as being co-author of the play A Couple of Blaguards with his late brother Frank, McCourt has written his own New York Times best-selling memoir, A Monk Swimming, an account of his adventures as a young immigrant in the United States in the 1960s. A second memoir, Singing My Him Song, followed. McCourt's other books include Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved Irish Ballad, The Claddagh Ring, Voices of Ireland, and Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland.
An outspoken activist, McCourt has written his own weekly blog, and ran as the Green Party candidate for Governor of New York in 2006.
Joining McCourt will be Opera House favorites, dancers from Clann Na Cara Irish Dance. Clann Na Cara was established as a western New York Irish dance school in 2006 by four National and World Champion medalists. Prior to receiving their dance teacher certifications, all four founders were regular performers at the Opera House during St. Patrick's Day celebration events. In addition, each has led dancers in performances with such notable artists as The Chieftans, Cherish the Ladies and Natalie McMaster. The students at Clann Na Cara range in age from 4 to 21 and include numerous national champions.
Fredonia's own Doug Manly will emcee the event and regale the audience with his own Irish jokes and humorous stories. Manly is the former CEO of RHM Grocery Products, which owned Red Wing and three other food processing companies. A resident of Fredonia for more than 50 years, he became interested in doing stand-up comedy for retirement communities six years ago and has served as emcee of storytelling events at the Opera House for the past several years.
Tickets to An Evening with Malachy McCourt are $15 ($13 for Opera House members) and may be purchased in person at the Opera House Box Office or by phone at 679-1891, Tuesday through Friday, 1-5 p.m. They also may be purchased online any time at www.fredopera.org.
McCourt's appearance is sponsored by Doug Manly and also made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County. Opera House media partners are WDOE-AM and Kix Country 96-FM radio.
Chautauqua County's only year-round performing arts center, the 1891 Fredonia Opera House is a member-supported not-for-profit organization located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia. A complete schedule of events is available at www.fredopera.org.


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hoffmeister wrote:Yeah this is great. I wanna see Overeem vs Fedor in the finale.
Clem Snide wrote:Is Fedor past his peak yet? I don't follow too closely.
still a major threat to all but maybe 1 other fighter out there.
Clem Snide wrote:still a major threat to all but maybe 1 other fighter out there.
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Abrams Unbound
In a modest, cluttered office on the sixth floor of Chicago's Tribune Tower, the future of American newspapers looks to its past. It is here that Lee Abrams, a former radio consultant and the new "chief innovation officer" for the Tribune Company, seeks inspiration in stacks of yellowing front pages. He likes old-school screaming headlines, he says, front-page cartoons, the tradition of reporters as stars. Then, on his computer screen, he clicks through PDFs showing bold new page designs for what he calls the "relaunching" of the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, and eight other American newspapers that came under his creative aegis in April of this year.
Abrams, silver-haired and mustachioed, talks about the future of newspapers with the unbound enthusiasm of a college student. In his day-to-day uniform of black long-sleeved T-shirt and dark slacks, he finds himself a stranger among the oxford-cloth inhabitants of the newsroom. He doesn't look like them and he doesn't speak their language, but to his and everyone's surprise, Abrams is suddenly one of the most prominent people in newspaper publishing—and certainly among the busiest.
This summer, just past the midpoint in print journalism's annus horribilis—an analyst quoted in The New York Times called it "the worst year for the newspaper business since the Depression"—you would have needed a GPS to track the frenetic, fifty-five-year-old Abrams: en route from Chicago to Baltimore to see the redesigns at the Sun, descending through the smoggy skies above lax, ready to bust through the creative vapor lock at the Los Angeles Times—meeting-and-greeting and piping up about the need for the newspaper to "own" entertainment coverage (and paint their executives' big black SUVS with colorful logos). In Hartford and Allentown, as well as Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, he flew in on similar missions. And if his corporeal presence was missing, his brainstorms bounced off the satellites carrying Tribune's newly revamped TV superstation,WGN-America. Meanwhile, and more to the point of this story, his ebullient and exhortative memos—some have called them jaw-droppingly crazy—were landing softly in the inboxes of cringing journalists and editors from coast to coast.
Urgency! It's a media war out there that is not being won . . . but can. Recipe for failure: Focus Group . . . evaluate the focus . . . group . . . have a committee meeting to evaluate . . . more focus groups. This isn't rocket science. It's hard logistically . . . but growing isn't rocket science. The biggest problem is lack of urgency.
Based on these stream-of-consciousness blog entries-turned-e-mails, Abrams has been dismissed by his new colleagues as a "lunatic," a "barbarian," a buffoon whose writing style is Ted Kaczynski-meets-Dan Quayle. With the arrival of this alien change agent, there have been mutterings about the end of journalism as we know it. A certain amount of anxious animosity might well be expected from shell-shocked newsroom vets in 2008. Even as they parodied and forwarded Abrams's memos to one another in disbelief, they sifted his ravings for omens that might reveal something about the future of their jobs.
In the first half of the year, newspaper revenue went into free fall, damaged by long-term (Craigslist) and short-term (housing bust) trends. Gannett, the country's largest newspaper chain, saw its second quarter ad revenue drop 13.5 percent from a year earlier and in August announced that it would cut a thousand jobs from its newspapers; the New York Times Media Group dropped 9.5 percent in ad revenue. Profits fell; layoffs followed buyouts. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cut almost two hundred jobs—8 percent of its total workforce. The Wall Street Journal eliminated fifty editing positions. The Chicago Tribune announced cuts of 120 newsroom jobs, 14 percent of its staff. The Los Angeles Times will lose 135 newsroom jobs, the Baltimore Sun sixty, the Orlando Sentinel fifty-two. In the month of July 2008, some one thousand American newspapermen and women were told to find other employment.
Into this morbid and rancorous atmosphere strode Abrams, a self-described "civilian" of print media, a man whose buoyancy can piss off a hard-shelled journalist in less than thirty seconds. And now he sits at the top of the corporate masthead of a media colossus employing more than 4,500 journalists worldwide. Tribune Company, the nation's second-largest publisher of newspapers, is the very definition of a media giant: it owns the Trib, the Sun, and the L.A. Times, but also the Hartford Courant, the Orlando Sentinel, a handful of smaller-circulation papers, Chicago's WGN-AM radio station, and more than twenty-seven television stations—all now in Abrams's purview. But wait, there's more. Tribune owns Hoy, a Spanish-language daily published in two major markets, and two Spanish-language weeklies in Florida. It owns the free paper amNewYork and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Tribune also owns the Cubs' stadium—Wrigley Field—as well as the land and buildings beneath the Tribune and the Los Angeles Times and other sundry properties, which made the company a palatable acquisition for Chicago real-estate billionaire Sam Zell, who last year took the Tribune Company private and in the process accumulated approximately $13 billion in debt. Zell's Tribune is selling assets to meet debt load and going through a painful downsizing in pages and personnel: the order came from Chicago in July to lose four hundred to five hundred jobs and five hundred pages of newshole companywide. The ad-edit ratio will hold at fifty-fifty. Clearly, these are the darkest of times for print journalists, but Abrams sees the light and the glory to come. "I strongly believe that News and Information is the NEW Rock n Roll," wrote Abrams on March 14, 2008.
Rock n Roll! It had a street level connection to the Post War American Spirit. Tapped into the pulse of the American way of thinking. It was based on: imagination, looking forward, respecting but not praying to the musical playbook, moved fast . . . met the rhythm of America, worked at innovating—it was a mission to come up with the next cool thing, revolutionized the 'look' of people, etc. . . . Now fast forward to 2008, News and Information has been around since the dawn of Man, but it's a lot like where music was in 1952: Poised for a dynamic breakthrough.
And on that note began one of the unlikeliest turns in modern newspaper history. Abrams, the lifelong radio man, took to his new assignment with characteristic avidity, studying newspapers 24/7. Ideas invaded his dreams ("I keep notepads by the bed and in the shower and everywhere else," he says), and he produced memo upon memo through the spring and summer, each one more outlandish than the next, with blocks of capital letters mixed with radio lingo and loopy cheerleading. Example: "If we can morph the Soul of Dylan . . . with the innovation of Apple and the eccentric-all-the-way-to-the-bank of Bill Veeck, the WORLD will be a better place. WE have that opportunity."
Only two months into his job, Abrams released companywide a fifteen-point memo on change in the newspaper business, in which he reels off what he finds to be newspapers' most "glaring" problem: assumptions.
Possibly the biggest problem. Assuming. I met a reporter who spent 4 years in Baghdad. Dodging bullets . . . staying in Hotels protected by the Marines. Yet, I'll bet no-one outside of the building knew this person was risking their life in Iraq to get you the news. If it were CNN, you'd see rockets and RPG's in the background as the reporter ducks shrapnel. In the paper, it's usually a small byline. Hell, papers should have photos of the reporter with Iraqi kids . . . be writing diaries. Before I joined Tribune, I had no idea that reporters were around the globe reporting the news . . . Because the paper "assumed" I knew.
One reporter at the Los Angeles Times, still shocked by Abrams's lack of awareness, told me, "We don't know what in the world these guys are thinking. That's very disturbing. If Abrams's stream-of-consciousness missives are the real indication of where this thing is going, then it's going to not be a very sophisticated place. He polished the buffoon image with the observation that he was unaware until told recently that foreign reporters were actually in foreign lands."
When I spoke to Abrams in July, I asked him to explain his apparent lack of basic knowledge about his new world. "I knew that," he says about the existence of foreign reporters, "but the point was, when I lived in Washington—and I think I was a pretty typical avid newspaper reader—I just didn't think about it. It was off the radar, another newspaper assumption. As a reader, before I joined Tribune, I knew that there were news bureaus, but it just wasn't top of mind. Whereas, you watch CNN, and they hit you over the head with it—the fact that they are live there and it's noon here and it's midnight there and it's dark."
Newspapers must learn to "hit people over the head" with what they have and who they are, he says again and again. "The newspaper is part of the life experience," says Abrams. "It's an intelligent look at the community and the world—something that you can absorb at your own pace. It's a place to find information that appeals to you. I'm a baseball fan, so not only seeing the stats, but getting the inside information from reporters who cover my teams is pretty important to my day. Investigative reporting has never been more important to newspapers. We're not alone anymore, as bloggers, TV, and other media are also investigating, but historically papers have done the best and most credible job, and I think continuing to do so is key to the future."
But newspapers seem to have forgotten how to shout and swagger and barnstorm, he says. Scream EXCLUSIVE! like they did at the turn of the nineteenth century. Liberate the photographers. Engage the designers. Promote the columnists and reporters like celebrities. "Papers have star writers and they don't publicize them properly," he says. And the changes must start now. To that end, he keeps on the windowsill in his office a white length of lumber, a two-by-four, naturally, left over from his days in radio, bearing the acronym afdi. When I ask him what it means, he says that the talking days are past, that newspapers must let go of their history.
"Now we're AFDI—actually fucking doing it. Internally, my mission is to liberate people to do their best work and, as a result, create the newspapers that are going to succeed. I think my main job is helping inspire people to think differently and to liberate themselves from some of the things that may not work anymore that newspapers have been doing for a long time." Abrams has but a few specific pet peeves. One is the use of unnecessary jumps followed by great, gray fields of unadorned type. ("It's like, 'Oh my god. I don't have time for that.' ") He questions the use of traditional rubrics like "From the news wire," a phrase that is meaningless to modern readers and sounds like the nineteenth century. The specific fixes he leaves up to the editors and designers. "I don't really have the ideas as much as a lot of passion for change and the ability to help people to break out," he says.
In person, Abrams is more thoughtful and low-key than he appears on his blog or in a big presentation. He loves to talk, talk fast, talk in sports metaphors, talk in voices, mimicking several sides of a conversation to make a point. "I was in Hartford and they were bragging about how the newspaper helped take down the governor," he says. "But I don't think the average person in Hartford knew that. I asked cocktail waitresses and taxi drivers and the guy at the airport, all who lived in Hartford, if they knew about this. And not one person knew . . . . Newspapers used to scream out much louder. Exclusive!! . . . But that was many years ago when there were three or four newspapers in a market. Now there's only one or two. My point is, Yeah, that's true, but there are two million Web sites and three hundred cable channels, so it's more competitive now than ever."
Newspapers must compete in a news-rich environment or go home. "We have to focus on our strengths to reclaim ground," he says. "It does mean doing fewer things unquestionably better. Newspapers often suffer from being generic in a 'specificity-driven' media environment. One of the reasons I'm so focused on the graphic element and the intellect—newspapers own those. We need to push our attributes better."
All We Hear Is Radio Ga Ga
Abrams is routinely called a legend in the music industry. Though popular music is a business that hands out such accolades with regularity, there is truth to the statement. As a Chicago wunderkind, Abrams did his own street-corner research for top-forty AM radio stations in the 1960s, but found himself drawn to the harder rock of underground FM radio. He loved the music, but despised the hipper-than-thou elitism of the FM disc jockeys. So in 1971, just a year out of high school, he combined research and psychographics with his knowledge of album cuts (not singles!) and invented the album-oriented rock format for FM. Mandatory playlists superseded deejays' whims, a massive cultural shift followed which finished off Top 40 radio and produced a financial windfall for all who followed him. At one point, Abrams and his partner Kent Burkhart programmed more than 125 separate U.S. radio stations.
In Marc Fisher's lively history of post-World War II radio, Something in the Air, he describes Abrams's youthful achievement in the strongest terms: "Lee Abrams was not old enough to drink or vote, but he was well on his way toward reinventing radio and restructuring pop culture."
Three decades later, radio had survived MTV, and had devolved into a formulaic but still profitable business—and a creative wasteland. Abrams, blamed by critics for ruining FM radio by straitjacketing deejays with research, looked up and saw the future. In 1998, he signed on to became the first employee of XM Satellite Radio, overseeing programming for more than 150 pay "channels" and convincing Bob Dylan to host the wonderful Theme Time Radio Hour. Abrams had a hand in reinventing radio once again: now it was satellite versus terrestrial, with XM setting off a creative efflorescence. Abrams brought in Willie Nelson and Tom Petty to run their own shows, added eleven national news channels, twice as many all-talk channels, and three times as many sports channels. "The first couple of years at XM were just magical," he says, noting that he stepped off in March as XM was about to merge with its competitor Sirius in order to cut overhead and boost profits.
In the course of creating XM, Abrams kept employee headcount to a barebones minimum, running a channel with one or two staffers instead of ten. The reason was competitive pressure. He tells me he met with executives from Google and Yahoo and other Internet titans and says, "They are in a warlike stance. They want to put everybody out of business." Thus, he maintains that he was surprised at the lack of urgency he found at newspapers during these challenging times. "For me it's like, 'Let's fight back and reclaim that turf.' But we gotta use modern day weapons and not World War I weaponry."
Enter his old friend, Randy Michaels, a radio man since his college days at SUNY-Buffalo. Michaels worked for Sam Zell as early as 1993, and by the time Zell promoted him from vice president and chief executive officer of Tribune's interactive and broadcast divisions to be his corporate chief operating officer, Abrams had become Tribune's secret weapon. Michaels and Abrams are close and understand each other deeply, says Abrams, though both men are admittedly strangers to print.
Marc Fisher explains how newspaper people would have a hard time translating a radio genius like Abrams. "Lee is a quintessential radio guy, which means he is something of a fan," says Fisher, who is also a columnist and blogger at The Washington Post. "He has extraordinary enthusiasm and is accustomed to motivating deejays and salespeople into making their short moments on the air something distinctive and alluring. And radio is really a sales business. The advertising and the programming are entirely intermeshed. There is no church-state divide as we know in newspapers, so he is a cheerleader and a visionary. And what generations of radio people have taken as pearls of wisdom appear to be almost illiterate ravings to people in a newsroom. Lee writes and speaks in all caps with lots of ellipses and lots of slogans and what the radio world calls 'liners,' which are the brief mottos and sayings which make a radio show."
But Fisher insists, and it appears to be true, that Abrams harbors a great deal of respect for institutions that have greater depth than radio. "Newspapers are one of the last places for smart people," says Abrams. "I just want to bust the myth that change means dumbing it down." Downsized staffs, reduced budgets, and shrinking newsholes, Abrams says, are things the industry must learn to work with. "Doing more with important stories at the expense of marginally interesting ones" is one way to address it, he says. "Like TV, where there's limited time and you need to hit the hot button, story after story, the new reality of newspapers is limited space."
Fisher predicts that Abrams's first response will be "to lard on a whole bunch of showbiz. He definitely believes in sizzle, but he also believes in steak. The problem is he has never worked in a field where there is so much steak. In radio, the news department is usually one guy and virtually all of the content in radio news is repurposed, which is a polite way of saying ripped off, and the idea that you would have this enormous infrastructure doing newsgathering is fairly alien."
And yet, Fisher believes that Abrams possesses a savant's talent for connecting content to consumers. The radio man's preternatural confidence comes from decades of hearing from all sides that he is a revolutionary. "He has all sorts of theories," says Fisher, who, in the course of researching his book, read hundreds of pages of Abrams's XM strategy memos. "They tend to be fairly abstract, and they tend to be off-the-cuff, and he tends to write them on napkins. So for him to make the transition from the very small world of radio—where a station is run by a handful of people—into massive metropolitan newsrooms, which have lots of specialties, is an almost unfathomable leap."
In the Time of the Buyout
The lunatic is in the hall. The lunatics are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more. — Pink Floyd, "Brain Damage" Dark Side of the Moon, 1973There is fear and anger in the Tribune Company's newsrooms. I spoke to a half dozen reporters and editors, but only one agreed to go on the record. The possibility of reprisals from management or fellow journalists has silenced normally voluble media types. So they snicker over parodies of Abrams's memos and point me toward Web sites like tellzell.com, which collects dispatches from Tribune Company trenches. Longtime employees fret that if they say something negative, their severance may be affected; if they say something positive—and there was plenty of anonymous praise for Abrams—they may be perceived as suck-ups.
"Staffers who've been here for a long time, we're middle-aged, and so this is very threatening to us," says one woman, a reporter with the Chicago Tribune. "A revolution is happening, and we know something needs to happen but we don't know what. So these guys, who are even older than us, come in. And even though Lee in my opinion does have some good ideas, he doesn't understand the future any more than we do. If we're going to have a revolution, let's put somebody of a different generation in charge of it."
At the Orlando Sentinel, the revolution has begun. During the spring, Abrams rolled into town, a wild-eyed Einstein in a black T-shirt, his head full of new ideas. After meeting with a group of editors, he pronounced himself pleased with their reaction to his call to arms. He told me the reaction to his ideas in general runs this way: "Eighty percent of people are, 'Yes! This is what we need.' Ten percent are just, 'What is this guy talking about?' And then there's 10 percent open resistance—'This is nonsense.' " According to one Sentinel staff member who met with him, Abrams is definitely more effective when presenting himself in person than through his memos: "He was approachable, eager to listen to ideas, and pleased with the redesign that our staff had come up with. He was genuinely enthusiastic."
The Sentinel is the first Abrams relaunch, and it hints in broad strokes where the company will take its newspapers: bigger, brighter graphics, more maps and photos, a more organized and magazine-like approach to news and information. It's a USA Today approach, but nothing more radical than that—at the moment. At the same time, Abrams is pushing each paper to increase reader-friendliness: ganging news in the same location every day in categories like crime, election, national security, with each one perhaps presided over by a writer/personality. To this end, he has suggestions for every page of every section, right down to concert reviews and classifieds. The question is, Will any of this be enough?
As will be true with all of the Tribune papers, the Sentinel has relaunched in a national recession, the difficulty compounded by the company's grinding debt. The financial situation at the paper has been "horrible," says one staff member. Indeed, the Sentinel eliminated twenty-four positions in 2007; already this year, it has cut fifty-two more. "We are in the middle of the housing crisis down here, and the publisher is constantly telling us how bad things are," says this staff member. The Sentinel is now a shrinking paper with fewer sections, and the redesign has, of course, altered the overall mix of news. Editors are being asked to do more with less. "I definitely think there's a smaller newshole, and there is more soft news," says this source.
For the rest of Tribune's employees, they wait their turn and check their inboxes for notes from Lee's Blog. For these people, Abrams still operates behind a digital scrim, a cross between Yoda (when he makes sense) and the Great Oz (when he sounds imperious). But Abrams is out to win them over one meeting at a time. On the morning of July 23, he and Tribune's new management team (with Zell on speakerphone) met with forty or so reporters, top editors, and executives of the Chicago Tribune. During the four-hour meeting, Abrams took more than an hour to deliver his vision of newspapers' future, according to a columnist who was at the meeting. "I was surprised that I found myself sort of going, 'Yeah!' " my source says, "in a way that you can have a conversation with a friend that you don't always agree with and not bristle at everything he says. My opinion is that Abrams leaves room for conversation, that he wants some pushback, that he is engaged by that pushback, that this is why he's doing this in a way."
This brings up the tantalizing comparison to be made between Abrams and Steve Jobs, an outsider who revolutionized the music industry. Abrams, while not an intellect or entrepreneur on Jobs's level, is hunting the same Holy Grail: usability. He told the Tribune crowd that he wants the editors to examine every page with the eyes of a busy reader, to capture eyeballs. Corral content by subject for reader ease; write headlines that sell—not summarize—the story. And most of all, "We want to be graphically stunning," he told the meeting, and each paper should find its own identity. "He told us the Trib has got to be so Chicago, it's got to smell like a Vienna hot dog," says the columnist. "I kind of like that."
Before the meeting, there was a general feeling in the Tribune newsroom that a stance of disapproval should be maintained. "We must put on this public face, like, 'This guy's crazy,' " says the columnist. "But I think a lot of people who have spoken to him have said: 'You know, he's said some things that make sense, but we don't necessarily want to tell the bosses that, because in a lot of ways this is very challenging. And a lot of what he says and a lot what's going on here is going to result in people we know and admire and respect and love losing their jobs.' That's not up to him. He's not the one who's saying we've got to make more money. He's the innovation guy, the ideas guy, who says, 'How can we make this paper more engaging to people? How can we make it something people will want to buy?' "
In Los Angeles, there was no joy this summer at the prospect of rebirth. Little headway had been made on the relaunch by the end of July. When Abrams visited the paper in the spring, he detected what he called "low competitive drive." Times reporter Ted Rohrlich chalks this up to something else. "People are doing their best to concentrate on their immediate tasks and put out the paper everyday," he says, "but there is a pall over this place. We just lost a hundred and thirty-five colleagues and the last layoff was three months before. It seems like it's been one continuous layoff at this point." A co-worker of Rohrlich's adds: "The bigger question is: What are we supposed to do with all of Abrams's scattered thoughts? Shouldn't he be giving papers a breathing space to regroup during these layoffs? He is sending out these long messages to a workforce that is demoralized and freaked out . . . and in no mood to digest anything he says."
In many ways, the anger directed toward Abrams now seems misdirected, if understandable. Abrams may be the herald for change, but he is not responsible for the meltdown that led to this crisis. The problems facing newspapers in this transitional period come from every quarter and have been festering for a decade, for the most part unaddressed. And much of the change Abrams talks about will have to be translated into actual paper-and-ink innovation by real journalists working on deadline. Still, I came away believing that he is acting in good faith.
Only time will tell if readers will respond, Abrams knows, but there is no time to lose. With each buyout and budget cutback, experienced journalists walk away, resources shrink, and the Tribune newspapers become diminished versions of themselves. So he works away in his Chicago office, dreaming up new ways to connect readers to this rapidly changing content, cheering for innovation where it sprouts. "24 hours in photos (!!) Brilliant idea that the Sun is doing," he wrote on his blog in late July. As Sam Zell's emissary of change, he traverses the empire, selling the idea of a newspaper renaissance in the midst of a recession, bringing news of one paper's victories to the others. Even this little bit of synergy is brand new, he says: there are new innovation Web sites for the Baltimore Sun, meetings to attend, planes to catch. Blogs to update. Got to get the word out.
"A lot of his ideas sound hokey or demeaning, but there is a grain of truth to many of them," says Marc Fisher. "We need to connect with readers, interact with readers, sell ourselves to readers. Those are not only legitimate ideas, but at this point probably essential. Lee despises snootiness and snobbery and anything that smacks of an elite—and we are an elite, especially print journalists. And if he can figure out ways to blow through that before the journalists gang up and blow him out of there, then he may succeed in some ways. He has a kid's heart—a fan's heart. He's not the guy measuring how much someone's written. He's not the guy who has a secret formula for taking the newsroom down to six people. He wants newspapers to be something people love. He's all about the emotion, which is the part that newspapers have traditionally been scared to death of."


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Just after sunrise, we make our way to the Ayers Rock airport for departure. Because it's an air carrier airport and we don't have Australian airport security credentials, the very pleasant security guard escorts us through the gate to our aircraft. We ask whether we're the first departure, and she explains that several helicopters have already flown sunrise sightseeing flights. As if to reinforce her point, a yellow-and-blue PHC Jet Ranger arrives and lands as Mike Laver is still preflighting N50ET. Sunrise apparently is big business in the Ayers Rock area; at the hotel there were signs offering sunrise bus tours, sunrise helicopter rides–and, yes, even a sunrise camel ride if you were so inclined. I wasn't, and I don't think Mike was, either.
Mike has been here many times before, and even climbed the rock on previous visits. Our shuttle driver yesterday said climbing the rock was "discouraged," but the security guard said this morning it still was a common and popular activity. Mike recalled that there used to be a chain attached to the rock, to help climbers navigate difficult sections. She assured him that not only is it still there, but it's still used.
Immediately upon takeoff it's obvious how big–and desolate–this region is. A few resorts are clustered between the airport and the rock, and that's about the only signs of civilization you can see. We climb to the east-southeast and bid Ayers Rock farewell. We're cleared to climb to FL250, about 25,000 feet–our preferred cruise altitude for most legs of this journey so far–and told to fly direct to the first navaid on our route: Leigh Creek, a VOR some 523 nautical miles away, that will take us more than an hour and a half to reach.
About 40 nautical miles east-southeast of Ayers Rock, a larger cluster of smaller rocks juts from the desert. Further east there are still more, but from cruise altitude, they don't seem to have the color–or the fame–of Ayers Rock and the nearby Olgas.
It's nice to be wearing civilian clothes again as we fly, and fly, and fly; the pilot uniforms will come back out when we leave Australia and we'll probably have to wear them until we get back to the United States. A couple of brush flies have stowed away aboard the airplane today. They're not nearly as annoying as they were last night, when we went out to photograph Ayers Rock at sunset; maybe they somehow realize that they're out of their element.
"Oh, we just got tailwinds!" Mike exclaimed as we flew. Tailwinds had been forecast for the past couple of days, but we had experienced relatively light headwinds instead. The flight plan for this 1,150-nautical-mile leg called for 3 hours, 30 minutes of flying; the tailwind makes that a possibility now. We've crossed into South Australia and will traverse the state almost diagonally. This is still a nonradar envinronment so it's airway flying and position reports to air traffic control.
The scenery changes little; there are sand dunes, and for a while we parallel a feature that's somewhere between a large ridge and a small mountain range; its height, I'm sure, is being exaggerated by the low morning sunlight. Gulleys and occasionally rivers can be seen snaking through the landscape, so we must be transitioning to an area with more moisture. Mike takes advantage of the quiet flight to enter the rest of our flight plans into the Garmin navigation system–all the way back to Frederick, Md., and Aiken, S.C.
Our tailwind increases to 18 knots, boosting our groundspeed to 305 kt, as we fly over Lake Cadibarrawirricama, which is near Koolkootinnie Lake. I wonder about the origins of these names until we pass abeam the larger, and more traditionally named, Lake Torrens. We pass over Coober Pedy, in an area known for its underground opal mines, and about 100 miles northeast of Adelaide, but see neither because of cloud cover. We cross into New South Wales and then into Victoria as Mike reflects on the trip so far. He estimates we've flown about 53 hours to get to this point, while the fastest airline option to get him to Australia from his South Carolina home would take about 21 hours–he figures we haven't done too badly.
We're in and out of the cloud tops at FL250, and in some light turbulence; the wings pick up a little ice. Over Melborne, about 80 miles out, we begin our descent. There's a sigmet for possible severe icing between FL120 and FL185; we turn on the ice protection equipment but do not encounter any ice. We break out of the clouds at 8,000 feet, although the clouds are lower toward the coast. Mike first learned to fly at the Latrobe Valley airport. "It's hard to believe I soloed here–I was sixteen. Now I'm 61. That was 45 years ago," he says as we fly a left traffic pattern in preparation for landing.
We touch down, park, and in a few minutes Mike is met by his mother and brother. A light rain begins to fall as we refuel the airplane. I'll spend Friday doing a story on a local aircraft manufacturer, and Saturday is my only day off of the trip (I won't kid you, much of it will be spent doing laundry. Anyone know how to get the kerosene smell out of clothing?). Sunday we head north up the coast.
For the nonpilots
Navaid: Short for navigational aid, this term generally refers to a ground-based radio beacon, or transmitter, providing electronic signals that help pilots navigate.
Sigmet: A sigmet is a statement of significant meteorological information that has the potential to adversely affect a flight.


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Topic: [Solved] Best approach to implement model? (Many-to-Many, polymorphic)
Hi,I'm starting with Rails and I'm developing an app which will sit over this existing model (http://imgur.com/ZuaCm). Although I might apply some changes in the model (legacy stuff, so that is my last option in fact), I'm finding it hard to implement it with Rail's Active Record.
I have Item and Property models (many-to-many relation), whose relation has a Value (1 item has several properties, and a property has a value for that item). Now, to complicate things a little more, an hierarchy of several value types was defined (I've only drawn 1 column in DECIMAL_VALUE and TEXT_VALUE tables, but there are more columns and more tables like those).
So, until now I've created an "ItemValuation", which will be the joint model for Item/Property/Value, and my ideia is to use "has/through" between items and properties. But I don't know how to design the Value part. The idea would be have the value stored in one of the child tables, and have it's ID in the joint table. I've also read about polymorphic associations, which might be used here in that hierarchy (not sure how to use this here).
Another doubt I have is, if keeping this model, which resources need to be nested (item -> property -> value?).
Can someone help here?
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In early April, the U.S. Forest Service issued a draft environmental impact statement recommending that this forest in the Wyoming Range withdraw consent to lease 30 parcels—nearly 40,000 acres—of land for oil and gas leasing.
The benefits of wilderness and other public lands for modern-day flora and fauna are well-known, but conservation of wild places helps preserve traces of bygone life too,
A new free app, NPS Yellowstone Geysers, allows Yellowstone National Park visitors to track eruptions and also watch them remotely via live stream.
New research and maps released Nov. 19 outline with new clarity the exact routes that big-game species use to migrate to winter and summer ranges.
As we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act, Congress still isn't living up to its duty to consider and conserve America&rsqu
With the Wilderness Act and Land and Water Conservation Fund already under his belt, Pr
Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful geyser can now be viewed online via a high-definition (HD) streaming webcam.
There are over 450 animal species listed as endangered and over 170 listed as threatened, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
In the bipartisan poll, versions of which are sponsored annually by the Colorado College State of the Rockies project, respondents in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Montana largely
Thirty years ago, 259,000 splendid acres in southwestern Montana neighboring Yellowstone National Park was protected.
Tell Congress to designate the Arctic Refuge as wilderness to protect it from oil and gas development.


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comish wrote:Fire Marshall Bill wrote:With teachers now paying an increased percentage of their own health insurance premiums, and an increased contribution to their own pension funds, many school districts have "found money" that used to go to these costs, and can now be used for things pertaining to educating kids....you remember the kids?....like buildings...books...supplies...hiring more teachers...reducing class sizes, etc...all the things that unions who fought the reforms SAID they were concerned about.
Just my hunch that you'd find a correlation between the arrival of the teachers union and the drop in world rankings of our kids
Or an even greater correlation between the rise in the divorce rate in this country and single parent homes.
Pretty sure the correlation between divorce rate and single parent homes would be pretty high. Silly teachers.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (43 votes).
In short: Great views, up and down.In full: This is a good event with a small field. The route is hilly or undulating depending on your view (the uphill between 8k - 9k can be tough). The views around Stowe Gardens, a National Trust site, are terrific and make it worth doing. Thought I had been super quick then realised my watch showed the distance as 9.38kDate of review: October 18, 2009
In short: Really nice, small race over a pleasant and surprisingly undulating courseDate of review: October 18, 2009
In short: Almost thereIn full: A nice course, with great views. Only let downs were: 1)Started early, and there was very little warning that it was about to start. 2)Narrow paths in the first 2 - 3 kms. Surely more of this stretch could have been on the adjacent road?Overall, well organised, and gained a PB, so happy with that..Date of review: October 26, 2006
In short: Good, quite challenging and scenic course, but feels feels short!In full: Did this for the first time on Sunday and enjoyed the course despite more gradients than I expected. Set a PB for the year bettering my previous week's time by over a minute which got me wondering about the length....and I have to say that first/last Km between the town and start of the park did feel short. But sod it - its a PB so I'll take it for now! I also got caught out at the start and had to run out of the pub to join the back of the group just as the hooter sounded. Not ideal but I would do it again.Date of review: October 24, 2006
In short: Enjoyed the landscaped gardens of Stowe.In full: My own perspective is mostly positive. Nice scenery and a challenging course. I like this race despite some of its problems. I'll be back.Date of review: October 23, 2006
In short: Jsut what y'need on a cool brezzy Sunday morning!Date of review: October 23, 2006
In short: Oh DearIn full: I did this race last year, but I won't come back again. Why?The main reason is they have committed the cardinal sin. Anyone reading this will be expecting to run (or have ran) a 10K race. Well per my Garmin, the course is short by over 600m. I was well inside a PB time so I should have carried running a bit further.Of course all this is moot if you weren't on the start line at 9.55. Now I've moaned in the past when the start is delayed on a cold day, but come on! People are often driving quite a way for these things, and the least the organisers can do is wait until 10am before they start it. Good job there wasn't much of a queue in the toilets or I'd have missed the start too.And what was it with the marshalls? I didn't hear a word of encouragement from one of them all morning.Finally, there was the Mars Bar at the end. I heard someone describe it as "the most expensive Mars Bar [they'd] ever had". Well said sir.Well, enough negatives, now for the positives: the scenery was nice.Date of review: October 22, 2006
In short: Starting 5 minutes early, narrow paths, and ?short? measurement spoiled what should be a good eventDate of review: October 22, 2006
In short: Nice course but shame about the path at the start of the course. Made it hard to get past other runners.Date of review: October 22, 2006
In short: Very scenic in the grounds of Stowe and finish in town square adds to the feeling you run an important race, makes you feel good after the pain!Date of review: January 6, 2006
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JE047: Fossil Fools
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Fossil Fools (こだいポケモンパーク!アルフのいせき!! Ancient Pokémon Park! The Ruins of Alph!!) is the 6th episode of Pokémon: Johto League Champions.
While still heading to Ecruteak City Ash and co. make a detour at the Ruins of Alph where they run into Professor Oak and Foster, a good friend of his. They enter a Pokémon park where prehistoric Pokémon are researched. It is also in this lab that they see some Omanyte, which Professor Oak has correctly suspected are REAL. Can Ash and his friends keep this secret, especially from Team Rocket?
Episode Plot
The heroes arrive to the Ruins of Alph. The heroes notice a fossil and Ash thinks it is from an Aerodactyl. Prof. Oak appears and tells them it is due to its arrow-shaped tail. The heroes tell that they walked twenty miles to see what Oak has to show them. Oak tells them a student of his made a discovery and wanted to see with them what he discovered. They meet up with Foster, his colleague from Celadon University. Foster pulls Oak and whispers that he should've come alone; if it is told about the discovery, many will come to these ruins. Oak tells he shouldn't worry, since the kids are trainers. The heroes beg Foster to let them, so Forest does, since Oak approves of it. Ash hears a sound, so Foster explains they excavate fossils and analyze from which Pokémon it belongs and on which body part, but has trouble, as they have a lack of water and water is critical for their research. The source is a waterfall in the woods, with fresh water.
At that source, Team Rocket are filling their bottles with that water. James is tired from this boring work, though Jessie tells this will get money. Meowth sees selling these bottles will make them a forute, so Jessie imagines herself rich, while Meowth and James imagine themselves eating delicious food. Something jams the intake pipe, so Jessie tells James they need to check out and gives him a wrench to do it. Foster shows Oak and the heroes fossils and presents them a skeleton of Kabutops and since it is in good shape, Foster thinks it might be 20 000 years old. Foster thinks that Pokémon come from water, making Misty amazed and proud, as she loves water Pokémon and lends Foster help as an assistant, so Brock pulls her ear. Foster shows them a model of forest 2 million years old. They see a lifelike model of Aerodactyl, so Foster tells he plans to open a park of prehistoric Pokémon. He also presents the volcano, which is important to see how creatures adapted to its activity. They see green moss which is glowing on the rocks, so Oak tells it is glowing lyckin. Foster explains this lyckin is proof that fossil shells are near. They see a statue of Kabutops, which Foster tells it is made from knowledge and imagination. Ash asks when will they see the thing Oak called them for, but Foster tells them to finish the exhibition first.
Oak tells Foster was like that when he was his student. In any case, Foster tells it might appear if they stand still. A bunch of Omanyte and Omastar appear out of water. Foster wags his fingers and Oak gets shocked. Pikachu approaches them and the Omanyte touch him, so he gets scared. Ash tells it is a robot, but Oak tells they are real, which Foster confirms. The heroes are shocked to see they are real, causing the Omanyte and Omastar to dig into the sand. Foster admits they found him, so he kept in this dome. The heroes admit it might be the most important discovery yet. Oak gives his hand to show Omanyte and Omastar he is a friend. Oak admits when he was 6, he went to a museum and saw an Omanyte shell. Oak asks Foster how did he find them and is told he found them here, since someone must've disturbed them, but they live now in peace. Foster admits he called Oak for advice, as the park must be opened, yet the creatures need to be protected. Ash sees that if these Omanyte and Omastar are here, more of them are around and trainers might be tempted to catch them.
As Jessie and Meowth drink fresh water, James tries to find what stuck and discovers an amazing find - he pulls an Omanyte out. Jessie is not amused, since it is slimy. Meowth tells despite that, it's worth a lot and if they can dry the lake out, they will find more of them and they can give it to the boss and sell some. The heroes come to a room with screens of surveillance cameras. Misty is at ease to see Omanyte and Omastar safe, since catching them does not seem right. Brock and Ash agree, with the latter asking Pikachu what could they've seen in their lifetimes. Suddenly, they notice another Omanyte and Omastar coming. A researcher comes and tells Foster they've run out of water for experiments. They all go to the lake, from where they draw water, but before they do, Ash sends Noctowl to scout that place out. Team Rocket are delighted to see that they get Omanyte and Omastar into their machine instead of water. Since the tank is full, Jessie tells they need a bigger tank to hold them, so pulls the balloon with James and Meowth. Seeing all this, Noctowl returns to its master, who, along with the others, is being driven on a rough path to the source.
The heroes come and see Team Rocket are taking Omanyte and Omastar. Oak sees that the Omnyte and Omastar were disturbed when Team Rocket were stealing water. Foster tells them to place them back, but Team Rocket responds they will put it on the market and send Arbok and Weezing. Arbok uses Poison Sting, but Pikachu evades the attack, along with Sludge. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt and Tackle, defeating Arbok and Weezing and destroying the water tank. Team Rocket are about to fly away and Ash orders Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, but Misty stops him, since he would electrocute Omanyte and Omastar, too. Team Rocket are fleeing away, but the balloon stops, as there are too many Omanyte and Omastar on it, so Jessie and Meowth argue whether to or not to drop some. Ash sends Noctowl, who pierces the balloon, causing Team Rocket to fall down. Ash's Pikachu electrocutes them. Team Rocket tell Omanyte and Omastar they came for water and get blasted off by their Water Gun.
Seeing them returning to the lake, Foster doubts that they will go to the park. Oak admits it would be good to research them, but would rather keep them in peace. In the end, the heroes wave goodbye to Foster and Oak, as they continue their journey.
- This is the first time Brock pulls Misty by the ear.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" of this episode is Pichu.
Misty tells that Pikachu's Thunderbolt would electrocute Omanyte and Omastar, but they wouldn't be hit, as they are Rock-type Pokémon.
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The following Central Pennsylvania families had reunions scheduled for 2006. If your family has a gathering this year, please send an e-mail so we can let family members know. Send in the name of family; descendants for whom the reunion is held; the date; the place; and a contact person, with e-mail address, snail mail address and/or phone number.
For a look at the 2005 Reunions list, click here.
For a look at the 2004 Reunions list, click here.
For a look at the 2003 Reunions list, click here.


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NU Council to consider apartment project funding, tree replacements
NEW ULM – The New Ulm City Council will meet today at 5 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall.
The Council will consider awarding the $60,395 bid for the new city hall condenser unit to Feder Mechanical. The company was the lone bidder.
The Council will also hold a public hearing to modify and affirm a TIF District for 42-unit Winkelman Building Corp. apartment building project at 2107 N. Highland Ave. The TIF is limited to 25 years and reimbursements cannot exceed $550,000. To comply with TIF requirements, 20 percent of the apartments must be rented to people making under 50 percent of the Brown County median income. The modification of terms is necessary because the number of apartments increased from 35 to 42 units.
The Council will consider issuing a $4.6 million bond on behalf of Highland Regency House, LLC to help finance its 50-unit apartment project at 1520 Sunset Ave. The bond will be loaned to Highland, and the company will be completely responsible for it. The bond does not count towards the City's normal bond limit for city operations.
In another matter, the Council will consider a Tree Advisory Commission request for $6,100 to replace select trees in city parks and in the boulevard/median areas. The trees will be replacements for diseased trees. The request was made directly to the Council because the Park and Recreation Department's tree replacement budget was cut to zero in the last two budgets.
Finally, the Council will consider a request by the American Legion Post 132 to extend its liquor license to an area adjacent to building's back door. The area will used as a smoking shelter. The request will also extend the Legion's license to this shelter for 2013 Oktoberfest.


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1. Classic Boil Peel and cube 2 pounds russet potatoes; toss with 2 tablespoons cider vinegar and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix 2 cups mayonnaise, 2 chopped scallions, 1 chopped celery stalk, 1 tablespoon each Dijon mustard and vinegar, 1 teaspoon sugar, and salt. Toss with the potatoes.
2. Classic Red Make Classic Potato Salad (No. 1) with red potatoes instead of russets.
3. Waldorf Make Classic Potato Salad (No. 1) without mustard. Double the celery and add 1 chopped apple and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts.
4. Egg-Pickle Make Classic Potato Salad (No. 1), substituting pickle juice for the vinegar in the dressing. Add 3 chopped hard-boiled eggs, 1/2 cup chopped bell pepper and 1/4 cup diced pickle.
5. Sweet Relish Boil, peel and cube 2 pounds russets; toss with 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix 1 cup whipped salad dressing, 1/2 cup relish, 2 tablespoons yellow mustard and 1 chopped scallion; toss with the potatoes.
6. Crab Boil Mix 1/2 cup each corn and chopped celery, 1 cup mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon lemon juice and 1 1/2 teaspoons Old Bay. Toss with 2 pounds boiled, cubed red potatoes and 1 cup crabmeat.
7. Lobster Mix 1/4 cup each mayonnaise and creme fraiche, 2 teaspoons each truffle oil and chopped tarragon, and salt. Toss with 1 pound boiled, cubed red potatoes and 1 cup lobster meat.
8. Curry Heat 1/3 cup each olive oil and golden raisins in a skillet. Add 2 teaspoons curry powder and stir 30 seconds. Mix with 1 cup Greek yogurt, 2 cups cooked green beans and 2 pounds boiled, cubed russets. Season with salt.
9. Ranch Mix 2/3 cup mayonnaise, 1/4 cup buttermilk, 2 tablespoons cider vinegar, 1 minced garlic clove, 1/2 cup chopped celery, 2 chopped scallions, 1 teaspoon sugar, and salt and pepper. Toss with 2 pounds boiled, cubed red potatoes.
10. Bacon-Ranch Make Ranch Potato Salad (No. 9). Top with 6 slices cooked bacon, crumbled.
Photographs by Kana Okada